300 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. pursuit in order to provide for his family. He had two daughters, Mrs. Caroline Wallace and Mrs. John Oberhuber, both of whom are now residents of Cincinnati. Their only son was Charles V. Centner, who was reared in Cincinnati, having accompanied his parents on their removal to that place when only five years of age. At the usual time he entered the public schools' and there mastered the common English branches of learning. After putting aside his text-books he learned the trade of carpet-making, and secured a position in the employ of the leading wholesale and retail carpet dealer in Cincinnati, where by close application and fidelity he worked his way upward, finally securing a very responsible and lucrative position with the well-known house of George B. Otte & Company, of Cincinnati. In 1882 he came to Columbus and was offered and accepted a position in the service of the Osborn Company, remaining in that employ until 1897, when he was placed in charge of the buyers' department of the Beggs Company, of this city. His familiarity with the trade,. his comprehensive understanding of the public tastes' and his 'indefatigable industry well qualified, him for the responsible position, and he acceptably served in that capacity until. his demise. In 1884 Mr. Centner was united in marriage to Miss Emma Stroedter, of Columbus, a daughter of Godfrey and Elizabeth Stroedter, both of whom were natives of Germany, the former born in 1834, the latter in 1838. They were married in Columbus, and their children were : Mrs. Centner; Ernest, who is engaged in the drug business on South High street, in Columbus; Fred, who is a clerk in the employ of Brice Brothers, of Columbus; and Lena, now the Wife of Albert Neothlich, a resident of this city. The father of this family was a carriage-maker by trade and followed that pursuit throughout his active business career. He died in 1884, and his wife passed away in 1870. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Centner were born four- children: Emma, who is now a student in. the Young Ladies' Academy of St. Aloysius, in Perry county, Ohio; Chariest G., born February 11, 1888; David N., born November 1, 1890; and William F., born April 27, 1893. In the winter of 1900-1 Mr. Centner left home for the benefit of his health, but did not find the help which he expected, and on the 19th of January of the latter year he passed away. He was a business man of splendid ability and greatly honored by the public as well as esteemed by his friends and neighbors. Mrs. Centner still resides at No. 410 East 'Rich street, in the home which she has occupied for ten years. The family are members of the Holy Cross Catholic church of this city. HENRY CLAY SLYH. A man's reputation is the property of the world. The laws of nature have forbidden isolation. Every human being submits to the controlling influence of others, or, as a master, wields a power for good or evil on the masses of mankind. There can be no impropriety in justly scanning the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 301 acts of any man as they affect his. public, social and business relations. If he he honest and successful in his chosen field of endeavor investigation will brighten his fame and point the path along which others may follow. One whose record will bear the closest scrutiny and stand the test of public criticism is Henry Clay Slyh, whose identification with the interests of Franklin county dates from pioneer times. Through almost four-score years he has been a witness of the development, growth and progress made in this section of the state, and as a publicspirited citizen he has given his aid and co-operation to many measures for the public good. He was born upon his father's farm in Prairie township, December 13, 1823, a son of Henry Slyh, who was born in Virginia March 13, 1800. He served in the war of 1812, as did also his brothers, Jacob, John and Isaac Neff. By occupation he was a farmer, and through many years followed that pursuit in Prairie township, Franklin county. He was three times married, his first union being with Sarah Neff, by whom he had the following named children: James, who went to California in 1850, and died in that state in 1865; Margaret, who became the wife of Thomas Wilcox ; and Mary, who wedded John Postle. The daughters both died in Franklin county prior to the Civil war. For his second wife. Henry Slyh chose Clara Higgins, who died two years later, leaving no children. His third wife was the mother of our subject. She bore the maiden name of Susanna Hopper, and their wedding was celebrated in January, 1823. She was a resident of Prairie township, Franklin county, and by her marriage she became the mother of three children : Henry Clay, of this review ; Amanda Jane; and Jacob Neff. The former was born in 1825, and in 1848 gave her hand In marriage to Asa Fell. They made their home upon a farm near Muscatine, Iowa, where Mrs. Fell died in 1900, leaving a large family. Her husband was numbered among the men who crossed the plains to California in 1849, attracted by the discovery of gold, and he became very wealthy. Jacob Neff Slyh, who was born in 1828, became a farmer and married Miss Hanna Yeiser. He died in 1852, and his wife passed away in 1855, leaving a daughter, Mary Ellen, who died in 1895. Henry Clay Slyh was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the work of the fields as he followed the plow and harrow and later assisted in harvesting the crops. He remained upon the old homestead until 1840, at which time he was twenty-seven years of age. He then started out upon an independent business career, and in 1850 he chose as a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Margaret McFarland, but their married life was of short duration, her death occurring in 1852. On the 26th of October, 1853, Mr. Slyh was joined in wedlock to Miss Sarah J. Foley, a daughter of Moses Foley, who was a native of Maryland and came to Franklin county in an early day. He was the proprietor of the. old and now historical Four Mile House, located where Camp Chase now stands. He conducted the hotel for a quarter of a century, and there all of his children were born. He was a prominent and influential citizen, taking atr active part in public affairs. 302 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. He aided in the grading of the National road from Columbus to Virginia between the years 1836 and 1840. Mr. Slyh also. assisted in that work. Mrs. Foley, the mother of Mrs. Slyh, was a native of Ireland, and when a maiden of ten summers was brought by her parents to America. In 1820 She gave her hand in marriage to Moses Foley, the wedding being celebrated in Franklinton, now Columbus. Their children were: James, who was born in 1822, and died in 1849; Caroline, who was born in 1837, and is now the wife of Colmer Smith, a resident of Iowa; Levi, who was born in 1840, and died in 1860; Mary, who was born February 6, 1843, and is now Mrs. Peter Crawford, and resides in Iowa; and Mrs. Slyh. The father, whose birth occurred in 1780, was called to his final rest in 1853, and his wife, who was born in 1784, passed away in 1863. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Slyh have been born seven children : James Franklin, born October 28, 1854, married Miss Lillian Kline, and they have two children; Charles Jacob, born June 8, 1857, wedded Miss Caroline McLott, by whom he has five children; Martha Ann, born March 1, 1860, is the wife of Thomas Corbin, and they have fourteen children; Virginia, born November 10, 1864, is the wife of John E. Moore, by whom she has six children; Lydia, born March 31, 1870, is the wife of John. Kuhn, and has one child; William Allen, born July 7, 1873, wedded Miss Ottie Stucky, and they have no children; Henry Clay, born October 5, 1876, and the youngest of the family, married Miss Lotta Jamine, .by whom he has one son. Prior to the inauguration of the :Civil war Henry Clay Slyh, whose. name introduces this record, was engaged in merchandising in Rome,. Ohio; for three years, but in 1862 he sold his store and offered his services to the government, joining the "boys in blue" of Company C, of the famous Ninety-fifth Ohio Infantry, in which Colonel James Kilbourne won distinction. In the first engagement in which he participated, that of Richmond, Kentucky, on the 30th of September,1862, Mr. Slyh was slightly wounded and was taken prisoner. Later he was paroled and was at Camp Chase for five months before being exchanged. With his regiment he participated in numerous engagements until after the siege of Vicksburg, when he was compelled to go to the hospital, being sent to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was granted a three-months furlough on account of serious illness and returned to his home. On the expiration of that period he was ordered to report at Albany, New York, and was in the hospital at that point until after the close of the war, when, in November, 1865, he was mustered out of service. He left the military to enter the civil service of his country, and long discharged public duties for the benefit of his fellow townsmen. For several years before the war he hid been the constable of Prairie township, and upon his return he was again elected to that office, serving. in that capacity altogether for twenty-one years. He was a justice of the peace three years just prior to his removal from Prairie to Franklin township, in 1882, and after that time he was elected a justice of the peace in Franklin township, capably serving until he took up his' abode in Columbus, in 1886, For ten CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 303 years he has occupied his present home, and is now enjoying a well-earned rest, having put aside all business and .political cares. In his public positions he was as true and loyal to his duties as when he followed the stars and stripes through the Confederacy, and over the record of his career there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. CAPTAIN EDWARD P. VANCE. Captain Edward P. Vance is meeting with very gratifying success in business in Columbus, where he is conducting a drug store. He is also the owner of considerable property, and possesses a resolute spirit which enables him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. Perhaps he is most widely known in connection with military affairs, for he has long been prominent in the state militia and as a veteran of the Civil war. He was born on the 5th of April, 1849, in Blendon township, Franklin county, and is a son of Joseph C. Vance. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of life for him in boyhood. Much of his time was passed in the acquirement of an education in the common schools, but on the 5th of May, 1864, when fifteen years of age, he responded to the country's call for troops, enlisting as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days' service. The regiment was assigned to the First Division of the Tenth Army Corps, and was at Bermuda Hundred and in the military movement around Richmond and in western Virginia. In September or October of the same year the company was mustered out. Although so young, he was a sturdy boy and never shirked his duty, being always found faithful to the flag and the cause it represented. In the fall of 1865 Captain Vance entered the Western Military Institute, at Dayton, Ohio, but his parents, fearing that he would adopt army life as a profession, withdrew him from that institution after his third term and he returned home. Subsequently he and his brother George, who is now deceased, purchased a drug store in Westerville, Ohio, and successfully conducted the establishment until August, 1899, enjoying a large trade. In 1892, however, Mr. Vance came to Columbus and erected his present business block at the southwest corner of Wilson avenue and Oak street. Here he established a drug store, conducting both mercantile interests until 1899. when he disposed of his business in Westerville. He has a well appointed store, complete in all its departments. He carries a large stock of goods and his moderate prices and honorable business dealing have secured to him a patronage which is constantly increasing. The Captain has never ceased to have an interest in military affairs, and in 1877 he joined Company C, of the Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio National Guard. He was commissioned first . lieutenant of the company on. its organization and some months later was made its captain, serving in that capacity for five years; during which time he was one of the most important 304 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. factors in military matters in this part of the state and was largely instrumental in securing the nomination of Colonel George D. Freeman, who proved one of the most popular regimental commanders in the service. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, in connection with Colonel Freeman and others, he organized a regiment for the service and was commissioned by Governor Nash as adjutant general of the state, but the troops were never called out. He now hold's membership in James Price Post, G. A. R.., of Westerville, and socially he is connected with Westerville Lodge, K. P., of which he served as treasurer at one time. He also belongs to Blendon Lodge, No. 339, A. F. & A. M., to Westerville Chapter and to Columbus Council. On the, 7th of July, 1885, Captain Vance was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Newcomb, of Westerville, and a daughter of James Newcomb, one of the prominent residents of the county. Mrs. Vance is well known in Columbus, being actively associated with its business interests, having the best millinery establishment in the city, located at No. 123 South High street. Both the Captain and his wife are widely and favorably known and have a large circle of friends. The same resolute spirit which prompted his enlistment in the army at the early age of fifteen years has been manifest throughout his entire career and has been an important element in his success. JOHN F. PERRY. Long continuance in the employment of a corporation is unmistakable evidence of ability and fidelity in the discharge of duty. Firms or companies employing large forces of men do not retain in their service those who are not capable and reliable, and no words of praise which the biographer might write would be as strong in commendation of Mr. Perry as the statement of the fact that for thirty years he was connected with the Street Railway Company of Columbus. He is numbered among the native sons of Franklin county, his birth having occurred. upon a farm near Dublin, on the 24th of October, 1836, and he died at his home at No. 42 East Fulton street, in the capital city, January 23, 1901. His. father, William Perry, was born September 4, 1810, and passed, away on the 4th of January, 1863. while Mrs. Susan Perry, the mother of our subject, was born September 11, 1811, and died on the loth December, 1960. John Fletcher Perry spent, his boyhood days at his parental home, and in early manhood was apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade, which he thoroughly mastered in every detail. At the time of the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and personal considerations in order to aid in the suppression of the rebellion. He was one of the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861, and joined the "Hard-Marching Regiment," the Seventeenth Ohio, which was sent to Virginia, doing service there until after the expiration of his term, when, in October, 1861, the troops were Mustered out. In Plain City, Ohio, he resumed work at his trade and CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 305 thirty years ago he came to Columbus, where he at once entered the employ of the Street Railway Company, with which he was connected at the time of hiss death. He was the oldest employe in point of continuous service with the corporation, thirty years having come and gone during his association with the company. While in Plain City, in October, 1862, Mr. Perry was united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Hager, a daughter of James E. Hager; who was born at Newmarket, New Hampshire, and when a boy accompanied his parents to Vermont. When a young man he came to Ohio with his parents, the family locating on a farm near Dublin, in Franklin county. He married Miss Cornelia Ferguson, a native of New York, the wedding being celebrated at Dublin on the 14th of October, 1840. Mr. Hager died July 20, 1854, but was long survived by his wife, who passed away on the 1st of April 1885. Their children were : Martha . J., born July 5, 1'845; Sarah D., born August 16, 1846; John, who was born October 7, 1848; and is now residing in Plain City; Laura, who was born February 17, 1850, and is now deceased; Armenas, who was born July 20, 1852, and is now married and resides on a farm near Paulding, Ohio ; and. William, who was born August 11, 1854. and is now deceased. By the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Perry there were born seven children, three of whom are yet living. Irvin M., the eldest, was born in 1865, and was married November 4, 1885, to Miss Clara Carroll, by whom he has four sons,-----Irvin, Howard; Russell and Walter. John Raymond was born August 3, 1878, and Ethel N., on the 9th of March, 1883. The daughter and the son Raymond are still living with their mother. Mr. Perry was an active and influential member. of Wells Post, G. A. R. of Columbus, and through a long period held membership in the Town Street Methodist church. He took an active interest in its work, and withheld his support from no movement or measure calculated to prove of general good along material, intellectual and moral lines. 'In 1897 he suffered from an attack of asthma, combined with stomach trouble, and for several weeks was confined to his bed. He never afterward fully recovered his: health, and on the 16th of November, 1900, he was again taken ill, the disease terminating his life on the 23d of January, 1901. His worth as a man and citizen was widely acknowledged by all who knew him. He. was a man. of pleasing personality, genial, sympathetic and helpful, and his friends were many and steadfast. Mrs. Perry, with her children, still reside at the family homestead on East Fulton street. BERNARD PUMPELLY. On the 8th of February, 1901, there passed from this life an honored and esteemed resident of Columbus, Bernard Pumpelly, who through many years had made his 'home in the capital city and was' well known to many of its residents as a man of sterling worth. His birth occurred in Oxford 306 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. county, Maine, about 1822, and he came with his parents to Ohio in 1839, settling at Amelia, Clermont county. When the question of slavery involved the country in hostilities, owing to the attempt of the south to sever all allegiance with the national government, he offered his services to the latter. His patriotic spirit was aroused and he joined the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry, being for three and a half years numbered among the "boys: in blue" who aided in sustaining the honor of the old flag. He saw active service on western battle-fields, and was always found at his post of duty, faithfully performing the tasks that devolved upon him as a defender of the Union. When the war was over he returned to his home with a most creditable military record. In 1874 he came to Columbus, where he engaged in the shoemaking business, following that pursuit for a number of years, with excellent success. He was widely known in industrial and commercial circles, and as a man of unquestioned reliability and worth he commanded the respect of all with whom he came in contact. On the 22d of October, 1857, Mr. Pumpelly was united in marriage to Miss Mary Whitaker, and they became the parents of five children, four daughters living, who, with the mother, yet survive the husband and father, The daughters are Mrs. L. C. Mithoff, Birdie, Nellie and Daisy, who are still with the mother. The family hold membership in the First Universalist church of Columbus, and enjoy the high regard of many friends. GIDEON R. MILLER. During the period of early development in Franklin county Gideon R. Miller, now deceased, was brought by his parents to Ohio. He was born on the banks of the Potomac, in Hardy county, Virginia, March 25; 1825, and was the third in a family of six children whose parents were John and Tabitha Miller. The father was a native of Virginia, and in the year 1825 came with his wife and children to the Buckeye state. In addition to Gideon the other members of the family were Jacob, Henry, John, Ann and Margaret. Reared under the parental roof, Gideon Miller acquired his education in the public schools of the neighborhood, and in, early life learned the machinist's trade, becoming an expert workman. For many years he was employed in the foundry of John L. Gill, of Columbus, and his long service in that establishment indicated his excellent workmanship, his close appli cation and his fidelity to duty. He also worked a few years for Andrew Emmick. Whatever success he achieved in life was the result of his own well-directed efforts. He worked his way upward by determined purpose unfaltering energy, and as a result of his labors he acquired a comfortable competence. In the year 1850 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Harriet H Pope, of Columbus. She was born in 'Washington county, Ohio, August 23, 1833, and her parents were both natives of Virginia, but died in Colum- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 307 bus during the early girlhood of their daughter. Her father loyally served his country in the war of 1812. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born nine children. Robert F., born February 1, 1851, died April 21, 1875. Gideon H., born March 1, 1853, died April 18, 1875. Cora, born October 15, 1856, was married October 14, 1875, to Tobias Engle, and their children are Clayton, Thomas, Raymond, Hattie and William. Addie, born August 16, 1858, was married August 11, 1880, to Frederick Rau, and died May 3o, 1895, leaving two sons, Edward, who was born in 1888, and Harry, born in 1891, who now reside with their grandmother, Mrs. Gideon J Miller, at No. 385 Fulton street. John, born May 6, 1862, died October 6, 1889. Mary, born October 27, 1864, died November 10, 1873. Margaret J., born December 19, 1867, was married May 5, 1885, to Carl Bouser, and their children are Carson, born in 1888, Gideon, in 1892, and James, in 1894. Gideon, born April 24, 1870, died February 1, 1875. Daisy, the youngest of the family, was born July 1, 1876. In the year 1855 Mr. Miller erected at No. 385 Fulton street the residence which is still occupied by his widow. He was a man of sterling character, of unquestioned probity and of marked fidelity to duty. He was very firm in support of his honest convictions, and his life was in harmony with his belief in the Methodist church, in which he held membership. He also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his sterling qualities made his an untarnished name, while his record, both public and private, will bear close scrutiny. DAVID MULL. Throughout his entire life David Mull was a resident of Columbus, where he was widely and favorably known. His birth occurred March 9, 1844, in the family residence at the southwest corner of Broad and Gift streets. He acquired his early education in the schools of Franklinton, now Columbus, and when in his teens began firing on a railroad engine. He was thus employed when, in 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers for service in defense of the Union. He was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, having been shot through the right wrist, and the member was so badly injured that it necessitated they amputation of the hand. He was therefore discharged and returned to his home in the north. On the 21st of October, 1873, Mr. Mull was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Poole, a daughter of George W. Poole, who, as well as his wife, was a native of Pennsylvania. Her parents came to Ohio in 1848, but did not locate in Columbus until thirty years later. Their children were as follows: Arthur and Emanuel, both of whom. are farmers living in Oregon; Jeremiah, who entered the Union army during the Civil war and died in a southern prison; Thornton, who served in a regiment of Ohio cavalry during the war of the 'Rebellion, and is now deceased; Barney, who is living 308 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY upon a farm in Brown county, Ohio; Middleton, who was the owner of the Poole block in Columbus, and died in 1882, while his wife, Mrs. Nancy Poole, passed away November 24, 1897, leaving two children, Frank and Mrs. Carry Andricks, both of whom are living in Columbus; Lucinda, the wife of Francis Hartman, who resides upon a farm in Wood county, Ohio; Veloria, the widow of Thomas Doyle, who died at their home in Columbus, April 20, 1896; Celina, now the wife of Andrew Houp, a resident of Toledo, Ohio; Cynthia, the wife of R. Schillings, of Cleveland; and Irene, the wife of Ezria Searles, also of Cleveland. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Mull was blessed with but one child, Laura J., who on the 28th of April, 1895, became the bride of Charles Kellar, who was born in Zanesville, Ohio, April 1, 1873, and is a son of Lewis H. and .Ellen Kellar, both of whom are natives of Franklin county, the former born March 11, 1845. They now reside in Columbus, and their children are: Mrs. Laura McDowell, Charles M., Mrs. Irene Bram, Emma, Eva who died in 1883 and Daisy. Charles Kellar and his wife reside with her mother, Mrs. Mull, in the latter's beautiful residence at No. 780 West Broad street. They have an interesting little daughter, Helen, who was born March 26, 1898, and is the life and light of the household. Mr. Mull died after a lingering illness, in the year 1896. He was in the service of the school. board as truant officer for several years, and was a citizen having deep regard for the best interests of the community. His sound judgment enabled him to determine with accuracy the value of a movement or measure proposed in connection with the capitals and he gave to all interests which he believed would prove of benefit his hearty co-operation. These qualities, combined, with a genial nature and sterling worth, made him a valued resident of the community and occasioned his death to be deeply regretted by many friends as well as by his immediate family. DAVID EVANS. The little rock-ribbed country of Wales has furnished her full quota of American citizens. Included in this number is David Evans, who was born in Wales in 1837, and was brought to America when only a year old by his parents, Arthur and Mary Evans. Three of their children—Arthur, George and Mary,—also were of the party that crossed the Atlantic in 1838; and another sister, Elizabeth, was added to the family after their arrival in Columbus. In the schools of this place David Evans. acquired his education. He was reared to manhood here and throughout his entire life has been a resident of Franklin county. When the country became involved in Civil war his sympathies were with the Union cause and his patriotic spirit prompted his enlistment, so, that he became a member of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under command of James Kilbourne. He remained at the front until after the cessation of hostilities, took part in many of the san- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 309 guinary battles which led to the preservation of the Union, and was once slightly wounded. In 1870 was celebrated the marriage of David Evans and Miss Emily Brooks, a native of Columbus and a daughter of David Brooks. Her father died in 1848. He was using varnish, which caught fire and thereby he was so badly burned that his death resulted soon afterward. David Brooks came to Ohio from Princeton, Massachusetts, in 1819, and located in Columbus. He owned and conducted the Hotel Eagle, on High street, during the early days of the city and was widely known, being a popular host. He married Miss Keziah Hamlin, who died in 1878. They were the parents of ten children. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Evans have been born three children: Mary L., who is now a successful teacher in the public schools of Columbus ; Herbert, an electrician living in Texas; and Eugene, who is now a student in the high school of Columbus. For the past two years Mr: Evans has been connected with the city health department and is a capable and efficient officer. He holds membership in McCoy Post, No. 41, G. A. R., of Columbus, and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades. Having resided in this city through two-thirds of a century, he has a very wide acquaintance, and the fact that many who have known him throughout this period are numbered among his warmest friends is an indication that his career has ever been an honorable and commendable one. JOHN L. GORDON, M. D. The concomitants of professional success are not many. Strong mentality, keen discrimination, industry and close application—these are the elements which insure advancement and win prosperity, and without them the professional man cannot hope to rise above mediocrity. That Dr. Gordon is regarded as one of the leading physicians of Columbus is evidenced by his possession of these essential qualifications. The Doctor was born upon a farm in Delaware county, Ohio, September 14, 1862, a son of John L. and Martha .(Gooding) Gordon. His paternal grandfather, John Gordon, was a native of Virginia and was of Scotch lineage, his ancestors having come from the land of hills and heather and cast in. their lot with the early settlers of the Old Dominion. Dr. John L. Gordon, the father of our subject, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1821, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1826. He practiced medicine for a number of years in Auglaize county, and in 1875 took up his abode at his present home in Sharon township, Franklin county, where he is now Jiving in quiet retirement, having laid aside the more arduous duties of the medical profession. He wedded Martha Gooding, a native of Delaware county; Ohio, and a daughter of George and Phoebe (Williams) Gooding, a stanch New England family, whose ancestors came from England, bringing with them the coat of arms 310 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY   of that distinguished family, and which is still held and prized as one of the archives of the family. Their only son and child, Dr. J. L. Gordon, was reared upon the home farm in Delaware county until his thirteenth year, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Sharon township, Franklin county. He then entered the schools or Worthington, pursuing the high school course, after which he became a student in the Ohio State University, at Columbus, in 1880. He there pursued a four-years course, completing his literary education in that institution. He then entered upon a business career, accepting a clerkship in the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank, of Columbus, where he applied: himself diligently for a number of years. However, he never succeeded in acquiring a love for business equal to that already acquired for science. Although throughout his limited business career he had been entirely successful, he decided to give it up and devote his whole time to scientific research, which he had never abandoned during the years which he had spent in business, and in 1891 he began the study of medicine in Starling Medical College, in which institution he graduated in 1894. During his medical course he was a private student of the dean of the faculty, Dr. Starling Loving, through whose kindness he acquired a vast amount of practical experience in his profession. After his graduation Dr. Gordon opened an office and began the practice of medicine, in which success has come to him in recognition of his thorough preliminary training, his skill and ability. He has always been a close and discriminating student, and in 1900 he pursued a post-graduate course in Philadelphia, afterward taking a special course in New York city. In 1896 occurred the marriage of Dr. Gordon and Miss Miriam A. Slyh, a daughter of Daniel M. and Rosaltha (Griswold) Slyh, representatives of an old and highly respected family of Perry township, Franklin county. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon have one daughter, Eckka Almieda. The Doctor is: a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine (of which he is secretary), the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association; is a member of the staff of Grant Hospital, of Columbus; and occupies the chair of physical diagnosis in Starling Medical College. Whatever tends to promote the interests of his profession and place before man the key to the mystery of that complex problem which we call life at once attracts the interest and co-operation of Dr. Gordon, and his wide reading and research have made him particularly skilled in the line of his chosen life work. WILLIAM RIGHTER. William Righter, who is now living retired at his home in Columbus, his residence being at No. 55 North Grubb street, was born. September 22, 1830, in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, His father, Joseph Righter, was a native of the same county and in 1837 came to Ohio, locating in what was then Franklinton but is now a part of Columbus. He erected a resi- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 311 dence on Sandusky street and died at his home there in 1849, while his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Righter, passed away two years previously. In addition to William their children were James, Joseph, Robert, Sarah and Lewis. Of this family Robert Righter took a contract for the construction of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad, and. was thus identified with the transportation interests of the state. The younger sister, Sarah, became the wife of Allison Green, a farmer of Putnam county, Ohio, where they have resided for more than a quarter of a century. The youngest brother, Lewis, is married and has always resided in Columbus. When a lad in his 'teens William Righter drove canal horses on the Ohio canal from Cleveland to Portsmouth and since that time he has labored for his own advancement and success. All that he has achieved in life is due to his own efforts. On leaving the canal he entered the employ of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad Company, but after a year's service returned to his former work on the canal, remaining there until 1851; when he again became connected with railroad work and at different times has served as brake man, yard-master and yard conductor. He was in the continuous employ of the Panhandle Railroad Company from 1853 until January, 1900, at which time he was retired by the Panhandle Company under its pension system and is now enjoying a well merited rest. The only time he ever lost from his duties was about six months, and this was the result of an accident which he sustained September 13, 1875; in the Panhandle yards in Columbus, being caught between the cars. His right arm was so badly crushed as to necessitate the amputation of the member near the shoulder, but on the following April he resumed work for the company. Mr. Righter was married, December 21, 1859, to Miss Mary Snyder, and soon afterward he purchased the lot on which his present home is standing. At that time the land was occupied by the oldest brick building erected in Franklinton, it having been the office and residence of Dr. Ball for many years. Mr. Righter caused the old building to be torn down and removed and his present residence was built. The' home of our subject and his wife has been blessed with the following named : Harry,. who was born in 1867; William, who was born in 1869 and was married to Miss Gallington in 1896; Thomas F., born in 1871; and Florence, born in 1873. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are people of the highest respectability, enjoying the uniform regard of many friends. In his political views Mr. Righter is a Republican. WILLIAM H. WANAMAKER. William H. Wanamaker, of Columbus, was born January 24, 1867, in Pickaway county, Ohio. His patrnal grandfather was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and at an early period in the development of the Buckeye state took up his residence upon a farm in Pickaway county, where he spent his remaining days. His son, James Wanamaker, the father of our 312 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   subject, was born March 29, 1845, in that county. The mother of our subject, Mrs. Lucinda Wanamaker, was born in the same county February 18,1848, and their children were as follows: Annie L., the wife of William Fisher, a grocer of Columbus; Florence M., the wife of Lewis Hay, a farmer of Pickaway county; Mary L., who wedded William Reeder, a mechanic of Columbus; and Almeda. . The father of these children was a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio Regiment of Volunteers during the Civil war, and his son-in-law, William Reeder, served with the Fourth Ohio Volunteers in the Spanish-American war. William H. Wanamaker, of this review, received good educational privileges, supplementing his early mental training by a course in the college at Ada, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated. He entered the railway service in April, 1892, as a brakeman on the Pennsylvania road, being on the Indianapolis division. In January, 1898, he was promoted to the position of conductor and has since been in continuous service. He is always found at his post of duty and is a most reliable and trustworthy representative of the road. He not only enjoys the confidence of those under whom he serves, but has won friends among the traveling public by reason of his uniform courtesy, consideration and attention. On the 16th of October, 1890, in Pickaway county, Ohio, Mr. Wanamaker was united in marriage to Miss Jennie H. Rice, a daughter of Anthony C. and Susannah Rice. Her father was born in Pickaway county February 24, 1831, and died at his home there July 10, 1897. His widow still survives him and now makes her home with her daughters. The sisters of Mrs. Wanamaker are Mrs. John M. Thatcher, of Circleville, Ohio; Mrs. Henry C. Renick; who died at her home in Circleville December 13,1895; and Mrs.. Alex Renick, of Springfield, Ohio. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Wanamaker was a native of Vermont, and, emigrating westward became one of the pioneer settlers of Pickaway county. He aided in the development of the agricultural interests there and after being long identified with farming pursuits his life's labors were ended in death. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wanamaker are : John E., who was born January 29, 1892, in Circleville, Ohio; Ralph H., born in Piqua, Ohio, April 11, 1896; and. Charles W., who was born in Columbus. March 6, 1898. In 1897 the family came to the capital city, where they afterward resided, their home being now at No. 703 Hoover street. Mr. Wanamaker is a member of the Masonic fraternity and in his life exemplifies the spirit of the order. JAMES P. ANDERSON. Before the days of street railways, omnibus lines were important institutions in Columbus, Ohio, as they were elsewhere, and the Columbus Transfer Company, which is the legitimate successor of one of the leading lines in the days before the war and during the '60s and early '70s, is an important local adjunct to travel at this time. The manager of this concern is James P., CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 313 Anderson, who has given his whole active life to the business except during a few years, when he was prominent in connection with circus enterprises. James P. Anderson was born at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, in 1841, and his father was John Anderson, a native of Scotland, who became prominent as a farmer in that county. After some. years' connection with the local omnibus line at Wheeling, West Virginia, he was, in 1864, appointed by the receiver of the Kinsman street railway of Cleveland, Ohio, superintendent of that line and managed it successfully until 1866, when it was finally cleared from indebtedness. and was returned to the control of the company which had previously operated it. In 1866 he came to Columbus and took charge of the old omnibus line with which Dr., Hawk was identified as the directing spirit, which then covered the whole city except High street, which had a short street railway line. After Dr. Hawk sold out the enterprise to the Columbus Transfer Company Mr. Anderson was for twelve years a partner with B. E. Wallace, of Peru, Indiana, in the ownership and management of the Great Wallace Shows, his interest in which he eventually sold to Mr. Wallace, who has continued the enterprise to this time. While Mr. Anderson was in Europe Adam Forepaugh died and James A. Bailey, purchased the great circus enterprise which Mr. Forepaugh had built up and required a manager for the concern; and he telegraphed Mr. Anderson to return to America and take the show in hand, and Mr. Anderson managed it successfully for five years. After Mr. Bailey assumed control of the Buffalo Bill Wild West, Mr. Anderson represented Mr. Bailey's interest in that concern for four years, until 1898, when he returned to Columbus to become the manager for the Columbus Transfer Company. Mr. Anderson is a thirty-third-degree Mason and is personally acquainted with prominent Masons in all parts of the country and with many in Europe. He was married while a resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, to Miss Esther Jane Packer, a daughter of Isaac Packer, proprietor of the Union Hotel of that city, and has three children : James, a plumber of Columbus; Anna, who married P. J. Cassidy, of Columbus; and Sally, who is a member of her parents' household. MRS. RACHEL H. LYONS. Mrs. Rachel H. Lyons has long resided: in Columbus and is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Franklin county. She is a daughter of Robert Hosack, who was born in Ulster county, New York. Her paternal grandfather came from Scotland to America and founded the family in the new world. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, served: with Washington during the memorable winter at Valley Forge, and at the capture of Stony Point he was chosen to act as one of the storming party. under General Wayne. His death occurred in the Empire state. He had two sons, Robert and Thomas, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Jane and Catherine, and with the exception of Robert all remained in New York and 20 314 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. are now deceased.. Robert Hosack became a millwright by trade. In New York he was married to Miss Anna Merritt, whose father was a native of Westchester, that state, and who came to Ohio at an early day, some years prior to the removal Of the parents of Mrs. Lyons, and. located upon a farm in Huron county. Throughout his entire life he carried on agricultural pursuits and he died at Ravenna, Ohio, a few years prior to the Civil war. In his family were six daughters and five sons, and one of the sons, Horace Merritt, served in the war of 1812. In the year 1838 Robert Hosack came with his family to Ohio. His first home was on the corner of High and Mound streets, in Columbus, and Mrs. Lyons can recall the blasting that was done there at the time the family resided at that place. Later the father erected a residence on East Town street, beyond Seventh street, and subsequently he made his home on East Town street, between Sixth and Seventh streets. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1871, he was living at the corner of South High and Hosack streets, in the residence which he had: erected. He passed away in his eightieth year, and his wife died in 1885, at the old home on South High street, in her ninety-second year. Through a considerable period Mr. Hosack had charge of the starch factory on that street and was alsp a prominent business man of Columbus in the early days. Unto him and his wife were born three daughters,—Jane, Rachel and Chloe Ann. The first named became the wife of John H. Chambers, but has been: a widow for several years. She removed from Columbus, on the 6th of November, 1900. to Estherville, Iowa, where she is now living with one of her sons. She has three children. Chloe, the youngest daughter, became the wife of Joseph Foss, of Columbus, and both are now deceased. Her only surviving child, Mrs. Karch, is living in this city. Mr. Hosack was employed in the construction of several of the public buildings, including the first courthouse, lunatic asylum and county infirmary, and lived, to see the new courthouse erected. Rachel Hosack, the second daughter, spent her girlhood days at her parents home, and while the family resided on East Town street she was married to John J. Lyons, of Columbus, the wedding being celebrated in 1850. Mr. Lyons was, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, and during his early boyhood accompanied his father to Hocking county, Ohio, where he remained until, as a young man, he came to Columbus. He served his country as a soldier in the Mexican war. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lyons were born seven children. One son, Alvin H., whose birth occurred in 1855 and who is a farmer by occupation, is the only one living. He' was: married, in I885, to Miss Martha, Brown, and they have two children : Alice, born in 1886; and Henry, born in 1888. The son and his family are residing with his mother in their pleasant home at. No. 1956 South High street. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, Mrs. Lyons having previously been connected with the congregation which worshiped in the old church located on. East Town street, where the public library building now CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 315 stands, and among her early pastors were Rev. Moody and Rev. Trimble. She can recall many interesting incidents connected with life in Columbus during the early days. She resided in the city from the time of its early development and is very widely known here, her earnest Christian character and her sterling worth gaining her the love and friendship of all with whom she has been brought in contact. ANDREW C. EMMICK. Andrew Culbertson Emmick has passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, and throughout the entire period he has been a resident of Columbus, being one of the eldest of the native sons of the city. He now resides at No. 43 North Fifth street, and is a venerable and highly respected gentleman, well worthy of mention among the representative men of Franklin county. He was born February 18, 1826, and traces his ancestry back to John Emmick his great-grandfather, who in 1773 crossed the Atlantic from Germany to America. Some years later, feeling it necessary to return to his native land, he took passage upon an eastward bound vessel, but ere the voyage was completed he was called to his final rest. His son, John Emmick, jr., the grandfather of our subject, was born in Germany in 1763, and was therefore ten years of age when he came with his father to the United States. He served in the war of 1812 under Captain William Griffith and Colonel R. M. Johnson. At the battle of River Raisin, near Monroe, Michigan, he was one of six selected by the captain of the company to cross the river on stringers after the bridge had been destroyed by the Indians. He was subsequently captured by the red men between the river and Detroit, and by them was tied to a tree, but before he could be burned or tomahawked he was rescued by the American soldiers under General Lewis Cass. He was not seriously injured, although his clothing was "full" of bullet holes. In after years General Cass was a frequent visitor at his home. Mr. Emmick married Miss Katy Bulon, a daughter of Alexander Bulon, who was then living near Poughkeepsie, New York. A wagon-maker by trade, the grandfather of our subject followed that pursuit in Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, Ohio, at various times. Both he and his wife were drowned while near the mouth of the Maumee river in a skiff, on the 29th of June. 1828. Their children were as follows: Frederick, Margaret, John, Katy, David, Eliza, Hannah. Alexander and James. The following dates of birth have been preserved: John, born in 1798 ; David, in 1807; Margaret, in 1810; Alexander, in 1813; Hannah, in 1814; and Jane, in 1818. Margaret became the wife of John Cowdrick, at Dayton, Ohio, and in 1822 removed to New Jersey, but the family afterward returned to this state, locating in Miami in 1830, and there Mrs. Cowdrick died. Katy became the wife of David Sargeant, and died at Three Rivers, Michigan. Hannah is the widow of a Mr. Cross, of Maumee, Ohio. David, who was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, January 6, 1807, was brought to Ohio by his 316 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. father in 1810, and was married to Jane Morgan; a relative of the famous Confederate General Morgan, in the year 1832. John Emmick, the father of our subject, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1798, and in 1819 became a resident of Columbus, Ohio. For nine years previously he had resided in Cincinnati, this state, and there followed his trade of wagon-making. After locating in the capital city he established a shop on the southeast corner of Main and High streets, where the Southern Hotel now stands. There he carried on business until the year 1831, when he located at the northeast corner of Pearl and Main streets, where he remained until his death, in the year 1841. He had been married in Columbus, May 23, 1823, to Miss Isabel Culbertson:, a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Culbertson. She was born in Franklin county, Penn. Sylvania, in 1797, and came to Franklinton, Ohio, with her grandfather, Colonel Robert Culbertson; in the year 1805. He removed to this state with a large family of children and grandchildren and brought with him horses, and nd household effects. In Franklin county he pre-empted land on which the different members of the family were located. While with his immediate family he resided on proerty which he purchased in Franklinton A wealthy citizen, he did much to improve and upbuild the little town. His death occurred in. Franklinton in 1821, at the age of eighty-three years. Before coming to Ohio he had served his country the Revolutionary war. His son, Andrew Culbertson, the maternal grandfather of our subject, married Jane Parks, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. With the Colonel they came to Franklinton and Andrew settled on a farm on which the present starch factory is now located. Their children are Elizabeth, Mary, Isabella, Robert Samuel and Rebecca. Of this number Elizabeth was married to Andrew Dill in 1820, and Mary :became the wife of William Shannon in 1825. Both of these gentlemen were justices of the peace and were prominent and influential citizens of their day. The next daughter, Isabella, became the mother of our subject; and Rebecca, the youngest daughter, married Nathaniel W. Smith, a jeweler, while Robert Culbertson distinguished himself by service in the war of 1812. The children of John and Isabella (Culbertson) Emmick are Elizabeth, Jane, Andrew C., John, Rebecca, Mary, Esther, Anna and Isabella. The first named was married in 1847 to John Robinson, a painter by trade, who died in 1881, since which time Mrs. Robinson has resided with her brother Andrew. Andrew Emmick, whose name introduces this record, acquired his education in the select schools of the day, for there were no public schools in Ohio at the time of his boyhood. Under the direction of his father he learned the wagon-maker's trade, and had followed that pursuit for about a year when his father died. He continued his labors along that line through the succeeding six years, being in the employ of the Ohio Tool Company, of Columbus. He then went into, the service of the Columbus Machine Company for which he acted as a pattern-maker for ten years, and on the expiration of that period he accepted a similar position in the employ of Ambos & Smith, where he remained for nine years. He next established business for himself, opening a foundry and machine shop on Olentangy creek, near where the plant of the Pipe Foundry Company is now located, carrying on his enterprise there from 1879 until 1887, when he retired from active business. In 1849 Mr. Emmick was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Elliott, who died a year later, and their only child, Isabella, passed away when. a year old. Mr. Emmick afterward married Mrs. Gusta Bishop, of Tioga county, Pennsylvania. For a quarter of a century he was a prominent member of Central Lodge, No. 23, I. O. O. F., and exemplifies its benevolent and fraternal teachings in his life. For a half century he has resided at his present home, and is one of the most honored of the old citizens of Columbus. His entire life having been here passed, he is widely known and is familiar with the history of the city from the days of its early development. MATTHIAS LOY, D. D. The subject of this sketch is the peer, if not the superior, of any man in our city and county with regard to religious and theological influence, and that influence of the most beneficial and salutary nature. Known to but comparatively few in our city, but most .highly respected by every one that has had the pleasure of his acquaintance, he has been, and still is, a power in the Lutheran: church of America whose influence has not been limited to the ecclesiastical organization whose honored and trusted member and leader he has been for many years. Dr. Loy was born of German parents in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1828. In early childhood he lost his mother and then received an entirely English education. But, though in consequence his preference has always been the English language, he appreciates and loves the tongue of his ancestors and uses it with great readiness and skill. He learned the trade of compositor,—an accomplishment that has stood him in good stead frequently in his manifold labors as editor and author. Being troubled with rheumatism, an affliction that has been clinging to him more or less, he had to give up his vocation and look out for a more suitable calling. Thus God led him to the study of theology, an occupation for which he is pre-eminently fitted. He obtained his classical and theological education at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Columbus; Ohio, but may be termed a self-made man in more than one respect. In 1849 he received a call as pastor of the German-English Lutheran congregation at Delaware, Ohio. In 1860, at the age of only thirty-two years, he was elected the president of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Ohio and other states, generally own as the Joint Synod of Ohio. This position he held continuously till 1878, when he declined: a re-election on account of failing health; but in 1880 he was prevailed upon to accept the presidency again and held it till 318 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 1894, when the synod, because of its rapid growth, concluded to choose a president whose whole time should be devoted to the duties of his office. Dr. Loy continually had been doing the work of more than one man besides. In 1864 he was made the editor of the Lutheran Standard and he filled this important position in the most acceptable manner for more than twenty-five years', when, at his urgent request, the synod very reluctantly relieved him of this onerous work. In 1865. he was called as professor of theology for the seminary, and as professor of mental and moral sciences for the colic to Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, which. position he still holds. In 1881 he established and until 1886 edited the Columbus Theological Magazine, as an exponent of true Lutheranism over against Calvinizing tendencies that were endeavoring to gain admission into the Lutheran church of America in general and into the Synod of Ohio in particular. Among the men that bore the brunt of battle in this lamentable but necessary controversy Dr. Loy easily stands in the foremost rank. In the same year, 1881, he w also chosen the president of Capital University and held this office until 1890. when, again at his urgent request, he was relieved,. but appointed dean of the faculty, which position he has graced with his enviable tact up to the present year, 1900. In 1899, his seventy-first birthday, and at the same time the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry, was appropriately celebrated by the institution whose ornament he has been for more than thirty-five. years, amid the heartiest participation and congratulations of the whole synod. Notwithstanding his ill health, and in some respects his frail body, Dr. Loy has done a work that seldom falls to the lot of one man. Dr. Loy is a model teacher, respected and beloved alike by his colleagues and his pupils; a man of extensive learning, a profound and clear thinker and a good disciplinarian. His mastery of the English language is admirable, though he prefers good, plain. Anglo-Saxon speech to high-flown oratory. In theology the systematic branches have been his special field, a field for which his natural gifts and favorite studies have fitted him in an eminent sense. He is also a preacher of great power and eloquence, evangelical throughout. His popular Sermons on the Gospel Lessons of the Church Year, published in 1888, is a very valuable book for preachers and laymen; but it conveys no adequate idea of the spiritual and heart-moving oral delivery of the author. Dr. Loy is also the author of a number of lovely hymns contributed to the Hymnal of the Ohio Synod, breathing childlike faith and earnest Christian resolve. His theological publications, all of them an ornament to the Lutheran church of America, are numerous. The following are the most prominent : Justification by Faith, 1869; The Ministerial Office, 1870; Sermons on the Gospels, 1888; Christian Prayer, 1890; and the Christian Church, 1897. The prayer of Dr. Loy's many friends and pupils, of the whole synod whose foremost member he is, and of a great part of the Lutheran church outside' of his synod, is that God may still prolong his days and preserve his CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 319 powers of body and mind for a great deal of useful work in the service of Christ and His church. Dr. Loy was married, in 1853, to Miss Mary Willey, of Delaware, Ohio. Seven children were the issue of this marriage, of whom two are dead. All the living are devoted members of the Lutheran church. The three sons are engaged in business. The oldest, Luther, is the organist of Grace Lutheran church, in the city of Columbus; the other two, Harry and Carl, at Dayton, Ohio. Of the two daughters, the older, Minnie, is the wife of Rev. Dr. L. H. Schuh, of Valley Crossing, Ohio. The younger, Ada, is still with her parents. FRANK FLEMING. Frank Fleming was born in Sidney, Ohio, January 25, 1826, and in early boyhood came to Franklinton, now Columbus, Ohio, in company with his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Henderson) Fleming. His father was a shoemaker and for a number of years resided at the corner of Sandusky and Cook streets, in Franklinton,, working at his trade. His mother died when the subject of this review was about seven years, of age. His father afterward married, in 1833, and his second wife passed away in Columbus January 16, 1901, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. The subject of this review learned the stone-quarry trade and for some years operated a stone quarry, taking contracts for furnishing the stone used in the construction of the state capitol and the penitentiary buildings. After a time he took up his residence at the corner of Scidmore and West Broad streets, where he remained for forty years. In 1847 occurred. the marriage of Frank Fleming and Miss Mary Barbee, the wedding taking place in Franklinton. Their children are: Owen, who was born in 1849 and resides in Columbus; Joseph, who was born in 1851 and died in 1881; and William, who was born in 1855 and is now a farmer of Franklin county. The mother of these children died in Franklinton, in 1858, and in 1860 Mr. Fleming was again married, his second union being with Miss Lucinda Straley, of Columbus. Her father, John Straley, was born in Virginia, was married in early manhood; and came to Ohio with his family when Mrs. Fleming was seven years of age, their home being at the corner of West Broad and Sandusky streets!. The father died in 1851, and the mother, surviving him ten years, passed away in 1861. The members of their family were as follows : Eliza died in 1870; Margaret is the wife of C. Anthony and resides upon a farm in Franklin, county; and John, who was a prominent and influential citizen of Lancaster, Ohio, died in that place in 1895. Unto Mr. and. Mrs. Fleming have been born six children: Laura, who was born in 1861 and died in 1886, was the wife of Charles Timmons and left one son, Frank, who was born in 1886 and' is now a student in the public schools of Columbus, his home being with his grandfather, Mr. Fleming; Samuel, born in 1862, is `married and resides in Mor- 320 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. rison, Colorado, near. Denver,, his children by the first marriage being Gertrude and Mary, the first named being a student in the high school of Colombus, while by his union with Rosa Edmund's he has three children,—Ray, Gladys and a baby boy; Daniel, who was born in 1866 and is engaged in the stone-quarry business with his brother Samuel at Morrison, Colorado, is married and has four children,—Edmund., Frank,. Edith and Leah G.; Margaret, Ella and Wilson reside with their parents in Columbus. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. GEORGE RIORDAN. George Riordan was born in Romney, Virginia, October 11, 1794. His father, Richard Riordan, was a native of Virginia and there spent his entire life. His wife, Mrs. Margaret (Kirk) Riordan.; was born March 7, 1756, in Virginia, and died April 30, 1854, in Columbus; In their family were two sons,—George and Robert. The latter came froin the Old Dominion to Ohio and' took up his abode in Franklinton at an early period in the development of this portion of the state. George Riordan left his old home in 1808 and cast his lot with the pioneer settlers of Franklinton, but returned to Virginia in time to enlist in the war of 1812. He served throughout the second struggle with England and in 1821 returned to Franklinton. He was married the old Sullivan house at that place, now the Houk of the Good Shepherd, on the 30th of March, 1826, to Miss Sarah Downs, who was born in Amsterdam, New York, October 14, 1803. They reared a large family of children: Henry Clay, the eldest, born. January 19, 1827, married Miss Stella Turner, at Davenport, Iowa, in 1854, and took up his abode in that city, there engaging in business. Margaret, was born February I,.1829. George H., born December 12, 1830, died June 25, 1871. Thomas, born November 20, 1832, died May 11, 1855. John, born October 17, 1834, died April 8, 1835. Richard who was born February 9, 1836, now resides with his sister, Mrs. Uncles. For many years he served as librarian in Columbus, retiring from the office in 1860. He was also a member of the first board of equalization under the present state constitution, when the board held its sessions in the hotel over the store building now occupied by Brice Brothers, on South High street. James,, born January 12, 1838;. died January 4, 1848. Sarah L., born September 9, 1840, married John Uncles, of Columbus, in 1866. Her husband was born in Franklinton May 25, 1825, and by their marriage there are five children, namely : Nellie was born in 1867 and died in 1876; Mattie, born in 1870, died in 1872; Sarah L., born in 1873, is a high-school graduate; Margaret A., born in 1875, attended the public schools of Columbus, was graduated in the high school, also in the Ohio State University in the class of 1897, and is a school-teacher; and Emma, the youngest of the Uncles family was born in 1880 and in 1898 became the wife of Harry Edwards, who is a clerk in the Cleveland office of the Big Four Railroad Company. They CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 321 have one child, Harold Edwards, born in 1900. The daughters, Margaret and Sarah, are residing with their mother, who for eighteen years has made her home at No. 31 Gill street. John Uncles was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars and was wounded in the leg in one of the engagements with the Mexican troops. He was an honorable and influential citizen and: died in Columbus December 5, 1882. Edward Riordan,. the next member of the Riordan family, was born October 3, 1842, and died on the 22d of November of that year. Mary E. Riordan, the youngest, was born November 9, 1844, and died May 15, 1874. George Riordan, whose name introduces this record, . was a popular citizen of Columbus in early days and took a. very prominent part in public affairs, his fellow townsmen frequently calling him to public office, and he filled many positions of public honor and trust. He was a constable, city marshal and also crier of the supreme court for many years. He died August 29, 1864, at the extremely old age of one hundred and two years. His life was one of usefulness and honor and wherever he was known he was held in highest regard. WILLIAM MERION, JR. Through more than four-score years William Merion was a resident of Franklin county and in' his death the community lost one, of its honored pioneers. He was born on the loth. of September, 1811, upon a farm which is now within the city limits of Columbus, its location being a mile and a half due south on High street from the capitol building. The Merions were of French lineage, but the father of our subject, William Merion, Sr., was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, becoming a, resident of Franklinton,. now Columbus, in the year 1808, when a young man. He married Miss Sarah. Wayte, and pre-empted a farm on which he. carried on agricultural pursuits for many years. He died at the age of fifty and the property was inherited by his son and namesake. William Merion, Jr., was born and reared. on the old family homestead early became familiar with the work of: the .fields, learning what was required by the different products in order to produce good harvests. From the time when he was old enough to handle the plow he aided in the farm work and successfully carried on' agricultural pursuits until the year 1888. He was united in marriage, on the 28th of October, 1858, to Mrs. Martha (Uncles) Sheldon, the wedding being celebrated at the home of the bride in Columbus. She was then a widow. Her father, James Uncles, was born in Bradford, England, August 5, 1794, and in the year 1812 became a resident of Franklinton, where he followed his trade of decorating. He was married, in Franklinton, in 1816, to Miss Elizabeth Crisswell, whose people were from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was early left an orphan and was reared in the family of Dr. Ball, of Franklinton, remaining there until her marriage to James Uncles. Their children were : Nancy, who was born in 322 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 1818 and died in 1877; Mary, born in 1821, who is the wife of Leroy Royce, a resident of Toledo, Ohio; Martha, who was born in 1824 and is now Mrs. William Merion; John, who was born in 1826 and died in 1890; and James, who was born in 1828 and died in 1858, from injuries: sustained in a railroad accident. John H. Uncles, a cousin of Mrs. Merion, and now a widower, is living in Columbus. James Uncles, the father of Mrs. Merion, died of pneumonia. He was engaged in decorating the residence of Dr. Parsons and caught a severe cold which resulted in pneumonia, causing his demise. He and his .family were members of the Episcopal church. Mrs. Merion was born in her father's frame residence on a lot adjoining the First Methodist church, which was standing at the time, the house and church both occupying the present site of the public-school library building on East Town street. . She continued to reside there from 1820 until 1844. January 21, 1844, she gave her hand in marriage to Thomas H. Sheldon, of Columbus, and they located at Tiffin, Ohio, where they remained for our years, when they returned to Columbus. Mr. Sheldon died in 1854, leaving two children : R. E. Sheldon, who was a prominent business man of Columbus ; and Mrs. J. S. Roberts, now a widow. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Merion was blest with three children. Only one son is yet living, J. E. Merion, who for ten years was the chief clerk in the general offices of the Cleveland, Sandusky & Hamilton Railroad Company at Columbus, but is now the auditor. He was married, September 15, 1891, to Miss Sarah Peters, and since that time they have resided in the capital city. Mr. and Mrs. William Merion continued to reside upon their farm on Parsons avenue from the time of their marriage until October 28, 1880. Mr. Merion then retired from active business and took up his abode at No. 616 Franklin avenue, and there spent his remaining days, his death occurring on the 13th of December, 1893. He was a man of resolute purpose, of firm convictions and upright principles. As a citizen he took a deep and commendable interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, and by all who knew him he was held in highest regard. His widow, who is a faithful member of the Broad street Methodist church, still lives in Columbus and has many zealous friends. GEORGE EVANS. George Evans has been long in public service and at all times has manifested his loyalty to the duties of citizenship, showing that the trusts reposed in him are well merited. At the present time he is by appointment serving as .financial officer of the Institution. for Feeble-minded Youth. He was born in Waterville, Wood county. Ohio, September 26. 1829, and is a son of George Webster and Nancy R. (Eberly) Evans. His father was a manufacturer and farmer, born in Dover, Delaware. and his death occurred in 1862. He married Miss Eberly, who was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and was a daughter of Henry Eberly, who for many CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY- 323 years was a gunsmith at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He was employed in the government service during the war of 1812. He went with his company to the front and was never heard from again: George Evans, whose name introduces this record, accompanied his parents on their removal to Franklin county, Ohio. In 1832 the family located in Worthington. Three years later, in 1835, they removed to Dublin, where he acquired the greater part of his education Subsequently he became a student at Worthington Seminary for a short time, after which he returned to Dublin, becoming a clerk in a general store, where he remained for five years. In 1853 he came to Columbus, accepting a position in the county clerk's office, under Kendall Thomas, In 1857 he became a clerk in the postoffice, where he remained until 1861. The following year he was appointed by President Lincoln commissary of subsistence, with the rank of captain, and served in that capacity until the end of the war in 1865; when he was honorably discharged and promoted to the rank of major by brevet. When the war was over Mr. Evans again returned to Columbus and later to Dublin, where he established. a drug and grocery store, conducting it successfully until 1884. He carried a large and well selected -stock of goods and enjoyed a liberal patronage. In the year mentioned, however, he was appointed to his present position, as financial officer of the Institution for Feeble-minded Children, at Columbus, int which capacity he has proved himself a competent and trustworthy officer. In all public positions which he has filled he has discharged his duties' with marked fidelity, administering the affairs in a businesslike and satisfactory manner. He is indeed worthy of the public confidence, for the trusts reposed in him have never been betrayed, even in the slightest degree. Mr. Evans has been twice married. His first wife died. in 1854, leaving a daughter, Bell, now the wife of David H. Everitt. 1891 his second' wife died, leaving three daughters : Lillie, the wife of Samuel H. Davis, Jr., of Dublin; Anna, wife of F. J. Thomas; and Stella, wife of Robert Thompson, of Columbus. Mr. Evans has two brothers, John E. and Eli P., and a sister, living. He is a member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 104, I. O. O. F., of Dublin, to which he was admitted in 185o; and belongs to Johanna Encampment, No. 57, of the same fraternity. JOHN HARVEY WASSON. It is the province of the writer now to present in brief the story of the career of an upright and progressive self-made man who left to his sons, Edgar and William. Wasson, of Columbus, Ohio, the legacy of a good name. John Harvey Wasson, for more than thirty years prominently identified with the salt business of this state, was born in Preble county, Ohio; April 18, 1827, and in 1834, with his parents. removed to Wayne county, Indiana, where he was reared to the occupation of farming, attending township schools 324 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. as a rural scholar in the winter, alternated with teaching occasional terms of school in a country district in the summer. On arriving at his majority he engaged in the sawmill and lumber business near Richmond, Indians, furnishing large quantities of timber and ties for the construction of railroads which are now owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Company From 1855 to the close of the year 1857 he was engaged in the grain and flour trade at Richmond, Indiana, and New Paris, Ohio, doing a large, prosperous business until the crash of the great panic of 1857, occasioned by wild land speculation and precipitated by the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, when he was caught with large quantities of wheat and flour on hand and unsold, stored in Cleveland, Buffalo and New York, aggregating something over one hundred thousand dollars in value, all of which he closed out during the first stages of the panic, withcomparatively small, loss, when it is remembered that prices of both and grain declined nearly or quite fifty per cent of the original cost within thirty days thereafter. In 1858 he became associated in the salt business with the Kanawha & Ohio River Salt Company, under the presidency of Hon. V. B. Horton, of Pomeroy, establishing his headquarters as northwestern sales agent first at Richmond, Indiana, afterward in Chicago, and remained there until 1871. During the summer of 1871 he was engaged in the work of organizing the central Ohio salt manufacturers, embracing the Hocking valley, Muskingum valley, Guernsey county and Tuscarawas valley salt producers, under one control and management, the total capacity of which was three hundred thousand barrels annually. Associated with him in this enterprise was the late M. M. Greene and Judge P. B. Ewing, of the Hocking valley, and Hon. E. M. Stanbury and other associates of the Muskingum valley. Mr. Wasson was made the general agent and manager of its affairs, with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. He moved to Columbus .and took charge of the business immediately after the great fire at Chicago of October 9, 1871. He remained with this association for ten years, winding up its business in 1881, when nearly or quite all of its members ceased to make salt, .and the organization expired by limitation. In the meantime the manufacture of salt in the state of Michigan began to assume large proportions, and Mr. Wasson became interested with the Michigan association. The latter was put in possession of the territory lately occupied by the central Ohio company, and in furtherance of this arrangement large warehouses for the storage of salt have been erected at Columbus, 'Toledo and other points, where large stocks of salt are carried and kept tinder cover for the convenience of the trade. The Michigan Salt Association was organized in 1876, with a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Wasson, as the agent of the association, handled large quantities of dairy and table salt, as well as a grade especially adapted for packers and the ordinary grades of salt, Mr. Wasson died December 25, 1895. John Harvey Wasson married Miss Wrexaville E. Braffett, of New CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 325 Paris, Ohio, whose parents came from Vermont. Their sons, Edgar, born at New Paris, Preble county, Ohio, and William Wasson, born. at Richmond, Indiana, were educated principally in the schools of Columbus, and continue in the salt business, established by their father,. at Columbus. DAVID TAYLOR. David Taylor was one of the early pioneers in Franklin . county. His father, Robert Taylor, came with his family to Ohio from the province of Nova Scotia in 1806 and remained two years in Chillicothe. In the fall of 1807 he built his house on the west bank of Walnut creek, in what is now Truro township, on lands which he had before that time acquired. His was the fourth house built in Truro township, which he occupied with his family in March, 1808. It was the first frame house built in that portion of the county and is still standing in a good state of preservation. In this house Robert Taylor continued to live until the time of his death, which was March 28, 1828. During the time the house was being constructed David, then a boy of seven years of age, lived with the workmen engaged in the construction of the house in an unoccupied Indian but near by and assisted them in such ways as he was able at that time of life. He continued to live with his father's family until 1826, when he married Nancy T. Nelson, of Franklin county, and about that time constructed a house for himself a short distance north from his father's house, and on the line of what is now Livingston avenue, in which he continued to reside until 1844. This house also is still standing. In the last named year he built a new house on the line of the National road, on the north end of his farm about one mile north from his original residence. In this new house he nued to reside with his family until March, 1858, when he removed to the city of Columbus and took up his residence on. East Broad street, where he continued to live until the time of his death, which occurred July 29, 1889. David Taylor was born in the town of Truro, in the province of Nova Scotia, which is at the head of the bay of Fundy, July 24, 1801. His greatgrandfather, Matthew Taylor, emigrated from near Londonderry, now Derry, New Hampshire, in 1722. He and his family were a part of a colony of Scotch-Irish people who came from the north of Ireland and settled at the above named place on land's allotted to them by the governor of Massachuestts, supposing at the time that the lands were within the boundaries of that state. Subsequently, when the line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed, the land upon which the, colony had settled was found to be in the state of New Hampshire; but this circumstance did not disturb them in their occupancy of the land' which had been allotted to them. The location was then the very frontier of civilization. All beyond to the north and west was wilderness. The Taylor family continued to. live in New Hampshire until the close of the French and English war in 1763, the result of which war was to give England dominion over the province of Nova 326 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Scotia; and this was the cause of the emigration from New Hampshire to that province. The second son of Matthew Taylor, the original head of the family in this country, was Matthew Taylor, Jr., who was born at Londonderry New, Hampshire, October 30, 1727. In time he was. married to Miss Archibald of Londonderry, and six sons and two daughters were born of that marriage, the birth of Robert, the fourth son, father of David, being on April 11, 1759 Matthew Taylor, Jr., removed with his family from New Hampshire to Nova Scotia about 1764. His son Robert was then in his infancy. On December 6, 1781, Robert was married, at Truru, Nova Scotia, to Mehetabel Wilson. There were born to that marriage four sons and several daughters, David, the subject of this sketch, being the youngest son and the youngest of the family except his sister Susan. The older sons were named respectively : Abiather Vinton, Matthew and James. They all came with their father to Ohio and settled in Truro township, where they afterward married and brought up, families worthy of the highest respect. When Truro township was organized in 1810 it was named for Truro, Nova Scotia, the town from which the Taylor family came. David Taylor commenced business for himself when twenty years of age. His first ventures were in live stock. From 182o to 1827 he was very active in this business, collecting large herds in Ohio and driving the same to the eastern markets. During this period he went "over the mountains," as the route was then called, with stock . eighteen times, and was successful in almost every venture. He continued' to deal extensively in live stock for many years, but after about 1827 he adopted the policy of. collecting stock and preparing it for the eastern market, but selling at home. It was only when he failed to secure a satisfactory purchaser at home that he drove his animals to market. In the meantime he invested the gains of his enterprise in lands, which, were brought into cultivation as fast as it could profitably be done. In 1850 he purchased a large tract of land then known as the Brien section. It consisted of the southwest quarter of Jefferson township, Franklin county, and contained over four thousand acres of land. This he subdivided into tracts of from fifty to one hundred and sixty acres and sold a considerable portion of it, reserving for himself such portions as best suited his purpose. He has always taken an active interest in the development of the agricultural interests of the state. He was one of the founders of the Franklin County Agricultural. Society, and was the president of that organization for the years 1857, 1858 and 1870. In 1861 he was elected as one of the members of the state board of agriculture for the state of Ohio, and was twice re-elected, serving in all six years. From 1862 to 1866, he was the treasurer of that organization, and on his retirement, so satisfactorily had he performed his duties in that respect, that a suitable testimonial was voted him. In early life he had considerable taste for military affairs, and for many years was an active member of a then famous mounted company, called the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 327 Franklin Dragoons. This company had served through the war of 1812, under Captain, Joseph Vance, and for many years after the war the company organization was maintained. Abram McDowell succeeded Captain Vance in command of the company, and his successors in turn were Robert Brotherton, Joseph Mcllvain, Philo. H. Olmsted and David Taylor, who was elected captain in 1824 and served in that capacity for three years. He was first married, in September, 1826, to Nancy T. Nelson, by whom he had two children : Eliza, who was married to the late Samuel Sharp; and Robert N., now living at Upper Sandusky. In July, 1831, he was married to Margaret Shannon, who died soon after her marriage, and in May, 1836, he was married to Margaret Livingston, the oldest daughter of Judge Edward C. Livingston. Six , children have been born of this marriage : David; Edward L.; Mary C., now the wife of Thomas Hibben; Henry C. ; Martha, the wife of Samuel Lee; and Margaret of whom are now living. CHARLES SELBACH. The spirit of self-help is the source of all genuine worth in an individual and is the means of bringing to man success when he has no advantages of wealth or influence to aid him. The life record of Mr. Selbach illustrates its power and shows in no uncertain manner what it is possible to accomplish when perseverance and determination form the keynote of a man's life. Depending upon his own resources and looking for no outside aid or support, he has risen from comparative obscurity to a place of prominence in the business world, and to-day he. enjoys a well merited rest. A native of Germany, Mr. Selbach was born in Elberfelt, Prussia, in April, 1835, and is a son of Frank W. and. Matilda (Shade) Selbach. The father spent his entire life in Germany, where he died in 1856, and the year 1858 the mother and her children emigrated to- the United States. She landed at New York, accompanied by. nine sons and two daughters, Charles, who was a member of the army, having been left behind. Her chief interest in life was to secure good advantage's for her children and this determined her to leave her native land and bring her boys to America, where they would be exempt from army service. From New York she came direct with her family to Columbus, where a permanent location was made. Charles Selbach was educated in the schools of his native country and there learned the trade of bookbinding With his father. When he had completed his apprenticeship he entered the army and served faithfully for three years. on the expiration of which period he came to the United States, joining the family in Columbus. Soon he secured a situation in the employ of Foster, Jones & Company, bookbinders, with whom he continued through the years 1857-8. He spent a short time in St. Louis, working at his trade, but returned to the capital city and in 1861 enlisted in the service of his adopted land, as a member of Company G, Thirteenth Ohio Infantry, under 328 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. General George W. Smith,. After being mustered into the United States service he was c rdered with his regiment to Virginia and took part in many of the skirmishes and battles of that part of the country, serving faithfully for two years and three months on the expiration of which period he became ill. He was then taken to a hospital, where he was cared for several months, after which he was honorably_ discharged on the surgeon's certificate for disability. Returning to Columbus, Mr. Selbach engaged in the bookbinding business for M. C. Lilly. In 1865 he embarked in the grocery trade on his own account and successfully conducted. the in for eighteen years. In 1862 Mr.. Selbach was united in marriage to Maria W. Jaeger, of Columbus, a daughter of Frederick Christian Jaeger. She was born in Germany and was brought to.America by her parents when in her third year, Mr. and Mrs. Selbach had four sons and two daughters: Ernest F., Julins B. and! Albert K. are the living. They lost two daughters and one son. In his political views Mr. Selbach is a stanch Republican. During his stay in St. Louis he visited two or three slave sales. His uncle at that time was editing a Democratic paper and was a stanch supporter of the Democracy. Mr. Selbach had thought. of affiliating with the same organization, but the scenes which he witnessed at two of the auction sales were such as to cause him to resolve never to cast a Democratic vote in favor of enslaving a human being. Thus he became a stalwart Republican and has never wavered in his allegiance. to the principles of the grand old party. Socially he is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. With a capacity and experience which would enable him to fulfill any trust to which he might be chosen, he has never sought to advance himself in office, but has been content to do his duty where he could and leave the self-seeking to others. Viewed in a personal light,. he is a strong man, of excellent judgment, fair in his views and highly honorable in his relations to his fellow men. DAVID R. SUMMY, M. D. Dr. David Rittenhouse Summy is a skilled physician and surgeon of Columbus, Ohio, whose knowledge of the science of medicine and surgery is broad and comprehensive and whose ability. in applying its principles to the needs of suffering humanity has gained him an enviable reputation in professional circles. He was born in Lancaster county; Pennsylvania, in 1853, a son. of Peter H. Summy, who spent his entire life there, following the profession. of a civil engineer for forty years and serving as the city engineer of Lancaster for some time. He died in 1888, at the age of sixty-six years. The paternal grandfather, John Summy, was also a native of Lancaster county, where he engaged in farming throughout his active business life, dying there at the age of forty-four years. The Doctor's mother was in her maidenhood Miss Susan Graeff, a daughter of Mathias Graeff, of Lancaster county, who served all through the war of 1812, and died in 1886, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 329 at the advanced age of ninety-three years. At the time of his death he was still very active in body and mind, having never been ill a day in his life. By occupation he was a farmer. Dr. Summy's literary education was obtained in the State Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, and in Franklin & Marshall College, at Lancaster. He commenced the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. S. T. Davis, of the latter city, and later entered Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1883. In 1888 the Doctor came to Columbus, Ohio, and has since been in charge of the Hartman Sanitarium as the superintendent and surgeon, and also conducts a training school for nurses. The sanitarium is one of the. most important institutions of the kind in the United States, having five regular physicians; students and a large staff of attendants. Its patients come from all parts of the United States and Canada, and are given the .very best care and attention. Dr. Summy was married, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah E. Shindle, of Lancaster county, a daughter of Michael Shindle, whose ancestors have made their home in Lancaster county for several generations. Of the three children born to the Doctor and his wife, the only son died in infancy. The daughters, Mina Belle and Pearl Graeff, are still living. As a surgeon Dr. Summy has been successful, and his abilities are widely recognized. As a citizen he is ever ready to do his part toward advancing the interests of his adopted county, and he has therefore many friend's, who esteem him highly. JOHN O. LANDES AND MAHALA C. LANDES. Few men have been more prominent in public affairs in Franklin county than John Q. Landes, an esteemed and valued resident of Jackson township: He was born in Madison county, Ohio, July 27, 1831. His father, John Landes, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, June 3o, 1799, and the grandfather was born in the Old Dominion in 1757. He was a cabinetmaker and painter by trade, and in 1804, he settled in Ross county, Ohio. Subsequently he came to Franklin county, locating within the present limits of Columbus and afterward taking up his abode on a farm which he purchased in Hamilton township. There he resided for twenty years, when he sold out and retired from active business. He was a soldier in General Hull's army at the time the British invaded Detroit, and was present whth Hull surrendered that important post to the enemy, and thus he became a prisoner. John Landes, the father of our subject, was reared amid the wild scenes of frontier life in Franklin county. He married Nancy Houck, who was born in Centerburg, Knox county, Ohio. Her father, Jacob Houck, was a well-to-do farmer, owning seven hundred acres of land, upon a part of which the village of Centerbury now stands. He died about 1842. After their marriage the parents of our subject removed to Madison county, Ohio, and Mr. Landes took charge. of the Eli Gwyn stock farm, upon which he 21 330 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. remained until 1833, when he came to Hamilton township, Franklin county, locating on a rented farm. He resided on various places in that township until 1853, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Jackson township, making it his home until his death. He was a well-educated man and in 1845 was elected associate judge of Franklin county, filling the position with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents until 1850, when he was retired on account of a change made in the state constitution. He had previously been employed on a stage-coach line for four years, from Columbus to Mount Vernon, and from Columbus to Chillicothe, Ohio. John Q. Landes, whose name begins this review, acquired a good common-school education in early life, later was a student in the Capital University and subsequently pursued his studies for a year in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. He was married, September 27, 1855, to Miss Sarah J. Lewis, and to them were born the following children: Nancy C., born May 18, 1857; John B., born May 4, 1860, Jacob E., who was born September 7, 1862, and died in 1873; and Alwilda J., who was born October 2, 1865. Mr. Landes was again married, February 2, 1894, to Mrs. Mahala C. Duff. She is a daughter of William W. Burchnell, whose father was born in Germany and came to America about two months previous to the bid of his son William W., and located in Maryland. A year later they removed to Virginia. His father was a Lutheran minister and resided in Virginia until his death. William W. Burchnell was a potter by trade and successfully engaged in business along that line in London, Madison county, Ohio Mrs. Landes is proud of her ancestors, having descended on her mother's side from the Hull family, being a distant relative of General Hull above spoken of. Her grandfather, having served in the war of 1812 as minuteman, was an eye witness when. Molly Pitcher was shot and hung suspended from a bridge. Mrs. Landes had a brother who served in the Mexican war and had two brothers' and two brothers-in-law who served in the war of the Rebellion; and also had a cousin who served in the Spanish-American war. In the widest sense of the term Mr. Landes, of this review, is a representative citizen of Franklin. county. On the 2d of May, 1864, he manifested his loyalty to his country by enlisting for one hundred days' service in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was made sergeant and continued at the front until the close of his to term. In politics he is a Democrat, but is. not strongly partisan. Although he votes for the men and measures of the Democracy at state and national elections. at local elections where no issue is involved he votes independently. He filled with credit the office of justice of the peace for six years; was for four years mayor of Grove City and Harrisburg, and for five years was township clerk. For ten years he was a school director, has been a member of the township board of education, and for two years was a member of the board of education of the city of Columbus, ever discharging his duties so as to merit the confidence and trust reposed in him. Thirty-four years ago he CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 331 was initiated into Mt. Sterling Lodge, F. & A. M., and has since been a worthy follower of the beneficent teachings of the order, his membership being now in Magnolia Lodge, No. 20. His wife is a lady of superior education and refinement and for eighteen years was a popular and successful teacher in the schools of Pickaway county. In manner she is genial and is an entertaining conversationalist. Of the Methodist Episcopal church she is an exemplary member and to its support both Mr. and Mrs. Landes contribute liberally. DR. E. O. McCOLLUM. Dr. E. O. McCollum is a young physician of fine professional attainments engaged in practice in Linden Heights. He is devoted to his profession, is a close student of materia medica and keeps in close touch with the best thoughts of 'the ablest minds of the m edical fraternity. Although his practice covers but a few years it has given him an excellent standing with the people of the community and his patronage is steadily and constantly increasing. Edmund O'Dell McCollum. is a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred at Independence, in Kenton county, January 8, 1869. His parents were Elijah J. and Elizabeth C. (Thomasson) McCollum. The father was a native of Kentucky and a -son of John McCollum, who was one of the pioneers of Kenton county, that state, then known as Campbell county. He aided in opening up the way fdr civilization and resided in that pioneer district until 1849, when his life's labors were ended in death. He became a prominent farmer and the owner of an extensive tract of land. He donated the land which. is now the town site of Independence and also gave the land on which was erected the courthouse of Kenton county. The McCollum family is of Scotch lineage, the original ancestors having been Highland Scotch, and from the country where the heather makes purple the hills came the first of the name to America, settling in Virginia. The Doctor's father was reared in Kentucky, and after arriving at years of maturity he married Elizabeth C. Thomasson, who was born in Campbell county and is a representative of an old Pennsylvania family, some of whose members removed to the Blue Grass state at an early day. The father died December 19, 1884, but the mother still survives. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Willie, Nellie, Atwood, Johny and Sammy, all deceased ; C. W., a practicing physician of Erlanger, Kentucky; and E. O., whose name introduces this record. The early life of Dr. McCollum was passed upon farm within the state of his birth, and in the public schools he obtained the rudiments of his education, completing his training in his home locality when he was seventeen years of age. He then spent a year in the Danville Normal School, at Danville, Indiana, after which he began reading,medicine under the direction of Dr. U. G. Senour, a prominent physician of Independence, Kentucky, who 332 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. acted as his preceptor and prepared him for college. He then matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio, now known as the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, and spent three years in earnest study, being graduated with the class of 1892. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course in the institution, for he had no desire to engage in professional work without a thorough preparation and a firm belief in his own ability and power. This came from a full realization of the importance and responsibility which attaches to the physician. After leaving college Dr. McCollum located at Winton Place, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he opened an office and for five years successfully engaged in practice. In 1897 he came to Linden Heights, in Franklin county, where he has since enjoyed a liberal patronage, his business growing as he has demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with the intricate problems that continually meet the physician. No two cases which come up for treatment are exactly the same, for the usual physical conditions of the patient influence the trend of the disease in illness. The complications are therefore continually different, and it requires sound judgment and keen discernment, as well as careful diagnosis, in the treatment of disease. Dr. McCollum was united in marriage to Miss Florence May Shelby, of Covington, Kentucky, on the 6th of September, 1892, and their union has been blessed with two children—Elizabeth Evelyn and Gladys Thelma. The Doctor and his wife have many friends in Franklin county, the circle being limited only by the circle of their acquaintance. Prompted by a laudable ambition and a deep interest in his work, Dr. McCollum is advancing steadily in his profession and to-day occupies a position which many an older practitioner might well envy. MORGAN J. THOMAS. The beauty of a city depends largely upon its architecture, and to those who design and construct its buildings is due the credit for the position it holds in this direction. Among those who have done much Work that adorns the streets and avenues of Columbus is numbered Morgan J. Thomas, who is well versed in the details and interests of this branch of industry and is advancing rapidly toward a prominent positlion in his chosen calling, having already secured an extensive and lucrative business. He is prepared it all times to execute orders with ability and promptness and his business is carried on with that courtesy and fair dealing that ever marks the successful business man. Morgan J. Thomas was born in Wales December 5, 1865, and is a son of David O. and Ann (Jones) Thomas. In 1865 the parents and their children crossed the Atlantic to the United States, landing at New York, from which place they came direct to Ohio, locating in Licking county, where the father followed the occupation of a farmer. He and his wife still reside there, The subject of this review was but an infant when brought to the new CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 333 worId and upon the pioneer homestead he was reared, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, as he assisted his father in the cultivation of the fields. In the winter months he pursued his education in a primitive stone schoolhouse of the time. While the branches pursued were few they were well mastered,—this probably being not only because the students were fond of their work but also because the master believed in the adage, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Leaving the schools, he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade at Newark, Ohio, under Daniel E. Jones, and after completing the regular term he remained with Mr. Jones for six years, a most trusted and capable employe. He became an expert workman and after his removal to Columbus in 1889 found no difficulty in obtaining employment, working for different parties on public buildings and private dwellings until 1896, when he began contracting and building on his own account. He has erected many of the fine residences of Columbus, doing all of the work from garret to cellar, and many of the store buildings and business blocks also stand as monuments to his enterprise. He is a skillful mechanic and has the faculty of controlling and managing men to good purpose,—essential elements in the successful conduct of a business and much to be admired. In 1891 Mr. Thomas was married to Miss Laura Watkins, of Newark, Ohio, a daughter of James and Eleanor Watkins, and they have a pleasant home at No. 1040 West Broad street. In his political sentiments Mr. Thomas in a stalwart Republican and does all in his power to promote the growth and secure the success of his party. In the spring of 1898 he was elected a member of the school board of the fourteenth ward and in 1900 was re-elected for a second term of two years. In thorough sympathy with the public-schools system of the land, he gives his endorsement to all measures and movements which he believes will promote the efficiency of the schools and advance their usefulness. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a young man of strong purpose, of keen discernment and able management, and these factors will insure success in his business career. LEROY W. TUSING. Leroy W. Tusing, a son of G. W. Tusing, was born in Violet township, Fairfield county, Ohio, December 10, 1847, and is now engaged in farming and sheep-raising in Truro township, Franklin county, Ohio. He began his education in the district schools of this county and later supplemented his early mental training by study in the high school at Pleasantville, Ohio. This was followed by a course in Duff Commercial College, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and then he entered upon an independent business career by teaching school in Fairfield and Franklin counties, a profession which he folkowed for eight years with good success, winning an enviable reputation by reason of his ability in that line. During the period of school vacations he 334 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. aided his father on the home farm. After his marriage he engaged in teaching during the winter for two years and then turned his attention to farming on his own account, operating sixty acres of land belonging to his father's estate. Since that time he has added to his property a tract of two hundred and seventy-five acres in Franklin county. He has cleared the timber from one hundred and fifty-five acres, has erected all of the buildings upon the place and made all the improvements there found. He has one of the best developed farms in the community, the. richly cultivated fields giving indication of his careful supervision and his progressive methods. He keeps the land in a productive condition by the rotation of crops and his bountiful harvests bring to him a good income. He also owns one hundred and fifty acres of farming land in Union county, Ohio, but this he rents, and he has sixty-seven acres in Texas, also fifty-five town lots in Laporte, Texas, besides he has an interest in the Crown Mountain gold mine of Dahlonega, Georgia. His farming interests. are well conducted and the energy and enterprise which have characterized his career have been the means of bringing to him gratifying success. On the 16th of November, 1869, Mr. Tusing was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Roades, a daughter of Joseph Roades, and unto them have been born five children, three sons and two daughters. Len W. married Cora Palmer, of Licking county, Ohio, whose father, William Palmer, was an enterprising agriculturist there, and they are the parents of two children, - Fred and Bryan. Nannie, the second member of the family, is the wife of Collins Oldham, a farmer and dairyman of Truro township, Franklin county, and they have two sons and two daughters,—Cyril, Zola, Grace and one boy unnamed. Clauda is the wife of Charles Nessley, an enterprising farmer living in Fairfield county, Ohio, by whom she has one child, Ralph. Thurman assists his father on the old homestead. Grover is pursuing his education in the schools of Brice. Mr. Tusing is a member of the Primitive Baptist church, with which he has been identified for twenty-eight years. To its support he has contributed liberally and has done all in his power to promote the work and interests of the church. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and at national elections he is a Democrat, but in affairs concerning merely the township and county, where no political issue is involved, he votes independently of party ties. He is a man of well known reliability in business and in the community where he resides he has many warm friends. HUGH H. CARR. Hugh H. Carr, a member of the firm of Nichol & Carr, Columbus, was born in Franklin, county, Pennsylvania, near Greencastle, his natal day being May 20, 1852. He is a son of Hugh and Sarah (McAnaly) Carr. The former, a native of Ireland, came to America in early childhood and after his marriage located upon a farm near Greencastle in Franklin county, Penn- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 335 sylvania, devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits until the death of Mrs. Carr, in 1877. His wife was a native of the Keystone state, and there his father, Hugh Carr, died in 1892. Hugh H. Carr spent his childhood in his native county and enjoyed the benefits of a common-school education. He afterward became apprenticed to Henry Stoner, under whose direction he learned the carpenter's trade, and on the completion of his term of service worked as a journeyman for some time. The year 1876 witnessed his arrival in the capital city, where for two years he was in the employ of others. On the expiration of that period he returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained from 1877 until 1886, when he once more became identified with the interests of Columbus as a contractor and builder. His labors have since been an important factor in the improvement of the city, and fine private residences, business houses, churches and some of the public buildings stand as monuments to his skill, his enterprise and his honorable business methods. In 1890 he entered into partnership with F. H. Nichol, under the firm name of Nichol & Carr, general contractors. Both partners are skilled mechanics, and the firm is known as one of the most responsible and reliable in the city. They are very prompt in the execution of a contract, faithfully living up to its terms, and enjoy in a large measure the public confidence and therefore the public support. In 1900 Mr. Carr erected on West Broad street No. 949, a handsome flat building, which has a seventy-five-foot front and is one hundred and forty feet deep. It is two stories in height and accommodates eleven families. The front is built of pressed and tile brick of fine finish and the building is supplied with all modern improvements and conveniences. The rental therefrom adds largely to the income of Mr. Carr. In 1878 was celebrated the marriage of our subject and Miss Emma B. Talhelm, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, in which city she was born and reared, her parents being Jacob and Catherine (De Walt) Talhelm. Mr. Carr is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Mystic Chain, the Knights of Honor and the Builders and Traders' Exchange. He started out upon his business career with moderate means, but his industry and frugality, coupled with good judgment, have enabled him to accumulate a hansom competence for his declining years. He is a thorough exemplification of a typical American business man and gentleman. JOSEPH PEGG. At an early period in the development of Franklin county Joseph Pegg, now deceased, became one of its residents, and through many consecutive years he not only witnessed the progress and upbuilding of this portion of the state, but ever bore his part in the work of development. He arrived in Clinton township in the year 1833 and located upon a tract of wild land which he purchased. Thereon had been previously built a primitive round- 336 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. log cabin containing one room. In it was a puncheon floor and on the outside a mud and stick chimney. Into this pioneer home he removed with his wife and three children. In his early youth he acquired a good education, partly in school and partly through reading and study in leisure hours. He followed teaching during the greater part of his life, beginning at a time when there was no public money to pay for a teacher's services, and accepting in return for his educational labors the products of the farm, meat, flour, and even fruit trees,and these he would have to exchange with those who wished such commodities in order to get money to defray his expenses. He was a very studious man, who loved books, and was always carrying forward his work of investigation along some line of research. He was a very close observer and in that way added not a little to his knowledge. He (read law in connection with Reuben Beers, L. H. Webster and James Galbraith. They rented a room in Columbus and there they carried on their studies without the aid of a teacher, in this manner qualifying for admission to the bar. Mr. Pegg later opened an office in Columbus, and subsequently he went to Bloomington, Illinois, with the intention of practicing law there, but instead he took up teaching as a means of obtaining a livelihood, remaining, however, in the Prairie state but a short time. Returning to Columbus, Mr. Pegg resumed teaching and the practice of law. In the former profession 'he was exceptionally successful. He had a clear, strong mind, which enabled him to give forcible and pleasing expression to his thoughts and to impress them strongly upon the minds of his pupils. He served his townsmen in the capacity of justice of the peace and was ever fair and impartial in the discharge of his duties. He also served as clerk of the township for several years and was active in politics, doing all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the Democracy, with which political organization he was allied. He was also a man of strong religious convictions, and his early aspirations were for an education that would fit him for ministerial work, but later became attracted by the law and changed his plan of life. Mr. Pegg was married in Franklin township, Franklin county, to Miss Matilda Crawford. Her father was a pioneer farmer and honored representative of the community at an early day. Eleven children were born unto Mr. and Mrs: Pegg, of whom ten are yet living, the eldest, Margaret, having been killed by a falling tree when a child. The others are; Orville R., a resident of Logan county, Ohio; Elias W. and George F. who are residents of Clinton township; Emma M., the wife of Alexander B. McGrew a resident of St. Louis, Missouri; Mary, the wife of William Heverlo, who makes his home in Morrow county, Ohio; Jane, the deceased wife of John Kissinger, a resident of Pass Christian, Mississippi; Louis L., who is located in Clinton township; Melissa, the widow of Erwin Maize, of Clinton township; Monroe J., who is living in the same township; and Thomas B., who resides in South America. The father of this family died in 1853, at the age of forty-five years, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 337 and the mother passed away in 1873, at the age of sixty-five years. The example which he left to his children was one well worthy of emulation. Although his educational privileges were limited, he acquainted himself with the higher branches of learning, mastering botany, natural philosophy, physics, metaphysics and higher mathematics. He thus became a man of high scholarly attainments, of broad general information, and his studious nature dominated his entire life. During the days of his early residence in Franklin county he was the only strong educational factor in the settlement. He interested his neighbors in the erection of a school house and he had no difficulty in gaining the interest of his children or in maintaining discipline, nor was he forced to resort to harsh measures, such as were employed by other teachers of the time. He had exceptional conversational powers, was a fluent speaker, had a ready command of the English language, and always managed to hold the attention of his auditors and both entertain and instruct them when he occupied a position upon the public platform. His services were in great demand as a Fourth of July orator and upon other occasions shen the public was addressed, upon patriotic measures. He was extremely public spirited and championed every measure for the public good. He was recognized as a leader in local politics, and his influence along that line was strongly manifest. He was a man of fine personal appearance and winsome personallity, and he left the world better for his having lived. His wife was a lady of sterling domestic qualities, devoted to her husband, to her children and to her home. She also possessed business qualifications of a high order, and contributed her full share to the support of their large family. Of a deeply religious nature, she held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and was a consistent Christian woman in all that she said or did. She was left a widow when six of her children were small, but she bravely took up the eburden thus devolving upon her, kept her children together, provided for their necessities, gave them good educational privileges 'and prepared them for life's practical and responsible duties by the advantages which she afforded them and by her own teaching and example. No one well acquainted with both Mr. and Mrs. Pegg should have anything but the highest regard for them on account of their many splendid characteristics, and the children certainly have every reason to honor their name and memory. Elias W. Pegg, their second son and third child, was born in Franklinton, June 17, 1833. His early educational privileges were such as the schools of that day afforded, the school year comprising from two to three months during the winter season. During that brief period he continued his studies and at the age of sixteen years he left home, assuming the responsibility of providing for his own support. He won his father's consent to this move, and his first undertaking was to drive stock eastward across the Alleghanies, making the journey on foot, a distance of about five hundred miles. He received forty cents per day for the time consumed in making the round trip. On the return trip he walked forty miles per day, the remuneration being on an average of about a cent per mile. He afterward began working 338 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. on a farm at ten dollars per month, which he followed for three years. He then entered Westerville College, being about twenty years of age at that time. There he prosecuted his studies until he had prepared himself for teaching. His first and last school was taught in a little log school house in the woods in Norwich township, Franklin county. He received twenty-four dollars per month for his services and boarded around among the parents whose children were students under his instruction. When his first term was ended he rented a farm in Clinton township and operated it for five years, On the 8th of August, 1858, Elias W. Pegg was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Kissinger, a daughter of John and Catherine (DeNune) Kissinger, of Mifflin township. He then purchased a farm of ninety acres which he afterward exchanged for the land upon which he now resides, taking up his abode there March 22, 1862. Farming has since been his principal occupation, and it has been the means of bringing to him a desirable prosperity. By purchase he has added to his possessions from time to time until he now owns two hundred and seventy acres of very valuable land, for some of which he has paid as high as three hundred dollars per acre. Beginning in 1862, for many years he supplied the government with army horses, and he has also been engaged quite extensively in buying and shipping stock. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pegg has been born one child, Elmer Ellsworth, who resides upon his lather's farm. He is a graduate of the Ada (Ohio) College, where he pursued an engineering course, and is also a graduate of Bryant's Commercial College, of Columbus. He possesses superior mathematical attainments and engineering skill. He was married to Miss Ruth Wilcox, and has two children,—Florence W. and Mary. Mr. Pegg gives earnest support to the Republican party, and has served his township as justice of the peace and as trustee, filling both offices for many years. For thirty-five years he has been a member of Capital Lodge No. 334, I. O. O. F., also of Capital Encampment. His long business career has resulted in large financial gains which have been acquire along legitimate business lines, and he is now regarded as one of the sound and substantial men of Franklin county. He is well preserved, both physcially and mentally, having the vigor of a man many years his junior. MONROE J. PEGG. Monroe J. Pegg, the tenth child of Joseph Pegg, deceased, was born in Clinton township, Franklin county, on the old family homestead, January 7, 1848. He received a good common-school education and was thus fitted for the teacher's profession. He experienced all the trials and hardships of pioneer life on a farm in a new locality, having assisted his father in clearing and improving the land which was transformed into the home farm. Not content with the early educational privileges which he had received, he entered Otterbein College, of Westerville, Ohio, where he remained CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 339 for a year and a half. Subsequently he engaged in teaching in the schools of Franklin county through the winter months and in the summer he worked upon the home farm. After his father's death he remained at home with his widowel mother until she, too, was called away, relieving her of the care of her farm and adding to her happiness in her last days by his filial care and devotion. Mr. Pegg was united in marriage to Miss Emma, daughter of J. O. Amos. They began their domestic life on the old family homestead, where they resided until 1682, when they removed to an adjoining farm belonging to his brother, and there they have since resided. Mr. Pegg's landed possessions constituted a tract of sixty acres. Unto our subject and his wife have been born five children, three of whom are. living, namely : Kate, Marguerite and Mary H. The deceased are Violet and one who died unnamed. The mother is a member of the McKendree church. In politics Mr. Pegg is a Democrat, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to devote his time and energies to his business affairs, in which he is meeting with creditable success, being an energetic farmer. WILLIAM WALLACE BICKETT, M. D. Dr. Bickett, who is spending the closing years of a useful life free from business cares at his pleasant home in Perry township, was for many years one of the leading physicians of Franklin county, practicing most of the time in Worthington. He was born on the Richards farm, on the Scioto, in Perry township, November 4, 1835, and is now the only representative of the family living in this county. The Doctor is a twin brother of Ebenezer Erskine Bickett, and a son of James Bickett, who was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1805. The paternal grandfather, William Bickett, was a native of the north of Ireland and a Protestant in religious belief. He was twice married, James being a son by the first union. In his native county the latter was reared to agricultural pursuits, and on coming to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1833, he purchased an unimproved farm of eighty acres' in Perry township, which he at once began to improve, erecting first a primitive log cabin. This place becoming his permanent home, he dying here April 28, 1865. In 1834, he married Miss Sarah Richards (familiarly known as Sallie), who ws born in Perry township, this county, May 14, 1814, and belonged to one of the honored pioneer families of Ohio. Her father, Ebenezer Richards, was born in Massachusetts, May 24, 1773, of Welsh ancestry, and at an early day moved with hi's family to Pennsylvania, where he was married March 22, 1802, to Lois Taylor, who was born February 24, 1784, of English parentage. In 1807 they came to this state and took up their residence on Big Walnut creek, south of Columbus. The following year Mr. Richards bought two hundred acres of land two miles north of Marble Cliff, which has ever since been the homestead of his family. He died October 4, 1839, 340 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. and his wife passed away June 8, 1822. They had seven children: Esther, Zipporah, Lydia, Hiram, Sallie, Nancy and Julius, two of whom died in childhood. Dr. Bickett's father departed this life April 28, 1865, and the mother subsequently made her tome with the Doctor in Worthington, where she died February 25, 1887. As an affectionate and faithful son, he tenderly cared for her during the last twenty-two years of her life. Both parents were devout and active members of the Presbyterian church of Worthington. To this worthy couple were born nine children, seven sons and two daughters, including three pairs of twins, William W. and Ebenezer E. were born November 4, 1835. The latter enlisted in 1861 as a private in Company H, Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and for meritorious conduct was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was later transferred to Company G, the same regiment, with which he served until his death. He participated in many hard-fought engagements, and was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14, 1864, dying from the effects of his injuries at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on, the 27th of June. His remains were brought home and interred in the Ebenezer Richards cemetery. Hiram and John, twins, died in infancy. Andrew J. and Thomas J. were born November 22, 1840, and are veterans of the Civil war. The former, who is now a resident of Bureau county, Illinois, enlisted as a private in Company D, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in July, 1862, and was captured with his regiment at Richmond., Kentucky. After being exchanged he returned to the service in January, 1863, but in June, 1864, he was again captured at Guntown, Mississippi. This time he was incarcerated in Andersonville prison, where he remained until the following December, when he was paroled on account of illness and exchanged. He was mustered out with his regiment at Camp Chase in 1865. At Richmond; Kentucky, he had his right fore finger shot off, and now receives a pension of ten dollars per month. Thomas J., a resident of Barton county, Missouri, entered the service in 1861, also as a private in Company H, Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and took part in all of the engagements in which his regiment participated, being honorably discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, in July, 1865. He was wounded in the shoulder at Pittsburg Landing, and now receives a penison of twelve dollars per month. Julius D., born January 22, 1846, is in the railroad service and resides at Cincinnati. Nancy J., born in 1850, died in May, 1865, at the age of fifteen years. Lois R., born in 1855, was married in 1880 to Frank L. Davies, a railroad man residing in Danville, Illinois, Dr. Bickett, of this review, passed his early life upon the home farm, and attended the district schools of the neighborhood. At the age of twenty- two he entered the Capital University at Columbus, where he was a student for two years, and then engaged in teaching and working on the farm until 1860. The following year he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, remaining there until 1861, when he was made steward at the county infirmary and held that position for two years, at the same time CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 341 attending Starling College. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. John Dawson, and was graduated from J. W. Hamilton's office March 1, 1864. On the 15th and 16th of that month he passed the required examination before the state board of examiners for the army, and was commissioned assistant surgeon, being assigned to the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He joined his regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, April 7, 1864, and was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign. After the fall of that city the regiment returned with General Thomas's army to oppose General Hood, then operating in Tennessee. After participating in the battles of Nashvill and Franklin they were assigned to General Wilson's cavalry corps and took part in the celebrated Wilson raid, which ended at Macon, Georgia, April 21, 1865. There they remained until mustered out the following September. The Doctor's horse was shot under him in the Kilpatrick charge near Lovvejoy Station, Georgia, August 20, 1864, and he was twice struck by bullets in the same engagement, but not disabled. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, September 14, 1865. Upon his return to civil life Dr. Bickett took a trip through the west, and then, in May, 1866, opened an office in Columbus, remaining there until December, when he formed a partnership with Dr. E.. M. Pinney, of Dublin, with whom he was connected for one year. In May, 1868, he located at Worthington, where he was successfully engaged in general practice for twenty-one years. In the fall of 1871 he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, and taking the full course he received a dioloma March 1, 1872. He is still a member of the Central Ohio Medical Society and the Delaware County Medical Society, though he discontinued practice in 1889, when he sold his property in Worthington and moved to his farm in Perry township. He takes yearly trips through different sections of the country, and in 1890 traveled through southern California and Mexico. On the 16th of October, 1866, the Doctor was initiated into the mysteries of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Capital Lodge, No. 334, of Columbus, and in June, 1869, transferred his membership to Ark Lodge, No. 270, of Worthington, from which he took a card in 1892 to become a chareter member of Lincoln Lodge, No. 801, of Columbus. He is also a member of Olentangy Encampment, No. 149, and has represented his district in the grand lodge of Ohio three terms of two years each. He has served as assessor of Perry township several times, and in. 1900 took the government census there. He is widely and favorably known throughout his native county, and is justly deserving the high regard in which he is held. JULIUS ZIRKEL. Among the farmers and gardeners of Marion township, Franklin county, Ohio, the late Julius Zirkel achieved the distinction of having been one of the first growers of strawberries for the Columbus market. Mr. Zirkel was 342 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. born January 18, 1836, on the farm on section 32, Marion township, which is now the home of his widow. He was a son of Otto Zirkel, a native of Prussia, who came when a comparatively young man to Franklin county and settled on the Zirkel farm above referred to. He was later married to Eliza Simmons, who bore him a daughter and a son. The latter, Julius Zirkel, at.the age of seventeen, began the cultivation of strawberries and developed this enterprise into a successful business, which he continued until his death, November 10, 1896. He became well known in his line of business, the "Zirkel berry" having achieved an enviable reputation on the market He enlisted in the army of the north, in the fall of 1864, and served as a soldier until the close of the war of the Rebellion. July 30, 1872, he married Julia D. Frankenberg, who was born within the limits of section 22, Marion township, September 17, 1845, a daughter of Ernest Frankenberg, a native of Hanover, Germany. He came to the United States in 1835 and located in Marion township, where he became known as a farmer and dairyman. His death occurred in 1863,in his seventieth year. He was married in his native land to Amelia Bethje, who lived to be ninety-three years old, and they had three sons and a daughter : Ernest, who is deceased; Adolph W. and Albert H., the latter residing in Columbus. Mrs. Zirkel, the daughter, was the third child in order of birth, and was educated by private teachers. In 1863 Mr. and Mrs. Frankenberg removed to McLean county, Illinois, Where Mr. Frankenberg died in 1864, and his wife remained there until 1868, when she returned to Franklin county and located at Columbus. Otto Zirkel, Julius Zirkel's father, was at one time a colonel in the German army. He commanded a company in the Mexican war, and offered his services to the United States government in 1861, but they were declined because of his age. Otto Zirkel was best known as a physician. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College, and his familiar figure was known far and wide, as he rode on horseback many miles in each direction in his daily visits to his numerous patients. Julius and Julia D. (Frankenberg) Zirkel have had a son and a daughter, Raymond H. and Edna E. Their son is a teller for the Market Exchange Bank at Columbus, Ohio, and their daughter, a graduate of the Columbus high school and the Ohio State Normal School, is a special teacher of German at the Ohio Avenue School, of Columbus. Mrs. Zirkel's farm consists of about forty acres of land, and is considered a productive and valuable property. ALEXANDER NEIL, M. D. In the subject of this review we have one who attained distinction in the line of his profession, who was an earnest and discriminating student, and who held a position of due relative precedence among themedical practitioners of Columbus. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 343 Dr. Neil was born in Delaware county, Ohio, December 21, 1838, a son of Charles and Elizabeth ( Walker) Neil, both of whom were natives of Virginia. The father died in 1882, and the mother October 19, 1894. She was a daughter of John Walker, who served as captain in the Revolutionary war, and died in 1858, at the very advanced age of one hundred and two years. He married Miss Mary Rollins. The ancestors of the Neil family came from England and were among the early settlers along the Arlantic seaboard. The representatives of the family have taken an active part in things pertaining to the political, religious and material development of the section of the country in which they have resided. Dr. Neil, whose name introduces this record, began his education in a private school and there prepared for college, after which he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he completed the course, winning the degree of bachelor of arts in 1858, while later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of master of arts. Upon his graduation he began reading medicine under the direction of George C. Blackman, a professor of surgery in the Medical College of Ohio and a fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons of London, England. Subsequently our subject attended a course of lectures in the Ohio Medical College, and afterward in the College of Medicine and Surgery in Cincinnati, receiving from the latter institution the degree of doctor of medicine in 1861. The country becoming involved in civil war, he joined the Union army at the beginning of the struggle and served as a surgeon until hostilities had ceased and the "boys in blue" no longer needed his services to repair the savages of war. During the latter part of the sanguinary trouble between the north and the south he was on the staff of General P. H. Sheridan as medical purveyor of the valley department. After receiving an honorable discharge he returned to the north and was engaged in the practice of medicine at Sunbury, Ohio, from 1865 until 1870, when he came to Columbus, where he resided until his death, February 14, 1901, after an illness of several months. Here he built up an excellent business. He spent the year 1867 in St. Bartholomew Hospital and in Guy's Hospital, in London, England, and there learned of the methods of medical treatment in use in Great Britain. He was a member of the American Medial Association, also of the State Medical Society, and a life member of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association., In 1878 he was president of the Columbus Academy of Medicine. The profession and public accorded him a position of distinction in connection with his chosen calling. He carried his investigations far and wide into the realms of medical science, and not content with mediocrity he advanced step by step until he left the ranks of the many and stood among the successful few. He is the author of a number of papers published in the current medical journals which awakened widespread attention by reason of their able presentation of subjects of great interest to the entire medical fraternity. On the 5th of September, 1866, Dr. Neil was united in marriage to 344 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Miss Marietta Elliott, a daughter of the Hon. David H. Elliott, of Sunbury, Ohio, and their union was blessed with three children: Camma, the wife of Dr. D. R. Kinsell, Jr.; Dessie, at home; and Goldie, who is a student in Garden's Female Institute in New York city. Dr. Neil held membership in McCoy Post, G. A. R., at Columbus, Ohio, and was a prominent Mason, having become identified with the order in 1864. In his practice he had ample opportunity to exemplify the noble principles which form the basic elements of the craft recognizing the universal brotherhood of man.His loss will be mourned by a very large and distinguished circle of friends. BARNET J. COSGRAY. The industry, patriotism and progressiveness of the Irish race have made its representatives noteworthy wherever they have found home, and Ohio owes much to the Irish element in its population. One of the best known Irish names in Franklin county is that of Cosgray, and one of the most prominent members of the family is Barnet J. Cosgray, a successful farmer of Washington township. The Cosgrays have been known in the Green isle for many generations as people who paid their way, loved liberty and were willing to make sacrifices for their fellow men. Terence Cosgray, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, being a younger son, of noble birth. He was a member of the Episcopal church and married Lady Mary McCowen, a native of Scotland; her people were wealthy and of high social standing and she was a member of the Catholic church. Of their twelve children five were born in Scotland, one was born at sea while the parents were on their way to the United States, and six were born in this country. They settled in Hartford county, Maryland, near Baltimore, and afterward moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and located on a farm near Uniontown on the Monongahela river. Mr. Cosgray died on that farm about 1831, and his wife survived him, dying in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1855, well advanced in life. The following data concerning the children of Terence and Mary (McCowen) Cosgray will be found interesting in this connection: Their eldest son, William, who was a school-teacher and civil engineer, was known as a surveyor in eastern Ohio, and died in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Michael married a Miss Rogers and died at his home in Ross county, Ohio. Frank, who never married, died in Maryland. Sarah died in Washington township, Franklin county, unmarried. James married Elizabeth Bennington and died in Franklin county. Katie married John Foster, a cousin of Governor Foster, of Ohio, and died in Greene county, Pennsylvania. Ignatius married Elizabeth Diamond, a daughter of Captain Diamond, who served in the Revolutionary war under General Lafayette, and died in Greene county, Pennsylvania. Mary became Mrs. Hiram Sweeney and died in Tyler county, West Virginia. Joseph Wheeler was the father of the subject of this sketch CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 345 Barnet died in Washington township. David was the next in order of birth; and John married Elizabeth Morgan and died at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. When Terence Cosgray and his wife and children came to America they were accompanied by his brother, Barnet Cosgray, and Mrs. Cosgray's brother, Francis McCowen. These men both became merchants in America, and Sir Francis McCowen lived for many years in Baltimore, Maryland, and died there. Terence Cosgray's daughter Sarah, an aunt of Barnet J. Cosgray, saw the British troops land at Baltimore, Maryland, in the war of 1812. Joseph W. Cosgray, father of Barnet J. Cosgray, was born October 31, 1810, Clermont Mills, Hartford county, Maryland. He was but a small boy when his parents moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where the lad received a good education. When a young man he came to Perry county, Ohio, where he married Elizabeth Gordon, April 3, 1831. About 1835 he bought and settled on land in Hocking county, Ohio, where he lived about a year. His father-in-law visited him there, and; not liking such a hilly country, induced the young man to go with him to Columbus, whence they journeyed on horseback. Mr. Cosgray bought one hundred and thirty acres of land in Washington township, on which there was no clearing, and built upon it a smallround-log house, which contained one room with a very low log-ceiling. There was plenty of wild game in the woods and water was convenient. Before this cabin was ready the family lived for about a year near the place which has since come to be known as the Gill farm. Mr. Cosgray made all possible haste to clear land and put it under cultivation and he added to his original purchase until he owned two hundred and five acres. He was an influential citizen, active in politics as a Democrat and held many township offices, and he was identified with the Christian church. He died at his home in Washington township February 1, 1888, and his wife died February 12, 1882. Mrs. Cosgray was a daughter of George and Hannah (Hemisphar) Gordon, and was born in Perry county, Ohio, May 14, 1811. Joseph W. and Elizabeth (Gordon) Cosgray had children as follows : Barnet J., who is the immediate subject of this sketch ; George W., who married Elizabeth Gordon; Elizabeth Mary, who is the widow of James Finch, of Washington township; Martha J., who married George L. Geary, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this work; Sarah Catherine, who married Dawson A. Hoskinson, and now lives with her brother Barnet J. ; Charles. W., who died at the age of twenty-one years ; and John A., who married Estell Abaham and was accidentally killed on a railroad. Barnet J. Cosgray was born near Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, October 20, 1832, and was about three years old when his parents: removed to Washington township, Franklin county. His first school-teacher was Lenora Tupper, a lady of first-class ability, who discovered that the boy was fond of study and directed him most efficiently. After he was old enough he was obliged to assist in the farm work at home. He was only nine years old when he began to help his father clear land, and he assisted his father until the latter's death, and when Mr. Cosgray's land was divided among his heirs 22 346 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. he received forty-two acres as his share. In time he bought one hundred and thirty-two acres across the road from the home he had established on the forty-two acres referred to. His fine residence was erected in 1899 and 1900. He is considered one of the leading farmers of the township. Though prominent as a Democrat he is not an office seeker. He is not a member of any church, but is liberal in his support of religious worship. He is not married. He has demonstrated that he is a business man of ability, not only in the management of his own affairs, but also in the settlement of his father's estate, which he accomplished satisfactorily to all concerned. Sarah Catherine Cosgray, daughter of Joseph. W. and Elizabeth (Gordon) Cosgray, was born December 5, 1845, and was married, March 29, 1871, to Dawson A. Hoskinson, a son of ex-Judge George Hoskinson. Mr. Hoskinson was born at Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1844, and was there reared and .educated, spending a part of his youth on a farm near Waynesburg, and finishing his studies at Waynesburg College, where he took a three-years course. Going south during the Rebellion, he, in 1863, entered the employment of the United States government as a laborer and was two months later made a clerk in the commissary department at Nashville, Tennessee, a position which he held fourteen months. He then returned to his old home and was for eight years employed as a salesman in his brother's clothing store. He had previously. visited Franklin county and there married Miss Cosgray, and in 1875 they moved to Washington township from his former home in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and took up their residence with Mrs. Hoskinson's brother, Barnet J. Cosgray. Mr. Hoskinson is an influential Democrat and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have had children as follows : Joseph, who married Ella Emery and lives in Washington township ; Georgiana, who is now traveling in the western states; Adelaide who is a member of her parents' household; and Daisy, who is with her sister Georgiana. DAVID R. VAN SCHOYCK. An influential farmer of Norwich township, David R. Van Schoyck, is widely and favorably known in Franklin county, where his birth occurred August 9, 1852. His father, William Tobias Van Schoyck, was born in Warren county, Ohio, near Cincinnati, February i 1, 1811, and thre remaimed until twelve years of age, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Norwich township, Franklin county. John Van Schoyck, the grandfather, purchased one hundred and seventy-eight acres of heavily timbered land. The men who aided them to move also assisted them in putting up their log cabin; but the top log could not be raised by them alone and they had to call some people who were passing to assist them. The grandfather and his sons cleared the land, plowed the fields and developed an excellent farm. William T. Van Schoyck pursued his education in the subscription schools for a short time, but his privileges in that direction were very limited. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 347 He inherited fifty acres of the home farm from his father. He wedded Elizabeth Weeden, who was born on the Scioto river, in Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Weeden. Her mother was a sister of Colonel Ennis. For several years after their marriage Mr. Van Schoyck resided on the old homestead, and then built a house on his fifty-acre tract, where .he continued throughout his remaining days, devoting his attention to farming. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he was a Republican. This worthy couple were the parents of nine children: Margaret, who became the wife of Alexander Gray and is now deceased. Annie, who has passed away; John, who married Jane McCammel, and died in Franklin county; Nancy; Harriet; Susan, the wife of T. T. Armstrong; Cynthia, deceased; David R.; and Henry, who is deceased. On the old home farm David R. Van Schoyck spent the days of his boyhood and youth, and when not needed to assist in the cultivation of the land he attended school, largely pursuing his studies through the winter months. He became thoroughly familiar with farming in every detail, and after his marriage he operated the home farm. In the second year he erected a dwelling on a part of the land, and through the terms of a will he became the owner of forty-three acres by paying a sum of money to the other heirs, and is now the possessor of a good property. He carries on general farming, and in addition follows the raising of sheep and cattle. He was also a horse breeder and dealer in former years, and in his business affairs he has met with very desirable success. In 1878 occurred the marriage of Mr. Van Schoyck and Miss Mary Hart, a daughter of Van Lear Hart, of Virginia: They became the parents of five children: Ora, who is a member of the Seventeenth Ohio Regiment, and is now serving in the Philippines; Leila, Ira, Harry and Iona. The mother died July 12, 1898, and as she had many warm friends in the community her loss was widely mourned. Mr. Van Schoyck is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hilliard and in his political faith he is a Republican. For eighteen years he served on the school board, and the cause of education found in him a warm friend. He also gives his support to every measure calculated to prove of public benefit. KING A. NORRIS, M. D. One of the busiest and most energetic young professional men of Columbus is Dr. King A. Norris. He was born in Reynoldsburg, Franklin county, July 18, 1871, and is a son of Frederick W. and Nancy (Allen) Norris. His father was a native of the Empire state, but the mother of our subject was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, and was a daughter of B. B. and Maria Allen, who were among the honored pioneer settlers of that locality. The paternal grandfather of bur subject was Thomas Norris, a native of New York of which state his father was one of the early settlers. Mr. Norris, 348 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. the father of our subject, served as a soldier in the Civil war, being a member of the Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. For three years he remained at the front as a loyal defender of the cause represented by the starry banner. When hostilities had ceased and the Confederacy was overthrown he returned to Franklin county, locating on a farm near Reynoldsburg, where he pursued the honorable vocation of an agriculturist. He and his estimable wife are both living and yet reside upon the old homestead. Dr. Norris spent his youth upon the farm and began his education in the district school near by, supplementing his early privileges with a course in the Reynoldsburg high school. Throughout his business career he has been identified with the interests of the state. Coming to Columbus entered the employ of his brother, J. G. Norris, in the capacity of clerk, remaining with the house for five years, on the expiration of which period he began reading 'medicine under the direction of Dr. J. B. Dysart, of Reynoldsburg, and further continued preparation for the profession in the Ohio Medical University, in which he was graduated in April, 1898. Subsequently he spent one year with his former preceptor, Dr. Dysart, and then entered upon an independent practice. In 1900 he went to New York city and pursued a course in the Post-Graduate Medical College. Upon his return he again established an office in Columbus, and' is now enjoying a growing patronage. It has already assumed proportions that many an older member of the fraternity might well envy. In January, 1900, Dr. Norris was united in marriage to Miss Lydia M. Sayre, of the capital city, a daughter of William Sayre: Socially onr subject is connected with Truro Lodge, No. 411, I. O. O. F., and with the Encampment of the I. O. O. F., and Jasper Lodge, Knights of Pythias His residence and office are located at No. 716 Neil avenue. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association, and is the examining physician for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. His earnest desire to attain a high degree of perfection in his chosen calling has led him to study carefully and thoroughly the principles of the medical science and to exercise great care in diagnosing and treating disease. The results that have followed his practice have therefore been commendable, and his skill 'thus demonstrated has secured to him gratifying success. ALEXANDER W. KRUMM. One of the well-known professional men of the city of Columbus, Ohio, is one of her, native son's, Alexander W. Krumm, whose birth occurred here March 12, 1850. His father was Martin Krumm, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, born there in 1812, emigrating to this country in 1832, and dying in Columbus after a long and successful career as a machinist and iron manufacturer. He had come to America with his father and his family The mother of our subject is still living. Her maiden name was Frederika CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 349 Fichtner, and she also was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1820, and Although she reached her eighty-first year, is active in mind and body. Six of her ten children still survive: Martin; Albert ; Alexander W.; Daniel; Flora, the wife of Dr. A. M. Bleile, of the State University; and Louisa A., three having died in infancy, and the eldest, Frederick Krumm, having died in July, 1899. Mr. Krumm, of this review, received his education in the city schools of Columbus, soon afterward entering upon the study of law under the guidance of Messrs. English & Baldwin, two prominent attorneys, constituting one of the leading law firms of this city. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, immediately commencing his practice in partnership with John H. Heitmann, then mayor of the city, and with whom he remained eighteen months. His legal business steadily grew and his friends proclaimed their confidence in his ability by electing him to the office of city solicitor from 1879 to 1883,—two terms. The marriage of Mr. Krumm took place in 1877, to Miss Mary M. Zettler, of Columbus, a daughter of John Zettler, an old and highly respected citizen. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Krumm; Herbert, a cadet at West Point; Benjamin; Thomas; Grace Helen; Nettie Belle; John J., who died in 1887; Alexander W., Jr.; Samuel; James; and Edna Mary. Mr. Krumm has never taken a great interest in politics, the demands of his constantly growing practice having required his undivided attention. He owns and occupies a beautiful residence at No.975 South High street, where his attractive surroundings proclaim his material prosperity and aesthetic taste. EDWARD L. MARION. The family of Marion, of which Edward L. Marion, of section 3, Marion township, Franklin county, Ohio, is a representative, is distinguished as having furnished to this part of the state some of its earliest pioneers and some of its leading citizens in succeeding generations. Edward L. Marion, who was born in what was then Montgomery township, Franklin county, Ohio, August 10, 1847, was the second son and third child in order of birth of Elijah and Adaline (Livingston) Marion, who are referred to more at length in the biographical sketch of Elijah Marion, which appears in these pages. He was reared and educated in his native township and assisted in the management of the old Marion homestead until he was twenty-seven years old. After his marriage he took dharge of the plate and managed it until 1881, when he moved to his present farm in section 3, which consists of eighty-seven and one-half acres and is devoted to general farming. His large and comfortable residence was erected in 1883, of brick, burned for the county infirmary, but which, not being needed, was purchased by Mr. Marion, who gave about three years of his life to building and. finishing this house, which