250 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY pioneers of Franklin county, having located in Blendon township in 1806, entering land there from the government. They removed westward from Windsor, Connecticut, and made a permanent home iri Blendon township, becoming identified with the best interests of the county and with all lines of substantial irnprovement. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps had eight children, namely: Edward, born May 10, 1790; Abraham, August 16, 1791 ; Azubah, May 19, 1794; Lewis, January 10, 1796; Lucinda, January 28, 1797; Cloe, May 30, 1799 ; William, September 26, 1802 ; and Homer M., February 9, 1812. The last—named was a native of Blendon township. Edward Phelps was a successful farmer and carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career, dying August 10, 1840, in his eighty-first year, and his wife passed away October 18, 1849, in Delaware county, Ohio, at the age of eighty-five years. When eighty years of age she was immersed, becoming a member of the Disciple church. William Phelps, of Tewkesbury, England, came to America in the good ship Mary and John in 1630, and was the first settler of Windsor, Connecticut, 1635. Edward, son of Timothy, son of Cornelius, son of Timothy, son of William and Mary (Dover) Phelps, with his wife, Azubah (Moore) Phelps, and sons, Abram, Edward and William, and daughters, Lucinda, Chloe and Azubah, were the first settlers of Bliendon, Franklin county, Ohio, locating there in August, 1806, with Isaac and Ursula Griswold. Edward Phelps left Windsor, Connecticut, with his wife and six children, and his wife's father and mother, Simeon and Hannah (Barber) Moore. also with Isaac Griswold, his wife and two sons and their families. They started for Blendon, Ohio, arriving at Worthington on the 24th of August, 1806. The journey was made with ox teams and two months passed before they reached their, destination. In October of the same year Mr. and Mrs. Phelps removed to Blendon township, two and a half miles further east, their home being near Alum creek. They located in the midst of the forest, and for more than .four years had no neighbors nearer than Worthington. The fourteen persons constituting the party on the westward journey were the first white settlers of Blendon township. They were obliged to cut a road from Granville to Worthington, a distance of twenty miles, and were prominently identified with the pioneer development. After his marriage William Williams located on the home farm in Genoa township, Delaware county, Ohio, where he and his wife remained throughout the residue of their days. They had fifteen children, five now living, namely : Amos, a resident of Meriden, Kansas; Alma, the wife of Harry Grinnell, a resident of Kankakee, Illinois ; Mrs. Cloe Cooke, of Clintonville, Ohio ; Lucinda L., the widow of William Vincent, of Delaware county, Ohio, and Victor A., who resides on the old homestead in that county. Those who have passed away are: Homer, Milton, Miles, Emily, Edward, Harrlet. Mary, Harlow, Corintha and Virgil. The last named was a member of Company D, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted September 24, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 251 1861, for three years, and saw active service, participating in a number of the most hotly contested engagements of the war, in one of which—Champion Hills—he received a wound on the forehead from a spent ball. This subsequently caused his death, which occurred June 19, 1875. He was a member of Galena Lodge, No. 104, I. O. O. F. He participated in the battles at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Iuka, Metamora Cross Roads, Grand Junction, Grand Gulf, Raymond, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg and others. He was a brave and valiant soldier and performed every duty with that care and fidelity which stamped him as one of the nation's truest and most loyal defenders. As a citizen, son, brother and husband he discharged every duty with fidelity similar to that which he displayed hen following the old flag that he loved so well. On the 25th of May, 1865, he married Emeline Cox, and unto them were born three children : Ione Cox, who was born January 8, 1868, and was married, in 1886, to Ira H. Steele ; Bertha Phelps, who was born July 15, 1871, and became the wife of George W. Page; and Gilbert Hoover, who was born March 12, 1873, and died January 11, 1875. Victor Williams, the twin brother of Virgil Williams, was born in Genoa, Ohio, August 16, 1839, and was married, September 12, 1865, to Priscilla Martin. Their children were as follows: Lucinda, who was born October 24, 1866 ; Edward, born June 4, 1871, and died two days later ; Clayton Gilbert, born August 24, 1872, and married Elizabeth Haines ; Effie Fayette, born May 8, 1875, and was married, April 29, 1897, to Charles F. McCarty; Virgil Clifton, who was born August 31, 1878; and Clarence Victor, born on the 31st of May, 1884. Mrs. Williams, the mother of Mrs. Rodney R. Cooke, died November 25, 1873. Both she and her husband held membership in the Methodist Epscopal church and they always entertained the ministers at their home. Mr. Williams was a soldier in the war of 1812. Simeon Moore, Jr., was born March 20, 1760, and was married to Hannah Cooke, who died October 27, 1796. His second wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Andrews, and after her death he wedded Mrs. Roxana Meacham. He served with the Connecticut troops at the battle of Bunker Hill and then returned home, afterward enlisting in Captain Ben Hammond's company, receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war. He then entered the privateer's service, in which he remained for a year or two. On the 7th of June, 1807, he became a resident of Blendon township, Franklin county, Ohio, where he purchased five hundred acres of land. He served as a justice of the peace of the township from 1810 until 1815. On the journey to Ohio he had been accompanied by his wife, her brother Benjamin, his son Simeon and (laughter Phoebe, and five by his wife's children by her husband. He died June 26, 1825.. The children of his first marriage were Polly, Lovina, Wealthy, Simeon and Hannah. By the second marriage children were Elhannan W., Thomas J. and Phoebe, and the only child of 252 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. the third marriage was Benjamin, who was the first white child born in Blendon township, his natal day being June 11, 1807. It will thus be seen that the ancestors of Mrs. Cooke have been prominent factors in the improvement, development and upbuilding of Frank!in county. She is a member of the United Brethren church, with which she has long been connected, and is a consistent Christian woman. She is a member of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, having on its organization joined Colonel Ellsworth Circle, No. 11, of Columbus. For two terms, of one year each, she served as its president and has also been its chaplain by election, secretary by appointment two years, and department chaplain of the L. of the G. A. R. one year. She is a member of the Rebekah Order of the Odd Fellows; belonging to Chidsey Lodge, No. 399, held the office of noble grand one term, was chaplain three terms and deputy three years. She was then elected for a fourth year, but declined to serve. Mrs. Cooke is a lady of prominence, fearless, sincere and earnest in whaever she champions. She is loyal to the defenders of her country, and her chief pleasure is to perpetuate in the minds of the young the gratitude and honor which is so justly deserved by those who followed. the starry banner upon the battle-fields of the south. Her husband died October 28, 1886, having been confined to his bed eleven years, and his sickness and death resulting from his army experience. His was a record of a noble and useful life, consistent with the right, and wherever he was known he was held in the highest regard. In many respects his career was worthy of emulation, and among the representative men of Franklin county he well deserves mention. WILLIAM EDGARDSON MEYER. This is embphatically an age in which the young man is prominent. He is a leader in 'business, in the professions, in religious works and in politics. Columbus, Ohio, has a good representation of young men, and not the least popular of them is the well-known young Republican whose name is above William. Edgardson Meyer is a son of Charles and Louise (Bowman) Meyer, and was born near Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1867, and at the age of thirteen was brought to Columbus by his parents, who took up their residence here in 1880. Mr. Meyer began his education at Steubenville and finished it at Columbus. He began his active career in the shops of the Columbus Buggy Company, where he learned carriage palnting in all its branches and for several years he has been a contractor for house painting and as such has won deserved success. From boyhood Mr. Meyer has taken an interest in politics. At the age of sixteen he was a drummer for the Southside Republican Club, which won a banner for being the best drilled Republican club in the state. Before he was twenty-one he painted the Thirteenth ward Republican banner. He has been a delegate to state and county conventions of his party, a member of the Republican county executive committee, secretary of the First Ward CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 253 Republican Club, the captain of its drum corps, a member of the Buckeye Republican Club, and the Young Men's Republican Club. For three years he held a clerkship in the office of the recorder of Franklin county, and October 1, 1899, he was appointed to his present responsible position as .the superintendent of the court-house. Mr. Meyer is an Odd Fellow, a Mason, a Red Man and a member of the order of the Helping Hand, and in all relations with his fellow citizens has won the highest esteem. He was married in Columbus to Miss Mary Duce, a daughter of Franklin Duce, who with his wife came from Germany many years ago, and is an old and respected resident of Columbus. Mrs. Meyer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. GEORGE WATT. George Watt, who is numbered among the native sons of Blendon township, was born September 30, 1832, and is of Scotch lineage. His grandfather, Hugh Watt, was a native of Scotland, and married Elizabeth Reed, who was born in Ireland and came with her parents to the new world when a child. The voyage was an unusually long one, so that the supply of provisions became exhausted and the family, with all on board, suffered for the want of food. The father of our subject was. John Watt, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1804. His father ctied in that county and the mother afterward came with the children to Franklin county. After residing in Franklinton for a short period they took up their abode in Blendon township, on the farm-now owned by Vos Schrock. The grandmother subsequently removed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to make her home with her daughter. John Watt was reared under the parental roof, and in early manhood wedded Lorena Billington, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, about 1811, and was a daughter of John Billington, who came to Franklin county at an early day, settling upon a farm adjoining the Watt homestead. Later he removed to La Porte, Indiana, where both he and his wife died. An ancestor of John Billington came with his family to the new world on the Mayflower in 1620. Mrs. Watt passed away about 1841, and the father afterward wedded Miss Hannah Cooper, a daughter of William Cooper, who came to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1809. By the first marriage there were two children,—George and Charles. After his first marriage John Watt took up his abode upon the home farm, where he resided for five years, when he purchased the farm that was afterward occupied by our subject, there continuing toreside until September, 1849, when his life's labors were ended in death. George Watt attended the common schools of the neighborhood in his youth and also worked upon the farm, assisting in .the labors of field and meadow. He was only seventeen years of age at the time of his father's death, and as he was the eldest son the management of the farm devolved upon him. Later he and his brother operated the farm in partnership until he marriage of George Watt, in 1855, when the property was divided, our subject becoming the owner of the north half of the place. To this he added 254 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. from time to time until he owned one hundred and seventy acres of rich land under a high state of cultivation. Throughout his business career he carried on agricultural pursuits and stock-raising, and was very successful in his work, becoming one of the substantial men of the county. It was on December 5, 1855, that Mr. Watt was united in marriage to Miss Clarissa Dill, a native of Mifflin township, Franklin county, and a daughter of David and Mary (Turney) Dill. Her father was born in Nova Scotia in 18o9, and some years afterward took up his abode in Mifflin township, where he engaged in farming until his death, in 185o. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Watt was bless.ed with four children, all of whom are yet living, namely : Mary L. and Carrie, both at home; Alice D., the wife of Arthur C. Adams, a farmer of Blendon township, by whom she has two daughters, Willma and Marian; and John E., who is still on the homestead farm. Mr. Watt belonged to the Presbyterian church, and in politics he was a Republican. While he never neglected his duties of citizenship and supported men and measures for the general good, his time and attention were largely given to farming, which he made the means of livelihood for himself and family.. His labors resulted in bringing to him a good income, and he was numbered. among the well-to-do residents of Blendon township at the time of his death, which occurred on the 4th of April, 1901. JOHN HAYWOOD. The work of the teacher is one which demands ability, integrity and the love of humanity, and to have grown old as a teacher, always busy, always successful, is an honor more to be prized than riches. The subject of this sketch is the oldest teacher now living of Otterbein University, long a prominent educational institution and one of the landmarks in the history of Franklin county, Ohio. John Haywood, LL. D., was born at Stockton, New York, March 16, 1825. James Haywood, his father, was born at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, October 7, 1790, and there learned the blacksmith's trade. About 1815 he removed to Chautauqua county, New York, where he was among the early settlers. He worked for a time as a blacksmith, but eventually became a merchant, opening the first small store in a log building at Stockton. He closed out that business about 1839; and removing to Brockton, New York resumed blacksmithing, at which he was employed until late in life, when he engaged in the grocery trade. He died August 22, 1872. He was a self-made man, who acquired a good education. Always active and enterprising, he was fairly successful in life. Politically he was a Whig, and later he was a Republican, but he was not a practical politician and took litlle part in political work. Benjamin Haywood, the grandfather of Dr. John Haywood', was a, native of New England, and risked his life for the cause of the colonies in the Revolutionary war. The original American ancestor of the family was John Haywood, who came from England in the seventeenth century. James Haywood married Tryphena Byam, June 19, 1814. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 255 Mrs. Haywood, who was born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, February 2a, 1793, and died November 8, 1876, bore her husband ten Children; named as follows in the order of their nativity: Sarah, April 2, 1815, died February 4,1847; Martha, March 14, 1817, :died June 29, 1896;. Mary, June 3, 1819, died January 2, 1900; James B., January 1, 18,22, died. March 11, 1876; William, May 4, 1823, died October 12, 1886; John; George B., February 3, 1828, died February 5, 1895 ; Byam, who died in infancy; Joseph, February 11, 1831, died January 3, 1842 ; and Melinda J., December 5, 1833, died February 7, 1868. Dr. Haywood attended the public schools near his home in western New York, learned the blacksmith's trade of his father and assisted the latter until he was about twenty-one years old. He then entered Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, and was graduated in the class of 1850. After his graduation he taught a private academic school for two terms. In March, 1851, he came to Westerville, Franklin county, Ohio, to teach an institution which later became known as Otterbein College, which was then a small school under the auspices of the United Brethren church, employing only two teachers. The school prospered, and about a year after Dr. Haywood took up his work there a faculty was organized and, he was called to the professorship of mathematics an.d sciences, and he served in that capacity, with distinguished success, until 1862, when he resigned to become the principal of the academy at Kingston, Ross county, Ohio. In 1867 he returned to Otterbein College and was a prominent member of its faculty until 1896, when his hearing became impaired and he found it advisable to retire. Miss Sylvia Carpenter, a teacher also of Otterbein University, born August 17, 1828, at Liberty, Ohio, became the wife of Dr. Haywood, and died October 24, 1886. They had six children, three of whom died in childhood. Joseph died at the age of twenty-three years and John when nine years of age. Eliza Jane married L. O. Miller, who is a business agent of the United Brethren publishing house at Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Haywood's present wife was Eliza Carpenter, a sister of his first wife. GEORGE P. SCHWARTZ. One of the leading agriculturists of Truro township, George P. Schwartz, owns and operates a valuable farm of one hundred sand twenty-six acres, whose neat and thrifty appearance well indicates his careful supervision. Subsequent improvements enhance the value of well-tilled fields, and all the accessories and conveniences of a model farm are there found. The family to which our subject belongs was founded in Franklin county by his paternal grandfather, Schwartz, who located here about 1818, becoming one of the first settlers of Hamilton township, where he purchased a tract of land, built a log cabin. and with the help of his older sons commenced to clear and improve his property. Peter Schwartz, our subject's father, is a native of Germany, and was about eleven years of age when he came to the United States with his par- 256 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ents and settled in this county. Throughout his active-business life he has engaged in farming and stock-raising in Hamilton township, where he is numbered among the prominent and influential citizens. He has served as a director of his school district, and is a trustee of the cemetery association, having filled the latter position for a number of years. Politically he is a stanch Democrat, but at township and county elections votes for man and not party. Religiously he is a liberal supporter and active member of the German Lutheran church. In Hamilton township, Mr. Schwartz married Miss Elizabeth Keoble, and to them were born thirteen children, namely: Jacob, Michael, Mary, Malinda, Samuel, Joseph, George P., Lydia, Lewis. Emma, Frank, Calvin and Flora, eleven of whom are still living, Calvin a Frank having passed away. George P. Schwartz, our subject, was born in Madison township, Franklin county, February 9, 1865, and was reared to agricultural pursuits upon the home farm. For the past eight years he has occupied his present farm in Truro township, and in its operation has met with excellent success. He was married March 21, 1888, to Miss Annie Bevilheimer, a native of Columbus. Her father, Rebben Bevilheimer, was born in Pennsylvania, and at an early day came with his parents to Franklin county, Ohio, becoming one of its oldest settlers. He now makes his home at No. 1444 Bryden Road, Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz are the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, as follows : Frank R., born October 13, 1889; Clyde E., June 17, 1892; George R., March 8, 1894; and Catherine, June 25, 1899. Mr. Schwartz holds membership in the Lutheran church and is a liberal supporter of the same. He has ever taken an active and commendable interest in public affairs, and never withholds his aid from any enterprise which he believes will prove of public benefit. He was elected a school director of district No. 1, where he now lives, and held that office for two terms, and also efficiently served as road supervisor of Madison township for two terms. At national elections he supports Democratic principles. but votes for whom he considers the best man for county and township offices regardless of party lines. JOHN T. WRIGHT. John T. Wright is the owner of a valuable farm of one hundred and forty-seven and a half acres in Madison township, Franklin county. and the modern methods which he follows in caring for his property and cultivating his fields are well worthy of emulation and cannot fail to bring success unless, circumvented by circumstances over which man has no control. Mr. Wright is a native of the township in which he yet resides, his birth having occurred on the 14th of November, 1837. His father, John Wright, was born in Madison township, Franklin county, about 1805. the family being among the honored pioneer settlers who aided in laying broad and deep the foundation for the present prosperity and progress of this portion of the state. He married Nancy Whims, who was a native of Virginia, and during her CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 257 early girlhood came to Ohio with her parents. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wright were born four sons and five daughters : Eliza, John T., Jane, David, Daniel, Jonathan, Emily, Laura, and Martha. Of this number, Eliza and Jonathan are now deceased. By a former marriage the father had one daughter, Sarah. In taking up the personal history of John T. Wright we present to our readers the life record of one who has spent his entire days in Franklin county and who is well known to her citizens. His early education was acquired in the schools of Madison township, and he remained upon his father's farm throughout the period of his minority, working in field and meadow and assisting in all the labors which go to make up the lot of the agriculturist. At the age of twenty-two years, on the 4th of January, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda Painter, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Fisher) Painter. Mr. and Mrs. Wright began their domestic life upon a farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres, which was a part of his father's old homestead. Part of it was covered with a native growth of timber when he took. possession, but before the sturdy strokes of his axe the monarchs of the forest fell, and as he cleared and cultivated the land it yielded to him a golden tribute. All of the improvements upon the place stand as monuments to his enterprise and thrift. As the years have passed he has added to his original possessions a tract of one hundred and thirty-nine acres, and his large farm is now a very desirable property. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wright have been born four children, two sons and two daughters, but only one is now living, Joseph, who occupies a farm of one hundred and nineteen acres owned by his father. He married Rebecca Ann Motts, a daughter of Benival Motts, who is a farmer of Truro township. They also have one child, Joseph Russell. The son now carries on the farm, while Mr. Wright, of this review, has practically retired from active business life and is enjoying a well-earned rest. He has contributed liberally toward the support of churches and to all worthy movements for the benefit of his fellow men. In politics he is a Democrat on questions which affect the weal or woe of the nation, but is an independent voter in township and county elections. He owes his success to his energy and industry, and his life record proves that prosperity is not a matter of genius or results from a fortunate combination of circumstances, but may be acquired through individual effort when directed along lines of honorable endeavor. WEBSTER P. HUNTINGTON. In the promotion and conservation of advancement in all the normal lines of human progress and civilization there is no factor which has exercised a more potent influence than the press, which is both the director and mirror of public opinion. Columbus has been signally favored in the character of its newspapers, which have been vital, enthusiastic and progressive, ever aiming to advance the interests of this favored section of the Union, to aid in laying fast and sure the foundations of an enlightened common 258 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. wealth, to further the ends of justice and to uphold the banner of Ohio. In a compilation of this nature, then, it is clearly incumbent that due recognition be accorded the newspaper press of the state. Prominent among the representatives of the journalistic interests of Ohio stands Webster Perit Huntington, who resides in the capital city, where his birth occurred on the 20th of February, 1865. He is a son of Pelatiah Webster and Jane Nashee (Deshler) Huntington. In the common schools of Columbus the subject of this review acquired his preliminary education and at an early age went to Keene, New Hampshire, where he continued his studies. After pursuing the study of law for two years he bacame the editor of the Cheshire Republican, a Democratic newspaper, and later he established the Keene Evening Tribune, now the Sentinel, the first daily newspaper in southwestern New Hampshire. In 1891 he returned to Columbus to become an associate editor of the Columbus Evening Dispatch. One year later he was made the editor-in-chief of the Columbus Post; and upon the consolidation of the Post with the Press Mr. Huntington was made an associate editor of the Press-Post. Subsequently he became the managing editor, which position he resigned in March, 1899. He organized, and is now the president of, the Ohio Newspaper Syndicate. He has a wide acquaintance among newspaper men of his native state, as well as in New England, and is recognized as one of the leading representatives of journalism in Ohio. He has also been active in politics, although .never a candidate for office, and was both the temporary and permanent. chairman of the Democratic state convention of 1900. On the 11th of May, 1886, in Keene, New Hampshire, Mr. Huntington was united in marriage to Miss Anna Harlow and they have three children. JOSEPH OLDS. Joseph Olds, a lawyer, was born in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, April 15, 1832, son of Edson Baldwin and Anna Maria (Carolus) Oids. His father, Dr. Edson B. Olds, studied at Transylvania College in Kentucky, and was graduated at Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia. He was a prominent and leading Democrat in Ohio, the speaker of the Ohio senate in 1846-7, and a member of congress for three terms from March, 1849, to March, 1855, when he was defeated by the Know-nothing movement. While in congress he was distinguished and influential, and was for two terms the chairman of the committee on postoffices and post-roads. The counties of Pickaway, Fairfield, Licking, Franklin, Madison and Fayette were represented by him in congress, his district having been changed while he was a member. Dr. Olds was an able debater and eloquent speaker He was a man of unusual strength of character and of strong convictions, which he at all times fearlessly maintained. He was born June 3, 1802, and died January 25, 1869. Anna Maria Olds was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was a granddaughter of Peter Shaffer, who served first CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 259 as ensign and afterward as captain in the Pennsylvania troops during the Revolutionary war. She was noted for her kindness,. charity and piety. She was born March 7, 1805, married Dr. Olds at Circleville June 18, 1824, and died December 22, 1859. Joseph Olds was educated by private instruction at home until he entered the freshman class at Yale College, in September, 1849. He was graduated at Yale with high honors in 1853. He then studied law for a year at Circleville with his uncle, Chauncey N. Olds, who had been a member of the senate of Ohio, and was afterward attorney-general of the state, and died in 1890. Chauncey N. Olds was a highly educated man, a cultured and courteous gentleman; a polished and persuasive orator, one of the foremost lawyers in Ohio for many years, and a prominent member of the Presbyterian church. He was graduated at the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, and studied and practiced law at Circleville, with his older brother, Joseph Olds, who was a distinguished and leading lawyer in Ohio from an, early day in the history of the state, until his death in 1846. Joseph Olds, the younger, in September, 1854, entered the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was graduated, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1856. He was admitted to the bar by the district court at Chillicothe, Ohio, the same year. In 1857 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Pickaway county, and served two terms. He afterward practiced law with Jonathan Renick, of Circleville, until the death of Mr.. Renick in 1863, and then alone until May, 1868. He had a large practice in Pickaway and adjacent counties. In April, 1868, he was elected, in Pickaway, Franklin and Madison counties, a judge of the fifth judicial district of Ohio, and served as such from May, 1868, to May, 1873. During his term of office he held all the courts of common pleas in Pickaway and Madison counties, held court in Columbus about five months in each year, and attended all the sessions of the district court in the nine counties of the district. He. resided at Circleville until May, 1878, and then changed his residence to Columbus and re-entered the practice of law, in partnership with Richard A. Harrison. He has ever since resided in Columbus, and practiced law with Judge Harrison, as a member of the successive firms of Harrison & Olds, Harrison, Olds & Marsh, and Harrison, Olds &, Henderson. Their practice in important litigation, involving large amounts of money or property, in the federal and state courts, has been of the most extensive character.. Judge Olds is devoted to his profession. He has always been a stanch and pronounced Democrat, but has not, since he left the bench, desired public office of any kind, and has repeatedly to accept office. Judge Olds was married at Circleville, on December 18. 1866, to Miss Mary Anderson, of Pickaway county. She. was born at Glen Mary, near Chillicothe, Ohio, on November 5. 1846. She is the daughter of William Marshall and Eliza (McArthur) Anderson. Her father, William Marshall Anderson, was a son of Colonel Richard C. Anderson and a brother of General Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, o.f Colonel Charles Anderson, 260 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. a former governor of Ohio, and of Larz Anderson, deceased, of Cincinnati. Colonel Richard C. Anderson served throughout the Revolutionary war, first as captain, then as major and. finally as, lieutenant-colonel in the Virginia continental troops. After the war he was selected by his brother officer as the first principal surveyor of the Virginia military lands. William Marshall Anderson was born June 24, 1807, at his father's home, "Soldier's Retreat," near Louisville, Kentucky, and died at Circleville, Ohio, on January 7, 1881. He studied at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar, but practiced law only for a few years. He moved. to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1835 and resided' there until 1854, when he changed his residence to Pickaway county. He was a man of remarkable erudition and great scientific attainments and of most agreeable address and manners. While on a visit to Mexico in 1865, he was commissioned by Maximilian to examine and report upon the agricultural and mineral resources of northern Mexico, and was engaged in that service when Maximilian fell. The mother of Mrs. Olds was born at Fruit Hilr, near Chillicothe, on November 14, 1815, and died in Pickaway county, on September 2, 1855. She was a daughter of General Duncan McArthur, who served with much distinction through the war of 1812, first as the colonel of the First Ohio Volunteers and afterward as the colonel of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, and in March, 1813, was commissioned a brigadier general in the regular army. He was serving under General Hull at the time of the surrender of that officer; but happened to be detached on that day to bring in a supply train. As senior brigadier general in 1814, he succeeded General Harrison in the command of the Northwestern army. He was afterward the speaker of the house of representatives, a member of congress and gove of Ohio. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Anderson became converts of the Roman Catholic church and for the remainder of their lives were pious, devout and zealous members thereof. Two brothers of Mrs. Olds, Thomas McArthur Anderson and Harry R. Anderson, served in the Civil war, and are now officers in the regular army. Thomas M. Anderson is now colonel of the Fourteenth Infantry, and Harry R. Anderson is a first lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery. Judge Olds had two brothers, Mark L. Olds, who was older, and Edison Denny Olds, who was younger than he. Mark L. Olds left Miami University when eighteen years of age, to engage in the Mexican war. He served in that war, first as a lieutenant in the Fifteenth Infantry of the regular army, which was commanded by Colonel George W. Morgan, and disbanded after the war. After the Mexican war he was admitted to the bar and was the register of the United States land office at Minneapolis. He subsequently became an Episcopal clergyman and died in 1869, while the pastor of the old "Navy Yard" church in the city of Washington. Edson Denny Olds was graduated at Jefferson. Medical College in Philadelphia, and acted for several years as a physician for the Winnebago tribe of Indians in Minnesota. He the went CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 261 to Mexico, and in the spring of 1858 received .a commission at Monterey as a surgeon in the liberal army, with the rank of colonel. He served with this army in its march and almost constant battle kir a year from Monterey to Morelia, and from there to the city of Mexico, under the command of General Degollado. In the attack upon the city of Mexico in the spring of 1869 he was struck by a cannon, ball and killed; in the twenty-fourth year of his age. Judge and Mrs. Olds have six children,—four daughters and two sons. COURTLAND ROSS. One of the prominent business men of the city of Columbus, Ohio, is the subject of the present review. Courtland Ross was born in Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, February 23, 1829, and was a son of Thomas R. and Harriet (Van Horn) Ross, well known and respected residents of the same place. Mr. Ross was the youngest member of a family of nine children, these being: Catherine, who was born April 2I, 1812, and died. September 17, 1813 ; Richard Morris, who was born July 17, 1813, and died June 23, 1887; William V., who was born September 20, 1815, and died August 18, 1816; John Randolph, who was born. May I, 1817, and died January 27, 1879 ; Catherine Sophia, who was born January I, 1819, and died September 15, 1822 ; Sarah C., who was born May 24, 182o, and is now residing in Columbus; Clarissa, who was born May 7, 1823, married Isaac M. Collett, a farmer of Greene county, Ohio, and died October 26, 1895; Alethia Ann, who was born April 5,1825, and died March 11, 1898, our subject being the last of the family. Mr. Ross was reared and educated in his native- town, early displaying those self-reliant attributes which later in life gained- him universal praise and-the thanks of his superiors. He entered the army, near the beginning of the Civil war, joining the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years. His experiences can be but touched upon in the limits accorded the present sketch, but mention must be made of several occasions when his firmness and devotion to duty saved his command most necessary stores and a vast amount of money was secured for the government. History tells of the retreat of General Milroy from Martinsburg, Virginia, the safety of which was, in a great measure, due to the efficiency of Courtland Ross, who was then one of the transportation agents under General Fitch. Mr. Ross had charge of the great iron safe containing all the papers and a large amount of government funds, but when the town was set on fire at their backs Mr. Ross took the responsibility of placing the money belonging to his government, amounting to sixty thousand dollars, upon his person, secreting it, through every kind of peril, for three days, when he had the proud satisfaction of turning it over to the proper authorities intact. He also saved the transportion train, although bridges were being burned and the enemy surrounded him on every side.. The amount saved the government in money, stores, clothing and ammunition, in great part owing to the bravery of Mr. Ross, was computed to be over a million dollars. Upon another occasion, 262 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. when in desperate straits, his superior, officer ordered him to throw his wagons over Steel Top mountain, but he refused and brought his train safely into camp on the following morning. Upon still another occasion he was cut off by the enemy from his command for a period of three days, but managed to protect his stores until he could get into the lines again. This was a large train, the best ever turned over to the post quartermaster, its forty wagons and ninety horses all being safe. Mr. Ross held the position of transportation master for General Fitch for two years, and clippings from the newspapers of the times tell of the high esteem in which he was held in the service. After his return from the army Mr. Ross engaged in contracting for the Little Maumee railroad, continuing with that corporation for six years, his residence being in Lebanon but in 1870 he removed to Columbus and took charge of the Columbus Transfer Company, which position he held for the twelve years, being one of the stockholders of the company. Selling his interest there, he engaged in the dairy business for five years, making a specialty of the manufacture of butter, and now has the contract for the furnishing of to the Institution for the Feeble Minded in this city. Mr. Ross has always been an active and progressive man, interested in many private and public lines. He managed an omnibus line at one time in Lebanon, Ohio, and was the contractor for the Lebanon & Freeport pike road. The first marriage of Mr. Ross took place in 1865, to Miss Jane Anderson, resulting in the birth of one son, Fenton, now in the auditor's office of the Hocking Valley railroad, of which he was at one time the paymaster. The second marriage of Mr. Ross, took place in 1885, to Miss Magdalene Smith a native of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio. Mr. Ross is a prominent Republican and is often called to consult in the deliberations of the party. He is one of the men who have built up a great part of the business of this city and he is well known and most highly regarded. THE ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AMERICA. The Order of United Commercial Travelers of America was incorporated under the laws of the state of Ohio on January 16, 1888, by John C. Fenimore, Levi C. Pease,. S. H. Strayer. W. E. Carpenter, John Dickey, C. S. Ammel, F. A. Sells and Charles B. Flagg, well known commercial travelers and residents of Columbus. This order is the only one of its kind, being a secret, fraternal, beneficial order, exclusively for commercial travelers, with the following as its objects and purposes. 1st, To unite fraternally all commercial travelers of good moral character. 2d, To give all moral and material aid in its power to its members and those dependent upon them. Also, to assist the widows and orphans of deceased members. 3d, To establish an "indemnity fund" to indemnify its members for total disability, or death resulting from accidental means. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 263 4th, To secure from all transportation companies and hotels just and equitable favors for commercial travelers as a class. 5th, To elevate the moral and social standing of its members. The tenets of the order are unity, charity and temperance. Its colors are blue, white and gold. The social and fraternal features are what each individual council makes them. The insurance features are as follows : Death by accident - $6,300. Loss of both eyes - 5,000. Loss of both hands - 5,000. Loss of both feet - 5,000. Loss of one hand and one foot - 2,500. Loss of one hand - 1,250. Loss of one foot - 1,000. Loss of one eye - 650. Weekly indemnity (not exceeding 52 weeks) - 25. The order has paid from its indemnity fund over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and from its widows' and orphans' fund, which is a fund set aside for the benefit of the widows and orphans of deceased members, they have paid out over twenty-five thousand dollars. The order had, July 1, 1901, a membership of over sixteen thousand; one hundred and eighty-five subordinate councils in the different states; seventeen grand councils, and the supreme council, composed of representatives from the several grand councils, With headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. WILLIAM B. WOODBURY. None of the younger men of Columbus have attained equal prominence with William B. Woodbury in political circles, as he now occupies the position of secretary of the Republican executive committee,—an honor which came to him unsolicited but which is justly merited, for few men, even of greater years, have qualifications which would so well fit them for the responsible and onerous duties connected with the office. Although he has but just entered upon manhood. Mr. Woodbury has a very wide acquaintance in Columbus and throughout Franklin county. In the schools of the capital city Mr. Woodbury acquired his early education, supplemented by a course in the central high school, of which he is a graduate, and by study in the Ohio State University. From the time he entered upon his business career after leaving college until his appointment to his present position, he has been connected with newspaper work, a representative of the Citizen, and one 'whose efforts have contributed in no small measure to the success of that journal. His newspaper work has thrown him in contact with a large number of people whose friendship he has unconsciously won by the genial disposition and thorough good nature which have at all times characterized him. In association. with his newspaper work and 264 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. as the result of his loyal American citizenship he became deeply interested in the political questions of the time and took his position in the ranks of the Republican party. To one of his eneregtic nature it would be impossible to be idle in any relation or position in which he might be placed, and therefore he became an earnest worker for his party, doing effective. service for Governor Nash,. who is one of his neighbors. When the time came to choose a secretary for the Republican executive committee, friends of Mr: Woodbury unknown to him, spoke of his fitness and gave to him their support. It was the consensus of opinion, although he is so young, that there was no one available who knew so many of the ward workers throughout the city and county, or was better qualified for the position. It come to him unsought, but on the 1st of August, when headquarters were opened, he took up his duties in a manner that showed he was equal to the situation. He displayed excellent generalship in managing the campaign and succeeded in carrying Franklin county by over thirty-seven hundred votes,—the greatest majority ever given in the history of that county, electing a Republican congressman in a Democratic district. Mr. Woodbury is! now connected with the Everett-Moore Syndicate of Cleveland in the telephone branch of that great organization. FREDERICK KRUMM. The late Frederick Krumm was born August 14, 1840, and died July 30, 1899, at his residence, 1117 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio, after an illness of three days. He left to his family the valuable legacy of a good name won as a soldier, a business man, a public official and a citizen. He was born in Columbus and was there carefully educated in all useful branches under the direction of his father. The grandfather of our subject, J. Martin Krumm, was born September 24, 1784, and died at Columbus on the 4th of February, 1864. He was chief magistrate of Bronnweiler, Wurtemberg, Germany, and was a capable schoolmaster there until he came to America, and after locating at Columbus was a public-spirited citizen, taking part in all efforts to advance the city materially and socially. Martin Krumm, the father of our subject, was born April 5, 1812, and died August 4, 1869, in Columbus. He came to America in 1832, and at Columbus established a manufactory of steel and brass machinery, and iron fences, which became known as one of the largest and most important factories of the city. He became prominent in musical circles and was the organizer, in 1848, of the Maennerchor, which was for years the leading musical society of the city, artistically and socially, and its golden anniversary was celebrated in October, 1898. He married Fredericka Fichtner, who was born in Gottenweiler, Wurttemberg, June 27, 1820, a daughter of Johann and his wife, Maria Kurtz. Mrs. Krumm, whose father lived and died in Germany, is now living in Columbus, in her eightieth year, well and active. Like her husband, she was musical, and they were for several years members. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 265 of the choir of the St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran church, at the corner of High and Mound streets, Columbus. The subject of this sketch. was their eldest child, the others being : Martin, who succeeded his father in the manufacture of machinery and iron fences; Alexander W. and Albert, well known lawyers of Columbus; Daniel, who is associated with Martin in his manufacturing enterprise, and is also a maker of violins; Flora, who married Dr. A. M. Blaile, of Columbus, professor of physiology in the Ohio State University ; and Louise A., of Columbus. Frederick Krumm was graduated in the Columbus high school and was employed in his father's office until, in. 1861, he enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under General C. C. Walcott, which on the second call for troops by President Lincoln went to the front and served gallantly for two years, during most of which time Mr. Krumm was lieutenant and captain of Company D. He bears the scar of a slight wound on the arm as a reminder of the days when he bore arms in defense of the Union. After leaving the army he engaged in dry-goods merchandise in Columbus. In 1866 he married Miss Cornelia Zettler, of Columbus, and some ten years later removed to Shawnee, Ohio, where he was a mine operator and general merchant until 188o, suffering the vicissitudes of business in those years, added to which was the total destruction of a plant owned by him by fire. Thus crippled financially, he returned to Columbus and for seven years was superintendent of public school buildings and was for three terms a member of the school board. Eventually he became a member of the firm of Dauben, Krumm & Riebel, architects, and had personal charge of the original construction of the Great Southern hotel. During the closing years of his life he was in the queensware trade. He was always active, energetic and ambitious, faithful in all the affairs of life, and courteous, liberal and charitable to an uncommon degree. He was a leader in social circles and like all his family prominent in musical organizations, both vocal and instrumental. Possessing a baritone voice of remarkable strength and purity, which was often referred to by critics as the equal of any in America, he held high rank as a singer, was a leader in several choral organizations and often appeared in concert for social and charitable institutions, toward the success of which he was always a willing contributor in that way. He was a member of several of the earlier orchestras organized at Columbus, was for forty years a member of the Maennerchor, was a charter member of the Orpheus Club, was a member of the Arion Musical Society, was a leading spirit in the Krumm-Lippert quartette and was for many years a member of the quartette of the First Congregational church. Always a close student of all public and economic questions, he was unusually well informed concerning every political problem, and having once made up his mind on any question of public policy he was outspoken and unchangeable in his opinion concerning it. This strict adherence to what he thought was right concerning the money. question led him into the Dem- 17 266 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ocratic ranks, and he was assistant postmaster under President Cleveland, and was prominent in political campaigns as a leader of Democratic glee clubs and was a charter member of the Gold and Silver League of Columbus. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio State Savings and Loan Associations from its organization until his death. Mrs. Krumm is a daughter of the late John Zettler, who was a prominent merchant of Columbus for many years. He was born in Monsheim Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in December, 1817, came to Columbus with 'his parents in 1837, and died there September 17, 1892, aged nearly seventy-five years. During the war he was a contractor of many kinds of supplies for the Federal army. His parents were Jacob and Cornelia (Spindler) Zettler, and his father was a prominent wine merchant and mill owner of his native land, but met with reverses about 1835-36 and sought to rebuild his fortune in America. Mrs. Krumm's mother was Mary A. Kientz, born May 31, 1816, at Shertzheim, Baden, Germany, and died August 13, 1893, in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Krumm had children as follows: Conelia, at home; Frederick C., who is the general agent of the Ætna Life Insurance Company at Columbus; John Zettler, teller of the Hayden-Clinton Bank of Columbus; Lenora, Stella I. and Mary D., all members of their mother's household; and Robert, who died in infancy. GEORGE K. NASH. Among the most prominent and influential citizens of Columbus is numbered George . Kilbon Nash. The census enumeration gives the population of a town or city as so many hundreds or thousands, or perchance millions, but- the majority of the residents who form this aggregate are little known. Few indeed are they who command public attention. and who are leaders of public thought and movement; but with this class is numbered George K. Nash. Rising above the heads of the mass are many men of sterling worth and value, who by sheer perseverance and pluck have conquered fortune, and by their own unaided efforts have risen from the ranks of commonplace to eminence and positions of respect and trust; but the brilliant qualities of mind and brain which mark the great lawyer are to a certain extent Godgiven. It is to his own perseverance and indomitable energy that Mr. Nash owes his success in life, as well as to his keen and brilliant mind. He is of a sanguine temperament, large-hearted and a genial and a polished gentleman. As a lawyer he is noted for his integrity; he prides himself upon never urging a client into a suit for the sake of fees, and he will not prosecute a case unless he has every reason to believe he will win it ; but he claims the right to defend any cause in any court. Mr. Nash is numbered among Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in Medina county, on the 4th of August, 1842. He is a representative of old New England families; his parents having been natives of Massachusetts, whence they emigrated westward at an early period in the develop- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 267 ment of Ohio and cast in their lot with its pioneer settlers. To the public schools Mr. Nash is indebted for the early educational privileges which he received. At the age of twenty years he became a student in Oberlin College., where he pursued a regular course up to the sophomore year. His life prior to that time had been quietly passed in the work of the farm and in the duties of the schoolroom, but now a period of excitement reigned in the land, for certain states of the south attempted to overthrow the Union, and loyal men from the workshops, from the stores, from the offices and the fields gathered in defense of the old flag and the cause it represented. As a private Mr. Nash "donned the blue" with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment of Ohio National Guards and joined the army. His term of service ended about the close of the war and he returned to the quiet pursuits of civil life. A professional career attracted him, and with a desire to engage in the practice of law he took up the study of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence in the office and under the direction of Judge R. B. Warden. In Columbus, in 1867, he successfully passed the examination necessary for admission to the bar and immediately thereafter entered upon practice in the courts of the district. He practiced for three years and was then called to public office, being elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, in the year 1870, at which time he overcame the usual Democratic majority of about three thousand,—a fact which indicated his personal popularity and the confidence reposed, in his legal ability. His able service was indicated by reelection in 1872, and he retired from the office, as he had entered it, with the good will, confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. For a number of years thereafter he gave his attention to the private practice of law, enjoying of his distinctly representative clientage. He was retained as counsel either for the defense or prosecution in almost every important case tried in the courts of his district. His is a natural discrimination as to legal ethics, and he is so thoroughly well read in the minutiae of the law that he is able to base his arguments upon thorough knowledge of and familiarity with precedents, and to present a case upon its merits, never failing to recognize the main point at issue, and never neglecting to give a thorough preparation. His, pleas have been characterized by a terse and decisive logic and a lucid presentation rather than by flights of oratory, and his power is the greater before court or jury from the fact that it is recognized that hi's aim is ever to secure justice and not to enshroud the cause in a sentimental garb or illusion which will thwart the principles of right and equity involved. The offices he has held have ever been in the line of his profession, either as a lawmaker or as one who is in charge of the execution of the laws. In. 1876 he was the Republican nominee for congress, and in 1877 for attorney general; hut the entire ticket met defeat. Two years later, however, he was again nominated to the latter office by the Republican state. convention on the first ballot and by popular vote he was chosen for the office in October of that year. So faithfully and acceptably did he discharge the important duties of his position that he was re-elected, receiving a very large majority over 268 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. his opponent, Frank C. Doherty, one of the strongest men on the Democratic ticket. A contemporary said of him : "Featless in the discharge of his duties, fully sustaining the dignity of the law and of the state, he was influenced by neither fear nor favor. He is one of those men who feel that when a position is entrusted to them; when a high honor is placed in their hands; when the destinies of the state are committed to their care, that there is but one line to follow, and that is the line of strict and conscientious duty." In 1883 Mr. Nash was appointed a member of the supreme-court commission of Ohio, and since his retirement from that office he has engaged in the private practice of law, with ever increasing success. Many are the important litigated: cases which have been entrusted to his care. He was counsel on the case which arose concerning the railway war between Vanderbilt, of the New York Central, and Jewett, the president of the Erie line. The litigation arose concerning the Bee line, whose consolidation by Vanderbilt with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road was fought by Judge Nash, who was successful in preventing this. He was also one of the counsel in the notable Franklin tally-sheet forgery cases. Mr. Nash has always been a stalwart Republican. A careful consideration of the important questions which affect the weal or woe of the nation has led him to give an unfaltering support to the principles promulgated by the grand old party. His influence and labors have contributed to its growth and success. In 188o he was the chairman of the Republican state executive committee, and to his splendid managerial ability the success of the party in that year securing over thirty-four thousand majority votes for James A. Garfield is due. In the state convention of 1895 he received two hundred and seventy-nine out of eight hundred and seventeen-votes in the nomination for governor, and the fact that these votes came from sixty of the eighty-eight counties, of the state indicates his wide popularity. While undoubtedly he is not without that honorable ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, he regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. He is a noble character,—one that subordinates personal ambition to public good and seeks rather the benefit of others, than the aggrandizement of self. His is a conspicuously successful career. Endowed by nature With high. intellectual qualities, to which are added the discipline and embellishments of culture, his is a most attractive personality. Well versed in the learning of his profession, and with a deep knowledge of human nature and of the springs of human conduct, with great shrewdness and sagacity and extraordinary tact, he is, in the courts, an advocate of great, power and influence. Both judges and juries always hear him with attention and deep interest. ELIJAH MARION. Marion is a family name connected with the patriotic history of our country, and when it is stated that an early settler in any locality came from Massachusetts it is at once understood that he was a man of progress and CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 269 enterprise, who came to subdue, to civilize and to enlighten, and whose influence was always an active force for good. Such a citizen was Elijah Marion, of Marion township, Franklin county, Ohio, who was born in Boston, Masschusetts, April 10, 1814, and died in Marion township on the 11th of December, 1899, aged eighty-five years. His father, also named Elijah, was a native of Boston, where he was reared and married Lydia Stone, and in 1816 he came to Franklin county, Ohio, when his son Elijah was about two and a half years old, bringing with him his wife and family. They came in a covered wagon, with two yoke of oxen and a team of horses in front. Locating in Marion township, just south of Columbus, he erected a log cabin and began to clear and improve a farm, on which he passed a long and useful life. He had two sons and two daughters,—Calvin, Lucy, Lydia and Elijah. Elijah Marion, who was the youngest of his father's family, had no recollections antedating the settlement of the family in Marion township, where he attended school in a log schoolhouse and helped to clear the land and put it under the plow. Tie was married on the 18th of May, 1842, and began housekeeping on the home place. He was successful in life, prominent as a Whig and later as a Republican, and lived and died safe in the good opinion of his fellow townsmen, who knew him as a helpful and influential citizen. Mrs. Adaline (Livingston) Marion, his widow, was born August 4, 1820. within the present limits of Marion township, a daughter of Judge Edward Livingston, a native of the state of New York. He came unmarried to Franklin county in 1804, at the age of twenty-one years, and settled at Columbus, where he became a prominent man, attaining success at the bar and occupying the bench at the court of common pleas. On the 17th of March, 1807, he married Martha Nelson, of Marion township, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Franklin county at the age of fifteen years. Mr. Livingston lived to be sixty years old, and his wife lived to the age of seventy. They had eight children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and three are now living. Mrs. Marion was the sixth child and fourth daughter in order of birth and was reared in Marion township, having a vivid recollection of the primitive schools of pioneer days. Elijah and Adaline (Livingston) Marion became the parents of nine children. Caroline W. was the first born of the family. Clinton L. was born August 11, 1845, was reared on the farm on which he now lives and has followed agricultural pursuits as a life occupation. He is a Republican in politics and a man of influence in his township. Edward L. married Alice McElhinny and lives in Marion township. Lucy is the wife of Levi Pease, of Thompsonville. Connecticut, but now a resident of Columbus. Ohio. Laura is deceased. Martha is the widow of Frank J. Reinhard and lives at Fifth and Mound streets, Columbus. Mr. Reinhard was county auditor for a number of years. Ad:aline is still a member of her mother's household. Louis C. married Emma Meeker, and their residence is on the spot where his grandfather Elijah Marion, built his primitive log cabin. Clara Alice is the wife 270 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of Rev. Simon P. Long, a minister of the Lutheran church and a resident of Columbus. Mrs. Marion has fourteen grandchildren, thirteen of whom were born in Franklin county, Ohio. The other, Edward L. Pease, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, and is a successful lawyer of Columbus. Her grandfather, James Livingston, was a general in the patriot army in the Revolutionary war, and her grandfather, David Nelson, served in the cause of the colonies as a private, and. thus it appears that she is descended from Revolutionary stock in both the paternal and maternal lines. WILLIAM C. GOLDSMITH. William C. Goldsmith, who is identified with the farming interests of Blendon township, which is the place of his nativity, was born on the 6th of September, 1863, his parents being John and Sarah J. (Clapham) Goldsmith, They had but two children, the elder being Clara, now the wife of John F. Holcomb, a farmer of Blendon township. The father was born in Franklin township, Franklin county, October 6, 1837, and was only seven years of age when his parents died. He then found a home with a Mr. Miller, in Jackson township, with whom he remained until his nineteenth year, when he went to Central College and found employment with Professor Washburn, then principal of the institution. There he remained for about two years, attending cone: during the scholastic year. On the expiration of that period he entered the employ of Joseph Clapham, and on the 26th of January, 1860, was. united in marriage to one of his employer's daughters. He next purchased a farm of one hundred and seven acres in Blendon township, on the east side of the Big Walnut. There he resided up to the time of his enlistment in the Civil war,. He joined the one-hundred-day men, becoming a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1864. During his service he contracted a severe illness, which terminated his life on the filth. of July of that year, his death occurring on the hospital boat Matilda, near Bermuda Hundred, on the James river. He was reared a Democrat, but the political issues of the country centering about the war caused him to ally himself with the Republican party, which strongly advocated the Union His wife was born July 25, 1834, upon the farm where our subject now resides, and there her death occurred October 29, 1894. She was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hudson). Clapham. Her father was born in Walton, Yorkshire, England, on Christmas day of 1793 and in 1818, soon after his marriage, he crossed the Atlantic to the new world, sailing from Hull, England, and landing at Philadelphia after a voyage of eight weeks. He at once went to Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in teaming and farming through a period of five years. He then came to Ohio, settling in Blendon township, Franklin county, in October, 1823, upon a farm then owned by John Snow, of Worthington, but now known as the Schrock farm. Seven years afterward he purchased a tract of one hundred acres on. Big Walnut CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 271 creek, one mile north of the present site of Central College. It is the place upon which our subject now resides, and there, the grandparents made their home until called to their final rest, the former dying September 4, 1874, while the latter passed away January 22, 1873, at the age of seventy-five years and twenty-three days. The grandfather had almost completed his eighty-first year. They were held in high regard for their upright lives, which were in harmony with their professions as members of the Presbyterian church. Although Mr. Clapham did not take an active part in politics, he was a man firm in his beliefs and before the war was an anti-slavery Whig, while titer he became a member of the Republican party. During several terms he served his fellow townsmen as township trustee and as justice of the peace, discharging his duties in a firm and efficient manner. In his family were nine children, but only one is now living, Joseph, who resides in Delaware county, in his eighty-fifth year. The daughter, Mrs. Goldsmith, was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church at Central College, and up to the time of her death took a prominent part in its work, being especially active in her efforts. to promote missionary interests. She held membership in the James Price Woman's Relief Corps, of Westerville, and was a loving and devoted mother, a considerate neighbor and was ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need of substantial aid. Her sympathy was broad, her charity deep, and she always had a kind word for those with whom she came in contact. Although her funeral was held on an inclement day, it was one of the largest attended of any ever held in this portion of the county for many years, her very extensive circle of acquaintances gathering to pay their last tribute of respect and love to one whom they had long known and honored. William C. Goldsmith, whose name introduces this record, spent his boyhood days in the usual manner of farmer lads. He pursued his elementary education in the common schools and later entered Central College Academy. After his father's death the mother returned to her girlhood home, so that our subject was reared on the farm of his grandfather Clapham. He died when our subject was eleven years of age. The work of the farm early devolved upon his young shoulders, and at the age of sixteen he had the entire management of the place. After the death of his mother the land was inherited by himself and his sister, and in March, 1898, Mr. Goldsmith purchased his sister's share in the farm and is now sole owner. He continues its cultivation along progressive lines, and everything about the place is neat and thrifty in appearance, indicating his careful supervision. W. C. Goldsmith was married to Miss Nellie R. Purcell, of Columbus, Ohio, December 24, 1900. ln politics he is a stanch Republican, unswerving in his advocacy of the principles of the party, and he is now serving as trustee of the township. He holds membership in Rainbow Lodge, No. 327, I. O. O. F., of Westerville, and was also a member of Blendon Grange, No. 708, of the Patrons of Husbandry. Mr. Goldsmith is known as a worthy repre- 272 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. entative of an early family of the county; and the qualities which have made him a successful business man have been supplemented by those characteristics which command respect in every land and clime. J. P. LIND. Among those who have spent their entire lives in the city of Columbus is J. P. Lind, who .has risen to a leading position in industrial circles, being the chief manager of the Columbus Table Company. He was born in the city which is still his home in August, 186o, and is a son of Christian and Margaret Lind, who were among the early settlers of Columbus. In the city schools he acquired his education and on putting aside his text-books he entered the employ of the M. C. Lilley Company, clerking in different departments for that corporation for sixteen years. Long continued service is an unmistakable indication of fidelity to duty, and it is therefore a self-evident fact that Mr. Lind was most faithful in his work and enjoyed the unqualified. confidence of his employers. As the years passed he was advanced from one position to another with added responsibility and increased pay, and in 1897 he was offered and accepted the position of general manager of the Columbus Table Company, which manufactures tables of all sizes, kinds and materials, Confining the output exclusively to this department of the furniture trade. The products of the factory are shipped to the various states of the Union The machinery employed is of the latest design; steam power is used in the operation of the factory; and employment is furnished to fifty men, the business being under the immediate supervision of Mr. Lind. In 1880 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lind and Miss Mary Burney, of Columbus. He is a member of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and with the affairs of the city he is identified as a member of the School board, having served for the past sixteen years in that department of the municipal government, representing the sixth ward. He is a publicspirited and progressive citizen, giving his aid and co-operation to all measures and movements calculated to prove of public benefit. PETER SWICKARD. Peter Swickard, a highly esteemed resident of Plain township, was born on the 10th of November, 1838, in the township which is yet his home, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Baughman) Swickard. The father, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, was,. born August 25, 1806, and was a son of Daniel Swickard, who became one of the first settlers. of Jefferson township, Franklin county. Tradition says that he was a native of Germany. On coming to Ohio, about 1822, he located on Black Lick, in Jefferson township, where he remained for a number of years and then removed with. his family to Plain township, where he purchased a farm, upon which he made his home until his death. In Pennsylvania he was a prominent. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 273 distilleryman and agriculturist. When his life's labors were ended, in accordance with a request which he had made, his remains were interred at the old family homestead, but in later years his children had his body removed to the cemetery in New Albany. He was an extremely conscientious man, of high principles and sterling worth), esteemed by all who knew him. . John Swickard, the father of our subject, spent his youth as an inmate of the parental home and acquired such education as was afforded by the common schools of that time. In later years, through. broad reading and observation, and by the aid of a retentive memory, he became a well informed man. After his marriage he purchased a portion of the old homestead and began farming. As the years passed he added to his landed possessions until he was the owner of between five and six hundred acres of land, constituting a valuable and very desirable property. An ardent member of the United Brethren church for more than fifty years, he took an active interest in everything pertaining to the promotion of Christianity He was the founder of Mt. Pleasant church, and during his life time was one of its most liberal supporters. At the time of the division in the church he was one of the active leaders of the radical side, and when the opposition became stronger and the church property was sold, Mr. Swickard refused to sell the house of worship during his life time. After his death the church was abandoned and a new edifice was erected in New Albany, which -was a more central location. For many years Mr. Swickard was a local preacher in the church and labored untiringly and earnestly to promote the cause of the Master among his fellow men. In early life he was a Republican; but in his closing years he was a stalwart advocate of the Prohibition party. His death occurred September 10, 1898, and thereby the community lost one of its valued citizens, for he was a man of strong purpose and of unquestioned fidelity to all that is. good, true and just. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Baughman, was born in Plain township, Franklin county, September 6, 1804, and tradition says that she was the first white child whose birth occurred in that locality. Her parents were Adam and Precilla (Huffman) Baughman, both of whom were of German lineage and' were the first white settlers in Plain township, having emigrated from Pennsylvania to Franklin county during the days when Indians were still numerous in this part of the state. Both the grandparents were laid to rest on the Baughman farm. Mrs. Swickard passed away January 2, 1882. By her marriage she had seven children, of whom six are yet living, namely: Eliza, widow of Levi Dagne, of New Albany; Frederick, Levi and Noah, all of Plain township; Peter, of this review; and John W., who is living on the old homestead. Peter Swickard passed his youth in the usual routine of farm work and play. In the common schools he was educated, and on the loth of November, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma E. Smith, a native of Plain township, born on the farm where she now resides. Her parents, Abraham P. and Millie (Kanouse) Smith, came to Franklin county, Ohio, from New Jersey, in 1828. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Swickard 274 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. located upon a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Plain township, which was then the property of his father, and there they resided for five years, jos attention being given, to the cultivation and development of the fields. On the expiration of that period he removed to his present home, having purchased one hundred and five acres from his father-in-law. Upon this place he has since resided, and about 1895 he added to his landed possessions by purchasing a farm of ninety-six acres adjoining his home place on the west. He is a very progressive and energetic agriculturist, and everything about his farm is neat and thrifty in appearance. He has good buildings, the latest improved machinery, high grades of stock and well developed fields, and his property is valuable and attractive in appearance. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Swickard has been blessed with three children: Laura E., now the wife of Henry Mahr, a farmer of Plain township; Charles O., who resides upon the land which his father last purchased; and Wella S., who is living on the farm with his brother Charles, the two sons operating the tract of land. Mr. Swickard exercises his right of franchise in support of Republican principles and is a recognized leader of his party in this locality. He served for six years as township assessor and for the same period has filled the office of township trustee, while for a quarter of a century he has been a member of the school board and through three- fourths of that time has been its chairman. Although the township is largely Democratic he has always been elected by flattering majorities, a fact which indicates his personal popularity as well as the confidence and trust reposed in him. He does not belong to any church, but contributes liberally to the support of religion. For many years he was a member of the. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but is not now connected with the organization. His entire life has been passed in Franklin county, so that his history is familiar to friends and neighbors. It is one worthy of respect and of emulation, and in this volume Mr. Swickard well deserves creditable and honorable mention. MOSES T. DICKEY. For over half a century the subject of this review was prominent!y identified with the industrial and agricultural interests of Franklin county, and was one of Blendon township's most highly esteemed citizens. He was born in Washington county, New York, on the 17th of July, 1823, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Taggart) Dickey, also natives of that county, while the paternal grandfather was a native of the north of Ireland and the found of his branch of the family in the new world. In 1838 Joseph Dickey, Ws wife, and four children, James, Moses, Joseph and Albert, came to Franklin county, Ohio, by way of the Erie canal and the lake to Cleveland and then by canal to near their destination. As a location he selected a little haml. called Portersburg, in honor of a family that had previously located the whose acquaintance had been made on the way to Ohio. It was near Am, thea, afterward widely known as Central College, from the institution found., CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 275. there by Timothy Lee. There Joseph Dickey opened a shop and worked at his trade of blacksmithing until his death, which occurred in 1845. Because of his intelligence and interest in the questions of the day his shop was often the meeting place of the leading citizens of the township, who discussed with ardor the great questions of politics and religion then agitating the public mind. In these discussions Mr. Dickey always took an active part. He was a good mechanic, and his skill and industry enabled him to make a good living for his family. His wife survived him and died in 1854. After coming to this county the family circle was increased by the birth of another son, Courtland. The eldest son, James, married' Jeanette Parks, who died wihin a year. He subsequently married her sister, Sylvia, and settled in Xenia, becoming connected with the Miami Powder Company. His death occurred in i888. Joseph Dickey was a school teacher in early life, teaching in Franklin and Pickaway counties, Ohio, and also for one year in the state of Iowa, while visiting friends, but he was principally engaged in the stock buiness with our subject. He never married and now resides on his brother's old homestead. Albert succeeded Moses in the blacksmith business, which he discontinued after securing a comfortable competence, and is now engaged in farming in Blendon township. Courtland also became connected with the Miami Powder Company, of Xenia, through the influence of his elder brother, and was general agent and secretary of the company for several years before his death. He died suddenly in 1890, at the age of fifty-six. Moses T. Dickey was fifteen years of age when the family took up their residence in the wilds of Franklin county. His education was obtained in the public schools, and when of proper age he: began learning the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop, afterward establishing himself in business at the same place. On the 2d of November, 1847, he married Miss Alma, a daughter of Menzas and Lucy (Phelps) Gillespie, a pioneer family of this county. By this union were born six children, five of whom are living, namely : Clarence W., a civil engineer in Washington, D. C.; Alice, the wife of John A. McCoy, of Emporia, Kansas; Alma G., a resident of this county ; Charles, deceased; Clayton L., who is engaged in school work; and Marcus C., who is engaged in journalistic work, being now connected with the Columbus. Citizen. For about ten years after his marriage Mr. Dickey continued to work at his trade, and then, selling the business to his brother Albert, he purchased a farm in the same community and devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. He and his brother Joseph became well known as dealers in stock, operating in partnership very successfully and accumulating considerable property. Mr. Dickey was a stanch Republican and an earnest champion of the principles of his party, exerting quite an influence in local political affairs. For a number of years he served as trustee of Blendon township. He was a man of exceptionally good mind, was a great reader and, very observant of passing events, keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He thought and read a great deal along religious lines in his later 276 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. years, and while not a member of any church he always held the tenets of Christianity in high regard. Always interested in elevating the standard of living, he contributed. liberally to any cause for the betterment of those around him. Of strong patriotic convictions, he gave liberally of his means toward carrying on the Civil war and was an ardent admirer of President Lincoln. His wife, to whom he was greatly attached, was in many repects a very superior woman. Her death occurred February 7, 1893, at the age of sixty-six. Having been for a number of years in feeble health, this great blow no doubt hastened his death, which occurred March 12, 1898, in his seventy-fifth year. SIMON PETER EWING. During recent years the part taken by skillful workmen in public aftirs is an important one and organized labor is a factor to be reckoned with by those who seek favors of the people. The men who devote themselves; to strengthening organized labor are as patriotic as the men who struggle for human advancement in any other way and their motives are no longer misunderstood or questioned by fair-minded people. The name above will be recognized by citizens of Columbus, Ohio, as that of one who has given the best years of his life to the cause of organized labor and men high in business and official circles are ready to testify to his singleness of purpose and the efficiency of his work. Simon Peter Ewing was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1858, came to Columbus in 1880 and engaged in building as a carpenter. He is a charter member of Carpenters' Union, No. 61, which was organized in 1884 with ten members and now has more than seven hundred members in the city of Columbus alone, and has filled all offices in the local union. He has been called to different offices in the Trades and. Labor Assembly of Columbus and has been its president three terms, and he is now and has been for the last ten years treasurer of the Ohio Federation of Labor. He has been for the resentative at three national conventions of Carpenters and Joiners of America and has represented the Trades and Labor Assembly in convention at every session since its organization. In September, 1900, he was appointed by Governor Nash superintendent of the free employment bureau at Columbus partially through the influence of Commissioner of Labor Rotchford. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd. Fellows and has filled all offices in Robert Curtis Lodge, No. 762, is a member of Mentor Lodge, No. 642, Knights of Pythias, and has passed all chairs in Court Champion, No. 1492, Independent Order of Foresters, and is past high ranger of that order, an office to which he was chosen by election and in which he served two years. Mr. Ewing married Miss Sadie Lydy, daughter of Horace E. Lydy, a prominent and influential citizen of Fairfield county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing have five children, named as follows in the order of their birth; Harry Eastman, Alice Lydy, Spencer, Ivan Lewis and Rachel Elizabeth. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 277 In politics Mr. Ewing is a Republican, active in his labor for his party and its principles and fully in accord with the policy of its leaders and the present administration of national affairs. In many ways and at all times he has demonstrated his right to be called a progressive and public-spirited citizen, for there has been in his time no measure promising good to his fellow citizens to which he has not given moral and material aid: His work and achievements in behalf of organized labor have been so noteworthy as to attract the attention of leading citizens, irrespective of political affiliation, and to win the commendation of all who have became cognizant of them. THOMAS E. EDWARDS. Thomas E. Edwards, a representative of the train service on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born September 23, 1849, in Birmingham, England, and is now serving in the capacity of railway conductor. His. father, Thomas E. Edwards, was born in Wales, in 1810, and with his family came to this country in 1849, during the early infancy of his son and, namesake. The family located in Dayton, Ohio, where the father died in 1852, but the mother still survives and is a resident of Pennsylvania. William John Edwards, the brother of our subject, is a baggage master on the Pennsylvania road, running between Pittsburg and Wheeling. He is married and makes his home in Sheridan, Pennsylvania. One sister, Ada, now Mrs. Robert Henry, resides on Neil street, Columbus, and has four daughters : Cornelia, Anna, Madge and Edith, all of whom are with their parents. Sarah, widow of George Taylor, resides in Zanesville, Ohio, and has three daughters and one son: Belle, Mary, Muda and George. After the death of Thomas Edwards, Sr., the family removed to Zanesville, Ohio, and in 1869 became residents of St. Paul, Minnesota. The mother was again married, uniting with James Mail, and they had one daughter, Anna, and two sons, H. W. and W.. J., who are still in Pennsylvania. He whose name begins this record learned the trade of iron molding in Zanesville and remained there for six months after the removal of the family to the west. He then went to Newark, Ohio, where he remained for a year and next proceeded to Dennison, hoping to secure work at his trade in that place, but as there were no foundries there, and as his financial circumstances made it necessary for him to secure immediate employment, he accepted a position on a gravel train, being engaged in that work for eight months. About the end of that period he met with arm accident, severing the main artery in the left leg, and thus was incapacitated for work for many months. When again able to engage in active business he resumed. work on the gravel train and after six months secured work as a brakeman on a freight train on the east end division, running from Columbus to Pittsburg. On account of the very dangerous nature of the work on that division, on his own application, he was transferred to the west division. He recalls a very mysterious collision which occurred when he was on the former line. The 278 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, engine ran into an obstruction at night at the entrance to a tunnel. After investigation they found a sawmill on the track. During a heavy rain, the mill, standing on the embankment which had been washed out by the water, had slipped down until it rested on the track. This was in the year 1874. Mr. Edwards was never seriously injured except once when braking. On. that occasion he was thrown from the top of the car by catching his foot on an iron. He struck the platform and rolled off on the track. He was them picked up by a drover who had witnessed the accident and was carried into a caboose with three of his ribs broken, and neither the conductor nor any of the crew learned of his injury until after .reaching the next stop. When off duty, by reason of the accident, he was notified by the officers of the road to appear for examination for promotion. He did so, passed the examination, and since that time he has been on the end of the line where he still runs. In June, 1878, he was promoted conductor and still fills that position He has indeed been a very faithful employe of the road and has been given preferred runs because of his ability and carefulness in discharging his duties. He has never caused the company to lose a single dollar by reason of inefficient service or neglect. He is now on a special train running between Columbus and Dennison, Ohio. Fifteen years ago he was offered a position as passenger conductor, but declined it, the company acceding to his wishes, and he is still on preferred freight runs. Mr. Edwards has been living in Columbus for twenty-three years and the fine residence which he now occupies, at No. 754 North St. Clair avenue was erected by him. In 1877 he was married to Miss Martha Hammel, of Tuscarawas county, and unto them have been born two sons and three daughters. Her parents were both natives of Ohio and are now deceased. William John, the eldest child, born in 1878, is now a fireman on the Pennsylvania road. He was married to Miss Lashura Wheeling and resides in the capital city. Ada and Jennie are twins, seventeen years of age, and are now students in the high school. Bessie died" at the age of three years and eleven months. Thomas Edwin was born February 9, 1888. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Episcopal church and for fifteen years was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, of Columbus. FREDERICK WEBER. Frederick Weber, deceased, was one of the leading German-born citizens of Franklin county, and in his business career he displayed the characteristic thrift and enterprise of his race. Beginning :life in the new world with no capital except that acquired by his own industry, he became one of the most prosperous business men of Clinton township. Mr. Weber was born in Bavaria March 17, 1806, and passed his boyhood and youth in his native land. In 1830, when a young man, he emigrated from Rhenish Bavaria to America, and after spending one year in York county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio, making his home in Stark county for CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 279 three years. On the 30th of May, 1833, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Tascher, and the following year they came to Franklin county, locating on a farm in Clinton township. A year or two later he erected the first distillery in Franklin county, which at first had a capacity of but from one to two barrels per day. At that time there were only a few houses east of the Scioto river, and one or two north of the present Union! depot at Columbus. In connection with farming Mr. Weber successfully operated his distillery, and to meet the growing demands of his trade he increased its capacity to eight barrels per day, carrying on business uninterruptedly up to within a few years of his death, and meeting with marked success in the undertaking. His first purchase consisted of forty acres of heavily wooded land, upon which he erected a log cabin, and there the family began life in true pioneer style. As years advanced and he prospered in his business he added to his landed possessions from time to time until he had three hundred and twenty-four acres at the time of his death. Without money; prestige or friends, a stranger in a strange land, the language of whose people he could not speak or comprehend, he began life in America, but having learned in youth the most important lesson of how to attend to his own affairs, by his industry, perseverance and frugality, he succeeded in accumulating a handsome competence for his declining years, and was able to leave his family in comfortable circumstances. He was a member of the German Independent Protestant church, and lived a consistent Christian life, it being an assuring comfort to him in his last days that he never had occasion to regret any act performed by him. Mr. Weber exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy. Surrounded by his wife and children, he passed away May 10, 1885, leaving many friends as well as his immediate family to mourn his loss. Mr. Weber's first wife died in 1851, and of the ten children born to them those living are: Frederick, a resident of Clinton township ; Louisa, wife of Dr. L. Schaub, of Columbus ; George, mentioned below; Henry, professor of chemistry in the Ohio State University; and Herman., a resident of Clinton township. The deceased were Mrs. Caroline Tascher, . Wilhelmina, Mrs. Amelia Graeff, Charles, and Lena, wife of William Westervellt, of Hardin county. Ohio. In 1862 Mr. Weber married Mrs. Ida Emily Homilus, now deceased. George Weber, son of Frederick, was born on the home farm in Clinton township March 30, 1843, and after completing his education in the district schools of the neighborhood assisted his father in the distillery until after the inauguration of the Civil war. In 1862 he enlisted for three years, in Company C, One Hundred and. Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1863 went south with his regiment. joining the Army of the Cumberland, under command General Buell. From Kentucky they went to eastern Tennessee, taking part in the battle of Fort Donelson, and the engagements at Franklin, Tennessee, and Shelbyville. They were in. the outskirts of the fight at Chattanooga, and for two days were in battle at Chick- 280 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. amauga. On the second day Mr. Weber was wounded in the neck by a rifle ball, which confined him in the hospital, first at Stevenson and later at Cumberland. On his recovery he rejoined his regiment near Atlanta, and later took part in the heavy fighting in and around that stronghold. His regiment went with Sherman's army on the march to the sea, and took part in the battle of Jonesboro, after which they were stationed near Savannah for a time. They were in the Carolina campaign, taking part in the battle at Bentonville, North Carolina, which was the last engagement of the war. They next marched to Washington, D. C., and participated in the grand review at that place. The war having ended, they went to Albany, New York, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky, where they were honorably discharged in August, 1865. On his return home Mr. Weber resumed work in the distillery, where he was employed until his father disposed of the business. In 1865 he married Miss Amelia Herbig, and after that event located on a farm in Clinton township, on which he has since made his home. He owns eighty acres of valuable land, which is highly improved and in an excellent state of cultivation, and is now successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Weber have a family of three children, namely: Bertha, Ida and Laura. The parents are both members of the Lutheran church, with which Mr. Weber has been connected since the age of seventeen years. He is a charter member of Elias J. Beers Post, in which he has filled all of the offices from commander down. He was land appraiser of his township in 1900, and for thirteen successive years has efficiently served as township trustee. He is one of the representative and prominent men of his community—one who commands the respect and confidence of all with whom he comes in contact, either in business or social life. ORLANDO W. ALDRICH. Orlando W. Aldrich, a distinguished lawyer and one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Columbus, was born in Erie county, New York, March 30, 1840, and is a son of Sidney and Lydia A. (York) Aldrich. His father was born near Framingham, Suffolk county, England, in Erie and came to this country in 1832. Two years later he located in Erie county, New York, and lived in that state until 1864, when he moved to Jackson county, Michigan, making his home there until his death, which occurred in 1891. From 1833 until his death he was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was a class-leader from 1840. He was also licensed as a local Preacher, and for many years prior to his death was chosen to officiate at more weddings and funerals than any other minister in his part of the state, as he was honored and trusted by all who knew him, In business affairs he was active, zealous, hospitable and self-sacrificing. HIs estimable wife preceded him to the better world, dying in Michigan, in 1882. She was a native of Clarence, New York, and was descended on the patenal side from Asahel Franklin, of Bennington, Vermont, who was a nephew of. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 281 Benjamin Franklin, and who fought under Stark at the battle at that place. Her grandmother, Amy Franklin York, was eleven years old at the date of that battle and saw it from her father's house. She married Stephen York, and the family had removed to Canada and resided less than half a mile from the battle-field of Lundy's Lane, which battle she saw from her own house. Her husband was the man who gave the information to General Brown which resulted in the capture of. a British spy. This becoming- known to the Canadian authorities, the family had to fly from their home and their farm was confiscated. Their son Stephen, the father of Mrs. Aldrich, had been drafted into the Canadian militia, but ran away, came to the states, joined Captain Spencers company of New York militia and was at the battle of Fort Erie. Mr. Aldrich served for two years in the Fourteenth New York Volunteer Infantry from May 17, 1861, to May 23, 1863, being with the regiment in the campaign in the peninsula, also at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellors. He was graduated at the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1869, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1875, the degree of Dottor of Laws from Albert University, of Belleville, Ontario, in 1877, and the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the former institution in 1881. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 187o, when Vice-President Stephenson and Judge Weldon of the United States court of claims were on the committee of examiners. He was the professor of philosophy at the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1877 and 1878, and professor in the law department of that college from 1876 to 1881, and in the Ohio State University from 1892 to 1897. For three years he was the editor of the Weekly Jurist, of Bloomington, Illinois, and edited the first American edition of Anson On Contracts, an English work of high authority. He also prepared the supplemental volume of Ohio Statutes from 188o to 1885, and wrote an article on elections in volume VI, first edition of the American Encyclopedia of Law, consisting of two hundred pages of double-column matter. As a lawyer he stands deservedly high in his profession, and in business and social circles also occupies an enviable position. He was the first president of the Worthington, Clintonville & Columbus Street Railway Company, holding that office from 1891 to 1898, and the office of vice-president since that time. He is also the president of the Ohio State Interurban Railway Association ,and is now the secretary of the Columbus, Delaware & Marion Electric Railway. At the Ohio Centennial in 1888 he was honorary commissioner for Franklin county. In his political affiliations Mr. Aldrich is a Republican. For two years he was the vice-president of the Ohio State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was the president of that society for one year. He has also been the president of the Ohio Society of the War of 1812 since its organization in 1895, and is now the vice-president general of the national organization of that order. He has served as the commander of Beers Post, G. A. R., was the judge advocate of the department of the Ohio; a member of the 18 282 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. council of administration of Ohio, and a delegate to the national encampment in Cincinnati. He is also a member of the Union Veteran Legion Encampment, No. 78. For four years he was the master of the New England Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M., of Worthington, and he is a life member of Mount Vernon Commandery, K. T., and a member of Aladdin Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Owning a fine fruit farm of twenty-three acres near the city, Mr. Aldrich takes an active interest in horticulture, and has been the president of the Columbus Horticultural Society. He was the vice-president of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for four years. He also takes a great interest in art, and has the largest collection of oil and water colors by European and American artists in this section of the state, and also has a splendid collection of rare old books, taking a deep interest in archeological researches. He has one volume of Roman law published in 1482, only a few years after the first printing was done by movable type. He holds and merits a place among the representative legal practitioners and citizens of Columbus, and the story of his life, while not particularly dramatic, is notwithstanding such a one as offers a typical example of that energetic American spirit which has enabled many an individual to rise from obscurity to -a position of influence and renown solely through native talent, indomitable perseverance and singleness of purpose. Mr. Aldrich is a pleasant, genial and polished gentleman, of high social qualities and very popular, having a most extensive circle of friends and acquaintances who esteem him highly for his genuine worth. Mr. Aldrich married Miss Roselin G. Jewell, at Hudson, Illinois, in 1863. She died in 1877, leaving two children : Edgar S., who graduated at the Ohio State University in 1898 as an electrical engineer, and is now the manager of the electric-light plant at Snohomish, Washington; and Mrs. Harry E. Clum, of Columbus. In 1878 Mr. Aldrich married Mrs. Sarah A. Taylor, of Vandalia, Illinois, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have one son, W. Richard, now a student in the law department of the Ohio State University. ANDREW MORRISON. Andrew Morrison was born in county Down, Ireland, twelve miles southeast of Belfast, on the l0th of January, 1836. and represents one of the old families of that locality. His father, John Morrison, was born in the samecounty, about January 5, 1801, and was a son of Andrew and Isabelle (Swindell) Morrison, being the youngest of their three children. The others were Samuel and Isabelle, now deceased. The grandfather of our subject was born in county Down and was of the fifth generation to reside upon what was known as the Morrison farm there, the ancestors originally removing from Scotland to the Emerald Isle. John Morrison was reared on the ancestral farm and after his marriage to Agnes Murdock took charge of the home place, his mother having died CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 283 prior to that time, and the father made his home with the son and his wife. After his father died John Morrison became owner of the home place and was left by his father in good financial circumstances, but through going security tor others lie met with reverses and lost his fortune. In the spring of 1849 he emigrated on the sailing vessel, Mary Pleasant, which weighed anchor in the harbor of Liverpool. After a voyage of twenty-eight days he landed at New York city and thence made his way westward to Knox county, Ohio, where resided his uncle, William Morrison, who was the possessor of considerable property, and had importuned the father of our subject to come to the new world, holding out the inducement that he would leave his property to him at the time of his death, as he had no children of his own. This uncle had crossed the Atlantic with three or four of his brothers-in-law, by name of Wilson, early in the nineteenth century, and they settled in the northern part of the state of New York. Later all served as soldiers in the war of 1812 and after the cessation of hostilities Mr. Morrison and his brothers-in-law went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, thence by boat to Marietta, Ohio. There one of the Wilson brothers traded a land grant for a farm, but the others continued their journey through the forests to Knox county, in small sleds. In the fall following his emigration .to America John Morrison's family emigrated on the sailing vessel, Josephine, which left Belfast for New York, and reached the American metropolis after a thirty-days voyage. There they were met by the husband, and father, and by train they proceeded to Buffalo and thence to Sandusky by steamer. From that place to Mansfield they made their way by rail and thence across the country in a wagon to Knox county. The father of our subject lived in that county until the spring of 1852, when his independent spirit asserted itself and becoming dissatisfied with the condition of affairs between himself and his uncle he left Knox county and came to Franklin county, locating on Alum creek in what was then Montgomery township, but is now Marion township. In this way he began farming as a renter and in the fall of 1853 he leased sixty-five acres of land in Mifflin township for seven years. This was all covered with the native growth of forest trees and according to the terms of the lease Mr. Morrison was to clear and fence the land. With characteristic energy he began the work and as he cut away the trees sold the wood to the railroad companies. During the seven years of his lease-holding and through the succeeding year he and his sons cleared over seven hundred acres of land surrounding their home and furnished large amounts of wood to the railroads. This was the foundation of the family's prosperity in the county. In the fall of 1861 the father purchased two hundred acres of land and Andrew Morrison, whose name introduces this review, became the owner of one hundred acres adjoining, his place being now the William Morrison farm. The family took up their abode upon that property and there the father made his home until his death, which occurred in June, 1895. At the time of the location upon the old homestead the land was a tract of wild timber and he and his sons con- 284 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. tinued the work of felling the trees and supplying cord-woou to the railroad, the company running a switch road to their place. At the time of the removal of the family the father and his son Andrew also purchased a sawmill, which was operated by the son Samuel, and later our subject conducted the enterprise prise alone for seven years. Andrew Morrison, whose name begins this record, was the only son of his parents, and his sister Isabelle has now passed away. He was reared under the parental roof, and in Ireland acquired a good common-school education prior to the emigration to the new world. On his arrival here he had the opportunity of resuming his studies under a competent instructor who was teaching school in the Morrison neighborhood, thus accommodating his neighbors, who, in return, chopped wood for him. Our subject's proficiency in Mathematics excited the wonder of the children throughout the neighborhood and they would come for miles around to see him "figure," as they termed it. At twenty-three years of age he entered upon his independent business career, working during the greater part of the succeeding two year at wood-chopping. In 1861 he purchased one hundred acres of land in Jefferson township. This was the time when the father removed to his new home and he lived under the shelter of the parental roof until the time of his enlistment in the service of his country, in August; 1862. He joined, Company I, of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the First Brigade of the First Division of the Army of the Cumberland. In September of the same year he was captured at the battle of Richmond, with five or six thousand of his comrades, but on the second clay following they were paroled and returned to Camp Chase. Later Mr. Morrison was taken ill and after two months spent in the Post hospital he was discharged on account of disability, in April, 1863, and returned home. He then resumed the business of wood-chopping and of manufacturing lumber. In 1865 Mr. Morrison was married to Miss Cynthia Zane, a native of Muskingum 'county, Ohio, and a daughter of Corbin Zane, a representative of the Zane famiily who laid out the city of Zanesville. His people were among the distinguished .pioneers of the Buckeye state, and a romantic story attaches to the life-history of Elizabeth Zane, who through her bravery in facing Indian bullets in order to save the fort at Marietta, by carrying a key of powder to the men who were engaged in defending the fort. The mother of Mrs. Morrison was in her maidenhood Miss Sarah Miller and she was a descendant of Governor. Arthur St. Clair, the first governor of Ohio. The grandfather Milo Miller, was descended from one of the Pilgrims who came to America in the Mayflower and also from some of the Revolutionary heroes. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison has been blessed with five children, of whom three are now living, namely : Frank M., a farmer of Jefferson township ; Sarah K., the wife of Frederick Hoffman, who is a member of the bar and secretary of the Rock Plaster Company, of Columbus ; and Homer E., who is operating the farm. After his marriage Andrew Morrison located at Taylor's Station, owning CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 285 there one hundred and seventeen acres of land constituting a part of his present farm. He was at that time conducting a sawmill, but in 1868 he purchased one hundred and twenty-six acres of land. south of Taylor, and removing to that place he made it his home for two or three years, after which he traded it for one hundred and ninety-six acres of his present farm, which now cornprises a tract of three hundred and thirteen acres. Since that time it has been the place of his abode and is one of the most desirable farming properties in this section of the state. He also owned one hundred and eighty-five acres of land north of Reynoldsburg, in Jefferson township, and forty-five acres near Bullits Park, just outside of the city limits of Columbus. His business interests have been capably managed, his well directed efforts bringing to him a high degree of success. He has never had time nor inclination to seek public office, but exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party. In early life he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but in more recent years has not held membership connection with any denomination. His wife, however, is a Methodist Socially he is connected with the Reynoldsburg Lodge, F. & A. M. his life exemplifying the benevolent principles of the fraternity. His career has been an active, busy and useful one, and his worth as a man and citizen are widely acknowledged. RICHARD SINCLAIR. Richard Sinclair, a retired merchant residing in Columbus, was born in the city of Rochester, New York, November 28, 1828, a son of George and Mary (Resift) Sinclair. The father was born in Scotland, but in early life emigrated to the United States, where he was married, after which he located in Rochester, New York, and engaged in the butchering business. In 1839 he came with his family to Columbus, where he opened a meat market and continued actively in that line until within a short time prior to his death, which occurred when he was in his seventy-fifth year. His wife, who survived him for some time, died in 1875. She was born in Edinburg; Scotland, and in her girlhood came to America with her parents, who located in Rochester, New York. Richard Sinclair, who is the only survivor in a family of five children, accompanied his parents on their emigration to, Columbus, in 184o, and in the public schools of the city he continued his education for a time. In his twelfth year he entered his father's market, where he remained until he had attained his majority, when he opened a meat market on his own account on High street. between the American and United States hotels. There he carried on business until 1850, when he sold out. Having saved some money, he purchased eighteen acres of land on what is now West Broad street, the consideration being four thousand dollars. Of this he paid two thousand down. while the balance was to be met in payments of five- hundred dollars. Hardly more than a year had passed when he was offered forty thousand dol- 286 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. lars for the property, and, refusing this, he later sold it for sixty thousand. He has erected between twenty-five and thirty dwelling houses and a number of store buildings in this city. A large business block on West Broad street, which has a forty-four-foot front and is ninety-nine feet in depth and three stories high, and is now occupied by a .stock of hardware, was erected by him and was for some years the best business block west of the Scioto. Prominently connected with real-estate and. building interests, he has done much to improve the city along substantial lines of progress and development. On the 7th of November, 1856, Mr. Sinclair was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Romosier, of Columbus, a daughter of John Romosier. She died in 1882, leaving eight children : Charles, who is now a ticket agent for the Hocking Valley Railroad ; George W., who died in 1888 ; Lucy, who died 1898; Elizabeth, the wife of Lawrence H. Cott; Eloise ; Mrs. Matilda Howe; Richard ; and Ethel. Mr. Sinclair erected his fine brick residence at No. 913 West Broad street in 1891, and it is known as one of the attractive homes of the city. Although he started out in life with very limited capital he has by energy, economy and good management accumulated a handsome competence for old age. He always voted the Democratic ticket, first supporting James Buchanan for the presidency and since that time has never wavered in his allegiance to the party. LEONHARD HIRSCH. In this age of colossal enterprise and marked intellectual energy, the prominent and successful men are those whose abilities, persistence and courage lead them. into large undertakings and assume the responsibilities and labors of leaders in their respective vocations. Success is methodical and resultant; and however much we may indulge in fantastic theorizing as to its elements and causation in any isolated instance, yet in the light of sober investigation we will find it to be but a result of the determined application of one's abilities and powers along the rigidly defined line of labor. America owes, much of her progress and advancement to a position foremost among the nations of the world to her newspapers, and in no line. has the incidental broadening out of the sphere of usefulness been more marked than in this same line of journalism. Columbus has enlisted in its newspaper field some of the strongest intellects of the state,—men of strong mental grasp, cosmopolitan ideas and notable business sagacity. Prominent among the men who have given the city. prestige in this direction must be placed Leonhard Hirsch, the subject of this review. His identification with the art preservative of all arts dates front an early period in his career. He was born October 13, 1834, in the town of Berncastel which lies on the banks of the Moselle river, in Rhenish Prussia. At the accustomed age he entered the public schools of the fatherland, there pursuing his studies until he entered upon his business career as an apprentice CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 287 the carpenter's trade. He followed that pursuit through the period of his minority, and soon after attaining man's estate he began business on his own account as a printer and lithographer in Frankfort-on-the-Main, but was obiged to abandon all and flee to England when that famous old city was occupied by the Prussians in 1866. For five years he remained on the merrie isle," where he was employed at his trade and finally became the manager of the Hermann, a German weekly paper published in London. Attracted by the opportunities of the new world, where the field of advancement lay open to all and where liberty of thought and action is one of the cherished possessions of the people, he resolved to seek a home beyond the water, and in 1870 crossed the Atlantic to New York. in the metropolis he soon secured an excellent position in the line of his trade, having for a time served as the manager of the Oestliche Post, a daily paper published in the German language. In 1872 he became a resident of St. Louis., where he also acted as the manager of a paper until 1876, the year of his arrival in Columbus, where he was employed for a number of months in the office of the Westbote. Wishing, however, to engage in business for himself, he established a Republican Sunday paper published in his native tongue. He called in the Ohio Sontagsgast and by his unflagging industry, perseverance, keen sagacity and capable management he made it a profitable business venture. Although the majority of German residents are advocates of Democratic principles he made his paper a Republican organ, fearlessly advocating the prinples hes of the party in which he has ever believed since becoming a student of American politics. At the same time his journal became a bright, newsy organ, devoted to the welfare of the city and state, as well as to the expression of the editor's political views. In 1891 Mr. Hirsch broadened the scope of his enterprise by establishing a daily paper, called the Daily Express, which is the only German Republican journal in central Ohio. From the beginning it has constantly grown in favor and therefore in patronage, and now has an excellent circulation among the German-American people, in whose homes it carries influence by its frank expressions concerning the questions and interests of the day which affect all mankind. In 1886 Mr. Hirsch was appointed by Governor Foraker to the position of supervisor of public printing, and in that office he rendered most effective service. He filled the position for five terms, being re-appointed by Governor Foraker and later by Governor McKinley. In 1871 Mr. Hirsch was united in marriage to Miss Lotta Meyer, and they now have five sons and a daughter. The sons follow in the father's political footsteps, being earnest advocates of the Republican party. The success which has come to Mr. Hirsch has been by no means the result of fortunate circumstances. It has come to him through energy, labor and perseverance, directed by an evenly balanced mind and by honorable business principles. He has made the most of his opportunities. and at the same time the rules of his life have been such as to win the unqualified confidence of his fellow men, gaining their esteem and regard. 288 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. BENJAMIN G. WHEELER. Benjamin G. Wheeler, the experienced and popular conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born April 6, 1849, in Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio, his parents being Christopher and Rebecca Wheeler, The father was born in Harrison county, Ohio, April 11, 1816, and was the eldest of a large family of children, the others bein: Reason, born July 10, 1818; Benjamin, November 20, 1819; Morgan, May 27, 1821; Malinda, January 2, 1823; Mocinda, December 2, 1824; Hinzay, December 28, 1826; Hezekiah W., June 30, 1828; Nancy, April 30, 1830 ; Amon, December 23, 1831 ; John W., July 5, 1833; and Rachel, June 4, 1835. All are now deceased with the exception bf Rachel, who is now married and living in the west. The father of our subject resided upon a farm in early life, but about 1850 removed to the village of Hopedale, where he followed the carpenter's trade. On the paternal side he comes of an old American family, the father having been a native of Maryland. For. many years Christopher Wheeler was connected With the building interests of Hopedale, and his life's labors were ended in death in that town on the 4th of March, 1887. His. wife, surviving him in about nine years, passed away in the same town, March 8, 1896. Their children were: Mary Jane, born May 14, 1839; William Franklin, October 16,. 1840; John Wilson, December 17, 1842;. Eliza Ellen, December 16, 1844; Reuben Arnold, April 29, 1847; Benjamin G., April 6, 1849; Sarah Ellen, October 13, 1851 Keziah Margaret, September 2, 1853 ; Samuel Christopher, September 30, 1855; and Eliza Ellen, January 31, 1858. Four of the number have now passed away. Keziah Margaret died on the 28th of September, 1853; Sarah Ellen, on the 9th of March, 1854; Reuben Arnold, July 13, 1857; and Samuel Christopher, May 20, 1881. The last named was a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and by coupling cars in the yards in Columbus was fatally injured. John W. Wheeler enlisted in 1861 in the Forty-third Ohio Infantry, and remained for three years at the front. After the war he spent twenty years as an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and then purchased a farm. which he has since operated. William Wheeler is living in Dennison, Ohio, and for the past twenty years he has been employed in the Panhandle shops at Dennison, as a. blacksmith. Benjamin G. Wheeler was only about a year old when his parents became residents of Hopedale, where he pursued his education in the public schools, From early life, however, he has been dependent upon his own labors, having worked as a farm hand for his board and ten cents per day when a small boy He also assisted his father at the carpenter's trade before attaining manhood, aiding in shingling, siding and other such work. His brother William was a conductor on the Panhandle Railroad in 1864, and our subject also entered the service about that time, Spending three months on a freight train as brakeman. In the discharge of his duties he found it necessary to step over the soldiers who were being taken to the front on freight cars on his run to Newark and Steubenville. In October, 1868, he accepted a permanent posi- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 289 tion with the Panhandle Company, running from Dennison to Columbus, Ohio, as a brakeman. He held that position for six months and then accepted a similar position on a passenger train, serving in that way until December, 1871. Between the years 1872 and 1876 he was the baggage master on a train and from 1876 until 1881 he was freight conductor. In the latter year he was assistant yard master, also having a passenger run, and in December, 1881, he was given a regular passenger run and has continued in the service of the company in that capacity up to the present time. Over his record there falls no shadow of wrong, for he has ever been faithful and true to his duty, careful and earnest in its discharge. He has been constantly on the Pittsburg division, running between Columbus and Pittsburg, and .his trustworthiness is a matter of record, well worthy of commendation. On the 15th of May, 1872, Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage to Miss Emma Brydie, of Columbus, in which city they have since. made their home, now residing at No. 1223 Hunter avenue. The lady was a daughter of Hugh and Mary A. Brydie. Her father died in 1861, at the age of forty-five years, and her mother passed away in 1895, at the age of sixty-seven. One of her brothers, James, died when only fifteen years of age, from disease while serving his country in the Civil war. Two of her brothens, William and Millard R., are now residents of New Mexico. Her sister, Ida May, is the wife of Earnest A. Pierce, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Jennie Deuell and Mrs. Mattie L. Levi, of this family, are residents of Columbus, and Ella is living in Cincinnati. Her father was a native of Tennessee and her mother of Illinois. Mrs. Wheeler is a member of the Third Avenue Episcopal church. In 1871 Mr. Wheeler became a member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 145, I. O. O. F., of Columbus. In his life he exemplifies the benevolent spirit of the fraternity. Both he and his wife are well known for their genial manner and sterling qualities, and the hospitality of many . of the homes of Columbus is extended to them. WILLIAM R. LAZENBY. America has made wonderful strides in scientific research during the century just completed, and among those who have been leaders of investigation is William Bane Lazenby, whose discoveries along horticultural lines have been not only a source of gratification and pleasure to the scientific world, but also of practical value to the fruit-raisers and agriculturists of the land. He has attained a national reputation in connection with educational work and scientific discovery and to-day occupies an eminent position among the men of high scientific attainments. His local connection is with the Ohio State University, occupying the chair of horticulture and forestry, but throughout the country he is widely known, being a representative of the leading societies for the advancement of scientific attainment and research along his chosen lines. Professor Lazenby was born December 5, 1852, in Bellona, New York, 290 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. and acquired his preliminary education in the country schools of his native township. His more advanced studies were pursued in the Pen Yan Academy and in his college course in Cornell University, being graduated in the last named institution with the class of 1874. Immediately after his graduation he was appointed instructor of botany and horticulture in his alma mater, which position he held for two years, when he was made assistant professor of horticulture, serving in that capacity until he resigned in 1881. It was in that year that Professor Lazenby was elected professor of botany and horticulture in the Ohio State University, at Columbus, with which institution he has since been connected, now holding the professorship of horticulture and forestry. While a member of the faculty of Cornell he was the botanist to the New York State Horticultural Society, the horticultural editor of the Husbandman and lecturer for the New York State Grange He drafted the bill for, and aided in establishing, the New York State Experimental Station, which is located at Geneva. After his removal to Ohio he drafted a bill and secured the establishment of the Ohio Experimental Station, of which he was: a director for six years. He was for five years the secretary and for two years the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; has been for the past eight years the president of the Columbus Horticultural Society,—one of the oldest associations of its kind in America ; is an active member of the American Pomological Socity and vice-president of the National Forestry of Congress, and in addition is an active or honorary member of many state and local societies. He has written much upon horticultural and agricultural subjects and for twenty years has been a lecturer before farmers' institutes. In 1896 Professor Lazenby was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Edelia Akin, of Columbus, and with their daughter, an only child, they reside in their home near the Ohio State University. The Professor has superior ability as an educator, being able to impart clearly and readily to others the knowledge he had acquired. He has deep love for the subjects in which he gives instruction, and his fondness for scientific research has led him into new fields where he has gained many valuable truths of benefit to his fellow men. JOHN H. MILLS. In railway circles John H. Mills has long been widely and favorably known. He was born April 19, 1867, in New Moscow, Ohio. a son of Henry H. Mills, whose birth occurred in 1833. Both his father and his mother died on the same day,—August 17, 1894,—at Cooperdale. Ohio, their disease being typhoid fever. Ten days later their daughter Bertha also passed away. The father was connected with commercial pursuits, conducting a general mercantile store in Cooperdale. John H. Mills spent the first sixteen years of his life under the parental roof, and then went to Columbus, Ohio, to learn the carriage-maker's trade CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 291 This was his first independent venture and thereby tested his power, giving indication of the elemental strength of his character. He worked at carriage-making until December 12, 189o, when he entered the service of the Pan Handle Railroad Company. On the Irth of May; 1892, he became an employee of the Toledo,. Walhonding Valley .& Ohio Railroad, having charge of the express and baggage. In December, 1896, he came to Columbus and again entered the service of the Pan Handle Road, with which he has since continued. On the 26th of January, 1895, Mr. Mills was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Finley, the wedding being celebrated in Mansfield, Ohio. Her parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, and from that state removed to West Virginia where Mrs. Mills was born. Her father was a member of the One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war and served with the First Army Corps in many of the most important engagements which occurred in that portion of the country. He died at Loudonville, Ohio, where his wife is still residing. In their family were three sons : Wilson and Joseph, who are residents of Loudonville, while James makes his home in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Mills is the treasurer of the Order of Railway Trainmen, of Columbus, and is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential members of the organization. His political support is given to the men and measures of the Republican party, and in religious faith both he and his wife are Presbyterians, belonging to the Broad Street church. The record of Mr. Mills is that of a man who has by his own efforts worked his way upward to a position of affluence. His life has been one of industry and perseverance, and he has at all times commanded the respect of his fellow men. DANIEL H. SOWERS. Ambition is the keynote of progress. When ambition is satisfied satiety follows, action ceases and effort becomes futile. It is the man to whom satiety is ever in the future that advances in the business world, continually working his way upward until he attains a position of eminence and prominence. Such has. been the life record of Daniel H. Sowers, now a well known and highly esteemed resident of Columbus, exercising much influence in public affairs, especially along the lines of commercial and industrial activity which contribute to the city's prosperity. Mr. Sowers is a native of Champaign county, Ohio, born in the year 1867. His grandfather, Henry Sowers, was a descendant of Christopher Sowers, who located in Germantown, Maryland, in 1689, and was the first publisher of a German newspaper in the colonies. About the year 1810 Henry Sowers removed with his parents from Maryland, his native state, to Perry county, Pennsylvania, where in 1827 he was married. He became the father of two sons and three daughters, all of whom are now residents of Perry county with the exception of S. K. Sowers, the father of our sub- 292 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ject, Who came to Ohio in the year 1857, locating in Champaign county There, in 1861, he was joined in wedlock to Miss Eunice Blose, and five children graced their marriage, of whom three are now living near Urbana while the brothers, John and Daniel, are residents of Columbus. The former is the secretary and treasurer of the wholesale lumber company of Smith & Sowers. Daniel H. Sowers, whose name introduces this record, pursued his early education in the schools of his native county and was a member of the graduating class of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1889. In the fall of that year he adopted the profession of law and entered upon a course of iegal study in the office of Powell, Owens, Rickets .& Black. In 1891 he was admitted. to practice at the Columbus bar and since 1892 has been a memober of the law firm of Huggins & Sowers. In addition to his regular law practice, which engages most of his time and attention, however, he is interested in several business enterprises, and his wise counsel and sound judgment are important factors in their successful conduct. At a meeting of the Columbus Board of Trade, held in January for the purpose of selecting officers for tje current year, Mr. Sowers was elected the first vice-president of that body and is now occupying the position. His knowledge of jurisprudence is comprehensive and exact: As a practitioner of law he ranks very high in contrast with those of equal age and experience, and those who are acquainted with his strong mentality, his powers of close application and his laudable ambition predict for him a very successful career as a representative of the legal fraternity. In Columbus, in 1898, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Sowers and Miss Elizabeth Deshler, a daughter of William G. Deshler, an old resident and prominent citizen of Columbus, where for some years he engaged in the banking. business, but is now living retired. One of the best residences in Columbus, situated on East Broad street, is their home. It possesses all the external features of beauty and style which modern architectural skill could devise and provide, and in its interior adornments and furnishings it suggests refined and cultured taste. It is an ideal home where comfort, good cheer and hospitality reign supreme. LEWIS L. RANKIN. In the last half of the present century the lawyer has been a pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private concern and national importance. The rnan versed in the laws of the country, as distinguished from business men or politicians, has been a recognized power. He has been depended upon to conserve the best and permanent interests of the whole people, and without him and the approval of his practical judgment the effect of the statesman and the industry of the business man and mechanic would have proved futile The reason is obvious. The professional lawyer is never the creature of CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 293 circumstance. The profession is open to talent, and eminence or success connot be obtained except by indomitable energy, perseverance and strong mantality. It has been along these lines that Lewis Lincoln Rankin has gained prominence in his chosen calling. He was born August 4, 186o, in MifflinviIle, Mifflin township, Franklin county, Ohio, and there upon the home farm, where his ancestors have lived for many generations, he resided with his parents until eleven years of age. He is a son of Swan I. and Sarah M. Rankin. The mother was a daughter of Alexander B. and Mary Ann Denune, who were early settlers of Mifflin township. Her father was born May 18, 1807, her mother May 1o, 1814, and they were married on the 1st of December, 1831. Of their eight children who reached adult age alt are yet living in Franklin county, namely : Mrs. Susan E. Temple, Mrs. Sarah M. Rankin, Mrs. Margaret A. Decker, Cyrus P., Mrs. Pauline Kiner, Elias A., John B. and Mrs. Huldah W. Horn. In 1871 Lewis Lincoln Rankin came to Columbus with his parents, who sought the school advantages of the city for their three children,—Frank F., Belle and Lewis L. The first named afterward obtained work in the office of the Ohio State Journal and was rapidly advanced until he became its city editor. He was also admitted to practice law, but died at a comparatively early age, in 1881, leaving a large circle of friends. Mr. Rankin, of this review, continued his studies in the city schools and in 1879 was graduated with honors in the Central high school, after which he began teaching in Hamilton township. In 188o he was elected president of the Franklin County Teachers' Association, which numbered about three hundred members at that time. In 1882 he became the superintendent of the public schools of Canal Winchester, Ohio, and in 1885 removed to Columbus, where he entered upon the practice of law, in which he has met with excellent success. His practice has always been lucrative and a high degree of prosperity has attended his efforts. He is an earnest and indefatigable worker and in him the utmost confidence can be placed with safety. In 1895 he organized the Buckeye State Building & Loan Company, and in 1898 he erected a bank building for the company's use. In 190o he built the largest warehouse and storage buildomg in this city for use by the Union Transfer and Storage Company. He is a director in several other corporations, among them the Livingston Seed Company, the Ohio State Journal Company and the Busy Bee Candy Kitchen Company. In the year 1882 Mr. Rankin was. united in marriage to Miss Hattie Rathmell, of Hamilton township, a very estimable young lady and a daughter of John and Susan Rathmell, most highly respected people. Their marriage has been blessed with three children : Stanley Frank, Bertha Susan and Allen Rathmell. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Rankin came to Columbus, where he held the position of court reporter on the Ohio State Journal untiI he began to practice law in 1886. The following year he was elected to represent his ward in the city council, and, although the youngest member 294 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of that body at the time he was made the chairman of the most responsible committee. He declined a re-election, preferring to devote all of his time to his chosen profession, and in this he has been very successful, his energy, tact and enthusiasm in his work bringing to him a large and lucrative practice. EMBURY A. HITCHCOCK. Embury A. Hitchcock, professor of experimental engineering in the Ohio State University, at Columbus, whose connection with this institution covers a period of eight years, was born in Henrietta, New York, in June, 1866. The ancestry of the family may be traced back through many generations to Luke Hitchcock, who came from England about the middle of the seventeenth century and settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was fortunate in making the friendship of the Indians,. who, in evidence of their attachment for him, gave him a deed to the land upon which the town of Farmington, Connecticut, has been built. His son, John Hitchcock, the next in the line of direct descent, was made a constable of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1672, and four years later he was badly wounded in a fight at Turner's Falls, in view of which Major Pynchon solicited the governor to give Ensign Hitchcock a lieutenant's commission for gallant conduct. Luke Hitchcock, his son, also resided in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was a man of some prominence, being a member of a committee that was appointed for the purpose of making purchases of the Indians of what is now Sheffield township and also several townships in the county of Berkshire. Captain Aaron Hitchcock, a son of Luke Hitchcock, the second, settled in Suffield county, Connecticut, and was a town clerk for thirteen years. He held a captain's. commission and in 1755 commanded a company engaged in the service in the French and Indian war. The next in line was Apollos Hitchcock, who was a surveyor and the first settler of Chicktowaga, New York. He remained in Suffield county, Connecticut, until. 1791, when he went to Charleston, South Carolina, and thence to Europe, where he lived three years, traveling in France and England. On his return to the new world he took up his abode in Hartford, Connecticut, and subsequently removed to Schenectady, New York, after which he went to Buffalo, that state, which at that time contained only twenty houses. Aaron Hitchcock, the eldest son of Apollos and the great-grandfather of our subject, was, like his father, a surveyor, and for the state surveyed much of the land between Batavia and Buffalo, New York, along the state transit line between those two points. Later, in connection with his brothers, he was in the employ of the United States government and surveyed much of the land lying between New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi river. His son, Samuel Hitchcock, the grandfather of Professor Hitchcock, was born in Buffalo, New York, and at nineteen years of age went to Canada, locating at Sarnia, in the province of Ontario. There he was extensively engaged in the fishing business. His first fishing explorations CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 295 were in the Georgian bay in the upper parts of Lake Huron, and his was the first schooner known in those waters. He explored and named many of the islands in Lake Huron and was largely instrumental in obtaining the present fishery laws of the province of Ontario. His son, Julius Charles Hitchcock, the father of Professor Hitchcock, is a graduate of Syracuse University, of the class of 1861. Since that time he has devoted his life to the work of the ministry, filling various church appointments in central and western New York. He was in the army in the spring of 1865, was present at the surrender of General Lee and the fall of Richmond. He married Finette R. Potter, of Gates, New York, a descendant of William Potter, who emigrated from London, England, sailing on the ship Abigail, in 1635, and took up his abode in New Haven, Connecticut. His descendants have furnished to the country their full share of clergymen, doctors and lawyers. Notable among the latter was Hon. John Fox Potter, a representative from Wisconsin in the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congressional sessions. In the list of lineal descendants of the branch of the family to which Mrs. Hitchcock belonged was the wife of Henry W. Longfellow. Lyman Potter, the father of Mrs. Hitchcock, was born at Plymouth, Connecticut. His grandfather served in the French war, and one of his sons, Lyman. R. Potter, entered Union army and was killed at the battle of Antietam. Professor Hitchcock, whose name introduces this review and who now occupies a prominent position in educational circles, pursued a preparatory course of study in Oakwood and Cazenovia Seminaries, New York, and in 1885 he entered Syracuse University. The following year he matriculated in Cornell University, and upon completing the regular four-years course was graduated, in 1890, with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. He had mastered the great scientific principles underlying mechanical construction and operation, and thus well equipped for a responsible position in that line he entered the employ of the Corliss Steam Engine Company, of Providence, Rhode Island. In the beginning of the year 1893 he came to the Ohio State University and acted as assistant to S. W. Robinson, professor of mechanical engineering. In 1894 and 1895, in the absence of Professor Robinson, he was the acting head of the department, and in 1896 he was made assistant professor of experimental engineering, which position he occupied until April, 1901, when he was made professor of experimental engineering. The laws of the natural world are well known to him, and the great scientific principles with which he is familiar are closely and accurately applied by him to the work which falls to his lot in his present position. Syracuse, New York, in 1896, was celebrated the marriage of Embury Asbury Hitchcock and Miss Hattie Isabel Mortimore. She was born in New York city in 1871, and her parents were of English birth. Her father, John A. Mortimore. is a native of Dartmouth. England, and his father was a sea captain. Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Harriet K. Phillips, is a native of Cheltenham, England, and with her parents came to America, in 1850, when she was very young. Her father was a farmer. In the sum- 296 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. mer of 1900 Professor Hitchcock and his wife traveled through England, Scotland, France and Switzerland, and visited the birthplace of her mother and grandmother, also the parish church in which her grandmother and, great-grandmother were married, while in a Wesley chapel church yard they saw the: marked graves of several of her ancestors. Since becoming connected with the Ohio State University Professot Hitchcock has often'been called into consultation on engineering work and to conduct important investigations and tests. He is a member of the following scientific or engineering societies : The American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Society for the Promulgation of Engineering Education; the Engineers' Club, of Columbus; the Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers; and the Society of Stationary Engineers, of Columbus. Professor Hitchcock is a profound thinker, an exact reasoner, and his love of scientific investigation has given him marked prominence in his profession for one so young. MARY MINER WHARTON. Rarely is it given to any one, in these days of change, to occupy the same home for a period of seventy-eight years, but such has been the privilege of the subject of the present sketch, Mrs. Mary Miner Wharton, a was resident of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio. Mrs. Wharton was born near London, Madison county, Ohio, January 18, 1821. Her father. Isaac Miner, was a son of Isaac Miner, a prominent man of English descent, who was a well known trader with the West Indies. The father of Mrs. Wharton was born in New London, Connecticut, December 18, 1778, and went to Franklin, Delawar6 county, New York, where he engaged in the lumber and mercantile business, -also engaging in the study and practice of law, remaining with his father until 1806, when he removed to Franklin county, Ohio, remaining there but a short time, and removing thence to Madison county, and here he bought a large tract of land At one time Mr. Miner owned six thousand acres, upon which he raised great numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, for sixteen years engaging in this business. He was one of the first settlers in that county and was the largest landholder. In 1816 Mr. Miner was made a member of the state legislature, his politics being that of the party then named old-line Whig. In this county he was very prominent, taking an active part in all public matters. In 1822 he removed to Franklin county and settled on the Scioto. river, building here the house in which Mrs. Wharton now lives. At one time his farm consisted of seven hundred and fifty acres, and here he engaged .most extensively in the raising of stock. He was one of the first to ship cattle to Philadelphia and New York, becoming one of the largest dealers in the county. He was much interested in horses, and the first race track in the state was located on his farm. At one time he owned eighty head of horses, including some of great value. At the time of his death Mr. Miner was one of the most prominent CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 297 public men of his locality, an almost indispensable citizen, progressive, earnest and capable. He was a member of the canal board, in which his advice was highly regarded, its deliberations being suspended during his illness. He was an example to his family and his death left a blank never filled. His death occurred December 27, 1831, when the county lost one of its most disinterested and faithful citizens. The mother of our subject was Hannah (Stowel) Miner, a native of Chemung valley, in the state of New York. She was a daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Rigsby) Stowel, of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Miner had eight children : Griffith R.; Maria; John L. ; Henry, deceased ; William, who became sheriff of Franklin county, and Richard, both deceased ; Mrs. Wharton, the only one of the family still living; and Emma, born in 1808, who became the wife of Moses H. Kirby, a prominent man in state politics, who twice filled the office of secretary of state and whose death was much regretted. Mrs. Wharton was only two years of age when her family moved into the house where she now lives. With the exception of three years spent in Nashville, Tennessee, this' has been her continuous residence, with the exception of her school clays, which were spent at Steubenville, Ohio, and at a Quaker school at Kimberton, Chester county, Pennsylvania. In her youth Mrs. Wharton was celebrated for her beauty, being widely known as the belle of Franklin county. The venerable lady still retains many traces of this attractiveness, being vivacious and well preserved. The marriage of Mrs. Wharton took place in 1839, to Henry Wharton, a native of Hull, England, and a family of four children were born to them William, Frederick, Miner and Albert. Mrs. Wharton is the proprietor of the Wharton addition to the city of Columbus, Ohio, and one of the owners of Green Lawn. Her residence has been so long in this locality that she has become thoroughly informed upon every development in the county. She has watched with interest the growth of the city of Columbus, and feels confident that its future is great. Naturally intelligent, educated and refined, Mrs. Wharton is one of the best repesentatives of the real ladies to the manor born in the state of Ohio. WILLIAM H. THOMPSON. William Harry Thompson was born on the 4th of July, 1862, in Union county, Pennsylvania, a son of Charles M. and Hattie Thompson, both of whom arc residents of Columbus. The other members of. their family are Mrs. Frank Burnham, who, is now living in Bradford, Ohio ; Elmer E., an engineer: Jesse E., a yard brakeman; and R.. M., who is also in the railroad service, The three brothers are residents of Columbus. In his parents' home William H. Thompson spent the days of his childhood and youth, and after arriving at years of maturity he was joined in wedlock, on the 2d of April, 1885, to Miss Martha Brown, the wedding being celebrated in Bradford, Ohio: Her father, John L. Brown, now 19 298 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. resides in Piqua, Ohio, but her mother died before the marriage of her daughter. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born seven children: Arthur, born December 30, 1885 ; Florence, who was born January 20, 1888, and died on the 21st of October, of that year; Myrtle M., who was born August 16, 1880, and died November 18, 1890; William C., born August 29, 1891; Lova Ruth, born April 21, 1896; Harry Dewey, born May 11, 1898; and Paul, born July 5, 1901. Mr. Thompson began his railroad service at Bradford, Ohio, in April, 1879, by working in the coal bin for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1881 he became fireman for the same company, running on the Indianapolis division, and continued to serve in that capacity until November, 1889, when he was made a yard engineer, and in September of the following year Was promoted to road engineer. His service in the latter position now covers eleven years, during which period he has won the commendation of the company by his faithfulness and reliability. He is a member of York Lodge, No. 563, F. & A. M., of Columbus, and in his political affiliations he is a Democrat. He and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and are people of genuine worth. WILBUR HENRY SIEBERT. Wilbur Henry Siebert was born in Columbus, Ohio, August 30, 1866, and is the third son of Louis and Sarah A. Siebert and a member of one of the old and substantial families of the capital city. The Sieberts emigrated from the neighborhood of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, in 1832, coming to this country to escape the consequences of the political reaction caused by the failure of the revolutionary movement in 1830. Henry Lawrence Siebert, the founder of the family in Ohio, was a German liberal. He had shown his devotion to his country by fighting in the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte, but did not wish to sacrifice his sons, of whom there were six. in the cause of despotism. He therefore came to America in 1832, and settled in Columbus, July 15, 1834. On his mother's side Mr. Siebert is descended from Dutch, French and English stock. His maternal grandfather was Henry Van De Water, who was of the fourth generation of the New York family of that name; and his maternal grandmother, Sarah Van De Water, was of English descent, her maiden name being Brand. This branch of the Van De Waters removed from New York city to Columbus in 1834, by way of the Erie and Ohio canals, before the days of railroads. Mr. Siebert received his early education in the schools of Columbus, being graduated in the Central high school in 1883, 'on .which occasion hr was one of several to receive a commencement part. Then he entered the Ohio State University, in which he was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1888, occupying a place on the commencement program as a representative of his course by election of the faculty. He was prevented from gradu- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 299 ating with his class, that of 1887, by a severe illness in his junior year. In the fall of 1889 Mr. Siebert entered Harvard University and received the bachelor's degree with honorable mention in June, 1889, and the degree of M. A. in June, 1890. While in Harvard he took part with E. B. Delabarre, now Professor Delabarre of Brown University, and others in the organization of the Graduate Club, the pioneer of university graduate clubs in this country, and was made its first president. The academic year 1890-1. Mr. Siebert spent in the study of history and philosophy in the Universities of Freiburg in Baden and Berlin, attending lectures under Professors Von Holst, Riehl, and Munsterberg, in Freiburg, and Professors Von Treitsche, Marcks, Schaeffer-Boichorst and others in Berlin. In the fall of 1891 Mr. Siebert accepted the position of assistant in history and political science in the Ohio State University, and was made assistant professor of history two years later. On the 16th of August, 1893, he married Annie Ware Sabine, the daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Hylas Sabine, a gifted woman, who received her master's degree from the Ohio State University, and later received a degree in science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under General Francis Walker. The years 1895 and 1896 Mr. Siebert spent in advanced study in Harvard, and in the preparation of his work on the anti-slavery movement mentioned below. He now holds the chair of European history in the State University. He is the author of the "Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom," and a "Handbook of Ohio Government," now in press, besides articles and reviews in various magazines. Mr. Siebert is. a fellow of the American Geographical Society and a member of other learned bodies. Recently Professor Siebert has been actively interested in the founding of a social settlement, the First Neighborhood Guild of Columbus, located at No. 466 West Goodale street, where it occupies the commodious Godman Guild house, built for the organization through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Godman. Mr. Siebert has been president of the Guild during past three years. CHARLES V. CENTNER. The personal characteristics of Charles V. Centner are such as to win for him the warm friendship of many with whom he came in contact, and he had a wide acquaintance among the business men of Columbus as well as in other walks of life. He was born June 30, 1850, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was of German lineage. His parents, Christopher and Margaret Centner, were both born in Germany, in the year 1818, and were married in that country. Believing that they might improve their financial conditional in the new world, they crossed the Atlantic to America, and after residing for some time in Pennsylvania took up their abode in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1855. The father was a cabinet-maker by trade, following that