Robert Henderson Sharp

1904 -

• Name	Robert Henderson Sharp
  Birth	12 Mar 1904	Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA
  Anecdote	12 Mar 1904  [1]
  	Bob was born on Saturday, March 12.1904 at noon in his family home in Bucyrus, Ohio. His Mother noted this fact in her chronology of family events.
  Christening	Aft 12 Mar 1904	Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Anecdote	Abt 1915	near Lake Hope, Vinton, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	Bob recalls visiting his grandparents, Elias and Mary Sharp, on their Vinton County farm near Lake Hope when he was a boy. He would leave Bucyrus, Ohio, on the train. The railroad tracks ran right through his grandparents farm, so he said instead of riding to the station, when the train got to their farm it would slow down, they would throw his bag off the train and then lower him to the ground and he would pick up his bag and run across the fields to his grandparents' house. He said he slept up stairs in a large loft-like room in a bed with a feather tick. He said his grandmother, Mary Bobo Sharp, smoked a pipe. We have a picture of her with it. The Sharp's had an outhouse with an apple tree next to it. Bob said when you were sitting in there, occasionally, an apple would drop and hit the tin roof and scare you to death. The Sharp's had an orchard and grew corn. They also dug their own coal from a mine just across the road from their house. They had a pony named Bill and a horse named Jim. We have pictures of them from a July 1919 visit to the farm.
  Education	1922	graduated Bucyrus High School, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	Witness Role: Student: [I3871] Robert Henderson SHARP
  Graduation	1927	A.B.; Miami University, Oxford, Butler, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1922 until 1927. His first year at Miami he lived with a boy from Bucyrus named Art Staley. After his first year he lived in the Phi Kappa Tau house. During this time he had to drop out of school for a semester because he had some type of eye problem and he was unable to see. Bob was a member of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at Miami. He and his brother, Shorty, were among the founding members of the Campus Owls, a dance band. The band played on campus and then during the summer vacations they traveled to dance pavilions in Ohio, Indiana and other states to play. One summer when the Owls didn't have a job, Bob played saxophone in a dance pavilion in the park outside of Bucyrus. We have severa lpictures of the band 'on tour' with the car loaded with suitcases and instruments. In 1994 this band was still in existence. Bob graduated from Miami in 1927 with an A.B. in Education. Witness Role: Graduate: [I3871] Robert Henderson SHARP
  Anecdote	Aft 1927  [1]
  	after graduation from Miami he moved to Niles, Ohio joining his mother and his brother, Shorty. Bob taught History at Washington Junior High School for 3 years and he taught English at Niles McKinley High School for 2 or 3 years.
  Marriage Groom	29 Dec 1934	St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	met his wife Kathryn Tadsen, known as 'Tad', while he was teaching in Niles. Her older sister, June Tadsen Rader, who was teaching in Niles encouraged her to come to Niles from Port Clinton, Ohio, to teach. The Reverend Hargate officiated. Bob and Tad have lived in the same house, a shingled, Craftsman style bungalow, at 43 Lincoln Avenue, Niles, Ohio for 57 years in 1994. Witness Role: Principal: [F1] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I4247] Kathryn Margaret TADSEN Witness Role: Groom: [I3871] Robert Henderson SHARP
  Graduation	1941	M.A. in Education; Ohio State University, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	Witness Role: Graduate: [I3871] Robert Henderson SHARP
  Occupation	Between 1941 and 1972	Principal; Niles McKinley High School, Niles, Trumbull, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	worked in the Niles City School System a total of 45 years.
  Person ID	I3871	Hillbillies & Vikings
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Andrew Vance Sharp,   b. 8 Nov 1869, Madison Twp., Vinton, Ohio, USA d. 18 Mar 1922, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Maude Elsie Sherer,   b. 26 Nov 1879, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA d. 3 Sep 1966, Niles, Trumbull, Ohio, USA (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	12 Mar 1896	Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, USA
  	Witness Role: Bride: [I3964] Maude Elsie SHERER Witness Role: Groom: [I3802] Andrew Vance SHARP
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Kathryn Margaret Tadsen,   b. 25 Dec 1909, Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
  Marriage	29 Dec 1934	St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	met his wife Kathryn Tadsen, known as 'Tad', while he was teaching in Niles. Her older sister, June Tadsen Rader, who was teaching in Niles encouraged her to come to Niles from Port Clinton, Ohio, to teach. The Reverend Hargate officiated. Bob and Tad have lived in the same house, a shingled, Craftsman style bungalow, at 43 Lincoln Avenue, Niles, Ohio for 57 years in 1994. Witness Role: Bride: [I4247] Kathryn Margaret TADSEN Witness Role: Groom: [I3871] Robert Henderson SHARP
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2025

  
  

• Reference

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