Our County Farm Bureau President

The Summit County Farm Bureau was organized in 1921 for the purpose of “representing, promoting and protecting the business needs of farming and centralizing into a unit of strength the several county farm bureaus of the State of Ohio” and is guided by a Board of Trustees made up of twelve members of the organization.  The officers of the county Farm Bureau are the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.

Our new president, Tim Walsh, was recently sworn in at our September 29^th Annual Meeting by outgoing president, Andy Troutman.  The president is charged with giving leadership to not only the board of trustees, but to the entire county Farm Bureau membership by working to develop a good relationship with county, state, and federally elected officials, agricultural and community organizations.

We would like to display/honor our presidents in our Antique Museum at the fairgrounds.  Unfortunately, we have encountered a few gaps in our 97 year history.  We were hoping that maybe you could help us fill in the blanks.  Is there a senior member of your family that you will be spending time with over the holidays that could possibly help us complete the list?

1921 through 1926 ?

1927  E. C. Robinson                               1928 & 29  George Pease

1930  H. C. Barlow                                   1931 & 32  M. S. Grove

1933 & 34  T. F. Pressler                         1935  O. D. Bradley

1936  W. A. Sorrick                                   1937 & 38  C. E. Hartong

1939 & 40  M. S. Grove                            1941  S. C. Freeman

1942 – 44  Earl Miller                                1945  Oscar Lyons

1946 through 1964 ?

1965 – 69  Edward Stein                          1970 – 74  Clyde Eckart

1975 – 80  John Graf                                1981 – 86  Glenn Hawk

1987 & 88  Earl Boughton                        1989 & 90  Dean Hartong

1991 & 92  Edward Luther                       1993 & 94  Peter Schanz

1995 & 96  Jean Call                                1997 & 98  Richard Boughton

1999 – 2001  Gale Betterly                      2002 & 03  John Graf

2004  Christopher C. Esker                      2005 & 06  Richard Boughton

2007 – 10  Robert Luther                          2011 – 14  Peter Schanz

2014 – 16  Gale Betterly                           2016 – 18  Andrew Troutman

2018 – currently Timothy Walsh

Please contact the office with any information you might have.  We so appreciate any help that you could give to help us out!