Person:Miron Canaday (1)

Miron Canaday attended Purdue University from 1905 to 1907, then transferred to the Cornell School Engineering in Ithaca, New York, where he graduated in 1910. He entered the food processing business and became production manager for Liffy, McNeil, and Libby of Rochester, Minnesota. He died in November, 1981, in Winter Park, Florida.

    New Castle benefitted as well from the Canady family. In the 1950's Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur made the first large donation to the building of the First Christian Church as a memorial to their parents.
    Their final resting place is South Mound Cemetery's most prominent feature, a neo-Greek temple atop the high mound, easily visible to passersby on Memorial Drive. Such an edifice, one thinks, must commemorate the life of a successful person. In this case, it commemorates the lives of four such persons, The Canaday brothers: Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur. Although each found his personal success in a different sphere, they were remarkable in their generous sharing of the fruits of those successes. Their philanthropy resulted in donations of a college library, a university dormitory, and a wing of an art museum. In death, however, they returned to New Castle. (Taken from Henry County Historicalog, Spring, 2001)

1. ↑ Thomas D. Hamm & Mary Louise Reynolds. The Henry County Historicalog,. (Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2001)
   Pages 12-17.