Transcribed by Gina Reasoner - AUPQ38A@prodigy.com
           use BACK key to return to Index page

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 385

        ANSON A. O. ROLL, tonsorial artist, Geneva, was born in Darke
County, Ohio, January 14, 1851, son of Orrin and Susan (Biteman) Roll, the
former a native of Ohio, and the latter of Pennsylvania. They now reside in
Defiance County, Ohio. Our subject remained at home until thirteen years of
age, then went to learn the plaster's trade, which he followed about six
years. He learned the barber's trade at Union City, Indiana, then removed
to Geneva, where he opened a shop. He was married April 2, 1872, to
Samantha Higgins, a native of Jay County, and they have one child -Louroy.