Person:Enoch Driver (1)

Milan Township communities include: Five Points, Gar Creek and Milan Center. Milan Township is located in east central Allen County, with the Maumee River meandering across the township.

From A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio

... Enoch and Amarilla (Minkler) Driver, both natives of Maryland and of English ancestry. They came as young people to Indiana and some years after their marriage moved to Ohio and settled in Vermilion Township of Erie County. Mr. Driver died there and his widow is now a third time a widow and is living with her children in the State of Washington, being about sixty-four years of age.

Conrad Hubert invented the flashlight in 1898 in the United States. He worked for Joshua Lionel Cowen, who was the original owner of the American Eveready Battery Company. Cowen had invented a flowerpot with a battery in it. Electricity from the battery made the flower "light up" when you pressed a button.

Hubert decided to try to sell these flowerpots, but he changed them first. He took the battery, the bulb and the paper tube from the pot, and made it into what he called "an electric hand torch". The world's first flashlight! What started as a novelty soon became a common household item, and Conrad Hubert became a multi-millionaire. Eveready grew into a huge company, and Joshua Lionel Cowen went on to invent toy trains in 1900.

1. ↑ Vital Records - Erie County, Ohio
   Death Vol. 3, p. 69, #4.
2. ↑ Hewson L. Peeke. A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, Vols. I & II. (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York 1916).