500 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. years. His wife, Mrs. Sarah Jane Powell, is now living with her son Frank. The other members of the family are Thomas, born in 1854; Annie, who was born in 1856, and died in 1867; Frank E., born May 4, 1858; and Hattie, wife of Frank Hornberger, a switchman in the Pennsylvania yards in Columbus, by whom she .has one child, Herbert. Frank E. Powell acquired: his education in the public schools He worked on his father's farm until twenty years of age, but not wishing to spend his entire life in the fields, he became connected with the railway service as an employe of the Pennsylvania road in the fall of 1883, serving in the capacity of fireman. He held that position until January 13, 1887 when he was made an engineer. For seventeen years he has been connected with the same road, and no higher testimony of his ability and fidelity could be given, for large corporations do not tolerate inefficiency on the part of their employes. He is most careful and painstaking, and the only severe personal injury which he ever sustained. occurred on the 10th of November, 1883, when he was a fireman. A passenger train ran into his engine near Newark, Ohio, on the switch, the disaster being the result of negligence on the part of a switchman. Matthews and Kinney, respectively the engineer and fireman on the passenger train, were :both killed. The engineer with whom Mr. Powell was working was not seriously hurt, but our subject had his hand and arm badly burned and the other hand was scalded, so that he was unfit for duty for two months. On the 5th of October, 1885, Mr. Powell was united in marriage to Miss Mary Flautt, of Columbus. Her grandparents were natives of Belmont county, Ohio, and her parents were Henry and Catherine Flautt, the former born in 'March, 1831, and the latter in March, 1841. They are now residing on their farm two miles from Somerset, Ohio. Their children are Martin and Charles, who are residents of Columbus; Augustus, who is living on the old homestead; Mattie, wife of B. Flowers, of Marion, Indiana; Rader and Dora, at home; and Mrs. Powell. By their marriage our subject and his wife have become the parents of three children, namely: Mary Gertrude, born December 11, 1896; Joseph, born June 11, 1898; and Alfred born February 22, 1900. Mr. Powell has been a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers since 1888, having joined the order in Dennison, Ohio. He has resided in Columbus since 1884, and is now occupying a pleasant and attractive home at No. 165 Hiawatha avenue. The family are members of the Catholic church. G. A. WRIGHT, M. D. Dr. G. A. Wright, who is numbered among the successful medical practitioners of Franklin county and makes, his home in Brice, was born in Madison township on the 9th of February, 1868. His entire life has been passed in this locality, save for the time spent in school. His father, David Wright, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 501 is a prominent farmer of Madison township, and was born in April, 1842. Throughout his entire life he has occupied the farm on which he yet resides, the place comprising one hundred and four acres of rich land, which is highly cultivated. He married Miss Cynthia A. Stevenson, a daughter of Joshua Stevenson ,who was born near Baltimore; Maryland. Mr and Mrs. Wright are the parents of four children : David A., Jonathan A., George A. and Oliver A. The eldest married Miss Nettie Groves, a daughter of James K. Groves, of Truro township: David A. follows farming in Madison township, and by his marriage has become the father of three children : Roy Alvin, Ethel Olive and Carl K. Jonathan A. Wright resides at Thornville, Ohio. He is a Methodist minister and has charge of a church of his denomination at that place. He married Libbie Rathborne. Oliver A. Wright devotes his life to educational work. He acquired his. early educational training in the schools of Madison township, and afterward was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he served as secretary for President Bashford, of that institution. There he won local honors in an oratorical contest in the college, and also won first honors in the state collegiate contest, in which nine colleges of the state were represented. The winning of the first honors at. that time entitled him to the privilege of entering the national contest of colleges which was held at Topeka, Kansas. For two years he was superintendent of the Good Government League at Detroit, and on the expiration of that period he was elected superintendent of schools at Canton, Ohio, where he is now serving most acceptably. Oliver cornpletes the family. He is a young man of twenty-eight years of age. Dr. Wright obtained his early education in the district schools of his native township and completed his literary training by a course in the Reynodsburg Union Academy at Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Subsequently he engaged in teaching in Franklin county for five years.. During that time he prepared for the practice of medicine. He then entered the Ohio Medical College, and upon completing the regular course of that institution was graduated in 1898, since which time he has engaged in practice in Brice, and has already won success that many an older member of the profession might well envy. His knowledge is accurate and broad, and with a just appreciation of the responsibilities which rest upon a physician, he carefully manages his business and his professional efforts have been attended with excellent results. ALBERTUS C. WOLFE, M. D. Professional advancement is proverbially slow, for it depends upon mental acquirement. Wealth and influence count for little or naught in winning success in any of the "learned professions." It must come as the result of individual effort and skill, and therefore if one has gained prestige it is unmistakable evidence of careful preparation and ability. Dr. Wolfe is well known as a worthy representative of the 'medical fraternity, and as 502 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. he is also popular and well known in social circles the record of his life can not fail to prove of interest to many of our readers. The Doctor was born at Linscott, Athens county, Ohio, in 1859, and when two years of age his parents removed to a farm near Bishopville, Ohio. Soon after this his father, John Wolfe, enlisted in the Civil war, entering Company K, Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as orderly sergeant until his ddeath, which occurred at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, November 20, 1863, at the age of thirty-two years. He was born in Athens county, Ohio, and lived there during most of his life. He was the son of George P. Wolfe, who was born in Athens county, Ohio, in 1806, and his entire life was spent there, dying in 1858. The great-grandfather of Dr. Wolfe, George W. Wolfe, who came to the Buckeye state in 1797 from Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the war of 1812, in which he received a wound in the arm, which left him a cripple the remainder of his life. The Doctor's grandmother Wolfe's maiden name was Eliza Wilkins, and his. mother's maiden name was Keziah McDonald. She was a daughter of Thomas McDonald, of Athens county, and a representative of one of the pioneer families of the state. Dr. Wolfe, of this review, was 'but four years old when his father died. His mother, with him and his sister, two years old, were left on a small farm, for which they were partly in debt. Early in life the Doctor saw the sorrows and strife of this life. The mother, a noble, good woman, thus left, managed through much sorrow and a great struggle to pay off the debt on the farm and keep the children together, saving a part of her and the children's pension to 'educate the latter. The Doctor received his preliminary education at a country school near Bishopville, Ohio, and also studied at Athens, Ohio, pursuing a course in the Ohio University at that place. Determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he matriculated in the Columbus Medical College, in which institution he was graduated in 1883. Immediately afterward he opened an office for practice in Jacksonville, Athens county, where he remained until 1891, when he went to New York and took a post-graduate course. He returned to Columbus in January, 1892, where he has since built up a creditable business. His knowledge is comprehensive and exact, and he did not put aside his text-books on leaving the school room, but has continued an earnest, discriminating student, constantly supplementing his knowledge by reading and investigation. He was professor of the diseases of the nose and. throat in the Ohio Medical University for six years, from 1892 until 1898. During this time he was rhimologist and laryngologist to the Protestant Hospital of this which indicates the line of his specialty. He is now laryngologist and rhinologist to Grant Hospital. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, of the State Medical Society and of the American Medical Society, and finds in his association with these organizations an incentive and inspiration for further work. The Doctor was married in Columbus to Miss Fannie Main, a daughter of George Main, now deceased. Her father came to Ohio from Syracuse, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 503 New York, and was for some time employed in the Big Four freight department. Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Harriet Powell, was a native of England. When six years of age she came to America, and is still living, at the age of sixty-three years. She has recently returned from a visit to her native land. The Doctor and his wife have a large circle of friends in Columbus and the hospitality of many of the best homes of the city is extended to them. Socially he is connected with Denison Lodge, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious belief and connection is a Methodist. He has already gained an enviable standing among the medical practitioners of the capital city, and as one of its representatives is worthy of honorable mention in this volume. VALENTINE FITZPATRICK. One of the most prominent representatives of labor unions in America is Valentine Fitzpatrick, who is now serving as third vice grand master of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. He makes his home in Columbus,. occupying a beautiful residence at No. 737 Neil avenue. His birth occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, on the 29th of August, 1864. His father, Valentine Fitzpatrick, was a native of Ireland, born in the year 1840, and having crossed the Atlantic to America he resided for some time in Ohio, but afterward went to Illinois, taking up his abode in Peoria, that state, when the subject of this review was only two years of age. The family afterward went to Pekin, Illinois, but the father spent his last days in Peoria, where he died in 1891, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Fitzpatrick, died in 'Pekin, Illinois, in 1882. Valentine Fitzpatrick went with his parents to Illinois during his infancy and spent much of his childhood in Pekin, that state, acquiring his education in the public schools there. In the year 1879 he entered the railroad service as water boy on a section, and afterward became a brakeman, and in the years 1883-4 he served as station baggagemaster and worked in a freight house. He was a brakeman for two years on a passenger train, and served for a similar period as conductor on a freight train, and was then promoted as passenger conductor, in which. capacity he served for five years. On the 1st of August, 1895, he resigned in order to accept the position of third vice grand master of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, holding that position up to the present time. He has been a delegate to the national convenand is constantly engaged' in organizing lodges and in investigating and adjusting complaints of employes. His work is of an important and responsible nature, and is conducted with keen discrimination and with fairness to all parties concerned. He has thus won the high regard and confidence of employers and employes, and well merits the friendship and respect which is accorded him. Fitzpatrick was married October 10, 1889, to Miss Clara A. Vorys, the wedding being celebrated at No. 195 East Rich street, Columbus. Her 504 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. parents were both natives of Lancaster, Ohio. Her father died March 29, 1895, in the city of Columbus, at the age of sixty-nine years, and her mother Mrs.. Mary E. Vorys, is still living. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick have been born two children : Harold David, born October 1, 1891, and Helen E., born December 5, 1895. Mr. Fitzpatrick and his family are communicants of the Episcopal church. In politics he is non-partisan, giving his support to men and measures that he believes will best contribute to the public good. He is a representative of the Masonic fraternity, having taken •the Knight Templar degree in Columbus Commandery, No. 1, of this city, GARRY W. MEEKER. Biography is not simply a matter of names and dates. Another article in this word details the leading incidents in the life of ex-Mayor Meeker of Columbus, Ohio, and includes genealogical data concerning the ancestors of the subject of this sketch; but no mere mention of the facts that Garry Waldo Meeker was born at Westerville in July, 1859, and other statical information, would adequately tell the story of his active and useful career, which has been a life of achievement. Minerva Park and the Columbus Central Railway are the products of his originality, as they are monuments to his genius, and no sketch of his career that did not contain their history would be complete or acceptable to fair and discriminating readers. This son of Columbus's worthy ex-executive is something more than "the son of his father ;" and his work in behalf of public utility and convenience connot be overlooked. The Columbus Central Railway was brought into being at the instance and largely through the efforts of Garry W. Meeker, in response to a public demand, and Minerva Park was made possible by it; and Mr. Meeker was the, first to suggest it and put in action the chain of events which brought it into being. In August, 1891, a, public meeting was herd in the town hall at Westerville, at which the 'citizens of Westerville and the surrounding country expressed their indignation aroused by the failure of the Cleveland Akron & Coluimbus Railway Company to provide for the transportation, of many of their number to the state fair held at Columbus that year. The company had run its regular train through without stopping, leaving four hundred passengers who had purchased tickets with the expectation of attending the fair, but who were compelled to remain about the station for several hours before any provision' was made by the company to carry them to Columbus. The meeting was largely attended., and Mr. Meeker, who was one of its animating spirits, made a speech in which he suggested and urged the building of an electric railway line between Columbus and Westerville, pointing out the advantages such a line would afford to the community and its entire feasibility; and in. conclusion he moved that a committee and be appointed by the chair to take out articles of incorporation for the construction of such a line as he had indicated. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 505 Thus it will be seen that Mr. Meeker was the originator of this great improvement, and he is deeply interested in its progress ; and at the very out-set, in a most public-spirited way, he took upon himself in large measure the responsibility for its success. The company was incorporated under the style of the Columbus & Westerville Railway Company. Stock subscriptions were solicited and decisive steps were taken toward putting the project on a substantial foundation. Other public meetings were held, at which Mr. Meeker was the leading speaker, and most tellingly advocated the electric railway as a great public improvement and an indispensable public convenience. Later on he associated with himself Colonel M. H. Neil, of Columbus and T. A. Simons, an active business man, and they gave their best efforts and energies to the furtherance of the enterprise. As was to be expected, they encountered numerous difficulties. When all things in their control promised a speedy construction of the road, the panic of 1893 came upon the country. Against great opposition Mr. Meeker and his associates obtained franchises on different avenues and streets of Columbus, the validity of which was tested in the courts of the state. Injunction suits followed, and, after having won in that and other expensive litigation, the promoters of the road wee able to begin the work of construction in June, 1894, and the line was finished to Westerville in August, 1895, four years after Mr. Meeker had suggested it. Mr. Meeker, who had become the secretary and treasurer of the Columbus Central Railway Company, had the honor of running the first electric car into Westerville, August 12, 1895, to the delight and applause of his fellow citizens, who realized fully what a victory he had won over obstruction and discouragement. During the entire period of the promotion and construction of the road he was indefatigable in his efforts to make the enterprise a success. He had appeared frequently before the board of public works in the city council of Columbus and before the board of county commissioners of Franklin county to urge the granting of a franchise to the company, and wrote argumentative and convincing letters to the public press, denouncing hostile opposition to an enterprise of great public utility which it was possible to accomplish only by a persistent fight against many opposing elements. To Mr. Meeker more than to any other man is due credit for the construction of this new and important street railway system in the city of Columbus. Not only was he its original promoter, but it was through his indomitable energy and perseverance that influences were organized and maintained that brought financial aid to a great undertaking which has proven of incalculable benefit to Columbus, to Westerville, to the country all about Westerville, and to that 'between the town and the city. In their efforts to obtain financial aid for the enterprise, Mr. Meeker and his associates were fortunate in securing the co-operation of the late John J. Shipherd, of Cleveland, Ohio, who entered heartily into the spirit of the undertaking and not ibkt made provision for money for the construction of the road, but also 32 506 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. took great pride in the erection of its power house, which is one of the most modern and best equipped in the United States. The road was provided with first-class rolling stock and other material, and experience is proving that the introduction of this first competitive street railway into Columbus has made it one of the foremost and most thoroughly up-to-date street railway cities in the world. Mr. Meeker conceived the idea that a large park for the recreation of the people should be established on the line of the Columbus Central Railway at some point between Columbus and Westerville, and this idea resulted in Minerva Park, which was named in honor of Mrs. Minerva Shipherd, of Cleveland, Ohio, the wife of the first president of the Columbus Central Railway Company. In April, 1892, Mr. Meeker secured from the late Lewis Huffman an option on his farm of two hundred and twenty-seven acres, which he purchased at the expiration of the option, July 27, 1892, paying Mr. Huffman a good price for the land. It is possible that Mr. Huffman did not believe at the time he made a deed of the property that the farm be had tilled and on which he had pastured his .sheep and 'cattle would ever be developed into a beautiful park, with lakes and fountains and all the charms of skillful landscape gardening, in which the people of a big city would seek rest and recreation in all the years to come. The location is an ideal one, however, and it was not long 'before Mr. Meeker and his associates began work preliminary to the construction of the park by removing stumps, logs, brush and everything else that encumbered the land. They began pernanent improvements in 1894, and in 1895. the park was completed, with a beautiful casino building, a water-works system and an electric lighting system, beds of flowers, fountains, rustic bridges and every improvement and auxiliary necessary to the comfort and pleasure of the people. The casino was burned late in 1895; but through the enterprise of George H. Worthington a new casino was erected in 1896, one of the largest in the country. With a seating capacity of two thousand, in which drama, opera and vaudeville are presented during the summer months to thousands of visitors. An innovation in 1896 was an independent 'electric plant. The whole story of Mr. Meeker's work in the way of public improvement has not yet been told. In 1895 he bought the old Westerville fair grounds at Westerville, and began at once to improve them after the most modern fashion, constructing a fine race track, introducing a water-works system, erecting a large grand stand and making other improvements, and renaming the place, which has since been known as the Llewellyn Driving Park. The grand 'stand has since been destroyed by fire. Mr. Meeker is the senior member in the firm of Meeker Brothers, investment bankers and brokers, whose general offices are at Columbus. He has at different times been interested in other enterprises, and has filled public offices of trust and responsibility, but the great public improvements which have been mentioned are of such paramount importance that they constitute a monument to his CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 507 enterprise and public spirit more to be prized than any ordinary business or official triumph. Mr. Meeker's country seat, just north of Westerville, is one of the most beautiful in central Ohio. LIEUTENANT H. WARREN PHELPS. The well-known and prominent citizen of Blendon, Franklin county, Ohio, whose name is above, was born in Blendon township, this county, on the old Phelps homestead, three miles south. of Westerville, May 5, 1839. Homer Moore Phelps, his father, was born on the same farm, February 9, 1812, and spent his life there as a farmer and stock dealer. Homer Moore Phelps was a successful business man, who was held in such high esteem for his judgment that he was adviser to his neighbors in many, of the practical affairs of life. He was treasurer of the old plank road company, in 1853-4, and was in one way and another connected with other public improvemovements. He was a respecter of churches, but not a member of any church, and was a leader among local Whigs and later among Republicans. He was for twelve years justice of the peace and for several years town trustee. A self-educated man of wide reading, he was especially well informed on all subjects relating to history, ancient or modern. He died June 1, 1883. His home was always a welcome place for ministers of all churches. Edward and Azubah (Moore) Phelps were the parents of Homer Moore Phelps and the grandparents in the paternal line of H. Warren. Phelps. Edward Phelps was born at Windsor, Connecticut, August 27, 1759. He was brought up to the life of a farmer and pursued that career at Windsor until 1805. He married Azubah Moore May 6, 1789. With Isaac Griswold and others he made a horseback journey through the wilderness to Granville, Ohio, in 1805, following an Indian trail to a point on Alum creek four miles and a half east of Worthington, where he bought from Aaron Ogdon five hundred acres of land which is now three miles south of Westerville. His ancestry in the paternal line, tracing toward the past, were Timothy, Cornelius, Lieutenant Timothy and William Phelps, who was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635, coming from Tewkesbury, England, in 1630, on the ship Mary and John, and settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Edward Phelps was the first actual settler in Blendon township. He made some few improvements looking to early residence on the place, and went back to Connecticut for his family. They left their old home June 24, traveling by wagon drawn by oxen, and arrived at their new home August 23, 1806. When Mr, Phelps and his companions had come out the previous year they had blazed trees to serve as guides to future travelers, and in places it was necessary for Mr. Phelps to cut out a road in advance if his wagon. For his five-hundred-acre farm in what is now Blendon township Mr. Phelps paid seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. 508 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. It had been granted to Aaron Ogdon in 1800 by President Adams for military services. Later Mr. Phelps bought two hundred and fifty acres more land two miles north of his first purchase, where his son Edward, and daughter Chloe, who married Menzes Gillespie, settled. He was a successful man for those days, and his advice was sought by his neighboring pioneers in many matters of importance. Azubah Moore, who became his wife, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, February 13, 1765. She was baptized a member of the Christian church in Alum creek in 1843, and died October 18, 1849, aged eighty-four years. Their cabin was built on the north side of the toad now leading east from Worthington, and. three-fourths of a milemile west of Alum creek. She and her husband kept "open house," and religious meetings were held in their house and barn in the pioneer clays. Mr. Phelps, built a frame barn in 1808, which was one of the first buildings of the kind in the neighborhood. Edward and Azubah (Moore) Phelps brought six children with them to Ohio : Edward., aged sixteen years ; Abram, aged fifteen years; Azubath, aged twelve years; Lucinda, aged nine years; Chloe, aged seven years; and William, aged four years. Azubah was never married. She had a good education, was a great reader, and was a very useful member of the pioneer society and of the community during her life. She had a wonderful memory and much of the history of the township's early settlement was related by her to her nephew and written down in 1859. She died April 14, 1860. Their youngest son, Homer Moore Phelps, was born after they came to Ohio. Isaac and Ursula (Clark) Griswold and their two children, Isaac Mortimer and Edwin, and Ethan Palmer and Salina Griswold came with them, the party numbering fourteen souls all told. Miss Salina Griswold taught the first school in Blendon township in 1809 and taught several terms later. Mr. Griswold bought a farm of two hundred and fifty acres adjoining Mr. Phelps's place. Mr. Phelps died August 10, 1840. Homer Moore Phelps married Elizabeth Graham Connelly, a daughter of Edward and Mary (Graham) Connelly, who was born at Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1811, and came to Columbus in 1833 with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Connelly were both natives of Ireland and came to America before they were married. Miss Mary Graham was a daughter of Rev. William Graham, who was born at Paisley, Scotland, and was sent to Ireland as a missionary, and in 1789 was sent to America as a missionary by Rev. John Wesley. He died while on the voyage. His widow (Catherine Thompson) with eight children were safely landed and went to Christine, Maryland, where she died three weeks afterward, The children were cared for by bishops of the Methodist church. Mary was reared in the family of Jacob Boehm, of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, and there married Mr. Connelly, who was a farmer and shoemaker. On coming to Ohio they located ten miles north of Columbus, where they lived out their days. Homer Moore Phelps and Elizabeth Graham Connelly were married January 14, 1835. Mrs. Phelps died August 12, 1899, aged eighty-eight years. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 509 She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from the time she was sixteen years of age,—seventy-two years,—and was a consistent Christian worker. Her children revere her memory. Edward and Mary Connelly, her parents, were life-long Methodists, although Mr. Connelly's parents, Henry and Rosanna (Moss) Connelly, were Scotch Presbyterians. Mrs. Phelps left three children : Fredonia C. wife of Francis B. Dean, a farmer er of Mifflin township, Franklin county; H. Warren; and Edward Clinton, who is engaged in the real-estate business in Chicago, Illinois. He married Ella Louise Stanley, of Columbus, Ohio, September 2, 1891. She was a daughter of Edward Stanley, Sr. H. Warren Phelps was reared on the home farm .and educated in the public schools, and remained at home until he was twenty-three years old. August 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He was at once promoted to be first sergeant and was mustered into service with that rank. December 5 following he was made second. lieutenant, and on the last day of the same month he was made first lieutenant. He took part in the fighting at Richmond, Kentucky, the siege of Vicksburg, and in minor engagements, and participated in a ten months campaign through southern Tennessee and Mississippi. After that he took part in the operations against Sterling Price and Jeff. Thompson in Arkansas and Missouri, September x to November 16, 1864, and saw some service in Kansas under General A. J. Smith. He returned to St. Louis, Missouri, November 16, 1864, after marching eleven hundred miles, and went south with his command to Nashville, Tennessee, was in battles there, and went thence to New Orleans, and thence to Mobile. He was present at the siege of Spanish Fort, March 24 to April 9, 1865, thence he marched back to Vicksburg. He saw some other service and was mustered out August 19, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. At the close of the war he returned home and. engaged in farming and stock raising. He drifted into stock dealing as a distinctive business and followed it with success until 1896, when he moved to Westerville to educate his chillren. In 1900 the family removed to Columbus. January 1, 1868, Mr. Phelps married Miss Louise M. Clarke, a native of Blendon township, and. a daughter of George B. and Mindwell E. (Griswold) Clarke, and granddaughter of Isaac and Ursula (Clark) Griswold, pioneers of Blendon. Miss Louise M. Clarke was a school teacher for several years. She has been an active worker in Soldiers Aid and Woman's Relief Corps societies, holding prominent offices. George B. Clarke and wife were natives of Blendon township, and spent the greater part of their lives here. H. Warren and. Louise (Clarke) Phelps have had six children. Their eldest son, George H., was born December 23, 1868, and died in his thirty-first year, October 23, 1.899. He received his education in this township and took a business course at Columbus. He was employed for a year as a stenographer by a wholesale house in Columbus, and after that was for a year and eight months with the general manager of the Moline 510 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Plow Company, at Kansas City, Missouri. He was later employed by the Armour Packing Company, in that city, but was obliged to give up his position on account of overwork. In 1895 he was employed in the home office of the Milwaukee Harvester Company,- at Milwaukee, Wissonsin, and was and afterward given charge of its collections in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Oklahoma. Some idea of the extent of his duties is afforded by the fact that he had seven clerks working under him. His sudden death, October 28, 1899, after only two days' illness, cut short a career which was full of brilliant promise. He was united in marriage with Miss Bertha E., Swickard, a daughter of Shannon and Anna S. Swickard, of Montrose, Colorado, at Chicago, Illinois, September 28, 1893. A daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 22, 1899. He left property worth seven thousand dollars, his own savings: Rolland C. Phelps, next in order of birth of the children of H. Warren and Louise (Clarke) Phelps is a farmer and sawmill proprietor and creamery butter maker in Blenden township. January 26, 1898, he was united in marriage with Miss Elva M. Carpenter, of Plain township. Dwight is a successful basiness man and farmer in the same township, having many of the characteristics of his grandfather Phelps. Grace C. is a teacher in the high school at Columbus, Ohio. Mary Louise is a stenographer at Columbus, Ohio, and Homer M., is a student at Columbus. Mr. Phelps is an active and influential Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the Grand Army of the Republic, being a comrade in James Price Post, No. 50, G. A. R., of Westerville, Franklin county, and a member of Encampment No. 35, U. V. L., of Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was a delegate to. the World's Congress of Farmers at Chicago, Illinois, at the time of the World's Fair, in October, 1893. He has been statistical agricultural reporter to the department of agriculture for many years, also reporter to the weather bureau. He is the president of the Phelps, Griswold, Moore and Meacham Pioneer Families' Association, which holds annual reunions on the fourth Thursday in. August. Mrs. Louise M. Phelps is the secretary of the association. He has been engaged for a number of years in tracing genealogical records of the families of his ancestors, and has succeeded in locating the place of birth of his ancestors in the sixteenth century. FREDERICK HALDY. One of the substantial and. most respected citizens of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, was Frederick Haldy, who resides upon a fine farm of one hundred and ninety-eight acres a half mile from the limits of the city of Columbus. He was a resident here from 1862 until his death. He was born in Germany January 19, 1819, a son of Lewis and Henrietta Haldy, the former a native of France, the latter of Germany. They never came to America, and they reared a family of eight children in their old home CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 511 in Germany, our subject being the fifth in order, of birth: He attended school until his fifteenth year, after which he learned the trades of jeweler and watchmaker, working at those occupations until his emigration to America, in 1849. For three years thereafter he followed these trades in New York city, and then came to Columbus; here finding plenty of work in his line. in 1862 he removed to his final location and engaged in general farming until 1896, when he retired from the active duties of life. Before coming to America Mr. Haldy was married to Miss Louisa Lindemann, a native of Germany. She was born February 4, 1824, and was the third child of Lewis and Jacobine (Lang) Lindemann. She remained in her old home until one year after the departure of her husband, reaching the United States in 185o, accompanied by her mother, who lived to be seventy-seven years of age. Six children. were born to Mr. and Mrs. Haldy : Frederick, a jeweler in Cleveland; Charles W., a farmer on the old homestead; Louisa, deceased; Lewis, a farmer in Delaware county, Ohio ; Matilda S., wife of Clinton Alspach, a teacher near Columbus, Ohio; and Emma, wife of O. W. Scott, a farmer of Franklin township. The four last named were born in America. Mr. Haldy was a very prosperous man, bringing with: him to this country the habits of thrift and economy learned in his native land. He accumulated much property in very desirable locality, near the heart of the city of Columbus, erected three houses .and earned the ease and comfort which he in later years and his estimable wife still enjoy. He was a consistent member of the Evangelical church, and was most highly, regarled by his neighbors. He died on July 2, 1901, at 8 A. M., from old age. Mrs. Haldy, surviving, is also a member of the Evangelical church. EDWARD B. THOMAS. As one of the capable attorneys of Columbus and as a representative of several of the most distinguished pioneer families of Ohio, Edward Barton Thomas certainly deserves representation in this volume. He was born in 1861, in Wheeling, Virginia, now West Virginia, a son of Llewellyn Griffith Thomas, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1837. When a young man he went into business in Wheeling, West Virginia. He devoted his life mainly to literary work and travel, at one time spending three years in making a trip around' the world. His death occurred in Wheeling in 1894. His wife bore the maiden name of Angeline Barton, and was a daughter of Thomas J. and Elizabeth (Delp) Barton, of Belmont county, Ohio. The Bartons were Quaker People who resided near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but the family were represented in the Revolutionary war by a Captain Barton. After the independence of the nation was achieved representatives of the name became pioneer settlers of Ohio. Edward Thomas, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Wales, and in 182o came to Ohio. This was about .the time coal was first 512 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. shipped down the Ohio river, and he became connected in business Jacob Heatherington, the pioneer coal shipper. This commodity was down the river on flatboats, and in the conduct of the enterprise Mr. Thomas became a wealthy man. His last years were spent in quiet retirement upon a large farm which he purchased in Belmont county, and there he died in 1872, when more than seventy years of age, one of the most highly respected citizens of the community. He married Miss Catherine Clark, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zane) Clark, the former a relative of General George Rogers Clark. His wife was a daughter of Daniel Zane and a sister of Colonel Ebenezer Zane. Her father was ascended from French Huguenot ancestry, and on emigrating from France to America located in Charleston, South Carolina, whence he made his way to the Shenandoah valley and later to Wheeling. He was the first settler there, locating a farm in the midst of the forest, upon the site of the former capital of .West Virginia. HIs descendants owned all the land there. Colonel Ebenezer Zane built the first road in Ohio, and the city of Zanesville was named in honor of his brother Jonathan. The bravery of Elizabeth Zane .during the Revolutionary war is a matter of 'history. She was a young lady of eighteen, and had just returned from school in Philadelphia to her home in Wheeling. The place was attacked by a band of Indians under command of some British. The settlers had taken refuge in the fort, near which stood a block-house in which the ammunition was stored. During the attack the soldiers discovered that their supply of powder was almost exhausted, and Elizabeth Zane volunteered to secure a keg from the block-house, saying that none of the men could be spared from the fort. At her utmost speed she ran to the place, and the Indians were so surprised that not a shot was fired, but as she, returned with her keg of powder a hail of bullets followed her, several piercing her garments. The dress Which she wore, with its bullet holes, is still preservedand has been seen by the subject of this review. Mr. Thomas may certainly be proud of the pioneer history of his ancestors and the part which they took in reclaiming the state of Ohio for purposes of civilization. He was educated in Wheeling, also pursued a college course, and on leaving the latter institution began teaching in country schools in West Virginia, in 1878. He afterward engaged in high-school teaching in Belmont county, Ohio. Next he accepted the superintendency of the schools at Clarington, Ohio, where he remained until 1888, when he became principal of the schools of Woodsfield. While thus engaged he took up the study of law in the office of Spriggs & Sons, and later pursued his reading under the direction of W. F. Hunter, now dean of the Ohio State Law School. Mr. Thomas also studied for a time under Lorenzo Danford, a member of congress from Belmont county. In 1891 he was admitted to the bar at Columbus, and, has since engaged in practice in this city. Mr. Thomas was married in Woodsfield to Miss Sinclair, a daughter of Dr. Western Sinclair, of the same place, formerly a probate judge. Shs is of Scotch-Irish descent. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have been born four CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 513 chidren: Edward Sinclair, Jacob Clark, George Alfred and Elizabeth Zane. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Ohio Society of Sons of the American Revolution, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Benevolent and Protectove Order of Elks, is a past grand in the Odd Fellows lodge, has been a representative to the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and is one of the leading officers and the state lecturer for the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics he is also a recognized leader in Democratic circles, and his opinions carry weight in the councils of his party in the city and county. He is a man of strong mentality, of keen analytical power and has won prestige at referred to. JAMES HENRY DANIELL. The story of an eventful life is always interesting, and the story of one who has been a pioneer and a soldier possesses peculiar value because it not only sheds light upon 'history but incites to progress and to patriotism. The history of the life of the late James Henry Daniell, of Norwich township, Franklin county, is such an interesting biographical story. as has been referred to. Mr. Daniell was of English descent. His grandfather, James Daniell, passed all his life in Cornwall, England, and his son James, the father of James H., was born in the town of St. Agnes, Cornwall, in 1805, and came to the United States when about thirty-two years of age', bringing with him his wife and only child. He found employment in the mines of West Virginia, and afterward was a mine superintendent in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. In 1841 he abandoned coalmining for a time and turned his attention to lead mining in Wisconsin. In 1845 he returned to Schuylkill county in the Keystone state, where he resumed his place as a mine superintendent and prosecuted the duties connected with that position with success, being paid twelve hundred dollars a year, and was. offered fourteen hundred dollars a year if he would relinquish a plan he had formed to go to California and dig for gold, and remain in Pennsylvania and direct the coalproducing interests of his employers. But the gold fever was upon him, and, accompanied by four of his sons, he set out for California, and, going by the way of the isthmus of Panama, he arrived at San Francisco March 17, 1855. Not long afterward he died, at a mining camp known as Whisky Town, and 'he was buried at Shasta, in the northern part of California. His wife, who had come with him from England, died. at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1847. His second wife was by maiden name Annikiah Lathiane, who remained in Pennsylvania with their family when he went to California and died near Pottsville. By his first wife his children were Mary Ann, deceased; James, a resident of California; James Henry, James Francis, James John, James John and James Mark. By his second marriage his children were James Mark (2d), James Samuel, James George (deceased), and James George (2d), who lives at Steelton, Pennsylvania. 514 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. James Henry Daniell was born at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1835, and was educated in the public schools of that city. When he was about twenty years old he went to California, with his father and three brothers. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Regiment of California Volunteer Infantry, with which he served continously until honorably discharged in New Mexico, November 27, 1864. Immediately thereafter he started upon a walk of seventeen hundred miles across the plains to Kansas City, Missouri, and from there he proceeded by public conveyances to his old home in. Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Thee he took up the work of a blacksmith, from which he at length drifted into their occupations. In September, 1865, he was married, in Schuylkill county, to Miss Sarah Burnish, a daughter of John Burnish, who with others erected the first mill at Pottsville. In 1868, with his wife and child, he went to Wisconsin, with the intention of settling there, but did not like the country and returned to Pennsylvania, whence he soon went to Lynchburg, Virginia. Returning again to Pennsylvania, he lived at Allentown from 1872 to December, 1875. Later he was a resident for a time at Hamburg, same state. Subsequently he was employed in a rail-mill in Wyoming territory for two years, until the company owning it was ready to put in operation mill at Topeka, Kansas, when he was transferred to that point and was employed there until the mill was destroyed by fire a few months later. He was next sent by the same corporation to Columbus, Ohio, where he renaubed from 1881 to 1891, when he was obliged to retire from his old occupation on account of a failure of his eyesight, which had been coming upon him gradually until it became complete, the result of a sunstroke received while in service as a soldier in the Civil war. He died in 1901 and was buried under the honors of the Grand Army of the Republic. He had always been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. James Henry and Sarah (Burnish) Daniell had children named as follows : James H., who married Mary Redman, of Wisconsin; Sarah, who married Matthew William Knick; James' John, who died in boyhood; Mary Eleanor, who became the wife of John Falwell; James Francis, a resident of Columbus; James John (2d), deceased ; James William, also decceased; and James Samuel, who is still a member of his father's household. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Daniell was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic an.d was held in peculiar regard by his comrades because of the sad affliction of which he was a victim. He learned much by observation during the active and eventful years of his life and was a man of wide and accurate information. WILLIAM WALL. The name of the late William Wall has been perpetuated in that of Wall street, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Wall was born at Clommell, county Tipperary Ireland, in 1827, and died at Columbus in December, 1899, aged seventy- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 515 two years. He came to America in 1852 and located at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1855 he located at Columbus, Ohio, where, in 1856, he married Miss Bridget Dowlan, a native of Kings county, Ireland, who came to the Ohio capital city in 1853. Immediately after his arrival he engaged in business and was very successful for twenty years. In 1876 he turned his attention to real estate and bought much valuable property centrally located on State, Front, Wall and. near-by streets. As a Democrat he devoted himself to public affairs. For two terms he filled the office of councilman and after that he filled the office of county commissioner of Franklin county for eight years, during which time he was president of the county board. It was under jos administration that the courthouse, the county infirmary, the west side water-works building and the Broad street bridge were erected and he was instrumental in pushing forward other needed improvements. He was one of the first men appointed on the board of public works and served as a member of that body for four years. His distinguishing characteristics were energy, industry and generosity and his public spirit was always in evidence, and he took the greatest interest in Columbus and all its institutions. Before his death lie gave twenty-one acres and a house to Saint Mary's Academy, and he donated money in considerable sums to the orphans' home and to each hospital in the city. It may be truthfully said of him that in all his life he never turned away a deserving applicant for charity. He was a member of the congregation of St. Joseph's cathedral, but gave to churches of all denominitiations with equal liberality. For more than forty years Mr. and Mrs. Wall lived in the same block in Columbus in which she now has. her home. Miss Margaret L. Kelly, Mrs. Wall's niece, was in her 'childhood adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wall, and is at this time a member of Mrs. Wall's household. HENRY ARCHER WILLIAMS: The bench and bar of Columbus, Ohio, have tong sustained an enviable reputation for everything that makes for integrity in legal and judicial procedure. As the profession of any county cannot be higher than the average character of its representatives, it is obvious that Franklin county has been peculiarly fortunate in the personnel of those who have administered the law therein. One of the best known of the younger lawyers at Columbus is Henry Archer Williams, who was graduated at Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1885, after which he read law under the preceptorship of Governor Foraker and was admitted to. the bar in October, 1887. His primary education was received in the public schools at Springfield, Ohio, at Which he was graduated in 1881. Mr. Williams was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 4, 1864, a son of Rev. Charles Holliday Williams. a native of Pulaski county, Kentucky, who died at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Rev. Charles Holliday Williams married Harriet Langdon, a daughter of James D. Langdon, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 516 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. who in 1806, at the age of fourteen, came with his widowed mother from New England to Hamilton county, Ohio. The first Langdon in America was Lieutenant Paul Langdon, of the English navy, who settled in Massachisetts in 1630; and Governor Langdon, of New Hampshire, who in his official capacity signed his name to the constitution of the United States, was of the same family. James D. Langdon died in Cincinnati, in. 1887, on a homestead which stood on the same land which came into possession of members of the family early in the nineteenth century. Henry Archer Williams' father and grandfather came to Ohio from Virginia. One of his great-grandfathers, William Hamilton, espoused the patriot cause in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Williams began the practice of his profession in the office of Governor Foraker, at Columbus, Ohio, and filled the office of commission Clerk until 1890. Since then he has given his attention entirely to the law, and has been so successful that he has acquired a large and lucrative practice, As a Republican he has wielded a recognized influence in state and local politics, and was the chairman of the Republican county executive committee in 1898 and in 1899. He was assistant prosecuting attorney from March 1895, to March, 1898, under Prosecuting Attorney Dyer, who is now his law partner. He is a member of the Greek-letter college fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, and is the chairman 'of the national board of trustees of the America Insurance Union, a fraternal and insurance society, with headquarters at Columbus. Mr. Williams married Miss Elizabeth Thomas, a daughter of Wesley Thomas, of Springfield, Ohio, a prominent citizen of that place, who died there many years ago, and they have two sons,—Morris Holliday and Langdon Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Eastwood Congregational church and Mr. Williams is a generous supporter of its interests. He is a man of much public spirit, who has shown. in many ways that his interest in the welfare and prosperity of his fellow citizens is deep and abiding His influence has always been exerted in behalf of movements for the advancement of public interests which have appealed to him as promising good results and being worthy of his advocacy and support. EDMUND EARL SHEDD. The history of a state as well as that of a nation is chiefly the chronicle of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society. The world judges the character of a community by that of its representative citizens, and yields its tributes of admiration and respect for the genius, learning or virtues of those whose works, and actions constitute the record of a state's prosperity and pride; and it is their character, as exemplifled in probity and benevolence, kindly virtues and integrity in the affairs of life, which ever afford worthy examples for emulation and valuable lessons of incentive. To a student of biography there is nothing more interesting than to CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 517 examine the life history of a. self-made man and to detect the elements of character which have enabled him to pass on the highway of life many of the companions of his youth who at the outset of their careers were more advantageously equipped or endowed. The subject of this review has through his own exertions attained an honorable position. and marked prestige among the representative men of the west, and with signal consistency it may be said that he is the architect of his own fortunes and one whose success amply justifies the application of the somewhat hackneyed but most expressive title, "a self-made man." Edmund Earl Shedd, Sr., was born upon a farm in the town of Bethel, Vermont, July 16, 1828, and is a son of Abijah and Sophia (Blood) Shedd, both of whom were natives of Hollis, New Hampshire. The Shedds are of English lineage and the family was founded in America by Daniel Shed, who came from England to the new world about the year 1645, taking up his residence in Braintree, Massachusetts. Oliver Shed, the great-grandfather of our subject, was one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war. Abijah Shedd, the grandfather, was a native of Massachusetts and married Joanna Farley in 1792. Her father was Ebenezer Farley, a soldier who belonged to the minute men and took part in the battle of Lexington, one of the opening engagements of the war which brought independence to the nation. In the county of his nativity, Edmund E. Shedd pursued his education, his elementary course being obtained in .a common school. In 1846 he removed westward, locating in Columbus, Ohio, where he was soon employed in the capacity of clerk in the wholesale grocery store owned by J. W. B. Brooks. His time was thus spent Until 1855, when, with capital he had acquired through his own industry and economy, he began business on his own account, forming a partnership With Isaac Eberly, under the firm name of Eberly & Shedd. On the present Site of the Great. Southern Hotel they opened a wholesale grocery. which was, successfully conducted until 1870, at which time the stock was divided and the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Shedd continued in the jobbing grocery business in a building on High street, in what is now the Odd Fellows block, remaining there until 1893, when he built his. present substantial business block at Nos. 225 and 227 North Front street. This. structure is sixty-two and a half by one hundred and eighty-seven feet and four stories in height with basement, especially adapted to the requirements of the jobbing grocery business. The entire building is used in the business, which was carried on under the name of E. E. Shedd & Sons, the senior partner having admitted his sons to an interest in. the enterprise. This business was incorporated in 1901 and is now known as the E. E. Shedd Mercantile Company. They carry a large and varied stock and have upon the road a. number of traveling salesmen who carry their goods into all sections of Ohio. Their trade has constantly increased in volume and importance until it has, now. assumed extensive proportions, and the E. E. Shedd Mercantile Company is; widely known 518 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, and enjoys an unassailable reputation on. account of the quality of its goods and the reliability of its business methods. In 1852 Edmund E. Shedd was united in marriage to Aurelia Edna Thompson, .of London, Madison county, Ohio, a daughter of James Macmillan Thompson. The following named children have been born of their union: Virginia S. is the wife of Colonel Orlando J. Hodge, of Cleveland, Ohio; Franklin James, who is a member of the firm of Shedd & Frisbie, dealers in mortgages and loans in Columbus. He married. Anne, the daughter of Charles H. Frisbie, of Columbus, Ohio; Flora is deceased; Edmund E., Jr., married Miss Ella Lansing, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Frederick married Agnes, the daughter of Joseph A. Jeffrey, of Columbus, Ohio; Harry is deceased; and Carlos. Butler completes the family. Earl, Frederick are Carlos are in. business with their father. The father belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his sons, Franklin and Frederic, are thirty-second-degree Masons. They have been provided with excellent educational privileges, thus fitting them for life's practical and responsible duties, for Mr. Shedd believes that money !spent in gaining knowledge is well spent. In politics he is a stalwart Republican and earnestly advocates the principles of the party, yet has never been an office-seeker. If one will seek in his career the causes that have led to his success they will be found along the lines of well tried and old-time maxims. Honesty and fair-dealing, promptness, truthfulness, fidelity,--all these are Strictly enforced and adhered to. Faithfulness on the part of employes is promoted by the knowledge that good services means advancement as opportunity opens and is further enhanced by the interest taken by the employer in the personal welfare of the deserving. In manner Mr. Shedd is courteous and cordial and the circle of his friends in Columbus, where he has so long make his home; is almost co-extensive with the circle of his acquaintances. NEWTON H. MAUK. Newton H. Mauk, who is serving as conductor on the Panhandle Railroad and is a resident of Columbus, was born January 11, 1848, on a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio. His father, Michael Mauk, was an agriculturist and engaged in the tilling of the soil throughout the greater part of his active business career. He and his wife were natives of Virginia, born in Winchester, Frederick county. They removed from the Old Dominion to a farm near Zanesville, Ohio, and they spent their last days in Columbia City, Indiana. However, in 1860, they removed from their farm in Fairfield county to Kirkersville Station on the Panhandle and Ohio Central Railroads, where the father filled the position of station agent for seven years. He died in Columbia City, Indiana, in 1883, and his wife survived him about three . years, passing away in the same place. Eliza, one of the daughters of the family, married Aaron Kagey and resides at Ottawa, Illinois; Amanda is the wife of Elijah. Warner, and they are also residents of Illinois; Mar- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 519 garet is the wife of Jacob Bryant, who makes his home in California; Sidney married Henry Yontz and their home is in Columbia City, Indiana; Lucy married a Mr. Decona, a banker of Harrisonville, Missouri, but she is now deceased; William, the eldest brother, resides on a farm at Westerville; Marshall died in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1882; Jacob was a soldier in the Civil war, serving under command of Colonel Lage, and after being captured was taken to the prison at Andersonville, Georgia; Francis M. is a passenger conductor on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad and resides at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Mauk, of this review, spent his early boyhood days on the home farm and was a lad of twelve years when his parents removed to Kirkersville. The public schools afforded him his educational privileges. On the 24th of November, 1881, in Dennison; .Ohio, he was married to Julia A. Taylor. On the 26th of November, 1887, he entered the railway service as a brakeman on a freight train on the Panhandle line, but previous to that time, 1869, he had been in the employ of that company. After a year spent in the capacity of brakeman he was promoted to a conductor on a freight: He afterward left that road and spent. five years in the railway service in the west. He then returned and accepted his old position with the Panhandle Company and is now serving in that capacity. He has resided in Columbus since the 16th of August, 1891, and has a pleasant home. at No. 157 North Twenty-second street. He became a member of Hollingsworth Division, No. 100, of the Order of Railway Conductors of Columbus in 1886, and for fifteen years has been a member of the Excelsior Lodge, No. 145, Odd Fellows. His wife holds membership in the Eastwood Congregational church, and Mr. Mauk exercises his right of franchise in support of tje men and measures of the Republican party. LUTHER PIERCE STEPHENS. One of the best known newspaper and business men of Columbus, Ohio, is Luther Pierce Stephens, Originator of the Columbus, New Albany & Johnstown Railway now in course of construction, and when completed will be an important achievement of its kind. Mr. Stephens is a Virginian by birth and is forty-Seven years old. He is a son of Calvin M. B. Stephens, of Stephens City, Frederick county, Virginia, who died there in 1862 and whose ancestors, some of whom fought for American independence in the Revolutionary war, were early settlers in the Old Dominion. Mr. Stephens' mother was Rebecca Jane Pelter, daughter of the Rev. George Pelter, of the Methodist Episcopal church, who came of an old Winchester, Virginia, family and was long prominent there in religious work. A good portion of Mr. Stephens' boyhood was spent amid exciting scenes and incidents of the Civil war. He was for a time a student at Stonewall Academy. In 1868 he came to Columbus, where as a compositor and other- 520 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. wise he acquired a practical knowledge of printing and developed into a general newspaper writer and correspondent. Mr. Stephens married Miss Mary J. Rowland, of Columbus, a daughter of the late Thomas Rowland, an early resident of the city who was long known as a contractor. They have one daughter, Bertha, who is now a student in the Central high school. Mr. Stephens was a large stockholder in the Columbus Press-Post and was its manager from 1895 to 1899, and is now. the political editor of the Columbus Dispatch and Columbus correspondent of the New York Tribune and Cleveland Plain-Dealer. He was for seven years a correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. As a newspaper man he has taken an active interest in politics and has written numerous political articles which have attracted attention. The idea of the Columbus, New Albany & Johnstown Electric Railway originated with Mr. Stephens and he has been a prominent factor in the enterprise thus. far, having been instrumental in procuring its charter, amd is one of its directors and its general manager. He is a past master of Columbus Lodge, No. 3o, F. & A. M., and is an Odd Fellow of Official prominence and a popular member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a director of the Columbus Savings and Trust Company and the American Savings Bank Company. STILLMAN W. ROBINSON, C. E., D. Sc. Everywhere in our land are found men who have worked their own way from humble beginnings to leadership in the commerce, the great productive industries, the management of financial affairs and in controlling of the veins and arteries of the traffic and exchanges of the country, and who are found among the most distinguished representatives of the professions. It is one of the glories of our American nation that this is so. It should be the strongest incentive and encouragement to the youth of the country that it is so. Prominent among the self-made men of Ohio is the subject of this sketch, --a man honored, respected and esteemed wherever known, and most of all where best known. He stands to-day among the. leading representatives of the department of teaching having to do with the great scientific priciples underlying mechanical engineering, and his advanced thought and investigations have led to many inventions which have made the world of labor richer and its activity more efficient. As an inventor and engineering expert he has a reputation which extends throughout the country, and at the present writing he is occupying the position of professor emeritus in mechanical engineering in the Ohio State University. Professor Robinson was born on a farm in Reading, Vermont, in 1838 and from the earliest age when a child begins to notice construction he was interested in mechanical appliances, thus giving evidence of the natural trend CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 52I of his mind. When two and a half years of age he watched, with surprise and spell-bound interest the operation of the spinning wheel as it was put in motion to spin the annual "frocking" from which to cut the garments yearly needed by the inmates of this Vermont farm. All the machinery the loom, reel, etc.—used to produce the web, riveted the attention of the child. Soon he began the work of construction, making little waterwheels which were put in motion in the water guzzles. The frequent stern order, "Go to the field and pick up stones," struck the young boy with abhorrent grief. After he had attained the age of eight years he had not the privilege of attending the district schools except during the three months of winter when his labors were .not needed in clearing and developing the fields. He had no time to devote to the mechanical pursuits which he so much enjoyed, except the few 'moments which he could gain by running ahead of the workmen going to dinner. Thus he managed to have a brief space for shop work, which was a source of far greater interest to him than the raising of crops. When fifteen years of age he made a violin which was prized far above most other musical instruments of the kind for energy and quality of tone. His sixteenth year was devoted to the operation of a sawmill, the erection of a furniture factory and gristmill. Although he worked hard, 'his labor was lightened by the delight which he took in it, as compared with his liking for the farm work. At the end of that year Professor Robinson entered upon a four years' apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, and that time was pleasantly and profitably passed. Instead of beginning work at his trade, however, he began to supplement his meager education, acquired in early youth, by subsequent: study, meeting the expenses of his school courses by occasional machine jobs work. In 1860 he defrayed his expenses from Vermont to Ann Arbor, Michigan, by working at stencil cutting in the towns along his route, and on reaching his destination had increased his capital to fifty dollars, with which to continue his education in the State University. He left the Green Mountain state with a capital of eight dollars and stencil tools, cutting stencils along the way and thus adding to his limited amount of money. In Ann Arbor, by making stethoscopes and by graduating thermometer scales, he managed to meet his board bills and other living expenses up to the time of his graduation in the university, in 1863, with the degree of civil engineer. He found that he had acted very wisely in pursuing his college course, which enabled him to secure good positions. On leaving the university he was made assistant engineer on the United. States Lake Survey, acting in that capacity from 1863 until 1866. In 'the latter year he became a teacher in mechanical and civil engineering lines, being employed as instructor in engineering in the University of Michigan. in 1866 and 1867, after which he was assistant in the same institution in mining engineering and geodesy from 1867 until 1870. His next position was that of professor of mechanical engineering and physics in the University of Illinois from 1870 until 1878, and in the last mentioned year he was dean of the college of engineer- 33 522 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ing in that institution. From 1878 until 1881 he was professor of mechanical engineering and physics in the Ohio State. University; from 1881 until 1895 professor of mechanical engineering in the same institution, and then resigned in order to serve as inventor and consulting mechanical engineer for the Wire Grip and McKay Shoe Machinery Companies. His first investion was. a thermometer graduating machine, made while in college. Various other inventions have yielded. about forty patents, notably several for shoe manufacturing machines. In 1896 the degree of doctor of science was conferred upon him by the Ohio State University, and in 1899 he was elected to his present pOsition as professor emeritus in mechanical engineering. In connection with his other work Professor Robinson was state inspector of railroads and bridges from 188o until 1884; was consulting engineer to the Santa Fe Railroad from 1887 until 1890, and consulting engineer of the Lick telescope and mountings in 1887. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; and has been a frequent contributor to scientific literature, his writings being of great value. He is the author of the Principles of Mechanism, a college text-book; four of Van Nostrand's Science Series, namely: No.. 8: Compound Steam Engines; Part II in Analytical and Graphic Treatment, published in 1884; No. 24: Teeth of Gear Wheels, and Robinson's Templet Odontograph, issued in 1876; No. 29; Railroad Economics, published in 1882 ; No. 6o: Strength of Wrought Iron Bridge Members; also numerous monographs, including: Measurement of Gas Wells; Railroad Laboratories; Car. Brakes; Vibration of Bridges; Car Couplers; Flow of tatter in Rivers; and numerous articles in connection with reports of railroad inspection to societies, of membership. Professor Robinson has been twice married. In 1863 he wedded Miss M. E. Holden,. who died. in 1885, and in 1888 he was united in marriage to Miss M. Haines. Their home is located at No. 1353 Highland street, Columbus; and the office of the United Shoe Machine. Company, in which he is interested, is located at No. 205 Lincoln street, Boston, Massachusetts. JOHN L. GORDON, M. D. Dr. John Lee Gordon is a retired physician and surgeon. He was for many years actively connected with. the medical fraternity, but has now put aside professional cares. . A native of Winchester, Virginia, he was born April 25, 1821, a son of John W. and Sarah (Bryarly) Gordon, borth of whom were natives of the Old Dominion, in which state they were married, In 1826 with their four children they came to Ohio, locating at Chillicothe, where they remained for a year, afterward spending two years in Bellefonaine, thence removing to Piqua, Ohio, where the father remained until he had attained his eightieth year, 'when he went to Missouri to make his home CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 523 with a daughter, with whom he resided .until his death, which occurred when he was eighty-six years of age. During the years of his active business life he engaged in merchandising, Sand at the time when William Henry Harrison was president of the United States he served as postmaster at Piqua. By his first wife he had six children, four of whom were born in Virginia, namely: Robert Bryarly, Matilda Ann, John L., Wakeman, James and an infant. For his second wife Mr. Gordon chose Miss Delia McKenny, of Maryland, and they became the parents of two children : Mary E. and William F., but the son died at the age of twenty-two years. Dr. Gordon's father was a cousin of General William Henry Harrison, the relationship being through the Ball family, of Virginia, and of the same family General Washington was descended, on the maternal side. This gives the Gordon family relationship with four presidents, Washington, Jefferson. and the two Harrisons. Dr. Gordon was five years old when his parents came to Ohio. He received his preliminary education in the district school, where tuition was paid by each scholar, thus fitting himself for college and was graduated at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore. He began reading medicine under the direction of Dr. O'Ferrell; of Piqua, who Was his perceptor for three years. He next went to Louisville, where he: took a course of lectures and later proceeded to Baltimore, Maryland, where he entered the Medical University, being a student in that institution for two years. On his graduation he began practice in Saint Marys, Ohio, where he remained for four years, diligently applying himself to his profession, doing which called him over an area of the country twenty miles in extent. He made; most of his visits on horseback. Locating in Piqua he there continued to practice for two years and then returned to Columbus, where he continued his practice two years. On the expiration of that period he took up his abode upon a farm near Orange Station, Delaware county, Ohio, and abandoning his profession he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1875 he purchased sixty-eight acres of land in Sharon township, Franklin county, one and a half miles south of Worthington, and to the original tract he added other land, which he has since given to his son, retaining possession of his first purchase. Some time since he retired from all business life and is now living quietly upon his farm enjoying a well-earned rest. The Doctor was united in Marriage, December 29, 1858, to Martha Henrietta Gooding, a daughter of George and Phoebe (Williams) Gooding, of Delaware county. Her parents settled in that county. in 1818, making there a permanent home. The father was a native of North Dighton, Massachusetts, and his wife was also born in the same place. They had six children; George, who died in childhood; Mary L., George A., Mathew, Martha and Frank O. The father was a member of the Methodist: Episcopal church and the mother, who for some years was a Presbyterian; afterward become identified with the church to which her husband belonged. He died 524 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. in 1855, at the age of sixty years, and she passed away in 1880, at the age of eighty-two years. Unto the Doctor and his wife were born two children: Dr. J. L., of North Columbus, and a daughter, who died in infancy. Dr. Gordon has always voted the Republican ticket and is a stanch advocate of the principles of the party. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church and during their long connection therewith they have labored earnestly for its upbuilding and support. He was formerly an elder in the church at Worthington. Socially he was identified with the Masonic fraternity and Odd Fellows lodge, joining the order at Saint Marys, but owing to ill health he dimitted from both. organizations. STEPHEN GOETSCHIUS. The oldest and best known of the old settlers of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Stephen Goetschius, the subject of the present sketch. He was born in this township July 16, 1816, and was the eldest son of John M. and Nancy (Waters) Goetschius, both of whom were natives of New York. They were not married until after John Goetschius hd purchased his land in Franklin county and was ready to inaugurate his home. A family of five sons and two daughters were born to them: Stephen; Edward, deceased; George, living in low-a; John; Nicholas and Emily, deceased; and Sarah. Our subject remained through his boyhood and early youth with his father on the farm, there being plenty of occupation for many hands upon a farm of that kind, so lately rescued from the wilderness. After his marriage he settled down in a house of his own, built of logs, in the woods, and here he and his devoted and capable wife began their successful career as pioneer residents of Franklin county. The property was entirely unimproved but industry and economy went hand in hand, and now this tract of eighty and one-half acres is one of the most productive in the county. Mr. Goetschius was married, December 1, 1841, to Miss Allura Curtis, a native of Niagara county, New York, born there January 13, 1824, and a daughter of Gideon Curtis. The latter was a native of New York and came in early life to Ohio, settling for a season in Cleveland, but spending the greater portion of his later years in Franklin county. The mother of Mrs. Goetschius had borne the maiden name of Polly Bailey, and she also was a native of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Goetschius have had six children; Alfred, now deceased, who had married Miss E. Oman and left two children; Elizabeth, the wife of George Roher, who rents the land at the home; Mary, who married Harry Manon but is now deceased; John, who married Lizzie Notter but died, leaving a daughter ; Eliza, who married Benjamin Weygandt but is dead, two children surviving; and Emma, who is the wife of J. Y. Shoop, of Columbus. The years have touched Mr. and Mrs. Goetschius very kindly and they live again in their children unto the third CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 525 generation, the names of these being Ethel, Hoga and Muriel White and Millie and Maurice Welch. Early in life our subject was a Whig but at the organization of the Republican party he affiliated with it. He cast his vote for William Henry Harrison and assisted in the building of the cabin which was so effectively used in the campaign of 1840. He has always taken a deep interest in public affairs and has done all in his power to induce others to understand the principles of good government. For many years the family has been connected with the Methodist church, in which our subject is. an esteemed worker. For sixty years Mr. and Mrs. Goetschius have resided upon this same land and with interest have watched the development of the county. They enjoy relating tales of their pioneer life and can well remember when Columbus was but a village, they being the oldest pioneer residents of the township. Respected by all with whom they have come into contact, they may be said to be types of the old pioneer element of which Franklin county is proud. ABRAM BROWN. Those who give their lives faithfully and efficiently to the work of education perform a service to the state and humanity the .value of which cannot he estimated. The services of a bank president can be measured in dollars. There is no unit of measure that can fully determine the value of the services of the true teacher. One of the prominent and efficient teachers of Ohio is Abram Brown, A. B., who was connected with the Columbus schools twentytwo years,—four years from 1868 to 1872, and eighteen years from 1881 to 1899. Mr. Brown was born at Canterbury, New Hampshire, in September, 1838. His parents, 'George and Sarah (Gilman) Brown, were natives of the Granite state and earned a living by cultivating its rugged hills. Mr. Brown remained at home working on the farm, with now and then a term at the academy, preparing for college, most of the time up to the summer of 1862. In 1862, after having been admitted to Dartmouth College, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Fellows. He participated in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, in September, 1862, and, in December following in the battle of Fredericksburg. In this battle Mr. Brown was the orderly sergeant of his company. While, storming Mary's Heights he received the wound for which he was honorably discharged from the service, March 4, 1863, and he returned home to complete his education. After his graduation at Dartmouth, in 1867, he was the principal of Westfield Academy, at Westfield, New York, until March, 1868, when he came to Columbus as principal of the Rich Street school. At the end of the school year the board of education transferred him to the high school as 526 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. teacher of Latin and Greek. In 1870 he was elected principal of the school and served as principal for two years, when he resigned to engag in the school-book business. He was employed for six years by Clark & Maynard, and then by D. Appleton & Company. At the close of the school year 1880-81 Albert G. Farr, the principal of the Columbus high school resigned, and Mr. Brown was again elected principal, and he remained at the head of the high school for eighteen years,---until June, 1899. During these years the school grew not only in the number of its pupils, but also in efficiency, so that, in 1899, instead of one school, there were three; instead of five hundred pupils, there were nearly two thousand. Upon his retirement from the Central high school Mr. Brown, with Frank T. Cole, principal of the Columbus Latin school, as an experiment, opened the "University school" of Columbus. The aim of this school is to give boys and girls a thorough preparation for any college or technical school, in the shortest possible time. The teachers for the first year, 1899-1900, were as follows: Abram Brown, A. B., principal, Latin and mathematics; Frank T. Cole, A. B., Latin, Greek and history; Alice Gladden, A. B., English and history; Ernest E. Rich, B. S., mathematics, physics and French, Mary Wirth, German; L. G. De la Moche, French. In September, 1900, a course in manual training was added, under the supervision of Cyrus Scott. A certificate from this school admits the holder without further examination to Amherst, Williams, Wells, Smith, Wellesley and Marietta Colleges, and the Ohio State, Western Reserve and Cincinnati Universities. In December, 1869., Mr. Brown married Miss Emma Gray, of Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of Manlius D. and Emily Gray, and has one daughter, Ruth Gray, who is the wife of William Herbert Page, professor in the college of law of the Ohio State University. GEORGE W. HELMICK, M. D. A well known physician of Harrisburg is Dr. George Washington Helmick, who is known as a successful practitioner. He belongs to one of the old families of Ohio. His grandfather, Isaac Helmick, resided in Zanesville, Putnam county, at an early day and afterward removed to Columbus. Later he took up his abode in Pleasant township, Franklin county, on the Lukens farm, and died in this county, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Murphy, was born in 1776, and departed this life in Columbus, in the year 1837. Washington Helmick, the father of our subject, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and was four. times married. He first wedded Miss Roxanna Moore, who died in Harrisburg, this state. For his second wife he chose Miss Jane Heth, who died in Columbus, after which he married Miss Hannah Stump, whose death occurred in Harrisburg.. His fourth wife was Miss CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 527 Jane Clark, a daughter of John Clark. Dr. Helmick received rather a limited literary education., but afterward studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Robert Thompson, of Columbus, and began practice in Harrisburg, where he remained until his death. He was a most able physician, keeping in touch with the progress of the profession and thus he not only gained but retained an extensive patronage. He traveled throughout Franklin county to visit his patients and was always ready to respond to a request for medical assistance even though he knew that no pecuniary reward could be expected. He never attended college and therefore received no diploma, but had a permit to practice from the Ohio State Medical Society. His patronage was from the territory extending from Columbus to West Jefferson.. Dr. Helmick died at a comparatively early age and was mourned by a large circle of warm friends, who esteemed him highly for his sterling worth and for his professional skill. He had children by all of his marriages, with the exception of the second. The children of the fourth marriage were Roxann, wife of W. W. Davis, of Richwood, Ohio ; Mary, Who died in infancy; George W., of this review; and Laura Jane, who is also deceased. Dr. Helmick, whose name introduces this record, was born in Harrisburg, December 6, 1856, in the family homestead which stood on the site of his present residence. He pursued his preliminary education in the district and subscription. schools and afterward engaged in teaching in the country schools of Pleasant township for twelve months. Wishing to devote his energies to a work that would prove of benefit to his fellow men as well as bring to him a good financial return, he began the study of medicine at Harrisburg under the direction. of Dr. J. Helmick, and later continued his study in Columbus, where he was graduated on the .22d of February, 1877. He then became associated in practice with his former preoeptor, the connection being maintained until 1887, when the senior partner passed away. Since that time our subject has been alone. He is now well established in a large and constantly growing business. He is very thorough and systematic in his work and keeps in touch with the progress of the profession. He belongs to the Ohio State Medical Society and is a constant reader of the best medical journals. The Doctor was married, at Pleasant Corners, on the 18th of May, 1881, to Miss Almina Machlin, a daughter of Daiwalt and Catherine (Gantz) Machlin. They now have two children: Daiwalt Machlin, born March 11, 1890, and Luther Eugene, born December 24, 1893. Socially the Doctor is connected with the independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In his political views he is a stalwart Republican, unswerving in his advocacy of the principles of the party. He has served as a member of the town council for two terms and has been school directo of his district for six years, filling both offices in a capable manner. He is well known as a wide-awake, progressive and enterprising citizen who withholds his support from no movement or measure calculated to prove of benefit to the community. 528 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. THOMAS RANDOLPH ROSS. The Ross family is one well known and respected in many localities of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Thomas R. Ross is one of that family who left an impress upon his generation.. He was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1788, and was a son of Dr. John Ross, also a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, who spent many years there as a practicing physician, subsequently moving to Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, in 1819, where he died the following year. His father also bore the name of Dr. John Ross, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He had successfully practiced medicine in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, for a great number of years. The wife of Thomas R. Ross was named Harriet Van Horne, a family name well known in colonial days. She was the daughter of Rev. William Van Horne, a noted Baptist minister, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania, receiving most of his education in Philadelphia, and graduating at the College of Rhode Island with the title of Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of the convention which framed the first civil constitution of Pennslyvania, and during the Revolutionary war was appointed chaplain in the continental army, and reappointed by congress, but owing to old. age was, at his own request, relieved by General Washington. He died in 1807 at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, while on his way to Ohio. His father, Peter Peterson Van Horne, was also a minister, being ordained pastor of the Pennepeck Baptist church, Philadelphia, in 1747. Mrs. Ross, the wife of our subject died in 1879, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. Mr. Ross, falling under the spell of the western fever, decided to go west, and in 1809 moved first to Cincinnati, and not long thereafter located at Lebanon, where he soon became firmly established in law practice, also becoming one of the first editors of the Argus, and a leader in Masonic affairs. During the war of 1812 he was made a paymaster in the army, and from 1818 to 1824 was a prominent member of congress, where his forensic ability frequently brought him in direct debate With Webster and Clay, particularly the latter during the debate on the Missouri compromise, Mr. Ross boldly opposing the admission of Missouri as a slave state. Mr. Ross religious, convictions were deep and firm, and though never formally uniting with the church, he was until his death, in 1869, at the age of eighty-one years, a regular attendant at the Baptist church. An able and brilliant talker and deep thinker, he left an impress on all with whom he came in contact. ROBERT INNIS. The subject of this review, Robert Innis, was born on the of Innis homestead, in Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, April 28, 1836. He is the third child of Robert and Mary (Webb) Innis, the former a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he was born November 18, 1804, He was a farmer by occupation, and removed to Harrison county, Ohio, where CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 529 he married Miss Mary Webb, and there resided for a time. The paternal grndparents of our subject had children. as follows : Henry, born May 1, 1792; Hannah, born August 31, 1794; Katherine, born July 11, 1797; Mary, born April 29, 1800; Ann, born April 15, 1802; Robert, born November 18,1804; John, b6rn November 29, 1807 ; and Emily, born August. 14, 1816. The mother of our subject was born. in Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio with her parents; Jacob and Hannah Webb, when she'was but two years old, growing to womanhood there. After marriage Robert Innis removed from Harrison county, in 1834, to .Franklin 'county, settling in Clinton township, where he opened up and improved a farm, continuing to resided upon it until his death, August 19, 1879, having led' a correct and virtuous life. He was a member of the Republican party, having first voted as an old-line Whig. Mrs. Innis died January 17, 1891, both she and her husband having for many years been devoted members of the Methodist church. They had the following children : John W.,. a prosperous farmer of Licking county, Ohio; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Holt; Robert, 'our subject; William, deceased; Mary, the wife of Robert Dalzell; Jacob, of Mount Eagle, Tennessee; Martha, the wife of George Tippy, who owns and lives upon a part of the old homestead; and Amy J., the wife of James Frizzell, a .resident of Clinton township. Our subject passed his boyhood days and obtained his schooling in Clinton township, preparing himself for entrance into Otterbein University. In that institution he pursued his studies for three years, following Which he engaged in teaching school in the country. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Licking county, Ohio, where he remained until February 16, 1875, when he removed to Columbus and occupied a home on Third street. His next removal was to his present home, where he is successfully engaged in fruit-farming and market gardening. During the Civil war Mr. Innis fought for the Union with Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving for one hundred days. The marriage of Mr. Innis took place December 25, 1867, to Miss Sarah A. Longman, a daughter of John F. and Alzina (Coryell) Longman, of Franklin county. Mrs. Innis was born July 24, 1842, and she and her esteemed husband are the parents; of three children : Lyman H., a brilliant young lawyer of Columbus; Charles L., a druggist in Millersport, Ohio; and Nettie A., a teacher in Grove City. The family are valued members of the Methodist church and are among the most highly respected. citizens of the township. ANDREW O. BONNET, M. D. Among the successful medical practitioners of Columbus is Dr. Andrew O. Bonnet, who was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Newburg, March 27, 1849. He is a son of Godlip and Hannah W. (Beck) Bonnet, both of whom were natives of Germany and came to the United States in childhood. They became acquainted in Philadelphia and. 530 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. their acquaintance ripened into love that led to their marriage, in that city, The father learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for a number of years, making his home in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. In 1861, however, he came with his family to Ohio, settling upon a. farm of one hundred and eighty-three acres in Mahoning county. His Wife died in 1885. but he is still living. They had four sons, namely : Albert and David T., who are farmers and William Mervin, who is engaged in the practice of medicine in Denver, Colorado. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he completed a course with the class of 1872. Dr. Andrew O. Bonnet spent the first twelve years of his life in the state of his nativity and then accompanied his parents on their removal to Mahoning county, Ohio, where he was reared upon the home farm. His preliminary education was acquired in the district schools and subsequently he attended the Poland high school. He learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for several years, but not finding that occupation entirely suited to his tastes he abandoned it to engage in the grocery business in 1880. For ten years he conducted a store in Columbus with good success, and then, disposing of his stock, he pursued a course in pharmacy in the Ohio Medical College, of this city. On its completion he established a drug store in Columbus, and while directing the same also studied medicine and was graduated in the Ohio Medical University with the class of 1896, under the preceptorage of Dr. Coleman. When his medical course was completed Dr. Bonnet be began practice in Columbus, his office being at Nos. 242 and 244 East Fulton street. He has gained a large and constantly growing patronage, for his skill and ability are recognized, having been demonstrated by the excellent results which have followed his ministrations. Since 1898 he has been physician to the county jail. In 1876 occurred the marriage of Dr. Bonnet and Miss Rosetta West, of Columbus, a daughter of George. West. She was born and reared in Franklin county, her parents having settled in Truro township at an early day. The Doctor and his wife have made many friends in this locality. In the line of his profession he is connected with the Columbus Academy of Medicine and with the American Medical Association. His progressive spirit prompts his extensive study of medical science and of all subjects bearing upon the profession, and thus he keeps in touch with the most advanced thought and methods. He ranks among the most capable representatives of the medical fraternity in the capital city and his large patronage is well merited. GEORGE W. STAGG. It is certainly a fact creditable to Franklin county that so many of the youth and older residents are native citizens. This indicates unmistakably the favorable conditions existing here—the opportunities, of the farmer and of all manner of industrial and commercial life. Among those who have CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 531 always resided in the county is numbered George W. Stagg, whose birth occurred November 3, 1842, upon the farm where he yet resides. He is now classed among the wide-awake, practical and progressive agriculturists and is enjoying a well merited success in. his business affairs. his parents were Abraham and Rebecca (Cook) Stagg, who were the parents of ten children, but only four are now living, namely : Lucinda, the widow of George Edgar, of Jefferscn township; Harriet J., the wife of Noah Geiger, an agriculturist of the same township; George W. and David, who follow farming in Jefferson township. Levi, the eldest, was killed by: lightning. The father was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, June 24, 1776, and was there reared, learning the trade of blacksmithing, which occupation he followed during the greater part of his business career. He was three times married, his first wife being Miss Mary Stooky. The wedding was celebrated January 4, 1797, and she died August 29, 1808, after having become the mother of three children. On the. loth of December, 1810, Mr. Stagg married. Keziah Denman, who died August 10, 1827, and on the 1st of December, 1831, he married Mrs. Rebecca Sager, the widow of John Sager. In her maidenhood she was a Miss Rebecca Cook, and was a native of Virginia. She was also three times married ; her first husband was John Sager, by whom she had three children. After the death of Mr. Stagg, her second husband, she became the wife of Thomas Longshore. Her death occurred February 7, 1895. It was early in the nineteenth century that Abraham Stagg came to Ohio, probably between 1800 and 1808, for his first wife, who died in 1808, was buried here. Upon his arrival he entered a claim of two hundred acres and erected a double hewed-log house as well as a round-log building, the latter being used as a blacksmith shop. There he carried on his trade, but did little work at clearing his land until his sons had reached an age when they could be of material assistance to him in the work of improving the farm. The place was then developed and transformed into productive fields. In politics Mr. Stagg was an old-line Whig, and for several years served as justice of the peace. His death occurred January 19, 1857. In early life he was a Methodist, but later in life he accepted Universalist doctrines. He was a man of unquestioned probity, of strong force of 'character and: of sterling worth, greatly esteemed as one 'of the sturdy pioneer settlers who aided in laying the foundation for the present prosperity and progress of the county. George W. Stagg, whose name introduces this record was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads of the period. He acquired his education in the district schools. He was fifteen years of age at the time of his father's death and through the three succeeding years his elder brother, Levi, operated the old homestead. On. the expiration of that period Levi Stagg left the farm and our subject and his younger brother, David, took charge of the place. Although he was only eighteen years of age he manifested excellent business judgment, the work was well performed and the brothers pros- 532 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. pered in their undertaking. On the 22d of February, 1866, Mr. Stagg married Miss Rebecca Compton, a native of Jefferson township and a daughter of William Compton, who was also born in Franklin county, showing that his people were among the pioneers of this portion of the state. After his marriage Mr. Stagg and his bride took up their abode in the parental home and he continued to operate the farm on the shares until after his mother's death, which occurred in 1895, when a division of the estate was made. Our subject purchased the interest of his youngest brother, making his farm a little more than sixty-seven acres. His first wife died in 1869, leaving one child, Mary Luella, who is now the wife of George B. Shull, of Jefferson township. On the 29th of October, 1870, Mr. Stagg was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary Sherman, a native of Licking county, Ohio, and a daughter of Joseph Sherman, who was born in England. Nine children graced their marriage, and with one exception all are yet living, as follows : Lizzie, now the wife of Joseph Fravel, of Licking county; Laura, the wife of Charles Cole, of Delaware county, Ohio; Cora, the wife of J. R. Beaver, of Licking county ; Ada, Wife of Arza Wengert, of Jefferson township; Addie, a twin sister of Ada; and the wife of Jacob Schott, of Delaware county; Nelson, Rollie and Alta at home. Mr. Stagg is a member of the Christian Union church. He gives his political support to the Democracy and for seven years he served as constable of Jefferson township, while for twelve years he was township clerk and is now serving his second term as township trustee. He is also a member of the board of education, which position he has filled for a long period. He gives his support to every measure and movement calculated to prove of general good and is a man of sound judgment, determined purpose and upright character. ALBERT WATTS. A prominent farmer and fruit-grower of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Albert Watts. He was born in Franklin township August 11, 1844, a son of William and Margaret (Chambers) Watts, both residents of Franklin county, where they were well and favorably known and reared a large family of children, as follows : Sarah., deceased; Lizzie, the wife of Adam White, of Franklin township; Amanda, wife of R. C. Alkire, of Columbus; John, deceased; Albert, the subject of this sketch; William of, Jackson township; Elisha, who died in Nebraska in 1898; Milton, of Piqua county; Melissa Jane, wife of James Hoddy, of Franklin township; Joseph, deceased; and Ella, who died in infancy. Albert Watts was reared upon his father's farm and attended the district school until he was twenty-one years old. In 1863 he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Battalion, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served for six months, returning then to the farm. After his marriage Mr. Watts located in the house where he was born, remaining there for three years, then removed to his present farm and has. resided in this place for the past twenty-nine years. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 533 He has successfully engaged in general farming and the raising of fruit, his land being particularly adapted to the latter. Mr. Watts was. married, October 24, 1865, to Miss Martha Chambers, who was a native of Franklin county, born November 27, 1843. She is the second daughter in the family of William B. and Elizabeth (Haughn) Chambers, who were early settlers of the 'county. She was reared upon a farm and her education was obtained in the district school. She and her husband became the parents of six children, namely : Lizzie, the wife of F. G. Gould, of Columbus, by whom she has two children,—Jay and Martha E.; Olive, the wife of A. B. Birch, of Columbus, by whom she has two children,— Leland and Ada M. ; Ella, who died October 7, 1899, at the age of twenty-seven years; Albert H., an electrician for the Consolidated Street Car Company, of Columbus, for some time, but now engaged as electrician in the mines in West Virginia; William R., a clerk in a grocery in Columbus; and Jessie, now a scholar in the Central high school of Columbus. In his political faith Mr. Watts is a Republican, has clone much: for the party and is always earnest in his efforts to secure the spread of its principles. He has been honored by his fellow citizens many times by election to office, frequently being judge of election, supervisor, constable and a member of the school board for nine years. He is a most consistent member of the Methodist church, having become connected with it in 1864, and in this religious belief he is joined by his estimable wife. Mr. Watts has been church treasurer, church trustee, and has always done even more than duty demanded in support of it. His assistance very materially aided in. the building of the Glenwood Methodist church, and in all the relations of life he has been a good citizen, deserving of the high esteem in which he is held. WALTER N. P. DARROW. Walter N. P. Darrow has been a resident of Columbus since 1890, but though he is numbered among the comparatively recent arrivals he has already gained a wide circle of friends. A native of Rochester, New York, he was born in the year 1863, and is a son of Wallace Darrow, a lieutenant of light artillery in the New York National Guard. The family is one of the old and prominent ones of the country. When the Mayflower brought its band of pilgrims to the shores of the new world that they might have, religious liberty the ancestors of the Darrows were among the number, and when the colonists attempted to throw off all allegiance to England Titus Darrow, the great-grandfather of our subject, was among those who voted for the independence of the nation. Leavitt Darrow was a native of Plymouth, Connecticut, and served in the war of 1812. On the maternal side General Darrow is a representative of the Paine family, his mother having been in her maidenhood Miss Ellen Louise Paine, a daughter of Nicholas E. Paine, who was born in Maine and subsequently removed from the Pine Tree state to Rochester, New York. He became prominent in public affairs there and about 534 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 1854 was elected to serve as the mayor of the city. He had previously resided near Sanford, Maine, and was a colonel on the staff of one of the governors of that state. General Darrow, whose name introduces this record, spent his youth in the east and was appointed a cadet at West Point, where he completed tje four-years course and was graduated with the class of 1886. He was made second lieutenant of the Fourth United States Artillery and resigned in 1891 For two years he was stationed at Fort Monroe and was graduated in the artillery school. In 1891 he took command of the Columbus Light Battery, Company H, and continued to serve in that capacity until elected, in 1893, liteutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth Ohio National. Guard. In 1896 he was elected colonel-of the First Artillery, Ohio National Guard, having command of eight batteries until his resignation in 1897. In 190o he was appointed by Governor Nash a member of his staff, with the rank of brigadier geberak and chief of engineers. He is. a man of fine appearance, of soldierly bearing and is prominently and widely known in military circles. His interest in military affairs continued unabated from the time when he wore the country's uniform as a cadet at West Point. The General is also a leading representative of the business interests of Columbus. When he came to the city in 1890 he opened a real-estate office and has since conducted many important realty transactions. He is thoroughly familiar with the values of property and is thus enabled to assist his clients in making judicious investments. He is also a director in the Park Building & Loan Association and is a trustee of the Ohio Medical University. In 1890 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Neil, a daughter of W. A. Neil, deceased, who was a very prominent citizen of Ohio's capital city. General Darrow is a member of the Loyal Legion, of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Society of the War of 1812. He is a man who is very popular by reason of his genial manner, cordial disposition and unfailing courtesy. In business he has a strict regard for the ethics of commercial life and has won and retained the confidence and patronage of the public. IRA H. CRUM. Ohio has always been distinguished for the high rank of her bench and bar. Many of her attorneys and jurists have been men of national fame, and there is scarcely a town or city in the state than cannot boast of one or more lawyers capable of crossing swords in forensic combat with any of the distinguished legal lights of the United States. Among the prominent attorneys of Franklin county is Ira H. Crum, director of law of the city of Columbus, and the head of the firm of Crum, Raymund & Hedges, whose office is in the Hayden block, that city. The Crum family is of Holland origin and was founded in America CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 535 during the seventeenth century. Our subject's great-great-grandfather, John Crum was born and reared in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and was a soldier in Washington's army during the Revolutionary war. At the close of that struggle he settled in Cumberland county, Maryland, where he openated a forge and iron foundry. In 1800 the great-grandfather, John Crum, Jr., located at what is now Ennisville, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he bought a farm with money brought with him in a belt around his waist. There he reared his. family. His son, Cornelius Crum, our subject's grandfather, was a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania, in 1837. Three years later he came to Franklin county, Ohio, bringing with him his family and household goods in wagons. Five or six weeks were consumed in making the journey. He located in Perry township; a part of his farm being now owned by Daniel Thomas, while the remainder is inside the city limits of Columbus. Later he purchased two farms in Norwich township, and upon one of these he died in 1853. His wife bore the maiden nam of Rebecca Grey. In early days his older brother, William, was stolen by the Indians and finally. taken to St. Joseph county, Indiana, where he later became a wealthy farmer. He died while visiting relatives in California. William A. Crum, father of our subject, was born in Ennisville, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, January .15, 1829, and came with his parents to Ohio in 1840. In 1851 he married Miss Martha Walton, and for several years they made their home on a farm' in Norwich township, but in 1883 moved to Hilliard, Where he purchased a general store and engaged in merchandising until his death, which occurred on the 22d of November, 1899. From boyhood he was an active and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and contributed liberally to its support. Politically he was first a Whig and later a stanch Republican; and served as township clerk for many years. His first wife died in 1887, and the following year he married Elizabeth Stewart, who still survives him. Ira H. Crum, the only child of William A. and. Martha (Walton) Crum, was born in Norwich township January 6, 1855, and attended the country schools for about four months during the year until fourteen years of age, the remainder of the time being devoted to farm work. On account of his eyes he did not resume his studies until seventeen, when he attended Westerville College for one year. During the following three years he was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated there in 1876. He read law with Judge Evans, of Columbus, two years and the late James E. Wright one year, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1879. Mr. Crum began the practice of law with Judge Lorenzo D. Hagerty in the Deshler Block, Columbus. In 1888 he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney, Cyrus Huling then serving as prosecuting attorney, but resigned that position in January, 1892, and resumed general practice. On the 17th of April, 1899, he received the appointment of director of law of Columbus, under Mayor Samuel J. Swartz, and is now filling that position in a most creditable and satisfactory manner. Both public offices which he 536 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. has filled have come to him unsolicited, as he was not a candidate for either, which fact plainly shows his high standing among his professional brethrren. He is thoroughly versed in the law, is a man of deep research and careful investigation, and his skill and ability have won for him a lucrative pratice. Prominence at the bar comes through merit alone, and the high place he has attained attests his superiority. Socially Mr. Crum is a member of Goodale Lodge, F. & A. M., of Columbus, and Norwich Lodge, I. O. O, F., of Hilliard. He has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican party, and on that ticket was candidate for prosecuting attorney in the fall of 1891, against C. C. Williams, but was defeated. Mr. Crum was married, in May, 1891, to. Miss. May Sherwood, of Brown township, this county, and to them were born three children, but the oldest died. in infancy unnamed, and Sherwood also died in infancy. The youngest, Martha, is still living. SIMON SHATTUCK. Simon Shattuck, deceased, was numbered among the honored pioneers of Franklin county, locating in this locality when it was a wild and unimproved region. In the work of development he took an active part and aided in opening up the country to civilization. As the years passed he faithfully performed his duties of citizenship, and his interest in the welfare and progress of the county never abated. Becoming widely and favorably know, he made many friends, and his death occasioned a loss to the entire community. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Shattuck was born in Groton, that state, in 1793, and was a brother of Captain Alexander Shattuck. Our subject grew to manhood in his native state, and was probably married there August 5, 1819, to Miss Sarah Simpson, who was born June 9, 1798, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah Simpson, natives of Maine. On the arrival of Mr. Shattuck in Franklin county, in 1819, he purchased a tract of land in Perry township, for which he paid six dollars per acre. At that time it was entirely unimproved, not a stick of timber having been cut. He erected a small log cabin, with the proverbial puncheon floor, stick chimney and other accessories of a pioneer home. Into this cabin he and his family moved, and he at once turned his attention to the arduous task of clearing away the forest and converting the land into productive fields. He became a successful farmer, prospering in most of his undertakings, and afterward bought more land near his first purchase, on which his daughter, Mrs. Tipton, now resides. By trade he was a cabinet-maker and an expert in that line. Although not a member of any church, Mr. Shattuck was religiously inclined, and donated liberally to the support of churches, though always doing it in an unostentatious manner, never letting his left hand know what his right hand ,did. He was a reticent, reserved man, who never discussed his affairs with others, and was never known to attend to other people's busi- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 537 ness. A pronounced temperance man, he was probably the first in his section to refuse to supply whisky to his harvest hands. In all of life's relations he was found true to every trust reposed in him, and commanded the confidence and respect of those with wham he came in contact either in business or social circles. He died in 1876, and his estimable wife departed this life May 27, 1881. In 1835 she united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and ever lived a consistent Christian life, devoted to her home and family. Her children were ten in number, namely Mary Ann, Harriet Ann, Rebecca Dana, Jerome, Alexander, Daniel, Thomas T., Simpson, Mary M. and George G. Of these only two: are now living: Harriet Ann, now Mrs. B. F. Jaqueth, of Boston, Massachusetts; and Rebecca Dana, now Mrs. Tipton, of Perry township, this county. Mrs. Tipton was born in that township September 16, 1825, and is now one of the oldest living native residents of Franklin county. On the 15th of November, 1847, she gave her hand in marriage to Jonathan Tipton, who was born near Harrisburg, this county, December 14, 1818, and died June 27, 1895. His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth. (Tomlinson) Tipton, who came from Maryland to this county in the earliest days of its history, and first settled in Pleasant township. In their family were eleven children, none of whom are now living in Franklin county. Two sons, Richard and Thomas C., became. distinguished as physicians, and were both army surgeons in the Civil war. The latter is now living in Williamsport, Ohio. Jonathan. Tipton and his wife began their married life upon a farm in Pleasant township where they lived for a number of years, and then removed to Perry township, soon afterward locating on the Shattuck homestead:, where Mrs.. Tipton still resides. Her husband was one of the leading and representative men of his community, and was honored with local office, serving as assessor and treasurer in Pleasant township for several terms. Before attaining his majority he united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and always took a very prominent and active part in church work, serving his- church faithfuliy and well as steward, class-leader and Sunday school superintendent. As a citizen he was upright and honorable, as a neighbor kind and considerate and was a loving husband. Mrs. Tipton is also a devout and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, joining the same with her mother at the early age of twelve years. She is well known for her many excellent qualities of mind and heart and is beloved by a large circle of friends. She is still well preserved for her years and possesses an excellent memory, being able to recount with clearness many of the events that transpired here in pioneer days. CHARLES SMITH PROSSER. Charles Smith Prosser was born March 24, 186o, in Columbus, Chenango county, New York. His. father was Smith Prosser, the son of William H. Prosser, who left Vermont and became one of the early settlers of the 34 538 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Unadilla valley in central New York. William Prosser married Mary Herrick, of Duanesburg, New York. Smith Prosser married Emeline O. Tuttle, of the branch of Jonathan Tuttle, and from his sister Elizabeth are descended Jonathan Edwards, Aaron Burr and Timothy Dwight, a president of Yale College. William and Elizabeth Tuttle, the parents of Jonathan and Elizabeth, came from England in the Planter and landed at Boston in 1635. In 1893. Charles S. Prosser married Mary Frances Wilson, of Albany, New York, whose ancestor, William Lawrence,. came to this country with the Tuttles in 1635. At the age of sixteen Charles S. Prosser entered the Union school of Brookfield, New York, and graduated with the first class in 1879 and that summer he spent in Professor Wait's preparatory school at Ithaca, entering in the fall Cornell. University, from which he .graduated in 1883 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. The following Year he was a graduate student in natural history at Cornell and in 1884-5 was the first one elected to the Cornell fellowship in natural history: 1885-8 he was instructor in paleontology at Cornell, and continuing his graduate work received the Master of Science degree in 1886. From 1883-88 he was an assistant of Dr. Henry S. Williams, who had charge of the Devonian geology for the United States geological survey, and spent the greater part of the summer vacations in field work in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1888 Mr. Prosser was appointed an assistant paleontologist on the United States geological survey in the division of paleobotanv under Dr. Lester F. Ward, where he remained until 1892, and while in the division was detailed for field work in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Arkansas. From 1892 to 1894 he was professor of natural history in Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and in 1893-94 an assitant geologist on the United States geological survey and spent the two summers in the field studying the carboniferous and Permian formations of Kansas. In 1894 Mr. Prosser was called to Union College, Schenectady, New York, to organize the department of geology, where he remained as professor of geology until 1899. From 1895 to 1899 he was an assistant geologist of the New York geological survey, studying especially the Devonian and Silurian formations of the eastern portions of the state and contributing several reports to the survey. The summer of 1896 was spent in studying the Permian and cretaceous formations of southern Kansas and the Permian of eastern Nebraska as an assistant geologist of the Kansas University geological survey. Since 1898 he has been chief of the Appalachian division of the Maryland geological survey, spending the .summers in field work on the paleozoie formations of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. In 1900 he was appointed an assistant geologist on the Ohio geological and the United States geological surveys. In 1899 he was selected by Dr. Edward Orton as his successor and elected associate professor of historical geology in the Ohio State CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 539 University, and in 1901 was elected professor of geology and head of the department. Mr. Prosser was one of the first members of the Alpha Chapter of the Sigma XI, the honorary scientific society which was founded in 1886 at Cornell University, and one of the original fellows of the Geological Society of America. He is also a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Congres Geologique International, American Society of Naturalists, and other organizations for scientific research. Professor Prosser has published more than fifty geological papers and reports some of the more important being : The Devonian System of Eastern Pennsylvania and New York (Bulletin No. 120, United States Geological Survey) the Classification of the Upper Paleozoic Rocks of Kansas ( Journal of Geology, volume iii), in which the names for the 'Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian formations of the Great Plains are proposed and described; the Upper Permian and Lower Cretaceous of Kansas (volume ii, University Geological Survey of Kansas, 144 pages, with thirty plates, sections and maps); the Classification and Distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung Series of Central and Eastern New York (Fifteenth and Seventeenth Annual Reports of the New York State Geologist, 390 pages, with 88 maps, plates and sections). Professor Prosser is a contributor to the American Journal of Science, American Geologist, Journal of Geology, Kansas University Quarterly, Bulletin Geological Society of America, Science and other scientific periodicals. SILAS BORROR. The name of Borror has long been prominent in the history of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, and one of its best known and most highly respected representatives at this time is the gentleman whose name is above. Silas Borror, son of Jacob Borror, was born on the old Borror homestead in Jackson township August 17, 1834. A biographical sketch of his brother, Jacob Borror, Jr., which will be found elsewhere in this work, affords information as to his ancestors. He is the seventh of the nine children of his parents and was brought up on a pioneer farm and afforded opportunity to attend such schools as were kept in log school houses near his home. These structures were most primitive affairs, with one log cut out on each side and one end for windows, which was filled with a sash two by about twelve feet, filed with glass eight by ten inches. The scholars sat on dab benches, made from the slabs off sawlogs, their feet resting on the floor ; and they studied at deska made of two-inch plank sawed from large logs and supported against the walls of the schoolrooms by pins driven in auger holes at convenient distances. The large scholars sat on high seats made from two by twelve sawed plank. Silas remained at home, assisting with the work of the farm, until 540 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 1855, when he was twenty-one years old. November 4, that year, he married Clorinda Orders, a daughter of Allen Orders (a biographical sketch of whom appears on another page), who had conned her lessons in the same rude temples of knowledge above described. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Borror began housekeeping in a sixteen-by-eighteen-foot log house (with a clapboard roof held on by weight poles, and a stick-and-mud chimney) on the farm where they now live. That primitive domicile was superseded by their present residence a year later. Their household outfit consisted of six chairs, a cook stove and a few cooking utensils and two beds and a table, and poorly equipped as they were to entertain company they testify that they had a good deal of it. They procured some additional furniture when they moved into their new house. When Mr. Borror bought the farm fifty-four acres were cleared. He cleared the balance, all but eighteen acres, as rapidly as was possible and eventually got the whole farm under a good state of improvement and cultivation. Looking out over their hundred acres, Mrs. Borror recalls the fact that she dropped the seed for the first hill of corn ever planted upon it. To Mr. and Mrs. Borror have been born sixteen children, thirteen of whom are now living—seven sons and six daughters—and all of these except one son and one daughter are married. Mary C. married Henry Turner; Christiana has never married, nor has' Frank H., the youngest. The others are Allen; George B. M. C.; Amanda, who married John Mellen; Silas C., William J.; Emily, who married E. E. Dysart; Jonas; Clorinda M., who married Joseph Harvey; Clara L., who married Abner Rader; and Seymour W. Two of their children died in infancy, and another, named Jacob R., died at. the age of two years. Mr. and Mrs. Borror have had born to them forty-two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and their family is believed to be the largest numerically in Franklin county. Politically Mr. Borror is a Democrat. He has been supervisor and school director and has; refused other township offices, and is recognized as a man of unusual public spirit. RICHARD JONES. This work contains several biographical sketches of natives of Wales and descendants of Welsh ancestors who have attained prominence as farmers and citizens in Brown township, Franklin county, Ohio. None of those referred to is more worthy of extended mention than is the subject of this sketch. Richard Jones is a grandson of Richard Jones, who was born in Cardiganshire, Wales. The first Richard Jones was a shoemaker and it is stated that though he had little opportunity for education he more than once showed that he was a man of ability. He owed much of such book learning as he acquired to Mary George, who became his wife and was his teacher. He was one of the best shoemakers in his vicinity and was well patronized, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 541 and it has been narrated that he worked always with a book before him, studying as opportunity presented itself, and that it was not long after he came under his wife's tuition before he was able to keep accounts in a satisfactory manner. In 1800 he came with his wife and four children to the United States, sailing from. Liverpool to; Philadelphia, landing at Penpeck, afterward called Pennypeck, within the limits of the Pennsylvania metropolis. When he arrived he was one hundred dollars in debt, but he soon paid his creditors with the proceeds of his labor at his trade. He was a religious man of the Baptist faith and had early experienced a call to preach the gospel and had preached with considerable success from the time he was married. He continued preaching in America until the end of his life, and preached once after he was eighty-four years old. He remained at Philadelphia. about five years and then removed to New York state, where he farmed, worked at his trade and preached the sacred word until he died in the eighty-fifth year of his age, his wife dying at the age of eighty-three. Following will be found some items concerning their children, the first four of whom were born in Wales, the others in the United States : David R., who died on the Welsh Hills, north of Granville, Ohio, was the father of the subject of this sketch and more will be said of him further on. Nancy, who married Richard Jones, died at Prospect, New York. Jane married Robert Jones and died at Remsen, New York. Hannah. married Jenks Jenkins and died near Prospect, New York. Pollie married David Morris and died at Prospect, New York. Thomas married and died at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Remsen and Prospect are in Oneida county, New York, and it was near Remsen that the Rev. Richard Jones had his farm and home. Jenks Jenkins, who mar-Hannah Jones, had a great-grandson, Friend Jenkins, a lieutenant in the United States navy, attached to the Maine, who lost his life when that vessel went down in Havana harbor. David R. Jones, son of Richard Jones, pioneer and preacher; and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Wales in 1787 and was thirteen years old when he came with his father's family to Philadelphia. He took naturally to education, but his educational advantages were limited. He took learned much by reading and acquired much accurate and useful knowledge by observation. Under his father's instruction he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he was employed from time to time, but later he became a stone cutter and as such worked on many public improvements. He assisted in the construction of the Erie canal between Utica and Albany, New York, and often related an incident of his experience at that time. He and an Irish fellow workman made a wager with two other workmen that. they could drill more holes in stones in a given time than the other pair, it being understood that the winners of the wager should spend the money thus acquired in celebrating on the approaching Fourth of July. A cup was usedto pour water into the holes to clear them o dust, and at dinner time some one stole it; and in order to continue the work without interruption Mr. Jones removed his shoe and used it as a water vessel for the purpose indicated. 542 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. While he was pouring Water from it into the stone a son of Governor De Witt Clinton, the projector and promoter of the canal, stopped beside him and asked him why he made such use of his boot. Mr. Jones replied; "Some mischievous rascal stole my cup. Don't ask questions; I am drilling on a .wager and have no time to answer them." Mr. Clinton treated the matter as a good joke, and it is probable that he did not soon forget the stonecutter who was "too busy to answer questions." Mr. Clinton made Mr. Jones. a present of fifty cents, which was highly appreciated. Miss Juan Thomas married David R. Jones, near Utica, Nov York, and they located in Remsen township, Oneida county; of which Utica is the seat of justice. (After marriage she was always known as Susan Jones.) In 1837 they removed to Licking county, Ohio, and located on the Welsh Hills, north of Granville, in Granville township, where Mr. Jones engaged in farming on a new farm. He was an expert workman on canal construction and he earned money by such work in Ohio to buy horses and wagons and other necessary equipments and to help pay for his land, at times hauling cordwood to Granville, where he sold it at one dollar and twenty-five cents a cord. He died on that place in 1852, having attained prominence as a citizen, and 'his busy and successful career marks him as a prominent figure in the history of his family. His wife was born in 1793 and was seventeen years old at the time of her marriage. Richard Jones, son of David R. and Juan: (Thomas) Jones, was born in Remsen township, Oneida county, New York, May 1, 1823, their seventh child in order of nativity. The others were as follows: Thomas D. Jones, the noted sculptor; Benjamin, who died in Hawaii; Janette, who married John T. Jones and died in Wisconsin; Maria, who married James Pittsford and died in Licking county, Ohio; Ann, who married Henry Booth and became the mother of H. J. Booth and. died at Columbus, Ohio, where her son lives; and she also had a daughter Susan; Phebe, who married Isaiah Booth and died. near Cedar Rapids, Iowa; William, Who died in California; Hiram, who died in Licking county, Ohio; and David, who lives in Morrow County, Ohio. On account of his active interest in church work, the father of these children was known popularly as Deacon Jones. When he came with his family to Ohio, in 1837, his son Richard was fourteen years old. Ten years later, at the age of twenty-four, he married Sarah Keller, a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, and a daughter of Jacob and Ann (Miller) Keller. Their marriage was celebrated April 4, 1847. They have had children born to them as follows : Eli, who married Elizabeth Bidwell and lives in Madison county, Ohio; Alvira, who married Henry Folmer, of Madison county Ohio; Orlena, who married William McGlyncha, of Columbus, Ohio; Paul, who married Rose Thorn and for two terms filled the office of city solicitor of Columbus, Ohio; Diana, who died in 1877; Delia, who married Elmer Knauss, of Marion, Ohio; Nahum, who married Sophia Kastl and lives in Delaware county, Ohio; Janette and Juan, who are twins; and Lulia. Mr. Jones received the rudiments of his education in public schools CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 543 his early boyhood home in New York state, which he attended when he could be spared from work at home. His first employment after he came to Ohio was as a farm hand at ten dollars a month. Later he removed to Newark township, Licking county, where he married and acquired a good farm of one hundred and fifty acres on which there was a stone quarry. Early in 1868 he bought his present farm in Brown township, Franklin county, on which he located in March of that year. For a time he lived in a log house, present, after he developed a fine farm of two hundred acres, gave place to his present modern residence. His barn, which covers a ground space of one hundred and one by ninety feet, is the largest in Franklin county. He formerly gave much attention to breeding horses, but in more recent years has devoted himself to general farming. Politically he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote Was cast for James K. Polk. He has served his fellow citizens as justice of the peace for twelve years, has long held the office of township trustee and has for many years been prominent as a school director in his township, in which capacity he has done much to advance the cause of public education. He is a member of the Grange at West Jefferson, and he and Mrs. Jones are members of the Baptist church. The first death in his immediate family occurred in 1877. His mother died in 1870, aged seventy-seven years. WILLIAM E. KNOX. To a student of human nature there is nothing of greater interest than to examine into the life of a self made man and analyze the principles by which he has been governed, the methods he has pursued, to know what means he has employed for advancement and to study the plans which have given him prominence, enabling him to pass on the highway of life many who had a more advantageous start. In the history of Mr. Knox there is. deep food for thought, and if one so desires he may profit by the obvious lessons therein contained. William E. Knox is now successfully engaged in contracting and building in Columbus and he owes his rise to his own well-directed efforts. He was born in Gallia county, Ohio, August 19, 1868, and is a son of W. H. and Ellen (Davis) Knox. The father was a native of Wales, born in 1824, and the mother was born in Utica, New York, in the year 1830. Their marriage was celebrated in Clinton' county, Ohio, and soon afterward they removed to Gallia county, where they spent their remaining clays. Their son, William E. Knox, was there reared and acquired a good common-school education, receiving a thorough training in the fundamental knowledge which served as a foundation for successful effort in business life. After putting aside his text-books he learned the carpenter's trade with his father, who was a carpenter and builder, and continued to follow that occupation in the county of his nativity until 1890, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, and completed his trade under the direction of D. J. Anderson, a well-known representative 544 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of the building interests in the capital city. Mr. Knox subsequently traveled over the state, working in the different cities as a journeyman, and later went to Denver, Colorado; where he engaged in building on the cattle ranches owned by some of the leading cattle kings of the west. On returning to Columbus Mr. Knox entered into partnership with his brother, S. F. Knox, under the firm name of Knox Brothers, contractors and builders. Almost from the beginning they enjoyed a large, patronage The business connection between them was maintained until the death of S. F. Knox, in September, 1900, since which time our subject has carried on business alone. He has erected many of the fine residences of the city in recent years, took the contract and executed the work of the Methodist Episcopal church and also the new Presbyterian church, which is one of the finest houses of worship in Columbus. Many substantial and beautiful specimens of architecture and the builders trade stand as monuments to his enterprise and handiwork. He is now well established in business, having an extensive and profitable patronage. In the Builders and Traders' Exchange in Columbus he holds membership and is now one of the leading representatives of his line of work that contributes in greater measure than any other to the beauty and substantial improvement of the city. On the 3oth of October, 1900, Mr. Knox was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Morgan, of Columbus, a daughter of W. S. Morgan, a prominent early settler in Gallia county, Ohio. Her mother. was Mrs. Ann Morgan. Mr. Knox is a member of the Phoenix .Club, of Columbus, and is director of the music in the First Baptist church, in which he takes a great interest. He is well known socially and is popular with a large circle of friends. FRANK H. HOUGHTON, D. D. S. Dr. Frank H. Houghton, who is well known in Franklin county, has introduced a novel department in dentistry, being proprietor of a dental house boat, on which he sails the rivers of Florida through the winter months. His superior skill and ability in the line of his chosen profession has gained him a liberal and constantly increasing patronage and his prestige has been worthily won. His wide acquaintance in Columbus, Westerville and towns in this portion of Ohio will render his life history one of interest to the readers of this volume. The Doctor is a representative of an old New England family, his paternal grandparents being Samuel and Polly (Tyler) Houghton, who were farming people of Vermont. Their son, Benjamin W. Houghton, the Doctor's father, was born in Guilford, Vermont, in 1818, and was reared on the old homestead, acquiring a common-school education. Shortly after attending his majority he engaged in the manufacture of harness, ornaments and various other metal ornaments, continuing in that business up to the time of his death and finding it a profitable source of income. His labors, how- CENTENNIAL BIOGR4PHICAL HISTORY - 545 ever, were not limited alone to that line for he operated near the town a fine farm, which became celebrated for the excellent qualities of its products, and the owner was accounted one of the most capable agriculturists of his section. He was an active worker in politics, supporting the men and measures of the Whig party, yet was never an office seeker and often times refused high political preferments tendered him by his fellow townsmen. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a communicant of the Episcopal church, in which he was a recognized leader, holding many offices and zealously supporting its cause in all possible ways. He married Miss Mary A. Tylor, who, was born in Vernon, Vermont,. about 1822. His death occured in 1864, 'but his widow is still living and now resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his son Irving. Unto this worthy couple were born six children, but only three are .now living, namely : Frank H., Irving B., who is connected with the Boston & Troy Railroad Company, and resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Nathaniel T., who is in business in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Houghton was born in Guilford, Vermont, on the 12th of January, 1840, and remained with his parents until his sixteenth year. His preliminary education was acquired in the common schools, supplemented by study in the Westminster Academy, at Westminster, Vermont, the home of Ethan Allen, and was graduated from that institution in the spring of 1856. Immediately following the completion of his literary course he came to Ohio, taking up his abode in Springfield, where he found employment as a salesman in a dry goods house, remaining in that position for three years, after which he resigned and went to Louisiana. In company with Messrs. Cavalier and Owens, two young men of about his own age, he established a planter's supply house on the Mississippi river, three miles north of Milligan's Bend, and called his shlipping point Omega. From that place he shipped morethan half of the cotton grown in Madison parish, Louisiaa. They were meeting with a high degree of prosperity at the time Civil war was inaugurated. When the first gun was fired upon Fort Sumter, Dr. Houghton at once left his business interests in the south, returned to Ohio, and on the 29th of July, 1862, enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio Independent Artillery as sergeant. On the 5th of April, 1863, he was promoted to quartermaster sergeant and on the 20th of August, of that year, was commissioned second lieutenant of the company. During the last year of his service he had command of the battery, for Captain Rice and the first lieutenant were on detached duty. Dr. Houghton participated in the first attack on Vicksburg and the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Fort Hindman, Port Gibson, Champion, Hill, Jackson, Baker's Creek, Black River and the siege of Vicksburg. With the Thirteenth Army corps he was sent to the Department of the Gulf when that corps was consolidated with the Nineteenth and then took part in the Red River campaign, including Vermillionville and Carrion Crow Bayou, where Dr. Houghton had a horse shot from under him. He was in numerous other skirmishes 546 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. and minor engagements in that part of the country and then returned to winter quarters at New Orleans. In 1864 his command was assign to the Sixteenth Army Corps and took part in the battle of Fort Morgan, where he was the first man on the works. He was also in the important engagement's of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely (Mobile's last stronghold), the latter being the last battle of consequence of the war. At the time of the surrender of General Lee he was in Mobile, Alabama, and was mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 16th of August, 1865. After the war Dr. Houghton went to Worcester, Massachusetts, and took up the study of dentistry, which he had followed to some extent during his college days, under the direction of his uncles, Drs. Nathaniel and Levi Tyler, both of whom. were noted men of the profession. After the war he continued his study with Dr. E. B. Nettleton for about a year and then went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he entered the office of Dr. Whiteside In 1867 he came to Westerville, Ohio, and began practice here. In 1870 he opened an office in Columbus, where he remained until 1895. Since that time he has spent the greater part of his time in Florida and has passedmost of his winters in that state since 1880. In the Peninsular state he has introduced the novel method of practicing his profession from a house boat. Each winter Florida is visited by hutndreds of tourists who find it impossible to obtain good dental service and since 1880 Dr. Houghton has made it his practice to spend his winters in the south and continue the prosecution of his profession there. Having to reach the people by rail or steamer, which necessarily caused loss of time in transit and packing and unpacking his outfit and as his practice increased and the modern ideas and improved methods required a greater amount of apparatus, he devised the scheme of fitting up a floating dental office. His friends discouraged him, saying that the vibration and motion would be such that he could not operate with comfort, but in spite of this discouraging counsel and at the expense of several thousand dollars he constructed the vessel, using sixteen thousand feet of lumber, and gave to her the suggestive name of Dentos. The practicability of the plan has been well demonstrated; his plan of notifying the people.of his visits is usually by card or by some of the weekly newspapers along the coast. On several occasions he has easily operated at the chair for patients in transit. This is certainly novel and almost like a dream to know that one may have dental service performed while gliding up and down the rivers, amid stately palms and other tropical plants, the banks forming a constant changing panorama while sail boats, yachts and launches add to the picturesqueness of the scene. The Dentos is a floating vessel fifty-three feet long, a deck twenty feet broad and a hull twelve feet broad and two and a half feet deep. The hull is made entirely of selected heart cypress and the cabin is made of Georgia pine, ceiled outside and inside. The cabin is thirty-eight feet long and fifteen feet wide, and is divided into four apartments. There are intermediate staterooms with a capacity of three berths and. everything is most complete, being supplied with the modern conveniences of a home and all of the equipment of a first CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 547 class dental office. The route is along the Halifax, Hillsboro and Indian rivers; the most beautiful, healthful and picturesque part of Florida. The Doctor has a large practice, constantly growing, and his success is certainly well merited, for he keeps in constant touch. with progress and improved methods and has not only a complete understanding of the scientific principles of dentistry, but is most skilled in his application of its mechanical principles, since 1872 he has been a member of the Ohio State Dental Association. On the 3d of December, 1868, the marriage. of Dr. Houghton and Miss Rebecca D. Slaughter was celebrated, the lady being a daughter of the Rev. Dr. William Slaughter. They now have one child, Frank H., of Akron, Ohio, who is contracting freight agent of the Akron, Wheeling & Pittsburg district of the Vanderbilt railroad system. In politics the Doctor is a stanch Republican, never wavering in his allegiance to the party. Socially he is connected with Blendon Lodge, No. 339, F. & A. M., of Westerville, and Horeb Chapter, No 3, R. A. M. He also belongs to Cincinnati Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Of the Episcopal churth he is a communicant. He owns one of the most attractive residences in Westerville and also has a beautiful home in Daytona, Florida, where he now spends the greater part of his time. While his professional career has gained him distinction in the fraternity, his never failing courtesy, obliging manner and genial disposition have won him many friends in social life. IRA LEROY MILLER. This well-known and popular citizen of Columbus is now a member of the organization department of the state Republican headquarters for the campaign of 1900, and has always taken quite an active and prominent part in political affairs. A native of Ohio; he was born in, Jackson county, the only child of Theodore and Jenny (Conner) Miller. The father, who served for two years in a West Virginia regiment during the Civil war, died when our subject was very young. The maternal grandfather, Rev. Mr. Conner, was a resident of Fayette county, this state, his family and the Millers both being early settlers of Ohio. They came from Miller's Ferry, West Virginia, now called Hawk's Nest. Reared in his native county, Mr. Miller of this review acquired his education in its public schools, and continued to make his home there until coming to Columbus, in 1889. On first locating here he traveled for a mercantile house, and then represented the New York Life Insurance Company from 1895 to 1899. He was next bookkeeper and cashier with the Jones Shoe Manufacturing Company until July, 1900. For the past ten years Mr. Miller has been prominently identified with Republican politics as an active member of city, county and state committees, and during the campaign of 1896 was vice-president of the Young Men's Republican Club, which was the most important organization of the kind in city or county, having about three hundred working members. His genial, pleasant manner has made   548 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. him quite popular in business, 'social and political circles, and as a public spirited and enterprising man he is recognized, as a valued citizen of the community. Mr. Miller married Miss Maud Ennes, of Sandusky, Ohio, who presides with gracious dignity over his home. Religiously they are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. WILLIAM HIRAM SIMONTON. In connection with. hotel interests at Columbus, Ohio, the name of Simonton was long prominent and it has since been prominent in connection with 'official and business interests. One of its prominent representatives at this time is William Hiram Simonton, ex-county clerk of Franklin county, some account of whose antecedents and career it will be attempted here to give. Theophilus Simonton, grandfather of William Hiram Simonton, came to Ohio from North Carolina and served his country as a soldier in the war of 1812-14. Hiram Simonton, son of Theophilus Simonton, and father of the :subject of this sketch, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, in 1804, and died in Columbus in 1892, in his eighty-eighth year. He came to Columbus in 1849, from Milford, Clermont county, where he. had been engaged in business, and at the request of John Noble, father of Henry C. Noble, who owned the Buckeye House on Broad street on the present site of the board of trade, opened that hotel. In 1851 he went to the United States Hotel, which yet stands at. the corner of High and Town :streets, and managed it until 1862, when he took chargé of the Franklin House on High street, owned by the Hubbards, where he remained until 1867. From 1867 to 1871 he lived in Lithopolis, Fairfield county, Ohio, but returning to Columbus in 1871, he built an attractive home on Main street, where he died and which has since his death been the home of his son, William Hiram Simonton. He was one of the most popular hotel men of his time and was strongly and widely influential as a Democrat. He married Elizabeth Snell, of a family well known in Ohio, who came from Pennsylvania. William Hiram Simonton was born in Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, in 1847, and was two years old when his father removed to Columbus. After receiving a good education in the public schools, he became a clerk in the United States Hotel, and was later employed in the same capacity at the Zettier House, both of Columbus, the latter at the corner of Main and Fourth streets. In 1878 he became deputy county clerk of Franklin county under County Clerk Harvey Cashatt, and filled the office until 1890 with such efficiency that he was that year elected: county clerk. He retired from that responisible position in August, 1894, since when he has lived retired, giving attention to his private interests and to Democratic local politics, in which he is influential. He married Miss Rosina Yaisle, daughter of the late Samuel Yaisle, and has a son, Mark Simonton, who is well known in connection with the Electric Supply & Construction Company of Columbus, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 549 amd who is a graduate not only of the Columbus high school, but, as an electrical engineer, from the Ohio State University. Alvah W. Simonton, brother of William Hiram Simonton, is a prominent collector of Columbus. Another brother, Marcus Simonton, now a prominent citizen of 'Cincinnati, was during the Civil war post-quartermaster at Camp Chase under appointment by Governor Dennison. Mr. Simonton's sister, Miss Mattie H. Simonton, has long been a successful teacher. She was principal of the public school at Third and Rich streets, Columbus, and is now principal of the Ohio avenue school, having charge of eight hundred pupils. FRANK A. CHENOWETH. The name of Chenoweth is one that figures conspicuously in connection with the history of Franklin county, for its representatives have long been residents of this portion of the state and have ever been people of sterling worth, numbered among the valued citizens of the community. Frank Albert Chenoweth, of this review, was for some years an important factor in business circles in Harrisburg, but is now living retired. He is a son of William B. and Rebecca J. (Johnston) Chenoweth, and was born on the old family homestead at Harrisburg, May 31, 1856. He spent the days of his childhood and youth upon the home farm and after acquiring his preliminary education in the schools of Harrisburg, continued his studies in the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. During his youth. he engaged in clerking in a store, and his training in that direction well qualified him to engage in business on his own account in later years. In March, 1879, he opened a gneral store in Harrisburg and afterward his father became a partner in the enterprise, the association being formed in 1881 and maintained until August, 1900, when they sold the store to Alfred Mead. At first they carried only groceries and hardware, but afterward added a stock of dry goods and notions, and still later, boots and shoes. The commendable business policy which they followed constantly increased the trade annually transacted: over their counters. They were proprietors of one of the leading general mercantile establishments in this portion of the state and their success was well merited, for it was their honest desire to please their patrons. Mr. Chenowith, of this review, now gives his attention in some measure to the real estate to business, and is the owner of some very valuable property. He was married in Westerville, Ohio, to Miss May Altman, a daughter of S. F. Altman, and their union has been blessed with two children, Milo Faxon and Marshall Frank. Since casting his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield, Mr. Chenoweth has been a stalwart supporter of Republican principles, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to devote his attention to his private business affairs. He was made a Mason twenty-three years ago in Commercial Point, and about fifteen years later transferred his membership to Mt. Sterling, Ohio, where 'he is still an active member. He