1200 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO In Henry County Doctor Bloomfield married Miss Susan McEwen, who was reared in Henry County. They have three children : Carrie L. is the wife of Charles Yeager, a merchant tailor at Wauseon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Yeager have twin sons, Robert B. and Clarence H. Yeager, both of whom graduated from the Wauseon High School, were for one year in the Ohio State University at Columbus and are now students in the Chicago Dental College. Doctor Bloomfield takes much pride in the accomplishments of these young grandsons. Both are finished cornetists and they play with Professor Brooks band on the Chautauqua circuit. Doctor Bloomfield and wife have two other children : William, who died in infancy, and Alice A., who died after her marriage to G. A. Conklin of Michigan. She is survived by a son, Merritt B. Conklin, who now lives with his father and is a student in the public schools. Mrs. Bloomfield and her daughter are members of the Presbyterian Church. HON. PEARL C. PRENTISS. A straight forward vigorous public leader, an able and successful lawyer, Pearl C. Prentiss is one of the men of Henry County who are most influential in shaping the present political and civic life of that section. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 following a special course in law at Cincinnati. He began practice at Napoleon, but in the spring of 1899 moved to Bowling Green, where he was associated with John W. Canary until the death of the latter in 1904. Then for two years he continued in practice at Bowling Green, afterwards he returned to Napoleon and has since enjoyed much favor and patronage as a general practitioner. Mr. Prentiss was the central figure in a notable incident in Ohio politics a short time ago. In 1914 he was elected to the office of Judge of the Common Pleas Court, and had a substantial majority for that office. A contest was made by the opposing political machine which invoked the provisions of the Ohio Corrupt Practice Act in order to oust him from the position to which he had been duly elected. In the course of his campaign Mr. Prentiss had made some qualified remarks regarding the constitutionality of the salary paid the local Common Pleas judges by the county, and in the contest these remarks were construed in such a manner that he was disqualified for office, although he was given credit for making a very strong case in behalf of his contention and was completely exonerated from any odium that might naturally attach to his disqualification under the law. Not discouraged by this rebuff Mr. Prentiss is a prospective candidate for the next judicial election, and his high personal standing, his recognized attainments in the law, make him a probable choice. A native of Henry County, Mr. Prentiss was born in 1873 and grew up on a farm and acquired his early education in the local schools. His father Jacob Prentiss was born just across the river from Damascus in Henry County, March 3, 1834, and is still gracefully bearing the weight of his more than fourscore years. He is still living near the scene of his birth, and is the oldest living native son of Henry County and with one exception has lived in the county longer than anyone else. His business has been that of farmer. He is descended from the old English Prentiss family that located in Massachusetts in Colonial times, and during the period before or about the Revolutionary war some members of the family were captured and sent to Canada. Grandfather Jacob Prentiss Sr., lived in Canada for a number of years, and came from there as a pioneer to the vicinity of Damascus in Henry County. Some years later he went back to Canada to settle up some property interests and died while there. At that time his son Jacob Jr. was a small child, and the latter's mother died not many years later so that he was left entirely alone and dependent upon his own resources. Jacob Prentiss was married in Henry County to Miss Melissa Joy, daughter of Jonathan and Martha Joy. The father was of Holland Dutch ancestry, and came from Vermont in the early days to Henry County, making settlement at first near Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, and it was there that his daughter Melissa Joy Was born July 30, 1845. Then in 1853 the Joy family removed to Henry County, and Melissa's parents spent the rest of their days in Damascus Township. She was married to Jacob Prentiss March 20, 1861, and they soon after located on a nice farm in Harrison Township on the line between Harrison and Damascus townships. On that old homestead Mrs. Melissa Prentiss died May 25, 1911. Jacob Prentiss is an ardent republican and while active in behalf of his party has held no office. He made a gallant record as a soldier during the Civil war, serving for three years HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1201 n the ranks in Company A of the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in Sherman's army, was wounded in the leg in the battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, was also wounded in the shoulder at Kenesaw Mountain, and in the battle at Decatur witnessed the fall of the gallant General McPherson, who was shot and killed. He was in many other engagements in the great campaign from Vicksburg to the fall of Atlanta. He afterwards became one of the organizers the Austin P. Randall Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Harrison Township, and subsequently transferred to the post at Napoleon. He and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of a family of eleven, seven sons and four daughters, all of whom grew up, ten of whom married and nine of whom are still living, Pearl C. and his brother Frederick D. were the only ones to adopt the legal profession. One of the children, Clyde, was accidentally killed by electric shock at the age of twenty-four. The oldest daughter and child, Clara, died after her 'marriage to Arthur Russell, leaving two children. Pearl C. Prentiss has never married. He is well known in fraternal and social circles, being affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose, is past captain of the Sons of Veterans, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and still retains membership in the Order of Railway Telegraphers. During his early career he worked as an operator and train dispatcher, being located for six years at Springfield, Illinois. It was by that work he secured the funds necessary to complete his education. Mr. Prentiss is a loyal republican, but he practices his belief that politics should not enter into the selection of judicial officers. For some time he was a member of the State Executive Committee of the Republican party and has attended many local and state conventions. At the state convention of 1912 he identified himself with the Insurgents, and later strongly opposed and criticised the action of the Chicago contingent and supported the progressive movement of that year. HON. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL. A former member of Congress and for more than thirty years a successful attorney at Napoleon, his associates recognize William W. Campbell as the peer of any intellect in the present bar of Northwest Ohio. His career has brought him many honors, he has served usefully and well his community and state, and is distinguished not only by exceptional ability in his profession, but by an unusual breadth of interests. He is a man of liberal education, a thinker and speaker who ranges with equal facility over many fields of knowledge, and has justly earned a position among the intellectual and professional leaders of the state. For many years Mr. Campbell has been deeply interested in the history of the Maumee Valley and Northwest Ohio, and his literary avocations have brought him no little recognition. In the history prepared some years ago by Charles Elihu Slocum of Defiance, Mr. Campbell wrote a very creditable history of Henry County and its industries. He is of an old New England family of Scotch ancestry. His Scotch forebears went to New England during the colonial period, and many of its members served in the French and Indian wars and in the Revolution. One of his ancestors fell at Saratoga during the Burgoyne invasion, another died at Fort Edwards, and others were at the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Campbell is eligible to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution through four or five branches of the family. His earlier ancestors were sturdy New England farmers. His grandfather, Horace Campbell, was born in Connecticut and married Sallie Martin, who was from the original Mayflower stock in direct line, and her father though only fourteen years of age at the time was a minuteman at Bunker Hill and afterwards served in General Washington's army until the battle of Monmouth. He was captured at Long Island and was a prisoner on a British prison ship until he made his escape by jumping through a porthole at night and swimming ashore. Horace Campbell after his marriage located in the Town of Rochester, Vermont, and spent the rest of his days there. John W. Campbell, father of William W., was born in Vermont in 1823, was reared there, and married Philinda Hubbard. She belonged to the prominent Hubbard family of Connecticut and Vermont, and the Hubbards and Thatchers had been closely connected with the New England history from early colonial times. John W. Campbell and wife spent their lives in Vermont, where he was a respected and successful farmer. He also represented his town in the State Legislature a number of years. He died at a ripe old 1202 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO age, and his parents before him had both lived to be about ninety years of .age. The old Hubbard homestead in Vermont has been continuously occupied by members of the family from colonial times down to the present. The Campbells and their relatives were Presbyterians and Unitarians, and the male members first identified themselves with whig politics and afterwards became republicans. As a family they have always been noted for temperance, sobriety, thrift and industry, and these fundamental characteristics have been inherited in large measure by William W. Campbell of Napoleon. The latter was born in Rochester, Vermont, April 2, 1853, and received an education in the Vermont public schools, also attended Goddard Seminary, and in 1878 graduated from Tufts College. After his collegiate career he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Vermont in 1879. Not long afterward he moved to Ohio, and has now been in active practice at Napoleon for more than a generation. While he set out as a general practitioner, his ability has more and more brought to him an extensive corporation practice, and he has represented many of the railroads and other important business interests in Henry County. He has frequently appeared before the United States Court and has a practice by no means confined to his home county, appearing regularly as attorney in practically all the districts of the state. In 1912 Mr. Campbell served as a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and in many ways he helped to clarify and vitalize the organic laws of the state. From 1905 to 1907 he represented the Fifth Ohio District in Congress and was a member of several committees. He found his pleasantest work in Congress as a member of the committee on copyrights and patents and was one of the three members of the sub-committee which drafted the revised copyright law which is still on the statute books. While that law was under consideration a great' many distinguished authors, sculptors and other artists appeared at the committee hearings, and Mr. Campbell justly takes pride in the fact that he was able to revise .the federal regulations regarding copyrights both domestic and foreign to the best interests of all concerned. For two years he also served as prosecuting attorney of Henry County, and while a republican in a democratic community he consented to the use of his name as candidate for several different offices. He never failed to carry his town in any election in which he was a candidate. Mr. Campbell married for his first wife, Miss Florence Van Campen, who was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a daughter of Rev. Hiram Van Campen, a Universalist minister. Mrs. Campbell died at her home in Napoleon in middle life. She is survived by two sons : Harold and John W. Both sons graduated from the Napoleon High School and then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Harold became a lawyer and is now in practice in Calgary, Canada, while John W. is a telephone expert and engineer with the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, his headquarters being at Newark. Both sons are married, and Harold has a daughter named Zenobia, and John has a son named John W. III. In 1898 Mr. Campbell married Laura, only daughter of Dr. E. B. and Mary (McCann) Harrison. Doctor Harrison was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of Northwest Ohio. During the war he went out as regimental surgeon with the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to brigade surgeon under the gallant General Steedman with the rank of major. He served three years with distinction, and at the. battle of Pittsburg Landing was on constant duty for three days and three nights, never leaving his operating table. Mr. Campbell by his second marriage has one son, William Harrison. By a former marriage Mrs. Campbell has several children. Her daughter Dorothy is the wife of John W. Campbell, Mr. Campbell's son. The daughter Josephine is the wife of Samuel B. Pettingill, an attorney of South Bend, Indiana, a member of the firm of Hubbard & Pettingill. Another daughter is Mary, now a student in Columbia University at New York City. Mrs. Campbell's son Bancroft is now pursuing his studies at South Bend, Indiana. All the children were well educated. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are active members of the First Presbyterian Church and for many years he has conducted the men's class in the Sunday school. He is a Mason, having attained thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite and is a member of Toledo Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1203 Protective Order of Elks, and is an honorary member of the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics he is a republican. HARRY M. OVERMYER, secretary and treas- urer of the Napoleon Hardware Company, is one of the vigorous, alert, younger business men of Napoleon, and takes proper pride in the splendid commercial establishment in which he is one of the directing factors. The Napoleon Hardware Company was organized in December, 1899. It is capitalized at $20,000, and it is now located in a two-story building especially designed and equipped for the purpose at the corner of Clinton and Perry Streets. It has a frontage of fifty feet on Perry Street and extends back eighty feet in depth. The upper floor is used as a stock room for carriages and farm implements. Recently Mr. Overmyer directed the installation of a complete equipment of store furniture, including new cases and shelves, and in that feature as in others this is one of the most up-to-date hardware stores in Northwest Ohio. Besides general hardware and farm implements, the company carries a varied line for supplying the trade in and around Napoleon. They represent the Empire cream separators, the Prairie State incubators and carry a complete line of poultry foods. In the sporting department can be found every type of gun and fishing tackle which would please the most exacting sportsman. Another department, which is very popular and has proved very profitable, is the line of ten-cent goods adapted for home uses. The company also has a department of experts in tinsmithing, glazing and electrical wiring. The company carries a complete line and specializes in the Universal stoves and ranges. The active officers and stockholders of the corporation are : A. E. Overmyer, of Toledo, president ; H. D. Poock, vice president and general manager, and H. M. Overmyer, secretary and treasurer. H. M. Overmyer was born in Monroe County, Michigan, September 4, 1888, received his early education in the Toledo public schools and the Detroit Business' College and Detroit University, and started his commercial experience by working for two years in a general hardware store and later for a time was in the automobile business. In 1909 he came to Napoleon and has since been identified with the affairs of this company and also with the good citizenship of the city. His father, Albert E. Overmyer, is a prominent wholesale grocery merchant of Toledo, and was born at Lindsey, Ohio, where his father had settled in the early days. John G. Overmyer, grandfather of Albert E., came from Germany to New England, and afterwards became an early settler in Pennsylvania, where he spent the rest of his days. From Pennsylvania the family came out to Sandusky County, Ohio, and a large number of the family are still found in that locality. Albert E. Overmyer began general merchandising when nineteen years of age and has been in the grocery line in particular, and for twenty-three years has been in the wholesale business at Toledo. He is still active at the age of three score. Henry M. Overmyer was married at Petoskey, Michigan, to Miss Cora Belle Poock, who was born in Marion, Ohio, and finished her education both in that city and at Toledo. She possess considerable musical ability. Mr. and Mrs. Overmyer attend the First Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Lodge and Chapter of Masons at Napoleon and the Knight Templar Commandery at Defiance, and in politics is independent. JACOB B. AUGENSTEIN is president of the Commercial State Bank of Napoleon, and for fully half a century has taken a prominent part in business and manufacturing affairs in that section of Northwest Ohio. A man of extensive banking experience, when the Commercial State Bank was organized and incorporated in February, 1913, he became a director, and he has seen it grow and flourish to a remarkable degree considering its age. Mr. Meekison was the bank's first president, and at his death Mr. Augenstein succeeded to the presidency. The bank has a capital of $50,000, and in 1916 the aggregate resources totaled over seven hundred thousand dollars. Already there is a surplus of about five thousand dollars and the bank already has the largest total of savings deposits indicated by any banking institution in Henry County. The bank pays four per cent on savings deposits. The principal officers are : Jacob B. Augenstein, president ; Dr. A. E. H. Maerker, vice president ; M. Reiser, cashier ; and other directors are H. F. Pohlman, A. J. Ulrich, James Burke, George P. Lutz, Grant L. Ulrich, H. D. Schulty, and J. H. Tanner. The assistant cashier is George McKee. Mr. Augenstein was formerly president of 1204 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO the First National Bank of Napoleon, an office to which he was elected in 1901 and in which he served three years. He was a director of that bank from its inception until he sold his interest, and it was due to him that the First National was located at the prominent corner of Perry and Washington streets. The Commercial State Bank was opened for business in August, 1913, and occupies an eligible location on Perry Street, and has a finely equipped and appointed banking room. The bank has membership in the state and national banking associations. Mr. Augenstein has been a resident of Napoleon since April, 1864. His father Dr. Jacob Augenstein, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1818, and when eight years of age was brought by his parents on a sailing vessel which after eight weeks landed them in America, and the family became early settlers in Crawford County, Ohio, where Dr. Jacob grew to manhood and studied medicine under Dr. Boehler, an early physician of Bucyrus. Dr. Jacob subsequently married the daughter of his preceptor, Mary Boehler. While living at Bucyrus, Dr. Augenstein acquired interest in the woolen mill, and in 1863 he and associates came to Napoleon and built a new mill. In the following year the son Jacob B. Augenstein followed his father and began working in mills, and in 1865 all the family moved to Napoleon. Dr. Augenstein died at Napoleon in 1902 at the age of eighty-four and his wife passed away in 1900 aged seventy-five. She was a member of the Catholic Church. In politics he was a republican, and was widely known and respected for his ability and enterprise both in business affairs and as a physician. Jacob B. Augenstein, who acquired his early education in Crawford County, Ohio, continued an employe of the woolen mills at Napoleon for several years, and then embarked in the dry goods business. He was in that for three years, and then in 1872 became a member of the Woolen Mills Company, and gave all his time to the management of that enterprise until 1887. Then in partnership with the late J. Kofer he was in the grain and elevator business until 1902, when Mr. Augenstein sold out and retired from active affairs. Although he retired, he continued as president of the First National Bank for a couple of years and later was induced to accept his present position as president of the Commercial State Bank. Jacob B. Augenstein was born in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, in 1847. He attended the public schools of that city when they were under the principalship of John Hopley, a noted educator. After coming to Napoleon Mr. Augenstein married Carrie M. Hubbard. Her father was William Hubbard, prominent over Northwest Ohio as a newspaper man, having conducted newspapers both at Bucyrus and Napoleon, and for a number of years was publisher and editor of the Henry County Northwest. He died in 1873, and his widow passed away at Bellefontaine, Ohio. Her maiden name was Ellen McCracken. Mrs. Augenstein died a few years after her marriage, and both her children died in infancy. For his second wife Mr. Augenstein was married in Napoleon to Sarah C. Showman, who was born in Hancock County, Ohio, but was reared and received her education in Henry County. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Showman moved to Henry County when she was three years of age. They were farming people and her father died about twenty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Augenstein are the parents of six children, Frank, Lillian, Vardie, Edmund S., Carrie and S. Melvin. The son Frank as well as the other children was given excellent educational advantages, finishing in the Napoleon High School and by his marriage to Emma Flogans has children named Hazel, who is married ; Jay, Elizabeth, Charles and Lillian. The daughter Lillian is the wife of George P. Lutz, who is a director in the Commercial State Bank, and they have a son named George Jacob. The daughter Vardie is the wife of Harry Ludwig, and has two daughters, Martha and Margaret. The daughter Carrie is still at home, while the youngest, Melvin, is a student in the high school. The family are all active members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Augenstein is president of the board of trustees. He has been a member of the Knight Templars Commandery in Masonry since 1876. His vigorous enterprise has entered into many departments of Napoleon's life, and he is one of the leading citizens of Northwest Ohio. EUGENE B. HARRISON, M. D. A life of kindly, capable service to the community and to hundreds of individuals in Napoleon and Henry counties came to a close on the 15th of April, 1906, with the death of Dr. Eugene B. Harrison at his home in Napoleon. The best work of the physician does not flaunt HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1205 itself before the public gaze but is wrought in the hearts of his fellowmen. The spirit of tender and knowing love for his fellowmen was ever a trait of the late Doctor Harrison, and he left his mark on that part of Ohio and his long and faithful service and the influence which he exerted over men and families deserve a more than casual tribute in this history. He was born in Dover, England, in 1830, of pure English ancestry. His parents were Dr. John and Sarah (Goodwin) Harriscr, who were also born in that section of England. Grandfather Harrison was a minister of the Episcopal Church, and spent all his life in England. Dr. John Harrison in 1839 set out with his family for America, spending six weeks on a sailing vessel to New York City. For several years he remained in New York City and built up a trade as a druggist and also followed his practice. He then moved to the vicinity of Newark, Ohio, where he spent the rest of his days. During a wind storm he was struck by a limb blown off a tree, and died from the injuries when past sixty years of age, being survived only a few years by his widow. Dr. Eugene B. Harrison received his first educational advantages in England, and chose medicine as his career and made some progress in study toward that end before his father died. He was twenty years of age at the time of his father's death, and he subsequently studied medicine with his father-in-law, Dr. D. M. McCann, also pursuing a course at the Cincinnati Medical College and later in 1855 graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. For a short time he was associated with Dr. A. C. McCann, at Rochester, Coshocton County, Ohio,- but then moved to Napoleon and had become well established in his profession with Dr. D. M. McCann when the war broke out. At the beginning of the Rebellion he entered service as a surgeon in the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in the armies under Grant at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Fort Donelson, and in the capacity of surgeon rendered a splendid service to the wounded in those tremendous battles. At Shiloh he pushed ahead of the lines occupied by his regiment in order to assist in the care of the wounded. In June, 1864, he was honorably discharged on account of disability. By exposure and hardships, and by constant Vol. II-35 work he was reduced from a strong portly man to one who weighed 125 pounds. After the war he built up a very large and extensive practice in Napoleon, and was well known in medical circles throughout Northwest Ohio. He was a member of the Army of the Tennessee and belonged to the County, State and National Medical associations. He is especially remembered because of the fact he gave his services to rich and poor alike, without any distinction on account of remuneration. He was a member of the Lodge of Masons at Napoleon and belonged to the Christian Church. At Napoleon November 27, 1859, Mr. Harrison married Miss Mary Elizabeth McCann. Mrs. Harrison, who is still living at the old home in Napoleon was born at Martinsburg, Ohio, April 5, 1843, a daughter of Dr. David M. and Amy (Bell) McCann. Dr. D. M. McCann was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, where his parents, Archibald McCann and wife, had settled on coming from Ireland. Archibald McCann was a teacher in Ireland, and during the Robert Emmet rebellion was compelled to leave the country and come to the United States. Reaching Washington, Pennsylvania, he established a coverlet factory, and that factory is noteworthy because in its loft the noted Alexander Campbell preached one of his first sermons in America. Archibald McCann and wife had a large family of sons, who grew up on a farm in Central Ohio, in Muskingum County, and many of them became well known as educators, two of them as lawyers and two as physicians. Dr. David M. McCann was married in Licking County, Ohio, October 13, 1839, to Miss Amy Bell, and subsequently moved to Martinsburg, Ohio, where he built up an extensive practice, and on October 25, 1852, moved to Napoleon, accompanied by his wife and three children. Here he continued his beneficent work as a physician and soon had more practice then he could attend to. His devotion to his profession no doubt shortened his life, and he died April 8, 1860, at the age of forty-six. Doctor McCann was a well known citizen, a democrat, a member of the Disciples Church and one of its strongest adherents in the early days, his own home being constantly at the disposal of the ministers of that church. Doctor McCann's wife died at Napoleon September 29, 1894, after a residence in that city of forty-two years. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Doctor Harrison. 1206 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Of the children born to Doctor and Mrs. Harrison the oldest, Nellie A., died in infancy while the Civil war was in progress. Laura is the wife of Hon. W. W. Campbell, one of the distinguished citizens of Henry County. Charles M. graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan with the class of 1892, and has since been a prominent physician and surgeon, particularly well known in surgery at Napoleon. By his marriage to Amelia Groll of Napoleon he has two children, Eugenia and John. Frank Mathews Harrison, graduated from Harvard University and from Jefferson College and later took a graduate course in London, has also enjoyed a long and enviable career as a physician in Henry County ; he married Emily Middleton of London, England, where she was reared and educated, and they have one child, Rose Mary. Dr. Arthur McCann Harrison, the youngest child, gained his education in the University of Michigan and graduated from Jefferson Medical College and became a well known physician at Bowling Green, Ohio. He is a surgeon in the Second Ohio National Guard, with the rank of captain, and is now with his regiment at El Paso, Texas, guarding the border. He married Herma J. Cuff of Napoleon, and has two children, Arthur, Jr., and Mary J. Mrs. Harrison is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and her children belong to that denomination. J. E. HEAP, M. D. The point of greatest difficulty in a professional career is securing the opportunity to prove one's ability and competence for service. When Dr. J. E. Heap returned to his native town of St. Marys ten years ago, after a thorough preparation and considerable experience, he had to borrow the money to tide him over the first few months of waiting for practice, but since getting started has more than made good, and is now in command of a splendid practice and is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Auglaize County. He was born at St. Marys November 3, 1880, was graduated from the high school of Fort Recovery in 1901, and soon afterward entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati where he was graduated M. D. in 1905. During his senior year he was assigned to some outside obstetrical cases, and that excellent experience was also supplemented by work as interne in the Deaconess Hospital at Cincinnati during 1905-06. He then returned to St. Marys. Ile is now health officer of his home city, is a member of the Auglaize County Medical Society, and a large part of his practice is surgery. Politically he is a republican, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the ,Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a son of J. K. and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Heap. Grandfather Henry Heap was a native of England and after coming to this country and settling in Auglaize County was employed in the woolen mills for a number of years. The maternal grandfather was Archibald Ferguson, also an early settler of Auglaize County, and a native of Virginia and of Scotch ancestry. J. K. Heap was born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1849, and died in 1910, while his wife was born in Virginia in 1852 and is still living. They were married at St. Marys. J. K. Heap for several years conducted a hardware store at St. Marys and afterwards became a grain merchant at Fort Recovery. In spite of the handicaps of his early career he made a success of business. He was a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was affiliated with the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of Masonry. He and his wife had four children, and the three now living are Doctor Heap ; Roy, employed in a clothing store at St. Marys, and Maude, a teacher at St. Marys. In 1908 Doctor Heap married Miss Charlotte Pierle of Cincinnati. They are the parents of two sons : Grant and Frank. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. ARZA F. TABLER.. The career of Arza F. Tabler has not only brought him the esteem which every man enjoys but has also been accompanied by a high degree of usefulness as a citizen and business man. Prior to his entrance into public affairs Mr. Tabler was one of the practical, industrious and very successful farmers of Henry County. Since January 12, 1912, he has held the post of secretary of the Henry County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, one of the highest class organizations of its kind in the state. The company writes insurance only on farm properties in Henry County, and its management has been so economical that it now furnishes insurance at the low rate at two mills on the dollar, and has outstanding between four and five million dollars of insurance. Mr. Tabler has been one of the men who have made this success possible. In July, 1915, J. M. Carr, state oil inspector of Ohio, appointed him oil inspector for the second oil district, including part of Henry County and Wood and Defiance HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1207 counties. As a farmer Mr. Tabler's operations are in Harrison Township, where he resides and where he operates a fine place of 210 acres known as the Shank Farm in section 13. He has been identified with, the management of that place since 1903, having come to Henry from Shelby County. He also owns a farm of 100 acres of well improved land in Trumbull County. Mr. Tabler was born on the farm in Shelby County and grew up and lived there until 1903. His birth occurred August 28, 1858. He was well educated in the public schools and completed a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, following which he made his life useful for nineteen years as a teacher. He taught in Shelby County and also in Miami County, and his degree of popularity as a teacher is well indicated by the fact that he had charge of one school in Miami County for eight consecutive years. He was the first to introduce the graded system in township schools in Henry County. He introduced it first in Harrison Township, where he served as superintendent for two years, and since then every township in the county has adopted the graded system. Since leaving school work Mr. Tabler made farming his occupation until he took the two offices already mentioned. His father was Samuel H. Tabler, who was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1827, and died in Shelby County in 1866. His entire career was spent as a farmer. His father, Jacob Tabler, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and he married Julia Huffman. It was in 1824, more than ninety years ago, that the Tablers moved out to Miami County, Ohio, and Jacob and his wife spent the rest of their lives there, dying at the ages of seventy-six and seventy-eight respectively. Prominent Methodists, their home became the meeting place for the followers of that church for a number of years, until services were transferred to a log building. Samuel Tabler was a class leader and both he and his wife were very pious and worthy people. Samuel H. Tabler was married in Miami County to Eleanor Thompson. She was born on the farm where her son Arza Tabler was 'afterwards born, her birth occurring May 15, 1827. She died in Pickaway, Miama County, Ohio, October 13, 1911. Her parents were James and Elizabeth (Jeffries) Thompson, both natives of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Miss Jeffries came of old Quaker stock that had lived in Pennsylvania since 1656, a number of years before William Penn founded the colony, and some of the Jeffries family were on the reception committee which greeted Penn on his arrival in this country. James and Elizabeth Thompson moved from Pennsylvania in 1824 and were pioneers in Warren County, Ohio, and in 1825 established their home in an equally frontier district of Shelby County, about ten miles from Sidney and, within six miles of Piqua, which was their trading point. There they established themselves along the old Indian trail or Wayne route, and as a result of their industry and self denial a home was established and many acres brought under cultivation. James Thompson died there at the age of sixty and his widow survived until she was eighty-three. They were also early Methodists and their home was the home of all the early Methodist preachers who rode circuit through that district. Samuel H. Tabler and wife made their home on the old Thompson place and he died there, while she continued to occupy it until within four years of her death. Samuel H. Tabler and wife had first become acquainted while attending church. Of Mr. Tabler's earlier ancestors it should be noted that the Huffmans were originally slave holders in Maryland, but early in the nineteenth century freed their negroes. In the older generations the families were all democrats. Arza F. Tabler was one of four children. Alonzo died in 1915 at Piqua, Ohio, leaving a family of four children. James, unmarried, lives with a niece at Middlefield in Trumbull County, Ohio. Rev. Thomas F. graduated at Lebanon, Ohio, and from the Boston Theological Seminary, and died in 1913 while pastor of a Methodist Church in the State of Maryland, leaving a widow and son and daughter. Arza F. Tabler was married in Sheldon County, Ohio, in 1883 to Miss Ella M. Johnston. She was descended from Colonel John Johnston, the historic early Indian agent at Piqua, and a very prominent man of the early days. Mrs. Tabler was born in the same township as her husband, Washington Township in Shelby County, on May 1, 1865, and while growing up she received good school advantages. Her parents were Stephen A. and Clancy (Wright) Johnston, both natives of Ohio. Stephen Johnston's father was a pioneer in Shelby County, where he and his wife spent their last days on their son Stephen's 1208 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO arm. in Washington Township. Stephen Johnston and wife were prominent members of the Christian Church and largely supported that denomination in that community. He was a republican, and held all the local offices, and distinguished himself by his particular ability and success as a farmer. In fact in the field of agriculture he was far in advance of his time. He organized granges of the Patrons of Husbandry all over that section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Tabler became identified with the Methodist Church early in life, and were always loyal to its teaching and active members. Mr. Tabler in 1916 became secretary of the County Agricultural Association. He belongs to Harrison Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and his wife was also a member of that organization until her death on October 5, 1915. They were also members of the Gleaners in Harrison Township and held all the offices in that order. Mr. Tabler affiliates with the Lodge of Masons at Liberty Center. Politically he is a republican, and has attended a number of state and other conventions, and for a number of years was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. There are four children. Eleanor is the wife of George Murray, a farmer in Trumbull County, and their children are James, Helen, Mary Ella and Frances, the last two being twins. Carrie M., who like her sister graduated from the. Piqua High School and both were teachers before their marriage, Carrie having also continued her studies in Oxford College, is now the wife of Rev. 0. C. Weist, a minister formerly of the Presbyterian and now of the Congregational Church, and they live at Columbus, Ohio, and have a family of two children, Mary E. and Robert Wilson. T. Sumner finished his education in the agricultural department of the Ohio University and has been a very successful, and scientific farmer, being now manager of his father's place. Stella, the youngest child, is a graduate in the business course at Ada and was recently married to Richard B. Craigg, of 'Dallas, Texas, where they are now living. ALFRED ERNEST HERMAN MAERKER, M. D. Nearly thirty-five years of active practice in medicine in Henry County has placed Dr. Maerker at the front of his profession, both. in his ability and his success as a physician and surgeon. His service has been commensurate with the length of years in practice and among the wide circle of his patients he has been both a friend and a physician. For a number of years he has been a figure of no little influence in business and financial affairs at Napoleon. He is now serving as vice president and one of the directors of the Commercial State Bank of Napoleon, having been one of the organizers, was also one of the organizers and a director aid vice president of the Napoleon State Bank, and is former vice president and director of the First National Bank. He comes of fine old German stock. His grandfather spent his career as a merchant tailor at the City of Burg in the Province of Saxony, and died there in middle life. His son Gotthilf Maerker was born in the City of Burg, grew up and received his education at Annaheim, Germany, and after service in the regular army was sent to the Province of Posen and made an official in the tax department. In Posen he met and married Miss Elf reds Bretschneider, who was born in Posen, a daughter of Adolph Bretschneider, who was also officially connected with the tax department and who died in office at the age of sixty-two. Gotthilf Maerker spent many years in the tax department of Posen and was sixty-three years of age when he died. His wife passed away at the early age of thirty-eight. Both were members of the German Reformed Church. Their children were three sons and one daughter. Ernest died at Berlin at the age of twenty-eight, and left a wife but no children. Otto now lives in Wreschen in the Province of Posen, being connected with the tax department, and of his four daughters one is also married. The daughter Gertrude, the only sister of Doctor Maerker, died in the prime of life after her marriage. Dr. Maerker was born in Posen, Germany, May 25, 1857. He acquired his early education in that city, but at the age of sixteen left Germany, embarking on the steamer Holsatia at Hamburg and some days later arriving in New York City. From there he went west to Niles, Michigan, having come to America with his mother's brother. At Niles he continued his education, acquired a fluent knowledge of the English language. and for two years was employed in clerical work. At the age of nineteen he came to Napoleon to fill a vacancy in the public schools as an instructor, and was connected with the schools for five years, employing all his leisure and every opportunity that of- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1209 fered during the last four years in the study of medicine under Dr. E. B. Harrison, a prominent physician at that time. In 1882 Dr. Maerker graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve University, and at once established himself in practice and opened his office at Napoleon. He soon found favor as a physician as he had in the capacity of teacher, and for years he has stood in the front rank of Henry. County's medical men. In 1890 he interrupted his practice in order to continue his work as a student at Philadelphia. He was one of the organizers and was the first secretary of the Henry County Medical Society, and later served as president several years, and is also a member of the Northwest Ohio and the State Medical societies. In Masonry he is past master of the lodge, past high priest of the chapter, past worthy patron of the Order of Eastern Star, his wife being past worthy matron, and is affiliated with the Knights Templar Commandery at Defiance. He is also a member of the National Union and the Royal Arcanum, has served as examining physician for both these orders and for a number of insurance companies. At Napoleon Doctor Maerker married Miss Mary Ellen King, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, completed her education in the City of Massillon, and was a teacher in the Napoleon public schools when she met her husband. Her parents, John A. and Rosanna (Beatty) Kings were natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania respectively and married in this state. Mrs. Maerker's mother was a niece of General Samuel Beatty, who was in command of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war. The parents were farming people, for about twenty-five years lived at Napoleon and finally removed to Toledo where they both died at the age of eighty. Death interrupted their companionship of nearly three score years since marriage. Mr. and Mrs. King were members of the Episcopal Church and in politics he was a democrat. Dr. and Mrs. Maerker attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their daughter Grace Elfreda graduated from the Napoleon High School and from the Ohio State University in 1906, was a teacher of English and history in the local high school, but is now the wife of R. E. Morey, a well known druggist at Napoleon, and has a daughter named Mary Elizabeth. The son Carl Roland, after finishing the high school course, spent two years at Oberlin, was graduated in 1910 from Dartmouth College, and began the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, but on account of ill health left school and has since been connected with the traffic department of the Bell Telephone Company at Philadelphia. He married Olive Bogart of Philadelphia. PETER J. KRANZ, Of the various members of The Toledo Real Estate Board, none represent more of the real substance of success, larger resources and more of the reputation that comes from a record of long and reliable dealings than The P. J. Kranz Company. The president of this company is Mr. Peter J. Kranz, who has been a resident of Toledo more than thirty years and by ability and hard work rather than through any other qualities acquired his present high place in business affairs. Born in Alsdorf, near Trier, Germany, July 22, 1866, Peter J. Kranz came to the United States in 1885 and located in Toledo. He had been educated in Germany, and came to this country immediately after leaving school to join his oldest brother who had located in Toledo in 1880. That brother died here April 6, 1909. His first employment in this strange city was with Casey & Streicher, paving contractors. After six months with them he clerked in a grocery store, and was employed by several of the grocery merchants of that time. His last employment was with the Lincoln Hayes grocery. Another line of experience came in 1888 when he became bookkeeper for the Mutual Savings Association. He was employed as bookkeeper there four years and that was undoubtedly one of the most important early experiences and associations of Mr. Kranz, giving him a large acquaintance with business men and financial conditions in the city. Mr. Kranz then formed a partnership with the late Henry Heeman, under the firm name of Heeman, Kranz & Company, real estate, loans and insurance. The firm located in the Builders Exchange rooms on the third floor of the Blade Building. From 1892 to 1905 Mr. Kranz was secretary of The Builders Exchange and as a matter of convenience to enable him to transact his duties of office and his private affairs, the offices of Heeman, Kranz & Company were located as above stated. From there they removed to the ground floor of the Gardner Building, where the George E. Pomeroy Company is now located. Their headquarters were on the 1210 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ground floor of that building from 1896 to 1905. In the latter year, having resigned his post with the Builders Exchange, and the activities of his co-partnership business having assumed enormous proportions, it became necessary to take larger quarters and the firm then moved to the second floor of the Gardner Building, taking the complete suite of the center tier of offices. That is the home of The P. J. Kranz Company today. The firm of Heeman, Kranz & Company continued until November 30, 1910, when the business was incorporated as The P. J. Kranz Company. With Mr. Kranz as president, the office of vice president is filled by C. J. Spear, the secretary is W. J. Schroeder, and members and directors of the corporation are also Mr. Kranz' sons. The company transacts an immense volume of business in insurance, real estate and loans, and are also local agents for all leading ocean steamship lines. On August 30, 1905, The Kranz Realty & Investment Company was also incorporated, and this business is still in existence and has its headquarters in the same office as The P. J. Kranz Company, with Mr. Peter J. Kranz as president. For three years, from 1913 to 1916, Mr. Kranz was secretary of the United States Malleable Iron Company of Toledo, having sold his holdings in that concern in the latter year. Success in business is not the only distinction of Mr. Kranz as a Toledo citizen. He is a man of broad and progressive ideals, stands for anything that will better the community in which he resides, and the high place he enjoys in the confidence and esteem of this community was well illustrated when in December, 1915, Mayor Milroy appointed him a member of the mayor's cabinet, as director of finance. Mr. Kranz accepted the office and served from January 1, 1916, for a period of three months, when on account of the press of his private affairs he was obliged to resign on April 1st. Thus he was one of the five men in the mayor's cabinet and constituted one of the executive personnel of the first municipal administration under the new charter. This was the first political office Mr. Kranz had ever accepted, though he has been quite active in the democratic party for a number of years. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, of the Toledo Commerce Club, of the Toledo Automobile Club, the Maumee River Yacht Club, and is secretary of the Stagle Resort Club, which has its headquarters at Yuma, Michigan, where Mr. Kranz partakes of his favorite recreation, fishing. He is a councilman in Sts. Peter and Paul parish of the Catholic Church, and all his family are members of the same church. Outside of business Mr. Kranz is devoted to the circle of interests included in his ideal home and the companionship of his wife and sons. Mr. Kranz himself was the youngest in a family of eleven children, containing eight sons and three daughters, four of whom died in infancy, and of those who grew up three sons and three daughters are still living. Their parents were Peter and Mary (Roles) Kranz, both of whom were born near Trier, Germany. His father was a millwright by trade. Standing six feet two inches high and proportioned accordingly, when he entered the army for his regular three years' service he was assigned to the Royal Guards at Berlin. Both parents died in Germany, the father at the age of fifty-six and the mother at seventy-six. On February 8, 1890, in St. Mary's Catholic Church on Cherry Street, Toledo, Mr. Kranz married Miss Helena Ramm of Toledo, daughter of Henry Ramm and wife, both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Kranz was born in Holstein, Germany, and when twelve years of age came with her parents in 1881 to Lucas County, Ohio. The father spent the rest of his active career as a farmer in Wash-. ington Township of Lucas County. Mrs. Kranz received part of her education in the old country and part of it in Lucas County. Without any disparagement it can be said that few Toledo households contain such a happy family as that of Mr. Kranz. He and his wife properly take great pride in their five unmarried sons, all of whom live in the family circle, and these sons have already shown qualities that entitle them to a worthy place in the world. The names of these sons are : Leo P., Albert J., Karl J., Bernard H. and Gerold I. Leo, Karl and Bernard are all stockholders and directors of The P. J. Kranz Company and The Kranz Realty & Investment Company. Albert J. took the literary course in the University of Michigan and is now in his last year studying law in Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. Gerold I., the youngest son, is still a student in St. Mary's College at Dayton, where all the sons received part of their education. As children they attended the parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul in Toledo. These sons were all born in Toledo. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1211 Mr. Kranz is a member of the Toledo Real Estate Board, the Ohio Real Estate Board and the National Real Estate Board. In 1896 he made a trip to Europe alone to visit his aged mother, who died shortly afterwards on March 26, 1897. Mr. Kranz was between eight and nine years of age when his father died in 1875. In the course of that first return to the old country Mr. Kranz visited England, France and Germany, and in 1910 he took the entire family abroad and during the three months of the trip they were in England, France, Luxemburg, Germany and Switzerland. Mr. and Mrs. Kranz celebrated the silver anniversary of their wedding in February, 1916. LEVI HARTMAN. One of the remarkable men of Northwest Ohio is Levi Hartman, now living at Napoleon, in his eighty-seventh year. He was born when Andrew Jackson was president of the United States. His has always been a tenacious memory, and though past fourscore he still recalls almost every incident of his experience since he was a child four or five years old. Thus his mind is a record of individual and local and national history extending back eighty years. More than half a century of his lifetime has been identified with Henry County. In the early days he helped clear up a considerable part of Monroe Township of that county. He was born at the foot of Sidling Hill in Belfast Township; Bedford County, Pennsylvania—in what is now Fulton County—on October 2, 1829. His father died before Levi was born. He was a journeyman shoemaker, and had a considerable local reputation as a ventriloquist. Mr. Hartman's mother died a number of years later, and Mr. Hartman was the youngest of three children. At the age of four years he was bound out, at first to Aaron Clevenger of Bedford County. About four years later his services were transferred to a Mr. Truax. While living in the Truax home he acquired the limited education which has served him through his lifetime. But a good memory is not the result of training in schools, and his marvelous faculty in that direction has served better than all the schools that most men attend. In 1916 there were still living in Ohio ten surviving veterans of the Mexican war. Levi Hartman was one of them. In the issue of March 27, 1916, the Toledo News-Bee published an interesting article recording an interview with Mr. Hartman concerning his experiences as a Mexican war soldier, experiences especially pertinent at that time because of the fact a portion of the American army was hunting the outlaw Villa in the wilds of Northern Mexico. Mr. Hartman was about seventeen years of age when on May 24, 1847, he enlisted at Pittsburgh and was in the service until mustered out at Pittsburgh in July, 1848, more than a year later. That was an eventful year in Mr. Hartman's life, and he recalled many of the incidents for the benefit of the correspondent. Most of his interview as published in the Toledo paper is quoted herewith : "I was only seventeen years old when we landed a little way below Vera Cruz. They had yellow fever in that city then. We got started out at last, and just at night we came to a place where the Mexicans had blown up a bridge so we had to camp there. We had nothing for the horses to eat and very little for ourselves. In the morning we made a bridge of stones and went across. We came out into the valley where so many of our men had been mowed down the year before. "We soon passed through the old battle ground of Cerro Gordo, where our boys had had their last fight. At Pueblo the army officials tried to reorganize us, but we refused to give up our officers. We were attached to Company L, Second Pennsylvania .Volunteers. We soon went through the Black Pass, where there were high rocky walls on both sides and the trees hung over so that the sunlight never got in there. The Mexicans rolled stones down on us and smashed up our wagons and mules pretty badly, but our skirmishers went out and drove them away. " Then we marched for miles across marshes. It was an awful place. At last we came to a point of land where we could get out of those marshes, but we had to back up and go around, for that place was filled with Mexicans and we would have been slaughtered. "Then we fought the battle of Cherubusco. It was a short and bloody engagement and among the prisoners taken we got thirty deserters from the United States army. We had another engagement at Contreras. And at St. Augustine we caught sixteen more deserters. I saw them all hanged. The Mexican prisoners taken at these places were disarmed and paroled. General Scott said it was cheaper to fight them than it was to feed them. 1212 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO "With 12,000 men we stormed the Castle of Chapultepec. This was an enormous castle surrounded by a stone wall fifteen feet high. This was the castle that defended Mexico City. It was the military and training school of the Mexican army. Just outside the main gate was an enormous redwood tree, eleven feet in. diameter and thirty-six feet around it, and near the tree was an aqueduct of stone that carried water from a spring to supply the City of Mexico. We picked out two men from each company, furnished them with ladders and while we were shooting away at the Mexicans in front and they were shooting away at us these six men went around behind and scaled the walls with their ladders. The greasers hadn't noticed them until they commenced to yell and shoot, and I guess they thought the whole United States was coming after them. They got out through those gates and went for the City of Mexico, and we let them go. We had plenty to eat in that fort and drink too, but that night someone saw smoke running through the woods near the fort, and when he went to look it was a slow match. The Mexicans had mined the fort.. In another few minutes we would all have been blown into Kingdom Come. This man cut off the slow match with his jackknife and then came and told us about it. "But the next morning when the Mexicans saw that nothing had happened to us, Santa Ana sent out a flag of truce and asked to surrender and be allowed to march out of the city. I don't see' how people can tell how they had to fight so to get into the City of Mexico. We didn't do any fighting at all ; we just marched in with banners waving, bands playing and those windows just full of Spanish women waving their white handkerchiefs at us. There were lots of bushwhack- 'threw though up on those flat roofs, and they threw bricks and pieces of tile at us. Some of the boys went up and got them. They threw some of them over too. They were pretty badly flattened when they struck the sidewalk. "The city was a dirty place. We stayed there till after Christmas. Then we were relieved and went to St. Augustine and stayed there until May 18, 1848. Then we marched to Vera Cruz, 275 miles, in fourteen nights." After his return from the Mexican war Mr. Hartman spent five years in Crawford County, Ohio, engaged in teaming. In 1860 he came to Henry County, where he secured 160 acres of land on a warrant given him by the government for his services in the Mexican war. This land he subsequently traded, and afterwards secured and improved a large amount of other land. By his industry and good judgment he accumulated quite a fortune, and has already given the equivalent of more than eight thousand dollars to his children to help them start, and has a fine farm left, while as a Mexican veteran_ he draws a pension of a dollar a day from Uncle Sam. In 1911 Mr. Hartman retired to Napoleon. He is a democrat in politics, and for many years served as a trustee in Monroe and Harrison townships, and was also chairman of the board and was township treasurer when he left the township to come to Napoleon. He and his wife are active members of the Christian Church, and he has always been a great Bible student and his memory enables him to quote large portions of both the Old and New Testament. For a man to live such a varied and long life is a sufficient testimony to his physical and mental vigor. In spite of years he is still robust and alert and his reminiscences of a long life are always entertaining and instructive. Mr. Hartman was first married May 14, 1853, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Tohman, a daughter of Conrad and Lena Tohman, who were natives of Germany, where Mrs. Hartman was born. Her mother died in the old country and her father subsequently brought his family to the United States locating in Crawford County, Ohio, in 1847, where he spent the rest of his years. Mrs. Hartman died at their home in Harrison Township. She was the mother of the following children : Catherine, wife of Monroe Ballard ; William ; Levi, Jr. Mary E., wife of William Beavel- hymer Henry Richard ; Ella, wife of Minor Foor, and Johanna, besides three children who died in infancy. MAXIMUS EUGENE LOOSE. A resident at Napoleon since 1881, Maximus Eugene Loose is known not only over Northwestern Ohio but in several states on account of his extensive interests as a banker, farmer, stockman and lumberman. By native ability and by training and experience he has qualified for the successful handling of his many extensive interests. Mr. Loose among his associates has long been admired for his peculiar forcefulness, his indomitable energy, and his clear mind and keen penetration of difficult business HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1213 problems. He is also a man of enthusiasm, and whatever he undertakes he pushes through with unabated energy to a successful conclusion. It is said that in undertaking any enterprise he thinks of nothing but success, and it is doubtful if he has ever experienced any real failure in a business way. While a dynamo of energy, he is physically spare of build, wiry and alert, and has a tremendous reserve of nervous energy. He was born in Erie, Michigan, June 8, 1851, a son of Jacob Butler and Adelia Ann (Doty) Loose. On the paternal side he is of German origin. His great-grandfather John George Loose, or Loos as the name was probably spelled in that borderland district between Germany and France known as Alsace-Lorraine, came to America about 1752. His descendants have since multiplied and are now found in nearly every state of the Union, but are particularly concentrated in Pennsylvania and Ohio. There was recently a family reunion held at Meadowbrook Park near Clinton, Ohio, attended by more than two hundred of the relatives, principally from Pennsylvania and Central Ohio. Some of the family characteristics have been thrift, energy, practical efficiency and almost invariably they have been prosperous and influential people in any community where they have lived. Jacob Loose, grandfather of M. E. Loose, lived at Hagerstown, Maryland. Jacob Butler Loose was born in Maryland about 1820 and his wife, Adelia Ann Doty, was a native of Vermont and of old New England stock. Her father, Stephen A. Doty, was a Yankee of the progressive type, and Mr. M. E. Loose has inherited many of the thrifty and sagacious qualities of his New England forbears. Jacob B. Loose and wife met and married in Michigan, where their respective parents had located in the early days. From Michigan in 1861 they moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, and in 1876 went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Jacob B. Loose died, in 1883. In Illinois he was known as a stock grower and at St. Joseph, Missouri, he engaged in the grain and elevator business. His widow is still living and makes her home in Chicago. Their children were : Florence C., wife of Rev. W. H. Musgrove, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jacksonville, Illinois ; Maximus E., and Myra Eugenia, who lives in Chicago. Religiously the early associations of the Loose family were with the German Reformed Church, while the Dotys were Methodists, and the later generations of the Loose family have adopted the latter faith. Maximus Eugene Loose received his early education in Michigan, Illinois and Missouri, attending the high school at Springfield, Illinois, and also a college there. At the age of twenty-one in 1872 he was a mercantile clerk in Toledo, and later engaged with a milling concern in that city, and thus laid the foundation for his larger career. In 1881, at the age of thirty, he came to Napoleon and from that city as a center his interests have rapidly extended until they reach to the Pacific coast and over many sections of the Central West. Up to 1897 he was actively associated in business with his father-in-law, Lyman Trowbridge. He has at various times been in the mercantile business, in milling, in the stave, heading and lumber business, but his greatest success probably has been as owner, manager and overseer of extensive tracts of land. These lands he bought as timber properties, but after the lumber was cut he used the land and converted it into farms, and has always operated on a large scale. He was one of the pioneers in using gasoline traction machinery to operate his farm property. As proprietor of the Maumee Valley stock farm Mr. Loose became well known as a breeder and raiser of many fine racing horses of the trotting dais. His stable contained such noted horses as Robert McGregor, Nutwood, Jaybird, Alcantara and Wynema. Many of his horses sold for fancy prices, and he has been prominent in developing and raising the standard of American horses. Mr. Loose has a farm of about twelve hundred acres in Defiance County, Ohio, and altogether about two thousand acres of farming land in the state. His interests in this direction extend to Henry, Woods and Lucas counties. He has never spared labor or expense in developing his land, and one feature which indicates this is that his Defiance county farm has been improved by the laying of about a mile of tile drain on each section. Besides raising all the staple crops he keeps about a hundred head of cattle, 300 head of hogs, 200 head of sheep and some fifty high grade draft horses. In the matter of livestock he has specialized at different times ill everything from some of the country's greatest trotting horses to domestic turkeys. For the past ten years Mr. Loose has been president of the First National Bank of Napoleon. This bank was organized and in- 1214 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO corporated in 1897 with D. Meekinson as president ; J. E. Augenstein, vice president, and J. S. Bailey, cashier. It is in one sense the successor and the outgrowth of earlier banking enterprise at Napoleon. As early as 1872 a banking house was organized with a capital of $50,000, later increased to $100,000, the first officers of which were E. S. Blair, president; J. W. Miller, vice president; and A. D. Tourtelotte, cashier. In 1877 E. S. Heller acquired the principal stock in the corporation, and this was succeeded by the firm of Heller & Saur, and that in turn in 1880 became the J. C. Saur & Company, Bankers. This firm of private bankers in 1897 was succeeded by the Citizens Bank, a private concern, and in 1904 it was organized by the Citizens State Bank, but a few years later this institution failed and its assets were taken over by the First National Bank, which in the meantime had grown rapidly. Mr. Loose early recognized the power and value of the First National Bank, and since becoming president has made it one of the strongest institutions in Northwest Ohio. The bank has a fine banking house at the corner of Perry and Washington streets, the most prominent corner in the city. It would be difficult to enumerate all of Mr. Loose's varied business interests in recent years. He is the owner of a large orange ranch in Southern California, is manager, owner and is operating the parent plant of the Elastic Pulp Plaster Company, is director in several companies, is president and director of the First National Bank, president, secretary and director of the Wood Pulp and Fiber Machine Company, is secretary, treasurer, manager and director of the Napoleon Pulp Plaster Company, and a member of the firm of Midway Capital Oil Company, the Glendora Heights Lemon and Orange Growers Association, and the Glendora Irrigating Company. He was recently elected a trustee of Defiance College. On January 26, 1881, at Napoleon Mr. Loose married Miss Cora Trowbridge. Mrs. Loose was born in New York State in 1855, and is the only surviving child of Lyman and Olive (Cushing) Trowbridge. Her father was born in Wyoming County, New York, December 3, 1822, a son of Asahel and Betsey (Murray) Trowbridge, of an old and prominent New England family. Lyman Trowbridge grew up in New York State, was married there, and became a manufacturer of machine made shingles. In 1864 he came to Toledo and in 1866 became a resident of Napoleon. For many years he was one of the most widely known business men of this section, operating as a manufacturer, farmer and land owner, his interests extending to Defiance and Woods counties, Ohio, and to Freeland, Michigan. On January 30, 1845, Lyman Trowbridge married Olive Cushing, who was born in Niagara County, New York, a daughter of Charles Cushing. Mrs. Trowbridge died May 29, 1884. Mrs. Loose was about ten years of age when she came to Ohio. She has become the mother of four children : Lyman Trowbridge, Chalmer Eugene, Harold Homer and Olive Cora Adelia. The son Lyman T. was educated in the local high school and graduated from the University of Chicago with the class of 1907 and is now assistant cashier in the first National Bank of Napoleon ; he married Caroline Gibson of Columbus. The son Chalmer E., who graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910, has been the practical assistant to his father in various outside interests, and also lives at Napoleon ; he married Mabel West of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The son Harold Homer is active manager of his father's extensive orange ranch near Pasadena, California, and is also married. The daughter Olive Cora Adelia is a graduate of Milwaukee-Downer College and lives at home with her parents. In politics Mr. Loose has always been an active republican, and was a delegate to the National Convention at St. Louis which nominated William McKinley for president. He has also served as president of the Napoleon Chamber of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and he and his two older sons are members of Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Toledo. He and his wife are acting working members of the Presbyterian Church and for years he has served on the official board. He is a member also of the Royal Arcanum, of the Federation Club of Los Angeles, and is widely known socially and in business affairs both East and West. CHARLES HOMER MASTERS who spent many years in successful practice as a lawyer in Northwest Ohio, died at his home in Toledo, April 28, 1917. His associates spoke of him as being a tireless worker, a close student, and a tenacious battler in the trial of cases. A son of Hon. Ezekiel and Susanna B. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1215 Masters, reference to whose career is found on other pages, Charles Homer Masters was-born on his father's farm at Masters Corners in Fulton County, Ohio, March 28, 1856. His father's death threw upon him unusual responsibilities, and he had to get his education by depending upon his own resources. He was a student in the high school at Pioneer and also in the Normal Academy at Bryan. Teaching supplied much of the means he required for securing a higher education, and he did much study at home. In 1876 he went to Chicago, and for three years paid his way in the collecting business and at the same time carried on his studies in the Union College of Law. He was admitted to the Illinois bar by' examination before the Appellate Court in Cook County, and at once returned to Bryan, Ohio, and began practice there. At the beginning of his practice he also took up stenography, partly for his own personal satisfaction and at the request of the entire bar of Bryan he was appointed and served as court stenographer for a term of three years. For several years he practiced in the firm of Pratt & Bentley, one of the ablest law firms of Northwest Ohio. From February, 1888, until 1893 he was a partner of Thomas Emery, and after that practiced alone until June, 1896. He and Hon. W. W. Touvelle of Wauseon then formed a partnership and removed to Toledo, opening offices in the Spitzer Building. This firm enjoyed a large practice from the start. Mr. Touvelle was appointed by President McKinley in September, 1897, as consul to Belfast, Ireland. H. C. Adams was then taken into the firm during Mr. Touvelle's absence abroad and the name continued as Touvelle, Masters & Adams. They had fine offices in the Spitzer Building, and had at their command a library of nearly two thousand volumes. This partnership was terminated January 1, 1906, at which date Mr. Masters became first assistant city solicitor under Solicitor C. S. Northup. In that office he served four years and after leaving it practiced alone until his death. Mr. Masters was a member of the Toledo Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. In Masonic affiliations he was a member of Toledo Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons, Toledo Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine, was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of all the Scottish Rite bodies of Toledo. In March, 1880, he married Alice Joy, daughter of G. R. and Lucy H. Joy of Williams County, Ohio. The Joy family were early settlers in that part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Masters have two children, George R. and Helen. George R. was educated in the Toledo public schools, spent two years in the Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, and is now assistant superintendent of the Western Southern Life Insurance Company at Toledo. He is also a prominent worker in the Anti-Saloon League, and during 1916 secured a leave of absence from the insurance business and until November of that year lectured in the interests of the league in Michigan. The daughter Helen was educated in Toledo, is an accomplished vocalist and a teacher of vocal music and had the advantage of two years of study in New York City under Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Toedt. She possesses a very fine contralto voice. WILLIAM T. BINZLEY, D. D. S. One of the most accomplished men in the dental profession of Northwest Ohio is William T. Binzley of Napoleon. Doctor Binzley graduated in dentistry from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with the class of 1888. In the same year he located at Napoleon, and in 1913 he celebrated the close of his twenty-fifth year in active practice. For much the greater part of this time he has had his offices in the First National Bank Building. In point of years in continuous practice, Doctor Binzley is the oldest dentist in Napoleon, and his success has been in proportion to his years of work. He was born at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1858. He grew up and received his education in that locality, and as a young man learned the trade of machinist, which he followed at New Brighton for a dozen years. He then decided to turn his abilities and talents into another field and began the study of dentistry in the department of the University of Michigan. His skillful work has brought him and has kept a large clientage, and he has succeeded in a financial way and owns one of the comfortable homes of Napoleon, situated on Welstadt Street, where he entertains his friends and has a happy abiding place for himself and his good wife. In the paternal line he is of Swiss ancestry. His grandfather spent all his life in Switzerland. His father, John Binzley, was born in Zuerich in the early '20s, grew up there and 1216 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO was trained as a machinist, and when a young man, soon after reaching his majority, he set out for America. He was the first and the only one of the immediate family to come to the United States. The voyage was made on a sailing vessel, and after landing in New York City he went west to Pittsburgh where he soon found employment at his trade. After getting established he sent for the girl he had left behind him and who soon came to America, and they were married in this country. Dorothea Binzley was also born in Zuerich, Switzerland, and was about eight years younger than her husband. She was still a young girl when she joined her sweetheart at Pittsburg. A few years after their marriage they moved to New Brighton, where they spent the rest of their days, and died in 1879 within six months of each other. They were members of the Evangelical Church and John Binzley was a republican. Of their children two died young, and the five now living are : Doctor Binzley of Napoleon ; Tillie, wife of Philip Shoemachker of New Brighton, Pennsylvania; Charles, a wholesale grocer at Brighton, is married and has a family ; Rudolph, who is a machinist at New Brighton and has a family ; and Mrs. Lydia Zahn, wife of a farmer near New Brighton. Doctor Binzley was married at Napoleon to Miss Elizabeth Fink. She was born in Fulton County, Ohio, February 10, 1876, grew up and received her education in Wauseon, and for several years before her marriage was a teacher. Her parents were German people who came to the United States and spent their lives on a farm in Fulton County, where her father died, and her mother spent her last days in Napoleon. Both parents were about sixty years of age when they died. Doctor Binzley is an active member of the Northwest Ohio Dental Society, and fraternally is affiliated with the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, and is now serving as a member of the city council of Napoleon. Politically he is a loyal republican. MRS. H. M. TYLER. The record of years well lived, with a creditable performance of all those duties which come to a man of high principles and integrity of character was that of the late Justin H. Tyler, who for many years ranked among the leaders of the Napoleon bar and who died at his home, 406 West Clinton Street, in Napoleon, June 10, 1910. His widow, Mrs. Tyler, is still living in Napoleon, is a woman of remarkable activi ties and lovely character, and few women grow old so gracefully. At the time of his death the late Justin H. Tyler had attained almost the climax of a long life. He was ninety-five years old; having been born in Leyden, Massachusetts, in 1815, of old New England ancestry. His parents were Peter and Eunice (Hibbard) Tyler. His grandfather, Peter Tyler Sr., was born in Massachusetts in 1769 and died at Springfield in that state in 1834. Peter and Eunice Tyler were married in January, 1811, and three of their children were born in Massachusetts. When Justin H. Tyler was an infant his parents placed their household possessions on a sled drawn by oxen and made a winter journey from Leyden, Massachusetts, to Fulton, New York, 'beginning housekeeping in a log cabin of only one room, and experiencing all the difficulties and hardships of life on the frontier for a number of years. Peter Tyler was a man of great industry and inured to hardship, and in time he made a good home for his family. A number of years later he sold out his place in New York State, and during the '40s moved to Huron, Ohio, where he followed merchandising and where his death occurred February 8, 1855. He was born January 21, 1790. All his children were by his first wife, and after her death he married again. He was a whig and later a republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. His oldest son, Peter, became a prominent lawyer in New York State, where he spent his active career. The second son, Ransom, also lived at Fulton, New York, where he died and left a reputation not only as a successful lawyer but also as a law writer. The third son was the late Justin H. Tyler. The first of the children to be born in New. York State was Hibbard Tyler, who subsequently moved to Napoleon, Ohio, and practiced medicine there for many years. Justin H. Tyler grew up in his father's home in New York State and came with his parents to Huron, Ohio. He began his law studies with Attorney Griswold at Circleville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar, but subsequently studied law further in Huron, Ohio. At Huron he married Alice Olmsted, of New York State, and they soon afterward located their home in Napoleon. Here Justin H. Tyler began the practice which continued until old age overtook him, and his standing in the profession will always be cherished by HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1217 those who knew him and by the later generations. Seven years after coming to Napoleon his first wife died, leaving two sons. Romain died when about thirty years of age and still unmarried. The second son, Justin Arthur, is now a druggist in Cleveland, and is the father of three sons and one daughter. On January 21, 1861, Mr. Tyler was married near Greenfield, Franklin County, Ohio, to Miss Harriet Peck. Mrs. Tyler was born in Franklin County, Massachusetts, June 21, 1832. She comes of a long line of New England people of English ancestry and possesses a good mind and strong intelligence, and as a young woman she completed her education in Mount Holyoke Seminary. Later she taught in private schools in the South. Her grandfather, Abner Peck, who spent most of his life in Massachusetts, was a Revolutionary soldier, and was a guard and witness at the hanging of Major Andre, the famous British spy. One of his sons, Abner Jr., father of Mrs. Tyler, was born in Massachusetts and made farming his vocation. He married Rebecca Broad, and both lived to a good old age. They were members of the Congregational Church, and he was a whig and republican. Mrs. Tyler is the only survivor of four sons and two daughters, and the only member of the family to come to Ohio. Since her husband's death she has lived in the beautiful brick home at the corner of West Clinton and Lombard streets. She is a very prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Napoleon, of which she was a charter member and one of the organizers at the beginning of the Civil war. The late Mr. Tyler, it should be remembered, had the distinction of being the first republican to be elected to the Legislature from Henry County, and served one term. Mrs. Tyler is the mother of four sons. One of them, William, died after his marriage to Charlotte Whittaker of Toledo, who is now living with her children, Charlotte and William, in Detroit. Julian H. Tyler, after graduating from the Napoleon High School, entered the scientific department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated with second honors of his class in 1884. He studied law at Chicago, was admitted to the bars of Illinois and Ohio, practiced for a time in Napoleon and has since been one of the leading lawyers of Toledo, where he served three years as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, finally resigning in order to give his entire time to his private practice ; Judge Tyler married in Napoleon in 1887 Lillian Heller, who was born in Napoleon, graduated from Vassar College, and is a daughter of Samuel M. Heller of Napoleon. Nathaniel, the second son of Mrs. Tyler, was educated in the public schools and is now engaged in fruit farming in Massachusetts; for his first wife he married Maud Heller, who is the mother of his three children, and his second wife was Grace House. George Tyler is now living at Lorain, Ohio, connected with the Enamel Piping Company of Elyria ; he married Ethel Mathews of Lorain. J. D. COOK was identified with Toledo from 1861 until the close of his life. Few of its citizens were better known throughout the United States, and among civil engineers he attained a front rank in America. Towns and cities in a dozen states, North and South, East and West, have permanent improve. ments and public utilities in the form of waterworks, sewerage systems and other plants, that are in themselves a memorial to the life and services of this Toledo citizen. Born in Warren County, Ohio, April 26, 1830, he was of sterling family stock. His ancestors came from England and Wales and settled in North Carolina late in the eighteenth century. The family were Quakers. His paternal grandfather, Wright Cook, was a Quaker preacher who emigrated from Virginia to Warren County, Ohio, and about 1816 moved to Indiana, the year that state entered the Union. Of his sons Thomas P. Cook, who was born in Virginia in 1802, made Warren County, Ohio, his permanent home. Thomas P. Cook married Miss Kester. She was drowned in. the Mississinewa River in Indiana, together with her youngest son, in 1843. Thomas P. Cook died as the result of an accident in 1881 at the age of seventy-nine. Of his five children Josiah D. was the third. The great-grandmother of J. D. Cook was Charity Pearson, a noted Quakeress preacher. She lived during the early part of the eighteenth century, and in her ministerial work made several trips to England. In the maternal line the names of the chief families were Kester and Davis. Grandmother Kester traced her ancestry to the Davis family who came from England early in the settlement of Virginia. John Davis, her uncle, left a large fortune which has been accumulating for many years in the Bank 1218 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO of England and amounts at present to many thousands of pounds. The Cook family is one of great antiquity and importance in Great Britain and in Ireland it is said that no less than twelve Cooks served as bailiffs and mayors from 1684 to 1854. Some of that name have been mayors of London, notably Thomas Cooke, who was knighted at the coronation of Elizabeth the Queen of Edward IV. Sir Anthony Cooke, called the " English Scholar," was chosen tutor to young King Edward IV on account of his great learning. The family record shows many artists and musicians, and the drawings of Richard Cook are preserved in the British Museum. J. D. Cook spent his youth in comparatively pioneer circumstances and with only ordinary schooling. He first turned his attention to the newspaper business at Marion, Indiana, where for a time he published the Western Union, a weekly paper. He also studied law. However, his tastes were neither for law nor journalism, and though he succeeded well in these first ventures he soon left Marion and took up work with a party of railroad engineers surveying through Indiana. These engineers were surveying a route between Peru and Indianapolis. That was in 1851. Here Mr. Cook found a congenial occupation. He applied himself so assiduously that he soon mastered all the technical details of engineering. In 1852 he was engaged upon the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad between Fort Wayne and Cincinnati. In the following year he assisted in the survey of the Marion and Mississinewa Valley Road between Marion and Logansport, now a part of the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania lines. Appointed in 1854 to chief engineer of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which was then being built from Cincinnati to Mackinaw, Mr. Cook had the distinction of giving that road the name by which it has ever since been known. During the winter of 1854-55 he removed to Sturgis, Michigan, where he lived six years, and during that time the final survey for the Grand Rapids and Indiana was made in 1857. In March, 1861, Mr. Cook moved from Sturgis to Toledo. Toledo thereafter was his home, and it had no more loyal citizen or one more thoroughly devoted to its upbuilding and welfare. For a time 'he was in the commission business in partnership with W. H. Osbon and Vincent Hamilton, both of whom had also come from Sturgis. Later Perry Crabbs and W. H. Bellman were also as- sociated with the firm. In 1870 Mr. Cook left this, business to resume work in railroad construction as civil engineer. He served as chief engineer of the Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railroad. He had charge of surveys and the construction of the present Toledo division of the Pennsylvania line. His services were also employed in bridge building with R. W. Smith, as chief engineer of the Smith Bridge Company. At that time this company was one of the most important industries of Toledo. His enduring fame must rest upon his work as a waterworks, sewerage and municipal engineer, a branch of the profession which he began to practice in 1872. About that time he. was appointed chief engineer of the Toledo waterworks and designed and began the construction of the Toledo plant which he later remodeled. Later as consulting engineer he had the supervision of the installation of the new and larger engines in the plant, and the remodelling and enlargement of the buildings, and the Toledo Waterworks pumping station is a real monument to his skill and genius. The standpipe designed and built by him was at the time the highest pipe in the world. From 1873 to 1879 he also served as superintendent of the city waterworks.' A little before his death plans had been made for his becoming a member of the pure water commission of the city, and this appointment would have been made public after another consultation with the remaining members of that commission. From the time he retired as superintendent of the Toledo waterworks in March, 1879, until 1902 he was engaged in the construction of waterworks and similar plants' in other cities, and it is said that in that period he constructed more plants than any other engineer in the United States. He designed and built the first large standpipe in the world, at Sandusky, Ohio, and the pipe or design has been very generally used in all parts of the world. A partial list of the other cities where he installed waterworks plants are as follows : In Ohio—Bellefontaine, Bellevue, Clyde, Fremont, Hicksville, Lima, Milan, Newark, Troy, Toronto, Norwalk, Prairie Depot, Ravenna, Sandusky, Springfield, Toledo and Youngstown. In Kentucky —Lexington and Lebanon. In Tennessee—Jackson and Nashville. In Kansas—Emporia. In Missouri—St. Joseph. In Michigan—Coldwater, Grand Rapids, Hillsdale., Hudson, HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1219 Jackson, Jonesville, Monroe, Pontiac, Wyandotte and West Bay City. In Indiana—Anderson, Decatur, Fort Wayne, Kendallville, Marion, Newcastle, Noblesville, Peru and Wabash. In Illinois—Freeport and Quincy. In Nebraska—Beatrice, Omaha and Plattsmouth. In New York—Dunkirk. In New Jersey—Atlantic City. In Georgia—Savannah. In Louisiana—New Orleans. In Texas —Dallas and Galveston. In South Dakota—Fort Meade and Sturgis. At each of these places the waterworks systems were designed, constructed or reconstructed by Mr. Cook, and the plants cost from $15,000 to $1,500,000 each. From an engineering standpoint the adequacy of these, different plants has received the highest commendation. Particular mention should be made of the waterworks plant at Galveston, which stood the severe test of the flood during the great storm of 1901 and so strong were its walls that thirty-four persons who sought refuge within saved their lives. It was the `supreme test of the sagacity and the skill of the man who planned the structure. Altogether' Mr. Cook was engineer of construction for sixty-three waterworks systems. Besides this work he either designed or personally constructed sewage systems in the following named cities : Toledo, six systems, separate and combined; Marion, Ohio, four systems, separate and combined ; Springfield, Ohio, one separate system ; Galion, Ohio, one separate system; Hillsdale, Michigan, one separate system ; Wyandotte, Michigan, one separate system ; Jackson, Michigan, one combined system ; Mount Pleasant, Michigan, one combined system ; Emporia, Kansas, one combined system; Jackson, Tennessee, one combined system. He was continually being consulted by cities and individuals, and his wide experience and recognized authority were eagerly sought. In the closing years of his life particularly he devoted himself to his home City of Toledo and gave it not only the best of his professional skill but also an unexcelled public spirit. The last product of his fertile brain was a well matured plan to settle once and for all time the water supply question. His plan in many respects was radically different from anything before suggested, though the problem had been considered by the waterworks board and people of Toledo for many years. It contemplated the bringing of water from Lake Erie with an intake some distance below Cedar Point. He planned two immense mains extending from near the same point toward the city. Two routes were suggested for reaching the standpipe after entering the city, one being by crossing the river well up toward where the station is located, and the other by crossing near Ironville. Mr. Cook estimated that his plan would provide 75,000,000 gallons of water daily, at an estimated cost of $1,000,000 for completing the project. This plan had the great merit of suggesting a source of supply practically inexhaustible, and furthermore of insuring the purity of the supply. After an exhaustive examination of the intake location and the Government charts he was satisfied that the water that could be obtained by his plan would be absolutely acceptable. He did not live to give the project the benefit of his earnest support. His death occurred September 17, 1902, at the age of seventy-two. His funeral two days later was conducted by Toledo Commandery No. 7 of the Knights Templar and also by the Scottish Rite branch of Masonry. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Sanford L. Collins Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Toledo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Toledo Council, Royal and Select Masons, and Toledo Commandery, Knights Templar. October 4, 1854, Mr. Cook married Miss Eliza Jane McClure. Mrs. Cook was born in Marion, Indiana, October 31, 1835, and died at the old homestead at 824 Erie Street in Toledo, where the family had lived for forty years, on March 24, 1915. She was the daughter of Samuel McClure, who was born in Shelby County, Ohio, November 16, 1807. His father, Samuel, Sr., played a very distinctive part in the early settlement and the Indian relations of the old Northwest. He established some of the first mills and enterprises along the Wabash and Mississinewa valleys in Indiana. Both he and his sons were on intimate terms with the Indian population and carried on extensive trade with them, whose confidence was never shaken in the integrity of these fine old pioneers. From 1834 until his death more than fifty years later Samuel McClure, Jr., had his home at Marion, Indiana. A history of that locality gives him credit as one of the founders of Marion. Mrs. J. D. Cook was a member of the First Westminster Presbyterian Church at Toledo, and for many years a prominent leader in church and literary circles, and well known 1220 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO as a splendid Bible student. The last five years of her life were spent as an invalid, but the direct cause of her death was pneumonia. She was seventy-nine years of age. She had come to Toledo with her husband nearly fifty-five years before her death, and because of her many literary, church and philanthropic interests and associations was widely known and admired in that city. The only son of the eminent Toledo engineer was the late Charles McClure Cook, reference to whom will be found on other pages. The only surviving child is Mrs. Nellie (Cook) Cubberley of Toledo, a distinguished musician of whom there is appropriately an individual sketch elsewhere. CHARLES MCCLURE COOK was the son of the eminent American engineer and Toledo citizen, Josiah D. Cook. The son during his lifetime did much to add to the worthy accomplishments associated with the family name. There is an interesting contrast and similarity in the careers of father and son. His father at one time was engaged, not without success, in journalism and in purely commercial enterprises. Afterwards he devoted himself almost entirely to the field of municipal engineering. The son, on the other hand, first took up engineering, and held some high positions in the service of several railway corporations. Later he turned his energies into commercial lines, was an important figure in insurance circles, and in his later years devoted his time to the management of the family properties and also to the real estate and bond business at Toledo. Charles McClure Cook was born at Sturgis, Michigan, February 5, 1856, and died at Toledo, February 9, 1914, at the age of fifty-eight. He was five years old when his parents removed to Toledo. His education came from the public schools, and in 1873 he graduated valedictorian of the high school class. About that time his father had become superintendent of the Toledo waterworks system. The son did his first work in the fall of that year as rodman in the engineering corps during the construction of the waterworks. In 1874 he became assistant engineer and remained with the waterworks at Toledo until 1878. In the meantime he was also assistant engineer in the construction of the waterworks at Sandusky. Early in the summer of 1878 he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Company as inspector and assistant engineer. In that capacity he superintended the erection of the freighthouse and the replacement of the former wooden bridge with the present iron structure at Toledo. In 1879 he had the superintendence of the construction of the passenger station and the passenger yard as well as the replacement of the long trestle works on the east side of the river. This last task was accomplished by an ingenious arrangement for dredging the river, and it attracted considerable attention in engineering circles. Next appointed roadmaster of the Toledo Division between Toledo and Mansfield, Mr. Cook was advanced from that to engineer of maintenance of way, which was his rank until 1885. During this time he rebuilt a portion of the Union bridge at Toledo, having had charge of the construction of the original bridge. This bridge was owned by a subsidiary company composed of the Pennsylvania Lines and the Wabash Railroad Company. After various belt lines had been built around the city this bridge was abandoned, and was long since removed from the river. In the spring of 1885 Mr. Cook was promoted to engineer of maintenance of way of the Little Miami Division of the Panhandle, with headquarters at Cincinnati. Ill health compelled him to resign in the fall of the same year. He went to Europe to recuperate. Returning in the summer of 1886 thoroughly restored, he was then appointed chief engineer of maintenance of way for the entire Norfolk & Western Railroad System, with headquarters at Roanoke, Virginia. This position he resigned in 1888 to become engineer of maintenance of way for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway, with headquarters at Buffalo. While there he was slated for chief engineer of the system, but within a month of the time the appointment was to have been made a change occurred in the ownership of the road, and the promotion was never made. In 1893 Mr. Cook, after twenty years of continuous service in engineering, resigned to devote himself to commercial affairs in Buffalo and manufacturing interests in Pennsylvania. He married Miss Margaret Drumgool at Erie, Pennsylvania, who died four years later in Buffalo. In 1897 he became district manager of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for the Northern District of New York. Later he was made associate general agent of the HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1221 Mutual Life, a position he held until he returned to Toledo in the spring of 1902. He returned on account of the serious illness of his father. His father died in September of that year. The son then took up the active management of his father's estate and the handling of his mother's property in Central Indiana. During succeeding years he found much of his time employed in the management of the estate. He erected three flat buildings in Toledo and two flat buildings and a commercial block at Marion, Indiana, and did much to improve the extensive McClure-Cook farm in Indiana. In August, 1911, Mr. Cook married Miss Gertrude H. Willard of Toledo, sister of Frederick B. Willard, the well known Toledo attorney. Previously, in 1908, Mr. Cook had engaged in the bond business, associated with the house of J. S. & W. S. Kuhn, Incorporated, of Pittsburg. He was their special representative in Ohio. That was his chief business connection until his death six years later. NELLIE (COOK) CUBBERLEY of Toledo has devoted the best years of her life to. music. In the finest sense of the word she possesses musicianship. Early in her career she realized what many mere musicians, particularly Americans, never understand, the distinction and yet the essential oneness between technique and soul and spirit. Mrs. Cubberley might properly be praised as a finished artist in the sense of possessing the marvelous flexibility and perfect control of the physical forces involved in perfect performance on the pianoforte. But before she was a technical artist Mrs. Cubberley had the musical soul. Many years she spent in the diligent practice which would enable this soul to find free expression unincumbered by the obstacles of execution. For upwards of a quarter of a century Mrs. Cubberley has appeared regularly on the concert stage. While perhaps best known in Toledo, which has been her home from childhood, she, has been a favorite before the musical public in America from coast to coast and in practically every important city North and South, East and West. Distinction and appreciation came to her in her early years while a student abroad. She won the favor of many of the great masters of music known to the present generation chiefly as venerated names and personalities. She is a native of Toledo and the only sur- Vol. II- 36 viving child of the late J. D. Cook, the eminent hydraulic engineer. She first attracted attention to her talent as a child of song. It is said that she made her first appearance in public at the age of five years, and not only sang but played her own accompaniments. On account of overwork and illness she was compelled to forego singing altogether for a number of years. While in Europe she resumed her studies in vocal music and for several months was under the tuition of the great singing master Lamperti of Italy. At the beginning of her career, taking up instrumental music, she spent six years with Louis Mathias, whose name as a great music master will always be cherished in Toledo, where he gave more than half a century of his life to the profession. In an artistic sense he was the early inspiration of Mrs. Cubberley, though the tender solicitude, encouragement and liberality of her father and mother constantly urged her to the highest perfection of her talent. She continued her studies in New York City under S. B. Mills, one of the foremost teachers of piano. His advice sent Miss Cook abroad. For two years she was a student in the Royal Conservatory of Leipsic, Germany, where she came under the instruction and inspiration of Dr. Carl Reinecke, Dr. Oscar Paul and the great technician Bruno Zwintscher. At the graduating concert in Leipsic she had the honor of playing a Chopin Concerto with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the leadership of Carl Reinecke, who publicly complimented her upon her brilliant achievement. Later Miss Cook studied at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the Hoch Conservatorium, and during that time had private lessons and associations at the artistic home of Frau Clara Schumann. In 1887 Miss Cook graduated from the Imperial Conservatory of Music at Vienna, where her instructor in piano was the noted Julius Epstein, and in harmony Herman Graedener. While in Vienna Miss Cook appeared in a number of concerts of the Imperial Conservatorium and was publicly complimented by the noted Prince Metternich. She also attended some classes presided over by the great Franz Liszt, in Weimar, Germany. Altogether. Miss Cook spent about six years in the famous capitals of Europe, and in that time gained an education and culture in the widest sense. She has enjoyed a fluent command of the German, French and Italian languages for many years. During the '90s Miss Cook went upon the 1222 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO concert stage, and alone or with other noted artists appeared before audiences from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia throughout the South. While so widely known in other cities, Miss Cook's talents and work have been especially cherished in Toledo, and for years she has been a powerful influence as a maintenance of the highest standards in musical art in that city. At her mother's home in Toledo, on September 6, 1905, Miss Nellie Cook married Mr. Lewis Perry Cubberley of Marion, Indiana. Mr. Cubberley, who divides his time between his business interests in Toledo and in Indiana, was born at Marion, Indiana, in 1852, spent his early years in the United States mail service, and has since become one of the prominent business leaders of his native city. His grandfather and Mrs. Cubberley's grandfather were associated as pioneers and founders of the City of Marion, Indiana, and the two families have been linked together by inviolable ties of friendship ever since. Mr. Cubberley 's father, Dr. David P. Cubberley, was a close friend of the late J. D. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Cubberley reside in Toledo, and in her home Mrs. Cubberley has her splendid musical library, her grand piano, and still keeps in close touch with the great art which has been the inmost and most vital part of her life. HON. JOHN V. CUFF. Several members of the Cuff family have made their mark in the professions and in varied affairs in Northwest Ohio. One of them was the late John V. Cuff, who by his own energy and ambition rose to a position of prominence in the bar and was for several years judge of probate court in Henry County. Thomas Cuff, father of the late Judge Cuff, was born May 27, 1812, at Castlehyde near Fermoy in County Cork, Ireland, of old Irish ancestry and of a family which had furnished many barristers to the profession. He was himself partly educated. for the priesthood, was graduated from the University of Edinburgh and for some cause left the university and came to America when quite young. He married Catherine Barry, who was also a native of Ireland, and had come at the age of twenty to the United States and lived in New York City until her marriage at the age of twenty-two. During the decade of the '40s Thomas Cuff and wife moved out to Fulton 'County, Ohio, and located on a farm, where they spent the rest of their days. They were members of the Catholic Church, and he was a democrat. They reared a family of five children. Judge John V. Cuff was born in Chesterfield Township of Fulton County, Ohio, August 21, 1851, and died at his home on Washington Street in Napoleon October 25, 1906, at the age of fifty-five years, two months and four days. He was reared on a farm in Fulton County, and had rather limited educational advantages during his early youth. His best early training in books, as well as in character and manners, came from his devoted and cultured mother. When only sixteen years of age he qualified as a teacher and he possessed an energy of intellect and an ambition which accounted for his rise in the world from humble circumstances. Largely by teaching he acquired the money necessary to complete a course in what is now Valparaiso University in Indiana, and during 1885 he was a student in the law department of the Cincinnati University. For sixteen years he taught school successfully both in Ohio and Michigan, and in 1886 was admitted to the bar. For twenty years he practiced law successfully at Liberty Center and in Napoleon. His usefulness early became apparent, and much of his time was spent in serving the public. He filled various minor and local offices in the different communities where he lived, and from 1883 to 1887 he was county representative in the State Legislature, and it is said that he looked after the interests of all his constituents without regard to politics. From 1893 to 1899 he filled the office of judge of the probate court for two consecutive terms, and the many interests that came before him as judge were administered with such careful fidelity and skill as to set a high record of efficiency in that office. Judge Cuff attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and was Past Eminent Commander of Defiance Commandery, No. 30, of the Knights Templar. He also passed all the chairs in the local lodge at Napoleon. He became .identified with Lodge No. 718 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Liberty Center, Ohio. While his funeral service was conducted by the minister of St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church at Napoleon, other participants were the Defiance Knights Templar Commandery, the Scottish Rite Consistory of Toledo, Napoleon Blue Lodge, and at Wauseon, where his body was HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1223 laid to rest, the final services being in charge of the Masonic Lodge of that city. Judge Cuff had an ideal home life. In 1878 he married Miss Edna Jane Fraker, who was born in Fulton County February 23, 1861., and is now living at Napoleon. She was educated in the public schools of Fulton County, and her parents were George and Mary Ann (Gorsuch) Fraker. Judge and Mrs. Cuff were devoted companions during their years of struggle and afterwards enjoyed a singularly happy and congenial home life among their children. Their three sons are John F., William A. and Frederick V., and their only daughter, Herma Jane, is the wife of Dr. A. M. Harrison of Bowling Green, Ohio. The oldest son of the late Judge Cuff is John F. Cuff, now clerk of courts for Henry County, having been elected to that office in 1914. He was born in Fulton County, Ohio, March 11, 1880, was a student for a time in the Michigan University and in 1903 graduated A. B. from Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. He has since been active in the real estate and loan business at Napoleon. He served in the offices of justice of the peace and for five years was deputy state oil inspector. He was married in 1907 to Marian L. Belknap, a native of Napoleon, and a daughter of Jeremiah P. Belknap. Mr. and Mrs. Cuff have two children named John V. and Nathaniel B. Mr. Cuff is a member of the following fraternities: Psi Upsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and Sigma Sigma. William A. Cuff, second son of the late Judge Cuff, is now one of the prominent members of the Napoleon bar. He was born at Napoleon June 13, 1888, grew up and received his education in the public schools and in Kenyon College, and in 1911 graduated from the law department of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar in 1910, and has since eenjoyed an increasing influence and practice. He is serving in the office of justice of the peace and as chief deputy of the board of elections. Like his father and brothers he is active in the Masonic Order, being a past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, a member of Defiance Commandery, No. 30, Knights Templar, and a member of the Holy Order of High Priesthood. He is also a member of the Eastern Star and the Mystic Shrine, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 929 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His fraternities are the Psi Upsilon, Phi Delta Phi and Theta Nu Epsilon. Frederick V. Cuff, the youngest son of Judge Cuff, was born in Napoleon July 18, 1892, graduated from the local high school in 1910, attended Kenyon College and the law department of the State University and was admitted to the bar December 19, 1914. He has since been associated in practice with his brother William. He is a member of Napoleon Lodge, No. 256, Free and Accepted Masons and Haley Chapter, No. 136, Royal Arch Masons. He also has affiliation with the Psi Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. JACOB W. BARNHILL, M. D., is the only homeopathic physician at Napoleon and in Henry County. He has practiced in that locality for more than twenty years, and in that time extended practice has come to him and his services are in demand by many of the very best families of the county. Doctor Barnhill is a thorough homeopath, and his long experience has shown him that people require not so much medicine as proper nursing and cheerful and comfortable environment and surroundings. The doctor has a magnetic personality and this, his patients claim, has been as much a factor in his success as the medicines which he administers. He is a graduate of the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, completing his course there in 1893, and for a short time practiced at Findlay, Ohio, before removing to Napoleon September 14, 1893. He has well equipped offices on Washington Street opposite the postoffice. Doctor Barnhill has also served as county coroner two terms, and is interested in all local affairs. Professionally he is a member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Institute and also the Homeopathic organization of Northwest Ohio. Doctor Barnhill was born in Hancock County six miles west of Findlay, Ohio, October 28, 1866. As he grew up on a farm he attended the public schools and later completed his literary education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he received a certificate to teach, but never made use of it. He is of old Pennsylvania stock. His grandfather, Gabriel Barnhill, was born in Pennsylvania, but early came to Ohio and died in this state. Joseph Barnhill, father of Doctor Barnhill, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, during the decade of the '30s, grew up on a farm, and subsequently located in Hancock County, where he married Sarah 1224 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Funkhauser, also a native of Ohio. They spent most of their married lives in Hancock County, where the father died at the age of seventy-three and the mother at seventy-four. They were Presbyterians and he was a democrat. Of their four sons and three daughters, two of the daughters are now deceased, and all those living are heads of families. Two other sons are physicians. Dr. Tobias G. is a graduate of the Homeopathic Medical School at Cleveland, is in practice at Findlay, and is married and has one son named Joseph. Dr. William D. graduated in the same year and same class as his brother Jacob, and has a successful practice at Fort Wayne, Indiana ; he is the father of three children : Vaithe, Reah and Freda, the daughter, Reah, being married. The other son is Daniel Barnhill, a farmer of Columbia, Indiana, and the father of two daughters and one son named Rosa Blanche, Pearl, and the son, Coral. Doctor Barnhill was married at the home of his bride five miles west of Findlay, Ohio, to Miss Alice V. Smaltz. She was born near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, January 2, 1870, was reared and educated there and after graduating from a business college taught bookkeeping in a business school until her marriage. Her parents were Louis and Martha Powell Smaltz, both natives of Fairfield County and her father of German ancestry. Her parents were married in Fairfield County and most of their children were born there, but about thirty years ago they located in Liberty Township of Hancock County, where they have since enjoyed an excellent farm home. Both are members of the Christian Union Church and her father is a democrat who has served as trustee of Liberty Township and is county commissioner of Hancock County. Doctor and Mrs. Barnhill had twin daughters who died at birth, and there are three living children : J. Walter, now fourteen, and is in the eighth grade of the public schools. Kenneth S., twelve years old and in sixth grade of the public schools. Martha A. was born February 21, 1906, and is in the fifth grade. Doctor and Mrs. Barnhill are members of the Presbyterian Church and fraternally he is affiliated with the subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Napoleon, with Maumee Valley Encampment of that order, with the Knights of Pythias and with Napoleon Lodge, No. 929, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is a democrat. GUY G. MAJOR was for many years one of the most picturesque figures in Ohio politics and business. During the '90s he served as mayor of Toledo, and was at one time a prominent republican candidate for the nomination for governor. He ruled with a strong hand and while none ever doubted his integrity he had that positive nature which made him many enemies as well as many loyal friends. He was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, October 19, 1859. Both his father and his grandfather were abolitionists of the most pronounced type, and his grandfather took an active part in the great meeting at Bloomington, Illinois, where the republican party was organized in that state. His grandfather moved from Virginia to Kentucky, but becoming convinced of the wrong of slave holding he liberated his own slaves and returned them at his expense to Liberia. While living in Bloomington he was associated with Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas and other great political leaders of the time. Guy G. Major spent his early youth in Ottumwa, Iowa, attended the public schools there, and was also a student at Grinnell College. Ill health compelled him to leave college and he went to California for his health. It was while in California that Mr. Major became interested in and identified with the business in which he was subsequently one of the foremost figures in America. In 1885 he became a factor in the Linseed oil industry, and for many years was head of the firm of Taylor, Major & Company. He later organized the Toledo Linseed Oil Company, which was later merged with the American Linseed Oil Company, and as president of the larger corporation he was the chief factor in the linseed oil industry of America. He was regarded everywhere as the most expert authority on all phases of the industry connected with the manufacture of linseed and castor oil. As president of the American Linseed Oil Company he spent much of his • time in New York. After resigning the presidency he returned to Toledo in 1907 and established The Guy G. Major Company, with a plant on the Lake Shore Railroad near East Broadway and Oakdale Avenue on the east side of Toledo. This company manufactured linseed and castor oil, and the growing business has already caused several additions to be made to the original plant, which is now known as the Toledo Lead & Oil Company. For years Mr. Major was a recognized