Daniel Lazarus
Daniel Lazarus, a member of the firm of Lazarus & Bosworth, millers, P. O. Deerfield, was born in Deerfield Township, this county, in 1839, a son of George, a native of Pennsylvania, and Jane (Craig) Lazarus, a native of Mahoning County, Ohio, of which place the latter' s parents were among the earliest pioneers. Our subject was married, in 1865, to Miss Drusilla daughter of Thompson Bosworth. They are the parents of the following children now living: Effie and Mary. Mr. Lazarus is the senior partner of the above firm, which operates a mill erected by him in 1872, on the site of a structure built in 1822, by Peter Lazarus, and adjoins a saw-mill erected in 1816, the first built m Deerfield Township. The present mill is provided with two run of buhrs, and has a capacity of sixty bushels of wheat and 200 of feed per diem. Our subject is an officer in the Presbyterian Church of Benton, and is highly esteemed as a citizen and neighbor.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885