600 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. DANIEL W. McGRATH. The field of business, offers limitless opportunities to men of energy, determination and ambition. To a student of biography there is nothing more interesting than to examine the life history of self-made men 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 honored 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." He was a native of New York, born on the 15th of September, 1854. His, father, Patrick McGrath; is a native of Ireland, and' in early manhood he married Miss Mary Magher, who was also born on the green isle of Erin. On crossing the Atlantic to the new world they located first in Genesee county, New York, and from Lewiston, that state, they emigrated to Ohio about 1856, taking up their abode in Madison county, upon a farm. At the present time they are residents of Columbus, and. are communicants of the Sacred Heart church. Having completed his educational course, Daniel W. McGrath began learning the mason's trade, and after mastering that. business worked as a journeyman for a time. In 1874 he came from Madison county to Columbus, where he was employed at his trade until 1884, when he began contracting and building on his own account. He has since carried on an independent business career and has won prominence in his chosen calling. A great many of the school buildings erected in Columbus during the past sixteen years stand as monuments to his thrift and. enterprise. He also erected the jail in Madison county, and he now has under. contract the fire-proofing and mason work on the new addition to the Ohio state house. He built the only four "sky-scrapers" of the city, these being the 'Wyandotte, the Spah, the Schultz and the Olentangy, all fine office buildings. He is to-day regarded as one of the most prominent builders in this portion of the state, owing to his thorough understanding of the practical work, to his close application to business; to his fidelity to the terms of a contract and to his honorable effort. He did all the mason work on the National Steel Plant, also on the Martin Furnace Works, and secured and executed the entire contract for the Glass Works. He is now duplicating the same plant.   In 1883 Mr. McGrath was united in .marriage with Miss Mary Jane Hunter, of Sidney, Ohio, a daughter of William and Mary (Gallagher Hunter. Mr. Hunter was a prominent farmer of Shelby county, Ohio, a died in 1878, at the age of seventy-five years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. McGrat have been born six children, three sons and three daughters : Edward, Frank, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 601 John, Marie, Lillian and Annie. They are now attending private schools, some of the family being students in the Sacred Heart parish school. In his political affiliations Mr. McGrath is independent, and socially he is a member of the Elks and Knights of Columbus. His time and attention, however, are practically given to his business affairs, in which he has met with signal success. Regarded as a citizen he belongs to the public-spirited, useful and helpful kind of men whose ambitions and desires are centered and directed in those channels through which flow the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest number, and it is therefore consistent with the purpose and plan of his work that his record be given among those of the representative men of the capital city. ADAM TRISH. A well known and highly respected farmer of Norwich township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Adam Trish, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Truro township, May 4, 1852, and was the son of one of the most highly esteemed citizens of that section. His father, also Adam Trish, was a native of Germany, born there in 1823, who was sent to school until he was fourteen years old, at which time his uncle came to America, bringing the lad with him. He remained at Tiffin, Ohio, engaged in farming, but when a boy he had learned the trade of weaving. In that place he met the mother of our subject,. Elizabeth Shafer, a daughter of John Shaer, of Tiffin, and after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Trish moved to Truro township where he engaged in work as a day laborer. In 1858 Adam Trish, the elder, bought a tract of land containing one hundred acres, upon which was built a log cabin of two rooms. By industry he managed to get this land cleared and in 1876 built upon it the substantial residence now occupied by our subject. He was a man who took an intelligent interest in politics, but never wished office, consenting to serve only on the school board. Other members of his family probably came to the United States. but separation had caused him to lose knowledge of their movements. Both Mr. and Mrs. Trish were members of the religious sect known as the River Brethren. His death occurred in July, 1885, and that of Mrs. Trish, August 7, 1888, the children born to them being Emmeline, Mrs. Joshua Armstrong, of Mercer county, Indiana ; John, of Licking county, Ohio; Barbara, Mrs. Christian Myer, of Licking county, Ohio ; our subject ; Margaret, Mrs. George Somers, of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio ; Josephine, Mrs. William Somers; of Newark, Ohio; and Marie, Mrsi. John: Hummel, of Columbus. Our subject was about five years old when his father located apon his present farm. His parents were anxious to have him take advantage of all school privileges that were provided, and he recalls his first experience at the old Brumley "school and the name of his first teacher, Joseph Godowin. soon as he became large enough he was obliged to take part in the work 38 602 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of the farm and his school opportunities were limited to three months in the winter. Until his marriage, Mr. Trish continued to work for his father, but after that event he rented the farm from him and also. rented other land, buying the home farm in 1893. He has been very successful in his efforts, and much credit must be given him, for he began without a dollar of his own. A great amount of pluck, energy and honest labor is required to obtain the comforts' of life which are now enjoyed by Mr. Trish. The marriage of our subject took place January 17, 1877, to Miss Louisa Carl, daughter of Christian and Mary (Seibert) Carl, who was born in Prairie township, March 1o, 1854. Mr. Carl came from Germany with his parents, when he was eighteen years old, they being Louis and Elizabeth (Koerchner) Carl, who died in Prairie township, this county. The family of our subject and his esteemed wife are : Elizabeth M., born August 28, 1877; Marie A., born September 14, 1879; Emmerson R., born December 11, 1882; Nettie Forest, born March 12, 1886; Maggie F., born February 22, 1889; and Adam Carl, born February 25, 1893. Mr. Trish is a stanch Democrat in his political convictions, and has always been ready to assist in the councils' of his party. He has served on the school board several terms, and. in 1898 was elected township trustee. Mrs. Trish is a most estimable lady, a valued member of the Methodist church and a kind neighbor and friend. EDWARD E. MILLER The history of an industrious, honorable and useful life is always valuable reading, inculcating lessons which must be beneficial to young men wise enough to learn from the experience of others and conscientious enough to desire to emulate the good example of others. Such a well spent life as is here suggested is that of Edward E. Miller, of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio. Mr. Miller was born in Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, May 2, 1836, a son of Isaac and Fannie (Holloway) Miller. His father, who was a native of Virginia, came with his parents to Clark county, Ohio, when he was seven years old, and he was there educated in the common schools and reared as a farmer boy of all work. After his marriage, in 1834, he came to Jackson township, Franklin county, and locating in the woods he lived for some time in a little log house which he built there, then sold the place and bought another which he cleared and improved, and on which he lived until his death, at the age of seventy-one years. He was successful in a worldly way, and as a citizen was popular and influential. He was a Whig until the Whig party was merged into the Republican party, and after that he voted the Republican ticket and worked for Republican principles until the end of his life. For many years he ably filled the office of justice of the peace. In religious affiliation he was a Methodist, active in the work of his church and generous and helpful in the support of all its interests. He CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL. HISTORY - 603 was a class-leader, a steward, a Sunday-school superintendent, and in one capacity or another was always laboring for the advancement of the cause of Christ in his denomination. He not only donated the land on which Concord church stands, but was a liberal contributor toward the maintenance of worship there until the end: of his days, and he was largely instrumental in replacing with a modern frame structure the small primitive church originally erected of logscut on his land: Abraham Miller, his father, was born in Virginia, of German ancestors, and spoke the German language. Mr Miller regrets that he knows little aboutthe family history of his Mother, Fannie (Holloway), who died in the sixty-second year of her age, after having brought into the world six sons and six daughters, all of whom married and reared families, and four sons and three daughters of whom are now living. The subject of this sketch was the third son and fifth child of his parents in order of birth, and was reared to farm work. in Jackson township was there educated in public and subscription schools, and has a vivid recollection of the early log schoolhouses, which had greased-paper windows which admitted some light. but would not permit the children to look out, seats were of split logs, the rude slab desks were supported on pins driven in the walls, there were big fireplaces and stick and mud chimneys, and other crude and unattractive furnishings. Notwithstanding the fact that the teaching in those days was as primitive as the schoolhouses, the boy acquired a fair education, . and at the age of twenty he hired a man to work in his place for his father until he should be twenty-one and began life for himself as a teacher. He taught five years continuously, and some years later, after his marriage, he taught two winter terms. Eliza A. Demorest, who became his wife October 2, 1866, was a native of Piatt county, Illinois, and was born at Whiteheath, April 4, 1839. Her father, Isaac Demorest, was born in Ohio, of French ancestry, and was twice married, first to Margaret Alkire, who bore him a son named. William, wlio died at the age of twenty-one years, and after her death, to Clarissa Kerr, a native of Franklin county; Ohio. Miss Kerr, who was born and reared at Harrisburg, descended from Irish ancestors. On the paternal side his mother was Leah Goetchius, a native of the state of New York, and of German ancestry. Isaac and Clarissa (Kerr) Demorest had four daughters and one son. A biographical sketch of their son Russell B., appears elsewhere in this Work. The daughters were. named Margaret, Emeline, Eliza A. and Jennie. Mrs. Miller was the third daughter and fourth child of her parents in order of nativity, and. was four years old when they came to Franklin county. She received a collegiate education at Delaware, Ohio', and after her graduation taught school one year. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Miller located on the farm upon which they now live and began housekeeping in a weatherboarded log house of four rooms, which in 1874 was replaced by their present more modern and much more commodious residence. His original farm consisted of one 604 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. hundred and thirty-four acres. By purchase of the old family homestead he increased his holdings to almost three hundred acres, which is devoted largely to general farming. Besides being a successful farmer, Mr. Miller has achieved considerable reputation as a stockman, and he had on his place an establishment for the manufacture of drain tile, of which he sold considerable quantities to neighboring farmers and some of which he utilized for the improvement of his own farm. Politically Mr. Miller allied himself with the Prohibition party more than a quarter of a century ago, and since then he has worked consistently for the advancement of the interests of that organization. In 1874 he was the candidate of his party for the office of county treasurer. He is an active member of Concord Methodist Episcopal church, and was its recording secretary for twenty years, and has filled every other office in the church except that of pastor, and has been superintendent of its Sunday-school since 1867. He is a prominent member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has a good record as a soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in Company B, Ninety-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to the office of corporal. At the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, he was shot through the foot, and in January, 1863, he was honorably discharged from the service on account of disability, and for two years afterward conducted a photograph gallery at Camp Chase, and for a short time after that was in the same business in Columbus. He is a man of much public spirit, who takes a real interest in his township and county, and works conscientiously for their moral, educational and political advancement and- prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have three children, named Marcus R., Merritt F. and Clara Ethel. Two others died in infancy. FRANCIS WHARTON BLAKE, M. D. One of the prominent and representative members of the medical profession of Columbus, Ohio, is Francis Wharton Blake, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Gambier, Knox county, Ohio, in 1858. His father, the Rev. Alfred. Blake, D. D., was a native of New Hampshire, born in 1809. and his later years were devoted. to the ministry of the Episcopal church. For a number of years he was the proprietor and principal of a boys' school in Gambier, where he is still gratefully remembered. He moved to Ohio in 1827, entering the junior class of Kenyon College His grandfather was a native of New Hampshire, and died in 1827, after a life of agricultural pursuits. His wife was a member of the Jilson family. The mother of our subject was Anne J. (Leonard) Blake, a daughter of Joseph Leonard, who for many years was agent for the Lloyds at Amsterdam. Her mother was Ann (Peake) Leonard. Mrs. Blake was born in Holland, and came to America in childhood. She still resides in Gambier, although her early home in Ohio was at Circleville. Our subject spent his boyhood and received his preparatory education CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 605 in the schools of Gambier, later entering Kenyon College, from Which he was graduated in 1880. Choosing medicine as his life profession, Dr. Blake began its serious study with Dr. J. W. Hamilton, of Columbus, and graduated at the Columbus Medical College in 1883. Following this successful termination of his college course, our subject then went to New York city, where he became associated with the New York Hospital for Ruptured: and Crippled, remaining two years and gaining invaluable knowledge and experience. Still pursuing his profession in other lines, he became an assistant in the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, and also in the New York Polyclinic. He returned to Columbus in 1886, thoroughly prepared to practice his profession. Since that time Dr. Blake has earned most gratifying success and the esteem of the community. Dr. Blake is connected with the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Medicine. LEWIS MOREHEAD. There is something in the way of example in the life of every man who triumphs over obstacles and gains an enviable place among his; fellow citizens that should not be withheld. from others who are struggling for success, for there is much of encouragement in the trite declaration, "What than has done man may do again," and many a man' who has succeeded in life acknowledges indebtedness to it. The career of Lewis Morehead, ex-county commissioner of Franklin county, Ohio, is that of a worthy self-made man, and as such deserves a place in a work of the character and. scope of this. Lewis Morehead was born in. Hamilton township, Franklin county, Ohio, November 26, 1843, a son of Lewis and Charlotte (Wright) Morehead. Lewis Morehead, Sr., was born in the same house in which his son was born and was reared in Hamilton township and educated in its public schools, and he was there married and passed his days as a general farmer and a leading citizen and: died in 1844, aged about thirty-eight years. Ferguson Morehead, his father, was a native of Kentucky and one of the early pioneers in Hamilton township. Charlotte Wright, who married Lewis Morehead, Sr., and is the mother of Lewis Morehead, was born in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Watt) Wright, and was of mixed English and Scotch blood. At the age of nine years; she was brought to Franklin county by her parents, who were among the early settlers there. She is still living. Lewis Morehead was the only child of his parents and was reared and educated in his native township and brought up to the laborious and' honorable life of a farmer. He was married, January 14, 1869, to Elizabeth Williams, a native of Hamilton township, Franklin county, and a daughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Weight) Williams, who were among the early settlers in the county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Morehead were born three children, but Carrie 606 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. and. Catherine died in infancy, Lewis, the second child, being the only survivor.     . After his marriage Mr. Morehead settled on the Williams homestead and farmed there successfully until. 1898, when he located at Shadeville. In 1880 he went on the road for the Aultman concern, selling agricultural implements, and was thus employed in connection with farming until 1886, when he was elected county commissioner of Franklin county. His performance of the duties of that mportant office was characterized by so much honesty and efficiency that his re-election was demanded by the people and he was elected again in 1889. He has also held the office of township trustee and in that capacity he showed the same devotion to the public interests that marked his administration of the office of county commissioner. In his political views he is a Democrat, and he is fully in accord with the best principles of his party, past and present. Mr. Morehead owns five hundred and twenty-six acres of land, all under a good state of improvement, and ranks with the well-to-do farmers of his part of the county and is honored as a citizen of integrity and influence and as an ex-soldier of the Civil war, for he enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company K, One. Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days, and served the term of his enlistment, and re-enlisted for one year or during the war and attended faithfully to his soldierly duties until discharged: from the service on account of ill health contracted in the army. Since he has retired from active life it is fitting that proper reference to his achievements. in his official capacity should be made in this connection. During his service as county commissioner the county courthouse was finished, the new county jail was built, more needed bridges were constructed than in any like period of the history of the county, the soldiers' monument was erected, noteworthy provision was made for the county's unfortunate and deserving poor and numerous other reforms and improvements were instituted. In all the good public work indicated Mr. Morehead: took a prcminent part, which will not soon be forgotten. Mr. Morehead is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and his son, Lewis W. Morehead, who manages his father's farming interests since the latter's retirement, took all the degrees with him. They are well informed and, enthusiastic Masons who exert themselves in every way for the benefit of their beneficent order, and, through it, for the good of their fellow men, and are well and widely known in the fraternity. and are popular not only in Masonic circles but in all circles in which. they move. After the death of Lewis Morehead, her first husband, Mrs. Morehead married Lockhard Ramsey and bore him two children, one of whom is living ---.Lockhard Ramsey, Jr., a well known farmer of Hamilton township. Lockhard Ramsey, Sr., died in 1852, and for twenty-one years Mrs. Ramsey has been a member of the household of her son Lewis Morehead and is accorded the honors due to one of the early. born women of the township, a living link between the old order of things and the new. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 607 CHARLES E. TURNER, M. D. A native of Ohio, Dr. Turner was born in Zanesville, on the 19th of April, 1874. But little is known concerning the ancestral history of the family save that the first of the name in America came from England. John L. Turner, the father of our subject, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and in early manhood engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods in his native state. He afterward removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where he is still living. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Elizabeth A. Mile and was born in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Turner spent the days. of his youth in his parents home in Zanesville and attended the common schools. He was graduated in the high school of that city and then, preparing for professional life, became a student in the office of Dr. J. M. Fasing, of Zanesville, who directed his preliminary reading until he was enrolled among the students of Starling Medical Colege, being graduated there in 1896. Later he went to New York city, .where e took a post-graduate course in the Post-Graduate College, completing the same in September of that year. Returning to his home in Zanesville, he made arrangements to remove to Columbus, and through the past five years has conducted a general practice here with good success. On the 1st of June, 1898, Dr. Turner was .united in marriage to Miss Wilhelmina von der Auf, of Columbus, a daughter of John von der Auf. Their pleasant home is a hospitable one and their friends are numerous. The Doctor belongs to Mentor Lodge, No. 642, K. P., and in the line of his profession holds membership in the Columbus Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society. He entered upon his. professional career well prepared for its arduous and responsible duties. He is most faithful to the trusts reposed in him, and his persistent efforts have led to his continued advancement. ROBERT D. GRANT. This well-known :general merchant of Grove City and one of the leading business men of that place has shown in his successful career that he has the ability to plan wisely and execute with energy, a combination which, when possessed by men in any walk of life, never fails to effect notable results. He is a native of Franklin county, born in Jackson township August 28, 1847, and is the eighth child and second son in the family of Hugh and Leah (Deamer) Grant, more extended mention of whom is made in the sketch of A. G. Grant on another page of this volume. Our subject was reared in his native township, and obtained his education in its district schools. On the seventeenth anniversary of his birth he joined the boys in blue of the Civil war, enlisting in 1864 as a private of Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer. Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war, taking part in the battle of Nash- 608 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ville which was a two-days engagement. When hostilities ceased he was honorably discharged at that place and returned home.  Mr. Grant then learned the plasterer's trade in Grove City, but after completing his apprenticeship plastered one house and then retired from the business. For about five years he was engaged in mercantile business with his brother, A. G. Grant, and then formed a partnership with him, which lasted about the same length of time. He then sold his interest in the business to his brother, A. G. Grant, but a month later purchased the establishment, and has since engaged in business alone, being the oldest merchant in Grove City. He carries a large and well-selected stock of groceries and dry goods, and enjoys an excellent trade. For about six years he was also interested in the manufacture of brick at Mt. Sterling and Grove City, and was engaged in the grain and coal business three years. Mr. Grant has been twice married. In 1871, he wedded Miss Isabel Stranahan, by whom he had four children, but Adelbert and Lillie May are both deceased. Those living are Nellie, wife of Dr. F. C. Wright, a practicing physician of Grove City; and Elizabeth at home. In 1887 he married his present wife, who was in her maidenhood Miss Caroline Rowles. Mr. Grant is five feet, four inches and a half in height, and now weighs three hundred and fifty pounds, while at one time he weighed three hundred ninety-eight and a half. Socially he is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Grove City; and politically is identified with the Republican party. For eleven years he was the efficient and popular postmaster of Grove City, and has been a member of the school board twelve years. By his untiring industry and sound judgment Mr. Grant has won merited success in business affairs, and is in all respects worthy the high regard in which he is held by his fellow men. GEORGE A. NICHOLS. George A. Nichols, one of the younger engineers in. the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on the 28th of January, 1866, a son of Daniel and Caroline Nichols, who were married April 16, 1851. His grandfather was a native of New Jersey and removed to Ohio at an early day, while his original American ancestors were of Holland birth. His father, who was born in Fairfield county, on the 4th of November, 1829, has devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Caroline Nichols was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1831. Their children are : Ellen, Eliza, Kate and George A. The last named was married October 2, 1871, in Avondale, Ohio, to Miss Carrie Nelson and they have since resided in Columbus. Her parents, Samuel and Sarah Nelson, were born in Coshocton county, Ohio, and now reside in Evansburg, this state. Their children are : Jacob, who is now a fireman on the Atchison, Topeka & St. Louis Railroad; John, an express messenger on the Pan Handle CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 609 Railroad; Robert, who is engaged in clerking; Clarence, who is also in the railway employ; Agnes, wife of James Drafton; and Carrie, the wife of our subject. Mr. Nichols entered the railway service February 2, 1889, as an employ of the Pennsylvania road. He has acted as fireman on both passenger and freight engines, and after ten years spent in that way he was made an engineer, in which position he has since served. On the 2d of July, 1898, he met with an accident. The train was going at the rate of forty-five or fifty miles an hour, and Mr. Nichols jumped from his, engine and escaped with a broken nose and a bruised, head, while his fireman had an arm broken. He is a member of Division No. 445 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of Columbus. He has a Wide acquaintance among train men and also has many. friends in other walks. of life. JOHN WARNER. On one of the fine farms of Hamilton township resides John Warner, who is classified among the leading agriculturists of his community. For forty-nine years he has 'been a resident of Franklin county. To-day he owns and operates two hundred and ninety acres of land, and his progressive business methods have made his property very valuable. Mr. Warner was born in Hanover, Germany, August 22, 1835, his parents being John and Elizabeth Warner. The mother died during his infancy, while his father died when he was a small boy, so that he. was early left an orphan and was reared by his brothers and sisters. When about seventeen years of age he 'came to America with his brother Henry, making his way direct to Columbus, Ohio. This was in 1852. He began working by the day or month at anything he could get to do in or near Columbus, and was employed in that manner until his enlistment in the Union army, as a member of Company B, One Hundred Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He joined the service as a private, was promoted to corporal, afterward to sergeant and later became color bearer of his regiment, which position he filled until the close of the war, in 1865. He was at the front for almost three years, and at Chickamauga was slightly wounded, but did not leave his post of duty. He was never in a hospital or in a southern prison, and with loyal spirit he followed the stars and stripes on many a southern battlefield, participating in the engagements at Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw: Mountain, the siege of Atlanta and the battle of Jonesboro, together with many other engagements of less importance. He was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea and was at the battles of Evansburg and Bentonville. He also participated in the grand review at Washington, and was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, receiving an honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio. Again Mr. Warner began work by the day or month in and near Columbus, being thus occupied for about a year. He was in the employ of Wash- 610 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ington Rees for a year and then began operating land for him on the shares, Mr. Rees furnishing all supplies and implements and giving to Mr. Warner his board and one-third .of the crops. The succeeding year he operated Mr Rees' land for one-half the crops, our subject furnishing the supplies, an boarded with Mr. Rees until 1872. He thus followed farming on the shar until about 1890, when he purchased of Mr. Rees the farm upon which he is now residing, comprising one hundred: twenty-five and a half acres. However, he had previously purchased the McLish farm of eighty acres, but never lived upon the place and afterward sold it. He has purchased one hundred and sixty-five acres of the Kelly farm, on the Chillicothe or High street pike, and that land is now operated by his son. Mr. Warner was married May 16, 1871, to Elizabeth Franck, a native of Franklin county and a daughter of Samuel and Jane Franck, who were early settlers of this locality. Her father came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, but her mother, who bore the maiden name of Jane Adams, was born on the farm where Mr. Warner now resides, the Adams family being among the first to locate in Franklin county. Unto our subject and his wife have been born five children, two sons and three daughters : Nellie, now the wife of Henry Constant, by whom she has three children, Clark, John P. and William Ray, their homes being near Columbus ; Henry, who married Ida Fisher, by whom he has a son, Horton, and resides on his father's farm on the High street pike; Clara, the wife of Charles Hann, a farmer of Hamilton township, by whom she has a son, Raymond Clayton; John, at home; and Effie, who is attending school. All were born in Hamilton township. The family is one of prominence in the community and the members of the household enjoy the high regard of many friends. Mr. Warner belongs to Johnson Watson Post, G. A. R., of Groveport. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and is now serving in his third year as trustee of Hamilton township. He is also school director, and is a citizen who takes a deep interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, its progress and upbuilding. Coming to this country empty-handed, he owes all that he possesses to his own efforts and his success is creditable and well deserved. DAIWALT MACHLIN. Daiwalt Machlin, a retired farmer of Pleasant township, is numbered among the native citizens of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in York county, that state, on the 18th of August, 1834. His grandfather, George Machlin, was also born in the same county and, was a farmer by occupation. His ancestors came to America from the Netherlands, in 1727, and located in Philadelphia, thus founding the family in the new world. George Machlin married Elizabeth Achenbach. He is a native of York county, where they spent their entire lives. Daiwalt Machlin, a brother of the grandfather, left Pennsylvania for Ohio and died near Lancaster, this state. Another brother became a resident of Perry county, while a third took up his abode near CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 611 Cleveland and, and among the early settlers of the state they were numbered. Daniel Machlin, the father of our subject, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1813. His educational privileges were limited, but his training at farm labor was not meager. He married Mary Linebaugh, who was born in York county, Pennsylvania, about 1813, and was a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Wikie) Linebaugh. The latter's father came to America from Germany before th ar of the Revolution. After his marriage Daniel Machlin rented land for a time and then purchased a farm from the Furnace Cornpay, which cut timber from the place and used it for charcoal for fuel. Throughout his active business career he carried on agricultural pursuits, but, died in early manhood, passing away in 1846. His wife, long surviving him, died in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1894. She had again married, becoming the wife of Genesis Glassick. Both the parents of our subject held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and in his political affiliations the father was a Whig. Their children were five in number, namely : Daiwalt; Silana, who bcame the wife of Howard Linebaugh, of York county, Pennsylvania; Mary, the wife of John. Fishel, also of York county; Sarah, wife of Solomon Wire, of the same county; and Susan, who married Henry Kochenaur, who died in York county soon after her marriage. By her second marriage the mother had two children : John H. and William D., both of York county, the latter a practicing physician. Mr. Machlin, whose name introduces this record, began work early in life as an assistant upon the home farm. He attended school for about three months during the year, but the teachers were often incompetent and the studies were of a limited character. He remained under the parental roof until eighteen years of age, when he spent one summer on a farm twenty-five miles from his home. In the following spring he came to Ohio, having twenty-five dollars above the expenses of the journey. He worked, his way to the home of an uncle, John Linebaugh, of Columbus, with whom he learned! the carpenter's trade, remaining with him as an apprentice and journeyman for ten years. Mr. Machlin was then married: in Jackson township, on the 24th of August, 1864, to Miss Catherine Gantz, who was born in Jackson township, October 24, 1836. Her girlhood. days were. here spent, amid the wild scenes of the frontier life and her education was acquired in a log schoolhouse, seated with slab benches and supplied with a slab writing desk, which rested upon pins driven into the wall, and there were windows along three sides of the building. Her first teacher was Miss Christina Yates and the school was upon his father's farm, about a mile from her home. The way lay through the woods and as the land was swampy she often had to jump from log to log to keep out of the wet. Her father, Adam Gantz, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and was married there to Miss Catherine Pinix, a native of the same county. They removed to Jackson township, Franklin county, taking up his abode in a log school building, the teacher dismissing the scholars in order to allow them to move in. Mr. Gantz purchased two hundred acres of wild land and later became the owner of an 612 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. additional tract of three hundred acres. He died upon the home farm which he developed in 1878, and his wife passed away in 1876. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Machlin were John and Mary ,(Horn) Gantz and both died in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Machlin became the parents of twins, who died in infancy. They now have an adopted daughter, Alice Machlin, the wife of Dr. G. W. Helmick, of Harrisburg. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Machlin took up their abode upon a rented farm on the Harrisburg pike, south of Grove City, and in 1864 he purchased his present farm, but could not obtain possession of the same until the following year. His home place comprises seventy-two acres and he also owns; another tract of thirty-eight acres in Pleasant township and a farm of one hundred acres in Pickaway county. He has done very little carpentering since his marriage, but from 1886 to 1894 he was agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Company at Pleasant Corners. His careful management and his energetic industry in the. active affairs of life brought to him a very desirable competence so that he is now enabled to live retired. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church at Grove City, in which he is serving as elder. He has frequently visited his .old home in York county since coming to Ohio, but is well content to make the Buckeye state the place of his abode, and. he has long been classed among the representative citizens of his adopted county. IRVIN BUTTERWORTH. Honored and respected by all, there is no man in Columbus who occupies a more enviable position in commercial and financial circles. than Irvin Butterworth, who until recently resided in. Columbus but is now living in Denver. He was born on a farm near Loveland, Ohio, July 7, 1860, of Quaker ancestry, and when he was but two years old his father removed to a farm near Wilmington, where his son remained until he had attained his majority, attending school through. the winter and working upon the farm in the summer months. While pursuing his education he daily walked. to and from school —a distance of three miles. 'He was' nineteen years of age at the time of his graduation. In 1881 M. Butterworth came to Columbus where he entered upon what has been a brilliant business career. He filled successively the following positions : stenographer for the Hon. George K. Nash, then: attorney-general of the state and chairman of the Republican state executive committee and since governor of Ohio. In the fall of 1881 he became private secretary to Colonel Orland Smith, then general manager of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad Company, leaving his employ in 1883 to accept a similar position with M. M. Greene, then president of the same company. In 1887 he was offered and accepted the position of bookkeeper and cashier in the office of the Columbus Gas Company and was promoted to the superintendency of the works in 1886. In the previous year he was chosen secretary of the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 613 Ohio Gas Light Association, in which capacity he served: for nine years, acting as president of the association in 1894. In 1889 he was chosen general manager and a director of the Columbus Gas Company, acting as such until. 1900. In 1893 he was elected vice president.of the company and in 1898 was elected its president, to which office was added that of treasurer in 1900. He continued to discharge the duties of both positions until the 1st of June, 1901, when lie was elected president and general manager of. the Denver Gas & electric Company, of Denver, Colorado, whither he removed with his family. His attention and efforts, however, have been by no means. confined to one line and his discriminating judgment has proved an important factor in man, aging successfully many enterprises. During the past decade he has served a term of years as director of the Western Gas Association and a member of the council of the American Gas Light Association, having also been vice-president of the latter. In January, 1901, he was elected president of the Columbus board of trade, of which he had previously been a director for two years. He was also one of the organizers of the Engineers' Club, of Columbus, and served, as its president in the year 1900. To the various gas associations of which Mr. Butterworth is a member he has from time to time contributed papers on technical subjects, pertaining to the gas business, as follows: Natural Gas; A Regenerative Furnace' Adapted to Small Works; Does Ohio Want a Gas Commission; Governor Burners; Gas Franchises and Other Topics; Street Main Pressures; Ventilation of Gas-lighted Rooms; A Curious Gas Explosion; A New Purifying Box; and Vitrified Clay Pipe's Instead of Iron for Gas Mains. These papers have been of great value to those connected with the gas; business, setting forth new ideas andl improvements, and Mr. Butterworth has contributed in no small measure to the advancement of the enterprise which he represents. In 1887 Mr. Butterworth was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Adelaide McMillin, a daughter of Emerson McMillin, of New: York city. Unto them have been born three children : Paul, Corwin and Emerson, aged respectively thirteen, eleven and six years. Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth were very prominent in the social circles of Columbus, where their very extended acquaintances gained for them the hospitality of the best homes of the city. FRANK L. FALLOON. Frank L. Falloon, who is one of the popular passenger conductors; on the western division of the Pennsylvania railroad and resides at No. 753 Leonard avenue, Columbus, was. born in Athens, Ohio, November 1, 1860. His father, James H. Falloon, was a native of Canada, born in Ottawa, and his mother was horn in Montreal. In the public schools of his native county Mr. Falloon of this review began his education. He continued his studies in the high school at Athens, and afterward was graduated in the High University of that place. In 1880 he began his railroad career by working as a brakeman on the Ohio Central Railroad and was afterward baggage master and served 614 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. in those two capacities for five years. In 1885 he was made brakeman on the Panhandle Railroad and on the western division, running through Columbus, in 1887, he was promoted to freight conductor. After eight years of faithful service, in 1895, he was promoted to passenger conductor and in that way has since been continuously connected with the road. He has a very exceptional record, having never been even slightly injured, never been in a wreck or collision and never had a man injured on his train. In 1895 Mr. Falloon was married, in Columbus, to Miss Margaret Lauber, whose parents ;are now both deceased. Unto our subject and his wife has been born one child, Margaret L., whose birth occurred February 15, 1898, the very day the battleship Maine was blown up. Mr. Falloon is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. He has resided in Columbus since 1882 and has a wide acquaintance among railroad. men and in other walks of life. JAMES H. HESS. Among the prominent and influential citizens of Clinton township no man in his day was more popular than James H. Hess, who as a teacher and officer was actively identified with public affairs for many years. He was born August 21, 1839, at the old homestead in that township, where his widow and daughter still reside, and was the second son of Moses Hess by his third wife, Elizabeth Grayless, and grandson of Balser Hess, who, came to this county from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1802, and in the midst of the unbroken forest purchased four hundred acres of land. He fought for American independence in the 'war of the Revolution, and during the battle of Staten Island was captured by the Hessians and imprisoned in the old sugar house in New York city for seven days without anything to eat. Out of the seven hundred prisoners incarcerated there only fifty survived! Balser Hess was in the service seven years, and took part in many important engagements, among which was the battle of Brandywine. He was with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware, and remembered hearing the general say, "God will build us a bridge before morning." James H. Hess was the eldest child in his father's family, and before he attained his seventeenth year lost both parents. His early education, acquired in the common schools, was supplemented by a full course at Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio. While a student there he paid his own way by teaching in that institution. After completing his education he was the principal of the Westerville public schools for a short time, and then accepted the superintendency of the Shelbyville (Illinois) Seminary, which position he retained for about two years. On returning to his home in this county, he was appointed' a. deputy clerk of the common-pleas court, and when he retired from that office engaged in farming on his father's old homestead, the pioneer farm of Clinton township. For several years he CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 615 served as county school examiner, and at the time of his death was justice of the peace, succeeding Justice John Starrett, who had succeeded Thomas Jeffreis, all three of whom, strange as it may appear, died during the last six months of their respective terms of office. Mr. Hess was also deputy district commander of the Grange, in the prosperity of which he evinced great interest, as well as in that of the Central Ohio Farmers' Association, of which he was vice-president and a frequent lecturer. Politically he was an uncompromising Democrat. He was a man of sterling integrity, and was identified with all the leading public enterprises of his neighborhood. He died from blood poisoning, February 13, 1889, at the age of forty-nine years, five months and seventeen days; leaving a brother, John Moses Hess, and an only sister, Mrs. William P. Brawn, of New York city, and many friends and his immediate family to mourn their loss. On the 26th of October, 1871, Mr. Hess was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Jane Kenny, and to them was born one child, Mary Eve, who lives with her mother at the old home. John Kenny, the grandfather of Mrs. Hess, and one of the honored pioneers of Franklin county, was a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, where he was married, April 11, 1815, to Miss Nancy Criswell, and where he continued to make his home until after the birth of two of his children,—Benjamin C. and James. In 1819 he brought his family to this county, and in Perry township purchased three hundred and thirty-seven acres of heavily wooded land, for which he paid five dollars per acre. During the construction of their cabin home they lived in a covered wagon. In this wagon they made the journey from Pennsylvania, it containing their entire worldly possessions. After living for twenty years in the log house it was replaced by the commodious brick residence which now stands upon the farm, it being constructed of brick burned upon the place and lumber from the trees standing there. The highest-priced workman at that time—the boss carpenter—received but fifty cents per day for his labor, while everything was done by hand. When completed Mr. Kenny said to his men, "Well, boys, I guess I shall have to pay you off in castings." Then was heard muttering enough to create a strike at the present time. He was as good as his word, however, and paid them in castings,—from the mint,—gold and silver! He was a successful farmer and acquired a large acreage, which he placed under cultivation and improved with good buildings, becoming one of the wealthy land-owners of Perry township. He died on the old homestead February 7, 1873, at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife departed this life in March, 1866, past seventy years old. Both were devoutly religious and attended divine worship at Worthington, being communicants of the Presbyterian church at that time. In early years they became members of the Union church, which was erected by the Episcopal and Reformed denominations, which alternated in holding services. In the construction of the house of worship Mr. Kenny bore a prominent part, giving both of his time and means to its erection, and was afterward one of its principal supporters. 616 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. For a good many years he was officially connected with the church in the capacity of deacon and elder, and in the discharge of his Christian duty bore himself in a manner becoming a Christian gentleman. To Mr. and Mrs. Kenny were born the following children: Hannah, born January 12, 1823, married William Fairfield, of this county, and died December 6, 1847, leaving two children: Adelman, and Hannah, wife of John M. Hess. Eliza Jane, born November 30, 1825, died unmarried April 20, 1847. Benjamin C., born March 8, 1817, died unmarried September 4, 1866. He was a well-educated man who followed teaching in the schools of this; county for some time, and was later one of the successful farmers and representative citizens of Perry township. James, born in Pennsylvania, January 26, 1819, was only nine months old when brought by his parents to this county, and was educated in its common schools. On the 13th of June, 1848, he married Miss; Elizabeth Holly Legg, daughter of Thomas and Amelia (Holly) Legg, and they began their domestic life on the old homestead with his parents, where they continued to reside throughout life. He, too, was a successful farmer and one of the highly respected citizens of his native township. During the greater part of their lives he and his wife were members of the Reformed church, and as an energetic worker he took his father's place in church affairs, serving as deacon, elder and superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He died February 24, 1895, and his wife departed this life on the seventy-second anniversary of her birth October 2, 1895. Their children were Eliza Jane, now the widow of James H. Hess, of this review; Nancy Amelia, who died unmarried in 1872; a son who. died in infancy ; Rachel Flora, wife of Oliver Orr, who resides on East Eighth avenue, Columbus;. and Hannah Minerva, wife of Harry D. Kennedy, who lives on the old Kenny homestead. EDWARD COURTRIGHT. Edward Courtright, who is identified with the business interests of Calloway, Franklin county, represents one of the honored pioneer families of this portion of the state. His grandfather, Howard Courtright, located upon a farm near Groveport at an early day and there spent his entire life, his attention being given to agricultural pursuits. Jesse Courtright, the father of our subject, was born at Groveport, about the year 1820, and spent his boyhood days in the usual manner of farmer lads. For many years he engaged in teaching school and he also learned surveying, which he followed through a long period. He was county surveyor for three or four terms and proved a capable and efficient officer. He married Miss Mary A. Brown, who was born in Jackson township, Franklin county, about 1822, a daughter of William Brown, a native of Ireland, who, when a young man, came to the United States, locating in Jackson township. For several years after his marriage Jesse Courtright resided in Jackson township, but about 1859 removed to Prairie township, taking up his abode south of Galloway, where he spent his CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 617 remaining days, being called to his final rest in the year 1870. In the latter years, of his life he gave his attention exclusively to agricultural pursuits. In his political affiliations he was a Democrat. His wife, who was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in 1885. Their children were Sarah, who married Thomas Horn, now deceased, of Columbus; Martha; John, who married Minta Vernatta, and is now a surveyor of Columbus; William, who was married and died in 1897; Jesse, who is upon the home farm; Edward of this review ; Samuel, who wedded Leona McGill, is also living on the home farm ; Newton and Milton, twins, the former of whom married Jennie Ditum, while Milton married Rela Byrum, now deceased. Edward Courtright was born on the old homestead farm in Franklin township, October 16, 1853, and at the age of seven years accompanied his parents on their removal to Piairie township, where he pursued his education in the district schools, laying aside his text-books at the age of twenty years. HIs first teacher was his sister Sarah. He completed his studies when twenty yeras of age. During that time he had remained upon the farm and then he entered upon an independent business career by trading in horses, vehicles, buggies, harness and other commodities of that character. He is now enjoying a very extensive business in Galloway, his patronage constantly and steadily increasing. He also has extensive farming interests, owning a valuable tract of land in Prairie township, another farm in Vinton county, Ohio,. and on in Scioto county, besides valuable real estate elsewhere in the county. He deals in real estate and has an excellent knowledge of land values. March, 1880, Mr. Courtright was married to Miss Lillian Lavely, of Prairie township, a daughter of Henry and Jemima (Bukey) Lavely. They now have two children, Mary and Florence. After their marriage they located in Galloway, Mr. Courtright erecting his present residence in 1882. His wife is a member of the United Brethren church. In his political affiliations our subject is a stalwart Democrat and he is a man of strong will and steadfast nature, having earned the distinction of being what the world calls a self-made man. He started out in life upon his business career empty-handed. He asked for no financial assistance, merely craving the opportunity to test his ability in the business world. This he soon found and his capable management, unfaltering perseverance and indomitable will have enabled him to work his way steadily upward until now he occupies a very enviable position among the substantial citizens in Franklin county. GEORGE DYER. George Dyer is numbered among Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in Columbiana. county on the 6th of February, 1851, and is now living in the city of Columbus. His father, Joseph Dyer, died at the family homestead in Canton; Ohio, in the year 1887, when sixty-two years of age. His wife, Mrs. Mary Dyer, is still a resident of that city. The family left Columbiana county in 1867, taking up their abode in Canton. The father 39 618 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. was a brick mason by trade and became interested in the Diebold Safe Cmpany, in Canton. In the family were five sons and three daughters: Jacob, the eldest, was born in 1853 and was also connected with the Diebold Safe Company; Joseph, born in 1855, was foreman in the molding departmemt in a foundry in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and died in that city in 1886; Henry, who was born in 186o and was in the employ of the Diebold Safe Company, died at his home in Canton, Ohio, in 1887; John, born in 1865, also worked for the same company; Maggie is now married and resides in Pittsburg; and Elizabeth and Sophie are both married and are living in Canton. George Dyer, whose name introduces this review, has a very excellent record as a railroad employe. He entered the service as a brakeman on a freight train on the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railroad September 13, 1877, and was thus employed for a year and a half. Subsequently he was brakeman and baggageman on a passenger train for six years, and afterward conductor on a local freight for one year and since that time has been passenger conductor. He ran on the same train between Columbus and Hudson, Ohio, for seventeen consecutive years, no injury ever being sustained by the passengers under his care. He is one of the largest men that wears a conductor's uniform in the Pennsylvania Company, being five feet, eleven and a half inches in height and weighing two hundred and sixty pounds. He has a most genial nature and kindly disposition, and these qualities render him a favorite with the regular patrons of the road. Mr. Dyer was married, in Millersburg, Ohio, November 27, 1875, to Miss Mary A. Teisher, -and is the father of five children,—four boys and one girl. The family have been residents of Columbus for sixteen years, their home being at No. 818 Kerr street. WILLIAM S. ADAMS. Among the progressive and energetic farmers of Perry township, Franklin county, Ohio, is numbered William S. Adams, a native of this state, whose birth occurred in Pickaway county February 25, 1838. His parents were James and! Julia Ann (Toy) Adams, natives of Delaware and Virginia respectively, and pioneers of Pickaway county, Ohio, the Toy family having been founded there alniost a century ago. In 1833 James Adams purchased one hundred and one acres of timber land in Perry township. this county, but did not locate here until 1840, when he erected a log cabin and began to clear and improve his property. He was not long permitted to enjoy his new home, however, as he died in 1844, leaving a widow and six children, the youngest being only four weeks old. Being a woman of courage and fortitude, Mrs. Adams managed-to 'keep the family together upon the farm, which she rented until her sons were old enough to carry on the place, but from the rent she did not derive enough to support herself and children. She was a hard worker and by her industry managed to properly rear her family. She was devoutly religious, being a member of the Methodist CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 619 Episcopal church the greater part of her life, and died in that faith July 23, 1888, at the age of seventy-seven years. Of her seven children, Charles, the eldest, died in childhood. Mary, deceased, was the wife of Lewis L. Newbury. Addison is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. William S. is next in order of birth. Martha is the wife of Ezra Preston, of Illinois. Charles Wesley enlisted in 1861, during the Civil war, in. Company D, Fifteenth United States Regiment, and was in active service two years, when he was discharged on account of illness and returned home to die in 1863. Rachel is Mrs. Fellows, of Findlay, Ohio. William S. Adams was only two years old when brought by his parents to this county, where he was reared, his education being obtained in the common schools of his home district. He early became inured to hard labor by aiding in the work of the farm, and is now the owner of the old homestead comprising seventy-six acres of land, which he has placed under a high state of cultivation and improved with good buildings. In 1864 Mr. Adams enlisted in the one-hundred-day service, becoming a member of Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in all the engagements in which the regiment took part, being honorably discharged at the close of his term of enlistment. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, and gives his support to all worthy enterprises which he believes calculated to advance the social, moral or material welfare of his township and county. On the 25th of October, 1871, Mr. Adams was united in marriage with Miss Lina Domigan, of Columbus, and they became the parents of four children, namely : Charles S., Sarah J., Mary T. and Walter L. Fraternally Mr. Adams is a member of White Bear Tribe, I. O. R. M. William Domigan, father of Mrs. Adams, was for many years one of the most prominent and influential citizens of this, his native county. His parents were from Pennsylvania and located here some years prior to his birth, which occurred July 14, 1812, in Franklinton, where he was reared, receiving a good practical education in the common schools. At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Sarah Armstrong, by whom he had eight children, three still living, namely : Sarah A., wife of Walter L. Turner; William H., a resident of Columbus ; and Lina, wife of our subject. The deceased were Jane Eliza, Irvin, Harriet, Orville and Emaline. The mother of these children died December 9, 1870, and for his second wife Mr. Domigan married Lydia Dobbins, of Hilliard. His death occurred October 6, 1884. At a very early age Mr. Domigan became actively interested in political affairs, his inclination being toward a political life. Originally he was a Whig, but in later years affiliated with the Democratic party. As a political worker he was shrewd and untiring and wielded a strong influence in both local and state politics. For :several terms he was a member of the city council of Columbus, and held the office of sheriff of Franklin county two terms of four years each, his last term being served during, the period of the Civil war. As an officer he was, brave and efficient in the discharge of 620 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. duty, and it is said of him that he was. one of the best sheriffs the county has ever had. He also held other public positions of minor importance, in all of which he displayed the same fidelity to the discharge of each and every duty. During. his first term as sheriff he ha.d charge of the execution of two criminals, a white man named Clark and a colored woman called Esther. These executions took place on the old prison hill where the arsenal is now located.. Mr. Domigan was a man of wide acquaintance, being known by almost every one in the county, as well as a large number throughout the state. He was very popular and highly respected. CHRISTOPHER P. LINHART, M. D. Talent and acquired ability have no greater opportunity than, in the medical profession, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation or a more thorough understanding of great scientific principles. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom and a determination to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success. and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the humane conservator of man's most highly prized possession—health; and it is a profession into which one should not enter without a recognition of the difficulties and obstacles to be overcome and the responsibilities involved. One of the eminent representatives of the medical fraternity of Columbus is Dr. Linhart, nor is his reputation. limited by the. confines of the city, for his skill has -won recognition in the profession and gained for him the patronage of the people outside of the city with which he has more closely allied his interests and labors. The Doctor is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Pittsburg, Allegheny county, in January, 1861. He is a son of Phillip and Eliza (Hottman). Linhart, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer by occupation and in 1863 came to Ohio, taking up his residence upon a farm in Hancock county, where he and his wife spent their remaining days, the father passing away in 1894 and the mother in 1895. The Doctor Was only two years of age when the parents came to Ohio and his early education was acquired in the common schools of Hancock county, after which he entered a select school in Findlay, Ohio. Subsequently he studied telegraphy in the office of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and after filling positions as an operator for a time he began reading medicine under the direction of Dr. Allen Chilcote, of Bloomingdale, Ohio, of which city the Doctor's father was the founder. Later he matriculated in the medical department of .the Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated with the class of 1882. Later to still further prepare for his profession he pursued a post-graduate course. While he did not at once step into a large practice there was no. dreary novitiate awaiting him. He opened his office and his successful ministrations and conduct of several cases demonstrated to the public that he possessed skill and ability CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 621 Accordingly his business. grew and his advancement has been continuous until to-day he stands among the most successful and eminent members of the medical fraternity in Ohio. In March, 1883, he was appointed house physician at Lakeside Hospital and was also demonstrator of anatomy in that institution. He afterward became assistant in Dr. Ketchem's office on Euclid avenue in Cleveland and later went to New Jersey, where he was physician, educator and director in the German gymnasium in the Young Men's Christian Association at Newark. On leaving that city he went to New York, where he took a special course on diseases of the ear, nose and throat, and became operator and clinical assistant at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. In 1898 Dr. Linhart was appointed physical educator at the Ohio State University, which position he still holds, also maintaining an office in the Vendome Hotel, where a part of his time is spent in special practice. He has carried his researches far and wide into the realms of medical science, and has not only studied the methods of treating disease but of preventing it, and makes this a large part of . his practice. He is a member of the Alumni Association of Lakeside Hospital, also a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society. While the greater part of his time and attention are devoted to. his professional duties, he finds opportunity to enjoy some of the social pleasures of life and is a prominent Mason, belonging to the chapter and consistory in New York. He is also identified with the Mystic Shrine and is a member of the Columbus Whist Club. J. THOMAS JERMAN. The story of the lives of the persons who are to have prominence in this biographical sketch begins in Montgomeryshire, Wales, where Thomas Jerman lived and died. Thomas Jerman had children named Thomas, Mary and Richard. Thomas died in Wales, Mary married and died there, and Richard, who was born in Montgomeryshire August 18, 1818, gained a limited education and by hard work and economy saved. enough money to bring him to the United States,. and he and Andrew Briggs sailed from Liverpool to New York, whence they came direct to Columbus, where Richard Jerman arrived with a cash capital of only a half a dollar. He secured work in a foundry on the west side of the city and married Elizabeth Evans, widow of David Evans, whose husband had left her at his death a wooded farm in Brown township, which she was unable to cultivate and who had come to Columbus and was supporting her five children by washing. On this farm Richard Jerman and his wife moved after he had gone out to it and made a small clearing and built a one-room house of round logs, which covered a ground space of fifteen by twenty feet, and after he located there he continued to work at Columbus until he could partially clear the farm 622 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. and put it under cultivation. After that he devoted himself entirely to farming with such success that he increased the, size of the farm to one hundred and eighty-three acres and prospered well upon it. For a time after they moved there they had no table and with the children of the family Mr. and Mrs. Jerman stood around a large box while they ate. This, however, was but one of their experiences of primitive life in the Ohio woods and they laughed at it and other similar experiences in after years. Mr. Jerman died on the farm September 3, 1886, deeply regretted by all who had known him. In politics he was a Republican and in church affiliation a Methodist. His wife died there June 30, 1887. Mrs. Jerman was born and married in Wales and came to America with her husband, David Evans, and four children, and their baby in arms died soon after they reached Columbus. She had five children by Mr. Evans, as follows : David died at Columbus, Ohio. Richard, who was a member of Company C, Fortieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was killed at the battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Eliza married Thomas Herbert, of Brown township. Evan died in infancy. Edward was born in Columbus, three months after the death of his father. He fought for the preservation of the Union as a member of the First Ohio Cavalry and survived until August, 1900, when he died at Saint Francis Hospital, Columbus. J. Thomas Jerman, son of Richard Jerman by his marriage to Mrs. Evans, was born at Columbus in 1843 and was five years old when his parents moved to Brown township, where he grew to manhood. He attended school in the log school house near his pioneer home and as soon as he was old enough began to assist his father in clearing, improving and cultivating the farm, and was thus employed until September 3, 1864, when, not vet quite twenty-one years. old, he enlisted at Columbus in: Company B, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year or during the war. The regiment went to Nashville, Tennessee, thence to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, thence to Manchester, Tennessee thence back to Murfreesboro:, where Mr. Jerman participated in a memorable battle, and from there to Franklin:, Tennessee. and thence to Clifton, Tennessee, from which place he returned to Columbus, Ohio., at the expiration of his term of service, after having participated in a good deal of hard marching and fighting. But he had not yet had enough of war, and, going to Raleigh, North Carolina, he participated in operations under General Sherman, and was later detached with his regiment and sent to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was mustered out of the service and sent home, when he resumed farming. November 11, 1870, Mr. Jerman married Miss Mary M. Burt, a native of Brown township and a daughter of Edward and: Anna (Benner) Burt. For a year after his marriage he was a member of the household of his father-in-law, then for three years: he worked a rented farm and at the expiration of that time located on his present farm of fifty acres, mostly improved, in Norwich township, to which he has since added a farm of forty-two acres. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 623 He has acquired also a farm of fifty-eight and one-half acres in Brown township. He is an influential Republican and a public-spirited citizen, and has been for many years a school director and is now filling that office, together with that of trustee of his township. Mr. and Mrs. Jerman have had five children, as follows : Nettie, who married Jesse Elliott, of Brown township; Richard, who is a member of his father's household; William, who was born May 15, 1879, and has acquired a good education in the district schools in Norwich township, is working his father's home farm and has already made himself known as a stanch Republican; Charles, who is now at school ; and Ruth. . HON. SAMUEL J. SWARTZ. In no other phase of life can a man better demonstrate his fealty to his counrty and his loyalty to its interests than in the political arena, for therein is invested the vitality of a nation's power, the mainspring of its internal machinery and the keynote to its progress and prosperity. Ohio is recognized as one of the strongest Republican states in the Union, and among her patriotic citizens who have been closely identified with the party is Judge Samuel J. Swartz, of Columbus. He has served in important official positions with marked ability and fidelity and has been a recognized leader in the capital city in formulating the policy of the party for this portion of the state. He is a man who believes that the highest duty of every American citizen is to give his time and energies to public interests, and he carries out this principle life by taking an active part in political work, and is a firm believer in the trite saying, that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." A brief glance into the personal history of Judge Swartz elicits the fact that he is a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, born on the 8th of February, 1859, He was early left fatherless, for at the time of the Civil war his father responded to the call of the country, and, joining the Union army, was killed at the battle of Shiloh, Reared in his native county, the son attended the common schools until sixteen years of age, when he became a student in the Fairfield Union Academy, at Pleasantville, Ohio, and later he matriculated in the Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. After completing his literary course he came to Columbus and has since been identified with the interests of the capital city. He entered the employ of a wholesale house, with which he remained for several years, for a part of the time representing its interests upon the road, but commercial life was not entirely congenial to him and he resolved to enter upon a professional career. He prepared for the bar as a student in the law office of .Converse, Booth & Keating, and in due course of time was admitted to practice. With a thorough preparatory training and strong determination to succeed he entered upon his chosen work and soon gained a foremost position among the younger members of the bar. He steadily worked his way upward and gained a distinctively representative clientage. which connected him with some of the most important litigation 624 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. tried in the courts of the district. He prepared his cases with great throroughness and planned for the defense of every possible point of attack. His arguments were strong, the points he made following in logical sequence and demonstrating the force of his reasoning. He was appointed by the governor to fill a vacancy in the police judgeship, which he did with honor and credit, and after a few months, at the spring election of 1897, he was elected by popular ballot to the same office for a term of three years. The compliment was more marked from the fact that the balance of the ticket was defeated. For some time Judge Swartz has been recognized as one of the leading representatives of the Republican party in Columbus. He has marked ability as an organizer, is an untiring worker and possesses the power of harmonizing forces and utilizing the strength of the party to the best advantage. He was instrumental in effecting the organizations of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs and has served as its secretary. His fellow citizens gave evidence of their appreciation of his worth and public spirit when in the spring of 1899 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the mayoralty for a term of two years. His administration, business-like, progressive and practical, won him strong commendation. He is an approachable gentleman, genial and with unfailing courtesy, and he enjoys the warm regard of a large circle of friends. Over the record of his public career there falls no shadow of wrong and in professional life he also sustains an enviable reputation. JOSHUA W. BROTHERS. For more than a half-century Joshua W. Brothers has resided in Franklin county, and as his life has ever been a useful and honorable one, he well deserves representation in this volume. He is engaged in the manufacture of harness at Lockbourne, where he is numbered among the enterprising business men. A native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, he was born March 7, 1826, and is a representative of one of the old families of Maryland. The grandfather, Joshua Brothers, was a native of Westminster, Maryland, and was of German lineage. A farmer by occupation, he had extensive landed interests, and was one of the substantial citizens of his community. He valiantly served his country in the war of the Revolution, and lived for many years to enjoy the freedom of the republic, his death occurring at the advanced age of one hundred and one. His son, William Brothers, the father of our subject. was born in Westminster, Maryland, made farming his life work, and died about 1838. His wife, Mrs. Sarah Brothers, died about 1854. They were parents of seven children, five of whom reached years of maturity. Joshua W. Brothers, the fifth in order of birth and the only one of the family now living, remained in the county of his nativity until nineteen years of age, with the exception of a period of two years which he passed in Hagerstown, Maryland. There he learned the harness maker's trade, and in 1843 he went to Columbus, Ohio, where he began work as a journeyman, being CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 625 thus employed until 1849. During that period, however, he joined the United States army and served until the close of the Mexican war, when he resumed work at his chosen vocation in Columbus. While working as a journeyman he also spent four winters in New Orleans, and followed harnessmaking at Marysville, Woodstock and Milford Center. In the latter part of 1849 Mr. Brothers removed to Lockbourne, where he began business for himself and has since engaged in harness-making at this place with the exception of one year spent in South Perry, Hocking county, Ohio, and one year in Bloomfield. During his long connection with the business interests of Lockbourne he has enjoyed a liberal patronage, owing to the excellence of his goods, his reasonable prices and his honorable business methods and his courteous treatment of his patrons. In 1853 Mr. Brothers was united in marriage to Miss Martha Jane Henderson, native of Pickaway county, Ohio, and a daughter of Thomas and Eliza Henderson, who were early settlers of that county. Four children were born unto our subject and his wife, but only one is now living, Viola, who married Sanford Brownlee, by whom she has two children living, Edward and Myrtle. There is also one great-grandchild, Lula Mance. In early life Mr. Brothers gave his political support to the Whig party, and on the organization of the Republican party jointed its ranks. During the period of the Civil war he served as a sergeant in the state militia. At all times he has been true to his duty to his neighbor, to himself and to his country, and through fifty-one years' residence in Franklin county, he has ever commanded the respect and confidence of his fellow men. EDWARD L. TAYLOR, JR. The subject of this review is actively connected with a profession which has important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as conserving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining public right. One of the younger representatives of the legal fraternity in Columbus who has already gained a position of distinction as a member of the bar is Edward L. Taylor, Jr., the present prosecuting attorney of the city. He is one of the native sons of the capital, his birth having here occurred September 10, 1869. His father, Edward L. Taylor, Sr., was born upon a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, March 20, 1839, and on the paternal side was of Scotch-Irish lineage. After arriving at years of maturity he prepared for the bar and is now one of the prominent lawyers of the city, the senior member of the well known firm of Taylor & Taylor. His son and namesake pursued his literary education in tile public schooIs of Columbus and is a graduate of the high school of the class of 1888. The following year he began preparation for the bar as a student in the office and under the direction of his father, who was a member of the law firm of Taylor & Taylor. On the 3d of December, 1891, he was admitted 625 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. to practice and has since been an active member of the profession is his native city. The firm engages in general law practice and its knowledge of jurisprudence in its various departments is quite extensive and very reliable. On the 7th of November, 1899, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county for a term of three years, defeating Lee Thurman, the Democratic candidate,. a grandson of the Hon. A. G. Thurman. He had been appointed, in 1899, to serve out an unexpired term and had been nominated by the Democracy for the position in the fall of that year. Mr. Taylor, however, was the victorious candidate, and entered upon the duties of the position on the 1st of January, 1900. He has been most faithful in their discharge, preparing his cases with care and precision and doing everything in his power to serve the ends of justice and protect the public liberty. On the 4th of January, 1894, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Marie Firestone, of Columbus, a daughter of C. D. Firestone,of the Columbus Buggy Company. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Order of Elks and is one of the trustees; of the lodge in Columbus. He is yet a young man, ambitious, determined and energetic, and his natural talent and acquired ability, stimulated by earnest desire for advancement will undoubtedly gain for him a foremost position among those who have gained success and won fame at the Columbus bar. WILLIAM M. FISHER. William M. Fisher is one of the strong and influential men whose three have become an essential part of the history of Columbus and of Ohio. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose and genius for devising and executing the right thing at the right time, joined to every-day common sense and guided by great will power, are the chief characteristics of the man. Connected with one of the leading wholesale houses of Columbus, the position that he occupies in business circles is in the front rank. Mr. Fisher is a native of Franklin county, his birth having occurred in what was then Hamilton but now Marion township on the 10th of September, 1840. His father, Jacob Fisher, was born in this county July 2, 1808, and was a son of Michael Fisher, a native of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky and was there married to Sarah Petty, a native of that state. Subsequently he removed from Kentucky to the territory of Ohio, for it was in the year 1798 and the state had not then been organized. He located four miles south of the courthouse in Columbus and purchased a tract of eight hundred acres on the west side of the Scioto river. There he erected a cabin home and began to clear away the forest trees, experiencing all the hardships, privations and trials incident to pioneer life and to the development of a farm in the midst of the wilderness. There were one hundred Indians to one white man in the state. The settlements of the white people were from four to five miles apart. The woods abounded with wild game of all kinds and hunting was the principal amusement of the people. The wants CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 627 of the family were few and simple, for they lived in plain frontier style, dressed accordingly, and knew little of the luxuries of the east. They came to found homes in the wilderness, and their earnest labors laid the foundation for the present prosperity and progress of this great commonwealth. Michael Fisher died upon his farm in 1816, his wife surviving him until 1845, when she, too, was called to the home beyond. Their family numbered the following named : Christy, the wife of W. M. Miller; Joseph ; Jacob; Milton ; Michael; George; Elizabeth, the wife of William Stewart; Sarah, the wife of William Cramer; and. Miranda, the wife of Arthur O'Hara. Jacob Fisher, the father of him whose name introduces this review, died in Columbus, at the age of seventy-six years. In early manhood he wedded Mary Briggs, a native of New Jersey, who came to Ohio in her early girlhood. By the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher thirteen children were born, six if whom reached years of maturity, namely : Milton, Edward, Joseph, Michael, Jacob, and Sarah Jane, the wife of Abram Schaffer. Five of the brothers are still living. William M. Fisher, the well known wholesale produce merchant of Columbus, was reared as a farmer boy and received his primary education in the district schools. He early learned from practical experience in what the work of the farm consisted, for as soon as old enough to handle the plow he took his place in the fields and assisted in the plowing, planting and harvesting. He remained under the parental roof until twenty-seven years of age, but, not wishing to devote his entire life to agricultural pursuits, he determined to enter the field of commerce and embarked in the grocery business as a clekr for F. A. Sells for a short time, when Mr. Fisher. entered into partnership relations with John Wagonseller, under the firm name of Fisher & Wagonseller. They, too, established a grocery, which they conducted for two years, when they so out. Mr. Fisher then returned to the farm and was engaged in the raising of grain and stock, at the same time shipping grain over the Hocking Valley Railroad. Subsequently he again took up his abode in Columbus and was once more connected with the grocery trade for eighteen months. During that time he also shipped fruit and produce and later merged his retail business into that of a wholesale fruit and provision house, his location being on Fourth, near Town street, until 1882, when he moved to larger quarters,—No. 8 Guinn block. His business house, which is of brick, has a frontage of forty-five feet, a depth of one hundred feet and is three stories in height. It is especially equipped for the conduct of his extensive business, which has grown to great magnitude, the annual shipments constituting a considerable portion of the products which are exported from the capital city. He is also largely interested in the Dahlonega Gold mining Company, of Georgia, which is rapidly developing its splendid property and from which he is deriving a handsome income. He is a man of resourceful business ability, his fertile brain enabling him to form and execute many plans which prove of practical and profitable benefit to the enterprises with which he is connected. From 1875 down to 628 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. the present time our subject has been one of the directors of the Ohio National Bank. In 1862 occurred the marriage of Mr. Fisher and Miss Katherine Martheny, of Columbus, a daughter of John Martheny, of Fairfield, Ohio, She is a native of Indiana, and by her marriage has become the mother of six children, namely : Mary A., the wife of Charles Thurber, of Columbus; Grant S.; William G., a member of the firm of W. M. Fisher & Son; Marthat A., the wife of Mark Gifford, of Toledo, Ohio; Kirk B., at home; and Katherine, who completes the family. Mr. Fisher is a. member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also of the order of F. & A. M. He has an elegant home, with all modern. improvements, at No. 695 Bryden Road. He to-day enjoys the reward of his painstaking and conscientious work. By his energy, perseverance and fine business ability he has been enabled to secure an ample fortune. Systematic and methodical, his sagacity, keen discrimination and sound judgment have made him one of the leading wholesale merchants of the city. PETER YEAGER Among the wealthy retired residents of Prairie township, near Camp Chase, Franklin county, Ohio, is Peter Yeager, the subject of this sketch. The life history of our subject began in the little town of Bavaria, Germany, where his grandfather, Peter, was kown in the village of Talmansfeld as a reliable and capable laborer, his father upholding the same excellent reputation. The latter died at a comparatively early age, and his mother, Sophia Yeager, married Paulus Heidle, who with his wife and our subject's one sister sailed from Bremen in 1852 and located in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. 'Heidle was a day laborer, and after his. death, in 1881, our subject's mother made her home with him, where she died in 1883, having been born in 1800. The sister of our subject, Mary, who married Owen Zimmerman and resides in Cincinnati, was a daughter of the second marriage. Mr. Yeager, of this sketch, has had a life which has thoroughly tested his manly qualities, and that he has overcome his many disadvantages is 'much to his credit. His birth took place September 30, 1830. When six years of age he removed with his mother to Burgsalach, county of Weissenburg, state of Midelfranken, where he remained until he was twenty-one years old. He learned the trade of shoemaker when he was fourteen, working at it until his majority, when, according to the draft law in his country, he was obliged to give his services to the army. For one and one-half years 'he was connected with the infantry, and four and one-half years were spent in the police corps. During this time our subject became attached to the young lady who later became his wife, and together, they took passage on a sailing vessel from Bremen to New York, where they landed after a stormy passage of seventy days. He had been able to save only money enough to pay the passages of himself and the young lady through to Columbus, where he knew. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 629 he could find friends. Borrowing seventy-five cents, our subject immediately bought a license and was married, in July, 1858, to Miss Mary Nas's, by Rev. Mr. Mess, a German. Presbyterian minister of Columbus. She had been born in Bavaria, October 12, 1831, and after twenty years of illness died June 8, 1900. having been a good and faithful helpmate. After marriage our subject settled down to work at his trade in the new home, remaining for eight years, during which time he lived a sober, industrious life and succeeded in saving enough to purchase three acres of land, upon which place he continued at his trade for two years, but lost all his work on his land on account of an unusually dry season. He had in the meantime rented out his place, but returned now to it, where he was stricken with fever and lost almost everything he had accumulated through so much self-denial and economy. At this juncture kind friends appeared who assisted him to some extent and he started out in a new line. He had one old horse, an old wagon and nine dollars' worth of notions; with these he began the life of a peddler, succeeding so well that his courage and health came back, and as time went on he added more and more to his stock until another horse and wagon became necessary to accommodate his trade. His boys were growing up and our subject had trained them to habits of frugality and prudence, so that when he erected his brick store near his house, in 1876, he could entrust the peddling business to his sons, while he remained manager of the large mercantile business which he soon commanded. No extra good fortune came to our subject except that earned by his own efforst. He was honest and his patrons learned that fact and trusted his word; he was energetic, and hence made rapid progress; while he still continued the habits of careful living that he had practiced since youth. In 1896 Mr. Yeager was able to retire from active business. The estimable family born to Mr. and Mrs. Yeager comprises Peter, who now lives in Arkansas; John, who resides. in Columbus; August, who is a resident of Dayton, Ohio ; Mary, at home; Michael, who resides in Illinois; Christian, who lives in Columbus ; and Stephen, who resides in Arkansas. Mr. Yeager is one of those men who have come up the hard road of toil and self-denial to the eminence of success. He combined shrewd business methods with other qualities, which made the names of customers and friends eynonymous. ABSALOM M. WALCUTT. The lack of persistency of purpose accounts in large degree for the failure of men in business life. It renders effort futile and labor unavailing, but he who pursues a given course through an active business career and follows honorable methods that win the confidence and therefore the patronage of his fellow men is always sure to eventually gain the merited reward of labor. Prompted by a laudable ambition to win success and confining his efforts to 630 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. a business of which. he has practical knowledge, Mr. Walcutt has gained a place among the citizens of substantial worth in Franklin county. He resides in North Columbus and was born in Perry township, Franklin county, upon his father's farm, his natal day being November 8, 1835. His father, Robert Walcutt, was a native of Virginia, born in Loudoun county in 1797. He followed agricultural pursuits and thereby gained a desirable competence. He wedded Miss Susan Legg, a native of the Old Dominion, and after their marriage they left that state for Ross. county, Ohio, where they located in 1828. Two years. later, in 1830, they became. residents of Franklin county, settling in the green woods, some three miles northeast of the present city limits of Columbus. There his home was built of logs, being a primitive cabin of the pioneer times. A few years later it was replaced by a more modern and commodious residence, which sheltered the family as the children grew to mature years. The father's first purchase consisted of two hundred and thirty-five acres of heavily timbered land, and later he purchased a second tract, comprising one hundred acres, a mile south of his first farm. With characteristic energy he began clearing his land and preparing it for the plow, and in course of time his fields were under a high state of cultivation, yielding to him excellent return for his labor. He also engaged in dealing in live stock, which he drove across the mountains. to the city of Baltimore, where he found a market, and also to Pennsylvania, making sales in both places. Throughout the greater part of his life he was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits, and upon the old homestead in Perry township he died in 1877, having passed the eightieth anniversary of his birth. His parents were William and Sarah (Mitchell) Walcutt, the former a native of Virginia. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Susan Legg and was born in Virginia in 1800, her death occurring upon the farm. in Perry township, in 1857. Like her husband, she was a devoted member of the Baptist church, doing all in her power to promote its work and secure the adoption of its principles by those with whom she was associated. By her marriage she became the mother of sixteen children, twelve of whom reached years of maturity, as follows : Anna, deceased wife of G. M. Peters: Jacob and Tabitha, who have also passed away; James, who died in 1897; Lafayette, Margaret and John all deceased ; Absalom M. ; Louise, who married J. F. Slyh and died July 13, ,1900; Amelia, wife of Calvin Rutter, cf Westerville, Ohio; Robert, who resides on Eighth avenue in Columbus; and William, a farmer of Blendon township, Franklin county. In the usual manner of farmer lads Mr. Walcutt, of this review, spent the days of his youth, receiving such educational privileges as the district schools afforded, and later attended a select school taught by John Kinney. He remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-one years of age, when he began farming upon his own account and later extended the field of his labors by dealing in live stock, shipping hogs, cattle and horses. After his marriage he took his bride to his farm in Perry township, and there they resided until 1889, when they took up their abode in Columbus, and, although CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 631 he left the farm, Mr, Walcutt still devoted his energies to the management of his farming interests and to stock dealing. He owns one hundred and four acres of valuable land in Plain township, which is under a high state of cultivation and which he rents. On the 2d of July, 1857, occurred the marriage of our subject and Miss Mary L. Slyh, a daughter of Jacob and Emeline (Lakin) Slyh, who were pioneer settlers of Perry township, where they resided for many years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Walcutt have been born six children: Louisa A., widow of Charles W. Hoyt; Anna R., who died in her twentieth year Della, deceased; Mary E., wife of George Wiley, a son of Judge Wiley, who was prominently connected with railroad affairs for a number of years; and Fanny C., who is a student in the high school. Their home is at O. 39 West Duncan street, in North Columbus. In politics Mr. Walcutt is a Democrat, who stalwartly advocates the doctrines as advanced by William Jennings Bryan. While residing upon his farm he served for twenty-one years as a member of the school board and was also elected justice of the peace, but refused to qualify, perferring to devote his energies entirely to the management of his business affairs. For the past ten years .he has given considerable attention to the handling of real estate, mostly city property. His close attention. to business has enabled him to win prosperity and to-clay he is numbered. among the most successful representatives of agricultural interests in his native county. H. G. STEICKLEY. H. G. Steickley, who's engaged in the undertaking and embalming business in Columbus, was born in the capital city May 11; 1854, his parents being Christian and Fannie (Magley) Steickley. His father was born, reared and educated in Germany, while his mother was a native of Switzerland, and with her parents came to the United States in childhood. The subject of this review pursued his education in the public schools of Columbus, completing the rammar course, and after putting aside his text-books he entered the employ of W. H. Jarer, an undertaker, with whom he remained for five years, acquiring quite a thorough knowledge of the business. Afterward he entered: the service of Louis Fink, an. undertaker, with whom he remained for a short time. Subsequently he spent two and a half years in the employ of George J. Schoedinger, and in 1881 he entered into partnership with B. B. Anderson, under .thfirm name of Steickley & Anderson, which connection was. maintained for two years. The partnership was then dissolved and Mr. Steickley entered the employ of E. Fisher, who was engaged in the undertaking business, and with whom he remained for eight years. In 1893 .he established his present business, at No. 184 East Long street, where he has well appointed rooms and offices and carries a fine line of caskets. His wife is also quite proficient in the line of work to which he gives his attention and ably assists her husband. In 1881 Mr. Steickley was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Briggs, 632 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of Briggsdale, Franklin county, Ohio, the second. daughter of W. C. and Harriett A. (Demorest) Briggs. For several years Mrs. Steickley was a successful teacher in the schools of Franklin county. By her marriage she has become the mother of one son, Ernest C., who is now a student in the high school. Her father was born in Franklin county and now resides at No. 1507 Franklin avenue, where he is living retired. Her mother, however, passed away in 1879. She, too, was a native of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Steickley have spent their entire lives in the capital city and have a wide acquaintance here, while the circle of their friends is extensive. HENRY HUY. Henry Huy, who owns and operates a farm in Clinton township, came to Franklin county with his parents when eleven years of age. He was born in the Rhine province, Germany, on the 22d of December, 1828, and is a son of Daniel and Philopena (Knost) Huy, also natives of Germany, in which country they were married. In 1840 they crossed the Atlantic to the new world, accompanied by their only son, Henry. The voyage continued for forty-two days, but was at length terminated when the vessel dropped anchor in the harbor of New York. They made their way westward to Buffalo, thence to Cleveland and on to Columbus, being three weeks on the way from New York to Franklin county. In the capital city the father purchased two acres of land, which he devoted to the raising of garden produce; and in addition he performed other labor which he could secure that would supplement his income, For thirty years he was a resident of Columbus, and then took up his abode in the home of his son in Clinton township, where he died in the year 1877, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife died in 1879, when. about the same age. Both were members of the Lutheran church. Henry Huy pursued his preliminary education in the schools of Germany, where he began his studies at the age of five. years. After coming to Ohio he attended the subscription schools of Columbus and acquired good practical education. He was married in that city to Miss Barhar Rentz, in the year 185o, and unto them have been born seven children, namely Daniel, Elizabeth, Dora, Henry, Barbara, Abraham and Lena. In 1870 Mr. Huy and his father purchased One hundred and sixty-two and a half acres, which was but partially cleared, and thereon he has since made his home, becoming one of the prosperous, enterprising and progressive farmers of the community. He is also the owner. of city property in North Columbus. He is a molder by trade, and has followed that occupation for eighteen years in Columbus. In 1900 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on the 14th of February, at the age of sixty-six years. Both she and her husband became members of the Lutheran church in childhood, and she was a consistent Christian woman. All of the children are also members of the Lutheran church. On matters of public importance Mr. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 633 Huy is well informed, and his political support is given to the Democracy, He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished in life. His possessions are the visible evidences of his labor, energy and .perseverance. His life stands in exemplification of the opportunities that are afforded to young men of ambition and resolute will in the land of the free. His honesty and integrity in trade transactions have gained him the public confidence, and all who know him esteem him for his genuine worth. DANIEL PEGG. The members of the Pegg family living in. Franklin county trace their ancestry hack to Daniel Pegg, whose name introduces. this review. He was the founder of the family in. America, and from the records it appears that he settled in Philadelphia in the year 1676. Ten years; later he purchased three hundred and fifty acres of land from Jurian Katzfedder in the northern limits of Philadelphia. William Penn transferred a portion of this same tract to Daniel Pegg in 1684. Soon after its purchase Mr. Pegg deeded one-hundred acres of this land to Thomas Coates, his brother-in-law, and began. improving the remaining two hundred and fifty acres of his farm. He built. a dike in the marshy land so as to form low meadows, and also built a brick kiln. He erected upon his place a two-story brick mansion, which was for many years a prominent land mark and was generally spoken of as the "big brick house of the north end." It was situated upon Front street, a little below Green street, although at the time it was erected it was surrounded by his weil developed farm and no one had any idea the land would afterward constitute a part of one of the leading cities of the country. In 1709 William Penn proposed to rent the home for his residence. The cherry trees planted by Daniel Pegg were cut down and used for fuel by the British during their occupancy of the city during the Revolutionary war. A small creek wended its way across the farm and was known for many years; as Pegg's Run. On its banks a body of Indians were fired upon by white men, which brought an order from William Penn. to make an earnest inquiry to apprehend the guilty men, saying that the Indians must be appeased or evil would ensue. That occurred in The value of Daniel Pegg's farm in those early days is disclosed by a letter written by Jonathan Dickenson in 1715, in which he wrote that he could buy Daniel Pegg's farm fronting the Delaware river for fifty shillings per acre. In 1729 Mr. Pegg advertised his farm for sale, describing it thus: "To be sold or let, by Daniel Pegg, at the great brick house at the north end of Philadelphia, thirty acres of upland meadow ground and marsh." During the period of the Revolutionary war his: brick house was known as the "Dutch House," both because of its peculiar form and also because it had long been noted as the place for holding Dutch dances called "Herpsesaw," a whirling dance in the waltz style. The first powder house ever erected in Philadelphia was built on the north bank of Pegg's marsh, a little west of 40 634 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. what is now known as Front street. The family of Daniel Pegg consisted of Elizabeth, Jane, Nathan, Elias and Daniel, jr. The father made: his will on the 11th of February, 1702. He died soon after in the home of his eldest son, Daniel, to whom, according to the English custom, the larger part of his estate was willed. In his will Daniel Pegg makes mention of his slaves, which is an interesting fact, owing to his being a Quaker. Daniel Pegg, Jr., who inherited the major part of his father's property, married, and died in January, 1732, leaving .a widow and one child, Sarah. In his: will he bequeathed the greater part of his property to his nephew, Daniel Pegg, a son of his brother, Mathias, and the great-grandfather of those of the sixth generation now living in. Franklin county, Ohio. A brief history of Daniel Pegg, the second, shows the vicissitudes of human affairs. Possessed of the fee simple of a valuable property he left no rich heirs and in the settlement of his estate much litigation followed and the property became absorbed finally. Daniel Pegg, the third, it appears never realized from the estate, as in the records of the family the name does not occur after the second generation.  The family of Daniel Pegg, the third, was, so far as known, constituted of two sons, Elias and: Benjamin. The latter never married and died in Norwich, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1830, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was a brave and efficient soldier during the war of the Revolution. Elias Pegg, the other son of Daniel Pegg, the third, probably spent his boyhood days in and near Philadelphia. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he was too young to enlist in the service, but his brother Benjamin being a little older was one of the first to raise his voice and hand against the oppression of Great Britain, and was found fighting in the ranks. at the battle of Lexington, and faithfully served until the end of hostilities. Elias Pegg later entered the service and valiantly aided his struggling country for five years. The two brothers were members of the same company in a Pennsylvania regiment, fighting side by side. Both were afterward remembered and rewarded by their government with. pensions. The Pegg family were originally of the good old standard Quaker stock, holding to the religion of their fathers for three generations, but Elias Pegg, of the fourth generation, broke away from: the religious moorings of the Quaker church and became a strong Methodist, much against the wishes of his father. He married Miss Elizabeth Nonsettler in 1786. Her people were of Dutch descent and always claimed to be of the blood of William, Prince of Orange. Mrs. Pegg was a woman of bright intellect and much force of character, steadiness of purpose, goodness of heart and excellent business capacity —in fact was an ideal wife and mother. Elias Pegg and his wife first settled on a farm in West Virginia, then a part of Virginia, where six of their children were born. There about 1795 Elias Pegg's. father, Daniel, came from Philadelphia to live with his son and continued to reside with him until about 1800, when he was Called to his home on high. In the year 1801 Elias Pegg and his family removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, locating on a farm of CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 635 nine hundred acres. They left a .number of relatives near Wheeling., West Virginia, among whom was Beal Pumphrey, a large planter who owned from forty to fifty slaves. Mrs. Pumphrey and, Mrs. Pegg. were sisters. There was also a brother of the Nonsettler family who died at the very advanced. age of one hundred and fourteen years. Near the close of the war of 1812 Mr. Pegg received a good offer for his farm in Jefferson county, and having heard' much of the fertility of the soil in the Scioto valley he proposed to Henry Innis and Ephraim Fisher, two of his sons-in-law, that they remove to Franklin county and determine for themselves the truth of those reports. Accordingly they made the trip on horseback and after a week of travel arrived in Franklinton. Although these men were Methodists, one an exhorter and very earnest in church work, while another was a class leader, they made a contract With. each other that whoever finished his meal last at the hotel where they stopped should pay for the "stirup dram" for the entire party. They supposed in those early days that they could not ride horseback without first taking a drink of whisky. On Mr. Pegg's return to Jefferson county he sold his farm and with his family removed to Franklin county. early in the year 1817. Here they met with a fair degree of success and enjoyed a happy home until the year 1832, when an epidemic of typhus fever broke out, prostrating more than half the people. During this siege of illness the good mother died and the loss was an irreparable one to the family, consisting of the father and ten children, namely : Catherine, Rachel, Elizabeth, Isabel, Mary, Ezekiel, Margaret, Barbara, Elias and Joseph. The eldest, Catherine, was born March 3, 1787, and Joseph, the youngest, was born May 25, 1809, being therefore fourteen years of age at the time of his mother's death. Eight of the children came to this county with their parents, Rachel and Elizabeth having died in Jefferson county. In 1825 Elias Pegg married Mrs. Holmes, a widow, who died in Clinton township, in 1830. After her death Mr. Pegg made his home with different members of the family until he, too, passed away, in 1838, at the age of eighty-four years. WILLIAM H. H. LUKENS. William H. H. Lukens was a soldier in the Civil war and gave his life in defense of the Union, although he did not die upon the field of battle. To such the nation owes a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid, for all honor is due to those who wore the blue to perpetuate the Union when its stability was threatened by the secession of the south. A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lukens was born on the 7th and March, 1825. His father, Hiram Lukens, was born near Philadelphia and wedded Margaret Williamson. They became early settlers of Franklin county, taking up their abode in this section of the state when it was considered a frontier region. They were Quaker people, living Godly, upright lives, and their many estimable qualities insured them the confidence and good will of all. 636 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Surrounded by the refining influences of a good home, William R. H. Lukens was .thus reared to manhood, pursuing his education in the primitive schools of the times. and aiding in the task of clearing and developing the home farm. His youth was one largely of activity in the line of farm work, but he thereby developed a self-reliant and determined spirit which stood him in good stead in his own business career. On the 28th of February, 1850, Mr. Lukens chose as a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Catherine Crouse, who was horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1826. Her father, John Crouse, was of German lineage and died in the city of Brotherly Love. He wedded Mary Rogers, who was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and during his business career engaged in butchering in Philadelphia, but died at a comparatively early age. His widow was twice married, and by her first husband, Henry Fowser, had one son, Henry, who died in early manhood. By her second marriage she became the mother of three children, namely: Mary, who became the wife of George Kline and died in Philadelphia; Mrs. Lukens; and Edward, who became first .lieutenant of a company of Ohio soldiers and was promoted to a captaincy on the field of battle. In an engagement he was killed, thus laying down his life as a ransom for his country. Mrs. Lukens was reared in the state: of her birth, attended the public 'schools there and remained in Philadelphia until twenty-four years of age. At the father's death the family was left in straitened circumstances, and she early began work in order to earn 'her own livelihood. She became acquainted with Mr. Lukens while he was temporarily in the city. and in 185o their marriage was solemnized: They became the parents of two children,—Henry, who is at home with his mother; and George, who wedded Mary Moore and is now living in Madison county, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Lukens took up his abode upon a farm of fifty-four acres in Pleasant township, Franklin county. The greater part of this was covered: with a native growth of timber, but he cleared away the trees until the sunlight poured down upon the fields and mellowed the soil, making it rich for cultivation. In. those early clays he also engaged in hunting to a great extent. Columbus was then the nearest market, and supplies were there obtained. and products there sold. He was a very energetic. business man, and his unfailing industry enabled him to make his farm a very productive and profitable one. At the time of the Civil war he put aside all personal considerations and enlisted for three years; as a private of Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Thfantry. He went to the front, but in 1865 was sent home on account of disability, and on the 29th of December of the same year he passed: away. He was a very kind and devoted husband and father and in all life's relations was faithful to his duty. As a citizen he vas public spirited, and his loyalty was manifest by his response to the country's call for aid. After the death of the husband and father Mrs. Lukens managed the home property until her sons were old enough CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 637 to relieve her of its care. She is still living on the old farm to which she went as a bride with her husband, and is numbered among the worthy pioneer residents of the county. LEWIS L. PEGG. One of the most prominent families of Franklin county is that to which our subject belongs. His father, Joseph Pegg, is represented in another sketch in this work. Lewis was the eighth member of the family and was born iin Clinton township on the 15th of August, 1843. When he had attained the usual age he entered the schools of the neighborhood and on mastering the branches that formed the curriculum there he further continued his mental training by two years' study at Otterbein College, at Westerville, Ohio. At the age of nineteen he laid aside his text-books there and entered upon the task of providing for his own support. He had previously engaged in teaching in the schools of Franklin county and from the age of twenty years he spent each winter season through the succeeding decade in the school-room, usually teaching for about four months in the year. Through the summer he engaged in farming. He won a very enviable reputation as an educator, his expressiong being clear and concise, always impressing the student with a knowege of what he wishes to impart. In the year 1873 Mr. Pegg was united in marriage to Miss Virginia D. Shattuck, a daughter of Alexander and Flora (Andrews) Shattuck, who pioneers Franklin county. After his marriage Mr. Pegg and his bride located on a tract of land in the eastern part of Clinton township, becoming owners of one hundred and ten acres, which he purchased of Walter Field, a pioneer settler of Franklin county. Mr. Pegg continued the development of that farm for three years and then removed to the farm upon which he now resides,—the old Shattuck homestead. It has since been his place of abode and the scene of well directed and prosperous labor. His energy, strong determination and perseverance have made him a successful farmer, his labors being crowned with a merited financial' reward. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pegg have been born two children : Florence, now the wife of Ralph B. Taylor, M.D., of Columbus, by whom she has one son, Lewis L.; and Flora Lillian. Mr. Pegg has been called to fill a number of positions of public trust. He served as deputy sheriff from 1879 until 1885, and at the same time continued the operation of his farm. He filled that office under Josiah Kinnear, Louis Heinmiller and William H. Barber. Mr. Pegg has been a member of the county board of school examiners, and., with the exception of a period. of one year. held the office for twenty-seven consecutive years, being the present incumbent. He has frequently served as chairman of the board and the cause of educationn has found in him a warm friend. The office is appointive and is independent of the city schools of Columbus. He has been a member of the township board of education for more than. fifteen years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to New England Lodge, No. 4, 638 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. F. & A. M., of Worthington, Ohio, and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. In politics he has always taken a deep interest, yet has never been an aspirant for the honors and emoluments of public office. In his political affiliations he is a Democrat and is active in the local work of the party, believing it the duty of every American citizen to see that good men are in office. His wife is a member of the Baptist church, with which she has long been identified. Mr. Pegg. contributes to its support and gives his earnest co-operation to all measures for the general good. In the line of business his, attention is given undividedly to the operation of his fine farm of one hundred and thirty-two :acres. He raises grain and stock and takes a just pride in his work, which is carried on systematically and energetically. He has been very successful and is a self-made man in the truest and best sense of the term. He is a gentleman of upright habits and keeps well informed on the issues of the day, both politically and otherwise. The cause of improvement and progress finds in him a friend and he is a worthy reprsentative of an honored pioneer family whose name is inseparably associated with the development of Franklin county. EDSON J. EMERICK, M. D. As the name indicates, Dr. Emerick is of German lineage. His paternal grandfather, Abel Emerick, was. descended' from German ancestors, the family Laving been founded in America at an early day. He was a native of New York and married a Miss Snow. Among their children was James Emerick, the Doctor's father. He was born in the Empire state in the year 1820 and was by occupation a farmer. With his family he came to Ohio in 1846 and, located upon a farm in Fulton county. In October, 1841, in Lysander, New York,—his native town,—he had: wedded Miss Mary A. Humphrey, of Stephentown, New York, and they became the parents of seven children, six of whom reached years of maturity. Mr. and Mrs. Emerick were devoted Christian people and the father passed away on the 24th of February, 1893, when in his seventy-third year, while, his wife died in 1883. The Doctor, of this review, is numbered among Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred upon. the old homestead farm in. Fulton county October 28, 1863. The usual experiences that fall to the lot of the farmer boy in youth were his. He early became familiar with the work of field and meadow and his preliminary education was acquired in the district schools, but later was supplemented by study in the village school of Fayette, while his literary course was completed in the Fayette Normal University, at Fayette, Ohio His resolve to acquire an education indicated the elemental strength of his character, which has since been developed into the strong purpose that has enabled him to carry forward to successful completion his chosen life work. Heread medicine with Dr. E. H. Rorich, of Fayette, and' subsequently entered the State University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1884, where he devoted two years to medicine, and in 1886 entered the Long Island Medical College, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 639 where he graduated in 1887. He then located in Fayette, entering upon his professional career. Until 1891 he practiced at that place and in the month of December of that year he came to Columbus, where he fitted up a pleasant and tasteful office at No. 1126 Neil avenue. Here his business has steadily increased both in volume and importance, and he has won his way to the fore-most rank among the medical practitioners of the city. From 1892 until 1898 Dr. Emerick was professor of dermatology in the Ohio Medical University, and he then. resigned for the purpose of devoting his entire attention his large and constantly growing practice. He. is now physician of Grant Hospital and: is a member of the Columbus Academy and the American Medical Association. On the 16th of September; 1891, Dr. Emerick was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Dill, of Franklin county, a daughter of Cabbage and Emily (Needles) Dill. Socially he is' a representative of York. Lodge, No. 563, F. & A. M.; of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and of the Red Men of America. He early realized the truth of the adage that "there is no excellence without labor," and therefore he closely applied himself to the mastery of the principles of the medical science and to the understanding of the cases entrusted to him. He is extremely careful and therefore accurate in diagnosing disease and the results which have usually attended his practice have been most desirable and gratifying, demonstrating his superior skill and ability. ALBERT L. GANTZ. The well cultivated farms and comfortable homes of Franklin county, Ohio, excite favorable comment from every traveler, and among them that of Albert L. Gantz, located in Jackson township, may be cited as an example. Mr. Gantz is a farmer and dairyman and has resided upon this place since March 14, 1857. His parents, Adam and Catherine (Pinnic) Gantz, were of Pennsylvania-German descent, and came from the Keystone state with teams, locating in Jackson township, where they passed their lives, the father dying at the age of seventy-two, and the mother passing away on her sixtieth birthday. Both were most excellent and industrious people and did much to improve the land where their son now resides. They had reared a family of fourteen children, all of them growing to maturity except two, who died at the age of eleven and seventeen, respectively.. Nine of this family are still living and are neighbors and residents of Franklin county. Albert L. Gantz, the fourteenth and youngest child of his parents, grew up on the farm, early becoming accustomed to agricultural pursuits. He was educated in the country school and immediately after marriage settled on the old homestead and took charge of the farm. His marriage took place March 26, 1878, to Hannah. M. Brown, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ricketts) Brown, who were also old residents of Franklin county, where Mrs. Gantz was reared and educated. Eight children have been added to the family circle, four of them sons and four daughters : Bert B., E. Gail, John 640 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. P., Catherine Belle, Adam R., M. Josephine, William B. and Helen Gay,—all of them born in Jackson township. Mr. Gantz is. an extensive and' successful farmer, cultivating a farm of three hundred acres of his own and also one of three hundred and ninety- four acres belonging to Mrs. Gantz. In 1897 he entered into the dairying business and has been very successful in this also, now employing two wagons. In religious belief both Mr. Gantz and his family . affiliate with the Presbyterian church, of which they have long been members. CHARLES J. KARCH. Conspicuous in the ranks of successful business men of Columbus stands Charles J. Karch. Possessed of fine commercial ability, aided by the exercise of sound judgment and indomitable energy, Mr. Karch has not only won success for himself but has assisted materially in the growth and prosperity of the city. In the real-estate business the fact is especially apparent that realty is the basis of all security." This basis is founded in the knowledge and probity of those through whom the transactions are conducted. In view of this fact there is .probably no one in Columbus possessing more of these qualifications than Mr. Karch. He has been connected with many large sales which have been made, and his business interests have been closely interwoven with the history of the capital. This knowledge, together with long experience makes him an invaluable aid to investors. A native of Germany, he was born near the Rhine, on. the 5th of July. 1864; and is a son of Frederick J. and Caroline (Wasson) Karch, both of whom. were barn and reared. in the fatherland. In 1864 the parents with their children crossed the Atlantic to America on a westward-bound steamer that dropped anchor in the harbor of New York, and from that city they made their way direct to Columbus, where the father was employed by Mr. Gill, a stove manufacturer, in whose service he remained for twelve years. Through the succeeding eight years he was employed as a blacksmith and' tool-maker, and now he is living retired. In October, 1849, Frederick J. Karch wag united in marriage to Miss Fredericka Deibert, of Germany, who Was born in the same neighborhood as her husband, and was a daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Ruf) Deibert. She was born April 11, 1828, and by her marriage became the mother of the following children, namely : Catherine, now the wife of Charles Herbst, of Columbus; Frederick, a farmer ; Joseph,. also an agriculturist; Charles J., who is engaged in the real-estate business; Eliza, wife of Amos M. Decker, a painter; and Caroline, at home. The father gives his support to the Democracy, but is not an office seeker: The success which he has achieved in life is indeed creditable, as it has come to him as direct result of his own efforts. Charles J. Karch, whose name introduces this record, was not a year old when brought by his parents to Columbus, where he pursued his studies until CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 641 his fourteenth year. He then put aside his text-books and entered upon his business career and became an employe of Frederick. Deibert, with whom he remained for several years. With the capital he had thus acquired he embarked in business on his own account as a dealer in sand, which he furnished in large quantities to a number of contractors and builders. He afterward purchased a tract of land in South Columbus, which he platted and laid out. The addition consists of one hundred and fifty lots and is known as the Karch & Wolf addition. Since that time he made a second addition, known as the Karch & Legg addition. Many of the lots have been sold and good residences have been erected upon the major portion of them. In 1885 Mr. Karch was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Foss, of Columbus, a daughter of Joseph B. and Ann (Hosack) Foss, who resided in Franklin county in pioneer days. They were natives of Boston, Massachusetts, but for many years the father was connected with the milling interests of this city, the mill being located at the corner of State and Front streets; however, it has since been removed to make way for more modern buildings. Mrs. Karch was born, reared and educated in this city and by her marriage she became the mother. of five children: Stella F., Jessie E., Josephine May, Robert H. and Olive N. In his political views Mr. Karch is a Democrat, and while he has never sought official preferment for himself he has taken an interest in securing the election of his friends and has served for several years as one of the judges of election in the first ward. He belongs to that class of representative American citizens who, while promoting their individual success, also contribute to the general prosperity. He has been largely instrumental in the upbuilding of South Columbus and has used his money and influence toward securing and locating industries in that portion of the city, among them the Columbus Chain Company, which has become one of the most substantial enterprises of the locality, employing a large force of workmen. He is a self-made man, who, without any extraordinary family or pecuniary advantages at the commencement of life, has achieved both character and fortune by sheer force of will, energy, indomitable courage, integrity and untiring effort, and has worked his way upward until he occupies an enviable position in commercial circles. WILLIAM J. MEANS. One of the most exacting of all the higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is that of the physician. A most scrupulous preliminary training is demanded and a nicety of judgment little understood by the laity. Then again the profession brings its devotees into almost constant association with the sadder side of life,—that of pain and suffering,—so that a mind capable of great self-control and a heart responsive and sympathetic are essential attributes of him who would essay the practice of the healing art. Thus when professional success is attained in any instance it may be taken as certain that Such measure of success has been thoroughly 642 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. merited. Dr. Means is a prominent representative of the medical profession of Ohio and is widely known throughout the state by reason: of his efficiency in the line of his chosen calling. As one of the founders and the registrar of the Ohio Medical University he. has been connected with the institution since its inception., and that it has become one of the leading medical colleges of the country is due in no small degree to his efforts. Dr. Means is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred upon a farm in Jefferson county in 1853. He is a son of Joseph and Margaret (Sutter) Means, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Germany. The father was a carpenter and builder by trade, but at the time of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal considerations and faithfully served his country for four years as a defender of the Union. His death occurred in 1896. The Doctor spent the first seventeen years of his life in the place of his nativity, where he enjoyed the advantages of a common-school and academic education. For two years. he engaged in teaching. In the spring of 1870 he came to Ohio and entered the National Normal University, at Lebanon, thus further preparing himself for teaching, He became principal of the Christiansburg high school, which position he held for four years. On determining to devote his life to the practice of medicine he began reading under the supervision of Dr. Burns, of Christiansburg, and was afterward graduated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery with the class of 1874. The following year Dr. Means located in Sabetha, Kansas where he remained, for nine months, returning in 1876 to Christiansburg, Ohio, where he successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until 1888. Throughout the intervening years he continued his studies and reading in order to be well prepared for the responsible duties that devolved upon him, and in 1888 he entered upon a post-graduate course in New York city. On its completion he located in Columbus and with others he organized the Ohio Medical University in 1891. He became its registrar and has since held' that position. He also filled the chair of surgery in the college and. is surgeon to the Protestant Hospital. His professional knowledge is deep and profound and he has the added faculty of being exceptionally capable as an educator, his explanations being lucid, concise and easily understood even when he explains what is seemingly a most abstruse medical problem. He is chief surgeon for the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Valley Railroad Company and medical director of the American Insurance Company. The fraternity recognizes his ability and accord him a position of prominence in its ranks. In 1876 Dr. Means was united in marriage to Miss Estelle Thomas, of Christiansburg, Ohio, a daughter of John Thomas. She was born, reared and educated in her native village, and after twenty years of a happy married life she died in 1896, leaving two children,—Hugh J. and John W. For his second wife the Doctor chose Miss Ida Huffam, a daughter of Louis Huffam, a prominent citizen of Columbus. In social circles of the city they CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 643 occupy an eminent position, being recognized leaders where true worth and intelligence are received as passports into good society. The Doctor holds membership relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and is also a member of the Baptist church. In the line of his profession he was formerly a member of the Champaign Medical Society; and is at present a member of the Central Ohio, the Ohio state and the American Medical Associations. Whatever tends to promote the interests of his profession and place before man the key to the mystery of that complex problem which we call life at once attracts the interest and co-operation of Dr. Means. He is an extremely busy and successful practitioner, constantly overburdened 'by demands for his services, both professionally and socially. He is a man of the highest and purest .character, an industrious and ambitious student and a gifted teacher of surgery. He is genial in disposition, a man of scholarly attainments and splendid endowments, who in every relation of life command's admiration, confidence and respect. THEADORE HART. A leading farmer of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Theadore Hart, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, March 14, 1821. Mr. Hart is able to trace his ancestry as far into the past as 1652, and among his English forefathers were some who came to this country with William Penn. His great-grandfather, his grand father and his father were born in the same house, in Bucks county, which witnessed his own birth. All lived out their honorable lives in Pennsylvania, upon the same land, and their descendants are scattered over the Union. The mother of our subject was named Catherine Kreusen, also a native of Bucks county, and she was of English .descent, that name being well known in the land of her forefathers. Our subject was the oldest child in a family of three children and is now the only survivor. He was reared upon the farm of his father, where he remained until he was eighteen years old, when he went for a four-years sojourn in Montgomery county, while there learning the carpenter trade. To the young man of that period the west offered unbounded opportunities, and Mr. Hart resolved to make his way to Ohio, accomplishing the journey on foot, in company with Hiram Puff. The comrades lived in Columbus until the fall of 1842, and while working at his trade in the city he bought the farm upon which he now lives, going back to Pennsylvania in the fall and returning to Ohio again in the spring. Upon. this trip he brought with him a twohorse wagon, and hidden somewhere about it fifteen hundred dollars in silver. The only house upon the farm was a round-log structure, in a dilapidated condition, no stable and but little fencing. He went to work with a will and put to practical use -his knowledge of carpentry, immediately beginning to lid a house with his own hands. The result showed that Mr. Hart was a master workman; for the planing of -the boards, the making of doors and 644 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. windows and its entire finishing were well done by his hands. So well was the work done,. indeed, that ever since then the house has afforded a most comfortable residence for the family. Other buildings followed the erection of the dwelling, all of which were built by Hart. Now his farm of seventy-eight acres is in a fine state of cultivation, his fences and buildings presenting a most substantial appearance, and all reflect credit upon his industry and skill. In the fall of 1843 Mr. Hart made another journey to Pennsylvania, this time upon horseback, and in November of that year was married to Catherine Walton, a native of the same state. With his wife Mr. Hart returned to Ohio, making this trip in a one-horse wagon, and arrived at the new home on Christmas day, 1843, and here he has lived ever since. Mrs. Hart died December 15, 1891, leaving the following children:: Lewis, deceased, who married Henrietta Chambers and left one son, Wallace; Thomas, who married Sarah Jane Lott; Louisa, who married J. E. Chambers and has three children,—Warren, Jennie and Melvin; Mary, who died. in infancy Willis, married Lillian Hatch and has two children,—Theadore and Eva J.: Frank, who has been twice married, the first time to Anna Wilcox, the second time to Doll Robbins, and has one son, Thomas Floyd., by the first marriage; Elmer, who resides at home and carries on a dairy business, owning some of the finest cows in Franklin county; and Jennie, who is at home. Mr. Hart is very well known in the county. He was early instructed in Democratic doctrine and voted for Stephen A. Douglas, but cast a ballot for Abraham Lincoln at the time of his second election, and since that time has voted with the same party in national affairs, although at local elections he prefers to select the men he feels are best fitted for the position. He has held the office of township trustee and possesses the entire confidence of his neighbors, all of whom are also his friends. Since twenty-two years of age: he has consistently lived the life of a member of the Methodist church and has taken an active part in both church and Sunday-schcol work, being for a time superintendent of the latter. He is most highly esteemed in the section which has so long been his home, and is a worthy representative of a retired farmer of Franklin county. WILLIAM WESTERVELT. The history of the family of Westervelt is an old and interesting one. The earliest mention of the name that can be ascertained in Holland is that of Dirck van Westervelt, who was born about the year 1475. That historic member of the family married into the family of Van Wenkom. His son Lubbert came to America in 1662, arriving May 24, on the ship Hope, from Meppel, province of Drenthe, Holland, and settled first at Flatbush, New York, and afterward located at Hackensack, New Jersey, where he and his descendants acquired considerable property and where the members of his family were burgomasters for many years. Lubbert had a son named Lubbert CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL. HISTORY - 645 Lubbertsen van Westervelt, and .the latter had a son named Roeloffe van Westervelt, who had a son named Kasparus, who had a son named Cornelius, and the next in descent was Jacobus, who married Rebecca Du Bois, and by this marriage there were nine children, of whom three sons—William, Peter and Mathew,—and a daughter, named Catharine, were pioneers in Franklin county, Ohio, in 1818. The Westervelt family in Holland still own the land there which was owned by their ancestors as long ago as 1472; but the old castle of the Westervelts has crumbled away. The Westervelt coat of arms consists of a shield with three silver fleur de lis; helmet and crown, crest, arms in armor rising from the crown holding on. fluer de lis, mounting green and silver. Motto, above in scroll, "Per crucem ad coronam :" below the shield the name "Van Westervelt." Rebecca Du Bois, who became the wife. of Jacobus Westervelt, was a descendant of the famous French family of Du Bois and a daughter of Louis Du Bois, a Huguenot who renounced his lands and titles for his faith in reformed religion and went to Holland; whence. he came in 1660 to New York, where he owned an immense tract of land and passed the remainder of his days. William, Mathew and Peter Westervelt, son of Jacobus and Rebecca (Du Bois) Westervelt, accompanied by their sister Catharine, who married Stephen Brinkerhoff, came to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1818 from Poughkeepsie, New York, where William Westervelt was born, August 8, 1792. They bought a large tract of land, nearly two thousand acres, in what has since become known as Blen.don township. The gift of land for educational, church and burial purposes at and near Westerville, the seat of Otterbein University, is referred) to in the biographical sketch of Mathew Westervelt elsewhere in this work. William Westervelt joined in this benefaction and was otherwise prominent in local affairs. He married Sarah Bishop, August 16, 1814, a daughter of William and Sarah Bishop, of Poughkeepsie, New York. He died. March 31, 1878, at the age of eighty-six years, and his wife died in 1876. They were prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, ever solicitous for its welfare and helpful to its progress. They were the parents of thirteen children, twelve of whom grew up. A son died in infancy, and the others were Jane. Lovina, Bishop, Hannah, James, Caleb, Helen, Sarah, Grover, Rebecca, Catharine and Celia. Of these Jane married David Headington, and her daughter, Mrs. Georgianna Wells, lives at Westerville. Lovina married Sylvanus Budd. James was educated in Worthington Academy, at Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, and married Kate Knox, who bore him two children,— Milo, who lives in Iowa ; and Laura, of Columbus. After the death of his first wife, James married Minerva Lawson, of Westerville, who bore him two daughters: Ada, who married John Joyce, of Columbus ; and Mary, who is a bookkeeper at Deshler's Bank at Columbus. Caleb Westervelt, also educated at Worthington Academy, became a merchant at Westerville and married Mary Van Derhoff, a daughter of Henry Van Derhoff. Her father 646 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. came from Oak Ridge, New Jersey, and died son after his arrival, in Delaware county. Caleb and Mary (Van Derhoff) Westervelt had three childdren, named Therese Medora, Cora Dell and Herschel D. Medora was educated at Otterbein University and married N. M. Hoffhines, a teacher in the Columbus schools, who died in 1889. By this marriage there was one son, Wilbur Westervelt Hoffhines, who is a resident of Columbus. In 1894 she married George Nitschke, of the firm of Nitschke Brothers, printers and bookbinders, of Columbus. Cora Dell died January 27, 1876. Herschel Douglas is a well known druggist of Columbus, and prominent in Masonic and Pythian circles. He was educated at Westerville and taught school for a time in Delaware county, this state. He married Miss Martha Martin, of Columbus, and they have a son named Leland Earl. Grover Westervelt, who lives at Norfolk, Nebraska, married Amelia Grinnell, a member of a pioneer family of Blenclon township, all of whom have left Franklin county and most of whom are living at Kankakee, Illinois. Sarah Westervelt is the widow of John Price, of Westerville. Rebecca Westervelt is the widow of Irvin Lawson and lives at Westerville. Bishop Westervelt, deceased left a son named Freeman, who was one of the founders. of an institute for the deaf and dumb at Rochester, New York, and is engaged as a superintendent there. Celia married Newell W. Grinnell and now makes her home in Kankakee, Illinois. They have three children,---Harry, Fannie and Darwin. Others of the children of William and Sarah (Bishop) Westervelt not here named left their native county years ago and the writer has not been able to trace their history. CHRISTIAN BACHMANN This well known farmer and dairyman of Truro township, has spent his entire life in Franklin county, Ohio, his birth having occurred in Columbus, December 20, 1853. His father; Christian Bachmann, Sr., was born in Bavaria, Germany, on the 22d of February, 1823; and was about twenty-seven years of age on his emigration to the United States, having been, reared and educated in his native land. Locating at Columbus, he worked as a laborer iri the Ridgway foundry for a time, and later was employed in the starch factory then located in that city. By the strictest economy he managed save enough from his meager wages to purchase fifteen acres of woodland. This he cleared, chopping the wood into chips, which he hauled to Columbus and sold for one dollar per load. Being industrious and energetic and the firm determination to succeed, he at length acquired a handsome property and at his death left three hundred and one acres of valuable land to his family. In 1852, at Columbus, he was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Commerson, also a native of Bavaria, Germany, and to them were born five children, namely : Christian, Henry, Katie, Mary and William, all still living. The days of his boyhood and youth our subject passed upon the home farm, and he is indebted to the common schools of the neighborhood for his CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 647 educational advantages. His ,school days were over, however, at the age of fourteen years as he was obliged to aid his' father with the farm work. He never left the parental roof, and is now successfully engaged in general farming and dairying. On the 12th of December, 1877, Mr. Bachmann. led to the marriage altar Miss Clara Alice Krumm, a daughter of Henry Krumm, a prominent farmer and miller of Truro township. By this union were born eight children, as follows: Lydia, Harry, Rosa, Charles, Clara, Sadie, Luther and Mamie. All are living with the exception of Mamie, who died in infancy; while Harry was in the employ of the electrical department of the United States exhibit at the Paris Exposition. All are now at home with their parents. Mr. Bachmann is an active and prominent member of the Lutheran church and the Lutheran Aid Society, and to all religious work he contributes liberally. He is also a member of the German Singing Society, and is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party and its principles. At local elections, however, he votes for the men Whom he considers best fitted for office without regard to political affiliations. On his party ticket he was elected justice of the peace by a good majority, and has also filled the offices of school trustee five years and school director for a number of years. In all the relations of life he has been found. true to every trust reposed in him, whether public or private, and well merits the high regard in which he is uniformly held. WILLIAM STRICKLER. William Strickler, who has held the office of justice of the peace since 1893, and is widely known as Squire Strickler, is numbered among the prominent old settlers of Franklin county, his home being on section 36, Hamilton township. He was born in this township, November 21, 1848, and is a son of William Strick , a native: of Fairfield county, Ohio, whence he removed to Franklin county in 1843,. locating in Hamilton township, where he died at the age of five years. He was a descendant of an old. Pennsylvania German family. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Peters, was also a tive of Fairfield county, was o:f Pennsylvania German descent, and died in Franklin county at the very advanced age of eighty-one years. By her marriage she became the mother of eleven children, of whom two died in infancy, while the others reached adult age and six are now living, namely: Mrs. Eleanora Hoggkins; a widow living in Columbus; Isabella, who is the widow of Joseph Stump and resides in. Hamilton township ; John, who Is also living in Hamilton township; Susan C., who is the widow of Edward Koocken and lives in Ellis county, Texas ; Margaret, wife of Michael Rohr of Van Wert, Ohio; and Maxamilia M., who resides with John. Mr. Strickler, of this review, was the sixth of the family, and was only two and a half years of age when his father died. He was reared in Hamilton township, and attended its district schools, beginning his education in a log school house. He assisted in the cultivation of the fields on the home farm 648 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. until after the inauguration of the Civil war, when in 1864, in his eighteen year, he enlisted as a private of Company K, First Ohio Cavalry, with which he served until the close of the war.. He participated in the Kilpatrick raid around Atlanta, together with many other small engagements, receiving an honorable discharge at Columbus when the country no longer needed his services. He then returned home and assisted in the cultivation of the farm until his marriage. In 1869 Mr. Strickler wedded Rachel C. Rohr, who was also born and reared in Hamilton township, being a representative of one of the oldest families of the county. Her mother was born in a little log house that stood on the farm where our subject now resides, and which was built in 1811. And in that cabin home Mr. and Mrs. Strickler began their domestic life, there living until 1879, when the present residence was erected. Eight children have been born of their union : Eva M., wife of Jesse Ranck, a farmer of Marion township; Nellie B., wife of Alonzo Simms, of Columbus; William G., who is a mail clerk on the Panhandle Railroad running from Columbus to Pittsburgh, Herman, who died at the age of eighteen rhonths; Clara B., who died at the age of one year; John Russell and Laura E., at home; and Stanley, who passed away at the age of four years. Mr. Strickler is now the owner of one hundred and twenty-four acres of rich and arable land, on which he carries on general farming. His pleasant home stand's in the midst of well-tilled fields, and is highly improved with substantial buildings. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and since 1893 he has held the office of justice of the peace, discharging his duties with strict fairness and impartiality. He belongs to McCoy Post, No. 1, G. A. R., and for over fourteen years has been identified with Tent No. 55, K. O. T. M. He has a wide acquaintance in Franklin county, where he has spent his entire life, and by reason of his y sterling qualities enjoys the respect of all who know him. FRANK THEODORE COLE. The family in America of which. Frank Theodore Cole, of Columbus, Ohio, is a representative, is descended from Thomas Cole, who settled at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1634 and whose descendants lived at Boxford and Harvard, some of them going .to New Hampshire. Captain Theodore Cole, father of Frank Theodore Cole, was born at Westmoreland, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, May 19, 1813, :and died there July 2, 1885, aged seventy- two years. He was for many years master of a whale ship sailing from New Bedford, Massachusetts, and his voyages took him to all parts of the world. He was one of the first to enter the Arctic ocean by way of Behring's strait, and was in the region of the mouth of the Yukon many years before it came to public notice. He married Miss Livilla Gleason, born March 21, 1818, a daughter of Captain Wilson Gleason, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire Captain Gleason was one of the most prominent men in his part of the state, and was for many years active in military affairs as a captain of cavalry CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 649 organized under the militia law of other days. He died in 1866, aged seventy-eight years. His grandfather, Isaac Gleason, of Petersham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, was a soldier in the colonial wars, as was also Abijah Cole, of Harvard, Massachusetts, grandfather of Captain Theodore Cole.. Captain Gleason was a descendant of Thomas Gleason, who was at Charlestown, Massachusetts, as early as 1652, and whose descendants lived afterward at Framingham and Petersham, Massachusetts, and moved at the close of the Revolutionary war to New Hampshire. Frank Theodore Cole was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, June 22, 1853, a son of Theodore and Livilla (Gleason) Cole. He was educated at Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, and at Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1873; and. was graduated from Williams College with the degree of A. B. in 1877 and from. the Columbia Law School with the degree of LL. D. in 1879.. He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1879 and to the bar in Ohio in February, 1880, and practiced his profession at Columbus until 1886. In the meantime he had; become active as a Republican, serving his party as a member of the city and county committees. From 1886 to 1889 he was secretary of the disbursement committee of the centennial celebration of the passage of the ordinance erecting the Northwest Territory and the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held at Columbus that year. For ten years Mr. Cole was secretary of the Franklin County Sunday school Association, and for five, years was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was president of the Garfield and Arthur Glee Club, of Columbus, in 1880, was a member of the executive committee of the Blaine and Logan Club, of Columbus, in 1884, and was a member of the executive committee of the Harrison and Morton Club, of Columbus, in 1888. He was for some time a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Whist Club, the Garfield Club and the University Club. For ten years. he was. assistant superintendent of the Congregational Sunday-school and for, two years of the Goodale street mission of the Congregational church, also one of the founders and for a time trustee of the Mayflower Congregational church. He is president of the Columbus Golf Club and a director of the "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society. In 1886 Mr. Cole published the early genealogies of the Cole family in America, and he is now publishing the genealogies of the Gleason family in America. In 1889 he opened "the Columbus Latin School, a private school for boys in Columbus, and in 1899, with Professor Abram. Brown, he established the University School of Columbus, of which Mr.. Cole is secretary and Professor Brown head master. DANIEL WEYGANDT. This well-known resident of Grove City and manager for the A. G. Grant Railroad Company, was born in Washington, ,Pennsylvania, on the 27th of November, 1842, and on both the paternal and maternal sides is of Pennsyl- 41