"Homer, who was born in 1862 at Townsend Farms, studied classical literature for two years at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Two years later, he transferred closer to home to Oberlin College in Lorain County, where he pledged membership in the Phi Delta fraternity and graduated in 1885. He earned his law degree summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1888, the same year he married his college sweetheart, Janet “Nettie” Whitcomb, who would die of tuberculosis a couple of years later. He walked down the aisle a second time in 1896 to marry Elizabeth Gertrude Beggs, who succumbed to pneumonia just two months later while the couple honeymooned in Europe. The twice-widowed Homer’s third marriage, to Louise, in 1901 lasted nearly 56 years until her death at 89 years old on November 9, 1957." Homer was a lawyer and civic leader, and sat on the boards of directors of both the Cleveland School of Art and Chamber of Commerce. He taught classes on constitutional law at Western Reserve University from 1892 to 1917.
