"...Aside from being a successful lawyer, he served a long term as mayor of Wilmot and was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School. About the year 1870, a three-room brick school house was built in Wilmot at a cost of $7,000. The teacher was young and pretty, and her name was Miss Abbie Bower of Bowerston. Soon there were rumors of a romance between the teacher and young attorney and later wedding bells rang in the little Methodist church. The Putmans reared nine children, six sons and three daughters. They all attended school in the same room where their mother had been teacher. Even in these days the village of Wilmot was baseball conscious and the Putman boys either played in the team or were among the rooters for the home team.....Mr. Putman established a hack service from Navarre to Wilmot, and his sons made two daily trips, driving a team hitched to a two-seated surrey. When Mr. Putman was to try a case in Canton, it necessitated rising at 5 in the morning to be on time when court opened. In 1913, the year of the great flood, Mr. Putman went west on a business trip, and after many delays arrived in Massillon only to learn that the bridge had been washed out, and he was compelled to walk the 12 miles to his home. Wet and cold, he took ill, and it was the beginning of his illness that resulted in his death. " [The Canton Repository" Canton, OH, September 6, 1942, p. 21, by Gretchen Putman.]
"...Aside from being a successful lawyer, he served a long term as mayor of Wilmot and was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School. About the year 1870, a three-room brick school house was built in Wilmot at a cost of $7,000. The teacher was young and pretty, and her name was Miss Abbie Bower of Bowerston. Soon there were rumors of a romance between the teacher and young attorney and later wedding bells rang in the little Methodist church. The Putmans reared nine children, six sons and three daughters. They all attended school in the same room where their mother had been teacher. Even in these days the village of Wilmot was baseball conscious and the Putman boys either played in the team or were among the rooters for the home team.....Mr. Putman established a hack service from Navarre to Wilmot, and his sons made two daily trips, driving a team hitched to a two-seated surrey. When Mr. Putman was to try a case in Canton, it necessitated rising at 5 in the morning to be on time when court opened. In 1913, the year of the great flood, Mr. Putman went west on a business trip, and after many delays arrived in Massillon only to learn that the bridge had been washed out, and he was compelled to walk the 12 miles to his home. Wet and cold, he took ill, and it was the beginning of his illness that resulted in his death. " [The Canton Repository" Canton, OH, September 6, 1942, p. 21, by Gretchen Putman.]
Family Members
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Edith Mae Putman Horner
1880–1961
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Garfield Putman
1882–1882
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Wilfred Bower Putman
1883–1963
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Opal B Putman Williamson
1885–1922
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Grace Lucille Putman
1886–1971
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Walter Raymond Putman
1888–1948
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Joseph Augustus Putman
1891–1963
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Hayes Rutherford Putman
1893–1966
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LTC Russell Lorain Putman
1895–1973
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Paul Price Putman
1901–1944
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