Biography, G. Frederick Wright, 1916, "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio, Vol. I", (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York), pp. 958-959
ELMER A. RICHMOND...........
Born in Lorain County, September 20, 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond, who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns beginning in the fall of 1862, participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat, at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville, After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866, married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10, 1843, a daughter of Robert Dalglish, who came from Scotland and was a millwright by trade, although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield, where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. His next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven years he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington; Nora, wife of Walter Hull, a motorman at Elyria; Mamie, who died when about four years olf; Victoria, wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington; and Robert, in a grocery store at Elyria...............
ELMER A. RICHMOND...........
Born in Lorain County, September 20, 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond, who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns beginning in the fall of 1862, participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat, at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville, After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866, married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10, 1843, a daughter of Robert Dalglish, who came from Scotland and was a millwright by trade, although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield, where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. His next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven years he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington; Nora, wife of Walter Hull, a motorman at Elyria; Mamie, who died when about four years olf; Victoria, wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington; and Robert, in a grocery store at Elyria...............
Biography, G. Frederick Wright, 1916, "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio, Vol. I", (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York), pp. 958-959
ELMER A. RICHMOND...........
Born in Lorain County, September 20, 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond, who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns beginning in the fall of 1862, participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat, at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville, After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866, married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10, 1843, a daughter of Robert Dalglish, who came from Scotland and was a millwright by trade, although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield, where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. His next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven years he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington; Nora, wife of Walter Hull, a motorman at Elyria; Mamie, who died when about four years olf; Victoria, wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington; and Robert, in a grocery store at Elyria...............
ELMER A. RICHMOND...........
Born in Lorain County, September 20, 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond, who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns beginning in the fall of 1862, participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat, at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville, After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866, married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10, 1843, a daughter of Robert Dalglish, who came from Scotland and was a millwright by trade, although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield, where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. His next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven years he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington; Nora, wife of Walter Hull, a motorman at Elyria; Mamie, who died when about four years olf; Victoria, wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington; and Robert, in a grocery store at Elyria...............
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