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Medical College and proved a most capable educator through the readiness and clearness with which he imparted to others the knowledge that he had acquired. A brilliant and illuminating orator, a keen logician, an effective persuader and therefore ,a leader; imbued with high ideals, a most vigorous hater of shams and hypocrisies, and a consummate master of every subject upon which he consented to speak, he was in great demand for addresses and arguments upon a vast variety of topics.

Mr. Brown was an eminently accomplished and successful advocate, an expert examiner and a master of cross-examination. Having a thorough knowledge of his own case and an instant appreciation of every weak development in that of his adversary, his conduct of a trial was always masterly and his arguments, whether to judge or jury, were splendidly effective. He often boldly disregarded conventional methods, as when in a crim. con. trial, in which he represented the plaintiff, he called as his first witness and at great length examined the defendant himself, an innovation amply justified by the result.

In 1885 Mr. Brown was retained as counsel for a committee of bondholders, who thereafter purchased what has since been familiarly known as the Clover Leaf Railroad, extending from Toledo to St. Louis, and from that time until his death he was the general solicitor of the successive corporations owning and general counsel for the receivers 'operating that railway. In such capacities he conducted, to the entire satisfaction of his clients, a vast variety of involved litigation. His logical mind, profound knowledge of legal principles and instant application of them to novel conditions, made him singularly happy in making first impressions. Such actions, of vital importance, arose in the construction of the Manufacturers and Toledo Terminal Railways, in the acquisition by the Hocking Valley Railroad of extensive terminals in East Toledo, and. in contests over property rights in subterranean streams, and over the powers of a municipality to build lines for piping natural gas from productive fields and to assess upon abutting properties the damages awarded its owners, either upon a change of a street grade or for opening and extending a street. Some of such actions received very wide attention and brought from attorneys in different parts of the country many requests for Mr. Brown's briefs.

It was, however, as counsel that Mr. Brown achieved his greatest though less conspicuous success. During his later years he appeared very rarely in the courts. He was a safe and sane adviser, keeping clients out of litigation. Moreover, he had executive and financial ability of a very high order. At the time of his demise he was president of The Owens Bottle Machine Company and president of the Toledo Times Publishing Company. He was also vice president of the Toledo Glass Company, the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company and the Owens European Bottle-Machine Company, as well as a director of the Hocking Valley Railway and also of the Ohio State Telephone Company. Outside of the domain of business Mr. Brown had many and varied interests. He was a trustee of the Toledo Museum of Art, a member of the advisory committee of the Toledo Hospital, a director of the Castalia Trout Club and the Toledo Riding Club, and a member of many other clubs, including the Toledo, Toledo Country, Commerce and Yacht clubs, the Columbus Club and the Ottawa Shooting Club.

An active member of the republican party, he served as one of the early presidents of the Ohio League and was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1888. Mr. Brown traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe

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and, South America. His favorite sport was fishing and he was often active at the Castalia Trout Club and fished many trout streams. He was one of three lessees of a salmon stream in eastern Quebec, visiting it each year for a few weeks, and he also made annual trips to ,Florida for tarpon fishing.

He contributed largely, often in the name of others and often anonymously, to public and private charities. The wide scope of his sympathies is to some extent indicated by his will, in which, after making ample provision for Mrs. Brown, he bequeathed sums ranging from five hundred to fifty thousand dollars to thirty-six individuals, including relatives, partners, friends and employes, and the residue of his estate, estimated at one million dollars, in trust, the income to be paid to Mrs. Brown during her lifetime and the capital to be, after her death, paid in various proportions to the Toledo, St. Vincent's, Mercy, Maternity and Children's Hospitals, the Toledo Museum of Art, the local Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Flower Deaconess Home, the Toledo Newsboys Association, the Old Ladies' Home, the District Nurses Association, the Federation of Jewish Charities, the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Colored Working Girls Home, the Old Adams Street City Mission, the North Toledo Settlement, the Florence Crittenden Home, the Luella Cummings Home and the Thalian Society. Thus his good works follow him and those who are benefiting by his benefactions rise up and call him blessed.

ANNA KATHERINE VOGLER

Anna Katherine Vogler, superintendent of the Flower Hospital, has devoted her life to the noble work of assisting humankind in a way that has won the gratitude and admiration of the world throughout the ages. A daughter of Henry and Magdalene Vogler, she is a native of Columbus, Ohio, and was but two years of age when her parents removed with the family to Toledo, so that she acquired her education in this city, her entire training being received under private tutelage in her own home, her course, however, making her eligible for entrance into any college. In 1911 she entered Flower Hospital for training, putting in the prescribed time and graduating with the class of 1914. She continued with the hospital and in 1915 had charge of the laboratory, which was installed that year, so that consequently she became the first attendant. In 1916 she was made night supervisor and in 1917 she was advanced to the position of superintendent of nurses. During the war while registered with the Red Cross for foreign service she was delegated to remain in charge of Flower Hospital and was made superintendent. Her labors there were very arduous during the war period, when there was a scarcity of nurses everywhere and in 1919, being badly in need of a rest, she left for an extended tour of the west, remaining on the Pacific coast until June, 1921, when she returned and resumed her position as superintendent of the hospital, having been away on a leave of absence.

Miss Vogler is a member of the Methodist church and she belongs to various professional societies, having membership in district No. 9 of the Nurses Association, also in the Ohio Hospital, the American Hospital, the National Hospital and the Protestant Hospital associations. In a word, she improves every opportunity that will advance her knowledge and promote her efficiency in her chosen calling. Prompted by the broadest spirit of humanitarianism she is giving her service to

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the public in ways that often entail self-sacrifice, finding her reward in a sense of duty faithfully performed. There are scores, however, who at mention of Miss Vogler bear testimony not only to her high professional ability but to her splendid executive power as superintendent of the hospital and of her kindly and helpful nature, manifest always in a ready smile and in an encouraging word.

ALLAN BOATH WILLS

Allan Boath Wills occupies a prominent position in business circles of Toledo as treasurer of The Donovan Wire & Iron Company and has contributed in no uncertain degree to the steady growth and development of the enterprise. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, on the 12th of March, 1881, and received his more advanced educational training as a student in the University of Michigan, where he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties, he entered business circles and has attained a position of executive control as treasurer of The Donovan Wire & Iron Com-pany of Toledo, in which connection he is active in the management of one of the prosperous and growing commercial concerns of the city.

On the 12th of June, 1909, in Toledo, Mr. Wills was united in marriage to Miss Julie F. Brinkman, a daughter of George Brinkman of this city. Mr. Wills is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and holds membership in the Toledo Club. Upright and honorable in the varied relations of life, he enjoys an. enviable reputation in both business and social circles of his adopted city and has an extensive circle of warm friends here.

GEORGE JOHN MARQUARDT

Commercial enterprise and progressiveness find expression in the business career of George John Marquardt, who is now the president of the George J. Marquardt Company, controlling one of the large hardware establishments of Toledo. His life story—a tale of successful achievement in which industry and intelligence have chiefly figured—is an interesting one. He was born in New York city, February 5, 1862, and is a son of John George and Elizabeth M. (Huff) Marquardt. The father was a merchant and manufacturer who after carrying on busi-ness in the east for a time removed to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1863, and there engaged in cabinet manufacturing and wood carving.

George John Marquardt obtained his education in the public schools and under a private tutor and the year 1885 witnessed his arrival in Toledo, at which time, then a young man of twenty-three years, he secured a clerkship in a hardware store. For thirteen years he was connected with the Bostwick & Braun Company and acquainted himself with every phase and department of the trade. He then withdrew from that connection to become one of the organizers of the Shunck & Marquardt Hardware Company, under which firm style the business was carried on until 1911, when it was reorganized under the name of the George J. Marquardt Company, of which he has since been the president. Their establishment

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is now one of the .large hardware houses of the city and everything known to the trade is there found, while the business methods of the house commend it to the public and a liberal patronage has long been enjoyed.

In October, 1885, Mr. Marquardt was married to Miss Mary Steuer of Toledo and they have three children : Evan George, who is secretary and treasurer of the George J. Marquardt Company ; Alice ; and George Richard, who is one of the directors of the company. All of the children are married. The elder son wedded Hazel Martin and they have two children, Caroline and Marion. The daughter, Alice, is the wife of Fred Bosselman of Toledo and they have one son, Frederick. George Richard Marquardt wedded Bertha West and they are parents of a daughter, Jane Lucile.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Marquardt is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a representative of his line of business in the Rotary Club but has never been a clubman in the usually accepted sense of the term. Business affairs have claimed the major part of his time and attention, yet he does not relegate the duties of citizenship to the background but cooperates in all those forces which make for higher civic standards, for growth and progress in the business life of .the community and for the advancement of those intellectual and moral forces which are the outstanding features in good citizenship. Mr. Marquardt has lived for a number of years at No. 920 West Woodruff avenue, his home being one of the early ones built in that section.

RUDOLPH A. BARTLEY

There is no success in life without effort. The purpose of life is to afford opportunity for physical, mental and spiritual development. In our country these opportunities are offered in turn to everyone who is willing to embrace them. Humble birth and poverty are no handicap to American youths but opportunities slip away from the sluggard and tauntingly play before the dreamer, yet they surrender to the individual with high purpose, undaunted courage and indefatigable determination. A recognition of the real value of industry and persistency has enabled Rudolph A. Bartley to rise from a humble position in the business world to a place among the foremost wholesale merchants of Toledo and the state. Not by leaps and bounds has he advanced but by that steady progression which indicates the mastery over self, over environment and over conditions. Born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1851, Rudolph A. Bartley is a son of Gebhardt Bartley, a baker by trade, whose careful saving of his earnings enabled him to bring his family to the new world in 1853, settlement being made in the village of Perrysburg, in the Maumee valley of Ohio, while a little later the family home was established on a farm not far distant.. There the mother passed away, leaving three children to the care of the father.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof Rudolph A. Bartley enjoyed only such educational opportunities as the district schools afforded. In 1868, when a youth of sixteen years, he came to Toledo and since that time, covering a period of more than a half century, he has been closely associated with the grocery trade. His original position here was that of employe in the grocery and general store situated at St. Clair and Adams streets and owned by H. & F. Barnes. The arrangement with his father was that he should send home fifteen dollars a month in

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lieu of his services on the farm. He began work, however, at a wage of only eight dollars per month so that he had to go in debt for the remaining seven. His capability and faithfulness, however, soon won him promotion and an increased salary, but though his wage was advanced to fifteen dollars per month all this went to pay his father. Further promotion, however, enabled him to wipe out his indebtedness and at the end of the first year he was receiving twenty-five dollars per month in the general store of J. A. Spyer, at the corner of Summit and Orange streets. From time to time he received an increase in his earnings and by the time he had attained his majority he had saved two hundred dollars. He then negotiated a loan of one hundred dollars from B. F. Richardson and with his combined capital of three hundred dollars he entered into partnership with Enos Cousino, opening a retail grocery house in 1872, under the firm style of Cousino & Bartley. They occupied a little two-story building and bent every energy toward the development of the trade. They employed no outside help but did all the work themselves and slept in the store at night. They delivered their goods from a hand cart, each partner delivering that which he sold and by reason of their close application, thoroughness and enterprise the business kept steadily growing in volume and importance, so that in 1882 Mr. Bartley was able to purchase his partner's interest and in the same year he acquired by purchase the retail grocery house of J. C. Wuerfel. He then removed his main stock into the double brick building next door, originally occupied by Wuerfel, while the old storeroom was used as a warehouse. In the meantime he had begun selling to the wholesale trade and this department of his business was manifesting a steady and gratifying growth. By 1887 he had discarded the retail end of the business entirely and was devoting his attention exclusively to the wholesale trade. In that year the store was removed to the corner of Summit and Lynn streets, where Mr. Bartley occupied a four-story business block, considered then a large store. In 1897 a two-story warehouse was erected, adjoining the larger building and a year later a five-story structure was erected at the other end, so that the group of buildings occupied the entire block from Lynn to Cherry streets, on Summit. A disastrous fire occurred, however, in 1908, and for some time thereafter the business occupied temporary quarters at Monroe and St. Clair streets, until Mr. Bartley had perfected his plans for a new business block. He selected the highest point of land in the business district, at the corner of Washington and Ontario streets, and one especially adapted to the wholesale trade, having railroad tracks at the door. There he erected a seven-story and basement fireproof structure one hundred and forty by one hundred and twenty feet, with a total floor space of more than five and a half acres. This building has every equipment requisite to the requirement of a large and growing trade. The trade covers the three states of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan and a large number of office people, clerks and salesmen are employed. The business is today one of the most important commercial interests of Toledo and the state and has been a large contributing factor to the commercial development of the city. Mr. Bartley is also a director of the National Bank of Commerce and has long figured as one of the foremost business men of Toledo.

In early manhood Mr. Bartley wedded Mrs. Hattie Josephine (Barnes) Dutton of Adrian, Michigan, a daughter of Dr. L. B. and Olive Leaf (Evans) Barnes. Her father was a well known physician and surgeon of southern Michigan and northern Indiana and Ohio. For many years he resided on a farm in Calhoun county, Michigan, near Union City, where both he and his wife passed away. Mrs. Bartley was born in Steuben county, New York, and was graduated from the high school at

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Coldwater, Michigan, after which she attended Professor Taylor's College in Lansing, Michigan. By her first marriage she had a son, Charles E., who was reared by Mr. Bartley as his own child, and has taken the name o f Bartley. He resides in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Bartley reared from babyhood, Virginia, the daughter of Charles E. Bartley. She finished her schooling at the Miss Mason School for Girls, at Tarrytown, New York. She married Charles West Peckinpaugh of Toledo, and their three children are : Charles West, Jr., Richard Bartley and David William. Before her second marriage Mrs. Bartley taught school in different sections of Calhoun county and following her marriage she displayed splendid business ability, giving active assistance to Mr. Bartley in the conduct of the wholesale grocery house. She acted as bookkeeper and managed the financial end of the business and Mr. Bartley has always given great credit to her for his success. She possesses keen insight and sagacity and has displayed marked intuition in directing business affairs and expanding the interests under their control. After a time she ceased to take active part in the management of the business and turned her energies to various social and civic service plans. She has been an untiring worker in the church and along other lines. She holds membership in the First Baptist church and has contributed to the growth and development in all the departments of the church and Sunday school work. She belongs as well to the Shakespeare Club, to the Woman's Educational Club, to the Woman's Building Association and has done much for the woman's suffrage movement. She has always kept abreast with the best in literature and their private library is one of the finest to be found in any home in northern Ohio. Her benevolent spirit has found expression in substantial assistance to many but in this she follows the precept not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth. However, she has reared three girls from the respective ages of eight, ten and twelve years and also three boys, giving to them the advantages of a splendid home and the best educational training possible. She has lived to see them grow up to useful manhood and womanhood and take their places in society, occupying homes of their own. Mr. Bartley has been an important factor in the life of the community aside from his extensive business and no good work done in the name of charity or religion seeks his aid in vain, while his cooperation can at all times be counted upon for the progress of social and civic service. He was for two terms president of the Toledo Business Men's Chamber of Commerce and is now a valued member of the Toledo Commerce Club. He served for five years as a member of the Toledo board of education, acting as president theref for two terms and for a number of years he has been a director of the Toledo Humane Society, while for a considerable period he was president of the Adams Street Mission. Just as they worked together in the upbuilding of the business so Mr. and Mrs. Bartley have held to kindred interests in their efforts to uplift humanity and improve conditions of society in general. The record of Mr. Bartley is indeed one that should serve to inspire and encourage others. In his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive power, 'keeping his hand steadily upon the helm of his business and strictly conscientious in his dealings with debtor and creditor alike. Keenly alive to the possibilities of every new avenue opened in the natural ramifications of trade he has passed over the pitfalls into which unrestricted progressiveness is so frequently led and has been enabled to focus his energies in directions where fruition is certain. If a pen picture could accurately delineate his business characteristics they might he given in these words : A progressive spirit ruled by more than ordinary intelligence and good judgment a deep

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earnestness impelled and fostered by indomitable perseverance ; a native justice expressing itself in correct principles and practice. Mr. Bartley's residence is at No. 1855 Collingwood avenue, and was erected by him in 1906.

ROBERT J. BURNOR

Business development in Toledo has found stimulus in the efforts of Robert J. Burnor, an unusually capable and enterprising young business man, who is engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and his intelligently directed labors have been attended with a gratifying measure of success. He was born in this city on the 1st of February, 1890, and is a member of one of the old and well known families of Toledo. He is a son of Peter and Rosa (Bartley) Burnor, the former a native of Adrian, Michigan, and the latter of Toledo. In early life the father came to this city, where he has since made his home, and for many years he has successfully conducted a trucking and transfer business, being highly regarded in commercial circles of Toledo. The mother also survives and they have become the parents of six children, five of whom are living, namely : Roman G. and Robert J., both residents of this city ; Mrs. Angela B. Siess, who is living in Cleveland, Ohio ; Marjorie; and Beatrice, who is unmarried and also makes her home in Toledo.

In the acquirement of an education Robert J. Burnor attended St. Mary's parochial* school and St. John's College, after which he entered the University of Michigan, of which he was a student for a year. He then returned home and embarked in the merchandise brokerage business, upon which he concentrated his attention for several years, meeting with success in his efforts. He continues to operate that enterprise but now devotes the major portion of his time to the general real estate and insurance business, having organized the Robert J. Burnor Company in November, 1920. They have negotiated many. important realty transfers, while they also write a large amount of insurance annually, and under the capable direction of Mr. Burnor, who acts as president and manager of the company, the business is rapidly developing. He is also a director of the Lucas County Mortgage Company and has never hesitated to. extend his interests as opportunity has offered, being alert, energetic and determined in the conduct of his business affairs.

Mr. Burnor is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church and is also connected with the Knights of Columbus, in which he has taken the fourth degree. In politics he maintains an independent attitude, casting his ballot in favor of the candidate whom he deems best fitted for office without regard to party ties. As a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce he does all in his power to promote the industrial expansion of his city and the nature of his recreation is indicated by his connection with the Toledo Yacht Club and the Maumee River Yacht Club. He belongs to Bartelle Post, American Legion, being a veteran of the World war, in which he served for sixteen and a half months as a member of the Eighty-third Division of the United States army. For seven and a half months he was stationed at Camp Sherman and was then sent overseas, in the Le Mans sector. Since starting out in the business world he has made continuous advancement and his record is that of a self-made man who has won success through industry and

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ability. He is enterprising and aggressive in his operations, straightforward and reliable in all business transactions, and is enthusiastic in exploiting the resources and attractions of the city, which is proud to claim him as a native son.

GEORGE ELTWEED POMEROY

The history of any city is nothing more than a record of the lives of its citizens whose activities have been contributing factors to its growth and development, and any history of Toledo, particularly that of the past forty years, would be incomplete without a biographical mention of George Eltweed Pomeroy, dean of the city's real estate men, banker and prominent citizen.

The life story of George Eltweed Pomeroy had its beginning in Clinton, Michigan, where he was born November 28, 1848. He comes from a fine old New England family, that was established in the Plymouth Rock Colony in 1630, by Eltweed Pomeroy, the American progenitor.

In 1912 Colonel Albert A. Pomeroy published a genealogy of the Pomeroy family, giving a complete list of the descendants of this Eltweed Pomeroy through eleven generations and comprising one of the most valuable contributions ever made to American genealogical literature. The English ancestry of the Pomeroy family is traced back through a long line of distinguished warriors and statesmen to Normandy. Sir Radulphus De Pomeraie of St. Sauveur de la Pomerai in Normandy, chief of staff of William the Conqueror, was the progenitor of the family in England and was an active participant in the battle of Hastings in 1066. In a later generation the name was Anglicized to Ralph de Pomeroy and the family has figured prominently in the southwestern counties of England through several centuries or since the time of the Norman conquest. Vast estates were granted to the founder of the family in Devonshire and his descendants maintained their feudal position through centuries of strife.

The family has been represented in America since 1630, when Eltweed Pomeroy came to the new world, having previously engaged in the manufacture of guns in England. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and was offered a grant of a thousand acres of land by the Massachussetts Bay Colony if he would establish a gun factory in the colony. This he did and seven generations of the family continued the business. One of the original anvils is still in possession of his descendants.

George Eltweed Pomeroy of Toledo, is a descendant in the eighth generation of the family in this country, the line of descent being as follows, the Roman numerals indicating the generation :

A most remarkable thing about this line of ancestry is the fact that all, excepting the progenitor, Eltweed Pomeroy, were born in Northampton, Massachusetts.

It was in that town that George Eltweed Pomeroy, Sr., was born, September 16, 1807. In 1833 he married Helen E. Robinson, also of Puritan lineage, and in 1835 they removed westward to Palmyra, Michigan, where Mr. Pomeroy engaged in milling. He afterward became a resident of Albany, New York, and inaurgurated the first express service of the United States, the route extending from New York to Buffalo, while Mr. Pomeroy made the first trip as the pioneer express messenger in June, 1841. After that weekly trips were made, at first by railway and stage, parcels being carried in a carpetbag and a strong trunk. The round trip Consumed eighty-four hours. The business grew rapidly in favor among bankers, for it was much quicker than the mail service and was deemed safer. The route was afterward extended to New York and other cities, and George E. Pomeroy, Sr., was joined as a partner in the business by his brother, Thaddeus Pomeroy, under the firm style of Pomeroy & Company, daily trips being inaugurated in 1842. A stamp was devised for the patrons similar in size and form to those afterward used in the postal service, which was the first postage stamp in the United States. Two five-cent stamps in black and blue, respectively, and vermilion ten-cent stamps were issued. The vignette was a handsome steel portrait of a woman surrounded by the words "Pomeroy's Letter Express" and above were the words "Free Stamp," while below "Twenty for One Dollar." The firm was soon defendants in lawsuits brought by the government, but the decisions of the courts were in favor of the Pomeroy company. In July, 1844, the following announcement appeared in the Toledo Blade : "New Post Office, Post Reduced. Pomeroy's Daily Letter Express, having been extended to this place, is now prepared to carry letters at the following rates : From Toledo to Detroit and all lake points, Buffalo included, six and one-fourth cents ; to Batavia, Albany and New York, twelve and a half cents ; to New England points and Philadelphia, eighteen and three-fourth cents." At the corner of Summit and Monroe streets the office of the company was found and for several years the firm conducted a profitable business as its rates were lower than those of the government. At length George E. Pomeroy disposed of his interest in the business to his brother and removed to Clinton, Michigan, at the same time establishing the Detroit Tribune. In 1863 he became a resident of Toledo, where he turned his attention to the real estate business, in which he won substantial success. He and his wife lived to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1883. Mr. Pomeroy passed away January 12, 1886, and his wife died May 25, 1895. She was a lady of notably generous spirit and was largely instrumental in the building of churches in Palmyra, Clinton and Toledo.

The youthful days of George E. Pomeroy were largely passed on his father's extensive farm at Palmyra, Michigan, and in 1864 he accompanied his mother to Toledo, where his father was already engaged in business. His education was acquired in the public schools of Clinton and of Buffalo, New York, and when his textbooks were put aside he became actively associated with his father in the conduct of the real estate business and immediately took helpful part in systematizing their interests. He was admitted to the firm under the style of George E. Pomeroy & Son, an association that was maintained until the father's death. This left the son in full charge and his thoroughness, systematic methods and unfaltering enterprise led to the continuous growth and development of the business until his clientele

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became not only extensive, but probably the most desirable ever enjoyed by a Toledo real estate house. This brought him into close relations with many of the leading bankers. of various sections of the world as well as of the United States, including prominent financiers of London, Petrograd, Vienna, Mexico and Halifax, Nova, Scotia. Mr. Pomeroy also entered the banking field as an active factor, becoming president of the First National Bank of Bellevue, Ohio, a position which he occupied for a quarter of a century and his careful direction of the institution and splendid administrative ability were largely the contributing elements in its rapid and substantial growth. He likewise became a stockholder in the Second National Bank of Toledo and interested as well in several large manufacturing concerns. At the same time he remained at the head of the George E. Pomeroy Company, which is the oldest real estate firm in the state of Ohio, and one with a reputation for commercial integrity not surpassed by any business house in Toledo.

Mr. Pomeroy has long been most happily situated in his home life. He was married to Miss Hannah Mathilda Worthington, daughter of John T. Worthington, a native of Maryland, who removed to Toledo in 1875. Mrs. Pomeroy was educated in St. Mary's Hall at Burlington, New Jersey, and she has long been prominent in the social circles of this city. She belongs to the Colonial Dames and to the Daughters of the American Revolution, indicating her close connection with some of the oldest American families. Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy are members of the First West-minister Presbyterian church, in the work of which they have taken active and helpful part, Mr. Pomeroy serving for many years as president of the board of trustees. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party when national questions and issues are involved, but at local elections he casts an independent ballot. He is prominently known in club circles, belonging to the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Middle Bass Club, and also to the Castalia Trout Club and the Ohio Society in New York city. He has served as governor of the Society of Colonial Wars of Ohio and has been state president of the Sons of the American Revolution, likewise having membership in chapters of this society in Massachusetts and in New York city. He is now serving his fourteenth year as president of the Ohio State Board of Commerce and he has ever been an active participant in all those forces which make for the upbuilding and progress of com-munity, commonwealth and country. The Ohio State Board of Commerce was the organization from which grew the National Tax Association and its methods were the foundation of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Mr. Pomeroy's cooperation with affairs and movements has led to the adoption of many plans which he has fostered. For several years he was president of the board of sinking fund trustees and has also served as tax commissioner. In this connection he made a thorough study of systems of taxation and rendered extremely valuable service on the commission. He was the first chairman of the National Tax Association and he also served in that capacity at the tenth annual meeting of that body. The work of this Association has been extremely beneficial to the entire country in working out taxation problems. Mr. Pomeroy has received appointment from Ohio gov-ernors as representative of the state in many conferences called for the consideration of important problems, one of these being that of trade relations between the United States and Canada. It is Mr. Pomeroy's belief that every citizen to whom it is possible should give at least one-third of his time to the service of the municipality or the state. He has lived up to this belief, giving freely of his time, his efforts and his means to further questions of public concern and he has utilized his opportunities for the general good just as wisely and just as thoroughly as he has utilized his

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opportunities for advancement in a business way. Delving deep to the root of any matter in which he is concerned, his opinions have largely become accepted as authority upon many questions of public interest. Mr. Pomeroy was one of the important factors in the movement that resulted in erection of the McKinley monument in Toledo and gave his personal attention to a number of details, including the selection of the sculptor. His life has indeed been one of worth to his fellowmen for he is ever a stanch and helpful advocate of all those plans and measures which are promoting the material, intellectual, social, political and moral welfare in the fullest and broadest sense of these terms. Mr. Pomeroy's residence is at the northeast corner of Huron and Walnut streets,: where he has lived for nearly forty years.

ASHBEL B. NEWELL

In transportation circles of Ohio, Ashbel B. Newell is well known as the president of the Toledo Terminal Railroad and he is a representative of a family that has long figured prominently in this field of activity. A native of Buffalo, New York, he was born April 26, 1868, and his parents were John and Judith (PoorHills) Newell, both of whom were born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1869 they took up their residence in Chicago, Illinois, the father having been made president of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. He went to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern in 1875 as general manager and was chosen president in 1884, becoming one of the prominent railroad heads of the country. His death occurred at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1894. The mother survived him for sixteen years, passing away in 1910.

Ashbel B. Newell attended school in Chicago and afterward entered Yale. University, from which he was graduated in 1890. He began his business career with the Lake Shore Railroad, with which he remained until 1901, when he went to Alaska as vice president of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, retaining that office until 1906. He then returned to the States, locating in Chicago, and for two years engaged in the railroad supply business in that city. Disposing of his interests there, he went to Mexico City as an official of the Mexican Central Railroad, in which capacity he served until 1909, when he was elected president of the Tennessee Central Railroad Company. He continued to fill that office until January, 1914, when he came to this city, and has since served as president of the Toledo Terminal Railroad. He brought to the office a thorough knowledge of railroading, gained through years of experience, and under his direction the line is being operated in a most efficient manner.

In Chicago, Illinois, on the 24th of April, 1894, Mr. Newell married Miss Harriet King, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. King of that city, and they had three children : A. B. Newell, Jr., the eldest in the family, was born in Chicago in 1897 and entered Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1920. He enlisted for service in the World war and was commissioned a second lieutenant of artillery. He married Miss Helen Ingalls, of Jacksonville, Florida, and they have one daughter, Eleanor, and reside in Toledo ; Eleanor King Newell, the second child, was born in Chicago and was graduated from Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania in 1921. On the 24th of June, 1922, she became the wife of William Burry, Jr., of Chicago ; Harriet Newell was born in Chicago in 1902. In 1910 Mr. Newell married Evelyn S. Seymour at Mentor, Ohio.

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Mr. Newell is a republican in his political views and he is a member of the Toledo Country Club, the Toledo Club and the Transportation Club. He also belongs to the Chicago Club of Chicago and to the University and Yale Clubs of New York.

HARRY ELDRIDGE KING

Harry Eldridge King was born near Cumberland, Allegany county, Maryland, May 12, 1857, the tenth child in a family of five sons and seven daughters born to Captain Alexander and Lavina M. (Collins) King, both of whom were members of noteworthy southern families.

On the paternal side Harry Eldridge King was a grandson of Colonel Alexander King, who served as a representative in the Virginia general assembly from 1802 to 1812. Mr. King's father, Captain Alexander King, was born and reared in Virginia but removed in early manhood to Cumberland, Maryland, where he was long engaged in mercantile business. He was a prominent and influential citizen, esteemed for his probity of character, public usefulness and ability. In 1843, during the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, serious rioting occurred in the vicinity of Cumberland, and as captain of a local military organization known as the Cumberland Guards, he displayed signal courage and efficiency when called to assist in suppressing the disturbances. He was a member of the board of county commissioners of Allegany county, Maryland, from 1843 to 1845 and judge of the orphans court from 1856 to 18,A. During the Civil war, notwithstanding the prevalence of a strong pro-southern sentiment in the community where he resided, he was at all times a pronounced and active supporter of the Union. After retiring from business he lived on an extensive plantation about six miles north of Cumberland, near the present town of Ellerslie, Maryland.

The mother of Harry E. King was, like his father, a native of Virginia. She was a descendant on the maternal side of the Tomlinson family, which from an early period occupied a prominent position in Allegany county, Maryland. Her grandfather, Benjamin Tomlinson, was elected a member of the Maryland house of delegates in 1791 and at various times for thirty-one years subsequently.

The childhood of Harry E. King was spent at Cumberland, while the armies of the north and south were struggling to decide the issues of the Civil war. Later he attended the schools at Cumberland, but his regular education was interrupted by the death of his father when the son was only sixteen years of age. This threw him upon his own resources, but with the endowment he received from his sturdy Scotch-Irish ancestors he entered upon his individual struggle without fear and with a steady outlook toward higher things. After the death of his father, during 1874-75 he attended the State Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, was in the Collegiate Institute at Fort Edward, New York, in 1877, and in Eastman's National Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1878. He attended these institutions not as a routine performance, but as a means to an end which he already clearly perceived. While in those schools he laid the foundation for the practical and efficient service which characterized his subsequent career. 'During 1879-81 he was clerk in a general store at Sulphur Springs, Texas. These early experiences brought him a considerable knowledge of the country and of men and affairs in different sections. With the savings acquired in Texas he took a course in the law

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department of the University of Michigan. Through all the preceding years he had worked steadily with the law as his ultimate goal and he allowed no obstacle to prove more than a temporary embarrassment to his ambition. He remained in the University of Michigan during 1881-82, and in March, 1882, located at Toledo, where he made arrangements to continue his law studies in the office of Swayne, Swayne & Hayes, a partnership holding then a distinctive place in the Northwest Ohio bar. He was a student in that office until 1883, and then passed the Ohio state bar examination, and on February 6th was admitted by the supreme court to practice in Ohio. Two years later he became a member of the firm of Swayne, Swayne & Hayes and continued in that association until April 1, 1892, when he organized with Thomas H. Tracy the firm of King & Tracy. This firm, besides having a large general practice, was employed as counsel for a number of prominent corporations and business houses. For some years they occupied offices in the Nasby building, but in the spring of 1908, when their rapidly increasing business led to the admission of two additional members, Charles F. Chapman, Jr., and George D. Welles, offices were furnished and occupied in the Ohio building. During the next six years the firm was known as King, Tracy, Chapman & Welles, and there was no stronger firm in northwest Ohio, and few that enjoyed such an extensive and profitable clientage.

On April 1, 1914, Mr. King withdrew from the partnership after twenty-two years of continuous association with Thomas H. Tracy. He then opened offices of his own in the Ohio building, adjoining those of the old firm, with which he continued to have the most cordial and close relations until his death. He surrounded himself with young associates, having several of the brightest in Toledo, until the war took some of them away, and continued his fine career as a lawyer at the same high level and with the same success, until within a few days of his death. Mr. King was attorney in many important cases and for several years sat a good deal at the trial table. He took the leading part in one of the most important and intricate cases ever tried in northwestern Ohio, known as the Anderson-Messinger litigation, which began here in 1904 and ended in the supreme court of the United States in 1912. It involved, in complicated forms and lengthy history, the title to a large block of valuable Toledo real estate, located at the corner of Summit and Cherry streets. The main question turned on the construction of the will of Henry Anderson, who died in 1846, a resident of Holly Springs, Mississippi, who once owned the Toledo property. One branch of the litigation went up through the federal courts and another through the state courts, and a conflict of decisions resulted. After eight years of remarkable contests, the titles of his clients were sustained. His associates have paid him the highest tributes of praise for his tireless, faithful and skillful efforts in this litigation. The property came back, after all this litigation, in a ruinous condition and the owners were much embarrassed by the long struggle, and Mr. King then did as good a job as a business man in assisting to build up the property, as he had done as a lawyer; After further years of work, putting into the matter his own time and credit, the property became remunerative and his client was able to obtain a large amount for an equity which at times seemed to be practically worthless. Altogether this litigation was as many-sided, and the result as creditable, as any achievement ever reached by a Toledo lawyer.

Mr. King exemplified many of the best qualities of the successful attorney. First of all, he was a hard worker, though his diligence was equaled perhaps by a mental keenness and ability at analysis that served him well in the solution of many intricate legal problems. Most of all was he admired by his fellow attorneys for the scrupulous and conscientious care which he exercised in all of his professional

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relations. He was preeminently fair, never took a petty or mean advantage over another and never left in his pathway any feelings of bitterness on the part of those he opposed with all his might. He had a keen sense of humor and loved to argue by stories, but no one ever heard him tell a vulgar story. The appellate judge who knew Mr. King longest said of him : "He seemed entirely free from envy or disposition to walk off with credit that belonged to others. He was more than kind and deferential to young men who appeared associated with him in court and always gave them the fullest opportunity for every advancement possible. I never knew a lawyer who so constantly charged himself with the duty of radiating good feeling wherever he went as did Mr. King."

Mr. King was an active republican and for five years served as secretary of the Toledo board of elections, an office to which he was appointed by Governor Joseph B. Foraker. He resigned as secretary to accept appointment as a regular member of the same board and continued in that work for four years. He was in full sympathy with church work and was identified with many of the leading civic, moral and social organizations of his home city. He was a lover and patron of music and a reader of wide range, possessing a fine private library.

On June 12, 1883, at Tenafly, New Jersey, Mr. King married Miss Mary Elma Haring. Her father, Dr. John J. Haring, was a prominent physician in his section of New Jersey. Of the four children born to their marriage, three are living : Harry Swayne graduated from Cornell University and is now sales manager of the Great Lakes Securities Company of Toledo ; the daughter; Margaret Haring, died May 8, 1915 ; James Ernest is a graduate of Williams College and is now a member of the editorial staff of the Boston Transcript at Boston, Massachusetts, as a special writer ; the youngest child, Grace McAllister, is the wife of Arthur E. Hazeldine of Toledo. Mr. King's city residence was at Bronson place and his summer home for many years at Kennebunk Beach, Maine. Later in life he became possessed of a beautiful estate on the west bank of the Maumee river, known as "Maple Grove." Here the family spent several happy summers and here he passed away on October 18, 1918, in the sixty-second year of his age.

THOMAS HENRY TRACY

Thomas Henry Tracy, senior member of the well known law firm of Tracy, Chapman & Welles, has been an active representative of the legal profession for the past four decades, and has long been accounted an attorney of exceptional ability and power. His birth occurred in Bowling Green, Ohio, on the 13th of July, 1859, his parents being Joseph Rex and Hannah (Burdick) Tracy. He supplemented his early educational advantages by a course of study in the Mansfield (Ohio) Normal College and after further qualifying for a professional career was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1883. Throughout the intervening period, covering forty years, he has continuously followed his profession in Toledo, where he has long been numbered among the leading and capable members of the bar. On April 1, 1892, Mr. Tracy entered into partnership with Harry E. King, as the firm of King & Tracy. During the twenty-two years that this partnership existed, King & Tracy had such an extensive and profitable practice in all the courts of northern Ohio, that the firm name is recalled as one of the ablest of its time in Toledo. Mr. King retired from the firm on April 1, 1914, when the firm name became

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Tracy, Chapman & Welles, of which Mr. Tracy has since practiced as senior member. He is a director of and attorney for the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company, the Toledo-Edison Company, the Toledo & Indiana Railway Company and many other corporations. He was appointed by Governor Joseph B. Foraker as a member of the commission to construct the gas line and plant for the city of Toledo. As a lawyer he is sound, clear-minded and well trained. With the long line of decisions from Marshall down, by which the federal con-stitution has been expounded, he is familiar, as are all thoroughly skilled lawyers. He is at home in all departments of the law, from the minutiae of practice to the greater topics wherein is involved the consideration of the ethics and the philosophy of jurisprudence and also higher concerns of public policy. But he is not learned in the law alone, for he has studied long and carefully the subjects that are to the statesman and the man -of affairs of the greatest import—the ques-tions of finance, political economy, sociology—and has kept abreast with the best thinking men of the age. He is felicitous and clear in argument, thoroughly in earnest, full of the vigor of conviction, never abusive of his adversaries, imbued with highest courtesy and yet a foe worthy of the steel of the most able opponent.

On the 1st of January, 1885, Mr. Tracy was united in marriage to Miss Laura E. Pratt of Weston, Ohio. Mr. Tracy gives his political allegiance to the republican party and for three years was a member of the Toledo board of education, rendering most effective, and valuable service in behalf of the city schools. In religious belief he is a Methodist, while his appreciation for the social amenities of life is indicated in his membership relations with the Toledo and Country clubs. Mr. Tracy's residence, "River Home," at Perrysburg, is one of the attractive homes in Toledo's suburbs.

CLARENCE DALE WILLIAMS

Clarence Dale Williams, organizer of the Usona Manufacturing Company, of which he is the secretary and treasurer, is through this connection engaged in the manufacture of electrical specialties at Toledo and is building up a substantial business in this line. He was born in Toledo on the 3d of March, 1891, and is a son of Harry G. and Rose (Haid) Williams. The father was a railway engineer with the New York Central Company. The son obtained a public school education, continuing his course until he had completed his high school work, and then started out in the business world as clerk with a manufacturing company. In 1911 he organized the Usona Manufacturing Company, of which he has since been the secretary and treasurer. This corporation is engaged in the manufacture of electric specialties, including the ."Kwik-lite," a valuable flash light which is rapidly finding favor on the market and now has a large sale. Other electric specialties are produced by the company and the business is steadily growing along satisfactory lines. The firm employs fifty people in various capacities. The Usona Radio Company, which is a subsidiary company of the Usona Manufacturing Company, is engaged in the extensive manufacture of radio specialties.

On the 3d of October, 1913, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Ilah Pauline Kankey of Toledo and they have one son, William Dale, born June 28, 1917. Mr. Williams is a member of the Commerce Club and of the Exchange Club and is

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interested in all that has to do with the business development and upbuilding of the city and with the advancement of those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. Fraternally he is a Mason and has become a member not only of the lodge but of the chapter, of the Knights Templar commandery, of the consistory, the Grotto and the Mystic Shrine, being a most loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of the craft. He is also a well known member of the Toledo and Inverness clubs.

JOHN HARDY DOYLE

The student of history cannot carry his investigation far into the record of Ohio without learning how prominent and honored a place Judge John Hardy Doyle occupied, nor how deep was the impress that he made upon the annals of the Ohio bar. Toledo claimed him as a citizen but the entire state rejoiced in the eminence to which he attained as a lawyer, a jurist, as historian and as publisher. He was the youngest man who ever occupied the supreme court bench of Ohio and his talents brought him prominently to the front as one whose professional reputation made him known throughout a wide territory. His entire career was one of great usefulness in that profession to which life and liberty, right and property must look for protection. Duty was ever his watchword and he performed every task that came to him with a sense of conscientious obligation that, added to his native and acquired talents and powers, brought him notable distinction.

John Hardy Doyle was born in Monday Creek township, Perry county, Ohio, April 23, 1844, his parents being Michael and Johanna (Brophy) Doyle. The father was contractor and he and his wife became early residents of the Maumee valley. In 1847 they established their home in Toledo, when their son, John, was but three years of age and here the father passed away at the comparatively early age of thirty-four years. Both he and his wife were descendants from ancient Irish families, whose sterling characteristics seem to have been inherited all down the line to the present time.

Judge Doyle of this review, one of a family of five children, all of whom have passed away, was reared to manhood in Toledo and after completing a thorough course of study in the public schools, was for a short time a student in the Denison University. He was still quite young when he determined to devote his attention to the legal profession and after leaving college he entered upon the study of law in Toledo, closely applying himself to the mastery of the principles of jurisprudence. He made notable progress, displaying special aptitude in his studies and on the day on which he attained his majority he was also admitted to the bar. Something of the sterling qualities which he displayed in his student days is indicated in the fact that on his admission he was at once admitted to a partnership by his former preceptor, Edward Bissell, and this association was maintained for thirteen years, or until Judge Doyle had reached the age of thirty-four, when he was advanced to the common pleas bench in Lucas county. From the outset of his professional career he had made steady progress. While advancement at the bar is proverbially slow no dreary novitiate awaited him and within a short time he had gained a large clientele and was connected with much important litigation heard in the courts that convened in Toledo. At length he was recommended by unanimous vote of the republican members of the Lucas county bar for nomination for the position of