SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 325 perity which he has gained largely through his own efforts, the only financial fortification which he otherwise received having been $700 which came to him through parental heritage. Of his farms, one which comprises 126 acres is situated in Moorefield Township, five miles north of Springfield, on the Urbana Turnpike, and the other, containing 137 acres, is in German Township. He was born on the farm of his father in Moorefield Township, and the date of his nativity was October 6, 1865. He is a son of Jacob and Melissa (Hullinger) Young, the former of whom was born near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1821, and the latter of whom was a native of Clark County, Ohio, and a representative of a pioneer family of this county. Jacob Young was a child at the time of his father's death, and was taken into the home of a man named Bollinger, with whom he came to Ohio when he was a boy. He received somewhat meager educational advantages and in his youth he learned the trade of millwright, to which he continued to give his attention until he purchased the homestead farm in Moorefield Township, Clark County, on which he passed the remainder of his long and worthy life, he having been venerable in years at the time of his death. His widow passed away in 1892, about ten years before her husband. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Young was a stalwart republican. The names of these sterling citizens are held in affectionate memory in the community in which they long lived and wrought to goodly ends. Of their eleven children nine are living at the time of this writing, in 1922: John H., Martha, Albert, L. L., Mary, Oscar, Edson K., Cora and Nora. Edson K. Young was reared on the old home f arm, of which he is now the owner, and received his youthful education in the local schools. After his marriage, in 1892, he continued to reside on the old homestead three years, and then removed to a farm in Greene Township. On this rented place he remained three years, and the following year he passed on a farm on the Valley Turnpike. He then purchased and removed to a small farm in Logan County, but this property he sold a year later, whereupon he removed to West Liberty, that county, where he remained until he purchased a farm of ninety-seven acres in that county. Three years later he sold this farm to advantage and he then returned to Clark County and purchased the interests of the other heirs to the old homestead of his parents, a property which he still retains. He remained on this farm until 1913, then passed eighteen months in the City of Springfield, and returned to the old farm in August, 1915. In March of the following year he rented the place, and thereafter he continued his residence in Springfield until 1919, when he removed to a farm of 137 acres in German Township. In March, 1920, he removed to his present residence. Mr. Young has shown much judgment and circumspection in his real estate transfers and general business operations, and is known as a thoroughgoing farmer who gets maximum returns from his agricultural and livestock enterprise. He is now the owner of 266 acres of valuable land in Clark County and is a loyal and progressive citizen. His political proclivities place him firmly in the ranks of the republican party, and while he has had no desire for public office he has given effective service as trustee of Moorefield Township. 326 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY March 1, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Ida Steinbarger, who was born in Champaign County, this state, March 19, 1868, a daughter of Joseph Steinbarger. Of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Young the elder is Corinne, who was born in June, 1894, and who is now the wife of George Ogg, of Springfield. Niles, who was born October 23, 1897, is associated in the work and management of the home farm. He married Rosina Webber. During the war he served in the United States Navy, and was connected with the wireless service for nearly two years. THOMAS L. GAYNOR, one of the honored residents of Springfield, and a veteran of the Union Army, has had a long and varied business career and is now living in the honorable retirement to which his years of industry entitle him. He was born in Oneida County, New York, April 11, 1844, a son of Keiran K. and Elizabeth (Handwright) Gaynor, he was born at Dublin, Ireland, and she at Marcy, Oneida County, New York. In 1837, having completed his apprenticeship to the blacksmithing trade, Keiran K. Gaynor left Ireland for the United States and the trip over in a sailing vessel consumed six weeks. When he landed in this country he found conditions chaotic, owing to the panic of that year, and he was not able to secure employment in the East, so, safeguarding his scanty store of money, he set out on foot to find some section where work was more plentiful, and traveled on through Ohio and up into Michigan, finally landing a job at Joliet, that state. His work was satisfactory and he could have remained with his employer indefinitely, but as he could not obtain all of the money due him Kieran K. Gaynor decided to leave and, taking a two-year-old colt in part payment, led it, walking himself, all the way back East to Syracuse, New York. From there he started, still on foot, for Constableville. A heavy snow storm came up, the colt was not able to withstand it and fell down, and the young Irishman nearly despaired, but fortunately came to a log cabin, and the people, of ter helping him rescue his colt from under the snow, which had already begun to bury it, and put it under shelter, welcomed him to their humble home. While conversing with his host he, to his amazement, discovered that he was his elder brother, who had come to the United States many years previously. The reunion was a most happy one, and Keiran K. Gaynor remained with this brother until the following spring, when he went to Whitesboro, New York, and later bought a blacksmith shop at Yorkville, New York, where he lived for many years. Subsequently he worked at his trade in Oriskany Valley, New York, in a large mill at that point, and remained there until 1848, when he moved to Utica, New York, and was blacksmith at the steam woolen factory. The company failed, and Mr. Gaynor was compelled to take a farm near Streeterborough, New York, which the company owned, as payment for wages due him. He sold it, and then, returning to Utica, lived there until his death. Thomas L. Gaynor had but few educational advantages and has always regretted this deprivation. So impressed has he always been of the advantage of securing a proper amount of schooling that he educated two brothers, one of whom was W. J. Gaynor, at his own expense, and the younger man lived in his household for some time. Subsequently SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 327 he became famous, was at one time mayor of New York City, and while in office was killed by an assassin. The other brother, Joseph E. Gaynor, became a physician and surgeon, receiving his medical degree at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Only a lad when war was declared between the North and the South, Thomas L. Gaynor did not let his youth stand in his way, but enlisted, April 21, 1861, in Company B, Fourteenth New York Volunteer Infantry, for three months, and when his first enlistment expired, re-enlisted in his old company. His service was with the Army of the Potomac and he participated in all of the principal battles of his command and received his second discharge December 31, 1863. Immediately thereafter he re-enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, which took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Walnut Grove Church, Cold Harbor, and was in the engagement in the vicinity of Petersburg, June 17, and July 30, 1864, and that in front of Petersburg July 30, 1864, Walden Railroad, Pegram Farm, and then in the campaign against Petersburg from March 25 to April 2, 1865. His last discharge papers bear the date of August 26, 1865, and he left the service as a sergeant. Returning to Utica, New York, the seasoned soldier found employment in railroad construction work for a few months, and then became a passenger conductor on a run between Utica and Albany, New York, which he held for two years. Going then to Rochester, New York, he worked in a machine shop for a short time, was clerk in a hotel for a year, and then returned home once more. For a year thereafter he was in the employ of the New York Asylum for the Insane, and then began learning the machinist trade, and he later learned the trade of carding in a woolen mill. Making another change, he came to Springfield July 5, 1881, and for five years was in the employ of the Saint Johns Sewing Machine Company, and later was with the Thomas Manufacturing Company, and continued with the latter concern until March, 1919, with the exception of 1889 and 1890, when he was city mail carrier. In 1919 he retired from active life. In November, 1880, Mr. Gaynor married Josephine Pelton, born in Herkimer County, New York, a daughter of Justin J. and Ruth (Cole) Pelton, he born in Connecticut and she in Herkimer County, New York. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Gaynor, Mrs. Gaynor was the widow of Joseph Vickerman and had one daughter, Nellie J. Vickerman, now Mrs. Charles E. Johnston, of Springfield, Ohio. In 1901 Mr. Gaynor built a modern frame residence at 1314 Clifton Avenue, and here he and Mrs. Gaynor are living. While he has not connected himself with any party, preferring to vote independently, he has been active in public matters and at one time was candidate for the office of sheriff of Clark County. He is a Chapter Mason, and belongs to the Lodge of Odd Fellows and also to the Encampment, and has held all of the offices in the I. O. O. F. Lodge. He is a man who is held in high regard all over Clark County, and his many excellent attributes are recognized by those who best know him. REV. GUSTAVUS P. RAUP. The Lutheran clergy numbers among its members men of broad education, religious enthusiasm and enlightened views, men whose example and teaching exercise an influence that must 328 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY be counted as one of the great factors in advancing any community. Not alone do they serve as spiritual guides to their people, but invariably possess a large measure of the practicality which enables them to advise and teach in the ordinary events of life, and to protect the interests of their parish while also promoting its temporal affairs. Much, in fact, is demanded of those who choose the unselfish life of the Lutheran clergy. Not all, as in other walks of life, are fitted by nature for the same sum of responsibility, and perhaps few, under the same conditions, would have attained such prominence and influence as was enjoyed by the late Rev. Gustavus P. Raup, of Springfield. Reverend Raup was born at Turbotville, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1851, and was a son of Henry and Sarah Raup, natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather, Philip Raup, a native of Germany, was a soldier during the War of 1812 and also in the Indian campaigns, seeing service in different parts of Ohio. The Raups have always been Lutherans in religion. After attending the public schools Gustavus P. Raup entered Missionary Institute, as Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, which was only a few miles from his boyhood home, and after a year at that school entered the preparatory department of Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1869. In June, 1874, having completed the college course at Wittenberg, he was graduated with a class of fifteen young men, of whom eleven entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church. In the autumn of the same year he entered the Wittenberg. Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1876, and in that year accepted a call to Messiah Lutheran Church at Constantine, Michigan, but his work in the ministry was of short duration, for ill health, followed by a stroke of paralysis, caused his physicians to advise him to live as much in the open air as possible, and, resigning his pastorate, he in 1879 retired to his farm near Springfield. Notwithstanding the relinquishment of the active work of the ministry, he never lost interest in the work of the church and its institutions, nor got out of touch with it. He was always very active along the lines of Sunday School work and temperance, and, having a deep insight into the teachings of the Bible, was a very successful Bible class teacher. For nearly thirty-five years he was identified with the Lutheran Synod, and was highly esteemed by those of his brethren in the ministry who knew and understood him. With his family he was identified with the Third Lutheran Church of Springfield, and was deeply interested in its welfare. On communion occasions he was always an assistant to the pastor, a service which was deeply appreciated by all. He was for many years a trustee of Wittenberg College and a member of its finance committee, and was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Clark County Children's Home for many years. Reverend Raup was present at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Wittenberg College, held June 8, 1916, and on the following day he and Mrs. Raup entertained the members of his graduating class, it being the fortieth anniversay of that event, and in the evening of the same day attended the Alumni banquet. On the following day he attended the commencement exercises and witnessed the graduation of his daughter. On Saturday evening, Tune 20, following, he died at his home. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 329 On May 28, Reverend Raup was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Mitchell, daughter of Ross Mitchell, of Springfield, and to their union eleven children were born, as follows : Mitchell W., graduated from Wittenberg College, married Margaret Detwiler, of Springfield, and is secretary-treasurer of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company ; Henry R., a graduate of Wittenberg College, is in business at Larned, Kansas ; James R., a graduate of Wittenberg College, married Bertha Smith, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is now engaged in business at Timken, Kansas ; Helen, a graduate of Wittenberg College, is unmarried and resides with her mother ; George S., a graduate of Wittenberg College and of Harvard Law School, married Ada Bryant, of Springfield, and is now engaged in the practice of law at Springfield ; Robert Bruce, a graduate of Wittenberg College, took post-graduate work at Columbia University in 1922 ; Chandler Paul, who attended Wittenberg College married Jessie Guyton, of Springfield, and is a resident of that city ; Catherine, a graduate of Wittenberg College, is unmarried and resides with her mother ; Gustavus A., who attended Wittenberg College, is now engaged in business at Timken, Kansas ; Hugh M., a member of the junior class at Wittenberg College (1922) ; and one child that died in infancy. JOSEPH MILLER. Those who never come into direct contact with the producers of their daily food have little conception of the debt the world owes these faithful, hard-working men and women who labor under many obstacles in order to feed the multitudes. Many of these, especially those adjacent to large cities, find it more profitable and convenient to specialize on raising vegetables and market this produce themselves through direct selling to the public, in this way cutting out the profits of the middleman and lowering the price to the consumer. The city market of Springfield offers splendid opportunities for the truck farmer to sell his products and the public to buy at first cost fresh vegetables and fruits. One of the energetic men of Clark County who has won a well-sustained reputation for the excellent quality of his produce and the fairness of his prices is Joseph Miller, whose finely-cultivated truck garden is on Clifton Avenue. Joseph Miller was born at Dayton, Ohio, April 12, 1862, and he comes of good, solid German stock. His parents, John G. and Gertrude (Trangenstein) Miller, were born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, from whence they came to the United States and settled at Dayton, Ohio. By trade the father was a machinist and traveled about the country working at his calling, although he continued to maintain his home at Dayton until in March, 1882, when he moved to Springfield, and there he continued to live until his death, in 1908, when he was eighty-four years old. His wife died in the same year, aged seventy-seven years. Their children were as follows : Joseph, who was the eldest ; Emma, who married Sylvester Sheeley, of Saint Louis County, Missouri ; Lewis, who lives on East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio ; and Jacob, who lives in Springfield Township, Clark County. Joseph Miller obtained his educational training in the country schools and grew up on a farm. When he was twenty years old he began to put to practical use the lessons of industry and thrift taught him from childhood by his watchful parents, and began to learn the moulder's trade, 330 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY and for thirty years followed that calling. Tiring of its exactions, he then commenced gardening at 1608 Clifton Avenue, and has maintained a stand in the city market ever since. On May 3, 1893, Mr. Miller married Caroline Groeber, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, a daughter of Anton and Caroline (Culvis) Groeber, natives of Bavaria and Prussia, Germany, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have the following children : Caroline, who is a professional nurse; and John, Anton, Gertrude, Marie, Charlotte, Joseph and Catherine, who are all at home. Mr. Miller and his family belong to Saint Bernard's Catholic Church of Springfield. He is a strong democrat, but has not come before the public for political favors. Fraternally he belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose of Springfield. Mr. Miller is not a man who seeks publicity. All his life he has sought to understand his duty and then to live up to what was expected of him. His work is well done, whether it be the planting of his seed, the marketing of his produce, the casting of his vote, the performance of his religious obligations, or the watchful bringing up of his children, and people have learned to depend upon him and to follow his example in many things, for they know that he is a good citizen and reliable man and one whom they are willing to emulate in large measure. CLARENCE ALBERT USTLER. One of the industries which is flourishing at Springfield is that of producing plants for the local trade, and in it are engaged men who have devoted their lives to this line of work, and one of them who is deservedly successful is Clarence Albert Ustler, of Fleming Street. He was born at Springfield, Ohio, September 15, 1891, a son of John and Margaret (Hotz) Ustler, natives of Germany and Springfield, Ohio, respectively. John Ustler came to the United States when about twenty years old and settled at Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a brakeman and later a railroad watchman, but he is now deceased. His widow survives him and lives on Floral Avenue, Springfield. When he was fourteen years old Clarence Albert Ustler began to earn his own living, and at the same time attended night school so as to further his education. He worked about greenhouses, learning the business in all its details, and in 1915 went into this line of business for himself, buying two acres of land on Fleming Street, on which he has erected greenhouses, and now has about 6,000 feet under glass. He specializes in raising geraniums, and sells them locally. Subsequently he added nine-tenths of an acre, which is occupied by his residence, sheds and other buildings. In addition to his horticultural activities he does gardening in a small way and is very successful, for he likes his work and understands it. On July 26, 1917, Mr. Ustler married Vina Belle Knight, born at Belief ontaine, Ohio, a daughter of William and Jennie Knight, and they have two children : Vina May, who was born May 1, 1918 ; and Bettie Louise, who was born October 8, 1919. Mr. Ustler belongs to Grace Lutheran Church, and is assistant secretary of the Sunday School. While he is interested in the election of good men to office, he prefers to vote independently of party affiliations. Fraternally he belongs to the Odd Fellows of Springfield, but finds his greatest pleasure in his SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 331 home circle. He is a most worthy young man, hard-working and thrifty, and all he has he has earned through his own efforts and is therefore entitled to all the more credit because he has not relied upon others for his start in life JUNIUS F. WHITING is one of the substantial men of Springfield who has combined the practical with the artistic in his work and accomplished much of a lasting character, although he is now practically retired. He was born in Monroe County, Michigan, January 14, 1845, a son of Giles and Margaret W. (De Groot) Whiting, he born at Trumansburg, New York, in 1808, and she at Morristown, New Jersey, in 1812. They were married in New York City, but lived in New York State and Ohio, where he was engaged in farming and construction work on the Erie Canal. In 1832 they went to Michigan, and he acquired ownership of 800 acres of land in Monroe County. This was heavy timber land, which he cleared. On it he planted two peach orchards, and there he lived until 1848, when he moved to Xenia, Ohio, to take charge of a hotel he purchased from his wife's brother, and here he became a man of prominence. He later moved to Preble County, Ohio, where he served as sheriff, his son Junius F. serving as one of his deputies. With the outbreak of the war between the North and the South father and son enlisted, September 12, 1861, in Company E, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and were assigned to Thomas' First Formation in the Army of the Cumberland. Junius F. Whiting was wounded three times. They were discharged at the expiration of their period of enlistment and the father returned home on account of disabilities. Junius once more re-enlisted January 1, 1864, in the same company and regiment, and received his second discharge July 22, 1865, at which time he assisted in the work of discharging the soldiers. Junius F. Whiting then returned to the old home, that had in the meanwhile been established at Eaton, Ohio, and there the father died January 13, 1875, his widow surviving him until in December, 1893. On December 25, 1872, Junius F. Whiting married Elizabeth Dug-gins, who was born at Eaton, Ohio, a daughter of Cornelius V. Duggins. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting had one daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, who is living with her father. Mrs. Whiting died November 12, 1873. On December 25, 1875, Mr. Whiting married Julia E. Collins, of Wabash, Indiana, a daughter of William Collins, and they had three children, namely : Hubert, who died at the age of seven years ; Milton V., who is in the Regular Army ; and Anna, who died at the age of fifteen years. Mrs. Whiting died in October, 1885, at East Portland, Oregon. Mr. Whiting's army experience was not confined to that period when he was in the volunteer service, for January 24, 1867, he enlisted in the Regular Army and was discharged January 24, 1870, as sergeant, having been stationed at Governor's Island, New York. He has been a landscape and portrait painter, draughting and topographical engineer. For three years he had charge of the illustrations of the western division for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and has traveled in every state of the Union except Louisiana, Vermont and New Hampshire, and knows conditions and soils of various parts of the country. For a time he lived 332 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY at Toledo, Ohio, and also at Defiance, Ohio, and then came to Springfield, where he bought a fine modern residence at 807 West Pleasant Street, where he and his daughter now live. After coming to Springfield he embarked in designing in the artistic branches of his profession, and did a large amount of work for magazines and atlases. A member of the Grand Army of the Republic, he was senior vice commander of Bishop Post No. 22, at Defiance in 1903, and now belongs to Mitchell Post No. 45, G. A. R., of Springfield, of which he is a past commander and present adjutant. He belongs to Z. Barney Phillips Camp No. 37, Sons of Veterans ; is an aide de camp of the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias of Springfield. The Methodist Episcopal Church holds hiss membership, and he is a zealous church worker. ALVIN E. WILDMAN, proprietor of the Avalon Stock Farm of 780 acres near Selma, Ohio, is one of the leading agriculturalists of Clark County and a man whose influence in local affairs is strong and of a constructive nature. He was born on his present farm, March 21, 1864, and belongs to one of the old-established families of Clark County, tracing back his ancestry to his great-great-grandfather, William Wildman, a native of Virginia. John Wildman, son of William Wildman and the great-grandfather of Alvin E. Wildman, was also born in Virginia, where he was reared, and he married in Bedford County, that state, in 1800, Eliza Bond, also born and reared in Virginia. In 1814 they came to Ohio and located on the farm that is now the property of Alvin E. Wildman, and here both died, he first and his wife shortly thereafter, not long surviving their advent into the county. They were the parents of the following children : William, Seneca, Benjamin, Edward, Hannah, Mary Ann and Deborah. The Wildmans were Quakers, and the first meeting of the Society of Friends in Clark County was held on the present Wildman farm in 1816. The tract of land now known as Plain Plum was granted to the society for the purpose of erecting on it a meetinghouse. The contract transferring the property was drawn by Amaziah Buson in favor of John Wildman and Seth Smith as representatives of the society, and afterward, in 1821, the property was willed to the society The meetinghouse was erected upon the land and was used for meetings of the Quakers until 1828. In that year the Orthodox Quakers separated from the Hicksites, and thereaf ter meetings were held in the house of John Wildman until another location was secured, south of the Village of Selma. The grandfather of Alvin E. Wildman was Edward Wildman, and his son, William Wildman, was the father. The latter was born in Greene County, Ohio, three miles from the present farm of his son, and when he was nine years old he was brought to this same farm and reared in Clark County. He attended the local public schools and a boarding school maintained by the Society of Friends, and was well educated. Returning to the farm, he continued to operate it until 1900, when he retired, moved to Springfield, Ohio, and made that city his home for eight years, but in 1908 went to California, where he died in 1914. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Harrison, died at Springfield, Ohio, in 1907 They were the parents of six children, of whom three SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 333 are now living. These children were as follows : Bertha, who married John F. Hickman ; Walter, who was a banker, and died in 1922 ; Alvin E., whose name heads this review ; Louis, who died in 1899, was educated at Earlham College, and was cashier of the bank at Cedarville, Ohio, at the time of his death ; Rachel, who was educated at Earlham College, is the wife of Robert Elder ; and Ernest, who died at the age of thirteen years. Alvin E. Wildman was also reared amid strictly rural surroundings, and was taught the habits of industry and thrift which have been of great use to him during his useful life. After attending the local schools he became a student of Earlham College, and was graduated therefrom in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Having decided to adopt f arming as his life work, he returned to the homestead and until his father's retirement was his partner, but subsequently became the sole owner. While raising a general line of farm produce, Mr. Wildman devotes the greater part of his attention to stockraising and feeding and handles cattle, hogs and sheep, and deals in them upon an extensive scale. On June 1, 1887, Mr. Wildman married Anna White, who was educated in the public schools of Indiana and Earlham College. She is a daughter of Edmund and Emily White. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman became the parents of eight children, namely : Edith E., who graduated from Earlham College and Bryn Mawr College, and is a teacher ; Edna E., who graduated from Earlham College, is the wife of Harold H. Peterson, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association and located at Nagpore, India ; William \V., who was also educated at his father's alma mater, and the Dllinois State University, is at home ; Walter E., who graduated from Earlham College, is now (1922) in Russia at the head of the Friends Relief ; Winifred A., who is a graduate of Earlham College ; Philip, who is a student at Earlham College ; and Austin and Anna E., who are attending the local schools. Like all of his family, Mr. Wildman belongs to the Society of Friends and is an elder of the local meeting. In 1919 he was appointed as commissioner representing the American Friends Service Commission to start reconstruction work in Serbia, and was abroad for five months, during which time he visited the scenes of reconstruction work in France and England. A friend of education, he is a member of the Selma School Board and one of the trustees of Earlham College. JOHN L. CARR. From the beginning of the postal service the representative men of each community have been chosen to fill the important office of postmaster. As so much responsibility rests in their hands it is necessary that they be men of strict honesty, reliability and solidity. John L. Carr, postmaster of South Charleston, is one of the efficient officials in the employ of the postal authorities and is discharging his duties in a way that commands commendation on every side. Mr. Carr was born at South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, September 14, 1889, and is a son of John and Margaret (Lynch) Carr. His father was born in Ireland, of Irish parentage, and grew to maturity in his native land, where he had the advantage of attendance at grammar schools. He married in Ireland Margaret Lynch, who had been born 334 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY in Ireland, where she received a public school education. After the birth of their eldest son they immigrated to the United States and settled at South Charleston, where John Carr secured employment in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. For thirty-two years he continued with this line, a large part of the time as assistant foreman, and then retired. He was a member of the Catholic Church, as was Mrs. Carr, both being active therein, and in politics Mr. Carr was a staunch democrat, although he never sought the honors connected with public preferment. There were three children in the family : Owen E., who is connected with the Bell Telephone Company at Middletown, Ohio ; Bernard J. and John L. John L. Carr was educated primarily in the public schools of South Charleston, where he graduated from the local high school as a member of the class of 1910. He then attended Antioch and Wittenberg Colleges, and with this preparation entered upon his career as an educator. After teaching in the rural districts for, six years he became township superintendent of schools in Madison Township, a capacity in which he acted for two years, and he then took the civil service examination and was appointed postmaster of South Charleston in November, 1918. He took office January 1, 1919, and has discharged the duties of that office ever since in a highly capable and expeditious manner. On October 10, 1921, Mr. Carr married Miss Mary A. Gallagher, of London, Ohio, who attended the London High School for two years and also pursued a course at the Bliss Business College. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are members of the Catholic Church. In political matters Mr. Carr maintains an independent stand. ROBERT ELDER. The general store business has one advantage in that it is an absolute necessity to its community. Nevertheless, too many people trade upon this fact and, in consequence, are a long way removed from the hustling, resourceful man known as the twentieth-century merchant. As in all lines of business a financial creed is necessary in order not to fall behind in the procession, and that of Robert Elder, merchant and postmaster of Selma, has been to deal fairly, to represent his goods honestly and to treat his patrons courteously. Mr. Elder was born on a farm in Greene Township, Clark County, Ohio, January 16, 1872, and is a son of Robert N. and Julia Ann (Stewart) Elder. His father was born on the old Elder homestead place in Green Township, April 10, 1843, and at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted in the Union Army, becoming a member of the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the struggle. He participated in numerous hard-fought engagements, including those of General Sherman's famous March to the Sea, and had an excellent record for bravery and fidelity to duty. After the war he returned to his home community and married Julia Ann Stewart, who had also been born in Greene Township and who, like her husband, had a public school education. She was a daughter of Perry and Rhoda Stewart. After their marriage they settled down on the Elder homestead, where they resided until 1885, in that year crossing the river and purchasing a farm in Madison Township, upon which Mr. Elder passed away in 1897, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, to which Mrs. Elder also belonged. Mr. Elder was held in high esteem in his com- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 335 munity and was one of the leaders of the republican party in his district. He served as a member of the township Board of Trustees, was a member of the School Board for upwards of twenty years, and in 1888 was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, and served in that capacity for two terms. He and his worthy wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are living at this time : Robert ; Ellis W., who is a resident of Casper, Wyoming; Walter N., a graduate of the law department of Ohio State University, who is now engaged in operating the home farm ; Eula, the wife of Lewis H. Smith, of Whittier, California ; Carrie, the wife of Cornelius Van Vinen, a resident of Santa Rosa, California ; and Nancy, a graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, who is engaged in Young Women's Christian Association work at Eureka, California. Robert Elder received his education in the public schools of his home community and was reared on his father's farm, on which he resided until 1895, at that time coming to Selma, where he has since been identified with mercantile pursuits. He has built up an excellent business enterprise which attracts its patrons from all over the countryside, and in its conduct Mr. Elder has gained the reputation of being not only a capable business man but an honest one as well. He is likewise acting in the capacity of postmaster, and has the good will and friendship of the people of his community for the manner in which he handles this important part of the Government's business. Some years ago Mr. Elder and his uncle, P. M. Stewart, founded a private bank at Yellow Springs, of which Mr. Elder was president and under cashier until it was incorporated into a state bank, when he became vice president, a position which he now fills. He is likewise president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, and July 1, 1922, was elected president of the First State Bank of South Charleston, Ohio, upon its organization. He has served as cashier of the Ohio State Fair Association. A republican in politics, he has been prominent in local and state affairs for a number of years, and for seventeen years has been clerk of the School Board. His religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been a teacher in the Sunday School for fourteen years, while his worthy and estimable wife is a member of the Friends Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Elder are supporters of all movements which promise to be of benefit to their community, in the way of religion, charity, education or good citizenship, and are held in high esteem and regard for their many sterling qualities of heart and mind. On September 14, 1898, Mr. Elder was united in marriage with Miss Rachel Thorne Wildman, who was educated in the public schools and at Earlham College, and to this union there have come five children : Robert N., born September 8, 1899, a graduate of the Selma High School and of Earlham College, where he was a member of the S. A. T. C., and is now his father's associate in his business ventures ; Lois, born December 14, 1900, a graduate of Selma High School and of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana ; William M., born February 12, 1905, who graduated from Selma High School as a member of the class of 1922 ; Julia, born April 14, 1906, who is attending high school ; and Kenneth, born February 7, 1911, who is attending graded school. 336 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY THOMAS MATTINSON, a well known farmer and stock breeder in Madison Township, is the third Thomas Mattinson in as many successive generations. In his career he has carried on the traditions of the family for effective work in the agricultural field and equally good citizenship. Mr. Mattinson was born in the community where he is living today, on December 18, 1864, son of Thomas Mattinson and grandson of Thomas Mattinson. His grandfather married Jane Beedam, who died in 1833, and in 1834 he and his children left Westmoreland, England, and came to the United States. The family consisted of four sons and three daughters, named : Mathew, John, Thomas, William, Ruth, Agnes and Jane. For about a year the Mattinsons lived near Massillon, Ohio, and in 1835 came to Madison Township of Clark County, where they purchased four hundred acres and immediately began the task of developing a f arm out of this practically unimproved place. Thomas Mattinson, second of the name, was born in Westmoreland, England, April 24, 1820, and was fourteen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic with his father. He had a common school education, and he shared in the early development of the old homestead in Clark County. He married Elizabeth Ann Wilkinson in 1863. Their children were Thomas, John, James, John Henry, and three others that died in childhood. Mr. Thomas Mattinson of the third generation grew up on the old farm, had a common and high school education, and did advance work in the Ohio State. University and the Miami University at Oxford, where he specialized in mathematics and civil engineering. He was one of the well educated men of the farmer class in Clark County, and that has no doubt contributed to his success in managing the farm and directing his other activities. Mr. Mattinson for many years has been a well known breeder of the Aberdeen Angus cattle. He takes an independent position in matters of politics and is a member of the Episcopal Church, while his wife and children belong to the Methodist Episcopal. October 15, 1896, Mr. Mattinson married Byrd D. Pugsley, who was born at Washington Court House, Ohio, February 20, 1866. She was educated in high school and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mattinson : Margaret A., who graduated from high school and the Ohio State University with the M. A. degree and is now a teacher in the high school at Circleville, Ohio ; James P., a high school graduate, who also attended the Ohio State University and is a practical young farmer ; Byrd, who was educated in high school and the State University ; Thomas, who after high school attended the Miami Military Academy and is at home ; and John V., a student in the local high school. JOHN TROUT came from Pennsylvania to Clark County, Ohio, in the year 1851, accompanied by his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah McDowell, and by their three children : Samuel, Anna and John. He established his residence at Medway, and there he was engaged in the meat-market business until his death in 1893, he having learned the butcher's trade most thoroughly before leaving the old Keystone State. He was one of the representative business men and honored citizens of SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 337 Clark County at the time of his death, when sixty-eight years of age. He was a son of John Trout, whose father was one of three brothers who came from Holland to America in an early day, the father of John Trout, Sr., having settled in York County, Pennsylvania, and the other two brothers in Virginia and Maryland, respectively. After John Trout, Jr., immediate subject of this memoir, came to Clark County his parents finally came to this state and established their residence at St. Paris, Champaign County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The following appreciative estimate of the character of the subject of this memoir has been given : "John Trout was an honorable, upright man, temperate in all his actions, just and considerate, and numbered his friends by the number of his acquaintances. He trusted many, and often to his personal inconvenience and loss, but he never consented to have recourse to law in gaining his just rights. He preferred to cancel debts due him rather than to take legal action against those who had thus taken advantage of his kindness." After the family home was established in Clark County three other children were born, Jacob, Aaron and Albert. Few men of his time were better known or held in higher esteem in Clark County than "Uncle John" Trout. Other representatives of the Trout family in this county are but distantly related to him whose name initiates this review. Albert Trout, youngest of the children, was born at Medway, Clark County, November 3, 1860, and there received his youthful education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he initiated his independent career, and he and his father cared for the invalid wife and mother with loving solicitude until her death in 1886. In the meanwhile, in October, 1882, Albert Trout married Miss Alice Doner, daughter of David Doner, a farmer near Medway. After his marriage Mr. Trout became a traveling salesman, and in this service he continued until the death of his parents. In 1893 he removed to Springfield, and here he has since been successfully engaged in the retail grocery business. He has been industrious, honorable and fair, has achieved prosperity through his own efforts and has so ordered his course in all of the relations of life as to merit and receive the unqualified respect and confidence of his fellowmen. He is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, has had no desire for public office of any kind, and is independent in politics. To Mr. and Mrs. Trout have been born six children : Ezmond (Mrs. Iber Courson), Calvin, Senora, Grafton, Anna (Mrs. Chester Baker) and Donald. All of the sons, and also the son-in-law, Iber Courson, are associated with the grocery business conducted by Mr. Trout, and Grafton was in the nation's military service in the World war period, though he was not called to the stage of conflict overseas. WEBB W. WITMEYER. Ability and professional achievement mark Mr. Witmeyer as one of the representative members of the Clark County bar, and he has been actively engaged in practice at Springfield, metropolis and judicial center of the county, since 1890. Mr. Witmeyer was born in Richland County, Ohio, and is a son of Levi S. and Susan (Light) Witmeyer, who there stood exponent of progressive and successful farm enterprise, the lineage of both tracing back to staunch Pennsylvania German stock. The schools of his native Vol. II-22 338 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY county afforded Webb W. Witmeyer his early education, and in 1884 he came to Springfield and entered Wittenberg College. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For the ensuing two years he was successfully engaged in teaching school, his pedagogic activities having included service as principal of the Lagonda School. During the summer vacations while thus engaged he read law in the office of John L. Zimmerman, of Springfield, and his acquirements under such able preceptorship thereafter enabled him to complete in one year the full course in the Cincinnati Law School, in which he was graduated in 1890. For more than twenty years he was associated in practice with his honored preceptor, Mr. Zimmerman, and since 1912 he has conducted an independent law practice of substantial and representative order. Mr. Witmeyer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Clark County Children's Home, is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. In 1907 Mr. Witmeyer wedded Miss Lydia M. Petticrew, a member of an old and prominent family of Clark County, and she died in 1917. Mr. Witmeyer has two foster children. ISAAC H. THORNE. One of the progressive farmers of Clark County, who has developed his farm of sixty acres into a valuable property, is Isaac H. Thorne, proprietor of the Maple Place. He was born in Greene County, Ohio, December 30, 1859, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Harvey) Thorne. William Thorne was born in Greene County, Ohio, March 4, 1823, and his wife was born near Wilmington, Ohio, in Clinton County, in 1835. They were reared in their native counties, and he was a widower when they were married in Clinton County. Following their marriage they located on the farm he owned in Greene County. She died January 10, 1874, he surviving until June 29, 1914, when he passed away. After her death he moved to Selma, Clark County, and this thereafter continued to be his home. Both were reared as Quakers, and he was an elder of his meeting. In all of his business ventures he was very successful, and he was highly respected by all who knew him. For many years he voted the republican ticket, but he was also a strong advocate of prohibition. By his second marriage he was the father of five children, but Isaac H. is the only survivor, and he is the only one who reached maturity. Growing up on his father's farm in Greene County, Isaac H. Thorne was early taught the best methods of farming, and learned to like the work which he later adopted as his calling. His father gave him excellent educational advantages, and he attended the public schools, Wilmington College, and the Ohio Northern University, spending a year in the last-named institution. Returning to the f arm, he took up the work of operating it, and has made it profitable. On June 11, 1891, Mr. Thorne married Emma Kitchen, who was born in Clark County, Ohio. November 29, 1863, and she was one of twin daughters of Isaac N. Kitchen. After attending the public schools her parents sent her to college at Hillsdale, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Thorne have one daughter living, Anna Louise, who was born December 25, 1892. They were also the parents of twins, a boy and a girl, who SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 339 died in infancy. The daughter Anna graduated from Selma High School and Earlham College, and then became the wife of Lewis H. McDorman. They live in Clark County, Ohio, and have three children, William Homer, James Thorne and Meriam Elizabeth. Mr. Thorne was reared a Quaker and belongs to the Society of Friends. Like his father, he is a republican, and for a short time he served as a justice of the peace, and formerly was on the School Board for several years. For thirteen years he was a rural free delivery mail carrier, being appointed under the civil service act. Mr. Thorne is an official of the Springfield Federal Farm Loan Association, serving it now as vice president and director, and he is also a member of the loan committee. In everything he has undertaken Mr. Thorne has displayed that earnestness and fidelity to the trust reposed in him which is so characteristic of him, and those depending upon his services have never had reason to complain. Both he and his wife are held in high regard by their neighbors, for they are persons to inspire confidence and win friendship. Like the majority of the members of the Society of Friends Mr. Thorne is a man whose word is as good as another's bond, and if he makes a promise is certain to carry out the spirit as well as the letter of it. JOHN W. BALDWIN was one of the first merchants in Springfield, and he and his brothers were the first persons in that section of the state to connect the East and West in the dry goods business, maintaining large stores in New York as well as at Columbus and Springfield. John W. Baldwin was born at Garretstown, Berkeley County, Virginia, now West Virginia, December 25, 1807, and the Baldwins were among the first settlers of Clark County, Ohio. His maternal grandfather, John Wilson, was a soldier in the American Revolution. His grandmother, Jane Hedges, was a descendant of the Hedges who were prominent in England at the time of Queen Anne. Joseph Baldwin, father of John W., was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, July 11, 1773. He and his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Baldwin, are buried in Buck Creek Cemetery in Champaign County, Ohio. The Baldwins came to Clark County in 1807. Joseph Baldwin was the father of eight children : William, James, Joshua, Samuel V., John W., Rebecca and Jane, and one that died in infancy. John W. Baldwin in early life was engaged in the dry goods business in New York City as a member of the well known firm Baldwin, Dibley & Work. After his marriage he returned to Springfield, where he established and remained a partner of the dry goods firm of Baldwin & Company until his death. He was also interested in the Mad River National Bank, being its president at the time of his death. He took a prominent part in the affairs of his home city and always supported measures looking to the general good. He was an ardent patriot and very active during the War of the Rebellion. Being too old to go himself he, nevertheless, was one of the leaders in everything at home having any connection with the war and assisted with his means and his time every move favorable to the Union. John W. Baldwin died January 5, 1881, and is buried in the family vault in Ferncliff Cemetery at Springfield. He married Rachel Werden. Their six children, Elizabeth, Sara, Clara, Mary, Laura and Eleanor, 340 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY were all born in Springfield except Clara and Mary, who were born at their father's residence at the head of Buck Creek Valley. Rachel Werden Baldwin was one of the oldest pioneers of Clark County. She was born in Champaign County, Ohio, December 28, 1819, but within a few months after her birth her father, Col. William Werden, moved to Springfield, where Mrs. Baldwin spent most of her life. Col. William Werden was born November 11, 1785, at Wilmington, Delaware. In early life he engaged in the wholesale leather business at Philadelphia, but owing to ill health early in 1819 came west with his family and settled in Clark County. At the age of nineteen he had enlisted and served as a soldier through the Seminole war. At Springfield he erected and managed the National Hotel on the northwest corner of Spring and Main streets. With others he also established and operated the stage line between Springfield and Wheeling. Colonel Werden was probably the most widely known man in Springfield in his day. His acquaintance was of national scope, and he was a friend of Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin and other distinguished characters, and a personal acquaintance and staunch follower of Andrew Jackson, who appointed him postmaster of Springfield during his second term. Colonel Werden was one of the founders in 1834 of All Souls parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married Rachel Reed at Trenton, New Jersey, where her family settled in early Colonial times. Her grandfather, William Greene, had the distinction of guiding General Washington and his army on the night of his famous attack on the British forces at Trenton. The eight children born to Colonel William Werden were : Robert, Sarah Ann, Mary Jane, Reed, Rachel, William, Wharton and Duncan. Reed Werden became an admiral in the United States Navy, and had command of the squadron blockading Charleston Harbor during the Civil war. As a young lieutenant he attracted attention by bringing into port the bark "Amelia" after sixty days of terrible weather, during twenty-two days of which the officers and crew were compelled to live on a small amount of bad rice and bread and the rats which they were able to catch in the hold of the vessel. When the bark arrived at the port of St. Thomas it was announced the most unseaworthy vessel ever there. The National Hotel at Springfield, after being sold by Colonel Werden, was renamed by the new proprietors the Werden House. Among the three lineal descendants of Colonel Werden in Springfield today are his granddaughters : Mrs. Samuel F. McGrew, Mrs. John A. Blount and Mrs. Mary B. Moores, all children of John W. Baldwin and Rachel Werden Baldwin. SAMUEL FINLEY MCGREW was born in Steubenville, Ohio, July 19, 1845, but all his life from early boyhood was spent in Springfield. Thomas Fletcher McGrew, his father, also a native of Steubenville, was born April 15, 1817. In his early life he and Finley B. McGrew conducted a general merchandise store in the village of Smithfield, Jefferson, County, Ohio, but he later took up the practice of law. In 1856 he moved his family to Springfield, where he became cashier of the Mad River Valley Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, which later SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 341 became the Mad River National Bank, and of that institution he was president at the time of his death on November 3, 1903. April 8, 1841, Thomas Fletcher McGrew married Martha Dilworth Judkins, of Smithfield, Ohio. She was born at Richmond, Ohio, August 12, 1819, her father being Dr. Anderson Judkins, one of the leading physicians of that section of the state. The father of Doctor Judkins was James Judkins, and his mother was Martha Stanton. The mother of Mrs. Thomas F. McGrew was Catharine Carr. Her father, James Carr, laid out the village of Smithfield in 1803. Mr. Carr's wife was Elizabeth Price. Martha Dilworth Judkins graduated from the seminary of Dr. C. C. Beatty at Steubenville at the age of seventeen, and because of her scholarship was requested to come to Smithfield to take charge of a school, and while engaged in teaching there she met her future husband. Mrs. Thomas F. McGrew died December 10, 1900. She and her husband are buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Springfield. Their six children were : William A. McGrew, Samuel Finley McGrew, T. F. McGrew, J. F. McGrew, Baldwin McGrew and a daughter, Elizabeth, who died in early infancy. Samuel Finley McGrew was about eleven years of age when his parents moved to Springfield. Soon afterward he entered Wittenberg College, from which he graduated at the age of sixteen. For a short time thereafter he was in the dry goods business with the firm of J. W. & H. Baldwin, and then entered the banking office of the Mad River National Bank, of which his father was cashier. His association in different capacities with the Mad River National Bank continued for forty-seven years, and until the day of his death on November 2, 1910. For some years prior to his death he was cashier and a director of the bank, and was also president of the Springfield Clearing House Association. While the late Mr. McGrew never took an active interest in politics, he was a member of the republican party, which his father helped to found in Clark County. During his lifetime he held different positions on the various municipal boards and bodies of his home city. At the time of his death he was vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Warder Public Library. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield. He was entitled to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution by reason of the services rendered to the American cause by his ancestors, but he never affiliated with the order. Mr. McGrew was a man of considerable literary ability and was well versed in the classics. He probably inherited this trait from both of his parents, who were well educated for that day, and his father probably had one of the largest, if not, indeed, the largest, private library in the City of Springfield. While he wrote a number of shorter poems and essays, probably his most ambitious poem was that entitled "The Mission of Hermes," which he wrote as a tribute to his mother as "his friendly critic and appreciative listener." October 20, 1869, Mr. McGrew married Elizabeth Edmonson Baldwin, eldest daughter of John W. Baldwin and Rachel Werden Baldwin, of Springfield. More is said on other pages concerning the Baldwin and Werden families in Clark County. Mrs. McGrew is still living at Springfield. The three children born to Mr. and Mrs. McGrew were : 342 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY John Baldwin McGrew, Samuel Judkins McGrew and Rachel Werden McGrew. The daughter died in early infancy. The late Samuel F. McGrew was a man of sterling character. Broadminded, recognizing that there should be two sides to every controversy, yet he was firm in his convictions when once a decision had been reached. Acknowledged as an authority upon banking, by nature straightforward and open in his dealings with others, he received and held the confidence of all with whom he came into contact. If faithfulness to a trust reposed and unremitting attention to the requirements of business are evidence of a successful life, then Mr. McGrew was a success in the highest sense, and in his long life of splendid accomplishment and in a name above reproach are found his most precious legacies to his family and his contribution to the general welfare of the community in which he lived. JOSEPH ANTHONY POSS has definite vantage-place as one of the successful contractors and builders in the City of Springfield, and such are the scope and importance of his operations that he is consistently to be designated as the leading exponent of this line of business enterprise in the metropolis of Clark County. Mr. Poss was born in the City of Toledo, Ohio, March 2, 1881, and is a son of Anthony and Maria (Stermatz) Poss, who were born and reared in Alsace, France, and who came to the United States soon after their marriage. They established their home at Toledo, Ohio, and there the death of Mrs. Poss occurred in 1886, when her son Joseph A., of this sketch, was a boy of five years. In his native land Anthony Poss learned the trade of millwright, and for a number of years after coming to the United States he was engaged in building and equipping flour mills in Northwestern Ohio. He then engaged in general contracting and building at Toledo, and in 1892 he came to Springfield, where he continued successfully in the same line of enterprise until his death, in 1907, at the age of sixty-three years. As a contractor he erected many of the finest buildings in Springfield, and as a citizen and business man he commanded unqualified confidence and esteem. The public schools of Toledo and Springfield afforded Joseph A. Poss his youthful education, and in Springfield he completed also a course in the Nelson Business College. When he was a lad of fifteen years he went to work for his father, and at the age of sixteen years he was supervising the work of a crew of men employed by his father. For ten years prior to the death of his father he had active supervision of all of the latter's business, and when his father passed away, in 1907, he continued the business in an independent way and under his own name. As the leading contractor and builder at Springfield he has erected many important buildings, among which may be noted the Sun Theater ; the new building of the Springfield Light, Heat & Power Company ; the Springfield City Hospital ; the Hotel Rogers ; Grace Reformed Church ; the Regent Theatre ; the Farmers National Bank ; and parts of the Odd Fellows and Masonic Homes, besides his own modern business block on West Main Street. He erected also a large and modern school building at Williamsport, Ohio, and the Murray Theater at Richmond, Indiana. Mr. Poss has completed the circles of both York and Scottish Rites in the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 343 thirty-second degree, besides holding membership in Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Antioch Grotto. He is a member also of the local organizations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, holds membership in the Rotary and Lagonda clubs, and he and his wife are communicants of the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield. The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Mr. Poss and Miss Josephine B. Barry, daughter of William Barry, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Eva Catherine and Joseph Anthony, Jr. H. M. SAYLOR, cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, took up banking of ter a long and active career in the newspaper business, and at one time was editor of one of the Crowell publications at Springfield. Mr. Saylor was born at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1876, son of W. J. and Eliza (Marlin) Saylor. He was reared in his native village of Pennsylvania, attended public school there, and as a youth learned the printer's trade. Af ter graduating from high school he became manager of the Ashland Local in Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty left that position to attend Potts College at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. While there he became associated with the Williamsport Times as managing editor, was on the editorial staff of the Pennsylvania Grit, and left Pennsylvania to come to Springfield as editor of the Farm and Fireside for the Crowell Publishing Company. He remained with the Farm and Fireside four years, and on resigning went back to Pennsylvania, but returned to Clark County to marry Miss Ruth Smith, of South Vienna, and has since been identified by residence and in a business way with this town. Mrs. Saylor is a graduate of Wittenberg College and Oxford College for Women. In 1909 Mr. Saylor succeeded Walter Elder as cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna. He has carried the responsibilities of that office now for thirteen years. The other officers of this bank are : Robert Elder, president ; Dr. Edward H. Smith and Charles Arbogast, vice presidents ; and George A. Beard, attorney. Mr. Saylor is an Episcopalian, a republican, is affiliated with Eureka Lodge No. 335, F. and A. M., of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, belongs to the Scottish Rite bodies at Williamsport, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery at Springfield and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. WALTER BENJAMIN BAUER. The ambition, a laudable one, of the worth-while citizens of almost every community is to see it grow and develop, to increase its domain and widen its opportunities. The main factors in bringing about these desirable results are the real estate dealers. These keen, well informed men, alert to every opportunity, are the real mediums of progress. Among the leaders in this line at Springfield no one in recent years has been more active and successful than Walter Benjamin Bauer, who is secretary and sales manager of the James-Bauer Company. 344 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Mr. Bauer is a native of Springfield and was born on the site of the present City Building, on Fountain Square, July 15, 1880, a son of Gottleib F. and Lena (Schoen) Bauer. The father of Mr. Bauer was born at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1849, learned the baker's trade there and came to the United States in 1867. In the spring of 1873 he came to Springfield, and proved to be a very competent business man, and thrift and industry brought him an ample fortune. The mother of Walter B. Bauer was born in Baden, Germany, in 1850, and was three years old when the family came to the United States and located at Delaware, Ohio. Her death occurred at Springfield in 1900. Both she and husband were members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Springfield. Walter B. Bauer graduated from the Springfield High School in 1898, and immediately turned his attention to business, for eighteen months being a clerk in a drug store and then spent two years in one of the city's industrial plants. During the fall of 1901 and spring of 1902 Mr. Bauer took a commercial course, paying his own way through business college by extra work, early and late, and so thoroughly qualified himself that late in the spring of 1902 he was able to enter the offices of the American Seeding Machine Company as a stenographer and sub• sequently became chief clerk and timekeeper. In 1906 Mr. Bauer, in association with his three brothers, engaged in business as the Valley Rug Company, he being business manager. Three years later he sold his interest in this concern and became a salesman of vacuum cleaners, and in handling these comparatively new household machines became so well acquainted with their mechanism that he recognized their lack of real utility, in some cases, and this led him into the invention of a water-power hand vacuum cleaner, which he had patented, later improved, and took it to Elyria, Ohio, for manufacture by the Supreme Metal Products Company. To a man of Mr. Bauer's temperament, however, inaction is intolerable, and very ,soon his energies found an outlet as a solicitor at Cleveland for business colleges, and while so engaged began to sell real estate. Finding himself unexpectedly successful in this line, he determined to thoroughly fit himself for the business, and as a member of the first real estate class organized at the 'Western Reserve University completed the course there, an advantage that many of his co-workers have neglected. In 1913 Mr. Bauer returned to Springfield and began selling real estate, and with such marked success that one year later he was offered a partnership with his then employer, J. Warren James, and on April 1, 1916, the James-Bauer Company was incorporated and capitalized at $10,000, which was later increased to $200,000 (preferred) and $200,000 (common). In 1920 -the company completed the erection of their own building at 109 East Main Street, which is probably one of the handsomest real estate offices to be found in any city. In 1921 the company added to its real estate business the building and loan feature, which department was opened on January 1, 1922. On June 26, 1907, Mr. Bauer married Miss Marie Meyers, who was born at Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Dr. John E. Meyers, who is a practicing physician of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer have three children : Elizabeth, born September 6, 1908 ; Jeannette, born April 16, 1910; and Walter B., Jr., born December 28, 1916. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 345 In addition to being identified with various organizations of civic and business importance Mr. Bauer stands high in Masonry. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M. ; and Palestine Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar. EDWARD W. WILLIAMS educated himself for the law, but has found more congenial work in the field of journalism, and has had a wide and interestingly varied experience in Ohio newspaper work, both as editor of city dailies and in other capacities. Some years ago he returned to his home town, New Carlisle, where he is editor and proprietor of one of the best country newspapers in the state. Recently he also became postmaster of that little city. Mr. Williams was born March 29, 1877, on a farm two miles south of New Carlisle. This farm was granted to his great-grandfather by President James Monroe. His grandfather, Rev. Henry Williams, was one of the well known early citizens of the Mud Run Valley. Edward W. Williams is the youngest son of J. C. and Amelia Williams. His father in his day was a man of prominence in his section of Clark County and earnestly advocated and worked for every enterprise looking to the welfare of the locality. Edward W. Williams had two uncles who were prominent in Ohio affairs, Elihu S. Williams, a member of the Fif tyfirst and Fifty-second Congress, and the late Judge H. H. Williams, for two terms Common Pleas judge of Miami County. E. W. Williams grew up on the farm, attended the Mount Pleasant school, at the age of twelve entered high school and graduated in the spring of 1894 from the Olive Branch High School at Forgy, Ohio. In the fall of the same year he entered Wittenberg College of Springfield, taking the classical course and graduating A. B. in 1898. The following two years he taught school in his old home district at Mount Pleasant. Following that he became a student in the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, and about that time received the degree of Master of Arts from Wittenberg College. Leaving his law studies, he became editor and owner of the Sun at New Carlisle in the spring of 1901. For three years he had charge of this newspaper. Disposing of his interests, he became city editor of the Evening Herald of Dayton, thus entering the daily newspaper field. Later he joined the editorial staff of the Springfield Sun, and there came under the influence of the late George Burba, known as one of the most prominent newspaper men in Ohio. For seven years he was associated with the Daily News of Springfield, this experience rounding out his training in city newspaper routine and qualifying him for the post which he accepted in 1911 of state editorship of the Citizen of Columbus. After two years at the state capital Mr. Williams re-purchased the printing plant of the Sun at New Carlisle. He has been manager and editor of this thriving paper for the past eight years. He has directed the editorial policy in the line of independent republican tendencies, and has rendered some valuable service to his party during campaigns. On March 23, 1922, Mr. Williams was named as postmaster of his home town, but still retains the ownership of the newspaper. As editor of the Sun Mr. Williams made the paper a constant leader in behalf of public welfare and improvement. The Sun is a weekly 346 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY paper, devoted to home interests, and a number of public improvements owe their inception and final completion to the Sun and its able editor. One of these is the beautiful elm drive from the town to the New Carlisle Cemetery. For half a mile on either side of the road are growing rows of beautiful elm memorial trees, over one hundred in number, and serve at the cemetery drive as a shaded boulevard instead of a hot, dusty roadway in summer. Another campaign for which the Sun was largely responsible resulted in the erection of a beautiful new school building at New Carlisle, at a cost of $160,000. Mr. Williams and the Sun also exerted all their possible influence in favor of the paved highway, soon to be constructed, from New Carlisle southward to the National Road, a mile and one-half long. The direct assessments for this improvement were raised by popular subscription. August 8, 1900, Mr. Williams married Viola C. Funderburg, youngest daughter of George K. and Martha Funderburg. They have two children, Martha Louise, born in 1902, and Harry E., born in 1906. The family are all members of the New Carlisle Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Williams was superintendent of its Sunday school for three years. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Junior Order United American Mechanics. In all movements for the public good and the advancement of the educational and religious interests Mr. Williams has been active in township and county. His ability as a leader and his enthusiasm for any cause which he believes to be right and just have made him generally recognized as one of the men of more than ordinary worth in the citizenship of Clark County. ED GRAM. In the agricultural community of Madison Township one of the best known citizens and most capable farmers is Ed Gram, a native of Clark County, and whose life has been devoted to the work of his farm. He was born in Greene Township, near Pitchin, May 19, 1860, son of Jacob and Catharine (Miller) Gram. His father was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and his mother, in Virginia. They came to Clark County when young people, grew up here and bef ore getting permanently located Jacob Gram made four trips on foot between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Af ter his marriage he located near Pitchin, and was a farmer in that community until his death in 1869. The mother died in 1864. She was a Methodist. Of their nine children Ed is the youngest, and four are still living, the three others being: Margaret, a widow, residing near Pleasant Grove ; Theodore C., of Springfield ; and Joseph, of Greene Township. Ed Gram spent his early life on the farm near Pitchin where he attended school. In 1885 he went out to California, and spent several years in the Far West. He returned to Clark County in June, 1888, and on February 26, 1889, married Miss Ella King. Mr. and Mrs. Gram have two daughters : Elsie M., born December 9, 1890, wife of Ralph Walker ; and Anna C., born September 22, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Gram are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church at South Charleston. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and took his first degrees in that lodge in 1886 and has filled a number of its chairs. He is a republican. The farm to which he has devoted so many years consists of a hundred acres. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 347 Ella King, wife of Mr. Gram, was born in Clark County October 8, 1869, daughter of Daniel and Anna B. (Packer) King. Her father was born at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 16, 1839, and her mother was born November 22, 1846, daughter of Milton and Eliza (Willis) Packer. Milton Packer was born on October 18, 1824, and his wife on July 18, 1817. The King family is of Revolutionary ancestry. Daniel King served as a soldier in the Civil war. His parents were Andrew and Theresa (Fox) King, the latter a daughter of Daniel Fox, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Daniel Fox was a son of Frederick Fox, who was a drummer boy in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution. Mrs. Ella King Gram was born at the old Willis Tavern, but since early infancy has lived at the homestead where her home is today. GUS LEBOLT controls a large and prosperous business as a wholesale and retail dealer in cigars and tobacco, and is one of the leading exponents of this line of enterprise in the City of Springfield, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. Mr. LeBolt was born at Piqua, this state, October 6, 1866, and is a son of Charles and Esther (Lebensberger) LeBolt, the former of whom was born in France, not far distant from the River Rhine, his father, a butcher by trade, having been in active service with the army of the great Napoleon, and having been assigned to the supervision of meat supplies for the army. Charles LeBolt was reared and educated in his native land, and was a young man when he came to the United States. After a brief sojourn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he established his home at Piqua, Ohio, where during the old canal-boat days he was a large and prosperous dealer in groceries, feed, queensware, etc. He died in 1904, and his wife, who was likewise born near the Rhine, but on German soil, was a young woman when she came to America, and her marriage to Mr. LeBolt was solemnized at Dayton, Ohio. She survived her husband by more than a decade and died at Springfield in 1917. The public schools of Piqua received a due amount of attention on the part of Gus LeBolt during the period of his boyhood and early youth, and in his seventeenth year he went to Springfield, Missouri, and found employment as clerk in a dry-goods store. He next took a similar position in a clothing store at Streator, Illinois, and at the age of twenty-one years he became a traveling salesman for a manufacturer of overalls at Ottawa, Illinois. From that time to the present time he has continued to be numbered among the gallant forces of the "knights of the grip," and even at the present he finds his services in requisition as a traveling salesman for a leading wholesale house in the City of Rochester, New York, for which he makes two trips each year, but his service in this capacity is to be terminated with the year 1922, owing to the exactions of his large and important individual business interests. Following the death of his brother, the former owner, Mr. LeBolt purchased from the estate the Arcade cigar store at Springfield in 1904, and thus was initiated his active connection with the commercial and general business interests of this vital Ohio city. From time to time he has expanded his operations and holdings, and he is now the owner of a chain of retail cigar and tobacco stores in Springfield—Lebolt's Cor- 348 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY ner, Main and Limestone streets ; Bancroft Hotel cigar store ; Hotel Shawnee store ; Fairbanks Building store ; and My Krantz Corner Store. His wholesale establishment and premium department are in the Fair. banks Building. As a youth Mr. LeBolt achieved more than local fame as an athlete, especially in connection with the "national game," baseball. He was one of the very first curved-ball pitchers in the country, and pitched the first out-curved ball ever delivered in connection with the game. He organized and played with the "Piqua Fast Blacks," which team won the championship of the state in baseball. He has not lost interest in the great game and is still an enthusiasic "fan." Mr. LeBolt is a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, as is he also with the United Commercial Travelers. On the 1st of January, 1913, Mr. LeBolt was united in marriage with Mrs. Sophia Kleeman, widow of Joseph Kleeman, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and she is the popular chatelaine of their pleasant home in Springfield. ION A. P. MORGAN, M. D. In medical circles of Springfield Dr. Ion A. P. Morgan occupies the position of a reliable, learned and skilled practitioner, to whose other professional qualifications are added the desirable concomitants of intense human sympathy and wide practical experience. He is also a business man of capacity, and his connection with the Morgan Medicine Company has done much to further the interests of that concern. Doctor Morgan was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 28, 1869, and is a son of William and Dorothy (Funk) Morgan, the former born at Harrisburg, Ohio, and the latter at California, Ohio. The parents were married at Morgan Station, a community in the neighborhood of Columbus, named in honor of the family, where William Morgan was the owner of a large and valuable tract of land on which he carried on agricultural operations until his death, in January, 1920.. His widow still survives .him and makes her home on the farm. Ion A. P. Morgan attended the public school of Columbus, and after some preparation entered the Homeopathic Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately started practice at Columbus, where in addition to a general practice he was retained by several institutions as physician, but in 1913 changed his field of practice to Dayton, where he remained three years. He then went to Cleveland, where he spent one year, and in 1917 took up his residence and practice at Springfield, where he has since made gratifying advancement in the acquirement of a large and representative practice. Doctor Morgan belongs to the various organizations of his profession, and keeps fully abreast of the advancements being made in medical science, having always been a close and careful student. He is a republican, but has not sought political honors or public preferment. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Mrs. Morgan of the Rebekahs, and both belong to the Church of Christ. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 349 On June 6, 1890, Doctor Morgan married at Zanesville, Ohio, Miss Minnie E. Nevins, who was born at Zanesville, February 20, 1870, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Brown) Nevins, the former a native of Nashport, Ohio, born January 3, 1848, and the latter born at Hanover, Ohio, August 6, 1848. Mr. Nevins was a Union soldier during the Civil war, having served 100 days as a member of Company F. One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and received his honorable discharge August 22, 1864. He died in September, 1918, since which time Mrs. Nevins has resided with her daughter and son-in-law, Doctor and Mrs. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Nevins were the parents of three daughters : Minnie E., now Mrs. Morgan ; Dva Blanche, who died as the wife of the late Orlie Brown, leaving one son, Warren Calvert, who resides with Doctor and Mrs. Morgan ; and Viola May, who died as the wife of Frank O. Perry, leaving one son, Forrest E., of Sandusky, Ohio, who married Lillie Low and has two children, Edith and Theodore. Doctor and Mrs. Morgan have no children. Several years ago Doctor and Mrs. Morgan started the manufacture of several proprietory medicines, including liver pills, cough syrup, corn remedy and two kinds of liniment, and this business, known as the Morgan Medicine Company, under the management of Mrs. Morgan, has grown to large proportions, four traveling salesmen being kept on the road. ARTHUR ELMER COLE, D. O. Prominently identified as one of the leading osteopathic practitioners of Clark County, Dr. Arthur Elmer Cole, of Springfield, is carrying on a large practice, and occupies the position in his community to which his talents and abilities entitle him. He was born in Shelby County, Ohio, June 27, 1876, and he is a son of D. A. and Margaret (Taylor) Cole, also natives of Shelby County. The paternal grandparents were Wesley and Anna (Glaze) Cole, he a native of Pickaway County, Ohio. The maternal grandparents were John and Mary Taylor, he born near Huntington, Pennsylvania, was a cousin of Bayard Taylor, the noted author. The Coles originated in Virginia, from whence they came to Ohio during the earliest days of its settlement, floating down the Ohio River, and fighting Indians whenever a stop was made. They secured 160 acres of land at Circleville, Ohio, where the family resided for many years. D. A. Cole, as his father before him, was a farmer, and they, with the great-grandfather of Doctor Cole, entered in all some 600 acres of land from the Government, all located in Shelby County. From Scotch and English forebears Doctor Cole inherits many sterling traits of character, all of which have come down to him, amplified by American conditions and surroundings. D. A. Cole died in 1910, but his widow survives him and makes her home at Sidney, Ohio, although she is an aged lady, having been born in 1837. She and her husband had seven daughters and four sons, and Doctor Cole was the seventh child. Until he was twenty-one years old Doctor Cole remained at home, but then began attending the Anna, Ohio, High School, from which he was graduated in 1900. He then took the regular academic course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1906, and became principal of the schools at Bradford Junction, Ohio, where