George H. Stiles
George H. Stiles, who has been engaged in the barber business at Fairfield for the past thirty-five years and is thus accounted to be the oldest barber in point of continuous service in one place in Greene county, was born on a farm a half mile west of the village of Fairfield, on the tract now included in the great Wright aviation field established there by the United States government in 1917, December 26, 1853, son of William and Elizabeth (Sensenbaugh) Stiles, the former of whom was born on that same farm, a son of Benjamin Stiles, who had come here from New York and had opened to cultivation the tract now occupied as a training field for aviators who, beginning in the summer of 1917, have been in training for service against the German army in foreign fields.
William Stiles was born in 1830 and grew to manhood on the home place just west of where the village of Fairfield came to be established. After his marriage in 1852 to Elizabeth Sensenbaugh, who also was born in this county, daughter of pioneer parents, he established his home on that place and there continued to reside until 1866, when he left the farm and moved into Fairfield, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1875. His widow did not long survive him, her death occurring in the following year. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being John W., deceased; Mrs. Annora L. Newcomer, also deceased; Otis L., deceased, and Adrian T., now living at Akron, this state, where he is engaged in the rubber business and who has been twice married, father of one child, a son, John, by his first wife and of two children, Roy and Naomi, by the second marriage.
Reared on the home farm, George H. Stiles received his schooling in the Fairfield schools and after leaving school was variously engaged until 1883, when he opened a barber shop at Fairfield and has since maintained the same. Mr. Stiles is a Democrat and for the past eight years has been serving as treasurer of the Fairfield corporation. He is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
From Portrait and Biographical Album of Clark and Greene Counties, Chapman Bros., Chicago, published 1890