WAYNE COUNTY OHIO 
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Submitted to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Name: B.J. Leonard
Email: leonard4@flash.net
Date: September 2002
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"History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers
 to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass


David G. Horst was born in Lancaster county, Pa., June 26, 1831, and came to 
Wayne county, Ohio, with his father, with whom he remained until 1860, when he 
settled in Orrville, and engaged in the dry goods and general merchandising 
business, in which he continued for eight years, when he went into the banking 
business.  He was married February 16, 1853, to Elizabeth Martin, of Baughman 
township.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church; is a man of sound, solid 
sense, a benevolent, liberal, upright, and a consistent Christian gentleman.