From 1923 Auglaize County Biography History Volume 2:
LEWIS M. BLANK, a well known and veteran member of the excellent teaching staff of the Auglaize county schools and equally well known over the routes he covers as a substitute carrier on the fural mail routes out of Wapakoneta during the summers, is a native son of Auglaize county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided in this county all his life. Mr. Blank was born on a farm section 29 of Union township, about a mile southeast of the village of Uniopolis, July 23, 1869, and is a son of George A. and Susanna (Noeker) Blank, Pennsylvanians, who had come out here in 1852, shortly following their marriage, as a part of a group of young
married couples from their neighborhood in Pennsylvania who had formed an emigrant wagon train and had moved over into western Ohio to take up new lands and establish homes for themselves in what than was little more than a wilderness hereabout. George A. Blank bought a tract of something more than 180 acres in sections 20 and 29 of Union township, in this county, established his home on that place, improved the same, and continued to live there until his retirement in 1886 and removal to the nearby village of Uniopolis, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1912, he then being eighty-four years of age. His wife died in 1907, she having been seventy-nine years of age at the time of her death. It was on this pioneer farm in Union township that Lewis M. Blank was born and reared. He completed his schooling in the Uniopolis schools and at the age of nineteen years was licensed to teach school. That was in 1888 that Mr. Blank taught his first school and with but a brief intermission he has been engaged in teaching ever since. His first school was taught in Duchouquet township and during the current school year (1921-22) he taught in the Winegardner school in Pusheta township, his service mainly having been rendered in the rural schools. In his younger years Mr. Blank occupied his summers by working at the carpenter trade, which he had learned as a young man, and for four years he was employed as a carpenter in the works of the Western Ohio Electric Railway, but with that exception he has spent his winters since 1888 in the school room. Of recent years his summers have been occupied in driving substitute on the Furs: mail routes out of Wapakoneta and he thus has acquired an additionally wide acquaintance throughout the district thus covered. It' Mr. Blank's contention that one's schooling is never completed a that education of the individual is thus a continuing process. This he follows in his own practice and by incessant reading and extensive literary research keeps himself fully informed on modern develop. ments in the science of education and along kindred lines, each year being thus able to bring to his school work a freshness of thought that is stimulating not only to himself but to his pupils. In 1917 Lewis Blank was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline M. (Elsass) Lammers, widow of J. H. Lammers, and he and his wife have a very pleasant home at 208 Court street. Mrs. Blank was born in Clay township, this county, and is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Elsass, well known residents of that township. Mr. and Mrs. Blank are Democrats and attend the St. Paul's Lutheran church. Mr. Blank is a Freemason, a member of the blue lodge of Masons at Waynesfield, of the chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Wapakoneta, and of the council, Royal and Select Masters, at St. Marys and is affiliated with the El Karan grotto at Lima
LEWIS M. BLANK, a well known and veteran member of the excellent teaching staff of the Auglaize county schools and equally well known over the routes he covers as a substitute carrier on the fural mail routes out of Wapakoneta during the summers, is a native son of Auglaize county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided in this county all his life. Mr. Blank was born on a farm section 29 of Union township, about a mile southeast of the village of Uniopolis, July 23, 1869, and is a son of George A. and Susanna (Noeker) Blank, Pennsylvanians, who had come out here in 1852, shortly following their marriage, as a part of a group of young
married couples from their neighborhood in Pennsylvania who had formed an emigrant wagon train and had moved over into western Ohio to take up new lands and establish homes for themselves in what than was little more than a wilderness hereabout. George A. Blank bought a tract of something more than 180 acres in sections 20 and 29 of Union township, in this county, established his home on that place, improved the same, and continued to live there until his retirement in 1886 and removal to the nearby village of Uniopolis, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1912, he then being eighty-four years of age. His wife died in 1907, she having been seventy-nine years of age at the time of her death. It was on this pioneer farm in Union township that Lewis M. Blank was born and reared. He completed his schooling in the Uniopolis schools and at the age of nineteen years was licensed to teach school. That was in 1888 that Mr. Blank taught his first school and with but a brief intermission he has been engaged in teaching ever since. His first school was taught in Duchouquet township and during the current school year (1921-22) he taught in the Winegardner school in Pusheta township, his service mainly having been rendered in the rural schools. In his younger years Mr. Blank occupied his summers by working at the carpenter trade, which he had learned as a young man, and for four years he was employed as a carpenter in the works of the Western Ohio Electric Railway, but with that exception he has spent his winters since 1888 in the school room. Of recent years his summers have been occupied in driving substitute on the Furs: mail routes out of Wapakoneta and he thus has acquired an additionally wide acquaintance throughout the district thus covered. It' Mr. Blank's contention that one's schooling is never completed a that education of the individual is thus a continuing process. This he follows in his own practice and by incessant reading and extensive literary research keeps himself fully informed on modern develop. ments in the science of education and along kindred lines, each year being thus able to bring to his school work a freshness of thought that is stimulating not only to himself but to his pupils. In 1917 Lewis Blank was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline M. (Elsass) Lammers, widow of J. H. Lammers, and he and his wife have a very pleasant home at 208 Court street. Mrs. Blank was born in Clay township, this county, and is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Elsass, well known residents of that township. Mr. and Mrs. Blank are Democrats and attend the St. Paul's Lutheran church. Mr. Blank is a Freemason, a member of the blue lodge of Masons at Waynesfield, of the chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Wapakoneta, and of the council, Royal and Select Masters, at St. Marys and is affiliated with the El Karan grotto at Lima
From 1923 Auglaize County Biography History Volume 2:
LEWIS M. BLANK, a well known and veteran member of the excellent teaching staff of the Auglaize county schools and equally well known over the routes he covers as a substitute carrier on the fural mail routes out of Wapakoneta during the summers, is a native son of Auglaize county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided in this county all his life. Mr. Blank was born on a farm section 29 of Union township, about a mile southeast of the village of Uniopolis, July 23, 1869, and is a son of George A. and Susanna (Noeker) Blank, Pennsylvanians, who had come out here in 1852, shortly following their marriage, as a part of a group of young
married couples from their neighborhood in Pennsylvania who had formed an emigrant wagon train and had moved over into western Ohio to take up new lands and establish homes for themselves in what than was little more than a wilderness hereabout. George A. Blank bought a tract of something more than 180 acres in sections 20 and 29 of Union township, in this county, established his home on that place, improved the same, and continued to live there until his retirement in 1886 and removal to the nearby village of Uniopolis, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1912, he then being eighty-four years of age. His wife died in 1907, she having been seventy-nine years of age at the time of her death. It was on this pioneer farm in Union township that Lewis M. Blank was born and reared. He completed his schooling in the Uniopolis schools and at the age of nineteen years was licensed to teach school. That was in 1888 that Mr. Blank taught his first school and with but a brief intermission he has been engaged in teaching ever since. His first school was taught in Duchouquet township and during the current school year (1921-22) he taught in the Winegardner school in Pusheta township, his service mainly having been rendered in the rural schools. In his younger years Mr. Blank occupied his summers by working at the carpenter trade, which he had learned as a young man, and for four years he was employed as a carpenter in the works of the Western Ohio Electric Railway, but with that exception he has spent his winters since 1888 in the school room. Of recent years his summers have been occupied in driving substitute on the Furs: mail routes out of Wapakoneta and he thus has acquired an additionally wide acquaintance throughout the district thus covered. It' Mr. Blank's contention that one's schooling is never completed a that education of the individual is thus a continuing process. This he follows in his own practice and by incessant reading and extensive literary research keeps himself fully informed on modern develop. ments in the science of education and along kindred lines, each year being thus able to bring to his school work a freshness of thought that is stimulating not only to himself but to his pupils. In 1917 Lewis Blank was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline M. (Elsass) Lammers, widow of J. H. Lammers, and he and his wife have a very pleasant home at 208 Court street. Mrs. Blank was born in Clay township, this county, and is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Elsass, well known residents of that township. Mr. and Mrs. Blank are Democrats and attend the St. Paul's Lutheran church. Mr. Blank is a Freemason, a member of the blue lodge of Masons at Waynesfield, of the chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Wapakoneta, and of the council, Royal and Select Masters, at St. Marys and is affiliated with the El Karan grotto at Lima
LEWIS M. BLANK, a well known and veteran member of the excellent teaching staff of the Auglaize county schools and equally well known over the routes he covers as a substitute carrier on the fural mail routes out of Wapakoneta during the summers, is a native son of Auglaize county, a member of one of the pioneer families here, and has resided in this county all his life. Mr. Blank was born on a farm section 29 of Union township, about a mile southeast of the village of Uniopolis, July 23, 1869, and is a son of George A. and Susanna (Noeker) Blank, Pennsylvanians, who had come out here in 1852, shortly following their marriage, as a part of a group of young
married couples from their neighborhood in Pennsylvania who had formed an emigrant wagon train and had moved over into western Ohio to take up new lands and establish homes for themselves in what than was little more than a wilderness hereabout. George A. Blank bought a tract of something more than 180 acres in sections 20 and 29 of Union township, in this county, established his home on that place, improved the same, and continued to live there until his retirement in 1886 and removal to the nearby village of Uniopolis, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1912, he then being eighty-four years of age. His wife died in 1907, she having been seventy-nine years of age at the time of her death. It was on this pioneer farm in Union township that Lewis M. Blank was born and reared. He completed his schooling in the Uniopolis schools and at the age of nineteen years was licensed to teach school. That was in 1888 that Mr. Blank taught his first school and with but a brief intermission he has been engaged in teaching ever since. His first school was taught in Duchouquet township and during the current school year (1921-22) he taught in the Winegardner school in Pusheta township, his service mainly having been rendered in the rural schools. In his younger years Mr. Blank occupied his summers by working at the carpenter trade, which he had learned as a young man, and for four years he was employed as a carpenter in the works of the Western Ohio Electric Railway, but with that exception he has spent his winters since 1888 in the school room. Of recent years his summers have been occupied in driving substitute on the Furs: mail routes out of Wapakoneta and he thus has acquired an additionally wide acquaintance throughout the district thus covered. It' Mr. Blank's contention that one's schooling is never completed a that education of the individual is thus a continuing process. This he follows in his own practice and by incessant reading and extensive literary research keeps himself fully informed on modern develop. ments in the science of education and along kindred lines, each year being thus able to bring to his school work a freshness of thought that is stimulating not only to himself but to his pupils. In 1917 Lewis Blank was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline M. (Elsass) Lammers, widow of J. H. Lammers, and he and his wife have a very pleasant home at 208 Court street. Mrs. Blank was born in Clay township, this county, and is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Elsass, well known residents of that township. Mr. and Mrs. Blank are Democrats and attend the St. Paul's Lutheran church. Mr. Blank is a Freemason, a member of the blue lodge of Masons at Waynesfield, of the chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Wapakoneta, and of the council, Royal and Select Masters, at St. Marys and is affiliated with the El Karan grotto at Lima
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