HISTORY OF OHIO - 25 near Medina, driving overland from Connecticut with wagons and ox teams. This was a pioneer journey of six weeks. John Burr Hollister was born in Connecticut, and at the age of twenty came to Medina, Ohio. He married here, and subsequently returned to Connecticut and is now living on his farm at Washington. His wife died in 1900. Wesley Oviatt Hollister attended public schools in Connecticut, the Mount Hermon Preparatory School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, and the Connecticut College of Agriculture at Storrs, where he was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1909. Removing to Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Hollister was research entomologist with the Parke, Davis Drug Company from 1911 until 1913. In the latter year he came to Kent, Ohio, as entomologist with the Davey Tree Expert Company, and is also an instructor in the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery. During 1918-19 he was doing special work for the United States Bureau of Entomology at Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Hollister is one of Kent's most progressive citizens. He was mayor of that city in 1922-23 and was reelected for a second term in 1924. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1921, and was elected to that position again in 1923. He is a democrat and was reared in the Congregational Church. He is a member of Rockton Lodge No. 316, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Kent Lodge No. 1377, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On October 1, 1912, he married Miss Ellora Mix, a native of Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and daughter of J. Allen and Myra (Cheney) Mix. Mr. and Mrs. Hollister have two children, Nancy Northrup, born in 1914, and Gerald Allan, born in 1916. ROBERT W. MILLER, M. D. A graduate of medical college in 1902, Doctor Miller since that year has been in practice at Hemlock in Perry County. His skill as a surgeon has brought him more than a local reputation, and by private study and by association whenever possible with the eminent men in his calling, he is unusually well qualified in the resources now at the command of modern surgery. Doctor Miller was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, December 6, 1876,' son of James and Jane (Williamson) Miller. His parents came to the United States in 1879, first locating at Leetonia, Columbiana County, Ohio, and a year later moving to Corning in Perry County, which became the permanent family home. James Miller, who died in 1920, was a coal miner, and after moving to Perry County he was in the service of the Sunday Creek Coal Company. He lost his wife in the great flood of 1913, while she was visiting the Carney family in Columbus. She was drowned. They had three sons, Dr. James Miller, Dr. Robert W. Miller, and David Miller. The latter is in business at Corning. The mother of these children was a leader in religious movements and became one of the organizers of the first Sunday School at Corning. She was a devout Presbyterian. Robert W. Miller attended school at Corning, also at Buckingham, and the Normal at Shawnee, conducted by Prof. C. W. Cookson. For three years he was engaged in teaching. His mother's advice was for him to become an attorney. But at that time his brother James was studying medicine at Georgetown University, near Washington, and Robert W. Miller decided to prepare for the same profession. However, he was educated in what is now the College of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Illinois, at Chicago, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1902. He had to earn nearly all the money needed to secure his education, and had become self supporting when a boy. He worked as a trapper, mule driver and coal loader in the coal mines, and his first wages were 75 cents a day. Early in his practice at Hemlock, though it has always been of a general nature, he began specializing in surgery, and the important surgical cases in that community are almost invariably handled by him. After he had been in practice for several years he returned to Chicago, in 1910, and took special work in surgery in the Post Graduate School of Medicine. He had served his interneship • in Chicago at the Baptist Hospital. Doctor Miller volunteered for active service during the World war, but was not called. He and his brother did a great deal of work outside of their regular practice at the time of the war. Doctor Miller was elected and against his protest served four years on the local school board. He married in 1904 Miss Gladys McCoy, daughter of John McCoy, of Athens. They have two children: Thelma, a graduate of the Athens High School and now a student of music in Ohio University ; and Autherine, who is attending high school. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Methodist Church. The Doctor belongs to the Perry County Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Corning and the Knights Templar Commandery at New Lexington, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at New Lexington. EDISON BARRETT YOUNG. While growing up on his father's farm in Athens County Edison Barrett Young found railroading exercising a strong fascination over him, and as soon as possible he went to work for a railroad company and has kept as closely to railroading as possible through the years of his mature life. He has served his time as an operating man in railroading, and for a number of years has been a railroad owner and operator. He is president of the Hocking-Sunday Creek Traction Company, a company organized in 1909 and which built and operates a traction line from Athens to Nelsonville, with tracks and side tracks to fifteen mines along the route. This little system connects with the Hocking Valley Railroad. Mr. Young was one of the prime movers in this great undertaking, which has meant so much in completing the transportation interests of a rich and populous mining district. Mr. Young was born on his father's farm in Waterloo Township, near Marshfield, Athens County, August 29, 1869, son of John and Almeda J. (Dowler) Young. His mother was born in 1847 and died in 1917. His father, who also died in 1917, was born in Waterloo Township in 1836. Alexander Young, grandfather of Edison B. Young, owned a farm in Waterloo Township, and was a noted artificer in steel and iron in the early days of this community. He had a forge on his farm, and from his shop supplied many of the axes and other farm tools used. John Young, with his brothers, Aaron and Alexander, volunteered for service in the One Hundred Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and fought all through the Civil war. He was a non-commissioned officer, and was wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek when a spent ball hit him on the instep. He finished his education in Atwood Institute at Albany, Athens County, and having saved his army pay he used it to purchase fifty acres in Waterloo Township. On this he started an orchard, and was one of the pioneers in growing fruit in this county. Eventually he was the owner of 800 acres and was one of the prosperous farmers and business men of the county. He was a sheep grower until the destructive inroads of dogs made that industry unprofitable, after which he became a cattle raiser. He was active in local affairs, was a democrat, and a liberal supporter of church organizations. His wife was a devout Methodist. They were the parents of three children: Edison B.; T. L., who graduated from Ohio University in 1895 and is an electrician, now superin- 26 - HISTORY OF OHIO tendent of the water works at Chester, West Virginia; and Mrs. L. W. Goodin, who with her husband occupies the old homestead. in Waterloo Township. Edison Barrett Young was reared on the farm, attended the district schools, and his first employment in the railroad service was as water boy when he was seventeen years of age. He was with a gang of men doing construction work for the Ohio Central Railway. Various promotions occurred during his work in the operating branch. He was brakeman, baggageman, express messenger, conductor on both freight and passenger trains for the Kanawha and Michigan and the Toledo & Ohio Central Railways, and was a member of the Bucyrus division No. 163 Order of Railway Conductors. For several years he lived in Columbus. He also did construction work in West Virginia. Eventually, as above noted, he took an active part in organizing, financing, building and operating the traction line of which he is now president. For nearly thirty years he has also been a dealer in real estate, especially handling leases on coal lands. He is one of the promoters and the first president of the Hocking Power Company, a great corporation that now supplies power, light and heat in territory extending from Toledo to the Ohio River. In 1985 Mr. Young married Miss Addie C. Baker, who at the time of their marriage was telegraph operator and cashier for the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad at Athens, Ohio. She is a daughter of E. E. and Clara E. (Morrison) Baker, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. They are the parents of four children. The son Baker is taking the classical course in Ohio University; Barrett is in the first year at Ohio University; Kelvin is a student in the Athens High School; and Iris, whose birthday is the 29th of August, the same as her father’s is attending the high school at Athens. The family are Presbyterians. Mr. Young was for several years a member of the Board of Directors of the Marshfield Bank. A democrat in politics, he was nominated by the democratic voters at the primaries held in August, 1924, for state senator in the Ninth and Fourteenth districts comprising Fairfield, Hocking, Athens, Washington, Morgan and parts of Noble and Monroe counties. His business offices are at Nelsonville. THOMAS MARTIN POTTER, former prosecuting attorney of Perry County, has practiced law in that section of Ohio for over thirty years. He has had a general practice, but much of his time has been taken up with business organizations, and for a number of years he has been a dealer in oil and coal lands. Mr. Potter was born on a farm in Monroe Township of Perry County, September 27, 1868, son of George H. and Alcedina Potter. Mr. Potter is a few years younger than Judge Maurice H. Donahue, who was born and reared in the same locality of Perry County, and has since climbed to the supreme bench of Ohio and is now judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of Columbus. The Potter family came from Pennsylvania and prior to 1840 settled in the backwoods of Monroe Township. George H. Potter, who was born in Monroe Township, was a Union soldier in the Civil war, first serving a six months’ term of enlistment and afterward joining the One Hundred Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, Sixth Corps. He participated in thirteen battles, including Winchester and other engagements in the Shenandoah Valley. After the war he farmed his fathers' old place, but for the last ten years of his life lived in Corning, his farm being a mile and a half west of that town. He held various local offices, including township trustee, was a pronounced republican and a member of the Methodist Church. George H Potter died in January, 1918, aged eighty years seven months and sixteen days, and his wife, who was born in Salt Lick Township of Perry County, died in 1911, at the age of sixty-four. They had three children : Thomas M., Estelle, wife of Arthur A. Campbell, of Athens County, Ohio, and Lola, wife of William Yeager, of Corning. Thomas M. Potter attended country schools, walking a mile and a half from home to the school house. After school and during holidays and vacations he worked on the home farm until he was seventeen. He also attended the Corning High School, and for six years he earned and paid his way as a school teacher in Monroe Township. The first year his wages were $100 for four months' term of school. He took up the study of law with his former neighbor, Maurice H. Donahue, at New Lexington, and at the present time he occupies an office in New Lexington, formerly occupied by this distinguished Ohio jurist. Mr. Potter was admitted to the bar in 1893, and for twenty years carried on a successful practice at Corning. In 1912 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and filled that office from January 1, 1913, to 1917. Since 1913 his home has been at New Lexington. Both as an attorney and stockholder Mr. Potter has had much to do with the organization and management of oil and coal companies. He assisted in 1905 in organizing the Perry County Telephone Company, and has since acted as secretary and treasurer of that corporation. On July 14, 1894, he married Miss Katherine M. Chilson. Her father, Dr. William Chilson, died a month before her birth. Her mother was Sarah Chilson. Mrs. Potter died in March, 1921, the mother of two children. The daughter Sarah K., who finished a domestic science course in the Thomas Normal Training School at Detroit, is the wife of Howard Nelson, assistant credit man for the Minnesota Steel and Iron Company at St. Paul, Minnesota. The second daughter, Miss Mabel M., is a student in Ohio State University. Mr. Potter is a Knight Templar Mason, has filled chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Methodist Church. He is president of the local Automobile Club, and has been an enthusiastic motorist from the. introduction of the first practical car. He owned one of the first automobiles in Perry County. Naturally he has been one of the leading good road boosters in this section of Ohio. DAVID W. JACOT, principal of the Lincoln Public School at Middletown, is an educator who has developed a concrete application of one of the most important ideas in modern education. He has been responsible for making an essential part of school work what is known as " organized play," and the success 'he has had with this feature in his own schools has given the idea a vitality that has secured its incorporation into the school program of hundreds of communities in and outside of Ohio. Mr. Jacot was born at Shreve, Ohio, June 24, 1884, son of Julius and Sophia (Rickenbacker) Jacot. His mother is a cousin of Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, the great American ace of aviation. David W. Jacot has acquired a liberal education in institutions and. through his own extended experience in school work. He attended the grammar and high schools of Apple Creek, Ohio, the Ohio Northern University at Ada, from which he received teacher,s's diploma, Wooster College at Wooster, Ohio, and he is mberer of the Southwest Teachers's, Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. He did his first teaching in the public schools of Wayne County, Ohio, was principal of the Junior High School at Wooster, .was 'principal of the Junior HISTORY OF OHIO - 27 High School at Fostoria, Ohio, but it was as principal of the Maplewood Public School of Connersville, Indiana, and superintendent of public playgrounds in that city that his work first attracted more than local attention. He was at Connersville for eight years. At Connersville he developed a practical plan based on the idea of "Organized Play" for children, starting there with one playground, donated by E. D. Hawkins. Before he left he had three playgrounds, with a daily attendance of children of over six hundred. In the schoolroom and on the playground he developed all sides and phases of a, balanced mental and physical education. Since coming to Middletown he has inaugurated a similar system of play in the public schools, and has been made physical director of public school playgrounds here. Mr. Jacot came to Middletown as principal of the North Public School in 1922, and 'since 1923 has been principal of the Lincoln School. He has under him a staff of eleven teachers and 350 pupils in the Lincoln School. Through his organized play he continues his educational work through the months of May, June, September and October, introducing competitive games, group games, drills, traveling parties, nature-study, story telling, community meets and socials, stunts, dramatizing, basketry, football, park ball, newcomb ball, captain ball, relay contests, and Saturday hikes to study birds and their habits, trees and other phases of nature. Mr. Jacot has originated many games suitable for meetings where a great number of both children and older persons come together. Through his system in the schools every child is playing some game and usually a different game every day. Mr. Jacot is a Royal Arch Mason. He married Miss Bernice Guernsey. at Fostoria, Ohio, in August, 1915. She is a daughter of Charles and Minnie (Brown) Guernsey, her father being a prominent attorney at Fostoria. Mrs. Jacot is a graduate of the Fostoria High School and of the University of Michigan, and for eight years was a teacher in the public schools at Fostoria. Mr. and Mrs. Jacot have two children, Marion Ethel, born in 1917,. and Minor Ruth, born in 1921. SAMUEL LEWIS WEST, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, for somewhat more than forty years, and is distinctly one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, even as had been his father in earlier years. Doctor West was born at St. Clairsville, judicial center of Belmont County, on the 23d of February, 1863, and here his professional career has been one of able and loyal service in behalf of his fellow men. He is a son of Dr. Henry and Agnes (Parker) West, the former of whom was born at Scotts Ridge, Harrison County, Ohio, April 8, 1810, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of that county, and the latter of whom was born in Ireland, she having been thirteen years of age at the time when her parents established their home in Belmont County, where she passed the remainder of her life. Mrs. West, the second wife of Dr. Henry West, died in the year 1866, and of her five children Dr. Samuel L., of this review, was the second in order of birth. Dr. Henry West received his early education in the pioneer schools of Ohio, and he prepared himself thoroughly for the work of his chosen profession. After his graduation from the' Ohio Medical College he engaged in the practice of his profession at Bridgeport, Belmont County, in 1835. He served two terms as representative of Belmont County in the Ohio Legislature, 1838-40, and he continued to be aligned in the ranks of the democratic party until the inception of the Civil war, when he transferred his allegiance to the republican party, which he looked upon as best representing the interests of the nation in that critical period. He served as surgeon of the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and did well his part in the great struggle by which the integrity of the Union was preserved. After the war he continued active and influential in the local ranks of the republican party, and he served as a member of the State Senate in 1865-66. The Doctor eventually moved with his family to St. Clairsville, and here he built up a large and representative practice as a physician and surgeon, besides conducting a drug store. He was a leading member of the Belmont County Medical Society, and was affiliated also with the Ohio State Medical Society, as was he likewise with the Grand Army of the Republic. A man of noble character and fine professional stewardship, he ever commanded unqualified popular confidence and respect, and his civic loyalty found manifold avenues for effective expression. He was thrice married And became the father of eighteen children. This venerable and honored physician and loved citizen continued to reside at St. Clairsville until his death, which occurred Julie 30, 1887. He was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church. In the public schools of St. Clairsville Dr. Samuel L. West pursued his studies until he had duly followed out the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he clerked six years in his father ,s drug store, where he became a skilled pharmacist. Finally he entered Ohio Medical College, his father ,s alma mater, which now constitutes the medical department of the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1883. He became associated with his father in practice at St. Clairsville, and was the virtual successor of his father, whose death occurred about five years later. Here he has' continued in active general •practice during the long intervening years, unselfish and faithful in service and ever ready to respond to the call of distress. His practice is now largely of office character, but his presence is required frequently in the many homes in which he has long ministered in his *profession. The doctor is one of the veteran members of the Belmont County Medical Society, of which he has served as president, and he holds membership also in the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a director of the Second National Bank of St. Clairsville, and has been a member of the local Board of Education since 1912, he being now its president. He is vicd president. of the Public Health Board of Belmont County, is a stalwart in the ranks of the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In the World war period Doctor West served as a member of the Draft Board of. Belmont County, besides volunteering for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. July 18, 1902, recorded the marriage of Doctor West and Miss Lulu H. Hutt, daughter of Peru and Mary E. (Givens) Hutt, of Waverly, Pike County, where Mr. Hutt is engaged .in the drug business. Mrs. West was graduated from the department of pharmacy at Ohio Northern University, in the Village of Ada. Doctor and Mrs. West have two sons, Henry Hutt and Lewis Parker. JOSEPH B. DAVIS. Located in the Hocking Valley, a mile below the City of Nelsonville, is the stock breeding farm whose fine saddle horses have gained a national reputation. The owner of this farm is Joseph B. Davis, who has lived there practically all his life and has made a success of other interests as well. He is president of the Highland Coal Company 28 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Nelsonville and was formerly secretary and treas- urer of the Woodland Coal Company. Mr. Davis was born in Nelsonville, September 3, 1885, son of Edward and. Elizabeth (Bean) Davis. His father was born at the old Davis homestead where the Greenlawn Cemetery is now located. He spent the early part of his life as a farmer and stock man, and for a number of years was an active business man in Nelsonville. He was holding the office of city marshal and was in the performance of his official duty when he was killed. He died when his son Joseph was an infant. He was a member of the Masonic Order. His only children were Joseph B. and Velma. The latter died when' seven years old. The mother, Elizabeth Bean Davis, now resides on the farm. Her father, 0. W. Bean, was a prominent citizen o2 Athens County, and died in 1914. Joseph B. Davis grew up on his grandfather Bean,s farm, which was noted for its fertility, much of it as fine soil as can be found in this section of Ohio. Under the management of Joseph B. Davis the farm has been thoroughly modernized and given a building equipment suited for the high class live stock interests represented there. His grandfather Bean was for many years engaged in live stock dealing and shipping. Joseph B. Davis was educated in the Nelsonville High School and Ohio University at Athens, leaving school at the age of twenty. .For" several years he bought cattle for the Columbus Packing Company, but has found his chief profit and pleasure in the breeding of high grade saddle horses. Recently he sold a saddle horse to the president of the Carnation Milk Company, and has sold blue ribbon winners to people from coast to coast. He has many other horses of this type, and his animals have won many medals in exhibitions. Mr. Davis married Miss Garnet O. Six, daughter of William and Ella Six, of Nelsonville. She died in 1913, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Ellen, and a son, Oliver William. In 1916 Mr. Davis married Eva I. Power, daughter of Twibill, and Mary Power. Mrs. Davis is a graduate of Ohio University, and was a teacher in the Nelsonville High School before her marriage. She is a Methodist. Mr. Davis is a Phi Delta Theta and a member of the Elks fraternity. WILLIAM OLIVER SEMANS, Doctor of Dental Surgery, is one of the advanced men in his profession. He has had a busy professional career at Delaware since coming out of the army. Doctor Semans was with the famous Rainbow Division, his principal command being the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry, and he was overseas nearly two years. Doctor Semans was born at Delaware, June 30, 1892, son of Dr. W. M. and. Jessie (Freeman) Semans and a grandson of William Oliver and Abigail Se-mans and Edwin Freeman. The late Dr. W. M. Semans was one of the very able physicians of Delaware, and was one of the most prominent Masons in the state. He attained the supreme honorary. thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and filled numerous offices in the various bodies. For twenty-two years it is said he never missed a Masonic meeting. The mother, Mrs. Jessie Freeman Semans is still living in Delaware. William Oliver Semans was educated in the grammar and high schools of Delaware, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1914, and did his professional work in Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Dentistry in 1917. On July 11, 1917, Doctor Semans was enrolled in the hospital unit organized. by Col. Doctor Lloyd Miller at Delaware. However, from this organization he was transferred to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry in the Rainbow Division, being commissioned first lieutenant. For a week he was at Camp Perry, another week at Camp Mills, and on October 16, 1917, sailed from Hoboken to France, landing at St. Nazaire. For six weeks he and his command were in training at Commercy, and from January 1 to February 18, 1918, at Haut Marne.. His regiment was then stationed at Luneville until March 1, and until June 16, in the Baccarat Sector. His command held a portion of the Champagne sector until July 20, 1918. Following that he was at Chateau Thierry until the eighth of August, and going thence to the St. Mihiel sector, he was there transferred from the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry to the One Hundred Seventeenth Supply Train of the Rainbow Division. This command was in the Argonne-Meuse 'operations on October 2, and remained there until the signing of the armistice on November 11. Doctor Semans was with the Rainbow Division while with the Army of Occupation in Germany, being returned to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Regiment. March 30, 1919, orders came to proceed to Brest, and from there they sailed April 15, landing at Hoboken April 20. He was. in Camp Dix and then at Camp Sherman, where he received his honorable discharge May 31, 1919. Doctor Semans was commissioned captain in March, 1919. It was his fortune to be with one of the most conspicuous commands among the American Expeditionary Forces, and he shared in its glorious record. Soon after his honorable discharge Captain Se-mans returned to Delaware, and has been in practice steadily since July, 1919. He is a thoroughly well equipped dental surgeon, and has the most com- plete dental office in the city, including X-ray and other electrical equipments. Doctor Semans is a member of the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce, is. a Phi Kappa Psi of Ohio Wesleyan and a Psi Omega of the Ohio State University, has attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry and is a member of the Elks and Eagles. His church is the Williams Street Methodist. Doctor Semans married Grace Elizabeth Williams, daughter of T. B. and Elizabeth (Disbro) Williams, natives of Ohio, and a prominent family of Delaware. JAMES I. TULLY is one of the prominent and well known business men of Hamilton, formerly a merchant and now in the real estate business, and a former president of the Hamilton Realtors Association. He was born at Milford, Ohio, August 7, 1864, son of John and Bridget (Dwyer) Tully, now deceased. His father was a farmer in Butler County. James I. Tully grew up on a farm, attended public schools, and laid the foundation of his business training as salesman in a clothing store. For twelve years he was a member of the partnership Tully and Dolling in the tailoring business, and for three years was a merchant tailor on his own account. Mr. Tully in 1915 opened a real estate office, and does a general brokerage business, buying and selling real estate, and also handles a general line of fire insurance. In 1915 Mr. Tully attended the National Realtors Association in convention at Los Angeles, and at that time visited all the leading real estate offices from California to Seattle. He was one of the real estate men to become interested in the raising of standards of conducting business in that field, and in forming the National Realtors Association. He was instrumental in organizing a local association at Hamilton, and served as its president from January 1, 1923, to January 1, 1924. He also has membership in the Ohio State Realtors .Association. Membership in these associations is a necessary prerequisite to using the word realtor in a business way. HISTORY OF OHIO - 29 Mr. Tully is affiliated with the Knights of Colum- bus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Chamber of Commerce. He married Miss Carrie Schrender, of Hamilton, who died in 1910, leaving two children. The. daughter Marie is the wife of Joseph H. Worndorf, connected with the Citizens Bank of Hamilton, and their three children are James P., Joseph H. Jr. and Ann Marie Worndorf. Miss Leona Tully, the second daughter, is a graduate of Mercy Hospital, a nurse by profession and was an army nurse 'during the World war, stationed at Ellis Island, Plattsburg, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee. Both daughters are graduates of Notre Dame Academy of Hamilton. In 1912 Mr. Tully married for his present wife Miss Tillie Tisinger, of Hamilton,. daughter of Peter Tisinger. Her father was a retired capitalist of Hamilton. Mrs. Tully is a graduate of the Hamilton High School. HARVE SHERIDAN SAYRE. The merchant who sells more goods than any other retail dealer in Athens County is Harve Sheridan Sayre, a resident of Buchtel, and operating a chain of seven stores and doing a tremendous volume of business in the mining communities of this section. Mr. Sayre served his apprenticeship in the mines, and did nearly everything connected with coal mining before he went into the mercantile business. He was born on a farm near. Jacksonville, in Athens County, January 8, 1882, son of Oran and Flora Sayre. His mother died in 1888, when a young woman. Oran Sayre, now seventy years of age and living at Buchtel, was for many years employed as a mine carpenter and blacksmith in the coal mines in the Sandy Creek Valley. By his first wife he had seven children, and by a second union, one daughter. George Sayre is a locomotive engineer with the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, living at Wheeling. Another son, Clarence, is an employe 'of the Sayre chain of stores. Harve Sheridan Sayre had his early home at No. 10 Derkick Mine, and attended school there, but when twelve years of age became a trapper boy in the local mines. Before he left the mines he 'dug a great deal of coal in the Sunday Creek Valley. From the mines he entered the service of his uncle, George Sayre, in a store at Glouster, and sold goods and drove a delivery wagon, and in 1900 became an employe of the Stratton Brothers store at Buchtel. He worked in a store there that he now owns, acquiring this business in 1910. He is a thorough merchant and business man, and his industry has enabled him to greatly expand his business so that he now has stores at Buchtel, Chauncey, Luhrig, Orbiston, Glouster, Floodwood and Murray City. Along with good business ability he has been dominated by a readiness to extend a helping hand to those in need, and his success has been fully deserved. His neighbors elected him against his will to the City Council, and he was on the board four years. Besides his large mercantile business he is president of the Meeker Run Coal Company. In 1913 Mr. Sayre married Miss Bridget White, daughter of John White, of Buchtel. They have three children, John, Winnifred and Rose Mary. Mr. Sayre is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. WALTER JOHN SMITH, M. D. Numbered among the very prominent members of the medical profession of Darke County, Dr. Walter John Smith has also a fine record as regimental surgeon during the late war, and is a man who measures up to the highest standards of professional ethics. He was born in Butler County, Ohio, March 27, 1878, a son of Joseph B. and Jane (Brown) Smith, both members of old and honored families of Butler County. First attending the public schools of his native county, Doctor Smith later attended Miami University and the University of Cincinnati, and was graduated from the latter institution, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1902, and for the subsequent ten years was engaged in a general medical practice at Reily, Butler County. In 1912 he came to Arcanum, and since then, with the exception of his army service, has carried on his practice in this city, and built up a very valuable. connection. On July 17, 1917, Doctor Smith enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and was ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and from there to Camp Greenleaf for duty. After three weeks there he was sent to Camp Dix, and while there was assigned to the Eight Hundred Eleventh Infantry. His unit sailed September 15, 1917, for Liverpool, England, and after their arrival at that port, were sent to Winchester, England, and thence to Le Havre, France. At first he was connected with base hospital, but on June 1, 1918, was transferred to Angers, and from there to Saint Mazure, and was made regimental surgeon of his regiment. On July 13, 1919, he sailed for the United States, and was honorably discharged from the service at Camp Dix in the latter part of July. Immediately following his discharge he returned to Arcanum and resumed his practice. Doctor Smith belongs to Gen. Ed Sigerfoos Post, American Legion, of which he is Post Commander. Doctor Smith married Miss Margaret Ellen Kitchell, of Liberty, Indiana, a daughter of John Kitchell. The Kitchell family is one of the old ones of Indiana. One son, J. Kitchell, has been born to Doctor and Mrs. Smith. While a resident of Reily, Ohio, Doctor Smith united with the Presbyterian Church, and he still has his name on its membership books. He is a Mason, and belongs to Oxford Lodge No. 67, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. The skill and capability displayed by Doctor Smith in his practice has resulted in the building up of connections all over the county, and he is not only esteemed as a physician, but admired as a friend, and it is a recognized fact that he can be depended upon in any civic crisis for constructive assistance. LAKE ERIE COLLEGE at Painesville, deriving its inspiration largely from Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke Seminary of Massachusetts, and maintaining throughout the years a close affiliation in spirit with that primary American institution for the higher education of women, is one of the oldest woman ,s colleges in. the Middle West, and today, as in former years, its object is to give women an all around culture and training. The president of the faculty today is a Mount Holyoke graduate and former teacher, and her predecessors were all graduates of Mount Holyoke, thoroughly inspired with the ideals of that seminary. In 1847, at Willoughby, Ohio, Miss Roxana B. Tenney, a Mount Holyoke graduate, opened a new school on the Mount Holyoke model, and its success was immediate. The building in which the school was conducted was burned in 1856, and soon afterward the institution was moved to Painesville. Lake Erie Female Seminary was incorporated in 1856, and on July 4, 1857, the corner stone of the college hall was laid. In 1859 the Seminary opened under the direction of eight teachers, two from Willoughby and the rest from Mount Holyoke. The Board of Trustees represented the leading denominations of Northern Ohio, and the institution has always been nonsectarian, but inspired by religious ideals. After the critical days of the Civil war the institution 30 - HISTORY OF OHIO steadily grew and prospered, building after building being added, and the institution was maintained as a standard college in all but name. In 1898 it became Lake Erie College and Seminary, and in 1908 the word seminary was dropped. altogether. Stating briefly the condition today after sixty-five years of continuous service in its present location in Painesville, Lake Erie College is one of the few separate colleges for women in the West. One of the earliest schools in Ohio, situated on old Western Reserve, it has held its place beside two other types of educational institutions—the co-educational, Oberlin; and the co-ordinate Woman’s College, Western Reserve University. Lake Erie is an approved college with standard degrees, a charter member of the Ohio College Association, and recognized by the Association of American University Women, to whose membership its graduates are eligible. The faculty of the College has been chosen from a wide number of graduate schools. Every faculty member in a strictly academic position has at least a Master ,s degree, and the majority of heads of departments have attained the Doctorate. Lake Erie is a strictly cultural college and in spite of the recent trend in American education, which puts emphasis on the so-called "practical" and vocational courses—intends to remain cultural. Training at Lake Erie is based on the conviction that a broad background of literature, science and history is a more valuable foundation for a woman,s successful life than mere proficiency in one particular calling or profession. Lake Erie is a small college and wishes to remain so: The value of the small community group is being so thoroughly recognized today that large colleges are rebuilding on the "group unit" plan, in which not more than two hundred and fifty students live, eat and sleep in one building or group of adjoining buildings. This has always been the definite policy of Lake Erie. Being small, Lake Erie is able to combine the atmosphere of home with a splendid community life. Personal training in manners and morals is effectively joined with a high standard of academic work. True to her Mount Holyoke origin, Lake Erie is religious but nonsectarian. It is a student government ruling that the girls shall attend the daily devotional chapel services and either the vesper services held every two weeks at the college or church in town. It is very notable that this college was one of the pioneer schools to introduce physical instruction and development. Mount Holyoke was the first woman,s school to introduce gymnastics, and when Miss Evans came to Lake Erie College in 1868 she brought with her a firm belief in the value of physical training, and gave enthusiastic support to her associate, Miss Bentley, in the department of physiology and hygiene. The first principal of the old Lake Erie Seminary was Mrs. Lydia Sessions Woodworth, who served until 1866, and was succeeded by Miss Anna M. Edwards. In the year 1868 there came to Lake Erie Seminary two women, Miss Mary Evans and Miss Luette P. Bentley, Miss Evans as principal, an office she held for thirty years, until 1898. From that year until 1909 she was president of Lake Erie College, while Miss Bentley was dean of the seminary for thirty years and dean of the college until 1909. For forty-one years these two women stood at the helm of Lake Erie College, dedicating to her service their strength, loyalty and their unusual ability. They were the chief instruments in bringing Lake Erie to her present high and recognized standing among the colleges of America. When Miss Evans and Miss Bentley retired in 1909 they planned to live in the East, but the child of their hearts called too strongly. In 1917 a group of alumnae purchased for them a little cottage adjoining the campus, where they might watch over and enjoy the daily life of their college. In November, 1921, Miss Evans passed away, leaving Miss Bentley to represent them both.. Miss Bentley died in July, 1922. MISS VIVIAN BLANCHE SMALL, who succeeded to the presidency of Lake Erie College at Painesville following the retirement of Miss Mary Evans in 1909, came here from Mount Holyoke, where she had been a member of the faculty of instruction for a number of years. Miss Small was born at Gardiner, Maine, September 17, 1875, descendant of an English family that first settled on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her great-grandfather Robert Small, was born in the town of Bowdoin, Maine, and cleared a homestead in the Maine wilderness. He died at Bowdoinham. His wife was Miss Totman, also a native of Maine. Their son, George Small, born at Bowdoinham, in 1823, spent his life there as a farmer, and died in 1904. He served as a captain of the Maine State Militia. His wife, Sarah Allen, was born at Bowdoinham, in April, 1824. Leander M. Small, father of the president of Lake Erie College, was born at Bowdoinham, May 25, 1849, and as a young man went to Gardiner, where he engaged in business as a contractor and builder, established his home at Augusta, Maine, in 1893, and in 1904 returned to Bowdoinham, where he managed the home farm and where he lived until his death on February 26, 1922. For a number of years he held the office of selectman of Bowdoinham and was a republican in politics. His wife, Annie Blanche Payne, was born October 6, 1852, and spends her summers at the old homestead, living in the winter at Buffalo, New York. Vivian Blanche was the oldest of four children. Her brother Roy P. was a salesman at Minneapolis, her brother Ralph M. is associate principal of the M. C. B. Durfee High School at Fall River, Massachusetts, and her sister, Margaret H. is the wife of Ray M. Verrill, a teacher in the Nichols Private School for Boys at Buffalo, New York. Vivian Blanche Small attended public schools at Gardiner, graduated from high school there in 1892, and in 1896 finished the classical course and received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College. For two years she taught in the Gorham High School at Gorham, Maine, and two years in the Howe School at Billerica, Massachusetts. She then returned to Mount Holyoke College, where she was assistant, later instructor and finally associate professor of Latin. Work at Mount Holyoke continued until 1909, except for a year of leave of absence, 1904-05, while she attended the University of Chicago, receiving her Master ,s degree in 1905. She majored in Latin. The degree Doctor of Letters was conferred upon her by Mount Holyoke College in 1912, and the honorary Doctor of Laws degree was given her by Western Reserve University in 1913. FREDERICK J. KROMER has proved one .of the world,s workers and has made at each successive stage of his career the best of the opportunities that have come to him. He has overcome many obstacles in the course of his industrious life, and is now substantially established in the retail coal business in the City of Sandusky, the county seat of his native county. Mr. Kromer was born on a farm near Monroeville, Erie County, Ohio, August 10, 1857, and is a son of Aloysius and Katherine (Bowmer) Kromer, who were born in Germany. The father died when Frederick J., of this sketch, was an infant, and the widowed mother later contracted a second marriage, her second husband having been a prosperous farmer in Erie HISTORY OF OHIO - 31 County, and Frederick J. Kromer having passed the period of his childhood and earlier youth on the farm of his stepfather, the while he attended the district schools when opportunity afforded. At the age of seventeen years he found employment by the month at farm work, and at the age of twenty years he went to Norwalk, this state, and engaged in working on a railroad. He was thus engaged three years, and thereafter he had charge of Gibraltar Island during one season. He then entered the employ of the Sandusky Gas Company, as a teamster in the hauling of coal, and after having given fourteen years of faithful service in this connection he engaged independently in the coal business, as a representative of which he has gained success and a representative supporting patronage. He is a stalwart democrat, and has served with marked loyalty as a member of the city council. He and his wife are communicants of Holy Angels Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Union Benevolent Association. In 1877 Mr. Kromer married Miss Bertha Krotz, and her death occurred in 1879. In 1881 he wedded Miss Agnes Krotz, and she was summoned to eternal rest in 1886, the children of this union being Oscar, who is a resident of Chicago, and Frederick, who continues to maintain his home in Sandusky. In 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kromer and Miss Emma Heim, who was born and reared in Sandusky, a daughter of Valentine and Christine Heim, the former of whom is deceased and the latter still resides in Sandusky, at the venerable age of ninety-seven years (1924). Mr. and Mrs. Kromer have one son, Frederick Aloysius, who is a resident of Sandusky. FRED MEAD HOPKINS, editor and publisher of the Fostoria Daily Review, is a lawyer by training and profession, but his interest in newspaper work was aroused while in college and university, and that has been his chief profession since coming to Ohio twenty years ago. Mr. Hopkins is the present postmaster of Fostoria, and has long been a leader in the republican party in his section of the state. He was born at Epworth, Iowa, July 12, 1875, the son of Timothy M. and Augusta A. (Brown) Hopkins. He acquired a good preliminary education in the common and high schools of Dubuque, Iowa, and soon after leaving high school entered the law department of the University of Iowa. He paid most of his expenses while studying law by newspaper writing. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1895, and then for three years practiced at Dubuque. In the spring of 1898, when the Spanish-American war broke out, he enlisted, in April, in Company A of the Forty-ninth Iowa Regiment, which was mobilized at Des Moines. In June the regiment was sent to Jacksonville, Florida, later to Savannah, Georgia, and finally to Havana, Cuba, where it was mustered out in 1899. He was first sergeant of the company. After this military service he returned to Iowa and practiced law until 1903. In that year Mr. Hopkins came to Ohio, and at Toledo found an opportunity in the newspaper profession in covering the federal courts for the Times and later for the Blade. For four years he was city editor of the Blade and for two years managing editor of the Times. Mr. Hopkins in 1913 purchased the Fostoria Daily Review, and has made this the leading newspaper of Seneca County. He married, October 27, 1899, Carolyn C. Bertholet. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory. Three children were born to their marriage. The son, Edmond, a graduate of the Fostoria High School, competed his course in the arts of sciences at the State University of New Mexico and is business manager of the Fostoria Daily Review, He is a Knights Templar Mason. The daughter Constance is a senior in the Fostoria High School and Virginia is a Sophomore. All are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Hopkins is an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. On July 1, 1924, Mr. Hopkins was appointed postmaster of Fostoria by President Coolidge, following a request that had been made by President Warren G. Harding prior to his death. An active and conspicuous worker in the republican party in county, state and national politics, Mr. Hopkins has through his editorial and news columns presented many striking analysis of important issues and questions, and is regarded as one of the ablest republican editors in the state. In 1918 he was brought forward as a candidate for secretary of the state. In 1916 he was chairman of the Ohio State Republican Publicity Committee, and from 1916 to 1919 he was chairman of the Seneca County Republican Executive Committee. In 1920 he had the distinction of serving as secretary of the Warren G. Harding Editorial Committee. Mr. Hopkins was mayor of Fostoria in 1920-21, giving an administration marked with many improvements in the municipal program. He refused a renomination for that office. He is a past president of the Fostoria Rotary Club. Mr. Hopkins is a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, has identified himself with a number of civic movements and organizations, and fraternally is affiliated with Fostoria Lodge No. 288, Free and Accepted Masons, Garfield Chapter No. 150, Royal Arch Masons, Fostoria Council No. 90, Royal and Select Masters, Commandery No. 62, Knights Templar, has attained the thirty-second degree in the Valley of Toledo Scottish Rites Consistory and is a member of Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine. CHARLES WATSON FERREL, who from boyhood has been identified with all the practical work connected with the mining of coal, is superintendent of Mine No. 210 of the Ohio Collieries Company at Poston in Athens County. Mr. Ferrel was born at Zaleski in Vinton County, Ohio, September 3, 1876, son of John and Sarah (Scott) Ferrel. His mother now lives at Nelsonville, Ohio. His father, who died in 1911, at the age of fifty-seven, at Jobs, Ohio, spent all his working years in the Ohio coal fields as a miner and track layer. He was born in Ohio, and his people came from Pennsylvania. John and Sarah Ferrel had twelve children. Their five sons were: Charles W. J. O., who is safety foreman in Mine No. 210; Floyd, connected with the Pittsburg Coal Company at Murray; Clarence, a coal miner near Byesville in Guernsey County; and Ralph, who was also at Byesville, and was killed by falling slate May 28, 1923, at the age of thirty-four. Charles Watson Ferrel attended the country schools in Vinton County, at Zaleski, but his education in schools terminated at the age of sixteen. The next year he began his mining career as a trapper boy, and in subsequent years he performed such tasks as driver, coal loader, track helper and track layer, and for two years he was general utility man both inside and out. In 1907 he was given the responsibility of foreman at Mine No. 2 at Jobs, and two years later was made superintendent of Mines Nos. 1, 2 and 3 at 'Jobs, and afterwards was safety foreman of Mine No. 25 of New York Coal Company at Chauncey. He was there two years and four months, and then held other positions with that corporation. July 11, 1917, he became superintendent of Mine No. 211 for the Ohio Collieries Company and on the fifteenth of October of the same year was promoted to superintendent of Mine No. 210 for the same company. He has been here now for seven years, and he had charge of production during the war times. 32 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Ferrel served nine years as a member of the Chauncey School Board, and for two years of that time was president of the board. In citizenship as well as in business he is thoroughly progressive. He is affiliated With the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Murray City, and with the Masonic Lodge at Athens. In September, 1897, Mr. Ferrel married Miss Barbara Richards, daughter of 'Homer Richards. She died June 28, 1923, the mother of four children, Neva, Ralph, Ben and Mary. The son Ralph, who is now with the engineering force in the mine with his father, . is pursuing his technical education in mining engineering with the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton. MARTIN HENRY FISCHER, M. D., internationally known as a physician and for his researches in medicine and chemistry, is a member of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati. He was born in Germany, November 10, 1879, coming to the United States in 1885. He was educated in Chicago, graduating from the Rush Medical College of that city and pursued special work in biology and chemistry at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in Germany and Austria. He was a member of the faculty of Rush Medical College from 1898 to 1901, a professor in the University of Chicago, several years, ac the University of California, and from 1905 to 1910 professor of pathology in the Oakland School of Medicine. In 1910 he came to the University of Cincinnati, professor of. physiology. Many honors have been paid him for his researches and other achievements. He received the gold medal for research from the American Medical Association in 1913, and from the same source was given a diploma in 1915, 'the silver medal in 1916, and a diploma in 1920. He is a trustee and from 1917 to 1920 was president of the Helen Somsine Research Foundation. He belongs to scientific organizations in Europe and America, having served as president of the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society in 1922. He is author of a long list of books which have been translated into foreign tongues and he himself has translated a number of foreign works. Much of his research has been identified with the minute anatomy of nerve cells, artificial parthenogenesis, diabetes, absorption of water by colloids, nephrites, emulsion chemistry production of artificial milks, and the colloid chemistry of soaps and proteins. CHARLES B. UNGER. Few of Ohio 's newspapers can lay claim to the distinction of more than a century of existence, but that is the proud record of the Eaton Register-Herald, formed by the consolidation in 1918 of the Register and the Herald, the former of which was founded in 1820. The present editor and manager is Charles B. Unger, who has been identified with newspaper work since his youth, and who is publishing a newspaper that has a wide circulation throughout Preble and the adjoining counties. Mr. Unger was born at Eaton, November 12, 1868, and is a son of John H. and Ollitippa (Larsh) Unger, natives of Preble County. His paternal grandfather was George B. Unger, a native of Pennsylvania and a tailor by trade,. who moved to Preble County and reached the age of eighty-six years. He was thrice married, having one son by his first marriage, while John H. Unger was the only child by his second marriage. The maternal grandparents of Charles B. Unger were Thomas Jefferson and Margaret (Manning) Larsh, Ohioans. Thomas Jefferson Larsh was a lawyer by profession and a prominent figure in public life in Preble County, where he served nineteen years as county surveyor, several years as deputy county auditor, and one term as state treasurer, dying at the age of seventy-two years. He had three children: Bluejacket, who died as a Union soldier in the. Confederate prison stockade at Andersonville during the Civil war; Ollitippa the mother of Charles B. Unger; and Margaret. John H. Unger was engaged in the drug business at Eaton during the Civil war period, and later .followed the same business at West Alexandria, Preble. County, although he subsequently returned to Eaton. In 1889 he went to Middletown,., Indiana, but in 1902 came back to Eaton, where he still makes his home. Charles B. Unger was reared in Preble County, attending the grammar school at West Alexandria and the high school at Eaton, from the latter of which he was graduated in 1886. Following this he took a commercial course at Nelson,s Business College, Cincinnati, where for a short time he was em- ployed by the john Wilde Clothing Company. Being attracted to the vocation of printer, he learned that trade at Cincinnati, where he worked for a time, going then to Middletown, Indiana, where he also followed his trade, and in 1892 came to Eaton, where he was employed in the. office of the Register. He returned to Middletown in 1894 and purchased an interest in the Middletown News; but in January, 1902, came again to Eaton, where he bought the Eaton Herald. In 1918 this paper was consolidated with the Eaton Register, under the title of the Register Herald, of which Mr. Unger is still the editor, the publisher being the Register-Herald Company. The history of this paper is an interesting one, as was outlined in. the "Centennial Anniversary. and Old Home Edition," published January 28, 1920. A necessarily brief outline of this history is as follows: Judge Tizzard, elected from Ross County, Ohio, to the Legislature, located at Eaton in 1819 and founded the Eaton Weekly Register, the first issue of which appeared early in 1820. His apprenticeship had commenced when he was sixteen years of age in the office of the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Herald, where he mastered the trade and obtained a practical knowledge of the "art preservative." Soon. after he attained his majority he went to Philadelphia, where he obtained a position as pressman in the large print= ing establishment of Matthew Carey, then and for many years thereafter the leading book publisher of the United States. In 1814 he joined in the popular west migration and located on a small farm about six miles from Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1820, as noted, be founded the Register, and for twenty-four years, at intervals, was the editor and publisher thereof. He. died May 19, 1844, and was buried at Mound Hill Cemetery, west of Eaton. Under the management and editorship of Mr. Tizzard the publication was continued until 1830, when he sold the paper to Enoch Edmonson, of Washington City, who conducted it for several years and then made a trip to the East to visit his home and relatives. On his return to the West, somewhere in the Allegheny Mountains, he was killed by the upsetting of the stage coach. After his death the paper passed into the hands of F. A. Cunningham and J. VanAusdal, in 1833, later taking a Mr. Neff into the firm, but conducted the publication for only a short time. In 1834 Hendricks & Duggins assumed charge of the publication and continued it until 1839, when Samuel Tizzard again became its publisher, taking in his son, William B. Tizzard, as the junior member of the firm. Upon the death of Samuel Tizzard in 1844 the paper passed into the hands of his son, by whom the publication was continued for a number of years, when it passed into the hands of W. F. Albright, the father of C. E. Albright, who- later was to become the senior member of the Register-Herald Company. The next proprietorship was W. B. Tizzard and I. S. Morris, which continued until 1874, when the paper passed into the hands of W. F. Albright and Col. Robert Williams, the latter HISTORY OF OHIO - 33 then internal revenue collector at Dayton, Ohio. This partnership, however, lasted only several years, and W. F. Albright again assumed the publication, which was conducted under the firm name of W. F. Albright & Sons until the death of the father June 18, 1898. Following his demise the publication was continued by his two sons, E. J. and C. E. Albright, until April 16, 1912, when the former passed to his reward and the heritage passed to the latter. On March 1, 1918, the Register and the Eaton Herald were consolidated under the present title. The paper now enjoys a wide circulation and is regarded as a cleanly and reliable family paper, containing many features of interest in addition to all the live news of the day. Mr. Unger married, February 2, 1893, Miss Adda Nixon of Middletown, Indiana, daughter of Cephas Nixon and to this union there was born one son, Nixon Larsh. Mrs. Unger died in 1895, at the age of twenty-seven years. On July 10, 1915, Mr. Unger married Miss Anna Clayton, daughter of Scott and Margaret (Morris) Clayton. GEORGE J. DAMNON, M. D., of Medina, judicial center of Medina County, is a native son of this county and has here been engaged in the practice of his profession nearly forty years, as one of the leading exponents of the benignant school of Homeopathy in this section of the state. Doctor Damon has long controlled a large and representative practice of general order, and in the surgical department of his profession has confined himself to a large extent €9 minor operations. Doctor Damon was born on the parental homestead farm in Hinckley Township, Medina County, March 31, 1858, and is a son of the late Julius and Catherine (Babcock) Damon. Julius Damon was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, November 3, 1824, and was three years of age at the time his parents, Nathan and Hannah (Shaw) Damon, came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Medina County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The Damons were numbered among the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts in 1628, and representatives of the family were soldiers in the King Phillip Indian war and also in the War of the Revolution. Joshua Babcock, maternal grandfather of Doctor Damon, likewise was a scion of Colonial New England stock. Julius Damon was reared in Medina County, under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days. His father, Nathan Damon, not only reclaimed a farm from the wilds, but also served as a soldier in the War of 1812, while still a resident of Massachusetts. Julius Damon was long numbered among the representative farmers and honored and influential citizens of Hinckley Township, Medina County, and here he remained until his death, September 15, 1894. The family name of his first wife was Eastman, and she was survived by one daughter, Ella, who became the wife of Frank Tennant, their home being in the State of Michigan. Mrs. Catherine (Babcock) Damon survived her husband about six years and was summoned to the life eternal on the 30th of March, 1900. Of the children of the second marriage of Julius Damon, Doctor George J., of this review, is the eldest; Herbert L. is one of the substantial farmers of Medina County; Lula is the widow of James Eastwood and resides in the City of Medina. Julius Damon was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and was an earnest member of the Christian Church, as were also both his first and second wives. The environment and activities of the old home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of Doctor Damon, and after the discipline of the district schools he completed a high school course. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in practice in the village of Hinckley, near the old home farm, for a period of eighteen months, and since that time he has maintained his home and professional headquarters in the City of Medina. The doctor has taken postgraduate work in the Western Reserve Medical College, in the City of Cleveland, and has kept insistently in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science. He is an active and honored member of the Medina County Medical Society, and he has served as censor of the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College. He is a member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, the American Institution of Homeopathy, the Northeast Ohio Homeopathy Society, and the Cleveland Homeopathy Society. The doctor has made various and valuable contributions to the periodical literature of his profession, and has prepared and read instructive papers on medical subjects. He was formerly a director of the Medina Telephone Company and the B. H. Wood Lumber Company. He is at the present time a member of the board of directors of the Medina County National Bank, and is also a director of the United States Building & Loan Company in the City of Akron, of which corporation he was formerly the president. He has ever been loyal and progressive in his civic attitude, and has given effective service as a member of the board of education in his home city. He and his wife are most zealous members of the Christian Church at Medina, he being a member of its board of trustees and also of the building committee in charge of the erection of the new church edifice, which was completed in the summer of 1923. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. The year 1884 recorded the marriage of Doctor Damon and Miss Perlea E. Green, who was born at Hinckley, this county, the eldest of the children of Casner J. and Samantha (Baker) Green, both likewise natives of Medina County. Mrs. Damon was graduated from the Medina High School, and her gracious personality has made her a loved figure in the church and social activities of her home community, she having been a member of the Christian Church since she was thirteen years of age. Doctor and Mrs. Damon have two children: Eulalia is the wife of W: C. Todd, of Cleveland; Doctor Virgil G. was graduated from the University of Ohio, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later received from the medical department of the same institution his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is an operator before the class in Columbia University from July, 1924, to July, 1925, New York City. JAMES CLARK BERRY, M. D. One of the busy physicians and surgeons of Belmont County for over twenty years, Doctor Berry has also found time to attend to a number of business and civic interests. His home is at Shadyside. He was a medical officer in the World war, much of the time overseas with the Twenty-seventh Division. Doctor Berry was born on a farm in Meade Township, Belmont County, March 28, 1872. His father, William Jerome Berry, who was born in Meade Township in 1853 and died in 1918, was a successful contractor in paving and street work, and laid a large amount of paving at Marietta, Ohio, and had other municipal contracts over this state and West Virginia, Illinois and other states. He also owned a fine farm of a thousand acres in Meade Township, this property being known as the Cloverdale Dairy Farm. This contained a splendid herd of Jersey cattle, and was regarded as one of the finest farms and farm homes in Belmont County. He twice served as county com- 34 - HISTORY OF OHIO missioner, was a leader in republican politics, and in the later years of his life was closely identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He also owned coal mines on his farm and operated a large flour mill there. He was a member of the Masonic Order. William J. Berry married Louise Lashley, who was born in Belmont County, and died at the age of forty-five. One of a family of four children, Dr. James Clark Berry grew up on his father 's farm, attended public schools in Meade Township, and also did the work of a summer normal school. The enthusiasm of his early years was directed toward farming. He learned the milling business on his father 's place, and his time was largely taken up with farming and the operation of a flour mill until 1897. In that year he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1901. While living on the farm he had also taken a business course in order to qualify himself for the handling of his business interests. Doctor Berry married before entering medical college, and after graduating engaged in practice at Armstrong Mills in Washington Township of Belmont County. He did the work of a country physician in that community for thirteen years, and showed a deep and active interest in township matters and in the success of the republican party. An important diversion to his work as a physician was raising fine poultry, and his chickens won many prizes in exhibitions. Doctor Berry established his home at Shadyside in 1914. He is both a physician and surgeon, and in 1923 was president of the medical staff of the Bellaire City Hospital. He is a member of the Belmont County, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. At the beginning of American participation in the World war he served as a medical member of District No. 2 Draft Board of Belmont County. Later in 1917 he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, attended the Medical Officers, Training School at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, a few weeks, and was then transferred to Camp Wadsworth, New York, and assigned to the One Hundred Twenty-second Sanitary Train of the Twenty-seventh Division, made up largely of National Guard Troops. He went overseas, his unit being attached to an American Red Cross Hospital near Paris. Subsequently he went with his command to Chateau Thierry and the Argonne, and was with the Twenty-seventh Division on the British front in Belgium. Doctor Berry was overseas nine months, returning to the United States and was discharged on April 1, 1919. He is a trustee and active member of the Shadyside Methodist Episcopal. Church, and belongs to the Lodge of Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery in York Rite Masonry; Doctor Berry 's first wife was Annie Farrell, who died in 1896. They had one child, Dr. William Clark Berry, who was for seven years a student in Marietta College, taking a prominent part in college athletics. He was a graduate of the medical department of West ern Reserve University at Cleveland, and for one year was an interne in the Western Reserve Hospital. He then became a medical missionary for foreign missions of the Methodist Church, and from 1921 his field of duty was in Africa. He married Priscilla McClintock, a native of Pennsylvania, and formerly a Red Cross nurse. Dr. William Clark Berry deceased in Africa November 23, 1923. The second wife of Dr. James Clark Berry was Miss Myrtle Kisler, who was born and reared at Kingsman in Trumbull County, Ohio. She is very active in the Methodist Church and its various auxiliaries. WILLIAM W. WEIR, is one of the native sons of Trumbull County who have been recruited as members of its bar, and he is one of the representative young lawyers in the City of Warren, the county seat. William Ward Weir was born in Bazetta Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 5, 1897, and is a representative of the third generation of the family in this county. His paternal grandparents, James and Ann (Sturdevant) Weir, were honored pioneer citizens of Bazetta Township, the former having been born in 1833 and having died in 1908, and the latter, who was born in 1834, passed away in 1914. Both were earnest members of the Christian Church. James Weir was a blacksmith by trade, and the sturdiness of his character was in consonance with the vocation for which he thus fitted himself, and besides following it he became a successful exponent of farm industry in the township above mentioned. He was a scion of a family that was founded in Massachusetts in the early Colonial days, the original American progenitors having come from Scotland. George C. Weir, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born in Bazetta Township, this county, May 17, 1864, and has been a resident of the City of Warren since 1912, he having turned his attention to real estate business here after having been for many years a successful buyer and shipper of live stock. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and. he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church. Mrs. Weir, whose maiden name was Susie B. Orr, was born in Pennsylvania, February 20, 1873. Freda Ella, eldest of the children, is the wife of Amer B. Clark, who is engaged in the practice of law at Warren; William W., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Barndt died at the age of six pears; Anna Lanore is the wife of Norman W. Adams, who is engaged in the insurance business at Warren. After profiting by the advantages of the schools of his native township William W. Weir attended high school at Cortland somewhat more than one year, and in 1915 he was graduated from the Warren High School. His higher academic education was acquired in Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1919 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At the university he became affiliated with the Chi Phi fraternity, and there also he prepared for his chosen profession. He graduated from the law department of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, as a member of the class of 1922, and his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws was almost immediately followed by his admission to the bar of his native state, on the 7th of July, 1922. In connection with his work in the law school he became affiliated with the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. After his admission to the bar Mr. Weir became associated with the well known law firm of Buchwalter & Clark at Warren. This alliance he continued until January, 1923, since which time he has here been engaged in independent practice, with office at 808 Western Reserve Bank Building. Mr. Weir is well fortified in his political convictions, which give him alignment in the cohorts of the republican party. He holds membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Warren, is president of the Wesleyan Men’s Club, is a popular young member of the Trumbull County Bar Association, and in the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Weir was in the United States naval service in the World war period. He enlisted July 1, 1918, and thereafter was continuously in service at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, on Lake Michigan and near Chicago until January 28, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. He is now adjutant HISTORY OF OHIO - 35 of Clarence Hyde Post No. 278, American Legion, and takes deep interest in the affairs of this organization in his home city. He resides at 606 East High Street, where he owns his attractive home property. June 12, 1921, marked an mportant event in the career of Mr. Weir, since he was then united in marriage to Miss Mildred E. Grose, in the City of Toledo. Mrs. Weir, who was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University as a member of the class of 1920 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, is a daughter of Rev. T. Wallace and Hattie (Monnette) Grose, who now reside (1923) at Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Grose being a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his service both as a trial lawyer and counselor Mr. Weir is so demonstrating his powers as to cause his law business to be marked by consecutive expansion in scope and importance, and he has standing as one of the representative younger members of the bar of his native county. CHESTER R. WEHRLEY, sheriff of Preble County, was born and reared in this county and has been a very popular member of its citizenship and a leader in local republican politics since reaching his majority. He was born in Dixson Township, Preble County, June 26, 1890, son of Joseph E. and Sarah (Wilson) Wehrley. He grew up on his father,s farm, attended country schools and in 1909 graduated from the Eaton High School, and in 1911 completed a course in the Indiana Business College. For a time he was employed as a clerk in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Richmond, Indiana, but from 1912, was successfully engaged in farming until he took up the duties of sheriff. He was deputy in the sheriffs, office from January 1, 1919, to January 1, 1923. He has worked with the republican organization in his township and county, and in 1922 became a candidate for sheriff, being elected in November of that year and took up the duties of his office on January 1, 1923. Mr. Wehrley has filled chairs in the lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He married, June 26, 1912, Kathleen French, daughter of Luke and Sarah (Siebert) French. Sheriff and Mrs. Wehrley have four children: Hilda Margaret, Sarah Alice, Richard and George W. HON. HENRY ZIEGLER. During a. long and useful career, in which .he has followed the pursuits of agriculture in Bloom Township, Henry Ziegler has contributed to the welfare and advancement of his community through his able service in a number of official capacities. As a farmer he has been a supporter of the most advanced ideas and principles, and in the conduct of his official responsibilities he has demonstrated his possession of enlightened views and constructive aims. Mr. Ziegler was born in Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio, March 23, 1860, and is a son of Henry and Louisa (Keller) Ziegler. The second son of his parents, he was four .years old when his father moved to Eden Township, and there he grew to manhood, obtaining his education in the public schools. In 1887 he was united in marriage with Miss Clarissa S. Klaiss, of Bloom Township, who was born in that township February 28, 1866. While a resident of that township Mr. Ziegler served for six years in the capacity of member of the township board of trustees, and in 1891 removed to Lyken Township, Crawford County, Ohio, in which community he spent two years in agricultural pursuits. In 1893 he returned to Eden Township, where he had 160 acres of land, and subsequently purchased forty-three acres adjoining, located in Texas Township, Crawford County. Mr. Ziegler made his residence on this property until 1903, in which year he returned to Bloom Township, and is now the owner of 276 acres situated two and one-half miles west of Bloomville. This property he has improved with modern buildings, including a commodious residence, large barn and numerous outbuildings, and here he carries on his operations according to the most highly approved ideas and with modern farming machinery. He raises the standard crops of his locality, and his produce is of a quality that secures top prices. Mr. Ziegler has been active and prominent in official affairs, as before noted, and has been before the people in a number of public capacities. Following his six years of service as trustee of Bloom Township, he was elected to the State Legislature, in which body he worked faithfully and successfully in behalf of his constituents for four years. On his return he was again elected trustee, and has held that position to the present time. In politics he has always been a staunch supporter of the democratic party. He has been a member of the Reformed Church since his boyhood, was a delegate to the Heidelberg Classes in 1910, and has served both as deacon and elder. Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler have had the following children: Frank L.,, who married Mary E. Watson; Fannie M., who married William W. Barrack; Blanche M., now deceased, who was the wife of Henry S. Hunsicker ; Raymond A. Eliza E.; Cora A., the wife of Thomas F. Jordan; A.; J., who married Iva O. Dell; and Dewald. ENOCH M. BLOWER. The practical experience in coal mining of Enoch M. Blower began during his boyhood. He comes of a family of miners, and he and his brothers have become well known among the mining operators of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Enoch M. Blower since 1901 has been a resident of Athens County, Ohio, and assisted in the first work of devel- opment of the mines about Trimble. He is vice president of the Hisylvania Coal Company, which operates Mines 22 and 23 at Trimble, and also the brick plants at Glouster and Trimble. The brick plants were established by a syndicate from Dayton under .the name of the Trimble Brick Manufacturing Company, but since 1920 have been owned and operated by the Hisylvania Brick Company. Mr. Blower was born in England, June 6, 1874, son of Joseph and Anne (Wallett) Blower. His father was a. coal miner in England. In 1884 he followed his oldest son to the United States, and other members of his family joined him in 1886. Here he became a brick and mining contractor at Old Eagle Mines in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and subsequently in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was well versed in every phase of mining operations. Joseph Blower died in August, 1912, at the age of seventy-six, and his wife passed away in 1888. They had a family of four sons and four daughters, all living. Of the sons the oldest is. J. W. Blower, who at the age of eighteen left home and came to America. Subsequently he worked to pay his way through Ohio State University, and has been very successful. He is a resident of Columbus, and is president and general manager of the Hisylvania Coal Company. The second son, Emanuel, is one of the directors of the Hisylvania Coal Company and lives in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Daniel is a mine inspector in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Enoch M. Blower was about twelve years of age when he came to America. He attended school in England, also a district school in Pennsylvania, and after that the State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania. Subsequently during his working experience he completed courses in mining and business 36 - HISTORY OF OHIO administration with the International Correspondence School. The work of his boyhood years made him a practical miner, and he was only twenty-one when he was to o fire boss and mine boss, with a force of 200 Slays working under him. He was connected with a number of mining industries in Pennsylvania, including Brownsville, that state, before coming to Ohio in 1901 as superintendent of operations at the opening of the mines at Trimble. Associated with his brothers, J. W., Emanuel and D. R., he was 'a member of the Penn Coal Company at Roseville, Ohio, also the Piney Fork Coal Company at Smithfield, the Panhandle Collieries Company at Fernwood, Ohio, and is identified with the Star Manufacturing Company at New Lexington, Ohio, manufacturing mine cars and other mining equipment. In 1902 Mr. Blower married Miss Cathryne Neale, daughter of Henry Neale, of Stockdale, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two sons and one daughter. The daughter, Miss Neale, is a student of Ohio University at Athens. Willis is attending the Glouster High. School, and Elbert is in the public schools of Trimble. Mrs. Blower is a member of the Methodist Church, and her husband was reared in the Episcopal faith. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Shrine at Columbus, and for one year was worshipful master of the local lodge. CHARLES T. SWANEY, M. D., president and general manager of the Niles Forge & Manufacturing Company, one of the important and well ordered industrial corporations in the City of Niles, Trumbull County, was born at New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia, on the 15th of January, 1871, and in the same county, then still a part of the old mother state of Virginia; his father, Thomas R. Swaney, was born December 21, 1840, a son of Isaac and Margaret Summerwell Swaney, both of whom were born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The original American representative of the Swaney family, which is of Scotch origin, came from the North of Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania in the Colonial period of our national history. As a young man Isaac Swaney moved from his native county in the old Keystone State to what is now Hancock County, West Virginia, and there he became a successful contractor and builder. He was born February 27, 1809, and died April 16, 1864. Margaret, his wife, was born December 1, 1819, and died May 7, 1908. Thomas R. Swaney maintained his home in Hancock County, West Virginia, during his entire life, and his death occurred at New Cumberland December 15, 1912. He was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and his service covered the entire period of conflict between the states of the North and the South. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. He gave many years of service as captain of vessels plying the Ohio River. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Atkinson, was born at New Cumberland, West Virginia May, 2, 1847, and there her death occurred December 10, 1896. Of the children the. eldest, Edward, born March 30, 1869, became a steamboat captain on the Ohio River, and while in service met his death in the explosion of a steamboat boiler at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1911; Charles T., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Archibald F., the youngest, was born December 13, 1875, is now a retired physician and surgeon residing at Niles, Ohio. Charles T. Swaney was graduated from the high school in his native town of New Cumberland as a member of the class of 1888, and thereafter served as clerk on Ohio River steamboats in order to earn funds to defray his expenses in preparing for the profession of his choice. When sufficiently reinforced in a financial way, in 1894 he entered celebrated old Starling Medical College, now the Medical School of the University of Ohio, at Columbus, and in this institution he was graduated in March, 1897. Imme diately after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he established his residence at Niles. On the 2nd of August, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Swaney and Miss. Grace Hayes, daughter of the late George and Jane Hayes, who were residents of Niles until 1912, when they moved to Massillon, Ohio, where Mr. Hayes died in July, 1913, and Mrs. Hayes, death occurred in April, 1917, both being buried in Massillon. Doctor Swaney built up a substantial and representative general practice, and gave special attention to surgery. In 1903 he took a post-graduate course in the great New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, where his study and clinical experience were principally in the department of surgery. He continued to give close attention to the work of his profession until August 1, 1910. Doctor Swaney was one of the organizer of the Standard Boiler & Plate Iron Company of Niles, Ohio, in 1906, serving as president of this company until 1910, when he. became associated with the Massillon Rolling Mill Company of Massillon, Ohio, after which he disposed of his interest in the Standard Boiler & Plate Iron Company and devoted his entire attention to the Massillon Rolling Mill Company, and became secretary of that corporation. He was actively identified with the management of the plant and the early construction of the Central Steel Company. Later the Massillon Rolling Mill Company was ab sorbed by the Central Steel Company. In November, 1914, the Doctor returned to Niles, and was made president and general manager of the Niles Forge & Manufacturing Company. He retained this dual office until. March, 1918, when he retired and established his residence in the City of Cleveland. In December, 1921, he returned to Niles and resumed his executive service as president and general manager of The Niles Forge & Manufacturing Company, to the affairs of which he has since continued to give the major part of his time and attention. The large and well equipped plant of this company is established at the south end of Grant Street. The Company are structural steel fabricators and manufacturers of hammered and machined steel forgings of heavy type, the output being principally used in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Doctor .Swaney,s political faith is that of the republican party and at Massillon he still maintains affiliation with Clinton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Hiram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city. HOWARD K. BUTLER has been in the undertaking business in Southern Ohio for over a quarter of a century, and at his home town of Vinton, in Gallia County has one of the most up to date and modernly equipped establishments of the time. Mr. Butler was born in Vinton April 4, 1879, son of William F. and Anna (Kerr) Butler. His maternal grandfather was William Kerr. William F. Butler, who died July 23, 1920, was a farmer, but gave most of his time to stock dealing and trading, and for twenty years was township treasurer. He was master of his Masonic Lodge and at the time of his death the oldest Mason in Gallia County. He also belonged to the' Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a Freewill Baptist. His wife, Anna Kerr died March 23, 1921. Of their three children Maggie is the wife HISTORY OF OHIO - 37 of Dr. E. A. Hamilton and has a son, Walter, who is also a physician. The second child, Nellie, is the wife of Dr. W. C. Feltman, of Vinton. Howard K. Butler was reared in his native village, attended public schools there, and at the age of seventeen went to work in the Feltman combined hardware and undertaking establishment at Vinton. Subsequently, when the state law licensing embalmers was passed, he went to Columbus to attend the Massachusetts College of Embalming, and was graduated in 1902. From year to year he has improved his service and equipment, and in addition to the work of his profession has thought at all times to promote the general welfare of his community. During the World war he was registered and assigned to the fourth class: He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of the Freewill Baptist Church. Mr. Butler married, January 1, 1903, Miss Vennie Mathews, daughter of John A. and Jennie (Shack) Mathews. Her father, who died March 10, 1921, was for a number of years in the tanning business at Vinton, but finally moved to Columbus, and acted as market master of that city for a number of years. He moved to Columbus about 1905. He was a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, and a Freewill Baptist. Mrs. Butler is the oldest of the following children, the others being Max M., Roland Dwight, Madge (deceased), Miss Lucile, Mrs. Helen Leshner. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have one son, John William. DANIEL C. ALBERT is one of the leading business men and liberal and progressive citizens of Brookville, Montgomery County, where he is vice president of the Citizens State & Savings Bank and where he individually controls a substantial and important business as a dealer in leaf tobacco. Mr. Albert was born in Preble County, Ohio, December 22, 1853, and is a son of Lewis and Catherine Albert, who continued their residence in Ohio until their death. As the family was in modest financial circumstances, Daniel C. Albert received in his early youth very limited educational advantages, principally those of the district schools of his native county. His broader education has been gained through self-discipline and through long and active association with men and business. As a young married man he earned money by carrying baskets of produce and other supplies which he peddled through the community in which he was reared. His early fellowship with adverse conditions gave to him a self-reliance and an appreciation of relative values, and this experience proved of inestimable value in the shaping and ordering of his future career. Through his own resources he provided the means for completing a course in the business or commercial department of Oberlin College, and he learned the art of telegraphy, as an exponent of which he was for twenty-two years employed as an operator on the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At Dodson, a little village in Montgomery County, he opened his first warehouse for the handling of leaf tobacco, and there he continued his operations fifteen years. During the ensuing four years he was engaged in the grain and leaf tobacco business at Lewisburg, Preble County, and in 1905 he opened a tobacco warehouse at Brookville, where he has built up a large and prosperous business in. the buying and shipping of leaf tobacco. He handles annually more than 300,000 pounds, and is one of the most extensive operators in this trade to be found in this section. of Ohio. For the accommodation of his business he maintains a large and well equipped warehouse, the same being 36x22 feet in dimensions. Mr. Albert has been for many years the vice president of the Citizens State & Savings Bank, and as a citizen and business man he is known for his liberality and civic loyalty. He gave a long period of service as a member of the Brookville Special District Board of Education, and, mindful of the struggles and priva- tions of his childhood and youth, his heart is ever attuned to human sympathy and helpfulness. He finds deep and enduring satisfaction in aiding those in need, and counts this as but part of the stewardship which he owes to his fellowmen. It is worthy of note that at every Christmas Mr. Albert sends to needy widows and other families in and about Brookville a goodly supply of provisions, and he finds also many other mediums for the expression of his earnest spirit of helpfulness in which connection it may consistently be said that he remembers those who are forgotten. In connection with his business activities Mr. Albert is general manager of the Ohio Division of the Brandfass Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Virginia. In the local lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Mr. Albert served three years as master, and in the time-honored fraternity he has received the Thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He has been active and influential in the various Masonic bodies with which he is affiliated, and has served as standard bearer of the Ohio Grand Commandery of Knights Templars. On the 9th of December, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Albert and Miss Ida M. Horner, daughter of the late George and Elizabeth Homer, who were well known citizens of Montgomery County. Warren R., elder of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Albert, is in the employ of the great National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio. Grace is the wife of Prof. F. W. Schoenman, a teacher in the Illinois State School for the Deaf at Jacksonville. ALBERT C. MILLER, president and general manager of the A. C. Miller Company, has been a resident of Delaware County all his life, and has been prominently connected for -thirty years with the lumber industry. As a timber man and manufacturer his operations have covered a wide territory. He has a large mill and yard at Delaware. He was born at Delaware, October 5, 1872, son of Nathan and Mary (Fry) Miller. His grandparents were Jacob and Catherine Miller, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Jacob Miller was a California forty-niner and an early settler of Ohio. Both and Mary Miller were born in Ohio, and the former was a substantial farmer. He was very active in church work, being a deacon of the Reformed Church. Albert C. Miller attended the public schools of Delaware, and left school at the age of seventeen to go to work on the farm. In a short time he was doing logging in the woods, and he found in that an occupation that appealed to his sturdy nature, and it has been his permanent vocation ever since. For several years 116 did logging for others, and in 1892 engaged in business for himself. He built a saw mill, and at first confined his operations to the primary work of lumbering, beginning in the standing timber, logging- and manufacturing rough lumber, and from' that extended his business to selling in retail yards. His first mill was built on his present mill and yard site. At the present time his facilities include a planing mill and he manufactures large quantities of inside finish both pine and hardwood. He buys wood lots on the farms in this section of Ohio, and still has a crew to do his logging. He uses all the up-to-date methods, and horses have been practically superseded by motor trucks. In connection with his lumber yard at Delaware he has a coal yard and 38 - HISTORY OF OHIO also has a repair shop for the repair of all his milling and logging machinery. In the fall of 1918 the business was incorporated as the A. C. Miller Company, and a department for the manufacture of handles was added, the output of which has attained the enormous total of 1,500,000 handles annually. November 23, 1897, at Delaware, Mr. Miller married Miss Anna Bryson. Her parents were Ohio farmers and died when she was very young, and she was reared in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Reformed Church. HON. BERT BADGLEY. The cause of national prohibition has no more tireless, fearless nor successful supporter in Ohio than Hon. Bert Badgley, a resident of Dayton and justice of the peace of Van Buren Township, Montgomery County. So courageous and result-attaining have been his labors, in fact, that the illicit liquor interests have come to recognize his name as representative of a persistent nemesis, and records show that since he entered office in the fall of 1920 liquor violations in his district have fallen off 70 per cent. Justice Badgley was born in Greene County, Ohio, September 26, 1884, and is a son of G. M. and Harriet (Swigart) Badgley, farming people, both of whom are now deceased. Bert Badgley received his education in the public schools near South Charleston, Clark County, and resided on his father ,s farm until reaching the age of twenty-one years, at which time he entered upon his independent career, left the parental roof and took up his residence at Dayton in 1905. Here he secured employment with the National Cash Register Company, with which he was identified until April, 1922, since when he has devoted his entire attention to his official duties. In the fall of 1920, as a democrat, he was elected justice of the peace of Van Buren Township, and in the fall of 1923 was reelected to the same office, being given the largest majority ever received by a candidate in that township. At this writing (1924) he is a candidate on the democratic ticket for the office of state representative. While Justice Badgley has discharged all of the duties of his office in a capable and expeditious manner, it has been as a prosecutor of the liquor law violators in Montgomery County that he has come most prominently before the people. A spectacular and sucessful raid and the largest one of its kind ever held in Dayton was one means of bringing him to the forefront, although Justice Badgley had no ulterior motives in so staging the arrests, merely being employed in the fulfillment of his oath of office. That the raid was sensational was because of its size and of the prominence of some of those caught in the law's net. In 1921 Senator Norwood, who then had charge of the Ohio District under Federal Prohibition, Department of Columbus, telegraphed Justice Badgley to meet him on a trip to Dayton. The Senator arriving at 8 p. m. the little party of law enforcers went to the Hotel Gibbons, where twenty-five warrants were issued and signed by Justice Badgley, resulting in forty-eight arrests and as many prosecutions. During the months of April and May, 1922, his court collected over $15,000 in fines for liquor violations; and through cooperation of the state, county and federal officials his court had collected up to date of June 6, 1924, approximately $80,000 in fines from the time he assumed the duties of his office. His work has resulted in a great number of arrests on other charges and several law violators are serving penitentiary sentences, while several members of the Dayton Police Force have been dismissed. Justice Badgley credits a large part of his success to the loyal support of Constable W. J. Sidwell of Van Buren Township. He has always cooperated fully with federal, municipal and county officials, and no officer ever presenting a case in his court has been any other than one duly chosen by the people or otherwise duly appointed by law. He has been absolutely fearless in his prosecutions, and while the liquor dealers have tried everything from bribery to threats of personal violence or death, he has allowed nothing to deter him from what he has seen as the proper action. He is superintendent of the prohibition department of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a member, and reports every three months as to his work. He is a member of the State Magistrates Association and the Magistrates Association of Montgomery County, and is fraternally affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1905 Justice Badgley was united in marriage with Miss Josie Smith, of Dayton, Ohio, and to this union there have come five children: Harriet, born in 1910; Mildred, born in 1912; Ruth, born in 1916; Florence, born in 1918; and Albert, born in 1920. MONROE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS. The Monroe Township Schools of Preble County illustrate the modern tendency toward consolidation and the improvements of rural schools by concentration and organization. Since the rural schools of the township were consolidated they have been conducted in a central building erected in 1916 at a cost of $65,000, containing five rooms for the high school and eight rooms for the grade schools, with a full basement under the entire building. The other features of this building include an assembly room, seating 100, an auditorium, seating 550, manual training and domestic science departments, physics and vocational agricultural laboratories, a gymnasium, 40 by 55 feet, a banquet room and a library. The children of the township are conveyed to and from school by five automobile trucks and three horse drawn busses. The faculty of instruction and administration of the Monroe Township schools include Mr. Albert Harris, superintendent of the schools, Howard Miltonberger, principal of the high school, P. G. Campbell, director of the vocational agriculture, John Schlotterbeck, assistant to Mr. Campbell, and Ardath White, head of the domestic science department. The director of music is J. J. De Schene, and the teachers in the grades are Elmer Holsinger, Lois Richards, Eva Parks, Fern House, Elene Smith, Loree Marshall and Lilian Jenkins. RALPH R. RANEY. One of the oldest-established and most reliable newspapers of the State of Ohio, and one that has long been influential in political matters as a supporter of democratic principles, is the Eaton Democrat, of which the editor is Ralph R. Raney. Mr. Raney has been identified with newspaper work since the completion of his educational training, and is supplying his readers with a clean and progressive publication. Ralph R. Raney was born at Portland, Indiana, February 12, 1886, and is a son of Jonathan C. and Charlotte (Archer) Raney. He received his education in the public schools of Portland, where he was graduated from high school in 1903, and immediately became identified with newspaper work. He was var iously employed until moving to New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, where he became associated with his brother, Archer R. Raney, on the New Paris-Mirror of that city. Subsequently he changed with his brother to the Eaton Democrat, a bi-weekly publication, and when Archer R. Raney died, October 28, 1922, succeeded him in the position of editor. Archer R. Raney 's son, Daryl, is associated with Mr. Raney in the control and management of this enterprise. The Eaton Democrat was founded early in the last century, and has been the leading democratic paper HISTORY OF OHIO - 39 of Preble County during all the years of its existence. The Van. Ausdal family, whose influence in the early part of the history of the county was a, contributing factor to progress, owned the paper prior to 1850, when it was' acquired by W. C. Gould. Later L. G. Gould became the owner, and published it until 1870, when Earl H. Irwin bought it. He published it and was editor until it was taken over by Archer R. Raney in 1914. The paper circulates throughout Preble and the surrounding counties, where it has a large subscription list and numerous reliable and bona fide advertisers. The people of this territory have appreciated Mr. Raney ,s efforts to furnish them with a well-edited, well-printed publication, giving all the news in addition to features, lively locals and timely editoriall, and as a result he is receiving their continued support. Mr. Raney has been a democrat since the attainment of his majority, but has not sought public office. He is identified with several of the leading fraternal orders and civic bodies of Eaton, and has played his part, both personally and through the columns of his paper, in the advancement that the city, has made during the past several years. In 1907 Mr. Raney was united in marriage with Miss Florence Winters, daughter of Nathan C. and Martha C. Winters. They have no children. HOWARD E. WEBSTER. In the discharge of his duties in the office of sheriff of Montgomery County Howard E. Webster has displayed personal courage, strict integrity and a conscientious endeavor to interpret correctly the laws of the county and to see that they have been maintained. When he entered this office he brought with him a ripe experience which had been acquired in other official capacities, and the result has been that his administration has been one eminently satisfying to the law-abiding element of society. Sheriff Webster was born August 31, 1871, near Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, and is a son of Thomas and Ella Webster. Of his father he knows little, save that he was a farmer who died when Howard E. was still an' infant, his mother, whose maiden name he does not remember, marrying again and dying, also, when Sheriff Webster was still a lad. His education was precariously acquired and was of the rural school kind, and when he. was seventeen years of age he turned his face to the West, eventually arriving in Montgomery County, where he secured employment on a farm. At the end of six months he decided to learn a vocational .occupation and, accordingly, in February, 1888, arrived at Dayton, where he applied himself to the mastery of the molder ,s trade. During the next seven years he followed this occupation as an employe of Kuntz Brothers, then spent four years with the Dayton Malleable Iron Works and for ten years was identified with the Ohio Rake Company. In 1913 he was made a deputy sheriff of Montgomery County, and during the next eight years continued in that capacity under the terms of Sheriffs Edward Leo and William C. Olt. From 1921 he was a salesman for the Pure Oil Company, until taking over the reins of office in the capacity of sheriff, January 1, 1923, having been elected to that office in the fall of 1922. Mr. Webster has given the people an excellent administration. He has a state-wide reputation for having better cooperation from city and township officers, as well as federal officers, than any of his predecessors and as a result of the excellent work of Sheriff Webster and those who have been associated with him. Dayton and Montgomery County now has the reputation of being one of the cleanest cities and counties in the country. Mr. Webster is a staunch democrat in his political 'views. As a fraternalist he holds membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Triangle and Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan clubs, and to the Christian Church of Dayton. On June 29, 1892, Mr. Webster was united in marriage with Miss Lula E. Jane' House, of Dayton a daughter of Henry and Sarah E. Jane (Linebaugh) House. Mrs. Webster was educated in the public schools, and for several years prior to her marriage was a teacher. She and her husband have had two children, both of whom died in early childhood. WILLIAM SEYMOUR RHODES, M. D. A son of a physician who practiced for a number of years in Athens County, William Seymour Rhodes was graduated from medical college twenty-five years ago, and has had a busy career. His home is at Nelsonville. He was born in the Village of New England, in Athens County, July 26, 1877, son of Dr. Jehu Miller and Hattie (Curtis) Rhodes. His mother was born in the Western Reserve of Ohio. The paternal grandfather, John Rhodes, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1795, and was an early settler in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he married Marjorie Moore, a sister of the mother of President William McKinley. John Rhodes later moved to Summerfield, Noble County, where his son Dr. Jehu M. was born. The latter was one of four sons and six daughters. Jehu Miller Rhodes became a soldier in the Seventy-fifth Ohio Infantry during the war. On the first day of the battle of Gettysburg he was wounded, a bullet striking him in the foot. This bullet he carried the remainder of his life, it never having been extracted. The command was 600 strong at the beginning of the Gettysburg engagement, and only seventy survived that terrific ordeal. From the window of a hospital Jehu M. Rhodes witnessed the great Pickett charge. He was one of the. soldiers from Ohio that revisited the Gettysburg battlefield fifty years after the battle was fought and helped locate markers. He was mustered out as sergeant major, having given five years service less two days. For a year after the close of the war he was retained on duty on. the North Carolina coast. Jehu Miller Rhodes came out of the army a very poor man, and for three years he taught school at Chauncey in Athens County, and for another three years worked for a salt company. He studied medicine in Delaware, also in the office of Doctor McKittrick, and had charge of a country store. He bought and conducted a store at New England, and was in business there when his son William S. was born. Later he finished his medical education in the Old Columbus Medical College, and practiced at Chauncey and Glouster in Southern Ohio and finally removed to Columbus, where he died in the spring of 1923. His wife passed away in 1912, at the age of sixty-six. J. M. Rhodes was elected director of the Ohio Division of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1897, and served one term.. He was active in Grand Army circles, was a republican and a Methodist. He and his wife had five children and three are now living: Jessie M., wife of Samuel Grove, of Gary, Indiana; William S.; and Russell R., a dentist at Corumbus. William Seymour Rhodes graduated from the Glouster High School, and then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated in 1898, before he was twenty-one years of age. He then engaged in general practice, and for thirteen years was located at Carbon Hill and since then has been at Nelsonville. He has done special work in the New York. Post Graduate School of. Medicine and Surgery, and has specialized in diseases of women and pathological chemistry. He was honored with election as president of the County Medical Society in 1921, and is a member of the Ohio State and 40 - HISTORY OF OHIO American Medical" associations. He volunteered for service in the Medical Corps during the World war, and in October, 1918, was accepted and sent to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and later to Chickamauga Park for training. He received a lieutenant’s commission. He was discharged after the armistice. In 1902 Doctor Rhodes married Miss Nelle N. Minner, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Stitt) Minner, of Youngstown, Ohio. They have one son, William Minner. Doctor and Mrs. Rhodes are members of the Methodist Church, and both are active in Sunday school. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Commandery at Athens, and belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and Alhambra Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Elks, is a republican, and was the first commander of the local post of the American Legion. WILLIAM J. SIDWELL. In the present era of national liquor prohibition and the consequent violation of the country’s laws by an element plenteously furnished with financial backing, and of a desperate character, it requires high courage, both moral and physical, to perform conscientiously the duties demanded by the incumbency of a law-enforcement position. The temptations are so numerous and the work so hazardous that only men of strong character prove successful in the curbing of the criminal element,s activities. Among these men is found William J. Sidwell, a resident of Dayton, who at present occupies the positions of constable of Van Buren Township and deputy sheriff of Montgomery County, and who has participated in more arrests for liquor violations than possibly any other constable in the State of Ohio. Constable Sidwell was born December 12, 1882, at Byrdstown, Pickett County, Tennessee, and is a son of James L. and Linda Belle (Tompkins) Sidwell. His father, whose vocation was that of an agriculturist, served as an United States revenue officer for nine years, and also was a United States marshal of the Medal Division of Tennessee. He is now deceased, and his widow is a resident of Olna, Texas. William J. Sidwell, attended the public schools of Byrdstown, and spent his early years in much the same manner as other farmer 's sons of his day and locality. At the age of nineteen years he became tired of the daily routine of farm life, and, answering the call of adventure, left the parental roof and enlisted in the United States Regular Army. During the six years that he wore the uniform of his country he saw service with the Forty-eighth Company, Coast Artillery, and Company E of the Twentieth Infantry, but eventually his health failed and he was honorably discharged in 1907, owing to disability. During the next several years Mr. Sidwell worked on ranches in New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, being employed principally as a cow-puncher, and the &work served to allow him to regain his lost health. In 1918 he came to Dayton and entered the United States Department of Justice at Flying Field, Morain City, where he remained from 1918 until 1923. In the meantime he was elected constable of Van Buren Township, in 1921, and in 1923 was reelected. to that office by the - largest vote of any man who had ever been its incumbent. He has assisted and has been largely instrumental in more arrests for liquor violations than possibly any. other constable in. Ohio. One of the most spectacular of his many raids resulted in the seizure by the authorities of seventy-three barrels of whiskey. Constable Sidwell is a man of unquestioned. courage, and possesses those qualities which are necessary for the detection of crime. In addition to being constable he is also serving in the capacity of deputy sheriff of Montgomery "County. He belongs to the United Brethren Church, and in politics is a republican. He resides in his own home. On February 7, 1906, Mr. Sidwell was united in marriage with Miss Matta Ferri, of Byrdstown, Tennessee, who had been a schoolmate of his youth, and whose father owned an adjoining farm. Samuel Ferri is still cultivating his Tennessee property,. but Mrs. Sidwell,s mother died when Mrs. Sidwell was an infant. They are the parents of five children: Earl, born in 1910; James, born in 1914; Daisy, born in 1916; Uler (a daughter), born in 1918; and Catherine, born in 1920. CARSON M. PRATT. A resident of Dayton for nearly thirty years, during this period Carson M. Pratt has become well and favorably known to the people of the city through his connection with some of the community's important interests, as an active member of the republican party and as a progressive citizen, but principally for the work he has accomplished during his incumbency of the office of deputy United States marshal. He has led a busy and interesting career and his qualities have commended themselves to all fair-minded people who admire strength of character and conscientious performance of duty. Mr. Pratt was born on a farm near Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, March 31, 1874, and is a son of Frank and Elizabeth (Smith) Pratt, the latter of whom is now deceased. His father, who has devoted his entire life to the pursuits of the soil, is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, one of the prosperous and highly respected retired agriculturists of his county. Carson M. Pratt attended the public schools of the Town of Spring Valley, Ohio, graduating from the high school there as a member of the class of 1891. He then returned to his home, where he began assisting his father in the duties of the farm, but after four years determined to seek what he considered the broader opportunities of Dayton. Accordingly he took up his residence in this city, becoming an assembler in the plant of the Farmers, Friend Implement Company. When the shop closed Mr. Pratt obtained a position with the Dayton Street Railway Company, with which he was identified for eighteen years as a contractor, and subsequently was a member of the board of health for two years.. From 1918 to 1920 he was first assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Ohio Legislature, and in the latter year returned to the business of contracting, in which he continued to be engaged until 1922 when he was appointed deputy assistant United States marshal by former Marshal Michael Devanney. At the time of his retirement Marshal Devanney stated that Mr. Pratt was the best man he had had in his entire twelve years of service as United States marshal. The present marshal, Stanley Barthwick, states that Mr. Pratt is his most trusted man. In addition the people generally have come to recognize Mr. Pratt as one of the ablest law-enforcement officers in Montgomery County and Southern. Ohio. In 1924 he announced his candidacy for the office of sheriff, subject to the republican primaries of August of that year. While he has been a member of the' republican party all his life, this was his first request for an elective office. For ten years Mr. Pratt served on the republican executive committee, and for five terms was ward representative of his party. Under the administration of Governor Willis he served as state inspector of workshops. Mr. Pratt joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in boyhood, and has maintained his membership without interruption. As a fraternalist he is a thirty-second degree Mason, is a past officer of the Knights of Pythias, of which he has been a representative to the Grand Lodge, and has belonged to the Junior Order of United American Mechanics for the past eighteen HISTORY OF OHIO - 41 years. He is also a member of Earnshaw Camp No. 69, Sons of Veterans. On May 25, 1903, Mr. Pratt was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Tucker, a daughter of Cass and Sarah (Coppock) Tucker, whose home is at Laura, Miami County, this state. Mrs. Pratt, who is a graduate of the West Milton High School, was a teacher for several years prior to her marriage. She and her husband have no children. CARL A. ROSSER. The lumber industry is one of the most important all over the country, but especially is it one of the basic factors in the business life of Ohio. One of the men who finds in this industry both congenial employment for his capabilities and an expression for his service to commerce, is Carl A: Rosser of Arcanum, secretary and general manager of the business which was founded by his father. Carl A. Rosser was born at Arcanum, Ohio, in 1876, a son of William F. and Sarah A. Rosser, the former born in 1851 and the latter in 1850, and both were natives of Darke County, Ohio. They had three children: Carl A., Nora B. and Fred E. In 1880 the father founded the business which still bears his name, and from then on the Rossers have been connected with the lumber interests of Darke. County. Growing up in his native county, Carl A. Rosser attended its public schools, was graduated from the Arcanum High School in 1893, and from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1899. His •brother F. E. and his sister Nora are graduates, and his three sons are proud to claim the same institution as their alma mater. All five made Delta Tau Delta. With the death of William F. Rosser in 1906, the business was incorporated, with Carl A. Rosser as secretary and general manager. The company is now associated in its operations with W. H. Francis, of Troy, Ohio, one of the extensive lumber operaters of Ohio and Indiana. Mr. Rosser' is well-known in Masonry, and belongs to Arcanum Lodge No. 295, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and to Dayton Consistory, in which he has been advanced through the thirty-second degree. While he was a student of Ohio Wesleyan University Mr. Rosser met his wife, then Miss Miriam P. Hauser, a fellow student, and a daughter of Rev. I. L. Hauser and his wife, Mrs. Jennette E. Hauser, missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Prior to entering university. Mrs. Rosser had spent nine years in India, where her parents had been stationed. She continues her interest in missionary work, and is now president of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Springfield, Ohio District. She, her husband and children, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rosser; namely: Bernard P., Rollin L., Harold A., William F. and Phyllis Miriam. Mr. and Mrs. Rosser have a strong sense of civic responsibility, and give much thought to the ordering of their lives so that they may exert as good an influence as possible over the lives of not only their immediate family,. but others in their home community, and their efforts are productive of much permanent value. DAVID ORVILLE HEETER. Experienced in merchandising, David Orville Heeter, one of the principal owners and managers of the M. L. Weisenbarger Company; one of the largest stores at Arcanum, is well qualified for his present work, and under his fostering care this concern, now in the twenty-fifth year of its history, is entering upon a new era of expansion and prosperity. David Orville Heeter was born at Painter Creek, Darke County, Ohio, April 29, 1876, a son of Daniel H. and Catherine (Schneck) fleeter, natives. of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. David Orville Heeter. is a very well-educated man, for he not only attended the public schools of Arcanum, but Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Michigan and Ohio Northern University, and was graduated from the latter in 1902, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For the first seven years following the completion of his education Mr. Heeter taught school, and then for three years was editor and publisher of the Arcanum Times, and for three years served as city clerk. From 1909 to 1922 he served as state examiner in the Ohio State auditor ,s office. While discharging the duties of the last-named office, at Columbus, he was also interested in the drug business with his brother, the two operating a chain of 'drug stores at Knoxville. In 1922 he returned to Arcanum to assume his present duties in connection with the M. L. Weisenbarger Company. He is a republican. Well known in Masonry, he is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to the Dayton Consistory. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. The United Brethren Church is his religious home, -and he is liberal in his support of the church. On May 13, 1902, Mr. Heeter married Miss Pearle Beatrice Albright, a daughter of Daniel S. and Elizabeth (Leedy) Albright. The Albrights are very prominent in the history of Darke County, both past and present.. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heeter are numbered among the social leaders of Arcanum, and their pleasant home is often the scene of delightful gatherings when they extend their hospitality to their wide circle of friends. WILLIAM CLINE. Arcanum has among its most representative citizens men who have already completed their business careers, but who in the .midst of their comfortable retirement find opportunity to devote thought and interest to civic matters. One of these men is William Cline, formerly a prominent figure in both business and political circles, but now retired. He is a son of Michael and Martha (Miller) Cline, and one in a family of five children: Henry, Charles, Mary, Edward and William. While Mr. Cline enjoyed the usual public-school advantages, and also taught school for five years, his greatest source of information has come from his constant reading, and he is recognized as the best-read man. in Arcanum, if not in this part of Ohio. There are few subjects with which he is not acquainted, and upon a number of them he is an authority. In his books he is now finding companionship and pleasure formerly acquired from close contact with the marts of trade and the excitements of political strife. For a number of years he was a buyer of leaf tobacco for an eastern concern, and few men of his day were better judges of leaf tobacco. For six years he served Arcanum as postmaster, and handled the affairs of his office in a most capable and satisfactory manner. In 1900 Mr. Cline married Miss Emma Thomas, a daughter of Samuel and Phebe Thomas, and a member of an old and prominent family of Darke County. Mr. and Mrs. Cline have no children. Mr. Cline was made a Mason many years ago. In every respect he measures up to the highest standards of citizenship, and in him Arcanum possesses a solid and helpful factor, and one upon whom the utmost reliance may be placed under all conditions. LLOYD RILEY ANDREWS. A native of Athens County and a resident of Glouster for over thirty years, Lloyd Riley Andrews has long been the leading funeral director in that section, and has a business service of the finest character. His standing as a citizen as well as a business man is of the very highest. He was born on a farm in York Township, Athens County, October 3, 1865, son of Mason and Eve 42 - HISTORY OF OHIO (Howard) Andrews. His grandfather, David Andrews, came to Southeastern Ohio from Pennsylvania, while the Howards came to Ohio from West Virginia. Mason Andrews, who was born in Ames Township of Athens County, spent his life as a farmer, served for many years as a township trustee, and was a volunteer for service in the Union army at the time of the Civil war, but was rejected. He died in July, 1921, at the age of seventy-six, and his widow now lives in Athens. The three sons besides Lloyd R. are: William, who owns a music store at Athens, is a musician and is leader of the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Ira, a mine worker, lives at Glouster; and Jay C., of Columbus, Ohio. Lloyd Riley Andrews was reared on the farm in York Township, attended country schools and Ohio University, and for seven years he was a teacher. He came to Glouster in 1891 and entered the service of the Sunday Creek Hardware Company, which operated stores at Glouster and Trimble. Mr. Andrews was promoted to manager of the Glouster store. One department of the business was undertaking, and Mr. Andrews gradually took more and more responsibilities in this department. He completed a course in embalming in 1899, and subsequently had further training in the Columbus branch of the Massachusetts School of Embalming. Since 1903 he has been in the undertaking business for himself, and has a thoroughly complete and efficient organization. Mr. Andrews served as a member of the Glouster School Board for twenty years, until 1922. He has assisted in every movement for material and moral improvement. He has been an active worker in the cause of prohibition. He is a member of the official board, of the Methodist Church, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and fraternally is a member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Red Men. In 1885 Mr. Andrews married Miss Lizzie B. Wolfe, daughter of Joseph Wolfe. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews grew up on adjoining farms and they went to the same school. They have three daughters: Addie M., wife of R. J. Webber, cashier of the First National Bank of .Glouster; Florence E., who for sixteen years taught school, and is now the wife of Howard H. Wells, of Glouster; and Nellie Belle, wife of D. Ward Forrest, who is head of the Forrest Laundry at Columbus. The daughters all attended Ohio University at Athens. Mr. Andrews has written considerable verse and has published a small volume entitled "Home Made Poems." ANTHONY E. CLINE. After many years of profitable operation in the leaf tobacco industry Anthony E. Cline, familiarly known as Ed, is now devoting his time and attention to his civic duties, and serving his third term as mayor of Arcanum. His interest in the city which has been his home during the greater portion of his life is sincere, and to him and his good judgment and progressive methods are due much of the present prosperity of the city. Mayor Cline was born at Clayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, April 13, 1857, a son of Michael and Martha (Miller) Cline. Michael Cline was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, January 20, 1811. He came to Ohio in 1835 and located in Clayton, where he engaged at his trade as a cooper. He married Martha Miller, who was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1825. Michael Cline moved with his family to Arcanum, in Darke County, in 1866, spending the remainder of his days there and becoming an important factor in the upbuilding of the community. He died November 28, 1888, his widow surviving him •until April 1, 1895. To them had been born six children, five of whom reached maturity. Although his educational advantages were confined to those offered by the public schools, Mayor Cline is a well informed man, for he has learned much from observation and contact with men of affairs. Until within a few years ago he was engaged in the leaf tobacco business, and is recognized as one of the best and shrewdest judges of leaf tobacco in Ohio. In 1892 he assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Arcanum, and served it as a director from 1904 to 1919, and has never lost his interest in its growth and continued prosperity. Other local enterprises have received his support, and nothing of merit fails to attract his attention. For many years he has been very active in the local republican party, and in 1904 was elected mayor of Arcanum, and has twice been reelected. Under his several administrations a number of improvements have been inaugurated, or carried to completion, and he has other plans for a still further expansion. Prior to his election as mayor he had served for twelve years as a member of the city council, so that his association with municipal affairs has been a long and useful one. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. Has served as master of Arcanum Lodge No. 295, and as high priest of Arcanum Chapter No. 218, Royal' Arch Masons. On November 22, 1891, he married Cora J. Long, of Darke County, and a daughter of Daniel and Barbara (Shilt) Long. She is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Arcanum, and active in its affairs. There are few men in Darke County who are as well known and none stand any higher in public esteem than does his Honor, the Mayor of Arcanum. SAMUEL JEFFERSON ERISMAN. Among the older business men of Arcanum, Ohio, are those who are well qualified to tell its real commercial history, its earlier problems and its business successes, and one who for many years assisted in building up the prestige of the town, through connection with one of its largest mercantile enterprises, is Samuel Jefferson Erisman, a well known and highly respected retired citizen. Mr. Erisman was born in 1849, on his father's farm in Darke County, Ohio, north of Greenville, son of Henry and Mary Jane Erisman, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, of Swiss ancestry, and the latter in Ohio, of German parentage, all most worthy, industrious people, mainly following farm pursuits. Such people, these early settlers in Darke County, built churches, established school-houses, and set an example of thrift and industry worthy of emulation. Samuel Jefferson Erisman attended the district schools and helped his father on the farm until old enough to make choice of a preferred career, when he became a clerk in a store in the neighboring town of Gettysburg, and in 1874 was employed in W. H. Anderson's store, at that time the largest of its kind in the City of Cincinnati. In the spring of 1875 he came back to Gettysburg and remained a year, and in 1876, with quite ,a bit of mercantile training behind him, became associated with the John Smith Company at Arcanum, with which solid business house he continued for the next thirty-two years. After leaving the John Smith Hardware Company Mr. Erisman practically retired from business life, but in many other ways he has been an active citizen,. He has served with good judgment and efficiency on the city council, for a number of years was a member of the school board, and in other ways cooperated with his fellow citizens to promote the welfare bf Arcanum. Mr. Erisman married Miss Rozella Foren, and they have five children,, three daughters and two HISTORY OF OHIO - 43 sons: Fay, who is the wife of Waldo A. Baker, of Dayton, Ohio; Ray, who married Bertha Shedd; Ruth V., who is assistant cashier of the Bell Telephone Company at Dayton; Helen and Lloyd, who reside with their parents at Arcanum. Mr. Erisman and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, with membership at Dayton, Ohio, and has been a member of the order of Odd Fellows for fifty-two years. WILLIAM P. MEYER is a funeral director, with a well located and well equipped business at Dayton. Mr. Meyer was born in Mercer Conuty, Ohio, July 28, 1889, son of Jacob and Frances (Egger) Meyer. His father was a farmer who died in 1908, while the mother is still living. William P. Meyer attended rural schools in Mercer County, having the farm as his boyhood environment. His education was continued in the Ohio Mechanics Institute at Cincinnati, and in 1910 he graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming, being licensed as an embalmer under state laws in the same year. For eighteen months he was employed by the undertaking firm of Vitt and Stermer at Cincinnati, and for about a year was with John J. Gilligan in the same city. In 1914 Mr. Meyer engaged in business for himself at Chickasaw, Ohio, remaining there until 1922, when he came to Dayton and bought out the business of W. R. Smith, which had been established in 1906. He keeps a complete service, including ambulance and all the facilities of a modern funeral director. His funeral parlors are located at 604 Washington Street. Mr. Meyer is a Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus and Eagles. In 1917 he married Miss Stella Dahlinghaus of Maria Stein, Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Minnie (Fleck) Dahlinghaus. Mrs. Meyer was educated in country schools and is a member of the Catholic Ladies of Columbus. HERBERT C. MUNDHENK, M. D. Earnest study and able and efficient professional stewardship have marked the service of Doctor Mundhenk as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Montgomery County, where he is established in active general practice in the attractive little city of Brookville. Here he was born and reared, and here both as a citizen and a physician he is well upholding the honors of the family name, his father having been for more than forty years one of the prominent and revered physicians and surgeons at Brookville. Dr. Herbert C. Mundhenk was born at Brookville on the 11th of August, 1877, and is a son of Dr. William S. and Emma (Connor) Mundhenk, the former of whom here died in the year 1919, and the latter still maintains her home here. Dr. William S. Mundhenk was graduated from Ohio College of Medicine of Cincinnati, and was one of the venerable and honored physicians and surgeons of Montgomery County at the time of his death. In 1895 Dr. Herbert C. Mundhenk was graduated from the Brookville High School, and in 1899 he was graduated from Ohio State University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In preparation for his chosen profession, one that had been dignified by the character and prolonged service of his father, he entered historic old Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he served for some time as an interne in a Philadelphia hospital, and he has since taken post-graduate work in both Jefferson Medical College, his alma mater, and in the medical department of Harvard University. In his native city and county he has built up a large and representative general practice, and here he is local medical examiner for about thirty leading life-insurance companies. He has active membership in the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is affiliated also with the Alpha. Tau Omega college fraternity. The year 1903 recorded the marriage of Doctor Mundhenk and Miss Jane Jenks, daughter of John W. and Helen (Webb) Jenks, who were at that time residents of Logansport, Indiana, but who now maintain their home at Brookville, Ohio, Mr. Jenks having been for many years in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mrs. Mundhenk was graduated from the high school at Logansport, Indiana, is a leader in the social activities of her home community, is affiliated with the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. William J. eldest of the children of doctor and Mrs. Mundhenk, was graduated from the Staunton Military Institute, Staunton, Virginia, as a member of the class of 1923, and at the time of this writing, in 1924, is a member of the freshman class of Ohio State University. Marian is a student in the Junior High School at Brookville and Helen Jane likewise is attending the public schools of Brookville. ERRETT LEFEVER, M. D. Widely known in Morgan and Athens counties for his able services as a physician and surgeon, a profession he has followed for a third of a century, Doctor LeFever in both counties has been active in politics, and has served in both houses of the Legislature. He is present state senator from Athens County. Doctor LeFever was born February 13, 1867. His birthplace was a log house that then stood on the LeFever farm near Bishopville in Horner Township, Morgan County, Ohio. He is a son of Isaac P. and Basha Jane (Shepard) LeFever. Isaac P. LeFever was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and at the age of eight years was brought by his father, Isaac LeFever, and by the rest of the family to Ohio. They traveled on a raft down the Ohio River as far as Blennerhassett's Island and thence cut their way through the woods to Athens County. They made settlement in Trimble Township. Isaac P. LeFever married Basha Jane Shepard, a native of Morgan County, Ohio, and after their marriage they lived in Morgan County. Isaac P. LeFever was a carpenter and builder, and one of the expert old mechanics whose skill with edged tools has become almost a lost art in the modern generation. He could go into the woods and cut the trees, hew out the logs and other timbers and erect the complete building down to the finest details. He built houses, barns, schools, churches and bridges all over this section of Ohio. He was a republican in politics, and was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Mountville. His wife for a number of years was a school teacher, and was a member of the Christian Church. Isaac P. LeFever died in 1914, at the age of eighty-three, and his wife also passed away at the age of eighty-three, in 1922. They had three children: Dr. Errett; Dr. E. W., who lives at Marietta, Ohio; and Mrs. O. E. Carr, of Glouster. Errett LeFever was reared in Morgan County, and his first educational advantages were supplied at home by his mother. After that he attended district schools, normal schools and Ohio University. For five years he was a teacher, using his earnings to gain his higher education. Doctor LeFever in 1890 graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, and in later years has taken a number of postgraduate courses. He attended the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and had private instruction in 44 - HISTORY OF OHIO New York City. After graduating in medicine Doctor LeFever began practice at Mountville, near his old home, and since 1906 has had a large practice at Glouster in Athens County. He is a member of the Athens County and Ohio State Medical associations. Doctor LeFever has always been a republican, though he supported Roosevelt in the progressive campaign of 1912. He was elected to represent Morgan County in the General Assembly in the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-sixth sessions. In 1920 he was elected a member of the State Senate for the Eighty-fourth Session, and was reelected for the Eighty-fifth Session. He is a member of some of the important Senate committees. While a representative from Morgan County he was associated with such prominent Ohio men as the late President Harding, Carmi Thompson, Ralph Cole, Nicholas Longworth and Frank Willis. Doctor LeFever is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Moose. He married in 1890 Miss Julia Howard, daughter of Samuel Howard, of Morgan County, She lived only five months after their marriage. In 1898 Doctor LeFever married Miss Lola Howard, a cousin of his first wife, and daughter of Alfred Howard, of Morgan County. They have two children, Harry Everett and Ruth LeFever. The son is a graduate of Ohio University, Bachelor of Arts degree. He is also a graduate of Culver Military Academy of Indiana, and at the age of eighteen was commissioned an officer in the United States Navy during the World war. He is now a student of his father 's profession at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. The daughter Ruth is a student at the Columbus Art School and the Office Training School of the same city. ELIZABETH E. LEONARD osteopathic physician at Dayton, is a native of Ohio, and is one of the highly educated and talented women in professional life in the state. She was born at Delaware, Ohio, January 5, 1887. Her parents, Caleb and Anna (Eastman) Leonard, residents of Delaware, have been identified with that community all their lives. Her father was a live stock raiser and dealer, and for many years has been well known as a live •stock judge at state fairs and exhibitions. Elizabeth E. Leonard attended the grammar and public schools of Delaware, the Ohio Wesleyan University and the School of Physical Education of Chatauqua, New York. Her professional training was gained in the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, where she graduated with the class of 1917, and she did post-graduate work in 1918. Her first practice was at Marietta, Ohio, where she remained two years, and since 1920 she has been located at Dayton. For a year and a half she was associated with Dr. W. A. Gravett, then secretary of the American Osteopathic Association, and since then has maintained offices of her own in the Reibold Building. Doctor Leonard is a member of the Ohio State and National Osteopathic associations, the Dayton District Osteopathic Society and the Osteopathic Women's National Association. Locally she is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Altrusa Club, the Dayton Woman's Club, the Business and Professional Woman's Club, Young Women's Christian Association, the Young Woman's League, Acacia Chapter, Eastern Star, and the Methodist Church. She is also medical examiner for the Pride of Dayton Temple No. 367, of the Pythian Sisters. She is deeply interested in educational affairs, and has delivered educational lectures before many gatherings in the city. A free clinic for the examination and treatment of poor children is conducted weekly by Doctor Leonard. Doctor Leonard, on September 15, 1923, was married to Forrest Esty Winchel, of Dayton. Her husband is secretary of the Army and Navy Department of the Young Men's Christian Association at Dayton. JOSEPH W. SHARTS of Dayton, who was nominated candidate for governor of Ohio on the socialist ticket in 1924, is a lawyer by profession and has for many years been nationally known through his efforts in behalf of the working classes and through his work as a literary man. He was born at Hamilton, Ohio, September 14, 1875. His father, Joseph William Sharts, was at that time a young lawyer, practicing in partnership with James E. Neal. He died about the time his son was born. One of his friends was James E. Campbell, who afterwards became governor of Ohio, and who sat up with him the night he died. The mother of Joseph W. Sharts was Sarah Belle Ealy, a daughter of Dr. Elijah Ealy, a prominent physician of Dayton, to which city, after the death of her husband, she removed with her two sons, Stanley R. and Joseph W. She became a school teacher, and made a brave struggle to support her little family, being assisted later by a pension, given on account of her husband's service in the army during the Civil war. While a schoolboy in Dayton Joseph W. Sharts carried papers for the Herald as a means of self-support. He was a pupil in the old Brown Street School, under Mr. Wilson, the principal, and in 1893 graduated with the last class from the old Central High School. The principal was Captain Stivers. His chief ambition at that time was to go to college. By studying during the summer following his graduation from high school he was able to pass the entrance examination to Harvard University the next fall. He went East with Harry M. Lydenberg, who had graduated from high school in 1892. Both these young students were poor and practically worked their way through college. They graduated in the class of 1897, Mr. Sharts, with the Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude. Young Lydenberg almost immediately found his life career in the New York Public Library, of which he is now practically the executive head. Mr. Sharts had completed .the four-year academic course in three years, the last year being spent in the Harvard Law School. After a summer of work in a Michigan lumber camp he entered the law offices of Col. James E. Neal, of Cincinnati. Colonel Neal had been his father's law partner and had served as United States consul at Liverpool. Mr. Sharts was a law student under him until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when in April, 1898, he went out with the First Ohio Infantry as corporal of Company C, under Captain Havlin. After the signing of the protocol marking the end of the war in Cuba, he was brought home on what was known as the Bushnell hospital train, of which Dayton's republican boss, Dr. Joseph E. Lowes, had charge. On being mustered out he resumed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1899. Mr. Sharts soon discovered that he could make more money by literature than by law, and, giving up his practice for a number of years, he made his living almost entirely by his pen. Most of those years were spent in Chicago and Washington. His first book, "Ezra Caine,"was published in 1900, being followed by "The Romance of a Rouge" in 1902, and "The Hills of Freedom" in 1904. For about nine months Mr. Sharts lived on a small ranch which he had bought at Escondido, California, near HISTORY OF OHIO - 45 San Diego. He went there for his health. While there he encountered a man named Frank Hulme, a one-eyed Iowa farmer, whom Mr. Sharts calls one of the brainiest men he ever met. It was through his influence that Mr. Sharts became a socialist, and on his return to Dayton in 1909 he joined the socialist party. The same year he published "The Black Sheep," and in 1911, "The Vintage." What he regards as his best work was "The King Who Came," published in 1913. Since then the only literary work of permanent .value that he has done was a short history of Dayton, published through the socialist paper in 1922. However, he has been editing the Miami Valley Socialist, a weekly publication ht Dayton, since it was founded in 1911, and which is now the official organ of the socialist party, and also of Indiana. Mr. Sharts has been author of its editorials, and through these has repeatedly expressed his political views. It was at the state convention of the socialist party, at Cleveland, on March 1, 1924, that he was nominated for governor. His literary career for a livelihood terminated about the time of the flood of March, 1913. Soon afterwards the expenses and demands made upon his time by socialist activities caused him to open a law office and re-engage in that practice in 1915. He has had a successful practice, in the ordinary sense, and his work as an attorney has brought him connections with many notable cases. Early in the World war he was attorney for the defense of Ruthenberg, Wagenkneckt and Baker on the charge of inducing a man not to register for the draft, the case being tried before Federal Judge Westenhaver of Cleveland. In this trial he was associated with Morris H. Wolfe. After the three men were sentenced they took the case on error to the United States Supreme Court, where it was grouped with a number of others involving the same constitutional questions on the draft act. A large number of lawyers were engaged, Mr. Sharts and his associates being allowed only one hour to present their arguments, and he was selected to make the opening and the closing argument for the plaintiff in error. The plea failed and the three men were sent to the Stark County workhouse. At the state picnic of the socialist party in the summer of 1918 Eugene V. Debs was the orator of the day. He had been allowed to visit the three socialist prisoners, and on coming from the workhouse and taking the platform he made a glancing reference to them as paying the penalty for their devotion to the working class. This was the speech which caused his indictment for having obstructed the draft. In the trial at Cleveland Mr. Sharts was one of his counsel. Mr. Sharts also defended thirteen socialists at Cincinnati on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Government by obstructing the draft, this case being known as United States vs. Thomas Hammerschmidt, Lotta, Burke, et al. That case was decided in favor of the defendants in the United States Supreme Court in 1924, and was probably the only war case on record in which a jury brought in a recommendation for mercy. In this trial Mr. Sharts was associated with Edward Alexander of Cincinnati. Mr. Sharts was also counsel for Frank B. Hamilton, mayor of Piqua, and several other city officials who were arrested during the war on an attempt by republican and democratic politicians to railroad them to the penitentiary in order to get rid of the socialist administration. In the preliminary examination Mr. Sharts and his associates had discovered enough evidence of a frameup to compel the Department of Justice at Washington to drop the proceedings. In May, 1924, Mr. Sharts defended Bishop Brown in the celebrated heresy trial at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Sharts married, July 7, 1915, Miss Ruth Helfenstein, daughter of Rev. S. Q. Helfenstein. They have one son, Joseph, born December 28, 1916. ANDREW JACKSON CRAWFORD, M. D. A young man recently graduated from medical school, and with special training in surgery, Doctor Crawford chose the little Village of Glouster in Athens County, then consisting of about a half dozen houses, as the scene of his professional work. Here he found his opportunities, has been in practice for over a third of a century with unusual success, and is one of the most highly esteemed residents of that now important community. Doctor Crawford has spent all his life in the mining district of Southeastern Ohio. He was born not many miles from his present home, at New Straitsville in Perry County, March 24, 1861. His birthplace was a farm. His parents were William and Elizabeth (Teal) Crawford, of Perry County. His father was a successful farmer, and sold his farm, underlaid with coal, to the C. H. and I. C. Coal Company. He died in 1886, at the age of sixty-nine, and his wife in 1893, aged seventy-two. They were devout Methodists, and he helped lay the foundation for the first Methodist Church at Straitsville. Doctor Crawford was one of three sons. His brother Harrison is a farmer in the old home community. William was a small coal producer in Perry County. During his boyhood Andrew Jackson Crawford attended the old red school house on his father's farm known as the Crawford School. Later he was a student in the high school at Straitsville. Work on the farm was the chief source of the money which paid his way through medical college. Doctor Crawford took his medical course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, graduating in 1886. For two years he remained in Baltimore, employed in the City Hospital, and specialized both in surgery and diseases of women. In 1913 he went back to his old college at Baltimore for postgraduate work in surgery. During the many years he has been located at Glouster he has handled innumerable eases of minor and major surgery, largely as part of his mining practice. He is also surgeon for the New York Central Railway. He is a member of the Athens County and American Medical associations, is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Improved Order of Red Men. He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. In politics he is a republican, and for two terms was a member of the town council of Glouster, and he represented his county in the State Legislature during the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth sessions. He served on a number of important committees in the Assembly. February 14, 1889, Doctor Crawford married Miss Ella L. Jones. Her father, Col. J. W. Jones, was United States pension agent for the State of Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Crawford have one daughter, Helen, who is a graduate of Campbell and Hagerman College at Lexington, Kentucky, and is a teacher in the Glouster High School. In 1923 she made a tour of Europe, including the battle lines of France. ELECTRA COLLINS DOREN. In the profession of library work Electra Collins Doren has honors and distinctions of service such as have been achieved by few women librarians in Ohio. For some years her duties took her to other states and cities, but the greater part of her service has been given to the library of her home city, and in 1913, after the great flood of that year, she was recalled to the responsibilities of librarian, a post she continues to fill. 46 - HISTORY OF OHIO She was born at Georgetown, Ohio, December 4, 1861, daughter of John Gates and Elizabeth (Bragdon) Doren. John Gates Doren was one of the distinguished editors and public men of Ohio in the last century. He was born at Athens, Tennessee, in 1834, and when ten years of age his parents moved to Xenia, Ohio. His education and tastes took him early into the field of newspaper work, and at one time he was editor and owner of the Daily Democrat, the forerunner of the present Dayton News. His ability as a writer brought him to the attention of Samuel Medary, who served as a territorial governor of Kansas. Mr. Medary made him managing editor of the Ohio Statesman in 1857, and he became official reporter of the Ohio Legislature in 1861 and was appointed private secretary to the secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, at Washington, D. C., an office he held during the early part of the Civil war. He then returned to journalism and the study of law, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1865. In that year he succeeded G. M. D. Bloss as editor of the Cincinnati, Enquirer, holding that position until 1870. From 1877 to 1879 he served as journal clerk to the House of Representatives. Many other positions of trust were given him, and he continued his work as a writer for magazines and newspapers until the date of his death, March 8, 1916. He died in his beautiful home in Morningside, on the Salem Pike, near Dayton. He married, February 23, 1861, Elizabeth Bragdon, who was reared and educated at Hillsboro, Ohio. Electra Collins Doren accompanied her parents to Dayton in 1870, and was educated in the public schools there, including high school, in the Cooper Seminary, under Principal J. A. Roberts, and also had private tutors in German, French and Italian. One year was spent abroad in study in Prance, England, Switzerland and Italy. During her high school course, while- her father was at Washington acting as general clerk to the House of Representatives, she assisted in the work of indexing the House Journal. It was upon the recommendation of Captain Stivers, principal of the high school, that she was elected assistant librarian, beginning her duties in June, 1880. The Dayton Public Library was at that time housed in the Market House and was under the jurisdiction of the board of education. Miss Doren,s first work was undertaking an analytic dictionary card catalog of 20,000 volumes, which was completed and published under her supervision in 1884. In 1887 the public library came under the administration of a separate board of library trustees, and in January, 1888, the public library was moved from the Market House to its present building in Cooper Park. As assistant librarian Miss Doren had much pioneer work to do in laying the foundations for a larger library service. In 1896 she was elected librarian, and her first act was to establish the two-year library class, and a general reorganization of the main library followed, including the establishment of school branch community libraries in 1903. In February, 1905, Miss. Doren resigned as librarian to become director of the Western Reserve University Library School, her successor for eight years being Miss Linda M. Clatworthy. It was during this period, in 1911, that Andrew Carnegie made a gift of $50,000 for the establishment of the East and West Carnegie branch libraries. In September, 1913, Miss Doren was called again to the librarianship to rebuild the book collection from the remnant left by the flood of March 25, 1913, and to reestablish the personnel organization and a new chain of branch libraries. During the last decade the library facilities have been increased over '500 per cent. During the World war period the library supplied a special service to the Wright and McCook fields at Dayton, and from 1917 to 1920 Miss Doren served on the American Library Association War Service Committee, and also upon its executive board. In addition to her duties as head instructor of the Library School of Western Reserve University during 1905-06 Miss Doren has accepted many special responsibilities in the library profession and has contributed to library publications. She spent part of the year 1899 visiting English and Continental libraries, and the following year visited many of the libraries of the western states, as far as San Francisco. She was lecturer of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library School in 1903-05. Her home is the old family residence, Morningside, at Dayton. DANIEL J. MAHONEY, who maintains his home and official headquarters in the City of Dayton, the fine metropolis and judicial center of Montgomery County, is a prominent figure in connection with newspaper enterprise in Ohio. He holds the important executive office of general manager of the General News League; the constituent organization of which comprises the following named newspapers: the Dayton News, Dayton, Ohio; the Canton News, Canton, Ohio; the Springfield dews, Springfield, Ohio; and the Miami-Metropolis News, in the State of Florida. All of these papers are owned and controlled by the organization of which Hon. James E. Cox, former governor of Ohio, is the executive head. Mr. Mahoney was born at Springfield, the capital city of Illinois, on the 13th of. October, 1889, and is a son of William and Catherine (Walsh) Mahoney, his father, now retired, having formerly been engaged in the grocery business and also the real estate business. In the public schools of his native city Mr. Mahoney continued his studies until his graduation from high school in 1905, and thereafter he was for one year a student in the University of Illinois His ambition to prepare himself for engineering work led him to give much time to study and investigation along this line during a period which he devoted largely to travel. From Illinois he made his way to Kansas City, thence to the Pacific Coast, and finally he visited. Honolulu and various parts of the Orient. He passed four years on the Pacific *Coast of Mexico, where he was identified with surveying work for the Southern Pacific Railroad, he having made his departure from Mexico at the outbreak of the revolution in that country. In 1912 he engaged in the automobile business in the City of Denver, Colorado, in which line of enterprise he there continued until the nation became involved in the World war, when he promptly subordinated all personal interests to respond to the call of patriotism. In 1917 he entered the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas, later being transferred to Camp Funston, that state. As a lieutenant in the Three Hundred Fifty-fourth United States Infantry he entered upon active service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He took part in the now historic St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse drives or campaigns, and after having been eleven months in overseas service he returned home, where he was honorably discharged, with the rank of captain. He is now a captain in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army. After the close of his service as a soldier in the World war Mr. Mahoney established his residence at Dayton, Ohio, where he became manager of the foreign advertising department of the Dayton Daily News. Eighteen months later he was advanced to the position of general manager of this paper, and in this capacity he continued his effective service until his promotion to his present executive office, that of general manager of the General News League. HISTORY OF OHIO - 47 Within the year 1923 the plant of the Dayton Daily News was completely remodeled, at an expenditure of more than $1,000,000, and it is now one of the model newspaper plants of the United States. The attractive offices of the News have marble walls and floors, new high-speed elevators have been installed in the building, and the modern Unitype presses of the establishment have a capacity for the output of 120,000 papers hourly. The pressroom is conceded to be the finest in the United States, with a ceiling twenty-three feet in height, with the most modern type of conveyors to transport forms to the presses; Cutler-Hammer conveyor to carry the papers from the presses to the mailing room; new stereotyping plant, with a capacity of six plates a minute; and with all other facilities and accessories that contribute to making this one of the best, if not the best, newspaper plants in the Union. It is in the building of the Dayton News that Mr. Mahoney maintains his executive headquarters. Mr. Mahoney is a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party, is a communicant of the Catholic Church, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and at Dayton he holds membership in the Bicycle Club, the City Club, the Rotary Club and the Country Club. He is a member also of the Miami Hunt and Polo Club, the Miami Valley Golf Club, and the Buzz Fuzz Club. On the 26th of January, 1918, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mahoney and Miss Helen Harding Cox, only daughter of Hon. James E. Cox, former governor of Ohio and democratic candidate for president of the United States in the campaign of 1920. The death of Mrs. Mahoney, a talented and gracious young gentlewoman who was loved by all who came within the sphere of her influence, occurred on the 16th of May, 1921. WILLIAM HENRY McMASTER, president of Mount Union College at Alliance, was born in Centerville, Ohio, September 17, 1875, son of Dr. James Nelson and Susan Elizabeth (Neff) McMaster. He took his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Mount Union College in 1899, graduated Bachelor of Divinity from the Drew Theological Seminary in 1902, was a student in the United Free Church College at Glasgow, Scotland for a year, and in 1905 received the Master of Arts degree from the New York University. Ohio Wesleyan University, in recognition of his services through Methodism and the cause of education, gave him the Doctor of Divinity degree in 1911. He was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1889, and held pastorates in New York City and Brooklyn for ten years. In 1909 he accepted the post of president of Mount Union College. He is vice president of the Ohio Council of Churches and was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1920 and 1924. He married Isabella Mills of Cleveland May 8, 1907. ELMER BURRITT BRYAN, president of the Ohio University at Athens, has a long and distinguished record as an educator to his credit. He is a native of Ohio, born at Van Wert, April 23, 1865, son of Daniel and Mary Elizabeth (Beeler) Bryan. He graduated from the Indiana State Normal School in 1889, from the Indiana University in 1893, and subsequently pursued post-graduate studies at the Harvard and Clark universities. From the age of seventeen, and for a period of ten years, while getting his higher education, he taught in common and high schools in Indiana. He was principal of the Kokomo High School, teacher in the Manual Training High School at Indianapolis, and in 1896-97 professor of social and educational science in Butler College at Indianapolis. He was a member of the faculty of the Indiana University from 1897 to 1901, and from 1901 to 1903 was principal of the Insular Normal School, and from January 1, to August 13, 1903, general superintendent of education in the Philippine Islands. On returning to the United States, he resumed his work at Indiana University, and from 1905 to 1909 was president of Franklin College in Indiana, and from 1909 to 1921 was president of Colgate University. In 1921, he took the chair of president of the Indiana University. He is a member of the national education association, and among many contributions to educational literature, is author of two books, " The Basis of Practical Teaching" and "Fundamental Facts for the Teacher." He married Margaret L. Scott of Kokomo, Indiana, June 28, 1889. ISRAEL MOORE FOSTER, congressman from the Tenth Ohio District, was born at Athens, Ohio, January 12, 1873, son of Franklin E and Mary (Rice) Foster. He is a graduate of Ohio University with the class of 1895, studied law in Harvard University, and took his law degree from the Ohio State University law school at Columbus in 1898. He began practice at Athens the same year. He served as secretary of the Republican State Central Committee in 1912, was prosecuting attorney of Athens County three terms, from 1902 to 1910, and in 1918 was elected to represent the Tenth Ohio District in the Sixty-sixth Congress. He was reelected for the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses. He was trustee fifteen years of the Ohio University, and is local chairman of the Military Training Camps Association. He married at Athens, October 26, 1898, Francis Bayard Whitman. JOHN A. FEICK. With a reputation far exceeding local boundaries, John A. Feick, of Sandusky, is one of the most representative of the contractors and builders of Erie County, and a citizen of high standing. He was born at Sandusky, January 28, 1862, a son of Adam and Johanna (Fulton) Feick, natives of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and Pennsylvania, respectively. In 1858 the father joined a brother at Sandusky, and became a carpenter and builder of this city, although he had learned the trade of wagonmaking in his native land. His family was an important one, as his father, John F. Feick, served as a burgomaster. Adam Feick died at Sandusky in 1899, and his widow, who survived him ten years, passed away in 1909. John A. Feick attended a German Lutheran school, and for two years was a student of the public schools of Sandusky. Brought up in the carpentering and contracting business, he has continued in it, and has been connected with some very extensive building operations. For some years he was in partnership with an uncle, George Feick, and they had the contract for building the State Capitol of Wyoming, also a large sugar plant and several irrigation projects in Wyoming. They were the contractors who built Sugar City, Colorado, and the Law Building of Ohio State University. They also built three of the large buildings of Oberlin College, as well as other important construction work throughout this and adjoining states. From 1901 to 1914 Mr. Feick continued in business alone, but in the latter year took his son, John Charles, into a full partnership with him. He is a director of the Third National Bank, president of the Lake City Mortgage Company, vice president of the Brown Clutch Company, president of the Sandusky Development Company, and is connected with numerous other local enterprises. On November 17, 1884, Mr. Feick married Elizabeth Zipfel, of Sandusky, a daughter of Constantine and Mary (Daniel) Zipfel, natives of Baden, Ger- 48 - HISTORY OF OHIO many, and Sandusky, Ohio, respectively. One son, John Charles, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Feick. He married Meyletta Tanbert, of Sandusky, and they have three children: Mary, John and Edward. The son resides with his parents. Mr. Feick belongs to the Episcopal Church. Active as a republican, he served as a member of the city council, has been chairman of the county central committee of his party, and in 1916 was a delegate from the thirteenth district to the National Convention. He is a thirty-second degree and Shriner Mason, and also belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose, the Sandusky Auto Club, the Plum Creek Country Club, and was president and is now a director of the Sunyendeand Club, and president of the Builders and Traders Exchange. During all of his extensive building operations Mr. Feick has continued to live up to the high standard raised by his father, and enjoys today a reputation for efficiency and reliability second to none in his line in the state. ROSCOE CONKLING MCCULLOCH, of Canton, was born at Millersburg, in Holmes County, November 27, 1880, son of John and Mathilde (Harpster) McCulloch. He was educated in public schools, in Wooster University, studied law at Ohio State and Western Reserve universities, and was admitted to the bar in 1903. Since that year he has practiced at Canton, and he was first assistant prosecuting attorney of Stark County three years, and in 1912 was a candidate for Congress in the old Eighteenth Ohio District. In 1914 he was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress to represent the Sixteenth Ohio District, and served three terms, until 1921. In 1920 he was candidate for the republican nomination for governor. He married Helen Herbruck of Canton. MYRON T. HERRICK, whose many public services have made him one of Ohio 's most distinguished citizens, was born at Huntington, Ohio, October 9, 1854, son of Timothy R. and Mary L. Herrick. He was educated in Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and has received honorary degrees from four or five of the large American universities, while in 1921 the University of Nancy, France, made him Doctor Honoris Causa. He was admitted to the bar in 1878, and engaged in practice at Cleveland. His ability soon led him into finance, and from 1886 to 1894 he was secretary and treasurer and in later years was president and chairman of the Board of the Society for Savings at Cleveland. He was also chairman of the Board of the Union Carbide and Carbon Company, a director of the New York Life-Insurance Company, and had many other business associations. During the '90s, he was a member of the Cleveland City Council. He was six times a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was presidential elector at large from Ohio in 1892 and member of the Republican National Committee. From February 15, 1912 to December 1914, he was American Ambassador to France, and in April, 1921, returned again to • Paris as ambassador. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from France and he organized the American Relief Clearing House in Paris and in the United States, with which he was associated during the war. His wife, whose maiden name was Carolyn M. B. Parmely of Dayton, died as result of war work, September 15, 1918. Ambassador Herrick established the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly, France, was chairman of the War Camp Community Service, chairman of the Mayor's War Relief Committee of Cleveland. He was the first president of the Savings Bank Section of the American Bankers Association, and has also been president of that association. PETER BOYD HOLLY. The American pioneer of the Holly family in Butler County was Peter Holly, who emigrated to America from Germany in 1832, and settled on a farm on Deeks Creek in Leman Township, Butler County. That land after more than ninety years of possession is still in the Holly family. PETER BOYD HOLLY The outline of the Holly family, beginning with Peter Holly (1), the immigrant, is as follows: 1. Peter Holly, b. Sept. 25, 1791; m. Feb. 15, 1815, to Kathrine Holly; d. June 14, 1854.      1-1. Marie, b. July 5, 1816; m. July 5, 1836, to Jacob Iutzi; d. Mar. 4, 1885.           1-2. Kathrine, b. May 20, 1837; d. May 27, 1850.           2-2. George W., b. June 13, 1839; m. Dec. 11, 1888, to Kathrine Bender.                1-3. Marie K., b. Jan. 1, 1889.           3-2. Elise, b. Sept. 13, 1841; d. Sept. 16, 1842.           4-2. Louise, b. Aug. 3, 1843; d. Sept. 29, 1854.           5-2. Emelie C., b. Sept. 10, 1846; m. Nov. 2, 1869, to Jos. K. Augspurger; d. July 11,                  1885.                  1-3. Florence E., b. Sept. 25, 1871.                  2-3. Ernest G., b. Feb. 6, 1875.                  3-3. Otto Iutzi, b. Jan. 9, 1878.                  4-3. Eugene R., b. July 25, 1880.                  5-3. J. Warren, b. July 4, 1883.                  6-3. Victor Holly, b. June 11, 1885.           6-2. John H., b. May 19, 1849; d. June 16, 1850.           7-2. Ottilia (twin), b. June 13, 1851; d. Aug. 1, 1851.           8-2. Otto J., b. June 13, 1851 (twin to Ottilia).           9-2. Augusta Marie, b. May 20, 1853; d. Feb. 4, 1874.      2-1. A son, b. 1818; d. in infancy.      3-1. Christian, b. Feb. 11, 1820; m. Oct. 1, 1846, to Helene Iutzi; d. Jan. 8, 1882.           1-2. John R., b. Dec. 6, 1847; In. Oct. 15, 1889, to Mattie McManamy.                1-3. Helene K., b. Aug. 26, 1890.           2-2. Elise, b. Sept. 30, 1849.           3-2. Kathrine, b. Feb. 1, 1851.           4-2. Peter B., b. Sept. 8, 1853.           5-2. Jacobine M., b. Oct. 9, 1856.           6-2. Wilhelmine E., b. Dec. 10, 1861; m. Oct. 24, 1889, to John M. Rapp.                1-3. John Holly, b. July 13, 1892.                2-3. Peter George, b. Sept. 17, 1893.           7-2. Christian I., b. Jan. 17, 1864; d. Mar. 3, 1872.      4-1. Johannes, b. June 25, 1822; d. Mar. 24, 1838. (Twin brother of Jacobine Augspurger.)      5-1. Jacobine, b. June 25, 1822; m. Nov. 10, 1842, to John Augspurger.           1-2. Kathrine, b. Dec. 1, 1843; m. Sept. 9, 1862, to Joseph Schantz; d. Feb. 9, 1883.                1-3. Frank, b. Nov. 12, 1863; m. Nov. 27, 1892, to Nora McKean.                2-3. Louise M., b. Oct. 4, 1865.                3-3. Emelie, b. Nov. 13, 1867; m. June 8, 1892, to Rudolph F. Scudder.                     1-4. Helene M., b. Nov. 13, 1893.                4-3. Reuben J., b. Nov. 21, 1870.                5-3. Christian W., b. Jan. 21, 1873.                6-3. Mary A., b. Oct. 15, 1874.                7-3. Hermann, b. Oct. 5, 1876.                8-3. Orin Edwin, b. Jan. 19, 1881.           2-2. Helene, b. Sept. 5, 1846; d. Sept. 12, 1851.           3-2. Emelie, b. Feb. 8, 1849; m. Nov. 12, 1867, to John Schrock.                1-3. Christian H., b. Feb. 25, 1868.                2-3. Ottilia C., b. Oct. 13, 1869; m. June 1, 1893, to Walter Augspurger.                     1-4. Stanley Ray, b. May 19, 1894.                3-3. Maria Louise, b. April 22, 1871; d. Aug. 2, 1874.                4-3. Albert F., b. July 25, 1873; d. Mar. 30, 1884.                5-3. Otto Julius, b. July 17, 1875; d. Aug. 2, 1876.                6-3. Alvini E., b. Mar. 1, 1879 (twin of Arthur).                7-3. Arthur E. (twin), b. Mar. 1, 1879.                8-3. Oscar C., b. Oct. 13, 1880.                9-3. John W., b. Aug. 15, 1882.           4-2. Frederich H., b. Mar. 12, 1853; m. Oct. 11, 1883, to Lucy Banner.           5-2. Hermann H., b. Jan. 1, 1856; in. Sept. 21, 1880, to Anna M. Beal.                1-3. Owen B., b. Sept. 25, 1881.                2-3. Eula M., b. Jan. 18, 1884.                3-3. Nellie F., b. Aug. 13, 1886.           6-2. Louise M., b. Jan. 19, 1859; m. Sept. 30, 1883, to John J. Kumel.                1-3. Girl, b. & d. Dec. 11, 1884. HISTORY OF OHIO - 49                2-3. Ella E., b. Sept. 27, 1886; d. Nov. 28, 1888.                3-3. Edgar, b. Sept. 4, 1889.                4-3. Edna P., b. June 11, 1892.           6-1. Kathrine, b. Mar. 11, 1824; m. Oct. 11, 1853, to Daniel Bender.                1-2. Girl, b. & d. 1854.                2-2. George W., b. Sept. 4, 1855.                3-2. Elisa M., b. Jan. 9, 1858; m. Aug. 14, 1889, to Emil Rathman.                     1-3. Alma H., p. July 7, 1890.                     2-3. Ernest D., b. Mar. 10, 1894.           7-1. Elisabeth, b. Mar. 10, 1825; m. Mar. 20, 1865, to Samuel Augspurger.                1-2. Edward H., b. June 23, 1856; m. April 29, 1885, to Adalaide Flenner.                     1-3. Helen Marie, b. Aug. 22, 1887.                2-2. Ottilia C., b. Dec. 6, 1858; m. Aug. 3, 1886, to Prof. Elias Campton.                     1-3. Carl T. b. Sept. 14, 1887.                     2-3. Mary E., b. April 26, 1889.                     3-3. Wilson M., b. Oct. 15, 1890.                     4-3. Arthur Holly, b. Sept. 10, 1892.                3-2. Frederich H., b. Dec. 13, 1860; m. Mar. 13, 1886, to Louise Williams.                     1-3. Mabel, b. Aug. 19, 1887.                     2-3. Viola, b. Nov. —, 1888.                4-2. Marie, b. Feb. 21, 1863; d. July 29, 1863.                5-2. Albert H., b. April 30, 1864; m. Oct. 21, 1886, to Adalaide Herr.                     1-3. Albert, b. —; d.                6-2. William B., b. April 7, 1867; m. Mar. 30, 1892, to Lizzie A. Rupp.                     1-3. Ethel, b, Feb. 19, 1893.                7-2. Otto Iutzi, b. Jan. 15, 1869; m. Oct. 6, 1892, to Daisey Hughes.                     1-3. Russell, b. Mar. 15, 1893.                     2-3. Earl, b. July 1, 1894. Peter Boyd Holly, son of Christian and Helene (Iutzi) Holly, was born in a log cabin September 8, 1853, in Liberty Township, Butler County, and in infancy moved to the old home place on Deeds Creek. For the last thirty-five years he has been one of the able members of the Hamilton bar. His activities have brought him many useful and honorable connections with the business, professional and civic affairs in his home county. As a young man to satisfy his ambition for an education he supplied the means largely through teaching. For five years he taught school in the intervals of attending school himself. For one year he was a student in the Mennonite College at Wadsworth, Ohio, and he subsequently graduated in the teachers, business, scientific and classical departments of the National Normal University at Lebanon Ohio. He taught several terms of school while at Lebanon, and for a time was a professor of German in that institution. After completing his university course he returned home and engaged in farming for five years. In the fall of 1885 he began concentrating all his energies upon the study of law. Many nights he rode ten miles to Lebanon to attend classes, and though doing in a measure double work, he was able to complete with credit the law course of two years in a year ,s time and in 1886 received the law degree from the National Normal University. He was admitted to practice after passing examination before the local board and Supreme Court of Ohio, and on June 10, 1887, he opened an office at Hamilton. He has handled a large volume of work both in office and court practice. In addition to some manufacturing interests he still supervises the old homestead of 275 acres of land, besides much city property and several other farms in the county. Mr. Holly is a liberal democrat in polities, and has held all the important chairs in Lone Star (now Hamilton) Lodge No. 39, Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Kathryn Auraden, of Hamilton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wirtz) Auraden. Mrs. Holly was educated in the Hamilton schools, and is an active member of the Women,s City Club and an artist of marked ability. BURCH DUDLEY EVANS ARTHUR. Modern development and sanitary laws, as well as popular demand, have so improved the business of undertaking as to raise it to the dignity of a profession, and attracted to it some of the most dependable men of their times. One of them who is rendering a most satisfactory and dignified service is Burch Dudley Evans Arthur of the Arthur Funeral Home of Wilmington. His equipment is of the most modern, and he was 0.3 first undertaker of Wilmington to adopt the full motor service including limousine ambulance service. The funeral home, the only one in the city, is located at Locust and Lincoln streets. Here a full line of funeral supplies is carried, and Mr. Arthur gives his personal attention to the direction of all funerals. A chapel is maintained in connection with the Home. Burch D. E. Arthur comes of English and Welsh stock originally, although the English Arthurs and the Welsh Evans were established in this country many years ago, and later migrated from Virginia to Ohio, arriving in the latter not long after its admission to the Union as a state. Christopher Arthur, who was the immigrant into Ohio, located at Hillsboro, in Highland County. His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Rhoades. Their youngest born of twelve children, Dudley Christopher Arthur, was married October 17, 1877, to Mianah Evans, who belonged to another pioneer family of Hillsboro. She was a daughter of G. J. Evans. The following children were born to Dudley Christopher Arthur and his wife: Burch D. E., who is the eldest; one child, who died in infancy; and Nannie M., who is the wife of Charles J. Smith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 9, 1906 Burch D. E. Arthur was married to Edith Leodbetter, one of five children born to Charles B. and Nettie B. Loedbetter of Sabina, Clinton County. Her brothers and sister are: Inez, Raymond and Frank, who are living and Roy, who is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur have one daughter, Mildred Elizabeth. In 1912 Mr. Arthur established his present business at Wilmington, since which time he has built it up to its present proportions through fair dealing and unquestioned ability. He is a member of the National Funeral Directors, Association, and also of the Ohio Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association, and, through attending all of the meetings of these organizations, keeps in close touch with every advance in his profession. He holds membership in the Masonic Fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Wilmington. His vote is always cast for republican candidates although he does not aspire to political office. His family belongs to the Wilmington Presbyterian Church. Mr. Arthur is not the only member of his family who has left High-. land County for other portions of Ohio and adjoining states or the representatives of it have traveled extensively, and are to be found today in different communities, all of them displaying the same excellent traits of character which are distinctive assets to them and the sections in which they have cast their lot, but none of them stand any higher in public confidence than does Burch D. E. Arthur. CHRISTIAN VON SCHEELE, M. D. Since 1903 Doeton von Scheele has practiced medicine and surgery at Jacksonville in Athens County. He is one of the accomplished men in his profession, has all the thoroughness of his race and has accepted unusual opportunities for training and experience. Doctor von Scheele was born in German. Poland, April 1, 1862, one of the three sons and three daughters of Franz and Elise (Wolf) von Scheele. His father served as a page in the court of Emperor William .I of Germany, was educated for the military