Dentist leaves a deep impression on county
By Karen Zach, Around the County Thursday, January 7, 2021 4:00 AM Although Elmer Washington Ream (love to say that name) was born in Huntington County, Indiana (Halloween day, 1862) he made a deep impression upon our fair city and county. Spending his younger years on his parents’ (David and Delilah) farm, he learned hard work, the love of God, music and to be kind. Growing up in a fairly large family (at least two brothers and two sisters), he had a happy childhood.
Attending school throughout the winter months he knew from early on he wanted to be a dentist and after a fine younger education, ventured his way to the Cincinnati, Ohio College of Dental Surgery. His grades were exceptional, and he graduated in the class of 1890. Returning home to Huntington, he began doing some professional work but was really in search of a practice to purchase. Thus, he bought Dr. Gerrit S. Clemens’ practice in Cra
In Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, the Hionis family, owners of Hionis Greenhouses and Nursery, are in the midst of shipping some 200,000 poinsettia plants to retailers through the Northeast in what Tim Hionis hopes will be a successful end to a trying coronavirus year for the flower industry.
Some 50 million poinsettias are grown and sold in the U.S. each year, and New Jersey ranks 11th in the number of plants grown. Hionis Greenhouses is one of the state s largest growers.
Tim Hionis and his brothers run the family business founded by their parents Spiros and Angie in the mid-1980s. Hionis Greenhouse is the third largest commercial greenhouse in New Jersey. Itâs year-round operation growing plants and flowers for Easter and Mother s Day, annuals and shrubs in the summer, mums in the fall as well as poinsettias and holiday flowers and plants until Christmas.