As late as the Civil War era, cheesemaking in Ohio remained largely a cottage industry. After investigating new processes and obtaining pledges for a reliable milk supply from area farmers, brothers C.W. and J.C. Horr built a modern factory in Huntington Township in 1865. The Horr Cheese House was immediately successful, prompting more farmers and cheese makers to enter this industry. By 1878, more than forty similar operations made Loraine County a center of the American cheese industry, and the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad at Wellington enabled distribution to national markets. Myton T. Herrick, born in Huntington Township in 1854, lived there until age 12, later became a respected Cleveland attorney and businessman, served as Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906, and built a public service career that culminated in two appointments as ambassador to France, from 1912 through the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and again from 1921 until his death in 1929. A friend and confidant to Senator Mark Hanna and Presidents McKinley, Taft, and Harding, Herrick was enormously popular with the French people and escorted Charles Lindbergh in Paris after his historic 1927 transatlantic flight.