This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Given, Walker, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AYB.2ACE/490 Message Board Post: By January 1907 a group of four Pittsburgh investors (T. H. Given, Samuel C. Walker, William Walker, and Hay Walker, Jr.) had purchased about 4,000 acres of Ohio land in Richland County, Huron County, and Crawford County. An option was given to William Smith to acquire a 1/8 interest in this land, held in the name of Farmers Farm Company and purchased at a total cost of around $160,000. In 1913, Farmers Farm Company was largely controlled by William Walker and Hay Walker, Jr. through the W. & H. Walker firm in Pittsburgh. The banker T. H. Given, long associated with Farmers Deposit National Bank in Pittsburgh, a bank on whose board the Walkers served from 1861 until 1939, likely also contined to have an interest in this company. I hope someone on this list may be familiar with the Farmers Farm Company and know something about its activities in Richland County.