Solomon Kester ^{1 2}

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Notes for SOLOMON KESTER:
Solomon farmed until 1871, at which date he embarked in the mercantile business in Palestine until Feb, 1880, when he located in Greenville, with one of the largest and best-selected stocks of goods ever brought to this town.
A biography states: "With the well-known enterprise of Mr. KESTER, his large stock, pleasing, attentive and obliging clerks, we predict for his firm the largest annual sales of any firm in the dry-goods trade in Darke Co. He is now located in the store formerly occupied by Wilson & Hart."

Solomon Kester Dry Goods
23 W. Water 118 Broadway
Greenville Ohio 1885

Solomon married Mary Ann Leas, daughter of Jesse Leas and Sarah Ann Crisler, on 3 Jan 1864 in Darke County, Ohio, USA. (Mary Ann Leas was born in 1842 in OH.)