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S. H. CARTZDAFNER, London, a prominent grocer, was born in Frederick County, Md., April 14, 1826. He is a son of Michael Cartzdafner, a native of that State. and there reared. He was a miller by trade and came to Ohio in 1854. He located at Georgesville, in Franklin County, and in this county a year later. He came to London in 1860, and there died in the spring of 1862. Mr. Cartzdafner married Maria Cornelly, a native of Montgomery County, Md. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom are living. Mother died in April, 1811, and sleeps beside her husband, in Oak Hill Cemetery. east of London. Our subject was the second child and son of this family, and, when nineteen years of age, went to Virginia, where he learned milling. He worked at his trade six or seven years, in Jefferson County, that State, principally at Harpers Ferry. In 1852, he came to Columbus, and soon after to Madison County, being first employed by J. C. Smith in the "Old Chrisman Mill," in Oak Run Township. He was in the Georgesville Mill two years; three years in the Robert's Mill, three miles west of London, and soon after located permanently in London. He became associated in the grocery trade with John Jones, the partnership being dissolved two and a half year later. Since that time Mr. Cartzdafner has been in business alone, and has met with fair success in his mercantile transactions. He became connected with Virginia Lodge. No. 1 (Odd Fellows), of Harper's Ferry, in 1849 and since his residency in London has been a member of Madison Lodge, No. 70. and the Encampment of the same fraternity. His political views are decidedly Democratic, and he has been a member of both the Council and Board of Education of London. He was united in marriage. June 25. 1850, to Mary S. Jones, a native of Pennsylvania. then residing it Harper's Ferry, Va. Eleven children have been given them, four living -- Anna, wife of Will H. Chandler, Jr., an enterprising business man of London; Maria, William and Fannie. Mrs Cartzdafner is a member of the M. E. denomination.
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