Samuel Smith Dresback - 1844 - 1930
Samuel was the son of David and Jane (Smith) Dresback, a grandson of Abraham and Mary (Drum) Dreisbach, the great grandson of John George Dreisbach and Sophia, and the great-great grandson of Simon Dreisbach Jr. and Dorothea (Dies).
A biography for Samuel appeared in the History of Hocking Valley Ohio, Inter-State Pub., 1883, on page 455:
“Samuel Smith Dresback, of the firm of Dresback & Hall, grocers and coal operators, Nelsonville, was born at Bloomingville, Hocking Co., O., Dec. 22, 1843, where he was reared a farmer and received a good common-school education. He lived with his parents, David and Jane (Smith) Dresback, until manhood. His father dying at about the time our subject became of age, he remained on the farm with his mother six years, and during that time taught school during the winter months. In 1870 he was employed by the Lick Run Coal Company as a bookkeeper, and was in their employ two and one-half years. In 1873 he was employed as assistant bookkeeper and weighmaster by T. Longstreth. In the spring of 1878 he engaged in the grocery business at Nelsonville. In October, 1882, George E. Hall became associated with him, under the firm’s name of Dresback & Hall, in the grocery business, and added that of operating in coal, their mines being in the vicinity of Nelsonville. Nov. 27, 1879, he was married to Jane Snyder, of Nelsonville. Himself and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church. He has served both as Deacon and Ruling Elder for several years.”