350 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY he remained for one year, and then for two years he was principal of the schools at Pennville, Indiana. His health failed, and he felt that it was necessary for him to seek a change of occupation, so took up the study of osteopathy at Kirkville, Missouri. He was graduated in that science in 1911, and for four years thereafter was engaged in practice at Urbana, Ohio. Subsequently he took up post-graduate work at the Chicago College of Osteopathy, and in March, 1916, came to Springfield, opened an office in the Mitchell Building, but since 1919 has maintained his offices at 815 and 816 Fairbanks Building. On September 2, 1908, Doctor Cole married at Pennville, Indiana, Miss Daisy Heller, born in that city, a daughter of Hamilton Heller, born near Hillsboro, Ohio, the fifth generation from the American founder of the family, one of the Hessian troops. There were four brothers of the name of Heller who were brought to the American Colonies by the English to fight against the Colonists, and when, after the close of the American Revolution, they were given the alternative of .returning to their native land with all their expenses paid or remaining in the land they were sent to help subdue they adopted the latter, and their descendants are now to be found all over the United States. Doctor and Mrs. Cole have one daughter, Virginia, who was born June 4, 1911. He belongs to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield, and is active in church work and teacher in the Sunday School. He is independent in politics. Saint Andrews Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield holds his membership. He belongs to the Springfield Osteopathic Society, the Dayton District Osteopathic Society, the Ohio Osteopathic Society, and the American Osteopathic Association. FRED FOSTER. Past the age of fourscore, Fred Foster is still a man of vigor, and though retired from business he keeps up active associations with his old friends in Springfield. Mr. Foster for a great many years was on the Springfield police force, and altogether has had an exceedingly active life. He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, March 26, 1839, son of George and Fredericka (Drexler) Foster. His maternal grandfather, Frederick Drexler, came from Germany in 1806 and settled at Baltimore, Maryland. He was a tailor by trade, and in 1839 moved with wagons overland to Dayton, Ohio, and in 1854 settled at Springfield, Ohio. His daughter, Fredericka Drexler, was born in 1812. George Foster was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1829, at the age of twenty-one. He was a damask weaver by trade. For a time he lived in the mountains, where a hermit took care of him. He married at Hagerstown, Maryland, about 1832, and in 1839 moved with wagons and teams to Dayton, Ohio, and in 1840 bought twenty acres of land at North Dayton. Selling this property in 1855, he bought a farm of fifty-five acres just northwest of Springfield, and lived there until his death in 1865. His widow survived him until 1892. Their children were: Elizabeth and Edward, both deceased ; Fred ; Louisa, Mrs. David White, of Bloomington, Illinois ; Mary, Mrs. Wesley Van Shoick, of Bloomington; Cynthia, deceased ; William, of Bloomington ; and Frank, of St. Louis, Missouri. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 351 Fred Foster had only the advantages given in a log cabin district school, and attended school only until he was twelve years of age. In the spring of 1857. a young man of eighteen, he moved to Amboy, Lee County, Illinois; and for two years worked in the Illinois Central shop there. In 1859 he and four old shopmen provided themselves with ox teams and started for the gold field of Pikes Peak, Colorado. They left home in March, and while on the plains they met a great number of gold seekers returning after a futile quest, and they decided to give up the adventure without proceeding further. Consequently they returned to Omaha, sold their oxen and outfit, and each of them paid $1.50 for passage to St. Louis on a Missouri River boat. From St. Louis Mr. Foster went on to Bloomington, Illinois, where his parents were located, and in the fall of the same year he came to Ohio to join his uncle, Fred Drexler, a tavern keeper. In October, 1861, Mr. Foster married Lucinda Eveline Barringer, a native of Clark County and daughter of Jacklin H. and Harriett (Stiles) Barringer, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Greene County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Foster farmed four years, and then joined the D. & M. Railroad at Lima as a fireman. Two years later he went to Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Illinois, was there about a year spent a few months in Clark County, and for two years was on the police force of Bloomington, Illinois. Soon after returning to Springfield this experience as a policeman brought him appointment to the Springfield force, and he served continuously for twenty years, from 1872 until 1892, when he resigned. For three years following he was watchman in the Bushnell Building, and since then has lived retired. His wife died January 2. 1904. after more than forty years of married companionship. Since the death of his wife Mr. Foster has lived with his son Fred at 218 North Lowry Avenue. He is a democrat in politics. Mr. Foster's son George I.. born in August. 1862, is a horse trainer at the Springfield Fair Grounds. The son Fred K.. born in June. 1872, is a commercial traveler and married Cora Bargdill, daughter of Harve and Elizabeth (Tressler) Bargdill, and has one son. George Leroy, of Springfield, married Mabel Sherbandy, and has a son, Frank. STANFORD L. O'HARRA. There are, perhaps, no vocations which command greater respect and few which offer better opportunities for the display of character and ability than does the legal profession. Springfield's bench and bar have long- ranked with the most distinguished of the country. and the profession here represented has among its members men of high standing and wide reputation. In preparing a review of the careers of men whose names stand out prominently in the legal profession of Springfield and who by character and accomplishments have attained prominence. the record of Stanford L. O'Harra is found to be one that comnels attention. Mr. O'Harra is n son of the Buckeye State. having heen born at Pleasant Corners, Franklin County, September 13. 1888, a son of George William and Mary Elizabeth (Cummins) O'Harra. the former a native of Alton. Ohio. and the latter of Circleville, this state. The grandparents on the paternal side were John Timothy and Adeline (Beatty) O'Harra, early settlers of Franklin County, as were also the 352 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY maternal grandparents, John Edward and Mary Elizabeth (May) Cummins, who were well-known residents and farming people of the Circleville community. George William O'Harra, like most of the family, is engaged in agricultural pursuits on a Property at Alton, where he has good improvements of a modern kind and where he and Mrs. O'Harra occupy a pleasant home. Stanford L. O'Harra attended the public schools of his home community and the high school at Columbus, Ohio, following which, of ter some further preparation, he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating and entering the pratice of law in 1916. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and 'took up his residence at Springfield, where he immediately entered upon the practice of his profession. Being industrious, ambitious and firmly grounded in the principles of his calling, he soon formed agreeable professional connections and began building up a clientele that has since increased steadily both in size and importance. Mr. O'Harra has been identified with a number of leading cases, in which his success has denoted the possession of abilities beyond the ordinary. He is a member of the various organizations of his calling and maintains offices in the M. & M. Building. A democrat in politics, in 1920, he became his party's candidate for state senator, but met defeat with his ticket. Fraternally he is affiliated with Bushnell Council No. 163, Jr. 0. U. A. M., of which he has been trustee since 1920, and his religious association is with the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 8, 1915, at Newport, Kentucky, Mr. O'Harra mar- ried Bertha Gragg, who was born at Goodhope, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel and Jennie (Condon) Gragg, natives of Ross County, this state. To this union there have been born three children : Miles, and Edwin Allen and Edward Milton, twins. The present family residence is situated at 2515 Hilltop Avenue, in which locality Mr. and Mrs. O'Harra have many friends. JOHN H. THOMAS, who died at his home in the City of Springfield on the 23d of January, 1901, was a man whose character and achievement marked him as one of the leading citizens of his home city and county and as one of the essentially representative men of Ohio. Mr. Thomas was born at Middletown, Maryland, October 4, 1826, and was a son of Jacob and Sophia (Bowlus) Thomas. As a youth he was given exceptional educational advantages, as gauged by the average standards of the day, and in 1849 he graduated from Marshall College at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he became a student of law in the office of Hon. S. W. Andrews at Columbus, Ohio, and later continued his technical studies under the preceptorship of William White, who was at that time one of the ablest and most influential members of the bar at Springfield. Af ter his admission to the bar Mr. Thomas was engaged in the practice of his prof ession at Springfield about two years, and he gained secure place in the confidence and esteem of this community, the while he made an excellent record in the work of his profession. His popularity was indicated by his election to the office of county recorder of Clark County within a comparatively short time of ter he had here established his residence, and he SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 353 was the incumbent of this office at the time of the inception of Springfield's remarkable development as an industrial center. His practical provision of future possibilities enabled him to take advantage of opportunities here presented in a business way. He became senior member of the firm of Thomas & Mast, in which his coadjutor was the late P. P. Mast, and they were among the first here to engage in the manufacturing of agricultural implements—a field of enterprise in which Springfield has become one of the leading industrial centers of the United States. Mr. Thomas retired from the firm in 1872, after the enterprise had been developed into one of important and prosperous order, and in 1874 he resumed his active alliance with local manufacturing interests by organizing a firm in which his sons William S. and Findley B. became his associates. The business has been continued with unequivocal success during the long intervening years, and in the manufacturing of all kinds of agricultural implements the Thomas Manufacturing Company is today one of the important industrial concerns of Springfield. Mr. Thomas was significantly a man of thought and action, and his versatility of talent led to his benigant influence being extended prominently into civic and political avenues. In 1868 he was the democratic nominee for representative of this district in the United States Congress, but was unable to overcome the great and normal republican majority in the district. When United States senators were elected by the Legislatures of the respective states Mr. Thomas became a candidate for the office, his successful opponent having been the late Hon. Calvin S. Brice. Mr. Thomas became a man of wealth and influence, but he ever had a high sense of personal stewardship and realized the objective responsibilities which success imposes. Thus he was most liberal in the support of charitable and philanthropic agencies and in this connection one of the most noteworthy of his benefactions was his financial gift which made possible the establishing and maintaining of the Mitchell-Thomas Hospital at Springfield. In 1854 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thomas and Miss Mary Bonser, daughter of Hon. Jacob Bonser, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and she preceded him to the life eternal. They are survived by f our children : William S., Findley B., Nellie (Mrs. Augustus N. Summers) and Mabel (Mrs. L. P. Matthews). WILLIAM S. THOMAS, president of the Thomas Manufacturing Company and of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield, is one of the essentially representative men of his native city, and is a son of the late John H. Thomas, to whom a memoir is dedicated in preceding paragraphs. Mr. Thomas was born at Springfield on the 22d of April, 1857, received his preliminary education in public and private schools and was but fourteen years old when he entered Wooster University, in which institution he was graduated, with honors, in 1875—one of the youngest students ever graduated in this excellent Ohio institution. As noted in the preceding sketch of the career of his honored father, he became associated with the latter in the organization of the Thomas Vol. II-23 354 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Manufacturing Company, of which he was made treasurer in 1886 and of which he has been president since the death of his father in 1901. From his early manhood Mr. Thomas has been a prominent and influential figure in the civic, industrial, commercial and social life of his native city. He has long been president of the Mad River National Bank, and has been a dominating force in making this one of the leading financial institutions of this section of Ohio. He was president of the Jefferson Club from 1880 to 1890. For many years he has been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which his parents likewise held membership and he has served as president of its board of trustees. He is a valued member of the Springfield Commercial Club, and has served as president of the Ohio Shippers' Association. In divers ways Mr. Thomas has contributed liberally of time and money to movements and enterprises advanced or the general good of his home city and county, and in the World war period he was a veritable tower of strength in connection with the various patriotic activities in the city and county. The Thomas Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of a large and widely diversified line of agricultural implements, has contributed in large measure to the industrial and commercial fame and solidity of Springfield. Mr. Thomas has long been influential in the councils and campaign activities of the democratic party and for years has been a member of the democratic State Central Committee of Ohio. Though he has had no desire for public office, his civic loyalty has caused him to give effective service in various local offices of trust, often at a personal sacrifice. December 8, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. Thomas and Miss Fannie Senteny, who was born in the City of Louisville, Kentucky. They have three children : John Henry, Wallace Senteny and Lucretia (Mrs. Burton Carr, of Richmond, Indiana). Wallace S. Thomas was an instructor in the aviation service of the Government during the major part of the time during which the nation was involved in the World war, and was an aviation pilot in active service at the time when the war closed. WILLIAM McCULLOCH. The late William McCulloch, pioneer manufacturer and dealer in harness and leather goods, was one of Springfield's best known and most highly honored business men and citizens. Not only was his life notable for the business ability and public spirit which he at all times displayed in his career, but for his absolute integrity, his kindly nature, his fidelity to his church and city, his fealty to his friends and his devotion to his home and family. Mr. McCulloch was born at Cunnock, Ayreshire, Scotland, April 20, 1839. When he was a boy of thirteen years he began to learn harness making, and worked at that Trade in Scotland until 1868, in which year he came to the United States. Upon reaching this country, with his wife and three children, he came direct to Ohio, and after spending a few months at Xenia, Ohio, came on to Springfield in 1869. Immediately after locating in the city he formed a partnership with the late Martin Routzahn, under the firm name o f McCulloch & Routzahn, and opened a harness shop and store at No. 40 East Main Street, where the business has ever since remained, now conducted by Mr. McCulloch's two sons. He died April 29, 1915. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 355 In Scotland Mr. McCulloch married Miss Elizabeth Russell, who was born in that country in June, 1838, and who still survives her husband as a resident of Springfield. To that union there were born the following children : Sarah, born in Scotland, who is the widow of the late D. I. Anderson, of Springfield ; Elizabeth, born in Scotland, the wife of A. C. McCutcheon, formerly of Springfield, but now of Toronto, Canada ; Hugh ; Margaret, born at Springfield, the wife of Hon. A. N. Kunkel, of Springfield, judge of the Appellate Court ; Mary ; Agnes, born at Springfield, the wife of Warren D. Alexander, a merchant of Springfield ; William Paton ; Helen M., the wife of Harvey A. Miller, on the staff of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper ; and Ruth, who died at the age of ten years. Hugh Russell McCulloch, elder son of William McCulloch, was born in Scotland, July 14, 1866, and received his education in the schools of Springfield, graduating from the high school of a member of the class of 1886. At the time he became associated with his father in business, and at the time of the death of the father he and his brother took over the enterprise, which is still being conducted under the style of W. McCulloch's Sons. He is a director in the Springfield Savings Bank, Trustee of the Ferncliff Cemetery, is a member of the Board of Session of the United Presbyterian Church, and takes an active and constructive part in civic affairs. Mr. McCulloch married Miss Olive Stafford, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of Joseph Stafford. William Paton McCulloch, the younger son of William McCulloch, was born at Springfield, December 25, 1878, and received his education in the public schools and at Wittenberg College. On leaving the latter institution he joined in business affairs with his father, and when the latter died he and his brother Hugh assumed control, which they have held to the present. Mr. McCulloch is a member of the Springfield Country Club and has other social, as well as business and civic connections. He belongs to the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. McCulloch married Miss Gertrude Torrence, the daughter of Frank P. Torrence, of Springfield. ELI WEST. The attractive community of Catawba, in Pleasant Township has its full quota of citizens who have stepped aside from the path of active endeavor to allow the passing of the younger generation with its high hopes and ambitions. A highly respected member of this retired colony is Eli West, who for many years was engaged in blacksmithing and who gained a competence and many friends by a career of industry and straightforward dealing with his fellowmen. Mr. West was born at Catawba, July 1, 1856, and is a son of Henry and Sarah (Wood) West. His great-grandfather, Edmund West, was born in Virginia and in young manhood came to Ohio, where he settled as a pioneer in Madison County. Here he rounded out his career as an agriculturist. Alex West, the grandfather of Eli West, was born in Madison County, where he was reared on his father's farm and educated in the public schools of his day. He passed his life as a farmer of Madison County, and passed away on his property, as did his wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Curl. Henry West, the father of Eli West, was born in Madison County, December 23, 356 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY 1832, and was reared and educated in his native community. He followed farming and stockraising all his life and died at the early age of forty years, May 2, 1872. Mrs. West, who was born in 1832, at Catawba, was educated in the public schools and died June 28, 1866, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. West was also a member. He was a republican in politics. In their family there were six children, of whom five are living in 1922: Eli, of this notice; William, a resident of Virginia ; Lettie, the wife of C. G. Wilson; Isaiah, of Columbus, Ohio ; and James H., also of Columbus. After the death of his first wife Mr. West married Miss Elizabeth Brocker, and they became the parents of three children : Lewis, who is deceased ; Foster, a resident of London, Ohio ; and Clark of Springfield. Eli West was given a common school education and was reared on the home farm, where his boyhood and youth knew much of hard work because of the death of his parents. When he was thirty years of age he applied himself to the task of learning the trade of blacksmith, and this he followed in his home community for thirty-six years, or until the time of his retirement. A skilled and thorough master of his trade, his work was always of the highest character, and he became widely known for his ability in matters pertaining to his vocation. His shop at Catawba was well patronized, even 'after the advent of the automobile, and his services were in demand in special work requiring def tness and strength. Mr. West married Miss Lydia Steps, who was born at Catawba, at the place where she now lives, August 5, 1858, and is the mother of five children : Clola, the wife of John Skilman ; Mary and Millie, twins, the former single and at home and the latter the wife of Wilbur Davidson, of Urbana Township, Champaign County : Lottie, the wife of Charles Snyder ; and Letty, the wife of John W. Lafferty. Mr. and Mrs. West are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, in which Mr. West has been active for thirty-four years, being a class leader and member of the board of trustees for a long period, and formerly having been superintendent of the Sunday School. In politics a republican, he has been active in public affairs for many years. He was mayor of Catawba and for four years has served in his present capacity as treasurer of Pleasant Township, in addition to which he has held other township offices. His business connections are numerous and he is a stockholder in the Hub Mountain Coal Company, the Templar Motor Company of Cleveland and the United States Axle Company. GEORGE VAN NESS SHERIDAN, general manager of tht Sringfield Sun, is well known in newspaper circles throughout the state. For a man of his years the range of his experience in publicity has been exceptionally wide. Mr. Sheridan was born at Circleville, Ohio, September 7, 1887, son of Henry C. and Ann Augusta Sheridan. His mother's people lived for many generations in Western New Jersey on the Delaware River. His paternal grandfather came from Dublin, Ireland, to this country, and during the period of the Civil war conducted the Broadway Hotel at Broadway and Fourteenth Street in New York City. From New SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 357 York City during the '70s the parents of the Springfield 'editor, Henry C. and Ann Augusta Sheridan, moved to Ohio. George Van Ness Sheridan graduated from the high school at Marysville, Ohio, in 1905, and for two years was a student in the Ohio State University. He began his career as a newspaper man at Columbus in 1907, serving as a reporter, subsequently was managing editor of the Zanesville, Ohio, Times-Recorder, and for ten years was engaged in newspaper and in special publicity work in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. He was for six years executive secretary of the Ohio State Medical Association of Columbus. Mr. Sheridan has been general manager of the Springfield Sun since 1917 and during the past five years has been an influential worker in connection with a number of Springfield's business and civic organizations. During the World war Mr. Sheridan was voluntary publicity director of the war chest and for nearly all other war publicity campaigns in Columbus. He also served at Washington in an unofficial connection with the Surgeon General's office in the allocation of Ohio physicians for military and civil service. He was chairman of the Clark County Red Cross Chapter in 1920-21. Mr. Sheridan is a republican, is affiliated with H. S. Kissell Lodge of Masons, the Elks and Eagles at Springfield, and is a member of the Springfield Country, Masonic, Eagles and Elks clubs, the Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Sheridan is managing director and treasurer of Orchard Springs Sanitarium Company, owning the sanitarium at Shiloh, near Dayton. He is a director and vice president of the Rotary Club of Springfield, director of the Lagonda Club, and is a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. At Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1913, he married Eve C. Husband, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. A. J. Husband, whose home is on Belmore Road, Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan have two children : Philip Henry, born in 1914, and Martha Sheridan, born in 1915. RAYMOND G. BOEHME, M. D. In the present era of expanding horizons in the science of medicine and surgery, of wonderful discoveries and unthought-of surgical achievements, the profession seems to have almost reached a point when its accomplishments are little short of being miracles. The modern physician and surgeon, taking advantage of every opportunity for advancement and knowledge, must often realize with professional elation his great power over disease and disability and he encouraged in his struggle to conquer the strongholds that have not yet been overcome. Possessing the steady nerve, the patience that never tires, the trained understanding gained through his long period of special study, he must yet possess, in order to be a successful surgeon, a courage that never quails, together with a superb technical manual skill. Of the physicians and surgeons of Springfield who are thus equipped, and who through this equipment are gaining advancement in their calling, one who is making steady progress is Dr. Raymond G. Boehme. Doctor Boehme was born at Newport, Kentucky, September 30, 1888, and is a son of Herman and Mary (Wittman) Boehme, natives of 358 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Newport, Kentucky, who are now residents of Clermont County, Ohio, where Dr. Herman Boehme is engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Raymond G. Boehme attended the graded and high schools in his youth, following which he expressed a predilection for the medical profession and accordingly entered the Ohio Miami College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1911. At that time he returned to Newport, Kentucky, where he was engaged in practice for two and one-half years, after which he went to Somerville, Ohio, which was his field of practice and place of residence for one and one-half years. Doctor Boehme then moved to Enon, Clark County, where he followed his profession for two and one-half years, and in 1918 came to Springfield, which has since been his home. Here he has been successful in building up a large and lucrative practice of the most desirable kind, and in forming a number of pleasant connections of a social nature as well as of a professional character. He is recognized as being thoroughly conversant with his profession, to which he devotes himself unreservedly. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society and is a close and careful student. On September 30, 1921, he moved into a handsome modern brick residence located at No. 709 West Main Street. Doctor Boehme has served as assistant health officer of Springfield one year. In politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is with Central Methodist Episcopal Church, while fraternally he is affiliated with Kissell Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield, and the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, in all of which he has formed numerous friendships. On November 10, 1914, Mr. Boehme was united in marriage with Miss Edna Droste, who was born at Newport, Kentucky, a daughter of Gustav and Elizabeth (Smith) Droste, the former born at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter at Newport. Three children have come to this union : Donald 'Wilfred, born October 10, 1915 ; Gordon Ray, born March 2, 1917 ; and Robert Clement, born October 13, 1918. LUTHER ALEXANDER GOTWALD, D. D. The late Luther Alexander Gotwald, D. D., of Springfield, was one of the notable men of his time in the Lutheran Church of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and, in truth, of the entire country. He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and died at Springfield, Ohio, September 15, 1900, and between those two dates he accomplished much for his own fame, but more for the good of humanity. Doctor Gotwald was a son of the Rev. Daniel and Susan (Krone) Gotwald, of York County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Daniel Gotwald was one of the able and eloquent Lutheran ministers of his time. He died in 1843 and his widow was left in poor financial circumtances, with eight children to rear. During the days of his youth Luther A. Gotwald served as errand boy and clerk in a local store and was later a printer. He began preparation for the ministry in 1852 as a preparatory student at Wittenberg College, Springfield, and after three years entered Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated with honors in 1857. He then spent two years at the Lutheran SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 359 Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, graduating in 1859. He received his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Pennsylvania College fifteen years later. Soon after graduating Doctor Gotwald was licensed to preach by the Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania, his first pastorate being at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1863. He was next pastor at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, for two years, and in 1865 became pastor of the First Lutheran Church at Dayton, Ohio, where, f our years later, his health failed, and he was compelled to spend a year in recuperating from throat trouble. In 1870 he became pastor at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, remaining until 1874. For the next twelve years he was pastor of St. Paul's Church, York, Pennsylvania. Toward the close of 1885 Doctor Gotwald removed to Springfield to take charge of the Second Lutheran Church, which under his guidance for three years grew into a strong congregation. This was his last pastorate. During the above time he took an active part in founding the Third Church; 1887; the Fifth Church, 1891; the Fourth Church, 1898, and Calvary Church, 1900, all of Springfield. In December, 1888, Doctor Gotwald became professor of Practical Theology at Wittenberg Seminary, and his work here was as successful as his ministerial work has been prolific of good results. He was a director of Wittenberg College from 1865 to 1869 ; a trustee of Pennsylvania College, 1873-1885 ; a director of the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1871-1880 ; a member of the Board of Home Missions, 1881-1885 ; president of the West Pennsylvania Synod, 1873-1876; and a member of the Board of Church Extension, 1874-1885. He was frequently a delegate to the Lutheran General Synod. Doctor Gotwald was an able and prolific writer and many of his writings were published, receiving favorable mention by the press. He is best known by his two published volumes of sermons. On October 13, 1859, he married Mary E. King, who was born at Tarlton, Ohio, in 1837, a daughter of David King. Her brother was one of the earliest settlers and most prominent men of his time in Springfield, and was for years a successful merchant. She died in 1920. To this marriage there were born seven sons and two daughters, of whom the seventh child died in infancy ; another, Luther Alexander, Jr., died at the age of fifteen years ; another, William W., died at the age of seventeen years ; and another, Rev. George D. died at Kansas City, Missouri, in 1890, after a ministry of four and one-half years. The surviving children are : D. King, M. D., a practicing physician of Springfield; Robert C., an architect, of Springfield ; Rev. Frederick G., secretary of the Lutheran Board of Education, residing at York, Pennsylvania ; Mary S., who married Judge H. C. Pontius, of Canton, Ohio ; and Almena, who married Glenn M. Cummings, an attorney of Cleveland, Ohio. Robert C. Gotwald was born at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1864, and attended the York County Academy and Pennsylvania College. He was graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer from Lehigh University, as a member of the class of 1886, and on leaving college went to the West, where he was in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railway as engineer in the bridge-building department until 1891. In that year he located at Springfield and opened an office as an architect and 360 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY engineer, capacities in which he has designed and had charge of the erection of many of the larger buildings of Springfield and the surrounding communities. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., the Springfield Country Club and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. In 1911 Mr. Gotwald married Miss Mary Ward, daughter of John A. Ward, of Springfield, and they are the parents of one son, John Luther. EDWIN JOEL SANDERSON is a mechanical and hydraulic engineer by profession, and has had a long and active service in the engineering and sales department of The James Leffel and Company, Springfield, Ohio. He is now sales manager and is a director of that corporation, one of the important industries of Springfield, manufacturing water wheels, steam engines and boilers. Mr. Sanderson was born on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, February 18, 1877. He is the son of Frank W. Sanderson; who was born in Clinton County, February 13, 1852, and married Frances M. West, who was born in the same county September 5, 1851. His paternal grandfather, Joel Sanderson, was the founder of the family in Clinton County, coming there in his boyhood from Kentucky. The family originally came from Scotland and settled in Kentucky and Southern Ohio. His maternal grandfather, William West, was born in Clinton County, and represented a branch of the West family who came out of England several generations ago and settled along the Hudson River in New York State, from where the various branches moved westward as the country was opened up. Frank W. Sanderson was for many years engaged in the operation of canning factories and packing plants in Clinton, Greene and Highland counties. In 1916 he moved to Leesburg, Highland County, where he and his wife now reside. Edwin J. Sanderson began his education in the country schools in Clinton County, and graduated from the Sabina High School in 1896. He left his home in Sabina in 1897 and found employment in a general store in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, where on August 10, 1898, he married Mary Stuart Barr. She was born in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and was the daughter of Cyrus and Nancy Stuart Barr, both of these families being pioneers in Champaign County. Mr. Sanderson owned and operated for a short time a general store at Woodstock, Ohio. He was, however, never satisfied with the retail business and gradually prepared himself by private instructions and study for the mechanical engineering profession, for which he had a natural aptitude and strong inclination. In September, 1900, he came to Springfield and found employment in the drawing room of the Foos Manufacturing Company. In February, 1901, he secured a position as draughtsman with The James Leffel and Company, which was the beginning of a service that has now continued for over twenty years. After spending about seven years in the drawing room Mr. Sanderson was advanced to a position in the engineering and sales department. For several years thereafter he traveled quite extensively in the United States, Canada and Mexico in the interests of his company. In 1916 he was made sales manager, which position he SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 361 now occupies, and the following year was made a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Sanderson is deeply interested in all forms of church, educational, civic, social and welfare work, but his greatest interest is the Sunday School and for fifteen years he has served either as superintendent or associate superintendent of the Sunday School of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in which he is also an elder and clerk of the session. He is a member of the Y. M. C. A. and Chamber of Commerce, is a past master of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M., a member of Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T., and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a past senior councillor of Champion City Council No. 23 of the United Commercial Travelers, and is a member of Ingomar Lodge No. 610, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Lagonda and Country clubs. STEPHEN KITCHEN. One of the fine old farms of Clark County, now under the capable supervision of the grandson of its pioneer owner, is the Kitchen homestead in Greene Township, five miles west of South Charleston. The pioneer ancestor of the Kitchen family in Clark County was Stephen Kitchen, who came here from Warren County, Ohio. Subsequently he went to Illinois. The old farm just mentioned was the home of his son Abraham L. Kitchen, who married Mathilda Jones, daughter of Erasmus Jones. They were married November 19, 1829, and all their eight children are now deceased. One of their sons was Erasmus J. Kitchen, who was born at the old homestead, August 11, 1836. He died in February 1905. He attended the schools of his day, and as a young man he enlisted in Company F of the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry in August, 1861, and was in service until the close of the war. He participated in a number of battles, including Lynchburg and Knoxville, but was never wounded. After the war he worked on the farm, married and settled on another place near Pleasant Grove. He was an active member of the G. A. R., the Baptist Church and was a republican. Erasmus Kitchen married Lavina M. Hatfield, and they were the parents of six sons, four of whom are living : Joseph L., a farmer in Greene Township ; Abraham L., who died at the age of twenty-one ; James H., a farmer in Greene Township ; Stephen ; E. J., a farmer in Greene Township ; and Wayne, who died at the age of ten years. Stephen Kitchen, who now occupies and manages the old homestead, was born on a nearby farm June 12, 1877. He had a common school education while growing up in Greene Township, and for many years has been a successful farmer and stockman. He owns 136 acres in his home place. He is also a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank at Springfield. March 11, 1902, he married Josie Stewart, daughter of C. F. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen's children are : Rhoda A., wife of William Bussey ; E. J., and Frances, both attending high school ; Margaret, Stewart and Wayne, school children ; Margaret, deceased ; and Stephen. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston. Mr. Kitchen is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and is a republican. 362 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY WILLIAM TROXELL. One of the most influential citizens of Clark County is a man representative of the rural interests, William P. Troxell, proprietor of the Oakland Farm, a mile and a half west of Plattsburg, on the Springfield and Lincoln Road. Mr. Troxell was born on this farm March 18, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was a native of Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of nineteen, finished his education in the public schools, and married a Clark County girl. After his marriage he located on what is now the Oakland Farm, and was active in the affairs of that community until his death. He was a republican, served as township trustee, and he and his wife were devout members of the Christian Church. She died September 5, 1917. Of their six children five are living : Pearl, who graduated from high school and attended college, is the wife of E. W. Cruikshank, of San Bernardino, California; Jessie is the widow of Charles Mitsch ; Virginia is the wife of C. E. Laybourne; William P. is the next in age ; and Paul E., is a farmer in Harmony Township. William P. Troxell was born in the house where he and his family now reside, and as he grew to manhood at attended the common and high schools of the vicinity, and is also a graduate of Nelson's Business College at Springfield. Mr. Troxell married Marie M. McMahan on December 24, 1918. She was born in Harmony Township of Clark County and is a graduate of the Plattsburg High School. They have one son, William, Jr. Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church, while Mr. Troxell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., with Springfield Commanderv, K. T., Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and takes an influential part in the work of the Farm Bureau and Grange. He is a republican, a member of the Harmony Township School Board and has served as ditch commissioner and township assessor. The Oaklang Farm comprises two hundred and twenty-five acres, and in addition to the management of its crop production, Mr. Troxell does a large business in shipping and dealing in live stock. He is a breeder at his farm of registered Angus cattle and Hampshire hogs. WILLIAM BABBITT QUINN, M. D., is one of the younger members of the medical profession at Springfield. His success has been due to careful training, personal qualifications for his chosen vocation, and an unusually wide practical experience. Doctor Quinn was born at Newport, Kentucky, February 17, 1892, son of Robert A. and Janet D.. (Douglas) Quinn. His father was a native of Cincinnati, and ran away early in the Civil war to enlist in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry. He was in service until the close of hostilities, and for many years afterward was advertising man for the Williams Directory Company. He continued in that work until his death on February 24, 1892. Mrs. Janet D. Quinn after the death of her husband, and with two small children to care for, took up the study of medicine in the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, and graduated in 1895. She made a wonderful success of her profession, was one of the pioneer women to take up medicine as a career, and she enjoyed an extensive practice at SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 363 Newport for twenty-six years. Since then she has lived retired at Los Angeles. Her two sons are William B., and Robert Douglas. The latter was born in April, 1889, and is now an electrical engineer at Binghamton, New York. William Babbitt Quinn was just a week old when his father died, and he was reared and carefully trained by his mother at Newport, where he attended grammar and high school. In 1913 he graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, and following that had seven months of hospital training at Cincinnati, for a similar time was connected with the Springfield Hospital, and later was interne and assistant to the superintendent of the Metropolitan Department of Public Charity at Black-well's Dsland, New York. Doctor Quinn practiced medicine at Hollywood, California, for a year and a half, after which he returned to Springfield, and for four years was a member of the obstetrical staff at the Springfield City Hospital. His offices are in the Fairbanks Building. He is a member of the Ohio State and National Eclectic Association and also the Clark County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Quinn is a member of the Episcopal Church. In June, 1917, he married Miss Elvira Voorhees, a native of Richmond, Indiana, and daughter of Samuel T. and Ora (Calloway) Voorhees. They have two children, Ora Janet, born in April, 1918, and William Monroe, born in December, 1919. ADAM BURROUGHS PARKER, now living retired at 235 Greenmount Avenue in Springfield, has had a busy career, beginning with his service when little more than a boy as a Union soldier, and continuing through many years after the war as a farmer and later as a contractor and builder. Mr. Parker was born in Highland County, Ohio, in April, 1846, son of Samuel and Mary (Kinzer) Parker, both natives of Highland County. His grandparents, Jonathan and Margaret (Burroughs) Parker and Adam and Christina (Deardorff) Kinzer, were all natives of Virginia. Jonathan Parker served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. These families were Quakers in religion, and Adam B. Parker has been loyal to the same faith. Mr. Parker attended the common schools during his boyhood, and in the fall of 1863, when he was only seventeen, he ran away from home to enlist in the heavy artillery. His regiment was part of the reserves, and was on duty in a number of campaigns in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. His regiment was stationed with the Union forces before Atlanta. Mr. Parker was discharged in August, 1865, several months after the close of the war, and then returned to Highland County. On September 10, 1868, he married Miss Lydia Ann Burgiss, a native of Highland County and daughter of Beverly Burgiss. After his marriage Mr. Parker sold the old home place of his parents and bought other land in the same community. He built a modern house, but three years later sold out and came to Springfield, where he erected a substantial residence at 235 South Greenmount Avenue. During his active years at Springfield, Mr. Parker was a successful contractor and builder for about twelve years, until ill health caused by his army service compelled him to give up a regular routine of duties. He was for 364 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY many years a member of the Grand Army Post of Springfield, and is a republican in politics. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Parker are : Walter F., of Cleveland ; Beverly, who died in 1905 ; Charles, Otis and Clyde, all residents of Springfield ; and Robert, who died at the age of twenty years. ISAAC STALLSMITH. While the late Isaac Stallsmith never lived in Clark County, his widow and daughter have become honored residents of Springfield, and their connection with this locality renders him eligible to a place in a work of this character. Mr. Stallsmith was a quiet, unpretentious man who tried hard to do his duty in life in spite of ill health and some discouragements, and the record of his earnest, courageous struggle shows what a man can do when he is actuated by the right motives. Isaac Stallsmith was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1852, a son of Israel and Rebecca Stallsmith, natives of Ohio, who moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Isaac Stallsmith was reared in his native state, and after reaching maturity began farming for himself in Perry County, Pennsylvania, where he met and married, in 1887, Emma Lauver, born in Perry County, February 15, 1858, a daughter of Peter and Susannah (Keagle) Lauver. After his marriage Mr. Stallsmith moved to a farm he owned in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and for some years was engaged in farming it, but increasing ill health compelled him to rent the place and live in practical retirement until his death, which occurred in May, 1898. Following his demise Mrs. Stallsmith lived on the farm until October of that year, and then sold it and the other property left to her by her husband, and lived with her father until March, 1899, when she came to Springfield to keep house for her brother, Lewis Lauver, on Saint Paris Pike. After his death, in December, 1909, she purchased his fine residence, with two lots, and here she has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Stallsmith had one daughter, Prudence, who was born to their marriage October 24, 1897, and she lives at Springfield, where she is employed as a stenographer. Mr. Stallsmith was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Stallsmith is a Dunkard in religious belief, but her daughter belongs to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. A republican, Mr. Stallsmith took an active part in politics, and at one time was township assessor. Mrs. Stallsmith is also a republican. Both she and Miss Stallsmith are deservedly popular at Springfield, and have gathered about them a congenial circle since coming to the city. GEORGE D. GRANT, M. D. In years of continuous service Dr. George D. Grant is one of the oldest physicians at Springfield. He has been known not only by his capability and skill, but by his loyalty and devotion to the best interest of his profession here for more than forty years. Doctor Grant is a native of Springfield, where he was born in December, 1855, son of William and Martha Lee (Darling) Grant. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, son of Thomas and Mary Grant, who came to America and located in Hardin County, Ohio, in 1830, when William Grant was nineteen years of age. William Grant took up the SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 365 meat business at Springfield, where he married Martha Lee Darling. She was born near Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter of Darius and Susanna (Fairbanks) Darling, natives of the same state. During the '30s William Grant came to Springfield, and was a resident of the city about sixty years. He died in April, 1894, at the age of eighty-three, and his wife passed away in January, 1898, aged seventy-two. George D. Grant attended the common schools of Springfield, and subsequently acquired a liberal education, attending school at Marietta during 1872-73, was a student in Wittenberg College at Springfield in 1873-74, and subsequently graduated from the Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati in 1878. For sixteen months Doctor Grant practiced at London, Ohio, and in July, 1879, returned to his native city, where he has been in active practice now forty-three years. Since 1909 his offices have been in the Fairbanks Building. Doctor Grant has enjoyed many honors in medical organizations. He served one year as president of the Miami Valley Homeopathic Society, is a former vice-president of the Ohio Homeopathic State Medical Society, is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, and Clark County Medical Society. October 29, 1878, he married Miss Jessie M. Morrow, a native of England. They had three children : Deane D., of West Liberty, Ohio Frederick M., of Tippecanoe City, Ohio ; and Walter, who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in February, 1908, and in April, 1912, Doctor Grant married Miss Ida 0. Singer, a native of Newark, Ohio. Doctor Grant is a member of the First Congregational Church and for eighteen years was trustee and treasurer of that organization. He also served two years on school boards and is a republican in politics. SOLOMON BOWERS STILES. For more than a half century the late Solomon Bowers Stiles was one of the representative business men of Springfield, Ohio, a man of sturdy character and high sense of responsibility. In his pursuance of important business activities that largely concerned the development and material growth of the city he not only demonstrated business acumen, but also displayed many of the qualities that assured him the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Stiles was born at Hummelstown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1849, and died in his beautiful home at 916 South Limestone Street, Springfield, on December 23, 1920. He was son of Jacob and Mary (Bowers) Stiles, members of well known old Dauphin County families. The Stiles family was founded in America in Colonial days by three brothers who came from Europe and settled at Boston, Massachusetts, latter generations finding homes in many different states. Jacob Stiles was born in the old Stiles homestead in Dauphin County, which had been the property of his grandfather, and when he reached manhood he married Mary Bowers, also born in Dauphin County of old stock. Jacob Stiles was a substantial and highly respected farmer and mechanic. Solomon B. Stiles was afforded excellent educational advantages and all his life was considered a man of superior mental equipment, taking a keen interest in business affairs. After graduating from the Millersville (Pa.) Normal School, Mr. Stiles followed teaching professionally and 366 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY continued therein until 1872, when, following his marriage, he came to make his permanent home at Springfield, Ohio, where his father-in-law, Samuel Hanshaw, had invested in city real estate. Mr. Stiles embarked in the grocery business after locating here, and continued in this line of trade through a long and busy life, with many additional business interests. He became interested in handling real estate, first as a side issue and largely induced thereto because of a kind and friendly interest in the patrons of his store, many of whom would never have accomplished the buying of a home except for the helping hand he held out. Dt was his well-thought out plan to buy lots, build houses and improve and then to sell to worthy people, under easy conditions, and this developed into a large business, which not only in time added to Mr. Stiles' fortune but was the means of adding a reliable and independent class of citizens to Springfield. He acquired other business interests and responsibilities, and was a stockholder in numerous worthy concerns, mainly at Springfield. Mr. Stiles was ever ready to lend encouragement and financial aid to new enterprises that measured up to his high standard of integrity, in this way showing a generous spirit and business vision that made his activities permanently useful to the city. He continued in the retail grocery business at the same location on Clifton Avenue for nearly fifty years, his store being one of the familiar landmarks in what is now known as the South End. He served six years as a member of the City Council, taking office April 20, 1897. He also served as president of the council. In 1872, at the home of her parents near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Stiles was united in marriage with Miss Clara C. Hanshaw, who was born in the old Hanshaw homestead. Her parents were Samuel and Catherine (Zimmerman) Hanshaw, both families for many generations belonging to Dauphin County, the Zimmermans being of Revolutionary stock. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles became the parents of one son, Paul H., who was born at Springfield in 1874, and died in this city in 1918. For many years he was associated with his father's business interests. He married Miss Lucile Braber, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, and they had two sons : Jacob Elden Stiles, who is a student in Wittenberg College ; and Alvin B. Stiles, who is completing his high school course. They are young men of talent and character, and promise to be worthy of their honorable ancestry. Mr. Stiles was reared by Christian parents in the faith of the Lutheran Church, and to this religious body he remained attached all his life. For fifteen years he was a member and one of the official board, and was also Sunday School superintendent, of the First Lutheran Church. He was a member of Clark Lodge No 101, Free and Accepted Masons, also Royal Arch Mason, and at one time belonged to the Odd Fellows. He was liberal in his charities and broad-minded in his judgment of his fellow men. HENRY O. NEWLOVE is an honored veteran of the great Civil war. For half a century he devoted his industry to the task and responsibilities of farming in Clark' County. His career has been successful and honorable, and he is now living in comfortable retirement with his wife and companion of half a century in Springfield. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 367 He was born near Harmony in Clark County, in December, 1844, son of Edward and Nancy (Wood) Newlove, his father a native of England and his mother of Virginia. His grandfather, Joseph Newlove, brought his family to America by sailing vessel, landing after a voyage of six weeks and, coming West, secured 245 acres in Harmony Township of Clark County. That land is now occupied by a brother and sister of Henry 0. Newlove. The father of Nancy Wood came to Lagonda, Ohio, at an early day, was a grist miller, but finally moved to a farm near Moorefield and died August 8, 1862. Edward Newlove and wife after their marriage settled on the old Newlove homestead and eventually succeeded to its ownership. Edward Newlove served as a school director and was an officer in the Methodist Protestant Church at Harmony. The children of these parents were : Edward H., deceased ; Mary F., who died when eighty-four years of age ; Sarah, at the old homestead ; George B., who died in 1919 in Union County, Ohio ; Henry 0. ; Robert W., on the old home farm ; and Benjamin W., deceased. Henry O. Newlove as a boy attended district schools, and was in his eighteenth year when he accepted an opportunity to join the army battling for the Union. August 9, 1862, he enlisted, and was assigned to Company I of the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry, which he joined at Lexington, Kentucky. This regiment was part of General Burnside's Army, in the First Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-third Corps. His company was mounted at Frankfort, Kentucky, on December 20, 1862, and served through the spring and summer of 1863, when they were dismounted. The company was under Burnside in the Tennessee campaign during the fall and winter of 1863. In January, 1864, Mr. Newlove re-enlisted with 550 men out of the 600 men of his regiment for Cavalry service. He was in numerous engagements and campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee and also in Virginia, was in the siege of Knoxville, and in the raid on Lynchburg. He was taken prisoner at Beverly, West Virginia, but was held only about six hours, when the Confederates were attacked and compelled to release their prisoners. Mr. Newlove received his honorable discharge on May 30, 1865, and the day after he returned home he went to work as a farm hand. On February 22, 1872, he married Miss Sarah E. Thatcher. Mrs. Newlove was born in Moorefield Township, December 3, 1847, daughter of James and Amelia (Gordon) Thatcher. Her father died in 1848. Her mother was born in Virginia. After his marriage Mr. Newlove continued working by the month for a time, then rented a farm two years in Madison Township, then another farm near Yellow Springs, and following this he bought a forty-seven acre farm in Harmony Township. At that place he remained seventeen years. On selling out he again rented for nine years, and then bought a place of twenty-six and a half acres in the west part of Harmony Township. After living there for ten years he sold and bought a double modern house at 1327 Clifton Avenue, and that is the home of his retired years. Mr. Newlove is affiliated with the Grand Army Post at Springfield, is a staunch republican, and for nine years was a school director in Harmony Township. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church in Harmony, and he acted in the capacity of a trustee of the congregation for many years. 368 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Mr. and Mrs. Newlove became the parents of the following children : Corinna, of St. Petersburg, Florida ; Daisy, who is the wife of Fred Hawkins of Springfield, and has one daughter, Pauline ; Edward, a resident of Columbus, Ohio, who married Ethel Belt ; Grace, who died at the age of twenty-one months ; and Wilbur, of Springfield, who married Myrtle Layton. MICHAEL GALLAGHER was one of the industrious citizens of Springfield for half a century, was associated with banking and real estate developments, and was a man of utmost loyalty in all the relations sustained by him to country, church, community and his family. He was born in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1843. His father died there, and when he was nine years of age he and his widowed mother and a twin sister came to Springfield, Ohio. During the greater part of his boyhood at Springfield he lived in the family of Charles Morgan, a local miller. Mr. Morgan educated him and also provided opportunities to learn the milling business. On December 15, 1864, Mr. Gallagher enlisted in Company K of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio National Guard, and served the hundredth day period of his enlistment. After leaving the army he resumed farm work, took up a commercial course in Springfield, and after the death of his friend and benefactor, Mr. Morgan, he was employed in the Warder Mill. He left that service to become collector for the First National Bank, and was soon promoted to paying teller. The only important interruption to his continued service with this institution came when as a result of failing health he took a vacation, including one summer spent in Ireland. After his return he again became collector, and was with the bank until he retired in 1909. He died September 10, 1910. February 13, 1877, Mr. Gallagher married Miss Katharine Flynn. She was born at Syracuse, New York, December 20, 1850, daughter of Bartholomew and Bridget (Boland) Flynn. Her parents were natives of County Sligo, Ireland, were married there about 1845, and soon came to America and bought a farm near Syracuse, New York. In 1865 they left that locality and bought country property at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, and in October, 1865, moved to Springfield. Her father died September 15, 1905, and her mother in 1893. Michael Gallagher was given a bounty for enlisting as a soldier during the rebellion. At his discharge he had about $200 saved up, and he and his sister bought a parcel of land in the Rogers addition of Springfield. On one of the lots he built a small house for his mother, located on Chestnut Avenue. Later he bought out the interest of his sister, and at his marriage he built additions to his first home, and lived there until his death. He had also purchased adjoining land, and on this Mrs. Gallagher and her two sons built a fine modern double house. He also owned a double house and a single house on Garfield Avenue, at corner of Madison Street. All this property remains in the hands of Mrs. Gallagher. Both were active members of St. Raphael's Catholic Church, and the late Mr. Gallagher was a republican in politics. There were three sons. Harry Sidley, the oldest, was born September 23, 1879, and died April 19, 1907. The son Charles Morgan, born January 14, 1883, is now paying teller in the Springfield National Bank. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 369 He lives with his widowed mother. The third son, Herbert M., born February 17, 1887, married Lillian M. Knipshire, of Paterson, New Jersey, and has a daughter, Madalyn M. PAUL E. TROXELL, member of an old Clark County family, has found an interesting and useful sphere of activity as a farmer and stock dealer. His home is in Harmony Township, in Section 15, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Plattsburg. He was born at the old Troxell homestead in Section 16 on October 8, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was born in Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of fifteen, worked for some years at month wages, and from a humble start made for himself a successful position as a trader and farmer. He was a deacon in the Christian Church and a charter member of its home church, was a republican and served on the School Board and as township trustee. By his first marriage he had no children. His second wife, Dora Shyrack, was born at Plattsburg in Clark County, January 28, 1848, and she died September 5, 1917, having survived her husband from May, 1888. They had six children : Pearl, George, Jessie, Virginia, William P., and Paul E. Paul E. Troxell grew up on the old farm, and still owns an interest in 475 acres comprising the homestead. He was educated in the public schools, in business college and spent three terms in the Agricultural School of Ohio State University. He is a practical farmer, and for a number of years has been operating as a livestock dealer. April 25, 1918, Mr. Troxell married Marie Stoll, who was born at South Vienna in Clark County and finished her education in the Springfield High School. They have one daughter, Mary M., born February 16, 1919. Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church. Fraternally he is active in Masonry, being affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., Springfield Chapter, Springfield Commandery and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a republican in politics. HENRY E. BATEMAN. Shrewd business ability, special adaptiveness to his vocation, appreciation of its many advantages and belief in his own power to succeed have placed Henry E. Bateman among the leading promoters of agriculture in Clark County. From the prairies his unaided hands brought forth ample means, permitting his retirement to South Charleston and his consigning to younger hands the tasks that made up the sum of his existence for many years. He has a modern home and is regarded as one of the financially strong and morally high retired farmers. Mr. Bateman was born on a farm in Greene County, Ohio, August 21, 1837, and is a son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth (Sirlotte) Bateman, and a grandson of William and Margaret (Duckel) Bateman. Daniel H. Bateman was born near Baltimore, Maryland, on a farm, in 1783, and at the age of twenty-one years left his native state and moved to Ohio. He had an excellent education, having received instruction under his father, who conducted a private school near Baltimore, known as the Oxford of America. On coming to Ohio Mr. Bateman located at Chillicothe, having letters of introduction to the Rennicks, large cattle raisers of their day and locality, with whom he remained for four or Vol. II-24 370 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY five years, thus getting his start in life. Later he came to Greene County, Ohio, and was employed in the stock business with William Harpole until 1851. In that year he came to South Charleston, Clark County, where his death occurred February 2, 1863. In Greene County, in 1824, Mr. Bateman married Elizabeth Sirlotte, who was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1799, and had a good education for her day and state. She died November 25, 1854, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a very devout member. They were the parents of five children : William, who met his death on the Pacific Ocean when the ship on which he was traveling was wrecked and burned on the coast near the Magdalena Dslands ; Abner L., who died at Columbus, Ohio, March 15, 1916; Henry E., of this review ; Ruth, deceased, who was the wife of Edward Garrett, who met his death at the same time that William Bateman died ; and Margaret, who died in July, 1899, as the wife of Amos Briggs. Henry E. Bateman went to the public schools and remained on the home place until his father's death, remembers distinctly the Underground Railway, a station of which was conducted at his father's home. Fugitive slaves, fleeing from their former masters in the South, were sheltered and passed on to the next station, finally arriving in Canada, where they were safe from pursuit and a return to bondage. When he entered upon his independent career Mr. Bateman adopted farming and dealing in stock as his life work, and this he followed during the active years of his life. Ever since his retirement he has lived in South Charleston, and is still interested in farms, although merely as a matter of investment. On February 19, 1866, Mr. Bateman was united in marriage with Miss Annamelia Paullin, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, May 22, 1844, a daughter of Newcomb T. and Mary A. (Harpole) Paullin. She died in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which she had been a lifelong member, January 22, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Batemen were the parents of two children : Howard D., a graduate of Phillips Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, is now a capitalist of New York City, Mary B., a high school graduate and a graduate of the Phelps School of Columbus and the McDonald-Ellis School of Washington, D. C., married H. W. Paxton, a graduate of Wesleyan College, Delaware, Ohio, a prominent democrat and ex-member of the Ohio Legislature and now an attorney of Clark County. They have two children, Annamelia B. and Howard Bateman Paxton. Mr. Bateman is a republican, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. He is known throughout his locality as a dependable and upright man, one who regards his word as he would his bond, and who has ever maintained the highest method of farming and the noblest ideals of home and community life. THOMAS DANIEL HODGE. The ordinary layman, engrossed in the business occupation which is his means of livelihood, is representative of the nation's citizenship. This is the normal type and his life begins and ends, perhaps, with nothing more distinctive than the ripple on the stream when the pebble is cast into the water. Dt is the unusual type that commands attention, and it is his influence exerted on his com- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 371 munity and the record of his life that are valuable and interesting as matters of biography. In the professions, and especially in the law, the opportunities for usefulness and personal advancement depend almost entirely upon the unusually gifted individual and here natural endowment is as essential as is thorough preparation. The bar of Springfield, a representative body of the state, has its full quota of brilliant men, and one of its foremost members among the younger generation is Thomas Daniel Hodge. Mr. Hodge was born at Yellow Springs, Ohio, November 23, 1892, and is a son of Thomas and Rose (Meighan) Hodge, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of County Donegal, Ireland. The paternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth Hodge, natives of Ireland, who immigrated to the United States and settled at Springfield about the year 1830, the grandfather spending the remainder of his life as a contractor and builder. The maternal grandparents, James and Bridget Meighan, were also natives of Ireland, and took up their residence at Springfield in 1855, Mr. Meighan following the trade of blacksmith. For a short time Thomas and Rose Hodge resided at Yellow Springs, but during the greater part of their lives have lived at Springfield, where Mr. Hodge is employed by the American Seeding Machine Company. In his youth Thomas Daniel Hodge attended the parochial schools of Springfield and after being fully prepared for his college education entered the Ohio State University, where he completed his law course as a member of the class of 1913. For a time thereafter he furthered his preparation by studying law in the office of John M. Cole, and then took the examination, which he successfully passed, being admitted to the bar in 1915. He then engaged in practice until September 20, 1917, when he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 324th Field Artillery, Eighty-third Division, with which contingent he was at Camp Sherman until April 29, 1918. He was then sent to a special training school at Camp Johnston, Florida, where he received his commission as first lieutenant and was assigned to the P. S. & T. Division, general staff, at Washington, D. C. On November 2, 1918, he started overseas for active service, but of ter the armistice was declared entered the Water Transportation Division, general staff, A. E. F., doing duty on a ship plying between England and France. He returned to Philadelphia April 18, 1919, and two days later received his honorable discharge. On his return to Springfield he resumed the practice of his profession at 828-29-30 Fairbanks Building, where he is now in the enjoyment of a large clientele. Mr. Hodge is a member of the Clark County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners as an observer of professional courtesies and ethics. He is a democrat in politics but has not sought public office. His religious connection is with St. Raphael's Catholic Church, and fraternally he belongs to Springfield Council No. 624, Knights of Columbus ; and Springfield Council, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is on the staff of the American Legion. On August 13, 1917, Mr. Hodge was united in marriage with Miss Marie J. Garrett, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of William H. 372 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY and Mary (McCarthy) Garrett, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of Owosso, Michigan. SAMUEL ZIMMERMAN, a vigorous and resourceful exponent of farm industry in his native country, was born on his present fine old homestead farm in Springfield Township, July 9, 1862, and is a son of George and Eliza Zimmerman, both natives of the old Keystone State, where their marriage occurred and whence they came to Clark County, Ohio, in the spring of 1859. George Zimmerman was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1819, and his death occurred July 11, 1899. His brother Isaac preceded him to Clark County and became a farmer near Lagonda, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their two sons, Cyrus and William, likewise being deceased. Cyrus Zimmerman removed to Union County, but William remained in Clark County until his death, a few years ago. Upon coming to Clark County George Zimmerman first established residence upon a farm near that of his brother Isaac, but two years later he purchased the farm now owned and occupied by his son Samuel, of this sketch. He bought also additional land, including the adjoining Nagley and Carr farms, and within a few years he had thus accumulated a valuable estate of about 312 acres. In 1874-5 he erected the large and substantial house now occupied by his son Samuel, and he made other improvements of the best order, all buildings on the place having been erected by him. Henry M., Augusta and Mary, children of the first wife of George Zimmerman, all became residents of the State of Kansas. Of the children of George and Eliza Zimmerman the following brief record is available : Milton is a resident of Wellington, Kansas ; Simon remained on the old home farm and died when in middle life ; Arminta, the widow of John Moore, still resides in Clark County ; Alice is the wife of James Ramsey, of Winfield, Kansas ; and Frank and Samuel remain on the old homestead farm. After the death of his second wife George Zimmerman wedded Elizabeth Parthemore, who likewise preceded him to the life eternal, no children having been born of this union. George Zimmerman was an active member of the United Brethren Church at Lagonda, served several terms as township trustee and was also a member of the School Board of his district. Samuel Zimmerman has always resided on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and his early educational advantages were those of the public schools of the locality. He had active charge of the farm about twelve years prior to the death of his father, and the well improved place, devoted to diversified agriculture and to stock-growing, comprises 132 acres. This fertile bottom lend makes the farm one of special value, and on the place is an excellent orchard, the attractive residence being situated on a sightly knoll and being surrounded with fine old native trees. Both Samuel and Frank Zimmerman are bachelors. GEORGE W. TEHAN, a member of the Springfield bar and who until recently served more than six years as judge of the Probate Court of Clark County, Ohio, is a member of a family that has been identified with Springfield and Clark County for over ninety years. His grandfather, John Tehan, was a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who came to the United States when a small boy with an elder brother, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 373 Patrick Tehan, and in 1832 settled in Springfield. John Tehan made his home in Springfield until his death in 1869. He was a worker in the stone quarries and helped to construct and operate the first lime kilns in Clark County. He was a soldier in the Mexican and Civil wars, serving in the Fifteenth United State Infantry in the Mexican war and in Company E of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. John Tehan married Ellen Spring, and they were the parents of seven sons. They were members of the first Catholic parish organized at Springfield. Maurice F. Tehan, the father of Judge Tehan, was the youngest of these seven sons and was born in Springfield July 12, 1852, in a house that stood on the southwest corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street, and spent his entire life in the City of Springfield. He was educated in the local schools and learned the iron moulder's trade, which trade he followed until in 1896 he and some associates organized the Hennessy Foundry Company, which company for a number of years was one of the important industrial plants of Springfield. He was active in the affairs of this business until his death on December 24, 1917. In young manhood Maurice F. Tehan married Miss Catherine Sheehan, who was born at Bryan in Williams County, Ohio, but who from early childhood resided at Napoleon, Ohio, up to the time of her marriage. They were the parents of three children : George W. Tehan, Nellie C., wife of David A. Pettigrew, and Maurice F. Tehan, Jr. George W. Tehan was born in Springfield, December 29, 1882, was educated at St. Raphael's and the Ohio Northern University, where he graduated in 1905. He has been active in the practice of his profession since his admission to the bar excepting the time he occupied the bench of the Probate Court. In November of 1914, on the election of Hon. F. W. Geiger as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Judge Tehan was appointed by Governor James M. Cox to succeed Judge Geiger as Probate judge. In November, 1916, Judge Tehan was elected to that office to succeed himself, and for more than six years discharged his duties with the utmost thoroughness and fidelity. On his retirement from office he again assumed the active practice of his profession, and at the present time is associated with Hon. Harry A. Brenner, under the firm name of Tehan & Brenner. On January 26, 1909, at Springfield, Judge Tehan married Miss Anna M. North, who was a daughter of the late James B. North. The North family have lived in Clark County for almost a century, having been among the early settlers in the village of Selma, Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio Judge and Mrs. Tehan are the parents of five children : Catherine E., Georgiana M., James N., Martha E. and John N. In politics Judge Tehan is a democrat. During the World war he was active in numerous enterprises to further the cause of his country, being a member of the executive committee of the War Chest, chairman of the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission, and held a commission from the War Department as a civilian aid to the Adjutant General of the United States Army. He was active in the various Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns, and as chairman of the Military Training Camps Association was instrumental in sending more men into the various 374 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Officers Training Camps and the various branches of the army than any other individual in Clark County outside of the members of the City and County Draft Boards. CLIFFORD HOLLIDAY BAUMGARDNER, M. D., a physician and surgeon with offices in the Fairbanks Building at Springfield, saw active service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American war, subsequently graduated in medicine, and has had a successful professional career for twenty years. Doctor Baumgardner is a native of Clark County, born at Catawba, November 7, 1876, son of David S. and Susan L. (Ward) Baumgardner. His father was born in Ohio, son of Peter Lynch and Mary (Skillman) Baumgardner, who were also natives of Clark County. His great-grandfather Baumgardner was one of the first settlers in Pleasant Township, locating there when the Indians still made their home in this section of Ohio. David S. Baumgardner had a brother, Isaac, who died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, while a Union soldier and was buried in Clark County. He had a sister, Lou B., now Mrs. Samuel Neer, living at Mechanicsburg, Ohio. David S. Baumgardner enlisted in the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and subsequently veteranized with the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and was in service until the close of the war. After the war he engaged in the undertaking business at Catawba, being associated with his father in that work. As undertakers after the pioneer custom of the time the firm made caskets to order. They were also contractors and built a number of schoolhouses and other buildings in that vicinity. He finally removed to Springfield and was in the maintenance of way department of the Big Four Railroad. He died in 1910. His wife, Susan L. Ward, was born in Virginia, daughter of Paragon Ward, a native of Maryland. Her mother was a native of Virginia and a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She came to Catawba with two sisters shortly after the close of the Civil war, and died in this county in 1887. The two sons of David S. Baumgardner and wife are Doctor Ward L., a dentist at Columbus, and Clifford Holliday. Clifford Holliday Baumgardner attended grammar and high schools at Catawba and Springfield, was a student in the Maple Park University of Cincinnati, and graduated in 1903 in the Ohio Medical University of Columbus. His service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American war started soon after the outbreak of hostilities and continued until November, 1898. After graduating he had a year's experience in hospital work at Columbus, and engaged in private practice there for two years. For seven years his home was at Selma, Ohio, and since then he has been identified with the medical profession at Springfield, and since 1915 has had his offices in the Fairbanks Building. On February 22, 1899, Mr. Baumgardner married Miss Marie L. Wilson, who was born at Fredonia, New York, June 2, 1880, daughter of Charles Walter and Affa L. (Lowell) Wilson, both natives of Chautauqua County, New York. Her maternal grandparents were James and Jane (Schlick) Lowell. James Lowell started one of the first vineyards in Chautauqua County. Sherman Lowell, a brother of Affa L. Lowell, is now national grand master of the Farmers Grange. Doctor and Mrs.