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Charles "Herbert" Minor
(1863-1940)

Charles "Herbert" Minor was born on Jan. 3, 1863 in Columbus, Franklin County, OH, the son of Daniel and Jane Ann (Duff-Langdon) Minor Jr.

Herbert married Lillian DeLaFontaine ( ? -1959). They had two daughters -- Hazel Minor and Helen Minor.

The Minors lived in Michigan circa 1890, but returned to Columbus by 1895. They resided at 1524 East Long Street in Columbus. In 1895, Herbert was a bookkeeper with the P. Haydon Saddling Hardware Company, owned in part by his multi-millionnaire brother in law William Buck Hayden. He also worked for the Haydens' automatic concrete block machine company in the early 1900s.

A September 1908 article in Cement World, a trade journal, reported that "Herbert Miner" along with W.B. Simpler, George Fuil and Walter McGlenchy as representatives of Hayden Automatic Concrete Block Machine Company, attended the Ohio State Fair to demonstrate the technology's capabilities. They "were there to look after the machine, but they had little to do but talk with the people, for the machine did it all with an alacrity that made even the chickens take notice."

Later, in 1920, Herbert was a clerk in an automobile company. At the time of his death, in 1940, he was vice president of the Hayden Concrete Block Machine Company.

Busy High Street in Columbus, north of Gay Street

In 1909, when Edward's mother died, he inherited all of her stock in the Hayden Stone Block Machine Company. Daughter Hazel inherited a garnet pin and an "Autumn" landscape painting. Hazel and her sister Helen also inherited $500 each "to be used as an assistance in [their] education."

At age 77, Herbert passed away of cancer on March 9, 1940. He was buried in the famed Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus.

Lillian outlived her husband by 19 years. She died in 1959, and is buried beside her husband.

Daughters Hazel and Helen never married. Helen was a sales clerk for the Union and Lazarus Department Stores. They resided together at 1524 East Long Street, and both died in the same year -- Helen on March 7, 1979 and Hazel on Sept. 21, 1979.

Graves of Herbert and Lillian at Greenlawn Cemetery in Columbus