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Naftzger, George Edward

journalist, lecturer, poet, was born April 30, 1859, in Lima, Ohio. After receiving a liberal education, he learned the printer's trade, and in 1879 became associate editor of The Herald of Edgerton, Ohio. He has since been identified with different Ohio newspapers, including the Sunday Morning Gossip, Spencerville Journal, St. Mary Argus, and the Democrat of Lacon, Ill. During 1888-89 he lectured extensively in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He has contributed to many of the leading publications of America; and his poems have been given a place in Poets, of America, and other standard works.