OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 303 in infancy. The death of the father took place in Portage county in April, 1883, at the age of sixty-seven years, and that of the widow occurred June 27, 1894, when she was seventy-five years old. Both had long been consistent members of the Evangelical church. ADAMS B. L. HOWARD, M. D., a leading physician of Summit county, Ohio, and proprietor of the Fair Oaks Villa, at Cuyahoga Falls, an institution founded in 1894, for the treatment of patients afflicted with mental or nervous disorders, was born in Boston, Mass., January 7, 1860. He received his medical education at the Wooster Medical university of Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1891, and at once commenced practice in that city, but was soon appointed, by the Ohio state board of insane, as third assistant physician of the state hospital for the insane at Cleveland, with which institution he held connection for two years, and during this period was successively promoted to second and first assistant physician, in recognition of his superior merit and skill. In the winter of 1893-94 Dr. Howard came to Cuyahoga Falls and purchased the elegant brown stone villa known as Fair Oaks, originally erected and occupied by the wealthy Newberry family, and converted it into a sanitarium for the treatment of mental disorders—the interior of the house being large and well adapted for the purpose, with all the modern improvements, including steam heat, electric light, baths, etc. It is to all intents and purposes a " Family Home," where everything is made as homelike as possible—intelligent men and women being employed as attendants and companions for the patients. The feeling of social degradation that is commonly felt by patients in retreats and public institutions is not experienced here. The utmost possible liberty is permitted under suitable guardianship to all the patients, and each one is regarded and treated as a member of a private family. Each case receives the attention and study given to private practice, and when needed the ablest medical talent in the country is called into consultation. The drives in the vicinity are considered delightful, and for healthfulness of location Fair Oaks is unsurpassed. The walks are well shaded and secluded. Silver Lake, a beautiful summer resort, is less than two miles distant, and Brady's Lake about five miles. A conveyance is kept for the pleasure and use of the patients, and no pains are spared in affording each patient all the happiness and recreation possible. One excellent feature to be considered by all is the limited number of patients, not more than fifteen being cared for at any time. Dr. Howard has been remarkably successful in his specialty, and, being advanced in his views, on mental ailments and experienced in their treatment, he contemplates making further improvement at Fair Oaks by the erection of isolated colleges at pleasant spots in its grounds, in which the inmates will have every home comfort and each individual be treated in quiet and seclusion, as his judgment may select. The entire establishment marks an age of progress, and it is gratifying to see that persons suffering from mental and nervous disorders can find a home in this humane institution and be treated in a kind and rational manner and restored to health at a moderate cost. Fraternally, Dr. Howard is a member of Cuyahoga Falls lodge, F. & A. M., No. 117, Washington chapter of Akron, and Akron commandery, and also of the Cleveland Medical society and of the American Psychological society. He is a consistent member of the Baptist church, and is esteemed wherever 304 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD known for his philanthropic and truly humane impulses, as well as for his more than ordinary degree of professional skill. CHARLES R. HAMMOND, of the firm of Hammond Brothers, breeders of and dealers in live stock, with their farm in the southwest part of Copley township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in this township September 27, 1860. James Hammond, father of Charles R., was a native of Yorkshire, England, was born April 6, 1811, and was a son of Thomas and Ann (Barton) Hammond, to whom were born the following-named children: Mary, George, Joseph, John, Edward, Elizabeth, James, Thomas and Charles. Of these, James was married, June 3o, 1838, to Miss Elizabeth Spensley, who was born October 4, 1819, a daughter of James and Nancy Spensley, who reared a family of nine children, viz: Ann, Thomas S., George, James E., William A., Elizabeth, Frank P., Charles R. and Alice D. In 1848 James Hammond came to the United States, landing in New York June 20, with $26 in his pocket and his wife and five children to care for. He found his way to Sharon, Medina county, Ohio, where he worked a year in a paint-mill, and then came to Western Star, Summit county, and was the first milk peddler in the village; thence moved to the village of Akron and was employed at driving a milk-wagon until 1854, when he came to Copley township and purchased a small farm, on which he lived five years and then sold, and purchased a larger place in the southern part of the township, and here, by hard work and good management, secured a competency. Although he had not attended school after his fourteenth Year, he became quite well informed, and in 1868. was elected president of the Summit c linty Agricultural society, and on his retire ment from the office, six years later, was presented by the members of the society with a gold watch and chain in recognition of his services. He was a very popular and public-spirited gentleman, and although frequently solicited to accept public positions, would never accept anything higher than township offices, several of which he filled with great credit to himself. His death took place in August, 1881, and no more respected citizen ever lived in Copley township. Charles R. Hammond remained with his father until the death of the latter, when he and his brother, Frank P., purchased their present stock farm, which comprises 326 acres of -.fine land, 180 acres of which were bought from the other heirs to the Hammond estate. In 1890, Charles R. Hammond, who had received a very fair education in the Copley schools, entered the Toronto (Canada) Veterinary college, studied there one year, and then entered the National Veterinary college at Washington, D. C., from which he graduated March 19. 1893, being thus fully prepared for conducting his present business. Fraternally, he is a charter member of tent No. 204, K. O. T. M., of Copley. Frank P. Hammond, an elder brother of Charles R., and his business partner, was born in Copley township April 15, 1857, acquired his education in the Copley district and high schools, and has been a farmer and stock raiser all his life. September 23, 1884, he married Miss Florence Bodine, who was born February 8, 1862, a daughter .of Samuel and Mary (Taylor) Bodine. The father was born in Wayne county, Ohio, May 1, 1827, and the mother, a native of England, was born January 13, 1830, and came with her parents to the United States at the age of thirteen years. They were married March 28, 1850, and had born to them the following children: Maud, August 4, 1852, now the wife of S. A. Boroes, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 305 an attorney of California; Rollin, April 1, 1856, and now a resident of Canton, Ohio; Florence, the wife of Mr. Hammond; Sadie, wife of Sherman Lobes, of Ashtabula county, May 28, 1864, and one child that died in infancy. The father, who was a farmer, died July 31, 1888, and the mother, January 18, 1894, both expiring at the home of the Hammond brothers. The marriage of Frank P. Hammond has been blessed with two children, viz: Herbert, born March 6, 1886, and James G., born December 23, 1889. The Hammond Bros. conduct a very prosperous business, are well known over a large expanse of territory, and hold about three public stock sales per year, which are attended by buyers from many states. The brothers are greatly respected for their integrity and fair dealing, and are liberal in their support of every project designed for the promotion of public prosperity. ROBERT J. HARPER is a native of the Buckeye state and was born in Trumbull, Ashtabula county, June 13, 1875, his parents being Robert D. and Theressa (Wintersteene) Harper, also natives of Ohio. When a mere boy, Robert J. Harper was taken by his parents to Cleveland, where he received his preliminary education in the public schools; he later attended the Spencerian Business college, from which he was graduated in 1891, and then went to Chargin Falls, and for two years was employed by S. M. Armour as clerk, for which position his education had fully qualified him. At the conclusion of his faithful term of valuable service with Mr. Armour, Mr. Harper came to Ravenna and here accepted a clerkship in the extensive grocery house of J. S. Smith & Sons, with whom he remained a little more than two years, when he returned to Cleveland, where he was proffered, and accepted, a situation in the large clothing establishment of J. L. Hudson & Co., in the Wilshire block, on Superior street. With this firm he remained until the spring of 1896, when he came back to Ravenna, and in April of the same year rented the spacious storeroom at No. 124 Chestnut street, opposite the court house, and opened an elegant billiard parlor. Mr. Harper is a member of the Methodist church, and his father, who is also a resident of Ravenna, affiliates with the Odd Fellows' lodge of the city. In politics Mr. Harper has always been a republican. Still young in years, Robert J. Harper has shown himself to be a shrewd business man, and his energy and keen perception of the affairs of life well entitle him to the high esteem in which he is held June 1, 1897, he sold out his business and since then has been in the employ of the A. C. Williams' iron works. Mr. Harper was married June 9, 1897, to Nina G. Bean. GEORGE W. HART, a retired farmer of Stowe township, Summit county, Ohio, and a respected citizen, is a descendant from an old colonial family of New England. Rufus Hart, grandfather of George W. Hart, was born in Litchfield county, Conn., and moved to Batavia, Genesee county, N. Y., at an early day. He was a major in the war of 1812, but ranked as lieutenant at the battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and the burning of Buffalo. He was a farmer, came to Summit county, Ohio, in 1815, and purchased a farm one mile south of Akron, which he cleared up from the woods. Maj. Hart 306 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD had a good farm of 312 acres. In old age he retired on his farm, where he died at about the age of eighty years, a member of the Universalist church and the father of the following children: Clarissa, John C., Lucretia, Lucinda and Edward. John C. Hart, father of George W. Hart, the subject, was born April 17, 1798, at Cornwall, Litchfield county, Conn. He was at the blowing up of the fort at Buffalo, in. 1812, at the age of fourteen years, and was engaged in carrying news from one point to another. He enlisted when but fourteen or fifteen years old in the cavalry service, and was with his father at Newark, Fort George, and other contested points. On the evacuation of Fort George he suffered great hardships, as they had no tents, no blankets, nor clothing, and slept on the ground. He was at Black Rock, and was employed as a bearer of dispatches, when the British attacked Fort Erie in 1814. He came to Ohio in May, 1815, with his father, and when they located in Middlebury, East Akron, there were but three or four log houses in what is now a thriving city. When he was but twenty-one years old he went south for employment, and traveled on foot to Steubensville, Ohio, floated down the Ohio river on a raft, which lodged on an island, and made his way as best he could to Cincinnati, where he bought a skiff and paddled his way to Shawneetown, but, not finding employment, he boarded his skiff and went to St. Louis, and there worked in a mill two months and then in a brick yard, but, being taken sick with fever and ague, returned home the following year, and purchased fifty acres of land south of Middlebury, built a house and barn, and cleared his land, and married, February 12, 1831, Margaret A. Sterling (born December 1 1, 1811), a daughter of John Sterling. They had six children: George W., John S., Charles S., Elizabeth, Fannie, and Hiram J. Mrs. Hart died May 17, 1863, and Mr. Hart next married Mrs. Mary Sterling—a widow, whose maiden name was Tod. Mr. Hart prospered and bought more land, until he owned over 300 acres, and for many years owned and managed three difierent hotels at Akron and Middlebury, and was also a large mail contractor, and at his death left a large estate. He was a colonel in the old state militia, and was very highly respected among the pioneers, and his advice was much sought after. He died August 20, 1880, aged eighty-two years, four months and three days. George W. Hart, whose name opens this memoir, was born July 12, 1832, in East Akron, Ohio, and received a common education. He married, August 18, 1853, in Akron, Hannah Anna Beardsley, who was born July 18, 1832, a daughter of Talmon and Temperance (Spicer) Beardsley. Talmon Beardsley was born December 15, 1799, at Delhi, Delaware county, N. Y., a son of Daniel and Hannah (Bailey) Beardsley. Daniel Beardsley was born in Connecticut, of Welsh descent; first settled at Delhi, N. Y., and then came to Ohio, when an old man, settled in Licking county, but died at Akron, a member of the Methodist church. Talmon Beardsley came with his parents to Licking county, Ohio, and assisted his father to clear up his farm from the woods. He received a good education and walked to Middlebury, Summit county, the summer of 1818, and found employment in the old Cuyahoga furnace, owned by Lodd & Norton. In 1819 he entered the employ of Henry Chittendon, a well-known business man, being a hotel keeper, farmer and canal contractor, and worked for him fourteen years. October 27, 1831, he married Temperance Spicer, fourth daughter of Maj. Minor Spicer. and settled on seventy-five acres of land in Middlebury. This land he sold in 1833, and bought too acres in Coventry township, and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 307 which is now a part of Akron. Here he lived until 1864, when he retired to Akron. His children were Hannah Anna, Emily (died aged twenty-one), Mills H., Avery S., Harriet D. and Louisa J. He held the office of township clerk, was justice of the peace about twenty years and tried many cases, and was a well informed and very intelligent man. His death took place at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Maj. Minor Spicer was born at Groton, Conn., May 29, 1776, and there married Cynthia Allen in 1798, came on horseback to Ohio in 181o, and bought 200 acres, where Akron and Buchtel college now stand. In June, 1811, he sent for his family, who came by ox-teams, accompanied by Capt. Amos Spicer and Paul Williams. They arrived in 1811, being the first actual settlers of Portage township. He built a small log cabin forty rods southeast of Spicer and Carroll streets, was one of the organizers of the township, and a typical pioneer, and was a justice of the peace many years. In the war of 1812 he was a major of the state militia. He was an active an honored citizen. His wife died aged fifty years, and he died September II, 1855, aged seventy-eight years, three months and three days. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hart settled in Stowe township on 140 acres, partly cleared. They now have a fine farm—a famous summer resort, as it includes Crystal lake, a beautiful body of water, where they have a cottage for a summer residence. This property adjoins Randolph park. To Mr. and Mrs. Hart have been born the following children : Frederick C., Elizabeth, deceased at five years, Emma F., Georgianna, died at twelve years, Clarissa, and Maggie M. (died aged three months). Clarissa Hart was married September 4, 1883, to Reuben D. Morgan, of Cleveland, Ohio, and to this marriage have been born Anna Louisa, June 24, 1884, and Lewis, October 24, 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Hart are members of the Episcopal church, in which Mr. Hart holds the office of vestryman. In politics he is a republican and has served as street commissioner twelve years. In 1882 Mr. Hart removed to Cuyahoga Falls, bought a pleasant residence property on Newberry street, and is now retired. He is a member of Starr lodge, F. & A. M., Cuyahoga Falls, and belongs to a Masonic family—his father and paternal grandfather having both been Masons and likewise Mrs. Hart's grandfather. Maj. Spicer, was a gentleman of the old school—a man of great dignity of character and of fine appearance. Hiram J. Hart, brother of subject, was a soldier in the Civil war, company A, Nineteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he had enlisted for three years' service, and died from typhoid fever. He was the second man to enlist from Akron. He was in several battles, among which were Rich Mountain and Vicksburg. HENRY A. HAUSMAN, the genial, popular and successful hardware merchant, of Clinton, Summit county, Ohio, was born on his father's farm in Franklin township, this county, July 19, 1840. Henry Hausman, grandfather of subject, was born in Pennsylvania, of German parentage, was married in his native state to Elizabeth Mussen, a daughter of Philip and Catherine (Shuck) Mussen, in 1838 came to Ohio, and settled in Franklin township, Summit county. He was a charter member of the first Lutheran church at Doylestown, Wayne county, and in Summit county reared the following named children: John, Catherine, Christina, Jacob, Philip, Michael, Sarah, Annie, George, Magdalene, Andrew and Jonas, Of these, the fourth enumerated, Jacob, was the father of the 308 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD subject, was born in Franklin township, and married Catherine Brougher, about 1838. Henry A. Hausman lived on the home farm until twenty years of age, receiving in the meanwhile a good common-school education, and then for a few years clerked in a store in Manchester. For the next ten years he carried on business on his own account, and in 1870 was appointed superintendent of the Franklin Coal Mine company, which position he filled very satisfactorily several years, or until 1875, since when he has been engaged in his present business in Clinton, carrying an extensive and well selected stock of general hardware. In 1862, Mr. Hausman was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Sisler, of Manchester, of whom further mention is made in the biographies of Dr. Adam and John Sisler, on another page, and to this marriage two children have been born—Nellie and Fannie. Mrs. Hausman was in her early womanhood a successful school-teacher, and, indeed, Mr. Hausman has himself had some experience in this vocation. In politics, Mr. Hausman is a stanch republican, and as a business man he is progressive, obliging, and fully abreast of the times, and most liberal in his ideas, as well as his actions. PHILIP HAWK, a successful farmer of Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, is a native of the county, was born October 2, 1840, and is the son of Philip and Leona (Dock) Hawk, the father now deceased. The parents of Mr. Hawk were natives of Germany, the father having been born in Alsace January 1, 1815. He came to America with his parents about 1835 and settled in Portage county, and here met his countrywoman, Leona Dock, daughter of Frederic Dock, whom he married. To this union were born four children—Daniel, Philip, Frederick and Lewis. After farming in Suffield township fourteen years, Mr. Hawk removed to Springfield township, Summit county, where he followed agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred August 13, 1895, in the .faith of the German Reformed church, at the age of seventy-nine years and five months. His widow, now hale and hearty, at the age of seventy-two years, still resides on the homestead in Summit county. Philip Hawk, the grandfather of subject, was one of the earliest settlers of Portage county, followed farming all his life, and reared a family of five children, of whom two are still living—Daniel and Michael: the three deceased were named Abbie, Kate and Philip (father of subject). Frederick Dock, the maternal grandfather of subject, was also a native of Germany, and on coining to America lived a few years in Portage county, as a farmer, and then moved to Indiana, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their days. Philip Hawk, the subject of this biographical notice, was reared to farming on his father's homestead and attended the public schools. At the age of twenty-five years he began farming on his own account in Springfield township, Summit county, but four years later removed to Tallmadge township, where he followed the same vocation for six years. In 1885, Mr. Hawk bought his present farm in Suffield township from John Pero, and in the spring of the same year took possession, and this has ever since been his home. The marriage of Mr. Hawk was solemnized in Stark county, Ohio, February r 4, 1875. with Miss Elvina Ginder, who was born April 27, 1840, a daughter of Adam and Margaret (Keller) Ginder, and this union has been blessed with four children—Mary, Frederick, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 309 Maggie and Albert—all still under the parental roof. Adam Cinder and wife were both born in Germany, and now live in Stark county; they have had born to them ten children, of whom four still survive, viz: Elvina (now Mrs. Hawk), Mary, Adam and Caroline (wife of Albert Moore). Mr. and Mrs. Hawk are members of the Reformed church and have fully lived up to its teachings, and in this faith they have reared their family. In politics, Mr. Hawk has given his allegiance to the republican party, and although never desirous of public office, has yet consented to serve his fellow-citizens as a school director and as supervisor of his township, He has always been an industrious husbandman and an excellent manager, and has one of the best-improved farms in Suffield township, where he and his family enjoy the respect of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. EUGENE A. HAWKINS, a well-known agriculturist of Copley township, Summit county, Ohio, is a native of this township and was born June 28, 1854. His grandparents, George and Ann Hawkins, came to the township in 1814 from Vermont, and were among its earliest pioneers, and here the grandfather entered a farm, of which he cleared up 100 acres, and here reared a family of four children—Madison, Joseph, Andrew and George W. He at one time contracted to do some work on the canal then in course of construction, and while thus employed was taken sick and died in 1825. George Washington Hawkins, father of Eugene A., was the first white child born in Copley township, the date being December .29, 1815. At the age of fourteen years, four years after the death of his father, he was placed in charge of the home farm, which comprised ioo acres, and which he managed until 1834, when his mother was married to Samuel Hawkins, a relative of her first husband, and this gentleman bought out the interest of the heirs. In January, 1840, George W. Hawkins married Miss Matilda Hubbard, who was born in Batavia, N. Y., November 5, 1818, a daughter of Reuben Hubbard, and to this union were born five children, viz: Adelia, born June. 4, 1845, died in infancy; Eliza, born June 4, 1845, was married to W. Miller, and died November 13, 1871: Alice, born September 14, 1847, is the wife of Dr. Huntley, of North Bloomfield, Ohio; .George W., born September 2, 1851, died November 3o, 1876, and Eugene A., the subject, whose natal day is given above. Five years after his marriage, George W. Hawkins settled on a tract of forty acres he had purchased in 1844, improved his farm with comfortable buildings and placed it under a good state of cultivation. Here Mrs. Hawkins was called to her final repose, December 5, 1886, dying a Methodist in religion, and January 5, 1891, Mr. Hawkins married Louisa Averill. Mr. Hawkins was an active democrat, held several township offices, was public-spirited and generous, and died an honored man, May 21, 1896. Eugene A. Hawkins has lived in Copley township all his life, and received his education in the district schools. January 1, 1878, he married Miss Juvie .Colson, who was born February 24, 1858, a daughter of Oren and Vilucia (Clark) Colson, natives, respectively, of New York and Connecticut, and this marriage has been blessed with three children, viz: Jessie, born December 3, 1879; Mabel, January 17, 1882, and Ruth, April 28, 1887. The two girls, Jessie and Mabel, are students at the Copley high school, and Jessie will graduate in the class of .1899. 310 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have a beautiful home in Copley township, about nine miles from Akron. Their farm is well cultivated. At his marriage Mr. Hawkins purchased the old homestead, on which he has made numerous improvements. In politics Mr. Hawkins is a stanch republican and cast his first presidential vote for R. B. Hayes, and for several years has been a member of the school board. He and wife are members of the East Granger Disciples' church and socially they stand among the leading citizens of Copley township. Mrs. Hawkin's father was a native of Connecticut, and was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of a harness-maker and saddler. He emigrated to Ohio and died in 1878. The mother was a native of New York, and she is also deceased, dying in 1894. There were five children in the family. The eldest is Mrs. Hawkins; Lora is the wife of Fred Miller; Estelle is the widow of Dwight Moody, of Medina county; Homer is a resident of Summit county, and is married; Henry died in Michigan. Mrs. Hawkins was educated in the common schools. Mrs. Hawkins has for years been connected with the W. C. T. U., and has been an ardent supporter of all true temperance works. CHARLES J. HAZEN, real estate and loan agent, No. 120 South Main street, Akron, Ohio, was born in Sharon, Medina county, November 4, 1866, a son of Henry' J. and Emma (Lyon) Hazen, of English and German descent respectively. The father is the son of a farmer and is himself a merchant, and to him and wife have been born two children—Charles J., and Nettie, the wife of C. Coddingham, of Sharon, Ohio. Charles J. Hazen was reared and educated in his native town and learned the butcher business under his father. For eight years the subject was a professional base-ball player, beginning with the year 1888, and in this athletic pursuit made for himself a high reputation as third baseman and as an officer, as will be found in the following brief record of his career in this, the national game: His first engagement was with the Topeka, Kans., team for one season; his next was with the Hutchison, Kans., club; in 1890 he became a member of the Akron, Ohio, team; in 189 t he joined the Jamestown, N. Y., team; in 1892 he was a member of the Mobile, Ala., team; in 1893 he was with the Akron, Ohio, and Johnstown, Pa., teams; in 1894, with the Hazelton, Pa., team; in 1895, was with the Fort Wayne, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio, teams, and in 1896 managed the Youngstown, Ohio, team until August. During these various engagements he was manager of the Akron and Youngstown clubs during his connection with them, and captain of the Hazelton, Johnstown and Fort Wayne teams while under engagements to them respectively, and always played as third baseman. In 1896 he retired from the baseball field permanently, to engage in his present business. The firm of Willford & Hazen was formed in April, 1896, by Charles S. Willford and Charles J. Hazen for the purpose of handling real estate, and effecting loans in all parts of the county of Summit, city or country, or both realty and chattel security, but in December, 1896, Mr. Wilford withdrew from the firm. To revert to the personal history of Mr. Hazen, it must mentioned that he has made his permanent home in Akron since 1890; that he was here married, January I I, 1893, to Miss Lottie C. Berger, daughter of I). F. Berger, and that two children have blessed their union—Ruth and Harold. The residence of the family is at No. 141 Crosby street. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 311 THEODORE F. HEATH, M. D., is one of the leading and is the oldest practicing physicians in Summit county, having practiced his profession here for the long period of forty-five years. He was born April 29, 1828, in Sharon, Conn., and springs from an old New England family of colonial stock—his remote ancestors on both sides having landed at Plymouth at about 1640. Thomas E. Heath, the paternal grandfather of the doctor, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and the maternal ancestor, Isaac Chamberlain, was an officer in that war. .Dr. Heath is a son of Stephen, who was a son of Thomas Heath, a farmer and blacksmith of Sharon, Conn., where he was born. Stephen Heath was also a blacksmith and farmer, and married Hannah Chamberlain, daughter of Isaac Chamberlain, a Revolutionary soldier. Stephen Heath moved, in 1835, to Geneseo, Livingston county, N. Y., where he lived on a farm of 240 acres until 1868, when he died, aged eighty-five years. He was a trusted man and held the offices of superintendent of the poor and supervisor—the latter an office equivalent to that of county commissioner in Ohio. He was also justice of the peace and a highly respected man. His children were Jane, Frederick, Martin L., Harriet and Theodore F. This is the proper order of birth, and all were born in Sharon, Conn. Dr. Theodore F. Heath, at the age of seven years, went with his parents to Geneseo, N. Y., and received an academic education at the Geneseo academy, and among his teachers were Prof. H. N. Robinson, who wrote several text-books on mathematics which were adopted at West Point, and also Judge Samuel Treat, afterwards of the supreme bench of Missouri. Our subject then began the study of medicine in Geneseo, N. Y., in 1847, under Dr. W. E. Lauderdale and Dr. Daniel H. Bis sell as preceptors, and in the fall of 1848 attended the Berkshire Medical college, Pittsfield, Mass. ; in the fall of 1849, he attended the college of Physicians & Surgeons of New York, and received his diploma in 1851; he then practiced medicine while continuing his study in the office of Dr. Gurdon Buck, and Dr. Robert Watts, who were hospital surgeons, in the city of New York, and thus had the advantage of the experience of these skillful physicians. The same year, 1851, the. doctor settled in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and soon established a large and lucrative practice. He bought out a drug store, and in company with his brother, Frederic S. Heath, now controls the largest drug business in Summit county with but one exception, that of a drug store established some years ago in Akron, and for many years it was the only store of the kind in Cayuhoga Fhlls. The doctor's practice, in his more active days, extended far and wide throughout the surrounding country. He is a member of the Northeast Medical association, and has always been a patron of the leading medical periodicals and has accumulated a valuable medical library. Dr. Heath married, in 1854, Miss Emma A. Bruce, born August 22, 1834, in Troy, Geauga county, Ohio, a daughter of Franklin and Elethea (Lamb) Bruce. The Bruce family is an old American family of Scotch ancestry. Jesse Bruce, grandfather of Mrs. Heath, was a farmer of Vermont; Franklin Bruce, her father, was married in Troy, Geauga county, Ohio, went to Michigan at an early day and was accidentally killed min the west. He was father of Chester, Lester D., Frank, Delia, Emma A. and George. To Dr. and Mrs. Heath have been born Frank T., Arthur T. and Grace L. Mrs. Heath has for forty years been a member of the Congregational church. Dr. Heath is a member of the Royal Arcanum, in which he has held the office of 312 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL, RECORD regent. Dr. Heath is an honored citizen and was township trustee before the incorporation of Cuyahoga Falls. He has been a member of the town council and president of the board of education many years and is prominently connected with all public enterprises. In politics he was first a whig, but later became a republican. He is a substantial citizen, owning valuable real estate. JOSEPH HEIGHTON, an experienced and well-known farmer of Franklin township, Portage county, Ohio, is a native of Northamptonshire, England, was born February 4, 1827, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Goodes) Heighton, who, about the year 1828, came to the United States, lived about three years in Philadelphia, Pa., and in 1831 came to Portage county, Ohio, locating in Edingburg. The boyhood days of Joseph Heighton were passed mostly in Edinburg, where he received a common-school education only, but at the age of twenty-three years was qualified to teach singing school, and at the same age was elected a school director and held the office many years. At the same age, also, he began lecturing on temperance, and in this field his services, for a long time, were in frequent demand. He has himself never handled nor tasted alcoholic beverages, nor has he used tobacco in any form. He was also, for about' twenty-three years, a teacher of vocal music in Summit and other counties of the state. In 1863 he settled in Franklin township and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1879, when he abandoned his original farm and moved to his present place, where he has principally been engaged in fruit culture, in conjunction with general agriculture. The marriage of Mr. Heighton took place July 19, 1848, to Miss Olive Case, a daughter of Ariel and Minerva (Colton) Case, and this union has been blessed with four children, viz: Marius; Ann, wife of N. E. Olin, of Kent; Parker H. and Lloyd B. The parents of Mrs. Heighton were born in Tolland county, Conn., the father, Ariel, in 1804 and Minerva, the mother, in 1805. Ariel Case was brought to Portage county in 1809 by his parents, who settled in Rootstown township, was reared a farmer, and was married December 7, 1824, and had born to him four children, of whom two still survive, viz: Olive, now Mrs. Heigh-ton, and Ashley M., who resides on the old Case homestead at Rootstown; the other two children died in early infancy. The father died May 21, 1884, at the age of eighty years. and the mother May 26. of the same year, aged seventy-nine. Ariel Case, the paternal grandfather of Mr. Heighton, also a native of Connecticut, and of Scotch descent, came to Portage county. Ohio, in 1809, settled in Rootstown township, and later took part in the war of 1812. He was twice married, his first wife having been Betsey Porter, who bore eight children, viz: Porter. Horace, Ariel, Augusta and Erastus (twins), Hibbard, Truman and Harvey. Mrs. Betsey Case died at the age of forty-one years. and for his second wife Mr. Case married Mrs. Persis Case, née Steward, and to this union were born two children—Benjamin and Perry. Ariel Case died at Rootstown in 1854, at the age of seventy years, and the death of Mrs. Persis Case occurred at the same place. Stephen Colton, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Heighton, was a native of Vermont and settled in Rootstown, Ohio, in 1805, was a farmer, and married Miss Mary Russell, who bore him eight children, viz: Chelsea, Roswell. Mernen, Warren, Josephus, Mary, Prosper and Alva. Mr. Colton was very popular in his township and for a number of years held the office of township trustee. He and wife OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 313 were consistent members of the Disciples' church, and in this faith he died in 1845, at the age of seventy-five years, and his wife in 18.49, aged seventy-three. In politics Mr. Heighton is a republican and is very popular with his party. He has been successful through life, and stands very high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. WILLIAM A. HELFER, the well-known florist and proprietor of the Imperial greenhouse, Akron, Ohio, is a native of this city, was born July 24, 1860, and is the son of George H. and Rebecca (Luce) Helfer. The grandparents of subject, Christopher and Lydia (Heiman) Helfer, were natives of Pennsylvania of Scotch and German descent respectively, and in 1820 settled in Millbrook, Wayne county, Ohio, where, and in Congress township, Christopher Helfer followed his trade of shoemaking for about twenty years, and then purchased a farm in Congress township, on which he and his wife resided the remainder of their lives. Their children were named Mena (Mrs. Royce Somerton), George H., Mary (Mrs. Stephen Collins), Melinda (Mrs. Parker Campbell), Daniel, and Sophia (Mrs. Joseph Sharp.) George H. Helfer, father of subject, was born in Bellefonte, Pa., January 25, 1820, and the same year was brought, in a covered wagon, to Wayne county, Ohio, by his parents. He received a common-school education, and at the age of fourteen years began clerking in a general store, followed this calling until 1843, and then engaged in the dry-goods business on his own account in Congress township, as a member of the firm of Pancoast & Helfer. In 1847 he purchased his partner's interest and continued alone in Congress township until 1849, when he sold out his store and came to Akron, where, as a member of the firm of Helfer & Sechrist, he embarked in general business. In 1867, Mr. Sechrist sold his interest in this store to Clinton, a son of Mr. Helfer; the firm name was then changed to Helfer & Son, and so remained until 1877, when the father sold his interest to the son, who has since continued in the business alone. Mr. Helfer, the father, who was a stockholder in the Akron Iron company, now engaged himself with this concern as shipping clerk, and for twenty-one years filled this responsible position, when he retired from active business. George H. Helfer was twice married. His first wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Elgin, was a daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Elgin, of Congress township, Wayne county, and bore her husband five children, of whom the only survivor is Clinton E., the popular druggist mentioned in the preceding pargraph. The second marriage of Mr. Helfer was with Miss Rebecca Luce, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Luce, of Wayne county, Ohio, and to this marriage have also been born five children, of whom four still survive, viz: William A., Emma (Mrs. Clarence Rudolph), Edwin W., and Minnie B. (Mrs. Henry Adams). In his politics Mr. Helfer is a stanch republican, and, as may easily be inferred from the foregoing record, is one of the substantial and most respected citizens of Akron. William A. Helfer was educated in the public schools of Akron, his native city, and was here reared to manhood. As a young man, he entered the employ of the Akron Iron company as a workman, was promoted to the shipping desk, and later became general foreman of the polishing department, remaining with the company five years. From 1885 until March 1, 1897, he carried on a very successful retail coal trade, but during this interval, in April, 1896, broke ground for the erec- 314 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD tion of his floricultural plant at Nos. 861-63-65 South Bowery. Having sold his coal office at the date named above, he has. since given his whole attention to his greenhouse, which possesses every. modern appliance for the generation and cultivation of floral and ornamental-leaf plants. This conservatory, however, became so popular, that in the spring of 1897 Mr. Helfer was compelled to extend its capacity, and it now consists of five divisions or houses, being the largest and most complete industry of its kind in Summit county. William A. Helfer was united in marriage, June 26, 1893, with Miss Hattie May Roth-rock, a daughter of William H. and Sarah A. (Messer) Rothrock, of Akron. Politically, Mr. Helfer is a stanch republican, and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias. As a citizen he stands high in the esteem of the people of Akron and Summit county, and socially he and his wife mingle with the select circles of Akron. KASPAR HELMLING (deceased farmer of Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio), was born in Germany, July 9, 1834, a son of Peter and Margaret (Knapp) Helmling, was educated in the public schools of his native land, and in October, 1857, Caine to. the United States and settled in Summit county, where he found employment in a pottery, having learned the trade in Germany. After working at this art for three years he engaged in farming, and in 1864 settled on the farm where he passed the remainder of his life, dying October 5, 1896, at the age of sixty-two years, a devoted member of the Catholic church and a most highly respected citizen. In politics he was a democrat, had served as township trustee and also as a member of the grand jury, and his whole life was one of intelligent usefulness. The marriage of Mr. Helming took place in July, 1856, to Miss Sophia Adolph, daugh ter of Enos and Elizabeth (Saul) Adolph, and born in Baden, Germany, September 22, 1837. The parents of this lady came to America in 1845, and settled in Randolph township, Portage county, Ohio, where the father is engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph had a family of ten children, seven of whom still survive, viz: Katherine, wife of Joseph Zeller; Sophia, widow of our subject; Adam, Elizabeth, Michael; Mary, wife of D. L. Baldin, and Maggie. Those deceased were named Philip, Balzer (who died in the army), and one who died in infancy. Mr. Adolph, the father of this family, was called away in 1875, a member of the Catholic church, and later his widow removed to Ravenna, where she died, in the same faith, in 1884. To the marriage of Kaspar and Sophia (Adolph) Helmling, were born thirteen children, of whom ten are still living, viz: Adam; Lizzie; married to Frank Snider; Annie, wife of Nicholas Burnam; John; Clara, now Mrs. Adam May; George; Josephine; Maggie, wife of George Danber; Charles and Rosie. Of the three deceased, George died December 16, 1861, aged five years; Otto died April 26, 1875, aged one year, ten months and twenty-two days, and Louisa died at the age of two years, January 25, 1886. Mrs. Sophia Helmling still resides on the homstead, an honored lady and a devout member of the Catholic church, in which all the family were reared. She is in comfortable circumstances and still keeps a supervising oversight over the farm, in the care of which she has the assistance of her unmarried sons, Charles, however, being her chief reliance in this respect. The entire family stand well in the eyes of the community in which they live and are well deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 315 JOHN HERSHEY, one of the most prosperous farmers of Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in Lebanon county, Pa., February 2, 1834, and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Boltz) Hershey, who were respectively born in the same county, July 12, 1812, and December 25, 1812, were married in 1830, and four years later came to Ohio, locating, first, in Wayne county, where they resided until 1848, when they came to Bath township, Summit county, and passed the remainder of their lives, the father dying in 1882, and the mother in 1883. Their children were five in number, and were born in the following order: Sarah, in October, 1832; John, the subject of this sketch, the date of whose birth has been mentioned; Jacob, born in 1838, died in 1863; Abraham, born in 1844; and Henry, in 1846. Both the Hershey and Boltz families were of Swiss origin and settled in America in the colonial days, and in the war of the Revolution the paternal great-grandfather of our subject took an active part in securing the independence of the colonies. The grandfather of subject, Abraham Hershey, served in the war of 1812, came to Ohio in 1830, and settled in Wayne county, where he lost his wife in 1834, and where his own death occurred in 1850, leaving ten children, viz: Jacob, Rebecca, Abraham, Lydia, Benjamin, Sarah, John, Polly, Samuel and Henry. The eldest of this family, Jacob, began life a poor boy, but eventually became the wealthiest farmer in his county, owning 536 acres of good land. He was very liberal to his children and to religious and educational institutions, and all his life was a devoted member of the German Baptist church, of which his wife was also a member. In politics he was a republican. John Hershey, whose name opens this memoir, passed his youth and early manhood in assisting his father on the home farm, and shortly after attaining his majority married, October 6, 1856, Miss Lydia Rice, who was born in Fayette county, Pa., February 22, 1836, a daughter of Sam and Fanny (Strickler) Rice. This marriage has been blessed with five children, born in the following order: Emma Alice, July 14, 1858, wife of Harry Swan, a farmer of Richfield township; Sarah Frances, July 26, 1860, married to Edward Sprankle, a farmer of Bath township; LeRoy, who died in infancy; George W., born October 2, 1863, and now managing the home farm, and Otto R., February 24, 1868, a merchant at Ghent. Mr. and Mrs. Hershey are both active members of the United Brethren church, in which he has been a class leader twenty-five years, and superintendent of the Sunday-school thirty-three years. In politics he is strongly republican, has served seven years as township trustee, and member of the school board. The fine farm owned by Mr. Hershey comprises 222 acres, is well cultivated, and is improved with substantial modern buildings--his new dwelling having been erected in 1893—and is located about seven miles from Akron. He has made a specialty of live stock, raising sheep and Durham cattle, but for the past three years he has taken no active part in the management of the farm, leaving that to his son, George W., and is now practically retired. He has endowed each of his children with $4,000, chiefly in land, and has been very liberal in his aid to all the worthy enterprises and charities of his township. He and his family are highly respected, and fully deserve the great esteem in which they are held. ABRAHAM HERSHEY, son of Jacob and Sarah (Boltz) Hershey, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, October 18, 1844, and for antecedents the reader is referred to the memoir of John Hershey, 316 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD elder brother, immediately preceding. His education was acquired in the common schools and farming has been his calling through life, having been reared to this vocation on his father's homestead. February 23, 1864, Abraham Hershey was united in marriage with Miss Mary Baughman, who was born in Baughman township, Wayne county, Ohio, February II, 1844, a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Clapper) Baughman, who early came from Pennsylvania to Wayne county, Ohio, and in whose honor the township in which Mrs. Hershey was born received its name. To this marriage have been born two children : John C., who resides with his parents, and Jessie M., the wife of Frank Rothtrock, of Cleveland. After his marriage, Mr. Hershey engaged in farming and in dairying, including cheese making, doing a very successful business. In 1895, he traded his farm of 145 acres, well improved with modern buildings, for the mill he now owns, one mile west of Ghent, in the valley of Yellowstone creek. This mill has excellent water-power and is also provided with steam-power, and it is the intention of Mr. Hershey to soon introduce the most approved roller machinery for the production of flour, the mill having a very large local trade and being run to its full capacity under the old, or grinding, process. Mr. Hershey is a careful and diligent student of standard books and the better class of journals, and has greatly augmented the common-school education acquired in his youthful days, and the store of useful knowledge he has secured in his mature years has been invariably turned to practical use. Ostensibly a republican in his political views, Mr. Hershey is liberal in his opinions in this regard, as well as in religion, and has held numerous positions of honor and trust in Bath township, enjoying, as he does, the full confidence of his fellow-citizens. EDWARD A. HERSHEY, who was elected county clerk of Summit county, Ohio, November 3, 1896, on the republican ticket, is a native of Chippewa, Wayne county, and was born February 6, 1856, a son of Benjamin and Susan (Well-house) Hershey, both now deceased. Benjamin Hershey was a Pennsylvanian by birth, but was brought by his parents to Ohio when but ten years of age, his father, John Hershey, being also a Pennsylvania-German. Benjamin grew to manhood in Wayne county and became one of the most extensive farmers and stockdealers in his part of the state, being a very large shipper of live stock and a solid business man in general. George W. Well-house, father of Mrs. Susan Hershey, was born in Germany, but came to Ohio when thirteen years of age, grew to manhood in Wayne county, and also became one of its most prominent citizens: he was a farmer, served his fellow-citizens in the state legislature, also as associate judge for some years, and was a director in the State National Bank of Ohio, and a substantial business man generally. To Benjamin Hershey and wife were born seven children, viz: Abraham, deceased; George, a resident of Chippewa, Wayne county; Rev. Simon B., of the Ashland, Ohio, Congregational church; William, of Canton, Ohio; Mary, wife of W. Hemberger, of Akron; Edward A., the subject, and Ella, wife of D. C. Leonard, of Toledo. Edward A. Hershey, whose name opens this biographical record, passed his early boyhood on his father's farm and was educated at the Smithville high school. On attaining his majority, he succeeded his father in the live-stock trade, to which he devoted his attention, in connection with farming, until 1885. In March, 1886, he came to Akron and associated himself with T. NV. McCue in the coal business. and later became general OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 317 manager of the Superior Coal company, and still later was associated with the Loomis Coal company. A republican in politics, he was elected, in 1892, city clerk of Akron, which position he most ably filled for two terms. In 1896, Mr. Hershey was complimented by his party by being nominated as its candidate for the office of county clerk of Summit, and was elected by a handsome majority. He has been a hard worker in his party's behalf and has served on the Summit county central republican committee, and for five years was committee treasurer. He has always been courteous and obliging in and out of office, and has won for himself a host of friends throughout the county and city. He has a splendid reputation as a business man and is a director in the Akron Savings bank, and also in the Summit county Agricultural society, and is an active member of Akron lodge, No. 547, I. O. O. F. The happy marriage of Mr. Hershey took place, in 1876, with Miss Josie L. Boone, of Sugar Creek, Wayne county, Ohio, and to this union have been born three children, viz: Bianche—who graduated from the Akron high school in the class of 1896—Ella and Roxie. Mrs. Hershey is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the family have a delightful home at No. 301 Spice street, where is enjoyed an unusual degree of domestic happiness and comfort. GEORGE HERSHEY, a thriving young farmer of Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, is native here and was born October 2, 1864, a son of John and Lydia (Rice) Hershey, of whom full mention is made in a preceding article. George Hershey was reared on his father's farm, and is an expert husbandman. He received the ordinary common-school education vouchsafed to farmers' sons, and on reaching his majority married, December 17, 1885, Miss Kate Moore, who was born November 24, 1868, in Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1878 came to Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, with her adopted parents, John and Loudisa (Morrell) Moore, who settled west of Hammond's Corners. Mr. Hershey owns a fine farm of eighty acres, which is thoroughly cultivated, tiled throughout, and made profitable; is improved with modern farm-buildings and a large brick dwelling, and, beside this farm, he cultivates the large farm owned by his father, which he leases for this purpose. In politics Mr. Hershey is strongly republican and cast his first presidential vote for Jas. G. Blaine, is an upright and useful citizen, and with his wife is most highly respected in the social circles of Bath township. OTTIS R. HERSHEY, a popular and promising young merchant and the postmaster of Ghent, Bath township, was born in this township February 24, 1868. He comes of a good old colonial' family. His great-great-grandfather was a distinguished veteran in the Revolutionary war, and his great-grandfather, Abraham, was a soldier in the war of 1812. His grandfather, Jacob Hershey, was born in Lebanon county, Pa., July 12, 1812, and was married in 1830 to Sarah Bettz, who was born in the same county December 25, 1812. Two years after their marriage they moved to Wayne county, Ohio, where they resided until 1849, when they came to Bath township, where they passed the remainder of their days, Jacob dying in 1882, and Sarah in 1883. They were the parents of the following children: John, Jacob, Abraham, Henry and Sarah. Both the Hersheys and the Bettzes were of Swiss descent and trace the coming of their ancestors from Switzerland 318 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD to America to colonial times. The Hershey family is noted for the longevity of its members and the size and strength of its men. The family lends its power and influence to the German Baptist church, and the republican party is gainer, by reason of the earnest political convictions of the men. John Hershey, the father of our subject, was the first born of his family, was born in Lebanon county, Pa., February 2, 1834. His youth and early manhood were passed with his father upon the home farm, and he was married October 6, 1856, to Miss Lydia Rice, who was born in Fayette county, Pa., February 22, I 836. They are the parents of the following children: Emma A., Sarah F., George W., Ottis R. and Le Roy, the latter dying in infancy. Additional details concerning this family are contained in the biographical sketch of John Hershey. Ottis Rice Hershey is one of the most popular young men in this region. In his early youth he received the advantages offered by the excellent district schools of the township, and upon the solid foundation thus constructed built widely by passing supplemental courses at the Ada Normal school and at Buchtel college. On December 11, 1889, he married Miss Nellie R., daughter of Peter and Mary (Tiernan) Rees, who was born March 28; 1871. The year following his marriage Mr. Hershey engaged in the mercantile business at Ghent, and has been quite successful. In addition to his growing interests at this point he has another store at Codingville, in Medina county, in which he also does a thriving busidess. His services as postmaster at Ghent have given the utmost satisfaction to the public, and as a young man of affairs and promoter of the interests of his community receives a degree of consideration and recognition which marks him as one of the 'coming- men of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Hershey have a pleasant home, in which, however, there does not, as yet, fall the patter of infant feet. Mrs. Hershey was a member of the Disciples' church and was devoted to the good works of that body. Since this biography has been written Mr. Hershey lost his companion in life, she dying September 15, 1897, and her remains lie interred in Bath cemetery. LIEUT. WINFIELD SCOTT KRAKE, the for ten years was prominent in mercantile circles of Ravenna, Ohio, was born in Jefferson county. N. Y., September 19, 1840, a son of James and Sallie (Wadsworth) Krake, also natives of the Empire state. The father, who was of German parentage, was a manufacturer of fanning-mills and was also for many years a captain in the state militia. He and wife both died in La Fargeville, Jefferson county, in middle life, leaving the subject an orphan at the age of twelve years, he being the eldest of five children and being left the only survivor of the family. Mr. Krake received as good an education as the public schools could afford him at his age, and he early entered a general store, in which he was employed until August, 1862, when he enlisted in company M, Fifth New York heavy artillery, which consisted of three battalions—one recruited in Brooklyn, N. Y., one in New York city and one in Jefferson and Lewis counties—in the latter of which subject enlisted. The regiment was assigned to the army of the Potomac and took part in the Shenandoah valley raid under Gen. Phil. Sheridan, in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek, Monocacy and the lesser battles throughout the valley. In the second year of his service Mr. Krake had risen to the rank of second lieutenant, and with this rank was honorably dis- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 321 charged at the close of his three years' service —the war having also been brought to a close. Soon after leaving the army Lieut. Krake sought Ravenna as a home, and with this city he has been identified ever since. Here he first engaged in the dry-goods business, and later entered into the clothing trade. Being a republican in politics, he was appointed deputy postmaster of Ravenna during Grant's first administration, and during the second Grant administration was commissioned postmaster. So ably did he perform the duties of this office it was thought proper to retain him there during the administration of Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, and for one year under Cleveland—a period of thirteen years—when political influence was brought to bear to oust him from office. After being retired from the post-office, Mr. Krake took a year's rest, and then in 1888 embarked in the business of dealer in groceries and provisions, in which he controls the leading trade of Ravenna and gives constant employment to four clerks. July 8, 1861, Lieut. Krake was joined in wedlock, in Copenhagen, N. Y., with Miss Amelia U. Mitchell, a native of that town, and this union has been blessed with one child—now Mrs. B. P. Converse, of San Antonio, Tex., and the mother of a son, James, and a daughter, Florence. Lieut. Krake was one of the incorporators of the Portage County Building & Loan association and is a member of its board of directors, and he is also prominently identified with most of the fraternal societies of the city. In 1873 he was made a Freemason, being initiated in Unity lodge, No. 12, F. & A. M., of which he is past worshipful master; also of the Mystic Shrine, and the Knights Templar, and is a thirty-second Mason; beside filling many subordinate offices he has served as treasurer of the Blue lodge and chapter for many years. As an Odd Fellow he has passed all the chairs, - 9 - is the present representative to the grand lodge of Ohio, and is treasurer in lodge and encampment. In 1879 he was one of the Ravenna council, No. 376, Royal Arcanum, of which he is now the collector, and also representative to the grand council of the state of Ohio. He was likewise a charter member of and is now past post commander of David McIntosh post, No. 327, G. A. R., has been its delegate to several state encampments and national assemblies, and was the delegate to the state encampment for the present year, 1897. Lieut. Krake is liberal in his religious views. and liberal in his support of churches and Sunday-schools, but has never identified himself with any religious organization. As a citizen he is enterprising and useful and is universally respected. WILLIAM A. HOLCOMB, a retired citizen of Ravenna, Ohio, is a native of Westfield, Mass., was born September 5, 1804, and is a son of Roswell and Edith (Campbell) Holcomb, of whose six children—four sons and two daughters—Mr. Holcomb is the only survivor. Enoch Holcomb, the paternal grandfather of subject, was also a native of Westfield, Mass., and descended from one of three brothers who were born in England, and together came to America. Enoch was a large holder of land, and beside farming kept a hotel or tavern and also operated a distillery, and died in his native town at the age of seventy-eight years. Samuel Campbell, the maternal grandfather of William A. Holcomb, was born in Southwick, Mass., was by calling a painter, plasterer and stonemason, and died in his native town at the comparatively early age of forty-four years, but his widow survived to reach the ripe old age of eighty-one years, and died at the home of her son in Rootstown, Ohio. 322 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD William A. Holcomb was reared and received his schooling in Westfield, Mass., and there learned the brick and stonemason's trade, also lathing and plastering. He first came west in 1821, walking in company with his cousin, Homer Campbell, all the way from Massachusetts with packs on their backs—Mr. Holcomb's pack weighing eighteen pounds—and reached Ravenna on the 23d day of April. The country was all forest, yet the wayfarers were never lost, although they were guided by blazed trees only. Returning to his native east, Mr. Holcomb was married, September 24, 1826, to Miss Lydia Olmstead, daughter of William S. and Annie (Wanzer) Olmstead—the ceremony taking place in Litchfield county. Conn.—and two weeks later Mr. Holcomb, his bride and her father, with the bride's sister and several others, started west, and on reaching lake Erie embarked on the steamboat William Penn. and for three days passengers an crew were at the mercy of a storm, but finally reached Sandusky, where the passengers were safely landed with their goods, and were conveyed in wagons to Rootstown, Portage county, where, for some years, Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb lived in a log cabin and underwent all the privations of pioneer life in the woods. Their farm comprised 205 acres, and they Also possessed a dairy constituted of twenty-two cows. After coining west Mr. Holcomb engaged in building depots, bridges, and in other railroad construction work generally, in various parts of Ohio. His first work, however, was on the Cleveland & Pittsburg road, commencing- at Cleveland and working to Pittsburg, also worked on the Erie, then called the Atlantic & Great Western railroad, superintending, from commencement to completion, the building of bridges. depots. round houses, etc. I )tiring the summer of one year, from April 1 to October 3, he earned $455, but was excelled, in this respect, by his amiable helpmate, who, during the same period, made cheese by hand and disposed of it in market for $560—a fact indicating, to some extent, the industry and thrift of the early pioneers. This dairy Mrs. Holcomb continued to manage, with equal success, for seven years. Among the other tasks accomplished by Mr. Holcomb was the building of Hiram college. He tore away the old rail fence that marked the site of the present edifice, dug the cellar, quarried the rock for the foundation, and erected the original building, to which, however, additions have since been made by other builders. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb were born ten children, five sons and five daughters. four of whom are still living, viz: Waver, of whom fuller details are given in a separate memoir: Edith, wife of A. S. Dunning, of Rootstown : Albert, of Springfield, Ohio, and Lydia, wife of S. R. Freeman, of Ravenna. Mrs. Lydia (Olmstead) Holcomb died in Ravenna July 23, 1884, a lady of most estimable characteristics and dearly beloved by her husband and children, and deeply mourned by them and a large circle of true and devoted friends. Mr. Holcomb, who is now in his ninety-fourth year, still has the appearance of not being over sixty-five, although he has led a life that has brought to them the endurance of much .hard labor. But, on the other hand, he has led a life of sobriety and virtue, and thus has his reward. He is a fluent speaker, loves a good joke, even if 'it be at his own expense, is himself bright and witty, and his activity, at his great age. is simply wonderful. His great service in the development of the county are fully appreciated, and he is revered and truly honored by all throughout the length and breadth of the county of Portage. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 323 WILBUR F. HOLLOWAY, one of the prominent citizens of Cuyahoga Falls, and during the war a telegraph operator of the army of the Potomac, descends from sterling English ancestry. Joseph T. Holloway was the son of an Englishman, was born in Philadelphia and married in Williamsport, Pa. , Susan Hawk, and their children were Josephus F., Mary, J. Wesley. Almira, Wilbur F.. Louisa and Albert E. Joseph T. Holloway was an early prospector of the \vest, traveling on horseback and visiting Missouri and other states. He finally located in Union Town, Ohio, where he lived a few years, and thence came to Cuyahoga Falls. He established a cabinetmaker's shop and employed a number of men and carried on this business for a number of years. He also established a lumber yard and in his later life an insurance business. He was an honored citizen, a notary public and a justice of the peace for many years. His judgment was greatly respected by the people, and he was much called upon for advice. He was a local minister of the Methodist church and preached at Cuahoga Falls and the surrounding country. In politics he was a republican and was a stanch anti-slavery man. He was a successful business man and accumulated a competency. He was a prominent man in Summit county and drew up many wills and business papers and married many people and preached. many funeral sermons. He wrote a reminiscence of the town as he was connected with it at an early day—but, unfortunately, this manuscript has been lost. He was at one time coroner of Summit county, was a stanch promoter of temperance and an earnest advocator of the cause; also president of a bible society. In his day Cuyahoga Falls was an enterprising business place. His first wife died and he married Celia Woodruff, but there were no children by this wife. He reached the great age of eighty-two years. Wilbur F. Holloway, our subject, was horn in 18.37, in Cuyahoga Falls, and is a son of Joseph T. and Susan (Hawk) Holloway. He was educated in the common school, attended the high school and learned, when young, the telegraph business and was employed in the general office of the Pittsburg R. R., Cleveland, Ohio, for five years and in 1861 became telegraph operator at McClellan's headquarters—army of the Potomac—Washington, I). C., on Sixteenth street, the former residence of Commodore Wilks, and was here for several months. While he held this position, he frequently saw President Abraham Lincoln, who came often to the telegraph office for information and spent much time there, frequently talking with the operators. He came at almost all hours, day and night, sometimes as late as twelve at midnight, and on one occasion at four A. M. of a rainy, dark morning and asked to see Gen. McClellan, went to the general's room, and talked to him as he lay in bed for about twenty minutes. Lincoln frequently told stories and would talk familiarly with the people about him. Here Mr. Holloway saw many distinguished men, such as Gen. McClellan, Gen. Scott, the two French princes DeJoinville, Due De Chartres, who were on Gen. McClellan's staff and many army officers. After this. Mr. Holloway served in the war department at Washington and at Newport News, Va„ arriving there a few days after the fight between the Merrimac and Monitor. From there he went to Norfolk, Va., where he was under fire when Gen. Longstreet invested the town and was at one time shot at by sharpshooters from a distance. He served "from the beginning of the war to the close. The telegraph operators were frequently in advance and many of them were 324 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD killed in the performance of their duty. After the war, Mr. Holloway was employed by the Western Union Telegraph company of Norfolk, Va., for ten years, being manager of the office and correspondent of the New York Associated Press. After his return to Ohio, he was master of transportation of the Valley Railroad, stationed at Cleveland, Ohio, and since has resided in Cuyahoga Falls. During the war he invented a dictionary holder and reading-stand, which he still manufactures and which he has greatly improved. In 1892 he patented the Century Dictionary Holder and the Holloway Reading stand—undoubtedly the best of the kind in the market and in general use by literary people and libraries, and sold in all the countries in the world. Mr. Holloway married Lucy Plum, of Cuyahoga Falls, a daughter of Henry Plum, whose biography appears on another page. In politics he is a republican. He stands high as a business man, and is much respected for his strictly moral character, and the social relations of himself and wife are most pleasant in every regard. WANZER HOLCOMB, a retired contractor of Ravenna, was born in Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, September 9, 1827, and is a son of William A. and Lydia (Olmstead) Holcomb, whose biographies are given in full in conjunction with this memoir, which renders it necessary only to here record the current course of the life of Wanzer Holcomb himself, or, at least, its salient features. Mr. Holcomb was reared on his father's farm, which he assisted materially in improving during his earlier days of youthful strength, and also learned from his father his trade of brick and stonemason. He remained on the home place until sixteen or eighteen years of age, then devoted his time almost exclusively to his trade in diflerent parts of the county and state—four and one-half years having been spent in Mount Pleasant, Iowa,—until 1868, when he settled in Ravenna, and began railroad contracting, doing all manner of construction until his retirement, and being successful with every contract. Mr. Holcomb was united in marriage, September 25, 1851, with Miss Sophronia C. Stough, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Eatinger) Stough, the happy union resulting in the birth of three children, viz: Margaret Ann, William W. and Harry S. The eldest, Margaret Ann, has been twice married—first, to George T. Smith, and, secondly, to Hiram Bedell, and still lives to mourn the loss of both husbands; William W., book-keeper at Baldwin & Son's planing mill. married Mattie Rice, of Newton Falls, and has three children —Edna, Roswell and Calvin; Harry S., a furniture dealer of Montrose, Colo., married May Matthews, and is the father of one child —Marguerite. Mrs. Wanzer Holcomb is a devoted member of the Disciples' church, while Mr. Holcomb holds prominent station as a societary member. High in Masonry, he is a member of Akron commandery, No. 25; he first became an Odd Fellow while a resident of Lucas county, and there filled various chairs in his lodge; he is also a member the Royal Arcanum. Politically he is a republican, he has served three terms as county commissioner of Portage county. With the exception of the time passed in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and a few trips to the east, Mr. Holcomb has always resided in Portage county, and has witnessed its wonderful growth since he was old enough to observe anything, and has himself borne no small part in its development; he can also recall the time when he noticed, in his trips eastward, that what is now Madison square, in the heart of New York city, was a mere farm, and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 325 that the railroad extended but sixty miles from that now commercial emporium of the United States. Mr. Holcomb resides in his fine ana commodious mansion on North Chestnut street, Ravenna, where he is surrounded with genial and pleasant neighbors. He is himself a public-spirited citizen, a good-natured and pleasant gentleman, and, although sixty-nine years of age, would be taken anywhere to be aged about fifty. He is a lover of relics, and has a vast variety of them in his library, or, what he calls, his " den.” Although extremely liberal and generous toward all worthy objects, private or public, he has never been a profligate, and still keeps an eye on business in his retirement, being a director in the Second National bank. His early efforts in promoting the welfare of Ravenna and Portage will never be forgotten, and he is still very popular with all classes. ELMER K. HOTTENSTEIN, M. D., the well known physician and surgeon of No. 226 South Main street, Akron, 4 Ohio, has been a resident of this city since 1886, and descends from an ancient German family of nobles. The doctor was born in Berks county, Pa., in December, 1861, a son of Edward and Sarah (Knabb) Hottenstein, who descended from families that date their residence in that county from the early part of the seventeenth century. The Hottenstein family, generally, have followed professional lives, but not all of them. Jacob A., the great-grandfather of subject, was a physician, while the grandfather, William, was content with the peaceful pursuit of agriculture; Edward, the father of subject, became in turn a physician, and was the early teacher of the science to his son, Elmer K. Edward and Sarah Hottenstein are the parents of nine children, born in the following order: Ida, wife of James D. Lang, of Berks county, Pa., Alice; Elmer K. ; Edward, physician of Kutztown, Pa.; Sarah, deceased; William J., dentist, of Akron, Ohio; Charles A., physician of Kutztown, Pa.; Deborah C., at home, and Peter D., a student. Dr. Elmer K. Hottenstein was educated in the Keystone Normal school preparatorily and then entered Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia, having also been prepared for this step through tuition under his father; he graduated from this institution in 1883, and then took a special course on the eye and ear at the Wills Eye hospital, and also a course in the Pennsylvania college of Dental Surgery, from which he graduated, but does not practice dentistry excepting incidentally, although he had opened rooms for that purpose at Kutztown, Pa., two years prior to his coming to Akron. In fact, he has relegated that practice to his brother, William J., as will be discovered in a coming paragraph. Dr. E. K. Hottenstein is a member of Akron lodge, No. 83, F. & A. M. ; of Summit lodge, No. 5o, I. O. O. F., and of encampment No. 18, same order; also of the Red Cross, No. 25. He was married December 2, 1891, to Miss Ida A. Bieber, daughter of William Bieber, and is now the happy father of two children, Clara B. and William E. The doctor and wife are members of Grace Reformed church and have a charming home at No. 126 Carroll street. William J. Hottenstein, brother of Dr. Elmer K. Hottenstein, was born in Berks county, Pa., August 28, 1868, and was preliminarily educated in the common school and state normal schools; then read medicine under his father and next attended the MedicoChirurgical college of Philadelphia, Pa., and then entered the Jefferson Medical college of the same city, from which he graduated in 326 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 1889. He then practiced medicine at home until the fall of the same year, when he entered the Pennsylvania Dental college of Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1890, then returned to his old home and practiced both medicine and dentistry until the fall of that year, when he came to Akron and opened his dental parlors, and has since given his entire attention to dentistry. In August, 1894, his brother, Dr. Elmer K., and he opened their fine suite of offices on South Main street, in the Doyle block, where Dr. Elmer K. has a lucrative medical practice and Dr. William J. has an equally prosperous practice in dentistry in all its multifarious branches. Dr. William J. Hottenstein is a member of Granite lodge, No. 522, I. O. O. F., and also of Akron tent of Maccabees, No. 129; also of the Red Cross, and of the Akron Dental society. He was united in marriage, May 28, 1895, with Miss Amelia C. Von Alt, daughter of John and Frederica Von Alt, and they have their pleasant home at No. 119 Coburn street. Mrs. Hottenstein is a devoted member of the Trinity Lutheran church. In the early part of the seventeenth century, three brothers of the Hottenstein family came to America from Esslingen and landed in Philadelphia. One of these three, Jacob, settled in Oley township, now in Berks county, Pa., and purchased large tracts of land, which still remain in the family. Jacob was the great-great-grandfather of the doctors Hottenstein of Akron, Ohio, who now stand at the head of their professions and are among the most respected residents of the city. HORACE M. HOUSER, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Akron Cultivator company, is a native of Reynolds, Schuylkill county, Pa., was born February 2, 1861, and is a son of Daniel M. and Catherine (Seiberling) Houser, of German extraction. The father, who was a teacher for six or seven years in the public schools, later engaged in the coal and lumber business, but died in 1870; his widow is still living, and is deeply beloved by her four children, who were born in the following order: Horace M., the subject; Ida A., wife of Samuel R. Endy, Frackville. Pa. ; Laura C., now Mrs. Charles Billing, of Tamaqua, Pa., and Sadie C.. the wife of Alexander Bender, of Boston, Mass. At the death of Daniel M. Houser, subject was placed with his grandfather, who was an extensive farmer and also kept a hotel, and general store, was postmaster and ticket agent, and a thoroughly practical business man. Under this relative Mr. Houser learned telegraphy and received a general business and English education, so that, at the early age of fourteen years, he was able to pass examination before the school board and was granted a certificate as teacher and given charge of the school which his father had formerly taught. During the winters of five years he there gave instruction, and in the summers attended the normal college at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pa., defraying his expenses from his own earnings, until he had reached the junior class. In January, 1881, he resigned his position as teacher and went to Oswego, N. V., and there took a course in stenography, paying for his tuition by teaching penmanship. In August, 1881, he was tendered and accepted a position as stenographer with the J. F. Seiberling company of Akron. For eight years he was in the employ of this company as shorthand writer, shipping clerk and correspondent, and in 1889 associated himself with the Akron Tool company as stockholder and secretary, and so remained until the company sold out to the Akron Cultivator company. This, the Akron Cultivator company, with OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 327 its plant at Nos. 230 to 248 Union street, was organized in 1894, for the purpose, as its name partially indicates, of manufacturing agricultural implements, and is to-day one of the substantial industries of the city. Its capital stock in $100,000, and its officers are: George W. Crouse, president; Horace M. Houser, secretary, treasurer, and manager. It gives employment to sixty hands, and makes a specialty of corn cultivators and the Kraus Pivot-Axle Automatic Sulky cultivator, but of course the business of the company is not confined to the production of these implements only. Mr. Houser is a strictly self-made man, having educated himself and being the founder of his business prosperity. He has other interests besides those of the cultivator company, and in every position he has held has been master of the situation, and during his last year with the Akron Tool company had entire control of the concern. His business success is the criterion of his intrinsic worth. While in politics a republican, he has never found it necessary to obtrude himself upon his party for official position. Mr. Houser was united in marriage, February 12, 1896, with Miss Julia M. Crouse, daughter of George W. and Martha (Parsons) Crouse, and with his wife affiliates with the Episcopal church. His residence is at No. 107 Arch street. CHARLES LEONARD HOWARD, president and general manager of the Railway Speed Recorder company, and conspicuous as a business man of Kent, Ohio, was born on a farm near Utica, N. Y., May 28, 1838, a son of Boyd and Mercie (Wood) Howard, and is of remote English origin, his paternal grandfather having been born in Dutchess county, N. Y., where the father of our subject was born and married, and whence he moved to Oneida county, where he died ten days prior to the birth of our subject, who was the youngest of a family of thirteen children. The mother subsequently married Ira Burdick, and seventeen years later the family moved to Friendship, Alleghany county, where the mother ended her days. Charles L. Howard lived on the home farm in Allegany county, N. Y., until nineteen years old, attending school when not at work. He then became a clerk in a general store in Friendship, and before he had reached his majority became a merchant on his own account, purchasing his stock in New York city. He made his home at Friendship twenty-five years, being engaged in farming beside the mercantile business. He was president of the Allegany county Agricultural association for some time, ever taking an interest in all farm pursuits. He was also a promoter and director of the Allegany Central railroad—a narrow-gauge line through the oil fields from Friendship to Olean, N. Y., and a director of the Allegany County Reporter, the leading republican newspaper of the county. He was postmaster of Friendship for ten years and also filled various municipal offices. Becoming interested in the oil business, he came to Wood county, Ohio, and in 1887 to Kent, and purchased an interest in the Railway Speed Recorder company, of which he was chosen secretary and treasurer; six months later, January 1, i888, was elected general manager, and in 1890 was elected president. The other officers are at present E. A. Parsons, treasurer, and C. M. Power, secretary. The capital stock of the company is $250,000, and it manufactures, beside the speed recorder, Hawkins' patent jack, caboose and shop stoves, sucker rod joints and other oil-well supplies. 328 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD In politics Mr. Howard has always been a republican, but, being an advocate of and believer in a bimetallic circulation, supported the Bryan ticket in 1896. His first office was that of township clerk in Allegany county, N. Y., and he also held various other local offices. He was appointed postmaster of Friendship by President Hayes and was re-appointed by President Arthur, but since coming to Kent has given very little attention to political affairs. Mr. Howard was united in marriage, in 186o, with Miss Amelia C. Babcock, who was born in Cortland county, N. Y., a daughter of Simon Babcock, a merchant and farmer. This union has been blessed with three children, viz: Hattie, who is married to B. F. Drake. of Friendship, N. Y., and has one child—Howard; Nora, wife of Milton Knifel, of Kent, and the mother of two children--Lawrence and Inez; Nina, now Mrs. Charles Powers, of Kent, and mother of one child—Josephine Marie. Mr. Howard is a knight templar Mason, is a very pleasant companion and a thorough gentleman, and few persons in Kent are more highly respected. JOHN L. HOUSLEY, a substantial farmer and a respected citizen of Stowe township, Summit county, Ohio, was born on his father's farm in Stark county, Ohio, December 21, 1846, and springs from English ancestry. Levi Housley, grandfather of John L., was born in New York state and was the son of one of three brothers, who came over from England and fought through the Revolutionary war, in which one was killed. After the war, one brother settled in New York and one came west, and his descendants, later, settled in Maryland, where he purchased a farm, on part of which the battle of Antietam was fought. His log barn was chinked with mortar, in which the date of the building was marked 1765. He married, in Maryland, Mary Loman. Her mother's maiden name was Leidigh, and she came from Switzerland. Levi Housley and wife were the parents of five children, Leidigh, Katie, Barbara, Roseann and Levi. Mr. Housley had a good farm and home, but came to Ohio in 1805 to see the country, and when he passed through Canton it contained one log house and two Indian wigwams. Mr. Housley located a piece of land in Stark county and then returned home, making the journey on horseback and traveling by a blazed trail. Failing to sell his place, he remained in Maryland until 1824, when he brought his family and settled on the land he had located in 1805, consisting of 16o acres covered by a heavy forest of oak, ash, and beech, but later moved to Lake township, in the same county, bought another farm of 16o acres and here passed the remainder of his days. He cleared up part of his first farm and all of his second, and had a goodly property improved with good buildings. He was a substantial citizen and a member of the Presbyterian church, and assisted to found the first church in his part of the county. In politics he was an old-line Whig. He was seventeen years old when the Revolutionary war closed, but, being afflicted with white swelling and lame, could not enlist as a soldier, but served as blacksmith, shoeing horses. His father, however, fought all through the war for independence. Leidigh Housley, father of John L., was born in Maryland on his father's farm, October 23, 1814, and was reared a farmer. He came with his brother and family to Ohio, in 1824, when ten years of age, and married, March 21, 1837, Nancy Thompson, a native of Stark county, and a daughter of John and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 329 Mary Ellen (Warner) Thompson, of English descent. Mr. Thompson came to Ohio about 182c, settled in Lake township, Stark county, and cleared up a farm of 200 acres. He was a Methodist in religion, a respected citizen and lived to be eighty-two years old. His children were Mary, Rachael, Eliza, Abbie, Nancy, Sally and Benjamin. Mr. and Mrs. Housley settled on the old Housley homestead and there passed all their remaining days. Leidigh Housley was a very industrious and respected man and prospered by thrift and accumulated a handsome property—a good farm of 230 acres. His children were Mary, Elizabeth, Catharine, Nancy, John L., Minerva, Levi, Sarah, Daniel, Ethelinda, Alice and Jesse. Mr. Housley was an honored citizen and held the office of township trustee, was a member of the school board, and filled other minor offices. He lived to be seventy-two years old and died in 1886, September 5, a Presbyterian in religion and in politics a republican, beloved by all his family and much thought of by all who knew him. John L. Housley received a good common-school education, and a business education at Oberlin college. He went to the Pacific coast in the fall of 1868, via New York city and the isthmus of Panama. Having two sisters, Mary and Nancy, in Benton county, Oregon, he visited them, rested from work, and trapped and hunted in the Cascade mountains one winter, and killed foxes, beavers, minks, otters and coons, and did a good business, making $100 per month. He returned home in the spring of 1870. He married, June 1, 1871, in Stark county, Ohio, Nancy Hill, born October 2, 1848, in Stark county, daughter of Thomas and Barbara (Long) Hill. Thomas Hill came from Maryland as a pioneer and settled in Plain township, Stark county. His children were Daniel (died two years old), Catherine, Susan, William, Nancy, Richard, Abraham, Sallie and Elizabeth. Mr. Hill died on his farm when seventy-nine years old, April 8, 1883. He was a man of great ingenuity, understood every kind of work, and was very handy with tools. He was very religious, was a German Baptist, was a kind and upright man. Mr. Hill was first married to Kate Worley, and they had Thomas, Samuel and David. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Housley settled on the old Housley homestead in Stark county, and lived there for some time, and came to their present farm March II, 1873. Mr. Housley first bought 122 acres, and, by industry and thrift, has added to it until he now owns 142 acres of good land; he built a fine and tasteful house in 1893, and has it nicely furnished. Mr. Housley, aided by his faithful wife, has greatly improved his farm, on which are over 40,000 feet of tile drainage. Their children are Lewis E., Virgil M.. Mary E., Nannie B., Leidigh and Richard L. Mrs. Housley is a member of the German Baptist church and in politics Mr. Housley is a prohibitionist and free silverite. He has held the 'offices of supervisor, assessor, and member of the school board. The family is one of the best in the township and all the children are well educated. Virgil and Mary attended Buchtel college and are stenographers and typewriters. Lewis E. attended Ashland university and also a business college, and is now receiving clerk in the Goodrich Rubber company. The remainder are at home. HENRY WILLETT HOWE, one of most prominent citizens of Northampton township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in the adjoining township of Bath, June 29, 1828, the eldest son of Capt. Richard Howe, a native of St. Mary's county, Md., born in 1799. 330 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Stanislaus Howe, paternal grandfather of Henry W. Howe, was one of the pioneers of Maryland, and his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Edward Willett, who was owner of a large estate near Upper Marlboro, in the same state, and grandson of Edward Willett, who was appointed clerk of the court of Prince George county, Md., in 1708. The large Willett estate was devised to a trustee, who was authorized to sell and to divide the proceeds of the sale among the heirs, but no part of those proceeds ever reached the heirs of Stanislaus Howe, and the executor of the will was long ago released from his responsibility, and his sureties, or bondsmen, relieved from their liability under the statutes of Maryland. Roxana K. Howe, mother of Henry W. Howe, was the second daughter born to Maj. Sylvanus Jones, a native of Bristol, Ontario county, N. Y., while his wife, Phebe, was a daughter of Capt. Arden Sears, a family active in organizing the first Protestant Episcopal church in New England, and to this day counted among its most munificent benefactors. Roxana K. Jones was the pioneer schoolmistress of Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, and also was one of the organizers of the first Sunday-school in Akron, of which she was a teacher for half a century, and a memorial window in the First Methodist church perpetuates her memory as one of its founders. Henry Willett Howe received an excellent education in youth and early manhood, and was graduated from Oberlin college with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. For ten years he practiced law in Akron and its vicinity, and for six years was a member of the board of education at the time that the Akron school law was on trial as an experiment. During this period he was secretary of the board, did a full share of committee work and performed many of the duties that now devolve on the superintendent, and all without compensation; he also served two terms in the city council, which was likewise an office of honor and not of profit. In his capacity as attorney he became interested in several agricultural implement patents, and afterward became engaged in manufacturing, which afforded him relief from sedentary employments that were undermining his health. Inheriting from his father's estate a farm, he granted a right of way across it to a railroad company, the consideration being that the company should build and maintain a station thereon, and then made his residence in sight of his birthplace—within easy reach of both Cleveland and Akron. A post-office was also established at the same point by his request, and he was appointed postmaster, and still holds that office; he has also served as justice of the peace several terms—an office for which he is peculiarly qualified—and has frequently settled the disputes of his neighbors without litigation; he has officiated at many weddings, and has not unfrequently conducted the services at the burial of the dead. As to politics, Mr. Howe had been reared to a belief in the principles of the whig party, which he had advocated up to the time immediately preceding his coming of age, but in 1848, on the nomination by the whigs of a slaveholder for the presidency of the United States, he withdrew his influence from the old party and worked with vigor and enthusiasm for the establishment of the new, or republican organization: nevertheless he supported Bryan and the Chicago platform of 1896. For fifteen years he acted as secretary of the Pomona grange, P. of H , but declined promotion, as he had previously declined political honors. In religious matters, Mr. Howe was reared under gospel influences, but when barely out of his teens began to insist upon interpreting the sacred writings in the light of the belief prevalent at the time they were written. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 331 He has so much confidence in his judgment in this respect that he is willing to live by it, and to die by it. Mr. Howe was happily united in marriage, December 12, 1859, with Miss Isadora C. Bell, a native of Connecticut, and this union has been blessed with three children—Edward B., Frank R. and Abbey B. For half a century he has been a contributor to agricultural and educational publications. His second son, Frank, since he became of age, has been occupied with educational work, and since April, 1892, at Darrowville, in Summit county, has published a monthly journal for the promotion of that interest. HERBERT F. HUDSON, the well-known dealer in creamery supplies at Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, was born in the township of the same name April 1, 1846, a son of James and Cordelia A. (Rowell) Hudson. The father, a native of Pennsylvania, was a farmer, came to Portage county, Ohio, with the pioneers, and died in 1876, in New York city, while on a visit; the mother, a native of New Hampshire, had died on the home place in 1874. These parents had three children, of whom subject is the youngest; Charles D. is a live-stock dealer in Chicago, and the sister, Mrs. Henry Sharp, resides on the old homestead. The family are of English extraction, and of ante-Revolutionary residence in America. Herbert F. Hudson was educated in the city schools of Ravenna and in the well-known Eastman Business college of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. His first independent effort in business life was in buying and shipping live stock at Ravenna, but his main work has been in the line which now occupies his attention, and which was rooted in the industry which has led to it, which will easily be perceived by following his business career in detail. In 1867 he erected the Beech Woods cheese factory in Ravenna township, and in the spring of 1870 constructed the Springdale creamery and cheese factory at Rootstown, having removed from the former to the latter place after disposing of the Beech Woods plant. In 1882 he entered the employ of the DeLaval (cream) Separator company, of New York, in the capacity of salesman and general agent, and with this company he still holds his connection, and during the past twelve years has sold and established agencies in nearly every state in the Union. This connection also involves the duty of supervising the erection of creameries on contract, and in this capacity Mr. Hudson has erected and equipped 154 creameries, beside making extensive sales to creameries that had already been established. Mr. Hudson was united in marriage, in 1868, in Urbana, Ohio, with Miss Hettie M. Clark, daughter of Horace M. Clark, who was for many years county clerk of Portage county, but who, with his wife, is now laid in the grave. Two children have blessed this happy union—Charles Clair, of Cleveland, and James Frank, still at home and attending school. The elder, Charles, holds an exceptionally good position in the Van Dorn iron works of Cleveland, being naturally gifted with a mechanical genius, which will be fully developed and expanded through the position he now holds. He is happily married to Miss Mary Ray, of Rootstown. In politics Mr. Hudson has been a republican since old enough to vote; fraternally he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows ever since reaching the age which qualified him as a voter. Mrs. Hudson is a zealous member of the Congregational church, and an interested worker in all the undertakings of the congregation of that denomination in Rootstown. She is kind to the 332 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD poor, philanthropic in every thought, and her home is ever open to the young, where their social enjoyments are profusely allowed, but where the monitory wisdom of the mistress never fails to inculcate a lesson duly fitted to the unrestrained enjoyment of the young on these occasions. The especial care of this mother, however, has been that of her two sons, to whom she has always been the wise counselor and guide. JOSEPH HUGILL, of Akron, Ohio, is. a native of Gunnersville, York county, England, was born September 1, 1834, a son of George and Isabella (Close) Hugill. The father of our subject was a son of George, who, in turn, was a son of George, who was a son of Edward, who was a son of John, and he a son of George, all natives of Yorkshire—the first three of whom were lead miners, and the latter three farmers. Joseph Close, maternal grandfather of Joseph Hugill, the subject, was a carpenter and builder by trade, and was a son of George Close, also a builder of Yorkshire. Joseph Hugill, the subject, left his native country at the age of seventeen years, landed in New York city July I, 1851, came thence to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was employed at stone and brick work, which he had begun to learn in the old country at the age of eleven years. In 1854 he left Cleveland and went to Canada, and worked at his trde for the Grand Trunk Railway company until 1856, and then began contracting for the Buffalo & Lake Huron Railway csystemnow a part of the Grand Trunk systein. In 1858 he went to California and engaged in gold mining, also worked at his trade one year, and in 1860 went to Nevada, and worked on the Great Basin hotel, which was afterward purchased by the county for its own use. He next superintended the stone work for the Gold & Currie quartz-mill at Virginia City, at which he was engaged until May, 1864, when he returned east, and passed a year in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1865 he was employed in farming in Cuyahoga county, and in 1866 settled in Akron, where he engaged in general contracting for stone and brickwork, which business he followed until 1895, when he was appointed city commissioner, which position he still ably fills. September 28, 1864, Mr. Hugill was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Wells, daughter of Martin and Martha (Walpole) Wells, the latter a lineal descendant of Horace Walpole. at one time the renowned prime minister of England. This union has been crowned by the birth of four children, viz: William E., Frank W. and Minnie (twins, deceased), and Rhea W. Mr. Hugill is a thirty-second degree Mason in his fraternal relations, and sociaily he and family stand high in the esteem of the best people of Akron.G GEORGE WHITFIELD HULETT, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and at present a well-known dealer in agricultural implements, feed, etc.. at Kent, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Chernung county, N. Y., October 13, 1842, a son of Asahel and Clarissa (Hulett) Hulett, natives of Vermont. Asahel Hulett was reared to manhood in his native city of Rutland, Vt., and at one time was warden of the Vermont state prison. He was married in the Green Mountain state, whence he moved to New York state, and in 1847 came to Ohio—making the journey with teams--and purchased a large farm in Franklin township, Portage county. He dealt extensively in live stock, and before the advent of railroads drove his stock overland to the OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 333 eastern markets. He also dealt largely in produce and was likewise engaged in gardening on an extensive scale. His large farm was well improved, but in an evil hour he went security for friends and lost his vast possessions, with the exception of his home and seventy acres. He was a stanch democrat in politics and lived to be seventy-seven years of age, voting his ticket for more than half a century. He died in 1877, but his widow survived him eleven years and died at the age of eighty-six. Of their children, Rudolph died in infancy; Orison, a farmer, died in Kansas, leaving a family; Louise died unmarried; Harriet died in early life; John was a soldier in the Second Ohio cavalry, became a farmer after the war, and died in Kansas, unmarried; Esther is the widow of Horace Bester and lives in Kent, Ohio; Albert Rudolph, a soldier of the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, was killed in the battle of Franklin, Tenn. ; George W., the subject, was next in order of birth; Sarah M. resides on the old homestead in Franklin township: Ella Gertrude, who was married to Sereno Holdridge, died in Shalersville, Ohio, leaving two children, and Franklin D. died in childhood. George W. Hulett, the subject of this memoir, was reared on the Franklin township farm from the age of five years until nearly twenty, and attended the common schools in the interval. August 11, 1862, he enlisted in the volunteer service, and was mustered in, at Massillon, in company I, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio infantry, and had his first engagement at Covington, Ky., then followed numerous engagements with the raider John Morgan in Kentucky; then the regiment crossed the mountains into Tennessee and was present at the capture of Knoxville, and fought at Cumberland Gap; then joined the Twenty-third army corps, marched with Sherman south and participated in the capture of Atlanta; then returned northward to Nashville, Tenn., to intercept Gen. Hood, and took part in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., in which his brother, Albert Rudolph, was killed, and where our subject was taken prisoner and sent to Andersonville. In this rebel pen Mr. Hulett was confined until March 27, 1865, when he was taken to Vicksburg, Miss., and paroled. He was one of the unfortunates who boarded the ill-fated steamboat Sultana for passage north. This boat had gone up the Mississippi river to a point beyond Memphis, Tenn., when her boilers exploded, and of the 2,360 souls on board, over 1,600 lost their lives, Mr. Hulett being one of those who were spared, but not without injury. On returning to Portage county, Mr. Hulett purchased a farm and engaged in its cultivation, but dealing in live stock was his principal business until 1887, when he removed to Kent and continued dealing in stock alone until 1889, when he engaged in his present enterprise. In May, 1873, Mr. Hulett was united in marriage with Miss Thirsa Chapman, a native of Brimfield township and a daughter of Henry C. and Alvira (Underwood) Chapman. In politics Mr. Hulett is a stanch democrat, but has never been a seeker after office. He has a clear record as a business man as well as a soldier, and stands high in the general esteem. GEORGE A. HUNTLEY, M. D., of Copley, Summit county, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state and was born in North Bloomfield, Trumbull county, September 11, 1871, the son of Dr. A. O. and Alice (Hawkins) Huntley, the former of whom was born in Medina county in 1845, and the latter in Copley September 14, 1847, and were the parents of two children, viz: Josephine, who was born in 1868 and is now the wife of Lee Baldwin, of Washington, 334 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD D. C., and Dr. George A., the subject proper or this biographical notice: Dr. A. O. Huntley was reared a farmer. and educated in the district schools of Medina county as a preparatory course, and then, after a still further preparatory course of medical study, entered the Stirling Medical college of Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated after finishing the course, and began practice in Grangerburg, Medina county, but remained there a few years only, when he went to North Bloomfield, Ohio, where he had a most successful practice, which extended over a period of thirty years. Mrs. Alice Huntley, the mother of Dr. George A. Huntley, is a daughter of George W. and Matilda (Hubbard) Hawkins, the former of whom was the first white child born in Copley, the date being December 29, 1815. In January, 1840, Mr. Hawkins married Miss Hubbard, who was born in 1811, a daughter of Reuben Hubbard, and this union resulted in the birth of five children, viz: Adelia, who died in infancy; Eliza, born June 4, 184J—died November 18, 1871; Alice C.. mother of subject; George W., born September 2, 1851 —died November 13, 1876, and Eugene R., born June 28, 1854. Mrs. Hawkins was called away, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church, December 5, 1886, and Mr. Hawkins died May 21, 1896. In politics, the latter was a democrat. Dr. George A. Huntley. after receiving the usual common-school education, graduated from the high school of North Bloomfield, Ohio, in 1890, then passed two years in Hiram college, and next entered the Western Reserve Medical college at Cleveland, from which he was graduated in.. 1895 with the degree of M. D., and the same year entered upon the practice of his profession in Copley Center, where he has become very popular and has met with unequivocal success. In May; 1894; Dr. Huntley was united in marriage with Miss Mary Clapp, who was born in 1871, a daughter of Robert and Eliza Clapp, who are the parents of seven children, viz: Robert G., Frederick Isaac, Emily (wife of Frank Doughty, of Warren, Ohio), Mary (Mrs. Huntley), Albert and John. The marriage of Dr. Huntley and wife has been blessed with one childFrancis Eugene, born November 21, 1896. The parents are members of the Disciples' church, and in politics the doctor is a strong republican. JOHN H. INSANDE one of the substantial citizens of Cuyahoga Falls, an honored gentleman and the head of a respected family, springs from sterling German ancestry, and was born in Boston, Mass., March 19. 1833, .a son of John Henry and Mary (Schlusemyer) Insande. He received but little education and began to work in a nail factory when ten gears old. When he was thirteen years of age he began to work for Peter Cooper, the great philanthropist, in his wire works at Trenton, N. J.. continued in his employ for nine years and learned all the departments of the iron business, including iron rolling, and was also the first to make copper wire from ingots, to be used in making rivets for belts. He married, September 16, 1855. at Trenton, N. J.. Sarah Bailey, who was born March 3, 1836, in Leicestershire, England, on a farm, a daughter of Samuel. and Emily (Roper) Bailey. Mr. Bailey Caine to America, in 1845, bringing his family. and settled in New York cite, After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Insande lived. in Trenton, N. for two years. In 1857 they came to Cuyahoga Falls. where Mr. Insande engaged in forging steamboat shafting and car axles for Cleveland, and became foreman for the James forge. He finished learning the machinist's OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 335 trade with the Bill Bros., well known machinists and inventors of Cuyahoga Falls, and continued with these two firms for eight years, and then bought a flouring and saw-mill at Brecksville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, but soon sold it out and went to Newberg, Ohio, in 1865. He then became foreman of the Chisholm rolling mill and remained with this firm four years. In 1868 he bought a rolling mill in Cuyahoga Falls, but soon sold out and bought an interest in a machinery company, and three years later he was one of the founders of the Falls Wire company, and managed this business for fifteen years. Throughout his long business career lie has been successful. In his later years he is managing a dairy farm. He was one of the original republicans of this county and voted for Fremont and Dayton. He is an honored citizen and has held the offic of town councilman several years, and is a member of the board of education. Fraternally he is a Mason, is a member of Starr lodge, No. 187, Cuyahoga Falls, and has filled every office in his lodge, including worshipful master, is now its treasurer, and assisted in establishing the Newberg, Ohio lodge. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and has filled the office of regent. Mr. Insande is a Lutheran in religion, and his wife is an Episcopalian. To them have been born Charles H., Samuel B., Edward E., Albert W., Annie Lottie, George F., Frederic J., Georgiana May and Mary Emma. Mr. Insande began life a penniless boy, and by his steady application and industry became a successful and to-do business man. Even in his youth he was a very skillful machinist and workman and could do almost anything with tools. John H. Insande, father of subject, was a soldier in Napoleon's army, and in the great battle of Waterloo when but fifteen years old. He was a blacksmith by trade. His children were John H., 'William F. who went to New South Wales, and was afterward a soldier in our great Civil war) and Henrietta. Mr. Insande died when our subject was a small child and Mrs. Insande next married John R. Walser, an iron worker. Samuel Bailey, father of Mrs. Insande, was born in England. He was a farmer and came to America in July, 1845, in a sailing vessel from Liverpool to New York, being six weeks on the passage. He located in New York, but five years later moved to Trenton, N. J. , where he became a wire drawer, and died there aged fifty-two years, a member of the Episcopal church. His children were James, Sarah, Harriet, Georgianna, Samuel and John H., Tr. Mr. and Mrs. Insande have reared an excellent family of children, who rank among the most respected citizens of Cuyahoga Falls. ERNEST A. JOHNSON, of Cuyahoga Falls, Summit county, Ohio, and one of its most respected citizens, was born July 22, 1846, in Benton, Mich., a son of Nathan A. and Celestia (Davis) Johnson, the former a son of Moses and Christina Johnson. Moses Johnson was born in Vermont March Jo, 1777, of English descent, his remote ancestors having early settled in Vermont. Moses was a carpenter, joiner and farmer. He married, November 2, 1802, Christina Born, who was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., May 7, 1788. They located. in Rochester, N. Y., at an early day, then moved to North Clarkson, N. Y., and in 1836 removed to Branch county, Mich., where Mr. Johnson cultivated a farm of eighty acres and worked at his trade of carpenter and joiner. There Mrs. Johnson died August 2, 1842, and Mr. Johnson August 31, 185o, their remains being interred at Takonsha. They were the parents of the follow- 336 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD ing children: Betsey, Polly, Sibbillah, Evean, Levina, Rachael, Margaret and Morgan (twins), Christina, Nathan A., George, and Moses, Jr. Nathan A. Johnson was born October 24, 1819, in North Clarkson, N. Y. He became a carpenter and joiner and married, at Charlotte, Mich., November 12, 1844, Celestia Davis, who was born at Pompey Bill, N. Y., a daughter of Stephen and Martha M. (Andrews) Davis. Stephen Davis was born April 2, 1799, in Rhode Island, of an old family who settled in New York state, and married there June 14, 1823. Stephen Davis settled, in 1838, in Benton township, Eaton county, Mich., where he lived on his farm of eighty acres, but died at Charlotte, Mich., May 30, 1893, aged ninety-four years, a man of excellent character, and the father of the following children: Celestia, Marion, Oscar, Helen, Robert, Oron, Martha, Mary and Edgar. Edgar Davis was killed in Kentucky, in 1863, in a skirmish with the southern cavalry. After marriage Nathan A. Johnson and wife settled in Charlotte, Mich., and there passed their remaining days. Their children were Ernest A., Alice, Inez, Charles, Clive and Ethel (twins). Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were members of the Universalist church, but very liberally assisted all denominations in their town, building the Universalist church at Charlotte. He was for many years a prominent business man, owning a planing mill and lumber yard. He was deputy sheriff, but performed the duties of sheriff, and later was a member of the first town council. Fraternally he was a Mason, belonging to the lodge at Charlotte, and was a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge of the same place. He was a man of excellent moral character, well known for his sterling worth, and died February 1 0, 1894, at Charlotte-his wife February 4, 1896, at Denver, Colo. Ernest A. Johnson received a good common-school education in his youth, and later attended Myhew's Commercial college at Albion, Mich. He then learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. He came to Ohio in December, 1880, although he had previously worked at his trade in many states in the Union, including the far west. He married, December 22, 188o, Hattie Hartle, who was born in Stowe township, Summit county, July 25, 1855, a daughter of Lotan and Diana (Buel) Hartle. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Johnson lived in Akron* five years, but have resided in Stowe township since. Both are members of the Disciples' church, in which Mr. Johnson is treasurer and Sunday-school teacher. In politics he is a republican and fraternally is an unaffiliating Odd Fellow. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson one daughter, Hazel B., was born February 15, 1885, at Akron, Ohio. Mr. Johnson is a man of wide experience and has erected many business buildings, including the Legget schoolhouse at Akron. He is a skillful workman and a man of unblemished character. JOHN KEMERY, a prosperous farmer and dairyman of Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, is a native of Wayne county, and was born March 1, 1842. Daniel Kemery, father of subject, was born in Pennsylvania January 27, 1797, came to Ohio in 1815, and followed farming in Wayne county until his death, February 7, 1850. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Susanna Yergin, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., December 6, 1811, and died in Wayne county, Ohio, April 23, 1883. She was a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Coble) Yergin, who were born in Washington county, Pa., April 30, 1788, and June 21, 1791, were married in 1809, and had born to them a family of two sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Yergin came to Ohio in 1816, settled in OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 339 Wayne county, and here Mrs. Yergin died November 13, 1852. Mr. Yergin, who was a well-to-do farmer, died June 1, 1856. Daniel and Susanna (Yergin) Kemery reared a family of five children, viz: Catherine, deceased wife of Benjamin Alman, of Bath township; David, a farmer, of Pekin, Ill. ; Caroline, wife of J. Sheldon, of Richfield township, Summit county, Ohio; Samantha, married to Silas Paine, also of Richfield township, and John, the subject of this notice. John Kemery, the subject, at the age of nine years, was brought from Wayne county to Summit county by his parents, who rented a farm in Richfield township, which he assisted in clearing up, and on which he lived until twenty-two years old. He then started in life for himself empty-handed, and worked as a farm hand until 1875, when he bought fifty acres of farm land in the same township, which he cultivated until 1881, when he sold out and came to Bath township and bought the 160-acre farm on which he now resides. Here he at first cleared off fifty acres, erected new buildings and has since developed from his original acreage one of the best farms in Bath township. April 20, 1865, John Kemery married Miss Mary Ann Peach, who was born August 14, 1842, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Eby) Peach, the former a native of Virginia, born in 1807, and the latter born in Lancaster county, Pa., January 15, 1806. David Peach early came to Ohio, was reared to farming in Bath township, Summit county, and died in March, 1881, at the age of seventy-four years. Elizabeth (Eby) Peach died October 23, 1886, when eighty-one years old. To David and Elizabeth Peach were born five children, viz: Lydia, born October 5, 1832, died in 1851; Sarah, born April 20, 1836, died in 1855; Rachel, born March 15, 1838, died in 1847; John E., born June 21, 1840, died in 1853; and Mary - 10 - A., born August 14, 1842, now the wife of Mr. Kemery. John Eby, a brother of Mrs. Elizabeth Peach, was born in Lancaster county, Pa. , July 24, 1823, early came to Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, married Harriet Spade, and had born to him two sons and two daughters, all still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Kemery was born one child, Melvin Orlando, August 31, 1866. He married, January Jo, 1897, Miss Anna Snyder, and now resides, with his wife, on the Kemery homestead. Mr. Kemery is engaged in general farming and dairying, and has some of the best live stock in the county. His farm is nicely located about ten miles from Akron, while his dwelling is built on land commanding a view of several towns in the near and far distance. In politics he is a republican, but has never been a seeker after office. He is of generous disposition, and freely contributes to the support of school and church, and very highly esteemed in the community in which he lives. Mr. Kemery has been a devotee of the public school system of our nation. He cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Kemery are true Christians, are people of integrity and honor, and are a credit to their neighborhood. WILLIAM CLOYD JACOBS, M. D., one of the most experienced physicians and surgeons of Akron, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, and was born in Lima, Allen county, February 26, 1840, a son of Thomas K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs. William Jacobs, paternal grandfather of the doctor, was. a native of eastern Pennsylvania, a son of a Revolutionary soldier, of Welsh descent, and was a horticulturist by vocation. He was married in his native state 340 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD to Mary Williams, late in life came to Ohio and died in Lima in 1848. Thomas K. Jacobs, father of the doctor, was born in Pennsylvania January 30, 1812, there grew to manhood and married Miss Ann Elder. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and for a year worked at his trade of tailor in Ashland. In June, 1836, he settled in Lima, where for about three years he worked at his trade. He rapidly rose to prominence in his new home and in 1840 was elected treasurer of Allen county, and re-elected at intervals nntil he had served six terms in that office; in 1859 he was elected a member of the state legislature, and was an incumbent of that office until the breaking out of the Civil war. He was an extensive dealer in real estate, and died, a greatly respected citizen, November 12, 1884. His wife, who was a daughter of Noah and Ann (Alexander) Elder, of Pennsylvania, bore him nine children, four of whom grew to mature years, viz: William C., our subject; Matilda, now Mrs. Henry A. Moore; Clara, wife of John Brotherton and Thomas K., a physician of Lima. Dr. William C. Jacobs attended the public schools in Lima until sixteen years of age, when, in 1856, he was appointed a cadet in the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., but in March, 1859, resigned and returned home for the purpose of studying medicine. After due preparatory study he was admitted to the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, from which he graduated March 3, 1862, and on April 1, of the same year, was commissioned an acting assistant surgeon in the United States army. He was at once dispatched to Nashville, Tenn., and served in the hospitals in and around that city until July following, when he was temporarily attached to the Twenty-first Kentucky regiment of infantry, was placed in charge of the medical department until August, and was then assigned as assistant surgeon to the Fourth Ohio cavalry, in which position he served until October 1, when he was injured and returned home on leave of absence. While on this leave, he went before the board of medical examiners of the state of Ohio, was re-examined, and was commissioned surgeon of the Eighty-first Ohio volunteer infantry December 23, 1862, thus attaining the rank of surgeon before he was twenty-three years of age. He joined his regiment at Corinth, Miss., January 9, 1863, and served with it under Gen. Sherman in the campaign against Atlanta, in the march to the sea, and in the operations from Savannah, Ga., to Raleigh, N. C., and after the surrender of Lee and Johnson he was mustered out of the service July 21, 1865, at Camp Dennison, Ohio. In October, 1865, he settled in Akron, where he has since been in the active practice of his profession, and now stands not only in its foremost rank, but in point of service is the oldest practitioner in the city. Dr. Jacobs has twice been married. The first marriage was consummated September 10, 1863, with Miss Huldah M. Hill, daughter of Luther and Maria (Gibbs) Hill, of Piqua, Ohio. This union was blessed with one son, Harold H., who was born February 10, 1866; this young gentleman graduated from Amherst college in 1888, and from the Ohio Medical college in 1891, and is now associated with his father in practice. The second marriage of Dr. Jacobs took place March 6, 1895, to Mrs. Mary H. Wheeler, daughter of Sheldon and Harriet (Speers) Brown, of Akron. Dr. Jacobs is a member of the Northeastern Medical association, the Ohio State Medical society, the Mississippi Valley Medical association, and the American Medical association, to all of which he is a valued contributor of medical articles, and through which he keeps fully posted in and abreast of every advance made in the science of medicine. He OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 341 is also a thirty-second degree Mason, and is, beside, a Knight of Pythias, and member of the G. A. R. and of the Loyal Legion. In politics he is a republican, and has three times been elected as a member of the Akron school board. ROBERT B. JOHNSON, M. D., the eminent homeopathic physician and accomplished surgeon of Ravenna, was born in Stark county, Ohio, November 14, 1839, and is a son of John and Esther (Halloway) Johnson, of whom the former was born in Pennsylvania; the latter is a native of Ohio, and is of Virginian parentage. Of the two sons and three daughters born to these parents, the following are still living: Dr. Robert B., Nathan W., of Alliance, Ohio, and Sarah H., wife of Isaac Scott, of Warsaw, Ind. Joseph Johnson, the paternal grandfather of the doctor, was a native of Fayette county, Pa., was a farmer, came to Ohio in March, 1822, and cleared up a farm in Stark county. He was a gentleman of considerable note in his township, served as justice of the peace several years, was of a genial disposition, and died November 5, 1874, aged eighty-one years, lacking five days. Aaron Holloway, the doctor's maternal grandfather, was born in Virginia, and in 1805 came to Ohio with his father, Amos Holloway, they being among the first settlers of Lexington township, Stark county. The wife of Amos Holloway bore the maiden name of Hephzibah Stanton, and was born on the island of Nantucket, Mass., but when a young girl was taken by her parents to Campbell county, Va., where she was married, and lived with her husband, near Lynchburg. Aaron Holloway lived in Stark county, Ohio, until about 1850, when he removed to Kosciusko county, Ind., where he expired, at the age of eighty years, in the Quaker faith. John Johnson, father of Dr. Robert B., one of a family of nine children, was brought by his parents to Ohio in 1822, and was reared to farming in Stark county from the age of seven years until manhood. He then married and cleared up a farm, rose to local prominence, and for several years was a trustee of Lexington (now Alliance) township, having first been active as a member of the whig party and later becoming a republican. He and wife were both of Quaker origin, but in later years united with the Christian church, in the faith of which Mr. Johnson died August 3, 1895, aged eighty years, four months and five days, and the widow died on the old homestead, July 10, 1897, aged seventy-eight years, three months and six days, greatly venerated by her neighbors for her amiability and consistent piety. Dr. Robert B. Johnson was reared on his father's farm and was educated in the district school and in the high school at Alliance. In 1866 he studied medicine in that city, and in 1867 entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical college, from which he graduated in February, 1869—but during the interval between his leaving the high school and his graduating in medicine he had taught school with marked success. In March, 1869, he came to Ravenna, where he now stands at the head of his school of practice. November 19, 1861, Dr. Johnson was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Lilley, daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth (Phillips) Lilley, and this union has been blessed with seven children, viz: Esther Lilley, who died when but nine months old; Nellie Louise, who is single and is living with her parents; Thaddeus Lincoln, a practicing physician of Pomona, Cal., and married to Miss Eva McCaul; George Darsey, who died August 27, 1893--a 342 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD little over twenty-one years of age, and within one term of finishing his course as a student of medicine; Mary Elizabeth and Ruth Phebe, at home, and an infant that died unnamed. Dr. Robert B. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Disciples' church, in which he has served as an elder for ten years. Fraternally the doctor is a member of Ravenna lodge, No. 65, I. O. O. F., and is also a member of the Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a republican, and for two years has been a member of the school board. He has been a resident of Ravenna for over twenty-eight years, and for twenty-six years has had his residence and office in one—and only one--place, on West Main street. He and family hold a very high position in the social circles of Ravenna, and his professional skill has won for him a reputation equaled by that of but a very few practitioners in the county. JAMES JORDAN, the popular young proprietor of the Ravenna livery and sales stables, was born near Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, June II, 1867, and is a son of George and Matilda (Gerringer) Jordan, natives of Pennsylvania, and the parents of two children—James, the subject of this memoir, and Mattie, the wife of H. Swigart, of Walhonding, Coshocton county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather was George Jordan, who came from the Keystone state in an early day and located near Gann, Knox county, Ohio, but died in Rochester, in Coshocton county, the father of two children. The maternal grandfather of subject was of German descent, was a farmer, and died in his native state of Pennsylvania. George Jordan, the father of James Jordan, came to Ohio in his early manhood, bought land near Gann, Knox county, farmed there for several years, and there served as justice of the peace and also followed agricultural pursuits in Knox as well as Coshocton county, until his death in Rochester, in the faith of the Disciples' church, of which his wife was also a member. This lady, after the decease of Mr. Jordan, married again, and is now the wife of Harry Misskimmons. James Jordan, of this memoir, lived in Knox county until ten years of age, and was then taken by his parents to Coshocton county. He was reared a farmer and was educated in the district schools, lived at home until twenty years of age, and then came to Portage county. He here first worked on a farm for Coit Brothers for about twenty months, and next worked for Samuel Alford for a year. He then went to Aurora, and made butter for Will Eldridge for about a year, and then found employment as a carpenter for fourteen months, and then for a year was superintendent of a farm for Jeff Towns. In 1888 Mr. Jordan came to Ravenna and worked for several months in Bob Widder's livery stable, and then formed a partnership with Mrs. Poe in the same line of business, and so continued for two years. He then sold his interest in the concern and bought a livery barn on North Meridian street, but ten months later sold this and bought his present popular place on Main street, near the Columbia hotel, and this he has successfully conducted for three years. January 28, 1894, Mr. Jordan was united in marriage with Mrs. Julia Poe, widow of Simpson Poe and daughter of Seth D. and Maria (Witherell) Norton, natives, respectively, of Ohio and New York state, and the parents of six children, of whom four are now living, viz: Adelaide, wife of George F. Nichols, of Mantua, Portage county; Julia, now Mrs. Jordan; Lilla, widow of N. P. Catlin, and Emma, wife of Edward Clearwater. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Jordan was Thuel Norton, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 343 of French descent: he was an early settler of Ohio, was a farmer and lumberman, was the father of a large family of children, and was accidentally killed by a horse in his old age. John Witherell, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Jordan, was a native of New York state, lived principally in Watertown until he came to Ohio in early manhood, was a tailor by trade, and died in Hiram, Portage county, in middle age. Seth D. Norton, father of Mrs. Jordan, was born in Akron, Ohio, was a lawyer by profession, and passed the greater part of his life in Hiram and Garrettsville, Portage county, but his business was conducted chiefly in Ravenna, of which city he was mayor for several years. He was quite a politician, and at first was a republican, but was a democrat at the time of his death, which occurred in 1892, at the age of sixty-eight years, in the faith of the Disciples' church. His wife had passed away in 1888, at the same age and in the same faith. Mrs. Jordan was reared in Garrettsville until four years of age, and thereafter in Ravenna, where, for five years, she was a teacher in the public schools. In 1872 she was married to Simpson Poe, a member of a very prominent family. To this union was born one child—Stella, now the wife of John \V. Williams. Mr. Poe was a liveryman, and died in 1887. After his decease, Mrs. Poe continued the business in partnership with her brother-in-law, George F. Nichols, beginning in the spring of 1888, and continuing for three years. then conducted it alone two years; since her marriage with Mr. Jordan, this gentleman has relieved her of business cares. Mrs. Jordan is a member of the Congregational church; Mr. Jordan is an Odd Fellow, and in politics is a republican. Both families are well connected, and Mr. and Mrs. Jordan enjoy to a marked degree the respect of a large circle of friends in both the city and county. ISAAC M. KELLEY, a highly respected citizen and thoroughly practical blacksmith of Ravenna, Ohio, was born in Caledonia county, Vt., July 2, 1828, and is a son of Isaac and Mary (Moore) Kelley, the former of whom was a native of Boston, Mass., and the latter of the state of Vermont, where their marriage took place, and who were the parents of seven daughters and three sons; of these ten children, three are still living, viz: Sophia, wife of William King, and Russell D. Kelley and Isaac M. Kelley, the last named being the subject of this biographical notice. Isaac Kelley, father of subject, was also a blacksmith, and came from Barnet, Vt., in 1836, worked in Cortland, Trumbull county, Ohio, for six months, went thence to Tallmadge, Summit county, and worked about a year, and thence moved to Cuyahoga Falls, in the same county, where he found employment for another period of nearly twelve months. In 1838 he came to Ravenna, opened a shop on his own account and carried on his trade until his death, which occurred in 1872 or 1873, at the age of seventy-seven years; a year or two later his wife died at the age of seventy-six, in the faith of the Baptist church. Mr. Kelley had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and for his services was awarded a land warrant for 16o acres of government land. In politics he was first a whig, but later became a democrat, yet never sought nor held public office. The death of his father took place in Boston, Mass., and that of his wife's father in Vermont. The latter, Dr. William Moore, was a physician of some considerable note in the Green Mountain state, was of Scotch descent and had a family of seven children. Isaac M. Kelley, whose name opens this memoir, was eight years of age when brought to Ohio by his parents, and ten years old when they settled in Ravenna, and still remembers 344 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD the aborigines, who then were offering their beaded moccasins and knick-knacks for sale on the streets of the city. He was educated in the Ravenna academy, and at the age of fifteen years began learning the blacksmith's trade under the instruction of his father—serving until he reached his majority. He then studied civil engineering, became quite expert in this science, and followed the profession two years, in the course of which he assisted in making the preliminary survey of the Atlantic & Great Western railroad—now of the Erie system. A part of the year 1849 Mr. Kelley lived in St. Paul, Minn., following his trade, and part of the same year in Little Falls, in the same state, and in 1850 lived in New Philadelphia, where he conducted a clothing store. Since then Ravenna has been his home. September 23, 1853, Mr. Kelley was married to Miss Amelia Adams, daughter of Capt. Hiram and Jerusha Adams, of Revenna, and this union has been blessed with four children, born in the following order: Helen Amelia, Fannie Louisa, Julia Sophia and May Elizabeth. Helen is married to George S. Payne; Fannie L. is the wife of Edward Hatfield, a lawyer of Cleveland, and is the mother of three children—Margaret Stone, Edward Kelley and Gertrude May; Julia S. is the widow of Edwin Bush, and resides with her parents. Mrs. Kelley and the children are all members of the Protestant Episcopal church, are devotedly attached to its doctrines, and strictly observe them in their daily walk through life. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and in politics is a Jeffersonian democrat. For three years he was chairman of the county central democratic committee, and for four years was postmaster of Ravenna under Grover Cleveland's first presidential term. He has lived to see Ravenna grow from a mere village to its present status as a city, and during his long residence here has maintained a character for strict morality as a citizen and an invulnerable reputation for rectitude as a business man. MILES KING, of Green township, Summit county, and an ex-union soldier, was born in Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, April 13, 1831, and is of English descent. George Todd King, father of subject, was a native of Maryland, early came to Ohio, and in Youngstown married Mary Starr, the union resulting in the birth of the following children: Miles, the subject; Margaret, wife of Harry Norton: Mary A., wife of Charles Wood; George, who was a soldier in the Sixth Ohio cavalry, and was found dead in his tent in front of Petersburg, Va., having died from either rupture or heart disease; Leander, who spoke nine languages and was quartermaster of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry during the Civil war; Edgar, who served in a volunteer infantry regiment from Hudson, Ohio, was captured and confined in Libby prison, and was finally killed in the disaster to the steamer Sultana on the Mississippi river; William went out with an infantry regiment from Kenton, Ohio. The father of this family was a substantial farmer of Mahoning county, Ohio, near the Trumbull county line, was a well known citizen, and died in August, 1885, a member of the old-line whip party, and his remains were interred in Lackawanna county, Pa., by his brothers; his wife died in Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, in the same year and month. Miles King was reared on his father's farm, received a good common-school education, and enlisted at Goshen, Ohio, in August, 1861, in the Sixth Ohio volunteer cavalry, and served three years and nine months, with Sheridan and Kilpatrick in the army of the Poto- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 345 mac, and fought at Fair Oaks, Little Rock, White House Landing, Cedar Creek, South Side, Weldon, second Bull Run, Petersburg, Richmond, and was in raids and skirmishes unnumbered—doing some of the hardest cavalry fighting during the war. He was captured but once, and succeeded in making his escape the same night. He received an honorable discharge at Point Lookout, Md., in the fall of 1865, when he returned home and resumed farming for a short time. For fifteen years Mr. King was an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, and during all that period never received a black mark. He was a brave and faithful soldier, and as a slight recognition of his services the government allows him a pension of $24 per month. He is a stalwart republican, a member of the G. A. R., and of the U. V. U., of Kenton, Ohio. He is a zealous member of the Evangelical association, and stands very high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens and associates in all the walks of life. BERNARD KINNEY, the late well known capitalist of Ravenna, Ohio, was born in Corracloona, county Leitrim, Ireland, June 24, 1830, and there married Miss Mary Gilbride. They came came together to America in 1855, at once found a home in Ohio, and two years later permanently settled in Ravenna. He became a section boss on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad and held the position about fifteen years, and during this period opened a grocery and provision store in Ravenna, which was carried on by members of his family until within four years of his retirement from his railroad work. He invested his surplus earnings in real estate, purchasing tracts of timber land, which he developed and improved, and also bought largely of city property in Ravenna, including the old State Bank building. For a long time he was agent for three of the more prominent Atlantic steamship companies, viz: The Cunard, the Williams & Guion and the Anchor. He erected several buildings in the city, including a grocery for his son, and was one of the most energetic business men that it was ever the good fortune of Ravenna to harbor within its limits. He was a devout Catholic and was a leading spirit in establishing and building up that church in Ravenna, and in this faith his wife is also an ardent believer, and in faithful adherence to it their children were strictly reared. These children numbered ten, as follows: James, who died July 7, 1892; Mary Ann (sister Cammillus, of the Ursuline convent, Toledo), died February 2, 1892 ; John and Catherine, deceased; Rose, who was a teacher in the school and organist in the Catholic church; Sarah, who died September Jo, 1883; Bernard, Thomas, Agnes and Charley. The father of this family died November 7, 1889, most deeply mourned by the surviving members of his family and an innumerable host of truly warm-hearted friends. Since the lamented death of Mr. Kinney, the business has been carried on by his widow, assisted by her sons. Mrs. Kinney now owns the property at the corner of Main and Meridian streets, on which is situated the first hank building erected in Ravenna; also a two-story frame business building adjoining and two dwellings facing Meridian street; also houses on Bowery and Third streets. As a matter of history, it may be stated that the second-oldest building in Ravenna township was removed from its original site (where the Ætna House now stands) to property owned by Mr. Kinney, where it was used as a barn. This old building was erected by Gen. John Campbell, who, at that time (1812), occupied it as a hotel, which was known on account of its peculiar color as the old " Yellow House." It has re- 346 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD cently been demolished, to make room for modern dwellings. And it may be further remarked that Mr. Kinney was one of the stockholders in the Hibernian Insurance company of Chicago, and lost, through the destructive conflagration of 1871, stock amounting to $5,000. The Kinney family to-day stand among the foremost citizens of Ravenna, and Mrs. Kinney may be cited as being one of the most intelligent business women of the county. SAMUEL KINSEY, one of the best- known farmers of Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Pennsylvania, October 7, 1831, a son of Samuel and Susan (Rhodamel) Kinsey, who came to Ohio in 1833 and located, first, on a farm at Osnaburg, Stark county, where they resided eight years, and then came to Portage county and purchased a farm on the road leading from Suffield to Kent, on which our subject was reared from the age of ten years, and where he still resides. Samuel Kinsey, the father of subject, was also a native of the Keystone state, was reared a miller, but usually followed farming as a vocation. To his marriage with Susan Rhodamel there were born ten children, six of whom are still living, viz: Elias, John, Samuel, Jacob, Joel and Leonard. Mrs. Susan Kinsey was called from earth in 1856, and her husband followed her to the grave in 1860—both dying in the faith of the Dunkard church. Samuel Kinsey, the subject, assisted on the home farm until he reached his twenty-first year, when he engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account. In 1865 he took possession of the old homestead, and June 15, of the same year, was united in marriage with Miss Louise Rhodes, a daughter of David and Candace (Johnson) Rhodes, and this union has been blessed with six children, of whom four are still living, viz: Candace, wife of Charles Warner; Ellen, wife of William Brown; Alice, wife of Ira Snodgrass, of New Baltimore, and David S., who still resides with his parents. Mrs. Louise Kinsey was born in Stark county, Ohio, December I I, 1840, her parents having come from their native state of Pennsylvania in 1835. They lived in Stark county until 1846, when they came to Portage county. Here the father, who was a shoemaker by trade, engaged in farming and also worked a while in the potteries, and in his latter years became a dealer in live stock. He was twice married, and by his first wife was the father of one child, Sophie, who died but a few years ago; by his second wife, Candace Johnson, daughter of John and Catherine (Steffa) Johnson, he became the father of six children, five of whom are still living, viz: Henry, John, Herman, Louise (Mrs. Kinsey), and Catherine. The deceased child was named Edwin. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes in early life had been members of the Reformed church, but before his death Mr. Rhodes United with the Universalist church, and in this faith he passed away in 1860, at the age of sixty-three years. Mrs. Rhodes became a Dunkard in her latter years, and died in this faith in March, 1889, when she had reached the ripe old age of eighty-six years and six months. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Kinsey was a native of England and attained the patriarchal age of too years; the grandmother, who bore the maiden name of Steffa, was a native of Germany. These grandparents were early settlers of Stark county, were members of the Lutheran church, and had born to them ten children, all now deceased. Samuel Kinsey is a stanch republican in politics; his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Kinsey is one of the most successful farmers of Suffield township, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 347 has been an upright citizen, and is justly honored for his morality, industry and life of unselfish usefulness. OSCAR C. KIRN, the well-known mechanical engineer and millwright of Akron, Ohio, has his office at the corner of Broadway and Church streets. Mr. Kirn established an office in Akron in 1892, and does all kinds of mechanical engineering, especially that pertaining to factory and mill construction for cereals and textile fabrics. Among some of the leading plants he has constructed may be mentioned the Illinois River Paper company's strawboard mill at Marseilles, Ill., the Pearl Barley mill at Milwaukee, Wis., and the oat-meal mills at Buffalo, N. Y., for Edward Ellsworth & Co. Mr. Kim had been well trained to the business he now follows and for seventeen years he was in the employ of the Schumacher Milling company of Akron and was chief supervisor of the construction of the plant of that company. Oscar C. Kirn was born in Akron, Ohio, February 9, 1857, and is a son of John M. and Catherine (Augne) Kirn, natives of Germany. John M. was a carpenter and builder, came to America a single man and was married in Akron. He rose to considerable local distinction as a citizen and republican and for some time served as a member of the school board, and died in 1878, a member of the I. 0. 0. F. ; his widow survived until June, 1895, when she, too, was laid to rest. Their family of nine children were born in the following order: Rudolph, now deceased; Julia, wife of Fred Horix, of Akron; Cotilda, wife of Jacob Keller, also of Akron; Oscar C., the subject; Mary; Martin J., millwright; Ulysses G., millwright and draftsman; Walter F., bookkeeper, and Susie L., wife of Dr. Charles E. Norris—all these being also residents of Akron. Oscar C. Kirn received a very good education in the public schools of Akron, which he attended until fifteen years of age, and then for a time was employed by a civil engineer. In 1875 he entered the employ of the Schumacher Milling company, with whom he learned millwrighting and mechanical engineering, and for seventeen years was one of the company's most trusted employees. The marriage of Mr. Kirn took place in December, 1881, to Miss Mary K. Fuchs, of Akron, and two children—William R. and Raymond O.—now add sunshine to the happy family home at No. 237 Carroll street. The parents affiliate with the Universalist church, and fraternally Mr. Kirn is a member of Atolia lodge, K. of P. As a business man, Mr. Kirn has achieved a success but rarely met with by a man of his years, and this success in so complicated a business is entirely owing to his unusual skill, strict integrity and incessant industry, which have gained for him an unwonted degree of respect and confidence wherever he has had transactions. Mr. Kirn now manufactures special oatmeal machinery, and recently has furnished an oat-meal plant for John Inglis & Sons, at Leith, Scotland. Mr. Kirn has been very successful in his business career, and is one of the leading business men of the city of Akron. PETER KLINE is a native of Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, where he is still a respected tiller of the soil. His birth occurred May 7, 1844, and he is a son of George and Elibabeth (Yaker) Kline, natives of Germany, who settled in this township in 183o, and of whom detailed mention will be made further on. 348 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Peter Kline, the subject, received a good common-school education in his native township, pursuing his studies until his eighteenth year, and then assisted on the home farm until he attained his majority, when he began a three years' apprenticeship at carpentering under John Pero. After serving the stipulated term, he engaged in the trade on his own account for two years, when he married and resumed farming. His first marriage took place May 5, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Luly, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Shaffer) Luly, to which union were born seven children, in the following order: Henry, Leonard, Frank, George, Lawrence, Annie and Rosa. Mrs. Elizabeth Kline passed away, at the age of forty-two years, April 29, 1889, in the faith of the Catholic church, and Mr. Kline was next married, November 29, 1892, to Miss Elizbeth Green. This lady was born in Germany and came alone to the United States in 1874; she was employed, on her arrival, by a farmer, who resided near Mr. Kline's home, with whom she remained ten years, and then became Mrs. Kline. The parents of Peter Kline were both born in Germany, and the parents of the mother of subject were Anthony and Elizabeth Yaker. The children born to George Kline and wife were five in number, viz: John C., Barbara, Peter (subject), John C. and George A.—Barbara being the wife of Adam Rothermal. The deceased child, Mrs. George Ley, died in 1895, at the age of fifty. On coming to America, Mr. Kline, with his then small family, settled in Suffield township, and being an industrious and thrifty farmer, acquired a competency. His death took place August 19, 1870, at the age of fifty-eight years, and that of his wife occurred April 17, 1889, when she was seventy-five years old. Both were devoutly pious and died in the faith of the Roman Catholic church, and both were greatly honored for their un swerving purity of character and kind-heartedness. Peter Kline is a democrat in politics and has been supervisor of his township for four years, and still holds the office. In religion he is a true Catholic. He has prospered in his vocation as a farmer, and as a citizen and neighbor is highly respected by all the residents of his native township of Suffield. ALBERT A. KOHLER, M. D., one of the most successful physicians and surgeons of Akron, Ohio, with his office in rooms Nos. 18 and 19, Doyle block, was born in Juniata county, Pa., September 12, 1863, a son of Andrew and Sarah (Fisher) Kohler, of German and English descent. Andrew Kohler, father of subject, was a miller by calling, but was engaged in general merchandising in Pennsylvania prior to corning to Akron in 1870. Here he engaged in the grocery trade until his death, which occurred in 1885, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a member of the Lutheran church, a Freemason and Odd Fellow, and had been a member of the Akron city council. There were born to him seven children, viz: Charles F., a business man of Wabash, Ind. ; Maggie. wife of F. L. Deibolt, of Cleveland, Ohio; I John F., a miner and prospector of Rossland, B. C. ; William, deceased; Albert A, the subject of this biography; Warren A. , farmer and hardware merchant of Leesburg, Ind., and James L., a grocer of Akron, Ohio. Dr. Albert Kohler was educated in the public schools of Akron, also at Buchtel college in the same city, and graduated from the latter in 1887; he then read medicine under Dr. Thomas McEbright, of Akron, and in the fall of 1887 entered the 'Western Reserve Medical college of Cleveland, from which he OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 349 graduated in 1890, and has since been en-gaged in active and successful practice in Akron, at the address given above. Dr. Kohler is a member of the Celsus club of Akron, also of Summit lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F., and of McPherson lodge, No. 63, K. of P. He was married November 27, 1894, to Miss Alice C. Slade, daughter of William H. Slade, of Columbus, Ohio. The doctor has his residence at No. 1083 South Main street, and in this cheerful home he and his wife are surrounded by a circle of warm and admiring friends, who delight in making their social visits. The doctor is a progressive young practitioner who keeps constantly abreast of the advances made by his noble profession, and, beside attending to his long list of patients, found time to serve the city as health officer from 1890 till July, 1894. In politics, he is a democrat. JOHN W. KREIGHBAUM, a substantial farmer, of Green township, Summit county, Ohio, is native here, was born on his father's farm February 18, 1843, and is of remote Pennsylvania-German descent. The grandfather of subject, who also bore the name of John W., was a native of Lancaster county, Pa., and there married Christina Weaver, by whom he became the father of the following children: Jacob W., John, George, Elizabeth, W. F. , Sarah, Daniel, Christina and Jonathan. In 1815, Mr. Kreighbaum brought his family, as then constituted, to Ohio, and bought a farm of 28o acres in the wilderness of Green township, which farm is now owned by his grandson, our subject. He had but few neighbors in those pioneer days, excepting, perhaps, the Indians and wild animals, but he was industrious and succeeded in clearing up a good farm, on which he passed the remainder of his life. He was ail elder in in the first Lutheran church in Union Town, and in politics was a Jacksonian democrat. George Kreighbaum, father of the subject of this Memoir, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., February 17, 1813, and was consequently but two years of age when brought to Ohio by his parents. He was reared on the home farm, receiving his education in the pioneer schools, and first married Sarah Spade, daughter of John Spade, also a pioneer from the Keystone state. This lady died in Springfield township, Summit county, leaving two children—John W. (subject) and William B. Mr. Kreigh-baum next married Mrs. Rebecca Brubaker, daughter of Jacob Dillier and widow of Samuel Brubaker. To this marriage were born two children—Jacob and Irvin. Mr. Kreighbaum was the owner of 140 acres of good farming land, was a democrat in politics, a highly respected citizen, and died November 18, 1889, in the faith of the Lutheran church. John W. Kreighbaum received his preliminary education in the district school, and at the age of nineteen years entered the Greensburg academy, which he attended seven or eight terms. He then adopted teaching as a vocation and was very successful, but when he-had taught two terms in one district and five terms in another, failing health warned him to relinquish the profession and to resume agricultural pursuits. April 9, 1866, Mr. Kreighbaum was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Brubaker, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, March 7, 1844, a daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Dillier) Brubaker, the former of whom was a carpenter and joiner and a son of Jacob Bru-baker, a pioneer of Ashland county from Pennsylvania. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Kreighbaum have been born two children, viz: Cordia G., April 16, 1867 (died November 22, 1884), and Lloyd C., who was born March 2,