BIOGRAPHICAL - 175 successful. For many years he has been engaged, on one side or the other, in nearly all the important patent litigations in this part of Ohio, as well as in many notable causes in other parts of the country. Mr. Hall is an unswerving Republican in his political views, and for fifteen years was the United States Circuit Court Commissioner at Toledo, but resigned from the position some years ago, on account of the demands of his private practice. He is a member of the Lucas County Bar Association and resides at 2212 Madison avenue, in one of the most desirable residence districts of Toledo. James M. Brown, late of Toledo, for many years a prominent figure in legal and political circles, and one of the city's most influential and philanthropic citizens, first beheld the light of day, in Delaware, Ohio, in 1835. He was the son of Hyram J. L. and Rosanna P. Brown, the former, for many years, prominent as a farmer, miller and merchant, in Deleware county. James M. Brown acquired his educational training in the public schools of Delaware and at Ohio Wesleyan University of that city. At an early age, he became an apprentice in the offrce of the "Olentangy Gazette," later known as the "Delaware Gazette," and continued to follow the printing business in its various branches for seven years, during the latter part of which period he was proprietor and editor of the "Oskaloosa Herald," at Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1858, he withdrew from the printing business and commenced his preparations for the legal profession, rn the offices of the firm of Lee & Brewer, at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice. at Lima, Ohio, with William E. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brown, which professional relationship was continued until 1869, when Mr. Brown entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John C. Lee, then lieutenant-governor of Ohio. The firm established headquarters in Toledo and continued in active practice until 1891, when General Lee died. The following three years. Mr. Brown was engaged in the work of his profession by himself, and, in the summer of 1894, associated himself with his eldest son, Walter F.—one of Toledo's prominent attorneys, and now chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume—which firm rapidly attained a leading position at the Lucas county bar, and was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when James M. Brown, subject of this sketch, retired from active practice. James M. Brown's professional career was characterized by marked success, and he was held in high esteem by his legal brethren, his clients, and all others with whom he came in contact, as an able, dignified and high-minded lawyer. His industry was remarkable and his sound judgment, thorough legal knowledge, and indefatigable energy brought to him an extensive and lucrative clientage of a widely varying nature. He was a powerful antagonist, but always a fair adversary ; and, although delighting in a legal triumph, he wanted it fairly won. He was an active champion of the Republican party from the birth of that organization. He was chairman of the Lucas County Republican Committee for many years and of the County Executive Corn- 176 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY mittee during the successive Presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, James G. Blaine and Benjamin Harrison. For six years, Mr. Brown was a member of the Board of Elections, and, from 1902 until his death, in 1909, served as president of the Board of Review. During the Civil war period, he was Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and also Assistant United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, in the Fifth Congressional district. He was postmaster at Toledo from 1890 to 1894, under Benjamin Harrison's administration, and was frequently summoned to Washington to participate in conferences concerning improvements in the postal service. At the request of the postmaster-general, he drafted and presented to the Congressional Committee on Postal Affairs, bills providing for the establishment of postal-savings banks and the utilization of telegraph and telephone lines for postal purposes. He also contributed to leading periodicals and journals articles in support of the above measures. and during his term as postmaster, he was granted a three months' leave of absence that he might personally investigate the system of rapid transit, in England, France and Germany. He devoted much of his time and attention to charitable and benevolent work and was widely known—not only in this State, but throughout the country—through his connection with the Toledo Humane Society, of which he was a charter member and its president from the organization, twenty-five years ago. He took an active part in the erection of the Newsboys' Home, and was also actively identified with the Miami Children's Home. For a few years he was the honored president of the American Humane Association and was serving as a director and vice-president of that organization at the time of his death. He was one of the five trustees of the $50,000 left by the late John T. Newton to the Toledo Humane Society. for the erection of a permanent home for the organization. and a memorial tablet to Mr. Brown will occupy a conspicuous place in this building. During the winter following the memorable panic of 1893, Mr. Brown was instrumental in providing daily relief to more than 7,000 poverty stricken people, and, during the first winter subsequent to the establishment of the society's wood yard. more than 1,500 indigent transients were given employment and were thus enabled to provide themselves with comfortable lodgings and necessary food. In 1889, Mr. Brown drafted and presented to the Ohio legislature a bill granting convicts' children the privilege of participating in the earnings of their parents, which bill finally became a law, being the first statute of its nature enacted in this commonwealth. In 1890. he drafted and presented to the legislature a measure compelling parents abandoning their children to either go to prison or enter into bonds of at least $1,000 for the children's support, which bill was also enacted into law, and has been of unlimited benefit to abandoned children in the State. Before the World's Humane Congress, which convened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Mr. Brown delivered a notable address on the duty of the State toward the families of its criminal classes. which attracted the attention of students of penal BIOGRAPHICAL - 177 reform throughout the world, and in which he forcibly maintained that all convicts should be compelled to work, and that a .fair proportion of their earnings should go to their families, thus protecting the latter from unnecessary shame, pauperism and crime. At a meeting of the American Humane Society, held in Cleveland, in September, 1896, he delivered another celebrated discourse, entitled "Unwanted Children," which dwelt at length on the barbarous practice of infanticide, and which received much favorable comment from the press of the country. Mr. Brown was a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo, in the affairs of which he took an active interest. He was happily married, in 1865, to Miss Lavina C: Folger, daughter of Robert H. Folger, of Massillon. Stark county, Ohio, and she received her summons to the life eternal, in 1887. leaving three children Amy H., the eldest. and Ralph P., the youngest, who now reside in the Belvedere Apartments in Toledo : and Walter F., sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. On Aug. 25, 1909, while sitting in an automobile in Walbridge Park, on the afternoon of Icing Wamba's Home-Coming Day. as chairman of which he had labored unceasingly, day and night, during several months for its success. Mr. Brown suffered a fatal attack of apoplexy. He and John W. Dowd, the principal orator of the day, had ridden in an automobile to the park, where Mr. Brown. in a few well chosen words, addressed the thousands about him, closing with an introduction of the principal speaker. He sat in a corner of the car, listening to Dowd's address, when suddenly he sank back, and a reporter, noticing the sudden shaking of his hand, called the speaker's attention to it. A physician was summoned, but it was apparent that Mr. Brown was dying. He was hurried in the automobile to the home of the custodian of the park, where vain attempts were made to restore heart action. Thousands were at the park, enjoying the music and speeches, and deep gloom was cast over all by the tragic death of Mr. Brown. He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn cemetery. George W. Millard, a popular and successful practicing attorney of Toledo, was born in that city, Dec. 24, 1872, and is a son of the late Judge Irwin I. Millard, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1838, the youngest of three sons born to Joseph and Mary (Immel) Millard. Joseph Millard was a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, a miller by trade, and for a number of years operated a flour mill at Lodi, Ohio. where he was a prosperous and influential citizen. He died in 1857. The grandparents of Judge Millard were Thomas and Hannah Millard. The grandfather was a circuit rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was an intimate friend of Peter Cartwright, the celebrated "backwoods preacher." Judge Millard passed his boyhood in Huron and Wayne counties, Ohio, attending the public schools, and later took a course in Fredericksburg Academy, after which he taught school for three years. In 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Fifteenth Ohio infantry, commanded by Col. Moses R. Dickey, and which was assigned to the Army of the Ohio and stationed at Bowling Green, Ky. While he was there he was taken ill, and, after some time in 178 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY the hospital, was discharged, in 1862, on a surgeon's certificate. He then returned to Crawford county, Ohio, and, after recovering his health, resumed teaching at Wellersville, Wayne county. In 1863, he came to Toledo, where he held a clerkship in the recorder's office for a year, at the end of which time he became bookkeeper for Alonzo Godard, consignee of the Erie railway line of steamboats on the Miami & Erie canal, at Toledo, and remained with Mr. Godard for a year. He then commenced the study of law with Bissel & Gorrill, and, in the spring of 1867, was admitted to the bar. He immediately entered into partnership with his preceptors, with whom he remained associated until 1890, when he was elected judge of the probate court, which office he held until 1903. Upon retiring from the probate bench, he formed a partnership with his son, George W., under the name of Irwin I. and George W. Millard, and this association lasted until his death. Judge Millard was one of the foremost members of the Toledo bar. His thorough preparation in early life, added to by his long experience as a probate judge, gave him a comprehensive view of legal subjects, and on all matters pertaining to probate practice he was regarded as an authority. He was a member of Toledo Post. No. 107, Grand Army of the Republic. Te following notice appeared in the "Toledo Blade" of Dec. 26, 1907: "The funeral of Judge I. I. Millard, whose death occurred at midnight, Tuesday, at the Hotel Madison, will be held Friday morning, at 11 o'clock, from Trinity Episcopal Church, Adams and St. Clair streets. The body will be taken to Trinity at 10, where it will rest in state until the hour for the service, which will be conducted by Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady. Rev. E. Guthrie Pitblack and Rev. Alsop Leffingwell. The pall-bearers will be Judge J. N. Barber, Judge J. P. Tyler, Homer Hood. James Entwhistle, R. G. Bacon and Samuel Currie. The interment will be in Forest and will be private. The Lucas County Bar Association will meet at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in the court house to take action on the death of Judge Millard, who was for many years a member." On March 12, 1863, Judge Millard married Miss Mary C., daughter of George Keller, of Wellersville, Ohio, though she was born in Crawford county. Of this union were born four sons and three daughters, viz.: Irwin G., George W., John F., Ralph B., Clara .M., Edna G.. and Edith B. Irwin G. graduated at the Toledo High School with the class of 1884, and Clara, the second of the family, graduated at the same institution, two years later. She is now deputy clerk of the probate court under O'Brien O'Donnell. Edna G. is now Mts. John Ehni. of Toledo. Edith B. is the fifth of the family. John F. is a graduate of Ada College,. and Ralph B. is the youngest. George W. Millard attended the Toledo High School for a time, but did not complete the course, leaving school before graduation day to take up the study of law in the office of King & Tracey, when their offices were in the Toledo Produce Exchange. After four years of study he was admitted to the bar, and he then remained for three years longer with King & Tracey, at the end of which time he opened an office for himself in the Nasby Building. Here he remained until his father left the BIOGRAPHICAL - 179 probate bench, in 1903, when they formed the partnership previously mentioned and located at 505-6-7 Gardner Building. Since the death of his father, he has continued at the old place and still keeps the old firm name. Politically, Mr. Millard is a Republican. For three years he was clerk of the park board, with offices in the Valentine Building—where all the city offices are located—but retired from this position in 1901. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and belongs to the Trinity Episcopal Church. On March 12, 1896, he married Miss Grace L. Beatty, daughter of William Beatty, of Toledo, where she was born and educated. Her father is the Grand Keeper of Records and Seal of the Knights of Pythias, in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Millard have three children—Irwin W., Georgia G., and Mary Catherine. The family resides at 2425 Warren street. Walter F. Brown, a prominent and influential attorney of Toledo, for many years a conspicuous figure in Ohio politics and now chairman of the Republican State Committee, is one of Lucas county's representative citizens. He is a son of the late James M. Brown, lawyer and humanitarian, and a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. At Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, May 31, 1869, Walter F. was born, ranking second in point of age of the three children born to the parents, the others being Amy H., the eldest, and Ralph P., the youngest, who also make their home in Toledo. He secured his elementary educational training in the graded and high schools of Toledo, and completed his preparations for college at Western Reserve Academy, at Hudson, Ohio. In 1889 he entered Harvard College, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in the spring of 1892. He worked on the "Toledo Blade" during the summers of 1890 and 1892 and served as city editor for a few months, but in the autumn of 1892 he abandoned journalism at his father's solicitation and took up the legal profession, returning to Cambridge, Mass., and spending the years of 1903-04 in the Harvard law school. Shortly afterward he began to practice in partnership with his honored father, becoming junior member of the well-known firm of James M. and Walter F. Brown, which was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when the elder Brown retired from active practice. The subject of this review then formed the partnership of Brown, Hahn, Sanger & Froehlich. consisting of George P. Hahn, Sigmond Sanger and Emund C. Froehlich, which firm at once took front rank among the legal profession of northwestern Ohio. Like his illustrious father before him, Mr. Brown is a staunch and earnest supporter of the Republican party, having commenced his political activity in the memorable campaign of 1891, which culminated in the election of William McKinley as governor of Ohio, and ever since then, though never an aspirant for public office himself, he has contributed much to the signal success of the "Grand Old Party" in Ohio. During the past ten years he has, been a member of the Ohio State Republican Committee, of which he has been chairman for the last three years. In the pre-convention campaign of 1908, he was an influential factor in the move- 180 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY ment which culminated in the nomination of William Howard Taft for the Presidency. Mr. Brown is affiliated with the Toledo Club, the Lincoln Club, the Middle Bass Club, of Lake Erie ; the Toledo Yacht Club, of which he is a trustee ; the Toledo Humane Society, in which he was recently elected to his father's place on the board of directors ; the Harvard Club, of Toledo, of which he is president ; and his interests in the commercial development and progress of the city is signalized by his membership in the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Club. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and, when not occupied with his professional duties, he is usually afloat upon the Great Lakes. On Sept. 10, 1903, at Middle Bass Island, in Lake Erie; he was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Hafer, daughter of George Hafer, a well-known citizen of Cincinnati. Hugh Frederick Shunck, a popular attorney and counsellor at law, of Toledo, is a native of Bellevue, Ohio, born July 25, 1862, the son of Joseph and Anna (Ludeman) Shunck, the former of whom is now living retired from business. Hugh Frederick, of this sketch, is of German-French ancestry. His grandparents on his father's side of the family, were both natives of Prussia, the grandfather dying there arid the grandmother later coming to America, while his grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side both emigrated to this country from France. -Mr. Shunck acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Toledo, his collegiate training at Hillsdale College and later at the University of Wisconsin, at which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and his early professional training was had in the law office of E. W. Tolerton, in the city of Toledo. In 1887, before the Supreme Court at Columbus, he was admitted to practice, and for upwards of thirteen years pursued his calling single-handed, but, in January, 1900. entered into a partnership with Harry B. Thompson, with whom he is still associated, under the firm name of Shunck & Thompson, with offices at 814 Nicholas Building, Toledo. In addition to practicing his profession, Mr. Shunck is actively interested in several industrial enterprises of Toledo, being president of the Starr Avenue Lumber Company, secretary of the Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside railway and the Toledo Salvage companies, and treasurer of the Mutual Aid Building & Loan Company. Fraternally he is a member of the Phi Delta Theta, college fraternity, the Toledo Lodge of Elks, the Toledo Club, and the Business Men's Club of Toledo. Mr. Shunck was happily united in matrimony to Miss Mary Elizabeth Humphrey, daughter of Daniel T. and Sarah Humphrey, at Napoleon, Ohio, Nov. 19, 1896. Harry Bridell Thompson, junior member of the law firm of Shunck & Thompson. with offices at 814 Nicholas Building, Toledo, was born at Cadiz, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1868, a son of William G. Thompson. a live stock broker, and Elizabeth (Cortese) Thompson. His paternal grandfather, a native of County Monaghan, Ireland, emigrated to Ohio in an early day, while his grandmother came from Fairfax Court House, Va. Harry Bridell, BIOGRAPHICAL - 181 of this sketch, attended the public schools of his native town in his early days and graduated at Scio College, Ohio, in 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then taught school in Harrison and Jefferson counties, Ohio, at the same time reading law during his spare moments and, in 1893, received the degree of Bachelor of Law from the Cincinnati Law School. Immediately after graduation he entered upon the practice of the legal profession at Steubenville, this State, where he remained from June, 1893, to April, 1899, when he came to Toledo and established a partnership with Hugh F. Shunck, under the firm name of Shunck & Thompson, with whom he is still associated. Mr. Thompson has also been associated with several industrial enterprises, having been connected with the company that constructed the Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside railway, and today is secretary of the Sonora Alining & Development Company, the holding company of the Yaqui Smelting & Refining Company, which owns large mining interests and smelter in the district of Ures, State of Sonora, Mexico. Though he has not been a seeker of public office, he was city solicitor of Steubenville, from 1895 to 1899. Fraternally he is admirably affiliated, being a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, the Masonic lodge and the lodge of Elks, having joined the last two named fraternal organizations in 1894, and the first while in college. Mr. Thompson is also a member of the Toledo Club and the Yacht Club of the same place, and, though he is not a member of any particular church society, he has a leaning toward the Episcopal denomination, and attends the church of his faith frequently. He has never taken unto himself a wife, preferring the single blessedness of bachelorhood to the trials and tribulations of domestic life. Adam C. Bowersox, attorney-at-law, with offices at 559 Spitzer Building, Toledo, is a native of Ohio, having been born at Fremont, Sandusky county, Jan. 1, 1868, a son of Edward and Barbara (Wiser) Bowersox, the former born in Snyder county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Baden, Germany. John Bowersox, the paternal grandfather of Adam C., came from Pennsylvania to Sandusky county, Ohio, in 1833. Edward Bowersbx was a private in the Union army during the Civil war, and soon after that event married Miss Barbara Wiser, who had come from the Fatherland when she was eighteen years old. Shortly after her marriage her parents came from Germany, but a year later returned to their native land, where they both died. Adam C. is the third in a family of several children, seven of Whom are living. They are : Mrs. George Kennie, of Lakeside, Ohio ; Mrs. John Keiser, of Buffalo, N. Y.; the subject of this sketch ; Minnie and Lillie, who live with the parents at the old home in Sandusky county ; John, who lives in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and Henry, who resides in Toledo. Adam C. Bowersox acquired his elementary education in the public schools of his native county, attending the high school at Fremont for a few terms, and, at the age of seventeen years, began teaching. This occupation he followed for ten years, in Sandusky and Ottawa counties. He then 182 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY attended the Ada College .of Law (Ohio Normal University), where he graduated in June, 1897, and the same month was admitted to the bar. On Oct. 1,1897, he began practice in the city of Toledo, first having his office with O'Brien O'Donnell, in the Spitzer Building, though he was not in partnership with Mr.. O'Donnell, who is now the judge of probate for Lucas county. After occupying these quarters for about two years, Mr. Bowersox moved into the office with Mr. O'Hara, in the same building, and remained there about a year, when he became an office companion of E. L. Twing, also in the Spitzer Building. Two years later he became an office associate of Charles Longwell, in the Gardner Building, but after a short time went back to the Spitzer Building, where he officed with Frank Dotson until coming to his present place of business, with Mr. Meck, 557-58-59 _Spitzer Building. Mr. Bowersox's practice is of a general character, embracing all departments of the law, and he has a good clientage. He is also president of the Cuba Creamery Company, the headquarters of which are at Camuguey, Cuba. Politically Mr. Bowersox is a staunch Republican, and he holds membership in the Lincoln Republican Club, one of the leading political organizations of Toledo. He is also a member of the Toledo Business Men's Club, a former member of the Chamber of Commerce, and he is vice-president of the Superior Supply Company. He is also a member of Charles Sumner Lodge, No. 137, Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Knights of Khorassan and to the English Lutheran church. On Dec. 17, 1897, Mr. Bower-sox married Miss Maud 0., daughter of Calvin Brown, of Catawba Island, Ottawa county, Ohio, where Mrs. Bowersox was born and educated. This union has been blessed with one daughter—Lucille May—who was born in Toledo, in 1899, and is now attending the public schools of that city. Mr. Bowersox resides at 1033 Lincoln avenue. George G. Metzger, a prominent business man of Toledo, first beheld the light of day at Winesburg. Holmes county, Ohio, June 20, 1847. Both of his parents, Frederick and Magdelena (Smith) Metzger, were born in Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to America about the year 1830, settling in Holmes county, where they were united in marriage, though they were not acquainted with each other while residents of the Mother Country. The father, a country blacksmith and farmer, came to Lucas county, in 1849, when George G., of this sketch, was but two years of age, and there •his chief occupation was farming up to the time of his death, which occurred in June, 1867, at his home, about three miles west of Maumee, and the mother passed away in September, 1854. There were seven children in the family—four girls and three boys—of whom the subject of this review is the only son now living, and only three of the daughters survive : Mrs. J. L. Christmann, of Waterville, Ohio ; Mrs. F. M. Rakestian, of Auburndale, Lucas county ; and Miss Sophia, of California ; all of whom were born and educated in this State. George G. did not receive an extensive education, remaining on the farm of his parents until twenty years of age, when he came to Toledo and for a year clerked in the general store of BIOGRAPHICAL - 183 the firm of Eaton & Backus, retailers and wholesalers, on Summit street. For the following two years, he was employed in the store of Appelgate, Keen & Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods and notions, after which he worked as a clerk in a country store at Custer, Wood county, Ohio, until March 26, 1873, when he purchased a half-interest in a flour and saw mill at Waterville, where for eight years he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, J. L. Christmann, the mill being familiarly known as the old "Peaped Mill." In 1881, Mr. Metzger went to Texas, where he was engaged in the sheep industry for about a year. He then returned to Lucas county and constructed a linseed-oil mill and wagon factory, at Auburndale, which were operated under the firm title of the Metzger-Broot Company, but which name was afterward altered to the Metzger Linseed Oil Company. In 1899, he sold his interest in this concern to the American Linseed Oil Company, though he remained and acted as vice-president for about one year. Mr. Metzger then constructed another enterprise of the same nature, in the eastern portion of the city, which is still conducted nuder the name of the Metzger Seed & Oil Company, and of which he is president. Today he is also president of the -Toledo Stone & Range Company and the National Land & Improvement Company. Politically, he is an independent voter. believing that a good citizen should cast his ballot for the candidate who is best qualified for the office, and though he was reared in the German Lutheran faith, is now a member of the Washington Street Congregational Society of Toledo. On May 15, 1878, he was united in holy wedlock to Miss Albertine Boyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Boyer, of Waterville, which union has resulted in the birth of five children—three sons and two daughters : Homer L., George Frederick, Edward P., Mary E., and Clara Louise—all of whom were given birth and educated in Lucas county, and are graduates of the Toledo High School. The family resides in a beautiful residence at 1930 Parkwood avenue. Joseph F. Eger, proprietor of the Eger Supply Company, 1107 Cherry street, Toledo, was born at Adrian, Mich., April 26, 1868, a son of Rheinhardt and Frederika (Strauser) Eger. The mother died in Adrian, about 1889, and the father is now living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Joseph is the third in a family of seven children, five of whom are yet living. He received a limited education in the German Catholic school, at Adrian, most of his early life having been spent in hard work for the farmers of Lenawee county, Michigan, running a plow from the time he was eight years old until he attained to his majority, and often walking six miles or more to his place of employment. On the day he was twenty-one, he left home and never returned. Starting out in life with practically nothing, he has succeeded through the exercise of his industry and good business judgment, until he is in comfortable circumstances. Upon leaving home, he worked at the carpenter's trade for about eight months for a Mr. Beck, of-Adrian, after which he wandered about the country, working at different places and occupations, until he finally landed in Cincinnati, where he obtained a position at .a dollar a day. For some time he saved every cent he 184 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY could with a view to engaging in this line of business, which he started in Adrian, on the site now occupied by the new postoffrce building, in that city, under the name of the Eger Premium Company. After finding the field not large enough, he moved to Toledo, locating in the old Secor Block, in a small room on the third floor, his brother, John, conducting the business, Joseph giving him a half interest in the same. After being in this place for about two years, the firm moved on Cherry street, where the terminal depot stands, in a room 14x70 feet and here they remained until 1902, when the firm removed to 808-810 Cherry street. Joseph sold his interest to his brother, John, in 1903. On July 24, Joseph bought out his brother, and then the name was changed to the Eger Supply Company, of which Joseph F. Eger is the sole owner. In March, 1910, Mr. Eger removed to 1107-1109 Cherry street, where he is at present. Politically, Mr. Eger is a Democrat, though he never took an active part in political campaigns until the year 1909, when he announced himself as a candidate for mayor, as may be seen from the following item in one of the Toledo papers : "Joseph F. Eger is the first avowed candidate for the nomination for mayor of Toledo at the primaries to be held by all parties under the Bronson direct primary election law, Sept. 7. Eger obtained from the board of elections this morning four blank petitions to place his name on the Democratic lists as a candidate for mayor. He will require just 521 signatures to his petitions to have his name printed on his party primary ballot." It is said that his candidacy started as the result of a joke, but having entered the contest, with that determination and tenacity of purpose that has characterized him through life, he resolved to put up the best fight possible. He was defeated at the election, but the following notice appeared in a subsequent issue of a local paper : "Joseph Eger, the late Democratic candidate for mayor. has announced that he will run on the ticket in 1911 regardless to whom is nominated on the Republican side. Mr. Eger claims he is going in the fight to win." Mr. Eger is a member of the Woodmen, which is the only fraternal society to claim his membership. While in Cincinnati. he married Miss Carrie Hartkeneir, daughter of Charles Hartkeneir of that city, and they have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in Cincinnati and is now atending school in Toledo. Mr. Eger and his family reside at 1109 Cherry street, Osage Block, flat 8. Frank Amadeus Carabin, junior member of the law firm of Sala & Carabin, with offices at 321-322 Valentine Building, Toledo. is a native of the Buckeye State. having been born at Monroeville. Huron county, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1880, a son of Joseph and Louisa (Paule) Carabin. The Carabins belong to an old French family. Frank's great-grandfather having been a soldier under Napoleon I in the Moscow campaign, and was later with the famous Marshal Ney at Waterloo. His son, Frank's grandfather, was one of the pioneer settlers of Huron county, Ohio, locating at Peru, in 1820, upon land he purchased from the Indians. The maternal grandfather, Wendell Paule, was a veteran of the Civil war. Joseph BIOGRAPHICAL - 185 Carabin was a farmer during the early part of his life, and later was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Toledo, where he died in 1906. Frank A. Carabin lived and worked on his father's farm until he was nearly twenty years of age, receiving his first schooling in the North Monroeville schools and afterward graduating at the Monroeville High School, under Supt. O. C. Burrell. He then taught school for three years in Huron county, and some of his pupils are now holding important professional and executive positions in the large cities of the country. Entering the Law Department of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, he completed the three years' course in two years. As another year was required before he could take the examination for admission to the bar, he spent that year in the office of Judge A. E. Rowley, of Huron county. In 1904-5, he was employed for about a year as assistant traveling accountant for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad system, traveling out of Cincinnati, but he resigned this position upon the death of his father to look after the estate, and after disposing of the mercantile interests entered the office of Judge F. M. Sala, in 1906, immediately upon his admission to the bar. The firm of Sala & Carabin has an extensive practice, one of the noted cases in which it was engaged having been the Armour murder trial. Mr. Carabin is an orator of far more than ordinary ability. He has made many memorial, eulogistic and commencement-day addresses in Toledo and vicinity, and, in 1900, he "stumped" Huron county for William J. Bryan and the Democratic ticket, being at that time but twenty years of age. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and belongs to the Toledo Bar Association and the Business Men's Club, of Toledo. He is unmarried and makes his home with his mother and sisters. Ambitious, energetic, and a careful student of all the details pertaining to his chosen profession, his friends predict for him a successful career. John S. Saalfield, attorney and counselor-at-law. with offices at 16 Builders' Exchange, Toledo. was born at Bradford, Pa., Nov. 1, 1883, a son of Henry and Mary (Lewis) Saalfield, the former a native of Bremen, Germany, and the latter of Petrolia, Pa. Henry Saalfield came to the United States from the Fatherland, in 1878, when he was twenty-one years of age, and, soon after landing at New York, he made his way to Pennsylvania, where he became interested in the oil fields. He met and married Miss Mary Lewis, at Petrolia, and, in 1895, came to Toledo, where he continued in the oil business until his death, in 1899, leaving a widow and two children—the subject of this sketch and a daughter, Florence M., who now lives with her mother. John S. Saalfield was educated in the Toledo grammar schools and spent one year in the literary department of Ada University, after which he entered the law-office of Paddock, Johnson & Rowley, with whom he studied law, from 1902 to 1905. In May of the latter year, he took the preliminary examination and, in December, 1906, was admitted to the bar. Prior to his admission, he established an office in the Builders' Exchange, where he con- 186 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY ducted a collection business and practiced in the justices' courts. Although one of the youngest attorneys of Toledo, Mr. Saalfield has been measurably successful and has the satisfaction of seeing his clientage gradually increase. He owns several houses in Toledo and is one of the substantial citizens of that city. In his political views, he is aligned with the Republican party on national questions, but in local matters is somewhat independent, always favoring good government, without regard to strict party lines. He is a member of Toledo Lodge, No. 144, Free & Accepted Masons. On June 25, 1905, Mr. Saalfield and Miss Pearl Beckham were united in marriage. She is a native of Toledo, a graduate of the Monroe convent and in the oratory department of Ada University, and is a woman of rare accomplishments. Mr. Saalfield resides at 1912 Cherry street. George Ross Ford, treasurer and general manager of the Toledo branch of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, was born at Creighton, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. July 25, 1882, and is the youngest of the five children born to Edward and Carrie J. (Ross) Ford. The other children are John, who lives in Detroit ; Mrs. M. P. Bacon, of Wyandotte, Mich. ; Mrs. G. P. MacNichol, of Toledo ; and Mrs. W. W. Knight, of Toledo. His father is the owner of the largest plate glass works in the world—the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company—located at Rossford, Wood county, Ohio. (See sketch of Edward Ford elsewhere.) George R. Ford, who takes his middle name from his mother's family name, was educated at Pittsburg, Pa., and Detroit, Mich., havrng attended the Park Institute in the former city, and the manual training school in the latter, where he graduated. He then spent four years in the different departments of his father's glass factory, and understands fully every detail in, the manufacture of plate glass, a knowledge that is of inestimable benefit to him in his present important and responsible position of treasurer and general manager. Mr. Ford is also a stockholder in the Atwood Automobile Company, on Madison avenue, Toledo. He 'is a member of the Toledo Club, the Country Club and the Yacht Club, and in his political opinions is a firm believer in the principles advocated by the Republican party, though he is not a seeker for public preferment. Recently, he and his brother-in-law, W. W. Knight, purchased seventy-five acres of land in Oregon township, Lucas county, overlooking the beautiful Maumee river, and there they are erecting two handsome and well appointed summer homes. On Feb. 22, 1908, Mr. Ford married Miss Grace Williams Miller, daughter of Sherman R. Miller, a representative citizen of Detroit, who is connected with the widely known seed firm of D. M. Ferry & Company, and the Royal Manufacturing Company of that city. Mrs. Ford was born and educated in Detroit, graduating at Miss Leggett's school of that city, after which she attended and graduated at Miss Morgan's boarding school, in 'New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have one .son, George R., Jr., born in Toledo,. Nov. 2, 1908. They live at 2208 Parkwood avenue, in one of the choicest resi- BIOGRAPHICAL - 187 deuce sections of Toledo, and attend the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, though they are not active members. James Harrington Boyd, attorney, counselor-at-law, and mathematician, of Toledo, Ohio; was born at Keen, Ohio, Dec. 7, 1862, the son of James and Mary (Ross) Boyd. Mr. Boyd is descended, on his father's side from the numerous family of Boyds, of Scotch and Scotch-Irish descent. On the mother's side he is descended from Eliza Ross, nee Boone. Eliza Boone was a direct descendent from Thomas Boone, brother of Squire Boone. Squire Boone was the father of Daniel Boone, the great Kentucky pioneer. George Boone, the father of Squire and Thomas, with his family of eleven children, landed in Philadelphia, in 1717, coming direct from Exeter, England. He at once took his family to Bucks county, Pennsylvania. wn ere he became a Quaker, and he assisted in the organization of Exeter township. James H. Boyd, the subject of this review, graduated at Princeton University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the year 1886. He was awarded the Mathematical Fellowship for the school year 1886-7 and received his Master's degree, in June. 1888. Later, he became professor of mathematics at Macalester college, at St. Paul, Minn., and he was a student at the University of Gottingen, Germany, during the years 1890-1 and 1892-3. He received the degree of Doctor of Science, at Princeton in 1892. From 1893 to 1895, he was a tutor in mathematics at the University of Chicago. and he was an instructor there from 1893 to 1902. While engaged at this great institution of learning, he was president of Lincoln House for three years and treasurer of the famous Quadrangle Club, during the years 1900 and 1901. Mr. Boyd was a student at the Harvard Law School, in 1902 and 1903, and, in 1904, he removed to Toledo, where he is now successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1908, he was the Democratic candidate for Circuit Judge in the Sixth Judical Circuit of Ohio. He is a member of the Ohio Bar Association, which organization he has represented at the annual convention of the American Bar Association, and also at the meeting of the International Bar Association, which convened at Portland, Me.,. in August, 1907. He was elected a member of the Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform of the Ohio Bar Association, in 1909. Mr. Boyd is a frequent contributor to legal journals and to the daily press, and he has also written extensively on mathematical subjects, being the author of "Boyd's College Algebra," translations of "Briot and Bouquets' Geometric Analytique," and many mathematical papers for scientific journals. He is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, and, in his political views, is a Cleveland Democrat. In 1910, he was elected president of the Princeton University Alumni Association, of Northwestern Ohio. Mr. Boyd has traveled extensively throughout Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France, England, and the United States and Canada. His favorite recreations are traveling, hunting in the mountains, and golf playing, though he never permits pleasure to interfere with his close attention to professional duties. On March 25, 1896, Mr. Boyd was united in 188 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY matrimony, at Portland, Me., to Miss Susan Adams. and three children have resulted from this happy marriage : Helen, born in 1897 ; Mary, born in 1900; and James Harrington, Jr., born in 1902. The family resides at 21 Melrose avenue, Toledo, and Mr. Boyd's offices are at 529 Nicholas Building, in the same city. Charles S. Davis, recognized throughout the State as one of the most capable of civil engineers, and the vice-president and general manager of the Massillon Bridge & Structural Company, was born in Chenango county, New York, Nov. 16, 1866. He is the son of John P. and Almeda (Buckley) Davis, now living retired, at Oxford, N. Y.. and from both parents he inherits the best blood of the Empire State. He is the second in order of birth of the three children born to his father and mother, the others being Edward E., of Norwich, N. Y., and Mrs. Marion Mead, of Oxford, N. Y., the latter being a graduate of the Clinton Liberal Institute, of Fort Plain, N. Y. Mr. Davis received his earliest educational training in the academy at Oxford, N. Y., and there prepared himself for a scientific course in college. Subsequently he matriculated in the department of civil engineering of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., and was graduated at that institution in 1889, with the degree of Civil Engineer. Shortly after graduation he entered the employ of the Massillon Bridge Company, of Massillon, Ohio, as draftsman and assistant engineer, and remained in the Massillon office for a period of four years. In 1893 he was made chief engineer of the company and was transferred to Toledo. He was thus occupied until May, 1905, when the Toledo-Massillon Bridge Company was organized and purchased the Massillon Bridge Works. Until May, 1908, he held a similar position with the latter corporation. In February. 1909, he organized the Massillon Bridge & Structural Company, which purchased and took over the old Massillon Bridge Works, and he has since been filling the positions of vice-president and general manager of the company. Beside his connection with the above mentioned companies, Mr. Davis has been identified with other large engineering projects, chief among which may be mentioned the Toledo Railway & Terminal Construction Company, of which he was consulting engineer in 1902, and had direct charge of the bridge over the Maumee river for the Belt Line, at Toledo. In a professional way he is identified with the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Railway Engineering & Maintenance of Way Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Sanford Collins lodge and the Toledo chapter of the Masonic order, and while a student at Cornell became a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. In religious matters he is affiliated with the Universalist church of Oxford, N. Y. Although he gives little time to the matter of politics, he is keenly interested in the welfare of the Republican party, and gives it staunch support, especially in national affairs. On June 15, 1898, was celebrated Mr. Davis' marriage to Miss Eloise Hyde, the daughter of 0. P. Hyde, of Ithaca, N. Y., and a graduate of Cornell University, in the class of 1889. For many years Mrs. Davis was a prominent member of the Daughters BIOGRAPHICAL - 189 of the American Revolution. Her untimely demise occurred April 18, 1909, causing widespread sorrow, and the remains were interred at Ithaca. Mr. Davis has no children. His Toledo residence is at 2138 Madison avenue and his office at 1128 Ohio Building. John Berdan, for many years a prominent figure in the banking and commercial circles of Toledo, and who died in that city June 26, 1901 was born at Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, about 1821, a son of John and Pamela Berdan. He was educated at Kinder-hook, N. Y., where he fitted himself for the profession of civil engineer. After leaving school he was employed for about two years in the city of New York, in the real estate business. At the end of that time he returned to his native State of Ohio, and, as the great West was just then beginning to feel the pulsations of progress in the way of internal improvements, he readily found employment at his profession. Among other important commissions entrusted to his skill as a civil engineer was the construction of the old Wabash & Erie canal, south of Terre Haute, Ind. When the discovery of gold in California in 1849 caused a widespread excitement. Mr. Berdan caught the fever and started for the Eldorado, along with other ambitious and adventurous spirits. He made the trip overland to the Pacific coast with an ox-team and. upon arriving at Sacramento, Cal., located there. For some years he was engaged in various occupations, such as working in the mines, driving an express team in the mountains, following his profession as occasion offered ; and, in this connection, rt is worthy of note that he superintended the construction of the Sacramento waterworks. He then embarked in the lumber business, but had the misfortune of seeing his mill and plant destroyed by flood and fire, which entailed a heavy loss. Notwithstanding this disaster. Mr. Berdan was fairly prosperous and in 1854 he returned to Ohio in a better condition financially than when he went away. Upon his return to his native State he located at Toledo, where he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Valentine H. Ketcham, and founded the banking house of Ketcham, Berdan & Co., of which Mr. Berdan was the cashier. This bank was the antecedent of what is now the First National Bank, of Toledo. In the meantime the wholesale grocery business that had been established by some of the Ketchams and Berdans, in 1836, had been steadily increasing in its proportions, and shortly after. the Civil war, John Berdan resigned his position as cashier of the bank to become a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of Secor, Berdan & Co. For thirty years this business absorbed his time and attention and he was, at the time of his death, at the head of the firm, though he relaxed his efforts to some extent during the last few years of his life and allowed the younger men to assume a larger share of the burdens and responsibilitres. Mr. Berdan was one of "the founders of the Woolson Spice Company, and at one time was the president of that widely known concern. He was also identified with the banking interests of the city, and at the time of his death he was a director of the Northern National Bank of Toledo. Incidentally it is interesting to note that Mr. Berdan was the last of 190 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY those old business giants who were associated with him in the wholesale grocery trade. Valentine H. Ketcham, Peter Berdan, Joseph K. and James Secor and Maro Wheeler, with all of whom he had been connected, passed before him into the Great Beyond. John Berdan came of that sturdy stock who knew no such word as fail, 'reverses acting only as a stimulus to greater efforts. Throughout his long and successful career in Toledo he was identified with nearly every movement for the upbuilding of the city and its institutions. His trade extended over a wide territory, in which no man stood higher in character, integrity and public spirit—in fact all those essential attributes that go to make the successful and influential citizen. As previously stated, Mr. Berdan died June 26, 1902. His wife survived him until April 17, 1909, when she, too, joined the silent majority, after a long and useful life. They left two sons and one daughter, all of whom live in Toledo, viz., Lucius B., who lives at 2215 Parkwood avenue ; Sinclair, who lives at 2038 Collingwood avenue, and Mrs. Marshall Sheppey, of 2109 Collingwood avenue. Jackson H. Pickard, a prominent citizen of West Toledo, now living retired and enjoying the fruits of a useful and well-spent life, was born in Bedford township, Monroe county, Michigan, just three miles from his present home in Ohio, March 4, 1847. He is the son of William and Anna (Hoag) Pickard, the former a native of England and the latter of New York State. The parents were married in Monroe county, and there spent the balance of their lives, the father's demise having occurred in 1885, and the mothe'r's as early as 1857. The maternal grandparents came to Monroe county in 1833 and entered under the homestead law one and one-half sections of land. The father served six years in the English army, and with his regiment was stationed for a time at Windsor, Canada. During the summer of 1840 he swam the Detroit river, and was so taken with the possibilities of this country that he never returned to Canada. During the remainder of his life he followed agricultural pursuits entirely. Six children were born to the parents, of whom but two—Anna H., of Bedford township, Monroe county, Michigan, and Jackson H., of this sketch—survive. Mr. Pickard, to whom this review is dedicated, had little opportunity to acquire a broad educational training, his schooling being limited to three months in the winter, and even that ceased when he became fourteen years of age. When but thirteen years of age he left the paternal roof, his father having married a second time, and the burdens of a large family being such as to necessitate the removal of some member. Mr. Pickard being the eldest, went to live with the maternal grandmother. On that farm he made his home for many years. After the grandmother's death, the title to the land became his, and he still owns the 220 acres which comprise it Progressive and enterprising, step by step, he built up an excellent dairy industry, and for twenty years delivered his product in Toledo. He kept fifty head of milch cows, and delivered all of the 500 quarts of milk he received from them in Toledo. Since his retirement in 1896 the farm has been conducted by his son-in-law, BIOGRAPHICAL - 191 D. H. Hoover, who has a herd of forty cows and delivers about 400 quarts of milk daily. When Mr. Pickard was in active charge of the dairy, it was known as "The Future Great Dairy," but of late years it has been called the "Rosewood Farm" dairy. Beside this place, Mr. Pickard owns a tract of eighty acres in Whiteford township, Monroe county, Michigan, where a tenant does a general farming business. In 1896, Mr. Pickard came to West Toledo to live, and five years later erected the beautiful home at 160 Lewis avenue, where he and his wife now reside. In the matter of politics, he is identified with the Republican party, but has never held any other office of public trust than that of township trustee, in which position he is now serving his eleventh year. On March 29, 1869, was solemnized Mr. Pickard's marriage to Miss Sarah A. Rawson, a daughter of the late Wilson Rawson, of Bedford township, Monroe county, Michigan. Mr. Rawson lived retired, in West Toledo, some years before his death in 1880; his widow now makes her home with the subject of this sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Pickard was born, Sept. 29, 1870, a daughter, Minnie E., who later became the wife of D. H. Hoover. Her death occurred Feb. 2, 1905, and she left beside her bereaved husband and parents, five children, one of whom, Keith C. Hoover, now makes his home with his grandparents. Mr. Pickard is highly esteemed and respected by all with whom he comes in contact, and his usefulness and ability in the upbuilding of the community has often been the subject of much favorable comment. Isaac H. Detwiler, for a quarter of a century a prominent figure in Toledo business circles, especially along real estate lines, was a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Franconia township, Montgomery county, in the year 1820. He was one of ten children, left with his widowed mother to depend upon his own resources for support, and chose for his future occupation the trade of flour miller and a dealer in grain. From a farmer's boy to a manufacturer of flour, ranging over twenty-five years of persistent effort, his pronounced forces of character asserted themselves, which, coupled with a strong self-reliant manhood, was the leading trait of his entire career. On Feb. 14, 1843—St. Valentine's Day—he married Miss Hannah Y. Knabb and early in March, 1865, he became a resident of Toledo, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring Nov. 26, 1889. For several years after coming to Toledo he was engaged in the grain business, as the senior member of the commision firm of Detwiler & Bashare. In 1872 the firm of I. H. Detwiler & Co. was established, and was, composed of Isaac H. Detwiler and two of his sons—Abram K. and George K. Detwiler. This firm at once assumed a leading position among the real estate firms of Toledo, and the prestige then gained has lingered with it through all the subsequent years. It is no infrequent occurrence when some one is making inquiries regarding Toledo realty, for him to receive the reply : "If the Detwiler's can't tell you, I don't know when you will find out what you want to know." Among the leading enterprises originated or promoted by I. H. Detwiler & Co. may be mentioned the Scottwood Syndi- 192 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY cate and also the Fitch Land Syndicate, that bought and owned the Fitch farm, a tract of 230 acres opposite the Fair Grounds, extending from Bancroft street to Dorr street, and comprising Ransom's Addition, Englewood Addition, Fair Ground Addition and other sub-divisions ; also the platting of Virginia Street Addition and Norwood, another plat of over 200 acres, together with the purchase and placing upon the market of the Clark tract of eighty acres adjoining the Air-line Junction. The platting or sub-dividing of acreage properfy has always been one of the leading features of this company's business. Thousands of houses in Toledo have been erected upon lots placed upon the market by the Detwilers. Isaac H. Detwiler was active in promoting and organizing the Toledo Building & Loan Association, through the medium of which many people of Toledo have been enabled to own houses of their own. He was one of the incorporators and one of the moving spirits in the organization of the Toledo Loan Company, now the Toledo Savings Association, which began its existence on Jan. 1, 1885, and with which he remained connected until his death. In early life Mr. Detwiler learned the truth of the old adage, "Honesty is the best policy," and throughout his long and successful career he never deviated from the principle of plain, upright dealing in all his transactions with his fellow-men. As a- consequence he left a record for integrity and business probity seldom equalled, and the policy he inaugurated is now being continued by the firm he established and which is conducted under the widely known name of the I. H. Detwiler Company. Of this company George K. Detwiler is president, A. K. Detwiler is vice-president and G. H. Detwiler is secretary. The offices of the institution are located on the northwest corner of Jefferson avenue and Superior street, and it is no disparagement to other real estate firms to say that the Detwiler company is one of the leaders in that line of activity in Toledo. John P. Delphey, attorney-at-law, was born in Seneca county. Ohio, Oct. 15, 1856, a son of Washington W. and Mary (Rauch) Delphey. The father was born at New Windsor, Carroll county, Maryland, in 1830, of that sturdy Scotch-Irish and German descent from which so many successful families in America have originated. The mother was born, in 1832. near Harrisburg. Pa.. and is of Pennsylvania German extraction. The old homestead of the maternal grandmother, Mary Adams, has been in the possession of the Adams family for over 150 years. Washington W. Delphey was a miller by trade and was for some time the manager of the Taylor Mills, at Toledo. Ohio, then known as the Manhattan Mills. He subsequently owned a mill in Seneca county, Ohio. from where he removed to Erie, Monroe county, Michigan, while the subject of this sketch was still in boyhood. There he owned a flour mill, and also a farm of about fifty acres near the town, "just to keep the boys busy during school vacations. and to keep them off the street.- He died at Erie, in 1904, and his widow is still living in their old home, being now (1910) seventy-eight years of age. They had eight children, of whom John P. is the eldest, and of whom seven are still living. Eden V., the second of the family, is a practicing BIOGRAPHICAL - 193 physician and surgeon in New York City ; Calvin I. died in the fall of 1887 ; Washington D. lives at Great Falls, Mont.; Mrs. A. W. Gilbert lives at San Diego, Cal., where her husband was living retired until his death at Honolulu, where they were spending the winter, in 1910; FranceslI. is also at San Diego, Cal., where she has been a teacher for the past twelve years ; Edward J. lives at Erie, Mich., and William lives at Chino, Cal. The four oldest children were born in Seneca county, Ohio, and the rest were born after the family removed to Erie. John P. Delphey's early education was obtained in the public schools of Erie. In 1876, he graduated at the Toledo High School, after which he entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He also attended the Law Department of the University of Michigan for one year, concurrently, at the end of which time he came to Toledo, where he engaged in the real-estate and collection business, until 1892, when he was admitted to the bar, at Columbus, Ohio, acquitting himself with high honors in the examination, and, in June, 1894, he was admitted to practice in the United States District Court, at Toledo. Since his admission, he has practiced alone most of the time, his office at the present time being at Suite 10, Adams Block, 401-411 Adams street. Mr. Delphey is also the proprietor of the Ready Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of the Chain stay fence and the Ready payout reels, of which Mr. Delphey is the patentee, having taken out four patents on the reel, and large quantities of which are shipped to all parts of the world. In addition to his law practice and his manufacturing interests, he is also interested in real estate, owning some valuable property in the city of Toledo. Prior to 1896, Mr. Delphey was a Democrat in his political affiliations, but, in the campaign of that year, he opposed the 16 to 1 proposition of bimetallism, and since that time has voted the Republican ticket, especially on national issues. Mr. Delphey is a member of Toledo Council. No. 21, Royal Arcanum. He is a poet of considerable ability, being sometimes called the poet-lawyer of Toledo. He is the author of enough poems to make a small volume, the principal ones of which are "A Dream of Happiness," "Homeward," "Sweet Angel," "Carnations," ''A Court of Injustice," "Average Lawyer," "Amos and Ella," etc. The frrst-named poem was written twenty-five years ago, and all have received favorable comment as poetical productions. Mr. Delphey is a man in whom the poetic and idealistic taste and temperament is well developed. but he has not married.. He lives the life of a contented bachelor, devoting his time and talents to his professional and manufacturing interests, and writing poetry whenever so inspired. John D. Nolen, electrical engineer, was born in the city of Toledo, Nov. 8, 1867, a son of Dr. James G. and Ellen M. ( Lovett) Nolen. both now deceased. Dr. James G. Nolen was born at Alexandria, Pa., May 29, 1826, and died at Toledo, Sept. 23, 1897. He was of Irish stock, his forebears having immigrated to this country in an early day. His youth was spent on his par- 194 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY ents' farm, where he developed that sturdy physique and independence of thought and action which in subsequent years enabled him to endure the arduous life of the pioneer physician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, studied medicine at the Jefferson College in Philadelphia, and began practice at Springfield, Ohio. Later, he removed to Toledo, where for nearly half a century he was engaged in ministering to the sick and suffering. Toledo was at this time an obscure village, the inhabitants chiefly occupied in fishing, digging canals or operating canal boats. Poorly fed and insufficiently clad, they lived in log huts or cheaply constructed sheds along the river banks. Here it was that Dr. Nolen found his mission in life a living exemplar of the Good Samaritan. He was of the rare type of physician, born of an environment calling forth all the noblest traits of human nature. The poverty, sufferings, physical hardships, and total lack of moral support in these needy people found in his great heart an immediate sympathetic response. It was not an uncommon thing for him, after ushering a new human being into the world, to be obliged to leave his overcoat or other covering as swaddling clothes for the little one and provide life's necessaries for the mother. He was not only their physician, but warm personal friend and even legal adviser in their difficulties. Prodigal of his time to the poor, he was previously occupied and busy only to those whose well filled purses would open to them other doors. Later in life it was jokrngly said of the "old Doctor" that nothing got him out of bed so qurckly for a night call as the prospect of a dubious fee or the mention of a poverty stricken quarter of the city, "because." he would humorously say, "the poor creature will certainly get nobody else." Dr. Nolen saw Toledo grow from an insignificant village to be the third city in 'importance in the State of Ohio, and in this growth and progress he played an important part. It has been sard that "no one knew more intimately the history of Toledo and its people, their joys and sorrows, their pleasures and pains, than did Dr. Nolen, for he shared both alike." In 1852, when the cholera broke out among the fishermen, fur traders and canal boatmen, the people of the town became panic stricken and fled. Even the physicians sought safety in flight—all except Dr. Nolen and Dr. Jones, who remained on the field, doing all in their power to check the epidemic and relieve the suffering. Then followed two epidemics of small-pox, in both of which Dr. Nolen had charge of sanitary ,affairs and directed the treatment of patients. In 1879, he assumed charge of the Northwestern Hospital for the Insane at Toledo, which position he held for several years, when a change of administration led to his resignation, though he left the institution honored and respected by all who had been connected with it during his administration. He was one of the founders of the Toledo Medical College, and in its darkest hours, when the prospects were almost overwhelmingly discouraging, when physicians throughout the State regarded the institution with little favor, he stood manfully by it, laboring earnestly and constantly for its benefit. His labors bore fruit in time, for today the college is the peer of any in BIOGRAPHICAL - 195 the State, many of its alumni occupying eminent places in the profession. At the time of his death Dr. Nolen was emeritus professor of nervous and mental diseases in the institution. He was also a member of the Toledo Medical Society, the International Medical Congress, and a trustee of the Humane Society, in which for years he had been an active and efficient member. Some time after resigning the charge of the hospital for the insane, he was elected to the city council, and was president of that body for one term. It is almost a proverb that the good physician' is seldom a good financier. That was certainly true of Dr. Nolen. Although many opportunities were offered him for speculation or investment, the desire to accumulate wealth never appealed to his nature. He seldom collected a fee and rarely presented a bill. Interested in the duties of his profession, he gave his life, his labors and much of his substance for the benefit of suffering humanity. In his professional work or in dispensing charity he knew no creed nor society ; a Roman Catholic in creed, he was a Catholic in the broadest sense of the term, and no one ever heard him say a word in disparagement of another man's faith. In 1856, he married Ellen M. Lovett, of Maumee, who survived his death until March 13, 1909, when she entered the eternal life. She was born at Lowell, Mass., in 1836. and came to the Maumee valley with her parents when still a mere child. Michael Lovett and Mary, his wife, were of a party from Massachusetts on their way to Chicago, then a trading post of 300 or 400 white inhabitants. On reaching the Maumee valley, at that time the center of the Indian Reservation, Mrs. Lovett's courage failed at the sight of so many red-skins and she prevailed on her husband to go no farther west. By a trick of fickle fortune he invested his money, for that time a considerable sum, in the lands in and near the picturesque and prosperous village of Maumee—to dispose of them a half century later for half the value invested. Little Ellen had as nurse an old negress who had been the mess woman of "Mad Anthony" Wayne. A devout Catholic, "Granny" lived to see her ninetieth birthday, full of reminiscences and thrilling tales of camp life when the Maumee ran red with the blood of the massacred Indians. Mrs. Nolen was an ardent advocate of woman's suffrage, which she regarded as the most efficacious means of bettering the condition of self-supporting women, and she had the distinction of being the first woman in Toledo to cast a vote. For ten years prior to her death she had been blind ; a word of complaint, however, never escaped from her lips. In every way she was a fitting companion for her husband, encouraging him in his self-sacrificing life among the poor and sharing with him solicitude for the well being of one's neighbor. It was through her efforts that proprietors of stores were induced to provide seats for clerks. Dr. and Mrs. Nolen were the parents of four children, all born in Toledo and all living. Tames G., now of New York City, was one of the pioneer electrical engineers of the country. For seventeen years he was engaged in business in Chicago, going from there to New York, where he is now associated with the American District Telegraph Company, and he is 196 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY the inventor of several devices used by that company. Anne, the second of the family, entered the Georgetown Visitation Convent, Washington, D. C., and was professed in 1885 as St. Stanislaus. Since then she has been engaged in teaching in the Science and Mathematics departments. John D. is the third of the children, and the youngest is Dr. Helen M. Nolen, a graduate of the Toledo Medical College—class of 1903—and now a practicing physician in her native city. Before taking up the study of medicine she graduated at the Ursuline Academy of Toledo. She is a member of the Educational Club and is a woman of fine accomplishments. John D. Nolen, whose name stands at the head of this review, was educated in the local schools and at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. On leaving school he turned his attention to electrical engineering, which has been his occupation since about 1887. He was one of the earliest electrical engineers in Toledo. On the subject of electricity he is regarded as an authority and he has been intrusted with several large commissions in his line of business. Mr. Nolen is an uncompromising Republican in his political convictions ; has served as alderman from the Sixth ward—the ward in which he was born and reared—in the Toledo city council ; was a member of the first Board of Public Service in the State of Ohio ; and is now the electrical and hydraulic engineer for the Ohio Inspection Bureau, with which he has been connected since 1893. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Toledo Yacht Club, and belongs to the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, of which all the family are members, the parents having also belonged to that church. Mr. Nolen resides with his sister, Dr. Helen M. Nolen, at the Scottwood, on Monroe street. Valentine H. Ketcham, Jr., a retired citizen of Toledo, is a native of that city, and is the second of four children born to Valentine Hicks and Rachel Ann (Berdan) Ketcham. The father was born at Cornwall, Orange county, New York, Nov. 12, 1815, and was a son of Samuel and Rachel (Sands) Ketcham. The early years of his boyhood were passed on his father's farm and in his father's mill, at Cornwall, the latter having been both a farmer and miller. During the winter months. he attended the country schools, where he secured the rudiments of an education, and, in 1827, he went with his parents to New York City. Here he remained for three years, attending school a portion of the time, but devoting the greater part of his attention to learning the trade of carpenter and joiner. At the end of the three years, he went back to the farm, at Cornwall, where he was employed for two years. when his father returned to the farm, and Valentine then went back to the city to finish learning his trade. Through the influence of a merchant of his acquaintance, he obtained a position as clerk in the mercantile establishment of J. F. Cropsey, and did not complete his trade. Liking mercantile life, he remained with Mr. Cropsey until July, 1836, when, in company with a Mr. Lane, he started on a trip to the West. They proceeded by boat to Detroit, from which place they journeyed into the interior of Michi- BIOGRAPHICAL - 197 gan, Mr. Ketcham purchasing eighty acres of government land in Oakland county. He then went to Toledo, and from there to New York, but being impressed with the possibilities of the great and growing West, he determined to join the great army of pioneers in that section. In August, 1836, he left New York, with a small stock of general merchandise, and, upon his arrival in Toledo, opened a store on St. Clair street, on the site now occupied by the Merchants' Hotel, renting the room from Coleman I. Keeler, Sr. The following summer, he removed to Summit street, near Perry, and, in 1838, to the corner of Summit and Lagrange streets. In 1841, the business was removed to 32-34 Summit street, where he began wholesaling in a modest way. The opening of the Miami canal, in 1843, which connected Toledo with Cincinnati, increased his trade, and, in 1846, Joseph K. Secor became a partner, the firm taking the name of Ketcham & Secor, which continued until, in 1851, when Mr. Ketcham withdrew to devote his attention to his banking interests, having formed a partnership with John Poag in that line, the year previous. In 1854, John Berdan and S. S. Hubbard became connected with the bank, the title of the firm being at that time changed to Ketcham, Berdan & Co. In 1863, the business was merged into the First National Bank of Toledo, of which Mr. Ketcham remained the president until his death. The bank today is one of the strongest financial institutions in the State, and much of its prestige is due to the conservative policy established by Mr. Ketcham during his administration. Soon after coming to Toledo, Mr. Ketcham became interested in real estate operations, his transactions in that line being attended by varying results. Sometimes he lost money, but as a rule his judgment was sound and the property he purchased increased in value, giving a good profit. A few instances of this character may be mentioned. In 1843, he cleared the ground where the Produce Exchange now stands, at the corner of Madison and St. Clair streets, and there erected a brick dwelling, the only house in sight at that time being the residence of Charles G. Keeler, on the southeast corner of Madison and St. Clair. where the Government Building now stands. This lot Mr. Ketcham paid $1,000 for, and sold it to John Poag for $4,700. The Produce Exchange paid $55,000 for it. some years later. In 1852, Mr. Ketcham purchased sixty feet of the west side of the site of the Government Building, paying $1,200 for it, and, twelve years later, sold it for $4.500. In 1880, the United States government paid $27,000 for the same ground. In the main, Mr. Ketcham was successful in his ventures, and, through his wholesale house, his banking and real-estate operations came to be recognized as one of the wealthiest men in Northern Ohio. He erected a number of dwellings and business blocks, among which may be noted the four-story building at Nos. 28 to 36 Summit street ; two store rooms at 63-65 Summit street ; the building at the corner of Summit and Jefferson streets ; and, in connection with his son-in-law, the late Mars Nearing, he erected the four-story block at 189-199 Summit street, which was occupied by J. L. Hudson, the Detroit clothier, until it was destroyed. 198 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY by fire, in the spring of 1909. Mrs. Nearing at once began the work of rebuilding it, to be again occupied by Mr. Hudson. Mr. Ketcham also built the four-story block on the corner of Oak and Summit streets, and had a similar structure under way on Oak street at the time of his death, which occurred July 30, 1887, at his home, on the corner of Cherry and Bancroft streets. His funeral was one of the largest ever held in Toledo and was attended by delegations from the Produce Exchange and the bankers of the city. He was a Republican in his political affiliations and always took a keen interest in the welfare of his party, though he was never a seeker for public honors. On Dec. 30, 1841, Mr. Ketcham married Rachel Ann, daughter of John and Pamela Berdan, and of this union were born four children, three of whom are yet living. They are Mrs. Mars Nearing, a widow, of Toledo, whose husband was president of the First National Bank, after her father's death. She now lives at the corner of Seventeenth street and Madison avenue. Valentine H., whose name appears at the head of this review, is the second of the family, and George H. is the youngest. The last named attended Swarthmore College, a Quaker institution, at Swarthmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. Valentine H. Ketcham, Jr., received his education in the Toledo schools and began his business career as a clerk in a retail grocery, with Mr. Bateman. on Summit street but, after six months, he gave up that position to enter the First National Bank, where he remained for fourteen years, holding the position of assistant cashier, at the time he severed his connection with the institution. He was then in the furniture manufacturing business for a while, in connection with the Ketcham Furniture Company. and since that time has lived retired, looking after his extensive real-estate interests. When his father died, he left each of his three children $1,000,000, and Valentine H. has his share 'of the estate so invested that it requires a considerable portion of his time attending to the wants of his tenants, making repairs, keeping up insurance, etc. Mr. Ketcham owns Guard Island, in Lake Erie, nine miles from Toledo, at the mouth of the Maumee river, where he has a beautiful summer home, and he maintains his office at 431 Valentine Building. He is a Republican in his political views, belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Toledo Power Boat Club, and is the owner of three boats which afford him a great deal of pleasure. He has never married. G. Godfrey Grund, paymaster of the Toledo & Ohio Central and the Kanawha & Michigan railways, was born at Niederhall, Würtemburg, Germany, June 20, 1851. The following year, his parents, Johan Heinrich and Christina (Diem) Grund, both natives of Germany, came to the United States, bringing their three children with them. Upon landing at New York, they came directly to Ohio, settling at Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), where the father opened a meat market. After conducting thiS business for a While, he went into the milling business, which he continued to follow for about fifteen years, when he retired from all active pur- BIOGRAPHICAL - 199 suits of life and died, in 1886. His widow survived until 1892, when she, too, passed away, at Fremont. Their three children are all living. The eldest is now Mrs. Christian Jacobs, of Fremont ; Henry C., the second of the family, has been in the drug business in Fremont for over forty years, and the subject of this sketch is the youngest. All were born in Germany, but they were educated in the schools of Fremont, Ohio. Upon leaving school, G. Godfrey Grund went into the general offices of what is now the Lake Erie & Western railroad, at Fremont, as clerk to the superintendent. That was in 1872. In 1879, he was made general passenger agent and assistant general freight agent of what is now known as the "Clover Leaf" system, with offices at Delphos and- Toledo, Ohio. Two years later, he went to the Ohio Central lines as traveling auditor, and, in 1882, was made paymaster, which position he still holds, having his headquarters at Toledo, with offices at 725 Nicholas building. Mr. Grund has been the architect of his own fortune in the matter of his successive promotions. As a young clerk, way back in the seventies, he was careful and industrious in the discharge of his duties, and, as each change meant added responsibilities, he has always proved equal to every demand upon his energy and judgment. In the last twenty-five years he has handled large sums of money, yet his accounts have always been able to withstand the closest scrutiny, and few railroad men are more widely known or more universally trusted. Mr. Grund calls himself an Independent Republican of the George William Curtis type, when asked regarding his political opinions. He has been somewhat active in behalf of that party and has served on some of the committees, but he has never been an aspirant for office. He is a member of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church, on Madison avenue, Toledo, and is deeply interested in the questions regarding social evolution. On June 14, 1888, Mr. Grund and Miss Minnie Darst were united in marriage. She -is the daughter of the late Samuel Darst, of Radner township, Delaware county, Ohio, where she was born and educated, being a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, and a woman of fine accomplishments. She is a member of the Loyal Circle, King's Daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Grund have two sons, viz.: Fletcher Diem, born April 11, 1890, who is attending the Ohio State University at Columbus ; and Walden Darst, born Oct. 30, 1892, who is a graduate of the Toledo High School. Both were born in the city of Toledo, where the family now lives, the residence being at 348 Irving street. Melvin O. Rettig, attorney-at-law, with offices at 941-944 Nicholas Building, Toledo, was born in Seneca county, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1868. His parents, John L. and Hannah A. (Carson) Rettig, were both natives of Ohio, the father of Crawford and the mother of Seneca county. John L. Rettig was a farmer by occupation until 1890, when he left the farm and took up his residence in the town of Chicago, Huron county, Ohio. where he passed the remainder of his life, engaged, in mercantile pursuits and living the life of a retired citizen. He died at Chicago, April 7, 1901, and