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Until recently, the only newspaper articles that I could ever find were from one of two sources:  Obituaries and Clippings.  A number of companies have started to put newspaper name indexes online, and some have even placed entire newspapers there!  Of interest to me, and hopefully the reader, is the Marion Star.  A number of relations have appeared in that paper over many decades.  Here is a small family tree to help sort out who's who.

Here are just a few of the articles that appear.  Sorry if I get carried away with the comments...

1880 Nov 27 - "Letter from Colorado.  The following letter was received this morning by Peter Bieber, from George Keiler, his nephew, who is now in Kokomo, Colorado:  Kokomo, Col., November 18, 1880.  Uncle Peter:- I received the money and letter you sent in May all right, and in due season.  We quit work on Gibson Mountain about the last of September.  I have been working on the road which is being built from Wheeler to Red Cliff, till the 8th of this month for $40 per month and board.  I am now sawing wood for the same wages; will work here two or three weeks, and then I think I will go down on the Platte river, 35 miles this side of Denver.  It is too cold up here for any use; it has been below zero every morning this month; and every monring this week it has been from 20 to 40 degrees below zero, and Tuesday morning the thermometer froze up.  There has been splendid sleighing for the last month; the snow now is from two to three feet deep.  We had 16 claims surveyed and recorded on Gibson Mt., but as I was not of age the surveyor said it would not do to have them in my name, so they were put in your name.  I will be here till the 4th of December, if not longer.  George Keiler."

1880 Dec 10 - "Peter Bieber, who has been ailing for about a week, is better today."

1881 Feb 18 - "Peter Bieber the miller, is adding a beautiful pony burr to his fine mill for the purpose of drinding middlings.  It is now ready for operation and will do good work.  The mill was built in Cincinnati , and the one that took the first premium at the Cincinnati Exposition, George Phelps is setting the work."

1881 Mar 11 - "Peter Bieber, the main miller of this city, who has been ailing and suffering from contracted cold, is out again and looking well; also says he feels quite well.  Mr. Bieber is one of Marion's best men, and highly respected.  May he long be spared to be among us."

1881 Mar 14 - "W.H. McClure, of Columbus, has taken charge of P. Bieber's mill, in this city.  Mc. is said to be one of Ohio's best millers, and expects to become one of our citizens by locating his family here about April 1st."

1881 Mar 22 - "Charley Mass has been ill with sore throat since Saturday last, but is on the streets to-day, feeling some better.  P. S. Bieber is feeding the firey furnace at the mills in his stead."

1881 Mar 24 - "W. H. McClure, the Bieber miller, received his family to-day from Columbus, and will occupy the house recently occupied by A. Wilson, on north Main St."

1881 Apr 2 - "Corporation and Township Nominations."  [P.S. Bieber is listed as running as a Republican for Second Ward Council against John S. Riley, a Democrat.  Hiram M. Ault is also listed as a Republican, running for Third Ward Assessor, against John Shumaker, who has no party affiliation noted.]

1881 Apr 5 - "Marion Election."  [P.S. Bieber lost to John S. Riley, 48 votes to 72 votes, respectively.  H. M. Ault defeated J. W. Shumaker, 126 votes to 110 votes, respectively.  Overall, four Democrats and four Republicans were elected.]

1881 Apr 15 - "Ben. Bieber, of the C&TRR, at Prospect, will take charge of the station of the NYP&O, at this place in a few days."  [C&TRR is the Columbus & Toledo Railroad.  NYP&O is the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad.  Here is a link to one of the locomotives used on the NYP&O.]

1881 Apr 18 - "George Williams is the agent of the NYP&O, at this point, and Ben. Bieber is assistant agent."

1881 Apr 18 - "Jurrors for the May Term."  [Hiram Ault is listed on the Grand Jury from the Third Ward.]

1881 Apr 25 - "Patronize P. Bieber.  Ask your grocer for Bieber's brand of flour; it is the make of flour you want; its equal is not in this market.  It is the finest, the whitest, and makes the lightest bread of all the brands of flour we ever tried."

1881 Apr 28 - "H. M. Ault, the 3d ward assessor, has much the biggest and most responsible task to perform of all the assessors, on account of the great talent of all the editors of the city and their printing offices being in that ward.  Each of the old editors want Hiram to put their amount up."

1881 May 4 - "Board of Education Committeess.  At a meeting of the Board of Education Monday night, President Alsop announced the following standing Committees:"  [In the repairs committee we find P. Bieber.]

1881 May 26 - "P.Bieber, in company with Frank and Grace Keiler, leave this evening for a visit with friends in Catawissa, Pa."  [Catawissa is in Columbia County, PA, and presumably the Bieber and Keiler famies have some roots there.  Peter Bieber was born in PA according to census records.]

1881 May 26 - "We are informed by H.M. Ault that Col. H. Gorton is very feeble, failing gradually every day.  He is now 87 years old."  [Col Hezekiah Gorton married Alpha Capron, and was father of Mary Catharine Gorton.  Alpha died and was buried in Marion, and Mary married Hiram M. Ault.  After Alpha died, Hezekiah moved out to Colorado with his youngest daughter, Evelina Gill Gorton Boyd.]

1881 Sep 23 - "The P. Bieber Flouring Mill is now crowded to its utmost capacity, and is most of the time.  His miller, Mr. McClure, is doing as good work as is done in Ohio, and is fast becoming noted for this good work.  Mr. Bieber keeps none but gode, careful men in his employ.  Mr. Charley Moss, his engineer, is one fo the most diligent and efficient in that capacity in this city, or any other.  In short, the Bieber Flouring Mill is the mill that 'takes the cake'.  Attached to this noted mill is the office of W. Prendergast, the coal man, who furnishes to his customers some as fine coal as has ever been brought to Marion."  [Peter Bieber married a Caroline McClure, and so his miller may be a relative of his wife.]

1881 Nov 30 - "Judge Bennet, deceased, had been talking with Mr. P. Bieber, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, about 40 minutes before his death, concerning the hiring of some hands to husk corn, and he then looked as well as ever, and did not seem in the least ill."

1882 Jan 7 - "Pure Cumberland Blossburg, pure Lehigh hard coal, best Lackawana hard coal, best Hocking Valley soft coal, always on hand at the Marion Coal Yard, near P. S. Bieber's mill.  All coal screened when necessary."

1882 Apr 11 - "The Bieber flouring mills were never rushed more than they are at the present time.  Their custom grinding alone will average 90 pushels [sic] per day."

1882 Jun 12 - "We learn that Col. H. Gorton died at Loveland, Colorado, June 2d, and was buried June 4th, aged 88 years and 6 months.  Deceased was one of the oldest citizens of this country, and was of the firm of Ault & Gorton, grain and wool dealers."

1882 Jun 23 - "The memorial sermon of Col. Gorton will be preached at the First Baptist Church next Sunday morning by the Rev. O. E. Baker; everybody invited."

1884 Dec 13 - "Mr. P. S. Bieber attends to his committee work faithfully."

1885 Sep 9 - "Obituary.  Mr. P. S. Bieber, one of Marion's pioneer Business men, died at his residence on Railroad street, Wednesday afternoon.  Mr. Bieber was one of our best known residents, a man of sterling worth, who leaves behind him a large circle of friends.  Mr. Bieber was born in Columbia county, Pa., in 1822.  He moved from his birthplace to Delaware in 1863, and to this city in 1865, when he went into the milling business, in which he was engaged at the time of his death.  His death was caused by a complication of diseases, from the effects of which he has been slowly sinking the past two weeks.  The deceased leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss.  The funeral services will be held at the M. E. church, Friday morning, meeting at the house at 10 o'clock.  Interment at Gospel Hill."

1885 Sep 11 - "The schools are closed today on account of the funeral of P. S. Bieber who was a member of the School Board.

1887 Jul 14 - "Mrs. P. S. Beiber, accompanied by her niece, Miss Carrie Keller, left today for an extended visit at Kansas City, Mo."

1893 May 12 - Read the whole article, about the Knights of the Maccabees of the World, here.

1893 Aug 11 - "Miss Carrie Bieber is making a week's visit with friends and relatives at Richwood."

1893 Aug 17 - "Miss Carre Bieber has returned from Richwood accompanied by her friend, Miss Mabel Baker."  and "H. M. Ault was at Columbus Wednesday attending a convention of local insurance agents of Ohio."

1893 Sep 27 - "Notice, Maccabees.  The meeting of Model Test, No. 157, Knights of the Maccabees, that was to have occurred this evening, has been postponed until further notice on account of the absence of Sir Knight Finance Keeper Bieber from the city.  E.T. Boyd, Sir Knight Commander."

1893 Nov 23 - "High School Rhetoricals.  The rhetorical exercises of Friday next will be given by the Longfellow division."  [One of the programs is on a biography of Garibaldi, a popular Italian revolutionary, by Ray Bieber.]

1893 Nov 24 - "Marion Commandery Election.  At the meeting of Marion Commandery, No. 36, the following officers were elected on the first ballot."  [One of the officers was Ben Bieber, Treas.]

1894 Nov 2 - "The condition of Clarence Bieber still continues to improve."

1895 Apr 16 - "Lorin Rhoads, Clarence Bieber and Snapper Campbell were attending a ball at Bucyrus, Monday night."

1895 Jul 24 - "Misses Florence Mason, Carrie Bieber and Bessie Grubb drove to Prospect to spend the day with friends."

1897 Nov 10 - "New Officers.  Of Marion Chapter Royal Arch Masons Elected Tuesday Night.  Chapter No. 62, R.A.M., held a meeting at their hall in the Masonic temple Tuesday night, at which officers were chosen for the ensuing term."  [Benjamin Bieber R.A.C. is listed as one of those chosen.]

1901 Jan 12 - "BUCKEYE TRIO.  Will Join the Silver Slipper Burlesque Company Monday.  Elba Paddock and Ray Bieber of this city will leave Monday monring for Buffalo, where they will be joined by George Houlihan, who, with them, makes up the Buckeye trio.  The three will then join the Silver Slipper Burlesque company, which is now rehearsing in that city for a trip on the road.  The show opens the following week in Syracuse, New York, where the trio made a big hit in a vaudeville house two weeks ago."

1902 Aug 1 - "NEW STATION IS OCCUPIED.  Hocking Valley People Move Into the Fine Structure.  B.P. SWENEY IS THE PURCHASER OF FIRST TICKET.  F.N Haight of the Northwestern is First Traveling Passenger Agent To Present His Card- personnel of the Depot Force - Talk of Running Erie 14 in Two Sections.  The Hocking Valley people individually opened the new depot this morning.  They are doing all their business from there.  The Big Four expects to be ready to move by the first of the week.  The Eire up-town ticket office will be moved about the same time, but it will be unable to take its traffice from there until the new pipe lines are put in.  It is expected that they will be in by the middle of the month.  A number of the railroad officials of the various roads are in the city today viewing the depot, and it is being inspected by many citizens.  The following are the officers who assumed their duties this morning:  Ticket agent, L.E. Nebergal; day assistant, Clarence Bieber; night assistant, George Seitz; baggagemaster, Herbert Scovill; assistant, Will Vorbles; night baggagemaster, Albert Belcher; assistant, Carl Koenig; depot policeman and trainmaster, Albert Patterson."

1902 Aug 29 - "Mrs. Clarence Bieber and Miss Mary Bieber left Thursday evening for Delaware and Columbus, where they will visit for a week."

1902 Sep 17 - "Word was received Tuesday that the Buckeye trio closed a contract with Vogel's minstrels for the remainder of the season.  The trio consists of Messrs. Bieber, Berringer and Hollihan.  It is receiving many fine press notices."

1903 Nov 4 - "The members of the Buckeye trio are in Hamilton, Ontario, this week.  This trio is composed if Messrs. Bieber, Berringer and Powers.  Mr. Powers writes Mr. Bieber's father that he has been unfortunate enough to lose his trained pig [emphasis mine ;-)] during the past week, and for that reason the trio is temporarily doing nothing."   [Mr. Bieber refers to Ray Bieber.]

1907 Aug 19 - "The Buckeye trio, of which Ray Beiber and Charles Berringer of this city are members returned to Marion, Sunday, after a successful trip in the West."

1907 Oct 15 - "FORMER MARION BOY SUPRISES FRIENDS.  Marriage of Miss Roth and Mr. Ray Bieber.  MARRIAGE SECRET KEPT SOME TIME.  Young People Are Married at Bloomington, Illinois, Last April - Bride Is a Dayton Girl - Groom Is a Son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bieber of This City.

News of the marriage of a farmer [sic] Marion boy that will come as a surprise to his many local friends leaked out this morning.  According to the information at hand Ray Bieber was married last April to Miss Jessie Roth of Dayton.  The ceremony was performed in Bloomington, Illinois.  Mr. Beiber was showing there that week, the couple met there by appointment and the words were spoken which made them husband and wife.

Mr. Bieber is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bieber of east Center street, and will be remembered as a former pupil in the local schools, a clerk in the Erie freight office as an assistant to his father, cashier of the Erie in this city, and as a young man of sterling and capable business qualities.  He left the city some five years ago as a member of the Buckeye trio, an acrobatic team doing a cabin act, in which Charles Berringer of this city is a second member, and since then has been a successful attraction on the vaudeville circuits of the country.  At present the team is laying off for two weeks to give the bride and groom opportunity for a honeymoon.  They will arrive in the city the last of the week for a week's visit with the groom's parents.

Mrs. Bieber is a young woman of many accomplishments, and very well connected in Dayton.  The many local friends of the groom will be pleased to learn of his marriage, and because of his popularity he will undoubtedly be accorded a hearty welcome by all."

1908 Apr 14 - "Petitions-in-error in the cases of Michael Burke and Samuel Nelson Abel, saloonkeepers fined in the mayor's court for alleged violation of the recently-adopted saloon regulation ordinances, were filed in the common pleas court, today, through Attorneys Scofield, Durfee & Scofield.  Burke was fined $50 for having chairs and card tables in his place of business, and Abel was fined for having a screen so placed that a full view could not obtained of the bar from the street and also for having chairs and card tables in his place of business.  For the first offense he was fined $25 and for the latter $50."

1908 May 5 - "SALOONISTS WIN IN COMMON PLEAS COURT.  Recently Enacted Ordinances Are Not Effective.  ORDINANCE AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW.  Court Holds That Ordinance as to Chairs and Tables in Saloons Does Not Conform with the Statue, Cases Set for Trial in the Common Pleas Court.  

Judge B.G. Young, of the common please court, decided Marion's 'lid' cases, Monday evening, and virtually knocked out the recently-enacted saloon regulation ordinances.

In the case of Herman Feudner, who was fined for failing to keep a light burning in his place of business all night, the court found that in Feudner's trial no evidence had ever been offered showing proof of publication of the ordinance, under which Feudner was fined.

In the case of Michael J. Burke, who was fined for having chairs and tables in his place of business, the court declared that, while the charge against Burke was in conformity with the ordinance, it was contrary to the spirit of the law.  The statute provides for the regulation of beer, ale or porter houses or places where beer, ale or porter are sold as a beverage.  The ordinance provides for the regulation of the sale of beer, ale or porter for any purpose, a privilege which the law does not permit.  The same decision applies to the case against Samuel N. Abel, who was fined for having chairs and tables in his place of business.

These three cases were reversed and the judgment of the mayor's court set aside.

In the second case against Abel, who was fined for having a screen in front of his bar, Judge Young reversed the mayor's court because of a lack of evidence to convict and remanded the case for a rehearing."

1908 May 21 - "Mrs. Ray Bieber has returned to her home in Dayton after a week's visit at the Bieber home on east Center street."

1908 Jun 6, 10 and 11 - Read these articles, about the Tally Wag Vaudeville show.

1908 Jun 12 - "Ray Bieber left this morning for visit with relatives at Kokomo, Indiana."

1908 Jun 27 - "Ray Bieber came in from Kokomo, Friday, where he has been visiting relatives.  He will leave with the other members of the Buckeye trio for Cleveland, Sunday.  The trio has an engagement at the Coliseum garden.

1908 Jul 3 - "Mrs. Ray Bieber went to Cleveland, Thursday, to join her husband."

1913 Apr 5 - "Will Aronhalt took E.M. Beale's desk at the Erie.  Clarence Bieber went into the ticket office.  Mel Dice took the day job at the C. & E.  John St. Germain took an office desk and Raleigh Drake took Dice's place."

1916 Mar 16 - "Marshmellows.  Sens Market on Smeltzer Road. - Ad."

1921 Dec 22 - "Suprise Two - Miss Florence Allen and Miss Zelda Thatcher were suprised by a company of friends Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Allen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Allen, of No. 57 [57S or 578, hard to read] east Farming street.  Games and music were enjoyed during the evening and refreshments were served.  Those present were Misses Dorothy Fennell, Bernadine Sens, Jessie McClenathan and Edith Allen:  Messrs. Earl Birchman, Bruce Hale, Ray Allen, Harold Klingel, Frederick Sens and Edgar Birchman."   [Frederick Sens was the grandfather of Bernadine Sens, and one of Fred's grandsons, Bernard, married the only child of Mary Martha Bieber and Carl Burke, Anna Mae Burke.]

1923 Dec 19 - "NORMA JEANNE SENS DIES OF PNEUMONIA.  Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sens.  Norma Jeanne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sens, died Tuesdya [sic] afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her parents, No. 262 Ballentine avenue.  Her death followed a two-weeks illness of pneumonia.  The childe was born September 27, 1922.  Surviving with the parents are the following brothers and sisters:  Bernadine, Frederick, Bernard, Mildred, Paul, Marie, Joseph, James and Anna Jane, a twin.  The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from St. Mary's Catholic church.  Rev.  F.X. Cotter will officiate and burial will be made in St. Mary's cemetary."

1925 Dec 9, 21 and 23 - Read these articles, about the accident that claimed Eudora Ault's life.

1929 Jun 10 - "Former Marion Man Is Taken by Death.  Mrs. Emma Ogier, 134-1/2 East Church St., received word today of the death of her nephew, Ray Bieber, 4? of Dayton.  Bieber died at 6:45 o'clock last night, the cause of death unknown here.  He was a resident of Marion for about 25 years, living as a neighbor to the late Dr. George T. Harding, East Center st.  He was the son of Ben Bieber, a resident of this city for many years.  The body will probably be brought here for burial Wednesday afternoon, with short funeral services at the grave.  Mr. Bieber is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Bieber, his father, and a sister, Mrs. Carl Burke, of Cleveland."  [Emma is likely Emma Ault daughter of Hiram M. Ault and Mary Catharine Gorton.  Ray was likely born 25 Apr 1878, so he would have been 51.  Mrs. Carl Burke would be Mary Martha Bieber.]

1944 Jun 13 - "WILLIAM P. BURKE DIES IN CLEVELAND.  Stricken Suddenly; Body To Be Brought to Marion.  William P. Burke, 57, a Marion resident, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday at 1 p.m. iat the home of a brother, Carroll E. Burke, in Cleveland where he was making his home temporarily.  Born Dec. 16, 1886 in Bellefontaine, he was a son of Michael and Anna Burke.  The brother was the only close relative surviving.  The body was taken to the M.H. Gunder and Sons funeral home on West Center street where friends may call."

SOURCE:  These news articles were obtained from an on-line copy of Marion Daily Star.  They were downloaded from ancestry.com.

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