PAGE 598 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS COLONEL JOHN L. VANCE. (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest esteem of himself and his accomplishments but rather to leave the record establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his fellowmen. Colonel Vance has been one of the world's workers and public opinion has agreed upon the fact that his labors have been of value to his fellow citizens and the state in which he has long made his home. The public life of few residents of this community has stood over a longer period and none has been more constant in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation. Colonel Vance started upon life's journey July 19, 1839, at Gallipolis. Ohio, and was the eldest child of Alexander and Eliza (Shepard) Vance. After attending the public schools he became a pupil in the Gallia Academy and also largely broadened his knowledge through the experience which he had in his father's printing office that be entered at the age of eleven years. That he made progress along intellectual lines is indicated by the fact that when seventeen years of age he was employed as one of the public school teachers of Walunt township and the following year he was appointed to the position of district clerk of the courts of Gallia county. While engaged in the execution of the duties of that office he took up the study of law and continued his course in the law school of Cincinnati College in the fall of 1860. His graduation followed in the succeeding spring and his knowledge of legal principles constituted an element in his successful life work. In 1860 Colonel Vance accepted a position on the staff of General Constable of the Ohio Militia; the day following his graduation from the law school he was ordered to report to Gallipolis for military duty. There he recruited and organized the first troops at Gallipolis and was the first man to enter the service of the Union army from that county. By reason of his position on the general's staff he could not become a member of the company but was active in various military duties until June 3, 1861, when he recruited a company for three years' service and was mustered into the United States Army as captain of Company B, Fourth Virginia Infantry on the 5th of July, 1861. The regiment was composed almost equally of Ohioans and Virginians and for eighteen months after the enlistment the troops were engaged in active service in West Virginia. The regiment then went south and participated in the campaigns, battles and skirmishes of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge and PAGE 599 - THE PICTURE OF COL. JOHN L. VANCE PAGE 600 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 601 Knoxville and the military movements in northern Alabama. While commanding the regiment in the early part of 1864 Colonel Vance and his men veteranized and returning northward took part in the campaigns under Generals Crook, Hunter and Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. During the progress of the war the Fourth Virginia as a whole or in part was in active duty at forty-seven battles and skirmishes and its losses were severe. During the Vicksburg campaign four hundred of its members were either killed or wounded. In recognition of his meritorious services on the field of battle Captain Vance was promoted successively to the rank of major, lieutenant colonel and colonel and was in command of the regiment in all of the battles of 1864, in which the Fourth Virginia participated and at times commanded the brigade. He was severely wounded in one of the charges before Vicksburg and sustained five other wounds. On several occasions he was detailed for important duty aside from his regiment and when mustered out was tendered a commission in the regular army but declined, feeling that he had discharged his full duty to his country. His military record was a most creditable one and was characterized by unfaltering fidelity in every task assigned him. He has always been deeply interested in the welfare of the old soldier and in 1868 he was made the delegate to the national convention of soldiers and sailors held in New York city. When the war was over Colonel Vance engaged in steamboating and was aboard the steamer Cottage, on the Kanawha, when the vessel was blown up and he was severely injured. In 1867 he began the publication of the Gallipolis Bulletin and was closely identified with journalistic interests of the state until 1900 when he sold the paper to M. F. Merriman. This undertaking had been attended with gratifying success for he conducted his paper in accordance with progressive ideas of modern journalism and was given a large patronage. Through the press his labors became an effective force in political circles and otherwise he was active in politics although connected with the minority party of the state. He has never swerved in his allegiance to the democracy and in 1865 accepted the nomination for the state legislature and in 1869 for the state senate, making the race to maintain party organization even though he knew that there was not the slightest hope for success. In 1872 he represented his district in the democratic national convention and has been a delegate to almost every state convention since the war. He was a. member of the state central and executive committees for year, and in 1874 received a majority of two thousand that sent him to congress as representative of the counties of Gallia. Lawrence, Scioto, Jackson, Vinton and Hocking. This election was aa merited tribute to his ability and unmistakable proof of his personal popularity for the district was largely republican. In 1876 when again a candidate he was defeated by the Hon. Henry S. Neal. In 1884 at the urgent request of the state and national committees who recognized him as one of the most influential democrats of the district he again became a candidate for congress, the district then comprised of Gallia. Meigs. Athens. Morgan and Perry, being hopelessly republican. his opponent on this occasion being General Grosvener. While in congress he was appointed to serve as chairman of the joint committee on printing and was a member of the committee to investigate Louisi- 602 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS ana affairs, this committee holding its meetings in New Orleans. He voted against the electoral commission bill, being one of eighteen who so voted. He was appointed a member to fill a vacancy on the committee to investigate the De Golyer paving scandals but declined to sign the report prepared by the chairman. When President Cleveland was inaugurated in 1885 many democratic leaders urged him to permit his name to be used for one of the numerous important political appointments but he declined for his ambition has never been in the line of office holding and instead he used his influence for his friends. In all his long public career he never sought a position or a. nomination for himself, his political honors being the party recognition of his ability and worth. In 1877 he was prominently spoken of for governor and received a large vote in the state convention. In 1875 he was temporary chairman of the democratic state convention and on that occasion delivered an address which was published throughout this and other states and won wide and favorable comment from the press. While Colonel Vance is recognized as one of the most prominent democrats of Ohio his friends are as numerous in the opposition party as in his own, which fact indicates that his course has never been bitterly aggressive and that all recognize and respect his loyalty to his honest convictions. It was soon after the war on the 4th of October, 1866 that Colonel Vance wedded his cousin. Emily Shepard, a daughter of John C. and Marie Louise Shepard. the latter a daughter of Charles and Genevieve Creuzet, who became residents of Gallipolis in 1817. Three sons were born unto Colonel and Mrs. Vance: Creuzet Vance has been United States Immigrant inspector since March, 1895. being stationed at New York until December. 1903, but has since that date been located at Columbus. John L. Vance. the second son, was the youngest man ever appointed national bank examiner. He filled the position for several years after which he became president of the First National Bank of Gallipolis and secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Trust Company of Columbus. Frank R. Vance is now a member of the Columbus Board of Review. Several years ago Colonel Vance was elected a member of the celebrated Manhattan Club of New York. He has always been interested in the welfare of his army comrades and has put forth effective and far-reaching influence in their behalf on many occasions. He has delivered numberless addresses on patriotic occasions and particularly on memorial day and he has served several times as commander of the local Grand Army Post. He is also a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion and it is a well known fact that he has never asked nor received compensation of any sort either directly or indirectly for any service that he has ever done for a soldier. How few could parallel this record. His work has been the generous offering of one whose loyalty to the interests of his old comrades in arms was above question. While his early ambition as a member of the bar was frustrated through his military experience he would undoubtedly, by reason of his talents, have gained distinction before the courts. He was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States and of the state of New York and at the urgent request of both sides he acted a referee in a case of importance under an ap- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS -603 pointment from the supreme court of New York. He has long been a member of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce and one year represented that organization in the annual meeting of the National board of trade. He is a student of the signs of the times and keeps thoroughly informed on all matters of vital moment and interest and he has been called to deliver various public addresses, speaking at different times before the Manufacturers Association of Cincinnati and also before the chamber of commerce. Called to the presidency of the Gallipolis board of trade he thus served for twelve years and was chairman of the executive committee of the centennial celebration in 1890, also acting in similar capacity at the great soldiers reunion in 1888. He was presiding officer at a. reunion in the '90s and, in 1891-2, was president of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society and one of the charter members of the Elks lodge of Gallipolis. His has been an active and useful life and yet he has found time for cooperation with the good work of the Masonic fraternity and for one year filled the office of eminent commander in the Rose Croix Commandery, K. T. He has taken the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. Colonel Vance's work in behalf of general improvement has been of an effective and beneficial character. He has been the advocate of good roads and for several years served as road commissioner. At one time he was a director of the Ohio Northwestern Railroad Company and he has also been identified with street railway interests. He became a partner of Hollis C. Johnston in organizing a company which built a street railway from Gallipolis to Paint Pleasant and acted as president of the company. He has figured also in connection with the intellectual progress of the state. having been a member of the board of trustees of Rio Grande College since 1895 and a, member of the board of trustees of the Boys Industrial Home at Lancaster. through appointment by Governors Bushnell and Nash. He aided in organizing the Hocking Valley Editorial association of which he served as president for many years. During Governor Campbell's administration he was made quartermaster general and commissary general of subsistence of the state of Ohio with the rank of brigadier general. In 1889 Colonel Vance began agitating the question of erecting a hospital in Ohio for epileptics and secured the passage of a bill by the legislature "to determine upon the manner in which provision shall be made for the care of the epileptics and epileptic insane of the state." By appointment of the governor Colonel Vance was made a. member of the commission to select a site and prepare plans in conformity with the provisions of the bill. He was elected president of the commission and, after a long and bitter struggle. Gallipolis was selected as the site while subsequent legislation in which he took part provided appropriation, the results of which are to be seen today. Perhaps the most important public work with which Colonel Vance has been connected is the improvement of the Ohio river by system of locks and dams to provide six feet of water at low water. In 1895 he was elected president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and has been reelected each year since that time. This association draws its membership from the entire length 604 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS of the Ohio river and its tributaries. Since the organization of the association, and largely through its work, appropriations have been made to improve the Ohio and its tributaries to the sum of nearly twenty million dollars. The continuous contract system has been adopted by congress and locks and dams are now being built at various points so that soon the result for which Colonel Vance is working will be a fact and the Ohio will contain six feet of water from Pittsburg to Cairo. The work that he has accomplished in this direction is one which should win for him the gratitude, encouragement and commendation of all who have the interests of the great Ohio valley at heart. In January, 1904, Colonel Vance was unanimously elected to life membership in the Cincinnati chamber of commerce and is also an honorary member of the Wheeling board of trade. He possesses a genial manner and his unfailing courtesy and generous disposition have made him the valued friend of many high in authority. His record has reflected credit and honor upon the state which has honored him and no history of Columbus would be complete were there failure to make specific reference to the life and public services of Colonel Vance. His have been "massive deeds and great," in one respect. and yet, they have but represented the fit utilization of the innate talents which are his. That which differentiates him from the majority of his fellows and has made his life of the unusual, rather than of the usual is the fact that he has utilized his talents and powers, not for the benefit of self alone, but for the welfare of his fellowmen in the progress of the world. He has indeed been one of the world's workers, thoroughly alive to the situation and possibilities of the present, and in all things he has labored not only for the benefit of the moment but for the future as well. C. O. PROBST, M.D. No physician of Columbus is more, widely known throughout Ohio than Dr. C. O. Probst of the state board of health, in which connection he ha done splendid work for the profession and for the commonwealth at large. He was born in Middleport, Ohio, December 4, 1857, and is a son of William B. Probst, a native of Somerset, Pennsylvania, who. when a boy, became a resident of Pomeroy, Ohio, to which place his father, George Probst. removed and there established a furniture factory. He became moreover an influential man in public affairs of the community. The family is of French lineage, the great-grandfather of Dr. Probst having come to the new world from Nantes, France, in the latter part of the eighteenth century and taken up his abode at Somerset, Pennsylvania, where he erected a. factory. In the maternal line Dr. Probst is descended from an old New England family. His mother. who bore the maiden name of Martha Grant. was born in Meigs county. Ohio, and was a daughter of Oliver Grant. The Grants removed from Maine to Ohio, representatives of the name having in the meantime served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. Philip Jones, the grandfather of Martha (Grant) Prohst, was also one of the pioneer residents of CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS -605 Meigs county and famous as a hunter there in early days. His father, who had served actively in the battle of Lexington. married a member of the Pitts family from England. While spending his youthful days in his parents' home Dr. Probst acquired his preliminary education and then took up the study of medicine in the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati from which he was graduated in 1882. He practiced for a year or two at West Columbia. West Virginia, and afterwards opened an office in Athens, Ohio. The ability which he displayed in coping with the intricate problems that continuously confront the physician brought him constantly increasing renown and led to his selection in 1880 for the position of secretary of the Ohio State Board of Health, in which capacity he is still serving. The work that he has done in this connection is of a most important character and has done much to further health conditions in this state through the dissemination of knowledge concerning sanitation and general health laws. He is still to some extent in the practice of medicine but the important nature of his official duties requires the major portion of his time. However he keeps in touch with the advance along medical and surgical lines and is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. For a period of fifteen years he was professor of hygiene at Starling Medical College and for ten years has been secretary of the American Public Health association, which embraces the United States. Canada, Mexico and Cuba. In 1881 Dr. Probst was married to Miss Eva Lee Knight, a daughter of Dr. A. L. Knight, a distinguished physician of West Virginia who was a surgeon in the Confederate army during the, Civil war. They have two sons, Karl and Leighton. Dr. Probst is one of the prominent members of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and is interested in the various sociological. economical and political questions bearing upon the welfare of the country. In many lines of progress he keeps in touch with the best thinking men of the age, while his work in an official capacity has brought him into prominence before the public and won him high esteem. ORLOF T. BROWN. On the roster of county and state officials who have their headquarters in Columbus appear the name of many who are loyal to the interests they represent and are promoting progress through intelligently directed effort. To this class belongs Orlof T. Brown, now the first deputy state fire marshal of Ohio. He was born in Cambridge, Guernsey county, a. son of Major J. K. Brown. one of the prominent residents of eastern Ohio, who served as a gallant soldier in the Civil war, being afterward commissioner of immigration at Honolulu in the Hawaiian islands and who is now deceased. He also figured prominently in political circles and was secretary of the republican state executive committee and supervisor of public printing under the 606 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS appointment of Governor Charles Foster. For a third of a century he was closely identified with state and national politics, studying closely the vital questions and issues of the day and putting forth practical effort to secure the adoption of the principles in which he believed. After attending the public schools of Cambridge, Ohio. Orlof T. Brown entered business life in the initial connection of bookkeeper for the Ohio National Bank at Washington, where he remained for two years. On the expiration of that period he became associated with the United States Weather Bureau, acting as weather observer for seven years. Subsequently he went to Honolulu. where he acted as assistant bookkeeper for the Hawaiian Trust Company for a year. After his return from the Pacific island, he entered the fire marshal's office, as first deputy under the administration of Governor Myron T. Herrick, his incumbency continuing from 1904 until 1906. In the latter year he was appointed state examiner in the bureau of accounting by State Auditor Guilbert and filled that position in acceptable manner for two years. when he resigned to accept his present position in the fire marshal's office. He has filled various other positions and has had a wide experience in the business world. On the 16th of August, 1904. Mr. Brown was married to Miss Alberta E. Fowler. of Westerville, Ohio, and they have one daughter. Jane. Mr. Brown is identified with several fraternal organizations, holding membership with the Red lien, the Eagles, Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America and the Sons of Veterans. He is also a member of the Buckeye Republican Club and is recognized as one whose labors are effective in supporting the interests and growth of his party. He is at all times watchful of opportunity to advance republican interests while in office he is found as an accurate, systematic incumbent whose promptness also features as one of the evidences of his capability. ANDREW G. PUGH. A life of unremitting industry, well directed by sound judgment. has brought to Andrew G. Pugh a creditable measure of success in his work as a contractor for sewers, masonry and street paving of all kinds. He has always lived in Franklin county and the story of his progress in the business world is therefore well known to many of its citizens. He was born in this county, a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Jones) Pugh, who were natives of Wales. Following their marriage they sailed from that little rock-ribbed country in 1854 and eventually reached the harbor of New York. They did not delay in the eastern metropolis. however, but at once continued their journey into the interior of the country and established their home in Franklin county. Ohio. where the father engaged in farming. Both he and his wife are now residents of the capital city. Of eleven children born to them only three survive: Andrew G.. the subject of this ,sketch : John .I. Pugh. city librarian: and Isaac D. Pugh. deputy county auditor. PAGE 607 - PICTURE OF A. G. PUGH PAGE 608 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 609 Andrew G. Pugh is indebted to the public-school system of Columbus for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He made his initial step in the business world as an employe with Brown Brothers, civil engineers, with whom he remained for about a year. In December. 1873, he entered the city engineer's office serving under John Graham, city engineer, and his successor in office, Josiah Kinnear, by whom he was employed until April, 1878, when he entered the service of Kanmacher & Denig, contractors at Indianapolis, Indiana, who had the contract for the erection of the state capitol of Indiana. He served under Thomas H. Johnson, the chief engineer for the contractors, laying out and superintending the masonry foundations. His next employment was under W. H. Jennings, the chief engineer of the Hocking Valley Railroad, engaged on the location of branch. coal lines in Hocking. Perry and Athens counties, Ohio. On terminating that business relation he became clerk for M J. Becker, chief engineer of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, thus continuing until the spring of 1880, when he was detailed as assistant engineer maintenance of way on the Indianapolis division of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. He was thus busily engaged until the spring of 1882, when he was appointed superintending engineer on the construction of the northeast main trunk sewer at Columbus under John Graham, city engineer, which work was completed December 15, 1883. It was an important task, for the diameters of the sewers were from nine to six feet. Later Mr. Pugh was again associated with Thomas H. Johnson. the principal assistant engineer of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. on special surveys on the Chicago division. In the spring of 1884 he was appointed assistant city engineer by the city council in special charge of sewer construction for two years or until the spring of 1886. He was the superintendent of block stone paving on High street front Naghten street to Livingston avenue, for contracts made by Booth & Flinn, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, from April to October, 1886. and built for that firm the first brick roadway in Columbus on Spring street from High street to Third street. On the first of November, 1886, Mr. Pugh went to New York city, as superintendent for Booth & Flinn, on a large contract they had there for laying gas mains for the Standard Gas Company and completed this work with a large force of men by December 31, that year. Next. under M. J. Becker.. the chief engineer of the Pennsylvania lines. Mr. Pugh was the superintending engineer on the sewer systems built at the Columbus shops in January, February and March. 1887, and superintendent of masonry on the Little Miami, Louisville, Indianapolis and Chicago divisions of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis Railroad until the close of the year 1887. During March. 1888, he commenced work as a contractor for street paving of asphalt. brick and stone blocks and is still engaged in business wherever contracts can be secured. Under Julian Griggs, chief city engineer, he laid the first concrete foundations for four brick streets in Columbus in 1899. and for the double track street. railway in this city on Neil street from Spring Street to Mount Vernon avenue in 1899. His asphalt paving works and yard for storage of tools, wagons, material, etc. 610 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS is situated at No. 450 Woodland avenue. His office is now and has been for some years past in Room No. 405. Union National Bank building. On the 25th of October, 1882. Mr. Pugh was united in marriage to Miss Mary Helen Black, a daughter of John and Ednah (Mann) Black, of Richmond, Indiana. They had two children: Ednah Helen Pugh and Grayce Black Pugh. The wife and mother died July 12, 1894, and Mr. Pugh was married, on the 1st of September, 1896. to Miss Jessie Miles, a daughter of Yearsley and Minerva (Fitzwater) Miles. He resides with his wife and daughters at No. 875 Franklin avenue. the residence being built in the fall of 1891. In his fraternal relations Mr. Pugh is a Mason and has attained high rank in the order. He has been a member of Goodale Lodge No. 372. A. F. & A. M., since March 28. 1892, and is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar. He likewise crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. March 17. 1894. Such in brief is the history of one of Franklin county's native sons, a man whose integrity, determination and energy have constituted the foundation of his success. As the years have gone by he has made an excellent record as a competent, thorough-going, reliable and trustworthy business man and is now conducting a profitable and growing business. JOHN L. LAWLER. John L. Lawler. who since 1889 has resided in Columbus. from which point he is directing important business interests. being today known as an extensive dealer in coal, limestone and their products, is a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was born August 5. 1846. and when but seven years of age was brought, to Ohio by his parents. Daniel and Ellen (Sherlock) Lawler, both natives of Ireland, the former born in County Kildare and the latter in county Meath. In 1842 they became residents of Pittsburg and were married in that city, where the father followed gardening until 1853, his leasehold including a tract of land that now constitutes the heart of the city, the present great Carnegie library there being located on a corner of what was once Daniel Lawler's garden. In the early '50s, however, he removed with his family to Vinton county, Ohio. where he was identified with agricultural pursuits until his death in 1888, his wife surviving until 1889. In the country schools of Vinton county. John L. Lawler pursued his education. When not busy with his text-books John Lawler worked upon the home farm and there remained until 1874, when he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in the same locality and continued the development of the fields in connection with handling live stock until 1879. In that year he exchanged his farm for a tract of heavily timbered land on the river division of the Hocking Valley Railroad. his tract of forest. including; much valuable poplar, walnut and hardwood. He then turned his attention to the lumber business. furnishing sawed timber, lumber ties for rail- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 611 ways and hardwoods of superior quality to the trade for domestic and other purposes. also converting the thousands of cords of waste wood into charcoal. which met with a ready sale and furnished the river division with its first regular and remunerative freight business and also supplied Union Furnace with a splendid charcoal fuel. This made an opening for the development of the great coal deposits, first for private use and finally for distant markets. Mr. Lawler added one hundred and five acres to his original holdings and from time to time increased his acreage by additional purchase until he was the owner of a tract of about one thousand acres of the finest coal lands in the state. He is still operating his mines and selling the product and since 1889 has directed his properties and their operation from Columbus. Year by year his business interests have expanded until the extent and importance of his trade relations today places him in a most prominent relation to business activity, not only of the capital city but of the state. Aside from his extensive coal, limestone and ore interests he is first vice president and director of the Union Building & Loan Savings Company, a director of the Keever Starch Company and a director of the Lincoln Savings Bank. On the 25th of January, 1875, Mr. Lawler was married to Miss Catherine C. Doran, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and they have seven daughters and a son: Mary E.. who is the widow of P. J. McNamee and resides at home with her two children; Clara Alice, the wife of Arthur E. Shannon, of the Shannon Furniture Company; Ellen A., the wife of William F. Gallic, a civil engineer of Columbus: Regina, the wife of Joseph F. O'Shaughnessey, a traveling .salesman for Green-Joyce Company; Grao E., at home; John C.. who is connected with his father in business ; and Stella E. and Elizabeth A.. who are attending school. The daughters all have been, or are being educated at St. Mary's of the Springs of Columbus. Mr. Lawler is a member of the Knights of Columbus. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and while residing in Vinton county he served as county commissioner for a term but declined a, reelection. This is the only political office that he has ever filled. for he has preferred to do his public service as a private citizen and to devote his attention to his business interests, which have constantly developed as the result of his initiative spirit and keen discernment. He has never feared that laborious attention to details so necessary to success and along well defined lines of labor has reached his present enviable position in financial circles. BUTLER SHELDON. Honored and respected wherever he is known, there is no man occupying a more enviable position in the commercial and financial circles of Columbus than does Butler Sheldon. vice president of the Sheldon Dry Goods Company. This is due not alone to the success he has achieved but also to the straightforward business principles he has ever followed. It is true he entered 612 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS upon a business already established but in controlling and enlarging this many men of less resolute spirit would have failed: and his record demonstrates the fact that success is not a matter of genius, as held by some. but is rather the outcome of clear judgment, experience and undaunted enterprise. Aside from his mercantile interests he is connected with various other corporate concerns. which are elements in the city's business activity and prosperity as well as a source of profit to the stockholders. Mr. Sheldon was born in Columbus. February 6, 1874. He is a son of Robert E. and Mary E. (Butler) Sheldon, the former president of the Sheldon Dry Goods Company and the Columbus Railway & Light Company. mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Entering the public schools, Butler Sheldon passed through consecutive grades until he, finally completed the third year in the high school. In his boyhood days he had spent his vacations in his father's store, natural instinct seeming to draw him to mercantile life. In 1891, at the age of seventeen, he entered the employ of Miles. Banroft & Sheldon, wholesale dealers in dry goods, becoming connected with the notion department. He bent every energy to the mastery of the business until his health failed in 1895, when he spent six months on a cattle ranch in northern Colorado. The outdoor life and exercise fully restored his health. He became junior partner in the house of Bancroft, Sheldon & Company on the 1st of January, 1898, was elected vice president of the Sheldon Dry Goods Company at the time of its organization January 1, 1901. In the years of his connection with the business he has thoroughly mastered it in principle and detail and as the: years have gone by he has passed on to a position of executive control, bending his efforts to administrative direction. He has been actuated in all his undertakings by the progressive spirit that characterizes the age, nor has he confined his attention alone to one line, the extent and importance of his business interests being indicated in the fact that he was elected president of the Columbus Railroad Company. June 18, 1903, president of the Columbus Traction Company in .January, 1907. and president of the Columbus Light, Heat & Power Company, September 15, 1908. Each successive annual election continues him in office and moreover he has done effective work for the city's interest, on the Columbus Board of Trade, serving as one of its directors and has been a member on several of its important committees. On the 12th of April, 1898. in Orange, New Jersey, Mr. Sheldon was married to Harriett J. Tilney. a daughter of John S. and Mary (Garner) Tilney. They have two sons. Ralph and Butler. the former born August 26, 1899. and the latter on August 15, 1901. The, family resides at Marble Cliff, a beautiful suburb built on the hills about five miles northwest of the city. There Mr. Sheldon has erected a handsome residence and has been closely connected with the affair: of the village. On the 4th of May 1898, he was elected mayor of the town. His political allegiance is given the republican party, of which he is a stalwart advocate but has no ambition for political honor or office aside from the service which he can render his village in behalf of good government and municipal progress. He belongs to the Central Presbyterian church and is popular socially having a circle of friends CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 613 almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintances. His business career has been marked by a thorough understanding of each task which he has undertaken and by that continuous progress which logically follows constantly expanding powers and employment of opportunity. THOMAS LAWRENCE CALVERT. Ability, enterprise, ambition and genuine worth never fail to leave an impress upon the activities of the community, in which they are manifest. Possessing these qualities Thomas L. Calvert through gradual stages of advancement has reached the responsible position of secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, in which connection he is doing splendid work to further the farming interests of Ohio. Practical experience acquainted him with the actual work of the farm in his boyhood days. He was born at Georgetown, Maryland, December 20, 1858, a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth Calvert, who had formerly been residents of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, except during a single year that included the date of their son's nativity, that year being passed in Maryland. Returning to Pennsylvania, they again established their home upon a farm. As the name indicates the Calverts are of Scotch lineage and there is also a Quaker strain in the blood. While still in his youthful days Thomas L. Calvert, Jr., came to Ohio and in this state entered the public schools, where he pursued his education save for a year or two which he spent in the Friends School at Newton, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, one of the excellent educational institutions of learning in that day and one which had a great influence in molding and fashioning for good the characters of its students. During the entire period of his youth Mr. Calvert was associated with the farm and its work, dividing his time between the duties of the field and the work of the schoolroom with an occasional hour for play and recreation. In his early manhood he secured a clerkship in a general store at Selma, Ohio, and later, thinking to find the profession of telegraphy profitable and congenial. he began learning the business. He was mistaken, however, in thinking to find it a pleasant pursuit for it proved irksome and monotonous to an active. robust youth and the indoor life was also detrimental to his health. Therefore he turned his attention to clerking and after a year in partnership with his brother. R. G. Calvert, he bought out his employer and they conducted a successful and growing enterprise until 1892, when Thomas L. Calvert disposed of his interests to his brother and returned to the farm near Selma. devoting his energies to its substantial development and cultivation until he was chosen to his present position as secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. on the 1st of May, 1906. He still maintains his home on the farm where his family spends the heated months of summer. The only other office which Mr. Calvert has ever filled is that of trustee of Madison township. Clark county. Ohio, which position he filled from 1879 until 1906, when he resigned to enter upon his present duties. 614 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS On the 14th of June, 1888, in Selma, Ohio, Mr. Calvert was united in marriage to Miss Elta F. Warner, a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Warner, of that village. Her father was also connected with farming pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert have three living children : Leland S., thirteen years of age; J. Donald, eleven years of age; and Helen E., a maiden of nine summers. They have also lost three children. In his political views Mr. Calvert has always been an earnest republican since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. Since 1891 he has been a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Selma and he is connected with the Patrons of Industry. His characteristics are those of an alert, enterprising business man and, with thorough and practical knowledge of farming and a somewhat comprehensive understanding of the work from the scientific standpoint as well; he is doing excellent service to further the interests for which his office .stands. COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE. This prominent citizen was born on the 9th of October, 1841, in the city of Columbus, where he now resides and enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire community. His grandfather, also Colonel James Kilbourne, was a distinguished pioneer of this state. His father, Lincoln Kilbourne, was prominent among the early merchants of the borough even before the present state capital was organized as a city. Colonel James Kilbourne of this review was graduated from Kenyon College in 1862 with the Bachelor of Arts degree and from the same institution received his Master of Arts degree. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Nu Pi Kappa societies and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He completed a course in the Harvard Law School in 1868 with the Bachelor of Law degree. The activities of Colonel Kilbourne have touched various interests of society and have left their impress upon the material, intellectual and moral progress of the state and upon the philanthropic and benevolent work. As the founder, president and general manager of the. Kilbourne Jacobs Manufacturing Company, Colonel Kilbourne has long been known as one of the foremost business men of the capital city, for the company owns and controls one among the largest plants of the kind in the world, with trade in nearly all of the leading markets on the face of the globe. The man who, as a leading factor in a great manufacturing plant, requiring the labor of his fellowman as employes up into the thousands day by day, month by month, through a long series of years, naturally does much toward upbuilding and developing a city and making possible the erection of many homes by means of fair compensation for honest toil. In such a work Colonel Kilbourne seems to have much of life's mission, worthily employing his talents in lines that have been a source of public prosperity as well as of individual success. Various other corporate interests and business enterprises, however, have PAGE 615 - PICTURE OF COL. JAMES KILBOURNE PAGE 616 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 617 profited by his keen discernment indefatigable energy and initiative spirit he is a member of the board of trustees of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company. a director of the New First National Bank, a director of the Hayden-Clinton National Bank, of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway' and the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland Railway, together with many private business corporations. To have accomplished what Colonel Kilbourne has done would seem to have met life's requirements for almost any individual, and yet his business interests represent but a portion of his activities, which have been elements in the progress of city, state and nation. Interested at all times in those questions which relate to civic virtue, he has wrought along lines of continuous progress, doing effective work with the Columbus Board of Trade, of which he has been honored with the presidency. He was also president for eight years of the board of trustees of the Columbus Public Library, and is an honorary member of the Columbus Trade., and Labor Assembly and of the Columbus Building and Trades Council. In lines which indicate a recognition of man's obligations to his fellowmen his labor has been equally effective. He Was the founder and president of the Columbus Children's Hospital. and his interest in the great sociological, economic and political questions which are claiming public attention is manifest in his membership in the National Child Labor Association, the National Conference of Charities, the National Civic Federation and the American Society of Political and Social Science. He is likewise a. member of the National Geographic Society, the National Forestry Association, the Ohio Historical and Archaelogical Society, and is vice president of the Leslie F. Owen Educational Society. He has likewise been president of the Old Northwest Genealogical and Historical Society, belongs to the Ohio Society of New York. has been president of the Central Ohio Harvard Club and of the Kenyon College Association of Central Ohio. e has also been president of the Columbus Neighborhood Guild, of the Columbus Club. the Arlington Country Club and the Ohio Centennial Commission. He was president for many years of the Magazine Club, the oldest literary club in central Ohio, and a vestryman of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church. Colonel Kilbourne is entitled to membership with military organizations from the fact that he served as a soldier during the Civil war in the Eighty-fourth and Ninety-fifth Regiments of Ohio Volunteer Infantry and on the staffs of General J. M. Tuttle and General John McArthur, commanding divisions of the .Army of the Tennessee. During his service he rose from the ranks to brevet-colonel of 'United States volunteers. On the outbreak of the war with Spain he offered his services to the governor of Ohio in any capacity. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Union Veteran Legion. In 1903-4 he was president of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims and of the Society of Descendants of the Mayflower. being descended in the maternal line from Elder William Brewster. He is now the first vice president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. elected for the rear 1908-9. and is commander of the Ohio 618 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is also a member of the Ohio Vicksburg Battlefield Commission. Colonel Kilbourne has been equally widely known as one of the leaders of democracy in Ohio, serving as delegate from the twelfth Ohio district to the democratic national conventions of 1892 and 1896 and delegate-at-large to the democratic national convention of 1900, acting as chairman of the delegation in that year. He was also a candidate for district, elector for president from the twelfth Ohio district in 1908. In 1901 he was nominated by acclamation for governor of Ohio in the democratic state convention. On the 9th of October, 1869, Colonel Kilbourne was married to Miss Anna Bancroft Wright. the eldest daughter of General George Bohan Wright, and there were born to than three sons and a daughter, the three sons becoming associated 'with their father in business after they reached maturity. James Russell Kilbourne. the eldest, attended the University of Virginia. In 1 95 he elected as a democrat to the Ohio legislature, at its twenty-second assembly. He was a lieutenant of battery in the Ohio National Guard. At the time of the beginning of the Spanish-American war he was abroad, and on his return home recruited a company of calvary. The service. however, was overcrowded and the company was not mustered in. J. R. Kilbourne is vice president and assistant general manager of the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company and president of the board of trustees of the Columbus public library. George Bancroft, the second son, was a graduate of Williams College, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society and of the Sigma Phi fraternity. He enlisted as a private in the Fourth Ohio Volunteers, served in Porto Rico and was promoted to second sergeant for gallantry in action, being one of four officers and men in his regiment recommended to receive a medal for bravery. After the war he was commissioned captain and adjutant of the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard. He was a young man of exceptional endowments and a most brilliant and promising career seemed before him. He was placed at the head of the Chicago branch of the great Kilbourne & Jacobs Company, and was meeting with the most flattering success when in the late fall of 1906 he was stricken with pneumonia and passed away November 22. 1906. The youngest son, Lincoln, born September i0. 1874, is purchasing agent and one of the directors of the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company. He presented himself for enlistment during the war with Spain, but was rejected on account of sickness at the time. He attended Williams College and is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity. He married Miss Flora Burr, and they with their three children, two daughters and one son, reside at "Hawkhurst" in Bullitt park. Alice Kilbourne, the only daughter of the house, is the wife of ex-Mayor Robert H. Jeffrey. She was born August 7. 1877. They reside with their three children, two sons and one daughter, in their country home of "Kelveden" in Bullitt park. Colonel Kilbourne has accomplished much of life's mission, as is indicated between the unimpassioned lines of the foregoing paragraphs, but the writer would not presume upon a, long and intimate acquaintance and friendship to detail that which would afford him much pleasure, knowing as he does that Colonel Kilbourne's right hand and left hand have always kept their CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 619 secrets from each other-secrets that were not trumpeted into men's ears, but were felt in many humble homes and treasured in human hearts. It suffices to know that in all he has undertaken he has never failed to achieve a measure of good results which set the standard and gauge of the world a little higher. Absorbed as he has been in his large industrial affairs, he has never failed to perform all his civic duties, although he has never been an office holder or an office seeker. There is no public or private charity but touches his pocketbook first and his sympathies afterward; no movement for the furtherance of education but receives his cordial assistance. The founder and promoter of a hospital for children, his hand is still helpful to every other movement to assuage and alleviate the sufferings of mankind. In short he is a human being with human sympathies. EDWARD L. McCUNE. Edward L. McCune, whose capability and efficiency as division claim agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company are enhanced by the fact that he is a lawyer by profession and was for some years a successful practitioner, was born in Columbus March 27, 1855, a son of Jonas and Catherine (Lamley) McCune, the former a native of Brattleboro, Vermont, and the latter of the state of New York. In the year 1845 Jonas McCune took up his residence in Columbus when the city was still small and of little business importance. He established a hardware store and for some years continued actively and successfully in that trade. His resourceful business ability led him into other connections of importance and for a considerable period he figured as one of the prominent promoters of business activity in the capital city. He was a director of the Columbus Rolling Mill, the Columbus Gas Works and other enterprises and was identified with the expansion of railway interests as president of the Columbus & Eastern Railroad, now a part of the Hocking Valley System. Both he and his wife have passed away. Edward L. McCune was educated in the public schools of Columbus and in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. In his junior year, however, he returned to his native city and, entering the office of Lorenzo English, qualified for the practice of law by a thorough and comprehensive study of legal principles. In 1877 he was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio and was connected in a professional capacity with the real estate department of the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Railroad Company for ten years, acting also as claim agent. In 1903 he became connected with the Pennsylvania Railway Company as claim agent for the Toledo division and still occupies this position, meeting his duties, which are often of a most delicate, as well as onerous and complicated nature, in a prompt and capable manner that results in fair and honorable adjustment. In this regard his knowledge of the law is of inestimable value and an analytical mind enables him to arrive at just and equitable conclusions regarding the various situations which he faces. 620 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS On the 12th of July, 1876, Mr. McCune way united in marriage to Miss Eva S. Black. of Newark, Ohio. and they have four children : Sarah, now the wife of William E. Rex, of Columbus: Edward L.. who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business in Spokane. Washington: Margaret and Robert, at home. The parents are members of the First Congregational church and Mr. McCune is always interested in the material, social, intellectual and moral progress of the community. For four terms he served as a member of the city board of education and during half of that time was president of the board. He was elected for a fifth term as a member at large but was compelled to resign on account of the demands of other duties. The fact that he was called again and again to this position is indicative of the excellent service he rendered in this connection. his labors and influence always being given on the side of practical improvement and for the adoption of higher standards of education. Fraternally he is connected with Goodale Lodge, A. F. & A. M. and is a. member of the Ohio Chi]). A continuous resident of Columbus, save for the brief period spent in college in the south, Mr. McCune is widely known in this city and many with whom he has been acquainted since his youthful days. speak of him in warm terms of praise and admiration by reason of his business ability and his attractive personal qualities. LOWRY F. SATER. Lowry F. Sater measures up to a high standard of professional ability as a representative of the legal fraternity in the state capital He was born at Sater, Ohio, June 15. 1867. and is the Eldest son of Martin and Mary (McHenry) Sater. both of whom are representative members of pioneer families of the Miami Valley. Of the four sons of this family Pearl M. Sater is a practicing physician : Clinton H. a veterinary surgeon : and Miles W.. an art student. One daughter, Mrs. Daisy S. Brown, completes the family. Amid the environments common to the country lad. Mr. Sater's boyhood days were passed. He worked on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and at eighteen years of age began teaching in the schools of Hamilton county, at which he was engaged for five years. At the end of this time he entered Marietta College, where he remained for a year. Resuming his studies in the Ohio State University in the fall of 1891, he graduated therefrom four years later. Two years later he graduated from the law school at the same institution with the degree of Bachelor of Law. While a student in the university he was editor-in-chief of the Lantern, the college paper, and was president of his class in the senior year. Following his admission to the bar Mr. Sater began the practice of law with his uncle, John E. Sater, the present United States district ,judge, which connection was continued until Judge Sater's elevation to the Federal bench. Today Mr. Sater is a partner in the firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, one CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 621 of the leading law firms of Columbus, conducting a general practice, but also specializing in real estate, corporation, insurance, banking and building association and railroad practice, in which connection they represent a number of prominent and important business concerns. On the 26th of September, 1903, Mr. Sater was married to Miss Katherine E. Morhart, of Middleport, Ohio, and they have two children : Richard Francis and Mary Katherine. Mr. Sauter is a member of the United Brethren chinch. Politically h:, is a. democrat. His social nature is evidenced in his membership with the Ohio Club, of which he as been secretary from the time of its organization, and with the Masonic and Odd Fellows organizations. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is president of the Franklin County Bar Association. DANIEL E. SULLIVAN. Daniel E. Sullivan, although now living retired, figured for many years as a prominent contractor in railroad building and street improvements. His success in this direction brought him into important business relations and enables him at the present time to enjoy the well earned fruit of former toil. Mr. Sullivan was born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, in 1840. a on of Timothy Sullivan, who was a native of Ireland, and on coming try America settled at Seneca Falls, New York. in 1832. In 1835 he removed westward to Michigan, where he resided until his death in 1867. He married Johanna Harrington, who was also a native of the Emerald Isle and died in Michigan in 1882, having survived her husband for almost fifteen years. She was an aunt to one of the lord mayors of Dublin. By this marriage there were eleven children, of whom six are still living: Michael, who resides on the old homestead ; Margaret Maguire and Ellen Cunningham, who are living in Detroit; James W.. located at Salt Lake City; Florence, of Indiana; and Daniel E., of this review. The father was for many years a sea captain. making trips between New York and Liverpool. Daniel E. Sullivan was educated in a country school, the term covering three months of winter. When fourteen years of age he put aside his textbooks and began carrying water for a construction train. At the age of nineteen years he was running a locomotive engine, and was thus employed until twenty-two years of age, when he began work on the track, and was thus employed until promoted to road master when twenty-eight years of age, representing the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. There he remained for two years. He then took a contract from the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad to build twenty-five miles of track from Paris. Michigan, to Clam Lake, Michigan, after which he was awarded the contract for the construction of fifty miles of track for the Cincinnati & Fort Wayne Railroad. He was next appointed roadmaster for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, serving two years. and on the expiration of that period he was appointed general road master for the Southwestern Pennsylvania lines. acting in that 622 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS capacity for seven years. On resigning he made a contract with the Nickel Plate Railway to build one hundred and ten miles of track from Arcadia, Ohio. to Cleveland, and subsequently he built forty-five miles of track for the Rochester & Pittsburg Railway and straightened the line of the Norfolk Western Railway. Thus for many years he had been closely associated with railroad construction, and, retiring from that field of contracting. he turned his attention to street improvement taking contracts for such work in Columbus. His last important contract here was the Sewage Purification Works, which after two years' work was completed in August 1908. Mr. Sullivan retired from the active management of the business four years ago. but his three sons still carry it on, and the firm retains the high place in business circles that was won by the father. Mr. Sullivan has invested to some extent in real estate, and has valuable property here. On the 13th of November, 1866. Mr. Sullivan was married to Miss Ella A. Hartsuff and unto them were born six children. of whom five are living: James A.. F. D. and G. W., who carry on the business Mrs Rose: and Ella Gertrude, at home. In his political views Mr. Sullivan has long been a stalwart republican. and served for two years as a member of the city council in the '80s. He has always been a representative of that public-spirited class of men who see and utilize the opportunities for promoting the general welfare. withholding his cooperation and aid from no movement which he deems of value in promoting the best interests of the city. In his own business career he has been recognized as a man of stern integrity and honesty of purpose. who has despised all unworthy or questionable means to secure advancement or success in any undertaking or for any purpose. GEORGE MADISON CLOUSE. M. D. Dr. George M. Clouse was born January 4, 1862, near Salem, Meigs county, Ohio. He is the son of Jesse and Alice Clouse. both of whose families were among the pioneers of this state : the father being of Holland Dutch descent. The mother, whose maiden name was Rathburn: was a descendant from an old English family which came to America in colonial days and which had much to do in forming the early history of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and later shared in the struggle for independence. Dr. Clouse was a pupil in the public schools in southern Ohio. where he mastered the common branches of learning, supplementing them later by an academic course at the Atwood Institute. He then joined his uncle, who was a prominent merchant, being two years in his employ. after which he went to Chicago, where he was also connected with mercantile interests for some time. It was not long, however, before Mr. Clouse began to look toward the practice of medicine for his life work. This was quite natural as his ancestors for generations back had given to the world many doctors. In 1884 he began preparing for medical college. studying far into the night PAGE 923 - PICTURE OF DR. GEORGE M. CLOUSE PAGE 924 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 625 after his day's work in the store. It was only after many obstacles that he finally came to Columbus and entered the Columbus Medical College, from which he graduated in 1890. At once he began the practice of medicine and surgery in this city, where he has resided continuously since. His ability in the healing art is indicated by his successful practice and by the respect with which the medical fraternity regards him. When active at all, he is found among the leaders in medical enterprise and good citizenship. Dr. Clouse was one of the founders of the Ohio Medical University of this city and was its first professor of diseases of children. To this department of the medical science he has given much study and energy, organizing the state into the "Ohio State Pediatric Society" a medical society devoted to the study of the diseases of children. He was among the first in Ohio to use diphtheria antitoxine, sending to Germany for it before it was obtainable in this country. The transportation of the sick in the same rough wagon which hauled criminals to the city prison, as was formerly the custom in Columbus, was far from being satisfactory. Dr. Clouse agitated through the city newspapers the need of installing ambulances, and it was not long until the city was equipped with that service. It was he who in a medical essay made a plea for a public or official fumigator which is now a permanent adjunct to the board of health. In these and other acts, the public and the profession are indebted to Dr. Clouse for his labors along the line of medical progress and in the effort to check the ravages of disease. He is a member in good standing of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Columbus Academy of Medicine, and the General Practitioners Medical Society, of which he was a founder and its first president. He is medical examiner of several life insurance companies. While busily engaged in the duties pertaining to his profession, he has also found time and opportunity for cooperation with many movements for the general public good. He is firmly opposed to anything like misrule in public affairs and is a strong advocate for civic virtue and honor, standing at one time as the candidate of the. Good Citizens League for councilman of the fourth ward. He endorses judicious improvement, believing that Columbus should be second to no city in the nature of its public interests and advancement. Dr. Clouse was the originator and first president of the Home Building & Loan Association, and organizer of the East Side Board of Trade. His labors have. been tangible factors in the upbuilding and growth of the east side, which was only sparsely settled when he became a resident of that part of the city twenty-five years ago. He has seen his section become a populous and desirable residence district and has watched and aided the development of Mt. Vernon avenue from a mud road and one-horse street car line to one of the best business centers east of High street. In 1882 he was married to Miss Alice Atkinson, the. daughter of Squire W. R. Atkinson, a well known pioneer of Gallia county, Ohio; of Scotch and English descent. To this union were born a son, Kenneth A., now a 626 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS medical student and a graduate of the Ohio State University ; and a daughter, Georgia, a student of East high school. In his Masonic relations, Dr. Clouse is a member of Magnolia, Knights Templar, Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree and the Shrine. Progress and patriotism may well be termed the keynote of his character, for these qualifications have been manifested by him throughout his walks of life. JOHN SIEBERT. The nobility of the man of worthy achievement of today is traced along a different plane of ancestry than was the case in past ages; and the heritage that sire now transmits to son makes infinitely more for civilization and the elevation of the human race. This we see illustrated again and again in every center of American activity, for here it was that the steady and sturdy purpose, characteristic of the European nations, came in contact with the marvelous opportunities of this newer world, between the middle of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. John Siebert is the eighth of ten children born to Heinrich Lorenz and Susan (Dallinger) Siebert. The stock from which he sprang was not only prolific, it was substantial, courageous, liberty-loving, generous towards others, and solicitous enough about providing a better prospect for the children to strike root into a new and even alien soil. In 1832 when the Seibert family emigrated from Germany to the United States the undertaking was a far more difficult one than it would be today. The discomforts and dangers of a long voyage in a sailing vessel had to be endured, and, in this instance. the voyage lasted sixty-five days. The father of the family gave up a flourishing business in Bockenheim. a suburb of Frankfort-on-the-Main, in his determination to establish his home in a land of liberty and equal rights. The reasons which impelled him were doubtless those which caused numerous intelligent and substantial families to leave Germany in the '30s and '40s of the last century, among them a hatred of the reactionary policies of the government and an unwillingness to see their sons become "Kannonenfutter"' (food for cannon) in the wars of kings. The port of departure chosen by the emigrating family was Bremen. Here Heinrich Siebert found two families unable to sail because of the depletion of their meager funds. Their condition excited his pity and he paid their passage, as he had paid his own, to Baltimore. After the long winter voyage the cramped and weary passengers were glad to set foot on ground again, disembarking in the latter part of December. 1832. From Baltimore the journey over the mountains was made in two "prairie schooners" to Zanesville, Ohio. After a two months' sojourn in that then village, the family removed to a small farm, newly purchased, at Somerset. Ohio, where their inexperience in agriculture, combined with the poverty of the soil, assured nothing but present failures. CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 627 It was on this farm, not far from the home of General Philip H. Sheridan, then a boy of three years, that John Siebert was born, June 24, 1834 the first of the three children that came after the family's arrival in this country. In the following month the father sold his farm and took his family by wagon to Columbus, acting on the advice of a nephew who had accompanied him from Germany and had opened a book bindery in the state capital. The permanent residence of the Siebert family in Columbus may then be dated from the time they drove into town, July 8, 1834. As a means of support, the father opened a bakery at the northeast corner of Rich and High streets. Three years later the property at 660 South High street became the family homestead. It was opposite what is now known as the Hayden Place, but which was then a Lutheran Seminary. The years 1839 and 1840 weft spent on a farm seven miles west of Columbus, but the family then returned to the homestead and there the father died, at the age of fifty-one years, in October, 1842. His widow lived until her seventieth year, dying at the old home in November, 1869. At the time of his father's death John was but eight years old; the oldest son was barely twenty ; and the children now numbered eight, two having died in infancy. The older, and even some of the smaller children, had to contribute to the family support. John was now attending a German school, but he found employment as an errand boy outside of school hours. At ten, he was sent to Dr. Boyle's English school at the northeast corner of Rich and Third streets, but remained here only a brief six months. During the next six years of this formative period of his life, John was employed in various capacities in several printing offices. He worked at first in the office of the "Ohio Press" under Messrs. George M. Swan and Eli T. Tappan ; then in the "Cross and Journal" office owned by Messrs. Randall and Batchelder, where J. M. Comly was at the time a journeyman printer; and later still served as a compositor on the "Ohio State Journal," working side by side with the poet and associate of William Dean Howells and joint author with him of the "'Poems of Two Friends." John James Piatt. Thus the brief period of his school days was admirably supplemented by service and associations of distinctly educational value. At the age of sixteen the youth became apprenticed to the bookbinder's trade, entering the shop of Siebert & Lilley. The head of this firm was his eldest brother, William Siebert, the other partner being Captain M. C. Lilley, with whom, later on, he himself formed business relations. In the last year of the apprenticeship. John was sent by Mr. Lilley to Sandusky, Ohio, to conduct a small bindery which that gentleman had recently purchased. He remained in charge there until the business was sold eighteen months later. Early in 1857 John was again given charge of a bindery in the northern part of the state, this time in Toledo in connection with the office of the Toledo Blade, but in April of this year Mr. Seibert decided to go west. It is unnecessary to go into details of Mr. Seibert's western experiences, which occupied the greater part of the next two years. The territory of Nebraska seems to have possessed at the time a strong attraction for a number of Ohio people. Omaha. then a mere settlement of perhaps a hundred seat- 628 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS tered log and frame houses, became his immediate destination. As employment was scarce in Omaha, Mr. Seibert betook himself to the neighboring and rival village of Florence, and became for a brief period the foreman of the printing office of the Florence Courier. As a colony of people from Columbus, Ohio, had recently come to Nebraska with the purpose of founding a new Columbus a hundred miles west of Omaha, Mr. Siebert joined this colony. His life was now that of the western pioneer, with its variety of arduous labors and vigorous pastimes. These included the felling of the timber, the cutting of hay and the hunting of the buffalo. His return east after eighteen months spent in "roughing it" was made by wagon in company with a party of Wisconsin men, as far as Iowa City thence by train to Paris, Illinois. where he visited his brother William, who was now farming on the prairie near Paris. Shortly afterward Mr. Siebert returned to Ohio, arriving in Columbus in the fall of 1858. The significance of this western experience lies in the fact that it gave Mr. Siebert a training in out-of-door life, in the ways of the camp and the trail, which hardened his constitution and proved invaluable as a preparation for army service in the Civil war, which was not far distant. Mr. Sibert's arrival in Columbus may be properly said to have brought him to the tide in his affairs which was to lead on to fortune, although that tide was to be interrupted for a few years by the war for the Union. It happened that Mr. Seibert's coining occurred at the beginning of the congressional campaign in Ohio. Mr. Siebert and his friend, Henry Lindenberg, were asked to participate in this campaign by conducting the local German organ of their party, called the Republicanische Presse. As compensation these gentlemen were to receive, after the election in October, their printing outfit and any stock that might be left over. With the equipment thus secured they began the publication of a German monthly-Der Odd Fellow. This was their first venture in the way of meeting the needs of secret societies. a venture which they renewed after the war, and which led by natural steps to the upbuilding of The M. C. Lilley Regalia Company. The imminence of war after the election of Lincoln caused the publishers of Der Odd Fellow to discontinue their magazine after issuing its twelfth number, in December, 1860. Mr. Siebert was thus left free to volunteer for service in the Union cause. This he did under the president's first call for troops, enlisting in Company G of the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The drilling and uniforming of this regiment took place at Camp Dennison. near Cincinnati, and occupied the three months for which the men had enlisted. Accordingly the regiment re-enlisted for three years, and was reorganized for the longer service in June, 1861. At this time Mr. Siebert, who had been first sergeant of his company, became its first lieutenant. He accompanied his regiment into West Virginia. and on September 10, 1861, the Thirteenth Ohio engaged in its first battle at Carifex Ferry, defeating the enemy. The regiment was then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and entered the Army of the Ohio. It took part in the various movements in Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, being engaged in the famous battles of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing, Stone River and Chickamauga. At Stone River CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 629 the Thirteenth Ohio was in the thick of the fray and lost fifty per cent of its strength, but helped to hold the field and had the satisfaction of seeing the enemy in full retreat on January 5, 1863. Lieutenant Siebert regularly had command of his company during the absence of the captain on detached service. Hence his commission as captain, received in 1864, was dated a year or more earlier. During the Chickamagua campaign Lieutenant Siebert was disabled and in the hospital, but while still unable to walk joined his regiment by ambulance in time to experience, with his comrades, the siege laid to the Union forces by General Bragg's army, which was stationed on Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. On the eve of the battle of Mission Ridge Mr. Siebert was still an invalid, and was compelled to remain with others in camp. Here many of the men of the regiment sought him out and entrusted him with their valuables and their messages to their families to be delivered in case they should be killed in the impending fight. In order to keep the numerous amounts he received at once secure and separate he sewed them into his clothing until he was padded from head to foot with thousands of dollars, and found himself custodian of many watches. However, he was most happily spared the sad task of carrying out the injunctions of his comrades, for after the battle not one of them failed to call for his property. The Thirteenth Ohio saw its last important service in the war when its division was sent under General Sherman to relieve General Burnside at Knoxville, Tennessee. In June, 1864. the regiment was mustered out at Chattanooga by reason of expiration of its term of enlistment. Mr. Siebert now returned to Columbus and entered into partnership with Captain M. C. Lilley in the bookbinding business. With other partners he began again the publication of an Odd Fellows' magazine, this time in English, called The Off Fellows' Companion. From the associations thus formed was developed the present M. C. Lilley Regalia Company, which has continued with but slight change in its membership since the organization in 1865. This company has by careful management built up the largest manufactory of paraphernalia for secret orders in the world, and now employs nine hundred hands. Mr. Siebert has been the vice president of the company from the beginning. The plans for the main building of the present factory on east Long street were drawn according to Mr. Siebert's ideas, and after its completion in 1892 this structure was declared by the state inspector of workshops to be the model factory of the state for safety, heating and lighting. Mr. Siebert has been connected with two other leading business enterprises of the capital city from their organization. These are the Ohio National Bank and the Edison Light & Power Company. Of the former Mr. Siebert was elected president at its establishment in 1888 and continued to serve in that capacity for almost twenty years, retiring on account of advancing age. The deposits of this institution now amount to five million dollars. He was also one of the organizers of the Edison Company, which was formed in 1886. He has been a member of its board of directors throughout its pros- 630 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS perous existence. In 1904 the Edison plant was leased to the Columbus Railway & Light Company. In 1902 Mr. Siebert was appointed by Governor George K. Nash, one of the five directors, to select a site and erect thereon a. Memorial Hall. This noble and commodious structure stands on the north side of Broad street. near Sixth, and is one of the architectural features of Columbus. It is built in a simple, classical .style, and contains one of the largest. auditoriums in the country, with a seating capacity of forty-five hundred, and with unexcelled acoustic properties. This great building cost $257,000, and is Franklin county's splendid memorial to her soldiers of all the wars. Mr. Siebert's success in business has been accompanied by generous. but quiet, giving to various good causes in his home city. He is one of the founders of the Children's Hospital, which occupies a quarter block at the southeast corner of Macmillan and Fair avenues. From the beginning he has been a member of the board of directors of this institution, and is now its president. He is also one of the council or board of control of the First, Social Settlement Society, which maintains the Godman Guild House on West Goodale street, and he is a contributor to numerous other charities. He is a member and one of the vestrymen of St. Paul's Episcopal church. For twelve years or more Mr. Siebert has been a member of the Loyal Legion, which is composed of officers of the Civil war and also now of the Spanish war. The visitor to the Ohio State University who is interested in the library of that institution as the center of its intellectual life and the nourishes of its scholarship, will find in Orton Hall a splendid and rapidly growing collection on German history said to be already the best in the state. This has been designated by the University trustees the "Siebert Library of German History." The founders of this valuable collection were Messrs. William. John and Louis Siebert. The nucleus of the special library came through William's gift of his excellent private collection, and constant additions are being made under the direction of the department of European History of the University at the expense of the "Siebert Fund," which is maintained by Messrs. John and Louis Siebert for the purpose. In 1864 John Siebert was married to Mary J. Morris of Cincinnati. Their children are: Henrietta, the wife of Frank Depew, of Wabash. Indiana; Alice, the wife of F. C. Shoedinger, of Columbus; and Anne, May and Susan. The mother died in 1892. In 1898 Mr. Siebert married Maria Cemuender, of Columbus. JOHN R. HUGHES. It is seldom that one who passes the Psalmist's span of three score years and ten remains an active factor in the business world, but John R. Hughes. at the venerable age of eighty-two years, is still an alert, enterprising business man, the head of the firm of J. R. Hughes & Company, and is also associated PAGE 631 - PICTURE OF J. R. HUGHES PAGE 632 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 633 with various other business concerns and interests. The story of his life is notably interesting, not alone by reason of his continuous connection with business interests to the present time, but also from the fact that he started out in life on his own account as a farm hand, working for twelve dollars and a half per month, and through his well developed capacities and powers reached a position among the foremost successful business men of the capital city. Mr. Hughes was born at Felinpueliston, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales. April 13, 1827, a son of John and Catherine (Davis) Hughes. His educational opportunities were limited to three year' attendance at the local school of his birthplace. He cane to America in 1848, when a youth of nineteen years, reaching Granville. Ohio, in the month of May. He was employed for three months in that locality as a farm hand, his remuneration being twelve dollars and a half per month. but the opportunities of the city proved irresistibly attractive, and, moving to Columbus, he secured a position in the Buckeye House, then occupying the present site of the Board of Trade building, Mr. Bush, formerly of Granville, being then proprietor of the hostelry. Nine months later Mr. Hughes took up the trade of trunk-making in the employ of George Peters on Long street, and during his three years' service there became thoroughly familiar with the trade in every department. During the first two years his wage was only about enough to pay his board and enable him to secure the necessary additions to his wardrobe, but he became a proficient workman, and on the death of Mr. Peters assumed the management of the business, which he conducted on behalf of the widow for a year, after which he purchased the factory. Since that time he has been engaged in trunk manufacture, his enterprise constantly expanding in proportion to the growth of the city and in the extension of the trade interests of Columbus. He remains at the age of eighty-two years still at the head of the trunk company, and in other lines of business activity he is also known. He was one of three who organized the Buckeye Buggy Company. He is a stockholder in different railways centering in Columbus, is the vice president of the Columbus Savings Bank and a director and stockholder in other banks. He has erected some of the finest business blocks in the city. He also owns valuable real estate in other sections of the city, and has long figured as one of the most progressive business men of Columbus, his keen insight, enterprise and laudable ambition carrying him into important commercial and industrial relations, while throughout the entire period he has enjoyed the unqualified confidence of his colleagues and associates, who regard his word as good as any bond ever solemnized by signature or real. On the 7th of October, 1853. Mr. Hughes was married to Miss Brady E. Evans, who resided near Granville in Harrison township, and who passed away in 1890. There were three children, a son and two daughters of this marriage : Frank L., Mrs. Kate V. Hislop and Mrs. Minnie B. Willson. Politically Mr. Hughes is a republican, but his extensive business interests have left him little time for active participation in political affairs. He was, however, one of the commissioners appointed to superintend the construction of North High street. and in a private capacity has greatly pro- 634 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS rooted the interests of the city. In fact there are few who have done more for the advancement of Columbus and its substantial growth and improvement during the last fifty years. Mr. Hughes is a member of the Third Avenue Methodist, church, and has contributed generously toward its support, giving most liberally to charitable and other needed and worthy institutions. His benevolence however is of a most unostentatious character, but the memory of his kindliness is cherished in humble homes and in human hearts. WILLIAM OLIN HENDERSON. William Olin Henderson, practicing at the bar of Columbus with a large and important clientage as the senior partner of the firm of Henderson, Livesay & Burr, was born in Liberty township, Union county, Ohio, October 28, 1850, his birthplace being the home farm of his father James Allen Henderson, about three miles northwest of Raymond. The Henderson family is of Scotch origin, and this branch of it settled in Harford county, Maryland, near Baltimore, at an early day. There Francis Henderson and Abigail, his wife. established their home. They had three children Archibald, Andrew and a daughter whose Christian name is not known, but who became the wife of James Caruthers. Archibald lived and died in Baltimore, leaving a large family. Andrew removed westward to Kentucky, and his son Andrew, the grandfather of William Olin Henderson, went from the Blue Grass state to Ohio in 1838. He had married Sallie McKenzie, whose father, Alexander McKenzie, was Scotch by birth, and was kidnaped from Scotland when but four years of age. He remembered there only an aunt. James A. Henderson was born in Lewis county. Kentucky, and in October, 1838, was brought to Ohio by his parents, who took up their abode on a farm. where he remained engaged in agricultural pursuits until elected auditor of Union county, when he removed to Marysville in December, 1858. There he resided until his death, which occurred March 10. 1891, when he was sixty-five years of age. Following his retirement from office, he was engaged in the retail dry-goods business for several years and afterward successfully conducted a hardware store for a number of years. He wedded Mary Josephine Phifer, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio. and with her parents removed to Logan county, where they spent their remaining days. The death of Mrs. Henderson occurred February 1, 1863. In the common schools of Union county, William O. Henderson pursued his early education and afterward attended the graded and Union schools of Marysville, prior to entering Yale College, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1874. He taught school for nearly two years before entering the university, spending one year as a teacher in the Union school at Marysville. Following his graduation he taught for nearly three years in Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, at Cheshire, Connecticut, an old and well established church school under the juris- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 635 diction of the diocese of Connecticut. There he devoted his time largely to teaching mathematics, and he also read and studied law, having registered as a student of law in July, 1874, in the office of Hon. James W. Robinson, of Marysville, Ohio. Successfully passing the examination before the circuit court at Lima, Ohio, July 30, 1877, he was then admitted to practice in the courts of the state. Resigning his position in the academy, he came to Columbus, September 17, 1877, to enter upon the practice of his chosen profession here, and on the 1.4, of October opened on office in partnership with George O. Hamilton, then practicing in Marysville. The firm name of Hamilton & Henderson was assumed and a location was secured in the Converse building on East State street. Mr. Hamilton was a nephew of Dr. John W. Hamilton, a noted surgeon, and a cousin of Drs. William D. and Charles S. Hamilton, of this city. The firm of Hamilton & Henderson was dissolved on account of the failing health of Mr. Hamilton, who died in 1882. Mr. Henderson then continued alone in practice until 1883, after which he was associated for one year with William E. Guerin, under the firm style of Guerin & Henderson. Thereafter he was alone until July, 1889, when he joined Hon. Richard A. Harrison and Hon. Joseph Olds, long leading member of the bar of Ohio, in the well known firm of Harrison, Olds & Henderson, which continued until it was dissolved by mutual consent in June. 1902. Mr. Henderson was once more alone until August. 1903, when he was joined by Theodore M. Livesay, forming the firm, of Henderson & Livesay. Later Karl E. Burr was admitted to the firm. which still exists. They engage in general practice, but have a large amount of corporation work, chiefly as representatives of railroad interests. The firm of Harrison, Olds & Henderson was local counsel for many years for the Big Four Railroad Company, a large part of the legal work for which devolved upon Mr. Henderson. The present firm of Henderson, Livesay & Burr are solicitors for The Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. Since 1906 Mr. Henderson has been general counsel for the Sunday Creek Company, which is one of the largest coal companies operating in Ohio and West. Virginia. His clientage is of an extensive and important character, which fact indicates that he stands in the foremost rank among the able lawyers of the Columbus bar. On the 14th of October, 1886, Mr. Henderson was married to Miss Sarah Wilcox Ellis a daughter of Robert and Maria (Wilcox) Ellis, the wedding being celebrated at Wallingford, Connecticut. where she was residing temporarily, although her home was in Columbus. Her father was 'a merchant in the capital city at an early day and was widely 'known to its old settlers. Her mother was the sister of General James A. Wilcox and daughter of Phineas B. Wilcox, both of whom were prominent lawyers of Columbus in the earlier days. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson reside at \o. 50 South Third street in the old homestead of P. B. Wilcox, which is one of the oldest in the city. It has been their place of residence since their marriage. It is permeated by a spirit of courteous and cordial hospitality, making it the center of a cultured society circle. In his political views Mr. Henderson is a republican, but has never been active as a party worker, save to assist his friends. In 1902, however, 636 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS he was a candidate for nomination for judge of the supreme court. In March, 1907, he declined appointment as United States district judge, and in the fall of 1908 he was presidential elector for the twelfth congressional district on the republican ticket, casting his vote for William H. Taft, between whom and Mr. Henderson there has long existed a warm friendship. The ambitions of Mr. Henderson are not in the line of politics or office holding. He has preferred to confine his attention entirely to the practice of law; and, in a profession where advancement depends solely upon individual merit and ability, occupies a position of distinction. He was from 1884 until 1890 a member of the standing committee of the supreme court for the examination of applicants for admission to the bar, and for three years was chairman of the committee. He has held membership in the Ohio State Bar Association since 1889 and for many years has been identified with the Franklin County Bar Association. He was at one time a member of the Disciples church, and afterward became a communicant of the Trinity Episcopal church of Columbus, of which he served for a period as vestryman. For many years he has been a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, has served on various committees, and for one term was its first vice president. A popular and prominent member of the Columbus Club, he was for six years chairman of its house committee and for many years has been its first vice president and one of its directors. He is president and one of the directors of the Arlington Country Club, is a member and director of the Castalia Trout Club, with its clubhouse near Sandusky, Ohio, is a director of the Western Golf Association and was, in 1908, and now is president of the Ohio Golf Association. This indicates something of the nature of his recreation, and he is also extremely fond of fishing. In college he was an oarsman and foot ball player. He also belongs to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Yale. With a well developed physique which served as a foundation for his mental growth, he has steadily progressed in lines demanding strong intellectual force and activity, and his position in his profession has given him honorable distinction as a member of the Columbus bar. JUDGE JOHN ELBERT SATER. The life and attainments of Judge John Elbert Sater show what possibilities he within the grasp of the American youth. Left an orphan at the age of ten years and almost wholly dependent upon his own resources, he stands today as one of the able representatives of the judiciary of Ohio, being now United States judge for the southern district court of Ohio. Few men in any community have a more striking record of progress along the road of distinction than Judge Sater, more especially in view of the fact that he was the architect of his own fortune. Eagerly embracing every opportunity that led to advancement. he was a college graduate at twenty-one years of age and the same year a school superintendent. Later he was chief clerk to CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 637 the Ohio state school commissioner at twenty-seven years of age, and at thirty veers of rue was admitted to the hill since which time his record has been one of signal success, characterized by steady advancement in a calling where wealth and influence avail little or naught. but where success must depend upon the effort and the ability of the individual. Judge Cater is a native of Crosby township, Hamilton county, Ohio, born January 16, 1854, his parents being John J. and Nancy (Larason) Sater, likewise natives of this state. The ancestry of his parents can be traced back to the days of the Revolutionary war and to the colonial days in New Jersey, "Maryland and Pennsylvania. For generations they were connected with agricultural pursuits, and the father of Judge Cater also followed the same calling. The youthful days of Judge Sater were spent on the home farm, but as previously stated he was early thrown upon his own resources through the death of his parents. Eager for an education, he attended the public and select schools and fitted himself for college. He made his home on the farm of an uncle. Joseph Sater, one of the prominent citizens of Hamilton county, who at the age of eighty-four years still takes an active interest in the affairs of the day. After taking the necessary preparatory work, Judge Cater entered Miami Univeristy in 1871, and in 1873, owing to the temporary closing of that institution, he matriculated in Marietta College, from which he graduated with honors in 1875, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later his Alma Mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. Turning his attention to the profession of teaching, he became superintendent of the schools of Wauseon and in 1881 held the chief clerkship under the state commissioner of common schools. He also filled the office of school examiner while at Wauseon and subsequently was accorded a teacher's life certificate for Ohio. He displayed marked ability in that profession, and was offered the principalship of the high school: of Toledo. but declined. He also refused a similar position at Cleveland, for he wished to enter upon other professional relations. While in the school commissioner's office he took up the study of law under the direction of Judge J. H. Collins, attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. After thoroughly mastering many of the principles of ,jurisprudence he was admitted to the bar in 1884, and im immediately entered upon active practice, meeting with flattering, success. His first case cane from the Columbus Coffin Company through its president. J. F. Hatcher. who also gave him his last legal business before he went upon the bench. He became recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the state, sound. clear-minded and well trained. The limitations which are imposed by the constitution on federal powers are well understood by him. He is at home in all departments of the law from the minute in practice to the greater topics wherein is involved the consideration of the ethics and the philosophy of jurisprudence and the higher concerns of public policy. He is felicitous and clear in arc anent, thoroughly in earnest, full of the rigor of conviction, never abusive of his adversaries, imbued with highest courtesy and yet a. foe worthy of the steel of the most able opponent. He continued 638 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS in private practice of law until March 18, 1907, when he was appointed United States district judge for the southern district of Ohio by President Roosevelt, taking his place upon the bench on the 25th of March of that Year. No action having been taken by the United States senate upon the appointment he was reappointed May 30, 1908, and was confirmed by the United States senate on March 1. 1909. Other official service outside the direct path of his profession has been done by Judge Sater. and in all public relations he has manifested an unfaltering devotion to the general good. In 1885 he was elected a member of the board of education, and was twice reelected, but resigned in November, 1899, in order to give his undivided attention to the law. In 1892 he was elected a member of the charter convention to draft a charter law. he submitted a minority report front a special committee. containing the sliding scale feature which was incorporated into the law by the legislature. In 1889 he was appointed city solicitor by Mayor Swartz, but declined the appointment. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Columbus Public Library in 1888, 1889, and from 1905 until 1907, inclusive, and was- president of the board during the latter years. Judge Sater wedded Miss Mary L. Lyon. of Wauseon, and has three children. His church relationship is with the Congregational denomination. He is an enthusiastic worker in the Masonic bodies, is a thirty-third degree Mason and has been a member of the board of trustees of the Masonic Temple since its organization. He also belongs to the Knights of Maccabees and to the Knights of Pythias, while in more. specifically social line; he is connected with the Columbus Club. the Ohio Club and the Country Club. Thus an outline is given the history of Judge Sater. whose progress has been conserved through close application and laudable ambition. He stands today as one of the most eminent lawyers and capable jurists of the state, and his years of usefulness will probably yet be many. LINCOLN KILBOURNE, Lincoln Kilbourne was born October 19, 1810, in Worthington, which town was founded by his father in the northern part of Franklin county-the seat of a Connecticut colony piloted into central Ohio at the beginning of the nineteenth century by his father, James Kilbourne. whose name was intimately connected with the early growth and development of Franklin county. His mother, before marriage, was Cynthia Goodale, a daughter of Major Nathan Goodale. a R Revoluntionary soldier of great distinction, and a sister of Dr. Lincoln Goodale. who presented to Columbus the beautiful park on the north side which bear- his name. Lincoln Kilbourne received his education in the Worthington Academy, of which his father was founder and president. For reasons that were obvious enough in those days his education was finished when he was but a little past his fifteenth year and he entered upon an apprenticeship for a PAGE 639 - PICTURE OF LINCOLN KILBOURNE PAGE 640 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS -641 business career as a clerk in the .store of his uncle, Dr. Goodale. He developed traits similar to those of his father, who was apprenticed to a trade at about the same age and before reaching his majority had not only mastered it but was manager of the establishment. Lincoln Kilbourne began as clerk in 1825; in 1835, upon the retirement of Dr. Goodale from business, he became an equal partner in the establishment under the firm name of Fay & Kilbourne, the senior partner being Cyrus Fay, his brother-in-law. Thus they continued in business for another half century. They conducted what was in that day known as a general merchandise business, which included nearly everything in dry goods, groceries, hardware, produce. agricultural supplies, etc. Through the constant and energetic efforts of Mr. Kilbourne. the house became one of the principal business concerns of Columbus. The business in fact was so bulky and diversified as to become cumbersome and difficult to handle. Moreover the specialization of business was beginning to develop, and Mr. Kilbourne was attracted thereto because of the advantages it offered, notwithstanding the house had already reduced many of its lines and wholly cancelled others. Accordingly the partnership was dissolved. or rather the stock was divided, Mr. Kilbourne receiving as his portion the hardware department and Mr. Fay the dry goods and co nate lice The latter removed his share to the corner of High and Chapel streets. Mr. Kilbourne continuing at the old location. Shortly after the reorganization, a new firm, Kilbourne & Kuhns, took the place of the old one. This firm continued in prosperous business until 1808, when it was changed to Kilbourne, Jones & Company, with which Mr. Kilbourne continued during the remainder of his life, passing away on the 13th of February. 1891. At the time of his demise he had been almost sixty-seven years in active business life, and during that time had seen Columbus grows from a log-cabin village into a large, progressive and glowing city, and he always kept step to the drum-beat of progress and was in constant harmony with newer times. A continuous business life from the age of fifteen to eighty-one at the same stand is an experience in business that is but seldom recorded. There seemed little change in him during the last forty years of his life, save the whitening of his hair and beard; he was at all times the same polite, dignified, urbane and slightly reserved gentleman, never effusive, never abrupt in speech or manner. He knew the gentleman of the old school by contact, and the gentleman of the old school was not extinct in Columbus during his life time. His punctuality and attention to business was a half century proverb in his ease-indeed, the proverb covered three score of years. and during this length of time. he seldom missed going to his office, save when absent from the city on business, and he looked after the affairs that came into the department of his activity. The day before he was called hence. he was at his desk as usual. Mr. Kilbourne was connected with other business companies and institutions as stockholder or through .some special interest. and it is said. and truly said, that no firm with which he was connected ever failed to meet its obligations when presented. He was one of the few honorary members of the 642 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Columbus Board of Trade. He was a stockholder of the Kilbourne Jacobs Manufacturing Company, and one of its directors up to the time of his demise. He was one of the directors of the extensive Dr. Goodale estate, and for many years was the sole trustee of it. Mr. Kilbourne was a whig during the existence of that party and with its extinction became a republican. He never sought. nor did he hold, a political office or belong to any fraternal organization or .society, not that he was opposed to them but because he had no inclination in that direction, but found comfort and companionship first in the. family circle and after that with his fellow human beings, as circumstances brought them in contact. It was a matter of great regret with him that. because of his age, he could not enter the military service in the Civil war but he did the next best thing under the circumstances, contributed at all times for the care of the families of soldiers and toward the comfort of the soldiers themselves through the sanitary commission with which he actively co)operated. Mr. Kilbourne, on the 13th of June 1837, was married to Miss Jane Evans, of Gambier. There were five children born to them: Alice Grant, the wife of Major General Joseph H. Potter. U. S. A.. one of the distinguished general officers of the Civil war; Colonel James Kilbourne, of Columbus; Major Charles Evans Kilbourne, U. S. A.. a graduate of the West Point Military Academy; Fay Kilbourne, who died in early life: and Lincoln G. Kilbourne, a. prominent citizen of Columbus. Taken from youth to fourscore, Lincoln Kilbourne's life and deeds show him to have been not only a model citizen but as nearly the perfect type of mankind as one is likely to meet. His distinguishing trait was devotion to duty at whatever cost to himself. EDGAR A. COPE. Edgar A. Cope, secretary of the Columbus Malleable Casting Company, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, November 10, 1872, a son of William T. and Sarah V. (Robbins) Cope, also natives of this state. The father was among the prominent men of northeastern Ohio, and had done much important public service, creditably filling a position in the state legislature during the two terms of Hon. Joseph B. Foraker as governor of Ohio. Subsequently he filled the position of state treasurer for two terms when Major William McKinley was governor of the state. He was widely known among the statesmen and distinguished citizens of Ohio. his ability carrying him into important public relations, while his official service reflected credit and honor upon the state which honored him. In business affairs he also attained prominence, being for a number of years president of the Commercial National Bank of Columbus. His death occurred in 1903, while his widow, who still survives him, is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. Edgar A. Cope acquired his education in the public schools of Columbiana and Franklin counties, pursuing his course to the age of seventeen years, after which he took a full course in a business college. He made his initial CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 643 step in the business world by entering the banking, bond and investment business at Cleveland, Ohio. and continued therein until the financial panic of 1893. In that year he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he conducted a bond brokerage business until January, 1907. In May of the same year he returned to Columbus, and has since occupied the position of secretary with the Columbus Malleable Casting Company. He is proving thoroughly competent in a position of executive control and administrative direction, his labors constituting an element in the successful conduct of the business. Mr. Cope was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Boyce, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 25th of October, 1899, and a daughter, Alice Boyce, gladdens their pleasant home. Mr. Cope is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained high rank, being now a member of the commandery and of the Mystic Shrine. In all social relations he is popular because of a genial and attractive manner, while in business circles he is making substantial progress through his wise utilization of the opportunities that are offered. ERASTUS G. LLOYD. Erastus G. Lloyd is among the younger representatives of the Franklin county bar but his success is such as many an older practitioner might well envy and today he is associated in a partnership practice with Judge Sloane, who is widely recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the state. Mr. Lloyd was born November 12. 1876. in the city of Portsmouth. Ohio. situated at the junction of the Scioto and Ohio rivers. His parents, George W. and Sarah M. (Stiverson) Lloyd. are also natives of this city and for many years the father was a prominent merchant in Hocking county. Ohio, who is now living retired. his grandfather, James H. Lloyd, participated in the Civil war, being attached to the commissary department. To the public-school system of Ohio Erastus G. Lloyd is indebted for the early educational privileges which he enjoyed. Later he benefited by instruction in Otterbein College at Westerville, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He supplemented his literary course by study in the law department of the Ohio State University. desiring to enter upon active practice before the courts. He was graduated in 1901 with the Bachelor of Law degree and in June of the same year was admitted to practice by the supreme court. The following year he entered upon the active work of his profession in Columbus and is now junior partner of the law firm of Sloane & Lloyd. having entered into business connections with Judge Sloane. whose ability places him in the front rank among the leading practitioners of the capital city. Mr. Lloyd is also rapidly forging to the front. stimulated by a laudable ambition that prompts him to put forth most earnest effort in the preparation and conduct of his cases. He has confined his attention to general practice and his mental training and discipline qualify him for the solution of complex and intricate legal problems. 644 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS On the 18th of May, 1903. Mr. Lloyd was married to Miss Evadne Ranch, of Westerville, Ohio, and they have many friends in the city of their residence. Mr. Lloyd is known as an exemplary representative of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Elks Lodge and is also connected with the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, while in more strictly professional lines he is identified with the Ohio State and Franklin County Bar Associations. P. V. BURINGTON. P. V. Burington is numbered among the representative business men of Columbus by reason of his position as secretary and auditor of the Columbus Railway & Light Company, and is in close touch with the business men and business interests of the capital city. His birth occurred in Erie county. Pennsylvania., the date of his nativity being January 14, 1847. His parents were Rensalear S. V. and Lucy (Pike) Burington, who removed westward to Illinois when the subject of this review was a lad of nine years. He continued his education in the public schools at Amboy, Illinois, and after putting aside his text-books learned the printers trade, at which he worked until 1871. In the beginning he received a salary of only a dollar and a half per week. Later he was foreman of the Marshalltown (Iowa) Daily Times for six years, for he had developed ability that carried him into important relations with newspaper interests. On the expiration of that period he became paymaster for the Central Railway Company of Iowa, in which position he continued for four years, and then came to Columbus in 1881, being connected with the Scioto Valley Railway as private secretary to the manager for eight years, while for two years he was connected with the passenger department. His identification with the Columbus Railway & Light Company dates from 1891, when he became auditor of the corporation then known as the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Company. In 1892 he was elected secretary, and has continued in the dual position to the present time, capably meeting the responsibilities that devolve upon him. When he became connected with the service the electric system was in its infancy, and electricity as the motive power was at a point where room for improvement was great. Mr. Burington has always stood for progress in business and other lines, has favored the adoption of improvements in the system, and his efforts as secretary and auditor have been an essential factor in giving to the city the excellent. service offered by the company. On the 29th of September, 1868, Mr. Burington was married to Miss Viola 0. Morse, of Amboy, Illinois, and they have three children : Leora L.. the wife of Professor Charles L. Arnold, of the Ohio State University : Alfred V,. accountant for the Columbus Railway & Light Company: and Herbert M., assistant to the secretary of the same company. While Mr. Burington is known as a successful business man in his official relations with the Columbus Railway & Light Company, he is also known as a progressive citizen, being especially active in the promotion of CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 645 those movements for the public good instituted by the Columbus Board of Trade. He has served on various committees and for a time was a member of the directorate, in which connections he has been instrumental in doing especially good work. He has assisted in the collection of many valuable .statistics pertaining to the city, most important of which are found in the exploitation booklet lately compiled under the auspices of the Board of Trade. AMOS S. ALSPAUGH. Amos S. Alspaugh, deceased, was for many years identified with agricultural pursuits in Franklin county and spent his later years in honorable retirement from labor, making his home in Columbus. He was born in Madison township, this county, in 1862, and died on the 1st of May, 1904, at the age of forty-two years. His father, John Aspaugh, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and became one of the early settlers of Franklin county. He cast in his lot with its pioneer residents and aided in the development and improvement of the county as the years passed by. From the government he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made but with characteristic energy he cleared away the timber, grubbed up the stumps, plowed the land and planted his fields. In course of time he gathered good harvests and year after year he continued the cultivation of his place until he made it a valuable farm property. He married Hannah Rush and they reared their family upon the old homestead. Amos S. Alspaugh, spending his boyhood days under the parental roof, worked in the fields through the summer seasons and in the winter months acquired his education in the country schools. The occupation to which he was reared he determined to make his life work and in the neighborhood of his parents' home he began farming on his own account and continued a resident of that locality until he put aside further business cares. He was diligent and energetic in his work, kept abreast with modern methods of farming and used the latest improved machinery to till his fields. In his farm work he was quite successful and from his crops derived a substantial annual income which enabled him, as the years went by, to add to his capital until it became sufficient to permit of his putting aside business cares and -pending his remaining days in the enjoyment of well earned rest. Accordingly about 1890 he removed to Columbus. where he resided until his demise, the fruits of his former toil supplying him with all life's comforts and many of its luxuries. In 1873, in Madison township, Mr. Alspaugh was married to Miss Annie Codner, a daughter of Mark Codner, who at an early day came from Montpelier, Vermont. and followed farming at Groveport, in this state, where he died about fourteen years ago. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Plum. was a native of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of ten children, of whom four are living in Franklin county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 646 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Alspaugh were born three daughters and a son, all of whom still survive, namely: Lucy Ada, now the wife of C. Thomas Evans, of Portland, Oregon; Louetta Minerva, the wife of James W. Beckett, of Columbus ; Myrtle Blanche, the wife of Charles Collier, of Rochester, 'New York; and Hugh A., of New Castle, Pennsylvania, an overseer in a large steel plant. In his political views Mr. Alspaugh was an earnest republican and always kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He likewise belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a faithful and consistent member of the German Reform church. He assisted in building a number of churches and was a most earnest and active worker in behalf of his denomination and the spread of the Christian religion. His religious belief proved the guiding factor in his life and throughout his entire career he endeavored to closely follow the Golden Rule, doing to others as he would have them do to him. His life of uprightness and honor and of Christian work constitutes an example well worthy of emulation. Mrs. Alspaugh, who still survives her husband, has been, like him, an active worker in the church and her influence is always given on the side of righteousness and truth. COLONEL EDWARD L. TAYLOR. If the American Indian, collectively speaking, could revisit not only "the pale glimpses of the moon" his heaven hung calendar, but his ancient hunting grounds in the Upper Scioto valley. he would intuitively stop at 231 East Town street, ascend the broad and white limestone steps, wondering at the glittering brass bannisters and pay obeisance to his nineteenth and twentieth century friend, Edward Livingston Taylor, lawyer. soldier, historian, literature and bon vivant. Colonel Taylor was born in Franklin county, March 20, 1839, and was the second son of David and Margaret Livingston Taylor, the children of the earliest pioneers in this section of Ohio, and themselves entitled to be enrolled among Buckeye pioneers. The ancestors of Edward Livingston Taylor were refugees from Canada, where they were settled when the war of the Revolution cane on-the Livingston branch at Montreal and the Taylor branch at Truro, Nova Scotia. which is at the head of the bay of Fundy. Their estates were confiscated because of their sympathy with struggling colonists. Taylor, the progenitor of this branch of the Taylor family in America. came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in New Hampshire in 1721. They were what is commonly called Scotch-Irish but were originally from Scotland. Robert Livingston, Jr., came from Scotland and settled at Albany, New York, in 1696. In 1802 what is known in law and history a tract of land four and one-half miles wide from north to south and about forty-eight from east to west was set apart by congress for the benefit of refugees from Canada. and Nova Scotia, designated in the act as the "Refugee Tract." The north line of this tract is what is now Fifth PAGE 647 - PICTURE OF COL. E. L. TAYLOR PAGE 648 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 649 avenue and the Louth line is Steelton. in the city of Columbus. On the west the tract begins at the east bank of the Scioto river and extends east to the Mnskingum river. On this tract both the Taylor and Livingston families settled: the Taylors in 1807 and the Livingstons in 1804, the former on Walnut creek and the latter on Alum creek. Their descendants still own and occupy these lands after more than a hundred years. This particular branch of the Taylor family came into recorded history in Argyleshire, Scotland, between two and three centuries ago. They were noted for their great physical stature, and the present generation here lit Ohio keep up to the standard, Colonel Taylor being a little over six feet and exactly proportioned while his sons come up to the ancient Scotch standard, and the same physical characteristic marks nearly all the members of the other branches of the Ohio family. After parsing through the public schools of Columbus he graduated from Miami University in 1860, and began the study of law with Hon. Chauncey N. Olds, being admitted to the bar in 1862, while at home on leave of absence front the military lines. The Civil war intervening ere he had yet completed his studies he recruited a. company of volunteers of which he was made captain and which was assigned to the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 30, 1862, but was shortly afterward exchanged. and rejoined his command and served to the end of the siege of Vicksburg, July 4, 186 3. Then with broken health and an enfeebled physical system. with but slight hope of regaining his former robust condition, he resigned his commission and came home. His recovery was tedious, but in the end was complete and continued so until some six or eight years ago, when his carriage was run down by a traction car, and he received severe and dangerous injuries, which at times has interfered with his former active life. Entering upon the practice of law in 1864, his progress was so rapid that in a few years he was recognized as one of the leading lawyers in central Ohio and enjoyed a very large and lucrative practice in all our state and federal courts. He prepared his cases with great care and presented them to both courts and juries with great force and ability. haring his active professional life there was hardly an important case tried in our local courts in which he was not one of the leading attorneys on one side or the other. He was never a. case lawyer, but like all great lawyers of this state he was thoroughly versed in the fundamental principles of law, and he applied those principle, to the facts of each case as they arose, and thus in time he became recognized as a very able and profound lawyer, and while he remained in practice his services were solicited by litigants in nearly all the important cases arising in Franklin county during that period as well as many celebrated cases tried in our federal courts. Colonel Taylor is a. most facile and graceful writer. acid the subjects he has written of cover a. wide field. His brochure and articles placing the American Indian oat his proper plane and analyzing his character. will attract and enlighten the historians of the next two or three centuries. His contribution to the study of Ohio's archaeology he being an honorary mem- 650 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS ber of the society. are of great scientific as well as ethnological value. They are to be found in the quarterly volumes of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society*s publications. Being a man of great physical proportions, he was none the less endowed with physical activity. and took infinite delight in outdoor sports and especially outdoor exercises in search of nature's inspiration, and the native conditions by which he sought to trace the processes of the ages. Geology has been his favorite study. and he knows every ravine on the Scioto and other streams in Franklin county and their geological formations. His favorite club is the Wyandot. and to him the great spring in Wyandot Grove was the American edition of the Perian fountain. Colonel Taylor and hiss Catherine N. Myers, the granddaughter of Colonel John Nobel, were married July 14. 1864. Five children were born to them, four of whoa are living. No sketch of our subject would be complete without some reference to his social life. For years he has been known throughout his home city as the "Prince of Entertainers." and during his whole life he has made it a practice to entertain many of the distinguished people who have visited Columbus on business or pleasure during that tine. Some of our most learned and eloquent men have been pleased to pass their entire time in our city as guests under his hospitable roof, and have found the greatest pleasure and profit in his company and society. Since his retirement from the active practice. Colonel Taylor has been leading an ideal life. His time is given up to his books and writing articles upon his favorite subjects for magazines, periodicals and papers, and they have been received with such favor that his reputation has become national on several historical subjects. Whatever time Colonel Taylor now gives to relaxation from his studies and writings he spends in entertaining his numerous friends. It is said that an invitation to the White House is always regarded as a command, but an invitation to dine with Colonel Taylor carries such pleasure to the recipient that they are. always accepted. To those who are thus favored there is no greater pleasure in life than to dine at Colonel Taylor's home and pass a few hours listening to his delightful conversation upon all subjects, and especially upon the early history and traditions of their state, with which no man is more familiar. So surrounded by the members of a numerous and influential family and by a still larger number of devoted friends, his days of retirement are perhaps the most pleasant and profitable of a long and useful life. PROFESSOR EDMUND A. JONES. Professor Edmund A. Jones, school commissioner of Ohio, whose high rank in educational circles is indicated by his membership in the National Council of Education-an honor conferred only in recognition of superior worth, was born in Rockville, Massachusetts, February 11, 1842. That state was the ancestral home of the family for several generations and his great- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 651 grandfather, a native of Medway, Massachusetts, was born about the middle of the eighteenth century. Both his grandfather and his father were teachers of that state and the three successive generations taught in the same district. Professor Jones acquired his early education in the country schools of Massachusetts and after thorough preparation at Mount Hollis Academy, entered Amherst College in 1860. When he had completed the work of the sophomore year he offered his services in defense of his country and was assigned to duty with Company B, Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. This command was sent down to join General Banks at New Orleans and in the first battle in which he was engaged, at Bayou La Fousche, in June, 1863, he was seriously wounded. At the expiration of his term of enlistment and after his colonel had recommended him for promotion because of meritorious service, Professor Jones reentered Amherst College, from which institution he received the degree. of Bachelor of Arts in 1865 and the Master of Arts degree in 1868, while in 1903 the Ohio University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Both before and after his military service he was president of his class in college, holding this honor at the time of his graduation In the year 1858 Professor Jones entered upon his career as an educator, becoming teacher in a district school in Massachusetts. After his graduation in 1865 he accepted a position in Lake Forest Academy, Illinois, where he served for four years as teacher, associate principal and principal. In October, 1869, he accepted the superintendency of the schools at Massillon where he remained for four years, after which he was superintendent of the schools at Marietta, Ohio, for two years. His work in the former place was so satisfactory to the people and his labor so beneficial to the schools that he was induced to return. Faithfully and efficiently for thirty-three years he served that city in an educational capacity, and his fellow townsmen there were only willing to release him that he might accept the honors of the office to which he had been elected by the people of the state. In 1889 the city of Cleveland offered him an increased salary but Massillon promptly met the offer and retained him in the position he had filled so long and satisfactorily to the patrons of her schools. In all of his educational work Professor Jones has been imbued with high ideals and his efforts have been at once practical, beneficial and far-reaching. Recognizing the fact that what is needed is continuous education which lasts all through life, he ever endeavored to give to the pupils under his care the foundation for that continuous education which would enable them to develop capacity equal to any emergency or demand. The efficiency of his work finds incontrovertible proof in the lives of many of his students who have gone out into the world and are today filling positions of trust and responsibility. Under his direction: the work of the schools of Massillon constantly broadened in scope while the demand for thoroughness was by no means abated. Believing in the need of an understanding of each individual pupil, Professor Jones through his long connection with the Massillon schools came into close touch with his pupils in their mental development and his strong personality, the expression of high and dominant principles, left its impress upon the lives of many with whom he 652 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS came in contact. In 1903 he was elected school commissioner of Ohio, and in .July, 1904, entered upon the duties of that office to which he was reelected in 1903, his present term to continue until July. 1909. He has been honored with election to membership in the National Council of Education, the highest body in educational circles with a limited membership that includes the ablest educators of the country. He was appointed a member of the state board of school examiners by Dr. E. P. Tappan to succeed Dr. E. E. White, and on the expiration of that terns was reappointed by Dr. John Hancock for the full term of five years. In 190 he was elected to the presidency of the Ohio Teachers Association and for twenty-six rears he has served continuously as a member of the board of control of the Ohio Teachers Heading Circle. In December, 1873, Professor Jones was married to hiss Flora Richards of Massillon. Ohio, and unto then were born a daughter. Flora Ellis, who died in infancy, and a son, Walter E., who was graduated from Amherst college with the class of 1904 and is now occupying a position in the school commissioners office. Professor Jones is serving as a deacon of the First Congregational church of Columbus, in which he holds membership. He is a past post commander of the Grand Army Post No. 134 and at the present time is department patriotic instructor for Ohio. In no field of labor where advancement must depend upon individual merit are the demands greater than in the profession of teaching. Continually before the public eye, the subject of criticism, if not of at-tack, of every individual who chooses to use the American prerogative of free speech, the service of any teacher must indeed approach hear pt perfection to win the uniform approval and appreciation that has been accorded Professor Jones. In many ways did Massillon give tangible evidence of her love and respect for him, both in his professional relations and otherwise. while the profession as a whole accords to him the honor that is his due as one of the foremost representatives of education in Ohio. LINDEN GOULD WHITE. Linden Gould White, general superintendent of the Columbus Railway Light Company, is one whose business career has been characterized by that steady progression which indicates intense and well directed energy and constantly increasing power as the. result of experience. He has made each new experience count to the utmost and has thereby gained the position of prominence and responsibility which he today occupies. A native son of Ohio, Mr. White was born in Cleveland. November 29, 1871. His father, Cyrus F. White, a native of Butler county, Pennsylvania, arrived in Cleveland in the '60s and was connected with the secret service department of the United States up to the time of his death in 1874. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Ella Gould. was born in Cleveland and is still living. Her father was express agent of the Cleveland, Columbus & Indianapolis Railroad. CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 653 In the public schools of his native city Linden G. White pursued his education to the age of sixteen years when, owing to necessity caused by his father's early death, he was forced to start out in the business world and not only provide a livelihood for himself but. also aid in the support of his mother. He entered the employ of J. L. Hudson & Company, clothing merchants of Cleveland, and continued with that house for one year. He first did any general work which was assigned him but later was given work in their electric-light plant, and this circumstance, which seemed a. comparatively trivial one at the time, shaped his entire future career. He has since been connected with electrical interests and left J. L. Hudson & Company to enter the employ of Tom L. Johnson on the Brooklyn Street Railway line, spending two years in installing and operating stations. He was gradually promoted until he became division inspector and later was employed as erecting engineer for the Short Electric Company, a branch of the Brush Electric Company. He continued with that concern for one year. He was afterward with the Edison General Electric Company, traveling in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as expert engineer in case of breakdowns or where any expert service was needed. He was finally sent to Columbus to take charge of breakdown work in connection with the Edison electric plant of this city. An opportunity being given him to remain permanently here with the Columbus Edison Electric company he accepted the position and continued with the company from the 13th of April, 1892, until February, 1903. In the latter year he entered the service of the Columbus Railway Company as assistant general superintendent and on the 1st of July. 1903. when the Columbus Railway & Light Company was organized, he became its assistant general superintendent, so continuing until January, 1906. At that date he was made general superintendent and has so continued to the present time. During his connection with this company he has instituted many practical improvements and has likewise manifested the spirit of the initiative learned in his previous business connections, his labors at. all times accomplishing the practical results for which he has striven. Such in brief is the business career of Mr. White. He who reads between the lines, however. will recognize the fact that close application, thoroughness. a complete mastery of everything that e has undertaken and unfaltering determination have enabled him to rise from a most humble position in the business world to a place where he today enjoys a national reputation in electric light and railway circles. He has been a most close and thorough student of everything bearing upon these lines, and possesses a comprehensive, technical as well as practical knowledge. Mr. White, to further his understanding of the science bearing upon his business connections, holds membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers. The American Society for the Advancement of Science, the Columbus Engineers Club and the Ohio State Electrical and Steam Engineers Association, and in all of these has been honored with various official positions. He is a member of the American Insurance Union and of the Modern Woodmen of America. 654 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS In 1904 Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Inez E. Thompson, of Fredericktown, Ohio, and they have one son, Linden M., born August 6, 1905. Such in brief is the life history of Mr. White. who stands as a splendid example of the American self-made man. History is replete with instances proving that it is only under the pressure of adversity and the stimulus of opposition that the best and strongest in men are brought out and developed. The life record of Mr. White is another indication of this fact, and by reason of what he has accomplished he receives the respect of his colleagues and the admiration of his contemporaries. COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE. James Kilbourne was born in New Britain. Connecticut. October 19, 1770, and after a useful life of four score years passed away December 9, 1850, in the town of Worthington, Franklin county. Ohio. which he founded. He was known as the Rev. James Kilbourne and Colonel James Kilbourne, the first title bestowed because of his church connections, and the second by reason of his association with the militia force of the state which. during the fist four decades of the nineteenth century. constituted a trained military force, capable of mobilization on the shortest notice: a spirit that accounts for the subsequent renown of Ohio offices and soldiers in the Mexican and Civil wars. The present James Kilbourne is the grand-on of this distinguished pioneer, manufacturer and statesman, who was reared to sturdy youth on his father's Connecticut farm; was apprenticed to a cloth manufacturer and. upon finishing his "time," became a successful manager of the business to which he had been thoroughly educated. Later he cane to Ohio as the advance agent of a colony which soon after his arrival impressed itself upon the central portion of the new and promising state. He very properly takes rank with the founders of the commonwealth, as well as a conspicuous figure in the pioneer army which laid its foundations broad, deep and impregnable. He was too young to take part in the Revolutionary struggle, but boy as he was he imbibed the spirit that carried the flag of the new Republic to victory when the fires and desolation of a foreign foe laid waste a great portion of his native state, and he carried that spirit to his new home in the west and transmitted it to his children and to his children's children of the later generations. He was the pathfinder and advance guard of a large 'body of his friends and neighbors from Connecticut to the heart of the garden spot of Ohio. Afterward other Connecticut colonies came into Ohio. locating at points north and northeast of Columbus, and these he personally visited and inspired with his courageous optimism and his strong faith in the ultimate greatness of the new state with which he had cat his lot. In the days of his apprenticeship in Connecticut he saw the great destiny which awaited the Ohio valley. and when the time came he joyously took up his pilgrimage. He saw but one thing which Threatened its future, and PAGE 655 - PICTURE OF JAMES KILBOURNE PAGE 656 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 657 that was the curse of human slavery. If it was permitted to invade the paradise of the northwest territory, he saw but little hope for it. That question awaited settlement at the hands of congress. When, in 1787, congress passed the ordinance erecting the territory, declaring that he curse of slavery should never be placed upon its virgin soil, he organized a company to colonize one of the richest portions of the Scioto valley, and located it at Worthington, in the geographical 'center of the future state of Ohio, and the town he then founded is today one of the beautiful suburbs of the present capital of the state. When the Northwest territory was organized under the ordinance of 1737, and the institution of slavery forever prohibited therein, young Kilbourne set on foot the organization of the Scioto Emigration Company, in the meantime coming into the state and closely examining the various advantages of the different sections of the upper Scioto valley, and finally deciding upon that portion of it where Worthington was founded. In 1803, coeval with the erection of the state of Ohio out of the eastern extension of the Northwest territory, he arrived with the Connecticut migrating contingent, and the building of the town of Worthington was entered upon. The town lands and out-lots were surveyed and allotted under the terms of the articles of association of the Scioto Company, among the stockholders of the association. Worthington soon became the emporium of the upper Scioto valley, and was prominently on the map long before Columbus was seriously dreamed of as a town. Merchandising and manufacturing were entered upon and Colonel Kilbourne, to make sure that the town should lack no essential to both spiritual and temporal welfare, saw to it that a church edifice was erected and, on his own behalf and for the welfare of that and all surrounding communities. erected the first real mill capable of turning out wheat, flour and corn meal, on the upper Scioto river. The importance of this bit of enterprise may be appreciated when it is said that at that time the nearest mill of like facilities was at Chillicothe. more than fifty miles away, with no roads and but few bridle paths between the two points, with the Scioto the other route of transportation, with dugouts and canoes, instead of boats, for carrying purposes. The subject of education was not. neglected in the wilderness, and the most, available methods of education were put in operation and continually improved upon, so that at the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century the educational facilities at Worthington were second to none in the state or west of the Allegheny mountains. Religion and the graces of morality, free from puritanism, were not lacking in friends, defenders and promoters. Manufacturers, small indeed by comparison with those of the present day, appeared responsive to the pioneer demand, and so continued to grow until new lines of transportation east and west, north and South across the state, changed the tide of population and business, and the greater villages grew up and became cities and the quaint old transported Connecticut town settled down to a. half slumberous life, quiet, dignified and instinct with wonderful memories of a century gone past. While Colonel James Kilbourne was to the end of his day. the moving spirit of Worthington. and the genius of it achievements in its day, he was 658 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS also the genius of other towns, and his very presence and optimism filled the new comers with hope and imbued them with ambition. He was a man of vast and versatile capabilities. A statesman, a soldier, an artisan, a civil engineer and the patron of art, science, manufacturing industry, learning and public progress, he stamped himself indelibly on the history of the state in its formative and progressive stages. As a surveyor he platted innumerable towns, especially where there were Connecticut settlements, often accompanied by his brother, John Kilbourne, who was not only a surveyor and a man of education, but a man of fine literary tastes and abilities and the author of several valuable books and gazetteers, full of the most entertaining thing in connection with the early history of the state, and becoming more and more valuable from a historical viewpoint as time elapses. John Kilbourne was Ohio's official geographer and map-maker, and, as apocryphal as it may sound, the official stenographer of the Ohio legislature for a period, almost or quite three quarters of a century ago. But his engagement was brief. There were not printing facilities enough in Columbus -,it the time to print in two weeks in the newspapers of that time the debates of a single sitting of the general assembly, so the stenographer had to resign and the long-hand reporter-there was but one in the city-got back his position. Where Mr. Kilbourne learned this modern accomplishment was not even hinted at in his writings, but he probably picked it up in some of the works of Seneca or his contemporaries; certain it is that he understood the art, for some of the statesmen who heard their fierce speeches read out of Kilbourne's "pot hooks and turkey tracks," were willing to dispense with the stenography as a matter of self-protection from their constituents if. haply, their remarks in full should be spread upon the journals of the assembly to be seen as well as heard of men. As a legislator James Kilbourne of Worthington was one among the most practical statesmen of his day. As a member of congress, his constituency represented almost one-half of the superficial area of the state and his ability and statesmanship were adequate to represent the remainder, had the other four seats become suddenly vacant. One may form an idea of the extent of his congressional district during the terns of hi services in the lower house of congress, by scanning the list of counties that were embraced in the then fifth congressional district. He was elected to the thirteenth congress in 1812 from the fifth district. composed of Licking, Delaware. Knox. Franklin. Madison, Fairfield, Champaign. Miami and Darke counties, which have since been subdivided into almost twice as many additional counties. In 1814 he was reelected to the fourteenth congress and was renominated for the fifteenth but absolutely refused to take a third election. His refusal was characteristic of the man. He accepted office under protest at all tinges and only to oblige his friends among both the political parties. The chief objects of his long and credit-able career was the promotion of education, morality, religion, the agricultural and manufacturing interests and the betterment of social and political conditions. Colonel Kilbourne was one of the commissioners to settle the disputed boundary line between Virginia. and the Northwest territory. He was also the CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 659 commissioner to select for the state of Ohio the public lands allotted for canal purposes and afterward known as the canal lands. He was an active and energetic advocate of roads, canals, railways and all forms of internal improvement. In 1820 he was chosen a presidential elector and cast his vote for James Monroe. He acted with the democratic party up to 1824, when he began to diverge from it, supporting Henry Clay. With the organization of the Whig party he wholly severed his political relations with the democracy and became an ardent Whig, taking an active part in the campaign of 1836, 1840 and 1844. He was, however, always tolerant in his party views. He was a personal friend of President Monroe and, when that statesman was making a tour of observation in the northwest during his official incumbency he visited Colonel Kilbourne at his hospitable home in Worthington. Other facts covering this event, as well as facts in connection with his public career and services, appear elsewhere in this work. He was the first member of congress to advocate the granting, by congress, of the free homesteads to actual settlers, as a means of populating the vast stretches of territory with a good class of citizens, and continued to advocate the policy up to the time of his decease, when the freesoil party took up the idea and the policy was adopted by congress half a score of years later, under the then leadership of Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania. So, also, was he among the first, if not the very first. man in congress to advocate the justice and equity of an income tax, a question likely to come up in the extraordinary session of the present congress (1909). The argument in that behalf by Colonel Kilbourne in the beginning decades of the eighteenth century were substantially the same as were presented in favor of the acts of congress in 1861, 1864 and during the last administration of President Cleveland, or likely to be offered in 1909. ROBERT C. TARBELL. M.D. Dr. Robert C. Tarbell, physician and surgeon of Columbus, was born in Georgetown. Ohio, March 3, 1871, his father being Judge David Tarbell, a man who was particularly well known in this state. A native of Ohio, he was a son of William Tarbell, who came from Massachusetts early in the nineteenth century and located at Ripley. Ohio, where he was engaged extensively in river, pork and trading interests. His business developed to considerable importance and made him one of the representative men of his community. At his death his son, David Tarbell, then in his teens, assumed the responsibility of the head of the family and of fitting himself for life's duties. His was a character of unusual strength, and in politics and in his chosen profession the law he rose to a. prominence enjoyed only by the few. With distinction he filled various positions of public trust, including that. of common pleas judge for two terms, and at his death, which occurred in November, 1908, left as a heritage a remembrance of a life full of honors earned and 660 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS accorded. He married Miss Nancy Salee, a native of Ohio, and a representative of Virginian ancestry. Her. death occurred February 26, 1904. Dr. Tarbell was the fourth in a family of five children, and after completing a high-school course in Georgetown he engaged in teaching a country school for three years and subsequently was employed in a drug store. In further preparation for work of that character he attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy from which he was graduated in May. 1891. His aim was to become a physician and he regarded this as a step toward the accomplishment of his object. After a period of active service in the drug business he entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and was graduated with the class of 1897. He then opened an office in his native city but the following year left the general practice to take a place on the medical staff of the State Hospital at Columbus, in which connection he rendered effective service for four years. He then went to New York and spent several months in the New York Post-Graduate College, on the expiration of which period he returned to Columbus and entered into the general practice of medicine, making the feature of neurology a matter of special study. He was for a period neurologist for Lawrence Hospital and was connected with the Park View Sanitarium in a similar capacity. He has become an expert medical examiner in criminal and probate court work and the attention he has given that study has made him particularly successful in the treatment of mental and nervous diseases. He belongs to the Columbus Academy of Medicine, of which he has served as secretary, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Early in life he became a member of the Masonic Lodge of Georgetown. Ohio, and is a member of the Benjamin Franklin chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Of a sociable nature, he has found life enjoyable in the acquirement of a circle of friends that grows as grows the scope of his acquaintance, while his advancement in his profession has been equally agreeable. MARSHALL E. THRAILKILL. Those who know Marshall E. Thrailkill are cognizant of the intensity of purpose and persistency of effort which characterize his undertakings of whatever nature, and especially emphasize one branch of his extensive lacy practice. He is a worthy follower of his chosen calling, but more than that he is a public-spirited citizen who has not only recognized his opportunities for public service but has fully met the obligations devolving upon him in this connection. Those who stand for law and order, for reform and improvement, always awaken the opposition of those who seek by devious methods to attain their ends, but the best citizenship of Columbus recognizes the value and worth of the efforts of Mr. Thrailkill in the line of public service. He is a native of Jackson township, Franklin county, his birth having occurred near Grove City, July 4, 1859. He comes from French Huguenot ancestry in the paternal line but is of Pennsylvania Dutch on the distaff side. His parents were Toliver and Elizabeth Thrailkill, farming people. whose ideas CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 661 of life were practical and whose principles were honorable. The family lived in a log cabin which contained but one room. It was, however, of commodious size for the time. There the seven children were born and inured to hard labor, growing up healthy, happy and vigorous able and ready to go out into the world and make a success of life. As is indicated, the financial resources of the family were somewhat limited so that there were few opportunities to give the children an education, yet the parents decided that their sons and daughters should have the best possible advantages in that direction, and when Mr. Thrailkill was nineteen years of age he had to his credit three months' schooling each year, his entire scholastic training then covering fifty months. From the time that he was able to assist on the farm his attention was largely occupied with the work of the fields as he bore his part in the plowing, planting and harvesting. His education was of a substantial character and he became well grounded in the common branches of learning. At twenty years of age, instead of attending he was successfully teaching school, and thereafter he divided his time between teaching and attending college until he graduated. An earnest disire to promote his own education led him to save his earnings and use the same to meet his tuition and other necessary expenses of his college course. Matriculating in the National Normal University, he there won the Bachelor of Science degree in 1883. Continuing his studies in the Ohio Northern University, he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1886. When he had completed his literary course he removed westward to the state of Nebraska where he resumed teaching, and while thus engaged he devoted the hours not required by the work of the schoolroom to the study of law, in Lincoln. In 1890 Mr. Thrailkill was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession. In the presentation of causes he displayed keen analytical ability, strong force and logical deduction, while his application of legal principles was sound and accurate. His ability gained for him a. .growing clientage and he was not long in winning for himself a creditable position at the Columbus bar. Moreover the active practice of law quickly disclosed to him the lamentable condition of affairs in many of the public offices where dishonest practices, more popularly called graft, were rampant. He felt that. his mission as a lawyer would be but half fulfilled if he did not divide his time between what may be termed the regular practice and a sustained effort to extirpate the growing evil. The story of his fight against the hydra-headed monster of graft is well known. The people seemed to be helpless before the assaults of the grafters. Notwithstanding the fact that he must depend upon his professional labors as a means of support for himself and family, he risked incurring the dangerous antagonism of powerful political forces and began what might properly be designated a private crusade against those who were using the opportunities of office to further private means. In spite of vituperative outbreaks he brought over thirty injunction suits against grafting contracts. When he could find no citizen and taxpayer willing to come to the front to hear evidence in the case, he brought the action, both as relator and volunteer counsel for the people, pushed the case relentlessly and though maligned and threatened by the grafters, won almost every case and 662 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS saved vast sums of money to the taxpayers without pecuniary gain for himself, save as one of the smaller taxpayers, yet with a large aggregate saving to the whole body of taxpayers. During the whole of his battle against graft and grafters he was recognized as an uncompromising foe to the uncanny evil, whenever and where ever it was found. His activity and assistance in repeated exposures of fraud in public contracts led finally to investigations that startled and amazed the entire community by the enormity of dishonest frauds uncovered. While engaged in this work, the benefit of which to the public cannot be fully estimated, Mr. Thrailkill continued in the private practice of law and became known as an incorruptible and skillful practitioner at the bar, well meriting the constantly increasing clientele that has been accorded him. In his younger years Mr. Thrailkill believed implicitly in the principles of the republican party but learned that a corrupt party "organization'' was largely responsible for the many-sided evil he had been fighting. As a consequence he became independent in local elections, voting for the candidate whom he regarded as best qualified for the duties which he must assume after he entered office. On the 9th of July, 1900, Mr. Thrailkill was married to Miss Laura Haughn, and unto them have been born two daughters, Marie and Irene. Mr. Thrailkill has no taste nor time for society, in the usually accepted sense of the term, detesting its shams and follies. He has, however, sincere love for neighbors and friends, is domestic in heart and taste, practices the simple life, and spends delightful hours in wood and open field, loving the hills, the streams, the forest and the wild. He has always been an enthusiastic archaeologist and relic hunter, and has generously turned over many of his finest specimens to the State Historical and Archaeological Society that others may benefit by his researches. Faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation, the life record of Mr. Thrailkill is creditable to the state and he is widely recognized as a high type of American manhood and citizenship. CONRAD A. HOWELL, M. D. Dr. Conrad A. Howell, who stands for all that is progressive in his profession, makes a specialty of surgery and has devoted much study to surgical anatomy. In this connection he has introduced new methods of practice, the value and utility of which have been demonstrated in the excellent results which have attended his labors. Dr. Howell is a native of Barbadoes, West Indies, his birth having there occurred November 5, 1866. His father, Conrad A. Howell, was a native of England and became the owner of interests in several of the English colonies, where he also executed government contracts. For many years he made his home in Barbadoes but in 1889 came to the United States, settling at Westerville, Ohio, where he remained until a short time prior to his death, which occurred at the home of his son the Rev. J. A. Howell, of Golden, Colorado. January 5, 1905, when he was seventy-two years of age, his birth PAGE 663 - PICTURE OF DR. C. A. HOWELL PAGE 664 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 665 having occurred on the 20th of June, 1832. The Howell family is an old one of England and Conrad A. Howell adhered to the religious faith of his father-that of the Episcopal church. He wedded Miss Mary Alleyne, a native of the West Indies, of English parentage. Her father, John Alleyne, was a prominent lumberman of the West Indies. Dr. Howell was educated in Harrison College in Barbadoes and then entered his majesty's imperial service as cashier of the Imperial Savings Bank at that Place. Desiring, however, to become a member of the medical profession he went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1886 and there took up the study of medicine, being graduated from the Cleveland Hospital College in 1888. Shortly afterward he was appointed assistant physician for the Ohio penitentiary by Governor Foraker and remained in that work for two years. He was next appointed surgeon of the Osage nation of the Indian territory by President Harrison but did not find life among the Indians congenial and after a short time resigned and came to Columbus, where he has since engaged in the practice of medicine, meeting with good success in his chosen profession. He has been accorded a. liberal patronage and his business comes to him from many of the best families of the city. He belongs to the Academy of Medicine, to the state Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and the Northside Medical Society. In his practice he has specialized in the department of surgery, devoting much study to surgical anatomy. He was the first man in Columbus to make a demonstration of detecting a foreign substance in the human body through the X-ray and was one of the first in the United States to remove a portion of fractured vertebral column. He was likewise the first surgeon in Columbus to make the profusion of blood after the modern methods. He has made many experiments on dogs before attempting to put his theories into practice on the human race but his ideas are based upon such broad and comprehensive knowledge of the science of medicine, anatomy and the component parts of the human body, their functions and the onslaught made upon them by disease that his efforts have been unusually successful and he has performed some remarkable operations in surgical work. His researches in the science of anatomy have been mast complete and such is his ability that his opinions are frequently sought by leading members of the medical fraternity in Columbus. In 1889 Dr. Howell was married to Miss Minnie E. Briever, a native of Westerville, Ohio, and a daughter of George and Lucinda Briever, of an old pioneer family of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Howell have two children, Conrad A. and Murrell E. The Howell home is attractive by reason of its warm-hearted and cordial hospitality. During their residence here Dr. Howell and his wife have made many friends. He is prominent in Masonry belonging to Magnolia lodge, A. F. & A. M., Scioto Consistory, S. P. R. S.; and the Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He possesses a genial, social nature, but the demands of a growing practice are leaving him little time for active participation in social affairs. His labors in the department of surgery have gained him 666 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS more than local distinction and in all his work he is actuated by high ideals that find their expression in continuous interest and research in preparation for the responsibility that devolves upon him in his business relations. WILLIAM L. VAN SICKLE. Much is said in these later days of the influence of heredity. In this connection William Lincoln Van Sickle is fortunate in that he come- of an unadulterated Dutch lineage on the paternal side, the ancestral history being characterized by the substantial qualities of the people of that race. His grandfather, John Van Sickle, removing westward from New Jersey. became one of the pioneer residents, of Ohio about the time the state was admitted into the Union. He settled in Delaware county and became prominently concerned in the development and progress of that favored section. with whose annals the family history has been closely identified through the successive years. William W. Van Sickle, father of William L. Van sickle. was born in Delaware county and was there reared to farm life. Having reached adult age he was married to Miss Mary Crane, a native of New Jersey and a lady of Scotch-Irish extraction. They became the parents of three' sons, and two daughters, all of whom are living with the exception of the son who died in infancy. This number includes William L. Van Sickle, whose birth occurred on the old homestead farm in Delaware county. August 20. 1867. In his youthful days the parents removed to the city of Delaware, Ohio, where he attended the public schools and at the age of eighteen entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, therein pursuing the full course to his graduation with the class of 1889. Mr. Van Sickle had previously determined to become a lawyer, and in his case, to will was to do. He attended the Cincinnati Law School. from which he was graduated in 1891, and coming to Columbus he entered upon the active practice of the profession, in which he made substantial progress, his developing powers winning him a growing clientage that increased in importance as well as in volume. He is today, therefore, one of the busy men in the practice of law in Columbus with a clientage of a distinctively representative order. He confines his efforts largely to civil causes, in which connection his labors cover a wide range. In 1893 he entered into partnership with E. W. Brinker under the firm name of Brinker & Van Sickle, and the association continued until April, 1895, when it was dissolved by mutual consent. Since that time Mr. Van Sickle has been alone in practice and has gained an excellent reputation as an industrious, painstaking and capable attorney, systematic in serving his clients. That he is destined for still greater professional prestige cannot be doubted when cognizance is taken of his career at the present time. Aside from the practice of law Mr. Van Sickle has extensive and important business interests, being attorney, secretary and general manager of the Columbian Building & Loan Company, president of the Central Tablet Manufacturing Company, president and treasurer of the West Side Furni- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 667 ture Company, a director of the Hann and Adair Printing Company and of the People's Merchandise Company and the Buffalo Fertilizer Company. He was one: of the organizers and the first president of the Camp Chase Improvement Association and is interested in all those measures and movements which tend to benefit the city in the various lines of municipal progress. His social relations are indicated by his membership in various organizations. He is a charter member of Champion Lodge, Knights of Pythias, one of the largest lodges of the order, and has held every office in the gift of the lodge. He has the honor, to which few have attained, of being a thirty-third degree Mason, and is a member of the Columbus Country and the Ohio Clubs. He was formerly president of the Arion Musical Club, now extinct. Politically he has always been a republican and is doing sturdy and efficient work for the party. On the 12th of November, 1906, William L. Van Sickle was united in marriage to Miss Celestia Bland, of Delaware, Ohio, an accomplished lady, who is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University and of the Ladies Seminary at Granville. Ohio. They now have one son, William Bland. Mr. Van Sickle is unostentatious in his bearing, having an air of open-hearted friendliness. which has made him exceptionally popular in both business and social circles. He is democratic in the best sense of the term, is easily accessible to all classes, believing that personal worth and not advantageous circumstances make the man. GEORGE TALLMAN SPAHR. Public opinion is united upon the fact that well-directed industry is the basis of all success. This truth is reiterated from the pulpit and the press and finds its exemplification in the lives of the men who are recognized leaders in; the world's work. When a man has achieved prominence and prosperity, therefore, it is an indication that he has been willing to work persistently and indefatigably for advantages that others desire but do not care to win at the cost of earnest self-denying effort. That George Tallman Spahr is one of the leading citizens and substantial business men of Columbus is indicated in the fact that he is senior partner of the well known firm of Spahr & Glenn. conducting an extensive and consequently growing business as printers and stationers. A native of Ohio he was born in Ironton of the marriage of the Rev. B. N. and Elizabeth (Tallman) Spahr, the latter a daughter of Judge George Tallman, of New Holland, Ohio, a well known stock farmer who at one time was probate judge of Pickaway county. The Spahr family comes of Swiss ancestry and the American progenitor emigrated from Switzerland. settling in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia more than century ago. His descendants are now largely to be found in the states of Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and North Carolina. The grandfather of George Tallman Spahr came to Ohio from the Old Dominion with several brothers and located in the 668 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Miami valley in the vicinity in Xenia, where he followed the occupation of farming. The Rev. B. N. Spahr was born in Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, and after attending the Miami University began preparation for the ministry and was ordained as a preacher of the Methodist church. In early life he was pastor of the old Town Street Methodist Episcopal church in Columbus and after many years, during which time he was located in various places in southern and central Ohio, he returned to this city and was again pastor of that church. At different times he served as presiding elder in the Marietta, Lancaster, Columbus and London districts in the central Ohio conference. About the year 1880 he retired from the ministry, spending his remaining days in the capital city, where his death occurred June 4, 1890. when he was sixty-nine years of age. He had been an influential factor in the moral progress of the state and his memory yet remains as a blessed benediction to many who knew and heeded his teachings. Of his family of four children two died in infancy. the .surviving sons being George T. and Charles Spahr. The latter, following his graduation from the Columbus high school in 1876), entered Amherst College and was graduated in 1881 with the Bachelor of Art degree. He then took up the study of political science at Columbia College in New York, where he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree and next entered the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he also received the degree of Ph. D. For a time he was editor of the political department of the Outlook and for a considerable period prior to his death was editor of the Current Literature Magazine. He passed away in New York in August, 1904, at the age of forty-four years. George T. Spahr was only two years of age when his parents removed from Ironton, Ohio, and his early education was acquired in the public schools of Lancaster and Columbus, being graduated from the Columbus high school in 1874. He next entered the Amherst College and was graduated in 1878 with the Bachelor of Art degree. He took up the study of law in the office of the well known firm of Olds & Critchfield, attorneys, at Columbus and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1881. He did not begin active practice, however, for soon after his admission he was solicited to take the management of the Gazette Printing House, then owned by Mrs. S. A. Glenn. Later he acquired an interest and became a partner in the business, continuing in active connection therewith until the time of the Metropolitan Opera House fire, January 26, 1892, when the establishment was burned. Theodore Glenn then purchased the interest of his mother and a few days later the entire job printing business of the Ohio State Journal was purchased and the firm of Spahr & Glenn was formed for its further conduct. In 1897 Mr. Spahr erected the Spahr building on East Broad street, one of the handsome business blocks of the city. The building was designed for the use of the firm of Spahr & Glenn, the Ohio State Journal and the Columbus Savings Association, now the Columbus Trust Company. Since the organization of the present firm the business has distinctly grown in volume and importance and is today one of the most extensive enterprises of this character in central Ohio. Since its organization Mr. Spahr has also been a member of the hoard of directors of the CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 669 Ohio Trust Company and the National Bank of Commerce. Long an active and leading member of the Board of Trade, he was chosen one of its directors in 1897 and so served until 1903, when he was elected president. On the 28th of October, 1886, Mr. Spahr was married in Columbus to Miss Harriet C. Marple, a native of this city and a daughter of Nathan B. and Harriet (Clark) Marple, the former for many years a druggist of Columbus and a native of this city. His wife was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Spahr have become parents of five daughters : Marie, who was graduated form the Central high school in 1904 and is a member of the class of 1909 at Wellesley College; Elizabeth, who is a graduate of the Walnut Hills School at Natick, Massachusetts and is now studying music in Dresden, Germany; Dorothy, who died at the age of two years and four months: and Eleanor and Katherine, at home. In politics Mr. Spahr is an independent republican and has always refused to accept political office. Fraternally he is a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic organizations, while socially he is connected with the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the East Side Bowling Club and the Assembly. He holds membership in the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church and for several years has been one of its trustees. As a business man and citizen he ranks high and is extremely popular, being genial, affable and at all times approachable. His success in business is the result of hard labor and the applications of rare business talents. The weight of his character and ability has carried him into important relations and his present standing in commercial and financial circles represents the fit utilization of the innate talents which are his. WILLIS J. ROOT. Willis J. Root is well known in the business and industrial circles of this city as general superintendent of the Columbus works of the Carnegie Steel Company. He is an expert chemist and has been associated with many iron works in that capacity. and for a number of years has been affiliated with the firm which he is mow serving in the responsible position of general superintendent. His birth occurred in Ashtabula county, this state. June 8, 1857, and he is a son of William A. and Derinda (Cole) Root. both of whom were natives of New York state, where his father followed general agriculture and stock raising for many years, subsequently removing to this state where he departed this life January 14, 1894, surviving his wife, who also passed away here, by twenty-three years. The elder Mr. Root was well known throughout the county in New York state in which he resided as am enterprising man and also as a substantial and desirable citizen. The public schools of his native county afforded Willis J. Root his preliminary education, after completing which he was matriculated as a student in the Ohio State University, where he pursued a course in mining engineering and was graduated in 1885. Immediately he sought a position in 670 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS which to make use of the knowledge appertaining to the profession which he had adopted, and secured employment with the Jefferson Iron Works at Steubenville, Ohio, and for two years was in the employ of this firm as a chemist. Here his theoretical knowledge soon became practical and he received an experience which made him all the more confident of his ability to successfully pursue his profession. Upon severing his connection with this company he came to this city, where he became affiliated with the Licking Coal & Iron Company as superintendent of the blast furnaces, in which position he served efficiently for a period of three years when he resigned his post and entered the employ of the King, Gilbert & Warren Company as a chemist, and when the company's interests were sold out to the Carnegie steel corporation Mr. Root was still held in his position and finally made general superintendent. In the capacity in which he is serving he is one of the most efficient. men obtainable, being familiar with every branch of the work and all expert in all branches of chemistry pertaining to the iron and steel enterprise. In 1895, at Middleport, this state, he was united in marriage to Carrie E. Powell, the couple having two children, namely: Eunice O., and Dorothy L. Mr. Root is well known throughout the fraternal organizations and belongs to the Free Masons, in which order he is a Knights Templar and a Shriner. He also belongs to the Columbus Club. He is well known in his profession. and his thorough knowledge of his business places him in the highest rank as a master of the various departments of chemistry. ELMER E. MURPHY. Elmer E. Murphy, concentrating his energies upon his professional duties and practicing as a member of the Columbus bar since 1896, yet not excluding active nor helpful participation in those interests which constitute an element in the activity of every good citizen, was born on a farm near Athens, Ohio, June 4, 1862. His father. Brice S. Murphy, born in Kirkwood township, Belmont county. Ohio, in 1832, became one of the leading farmers of his neighborhood and not only successfully conducted agricultural interests but also served for several terms as justice of the peace and settled and adjusted the local disputes and divisions of opinion among his neighbors. He wedded Elizabeth Baler. who was born in Alexander township, Athens county, in 1835, and is a. daughter of Ross Baker, who was a son of Mrs. Martha (Ross) Baker, a near relative of Betsey Ross, who made the first United States flag. Elmer E. Murphy was one of a family of several children. There were vicissitudes with which to contend along most of the early stages of his life but he made the most of his opportunities and aimed not only to secure an education for himself but to assist his father who was in limited financial circumstances with a large family dependent upon him. Elmer E. Murphy aided in their support and also utilized the educational advantages which were offered him in the country schools, while subsequently he studied for six PAGE 671 - PICTURE OF ELMER E. MURPHY AND FAMILY PAGE 672 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 673 weeks in the normal school at Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio. Immediately thereafter at less than eighteen years of age he took up the profession of teaching and became more of a student than before, for he had to work to keep ahead of his pupils and it was with him as it is with all others that the teacher gains more than the pupil, no matter how capable is the instruction given. For eight years he continued to teach successfully in many parts of the state, maintaining himself by his labors and also aiding his father to support and educate the younger members of the family. In 1888 he turned his attention to commercial lines, going upon the road as a traveling representative for mercantile houses. For a number of years he traveled throughout all the leading cities of the United States and the British and French possessions of North America, becoming a veritable "knight of the grip.'' While engaged in teaching Mr. Murphy had entered upon a systematic course of law, reading and studying the practical text-books of that day, including Walker's American Law, Blackstone's and Kent's commentaries and other cognate works, one or more of which he carried with him and read on every trip that he made while acting as traveling salesman. Not satisfied with is literary attainment, however, and feeling that a more comprehensive general knowledge was a necessity toward success in professional lines, he entered the National Normal University of Ohio at Lebanon and in 1891 won the degree of Bachelor of Science, while in 1892 the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon him. He completed his law studies in the University of Cincinnati, where he won the Bachelor of Laws degree and in 1896 was regularly admitted to the law practice before the supreme court of Ohio. The following year he was admitted to practice in the United States circuit and district courts by Judge William H. Taft, now president of the United States. Since his admission to the bar Mr. Murphy has continuously followed his profession in Columbus and his ability is evidenced by the clientage accorded him, connecting him with much important work done in the courts and in counsel. His professional duties have been his chief concern and his devotion to his client's interests is proverbial, yet he has also found time for consideration of important political and municipal problems. His father, afterwards a democrat was a. stalwart Lincoln republican during the war period but the son is a democrat, the result of his studies of political economy and other political problems during his attendance upon the primary as well as the higher institutions of learning-the result of thoughtful study and sincere convictions. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, having joined the order in Wilmington. Ohio. in 1889. He is still a member of Lodge No. 218 and is in sympathy with the beneficent spirit of the organization. While he does not belong to any church, he has sincere respect for religion and religious teachings and influences, and in fact is interested in all that pertains to progress. reform and improvement for mankind. In June 1890, Mr. Murphy was married at Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Miss Martha Bunker, a, daughter of Benjamin and Bessie (Williams) 674 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Bunker. Her father removed in his early youth from New Hampshire to this state. One of her ancestors owned the land on which Bunker Hill Monument now stands. Mrs. Murphy passed away in July, 1905, leaving in the care of her husband their three children, Rex, Bessie and Don, aged respectively, seventeen, thirteen and eleven years. In the accompanying portrait Mrs. Murphy appears with her husband and eldest child. She was a most charitable woman and of a sweet and gentle disposition, loved by all who knew her. EDWARD M. MOOAR. Prominent among the energetic and successful business men of central Ohio is the subject of this sketch, whose life history most happily illustrates what may be attained by faithful and continued effort in carrying out asa honest purpose. Integrity, activity and energy have been the crowning points of his success and he stands today as a prominent factor in mercantile circles, being president of the Isaac Eberly Company, jobbing grocers. one of the leading wholesale concerns of the city. Mr. Mooar was born in Covington. Kentucky, August 23. 1845, ind is a son of Mark and Charlotte (Wright) Mooar, who were natives of New Hampshire. Removing westward at an early day, they made the trip by way of the canal and water route to Covington. Kentucky. After a short time there passed they became residents of Cincinnati, where for many years the father engaged in the cooperage business. A life of usefulness and activity was ended when he passed away at Clifton, near Cincinnati, at the age of seventy-six years, death coming to him without warning, being occasioned by heart trouble. Edward M. Mooar was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati to the age of thirteen years, when he began carrying papers. It. is hardly possible to find a city-bred boy who at some time has not had either a paper route or sold to the transient trade on the street corners, and like many other men who have made their mark in the world Edward M. Mooar thus started out in the field of commerce. He was imbued, however, with the desire to attain something better and utilized every opportunity for advancement. In time he became bookkeeper in the Cincinnati branch of the house of William Jessop & Sons, steel manufacturers, of Sheffield, England. He continued with that firm until he reached the age of eighteen, when he enlisted in the One Hundredth and Thirty-seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving the period of his enlistment was mustered out and entered the United State Quartermaster's Department under Colonel D. W. H. Day, remaining in this service in North Carolina for nearly a year lifter the close of the war, or until all of the government property in that state had been disposed of. Mr. Mooar came to Columbus in January, 1863, at the age of twenty. and at once took up the settlement of the Ohio war claims against the general CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 675 government, continuing in this service during the administrations of Governors Cox, Hayes and Noyes-a period of eight years. Some idea of the service rendered the state by Mr. Mooar in this connection is conveyed in the following paragraph, taken from Executive Documents, 1873: "Probably no state in the Union has succeeded in collecting so large a proportion of its `war claims' at so small a proportionate cost as Ohio. While in most other states the expense of collection has been from two to ten per cent of the amount collected, it has cost Ohio only a fraction over one-half of one per cent. This result is largely due to the energy, business tact and fidelity of Mr. E. M. Mooar, who has had charge of these claims for several years. A large experience in accounts, united to sound judgment and a positive talent for unraveling intricacies, renders him peculiarly fit for the work." Retiring from the state service in January, 1874, Mr. Mooar spent a year on the western prairies, riding horseback and living outdoors for the benefit of his health. On his return to Columbus, in December, 1874, he entered the employ of Isaac Eberly & Company, as bookkeeper and a few years later was admitted to a partnership, continuing in business as a member of this firm until January, 1902, a period of twenty-seven years. At this time he retired from active business with the ntention of taking a long rest, of which he was much in need. He has since spent much time in travel but in May, 1908. He was elected president and treasurer of the Isaac Eberly Company acid took charge on the 1st of June of that year. Other business interests have claimed his time and attention ; he was a director of the Ohio National Bank from the time of its inception until 1906 and for one term was a director of the board of trade. On the 17 th of February, 1876, Mr. Mooar was married to Miss Anna Ii. Hull, of Warren, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John H. Hull, a prominent citizen of Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Mooar have two children: Mrs. Henry 11. Powell, of Columbus; and Harry L., of Zanesville, Ohio. The parents attend the Broad Street Presbyterian church. Mr. Mooar has traveled extensively throughout the United States, and through his varied business experience, travel and observation he has become a man of broad general information and of liberal and progressive views. He has made an untarnished record as a business man, and is justly held in high esteem in the community in which he has lived so long. Industry and fidelity to duty have been his dominant traits through life, and his own self-respect has been to him of far greater importance than wealth, fame or position. BENJAMIN A. MATHEWS. Benjamin A. Mathews, who represents the Standard Oil Company in the southern part of they state, and who as its manager is one of the most influential factors in the business circles of the city, is a native of Canada, where his birth occurred in the year 1859. The responsible position which 676 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS he occupies as a business man and financier is the result of his own exertions, inasmuch as when a mere lad he was compelled to go out into the world for himself and make his way on the strength of his own efforts. His parents were Aaron and Caroline (Crabtree) Mathews, his father having been a native of Canada, where his birth occurred in 1833, and his mother a native of England, who was united in marriage in Canada about the year 1855. For many years the elder Mr. Mathews conducted a general merchandise business in Canada and later became a well known cement contractor in Cleveland, Ohio, moving to the Forest City during the year 1875. He departed this life in Los Angeles, California, in 190$, his remains having been interred in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland. The boyhood days of Benjamin A. Mathews were spent in Canada, and there he acquired his education in the public schools and, upon completing his studies, at the age of fifteen years he learned telegraph operating. which he followed for about one year when he removed to Cleveland with his parents, in that city securing employment as a clerk in a clothing establishment. That position he held until the year 1886, when he became connected with the L. D. Mix Oil and Naptha Company, in the employ of which firm he remained for some time and, owing to his business qualifications and usefulness received promotions until he was made a traveling salesman. In this position he served six months at the expiration of which time, upon the death of Mr. Mix, he was made general manager of the company and continued to officiate in this capacity until 1892, when the business was dissolved, upon which Mr. Mathews was made general manager of the specialty department of the Standard Oil Company, with headquarters at Cleveland, this state. On May 15, 1893, he was transferred to this city, where he is acting in the same capacity, having charge of the company's interest in the southern half of the state. Since affiliating himself with this firm, by his constant application to duty and the profound interest he has taken in the business, always being on the alert to work for the welfare of the company, he has been instrumental in more than doubling the volume of trade., and is today one of the most efficient men in its employ. In 1884, in Cleveland. Ohio, Mr. Mathews was united in marriage to Miss Hattie B. Mix, and the couple have the following children: Lucile; Lozenzo D.. manager of the Columbus Realty Owners Company. of which his father is president ; Dorothy : and Webster. Mrs. Mathews is a. member of the Columbus Country Club, and the pressure of his business affairs being such as to require his almost undivided attention he does not find time to devote to social or fraternal organizations. He is, however, well known for his charitable disposition and his efforts in behalf of the general welfare of the community, and, as president of the, Columbus Protestant Hospital, was instrumental in securing its present new and commodious quarters. He is a. prominent and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, having been president of the Local Church Extension Society for several years; and has been superintendent of Sunday schools in the following churches First Church and Euclid Avenue church. Cleveland and Broad Street church, and Madison Avenue churches this city, and has been president of the board CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 677 of trustees of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church since its organization in 1902. Mr. Mathews is a man whose successful career is due solely to his inborn resources, and it has been through his industry and perseverance that he has risen to his present station of prominence, in which he figures as one of the city's most substantial business men. HON. FRANK RATHMELL. Hon. Frank Rathmell, judge of the court of common pleas, holds in connection with his chosen profession a position of distinctively relative precedence. He was born on a farm near Lockburn, Franklin county, Ohio, October 15, 1855, and was the fifth in order of birth in a family of nine children, whose parents were John and Susan (Frank) Rathmell, the former a native of Franklin county, Ohio, and the latter of eastern Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Rathmell, came from eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio prior to 1820 and located on the Big Walnut between Columbus and Groveport, where he established a blacksmith shop, receiving a large patronage from people who were emigrating westward, his place being on one. of the main traveled Toads. He also owned and conducted a farm, continuing in active business in this county until his death in 1855. John Rathmell was reared to the occupation of farming, and chose it as a life work, meeting with very desirable and well merited success in that undertaking. He held a number of minor offices and was known in the community as a representative citizen whose aid could always be counted upon to further progressive public movements. Both he and his wife have now passed away. Reared on the home farm Judge Rathmell spent his youthful days in the manner of most lads of the period, dividing his time between the work of the fields and the acquirement of an education in the country schools until he was nineteen years of age, when he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, being there graduated in 1882 with the Bachelor of Science degree, in a class numbering fifty-five members. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, membership in which is bestowed as a reward of scholarship. After leaving college he spent two years as principal of the high school in Logan, Ohio, but regarded the profession of teaching merely as an initial step to other professional labor, as he had determined to make the practice of law his life work. He was well equipped for his chosen profession by thorough preparation in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1885, being admitted to practice the same year. He entered upon his professional labor in Columbus in 1886 as junior partner of the firm of Rankin & Rathmell, which existed for a year, while later he was for several years senior partner of the firm of Rathmell, Dyer & Webb. Mr. Rathmell is recognized as a man of decided ability, of unswerving honesty and integrity of character, of sound convictions and splendid energy. His success as a lawyer has come as a direct result of his talents 678 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS and their proper utilization. He is patiently persevering,. possessed of a mind that is analytical and readily receptive and retentive of the fundamental principles and intricacies of the law; gifted with a spirit of devotion to wearisome details; quick to comprehend the most subtle problems and logical in his conclusions; fearless in the advocacy of any cause which he may espouse. Few men have been more richly endowed for the achievement of success in the arduous and exacting work of the legal profession. In 1892 Mr. Rathmell was elected judge of the common pleas court and has continuously served on the bench to the present time, covering a period of seven years. He took to his duties a thorough understanding of the law, as the result of wide experience in practice and broad study, and his decisions have at all times been based upon the most earnest desire to secure justice. He is a member of the State and County Bar Associations, and thus keeps in close relations with his fellow practitioners in the law. Judge Rathmell is also well known by reason of his devotion to matters of municipal progress and general improvement. He was for years a member of the school board, serving as its president for one year, and for two terms he was a member of the city council. He renders stanch allegiance to the republican party in whose ranks he has been an active and zealous worker, while his services and influences in that connection have been duly appreciated. In 1893 Judge Rathmell was married to Miss Emily Felch. of Columbus, and they have a daughter, Margaret. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in that organization and in social circles are most cordially and favorably received. Judge Rathmell is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree; Knights of Pythias; Ohio Club; and the Phi Gama Delta fraternity. In 1892 he took an extensive trip abroad, traveling through England. Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, gaining thereby that knowledge and culture which only travel brings. He is recognized in Columbus as a man of scholarly attainments in his profession, progressive in his citizenship and loyal in friendship, and none occupy a more enviable position in the regard of their associates than does Judge Rathmell. HARRY OLMSTED. The Olmsteds have been makers of history since Franklin county was reclaimed for the purpose of civilization by the white race and thus redeemed from the dominion of the Indians. Through a much more remote period representatives of the name had figured in connection with notable achievements that have shaped American history. They were prominent in New England during the earlier period of American colonization, and Francis Olmsted fought to free the colonies from the yoke of British tyranny and was one of the army that witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne. Wounded in battle, he was afterward compensated in part by his government, who PAGE 679 - PICTURE OF PHILO H. OLMSTEAD PAGE 680 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 681 awarded him a pension throughout the remainder of his life. In the east he married Miss Chloe Case, and in 1808 became the founder of the family in Ohio, removing from his old home near Hartford, Connecticut, to Franklin county. He settled in that district then known as Blendon Four Corners about the middle of December, having spent six weeks in making the journey to the then "far west." On his way to Ohio he had crossed the North river, at Newburg, New York ; the Delaware river, at Easton, Pennsylvania; the Susquehanna river at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; the Ohio river at Wellsburg, West Virginia; and at times his way lay through an almost impenetrable forest. Minerva park now covers the site of the old home where Francis Olmsted passed away in 1828. His family numbered five sons and two daughters, of whom Colonel Philo Hopkins Olmsted had a notable career at Columbus. He was about eleven years of age at the time of his arrival in Ohio, his birth having occurred in Simsbury, Connecticut, February 26, 1793. He gained a fair education for pioneer times and assisted in the arduous task of clearing and developing a new farm in the midst of the wilderness, working on the old homestead until 1810, when at the age of seventeen years he secured a position in the office of the Western Intelligencer at Worthington, of which his father was one of the proprietors, the paper being then edited and published by a Mr. Griswold. In 1814 after the seat of government had been established on the bank of the Scioto river a mile east of Franklinton, the printing office was removed from Worthington to Columbus, and the name of the paper changed to the Columbus Gazette. Colonel Olmsted continued with the paper and soon after purchased Mr. Griswold's interest, becoming its proprietor and publisher. It was a strong whig journal and its local position at the seat of government made it an important element in directing the policy of the state and imparted to its editor an influence and prominence rarely attained by members of the profession in after years. Again and again Colonel Olmsted was appointed printer to the state, and after a time the Gazette was merged in a daily paper established at Columbus by George Nashee, Judge Bailhache and Colonel Olmsted. About 1832 the last named sold his interest to Joseph B. Gardner and for several year devoted his attention entirely to public service. In 1838, however, he became the proprietor of the old National Hotel in Columbus, then a noted stage house on the west side of High street, where in 1840 he entertained General William Henry Harrison, at that time presidential candidate. The following year Colonel Olmsted disposed of the hotel and in 1842 opened the City Hotel, at which he entertained Martin Van Buren during the presidential campaign of 1844. In 1845 he became proprietor of the United States Hotel, which remains one of the old landmarks of the city. Colonel Olmsted conducted business there until 1850, when he retired to private life. His military and official service entitle him to more than passing notice. At the expiration of the second war with England, in 1812, he joined a cavalry organization recruited at Columbus, was elected its colonel, and at its head started for the seat of war by way of Sandusky, but when within one day's ride of his destination he was met by a courier sent to announce 682 -CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS the end of the war. He was prominently identified with the military affairs of the state, however, for many years, and in all of his official relations maintained a character of scrupulous probity and uprightness, his fitness for leadership and his recognized loyalty to the public good led to his selection as a member of the city council, where he served from 1819 until 1822, and again from 1831 until 1834. During his last term he was the mayor of the city and was again elected chief executive officer of Columbus in 1837 to fill out the unexpired term of Warren Jenkins, while in 1838 he was once more chosen for the position. He exercised his official prerogative in support of many needed measures of reform and improvement, and whether in office or out of it gave substantial aid to all the projects for the upbuilding and welfare of the city. In 1832, when the population of Columbus was about two thousand, he celebrated the opening of the canal by getting together a fleet of three boats and going with cannon and brass band and a large deputation of citizens to Chillicothe, where their arrival created a great sensation, this being considered a magnificent celebration. When the Civil war was in progress he traveled extensively through Ohio and West Virginia buying stock for the United States army, and doing everything in his power to uphold the federal government at Washington. He was six times a member of the Ohio general assembly and left the impress of his individuality, wise statesmanship, and unquestioned patriotism upon much of the constructive legislation of that period. In 1817 Colonel Olmsted was married to Miss Sarah Phillips, of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, who died in 1875 at the age of seventy-six years, while the death of Colonel Olmsted occurred in Columbus, February 20, 1870. He had lived in this city for more than half a century, loved and respected by the community in which he had so long resided and to which he had endeared himself by the disclosure of a multitude of virtues which adorned the character of a pious Christian and noble, conscientious fellow citizen. Charles H. Olmsted, the son of Colonel Olmsted, who carried on the work of progress and development instituted by his grandfather and followed out by his father, was born on West State street in this city, in 1825, and was the fifth in order of birth and the last survivor in a family of twelve children. He attended successively the public schools, the Granville Academy, and Athens College, and in 1849 he was a messenger of the Fargo Express Company between Cincinnati and Sandusky, running over the old strap bar railroad on which it was impossible for a train to make a speed of more than fifteen or sixteen miles per hour after leaving ten miles of better track which ran into Cincinnati. He lived to witness remarkable changes, not only in methods of travel, but in all lines of life. He was present at the laying of the corner-stone of the state house in 1839, and also when the corner-stone of an addition to the state house was laid in 1899. He owned and conducted a grocery store from 1853 until 1860 and afterward retired from business life, spending his remaining years in well-earned rest. To the last he maintained the deepest interest in Columbus and her welfare, and few residents of the city had more intimate knowledge of the events which CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 683 shaped her progress and molded her destiny. His early political support was given to the Whig party and upon the organization of the republican party he joined its ranks. and continued as one of its stalwart supports. Charles H. Olmsted married Miss Elizabeth Broderick, of Columbus, whose death occurred January 6, 1890. Her father, the Hon. John C. Broderick, was at one time recorder of Ohio, and prominent in the public life of the state. A native of Kentucky, he married Elizabeth Delano, whose father settled at Marietta, Ohio, in an early day, and in 1815 removed to Columbus, where his brother Henry Delano. was a pioneer merchant. The death of the Hon. John C. Broderick occurred in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted had three daughters and a son, Mary, Florence, Sarah and Harry. The last named is a well known representative of a family which has played an important part in the history of this city. His birth occurred in Columbus May 21, 1867, and when sixteen years of age he entered business circles as an employe in the wholesale grocery house of Isaac Eberly & Company, there remaining for thirteen years, promoted from time to time in recognition of his ability and fidelity. He withdrew from that house in 1896 prompted by a laudable desire to engage in business on his own account. He is now president of the firm that gave him his first introduction into business, and the house today is credited with having sales of more than a million dollars per year. It was but natural that Mr. Olmsted's connection with the firm of Isaac Eberly & Company early gave him an insight into the coal business, and he is now actively allied with several of the large coal enterprises of the state. He is president of the Equitable Coal Company, having an output of one hundred and fifty thousand tons annually, and he occupies a similar connection to the middle States Coal Company, having an equally large output and owning extensive property in Ohio and West Virginia. In the latter company he is associated with Thomas Huntington, as treasurer, and F. G. Hatton as secretary. His business interests are thus of mammoth proportions and in their control he displays marked executive ability and undaunted enterprise, carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. Mr. Olmsted was married to Miss Grace McDermith, a leader in the social circles of the capital city, and they occupy a magnificent home at No. 1415 East Broad street; its tasteful furnishings being all that wealth can secure and refined taste suggest. Moreover, one of its attractive features is its warm-hearted hospitality, the home being the scene of many delightful social functions. Mr. Olmsted is identified with various clubs and- social organizations and is a prominent member of Benjamin Franklin Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Ohio Society. He stands at all times for good citizenship, for substantial progress and municipal virtue. The close connection of the Olmsted family with the upbuilding of central Ohio makes it imperative that extended mention of them be made in this volume. The forebears of Harry Olmstead came at a time when they faced the necessity of subduing a wilderness and taking part in the early development of 684 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS the natural resources of the territory. Representatives in later generations were active in formulating the early policy of the state and in promoting its pioneer business enterprise, and now he figures in that intense commercialism whereby the present generations handle millions as cooly and easily as our grandfathers handled hundreds. He has become an active factor in the beat business interests of Columbus with its ramifying trade interests. and the force of his character and the strength of his ability are shown in his successful control of mammoth interests. HENRY S. WAITE. As vice president and general manager of the Case Crane Company, Henry S. Waite is one of the important personal factors in the extended group of the great manufacturing establishments within and surrounding the capital city. Closely identified with each line of work are the names of those who have imparted to it something of their forceful character. Mention of any of the great industries of the country brings to mind the personality of those who have shaped its affairs. Notable among the makers of the industrial history of Columbus is Henry S. Waite, who was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 4, 1874. He is a grandson of Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, of the supreme court of the United States, one of the greatest jurists America has produced. His father, Christopher C. Waite, was born in Toledo and became one of the most widely known railway men of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and was known as well throughout the various states of the Union. As superintendent he was connected with the Little Miami road in its most prosperous days, and his various railway connections include service as assistant to the president of the Erie road, as vice president and general manager of the Cincinnati, Dayton & Hamilton, and as president of the Hocking Valley road, which he was bringing to the front by his genius and ability when, on the 21st of February, 1896, he was suddenly stricken with illness and his brilliant career was brought to an untimely end. His wife, in her maidenhood, was Lillian Guthrie, a member of the prominent Guthrie family of Zanesville, Ohio, where the name has been a familiar and honored one for almost a century. Mrs. Waite passed away November 1, 1905. In the family were two sons, the elder being Ellison G., who died December 3, 1905. Henry S. Waite, the older son, completed his education by graduation from Yale University in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then became connected with the Hocking Valley Railroad Company, with which he remained until 1900, when he entered into active association with the (then) Case Manufacturing Company. Immediately his superior and facile business abilities attracted the notice of those higher up in the management of this extensive concern and in 1902 he was chosen for the position of secretary and assistant manager, while in April, 1904, further promoted and added responsibilities came to him in his election to the dual position CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 685 of vice president and general manager of the company, which easily takes rank with the greatest of the capital city's vast manufacturing establishments. Its regular force of skilled employes is two hundred and fifty, and the establishment makes a specialty of the manufacture of cranes and hoists of various types, which are sold all over the continent. In a position of executive control Mr. Waite shows an intelligent anticipation of possibilities and plans to meet the future demands as indicated by the trend of the times in business circles. He has manifested marked capability in solving intricate commercial problems and his enterprise is an advancing force in the great concern, with which he is now associated. On the 27th of September, 1898, Mr. Waite was married to Miss Margaret Stewart, a daughter of E. K. Stewart, and they have two children Alice, born August 20, 1899; and Christopher C., born August 6, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Waite are members of the Broad Street Presbyterian church and he holds membership relations with the Chi Phi, a college fraternity. the Ohio Club, the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Automobile Club, the Columbus Country Club, all of Columbus and the Yale Club and the Machinery Club of New York city. J. W. THOMAS. JR. J. W. Thomas, Jr., whose ability as an architect is demonstrated in his work on many important structures not only in Columbus but in 'Newark and throughout the surrounding country, is now following his profession as junior partner of the firm of Howell & Thomas, with offices at Nos. 700-2 Columbus Savings & Trust building. He was born at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. November 8, 1876, while his father was born in Schuylkill county, that state, August 14, 1842. The paternal grandfather, a native of Wales. emigrated to the United States in 1835. J. W. Thomas of this review completed the high school course at West Pittston, Pennsylvania, and later attended Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, that state. In 1902 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he took a special course in architectural designing, graduating in the class of 1904. He gained practical experience in his profession by his connection with the well known architectural firms of McCormick & French and Cass & Gilbert in the east, while in 1908 he came to Columbus and formed a partnership, doing business under the firm style of Howell & Thomas at Nos. 700-2 Columbus Savings & Trust building. They have planned and executed a number of important structures in this city, including the fine residences of William H. Jones and H. S. Bronson. They have also done considerable work in Newark, executing the contracts for the Arcade; the store of Hammil & Baedel. the Stimson apartments and the Advocate building, while they have also done some. clever work in landscape architecture. chief among which is the estate. of E. H. Everett of Newark. In his labors 686 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS Mr. Thomas ever works toward high ideals, is true to the terms of a contract and is highly esteemed in business circles. Mr. Thomas is an honorary member of the Builders Exchange and is a member of the Society of Architects of Columbus, the Pen & Pencil Club and the Humboldt Lodge of Masons, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. While his residence in the city covers but a brief period he has already gained a: wide circle of friends, his social qualities being such as make him popular among those with whom he is brought in contact. PHINEAS BACON WILCOX. Phineas Bacon Wilcox, the only son of Seth Wilcox and his wife Molly Bacon. was born September 26, 1798, on his father's farm, "Forty Rod Hill," near Westfield, Connecticut. His ancestors were of Saxon origin, located at Bury, St. Edmonds, Suffolk county, England, one of whom emigrated to America and settled in Middletown, Massachusetts, in 1675. Young Phineas at the age of sixteen left the farm of his father and entered Cheshire Academy. Connecticut, and then attended Middlebury Academy, Vermont. He entered Yale and was graduated with honor in the class of 1821, at the age of twenty-three. Soon after receiving his diploma, he married Sarah D. Andrews, of Wallingford, Connecticut, who was a sister of Samuel C. Andrews and a cousin of the wife of the late Judge Joseph R. Swan. The new couple started on their bridal trip to the "Ohio country," arriving after a perilous trip over practically unbroken wild and dangerous country. Pleased with the prospect of Columbus, P. B. Wilcox began the study of law with Judge Orris Parish in a small frame building located on the southwest corner of High and State streets. He was a close and diligent student and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He at once entered the lists against such "old lawyers" as David Scott, Joshua Folsom and Gustavus `wan. He soon enjoyed a large practice in Franklin, Madison and Delaware counties, through which the bench and bar of that day rode circuit on horseback, with saddle-bags and leggings. Having mastered the intricacies of the Virginia military land titles, he became eminent as a "land lawyer." He was also distinguished as a chancery lawyer, which practice he preferred. He was a master of common law pleading, being familiar with all the learning and subtleties of the old English law special pleas, and a constant student of English common law. In 1833 he published his work. "Ohio Forms and Practice," and an enlarged edition of it in 1848. This book was the standard on law and equity, practice and pleading, both in the state and United States courts, until the adoption of the code of Civil Procedure in 1853, and after that was in universal use under the old practice. In 1849 when the matter of a new constitution and code was in agitation he published a pamphlet entitled, "Tracts PAGE 687 - PICTURE OF P. B. WILCOX PAGE 688 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 689 on Law Reform," adopting the following motto : "We know already the worst of what IS-we know not the worst of what MAY BE." Like many lawyers of the old school. he could not abide the new code; but upon its adoption, accepted the situation and in 1862 published his "Practical Forms Under the Code of Civil Procedure," a work similar to his "Ohio Forms and Practice," under the old system. He was prosecuting attorney for Franklin county from 1834 to 1836, an wrote numerous forms for indictments, etc., which were long in use by his successors. He was reporter of the supreme court of Ohio; in 1842 reporting the tenth volume of Ohio Reports, where his knowledge of law and remarkable accuracy and terseness of statement are conspicuous. His note upon "assurances of title" in the case of Foote vs. Bennet, page 317 of the tenth volume, was considered a most able and perspicuous exposition of that abstruse subject, and received unusual encomium from Chancellor Kent. He was United States commissioner for the district of Ohio for many years, which office he resigned about the year 1858 rather than be made the instrument of remanding a fugitive slave to bondage. His law library was large and varied, containing many English reports, which were his delight and pastime. For many years it was "the library of the west," and was constantly resorted to by judges and lawyers, who were always welcome, especially the younger men to whom he was at all times a kind and sympathetic friend and willing adviser. Rare discussions, intermitted with wit and wisdom, were often had in "the old library" at his residence on South Third street, when Ewing, Stanberry, Hunter, Goddard, Lane, Swayne and others met there. Although he was a fine classical scholar, especially in Greek, which he kept up through life and a. student of the civil law and history, yet he was preeminently a. lawyer, a COMMON LAW lawyer, devoting his life to the study of law as a science, which he loved for itself, and considering the practice of the law as the highest and most ennobling of callings, above all petty tricks and mercenary purposes a grand and noble profession, to be pursued, not for personal ends, but for the good of his fellowman. It was once said of him by his personal friend, Judge Burnet, that he lived upon Coke and the Bible. With politics he had nothing to do. He was a stanch whig and afterward a decided republican. While P. B. Wilcox became an expert and able lawyer of much erudition he held peculiar ideas, none the less commendable because seldom found. One of these was that no man should accumulate a fortune largely in excess of his needs, and to this principle he consistently held during his entire lifetime. A few years after being admitted to the bar, he made a public profession of religion and united with the Trinity Episcopal church of Columbus, Ohio, under Rev. William Preston, where he was active for many years as a vestryman. His character was once summed up by one who knew him well, as follows: "He was a man of high character and personal integrity, of great benevolence and charity, a fine type of a conscientious Christian lawyer, attending with great diligence and fidelity to the cases of his clients when, in 690 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS his opinion, they had a just cause; but discouraging litigation for the mere sake of litigation or procrastination, and utterly refusing to lend himself or his great legal attainments to any unjust cause, however large the fee or tempting the glory." He died March 25, 1863, at his residence on Third street, in the city of Columbus, Ohio, in his sixty-fifth year, leaving his widow who survived him until January 2, 1873, and two children, General James A. Wilcox and Anna Maria.. wife of Robert Ellis, of New York. JOHN K. BOWMAN. The name Bowman is a prominent one in Franklin county for representatives of the family have resided here since its earliest pioneer history, and John K. Bowman, whose name introduces this sketch, is a worthy representative of the name. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Bowman, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. in 1813, and was there married March 23. 1837, to Miss Mary Lehman, who was likewise a native of that county, born in 1812. They removed to the Buckeye state in 1843, making a permanent location in Madison township. Franklin county, where they purchased a farm, on which their son; Benjamin F. Bowman, now makes his home. In 1846 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bowan became identified with the Mennonite church, and three years later he was elected deacon, while in 1853 he was ordained to the ministry of that denomination, in which capacity he served until 1879, when he was made a bishop of the church. He spent his entire life on the farm on which he first located when removing to this state, and reared a family of eight children, to each of whom he gave a tract of land. But three of the number now survive: Samuel; Benjamin F., who resides on the old Bowman homestead ; and Mary. Jacob L. Bowman, the father of J. K. Bowman, was born on the old homestead farm in Madison township, October 9, 1844, and received a common-school education. He remained with his father until the time of his marriage. which occurred in December, 1869, when Miss Elizabeth Kalb became his wife. To them were born two sons, John K. and Joseph J. Following their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Bowman began their domestic life on a. farm in Madison township, which is the present home of their elder son, John K., of this review. Mr. Bowman made farming his life work, and became a successful and prosperous man, highly esteemed in the community in which he made his home. He was reared in the faith of the Mennonite church, and lived in harmony with his professions. His political faith was that of the republican party. John K. Bowman, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to farm life, assisting his father from the time of early spring planting until the crops were harvested in the late autumn, while during the winter months he pursued his studies in the common schools of Reynoldsburg. After completing his education he engaged in teaching for two years, but this served only CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 691 as an initial step into his business career, for at the end of that period he abandoned the profession, and in 1894 engaged in the bicycle business, in which he is still engaged. He has since added a stock of automobiles, and also carries on general agricultural pursuits. He is energetic and enterprising in his work, and each branch of his business is proving a profitable source of revenue to him. Mr. Bowman chose as a companion and helpmate for the journey of life Miss Irma Francisco, whom he wedded December 20, 1902. A republican in principle and practice, he always gives loyal support to the party. He is a Methodist in religious belief, while in fraternal relations he is identified with the Masonic order. The work instituted by the grandfather and carried on by the father is still continued by John K. Bowman, and as the result of well directed labor and carefully managed affairs, he is meeting with gratifying. success in his undertakings. H. B. BLYSTONE, M.D. Dr. H. B. Blystone, serving as a member of the city council, has been connected with the medical fraternity of Columbus for only a brief period but has had broad experience in connection with the medical department of the United States Government in Panama and South America and his ability is widely recognized by the profession and the general public. He was born at Miller's Station. Pennsylvania, January 26, 1875. Going to Buffalo in his boyhood days he there pursued his education and was later graduated from the high school of Cambridge, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1892. He also spent one year in Pennsylvania State College and thus liberal educational advantages well qualified him for the arduous and responsible duties which come in the business world. In his high school days he had devoted some time to the study of medicine and drugs and after completing his education he secured employment with the Humantor Drug Company, with which he continued until 1894 making gradual advancement in his business career as he familiarized himself with the properties of drugs and their manufacture. Ambitious to engage in business on his own account, when his industry and careful expenditure brought him sufficient capital. he purchased a drug store in Cambridge Springs where he conducted business until 1898. The following year he came to Columbus and entered the Ohio Medical University thus supplementing previous training, for the profession, which he had obtained as a student in the Physicians & Surgeons College at Baltimore, Maryland. He took the full course here making every effort to thoroughly qualify himself for the profession and was graduated from the Ohio Medical University in 1903. He was then appointed by the Wabash Railroad as surgeon in the construction department and acted in that capacity until October 2, 1903, when he resigned and came to Columbus to take the position of district physician for the city by the appointment of Mayor Jeffreys. He thus served until October. 1907. when he passed the Civil service examination 692 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS for physician in the war department, was assigned to the isthmian canal department and went to the Empire Hospital in the empire canal zone. Later he went to the Tivoli Hotel. at Panama. and afterward at Gatuns Hospital at Colon. Subsequently he was sent by the government down the coast of South America in the capacity of acting quarantine officer and was later promoted to be district physician of that division, while a later promotion made him health officer to the Porto Bello district. On the 28th of March, 1908. he received from the president of the Republic of Panama a commission as official sanitarium officer for. the coast from Colon to Columbia with permission of the United States government. His duties as quarantine officer were onerous and conditions were unhealthy owing to the fact that it was a wild region in which malaria and other diseases were prevalent. His health became undermined and he left Porto Bello on a thirty days' sick leave. Dr. Blystone then returned home to Columbus and as his health did not improve he had his leave extended. He afterward resigned and his resignation was accepted by the government but in so doing they hold the appointment open for one year in case he wishes to return. He has now opened an office in Columbus, where he is engaged in practice. His experience has been broad, his ability is pronounced and his success seems assured. In 1894 Dr. Blystone was married to Miss Edith Mitchell. a daughter of Frank Mitchell, an old resident of Columbus, and they have many friends in this city. Dr. Blystone belongs to Humboldt lodge, A. F. & A. M. and is also a Scottish Rite Mason. Interested in politics on the 6th of July, 1908, he was elected as a member of the city council and is proving a. capable official, studying closely the needs of the city and laboring in the lines of municipal reform and improvement. HERBERT S. BRADLEY. Herbert S. Bradley, while ranking in point of years among the younger members of the Franklin county bar, enjoys a practice which is not only lucrative but in the widest sense of the term enviable. One of Ohio's native sons, he was born across the line dividing the counties of Franklin and Pickaway, his birth occurring in Madison township of the latter county on the 21st of August, 1863. The public schools of the locality afforded him his educational privileges and later he came to Columbus, where he read law in the office of J. William Baldwin, a distinguished attorney of the Franklin county bar. His thorough preliminary reading was followed by his admission to the bar on the 4th of May, 1886. He turned his attention in the beginning of his legal career to that field of the civil practice that has to do with the settlement of large estates. Such a practice is always desirable and clearly indicates the position of the lawyer in public regard. Within the last twenty years he has been connected with some of the largest properties left in Columbus, the Brown and Franklin estates being among the most noteworthy. In this work he has not only filled the letter of the law but has administered CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 693 the property so well that his services have given the utmost satisfaction. The records show that within the time that he has been engaged in the profession no man in Columbus has handled so much property or disposed of it to better advantage. He is thoroughly conversant with real estate law in principle, detail and precedent and his service is therefore of marked benefit to a large clientage. Aside from professional relations Mr. Bradley is prominent and popular in the Columbus, the Arlington Country, the Wyandotte, the Marshalsea and the Crab Lake Clubs. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. In social and political, as well as in club circles, he is affable, entertaining and vivacious and numbers his friends by the score where business or social relations have brought him into contact with his fellowmen. HARRY SYLVESTER STRONG. While the prosperity of a city may depend upon the number, extent and importance of its industrial and manufacturing interests, its beauty is attributable largely to its architects, who if they become eminent in the profession, must have the power to combine utility with the artistic in the production of beautiful homes and substantial business structures. In this connection Mr. Strong is making a creditable record, although one of the younger members of the profession in Columbus. He was born in Berlin, Ohio, October 22, 1881, and comes of an old New England family. His grandfather, James Strong, was born in that section of the country and was a grandson of one of the colonels of the Revolutionary war who enlisted in the Connecticut line. The family is of English origin and was founded in America about 1706. James Augustus Strong, father of Harry S. Strong, was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1846 and in 1852 was brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled in Jackson. There he was reared and for many years engaged in business as a shoe merchant. About 1875 he removed to Berlin, Ohio, where he continued in the shoe business for a number of years but is now living in Columbus at No. 714 Delaware avenue. He married Corrinda Buzzard, a daughter of Jonathan E. Buzzard. The removal of the family from Berlin to Columbus enabled Harry S. Strong to pursue his education in the public schools of this city until he was graduated from the North high school with the class of 1898. The business world with its unlimited opportunities was then before him and in choice of a profession which he wished to make his life work, he determined upon that of architecture and entered the employ of C. A. Stribling, with whom he remained for two years, studying architecture from both the practical and scientific standpoints. He then went to Denver, where he spent one year in the office of Gore & Walsh and later was connected with architect firms in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and New Orleans. In 1904 he returned to Columbus and took charge of the office of Marriott & Allens, there 694 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS remaining until January, 1908, when he entered the partnership of Rickett & Strong and has since engaged in a general architect business. He is also an honorary member of the Builders' Exchange and is a member of the Columbus Society of Architects. He is continually studying along those lines, adopting every method to promote his efficiency in the profession, while in his work he has produced many new and original plans which combine beauty and utility and have resulted in the construction of some of the attractive homes of the city. On the 14th of December, 1904, Mr. Strong was united in marriage to Miss Ella May Ferguson, a daughter of William Ferguson, the well known photographer of Columbus. Mrs. Strong is a graduate of the Central high school and by her marriage has become the mother of two children, Dorothy May and Harry Sylvester, Jr. The family residence is at No. 722 Delaware avenue. Mr. Strong belongs to the Columbus Rifles and to the Methodist Wesley Chapel. He is interested in all that pertains to general progress and improvement and is a public-spirited citizen and reliable business man. while his friends esteem him for his genuine personal worth. ALBERTUS C. WOLFE. M. D. In a. history of the medical, fraternity of Columbus it is imperative that mention be made of Dr. Albertus C. Wolfe by reason of the fact that he has long been a representative of the calling in this city and throughout the entire period has displayed not only ability in coping with the intricate problems of disease, but also the closest conformity to a high standard of professional ethics. One of Ohio's native sons he was born at Trimble. Athens county, October 20, 1858. He is descended from one of the oldest. families of the state, his great-grandfather, George W. Wolfe. coming to Ohio in 1797 from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Ohio was still under territorial government at that time and was largely an uninhabited state save where the red men still roamed through its forests and hunted the wild game which was native here. George W. Wolfe cast in his lot with the earliest pioneers and was identified with the work of development and improvement until after the outbreak of the war of 1812 when he joined the army and served as a soldier until wounded in the arm, his injuries crippling him for life. His son, George P. Wolfe, was born at Trimble, Athens county, Ohio, in 1806, and there spent his entire life, passing away in 1858. He married Eliza. Wilkins and their family included John Wolfe. likewise a native of Trimble. Having attained his majority he wedded Kezia McDonald, a daughter of Thomas McDonald, of Athens county, and a representative of one of the pioneer families of Ohio. They removed to . a farm near Bishopville, Ohio, when their son, Dr. Wolfe, was but two years of age and soon afterward the father responded to the country's call for troops, joining the Union army as a member of Company K, Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as orderly sergeant until PAGE 695 - PICTURE OF DR. A. C. WOLFE PAGE 696 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 697 his death, which occurred at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, November 20, 1863, when he was thirty-two years of age. Owing to the early death of the father, the support of the family of two children devolved upon the mother who was left in somewhat straitened circumstances, there being an indebtedness upon the place. Dr. Wolfe was then but four years of age and his sister two years old. The mother displayed great courage and fortitude in taking up the work which devolved upon her and not only managed to meet the indebtedness upon the form but also managed to save a part of her pension money to educate her children. Dr. Wolfe has always acknowledged his indebtedness to his mother for her care and loving devotion and her memory has always been an inspiration to him. In his early boyhood he was o pupil in the country schools near Bishopville and later become o student in the college in Athens, Ohio, pursuing o course in the Ohio University at that place. In preparation for a medical career he entered the Columbus Medical College in which institution he was graduated in 1883. He first located for practice in Jacksonville, Athens county, where he remained until 1891, when in order to further promote his knowledge and efficiency, he went to New York where he pursued a post-graduate course. On his return to Ohio in January, 1892, he opened on office in Columbus where he has since engaged in general practice. The consensus of public opinion accords him o prominent place in the ranks of the medical fraternity here. His reading and research have been wide and comprehensive and he has always kept in touch with the advanced thought of the profession through the perusal of the best works on the science of medicine. Neither has he been unknown as o medical educator for he was professor of diseases of the nose and throat in the Ohio Medical University from 1892 until 1898 and filled the choir of therapeutics in the same institution until 1907, at which time he was elected to the same chair in the Starling-Ohio Medical College, which is his present connection with that school. He was also in former years rhinologist and laryngologist to the Protestant Hospital and afterward laryngologist and rhinologist to the Grant Hospital. Dr. Wolfe was married in Columbus to Miss Frances P. Main on Thanksgiving day of November, 1883, and their home has ever been attractive by reason of its worm-hearted and cordial hospitality. Dr. Wolfe gives his political allegiance to the republican party while fraternally he is connected with York Lodge, No. 563, A. F. & A. M. and with Dennison Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. His religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. When o young man of seventeen years he became converted and joined the Salem 'Methodist Episcopal church, at Bishopville, Ohio, since which time he has been an earnest worker in behalf of the cause of Christianity, doing all in his power to promote the growth and extend the influence of his denomination. For some time he has been an officer in the church with which he is now connected. In professional lines he is identified with the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is prompted in all that he does by o recognition of the obligations which de- 698 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS volve upon the physician who so often holds in his hands the issues of life and death. He is therefore most conscientious in the performance of his professional duties and in every relation of life is actuated by high and honorable principles. His genuine worth and his devotion to all that is right, just and elevating, make him a man whom to know is to respect and honor. COLONEL, CI ARLES SAVOY AMMEL. The list of the leading citizens of Columbus contains the name of Charles Savoy Ammel, one of the representative and honored citizens of this state. There stands to his credit an exceptional military record, of which he may justly be proud, for throughout his entire life he has been active and loyal in the service of his country, while the members of the family through many generations have- been prominently identified with the military service of the various localities in which they have lived. Colonel Charles Savoy Ammel is a native of Baltimore; Maryland. a son of Major Philip Ammel. The latter was a native of Lyons, France, and served as commandant in the French army a rank equivalent to that of major in America. Other representatives of the family were in the French army and many gained distinction. Philip Ammel, on account of political complications, was forced to leave his native land, and accordingly made his way across the Atlantic to New York, whence he later removed to Baltimore. His wife, who bore the name of Francoise Welker, was a member of an old family of that country. After spending many years in this country, Philip Ammel, during the French-Prussian war, returned to his native land and there passed away. Colonel Ammel was reared in his native city and pursued his education in the public schools of that place. For two years before the Civil war he had been a member of the Fifty-third, now the Fifth Maryland Regiment, and had attained to the rank of sergeant. He enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil war and was made a lieutenant in the Confederate service in the Maryland line. In this struggle he participated in all of the engagements in the Shenandoah valley under General Stonewall Jackson and was four times wounded. He was finally captured in a skirmish at Elk Run, Virginia, in 1864. As a prisoner of war Colonel Ammel came to Columbus in 1864, was paroled here and since that time has been a resident of this city. In 1865 he engaged in the music business, to which he devoted his time and attention until 1876. During this period he was also manager of the Comstock Opera House, and in the latter year assumed the management of the Alice Oates Opera Company and superintended that organization, composed of seventy members, until 1879. In that year he engaged in business with the M. C. Lilley Company, extensive manufacturers of military goods and regalias, this being the largest enterprise of its kind in the United States. However, while he has met success in a business way he has never allowed CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 699 his attention to be thus occupied to the exclusion of his cooperation in public and military affairs. In 1876 he organized the old Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio National Guards and was called the father of the regiment. He was also commissioned captain of Company A and was mustering officer of the regiment, in which capacity he mustered himself in as captain and also discharged himself as an enlisted man. During hi: service in this connection he was out several times on strike duty. In 1898, at the time of the Spanish-American war, Captain Ammel organized the Fourteenth Veteran Reserves, of which he became lieutenant colonel, while George D. Freeman was colonel. Although this regiment was never called to the front, about three hundred of its members were taken to fill the quota of the old Fourteenth, then known as the Fourth Regiment. After he retired he took charge of the Fourth Regiment by the solicitation of Governor Nash and the Board of Trade. He retired on account of age in 1908. Captain Ammel has also gained distinction in Masonic circles. He was made a Mason in Goodale Lodge, No. 172, F. & A. M., of Columbus in 1867 and in 1871 he took the orders of chivalric Masonry in Mount Vernon Commandery, No. 1, K. T. He was captain general of the order for thirty-two years, and is now a past commander. He was the organizer and the first high priest of Temple Chapter, No. 155, R. A. M., and took the degrees of the Scottish Rite in February, 1874. He is a charter member of Aladdin Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and received the thirty-third degree in Boston, in September, 1897. He is likewise a charter member of Junia Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Royal Arcanum. He was one of the incorporators of the United Commercial Travelers Association of the United States and a member of its supreme council, and he is also identified with the Columbus Commercial Travelers Association. Captain Ammel feels a just pride in his military record. His loyalty to his country during the Civil war is a chapter in his history. His unbending integrity of character, his fearlessness in the discharge of his duties and his appreciation of the responsibilities that rested upon him were such as to make him a most acceptable incumbent in each and every office which he was called to fill. He has also been deeply interested in the welfare of his city and has cooperated in every movement calculated to benefit his fellowmen. He is now living retired, surrounded by a host of warm and admiring friends, for to know Colonel Ammel is to honor and respect him. WILL HORACE BRYSON. Will Horace Bryson, engaged extensively and successfully in the furniture manufacturing business under the firm style of Bryson & Son, at 77 East Gay street, was born in Columbus, February 4, 1876, and is descended in the paternal line from Scotch ancestry. His father, Charles Bryson, was born in New York city in 1835. In 1857 he left for the gold fields of Pike's Peak. On his return he stopped off in Columbus and went into the furniture 700 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS factory of Sheadender & Brown. He became a prominent resident of Columbus, was a founder and organizer of the furniture business which is still conducted by his son, and in other ways took an active and helpful interest m promoting public progress. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, having served in the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war, and he was also a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. He served two terms on the board of equalization and as chief of the fire department in 1885. His religious faith was indicated in his membership in the Methodist church. He wedded Henrietta Walling, who was born in Worthington, Ohio, in 1839. Reared in the capital city, Will H. Bryson entered the public schools at the usual age and also attended the high school here. On putting aside his text-books he joined his father in business and they were associated in the conduct of a furniture manufactory until the father's death on the 7th of June, 1907. The firm style of Bryson & Son has since been changed to The Bryson Shop, with W. H. Bryson at the head of the enterprise. He has a well equipped factory, supplied with the latest improved machinery and employment is furnished to a number of operatives. The excellence of the output and the well known reliability of the house have always commended the firm to a liberal patronage and the business today is large and profitable. (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE)