William F. Sharp
William F. Sharp, superintendent of the Children's Home of Holmes Coutny, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, November 2, 1835. His parents, Benjamin and Julia (McCreary) Sharp, were natives of Maryland, and came to Ohio in 1825, where they bought 116 acres of woodland, the greater portion of which they cleared. They had a family of seven children, our subject being the youngest, and all are living except two. The father became one of the prominent and well-to-do farmers of his day, and died in 1837, at the age of forty-five years, when William F. was about a year and a half old. The family remained on the old homestead in Carroll County till the spring of 1845, when they moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
In 1859 William F. Sharp came to Millersburgh, Holmes County, and during same year was married to Lydia E., daughter of Godfrey Corbus. The winter of 1859-60 Mr. Sharp spent in teaching school, and in 1860 he commenced the bakery and grocery trade, following same most of the time till 1873, in which year he embarked in the fire and life insurance business, in which he was successfully engaged until appointed to his present position. In 1881 Mr. Sharp's wife died, and in the following year he became united in marriage with Mrs. Amand Conrad, daughter of Daniel Krieger, of German Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp are members of the Presbyterian Church; he is a F. & A. M., in politics a Democrat. He has been a successful business man, and since his appointment to his present position, has proved himself a trustworthy, honorable gentleman. Kind and considerate of others, he is particularly adapted to the position, in which he is ably assisted by his noble wife.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889