850 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY learned back in his native England, and he has the chief establishment in that line at Grafton. Born in the City of Boston, England, February 16, 1863, he is a son of Henry and Mary (Wingad) Monroe. With a common school education, at the age of fifteen he began learning his trade, and for three years worked hard as an apprentice without wages. Mr. Monroe was seventeen years of age when he came to America in 1880. Arriving at Lakeside, Ohio, where an aunt lived at the time, he was employed during the following summer by the Lakeside Company, and then moved to Elyria, where for six years he was a journeyman baker. On June 30, 1884, Mr. Monroe was married in Elyria to Miss Cora Trask. She was born at Ripon. Wisconsin. but at the time of her marriage was living at Elyria. Her parents were Lowell and Marietta (Demming) Trask. In 1887 Mr. Monroe moved to Oberlin, and there began business for himself and for a time was a partner with G. W. Preston. In 1893, on account of his wife's poor health, he moved his family out to California and located at San Bernardino, where he was in business for two years. Returning to Oberlin, he resumed the baking business there but at the end of twelve years found his health greatly depleted, and for that reason he gave up the confining work of his trade and bought a grocery store. Afterwards he sold out and purchased a farm in Troy Township of Portage County, where he remained an active agriculturist for two years. By outdoor work he completely recovered his health, and then sold out and moved to Grafton in 1910. Here he bought the well established bakery of J. H. Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe are the parents of six children, four of them still living: Myrta, born in Elyria, married J. H. Andrews, and they have a child, Helen, and the family reside at Colton, California. Clara, who was born at Lima, Ohio, married Harlan Cordrey, and they live at Garrett, Indiana, and have two children Cyril and Albert. Edmond, who was born in Oberlin, is a graduate of the Grafton High School and is now learning his father's business. Mary, born at Oberlin, is- a member of the 1916 class in the Grafton High School. A republican voter since he cast his first ballot for James G. Blaine, Mr. Monroe has always been a loyal and public spirited citizen in every community where he lived. Since coming to Grafton he has served as a member of the city council, was president of that body for more than a year, and when Mayor Finlayson resigned to become postmaster he accepted the vacancy, and in 1915 was elected for the regular term of two years as chief executive of this little city. Mr. Monroe is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as are also his wife and children. He has a prominent part in church affairs, has served in church -offices and also as superintendent of Sunday School. Besides his property interests at Grafton he owns a residence in Cleveland. MAURICE E. HENDRICKS. Elyria since becoming an industrial city has attracted to its citizenship many capable technical men from all over the country. Among these is Maurice E. Hendricks, who has since lived at Elyria since 1902. has been identified with several of the Garford enterprises here, and since 1908 has been superintendent of The Machine Parts Company. He began his career as a watchmaker in Elgin. Illinois, and for fully a quarter of a century has filled responsible positions in various industries in different parts of the country. Born at Elgin, Illinois, December 23, 1868, he is a son of Albert R. and Anna Elizabeth (Russell) Hendricks. His father was born in the old Baltic seaport of Danzig, Prussia, and when twelve years of age HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 851 came to the United States with his parents, who settled at Palestine, Illinois. However, he grew to manhood in the home of an uncle, who took him to New Orleans, Louisiana, and there he learned the machinist's trade. He was a particularly competent tool maker and mechanical engineer, and is now living retired at Monrovia, California. After finishing his apprenticeship, he became a journeyman, and as is not infrequently the rule in the ranks of that profession he lived in many different localities during his active career. He was working at his trade in Philadelphia when he met and married Miss Russell, who was born in Philadelphia, of an old Dutch family. She died in July, 1896, while they were living at Erie, Pennsylvania. There were five sons and one daughter, Maurice being the third in age, and all are still living. The only one of these children now living in Ohio, Maurice E. Hendricks as a boy attended the public schools of Elgin, Illinois, and from school entered the Elgin watch factory as an apprentice. He learned a trade there and remained in that city for about six years. Having become an expert watch tool maker, he finally left Elgin and went to Canton, Ohio, where he spent about three years in making watch cases and watches in the great Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory in that city. From Canton he returned to Elgin, later entered a watch factory at Aurora, Illinois, moving from there to Chicago, and finally to Erie, Pennsylvania, from which city he came to Elyria in 1902. His early employment was altogether in watch factories, but at Erie, Pennsylvania, he became connected with the Black Manufacturing Company, builders of the Tribune bicycles. On coming to Elyria in 1902 Mr. Hendricks entered The Federal Manufacturing Company's plant, manufacturers of bicycle saddles and pedals. The Federal Manufacturing Company was the big corporation which for a time largely controlled the output of bicycle saddles and had plants at different cities in the country, and the enterprise at Elyria was largely the outgrowth of the business of A. L. Garford and subsequently the concern was incorporated in the Garford Company, and its product largely changed to the manufacture of automobile parts. In this plant Mr. Hendricks became foreman tool maker. Later he went with The Machine Parts Company when that firm was organized in 1907, and has been with it continuously for eight years as superintendent. The Machine Parts Company manufactures wheel goods, screw machine products and fine reed furniture. During his residence in Elyria Mr. Hendricks has also identified himself closely with the civic and social life of the city. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. On January 3, 1890, at Elgin, Illinois, he married Miss Jennie I. Ellmore, daughter of William C. and Elmira (Dedrich) Ellmore, both of whom are now living at South Bend, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks became the parents of two sons. Albert Ellwood, who was born at Elgin, is a mechanical engineer and lives in Chicago, Illinois. William Ellmore, the younger son, was born in Canton, and died at the age of twenty-three in Elyria January 20, 1913. He was also a mechanical engineer, and both sons were educated in the public schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Elyria, Ohio. William E. Hendricks at his death left a widow, whose maiden name was Miss Hazel Salisbury of Elyria, and two children, named Maurice Charles and Maxine Eleanor. JAMES M. KELLY. Forty years ago James M. Kelly was a hard working mechanic engaged in operating an engine at Amherst in Lorain County. Hard work has brought its reward and for a number of years he has lived at Oberlin and from that place has directed the management of two fine farms in Lorain County. 852 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY He was born in Russia Township of Lorain County October 11, 1851, a son of Nathan and Jane (Davis) Kelly. Nathan Kelly was born in Vermont in 1830 and died in September, 1914, being a son of Richard Kelly, a native of the same state, who in the early '40s brought his family to Lorain County and located in Henrietta Township. The grandfather cleared up a small farm and lived there until his death. Nathan Kelly was married in Lorain County to Miss Jane Davis who was born in Michigan in 1835. James M. Kelly was one of six children and as a boy he spent his time on the farm and attended country school. His first regular occupation as already noted was in running an engine at Amherst, an employment he followed four or five years. He then managed to buy a small tract of land in Henrietta Township. and he made that the scene of his farming industry and his home until twenty-four years ago. He then rented his farm. and bought another place in Russia Township. Mr. Kelly still owns both of these farms, but in 1903 moved to a comfortable town home at Oberlin and from that point has directed the management of his farms. In January, 1878, he married Mary Bell, daughter of Henry Bell. Her father was a native of West Virginia and came to Ohio before the Civil war and in 1864 bought a farm in Lorain County, which he occupied until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have two children : Eura is the wife of Paul Wood, foreman of the Dean Electric Company at Elyria, Ohio : and Otta, a druggist at Oberlin, who completed a course in pharmacy at the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Mr. Kelly is well known both in business and social affairs, is a republican in politics, was elected township trustee in 1907 and has held that office ever since, and is also a director in the Oberlin Banking Company. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. D. S. HUSTED. One of the eldest active members in the dental profession in Lorain County is Dr. D. S. Husted of Oberlin. He was graduated in dentistry thirty years ago and for fully a quarter of a century has been 'continuously at work in his profession at Oberlin. Born at Clarksfield, Huron County, Ohio, March 17, 1861, he represents some early pioneer stock in Ohio. His parents were Hoyt and Anna C. (Stone) Husted. His grandfather Samuel Husted came to Ohio from Connecticut and was an early farmer. The maternal grandfather Daniel Stone was born at Danbury, Connecticut. and followed the trade by which Danbury has become famous as an industrial center, being a hatter, but in 1829 he came west to Ohio, making the journey by the Erie canal, which had been in operation then only about four years. After coming to Ohio he followed farming. Hoyt Husted was born in Connecticut in 181:3 and died in 1866. By his first marriage to Sarah Gray he had four children, and two of his sons, Henry and Evelyn. were both soldiers in the Civil war. Henry was reported missing at Goldsboro, North Carolina. while Evelyn was wounded at Gettysburg and died soon afterward. Hoyt Husted was married at Clarksville, Ohio. after the death of his first wife to Anna Stone, who was born at Danbury, Connecticut, November 6, 1823, was brought to Northern Ohio by her parents when about six years of age and she died September 23, 1909. After the death of her first husband she married Samuel Gray. Hoyt Husted and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics he was a republican. He was a miller and carpenter by trade. Doctor Husted, who was the only child of his parents, acquired a liberal education, having attended Oberlin College three years, after HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 853 which he entered the dental department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated D. D. S. in 1885. Returning to Oberlin, he was for two years engaged in practice with a half-brother, and then practiced for three years at Troy, Ohio. He permanently located at Oberlin in 1890 and has made his profession his chief interest and has always enjoyed a large and profitable practice. On April 25, 1889, Dr. Husted married Elizabeth Hurlburt. She was born in Decorah, Iowa, but was reared in Amherst, Lorain County. Her father, Elijah Hurlburt, was an attorney by profession, but died when Airs. Husted was only a few weeks old. To their marriage have been born three children : Howard, who was graduated from Oberlin College in 1914, and is now teacher of physical training in the Public Schools in Cincinnnati ; Edith, who graduated from Oberlin in 1915, is teacher of German and Latin in an Academy in South Dakota, and will sail August 26, 1916, for Kobe, Japan, where she is to take up work as a missionary Anna is still attending school. Doctor and Mrs. Husted take a very active part in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin, and in polities he is a republican. SAMUEL S. LEONARD. The spirit of twentieth century enterprise which has stimulated and produced in such an important degree the development of many industrial centers has one of its conspicuous illustrations at Elyria in The Western Automatic Screw Company. This concern, which was established in 1873, has done not a little to increase the prominence of Elyria industrially and make the city known for its products far beyond the boundaries of the home state. While the main office and factory are located in Elyria, the company maintains a branch office and warehouse at Cleveland and a branch sales office at Detroit. This company manufactures practically any type of screw machine product, including set and cap screws, plain and castellated nuts, automobile, gas and gasoline engine parts, besides a large amount of special work in iron, steel or brass. As vice president and manager of The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company. Samuel S. Leonard is one of the forceful men of the industrial community, and has shown no less public spirit in connection with all the important movements and undertakings that have helped to Make Elyria a city during recent years. Mr. Leonard, who comes of a family of industrial workers, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, February 20, 1854, a son of Thomas W. and Sarah E. (Schenck) Leonard, who were also natives of Massachusetts. Some generations back three brothers named Leonard came from England and settled in the vicinity of Taunton, Massachusetts. They were among the first to engage in the iron business in New England, operating a large plant near Taunton, and the iron industry which they established and built up continued as a flourishing enterprise until about 1912. Thomas W. Leonard had become identified with manufacturing with his father many years ago in New England, but later became an oil merchant in New York City, and that was his business until his death in 1890, when about fifty-eight years of age. His widow is still living, a resident of Mont-clair, New Jersey, and at the time of this writing (1915) is eighty-four years of age. Of the seven children in the family, three daughters and four sons, one died in infancy, and the four now living are S. S. Leonard; Charles H., a resident of New York ; Louise Cuyler, wife of George G. Gleason of Montclair, New Jersey ; and Carrie W., a school teacher in Bayonne, New Jersey. The only one of the family living in Ohio, Samuel S. Leonard spent most of his early years ill New York and New England, but has since 854 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY been identified with a number of the larger cities in the Middle West. He obtained "his early education in the public. schools of Brooklyn, attended a military school at Stamford, Connecticut, and his first training in a business 'way was acquired by three years of work in a broker's office on Wall Street in New York City, and with a facetious. reference to this time Mr. Leonard sometimes says that if he had hung around Wall Street until the present time there might have been a firm known as "Morgan & Leonard." However, he seems to have followed his better destiny, and from the broker's office went into the firm of Howard. Sanger & Company, extensive importers of notions and hosiery. He was with them two years, and then went West to Mount Sterling, Illinois, and for eight years was a clerk in the general store of R. F. Crane. About that time Mr. Crane organized and established the First National Bank of Mount Sterling, and Mr. Leonard was active as an assistant to the banker. He also started his own home while at Mount Sterling. In that town on November 18, 1875, he married Miss. Priscilla D. Adams, daughter of Thomas S„ and Sarah (Birdsall) Adams, of an old family in that. locality, where her father was an extensive cattle dealer and had also served as county treasurer. Mrs. Leonard was born at Mount Sterling, educated in the public schools, and also at the seminary for young women located at Jacksonville, Illinois. His employment in the First National Bank at Mount Sterling Mr. Leonard continued until about 1880. He then removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was located in that metropolis of the Northwest for eight years, four years of which time were spent. as- manager for the Brush Electric Light Company. From Minneapolis he moved to Chicago where he had his headquarters for about a. year, and then located at Cleveland, where he engaged in manufacturing as secretary of The Hill Clutch Company. Mr. Leonard's name as a manufacturer is also as well known in Cleveland as in Elyria, since he was one of the active men of that city for about sixteen years. In February, 1906, he came to Elyria, and has since been one of the live men in the building of The Western Automatic M Screw Company and is now its vice president and manager. _This company employs a large number of skilled workers, and at the present time its business is so large that the plant is operated night and. day. During 1913 Mr. Leonard was. president of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and is now on its advisory board, an office to which each out-going president automatically succeeds. He is also a director of The National Bank of Elyria, is vice president of the Young Men's Christian Association and one of those most active in the campaign for raising money to construct the splendid Young Men's Christian Association Building, which is an object of pride to all Elyria citizens. He is also a member of the Elyria. Memorial Hospital Association.. In politics he is a. republican. and is both a York and Scottish Rite Mason. He is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted Masons at Cleveland ; Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch Masons of Cleveland; Elyria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters: Forest City Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar at Cleveland ; Lake Erie Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. both of Cleveland. He is a past commander of Forest City Commandery of the Knights Templar. His church home is the First Congregational at Elyria, in which his wife is one of the most active workers and is now a deaconess. Mr. Leonard finds his chief recreation in golf and gardening, and is one of the directors of the Elyria Country Club. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have one daughter, Louise A., who was born HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 855 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now the wife of J. H. Black of Mason City, Iowa, manager there for the Lehigh Portland Cement Company. They have one child, Richard Leonard Black. Mrs. Black was educated in Cleveland, is a graduate of the West High School of that city with the class of 1905, and in 1907 completed the course in the Kindergarten School of Oberlin College. ALFRED E. HALE. One of the most competent citizens and business men in the district surrounding Oberlin is Alfred E. Hale, recognition of which fact has recently been made in his election to the office of county commissioner in 1914. He is now giving an excellent administration of that office. Mr. Hale has kept his career closely identified with the country life of Lorain County for many years, has been a factor in the cheese and butter industry and for a number of years has operated a high class dairy near Oberlin. He was born in Henrietta township, Lorain County, March 23, 1864, a son of George and Margaret (Smith) Hale. His father was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1815 and died in 1899. The mother was born in 1818 and died in February, 1893. The father came to Lorain County about 1855, at which time. his entire capital amounted to not more than $2.50. He worked as a farm laborer, and in 1856 he married near Birmingham in Lorain County, and a little later bought a small farm. His first wages on coming to Lorain County were only $15.00 a month. He finally sold his first farm and moved into Carlisle Township, where he bought another place and pursued agriculture there until his death. He was reared a member of the Episcopal Church, but for thirty-six years was identified with the First Congregational Society at Oberlin. In politics he was a republican. There were three children: Rosena, a widow living in Lorain County ; George, who is living retired at Lorain; and Alfred E. Alfred E. Hale attended the schools in the country and at Elyria, and when quite a youth got an experience which led him into the cheese and butter business, which he followed for about twelve years. He finally sold his factory in 1904. In 1896 Mr. Hale bought his father's old homestead, and now has a well improved farm of 145 acres. He has put up several excellent barns, especially equipped for the dairy business, and has about twenty cows which supply a product that .gives him a steady and regular revenue. In January, 1886, Mr. Hale married Beulah B. Peabody. Her father, M. B. Peabody, was an early settler in Henrietta Township of Lorain County, where he is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have two children : Cassie finished the high school at Elyria, also took the training school course and three years in Oberlin College, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elyria. The son, Gilbert Neil, was graduated from the Elyria public schools, the Oberlin Business College, and spent one year in Oberlin College, and is now in charge of stock in the great Ford automobile plant at Detroit. Mr. Hale is affiliated with Oberlin Lodge of Masons and with Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. R. D. A. GUNN, M. D. A physician of fully thirty years' experience, Dr. Gunn was for tyenty years of that time located at Cleveland, but since 1906 his home has been in Oberlin, where he owns a comfortable home and has a large professional business. He conies of that old Scotch stock that so freely settled Washington County in Southwestern Pennsylvania during the early days. He was born in that county March 10, 1859, a son of Alexander A. and Mary (Burns) Gunn. His grandfather, John Gunn, was born near Aberdeen, 856 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Scotland, and coming to America when a young man settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather, John Burns, born in 1797 in Pennsylvania, was related to the same family as the poet, Robert Burns. Dr. Gunn's parents were .both natives of Washington County, where his father was born in 1822 and his mother in 1824. They were married in that state and spent their active careers on a farm in the rugged and picturesque district which has figured so conspicuously in American history since the whiskey rebellion. The father died there in 1900 and the mother in 1907 at a good old age. They were members of the United Presbyterian Church, and in politics Alexander Gunn was republican. During the Civil war he entered Company K of the Pennsylvania Cavalry, served as second lieutenant, but was severely wounded and was sent home and was never able to re-enter the service. He was a man, of many excellent qualities, was well read, was strictly honest. and though he made a great deal of money in his active lifetime, he was too liberal with it to accumulate a fortune. Doctor Gunn was the fourth in a family of ten children. eight of whom are still living. He acquired his early education in the Washington County common schools, graduated from Waynesburg College in 1884, and then entered the medical department of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he took his M. D. degree in 1887. Almost imme-• diately he set up in practice in Cleveland, and remained there for twenty years, ten years of that time serving as medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, a work which took a great deal of his time. In 1906 he moved to Oberlin and is one of the capable general practitioners of Lorain County. On October 10, 1888, Doctor Gunn married Miss Lora C. Conner, who was born in Cumberland, Ohio. They are the parents of four children. John Burns, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1913 and is now connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron. Helen, who still lives at home attended high school and also was a student in Oberlin College for a time. Ross, is a freshman in Oberlin College. Nolan Conner is still attending school. The family are members of the First Congregational Church, and in politics Doctor Gunn is an independent republican. Professionally he is associated with the county and state medical societies and the American Medical Association. ADOLPH GLATTSTEIN. In June, 1915, the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article describing the rapid growth of the Hungarian population in Elyria. During the last ten or fifteen years the rapid growth of industrialism in that city has attracted a number of foreign peoples, and not least among them in number and in influence are the Hungarians, who are now found to the number of about 600. Their names are identified in a business, professional and social relation with the life of the city, and by character, activities and ideals they are a most wholesome group of American citizens. One of the pioneers among the Hungarians to locate in Elyria is Adolph Glattstein, who came to America more than thirty years ago and for a number of years has been well established as a local business man. Mr. Glattstein has not only been a leader among his own people but all classes recognize his ability and true worth. He was born in Hungary May 15, 1865, a son of Bernard and Julia. Glattstein. His grandfather Glattstein, was a Jewish minister in Hungary, while his maternal grandfather Zaltzman owns a tannery. Bernard Glattstein was a teacher of languages in the old country and the mother was also a college graduate. Adolph has four brothers named William, Leo, Morris and Isadore. and a sister Catherine. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 857 Reared in a home of culture and of comfort, Adolph Glattstein obtained his early education at Kashau, Hungary, and attended the Kashau College Gymnasium. In 1882 he set out for America, and soon afterwards located in Cleveland. Learning the cigar trade, he engaged in business for himself in 1885 as a general merchant. He finally left Cleveland and took his family to Kansas City, and after living there twelve years his wife died, and he then returned to Cleveland to lay her to rest in that city. From Cleveland Mr. Glattstein moved to Elyria, where he was among the first of his nationality and soon afterward established his place of business where he has since remained, at 146 Woodford Avenue. Mr. Glattstein is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Elyria Lodge No. 465, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Elyria Lodge No. 431, and is a member of the Jewish Church. On March 1, 1887, he was married at Cleveland to Theresa Havre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Havre. She also had sisters named Margaret, Rosella and Sadie, and two brothers named Anthony and Edwin. Mr. Glatt-stein has a daughter Hermina Glattstein, now the wife of Louie E. Fischman, and they have one child, Theresa Louise. In the article in the Plain Dealer already mentioned Mr. Glattstein is referred to as one of the leaders among the Hungarian people, and he fathered the movement by which an aid society was established, which later merged with the Elyria Branch No. 107 of the Verhovay Aid Society, which has now been in existence for six years. Its membership has grown to about 130. Later a branch of the Court Batthanyi Hungarian Aid Society was organized, and through this organization public entertainments have been given, many of which feature picturesque Magyar costumes and customs, and furnish interesting glimpses of typical Hungarian social life to native Americans. Of Mr. Glattstein's personal influence the article in the Plain Dealer said : "Mr. Glattstein, who was among the first Hungarians to come to Elyria has personally assisted many of his countrymen in familiarizing themselves with English, American customs, and in generally preparing them for American citizenship." He speaks four different languages. L. T. DAVIS is proprietor of the North Eaton Lumber and Coal Company at North Eaton. While a native of Lorain County, Mr. Davis was a farmer and business man in Missouri, but some years ago returned to this county and has since occupied a fine country home in Eaton Township and has also built up a large business in lumber and builders supplies. He is regarded as one of the substantial citizens in that section of the county. His birth occurred December 24, 1861, on what is now known as the Fauver Farm in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis takes much interest in local history and it was at his suggestion that a paragraph was inserted in this history regarding the old Revolutionary soldier, George Fauver, who is buried in the Butternut Ridge Cemetery in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis is a son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Brooks) Davis, both of whom were natives of St. Lawrence County, New York. Mary Brooks was brought to Lorain County by her parents in 1831, when she was about one year old. Thomas J. Davis grew up in New York State, married his first wife there, and after her death and when he was about thirty-five years of age he came to Lorain county, and established a wagon shop at Eaton Center. Here he met and married Miss Brooks. He was an expert mechanic, and continued his wagon business until he removed to Hodgman County, Kansas, where he secured quite a tract of land and spent a number of years in developing it. From Kansas he 858 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY removed to Carroll County, Missouri, where he remained until his death on February 11, 1903, at the age of about eighty years. His widow died about fifty days later in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Davis' mother was a daughter of Alva Brooks, who was one of the early settlers of Lorain County. He gave her a farm of about eighty-four acres at the center of Eaton Township, and it is still owned in her name and belongs to the estate. It was on this farm that L. T. Davis spent his boyhood. He attended country schools, also took one year in Baldwin University at Berea, and at the age of seventeen went to live with an uncle in Carroll County, Missouri. While in Missouri he attended a college at Avalon. His uncle was administrator of the property left him by his grandfather Brooks, and after a time he bought 200 acres of farming land in Carroll County and applied himself with characteristic industry to its cultivation and management. While in Carroll County, Missouri, Mr. Davis was married September 1, 1886, to Miss Mida Roberts of Livingston County, Missouri. By this marriage he has two daughters : Jessie, wife of Newton Hoskin of Eaton Township and the mother of four children ; and Freda, wife of Don Cook, also of Eaton Township, and the mother of three children. During his residence in Missouri Mr. Davis acquired about 360 acres of fertile farming land and was also interested in a planing mill at Carrollton. His wife died at Carrollton and on January 23, 1894, he was married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Miss Elizabeth Shearer. Mrs. Davis was born on a farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Hiram and Frances (Garrard) Shearer. She grew to womanhood in Pennsylvania, received a common school education, and met her husband during a visit with a friend in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children, both of whom were born in Carroll County. Frances is a graduate of the Elyria High School and also took a course in the Kent Normal, has taught one term, and is still at home. The son James Garfield is a graduate of the Elyria High School and is also at home. In 1903 Mr. Davis sold out his interests in Missouri and moved to North Eaton, where he now occupies the farm which his mother formerly owned and in which he has a half interest. After a year or so as a practical farmer, in 1903 he established his present business as a coal and lumber merchant at North Eaton and has succeeded in building up a very profitable trade in that section of the county. Mr. Davis is also the heaviest stockholder in the North Eaton Telephone Company, which was organized in 1908 and of which he has since been secretary. As a republican he cast his first presidential ballot for James G. Blaine in 1884, and claims that he has always remained true to the essential principles of the party. In 1914 the progressives nominated him for the office of county commissioner, and while he was not elected he had the satisfaction of leading his ticket. He is a member and elder in the Disciples Church, while Mrs. Davis is a Methodist. He also belongs to the Grange in Columbia Township. H. B. WOOD. One of the most attractive points on the rural landscape of Lorain County, is the H. B. Wood farm, four miles northeast of Oberlin, in section 11 and township 5 north, range 17 west, and on rural route No. 2 out. of Oberlin. It has been the home and center of activities for the Wood family for two generations, and the site of the old homestead and a considerable body of the land comprised in the original estate is now owned by Marshall A. Wood, whose father's name is still familiarly associated with the place. It was on this farm that Marshall A. Wood was born September 1, HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 859 1852, a son of Harrison Burchard and Gracia C. (Pember) Wood. Harrison B. Wood, who was born near Albany, New York, was a son of Jeremiah Wood, who married a Miss Dimick, and came to Lorain County when his son Harrison was about fourteen years of age. It was the grandfather who first acquired the tract of land now included in the H. B. Wood Farm. After growing to manhood and after his father's death, H. B. Wood acquired from the other heirs the old farm and added to it as a nucleus until Ile was the owner of about 500 acres. Three hundred acres of this estate are still owned by the family and Marshall A. Wood's individual farm comprises about 102 acres. Harrison B. Wood was a man of many excellent qualities and one of the leading citizens of his time in Carlisle Township. He was not a seeker after official honors, though a loyal democrat, and did his best work in preparing intelligently for his busi-ness interests, in providing for his family, and in fulfilling his obligations as a neighbor and friend. He lived to be seventy-eight years of age, and his death caused a profound shock since he was killed on the Lake Shore Railway. He died September 13, 1897. Of his eight children only two are now living. A brief record of the family is as follows: Prudence, who died in Michigan, married Rev. Allen Gridley, and she left a daughter, Grace, who was graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and now lives in Boston as Mrs. Wim, and conducts a music studio in that city, being the mother of three children. Harrison Delos, the second child, was an implement salesman at Oberlin and died there in January, 1908, and by his marriage to Elizabeth Gleason, was the father of the following children : Dr. Walter A., now of Philadelphia, John of Oberlin, James, a manufacturer of concrete at Barry, Texas, Grace, wife of M. A. Houghton, Oberlin's postmaster, Harold, who died at the age of fourteen, and Dudley, who is a graduate of Oberlin College and lives in that town. Malcolm H., the third child, died September 29, 1915, having been a farmer in this county, and by his marriage to Mary Reamer had seven children : Mabel C., who died July 19, 1911, was a teacher in Elyria schools; Harrison B., married Edith B. Brenner, of Cleveland and they have one child, Brenner R., and reside in Oakland, California ; 011ie M., married T. C. Metzger of Lorain, Ohio, a clothing merchant; Robert L., a member of the firm of Wood Construction Company, Oberlin, Ohio, married Gertrude Stough ; Wesley R., died September 19, 1900, and two who died in infancy. The fourth in order of age is Marshall A. Della M. is living in Carlisle Township, the wife of Frank Prindle, and has three children, Hazel, Frances and Harold. Effie M., who died September 6, 1897, was a graduate of Oberlin College. Roy, died when about fourteen years of age. Frank, who died January 3, 1900, married Jennie Talley and left one child, Goldie. Marshall A. Wood spent his boyhood on the old homestead, and began life with a common school education. Farming has been his regular career, and he has prospered and has exemplified many of the excellent qualities for which the Wood family have always been noted. On October 12, 1893, he married Correlia A. Reamer who was born and reared at Smithville in Wayne County, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Sophia (Fitger) Reamer. Her father was born at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, but when a small lad came to Ohio with his parents Daniel and Mary (Krill) Reamer. Jacob Reamer served as a soldier in the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and about four weeks after he went to the front was killed in the battle of Chancellorsville and is buried on that battlefield. Airs. Wood's mother was born in Wayne County, Ohio, near Wooster August 21, 1832, was reared there, and is still living at the age of eighty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have one Vol. II-20 860 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY daughter, Helen C., who was born on the old farm June 1, 1896. and in 1910 at the age of fourteen entered Elyria High School after an examination, and was graduated with the Class of 1914. Mr. Wood inherited eighty-two acres of the old H. B. Wood farm, and subsequently bought twenty acres more from the estate. Since then he has made a great many improvements. He has placed a basement under the barn, and after tearing down the old residence he constructed the present modern home. In 1907 he put down a gas well 9:35 feet under the surface, and since then has had a good supply of gas to be used for heating and lighting. His house is one of the best equipped with modern conveniences and comforts in the rural district of Lorain County. He has a complete waterworks plant and has hot and cold water for all purposes. The house is a two story structure built on a basement 26x34 feet, the first story being of cement walls, and containing eight rooms and bath. Mr. Wood has never participated in politics, though he was reared a democrat and cast his first presidential ballot for Cleveland in 1884. JAMES C. SMITH. No small share of technical skill and ability to lead and direct the work of a large factory organization has been furnished to the Elyria industrial community by James C. Smith, who is factory manager of The Machine Parts Company and has been closely identified with this and some of the other large enterprises in Elyria for more than twenty years. Mr. Smith, who probably inherits his taste for things mechanical from his father, began his career as a machinist's apprentice and has filled a number of positions in a rising grade of responsibility in factories and industries both in Lorain County and elsewhere. Born at New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, November 16, 1861, James C. Smith is a son of Edward B. and Helen (Cunningham) Smith. His father, Edward B. Smith, was born in England, a son of Jonathan Smith, who spent all his life in that country. Helen Cunningham was born at New Hartford, New York, and her father, James Cunningham, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and being a radical and expressing his views too freely, was thrown into prison, but by the aid of influential friends was released and came to Canada, and lived for many years in the United States. Edward B. Smith as a tool maker was in the employ of the Remington Arms Company at Ilion, New York, during the Civil war. When peace brought about a slackening of that industry, he moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, was employed for a time by the Atlantic & Great Western, now the Erie Railroad, and in 1867 moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About twelve years later he took up his residence at Elyria, but after a year and a half returned to Cleveland, where he died in 1884. His wife passed away in 1880. On reaching the second year of the high school at Cleveland, James C. Smith left school to gain a vocational training as apprentice to the machinist's trade. He was with the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland for a time, and during the year and a half his parents lived in Elyria he was employed by the firm of Topliff & Ely. He afterwards worked for I. N. Topliff and for a time was in the employ of the Cleveland Telegraph Supply Company, which later became the Brush Electric Company, and also with the Chapin Nut Bolt Company. On returning to Elyria Mr. Smith was for a time with Mead & Wallace, manufacturers of carriage hardware, and later with James Hollis, who conducted a machine shop on the site now occupied by The Machine Parts Company. For 3 1/2 years he had charge of the iron valve department in the brass works at Lorain, and then returned to HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 861 the machine works formerly conducted by Mr. Hollis, but at that time under the proprietorship of H. K. Day. The forming of his next connection in industrial affairs is one of interest and importance to his personal career. He returned to the employ of the Topliff & Ely Company, which at that time was making some of the first of the famous Garford bicycle saddles. On December 1, 1892, Mr. Smith was made superintendent of the manufacture of these saddles for The Garford Company, and continued in charge of this department of a large and growing industry until May, 1905. He resigned to take the management of the Rochester Valve Company, which in about a year later was reorganized as The Machine Parts Company, an Ohio corporation, in which Mr. Smith became vice president. When he left the Garford Company's plant as superintendent the esteem in which he was held by his many employes was well shown when the men as a token of their regard presented him with a handsome gold watch and chain and a Masonic charm. Mr. Smith is now a director and factory manager of The Machine Parts Company and is also a director in The Worthington Company. He is a director in the Masonic Temple Company, and for many years has been closely identified with Masonic affairs. He is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons; with Marshall Chapter No. 47, Royal Arch Masons, in which he is past high priest ; with Elyria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters, in which he is past thrice illustrious master ; and with Elyria Commandery No. 60, Knights Templar, of which he is past commander. He is also a member of the United Commercial Travelers and the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. As a local citizen he has. not neglected his duties, and for about five years up to January, 1908, was a member of the board of public service and its president during the last year. Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Howells, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Howells, who as children were brought from Wales, their native country, to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children : Brenton Arthur, who graduated from the Elyria High School in 1911, is a. draftsman by trade, and is now connected with The Willys-Overland Co. Elyria, Ohio ; Helen Elizabeth, who graduated from the Elyria High School in the class of 1913 and is now a stenographer ; and Theodore Howells, who is still a 'student in the high school. All three children were born at Elyria. CALVIN JACKSON. When a man has lived a life of usefulness and honor in one community for many years, his fellow citizens recognize in him a man deserving of respect and his name and some narrative of his activities have an appropriate place in the local annals of his township and county. Such has been the role of Calvin Jackson of Eaton Township, who now past seventy years of age is retired and enjoying the comforts and pleasures of a fine rural home on Center Road half a mile west of Eaton Center. He was three years old when his parents, James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson came to Lorain County. He was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, January 20, 1845. On coming to Lorain County his father bought a small farm three miles north of Elyria, paying $12.50 an acre, and spent the rest of his days there. He was a republican, and was a very active .worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In fact, he was a local preacher, and filled the pulpit when the regular minister was absent. In the family were seven children, one of whom died in childhood. Of the others Calvin was the oldest. Mary Jane still lives on the old homestead ; Melissa is the wife of Samuel Cox. by whom she. 862 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY has two children, and they live in Eaton Township ; Andrew J. is elsewhere referred to in this publication ; Arthur also lives in Union Township: Frank is a bachelor and occupies the old homestead with his sister. The father of these children died in 1899 and the mother on November 19, 1905, and both are buried in the Sheffield Cemetery, Calvin Jackson while growing up on the farm in Lorain County acquired a common school education, and at the early age of sixteen began working by the month at wages of $8. He soon afterwards went to Cleveland and enlisted for service in the Union army, but before he was mustered in his father interposed and took him home. Later he became a member of the Home Guard and received considerable military training. Then in May, 1864, he regularly enlisted in Company K of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was mustered into service at Columbus, and after spending a few days at Camp Chase was sent with his command to Opequan Creek in West Virginia and was first under fire at Martinsburg in that state. He also was in the fight at Harpers Ferry. After serving out his regular enlistment of four months he returned to Lorain County and soon had a place as a farm laborer at wages of $22 a month. Thus it was by hard work that he laid the foundation for his prosperity. On September 17, 1868, Mr. Jackson married Miss Louisa Reisinger. whose home was at Liverpool, Medina County. Her parents Jacob and Elizabeth (Kellar) Reisinger were both natives of Germany. where they grew up, and the mother was the first to come to America, and they were married in Liverpool. They settled there where Mrs. -Jackson's father followed his trade as shoemaker, which he had learned according to the thorough methods of a German cobbler. As was the practice in those times, he went from home to home making up shoes for the family at each place. Later he bought a farm near Liverpool on the county line. After his marriage Mr. Jackson for several years rented land and by much self denial and by the loyal cooperation of his wife saved sufficient to buy his present home. Here he has effected many improvements and is now in a position to take his remaining years somewhat at leisure. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were born seven children, all but one of them still living. Perry married Elizabeth Stang and has two children, Lucile and Clifford. Lillia is the wife of Asa Hance and lives in Eaton. Charles married Nettie Keasey and they have four children, Herman. Chester, Ruth and Samuel. Arthur married Bernice Strickland and has three children, Claude. Leo and Garnet. Roy married Verne Strickland and has one child Marian. Pearl is clerk in a store at Alliance, Ohio. In politics Mr. Jackson is a republican and east his first presidential ballot for Grant. He and his wife are members of the Disciples Church at Eaton and they are also members of the Orange. FRANK E. SCHWARTZ. Among Carlisle Township's men of enterprise and progressive spirit special mention should be made of Frank E. Schwartz. who is one of the members of the Board of the Lorain Agricultural Society and in the course of his active career has done a great deal of constructive work both on his own land and toward raising the general standards of agriculture, stock raising and rural life in his part of the county. His fine homestead of 125 acres, where he does extensive farming and dairying and also breeds high grade Poland China hogs and Oxford Down sheep, is located about 4 1/2 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Elyria on the LaGrange Road, and he is served by rural route No. 1 out from LaGrange. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 863 A native of Lorain County, he was born in Russia Township July 24, 1856, a son of David and Christine. (Baker) Schwartz. His father, who is still living at the venerable age of eighty-three, at the home of a daughter in Elyria, was born in Germany. His father died in the old country and when David was about sixteen years of age the widowed mother, with other children, set out for the land of liberty and soon afterward arrived in Lorain County and established themselves in Russia Township. David Schwartz was married in that township and by much self denial, hard work and good judgment accumulated a fine farm and made ample provisions for his own declining years and did well by his children. It was on the home farm in Russia Township that Frank E. Schwartz spent his youth, and his education came from the local schools. However, he left school at the age of fourteen, and has been hard at work ever since. He helped. manage the home farm until he was about twenty-four, and on April 28, 1880, was married in Carlisle Township to Miss Lucy Shauver. Mrs. Schwartz was born in Amherst Township, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Repp) Shauver. A short time before his marriage and in preparation for that event, Mr. Schwartz purchased. twenty-eight acres of land in Carlisle Township. The only improvements were a log house and a log barn. He and his young wife made the best of difficulties, and by heroic economy and effort soon had their affairs moving in the direction of prosperity. While there Mr. Schwartz built a new house and barn and gave a great deal of value to the land above what it represented when he first took possession. From that home in 1895 he moved to his present place and here again he has carried on extensive remodeling and improvement. In the summer of 1908 he put down a gas well 700 feet, and that furnishes a supply of gas sufficient for home consumption. For the past twenty years Mr. Schwartz has been breeding thoroughbred hogs, and he is a master of that branch of farm husbandry. About seven years ago he took up sheep husbandry, and has found considerable profit in that. Mr. Schwartz has won his full share of prizes upon his thoroughbreds when exhibited at county fairs. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz have one daughter, Lilah May, who was born in Carlisle Township, and has finished her education in the common schools. While Mr. Schwartz was reared a democrat and cast his first presidential ballot for a democratic candidate, he has since joined the republican ranks and is a firm believer in the basic principles of that party. For three years he served as township trustee and has also been a director of his local schools. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias at LaGrange and of the Modern Woodmen of America at Elyria. It was in 1913 that he was chosen to an official place on the board of the Lorain County Agricultural Society and was re-elected for another term. He is one of the progressive men who have kept the affairs of the society moving to higher and better attainments. Recently the board constructed some new buildings and now has one of the best grand stands for a county to be found anywhere in Ohio. CHARLES WILLIAM SMITH. Among the veteran retired merchants of Lorain County perhaps none is better known through long association with one line of business than Charles W. Smith, who for fully half a century had been in the jewelry and watch making trade and business at Elyria. For the greater part of this time his store' was not only represented as an important landmark in the shopping district, but was regarded as the largest and most important establishment of its kind in that city. Throughout all his career Mr. Smith has manifested a high degree 864 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY of public spirit toward all enterprises and movements for the improvement of the city as a business center and as a social community. A resident of America since he was twelve years of age, Charles William Smith was born February 6, 1842, in Tuebingen, in the Kingdom of Wuertemberg, Germany, a son of Christian Gottlieb and Agnes (Waiblinger) Schmid, as his father wrote his name. Both parents died in Elyria. The father came to America in 1853 with two other members of his family, and the mother followed with the other children in 1854. Charles W. Smith made the voyage with his mother in 1854. He had already had some benefit of instruction in the schools of Germany, and after coming to Elyria spent three months as a pupil in the old stone schoolhouse on East Avenue, and another three months at an old schoolhouse now torn down which stood on Middle avenue. In 1862, at the age of twenty, Mr. Smith took up the trade of watchmaker and jeweler and engaged in that business in the store on Broad Street at the corner of Mill Street, a corner now occupied by Robinson and Hancock, clothiers. In 1865 he moved to the Beebe House, and occupied the corner store on Broad Street now occupied by the Lorain County Banking Company, in the Andwur Hotel. In 1874, having prospered as a merchant, Mr. Smith built and moved into his own store, the Smith Block, at 541 Broad Street. His business prosperity is represented by some important building and real estate interests.. Besides the Smith Block at 541 Broad Street, he is also owner of the Smith Block at 538-542 Broadway in the City of Lorain, and he owns a substantial residence at 651 Broad Street in Elyria. Mr. Smith has been a witness to most of Elyria's development since it was a very small town. The family on coming to America spent about a year and a half in Cleveland, and arrived in Elyria about 1855. It was then a small town, and the locality on Broad Street where Mr. Smith now has his home was at that time mainly a cow pasture, though now located nearly in the center of the business district. With a few more years of rapid development such as Elyria has had during the past decade his home will necessarily have to be• moved or torn down to make way for the advance of business development in that section of the city. Mr. Smith has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1870. He became one of the first members of St. Paul's Church at Elyria, joining in 1858. In 1864 at Cleveland he married Miss Anna Mary Laux, a daughter of Peter and Gertrude Laux of Ridgeville, Ohio. Mrs. Smith died January 2, 1899. The children are : William C., who married Elizabeth Beller, of Amherst, Ohio, has been in the shoe business at Elyria nearly a quarter of a century, his store being at 541 West Broad Street in the Smith Block. They are the parents of Arthur G.. who is connected with the shoe firm of Wm. C. Smith & Son; Charles J., deceased, married Hattie Reublin, and left two children, Pierre R. and Geraldine ; Henry F. married Dora Schubert, and has one child, Catherine ; Julia M. married M. J. McGuire, and they have three children, Charles W., Helen and Mary ; Frank W. is still unmarried. SOLOMON MENDELSON. There are few residents of Lorain County with so excellent a reputation in business affairs and with a better record of public spirited citizenship than Solomon Mendelson. who was born of Jewish parents in Russia and came to America in early boyhood. The instinct of the trader was almost as natural to him as in the typical Yankee. and it has found its chief exemplification in the direction of livestock, for which he manifested a special fondness in early youth. For a number of years Mr. Mendelson has been one of the most extensive dealers in livestock of all kinds in the county, and is also manager of HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 865 the Mendelson Reduction Company at Elyria, especially noted for the manufacture of a high grade fertilizer and animal tankage. His home and place of business are at 310 Furnace Street in Elyria. He was eight years old when he came to America with his parents from Russia. His father had visited America some years previously and spent most of his active career in the scrap iron business. Solomon attended the public schools of Lorain County until about seventeen and he showed a marked proficiency in acquiring the English language, which he speaks very fluently. When he was not more than fourteen he began buying and selling whenever the opportunity offered, and most of these early deals were in livestock. He also worked for his father until the latter's death when Solomon was about twenty years of age. Solomon was the second of three children, his older sister Yetta is the wife of Moses Berinstein, and they reside in New York City. The brother Julius is also a resident of New York City and a manufacturer of ladies dress goods. During the ten years following the death of his father, Solomon Mendelson carried on the old business, and at the same time continued his dealings in livestock, which acquired a somewhat extensive scope, so that he was finally justified in giving all his energies to that work. In 1909 he erected a substantial residence and also his three story sales stables in Elyria. On August 14, 1892, he married Miss Lizzie Siegel, who was also born in Russia and came to America with her parents, locating in Cleveland. The eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Mendelson were all born in Elyria. Mary is the wife of Harry Sobul of Elyria; Hattie is a graduate of the high school as is also Ray, the next younger ; Emanuel graduated from high school and is now in the State University at Columbus; Eva is in the second year of high school, while Anna is a freshman; Nelson is in the third grade, and Hilda, the youngest of the family, is in the first grade of the public schools. Mr. Mendelson as an American citizen has voted the republican ticket. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen of America and the United Commercial Travelers. He is president of the Jewish Congregation at Elyria, and is president of the Elyria Lodge of the Independent B'rith of Abraham. He was also one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association at Elyria, and has been a trustee since its organization. When the Young Men's Christian Association Building was constructed he performed the excavation work for the foundation. GEORGE H. Box. That it is possible for a progressive and industrious man to make a success of farming in these modern days is well illustrated in the ease of George H. Box of Eaton Township. His fine farm of 240 acres in the southwest part of that township a mile north of Grafton, largely represents the fruits of his individual management. In his career he has brought to bear unusual good sense in regulating his affairs, and a persistent diligence which has had its proper reward. He has an excellent farm, conducts a dairy, and is known as a breeder of high thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He was born in a log house on the very farm where he now lives, April 16, 1862, a son of Charles H. and Maria (Grey) Box. Both parents were natives of Wilkshire, England, where they grew up and married. After four of their children were born the entire family set out for America, and lived a short time in Cleveland, where the father worked for a Mr. Scoville. Coming to Lorain County, with a brother-in-law he bought a small tract of timbered land, erected a log cabin and began 866 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY the work of clearing. Charles Box did well as a farmer and home maker and eventually had a place of 120 acres, on which he built the comfort-able farm dwelling in which his son George now resides. George is next to the youngest in a family of seven children, six of whom are still living,. He grew up on the home farm, had a common school education, and lived at home working for his father until 1896. In the meantime, on December 30, 1885, he married Miss Nellie Wilson of Eaton Township, where she was born a daughter of George and Magdalene (Caldwell) Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Box have seven children. The oldest Charles H. has a common school education. lives in Eaton Township and married Ina B. Nichols. Naomi is the wife of Guy Amsbary and they live on a farm in LaGrange Township. Percy has completed his public school work and is still at home. Clyde is in the Elyria High School. The youngest children are Mildred, Claude L. and Fos-ter D. In 1896 Air:Box began conducting the home farm on the shares. His father died in that year and he then undertook to buy out the interests of the other heirs in the farm, and for the past twenty years has gone steadily ahead in the acquisition of land until he now owns .240 aeres and has also spent much money and labor in making improvements. Ile has remodeled the farm home, and has two substantial silos outside of his farm equipment. A republican, Mr. Box cast his first presidential ballot for Blaine in 1884. He was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, filling several chairs in the local lodge, and at one time belonged to the Knights of Pythias, of which he was a charter member. He is a .charter member of the Grange at Grafton, and his son Charles is secretary of the Grafton Grange and also secretary of the County Pomona. George H. Wilson, father of Airs. Box, was born March 6, 1848, in Eaton Township on a farm which he still owns. His parents were. William and Nancy (Fink) Wilson. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1808, and came to America at the age of twenty-two, locating in Lorain County, at first in the north part of the county. Nancy Fink was born in New York State, and when a child was stolen, and brought to Lorain County. She was never informed as to her parents and family, and when, she became grown she worked in Elyria until her marriage to William Wilson. After their marriage they bought seventy-three acres in the midst of the woods in Eaton Township, and they lived in a log cabin. Later they built a frame barn and a frame house, and that house is still in use, having been erected in 1847. George H. Wilson is the youngest of six children and the only one born in the house just mentioned. In December, 1863, when still a boy, George H. Wilson enlisted in Company H of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and most of his time was spent in guarding prisoners on John-son's Island. In the spring of 1865 he was detailed to assist in escorting 101 prisoners south to Richmond. On returning he was transferred to Company H and. was honorably discharged in July of that year at Columbus. On March 30, 1867, at the age. of nineteen he married Miss Magdalene Caldwell of Eaton Township, daughter of William and Magdalene (Fauver) Caldwell. Mrs. Wilson was born in Lagro, Wabash County, Indiana, December 9, 1849, and was about a year and a half old when she came with her mother to Eaton Township. After their marriage George Wilson and wife lived for a short time on Butternut Ridge. and then moved to Eaton Township, where they lived on a rented farm a few years and he then bought his father's old place. That was his home and the center of his activities for eighteen years, following which he was HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 867 for eight years a resident of Elyria, and during part of that time served on the police force. He then returned to the farm and in 1914 built his present home on a small tract of land just across the road from the old home place. The five children of George H. Wilson and wife are : Nellie May, wife of George H. Box ; Charles C. Wilson, who lives in Grafton and married Gertrude Sheldon ; Carrie Estelle, wife of Charles Daly of Elyria ; Fred, who died at the age of three years ; and Harley J., who runs the home farm and married Hilda Mason. George Wilson is a republican, and he and his wife are active members of the Disciples Church at Eaton Center. ALEXANDER L. JACKSON. A live and energetic representative of the automobile business at Elyria, Alexander L. Jackson, formerly of the Jackson-Harrison Company, has built up a thriving enterprise at 625 which has placed him prominently in the forefront among the dealers of Lorain County. Since coming to Elyria in 1894 he has been engaged in a variety of ventures, in all of which he has gained success through his own efforts ; in fact, his entire career is typical of the self-made manhood of which the Middle West is so justifiably proud. Mr. Jackson was born at Ogdensburg, New York, March 17, 1868, and is a son of William and Sarah (Kerrigan) Jackson. His father, a carpenter by trade, passed his entire life at Ogdensburg, where he died at the age of thirty-one years, the mother passing away when twenty-eight years of age. There were two sons in the family : Alexander L.; and William F., who resides at Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Jackson's early education was secured in the public schools of his native place, where he attended while not at work on a farm, for he began to be thus engaged when a lad of nine years and continued to occupy himself so until he was fifteen. Later he secured employment as a steward on the Great Lakes on boats running from Buffalo to Chicago, and while thus employed managed to obtain a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College, at Buffalo, New York. After ten years on the Lakes, in the fall of 1894 Mr. Jackson came to Elyria, where he established himself in business as the proprietor of a restaurant. This he conducted with a fair "share of success for four years, then purchasing the old American House, one of the old landmarks of Elyria, located at the corner of Broad Street and West Avenue, which he rebuilt and named the Hotel Jackson, in 1905. He conducted it as a popular-priced hostelry and built up a large patronage, conducting it personally until 1908, since which time he has leased the property, although he still retains the ownership. During the years 1910 and 1911 Mr. Jackson was proprietor of the Book Shop, located at No. 509 Broad Street, a business which he sold to A. E. Side, its present owner. At that time Mr. Jackson embarked in the automobile business, in company with M. J. Harrison, adopting the firm style of Jackson-Harrison Company, which continued until October 1, 1915, at which time Mr. Jackson withdrew from the firm and established himself in the automobile business independently, having built one of the most. complete garages in Northern Ohio, and where (1916) he handles the celebrated Overland car. The garage and sales agency are located at No. 225 Broad Street, the main business thoroughfare of Elyria, an excellent location for selling and repairing automobiles. Mr. Jackson is what is known as a hustler, with up-to-date ideas and energetic methods, and is rapidly making a name for himself in automobile circles. He belongs to the Elyria Automobile Club and the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and is well known and popular in fraternal circles, belonging to the Independent Order of Odd 868 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Fellows ; Elyria Camp, Modern Woodmen of America ; Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; and Elyria Lodge No. 431, Fraternal Order of Eagles. On January 1, 1896, Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Katherine Greenfield. of Elyria, who was born in Avon Township, Lorain County, and educated in the township and Elyria public schools, daughter of Sebastian and Katherine (Miller) Greenfield. Mr. Greenfield is now deceased, but his widow still survives, residing on the homestead in Avon Township during the summer months, but spending her winters at the home of Mr. Jackson, who declares "she is one of the best mothers-in-law in the world." To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson there have been born four children : Irene, who will graduate from the Elyria High School in the class of 1916; Leona, who in the fall of 1915 became a sophomore in the Elyria High School; Raymond, who is attending the graded schools; and Vivian, who was born in 1911. JOHN COWLEY. The name of John Cowley has a special significance in agricultural and stock farming enterprise in Eaton Township. He has spent some thirty or forty years in farming, has done much in the dairy business, and in recent years his place has become noted for its thoroughbred Holstein cattle. His home is in the southeast part of Eaton Township, where he owns ninety-one acres of highly improved land on rural route No. 1 out of Columbia postoffice. Mr. Cowley is a native of the Isle of Man and was therefore born a British subject. His birth occurred December 18, 1849. When he was about a year and a half old his parents John and Catherine (Kermode) Cowley left the Isle of Man and set out for America. For a time they lived in Cleveland, where John Cowley died in a year or so, leaving his widow and two sons, John and William. William died in childhood. The mother married again and moved to Warrensville, where John Cowley grew to manhood on a farm and acquired a common school education. At the age of twenty-one he went to Cleveland and served an apprenticeship at the bricklayer's trade. This trade he has used chiefly for his own benefit. since most of his work has been along agricultural lines. On March 20, 1878, Mr. Cowley married Miss Hattie Radcliffe, whose home at the time was on the place where Mr. and Mrs. Cowley now live. at North Eaton. Mrs. Cowley was born on a farm near Warrensville in Cuyahoga County, a daughter of James and Louise (Radcliffe) Radcliffe. Both her parents were natives of the Isle of Man and her father after coming to Ohio bought fifty acres in Eaton Township of Lorain County, a part of the farm now owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Cowley. Mrs. Cowley was about a year and a half old when the family took possession of this place. The land was heavily timbered, and Mr. Radcliffe had to cut away some of the trees in order to make a space for the small frame house which was their first home and which is still standing, being now used as a granary. Mrs. Cowley has one full brother H. J. Radcliffe, who went to Lamed, Kansas, when a young man and studied law there, was admitted to the Kansas bar, and now for many years has successfully practiced law at Mena, Arkansas, and has filled the office of prosecuting attorney: he is married and has two children. Mrs. Cowley's half sister by her mother's second marriage is Mary, wife of Fred Marsh. who lives in Grafton Township and has three children, Bernice, Willard. Geneva and one child who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Cowley became acquainted in Warrensville, and after their marriage they lived in that village for about a year, and then moved to North Eaton. Mrs. Cowley's parents had both died and she had HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 869 inherited a half interest in the fifty acre farm. Mr. Cowley then bought the other half interest, and about 1896 he remodeled the old house, which had been moved from the Harrison farm and he also remodeled the barn into a bank barn. This was afterwards struck by lightning and burned and he at once rebuilt it with one of the best barn structures found in that neighborhood. Through all the years that he has occupied this farm Mr. Cowley has carried on a successful dairy business. In 1912 he started the nucleus of his fine Holstein herd, and he has now ten head of thorougbreds and eighteen high grade cattle of the same strain but not full-bloods. His prosperity has also been measured by three different purchases of land, and he now has ninety-one acres in his home farm. Since living in this community Mr. Cowley has seen land advance in price in Eaton Township from an average of $50 an acre to $100 or more. Mr. and Mrs. Cowley are the parents of five sons. John Bernard, who was born' at Warrensville January 16, 1879, was well educated and now owns a twenty-two acre farm across the road from his father ; he married Florence Silsby and they have a daughter Alta, now nine years of age. Frank Clarence, born in Eaton Township January 12, 1881, took a course in the public schools and also learned telegraphy at Oberlin, but followed that only a few years and is now a farmer in Eaton Township ; he married Vira Hathaway and their two children are Grant Rutherford and Willis Elwin. H. Erie; born April 17, 1884, is a carpenter by trade, and by his marriage to Mary Coleman has one son Wayne M. Chester Arthur was born November 12, 1887, is active manager of his father's home farm and by his marriage to Grace Tomes has two children, a son and a daughter, Lester and Mona. Glenn was born July 2, 1900, and is now a freshman in the Berea High School. Not all his time has been devoted to farming and his private interests, since the name of John Cowley has been quite prominently associated with public affairs in Eaton Township for a number of years. Politically he is an independent republican. For twelve years he served as township trustee, and during that time was chiefly instrumental in securing the construction of the stone road known as the Cowley stone road. In 1910 he was land appraiser for Eaton .Township. He was formerly affiliated with Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons at Cleveland. ALLEN MASON NICHOLS. That farming can be conducted as a successful business in the same class as store or factory need no other proof than a visit to the excellent estate of Allen Mason Nichols, situated in Eaton Township. Mr. Nichols has a reputation in Lorain County as a progressive farmer and a skillful dairyman and is now vice president of the Lorain County Dairymen's Association. His farm comprises 160 acres on Center Road one mile north of Eaton Center, and it has always been a matter of pride with him to maintain the highest standards as an agriculturist. The farm where he now lives and which he owns was also his birthplace. He first saw the light of day in a log house January 27, 1858. His parents were Mason E. and Joan (Mead) Nichols. His father was born at Crown Point, Essex County, New York, February 26, 1830, and while still a boy went with his parents Andrew and Mrs. (Haven) Nichols to Shalersville Township in Portage County, Ohio, where his parents bought land, improved a farm, and spent the rest of their days. There he grew to manhood and at the age of nineteen, desiring to get married, he bought his time from his father for $75. He was married in Freedom Township of Portage County to Miss Joan Mead, and soon afterward 870 - HISTORY. OF LORAIN COUNTY came to Lorain County, where some of his Havens relatives had previously located. For $12 an acre he bought eighty acres of land still included in the Nichols homestead occupied by his son Allen. Only about six acres of this was cleared at the time. Mason Nichols was a very industrious man and a good manager, and from time to time purchased other land until he had accumulated an estate of 421 acres in one body. Among other improvements there arose a substantial frame house in 1860, and there were also several barns, the largest of which was burned in 1867. It was about that time that his first wife, Joan, died, being survived by four children. Arthur, the oldest. who became a well known lawyer in Elyria and died December 26. 1886, married Nettie Squiers of Elyria and is survived by one child, Mason. The second of the four children is Allen Mason. Celia J., the only daughter. died in Cleveland as the wife of F. H. Jackson. The youngest. John D. owned and occupied a farm in Nelson Township of Portage County for a few years, afterwards became manager of the Bell Vernon Creamery at Garrettsville, and then became assistant manager of the Cleveland plant of this creamery concern, remaining about ten years, and is now connected with the Schneider Becker Dairy Company of Cleveland. He was at one time president of an United States Dairymen's Association. By his marriage to Adel Felt of Eaton Township he had two children. Paris and Lula. For his second wife Mason E. Nichols married Mahala Cousins of Dover, Cuyahoga County. The only child of this Marriage died quite young. Mason Nichols was a republican in polities. served as a trustee of Eaton Township, was a member of the Disciples Church. and his death occurred in 1883. While growing:, up on the old farm Allen M. Nichols aequired a good country school ducation. At the age of eighteen his father removed to Elyria and he continued his schooling there and at. Berea. He then began working out, and for a time was employed in a cheese factory at Eaton Center.. On March 29, 1882, in Hiram, Portage County, Mr. Nichols married Miss Frances D. Gage, who was born on a farm in Freedom Township, Portage County, January 7, 1861; a daughter of Martin B. and Mandana (Hart) Gage, her father being a native of Portage County and her mother a native of Michigan. Mrs. Nichols was reared in Hiram Township and had a common school education. To their marriage have been born seven children. Bessie D. is the wife of 0. V. Hudson of Akron, and they have had three children, but a son, named Paul V., is the only one living. Louis G., who lives on a farm in Eaton Township. married Metta Sayers and has one child named Ethel F. Arthur A. is an employe of the Big Four Railway Company. Martin E. is a motorman on the Green Line. Ralph A. is a clerk in a hardware store at Akron. Olive M. is the wife of Edward Bainbridge. Paul C. lives at home and assists his father in the management of the farm and dairy. Mr. Nichols is a stanch republican, and for twenty years has served his township as assessor and was reelected for another term in 1915. He was elected trustee in 1896, and in 1915 was again chosen for that responsibility. In the way of public improvements he has always favored the construction and maintenance of good highways. He has also attended various county conventions as a delegate, and wherever possible has manifested his influence in behalf of improvement and progress. In 1916 he was appointed vice president for Eaton Township of the Lorain County Dairymen's Association, and since taking the office has succeeded in adding 167 to the membership of the association in his own township. For twenty-two years Mr. Nichols has been a member of the Knights of the Maccabees in Eaton Center, has filled all the chairs in the local or- HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 871 ganization and has represented them in the Grand Lodge. There are many things about his farm which indicate his stand for improvement. In 1899 Ile put down a gas well 800 feet, has thoroughly tiled his land, and a few years ago he put up a silo 14x16 feet with a capacity of 150 tons. CHARLES F. CUSHING, M. D. The dean of the medical profession in Lorain County is Dr. Charles F. Cushing, who, bearing the weight of more than eighty-six years, is still a loved and venerated member of local society at Elyria and has spent more than fifty years in kindly and skillful service to his fellow men. While he only occasionally counsels some of his former patients, Doctor Cushing was for years a friend and a physician to a wide circle of people in Lorain County. He was the pioneer of the homeopathic school of medicine in Lorain County, and in the early days did much through his own personal ability and character to overcome the prejudice with which at one time homeopathic doctors were regarded. Doctor Cushing is a man of gentle manner in all his dealings. and this quality, together with an expert knowledge and skill in medicine, won for him the strong affections of hundreds of families in this county. The name Cushing has many familiar historical associations with New England. The early annals of Scituate. Massachusetts, frequently make mention of the name. Doctor Cushing's grandfather was Francis Cushing, who was born at Scituate, and became a shipbuilder. His greatest distinction was in acting as master builder during the con-struction of the frigate, renowned in American annals and song and story. the old Constitution. Charles Cushing, son of this shipbuilder, followed the calling of a farmer, and was also born at .Scituate. He married Miss Sally R. Thayer, whose ancestors included members of the Turner family. also prominent in the early history of New England. Charles and Sally Cushing spent their lives in the East, and became the parents of ten children, one of whom is Dr. Charles F. Cushing of Elyria. Charles F. Cushing was born in Turner, Maine, October 28, 1829. His eighty-six years have been filled with interesting experience and service. As a boy be had the surroundings and advantages of the average New England youth. his muscles being strengthened and disciplined by the work of the farm, while he sharpened his intelligence in the common schools and by three months of attendance at a select school. This brought him to the age of seventeen, at which time he bought time" from his father for $100. During the next four years he worked at any honest employment he could find, repaying the debt to his father, and also earning sufficient to carry him through higher school privileges at Lewiston Falls in the State of Maine. He worked at times on the farm and also as a school teacher, and after leaving New England followed teaching for three years in the South. Alter a short visit back East, he spent the five years from 1854 in Cali-fornia. His experiences there were of a varied nature. He was in the cities, at the gold diggings, for a time was proprietor of a hotel in the mountains, and finally became associated with a friend in improving a tract of land, which they fenced, prepared and planted with fruit trees and grape vines, and thus became pioneers in one of the greatest of modern California industries. It is interesting to recall the contract which existed between these partners: "He who first marries, to him shall this property belong." In fulfillment of this curious arrangement, the "ranche" finally went to the friend, while the other partner soon afterward returned East and located at Elyria. 872 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY While still in California Doctor Cushing took up the study of medicine with a Doctor Norman in Suisun Valley, and continued his readings at Cleveland, Ohio, with Dr. John Wheeler. He subsequently entered the Western Homeopathic College at Cleveland and graduated M. D. in the spring of 1861. For two winters he remained with his alma mater in Cleveland as demonstrator of anatomy. It was thus with an unusual equipment of natural talents and training that Doctor Cushing located in Elyria and began practice as an exponent of the Hahnemann principles of medicine. Doctor Cushing was just the man to act as a pioneer in establishing new ideas against popular prejudices. He had the qualities of the real leader of men, readily won popular confidence, and the local esteem in which he was held is shown by an incident which occurred soon after he moved to Elyria. In 1862 he was requested to form a company of "squirrel hunters," for service in the Union army. He responded with alacrity, and a number of people can still recall his departure from Elyria as head of the company. For weeks he and his comrades were encamped at Gen. W. H. Harrison's old homestead. and finally after gallant and efficient service Governor Tod sent them home under Captain Cushing, who had been not only captain, but physician and friend to the men under him. Doctor Cushing has well deserved the honors which are paid to the veteran physician and surgeon of Elyria. While really retired, some of his friends still insist upon his ministrations as a medical adviser and physician. During his active career he enjoyed one of the best practices given to any physician in Lorain County. At one time he was surgeon for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, having succeeded Dr. E. P. Haines in that position after the latter's death. He continued as surgeon with this railway company until by general order the office was abolished. The most courteous relations have always existed between Doctor Cushing and his brother physicians, and at times too numerous to mention he has proved himself a sympathetic friend and adviser to young men starting out on their professional career: He is a member of the Lorain County Medical Society and Ohio State Medical Society. and is a consulting member of the staff of the Elyria Memorial Hospital. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Men's Club of the Congregational Church. In politics he is classed as a progressive republican. Mrs. Charles F. Cushing, his wife, died at the old home on West Fifth Street in Elyria December 5, 1910. Her maiden name was Mary L. Hayward, and she was born at Elyria September 16. 1848. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Hayward, who, when she was a child, moved to Attleboro, Massachusetts, and subsequently to Brooklyn, New York. Miss Hayward and Dr. Charles F. Cushing were married at Brooklyn May 15, 1866, and the young couple soon afterwards returned to Elyria. To their marriage were born three children : Fannie and Helen, both of whom died in early childhood. and Charles H., a leading physician and surgeon of Elyria, whose career is the subject of another article in this work. Like her husband, Mrs. Cushing was of fine old New England stock. Mention has already been made of Francis Cushing's connections as the builder of the old ship Constitution. When the time came for the breaking up of that boat after its service in the national navy. Mrs. Cushing's grandfather. Lyman Knowles, secured sonic of the timbers and from them made a carriage which he presented to President Jackson at Washington, District of Columbia. Mrs. Cushing took a prominent part in social affairs at Elyria and is particularly well remembered for HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 873 her kindly nature. She was never known to speak disparagingly of anyone, and to the last had a faith in the essential goodness of human nature. Since her death Dr. Charles F. Cushing and his son, Dr. Charles H., and family have all lived under one roof and have one of the attractive homes of the city. CHARLES HAYWARD CUSHING, K D. No name has been more prominently identified with the profession of medicine in Elyria than that of Cushing. In the twenty years since he began practice Dr. Charles H. Cushing has not only utilized the opportunities that come to an able and conscientious physician in his profession, but at the same time has become one of Elyria's leaders in business and civic and social life. His father is Dr. Charles F. Cushing, now one of the oldest members of the medical profession at Elyria, and he is now bringing his active career to a conclusion, gradually retiring from practice. A sketch of the life of Dr. Charles P. Cushing is found on other pages. The mother of Dr. C. H. Cushing was Mary Hayward Cushing, now deceased. Those who have had an opportunity to follow closely the career of Doctor Cushing say that, though physically of medium size, he is endowed with wonderful physical endurance and that no man in the medical profession of Northern Ohio has put in more time devoted to the strenuous work of his calling. Besides the ability to work hard he has had training and is a man of great natural ability. Charles Hayward Cushing was born at Elyria, December 20, 1869, attended as a boy the public schools in Elyria, Oberlin College, and has won two degrees as doctor of medicine, one from the regular school and one from the School of Homeopathy. He was graduated from the Western Reserve University and from the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, has taken post-graduate courses in the New York Polyclinic and the New York Post-Graduate, in the Chicago Policlinic, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and has also attended clinics abroad. His first regular position was as house surgeon in the Huron Road Hospital at Cleveland, and while there he gave evidence of that splendid ability that has characterized his subsequent career. On April 3, 1895, he successfully removed, and the operation is recorded in medical literature, a thirty-eight pound dermoid tumor. This major operation he performed before taking up regular practice as a physician and surgeon. Doctor Cushing hag served as staff surgeon at the Elyria Memorial Hospital since its establishment, and. on the Doctors' Advisory Board. He is surgeon for the New York Central Railway Company and the Lake Shore Electric Railway Company, surgeon for several of Elyria 's largest industrial plants and examiner for about twenty old-line life insurance companies. He has been president of the staff of the Elyria Memorial Hospital, has been president of the Lorain County Medical Society, and is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Association of Railway Surgeons and the American Association of Orificial Surgeons. His record in business and social life is one that deserves mention. He is vice president of the Eastern Heights Land Company, is a director in the Elyria Savings and Banking Company, in the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, in the Hygienic Ice Company, and also in the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. He is a director and consulting physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association and chairman of the physical department of that association. Doctor Cushing has served as president of the Men's Club of the First Congregational Church, as president of the Elyria Country Club, and for four years was chairman of the Good Roads Committee of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. He 874 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY is a member of the Elyria Country Club and the Union Club of Cleveland, On December 4, 1895, at Elyria, Doctor Cushing married Josephine Folger, a daughter of the late Mayor Thomas Folger, a prominent Elyria citizen whose career is traced on other pages of this publication. Mrs. Cushing, who is a graduate of Oberlin College, is active socially and was the first physical director in connection with that important department of one of Cleveland's prominent churches. Their children, all born in Elyria, are named : Thomas Folger Cushing. Now a senior in the preparatory school of Oberlin, Ohio; Carl Folger Cushing, who has won distinction as an athlete at. Culver Military Academy in Indiana ; and John Turner Cushing, who is attending the graded schools. JOHN AND CHARLES SCHAIBLE. One of the handsome and well-cultivated properties of Elyria. Township is that belonging to the Schaible brothers, John and Charles, which is located on the old Telegraph Road, just outside the corporation limits of Elyria, They have passed their entire lives in this locality, where both have established reputations for industry and integrity, and have contributed in no small measure to the upbuilding and advancement of this part of Lorain County. John Schaible was born August 15. 1855, and Charles June 5, 1852, in Elyria Township, being sons of Jacob and Catherine Barbara (Ramsayer) Schaible. The parents were natives of Bolanden, Oberamt Stuttgart, Germany, where they were married November 22, 1833, and came to the United States May 1, 1848, arriving in Elyria Township, Lorain County, Ohio, August 1 of that year, They were accompanied by five children, and four more were afterwards born to them in Ohio. Settling on the farm now owned by their sons, Charles and John, they continued to be industriously engaged in farming operations during the remaining years of their lives. and through their sterling traits of character impressed themselves upon their community and won and retained the esteem and regard of those with whom they came into contact. The father, who was born March 27, 1807, died February 9, 1874,. while the mother, born February 9, 1817, died December 11. 1873. Of their eleven children, two died in infancy, while the others were as follows: Agnes Barbara, who is the widow of Frederick Theiss of Berea Township, and has five children : Mary Margaret, who is the wife of Martin Limb of Wooster, Ohio: Frederick. who died February, 1875, a farmer on Telegraph Road, inside the corporation limits of Elyria, married Marie Julia Rodsezzinsky, also deceased. and had an only daughter who survives them and is the owner of the farm : Henrietta Catherine, who is the wife of George Krieger. of Wooster, Ohio, and had five children, of whom two sons survive : Jacob E., a farmer of West Ridge, Elyria Township, who married Caroline Eppley, of Zanesville, Ohio, and has two children : Charles Henry and Carrie, the latter being the wife of George Horn. a farmer of Russia Township ; Caroline, who died April 29, 1.910 Charles and John, of this review : and Sophia. The Schaible brothers were reared on the home farm and secured their educations in the public schools. When ready to enter upon their careers they adopted farming as a vocation in which to work out their success, and from the outset have been associated in every dealing. This partnership has been mutually beneficial and congenial and the brothers form a team that is hard to beat in matters agricultural. The home farm is a tract of sixty-four acres, in addition to which they own also two other farming tracts in Elyria Township, one being a farm of sixty acres on the old Telegraph Road, formerly known as the old West farm, and one on the West Ridge. consisting of 127 acres. Their land is all in a good HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 875 state of cultivation, with substantial buildings and up-to-date improvements and modern machinery, and a general air of prosperity gives evidence of the presence of good management and well-directed effort. While the land is given over principally to general farming, the brothers are also engaged in raising some good cattle, which, while not thoroughbred. is constantly being improved, the Messrs. Schaible working towards a better class of cattle. For several years they were also engaged in breeding race horses, and while a number of years have passed since they abandoned this business, as well as that of racing the animals, the records still bear witness to the speed of their animals, notable among which was the famous "Fleetwood." Both brothers are good citizens, ever ready to help in all public-spirited movements, and find their greatest pleasure in the cultivation of their fields, the raising of fat, contented live stock, and the tending of a promising and productive orchard. ANSON O. WEST has made his success as a practical farmer and dairyman and is one of the live and progressive citizens of Pittsfield Township. At different times in his career he has been honored with several township offices, and his dependability has been a prominent characteristic in all his relations. Besides general farming he also conducts a dairy of about fifteen cows. Practically all his life has been spent on the farm, and he now owns the place in Pittsfield Township on which he was born August 7, 1856. His parents were Oliver and Phoebe F. (Messenger) West. His paternal grandfather was Joshua West, a native of Massachusetts, who subsequently moved out to Ohio and spent the rest of his days as a farmer in this state. The Wests are of English ancestry. The maternal grandfather was Anson Messenger, who was an early settler in Portage County, Ohio. Oliver West, who was born at Lee, Massachusetts, in 1907, died in 1883. He came out to Ohio in 1832 and bought a farm at Wellington, where he lived for some eight or nine years, and then moved to Portage County, but in 1842 returned to Lorain County and acquired a tract of wild land consisting of about a hundred acres. He applied himself industriously to the clearing up of this place, constructed substantial farm buildings, and lived there until his death. He and his wife were members of the Congregational Church and in politics he was a republican. His wife, Miss Messenger, was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1820, and died in 1896. They reared three children, and the only one now living is Anson 0. Anson O. West while growing up on the home farm in Pittsfield Township attended the district school there and was also a student in Oberlin College for several terms. Having been reared to farm work he adopted it as his permanent vocation, and all his efforts have been confined to his native farm. In 1896 he bought the interests of the other heirs, and now has a well equipped farmstead of one hundred eighteen acres. While the farm has been under his ownership he has constructed and remodeled some of the buildings, and now has everything he requires for successful agriculture in this section of Ohio. In 1880 Mr. West married Miss Grace Rogers. Mrs. West is a native of England. and her father John Rogers came to Lorain County in 1869 and spent the rest of his days here. Mr. and Mrs. West have three children : Nettie V., at home: John Oliver, who conducts the farm for his father : and Fannie Ann, who is attending Ohio University at Athens. Mrs. West is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church while he remains true to the faith in which he was reared, the Congregational. Vol. II-21 876 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY He is also affiliated with the Maccabees Order and in politics is a republican. BURDETTE S. SMITH. Nearly every one in Lorain is now acquainted with the substantial position occupied by Burdette S. Smith, as head of an electrical contracting and garage and automobile plant, but comparatively few know of the struggles by which he has won his way to success. Very early in life, on account of the death of his mother. he had to turn his time to account in making his own way in the world. He had been born at Ludington, Michigan, June 6, 1876. His father, Samuel Smith, was a foreman in the lumber camps of Northern Michigan during the high tide of the lumber industry. The mother was Loretta Smith. On account of the breaking up of the home through the death of the mother, Burdette S. Smith, who in the meantime had acquired only a limited amount of education in the public schools, went east to New York City, and for a time sold papers on the streets. The position which had a great deal to do with his subsequent destiny was employment with the telephone company, and he soon became an operator, and from that got into the more technical part of the business as a switchboard and cable man, and eventually was made foreman of a gang of men performing this class of work. In that way he acquired a thorough practical knowledge of electrical construction and operation, and his main business career has been identified chiefly with things electrical. In 1900 Mr. Smith came to Lorain to take charge of the telephone department of the National Tube Company. Later he organized the Lorain Electrical Construction Company, of which he became manager, secretary and treasurer, and in September, 1914, he bought the controlling interests and then changed the name to the Lorain Electric & Auto Company. This is now a substantial industry at Lorain. and Mr. Smith built the structure which his plant occupies, a two-story brick building, 33 by 143 feet deep, all of which is occupied by his shops and garage. He also has a two-story warehouse, 25 by 50 feet. Besides his general repair and electrical contracting business he handles the agency for the Ford and Buick automobiles. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason, and is a life member of Al-Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Cleveland, Ohio. He is one of the most popular business men of Lorain. On June 1. 1902, he married Miss Lulu White of Vermilion, Ohio. Their three children are named Chester Burdette, Blanche Dee and Paul White. WILLIAM E. AVERY. Several generations of the Avery family have lived in Lorain County and have performed their part as citizens with spirit and credit to themselves. The name is one of the most honored in the rural district. of the county and one of the older living representatives is William E. Avery whose fine farm home is situated in the vicinity of Wellington. He was born in Pittsfield Township June 26, 1848, a son of Carlos and Martha (McKnaught) Avery. His paternal grandparents both died in Massachusetts, while his maternal grandfather John McKnaught was a native of Ireland, a shoemaker by trade, and died at Waterloo. Iowa. Carlos Avery was born in Massachusetts in January, 1808. and died in December, 1892. He was married at Pittsfield. Massachusetts. to Miss McKnaught, who was born at New Lebanon, New York. in 1822. and died in 1904. In a very early day his parents came west and located in Lorain County and established their home on a farm in Pittsfield Town- HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 877 ship. Carlos Avery was one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to develop the communities of Lorain County, and his first purchase of land was ninety-six acres, while later he bought ninety-eight more. After clearing up his land and living in a style of utmost simplicity for some years he had prospered so as to build for his family a substantial brick house, and he spent the rest of his days in comfort. While his wife was a member of the Congregational Church, he was a regular attendant of the Methodist, and he not only went to church on Sundays and other meeting days, but he carried his Christianity into his everyday life, and he also made his children attend church and encouraged them to similar piety. In the early days he took his family to church in an ox cart. He was an unusually fine type of the early settler, and was well read and educated beyond the standard of the men of his time. In politics he was a democrat, but his chief interest was in promoting the good of his home locality, particularly the schools. He served as a school director for a number of years, and led the movement for the erection of one of the first schoolhouses in Pittsfield Township. Carlos Avery and wife had five children, and the four now living are : Mary Elizabeth, widow of William Worthing and living at Colorado Springs ; William E. ; Charles, a retired citizen of Oberlin ; and Harriet, wife of Frank Gifford. who is living retired at Wellington. William E. Avery had the advantage of the schools in Pittsfield Township during the decades of the '50s and early '60s, and has always appreciated the fine training which he received at home under the direction of his father. He also attended the Wellington Academy and completed his education by a business course at Oberlin. On December 13, 1871, Mr. Avery married Sarah Rawson, daughter of Zera and Martha (Ames) Rawson. Her father was born in 1822 and died February 11, 1898, and was for many years a successful farmer in Pittsfield Township. On September 23, 1840, he married Miss Ames, who was born in Jefferson County, New York, July 13, 1823, and died at the advanced age of ninety-two on December 31, 1915. After their marriage they located in Pittsfield Township, where they assisted in converting a. portion of the wilderness into a good home, and they finally moved to Michigan where both Mr. and Mrs. Rawson died. Of their nine children all are still living, and Mrs. Avery was the sixth in order of birth. She has one brother who lives in Norwalk, Ohio, while the others reside in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Avery have three children : Lula is the wife of Mark A. Whitney of Oberlin. Edith married George Hines of Pittsfield Township and they have one child, Luella May. Winfield some years ago had both feet cut off in a railroad wreck, but is showing his capacity for work in spite of this handicap and is now a bookkeeper with the railway company at Cleveland. He married Amanda Sehlobohm and has two children, Karl William and Scott Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Avery are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights and Ladies of Security. In politics a republican, he has been quite active in local affairs, has served as a member of the election board and as school director and for a number of years was president of the school board. Some years ago Mr. Avery acquired the interests of the other heirs in the old homestead in Pittsfield Township, and now has a fine farm of nearly ninety-five acres, and gives his entire time and attention to the business of general farming. FLOYD G. AVERY. Among the younger men who in recent years have assumed the major responsibilities in the conduct of Lorain County's agricultural interests is Floyd G. Avery, who is still in his '30s and yet 878 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY has established himself securely in the farming community around Oberlin, and is making a success partly on his own land and partly on land that he rents. A native of Lorain County, he was born in Pittsfield Township May 20, 1879, a son of Charles P, and Martha (Preston) Avery, His grandparents, Carlos and Martha Avery, were early settlers in Lorain County. Carlos Avery was a native of Connecticut and was well known among the early settlers of this section of Ohio, The maternal grandfather, William Preston, was a native of England and spent many years in Lorain County, finally passing away at Oberlin. Charles F. Avery was born in Pittsfield Township and is living at Oberlin with his wife, who is a native of Sullivan, Ohio. They were married in Lorain County, and Charles Avery followed farming actively until 1900, at which date he retired and moved to Oberlin. There are four children : Lewis, of Oberlin, who is employed at the car barns at Elyria ; Leland, who is manager for the Sterns automobile business at Cleveland; Phoebe, wife of C. C. Sheffield, a farmer in Pittsfield Township; and Floyd G. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father is a democrat. and for a number of years filled an office on the school board, Floyd G, Avery acquired his early education in the schools of Pittsfield Township, and grew up on his father's farm, He spent three years as a farmer on part of his father's land, but at the present time he owns thirty-five acres and operates under lease one hundred acres belonging to his father-in-law and is rapidly getting ahead in the world. At Christmas. 1900, Mr. Avery married Miss Cora Sherburne, daughter of Arthur and Ada (Whitney) Sherburne, a farmer of. Pittsfield Township. They have four children : Treva, Kenneth, Knowlton and Charles. The two older children are both in school. Mr. and Airs. Avery are members of the Grange and belong to the Congregational Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum and in politics is a republican. He has made himself a factor in local affairs, and in 1913 was elected township trustee and reelected in 1913. He has served six years as school director. WILLIAM LEWIS HUGHES. Among the leading members of the Lorain County bar, William Lewis Hughes, city solicitor of Lorain, has brought to the practice of his calling broad scholarship, comprehensive training and a fine legal mind. Instead of selecting his life calling in the untried enthusiasm of extreme youth, Mr. Hughes made his choice with a mature mind, trained to thoughtfulness by years of experience as an educator and to a full realization of the possibilities and responsibilities which professional practice entails, William L. Hughes belongs to a family whose members have resided in Ohio since 1825, in which year his grandfather, Hezekiah Hughes. migrated to Belmont County and took up his residence in a wild and uncultivated community where he established his home and after years of endeavor succeeded in clearing and cultivating a farm. From that time this family has had much to do with agricultural interests here, but a number of the name have also engaged with success in business and the professions. The parents of Mr. Hughes. Preston and Mary A. (Fisher) Hughes, were born in Belmont County. Ohio, and there their entire careers have been passed, the father being a well-to-do fruit farmer. William Lewis Hughes was born on the homestead place in Belmont County, Ohio. July 22, 1860, and there received his education in the district, and normal schools. At the age of twenty years he secured a teacher's certificate and began teaching in the public schools, and (luring HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 879 his fifteen years of connection with the educational profession became one of the best known and most proficient and popular educators in that part of Ohio. Much of his time during the summer months was spent on the farm, and toward the close of his work as an instructor he applied himself to the study of law, being finally admitted to the bar in December, 1894. Selecting the City of Lorain as his field of endeavor, in 1895 he entered general practice here, opened an office and enrolled his name among the practitioners of the city, Unusual ability, great natural resource and firm belief in the best tenets of his profession soon made him a factor to be reckoned with, and in the course of his professional life many of the most important municipal cases in this part of the state have received his support, In 1897 he was elected city solicitor of Lorain, an office which he still retains. While Mr, Hughes' practice has been broad and general in its nature, embracing all the branches of his calling, he has, perhaps, gained his reputation principally in the field of municipal law, of which he is an acknowledged master, He is a valued member of the Lorain County Bar Association, and has been connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias since 1889, having been past chancellor in 1890. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and is vice president of the Methodist Brotherhood. Mr, Hughes is esteemed for his many excellent qualities of heart and mind, for his thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of law, and for a public spiritedness which has ever prompted a sane and practical interest in those measures which tend to greater happiness, stability and good government. On July 21, 1891, Mr, Hughes was married to Miss Leonora Dickerson, of Harrison County, Ohio, a member of a family which was founded there in 1805 by her great-grandfather, Thomas Dickerson. This family has been for years one of the best known and most highly esteemed in that county, and some of its members built the first Methodist Episcopal church in Southeastern Ohio, Mr. and Mrs, Hughes are the parents of four children, two dying in infancy and Izetta Lucile, who is studying music at Oberlin College, and Inez Leone, who is attending the public schools, AMOS E. LAWRENCE. During nearly fifteen years of active practice at Elyria Mr. Lawrence has distinguished himself for solid ability as a lawyer, is one of the leaders of the Lorain County bar, and at the same time the community have often looked to his interest and support for many enterprises and movements that would advance the city and surrounding country. His birth occurred on a farm in Florence Township of Erie County, Ohio, February 9, 1862, and he belongs to the sturdy and excellent stock of New England and the Ohio Western Reserve. His parents were Charles D, and Hannah E. (Green) Lawrence, both of whom are still living (1915) at Birmingham in Erie County, the father at the age of seventy-seven and the mother at seventy-six, In the direct line of ancestry Mr, Lawrence is separated by three generations from a patriot soldier of the Revolutionary war, Amos Lawrence, a son of this Revolutionary soldier, was a soldier in the War of 1812, His son also named Amos Lawrence was born in New Hampshire. February 27, 1812, and was the grandfather of the Elyria attorney. He was an early settler in Northern Ohio, having first located in Cuyahoga County, but soon afterwards moved into Erie County and spent the rest of his life as a farmer in Florence Township. Charles D. Lawrence was born October 12, 1838, on the banks of Cuyahoga River, but has spent practically all his life in Erie County, where a few years ago he retired from the active cares of farming and has since enjoyed the pleasures of a good home at Birmingham. Charles D. Lawrence was reared in the Presbyterian Church but 880 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY he and his wife have long been members of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, Mrs, Charles D. Lawrence was born in Michigan, a daughter of Silas Green, All their four children are still living. Amos E. being the oldest ; Lillian is now Mrs, W, P. Almroth of Big Rapids, Michigan ; C. A. is a successful merchant at Owosso, Michigan ; and Mrs, L. R. Heinzerling lives at Elyria The first eighteen years of his life Amos E. Lawrence spent on his father's farm in Erie County and the family then removing to LaGrange in Lorain County, he attended high school there and soon qualified himself for teaching, For eleven years Mr. Lawrence was one of the efficient and popular teachers in the district and village schools, spending the winter in that work while the summer seasons were usually devoted to farming, He was married at the age of twenty-two to Miss Josie Humphrey, who was born at LaGrange, a daughter of Sylvester G. and Laura (Ensign) Humphrey, After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence lived on. their farm in LaGrange Township, and he looked after its management in addition to his school duties. At the age of thirty-six in 1897 Mr, Lawrence began the study of law in the office of William B, Johnston of Elyria, and has been in active practice since his admission to the bar in June, 1901, For the first six years he carried on an individual practice and then in May, 1907, formed a partnership with Lorenzo D, Hamlin under the firm name of Lawrence & Hamlin, but since the dissolution of this partnership in September, 1909, Mr, Lawrence has again practiced alone, He is now a lawyer in two states, having been admitted to the bar of Florida, in February, 1915, Mr. Lawrence has considerable property interests in that state, and spent three months of the winter of 1914-15 there, He has established a home in DeSoto County near Sebring, Florida, not so much as a. resort for pleasure, but from a business standpoint. He has developed a grape fruit and orange grove of twenty acres, and has thirty acres in his farm, Mr. Lawrence has his offices in the Masonic Temple at Elyria, and has a large and valuable law library, and in the past fifteen years has handled -a large volume of general practice in all the courts of Lorain County. While he was carrying on his law studies he was twice, elected and served two terms as justice of the peace. In 1907 he was elected secretary of The Lorain County Bar Association and held that office until January, 1915, In politics Mr, Lawrence is a republican and has taken much part in the local work of the party, Fraternally he is affiliated with LaGrange Lodge No. 399, Free and Accepted Masons at LaGrange, and with the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence have two daughters, Mrs, W. P, Babcock and Mrs. J. M. Dougherty, both of Elyria, and both were born in Lorain County and received their education in the local schools Mr. Lawrence also has five grandchildren, all boys, one being the son of his daughter, Eva J., who married Mr. W. P. Babcock, and four being children of his daughter, Sylvia 0., the wife of James M. Dougherty, G. ADOLPHUS RESEK. The increasing tendency of men learned in the science of law to embark in enterprises outside of their professional field of endeavor has resulted in numerous advantages, This is one of the benefits of a profession which equips its followers for success in more lines of business than any other, and the natural result is an elevating of commercial standards, and a general simplifying of conditions through a knowledge of fundamental principles and limitations. An illustration of this modern type of attorney is found in the person of G, Adolphus Resek, of Lorain, who is one of the leaders of the Lorain County bar, a prominent factor in the commercial and industrial life of this part of HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 881 Northern Ohio. Mr, Resek is a refutation of the old adage that "the shoemaker should stick to his last,” for from the start of his career each successive change which he has made has brought him added prosperity and prestige. Mr. Resek was born at Cleveland, Ohio, March 10, 1872, and is a son of Joachim and Charlotte (Singer) Resek. His father, a native of Prague, Bohemia, came to the United States in 1867, and passed seventeen years in business at Cleveland, in 1884 coming to Lorain, where he established himself as the proprietor of a merchandise store. Here he continued to engage in business until his death, which occurred in 1904. He was a man in whose life the qualities of industry and integrity were well blended, winning him honorable success and the esteem and respect of those with whom he was in any way associated. Mrs, Resek passed away in 1876, when her son was only four years of age. G. A. Resek received his early education in the graded schools of Cleveland, and was twelve years of age when he accompanied his father to Lorain. Here he completed his education in the Lorain High School, from which he was duly graduated, and at once entered upon his business career, receiving his introduction to business methods as clerk in a dry goods store in Michigan. After one year, the serious illness of his father caused him to return to Lorain, where he took charge of his father's business, and managed it well until the elder man's recovery and return to active participation in commercial affairs. Mr. Resek's entrance into the law came about as a result of his election to the office of city auditor, in 1896, when he became the first auditor under the first city charter. In that capacity he served capably for four years, and during this time found it necessary to familiarize himself with various branches of the law, In this way he became interested in its study, and eventually decided to engage in the profession, and after several years of devoted study was admitted to practice, in 1900. He immediately opened an office at Lorain, and here has since continued in general practice, his clientele having grown to large and important proportions. Mr. Resek's practice has covered a wide range. He has a brilliant record as a trial lawyer. but his constructive ability, as shown by the various organizations and reorganizations with which he has been connected, has won for him a still higher place in the esteem and confidence of his clients. He was the reorganizer of the City Bank Company, of Lorain, of which he is attorney and a director, and is also attorney for the Lorain Banking Company, the Lake Shore Electric Company, the Lorain Street Railway Company, and other large corporations. He is also president of the Standard Hardware Company and secretary of the Lorain Sand and Gravel Company, Mr, Resek holds membership in the Lorain County Bar Association and for fifteen years has been a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, He has kept in touch with his old schoolmates, and in 1915 was elected president of the Lorain High School Alumni Association. Fraternally, he is widely connected, being a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and in the last named is past chancellor. He is a republican, but of recent years has not been active politically, for the reason that his law practice and business relations have practically absorbed his entire time and strength to the exclusion of everything else. On September 12, 1904, Mr, Resek was married to Miss Clara Norton, of Wooster, daughter of Albert James and Marjory (Piper) Norton, residents of Wayne County, Ohio. Mr, and Mrs, Resek are the parents of one daughter : Rhea Charlotte, 882 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY JOSEPH WESBECHER, About forty-five years ago Joseph Wesbecher arrived at Amherst a young journeyman tinsmith, He had been in this country only about three years, and had hardly mastered the language and become familiar with American customs and institutions, Industry, the ability to adapt himself to circumstances, (rood business judgment and enterprise have since made Joseph Wesbecher a wealthy and influential citizen, and he has well earned his position at Amherst. The business with which his name has been longest associated is known as the Wesbecher Hardware Company, which is incorporated with a capital of forty thousand dollars and of which Ile is president and general manager, His son Henry Wesbecher is secretary. Mr, Wesbecher is also one of the directors of the Amherst German Bank Company, is interested in the U, S. Automatic Company and the Cold Storage Plant, and is one of the leaders in that group of men whose influence and enterprise carry the heaviest burdens of business responsibility in Lorain County, Joseph Wesbecher was born in Mugensturm Baden. Germany, February 25, 1852, a son of Aloise and Martha (Melcher) Wesbecher. His father spent his life as a farmer in Baden and the family were all reared in the Catholic faith. There were eight children, and the three still living are: John, a farmer in Ohio; George, an upholstcrer at Greensburg, Pennsylvania; and Joseph, Leaving home at an early age after getting the ordinary education in the German schools, Joseph Wesbecher came to America and in 1869 at the age of seventeen found himself at Youngstown, Ohio. He spent a summer working on a farm, and then went to Crestline, Ohio, and learned the tinner's trade, That trade has been the foundation of his business success, and he still qualifies as an expert in that mechanical occupation. In 1872 he came to Amherst and worked at his trade for others for four years, and then bought the establishment of Mr. Jacob Stahl. Since then he has been in the tin and hardware business and has one of the largest stores in the county, In 1879 Mr, Wesbecher married Matilda Plato, a daughter of John Plato, who for many years was fir the grocery business at Amherst. Mr. and Mrs, Wesbecher have six children Henry A,, who is associated with his father in business at Amherst ; Carl A, in the real estate business in California ; Edith, wife of Emmett Lahiff, who is a steam shovel engineer at Berea, Ohio; Leo, connected with a construction company in New York ; Lucile, at home; and Frank, also at home. The family are members of the Catholic Church and the sons, C. A. and Frank, belong to the Knights of Columbus. Mr, Wesbecher in politics is a democrat. CHARLES C, SCHWARZ. Progressive farming at its best is well illustrated on Rose Lawn Farm, whose proprietor is Charles C. Schwarz. Rose Lawn is located in Grafton Township, on Center Road, a mile and a quarter from Belden postoffice, and on rural route No. 3, The proprietor of this farm has usually been the first to introduce improved machinery and methods for the handling of his crops and the preparation of his soil for cultivation. He has the distinction of having been the first agriculturist in that township to buy a manure spreader. That was back in 1897, In 1898 he built the first silo in that community and constructed one on more modern plans in 1913. He bought a hay loader in 1902, a corn harvester in 1901, and in his dairy introduced the use of a cream separator. He also hrought in power to run the machinery of his barn and workhouses, and bought his first gasoline engine in 1900, All his feed is ground :by machinery on the place. Another HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 883 fact that should be noted is that Mr. Schwarz has had a hired assistant on his farm who has been continuously in his employ for the past ten years. Charles C, Schwarz is a native of Cleveland, where he was born August 23, 1858, a son of Christian Jacob and Christine (Bleil) Schwarz. When he was ten years of age his father removed from Cleveland to Liverpool, Ohio, where his father carried on a meat market for several years. Later he bought forty-three acres of the land where his son Charles now resides in Grafton Township, and gradually added to his ownership until he was proprietor of one hundred sixty-one acres. He spent the rest of his days there and died in 1897, being survived by his widow for ten years. Christian Schwarz was a democrat in politics,. a member of the Lutheran Church, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a man of high standing in any community where he made his home. Charles G, Schwarz is the oldest of a family of six, His brother Fred J. lives west of Elyria, Albert William died in 1910 leaving a family of ten children. Ida Louise is the wife of Edwin R, MenneIL Rose K, is the wife of L. 0. Longwell and lives in Grafton, Bertha is the wife of J, L, Bessing and also lives in Grafton. Charles C. Schwarz grew to manhood on the old homestead in Lorain County, acquired his education partly in Cleveland and partly in Liverpool and has made farming his regular vocation since youth. After his father's death he bought out the interests of the other heirs, and Rose Lawn now comprises 131 well tilled and valuable acres. Besides the improvements already mentioned Mr. Schwarz in 1914 built a fine basement barn on a foundation 80x36 feet, with an "L" 34x50 feet and with 24-foot posts. The barn is 48 feet from the foundation to the peak. It is solidly built and in equipment is hardly excelled by any other in the county. It has a cement floor, and there is room for the stabling of 38 head of livestock besides four or five box stalls. Mr, Schwarz maintains a dairy of 24 cows, and uses the product in the making of butter. After he reached his majority he started as a republican voter, but is now aligned with the progressives, He has never been a politician, though his fellow citizens have shown much confidence in his judgment and he is now serving his second term as township trustee. He is a member and has filled all the chairs in the Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees at Grafton. Mr. Schwarz is well read and well informed on all the leading issues of the day and in his work as a farmer has not only benefited by his own experience but has made use of the experiences of others. JAMES F. STRENICK. Since 1903 Mr.. Strenick has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the City. of Lorain, where his sterling character, his ability and his distinctive success in his chosen sphere of endeavor have given him secure standing as one of the representative members of the bar of Lorain County, besides which he is known as a citizen whose loyalty and public spirit are of the staunchest order. James Franklin Strenick was born at West Salem, Wayne County, Ohio, on the 5th of July, 1874, and is a son of James and Amanda Jane (Royer) Strenick, who still maintain their home there, the father having been for many years associated with railroad operations. In the public schools of his native town Mr. Strenick continued his studies until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1894, From that time forward he was identified with the mercantile business, and he then followed the course of his ambitious purpose and entered the law department of the Uni- 884 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903 and from which he received his well-earned degree of Bachelor of Laws, In July of the same year he established his home at Lorain, and here he has since continued in the successful general practice of his profession, with well-established reputation as a versatile advocate and well fortified and judicious counselor. He is an appreciative and popular member of the Lorain County Bar Association, served as assistant city solicitor from 1908 to 1911, and on May 2d of the latter year he became the incumbent of the office of justice of the peace. In January, 1908, he assumed the office of treasurer of Black River Township, in which fiduciary position he served two terms. In his home city Mr, Strenick is affiliated with the lodge, chapter and council bodies of the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity, and he holds membership also in the local organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Foresters, and other organizations. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. August 28, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Strenick to Miss Arline Mellen, of Burbank, Wayne County, Ohio, and their only child is Helen, who was born October 1, 1902, MENNELL FAMILY, Fully ninety years have passed since the Mennell family was first established in the then wilderness of Lorain County. During all that time the principal seat and home has been in Grafton Township, and one of the grandsons of the pioneer still occupies a farm included in the original possessions of the family in this county, The founder of the name in this county was Crispin Mennen who married Elizabeth Welburn, Their only son was Duke Mennen, who was born in Yorkshire, England, May 8, 1810, When Crispin Mennell emigrated to America in 1817 his son Duke remained with his maternal grandfather until 1823, and then came to America with his two uncles, Jesse and William Welburn, joining his parents in Massachusetts. Crispin Mennell on first coming to America lived in Albany, New York, and was there during the great conflagration which almost destroyed that city, He then moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and while living there his son Duke joined him in 1823, It was in the year 1826 that the Mennell family pioneered westward and located in Lorain County, After securing a tract of land in the wilderness of Grafton Township Crispin Menne11 began the improvements which have made that one of the oldest cultivated farms in the townships and he subsequently built a substantial house about three-quarters of a mile from where his grandson Jay D, now lives. Crispin Mennen died May 22, 1857, on J, D, Mennell's present farm, Duke Mennen, who was thirteen years of age when he came to America, acquired a fair common school education and was a vigorous youth and able to assist materially in the development of the first farm owned by the family in Grafton Township, On June 23, 1835, he was married in Lorain County to Rachel Curtis, a. daughter of Theodore Curtis. Their married companionship was broken by the death of the wife on September 29, 1858, In the meantime eight children had been born to them. On October 10, 1861, Duke Mennell married for his second wife Mrs. Mary A. (Hardy) Johnson. By this union there were four children, three sons and one daughter, namely : Perry D,, Jay D., Allen E, and Elizabeth M, The last named is now the wife of John Lafferty of Sharon, Pennsylvania, Duke Mennell was an active democrat until the Civil war and then became equally ardent as a republican. He was honored by such offices as township trustee and was a man valuable to his community in HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 885 many ways, His death occurred September 17, 1889, while his second wife passed away November 2, 1907, By his first marriage the eight children were born : Elizabeth, deceased ; Andrew Jackson, deceased ; Meadore ; Mary ; Anna, deceased ; Charles, deceased ; Flora ; and Elmer. JAY D. MENNELL. The old homestead of the Mennell family in Grafton Township has as its proprietor Jay D. Mennell, who has attained to considerable note in Lorain County as a general farmer and stock raiser and dairyman. He has been especially successful in the breeding of Holstein cattle. His farm is about two and a half miles from Grafton, located on rural route No. 2 out of that city. He was born in the house he now occupies and which was built by his grandfather, His birth occurred June 7, 1867, and he is a son of Duke and Mary (Hardy) Mennell. He was reared with all the advantages of a typical Lorain County home of thirty or forty years ago, and acquired a common school education. On December 31, 1889, at Litchfield, Ohio, Mr, Mennell married Miss Vienna G, Crow, She was born at Ontario, Vernon County, Wisconsin, a daughter of Leander and Emma (Fuller) Crow. Her father was born in Medina County, Ohio, while her mother was an Englishwoman and came to America with her parents, who first located in New York and afterwards moved out to Vernon County, Wisconsin. Mrs, Mennell's father moved from Ohio to Wisconsin, where he met and married his wife, and some years later they returned to Litchfield, Ohio, where Mrs. Mennell received most of her education, For five years before her marriage she was a successful teacher, Mr. and Mrs. Mennell have two children : Leander D, attended the country schools and in 1909 was graduated from the Elyria High School. After three years as a teacher in Grafton Township he entered the Ohio State University in the agricultural and scientific departments, and will graduate in 1916, The daughter Irma who graduated from the Elyria High School in 1911, taught four years in Grafton Township and is now the wife of Arthur L, Wise and lives in Grafton Township, Mr, Jay D, Mennell is independent in politics, is a stanch supporter of the prohibition movement and has always steadfastly refused any official honors. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, ALLEN E. MENNELL, Another representative of the Mennell family whose activities have gained him a worthy place in the sturdy agricultural class of Grafton Township is Allen E, Mennell, whose home is on Center Road between LaGrange and Belden, He is a. son of Duke and Mary A, (Hardy) Mennell, and was born at the old homestead January 15, 1870, in the house now owned by his brother, Jay D, Mennell. His early boyhood and youth were spent on the old farm until he was about twenty years of age, He had a fair common school education, and at his father's death inherited eighty acres of land. This land had not a single improvement, not even a well, and consequently it provided a severe test of his enterprise and industry, That land has been the scene of his effective endeavors for the past quarter of a century and with it as a foundation he has conducted a business as a farmer and stockman which is deserving of special attention. In the meantime on September 28, 1889, in York Township of Medina County he married Miss Louise G, Erhart, She was born and reared in York Township, a daughter of Joseph and Geneva (Musser) Erhart. The parents were born and were married at what is now Valley City, Ohio, then known as Liverpool. Her father was a farmer. 886 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Soon after his marriage Mr. Mennell began making a home and farm out of his eighty acres, In order to provide a habitation he secured a little building which had formerly been the shop of a dental practitioner and moved it onto his land and by some simple changes made it a fairly comfortable home, in which he and his family lived for ten years. He also erected a small barn, and that is still in use serving as a storage place for tools and for a garage, Year after year he made other changes. put the land under cultivation and the culmination of his prosperity came in 1900 when he erected his present fine home, It is modern in every respect, has nine rooms and basement, and natural gas supplies the fuel for kitchen and furnace heat. Still another improvement came in 1905 when he built a bank barn on a foundation 36x66 feet with 20-foot posts. This barn has a cement floor and facilities for stabling eighteen cows and eight head of horses, This is only to mention the most prominent features about the Mennell farm, but it is sufficient to indicate that it is one of the best equipped and best managed in Grafton Township, Mr, and Mrs. Mennell have two children. Harland was born in the home afforded by the recon struction of the dental office on August 14, 1890, He graduated from the Elyria High School and he married Ruth Harrison of Grafton, For a time he was a conductor on the Interurban Railway at Burton, then moved to Grafton and was in similar service on the Green Line Interurban but is now a practical farmer in LaGrange Township. He and his wife have two children : Millicent, born at Chardon. Ohio, September 6, 1912; and Gwendolyn, who was born at LaGrange. February 6, 1915. The daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Mennell is Fawn G., who was born in the new home of her parents February 28, 1901, and is now a freshman in the Elyria High School. Politically Mr. Mennell has chosen an independent attitude. though usually a republican, and has served three years as township treasurer. However, he is not a seeker for official honors, He and his wife and daughter are members of the Grange. He is a member of thc Maceabees. LAWRENCE ANTHONY BURGETT, The vocation of contracting and building. of 'housing the people and the enterprises which make up a community, is one of the oldest and most honorable known to man. In every part of the civilized globe the builder is found as an absolute necessity, and as the opportunities of the calling include few cross-cuts to quick prosperity and position, its followers almost invariably are found to be men of temperate habits and steady industry, calm judgment and patient enterprise. The journeyman who possesses ambition, determination and genuine ability in his line is afforded the opportunity of working his way to the highest emoluments of his vocation, in which case the rewards place him on a plane with the majority of men in professional and business life. In this capable and resourceful class of Lorain County is found Lawrence Anthony Burgett. of Lorain, who has contributed much to the past of this city, and who. because of his superior equipment, may be counted upon to share in its future development. Mr. Burgett was born in Lucas County. Ohio, April 2, 1869. and is a son of Peter and Eva (Laux) Burgett. His father, a brick mason by trade, came to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1846, and here divided his time between following his avocation and carrying On agricultural pursuits. He died in 1903, the mother having passed away in 1892. Lawrence A. Burgett is not only a self-educated man, but a self-made one as well. After attending the public schools, he desired a further training, and accordingly enrolled as a student at a night school, where he improved his HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 887 mental training, while his daytimes were being devoted to learning the trade of bricklayer, under the preceptorship of his father. His trade mastered, he began following it, and in this connection came to Lorain, in August, 1892, Finally, after securing several small contracts and carrying them through to a successful issue, he gave up the trade as an operator and became a contractor and builder, a line in which he has steadily risen to a foremost place, While all kinds of structures have been erected by him, he is probably best known in connection with building schools, these having included ordinary schoolhouses of eight rooms, more pretentious structures, and the present stately and handsome edifice of the Lorain High School, a cut of which appears in this work. This fire-proof structure, of brick and stone, is three stories in height. and 147x290 feet in dimensions. It was erected in 1915, and in addition to the school rooms, includes a spacious auditorium, well-equipped lavatories, and departments of manual training and domestic science, Its machinery cost $17,000, and its equipment, $30,000, the total cost of the building, machinery and equipment being $275,000. Another handsome structure built by Mr. Burgett is the Elyria Building, a three-story brick building, 230x145 feet, modern in every respect, and costing $150,000. He has erected also three graded schools at Lorain, with two additions, the Lorain Opera House, Saint Mary's Catholic Church, the National Bank of Commerce, the Central Bank, on Penfield Avenue, Lorain, and many public libraries, office buildings, banks and churches, as well as private residences, Mr. Burgett has the kind of enthusiasm for his work that enables him to master it thoroughly, but impels him to seek its broadest and most interesting manifestations, He possesses a keen eye for the practical, as well as the artistic, and there can be no doubt that his labor will stand the approbation of years. As a citizen he has displayed a keen interest in affairs affecting his community, and has served capably as a member of the Lorain City Council for one term and as president of that body for one year, Mr. Burgett was married to Miss Josephine B, Miller, of New Washington, Ohio, who died leaving three children: Blondena Ursula, who is the wife of Thomas Hume, associated with the L, A. Burgett Company ; LeRoy Peter. also with this company ; and Virgil Charles, a graduate of the Lorain High School, class of 1915, In August, 1904, Mr, Burgett was again married. being united with Cecelia Mary Messmer, who was born at Lorain. Ohio, daughter of Andrew Messmer, who was a well known railroad man of this city for many years, Mr. and Mrs. Burgett and their children are members of Saint Mary's Catholic Church, HOMER BURT BELDEN, who is a successful and progressive young farmer of Grafton Township, represents the fifth generation of the Belden family which has been continuously identified with Lorain County for practically a century, Few Lorain County families have had so many successive generations to live within the limits of the county. and there is another matter of interest in connection with the Belden residence that their home has been practically in one location, and one farm home has served as a dwelling place for these sturdy people from life's beginning to end, In the older generations the Beldens came in maturity of manhood and womanhood, but not only Homer Burt but also his father were native sons and were born on the same farm, Mr. Beldens homestead is located three-quarters of a mile south of Belden Station, which was named in honor of the family, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, In the house that he now occupies with his family he was born February 20, 1878, His parents were Homer Kings- 888 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY ley and Rose (Burt) Belden. Homer K, Belden was born on the Belden farm, November 9, 1838, His parents were Daniel Rowley and Sarah (Kingsley) Belden, Daniel R. Belden, the grandfather, was seven years of age when he came to Lorain County from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His parents were Capt. Bildad and Polly Belden, who brought their family out to the wilderness of Lorain County in the early years of the last century. Capt. Bildad was also accompanied by his father, Daniel Belden and wife Sarah Belden, Their enterprise as pioneers was first directed to the land now included in the Belden farm occupied by Homer Burt Belden, Here they did their share of productive toil, here. they experienced the sorrows and pleasures of existence, many of the family married at the old homestead or brought their wives there, and there many of them passed from the scene of this mortal existence, Each generation added something to the landed estates until fully 700 acres in that section are now under the Belden family ownership. Homer Kingsley Belden was reared and had a common school educa-tion in Grafton Township and he also attended Oberlin College. On September 24, 1861, he married Miss Rose Burt of Grafton Township, who was born in Harpersfield in Geauga County, Ohio. a daughter of Ebenezer and Emily (Mallison) Burt, Her father was a manufacturer of woolen goods and kept his home wherever his services were most in demand, Mrs. Rose Belden acquired a good education and was a teacher for some years in Lorain County before her marriage. Homer K. Belden died March 15, 1902. He was a democrat, always interested in local affairs but was never an office seeker. Homer Burt Belden is the only child of his parents, Besides a good education in the home schools he attended business college at Oberlin, and has devoted his active years to farming and farm management, and has enjoyed a success in proportion to his inherited ability and industry. On October 3, 1899, he married Miss Corinne Bernice Lehman, daughter of John C, and Amelia E, (Lyndes) Lehman of Grafton Township. They are the parents of two children : Daniel Lehman was born November 30, 1900, and is now. a junior in the Elyria High School, Horace Theodore Belden was born June 18, 1907, Mr. Belden is a democrat and is an earnest and public spirited citizen. W. SCOTT ALDRICH has enjoyed to the full that satisfaction which goes with successful efforts as an agriculturist and is inherent in the wholesome atmosphere of a prosperous rural community, He has a front place among Grafton Township farmers, and is something of a specialist in the breeding of Percheron horses and in the manage-ment of a dairy, His homestead is located three miles southeast of Grafton on rural route No. 3. Altogether he owns two hundred acres, divided into three farms, It was on one of these farms in Grafton Township that he first saw the light of day July 25, 1859. The Aldrich family belongs to the older stock in Lorain County and has been represented here for fully three-quarters of a century, His parents were James L. and Harriet (Clark) Aldrich. James L, Aldrich was born in New York State and was eighteen years of age when he came to Ohio with his parents Aaron and Cynthia (Bishop) Aldrich. The Aldrich family arrived in Lorain County in 1840 and located on one of the farms now owned by W, Scott Aldrich in Grafton Township, The place was then in the dense woods, and for a number of years the grown men of the family tested their enterprise and industry in clearing up and developing the land. James L, Aldrich was one of the sturdy farmers of Grafton Township for many years. At one time he bought a farm north of Belden and his HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 889 aggregate possessions totaled about 320 acres. He died when about eighty-four years of age on October 4, 1904. His wife passed away in May, 1909, Mrs, James L, Aldrich had the distinction of being the first white child born in LaGrange Township, Her father was Nathan Clark. W. Scott Aldrich in his youth had all the advantages needed to prepare him for his vocation. After attending the common schools he also was in the preparatory department of Oberlin for six months, but at the age of seventeen he was obliged to leave school and return home to take charge of the farm on account of the poor health of his father. At the age of twenty-one he was given a share in the management and profits of the farm and two years later he was ready to provide a home of his own. At that time he married Miss Alice Reichard, who died four years later. She left one child, now Mrs, Zella Sprague, who lives in LaGrange and is the mother of three children, On November 17, 1889, Mr, Aldrich married Estella Freeman of LaGrange, They are the parents of three children : James Clark, who was born February 10, 1891, is now active manager of one of his father's farms, and married Mary Burton, Dewey S., the second child, was born July 6, 1891, and was named in honor of the victor at Manila Bay ; he had one year in the Grafton High School and is now cultivating one of his father's farms. The youngest is Esther Anna, who was born May 5, 1900, and is now in the junior class of the Elyria High School. Mr. Aldrich was born and bred a republican, has always been loyal to the principles of that party but is not a politician. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, CHARLES J. CREHORE is an Elyria citizen who, amid the cares and responsibilities of an active and successful business career, has found and utilized many opportunities for doing good in his community through his relationship with various organizations and institutions. He has spent all his life in Lorain County and is one of the best products of its environment. Born on a farm in Sheffield Township September 22, 1872, he is a son of George and Keziah (Walker) Crehore, His father, who was born in Surrey, New Hampshire, June 16, 1832, son of George, Sr., who was a native of Connecticut and of an old family of that colony, came as a young man to Lorain County and secured a tract of land on the shores of Lake Erie in Sheffield Township, where he followed agriculture and stock raising until his death in July, 1876, His wife, who died in December, 1883, was born and reared in Sheffield Township, where her father, Wing Walker. was an early settler. They were the parents of seven children : Clara, Hattie and Frederick, all deceased ; George, a Sheffield Township farmer; Grace, deceased ; Charles J, ; and Robbins B. When Charles J, Crehore was four years of age his father died, and seven years later he was deprived of the care of his mother. He afterwards lived in the home of his guardians, first Edwin P, Burrell, and after four years with Lewis D, Boynton, In the meantime he gained an education in the district schools of his native township and in the Elyria High School, from which he graduated in 1893, and then spent one year in the study of law, His business career began as a buyer and shipper of livestock, In 1895 he organized the firm of Crehore, Fauver & Robinson, and for five years conducted one of the popular clothing stores in Elyria, In a business way Mr. Crehore is best known through his relations with the Elyria Lumber & Coal Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer and general manager. In 1899 he organized the Weller Engineering Company of Elyria, and followed this two years later by organizing and incorporating the Elyria Lumber & Coal Com- 890 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY pany, which then assumed the property and business of the engineering company, but the two companies were conducted as individual organizations. The Lumber & Coal Company, of which H. B, Hecock is president, has a large plant for the handling of lumber, coal and cement products, at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets in Elyria. Special interest attaches to his activities outside of his private business, He is a charter member, of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, is one of its directors, and has served on several of its important committees. In politics he is a republican. In 1913 Mr. Crehore was appointed a member of the Elyria School Board, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Doctor Maynard, In the fall of 1914 he was elected. to succeed himself and became president of the board in January, 1916. For a number of years he has actively shared the responsibilities of the Social Settlement Associations, Associated Charities. Elyria Memorial Hospital Association, and both the city and county Young Men's Christian Association. He and his family are members of the First Congregational Church. In 1894 he married Miss Harriet Hancock, who was born and reared in Avon Township. a daughter of Henry and Betsey Hancock. To their marriage was born three children : Robert Henry, aged nineteen, who graduated from the Elyria High School in 1914, attended Oberlin College one year, and is now a student at the Ohio State University, pursuing a. course in agriculture; Lester Charles, who died August 15, 1909 and Marian Louise, A. F. McQUEEN, M. D. An Amherst physician whose experience and abilities have brought him to a recognized position of prominence is A, F. McQueen, who enjoys a large private practice in that locality and took up his professional work there a few years ago backed by a liberal education and a. long and thorough training in medical 'school and hospital. He represents an old family of Northern Ohio. His grandfather Joel H. McQueen came along to-Lorain County when a young man and for fifteen years sailed the Great Lakes, rising to the post of captain of a vessel, He finally tired of the water, and then settled on the farm where he died in Brownhelm Township. He married Abbie Betts. Her father Alfred H. Betts, was a graduate of Delbert College in Cleveland, and was an early minister of the Congregational Church, erecting the first church of that denomination in Brownhelm Township. That edifice is still standing and is used as a place of worship today. Doctor McQueen was born in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County January 7, 1884, a. son of Fred B, and Anna (Savage) McQueen. His mother was born in Pennsylvania in 1857 and his father in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County in 1854, They were married in Brownhelm and are still living. His father has been one of the practical farmers of Brownhelm Township for many years, and still owns a hundred acres, largely in fruit, and at one time he had an orchard of twenty acres in. peaches. While always active in republican politics, he has seldom sought office, and served only as township trustee and assessor. The family are members of the Congregational Church. Fred B. McQueen and wife are the parents of four children, three of whom are still Milo W, is on a farm : Ed was a mechanic and was killed in 1915 ; Doctor McOueen is the third in age : Abbie is still at home with her parents. Besides the education he received in the district schools while living as a boy on the home farm Doctor McQueen graduated from Hiram College in 1908. His professional training for three years was pursued in the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1911 he grad- HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 891 uated M, D, from the Western Reserve Medical College. He afterwards spent a year as an interne in St, Joseph's Hospital at Lorain, and in 1913 located at Amherst and took up general practice as a physician and surgeon. A large share of his practice comes from the local quarries, He is also medical examiner for a number of fraternal organizations. He is a member of the Lodge, Chapter and Council of Masonry, and both he and his wife belong to the Eastern Star, and he is also affiliated with the Eagles, the Knights and Ladies of Security, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and the Tribe of Ben Hun Politically he is a republican. In 1913 Doctor McQueen married Wastelle Inks, She was born in Holmes C'ounty, Ohio, and at the time of her marriage was a trained nurse in the St, Joseph Hospital at Lorain, Mrs, 'McQueen is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In line with his profession Doctor McQueen is a member of the County and State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. EDWARD T. KILLIP, One of the most successful farmers and dairy-men of Grafton Township is Edward T, Killip, who has an excellently improved place of ninety acres two miles east of Belden on Rural Route No. 3 out of Grafton, He has been a resident of Lorain County more than forty-five years, and is one of the sturdy and self-reliant men who have brought about their own prosperity and in so doing have added to the civic and material welfare of their communities. Mr. Killip is a Manxman, that is he was barn on the Isle of Man, a British subject, November 15, 1845. His parents were John and Margaret (Corlett) Killip. He was reared on his native isle, received a fair common school education in private schools, and as a youth he worked at day's wages of a shilling a day in English money, His father in early life had learned the shoemaking trade, but subsequently became a dealer in meat, slaughtering livestock on a somewhat extensive scale and selling at wholesale, The first member of the family to come to America was a cousin of his mother. This cousin located in Cleveland when it was a small village, Then Edward Killip's sister crossed the ocean and was followed by another brother, John, Then Edward himself made up his mind to follow, and when he announced that determination his mother declared that if he went the entire family would go, Thus it came about that the Killips in 1869 embarked on a steamship at Liverpool in the month of June and after eleven days on the ocean landed at New York City, going West from there to Cleveland. Soon after reaching Ohio, Edward T, Killip secured work on a farm at $1.50 a day, and felt that he was getting rich very rapidly at such wages, In the meantime his father looked around and bargained for a farm of 105 acres, agreeing to pay between $40 and $45 per acre, for the land, its improvements, consisting of a few inferior buildings and all the livestock. On this farm the father spent the rest of his years and died in 1901, at the age of ninety. His wife had passed away in 1878. The father was a man of fair education, was a first-class penman, and an industrious upright citizen. He never became an American citizen, but his sons all naturalized and began voting a few years after their arrival in this country. Another of the family who came to America with the parents was Catherine, then a girl of fifteen, and she is now the wife of John W. Coveney and lives in Cleveland. Another son whose home is in Lorain County is Robert Henry Killip, On March 22, 1893, in Grafton Township, Edward T. Killip married Mrs, Mary (Goodman) Reisinger. She was born in Grafton Township, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Euga) Goodman, Her father was born Vol. II-22 892 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY in either New York or Pennsylvania of German parentage, while her mother was a native of Germany and came to Ohio when she was five years of age. Mrs, Killip's parents were married in Medina County, By her first marriage to Mr, Reisinger Mrs, Killip had two children : Mrs. Burt Nesbitt, who lives in Grafton Township and is the mother of two children, Ruth E. and Robert H. ; and Dwight, who married Miss Cora Widener and has three children, May Belle, Marjorie Fay and Edward Widener. Dwight Reisinger and wife reside on the farm of Edward Killip. When Mr, Killip married his wife's children were aged respectively ten and seven years, Mr. Killip began voting the republican ticket after taking out his naturalization papers and he has been honored by local offices, serving several terms as township trustee. He and his wife are active in the Congregational Church at Belden, which he has served as trustee and for many years was treasurer, and also served as clerk and treasurer of the Sunday school, FRANK SAMUEL RATHWELL. From his position as a mechanic, in one of the industries at Lorain Frank S. Rathwell graduated a number of years ago into an independent business, and now has one of the best equipped and best managed garages and general repair industries in that city. Born on a farm in Camden Township of Lorain County November 23, 1873, Frank Samuel Rathwell is a son of Thomas and Eliza (McRoberts) Rathwell, His father was one of the substantial farmers of Lorain County, As a boy he attended the country schools, but at the age of nineteen, in 1892, took his place as a finisher in the Brass Works at Lorain. From that he went into the bicycle shop for five years, and since 1898 has been in business for himself. In 1904 he established a garage and automobile agency in connection with the bicycle business, and in. 1912 completed at 213 Seventh Street a. handsome building of concrete and steel, 50x110 feet, now used as a garage and general machine shop. Mr. Rathwell handles the agency for the Reo and Jeffrey ears, and is at the head of a very prosperous enterprise. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. On January 19, 1898. he married Miss Dora Green of Lorain, They have one daughter, Erma Vivian. F. I. HUBBARD. Cashier and director of the Park Bank of Amherst, F, I, Hubbard is a progressive young business man of Lorain County who has devoted his entire active career to bank work, and has reached his present position because of constant fidelity to his duties. a sense of responsibility in the performance of his tasks, and an undoubted talent for this line of commercial enterprise. He represents a family that has been identified with Lorain County since pioneer times, His grandfather, William F. Hubbard, a native of New York State, was a young man when he came to LaGrange Township, his brother having preceded him and having been one of the first settlers there, William F, Hubbard had an unusual record as a soldier, He served all through the Mexican war, and nearly twenty years later enlisted his service in the cause of the Union, going out as captain of a company in an Ohio regiment. He was taken ill while in the army, and never recovered his health, dying in 1865. F. I. Hubbard was born in LaGrange Township on a farm December 22, 1882, a son of Irwin and Ellen (Mason) Hubbard. both of whom were also natives of LaGrange Township, His father was born in November, 1845, spent his active career as a farmer, but since 1899 has HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 893 lived in Elyria, where he owns a substantial residence property. The mother was born June 27, 1849. They were married in LaGrange Township January 1, 1867, To their union, which has now endured almost half a century, were born thirteen children, five of whom died in infancy, one passed away at the age of twenty-four, and the seven now living are : Edward, who resides at Elyria and is assistant foreman in the furnace at Lorain ; Edna, wife of Bert Carter of Elyria ; W, F. Hubbard, boiler inspector for the Indemnity Insurance Company, living at Elyria; F, I, Hubbard; Hattie, a teacher in the public schools at Elyria ; Lovantia, who is also a teacher in the public schools at Elyria ; and C. L,, who is in an architect's office in Cleveland. Irwin Hubbard, the father of these children, is a democrat in politics, In 1900 F. I, Hubbard graduated from the high school at LaGrange, Much of his early youth was spent on the farm, and though he gained a practical knowledge of its duties his ambition was for commercial work, and after leaving high school he entered the Elyria Business College where he completed the course in 1902. About that time he was taken into the Elyria Savings and Banking Company as bookkeeper, His promotion has been steady, and he afterwards served as as sistant cashier, From Elyria he moved to Amherst and organized the Amherst Park Bank, with a capital of $25,000. This is one of the flourishing financial institutions of the county, In September, 1907, Mr, Hubbard married Jessie Paterson of Amherst, Their two children are Robert Irwin, now five years of age, and Grace L,, aged two years, Mr, and Mrs, Hubbard are members of the First Baptist Church of Elyria, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, and is a democrat in politics. L. D. GIBSON, From farming, a vocation to which he had applied the best energies of his younger years, L. D, Gibson turned his attention to merchandising at South Amherst, and is now one of the progressive business men and energetic citizens of that community. While he was born in Russia Township of Lorain County, April 1, 1856, his family for many years had lived in New York State, where both his father and mother and his grandfather were born, His parents were Silas and Diantha (Heath) Gibson, His father was born in 1804 and died in 1894 and his mother was born in 1816 and died in 1864, They were married in New York State where three of their thirteen children were born, The four still living are : Lindley, a retired resident of Brownhelm Township ; Ophelia, who first married John Bender and later E, J, Frederick, and now lives on a farm in Russia Township ; Barzilla, a resident of Camden Township ; and L, D. Gibson, Silas Gibson on coming to Lorain County bought 200 acres of land in Russia Township, subsequently selling half of it, and occupying and cultivating the remainder until his death, He did much clearing and development work, built a frame house, which replaced the old log building which had been the first habitation of the family in Lorain County, He was a very successful man, and in politics was a democrat, while his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Reared on a farm, educated in district schools, L, D, Gibson after some years of steadily continued effort, bought the old homestead and managed it for eight years, After selling he bought in March, 1906, the store at South Amherst, and has since developed a large business around that trading center. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Ludwig. Her father, John Ludwig, a native of Germany, settled at Amherst in 1890, and was a quarryman. Mr, and Mrs. Gibson have five children, four of whom are still living: 894 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Bertha married Jacob Muth, a quarryman at Amherst, and they have one child, Zelma, nine years old; Ferdinand is now deceased; Carl, who is connected with a manufacturing plant at Elyria, married Emma Harr, and has two children named Verna Margaret and Carl Elsworth, Jr.; Elmer is in the regular United States army, with the Fourth Cav-alry, now located at Honolulu; Myrtle is the wife of Henry J, Kolb, a partner with Mr. Gibson in the store. Mrs. Gibson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the American Union and politically is a democrat. THOMAS W. MORGAN. A resident of the City of Lorain since 1895. Mr, Morgan has entered fully and worthily into the community life and has been identified with industrial activities, public affairs of a local order and official service in positions of distinctive trust. He is now engaged in the general insurance business, is the incumbent of the office of justice of the peace and is serving also as deputy sealer of weights and measures for Lorain County, Thomas William Morgan was born in the City of Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of December. 1884, and is a son of Isaac and Mary Jane (Gould) Morgan, his father having been a locomotive engineer by vocation and having died when the subject of this review was but ten months old. In his native state Mr. Morgan was reared in the home of his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Gould, soon after the death of his father. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools and as a youth instituted his active services as one of the world's productive workers. Mr, Morgan was a lad of about eleven years when he came to Lorain, Ohio, in October. 1895, and here as a youth he found employment at office work. Later he was for a time in the employ of the National Tube Company, and finally he became au employe in one of the steel mills of Lorain, where he won advancement to the position of heater, In November, 1911, Mr. Morgan was elected to the office of constable. his name having been given place on the republican ticket. In 1913 he was elected a member of the city council, but after serving several weeks he decided that his duties as constable placed such demands upon him that he was not justified in retaining the municipal office, with the result that he resigned his position as councilman. For a time Mr. Morgan also held membership on the municipal board having supervision of the poor, and on the 25th day of May, 1914, he received, at the hands of Governor James Cox, his commission as justice of the peace. an office in which he is giving a most effective and acceptable administration. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is past grand of a local lodge of the Inde-pendent Order of Odd Fellows and holds membership also in the Modern Woodmen of .America, He and his wife are zealous members of the Congregational Church, in which he held the office of superintendent of the Sunday school. On the 12th of September, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Morgan to Miss Florence Williams, of Lorain, and of their three children the second, Mildred Margaret. died in infancy. The two surviving children are : Raymond Edward. who was born June 14, 1907, and Elva Margaret, who was born January 4, 1910. FRED B. McQUEEN. For many years Fred B. McQueen has been a factor in agricultural activities in Brownhelm township. The fine farm which still occupies and which he devotes to general farming and fruit growing, in the place where he was born and reared. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 895 He was born there May 30, 1852, a son of Joel H, and Abbie (Betts) McQueen. His father was born in March, 1812, and died in 1891, His mother was born in Brownhelm Township. in September, 1818, and died in 1886, Her father Alfred Betts was one of the first settlers in Brownhelm Township, and was the first physician and the first minister in the town, Joel McQueen spent many years of his life as a sailor on the Great Lakes, also was captain of a vessel, but finally retired from the water and bought 112 acres of land and was engaged in its cultivation until his death, He was a republican in politics and held all the township offices and was a man highly esteemed in all his relations with the community, He and his wife were active members of the Congregational Church. They were married in Brownhelm Township in 1844, and to their union were born ten children, nine sons and one daughter, Those still living are: Fred B.; L. H., in the livery business at Vermillion, Ohio ; Eber, connected with an employment agency at Minneapolis; A. H., in the lumber business at Cleveland; George, on a farm in Brownhelm Township ; J. H., a farmer in Preble County ; D. W., a physician in Preble County, After his rearing on the home farm and education in the district schools, Fred B, McQueen spent a number of years as chief engineer in the local quarries. After his father's death he bought the old homestead from the heirs, and has since made it the object of his intelligent management and productive enterprise as one of Lorain County's agriculturists, In 1875 Mr, McQueen married Anna Savage, a daughter of William Savage, who was a native of England and a farmer by occupation, Three of Mr. and Mrs. McQueen's four children are still living : Milo W., now thirty-nine years .of age, owns a small farm and also assists his father in the management of the homestead, and is now filling his second term as trustee of Brownhelm Township, having first been elected three years ago, Arthur F, is a successful physician at Amherst, Abbie is the wife of Sam Hollingsworth and they live on her father's farm. The family attend the Congregational Church and Mr, McQueen is a republican, Besides his work as a farmer he was called upon to fill the office of assessor for six or eight years, DR. E. B. ROGERS for Many years has had the chief practice as a dentist at Amherst. He is a man well qualified for his profession, and while his time is thoroughly taken up by his professional duties he does not neglect his civic interests, and has been a factor in local affairs, He was born in Pennsylvania May 21, 1861, one of the eight children of John W. and Susan (Ide) Rogers. His grandfather, Jonah Rogers, was born and reared in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and spent his life there as a farmer, His maternal grandfather, Ezra Ide, was also a Pennsylvania farmer, Both of Doctor Rogers' parents were born in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, His father was born August 13, 1825, and died May 30, 1896, and his mother was born December 31, 1825, and died November 10, 1878, Their five living children are : Louisa, wife of Levi Whitesell, a farmer in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania ; Winfield Scott Rogers, who spent the first seventeen years of his life on a farm, taught school ten or twelve years, for twelve years was connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, then after a course in shorthand under Andrew Graham, taught school in New York, was connected with a business college in Cleveland for six or seven years, conducted a business college at Sandusky with a partner until 1902, then had a business college in Fall River, Massachusetts, until the fall of 1915, and now lives and has an orchard in Cuba; Melville E. is a street car conductor at Providence, Rhode Island; Doctor Rogers is the youngest of 896 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY the living children, His brother, Franklin Jackson, died in November, 1913, John W. Rogers, father of Doctor Rogers, spent his career as a farmer. He was well educated and well read, was a republican in politics and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the Civil war he served three years in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in active service though poor health kept him from duty a considerable part of the time. Doctor Rogers had to make his own way from an early age. His father lost most of his property through security debts, and that acted as a spur to his early efforts and ambition on his own account. He was reared on a farm, had a common school education, and in his early life worked as a farmer and for ten years as a carpenter, It was through his earnings in these vocations that he accumulated the means necessary to educate himself for a profession, and in 1898 graduated from the Western Reserve Dental College, In 1900 he located at Amherst, and almost from the first had a paying practice, Doctor Rogers married for his first wife Maria Whitsell, The one daughter of that union, Verna, is the wife of George Frederick, now in a hardware store at Amherst, Doctor Rogers married for his second wife Dosia Wendell, who was born in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania. They have a daughter, Ruth, who is the wife of William Schaffer, a young dentist who has recently located at Amherst. Mrs, Schaffer was educated in the high school at Amherst and took a normal course at Athens, Ohio, and was a teacher for two years before her marriage, Mrs. Doctor Rogers died March 18, 1916. She was a member of the Congregational Church, and Doctor Rogers has been a deacon in that church for the past twelve years. He has passed the chairs in the Masonic Lodge at Amherst, and is also affiliated with the Royal Arch Masons, the Royal and Select Masters and is popular in all those bodies, For two terms he has held the office of treasurer of Amherst, Politically he is a republican, ARCHIE CLARK PAYTON, The importance in business of concentrating one's forces upon a given line of activity, of correctly gauging its value among the needs of the world, and keeping pace with the ever-changing conditions surrounding it, is confirmed anew in the success of Archie Clark Payton, general superintendent for the American Shipbuilding Company, of Lorain, Mr. Payton has been studying the shipbuilding question ever since the beginning of his wage-earning career, more than thirty years ago, and his acquisition of his present position has not come about through any fortunate circumstance, but by reason of his close application and constant devotion to the calling which he chose as his life work when his career began, Mr. Payton is a native of Scotland, born at Dumbarton, County Dumbarton, April 9, 1866, a son of John and Ellison (White) Payton. His parents never came to the 'United States, passing their entire lives at Dumbarton. where the father was a thrifty Scotch baker. In his native land Archie Clark Payton received a common school education, and when still a youth was apprenticed to the trade of shipbuilder. He devoted himself assiduously to learning its various branches and became a skilled and finished workman. but saw no future for himself in his native land and accordingly decided to try his fortunes in America. Accordingly, at the age of twenty-two years, he gathered together his small savings and emigrated to this country, and in 1888 took up his residence at Wyandotte. Michigan, on the St. Clair River. across from Ontario. There for eighteen months he was employed as a shipfitter, but at the end of that time accepted an opportunity to better his condition, going HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 897 to Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a shipfitter for the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company. With that company he remained for more than eight years, securing promotion through faithful and capable performance of duty, and in 1898 resigned to come to Lorain as assistant superintendent for the American Shipbuilding Company, In 1913 he was advanced to general superintendent of the shipyards here, and has continued to fill this position to the present time, to the entire satisfaction of his employers. Mr. Payton may truly be said to be a self-made man, having climbed from the bottom rung of the ladder without other aids than ambition, determination, inherent ability and constant industry, As an employer of labor he is considerate and appreciative, and has the faculty of securing from his men the best work of which they are capable, In fraternal circles he is prominent in Masonry, having advanced to the degrees of Knight Templar and Shriner, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. As a citizen he is public spirited and progressive, and always has advocated those worthy undertakings which have been calculated to advance the community in which he lives and the interests of its people, In 1893 Mr. Payton was married to Miss Agnes O'Malley, of Cleveland, Ohio, a native of England, GEORGE M. SUTLIFF. Though the span of his life was only forty-five years, George M. Sutliff left a record of accomplishment in material things and of honorable upright living which should always be associated with his memory, In fact he was one of Lorain County's most progressive men. A native of Lorain County, the only son and child of Miles W, and Susan (Gott) Sutliff, he was born in this county December 30, 1864, and died September 9, 1909, His parents settled many years ago in Penfield Township and his father besides operating a small farm bought and sold live stock. With an education acquired in the district schools George M. Sutliff began his individual career at the age of fourteen, and thenceforward relied upon his own industry and enterprise to earn a place in the world, At that age he began buying and selling stock, of course on a small scale and with a very meager capital. He possessed the natural talents of the trader and business man and was successful from the start. From that time forward until his death, a period of about thirty years, he did more than most men accomplish in twice that time. At the time of his death his estate comprised 400 acres of fine land in Penfield, Huntington and Wellington townships and it had all been earned by his hard work and business judgment. For a number of years he was the principal breeder of thoroughbred Holstein cattle in Lorain County, and by the introduction of that stock he did much to elevate the standard of local cattle raising. He was thoroughly and essentially a business man, and while a supporter of every movement which concerned the welfare of the community, he had not sufficient interest in politics ever to become a candidate for office. On April 5. 1899, Mr. Sutliff married Miss Blanche Dorchester. Mrs, Sutliff. who survives him, and occupies a fine home in Wellington, actively co-operated with him and shared in his success while Mr, Sutliff was alive, and has since devoted herself not only to her family and the training or her two beautiful young daughters, but also to the interests of the community. She is kindly and charitable, helpful to the poor and unfortunate, and is one of the social leaders in her town. She was born in Wellington Township in 1874, graduated from the Wellington High School in 1892, and has both the culture and training of the true gentle- 898 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY woman, For eight years before her marriage she was a successful teacher. While not a member she is a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her parents were Augustus B, and Mary (Eno) Dorchester, Her father was born in New York State in 1837 and died in 1897, while her mother was born in Sheffield, Lorain County, December 4, 1841, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sutliff, February 9, 1914, Mrs. Sutliff's mother was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and her father was a stanch republican, Augustus Dorchester came to Lorain County in 1850 when a poor man and for several years worked out by the day, but eventually accumulated sufficient to provide for all the reasonable wants of his family. Mr. Sutliff was one of three children. Her sister, Edith, died at the age of nine years and her sister, Agnes, is the wife of Joseph Beal and they live on Mrs, Sutliff's farm, Of the three children born to Mr, and Mrs. Sutliff the two now living are: Marion, born July 3, 1901; and Maxine, born May 28. 1907. Both are attending the public schools, JOHN E, DAVIDSON. For more than twenty years John E. Davidson has been the principal livestock dealer and commission man at Kipton. By trade he is a butcher and followed that line for a number of years, but now devotes his time exclusively to buying and marketing large quantities of livestock and poultry, His standing as a business man is unquestioned, and by the force of his integrity and his extensive dealings he has become well known in Lorain County. He is a son of Andrew and Martha (Edgar) Davidson, his father being one of the oldest citizens of Lorain County, now living at the advanced age of ninety-three on his Camden Township farm. John E. Davidson after getting his education in the public schools started life as a farmer, to which he had already been trained by early discipline, and worked on the home place until he was twenty years of age. For six years he was employed in the heavy labor involved in a stone quarry at Nickel Plate, Ohio. It was in 1893 that he identified himself with the Kipton community and in the following year engaged in the livestock and butcher business. His business has had a progressive growth and he now has extensive facilities in the way of warehouse and other equipment at Kipton for the handling and shipping of livestock, wool and poultry. His poultry shipments are now a large feature of his business and during the last Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons he shipped from the Kipton station poultry to the value of about $8.000. In 1894 he married Jennie E, Prentice, Her father. Harvey M. Prentice, was born in New York State, came to Camden Township when a boy and was a resident in that community until about three years ago when he went out to California where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson have two children : Chalmer P,, who is attending the business college at Oberlin, and Laura Leila, who is in the second year of Oberlin College, All the family are members of the Disciples. Church. Mr. Davidson is, a democrat, and has served as a member of the hoard of complaints, At the present time (1916) he is a candidate for county commissioner on the democratic ticket. Fraternally he is affiliated with thc Masonic order. Besides his large business at Kipton he also owns a good farm of 100 acres south of that village, L. E. HOWK, D, D. S. In 1915 Doctor Howk finished his ten years of successful practice as a dentist at Wellington, Without doubt he has made a success in that profession such as few men attain, He is a hard HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 899 worker, is skillful, makes use of all the approved devices and appliances of the art and science, and for several years past has found all his time and energies occupied in serving his clientage. He is a native of Wellington where he was born October 25, 1882, and represents one of the very old and honored families of Lorain County. His grandfather Eli Howk was born in Auburn, New York, and moved to Lorain County as early as 1835, settling on a farm in Wellington Township. He spent his last years in the village of Wellington. He was well known, and was always called Squire Howk. Alpheus Howk, father of Doctor Howk, was born in Wellington Township September 12, 1841, and died May 1, 1912, He was a farmer by occupation, and afterwards moved from his farm to the village of Wellington in order to give his children the advantages of better schools. He also was in the real estate business. During the war he served as a member of the Second Ohio Cavalry in the Army of the Potomac, and was wounded in the battle before Petersburg, Virginia, He saw three years of service. He was a loyal member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was affiliated with the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Maccabees and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, In politics a republican, he exercised a considerable influence in local matters, though he was not an aspirant for office. He was exceedingly temperate and a man of excellent judgment and high standing in his community, He was married in Huntington Township of Lorain County to Sarah Boone, who was born in Huntington Township December 22, 1846, and is still living. Her father was William Boone, who came to Lorain County at an early day and spent his last years in the county. He was related to the family of Daniel Boone. Alpheus Howk and wife had six children : May, wife of Harry Blackburn, who is a graduate in law from the Western Reserve University, but is now living at Lakewood and is connected with the Winton Automobile Company ; George, who is a farmer and manages the old homestead, making his home with his mother ; Bertha, wife of E. C. Cushing, a banker of Wellington ; Nellie, now deceased ; Frank, a farmer in Huntington Township ; and Dr. L. E, Doctor Howk graduated from the Wellington High School in 1901. In 1902 he entered the dental department of Western Reserve University, where he was graduated D, D. S, in 1905, After one year of practice in Cleveland, he returned to his native village of Wellington, and almost from the first he had a profitable practice. At the present time he is so busy looking after the wants of his large clientage that he never goes home for lunch at midday, He has been grand master of the Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity, In 1910 Doctor Howk married Lillian A, Murray. She was born at Spencer, Ohio, and died in 1911. In 1913 Doctor Howk married Jessie N, West, a daughter of Charles West, a retired farmer of Lorain County. Doctor Howk is a republican in politics, Some years ago he built a beautiful home near Wellington, and has all the comforts and conveniences of both town and country, having a beautiful suburban estate. and keeps his own cows, chickens and his table is supplied from his own garden. AARON LYNN BACON. The untimely passing of Aaron Lynn Bacon on September 3, 1912, as the result of an accident, cut short a career of promising usefulness, and one which had already brought him to a station of honor and prosperity in Lorain County. He represented one of the older families of Lorain County, and his death was a grievous