He served as a member of the City Housing Bureau, being a strong advocate of the Fulton Flying Field, and in other ways showing an up-to date and progressive spirit in all of his affairs. Personally he is deservedly popular, being a man of kindly and courteous manner, while throughout the community he commands uniform confidence and respect.

I am less familiar with my own grandfather, Elson Myers Fry, the oldest son of James S. and Mary Ellen (Myers) Fry, than with my two great uncles; for while he must have held me as a child, he died when I was not yet 18 months old.

Elson M. Fry was born on the family farm on Pontius Road in Suffield Township on January 9, 1880; and must have spent his early years helping with the chores of typical farm life. His mother, Mary Ellen (Myers) Fry died three weeks after his seventeenth birthday. We can surmise that his father, James Smith Fry, thereafter had household help; since there were no daughters in the household to do the indoor chores of cooking, canning, washing, mending, cleaning and all the other tasks necessary to keeping a home functioning smoothly.

It is a family tradition that his future wife, Bessie May Hershberger, was one of those household workers. They were married in xxx; and later moved to Akron, where they resided at 447 Talbot Avenue in East Akron. My father told me that Elson was a grocer in Akron; but was put out of business when his partner absconded with the company's funds. Elson later served as a dedicated postal employee.