WILLIAM Z. DAVIS William Z. Davis, At present (1905) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye State, and was born in the village of Loydsville, Belmont County, on the loth of June, 1839. He is a descendant of the Revolutionary stock in the Old Dominion. His father, Dr. Bushrod Washington Davis, was a native of Loudon County, Va. The late Dr. John Davis, an eminent physician and surgeon of Dayton, was his uncle. His mother, a former Miss Harriet Hatcher, was also a member of the well-known Virginia family of that name. 'Judge William Z. Davis was educated in the public schools and a private academy. He has been a life-long student and was for many years a member of the American Microscopical Society, withdrawing only because pressure of business duties interfered with scientific studies. He served out a three months' enlistment in the Fourth Ohio Regiment during the Civil War, and afterwards served in the Ninety-sixth Ohio Regiment until physically disabled and honorably discharged during the Vicksburg campaign. In the meantime he was admitted to the bar and after coming out of the military service, and upon regaining his health, judge Davis entered upon the practice of the law. Almost from the beginning he as recognized as a leader in his chosen profession and obtained a large practice, which extended into all the State and Federal courts. The suggestion of his name for the office of Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio was received with enthusiasm by lawyers of all political parties throughout the State, and he was nominated by the Republican party in June, 1899, as its candidate for that office. He was elected in November of that year, up to which time he had never held an elective office. On the loth. of January, 1900, he was appointed by Governor Nash to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Bench caused >by the resignation of Judge Joseph P. Bradbury, who had resigned the day before. Judge Davis entered upon the regular term of his distinguished office on the 9th of February, 1900, which term will expire in 1906. Judge Davis has made an enviable reputation during hiS term of office. His decisions are closely reasoned and clearly expressed, and are always based on sound judgment, careful consideration and the established principles of the law. John Allen Shauck, Judge. of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was born on a farm in Morrow County, Ohio, on the 26th of March, 1841. He is of German extraction, his great-grandparents having emigrated from Bavaria to the .United States. Judge Shauck's parents were natives of Pennsylvania, his father, Elah Shauck, a farmer, being born in York County, and his mother, Barbara Halderman Shauck, in Lancaster County, that State. His early education was obtained in the public and private schools of his home county, after which he attended Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, taking a classical course. After his graduation from that well-known seat of learning; Judge. Shauck took up the study of law at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating from there in 1867. Being admitted to the bar, he came to - 326 - Dayton, where he immediately opened an office and became engaged in the general practice of law, continuing in practice until he took his seat on the bench of the Second Circuit Court of Ohio, in February, 1885, to which office he had been elected in the fall of the year previous. At the close Of his first term of office, having served with distinction, he was re-elected to a second term by an increased majority. In 1894 Judge Shauck was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of OhiO, Which position he has honorably and ably filled up to the present writing. Judge Shauck is a staunch follower of Republican principles and doctrines and has rendered of party many valuable services. He is a man of distinguished appearance, engaging manners, decided ability, sound common sense and a polished speaker. While he lives in Columbus, he still claims .Dayton, the "Gem City," as his home,' and goes there every election to vote. On the 1st of June, 1876, judge Shauck married Miss Ada May Phillips, of Centralia, Ill. One daughter, Helen Camille Shauck, is the surviving issue of their union. James L. Price, Of Lima, Ohio, justice of the Supreme Court of the Buckeye State, is a native of Ohio. He was born on a farm near New Hagerstown, Carroll County, on the 27th of March, 1840, and received a common school and academic education. After teaching two terms of common school, he entered upon the study of law with Eckley & Shober, of Carrollton, Ohio, and was admitted to practice at the' ar at Cadiz, 0., in September, 1862. He immediately opened an office at Carrollton, where he served as justice of the peace and Mayor, until elected Prosecuting Attorney, in October, 1862. After one term of service judge Price removed to Van Wert, Ohio, in April, 1865, where he served three terms as Prosecuting Attorney, and gained a lucrative general practice. In 1883, he removed to the rapidly growing city of Lima, and there entered upon an extended practice in the State and Federal Courts, which he enjoyed until elected to the Circuit Court of the third Circuit, being the first and only Republican ever elected to the office in that Circuit prior to the year 1904, having a plurality of almost four thousand in a very - 327 - strongly Democratic Circuit. He was a candiddate for and elected to the Supreme Court of the State in 1901 by a large majority, leading the State Ticket by about five hundred votes. Judge Price entered upon the duties of the office on the 9th of February, 1902. William B. Crew, Whose present term of office as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio will expire in February, 1909, is one of the most distinguished jurists of the Buckeye State. He is a native Ohioan, born on the 1st of April, 1852, at Chester Hill, Morgan County. His parents, Fleming and Sarah Patterson Crew, were also natives of Ohio. A careful education was given to Judge Crew in the public schools of his home district, and "Westtown," a school under the auspices of the Society of "Friends," located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about twenty miles from Philadelphia. Later, he attended the Ohio State and Union Law College of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating with the degree of LL.B., after having been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio the year previous. Judge Crew began his public career at the age of 24, when he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Morgan County, which position he filled for one term. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature, attending the sessions of the 69th General Assembly. While still a member of that distinguished body, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the first sub-division of the Eighth Judicial District of Ohio, in the fall of 1891, filling that position with such marked ability and success that he was re-elected to a second term, in 1896, and to a third term, in 1901. When he had served less than one year of his third term, on the 19th of July, 1902, he was appointed by Governor Nash to fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge Williams, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Previous to this appointment, in May, of 1902, Judge Crew had received the nomination to the same office by the Republican State Convention, held in the city of Cleveland, and, in the fall of the same year he was elected to fill out the short term, caused by the death of his predecessor, and also for the full term of six years, commencing on the 9th of February, 1903. Judge Crew was married on the 9th of May, 1876, to Elizabeth P. Worrall. His children are Mrs. Henry Ross Gall, of Washington, D. C., and F. Harold Crew. Judge Crew resides at McConnellsville, Ohio. Augustus N. Summers, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, a jurist of most eminent ability, is a native Ohioan, bred, born and educated in the Buckeye State. He was born on the 13th of June, 1856, in Shelby, Richland County, Ohio. His father, Rev. Daniel Summers, came from Pennsylvania stock, and removed to Ohio in 1847, where he attended Wittenberg College, Springfield, making his home in the State. Judge Summers received the advantage of the thorough education of his father, who trained the son in early youth most carefully. After attending the - 328 - public, schools, Judge Summers matriculated at Wittenberg College, graduating from there in 1879, and began the reading of law under the splendid instructions of Hon. S. A. Bowman, of Springfield. He was admitted to the Bar in 1881, and was at once taken into partnership by his preceptor. In 1885 Judge Summers first came before the people as a candidate for public office, and was elected City Attorney, which position he successfully filled for six years. Retiring from his incumbency in 1891, he resumed the general practice of law, forming a partnership with George A. Beard," a well-known attorney, which firm continued until 1894, when Judge Summers was elected one of the Judges of the Second Circuit of Ohio, succeeding Judge Gilbert H. Stewart, of Columbus. After serving on the Bench for one term to the entire satisfaction of the people, he was re-elected by an increased majority. Judge Summers has always been an aggressive worker in the interest of his party, which he has strongly supported during his entire active career. At the Republican State Convention held in the city of Columbus, in June, 1903, Judge Summers was nominated for the Supreme Bench, the highest judicial position in the gift of the people of his State, and his election followed in the fall of the same year. Judge Summers' name is a synonym for integrity, sound common sense and rare judgment. He is a man of great intellectual power, commanding appearance, engaging manners, decided ability, and a clear thinker. In 1887, he became the husband of Miss Nellie Thomas, daughter of John H. Thomas, of Springfield, Ohio. William Thomas Spear, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was born in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, June 3, 1834. His general education was received at the public schools of his native place, and at the Latin school of Mr. Junius Dana, an institution of much local celebrity, which flourished during the late forties and early fifties at Warren. Leaving this school, young Spear learned the art of printing, which he pursued for a time. and then entered upon the study of the law, having early set his heart upon a. professional life. Jacob Dolson Cox, then a practicing lawyer at Warren, afterward a State Senator,- General in the Union Army, and Governor of Ohio, was his tutor in the law. Desiring still further legal education, the student took a course at the Harvard Law School, graduating there in the year 1859. Soon thereafter, having been admitted to the Bar, Mr. Spear entered upon the practice at Warren, as the junior member of the firm of Cox, Ratliff & Spear. His experience for a number of years was the usual one incident to the life of the struggling barrister, but in time, by industry and pluck, and devotion to the interests of his clients, he reached an enviable position at the Bar as an accurate and painstaking practitioner, and attained an equally enviable standing in the community as a man of high purposes and exemplary life. In the year 1864, Mr. Spear was married to Miss Frances Eliza York, of Lima, New York. The union has proved in all respects a fortunate and happy one. Besides the father and mother the family consists of four sons. The oldest is a mechanical engineer, at present - 331 - engaged in supervising the building of machinery at Birmingham, England ; the second is a farmer ; the third (a graduate of the Annapolis Naval Academy, and for over ten years a Naval Constructor), is manager of th e construction of submarine torpedo boats for the Electric Boat Company, Quincy, Mass., and the youngest is a student at the University of .Virginia, Charlottesville. Judge Spear has enjoyed, more fully than has been the fortune of many, the confidence of his. fellow-citizens. He was early chosen Solicitor of his native City, serving tw.o terms in that office; then elected Prosecuting Attorney of his county, serving in that capacity two terms; then (in the year 1878) elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and at the expiration of his first term re-elected. While serving as Judge of the Common Pleas Court he was elected to the bench of the Supreme Court, and has been elected four times since, the last election being in November, 1904, when his plurality reached over 230,000. These continued elections certify more fully than words can the satisfactory work he has done on the bench. His opinions are found in the Ohio State Reports from volume forty-four to volume seventy-one, inclusive, and it is not too much to say that they evince a thorough knowledge of the law, a clear comprehension of legal principles, and a trained judgment in their application •to facts ; nor is it too much to say that they rank among the best rendered by the Court during his period of service. Affable in manner, courteous to everybody, and possessing the confidence of all who are brought in contact with him, Judge Spear is widely popular. His friends are legion. His political affiliations are with the Republican Party. Emilius Oviatt Randall, Reporter of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was born in Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, on the 28th of October, 1850. He is the son of Rev. David Austin Randall, D.D., and Harriet Oviatt Randall. His father was a distinguished clergyman of the Baptist Denomination, who for a long time was editor of the "Journal and Messenger," the State organ of the denomination. He was a famous pulpit orator and lecturer, an extensive traveler, and an author of hooks. Three great great-grandfathers of E. O. Randall fought in the American Revolutionary War : John Randall, who enlisted from New London, Connecticut, on the 13th of July, 1775, served through the entire Revolutionary War ; Patrick Grant Pemberton, who enlisted in the Connecticut militia, in General Andrew Ward's command, and Benjamin Oviatt, who enlisted as a "Minute Man," and served in the Connecticut troops. Another lineal ancestor was Ebenezer Pemberton, one of the founders and for many years pastor of the famous "Old South Church," Boston, Mass. From this family "Pemberton's Square," Boston, was named. E. 0. Randall was fitted for college in the Columbus (Ohio) High School and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1869-1870, and graduated from Cornell University with the degree of Ph.B., in 1874; from the - 332 - College of Law of the Ohio State University, with the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M., in 1892. He was admitted to the Bar by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1890, and has occupied the position of Reporter of the Ohio Supreme Court since 1895. He has edited and published twenty-one volumes of Ohio's Supreme Court. decisions. He has been professor of law of the Ohio State. University since 1893 ; editor of Negotiable Bill Act of Ohio, and other legal text books ; secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society since 1894 ; he has edited thirteen volumes of the historical publications of that society ; is a member of the American Bar Association, American Library Association, Society of Americal Authors, Sons of the American Revolution ; was a member of the Columbus Board of Education in 1887 and in 1889, President of the Columbus Board of Trade, 1889; Trustee of the Columbus Public Library since 1887, and President since 1903. He is author of "History of Blennerhasset," (1889) ; "History of the Separatist Society of Zoar" (1889) ; Associate Editor "Bench and Bar of Ohio," two volumes (Chicago, 1897) ; Editor of the "Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly" since 1897 ; Mr. Randall, as associate author with the Hon. D. J. Ryan, formerly Secretary of State, is engaged in .writing "The History of Ohio," which will comprise two octavo volumes, covering the pioneer growth and political development of the State ; he is a life member of the "Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society," and was appointed Trustee of that society by Governors McKinley, Bushnell, Nash and Herrick. As a political speaker and platform lecturer Mr. Randall has spoken in nearly every county in the State. He was delegate-at-large from the Ohio Society S. A. R. to the National Convention of that body held at St. Louis on the 15th and 16th of June, 1904, a delegate from the Twelfth Ohio District to the National Republican Convention, June, 1904, at Chicago, Ill. Mr. E. 0. Randall was married on the 28th of October, 1874, at Ithaca, New York, to Mary A. Coy, who had three great - grandfathers who participated in the American Revolution. One was a "Minute Man" and Lieutenant of a company at Lexington and Concord, another was an officer in one of the companies that fought at the. Battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Randall have three children : a daughter, Rita, and two sons, David A. and Sherman B. Randall. Elliot Howard Gilkey, Marshal and Librarian of the Supreme Court of Ohio, is a native of the historic Western Reserve. He was born on the 8th of February, 1857, in Warren, Trumbull County, and is the son of Sheldon Elliot Gilkey and Emma Roberts-Gilkey, and comes from that good aril, sturdy New England stock, that has contributed so much to the civilization and energy of American life. His ancestors were among the first pioneers of Ohio, his father's people corning to Ohio early in the nineteenth century from Windsor, Vermont, while the parents of his mother, John Roberts and Emily Hotchkiss-Roberts, left their home in Connecticut, the one from Hartford and the other from New Haven, about 1820, and emigrated to the West to build up a New England in the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio. They were married after coming to Ohio. When the Civil War broke - 333 - out the father of Mr. E. Howard Gilkey enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was killed by gunshot wounds in the Battle of the Wilderness, near Chancellorsville, Va., in May, 1864. He was seen to fall in action, but his pocket Bible was the only thing belonging to him ever recovered and restored to his family. Mr. E. Howard Gilkey obtained his early education in the public schools of Cleveland, until he was admitted to the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Xenia, in January, 1870. Here he attended the Home's High School, from which institution he graduated in June, 1874. He started into public life at the age of sixteen, as Page in the Ohio Senate by appointment of Lieutenant Governor J. C. Lee, and on the recommendation of Superintendent Griswold, of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. His second public appointment came in 1876, when, at the age of nineteen years, he was unanimously chosen Journal Clerk of the Senate, being the youngest person to hold that position. In the years from 1878 to 1884 Mr. Gilkey was a traveling salesman in the hardware trade, and in 1885 he entered the journalistic field and became Assistant City Editor of the Ohio State Journal. In 1882 Mr. Gilkey organized in Ohio the order known as the Sons of Veterans, with which he has been continuously affiliated ever since, having held the rank of Division and Grand Division Commanders, and being an ex-officio life member of the. National Commandery in Chief. He belongs to Camp No. 1, Ohio Division. Politically, Mr. Gilkey is a faithful follower of Republican principles, and is a worker in the ranks of the Republicans of Franklin County. From 1885-1887 he was financial officer of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home ; from 1888-1896 Bookkeeper to the Auditor of. State ; Assistant Clerk in the Senate of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly, and Clerk of the State Board of -Equalization in 1901. On the 1st of July, 1901, Mr. Gilkey was appointed First Assistant Librarian of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and elected to his present position on the 3rd of October, 1963, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Frank N. Beebe, former Marshal and Librarian. Mr. Gilkey was married on the 24th of January, 1884, to Florence V. Reed, of Springfield, Ohio, a soldier's daughter, and has two daughters, Helen and Ethel, and one son,. Earle Lincoln Gilkey. While a member of the clerical force of the Senate Mr. Gilkey became the editor and compiler of the "Manual of Legislative Practice in Ohio" (1900-1), and of the "Ohio Hundred Year Book," a record of State Departments for the first hundred years of Ohio's Statehood, 1803-1902. Mr. Gilkey is a man of great energy and intellectual force, of unassuming manners and a pleasant personality. He has a multitude of friends. His home is in Columbus, Ohio. Lawson E. Emerson, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio, ranks among the most popular State officials. He was born in Belmont County, Ohio, on the 25th of September, 1863, and obtained his early education in the common schools of his native county, graduating from the Barnesville High School, and subsequently from the Valparaiso (Ind.) Normal School. For several years before deciding to study law he taught school in Belmont County, and was - 334 - very successful in that line. He afterward studied law with the late Hon. Lorenzo Danford, and later graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. In 1890 he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Belmont County Courts, serving under Henry M. Davies for six years. In 1895, Mr. Emerson was nominated and elected Clerk of the Courts of Belmont County, and in 1898 was re-elected for a second term. So well did he administer the office during his incumbency that his friends insisted that he make the race for a third term, but he declined, and entered the lists for the nomination for Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio, being nominated by the Republican State Convention that assembled in Columbus, in June, 1901. As Clerk of the Belmont County Courts and in his present post he has proven himself a model officer, popular with the bench and bar. He has always been a Republican of the most stalwart variety. On the 8th' of May, 1892 Mr. Emerson married Miss Laura Ferren, at St. Clairsville, and two little 'boys, Wayne and Glenn, now grace the Emerson household. At the expiration of his first term Mr. Emerson was re-elected for a second term. Joseph G. Obermeyre, Chief Deputy to the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio, belongs to the best known younger members of the Hamilton County Bar. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born September 27, 1862, at Latrobe, in Westmoreland County. His father, Joseph G. Obermeyre, was born in Bavaria and emigrated to the United States about 1840; his mother, Elizabeth (Wittmann) Obermeyre, belonged to an old Bavarian family that dates back to the Twelfth' Century. They married in the old country and, after having migrated, settled in Western Pennsylvania. Young Obermeyre obtained his education in the schools of the city of Pittsburgh and at St. John's College in Minnesota. After leaving college he taught languages at the old Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, for seven years, after which he took up the study of law and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1889, being admitted to practice in the same year. He immediately engaged in the general practice of his chosen profession, and was associated with the late Colonel W. E. Bundy, and for a time was a member of the firm of Bundy, Obermeyre & Woods, Cincinnati. Mr. Obermeyre has always been a faithful supporter of Republican principles, and for many years has taken an active part in Hamilton County politics. In the fall of 1899 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for the State Legislature from Hamilton County, but owing to the disturbances of the FUsion movement in Hamilton County at that time was defeated by a small margin with the test of the ticket. Two years later, in February, 1902, he Was offered and accepted 'the responsible position of Chief Deputy to the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio, which he now holds. Mr. Obermeyre was married to Miss Annie Moore Woodworth, a grand-daughter of the late Colonel R. M. - 335 - Moore, ex-Mayor of Cincinnati, in 1896. They have one daughter. Mr. Obermeyre has his temporary residence in Columbus, Ohio. Andrew Sheets Iddings, Attorney at law and Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was born on the 18th of October, 1880, at Dayton, Ohio. His father, the late Charles D. Iddings, descending from an ancestry the chief American figure of which was the Revolutionary hero, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, was prominent in the legal profession and in politics. Charles D. Iddings and his wife, Belle Sheets, were both native Daytonians, and Andrew was the second of three sons. He received his education at private schools and at the Steele High School in Dayton, from which he graduated first in a class of two hundred. He entered public life early, devoting part of his time to Republican politics, where his services were soon recognized and rewarded by his appointment in December, 1899 as Deputy Collector of United States Internal Revenue, with office at Dayton. He resigned this position in 1902 to become Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court at Columbus, which position he now occupies. During this time Mr. Iddings has been active in State and local politics, and has won for himself an enviable popularity. He is by profession an attorney, having been admitted to the Bar in June; 1903, and, as his other duties permit, practices law. In the year 1902 his attention was attracted to the wonderful possibilities of Western Canada, and at the invitation of the Canadian Government he made an extensive tour of investigation through that country, detailing his observations in some recent publications from his pen, "A Transcontinental Panorama" and "Canada's Great West." The following year Mr. Iddings, in company with his brother, made further observations there, involving a one thousand mile horse-back trip of exploration into the northern wilds of Athabasca. As a director of The Western Canada Land Company of Dayton he is one of the leading spirits of a large immigration and colonization enterprise which is just beginning to attract attention in Ohio. Mr. Iddings is unmarried, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Wade H. Ellis, Attorney General of the State of Ohio, is one of the leading members of the Hamilton County Bar. He was one of the chief factors in the drawing of the new municipal code of Ohio, which went into effect on the first Monday in May, 1903, and in which the interests of the people of Ohio had been, concentrated. Mr. Ellis belongs to the class of men who must succeed, because they know no such word as "fail." He is thirty-eight years old, and a product of the State of Kentucky, being born in Covington. He obtained his education - 336 - in the Cincinnati public schools, and he has spent most of his life in the Queen City. Mr. Ellis started into public life as a reporter on the Cincinnati Times Star and the Commercial Gazette, in 1886; and in 1887, at the age of twenty, became the city editor of the "Sun." A little later, desiring to finish his education, he left newspaper work and entered the Washington Lee University of Virginia. He also took the law course at this university, won the law scholarship and graduated with the honors of his class. Returning to practice law in Cincinnati, Mr. Ellis accepted the position of managing editor of the Tribune, and at the consolidation of the Tribune with the Commercial Gazette, he became managing editor of the new Commercial Tribune, which latter position he held until 1897, when he was appointed First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Cincinnati. He served in that capacity for three years under Mr. Ellis G. Kinkead, and for two and a half years under Mr. Charles J. Hunt, resigning on the 1st of January, 1903, to enter private practice. Prior to the extraordinary session of the Legislature, in 1902, Governor Nash requested Mr. Ellis and Mr. Nicholas Longworth to assist him in framing the new code for the government of the municipalities of the State. This work gained for Mr. Ellis a wide reputation throughout the State. At the Republican State Convention, held in June, 1903, in the city of Columbus, Mr. Ellis was nominated by acclamation for the office of Attorney General. His election followed in November of the same year. Attorney General Ellis has for many years been an earnest and effective advocate of Republican principles. He has been a member of the Blaine Club since 1895, and also of the Stamina Republican League. He resides in Cincinnati. George H. Jones, First Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, located at Columbus, was born on the 3oth of June, 1857, at Portsmouth, Ohio. His father, David D. Jones, was engaged in the grocery business for many years in that city, and he, as well as his wife, Mrs. Margarth (Griffith) Jones, were natives of Wales. Both came over to this country when very young. The son, George H. Tones, obtained his education at the city of his birth, and later entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1877, with the degree of L. B. Starting in public life at the age of twenty-one years as a lawyer, he became associated with that eminent jurist of Portsmouth, Colonel Henry Ewing Jones, with whom he remained for a number of years. In politics Mr. Jones has always been an active and aggressive Republican, and has served his party in many capacities. In the year of 1883 he was appointed a member of the United States Shipping Commission, Puget Sound, Washington. Remaining there a number of years, he became a member of the Constitutional Convention, which met in the year of 1889 to frame the first Constitution of the new State of - 337 - Washington. During his stay in the Northwest he was made President of the School Board at Port Townsend, Washington. In 1898, President McKinley appointed him special United States Attorney at Washington, D. C. Two years later, Mr. Jones returned to his native State, located at Columbus, and became a member of the law firm of Jones & Kinney, with offices in the Spahr Building. When Mr. Sheets was elected Attorney General of the State of Ohio he appointed Mr. Jones First Assistant Attorney General. During his incumbency many important cases carne before him, requiring the keenest attention and careful study. That his efforts were appreciated is proven by the fact that upon the election of Attorney General Ellis, Mr. Jones was reappointed to the office which he so ably filled under Mr. Ellis' predecessor. Mr. Jones has taken an active part in the military affairs of the country and while in the State of Washington, was Captain in the militia. On the 25th of October, 1883, he was united in marriage to Ada B. Finch. His official headquarters are in the Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio. Smith W. Bennett, Special Counsel in the department of the Attorney General of Ohio, is a man of extraordinary ability, who undoubtedly has a brilliant career before him. His relation to the department has been a unique one. It was for Mr. Bennett, and to fit the terms of his employment, and to define his duties, that the Legislature created the title "Special Counsel." While acting under the general direction of the Attorney General there have been assigned to him some of the most difficult cases originated in the office. These cases have taken him before all the higher courts, State and Federal, including the highest of all. This rigid test of his ability has not diminished the considerable reputation which was his when he received his appointment. It was his efficient work in the department of the Attorney General which influenced Governor Nash, himself a lawyer, to select Mr. Bennett as a member of the "Governor's Committee," to draft the municipal code, a committee of which no other State officer was a member. Mr. Bennett's. acquaintance with municipal law made his assistance invaluable in creating the original draft of the code, which the Governor recommended to the Legislature. During the special session of the Legislature, in 1902, Mr. Bennett was called upon time and again by the Code Committee of Senate and House for argument and conferences. After the enactment of the code the Attorney General assigned to Mr. Bennett the not always easy,. but decidedly exacting labor of construing for the benefit of city and village officers and Councilmen the numerous. mooted points in the new omnibus charter for municipalities. Mr. Bennett is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born in Apollo, Armstrong County, on the 8th of May, 1859. His parents Moved to Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, when he was four years old, and this - 338 - city has been his home ever since. After receiving his education in the schools of Bucyrus, Mr. Bennett read law with Congressman S. R. Harris, of Bucyrus, and was admitted to the Bar in 1882, after which he immediately took up the practice of his profession. He had not long to wait for recognition, for two years later he was invited to form a partnership by General E. B. Finley, a connection which lasted thirteen years. During the last four years of this period Judge Thomas Beer was also a partner, under the firm name of Finley, Beer & Bennett. On the 1st of May, 1898, Mr. Bennett entered the Attorney General's office to assume charge of special litigation under Attorney General Monnett, and he was, reappointed by Attorney Generals Sheet and Ellis. A lawyer to his finger tips, Mr. Bennett's interest in his profession has made him an active, working member of the State Bar Association, of which he was Secretary in 1901 and 1902. In 1901 he read before this association a notable paper on "The Operation of the Double Stock Liability in Ohio." It was the first forcible attack on the bad effect of the double liability provision of the State Constitution, and as such commanded general attention throughout the State. It bore fruit also, for it resulted in the adoption by the Legislature of the resolution to submit to the voters the question of amending the constitution and to throw out this highly detrimental section which has driven millions of Ohio capital to incorporate in foreign States. The resolution, endorsed by the Republican and Democratic State Conventions, was adopted by the people in the fall election of 1903. Mr. Bennett was .also in the front of the agitation for the relief of the 'individual tax payer from the burden of supporting the State Government. In politics, Mr. Bennett has been a Republican of unswerving loyalty. His office is located in the new part of the State Building, at Columbus, Ohio. Edmund A. Jones, State School Commissioner of Ohio, is one of the distinguished educators of the State, and for over a quarter of a century he was at the head of the public schools of Massillon, of which city he is an honored and influential citizen. Mr. Jones is a New Englander by birth and an Ohioan by adoption, and 'was born on the nth of February, 1842, at Rockville, Massachusetts, the son of Elisha Adams and Rhoda Ellis Jones. His great-grandfather was Simpson Jones, a native of Medway, Massachusetts, and an agriculturist by occupation. Elisha Adams Jones, the grandfather of the School Commissioner, was born in Massachusetts in 1781 and died in 186o. He was well educated, taught school for many years, and in later life was a farmer. He was prominent in his community and served as a Captain of the Massachusetts militia. The father of Mr. Edmund A. Jones was born in October, 1815, and died in October, 1899. He was also a teacher, and followed farming. Rhoda Ellis, the professor's mother, was born in Medway, Massachusetts, in 1820, and was the daughter of Moses Ellis, also a native of Massachusetts and a descendant of one of the old families of that commonwealth. She was a lady of more - 339 - than ordinary intelligence and education, having been a student of the old Bradford Academy. Her death occurred in 1873. Mr. Edmund A. Jones received his early education in the common schools, and was fitted for college at Mt. Hollis Academy. In 1800 he entered Amherst College, where he pursued his studies for two years, leaving the college in the fall of 1862 to enlist in Company B, Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. With this regiment he was sent first. to New Orleans to join Banks' expedition. The first battle he participated in was Bayou La Fourche, in June, 1863, in which engagement he was seriously wounded in the left shoulder. While the wound was most painful and needed attention, he was compelled to remain on duty for three days thereafter, before he was ordered to New Orleans to have it properly dressed. He held the rank of Fifth Sergeant, and was recommended by his Lieutenant Colonel for promotion for meritorious service. In July, 1863, he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at Boston, when he resumed his studies at Amherst College, graduating from this institution in 1865 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later he received the degree of Master of Arts. While at Amherst he was President of the Sophomore class of '64, and of the Senior class of '65. Mr. Jones began his educational work in 1865 as professor of Latin and gymnastic instructor at Lake Forest, Illinois. At the close of his second year he was made Assistant Principal, and so continued until the fourth year, when he was advanced to the, post of Principal of the Academy. In October, 1864 he came to Massillon, as Superintendent of the city schools, in which position he served for four years. He then resigned to accept a similar position at Marietta, Ohio, to which he had been elected without solicitation on his part, and without ever having even met a member of the Board of Education of that city. But so pleased had been the people of Massillon with his administration of school affairs in their city that, in 1875, he was elected and induced to accept the Superintendency at this place again, and from that time on has continued at the head of the city schools, his administration proving so uniformly successful and satisfactory that he has been re-elected from time to time, practically without opposition. For ten or twelve years Mr. Jones was a member of the Board of Examiners of Stark County, and was President of the Board several years. In 1889 he was elected Principal of the West Cleveland High School at an advanced salary, but the Massillon Board of Education, unwilling to relinquish him, promptly met the raise, and retained his services. Mr. Jones was a member of the Ohio State Board of Examiners from 1887 to 1895. He assisted in the organization of the State Teachers' Reading Circle in 1883, and for several years was Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. He has been a member of the Board of Control continuously to the present time. He is a member of the Ohio Teachers Association, and in 1842 was President of the same. He has been Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Charity Rotch School for many years, and Treasurer of the McClymonds Public Library. He has been a trustee of the Presbyterian Church for twenty years or more ; also an Elder, and for more than a quarter of a century was Superintendent of the Sunday School. He is an active member and Past Commander of Hart Post, No. 134, Grand Army of the Republic, and has 'been President of the Stark County Soldiers' Relief Commission for sixteen years. He was a delegate to the Grand Army of the Republic National Convention at Boston in 1896. He helped to organize the Massillon Board of Trade, and has served as its Secretary from the time of its organization. On June 4, 1903, Mr. Jones received the Republican nomination for State Commissioner of Common Schools. In November of the same year he was elected by a plurality of 117,169, receiving the largest vote ever given a candidate for that office. On the 23d of December, 1873, Mr. Jones married Flora Richards, who was horn in Massillon. She was - 340 - a daughter of Warren C. and Helen (Ford) Richards. One son, Walter Elisha was born, on the 4th of March, 1883. There was also a daughter, Flora Ellis, born in December, 1879, but who died the same year. The son graduated from the Massillon High School, afterward attending the Hudson Preparatory School and Amherst College, from which he graduated in June, 1904. Mr. Jones has long been a popular lecturer before county institutes and teachers' associations. In June, 1903, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Ohio University at Athens. Joseph Hugh Snyder, Assistant State School Commissioner of Ohio, and an educator of great prominence, was born on the 16th of December, 1852, at West Massillon, Indiana. Both his parents were natives of this country, his father, Dr. Joseph Snyder, being born in Pennsylvania, and his mother, Eliza Smith Snyder, in the Buckeye State. Mr. Snyder obtained a very careful education. He is a graduate from the Ohio Central College, located at Iberia, where he completed his course of study, receiving the degree of B. S. in 1882. Heidelberg University, at Tiffin, Ohio, later conferred upon him the degree of A. M. During all his active life, Mr. Snyder has been closely identified with the educational interests of the State of Ohio, and has filled a number of responsible positions. He was made principal of the High School at Crestline, Ohio, in 1878, holding this position until 1884, when he took charge of the Superintendency of the public schools of Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Here he remained for a period of six years, during which time the schools of that city were raised to a standard of high efficiency. From 1890 to 1900, Mr. Snyder was Superintendent of the public schools of Tiffin, Ohio, and later he occupied the same position in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, resigning same at the close of the school year of 1904. On the 11th of July, 1904, Mr. Snyder assumed the duties of his present position as Assistant State School Commissioner, which place was tendered to him by the present School Commissioner, Mr. E. A. Jones. For a period of six years Mr. Snyder was a member of the Morrow County Board of School Examiners. He is interested also in mercantile affairs, being Vice President of the Tiffin Art Metal Company, manufacturers of steel ceilings and ornamental iron work. In politics, Mr. Snyder is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party, and has on different occasions taken an active interest in the affairs of his party. Socially, he belongs to the different branches of Masonry ; he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Knight Templar. On the 11th of May, 1876, he was married to Miss Mary Fate, who died on the 28th of June, 1902, leaving one daughter, Aura G. Snyder, who is now the wife of Mr. George C. Kalbfleisch, of Tiffin. Mr. Snyder's office is located in the State Capitol, Columbus, Ohio. - 341 - Charles Burleigh Galbreath, Was born in Fairfield Township, Columbiana County, February 25, 1858. His early life was spent on the farm. At the age of seventeen he began teaching in the rural schools. In June of 1879 he completed a course in the Lisbon High School and in September of the same year entered Mt. Union College, from which he was graduated in 1883. Later this institution conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He was. Superintendent of the Wilmot (Ohio) schools from 1883 to 1885, when he resigned to accept the Superintendency of the East Palestine (Ohio) schools, where he remained eight years. Although unanimously re-elected for two years more, he resigned to accept a position in Mt. Hope College, and was later promoted to the Presidency of that institution. While in East Palestine he was for two years editor of "The Reveille," now "The Reveille Echo." While teaching he frequently did institute work. He was School Examiner of Columbiana County from 1885 to 1893. In 1886 he was granted a life certificate by the State Board of Examiners. In 1896 he was elected State Librarian by the Library Commission created by the Seventy-second General Assembly. Since entering upon the duties of his present position, a number of changes have been inaugurated in the management of the State Library. It is now open on equal terms to all citizens of the State. A system of traveling libraries has been organ- ized and these collections of books have been sent to patronizing communities in every county of Ohio. Among all the States of the Union Ohio leads in the number of traveling libraries issued. Within the period of his administration the number of volumes in the State Library has more than doubled. He is a member of the Ohio Library Association, the American Library Association, and the National Association of State Librarians. Of the last-named organization he was President in 190o. He is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. Under the direction of Colonel Ethan Allen, of New York, Mr. Galbreath, in 1897, organized the Columbus Branch of the Cuban League of America, of which he was Secretary. This League, which was organized for the purpose of aiding the Cubans, had two thousand members in Columbus, and was active in the advocacy of armed intervention just before the Spanish-American War. Mr. Galbreath is author of the following books and monographs : "Sketches of Ohio Libraries," "First Newspaper in Ohio," "Daniel Decatur Emmett, Author of 'Dixie,' " "Samuel Lewis, Ohio's Militant Educator and. Reformer," "Alexander Coffman Ross, Author of 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' " and "Benjamin Russel Hanby, Author of 'Darling Nellie Gray.' " He has written other sketches and has contributed to library and educational journals. - 342 - Isaac B. Cameron, Of Lisbon, Columbiana County, under the Nash administration Treasurer of State, was born in the city of Nairn, Scotland. When he was yet an infant, his widowed mother emigrated to America, to better her condition and provide greater facilities for the education of her family, of which the subject of this sketch was the youngest of six, believing that in so doing she could afford them more abundant opportunities for success in life. Upon arriving in this country the family located on a farm in Jefferson County, a short distance south of Salineville, removing thence about the year 1855 into the village. Here the children of the family were reared. Young Cameron attended the public schools there and graduated from the Iron City Business College in Pittsburg. At an early age he accepted a position as a bookkeeper for a local mercantile firm, where he remained until 1874. His business abilities soon advanced him to a partnership in the business, which was successfully conducted until 188o, when Mr. Cameron became the sole owner, after which the business continued to grow and prosper until 1893, when he was elected Treasurer of Columbiana County by the largest majority ever given to any candidate for any office in that county up to that time. He was re-elected in 1895. --The business system. he introduced and enforced during the four years of his incumbency in that office established a standard and created a model worthy the emulation of all public officers. When, in 1898, the First National Bank . at Lisbon was declared to be insolvent, Mr. Cameron having but a short time previously retired from the office. of County Treasurer, was the unanimous choice alike of the creditors and stockholders for appointment as receiver, such was their confidence in his ability -to disentangle the labyrinth of complications resulting from the reckless conduct of its affairs upon the part of its management. In this work he was engaged for more than a year, during which time he brought order out of chaos. He succeeded in fixing the responsibility for the failure of the bank, and also the books were miserably kept and outrageously falsified, he obtained judgments in every suit brought by him, having for its object the recovery of funds belonging to the wrecked institution, thus proving the wisdom of those interested in their selection of him for receiver. Mr. Cameron was nominated for the office of Treasurer of State at the Republican State . Convention, held in the city of Columbus on the 2c1 of June, 1899, on the first ballot, and he was elected in November, 1899, by a large majority. He was inducted into office on the first Monday in January, 1900, since which time he has completely remodeled the interior of 'the office and inaugurated a much-needed system for expediently and safely conducting the large volume of business of the department, which aggregates in receipts and disbursements many millions of dollars annually. In order that the funds of the State might be safely cared for, and the securities required by law be deposited with the Treasurer of State might be - 343 - properly classified and securely stored, Mr. Cameron planned and has had constructed in the Treasurer's Office' a large steel vault, made by skilled workmen of the best material known to the art and weighing some twenty tons. In this vault he has built for the storage of bonds and Other securities "steel filing cases, all the compartments of which are so numbered and lettered that, in connection with a card index system installed by him, any security or paper of value entrusted to his keeping may be easily located and readily produced-. At the Republican State Convention in 1901, Mr. Cameron was nominated by acclamation for Treasurer of State for a second term and again. elected in November. Mr. Cameron has been one of the prominent leaders of his party in Columbiana County for many years. After his second term of office Mr. Cameron retired to private life. Mr. Cameron is a thirty-second degree .Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the I. O. O. F., a K. of P. and an Elk. Charles Cameron Green, Cashier of the State Treasury, was born and reared in Columbiana County, Ohio, his birth occurring on the 6th of April, 1873, in the village of Salineyille. His father was accidentally killed on the 1st of September, 1877, leaving destitute his widow and three small children. She removed immediately to East Liverpool, where, by her daily earnings in a factory for the manufacture of pottery, she was enabled by heroic efforts to hold the children together and give them each the benefit of a few years in the public schools. At the age of twelve years Charles was serving as messenger and office boy in the office of the Knowles, Tayler & Knowles Pottery Company, at East Liverpool, where he remained for- eight years, having been promoted from time to time, until his experience had embraced the usual routine of their office duties, he having assisted at various times in each of the office departments. He left the employ of the Knowles Company in September, 1893, for the purpose of attending school. Later he served as chief clerk in the .Boyce. Foundry and Machine Works, at East Liverpool, until he accepted the cashiership of the Columbiana .County: Treasury, under Treasurer-elect I. B. Cameron, where he remained as cashier and confidential clerk for five years and four months, discharging faithfully every trust reposed in him, to .the entire satisfaction of his employer and the taxpayers in general. His appointment to the situation of cashier of the State Treasury came unsolicited from Treasurer of State Cameron, his former employer. He was reappointed to the same position by Treasurer McKinnon, after that gentleman took charge of the office in 1904. Mr. Greene is a member of the Elks, I. O. O. F. and F. & A. M. Elmer G. Biddison, Of Athens, Ohio, who during the administration of Governor Nash filled the important office of Chief Inspector of Mines of Ohio, was born in Monroe Township, Perry County, Ohio, on the 23d of October, 1863. His early life was spent on a farm located in Trimble - 344 - Township, Athens County, and he received his early education in the schools of that township. In the year 1880 the development of the Sunday Creek Valley coal fields was begun, and Mr. Biddison, being desirous of securing a better education than that afforded in the country schools, engaged in work at the coal mines with a view of being better able to earn means to accomplish his purpose. Enough funds were earned through laboring in the mines and in other vocations to defray his expenses for three years' schooling at the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio. After he had finished his education, in 1887, Mr. Biddison engaged in mining engineering, and followed that vocation until the 1st of December, 1891, at which time he was elected County Surveyor of Athens County. He served in this capacity for a period of six years. At the expiration of his term of office, Mr. Biddison was elected Treasurer of Athens County, holding that position for four years. On the 1st of May, Iwo, Mr. Biddison was appointed Chief Inspector of Mines by Governor George K. Nash, and for four years he filled that position with marked success. He is a stalwart Republican, and lives with his family in Athens, of which pretty city he is one of the most respected and esteemed citizens. Orrin B. Gould, Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary, was appointed to that position to succeed the late Warden Hershey, by unanimous vote of the Board of Managers of that institution, in the fall of 1904. Mr. Gould is one of the best-known Republicans in the State, and Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He is a native of Scioto County, Ohio, being born and raised in that part of the State, where he also holds large interests in industrial and business enterprises. For a number of years he has acted as President of the Wellston City Council, but other than that he has never accepted any political position of preferment, notwithstanding his prominence in politics, save that of the office mentioned above. Mr. Gould has dominated the politicS of Jackson County for many years, and without any question is one of the most influential men in the Tenth Congressional District of Ohio. He is a man of commanding physique, good natured, large hearted, and at the same time a man of remarkable aggressiveness and stability of character. Mr. Gould is the owner of two farms in Scioto County, the management of which has been given the same careful attention which has been evidenced in all affairs of his active life. Mr. Gould is happily married and lives with his interesting family in Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, while his offices are located in the State Prison at Columbus, Ohio. - 345 - Jacob F. Burket, Has been a familiar figure in Ohio for many years, owing to his prominent connection with the Bench and Bar of the State. For over thirty years he was an attorney in active practice in Findlay, and from the 9th of February, 1893, until the 9th of February, 1904, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. His family is of Swiss origin, the name there being spelled B-u-r-k-h-a-r-d-t. In 1758 his great-grandparents came to America from Basel, Switzerland (where the family has resided since 1490), accompanied by their son John, at that time about four years old, and afterwards grandfather of Jacob F. Burket. They settled at, or near, Reading, Pennsylvania. John Burkhardt grew to manhood at that place and on the 1st of November, 1778, at Reading, Pennsylvania, he joined Von Heer's Light Dragoons, which were organized under a special act of the Continental Congress as a body guard, or life guard, for General Washington, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. John Burkhardt, after the close of the war, married Barbara Fox at Reading, Pennsylvania. After her death he married Catherine Fox, a sister, and by the two wives was the father of eighteen children, among the younger of whom was a son named Solomon, who was born on the 4th of November, 1806, and was the father of Jacob F. Burket. The family name of Burkhardt in the transition from the German to the English was pronounced, and became, Burket. This change occurred about the year 180o. Solomon Burket married Mary Brehm, who was born on the 21st of October, 1799, at Green Castle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was a daughter of George Brehm, who was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of January, 1773, and Margaret (Myer) Brehm, who was born on the 22d of March, 1772, at, or near, Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She died in Perry County, Ohio, on the loth of June, 1849. The Brehm, family originally came from Bremen, Germany. George Brehm was the son of Philip and Catherine Brehm, and Was the grandson of George Christopher and Anna Margaret Brehm. George Christopher Brehm landed at Philadelphia in the ship Edinburg and qualified under the laws of the colony of Pennsylvania on the 15th of September, 1751. George Brehm, the grandfather of Jacob F. Burket, was .a soldier in the War of 1812 and was at Ft. Findlay, Ohio, during his service. He died on the 11th of January, 1857. Both George Brehm and his wife, Margaret (Myer) Brehm are buried in the family burial ground on their old farm in Reading Township, Perry County, Ohio. Jacob F. Burket was born in Perry County, Ohio, on the old Brehm farm, three miles south of Somerset, on the 25th of March, 1837. His father, Solomon Burket, resided in Perry County, Ohio, until 1838, when he removed to Hancock County, twelve miles southwest of the city of Findlay, where he resided and cleared a farm. He died on the 6th day of March, 1847. In chopping, he cut his foot and his death was caused 'by' blood poisoning. He left a widow and nine children, of whom Jacob F. was the youngest boy. When the family removed to Hancock County, that region was new, and the only means of education were the country schools of those times, which Jacob attended, and had attained what was regarded as a good country education, when, at the age f seventeen, he took up his residence with his brother-in-law, Jacob Folk, at Findlay, and worked with him at carpentering for over a year, attending school in the winter. He then taught school in winters, attending the High School at Findlay during the spring and fall terms, and completed his education at the Seneca County Academy in 1859, that being then the best school in Northwestern Ohio. After getting through school, he commenced reading law in the office of Judge John M. Palmer. Shortly thereafter James A. Bope formed a partnership with Judge Palmer, and Mr. Burket continued in the office of Palmer & Bope for nearly one year, when he entered the law office of Goit & Browns and read with them until he was admitted to the bar, on the 1st of July, 1861. In the fall - 346 - of 1861 he moved to Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio, and began the practice of law there, but in April, 1862, he came back to Findlay and opened a law office, and in the fall of the same year he and Hon. Henry Brown formed a partnership for the practice of law as Brown & Burket. This firm continued until the 1st of May, 1869, and had a very extensive business for those years. After the dissolution' of the firm of Brown & Burket, he continued the practice of law by himself until the 1st of January, 1888, when his son, Harlan F., became associated with him, under the firm name of Burket & Burket, and that firm continued until he took his seat on the Supreme Bench of Ohio, on the. 9th day of February, 1893, where he remained until the close of his second term, the 9th of February, 1904.. His practice' extended over a period of thirty-two years, and during that time he appeared as an attorney of record in the courts of over one-half of the counties in the State, as well as in the District, Circuit and Supreme Courts of the United States: His practice was varied, including all courts of record, and involving all manner of questions, so that he became what is known as an all-round lawyer, familiar with every branch of the law ; but his later years at the bar were taken up mostly with railroad and other corporation practice. His opinions as a Judge of the Supreme Court are found 'in Volumes 50 to 69, both inclusive, of the Ohio State Reports. On the 6th day Of August, 1859, he was married to Miss Palmy D. Walters in Lenawee County, Michigan. She died on the 6th of June, 1900, aged sixty-one years and two Months. Their family consisted of six children, five boys and one girl. Harlan F., Charles O. and John F. are attorneys. Will J. died on the 27th of July, 1902. Reginald Burket is teller in the American National Bank, of Findlay, and Eoff, the husband of the only daughter, Lillie B., is cashier of the same bank. After retiring as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Judge Burket formed a partnership with his sons, Harlan F. and John F., who were practicing up to that time under the firm name of Burket & Burket, and the present firm name is. Burket, Burket & Burket. In politics Judge Burket is a Republican; and has always supported the nominees of that party. He was chosen Elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880, and still retains the tickets cast by him for those candidates in the Electoral College at Columbus on the 7th of December, 1880. Judge Burket is a member of the Lutheran Church, the Society of the Sons of American Revolution, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He served as Grand Master of the Odd Fellows in Ohio from May, 1882, to May, 1883, and has' also. served six years as Representative in the Grand Lodge of Ohio. Judge Burket was a director of the First National Bank of Findlay for many years, and also its attorney. In 1887 he organized the American National Bank of Findlay, and was elected its President, which position he still retains. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and also of the American Bar Association. He resides with his family at 521 West Sandusky Street in the city of Findlay, in a fine residence surrounded by large and beautiful grounds. Paul Fischer, Of Columbus, Ohio, State Veterinarian, was born on the 19th of January, 1869, in the city of Cincinnati. His father, Julius Fischer, was a leaf tobacco merchant in that city, and like his mother, Julia Floto-Fischer, was a native of Germany, who emigrated to this country from Hannover in 1848. The mother came from Cassel, and crossed the Atlantic in 1859. Mr. Paul Fischer was educated in the public schools of :Cincinnati ; the Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio ; the Royal Veterinary Colleges of Hannover, Dresden, the Imperial Veterinary College at Berlin, and the Charite. Hospital of Berlin. He studied Under the famous Prof. Dr. Robert Koch and Prof. Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Mr. Fischer holds the degrees of B. Sc. and D. V. M. from the Ohio State University, from which institution he graduated - 347 - in 1891 and 1892. Dr. Fischer has held many important positions in the service of the States of Ohio and Kansas. He was assistant under Prof. H. J. Detmers, of the O. S. U., from 1892 to 1895; Professor of Agriculture and Veterinary Science at the Agricultural College of Utah from 1895 to 1897; Professor of Veterinary Science and Biology, at the Kansas Agricultural College, and Veterinarian of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station from 1897 to 1900; Bacteriologist of the Kansas State Board of Health, and Honorary Veterinarian of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture ; State Veterinarian of Kansas from 1897 to 1900; Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the Ohio State University from m00 to 1903, and State Veterinarian of Ohio, which position he holds at the present time, being an incumbent in that office since 1902. His duties are control of infectious and contagious diseases of live stock of the State, and control of traffic in animals, as far as this is necessary to prevent the introduction of diseases .of animals into the State, or from any part of the State to another. Dr. Fischer became a Benedict on the 22d of December, 1897, when he was united in marriage to Miss Loretta Smith, of Loveland, Ohio. His residence is located at Arlington, Columbus, and his office in the Capitol. Building, with the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, Columbus, Ohio. Edward Davenport Howard, Attorney at law, at. Columbus, Ohio, and Chief Clerk to the Secretary of State, is a native of the county in which he makes his home. He was born on the 1st of March, 1868, on a farm in Blendon Township, Franklin County, the son of Mitchell C. Howard and Kate Thompson Howard, both natives of Franklin County, Ohio. Senator Howard received his education in the district schools of his native county, at Central College Academy, at Otterbein University and at the Ohio State University, from which latter university he graduated in T894, receiving the degree of Master of Laws. After leaving Otterbein College, Senator Howard secured a position in the city passenger and ticket department of the I., B. & W. R. R. at Columbus ; later he was transferred successively to the -same departments in the B. & 0. and the Big Four, and to the advertising department of the C.,. B. & Q. - 348 - R.. R., at Chicago. While in the employ in the railroad' offices he made a constant and diligent study of law, and was admitted to the bar just prior to his graduation from the Ohio State University in 1894, having resigned his position- .to complete his studies uninterruptedly. In November, 1894, Senator Howard was appOinted Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin County, and as such, during the next three years, he took .part in the most important litigation that ever occurred in that county. At the conclusion of his term of office he took up the practice of his profession, which has proved to be a very successful one. Senator Howard has always been an earnest, faithful worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and is a prominent factor among the Republicans of the Capital City. In August, 1899, the nomination for Senator, representing the Tenth District, composed of the counties of Franklin and Pickaway, was unanimously tendered him by the Republican Senatorial convention, -and his election over the usual Democratic majority in the district was a convincing proof of his availability as a candidate. Being the youngest member of the Senate. of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly in point of age, he enjoyed the distinction of being the second Republican to be elected to the Senate in all the history of the Tenth Senatorial District. While a member of the Senate Mr. Howard rendered valuable services as chairman and member of a number of important committees.. In May, 1902, Senator Howard was appointed to his present position in the office of the Secretary of State by Mr. Laylin, to succeed Judge Allread, who entered upon his duties as Judge of the Common Pleas Court. George Elmer Wood, Editor and proprietor of the Bellevue News at Bellevue, Ohio, and Stationery Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, was born on the 3d of August, 186o, in Walworth County, Wisconsin. His parents, John G. Wood, and :Almira C. (Mills) Wood, were natives of New York. Mr. Wood comes from sturdy New England stock. His grandfather, Archelaus Wood, was a soldier of the. Revolutionary War, and took part under General George. Washington in the campaign at Valley Forge. Mr. George E. Wood received his education in the common schools and at the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. When he had reached the age of twenty-one he .began his political career as Recorder of Monticello, Iowa. For a number of years he followed the professions of teaching and law. A Republican' all his active life, Mr. Wood has taken a prominent part in the work of his party, and has been honored for his services by many positions of trust. While living at Monticello, Iowa, he was elected Justice of the Peace, in 1882, when he was but twenty-two years of age. In 1884 he was appointed Deputy County Recorder and acting County Recorder of Jones County, Iowa. In 1885 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools in the same county. In . this capacity he was of an incalculable value - 349 -