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JACOB WAGNER, proprietor Wagner House, Greenville, Ohio. We eat to live, and live to eat; therefore, to point out a good hotel is an act of kindness which is sure to be appreciated by the hungry traveler. The genial proprietor of the above house is the oldest hotel keeper of Greenville, and has a reputation as a first-class man in his line, his house having a good reputation, extending over a large part of Ohio, Indiana and other States. He was born in Reinpfaltz, Bavaria, Germany, Jan. 24, 1833; he received a good education in German in his own country, and emigrated to America when 24 years of age, landing in New York Dec. 1, 1857; coming directly West, he remained three years in Cincinnati, then one year in Louisville, Ky., thence to Miamisburg, Montgomery Co., where he was employed as clerk in a hotel from 1862 to 1864; thence to Dayton, where he engaged in the hotel business for himself until 1868, and in the fall of 1868 he came to Greenville and purchased King’s Hotel, which he gave the name of Wagner, and which he has successfully run for a period of eleven years; he also has a feed and sale stable connected with the house. He was married in Dayton, to Barbara Haas, in 1854; she was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Jan. 2, 1838; they are the parents of two children, one of whom died in infancy; the living, George Lewis, was born June 14, 1865. Mrs. Wagner is a daughter of Conrad Haas, who emigrated from Germany to America in the year 1868, and is now a resident of Miami Co. Mrs. Wagner emigrated to America in 1858, and located in Dayton, at which place her marriage nuptials were celebrated with our subject.