650 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. vania-Dutch extraction. His. grandfather, George Weygandt, spent his entire life as a farmer in the Keystone state. The father, George H. Weygandt, was also a native of Washington, Pennsylvania, and by occupation was a carpenter and contractor. On coming to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1849, he located in Grove City, and erected some of the first houses in that town, also building the hotel, the first Presbyterian and Lutheran churches. He hewed the timbers for W. F. Breck's mill, the first steam mill in Jackson township, and erected many other buildings throughout the county, always receiving a liberal share of the business in his line. He became widely known and was highly respected. In early life he was a member. Of the Lutheran church, and when it was abandoned became a Presbyterian. In his political affiliations he was a Democrat, and taking an active interest in everything pertaining to the good of his community, he most creditably and acceptably served as a member of the school board and as township trustee for several terms. He died at the age of seventy-two years, but his wife, who bore the maiden name of Rachel Gantz, is still living at the age of eighty-four, and makes her home with our subject. She is also a native of Pennsylvania, and was reared om Washington county, that state. In the family of this worthy couple were nine children, namely: John A., who enlisted in 1862, in the Union army and died in the service; Daniel, of this review; Jacob H., deceased; William: M. L., who died leaving a family of five children and a widow who is now living in Columbus; George C., who with his wife and three children resides in Springfield., Ohio; Benjamin F., of Grove City, who has been twice married and has two children by the second union; Isaac, who died at the age of two years; Lovina C., who died at the age of seventeen ; and. Jennie, who died at the age of thirteen years. Daniel Weygandt was only seven years old when brought by his parents to Franklin county, Ohio. He had previously attended school in his native county one term, and completed his education in the log school houses of Jackson township, this county. At the age of eighteen he commenced learning the carpenter's trade, but after serving one year of his apprenticeship, he laid aside all personal interests to enter the service of his country, enlisting in 1862 for three years, as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel John G. Wilcox, at Columbus. He participated in all the battles in which his regiment took part until taken ill and sent to the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. On his recovery he rejoined his command at Rossville, Georgia, and later took part in Sherman's celebrated march to the sea. He never received even a slight wound and was :always found at his post of duty except when confined in the hospital by illness. The war having ended he was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio. Returning to Grove City, Mr. Weygandt again took up the carpenter's trade, at which he worked as a journeyman for about sixteen years, and then engaged in contracting on his own account for twelve years. He has done some farming and still owns a place of sixty acres near Grove City, which he CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 651 rents, and also owns his residence, which is located at the beginning of the Grove City street car line. Under A. G. Grant, as. superintendent, Mr. Weygandt manufactured the timber for the construction of that road. He has since been employed as foreman by the street car company, his duties being to look after their interests, pay the men, etc. In 1866 Mr. Weygandt was united in marriage with Miss; Frances White, a native of Franklin county, and a daughter of Alexander White, one of its early settlers, and they have become the parents of four children: Jacob H., who married Clara Large and has four children,—Ira, Frank, Hester and Elven; Herbert W., who married Blanch Clement and has two children,— Stanley and Josephine; Winter W., at home; and Mary, wife of William Barber, by whom she. has one child, Henry Ettie Gracie. Mr. Weygandt is a member of the Union Veteran Legion, and holds a card in the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Grove City. In his political views he is a Democrat. He is a good financier and has been called upon to serve as township treasurer four years, treasurer of the Fair Association, and of the canning factory of Grove City. His life has been one of industry and usefulness and the success that has attended his efforts is certainly worthily achieved. As a citizen he ever stands ready to discharge any duty that devolves upon him. JOHN L. B. WISWELL. Few men in Franklin county, enjoy a higher or more widely extended degree of respect and confidence of their fellow men than John L. B. Wiswell, and it is therefore with pleasure that we present the record of his career to our readers. He was born in Massachusetts, October 21, 1827, a son of Daniel H. and Ann (Gates) Wiswell. His maternal grandfather was General Gates, of Revolutionary fame, who was killed at the battle of Quebec. Daniel H. Wiswell was a son of Amasa Wiswell, who was also a native of the old Bay state and was of Welsh lineage, their ancestors having come to America during the early colonial days and established homes: in Massachusetts. The name was originally spelled Wiswall. From Wales the first of the name brought with him a Penstock diamond; which has remained in the family as an heirloom, passing down from father to son throughout the. generations and being now in possession of Amasa D. Wiswell, of Illinois. Daniel H. Wiswell, the father of our subject, was for many years a resident of Buffalo, New York. He was both a carriage maker and painter by trade and followed: those pursuits throughout his active business career. His kast days were spent in Buffalo. Unto him and his wife were born five children, but John L. B. Wiswell is the only one now living. Two of the sons of Amasa Wiswell came to Franklin county, namely : Amasa and Joseph, while three daughters also found homes in this locality, namely : Betsey, who married Truman Skeeles ; Mrs. Angeline Reed; and one other. The Wis- 652 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. wells made their way westward about 1835 and took up their abode on a farm in this locality. The subject of this review was reared' in Petersham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and pursued his education in the common schools. Under the direction of his father he learned the painter's trade. In 1848 he went to Illinois, settling in New Lexington, Morgan' county, where he followed his chosen vocation for four years. On the expiration of that period he returned to Buffalo, New York, but after a year again went to Illinois and a year subsequent to that time came to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1854. While living in Morgan county he had married Miss Sarah Murgatroyd, and. they became the parents of two children, of whom one is living, namely, George. For his second wife Mr. Wiswell chose Chestina Wilcox, of Springfield, Illinois. By this marriage six children were born, of whom, four are living, namely; Priscilla Ann, Harriet C., Mary Jane and Jerusha Sophia. They lost their two sons, Daniel T. and John L. After taking up his abode in Franklin county our subject worked at the painter's trade until 1862, when, feeling that his first duty was to his country, he responded to the call for military aid and joined Company C, of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Which was command by Colonel J. A. Wilcox. The regiment remained in camp at Columbus from August until December, and was then sent to Camp Dennison, and a few days afterward was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky. After a month they were ordered south to Nashville to reinforce Rosecrans. This was in February. While at that place Mr Wiswell was taken ill and was sent to the hospital in Nashville, where he received an honorable discharge. He then returned home, but in 1864 he again entered the service, as a member of Company E, One Hundred and.. Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, for three months He was in active duty during this term, and at its close was honorably discharged. Since his return from the war he has followed his trade in Columubs, and is an energetic and trustworthy business man, who owes whatever success be has achieved to his own efforts. He has been a prominent factor in military circles throughout the intervening years, and retains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership with DeWitt Corps. He was the originator of the Ex-Soldiers and Ex-Sailors Society of Columbus, and took a leading part in forming the Firing Squad, an organization whose members were formerly soldiers. He likewise belonged to the Ancient Order of Knights of the Mystic Chain, of Columbus. He organized Walhonding. Tribe,. No. 105, I. O. R. M., and Buffalo Tribe, No. 109, I. O. R. M. He also aided very largely in the upbuilding and the work of this organization, so that his brethren .of the fraternity call him the father of the order. In Masonry he is quite prominent, belonging to the blue lodge and the Horeb Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M. Of all these organizations mentioned he is a charter member, excepting the last. In politics' he is a stanch Repubulican, unswerving in his advocacy of the principles of the party. As a citizen he is CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 653 as true and faithful to the best interests of the community, state and nation as when he followed the stars and stripes upon the battlefields of the south. Whereever he is known he is highly esteemed for his sterling worth, and his many excellencies of character have gained aim. a large circle of warm friends. LEMUEL SMITH. A representative of one of the pioneer families of Ohio, Lemuel Smith is now a well-to-do and enterprising agriculturist of Pleasant township, Franklin county. His paternal grandfather, Lemuel Smith, Sr., was born in the Green Isle of Erin, whence he emigrated to the new world and founded the family in Maryland. The grandfather made farming his life work and died in Dorchester county in Maryland. It was in that county that Handy Smith, the father of our subject, was born in the year 1808. He received only a limited education and found plenty of work to do upon the home farm. After arriving at years of maturity he married Sarah Littleton, who was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, in 1810, a daughter of Edmund Littleton. In 1839, with his wife and family, Handy Smith came by team to Ohio, being five weeks upon the road. He located. in Monroe township, Pickaway county, where, in the midst of the forest, he secured a tract of land'. Subsequently he purchased fifty acres of wild land in that township, erecting a hewed-log cabin of one room 16x16 feet, and with characteristic energy began the cultivation of his farm. He performed the arduous task of clearing and breaking the land and in the course of time his labors were rewarded with abundant harvets, and as the years passed he added to his possessions until he owned two hundred and twenty-five acres in the township where he first settled, and also a tract of one hundred and ninety-two acres in Pleasant township, Franklin county. His death occurred on the latter farm in June, 1884. His first wife died in Monroe township, Pickaway county, in 1850, and he afterward married Rebecca Jane Tainer, who died in 1882. The parents of our subject held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and in his political affiliations the father was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Their children were as follows: Clara, now the wife of Henry Dennis, of Monroe township, Pickaway county; Adaline, who became the wife of Jacob Watts and died in. Iowa; Joseph, of West Jefferson, Ohio; Lemuel, of this review ; and Stanford, of Pleasant township; Isaac, who is living in Oklahoma ; Thomas, who died at the age of thirty-five years ; and Susan, who died in childhood. By the second marriage there were four children : William, who has passed away; Joan, wife of Alex Mauser, of Monroe township, Pickaway county ; Mary C.., deceased; and Nettie, who is the wife of Ezra Hatfield and resides on the old homestead. In taking up the personal history of Lemuel Smith we present to our readers the record of one who is widely and favorably known in Franklin county. He was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, near Salisbury, on the 2d day of March, 1833, and when six years of age came to: Ohio. His education was 654 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. pursued in the district school, which was some distance from his home. The schoolhouse was built of logs and his first teacher was David Cardiff. Through the winter terms he continued his studies and in the summer months he assisted in. the labors of the home farm. In March, 1857, he married Miss Lucinda King, who was born in Monroe township, March 16, 1838, a daughter ofReason and Elizabeth (Mauser) King. She, too, was reared to womanhood amid the scenes of the frontier and was educated in the log school house. Mr. and Mrs. Smith began their domestic life upon a farm of forty-five acres in Pleasant township, belonging to his father's estate, and there they resided for about fifteen: years. When they took up their abode upon the place it was covered with a heavy growth of timber. He erected a log house, 16x16 feet, and with characteristic energy began the development of his farm. In 1874 he sold that property and. located upon his present farm of one house, dred and fifteen acres, of which thirty acres had been cleared. Almost the entire tract is now under cultivation and all of the buildings upon the place have been erected by the owner, save the residence. His farm is a monument to his enterprise, perseverance and good management and now he is successfully engaged in the cultivation of his fields and the raising of stock. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith has been blessed with the following children; Sidney, now the wife of William Vittum, of Columbus; Handy, of Indiana; Joseph, who lives in: Pleasant township ; Laura, wife of Thomas Chaffin; and Sarah, who is now the wife of Seymour Harter. While Mr. Smith gives his political support to the Democracy, he cannot be called a politician, having never sought or desired office. His worth as a citizen, however, is widely recognized. He is public-spirited, progressive, and co-operates in all movements and measures for the general good. PHILIP E. BLESCH, M. D. Among the leading physicians. Of Columbus, Ohio, is Philip E. Blesch, who is not only a successful practitioner but also a man of science who has made special studies and discoveries which may do much toward alleviating the sufferings of mankind. Dr. Blesch was born in Baden, Germany, May I, 1845, and was a son of George Adam and Rosina Mary Blesch, who emigrated to the United States in 1848. His father died in Columbus during the cholera scourge of 1849, but his mother lived to be eighty-two years of age, dying in 1890. Dr. Blesch was but four years old when brought to Columbus, where, during youth, he was educated in the public schools. He spent some years in reading medicine in the office and under the direction of Dr. John Dawson, later under Dr. Holderman, with whom he completed his reading. Then he entered Starling Medical College, at which he graduated in 1868. While a student of medicine he had opportunity to study chronic diseases in all their complicated manifestations by serving as steward in the Franklin County Infirmary, and after graduation he immediately engaged in general CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 655 practice, calling science to his aid in his endeavors to eradicate pain and sickness. The special studies which he has pursued have resulted' in a wonderful discovery that has been called by some of his patients the elixir of life. He has named this new treatment Dr. Blesch's Vacuum Treatment and in it he uses but little medicine. Since 1896 he has most successfully used this great pain eradicator, claiming that it restores a physiological circulation which makes a physiological man. Dr. Blesch is a member of the Central Ohio Medical Association and the Ohio State Medical Association; also is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, the Knights of the Maccabees and Columbus Lodge, No. 80, A. O. U. W. Many years of his life have been given to his study of the pains of mankind, each year making him wiser and more helpful to others. His life is bound up in his beneficent work and his grateful patients rejoice that it has been given to one so worthy, to make the important discovery of the new healing agent. In 1869 Dr. Blesch was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Schneider, of Columbus, a daughter of Andrew Schneider, a confectioner well known in this city. Two talented. children were born of this union : Clara, an; artist; and Emma, a teacher. in the public schools. HENRY ADAM WEBER. One of the most highly esteemed and best known educators of the state of Ohio is Henry Adam Weber, now occupying the chair of agricultural chemistry in the Ohio State University. Professor Weber was born in Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, July 12, 1845, the third son of Frederick and Caroline (Tascher) Weber, both of them natives of Germany, where they grew to maturity, emigrating to America in 1830. After marriage they settled upon a farm in Clinton township, in 1832. Here Mr. Weber engaged in farming, later establishing a malt house, which business he conducted in connection with his farm. He was an industrious, honest, enterprising citizen, accumulating more than a competence before old age. He died; in 1888, Mrs. Weber having passed away some years previously. A number of children were born to them as follows : Frederick; Caroline; Louisa, the wife of Dr. Leopold Sohuab, living in Columbus ; Wilhelmina, deceased; Amelia, George, Henry Adam, Herman P., residing on a part of the old farm; and Lena, a widow. Professor Weber was reared a farmer boy and acquired the rudiments of his superior education' in the district school, later attending a school at Westerville preparatory to a course in Otterbein University, where he remained for some time. He is a graduate of the Polytechnic School at Kaiserslautern, of the class of 1866, a student of chemistry under Von Liebig and Reischauer; in 1866-8 was under the instruction of Von Kolbe, of Munich; and in succession was a doctor of philosophy in the Ohio State University in 1879; in the chemical department of the geological survey of Ohio in 1869-74; professor 656 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. of general chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Illinois, 1874-82; chemist to state board of agriculture of Illinois, 1874-82 ; chemist to state board of health of Illinois; 1874-82 ; has occupied the chair of agricultural chemistry in the University of Ohio since 1884 and was the state chemist and chief chemist of Ohio State Dairy and Food Commission, 1885-97. In 1870 Professor Weber married Miss Rosa Ober, of Columbus, a native of Germany; whose acquaintance he had made during his residence in Munich. Two children have been born of this union,—Henrietta C. and Hilda A. The high attainments of Professor Weber make him eminently fitted for the important position he holds. The bent of his mind has always been toward the science which he teaches and which his education and travels have made so thoroughly understood. EZRA DOMINY. Ezra Dominy was born in Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, November 23, 1847, and there spent the first seventeen years of his life, after which he came to Franklin county with his father, Henry Dominy, one of the honored pioneer settlers of Ohio. The district schools afforded him the educational privileges which he enjoyed, and he was reared to farm life. He also learned carpentering and cabinet-making and these have contributed to his income and enabled him to keep everything about his place in good condition. On the 1st of January, 1878, Mr. Dominy wedded Miss Ann M. Ferris, who was born in Brown township, Franklin county, January 21, 1849, a daughter of Nicholas E. and Maria L. (Samuel) Ferris. After their marriage our subject and his wife resided in Brown township for a few years. but in the spring of 1870 removed to Illinois, locating in Ludlow township Champaign county, where he operated rented land for a year. In the second year there he purchased a farm of eighty acres, but a year later sold that property and returned to Ohio, working at the carpenter's trade for a time. He subsequently became the owner of a farm, which in 1880 he sold to William Walton, while he bought his present farm of eighty acres in Norwich township. He has placed the greater part of it under a high state of culitivation, and all modern accessories and improvements are there found. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dominy have been born nine children: Harriet L., who died in her eighteenth year; Ruth A., who died at the age of three years; Laura J., who became the wife of C. L. Bower and is now deceased; Carrie D., wife of H. H. Kramer; Henry E. of Denver, Colorado; Maggie M. and Gertrude Ann, both deceased; Estella F., at school; and Robert E., who has also passed away. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Dominy is serving as steward. In politics he is a stalwart Republican, and for five years efficiently filled the office of township trustee. Socially he is an Odd Fellow, and both he and his wife are connected with the Rebekah Lodge of Hilliard. They are well known in the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 657   community and the hospitality of many of the best homes of the neighborhood is cordially extended them. It may be interesting in this connection to note something of the history of Mrs. Dorniny's family. Her father, Nicholas E. Ferris, was a son of Dennis Ferris, a highly respected farmer and early settler of Perry township, whence he afterward removed to Worthington township, where his last days were passed. He married Nancy Egbert, who died in 1876, when more than eighty years of age. Their children were Nicholas E.; John, who died in Oregon; Joseph, who died' in California; and Mary J., who became the wife of Charles A. Holmes and died in Franklin county. Nicholas E. Ferris, the father of Mrs. Dominy, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1814, and in his boyhood accompanied his parents on their removal to Columbus, Ohio. Later his father purchased a farm in Perry township, on which the -son was reared to manhood.. He acquired a common-school education and afterward engaged in teaching for several terms. On the 10th of December, 1837, he wedded Maria L. Samuel, who was born in Wales, August 19, 1813, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Davis) Samuel, both natives of Wales. In 1823 the family came to the United States, landing at New York city, where they lived for a time, the father following his trade of cabinet-making. With his family he subseqently came to Columbus, Ohio, where he engaged in the undertaking and cabinet-making business, subsequently purchasing and removing to a farm in Brown township, where he spent his remaining days. His children were Maria L., who became Mrs. Ferris John, who died in Iowa; James, who went to the Black Hills at the time of the gold excitement and acquired a considerable sum of money, for which he was killed by his supposed friend in Council Bluffs while he slept; Ann, wife of John Roland, who died in Brown township; William, who died near Westerville; and Samuel E., who for many years was a druggist of Columbus, but died on his farm in Franklin county. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ferris resided in Mifflin township for a few years and then purchased a farm in Brown township, where his death occured March 23, 1879, his wife having passed away. January 15, 1863. Thev were Methodists in religious faith, and he was a Republican in his political belief. For many years he was justice of the peace of Brown township, was also township clerk for -a long period and for one term was land appraiser. He had six children, namely : Cyrus D., Charles S., Mrs. Dominy, John E., Elyria J. and Bayard T. The last named died in infancy, and the fifth child is also deceased. ANDREW PLANCK. The life of most farmers is uneventful. There are some who have had adventures by land and sea and there are some living who have had the experiences of the soldier, but there are not many remaining in Ohio who can 658 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. look back upon the unique vicissitudes of emigration to California in the days following the discovery of gold there, as the gentleman whose name is above is able to do. Andrew Planck, who is one of the most prominent farmers of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, was born in Hopewell township, Perry county, Ohio, August 11, 1828, a son of Adam and Mary (Horn) Planck. Adam Planck was born and passed his younger days in Maryland and came with his parents to Ohio, about 1819, and settled with them in Hopewell township, and remained there till 1846, when he removed to Franklin county, and. there his father died at the age of seventy-three, and his mother at the age of seventy-four. His parents were both of German descent and could speak the German language. They had nine children, of whom eight grew to manhood and womanhood and of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth and the second son, and is the only one living in Franklin county, Ohio. Three of his !sisters live in Perry county, Ohio, one of his brothers living in Missouri and two others live at Burlington, Iowa. Mr. Planck spent his boyhood in Perry county, Ohio, and there attended school in a log school house in the woods a mile and three-quarters from his father's house. He came to Franklin county with his father's family and was a member of his father's household until 1852, when, attracted by the discovery of gold there, he went to California, going from his home to Cincinnati and thence to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he and his party bought ponies and packed their belongings on them: and started on a long and perilous journey across the plains. Graves were seen on either side of the road all the way through. They were the first emigrants who went in the spring of 1852, by way of Fort Kearney, and they remained there for a time, and receiving accessions to their company went on by way of Fort Laramie and the Carson valley, arriving at Placerville July 4, 1852. The latter part of the journey was arduous for the reason that they disposed of their ponies and such supplies, as they could not themselves carry, at Carson valley, and travel on foot from that point. They were seventy-five days en route from St Joseph, Missouri, to Placerville, California, where Mr. Planck remained until September, 1854, when .he set out to return by water to New York, going by way of Graytown and Norfolk, and stopping at the latter place for provisions, landing in New York twenty-two days, after leaving San Francisco, Mr. Planck has stated that his sojourn in California was more fruitful in experience than in money, but he has never regretted it. In 1856 Mr. Planck went to Nebraska and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land about three miles north of Blair, Washington county upon which he erected a house for temporary occupancy. After remaining there for four years he .went to Denver, Colorado, where he engaged in mining. He was for a time at Gregory's Diggings. and was afterward at South Park. From there he went to Denver and thence to Omaha. Denver then consisted of a few log houses and Mr. Planck, who had worked as a carpenter in Nebraska and who would have been very likely to have noticed such a CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 659 thing and remember it, states that he saw the first shingle roof put on a building in that now flourishing city. It was put on. with wooden pegs. Omaha had but one street and was otherwise primitive. From Nebraska he crossed over into Iowa and assisted in building a bridge two hundred and forty feet long across the Little Sioux river at Little Sioux City, where he was placed in charge of the men and held responsible for the proper construction of the bridge. Returning to Franklin county, Ohio, he married, in 1860, Lucy A. Schrum, a native of Columbus and a daughter of Joseph Schrum, an early settler there, who married Chloe Breckenridge, a member of a prominent Franklin county family. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Planck settled on his farm in Franklin township, where he has since made his home. The farm then contained one hundred acres. The place now consists of three htindred acres and has many improvements, most of which have been made by him. He has given his attention to general farming and has achieved a notable success. Mr. Planck, who is a stanch Repubican, has been treasurer of his township and was for many years a member of the local school board. His public spirit has led him to identify himself with every movement tending to benefit his town and county. Andrew and Lucy A. (Schrum) Planck have had eleven children, namely : Eliza O., who married Samuel Newner, of Piqua county, Ohio; William E., who married Augusta Stafford, and is a native of Nebraska; Thaddeus L., who married Eva Wilson, of Franklin township; Grant, who married Frances Derrer, of near Columbus, Ohio ; Emma, who married William Baker, of Franklin township; Oliver, who married Susie Warlie, of Franklin township; Charles and Laura, who are members of their parents' household ; Martha, who married Lawrence Barbee; and Albert and Clara, also members of their parents' household. The family is a highly respected. one, and its several members are safe in the good opinion of all who know them. JOHN J. EAKIN. One of the prominent business men of. Franklin. township, Franklin county, Ohio, who is the. proprietor of the Midland dairy, is John. J. Eakin, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1834, and was a son of William and Isabella (Kelly) Eakin, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent. They engaged in farming in their Pennsylvania home and died there at about the age of eighty-seven years. They were parents of eight children and our subject is the oldest child of the family. Mr. Eakin was reared on the farm, but early manifested a desire for an education superior to that of the district school. He was accordingly sent to school in Pittsburg, and later finished a course in the Pittsburg Commercial College and then he engaged in teaching. For three terms he remained in his native state, but then came to Ohio and located in Franklin county, in 1858. Here he began to teach again and so well did he please the patrons that his 660 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. services were required in the same school for six years. In the meantime he had been purchasing land. and after eight years of the life of the teacher he began farming. In 1888 he made his first trial as a dairyman, naming his place of business, the Midland dairy, and so generous has been his patronage that he now supplies a great portion of the city with milk and cream. Mr. Eakin was married, October 13, 1864, to Miss Ellen Chambers, a native daughter of Franklin county. Her parents are William and Elizabeth Chambers, who were early settlers in the township. Mrs. Eakin is the oldest in family of seven children. She was reared in Franklin township, receiving her education in the city of Columbus. and at Westerville, Ohio. Like her husband she engaged in teaching school for some years and is a lady of intelligence. Mr. and Mrs. Eakin are the parents of five children: William, who married Elizabeth Thomas, has three children,-—Ray, Evart and Esther; Marion, the wife of W. R. Hamilton, has two children,—Glenn and Lee; Edwin. D., who married Alma Watts and has one child; Bessie; and Dr. Stanley W., a dentist in Zanesville, Ohio. In his political faith Mr. Eakins is a Republican, and has been called upon to accept many of the local offices. He has been township trustee and clerk, always taking an active part in public affairs, possessing a. large amount of civic pride. The family are consistent and valued members of the Methodist church, where Mr. Eakin is steward and trustee. He has taken much interest in all things pertaining to the good of the church. The early life of our subject was often one of difficulty on account of limited means, but he has accumulated a competence, and lives in comfort upon a fine farm of eighty-seven acres of well cultivated land. His handsome brick residence was erected in 1887. Honesty, energy and perseverance have been with him the levers of success. CHARLES J. LEAP. Charles Jackson .Leap follows farming in Norwich township, Franklin county. He is of English lineage. His great-grandfather, Gabriel Leap, was an English soldier, but not relishing military life he deserted, shot a guard and took passage on a boat bound for free America. His name was originally Lowden, but to escape his he changed it to Leap. On reaching the new world he took up his abode at Mill Creek, Virginia, where he died. His son, Thomas Leap, the grandfather of our subject, was born at Mill Creek, whence he removed' to Ohio, where he met and married Katie Harvey, a native of this state. They returned to the Old Dominion, and the grandfather served as sheriff of his. county for twenty-one years. He was a very prominent and influential citizen and took an active part in religious work as well as political affairs. An eloquent and convincing speaker, he many times filled the pulpit of the Christian church, in which he held membership. He afterward removed to Carroll county, Kentucky, where he owned and operated a farm, but he now lives in the city of Carrollton, at CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 661 the very advanced age of ninety-two years. There he served as jail warden. for some time. His wife died in 1898, at the age of eighty-six years. Gabriel Leap, the father of our subject, was born in Carroll county, Kentucky, reared upon, his father's farm, and acquired a common-school education. In Franklin county, Ohio, he married Susan Wooley, a sister of S. J. Wooley, of Columbus, on whose farm in Brown township they located,. building a log house on the western portion of the farm. There they lived for several years, and then returned to Carroll county, Kentucky, where Mr. Leap died in September, 1865, at the age of thirty-five years. His widow afterward became the wife of Guy Van Horn, with whom she removed to Van Wert county, Ohio, where she died in 1874. By her first marriage she has three children : Elizabeth, who died at the age of eighteen years; Sanford T., of Brown township, this county; and Charles. The children of the second marriage were Alice, Isaac and. Fanny. Charles Jackson Leap was born December 12, 1865, on the farm in Brown township owned by his uncle, S. J. Wooley. His father died three months . before his birth. He spent the first nine years of his life in his native township and attended the Heiser school. He then accompanied his mother and stepfather to Van Wert county, where he remained until fifteen years of age, but his mother died and he was not kindly treated by his stepfather. He had few school privileges and owing to unkindness he ran away from home. One morning he arose to build the fire and on being severely scolded by his stepfather he went out of the house and ran away, going to the home of Peter Menser. He there agreed to remain until he was twenty-one years of age, kit his uncle, Joseph Leap, of Jackson county, West Virginia, came to Ohio to take the children back with him to his home, though his sister had died and his. brother had married. Our subject, however, accompanied him to West Virginia, living with him for eighteen months, during which time he aided him in cutting stays and sawing logs. He then went to his grandfather in Carroll county, Kentucky, where for eighteen months he worked on the farm raising tobacco. On. the expiration of that period he joined his brother in Van Wert county, Ohio, continuing with him for two years, after which he worked for his uncle, S. J. Wooley, in Brown township, Franklin county, until 1888. On the 4th of July, of that year, Mr. Leap was united in marriage to Miss Manilla Grace, of Norwich, daughter of F. L. Grace, marshal of Hilliard: Their union has been blessed with two children : Frank Cecil Jackson, born October 11, 1890; and Ferd McKinley, born May 8, 1896. After his marriage Mr. Leap rented the Jacob Hart farm for a short time and then removed to Brown township, where he rented the David Hamilton farm for two years, subsequently spending two years on the William Jones farm. His next home was in Jackson township, where he operated the S. J. Wooley farm for nearly five years and then purchased sixty- acres of land in Norwich township, to which lie has since added twenty acres. He carries on general farming and stock raising and deserves great credit for the success he has achieved, for 662 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   since an early age he has depended entirely upon his own efforts. At the age of eighteen years he joined the Christian Union church in Kentucky and at the age of twenty-three joined the Methodist Episcopal church in Hilliard. In his political views he is a stanch Republican, but the honors and emolument of public office have had no attraction for him, as he prefers to devote his attention to his business .affairs, in which he is now meeting with creditable and well deserved success. JAMES J. TILTON. James J. Tilton, who is now living a retired life at his home at No. 608 East Third avenue, Milo, Ohio, was born in Newberry, Essex county Massachusetts, August 13, 1830. His father, Josiah Tilton, was a native of Massachusetts, became a blacksmith by trade, and also followed: the occupation of farming. He died November 17, 1830, when only thirty-eight years of age, while his wife, Mrs. Mary Tilton, passed away in November, 1867, at the age of sixty-four years. James J. Tilton was their only son. He acquired his education in the public schools and left home when in his twenty-second year, going to Canton, Ohio, where he became connected with railroad service by building the first depot platform at that place for the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad. That was in the year 1852. He afterward worked at grading on that road for two years, and in 1854 he began running on a construction train for the company west of Crestline, Ohio. In 1856, however, he left the employ of that road and began work on the Wabash road. He has at various times been employed by different railroad companies on construction trains in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan. In 1861 he entered the service of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company and took up his abode in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1869 he was yardmaster for the road at Logansport, Indiana, and the following year he went to Kentucky. Later he was in West Virginia, Indiana and Michigan, being employed in. those states until 1889, when he returned to Kentucky, where he remained until he retired from the railway service in 1896. He is now living retired at his. home in Milo, enjoying the benefits of a well spent life, the competence which he has acquired supplying him with all life's necessaries and many of its luxuries. Mr. Tilton was married, November 28, 1861, in Columbus, Ohio, to Miss. Olive Foss, a native of Massachusetts, who in 1853 came to the west with. her parents, locating in Crestline, Ohio. Her father, J. B. Foss, was master mechanic for the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company in 1853, and in 1860 he removed to Columbus, where he held a similar position until his: retirement from business cares. He died in the capital city in 1893, at the age of seventy-eight years, and his wife passed away in 1859. They had three daughters : Mrs. Tilton ; Mrs. Martha F. Wolf, wife of John P. Wolf, a cabinetmaker of Columbus ; and' Josephine, wife of Charles CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 663 Karsh, a dealer in coal and lime in Columbus. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton has been blessed with two children : Mary, who was born January 1, 1865, and died in June of the same year ; and Edith F., who was born in 1869 and was married, in October, 1889, to W. M. Williams, a carriage-maker of Columbus. Their children are: Edith F., born July 16, 1890; and Alice, born in 1899. Mrs. Tilton is a member of Dr. Rexford's church in Columbus. For forty-seven years the subject of this review has been connected with the Masonic fraternity, having been initiated into the mysteries of the order in a lodge at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1853. He has since been loyal to its principles, exemplifying in his life the teachings concerning mutual helpfulness, charity and kindliness. In politics he has been a lifelong Democrat. HENRY A. GOAD. Henry A. Goad, who resides at No. 106 West King avenue, Columbus, is of English lineage and birth. He was born in Cornwall, England, in 1841, and his parents always remained in that country. His mother is still living, at the very advanced age of ninety-one years. Mr. Goad received a professional education and was graduated in' the Royal Agricultural College, at Cirencester, England, on the 5th of October, 1872. The following year he crossed the Atlantic to the new world, believing that be would have better business opportunities in this country, and' took up his abode in Columbus. Here he engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery and was also connected with the dairy business for a number of years, but for the past two years he has been unable to engaged in active business affair's on account of ill health. In 1893 was celebrated: the marriage of Mr. Goad and Miss Lucy Jane Waterman, a daughter of Joseph and Fanny Waterman. They resided at the old Waterman homestead on Shepherd street until July, 1900, when they sold that and moved to the property Mr. Goad had purchased. Mrs. Goad can relate many interesting incidents of the early days in Franklin county,. having a vivid recollection of the pioneers of Franklinton. She engaged in teaching school on the west side of the city and for several years was an ctive worker in the Trinity Episcopal mission. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goad have a large circle of friends in Columbus and enjoy their warm regard. Through a long period he was an active, honored and valued factor in business circles, bearing an unassailable reputation, and: to-day he enjoys the qualified confidence and respect. of his fellow men. RUSSEL B. DEMOREST. The subject of the present sketch was born in Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, February 9, 1835, and died, October 19, 1896, lamented by a devoted family and a circle of friends. He was a son of Isaac Demorest, 664 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. who had removed to Franklin township early in life. His death occurred when our subject was but ten years of age, after which event the family removed to Illinois, but later returned to Franklin county, Ohio. Here Mr. Demorest attended school, his education however, being interrupted by the necessity which required him to assist in the support of his mother and four sisters. He fulfilled this duty, caring for his sisters until they married and obtained homes for themselves. Mr. Demorest was married September 25, 1867, to Miss Harriet N. Buckbee, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August 25, 1848, a daughter of Theodore and Martha (Sackrider) Buckbee, natives of Nev York: Immediately after his marriage Mr. Demorest located upon the farm. He successfully engaged in general farming and now the land is well cultivated. At the time of his death, Mr. Demorest was possessed of this tract of one hundred and eighty acres, the accumulation of a life of industry. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Demorest consists of four children,—Lawrence W., who died at the age of. thirty years; Frank B., who is at home; Herbert R. ; and Mattie, who died at the age of fifteen years. In politics Mr. Demorest was a Republican and ever upheld the principles of the party. JOHN SHORT.  The biographical sketch which follows will be found somewhat out of the ordinary. A history of the successful career of John Short, a born business man, alone would be interesting from any point of view. To that must be added some account of the lives and achievements of his three sons, each of whom became conspicuous in his chosen field, and one of whom died just as his success was bringing brilliant promise for the future. That these sons inherited their great natural ability in no small measure from their able and successful father no student of heredity can doubt. John Short was born in. Cornwall, England , April 26, 1826, a son of John and Jane (Glassen) Short, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1838, when he was twelve years old. The elder Short had prrospered in his native land and brought with him sufficient means to give him rank as a capitalist. He located on a farm near Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, and lived there, active as a farmer and as a business man, until his death, which occurred about 1855. He was a lover of liberty and an advocate of public education and national progress, and allied himself with those who. later organized the Republican party, of which he was a devoted member from its inception until his death. The subject of this sketch had an .innate desire for education and strong inclination for a business career. His father sympathized with him in his desire for knowledge and permitted him to ,enter the preparatory school at Gambier, Ohio, but wanted him to settle down as a farmer on the homestead and strongly opposed him in his ambition to become a man of affairs. Results CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 665 prove that what is born in a boy will surely come out. Young Short went to Gambier and entered school, but he also secured an interest in a drygoods store and assisted in its management and: participated in its profits while pursuing his studies. In 1848 he located in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, with a stock of goods, but soon sold out and went to Galena, Delaware county, Ohio, where he merchandised successfully until, in 1851, having sold his store in Galena, he was induced to go to Columbus to look after the intererts of David Hayden, a wholesale grocery merchant, whose store was in the Buckeye block, during Mr. Hayden's absence in Maine, to visit his old home. On account of an epidemic of cholera, Mr. Hayden. did not return until in the fall and Mr. Short was consequently at the head of his business for some months. While thus employed he was appointed secretary of the Ohio Tool. Company, the oldest machinery concern in the city and for a year after Mr. Hayden's return he gave his. energies entirely to that business. He gave up the position to accept the agency for Peter Hayden's rolling mill at a larger salary. About twelve months later he was the successful one of about seventeen applicants for the position of paymaster and purchasing agent of the Columbus shops of the Little Miami, Columbus and Xenia Railway, then employing about five hundred men. For fourteen years he retained his connection with this road, a part of the time as paymaster or the entire system, and had charge of its shops at Columbus, Dayton, Xenia, Springfield and Richmond. When he resigned one hundred and nine officials and employes of the road, representing the whol& body of men with whom he had had to do,. either as superiors or subordinates, during his official connection with the company, waited upon him at his home at the corner of High street and Fifth avenue, and presented him with silver plate valued at six hundred and fifty dollars specially imported from Landon by William Savage. Mr. Short now bought the Franklin. Machine Works, of Columbus, which after three years' successful operation he sold' to a stock company. He then bought twenty-eight hundred acres of timber land on the Ohio river, near Vanceburg, Lewis county, Kentucky, and, going to Cleveland, contracted to deliver to the, Standard Oil Company one million staves for thirty-two thousand dollars. While filling this contract he put on the market fifty thousand. feet of poplar lumber for chair bottoms, and. a large amount of car lumber and a good quantity of wagon stuff which he sold in Chicago, and during the same time he opened a freestone quarry on his land and took out and sold to the United States government, for the old Chicago postoffice, six hundred and seventy-three blocks averaging fifty-one and one-half cubic feet, at sixty cents a foot for the first quality and fifty cents a foot for the second quality, delivered at Cincinnati, Ohio. He bought a steamboat to transport his own freight and carried passengers as well. Now Mr. Short engaged in a successful real estate speculation at Vanceburg, buying six hundred and fifty acres at different points around and adjacent to the city. He had already had some satisfactory real estate experience at Columbus. He remembers well the old wooden depot of forty 42 666 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. years ago where he had his first office; and the railroad shop just north. At that time and for years after, where the High street viaduct now stands and all the country north and, west of it was woods and corn-fields, Neil and Dennison owned the ground, but about that time platted and sold it in lots at from three hundred to three hundred and fifty dollars each. The lots sold rapidly and were soon disposed of. The strip of ground west of the viaduct, between High and Park streets, was purchased by the railroad company, now the Panhandle road, for ten thousand dollars. From the railroads to the market house was the old cemetery, every vestige of which disappeared many years ago. Still north of the Capital University, now known as the Park Hotel, on the east side of High street were cornfields owned by William A. Neil. This. land was platted by the owner and Mr. Short sold the lots to railroaders, principally, at from three hundred and fifty to four hundred dollars a lot. The land north of Russell street, east of High, was owned William A. Gill. The tract was platted into lots and Mr. Short sold them at six hundred dollars for corner lots, five hundred and fifty for inside and three hundred and seventy-five to four hundred for rear lots. This was about 1856. Lots as. far north as. Fourth avenue brought less. The land on the west side of High street as far north as First avenue was owned by William, A. Gill, but was afterward purchased by William B. Hubbard and was known as the Hubbard estate. North and west of First avenue was what was known as the Starr farm, which was sold in four and five-acre tracts, afterwards subdivided and: sold in small lots. The land between Fourth and Fifth avenues on the east side of High street Was owned by William G. Deshl and was laid out into acre lots and sold by Mr. Short at from five hundred to eight hundred dollars each. Just north of Fifth avenue on the same side of the street Mr. Short purchased from William A. Neil a four-acre tract for twenty-five hundred d lars. Here Mr. Short built a residence and. lived for twenty-seven and one half years. Shortly after his. purchase, however, he sold one-third of this tract to Charles Shewery for twelve hundred dollars. That was in 1858. In 1883, twenty-seven years afterward, he sold his homestead to D. E. van for twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Sullivan erected three brick houses on the rear lots and was shortly afterward offered eighty-one thousand dollars for the property and later has refused one hundred and forty thousand dollars for it. In the rear of the Short homestead was seventy-one acres which an old gentleman named John Hyer, who resided in the east, purchased for fifteen thousand. dollars and made a cash payment of three thousand dollars, all the money he had. He gave a mortgage to William Armstrong, trustee, for twelve thousand dollars. When. the note came due the old gentleman asked Mr. Short if he could. save his farm, as he was unable to raise the money. Mr. Short took hold of the matter and advanced the money out of his own pocket to subdivide and improve the tract. He succeeded in selling twenty-five acres for twelve thousand dollars, with which he lifted the mortgage. He cut the balance into one-acre lots and sold them for enough CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 667 to pay Mr. Hyer the three thousand which he had invested, and to himself all the money he had advanced in the improvement of the grounds and: a commission of twenty-five dollars an acre besides. And above all this he turned over to Mr. Hyer eighty-five hundred dollars more in cash. It is unnecessary to say that the eastern gentleman was highly pleased with Mr. Short's services. On the west side, between High street and Neil avenue, the land was owned by the Dennison heirs and was subdivided and sold in lots. North of Sixth avenue on each side of High street the land was owned by the Fisher heirs and was subdivided and sold for six hundred to seven hundred dollars a lot. Mr. Short was successful in his real estate deal at Vanceburg, cutting his holdings up into lots and selling them advantageously; but his steamboat was sunk one night and was' a total loss, the only losing deal, however, that Mr. Short had in connection with his Kentucky enterprise, and that loss resulted from an accident and could not have been foreseen. He closed up all his Kentucky interests successfully in twenty-one months, which may be taken as a sample of the energy with which, all through life, he has prosecuted every enterprise which he has undertaken. Before this he had, with Ed. Eaton, cleared nine hundred and sixty acres in Delaware county, Ohio, taking off of the land six thousand cords of railroad wood and working day and night to carry out his contracts. In 1886 he went to Marietta, Ohio, and bought the Marietta Spoke Works of General Warner, a concern which was producing five thousand spokes each working day and which he managed from then until 1891, When he returned to Columbus, where he has since lived and given his attention chiefly to real estate. His home on west Broad street, where he has lived since 1891, is one of the most homelike and hospitable in the city. For eight years he was a member of the city council, representing the old "bloody" ninth ward, and while so serving his fellow townsmen was instrumental in securing a franchise for the first street railway on the north side, from the viaduct up High street. North High street was then known as the Worthington plank road. Every time a rain fell the planks floated upon the water and it was impossible to drive over it without being covered with mud. At that time there were no buyers for north High street property at thirty dollars a front foot; now it is worth four hundred and five hundred dollars. In 1871 Mr. Short and E. L. Hinman were members of the council from the old "bloody" nint ward and were instrumental in introducing an ordinance for the improvement of north fligh street by asphalting. Property owners' along the street made a great fight, as they believed it would take all the property was worth to improve the street. Mr. Hinman desired the street preserved as a fine driveway, while Mr. Short wanted the street railway extended north and introduced an ordinance in council to that effect. This so enraged the north side residents that those who had elected Mr. Short called upon him in a body to demand his resignation as a member of the council. He told them that he would resign after he had secured the street railway, and not before. A street railway company was then organized with 668 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. John R. Hughes, John H. Winterbottom, John Smith, John Evans and Mr. Short as principal stockholders. A twenty-five-year franchise was secured by the aid of the south end German councilmen and the road was built from the tunnel to north Columbus. The rolling stock consisted of one car and a horse supplied the motive power; one man constituted the entire running force and cost the company one dollar and a half a day. The road did not pay, but the old down-town company was forced to buy it by the new company putting on a chariot from the court house to the tunnel, making the entire trip from the court house to. north Columbus for five cents. These improvements doubled the value of north High street property and caused the first big real estate boom the north side had known. At this same time Mr. Short introduced an ordinance in the council for the widening of north High street to the same width south of the tunnel, but there was such great opposition that the matter was dropped. There were only two small houses to be moved, and had. the street been Widened at that time, it could have been done at comparatively small expense and would to-day have been worth over two million dollars to the city. May I, 1848, Mr. Short married Elizabeth L. Cowen, who was born in London, England, opposite Hyde Park, and came to America when about eighteen years of age. She received a good education in England and was a woman of great force of character and strong convictions and impressed all with her forceful, masterful disposition. Her sons never thought of disobeying her. She aided many young men in getting an education, her great idea being education for her own family and also for others as far as her means and influence extended. Her father, Robert Cowen, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and in his day did a large stock business at Dublin, Ireland. Mrs. Short, who was a model wife and mother and an active Methodist, was highly esteemed in. society. She died at Columbus in 1896, aged seventy-two years. She bore Mr. Short four sons and two daughters. The daughters and one son died when young. Professor John T. Short, Mr. Short's eldest son, was born at Galena, Ohio, May I, 185o. At eleven he entered the preparatory department of the Capital University, at Columbus, and at fourteen he entered the freshman class of the same institution. At the end of the second year he entered the Ohio Wesleyan. University at Delaware, to prepare for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was graduated at seventeen and in 1869 entered Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, where he was graduated 1871, having completed the three years' course in two years. Before he was twenty-one years old he had published "The Last Gladiateorial Show," an account of Roman life and manners. He took notes of the lectures of Dr. McClintock which formed the basis of the "Encyclopaedia and Mythology of Theological Science," and so well did he do this work that after President McClintock's death, at the request of his executors, Professor Short published them in a book of two hundred pages which was immediately upon appearance prescribed by the bishops' of the Methodist Episcopal church for CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 669 persued by young ministers.. In 1872 he became pastor of Davidson Chapel, of omination at Dayton, Ohio, and later for three years preached in Cincinnati. His health failed gradually under stress of this work and he spent a year at Leipsic, Germany. Soon after his return to America. he published "The North Americans of Antiquity," an archeological work on which his reputation might safely rest had he done no other work for humanity. In recognition of that great literary and scientific achievement the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the College of History of Leipsic, and he was elected corresponding delegate for Ohio to the Institution Ethnographique, Paris, France. Hon. George Bancroft placed the first volume of his History of the United States in Professor Short's hands for criticism and revision. Delaware College called Professor Short to its faculty professor of English language and literature, and in 1879 he was made a member of the faculty of the Ohio State University at Columbus, as professor member of the faculty of the Ohio State University at Columbus, as professor T. Short was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, of the Societe Ethnographique, Paris, France, and of the American Historical Society. He was chosen to write the history of Ohio for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and spent much time and labor on "A Short History of the United State," similar in plan and scope to "Green's History of the English People," but did not live to complete it. Professor J. T. Short wrote many articles for leading magazines and "Ohio," a sketch of industrial and progress, and a "Historical Reference List" for classes in history, adopted by Yale, Cornell and Harvard. He died November 11, 1883, in his thirty-fourth year, having lived a life pure and lofty, devoted to work for God and man which will bear fruit to the end of time. He married Miss Ella Critchfield, daughter of the late Hon. L. J. Critchfield, for forty-five years a prominent lawyer of Columbus, who worked with him in all his literary labors. His widow, a son and two daughters survive him. His son, John Bancroft Short, is now acquiring an education. His daughter Florence married Professor Bohannan, of the Ohio State University, and his younger daughter, Clara, married E. T. McCleary, secretary of the Columbus, Ohio, Coffee and Spice Factory. Sidney Howe Short was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 8, 1851, and was graduated from the Ohio State University in his native city in 1884, and immediately thereafter was called to the Denver University at Denver, Colorado, of which Bishop David H. Moore, who recently went to a mission field in China, was president, and remained there five years as vice-president and professor of science. During this period he not only took an active interest in educational matters, but was enterprising and prominent otherwise, especially in the field of electrical development. He discovered a deposit of cement near Denver which proved so valuable that it was adopted by the United States government for use in all its hydraulic works in the west, and with a son of ex-Governor Evans, of Colorado, as a partner, established a cement works at Denver. He also built the first electrical railway in Denver and took out many patents on electrical devices. About 1889 he returned to 670 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Columbus and built a short electrical line to the fair grounds, the first electrical road in the city. That Huntington, West Virginia, he built a five-mile line to Grandotd. From there he went to East St. Louis, Illinois, and bult the East St. Louis electric railway. About that time a company under the style of the Short Electric Railway System, was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, and incorporated with a capital of one million dollars. This concern was placed under Mr. Short's management and he was allowed a salary of eight thousand dollars a year and given a large bonus; in cash and stock for the use of his system and inventions, one of which was the armature axle now used by all electrical companies. In association with the late Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New York, Professor Short bought the Walker Works at Cleveland, and Professor Short managed the concern. as well as its eastern branch at New York, until, in 1888, the enterprise was sold to the Westinghouse Company. Professor Short has constructed more that fifty electric railways in the United States and at New York and Boston has built the largest dynamos in the world, one. of which is in operation at the Brooklyn bridge. He has taken out one hundred and two patents in England. In 1898 he went to Great Britain and was given a large bonus to erect, at Preston, England, the English Electrical Works, the largest concern of its kind in the world, embracing two immense shop buildings each covering a ground space of nine hundred by one hundred and twenty feet, filled with the best machinery, mostly of American manufacture. This great plant. which is revolutionizing electrical business in Europe, was fully described and illustrated in the London Engineer of June 22, 1900. By his inventive genius, his thorough knowledge of electrical construction and great business capacity, inherited from his father, Professor Short has not only accumulated a large fortune, but has placed himself at the head of electrical construction, now one of the world's most important interests. He married Miss Francis H. Morrison, of Columbus, a graduate and valedictorian of the Ohio State University, a fine scholar and chemist, who for a year before her marriage was a teacher in the University of Cincinnati. Mrs. Short has given much attention to electro-chemical experiments and has rendered no small service to her husband in the development of his ideas. They have three sons and a daughter, named Henry Morrison, Sidney Albert, Frank and Jennette. Professor S. H. Short now has an office at 112 Cannon street, London, England. Mr. Short's third son is Major Walter Cowen Short, of the Thirty-fifth United States Infantry, now stationed at San Gueld, sixty-five miles from Manila, and acting as governor at that point. Major Short was born at Columbus, Ohio, April 2, 1870, and after acquiring a primary education in the public schools, was for a year a student at Marietta College at Marietta, Ohio. From childhood he manifested a marked interest in military matters and it is not strange that at Marietta he should have become a member of the Third Battalion, Ohio National Guard, or that on returning to Columbus he should have been attached. to the staff of General Axline, under Governor Foraker. Two years later he was transferred to the governor's staff and given the rank CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 67I of Colonel. He was entrusted with the responsibility of arranging for the participation of the Ohio troops in a grand review in New York and was prominent on the governor's staff on that occasion, and also at the inauguration of President Harrison. He was graduated at the United States military school at Orchard Lake, Michigan, and immediately after his return home was notified of his appointment as professor of military tactics and sword exercise at that institution and served in that capacity one year. At commencement, the regular army officers sent from Washington to conduct the examination commended the excellence of Professor Short's drill and discipline, and when, shortly afterward, a vacancy as second lieutenant occurred in the Sixth Regiment, United States Cavalry, stationed at Niobrara, Nebraska, he was, on the recommendation of Colonel Heyl, inspector general of the department, who had seen his work at Orchard Lake, appointed to the place, though there were eighteen hundred applicants for it and he was not one of them. He saw some active service, however, before he joined that command. After having successfully passed a six days' examination at Washington, he was given a leave of absence for thirty clays. At its expiration he reported at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. The officers were busy with a court martial and he was given charge of the drill work of the post. Within a week the Garcia trouble broke out on the Rio Grande and he was ordered to duty there with two troops under command of a captain. Within a fortnight he was given command of these troops and he led them until there was no further demand for their services on the frontier, participating in several engagements and taking some prisoners. Then, after a brief leave of absence, he joined the Sixth Cavalry, commanded by Colonel D. S. Gordon, at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, and was placed in command of a company of Indian troops numbering sixty. In 1893, during the strike at Chicago, the Sixth was on duty there and Lieutenant Short served on the staff of Colonel Gordon. The regiment went from Chicago to Fort Meyer, near Washington, and when Colonel Gordon retired and Colonel Somers assumed command, Lieutenant Short was appointed to his staff and served upon it until the outbreak of the Spanish war. Troop A, under Lieutenant Short, acquired great notoriety in Washington by its rough-rider drill, which equaled, if it did not surpass, that of the most expert Cossacks. He went with the troop to Tampa, Florida, and was there appointed assistant adjutant general and his appointment was confirmed by the senate, but he declined the honor in order to go to the front. At San Juan Hill, Colonel Somers was made brigadier general and Lieutenant Short was made acting captain of Troop A, Sixth Cavalry, which led the charge. Before Lieutenant Short reached the hill his horse was shot under him, but he went forward on foot and was among the first on the hill. Though he was shot three times, one ball entering his side and passing out near the spine, suffering one flesh wound in the arm and another wound in the wrist, he pressed forward over the breastwork and then fell. A picture.in the London Illustrated News of August 20, 1898, shows Lieutenant Short being carried off the field by comades who did not believe he would recover. He was sent to Key 672 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. West, Florida, but in ten days he was well enough to steal away from the hospital and rejoin his command at Santiago, Cuba. His three wounds healed up nicely. He was not sick a day, and when the regiment reached New York he was about the only officer who was in good health. He attributes his rapid and almost phenomenal recovery to the fact that, while he is a lover of a good cigar, he never drinks intoxicating liquors, and it may be added that he is an abstainer from coffee also. He was' .promoted to be first lieutenant and a little later was brevetted major for bravery at San Juan. He was sent to Fort Reilly, Kansas, thence back to San Antonio, Texas, and thence to Santiago, Cuba. In command of one hundred men of the Tenth Cavalry, he went a hundred miles up the .Cuban coast and was soon ordered to take his troop fifty miles inland to the interior at Beymer. He was appointed governor of that district and' captured and drove out the gangs of robbers who had long infested it, hanging and otherwise killing thirty-seven of them, cleaned up the capital city, established schools; for four hundred and fifty children, put up telegraph lines and otherwise improved the road to the coast. Ile believes Cuba a country of the greatest promise and predicts for it a wonderful future, now that it has been emancipated from Spanish tyranny and robbery. After the successful performance of this; service he was ordered to Vancouver Barracks, in Washington, as major of the Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer Infantry. He took over to Manila, in three ships, twenty-one hundred men, thirteen hundred and twenty-five men and officers formed the Thirty-fifth Regiment and the remainder were assigned to other regiments to fill vacancies. He has been in several engagement's in the Philippines and has acquitted himself gallantly and been fully equal to all responsibilities that have devolved upon him. One of the most expert swordsmen in the army, he has met and vanquished all the professional saber fighters who have appeared in the United States in his time, including the famous Captain Duncan Ross, and in every combat he has faced his opponent without a mask, and has never yet faced one who would meet him with face likewise unprotected. He has a national reputation also as a rough rider and polo player. Mr. John Short is now in his seventy-fifth year and is so well preserved that he does not appear to be more than sixty. He has recently returned from a visit to his son in England and is hoping for his younger son's early return from the Philippines. He takes a lively interest in all public affairs and gives all necessary attention to his important business interests and is held high in the esteem of a large circle of acquaintances. WILLIAM B. McCORMICK. William B. McCormick belongs to a family that may be said to be distinctly American, both in its lineal and collateral branches, for, through many generations, his ancestry have been residents of the new world. The first of the name in America was George McCormick, who served as an officer in the British army many years prior to the war of the Revolution. He was CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 673 of Scotch ancestry, but was a native of the north of Ireland. Resigning his commission, he located in northern Virginia, and when the financial standing of the country was at low ebb he loaned money to the continental congress; but when fire destroyed the capitol at Washington, in 1812, evidences of the loan were lost and the family were, therefore, never reimbursed. His son, George McCormick (2d), was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was born in the Old Dominion and served in the continental line in the war for independence, holding the rank of major. His native state, at an early period of the Revolutionary war, raised two descriptions of troops, state and continental, to each of which bounties in lands were promised. The lands within the limits of the charter of Virginia, situated to the northwest of the Ohio river, were withdrawn from appropriation on treasury warrants, and the lands on the Cumberland river and between the Green and the Tennessee rivers, on the southasterly side of the Ohio, were appropriated for these military bounties. Upon the recommendation of congress Virginia ceded her lands north of the Ohio upon conditions, one of which was that in case the lands south of the Ohio should be insufficient for the legal bounties to her troops the deficiency should be made up from lands north of the Ohio, between the rivers. Scioto and Little Miami. Major McCormick was entitled, under these laws, to about four thousand acres, which he located, and for which he procured patents, in Fayette and. Madison counties, Ohio, but after paying taxes on the lands for several years they were forfeited and never redeemed. He was twice married. After the death of his first wife he removed to Kentucky, residing for some time on Bear Grass river. His death occurred, according to the federal records, at Harrodsburg, Mercer county, Kentucky, on January 30, 1820. Major McCormick's son, George McCormick (3d), was the grandfather of our subject. He was born in 1769 near Battletown, Clarke county, Virginia, of his father's first marriage. After the father's second marriage George McCormick, the third, went to live with an uncle named Burns, who resided on a farm on the Bear Grass. He was then apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and subsequently served as a soldier under General St. Clair. Afterward, about 1802, he went to Washington, D. C., where he worked at his trade on the capitol. He had married, in Kentucky, Miss Anna Mariah Belt, who died at Washington, leaving two daughters and one son. The distinguished English architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, had designed, and at this time was constructing, the old house of representatives at Washington. McCormick and Latrobe came in contact and became well acquainted, and when Governor Worthington, them a senator in congress from Ohio, engaged Latrobe to design and construct, near Chillicothe, the mansion called Adena, the architect selected McCormick to superintend the mechanics engaged on the wood-work of that building. Accordingly McCormick arrived at Chillicothe in the autumn of 1805, or spring of 1806, with his three orphaned children, and set about his work. It was not long after he reached 674 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Ross county until he formed the acquaintance of the Armstrong family, who had come from the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania and who had suffered in the military operations and massacre there during the war for independence, and distinguished themselves in the greater movements in the Revolutionary war. Miss Fannie Malone Armstrong became McCormick's second wife, and they continued to reside at Chillicothe until the following year after the site called Columbus was decided upon as the future seat of state government. At Chillicothe two daughters were born to them. Having secured the contract to do the carpenter work on the first statehouse, a brick building, at Columbus, McCormick and his family of five children removed to the embryo capital city in 1813. He acquired the original in-lot, sixty-two and one-half . by one hundred and eighty-seven and one-half feet, at the southeast corner of High and Chapel streets, now occupied by the imposing business block known as Nos. 116-118 South High street, on the rear end of which he proceeded to erect a log house, which he and his increasing family occupied until they removed, some years. afterward, to their small farm on the north side of Town street west of Parsons avenue. The religious trend of the McCormicks for generations had been Calvinistic; but at this period the Methodist Episcopal church was aggressive in the propagation of its faith, through the agency of missionaries who were the most zealous and able in the ministry in the United States. George McCormick, a man of thought and action, had embraced the faith, but at the cost of serious estrangement between him and a much esteemed sister who lived at Mount Vernon, who was a stanch adherent to Presbyterian teachings and who denounced the apostasy. The records show that George McCormick and his wife Fannie, her sister Jane, and George B. Harvey, who, in February, 1814, married Jane, which wedding was the first to take place at Columbus, formed the first Methodist Episcopal church at Columbus in the fall of 1813. In December Of that year, the membership having increased, a board of trustees, with McCormick as president, was selected, and early the following year the proprietors of the .town. site donated and conveyed to George McCormick, George B. Harvey and others as trustees, the lot on. Town street where the Public School Library building now stands, for church purposes. In July, 1815, the "meeting-house," a small hewed-log building, was. completed, at a cost of $157.53% "for material." In September, 1817, George McCormick and John Cutler were appointed a committee to have the "meeting house chinked, daubed and underpinned, and to appoint a suitable person to keep it in order." In 1818 the house was enlarged by Michael Patton, under the direction of McCormick, at an expense of three hundred and sixty dollars, and from that time on various improvements were made, culminating in the commodious brick building which was finally purchased by the city. The church edifice of this congregation is now located on Bryden Road and is known as the First Methodist Episcopal church, its members having recently cast off the historical title of Town Street Methodist church. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 675 In politics Mr. McCormick was a Whig. He was elected treasurer of Franklin county on that ticket in 1833. and served two years. He left the impress of his individuality upon many public movements and measures which contributed to the general welfare, and his wife, a woman of refinement and character, performed her whole duty to her family and community. He died at Columbus on March 21, 1854, aged eighty-one years and six months. His remains were buried in the North graveyard alongside his wife Fannie, who had passed away on Christmas day, 1843, at the age of fifty-eight years. When the burying-ground was abandoned a few years ago the remains of the pioneer couple were removed to Greenlawn, where they now rest, marked by the original stone. By his first wife his children were : Mary, who married Hosea High and died at Columbus in 1891, aged ninety-three years and three months; Clarissa, who became Mrs. Turner and died at Zanesville, Ohio; and Middleton, who married Miss Fox, of Clark county, this state, and died there. By his second wife they were: Eliza, wife of Francis Asbury Crum, died at Columbus; Nancy, wife of William Grant, died at Springfield, Ohio: Francis A., father of our subject; William McKendry, married Margaret Martin, died at Columbus; George, married Sarah Barrett, died at Columbus; Martin, unmarried, died: at Columbus; Jane, wife of David Ball, died at Columbus; Fannie, wife of Benjamin Kelley, died in Iowa. Francis Asbury McCormick, the father of the subject of this sketch and first son of George McCormick and Fannie Malone Armstrong McCormick, was born January 22, 1814, in a log house at the southeast corner of South High and Chapel streets, Columbus. He was the first white male child born at Columbus. Inspired by the teachings of Bishop Francis Asbury, his parents named the boy in honor of that divine. Young McCormick's education, like that of all those born in Ohio ninety years ago, was limited, and his schooling was confined to what he secured. at home and at the subscription school of the village: . At a very early age he was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, William Armstrong, to learn the tailor's trade, and when scarcely more than nineteen years old he set up in that business for himself, and in a few years carried on the leading tailoring establishment of the town. When he had not yet reached his majority he was joined in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Harriet Crum, a lady aged seventeen, seventh child of Christian and Hannah Barr Crum. The wedding occurred on September 16, 1834, and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Edmond W. Sehon, of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was born near Winchester, Virginia, April 7, 1817, and died at Columbus', Sunday, March 3, 1895, aged seventy-seven years, ten months and twenty-six days. All but one of this generation of the Crum family were born in Virginia, all reached mature years and were married at or near Columbus, and all early in life became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was in 1822 that Christian Crum, a 'native of Frederick county, Vir- 676 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ginia, who was the son of a Lutheran minister, with his wife and nine children, bade good-bye to their home in the Shenandoah valley, and journeyed westward. They tarried at Wheeling, Virginia, then at Lancaster, Ohio, and lived for a time at Franklinton, but finally located on South High street, Columbus, on the lot now the site of the Great Southern Hotel. Soon after 'Christian Crum had established his family in their new home he and his wife 'united with the Town Street Methodist Episcopal church, and from that time until their death both were consistent members thereof, the father for many years officiating as a class-leader. His death occurred October 1, 1851, when he was aged seventy-one years and eleven months. His wife died July 5, 1850, aged sixty-five years and eleven months, and both are buried in Greenlawn cemetery. The children of this couple were : Francis Asbury, the eldest, married Eliza McCormick, died at Columbus; Sarah Ann, wife of Samuel Thompson, after his death married Dr. Thomas Towler, died at Columbus; James died unmarried; Robert, married Miss Frank Seney, died at Toledo; Mary C., wife of William Searles, buried at Fostoria; Rachel: Jane, wife of Joseph Fitzwater, died at Columbus; Elizabeth H., mother of the subject of this sketch; Martha Linda, wife of Augustus S. Decker, died at Columbus.; Mahala Margaret, wife of George W. Howell, died at Columbus; Henry Delano, married Matilda Seney, died at Tiffin. Mr. McCormick continued in business at Columbus for a number of years' and then removed to the Yazoo valley, Mississippi, where he carried on the tailoring business, but soon returned to Ohio because of his hatred of the institution peculiar to the southern states. About 1838 he removed to Illinois, then to Iowa City, Iowa, and then again returned to the place of his birth, and in 1848 was conducting a tailor shop on South High street. The Ohio State Journal was located in the building adjoining him. A young man named Legg, who spent his leisure hours at McCormick's store, was the foreman of the Journal composing room, and when news of the finding of gold at Sutter's fort reached the newspapers in the east McCormick and Legg read it all and were fired with ambition to participate in the search for the yellow metal. Forthwith they set about to: find a Sway to reach California. Both succeeded in being appointed members of a United States surveying party bound for the coast, but before the appointments came they had assisted successfully in the organization, in February, 1849, of an association called the Franklin California Mining Company, into the treasury of which each member paid two hundred dollars. Legg withdrew from the company and accompanied the surveying expedition and died of fever on the isthmus of Panama. McCormick, having been elected treasurer of the company, continued with it. At this time he had grown to be a man of financial standing in the community, being the owner of various fine pieces of property. He sold all but a home. On April 12, 1849, the Franklin Company, with Joseph Hunter, captain; John Coulter, lieutenant; J. H. Marple, secretary; Francis A. McCormick, treasurer, and twenty-five others, left Columbus via the National road CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 677 for Cincinnati bound. for the gold fields. Their route was by water to St.. Joseph, Missouri, then by wagon to the coast. The story of the company is one of disaster and failure, as. an association, but full of dramatic situations. and thrilling adventures. Mr. McCormick finally arrived at Sacramento City, after having walked the entire distance from St. Joseph. He was without a coat, barefooted, and had twelve dollars in silver on his person. On the first day at Sacramento he fell in with. his former friend, Ebenezer Barcus, who had gone to the coast with another company, which had started later and reached there. first. Mr. Barcus, on the occasion of the reunion, was attempting to yoke pair of cxen, with no success. McCormick, whose experience had been greater, proffered; assistance and succeeded, and they immediately entered into a limited partnership with the purpose of merchandising at the mines on Feather river. They prospered, and subsequently associated J. C. Lunn, with them. These three men, Messrs. Barcus, McCormick and Lunn, are probably the only members of either of the California companies of Columbus now living. They made money rapidly, and then lost their profits by a San Francisco bank failure; then prospered, and lost by robbery; and so on until McCormick, having had enough of California experience, returned: to Ohio, in 1852, via the isthmus and the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. On his return to Columbus he engaged in the brokerage business, and in 1860 retired to Prairie township, mainly because of the failure on the part of the contractors for one of the new railroads then being built into Columbus, Mr. McCormick having heavily endorsed their paper. In California Mr. McCormick had walked thirty-five miles in one day to the polls in order to vote against admitting the territory as a slave state. In Ohio he voted the Republican ticket. During the war he was an inspector of clothing for the war department. When Horaoe Greeley ran for president he voted for him. because he believed Greeley to represent Republican principles. Although Prairie township had long been Democratic as two is to one, he was elected justice of the peace. Among the many cases disposed. of by him was one which gave him considerable fame. Two young men, whose parents had died; had divided all the inheritance, without a jolt or a jar, except a well worn copper kettle. Both claimed the article. The result was resort to the law. Justice McCormick patiently listened. to the testimony and the arguments, and at 'the close of the trial reflected a few minutes. He then said that the costs in the case would be assessed equally against the litigants, and directed by constable to take the kettle to the village blacksmith and have it cut as equally as possible into two parts and give each of the brothers one part that was done. The case was not appealed. The spirit of unrest was in McCormick from youth until long after mature years. A continuous quiet life at Columbus would have made him a millionaire. Fortune ever pursued him; he as persistently, seemingly, evaded it, but it never forsook him! Squire McCormick and his wife lived together for sixty-one years. 678 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. After eighty-eight years of a very active life. he continues in full possession of his mental faculties and. is in good bodily health. Their marriage was blessed: with the following children: Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Fannie Frances, who became the wife of James E. Sehon and died June 12, 1871, at Columbus; Charles A., who died, at Farmington, Iowa, March 27, 1842; Mary Iowa, who was born at Iowa City, Iowa, and is the wife of Westley O'Harra, of Columbus; William B., who is the subject of this review and the next of the family; Eleanor, who married D. M. Brelsford, of Columbus, and died in that city; Kate, who married Edward H. Clover and died at Alton, Ohio; April 9, 1880; Jane, who died in infancy; Jane Delano, who is. the wife of George U. Ham, of Columbus and Mahala Margaret, who is the wife of William S. Sheehan, and resides near Alton, Ohio. From the foregoing it will be. seen that William B. McCormick is a representative of one of the oldest families of Franklin county. He was born October 10, 1843, in Columbus, on East Gay street, between High and Third streets, and. resided in Columbus until seventeen years of age, during which time he pursued his education in the public schools. He then accompanied his parents on their removal to a farm near Alton, Prairie township, Franklin county. During the Civil war he enlisted as a private at Columbus for three months' service on the 27th of May, 1862, under command. of Captain H. Burdell, of Company H, Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At Camp Chase, on the 23d of September, 1862, Mr. McCormick received an honorable discharge and then returned to the home farm, where he remained until March 3, 1863, when be re-enlisted as a member of the Twenty-second Independent Battery of Ohio Light Artillery for three years or during the war. When again mustered out at Camp Chase, on the 13th of July, 1865. he held the rank of sergeant. Hie continued with his battery, which was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, from start to finish. Mr. McCormick was united in marriage, at Columbus, on the 2d of September, 1880, to Miss Louisa D. Koerner, who was born in New York city May 10, 1856, and spent the first seven years of her life in New York, and then became a resident of Columbus, where she was reared to womanhood. Her father, John George Koerner, was born in the town of Wilhelmsdorp, Bavaria, Germany, May 30, 1823, and was a baker by trade. In early life he came to the United States and was married, in New York city, to Kunigunde Hoffman, who was born in Bavaria, about 1820, and came to the new world. with her brother Frederick. She died in New York cat in 1859, and after her death Mr. Koerner married Miss Elizabeth Hoover. During his life he was a Mason of high standing. He died at Columbus in 1879, leaving one child, who is the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. William B. McCormick have three children, viz. : Frederick Koerner, born March 20, 1883 ; Lena Dorretta, born December 2, 1884 . and Ella Nora, born April 27, 1888: After his marriage Mr. McCormick located on a farm in Prairie township, Franklin county, Ohio. He clear CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 679 much of it and the place is now well improved and is devoted to general farming and stock-raising. He is a member of W. H. Elliott Post, No. 420, G. A. R., Department of Ohio, Alton, Ohio, of which he was the first commander, and he belongs to Encampment No. 78, of the Union Veteran Legion, of Columbus. In politics he is a Republican. JOHN F. HAYNES. Among the old and well known railroad men of Columbus, Ohio, none is held in higher esteem inside or outside of railway circles than John F. Haynes, whose residence is at No. 36 East Seventh avenue and who was born in Chilicothe, Ohio, September 24, 1851. John Haynes, father of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent city of Chillicothe, Ohio, where for many years he held the position of freight agent. He was married in Trenton, New Jersey, and when comparatively young to Ohio. His ancestors were English and lived in England far beyond the point in time to which he was able to trace his genealogy, and his father came to this country in early manhocd. Mrs. Haynes is descended from old families in northern Ireland in the paternal line. Her grandmother in the maternal line was a native of Ireland, but her mother was born in the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes died at their home in Chillicothe, Ohio, the former in 1870, aged forty-seven years, and the latter in 1897, aged seventy-six years. They had eight children namely : Hiram L., Priscilla, Raymond and William, all deceased; Edward J., train dispatcher at Chillicothe, Ohio, Nellie and Anna, both residing in Chillicothe, and. John F. John F. Haynes was educated in the public schools of Chillicothe, Ohio, and was married to Miss Alma Thompson, of that city, August 17, 1871. Their eldest daughter, Ira, was married in 1896 to George C. Blankner, formerly assistant attorney general of the state of Ohio and one of the most prominent young lawyers at the Columbus bar. Carrie was married, in 1895, to Logan McCormick, who is engaged successfuly in the portrait business on Broad street, Columbus. Their only child, Howard Haynes McCormick, was born August 26, 1897. Hattie is at home, and Dora was married to Walter Drayer, November 8, 1900. William Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes's youngest child, was born July 17, 1889, and is now in school. The family are highly respected by all who know them. Mr. Haynes took up his career as a railroad man in 1866, and learned the machinist's trade. His first employment as a fireman was in 1872. A year and a half later he was promoted to engineer and he has been in continuous service in that capacity ever since. For twelve years he was employed on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio system, and for a year after that he was employed on the Cincinnati & Columbus Midland Road which was also merged into the Baltimore &. Ohio lines. Since then he has been in the service of the Norfork & Western Railroad Company. 680 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Mr. Haynes has been a passenger engineer for three years. He became a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1875, and for the past five years he has been chief engineer of division number seventy-two of that order. Mr. Haynes is a Republican and is a citizen of much progressive spirit. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes and member of their family are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church. GEORGE SCOTT. Of the members of the faculty df Otterbein University at Westerville, Franklin county, Ohio, none is More efficient in the work of the class room than Prof. George Scott, Ph. D., some account of whose useful career it will be attempted here to give. Prof. Scott was born in New York city May 10, 1849, a son of John Scott, who was a native of the north of Ireland, and was there reared and married. His wife was Sarah Brown, a native of Londonderry, who died in Canada, aged about seventy-five years. This worthy couple came to, America in 1848, and located in New: York city. From there the family removed to Ontario, Canada, where the father died at about the age of seventy-two years. Early in life Mr. Scott was a Baptist and Mrs. Scott was a Methodist, but later they attended the services of the United Brethren church, with which their children, were identified. Prof. Scott remained at home with his parents until he. was about sixteen years old and attended school with such good results that he was at that early age able to take up the work of a teacher. As opportunity offered he was a student at the high school and later he was prepared for college at the Canadian Literary Institute, at. Woodstock, Ontario. In 1875 he entered Alfred University, a Seventh Day Baptist college in Allegany county, New York, where he was graduated in two years and was almost immediately thereafter elected: first assistant professor of Latin and Greek. Later he was made professor of Latin in the same college, where he taught until 1888, except during one year while he was at Yale. In 1888 he came to Otterbein University as Professor of Latin. He got leave of absence in 1890 to spend another year at Yale, where he received his degree of. Ph. D. His progress in his studies. Was so rapid that he was .permitted to leave Yale before the expiration of the year and he went to Athens, Greece, and studied there for several months. From there he returned to Otterbein University, where since that time he has filled the chair of Latin. until elected president of the institution July 23, 1901. During two summer vacations he has had charge of Latin classes at the Chautauqua assemblies. Prof. Scott married Miss Mary J. Erb, of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, who died in December, 1896, leaving a daughter, Leona, who is a graduate of Otterbein University. Mrs. Scott was a devoted member of the United Brethren church. In 1898 Prof. Scott married Miss Isabel Sevier, of Knoxville, Tennessee. They are helpful members of the United Brethren church. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 681 In politics Prof. Scott is independent, liberal in his views on political questions and tolerant of the views of others. His public spirit impels him to take a helpful interest in everything that pertains to the advancement of Westerville. WILLIAM GALBRAITH, M.. D. Among those who in early days represented professional life in Franklin county was Dr, William Galbraith, a medical practitioner of Columbus. Few men in this section of the state were more widely known. He traveled throughout the country, ministering to the needs of those who suffered from ill health, and his devotion to his patrons and his labors in their behalf won him the love an gratitude of many a household. There is no more important factor in society than the family physician, and Dr. Galbraith enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all who knew him, and his acquaintance was extrenely wide. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1827, and was a little lad of eight summers when his parents took up their abode in Perry township, Franklin county, upon a new farm. The father erected a cabin and began the improvement of his little tract of land comprising twenty acres. Both parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (MacMinima) Galbraith, were of ScotchIrish descent, and the sturdy characteristics of their ancestry enabled them to bear with fortitude the hardships and trials incident to establishing a home upon the frontier. Upon their farm they resided until death, the father passing away in the seventy-second year, the mother in the seventy-third year of her age. They were the parents of ten children, namely : Martha, who married William Hannon, now deceased; Eliza, who became the wife of Rudolph Pheneger; Margaret, who married Albert Hard ; Jane, wife of John Bacon ; William, of this review; Mary, who became the wife of John Legg; Sarah, wife of Alanson Perry; James, who resides in Stockton, California; Samuel, who married Amy. Josephine Huntley; and Robert, who died in childhood. The parents were both exemplary Christian people, holding membership in the Presbyterian church, and the lessons of industry and honesty which they instilled into the minds of their children bore rich fruit later. Dr. Galbraith acquired his literary education in the public schools and after putting aside his text-books was thrown upon his own resources. He made his way through college without. financial aid from his family, pursuing a course in Central College, near Westerville, Ohio. He thus fitted himself of for teaching, and in that profession he met with excellent success, performing the work of an educator through the winter months, while in the summer season he worked at farm labor. At an early day he did much to advance the intellectual improvement of this section of the state, but preferring to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began reading under the direction of Dr. Goble, of Worthington, who remained his preceptor until he was prepared to enter medical college. He was one of the first students to 43 682 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. matriculate in the Starling Medical College, where he pursued the full course and was graduated with the class of 1855. He then opened an office in Perry township, his old home, and devoted himself to the demands of a large and constantly increasing country practice, which extended over a radius of at least twenty miles. He was a faithful follower of his calling, kept well informed on materia medica and in touch with the most advanced thought and discoveries connected with the profession. He was very successful in combating with diseases prevalent at that day. He possessed a social, genial nature, which was of great assistance to him in his work, for one of the most important elements in the sick room is cheerfulness. His cordial disposition won him friends by the hundreds and a large practice brought to him a handsome competence, which he judiciously invested in land, placing the came under a high state of cultivation. Dr. Galbraith was united in marriage to Miss Georgiana Umbaugh on the 27th of November, 1856. To them were born three children, but the eldest, Margaret Alice, is now deceased. The others are John Howard and George Calvin. The former is a graduate of the Ohio State University, of the class of 1883, was formerly editor in chief of the Daily Times and is now connected with the Columbus Dispatch. He is a fluent writer and is a frequent contributor to a number of the leading publications. George Calvin has charge of the home farm. In the latter part of his life Dr. Galbraith became connected with the Reformed church. He was a Democrat in politics, and for eighteen years was treasurer of Perry township, in spite of the fact that the township is strongly Republican, his election coming to him as a well merited compliment, indicating his ability and the trust reposed in him by those who knew him best. He passed away March 26, 1899, respected by all who knew him, and thus ended a career of great usefulness, but he left to his family an untarnished name, and the memory of his upright life is in many respects well worth of emulation. His widow, who still survives him, is also a member of the reformed church, with which she has been connected through many years She takes a deep interest in all that pertains to its work and upbuilding, and is also a leader in the work of the Sunday-school. Mrs. Galbraith is a daughter of George Umbaugh, who was one of the early settlers of Franklin county, coming to Ohio when this section of the state was upon the western frontier. He was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and was married in Washington, D. C., to Elizabeth Gregory, of his own state. In 1834 they came to Ohio, making the journey in a one-horse wagon. They first settled in Circleville, Ohio, and there Mr. Umbaugh followed his trade of carp:entering until 1842, when he came to Columbus, settling on the commons near Fifth street. He then became identified with the building interests of the capital city, but later purchased a farm of sixty acres in Perry township and devoted a portion of his time to its cultivation improvement. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Umbaugh were born eight children, as follows: CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 683 Charles Henry, now deceased ; Georgiana, widow of Dr. Galbraith; William H.; Mary Jane; Margaret E., who died at the age of seven years ; John W.; Ellen C.; and Ann Eliza. The eldest son served as a soldier in the Civil war and was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, the injuries there sustained causing his death. The father of this family died in August, 1886, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He held membership in the Evangelical church and did all in his power to promote the temperance and spiritual welfare of the people among whom he lived. His wife still survives him and is now in the ninety-fourth year of her age. Mr. Umbaugh was a man of sterling purpose and upright character and passed away after a useful and honorable career. JOSHUA GRIFFITH. Joshua Griffith is the oldest engineer now in active service on the Pennslvania road, having for twenty consecutive years been in charge of the train between Columbus and Dennison, while for thirty-nine years he has been a representative of the railroad service, winning the commendation and approval of his superiors by his faithful service and his capability. Mr. Griffith was born August 15, 1837, in Remsen, New York, but his parents were natives of north Wales whence they came to this country with their respective families in early life. They were married in New York in 1830 and in 1842 became residents of Newark, Ohio. Joshua Griffith, Sr., the father of our subject, died October 12, 1877, at the age of eighty years and the mother passed away April 14, 1888, at the advanced age of ninetythree, both being residents of Newark, Ohio, at the time of their demise. Joseph, the oldest child, was born June 6, 1831, and was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Woolett at Newark, Ohio ; Benjamin, born August 7, 1833, is married and resides in Athens, Ill., John, born June 13, 1835, is married and lives in Newark, Ohio, and for twenty years prior to 1888 he was an engineer on the Panhandle railroad; Joshua is the next one of the family; and Eleanor, the one daughter, was born August 15, 1839, and was married February 22, 1859, to James Vandigriff at Newark, Ohio. Her death occurred in that place November 3, 1897. At an early period in the development of the Buckeye state Joshua Griffith of this review became a resident. of Ohio, and before the public school system had been established he pursued his education in a log cabin situated two and a half miles north of Newark. He was afterward a student in the McKinney school. His father was a farmer and he too was early trained to the work of the fields and meadow. On one occasion he was given the task of removing a fence from corn stalks and set corn on fire from which the fence caught fire. For this act his father attempted to punish him, and Mr. Griffith feeling the injustice of the act, left home, going to Utica, Ohio, fourteen miles north of Newark. There he secured employment in a gristmill, in the capacity of fireman, remaining there for sixteen months. About that 684 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. time he became acquainted with some railroad men, and believing that he would prefer railroad service he went to Newark, Ohio, where he obtained work at wiping engines, receiving a dollar for every engine for wiping. He was thus employed for a year and a half. Next he was employed at Newark by what is now the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad and In September, 1855, he was engaged in digging ditches for the railroad and afterward was again engine-wiper and then night foreman. In September, 1857, he was made fireman on an engine. He served in that capacity for some time and during the period made many trips to the state-house up Third street, hauling stone to be used in the. construction of the capitol building. In September, 1860, he was promoted to the position of engineer and continued as such until July, 1861. Thus he was forty-five years in the railroad service. Feeling that his duty was to his country, Mr. Griffith then enlisted as a member of Company C, Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was in Camp Chase until September, 1861; when the regiment, under command of Colonel Fuller, proceeded by steamboat to St. Charle and thence by rail to Missouri. He. participated in numerous engagements, and in October. 1861, was made engineer on a Missouri river boat. Later he was returned to his regiment, which was badly cut to pieces in its attempt to relieve Colonel Mulligan at Lexington, Missouri. Mr. Griffith had many exciting and interesting experiences in the army: The following account appeared in a newspaper many years later : "Away back in 1862, while Joshua Griffith of this city, an old time locomotive engineer, was in the army, the Confederates in order to prevent the Unionists from obtaining possession of a locomotive, piled cord-wood around it and burned it until it was unfit for use Mr. Griffith, who saw the engine, looked it over and gave the opinion that he could put it in running order. He was told to go ahead, and in short time he had the old engine in good running order and it was the means of performing valuable service for the north. About nine years ago Mr. Griffith put in a claim for his work on the old engine, and on Monday of this week he received a check from the government for one hundred and six dollars and fifty cents. Thus, after a lapse of thirty-eight years does Mr. Griffith receive his reward." Alter being wounded Mr. Griffith was discharged and returned to Newark, Ohio, where he resumed work as an engineer ; but in September, 1862, he re-enlisted as a member of Company I, of the One Hundred and Twenty- ninth Ohio Infantry, in which command he participated in several battles at the front. He was again discharged on account of wounds, but for the third time enlisted and became the color-bearer of his regiment, the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, his place being in Company C. During the time of this third enlistment he was in West Virginia, and the last battle in which he participated occurred in Maryland Heights, near Harper's Ferry, that state, on the 6th of July, 1864, after which he returned to Newark, Ohio. In September, 1865, Mr. Griffith was again given an engine and has been CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 685 in continuous service in the.capacity of an engineer on the same railroad, now called Pan Handle Railroad. He runs a local freight engine; he has run this train twenty years, from that time to the present. He can relate many interesting experiences in his life upon the road, and no man in actve railroad service on the Pennsylvania, line is more widely or favorably known. He is indeed popular and extremely trustworthy. For a pastime he indulges in hunting and fishing, in which sports he has superior skill. He is sixty-four years old, but looks much younger. On the 2d day of November, 1870, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, he then being a resident of Dennison, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Marsh. He resided there for many years, but for the past twenty years has been a resident of Columbus. He has two children, the elder being Harry Benjamin, who was born October 4, 1871, and is a telegraph operator residing in Dennison. He was married August 9, 1898, to Miss Eva Mears and they have a little daughter of a few months. The other child, Grace, was. married November 21, 1898, to Fred Stocker, a telegraph opreator residing in Dennison, Ohio. There is in the life of every man who has been faithful to duty through a long period a lesson of great value which should serve as an incentive to others, and in this regard the history of Mr. Griffith is not lacking. His has indeed been an honorable career characterized by fidelity to every trust reposed in him. FRANK L. OYLER. A new chapter has been added to the history of America within the last two years; again the historian has been called upon to relate the deeds of valor and of bravery of the loyal sons of the nation. The Spanish-American war was unique in history on account of the spirit which prompted it. Not in America and probably not in the world had there ever been before a war waged in the Interests of humanity by a people who had no connection with those for whom they fought, save the human tie of brotherhood. Lieutenant Oyler was among those of Ohio's sons who, at the president's call, joined the United States army and went forth to battle for humanity and the right. He was born December 4, 1868, in Columbus, where he yet makes his home, and his parents, Samuel and Lucinda Oyler, are still living in this city, both being natives of Newark, Ohio. The subject of this review acquired his education in the public schools of Columbus, and on the 26th of November, 1886, he became connected with the military service of the state, enlisting as a private in Company B, Fourth Regiment of the Ohio National Guards. He was afterward made corporal and later sergeant. On the 2d of August, 1892, he was commissioned second lieutenant of Company B, and on the 23d of May, .1893 was made Era lieutenant. With his command he served throughout the Spanish-American war. On the 15th of May, 1898, he started for Chattanooga with his regi- 686 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ment, which remained in camp at that place until July 22, when it was ordered to Newport News. After five days there passed the regiment embarked for the front on the transport St. Paul, arriving at Porto Rico after two and a half days, although the troops did not disembark until five days after leaving the American port. They landed at Orroyo and remained in camp for one day and two nights when, under the command of Brigadier General Haynes, they marched to Guayama, five miles distant. There they fought the Spaniards for one and a half hours and only five of the American troops were wounded. The Spaniards were driven from the place into the mountains and when they returned were again pursued. Company B was the only company that marched across the entire island. After the termination Of the war the command returned to New York, arriving on the 29th of October and landing on the morning of November 3d. On the evening of that day they left for Washington, where the troops were reviewed by the president on the following day. They then proceeded to Colunbus, the city assuming its gala dress to welcome home the heroes who were received amidst general rejoicing and were banqueted by the ladies of the city at the Auditorium. The regiment was then placed on waiting orders and was mustered out January 5, 1889. Lieutenant Oyler was married in 1893 to Miss Martha J. Howard. Their only child, Belle, was born January 5, 1894. Mrs. Oyler is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard, both of whom were natives of Ohio. Her father was a lieutenant in the Civil war, and her mother had a brother who also aided in the preservation of the Union. Lieutenant Oyler is a Republican, giving an earnest support to the party. His entire life has been passed in the city which is yet his home and he made a wide acquaintance. That many of his warmest friends have known him from boyhood is an indication that his career has' been in every respect worthy of respect and confidence. JACOB BIRD. Jacob Bird has for more than half a century been a resident of Franklin county, whither he came in 1849, taking up his abode in Sharon township, where he purchased sixty-nine acres of land and began farming. He was born in Pennsylvania, February 22, 1815, his parents being Albertus and Rebecca (Woolever) Bird, who had a family of nine children. The subject of this review spent his early life in his native county of Northumberland, and when a youth accompanied his parents to Knox county, Ohio, the family locating upon a farm, where he grew to manhood. After arriving at years of maturity he wedded Miss Kesiah Craig, who was born in that county December 3, 1817, their marriage being celebrated on the 9th of March, 1836. She is one of the oldest living of Ohio's native citizens. Her parents were both of Knox county. Her father, James Craig, was born in the Keystone state and came to Ohio when the Indians were yet numerous. He built a log cabin, which was the first home erected in Mt. Vernon. The CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 687 journey from Pennsylvania had been made with .a team and wagon, and he also brought with him a drove of sheep. He was a farmer by occupation, and in Knox county he entered large tracts of land, which he afterward developed and improved. There he made his home throughout his remaining days, taking an active part in reclaiming the wild country for purposes of civilization. He had been one of the founders of the Republic, for after the inauguration of the war of the Revolution he unhitched his. horses from the plow where he was working. in the fields and went at once to the seat of war, takng part in many engagements which resulted in winning independence for the American people. His wife, prior to her marriage, bore the name of Esther Ann Cavin. They became the parents of ten children, two of whom were born in Pennsylvania, and came with the parents to Ohio. Mrs. Bird, however is now the only surviving member of the family. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bird continued to reside in Knox county for a number of years, and in 1849 came to Franklin. county, securing a tract of wild land; in the midst of the forest, where there were no roads and where the work of progress and improvement had not yet been begun. Mr. Bird at once erected a log cabin, into which he moved his family, then consisting of his wife and four children, namely : James, who died when five years of age; Phebe, who became the wife of Walter Burwell ; John; and Jemimah, wife of William Stevens, who is now in Indian Territory. After the arrival of the family in Franklin county the following children were born : David; Mary, who wedded Presley Field and is living in Abilene, Texas ; Lavina, wife of Benjamin Spengler, of Columbus; Jacob, who died when eighteen month& old; Nancy J., wife of John L. Ballinger, of Columbus; Chauncey, who resides in Goff, Kansas ; William. M., who is living on the old homestead; and Martha Ellen, widow of Silas Dague. After coming to Franklin county Mr. Bird, engaged in the operation of a sawmill for a time, but later cleared his farm and made his home thereon throughout his remaining days. He was a member of the Methodist church and took a very active interest in religious work. As a citizen he was interested in everything pertaining to the welfare, promotion and progress of the community and heartily co-operated in all measures for the general good. His death occurred May 26, 1886. SAMUEL BURWELL. In pioneer days when Ohio was just emerging from its primitive condition to take on the equipments and adornments. of civilization, when its wild lands were being transformed into richly cultivated fields and the domiciles of the red men were being replaced by the cabins of the early settlers. Samuel Burwell took up his abode in Franklin county, becoming one of the pioneers of Mifflin township in 1833. There he secured one hundred acres of land and became identified With agricultural pursuits. His father, John P. Burwell, was a native of Connecticut, and in 1833 came with his family from Wayne 688 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. county, Ohio, to Franklin county. He had six children, four of whom became residents of this county, and one son, Daniel Burwell, resided in Columbus for some years before the father located: in the county in 1833. He was a tinner by trade. The other children who came to this locality were Samuel, Joseph and Elizabeth; the last named becoming the wife of Christopher Robbins. All are now deceased, however. Samuel Burwell was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, born in 1802, and was married in Ohio to Nancy Davidson, a native of Marietta, this state. They became the parents of the following children, who reached years of maturity, namely : Walter; Eliza, who is, the widow of Michael Osborn ; Armstrong, who died about ten years ago; William, of Blendon township; and Rebecca. The father of this family and his wife have also departed this life. Walter Burwell was born December 4, 1825, in Wayne county, Ohio, and on the 5th of September, 1858, he married Phoebe Ann Bird; thus uniting two of the old pioneer families of the community. They had three sons,—John P., James S. and Jacob, but the last named died October 19, 1900, at the age of twenty-seven years. BERNARD W. MEYER, M. D. The acquaintances of Dr. Meyer—and the circle is an extensive one speak of him as a physician of marked ability, worthy of the trust and patron of the public. He is a native of Covington, Kentucky, born March 21, 1864. His parents were Bernard H. and Lima (Midden) Meyer, natives of Hanover, Germany, whence they came to America in 1850, locating in Cincinnati. Ohio, where their marriage was celebrated in 1853. Mr. Meyer was was a merchant tailor by trade and followed that business in pursuit of a fortune for many years. By his marriage he had nine children, seven of whom are yet living. The Doctor spent his boyhood days in his native town until his twelfth year when his parents removed to Delaware, Ohio, where he continued his studies in the public schools and was graduatel in the high school of that town under the tutelage of Professor Campbell, a popular and prominent educator of the central portion of the state. During his high-school days he also studied German and subsequently received private instruction in that tongue from Professor Davies, a teacher of languages in the Ohio Wesleyan University, so that he is now proficient in the language of his ancestors. He was eight years of age at the time of his graduation after which he began working a the tailor's trade and followed that without interruption until he began reading medicine in 1890, his preceptor being Dr. Z. Movn, a prominent physician in Columbus. Subsequently he matriculated in the Ohio Medical University in 1893, pursuing a three-years course, the year of his graduation being 1897. He then opened an office in Cynthiana, Kentucky, where he remained for a year. and a half. In 1899 he came to Columbus and established himself in practice on Mount Vernon avenue. He remained at that place until CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 689 the fall of 1900, when he removed to the corner of Fifth and Cleveland avenues. While practicing in Kentucky he was a member of the Kentucky Midland Medical Association. He is a physician of excellent standing, a conservative, practical practitioner, who is in close touch with the best thought of the day in systematic and therapeutical knowledge. He is devoted to the medical science as a life work, having had a strong predilection for it from early boyhood. Dr. Meyer enjoys the respect and esteem of his fellow men in social life as well as in professional circles and is well worthy of mention among the representative citizens of Columbus and Franklin county. CHRISTOPHER SHOEMAKER. Christopher Shoemaker, deceased, was for many years a prominent business man of Clinton township, and one of its most highly respected and influential citizens. A native of Ohio, he was born in St. Albans township, Licking county, July 30, 1820, and was a son of Christopher and Barbara (Keller) Shoemaker, the former of French, the latter of German descent. The family came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at a very early day and were among the first to make a settlement in Licking county. The father, who was one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war, and a millwright by trade, spent his last days in Franklin county. The early life of our subject was spent under the parental roof and he received a common school education. On the 7th of April, 1844, he was married in Licking county, to Miss Sarah Belknap, who was born in Washington county, this state, April 13, 1825, a daughter of Forace and Sallie (Bateman) Belknap, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter of Chenango county, New York, both being the youngest child of their respective families. On the maternal side she is related to Lewis Cass and General Buell. Her Grandfather Bateman was a college-bred man, and a descendant of a Mayflower family. Mrs. Shoemaker now has in her possession a sugar bowl, which was brought to this country on that famous ship by her ancestors and which is still in a fair state of preservation. Her parental grandfather, David Belknap, was also a well-educated man, and served in the Revolutionary war: under Paul Jones. On first coming to this state the Belknap family settled in Marietta, but later removed to Licking county, where they were numbered among the pioneers. Forace Belknap was an expert woodsman, swift of foot and a great hunter. He traded largely with the Indians, and was very popularwith them. He died on a farm in Licking county at an advanced age. To Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker were born eleven children, six sons and five daughters, namely : Elias F., born January 5, 1845, is the eldest; Lenira A., born April 10, 1846, is the wife of Dr. Sherman, of Columbus ; Mary Rosella, born December 9, 1847, died in 1872.; Devoice, born February 20, 1850, is a resident of Clinton township, Franklin county; Seth S., born October 5, 1851, is also a resident of that township; Franklin P., born September 15, 1854, lives in Kansas; Eva L., born September 14, 1856, is the wife of George W. 690 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Williams, Esq.; William D., born September 19, 1858; Charley, born June 24, 1861, is also a resident of Clinton township, this county; Stella M., born December 20, 1864, died February 23, 1884; Amberetta, born July 19, 1866, died Easter morning, April 25, 1886. The year after his marriage Mr. Shoemaker and his wife started for Columbus, and the journey to this county was made through an almost unbroken wilderness. He had previously engaged in brickmaking in Licking county for one year, and on his arrival in Columbus entered into partnership with Messrs. Leonard, Atchison and one other party to engage in the manufacture of brick. He carried on that business for many years, and also conducted a sawmill, tile works and a dairy. He was one of the most enterprising and energetic business men of his community, and always gave his best efforts to whatever he undertook. It is not surprising, therefore, to learn that he was uniformly successful and accumulated considerable property, becoming the owner of a large amount of valuable land, which he selected with keen foresight. He led a very active and useful life, and retained his mental and physical faculties up to the last. He died on the 17th of March, 1891, honored and respected by all who knew him. Mr. Shoemaker served his fellow citizens in the capacity of justice of the peace a number of years, and was also trustee of his township, besides filling other local offices. He was from principle a Democrat, but was never active in party politics, though he always exercised his right of suffrage and faithfully performed all duties of citizenship. His estimable wife still survives him, is well preserved for her years, her mind being bright and active. She has a distinct recollection of Franklin, county for fifty-six years; has seen it transformed from an almost unbroken wilderness to one of the best improved counties of the state; and recounts with ease and clearness the events through which she has passed. She is a true and earnest Christian, having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since eleven years of age. GEORGE BOEHM. George Boehm, an enterprising farmer, was born in Blendon township, on the place which is yet his home, December 14, 1858. His father, Martin Boehm, was a native of Germany, born December 17, 1817. There he was reared to manhood and followed teaming, but believing that he might better his financial condition in the new world he sailed: for America in 1846, taking up his abode in Columbus, Ohio, where he entered the employ of a man who owned a brick-yard. Mr. Boehm remained in his service for nine years, a fact which indicates in an unmistakable manner that he was an industrious workman, ever faithful to duty. Shortly after that period: he was married to Miss Agatha Klipfel, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, November 5. 1824, a daughter of Conrad and Barbara (Schirm) Klipfel. Her mother died in Germany and in 1846 the father came to America, accompanied by his two sons and three daughters. They made their way to Columbus and Mr. Klip- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 691 fel rented land and began farming in the vicinity of the capital city, there spending his remaining days. He passed away in 1869, at the age of sixty-seven years. Of the Lutheran church he was a member. The Klipfels made the voyage to the new world on the same vessel in which Mr. Boehm crossed. the Atlantic. There were fifty in the cabin and nearly, all came to Ohio, settling in Columbus. They left Germany on the 2d of April and arrived in the capital city of this state on the 22d of July. In 1855 Martin Boehm came with his family to the present Boehm homestead in Blendon township, purchasing seventy acres of land to which he afterward added. from time to time, until at his death he was the owner of four hundred and thirty acres of rich land, constituting one of the best improved farms in the county. His political support was given to the men and measures of the Democracy and he was an active member of the Lutheran church. He deserved great credit for his success, for when he came to America he had no capital and all that he acquired was the result of his close application and earnest efforts. He passed away in 1891, and his wife still resides on the old homestead. She, too, was a member of the Lutheran church. They became the parents of six children, of whom five are now living, namely Nicholas, a farmer of Plain township, Franklin county ; Lena, wife of George Wurn, of Delaware county ; John, a farmer in Blendon township; George ; and Agatha, the wife of John Baltz, who resides near Gahanna, Ohio. George Boehm, whose name introduces this review, was reared under the parental roof and in the schools of the neighborhood pursued his education through the winter months, while in the spring and summer he assisted in the labors of the fields and early gained a practical experience which now enables him to successfully carry on farming on his. own account. After his father's. death the estate was divided and the home farm of two hundred and forty acres was inherited by our subject. He keeps his field's. under a high state of cultivation and everything about the place is neat and thrifty in appearance, showing his careful supervision. In 1895 Mr. Boehm was united in marriage to Miss Katie Huffman, a native of Lancaster, Ohio. He exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party, and is a member of the Lutheran church, in which he has served as trustee. Charitable and' benevolent, he gives his support to, all worthy measures calculated .to aid or benefit his fellow men and in his life has ever demonstrated the possession of those qualities which in every land and every clime commands uniform confidence and regard. HENRY BRIGGS. One of the old residents of Franklin county, Ohio, who has taken part in the development of its interests' is Henry Briggs. He was born in Hamilton township, Franklin county, October 3, 1832. His father, John Briggs, a native of New York, came to Franklin county when about twenty years 692 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. old, was married in the county, and settled on land about two miles south of Columbus, later locating on a contiguous tract, and still later removing to some land near Harrisburgh. From this tract he moved upon the land now occupied by our subject, becoming the manager of the land belonging to Michael Sullivan, who was the largest land-owner in the township. HIs death occurred in 1848, when he was about forty-eight years of age. The mother of our subject was in her maidenhood Rachel Drake, a native of New Jersey, who had lived in Franklin county since her early youth. She lived to be eighty-four years old and left but two children, our subject and his sister Mary, who became the wife of William Cline. Mr. Briggs is the only member of the family surviving. He was about one year old when he was brought into Franklin township, and grew up amid the primitive surroundings of the time and locality. After the death of his father he continued to carry on the work of the farm, engaging in general farming, and at the present has a finely cultivated and improved tract of one hundred: and sixty acres, so near the city limits as to be of great value. In 1869 he erected his fine residence and commodious barns, thus increasing the value to a great extent. Mr. Briggs also owns considerable fine residence property in Columbus, from which he enjoys the rental. The marriage of Mr. Briggs took place November 15, 1859, to Miss Mary Evans, a native of Wales, who was born October 22, 1832, coming to Ohio when a child of five years. Her father was Arthur Evans, a native of Wales, who lived but a short time after emigrating to America. The mother was named Mary Evans and was also a native of the same land as her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs' are the parents of two daughters, both married and living in the vicinity, Elsie being the wife of Dr. C. R. Vanderburg, and Elizabeth, the wife of Frank Main, of Columbus. Politically Mr. Briggs believes in the principles of the Republican party. He was formerly a Whig and cast his first vote for Scott, but in 186o he voted for Lincoln. He has acceptably served as township trustee and has been largely identified with the best interests of the county. He has seen with pleasure the rapid growth of every industry, promoting all to the best of his ability, and is one of the most prominent and respected members of the old pioneer band of Franklin county. JOHN D. MILLER. John D. Miller was born August 11, 1859, in Fairfield, Ohio. His father Martin M. Miller, is also a native of the Buckeye state, his birth having occurred within its borders in 1826. He is now living in Logan, Ohio, in which place his wife, Miss Sarah Miller, died on the 4th of November, 1899, when seventy-four years of age. In the common schools of Fairfield John D. Miller was educated and in 1873 he accompanied his parents on their removal to Logan, Ohio, being at that time a youth of fourteen years. He was seventeen years of age when,, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 693 in 1876, he entered the railroad service, his efficiency soon gaining him promotion to the position of a conductor on a passenger train. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been thus employed. Long continued service with any of the immense corporations which control the railroad travel of the country is an indication of marked fidelity to duty, for incompetence and unfaithfulness are never tolerated. Mr. Miller has therefore made a creditable record, winning the confidence of his superiors and at the same time becoming a favorite with many who travel over his route owing to his obliging manner and. uniform courtesy. He became a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in 1890, and for five years held the office of financier and secretary and is now master of his local lodge in Columbus. This lodge was organized in 1883 and now has a membership of two hundred and ten. He is well known among the followers of the order and hits influence is marked in labor circles. Mr. Miller was united in marriage, in 1883, to Miss Emma Moechle. They had but one child and that died in infancy. In his fraternal relations Mr. Miller is a prominent Odd Fellow and holds membership with a lodge in Columbus. He has. been both vice grand and noble grand and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In politics he is a stanch Democrat who works untiringly in the interest of the party, yet never seeks office. He and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church, and their circle of friends is extensive and is also indicative of their many sterling traits of character. NELSON H. GLOYD. Nelson H. Gloyd was, born in Hamilton. township, Franklin county, November 21, 1851; His father, William Gloyd, was a native of Vermont, and was probably of English lineage. He came to Franklin county in the '30s,and was therefore one of its early settlers.. By trade he was a blacksmith, and followed that pursuit, in Hamilton township until his death, which. occurred in 1856, when his son Nelson was only about five years old. His wife was in her maidenhood Mary .Ann Crossley. She was a native of Virginia, and was of German lineage. Unto this worthy couple were born. nine children, of whom five reached adult age. Nelson H. Gloyd, the seventh in order of birth, and the fourth son, is now the only survivor of the family. He acquired his education in the district schools of the neighborhood, but his, privileges in that direction were limited, for at the early age of nine years he started out in life on his own acccount, and has since been dependent upon his labors for a livelihood. He. worked for Thomas Duvall, of Pickaway county, Ohio, who gave him his. board and clothes, and allowed him the privilege of attending school through the winter months. For four years he remained: with Mr. Duvall and when a youth of thirteen returned to his native township. Here he began work. by the month for Martin Kissel, receiving ten dollars per month in com- 694 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY pensation for his services. For five years he continued in that employ and then entered the service of T. B. Vause, of Hamilton township, with whom he remained' three years. Subsequently he worked as a farm hand for one year for Thomas Murphy, of Madison township, and for two years for J. C. Platter, of Hamilton township. Mr. Gloyd was then married, on the 28th of September, 1876, to Miss Maggie Teegardin, a native of Madison township, Pickaway county, where her girlhood days were passed. They began their domestic life on a rented farm in that township, but after a year Mr. Gloyd returned with his wife to Hamilton township, where he continued the operation of rented land for two years. He then again went to Madison township, Pickaway county, where he remained for three years upon one farm, and seven years upon another farm, all of the time as a renter. He worked early and late in order to increase his capital, and when he had acquired a sufficient sum he purchased one hundred acres of land in Hamilton township,—the farm upon which he has since resided. He has made this a valuable property, and the highly cultivated fields indicate to the passerby his care and supervision. He is practical and progressive in his methods and his place is supplied with all modern improvements and conveniences. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Gloyd has been blessed with four children, namely : Alva H., born September 30, 1877; Annie C., who was born June 12, 1880, and is now the wife of J. R. Bookman, their home being with her parents; Jesse James, born December 25, 1885; and Walter A., born November 21, 1891. Mr. Gloyd exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the. Democratcy. For twenty-five years he has been a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, and for ten years has held membership relation's with Tent No. 55, K. O. T. M. Dependent upon his own efforts since the age of nine years, he has steadily worked his way upward, overcoming all the difficulties and obstacles in his path, and to-day he is accounted one of the substantial residents of the county. MRS. MATILDA SCHART. Mrs. Matilda Schart resides at her home at No. 607 Culbertson street, Columbus, where she is living surrounded by many warm friends who esteem her for her many excellencies of character. She was born in Kent, London, England, on the 8th of December, 1823, and has been a resident of Ohio's capital city since August, 1857. Her girlhood days were passed in London, her education being acquired in the schools there, and in that city, in 1842, she gave her hand in marriage to John Schart, who was born in Hesse, Germany, on the 17th of April, 1816. He was a boot and shoemaker by trade and followed that pursuit through the early part of his life in order to provide for his family. Mr. and Mrs. Schart became the parents of the following children: Mary, the eldest, was born in London, England, May 4, 1844, and died CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 695 July 1, 1861. Franz, who was born September 22,. 1847, is married and resides in Springfield, Ohio. Henry, born December 20, 1851, is married and resides in Columbus, where he is employed: as a machinist in the Panhandle railroad shops. John, who was born January 14, 1854, is also a machinist and is married and makes his home in Columbus. His living children are Laura, John, William and Stella. They lost one child, Effie, who died June 12, 1875. Martha, who was the youngest child born in England, her natal day being August 19, 1856, is the widow of Ephraim Johnson. Eliza was born in Columbus March 8, 1859. Spafford, born October 5, 1861, married Miss Emma Hall, and they reside with his mother at the old homestead. Christiana P., born January 19, 1864, is the wife of George Mawhorr, who is in the service of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company. Daniel J., the youngest of the family, was born September 25, 1870. The father of this family died after only one day's illness, December 19, 1878. He was an honored citizen, for his life was at all times. upright and consistent with every manly principle. His sons, Henry and Spafford, are members of the Knights, of Pythias fraternity and of the Order of Red Men, of Columbus. The family have resided at their present home since 1876, and they are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, contributing liberally to its support and doing everything in their power to promote its advancement along normal lines of progress. Mrs. Schart and her family are enjoying the high regard of those with whom they have been brought in contact, and now, at the age of more than four score years., she is still living at her pleasant home in Columbus, enjoying the warm regard of friends and the loving care and attention of her children. ANDREW STRAUB. The German element in our national commonwealth has been an important one, conducing to the substantial growth, progress and development of the country. Our subject is one whom the fatherland has furnished to the new world, having been born in Bavaria, Germany, December 10, 1825. His father died when the son was only five years of age, and the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Straub, passed away after Andrew came to this country. The only relative of our subject who sought a home in America is his brother, the Rev. John Straub, a Catholic priest, who is now living in Detroit, Michigan. Andrew Straub spent the first twenty-three years of his life in his native land and on account of being drafted into the service of the Bavarian army he left home and sailed for America in the year 1848. After arriving on the Atlantic coast he proceeded across the country to Chillicothe, Ohio, and worked at his trade, that of painter, which he had learned in the fatherland. In the year 1850 he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Lautenklos, a native of Germany. Her parents both died in Chillicothe some years ago. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Straub were born the following named: Mary, who was born in Chillicothe January 3, 1851, became the wife of James Stewart, 696 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. by whom she has one child, Clarence; Joseph John, who was born December 10, 1852, and is deceased; Andreas Marcus, who was born June 19, 1855; Catherine P., who was, born January 8, 1858; Elizabeth Barbara, born September 28, 1860, is the wife of M. J. Oates, of Columbus; Johann Bernard, born March 30, 1864; Anna Gertrude, born March 7, 1866; and Frank Joseph, born March 23, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Straub began their domestic life in Chillicothe, where they remained until 1853, when they came to Columbus. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in April, 1900. They had traveled life's journey together for half a century, sharing with each other the joys and sorrows, the adversity and prosperity which checker the career of all. In 1901 Mr. Straub was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died at their home in Columbus on the 5th of February, the burial service being held in Holy Cross church on the 8th of February. The family are all members of the Catholic church. Mr. Straub still resides at the home at No. 274 Woodward avenue, and has reached the ripe old age of seventy-six years. His career has been an honorable and upright one and wherever he is known has commanded the respect and confidence of all his associates by reason of his sterling worth. GEORGE F. WHEELER. The horologe of time has marked off seventy years since George Frederick Wheeler came to Columbus; and several decades were added to the cycle of his age during his business connection with the city. He was numbered among the esteemed and valued residents of the capital, and it is fitting that this memoir be given a place in the record of Columbus. He bore an unassailable reputation as a reliable and trustworthy merchant, and in all life's relations he was held in the highest regard for his fidelity to manly principles and his unwavering allegiance to truth and honor. Mr. Wheeler was a native of Germany, born on the 26th of August, 1826, and when only five years of age was brought by his parents to the new world, the family locating in Columbus. Here he was reared, the public schools affording him his educational privileges, and in early manhood he secured a clerkship in a drug store. He expected to learn the busines of pharmacy and make it his life work, but events shaped his course otherwise. In 1849, attracted by the discovery of gold in California, he made his way across the plains to the Pacific slope and spent two years in the Golden state. He then returned to his home in Columbus, but in 1856 again made the trip to California, returning in 1857. Here he became actively engaged in mercantile business, and by his untiring efforts, his resolute purpose and honorable methods, soon built up a large trade in the grocery business at No. 15 North High street. The enterprise which he established in 1852 has since been conducted under the name of George Frederick Wheeler. He studied carefully the wants of the public, carrying a large and well selected CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 697 line of goods, and his straightforward dealing, combined with his reasonable: prices, secured him a continuance of a liberal patronage.  In 1857 Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage to Miss Emma Randall Waterman, at her home on Shepherd street, Columbus. His mother, Mrs. Henrietta Wheeler, lost her husband in Germany and was afterward married in the same country to Gottlieb F. Hinderer. Her birth occurred in the fatherland, in 1793, and in 1831 she became a resident of Columbus, where she remained until her death, spending the last few years of her life with her son, Mr. Wheeler; on Broad street. She passed away September 16, 1884, and her loss was deeply mourned by her family and a large circle of friends, for her womanly qualities, kindly disposition and many admirable characteristics of head and heart endeared her to all with whom. she was associated. Mr. Wheeler's children comprised three sons and a daughter, but Joseph Frederick Wheeler, the eldest, who was born January 16, 1859, died on the 15th of July of the same year. Charles Reynolds, born April, 5, 1860, was married, March 5, 1887, to Mary E. Reed, of Chillicothe, Ohio.. They now occupy a beautiful residence at No. 354 West Sixth avenue, in Columbus. They have two children : George Frederick, born February 26, 1888; and Elizabeth, born June 5, 1894. Since the death of his father Charles R. Wheeler has conducted the grocery, his brother, Edwin Randall, being associated with him until his death, February 13, 1899. The grocery was established by their father and had throughout all the years been conducted under the name of George F. Wheeler. Fanny Ellen, born March 14, 1865, is the only daughter. She was married, February 7, 1889, to Harry G. Huston, who is engaged with his father in the drug business in Columbus. Their only child is Marion Huston., who was born August 27, 1891. Edwin Randall Wheeler, the youngest, was born June 13, 1869, and died February 15, 1899, at his mother's home. He was a very intelligent and enterprising business man and a loving andaffectionate son; and his death was a great blow to his mother and the other members of the family. Mr. Wheeler, the subject of this memoir, was a member of the Masonic fraternity and attained the Knight Templar degree, being a member of Mount Vernon Commandery, No. 1, K. T., Columbus. He was a charter member of Enoch Lodge of Perfection; Franklin Council, Princes of Jerusalem;. and Columbus Chapter Rose-Croix. He was also a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was an active and valued. member of the Trinity Episcopal church, contributing liberally to its support and doing much for its upbuilding. In the midst of a successful business career he was stricken by death, passing away at his home at No. 413 East Broad street, on the 28th of March, 1887. His interest in everything which affected the welfare of the people of Columbus and the growth and development of the city in industrial, commercial and financial lines was deep and abiding. He had the respect of all who had knowledge of his straightforward methods and his uprightness of character. Business men esteemed him and trusted him, and his social acquaintances had for him warm friendship. His activity  44  698 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. in business affairs resulted in the acquirement of a handsome competence and thus he left his family well provided for. His widow still resides at her elegant home on East Broad street and is widely known to a large circle of friends in the capital city. PAUL O. RHOADS. Among the representatives of the railway service on the Pennsylvania line is Paul O. Rhoads, who occupies a beautiful home at No. 357 First avenue, Columbus. A native of Franklin county, he was born in Reynoldsburg on the 26th of March, 1854. His father is Hope Rhoads. His grandparents, natives of Pennsylvania, came to Franklin county, Ohio, at an early period in its development and lived upon a farm, being numbered among the enterprising agriculturists of the community in pioneer days. Hope Rhoades also engaged in the tilling of the soil, owning a valuable tract of land near Reynoldsburg. There his wife died in 1861, and he afterward removed to Muncie, Indiana, where his death occurred in 1866. In their family were three daughters and two sons : Elizabeth, wife of George Hill, a resident of Indiana; Belle, now deceased ; Kate, wife of J. Johnson, also a resident of Indiana; and Charles, who was a seaman and has not been heard fromsince 1859. Paul O. Rhoads, the fifth member of the family, acquired his education in the country schoolS during the winter terms. He was reared upon the home farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He followed farm work until 1870, and in 1871 he became a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, working for six months with than company. In July, 1872, he was made a brakeman on a freight train on the Pennsylvania road and was afterward on a passenger train as brakeman and baggageman for twelve years. He was then urged to accept a position as conductor on a freight train, which he reluctantly did, and afterward was promoted to passenger conductor, in which capacity he is now serving. For twenty-eight years he has been continuously the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the Pittsburg division between Columbus and Pittsburg. The only personal injury which he ever sustained in the railway service was iio. the first year of his connection with the line, when he was acting as 'brakeman on a freight train, and had the bones of one of his limbs fractured. Mr. Rhoads was married, November 17, 1874, in Wragram, Ohio, to Miss Sallie Matthews. Her mother died five years ago and her father, who was a farmer, passed away before her marriage. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads are as follows: Estella, who was born in 1876 and died in 1887; Cornelia, at home; Arthur, who was born in 1880, and is now holding a clerkship in Columbus; and Charles, who was born in 1883 and is now a student in the high school. For twenty years the family have resided in Columbus. Mrs. Rhoads and her children hold membership in the Methodist CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 699 Episcopal church, and he is identified with several fraternal organizations. In 1888 he became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and now belongs to Capital City Lodge, No. 334, and also the encampment in Columbus. His name is also on the membership roll of the Maccabees, and he enjoys the high regard of his brethren of these fraternities. ANDREW C. WISLER. For a quarter of a century Mr. Wisler has been in the railroad service, and occupies the position of conductor on the Panhandle road. He was born at Gettysburg on the 19th of May, 1857, and is a son of Ephraim and Louisa Wisler, both of whom spent their last days in Gettysburg, the father dying on the 11th of August, 1863, at the age of thirty-one years, while the mother passed away on the and of September, 1874. In' the family were but two sons, Andrew C. and Joseph Edward, the latter now a resident of Great Falls, Montana. With his parents and his brother Mr. Wisler was residing on the Chambersburg pike, three miles west of the town of Gettysburg, when the battle began. The first shell fired that day struck their house. It was early morning and. they were eating breakfast. A hole was knocked through the end of the house, but none of the family were injured. As the Confederates advanced they were told to leave at once, so, locking up their little home, they made their way to the grandfather's home, remaining upon his farm near Gettysburg during the battle. After the Confederates retreated they returned to their own house, but found that it had been used as a hospital during their absence and all the furniture had been removed; so that they suffered considerable loss thereby. Although but a young boy at the time, Mr. Wisler vividly remembers and relates in an interesting manner many of the incidents which occurred in connection with one of the most important engagements that occurred throughout the Civil war. Leaving home and entering upon an independent business career, he became connected with the railroad service in 1876, as a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Central. He left that road in January, 1883, and on the 3d of July, 1884, he entered the employ of the Panhandle Railroad Company as a brakeman, serving in that capacity until the 12th of January, 1889, when he was made a conductor. For twenty-five years he has been in railroad service, and this fact indicates the. efficient manner in which he discharges his duties. The patrons of the road find him a most obliging and courteous offical, and he has thus won many friends among those who often travel over his line. He indeed; has an enviable record. Although he has been in many wrecks, he has never sustained a personal injury. He is prompt and methodical in the discharge of his duties and at the same time does everything in his power to promote the comfort of those who are in his care. Mr. Wisler was married, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1876, to Miss Annie Mackley. Her mother is, still living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but her father died in 1897. The marriage of our sub-