SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 25 pleted product would prove a failure, and indifference and even ridicule would be his only reward. This thought carries one backward many years, to the time when the late Daniel B. Hiser of Springfield as a little boy watched his father work out his inventive ideas in his little cabinetmaker's shop at West Jefferson, Ohio, the most interested of his children because he also possessed inventive genius. Daniel B. Hiser was born at West Jefferson, in Wayne County, Ohio, July 4, 1836, and was a son of Henry and Martha (Burtnutt) Hiser. Henry Hiser worked at the cabinetmaker's trade as necessity demanded, but an inventive turn of mind led him to devote every spare moment to the development of his inventive ideas, many of which proved of great utility and brought him local fame and modest fortune. Among his inventions was a beehive, a clover huller and a plow, the latter, known as the Hiser plow, proving of considerable commercial value. His beehive also proved profitable, and his clover huller was in use throughout Ohio for many years. He invented many other things, but the above named were the only ones that proved entirely successful. Henry Hiser and his wife died at Wooster, Ohio, and their burial was there. Daniel B. Hiser undoubtedly inherited mechanical skill. He had common school privileges, and then chose to learn patternmaking. He married at Wooster, Ohio, Sarah Fickes, and in 1883 removed with his family to Springfield. Here he worked as a pattern-maker under John H. Thomas in the Thomas Manufacturing Company's plant, but from youth had been experimenting and developing inventions of his own, some of more or less value. It was on this account that he was invited to assist in the organizing of the co-partnership known as the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and after that he confined his efforts to this enterprise. This company was built around his invention, a sectional cast metal casket made to seal hermetically. Finally ill health caused him to sell his holdings in the above company, and he returned then to the Thomas Manufacturing Company, but during the last fifteen years of life he was an invalid. Of his family of six children all but one are living. Charles Henry Hiser, the eldest born of the above family, bears the name of his two grandfathers. He was born at Wooster, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and attended the public schools there before accompanying his parents to Springfield. For the past thirty-seven years he has been superintendent of the Metallic Casket Company, and in point of service is the oldest employe of the corporation. Mr. Hiser married, August 23, 1913, Katherine H. Rubsam, who was born at Springfield, and they have two children : Charles Henry and Mary Hertzler. In political life Mr. Hiser is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is one of the trustees of the Masonic Temple Association. He has always been active in promoting the city's welfare and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs. SAMUEL ELMER GREENAWALT, A. B., A. M., D. D. The influence exerted by one individual on the life and affairs of a community is often 26 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY so definite and notable that no history of the place would be complete without extended and appreciative comment. Thus attention may be called to one of Springfield's useful and distinguished citizens. Dr. Samuel Elmer Greenawalt, professor of English Bible and Comparative Religion in Wittenberg College, who is one of the most versatile of men, being able to consider equally well questions involving abstruse learning and those calling for business sagacity along practical, normal lines. He has been a resident of Springfield since 1908, and during these fourteen years has been closely identified with the city's progress along religious, educational, cultural and business lines. Doctor Greenawalt was born on a farm near Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, February 27, 1859. He is a son of Jesse and Susanna (Shimp) Greenawalt, and a grandson of John Greenawalt, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Mahoning County, Ohio, and there passed the rest of his life. Jesse Greenawalt removed with his family to Allen County, Indiana, about 1855, and there spent the rest of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife was of German extraction, and they were the parents of five children and faithful members of the Lutheran Church. Samuel Elmer Greenawalt spent his early years on his father's farm and attended the country schools, later the graded schools and subsequently the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana. He then turned his attention to educational work, and for some years taught in the country graded schools. In the fall of 1880 he entered Wittenberg College as a student, from which institution he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of A. B. and in the following year was granted his Master's Degree and in the spring of 1887 was given his degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry following his graduation. His first pastorate, of six years duration, was at Osborn, Ohio, where he had served the Lutheran congregation for one year prior to his ordination. During the following sixteen years Doctor Greenawalt served but two pastorates before coming to Springfield, remaining at Findlay, Ohio, for eleven years and at Bellefontaine for five years. In 1908 he was called to the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield, where he labored for the succeeding eight years, building up a strong church organization most helpful to his synod and one that has had a marked moral influence in its home city. The fine stone church building was erected during his pastorate. In 1916 he accepted his present position on the faculty of Wittenberg College, where his erudition adds further weight to a very learned body of instructors. The chair of English Bible and comparative Religion was established by Dr. and Mrs. Greenawalt as a memorial to her father, the late Ross Mitchell. One of the many philanthropies which for years have particularly interested Dr. Greenawalt is the Oesterlin Orphans Home, with which he was concerned in founding and of which he has been president of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Executive Committee. Dr. Greenawalt married, May 2, 1889, Miss A. Mary Mitchell, who is a daughter of Ross Mitchell, one of the early business men of Springfield. They have four children : Catherine S., who is the wife SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 27 of Charles G. Shatzer, dean of Wittenberg College ; Ross Mitchell, who took a course in agriculture in the Ohio State University, is manager of his father's farms in Clark and Champaign counties ; Elmer Paul, who is a graduate of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, served in the Medical Reserve Corps in the World war ; and Marguerite. All four of the children are graduates of Wittenberg College. In 1916 Dr. Greenawalt razed the old buildings and erected the Greenawalt and the Greenawalt Industries Building, thereby greatly benefiting and improving the city. He is interested in several business corporations, and is vice president and treasurer of the James Carson Company, wholesale grocers. Doctor Greenawalt is widely known and is greatly appreciated as an instructor, his students leaving his classes with clear understanding and helpful inspiration. FLOYD A. JOHNSTON. A useful life crowded with honorable activity has been the choice of one of Springfield's leading professional men, Floyd A. Johnston, United States commissioner, who occupies a prominent place as a member of the Clark County bar. This place he has won through intelligent observation, persistent study and close application, supplementing a natural talent that led to his choice of a future career while still a youth following the plow on his father's farm. Floyd A. Johnston was born in Madison County, Ohio, September, 15, 1875, and is the son of Henry B. and Emma (Trond) Johnston, whose family consisted of two children. Henry B. Johnston has followed farming practically all his life, and is yet engaged in that occupation in Madison County. It was on the home farm there that Floyd A. Johnston grew to manhood. In boyhood he attended the district schools and later became a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and from this institution received the degrees of B. S. and LL. B., and was admitted to the bar in December, 1901. Mr. Johnston came to Springfield in April, 1902, and opened an office for the practice of his profession. He was practically unknown and had to begin at the bottom and depend upon his own efforts. Perhaps one of the earliest convictions forced upon young professional men, especially in the law, is that there are no "short cuts" to success, and for some years, despite his thorough knowledge of the law, professional opportunity and consequent rewards were discouragingly slow to Mr. Johnston. Gradually, however, he made solid progress and his interests widened, his legal successes in a general practice bringing him into the limelight, and today he occupies a position of definite importance in his profession. Mr. Johnston deprecates the possession of unusual legal ability, explaining that close study and conscientious application have been the elements in his success, but his many friends and admirers maintain that if, in the future, public honors absorb all of his time and attention, the Springfield bar will have lost one of its most gifted members. In January, 1920, Mr. Johnston was made a United States commissioner, and is serving as such at the present time. He is active in all that concerns the welfare of Springfield, and is a member of the board of sinking fund trustees for the city. Mr. Johnston married June 14, 1901, Miss Mabel C. Gore, of Newton Falls, Ohio, and they have two children : Myra E. and Robert F. Mr. 28 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Johnston and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political life he is a democrat. Professionally he is a member of the American, state and county bar associations, and fraternally is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. JAMES S. WEBB. Many boast of Springfield as the place of their nativity, but there are others who are proud of the fact that they have had the discernment and good judgment to become adopted sons of Clark County, and this is the fact with regard to James S. Webb, one of the leading insurance brokers of this part of the state. While his permanent location in the city is of relatively recent date, he may be fairly accounted as one of the county's progressive, helpful and dependable business men, typical of his day and calling. Born at Louisville, Kentucky, December 16, 1869, he is a son of John G. and Adelaide (Wardlaw) Webb. John G. Webb, a native of England, immigrated to Canada, and from there came to the United States and located in Clark County at a date prior to the war between the states. For some time he conducted a farm in Springfield Township. With the outbreak of the war between the two sections of the country he symbolized his loyalty by enlisting to help preserve the Union, and served as a military telegrapher. Mr. Webb was under the command of General Grant at Vicksburg and elsewhere, and his military career in behalf of his adopted country reflected much credit upon him and the cause in which he served. After the termination of the war he located at Louisville, Kentucky, there engaged in mercantile pursuits, and there died in 1884. James S. Webb grew to years of maturity in his native city, and there received his educational training in its excellent public schools. He first came to Springfield in 1892 to become superintendent of the old Hastings Paper Mill. Later he moved to New York as eastern manager for the Victor Rubber Company. Ohio had its attractions for him, however, for in 1906 he became treasurer of the Webb Construction Company at Columbus, Ohio. In 1913 he came once more to Springfield, and established himself in business as an insurance broker, at which he has since continued with more than average success. In Springfield Mr. Webb has contributed time and money in furthering all laudable aims of the community. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Fire and Underwriters Casualty Association, and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs, having served as president of the former. He is a communicant of the Episcopal Church, belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association, and is one of the executive committee of the republican party in Clark County. For years he has been active in local Masonic history. He served as master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and was the first master of St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. To him has been accorded the rare honor of having conferred upon him the thirty-third degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. During the World war Mr. Webb took an extremely active part in local work. He served the Government in various local camps, urging upon the soldiers and sailors the importance of taking out insurance. He was chairman of the Fraternal Committee in SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 29 the sale of Liberty Bonds, and was song director for the Clark County War Chest. On October 13, 1903, Mr. Webb married Miss Lucy Harrison, of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of Col. William Harrison, one of the prominent men of Kentucky. Mr. Webb is a man of strong character and noble impulses, and lives up in his everyday life to what he believes to be his duty. Whenever responsibilities have come to him he has labored earnestly and effectively to discharge them, and has never shirked a personal or civic duty, but rendered full value for whatever has been demanded of him. Such men are rare, but when found are a valuable asset to their community. WILLIAM MILLS. The Mills family has played a dominating part in the development of Springfield and Clark County, and the record of the accomplishments of the men bearing the name forms interesting reading for those understanding people who recognize the fact that no community can be greater than its representative citizens. The first of the name at Springfield was the late William Mills, a native of the North of Ireland. He reached early manhood in his native country, but having two sisters living in New York City and another, Rachel, the wife of John Clark, living at Springfield, Ohio, he, too, crossed the Atlantic, with his mother and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Johnson, in 1847. After a short visit in New York City William Mills came on west to Springfield and established his home on Harrison Street. He followed the business of contracting and building, and was also a landscape gardener. In the course of time he was made a street commissioner, being one of the first to hold that office, and as such did much to effect improvements in the streets of the city. He was a man of medium stature, and was very active and enterprising. As a communicant of the Episcopal Church and as a good citizen he upheld in his life and deeds all that obtained for the betterment of the community. His death occurred in July, 1877. He and his wife had six children, five of them reaching maturity, but only two survive, William Mills, of Springfield, and Mary J., wife of Alexander G. MacKenzie, of Springfield, Ohio. William Mills, last of two surviving children of William Mills, the elder, and named after his honored father, was born at Springfield, Ohio, October 10, 1856. He has always made this city his home and the scene of his rather unusually successful business operations. His educational training was received in the public schools, and all of his interests center in and about Springfield. His father dying when he was nearing his twenty-first birthday, he succeeded to his father's occupation, and in 1881 was elected to the same office his father had held for so long, that of street commissioner, having for his assistant his brother Robert R. Mills. These two operated a stone quarry and lime kiln just west of the present site of the Masonic Home, and it is still known as the Mills Quarry. The brothers also bought the Cold Spring Quarry, and operated that for a time. They were progressive in their business methods and conducted the first large stone crusher ever brought to this neighborhood. Incidentally they opened a builders' supply house, and this business is now conducted under the name of The Mills Bros. Co. Robert R. Mills, who was one of the real men of Springfield, 30 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY died January 12, 1920, his wife having preceded him, leaving a son, Ralph E., and a daughter, Rachel L., now Mrs. Richard Rodgers, the former a partner in the firm founded by his father and uncle. The younger William Mills married Mary Carr, a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Courtney) Carr. They became the parents of six children, namely : Charlotte, who died in infancy ; Mary C. ; William C., who is the present auditor of Clark County ; Agnes R.; Joseph A., who married Frances Todd and lives at Springfield ; and Robert A., William C. and Joseph A. served in the World war, the latter in the heavy artillery, but did not get overseas. Mr. Mills and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church. in which for years Mr. Mills has been senior warden. He is a Knight Templar, member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Mystic Shrine. William C. Mills, one of the enterprising young men of Springfield, is auditor of Clark County, and a veteran of the World war. He was born at Springfield, August 13, 1895, and was graduated from the high school course with the class of 1915. He had been attending Wittenberg College for two years when this country entered the World war, and enlisted, September 17, 1917, in the United States naval service, and was first assigned to duty on the Schurz, then on the Wilmett, holding the official rank of quartermaster. After his honorable discharge, in December, 1918, he returned to Springfield and served as chief deputy county auditor until the resignation of his chief, Raymond W. McKinney. Since February, 1921 he has been auditor of the county by appointment of the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. Mills is the youngest man ever honored with this position. He is a Presbyterian in religious belief ; a republican in politics, and belongs to the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic order. On October 19, 1920, William C. Mills married Miss Dorothy Willard Brain, and their son, Willard Carr Mills, is of the fourth generation of his family to have lived at Springfield, and the third generation to have been born in the city. This little fellow has back of him an honorable line of ancestry on both sides, and every reason to be proud of his name. JOHN L. PLUMMER has been established in the practice of law at Springfield since 1886, and has long held secure vantage-place as one of the representative members of the bar of Clark County. A splendid achievement that stands to his enduring honor is that of having organized the Merchants & Mechanics Savings & Loan Association, of which he has been official attorney from its inception and of which he has been the president for the past several years. This organization, through its liberal and well ordered functioning, has done much to further the industrial advancement and general civic prosperity of Springfield. Mr. Plummer was born on a farm near Kewanee, Illinois, September 27, 1857, and is a son of Levi M. and Cynthia Ann (Bayless) Plummer. Nathan Plummer, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a native of Maryland, and the family home was established in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, removal later being made to Adams County. Shortly after his marriage Levi M. Plummer removed to Illinois, but about eight years later he returned with his family to Ohio and re-established his home in Adams County. His entire active career was marked by close SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 31 association with farm enterprise, of which his father had been a pioneer representative in the old Buckeye State. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Adams County until their deaths. The boyhood of John L. Plummer was passed in Logan and Adams counties, Ohio, and he early became inured to the sturdy discipline of farm life. After having profited by the advantages of the district schools he was for one year a student at Geneva College, Northwood. Later he graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts. He largely defrayed the expenses of his higher education by teaching school, he having taught two years in the district schools and one year in Warren County. While at Lebanon he began the study of law, in the office and under the effective preceptorship of James M. and John E. Smith. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1885', and in April of the following year he opened an office at Springfield, where he has since been engaged in active and successful practice and where he has been concerned in much important litigation, with enviable reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. A stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party, Mr. Plummer was elected in 1890 to the State Senate, in which he gave characteristically loyal and effective service during his term of two years. He declined to become a candidate for re-election and has preferred to confine his activities to the work of his profession and to his business interests rather than to hold public office. He was president of the Springfield Commercial Club, which was later reorganized as the Chamber of Commerce, and he has served also as president of the Clark County Bar Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. October 23, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Plummer and Miss Anna Willard Brain, of Springfield. They have no children. HARRY S. KISSELL is one of the leading exponents of the real estate business in his native city of Springfield, where he has to his distinction the platting and placing on the market of Ridgewood, the most important and attractive suburb of the city. He is president of the Fairbanks Building Company, of which he was one of the organizers, as was he also of the American Trust & Savings Bank, of which he has been a director from the time of its incorporation, besides which he is a director also of the First National Bank of Springfield. In the World war period Mr. Kissell was chairman of the War Savings Committee of Clark County, which raised $1,700,000, and he served also as a director of the Clark County Chapter of the Red Cross, as well as chairman of the publicity committee of the Clark County War Chest. He takes deep interest in all that touches the civic and material prosperity and advancement of his native city and county, and is distinctly a loyal and public-spirited citizen and representative business man of Springfield. Mr. Kissell is a republican, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and he is prominently affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the maximum and honorary thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a past 32 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has passed the various official chairs in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio, of which he was grand master in 1910-11. In 1921 H. S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was organized and instituted at Springfield, and the same was named in his honor. His maximum York Rite affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templars. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. October 17, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Kissell and Miss Olive Troupe, daughter of Theodore Troupe, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Roger Troupe and Mary Lucretia. Harry S. Kissell was born at Springfield on the 24th of September, 1875, and is a son of Cyrus B. and Lucretia C. (McEwen) Kissell, the former of whom was born at Litersburg, Maryland, and the latter at Hillsboro, Illinois. Cyrus B. Kissell established his residence in Springfield about the year 1855, and here he was long and actively engaged in the real estate business, through the medium of which he did much to further the development and progress of both the city and the county. The Kissell family has been established in America since 1732, the original progenitor in this country having been Nicholas Kissell, who came here as a member of a Moravian mission and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Emanuel M. Kissell, grandfather of the subject of this review, was the inventor of important improvements in Agricultural machinery, and was a son of George Kissell, the family having early settled in Maryland. Cyrus B. Kissell and his wife became earnest members of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield, where Mrs. Kissell still maintains her home, the honored husband and father having passed away on the 29th of October, 1903. Of the three children, one died in infancy ; Blanche is the wife of Ralph C. Busbey ; and Harry S., of this sketch, is the oldest of the children. I. WARD FREY. An old Colonial family in America that has been identified with Springfield interests for seventy-five years bears the name of Frey. It was established on American soil by one Heinrich Frey, a native of Germany, and afterwards a man of great enterprise at Zurich, Switzerland. From that ancient city he is supposed to have come to this country in 1688, locating at Palatine Bridge on the Mohawk River, opposite the present town of Canajoharie, New York. It was there he built a durable stone dwelling house, prudently providing it with convenient loopholes through which those inside could use rifles in the event of an attack by hostile Indians. The old stone house still stands, in a remarkable state of preservation. Henry Frey son of the founder, married a Miss Keyser, and their son, also named Henry, chose for his wife Elizabeth Herkimer, a sister of Gen. Nicholas Herkimer, a noted early family of the State of New York. Philip Rockel Frey, son of Henry and Elizabeth Frey, married Elizabeth Tyrell. Samuel Challott Frey, son of Philip R. and Elizabeth Frey, was born at Johnsville, New York, February 7, 1799. He married Susan C. Calhoun, and they were the grandparents of I. Ward Frey, who SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 33 has long been one of Springfield's business men. Samuel C. Frey was a watchmaker and jeweler, and additionally was a man of education. In 1830 he moved across the border to Brockville, Canada, where he lived during the next seven years. The history of the Canadian revolution of that time is well known, and, as in all revolutions, innocent people often suffer with the guilty. Mr. Frey at heart was in sympathy with the reformers, but kept a neutral attitude as far as possible, but he became a suspect and when his arrest became imminent, closed up his affairs and returned to the United States. In 1838 he came to Ohio and embarked in the jewelry business at Canton in Stark County ; going thence to Springfield, and later removing to Decatur, Alabama, where he died at a venerable age. George H. Frey, son of Samuel C. and father of I. Ward Frey, was born in Philadelphia, Jefferson County, New York, December 19, 1825, and acquired his earlier education in the City of Brockville, Canada. In 1838 he accompanied his parents to Ohio, and remained in the family home at Canton until 1847, when, on being admitted to the bar, he came to Springfield, and became a leading factor in business and political life. Among a variety of business enterprises he had an interest in one of Springfield's banks ; was a prime mover in the construction of the Delaware branch of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad ; was instrumental in setting on foot the construction of the Ohio Southern Railway, which is of the greatest importance to Springfield, connecting, as it does, the city with the Jackson coal fields and ore producing regions, and for one year was president and for many a director of this company. In 1854 he became owner of an interest in the Republic newspaper, and was the able editor of this journal for eight years, during that time wielding an influence in political circles second to none in the state. In 1856 he was appointed one of the delegates to the convention held at Pittsburgh for the purpose of organizing the national republican party and to provide for the selection of delegates to the first National Republican Convention for nominating presidential candidates, which was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1856, and to which Mr. Frey was also a delegate. Among his many notable political friends was Horace Greeley. At Springfield Mr. Frey was a vigorous leader, as elsewhere. He served on the School Board and in the City Council, and presided over the construction of the city water works, and it was during his period of service as county commissioner that the new court house was built and other public improvements brought about. In the old Ward home at Springfield, on July 8, 1851, George H. Frey was united in marriage with Jane Quigley Ward, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1831, and died at Springfield, April 12, 1881. Her parents, Isaac and Mary (Rodgers) Ward, came from Cumberland County in 1833. Isaac Ward was born October 2, 1796, and died at Springfield, April 3, 1863. In Cumberland County he had been a manufacturer of woolen goods, but his health failed and after coming to Springfield was never active in business. Isaac Ward was a son of William and Elizabeth (Harrison) Ward, who moved from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to Portsmouth, Ohio, with Vol. II-3 34 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY their son Isaac and their daughter Sarah. William Ward was accidentally drowned in the Ohio River, and following this domestic calamity the brother of his widow came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and escorted his sister and her children back to the old home, the journey being made on horseback. Subsequently she returned to Ohio, and she died at Springfield. I. Ward Frey was born November 22, 1852, at Springfield, in the home of his maternal grandfather, which is now the Frey home. He attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, after which he spent three years at the Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts. Soon after leaving school he was called upon to take over the management of his father's quarries, and soon proved himself a capable business man, for years afterward being actively identified with the construction of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railway, a narrow gauge road which is now the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway. His health failed, and for six years he was practically out of business, but subsequently he was associated with Governor Bushnell in the building of Springfield's first interurban traction line. Since then Mr. Frey has mainly devoted his time and attention to the development of his own city real estate and the management of his valuable farm properties in Clark County and Indiana. Mr. Frey married Miss Anna Wilson, who was born at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of William W. Wilson, whose father, the Rev. Alexander Wilson, was born in Ireland and was a minister in the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Frey have one daughter, Helen Wilson, who is the wife of Clarence B. Schmidt, of Xenia, Ohio. Mr. Frey has been more of a business man than politician, although never failing in vigilance as a citizen. He has been one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce. For many years he has been a trustee and member of the Oakland Presbyterian Church, has been a generous contributor to many charities, and is a highly esteemed member of the Country Club. EMIN WITHERSPOON HAWKINS. Among the important offices having to do with the conduct of Clark County's government is that of the county agricultural agent, the duties of which are of a character that necessitate the direction of a carefully-trained incumbent. The present county agricultural agent, Emin Witherspoon Hawkins, possesses the necessary qualifications and equipment for this position and is discharging its duties and responsibilities in a manner that is pleasing to the people and of great benefit to the community. Mr. Hawkins was born at Fairmount, Illinois, March 23, 1894, a son of William C. and Mabel (Witherspoon) Hawkins. His paternal grandfather, Edmund Hawkins, a native of Ohio, migrated in young manhood to Edgar County, Illinois, where he settled among the pioneers and continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. His son William C. was born in that county, March 21, 1865, and was reared to agricultural operations, to which he devoted himself for many years. Removing to Fairmount, he became one of the prominent and influential men of his community, and served as mayor thereof for two terms, of two years each. He married Mabel Witherspoon, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 35 who was born May 10, 1866, near Fairmount, Illinois, a daughter of William Witherspoon, a native of the Prairie State and an early settler and farmer of Edgar County. She was a member of the old and distinguished Southern family of that name, the most noted member of which was John Witherspoon, the famous American educator, who was born at Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1722. John Witherspoon became president of Princeton College in 1768, was a delegate for six years from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died near Princeton, New Jersey, September 15, 1794. Emin Witherspoon Hawkins attended the public schools near Fairmount, following which he spent three years at Fairmount High School, and then competed the four-year course at Danville High School. In 1912 he enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science, after having pursued a full course in agriculture. On the completion of his education he went to Chicago, where he became a sheep buyer for Swift & Company at the Union Stock Yards, but failed to find his work congenial and accordingly went to Mount Prospect, Illinois, where he began teaching agriculture in the high school. He was thus engaged until December 1, 1917, when he enlisted for service in the World war and entered the air service, having been commissioned second lieutenant. He remained in that service and held the same rank until he received his honorable discharge January 7, 1919. In May, 1919, Mr. Hawkins became county agricultural agent for Ritchie County, West Virginia, and February 1, 1920, accepted his present position as county agricultural agent for Clark County, Ohio. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the National Agricultural Association, the Clark County Agricultural Association and the Clark County Grange. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Alpha Gamma Rho college fraternity. Mr. Hawkins married Miss Ethel Klophel, who was born at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Edward Klophel. They have one child, Marjorie Louise. CHARLES HENRY BACON. An old and honorable family name of Springfield, Ohio, is that of Bacon, where business enterprise, good citizenship and sterling personal character have always been associated with it. For many years its leading representative was the late Charles Henry Bacon, merchant, banker and prominent citizen, whose long and useful life was spent in this city. Mr. Bacon was born at Springfield, Ohio, September 1, 1833, and died here December 19, 1902. He was of New England ancestry and Revolutionary stock. His parents were John and Mary (Cavileer) Bacon, the former of whom was born at Weathersfield, Connecticut, a son of Captain Richard and Anner (Fosdick) Bacon. Captain Richard Bacon served as an officer in a Connecticut Line regiment in the Revolutionary war. John Bacon came to Ohio in 1812 and located at first at Urbana, in Champaign County, but came to Springfield in 1818. He was a saddler by trade and for many years had his harness and saddle shop on the present site of the Mad River National Bank. He was one of 36 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY the organizers of the old Mad River Bank, which was familiarly known as "Bacon's Bank" and which was the pioneer banking institution of Springfield. This bank was incorporated in 1847, under the name of the Mad River Bank of the State of Ohio. In 1865 it was reorganized and chartered as the Mad River National Bank, being one of the first national banks organized under the National Bank Act. Mr. Bacon became president, and continued to be identified with this bank until his death which occurred March 5, 1868. He married Mary Cavileer, who was born at Chestertown, Maryland, and died at Springfield, Decem- ber n, 1878. Of their family of children Charles Henry was the youngest son. Charles Henry Bacon attended school at Springfield in boyhood and grew to manhood with practical business ideas, evolved while receiving early commercial training. For many years he was engaged here in the wholesale grocery business, first as a member of the firm of Wright, Horr & Bacon, and later of the Horr & Bacon Company. For an extended period he was a director in the Mad River National Bank, and at the time of his death was vice president. His business sagacity was marked, and his judgment was frequently consulted on important matters of business policy by others who were less well informed or did not possess his keen foresight. Mr. Bacon married on September 22, 1858, Miss Jane D. Horr, a daughter of Dr. Obed and Catherine (Foley) Horr. Dr. Horr was born in Massachusetts, came very early to Ohio and for many years was a practicing physician at Mechanicsburg in Champaign County. He married Catherine Foley, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, and was a daughter of John Foley, a pioneer in Clark County from Virginia. These names are all familiar ones in Ohio, long having represented some of the best citizenship in the state. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bacon : Fannie, who became the wife of Charles Rowley, of Springfield, and now resides in Michigan ; and Catherine, whose death occurred shortly after her marriage to E. 0. Bowman, a well known journalist of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Bacon was primarily a business man and political leadership never appealed to him. He was, however, a careful and observant citizen and deeply interested in all that related to the substantial wellbeing of Springfield, wielding a marked influence in the direction of education and morality, and was a generous but unostentatious contributor to local charities. Mrs. Bacon still occupies the spacious family residence on East High Street, which for many years has been one of the hospitable homes of the city. She has a wide circle of personal friends here, who admire and esteem her for her beautiful traits of character, and additionally has another circle of friends, the most of them personally unknown to her, who are continually enjoying the fruits of her benevolence. She is a member of the Episcopal Church. RILEY SMITH. The work of the real estate man is varied and the responsibilities resting upon him, are frequently important, for it often lies within his province to foster a local spirit of civic pride. This accomplished, the successful realtor reaches out for broader fields and endeavors to attract to his city new blood and capital. He in a measure SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 37 develops the resources of his community, popularizes it and directs the investment of its revenues and management of many of its affairs, and much of this is done through individual effort. Among the younger realtors of Springfield who have gained positions of importance through their activities in these directions is Riley Smith, a real estate dealer and builder of homes, and vice president of the Avondale Realty Company. Mr. Smith was born in Ross County, Ohio, near the Gillespieville Post Office in Liberty Township, September 3, 1883, a son of Simon Watson and Sarah (Tracy) Smith, natives of the same county. Simon W. Smith was born on the above farm, September 15, 1858, and was in the building and contracting business at Chillicothe, Ohio, until coming to Springfield in 1916, since which time he has been identified with his son's building operations. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of William Tracy, who was a native of Pennsylvania and came to Ross County, Ohio, with his parents when he was a boy. In additions to being a contractor at Gillespieville he was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Smith died at Chillicothe in May, 1910, aged forty-nine years. The pioneer of this branch of the Smith family was Michael Smith, who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1810, one of twelve children who were orphaned by the death of both parents during an early epidemic of cholera. He was bound out to a man named Van Gundy, with whom he came to Ross County, and eventually became well-to-do, buying what was then the Taylor farm in Liberty Township, which land had been obtained by Taylor direct from the Government. This farm still remains in the possession of Mr. Smith's descendants. Michael Smith was twice married, and had he been living in 1915 would have been 105 years old, with the following descendants : Eleven children, forty-three grandchildren, seventy-three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. During these 105 years there have been only thirteen deaths in Michael Smith's descendants' families. Four of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil war, and came through "without a scratch." Riley Smith was reared on the old homestead in Ross County and attended the Glade District School. He left the farm when he was twenty years old, and, going to Chillicothe, learned the building business in all its details, doing manual labor in the different building trades and using his powers of observation to give him all the information that he could secure. When he was twenty-three years of age he was a full-fledged building contractor at Chillicothe, due to the care he had taken in preparation, which included correspondence school courses and the study of English under a tutor. In 1911 he came to Springfield and began building and selling homes. In 1915 he became secretary and general manager of the Avondale Realty Company, and in 1920 became vice president of that concern. In addition to his own building operations and his connection with the company mentioned he has other important business interests, some of which are now only in the development stage. Energetic and progressive, he has always made his mark in the business world, and is steadily making advancement. Mr. Smith is a valued member of the Springfield Real Estate Board and the Springfield Chamber 38 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY of Commerce. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Smith is an active member of Story-Hypes Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is financial secretary to the Board of Trustees, and has charge of the stewardship department of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Springfield District of the West Ohio Conference. Mr. Smith married Miss Edna Ault, daughter of Reason and Elizabeth Ault, of Gillespieville, Liberty Township, Ross County, who died in May, 1919, leaving two sons : Hobart R. and Lloyd S. In June, 1921, he married Joyce E. Trombley, daughter of DeWayne D. and Mary P. Trombley, of Springfield, Ohio. WARREN W. DIEIIL. In the mind of every resident of Springfield the name Diehl at once suggests the attainment of prestige in the hardware business, owing to the intimate connection of three generations of the Diehl family with this line of trade, as well as with its inception and development in the city. The present representative of the family in the business is Warren W. Diehl, president of the Diehl Hardware Company and one of Springfield's most forceful and capable business men. William Diehl, the grandfather of Warren W. Diehl, was born in Germany, and in his native land learned and followed the trade of coppersmith. On immigrating to the United States, many years ago, he located at Springfield, where he opened a small shop for the following of his vocation on East Main Street, a few doors east of where the Hotel Shawnee now stands. In 1870 he entered the hardware business under his own name, establishing the industry which is still in existence. He married Catherine Frankenberg, who was also a native of Germany. William Wallace Diehl, son of William Diehl, and father of the present generation, was born at Springfield, March 8, 1846. He was reared and educated at Springfield, where he learned the trade of furniture finisher, at which vocation he worked for a time, spending a few years at Philadelphia. He was also in the feed store industry for a time at Springfield, but finally entered his father's hardware business and in 1885 purchased the elder man's interest. From that time forward he conducted the enterprise until in January, 1920, when he sold out to his sons, Warren W. and Carl H. Diehl, and H. B. Nelson. He then lived retired from active business until his death, which occurred December 8, 1920. During the Civil war Mr. Diehl served with Company F, 152nd Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and saw active service at the front. He was a member of Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and as a fraternalist held membership in Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Diehl belonged to the First Congregational Church and lived his faith daily, being a man of the highest integrity and probity of character. In 1883 he married Miss Henrietta Zammert, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Albert Zammert, a native of Germany, for some years a resident of Cincinnati, and later an early merchant tailor of Springfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Diehl there were born five children: Warren W., Carl H., Howard F., Helen Catherine and Glenna Lucille. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 39 Warren W. Diehl, son of William Wallace Diehl, was born at Springfield, December 9, 1886. After completing his course at Wittenberg Academy he attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913, although he had been admitted to the bar in the previous December. Mr. Diehl embarked upon the practice of his profession at Springfield at the time of his graduation, and continued to follow his calling until he entered the service of his country during the World war. On March 4, 1918, he entered the service as sergeant of the first class in the Medical Corps, and July 10 of the same year sailed for France, where he was detailed to Base Hospital No. 53 at Langres, France. There he remained until March, 1919, when he returned to this country and was mustered out and honorably discharged at Garden City, Long Island, New York. After his return from the war Mr. Diehl gave up the profession and entered his father's business, and subsequently, in 1920, with his brother Carl H. and H. B. Nelson, bought the business. He is now president of the concern, which was incorporated in 1902 as the Diehl Hardware Company, and which is a large and growing concern. Mr. Diehl is a member of George Cultice Post No. 6, American Legion, of which he served as commander from June 1, 1921, to June 1, 1922. He is also a member of St. Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Springfield Chapter and Council. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. EDWARD ALLEN TEHAN is secretary and treasurer of the FahienTehan Company, owners of the splendid store at Springfield that is the chief headquarters for dry goods merchandise in Clark County. He and H. J. Fahien have been associated for many years. They were together as fellow employes in an old dry goods house of which their present business is in an important sense the successor. They later became small stockholders in that business, then withdrew and organized a company of their own, and by the unique combination of their special talents in different lines they have made one of the most prosperous mercantile organizations in the State. The full story of the business is contained in the regular history of the president of the company, Mr. Fahien, on other pages of this publication. Mr. Tehan was born on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, August 26, 1876, son of Morris and Jennie (Sullivan) Tehan. His mother was born at Springfield. Morris Tehan was four years of age when his parents came to the United States and settled in Champaign County. In 1878 the family moved from Champaign County to Springfield, and Morris Tehan and wife both died in this city. Edward A. Tehan was two years of age when he came to Springfield, and he has spent practically all his life in this city. He was educated in the parochial schools and in the Nelson Business College. At the age of seventeen, in 1893, he entered the service of the old Kannain Brothers Dry Goods store at Springfield. Years of experience brought him steady promotion until he was a stockholder, and it was in 1907 that 40 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY he and Mr. Fahien organized and incorporated the Fahien-Tehan Company. Mr. Tehan is a member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus and St. Raphael's Catholic Church. He married Florence Kelley, daughter of John R. and Ellen (Fitzgerald) Kelley, of Springfield. Their family consists of five daughters and one son : Marion, Edward Allen, Jr., Helen, Florence, Margaret and Eleanor. STANLEY RICHARD HUTCHINGS, M. D., one of the successful and prominent members of the Clark County medical profession and a progressive citizen of Springfield, was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1869, the son of Samuel and Demaris (Richardson) Hutchings, the Hutchings being of English stock and the Richardsons of Irish and Scotch origin. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Hutchings, Benjamin Hutchings, was a pioneer of the Western Reserve of Ohio, he having come out from Connecticut in the early days and settled in the City of Cleveland, where his son Samuel was born in 1842. The maternal grandfather, Jonas Richardson, a native of New York State, became a pioneer of Western New York. Both the Hutchings and Richardson families furnished soldiers to the Revolutionary war. From Cleveland Samuel Hutchings went to Chicago as a young man, and after a few years transferred his activities to a farm in Jefferson County, New York, on account of the ill state of his health. There he died in 1890. When the second call was made for troops during the Civil war he enlisted at Cleveland, but ill health incapacitated him for service and he was honorably discharged before he saw active duty. His widow is still residing on the old home place in Jefferson County, New York, in which county she was born. Stanley Richard Hutchings was reared in Jefferson County, New York, where he attended the public schools and the Watertown High School, and then became a student at the Adams (New York) Collegiate Institute. He passed the regents' examination at the last-named college and on the points, or merits, he thus received, entered the University of Vermont, from the medical department of which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1896. He entered the practice of medicine and surgery at Springfield, January 1, 1897, and has since continued therein with deserved success. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Junior Order United American Mechanics. On October 19, 1918, Doctor Hutchings was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, but was not called for duty until a short time before the signing of the armistice. After active service at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, he was honorably discharged the same year. Doctor Hutchings has been a member of the Springfield Board of Education for several years, first by appointment and then by election, and is giving the cause of education his earnest support. On October 28, 1897, Doctor Hutchings married Hattie Sias, who was born at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, a daughter of SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 41 Dr. W. H. H. and Melissa (Tifft) Sias. Her grandmother, Luzina H. Tifft, was the daughter of Thomas Worden, a soldier of the American Revolution and his daughter Luzina was presented with a gold spoon by the National. Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, at the time the society so honored all of its living "real daughters of the Revolution," this spoon being cherished by Mrs. Hutchings as an heirloom to be handed down to her children. To Dr. and Mrs. Hutchings there have been born two daughters and a son : Florence Christiana, born September 23, 1899, who graduated from the high school at Springfield in 1917, married Hilliard Mulford, of Port Chester, New York ; Richard Stanley, born November 21, 1906, in high scool ; and Roxana Luzina, born November 4, 1911. GEORGE WASHINGTON NETTS, first vice president of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association, and one of the best-known men of Springfield, where he has lived all his life, was born in this city, January 27, 1847, a son of the late Louis and Elizabeth (Hehr) Netts, natives of Prussia. Louis Netts was born in 1802 and often told how, as a boy, he watched the army of Napoleon I. as it marched past his father's place. The parents were married in the old country, and in 1834 the family, including two children, sailed for America. While they stopped for a time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and also in Monroe County, Ohio, they settled permanently at Springfield a few months after landing. Louis Netts was a weaver by trade, but there was no employment to be found at that vocation at Springfield at the time of his arrival, so he turned his hand to any honorable work that presented itself, including the digging of ditches. About that time the First Lutheran Church and Wittenberg College were in the course of construction, and public subscriptions were being taken in behalf of both institutions. Mr. Nettes' subscription was two days' work for each, work which would have netted him fifty cents a day for other parties, and considering the conditions of his finances at the time, with a growing family on his hands, it may be said that his subscription was a generous one. Soon after his arrival at Springfield he hit upon the idea of making oak baskets, going to the woods and getting out his strips, from which he fashioned the baskets in his small shop at his home. His product soon attracted attention and found a ready market, and for many years he continued in this line of endeavor and made a good livelihood. He was a public-spirited man, a democrat in politics until the Fremont campaign, a Lutheran in religion and an ardent Abolitionist. He died, greatly respected and esteemed, in 1879, his worthy and estimable wife surviving him until 1890. George W. Netts attended the Springfield Public School, and after working in a printing office for a time, learned the wood-working trade and secured employment with the Mass-Foos Company, a concern with which he was connected for twenty-nine years. He was foreman of the shops during a long period of that time, during which he traveled all over the country for his concern, erecting windmills. In 1906 Mr. Netts was elected superintendent of the City Hospital, and was in charge of that institution for three years. He served as a member of the 42 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY School Board for some time and as a member of the City Council, and was also one of the city park commissioners. One of his "hobbies," if it may be so characterized, has been the encouraging of young married people to own their own homes, and many families of today now thank him for his efforts and advice (and often financial assistance) in securing their places of residence. His well-known views on encouraging people to save caused the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association to invite him to accept a position on its Board of Directors, and in 1912 he was elected first vice president of this concern, of which he had become a stockholder shortly of ter it was organized, thirty years ago. Mr. Netts is also very much interested in educational and welfare work, and has long taken an active part in public affairs. He was a member of the committee which built Memorial Hall, and had much to do with the location of the hall on its present site. He is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons ; Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and the Tiffany Bible Class of the Congregational Church. He is a deep reader of the Bible and is very apt with quotations and translations therefrom. In politics he is a democrat. In Kansas Mr. Netts married Elizabeth Wood, who was born in Iowa, daughter of Charles Wood, a general contractor. She died in the summer of 1921, leaving five sons : Charles L., who volunteered and served in the Spanish-American war and is now one of the prominent business men of Springfield, the head of the Netts Floral Company ; Robert I., who attended Wittenberg College, enlisted as a volunteer and served during the Spanish-American war, and is now assistant county surveyor of Clark County ; Benjamin L., who engaged in the drug business at Cleveland, Ohio ; James C. ; and Stanley G. James, C. Netts attended Wittenberg College, and when the United States entered the World war volunteered for service. He attended the training school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he received his commission as second lieutenant, subsequently being promoted first lieutenant, and receiving his honorable discharge with the rank of captain. He is now a member of the firm of the Thomas A. McBeth Rose Nursery Company of Springfield. Stanley G. Netts attended Wittenberg College, where he became distinguished as an athlete, especially in basketball. He volunteered for service in the army during the World war, trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison) Officers' Training School, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant, was promoted to first lieutenant, and mustered out with the rank of captain. On leaving Wittenberg College he entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1921, following which he went on an athletic tour of Europe, playing basketball in France, Belgium and Germany. He is now head coach for the Hoboken (New Jersey) High School. CHARLES L. PETTICREW. Well known in mercantile circles of Springfield is Charles L. Petticrew, the proprietor of the "Walk-Over" Boot Shop at Nos. 3 and 5 East Main Street. He has carried on this business for about ten years, during which time he has built up a large and successful enterprise, and at the same time has established himself favorably in the confidence and esteem of his fellow-merchants and patrons. He SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 43 is a native of Springfield and was born June 28, 1863, a son of the late John L. and Columbia (Harris) Petticrew, and a member of a family of Scotch and Irish origin. The Petticrew family settled at an early date in the wilds of Michigan, where the great-grandfather of Charles L. Petticrew met his death at the hands of the Indians. His son, David Petticrew, the grandfather of Charles L., migrated to Ohio in 1823 and settled first at Springfield. Subsequently he went to near Dayton, but later returned to Springfield, where he died August 30, 1856. For a number of years he was engaged in the wagon-making business, having his shop and residence at the corner of West Main and Wittenberg streets, which shop and home were for many years landmarks in that part of the city. He became a prominent citizen, served in the City Council and was a member of the old volunteer fire department, and his funeral was attended by the City Council and by "Neptune" and "Rover" fire companies in a body. He was a member of the first English Lutheran Church established at Springfield. Mr. Petticrew married Mary Lehman, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1797, and died at Springfield, March 12, 1875. She was a daughter of David Lehman, who came to Ohio from Maryland in 1805, and lived for a time on the Cox farm near Dayton, but later removed to Clark County. John L. Petticrew, father of Charles L., was born at Springfield, February 2, 1827. He was for many years engaged in the quarry business with his brother Ambrose at the foot of Plum Street, and was a man of well-known business integrity. He also took an active part in civic affairs and served as a member of the City Council for several terms. His religious connection was with the First Lutheran Church. His wife, Columbia, was born August 25, 1828, in a log house at the corner of West Main and Wittenberg streets, a daughter of William Morrison Harris, who with his family left Maryland for Ohio between 1816 and 1820 and located at Springfield. He married Lydia Ann Mayne, who was born September 6, 1807, a daughter of John Mayne, of South Mountain, five miles from Frederick City, Maryland. John Mayne served as a soldier during the War of 1812, as a member of President Madison's body-guard, his wife having been a personal friend of "Dollie" Madison, and having, with the President's family, watched the burning of the national capital by the British. John L. Petticrew and Columbia Harris were married in Clark County, Ohio, June 14, 1847, and became the parents of the following children : Albert E., born June 29, 1848, died May 3, 1915, married Louisa Stockford ; Orin L., born March 26, 1853, died in January, 1921 ; Ella A., born April 6, 1858, died September 13, 1921, married Rev. Samuel Schwarm ; John W., born November 15, 1860, now a resident of Dayton; Charles L., of this review ; Lydia M., born December 4, 1865, died October 28, 1917, married W. W Wittmeyer ; and Flora, born March 29, 1869, unmarried. Mr. Petticrew married Miss Elizabeth M. Petot, the daughter of Charles and Catherine (Speck) Petot, of Londonville, Ohio, both natives of France. Mr. and Mrs. Petticrew have one son, Ralph A., born September 14, 1890, who was educated in the public schools and at Nelson's Business College, and is now associated with his father in the shoe business. 44 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY GOLDEN CLYDE DAVIS. While disturbing elements have in recent years undoubtedly made law enforcement a matter of grave corncern in many communities, there has, perhaps, been less trouble at Springfield than in other cities of its size. Without question the reason of this is that here the law is really upheld, and no infraction of it will be countenanced as long as public officials of Springfield are men of such sterling, well balanced character as Hon. Golden Clyde Davis, municipal judge in this city. While Judge Davis is not a temperamental man, he knows how to soften justice with mercy on occasion, but he takes his official duties in all seriousness and with the result that he commands the respect and full confidence of his fellow citizens, irrespective of political affiliation. Judge Davis was born at Springfield, Ohio, January 1, 1882, and is a son of Asa and Elizabeth (Miner) Davis. The Davis family is an old pioneer one of Ohio. Asa Davis was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1826, and died at Springfield in 1910. He was a son of William Davis, a very early settler in that county, to which he came with several brothers from Virginia. In 1872 Asa Davis came to Springfield, and during the rest of his active business life was engaged in the real estate brokerage business. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother of Judge Davis was born in 1830, in Athens County, Ohio, and died at Springfield in 1917. She was a daughter of Joseph K. Miner, who was born in Athens County, where his parents, New England people, were early settlers. Judge Davis attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of A. B. He then entered the University of Missouri, where he completed two years of his law course, then returned to his native state and finished his course and received his LL. B. degree in the Ohio State University in 1908. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, opened a law office at Springfield and entered upon the practice of his profession. There was no mistake made when he was appointed in May, 1913, and in the fall of that year was elected city judge to fill out an unexpired term, for so admirable had been his decisions that in 1915 he was elected judge for the full term of four years, and in 1919 he was re-elected for another term of four years. His whole course on the bench has been one of sustained efficiency, and he well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all law-abiding citizens. Judge Davis was reared in the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, is connected to some extent with other organizations, and still retains membership in his old college fraternities, the Alpha Tau Omega and the Phi Delta Kappa. WARREN DELL ALEXANDER. In the substantial development of a community the mercantile interests play an important part, and commercial prosperity rests largely upon the financial responsibility of the merchants and the spirit of enterprise that usually permeates this particular business field. Springfield has mercantile establishments that would be creditable in much larger cities, and the annual volume of business in this line is so great that it sets wheels moving in many other directions and thus furthers general prosperity. One of the most important, largest and best known mercantile houses in the clothing and SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 45 gents' furnishings line at Springfield is that conducted under the firm style of W. D. Alexander & Company, of which Warren- Dell Alexander is the senior member. Warren Dell Alexander was born at Mercer, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1871, and is a son of George F. and Ann Jeannetta (Dice) Alexander. His paternal grandfather, Elias Alexander, was a leading citizen of Mercer County, served as sheriff for some years and was prominent in other ways. He came from sturdy Scotch Presbyterian stock that settled early in the Keystone State. George F. Alexander was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1834, moved later to Ohio and died in 1906, and is survived by his widow. She was born at Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, the birthplace of William McKinley. Her parents were George and Mary (Phillips) Dice, the former of German and the latter of Scotch extraction. Warren Dell Alexander attended the public schools at Mercer, New Wilmington and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as the family home changed in his youth, and later had high school advantage at Clifton, Ohio. In 1888, when in his seventeenth year he began his independent career as a clerk in his uncle's general store at Manorville, Pennsylvania, where he had four years of valuable mercantile training. In 1892 he came to Springfield, and this city has been his chosen home for thirty years. After a number of years as a salesman he embarked in the clothing and gents' furnishings business on his own account as a member of the firm Kedel & Alexander. The first business location was at No. 34 East Main Street, but later expansion made removal to larger quarters necessary, and since then the commodious building on the corner of East Main and Limestone streets has been occupied. In 1918 Mr. Alexander purchased his partner's interest in the business and has since continued under the firm name of W. D. Alexander & Company. Keeping abreast of the times, handling only reliable goods and following honorable methods, Mr. Alexander has built up a great and profitable industry, and no business man of Springfield is held in greater esteem. He is also the second vice president of the Capital Savings & Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio. On March 24, 1897, Mr. Alexander married Miss Agnes McCullough, a daughter of the late William McCullough, who for a number of years was a prominent leather merchant and manufacturer of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have two children : William Warren, who was born in 1900, is associated with his father in business ; and Jeannette Elizabeth, who was born in 1909. Mr. Alexander has taken an active part in civic affairs as he believes it to be the duty of a good citizen. He has served faithfully and efficiently as a member of the City Council and on the city civil service commission, has been liberal in his contributions to benevolent objects and often has given of his time and means to promote movements for the general welfare. With his family he belongs to the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, being a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, Free and Accepted Masons ; Palestine Commandery ; Dayton Consistory, and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. Mr. Alexander has long been a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Rotary, Lagonda and 46 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Country Clubs, and to the Columbus Athletic Club, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ohio State Retail Clothiers Association. JOHN SALLADAY HEAUME is owner and proprietor of the Hotel Heaume, one of Springfield's newest and best hotels. Mr. Heaume was educated in Wittenberg College at Springfield, and since his college career has been an active figure in local business circles, and for many years has conducted a high class restaurant service, later amplified into the general hotel business. Mr. Heaume is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and is in the fourth generation of a pioneer family in that section. The American ancestor and the founder of the name in Guernsey County was his great-grandfather, Peter Heaume. He was born a British subject on the Isle of Guernsey. He brought his family to the United States in 1832 and settled near Cambridge, among a colony of people who had come from the Isle of Guernsey and had given the name of their old home to this Ohio County. John Heaume, grandfather of the Springfield hotel man, was born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1816, and was sixteen years of age when brought to this country. He became a prosperous farmer and esteemed citizen of Guernsey County. In that county he married Rachael Priaulx, also a native of the Isle of Guernsey, and of a family that came in an early day to Guernsey County, Ohio. John Heaume in 1894, at the age of seventy-eight, accompanied by his grandson John S., went back to visit his old home on the Isle of Guernsey, and died while there. William E. Heaume, of the third generation of the family in Guernsey County, was born on a farm near Cambridge, June 17, 1850. He later became a farm owner, and practiced agriculture until 1910, when he removed to Cambridge. From there he came to Springfield about 1915, and is now living retired. He married Amanda (Salladay) a native of Guernsey County, daughter of George Salladay, whose people were Virginians. John S. Heaume, whose parents, William E. and Amanda (Salladay) Heaume, are residents of Springfield, is one of four children born to them : Minola is the wife of Rev. C. V. Larrick ; Ella, deceased, was the wife of O. B. Drake ; Alberta is the wife of Dr. J. E. Secrist and resides in Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Heaume was born at the old Heaume farm near Cambridge, July 23, 1876. He spent his early life on that farm, and began his education in the common schools of the township. During 1895 he was a student in Wittenberg Academy at Springfield, and from there enrolled in Wittenberg College, where he remained until graduating A. B. in 1900. He was a member of the college fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He also took a course in the old Nelson Business College, and for three or four years was employed as an office man with different firms in Springfield. Mr. Heaume entered the restaurant business in 1905. His place of business was established at the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street. He developed and organized a high class service, greatly appreciated and liberally patronized by the public. For over twelve years he continued his restaurant, and in the meantime he began the erection of his hotel on the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 47 Columbia Street. This hotel was completed and opened for business in 1917, and it now ranks with the three leading hotels of Springfield. It is a modern fireproof five-story brick building, with eighty rooms, each with private bath, and there are all other departments and features of first class hotel service. Mr. Heaume is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club and the Fourth Lutheran Church. June 7, 1903, Mr. Heaume married Julia Douglas Moler, daughter of J. D. and Millie (Oaks) Moler. Her father for twenty-five years was city engineer of Springfield. She attended college at Oxford, Ohio. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are : Majorie Amelia, Mary Catherine and John Douglas. JOSEPH MATHIAS REHE in the twenty years since he began his business career has had many promotions in responsibility with several corporations. He was a railroad man until he came to Springfield, and he is now secretary and treasurer of the Westcott Motor Car Company of this city. He was born in Cincinnati, April 16, 1884, and represents two well-known old families in the commercial life of that city. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Rehe, was an early oil merchant there. His maternal grandfather, Mathias Johannigman, was prominent in the coal business at Cincinnati. The parents of Mr. Rehe were John T. and Caroline ( Johannigman) Rehe, both natives of Cincinnati. His mother died in 1886 and his father in 1918. Both were devout Catholics. Joseph M. Rehe grew up at Cincinnati and was educated in St. Mary's parochial schools and St. Xavier's High School. His practical business experience began in 1903, as a salesman for the firm of Chatfield & Woods, paper jobbers and manufacturers at Cincinnati. From 1907 to 1910 he was in the auditing department of the Big Four Railroad Company, and from 1910 to 1916 he was in the auditing department of the Ohio Electric Railway. June 1, 1916, Mr. Rehe came to Springfield in the capacity of auditor and assistant secretary of the Westcott Motor Car Company. During the past six years he has had an important share in building up this local industry, and in February, 1922, he was elected a member of the board of directors and secretary-treasurer of the corporation. Mr. Rehe is a member of Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., and for the past six years has been treasurer of the Elks' Club. He is a member of St. Raphael Catholic Church. April 19, 1906, he married Miss Bertha Stall, daughter of Oliver and Julia (Tobin) Stall, of Cincinnati. ISAAC B. RAWLINS was a resident of Ohio from his childhood until his death, save for a brief interval passed in Illinois, and he played a constructive part in the industrial and civic progress of Clark County and the City of Springfield. He was born in the State of Delaware, in 1809, a son of Rev. Charles Rawlins, who was a native of England and who became a pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio and also a successful teacher in the pioneer schools. 48 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Isaac B. Rawlins was reared in Ross County, Ohio, and as a young man he engaged in the manufacturing of pottery at Frankfort. Later he became a farmer in Fayette County, and finally, in order to provide better educational advantages for his children, he came with his family to Clark County and purchased a farm about two miles distant from Springfield, on the present Urbana Turnpike. From the farm he drove with team to transport his children back and forth from the schools at Springfield, and about 1855 he removed with his family to this city, which was then a mere village. Later he purchased from William N. Whitely a wooded tract at the corner of Gillet and Burnett roads, southeast of Springfield. He cleared and otherwise improved this land, which he eventually sold at a profit. At the same time he was the owner of a farm in Illinois, the same having been in charge of his son Charles. When Charles enlisted for service as a soldier in the Civil war the father assumed charge of the Illinois farm and left his son George in supervision of the farm near Springfield. Within a short time George Rawlins likewise became a soldier of the Union, and the father then returned from Illinois. He thereafter gave active attention to his property interests in Clark County, and engaged successfully in the real-estate business as a member of the firm of Middleton & Rawlins, which laid out and placed on the market the Middleton & Rawlins addition to the City of Springfield. Mr. Rawlins subsequently platted and developed two other additions that contributed much to the growth of the city. He was a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1888, Mrs. Rawlins having preceded him to the life eternal. As a young man Mr. Rawlins wedded Miss Mary A. Hottsenpiller, and they became the parents of six children : Harriet, Charles F., George C., Mary, Albert M. and Martha. Of the children only Albert M. and Martha are now living. Charles F. Rawlins was a member of the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, and died while in the service, as a result of exposure. George C., who likewise gave gallant service in defense of the Union, became a representative member of the Springfield bar and was one of the leading lawyers of Clark County at the time of his death, July 27, 1921. Albert M. Rawlins, only surviving son of the honored subject of this memoir, was born at Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, September 29, 1848, and his early education was acquired principally in the public schools at Springfield, where also he attended Wittenberg College. He was actively associated with his father's business and property interests until 1873, when he engaged in the lumber business, of which he has since continued one of the successful and influential representatives at Springfield. He is a loyal advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party, but has had no ambition for political activity or public office. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. HERMAN JACOB FAHIEN. One of the most perfect organizations of its kind in the State of Ohio is the Fahien & Tehan Company, dry goods merchants at Springfield. The president of this business is H. J. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 49 Fahien, who has been a resident of Springfield for over thirty-five years, and whose life since early boyhood has represented a complete devotion to the ideals and the practical service of merchandising. He was born at Richmond, Indiana. His parents, Jacob and Mary Fahien, were natives of Germany, came to America as young people, were married in Cincinnati and soon located at Richmond, Indiana, where his father spent the rest of his active life in the contracting business. H. J. Fahien was only 6 years of age when his father died, and when he was 11 he became self-supporting as a cash boy in the dry goods store of George H. Knollenberg at Richmond. His business apprenticeship was served in the dry goods establishment, and before he left there, in 1886. he had risen to the responsibilities of head of the silk department. With this degree of successful experience to his credit Mr. Fahien came to Springfield in 1886 and began work in the dress goods department of the old firm of Kinnane & Wren. When this firm dissolved, Mr. Fahien continued with its successors, Kinnane & Brothers. The business still later was incorporated, the principal members being Edward, John and James Kinnane, while Mr. Fahien and his present partner, Edward A. Tehan, were minor stockholders in the enterprise. Edward Kinnane died in 1899 and his brother in 1907. Soon after the latter event, Mr. Fahien and Mr. Tehan withdrew from the old house and organized, and in July, 1908, incorporated the Fahien & Tehan Company. They secured quarters for their business it three floors and basement of the recently completed Fairbanks Building. In this building their store was opened in 1908, and from the first it enjoyed a substantial trade and rapidly built itself into a favored position in the retail business section. In 1914 the Kinnane Brothers Company went out of business. In the meantime, the Fahien & Tehan Company had outgrown their quarters in the Fairbanks Building, and they therefore secured the old location of Kinnane Brothers in the Bushnell Building, and in addition they secured the services of the more efficient salespeople of the old firm, some of whom are still with the Fahien & Tehan Company. The last year Fahien & Tehan were in their location in the Fairbanks Building their business aggregated $286,000. In 1921 the volume of their business reached the imposing figure of $1,250,000. Mr. Fahien married Carrie Frances Bonner, of Springfield, who came from Maryland. They have one of the very attractive homes of the city, built on a street of fine homes, East High Street. The architectural features of their house may be described as a California bungalow, built of solid concrete, and on a lot 120 by 400 feet, surrounded by 1,000 feet of specially trimmed hedge fence and roses. GEORGE OWEN COGSWELL, president and general manager of the Cogswell Building Company, one of the important general contracting concerns in the City of Springfield, was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 28, 1887, and is a son of Dr. George Elmer Cogswell and Czarania E. (Coman) Cogswell. Dr. Cogswell,, now a representative physician and surgeon at Springfield, was born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1849, and is a son of Charles and Lucy (Belden) Cogswell, the original American representative of the family having been John Cogswell, who came from England and settled at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1627. Vol. II-4