Orrin Wagner
The qualities which have made Orrin Wagner one of the successful and prominent young men of Wayne county have also won for him the esteem of his fellow citizens, for his career has been one of well-directed energy, strong determination and honorable methods, keeping untarnished the excellent reputation of his ancestors, who have figured in the development of this locality in many ways since the pioneer period.
Orrin Wagner was born on his father's farm in Chippewa township, near Marshallville, Wayne county, and he received his primary education in school No. 7, Chippewa township, later attending the high school at Marshallville, and then the University at Wooster, where he made a splendid record for scholarship and well qualified himself for the laudable calling he has elected to follow, having become one of the best known and most successful educators in the county. His services have always been in great demand, for he has the happy faculty of pleasing both pupil and patron. He began teaching in 1895 and for six years taught school and attended school during vacations. For the past eight years he has taught and farmed, his agricultural pursuits being conducted on his father's north eighty, and no small part of his income is derived from this source. The schools he has taught are as follows: One term in No. 7, Chippewa township; five terms in No. 5, Chippewa township, but not consecutively; two terms in No.10, Baughman township, and two terms in No. 6, Chippewa township. He returned to No. 10, Baughman township, in the fall of 1909.
Mr. Wagner was married on September 5, 1901, to Dela Mabel Zimmerman, daughter of Franklin and Mary Zimmerman, natives of Stark county, Ohio. Mrs. Zimmerman's family, however, originally came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. To Orrin Wagner and wife three children have been born, namely: Wendel Henry, Franklin (deceased) and Giles Howard.
Mr. Wagner is a member of St. Michael's Lutheran church, and he takes an abiding interest in whatever tends to promote the welfare of his county, whether educational, religious, political or material.
From The History of Wayne County, Ohio, Vol. 1, B. E. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1910