People from Union County, Ohio - Charles W. Fairbanks, Robert S. Beightler, Sager Orphans, Jocharles W. Fairbanks, Robert S. Beightler, Sager Orphans, John F. Kinney, Norton P. Chipman, Chase Blackburn Hn F. Kinney, Norton P. Chipman, Chase Blackburn (Paperback)

Chapters: Charles W. Fairbanks, Robert S. Beightler, Sager Orphans, John F. Kinney, Norton P. Chipman, Chase Blackburn, Bob Shaw, Beriah Wilkins, Thomas B. Ward, Cornelius S. Hamilton, James Wallace Robinson, James E. Robinson, Darren Hall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Robert S. Beightler (March 21, 1892 February 12, 1978) was an American military officer and Ohio political insider, engineer, and business owner. In the military, he reached the rank of major general, and served as military Governor of Okinawa, War Department General Staff, and as commander of the 37th Infantry Division, the only National Guard General to lead his troops through training and into battle during World War Two. In political activities in Ohio, he served as head of the Ohio State Highway Department, President of the Army Personnel Board, Executive Director and board member of the Ohio Turnpike Commission. Beightler was the only World War II National Guard general to have commanded his division for the length of the war. In addition to being one of only eleven generals who commanded their divisions for the entire warand the longest serving of these eleven, Beightler was appointed to the regular army in 1946 as one of only two National Guard major generals to receive such an appointment at that time. Beightler is derived from Bigler. Because some German immigrants were illiterate when they came to Colonial America, the name has been transcribed numerous ways by English clerks not familiar with the ethnic surnames and anglicized, including Beighler, Beigler, and Beegler. The "t" was added to the name upon the arrival of Robert's ancestor in Marysville because of how the name sounded, where his ancestors were said to have spoken with a strong German accent which...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2059201