TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 575 preach the gospel of good orchestra music as the big cultural influence in a community. On the 22d of March, 1920, he brought about the incorporation of the Toledo Symphony Society to promote and maintain the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He was elected secretary, which position he has since held, and also was made conductor. In the first three seasons twenty-one concerts have been given with a select orchestra of sixty. A Musical Instrument Trust Fund of one thousand dollars was established by Mrs. Clarence Brown to aid able musicians to buy the best instruments and pay back the amounts loaned as earned in the orchestra. An endowment fund for the permanent maintenance of the orchestra has also been started and the movement has every promise of developing into one of the big orchestras of the country. To aid and encourage young players and to give preliminary training to ambitious musicians who desire to qualify for places in the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Clement established, under the auspices of the Toledo Museum of Art, a Civic Symphony Orchestra, which consists of younger players who meet regularly for rehearsal under his direction. The influence of his efforts is immeasurable. He is fast giving to Toledo an organization that is the rival of similar symphony societies in even much larger cities. He has convinced many of the skeptical that love of the finest music is in the majority of individuals latent, perhaps, but lying. ready to be awakened into life. So practical, so direct and so telling is the letter which he wrote in response to the remark of a friend that he did not appreciate symphony orchestras that for the benefit of the general public the historian cannot refrain from adding it to this personal record of Mr. Clement, who said : "Somehow, after our telephone chat, I feel that there is something I may say to you which should be said both in defense of the movement for a Symphony Orchestra in Toledo—though such a movement needs no defense—and in the endeavor to give you a new viewpoint from which to judge classical music. Therefore, will you just turn these thoughts over in your mind a bit : Nothing in this world gives much pleasure that is attained without some effort. The purpose of education is to train the mind to form correct judgment. The things requiring the least thought are of least value. The things which last are the result of organized, systematic and discriminating thought. The vision of the dreamer of today becomes the reality of years hence. That which grows or matures quickly dies quickly, whether it be a weed or a piece of jazz music. The Pyramids, St. Paul's cathedral, Shakespeare's plays and Beethoven's symphonies endure because they were built out of great thoughts by painstaking, conscientious effort. Now you know all this and I would not tire you to repeat it were it not to emphasize this point : Beethoven's symphonies, for instance, are patterned largely after the folk songs and dances of the People ; songs which have endured for years because they have come out of the very heart of the common people. With these heart songs as a basis, Beethoven, who cared not for wealth or fame or position, created in an attic music which his deafness prevented him from hearing excepting mentally, but which has lived for more than a hundred years ; has been played over and over and over again by the greatest orchestras of the world, before millions and millions of people who have come to hear it time, time and again—each time with greater pleasure and renewed interest. Now, if classical music is a bore, how do you account for this phenomenal appeal to people educated and uneducated in music, in every country where music is known ? What is there about this universal language composed by a man one hundred and fifty years ago, that causes it to live and grow and blossom ? Is it because it is the fad of a few highbrows ? No, because the subscribers to the symphony concerts in every city 576 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY include people from every walk of life. You know that what I say of Beethoven applies with the same force to Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and dozens of others who have devoted their talent in this direction. In New York alone there are something like thirteen symphony orchestras and a half dozen movie houses with orchestras of over fifty men each, and in every one of these concerts, the music you call highbrow is played—and it must be enjoyed, because the movie houses with these great orchestras charge three and four times the price of others and you have to stand in line to get a seat in any one of them. Why is this ? Why does the same condition exist in San Francisco in those movie houses with great orchestras playing the best music ; and why do cities like Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, etc., etc., raise hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to support their symphony orchestras ? These orchestras all play the best music. Larger numbers attend their concerts every year. They never lower their programs to meet the popular taste, but they gradually bring the public taste up to the level of their programs. All this being true—and no one can question these facts—is not the reason why better music is not heard and enjoyed in Toledo the fault of Toledo and not the fault of the music? Is it not a condition about which Toledo should feel humiliated ? When the demand on the part of the people is so little that not a single music store in Toledo had a single symphony of any of the great composers, in any form whatever, for any instrument, is it not a thing to cause us to sit up and ask ourselves some pertinent questions? Now you know that the above is not addressed to you personally but only as one who, with the many, has not become aroused to the need for the opportunity of hearing the great orchestral works in our city, and it is all written to give you my viewpoint as to the reason for this lamentable condition. For instance, the first time you played bridge whist, the game was like Greek to you. The leads and the counter leads and all that, needed to be studied in order to be understood, and the pleasure of the game came with the knowledge of the science in it. You didn't play golf well the first time you had a club in your hand ; and so it is with everything to which we look for amusement. The pleasure of the game largely depends upon the skill in playing it, and the enjoyment of music largely depends upon the brains that went into its composition. A man writes a ragtime tune in an hour ; you learn to whistle it in ten minutes, and it dies and is never heard of again in about ten weeks. A few months ago it was `Ta-ra-ra-boom-dea' and everybody whistled—everybody played —everybody sang it ; but like 'After the Ball' it is buried and forgotten. But the symphonies of Beethoven, after one hundred and fifty years, are played more and enjoyed more and by a larger number of people than ever before since they were written. It takes an oak a hundred years to grow ; a thistle ripens over night. You are a good scout. Your heart's in the right place. You are helping to do a mighty big work in Toledo and I want you sold on this symphony orchestra matter. The great point that I want to emphasize is this : A Victor dealer here in Toledo was asked to go on the guaranty fund. Notwithstanding that the orchestra would help in the sale of records, he said, 'I am not interested in orchestra music. Let those who enjoy it help support it.' I replied, 'Let me see—you are quite a reader, aren't you ?"Oh yes, I am,' he said. 'Have you any children ?' I asked. 'Yes, two.' `Do they use the public library ?"Yes indeed, every week,' he answered. 'Do you ever get books there ?"Yes, often.' 'Well,' I said, 'The taxpayers built and support the library though many of them never use it. They help support it so that when you or your children want a particular book you can get it ; but if TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 577 your children want to know the music of Beethoven or Mozart or any other of the great composers, somebody has got to support a symphony orchestra or they will never have an opportunity to hear it. This is the crux of this whole matter as I see it. Everybody must be made to realize the importance of this movement and to feel down deep in their hearts that maybe if the opportunity was offered them to hear this wonderful music which has lived so long and been enjoyed by so many millions, that they too would enjoy it and revere the names of the men that left such a heritage to the world." EMERY ELLSWORTH LUCAS Among the varied lines of business which have contributed to the commercial development and prosperity of Toledo the automobile industry occupies a prominent place and to this field of activity Emery Ellsworth Lucas has long devoted his energies with gratifying results, for he is now controlling one of the leading sales agencies in the city, while he is also identified with other important business enterprises, all of which profit by his keen sagacity and progressive spirit. He was born in Redkey, Indiana, December 27, 1883, and his parents were B. E. and Caroline (Gibbs) Lucas, both natives of Washington Court House, Ohio. The father later went to Indiana, in which state he continued to reside until called to his final rest, devoting his attention to the management of a hotel. The mother is still living and is now a resident of Greenville, Ohio. They were the parents of two children : Mrs. Elsie Klinger of Muskegon, Michigan and Emery Ellsworth. In the acquirement of an education Emery Ellsworth Lucas attended the public schools of Redkey, Indiana, and he then entered the West Texas Military Academy, taking up special work, but left that institution before completing his course. In 1906 he secured a position with the Maxwell-Briscoe Company of Indiana and remained with them until 1912, when he became connected with the Studebaker Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, in the capacity of receiving clerk, continuing in their service for two years. In 1914 he became identified with the Ford Motor Company of that city and in 1916 came to Toledo, establishing the Lucas Auto Sales Company, of which he is the president. He handles the Ford and Lincoln cars and the Ford tractors and is numbered among the leading automobile dealers of the city. Mr. Lucas combines a detailed knowledge of the business with keen discernment and executive ability and his aggressive methods and straightforward dealing have enabled him to build up a large trade. This constitutes but one phase of his activities, however, for he is serving as vice president of the Anderson-Roberts Manufacturing Company, treasurer of the Auto Sales & Appraisals Company and manager of the Scientific Farm Products Company, all of which are prosperous business enterprises of this city. In Detroit, on the 24th of February, 1913, Mr. Lucas was married to Miss Leah Lasca, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lasca of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have three children : Emery E., Jr., whose birth occurred in Detroit in 1914 and who is now attending the public schools ; Shirley, who was born in Toledo in 1918 ; and William, born in December, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas are members of the Roman Catholic church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in social 578 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY circles of the city he is well known as a member of the Inverness, Lions, Toledo, Toledo Yacht, Toledo Automobile and Commerce clubs. He has made steady progress since starting out in the business world and his career is proof of the fact that there is yet room at the top, even under the close competitive conditions of the business world of today, if the individual has the required ability, force and efficiency. He is continually broadening the scope of his activities with good results and in the conduct of his business affairs he displays that ,spirit of enterprise which works for individual success and also constitutes a factor in public prosperity. His residence is at No. 2933 Collingwood avenue. RALEIGH DANIEL MILLS Raleigh Daniel Mills, cashier of the Home Savings Bank Company, is one of the well known men in the financial circles of Toledo. He comes to this city from Wisconsin, his birth having occurred in La Crosse, that state, on the 12th of August, 1879, his parents being Daniel and Jane Mills. He obtained his education in the publis schools of Friendship, Maine, and of Apple River, Illinois. In entering on his business career Mr. Mills became connected with the coal business and his entire business life has been marked by a steady progress that indicates the wise use of the opportunities that have come to him. He dates his residence in Toledo from 1908 and in financial circles has figured prominently, his association with the Home Savings Bank Company beginning in 1908. He is now the cashier and one of the directors of this institution, which is regarded as one of the best managed financial institutions of the city. Mr. Mills is a courteous and obliging official and is numbered among Toledo's capable men in banking circles. At Toledo, on the 3d of May, 1913, Mr. Mills was united in marriage to Miss Helen Miller, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion M. Miller. They have become parents of three interesting children : Gordon, Eleanor and Robert. Mr. and Mrs. Mills hold membership in the Unitarian church and he is well known in the club circle's of the city, having membership in the Toledo Club and in the Sylvania Golf Club. The latter is indicative of the chief nature of his recreation, for when leisure permits he greatly enjoys a game on the links. Mr. Mills' residence is at No. 2263 Maplewood avenue. LEONARD HALL GEROW Leonard Hall Gerow is a leading Toledo architect, largely specializing in the building of residences, being a member of the firm of Gerow & Conklin. He was born in Milton, New York, on the 29th of May, 1889. He supplemented his thorough public school training by a course in Cornell University, where he specialized in the study of architecture and in 1913 was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Architecture. Seeking the opportunities offered along professional lines in Toledo, he was here associated with various firms, one of which was the George Rheinfrank Company, with which firm he remained for two years, having charge of office detail work. In 1917 he opened offices and under his own name has  it TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 581 since practiced his profession. He has been a close student of all the basic principles that underlie the profession and is adapting the old and time-tried methods to modern-day conditions, with results that are very gratifying. Some of the most attractive residences of Toledo have been erected on plans which he has made, in which utility, convenience and beauty are admirably blended, so that his work is constituting a substantial means of adornment to Toledo. Among the number are the residences of B. C. Bowen, in West Morland, Mrs. Elizabeth Fella, L. J. Gifford, G. A. Kellam and G. H. Jones. He holds to the highest standards of the profession and is making continuous progress in winning a large clientele. On August 31, 1922, Mr. Gerow married Miss Alma Klappick. Mr. Gerow is well known as a member of St. Mathews Brotherhood and his interest centers along those lines and in those channels through which flows the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest number. GEORGE E. SENEY George E. Seney, prominently and widely known not only as a lawyer engaged in active practice but also as an educator and contributor to the literature of his profession, his writings being widely read and strongly endorsed by leading attorneys throughout the country, has practiced continuously in Toledo since 1901. He was born in this city September 22, 1879, and is a son of Judge Joshua R. Seney. He is descended from Norman-French ancestry and a family who through various generations has been identified with the legal profession. His great-great-grandfather, John Seney, was a member of the bar, practicing for many years and also serving for an extended period as a member of the general assembly of Maryland, acting as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was likewise made a member of the Maryland convention which ratified the federal constitution of 1787 and of the electoral college which unanimously chose George Washington for the first president of the United States. He had served during the Revolutionary war as captain of a company of Maryland troops and after nearly seven years of active defense of the Americn cause was mustered out with the rank of colonel. Joshua Seney, the great-grandfather of George E. Seney, completed a course in the literary department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1773, being graduated with the B. A. degree, his diploma being signed by Benjamin Rush, professor of chemistry, who was later one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ; Dr. Morgan, the first surgeon general of the United States army ; and Dr. Shippen, a distinguished scholar, lawyer and judge. Like his father Joshua Seney won for himself a place of distinction in connection with colonial affairs and with the young nation after American independence had been won. He was a contemporary of his father in the Maryland legislature and for four years was a member of the continental congress, where he was a colleague of his former professor, Benjamin Rush. He became chief justice of Maryland and was a member of the First United States congress following the establishment of government and also served in the Second congress from March 4, 1789, until May 1, 1792, when he resigned to return to the bench. In the same year as a presidential elector he voted for Washington and Adams. In 1798 he was again elected to congress but did not live to take the seat. He died October 20, 1798, and a monument marks the spot of his 582 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY last resting place in Queen Annes county, Maryland, the following inscription being copied therefrom : BENEATH THIS STONE ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF JOSHUA SENEY who was born near the spot which now contains his ashes, March 4, 1756, and died October 20, 1798. From the commencement of the American Revolution at various periods in his life he filled with ability some of the highest stations and 'discharged with integrity some of the most important duties to which his native state could appoint him ; preserving through the whole a character both private and public untainted by a single vice. In 1776 a whig, a democrat in 1798, he zealously and increasingly maintained the liberties of his country and died as he lived, an honest man and a Christian. The wife of Joshua Seney was a daughter of Commodore James Nicholson, who at one period of the Revolution had command of the navy. He was a son of Sir Francis Nicholson, royal governor of New York and also of Maryland. Joshua Seney, Jr., the grandfather of George E. Seney, was born in New York in 1793 and was graduated from Columbia College and the University Law School. He was a subordinate officer in the navy in the War of 1812 and he served as private secretary to Albert Gallatin, who was secretary of the treasury under President Jefferson. For ten years he engaged in law practice at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as a partner of Mr. Gallyatin, who was his uncle by marriage, and then removed to Tiffin, Ohio. He was elected clerk of the supreme court and was appointed United States district judge for Pennsylvania by President Jackson, but resigned that office to resume the private practice of law. In 1840 he was one of the presidential electors ; he passed away in 1854. His wife, Anna Ebbert, born in Philadelphia, in 1803, died in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1878. Her ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of Philadelphia and her father, George Ebbert, was a merchant of that city, associated in business with his father. Mrs. Seney was graduated from Brownsville Female College and soon afterward met her husband at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at a ball given for General Lafayette, their marriage occurring after a short courtship. They had a family of three sons, who became prominent lawyers and jurists of Ohio, these being : George E., who married Anna Walker, a granddaughter of Josiah Hedges, who was the founder of Tiffin, Ohio ; Joshua Robert, who married Julia Rice, and they had a son, George E., the subject of this review ; and Henry W., who married Mary Allen ; he passed away in 1911, leaving a son and a daughter, Allen J. and Elma Seney Richards. Joshua Robert Seney, father of George E. Seney of this review, after attending the public schools of Ohio continued his education in Antioch College. He afterward matriculated in Union College at Schenectady, New York, where he was graduated with honors in languages out of a class of one hundred and fifty. He was master of seven languages and his high scholarly attainments entitled him to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Following his graduation from Union College in 1860 he volunteered his services at the outbreak of the Civil war, entering the service as a private and though still young he was commissioned a major, but on account of ill health the government refused his enlistment. After- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 583 ward, however, he organized the One Hundred and First Regiment of Ohio Infantry and saw some service in the capacity of sutler. He then read law with Judge Pillars of Tiffin, Ohio, and after being admitted to the bar he began practice in Toledo. There he formed a law partnership with Hon. R. C. Lemmon, this association being maintained until Mr. Seney was elected judge of the common pleas court of Lucas county, Ohio. Although only twenty-nine years of age at the time of his election to the bench, youth was no impediment to one who possessed a judicial temperament and had all the training and endowments necessary for a judicial career. He made a most enviable record as a judge, was careful, painstaking and just and would never sacrifice the ideals of justice because of technical restrictions. It is said that he was the first judge in the state and one of the first in the nation to permit a negro to sit on a jury and at another time he declared that a clerkship is not an office within the meaning of the constitution and that women are eligible to fill it. The supreme court sustained this decision, which was responsible for throwing open the doors to women employed in clerical capacities in state, county and city offices. Ill health brought a cessation of his activities as a judge and lawyer and for ten years prior to his death he was practically an invalid. Aside from his work on the bench the honors and emoluments of office had little attraction for him, his one aim being to excel in his profession. He was noted as a great trial lawyer, his arguments being logical, eloquent and forceful and it is doubtful if he was ever excelled in cross examination. Politically he was a democrat and he was one of the three young attorneys who laid the foundation for the splendid law library at Toledo. Judge Seney was married to Miss Julia Rice, a daughter of Clark H. Rice, and a sister of the late General Americus V. Rice. She attended the public schools at Kalida, Ohio, and completed a four years' collegiate course at Vermilion Institute. She was a brilliant woman of high cultural and social attainments and was widely known for her charitable and benevolent work. Mrs. Seney passed away in Toledo, Ohio, on the 30th of April, 1915. Their son, George E. Seney, acquired his early education in the public schools of Toledo, continued his studies in the Toted̊ Manual Training School and afterward pursued his literary course in the University of Michigan, the Ohio State University and Toledo University, receiving from these institutions the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts. His law course was also pursued in the Ohio University, which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree in 1901. For about three years he was a trustee of the Toledo University and lecturer in the Toledo College on constitutional law for two years. He is the author of many special articles which have appeared in magazines and newspapers and his writings have always attracted wide attention. He enjoys high rank as an educator and as a writer in the legal field and his success in a professional way affords the best evidence of his capability in this line. He is a strong advocate with the jury and concise in his appeals before the court. In no profession is there a career more open to talent than in that of the law and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom, combined with the determination fully to utilize the needs at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as a stern conservator of justice, and it is one into which none could enter without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the battles to be won, for success does not 584 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY come to the call of every person who enters a competitive grade but comes only as the direct result of capacity and unmistakable ability. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the able lawyer, Mr. Seney has, therefore, made continuous advancement in his chosen calling. Aside from this he is known in business circles as a director of the Crambaugh Kuehn Company, the Gould Realty Company and as president of the Feno Realty Company. His operations in real estate are widely and resultantly directed. During the World war Mr. Seney was president of the Anthony Wayne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He took an active part in all Liberty bond drives and War Stamps campaigns and also in promoting the Red Cross and 'other civilian activities. He was a member of the Naval Reserve and in days of peace as in days of war he loyally supports all those forces that have to do with the progress and prosperity of the community and the advancement of high standards of citizenship. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons as a Knight Templar and in the Scottish Rite he has taken the thirty-second degree. He is well known in professional circles, having served for two years as secretary of the Toledo Bar Association and as vice president of the Toledo Lawyers' Club and retaining his membership in these he is also connected with the Ohio Bar and the American Bar associations. Mr. Seney was united in marriage to Miss Adah Kuhlthau, a daughter of Charles E. Kuhlthau of Delaware, Ohio. She is a graduate of Ursuline Convent and later attended the Ohio Wesleyan and Toledo universities and is an accomplished musician and poet, her work along this line calling forth merited praise and admiration. Mr. and Mrs. Seney are parents of two children : Julia Rice and George E., Jr. CHARLES H. BRADY Among the prominent and highly honored members of the legal profession in Toledo is Charles H. Brady, of the firm of Miller & Brady. A native of this city, he was born October 22, 1884, a son of James Edward and Sarah F. (Rowley) Brady, the former a native of Massachusetts, while the latter was born in Vermont. The father came to Ohio from St. Albans, Vermont, in 1880, settling in Toledo and here he conducted a successful business as a harness manufacturer. He and his family took place among the most highly esteemed residents of the city, and here Mr. Brady passed away in 1919. Mrs. Brady resides in Toledo. Of their family of six children two have passed away. Those living are : Walter, Charles H. and Mabel, all of Toledo ; and John B., who is now in Long Beach, California. Charles H. Brady attended the public. schools, passing through consecutive grades until graduated from the high school at the age of eighteen years. His desire to enter upon a professional career caused him at that time to enter the University of Michigan as a law student and he was graduated in 1909, with the LL. B. degree. He then entered upon active practice in connection with Albert H. Miller, under the firm style of Miller & Brady and throughout the intervening period their progress as representatives at the Toledo bar has been continuous. Mr. Brady belongs to the Lucas County, the Ohio State and the American Bar associations and he enjoys in large measure the respect, confidence and goodwill of his contemporaries and colleagues in the profession. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 585 On the 28th of June, 1911, Mr. Brady was united in marriage to Miss Eleanor D. Hicks, a daughter of Charles L. and Ida L. Hicks of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Brady are members of the First Congregational church and Mr. Brady is serving as a member of the board of trustees. He is a republican in his political views and always supports the party at the polls but has never been active as a party worker. He belongs to the Alpha Sigma Phi, a college fraternity, and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He is also a member of St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar, and the Elks. He was formerly president of the University of Michigan Alumni Association in Toledo and he belongs to the Kiwanis Club and to the Chamber of Commerce. He is interested in all that pertains to the city's welfare and upbuilding and holds to high civic standards, his public spirit being manifest in many tangible ways. TROY A. DAHN Troy A. Dahn, a representative business man and highly respected citizen of Toledo, exemplifies in his life the spirit of progress and enterprise which has played so important a part in the upbuilding of the city, and as vice president and general manager of the Hein Furniture Manufacturing Company he occupies a prominent position in industrial circles of the Maumee valley. He is one of Toledo's native sons, his birth having occurred in this city on the 15th of June, 1875, and his parents, Frederick H. and Wilhelmina (Fiedeke) Dahn, were of European birth and came to the United States as children. The father became the owner of a farm in Lucas county, Ohio, and later removed to Toledo, where he opened a wood yard, which he conducted successfully for many years. He was an honored veteran of the Civil war, enlisting at the first call for troops, and together with twelve other men from Lucas county he was transferred from Ohio to the Second Kentucky Regiment. Of the original twelve men who joined but three survivors returned to their homes at the end of three years' service. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dahn have passed away. They became the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy. Those who survive are : Mrs. Augusta Sinning, a resident of Toledo ; Adelaide, a teacher in the Hathaway school of this city ; and Troy. A. In the acquirement of an education Troy A. Dahn attended the grammar and high schools of Toledo, after which he completed a course in the Davis Business College, and his initial experience along commercial lines was obtained with the Conant Brothers Furniture Company, with which he was connected from the fall of 1892 until 1898. He started as a collector and while acting in that capacity took a course of study with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which enabled him to secure a position in the draughting room of the firm. He next joined the Schauss Brothers Furniture Company as designer and later entered the service of the Edward Frohlich Plate Glass Company, with which he remained until 1900, when he accepted a similar position with the Hein Furniture Manufacturing Company, with which he has since been identified, working his way steadily upward through merit and ability until he now owns a substantial interest in the concern and is filling the offices of vice president and general manager. He is watchful of every indication pointing to success and displays keen sagacity and marked executive force in the management of the business, keeping 586 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY it not only in line but rather in the lead of the progressive enterprises of this character. On September 20, 1900, Mr. Dahn was married to Miss Emma Zurfluh of Toledo, a daughter of John Zurfluh, deceased, who was one of the leading jewelers of Toledo.. They have become the parents of a son, Frederick, who was born in 1903 and was graduated from the Waite high school of this city. He is now a sophomore at the University of Michigan. Mr. Dahn is an earnest and helpful member of the First Reformed church of Toledo, of which he is president and treasurer, and he is also identified with the Reformed church of the United States at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, through the Home for the Aged, of which he is secretary and treasurer. His interests and activities have touched the general interests of society to their benefit and he is a member of the Art Museum of Toledo ; is a thirty-second degree Mason and has attained high standing in the order, being past thrice illustrious master of Vistula Council, No. 108, R. & S. M.; Captain General of Toledo Commandery, No. 7, K. T., of which he is a past commander ; and Junior Warden of Port Lawrence Lodge, U. D. He is also connected with the Grotto and Shrine and is a director of the Yondota Masonic Building Company of East Toledo and also a member of the building committee for the proposed new Masonic buildings on the west side. He is also an Elk and is likewise identified with the National Commercial Fixtures Association and the Toledo Commerce Club, the Maumee River Yacht Club and the Rotary Club, being a charter member of the last named organization. Industry has been the key which has unlocked for Mr. Dahn the portals of success and his life record is one in which notable business ability and the recognition and utilization of opportunity are well balanced forces. He stands for all those things which count for most in the city's upbuilding and has never lost sight of the high principles which should govern man in his varied relations of life. CHARLES K. FRIEDMAN Charles K. Friedman, attorney and counselor at law, who has made for himself a creditable position in professional circles, is even more widely known because of his valuable contribution to interests and activities of public moment. There is no plan or project instituted for the benefit and upbuilding of Toledo, or for the welfare of state and nation, which does not receive, his endorsement and to a large degree his active cooperation. Toledo is indebted to him in substantial measure for his work in her behalf and it is characteristic of Mr. Friedman that he studies closely and thoroughly every question that bears upon the general good. When his judgment passes upon the advisability of a course, he never stops short in his efforts until the objective point is reached. Charles K. Friedman was born in Toledo, January 14, 1873, and is a son of Morris and Fannie (Tyroler) Friedman, both of whom were natives of Austria-Hungary. They came to America in early life. Residing for many years in this city, the father became well known as a cigar manufacturer here and developed a business of very gratifying proportions. Both he and his wife passed away in this city. In their family were five children: Aaron, now living in Toledo; John Henry, of Canton, Ohio ; Louis M., who resided at Los Angeles, California, where TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 589 his death occurred in 1923 ; Mrs. Celia M. Kruckman, also of Toledo ; and Charles Knox. At the usual age Charles Knox Friedman entered the public schools and mastered the work of successive grades until he completed a course in the high school and Manual Training School of this city. A desire to prepare at once for his life work led him to enter the University of Michigan as a law student, for he had determined to devote his attention to law practice, and qualified therefor by a thorough course of instruction at Ann Arbor, where he received his LL. B. degree in 1893, while his LL. M. degree was conferred upon him the following year. Following his graduation he returned to his native city, where he opened a law office and engaged in active practice, making steady advancement in his chosen calling. For nine years he filled the position of assistant city solicitor of Toledo and throughout the remaining period he has given his attention to private law practice. At the same time he has extended his efforts along commercial and financial lines and is a director of the H. M. & R. Shoe Company of Toledo, having one of the largest shoe establishments of the city, and is a director of the Loew's Valentine Theatre Company. He is also connected with some realty companies and his name is on the directorate list of the Landman-Griffith Company and the Toledo Mortgage Company. His knowledge of corporation law and the soundness of his judgment in all business affairs have made his cooperation and assistance a valuable asset in the conduct of all the different business concerns with which he is identified. On the 1st of June, 1898, Mr. Friedman was united in marriage to Miss Nuna Landman of Toledo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Landman. Mr. and Mrs. Friedman have two children: Stanley M., who was born in this city November 6, 1899, is a graduate of the Toledo high school, an A. B. graduate of the University of Michigan, received his LL. B. degree at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1922. During the World war he was a member of the Students' Army Training Corps at Fort Sheridan, Illinois ; James K., the younger son, born in Toledo, October 15, 1904, is attending the University of Michigan. Mr. Friedman belongs to the Lucas County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, and is also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He belongs to the Masonic order, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and the beneficent principles of Masonry find expression in his life. While his law practice has steadily grown in volume and importance he has never allowed it to monopolize his time and efforts but has found opportunity to aid and cooperate in many public projects looking to the benefit and upbuilding of the city and state. He acted as president of the Collingwood Avenue temple and president of the Toledo Federation of Jewish Charities. He was manager of the salvage department of the Toledo Chapter of the Red Cross during the World war, is now on the Board of Trustees of Toledo Chapter, Red Cross, is chairman of the Toledo Americanization Board, is a trustee of the Social Service Federation, a member of the Community Recreation Commission of Toledo, and a member of the board of trustees of the Glengarry Country Club. His work is, indeed, far-reaching and resultant. He has closely studied the grave economic and sociological problems before the country, has stood most stanchly and helpfully for Americanization work and for those organized efforts which are bringing into the lives of the less fortunate something of the sunshine and joy that is known to those to whom fate has been seemingly kinder. He has recognized the value of recreation in those communities where there, is little opportunity for play and thoroughly 590 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY understands the principle that if life produces well-rounded development, the individual must not only work well but play well. Toledo's progress in this direction owes not a little to his earnest, zealous and effective efforts. GEORGE W. RITTER George W. Ritter of the law firm of Ritter & Hutchens has practiced in Toledo Since 1913, bringing to the starting point of his professional career in this city the experience gained from six years of successful practice in Sandusky. Mr. Ritter was born in Vermilion, Ohio, June 30, 1886, and is a son of John and Louise (Hauth) Ritter, who became residents of this state in early life. The father was a successful merchant tailor at Vermilion, Ohio, for many years, continuing in business there to the time of his death in 1903. The mother is still living. The early boyhood of George W. Ritter was largely devoted to the mastery of those branches of learning which were taught in the public schools of Vermilion, while later he entered Baldwin University. He attended the Cleveland Law School as a law student and won his professional degree in 1906. The following year he located in Sandusky, Ohio, where he opened an office and remained in practice until 1913, when he located in Toledo. He is well known to the profession throughout the state, belonging to the Cleveland and Toledo Bar associations, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. On the 30th of June, 1911, he was married to Miss Mary Fowler of Berlin Heights, Ohio, a daughter of Frederick S. and Maude A. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter are members of the First Congregational church. Mr. Ritter is a republican. He is a member of the Toledo Club, the Country Club, the Inverness Club, the Maumee River Yacht Club and the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. ALLEN JOSHUA SENEY Allen Joshua Seney, senior partner of the law firm of Seney, Alexander & Donovan of Toledo, was born in Kenton, Ohio, on the 25th of March, 1875, and is a son of Henry W. and Mary Elizabeth (Cullom) Seney. His father was a distinguished jurist of this state, serving as judge of the third judicial circuit court from 1884 to 1895, and following his retirement from the bench resumed the private practice of law. Allen J. Seney received his education in the public schools of Kenton and when he had completed the high school course there entered Oberlin College and afterward attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Thus qualified for further educational training of an advanced order, he entered Cornell University and afterward matriculated in the University of Michigan and received his Bachelor of Philosophy degree upon graduation with the class of 1896. He prepared for the bar as a student in the law department of the Ohio State University and upon him was conferred the LL. B. degree, when he completed his course as a member of the class of 1899. He has been admitted to practice in all of the state and federal courts and the supreme court of the United States and for a time gave his attention to general practice in North Baltimore, Ohio, where he continued from 1899 until TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 591 1904. In the latter year he came to Toledo and through the intervening period of eighteen years has steadily advanced in his profession. In the year of his arrival here he formed a partnership with Henry W. Seney and Curtis T. Johnson, this relation being maintained until 1907. Through the two succeeding years he was in partnership with his father, under the firm name of Henry W. and Allen J. Seney. In 1915 he was made first assistant prosecuting attorney of Lucas county and continued to occupy the position until 1919. In that year he entered upon a two years' term as prosecuting attorney of. Lucas county and his course was highly satisfactory to the general public, by reason of the thoroughness and capability with which he defended the legal rights of the county in many important cases. He then retired from office to resume the private practice of law. On the 24th of June, 1899, Mr. Seney was married to Miss Florence Dean Cope of Columbus, Ohio, and they have two children, Henry W. (II), and Mary Cope. Mr. Seney is identified with the Sons of the American Revolution. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his name is likewise on the membership rolls of the Toledo Club, of the Commerce Club and of the Phi Delta Phi. CHARLES LUKENS, M. D. For twenty-two years Dr. Charles Lukens has been numbered among the medical practitioners of Toledo and as a specialist in the treatment of diseases pertaining to the eye, ear, nose and throat he has won recognition. He was born on a farm near West Mansfield, Ohio, February 10, 1869, and his parents, John F. and Louisa K. (Swartz) Lukens, were also natives of this state, in which they spent their lives. The father was a surveyor and civil engineer by profession but later took up scientific farming, being a man of versatile talents and varied interests. His demise occurred in 1903, when he was eighty years of age, and the mother passed away in 1910, at the age of eighty-three. Charles Lukens, their only child, attended the country schools and later became a student at the Central Ohio College, completing his course in 1887. He then devoted some time to educational work and afterward entered Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1892. He began his professional career at Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he maintained an office for three years, later going to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for postgraduate study. In 1899 and 1900 he was resident surgeon in Wills Eye 'Hospital of that city, and in the latter year he came to Toledo, where he has since practiced his specialty. He is a member of the staff of Flower Hospital of this city and subordinates all other interests to the demands of his profession. On the 27th of September, 1893, Dr. Lukens was married at East Liberty, in Logan county, Ohio, to Miss Lotta Painter, a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Alfred Painter, and two children have been born of this union, a son and a daughter. John Alfred Lukens, the elder, was born in Logan county in 1897 and after completing a course in the Scott high school of Toledo he entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1922, with the M. D. degree. He is now an interne at the Long Island College Hospital of Brooklyn, New York. Ruth Lotta Lukens was born in Toledo in 1904 and was graduated from Scott high school in this city in 1922. 592 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Dr. Lukens is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is a member of the Inverness Club and is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, of which he was president for two years during the World war and materially helped mobilize the profession, thoroughly appreciating the fact that the medical profession could win the war by keeping our men healthy. He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, which honored him with its presidency in 1920-21. He is a fellow of the American Medical Association, of the American College of Surgeons, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, and has been granted a certificate by the American Board of Ophthalmic Examiners. S. LLOYD McAFEE S. Lloyd McAfee, who conducts the general agency for the Union Central Life Insurance Company at Toledo, was born in this city, a son of John Patrick McAfee, who for years was general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. The son, after leaving the Central high school, in which he had completed the regular public school curriculum, entered the Ohio Wesleyan College. His business training was received under his father's direction, for when his textbooks were put aside he became associated with his father in the life insurance business and in 1908 he took over the active management of the general agency of the Union Central Life Insurance Company at Toledo and has since been in charge of the business here, his father having been associated with him in an advisory capacity until a short time before his death, which occurred in November, 1914. Mr. S. Lloyd McAfee has made the Toledo office one of the largest the Union Central Life Insurance Company has in the United States. A business of substantial proportions has been developed, and the name of McAfee has long been associated with all that is most reliable and progressive in insurance interests. Mr. McAfee was united in marriage to Miss Bertha E. Grout of Toledo and they are parents of two children, Dorothy Mary and S. Lloyd, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. McAfee are widely and favorably known in this city, where they have spent their lives and where their circle of friends is almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. FRANK J. MANTON Frank J. Manton, who for twenty-one years has been engaged in the fruit and produce business as a wholesale dealer, conducting his interests under the name of the Manton Brothers Company, was born in Toledo, October 12, 1877, and is a son of John and Bridget Manton, the former a contractor. He was educated in public and private schools and in young manhood secured employment in a wholesale fruit house. In this line of business he has continued and there is no phase of the trade with which he is not thoroughly familiar. In 1901 he organized the Manton Brothers Company for the conduct of a wholesale fruit and produce business, being joined by his brother, John W., who was associated with him in the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 593 enterprise until his death in 1921. At that time Frank J. Manton admitted another brother, Byron, to a partnership and their interests are conducted under the old firm style. On the 10th of June, 1904, Mr. Manton was united in marriage to Miss Julia Klingler of Toledo. He greatly enjoys athletic sports and baseball to which he turns for recreation. He also belongs to the Knights of Columbus, which indicates his belief in the teachings of the Catholic church and his membership therein, for the fraternal order admits to its membership only those of that faith. In his business he displays a spirit of marked enterprise and progress and has made steady advancement since he started out on his own account. He is not only at the head of the Manton Brothers Company but is also a director of the Toledo Glove Company, a manufacturing concern. He has ever been actuated by a laudable ambition and his determination and energy have carried him far on the road to success. A. J. JOHNSON Toledo is justly proud of her native sons, whose loyalty, public spirit and initiative have played a most significant part in the upbuilding and development of the city, and in this connection A. J. Johnson is deserving of particular mention. He is a member of a family which was established in Toledo seventy-five years ago and ranks with the leading coal dealers of the city, while he is also connected with other business enterprises of importance, all of which profit by his cooperation and his progressive spirit. He was born January 12, 1869, and his parents were Andrew J. and Rose (Fournier) Johnson, the former a native of Holland and the latter of Belgium. At an early period in their lives they came to the United States and in 1847 they established their home in Toledo. The father was a carpenter by trade and conducted a large business as a builder and contractor, while later he became a millwright. He was a very successful business man and was widely and favorably known in this city, to whose improvement and advancement he made' substantial contribution. He passed away in 1914 and the mother's demise occurred in 1912. A. J. Johnson attended parochial schools of Toledo and his initial business experience was obtained as an accountant in the local offices of the New York Central Railroad Company, with which he remained for fourteen years. After leaving the service of that road he became city salesman for the Seyfang Coal Company and for six years continued in their employ, gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the business. He then decided to invest his savings in a similar enterprise and in association with his brother, A. L. Johnson, organized the Johnson Coal Company, which they have since successfully operated, while they also conduct the Johnson Coal & Wood Yard, of which the subject of this review is president and a director. He displays keen sagacity and marked executive ability in the management of the business and occupies a position of leadership in this field. He has also extended his efforts in other directions and is a director of the Troy Oil & Gas Company, the Merritt Jewelry Company, The Toledo Glove Manufacturing Company, and the Doan Motor. Car Company. He is also president of the village of Lakewood, Michigan, and gives his best efforts to everything that he undertakes, continually broadening the scope of his activities with good results. 594 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Mr. Johnson was married on the 25th of September, 1894, to Miss Matilda E. Burkhart, A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Burkhart of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have become the parents of three children, the eldest of whom is Clifford A. Johnson. He was born in 1895 and acquired his education in the parochial schools of Toledo and St. John's College. He is an enterprising young business man and acts as general manager of the Johnson Coal & Wood Yards. He enlisted for service in the World war and for eighteen months was engaged in active military duty. He married Miss. Beatrice Weber of Toledo, and they have three daughters, Marjorie, Marylin and Madalin ; Roger L. Johnson was born in 1899, attended the parochial schools and St. John's College and is now assistant general manager of the. Johnson Coal & Wood Yard ; Junior A. Johnson was born in 1905 and is a student at St. John's College in this city. Mr. Johnson is a Roman Catholic in religious faith and in the Knights of Columbus he has taken the fourth degree. He is an Elk and his public spirit finds expression in his membership with the Chamber of Commerce. He is also connected with the Lions Club and is serving as president of the Toledo Wholesale Coal Trades Association. He has never deviated from the course which the world regards as right in the relations between man and his fellowmen and has always held closely to the rules which govern strict integrity and unabating industry. He is a live factor in his city and his genuine personal worth has won for him the stanch friendship of many. FRED CHRISTEN Fred Christen, a sheet metal manufacturer, owning and controlling one of the largest business interests of this character in Toledo, was born in Baden, Germany, June 5, 1873, and is a son of Jacob Frederick and Solomea (Schneider) Christen. The father was a fruit farmer of Germany, specializing in the production of grapes in that country, and never came to America. Fred Christen pursued his education in the public schools of his native country and left Germany in 1890 to try his fortune in the new world. Crossing the Atlantic, he made his way at once to Toledo, where he arrived in the month of June, and here he learned the sheet metal trade, becoming a most thorough and efficient workman and gradually advancing until he established business on his own account. He is now at the head of one of the largest enterprises of the kind in Toledo, doing all kinds of sheet metal work and roofing under the firm style of Fred Christen & Sons. Their plant is located at Nos. 714 to 724 George street and furnishes employment to thirty workmen. Mr. Christen married Miss Fredericka Lay, a native of Germany, who came to Toledo in 1891. They have four children : Clarence, Arthur, Edna and Walter. The two eldest sons are associated with their father in business. In his, fraternal relations Mr. Christen is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also identified with the Sheet Metal Association, with the Ohio and the National Sheet Metal Associations and with the Toledo Builders Association. He takes active interest in these organizations, which are formed to further the interests of trade and to promote standards along their particular line of work. Mr. Christen has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, which he did when TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 597 a youth of seventeen years, for here he has found the business opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has gained a place among the representative and prosperous business men of his adopted city. SAMUEL KOHN For forty-three years Samuel Kohn has been a member of the Toledo bar, engaging in general practice with good success. He has also figured prominently in connection with public affairs and his influence has ever been on the side of law and order, of progress and improvement. Born in Toledo, April 24, 1856, he is a son of Simon and Ernestine Kohn, the former at one time an ice merchant in this city. Samuel Kohn was educated in the public schools, a graduate from the high school with the class of 1873. He read law in the office of J. C. Coffman and on the 17th of March, 1879, was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has engaged in general practice, trying all kinds of cases and trying them well. For two years he filled the position of assistant county prosecuting attorney and for a similar period was assistant city solicitor. He has also filled other positions of honor and trust. For four years he was a member of the board of education and for two years served as its president, doing effective work to advance the public school interests of the city, being instrumental in introducing various reforms and progressive methods whereby the work of the schools was rendered of more practical value and service in preparing the young for life's responsibilities and duties. Mr. Kohn was also a member of the sinking fund board of Toledo for six years and then resigned his position. The major part of his time and attention has always been given to his law practice. He is a member of the Lucas County Bar Association, of which he served as president and also of the Ohio Bar Association. On the 30th of December, 1890, Mr. Kohn was married to Miss Lucy Brag McCracken of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have a son, Ralph Samuel. Mr. Kohn and his family are favorably known in this city, where he has spent his life, now covering two-thirds of a century. The sterling worth of his character and his devotion to public duty are recognized by all, while his close conformity to the highest standards and ethics of the legal profession have won him the high regard, confidence and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries in the practice of law. MILO JOSEPH WARNER Milo Joseph Warner, associated with the law firm of Doyle & Lewis of Toledo, was born in Wood county, near Lime City, Ohio, November 11, 1891, and is a son of Levi S. and Mary Ellen (Brownsberger) Warner. He was thirteen years of age when the family removed to Toledo, where he has since made his home, and here he pursued his preliminary education in the public schools. He afterward entered the Ohio State University and graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913. He then remained in the State University as a law student and gained his LL. B. degree in 1916. Following his graduation and his admission to 598 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY the bar he became associated with the .firm of Doyle & Lewis and continues in this connection. While one of the younger representatives of the Toledo bar he has already gained a place and prominence that many an older representative of the profession might well envy, and what he has already accomplished indicates that his future career will be well worth watching. On the 1st of June, 1917, Mr. Warner was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy Casad Bennett of El Paso, Texas, and they have become parents of two children; Milo Joseph, J r., who was born August 15, 1918 ; and Donald Wesley, born December 13, 1920. Two days after his marriage Mr. Warner was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Regular Army cavalry for service in the World for He had been previously fcir seven years a member of Troop B of the Ohio National Guard, thus identified with the cavalry from 1910 until 1917. His regiment, the Eighteenth United States Cavalry, was converted into light field artillery for the period of the war and designated as Seventy-sixth Field Artillery, Third Division. On the 23d of August, 1917, he was commissioned temporary captain and later was placed in command of Battery B, Seventy-sixth Field Artillery of the Third Division. Sent overseas, he went into the front lines July 6, 1918, and was severely wounded on the 28th of July, 1918, at Le Charmel, France, in the Aisne-Marne drive. In August, 1919, he was retired from the regular service with the permanent rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Warner belongs to the American Legion and during the year 1923 was chairman of the Lucas County American Legion. He actively interested in the purposes of that organization to promote Americanization and to uphold the flag of the country just as unsullied in times of peace as in days of war. He belongs to the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and to the Pi Kappa Alpha general fraternity ; is a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, and is also identified with the American Bar Association. WILLIAM H. ROOSE William H. Roose, who for a third of a century was numbered among Toledo's successful attorneys, passed away on the 28th of October, 1922, when sixty-four years of age. He was born in Stark county, Ohio, March 18, 1858, on a farm which was also the birthplace of his father, John Roose, who devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. John Roose married Miss Harriet Zentz, also a native of Stark county. and they always remained residents of Ohio save for a period of about eight years which was spent in Indiana. They were the parents of ten children, four of whom are deceased. William H. Roose being one of them. Those who survive are : Lorenzo D., of Topeko. Kansas ; Andrew, a resident of Hillsdale, Michigan ; J. Frank,who is living in Topeka ; Mrs. Ida A. Wineland of Hillsdale ; Mrs. Nettie E. Clifton, who is living in Williams county, Ohio ; and Albert P., of Garrett, Indiana. William H. Roose attended the grammar schools of his native county and the high school at West Unity, Ohio. afterward becoming a law student at the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1885, with the LL.B. degree. He began his professional career at Bryan, Ohio, where he remained for four years. and in 1889 he came to Toledo, where he engaged in practice to the time of his demise, specializing in municipal bonds. He was regarded as an au- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 599 thority in this field and as the years passed his clientele steadily increased. He was well versed in all branches of jurisprudence and ever conformed his practice to the highest standards of professional ethics. On the 26th of August, 1890, at Perrysburg, Ohio, Mr. Roose was married to Miss Emily J. Adams, a daughter of Rev. G. A. Adams, who for fifty years was a minister of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Roose have four children : Gertrude, the eldest, is a native of Toledo and acquired her education in the public schools of Perrysburg and at Columbia University of New York city ; Marian was born in Perrysburg, and after completing her public school training she became a student at Wellesley College and later entered the law department of the University of Michigan, which conferred upon her the LL. B. degree ; George A., the only son in the family, is also a native of Perrysburg and obtained his academic training at Oberlin College, this state, while later he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1922, with the LL. B. degree. During the World war he enlisted in the United States army and served for two years in Italy ; Frances A., the youngest of the children, was born in Perrysburg and after completing her course in one of the high schools of Toledo she attended Oberlin College. She is now a student at the University of Michigan, being a member of the class of 1924. The family reside in Perrysburg and for eleven years Mr. Roose was a member of its board of education, in which connection he rendered valuable service to the community. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and a member of the Michigan University Club and the Ohio State Bar Association. He made continuous progress in his profession, and natural talent and acquired ability won for him a place among the strong and able lawyers at the bar of Toledo, while his genuine personal worth gained for him the high esteem of many friends. JOHN M. ORMOND John M. Ormond has long been a Toledo representative of that profession, which has ever been the conservator of life and liberty, right and property and with the work of the Toledo courts has been actively identified. Possessing comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence he steadily worked his way upward at the bar and in ,his later years he has also become connected with various important business interests, being now identified with several leading corporations of this city and elsewhere. John M. Ormond was born in Sharon Mercer county, Pennsylvania, his parents being the Rev. Benjamin Kelso and Mary (McFarland) Ormond. The father was for many years a distinguished representative of the Presbyterian ministry, who gave his life for the benefit of his fellowmen and largely influenced the moral progress of northwestern Ohio. He was a native of Cecil, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a son of Alexander Poe and Jane Kelso Ormond, who were likewise born in the Keystone state. The grandfather was a descendant of a prominent ruling family of the North of Ireland and the grandmother was descended from the Kelso family of Kelso, Scotland, while her father was an officer in Washington's army in the war for independence. During his youthful days Dr. Benjamin Kelso Ormond largely resided in Pittsburgh and vicinity and acquired a liberal education through his own efforts, attending the academies of Indiana and Eldersridge, Pennsylvania, and also pursuing a four years' course in the Washington and Jefferson College, from which