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Surnames: Roe
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20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News. January 1st, 1900, page 76-77.
Arthur F. and E. H. Roe are very successful business men. They have done much to
perpetuate many things which redound to the good of the town. At the store, which is in
charge of E. H. Roe, the patrons are received with the utmost courtesy, and their wants,
small or large, are attended to with equal carefulness. A. F. Roe, who is largely
connected with the store financially does not attend to the business in person, but is
engaged in the pleasant occupation of farming a fertile tract of land south of town.
Arthur F. Roe, of the Roe Bros. firm, had for his birth year 1862. He first saw the light
on his father's farm near Ossian. He is a son of Ezekiel and Catherine Roe, who have
been inhabitants of this township many years.
Mr. Roe graduated from the Ossian High School and also from the Fort Wayne M. E. College.
He spent his early life at farm work, but being injured in an accident was unfitted for
the time for manual labor, so he began the study of telegraphy, and before he had learned
the art, a position was waiting for him. This happened when he was 17 years of age. For
8 years he was telegraph operator at various places, then his health becoming impaired, he
returned home, and in 1893, the firm of Roe & Stine came into existence. Mr. E. H.
Roe then went into the store as clerk. In 1895 he purchased an interest in the
establishment and the firm name became Roe Bros.
E. H. Roe, who looks after the business of the store which has become so widely popular,
was born in 1874, and received his education at the Ossian High School and at the Danville
Normal College. Having always had a desire to be a merchant and a business man, he
purchased an interest in the store in 1895. Carefulness and perseverance are the
qualities that brought him to the front as one of our young men of whom we can be proud.
Both A. F. and E. H. Roe are popular members of society -- and deserve the honors which
have come to them through hard work, honesty and faithfulness.