HISTORY OF OHIO BY CHARLES B. GALBREATH Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. Former State Librarian and Secretary of Ohio Constitutional Convention (1912). ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS JAMES E. CAMPBELL FRANK B. WILLIS C. T. MARSHALL SPENCER D. CARR ARTHUR E. MORGAN CHARLOTTE R. CONOVER JUDSON HARMON MAURICE DONAHUE ATLEE POMERENE ELROY McKENDREE AVERY NEVIN O. WINTER BENJAMIN B. PUTNAM HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Historical and Biographical IN FIVE VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED VOLUME IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1925 HISTORY OF OHIO JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL has been and is one of the prominent figures in the political, professional and social life of Ohio. For more than half a century he has been a practicing attorney and a recognized leader in state politics. He won additional fame by breaking a long continued republican succession to the office of governor of Ohio. Governor Campbell was born at Middletown, Ohio, July 7, 1843. His parents were Dr. Andrew and Laura P. (Reynolds) Campbell. His mother was a descendant of John Reynolds, who came to Boston in 1630. His father was a descendant of Alexander Campbell, who came to Virginia in 1753. His mother was the daughter of John P. Reynolds, once a publisher in the State of New York and afterward a prominent citizen of Middletown. The ancestor of Mr. Reynolds, John Reynolds, immigrated to America from Plympton Earl in the County of Devonshire, England, in 1630. On his arrival in America he settled near Plympton, in Plymouth Colony, now a part of Massachusetts. Governor Campbell is eighth in descent from John Reynolds. The descendants of the Reynolds family are now numerously represented in Rhode Island and New York, where some of them have filled important ,positions in state and national councils. Governor Campbell's paternal great-grandfather, Andrew Small, was a Revolutionary soldier. At the age of eighteen he accompanied General Montgomery in his ill fated expedition against Quebec and suffered severely with his comrades in that memorable retreat. His grandfathers, Samuel Campbell and John Parker Reynolds, were soldiers in the War of 1812. In a collateral line Governor Campbell is related to John Parker who commanded the Minute Men at the battle of Lexington. The Campbell family has been prominent in America since Colonial times. Alexander Campbell, the great-grandfather of James E. Campbell, was born in Argyllshire about 1745, and came to Virginia at the age of eight years. His son, Samuel Campbell, was born in 1781 and came to Ohio in 1795. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Andrew Small, great-grandfather of James E. Campbell, was born in 1757, and came to Ohio in 1796. He was an ensign in the Revolutionary war, and served three and one-half years. His daughter, Mary Small, born 1786, married Samuel Campbell. To them were born five sons and two daughters, brief notices of whom follow: Andrew Small Campbell, the eldest, born in 1807, was the father of the subject of this sketch, James Edwin Campbell. On January 4, 1870, he married Elizabeth Owens, daughter of Job E. Owens, of Hamilton. They became the parents of four children: Elizabeth, who married John M. Taylor; Andrew Owens, who married Ella Heffner ; Jessie, who mar- ried Dr. J. J. Coons; and James Edwin, a captain in the World war. Lewis Davis Campbell, born in 1811, was colonel of the Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. Before and after his military service he had been a congressman. He was the first republican chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; minister to Mexico; vice president of the Constitutional Convention of 1873. He married Jane H. Reily, daughter of John Reily, a Revolutionary soldier and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1802. His daughter, Catherine, born in 1841, married Oscar Minor, a colonel in the Civil war. Another daughter, Josephine Reily, born in 1850, married Estes G. Rathbone, a state senator, fourth assistant postmaster general and director of posts in Cuba. William Henry Harrison Campbell, born in 1813, served as state senator. His two daughters, Mary and Ella, became successively the wives of Henry L. Morey, a captain in the Civil war and a member of Congress. Governor Campbell Morey, born in 1867, a son of Henry L. and Mary Morey, is a lawyer in Hamilton. Edwin Ruthven Campbell, born in 1817, founded the Cincinnati Times. Catherine Campbell, born 1819, married Robert Reily, colonel of the Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, who was killed at Chancellorsville. Robert Reily was the son of John Reily, a Revolutionary soldier and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1802. James Lewis Reily, son of Robert and Catherine Reily, was a lieutenant in the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil war, and died while in service. Abner Caruthers Campbell, born in 1824, was a manufacturer of fire arms during the Civil war. Mary Campbell, born in 1829, married Samuel B. Woodward. Their son, Edwin Campbell, born in 1861, is a paper manufacturer in Middleton. Edwin Campbell Woodward had a son and a daughter : Thomas Campbell, first lieutenant in the World war and an envelope manufacturer at Middleton; and Harriet, who married Ewing Reginald Philbin, first lieutenant in the Rainbow Division, World war. The daughter of Mary and Samuel B. Woodward, Lily Campbell, is the widow of Clarence Harding, a paper manufacturer. To Lily and Clarence Harding were born two sons, Edwin Forest, 1886, a graduate of West Point and lieutenant-colonel in the Regular Army; and Justin Woodward, 1888, a major in the World war and representative in the Legislature from Warren County. Governor Campbell is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Masonic Order, the Order of Elks, the Columbus Club and the Scioto Country Club. He is a Presbyterian and a member of the Kit-Kat Club. Governor Campbell was educated in the public schools of his native town and later received private instruction from Rev. John B. Morton, a former teacher and for many years the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Middletown. He later studied law and taught school. In the summer of 1863 he volunteered in the Union army and became a master 's mate on the gunboats Elk and Naiad, serving with the Mississippi and Red River flotillas and taking - 3 - 4 - HISTORY OF OHIO part in a number of engagements. His health gave way in the arduous service of the southern climate, but he remained in the navy until compelled to leave to save his life. He returned home when discharged in an emaciated condition. He gradually recovered his health and was able in the winter of 1865 to resume the study of law in the office of Doty and Gunckel of Middletown. Later in that year he was admitted to the bar. For a time he was bookkeeper in the First National Bank at Middletown, and subsequently served eight months as deputy collector in the internal revenue service of the Third Congressional District, under General Ferdinand Van Derveer, the collector of the district. In the spring of 1867 he began the practice of law. From 1867 to 1869 he was United States commissioner. In 1875 and again in 1877 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Butler County. In 1879 he was a candidate for the Ohio State Senate, and was defeated by twelve votes. During the Civil war and up to 1872 he was affiliated with the republican party. In the Greeley campaign with many other republicans he joined the democratic party, with which he has been continuously and prominently identified ever since. In 1882 he was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, but owing to a contest over the seat, which was finally decided in his favor, he did not enter upon the duties of the position until July 20, 1884. He was reelected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses, his term of service closing March 3, 1889. In that year he was nominated by the democratic party for governor of Ohio. After a campaign notable in the political annals of the state he was elected by a substantial majority over his gifted and resourceful opponent, Joseph Benson Foraker, who was a candidate for a third term. Governor Campbell ran many thousand votes ahead of his ticket and was the only democratic candidate elected. In the two :years that he served in the high office to which he had been elevated by the electors of Ohio he accomplished a number of notable reforms, and his administration has been recognized as distinctly and sanely progressive. A notable achievement was the enactment of a law providing for the use of the Australian ballot, which for the first time in the history of the state gave every voter the opportunity to prepare and cast his ballot in secret. Prior to this time political " workers " at almost every voting precinct in the state prepared ballots and often accompanied the elector to the ballot box to be sure that he voted the ticket placed in his hands. The achievement of this reform that enabled the voter unawed and undisturbed to exercise the "freeman's will" at the ballot box was one of the most beneficial legislative acts that followed the close of the Civil war. Governor Campbell in his message favored the enactment of a law providing a permanent tax levy for the Ohio State University. The General Assembly acted favorably on this advise, and thus was inaugurated the system of special levies for the higher educational institutions of the state, a policy now followed to the great advantage of the other universities of the state and the normal schools that were subsequently established. The state institutions were the objects of especial interest to Governor Campbell and reforms were introduced in a number of them. While Governor Campbell was a strict party man, and his democracy was at no time questioned, he believed in enforcing upon that party a strict responsibility to the people for the trust they had bestowed upon it. Having been convinced that the City of Cincinnati was suffering from maladministration of the local organization of that party that had placed dishonest man in power in that city, he called the General Assembly in special session to legislate out of existence the governing body of the city which had betrayed the trust of the people. When he did this he understood that his action would alienate from him in the coming election many voters of the democratic party in Southwestern Ohio, but his duty was clear and he did not hesitate. In 1891 he was re-nominated for governor, but was defeated by William McKinley, afterward President of the United States. His defeat was brought about in part by the democratic defection in Cincinnati. Had he been reelected it is clearly within the realm of probability that he and not Grover Cleveland would have been elected President in 1892. Governor Campbell and William McKinley, although opposed politically and rival candidates for the governorship, were personal friends. The campaign in which McKinley was elected is memorable because of the debate between the two candidates at Ada, and the high plane upon which it was conducted. Each of the candidates, with courtly courtesy to his competitor, defended his party platform and the party principles and avoided all personalities. James E. Campbell was again nominated for the governorship in 1895, and defeated by Asa S. Bushnell. In 1906 he was nominated for Congress, but was defeated; in 1908 he was his party 's choice for United States senator, but was again defeated. He met all of these defeats in years in which the tide was strongly in the direction of the republican party. For the last sixteen years Governor Campbell has retired from the more arduous political activities, but is still prominent in the councils of his party. He has been chairman of the Ohio delegation in the Democratic National conventions that nominated Woodrow Wilson, James M. Cox and John W. Davis. His chief services have more and more been rendered outside of the realm of party politics, and in this wider field he has manifested a public spirit that has endeared him to a constituency that includes the entire state without reference to creed or party. From 1897 to 1910, by appointment of Governor Andrew L. Harris, he served on the commission for codifying the laws of Ohio. At the conclusion of this service he resumed the practice of law in Columbus. He was later appointed on the Executive Mansion Board, and aided very materially in the purchase on very reasonable terms of the fine governor's mansion on East Broad Street. Through the World war he was especially active and served as a member of the Ohio Branch of the Council of National Defense. He was active also in contributing and raising funds for the Red Cross and all other war activities. While the war was in progress he practically gave all his time to this work and was in frequent demand for addresses at the great war meetings in the state capital and other Ohio cities. In recent years he has been fortunate financially and has gradually abandoned the active practice of the law to devote his entire time to the public service. In this field he has been especially happy in the realization that he is every day winning in larger degree the affectionate regard of the good people of Ohio. The political contests of past years, with the disputes and differences that they inevitably engender, are forgotten while the genial personality and generous service of James E. Campbell are more generally recognized with every day that passes. And this service is active, not passive, in character. For some years he has been president of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and due largely to his enthusiastic interest and personal appeals to the General Assembly the interests of the society have been materially advanced since he became president. A substantial evidence of this service is seen in the memo- HISTORY OF OHIO - 5 rial wing to the Museum and Library Building which has recently been completed at an expense almost three times the cost of the original building. This wing, which includes the main entrance to the entire building and is passed every day by the thousands of students at the Ohio State University, will for years to come bear its silent message of tribute not only to the veterans of the World war but to the patriotic interest and devoted service of Governor James E. Campbell. On July 7, 1923, the citizens of Columbus planned a notable celebration in honor of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of James E. Campbell. On this occasion he was hailed as the first citizen of the capital city of the state. He was the recipient of hundreds of messages from distinguished men throughout the United States and some from foreign lands. Among those who sent greetings were President Warren G. Harding, former President Woodrow Wilson, Chief Justice Howard Taft, and all the former governors of Ohio still living, including Myron T. Herrick, ambassador to France. Among those who delivered addresses at the banquet in the evening were Governor Donahey, former Governor James M. Cox, former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and Honorable Claude Meeker, private secretary to James E. Campbell when he was governor of Ohio. At the conclusion of the program Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., presented to Governor Campbell an artistically wrought book signed by the guests and bearing this characterization on the inner cover : A patriot of the War of 1861-65, a statesman of long service, a former governor of Ohio, an outstanding man of affairs, a courteous and unassuming gentleman whom we delight at X11 times to honor for what he is even more than for what he has done. BRITTON S. JOHNSON has been one of the successful members of the bar at Kent for nearly twenty years. Most of these years have been devoted to the routine duties of the law, but he has also found time for influential activity in local affairs and is a member of the democratic party. He was born in Franklin Township, Portage County, October 14, 1879, son of Perry W. and Carrie M. (Luce) Johnson. His great-grandfather, Ebenezer Johnson, drove an ox team from his native State of Vermont to the Western Reserve of Ohio, settling in Shalersville Township of Portage County. The grandfather of the Kent attorney was Alonzo Johnson, who devoted his life to farming. Perry W. Johnson was the third successive generation in the family in Portage County to follow farming, and he continued that occupation until 1900, when he removed to Kent. Subsequently he sold his farm and at times has been associated with his cousin, F. W. Johnson, in the meat business, but is now practically retired. Carrie M. Luce, the mother of Britton S. Johnson, was born in Franklin Township of Portage County, daughter of Elihu and Malissa (Shurtliff) Luce, the former a native of New York and the latter of Massachusetts. The Luce family came to Portage County about 1836. Britton S. Johnson was reared on the home farm, but attended public schools at Kent and graduated from high school in 1897. He then entered Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, where he completed his high school course and graduated in 1900. He began the study of law at Kent, and in 1904 entered Ohio State University and was graduated from the law department in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in June of that year, and at once engaged in practice at Kent. In a few years his reputation was assured as one of the competent and energetic young attorneys of the county. From 1911 to 1915 he served as special counsel for the attorney-general of Ohio, Timothy S. Hogan. He served two terms as solicitor of Kent, and the unexpired term of about one year in the office of mayor for Congressman M. L. Davey. Mr. Johnson is a democrat, is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Universalist Church, which is the church of his mother. July 3, 1897, he married Miss Hattie Garrison, daughter of Dr. Edward A. and Addie (Moody) Garrison, natives of Franklin Township. She was a child when her father died, and her mother for a number of years was a teacher at Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children: Martha, born September 4, 1908, and Britton Garrison, born March 6, 1917. FRANK BECHTLE, present city auditor of Kent, was born in that city, and his activities and his personal character have brought him the favorable esteem of all classes of citizens. He was born at Kent, April 22, 1875, son of John and Rosene (Hohl) Bechtle. His parents were born in neighboring communities in Germany, but they first met while living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they married. John Bechtle was a baker by trade. While at Hollodaysburg, Pennsylvania, he enlisted, in 1862, in the 164th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the brave and gallant soldiers of the Union Army until the close of the struggle between the North and the South. In July, 1865, soon after released from the army, he came to Kent, Ohio, and established a bakery. After following the baking business for a number of years he gave it up and was employed in the railroad round house until his death on January 6, 1886. His widow was born in 1835 and lived to the advanced age of eighty-five, passing away May 26, 1920. Their children were: A. W., of Kent; Sophia, Mrs. Homer Smith of Meadville, Pennsylvania; Caroline, wife of Charles Abel of Ravenna ; Louis, who died when sixteen years old; Henry, who died in infancy; J. A., of Kent; Kate, wife of J. L. Cutler, of Akron; and Fred, of Kent. Frank Bechtle, youngest of the children, after completing his education in the high school, where he graduated in 1893, went to work with the Erie Railroad Company. He was yard clerk and after several years became a switchman and continued in the railroad service until 1908. He still holds his card of membership in the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and was secretary of the local of this organization for ten years. Mr. Bechtle in 1908 became a city letter carrier with the Kent postoffice, and was on the carrier force eleven years. He served one year as clerk in the postoffice and left the Government employ to gu with the Mason Tire & Rubber Company. He was there two years, and on June 1, 1922, was appointed city auditor of Kent to succeed W. W. Reed, who had resigned to become postmaster. Mr. Bechtle on November 23, 1898, married Miss Mary Irene Case. She was born in Brimfield Township, Portage County, daughter of Ira L. and Sarah (Crotzer) Case, her father a native of Rootstown, Portage County, and her mother of Brimfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Bechtle have two children, both at home, Harold E. and Martha F., the latter a student in the Kent public schools. Mr. Bechtle is a member and trustee of the Universalist Church and superintendent of the Sunday School. In politics he is a democrat. He is well known in local, social and fraternal organizations. He served as master of his lodge in 1918, and in 1923 was again elected to that office. He is a past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter and is a Knight Templar Mason. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and is past com- 6 - HISTORY OF OHIO mander and ex-secretary of the Sons of Veterans. He is past worthy patron and his wife is worthy matron of the Eastern Star. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Wranglers Club. ELLSWORTH GREGG STALEY has earned a favorable reputation at the Ohio bar during more than fifteen years of practice, first at Tiffin, his old home town, and in recent years at Akron, where he became a member of the law firm of Staley & Trunko with offices in the Peoples Bank Building. Mr. Staley was born on a farm near Tiffin, in Seneca County, August 3, 1883. His father, Clayton J. Staley, a native of Frederick, Maryland, came to Ohio when a young man, devoted his active life to farming, and finally came to Tiffin, where he died in 1915. His wife was Alice Loose, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1918. Oldest of three children, Ellsworth Gregg Staley was educated in the Tiffin High School and in Ohio Northern University. He was prominent in athletics, and played on the football team that gave Ohio Northern its most enviable reputation for that branch of sport. He received his law degree in 1907, was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Tiffin in the same year. He handled the general routine of law business and for one term served as city solicitor. In 1922, on removing to Akron, he was associated for one year with the firm, Burch, Bacon & Denlinger, and since then has been head of the firm, Staley & Trunko, handling a general practice. Mr. Staley has been active in democratic politics. During the World war he participated in all the patriotic programs at Tiffin, being one of the four-minute speakers. His fraternal affiliations include the Eagles and Elks. He married at Tiffin in July, 1907, Miss Rose O'Brien, a native of Cincinnati, but reared in Tiffin. Her parents were James and Alice O'Brien. Her father for many years was foreman in the moudling department of the National Machinery Company but is now living retired at Cincinnati. Mrs. Staley was active in the Catholic Church and the various social and club organizations of Tiffin. They have three children: Alice, Jane and Phyllis. RAY FRANKS HAMLIN. Admitted to practice over twenty years ago, Ray Franks Hamlin, of Akron, has been little known in the courts through his activities as a general practitioner, his time and talents having been devoted almost entirely to realty law and business interests connected therewith. He is a native of Akron, born April 24, 1881, and his father, Byron S. Hamlin, was born in Summit County in 1851, and until he retired was well known as a carpenter and builder, specializing in home construction. The. father is a republican, a Methodist and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife, Mary E. Stotler, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1853, and died in 1915. Youngest of the three children of his parents, Ray F. Hamlin had as the groundwork of his career a good education in the grade and high schools of Akron, followed by two years in the law department of George Washington University in the City of Washington and graduated from the Cleveland Law School in 1903. Since that year he has been engaged in the exclusive practice of real estate law at Akron, and since 1907 has been associated with Fred E. Smith and Hugh M. Eaton in the Smith-Eaton Company and Portage Investment Company. They have specialized in business property and have handled some high-class allotments. An interest in public affairs and good government has always been a characteristic in Mr. Hamlin, and led him to serve six years as city clerk of Akron. He is a republican, is treasurer and member of the board of deacons of the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, to the City Club, Fairlawn Heights Club, Masonic Club. Golf and tennis are his favorite sports. He is a past master of Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters ; Bethany Commandery No. 72, Knights Templar ; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and is a charter member of Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Akron. He is a past chancellor commander of Aetolia Lodge No. 24, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Hamlin and Mabel J. Gordon were married at Akron, May 28, 1907. She was born in Kent, Ohio, and was reared in Akron. Her father, Fred Gordon, who died in 1915, was a native of New York State and was a contracting carpenter at Kent and later at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin have one son, Frederick Gordon. THOMAS E. POWELL. In the profession of law and in party politics no name has stood for more of the substantial honors than that of Thomas Edward Powell of Columbus. Mr. Powell began the practice of law soon after the close of the Civil war, and retired only recently, when he had been a hard working member of the bar for more than half a century. His reputation as a trial lawyer was by no means confined to Ohio. Many of his most important eases and his largest fees were in New York. He was democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1887, and many times led the forlorn hope of his party in state or district. He was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 20, 1842, son of Thomas W. and Elizabeth (Gordon Powell. His father was born in Wales. Colonel Powell graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1863, and in 1866 the same university gave him the Master of Arts degree. He left the university to go into the army as a soldier of the Union, and was a member of the Eighty-fourth and One Hundred Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He studied law with the late Col. William P. Reid, and subsequently engaged in practice with that prominent Delaware attorney. Almost from the start Mr. Powell's abilities brought brilliant distinction as a trial lawyer. In 1887 he removed from Delaware to Columbus, where the firm of Powell, Owen, Ricketts and Black was formed. For eight years Judge S. N. Owen, formerly of the Supreme Court, was a member of the firm. Mr. Powell's court practice reached to almost every county of Ohio, and he maintained offices in at least five different cities of the state. His favorite work was the trial of cases and particularly cases involving important principles or a large property or human rights. One source of his success was his resort to every legitimate expedient to get his case before the jury at the quickest hour possible. In this he followed a precept of Lord Erskine of England, who is said never to have had a case extending beyond one day's trial. Mr. Powell once tried twenty-three jury cases in eighteen days. He was counsel for the defendant in the celebrated Deshler will case, involving property amounting to more than $500,000, was attorney for the American Sugar Refining Company of New York, for the Standard Oil Company, the Ohio & Western Coal Company, the National Cash Register Company, for which clients he won a decision in a great patent infringement case. During his residence in Columbus Mr. Powell's fees from New York exceeded those paid for his services in Ohio. He has tried cases in nearly half of the states of the Union and HISTORY OF OHIO - 7 in all tribunals from the Common Pleas to the United States Supreme Court. In one important case tried in New York he was given $600 a day for twenty-one consecutive days, this compensation being left entirely to his client. Mr. Powell began the practice of law at Delaware in 1867, and continued till 1923, when he retired to enjoy the comforts of his pleasant home on East Broad Street in Columbus. Mr. Powell was editor of the history of the Democratic Party of Ohio. In 1872 he took the stump, speaking in the Greeley campaign, and in 1875 was the nominee of his party for attorney-general. In 1878 he was candidate for Congress in the Eighth Ohio District, and he headed the democratic electoral ticket of 1880 and 1900. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1872, 1880 and 1884, and in 1885 became chairman of the State Executive Committee. In 1888 he made The nominating speech for Allen G. Thurman at the St. Louis Convention, and he nominated Thomas Ewing for governor in 1879 and Durbin Ward in 1883. He was chosen democratic candidate for governor at Cleveland, July 20, 1887. The campaign was a spirited one, and he made speeches over many important sections of the state. He ran some 7,000 votes ahead of the regular ticket, but could not overcome the strength of the incumbent of the governor 's office, J. E. Foraker. Mr. Powell has served as a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and for ten years was a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College. On January 16, 1872, he married Miss Eliza Thomson, of Delaware. JOHN ALBIN WEBER has achieved success in the practice of law in his native County of Medina, where he was born less than thirty years ago. He is the present prosecuting attorney of this county. Mr. Weber was born on a farm in York Township, July 24, 1895, son of George H. and Caroline T. (Gardner) Weber, who are still living. Both were born in Medina County, his father in Liverpool Township. Both are of German ancestry. The paternal grandparents were Louis and Margaret (Flannigan) Weber. Louis Weber wos born in Alsace-Lorraine, in what is now France, son of George Weber. George Weber. Louis Weber was born in Alsace-Lorraine, in 1830. Louis Weber reached the venerable age of ninety-two years. The maternal grandparents of John A. Weber were Francis and Clara (Slaughter) Gardner. Francis Gardner was born in Baden, Germany, and came to the United States in 1850, spending the rest of his life as a Medina County farmer. Farming has been the occupation of George A. Weber throughout his active career. He is now sixty years of age, is a republican in politics and a member of the Catholic Church. John Albin Weber, the only child of his parents, grew up on the farm, attended country schools, and in 1913 graduated from the Medina High School. He then entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, completing the literary course in 1917. He continued the study of law at Western Reserve University, and was graduated with the class of 1919 and admitted to the bar the same year. During the World war Mr. Weber volunteered his services, and both as a volunteer and subsequently under the draft he was rejected on account of defective eyesight. For two years after his admission to the bar he practiced as a member of the legal staff of the White Company at Cleveland, and then returned to his home town of Medina, where he has given a good account of himself. In 1922 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county. Mr. Weber in 1923 married Miss Leone Dean, a native of Wisconsin. CHESTER LEROY DINSMORE has practiced law at Akron since 1908, where he has been retained for much important litigation. His work has built up a reputation for him as one of the able representatives of the Summit County bar. He was born at New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio, September 7, 1882, son of Robert A. and Mary J. (Armstrong) Dinsmore, the latter a native of Belmont County, Ohio, and daughter of Warden Armstrong, of the same county. Mr. Dinsmore's father, Robert A. Dinsmore, and grandfather, William Dinsmore, were both natives of Pennsylvania. Chester Leroy Dinsmore attended public schools in a country district in Eastern Ohio, finished the high school course at New Athens in 1899, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1902 from Franklin College at New Athens. In 1903 he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating with his law degree in 1906. During 1907-08 he was connected with the editorial department of the Edward Thompson Company, law book publishers, at Northport, Long Island, New York, and in August, 1908, engaged in practice at Akron. Since 1911 he has been associated with J. A. H. Myers in the law firm of Myers & Dinsmore. Mr. Dinsmore is secretary and treasurer of the Broadway Realty Company. He is a member of the University Club, the Masonic order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America, Chamber of Commerce, and the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Akron. He married, August 2, 1911, Miss Madella Stevens, of Ontario, Canada. They have one daughter, Mary Madella. JAY DICKEY SMITH, M. D. For the past ten years Doctor Smith has limited his professional work to surgery, and his accomplishments rank him as one of the able men in that field. His home is at Akron, and he has been a familiar figure in all the hospitals of that city. Born at Edenburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1879, he is a son of Richard Webster and Emma (Leadenham) Smith. His father was born at Lehigh and died in 1918, aged eighty-four, and his mother was a native of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of sixty-five. Richard W. Smith was a veteran of the Civil war, serving on the battle lines and later in the commissary department, was in the railroad service after the war, and finally in the wholesale lumber business at Kane, Pennsylvania. He was a Mason, a democrat and active in the Congregational Church. Next to the youngest in a family of six children, J. Dickey Smith spent his boyhood at Kane, Pennsylvania, attending the grade and high schools there, and took his medical course in the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1906. While in college he was a Phi Beta Phi. He served an interneship in the Children's Hospital of Columbus, Ohio, and then engaged in a general practice at Freedom, Pennsylvania. In a few years he had a local reputation as a very able surgeon, and in order to get larger opportunities and confine his work entirely within that field he moved to Akron in 1913. Doctor Smith for a number of years has been a surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway, and he served six years as chief of the surgical staff of the People's Hospital at Akron and also for six years was a director and treasurer of that hospital. He is surgeon of the Summit County Hospital and associate surgeon of the City Hospital. He has professional associations with the Summit County, Ohio State and American associations and the Pennsylvania Railway Surgeons 8 - HISTORY Association. During the World war he was medical member of the Akron Draft Board. Doctor Smith belongs to the Rotary Club, is an independent republican, was deacon for eight years of the First Congregational Church, and in Masonry he is affiliated with Henry Perkins Lodge No. 611, Free and Accepted Masons; Akron Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar ; Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He married at Freedom, Pennsylvania, Miss Annie Lowry, who was born, and reared there, where her father, the late David Lowry, was in the grocery business. Her mother, Mrs. Jennie (Dillworth) Lowry, lived at Akron. Mrs. Smith is active in club and church affairs. They have two children, Robert and Jane. WILLIAM E. MILLER. The City of Newark, where he was born and raised, has honored William E. Miller in various conspicuous ways. He is former state senator, and throughout his mature life has been closely and prominently identified with the business affairs of that community. He was born in Newark, a member of one of the oldest families in Licking County. He was reared and educated there, and as a young man took up a business. career. For many years he has been a leading hardware merchant of the city. Mr. Miller represented Licking County as state senator in the Seventy-third General Assembly. In January, 1924, he was reelected president of the Newark Board of Education, this being his twenty-seventh consecutive year as a member of the board. JOHN L. BAKER, president of the Columbus Real Estate Board, is a native of Ohio, member of an old family of Muskingum County, is a Spanish-American war veteran, and for twenty years or more has been prominent in the real estate business at Columbus. He was born in Circleville, in 1880, son of William and Ida (Myer) Baker. His grandfather, Dr. John J. Baker, was a graduate in the first class of the old Cincinnati Medical University. He devoted all his active career to the practice of medicine. He was a native of Muskingum County, where the Baker family received a Government land grant and occupied it in 1801, about the time Ohio came into the Union as a state. A sister of Dr. John J. Baker is Polly Baker, now living at advanced age at the old home place in Muskingum County. The maternal grandmother of John L. Baker of Columbus was Anna Libey, the first white child born at Circleville in Pickaway County. William Baker became a man of distinction in Ohio educational affairs. He was a graduate of Wittenberg College at Springfield, and at the time of his death was superintendent of schools at Sandusky. John L. Baker secured most of his education in the public schools of Circleville. He was just eighteen when, in 1898, he enlisted in the Fourth Ohio Infantry for service in the Spanish-American war. This regiment went as part of General Miles' expeditionary forces to Porto Rico. It took part in the battle of Guyama, as a result of which Porto Rico became United States territory. Mr. Baker 's home has been in Columbus ever since he left the army. He took up the real estate business, and the passing years have made him one of the largest individual operators in that line. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange Club and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. The Columbus Real Estate Board represents through its membership a large bulk of the valuable interests of the city. It was organized in 1908, with only twenty-nine members, while there are now 500 members of various classes. Mr. Baker helped organize the board, became its first secretary, and in December, 1922, enjoyed the enviable honor of election to the office of president. Mr. Baker is married and has one son, John S. Baker. CHARLES H. NEWTON has rounded out a half century of service as an officer of the Dime Savings Society of Marietta. During the past twelve years he has been its president, and his service as treasurer or president has covered nearly the entire period of the existence of this institution. It is strictly a savings bank, and does no commercial banking business. The Ohio law providing for such an institution was passed in 1867, and of societies organized under this law there is only one other in existence today, at Springfield, though it has broadened its-service to include commercial banking. The Dime Savings Society of Marietta was incorporated in 1871 and opened for business January 2, 1872. In 1875 Mr. Newton was elected a trustee, and in 1877 took active charge of the management as treasurer. The first home of the Savings Society was a building in which Charles H. Newton had his insurance and real estate office. In 1875 the society had only a few depositors and an aggregate of about $40,000 in deposits. By 1924 the deposits aggregated over $1,250,000, and the prosperity and service of the institution have been correspondingly effective. It is a mutual concern, there being no stockholders, and the depositors have participated in all the profits, amounting to over $1,000,000. Most of the banking power represented by the savings deposits has been used for the building of homes and other substantial lines of development in Marietta. The Savings Society from its original office moved into the banking house of the old Bank of Marietta in 1886, and in 1901 erected, on the site of the old building, a new banking house, one of the handsomest structures of the kind in Southeastern Ohio. During the half century that Mr. Newton has been identified with the Savings Society there have been a total of ninety-two officers and trustees, and of that number seventy-seven have died. Mr. Newton became president in 1912, being the sixth president of the society. He was born at Marietta, July 13, 1842, and is an honored veteran of the Civil war. His parents were Stephen and Harriet (Humphreys) Newton, both natives of Marietta. His father was born in 1813 and his mother in 1814, and she died in 1847, leaving three children. Stephen Newton married for his second wife Sarah A. Walker, of New Richmond, but there were no children of the second union. She was a most devoted mother to Stephen Newton's first children. Stephen Newton served as county recorder and county treasurer, and for many years was engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He was a republican, and for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and for twelve years he and his son were members of the sessions. His was a high character, closely identified with the welfare of his home community, and he died in his ninety-first year. The three children were: Almira E., who died in 1857, wife of Henry M. Amlin; Mary Harriet, who died in 1891, wife of Fred C. Woodruff, who was a school principal in St. Louis, Missouri. Charles H. Newton graduated from Marietta College with the class of 1863, and at once recruited a company for service in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery. He served as second lieutenant and first lieutenant, and was in active service in East Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. He received his honorable discharge in February, 1865, and after leaving the army returned to Marietta and became associated with his father in the real estate and insurance busi- HISTORY OF OHIO - 9 ness. For a number of years he held the office of city clerk. Mr. Newton is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and was elected in 1909 commander of the Department of Ohio. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion, and is a republican and Presbyterian. He married Miss Mary E. Dana, daughter. of William P. and Susan (Shipman) Dana. She was born in 1844, within ten miles of Marietta. Mr. and Mrs. Newton have been married fifty-nine years. Of the two children born to their marriage Stephen D. died in childhood. Charles William Newton, who died in 1904, was a graduate of Marietta College and in 1888 took his medical degree from Ohio Medical College. He was a high-class physician and surgeon, and was for many years engaged in practice at Toledo. He served as assistant surgeon in the Spanish-American war. DONALD DACOSTA SHIRA, A. B., M. D., at present director of public health of the City of Akron. Born at LaRue, Ohio, March 27, 1886, son of Dr. William and Mary Agnes (Holliday) Shira. His mother was born in Perth, Ontario, Canada. His father was born in Knox County, Ohio, and practiced medicine at LaRue, Ohio, for many years. Dr. Donald DaCosta Shira, after graduation from the LaRue High School, attended Ohio Wesleyan University and Ohio State University, and was graduated from Ohio State in 1910 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Was graduated from Ohio State in 1914 with Doctor of Medicine degree. Practiced medicine at LaRue from 1914 to 1917 when he entered the Medical Corps of the army as a first lieutenant. Served in the army two years, one year of which was in France. Promoted to rank of captain in 1918. Upon his discharge from the army he took up public health work and has been associated with the Ohio State Department of Health, Akron Department of Public Health and the Summit County (Ohio) Health Department, the last of which he organized and developed, serving . as county commissioner of health for three years. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a past president of the Health Commissioners' Association of Ohio. Dr. Shira is a member of the Akron University Club, Alpha Tau Omega literary fraternity, Alpha Mu Pi Omega medical fraternity, Odd Fellows, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. GEORGE WALLACE ALVORD. The senior member of thc law firm of Alvord & Blakely of Painesville is George Wallace Alvord, who was admitted to the Ohio bar, and for more than forty years has enjoyed a successful career in the legal profession. Mr. Alvord was born at Concord, Lake County, Ohio, in 1856, and is of an old American family of English descent. His grandfather, James Alvord, was born in Massachusetts, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was also a member of the New Jersey Militia for several years and died at the age of nearly ninety. The Alvord family was established in the Western Reserve of Ohio in 1851 by G. W. Alvord, Sr., who was born in Granby, Massachusetts, was reared there, and married Miss Margaret Bush. They came to Lake County, Ohio, in 1851, and settled on a farm near Madison, where they reared their family of five sons and four daughters. George Wallace Alvord had the early experiences and training of a farm boy, attended- the Painesville Union Schools, and finished his literary education in Western Reserve College. Admitted to the bar in 1880 he has since become one of the leaders of the Lake County bar. Through his own efforts he has achieved a reputation as an attorney of dignity, resourcefulness, thorough knowledge and skill. He has practiced for the most part alone, but was associated with A. G. Reynolds, former speaker of the house in the Ohio Legislature, until Mr. Reynolds became judge of the Common Pleas Court in January, 1909. This dissolved the firm of Alvord and Reynolds, and in April, 1909, Mr. Alvord formed a partnership with Elbert F. Blakely in the present firm of Alvord & Blakely, with offices in the National Bank Building at Painesville. He was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and all Federal courts. He is a member of the Ohio State and the American Bar associations. Mr. Alvord is an honored citizen of Lake County, and has the distinction of having served as the first democratic mayor of Painesville, since the incorporation of that city. Besides his active connection with the democratic party he is a Knight Templar Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and Elk, and a member of the Painesville Kiwanis Club. Mr. Alvord married June 20, 1895, Miss Mary Moodey, only daughter of Addison Moodey. She is well educated, and brought to her home and social circles many qualities and attainments that have made her most popular in Painesville society. Mr. Alvord has been a member of the Congregational Church since 1898, his wife having been a life long communicant of that denomination. Both are also interested in practical philanthropy in their home community. ALBERT BURR HEADLEY, M. D. Guided by an earnest determination to earn success in a professional career, Doctor Headley by teaching and other work paid all the expenses of his higher education after the common schools, and for over twenty years has carried on a successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Cambridge. He was born on a farm near Beallsville, in Monroe County, Ohio, October 25, 1874. His grandfather, Silas Headley, came from Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Monroe County. John Headley, father of Doctor Headley, was born on a Monroe County farm, and spent his active career as a farmer and sheep raiser in that county. He served a ninety-day enlistment as a soldier in the Civil war during Morgan's raid through Southern Ohio. He and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. Her maiden name was Nancy Nice. She was born and reared at Wetzel, West Virginia. John Headley died in 1902, at the age of seventy-three, and his wife, in the same year, aged sixty-one. Of their four children Albert B. was the second. Doctor Headley spent his boyhood on a farm, attending the country schools, and during a period of four years attended school as a student during the summer, while the rest of the year he engaged in teaching in rural districts. Then through his own resources he was able to spend two years as a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, from which he took his Doctor of. Medicine degree April 29, 1902. He also did special work on operative surgery in the City Hospital of Baltimore. After a few months of practice in his native county Doctor Headley moved to Cambridge in 1902, and has been one of the very busy physicians and surgeons in this locality ever since. He was for ten years secretary of the Guernsey County Medical Society, was for five years, from 1917 to 1922, councilor of the Eighth District to the Ohio Medical Association, and is a member of the American Medical Association. He is a steward in the First Methodist 10 - HISTORY OF OHIO Episcopal Church and a teacher in the Sunday school. His recreations are hunting and fishing. In November, 1902, Doctor Headley married Miss Maria Jane Brown, who was born and reared in Belmont County Ohio, where her father, James Brown, was a farmer. Mrs. Headley is active in church work and is especially interested in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Doctor and Mrs. Headley have one son, Albert Emerson. W. KEE MAXWELL is joint owner and editor of the Akron Evening and Sunday Times, the best local democratic paper in Summit County, and the only Sunday newspaper published in Akron. It is also the only Akron newspaper to carry the Associated Press Service. The Akron Evening and Sunday Times represents a continuous newspaper history in Akron since 1867, when the Akron City Times was established and which with some changes has continued down to the present time. It was a weekly until 1892, when a daily issue was started under the name Times-Democrat. The present owners of the Times came to Akron "from Peoria, Illinois, where they were prominent in the newspaper business. W. Kee Maxwell was born at Bardolph, Illinois, January 12, 1879, son of Henry A. and Mary Elizabeth (Kee) Maxwell. He acquired a common school education, and began his newspaper experience as a printer on the Bardolph News. He also had some further experience conducting weekly newspapers at Smithfield, Kane and Oneida, Illinois, and in 1911 moved to Peoria, serving as editor of the Peoria Transcript until 1913, and from 1913 to 1916 was editor of the Peoria Journal. On November .1, 1916, Mr. Maxwell -A Ross F. Walker purchased the ownership of the Akron Times, which for nearly twenty years had been published by E: F. Harter and Judge C. R. Grant. They completely reorganized the business, changing the name from the Akron Times to the Akron Evening Times. Mr. Maxwell is a member of the Associated Press and American Editors Association, and is also a member of the American Press Humorists Association. In addition to his routine production through many years through the columns of his own paper, he has been a contributor of fiction and humor to magazines. In Akron he is a member of the Rotary Club, the Akron City Club, the Fairlawn Golf Club, and is affiliated with the Elks and Eagles. He attends the Universalist Church and is a democrat in politics. Mr. Maxwell married, October 12, 1899, Miss Alma Burnett, of Kane, Illinois. Their two children are Burnett K. and Irene. Ross F. Walker, who is manager of the Akron Evening and Sunday Times, was born at Twin Grove in Green County, Wisconsin, January 7, 1877, son of Ed L. and Leah M. (Griffith) Walker. He acquired .a common school education, and as a young man went to Chicago, where his newspaper experience began in 1900. In 1902 he took the management of the Peoria Journal, and was prominent in that influential Central Illinois paper until November, 1918,., when he and Mr. W. Kee Maxwell came to Akron and bought the Times. Mr. Walker is serving as a member of the Ohio State Prison Commission under appointment from Governor Donahey. He is a director of the Akron Better Business Commission, is a trustee of the Akron Art Institute, a member of the Executive Council of the Boy Scouts, and belongs to the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. He is a democrat in politics and attends the Universalist Church. He has membership in the Akron City Club, the Fairlawn Golf Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the Elks and Eagles fraternities. Mr. Walker married, November 26, 1902, Miss Nettie N. Foster. Their three children are Foster, Horace F. and Annabelle. WILLIAM EVERETT FULTON, M. D. Twenty-two years an active physician and surgeon, Doctor Fulton has been engaged for the past nine years in practice at Akron. He has sustained a reputation as a very thorough, conscientious and high-minded physician, and has performed a great deal of the social work of his profession. He was born on a farm near Woodsfield, in. Monroe County, Ohio, May 23, 1875. His father, William Myers Fulton, was also born in Monroe County, served as a Union soldier in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry during the Civil war and spent the rest of his life as a farmer. He died in December, 1905, at the age of sixty-one. In politics he was a republican, and his church was the United Presbyterian. He married Elizabeth Amelia Haudenschild, who lives at Woodsfield. They have a family of nine children, William E. being next to the oldest. A boy on the farm, he attended country schools, and continued his education in normal training at Scio College and Newcastle, and taught three years in the Monroe County country schools. Doctor Fulton in 1902 graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus, and during the next three years practiced in his home community at Woodsfield.. Then for ten years his home was at Suffield in Portage County, where he conducted a general practice. Since leaving Portage County ho has been a member of the medical fraternity at Akron, and handles the general practice of a physician and surgeon. He is associated in practice with his brother, John Pearson Fulton, M. D. Doctor Fulton was a member of the school board while living at Suffield. He is a member of the County, District, State and. American medical associations. In 1904, at Columbus, he married Miss Cecilia Palmer, daughter of the late John Palmer, of Columbus. They have four children, named Margaret, Charles, Robert and Hubert. REV. GEORGE RUSSELL HAGEMAN. Possessed of an unusual diversity of gifts and talents, Mr. Hageman educated himself for the ministry, and he came to Zanesville as pastor of the Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church. He gave up the ministry a few years ago to become president of the Agnew Torpedo Company, one of the largest concerns in the Middle West manufacturing nitro-glycerin products for use in the oil and gas fields. Mr. Hageman was born at Queens, Long Island, New York, September 21, 1882. His father is Rev. Dr. Andrew Hageman, a native of New Jersey, who graduated from Rutgers College with the degrees Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity. He has filled a number of prominent pastorates, at Queens, Long Island; Belleville, New Jersey; Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, New York, and is now pastor of the Ocean Hill Reformed Church in Brooklyn. His time has been generously bestowed upon many civic and charitable movements. Andrew Hageman married Rachael Swain, who was born and reared in Brooklyn, and died in 1919, .at the age of sixty-eight. They had a family of four sons, George Russell being the third. George Russell Hageman early decided to follow his father's calling. He prepared for college in the Collegiate School of New York and then entered Columbia University, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1905 and Master of Arts in 1907. He took his Bachelor. of Divinity degree at New College, Edinburgh, Scotland. On returning to this country he served as pastor of the Second Reformed Dutch Church HISTORY OF OHIO - 11 at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, New York, for five years, and then came to Zanesville, where for four years he was pastor of the Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church. Retiring from the ministry in 1917 Mr. Hageman became president of the Agnew Torpedo Company. This industry was established in 1901 by the late William Agnew. Mr. Hageman is president and his wife, Sarah Agnew Hageman, is secretary and treasurer of the company. This is a West Virginia corporation, and manufactures and supplies nitro-glycerin for shooting oil and gas wells, doing an extensive business over Ohio and West Virginia. The factory is at Bremen, Ohio, and the branch distributing houses are located at Bremen, Logan, Newark, Stockport, Corning, Lodi, Mount Vernon and Fort Recovery, Ohio, and in Sistersville, Spencer and West Union, West Virginia. Mr. Hageman is secretary of the National Glycerin Manufacturers' Association, is a member of the Virginia Oil and Gas Association, the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, the American Petroleum Association and te Natural Gas Association of America. Mr. Hageman plays his favorite game of golf at the Zanesville Golf Club, is a member of the Zane Club, and in Masonry is affiliated with Symbolic Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council, the Knights Templar Commandery, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and the Shrine and Grotto. He is also a member of the Masonic Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Exchange Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Central Presbyterian Church. Outside of business one of his leading interests is in music. He has composed music for the pipe organ and piano, and while in New York City for several years he played the organ and taught piano. He is a republican in politics. On May 15, 1917, Mr. Hageman married Miss Sarah Agnew, a sister of the late William Agnew, founder of the Agnew Torpedo Company. Her father, the late Samuel Agnew, was a prominent oil producer in the Pennsylvania fields and was a pioneer in the development of the fields around Sistersville, West Virginia. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Washington, Pennsylvania, and the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hageman in addition to the time she gives to business is a leader in Zanesville church and social affairs, was one of the women in local war work, a member of the Country Club, the Day Nursery Organization and other leading civic movements. GENERAL CHAUNCEY B. BAKER. After a long and distinguished career as an army officer, beginning as a lieutenant in western army posts when the glamor of the wilderness and Indian hostilities still made such posts of duty attractive, and continuing until after the close of the great World war, General Baker has found a charming social environment and a number of important business responsibilities as a resident of the City of Columbus. He is a native Ohioan and one of the state's notable soldiers. He was born at Lancaster, Ohio, August 26, 1860, son of Emanuel Ruffner Peter and Eliza (Stoneberger) Baker. The Baker family was established in pioneer times in Ohio by his great-grandfathers, Peter Baker, and Emanuel Ruffner, who came with a group of settlers from Maryland and Virginia and located on Rush Creek in Fairfield County. Here Peter Baker established mills and built up a large industrial and agricultural estate comprising grist-mills, sawmills, and a mill with looms for weaving cloth. The grandfather of General Baker was Christian Baker, a lifelong and prominent citizen of Fairfield County. Christian Baker married Jemima Ruffner, whose father came from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and was a member of the same Ruffner family who founded and were prominently identified with the early upbuilding of the City of Charleston, West Virginia. General Baker received his early training in Ohio schools, and graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1886. It was his fortune to get his early experience in western posts before the last Indian uprisings had been quieted. He participated in the Spanish-American war, in the Vera Cruz expedition to Mexico and following that in the World war. His first assignment after coming out of West Point was at old Fort Laramie, Wyoming, as a member of the famous Seventh Infantry. Later he was stationed at Fort McKinney, Wyoming. He was with his regiment, in the campaign against the Indians which culminated in the battle of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1891. He went to Cuba in the Spanish-American war as first chief quartermaster under General Lawton during the first occupation of that country, and when it became necessary for America again to intervene in the government of the island he was with the second exposition. He was quartermaster for General Funston in the taking of Vera Cruz and handled the duties of that position with notable efficiency. General Baker as quartermaster has taken armies three times to foreign countries and brought them back, twice to Cuba and once to Mexico. In the spring of 1917, when commissioners from England and France visited this country, headed by Mr. Balfour of England, General Baker was appointed the senior member of the commission of fourteen army and marine officers to return with Mr. Balfour and plan for this country's participation in the war. He was abroad engaged in this duty during May to July. It is especially interesting that the plans for this country's coordination in the war made on that occasion in conferences with the English, French and Belgian military experts were carried out practically without change. In detail General Baker 's military career is noted in the following record : Appointed to West Point 1882 by Hon. Geo. C. Converse; commissioned second lieutenant Seventh Infantry, July 1, 1886; promoted to first lieutenant September 29, 1892, and in the meantime was an honor graduate of the infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1889; at the beginning of the Spanish-American war was made captain assistant-quartermaster of volunteers, May 12, 1898; major chief quartermaster January 7, 1899, and honorably discharged from the volunteers June 30, 1901. He became a captain in the regular army. March 2, 1899; quartermaster, April 11, 1901; transferred to quartermaster 's department, July 1, 1902; promoted to major, January 22, 1904; to lieutenant-colonel deputy quartermaster-general, March 3, 1911; to colonel May 15, 1917; to brigadier-general in the National army, August 5, 1917; and was retired from active service April 21, 1921. As previously noted, he was depot quartermaster at Havana, Cuba, during 1898-1900, was chief quartermaster at Havana, from August, 1900, until May, 1902, and acted as chief-quartermaster of the army of Cuban pacification from 1906 to 1909. In the meantime, from 1902 to 1906, he was on duty in the office of quartermaster-general of the war department, and commanded the Philadelphia depot of the quartermaster 's department from 1909 to 1912, following which he resumed duty in '.,he office of the quartermaster-general. He was depot and base quartermaster during the Vera Cruz expedition from May to November, 1914. Following his service with the military commission to France in the early months of 1917, General Baker became chief of the embarkation service, office chief of staff war department, and so served from August 7, 1917, until February, 1918. 12 - HISTORY OF OHIO General Baker has been a contributor to the literature of war and military practice. He is author of notes on Fire Tactics, published in 1889; Transportation of Troops and Material, published in 1905; Handbook of Transportation by Rail and Commercial Vessels, 1916; and Coordination between the Transportation Companies and the Military Service, 1916. On retiring from the army General Baker established his permanent home and place of business in Columbus, his residence being in the suburb of Bexley. He is president of the American National Fire Insurance Company, and is vice president of the Market Exchange Bank of Columbus. He is a director of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, is department commander of the American Legion for the state of Ohio, and during the winter of 1921-1922 was chairman of the mayor's committee on unemployment. General Baker is a Presbyterian, is a member of the Masonic Order, and is a member of the Army and Navy clubs of Washington and New York, the Chevy Chase Club, the West Point Mess, Columbus Club. On June 19, 1889, General Baker married Miss Lucy McCook, daughter of General Alexander McCook, who was a member of the famous McCook family of Civil war fame, whose father, Maj. Daniel McCook, and nine sons all served as commissioned officers with the federal forces. But three of this family survived the Civil war and one of these, Col. George McCook, died later as the result of wounds. LESTER P. DAGUE BENEDICT learned the printing trade when a boy, and has been a printer and newspaper publisher for over forty years. He is now proprietor of a paper of large circulation and influence and a job printing office at Ashley in Delaware County. He was born in Morrow County, Ohio, August 7, 1858, son of Aaron and Caroline (Dague) Benedict. His grandfather, William Benedict, came from Peru, New York. The Dagues were of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Both parents were born in Ohio. The mother died in 1867 and the father in 1905. Aaron Benedict for many years was a recognized authority on bee culture. He owned a farm and was engaged in honey production, and kept up this business until very late in life. Lester P. Dague Benedict attended district schools, also the Friends Academy, and finished his education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He had a successful experience as a teacher, and for ten years was connected with the St. Mary Schools and two years at Ada. He learned the printing trade at Rawson, Ohio, and during the two years he was there he published the Rawson Herald and also conducted a job office. Removing to Findlay, Ohio, he bought the German paper, Wachenbote, and was a publisher and editor there for nearly thirty years, from 1893 until 1921. As a young man Mr. Benedict spent considerable time in Delaware County, and it was his many friends in this locality that influenced him, after selling out his interests at Findlay, to locate at Ashley and purchase the Tri-County Star. He is now its owner and publisher, and also has a high class printing office. July 14, 1886, at Kenton, Ohio, Mr. Benedict married Mrs. Jennie P. (Kelly) Benham, daughter of George J. and Caroline (Runkle) Kelly. Her father was a farmer and stockman. Mrs. Benedict by her first marriage has a daughter, Belle, and a grandson, Clark Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict are members of the Friends Church. Mr. Benedict's mother had two brothers, John and Addison Dague, who were' Union soldiers, John being captain of a gunboat, while Addison was a private. Addison Dague was a lawyer, and served one or more terms in the. Iowa State Legislature. John Dague is living at Osceola, Iowa. Addison Dague died at Creston, Iowa, in 1919. Clarence Addison Benedict, of Toledo, is a nephew of Mr. Benedict. Clarence Addison Benedict was secretary of the draft board of Northwestern Ohio during the World war, and his headquarters were at Findlay. He has been a member of the Ohio Legislature and Senate from Lucas County. S. C. PRIEST, M. D. The community of Newark holds in high regard the memory of the service and character of the late Dr. S. C. Priest, who practiced medicine there for over a third of a century. Doctor Priest was born at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1847. His father, John B. Priest, came from Virginia and settled in Ohio and for many years practiced medicine in Jefferson County. John was a son of Stephen Priest and Mary Mendell. Dr. S. C. Priest attended local schools, and in West Virginia was a student in Bethany College. He studied medicine in Philadel- phia, but was graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine. After that he located at Newark, and for thirty-four years was one of the reliable men of his profession. He was medical examiner for the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and he belonged to both the County and State Medical societies. He was a Mason and a Shriner. Doctor Priest died in 1920. He married at New Martinsville, West Virginia, in 1873, Miss Agnes S. Cox, who survives him and resides at 19 North Fifth Street in Newark. Five children were born to their marriage : Anna, Verne and Frances, all at home; Ralph, who married Margaret Harris, of Utica, Ohio, and now lives at Columbus, and John Thistle, who married Dorothy Baker and lives at Newark. Mrs. Priest's ancestors were among the pioneers of Brooke County, Virginia. They included Lieut. Benjamin Tomlinson and Capt. George Cox, who came into Ohio with the Virginia Militia in 1774. George Cox was a son of Col. Isaac Cox, who married Miss Morehead. His brother, Benjamin Cox, settled at Dayton, Ohio. Benjamin Tomlinson was a son of Joseph Tomlinson and his wife, Drusilla Van Sweargen, of Maryland. Mrs. Priest is a daughter of Friend and Susan (Thistle) Cox, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, where her father was a prominent business man. Mrs. Priest and her daughter, Miss Anna, are members of United Revolution Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, and Mrs. Priest is a former regent of the chapter. WALTER HERBERICH is secretary of the Herberich, Hall, Harter Company, the largest general insurance organization at Akron, with which various members of the Herberich family have been identified for many years. Other pages of this publication contain more extended reference to Mr. Herberich's father, David, and brothers, Charles and Alfred H. Walter Herberich was born August 10, 1889, was reared in Akron, attended public schools there, and at the age of sixteen entered his father 's office, and his experience has been continuous since then in the insurance and real estate business. The Herberich, Hall, Harter Company, of which he is secretary, in addition to handling every branch of insurance also conducts a real estate and mortgage loan department. Mr. Herberich is also secretary of the Herberich Realty Company, which has put on a number of successful allotments at Akron, including Idadale, Haenicka Park, Rose Lawn, Vandalia Heights and Orchard Grove. Mr. Herberich is treasurer of the Depositors Savings & Trust Company, is secretary-treasurer of the Elm Estate Company and a stockholder in several other banks and manufacturing interests. He is a director of the Atlantic foundry Company. HISTORY OF OHIO - 13 During the World war Mr. Herberich was identified with all the organizations working for the stress of the Government in that city. He is a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Akron, is affiliated with the Masonic bodies, including Akron Lodge, Washington Chapter, Akron Council, Bethany Commandery, Yusef Khan Grotto, and at Cleveland is a member of the Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and in Akron of Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the City Club, the Portage Country Club, Rotary Club, and his chief diversions are golf and motoring. He married Miss Mary Effie Esselburn, daughter of the late William Esselburn. Mrs. Herberich is one of the leaders in Akron's social, club and church life. They have two children, Mary Alfraretta and Walter William. ELLA DENNIS WELCH, M. D. One of the pioneer woman physicians of Central Ohio is Dr. Ella Dennis Welch, of Ashley, Delaware County. She has been in practice thirty years, and has made her profession a medium through which her essentially charitable nature has reflected benefits and kindly acts over an entire community. She is still active in the work. She and her son, Dennis G. Welch, maintain offices together, her son being a competent dentist of this vicinity. Dr. Ella Dennis Welch was born in Morrow County, daughter of David and Luccette Dennis. As a girl she was moved by a strong ambition to study medicine, but could not overcome the objections of her parents to such a course. In 1882 she was married to Rodman P. Welch, who was thoroughly in sympathy with her aims and understood her remarkable qualifications for her chosen career. It was largely through his influence and aid that she was able to attain her ambition. She tried to enter Starling Medical College at Columbus, but was refused. admission, women not being admitted, so consequently enrolled in Toledo Medical College, where she was graduated with honors and the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894. She also did postgraduate work in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. Since 1894 Doctor Welch has been in active practice at Ashley. She makes a specialty of obstetrics. Her name is greatly beloved all through this section, and in addition to being a family physician she has accepted many other opportunities to do good. Rodman P. Welch is a son of George and Jane (Purinton) Welch, and a grandson of Thomas and Polly (Burt) Welch. The Welches were of Irish descent, and they came from Vermont to Ohio about 1832. The family was represented in the Revolutionary war. Thomas Welch was a Baptist minister. Jane Purinton, who married George Welch, was the daughter of Sophia Dow, who came to the United States with three brothers. The Purinton family in America traces its ancestry to Asa Purinton, who came to Vermont in 1717. Dennis G. Welch was born in Kingston Township, Delaware County, August 17, 1884, and was educated at Ashley. He graduated from high school in 1904, and did some preparatory work before entering upon his professional education. He graduated in dental surgery in 1908 from the Starling-Ohio State University at Columbus. Since that year he has had an extensive practice in his profession at Ashley. He is a member of the Psi Omega college fraternity, is a past master of Ashley Masonic Lodge No. 407, and a member of Marion Commandery, Knights Templar. August 17, 1908, at Ashley, Dr. Dennis Welch married Florence Maloney, daughter of Charles and Clara (Goddard) Maloney. Her parents are natives of Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Welch have four children, Lowell, Bernice, Martha and Ann. JAMES R. LYTLE. The acknowledged authority on local history in Delaware County, and author of what is regarded as the definitive work of county history is James R. Lytle, a man of versatile intellect, talents and accomplishments, who has been a member of the Delaware bar for over half a century, and is known to everybody in the county. Because of the personal esteem paid him, there is perhaps a more distinctive fitness to the good work of his life than any financial reward. Mr. Lytle was born at Clearcreek, Fairfield County, Ohio, April 9, 1841, son of James R. and Catherine (Freymyer) Lytle. His paternal grandparents were Andrew and Catherine (Henderson) Lytle. The Lytles were Scotch-Irish and were early settlers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Freymyers were of Holland-Dutch stock. James R. Lytle, Sr., as also his wife, was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and from there he came to Ohio and was a farmer and always interested in public affairs. At one time he was a member of the old "know nothing" party. James R. Lytle, Jr., grew up on his father 's farm, had an increasing share of this work as age and strength came to him, and his education was the result of spending some winter terms at school. Finally, when approaching his majority, he came to Delaware and completed one year of work in Ohio Wesleyan University. About that time the Civil war had begun, and he went back to Clearcreek with the intention of enlisting, but he found that his younger brother had enlisted. His father felt that the older son should remain to help on the farm, as there were 100 acres under cultivation, and this seemed more than the father could handle alone. James R. Lytle therefore remained on the farm until May 2, 1864, when he enlisted in Company I of the One Hundred Fifty-ninth Infantry, and was with his regiment until the close of the war. In the fall of 1865 he resumed his studies in Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained until graduating in 1868. During his last year in college he studied law in the office of General Jones, and on June 30, 1869, was admitted to the bar. For about a year he practiced at Fremont, and then accepted the invitation of General Jones to a partnership. Consequently he returned to Delaware, and for over a quarter of a century he and General Jones constituted one of the wealthiest law firms of the county. Mr. Lytle has not been an office seeker. He has found the practice of law sufficient to satisfy his ambitions for service. However, he has been interested in politics and for four years was chairman of the republican county organization. His knowledge of and popularity among the people meant much to his party. It was at the request of the citizens of Delaware County that he compiled his history. On July 28, 1868, at Delaware, he married Miss Cornelia A. Chase, daughter of Rev. Ira and Jane (Wilcox) Chase, her father a native of Maine and her mother of Pennsylvania. Her father was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Conference, and in the early days was associated with Bishop Thompson at Toledo. He frequently did missionary work among the Indians, and had many interesting experiences with them. During his later years Rev. Ira Chase lived on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle had three children, their only son, James William, being deceased. Their daughters made interesting marriages. Viola M., after completing her musical education in Ohio Wesleyan University, went abroad to study in Berlin, and while there she met and married Baron Edgar Von Euchtritz, and has since remained in Berlin. Her sister, Cornelia Francio, during a visit to her sister in Germany met Count Boto Eulenberg, and they were married, and she too remained in Germany, though returning each year to visit her parents. Count Eulen- 14 - HISTORY OF OHIO berg died, and in 1921 she became the wife of Count Von Finckenstein, who was at the head of the Red Cross work in Germany during the World war and also a member of the Reichstag. Cornelia Francio was on the boat on her way to America in July, 1914, when the announcement of the outbreaking of war was received by wireless, and as she landed shortly afterward she brought this information to her father before it was published in the New York newspapers. Mr. Lytle 's wife died in February, 1917, and on account of war conditions it was eighteen months before he could get word to his daughters informing them of the tragedy. Though past the age of four score, Mr. Lytle is an exceptionally vigorous man, always in his office every day, and still practices law, though he seldom appears in court. His practice is confined largely to advising and counseling his friends. In 1861 he became a member of St. Paul 's Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years has been on the church board. He is a Royal Arch Chapter and Council degree Mason, and takes an active part in the Grand Army post. JOHN EDWARD ANDERSON is a structural engineer with an extended experience, and has been selected as the resident engineer in charge of the extensive program of building now underway for the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Anderson was born at Walkerville, West Virginia, July 25, 1879, and his people have been Virginians since early Colonial times. His parents were James Jonathan and Lucretia (Bleigh) Anderson. His mother is still living on the old homestead where James J. Anderson was born. Though a Virginian, he was a Union soldier during the Civil war, serving three and one-half years in Company A of the Tenth West Virginia Regiment. After the war he became a farmer, and always took much interest in public affairs. John Edward Anderson attended the public graded schools of West Virginia, and was a student in the Wesleyan College at Buckhannon in his native state. He did not graduate, and, leaving West Virginia, he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and served an apprenticeship of study and practical experience in structual engineering under Mr. Schotte, one of the prominent men in that profession. He has done much work as superintendent of building construction, and his reputation caused him to be selected as resident engineer at the Ohio Wesleyan University. The program for improvement at the university at Delaware caused an ultimate expenditure of about $8,000,000. This program embraces about sixteen new buildings, including the recently completed Austin Hall and power plant, and also Art Building, Woman's Building, dormitory, chemistry laboratory, and a splendidly equipped astronomical observatory. Mr. Anderson has found a special charm in the companionship of university men at Delaware, more than compensating for a larger financial reward .open to a man of his experience elsewhere. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and he and his family are members of the Williams Street Methodist Episcopal Church. At Washington, Pennsylvania, in June, 1904, he married Miss Bertha May Gibson, daughter of Walter L. and Sarah (Smith) Gibson. Her parents are living in Pennsylvania, her father being in the oil business. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are James Gibson, John Edward, Jr., and Jean. OSCAR CASE is proprietor of the Case Creamery Company at Delaware. The patrons of that business know and appreciate its high class and efficient management and the splendid quality of its product. Some of them also know something of the personal history of its proprietor, how he started when a boy just in his teens in the milk business, and by his persistency, enthusiasm and high ideals has developed a service that is one of the most essential in any community. He was born on a farm in Delaware County, February 20, 1889, son of Ralph Frank and Ida (Hickel) Case, and grandson of Ralph and Esther Ann (Holcomb) Case. The Holcombs were an old Connecticut family. Ralph Frank Case died in 1901. The widowed mother still occupies the old home farm, which is owned by Oscar Case. Oscar Case attended school only when there was no pressing work to do on the farm. His education ended when he was fifteen. Two years previously he had started in an exceedingly modest way to sell milk, at first only three pints daily. He kept adding to his list of patrons so that at the end of two years he needed a wagon for his delivery, and there has been no interruption to an increased volume of business and progressive addition of facilities to make a perfect service. He put in a supply station in the City of Delaware, then a creamery with modern machinery for pasteurizing milk and the manufacture of butter, and in 1916 erected the most modern creamery and ice cream plant in the state. It occupies a fine building one block from Main Street. In this flourishing business Mr. Case has realized the dream and ambition of his boyhood. He understood even as a boy that quality was what people demanded, and his success has been largely due to his ability to maintain his standards above the ordinary. In March, 1916, at Columbus, Mr. Case married Miss Ethel McCloud, daughter of William and Sarah (Boddel) McCloud, who live at Columbus. Her father was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Associated with Mr. Oscar Case for a number of years has been his brother, Craiton Case, who was born July 9, 1887, and both grew up on the farm together and had similar educational advantages. Craiton. Case has been making his own way since he was fourteen. He did. farm work by the month, and he now manages the home farm and assists in the creamery business. He is unmarried. HENRY L. SPELMAN through an active life of more than three a core and ten years has been an important factor in the business affairs of Portage, Stark and adjoining counties in Ohio. He was born at Edinburg, in Portage County, February 21, 1852. His parents were Marcus F. and Mary Ann (Reed) Spelman. The Spelman family settled in Randolph Township of Portage County as early as 1816. Marcus Spelman was born at Granville, Massachusetts, in 1809. His father, Festus, was born in the same place and died when his son Marcus was young. Marcus Spelman taught school and became greatly interested in church and anti-slavery work. He was a deacon of the Congregational Church at Rootstown for forty years. His wife, Mary Ann Reed, was born at Rootstown, in 1811, daughter of Abram Reed, who came from Connecticut. Marcus Spelman and his wife both reached the venerable age of ninety-one years, and they were married sixty-nine years. Henry L. Spelman attended the public schools. In 1866, when he was fourteen years of age, his father sold the farm, and at that time Henry L. started for himself, becoming a trader in live stock. At the age of twenty he engaged in the mercantile business at Rootstown. Prior to that he had bought stock of several hundred maps of the United States and traveled as far west as St. Louis, Missouri, sell- HISTORY OF OHIO - 15 ing them. He was in the mercantile business at Rootstown for about five years with a partner, and then became proprietor, gradually engaging in the produce business, handling butter and eggs. About 1882 he moved his business to Canton, where he continued the produce business until about 1900. In 1890 he had also engaged in the wholesale and retail ice business at Canton. He was also in the coal business, and for fourteen years he conducted a creamery at Hartville. In 1903 he removed his home to Kent, but supervised his ice and other business interests. For a number of years he owned and operated the delivery system for the delivery of groceries and meats for merchants in Cuyahoga Falls, and has a similar system in Kent and Ravenna. He still retains his interest in coal yards at Canton. Since 1903 he has been dealing in real estate at Kent. He has owned several farms in Portage County, and is a director in the County Savings and Loan Company of Ravenna. On September 9, 1874, Mr. Spelman married Miss Julia A. Burt, born in Brimfield Township, Portage County, daughter of Washington and Electra (Babcock) Burt, also natives of Portage County. Her grandparents came from Connecticut and Massachusetts. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Spelman are: Comfort Carrie, wife of Charles W. Mathivet, of Cleveland; Marcus Burt, of Kent who is associated with his father in business; and Rollin who has charge of his father 's coal business in Canton. Mr. Spelman has served as treasurer and trustee of the Congregational Church for many years. He is an independent republican, and for a number of years was prominent in the prohibition movement in Portage County, serving as chairman of the dry committee since 1907 and was largely instrumental in making the county dry. WATSON ELLSWORTH SLABAUGH, a former president of the Akron Bar Association, has been one of the able lawyers of the Akron bar for nearly forty years. He was born in Portage County, Ohio, September 25, 1859, son of Amos L. and Julia (France) Slabaugh. He grew up in Portage County, attended public schools there, attended the Ohio State University in 1881 and Mount Union College at Alliance in 1882. He completed his law studies under Henry W. Harter at Canton, and in 1885 received the Bachelor of Laws degree at the Cincinnati Law School. Admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1885, he subsequently was admitted to practice in the United States Federal courts in Ohio and the Circuit Court of Appeals in 1900. He has been a member of some of Akron 's most notable law firms. He practiced with the firm of Otis & Slabaugh from 1885 to 1887, with Marvin, Atterholt & Slabaugh from 1887 to 1892, with the firm of Slabaugh & Sieberling from 1896 to 1904, with Slabaugh, Sieberling, Huber & Guinther from 1904, and since 1920 has been a member of the firm of Slabaugh, Young, Sieberling, Huber & Guinther. Mr. Slabaugh is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, and was elected president of the Akron Bar Association in 1911. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is an elder in the High Street Church of Christ. WALTER BLAINE WANAMAKER, a member of the Akron bar, was admitted to practice just before he joined the colors at America's entrance into the World war, and he rendered a distinguished service in France as an aviator until shot down. He has practiced at Akron since the war. His father, Judge Reuben M. Wanamaker, was one of Ohio 's most distinguished attorneys and jurists, and was associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from January, 1913, until his death, June 18, 1924. Judge Wanamaker married. Fannie Jane Snow. Walter Blaine Wanamaker was born at Akron, March 16, 1894. He was educated in public schools, at Buchtel College of Akron, and was graduated from the law department of Ohio State University of Columbus in 1917. On May 12 he was admitted to the bar, and the next day he enlisted, joining one of the first officers training camps in Texas. On July 22, 1917, he volunteered for service in the Aviation Corps, being trained in Canada, and in January, 1918, was sent to England with the Twenty-seventh Squadron. From England he went to France, and while on duty was shot down and captured by the Germans. He was put in a German Hospital as a prisoner, and endured the poor facilities and the negligent service of a prison hospital for four months. After the armistice he was released, returned to France on December 2, 1918, and reached Akron in April, 1919. He immediately engaged in the private practice of law, in association with Lockwell & Grant, and since January, 1921, has been assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit County. He is a member of the County and State Bar associations, belongs to the Sigma Chi College fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Fairlawn Heights Golf Club, the University Club, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Mr. Wanamaker married, October 22, 1921, Miss Agnes Isabel Fox, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ALONZO BYRON WALKER, M. D., Counsel Emeritus Aultman Hospital Staff. From the standpoint of continuous service Doctor Walker is now the oldest practicing physician in the City of Canton. He has been in practice here over fifty years. He has long been prominent as a surgeon, and was one of the first surgeons in this part of Ohio elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Doctor Walker is a son of a physician, and was born at New Somerset, Ohio, in 1851. His parents were Dr. Columbus Thomas and Mary Jane (Runyon) Walker. However, Doctor Walker had to exercise his own powers of contrivance and get his medical education at the expense of his own earnings and efforts. He attended district schools, the Waynesburg High School, the Mount Union College at Alliance, in Stark County, and during 1879-80 attended lectures in the Rush Medical College of Chicago. From there he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1881. He at once located at Canton. During his long career here he has done more than perform the routine duties of a professional man. He has been a keen observer, has contributed the knowledge and experience gained in his individual practice to the knowledge of the profession at large, and his papers and addresses made before the County Medical Society, the Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and other associations include a wide list of topics indicating his unusual ability as a general surgeon. Doctor Walker was elected president of the Stark County Medical Society in 1886, and again in 1905 was president of the Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio in 1893 and again in 1906, and in 1908 was elected vice president of the Ohio Medical Association, serving as a delegate to the State Association in 1904 and as a delegate to the American Association in 1906-07 and again in 1915-16. He was a member of the Ninth, the Thirteenth and the Seventeenth International Congresses of Medi- 16 - HISTORY OF OHIO cine. Doctor Walker has come in touch with the most eminent physicians and surgeons in the world. In 1900 he attended clinics in Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, and during another trip abroad in 1013 attended clinics in London and Paris. He was chosen a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons June 22, 1914, and only men of definite achievement in surgery are elected a Fellow in this college. Doctor Walker has been surgeon for the Stark Electric Railroad Company, was president of the Aultman. Hospital Medical Staff in 1900, and subsequently consulting surgeon at that hospital, has been president of the staff of Ingleside Hospital, and was vice president of the Jefferson Medical College Alumni for Ohio in 1905. In addition to numerous papers contributed. to the programs of local medical societies Doctor Walker in 1891 addressed the American Medical Association on "Papillomatous Cystoma of the Ovary," and has delivered addresses before the State Medical Association on the subject of Ovariotomy and Tonsillectomy. Doctor Walker is a democrat, though twice he voted for William McKinley for president. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Al Koran. Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and be- longs to the Canton Club, the Country Club, the Canton Chamber of Commerce and the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He married at Waynesburg, Ohio, in 1876, Miss Miranda M. Stull, daughter of David Stull. Two daughters were born to Weir marriage, Helen, wife of A. D. McCarty, and Hazel, who married George W. McKay. The mother of these children died in July, 1916. Doctor Walker married October 17, 1923, Miss Lena Dixon, of Carmon, Illinois. ALEXANDER STEARNS MCCORMICK, M. D. While his career has brought him an extended experience in the general practice of medicine and surgery, Doctor McCormick, of Akron, excels in that difficult specialty of anesthesia. He is one of the ranking anesthetists in the State of Ohio, and his service has brought him recognition throughout the profession. He was born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22, 1876, son .of Duncan and Susan Gertrude (Smith) McCormick.. His mother's ancestry included that of the Stearns family, which has been in America since the earliest Colonial settlements. Duncan McCormick, who died in 1923, at the age of seventy-seven, was a descendant of King David I of Scotland. He was a graduate of McGill University, and as an attorney held the titles of King's Counselor and Bachelor of Civil Law, being engaged in an extensive practice at Montreal for many years. Alexander Stearns McCormick was educated in private schools and at McGill University in Montreal, where he gained the degrees Associate in Arts and Literate in Arts. In 1895, at the age of nine- teen, he enlisted and served eleven years with the Third Regiment, Victoria Rifles of Canada, beginning as a private and retiring with the rank of captain in 1907. During the South African war from 1899 to 1902 he was a corporal in the Second Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, a battalion that singularly distinguished itself, taking part in forty-one engagements and in the battle of Paardeberg on February 16, 1900, making an advance and charge that compelled the surrender of a Boer command of 5,000 men. For his military services Doctor McCormick received two medals, one of them the Queen's medal with three bars. About the time he left the army he took up the study of medicine, and was graduated in 1910 from Western University at London, Ontario, and also took special courses in McGill University, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, spending some time in Sloans Maternity. Hospital and in the New York Polyclinic. Doctor McCormick located at Akron in April, 1911. For several years he practiced internal medicine, but in 1915 limited his practice to . anesthesia. Doctor McCormick is chief anesthetist of the Akron Children's Hospital, is a senior anesthetist at the People's Hospital, is visiting anesthetist to all the other hospitals in Summit County, and has been director of the Inter-State Society of anesthetists and is a member of the American Association of Anesthetists and the National Anesthesia Research Society. He has contributed a number of articles on his specialty to such publications as the Urological and Cutaneous Review, the Ohio State Medical Journal, the American Journal of Surgery and the Therapeutic Review. One service of more than ordinary merit rendered by Doctor McCormick since. coming to Akron was his strenuous work of secretary of the Summit County Medical Society. He first took that office in January, 1913, holding it six years, and since 1920 has again been secretary. In 1912 the society had only ninety-six members, and its membership is now over 300. He served as historian of the society three years. Doctor. McCormick is secretary of the medical staff of the Children's Hospital, and is a member of the Ohio State and the American Medical associations. During the World war he was secretary of the Summit County branch of the medical section, National Council of Defense. In May, 1918, he was commissioned captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, but was not called for active duty. In the meantime he had applied for American citizenship, and his final papers were given in 1919. At the height of his profession Doctor McCormick has found his chief avocation in music. He has a collection of disc records pronounced by the Victor Company as the finest, though not the largest, in North America. He also has a fine library of literature. He is a member of the Rotary Club, University Club, Fairlawn Heights Golf Club, life member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic .Association, and is president of the United Service Club of Akron, made up of veterans of military service in different countries. Doctor McCormick organized the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association of Akron. He is a Presbyterian. Doctor McCormick married, in 1908, Ruth Barbara Morrison, of New York, daughter of William Morrison. She is prominent in Akron social circles. THE SUMMIT COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY is the fourth largest organization of the kind in Ohio, has been in existence more than eighty years, and no medical society in the state presents a finer record of war service. The facts for the brief sketch that follows were furnished by the society's secretary, Dr. A. S. McCormick of Akron. The history of medicine in Summit County begins in 1800 with the founding of Hudson, the oldest settlement in the county. One of the founders of Hudson was Moses Thompson, M. D: (1776-1858). The first physician on the site of Akron was Titus Chapman, who located there in 1815. The Summit County Medical Society, founded in 1842, when Akron had but a population of 2,400, has for its object: An association for mutual fellowship; the maintenance of harmony, unison and good government among members, thereby promoting the character, honor, interests and usefulness of the profession; and the cultivation and advancement of medical science and literature, and the elevation of the standard of professional education. HISTORY OF OHIO - 17 Since its origin the society has had 603 members, the present membership being 324. How various members have influenced the development of Akron is indicated by a street named after S. W. Bartges, M. D. (1814-82), Prof. S. H. Coburn, M. D. (1809-88), E. Crosby, M. D. (1779-1882), A. M. Cole (1855-1922), and the great company founded in 1870 by B. F. Goodrich, M. D. (1841-88). Members of the Society who have served in the Ohio Legislature are M. Jewett (1815-89), L. S. Ebright (1844-1917), H. S. Davidson, and associate members W. R. Price and F. B. Burch. Active in all matters pertaining to the health of the community, the society as an organization or through its individual members was largely responsible for the founding of the Akron City Hospital in 1887, the Children's Hospital in 1905, the People 's Hospital in 1914, the Citizen's Hospital in 1915 and other private institutions. The members hold degrees from 112 universities and colleges of seven countries. By birth the members are from Austria, Canada, China, France. Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Roumania, Russia, Syria and the United States. The seven honorary members are among the most famous medical men of North America. The fifty associate members include leaders in Akron 's business and professional circles who take a special interest in the society and the work of its medical members. The society meets monthly and holds special dinners in the spring and autumn, the speakers on such occasions being leading members of the profession in this country and abroad. In addition, a medical section and a surgical section meet monthly, with speakers from the society. During the summer a series of golf games scheduled by the society, ending with the championship match in September. Throughout the country the Summit County Medical Society has the reputation of being among the very best in its management, program, attendance and all the items that make for efficiency. The war record of the society is specially entitled to recognition in any history of Ohio. During 113 years members of the society have participated in numerous wars. Four members were in service in the War of 1812; twenty-four were in the Civil war, from 1861 to 1865; there was one from Summit County in the Roumanian Army during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877; one in the North West Canadian rebellion of 1885. From the Summit County Medical Society eight members went into service in the Spanish-American war in 1898, one served with the British Army in the South African war of 1899-1902, one was in the Philippine campaign from 1899 to 1904. During the trouble on the Mexican border in 1916-17 twenty-six of the society's members were enrolled. During the period of the World war from 1914 to 1918 a total of 137 members of the Summit County Medical Society were under commission or in active service in some capacity. Seven were with the British Army, three with the Canadian Army, three with the French Army, one with the German Army, one with the Italian Army, while there were 107 in the United States Army, ten in the United States Navy, two with the American Red Cross, two with the United States Public Health Service, and one with the United States Secret Service. The ranks held by these medical officers included one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel eight majors, forty-eight captains, seventy lieutenants and nine other ranks. There was also a Summit County physician who was with the United States Army in the Siberian expedition in 1919. The total war record, unsurpassed by any other county medical society in Ohio, is 204 members. In addition, forty members have served in times of peace in the Canadian, Hungarian, Roumanian, United States Army and Navy, bringing the total military record to 244. WENDELL LEWIS WILLKIE. Since his return from abroad, where he served a year with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Wendell Lewis Willkie has practiced law in Akron. He was born at Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, February 18, 1891, and is one of three members of his family who have practiced law there. His father, an active member of the Elwood bar, is Herman F. Willkie, a native of Germany but brought to this country when five years old. He graduated from the Methodist college at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and from the law department of Valparaiso University in Indiana. His wife was Henrietta Trisch, who was born at Warsaw, Indiana. Fourth in a family of six children, Wendell Lewis Willkie graduated from the Elwood High School, attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana, and took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Indiana State University in 1912. He also did some special work in Oberlin College, and in 1914 was awarded the Bachelor of Laws degree by Indiana University. He is a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Phi and Delta Sigma Rho. America's entrance into the World war found him engaged in practice with his father at Elwood. On April 6, 1917, he enlisted attending the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, was commissioned a captain of field artillery, and with the Eighty-fourth Division spent a year in France. After leaving the service he joined the legal department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company at Akron, and since January 1, 1921, has been a member of the law firm of Mather, Nesbitt & Willkie. For two years he was commander of Summit Post No. 19 of the American Legion. He is a Mason and Elk and member of the University Club and Exchange Club. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1924. By his marriage to Miss Edith Wilk, of Rushville, Indiana, he has one son, Phillip. JOSEPH GEORGE SANBORN. Ohio, the state where the idea of building and savings associations first took root, has naturally produced a large number of the most prosperous organizations of its kind anywhere. One of them is the Wayne Building & Loan Company, with which for many years Joseph George Sanborn has been identified as secretary. Mr. Sanborn was formerly a newspaper editor and publisher. A native son of Ohio, he was born on a farm in Holmes County, November 8, 1847, and is of old English and American Colonial stock. The name has been spelled differently, the successive spellings in this branch of the family being Samborn, Samborne and, lastly, Sanborn. There is record of Stephen Bachiler, who was born in Southern England in 1560, who became a minister in the Church of England, but breaking away from the established church, came to America in 1632. His daughter Anne had married a Samborne, and her sons, Lieutenant John, William and Stephen, accompanied their grandfather, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, to this country. Lieut. John Sam-borne was the progenitor of the line from which our subject came. Of these grandsons, John Samborne, who was born in 1620, married Mary Tuck. Their son, Nathaniel Samborne, born January 27, 1666, tenth of their twelve children, was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, and his second wife was Sarah Nason. Their son, Jacob, born May 7, 1711, became the father 18 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Jeremiah Sanborn, who married Betsey Beverly and was a soldier of the Revolution, and in turn was the father of Joseph Beverly Sanborn. Joseph Beverly Sanborn, born July 4, 1762, married Molly Locke, and their son, Joseph Beverly Sanborn, was the father of the Wooster business man. Joseph Beverly Sanborn, who was born in Chichester, New Hampshire, March 6, 1810, a deacon in the Congregational Church and a captain of infantry, married Mary Jane Smith, who was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, September 16, 1810. In 1833 these good people came to Ohio, shortly after their marriage, living in Holmes County, but in the early childhood of Joseph George Sanborn moved to Loudonville in Ashland County, Ohio. Joseph B. Sanborn was a farmer and teacher, and justice of the peace at Loudonville. He died in 1882. He and his wife had six children. Joseph George Sanborn was reared at Loudonville and attended the common schools and an academy. When he was sixteen years of age he went to work in the printing shop of the Ashland Times, starting a three years' apprenticeship and subsequently was promoted to foreman of the composing department, and still later advanced to the position of local editor of the paper. He was with the Times of Ashland for six years, and in 1870 lie and Capt. A. S. McClure bought the Wooster Republican. Mr. Sanborn went in debt for a portion of his interest, but he was a thorough and practical printer, industrious and resourceful, made it a rule to pay his bills promptly, and as a result the newspaper was soon on a substantial footing. He continued for fifteen years in the newspaper business at Wooster. The general confidence inspired by his handling of business affairs caused him to be named frequently as an administrator of estates and executor of wills, and from 1885 until 1899 he devoted most of his time to the real estate and investment business and to his duties as an administrator of estates. Mr. Sanborn in 1899, with other associates, organized the Wayne Building & Loan Company, and has been its first and only secretary, filling this executive and administrative office now for a quarter of a century. This company has enjoyed remarkable growth, and has rendered a corresponding volume of important service to home owners and prospective home owners. The company now has assets of $10,000,000. In his career as a business man and citizen the outstanding fact has been "confidence," and all who have had business relations with him have shared in a common feeling of implicit trust in both his word and deed. His aid has been withheld from no worthy cause, and he has contributed freely of his own time and his means to every worthy social or civic project in the community within recent years. He was a member of the committee of general arrangements having charge of the centennial celebration of Wayne County 's one hundredth anniversary, held in Wooster, August 11-15, 1896, and served as secretary of that committee. He was the author of the closing address to the public, issued at the final meeting of the committee, which was reproduced in the newspaper press and "Picturesque Wayne." Without political ambition for office, he has been an active republican and is a member of the National Republican League. He also belongs to the National Geographic Society. Mr. Sanborn has been a generous contributor to and an active worker in the Bethany Baptist Church at Wooster. For twenty years he has been treasurer of the Wooster Cemetery Association. Mr. Sanborn was happily married for twenty-eight years. He and Kate E. Day were married November 30, 1876, their companionship being interrupted by the death of Mrs. Sanborn on February 6, 1903. Her father, Dr. Stephen F. Day, was a pioneer physician and surgeon of Wooster, where Mrs. Sanborn was born and reared. The three children of Mr. Sanborn are : Mary, wife of Rev. H. D. Allen, a Baptist minister; Martha V., at home with her father, and Lloyd D., assistant secretary of the Wayne Building & Loan Company. Joseph Sanborn Allen and James Henry Allen are grandsons of Mr. Sanborn. JOHN BUCKNER FLOYD, who for many years has been an active member of the bar at Ravenna, bears the name at once suggestive of a prominent Southern ancestry, and is, in fact, a member of the distinguished Virginia Floyds. He was born at Darlington, South Carolina, October 10, 1869, son of John and Tamsie A. (Bland) Floyd, a grandson of Capt. W. J. Floyd, and a great-grandson of Buckner Floyd, a native Virginian. John Floyd, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was born January 20, 1836, was a volunteer Confederate soldier, and went out as third sergeant in the Darlington Guards. Later he was promoted to first-lieutenant of the Darlington Rifles, later became the captain, and saw some arduous and dangerous service. He was several times wounded, and lie was an officer of the day of his regiment, the Eighteenth South Carolina Volunteers, when the crater was blown up during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. After the war he married and engaged in merchandising, and held numerous offices of trust and responsibility, being elected to the South Carolina Legislature and serving from 1888 to 1890. His death occurred July 4, 1910. John Buckner Floyd grew up in South Carolina, and was a student in the Darlington Military Academy at the same time with David F. Houston, who subsequently became secretary of agriculture and secretary of the treasury under President Wilson. He also attended a preparatory school in North Carolina, and during 1892 was a student of law in the University of North Carolina. He continued his law studies at Darlington, was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1895, and engaged in practice in his home town of Darlington for a few years. Coming to Ravenna, Ohio, Mr. Floyd was admitted to the Ohio bar, and for a year and a half was associated in practice with J. P. Dawley and W. D. Meals at Cleveland. He then returned to Darlington, South Carolina, and practiced law there for seven years. Since then he has resumed his home at Ravenna, Ohio, where in connection with law practice he has developed the Sontum estate, of which his wife is the sole heir. In 1897 Mr. Floyd married Miss Louise Sontum, who was born at Ravenna, daughter of Otto and Mary (Kramer) Sontum. Her father was born at Felbert, Prussia, while her mother was born at Randolph, Portage County, Ohio, a daughter of Sebastian and Gertrude (Rohr) Kramer, natives of Germany. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd are Otto, John, Robert and Buckner, all in the home circle. Mr. Floyd is a Presbyterian but attends the Episcopal Church at Ravenna. He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose at Cuyahoga Falls, and while in South Carolina he held the office of school board member and commissioner of elections. HARRY CENTENNIAL LONGCOY has for many years been a successful merchant at Kent, a hard working, intelligent business man, but at the same time interested in causes of public welfare. He was born at Kent, in January, 1876, and his middle name was given him because he was born in a year that marked the centennial anniversary of American Independence. His parents were Frank and Ada (Wetmore) Longcoy, his father a native of Franklin Township, Portage County, and his mother HISTORY OF OHIO - 19 of Stowe Township of Summit County. His grandparents, David and Abigail (Woodard) Longcoy, were natives respectively at New York State and Kentucky. When Harry C. Longcoy was an infant his parents moved out to Iowa and settled on a farm at Carson, where he began his education in the district schools. In 1888 he returned to Kent, Ohio, and in 1894 graduated from the high school there. For one year he was a student in Hiram College, and taught for one year in Stowe Township of Summit County. Mr. Longcoy acquired his training as a merchant in the grocery and meat business at Kent, rising to the rank of partner in the business in the fall of nu, and for many years has been sole proprieter of a flourishing meat and packing house business there. In February, 1900, he married Miss Blanch Smith, a native of Randolph, Vermont, and daughter of Allison C. and Jessie (Holden) Smith. They have four children, Elno, Jessie, Mabel and Harry, all at home except Elno, who is the wife of Mark Dreese and lives at Akron. The family are members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Longcoy has served as a member of the Kent School Board, for ten years, votes as a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Rotary Club and the Twin Lakes Golf Club. SAMUEL PRICE, of Portage County, has had a long and active career in agriculture, and after retiring from the farm he moved to Ravenna, and has found profitable employment for his leisure time. Always a close and attentive observer, he has made one or two inventions that contribute to the commercial processes of rubber manufacture. Mr. Price was born at Shalersville, Ohio, March 25, 1868, a son of Thomas and Betsie A. (Olin) Price. His grandparents, John and Betsie (Weels) Price, were early settlers in Portage County, in Franklin Township, where Thomas Price was born. John Price was a native of Wales, and his wife, of Summit County, Ohio. Betsie A. Olin was born at Perry, New York, February 16, 1831, daughter of Samuel and Betsie (Green) Olin. Her mother, who was born in 1797, died April 1, 1831. On January 16, 1832, Samuel Olin married Mercy Seymour, and on February 28, 1839, at Perry, New York, he loaded all his household goods in three wagons and drove overland to Streetsboro Township, Portage County. There he erected a brick house, and kept a tavern called Olin's Inn until his death on November 22, 1874. Samuel Olin was born at Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 1793, and was a son of Ezra Olin, Ezra Olin being a son of John, grandson of John, and great-grandson of John Olin. The last named John Olin was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, October 4, 1708. Thomas Price and Betsie A. Olin were married December 15, 1851, at Ravenna, and then settled on a farm in Shalersville Township. The father died August 30, 1899, and the mother, December 29, 1901. Their children were: Henry, who died in infancy; Calvin, a resident of Mantua, Ohio; Emma S., wife of C. W. Bosworth, of Riverside, California; John, of Mantua; Samuel; and Clayton, who died at the age of four years. Samuel Price was reared on a farm, was educated in the district schools, and as a young man he took charge of his father's farm to cultivate. When his father died he bought the interests of the other heirs in the old homestead of 234 acres, lying partly in Streetsboro and partly in Shalersville townships. On this property he continued his active operations as a farmer until 1911, when he moved into the City of Ravenna. At first he and his family lived in a rented home, and in 1913 he completed his attractive modern brick veneer residence at 340 North Prospect Street, where he lives today. Though a man of property, Mr. Price has the energetic disposition that does not permit a life of idleness. From the fall of 1911 to 1917 he was rural free delivery carrier on Route 5. Resigning, he went to work in the rubber factory, dipping rubber goods. After three months with the Ravenna Rubber Company he went with the White Rubber Company of Ravenna, remaining there thirteen months, and then did night work for the Oak River Company. While in these factories he became interested in the experimental side and studied new processes that might be available in the business, and later he secured a patent for a ring rolling machine for toy balloons. For some months he devoted all his time to completing the details of his invention, and then sold the shop rights for its manufacture to the Western Reserve Rubber Company. In May, 1923, Mr. Price became night watchman of the Browning Foundry at Ravenna. November 29, 1893, he married Miss Dora Cobb, of Streetsboro, Ohio, where she was born December 29, 1874, daughter of Roswell and Julia (Thompson) Cobb. Her father was born in Streetsboro Township in 1844, and her mother, in Hudson Township of Summit County, August 3, 1844. Her grandparents, Ariel and Emeline (Stone) Cobb, and Salmon and Abiah (Cook) Thompson, were all born in Connecticut, and all of them were among the first settlers of Hudson Ohio, where they located at the beginning of the last century. Mr. and Mrs. Price are republicans in politics and both are members of the Grange and the Eastern Star. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 12, Free and Accepted Masons, and Tyrian Chapter No. 91, Royal Arch Mason, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. They have two daughters. Elsie, born March 27, 1895, is the wife of Russell B. Davis, of Ravenna, and has a. son, Robert Edwin. Orsie, born July 5, 1897, married Raymond A. Hill, of Mantua, Ohio. HON. CLARENCE MURPHY. Three terms judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Clarence Murphy is one of the ablest jurists in Southern Ohio, and before going on the bench was rated as one of the ablest lawyers of Hamilton. He was born in Butler County, September 13, 1862, son of Peter and Cyrena (Van Gordon) Murphy. His father was born in Butler County, in 1820, was a farmer, and a man of prominence not only in the rural localities but in public affairs. He was educated in a log school house, and began housekeeping in a log cabin on his father 's farm. He was a merchant at Princeton in Butler County, was sheriff in 1851, and in 1886 moved to Hamilton, where he helped organize and became president of the Miami Valley National Bank. He held that office until his death in 1896. Prior to 1880 he was a director in the First National Bank of Hamilton. He was a democrat, and served two years in the State Senate. He was a director of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, and held all the executive offices in the Butler County Board of Agriculture. Judge Clarence Murphy, youngest of the six children of his parents, was reared on his father 's stock farm, was educated in the public schools, and in 1886 graduated from De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. He also graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and took his law diploma at the Cincinnati Law School in 1889. In the same year he returned to Hamilton, and since that date has been one of the prominent members of the Butler County bar. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, vice president and director of the Hamilton Dime Savings Bank Company, a director 20 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the Second National Bank of Hamilton, and a director and chairman of the executive committee of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. In 1893 he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Butler County, and filled that important office six years. In 1906 he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In that year he was elected on the democratic ticket, but in 1912 and in 1918 he was reelected, both times on the non-partisan ticket. Judge Murphy has presided at many notable trials in Southern Ohio, the most celebrated being the trial of William H. Cowdrey for murder by poisoning. The decision he rendered as trial judge in this case was taken to the State Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court and was finally sustained. Judge Murphy during the World war conducted the first Young Men's Christian Association drive in Butler County. He also was chairman of the committee that carried on the fourth Liberty Loan and the Victory Loan campaigns, and was associated with all other war activities. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a Mason, past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Judge Murphy married Miss Lutie Sohngen, daughter of Louis and Eliza Sohngen of Hamilton. They have two daughters. Marian, born in 1897, finished her education in Fairmont Seminary at Washington, D. C., and is the wife of John K. Hilker, of Hamilton. Louise, born in 1901, was educated in the Miss Kendrick 's private school at Cincinnati. CHESTER DAVID MARSH is an Ohio man who has made a success in the automobile business, and for a number of years has been ,a representative of the Chevrolet car. in Portage County, his offices, sales room and garage being at Ravenna. Mr. Marsh was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, April 18, 1882, son of David and Mary (Caldwell) Marsh. His father was born at Wheeling, and for many years was a farmer and huckster, his home being at Sherrard, West Virginia, north of Wheeling. He died in 1906. The mother, Mary Caldwell, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Martin and Jane (Clendening) Caldwell, and a granddaughter of Zeke Caldwell, who was born in the United States of Scotch parentage. Mrs. Mary Marsh died in 1884. Chester David Marsh was only two years old when his mother died. He grew up among relatives, in West Virginia, had limited attendance at local schools, and when only eleven years of age he was put out to work on a farm for board and the privilege of attending school. His school days ended when he was seventeen years of age, and for two or three years he was switch tender at Bellwood, West Virginia. At the age of twenty he became a street car conductor with the Wheeling Traction Company, and in 1908, removed to Akron, Ohio, as a motorman for the Ohio Traction Company. Mr. Marsh began selling the Chevrolet cars at Akron in 1916, and his early success there caused his appointment on May 17, 1917, as distributor for the Chevrolet Automobile Company in Portage County. In addition to his other duties at Ravenna he conducted a general garage and repair business. On April 2, 1902, Mr. Marsh married Miss Nina Woodburn, a native of Sherrard, West Virginia, and daughter of Alexander and Lydia (David) Woodburn. The seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Marsh are Holda, Gene, Thelma, Gladys, Ila Mae, Glenn and Bettie. Mrs. Marsh and the children are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Marsh votes as an independent in politics, in Masonry he is a member of Akron Commandery, Knights Templar, is a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kiwanis Club, and a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club. AUGUST S. COLE, judge of the Common Pleas Court of Portage County, has been a practicing attorney of the Ohio bar for over forty years. He is one of the senior members of the bar of Ravenna, and represents a pioneer family of Portage County. Judge Cole's great-grandfather was a native of Vermont, and a soldier of the Revolution. The grandfather, Jedediah Cole, was born in Vermont, and as a young than came to the Western Reserve about 1817, clearing up a farm in the wilderness. After 1834 he lived at the old Noah homestead, where his wife was reared. Jedediah Cole married Elizabeth Noah, who was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, daughter of John Noah, a native of Germany, and one of the pioneers of Portage County. Jedediah Cole and Elizabeth Noah were parents of four children. The youngest of these was Jedediah Cole, Jr., who was born near Garrettsville, in Portage County, May 26, 1830. He was reared on a farm, attended the local schools, and by reading and study made himself efficient in law and surveying. He taught several terms of school at Salem, Illinois, and had among his pupils relatives of William J. Bryan. In 1856 he became 'a pioneer settler of Chickasaw County, in Northern Iowa, where he taught school and was editor of the first paper in the county and one of the early republican journals of the state. From Iowa he removed to Southwestern Wisconsin, and was a carpenter and builder there until 1862. In July of that year he enlisted in Company A of the Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry, but on account of physical disability was assigned chiefly to clerical duties, and in the last months of the war he was captain of a regiment of colored troops. He was discharged in October, 1865, and then returned to Portage County, Ohio. In 1869 he was elected county surveyor, and held that office nearly forty years. Jedediah Cole, married, in 1855, Miss Catherine M. Dickens, whose father, Rev. James H. Dickens, gave half a century of his life to the ministry of the Methodist Church. His daughter was born and reared at Jacksonville, Illinois. Augustus S. Cole, oldest child of Jedediah and Catherine (Dickens) Cole, was born October 6, 1859, while his parents were living in Chickasaw County, Iowa. A few years later the family home was established in Portage County, where he first attended school. He was educated at Garretsville, attended Oberlin College, and began the study of law in the office of W. W. Thomas at Ravenna. During 188283 he was in the Law School of the University of Michigan. Judge Cole was admitted to the Ohio bar November 8, 1882, and subsequently was admitted to practice in the United States District Court and Circuit Court of Appeals. He was associated in practice with Mr. Thomas until 1886, then practiced alone five years, and for four years was a member of the firm Cole & Doughitt. Then followed a period of thirteen years when he again handled an individual practice. In 1918 he was called from the busy duties' of a private attorney by election as judge of the Common Pleas Court. He served a short time and in November, 1920, was reelected for the full term of six years. Another public service of Judge Cole was the ten years he devoted to his duties as mayor of Ravenna, from 1890 to 1899. Judge Cole is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a republican and a member of the Portage County Bar Association. On November 27, 1884, he married Miss Jennie M. Allen, who died July HISTORY OF OHIO - 21 20, 1908. His only son is Lee A. Cole, who on June 19, 1915, married Miss Lorena Reed, of Ravenna. BYRON BAILEY is a florist, in business at Kent. and is a successful business man whose present position is the result of many years' experience and hard work. He was born in New York City, October 18, 1868, son of Solomon and Hannah (Heath) Bailey, his father a native of England and his mother of New York State. Solomon Bailey followed several lines of business. Both he and his wife died in New York State. Byron Bailey attended the public schools of Saratoga, New York, and when thirteen and .a half years old he left home and went out to Omaha, Nebraska. There he earned his living tending lights for the railroad, and while there secured his first training in the floral business. He also spent some time at Kansas City, Missouri, and other places, and after three years in the West he came to Akron, Ohio, and later went to Attica, New York, working for florists. He was also in Buffalo, New York. After his marriage he engaged in farming and in other occupations for several years, and lived at Akron and later at Cleveland, where he worked in a fruit store and also in a drug store. About 1905 he came to Kent and made his modest start in the green house industry, and in the course of nearly twenty years earned a substantial position among Portage County's florists. He has about 2,800 feet under glass, and raises a general line of flowers. His establishment is at 1109 South Water Street. At Akron, Ohio, November 20, 1887, Mr. Bailey married Miss Mary Quinn, a native of Canada, and daughter of William Quinn. Mr. Bailey is a republican in politics. EDWARD SAWYER PARSONS, lumber dealer and for over thirty-five years associated. with the business affairs of Kent, represents a name that has been identified wth Portage County for nearly a hundred years. The Parsons family came from Massachusetts. His great-grandparents were Moses and Esther (Kingsley) Parsons. Edward Parsons, founder of the family in Ohio, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, March 14, 1797. He learned the trade of carpenter, and in 1830, after his marriage, came to Ohio and for a few months worked at Cleveland during the construction of the American House, one of the noted hotels of the time. The following year he bought a tract of timber land and settled with his family in Brimfield Township of Portage County. He was the second postmaster of Brimfield, and spent his last days at Kent, where he died in 1874, aged seventy-seven. He married Clementine Janes, who was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, in 1802, and died April 14, 1892, at the age of ninety. They reared a family of three sons and three daughters. The oldest son, Timothy G. Parsons, who died in Kent July 2, 1923, at the venerable .age of ninety-one, was prominently identified with manufacturing and other business interests of Kent. He was born in Brimfield Township, September 17, 1832, was educated in district schools and academy, and at the age of eighteen became clerk in a store at Akron. He went to California in 1853, and was there seven years, most of the time engaged in mining. He returned to Ohio as he had gone out by the Isthmus route, and engaged in farming. On September 20, 1861, he left the farm to enlist in Company A. of the Forty second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until November 3, 1863, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. Later he was on dispatch duty as chief quartermaster of the Thirteenth Army Corps, and during the last months of the war was at Louisville. In 1866 he located at Kent, and took over the retail lumber business established by Porter Hall and his brother, Edward A. Parsons. He was a lumber dealer and manufacturer, and continued active in the business until he retired about 1908. He was a member of the school board and the city council, and in politics was a republican. Timothy G. Parsons married Eleanor M. Sawyer in 1866. Her parents, Henry and Susan (Hall) Sawyer, were natives of Vermont and came to the Western Reserve in 1816. Mrs. Timothy G. Parsons died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. There were three sons in the family: Edward S. ; John T. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Dwight L., of Kent. Edward Sawyer Parsons was born at Kent September 25, 1867. He graduated from the Kent High School in 1884, continued his education in the Western Reserve Academy two years, and then joined his father in the lumber business. His brothers came in later, and the combined resources of the family have set this enterprise going and maintaining a place as one of the largest and most successful of its kind in Northern Ohio. The business was organized as a stock company in 1917, with the late T. G. Parsons as president, John T. Parsons vice president, Edward S. Parsons, secretary; and D. L. Parsons, treasurer. Edward S. Parsons and his brother D. L. are the active men in the business today. On February 12, 1891, Mr. Parsons married Miss Jennie B. Wolcott, who was born at Kent, daughter of S. P. and Mary (Brewster) Wolcott. Her parents were natives of Hudson, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have three children : Dorothy R. at home; Helen I., connected with the Health Department of the City of Canton; and Edward W., a student of the Western Reserve Medical College. Mrs. Parsons is .a member of the Congregational Church. Mr. Parsons some years ago was mayor of Kent. He is a republican, is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Rotary Club and the Silver Lake Country Club. JOHN ANDERSON MCDOWELL, who is giving a most progressive and efficient administration in the office of superintendent of the public schools of the City of Ashland, has to his credit a record of long and effective service in the teaching profession. He also has to his credit two terms of service in Congress. Mr. McDowell was born in Holmes County, Ohio, September 25, 1853, his parents having been born in Washington County, Pennsylvania and having been children at the time of the removal of the respective families to Holmes County, Ohio, in the early '30s. The father of Professor McDowell was long numbered among the substantial farmers and stock-growers of Holmes County, was also a merchant for a number of years, as well as a buyer and shipper of live stock. Both he and his wife remained residents of Holmes County until their deaths. John A. McDowell, after a course in the high school at Millersburg, attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he had the privilege of studying under the preceptorship of the late Prof. Alfred Holbrook, O. P. Kinsey and Warren Darst, who were long outstanding figures in Ohio educational circles. In 1887 Mr. McDowell was graduated from Mount Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and later the degree of Master of Philosophy. June, 1924, Mr. McDowell received the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy, conferred by Kent State Normal College. In the meantime he had served two years as principal of the high school at Millersburg, and for the ensuing seventeen years he served as superintendent of the public schools of that place, his administration having brought the schools up to a specially high standard in all departments. 22 - HISTORY OF OHIO The scholastic activities of Mr. McDowell had not entirely engrossed his time, for 1896 recorded his election to the United States Congress, as representative of the Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio. As a member of Congress he continued his loyal and effective service from 1897 to 1901, and he was influential both in the deliberations on the floor of the House of Representatives and in the work of the various committees to which he was assigned, including those on education, the census (1900), and the committee on territories, which prepared the code of laws for the civil government of the territories of Hawaii and Alaska. Meanwhile Mr. McDowell continued his educational work in summer schools and teachers' institutes. In 1908 he was elected superintendent of the Ashland city schools, and has continued at that post of duty for over sixteen years. He is a former president of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, and was a member of its Official Board during a period of five years, besides which he was for three years a member of the Executive Board of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, and for eleven years a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Normal School at Kent, Ohio, where he was for eight years secretary of the board, and three years president of the same. Mr. McDowell has been in the most significant sense an enthusiast in his profession, and his stewardship therein has been one of utmost loyalty. He has been an instructor in thirty-three summer normal schools has given many lectures before farmers' institutes, is a member of the National Educational Association, and is the author of a book on civil government of Ohio, as well as a text book on English grammar. The Ashland High School is one of high standard and most effective service, its enrollment of students in 1923 being 570 and its average graduating class in late years having numbered fully 100 members. The total enrollment in the Ashland public schools is approximately 2,100, and the corps of teacher numbers eighty-one. Mr. McDowell married Miss Esther Hole, of Mahoning County, she, like himself, being a graduate of Mount Union College. Of their eight sons and four daughters, three sons and two daughters are deceased. The son, Clyde S. McDowell, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, as a member of the class of 1904, at the age of nineteen years, and he has since continued in active service in the United States Navy, in which he has won the rank of commander. He won the naval Cross of Honor for his distinguished service in the World war, and received the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, in recognition for his important work in electrical research. In the publication entitled "Our World" appears an interesting article written by him and entitled "Dogs of War in Time of Peace." Wayne A. McDowell, the youngest son, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1920, and has since continued in active service in the navy. John A. McDowell, Junior, next to the youngest son, likewise represented the family in the nation's service in the World war, he having been in the artillery arm of the service and being now in the regular Army, stationed at Honolulu, H. T. The subject of this review takes pride in the fact that he has thirteen grandchildren. MAXWELL GRAHAM GARRISON, who was educated for the law and practiced a few years at Kent, has for over forty years been prominently identified with banking in that city, and is now president of The City Bank. He was born in Franklin Township, Portage County, April 12, 1851, son of James and Hannah (Walker) Garrison. The Garrisons are an old English family, and on coming to this country settled near Mon mouth, New Jersey, and later lived in Pennsylvania. At the time of the Revolution they were tories. Joseph Garrison, grandfather of the Kent banker, came from Pennsylvania to Portage County, Ohio, in 1818, and cleared and developed a farm in Deerfield Township. His son James Garrison, was born in Pennsylvania in 1814, and from the age of four years was reared in Portage County. His wife, Hannah Walker, was born in Stowe Township, Summit County, Ohio, daughter of William and Rachael (Stewart) Walker and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The Walker family came from Virginia to Portage County about 1818, and acquired land from the Connecticut Land Company. James Garrison after his marriage moved to Franklin Township, Portage County, and was engaged in farming there until his death in 1872. His widow survived him and died at Kent in 1906, at the venerable age of ninety-one. They were members of the Christian Church, and in politics James Garrison was a democrat. Their children were: William, who died while a Union soldier, in 1863; Charles, who became a veterinary surgeon and died in Kent in 1913; Alice, who died at Akron in 1921, wife of William J. Grubb; Frances, of Kent, widow of H. D. Minnick; Maxwell G.; and Edward F., who was a physician, and died in Portage County in 1881. Maxwell Graham Garrison had the farm in Franklin Township as his boyhood environment. He attended the district schools and then entered Hiram College, where he remained a student until the death of his father in 1872. For a year or so he helped operate the home farm, and on July 19, 1873, he married Miss Sarah L. Peck, who was born in Streetsboro Township of Portage County, daughter of Rufus H. and Sarah (Lappin) Peck. Her parents were also natives of Portage County. Her grandfather, Lyman Peck, was born in Connecticut, and her maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth (Stewart) Lappin, were natives of Stowe Township, Summit County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Garrison took up the study of law with D. L. Rockwell at Kent, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar. He engaged in regular practice at Kent, and continued until 1881. In that year, associated with D. L. Rockwell, James France and other Kent people he helped organize The City Bank. D. L. Rockwell became its president, J. N. Stratton, vice president, and Mr. Garrison, cashier. Mr. Garrison continued his duties as cashier, and much of the time as chief executive officer, for over thirty years. In 1900 the bank was incorporated under a state charter, and the present officers are : Mr. Garrison, president; D. L. Rockwell, Jr., vice president; E. F. Garrison, cashier ; and H. H. Line, chairman of the board. This bank has a capital of $125,000, and its deposits aggregate more than $1,000,000. Mr. Garrison has also been identified with other business organizations in Kent. He became president of the Seneca Chair Company, operating factories at Kent and Mansfield, Ohio. He was one of the principal stockholders in the Kent Machine Company, and president of that industry, and was one of the officials of the Portage Savings and Loan Company of Ravenna. A brief record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Garrison is as follows: Ruth, wife of Harry Callahan, living near Georgetown, Delaware; Bessie, who died in 1912, wife of J. F. Reed; Charles E., of Flint, Michigan; Guy J., who was a railroad man, and died in 1921, at the age of thirty-nine ; and Iliffe W., a locomotive engineer with the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad, living at Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Garrison was for several terms township treasurer, also city treasurer of Kent, and served two terms, four years, as county treasurer of Portage County, 1894-1898. He is a republican in politics, HISTORY OF OHIO - 23 has been a vestryman for many years in the Episcopal Church, and is a Royal Arch Mason and Odd Fellow. He is at present a member and chairman of the Sinking Fund Commission of Kent. RALPH C. KNISELY is a graduate pharmacist, and for the past seven years has been proprietor of a high class drug business located at 113 East Main Street in Ravenna. He is a native of Ohio and was born at New Phildelphia, this state, January 28, 1885, son of Henry and Emma (Coppage) Knisely. His father was also born at New Philadelphia, while his mother was born near Gilmore in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Henry Knisely was a carpenter by trade, and since 1899 has been janitor of the East School Building at New Philadelphia. The mother passcd away in October, 1922. Ralph C. Knisely was educated in the grammar and high schools of New Philadelphia, and then entered the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated in the pharmacy course in 1908. Following that he gained experience and some capital clerking and acting as pharmacist at Pittsburg, New Philadelphia and East Liverpool, Ohio. In September, 1917, he bought the business of W. T. McConey, who had died in 1916, and has since conducted this drug store in Ravenna, and has made it a thoroughly high class establishment. On September 25, 1912, Mr. Knisely married Miss Ruth Hubbard, who was born at Olmsted Falls, Ohio, daughter of Atton and Hattie (Stanton) Hubbard. Her father was born at Utica, New York, and her mother, in England. Mr. and Mrs. Knisely have one son Atton W., who was born September 16, 1914, and is attending the public schools at Ravenna, and a daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, born December 4, 1923. At Ravenna Mr. Knisely has identified himself in a public spirited manner with the progress of the community. He is one of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1919 was elected to the city school board. In January, 1921, he was chosen president of the board and was reelected in January 1923. He was a member of the Building Committee which erected the handsome new high school building at a cost of $420,000. Mr. Knisely is a republican, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, and he and Mrs. Knisely are members of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine at Akron. He is also affiliated with the Knigths of Pythias, with thc Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Kiwanis Club. CHARLES ZIMMER AUGHENBAUGH. One of the important local industries of Ravenna in Portage County is Johnson and Company, of which Charles Z. Aughenbaugh is half owner and active manager. Mr. Aughenbaugh 's father was for many years identified with this business, and Charles Z. returned to his native town to assist in the management after he had reached a creditable position in educational circles. He was born at Ravenna, October 22, 1875, son of George Zimmer and Alice L. (Stilson) Aughenbaugh. His father was a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and his mother of Rootstown in Portage County. George Z. Aughenbaugh was a glass worker, also a carpenter by trade, and for several years was foreman of the Diamond Glass Factory at Ravenna. He died September 22, 1922, and his wife, in 1881. The maternal grandparents of Charles Z. Aughenbaugh were Charles Morton and Lucy Ann (Bow) Stilson, natives of Litchfield, Connecticut. Charles M. Stilson was a boy when his father settled at Poland in Mahoning County, Ohio, and subsequently removed to Rootstown. Charles Z. Aughenbaugh was educated in the grammar and high schools of Ravenna, and in 1898 graduated from Oberlin College. After graduating he went to Illinois as teacher in the Todd Seminary for Boys at Woodstock, and at thc end of the year was promoted to head master of that preparatory school. He remained there engaged in his congenial duties as an educator until 1917, when he resigned and returned to Ravenna to assist his father in the management of the Johnson Paper Box Company. At that time his father was half owner of the company. This little industry had been started in 1884 as a small shop to manufacture cigar boxes. It was started not so much as a business venture as an occupation and diversion for Mrs. Emily Johnson, whose son had recently died and who to forget this desolating loss, which threatened to unbalance her intellect, started making boxes. George Aughenbaugh assisted - her as a workman, then as foreman, and by his energy in making the business a success, he was in five years' time given an equal interest in the industry. He and Mrs. Johnson continued the business together until 1907, when her son Loren acquired a third interest, and the factory was greatly enlarged, and a new department added for the manufacture of tubular paper boxes, and this has since become the leading feature of the business. Loren Johnson died in 1911 and his mother in 1913. His interests passed to his wife, Jennie B. Johnson, who for some years had been principal of the Brownell public schools in Cleveland. When the founder died in 1913, third interest was equally divided between George Aughenbaugh and Jennie B. Johnson. On January 1, 1919, George Aughenbaugh and his son, Charles Z., acquired the interest of Jennie B. Johnson, and thus the business came entirely under the ownership and control of the Aughenbaugh family. At the death of George Aughenbaugh, Mr. Charles Aughenbaugh became half owner and manages the entire business, the other half interest being vested in his father 's estate. The business is now conducted in a modern and sanitary factory, a five-story brick building 60x72 feet, with half an acre of floor space. There are about fifty employes, sixty per cent of them girls. On December 21, 1899, at Woodstock, Illinois, Mr. Aughenbaugh married Miss Martha Richards, who was born at Arcola, Illinois, daughter of Jacob W. and Martha 0 'Harra (Crippen) Richards, her father a new Englander by birth, while her mother was born at Rochester, New York. Mrs. Aughenbaugh was educated in the grammar and high schools at Arcola, Illinois. They have one child, Karl Hill Aughenbaugh, born at Chicago, March 12, 1903. Mr. Aughenbaugh is a trustee of the Congregational Church. Since returning to Ravenna he has served one term as councilman from the Second Ward, and is now president of the board of health. He casts his vote with the republican party in national elections, but is independent locally. He is a Mason and a member of the scholarship honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. He also belongs to the Twin Lakes Golf Club. HON. ARTHUR L. GREEN. The career of Hon. Arthur L. Green has never lacked that variety which keeps life from being one long round of monotonous service to a single line of endeavor. From the time that he entered life on his own account he has followed a number of vocations, in all of which he has found profit and contentment, and in one, at least, the elements of danger and excitement. At present he is the incumbent of the office of justice of the 24 - HISTORY OF OHIO peace of Dayton, although his home is at Ebenezer, two miles north of the city, on the new Troy Pike, and he is accounted one of the best law enforcement officials in Montgomery County. Justice Green was born June 20, 1882, at Dayton, and is a son of Lewis W. and Emma Green, the latter of whom is deceased. Lewis W. Green has been a merchant at Dayton for many years and is now the owner of a prosperous grocery business. Arthur L. Green secured the advantages of a public school education, and was still a youth when he obtained his first business experience in his father 's grocery store. He remained with the elder man for three years, and then branched out on his own account and for eight years was employed in the more or less hazardous occupation of stone quarryman at Centerville, Ohio. The lure of the life of the "fire laddies" then attracted him, and he joined the Dayton Fire Department, with which he was connected until 1910, when, while fighting a conflagration, he met with serious injuries which incapacitated him for a time and led to his resignation from the department. When he had accomplished a recovery Justice Green engaged in the wholesale cheese business for several years, and then disposed of his interests and engaged in farming in Montgomery County. In this field of activity he made a success, accumulating a well-cultivated and valuable property, and in 1921 retired somewhat from active pursuits and moved to Ebenezer, two miles north of Dayton, on the new Troy Pike, where he is the owner of his own home, together with a small piece of land. Mr. Green became well and favorably known to the people of his new community, and in 1923 he was elected justice of the peace, a position which he has since retained, and in which he has maintained dignity while carrying out the duties of his office. His impartiality, integrity, fidelity and courage have made him known as one of the best law enforcement officers in Montgomery County, where he is feared by the law violators and respected and esteemed by the law-abiding element. Justice Green is a republican in his political views, and holds membership in the Masons and the Commercial Travelers, in both of which he is popular. He has contributed his abilities and means to worthy movements and is accounted a public-spirited and constructive citizen. On October 23, 1917, Justice Green was united in marriage with Miss Grace Moore, of Sidney, Ohio, a graduate nurse of Memorial Hospital, Piqua, Ohio, and a daughter of Dr. Charles and Elizabeth Moore. They are the parents of one child, James Arthur, aged two and one-half years. The family belongs to the Methodist Church. WILL W. HESTER had the ambition and resourcefulness that enabled him to gain through his own efforts his higher academic and also his professional education, and the same forces came into effective play when he initiated the practical work of the vocation for which he had fitted himself. He is now numbered among the able and successful members of the bar of the City of Cincinnati, and here his law business is of substantial and representative order, the while it has involved his appearance in many litigations in the County, State and Federal courts of this section of Ohio. Mr. Hester was born at Starke, Starke County, Indiana, September 23, 1864, and is one of the four surviving members of a family of eight children,. four sons and four daughters. The parents are now deceased, and the father, Evan Hester, gave the major part of his active life to the basic industry of farming. The public schools afforded Will W. Hester his early education, which was further advanced by his attending Lebanon University, from which he received the degrees of both Bachelor and Master of Arts. Thereafter, with characteristic zeal and receptiveness, he applied himself to the study of law. In due course he was admitted to the Ohio bar, at Columbus, and thereafter he was. engaged in the practice of his profession at Blanchester, Ohio, until he found a broader stage of activity by establishing his residence in Cincinnati. Here his success in the practice of law has been of unequivocal order and stands in distinct evidence of his ability and his faithful professional stewardship. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. ANTHONY W. ABELE, postmaster of the city of Ironton, one of the founders and for a quarter of a century, treasurer of one of Ohio 's most successful building and loan associations, has earned the distinction so frequently accorded him as having been one of the citizen's responsible for the growth and progress of his home city. Mr. Abele began work in the coal mine at the age of eleven years, and has been responsible for every progressive step in his destiny. He was born at old Lagrange Furnace near Ironton, March 24, 1868. His parents, Joseph J. and Frances F. (Zahner) Abele, were natives of Alsace-Lorraine, France, and both were children when their respective families came to the United States. Joseph J. Abele was a coal miner by vocation. and was employed by such men as James Hudson, E. B. Willard and James Bull. He sustained a broken back in the mines in 1871. He was a man of industry and sterling character, and he 'and his wife were communicants of the Catholic Church. Anthony W. Abele had very limited educational opportunities when a boy. At the age of eleven he began assisting his father, who was almost disabled on account of his accident. He worked in the Bel-font Coal mine near the Ironton tunnel when S. G. Gilfillan was paymaster. He fired the first flue ever placed in a coal mine in this section. For some time he walked three and a half miles between home and the mine where he was employed. During the spring of 1883, when the mines were shut down on account of high water, he attended school at Lagrange with John G. Lane and A. R. Johnson as teachers. Several years later, in 1890, he attended a school at Coryville, getting four months of instruction from A. D. Bruce. But for the most part his education has come from experience, observation and private study, and from limited opportunities he has achieved a success such as many men with college degrees never attained. In 1890 Mr. Abele went to Palestine, Texas, and spent three years in that state, employed as a locomotive fireman, and became a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, still holding a card in that organization. After his return to Ohio he was in the retail shoe business at Ironton in partnership with N. J. Riter for two years. He then took up the baking business, a line he followed until 1898. Mr. Abele from 1898 to 1903 was assistant postmaster of Ironton, holding that office during the administration of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. He subsequently engaged in the real estate and insurance business. It was in 1900 that he assisted in the organization of the Aetna Building & Loan Association, was elected its treasurer and has been reelected to that office ever since. The association has the unusual record of having had only one foreclosure since it was founded. In business and public affairs Mr. Abele has won the unqualified popular confidence and esteem that place him among the city's real leaders. He has been and is prominent in republican party campaigns. He had a personal.