Person:George Olmsted (11)

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(2073) GEORGE HENRY OLMSTED, Cleveland, Ohio. b. Sept. 21, 1843; m. Oct. 24, 1872, Ella L. Kelley; b. July 14, 1847; dau. of David H. and Lucy Ann (Webster) Kelley. (See Appendix.)

3176, Grace S.; b. Aug. 26, 1878; d. Dec. 11, 1904; m. Sept. 4, 1901, Alexander P. Grigor; b. Jan. 9, 1857. 3177, Howard; b. Oct. 19, 1880; m. Nov. 20, 1907, Zella G. Bishop; b. Mar. 23, 1880.


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(No. 2073) Page 144 - GEORGE HENRY OLMSTED
Mr. Olmsted is at the head of one of the largest insurance agencies in Ohio and is one of Cleveland's most prominent and progressive citizens; he is a native of LaGrange, Ohio, where he was born September 21, 1843. His father, Jonathan Olmsted, was a farmer and a native of Lorain County, Ohio. His ancestors were of an old Connecticut family, settled in the "Nutmeg State" in 1632 and were all prominent in business and civic affairs in their time.

His mother was also of an old New England family for generations back. He was educated in the district schools and High School of Elyria, Ohio, and graduated from the Commercial School of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1865. He then taught school in Ohio and Wisconsin and subsequently went into the insurance business in Cleveland, in 1867, and has been thus engaged up to the present day, having built up by close attention to business, strict integrity and honorable business methods, one of the largest and most important insurance agencies in the State. He has been the State Agent for The National Life Insurance Company of Vermont since 1879.

Mr. Olmsted is a Director and Treasurer of The National Safe and Lock Company of Cleveland, is a Director in the Central National Bank, Director in the Woodland Avenue Savings and Trust Company, Director in The Land Title and Abstract Company, and a Member of The Chamber of Commerce. President National Land Co., Director National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., Director and Treasurer Union Savings & Loan Co., Director of Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. In politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Olmsted is a member of The Union Club and prominent in civic and business affairs of Cleveland.

George H. Olmsted has been for more than half a century one of the leading representatives of the insurance business in the City of Cleveland, and his operations are conducted under two firm alliances, those of Olmsted Brother & Company, and George H. Olmsted & Company, the latter firm controlling a large and important general insurance business, and the former representing the National Life Insurance Company and the Standard Accident Insurance Company of Vermont, of which great corporation Mr. Olmsted is a director. Mr. Olmsted is treasurer of the National Safe & Lock Company of Cleveland ; has given effective service as president of the Life Insurance Managers Exchange; is president of the National Land Company ; is vice president of the Bankers Surety Company ; is treasurer of the Union Savings & Loan Company ; and is a director in other important banking institutions in Cleveland, as is he also of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College and the Cleveland Trunk Company. He is a member of the local board of fire underwriters and is an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a deacon in the Willson Avenue Baptist Church, and has served as chairman of the apportionment committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, besides having done much to further the service of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Mr. Olmsted was born at Lagrange, Lorain County, Ohio, September 21, 1843, and his early education included a course in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He devoted three years to teaching in the public schools, and thereafter was variously employed until the spring of 1867, since which time he has continued to be engaged in the insurance business in Cleveland, where his success has been such as to mark him as one of the leading insurance men of Ohio. His insurance work has involved also two years of traveling as special agent for the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company.

In 1872 Mr. Olmsted married Miss Ella Kelley, and they became the parents of one son and one daughter, the latter of whom is deceased.