600 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY were born to them : William L. ; Cora, who is the wife of Sidney McCurdy, who lives in Whetstone twnship and has three children —Harry, Jessie and Ethel; and Amanda, who is the wife of John A. Blackford, and lives in Sandusky township and has one son, Ralph. Michael A. Peterman is a veteran of the Ciyil war. He served in Co. C, 49th O. Vol. Inf., under the command of General Gibson until he was honorably discharged, and during his period of service participated in numerous battles but escaped without injury. William L. Peterman was afforded excellent educational advantages and after graduating creditably from the Bucyrus High school entered the Spencerian Business college, at Cleveland and after graduation was connected with Cleveland business houses for seyen years as a stenographer. He then returned to his father's farm, which has been under his management ever since, general farming and stock raising being the industries carried on. On Nov. 17, 1898, Mr. Peterman married Miss Ida May Patterson and they have three children, Ruth V., Helen C. and Millie A. Mrs. Peterman has two brothers and 0ne sister: James L.; Wilbur, who is a resident of Bucyrus, married Pearl Nickler and they have three children—Eveline, Marguerite and Hazel; and Elizabeth, who married Charles D. Nickler, and has three children, Oliye, George and Florence. Mr. Peterman is a Democrat in politics and has frequently been tendered public offices which he is well qualified to fill but has accepted none outside of membership on the school board, of which he was president. JAMES McCRACKEN, deceased, for many years was a prominent and useful man in Crawford county, O. He was born in Wayne county, 0., July 16, 1800, and died in Crawford county, December 2, 1875. He as the only son of James McCracken, who came from Ireland to Wayne county, among the early settlers. The late James McCracken came to Bucyrus about 1830 and established himself as a manufacturer of spring wheels, being a wheelwright by trade. He became a leading citizen as was eyidenced by his appointment, in 1840, as postmaster, under the administration of President William Henry Harrison. At that time he was a strong Whig and until the close of his life continued to be deeply interested in public matters, becoming identified with the Republican party about the time of the Ciyil war. In the meanwhile he asquired land, first a tract two miles south of Bucyrus and three years later bought eighty acres three miles west of the growing city. This land he cleared and developed into a valuable farm. The closing years of his life were spent on this farm and were peaceful and happy ones. He was public spirited to a large degree and donated the land on which the McCracken school building stands on the Nevada road. He was reared in the Presbyterian church and never failed to give it liberal support and to liye according to its. teachings, and helped organize the first Presbyterian church here. On December 4, 1832, Mr. McCracken was married in Bucyrus township, Crawford county, 0., to Miss Ruth Marquis, who was born May 26, 1813, in Belmont county, 0., but was reared in Crawford county. She survived to the age of seyenty-five years. The following children were born to them: Portia; William Vance, deceased, who was suryiyed by his widow and one son, the latter being now deceased; James Kelly, who was in the insurance business at Fort Wayne, Ind., and has one son and two daughters; Alexander McB., deceased, who was married but left no children; Augusta M., who is the city librarian, at Bucyrus; Harvey Marquis, who is in business at Louisville, Ky., and has one son, James T.; Charles W. ; Harriet, who is matron of a Girls' school, at Honolulu; and Rachel and Elizabeth, who died in childhood. Miss Portia McCracken was reared and educated in Crawford county. For many years she was a successful teacher, beginning at the age of twenty years, and her pupils may be found among the leading residents of Bucyrus and other parts of the county. Of the majority of these she preserves affectionate recollections and counts them among her warmest friends. Miss McCracken has kept alive her interest in all that goes on in the world and it is difficult to believe, when conversing with her, that she has seen and lived through so much of the developing period of this city. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 601 J. L. HEINLE, whose well improved farm of eighty acres is reputed to be one of the best properties in Holmes township, resides two miles west of Brokensword, O. and is well known aloyerer Crawford county, in which he has spent his life. He was born in Bucyrus township, January 23, 1879, and his father G. W. Heinle, still carries on his farm industries there. The Heinle family is one of the oldest and most substantial in this county. J. L. Heinle obtained his education in the schools of Bucyrus township. He comes of an agricultural family and naturally became a farmer when the time came for him to make choice of a career. He received excellent training on the old home farm and continued there until April 1, 1909, when he sold his sixty acre farm in Bucyrus township and came to his present farm in Holmes township. His operations are carried on along practical lines, with due regard for improved methods, and the interest he takes in his property is shown by its fine condition, together with that of the valuable stock produced on his farm. Mr. Heinle was married March 20, 1909, to Miss Rufena Miller, a daughter of Lewis Miller, whose farm lies one mile west of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heinle. In politics Mr. Heinle is a Democrat. He served as school director in Bucyrus township, being elected to that office when only twenty-one years of age. CLARK T. LUDWIG, a retired capitalist residing at Bucyrus, O., belongs to an old French Huguenot family that found refuge in the American colonies prior to the War of the Revolution. Record is preserved of two brothers, Captain John and Michael Ludwig, the former of whom saw military service in the French army before he came to America and later became an officer under General Washington. His home was at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Michael Ludwig, the direct ancestor of Clark T. Ludwig, married iPennsylyaniaia and died there, beinsurviyeded by children, among whom was one son, Samuel Ludwig. After the death of Michael Ludwig, his widow married a Mr. Yokum, whose sons became prominent iron men and also leaders in political life. Samuel Ludwig was born in the vicinity of Germantown, Pa., in 1786 and probably remained there until 1831, when he came to Crawford county, O., making the trip on horseback and carrying in his saddle-bags the sum $10,000, for the purchase of land. He acquired 3,000 acres, in different sections. In 1832 having been joined by his family in the meanwhile, he ordered the building of a brick house, on a site near the present limits of Bucyrus, in Whetstone township. The bricks for the same were burned by Daniel Albright and so stanchly was the house constructed that it still is utilized as a dwelling, although undoubtedly it is the oldest brick house in Crawford county. Here Samuel Ludwig passed the remainder of his life until extreme old age, when he went to the home of a daughter, in an adjoining township, where his death occurred in 1876, when he was within one month of ninety years. He married Elizabeth Redky, who was born in Pennsylvania and died on the family homestead east of Bucyrus. For some years her father served as a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. She was reared a Quaker but later in life united with the Reform church body. They haeleyenen children born to them, the lassuryiyoror having been the late Mrs. James L. Monnett, who died at Bucyrus, December 29, 1911. Samuel Ludwig (2), son of Samuel Ludwig, and father of Clark T. Ludwig, was born near Reading, in Berks county, Pa., May 21, 1813, and died September 14, 1893, at the home of his son, Clark T. Ludwig, with whom he had resided for twenty-one years. He was nineteen years of age when he accompanied th0therer member of his father's family to Ohio and subsequently settled on one of the latter's numerous farms, between Fremont and Tiffin, O. Here he 0 480 acres of land. He was prudent and industrious and accumulated what was considered an ample fortune at that day. Eight years later he bought a farm in Sandusky county, but afterward returned to Crawford county and later bought his father-in-law's farm of 100 acres, near Leesville, in Jefferson township. On that property he made many improvements, a notable one being the erection of a commodious barn, the material used being the finest black walnut obtainable at the time. Subsequently he and wife came to Bucyrus, her death taking place in 1877, in the brick house above alluded to. She was 602 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY born in Virginia, in 1810 and prior to her marriage was a teacher and was considered a fine singer. She was a very active and interested member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Fiye children were born to Samuel Ludwig and wife, as follows: a babe that died; Mary Jane, who died in 1856; Clark T.; Eliza, deceased, who was the wife of John P. Monnett; and William Dorsey, who died in Texas, in 1878. He married Belle Caldwell, who survives and resides on South Sandusky street, Bucyrus. Clark T. Ludwig was born in the Old Indian hut which had been built by Chief George Wipingstick, in Seneca county, O., on the land later owned by Mr. Ludwig's grandfather and father, and was young when the family moved to Crawford county. He was educated in the schools at Bucyrus, at Delaware. O., and in Wittenberg college, at Springfield, O. In May, 1862, he enlisted for seryice in the Civil war, entering Co. K, 86th O. Vol. Inf., under Captain Moderwell and Col. Barney Burnes of Mansfield, and was honorably discharged at the termination of his term of enlistment, in 1863. For some time afterward Mr. Ludwig was engaged in teaching school and later became interested in farming and stock raising. Mn 1870 he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he was in the real estate business for tw0 years. For five years he was a commercial traveler for the large wholesale house of Burr & MIardwick, New York city. Mr. Ludwig returned to Crawford county in order to look after his aged parents and has resided here ever since. During 1883-4 his handsome brick residence, to which he has giyen the name of East Lynne, was completed, its situation being in the eastern portion of Bucyrus, with a fine surrounding estate. Its situation is ideal and it is one of the stately homes of the city in all its appointments. Mr. Ludwig was married near Mansfield, 0., to Miss Mary Smith, who was born July 14, 1847, in Columbiana county, O., where she was reared, coming to Crawford county in young womanhood. She is a daughter of William and Eya (Freed) Smith, both of whom were born in Columbiana county, O. William Smith died at Kirksville, Mo., in 1884, when aged sixty-eight years. His widow, who was born January 10, 1824, is a member of the household of a daughter, Mrs. Martha Newhouse, who lives near Salem, O. George Smith, an uncle of Mrs. Ludwig, was a man of prominence in several of the states of the Union. He served as a member of the Ohio state legislature and afterward moyed to Missouri, where he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state and later was appointed a U. S. marshal for the Western division of Missouri, by President Grant. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig, Edward and Edna, the former of whom died at the age of seven years. The latter, who was born in 1878, was educated at Bucyrus and subsequently married Harvey N. Steger, who is a shoe merchant at Cardington, O. Mr. and Mrs. Steger have two children: Mary Isabel and Byron Ludwig. Mr. Ludwig has been a conscientious member of the Republican party since he became a voter and has consistently adyocated its principles and giyen support to its candidates. On numerous occasions his party has made hire its candidate for offices, both state and local, but he failed of election because his party has always been in the minority in this section. He is a member of Keller Post, No. 128, G. A. R., and takes much interest in everything pertaining to this body. Since 1873 he has been a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he is one of the elders. A. E. LOYER, M. D., physician and surgeon at New Washington, O., where he is in the enjoyment of a substantial practice, was born at Oceola, O., December 1, 1872, a son of John and Magdalene (Barth) Lover. John Loyer was born at Sulphur Springs, O., and died in 1874, when aged thirty-three years, suryiving his wife for but three weeks, her death occurring at the early age of twenty-six years. They had two children but only one survives. A. E. Loyer was only two years old when he became an orphan. He was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Gottleib Kibler, farmers, residing one and a half miles west of New Washington, and faithful members of the Lutheran church, to which the parents of the child had also belonged. Mr. and Mrs. Kibler remained on their farm until the fall of 1886, when they moved to New Washington, where Mr. Kib- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 603 ler died at the age of eighty-two years, in August, 191 s, having survived his wife since 1897 their burial was in the Lutheran cemetery. They gaye to their charge a large measure of care and affection, while they reared him to be useful and self supporting. In 1891 he gratified them by his creditable graduation from the New Washington High school and afterward attended Capital university at Columbus, for one year and the Ohio Medical university in that city for one year. He then spent two years in the Medical college of Ohio at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in the class of 1895. He spent his first professional year at Sulphur Springs, locating at New Washington, March 18, 1896, since when he has been identified with her every public interest. Dr. Lover was married to Miss Kathryn M. Aschbacher, who was born at New Washington, May 20, 1874, and after graduating in 1891 for five years had been a public school teacher in the primary department. Dr. and Mrs. Loyer haye four children: Freda A., Beatrice M., Geraldine A. and Phineas Judson. Dr. Lover has been a lifelong Democrat and at times has served in the town council, always with wisdom and honesty. At present he is serving in his second term as a member of the school board. For one year he served as president of the Crawford County Medical society and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical society and the American Medical association. In addition to his large private practice he is surgeon for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and is examiner for twenty-five life insurance companies. Dr. and Mrs. Lover are members of the Lutheran church. He is a reader and a student and no subject of scientific investigation has been more closely studied by him than spinal fever, that malignant disease which carried away his young mother and father. He began to read medicine in 1892 under Dr. A. H. Hise, at New Washington, and later spent one year under the superyision of Dr. E. M. Rininger, at Chatfield, O. WILLIAM A. BLICKE, cashier of the Bucyrus City Bank, a private institution that was established at Bucyrus. December 12, 1881, has been identified with the business ever since the doors of the bank were opened and his fidelity to the best interests of it have never for one moment been questioned. He is connected also, both oficialIy and otherwise, with other concerns of Iarge importance and may justly be numbered with the most substantial and reliable men of Crawford county. He was born, reared and educated at Bucyrus. His parents, Frank and Theresa (Vollrath) Blicke were born in Germany and came to Bucyrus in youth. The mother of Mr. Blicke died in June, 1904, aged sixty-five years, the father December 26, 1911, at the age of seventy-six years. He was a member of the German Lutheran church. William A. Blicke was born to work, although not to poyerty, and from boyhood had his own problems to solve and his own way to make in life. That this discipline was beneficial and assisted in the formation of a strong and resolute character, no one can dispute, Mr. Blicke least of all. During the past thirty years he has been connected with the Bucyrus City Bank, as indicated above, which was started originally as the Monnett Banking Company, which, in 1892, became known as the Bucyrus City Bank, the original officers having been : E. B. Monnett, president; M. W. monnett, cashier ; George Donnenwirth, vice-president; and W. A. Blicke, assistant cashier. The present officers of the bank are: George Donnenwirth, president ; J. H. Robinson, vice-president; Frank P. Donnenwirth, vice-president: W. A. Blicke, cashier; F. E. Donnenwirth, assistant cashier ; and C. E. Gebhardt, teller. The board of directors is made up as follows: George Donnenwirth, Frederick Hipp, Frank P. Donnenwirth, J. H. Robinson, J. C. Tobias, Daniel Kalb and W. A. Blicke. Announcement is made by published statement that the assets of this institution are over one million dollars and that the liabilities are secured by the combined wealth of all the stockholders. The condition of this bank on June 7, 191 1, show deposits of $931,029.39 and resources of $1,103,475.03, the liabilities being the same as the latter. In 1881 its capitalization was $50,000, which, in 1905, was increased to $60,000, with a surplus of $50,000. Prosperity has attended this institution from the beginning and this has not been only on account of the large capital represented but 604 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY mainly because of the careful, conservative business methods of its officials. Public confidence was early gained and has ever been maintained. In 1897 the company purchased the present fine bank building and still owns the old home of the bank which it occupied for sixteen years. A large general banking business is carried on with correspondents in the cities of New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo. Mr. Blicke served as assistant cashier until January 1, 1901, since which time he has been cashier. Mr. Blicke is also secretary and treasurer of the Carroll Foundry and Machine Company, which owns one of the finest plants in the state for manufacturing open hearth steel castings and gray iron castings; is secretary of the Bucyrus Publishing Company, publishers of the Daily Forum and the Semi-Weekly News; is vice-president of the Crestline Publishing Company, publishers of the Crestline Advocate and the Daily Leader at Galion; and is secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Private Bankers Association and secretary and treasurer of Group No. 6, Ohio Bankers Association, in-cluding nine counties adjacent to Crawford: Marion, Wyandot, Richland, Erie, Huron, Ashland, Morrow and Knox. In August, 1883, he organized the W. A. Blicke Insurance Agency, handling all lines of insurance and maintains his office in the bank building. In 1906 he disposed of the fire insurance end of the business. For one year Mr. Blicke served as treasurer of the Crawford County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association, and was the first treasurer appointed at the organization of the Y. M. C. A. and held the office for several years. For six years also he was treasurer of the Crawford County Agricultural Society. These numerous offices of trust, held over long periods, testify silently to the confidence felt in Mr. Blicke by his fellow citizens. Mr. Blicke was married first, in 1888, to Miss Antonia L. Mader, who was born in 1867 and reared at Bucyrus, where her death occurred May 1, 1891. She was survived by one son, Frederick F., who was bprn April 26, 1891, and since graduating from the Bucyrus High School, has been a student at the Culver Military Academy and in the department of chemistry, of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich. Mr. Blicke was married (second) in 1901, to Miss Nellie Hall, who was born and educated at Bucyrus, the only daughter of Joseph E. Hall, formerly postmaster at Bucyrus. To Mr. and Mrs. Blicke one son was born, Julliard Hall. Mrs. Blicke is a member of the Presbyterian church, while Mr. Blicke retains his birthright membership in the Lutheran body. He is a charter member of Bucyrus Lodge of Elks, No. 156, and a veteran of Demas Lodge No. 108, K. of P. In politics he is a Democrat and for twelve years was city clerk of Bucyrus. HON. FREDERICK HIPP, formerly probate judge in Crawford county, O., and a highly esteemed resident of Bucyrus, where he now lives retired, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, December 9, 1822, the second of six children born to his parents, Christian F. and Sabina (Beckbissinger) Hipp. Accompanying them to America in 1833, he was reared on the home farm in Chatfield township, Crawford county, O. Regarding the success which has attended the life efforts of Frederick Hipp, it may be truthfully said that it has been achieved wholly by himself. When he reached manhood and started out to make his independent way in life it was with empty hands, but the happy result has proved that he possessed also resolution, industry and integrity. His first move was to learn the wagon-snaking trade, entering a shop at Bucyrus, and when he was master of it he opened a place of his own at Richville, where he also, at a later date, engaged in merchandising. After acquiring a tract of land he became a farmer and continued to follow agricultural pursuits for a number of years and still owns 142 acres of well improved land in Bucyrus township. :A Democrat from conviction, he has always worked for party success and on numerous occasions has served in responsible offices in township and county. For twenty years he served as a justice of the peace, for many years was township trustee; he served also at one time as postmaster and in 1881 was elected judge of the Probate Court. Judge Tipp can look back over a long and useful life, from a youth of sturdy and self respecting independence to an honored old age. Judge Hipp was married to Catherine AND REPRESENTATIVE CMTIZENS - 607 Kunzi, who was born in Germany in 1825, and fifteen children were born to them, the larger number of whom became well established in life and more than half still survive. Judge Hipp and family attend the Lutheran church. He owns considerable real estate in the city of Bucyrus and is a director in the Bucyrus City Bank. WILLIAM F. SCHIFER, who, in association with his brother, J. George Schifer, manages and operates 180 acres of his father's valuable farm of 260 acres, which is situated in Bucyrus township, Crawford county, O., is an enterprising and successful agriculturist and a respected and reliable young man. He was born August 28, 1885, at Bucyrus, O., and is a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Leitzy) Schifer. Frederick Schifer was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and his wife in Holmes township, Crawford county, O. They now live retired at Bucyrus. The following children were born to them : Emma; William F. ; Elsie, who is the wife of Leroy L. Lust and has two children —Norma Lucile and Frederick Jacob; and J. George. The youngest son, J. George, was born on the present farm, in Bucyrus township, May 11, 1891, and after his school days were over did clerical work for three years, since when he has been associated with his brother and has given his entire time to farming. William F. Schifer attended school through boyhood and then began his farm training and has made farming his main business. He and brother divide the responsibility and have gained the reputation of being very competent agriculturists. They raise the usual crops of this section and have some excellent stock but have not yet grown for an outside market. In May, 1910, William F. Schifer was married to Miss Agnes Brose, who is a daughter of David and Esther (Stirm) Brose, well known residents of Crawford county. Mrs. Schifer has two brothers and two sisters—John, Sarah, Cyrus and Naomi. Mr. and Mrs. Schifer have one daughter, Emma Marie. Both Mr. Schifer and brother are Democrats in their political views. The whole family attends the German Lutheran church. JEAN (JOHN) N. JUILLIARD, deceased. In recalling the venturesome pioneers who left other lands and came early to Ohio and bore an important part in the material development of sections of this great commonwealth, many of those who proved the highest type of citizens came from France. Stark, Crawford and other counties of the state have representatives in the second generation of these pioneers, many of whom lived into extreme old age and died surrounded by comforts won through their earlier industry. Jean (John) Juilliard was born in 1792, at Mountaehlue, France, forty miles distant from Paris. His father was a colonel during the Italian Wars and lost his life while leading a charge over a bridge, his body never being recovered. The son, Jean Nicholas, probably bore his name. He was given a good education in the village schools and by the advice of his wise mother, learned the self-supporting trade of a shoemaker and before emigrating to America he was in the shoe business and was considered a fairly successful business man. In 1836, accompanied by his wife and four children, he set sail from Haver-de-Grace on an English sailing vessel for New York and in the course of some weeks landed safely in the United States. Several sisters of his wife lived in Ohio, one in Stark county and one in Delaware county, and the travelers immediately made their way to Stark county. There Mr. Juilliard purchased a small farm situated ten miles east of Canton. Although never accustomed to such toil, he cleared this property and developed a farm and also, for many years, engaged in work at his trade. He was a kind-hearted, genial man, law-abiding in every particular, and his home was well known to early settlers for its neighborly hospitality. He lived until 1876, being then eighty-four years of age. In his own province in France he had married Anna Berlett, whose ancestry was similar to his own, and she also was permitted a long life, dying in 1874, when aged eighty-two years. They were members and liberal supporters of the Lutheran church after coming to the United States. They never forgot France, a spirit of patriotism ever tingling their thoughts and conversation, but they also loved their adopted country, of which they 608 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY were truly worthy residents for so long. To them the following children were born : Julia A., Louis C., Frederick C., George A., Catherine E., Augustus D., and Mrs. A. E. J. Cahill. Julia A. became the wife of T. A. Hall, who was born in 1821 and came to the United States in 1836. He was in the dry goods business in Bucyrus but he and his wife are both now deceased, Mr. Hall's death taking place December 25, 190. Louis C. Juilliard died in Stark county, O., in middle age. In 1849 he had made his way to California, by way of the. Istbmus of Panama and spent nineteen years prospecting and also merchandising in the gold mining regions, having many adventures but surviving to return to his family. He married Louise Fusier and they had a family. Frederick C. Juilliard accompanied his older brother to California in 1849 and there they were interested together in merchandising and ruining. He neyer returned to Ohio but now resides with his family at Santa Rosa. George A. Juilliard died at Louisville, Ohio, to which city he retired after a successful agricultural life. Catherine E. is the widow of Eli Walker and has five daughters and resides with one of them at Louisville, Ohio. Augustus D. Juilliard is at the head of the well known manufacturing firm of A. D. Juilliard & Co., manufacturers of woolens and silks and extensive jobbers. He married Helen Cossett. Mrs. Cahill, who resides at Bucyrus, was born March 18, 1842, in Stark county, and was educated at Mt. Union College. She is a member of the Presbyterian church. J. C. REIFF, one of the successful farmers and leading citizens of Holmes township, Crawford county, 0., resides on his valuable farm of eighty acres, which lies six and one-half miles northwest of Bucyrus. He was born on the old home place, August 17, 1867, and is a son of J. C. and Mary (Shock) Reiff, well known people for many years in this section. J. C. Reiff attended the country schools and afterward assisted his father on the home place, farming and stock raising being the industries which engaged his attention then and haye continued to do so until the present. Mr. Reiff was united in marriage with Miss Stella Frost and they haye two children, Chester and Russell. Mr. Reiff and family are members of the United Brethren church. He has been actiye in political circles for a number of years and has served with efficiency in public office, the township neyer having had a more honest assessor or trustee than he At present he is the candidate of the Democratic party for county commissioner. He takes much interest in the two fraternal organizations with which he is connected, the Eagles and the Foresters, and also has a wide acquaintance and many friends all over the county. PHILIP FUHRMAN, deceased, for a number of years was a successful business man of Bucyrus, O., and a respected and esteemed citizen. He was born in Boerrstadt, Reinpfaltz, Germany, July 12, 1828, and accompanied his parents to America in 1832 and to Bucyrus in 1836, and in this city seventy-four years of his life were passed, his death occurring in his home here, September 26, 1910. He was a son of Sebastian and Elizabeth (Rolle) Fuhrman. On the paternal side the family was distinctly German, but there was a French strain on the maternal. Sebastian Fuhrman was given an education that fitted him for professional life, and his natural musical gifts had also receiyed attention. He served all through the Napoleonic wars. When it came to providing for the wants of his family he sensibly learned a useful trade, becoming a butcher and followed the meat trade all his active life. In 1832, with wife and three children—these being : Catherine, now Mrs. Stauffer, and Philip and Thomas—he embarked for America and after a long and stormy yoyage on the Atlantic Ocean, on one of the old, slow-going sailing vessels of that day, the family landed safely in the harbor of New York and from there made their way to Ohio. In 1836 they came to Crawford county and Sebastian Fuhrman embarked in the meat business while his resourceful and industrious wife started a boardinghouse. Together they prospered and were able to give their children comforts and adyantages far beyond those of many. For more than forty years they carried on their enterprises and were highly respected people. They were members of the Roman Catholic church and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 609 did much in the early days to firmly found the church here, Sebastian Fuhrman died August 9, 1877, in the eightieth year of his age, his widow surviving him for six years. The following children were born in America : Mrs. Geo. Donnenwirth; Mrs. Charles Anion, of Fort Wayne, Ind. ; John, deceased; and Mrs. A. J. High, also deceased. Philip Fuhrman attended school at Bucyrus and then learned the butchering business under his father and continued in the meat and stock business until within twenty years of his death, when he retired. He was an excellent business roan but never accumulated a very large fortune because of his generous impulses and his unselfishness. He contributed to charity in every form and there are many people now living at Bucyrus who owe much to the kind heart and free-giving hand of Mr. Fuhrman. Although he held to no particular religious creed, his life proved his true Christianity. He was a good citizen in every meaning of the term and assisted in forwarding public movements here when he was convinced they would be for the general welfare. Mr. Fuhrman was married at Mifflin, O., to Miss Sarah Stauffer, who was born and educated there, a daughter of John and Catherine ( Rice) Stauffer, natives of Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio early in married life and the father of Mrs. Fuhrman followed the trade of a miller. Subsequently they moved to Kansas and both died there aged seventy years. Mrs. Fuhrman died April 25, 1888, after a very short illness. She was a woman of beautiful character and was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. Two daughters survive: Alice and Emma L. The former is the wife of Edward McAllister, residing at Leipsic, Putnam county, O., a railroad man. Emma L. Fuhrman was born at Bucyrus, O., October 14, 1856, and was reared and educated here. She was married in 1900, to Frank Royce, who was born August 11, 1856, at Madison, Wis. He was educated at Grand Rapids, Mich., and since the organization of the Grand Rapids Hardware Company, has been associated with that house and is now representing the firm through New York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Royce is a Republican in politics and is identified with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Royce is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. WILLIAM A. HIGH, who was born in the northwest corner of Cranberry township, Crawford county, O., February 9, 1871, is a well known business man of New Washington and is the junior member of the undertaking firm of High & DeRoche, being licensed as an embalmer by the State of Ohio, and is also general agent for theUnion Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a son of Michael and Mary (Donnenwirth) High. Michael High came to New Washington when he was twelve years old, from Germany, where he attended school and afterward he learned the blacksmith trade and worked with his brother-in-law, George Donnenwirth. After his marriage he moved to Cranberry township and there the following children were born: Matilda, who married John Michelfelder; Magdalene Elizabeth, who married Adam B. Shaffer; Margaret Louise, who married John J. Sutter; George A., who is deceased; John Jacob, who married Ella M. T ribolet; Adam F., who married Caroline M. Aschbacher ; Mary F.; William A.; and Rudolph Henry, who lives on the old homestead. The father died August 22, 1884 when past sixty-three years of age and his burial was in the Lutheran cemetery. His wife, Mary (Donnenw irth) High, was born in Stark county, O., September 23, 1828, and lived seventy-two years on the old homestead, a good woman beloved by her family and respected by all who knew her. She died January 28, 1904, and was also buried in the Lutheran cemetery. William A. High attended the public schools in Cranberry township and when nineteen years old entered the New Washington High School and in 1902 took a course in the Ohio Normal University at Ada, in the department of law but was not admitted to the bar. He taught school inseveral different townships in the county but failing health warned him to direct his attention in other channels and he gave up both educational work and the law. On March 27, 1900, he directed his first funeral and on the same day he wrote his first life insurance application. On February 27, 1898, he was married to Miss Anna NI. Eckert, who was born in Jefferson township, Crawford county, a daughter of John R. and Barbara (Volkmar) Eckert, the former of whom 610 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY still lives in that section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. High have had three children : Paul Franklin, who died February 6, 1907, aged four years; and Martha Margaret and Luther William. They are members of the Lutheran church at New Washington, which was practically founded at New Washington by Mr. High's grandfather, Adam High, who built the second house here. In politics Mr. High is a Democrat and for ten years he has been a notary public. JOHN S. DE LASHMUTT, auditor for the American Clay Machinery Company of Bucyrus, O., who has been a resident of this city for the past sixteen years, was born at Lancaster, O., January 29, 1864, and is a son of Dr. Van Elias and Cleanthe (Sifford) De Lashmutt. The De Lashmutt family originated in France and four brothers of the name came to the American colonies prior to the Revolutionary War, three of whom settled in what is now the State of Maryland. One of the descendants was the grandfather of John S. De Lashmutt, and spent his life in Frederick county, Md., a planter and slaveh0lder in early days. Of his eight sons and three daughters there are three sons and two daughters yet living. Dr. Van Elias De Lashmutt became a physician and after graduating from a Maryland university and medical college, engaged in the practice of medicine, residing for the most part until 1871, at Frederick City and Baltimore. He then moved to Shelburn, Sullivan county, Ind., and continued there in the practice of medicine until the day of his death. This occurred on May 24, 1911, interrupting the pleasant festivities provided by the family as it was the anniversary of his wedding, more than fifty years before. He was then almost seventy-nine years of age but was comparatively well both in mind and body. During his earlier life he was a member of the Episcopal church but after moving to Shelburn became identified with the Methodist Episcopal church and subsequently an official of the same. He was married to Cleanthe Sifford, a daughter of John Sifford, of Frederick City, Md. She died when aged about seventy years, a most estimable woman and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Five children were born to Dr. De Lashmutt and wife, namely: Gertrude, who is the wife of William Jackson, of Baltimore, Md.; Frank T., who was killed in 1908, in a mine explosion; John S.; Oscar L., who is in business at Shelburn, Id.; and Mary Ellen, whose death occurred January 29, 1912, who was the wife of William E. Mills, who is also deceased, formerly sheriff of Sullivan county, Ind., and a member of the business firm of W. E. Mills Co. Their two children are: Juanita and William. John S. De Lashmutt was educated at Frederick City, Md., and at Shelburn, Ind. When only sixteen years old and while still in school he learned telegraphing and later became connected with the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad as telegraph operator and station agent, afterward coming to Ohio and accepting a similar position with the Ohio Central lines, now a part of the New York Central system. In 1891 he came to Bucyrus and was with the Ohio Central of the New York Central system for four years. In 1905 he became identified with his present house, then the FrySheckler Company, continuing after the reorganization of the business. He served first as an accountant and bookkeeper but since 1902 has been auditor for the company, a position of large responsibility that he fills with the utmost efficiency. From principle he is a Republican and takes a hearty interest in all that pertains to good citizenship but his busy life leaves him no time in which to accept the cares of any public office. Mr. De Lashmutt was married at Bremen, Fairfield county, O., to Miss Ada Stuart, who was born in that city, reared and educated there and they have three children: Cleantha, born in 1889; Clarence, born in 1893; and William S., born in 1895. Mr. De Lashmutt and family are members of the Presbyterian church. He is identified with the Elks, the Maccabees and the order of Ben Hur. DAVID G. ULMER, who is one of the substantial citizens and excellent farmers of Liberty township, resides on the old Ulmer homestead one and one-half miles north of Sulphur Springs, where he has eighty acres and owns an additional forty acres lying a little farther AND THE REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 611 south. He was born there, August 3, 1862, and is a son of John Gottlieb Ulmer, an early settler in this section. David G. Ulmer attended the public schools until old enough to become self supporting and afterward worked by the month and day for some fourteen years, at the end of which period he bought the interests of the other heirs in the homestead and has resided here ever since. He gives attention to general farming and raises good stock, paying close attention to his business and consequently being very successful. Mr. Ulmer was married first to Miss Tillie Knappenberger, who died twelve years later, after which he married Mrs. Mary (Leuthard) Lutz. They have a very comfortable residence and Mr. Ulmer has recently completed a spacious barn. They are members of the Lutheran church and are highly respected people. In politics, Mr. Ulmer votes with the Democratic party. WALTER M. HUBBELL, assistant secretary of the American Clay Machinery Company of Bucyrus, O., has been identified with this important business enterprise since 1907. He was born near Elkhart, Ind., March 25, 1879, and resided and attended school in Huntington county until he was fifteen years of age, when he came to Bucyrus. Mr. Hubbell completed his education in the Bucyrus schools. In 1898 he enlisted from here for service in the Spanish-American War, becoming a member of Co. A, 8th O. Vol. Inf., which was commanded by Captain Chariton and the regiment by Colonel Hard of Wooster. Mr. Hubbell accompanied his regiment to Cuba, where it passed forty days and then returned to the United States and he was honorably discharged in the same year. On his way home he was taken ill at Montauk, L. I., and while his regiment passed on to Ohio he was detained at the Red Cross Emergency Hospital, where he developed typhoid fever. In a delirious condition he escaped at midnight from his nurse and in some way still unknown to himself, wandered on a highway where he was picked up by W. H. Baldwin, president of the Long Island Railroad. This Good Samaritan placed him in charge of two nurses and a physician and paid the expense and when convalescent took the young soldier to his own house, where, with comfort, care and luxury, he recuperated to such an extent in two weeks that he was able to accept the position tendered him by his protector, on the Long Island Railroad. Mr. Baldwin is now deceased but Mr. Hubbell justly believes that he can never sufficiently express his gratitude and will never fail to relate this occurrence and with tender feelings thus perpetuate Mr. Baldwin's memory. Mr. Hubbell did not fail to take full advantage of the business opportunity thus afforded him and remained in different capacities on the Long Island Railroad for six years and at the time of Mr. Baldwin's death he was local agent at Coney Island. Afterward he was tendered and accepted a remunerative position with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, with which corporation he remained tintil 1907, when he came to Bucyrus again and two years later became assistant secretary of the American Clay Machinery Company. Mr. Hubbell is a director of the Y. M. C. A. and president of the board, and is a trustee of the First Presbyterian church. He is identified fraternally with the Masons and the Elks and belongs to Holmes Camp of the Spanish War Veterans. Mr. Hubbell was married in this city to Miss Myra L. Fitsimmons, a daughter of the late Dr. James Fitsimmons, and they have one daughter, Myra L., who was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., July 8, 1907. C. H. FLICKINGER, proprietor of a sawmill located three miles north of Bucyrus, O., is one of the leading men of Holmes township, Crawford county, and at present is serving in the office of township clerk. He belongs to one of the old county families and was born July 25, 1868, at Broken Sword, Holmes township, and is a son of Samuel and Margaret J. (Fralick) Flickinger. Samuel Flickinger was born also in Holmes township, in which he died March 7, 1911, when aged seventy-three years and eleven months. He was engaged in the saw-mill business his entire life and owned the Flickinger mill that his son now owns and operates. He married Margaret J. Fralick, a daughter of Daniel Fralick, who was one of the old settlers 612 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY of the county. She was born November 29, 1849, and still survives. Of their seven children three are living, namely: Mrs. Roy C. Start, who lives at Toledo , Guy, who is in the drug business at Toledo; and C. H., of Bucyrus. Three children died in infancy and Harry, the second son, is also deceased. C. H. Flickinger attended the public schools until old enough to work in his father's mill and he has since continued in the business. The Flickinger mill is the largest mill in this section and has a capacity of 3000 feet of lumber a day. Combined with it is a cider press. Mr. Flickinger has devoted himself pretty closely to this business and has prospered, but he has not neglected public matters, which should claim the attention of every good citizen. He is identified with the Democratic party and has served Holmes township in the office of assessor five terms and, as mentioned above, is now the efficient and popular township clerk. Mr. Flickinger was married December 24, 1893, to Miss Sarepta Smith, a daughter of Squire Frederick Smith, of Lykens township, who was born in Germany, but who for many years has been a respected citizen and farmer in Crawford county. Mr. and Mrs. Flickinger have had five children : Dale, Alice, Jewel, Ross and Gordon, all of whom survive except Jewel. Mr. Flickinger belongs to the fraternal order of Eagles. JOHN McMICHAEL, deceased, for many years was a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Whetstone township, Crawford county, O., where he owned 300 acres of well improved land. He was born in 1842, in Liberty township and died on his farm in Whetstone township in 19o1. His father, David McMichael, was of Scotch ancestry but was born in Ohio and came to Crawford county and settled in Liberty township in early manhood. He married Margaret Anderson, who was probably born in Crawford county and lived to be an aged lady. His death occurred in 1854. Of their nine children, the eldest, Daniel, still survives and lives in Liberty township and has four sons. The late John McMichael was one of the younger members of his parents' family of nine children. IIe grew up on the home farm, attended the early schools and assisted his father in his agricultural operations until he secured farm property of his own. He never had any outside business interest but devoted himself to agriculture and was considered one of the most successful farmers and stockmen of his neighborhood. Being a man of intelligence, good judgment and sterling character, he was frequently selected by his political party for local offices but was not elected on account of the party to which he belonged being greatly in the minority in the county. Mr. McMichael was married in Whetstone township to Miss Mary A. Trimble, who was born there, May 21, 1844, a daughter of John and Isa (Marcher) Trimble. John Trimble was born in Eastern Ohio and his wife in Vermont and they were married in Whetstone township, where Mr. Trimble secured land from the Government which has become very valuable. IIe lived to be eighty-seven years of age, his wife passing away at the age of seventy-two. They were members of the Baptist church. Of their nine children, six grew to maturity and five of these married and had issue. Alrs. McMichael is the only survivor of the family. To Mr. and Mrs. McMichael nine children were born, two of whom are deceased, Mary and Enema, both of whom died after marriage, the latter being survived by a daughter, Orina Quaintance. The living children are as follows : Eugene, a farmer of Whetstone township, who is married and has four children—Zelnia, Ethel, Raymond and Lois ; Lawrence, who resides at Bucyrus and has five children—Archie, Hazel, Elva, Ruby and Maybell ; Wayland E., who is a rural mail carrier out from Bucyrus; Leroy, a farmer and a contractor on road work in Whetstone township, who has three children—Ralph E., Harold G. and Maurice E. ; Bessie K., who resides with her mother ; J. Garfield, who is a stenographer with the American Clay Machinery Company at Bucyrus, and has one son, Robert N.; and Oren A., living in Bucyrus. The above young men, like their late father, are all Republicans and representative and respected citizens. After the death of the father the family moved to Bucyrus and Mrs. McMichael enjoys a pleasant home here and she and her daughter are agreeably connected with church and social circles. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 613 ISAAC WILSON HURR, one of the heirs of the Hurr farm, located in Whetstone township, was born on this farm, on which he still lives and which he now manages, February 2, 1865 , a son of David and Mary (Heverly) Hurr. George and Christina (Kehrer) Hurr, the parents of David Hurr and grandparents of the subject of this article, were farming people and natives of Pennsylvania. Their children were Jacob, Christina (wife of Isaac Beal), George, David and Mary (the wife of Jacob Shearer) . David Hurr was born March 4, 1836, in Lycoming county, Pa., and came to Crawford county, Ohio, when twelve years old. After the usual common school education he went to work on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits all his life. On December 6, 186x, he was married to Mary Beverly, who was born on the farm in Whetstone township on which or subject now lives, which farm was formerly the Heverly homestead. She was a daughter of John and Christina (Miller) Heverly, natives of Germany. Her father was a weaver by trade but later a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. John Heverly had the following children John, Caroline, wife of Philip Sheddinger; Frederick, Catherine, wife of Abraham Gable; Mary and Samuel. To David Hurr and his wife were born Charles, Isaac W., Harriet M., Enna L., John Harrison and Carrie Alberta, The last mentioned is a teacher in the Union School at Bucyrus where the mother and daughters now live. David Hurr passed away at Bucyrus July 6, 1906. Isaac W. Hurr, the direct subject of this sketch, received a common school education, as did his father, and then went to work as a farmer. He does general farming and raises stock for his own use. He was married on December 20, 1905, to Miss Eva Dalzell, a daughter of Williain and Emma (Frisby) Dalzell. William Dalzell was a veteran of the Civil War and died shortly after coming home. Their children were Charlotta, the wife of William E. Redmond; and Eva (Mrs. Hurr). Politically Mr. Hurr is a Democrat but votes for the man whom he thinks most capable rather than for his party's choice. He is a member of the F. & A. M. at Caledonia. Ohio. His religious affiliation is with the English M. E. church. ADORHAM J. FLAHARTY, deceased, a well known and popular railroad man and for a number of years station agent at Bucyrus for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born at Pine Run, Knox county, O., and died at Bucyrus at the age of sixty-six years. His parents were Perry and Susan (Feasele) Flaharty, and his grandparents were Nicholas and Nancy Flaharty. The latter were natives of Belmont county, O., and they became early settlers in Richland county and there Perry Flaharty grew to manhood and engaged in the mercantile business at Bellville. where both he and wife died. They had eight children, Adorham J. being the eldest and all are now deceased. Adorham J. Flaharty was given a good common school education. He became connected with the railroad in 1865 as a telegraph operator and for twenty years or until two years before his death, was connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad. To his duties he gave the attention which made him so long valued by his employers as one of their most faithful and competent men, and during his long period as agent at Bucyrus, he made many friends through his courtesy and good will. In politics he was a Republican. For sonic years he belonged to the Knights of Pythias and to the Knights of Honor. Mr. Flaharty was married at Bellville, Richland county, 0., to Miss Sarah M. Coleman, who was born on her father's farm in Morrow county, O., September 2, 1844, a daughter of Joseph Harrison and Fannie (Kerr) Coleman. The Coleman family is of Irish ancestry. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman settled on a farm in Richland county and there the latter died at the age of forty-eight years. Mr. Coleman died at Forest., Hardin county, O., aged sixty-three years. Of their six children there are three yet living, Mrs. Flaharty being one of the younger members. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Flaharty, two of whom died young, the survivors being: Harry B. and Fred C., railroad men, both of whom reside at Skagway, Alaska; and Carrie Gertrude, who is the wife of Carl F. Roehr, and has three children: 614 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Margaret E., Martha Jane and Charles J., their ages ranging from nine to six years. A. A. DE ROCHE, a representative business man of New Washington, O., who has been a justice of the peace for five years, is active in the insurance business and is interested in the undertaking firm of High & De Roche, was born in Chatfield township, Crawford county, O., December 6, 1869, a son of John D. and Margaret (Miller) De Roche. John D. De Roche was born in Columbiana county, 0., October 21st, 1831, and came to Crawford county with his parents, David L. and Susanna (Wysard) De Roche. David L. De Roche settled on a tract of forty acres, in Chatfield township, one mile west of the Cranberry township line, to which he later added forty acres and still later, 100 acres and there he died when aged 56 years, his burial being in the Windfall cemetery. They were members of the Lutheran church but frequently attended religious services of other denominations, particularly the Presbyterian. John D. De Roche grew to manhood as a farmer and spent his life on the homestead in Chatfield township until he sold his farm when he retired to live in New Washington and now makes his home with his son, David L. De Roche. He married Margaret Miller, who was a native of Canton, Stark county, O. They had five sons: William H., George A., Edward, Adam A. and David and one daughter, Emma E. Mrs. De Roche died March 8, 1899. A. A. De Roche is a graduate of the New Washington High School and also of the Ohio Normal University at Ada, O. For thirteen years he followed school teaching, for a part of, the time in Chatfield, Cranberry, Auburn and Whetstone townships, one year in Seneca county, and for five years was a teacher in the public schools at New Washington. When he retired from the educational field he went into the insurance business and has done well and is agent for fire, accident and plate glass companies. He maintains his office on Mansfield Street, New Washington, and is in partnership with W. A. High in undertaking. His insurance territory covers Auburn, Chatfield, Cranberry and Liberty townships, in Crawford county and Seneca and Huron counties, representing twelve fire insurance companies, one accident company, one health insurance, one live stock and plate glass. Mr. De Roche married Miss Louisa J. Aschbacher, a daughter of William and Christina Aschbacher, and they have two children: Firmin, who is a school boy of thirteen years; and Pauline Alberta, who is three years old. In politics Mr. De Roche is a Republican and is clerk of the school board. He and wife belong to the Lutheran church, of which he is secretary. MICHAEL FLOCKEN, deceased,for many years was a highly respected citizen of Bucyrus, O., and was one of the prosperous business inen. He was born in Rhine Byron, by Langdau, Germany, April 9, 1829, a son of Michael Flocken, who was a wine manufacturer in one of the German Rhine provinces. He was twice married and one of his sons is a prominent physician in Germany. The parents of Michael Flocken the younger, died in Germany, but he, with his brothers, Jacob. Louis and Conrad, and his two sisters, all came to the United States and all married here. Michael had already had some experiences away from home, having spent three years with an uncle in Russia and while there learned the difficult Russian language. In 1850 he came to America and settled for a time in Pennsylvania, where he worked at the cooper trade, and then came to Bucyrus and continued in the business as long as it was profitable. Always industrious and prudent, he accumulated a comfortable property. He was known as a good man, kind and neighborly in the community and ever ready to contribute to charity. He was deeply interested in the work of the German Methodist church and was an official in the same and superintendent of the Sunday school. IIe identified himself with the Republican party and belonged to the beneficial order of Knights of Honor. Mr. Flocken was married in 1853, at Galion, O., by Rev. John Smith, uncle of the bride, to Miss Anna E. Rupparsberger, who was born at Christianfeldt, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, June r6, 1835, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth M. (Schmidt) Rupparsbcrger. IHer parents were both natives of Hesse Darmstadt. The father died in 1847 and the mother in AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 615 1853. She came to America with her children, sailing from Bremen and landing at New York six weeks later. The little family came right on to Ohio, where they joined Rev. Jacob Schmidt, a brother of Mrs. Rupparsberger. Some time later the mother became a member of a daughter's family and died at Sulphur Springs. She was a member of the German Lutheran church, Mrs. Flocken and her brother Frederick, are the only survivors of their parents' family. To Mr. and Mrs. Flocken twelve children were born, the eight survivors being as follows: Sophia, who is the wife of John H. Miers, a saddler, at Bucyrus; Lewis H., who is a retired druggist, living at Marion, O. Edward, who is foreman in a manufacturing plant at Mansfield; ; Charles, who resides with his family at Bucyrus; Frederick J., who is a druggist at Marion; William F., who conducts a barber shop at Bucyrus; John H., who is also a barber; and Nellie S., who is the wife of Irvin Miller, a photographer at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mrs. Flocken and children belong to the German Methodist church. HARRY G. LA RUE, a successful farmer, who resides on a well improved tract of twenty-three acres which is situated in Liberty township, Crawford county, O., one mile south and half a mile southwest of Sulphur Springs, O., is a substantial and well known citizen. He was born in Crawford county, O., June 25, 1879, and is a son of Frank and Ardella (Waller) La Rue. The parents of Mr. La Rue were also born in Ohio. They reared ten children, namely: Charles, Lysander, Cora, Ralph, Guy, Harry G., James, Edna, Ernest and Gertrude. Harry G. La Rue attended the public schools in his native county and prepared himself for teaching, which profession he has followed ever since, in addition to his agricultural activities. He is well known as an educator and in every place he has taught has given entire satisfaction. Mr. La Rue married Miss Mabel Colwell, who is a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wentz) Colwell, natives of Crawford county. Mr. and Mrs. La Rue have two children, Helen and Dorothy. In politics Mr. La Rue is identified with the Republican party. He is one of the active and intelligent citizens of his neighborhood and takes a hearty interest in everything that promises to benefit it in any way. ANTHONY SCHACK, deceased, who, for many years, was identified with the Pennsylvania railroad offices at Bucyrus, O., was unusually popular as an official and was highly esteemed as a man. He was born April 5, 1858, at Woodbourne, Sullivan county, N. Y., and died at his home in Bucyrus, April 12, 1902. He was a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Zimmer) Schack. The family name was variously spelled, sometimes Schock, Schaack, Schwack or Schack, the last orthography being most acceptable to the late Anthony Schack. The father, Adam, lost his parents when young and was probably about eighteen years of age when he left Germany for the United States. He resided for some time in Sullivan county, N. Y., and moved then to Elk county, Pa., and late in life came to Bucyrus, where he died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Matthews, being then aged over seventy years. His wife had died previously at Wilcox, Elk county, Pa. She was a Roman Catholic while he was a Presbyterian. Of their ten children, Anthony was the youngest. From the schools of Elk county, Anthony Schack entered Oberlin College, O., where he completed a course in bookkeeping and telegraphy, after which he returned to Pennsylvania. He was associated for a time with a tanning company, later was a merchant in Salamanca, N. Y., and still later went to Chicago, Ill., where he was connected with a tannery until November, 1880, when he came to Bucyrus. He accepted a position as bill clerk in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad and some time later was appointed ticket agent for the same company and continued in that office until about the time of his death. He was an active citizen and occasionally accepted public office although no seeker for the same and served as city treasurer. His. friends affectionately called him Tony and he reciprocated their friendliness and appreciated their comradeship. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. Although identified with no par- 616 - HISTORY OF CRAWFOIZD COUNTY ticular church organization, his life was in accordance with moral principles. On December 28, 1898, Mr. Schack was married at Bucyrus, to Miss Mary Amelia Matthew, Who was born at Leipsic, Crawford county, 0., a daughter of Charles M. and Margaret (Schack) Matthew. The father was born April 25, 1825, in Rheinish Prussia, and died at Bucyrus, March 5, 19o1. In 1847 he came to America, both parents being dead, and after landing at the port of New York, went to the copper regions of Michigan and Wisconsin, where he engaged there in work in the mines. Later he moved to Seneca county, 0., and started a wagonmaking business at Republic, where he lived for ten years. He came then to Bucyrus and for a number of years was einployecl as a patternn-ial:er and foreman in some of the large manufacturing plants. In his native land he had learned the cabinetmaking trade and previous to retirement he conducted a furniture and undertaking establishment. He was a worthy church member, one of the leading men in the Reformed body, and at all times he gave liberally in the way of charity. He was a member of the order of Knights of Honor. At Tiffin, O., April 15, 1853, Charles M. Matthew was married to Margaret Schack, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to the United States after reaching young womanhood. She died November 23, 1886. Her daughter pays a high tribute to her as a devoted mother, an example of Christian living, kind, wise and loving in every domestic relation. She was the mother of seven children, namely: Jacob H., who is deceased; Charles .F. ; Louise Lucy, who lives at Albany, Ore. ; Mrs. Schack; John Philip, a clothing merchant at Bucyrus, who has one son, Donald S. ; William E., who is in business at Cleveland, and has three children—Helen L., Paul C. and Janet N.: and George F., who resides with his sister, Mrs. Schack. She is a member of the Presbyterian church and is interested in its many avenues of usefulness and has a pleasant circle of friends, many of whom she has known all her life. ARTHUR C. ROWSE, whose excellent farm of 70 acres lies one mile north of Osceola, O., is one of the successful and enterprising young agriculturists of this part of Crawford county. He was born in 1881, in Wyandot county, and is a son of Walter and Cornelia (Straw) Rowse. Walter Rowse belonged to an old family of Crawford county and was reared at Bucyrus until he was fourteen years of age and then went to Wyandot county, where he engaged in farming until one year before his death, when he moved into Marion county and died there when aged 54 years. He married Cornelia Straw, of Wyandot county and the following children were born to them : Ouincy, Frank, Arthur, Grace, Ella, and Sallie and Milton, twins, there being yet five survivors. Arthur C. Rowse turned his attention to agricultural pursuits as soon as he left school, assisting his father on the home place for some years and then locating in Whetstone township, Crawford county, for six years. In December, 1909, he bought his present farm on which he carries on his farm industries in a very satisfactory manner, according to the best recognized methods. They include a general line of farming and the raising of considerable stock. Mr. Rowse married Miss Alice Harvey, who was born in Crawford county but was reared in Wyandot county, 0., her parents residing near Mt. Zion. Mr. and Mrs. Rowse have one daughter, Marie. They are members of the United Brethren church at Osceola, O. In politics Mr. Rowse is a Republican. He is known as one of the reliable men of Tod township and his interest may be counted on in relation to beneficial and public-spirited movements in his section. PHILIP ROSS, deceased, was a leading business man of Bucyrus, O., for many years and was valued and esteemed by his fellow citizens. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, July 3, 1843, and was a son of Peter and Margaret (Zimmerman) Ross. The family came to America on a sailing vessel in 1858. landing at the harbor of New York, and from that city they came on to Crawford county and secured heavily timbered lands in Lykens township. There Jacob Ross died, two years later, before he had time to develop a farm. His widow afterward made her home with her son Peter and died there in 1895, aged eighty- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 619 three years. In Germany they had been confirmed in the Lutheran church and they were attendants of the same at Chatfield, O. Philip Ross was the third youngest in a family of seven children and was eighteen years of age when the family came to America. He attended school at Chatfield and later a mechanics and arts school at Sandusky, and afterward became a skilled carpenter and builder, following this business for many years. He went into partnership with his brother George, in building contracting in 1868, at Bucyrus, and continued in the same until his death, on January 24, 1905, having survived his brother for six years. They were considered reliable and efficient men in their line and erected many of the halls, private residences and public buildings in this city, including the Opera House. Politically Mr. Ross was a Democrat and enjoyed the confidence of his party and served for some terms as a valued member of the city council. Mr. Ross was married at Bucyrus, on May 26, 1878, to Miss Theresa Vollrath, who was born in this city, March 17, 1857, and has always lived here. Her parents were Albert and Catherine (Mader) Vollrath, natives of Saxony, Germany, who came to America with their parents in 1852, in the clays when it required three months to cover the great waste of water rolling between Europe and America. For one year afterward they lived at Rochester, N. Y., and then came to Bucyrus, where Albert Vollrath died November i5, 1907, aged seventy-eight years. He was engaged during his active life in the planing mill business. The mother of Mrs. Ross died August 5, 1895, aged sixty years. They were members of the German Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs. Vollrath had one son and four daughters born to them : Mrs. Ross; Malink, who is the wife of E. R. Birk, of Bucyrus ; Carrie, who is the wife of Charles Fisher, of White Plains N. Y. ; and William and Louisa, both of whom died unmarried. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ross namely: Otto C., born April 1, 1879, who resides at home and is connected with the T. & O. C. Railroad Shops; Harry Jacob, who was born August 12, 1880, and who is a machinist with the American Clay Machinery Company; and Ora Irene, born August 2, 1881, who is a graduate of the Bucyrus High School in the class of 1900. She is a member of the English Lutheran church, while her mother and brothers retain membership with the German Lutherans.. The late Philip Ross was a Scottish Rite Mason and was also a member of the Knights of Pythias GEORGE ROSS was an honorable, upright and successful business man of Bucyrus, O., for many years and was closely identified during that time in its material development. He was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, May 31, 1839, and died at his home in Bttcyrus, May 29, 1899. He was one of a fainily of seven children born to his parents, who were Peter and Margaret (Zimmerman) Ross. George Ross was 15 years old when he accompanied his parents to America and grew to manhood on the old farm in Lykens township, Crawford county, O. His father died early but his mother survived into old age. After his school days were entirely over he learned the carpenter trade which included house building, at Sandusky, his younger brother, the late Philip Ross having also learned his trade at the same place. The brothers came to Bucyrus and formed a partnership and continued together in a building and contracting business in this city as long as they lived, the younger member of the firm continuing for six years after the death of the older. Many of the fine buildings of all kinds which adorn this city were erected by this firm and from their own plans. Mr. Ross was noted for his reliability and it was often remarked that this firm was thoroughly dependable. He was a man of quiet life, a Democrat in his political opinions but no seeker for office, and a faithful member of the German Lutheran church. He provided an insurance for his family, being identified with the Royal Arcanum and the Royal Home Society. Mr. Ross was married in 1865 to Miss Emma Jacobs, who was born in Lykens township, Crawford county, in June. 1843, and is a daughter of August and Frederica (Bear) Jacobs. They were natives of Germany, where they were reared and married, soon after embarking on a sailing vessel for America. They reached the United States after 620 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY a voyage of seven weeks and were landed at the port of New York and from there came to Springfield, O. After two years there they came to Lykens township, where they were among the early settlers. Their first home was a log cabin built in a little clearing made by Mr. Jacobs and their neighbors were Indians. By trade he was a carpenter and he followed the same and also managed to clear and develop his farm of zoo acres. Here he died in 1890, aged 79 years, having outlived his wife for 19 years. In their youth, in Germany, they had been confirmed in the German Lutheran church and they continued in that faith during the rest of their lives. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, the two survivors being Mrs. Ross and Charles Jacobs, both being residents of Bucyrus. To Mr. and Mrs. George Ross were born a daughter and a son—Carrie May and Frank George. The former, who was born in 1875, died May 6, 1909; she was the wife of Peter Bossler, who died six years after their marriage, leaving no children. The latter, Frank George, was born Dec. 16, 18i7, is unmarried and makes his home with his mother. He is a well known and popular engineer on the T. & O. C. Railroad. He is a Knight Templar Mason, an Elk, belongs to the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, to the order of Eagles and to the Forester organization and to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Mrs Ross is a member of the German Lutheran church, in which Mr. Ross was an elder for many years. MERVIN J. GIBSON, who is successfully carrying on agricultural operations on his mother's farm of eighty acres, which is situated in Whetstone township, Crawford county, O., was born in this township, October zo, 1883, and is a son of Andrew and Letty J. (Campbell) Gibson. Andrew Gibson was born in Crawford county, where he has been engaged in farming ever since his term of service in the Civil war closed. He married Letty J. Campbell, who was also born in Crawford county, and three children were born to them, namely: Iva M., who is the wife of Jeremiah Low-miller; Mervin J. and Claude M. Andrew Gibson and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Mervin J. Gibson obtained a common school education and afterward assisted his father on the home farm. He remained until March, i91o, when he took charge of his mother's farm in Whetstone township, where his intelligent methods have brought about very satisfactory results. Mr. Gibson is not an experimenter, his whole previous training having been along the line in which he is engaged, but he is wide awake and keeps posted as to modern methods of procedure and makes use of labor-saving machinery. On December 22, 1909, Mr. Gibson was married to Miss Austie B. Seif, a daughter of David and Caroline (Deisen) Seif, the former of whom was born in Morrow county, O., and the latter in Germany. Mrs. Gibson has one brother and one sister: Carl D. and Erna C. On December 13, 1910, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, to whom they gave the name, Edith Caroline. They attend the Lutheran church. In politics, Mr. Gibson, like his father, is a Republican. The family is a highly respected one in Crawford county. REV. ISAAC BEAL, a highly respected retired farmer of Bucyrus, O., and a lay preacher in the German Methodist church, was born in Lycoming county, Pa., August 28, 1828, and is a son of George and a grandson of John Michael Beal, the latter of whom married in their native village near Stuttgart, Germany. He was born September 3, 1759, and she was but a few years younger. After the birth of their children, namely: John Michael, Jr., George, Frederick and Dorothea, they joined a colony that had determined to seek a country where religious opinions were not regulated by law. With this party of their friends and neighbors, the Beals came down the Rhine river to a secluded seaport and on June 9, 1804, embarked on a sailing vessel, the Margaretta, for America. They were tossed on the waves of the Atlantic for two and one-half months before they reached their safe haven, at Philadelphia, Pa. From Philadelphia the party proceeded to Germantown and in the following spring went on their way to the point for which they had started, Williamsport, in Lycoming county. There they built a rough hewn edifice which they dedicated to church purposes, in 1828 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 621 and the little building still stands. There Conrad F. Haller expounded the Scriptures to them as a lay reader, being a man of some learning. In 1833 a part of the colony came on to Crawford county with a view of improving their material condition, and from the favorable reports received from them, the Ohio lands were fertile and desirable. This information led to a part of the Beal family coming to Crawford county in 1842 and the remainder in 1843. They purchased land situated about three and one-half miles southeast of Bucyrus and a part of this is still in the possession of the Beal family. The original purchase of 200 acres was made for $3,000, while this same land at the present time could not be purchased for $ioo per acre. The grandmother of Rev. Isaac Beal, and one daughter, died in Pennsylvania, but the grandfather survived until he was eighty-nine years old and died in 1848, in Crawford county. His sons became farmers here and all have been noted for good citizenship. A few of the older members of the family have always subscribed to the doctrine of the Pietist community, that being the name given the religious colony, while others have become identified with more liberal sects. While still residing in Pennsylvania, George Beal was married to Barbara Sherer, who was also born in Germany and came to America with her parents when she was five years old. George Beal and wife were among those members of the family who continued in communion with the Pietists. They were worthy, virtuous, self denying people, examples of Christianity, and they were permitted to live long lives together, his death occurring in 1882, two years after that of his wife, when they were about eighty-seven years of age. Four children were born to them, Isaac, the eldest, being the only survivor. Mary, the second in order of birth, died in December, 191o. She was the wife of Nathan Mutchler, who is also deceased. Jacob, the third member of the family, died at Youngstown, O., in 1909, and is survived by a family. Benjamin, the youngest, was a citizen of Bucyrus and for many years was secretary of the Crawford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. A family survives him. Isaac Beal was reared in Lycoming county and was with the first section of the Beal family that came pioneering to Crawford county in 1842 and has been identified with this section ever since. After his father's death he became owner of a part of the old homestead and for many years has carried on extensive operations both in farming and stockraising. During his active years on the farm he made a specialty of growing sheep. He continued his agricultural activities until i89i, when he retired to Bucyrus, where he has resided ever since. For many years a member of the German Methodist church, he has also been a trustee and lay preacher, and in the latter relation is valued by a congregation that holds him in the highest esteem. Mr. Beal was married in September, 1853, to Miss Christina Hurr, who was born in Pennsylvania, December 25, 1831, and was a member of the Pietist colony that came to Crawford from Lycoming county. She is a member of the German Methodist church, in which faith the children have been reared. They are as follows: Simon George, who is a farmer in Crawford county, married Catherine Sherer, who died December 17, 1910, leaving one son, Milton S.; Mary A., who is the wife of H. F. Miller; Lizzie, who is the wife of J. G. Hipp, of Bucyrus, and has five children—Raymond, Rufus, Mary, Naomi and Martha; Benjamin F., a minister of the German Methodist church, and a graduate of Wallace Theological college, having a charge at Cleveland, who married Josephine Deitrich and has six children—Carl, Paul, Theodore, Maria,. Catherine and Wilbur; Catherine, who is the wife of Rev. J. C. Gerlach, a German Methodist minister at Cincinnati, a graduate of Wallace college; Ellen B., who lives with her parents; and Martha M., who graduated from the Bucyrus High school in the class of 1894 and for ten years has been an acceptable teacher in the city public schools. The Beal family enjoyed a reunion on August 29, 1911, and among the other entertainments was an interesting history of the family that had been prepared with much care by Miss Martha and was read by her to those present. The record showed a long line of sober, faithful, honest, industrious, law-abiding and God fearing ancestors. 622 - HISTORY OIL CRAWFORD COUNTY EAMANUEL SCHIEBER, who is one of the prominent and representative citizens of Liberty township, Crawford county, O., now serving in his second term as township trustee, resides on his finely cultivated farm of eighty acres, situated not many miles distant from Bucyrus, O. He was born in Liberty township, March 31, 1865, and is a son of Jacob and Eva (Mauer) Schieber, and a grandson of Gotleib and Magdalena Schieber. Jacob Schieber was born in Germany and was brought by his parents to America when eighteen months old. He became a successful farmer and a highly respected citizen of Liberty township, where his death occurred in 1884, his burial being in the Shealy cemetery. He married Eva Mauer, who was born in Stark county, 0., and now resides with a daughter in Liberty township. They became parents of the following children : John Louisa, deceased, who was the wife of Harison Klink; Henry; David S. ; Emanuel; Mary, who is the wife of F. W. Hieber; Elizabeth, who is the widow of John Hieber; Samuel A., and Jay W., who died when eight years of age. Emanuel Schieber attended the local schools through boyhood and after enjoying one term at the Northern Ohio University, at Ada, turned his attention to school teaching. He taught five winter terms and proved very acceptable to his pupils but since then his farm and other enterprises have claimed his entire attention. He carries on his agricultural operations scientifically and meets with very satisfactory results. Mr. Schieber was married in January, 1891, to Miss Louisa M. Hieber, who is a daughter of Christian and Christiana (Wagner) Hieber, who were farming people in Liberty township for many years. To Mr. and Mrs. Schieber four children have been born, namely : Millard E., who is a graduate of the Bucyrus High school in the class of 1911, and has accepted a position with the Second National Bank, Bucyrus, O. ; Harry, who is a member of the class of 1913, in the Bucyrus High school; Elsie C., and Dorothy E. Mr. Schieber and family are members of the Lutheran church. He is a Democrat in politics and has frequently been elected to office on that ticket; for six years he served as a justice of the peace and for three years as a member of the township school board. Mr. Schieber is a stockholder in the Second National Bank of Bucyrus, O. HERBERT S. BLAIR, a leading business man of Bucyrus, O., manufacturer of husking gloves, husking pins and other specialties and a jobber all over the great corn belt of the country, has been in this line of business for the past twenty-seven years and has developed a large enterprise from a small beginning. He was born at Bucyrus, August 3, 1859, and is a son of Elias and Anna (McCrory) Blair. Elias Blair, who is president of the Second National Bank of Bucyrus, one of the old and honored citizens of this city, was born in 1824, near Mt. Vernon, 0., being of English parentage. In 1852 he made the overland trip to California and spent two years as a prospector and miner in the gold fields, returning to his native state by way of the Isthmus of Panama, with substantial evidences of his success while there. He located in what was then the village of Bucyrus where he embarked in the hardware business being the pioneer merchant in this line. Mr. Blair, together with unmistakable business qualities, has been more or less of an inventor all his life and several of his inventions are made use of in almost every agricultural and stock-raising district in the United States and Europe. Reference is made to his hog anti-rooter device and his hog snout ring, the manufacture of which is still carried on under his name. Mr. Blair is one of the substantial citizens of Bucyrus, the owner of a large amount of property which he and his son have improved. For some years he has been a semi-invalid but still maintains his interest in business and all current affairs. He was married at Mansfield. O., to Miss Anna McCrory, who was born in Pennsylvania and when young was brought to Mansfield by her parents. Two sons and four daughters were born to them. One daughter died in infancy and one son, Bennington, died at the age of eighteen years. The survivors are : Herbert S. ; Carrie B., who is the widow of Albert Ensminger. of Bucyrus, and she has one son, Edward ; Lizzie B., who is the widow of Edward Rochr, of Bucyrus ; and Anna, who is the wife of F. I. Ruhl, who is manager of Yin. Blair's large hardware store. They have AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 623 one son, E. Blair Ruhl. Mr. and Mrs. Blair are members of the English Lutheran church, in which he has been an officer for many years. Herbert S. Blair was reared and educated at Bucyrus and practically grew up in the hardware and manufacturing business. The first husking implement was a simple affair, a pin or peg, which was quite useful but of not nearly the utility of the present device which has been developed together with many other instruments, more than thirty in all, which are manufactured by Mr. Blair, all of these being covered by patents. A large force of workmen is kept at all times and his sales are enormous, one business house of St. Louis, Mo., alone, ordering a shipment of these specialties to the amount of $7,000. Mr. Blair has seldom purchased an invention, almost all of the original implements and the improvements having been the issue of his own brain and skill. Mr. Blair was married at Bucyrus, to Miss Belle Frayer, a daughter of the late J. G. Frayer. They have three children: Marietta, who is the wife of Oren E. Smith, of Bucyrus ; John, who is a student in a military institute ; and Anna Belle, vho attends the public schools. One son, Milton Blaine, died aged seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Blair are members of the English Lutheran church. Fraternally he is an Elk and a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. Politically he is a Republican. GEORGE F. DONNENWIRTH, a well known business man of Bucyrus, O., dealing in fine wines and liquors, and a citizen whose public spirit and liberality may be counted on in every emergency, was born in this city, December 6, 1869, and is a son of William and Catherine (Assenheimer) Donnenwirth. William Donnenwirth was born at New WWashington, O. The greater portion of his life was spent on his farm in Liberty township but his death occurred at Bucyrus, when in his fifty-eighth year. He married Catherine Assenheimer, who survives and is a resident of Bucyrus and a member of the German Lutheran church. To William Donnenvv firth and wife the following children were born: Carrie; Frank E., who is assistant cashier of the Bucyrus City Bank; George F. ; Elizabeth; Rose; Charles A., who is with the American Clay Machinery Company; Mrs. Bertha Darling; and John, nho died at the age of two years. George F. Donnenwirth was educated in the public schools and gave his father assistance on the farm and continued agricultural pursuits until 1896. In 1900 he became interested in the grocery business, with J. A. Leifer under the firm name of Leifer & Donnenwirth, and continued with that firm until June 1, 1903. On September 8th of that year he embarked in his present business. Mr. Donnenwirth was married April 4, 1909, to Miss Sue P. Streib, a daughter of M. K. and Kate Streib, residents of Crawford county. In politics Mr. Donnenwirth has always been identified with the Democratic party. WILLIAM F. MADER, a merchant and chief of the fire department of the city of Bucyrus, 0., was born on the lot he now uses for business purposes, Nos. 109-111-113 North Sandusky street, April 27, 1865. He is a son of John George and Christina (Dinkel) Mader. John George Mader was born in Wertemberg, Germany, in 1839, and died at his hone at Bucyrus, O., in December, 1907. He was a son of John George Mader, who was born and reared in Germany and there married Miss Hoch. In the late forties the father of John George Mader, Jr., accompanied by his two older children, took passage on a sailing vessel for America and after a voyage of forty-seven days, reached New York and came on to Bucyrus, 0., where he established himself in the hotel business. In 1852 he sent for his wife and the other children and they also crossed the Atlantic ocean in a sailing vessel and came on to Bucyrus, where he was doing a good business, the railroad being then in course of construction and the country opening up in every direction, there being much travel. Some years prior to his death in 1878, he gave tip the hotel business and retired to a farm near the city, a large portion of which still belongs to the family. Almost his whole family of ten children grew to maturity and several survive and reside at Bucyrus. John George Mader, Jr., was the third eldest child of those who survived infancy and was 624 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY thirteen years of age when he accompanied his mother and the younger children to America to join the father at Bucyrus. He grew up very helpful to his father in the hotel business and later went into the wine and liquor business on North Sandusky avenue and became a man of ample fortune. He was a Democrat in politics and was frequently sent as a delegate to state and county conventions and served in the city council. He was a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft society. At Bucyrus he was married to Christina Dinkel, who was born in this city in 1841 and died here in 1885. She was a daughter of Ludwig and Christina Dinkel, who were early German settlers in this section and faithful members of the German Lutheran church. They had two children, Mrs. Mader and Louis, the latter of whom lives retired in Bucyrus. Five children were born to the above marriage, the eldest of these being William F., of this record. Antonia, the eldest daughter, was the wife of William A. Blicke, cashier of the Bucyrus City Bank and was survived by one son, Frederick. C. Edward, the second son, is a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y., and is vice president of the firm of Schall & Co., of New York. IIe married Miss Wilhelmina Schall and they have seven daughters and one son. J. G., the third son is associated with his eldest brother in business. He married Miss Minnie Schurr. Elsie, the youngest, who was the wife of George G. Koch, of Cleveland, is survived by one daughter. William F. Mader was reared and educated at Bucyrus and afterward assisted his father and subsequently became his partner in business and still later with his brother, John G. Mader, the brothers being the sole proprietors of the business their father founded. In politics he is a Democrat but has never been what is termed a politician. He has been connected with the fire department for many years and was at the head of the old volunteer company when the apparatus consisted of the old hand engine known locally as the Water Cloud and other primitive accouterments. Since 1888 he has been chief of the present well organized department and its equipments are modern and entirely adequate and Chief Mader is proud of his force of well trained men. Mr. Mader was married in New York city to Miss Cecelia Schall, a daughter of Michael Schall, who established the wholesale confectionery supply house of Schall & Co., in that city. Both he and wife were natives of Wertemberg, Germany. After his death his widow and her brother continued the business until her death, since which time it has been operated as a stock company. Mr. and Mrs. Mader have two children : Lucile Dora, who was born in 1892 and Vera Elsie, who was born in 1895. The family belong to the German Lutheran church. Mr. Mader is a member of the Order of Eagles and belongs, like his late father, to the Deutsche Gesellschaft society. SIMEON F. SHERER, who is a well known citizen of Whetstone township, Crawford county, O., and a representative of an old and substantial county family, was born on the farm on which he still lives, March 5, 1865, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Haller) Sherer. Samuel Sherer was born in Lycoming county, Pa., and was five years old when he was brought to Ohio and he ever afterward lived on the same farm in Whetstone township, Crawford county. He was a man of local importance, a hearty supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in public matters, serving for a number of years as township clerk, township trustee and in other capacities, elected to office on the Democratic ticket. At the time of his death he owned about 308 acres of land in Whetstone township. IIe was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Hagenleibly, who was born in this township and at death was survived by two daughters—Catherine, now deceased, who was the wife of Simeon Beal, and Mary, who is the wife of Emanuel Lust. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Haller, who died when her son, Simeon F., was four and one-half years old. He was the eldest born and had one sister, Matilda, who is the wife of John J. Kurtz. Simeon F. Sherer attended the public schools. He remained with his father and succeeded to the homestead and has lived here ever since, carrying on general farming and raising enough stock for home use. On June 5, 1901, Mr. Sherer was married to Miss Mary Kurtz, a daughter of George and Cath- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 627 erine (Geibler) Kurtz, who were natives of Germany. The parents of Mrs. Sherer settled first in Pennsylvania and then came to Ohio, where the father subsequently died, the mother now making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Sherer. The latter has the following brothers and sisters: John J. and Isaac; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Dr. C. H. Senn, of Williamsport, Pa.; Laura, who is the wife of C. A. Coppe; and Benjamin. To Mr. and Mrs. Sherer three children have been born: Robert K., Katherine and Lowell Samuel. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically a Democrat, Mr. Sherer takes great pleasure. in the success his party frequently achieves. He has served at times in public office and has been school director and also township trustee. JOHN L. TOBIAS, engineer for the Bucyrus Electric Light and Power company at Bucyrus, O., a practical and experienced than in his profession, was born at Greencastle, Franklin county, Pa., April 19, 1853, and is a son of William B. Tobias. John L. Tobias was eleven years of age when he accompanied the family to Sulphur Springs, Crawford county, 0., and he was reared here, attending the district schools during the winter time until old enough to work in a saw mill, and passing his summers usefully on the home farm. It was while he was assisting his brother, William F. Tobias, in the lumber industry that he gained his first knowledge of steam engineering, which he has followed alternately for twenty years while also carrying on agricultural pursuits in Marion county. In 1899 he came to Bucyrus and continued work along engineering lines and for the past eighteen months has filled his present responsible position with one of the city's most important utilities. John L. Tobias was married at Bucyrus, to Miss Elizabeth Meyer, who was born here in 1859 and is a daughter of John and Margaret (Bauer) Meyer, natives of Wurtemberg and Bavaria, Germany. Mr. Meyer was twenty years of age when he came to America and located at Bucyrus where he was married, in i858, to Margaret Bauer. She was nine years old when her parents brought her from Germany to Bucyrus, and was a daughter of Jacob and Eva (Stickler) Bauer. Jacob Bauer died at the age of forty years but his widow survived to the age of seventy years. In their religious connection they were German Lutherans. John Meyer was a well known citizen and a very active Democrat, serving in many public capacities, and at one time was city treasurer, He died August 5, 1908, when aged 75 years. The mother of Mrs. Tobias survived until August e, 1911, when aged 72 years. They were among the most highly respected residents of Bucyrus and were worthy members and liberal supporters of the German Lutheran church. Of their seven children, Amelia died young. The other members of the family are: Mrs. Tobias; John; Jacob B., who is a resident of Lincoln, Neb. ; Catherine, who resides in the old Meyer homestead at No. 136 Hill street; Charles, a resident of Bucyrus, who is one of the directors of the Crawford County Infirmary; and Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Tobias have one daughter, Lillian M., who was born September 13, 1889. She has been carefully educated and is filling a clerical position with the Carroll Foundry and Machine Co. of this city. Mr. Tobias and family belong to the German Lutheran church. In politics he is a Democrat. JOHN HOPLEY. One of the citizens of Crawford county who has left a strong impress not only on the local surroundings but upon the affairs of the state of Ohio, is John Hopley, for 40 years owner and editor of the Bucyrus Journal and also head of the company which owned and published the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph. Mr. Hopley was a native of England, having been born at Whitstable, a naval station on the east coast of England, May 21, 1821. His father, Edward Hopley, F. R. C. S., was for 43 years a surgeon in the Royal Navy of England, and after his retirement practiced his profession of medicine and surgery at Whitstable, in Kent, and later at Lewes, in Sussex, one of the oldest towns in England. His mother was Miss Catherine Cooper Prat, who descended from a long line of ancestry distinguished in the Church of England, her great-grandfather, Samuel Prat, having been Dean of Rochester Cathedral in 1697, preceptor of the Royal heir apparent, Canon of Windsor, and head 628 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY chaplain to Queen Anne, and is buried in St. George's chapel, Windsor; others, Rev. Daniel Prat and George Prat, are buried in Rochester Cathedral; her father, Rev. John Prat, being buried in St. Dunstans, Canterbury. In the seven generations since Daniel Prat (in 1574) all of his ancestors in the direct line, except, of course, his mother, have been ministers in the Church of England. John Hopley pursued his education in the Royal Navy Academy at Camberwell, Surrey, a suburb of London. This school was exclusively for sons of naval officers and its course was most extensive and thorough. Here the Bell, or monitor system was in vogue, and this afforded opportunity for the development of character through responsibility. Mr. Hopley excelled in both athletics and study, and Avon many class honors. A the close of his college course he was made a teacher of the institution, where he rema'ned for some years. In 1842, soon after attaining his majority, he came to the United States with his maternal uncle, John R. Prat, of Zanesville, whose store he entered in the capacity of clerk. He there continued until 1844, when he began teaching, with a view to entering upon the study of law, and making its practice his life work. In 1845 he went to Logan, Hocking county, to teach. He induced the trustees to ,establish graded schools there, which were among the first of the kind established in Ohio. They proved a great success and his educational ideas did much to build those schools into prominence and effected an uplifting of the schools of Ohio in general. On April 19, 1848, Mr. Hopley was united in marriage to Miss Georgianna Rochester, the fourth daughter of Mr. John Rochester, of Logan, Ohio. Her father was born near London, England, Jan. 9, 1796, and in 1816 he married Miss Marian Gladclle, a daughter of a French gentleman who left his native land owing to the French Revolution, and entered the English army as an officer, and was killed in Spain while fighting against Napoleon. Mr. Rochester came to America in 1820, settling at Englishtown, Athens county, Ohio, but soon removed to Logan, where for nearly half a century he was engaged in merchandising, being recognized as one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the place. For more than 44 years he was a member of the Presbyterian church and served for 34 years as an elder. He aided greatly in promoting the moral advancement of the people among whom he lived, and the memory of his upright career remains as an inspiration and a benediction to all who knew him. He died Oct. 29, 1876, at the age of 81 years. His daughter, Mrs. Hopley, was born Feb. 22, 1826. Desiring to study slavery and its influence upon the social life of the South, Mr. Hopley soon after his marriage, removed to Tennessee, becoming a teacher in a school at fellow Creek, and New Providence, and then went to Elkton, Todd county, Kentucky, where he had charge of the schools. In 1862 he returned to Logan as supervisor of the public schools, where he remained in educational work for three years. In 1855 he was chosen instructor in mathematics at Granger's Commercial School at Columbus, but the institution, not being in strong financial condition, he only remained a portion of a year and then went to Wellston, Columbiana county, to fill out an incompleted year there. On the 12th of April, 1856, he arrived with his family at Bucyrus, having been elected superintendent of schools at this place, and during the years of his work at the head of the Bucyrus schools he was an important factor in placing them on a firm basis. He entered on his duties here with his usual earnestness and zeal and the system he established soon awakened the admiration of the people of the vicinity and other portions of the state. In 1858, Mr. Hopley was admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with A. M. Jackson, but the following year he decided to open an office of his own, and he continued the practice successfully until 1862 when he went to England with Thomas Alsop, a client, to settle some Alsop family affairs, and when he returned he found his practice practically destroyed: some of his clients were in the army and in many cases important witnesses had enlisted, so that it was impossible to bring cases to trial. Mr. Hopley was then appointed by Mr. Salmon P. Chase to a clerkship in the office of the second auditor of the treasury at Washington, and soon, by special AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 629 order of Mr. Chase himself, was transferred to the office of the latter, having a desk in the olficeiof the library of the treasury. As he found opportunity he studied the financial problems and employed his pen effectively in advancing the financial policy of the secretary of the treasury, and the establishment of national banks. After the national banking law was passed he was transferred to the banking and currency bureau. Hugh McCullough, who was then comptroller of the currency, placed Mr. Hopley in charge of the statistical department of the bureau. His duties there included examination of regular reports and reports of bank examiners. Mr. Hopley, during that period of life, occasionally furnished data for speeches made by members of Congress, whereby the statesmen became distinguished. In 1864 he resigned his position in order to accept an offer of a position in a large bank in New York. In 1866 he was appointed national bank examiner by the Government for all the southern states excepting Delaware, Maryland and Virginia; Kansas was afterward added to the list. After completing this work in 1867 he returned to Bucyrus and in September purchased of James Robinson a half interest in the Bucyrus Journal. The following spring he purchased of Ralph Robinson the other half interest, and after the spring of 1868 he was sole owner of that paper until his death. From August, 1870, to January, 1879, he was postmaster at Bucyrus, having been appointed by President Grant. He was also postmaster at Bucyrus from 1890 to 1894, having been appointed by President Harrison. In 1887 the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph was established as an independent paper but on Jan. 4, 1895 The Hopley Printing Co. was incorporated and since that time the daily and weekly papers have been under one manageinent, Ir. Hopley having been president and general supervisor until his death, which occurred June 3, 1904. His wife, NIrs. Georgi anna Rochester Hopley died Oct. 21, 1904, living but a few months after her husband, with whom she had borne the burdens and obligations of life for 56 years. They were the parents of ten children, their third child having died in infancy, but all the others having grown to maturity. Their oldest. child, Charles Rochester Hopley, died Jan. 19, 1909. The surviving children are John Edward Hopley, now of Bucyrus; Thomas P. Hopley, of Enid, Oklahoma; Mary Catherine Cooper Hopley, of Chicago; Georgianna Eliza Hopley, of Bucyrus; Harriet Evelyn Frances Hopley, of Chicago; James Richard Hopley, I rank Lewes Hopley, and Joseph William Hopley of Bucyrus. There are four grandchildren, Miss Pearl Hopley, the daughter of Charles R. Hopley, now of Newburg, New York; Laura Rochester Hopley, John Curtis Hopley and Rose Hopley, children of Thomas P. Hopley of Enid, Oklahoma. In his association with the newspaper and Editorial work and his efforts in the interests of the Republican party, John Hopley filled an important place in Crawford county and his influence reached pretty generally throughout Ohio. His peculiarly effective schooling fitted hini for the work of political writing, and he aimed to give to his editorial utterances a high quality of intelligence and integrity. His pen was often responsible for planks in the Republican state platforms, and his ideas helped in guiding the enactment of tariff legislation, his friends being those responsible for important laws enacted at Washington. While he wrote vigorously on subjects of local interests and while he never hesitated to speak plainly about matters of local discussion, he retained the friendship and admiration of those with whom he had been associated here and his death caused general regret here at Bucyrus. he was in the sixties, secretary of the Crawford County Fair Association, later he was instrumental in organizing the Republican Editorial Association of Ohio and was its first president. He had many friends in public affairs, both at CoIuinbus and in Washington and found much pleasure in his advancement of the big affairs of state and nation. Charles R. Hopley was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in a Pennsylvania regiment. He later traveled a great deal and spent much time in mining developments, including the Black Hills excitement and the Yukon rush to Alaska. He died in California, Jan. 19, 1909, where he had gone for the winter to escape the rigors of the Alaskan Winter. 630 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY John E. IIopley was United States consul fior seven years, from 1898 to 1905, five years being located at Southampton, England, and two years at Montevideo, Uruguay. He was associated with New York newspapers for years and in 1887 established the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph. He has been very active in politics. Thomas P. Hopley . was educated in Bucyrus schools and established the Temperance Ballot, a newspaper which he afterward changed to the Crawford County News. This he sold in 1893 and went to Oklahoma where he participated in the opening of the "strip" and was one of the founders of Enid, still being one of the "boosters" of the city. Mary C. C. Hopley is associated with the Open Door Work of Willard Hall in Chicago, and devotes much time to newspaper work. Georgia E. Hopley, is a well known newspaper worker and has done much important work in reporting women's activities for newspapers. She retired from newspaper work to care of her parents during their last illness and later became the head of the family home at Bucyrus. Harriet E. Hopley is an expert proofreader, having been employed in some of the most particular printing offices in Chicago, where she resides. James R. Hopley was managing editor of the Family newspapers up to the time he was appointed postmaster at Bucyrus. Frank L. IIopley is advertising manager of the American Clay Machinery Co., and is secretary and manager of the American Clay Products Exposition at Chicago. Though his home is at Bucyrus his work is at Chicago much of the time. Joseph W. Hopley was a war correspondent with the Eighth Ohio regiment in Cuba. He has charge of the newspaper end of the business of The Hopley Printing Company, of which organization he is a vice president. FRANK I. RUHL. a successful and enterprising business man of Bucyrus, O., who has been manager of the large mercantile interests of Elias Blair since the latter's retirement from active participation in business, has been identified with his present concern ever since 1893. He was born at Bucyrus, December 16, 1859, the youngest child of Alexander A. and Amelia M. (Shawke) Ruhl. The Ruhl family is of German ancestry. It is probable that the grandfather, Jacob Ruhl, was born in Pennsylvania and came to Galion, O., quite early and at one time had large interests north of that place. Jacob Ruhl and wife were old people at time of death and of their large family there is one survivor: Airs. S. G. Cummings, who is the wife of an attorney living at Mansfield, O. Alexander A. Ruhl was born at Galion, O., April 4, 1828, where he grey to manhood and then came to Bucyrus. Here he became prominent in town and county affairs, was postmaster during the fifties and was county auditor, county treasurer and county clerk. Politically he was a Democrat. His death occurred in 1891. He was married at Bucyrus to Aurelia M. Shawke, who was born here in 1833 and died in 1906. Her parents were Thomas and Esther (Allbright) Shawke, the former of whom, a blacksmith by trade, came here in 1828, when it was nothing but a mere hamlet. Stories are still told of his remarkable strength and of his fondness for athletics and all manly diversions and also of his affection for children, all of whom returned the sentiment.. The Ruhls and the Shawkes have always been Methodists. One daughter and two sons were born to Alexander A. Ruhl and wife, namely: Ida B., who is the wife of Louis Brower, of Bucyrus; George S., who conducts a carriage making shop at Bucyrus, who married Nettie Curran and has one son, Frank M.; and Frank I. Frank I. Ruhl was reared and educated at Bucyrus and was graduated in 1879. In 1893 he became a clerk for Elias Blair in his hardware store and later became chief clerk and manager. Mr. Blair has placed implicit reliance in him for the past twenty years and has found him faithful to every interest and capable of handling every business problem. Mr. Ruhl was married to Anna, a daughter of Mr. Blair in May, 1891, and they have one son, E. Blair Ruhl, who was born April 5, 1892. He was graduated from the Bucyrus High school in June, 1911, and at the .present writing is a student in the Wittenberg college at Springfield, O. Mr and Mrs. Ruhl attend the Lutheran church. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 631 JOHN D. PFOUTS, a leading citizen and township trustee of Holmes township, Crawford county, O., resides on his farm of thirty-seven and one-half acres, which he largely devotes to the raising of fine poultry. He was born in Lycoming county, Pa., but has been a resident of Crawford county since 1856. His parents were Robert and Jane (Pursell) Pfouts. Robert Pfouts was born in Pennsylvania, of German parentage. He was a canal boatman and his death occurred in middle life, in the infancy of his son, John D. The mother came to Crawford county in 1856, when John D. was five years old, and she survived into her sixty-fifth year, dying on her son's farm. John D. Pfouts attended the country schools until old enough to secure employment at the old Eagle Works, now the American Clay Machinery plant, at Bucyrus, and three years later became interested in farm work and has continued in that line. His first farm of forty acres was in Liberty township but he has lived on his present place for many years. He carries on general farming but snakes a specialty of raising S. C. white leghorn chickens for market, and growing India Runner ducks. He has accommodations on his place for some Boo chickens and safely carries the birds over winter. Giving close attention to this industry, Mr. Pfouts has made it a very profitable one, the demand for his birds always exceeding the supply. He has made all the improvements on his property and has erected all the present substantial buildings. Mr. Pfouts married Miss Alice Fralick and they have two sons: Earl, who has great musical talent and lives in the city of Philadelphia; and P. R., who is a rural nail carrier out of Bucyrus. He married a daughter of Joseph B. Quaintance. In politics, Mr. Pfouts is a Democrat and he is a member of the National Union. He is a representative man in Holmes township and as one of its trustees looks carefully after the interests of all residents, and probably no man is better known or more highly respected. EUGENE VAN VOORHIS, deceased, was born at Bucyrus, O., March 4, 1854, a son of Daniel and Eliza (Hoffman) Van Voorhis, who came from Mansfield, O., to this section at an early date. Daniel Van Voorhis was well known in business circles at Bucyrus, where he was in the restaurant line for many years and died here when aged sixty-five years. His widow survived him, passing away in October, 1911, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. James Hamilton, at Pittsburg, Pa. Of their eight children, four survive. Eugene Van Voorhis was the eldest of his parents' family and he grew to manhood at Bucyrus and spent about all his life here after learning his trade of tinner and working for a time at Sulphur Springs and Bellefontaine. He was a skilled workman and completed many important contracts. Politically the was a Democrat but never was an active party worker, and the only fraternal organization with which he allied himself was the Royal Arcanum. In 1887 Mr. Van Voorhis was married to Miss Emma Squier, who was born at Sulphur Springs, O., December 6, 1857, where she was educated. She is a daughter of Dr. John B. and Dorothy (Hottel) Squier. Dr. Squier was born at Salem, N. Y., in 1818, coming to this state three years later. He first learned the millwright trade but afterward became a physician and practiced many years at Sulphur Springs and was known all over this section. His death occurred December 16, 1890. Prior to the campaign of Hon. Horace Greeley he was a Republican but afterward identified himself with the Democracy. He was a power in local politics and during the Civil war was a loyal supporter of President Lincoln. A patriotic poem entitled Old Abe Lincoln, written about this time, became very popular. He was an acquaintance of that strange character known as Johnny Appleseed. He was thrice married. Thomas Corwin, a son of his first union became a soldier in the Civil war, where he was captured by the Confederates and died a prisoner at Andersonville, Ga. One daughter of his second marriage survives, in the person of Mrs. Ella Hwniston of Sandusky, O. His third happy union was with Dorothy Hottel, who was born at Bristol, Trumbull county, O., November 14, 1830. While on a visit in Crawford county she became acquainted with Dr. Squier and subsequently married him and six children were born to them: Edgar Allen, who is a resident of Springfield, O.; Emma, 632 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY who was born December 6, 1857; Anna, who is the wife of Dr. Charles F. Sexauer, a physician of Franklin, O. ; Flora, deceased, who was the wife of John A. Torrence, of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Oscar W., who is employed in the offices of the Big Four Railroad, at Kenton, O.; and Effie S., deceased, who was the wife of Thomas Black, of Pittsburg and is survived by two sons. Mrs. Black was the author of that tender little book of poems entitled Heart Whispers. To Mr. and Mrs. Van Voorhis the following children were born : Charles Fred, who is in the jewelry business at Prospect, O., and who married Nina Kibler and have one daughter, Dorothea; Walter S., a graduate of the Bucyrus High school,—with his brothers Harry V. and Donald E.,—who. is chief engineer and draughtsman for the American Dredge Company at Seattle, Wash.; Harry Victor, who formerly was agent for the Adams Express Company but now connected with the American Clay Machine Company, and lives at home ; Paul V. ; and Donald E., who is agent for the Adams Express Company at Columbia City, Ind., and who married Esther L. Allernan, of Warsaw, Ind., to whom one son was born, David Alleman. Mrs. Van Voorhis and sons are Presbyterians. HERMAN F. MILLER, who has been engaged in the fire insurance business at Bucyrus, O., for some tell years, having a convenient office in the Miller block, which was erected by his father, was born in 1853 in Crawford county, O., and is a son of John G. and Mary (Krebe) Miller. John G. Miller was born in Wuertemberg. Germany, in 1826, where his parents lived and died. His father was a baker and the youth learned the business and worked as a baker in his own land until 1852, when he decided to emigrate to the United States, in the hope of bettering his fortunes. He took passage on a sailing vessel at Bremenhaven, Germany, and after a long voyage was safely landed at the port of New York. In the following year he reached the village of Bucyrus and was so pleased with the people that he decided to remain here although, at that time, he found but a moderate demand for bakery goods. the housewives still doing much of their own baking. Hence he found that by attending to his oven at night, after working at different things during the day, he could supply sufficient bakery goods for his customers, and for a long time thus did business. In the meanwhile the excellence of his bread, pies and cakes gained him custom and slowly but surely he prospered and finally opened a bakery shop on South Sandusky street and made baking his main business and continued to be in active trade until his death, July 3, 1895. In 1876 he erected the handsome three-story brick block on the southwest corner of the Public Square and acquired and improved much other property. He was a Republican in politics but declined office, attending closely to his business. For many years he was a consistent member of the German Methodist church, and was one of the most respected citizens of Bucyrus. In Germany he married Mary Krebe, who was born in Wertemberg in 1824. She accompanied him to America and to her frugal habits and careful management he attributed much of his business success. She has reached her eighty-seventh birthday and her many friends hope that she will live to see many more. But one child was born to the above marriage, Herman F. Herman F. Miller was educated at Bucyrus and then learned his father's trade and subsequently became a partner in the business and operated it until 1900. when he disposed of it and embarked in the insurance line and represents a number of standard companies. He has never been greatly interested in politics but votes with the Republican party. He is identified fraternally with the Masons and Elks. Mr. Miller was married at Bucyrus to Miss Mary Beal, who was born in Bucyrus township, Crawford county, June 4, 1876, and is a daughter of Rev. Isaac and Christiana (Harr) Beal, natives of Germany who came to America when young and were reared to marriagable age in Pennsylvania. In 1843 they came to Crawford county and settled on wild land in Bucyrus township, which they cleared, developed and improved and remained on their farm until 1896, when they retired to Bucyrus and now reside in great comfort in their home on South Sandusky avenue. Rev. Beal, now eighty-five years of age, for thirty-five years has ministered to the German Methodist AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 633 church without compensation. His wife has passed her eighty-third birthday. They are well known and much beloved people. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had two children: Rufus E., who died at the age of seven years; and Lillian, who was born in 1877 and is the wife of E. W. Petrie, of Galion, O., and has one son, Kenneth Miller Petrie. CHARLES F. HOOVER, who carries on general fanning and stock-raising in Bucyrus township, Crawford county, O., where he and wife own eighty-five acres of valuable lancl, additionally operates 150 acres belonging to another party. Mr. Hoover is a native of Crawford county and was born in Dallas township, December 18, 1873, and is a son of Christian and Lorena (Kirby) Hoover, the former of whom is a retired farmer of Dallas township. The latter died December 8, 1910. Of their children, Charles F. is the third in order of birth, the others being: Ernest B., Bardette K., Maud, and Madge, who is the wife of Arlington L. Blair. Charles F. Hoover completed the common school course in Dallas township and then became a student in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, O., remaining for three years, after which he taught school in Crawford county for about twelve years. Since retiring from the educational field he has devoted himself entirely to agricultural pursuits and is numbered with the progressive and successful farmers of this section. In October, 1897, Mr. Hoover was married to Miss Elnora Kerr, who was born in Bucyrus township, on the present farm of herself and husband, and is a daughter of George T. and Lydia (Eckelberry) Kerr, early settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr had the following children : Bertie, who is the wife of Irvin Dickey; Elnora, who is the wife of Mr. Hoover; Beva, who is the vrife of Fred J. Albright; Clementine, who is the wife of J. W. Hudson; Iva, who is the wife of Floyd Hull, and Walter J. Mr, and Mrs. Hoover have the following children : Helen. Wayne. Clifford, Marjorie and Doris Lillian. Mr. Hoover and family attend the United Brethren church. He is a Republican in his political sentiments and while living in Dallas township, served three terms as township clerk. He is identified with but one fraternal organization, the Knights of Pythias, attending at Bucyrus and taking much interest in the order. FRANK PIGMAN, an able member of the bar at Galion, O., of which city he has been a resident since 1907, was born at Coshocton, O., March 24, 1874. From the public schools of his native place, Mr. Pigman entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, where he was graduated in the class of 1899. thereafter entering the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he a teacher in the schools of Coshocton, where he served for five years, also as a remember of the board of school examiners, and later was an instructor in a military school at Chicago. In 1905 he was graduated from the Chicago Law college and was admitted to the bar in the same year and became associated in the practice of law with David K. Tone, In 1907 he came to Galion and entered into partnership with J. W. Coulter, whose death occurred in 1910 and who had been a member of the Galion bar since 1.865. Since that time Mr. Pigman has practiced alone and in addition to private clients he is the local attorney for the Erie railroad. Politically Mr. Pigman is a Democrat and as a citizen having the best interests of the community at heart, is active in promoting movenlents which promise better conditions along every line. He is a Royal Arch Mason and belongs also to the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Pigman is unmarried. He owns what is probably the most complete law library in Crawford county, which includes all the Ohio reports together with hundreds of books that are authorities on law. DAVIS W. HILLIS, a veteran of the great Civil war and an honored and widely known citizen of this section of Ohio, has been a resident of Galion since zgoo, when he retired and purchased his comfortable residence at No. 879 East Walnut street. He was born in Fairfield county, O., July 20, 1850, and is a son of James Franklin and Eleanor (Turner) Hillis. James F. Hillis was born in Maryland and died in Wyandot county, O., in February, 1897, when aged seventy-seven years. He was married in Fairfield county, O., to Eleanor 634 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Turner, who was born at Circleville, O., where she attended school and in childhood was a playmate of Philip Sheridan, later the distinguished military hero. After marriage, Mr. and 1Irs. Hillis moved to Upper Sandusky and from 1851 until death, they lived in Wyandot county, Mrs. Hillis surviving her husband for but six weeks. He was a farmer and stock raiser and a solid, representative man and patriotic citizen. Early in the Civil war he became a member of the 83rd O. Vol. Inf., as a private but later was made hospital sergeant as he had medical knowledge from having given some attention to medical study in his earlier years. While with General Sherman's command on the great march to the sea, he contracted yellow fever at Newberne, N. C. He was in an unconscious condition when he was sent north and was discharged from the service on account of disability, but finally was nursed back to health and lived many years afterward. Three children made up his family : Elizabeth, Sarah A. and Davis W. Elizabeth died in girlhood. Sarah A., who is one of the most highly esteemed residents of Akron, O., where she ones a beautiful home, for twenty-five years as a valued teacher in that city. She is a graduate of several well known institutions, afterward making educational work her leading interest, and in recognition of her scholarship and of her faithfulness as a teacher, she has been presented with many medals and other testimonials. Perhaps Davis W. Hillis was one of the youngest soldiers of the Civil war, for he had not yet passed his fifteenth birthday when he succeeded in enlisting at Upper Sandusky, in Co. I, 192nd 0. Vol. Inf., and took part in all the hardships of this command until he was honorably discharged, September 7, 1865, at Winchester, Va. He took part in many minor engagements and skirmishes and saw many of his comrades fall and once was wounded in the knee, at Halltown, Va. His worst experience, however, was when he was captured, when coming down the Shenandoah river, by a band of General Mosby's guerrillas, and for eleven days was forced to march with them in his bare feet and when they released him it was not until they had taken all his clothes. All this hardship and indignity was visited on him after peace was declared, but he was in the enemy's country, and at that time defenseless. After he returned to Ohio he engaged in farming and stock raising and was interested in developing race horses for a time. In 1872 he located at Bucyrus and continued to live there until 1900, when he came to Galion, where he has lived as stated above. He is a valued member of Keller Post, G. A. R. at Bucyrus. Mr. Hillis was married in Holmes township, Crawford county, by Rev. J. Crouse, to Miss Susan M. Sell, a member of an old family, who was born there January 7, 1849, a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca (McBride) Sell. The father of Mrs. Hillis was born in Stark county, O., where his people were early settlers. He married Rebecca McBride, whose ancestry was of Virginia, old Revolutionary stock, and at the time of marriage she was a teacher in Crawford county. The Sells later moved on a farm which they developed and improved and there Mrs. Sell died May 1, 1895, aged eighty-one years, having survived her husband since 1874. She had been reared in the Society of Friends but later united with the Lutherans, while he was a life-long Methodist. One of their sons, Isaac D. Sell, who now is a resident of Troy, Kans., was a valiant soldier in the Civil war. Jeremiah Sell is a resident of a western state; Newton, another son, lives in Oklahoma, while another son, Jacob A., is a Baptist minister located at Cleveland, O. Mrs. Hillis has three sisters : Anna, who married John Hill, resides at Galion and they have three children; Mary Ellen, who lives in Holmes township, unmarried; and Jennie, who lives on the old Sell homestead, married but has no children. To Mr. and Mrs. Hillis the following children were born: Jay J., who died in infancy; Franklin T., who lives with his family on a farm in Jefferson township; William D. W., a railroad man residing at Cleveland, who is an ex-soldier of the Spanish-American war, and has a wife and five children; Emmor G., who served with his brother in the same company in the Spanish-American war, and is also a railroad man and lives at Cleveland with wife and one child; Ella J., who is the wife of Horace Warrick, of Vvhetstone township, and has one son; James A. G., who is a contractor at Galion, and has one son; Pearl B., who is the wife of Edward Couts of Bucyrus, and has AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 635 one daughter; and Earl R., who is employed in the match factory at Barberton, O. The children of William D. W. and Emmor G. Hillis have the honor of having a great-grandfather and a grandfather who served in the Civil war and fathers who were in the Spanish-American war. Mr. and Mrs. Davis W. Hillis are members of the Christian church. JACOB HIEBER, whose model farm of 101 acres lies seven miles northeast of Bucyrus, O., in Liberty township, was born on this farm in 1875, and is a son of Frederick and Lydia (Lust) Hieber. The Hieber family is of German extraction on both sides and the father of Jacob Hieber was born in Germany, while the mother was born in Lykens township, Crawford county, of German parents. Ten children were born to them, namely: Frederick `V., Elizabeth, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Jacob, Sarah, Isaac, Sophia and Reuben. Jacob Hieber was educated in the district schools. He remained at home and operated the home farm until he purchased the same in 1908, since which time he has made many excellent improvements and it may now be numbered with the model farms of the township. Mr. Hieber has a pleasant family circle. He married Miss Louisa Kafer, who is a daughter of Jacob and Magdalina (Shealy) Kafer, old residents of Crawford county, and they have had two children: Winfield Jacob, who died at the age of two and one-half years; and John Frederick, who resides at home. Mr. Hieber and wife are members of the German Lutheran church. He is an intelligent, wide awake citizen and as such is interested in public affairs in his neighborhood. He is a Democrat in politics. CHARLES P. BRYANT. The Bryant family according to the earliest records that have been discovered, originated in Holland and possibly went to that country from England. Simeon Bryant was born in Holland at the close of the 16th century. At an early age he came to the American colonies and settled at Hackensack, N. J., and about 1617 he located at Springfield, N. J. His family contained four sons : Simeon, Jr., Hanties, Samuel and John. Simeon Bryant, Jr., the progenitor of Charles P. Bryant, of Bucyrus, O., was born in 1710. He married Hannah Searing and they had eleven children, the ninth being David, the grandfather of Charles P. Bryant. David Bryant was born in 1756, in New Jersey and he participated in the Revolutionary war. The official record shows that for one month in 1776 he served as a private minute man, Captain Joseph Horton's Company, First Regiment, Essex County Militia, and later served eight days more in the same company and between 1776 and 1779, served an additional three months in the same company and regiment. Afterward he served seven monthly tours under Capt. Joseph Horton during the continuance of the war, and he participated in the battles of Springfield, Farmers and Elizabeth. This brave man and patriot married Catherine Wooley, a daughter of Major Abram Wooley, who was a member of the U. S. garrison holding Fort Dubuque, now Pittsburgh, Pa., and he was allowed a pension. In 1791 he moved to Washington county, Pa., and in 1816 came to Knox county, O., locating near Mt. Vernon.. Fifteen children were born to him. At the age of eighty years he was still a man of such robustness and vigor that he did not hesitate to undertake new enterprises, one of these being the establishment of a new home at Crown Point, near Hebron, Ind. This proposed undertaking Mr. Bryant, however, did not live to complete, his death occurring on the way, at Fort Wayne, Ind. His ividow survived him only four days. They were people widely known and of the highest merit. Isaac Bryant, the third born in the family of fifteen children, was born June 18, 1786. He married Maria Fisher, a daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Quigley) Fisher, the former a native of France and the latter of Ireland. The Fishers lived at Utica, N. Y., where Mr. Fisher was interested in the manufacture of rope but he lost his rope-walk by fire and this deprived him of his resources. After his death Mrs. Fisher moved to Kentucky where her death occurred. At the time of marriage, Isaac Bryant was fifty-seven years of age and 636 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY was over seventy years of age when his ninth child was born, his death occurring two years later in 1859. At the time of marriage he was at Circleville, O., but later moved to Little Wyandot, where he remained. In politics he was a Democrat and was well known in his day. His widow, born November 7, 1819, died May 4, 1890. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, a woman of admirable character. To Isaac Bryant and wife the following children were born: Isaac and Frederick, both of whom died in infancy; Catherine; John, who died in 1884, aged thirty-five years, who married and had two children; Maria M., who died at the age of seventeen years; Ann, who died in infancy; Jennie N., who is the wife of Frank Sheckler; Charles P., and Benjamin F., who married and lives in Idaho. Charles P. Bryant was born in Wyandot county, O., November 27, 1855, where he was reared and was carefully educated, his parents providing a governess for their children, a highly educated lady. In 1880 he came to Bucyrus and began the study of surveying and mastered the useful branch of knowledge and accompanied surveyors on many trips in order that he might have plenty of practical experience. Afterward he was appointed city engineer and still later was made deputy surveyor under Surveyor H. E. Valentine, serving under that official until September, 1894, when he became deputy to Surveyor Flickinger, under whom he served six years. In 1900 Mr. Bryant was elected surveyor of Crawford county, assuming the duties of the same in 1901 and served as surveyor until 1907, when he again became deputy, Charles A. Guiss being elected surveyor, and was with Surveyor Guiss until the expiration of the latter's term in September, 1910. Mr. Bryant is one of the leading Democrats of the county and has served as a delegate to both Senatorial and Congressional conventions many times and for two years was secretary of the Crawford County Democratic Central committee. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the Knights of Pythias and thereby has earned a Knight's medal. He belongs also to the Eagles of which organization he has been past worthy president and is a trustee and charter member. Mr. Bryant became interested in the Elks at the time of its organization in 1894 and has been an active and interested member ever since. Mr. Bryant has never married. GEORGE C. MAYER, whose well cultivated farm of eighty acres lies four miles west of Bucyrus, O., this location giving him an easy market for his produce, was born at Wittenberg, Germany, June 23, 1876, and is a son of Jacob and Barbara (Swenck) Mayer, both of whom still reside in Germany, where the father is a farmer and a carpenter. The family is one of nine children and three of them live in America. George C. Mayer obtained his education in Germany and remained in his native land until 1903, when he came to the United States and ever since locating in Ohio has been engaged in farming, first in Jefferson township, Crawford county, and since 1905 on his present place in Holmes township. Here he made all the improvements, even erecting his comfortable residence. He is a hard-working, prudent, sensible man and is prospering. In October, 1900, Mr. Mayer was married to Miss Emma Steinhilder, a daughter of Francis Steinhilder, who is a substantial farmer of Tod township. Mr. and Mrs. Mayer are members of the Martin Luther church in Tod township. Mr. and Mrs. Mayer have no children. Their one son, Francis Wesley, who was born July io, 19o2, lived not quite two years, dying May 15, 1904. Mr. Mayer has become a citizen of the United States and has identified himself politically with the Democratic party. GEORGE M. BIRK, Ph. D., of the drug firm of Birk Bros., at Bucyrus, O., located at No. 4 Opera House block, was born at Bucyrus, February 25, 1869, and is a son of John G. and Joanna (Kuhn) Birk, and a grandson of John G. Birk, who came from Germany to Ohio in 1849, one of that notable band of patriots which included such men as Mr. Birk and the late Gen. Carl Schurz, both of whom became honored citizens of their adopted country. George M. Birk attended school at Bucyrus through his boyhood but, unlike several of his brothers, did not incline to learn the father's trade of harnessmaking. He seemed to have natural talent in the direction of chemistry AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 637 and by himself followed a course of reading along that line although he never had any collegiate training. In 1885 he went to Nebraska and there passed the strict examination demanded by the State Board of Pharmacy, and in 1889, two years before he had reached his majority, he was licensed to practice. In 1892 he returned to Bucyrus and in the same year associated himself with his older brother, Hon. Christian F. Birk, in the drug business and for twenty years he has been at the head of his present store. This is the third oldest drug store in this city, having been started in 1878 by A. C. Lewis, who operated it until 1892, when the present firm took possession. They not only carry a complete line of pure drugs and honest proprietary remedies, but all the sundries to be found in a first class establishment of its kind and additionally have a side line in wall paper. George M. Birk married Miss Florence Mae Eckhart, who was born at Marion, O., a daughter of William H. and Julia C. (Martin) Eckhart, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio, both of German parents. Mr. Eckhart died in Marion county, O., at the age of fifty years, while his widow makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Birk, who was an only child. Mr. and Mrs. Birk have one daughter, Kathryn Eckhart, who was born May 12, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Birk are members of the Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. Politically he is a Democrat. WILLIAM SIDNEY SWENEY, who owns and carefully cultivates the old homestead farm of 61 acres, which is situated in Whetstone township, Crawford county, O., was born on this farm, June 28, 1850, and is a son of John L. and Jane (McCurdy) Sweney. The father of Mr. Sweney was of Scotch-Irish parentage but was born in Adams county, Pa., near the historic city of Gettysburg. He came to Crawford county in early manhood and followed farming and stock raising as long as he lived, he and wife both now resting in the Stewart cemetery. She was born in Franklin county, Pa., and was also young when she carne to this section and subsequently was married to John L. Sweney. They had the following children born to them: James Addison; Sarah Elizabeth, who died when aged twenty-four years; Martha Jane, John W., Isaac Newton, Nancy Louise and Thomas Leander, all of whom are deceased; and W illianm Sidney, the youngest born. The latter's paternal grandfather was John Sweney. His maternal grandfather, James McCurdy, was one of the three first elders in the First Presbyterian church at Bucyrus. William S. Sweney was not quite satisfied when he had completed the common school course and therefore spent one term at Lebanon, 0., after which he willingly returned to the farm, where he has led a contented and prosperous life ever since. He assisted his father until the latter's death and then took entire charge of the homestead and carries on a general farming line and raises enough stock for his own use. Mr. Sweney was married (first) to Miss Margaret Ellen Hess, who died March 29,. 1888, a daughter of Andrew and Mary (Henery) Hess. Three children were born to this union: Alva May, who is the wife of Earl Preston; Edgar Blaine, and a babe that died. On May 14, 1891, Mr. Sweney was married (second) to Miss Anna Crall, a daughter of Henry and Julia Crall, farmers in Liberty township, well known people. Mr. and Mrs. Sweney attend the Lutheran church. He has always been identified with the Republican party but has been no seeker for office, but is one of the township's steady and reliable men. CHARLES E. GEIGER, a well known business man of Bucyrus, a member of the firm of Dobbins & Geiger, wholesale and retail dealers in live stock, meats, sausages and fish, doing all their own butchering and manufacturing, was born at Sandusky, 0., January 6, 1879, and is a son of John E. and Adelia (Barbarick) Geiger. John E. Geiger was born at Sandusky, a son of Rudolph Geiger, who was born in Germany. After coming to the United States the latter followed the brickmaking trade at Sandusky for some years and then purchased a farm in Huron county on which he lived during the rest of his life, his death occurring at the age of seventy-nine years. For many years John 638 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY E. Geiger has been a substantial business man of Sandusky, where he now lives. He married Adelia Barbarick, also a native of Ohio and they had five children, four surviving. Charles E. Geiger attended school at Sandusky and secured a commercial course in one of the business colleges before he entered into business for himself. His father was a butcher and market man and he has been in the business more or less all his life. The present Bucyrus house is an old one, started about forty years ago and for some time prior to Mr. Geiger's interest in it, the name was Snavely & Dobbins. The present style has been in operation for the past twelve years. Both partners are practical butchers and reliable business men and they have a large trade and their business is on a substantial foundation. Mr. Geiger was married in 1904 to Miss Lillian Ehrhart, who died eight months afterward. He was married secondly to Miss Colette Kronenbarger, who was born in Crawford county and educated at Bucyrus. Mr. and Mrs. Geiger are members of the Roman Catholic church. He belongs to the fraternal order of Eagles. In public matters Mr. Geiger has shown himself an earnest and public spirited citizen and was elected alderman at large on the Democratic ticket, in which office he is at present serving. DAVID B. EICHELBERGER, a well known man in Crawford county, O., and a leading citizen of Sandusky township, resides on one of his several farms, eight and one-half miles northeast of Bucyrus, O. He was born in 1846, in Crawford county and is a son of Isaac H. and Catherine (Bibler) Eichelberger. Isaac H. Eichelberger was born in Virginia but came to Ohio when three years old: his wife was born in Ohio. The following children were born to them: Charles, Sarah, Rebecca, Catherine, Casper, Isaac, Oscar, Elizabeth, Noah and David B. David B. Eichelberger grew up on his father's farm and in boyhood attended the district schools with his brothers and sisters, all of whom survived infancy except Noah and Elizabeth. Mr. Eichelberger owns a great amount of land, some too acres, fertile and well improved, and its value is annually increasing. He has additional interests, being a director in the Farmers & Citizens Bank at Bucyrus and is the adjuster for the Farmers' Fire Insurance Company of Crawford county. Mr. Eichelberger was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. Decker, who is a daughter of Aaron and Nancy (Bishop) Decker, and six children have been born to them: Elta, Ladema, Williard, Edgar, James and Cora. Elta is the wife of Alexander Smith, a prosperous farmer in Sandusky township, and they have four children: Lester, AMayne, Ivan and Edgar. Laderna married C. L. Laughbaum and they have five children: Emmerson, Glenn, Charles, Jennie and Donald, the family home being in Auburn township. Williard is a resident of Whetstone township. IIe married Elizabeth Sherer and they have two children: Miriam and Loren. Edgar is a farmer in Sandusky township, married Fannie Crider and they have three children: Helen, Mildred and Florence. James is a farmer in Sandusky township, married Jessie Littler and has two children: Elden and Dale. Cora is the wife of Charles McKeehen and has three children—Lois, Wendell and Orbo—and they reside in Sandusky township. Mrs. Eichelberger's father was born in New Jersey and her mother in Ashland county, O. She has two brothers and one sister, namely: James, who married Alice Briggs and lives in Crawford county; John, a resident of Bucyrus, who married Mary Steiffle; and Melvina, who is the wife of Emer Swonger and lives in Arkansas. Mr. Eichelberger and family are members and liberal supporters of the English Lutheran church. FRED F. HARTER, who carries on general farming and moderate stock raising on his sixty acres of valuable land, situated one mile east of Oceola, O., is a son of the late Captain J. H. Harter, and was born in 1868, at Nevada. O. Fred F. Harter was educated in the public schools of Nevada and Oceola, O., and for twelve years afterward taught school in Crawford county, and was considered an excellent educator. As his father then needed his assistance he engaged in farming the home place and in 1898 came to his present farm AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 639 where he erected a modern residence and made other substantial improvements. Mr. Harter married Miss Kitty Steiner, who was born in Crawford county, and they have three children: John R., William F. and Stephen F. In politics, Mr. Harter is a pronounced Republican and at present is serving on the school board. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Woodinen and the J. O. U. A. M. With his family he belongs to the United Brethren church. HUGH McFARQUHAR, a retired machinist and one of Galion's highly respected citizens, was born in Inverness, Scotland, January 12, 1838, and is a son of Duncan and Isabella (Frazier) McFarquhar. The parents of Mr. McFarquhar were born in Scotland and the father followed the trade of stone cutter until his death in 1847, when aged sixty years. His widow subsequently crossed the ocean to Canada and died at Toronto. They were members of the Presbyterian church. Of their family of two sons and four daughters, one son and one daughter survive: Hugh and Margaret, the latter being the wife of Frank Holder, of Chicago, Ill., where they have a son and daughter. Hugh McFarquhar was the youngest born of the family. In 1854 when he accompanied his mother to Canada, he was sixteen years of age and his school days were over. They joined other members of the family who were at Toronto and Hugh soon was apprenticed to learn the machinist's trade. After completing his apprenticeship he went to Dunkirk, N. Y., and was chief machinist for two years with the Erie railroad and then settled at Galion and became a machinist for the Atlantic & Great Western, now the Erie Railway, with which he was identified more or less continuously since 1875. For over twenty years he was at the head of the gang and foreman in the locomotive building department, a man always to be depended upon, steady, efficient and faithful to his employers. At Litchfield, Ill., Nov. 3, 1864, Mr. McFarquhar was married to Miss Margaret Tannock, who was born in Ayreshire, Scotland, July 28, 1843, and was seven years old when her father brought her to America. He had been dispatched to Paterson, N. J., to take charge of a department in the Rogers Locomotive Works, and later, for five years was foreman in the Erie Railway shops at Susquehannah, Pa., removing from there to St. Thomas, Canada, later to Guelph. During the Civil war he returned to the United States and settled at Fort Wayne, Ind., after the war moving to Litchfield, Ill., at all these places being connected with railroad work. His death at the age of ninety years, occurred March 8, 1912, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. McFarquhar. His wife died here in 1910, when aged eighty-eight years. They were members of the Presbyterian church. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McFarquhar: Elizabeth J., who was born at Galion, and who is the wife of C. G. Smith, of Cleveland, and has four children—Louise, Eugene, Garrett and Hugh; John, who occupies a responsible position as manager of the office of a manufacturing concern at Denver, Col.; Margaret, who died when aged but sevteen years; Andrei,;, who lives at Buffalo, N. Y., and is assistant to the general foreman of the Erie Railway, who married Myrta Kincaid and has one son, William; Charles, who was accidentally killed on the Erie Railroad when aged seventeen years; and Janette, an accomplished and educated young lady, who is acceptably filling the position of secretary to a manager of a Working Woman's club at Davenport, Ia. Mr, and Mrs. McFarquhar are members of the Presbyterian church in which he has been an elder for ten years. VICTOR L. KEMP. one of the representative citizens of North Robinson, Crawford county, O., manager of the elevator at this place for the Switzer & White Elevator Company and a member of the town council, was born at Union City, Ind., and is a son of Joshua and Rachel (Fields) Kemp. Joshua Kemp was born at Baltimore, Md., in early manhood, locating in Randolph county, Indiana, where he married Rachel Fields, and they both are deceased, their burial being at union City, Incl. Mr. Kemp was a fanner and made a specialty of gardening. His children were as follows : Alonzo : Lola, who is the wife of William Haney; Laura. and Hattie, both of whom are deceased: Victor L.; 640 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY John; Herschel; Ora, who is the wife of Albert Bogan; and Robert. Victor L. Kemp attended the public schools in Indiana and then learned the carriage painting trade which he followed for some eleven years and was afterward otherwise engaged until April, 1907, when he accepted the management of the North Robinson elevator. A large business is done here and the Switzer & White Company is known all over the county. Mr. Kemp was married December 31, 1898, to Miss Aretta Newhouse, who is a daughter of Michael and Olive (Johnson) Newhouse and a granddaughter of Charles Newhouse and Henry Johnson. Her father was born in Germany but spent his last years in Crawford county. The mother of Mrs. Kemp was born in Crawford county and now resides with Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, the latter being the youngest of four children, the others being as follows: Oliva, wife of Augustus Tracht; William H., deceased, and Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp are members of the English Lutheran church. In politics Mr. Kemp is a Democrat and is active in local affairs. He is identified with Tent No. 256 K. O. T. M., at North Robinson. JOSEPH F. WARNER, who occupies the position of a Government railway mail clerk, with home at Bucyrus, O., belongs to an old New England family of more or less prominence in colonial days. His grandfather, William Warner, came, in 1815, from Connecticut, to Medina county, O., accompanied by his wife, formerly Clarissa Warner. They were people of thrifty ideas, just the resourceful kind that made successful pioneers. When they started for the new lands in Ohio it was a great undertaking, but they had a strong ox-team and they decided to load their wagon with buttons and, by disposing of these at Cleveland, would secure money that would be very useful when they had left civilization behind them, and also would enable them to provide housekeeping necessities to take with them. In all probability their plans were successfully carried out and by the time they reached their new home with their two babies, a log cabin was awaiting them, it having been ordered built by William's father. They lived into old age on their land in Medina county and were respected and esteemed people. Three sons and one daughter were born to William and Clarissa Warner. Lucius, the eldest, lived and died in Medina county, survived by one daughter, Mary, who lives in California, the widow of Alfred Armstrong. Lorenzo was educated in Kenyon College, at Gambier, O., for the Methodist ministry. He married and had three sons and one daughter. Joseph was born June 3, 1818, on the new farm, in Liverpool township, Medina county, O., and died in 1903. The one daughter died in infancy. Joseph Warner inherited the old homestead and gave his parents filial care in their declining years. At the time of his death he was the oldest resident of Liverpool township, being aged eighty-five years. In his early political life he was a Whig but in 1857 identified himself with the Republican party at its birth. He was married in Medina county, O., to Emily A. Mathewson, who was born also in Liverpool township, in 1822 and died at the age of seventy-seven years. They were members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church. To them the following children were born: Lucius W., who was born October 1, 1841, who is a farmer in Lorain county, O., and who married Julia McMillian and has three children—Cora, Eva and Adella; H. Ellen, born June 12, 1843, who is the widow of Rev. D. O. Fox, and has an adopted son, John Fox; Olive, born April 9, 1845, who is the wife of David Torbet, of Albany College, at Albany, Ore.; Clarissa P., who died at the age of sixteen years; Philip I.., who is a farmer on a part of the old homestead; and Joseph Fremont. The above family all had excellent educational advantages. Mrs. Fox was graduated with the 'highest honors at Baldwin University, Berea, O., and won the degree of M. A. She became a member of the faculty and held the chair of mathematics and was also a co-laborer with Prof. A. Schuyler in his mathematical works and is also the author of several volumes. In early womanhood she went to India as a missionary and while there met Rev. D. O. Fox, who was sent into the missionary field from Illinois. After twenty-five years of faithful missionary AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 641 work Mrs. Fox does not yet feel that the harvest is ripe enough for her to rest from her labors. She is a woman of extraordinary mentality, Christian zeal and executive ability. Joseph Fremont Warner was born on the old homestead in Medina county, O., July 1, 1855. He completed his education at Baldwin College and afterward, for twelve years, devoted himself to educational work, teaching in Ottawa, Cuyahoga and Medina counties. In 1890 he accepted the position of Government railway mail clerk and during all this time has been on the Pennsylvania Railroad, being now a fifth grade clerk. Every one does not realize the knowledge that is made a requisite for a position of this kind and in the five states covered by his distribution— Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Nebraska—Mr. Warner declares that he is not only familiar with every post-office location but with every fence corner. For five years prior to locating at Bucyrus, in i89o, he resided at Mansfield, O. In Medina county Mr. Warner was married to Miss Mary L. Gano, who was born in Wood county, 0., July 2, 1859, and died at Mansfield, August 26, 1894. She was survived by the following children: Blanche A., born July 16, 1878, who is the wife of F. M. Young, of Logansport, Ind., and has one daughter, Frances; Maude A., born July 13, 1880, who is the wife of Jesse Casteel, a farmer at Lake Geneva, Wis., and has three children—Luella, Harry and Ellis F; Jessie M., who was born July 26, 1882, and died March 6, 1902; and Greeta L., who was born November 7, 1886, and died December 8, 1902. At Mansfield, O., Mr. Warner was married (second) in 1895, to Miss Georgia Casteel, who was born at Haysville, Ashland county, O., January 9, 1872, where she was educated. She comes from an old Castilian family of Spain, her ancestors having been driven from that country by religious persecution. They found their way to the eastern coast of the American continent and were among the early settlers at Jamestown, Va. Mrs. Warner is a daughter of Elias and Sarah M. (Fry) Casteel. Her father was born in Ohio and her mother at Evansville, Incl., and they were married at Hookstown, O. On July 4, 1876, they settled at Evansville, Ind., later moving to Mansfield, O., where he carried on business as a shoe merchant. In 1861 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering the 101st O. Vol. Inf., from which he was subsequently discharged on account of disability, when he returned to Haysville, O., and there his death occurred December 3, 1884. His wife survived until January 12, 1897. The family belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and to the same religious body Mr. and Mrs. Warner are attached. They have had two children: Fremont Casteel, who was born September 7, 1902, and died October 5 in the same year; and Lolo Belle, who was born October 20, 1907. Politically Mr. Warner is a Republican but his busy life scarcely affords him time or opportunity to accept any public office although few men are better qualified, but he takes an intelligent citizen's interest in all that promises to benefit his city. For many years he has been a member of Trinity Lodge F. & A. M., at Bucyrus. He and family enjoy an attractive and comfortable residence and their circle of friends is a large one. J. E. JOHNSON, general farmer and stock raiser, who owns a well improved farm of 42 acres, which lies four and one-half miles north of Bucyrus, 0., was born in Washington county. Md., September 7, 1871, and is a son of Luther and Mary (Furry) Johnson. Luther Johnson was born in Maryland and from there went to Franklin county, Pa., where he engaged in farming for many years and died at the age of 62. Some 30 years ago he came to Crawford county and spent a few weeks here but returned to his old home in Pennsylvania and never came back. He was married in that state to Mary Furry and they had the following children born to them: j. E., William, Clara, Lizzie, Mac and David, Mac being now deceased. J. E. Johnson had common school advantages in Franklin county, Pa., and assisted his father afterward until 1886, when he came to Crawford county, O. For thirteen years afterward Mr. Johnson worked on farms in this county, becoming well acquainted with the people and with the relative value of different sections in the farming districts. After marriage he purchased a farm in Marion county 642 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY and operated it for two years and then moved to Galion, where his wife died and after disposing of his property there he went to Henry county. Subsequently he married again and then returned to Galion and later went to Bucyrus where he worked for one year for the American Clay Machinery people, after which, in 1907, he bought his present farm and has been here ever since. The buildings were sufficiently comfortable and in good enough repair for use but there were many other improvements that Mr. Johnson has thought desirable and has put them in place. He is numbered with the competent and successful agriculturists of Holmes township and is one of its most, respected citizens. Mr. Johnson was married first to Miss Cora Meyers and second to Miss Kate Meyers. His two children, Howard W. and Stanley C. were both born to his first union. In politics Mr. Johnson is a Democrat and while living in Marion county he served on the school board, but has accepted no office since coming to Holmes township. D. W. BRICKLEY, M. D., physician and surgeon at Galion, O., specialist in general surgery and a member of the medical firm of Morgan & Brickley, operating a private hospital, was born at Galion, O., in 1877 and is well known to the people of this city. He is a son of Samuel and Mary (Hershner) Brickley. Samuel Brickley was born in Morrow county, O., was a farmer and carpenter in both Crawford and Morrow counties and died in Troy township in the latter county, in June, 1911, when aged seventy years. His widow survives and continues to occupy the old homestead in Troy township. She is a member of the United Brethren church. The family consisted of four sons and one daughter. D. W. Brickley enjoyed educational advantages in different sections and attended the Johnsville High School and completed additional work in Mansfield, O., and later, from 1896 until igoo. engaged in teaching and study, after which he entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus. O., where he was graduated in the class of 1964. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate (Medical) School and Hospital, where he secured valuable surgical and hospital experience. He was engaged in practice at Canal Winchester prior to coming to Galion. Here, in partnership with Dr. Morgan he conducts a private hospital and the firm are the surgeons for the Big hour and the Erie Railways and official examiners for the U. S. Marine corps. He is a member of the county and state medical bodies and of the American Medical Association. Dr. Brickley was married in Morrow county to Miss Luetta B. Baker, a daughter of C. A. and Ellen (Emig) Baker. Mr. Baker is now established in the undertaking and furniture business at Truman, Minn. Dr. and Mrs. Brickley have two sons: Daniel W. and Charles Lester. They are members of the United Brethren church. He is a 32nd degree Mason, belongs to the Blue Lodge and Chapter at Galion, the Council at Bucyrus, the Commandery at Mansfield, the Consistory at Columbus, and the Shrine at Toledo. His time is too much occupied to permit of much political activity but in national matters he casts his vote with the Democracy. T. M. DROLESBAUGH, who has been a resident of Crawford county, O., since his nineteenth year, carries on general farming and stock raising on his well improved place six miles northwest of Bucyrus. He was born at Oil City, Pa., and is a son of James and Elizabeth Bell (Marshall) Drolesbaugh. James Drolesbaugh was a farmer before he enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of the 171st Pa. Vol. Inf., and contracted illness during his service which caused his death, when he was 41 years of age. He married Elizabeth Bell Marshall, who now resides in Perry county, Pa., being in her seventieth year. They had three children: T. M., Mrs. Catherine Gray and Mrs. Amanda Smith, both sisters of Mr. Drolesbaugh being residents of Perry county. T. M. Drolesbaugh was young when his parents moved to Perry county, Pa., and he attended the public schools and Bloomfield Academy. Afterward he migrated to Crawford county, O., and worked for some nears as a farm hand, and then embarked in the implement business and conducted the same for fourteen years at Bucyrus. After selling he purchased a farm which he operated for AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 643 two years and later bought his present place of io acres on which he has resided ever since. Mr. Drolesbaugh was married in Perry county to Miss Anna Meminger, who died in October, 1908, at the age of 46 years, leaving two children : Guernsey and Amy, both of whom reside with their father. Mr. Drolesbaugh served almost ten years in Company A, 8th Regiment O. N. G., and has in his possession three honorable discharges and also telegrams received during the strike of 1895 from President McKinley, who was then Governor of Ohio. As captain of the Sons of Veterans Mr. Drolesbaugh put Col. Lemet Camp on a substantial basis as to membership and finances. He has a wide acquaintance with big game hunters, having been near Hudson Bay, Canada, and all over the northern portion of the Province of Quebec. In politics, Mr. Drolesbaugh is a Democrat and locally is influential in his party. He served four years as constable of Bucyrus. At present he is serving in the office of constable for Holmes township. JOHN W. McCARRON., attorney at law, who has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Galion, O., since igoz and is a representative and useful citizen, was born in Richland county, O., February 12, 1874, and is a son of Fred., and a grandson of James McCarron. James McCarron was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and possibly was born in New Jersey, from which state he came to Ohio at an early day. He located first in Columbiana county but later moved to Fredericktown, in Knox county, where he engaged in brick manufacturing until his death, when aged fifty years. He married Jane Baker, who lived to the age of eighty-five years, passing away in Ashland county. They were among the early supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church, in that section. Frederick McCarron was born in Columbiana county, O., and has spent the greater part of his life as a farmer. He still resides near Fredericktown, in Knox county, where he is well known and much respected. He is a Democrat in his political views but has never sought public office. He was married in Richland county, O., to Priscilla Hunter, who was born there in 1848, and died in Knox county, March 10, 19o8. Her parents were Benjamin and Sarah (Jump) Hunter, and her brother, Robert Hunter, who is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a resident of Richland county, is a prominent man of that part of the state. The grandfather, James Hunter, who served in the War of 1812, was a son of a Revolutionary soldier. To Frederick McCarron and wife a family was born and five of their children survive, all, of whom, with one exception, have domestic circles of their own. John W. McCarron was reared in Knox county, attended school at the Ohio State Normal School, Ada, O., and for a few years before graduating in law, taught school, but was admitted to the bar shortly after his twenty-first birthday, in June, 1895. For about six years Mr. McCarron engaged in law practice at Mt. Vernon, O., and then came to Galion, where he has built up a very satisfactory practice. Mr. McCarron was married to Miss Julia Menges, who was born at Sandusky, O., a daughter of Jacob and Julia (Stecker) Menges, who came to America from Germany when young. The parents of Mrs. McCarron reside at Crestline, O., and are aged about seventy-five years. For fifty years Jacob Menges has been a piano instructor and is a man of great musical talent. Mrs. McCarron, the only daughter in a family of four children, has inherited a large measure of musical talent. She was two years old when her parents moved from Sandusky to Crestline and was educated there. Mr. and Mrs. McCarron have two children: Ruth M. and Robert F., aged respectively eleven and six years. The family belongs to the First Presbyterian church. Mr. McCarron is identified With the Knights of Pvthias, the Maccabees and the Foresters. His political rearing was in the Democratic party and he has continued loyal to its principles. CHARLES G. F. REIFF, who owns a fine, well improved farm of eighty-two acres, situated in Holmes township, Crawford county, O., has spent almost all his life here but was born in Seneca county, O., in 1862, and is a son of J. C. and Mary (Shaub) Reiff. 644 - HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY J. C. Reiff was born in 1836, in Germany, and from there came to the United States when he was eighteen years of age and located in Seneca county, O., moving from there to Crawford county in the fall of 1862. He died here October 23, 1887, and of his ten children there are seven yet living. Charles G. F. Reiff was an infant when his parents came to Holmes township. After his attendance in the district schools was over he engaged in farming and also learned the stonemason's trade. While he has continued to operate his farm he has also clone considerable work in this section as a mason and is well known in that connection all over the county. Mr. Reiff has improved his property and has built a comfortable and commodious residence. He married Miss Minnie A. Snavely and they have four children: Floy F., Lulu F., Arthur A. and O. M. Mr. Reiff and family attend the United Brethren church. He is an active citizen in local matters, takes much interest in the public schools and at present is serving as a school director. In politics he is a Democrat. J. E. GELSANLITER, one of the substantial citizens and representative business men of Galion, O., proprietor of the Boston Street Meat Market, was born in Polk township, Crawford county, O., April 2, 1861, and is a son of George and Elizabeth (Burgener) Gelsanliter. George Gelsanliter was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1834, and some years later accompanied his parents to America, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a sailing vessel that required three months to make the voyage. The family located in Richland county, O., and ten years later the father died. He helped to clear off the timber that then covered the present site of Crestline. For many years he was a well digger and pump manufacturer but later became a farmer and since 1865 has resided on his valuable farm located just outside the limits of Galion. He married Elizabeth Burgener, who was born in Morrow county, O., and she also survives, and, like her husband, is in the enjoyment of excellent health. They are members of the English Lutheran church. One son and two daughters were born to them, the latter being Alice Rosella and Bertha May. The younger daughter was the first wife of Leonard Fickersen and at death she left two children: George and Leonard, Mr. Fickersen subsequently was married to the older daughter and she is now living at the home of her parents with the boys. Mr. Fickersen died about five years ago, leaving no children of his second marriage. J. E. Gelsanliter has always lived in Polk township, Crawford county, and he lived on the home farm until he came to Galion and went into business, some twenty-four years since. He started in the grocery business on the corner of Grove Avenue and Boston Street, opening up his place April 30, 1888, and he conducted the Boston Street Grocery for ten years, when he sold his grocery business to Evans & Kurrley and since then has devoted himself exclusively to his meat business. When he started he opened with his first stock of goods in a private house and now has a large and commodious establishment and owns property extending along Grove Avenue from Boston to Union Street. Mr. Gelsanliter was married near Galion, O., to Miss May Belle Cummings, who was born in Crawford county and is a daughter of Samuel and Emily (Baker) Cummings. The father of Mrs. Gelsanliter still lives on his old farm, being now in his 67th year, but his wife died in early life at the age of 28 years, survived by two children: Mrs. Gelsanliter and Charles, the latter of whom lives in Polk township and is a machinist by trade. To Mr. and Mrs. Gelsanliter six children were born, namely: Bessie, who died at the age of eighteen months; Olive, who graduated from the Galion High School and is now a member of the class of 1913, at Wittenberg College, Springfield, O. ; Norma Ethel, who graduated from the Galion High School in 1910 and is a student at Wittenberg College; Charles and George, both of whom are students in the Galion High School: and Alice May. All the family, except the youngest child, are members of the English Lutheran church. Politically a Democrat, Mr. Gelsanliter has served two terms on the city council and for the past six years has been a member of the board of education. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 645 CHARLES L. SHAWK, general farmer and stock raiser, residing six miles northwest of Bucyrus, O., where he owns seventy-six acres, was born on the old home place north of Bucyrus, in 1861, on which his father, J. T Shawk, still resides, being now in his seventy-sixth year. Charles L. Shawk attended the schools of Crawford county and afterward was a student for two terms at Hillsdale, Mich., and thenreturned to the home farm and assisted his father for several years. From there he moved one mile south of Wingert's Corners or Brokensword, where he remained until March, 1883, when he returned to the home farm for two years and then settled on the old Thomas Shawk's farm, south of Wingert's Corners or Brokensword, and after two years there came to his present place. He has made all the substantial improvements here and also on his other farm of eighty acres, which lies -one-half mile to the west. In March, 1883, Mr. Shawk was married to Miss Laura Wilhelm, a daughter of the lateChristian Wilhelm, and they have three children: Guy, Arthur and Grace. In politics Mr. Shawk is a Democrat. With his family he belongs to the United Brethren church at Bethe in Holmes township. T. C. Shawk, who resides four miles northwest of Bucyrus, on his farm of eighty acres, was born on the old Shawk farm north of Bucyrus, in 1872. Since leaving school he has been continuously engaged in farm pursuits, remaining on the homestead for some ten years following his marriage and coming then to his present farm on which he built both the house and barn. In 1896 he was married to Miss Emma Meek and they have three children: Russell, Willard and Warren. With his family he belongs to the Evangelical church at Harmony. Politically he is a Democrat. CHARLES JEFFERSON CRISSINGER, who controls a large amount of the real estate and insurance business at Galion, O., was born in Crawford county, O., August 6, 1846, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Coblen) Crissinger, and a grandson of George Cris-singer. George Crissinger was of German extraction but was born in Northumberland county, Pa., was reared there to farm pursuits and all his life expressed himself in the Pennsylvania German dialect. He married in Pennsylvania and there his five sons and perhaps an equal number of daughters were born and they accompanied him when he moved to Crawford county, 0., in the early thirties. Jacob Crissinger, son of George and father of Charles J., was born in Pennsylvania, in February, 1812, and died in Ohio, May 13, 1885. He was a young man when he accompanied his parents to Ohio but subsequently returned to Pennsylvania to marry Elizabeth Coble, who was born there in 1817 and died in Ohio September 23, 1861. After returning to Ohio they lived in Whetstone township, Crawford county, and became some of its most respected people. Jacob Crissinger was a carpenter by trade and also was an auctioneer and cried sales all over the county in both the German and the English languages. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Their family contained the following children: Catherine, who was born October 20, 1838, died in 1876, married Samuel Kennedy and left seven children, all now deceased; Malinda, born in 1840, died July 17, 1881, married William Hile, also now deceased; Eli, who was born March 26, 1843, died unmarried, September 22, 1873; Emanuel C., who follows the carpenter trade at Galion; Daniel, who follows the same trade, in Whetstone township; William, who was born in 1848, died unmarried in 1861; Andrew, who was born in 1859, died in 1862; Sarah, who was born in 1854, died in 1856. Jacob Crissinger was married (second) to Mrs. Keziah Cramer and the following children were born to this union: Moses, who was born September 26, 1866, died April 7, 1873; Jacob, who is a resident of Marion, 0., and has a wife and three daughters; Sarah, who is the wife of a Mr. Fisher, of Marion county, and they have a large family; and Hattie, who is the wife of Joseph Reber, and they live at Chicago, Ill. Until he was sixteen years of age, when he started out to take care of himself, Charles J. Crissinger attended school and gave his father assistance. He continued to work at farming until he was twenty-three years old and then learned the carpenter trade, which he followed 646 - HISTORY OP CRAWFORD COUNTY until 1887, when he embarked in the grocery business and continued until zyoi. In that year he disposed of his grocery interests and went into the real estate and insurance business and has been very successful along this line and through his efforts much real estate has changed hands here and capital has been brought to this section. Mr. Crissinger is one of the representative business men of the city. In early manhood, in Whetstone township, Mr. Crissinger was married to Miss Civilla Noblit, who was born there October 4, 1850, and they have been residents of Galion since 1872. Her parents, Robert and Susanna (Albright) Noblit, were born in Pennsylvania and came to Crawford county as early settlers and lived and died on their farm in Whetstone township, the father passing away at the age of sixty-three years but the mother surviving to the age of seventy-four years. They were members of the Reformed church. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Noblit, namely: Samuel, who died unmarried, in 186i John, who resides with his family in Whetstone township; Mary M., who is a resident of the above township; and Isaac, who is a resident of Bucyrus, O. Mr. and Mrs. Crissinger had one son, Edward Wilson, who was born September 30, 1872. He was a young business man of promise and had a bright future before him when he was accidentally killed on a railroad crossing, January 4, 1901. He was survived by his young wife, Mrs. Mary F. (Burwell) Crissinger. She was born in Jefferson township, Crawford county. 0., a daughter of Calvin and Martha (Gledhill) Burwell, old residents of Jefferson township, where they spent their entire lives. Mr. and Mrs. Crissinger were members of the United Brethren church. In his political views he is a Democrat. WINFIELD S. SPEIGEL, who owns and resides on the old Miller homestead, which is situated four miles north of Bucyrus, 0., was born near Pleasant Home in 1872, and is a son of John Speigel, one of the early settlers of Holmes township, Crawford county. O. The family is of German extraction and it has many representatives in this section, all substantial and respected people. Winfield S. Speigel attended the country schools and then turned his attention to farming, beginning on a place just west of his present farm, where he cultivated eighty acres until 1912, when he moved to the farm he recently purchased. In the latter he has fifty-nine acres and he still retains his first farm on which he made all the improvements and erected the substantial buildings. General farming has been successfully carried on and moderate stock raising. Mr. Speigel was married in early manhood to Miss Amanda Walther, who was born in Liberty township, Crawford county, 0., and they have two children: Marie and Alberta. As a citizen, Mr. Speigel takes an interest in public matters and votes with the Democratic party but he has never desired to assume the cares of office. RALPH O. PERROTT, secretary and manager of the American Clay Machinery Company, of Bucyrus, 0., has been identified with this large manufacturing concern since 1901 and has occupied his present position since 1906, entering the business as a stenographer immediately after his graduation from the Bucyrus High School. He was born in this city in January, 1883, a son of John R. and Nancy J. (Bacon) Perrott. The parents of Mr. Perrott were born, reared and married in the western part of Pennsylvania and for a number of years have been residents of Bucyrus, where they recently celebrated their fifty-second wedding anniversary. About 1860 they came to Ohio and located at Crestline where John R. Perrott was employed in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a skilled machinist. In the early seventies they removed to Bucyrus and this has been their home ever since, and during the greater part of this time up to the present, Mr. Perrott has been with the Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredging Company. So highly do his employers regard his capacity as an expert machinist that they entrusted to him the making of their exhibition dredges which excited much interest when they were shown at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill. Mr. Perrott is now 73 years of age but, nevertheless, quietly and efficiently carries on his usual activities daily and his company yet relies on his skill and judgment in AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 649 everything concerning their machinery. With his wife he attends the Presbyterian church. They have five children, two of whom are married. Ralph O. Perrott was educated in his native city and, as he has taken care of himself, in a practical way, since he was seven years of age, may justly be termed a self made man. As a lad he delivered newspapers and then conceived the idea that he would like to be a printer. Accordingly he entered the Hopley printing establishment and learned the business in all its departments. From the very first he had saved a portion of his earnings and when he decided to turn his attention to other than newspaper work, he had enough means laid by to ensure him against financial embarrassment. After showing ability as a stenographer with the American Clay Machinery Company, he was transferred from the general office to the credit department, where his powers of organization were soon shown and he was placed at the head of this important branch of the business. Through his systematic methods and good judgment he soon established this department on a firm basis and not only succeeded in collecting debts of large volume that had been considered worthless by the firm, but so regulated the line of credits that such embarrassments in the future could be largely eliminated. His value as an executive officer could not be overlooked and in 1906 the board of directors elected him first secretary of the corporation and manager of the Bucyrus factory, a timely recognition of his talents, fidelity and industry. Mr. Perrott is yet numbered with the city's young business men but he stands high in this connection and enjoys the confidence of people who have known him all his life. Mr. Perrott was married at Bucyrus to Miss Blanche Quilter, who was born and educated in this city, a daughter of Frank and Bridget (Kane) Quilter, the former of whom is superintendent of the Broken Sword Stone Company of Bucyrus. Mr. and Mrs. Quilter and Mrs. Perrott are all members of the Roman Catholic church. On May 24, 1909, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Perrott, whom they named Margaret Maxine. Mr. Perrott is a member of the Episcopal church. He is active in local interests of various kinds, is a director of the Farmers National Bank; secretary of the Bucyrus City Hospital Association; and chairman of the finance committee, of the Y. M. C. A., in which relation he assisted in raising the sum of $17,000. Be is a Knight Templer Mason and is an active member of the order of Elks. Politically both he and his' father are Republicans. JOHN SANFORD BURNISON, who has been identified with the Erie Railway Company for 33 years—continuously since 1876 with the exception of three years—has been conductor on the Fourth Division between Marion and Dayton, O., since 1884 and is justly popular with the public as he is held in high regard by the company. He was born near Galion, O., October 1, 1858, and is a son of John and Mary (Myers) Burnison. John Burnison was born February 20, 1819, at Canton, O., and died in Hardin county, November 27, 1880. His father, who was born in Scotland, came to the United States quite early in life and secured later 200 acres of land in Stark county, on which the city of Canton now stands. He and wife both died in Wyandot county. John Burnison became a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits in Marion, Crawford and Hardin counties. He was a man of sterling qualities and was well known and much respected. He married Mary Myers, who was born in Germany, March 4, 1820, and was sixteen years of age when she came to the United States and died in Ohio at the age of sixty years. In early married life they were members of the United Brethren church but later united with the Dunkard body. They had ten children, seven sons and three daughters. The three surviving members of this family are: John Sanford; James H., who lives. in Hardin county, O.; and Emma, who is the wife of Alvin Wall, a resident of Hardin county. John Sanford Burnison was married (first) in Hardin county, to Miss Jennie Wall, who was born there in 1860 and died March 14, 1906, survived by one son, Roy O., who was born August 27, 1882. He was educated in the Galion schools and has his home at Crestline, being a conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He married Miss Kittie Fecke, and they have one daughter, Dorothea, who was