Union City Times-Gazette, Tuesday, May 7, 1940
Oath of allegiance is taken Monday as Naturalization Day hearings held
at Winchester.
Yesterday was naturalization day in Randolph County - two men received
hearings on their final papers and took the oath of allegience, while
three others filed final petitions for naturalization.
Becoming citizens of the United States were John Peperak of
Winchester, a Winchester glass worker, and William Harrison Miller, a
farmer of near Ridgeville, who although born in Delaware County
relinquished his citizenship when he moved to Canada several years ago.
Peperak was born in Hungary in 1901, coming to the United States in
1906 on the SS Main from Bremen, Germany. Miller was born in Delaware
County in 1873, going to Canada, where he became a Canadian citizen. In
1928 he returned to this country from Vancouver, B. C., and has lived in
Randolph County since that time, since 1935 near Ridgeville.
Filing petitions for final papers were John Herman and Else Margaret
Spille, who live on Union City route 3. Mr. Spille was born in 1892 at
Oldenburg, Germany, while his wife was born in the same city in 1903.
Married in Germany, the couple came to the United States in April of
1926 on the SS Columbus.
Axel Frlis Ramsing, of Losantville, also filed final papers. An
electric arc welder working at New Castle. Ramsing was born at Aarhis,
Denmark in 1905. He entered the United States in 1933 on the vessel
Frederick VIII.
Hearings were conducted by Mr. Schofield, federal examiner from the
United States district court at Cincinnati.