HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 25 and his wife became the parents of the following children : Lucy A., who was born April 4, 1841, died in January, 1915 ; Orrin O., who was born on November 17, 1842, died at Allentown, Virginia, on April 9, 1865 ; Jesse, who was born on September 10, 1844, served as a soldier during the war between the states, and died at Washington, District of Columbia, on November 12, 1903 ; Charlotte, who was born March 2, 1847, died in July, 1853 ; Emeline, who was born on February 20, 1849, married Milo Hart Barnum, and he died on June 24, 1919, and she is now a resident of Newburg, Ohio ; Ida E., who was born February 4, 1851, is Mrs. Edward Herriott ; Susanetta, who was born November 9, 1853, is Mrs. John Luke ; Olive L., who was born December 29, 1855, is connected with the Toledo, Ohio, Hospital ; and Henry L., who was born November 8, 1858. The grandchildren of Mr. Taylor are as follows : Rosa Barnum, who was born. January 2, 1872, is Mrs. Edward Alonzo Lund, of Bedford, Ohio ; Benjamin Nelson Doyle Barnum, who was born on August 4, 1873, resides with Mr. Taylor; Orrin Ozmun Barnum, born September 4, 1875, has lived at the old home since he was born ; and George Milo Barnum, who was born March 10, 1886, lives at Bedford, Ohio; Elwin Herriott, who lives at Toledo, Ohio ; Ollie Herriott, who is Mrs. Mike Whalen, who lives in Lucas county, Ohio ; Pearl Luke, who is Mrs. Isaac Everett, of Fulton Township ; and Vern Luke, who is a resident of Fulton Township. On the anniversary of his 100th birthday Mr. Taylor had a photograph taken of himself, his daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, and great-great-grandson, and this very unusual picture is cherished by the members of his family. Since the organization of the republican party Mr. Taylor has given it his hearty support, and he has served as township trustee. When the war broke out between the North and the South Mr. Taylor was regarded as being a little past the age for active service at the front, although he was a. member of the home guards during the period of the war. He has lived to see practically all of the "young' men who were taken into active service buried, and is today more active and mentally alert than many who were not born until the time he was relegated to local service. During the late war Mr. Taylor was active in his expression of his interest, and it was remarkable how he followed the various campaigns and kept abreast of current events. Although Mr. Taylor was not permitted to enter the army during the early '60s, his sons were, and one of them, Orrin, gave up his life in defense' of his country. He had left $600 with his father for the purpose of applying it on the erection of a new home for his parents, and this was built in 1867, of bricks made from clay produced on the homestead. At that time Mr. Taylor, then over fifty years old, worked at pitching clay into the grinder to make the bricks. It was in this home that Mrs. Taylor passed away on January 30, 1892. Mr. Taylor has lived during the greatest period of American history. James Monroe had only been in office as president of the United States a few months when Mr. Taylor was born. The Missouri Compromise was not enacted until he was three years of age, which piece of legislation opened the great Northwest for settlement. During his lifetime he has witnessed the outbreak and close of the Black Hawk, Mexican, Civil, Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican Border and World conflicts, and in all of them he has seen the United States emerge a victor. 26 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY During the more than one hundred years that Mr. Taylor has lived he has seen two very remarkable changes made in the Constitution. One occurred when the colored race was declared to have the same constitutional rights as the white race, and the other when the liquor traffic was made illegal. Mr. Taylor has followed the growth. of practically all of the territory west of the Mississippi River ; he passed through the great gold excitement of 1849, when gold was discovered in California, and then witnessed much the same action on the part of the people over the Klondyke gold fields. Railroads have sprung up ; automobiles been invented and perfected, and of late years the air has been conquered. Locating on the land he bought, Mr. Taylor painfully and laboriously cleared off and developed his farm, taking weeks and months for operations that his great-great-grandchildren can perform in a few hours with their improved machinery and appliances. Nearly every kind of work performed by hand in his youth and young manhood is now done by machinery. He has seen the various development in the grade of stock ; the remarkable changes in business systems; the development of the banking houses; the establishment of mighty trusts; the organization of capitalistic interests, and of trades unions. When Mr. Taylor was a young man Japan and China were hidebound despotisms; the monarchies of Europe were regarded as unchanging as time itself, and yet he has been spared to witness the introduction of Occidental interests in the Orient; and the overthrowing of thrones and the rise of republics on the ruins. Looking backward over the nearly one hundred years within his recollection, Mr. Taylor can calmly make his own deductions, and it may surprise some that he is not at all inclined to award all the. praise to conditions and methods of today. He misses the genial interest, the generous hospitality, the kindly sympathy, and the friendly relations between employer and employe. Having experienced life under varying conditions and in different periods, he is qualified to judge, and speaks in all sincerity when he urges the present generation to learn from the past and to look forward to the future, knowing that when his youngest descenant reaches his present age he, too, will look back over just as many and important changes and marvel that the people of 1920 were able to accomplish as much as they did considering the way they were hampered by lack of the facilities which the twenty-first century has provided. FRANK BARNUM REYNOLDS, a well-known and successful merchant of Wauseon, Ohio, first became responsibly identified with Wauseon business twenty-eight years ago, when he was part owner of .the hardware business he latterly has owned. And during, the period he has taken an interested part in the responsibilities of the community, supporting its institutions and endeavoring as far as he was able to further its prosperity. He has an enviable reputation in the city and county both as a business man and as a citizen. He was born in Ridgeville township, Henry county,, Ohio, in 1867, the son of John E. and Elizabeth (Mosher). Reynolds, of that place. He attended the public school nearest his father's farm during the winter term, and each summer gave his vacation to duties upon the home farm. From the elementary school he graduated to the Wauseon Normal School, eventually entering business life well grounded in general academic knowledge. He elected to follow HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 27 commercial pursuits, and his first experience was in a clerical capacity, in the hardware store of Vernier & McLoughlin at Archbold, this connection influencing his later life, for he has throughout his active career of trading held almost exclusively to the hardware line. After three years with the Archbold firm he went to Wauseon and purchased an interest in the hardware business of Moyer & Biddle, taking over the interest of Mr. F. W. Moyer. The store, which was then (1892) situated where Mr. Reynolds still conducts the business, was a good one, and the business substantial. Under the reorganization the company name changed from that of Moyer & Biddle to that of the Bidden & Reynolds. The company . continued thus constituted for three years, when Mr. Biddle sold his interest to Mr. F. B. Ufer, the firm name with the change becoming Reynolds & Ufer. Another change of trading name occurred when Mr. Ufer disposed of his interest to Mr. J. S. Rychener, the name then becoming Reynolds & Rychener, under which partnership it was conducted for five years, when Mr. Reynolds acquired the whole business, the store then becoming known as the Reynolds Hardware Store. Two years later, in 1.904, he sold the business to Mr. H. J. Gelzer. He soon afterward became interested in a hardware business at Gibsonburg, Sandusky county, Ohio,. and for several years he successfully conducted a store at that place. Having decided to retire, he disposed of that business and spent some time without active business connection. Returning to Wauseon in 1914, he bought his old business from the then owner, John A. Cron, and from that time until the present Mr. Reynolds has been its sole owner. As a hardware merchant he is known throughout the county, and is known to trade in products of reliable grade. Consequently the business is a steady and satisfactory one, the trading being both with city people and country folk. Politically Mr. Reynolds is a republican; religiously he is a Methodist, a member of Wauseon Methodist Episcopal Church; and he and his wife have many friends. in Wauseon. Mr. Reynolds has been married for twenty-eight years, since 1892, his wife having been Ida Stotzer, daughter Of Fred and Elizabeth (Snyder) Stotzer, of Archbold, Ohio. CHARLES E. MATTISON, a native of Wauseon and an enterprising, energetic business man of that city, has had very promising success since establishing, the Central Garage of Wauseon, with Ralph Merrill and G. Scott Roos as partners. They operate the Willard Service Station, and specialize in storage batteries and do general garage work, vulcanizing, and trade in tires and auto accessories generally. Mr. Charles E. Mattison was born in Wauseon, Ohio, on December 24, .1880. the son of Joseph and Sarah (Frazier) Mattison, respected residents of that place. He attended the local public schools until he had reached the age of seventeen years, thus gaining a good fundamental academic knowledge. He was more inclined to occupations connected with mechanics than with commercial affairs, and when he entered upon the serious occupation of life it was in the capacity of telephone repairer for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Thus he became connected with electrical work, and in course of time became an expert electrician. During the five years of his connection with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company he traveled to many widely-separated parts of the 28 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY United States, but eventually returned to Wauseon. He then became connected with the automobile business. Politically Mr. Mattison is an independent republican, and fraternally belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge and Chapter. He takes a lively interest in the progress of his native place, and is well regarded in the city. In 1914 he. married Gertrude, daughter of C. C. and Margaret (Wheeler) Close, of Swanton, Ohio. GEORGE WILLIAM HARTMANN, M. D. The work that any busy, conscientious physician and surgeon performs during an average lifetime fills an important chapter in the history of the medical profession, whether it becomes public or not. In his own experience every such practitioner at some time or another comes upon emergencies for which no rule of practice has prepared him, when he must depend entirely upon his own judgment and medical skill, and from such conditions more than once have come discoveries that have had wide-reaching beneficial results. One of the eminent medical men of Fulton county, who has devoted a long and busy life to the alleviation of the bodily .ills that afflict humanity, is Dr. George William Hartmann, who is one of Wauseon's most highly valued citizens. Doctor Hartmann was born in Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, January 9, 1852, and is a son of John Conrad and Charlotte (Houghtby) Hartmann, who were early settlers and farming people of Fulton county. He grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and still later had advantages in the Wauseon High School and a normal school at Bryan, Ohio. He then became a medical student under Dr. Philo E. Jones at Wauseon, with whom he remained one and a half years. In the fall of 1878 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which great institution he was graduated as one of the ten best men at the head of his class, on July 1, 1881, with his coveted degree. Doctor Hartmann entered into practice at Archbold, Ohio, .where for seven years he had the advantage of working with the noted prac¬titioner, Dr. A. J. Murbach. In 1892 he came to Wauseon, and this city has been his home and his main field of practice ever since. He is a valued member of numerous medical bodies, including the. American Medical, the Ohio State, the Fulton County and the Northwestern Ohio Medical Associations. At Archbold, Ohio, in 1881, Doctor Hartmann was united in marriage to Miss Emma E. Stotzer, who is a daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Miller) Stotzer. Of six children born to Doctor and Mrs. Hartmann three survive, namely, Carl Floyd, Florence Edna and Helen Elizabeth. Carl Floyd Hartman was graduated with the degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan in 1907, from Rush Medical College in 1909, with the degree of M. D., and afterward' served as an interne in St. Vincent's- Hospital. When the United States became involved in the great war he entered the National Army as lieutenant in the .medical corps, and in 1917 at Camp Grant was promoted to a captaincy, on May 18, 1918, being made Major, and was placed in charge of the medical detachment of the Three Hundred. and Forty-third United States Infantry. :On August 27, 1918, he sailed for France, later was placed in command of the Medical Department of Air Service for the armies at Colombey-Les Belles, France. In February, 1919, he became acting lieutenant-colonel in charge of the Medical Department HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 29 of the American Air Forces connected with hospitals in the entire war zone in France, and continued, so to serve until he was mustered out of the service May 29, 1919, with a marvelous record for executive efficiency. In 1910 he was married to Miss Pearl Reynolds, who is a daughter of William Reynolds, a well known resident of Fulton county, and they have two children, Floyd Wellington and Ruth. Florence Edna, the older daughter, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the Toledo Business ,College. Helen Elizabeth, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the University of Michigan, also of the Detroit School of Music and Art, and teaches these sciences in the public schools at Wauseon and Delta. Both as physician and public-spirited citizen Doctor Hartmann has many times proved his deep interest in the welfare of Wauseon and this section, always being ready to lend his influence to practical welfare movements. In politics he has been a republican voter since early manhood. Twice he has served as coroner of Fulton county, and for a number of years has been a member of the school board. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and belongs also to the order of Modern Woodmen. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. FREDERICK B. FOWLER. There is no vocation that commands greater respect and few which offer better opportunity for the display of character and ability than does that of the legal profession. Wauseon's bar has long ranked with the most distinguished of Ohio, and the profession here represented has numbered among its members many men of high standing and statewide reputation. In preparing a review of the careers of men whose names stand out prominently in the legal profession of this city, who, by character and achievements, have attained notable distinction, the record of Frederick B. Fowler is found to be one that compels more than passing attention. Frederick B. Fowler was born in York township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1870, a son of William and Catherine (Heuricle) Fowler, and grandson of William Fowler. The Fowler family was founded in this country by the great-grandfather of F. B. Fowler, who came from England to Massachusetts, and was there occupied with farming. During the war of 1812 he served his adopted country as a soldier. His son, William Fowler, went to Fairfield county, Pennsylvania, and later came to Ohio, he and his son, William Fowler, securing government land in Fulton county, which they cleared and improved. The original deeds to this property are in the hands of F. B. Fowler, and the latter was born on the property his father secured in York township. Growing up in his native country, Frederick B. Fowler attended its schools, and then for nine terms he was a student of the Northwestern Ohio Collegiate' Institute at Wauseon, taking the scientific and literary courses. He studied law in the offices of Fuller & Hardy, attorneys of Wauseon, and was admitted to the bar in 1900. Immediately thereafter Mr. Fowler located at Wauseon, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession, specializing in criminal law, and being noted for his ability as a trial lawyer. Some of his important cases have been the following: J. R. Linthcomb case at Wauseon, the J. Roscoe Carter case in the Federal Court at Toledo, Ohio, in both of which he secured acquittals, and many of minor importance. He lost his case when .he defended Fred Lehman, 30 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY charged with murdering his wife, which lasted six weeks and cost $10,000. His associate- in this case was Judge John W. Winn, of Defiance, Ohio. Mr. Fowler has been connected with important jurisprudence in the Federal and State courts of other states, and is recognized as a man of unusual ability and powerful eloquence. In 1907 Mr. Fowler was married to Clara Vocke, a daughter of Joseph and Genevieve .(Keihn) Vocke, of Napoleon, Ohio, there being no children. Mr. Fowler is .a democrat and was nominated by his party for prosecuting attorney in 1911, and although running in a strongly republican district was only defeated by 100 votes. In 1918 he was again his party's nominee for the same office, but was defeated in the great republican landslide of that year. He was a candidate for judge of the Court of Pleas in 1915 and ran third. At present he is secretary of the Democratic County Central Committee, and is recognized as one of the leaders in his party. Mr. Fowler is an attorney who by reason of his eloquence and address, dignified deportment, reasoning powers, and persuasive address is so effective in his addresses to juries. He fully understands how to present facts so clearly and forcibly as to convince his hearers of his sincerity and his own belief in the innocence of his client, and it is seldom that he fails to secure an acquittal. WILLIAM R. CLARK, V. S. Of so much value have become the scientific knowledge and skill of the veterinarian that governments make provision for their services, competing to secure the most efficient, for in a way, the commercial interests of a country depend, in large measure, on the production of stock and its wholesomeness as food for the world's teeming millions. Humanity's dumb brethren of farm, field and. forest are subject to ills that, unattended, decimate herds and flocks, and the stockman and dairyman find no better friend than the skilled veterinary surgeon. Equally is he indispensable to the horseman, to the owners and trainers of wild. animals, and to the possessors of priceless household pets. A recognized authority in this line of medical science in Fulton county is Dr. William R. Clark of Wauseon, where he operates a modern animal hospital. William R. Clark was born in Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1862. He can trace ancestry back to the Mayflower, has .proofs of stock and is very proud of this unquestion- able American genealogy. His grandfather, Ebenezer Clark, was born in Ohio in 1801, and his parents,. John A. and Elizabeth (Krantz) Clark, were born in the same state. Mr. Clark was born on his father's farm and very early took an interest in the line of work i.n which he has met with so much success. After completing the common school course in Fulton county he determined. on his future career, and to make himself thoroughly proficient in 1895 entered the Ontario Veterinary College at Toronto, Canada, from which he was graduated with honors and with the degree of veterinary surgeon, authorized and made legal in 1898. He returned then to Fulton county and located at Pettisville, which he made his headquarters until the fall of 1899, when he came to Wauseon, which city has been his home ever since. He has established an animal hospital here, and at different times has had pedigreed horses in charge, together with many other examples of the animal kingdom, notably animals for exhibition purposes. His practice extends over many adjacent counties to Fulton, and in his professional capacity his advice is often asked (and paid for) by owners of stock interests HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 31 much farther away. He is a prominent member of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, and belongs also to the American Veterinarian Society. In 1889 Doctor Clark was united in marriage to Miss Leah Hind, who is a daughter of Joseph and Cordelia Jane (Boyer) Hind, residents of Wauseon. Doctor and Mrs. Clark have two children, namely: Mazola, who is the wife of Clarence Bates, has two children and Harold H., who was born in 1904. Although too busy to serve in any public office, Doctor Clark does not feel that he is thereby relieved entirely from the responsibilities of citizenship. He gives political support to the principles of the independent wing of the democratic party in national matters, locally looking out for the welfare of Wauseon. He belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias in this city. CLAIR SCHOFIELD CAMPBELL, M. D. The call of duty has ever been a clarion summons to the true physician. In recent days this country has had occasion to note the quick responses that brought unselfishly to the front in the service of their country the ablest men of scientific attainment in this line, men who proved their love of humanity, as well as their professional skill, in as dangerous situations as has brought to their hands the shattered soldier comrades they strove to rebuild. Wauseon can lay claim to medical heroes of this kind, and will long remember the patriotism and the professional ability of Dr. Clair S. Campbell, who, fortunately, was spared to return from such duty to his former field of effort at Wauseon. Clair Schofield Campbell was born in Ohio, January 2, 1872. His parents were Dr. G. P. and Sarah (Huldy) Campbell. His great-grandfather Campbell immigrated from Scotland to the United States and established himself near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, securing land and rearing his family there. The father of Doctor Campbell was born in Pennsylvania, later moved to Ohio, and completed his medical education in New York, from there coming to Fulton county, where he engaged in medical practice until his death, which occurred in 1904. Of his family of children, Doctor .Campbell of Wauseon was the first born. From the public schools Doctor Campbell entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, from which he was graduated in the scientific course. He then spent one year in the Davis Military Academy at LaGrange, North Carolina, which was followed by two years of study. at Bethany College, West Virginia. In 1890 he entered the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery, and from this institution was graduated in 1894, since when, as time and opportunity has offered, he has taken post graduate work in Chicago colleges, during almost his entire practice having specialized in the eye, ear and throat, becoming .an authority on the same. During the first nine years of practice Doctor Campbell was located at Tedrow, Ohio. In 1905 he came to Wauseon, !and during the next thirteen years firmly established himself in the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. The coming of the great war, with its immediate demands for loyal service of every kind, found him ready to give up all personal ties and business expectations for the general good. In October, 1918, he passed the required examination for a medical commission and was ordered to Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he served two months as captain of the medical corps, then was transferred to New York City and assigned to Debarkation Hospital No. 1, Ellis Island, as chief 32 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY eye, ear, nose and throat and plastic surgeon. He received his honorable discharge June 30, 1919. Doctor Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Allen, of Fayette, Ohio, who is a daughter of Charles L. and Susan (Gamber) Allen, and they have one child, Charles Allen. From early manhood Doctor Campbell has been an sympathy with the principles of the democratic party and has been active in local affairs for many years. In 1916 his friends urged his candidacy for Congress, and, while defeated, his personal popularity was shown by his running second in a field of six candidates.- He belongs to numerous medical bodies and scientific organizations, is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs also to the Modern Woodmen of America. EDWARD GRIFFIN COLE, D. D. S. Every intelligent community has accepted the belief that sound teeth are essential to good health. Americans are more or less noted for their attractive smiles, whereby they display a very wholesome condition of the mouth, and it is not too much to say that much of this wholesomeness is due to American dentistry. More than one crowned head, in days now past, has recognized this fact and has called an American dentist to his court so that he could be benefitted by his skill. While this is all true, it is only within a comparatively short time that dentistry has really come into its own and taken its place in the front rank of medical science. In this connection Wauseon is fortunate, for among its corps of dental surgeons are men of wide experience and great professional skill, one of these being Dr. Edward Griffin Cole, who in 1918 was elected president of the Miami Valley Dental Society. Edward Griffin Cole was born on his father's farm in Fulton county, Ohio, December 17, 1877, and is a son of Edward and Ida (Hager) Cole. The Cole family was established in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, by the great-grandfather of Doctor Cole, who came from England. The father was born in Tioga county and came from there to Fulton county, Ohio, in 1869, purchasing a farm situated six miles north of Wauseon, on which he lived until 1904, when he removed to Coldwater, Michigan, where he lives retired. On the maternal side Doctor Cole preserves the Dewey ancestry in continuous line from 1532, his kinship with the late Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, being close, as his maternal grandmother was a sister of Admiral Dewey's father. Doctor Cole spent his boyhood days on the home farm and attended the country schools and later those at Wauseon, subsequently entering the Tri-State College, where he passed two years and then became a student in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, which is a part of the University of Cincinnati. He pursued his studies there from 1899 until his graduation in 1902, with his degree receiving honorable mention because of his skill in crown and bridge work. He established his practice at Wauseon, and this has been his home ever since. He is identified with the Maumee Valley Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Association, and the National Dental Society, and with other scientific bodies, and his professional work has brought him into much prominence. In 1903 Doctor Cole was united in marriage to Miss Grace Struble, who is a daughter of Charles and Evelyn Struble, of Delta, Ohio, and they have three children, namely: Robert Edward. Virginia Evelyn and Julius William. A zealous republican at all times, Doctor Cole takes a deep interest in the permanency of his party's principles, but he has never consented to accept any political office HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 33 except in relation to the schools. He has been a member of the school board seven years and is serving in his second term as president. He has membership in no fraternal organization except the Knights of Pythias, a strong body at Wauseon. JAY H. MILLER, M. D. The medical profession at Wauseon is well represented by a body of intelligent, conscientious men, many of whom have devoted every energy to the faithful practice of medical science since they completed the educational course that entitled them to their degree. A practitioner here who has been exceptionally successful in his profession and stands high in the confidence and esteem of co-workers and people alike is Dr. J. H. Miller. Jay H. Miller was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, in October, 1862, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (McBride) Miller. He is in the sixth generation from the Miller ancestor who came to the United States from Germany and became the founder of a long and honorable line that has included both agriculturists and professional men. The father of Doctor Miller afforded him educational opportunities and encouraged his professional ambitions. He attended the public schools through boyhood, later took a course in the Normal School at Ada, and then, in 1886, entered the Hospital College of Medicine connected with the Central University of Kentucky, from which he was graduated with his degree. Doctor Miller entered into practice at Glasgow in Barren county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years, and then sought a wider field at Denton, Texas, where he had wide and varied experience, all of it beneficial as experience, but with less monetary return than he felt his medical ability should command. After eleven years there, during which he formed friendships he will always cherish, circumstances called his attention to Wauseon, Ohio, and be returned to his native state and lolated in this city, invested in property, and his interests have been centered here ever since. He is in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice commensurate' with his medical ability and surgical skill. In 1866 Doctor Miller was united in marriage to Miss Lillie B. Adams, who is a daughter of W. T. and Amanda (Carpenter) Adams, residents of Glasgow, Kentucky, and to this marriage the following children have been born : Mina C., who is the wife of George Hallauner, and they have a son, John, who was born in 1918; Pauline, who is the wife of Stanley Knight, of Chicago, and they have two children, Jean and Joan Carl A., now of Toledo, who served four years in the United States Navy, was an electrical worker in the marine department that went over to France; and Bessie Ruth, who is the wife of Paul Shaver, of Maurertown, Shenandoah county, Virginia.. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver have two children, Paul and Janice J. Doctor and Mrs. Miller are members of the First Christian Church at Wauseon. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical, the Western Ohio Medical and the Fulton County Medical Associations. In addition to these professional bodies he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. He is. liberal in his political views and Votes as his own good judgment suggests. PHILEMON L. UPP. No one has ever denied the importance of the work done by the farmer, but recently these activities have assumed a position never before held, not only this country, but 34 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY throughout the world. Much of the efficiency of the present day farmer comes from the fact that the land he is operating has been developed into a high state of cultivation so that all of his energies can be concentrated upon the production of the sorely-needed foodstuffs. One of the men of the older generation of farmers who is now living retired at Wauseon is Philemon L. Upp, owner and developer of 150 acres of very valuable land in Clinton township, Fulton county. Philemon L. Upp was born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1848, a son of Philip and Hannah Upp. The Upp family is of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction, and its members have been either farmers or local merchants, and most excellent, sturdy and honest people. After acquiring a country school education, as many country youths, alternating working on the farm in the summers and going to school in the winter until he was twenty; Mr. Upp decided to strike out for himself. He was married to Mary E. Nesbitt, of Huron county, in 1867, and they became the parents of the following children : Lewis Elmer, who was born in 1869, lives at Wauseon ; Anna A., who died in 1918; Philip Henry, who was born in 1874; Jocelyn, who was born in 1877; William Clayton, who was born in 1882, and Clarence Raymond, who was born in 1885. After his marriage Mr. Upp conducted his father's farm for three years, and then bought eighty acres in Huron county, and remained on it for three years. For the subsequent two years he was in a hardware business with his brother, under the firm name of Upp Brothers, at Plymouth, Ohio, and then was engaged in farming in the vicinity of Plymouth for a time. In 1880 he came to Fulton county and bought 154 acres of land in Clinton township that he still owns. He continued to improve and conduct this property until 1903, when he moved to Wauseon and turned the work of farming over to his son Philip. This farm is devoted to a general line of crops, and is one of the 'good ones of the county. In politics Mr. Upp is a democrat. Interested in the work of the Grange, he was a member of it until he retired from the farm, and believes every farmer ought to join it and learn through it how to make the most of his land. Although he has not cared for office, Mr. Upp takes the interest of a public-spirited man in the affairs of his community and county, and is regarded as one of those citizens who have made the world the better and happier for his passing through it. HARMON AUGUST KRAUSS. In these days of competition and government regulations the meat and grocery interests of the country are passing into, the hands of thoroughly experienced and competent men, for only such men can make a success in an industry beset with so many obstacles. One of the men who is recognized as a perfectly reliable merchant and honorable man is Harmon August Krauss of Wauseon, who has long been a resident of this part of the state. He was born at Stryker, Ohio, in 1884, a son of William and Augusta Krauss. Growing up in his native town, Harmon A. Krauss attended its grammar and high schools and then went to Bryan, Ohio, where he was a salesman for Binn & Boothman in their dry goods business for five years. At the expiration of that period Mr. Krauss came to Wauseon and for six years was a clerk for C. E. Roseman & Company, dry goods: He then went with the dry goods house of Spencer & Edgar for three years, following which he became proprietor HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 35 of a meat and grocery business at West Unity, Ohio, and conducted it for 3 1/2 years. Selling that store, he returned to Wauseon and went into a meat business here, but at the close of two years the building he was occupying was condemned and Mr. Krauss arranged, for the erection of a new building, specially equipped for his occupancy and which is thoroughly modern in every respect. When he opened up for business he put in a complete line of fancy and staple groceries and has built up a very desirable trade among the best people of Wauseon. In 1915 Mr. Krauss was united in marriage with Fay Folk, a daughter of Samuel E. and Celia Folk of Bryan, Ohio. In politics Mr. Krauss is a republican, but aside from exercising his right of suffrage he has not taken much part in public affairs. His fraternal connections are those he has formed as a member of the Knights of Pythias. Successful in business, he has won his way in the world by the exercise of natural ability and sound common sense, combined with a willingness to work. Since he has had a business of his own he has studied the wishes of his customers and seen to it that they found in his store what they wanted, and has given them a satisfactory service. Having centered his interests at Wauseon, he is naturally anxious to have it keep abreast of modern progress and can be counted upon to give his support to any movements having that end in view. WILLIAM WEBER. One of the old business houses of Wauseon, that if removed from the city's everyday business life would be greatly missed, is the jewelry establishment at No. 205 Fulton street that has borne the name of Weber for almost a half century. Its owner and proprietor is William Weber, jeweler and optician, who purchased the store his father had founded when Wauseon was a village. William Weber was horn at Wauseon in 1871. His parents were Henry and Mary (Schlatter) Weber. The latter was born February 2, 1844; in Canton Schaubhausen, Switzerland. Henry Weber was born December 23, 1827, in Zurich, Switzerland, and was twenty-four years old when he came to America.. in Switzerland the business of watchmaking in all its delicate details has long been carried to the highest degree of perfection by expert workers, and today a real hand-made Swiss watch commands a high price. There Henry Weber .was taught this trade. When he came to the United States he located at Maumee, Ohio, where he worked at watchmaking for a time and then came to Wauseon and opened a watch repair shop and jewelry store that has continued in the family ever since, his death occurring in 1904. He was twice married and was the father of eleven children, six of these still living. To his second marriage eight children were born, one of these being William Weber of Wauseon, whose mother died in 1919. William Weber attended the public schools until he was fifteen years of age, then accepted his father's practical suggestion that he should go to Toledo and learn the jewelry trade with a reliable firm. Hence, for five years Mr. Weber remained in the establishment of Maurice Judd, and left there prepared to work independently. He opened a shop at Archbold, which he conducted for two years, when a fire destroyed his property, after which he went to Delta and for the next ten years worked for the firm of Pratt Brothers. He then came back to Wauseon and. worked for his father for a year, then went to Tipton, Indiana, as a journeyman for a year and a half,  36 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY and then went back to Delta and for two years was with the Gehring Brothers, druggists and jewelers as a partner, having a half interest in the jewelry department of the business. The death of his father recalled him to Wauseon, and in 1906 he bought his father's old business and has continued ever since. He carries a well selected stock of modern goods in his line, together with some almost priceless jewels and is prepared to put the same in any style of setting desired and with the skill of an efficient workman. Mr. Weber is also a thoroughly competent optician. In 1894 Mr. Weber was married to Miss Lillian Bolyard, and they have had two sons, namely : Harry, who is now twenty-five years old; and Lawrence, who died in 1896, when aged seven months. The building in which Mr. Weber and his family reside was erected by his father. He has always given his political support to the republican party but has never desired any public office. He has many friends who respect him highly, and his business integrity is universally acknowledged. RANDALL ORSON BUCK, D. O., OPTH. D., a well-qualified osteopathic physician, now in practice in the City of Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, has many professional degrees, and although his medical career was interrupted, temporarily, by patriotic service as a soldier during the recent World war, he will probably attain good success, in his practice in Fulton county, for he begins well based in the science he has entered. He holds the degree of D. O., Doctor of Osteopathy, of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri; the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthalmology, of the Wagoner School of Opthalmology, of Kirksville, and also the special degree of Osteopathic Technique. He was a lecturer in the latter special course at the college from which he graduated. He was born at Bath, Summit county, Ohio, February 24, 1895, the son of Orson H. and Cora L. (Randall) Buck, well-regarded residents of that place. His genealogy shows that he comes of Scotch-Irish families, and the generations that have had residence in America have followed agriculture for the most part. Ranall, as a boy, attended the elementary public school nearest to his home, and eventually entered the high school at West Richfield, Ohio, graduating from that school with the class of 1913. He had not at that time quite decided whether to take up business affairs or to try to qualify for professional life, and after having graduated from the high school he for a while worked in a clerical capacity in the offices of the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. The work, however, was too confining, and he was for some time in poor health. And in order to recuperate while still following some gainful occupation he formed connection with an automobile company, acting as demonstrator for Ford cars. After a while, his health having improved, he again took up clerical work, but eventually decided to take up professional studies. In September, 1914, he became a student at the American School of Osteopathy, a leading school in that science at Kirksville, Missouri. Then followed an earnest studentship of three years, during which he assiduously followed the course which brought him into the graduating class of 1917, and gained him the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. He also concurrently applied himself to the study of opthalmology at the Wagoner School of Opthalmology at Kirksville. He graduated from that school in the same year, gaining, the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthalmology. His studies of osteopathy were extensive, and he attained HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 37 much distinction as a student; he gained the degree of Osteopathic Technique, and was so skilled in that branch that the faculty eventually gave him professorial duties at the college. For one semester he taught, in classes of his own, at Kirksville. For a short time after graduating he practiced osteopathy at Madison, Missouri, and after examination received license to .practice in the State of Missouri. He returned, however, to his native state, and to his home town, West Richfield; took the Ohio state medical examination; and in July, 1917, received the license from the state examiners, thus being able to enter immediately into the practice of osteopathy in his home state. In August, 1917, he went to Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, and there opened office for practice. What little practice he developed during the next six months or so convinced him that the city was a promising field for him, but at that time all was temporary and unsettled because the nation was at war, and he had registered for military duty and stood ready to close his private interests at very short notice and enter upon active military service. In due course the call came, and he was enlisted in the grade of private and was ordered to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, for assignment. In that receiving camp he remained for twenty days, being temporarily assigned to the Fifty-first Company, Thirteenth Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade. After that time he was transferred with other troops to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, where he remained until August, 1918, gaining promotion to the grade of private, first class, and subsequently to corporal. As a medical man he was assigned to an ambulance company, and eventually, in such connection, saw much active service in France. As a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Sanitary Train, of the Thirty-ninth Division, he left for the port of embarkation. He was at Camp Mills, Long Island, for five days, then embarking, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the transport "Tola", which sailed on August 21, 1918. The ship was one of a large convoy of troopships, and the trip was an exciting one. Disaster almost overtook the ship in the submarine zone at the entrance to the English Channel, the ship narrowly escaping a submarine on September 7th, a sister ship being torpedoed and beached on the Scilly Isles. The voyage ended on September 18th, when the convoy reached La Havre, France. His unit was for one day at the British rest camp at La Havre, and then was ordered to St. Florent, Department of Cher, where it was attached to the Camp Hospital No. 70. There he stayed until November 10, 1918, then going to the casual camp at St. Aignan, later going to the overflow camp at Thesee, where he was stationed until November 22, 1918. The Armistice, which was signed on November 11, 1918, of course put an end to the fighting, and thy, stress upon the medical branch of the service was not so great thereafter; and many of the recently-arrived units were not full employed. On November 22, 1918, Corporal Buick's unit was transferred to Cherbourg, and) remained at that rest camp for four weeks, returning then to Thesee, where he remained until January 29, 191.9. He was then transferred to the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Sanitary Train, of the Fortieth Division. He was placed in charge of an ambulance unit, and sent to camp at Grevillers, where his unit operated twelve Ford ambulances. With that outfit he left Grevillers on January 31, 1919, and crossed France to Mars-la-Tour, where for a short time it was stationed, doing evacuation work in the sector from Briey to Tout He was a 38 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY responsible, efficient non-commissioned officer, and later was sent on detached service, in charge of six ambulances, to the Seventh Division, stationed at Rogeville. On March 20, 1919, he took the examination at Mars-la-Tour for a sergeancy, and was approved sergeant on March 25, 1919. He did considerable traveling while in France, and after service with the Seventh Division, at Rogeville, was assigned to duty with the Second Army Provisional Sanitary Train, going to Camp Covington, Marseilles. On June 7, 1919, he embarked on the French liner "Patrie", stopped at Oran, Algiers, a French possession in Northern Africa, for four days, and eventually arrived at New York on June 22, 1919. After four days spent at Camp Merrit, New Jersey, he was sent to Camp Sherman, and on June 30, 1919, received honorable discharge from the United States Army. Returning eventually to Wauseon, he resumed his professional practice, and has every prospect of succeeding in that city, where he is already well-regarded. Politically Doctor Buck is an independent republican ; fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to the West Richfield, Ohio, Blue Lodge and to the Wauseon Eastern 'Star body, and Knights of Pythias. Professionally he is affiliated with many medical organizations, including membership in the Ohio Osteopathic Association and the American Osteopathic Association. He is unmarried. MELVIN PORTER, with an older brother, Ira Porter, comprises the Wauseon and Tedrow firm of Porter Brothers, merchants. They have shown themselves to be good business men, energetic and enterprising merchants and men of commendable steadiness and moral integrity since they have been in commercial life. The brothers have only recently, that is within recent years, become established in business in Wauseon, but they are gaining gratifying success in their city enterprise. Melvin Porter was born in the ancestral homestead in Fulton county, Ohio, the son of Robert and Sarah (Andrews) Porter, his birth date being July 25, 1892. He is therefore practically at the commencement of his business career, and probably will have many decades of active life in worth-while business and public effort, if one may take his first decade of work as a criterion. He comes of a well-known Fulton county family, in fact from one of the pioneer families of the county. His grandfather, Robert Porter, came from England and settled in Clinton township, Fulton county, and applied himself resolutely to the task of clearing a tract of wild land. His industry yielded to him eventually a good agricultural property, upon which he raised his family, his son Robert, father of Melvin, among them. Robert Porter took up the tillage of his father's land, which eventually became his property. There his children, four sons and two daughters, were born. Melvin Porter is the youngest child of Robert and Sarah (Andrews) Porter, and was raised on the home farm, attending the local schools with his brothers and sisters. He remained in school until he was about seventeen years old, thus acquiring a good academic education upon which to base a commercial career. After leaving school he entered the dry goods store of the Mercer Co-operative Company, Wauseon, with which . company he remained as clerk for five years, in that time gaining a comprehensive understanding of the business. For the next four years he was a salesman in the store of Spencer and Edgar. His HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 39 home training had instilled in him commendable habits, and during his years of salaried employment he showed much strength of character, avoiding expenditures in unnecessaries, his thriftiness ultimately bringing him into the position of being able to join his brother in purchasing an established grocery business at Tedrow, Fulton county, in 1915, that store thereafter taking the trading name of Porter Brothers. During the five years of their joint operation of the Tedrow store they have substantially increased the volume of business and widened the scope so that now it is an up-to-date, well-stocked general store. In December, 1918, the brothers ventured into business in the City of Wauseon, purchasing the grocery business of H. J. Gelzer and Son. In that enterprise also the brothers have had good success, and are placed among the responsible merchants of the city and county. Melvin Porter is a member of the Christian Church, Wauseon, and he and his wife take interested part in church and community affairs. Politically he is a republican. In 1914 he married Gladeus, daughter of Frank and Mary Elizabeth (Gabriel) Donovan, of Delta, Fulton county. They have one child, a daughter, Wanda-merle. JAMES GRISIER. The proprietor of "The Fountain Farm," adjoining Fayette in Gorham, is a French immigrant; James Grisier, having been born July 30, 1837, at Batztenia, France. He is a son of Jacob and Catharine (Vanier) Grisier, who in 1844 migrated to America, coming directly to territory now included in Fulton county. They invested in land 1 1/2 miles northwest of..Archbold, which was all in timber, and James Grisier, who relates the story, helped his father to clear it. Mr. Grisier remembers when his father hauled wheat—twentyfive and thirty bushels being a load, to Maumee and sold it for fifty cents. At that time there was no government guarantee, and the law of supply and demand controlled the markets. Notwithstanding the price it required three days to make the trip and return from Fayette to Maumee with an ox team, and the settlers earned their money. In June, 1864, Mr. Grisier married Catharine Miller, who came from France to the new country. She was born in 1843, near Bell-ford, France. She is a daughter of Peter and Catharine (Miller) Miller, and she came with her parents to Defiance by water. They arrived just before the first train was run into Archbold. In 1873 Mr. Grisier, associated with his brother Henry, became the local repersentatives of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, their territory being Fulton county. The brother died and Mr. Grisier has continued the business, and is the oldest continuous insurance agent living today of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. Soon after his marriage Mr. Grisier located on an eighty acre tract of land in Gorham, adjoining Fayette. There was only one store and one blacksmith shop in Fayette when the Grisier came into the community. They have watched the growth of the town. In the beginning the town was called Gorham Center. The farm was in the brush and much of it under water when Mr. Grisier located on it. He later acquired forty acres more land adjoining his eighty acre farm. "The Fountain Farm" presents a different aspect today from' the time when Mr. Grisier purchased it. He has everything up-to-date, with modern buildings, ornamental shrubbery and native shade, and 40 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY the passerby is attracted by the beauty of the surroundings. Whale Mr. Grisier still lives at the old homestead, since 1904 he has rented the land to others. He lives there where he has so much pleasure in the surroundings, and. looks back over a lifetime of industry that made his present environment a possibility. The children born to Air. and Mrs. Grisier are : Henry, who died at the age of fourteen; Eliza, wife of Frank Farnsworth, of Hillsdale, Michigan ; Charles, of Wauseon ; Clara, wife of Cyrus Farnsworth, of Roswell, New Mexico; Ella, wife of C. D. Haues, of Fayette, and she had a twin brother, Edward, who died July 3, 1873. Henry, the oldest son, died January 26, 1881. Mr. Grisier had his education in the days of the log schoolhouses in Fulton county. He is a republican, and has served the community as a school director. He is a charter member.of the Fayette Masonic Lodge, and he belongs to the Lutheran Church. CHARLES JEROME IVES, the well-known and well-regarded senior partner of the Ives Furniture and Undertaking Company of Wauseon, has had a noteworthy career in business and public life. As a business man he has succeeded well, giving sympathetic and thorough service. And some of his public endeavors have been particularly meritorious. Especially worthy of note have been his years of active interest in the welfare and guidance into manly brotherhood of the boys of the city. He was the organizer of the Ives Bays 'Brotherhood, which was an active organization before the Baden-Powell Boy Scout movement had developed much strength in this country. H. has also to some extent entered into public affairs, having undertook the responsibilities of clerk for Gorham township for seven years, and for two terms he was county auditor. And since he has been in the undertaking profession he has given close thought to the excellence of the company's service, taking the course and graduating from the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary. Science and Embalming at Chicago, and also taking the state examination, so that he is bringing to his practice good qualifications. He was born in Wyandotte, Kansas, in. 1873, the son of Jerome and Elizabeth (Bradley) Ives. The Ives family is of French origin, but in the maternal line Charles J. Ives is in descent from a family which for many generations has been resident in America, pioneers of Adrian, Michigan. The family came to Fulton county not long after the birth of Charles Jerome, settling at Fayette, where the boy attended public school, and eventually took the course at the Fayette Normal School, gaining a teacher's certificate in due course. He did not, however, take up that profession, and soon after leaving normal school he entered the employ of F. L. Farnsworth, general store dealer at Fayette, Fulton county. Young Ives remained as salesman in that store for six years and after that he was for a while in Oklahoma, but returned to Fayette and resumed his old connection with the store, which, however, was then conducted by C. M. Farnsworth, a brother of his former employer. For two years he was an employe, and for a further five years was a partner, having purchased an interest in the business. He was fairly well-known throughout the county, and was a man of distinct capability and enviable personal reputation so that when he. sought election to the office of county auditor he had little difficulty in securing the office andwas re-elected at the end of his first term in office. All the while he continued to hold an interest in the Fayette store. In 1914 he with other well-known local people established the firm of Ives, Edgar, Knight HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 41 Company, furniture dealers and embalmers. In the following year he graduated from the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming at Chicago, and assumed the responsibility for the embalming part of the company's service. Soon afterwards Mr. Roy Pike acquired the interest of Mr. B. S. Knight, and the firm under the reorganization became known as the Ives, Pike Company, continuing as such for two years, when, because of the failing health of Mr. Pike, and of his desire to retire from the business, Mr. Ives purchased the Pike interest in January, 1918, thus becoming the principal owner. Much confidence is placed in the company, and in the quality of their service by the people of the city and county, and they have probably as much work as they can handle. And their furnishing business is also substantial so that Mr. Ives has not good reason to regret coming to Wauseon and entering into business relations with the people of Fulton county. He is today a man with many financial interests, including real estate. And he has always been more or less in public life, although his main public work has been centred in his interest in the training of boys for worthy manhood and citizenship. In 1910 he organized the Ives Boys' Brotherhood at Wauseon, gave unstintingly of his time and thought to the project, and at one time had a strong brotherhood of more than one hundred boy members. Of course the object was somewhat similar to that of the, in this day, more generally, known Boy Scout organization, and it eventually, in 1914, was merged in the Boy Scouts of America organization, but to Mr. Ives is due the credit of pioneering the work of banding the boys together in loyal manly brotherhood at a time when the general public was more or less apathetic to the movement. It has been stated that Mr. Ives conceived the idea long before the Baden-Powell movement had gained strength in America, and that he had accompanied his boys on long hikes and at encampments at a time before it was to any great degree generally known. These circumstances point to the sincerity of his interest in the welfare of the rising generation, and of his desire to influence for good as many boys as he could reach. He had the pleasure of seeing twenty-six stalwart young men, members of his original boys' brotherhood, step forward at the national call to arms, ready to take the part of men in the defense of the nation. And during the decade of his association with the boys of Wauseon Mr. Ives has seen many boys step into the sterner walks of life well equipped morally and perhaps better fitted physically because of their healthy activities as members of the brotherhood in the growing years. Mr. Ives has rendered a distinct service to the boys of Wauseon. Politically he is a republican, and, as before stated herein, has to some extent taken part in administrative work. Fraternally he is identified with many orders. He is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge, Defiance Commandery, the local Chapter and Council, and also to the Eastern Star body. He is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he belongs to the Maccabees. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic auxiliary organization. Religiously he is a Methodist, a consistent member and supporter of the local Methodist Church. Generally his life has been a. creditable one, well worthy of notice in this historical work of Fulton county. In 1899 he married Ola A., daughter of Eugene and Melissa (Sweetland) Belding. of Fayette. Fulton county, Ohio. To them have been born two children, Arline Lois and Irene Lucille. 42 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY ERNEST C. REYNOLDS, owner of the Wauseon Monumental Works, is one of the substantial young business men of that city. His product is of high grade workmanship, and he is painstaking and reliable in the execution of the contracts placed with him. He is an enterprising, public-spirited citizen, a conscientious churchman, and takes much interest in the affairs of the community. A man of superior education and of wide experience in executive matters, he is bringing to his business an ability such as enables him to keep closely in touch with the best markets of supply, and to obtain such supplies at advantageous prices, thus insuring his patrons high grade and economical service. He was born in the Wauseon district on October 29, 1885, on the Reynolds family homestead, which is about three miles to the eastward of the city. He comes of Dutch-Irish ancestry, although the family has long been resident in America.. He is the son of W. H. and Charlotte (Parks) Reynolds, the former a farmer well-known in Fulton county. As a boy Ernest C. attended the elementary school nearest to his home until he was fourteen years old, when he became a student at the Wauseon High. School. He was an energetic lad, and was not yet in his teens when he was of much assistance to his father in the operation of the home farm of 100 acres. During the long summer vacations he gave practically all his time to his father, so that long before he entered high school he knew most of the main farming operations, and undertook those for which he had the strength. His high school education was obtained under difficulties, as the school was more than three miles away from his home. He drove to and from school daily for the whole of the four years he was a student thereat. He was eighteen years old when he graduated with the class of 1904. Soon afterward he took employment with Clarence Brigham, tinsmith and hardware dealer, for whom he worked for about one year. Then he went to Toledo to take the business course at the Davis Business College of that city. Eventually he graduated, and after some experience as a bookkeeper returned to Wauseon and associated with his brother, who owned the monumental works of which he, himself, is now the sole proprietor. He became conversant with the business during the year he spent with his brother, and left him to proceed to Poughkeepsie, New York, there to continue his technical schooling at the well-known Eastman Business College. After completing the business course at that college he was well fitted for most general phases of commercial management: For three years he was employed as bookkeeper by the Anchor Bolt and Nut Company, Poughkeepsie. He left the employ of that firm in 1911 and returned to Wauseon in order to join his brother in business partnership. They became equal partners in the monument works, and thereafter traded as Reynolds Brothers, Ernest taking charge of the commercial affairs of the partnership. The brothers extended their operations, opened branches at Leipsic, Ohio, and Paulding Centre, Ohio, to good advantage. Eventually Ernest sold his interest in the Paulding establishment to his brother, and purchased the interest of his brother in the Wauseon works. The partnership was thus dissolved, and Ernest C. Reynolds has since been sole owner of the Wauseon business. He is a man of distinct business ability, and has entered interestedly into some of the public movements in Wauseon, which might almost be considered to be his home town, and has, unostentatiously, given support to many local charities. He is a man of independent politics, is a staunch Methodist member of the local Methodist HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 43 Church, and belongs to the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternal orders. On April 14, 1914, he married Sarah, daughter of Charles and Maude (Hannaman) HIIardistyof West Unity, Williams county, Ohio. GEORGE DAVIS GREEN, retired merchant and for more than fifty years a responsible citizen of Wauseon, Ohio, has for many years been prominent in business and financial circles of that place. He was successful in business, and was mainly instrumental in founding dip Peoples State Bank of Wauseon, of which he has been a director since its establishment. He is well-regarded in the city and vicinity, having lived an estimable life, in which has been much unostentatious public work. He was born in 1842, in Medina, Lenawee county, Michigan, the son of Noah and Eliza (Baldwin) Green. The Green family is of Massachusetts American descent, and of English origin. Many generations of the family lived in Massachusetts, but Noah Green, with the sturdy spirit of the typical American pioneer, took his few belongings with him in 1834 and drove his wagon into the wilderness, settling in that part of Michigan now cleared and valuable land, but at that time wild and undeveloped property. He experienced the privations of the average pioneer, but eventually cleared a tract of land in Medina, where he settled his family and where his son George D. was born seven years later. In the healthy but rigorous conditions of that part of the country in that early day the boy was reared, and, as he grew, George D. took good part in the laborious work of development. Eventually the family possessed a good holding, and conditions were more comfortable. In December, 1865, George D. came to Wauseon, and for four years thereafter was a clerk in the general store of Eager and Green. In 1869 he went into independent business in Wauseon, and continued successfully in general merchandising business for many years. In 1889 he was the prime mover in the organization of the People's Bank, of which he has been a director since its foundation, and which after a successful period of private banking was made a state bank in 1906. Much of the success the bank has gained has been due to the careful and conservative administration of its affairs by levelheaded, reliable business men such as is Mr. Green. He gave much of his time to the affairs of the bank, and has been steadfastly continued as a director year by year. Excepting for his banking connection Mr. Green has practically retired from business associations. He has, been a loyal republican practically throughout his voting years. His first presidential vote was east in the election which gave President Lincoln his second term and in the subsequent political campaigns Mr. Green is able to recall many interesting experiences and incidents. He has been prominent in the functioning of local branches of the Masonic Order, being a Mason of the thirty-second degree. He belongs to the Warren Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons and to No. 7 Commandery. Religiously he is a Congregationalist, for very many years having been a member of the Wauseon Congregational Church. In 1880 he married Maria Louise Sheldon, of Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Green have very many sincere friends in Wauseon, in which they have lived for so many years. 44 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY WARD A. ROBINSON is a native of Wauseon, Ohio, born in 1890, the son of J. C. and Mathilda (Smith) Robinson, who owned a farm near Wauseon. He was educated in the country school nearest to his home, after passing through the grades of which he for two years attended the high school at Wauseon. He of course had long before that time taken some part in the minor tasks of his father's farm, and after leaving school he remained at farming occupations until he had reached the age of eighteen years, when he entered the Wauseon plant of the Van Camp Packing Company, with which company he remained for eighteen months. Then, in 1910, notwithstanding that he was still a minor, he with commendable enterprise ventured into the business in which he has since continued, which means that he has shown himself to be a man of good business ability, for he has succeeded well in that business.. His ten years of independent business have been marked by praiseworthy steadiness and stability of purpose, and by a persistent application to the labors, physical and mental, demanded by such business responsibility. That he was a man of optimism and pluck is also evident, when one knows that at the. time he resolved to enter independent business he had as business capital only forty dollars. Under the circumstances his success has been quite commendable, and he may safely be classed among the worth-while citizens of Wauseon. Politically he has been inependently inclined. At least he was during the progress of the war and he independently more than once shown sincere public spirit, contributing freely to what he has considered to be worthy local undertakings. In 1916 he married Libbie L., daughter of Jacob B. Lee, of Wauseon. They have two children, Elizabeth Ellen, and Robert L., the latter born on January 23, 1919. FRANK S. HAM, attorney-at-law at Wauseon, is a Member of a family long distinguished for the number of professional men it gave to the country, and he is a son of Judge Thomas F. and Charlotta A. (Scudder) Ham. The stock is of English and Welsh extraction, and originated when four brothers came to this country from England and located at Bethany, Pennsylvania, the grandfather of Frank S. Ham, John C. Ham, being one of them. Frank S. Ham has two brothers and one sister. After attending the public and normal schools at Wauseon, Frank S. Ham studied law by himself, and, passing his examinations was admitted to the bar in 1905, having an incentive in his work in his father's example.. After being admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts Mr. Ham began specializing in corporation law, and is now the attorney for five railroads, the New York Central, the Wabash, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, Toledo & Indiana, and the Toledo & Western. While he is considered an authority on corporation and railroad law, Mr. Ham is equally qualified for criminal practice and became famous for leis work as special attorney for the state in the celebrated first degree murder case of Fred Leyman. Mr. Ham prepared the ease. the trial of which consumed five weeks, and secured a conviction. 'It is safe to declare that Mr. Ham is easily the leading attorney of Fulton county, and his services are often requested in cases of state and national importance. As a relaxation from his professional duties Mr. Ham owns and supervises a magnificent farm of 320 acres in Swan Creek township. In 1889 Mr. Ham was united in marriage with Clementine Mat- HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 45 tison, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Frazier) Mattison, and they had three children, namely : Joseph Mattison, who was born in 1891, is married and lives at Wauseon ; Margaret H., who is Mrs. McDermott, of Wauseon, and Thomas Howard, who was born in 1897. Mrs. Ham died in 1898. Mr. Ham married for his second wife, Alice E. Hinkle, also deceased, a daughter of Charles and Lydia Hinkle. In politics Mr. Ham is a republican, but in 1915 he was selected as the independent, non-partisan candidate for the office of judge, and ran a close second against the organization candidate. Having always been a close student of English literature, Mr. Ham has developed into a pleasing writer of both prose and poetry, and a forceful speaker, and is in great demand as an orator on occasions of moment. During the late war he rendered very effective service as one of the speakers on the Liberty Loan and war work contributions, and belonged to the National Bureau of Speakers for Ohio and Pennsylvania. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Maccabees of Wauseon. Mr. Ham never makes any argument in court without displaying his habits of thinking, resorting at once to some well founded principles of law, and drawing his deductions logically from his premises. Law .is always treated by him as a science, founded on established principles. He has risen to his present height in his profession by his profound penetration, his power of analysis, the comprehensive grasp and strength of his understanding, and the firmness, frankness and integrity of his character. Mr. Ham has an overwhelming share of the corporation law business of this part of the state, and deservedly so. No one who has ever heard him present his case can fail to be impressed with the reasoning powers, the intensity and sagacity with which he pursued his investigations, his piercing criticisms, his masterly analysis, and the energy and fervor of his appeals to the judgment and conscience of the tribunal he was addressing. His studies and researches have made Mr. Ham a profound believer in the liberties of the people being steadfastly upheld, and he has always shown himself to be one of the most enlightened, intrepid and preserving friends to the commercial prosperity of the country. His interests are many and varied, his enthusiasms unbounded, and he is a man who always carries out successfully anything he undertakes. His connection with any movement insures its ultimate satisfactory termination, and he is recognized as one of the Strongest factors in public affairs in this part of Ohio. It is an axiom of his that nature is man's best and most indulgent friend; and, for what little may be, even grudgingly, given her, she in return gives lavishly of rare gifts of beauty and splendor—pleasing to the eye—restful to the soul—and lulling into peaceful repose the tired mind. He is an ardent lover of both rod and gun, and his home (shown on an adjoining page) is occupying a site on one of Wauseon's principal streets, yet is surrounded by spacious grounds abounding with fruits, berries and flowering plants and shrubs. He speaks of shrubs, peonies, roses, etc. in terms of hundreds, and of bulbous plants (tulips, etc.), in thousands. His peony garden is one of the largest private plantings in this section. GLENN V. SOULE, owner of a substantial wholesale dairy produce business in the City of Wauseon, Ohio, and known through that 46 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY section of Ohio as an extensive buyer, is one of the leading business men of the city. He was born in Waterloo, Indiana, January 22, 1885, the son of Darwin and Margaret (Midge) Soule. He comes of an ancient English family, although three generations of the branch to which he belongs have had American residence, his grandfather, George Soule, being among the pioneer settlers in Michigan. Darwin Soule, father of Glenn V., was born in Michigan, and eventually went into Indiana, settling on a farm near Waterloo in that state. There the family lived, and there Glenn V. was born. The latter as a boy attended the local public schools, but at the age of fifteen years began to work, taking minor capacity in the office of a Waterloo, Indiana, produce dealer. He remained so employed for seven years, acting as buyer for some time. After a period as foreman of a plant he came to Wauseon. That was in 1907. For the next five years he was in the employ of Jones Brothers, local produce dealers, as assistant manager. In 1912 he entered into independent business, at 115 West Elm street, Wauseon, and in a short time developed a substantial business, buying eggs, poultry and butter from producers within a radius of ten miles, and shipping to markets in New York City and elsewhere. During his years of trading in Wauseon he has steadily prospered and is today a man of assured business stability. He has several other financial interests, and is a stockholder in a well-known Detroit commission house, the L. R. Jones Company of that city. His two plants in Wauseon give indication of the extent of his trading. His storage house on the railroad siding has capacity for 10,000 pounds, and his shipments of recent years have been exceptionally heavy. During the war he manifested worthy qualities as a citizen, supporting the various war loans to the limit of his resources, and in many ways he has proved his interest in the city wherein he has centered his business. Politically he is a republican fraternally he is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge and the local Chapter. He is generally recognized as one of Wauseon's responsible and representative citizens. He married into a Wauseon family, his wife, Otha, being the daughter of E. C. and Ellen (Benner) Sullinger. The marriage took place in Wauseon in 1914. SAMUEL RLTPPERT, successor to the business of 'Christopher Domitio, and, more recently, Domitio and Ruppert, well-known Wauseon, Ohio, firm of clothiers, haberdashers and custom tailors, comes of one of the oldest families of Fulton county, and has lived almost all, his life in Wauseon and its environs. He was born April 6, 1862, in the old Ruppert homestead near Wauseon, the son of John Adam and Elizabeth (Lilich) Ruppert, and grandson of Henry Ruppert, .one of the pioneers of Fulton county. The family is of German origin, but for four generations has been resident in the United States, Samuel Ruppert's great-grandfather, who was born in Germany, having settled in Pennsylvania. His son Henry, grandfather of Samuel, was a man of superior education, and to some extent followed an academic life. He was for some years a school teacher, but for the greater part of his life was a farmer and pioneer. He came with his ox team across the country and settled upon a tract of wild land on Turkey Fort Creek, about three miles southeast of Wauseon. There he spent the rest of his life, and raised a family of five children, among them John A., father of Samuel. John A. Ruppert farmed the family land for HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 47 the greater part of his life, and raised his family of eight children thereon. Samuel was the fourth born. He attended the public school nearest to his home, helping his father in the working of the farm during the summer vacations and attending school regularly during the winter months. He also attended school near Bliss-field, Michigan, for one year, living with his cousin, Mrs. Daniel Palmer, at that place during the period. After closing his schooling he returned home and steadily assisted his father in the .operation of the farm until he had reached the age of nineteen years, when, in 1881, he came to Wauseon, resolved to learn the tailoring trade. He entered the shop of Christopher Domitio, in whose employ he remained for fourteen years, becoming an expert tailor. For ten years he worked for Charles Yeager, a tailor of Wauseon, and then, his wife having died without issue, he went to Toledo and there for one year worked for Cornelius Vermass, a tailor of that city. Returning to Wauseon in July, 1907, he and William C. Domitio, nephew of Christopher Domitio, formed a business partnership and acquired the business of Christopher, who was desirous of retiring from business. The partners had substantial success in business, materially expanding it until it conducted a most satisfactory volume within a radius of fifteen miles of Wauseon. In February, 1920, Samuel Ruppert purchased the interest of his partner and he is now sole owner of the business. He today has a good place among the substantial business men of Wauseon, and is widely known throughout the county. Samuel Ruppert is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically is a republican. He has been somewhat prominently identified with the functioning of the local lodge of the order of Knights of Pythias, having been vice chancellor of that organization. He has applied himself steadily to business in Wauseon for the greater part of his business life, and during the period has upon many occasions shown a generous interest in the affairs of the community, and has always been a responsible citizen. He was one of the first members of the organization which became the Booster Club and more recently the Commercial Club of Wauseon. He has been twice married, first, in 1888, to Agnes D., daughter of John B. and Christianna (Lautenslager) Segrist of Wauseon. She died in 1904. He was subsequently married to Carrie, daughter of Frank and Anna E. (Wolverton) Houseman, of Swanton, Fulton county, the second marriage taking place October 14, 1907, three years after the demise of his first wife. Frank Houseman was born in Erie county and served in the Civil war. He located in Swanton, Fulton county, and in July, 1870, was employed by the L. S. & M. S. Railroad Company. Four years later he entered business for himself as a grocer, and continued in that line until his demise in 1888. Mrs. Houseman was born in 1844 in Lodi, Seneca county, New York, of English parentage. They came to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1846. ED SCOTT. vice president, director and one of the stockholders of Brigham, Guilford & Company, owners of a large department store business in Wauseon, Ohio, is a well-known man of that place. He has had good part in the business and public activities of that place, is well-regarded in the district, and was twice elected to the office of county clerk. He was born at the family homestead in Richland county. Ohio, in 1867, the son of W. C. and Jennie (Stewart) Scott, his lineage 48 - HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY connecting with families of Scottish and Scotch-Irish ancestry, although the branch to which he belongs has been resident in America for many generations, and his forebears are among the pioneer settlers in Eastern Ohio, where they generally took to the customary pioneering and later agricultural pursuits. Ed Scott has spent practically the whole of his life in Wauseon, for he was not much more than three years old when his parents moved to the city from Richland county. Ed received all his academic education in the public schools of Wauseon, and during his later years of schooling worked on Saturdays and during vacations as grocer-boy for W. A. Wilson, his services commanding a daily pay of twenty-five cents. When he finally left school he worked for two years as delivery boy for Charles Schwartz, successor to W. A. Wilson, afterward, for two years, associating with his father in the sale of agricultural implements. Then, with commendable confidence and self-reliance, he ventured into independent business in partnership with Harry Downs, of Wauseon, the partners trading as Scott and Downs. He was then scarcely twenty years old, and although the partnership was dissolved within a year, it gives an indication of the aggressive, optimistic trend of the boy's character. From 1887 until 1892 young Scott was in California, where he worked for commission houses, and for some time ranched in San Diego county, eventually managing a hay and fruit farm in that section. In July, 1892, he returned to Wauseon, and for a while effectively sold insurance. Later he entered the employ of the Lake Shore Railway Company, but eventually he became a salesman in the hardware store of C. E. Brigham. In 1904 he was elected county clerk for a three-year term, in the republican interest, and his standing in the district, as well as his efficiency in public office, may be gauged by the fact that he was re-elected in 1907. In the following year he aided in the organization of the firm of Brigham, Guilford & Company, a corporate concern capitalized at $60,000, to conduct a department store business in Wauseon. Mr. Scott was one of the stockholders, was elected vice president, and when the company became established in business he had completed his term in office, so he at once devoted his whole time to the management of the shoe department of the new store, which responsibility he still holds in connection with that business. The partners, Messrs. Brigham, Guilford, Palmer, Scott, and Dalrymple, were all men of sound business ability and extensive experience, and were thus able to guide the business into an enviable condition of stability. Mr. Scott considers Wauseon to be, to all intents and purposes, his native place, and has always keenly followed its progress. He has throughout his life taken pride in the city, and during his more responsible later years has co-operated effectively in public work. He is among the business leaders of the place, and has held staunchly to the republican party in national politics. Fraternally he is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge. He married Jessie, daughter of Mrs. Addie (Hough) Demeritt, of Wauseon, the marriage taking place in 1892. They have no children, but gave parental affection to four children, Mavina., Nelsie, Pauline and Sally Stone, whom, when orphaned, Mr. and Mrs. Scott took into their home and reared as though they were their own daughters. Bereavement came to them when Pauline died in February, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have many life-long friends in Wauseon, are generally well-liked, and esteemed as good neighbors and charitably-disposed citizens. HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY - 49 EUGENE BUTTERMORE, senior partner of the firm of Weber and Buttermore, wholesale and retail bakers of Wauseon, Ohio, is a young and enterprising business man of that city, and good business success has come to him and his partner, Harry Clyde Weber, a well-known Wauseon young man. Both partners were in the federal service during the war, Buttermore in the naval forces and Weber in the army. Eugene Buttermore was born in Miller City, Putnam county, Ohio, in 1894, the son of John and Rebecca (Laffever) Buttermore. He attended the public school at Leipsic, Ohio, until he had passed the eighth grade, and then, being at that time about fifteen years old he was apprenticed to his brother, a baker of Leipsic, Eugene having worked for him during prior vacations. As a journeyman baker, Eugene spent short periods with many bakers during the next few years, and was seventeen years old when he came to Wauseon to work as baker for Gorsuch and Clark, with which firm he remained for six years. He was a young man of strong character, industrious and steady, and during the twelve years or so of service had steadily saved some of his earning, so that when in 1919 an opportunity came to enter into independent business he was financially able to grasp it. He formed a partnership with a friend, Harry C. Weber, and soon became well established in business at their present location as wholesale and retail bakers, trading under their joint names and developing a good city and country trade. Before reaching that degree of business stability, however, some other events of importance to himself had happened to him. He had married in 1914, but the trend of the war into which the country entered in 1917 had its influence upon him, and he had to temporarily leave home and take service in the national fighting forces. He enlisted on June 27, 1918, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States Navy. He was sent to the Great Lakes Training Station, where he served until the end of the war, being honorably discharged in December, 1918, soon after which release he returned to Wauseon and joined Harry Weber in purchasing the bakery business they now own. The, energetic young partners have steadily gone forward, giving good service and manifesting commendable enterprise and industry. Eugene Buttermore married in 1914 Ilo Yarnell, daughter of Grant and Charlotte (Hartman) Yarnell, of Wauseon. Mr. and Mrs. Buttermore enter to some extent into the social life of the community, having many friends. Politically he is a republican. He is a member with his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Wauseon, and has been identified with the functioning of the local branch of the Knights of Pythias order. It may be said generally of him that he has been applying himself to his business affairs with such steadiness as to warrant the belief that he will succeed well in life. SIMON RYCHENER is one of the largest dealers in wool, seed and live stock in the State of Ohio, and is widely known throughout his home 'county, Fulton county. He is a native of Pettisville, has made Pettisville the headquarters for his extensive trading for twenty-seven years, and has an enviable reputation in that place. He is identified with the Pettisville Grain Company, the elevator belonging to which company has a capacity for 18,000 bushels, and he is a stockholder and director of the Pettisville Savings Bank. His family has a definite place in the history of Fulton county. The Rychener family, originally from Switzerland, is among the