BIOGRAPHICAL GENERAL J. WARREN KEIFER. Among the many able men and women produced by Clark County, one whose life and service have kept up many vital points in the affairs of state and nation is Gen. J. Warren Keifer, one of the last remaining links to connect the modern present with the Clark County of sixty and more years ago. He was a young lawyer trying his first cases before the Civil war broke out and in that war he gained imperishable fame as a soldier and Union officer. General Keifer since the Civil war has practiced law, has been a banker for about half a century, and has a long and honorable record in public affairs, serving fourteen terms in Congress, one term in the Forty-seventh Congress (1881-1883) as Speaker of the House. He was born on a farm on Mad River in Bethel Township, Clark County, January 30, 1836, a son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Keifer. His father, who was born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, December 28, 1784, was a pioneer of what is now Clark County, settling here in 1812. He was a well qualified civil engineer, and though his main occupation was farming his professional knowledge was of use in developing a new country, particularly in establishing common schools and the construction of highways. He died in Clark County, April 13, 1850. His wife, Mary Smith, was born January 31, 1799, in Losantiville, now Cincinnati, and died at Yellow Springs, Clark County, March 23, 1879. Her family was of English ancestry, was early settled in New Jersey, and one branch of the name was established in Ohio in 1790. General Keifer was educated in public schools and at Antioch College, and while working on the home farm took up the study of law. He also studied in the law offices of Anthony and Goode. He was admitted to the bar at Springfield, January 12, 1858, and then began his work as a practicing lawyer in that city. He had just three years in which to win for himself a measure of success and proficiency as a lawyer before the Civil war came on. He was one of the first to offer his services in Clark County, enlisting April 19, 1861. April 27 of the same year he was commissioned major of the Third Ohio Infantry for a period of three months, and soon afterward was recommissioned for three years. His first important engagement was the battle of Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861—the first general field battle of the Civil war. He was at other points in the West Virginia campaign, being on the field of Cheat Mountain and Elk Water. February 12, 1862, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Ohio Infantry, and during the events of that year in Kentucky and Tennessee he was at the capture of Bowling Green, at Nashville, at Huntsville and Bridgeport, Alabama, and in April, 1862, led an expedition into Georgia and performed an important service by destroying the saltpetre works at Nickajack Cave. September 30, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the One Hundred Tenth Ohio Infantry. He was assigned to General Milroy's command in West Virginia, was in command of a brigade and the post at Moorefield. General - 3 - 4 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Keifer was twice wounded during the battle of Winchester in June, 1863. July 9th of that year he was assigned to the Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and took part in the pursuit of General Lee's troops after the battle of Gettysburg. He fought at Wapping Heights, and in August he was dispatched with his command to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to enforce the draft. After this service was accomplished he returned to the main theatre of war in September, and on November 27, 1863, was in the battle of Mine Run. March 24, 1864, he was transferred with his brigade to the Sixth Army Corps. At the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, he was seriously wounded, but in the following August, in spite of his disability, resumed command of his brigade. With his wounded arm in a sling he took his place at the head of his troops under Generals Sheridan and Wright in the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill. and Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. At Opequan a horse was shot while under him. October 19, 1864, President Lincoln brevetted him brigadier-general of volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Middletown, Virginia." In December, 1864, with his own corps, General Keifer rejoined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg. March 25, 1865, he led a successful assault, commended in general orders, and on April 2, charged with his division in the final assault which carried the main works and resulted in the capture of Petersburg and Richmond. On April 5 his command aided in cutting off the retreat of Lee's army and forced it to give battle on the sixth at Sailor's Creek, during which movement General Keifer and General Frank Wheaton, each commanding a division of the Sixth Army Corps, with some cavalry and artillery, defeated Gen. F. S. Ewell's wing of Lee's retreating army and succeeded in effecting the capture of over ten thousand of the enemy, including General Ewell and many officers of high rank. Coon after this result General Keifer was given information that a body of the enemy lay concealed in a dense forest to the right. He rode in person to ascertain the correctness of the information, and coming suddenly upon the Confederate troops and taking advantage of the gathering darkness and the smoke of battle he shouted to the Confederates the command "forward," and they followed after him, suspecting nothing. On reaching the edge of the wood they discovered that they were being led by a Union officer, and General Keifer's troops soon surrounded the Conf ederate body and captured them all, including Commodore John Randolph Tucker, their commander. Following the conclusion of the scene leading up to Appomattox, where General Keifer was present at the surrender, he went with his corps to North Carolina to aid in the capture of Gen. Joe E. Johnston, and was present at the capitulation of that Southern leader. General Keifer was wounded four times during the Civil war. He was honorably mustered out June 27, 1865. On November 30, 1866, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth United States Infantry, but declined this opportunity to continue a military career. General Keifer was one of a number of veteran officers of the Civil war from both sides who took up active duty again in arms at the time of the Spanish-American war. In April, 1898, though sixty-two years SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 5 of age, he was appointed major-general by President McKinley and had command of the Seventh Army Corps at Miami and Jacksonville, Florida, and from Savannah embarked with sixteen thousand men for Cuba, establishing his headquarters at Buena Vista, just outside Havana. He was in command of the American military forces when they took possession of the city January 1, 1899. He was mustered out in May, 1899. At the conclusion of the Civil war General Keifer resumed his law practice, and the law has always been his profession though many weighty matters and interests have come between him and his practice. In later years he took in as associates his sons, William W. and Horace C. Keifer. The latter is now deceased. The Keifer law firm, Keifer & Keifer, includes the General's grandson, Horace S. Keifer, who was an officer overseas in the recent World war. In 1873 General Keifer became president of the Lagonda National Bank, and he has been head of that institution now for practically half a century. Soon after the Civil war he was drawn into politics, was elected and served in 1868-69 as a member of the Ohio Senate, was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of 1876, and thirty-two years later a delegate to the convention of 1908. In 1876 he was elected to his first term in Congress, the Forty-fifth Congress, and served continuously in that body as representative of the Seventh Ohio District from 1877 to 1885. General Keifer had the distinction of being the first Ohio man ever chosen to the speakership of the House of Representatives. He was elected to that honor in December, 1881, and served in that capacity until March 4, 1883. After an interval of just twenty years General Keifer again consented to represent the Seventh District in Congress, being elected in 1904 and serving in the Fifty-ninth to the Sixty-first Congresses, from 1905 to 1911. General Keifer was organizer of the Board of Control in 1868 for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia, and was one of the trustees of this institution from 1870 to 1878. He has long been prominent in Grand Army circles and was department commander in 1868-70 and vice-commander-in-chief in 1871-72. In 1903-04 he was commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. General Keifer helped organize and was the first commander-in-chief during 1900-01 of the Spanish War Veterans. General Keifer is a well known Ohio orator and in political campaigns has delivered many formal addresses on various occasions. He is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and during 1895-96 he devoted much of his time to the writing of an important historical work known as "Slavery and Four Years of War," which was published in 1900. March 22. 1860, General Keifer married Miss Eliza Stout, of Springfield. She died March 12. 1899. To their marriage was born three sons and one daughter : Joseph Warren, Jr.. who moved to Nebraska and became a member of the Legislature of that state ; William W. and Major Horace C., both of whom took up the law and became partners with their father ; and Margaret E., deceased. THE KELLY FAMILY has been one whose name has been written large upon the history of Springfield and Clark County, where its representatives have stood exponent of constructive enterprise and high civic ideals. 6 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY The family was founded in Clark County more than a century ago, its original American representatives, of Scotch-Irish lineage, having come to this country in the early Colonial period and having settled in Virginia. James Kelly, grandfather of Oliver S. Kelly, who became a citizen of prominence and influence in Clark County, went forth from Virginia as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. John Kelly, son of this Revolutionary soldier, accompanied his father to Ohio when a youth, and the family home was established in Clark County in the year 1808. John Kelly, as a soldier in the War of 1812, well upheld the military honors of the family name, and he was in the prime of life at the time of his death, in 1825. His wife, Margaret, was a daughter of Alexander McBeth. OLIVER S. KELLY, son of John and Margaret (McBeth) Kelly, was born in a pioneer log cabin which is still standing, about four miles south of Springfield, and the date of his nativity was December 23, 1824, his father having been a native of Kentucky and having died when Oliver S. was an infant. The widowed mother later contracted a second marriage, and the stepfather proved austere and unkind in the treatment of the boy. A quarrel between the two led to Oliver S. leaving home when a lad of fourteen years, his devoted mother having grieved at the parting and having prepared his little package of personal effects when he started away from home one Sunday morning, with determination not to submit to further abuse on the part of his stepfather. He proceeded to the home of William ("Uncle Billy") McIntire, a mile or two distant. Of his reception at this pioneer home the following brief record has been given: "When he arrived he found Aunt Polly, the wife of William McIntire, and to her he told his story. In her great-hearted way, she said, 'Oliver, stay right here, and you don't need to go any farther for a home.' He remained with the McIntire's four years, and worked on the farm, for fifty dollars a year. At that time the McIntire children were small, and Aunt Polly used to say in after years that Oliver Kelly did more to rear them than she did. In later years, when Mr. Kelly had succeeded in life and accumulated a competency, and when his stepfather and Uncle Billy McIntire had fallen into hard lines financially, it was a source of pleasure to Mr. Kelly to sooth the declining years and smooth the pathways of these folk—the one having been his early friend and the other having had the proverbial coals of fire placed upon his head when the stepson came to his rescue." At the age of eighteen years Oliver S. Kelly entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, in the learning of which he worked four years at a wage of $75 a year. A number of the barns which he erected in Clark County in those early days are still standing. In those days a carpenter had to possess skill as an architect also, and Mr. Kelly was able to build as perfect a winding staircase as can be produced today, few of the average working carpenters of the present time having equal skill. As a young man Mr. Kelly wedded Miss Ruth Ann Peck, who was born at Springfield, this county. When the gold excitment was at its height in California Mrs. Kelly bravely responded when her husband expressed a desire to go to that land of promise, and she assured him that she would care for the home and children during his absence. He made the journey to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, and SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 7 upon his return, four years later, he brought back $5,000 in gold. With this capital he engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Springfield, and was the founder of one of the very first wholesale houses in the progressive town. After the lapse of one year Mr. Kelly sold this business and formed a partnership with William Whitely and Jerome Fassler, Mr. Whitely having been an inventor and Mr. Fassler a machinist. Mr. Kelly had available his capital of $5,000, and his partners being able to invest only $1,000 each, he loaned to them the other $4,000, for which they gave a joint note, Mr. Kelly having held this note twenty years before it was settled. The history of the Whitely, Fassler & Kelly Company has become a well known part of the industrial and commercial history of Springfield, and needs no rehearsal in this connection. In the first few years of the partnership Mr. Kelly, with the aid of one assistant, did all of the carpenter work of the firm ; Mr. Fassler, with one of two assistants, did all the machine work ; and Mr. Whitely carried on the experimenting and research that brought increasing success to this pioneer manufacturing enterprise. Mr. Kelly continued his connection with the business until 1881, when he sold his interest to Mr. Whitely. He played a large part in the civic and industrial development and progress of Springfield, and his name merits a place of enduring honor in the history of his native county. In politics Mr. Kelly was originally a whig and thereafter a republican. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Springfield, in which office he served one term, with characteristic ability and loyalty. In 1863, as a young man, he was elected a member of the City Council, in which position he served six consecutive years. In this and other ways he had much to do in shaping the destiny of the future city. He was one of the trustees that had charge of the installing of the original waterworks system of Springfield, and while he was mayor the City Hall and the City Hospital were built and equipped. His life as a whole was a fine exemplification of the "Golden Rule." Mr. Kelly had exceptional musical talent, and in the earlier period of his residence at Springfield his fine voice was heard regularly in the choir of the old Baptist Church that stood at the northeast corner of High and Limestone streets. After many years a dissention in this church so disgusted him that he severed his connection therewith, never afterward to become actively identified with any church organization. The death of Mr. Kelly occurred April 9, 1904, and that of his wife occurred in the following year. Of their five children only two are now living, Oliver W. and Edwin S., of whom specific mention is made in following paragraphs. OLIVER WARREN KELLY, elder of the two surviving sons of the late Oliver S. Kelly, was born in the family home on South Center Street, Springfield, December 11, 1851. In 1869 he was sent to Weinheim, Germany, to learn the German language and also to attend a leading preparatory school. When the Franco-Prussian war was precipitated he pursued his studies in the polytechnic school at Zurich, Switzerland, and at the close of the Franco-Prussian war he was a student in a similar institution in Aix la Chapelle, Prussia. He returned home in 1873, and at once entered the employ of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly, his experience having eventually covered every department of the busi- 8 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY ness, including field work. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Kelly became superintendent of the Champion Malleable Iron Works at Springfield, and he thus continued his service until the fall of 1880. After passing two years in Colorado, where he was associated with mining enterprise, he returned to Springfield and became general superintendent of the Springfield Engine & Thresher Company, which in March, 1890, was reorganized as the 0. S. Kelly Company. Upon the death of his father, in 1904, Mr. Kelly succeeded to the presidency of this company, of which he has since continued the executive head, with secure status as one of the influential factors in the industrial and commercial circles of his native city. Mr. Kelly is a republican, and has completed the circle of both the York and Scottish Rites of the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Kelly wedded Miss Kate Fassler, daughter of Jerome Fassler, and of their four children three are living: Armin Lee, Louise (Mrs. Carl Ultes) and Katherine. Bessie died in infancy EDWIN S. KELLY was born at Springfield on the 17th of April, 1857, and here has well upheld the high industrial and civic prestige of the family name. In 1878 he graduated from Wooster University, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He has been virtually self-sustaining since he was a lad of twelve years, and he depended upon his own financial resources in completing his education. After leaving college, with $400 of borrowed capital, he bought an interest in the commission coal business, with William Pimlott as his partner. This enterprise proved successful and was continued sixteen years. Mr. Kelly then organized the now widely known Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, his interest in which he sold five years later, at a handsome profit. He then organized the Home Lighting Heating & Power Company, and his fine administrative ability made this concern likewise a distinctive success. Mr. Kelly likewise organized the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company, and developed the same into one of the foremost industrial concerns of its kind in the United States. He has disposed of the major part of his stock in this company, but is still interested in the large and prosperous enterprise. He is now president of the Kelly-Springfield Printing Company, and aside from his executive service with this corporation he gives his personal supervision also to his extensive farming interests near Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is liberal and public-spirited as a citizen and takes lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his native city and county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. In 1881 Mr. Kelly was united in marriage with Miss Patti C. Linn, and they have four children : Ruth (Mrs. Stanley J. Fay), Leah (Mrs. George M. Foos), Oliver S. and Martha. In the World war the son, Oliver S., enlisted under the English flag, but was later granted a transfer to an American command and was assigned to the army truck service in France, he having been assigned to special duty after the signing of the historic armistice and after his return home having received his honorable discharge, with the rank of second lieutenant. He is now SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 9 on a plantation in Santo Domingo (1922). Miss Martha Kelly, who is now actively engaged in social-service work at Springfield, took a special course of training for nurses at the time of the World war, and was in active service at the Wilbur Wright aviation field during the influenza epidemic, after which she served seven months in the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia. EDWARD LYON BUCHWALTER. A record of admirable achievement in connection with the commercial development and progress of the City of Springfield stands to the credit and honor of Captain Buchwalter, and in this connection no other one man has shown greater civic and business loyalty or been more prominent irk constructive enterprise. He was preceded to Springfield by kinsmen, John W. and Frank M. Bookwalter (who utilized an anglicized spelling of the family patronymic), all of whom gained prominence and influence in progressive industrialism and general advancement in Springfield. The lineage of the Buchwalter family traces back to residents of one of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland, from which fair little republic the progenitors of the American branch came to this country in the year 1710, and established residence in Pennsylvania. Edward L. Buchwalter, a son of Levi and Margaret (Lyon) Buchwalter, was born on a farm in Ross County, Ohio, June 1, 1841. He was a student in Ohio University, at Athens, at the inception of the Civil war, and he did not long deny manifestation of his youthful patriotism. In August, 1862, he became a sergeant in Company A, One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the first engagement in which he took part was under General Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou, in front of the Northern fortifications of Vicksburg. Thereafter he participated in a spirited engagement at Fort Hindman, Arkansas, and he was actively identified with the continuous military movements of the Union forces commanded by General Grant leading up to the subjugation of the so-called "Gibraltar of the West." On July 4, 1863, he assisted in the digging of the historic canal designed to isolate Vicksburg, and in the command of General Osterhaus' Division, in General McClernards' Corps, he aided in the building of pontoon bridges. He took part in the engagements at Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill, Big Black River and the assaults on Vicksburg, and thus had his full share of intensive warfare. His executive ability and soldierly qualities led to his being commissioned first lieutenant in the Fifty-third United States Colored Infantry, and in May, 1864, he was promoted captain. Following the fall of Vicksburg his company and regiment were located at Goodrich Landing and Millikens Bend, Louisiana, until January, 1864 when they moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. From Vicksburg, during the month of October, they went up the White River to St. Charles, Arkansas. While on this journey they were many times under fire. In the spring of 1865 Captain Buchwalter returned to Vicksburg, whence he was sent to Jackson, Mississippi. After the war came to a close he continued in the service of the Government, first as provost marshal at Macon. Mississippi, and later in similar service at Meridan, that state, where he had charge also of the Freedman's Aid Bureau. It was not until March 8, 1866, that he received his honorable dis- 10 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY charge, and after the lapse of years he has only gracious memories of his military career, with kindly feeling for those who fought for the South as well as those who were soldiers of the Union. His continued interest in his old comrades in arms has been vitalized by his appreciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic and the military order known as the Loyal Legion. After the close of the war Captain Buchwalter was engaged in farm enterprise in his native county until 1873, when he came to Springfield. Here for ten years he was associated with the firm of James Leffel & Company, and in 1883 he became one of the organizers and the president of the Superior Drill Company, which purchased the plant and business of Thomas, Ludlow & Rodgers. Upon the organization of the American Seeding Machine Company, in March, 1903, representing an amalgamation of several manufacturing concerns, Captain Buchwalter was elected president of this important industrial corporation and so continued until he retired from active business on reaching his three score and ten years. The Captain has been president of the Citizens National Bank of Springfield from the time of its organization, in 1898. He has functioned prominently, loyally and with much of influence in connection with civic and business affairs in Springfield, and his is inviolable place in the confidence and esteem of the community that has long represented his home and the central stage of his productive activities. On the 1st of September, 1868, Captain Buchwalter wedded Miss Clementine Berry, and she passed to the life eternal in November, 1912. Mrs. Buchwalter was a woman of fine intellectuality and gracious personality, was prominent in Ohio and the nation, and was loved by those who came within the sphere of her gentle influence. In March, 1914, Captain Buchwalter wedded Miss Marilla Andrews, a cousin of his first wife, and she is the popular chatelaine of their attractive home. LUTHER L. BUCHWALTER is a popular representative of a family whose name has been one of conspicuous prominence in connection with the industrial, commercial and physical advancement of the City of Springfield, and he is here vice president of the American Seeding Machine Company, one of the great industrial corporations representing an amalgamation of a number of leading manufacturing concerns. In January, 1892, Mr. Buchwalter became associated with the Superior Drill Company, which later was merged with the American Seeding Machine Company, and his identification with the business has thus been consecutive for thirty years. Mr. Buchwalter was born in Ross County, Ohio, September 9, 1874, and is a son of Morris L. and Louise (Zimmerman) Buchwalter, the former a brother of Edward L. Buchwalter, of Springfield, of whom specific mention is made in sketch preceding. In the public schools of his native city Luther L. Buchwalter continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, after which he was a student in the Cincinnati School of Technology. After leaving this latter institution he came to Springfield and took a minor position with the Superior Drill Company. In the office department of the business he made advancement through the different grades until he became SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 11 secretary of the company, and since 1920 he has been vice president of the American Seeding Machine Company, which absorbed the property and business of the former corporation. Mr. Buchwalter, like other representatives of the family in Springfield, has shown marked civic liberality and progressiveness, and has gained secure place as one of the vital exponents of industrial enterprise in this city. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. In June, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Buchwalter and Miss Jessie Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson, of Springfield, and the one child of this union is a son, Edward L. REV. REES EDGAR TULLOSS, Ph. D., D. D., has become a distinguished figure in connection with ministerial and educational work, and is now president of Wittenberg College, a leading institution maintained at Springfield under the auspices of the Lutheran Church. Dr. Tulloss was born at Leipsic, Ohio, July 26, 1881, and is a son of Rees P. and Mina D. (Weaver) Tulloss. The lineage of the Tulloss family traces back to remote French origin. It is probable that representatives of the family were of the Huguenot Protestant faith in France and that they were among those who fled from their native land to escape the religious persecution incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They found refuge in Scotland, and it was thence that came the original representatives of the family in America, they having settled in Fauquier County, Virginia, in the Colonial period and members of the family having gone forth at patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution. The paternal great-great-grandfather of Dr. Tulloss of this review was one of the first settlers at what is now Newark, Ohio, and there he established the first brick kiln in that frontier district. The family name has been closely linked with the history of that section of Ohio during the long intervening years. In the public schools of his native city Dr. Tulloss continued his studies until his graduation from the high school in 1896. For six years thereafter he was identified with business enterprise at Leipsic, and in the autumn of 1902 he entered Wittenberg College, the institution of which he is now the president. Of his career as a student in this college the following statements have been written: "Here he at once became a striking figure, taking a prominent part in all of the college activities. He was captain of the football team in 1905, and made himself a force in the athletic work of the institution. He was a member of the Excelsior Literary Society of the college. Upon his graduation, in 1906, he received special honors in logic and philosophy—the first to gain this distinction." In 1909 he graduated from the Hamma Divinity School, was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church and accepted the pastorate of the church of this denomination at Constantine, Michigan, where he continued his charge six years and more than doubled the membership of the church. He resigned this pastorate to take up postgraduate study. He spent one year at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and then went to Harvard University, from which in 1918 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was tendered the position of instructor in psychology at Harvard, but refused 12 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY the post in order to continue his work in the ministry. He accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Lutheran Church at Mansfield, Ohio, this being one of the largest Lutheran Churches in America, with a membership of nearly 2,000 communicants. Doctor Tulloss was eminently successful in his work at Mansfield, where within two years he increased the membership of the church by 500, besides developing a men's Bible class of fully 500 members. As a youth Dr. Tulloss gained experience in practical educational work. In 1901 he established at Leipsic, Ohio, the Tulloss School of Touch Typewriting, and he transferred the headquarters of his institution to Springfield when he here became a student in Wittenberg College. The Tulloss School became a prosperous institution and was incorporated in 1913. In 1915 the Doctor disposed of his interests in this institution. In 1914 he was tendered the presidency of Midland College at Atchison, Kansas, and later was offered the chair of psychology in Hartford Theological Seminary. In June, 1920, Doctor Tulloss was elected president of Wittenberg College, and his vigorous administration during the intervening period has given evidence alike of his exceptional scholarship and executive ability. The result has been a vitalized forward movement in the college, and in the financial campaign which he instituted and carried to successful issue subscriptions totaling nearly $2,000,000 were secured for the support and expansion of this splendid institution. In the year 1908 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Tulloss and Miss Alpha Miller, a daughter of E. N. Miller, of Springfield. Mrs. Tulloss was a student in Wittenberg College, is a talented musician, especially as a vocalist, and her gracious personality has won her many friends in the social circles of her home community. Doctor and Mrs. Tulloss have two children, Alice and Nancy. ASA SMITH BUSHNELL, fortieth governor of Ohio, reflected the distinction of his spotless private life and long leadership in business and politics upon the City of Springfield, his home for over half a century. The name Bushnell will always remain significant in Springfield, and as a result of the career of the late Governor Bushnell it has a permanent national distinction as one of the great industrial captains of the last century and one of the most trusted leaders Ohio gave to the republican party. Governor Bushnell was born at Rome, Oneida County, New York, September 16, 1834, and was of old New England ancestry. His grandfather, Jason Bushnell, fought as an American soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolution. He was first a member of the company of Capt. Charles Miel, in General Waterbury's Brigade, and subsequently was with Washington's Army at Tarrytown. The Connecticut family of Bushnells has been distinguished in the field of science and education. Daniel Bushnell, father of Governor Bushnell, was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, February 17. 1800. In 1845 he brought his family to Ohio, locating in Cincinnati. Daniel Bushnell married Miss Harriet Smith on March 9, 1825. Asa S. Bushnell was eleven years of age when the family moved to Cincinnati, and he completed his education in the common schools of that SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 13 city. Like nearly all the prominent men that Ohio produced in the last century, he had only the advantages of common schools, and his achievements were more directly the product of his integrity and resourceful energy rather than the result of unusual training or education. Asa Bushnell came to Springfield in 1851. A youth of seventeen, his first employment here was as clerk in a dry goods store. Three years later he became bookkeeper for the firm of Leffel, Cook & Blakeney. In the spring of 1857 he accepted employment as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for Warder, Brokaw and Child. Though he remained with this firm only a few months, the employment is significant since their business was the manufacture of mowers and reapers, and it is with the great industry of manufacturing harvesting machinery that the name Bushnell is most closely identified. After leaving that firm Mr. Bushnell was for ten years associated with his father-in-law, Dr. John Ludlow, in the drug business. In the meantime the Civil war came on and the young business man readily put the call of patriotic duty above private interests and raised Company E of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. As captain of this company he was under the command of Gen. David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. After the war he resumed his connection with the drug business, but a few years later rejoined his former employers, which firm in the meantime had become Warder, Mitchell & Company. Still later this became the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, and as a Springfield industry it was one of the foundation stones upon which the city's industrial progress rested. Mr. Bushnell became president of the company in 1886, and the machinery manufactured by his company and bearing his name was distributed and used in every agricultural state of the Union, and was exported to practically every agricultural country in the world. Among other important business interests that felt the guiding hand of Governor Bushnell were the First National Bank and the Springfield Gas Company, which he served as president, and he was a stockholder •and director in a number of the city's prominent corporations. Governor Bushnell always generously shared his great success in material affairs with his home community and its institutions. He was one of the largest benefactors of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield, and donated generously of his wealth to many other organizations and causes in his home city. He was a member of Mitchell Post, No. 45, G. A. R. Apart from the intimate association of his name with manufacturing, his reputation over the state at large is due to his long and distinguished service in the republican party and the efficient administration he gave as governor of the state. In 1885 Mr. Bushnell became chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in this connection he aided materially in securing that most important party victory implied in the election of Governor Foraker by a handsome plurality and in the unprecedented result of securing a republican majority in the General Assembly without the vote of Hamilton County, thus insuring the return of John Sherman to the United States Senate. In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster-general of the state by Governor Foraker, and served in the capacity for a term of four years. In the State Republican Convention of 1887 Mr. Bushnell was nominated 14 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY by acclamation as a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Governor Foraker, but he declined the honor. In 1889 the leaders of Ohio republicanism insistently urged that he should head the party ticket, but he positively refused to have his name considered in the connection. Again, in 1891, he was most urgently importuned to accept the gubernatorial nomination, his party associates maintaining that he was the most logical and available man for the place, and the one who would most successfully uphold the standard of the organization ; but owing to the intimate association of national politics in that campaign the nomination naturally went to Major McKinley, of whom Mr. Bushnell was a most ardent supporter. Mr. Bushnell was one of the four delegates at large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and in every republican convention for many years he served as a delegate. He refused on several occasions to become a candidate for Congress from the Springfield District, and manifested at other times his preference for working in the cause aside from the position as a public official or candidate. This high honor which was accorded Mr. Bushnell in his nomination for governor of the state came entirely without his solicitation. His services to the party and his particular eligibility for the office were so thoroughly recognized that at the Republican State Convention held at Zanesville in May, 1895, the demand for his nomination for governor was so unqualified that he could not but accept the candidacy. Throughout the ensuing campaign he made a canvass that was dignified and particularly gratifying to his constituents, gaining the good will of all classes, and in his utterance showing that practical judgment and effective policy which made his administration so thoroughly acceptable to the people of the state and so creditable to him as a man and as an official. The campaign was a vigorous one, and at the November election he was elected by the flattering majority of 92,622, a victory greater than any ever achieved by any other Ohio governors save John Brough, who was a candidate at the time of the late war and who received practically the entire vote of the state. Governor Bushnell was inaugurated on the 13th of January, 1896. As chief executive he conducted affairs with that mature wisdom and according to those practical business principles which his character naturally indicates. He was one of the delegates-at-large to the National Republican Convention held at St. Louis in June, 1896. Governor Bushnell was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In September, 1857, he married Miss Ellen Ludlow, daughter of Dr. John Ludlow, of Springfield. The death of Governor Bushnell occurred in 1904, and three children survived him : Mrs. J. F. McGrew, Mrs. H. C. Diamond and John L. Bushnell. The son is president of the First National Bank of Springfield. JOHN L. BUSHNELL had the disadvantage of being a son of an illustrious father, but in 3p;te of that handicap has achieved for himself a prominence and a ye useful place in the commercial life of his native city. The career of his distinguished father, Governor Bushnell, is the subject of the full' 'and carefully written article preceding, and what follows is only a brief outline of the life and service of the son. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 15 John L. Bushnell was born at Springfield, February 15, 1872. He was reared and received his early educational advantages in his home city and in 1894 graduated from Princeton University. He has given nearly thirty years of his life to the commercial affairs of Springfield. Mr. Bushnell is president of the First National Bank and president of the Morris Plan Bank. For many years he has been an ardent horseman and has owned some prize-winning animals. He married Miss Jessie M. Harwood, daughter of the late T. E. Harwood. BURTON J. WESTCOTT, who in 1921-22 served as mayor of the City of Springfield, is distinctly an exponent of progress along both civic and business lines and has been prominently concerned with the commercial and industrial advancement of his home city. Mr. Westcott was born at Richmond, Indiana, July 18, 1868, and is a son of John M. and Caroline (Mitchell) Westcott. John M. Westcott was born in Union County, Indiana, and was a son of Henry Westcott, the latter having been a boy at the time of the family removal from New Jersey to Indiana, about the year 1812. The family name became one of no little prominence in connection with the pioneer development and progress of the Hoosier State, and its prestige was fully upheld in constructive activities in later generations. Soon after .the close of the Civil war John M. Westcott established his home at Richmond, Indiana, and he became one of the prominent manufacturers and influential citizens of that fine old city, long known as one of the leading American headquarters of the Society of Friends. Mr. Westcott became the sole owner of the important manufacturing business conducted under the title of the Hoosier Drill Company, and his civic liberality was manifested in his valuable contributions to the civic and material upbuilding of Richmond. There his death occurred in 1907, his wife having passed away in 1901. Of their seven children the present mayor of Springfield was the fifth in order of birth. The public schools of his native city afforded Burton J. Wescott his preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending Swarthmore College and DePauw University. He initiated his business career by becoming associated with the Hoosier Drill Company, of which his father was the president. In 1903 this concern, with numerous others of similar order, was merged into the American Seeding Company, and in March of that year Mr. Wescott came to Springfield, Ohio, as treasurer of the latter corporation, which here established its general offices. He has retained this executive position to the present time. In 1896, at Richmond, Indiana, was organized the Westcott Carriage Company, and in later years the same was reorganized as the Westcott Motor Car Company, the headquarters of the company being removed from Richmond to Springfield in 1916. Of this corporation Mr. Westcott is the president. He is a director of the Lagonda National Bank and is financially interested in other business enterprises of important; order, including several of the representative industrial concerns of Springfield. Springfield's mayor is a staunch republican, and in public affairs of a local order he has been significantly loyal and progressive. In 1913 he was elected a member of the city commission of Springfield, upon the adoption of the commission system of municipal government, and was 16 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY later made president of that body, which makes him ex-officio mayor of the city. He has remained the incumbent through successive reelections that have attested popular appreciation of his vigorous and effective administration. He is a member of the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club and the Dayton Club of Dayton, this state. Mr. Westcott married Miss Orpho Leffler, of Hamilton, Ohio, and they have two children : Jeanne (Mrs. Richard M. Rogers), and John M. II. ALBERT HENRY KUNKLE, of Springfield, is nOw the presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of this, the Second Appellate District of Ohio. He has been an honored and representative member of the bar of this county for about thirty-five years, and his influence has been beneficial in public affairs in this section of the state. Judge Kunkle was born at Vandalia, Montgomery County, Ohio, on the 15th day of February, 1860, and is a son of the late David and Susanna (Stouffer) Kunkle, both natives of that county and representatives of sterling pioneer families in that section of the Buckeye State. In 1878 his parents moved to Springfield, where they resided until their deaths. Judge Kunkle secured his early education in the public schools of Vandalia. He graduated from Wittenberg College in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His alma mater later conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Af ter his graduation he applied himself with diligence to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar of this state in 1885. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Springfield and served for a number of years as city solicitor of that city. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County from 1905 to 1913, where he made a splendid record. He resigned as common pleas judge to assume his duties as a member of the Court of Appeals of this district, to which he had been elected. The judge is an active member of the Clark County Bar Association and of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is prominently affiliated with different fraternal organizations and in 1922 was elected grand prelate of the Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are communicants of the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield. Mrs. Kunkle, whose maiden name was Margaret P. McCulloch, is a daughter of the late William McCulloch, of Springfield. Judge and Mrs. Kunkle have three children : Albert is a member of the Class of 1922 of Wittenberg College ; Virginia is a member of the Class of 1925 in that institution ; and Susanna is attending the Ridgewood Private School. HON. THOMAS L. CALVERT. Clark County is located admirably for the successful prosecution of farming, for the soil is exceedingly fertile and productive, the climatic conditions are almost ideal and transportation facilities are practically unsurpassed. However, although the agriculturist here is possessed of these advantages, he cannot compete successfully with his fellows unless he carries on his operations according to modern ideas, including the use of highly improved equipment. That the majority of the farmers of this region are progressive is proven SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 17 by the large number of finely-developed farms to be found all over Clark County, a fact that has raised very materially the standard of excellence here and placed Clark County among the leaders in agriculture in Ohio. One of the men who has assisted in bringing about this desirable consummation is Hon. Thomas L. Calvert, the owner of a fine property in Madison Township, on Selma Rural Route 1, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature. Representative Calvert was born at Georgetown, Maryland, December 20, 1858, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Paist) Calvert. Thomas L. Calvert was born at Newtown, Pennsylvania, in 1824 and removed from his native state to Maryland, where he spent some years, returning to Pennsylvania in 1859. Mrs. Calvert was born at Media, Pennsylvania. Thomas L. Calvert of this review received his early education in Pennsylvania, and had just passed his twelfth year when he came to Clark County with a brother and settled on a farm. After three years he went to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he entered a select school conducted by the Society of Friends, and remained as a students therein for three years. For two years thereafter he was employed in a general store at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, following which he again came to Ohio and became a clerk in the Hollingsworth general store at Selma and remained one year. Mr. Calvert and his brother then bought Mr. Hollingsworth's interests, which included a general store, grain elevator and coal yard, and were associated in business until 1892, in which year Mr. Calvert disposed of his holdings to his brother and purchased his present farm in Madison Township, on which he has carried on successful operations ever since. At this time he is the owner of 125 acres, but operates 330 acres, and is an up-to-date agriculturist in every respect. He has made a success of his business through good management and a thorough study of his vocation, backed by incessant industry, and may freely be said to be the architect of his fortunes, for what he owns he has achieved through the work of his own hands. Mr. Calvert is a member of the Friends Church, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with the Masonic order. A stalwart republican in his political allegiance, he has been one of the wheel-horses of his party in Clark County for a number of years and has been called upon frequently to accept the responsibilities of public office. He was township trustee and a member of the Board of School Directors for some years, and when his agricultural knowledge was recognized was elected secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, a position which he held for four years. He was also chief of the State Dairy and Food Department for a period of three years. In 1920 Mr. Calvert was sent to the State House of Representatives as the representative of his district, and his record in that body has been an admirable one. He has been faithful in looking after the needs of his constituents, and has supported worthy legislation in all cases. On June 14, 1888, Mr. Calvert was united in marriage with Miss Ella F. Warner, who was born in Madison Township, Clark County, a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Warner. Mrs. Calvert was given good educational advantages, and completed her schooling at Baltimore, Maryland. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvert : Leland S., a graduate of Earlham College, of Richmond, Indiana, who Vol. II-2 18 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY is now engaged in agricultural operations in Clark County ; J. Donald, also a graduate of that institution, who also is farming in this part of Ohio ; and Helen F., a graduate of Earlham, who is now teaching in the high school at Selma. HONORABLE T. ADDISON BUSBEY. The Busbey family of Clark County has furnished to the world a number of men of exceptional ability and achievements. Nearly all of them at one time or another were actively associated with school work, and from education they were drawn into journalism. As writers, editors and authors the name has national distinction. The father of the family was Thomas C. Busbey, a pioneer of Harmony Township and one of the first residents of Vienna. He devoted the greater part of his active life, thirty years, to the teaching profession. He married Anna Botkin, a daughter of Richard Botkin, an early settler of Pleasant Township, Clark County. After their marriage Thomas C. Busbey and wife lived in Vienna, and while they never accumulated wealth, they were thoroughly respectd for their fine ideals and their usefulness. They had eleven children, reared nine to maturity, and eight of them became teachers. Seven of the family are still living. Two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil war. The late William H. Busbey was a soldier in Company C of the First Kentucky Regiment and after the war he taught school, served as city editor of the Ohio State Journal, was associate editor on the Toledo Blade and until his death in 1906 was managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, at that time one of America's greatest newspapers. Hamilton Busbey, whO was born in 1840, was a member of the staff of the Louisville Journal under George D. Prentice from 1863 to 1865 and in the latter year became one of the founders of the Turf, Field and the Farm at New York and was editor of that paper until 1903. He was a judge in many of the racing and horse shows of the United States, was the first advocate of the National Trotting Association and is author of several works on the horse and a recognized authority on light harness horses. He is now living at Vienna, Ohio. Another son, L. White Busbey, who was born in 1852, was on the local staff and later chief political writer on the Chicago Inter-Ocean until going to Washington as correspondent for that paper. He was connected with the Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1879 to 1905, was secretary to the Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, from 1904 to 1911, and served as secretary of the American section of the International Joint Commission with Great Britain in 1911-15. He is a resident of Washington. Another son, Charles S. Busbey, has lived in Chicago for twenty-seven years, and is a member of the Board of Local Improvement of that city. Among the daughters were Louisa, now deceased ; Angelina, wife of James S. Rice, who died August 16, 1922 ; Miss Harriett, who was an educator for many years ; and Mary, widow of Theodore Postle. T. Addison Busbey, youngest of the eleven children, was born in the village of Vienna, in Harmony Township, June 11, 1858. He acquired his public school education, as a boy took upon himself the responsibilities for his higher education, and throughout his life has been a man imbued with an ambition to do for others as well as for SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY -19 himself. At the age of seventeen he was granted a teacher's certificate. He taught school until he was twenty-one. Seeking some of the broader opportunities in the world of journalism, where his brothers had distinguished themselves, he removed to Chicago in the spring of 1883 and for a quarter of a century, beginning in a minor capacity, he was associated with the Railway Age, probably the foremost publication in the United States representing the railroad and transportation interests in general. He served the Railway Age as reporter, assistant editor and managing editor, and he himself became a noted individual authority on transportation matters. His statistical articles commanded wide attention, being copied almost universally by the great dailies of he country, and many were reproduced in leading journals of Europe. Leaving Chicago in 1908, Mr. Busbey returned to the village of his birth, and while conducting a general insurance business and looking after his private affairs, he has received repeated honors indicative of the esteem and confidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens here.. In 1909 he was elected mayor of South Vienna, was re-elected in 1911, 1913 and 1915, and throughout his successive terms he gave a municipal administration notable for law enforcement and also for progressive betterment in the civic and physical improvement of the village. In 1916 Mr. Busbey was nominated on the republican ticket as candidate for the State Senate, representing the Eleventh Senatorial District, composed of Clark, Madison and Champaign counties, and was elected and took his seat January 1, 1917. He was re-elected in 1918, and was one of the influential members of the State Senate until January 1, 1921. In the Eighty-second Session of the Legislature he was a member of thirteen committees and chairman of two of them, including the roads and highway committee, and was author of the highway bill enacted during that session. Senator Busbey while engaged in newspaper work in Chicago was editor and compiler of a biographical directory of railroad officials, which went through five editions. Mr. Busbey married Emancipation Proclamation Coggeshall, daughter of Hon. William T. Coggeshall, one of Ohio's foremost newspaper men, at one time editor of the Ohio State Journal and who was private secretary to Governor Dennison during the Civil war and was state librarian of Ohio. He was author of many books, and was appointed United States minister to Ecuador, and died while in that office, in 1867. Mrs. Busbey was educated at Columbus and in Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. Senator and Mrs. Busbey were married June 28, 1888, and she died at her home in Vienna October 1, 1913. The only son is Ralph C. Busbey, born at Chicago, May 12, 1890. He graduated f rom high school and in 1908 returned with his parents to Vienna. He was a reporter on the Springfield Daily News, in 1912 went to Columbus with the Citizen, again was associated with the Daily News at Springfield, served as chief deputy clerk of courts of Clark County, became managing editor of the Springfield Morning Sun, acted as special correspondent at Columbus for the Associated Press, for a time was connected with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and is now in charge of the Akron News Bureau of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 20 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY JAMES ASBURY MYERS. Among the many prominent business men who have helped to build Springfield and establish its commercial supremacy, there are few who labored more earnestly or incessantly or who were held in higher esteem than the late James Asbury Myers. He was born in a log cabin on the Cedarville-Jamestown Pike, in Greene County, Ohio, September 1, 1852, and died at Springfield, May 27, 1904. Joseph Myers, his father, was an agriculturist, who migrated from Virginia to Ohio in the early days and settled in Greene County, where he rounded out his career as a man of upright character and a devout Methodist. James Asbury Myers passed his youthful days at work on the home farm, and during the winter months attended the district schools. Later on he pursued a course at the old seminary at Xenia, and for a time after his graduation was engaged in teaching school. After this he came to Springfield, and here for a time was engaged in the retail grocery business, but in 1878 disposed of his interest in that enterprise, and with the late Chandler Robbins organized the Robbins & Myers Company, founders. The firm members could not foresee what this organization would eventually become. Each saw future possibilities of fair success, of course, otherwise they would not have embarked in the business, but that the venture would develop into one of the leading industries of Springfield was beyond this power of foresight. From that time until his death Mr. Myers labored energetically toward the building up and prosperity of his concern, and he lived to see it take front rank. He is entitled to a large share of the credit of inaugurating a new era among business men—that of honesty and good-fellowship among competitors. His entire life, both social and commercial, was based on honor, and that this was so thoroughly instilled in and so inseparable a part of his character is attested by his attitude toward his customers, and his success can, in a great measure, be attributed to his rugged honesty and strict adherence to the policy of allowing no misrepresentation to be made of the product of his plant. Recognized as an indefatigable worker, unceasingly laboring to make Springfield a center of which posterity would be proud, he came into close contact with other men of affairs and had their confidence and respect, while he was equally esteemed and even beloved by his associates for his sterling qualities. He took an exceedingly active part in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was Sunday School superintendent for more than a score of years, and his outside life, aside from business, was largely devoted to church work. Although a strong advocate of the principles of the republican party. and while connected with a number of public movements and charitable enterprises, his naturally modest and unassuming disposition, and his devotion to his church, family and business, prevented him from accepting any office of public acknowledgments, although at one time he served as a member of the School Board. Mr. Myers married Miss Emma Elizabeth Horner, who survives him, and their two sons, Wilbur J. and Warren A., are both identified with Springfield's business life, and particularly with the business of which their honored father was one of the founders. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 21 WILBUR J. MYERS is a son of the late James A. Myers, whose career as a constructive business man and industrial founder in Springfield has been carefully sketched on other pages. Wilbur J. Myers is one of the two sons who has maintained the great business momentum set in motion by their father. The son was born July 29, 1882, at Springfield, graduated from the high school of his native city in 1901, and received his Bachelor's Degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1905. Since his graduation his tasks and responsibilities have been with the industrial and financial life of Springfield. In the fall of 1905 he became purchasing agent for the Robbins & Myers Company, and has been with that corporation, whose products have a world-wide reputation and use, and is now vice president. He is also a director of the First National Bank and the American Trust and Savings Bank. Mr. Myers is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Lagonda, Rotary and Country Clubs, is a Beta Theta Pi and a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is the master of H. S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons. September 12, 1906, he married Blanche Peck, daughter of Mrs. Frances S. Peck. They have one son, Richard Asbury. PIERSON T. SPINNING, M. D., who resides on the National Road in Springfield Township, three miles east of Springfield, was born at Findlay, Ohio, August 7, 1854, and is a son of Isaac Milton Spinning, who was born at Springfield, Clark County, in 1813, a son of Pierson Spinning. Pierson Spinning, the sterling pioneer founder of the family in Clark County, came here in the year 1812, from New Jersey, he having made the trip down the Ohio River to Cincinnati and thence overland to Clark County. He was one of the early merchants and prominent contractors at Springfield. He continued in mercantile business here for thirty years, and as a contractor he constructed a part of the Miami and Erie Canal, as well as a portion of the old National Road. He made judicious investments in Clark County land, and land owned by him is now a part of the City of Springfield. This honored pioneer died in 1856, at the age of seventy years, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Schooley and who likewise was born in New Jersey, attained to the venerable age of eighty-four years. Of their children the first, Hattie, died in young womanhood ; Lizzie did not marry and was a resident of Dayton at the time of her death, when venerable in years ; Emily married George McAlpin, founder of the important McAlpin mercantile establishment in the City of Cincinnati ; Sally married David Stewart, and they established their home at Dayton ; Isaac Milton, father of the Doctor, was the next in order of birth ; and Charles and Pierson, Jr., became prominent wholesale merchants in the City of Cincinnati. At Findlay, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Isaac Milton Spinning and Harriet Taylor. She was born in Vermont and came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1863. At Findlay, Mr. Spinning was engaged in the hardware business until 1860, when he removed to the City of Cleveland. There he continued his business activities until 1863, when 22 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY he returned to Springfield, his death having here occurred when he was sixty-five years of age and his widow having here passed away at the age of seventy-four years. Of their children the eldest is John, now a prosperous farmer in Florida ; Dr. Pierson T., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; William, a resident of Peru, Indiana, was for many years engaged in the drug business there, besides being interested in various other local enterprises ; Milton died in childhood ; Arthur is business manager of the Springfield Coffin & Casket Company ; and Carrie is the wife of George Sylvester, an officer in the United States Army and now (1922) stationed at Los Angeles, California. The early education of Dr. Spinning was acquired in the public schools, and he is now the only resident of Clark County that was a member of the class of sixteen graduated from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1874, four other members of the class surviving in 1922. After thus receiving from this college the degree of Bachelor of Arts Dr. Spinning forthwith entered Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and from this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For four years Dr. Spinning was engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield. He made a record of admirable achievement also in the pedagogic profession, to which he gave his time and attention for a period of seventeen years, fourteen of which found him engaged in high school work as a teacher of natural sciences. Under his direction instruction was received by many men who later achieved prominence as lawyers, physicians and business men. For more than twenty years past Dr. Spinning has resided on and given his supervision to his fine farm, the old Anthony Bird homestead, in Springfield Township, property which he has owned more than a quarter of a century. He has specialized in the raising of registered Jersey cattle, and his herd varies from twenty-five to sixty head of these fine animals. On the farm he frequently holds public sales of Jersey cattle, and these draw breeders from far and wide, as the Doctor has gained high reputation for the superiority of his Jerseys. The Doctor, who gives little attention to his profession, is still a student and reader of marked enthusiasm, and is known as a talented classical scholar who specially enjoys the reading of classical Greek works. For thirty years he has 'been a valued and appreciative member of the Men's Literary Club at Springfield, which has but two who have been members for a longer period, besides which his is the distinction of being the only farmer represented on the membership roll. Dr. Spinning is a bachelor, but does not vaunt himself unduly on this score of immunity. ARTHUR RIGGS ALTICK is one of the active younger group of men in the commercial and civic life of Springfield. He served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce until March, 1922, when he resigned. He is officially and personally interested in several of the movements and organizations to promote the best interest of the city and county and is now connected with the Francis J. Drolla Company, one of the leading investment houses in this section of Ohio. He was born at Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 1891, and is a direct descendant of Daniel Altick, one of three brothers who settled in America in SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 23 1640 from Amsterdam, Holland, locating near what is now Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of A. R. Altick, Daniel Altick, was one of the early settlers of Dayton, and operated the first brass foundry in that city. The father of Arthur R. Altick was Arthur Altick, who had one brother, Harry M. Altick, and one sister, Carrie (Coblentz) Altick. Arthur Altick married Shirley Blanche Riggs. Her father, Philip Denton Riggs, was a cavalry officer in the Union Army, and at the close of the Civil war was a revenue officer. Her mother, Celina Rachael Dobbins, was a daughter of T. C. Dobbins, a prominent wholesale and retail hardware merchant at Dayton. T. C. Dobbins married Martha Drake, a lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, the famous English navigator. The three children of Philip Denton Riggs and wife were : Marion Ella, born March 1, 1867 ; Shirley Blanche, born April 6, 1868 ; and Thomas Earle Riggs, born August 4, 1869. Shirley Blanche Riggs was married to Arthur Altick November 15, 1888, and their only child, Arthur R., was born just five months after his father's death. Two years after the death of her husband the mother married Doctor Richard L. Brown, and they have lived in Springfield since 1906. April 20, 1921, at Cleveland, Arthur R. Altick married Ethel Courtney Rose, daughter of Mrs. Alice Rose, of that city. To this union a son, Richard Denton Altick, was born at Springfield, January 16, 1922. Arthur R. Altick was educated in grammar schools at Dayton and Springfield, the high schools of Troy and Springfield, and is a graduate of the Springfield High School and of Willis Business University. After considerable experience in several different lines Mr. Altick in 1916 became connected with the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company in the engineering department, under Lewis E. Kalb, chief engineer. At the beginning of the World war he was called with Mr. Kalb, where he served in the Quartermaster Corps, Motors and Vehicles Division. Later he assisted in establishing the Cleveland Department, Motors and Vehicles Division, of the office of chief-of-staff, war department. After the war, returning to Springfield, Mr. Altick in March, 1919, assumed the duties as secretary of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. This is an office obviously involving a great deal of administrative detail and responsibility, but Mr. Altick also found time to avail himself of other opportunities for public spirited service. During 1919 he assisted in organizing the Clark County Good Roads Council and is now serving as secretary of the council. In 1920 he was appointed secretary of District No. 7 of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, comprising the counties of Clark, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, Miami, Champaign, Greene and Fayette. Good roads for years has been a cause arousing in him the readiest cooperation, and he has rendered valuable assistance to the federation in helping to organize the counties of Montgomery and Champaign, with councils at Dayton and Urbana. With his other secretarial duties he was prevailed upon to accept in January, 1920, the executive secretaryship of the Springfield Real Estate Board. He takes an active interest in real estate matters effecting his home city and county. Mr. Altick is a member of the First Congregational Church of Springfield, is a charter member and is serving as the first temporary president of the Springfield Exchange Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. 24 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY HARVEY M. TITTLE, assistant postmaster of Springfield, has been in the local postal service for over twenty years and is one of Springfield's best known and most popular physicians. He is a descendant of John Tittle, who emigrated from England. to Northern Maryland about 1750. John Jacob Tittle, a son of the immigrant, had a local reputation as an Indian fighter. The next generation was represented by Jonathan Tittle, who removed from Northern Maryland to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 1800. Jonathan was the father of Jacob Tittle, and the grandfather of Levi Tittle, Sr. Levi Tittle, Sr., married Sarah Lerch, whose father, Daniel Lerch, served as a cavalryman during the Mexican war, while her great-grandfather Lerch was a soldier under Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary war. Levi H. Tittle, a son of Levi Tittle, Sr., and father of Harvey M. Tittle, married Mary E. Buck, descendant of a line of Pennsylvania farmers living in that state since Colonial times. Levi H. Tittle and wife had six children : Scott M. and Harvey M., both of whom were born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Franklin O., Sarah E., Walter E., and Blanche E., all natives of Springfield, Ohio. It was in 1875 that the family removed from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Springfield, Harvey M. Tittle being a child at the time. Levi H. Tittle is superintendent of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company at Springfield. Harvey M. Tittle was reared and educated in Springfield. In 1899 he became a clerk in Springfield post office, and by experience he has a thorough knowledge of every detail of the postal service and has been an invaluable factor in the efficiency of the Springfield post office. He is an active member of the Masonic Order also belonging to the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Kiwanis and Country clubs, is of a republican family in politics, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. February 5, 1895, Harvey M. Tittle married Miss Harriet A. Zimmerman, who is a direct descendant of a soldier of the Revolution. Her parents are Henry M. and Mary G. (Funk) Zimmerman, whose six children are Harriet A., Grace G., Lester M., Katherine L., Marie A. and Percy S. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tittle : R. Eugene since completing his high school education has been engaged in construction work ; Mildred L., who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the class of 1920, is an employe of the Springfield post office ; Robert H., a civil engineer, graduated from the Ohio State University with the class of 1921 ; Betty Ann Tittle, a member of the family, is still attending school at Springfield. DANIEL B. HISER. In the enjoyment of the comforts and luxuries of modern life the ordinary individual may, perhaps, sometimes remember the debt owed to inventive genius. In older days, when many helpful arts had not yet been developed, the inventor had no such general encouragement as at present, and, however, patiently he worked out his ideas, often without proper tools or surroundings very often his com-