I am Daniel Hertzler tells the story of a 19thcentury Mennonite farmer. He left his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife and young daughter to start a new life in Ohio. His years in Springfield were spent developing a sawmill, a grist mill, a brick distillery, a whiskey distillery, and a bank as well as accruing over a thousand acres to raise crops and livestock. (He lived in several townships throughout Clark County before building a bank style home and barn on the Valley Pike in Bethel Township which he referred to as his retirement home. The house features many built-in cupboards, painted woodwork and other innovations to proclaim his wealth without foregoing his plain Mennonite background.) His life was cut short during a botched robbery. As he is dying, he remembers the events of his life. His frustration with five daughters before finally the joy of a son. The growth of his prominence in the Clark County arena, the death of two infants, two daughters, and two ...

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