SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 225 wife of Thomas Jones ; Leona, wife of Joseph Smith ; and Inez, wife of John Switzer. In 1904 Mr. Gordon married Josephine French. They are members of the Methodist Church and he is a republican. MICHAEL WAY HINKLE was one of the outstanding figures in the agricultural life and enterprise of Clark County for a long period of years. He was a successful farm owner and a thoroughly progressive citizen. He was born in Springfield Township, May 29, 1834, and lived in that one community practically all his life. His parents were John and Mary (Way) Hinkle, who were born and married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and soon afterward started West, driving overland to Columbus, Ohio. They remained in the capital city during the summer of 1833 and then moved to land acquired in Clark County. John Hinkle bought seven hundred acres just south of the City of Springfield. Nearly all of this at that time was dense timber, and his personal labors and management cleared up and developed most of it to farming purposes. It was on his father's farm near Springfield that Michael Way Hinkle came to manhood, securing his education in the Congress School. In 1859, when a young man of twenty-five, he married Alice Dean. She was born at Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, August 29, 1835, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Shotwell) Dean. Her parents moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1846, when she was eleven years of age. Her father was a shoemaker and while he followed that trade all his active life, he also lived on and operated a farm in Springfield Township. Michael Way Hinkle after his marriage lived on part of his father's farm for six years, and then moved to another place owned by his father in Springfield Township, a farm of 102 acres three miles south of the city. Mr. Hinkle also owned eighteen acres south of the city limits. The cultivation of the land, the management of his property interests, the performance of his duties as a good citizen made up the program of his life's activities. He was a republican voter. Mr. Hinkle died May 6, 1908, and was survived a little over a year by his wife, who passed away August 22, 1909. Of the children of this good old couple the oldest is John M., of Springfield Township. The second, Elizabeth S., is now deceased. Mary is the wife of Joseph Crabill, of Locust Grove, Ohio. Alexander is a farmer in Springfield Township. Alice died at the age of two years. Sarah is the wife of Alva Graham, of Springfield. Miss Susan and Miss Margaret Hinkle make their home together and reside on a six-acre suburban place, part of the original eighteen-acre tract owned by their father adjoining Springfield. They are active members of the Second Lutheran Church. Miss Margaret Hinkle is an accomplished and successful teacher. She acquired her early education in the Congress District School and in 1898 began teaching. The first year she taught at Hopewell in Greene Township and from 1899 until the fall of 1921 taught in the Cross Roads School of Springfield Township. While teaching she was also carrying her higher studies in Wittenberg College, and in 1922 was awarded the degree Bachelor Vol. II-15 226 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY of Arts. For the past two years she has been an instructor in the Springfield Normal School. OMAR W. STOLL when he retired from the road as a traveling salesman established a permanent business connection in the village of South Vienna, where he was born, and is now one of the prosperous general merchants in that section of Clark County. He was born at South Vienna August 25, 1887, son of Jacob and Edith (Perkins) Stoll, also natives of Harmony Township. His father was reared on the farm, learned the carpenter's trade and for many years has been a carpenter contractor, living at South Vienna. They have lived in South Vienna since their marriage. The mother is an active member of the Christian Church. Jacob Stoll is a democrat, has filled the chairs in the Lodges of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Elks. He and his wife had five children : Omar W. ; Chester W., a graduate of Springfield High School, now living at St. Louis, Missouri ; Marie, wife of Paul E. Troxell ; Border, a graduate of high school ; and Foster, still attending the Harmony Township High School. Omar W. Stoll as a boy at South Vienna attended the public schools and business college, and in April, 1909, went west to California, where he had an experience of six years as clerk in a wholesale hardware house. After returning to Clark County he went on the road as a traveling salesman for a Dayton house and traveled for four years and then engaged in business as a general merchant at South Vienna. November 25, 1916, at Denver, Colorado, he married Mona Weldon. She was born at Denver, and was educated in the graded schools of that city. They have two children, Weldon, born in 1918, and William, born in 1921. Mrs. Stoll is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons. JOHN EDDY FURRY, M. D. After fifteen years of successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Springfield, Doctor Furry responded to the urgings of his fellow citizens to become a candidate for the office of mayor, and was elected and is giving Springfield a thoroughly businesslike and satisfactory administration of its municipal affairs. Doctor Furry was born on a farm in Fayette County, Ohio, April 18, 1869, son of Miller and Margaret Jane (Row) Furry, who were natives of the same county. His grandfather, Joseph Furry, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, settled in Fayette County when it was almost an unbroken wilderness, and he started on a good work in that and neighboring counties, for many years being a pioneer minister of the Methodist Church. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Furry was Andrew Row, also an early settler in Fayette County, locating there about 1812. Both the Furry and Row families came from England originally, the Rows being of North English stock. Doctor Furry's early recollections center around the old farm in Fayette County. He attended public schools there, and completed his literary education by graduation with the Doctor of Science degree from the Ohio Northern University of Ada in 1891. Following his college career he spent several years on the farm, and then began his professional SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 227 education in the Medical College of Ohio, now the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. He graduated M. D. in 1899, and in the same year began practice at Washington Court House. In 1906 he moved to Springfield, and is one of the men of highest standing in the medical profession of this city. He belongs to the Association of Military and Normal Surgeons, U. S. A. Doctor Furry was elected a member of the City Council and to the office of mayor in 1921. He is a member of Confidence Lodge No, 265, Knights of Pythias, at Washington Court House, has served as chancellor commander of the Lodge, took his Grand Lodge degrees in 1899, and is also a member of the Elks Club. Doctor Furry married Frances Malinda Jamison, and they were born and reared in the same locality of Fayette County. Her father, William Jamison, was a native of Ohio, of Scotch Irish ancestry, and her great-grandfather was the first judge of Fayette County. Doctor and Mrs. Furry have two children, Reppa Leah and Eddy Francis, the latter at home. Reppa is the wife of Harry Crosly, now a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Crosly have three children, Harrison Thomas, Mary Frances and Martha Leah. CHARLES O. HAYS is one of the old and substantial citizens of Clark County, with a record of nearly half a century as a farmer, and is also well known in business and civic circles. Mr. Hays is owner and proprietor of the Hillside Park Farm comprising 160 acres located five miles east of Springfield, on the South Charleston and Springfield Pike. He was born in the City of Springfield April 30, 1857, son of Samuel and Emily (Ostot) Hays. His father was born in Pennsylvania, October 9, 1825, son of Andrew Hays, a native of Scotland. Samuel Hays was reared at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, had a public school education, and in 1855 located at Springfield, Ohio. He was married there in that year, followed several lines of work in the city, and in 1865 moved to the old homestead, where he continued his life of activity. He and his wife were members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, and he was a republican and a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There were two sons, Charles O., and Edward A. The latter was a well known farmer of Clark County, who died May 27, 1919. Charles O. Hays was about eight years of age when his parents moved out to the farm. He began his education in the public schools of Springfield, and after completing his school work his energies were given to the home farm until he was twenty-six. On March 15, 1883, he married Sarah E. Tuttle, who was born in Clark County, February 21, 1855. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hays moved to the farm where they have lived for forty years and where they have reared their family. They were the parents of six children : Clarence E., who married Elizabeth Blue and his two children, Isabelle and Charles, and lives at Springfield; Grace J., wife of John H. Blue, and they have two children living, Doris and Grace M., and one Wilber, is deceased ; Emma B. is the deceased wife of Baird Stickney, and they have five children, Dorothy, William, Robert, Henry and Helen Elizabeth ; Fred 228 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY married Isabelle J. Stickney and they have three children, Wilber, Frances Ellen and an infant ; Miss Helen is at home; Martha E., who is a graduate of the Plattsburg High School and Normal School, is the wife of John W. Sharp, of Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Hays is affiliated with South Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of Pythias, with Uniform Rank No. 44 of that order, and is a republican. For eighteen years he was a member of the Harmony Township School Board and for many years has been associated with the Clark County Agricultural Society. He is a stockholder in the W. F. Tuttle Hardware Company of Springfield. MRS ALICE MERRITT is proprietor of one of the fine country homes of Clark County, located on Rural Route No. 1 out of South Charleston in Madison Township. Mrs. Merritt is the widow of the late Charles H. Merritt. She was born on a farm in Madison Township, October 4, 1859, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Buffenbarger. Her father was born in Madison Township May 29, 1839, son of Washington and Mary (Goudy) Buffenbarger and a grandson of George and Mary Hanna Buffenbarger. George Buffenbarger was a native of Virginia, brought his family west in a covered wagon to Madison Township, and was one of the pioneer settlers on the banks of the Little Miami River. He and his wife had children named Washington, Samuel Salmon, Judson, Simington, Eve and Elizabeth. Washington Buffenbarger was the father of Peter, Hannah, Mahala, Priscilla and Marian. Of these, Peter was reared and educated in Madison Township and devoted his active lifetime to farming there. He married Mary E. Kiser, and of their twelve children nine are still living: N. B., a farmer in Harmony Township; Jennie B., of Wellington, Ohio, widow of Jacob Lewis ; Alice ; Jeannette, who was the wife of Jacob Morningstar, is now dead; Stacy, of Springfield; Ella, wife of Thomas Thompson, of Los Angeles ; Todd, of South Charleston; Anna R., wife of Ed Rhoads, living in Iowa ; Miss Mamie ; Harley, of South Charleston ; and Sally and Jonah T., both deceased. Alice Buffenbarger spent her early life on the farm on the banks of the Little Miami River, attended the public schools, and on January 20, 1886, became the wife of Charles H. Merritt. Mr. Merritt was born in Madison Township, October 11, 1849, and was liberally educated in Springfield Township and attended) Wittenberg College at Springfield and subsequently graduated from a college at Wilmington, Delaware. For some years he was a teacher. Mrs. Merritt became the mother of five children. Beulah is a graduate of Nelson's Business College of Springfield and is now the wif e of Glenn Littler. Thomas E. was graduated in the grammar and high schools, married Anna Engle and is now a butter maker by trade. Esther A. is a graduate of the South Charleston High School and the wife of Arthur Morningstar, of Carthage, Ohio. Mary E. is a high school graduate and wife of Homer Sessler, an engineer at a creamery at Dayton. Charles H., who also finished a high school course, married Esther A. Selspaugh and lives at South Vienna. Mrs. Merritt and her family are members of the Friends Church. She is active in the SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 229 W. C. T. U. at South Charleston and has been a strong prohibitionist. The farm where she lives comprised 108 acres and she also has property in South Charleston and has some valuable investments in Government railroad and other bonds and securities. EDWARD H. SMITH, M. D. For a period of almost forty-five years Dr. Edward H. Smith has been at the service of the community of South Vienna as a physician and surgeon. He is one of the oldest members of the medical profession in Clark County and also one of the county's most highly respected and useful citizens. He was born on a farm in Franklin County, Ohio, February 15, 1855, son of Josiah O. and Nancy (Lane) Smith, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. Josiah Smith was born near Baltimore, lived there until he was fourteen and then came to Ohio, acquiring his education in both states. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and for a number of years enjoyed a successful practice as an attorney. He was a leader in his locality in the democratic party, was a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic Order. The children of Josiah O. Smith and wife were: Mrs. Sarah A. Worthington, deceased ; Dr. Edward H. ; Mrs. Nevel, of West Jefferson, Ohio ; Mrs. Louemma Weaver, of South Vienna ; Mrs. Theodosia Brant, of Springfield; Wade H., of West Jefferson, veterinary surgeon ; Frank H., an attorney at Columbus ; and Alice, widow of James Redmand. Dr. Edward H. Smith spent his early life on the farm in Franklin County, living there until he was seventeen. He acquired his educaation in the public schools and normal schools, took up the study of medicine privately and later entered the Starling Medical College of Columbus, in 1875, and graduated with the M. D. degree in 1878. Soon after his graduation he located at South Vienna and has practiced here continuously. He is a member in good standing of the Clark County and State Medical Association, and in a business way is vice president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna. June 4, 1879, Doctor Smith married Ida May Ellinger. She was educated in the public schools at South Vienna. They had one daughter, Alena Ruth, who was educated in Wittenberg College and Oxford College for Women, and is now the wife of H. M. Saylor, cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank. Doctor and Mrs. Smith are members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a past grand of South Vienna Lodge No. 345, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while Mrs. Smith is past grand of the Rebekah Lodge. In politics he is a republican. OSMAN C. CLARY, M. D. The ideal physician is one who brings into the sickroom a cheerful presence, uplifting the patient from the slough of despair, so that in this manner he cures quite as much as he does by administering medicines. The modern physician understands and recognizes the value of a strong personality as well as the achievements in all of the branches of the profession that are commanding the admiration of modern civilization. Many of these discoveries have grown out of the fact that the man of science believes in giving much of himself as well as of the contents of his medicine case. All of the leading instructors 230 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY teach that unless the physician is in harmony with the patient he cannot hope for the best results. These ideas as well as countless others are the outcome of years of study, and are freely accepted by the men who advocate progress in this most important of all of the learned professions. One of the physicians whose name is associated with some very able work in Clark County is Dr. Osman C. Clary of Selma. Doctor Clary was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, June 7, 1875, a son of George M. and Celesta (Ellsworth) Clary. George M. Clary was also born in Lawrence County, Ohio, July 13, 1847, and both he and his wife attended the common schools of that county, of which she, too, was a native. He supplemented the instruction he received by private study and reading, became a teacher and taught for thirty-two years, and then, leaving the educational field, went into the insurance business. At present he is retired, but his wife died January 13, 1894. Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, George M. Clary has continued one of its zealous members, and Mrs. Clary was also active in church work. She was a daughter of Dr. L. W. Ellsworth, a noted Methodist minister, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature from 1878 to 1880. He was a man who was always prominent in public affairs as well as church work, and when he died, July 25, 1905, he was mourned by a wide circle, who felt that one of the really desirable citizens had passed away. George M. Clary had three children, all sons, namely : Rev. Albert L. Clary, a Methodist minister now stationed at Ironton, Ohio ; Roscoe M., who is a clothing merchant of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. 0. C. Clary, who was the youngest. The boyhood and youth of Doctor Clary was spent at Ironton, Ohio, and he attended its public schools through the high school course, and then, entering the medical department of the University of Louisville, at Louisville, Kentucky, took the full medical training and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately thereafter he located at Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio, and remained there in practice for a time, going thence to Waterloo, Ohio, and finally, in 1921, to Selma. Doctor Clary belongs to the Lawrence County Medical Society and was quite active in it while residing at Waterloo. On September 24, 1904, Doctor Clary married Zola Dement, a graduate of the public schools of Ohio. They became the parents of the following children : Carl, who was born September 7, 1905, is attending the Selma High School ; Irene, who was born June 29, 1908; Eloise, who was born May 9, 1910 ; Bertha, who was born April 15, 1915, and Clarence, who was born September 13, 1921. Doctor and Mrs. Clary belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Mason, he is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No. 536, F. and A. M., and he also belongs to the Eastern Star, to Waterloo Lodge No. 937, I. O. O. F., to the Knights of the Golden Eagle and to Pomona Grange, his wife being a member of the latter order. A man of the highest ideals, Doctor Clary has always lived up to them both as a professional man and citizen, and in so doing has set a standard of excellence difficult of attainment. EDWARD WILBER BAXTER. One of the prominent citizens and successful business men of Springfield is Edward Wilber Baxter, who has been actively identified with the civic and social affairs of the city for a SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 231 number of years. His birth took place on East High Street, September 4, 1879. His parents were James C. and Rebecca (Hesser) Baxter, both deceased. Mr. Baxter was reared and educated at Springfield, attending the public schools and Nelson's Business College and graduated from the latter in 1901. He entered into business in the capacity of bookkeeper for the Snyder Milling Company of Springfield, and one year later, in 1902, was one of the organizers of the Union Plumbing Company, in partnership with his brother, C. P. Baxter, and J. C. Nafz. This later became the Baxter-Nafz Company, incorporated under this name in 1904, its officers being C. P. Baxter, president ; J. C. Naf z, vice president, and E. W. Baxter, secretary and treasurer. This is the largest heating and plumbing company at Springfield. It built and owns the Elite Apartment house and the business block on North Fountain Avenue, on the ground floor of which the company has large and modernly equipped headquarters. Although early immersed in business Mr. Baxter found time to still further his education, taking special work at Wittenberg College, in psychology, philosophy, geology, history and English literature, the wide scope of these studies indicating a versatile taste. From youth he has taken an active part in civic and welfare work, particularly emphasized by the Y. M. C. A., of which he has long been a deeply interested member. During the World war he volunteered for work with this organization overseas, and was serving, preparatory to sailing, as secretary of this body at Camp Sherman, but before necessary arrangements could be completed the armistice was signed with the enemy. Mr. Baxter is prominent in Masonic circles. He was made a Mason by Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., became a charter member and first senior deacon of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., later serving as master and trustee ; a member of Palestine Commandery No. 33, Knights Templar, of which he is a past commander ; Dayton Consistory, thirty-second degree, and belongs to Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a trustee of the Springfield Masonic Club. Mr. Baxter belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a charter member of the Rotary Club. He was reared in the Lutheran faith and is a member of the First Lutheran Church at Springfield, for four years serving the Sunday School attached as superintendent. He is held in the highest esteem. by his fellow citizens as trustworthy in business and honorable in all other relations of life. MARTIN THOMAS BURNHAM. The law as well as other learned professions, is well represented at Springfield, and few members of the bar in Clark County are better or more favorably known than Martin Thomas Burnham, who for twenty-nine years has been attorney for the Springfield Building & Loan Association. He opened his first law office in Springfield, in 1876, and this city has continued to be his home ever since. Martin Thomas Burnham was born in Portage County, Ohio, January 15, 1854. His parents were Daniel and Mary (Carr) Burnham, and his grandfathers were Martin Burnham and Rev. Thomas Carr. Martin Burnham, the grandfather, was born in Connecticut and learned the blacksmith trade in his native village. Prior to the War of 1812, for business reasons, he moved with his family across the line into Canada, 232 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY and was engaged at his trade when that conflict came on. As the war feeling grew better resentment developed against citizens of the United States, and Mr. Burnham found himself surrounded by impatient enemies among his heretofore friendly neighbors, and he was ordered to return immediately to his own country or suffer the consequences. Therefore he had to leave his family temporarily on Canadian soil and flee across the border. He lost all his property, but his family later joined him in the Western Reserve and Ohio became their permanent home. Mr. Burnham settled first on the old Poe farm, not far from Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County, but later removed to Rootstown, where he established a blacksmith shop and bought a small farm and spent the rest of his days there. Daniel Burnham, father of Martin T. Burnham, was born in 1810, just across the line in Canada. He shared the family fortunes, grew up in Portage County, learned his father's trade and died in 1884. He married Mary Carr, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, and died in Portage County in 1876. She was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Carr, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of John Carr, a native of Ireland, who settled in Pennsylvania at an early date and acquired extensive farm property in the western part of that state and in Eastern Ohio. Rev. Thomas Carr inherited a farm in Ashtabula County but did not settle there, trading it for one owned by his brother in Portage County, and there spent the rest of his life. With such an ancestral background of solid qualities, Martin Thomas Burnham had an early environment that doubtless has had an influence on his subsequent life. He attended the public schools in Portage County, and then entered Mount Union College, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1874, with the Degree of Bachelor of Science. He then applied himself to the study of law at Ravenna, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar and in September of that year came to Springfield. Here he entered into a general practice, both civil and criminal, and soon became an important member of his profession here. He has not been as active in political life as some of his brother lawyers, but during 1881-1882 served as city solicitor of Springfield. In 1893 he retired from criminal practice when he became attorney for the Springfield Building & Loan Association, in which relation he has continued ever since. Mr. Burnham married, in 1910, Miss Mary Landfelt, who was born at Lancaster, Ohio, and is a daughter of Henry and Catherine Landfelt, of Lancaster, Ohio. They have one son, Martin Thomas Burnham, Jr., who was born May 4, 1913. Mr. Burnham is a member of several old and representative fraternities, including Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias. and Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. CHARLES EDGAR PETTICREW. Prominent among the men who have been identified with the business affairs of Springfield during the past thirty years is Charles Edgar Petticrew, secretary and member of the Board of Directors of the Springfield Building and Loan Association. Mr. Petticrew is one who has followed consistently one line of activity, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 233 for from young manhood he has been associated with the organization with which he is now connected and in the successful development of which he has played an important part. As the active head of this concern he occupies a position of prestige among the constructive business men of the county seat of Clark County. While he has been a resident of Springfield since 1871, Mr. Petticrew was born at Westville, Champaign County, Ohio, January 9, 1870, being a son of the late James A. and Rebecca Petticrew, both of whom were of Scotch ancestry. James A. Petticrew was born near Dayton, Ohio, May 30, 1835, a son of David and Mary (Lehman) Petticrew, early citizens of Springfield. David Petticrew settled at an early date in the vicinity of Dayton, but later moved to Westville and then to Springfield, where he became a pioneer wagonmaker. James A. Petticrew learned the wagonmaking trade in the shop of his father, and followed that business at Westville until 1871, at which time he became a resident of Springfield. Here he accepted a position with the Springfield Coffin and Casket Company, by whom he was employed until his death, September 28, 1894. He was a man of industrious habits and sound integrity, had several connections of a fraternal and civic character and was a good and public-spirited citizen. His wife, Rebecca Robbins, was born in Miami County, Ohio, January 8, 1840, and was a daughter of John and Maria (Phelps) Robbins. This worthy and estimable woman was called in death February 26, 1914. She and her husband were the parents of the following children : John, who is now deceased ; Ambrose B., a resident of Springfield ; Mary M., of Springfield ; William A., also a resident of this city ; Leslie R., now living at Des Moines, Iowa ; Charles Edgar, of this record ; James Franklin, living in Clark County ; Viola May, who is deceased ; and David Elbert, of Springfield. Charles Edgar Petticrew was but one year of age when brought by his parents to Springfield, and here he was reared and received a public school education. Following his graduation from the Springfield High School as a member of the class of 1887, when he was seventeen years of age, he entered Wittenberg College, which, however, he attended only a short time. He began his independent career as the incumbent of a clerkship in a Springfield grocery store, and continued to be thus employed until 1893, when he secured employment in the capacity of assistant secretary with the Springfield Building and Loan Association, with which organization he has been identified to the present. In 1910 he was made secretary of the enterprise, has since become a member of the Board of Directors thereof, and is now the active head of the concern, which under his management has attained to large proportions and is rated among the leading business industries of its kind in this section of the state. Mr. Petticrew, while a very busy man, engrossed in the duties of an important company, is not adverse to social pleasures and the companionship of his fellows, and has a number of social, fraternal and civic connections. His name is always found included on the lists of supporters of worthy movements, to which he invariably contributes of his energies, abilities and means. Mr. Petticrew was united in marriage in 1898 with Miss Minnie Hendrickson, the daughter of Austin Hendrickson, of Carysville, Champaign County, Ohio. 234 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY RUSH RODGERS RICHISON, M. D. One of the leading members of the medical fraternity of Clark County, who is well and favorably known both because of his accomplishments in his general practice and because of his work as city health officer of Springfield and county health officer of Clark County, is Rush Rodgers Richison, M. D. During his professional career, which has extended over a period of eighteen years, he has been engaged in practice in several different communities. in all of which he has been accounted a skilled, careful and thoroughly trained physician and surgeon Doctor Richison was born at DeGraff, Logan County, Ohio, November 11, 1881, a son of Jasper N. and Anna (Carlos) Richison. His father, who was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, in 1842, and died in 1890, was a son of John Richison, the emigrant of the family into Clark County, who was of Scotch-Irish parentage. Jasper N. Richison moved from Clark County to Logan County, Ohio, and thence to the village of Yellow Springs, where he passed the remainder of his life. His worthy wife, who was born at St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio, and now resides at Van Wert, Ohio, is a daughter of Dr. Frederick Carlos, a native of Spain, and of the noted family of that name which contended for the Spanish throne for so many years. Dr. Frederick Carlos attended Wittenberg University in Germany, and was in the active practice of medicine at Cincinnati for a number of years. Rush Rodgers Richison graduated from Yellow Springs High School as a member of the class of 1899, following which he studied at Antioch College for two years and then pursued the full four-year course at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1904 and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Later he supplemented this with post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School in 1912, and at New York City in 1916. Doctor Richison entered upon the practice of his profession at Van Wert, Ohio, in 1904, and remained in that community until 1912. In that year he went to Carson County, Texas, where he served as health commissioner from 1912 to 1914, and from 1914 to 1916 followed his profession at Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the latter year he was made superintendent of the District Tuberculosis Hospital, near Springfield, a position which he retained until 1920, in April of which year he was made city and county health officer, the duties of which office have engrossed his attention to the present time. He has been energetic and conscientious in handling the responsibilities of his trust, and has gained and held the confidence and respect of the people. Doctor Richison is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and is president of the section of hygiene of the latter. As a fraternalist he holds membership in H. S. Kissell Lodge of the Masonic Order, and his religious affiliation is with Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield. In 1903 Doctor Richison was united in marriage with Miss Nell B. McMillen, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Willmore) McMillen, of Van Wert, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two sons and three daughters : Pauline Marie, born in 1904 ; Alice Louise, born in 1907 ; Ruth Rosalie, born in 1909 ; Junior, born in 1911 ; and Joe, born in 1915. FRANK JOHN BRAUN, secretary, treasurer, director and manager of the Springfield Morris Plan Bank, is one of the progressive and repre- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 235 sentative business men of his native city and county. His birth occurred at Springfield on the 25th of May, 1876. He is a son of Leo and Mary ( Neidlinger) Braun, his father having been for many years successfully engaged in the jewelry business at Springfield. Leo Braun was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1840, and in his native land he received his education and also learned the jeweler's trade. Shortly after the close of the Civil war in the United States he came to this country, and never afterward did he again visit his home. In 1865, the year of his arrival, he took charge of a jewelry store in New York City, but a few months later he engaged independently in the jewelry business at Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1868 he came to Springfield, Ohio, and opened the jewelry establishment which he thereafter conducted until his death, December 12, 1917, at the age of seventy-seven years. He was held in high esteem as a business man and loyal and public-spirited citizen, served as police and fire commissioner of the city, and was for many years active in civic affairs. Mr. Braun was a man of fine intellectual ken, was a deep student and reader, and collected a large and select private library. He read and spoke with fluency several languages. His wife, who was born at Springfield, October 6, 1853, here passed her entire life, she having been sixty-five years of age at the time of her death, in April, 1918. Her father, George Neidlinger, was born in Germany, and was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Springfield at the time of his death. To the public schools of Springfield Frank J. Braun is indebted for his early education, and at the age of fifteen years he here found employment in a machine shop. Within a comparatively short time he met with an accident in the shop, and the injury he thus received was the means of changing his course in life. After recovering from the injury he took a course in a business college, and in 1892 he entered the office of Oates & Company, commission merchants. Thereafter he was bookkeeper and cashier for the insurance firm of Wallace & Corry, and still later he had charge of the branch foundry of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company. In 1900 Mr. Braun initiated his association with banking enterprise by taking a position in the First National Bank, with which he continued his connection fifteen years and won advancement to responsible executive positions. In 1915 he assisted in the organization of the Springfield Morris Plan Bank, of which he is now the active executive head and in the administration of the affairs of which he has been most successful. Mr. Braun takes deep interest in all things touching the welf are and progress of his native city and county, is an active member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Sinking Fund Commission of Springfield, the Lagonda Club, and is affiliated with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are communicants of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield. The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Braun and Miss Alnora Hagerman, daughter of Louis B. and Frances (Zeller) Hagerman, of Springfield, and of the children of this union the names and respective birthdates are here recorded : Frank Louis, July 23, 1903 ; Karl Leo, 236 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY February 17, 1905 ; Dorothy Lucile, August 8, 1908; Elizabeth Marie, August 7, 1912 ; Edwin LeRoy, February 13, 1916. PHRAORTES E. BANCROFT. The late Phraortes E. Bancroft had an exceptionally praiseworthy career during his long life at Springfield. He lived at a period when integrity of conduct was general and not as it seems today, and for this reason the fact that he was pointed out as an example of the virtues would indicate that he was a man of unusual character, who left his impress on the times and history of Springfield's middle era. Mr. Bancroft was born at Springfield, January 28, 1822, and was a descendent of one of the three brothers who emigrated from. England to the American Colonies in 1632. His grandfather, John Bancroft, was born in Massachusetts, and served the Colonies during the War of the Revolution, in which he held the rank of lieutenant. John Bancroft married Ann Waters, and their respective deaths occurred at Springfield, Ohio, in 1834 and 1842. Louis Bancroft, the father of Phraortes E., was born near Lake Champlain, Vermont, in 1796, and in his earlier years divided his time between farming and teaching school. He came to Springfield in 1812, traveling by boat to Upper Sandusky and then by horseback to his destination, and after his arrival volunteered for service during the War of 1812, but was rejected because of ill health. At Springfield he operated a store for many years, was deputy sheriff and Government inspector, and later embarked in the wholesale grocery business. He married Mary Christie, a daughter of Robert Christie, who was a pioneer of Clark County and a contractor and builder whose work is yet in evidence in the community. Louis Bancroft and his wife lived to celebrate their sixty-fifth wedding aniversary. Their children were : Leonidas, Phraortes E., LaFayette, Oscar, Amanda M. and Flavilla G. Phraortes E. Bancroft secured the better part of his schooling under Milo G. Williams, a noted educator of that day, following which he served an apprenticeship at the hatter's trade with Coates & Lathrop, a well-known firm of the early days. He worked at that trade as a journeyman for a time, but in March, 1851, embarked in the business on his own account when he established a modest store at 4 East Main Street. This was at a time when the hatters made their stock in trade by hand, and Mr. Bancroft, who was a thorough master of his craft, followed this rule Coupled with his skilled workmanship and scrupulous honesty, he possessed a keen business foresight, which aided him in making a success of his venture. In 1882 he built a four-story brick building, in which he located his hat store, and with the passing of time he added to his stock a line of furs. Eventually his business grew to such proportions that he found it necessary to occupy all four stories of his building. The business founded by him in 1851 has been continuously in existence ever since, and is now conducted by his son, Robert C. Phraortes E. Bancroft was for years a director of the Lagonda National Bank. Originally a whig in politics, with the birth of the republican party he joined that organization and supported its principles and candidates faithfully during the remainder of his career. He was a Knight Templar Mason and for more than a half a century an Odd Fellow. In 1845 Mr. Bancroft married Miss Catherine Moody, who SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 237 died in 1854, without issue. Mr. Bancroft married, July 12, 1859, Miss Louisa M. Mayhugh, and to this union there was born one son, Robert C. Mr. Bancroft was one of the builders of Springfield and lived long enough to see the primitive frontier village develop into a modern city of the present period. His death occurred February 23, 1907. ROBERT C. BANCROFT, the only son of Phraortes E. Bancroft, was born at Springfield, Ohio, November 7, 1866, and has always made this city his home. His early education was obtained in private schools, following which he took the preparatory and collegiate courses at Wittenberg College, where he was a student for five and one-half years. He belonged to the class which eventually graduafed in 1887, but Mr. Bancroft, in 1885, had left his studies to enter the store of his father, which was still situated at 4 East Main Street, its location for sixty years. In 1911 Rober C. Bancroft moved to his present location, at 25 East Main Street. This business, which was incorporated in 1913, is the oldest in continuous existence at Springfield. For thirty-six years Robert C. Bancroft has been engaged in business here, and during this time has established a splendid record and built up an enviable reputation. He was one of the eleven men of Clark County, and nine of Springfield, who handled all the local activities of the War Chest during the World war, and at all times has been one of the city's foremost men in public life. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1913, president of the Rotary Club in 1917, for years has been one of the active members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1916 he organized the Bancroft-Limbocker Company, which built the Bancroft Hotel, an ornament to the city and one of the leading hotels of the state. He is the sole owner of this property. Mr. Bancroft has made no particular stir in local politics save to exercise the right of franchise On October 7, 1891, he married Miss Esther B. Simpson, daughter of Joseph Simpson, of Springfield, and they have two children : Robert C., Jr., and Dorothy L. When the United States entered the great war Robert C. Bancroft, Jr., entered the training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he was made a second lieutenant in the motor truck division. He sailed for France in December, 1917, and was in the active zone during practically all of his service, which was terminated by his honorable discharge in June, 1919. While abroad he was given his first lieutenancy. CHARLES BAUER. It is not too much to say that the late Charles Bauer was one of Springfield's most patriotic, unselfish and useful citizens, this being but a just tribute to one who for years was actively identified with its growth and progress, and one whose integrity of character and sense of personal responsibility won for him the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. Charles Bauer was born at Springfield, Ohio, December 23, 1869, and died in his beautiful home in this city, the deplorable result of a railroad accident, on March 18, 1922. He was a son of Jacob and Margaret (Weimer) Bauer, the former of whom was born in Switzerland and the latter in Germany, and both are deceased. Jacob Bauer came 238 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY to Springfield in early manhood, and for a number of years was engaged in the flour milling business, and in his later year was a feed merchant. The public schools of Springfield prepared Charles Bauer for future usefulness. He was yet a boy when he went to work for the old firm of Ward, Bushnell & Glessner, now the International Harvester Company of Springfield, with which concern he remained for about fifteen years, when the death of his father left the latter's feed store as his inheritance' and he assumed charge. The business transacted at that time was but a modest one, but Mr. Bauer had ambition, combined with good judgment, and gradually expanded and added other commodities, until within a few years he found himself at the head of one of the largest concerns in the coal, hay, grain, lime, sewer pipe, cement and builders' supplies in the city. The development of this business into one of such large importance was accomplished through his own industry and thrift, in combination with the confidence and patronage of his fellow citizens, who had learned to trust his word in business transactions and accept it as readily as another's bond. Mr. Bauer was active and prominent in public affairs, and the city as a municipality was greatly benefited by his activities. He served as a member of the City Council for five years, two years of this time being president of the council, and his earnest efforts for the city's best interests are easily recalled. In 1912-13 he was a member of the charter committee and helped frame and have adopted the city charter of today. In so doing he gave evidence of his unselfish character, for at that time he was the logical candidate for the office of mayor, but he regarded the charter plan of government as the proper form, and willingly gave up his chance for political advancement so that he could put through the city charter. He always regretted that the necessity had arisen that forced him to leave school at an early age, and this may have stimulated his interest in the public schools with a view of widening their advantages in the interest of those who had need of help. For some years he was a member of the Board of Education and president of the same, his sound judgment and practical ideas making his services unusually valuable. As a member of the People's Municipal League his activities in this body earned for him the gratitude of his fellow citizens, for there was no welfare work in which he did not take part and many reforms were, in a measure, the result of his participation. He was earnest in calling attention to many of the menaces to life and health that, strangely enough, are permitted to exist in many modern and progressive cities, and in particular urged the elimination of the many dangerous grade crossings in the City of Springfield. Unfortunately these appeals met with but tardy response, and because of this Springfield, in tragic manner, lost one of her most worthy and helpful citizens, the accident which caused Mr. Bauer's death being the result of the demolishing of his automobile as he was crossing the tracks of the D. T. & I. Railroad on March 18, 1922. In the domain of politics Mr. Bauer was an important factor in the councils of the democratic party in Clark County, where for ten years ne served continuously as chairman of the County Central Committee. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 239 He took an active part in all local patriotic movements during the World war, contributing time, money and personal influence. Mr. Bauer married, December 23, 1905, Mrs. Vinnie (Kite) Peden, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. James T. and Mary (Corner) Kite, the latter of whom survives. The father of Mrs. Bauer was a well known minister of the Baptist Church. Following the death of Mr. Bauer, Mrs. Bauer assumed charge of his business and has capably carried it on ever since. She is a member of the First Baptist Church at Springfield, of which Mr. Bauer was a trustee. Social by nature and companionable in every circle, Mr. Bauer was identified with a number of the representative fraternal organizations. He was a prominent Mason and Shriner, a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Dayton Consistory, S. R., and Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belonged also to Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Moncrieffe Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias ; Lone Star Lodge No. 132, Odd Fellows ; Champion Aerie No. 397, Fraternal Order of Eagles ; and Ontario Tribe No. 207, Independent Order of Red Men. JOSIAH ELWOOD COOPER, M. D. There is no profession or vocation to which men devote themselves more dignified in its ethics or more reasonably helpful to the world than that of medicine. Similar claims are made by the church and by the law, but they, while essentially true enough, are based on other foundations. The healing art demands of its real f ollowers the natural reverence for the dignity of the human body that commands the exercise of all the skill that years of study and training have brought to them to cure its ills. Justly is this procession in the forefront. Methods may differ, systems may not be quite alike and personality counts for much, but the aim and principle remain the same. Among the members of the medical profession of Clark County one who was well known for many years at Springfield was the late Dr. Josiah Elwood Cooper, whose skill and faithfulness, together with his determined hopefulness and cheerfulness, made his presence valued in many households. Doctor Cooper was born at Claysville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1872, a son of Lewis W. and Lydia (McClung) Cooper, and was one of a family of nine children. Doctor Cooper, after attending the public school of his native locality, entered the State Normal School at Erie, Pennsylvania, and then the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1896. For a few months he was engaged in practice in Dishler, Ohio, but came to Springfield in 1897, where he succeeded to the practice of Doctor Nelson, on Lagonda Avenue. Later his practice increased to such an extent that he opened offices in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building. Doctor Cooper rose to a high place in his calling and had the respect and esteem not only of his patients, but of his professional brethren and those outside of the profession with whom he came into contact. He was an examining physician for many of the lodges, and belonged to the various organizations of his calling, of which he was a close and constant student. Called to his death, November 3, 1921, before he had reached his fif- 240 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY tieth year, he had accomplished more than many physicians do in an entire lifetime of earnest effort. He was a republican in politics, and held membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, in which he was examining physician ; the Protective Home Circle, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in all of which he had numerous friends. His religious faith was that of the United Presbyterian Church. On April 27, 1915, at Springfield, Doctor Cooper was united in marriage with Edna Allison, who was born at Springfield, December 22, 1884, a daughter of Levi and Arabella (Neff) Allison, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Springfield, and a granddaughter of Benjamin Allison. They had no children. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Cooper has resided in the beautiful home at No. 1611 Lagonda Avenue. She is a member of the Lutheran Church and takes much interest in religious and charitable work. GILMAN JOHN MOREAN, superintendent of preparatory work and advertising department of the Crowell Publishing Company of Springfield, is not only recognized as one of the experts of the country in his highly specialized field of endeavor, but has also been prominent in civic and welfare movements at Springfield for a number of years. Like a number of the well-known and successful business men of the city, he is a product of the farm, having been born on his father's homestead in Floyd County, Iowa, April 18, 1882, a son of Gilman S. and Mary A. (Ranche) Morean. Gilman S. Morean was born at Sheboygan, Michigan, in 1852, a son of Gilman John Morean, who was of Scotch-Irish descent and of Scotch birth. As a young man he immigrated to the United States and first settled in Wisconsin, whence he removed to Michigan. Gilman S. Morean resided in Michigan until the summer of 1882, at which time he removed to Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa, and became a pioneer insurance man of that locality, also owning and operating a farm. Later he became adjuster for the State of Iowa for the Continental Fire Insurance Company, a position which he held for many years. He was likewise interested in fast horses and for some years owned and raced a stable of horses which he campaigned on western tracks. He is now living in comfortable retirement on his farm in Webster City, Iowa. His wife, Mary A. Ranche, was born in 1854, in New York State, a daughter of John R. Ranche, a native of Germany, who came to the United States with his widowed mother and settled in New York State, where his death occurred in 1866. Gilman John Morean, of this notice, was reared at Sanborn, Iowa, until he was seven years of age, at which time he was taken to Webster City, where he resided until he was fifteen, in the meantime securing his educational training in the public schools. At Webster City he served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade under the preceptor-ship of LeRoy Evans, the well-known Iowa newspaper man of that time, and on completing his primary training in his trade went to Des Moines, where he secured employment in the bindery of George A. Miller & Company, where he later rose to the position of foreman. In 1901 SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 241 Mr. Morean went to Hamlin, Minnesota, where he joined his father, who at that time was at Hamlin with his string of race horses, and became a driver for the elder man, his success in that line gaining him the sobriquet of "the boy wonder." He has the distinction of having driven in a race against the redoubtable veteran "Pop" Geers, one of the best-known and most capable figures of the track, and having won from the veteran in a driving finish. Mr. Morean spent the year 1902 in traveling about the country, working for brief periods in different printing establishments and picking up all available information pertaining to printing and its allied branches. His travels wound up temporarily at St. Paul, Minnesota, where he became foreman in the printing shop of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press newspaper. In 1909 Mr. Morean came to Springfield and became foreman of the composing room of the Crowell Publishing Company, which at that time was a modest concern in comparison with its present size. For a number of years he has had complete charge of all direct effort work and job press departments, as well as advertising for the Springfield plant and is now justly recognized as one of the country's experts in his line of endeavor. Mr. Morean has been active in civic and welfare work at Springfield for a number of years. He was instrumental in establishing the Community Golf Course, and is the father of the Elks' "No Empty Stockings," which has for its purpose the filling of Christmas stockings of the needy children, which movement is now national in scope. He is a member of the Community Council and the Chamber of Commerce, and is fraternally affiliated with Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P. ; and Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., in which he is chairman of the house committee. He also belongs to the Springfield Golf Club and is a charter member and president of the Lions Club. Mr. Morean has four show saddle horses, one pair of black five-gaited mares, Hindu Beauty and Sweet Beauty, one Kentucky-bred three-gaited combination mare, Sweet Patootee, and one five-gaited bay mare. The Sweet Patootee mare has never been outside of first and second since started at the show ring. On May 4, 1904, Mr. Morean was united in marriage with Miss Esther Emma Todd, daughter of William Todd, of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. Morean died in September, 1918, leaving a son, Todd, who was born December 22, 1908, at St. Paul, Minnesota. In June, 1919, Mr. Morean married Mrs. Florence Cassidy, daughter of Hiram Lapham. By her former marriage with G. B. Cassidy Mrs. Morean had one son, Robert. LEE B. CORRY is the executive head of the firm of L. B. Corry & Company, which conducts one of the largest and most successful general insurance agencies in the City of Springfield, with finely equipped offices in the M. & M. Building. Mr. Corry was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the 11th of March, 1855, and is a son of William R. and Eliza (Brown) Corry, of whose family of ten children two died in infancy, the other eight attaining to maturity and all of the number still living except the eldest. William R. Corry was born in Pennsylvania and was a representative of the family in whose honor the City of Corry, that state, was named. Vol. II-16 242 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY In 1831 his parents removed to Greene County, Ohio, and there he assisted in reclaiming the pioneer homestead from the forest wilds. He was in the 100-days' service in the Civil war and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Lee B. Corry, fourth in order of birth in the family of ten children, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of his native county. Later he continued his studies in turn in Antioch College and the Lebanon Normal School. He continued his alliance with farm enterprise in Greene County until his marriage, in 1879, and thereafter was associated with his father-in-law, Elder R. Stewart, in the operation of the latter's flouring mills at Clif ton, Greene County, until the autumn of 1884, when he came to Springfield and took the clerical position in the employ of the Springfield Manufacturing Company. When the company later went into the hands of a receiver Mr. Corry was made superintendent of the plant, the operation of which was continued. In the spring of 1892 he purchased the old established Ohio Farmers Insurance Agency, from which he has developed his present substantial and prosperous general insurance business, he having purchased at intervals other insurance agencies and consolidated their business with his own, which now is one of extensive scope and representative clientage. His elder son, Clifford C., being now the junior member of the firm. Mr. Corry is a progressive business man and a progressive and liberal citizen. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. In the Masonic fraternity he has been for twenty years a trustee of Clark Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, his maximum York Rite affiliation being with the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city, besides which he is a member of the Mystic Shrine and has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. September 24, 1879, recorded the marriage of Mr. Corry and Miss Nannie J. Stewart, youngest daughter of the late Elder R. Stewart, of Clifton, Greene County, and of the three children of this union the firstborn, Bessie, died in early childhood ; Clifford C., as previously noted, is a partner of his father in the insurance business ; and William R., who likewise is associated with the business, was a second lieutenant with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war. He received his preliminary training at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana and at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was in active service in France for about one year. ROY A. GOODFELLOW, the present efficient and popular county treasurer of Clark County, is a native son of the county and a representative of one of its best known and most honored pioneer families. His great-grandfather, Moore Goodfellow, was born in Ireland in 1786, came to the United States in 1808 and shortly afterward became one of the earliest settlers in what is now Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio. His marriage to a daughter of John Nicholson is said to have been the first wedding solemnized in Harmony Township. John Nicholson settled on Beaver Creek, this county, in 1806. Moore Goodfellow was SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 243 a man of energy and resourcefulness, acquired about 600 acres of land and developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of the county. On the old homestead he and his wife remained until their deaths and his was the distinction of having represented Clark County as a loyal soldier in the War of 1812. The children of Moore Goodfellow were nine in number—five sons and four daughters. Samuel Goodfellow, grandfather of the present treasurer of Clark County, was a child at the time the family home was established in the midst of the forest wilds of this county, and he was reared to manhood under the conditions that marked the pioneer days. Here he married Mahala Jones, and they settled on a farm in Harmony Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Samuel Goodfellow erected on his farm one of the first large barns in that part of the county and the barn dances there held were events of much social enjoyment in the community. "Uncle Sam" and "Aunt Mahala" Goodfellow were well known throughout the county and numbered their friends by the score. He and his wife became the parents of three children, all of whom are now deceased. Milton B. Goodfellow, son of Samuel and Mahala (Jones) Goodfellow, was born and reared on the old homestead farm in Harmony Township and in his youth received excellent educational advantages, including those of the Chandler Robbins Military School at Springfield, and those of Buchtel College at Akron, an institution now known as Akron University. The initial activities of Milton B. Goodfellow after he began his independent career were in connection with farm industry, and upon removing from the farm to Springfield he became a traveling salesman for the Whitely interests. For several years in his later life he was delinquent tax collector for Clark County. He died in 1910, and his widow still resides at Springfield. Mr. Goodfellow was a republican, was a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, and he was one of the well known and highly honored citizens of his native county. He served for a time as a member of the City Council. It was said that he knew by name a greater number of the citizens of Clark County than did any other one man. He is survived by f our children: Laura (Mrs. J. Forbes Anderson), Elno S., Roy A. and Ruby G. (Mrs. Robert Geiger). Roy A. Goodfellow was born December 9, 1884, and is indebted to the public schools of Springfield for his early education. For the past ten years he has been actively identified with administrative affairs in the office of the county treasurer, where he first served as second deputy and later as first deputy treasurer, and entered upon his service as county treasurer in September, 1921, his election to this office having occurred in November, 1920. His long association with the fiscal affairs of the county assures an able and careful administration on his part, and his election proved a fitting testimonial to his previous efficient service, as well as to his personal popularity in his native county. He is a republican and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is an adept in fly-fishing and his hobby lies along this line of piscatorial diversion. June 6, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Goodfellow and Miss Ethel L. Meyer, and they are popular factors in the social life of Springfield. 244 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY ALBERT EGLINGER as a youth became associated with his father's business, has for many years been a successful merchant in Springfield, and has also been prominent in city affairs, being a former vice-mayor. He was born November 12, 1869. His birthplace then was out in the country in Springfield Township, but is now within the city limits. His father, the late Albert Eglinger, was a pioneer florist of Clark County. He was born in Switzerland in 1831, came to the United States when a young man, lived for several years at Cincinnati, and from there came to Springfield Township to take over the management of the nurseries of Thomas Worder. He knew the floral and greenhouse business thoroughly, and not long afterward he established himself in an independent business as a florist in Springfield. He conducted a prosperous business, one of the first of the kind in Springfield, until poor health caused him to retire. After selling his establishment he turned his capital into the retail grocery business and continued a prosperous store under his name until his death on December 3, 1905. He married Louisa Keifer, who was born in Switzerland in 1833, and came with her parents when she was a girl to the United States. She grew up in Clark County and died at Springfield in 1908. She and her husband were active members of the Lutheran Church. Albert Eglinger, Jr., acquired his early education in the public schools of Springfield. He practically grew up in his father's floral and grocery business, and after completing his education he became assistant in the grocery store. On his father's death he succeeded to the business and for the past seventeen years has been conducting it under his own name. He has developed what is now the leading west end store for groceries, provisions and meats. There is an important record of public service attached to Mr. Eglinger's name in Springfield. He was twice elected a member of the City Council for terms of two years each. The last six months of his first term he was president of the council and was then re-elected for a two-year term as president, which made him vice-mayor of the city. Af ter he left the City Council he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital, and held that office for eight years until he resigned. He is a member of the Springfield Retail Grocers' Association, belongs to the First Lutheran Church and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In 1895 he married Miss Dora E. Michael, daughter of Frederick Michael, who was an old and honored citizen of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Eglinger have one son, Harold F., now in the sophomore class at Wittenberg College. CHARLES ADAM YOUNG. Prominent among the business men of Springfield who during recent years have taken advantage of the opportunities offered here for advancement and have risen thereby to positions of commercial and industrial preferment is Charles Adam Young, vice president and treasurer of the Springfield Abbatoir Company. Mr. Young is one of the self-made men of Springfield and his connection with a number of leading enterprises has been gained solely through individual effort and merit. Mr. Young was born at Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, May 16, 1872, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Krishbaum) Young. His SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 245 father was born in Germany and was about ten years of age when brought to the United States by his parents, who first settled in Pennsylvania and from that state came to Ohio and settled at Donnelsville. John Young, who was engaged for many years in the meat business, died in 1903 at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, Elizabeth, was also born in Germany and was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, who settled first in Pennsylvania, coming thence to Clark County. Her death occurred in 1920 when she was eighty-two years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Young there were born f our sons, all of whom have been engaged, at times, in the meat business : John A., now a livestock dealer at Yellow Springs, Ohio ; Peter, now head salesman for the Pittsburgh branch of Kingman & Company, meat packers ; William, who is engaged in the retail meat business at Berkeley, California ; and Charles Adam, of this record. Charles Adam Young passed through the public schools at Donnelsville and received his introduction to the meat business in the establishment of his father. In 1892 he engaged in the wholesale meat business in his native town and three years later removed to Aberfelda, Clark County, where he continued in the same line of endeavor for a period of eighteen years. In 1912 he removed his business to Springfield, and, in length of time, is the oldest wholesale meat dealer in the city. Mr. Young has been identified with a number of important Springfield enterprises and is widely and favorably know in business circles of the city. He was one of the organizers of the Springfield Abbatoir Company, of which he has been vice president and treasurer since its incorporation, and which owes much of its success to his business ability and judgment. He is likewise a director in the Springfield National Bank, the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company and the Purity Ice Cream and Dairy Company. As a fraternalist he holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of the United Commercial Travelers. His religious connection is with the Lutheran Church. In 1895 Mr. Young was united in marriage with Miss Amy Minich, the daughter of D. C. and Elizabeth Minich. Mrs. Young was born at Enon, Clark County, and died in 1918, leaving two sons, Robert M. and John C., both of whom are students at Wittenberg College. RICHARD EDWARD O'BRIEN. During a period of twenty-three years Richard Edward O'Brien has been chief of police of Springfield, and in this time has developed a department that serves as a model for efficiency and discipline. Chief O'Brien won promotion to the head of his department because of his fearlessness as an officer and his executive talents, and his courteous and pleasing personality. He is a native son of Springfield, and was born January 6, 1860, a son of the late John and Dora (McAvoy) O'Brien. John O'Brien was born in Ireland in 1828, and was a child when brought to the United States by his parents, also natives of that country, who located at Cincinnati. There he completed his education, was reared to manhood, and continued to make his home until the early '50s. He was married in that city, of which his wife was a native. On coming to Springfield John O'Brien applied himself to the business of teaming, 246 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY which he followed for many years, and died in this city in 1886. His widow survived him for a long period, passing away in 1917, when she had reached advanced years. They were faithful members of the Catholic Church, and were the parents of the following children : Mary, who became the wife of William Pei fer, of Springfield ; Richard Edward, of this notice ; Annie, who became the wife of Patrick Lawler, of Springfield ; Patrick E., superintendent of the Springfield Street Railway Company ; Jennie, the widow of the late Bernard Shourlin, of Springfield ; and William, who is connected with the Kelley Motor Truck Company of Springfield. Richard Edward O'Brien was reared in Springfield, where he obtained a practical education in the public schools, and received his introduction to the serious affairs of life as an employe in a local printing establishment. Later he learned the trade of house painting, and did job and contract work for several years, but these employments seemed too prosaic for the youth, in whose blood there thrilled the spirit of adventure, and in May, 1890, he secured a position on the Springfield Police Force. From his boyhood he had been able to manage horses, and on joining the department he was made driver of the patrol wagon, a position which he held for two years. For two years thereafter he served as patrolman, was then made a special officer and later a detective, gradually working his way upward, and displaying at all times the absolute courage and fidelity to duty that won the commendation of his superior officers and the admiration and respect of his fellows. On May 1, 1899, he was appointed chief of police, a position which he has held to the present time, with a long record for efficiency and progressiveness. He has continually strengthened his reputation as a fine disciplinarian, and upon the occasion of unusual disturbance of the public peace and in the unraveling of many notorious crimes his coolness and bravery as an officer and his skill as a detective have been in high demand. Chief O'Brien is one of the best known chiefs of police in Ohio, and is now a member of the Board of Governors of the Ohio Police Chiefs Association, of which organization he has served as president and vice president ; a member of the International Police Association and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious connection is with St. Raphael's Catholic Church. In his private relations he presents an admirable example of upright and able citizenship. On May 16, 1886, Chief O'Brien was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Burns, who was born and reared at Springfield, the daughter of the late Edward Burns, and to this union there have been born four children : Gretta, William E., Walter and Dora. WILLIAM EDWARD LUCAS is marking with loyal efficiency his administration as city engineer of Springfield, and his interest in all that touches the wellbeing of the city is emphasized by his claiming the same as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 2d of October, 1886. He is a son of the late Richard R. and Mary E. (McComb) Lucas, the former of whom was born in Wood County, this state, of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage, and the latter of whom was born at Newark, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish lineage. As a youth Richard R. Lucas was a successful teacher in the district schools, and he also SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 247 gained technical skill at the carpenter's trade. In 1880 he established his residence at Springfield, and after here following his trade for a time as a journeyman he engaged independently in contracting and building. In 1894 he assumed the position of foreman of the woodworking department of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and of this post he continued the incumbent until his death, on the 15th of November, 1914, his wife having passed away on the 26th of the preceding January. In the public schools of Springfield William E. Lucas continued his studies until he had profited by the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he took special work in engineering at the school maintained by the local Young Men's Christian Association, as well as effective courses through the medium of a leading correspondence school. He spared himself neither time nor effort in fortifying himself for the profession of his choice, and in 1905 he found opportunity to engage in active service in civil engineering, in the capacity of rodman in the office and work of the city engineer of Springfield. His experience has covered all phases of the work of this department of the city service, and his advancement has been won through loyal and efficient service. In July, 1920, Mr. Lucas became chief engineer of the city, and in this office he is making a record second to that of no previous incumbent of this important municipal office. He is a member of the Ohio Engineering Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers, is a republican in political allegiance, is affiliated with Kissell Lodge No. 674, F. and A. M., with Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are communicants of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, in their home city. Mrs. Lucas, whose maiden name was Minna Geron, was born and reared at Springfield and is a daughter of Frantz Geron, a native of Germany. RALPH HOUGHTON WETHERBEE, manager of the Samuel Bingham's Sons Manufacturing Company, has been in the sales end of the printer's roller business for a number of years, and finally came to Springfield to take charge of the local Bingham plant, one of the largest industries of its kind in the country. Mr. Wetherbee was born in New York City, March 12, 1886, but represents substantial lines of early Colonial stock in New England. His parents are Frederick and Melvina Amanda (Houghton) Wetherbee. His paternal grandfather, Zophar Wetherbee, was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, and his maternal grandfather, John Houghton, was a native of Concord, Massachusetts. Frederick Wetherbee for a number of years was a salesman in New York City, but is now living retired at Harvard, Massachusetts, his birthplace. He is now in his seventy-seventh year, and his wife, who was born at Bolton, Massachusetts, is now in her seventy-fifth year. They are members of the Congregational Church. Ralph H. Wetherbee spent his early life in New York City, acquired a public school education there, and at the age of sixteen went to work for the China & Japan Trading Company of New York. He was with that corporation until 1910, when he became a salesman of printer's rollers. The following year he moved his headquarters to Pittsburgh, in 1914 to Columbus, and in 1917 came to Springfield, where he has since been sales manager of the Samuel Bingham's Sons Company, manufacturers of printer's rollers. 248 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY One of the younger men in the commercial affairs of Springfield Mr. Wetherbee has interested himself in various organizations of both a business and social nature. He is affiliated with Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is now serving his third consecutive term as exalted ruler, an unusual honor seldom paid in any Elks Lodge. He has three times represented the lodge and the National Grand Lodge of Elks. He is also a member of Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a charter member and was the first president of the Springfield Lions Club, is a member of the Springfield Automobile Club and the Chamber of Commerce. May 1, 1910, Mr. Wetherbee married Ruth May Bagster. She was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, daughter of William T. and Nancy (Wright) Bagster. They have one son, Ralph H., Jr., born September 20, 1911. CHARLES BUTLER HAMMA, M. D. While he has devoted many years to that indispensable service of a general medical and surgical practice, Doctor Hamma is a man of recognized special attainments and achievements. He has been established at Springfield for the past ten years, and represents a family well known in the field of scholarship and professions in Southern Ohio. Doctor Hamma was born at Yellow Springs in Green County, Ohio, September 5, 1865, son of Andrew W. and Mathilda (Carter) Hamma. His grandfather was Levi Hamma. Andrew Hamma was born in Pennsylvania in 1834, and when he was a boy between the age of twelve and fourteen his parents moved to Ohio, making the journey by wagons over the mountains and across the Ohio country until they reached Richland County. Andrew Hamma grew up on the farm in Richland County, and after reaching his majority he bought land in Greene County, and from there moved to Greene Township, Clark County, where he prospered and enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He died in 1905. His wife, Mathilda, was born in Richland County and died in the spring of 1913, the day of the great Dayton flood. Doctor Hamma acquired his early education while living on the home farm. He also attended Clifton High School and was a student in night schools. He completed his medical course in the Miami Medical College in 1892, and in the thirty years since his graduation he has been an unceasing student and has kept in touch with many of the most distinguished leaders of his profession. He has done post graduate work at Philadelphia, at Berlin, Germany, Vienna, Austria, and Dublin, Ireland. Beginning in 1895 he was in practice at Cincinnati with Dr. C. C. Agan. In 1907 he returned to Yellow Springs, and in 1910 he again went abroad with his uncle, Doctor Hamma, founder of Hamma Divinity School of Wittenberg College, and devoted another nine months to hospital work and experience. After his return he opened his office in Springfield in 1910, and from 1911 to 1917 was on the medical staff of the Springfield City Hospital. Doctor Hamma, during the World war, was in the Medical Corps as an expert examiner of heart and lungs. He attended the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and subsequently served at SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 249 Camp Taylor, Kentucky ; Camp Greenleaf, Georgia ; Camp Dix, New Jersey, and Camp McClellan, where he was finally discharged, being mustered out with the rank of captain. Doctor Hamma is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association, is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., and is a member of the First Lutheran Church. SCIPIO EUGENE BAKER. The late Scipio Eugene Baker, prominent citizen, successful manufacturer and banker, and founder of the Champion Chemical Company of Springfield, was descended from two pioneer families of Clark County, the Bakers and the Millers. His grandfather, Ezra D. Baker, came from New Jersey to Clark County in 1805. He moved to Enon, married Anna Morgan, and reared four children. Ezra D. Baker attained a very advanced age, and at the time of his death was one of the oldest settlers in Madison Township. He was active in public life, serving as county commissioner four terms and in various other ways contributed to the advancement of his community. He long survived his worthy wife, who died in 1867. Alonzo Addison Baker, M. D., son of Ezra D. and Anna (Morgan) Baker, was born on the Baker farm near Enon in 1831 and received an excellent education. In 1845 he began the study of medicine, in 1846 and 1847 attended medical lectures at Starling, and in 1870 graduated from the Ohio Medical College with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He practiced medicine in Clark and Champaign counties until 1878, in which year he removed to Springfield. During the Civil war he was commissioned surgeon of the Fifty-third Regiment, Ohio National Guard, but physical disability forced him to resign. Later in life he became interested in manufacturing, and was president and treasurer of the Champion Chemical Company of Springfield, which he had helped to found. He was also financially interested in and one of the organizers of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, which is also a leading Springfield concern today. Doctor Baker married Miss Margaret Miller, who belonged to the old Shellabarger family of Clark and Champaign counties, and to them four children were born. Scipio Eugene Baker, son of Dr. Alonzo Addison and Margaret (Miller) Baker, was born at Donnelsville, near Enon, Ohio, June 12, 1860, and died September 25, 1921, at Beth-El Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he had gone for treatment. As a country doctor's son he had the advantage, like so many men of later achievement, of a childhood and youth spent in rural surroundings, where were developed fundamental qualities of industry and integrity. As a young man he located at Springfield, where he attended Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1878, and for a time engaged in the study of law, but eventually gave up his aspirations for a professional career to enter upon one of business, joining his father in the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, of which he became manager in 1884, in the following year purchasing a part interest in the business. In those early days Mr. Baker often assisted with his own hands in the manufacture of the company's product. It was during this period that he founded the company to which later his energies and abilities were to be most largely devoted, the Champion Chemical Company ; this was in 1887. In 1899, when the