This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YEITER, REUTER, CLARK, BLOOMER, CURTISS Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4154 Message Board Post: Orlo J. Yeiter, junior member of the firm of Yeiter & Company, was born in Lowell township, May 9, 1890, a son of Samuel S. and Caroline (Reuter) Yeiter, natives of Michigan and agriculturalists during the active period of their lives. The father died in January 1916, but the mother still survives and makes her home at Lowell. There were five children in the family: Clair D., who married Mary Clark; Orlo J.; Claud S., who married Lillian Bloomer; Lena L., and Harold G. Orlo J. Yeiter was educated in the public schools of Lowell township and the high school at Freeport, and until nineteen years of age was engaged in farming on his father's property. At that time he was married and for some years thereafter was identified with a number of business enterprises, finally becoming associated with Joseph B. Yeiter, his father's cousin, in the operation of the present house. He is known as one of the energetic and enterprising young businessmen of the city and has already made a fir! mly established place for himself in commercial circles. He is an independent voter, affiliates with Lowell Camp No. 115, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is also a Mason, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1909 Mr. Yeiter was married to Miss Rosella, daughter of Earl and Mary Curtiss, formerly farming people of Lowell township and now retired residents of Lowell. Of this union has come a daughter, Evelyn L., born Feb. 26, 1912, and a son, Gerald S., born Jan. 2. 1918.