950 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY The first seventeen years of his life Doctor Grills spent on the old homestead, and has mwhichf the strength and vigor whieh are a product of rural environment. He attended the district schools. went to school in Elyria, and in 1900 graduated from high school. He soon afterwards entered the Western Reserve Medical College in Cleveland. where he was graduated M.D. in 1904. The following two years were spent as resident physician at the Charity Hospital in Cleveland. Doctor Grills' professional work has been in the City of Lorain. During the first year and a half of his residence there he was resident physician in St. Joseph's Hospital, and is still a member of the hospital staff, and also has served as medical director of the Devonian Mineral Spring Company of Lorain. His private practice makes very extensive demands on all his time and energy and he is regarded as one of the leaders hi Lorain County's medical circles today. He is a member of the Lorain County Medical Society. the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also active in the Lorain Chamber of Commerce. A prominet Mason, he has affiliations with Lorain Lodge No. 552. Free & Accepted Masons; Mystic Chapter No. 170, Royal Arch Masters; Lorain Commandery No. 65, Knights Templar: and Lake Erie Consistory of the thirty-second degree and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. of Cleveland. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of Lorain Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In July, 1905, Doctor Grills married Miss Olive A. Mahany of Cleveland. Mrs. Grills, who before her marriage was a trained nurse, passed away October 5, 1915. GEORGE A. HAHN. The great Ethpire of Germany early gave valuable contribution to the civic makeup of Lorain County and he whose name initiates this article is a scion of sterling pioneer families of this county, where both his paternal and maternal grandfathers settled at a time when this section of the Buckeye State was little more than a semi-wilderness. As a scion of the tfhird generation of the Hahn family in Lorain County George A. Hahn is well upholding., the prestige of the name which he bears and is known as one of the progressive farmers and loyal and public-spirited citizens of this beautiful and opulent section of his native state. Mr. Hahn was born on the homestead farm of his parents. in Black River Township, Lorain County, on the 13th of April 1873, and is a son of Charles and Catherine (Baumhardt) Hahn, both likewise natives of Lorain County, where the former was born on the 10th of June. 1847, and the latter on the 17th of March, 1851. The parents of Mr. Hahn were reared and educated in this county, where they still maintain their residence on their fine landed estate. and of their children six are living: Louis E. is one of the prosperous farmers of Erie County; George A., of this review, was the next in order of birth : Martha A. is the wife of Charles Schibley, a farmer in Elyria Township : Minnie K. is the wife of Arthur Wangerien, a farmer of this county: Bertha E. is the wife of Henry Smithkons, another representative agriculturist of the county, as is also Walter Holstein, husband of Amelia. the youngest daughter. Charles Hahn and his wife are zealous members of the Evangelical Church and in politics be is found aligned-as a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He is serving, in 1915-16, as trustee of Black, River Township. and is one of the prominent and influential citizens of that part of the county, where he is the owner of a well HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 951 improved and valuable landed estate of 390 acres, the same being recognized as one of the best farms in the county. Charles Hahn is a son of George and Elizabeth (Pretz) Hahn, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1822 and the latter in 1821. George Hahn came to the United States in 1838 and became one of the first settlers in Lorain County, Ohio, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness and where he gained prosperity and independence through his well ordered labors. He had virtually no financial resources when he came to this county as a youth, and at the time of his death he was the owner of one of the large and valuable estates of this section. of Ohio. Adam Baumhardt, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, likewise came from Germany and numbered himself among the early pioneer settlers of Lorain County, where he became a substantial farmer and where he continued to reside until his death. It will thus be seen that both the Hahn and Baumhardt families have contributed much toward the development and progress of Lorain County along both civic and industrial lines, and the names of both merit enduring place in the recorded history of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. George A. Hahn found the period of his childhood and youth compassed by the invigorating and benignant influences and discipline of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he did not fail to profit fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native township, besides which he completed a four months' course in the commercial college at Oberlin. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years, and he initiated his independent enterprise as. a farmer on a tract of 126 acres presented to him by his father. With character-istic energy and good judgment he bent his energies to the development and improving of his farm, which he made a valuable property. In 1906 he purchased his present fine landed estate of 234 acres, situated in Russia Township, 31/2 miles distant from the City of Oberlin. Here he has found ample scope for his progressive and specially success-ful operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his homestead is one of the valuable and admirably improved landed estates of his native county. Mr. Hahn is a vigorous and public-spirited representa-tive of the agricultural interests of the county, is always ready to give his influence and co-operation in the furtherance or undertakings tending to advance the general welfare of the community, and in his political allegiance is independent. On the 2d of. June, 1892, Mr. Hahn wedded Miss Carrie Schaible, who was born and reared in Elyria Township, this county, and who is a daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Eppley) Schaible, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Schaible still reside on their homestead farm in Elyria Township. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn have four children: Catherine, who was born March 29, 1900, is a member of the class of 1918 in the Oberlin High School ; Harold. who was born in 1903, is an eighth-grade student in the public schools; Marian, who was born in 1907, is in the fourth grade of the local school ; and Charles was born February 28, 1911. HENRY HOBART HITCHCOCK. For the greater part of half a century Henry Hobart Hitchcock has been one of the leading, farmer citizens of Grafton Township. About forty-six years ago he located on his present home place, which is situated on the Grafton Pike, one mile south of the village of that name. With a farm of 245 acres he carries on an exten-sive business in general agriculture, dairying and stock husbandry. 952 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY He came to Lorain County after his marriage. He was born on a farm in Montville Township of Medina County, Ohio. December 14, 1843, a son of Daniel Bristol and Sarah E. (Welton) Hitchcock. The father was born near Amboy, New York, where he grew, to manhood and where he became a skilled workman in the fabrication of such articles as spinning wheels, rakes, etc. When he was about twenty-one years of age he came to Ohio with his parents Daniel and Martha ( Thayer) Hitchcock, who located in Medina County in 1836. Daniel Hitchcock was born in Connecticut while his wife was a native of Massachusetts. In Medina County Daniel Hitchcock acquired a fifty-eight acre farm and his only son, Daniel B. inherited that place and spent his days there as a successful farmer until his death when about fifty-one years of age. Henry Hobart Hitchcock spent his early life on his father's farm and had such advantages as the local schools could bestow. After his father's death he bought from his sister Mary her interest in the homestead. His sister is now the wife of Samuel Rosenberry and lives on a farm in Fulton Township of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. After reaching manhood Mr. Hitchcock made a visit to his grandfather who was then living on the farm where Henry H. Hitchcock now lives, and there became acquainted with Miss Eleanor S. Breckenridge. Their acquaintance ripened into love and on August 17, 1867, they were united in marriage. Mrs. Hitchcock was born on the farm where she and her husband now reside, and is a daughter of Justin Breckenridge, while her mother was a Miss Pohlman. Both were natives of New York State and early settlers in Lorain County. About two years after his marriage Mr. Hitchcock sold his farm in Medina County and bought the place where he now lives, paving $40 an acre for land that is now worth several times as much. wife's father Mr. Breckenridge built the home residence in 1851. Its walls were substantially constructed of brick and they still stand solid, and the house is almost as good as new. The outside buildings Mr. Hitchcock has remodeled since taking possession and has always kept his own farm apace with the advancement in agricultural methods. To him and his wife were born four children. Clarence Pohlman, born August 30, 1868, and now a successful insurance man at Lorain, married' and has two children, Marie and Ralph. Willis Nelson, the second child, was born October 14, 1870. and is his father's capable assistant on the home farm; he married Miss Mary Benzing and has two children Eleanor S. and Nelson G. Howard Hobart, the third son, was born June 18, 1879, is a farmer in Brunswick Township of Medina County and married Della Stearns. Dwight Bristol, the youngest child, was born April 19, 1880, and still lives at home. Since early manhood Henry Hobart Hitchcock has been a devoted adherent of republican principles in politics. He cast his first presidential ballot in 1868 for President Grant. He served as trustee of the township two terms and was land appraiser one term. He was reared in the Episcopal Church, and his middle name was given in honor of Bishop Hobart of New York, whose name is also preserved by Hobart College at Geneva, New York. When Mr. Hitchcock removed to Grafton, in the absence of Episcopal Church, he put in his membership with the Congregational society at Grafton, and has always been one of its active members and is serving as a trustee and deacon. His son Willis was at one time superintendent of the Sunday School. DAVID DECKER. Out on the Murray Ridge Road in Elyria Township one of the best improved and most attractive farms passed by the traveler on that highway is the Decker place of 101 acres. Mr. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 953 Decker, is. a native of Lorain County, was born not far from where he now lives, and has made an ample success in his chosen line of endeavor and also stands for the good things in the life of his community. The farm on which he was born June 2, 1853, was also located on the Murray Ridge Road, and was at that time owned by his parents, Frederick and Catherine (Cook) Decker. They both come from Germany as young people, his mother with her parents when sixteen years of age. The father was a tailor by trade, and after landing in Boston worked there for several years and was married in that city to a Miss Cook when the latter was nineteen years old. They finally came West and settled in Lorain County, locating in Amherst Township, but after a short time moved to Elyria Township, where they occupied the farm on Murray Ridge Road about half a mile from the old Telegraph Road. That was their home for nearly thirty years. They then moved to the City of Elyria where Frederick Decker died January 21, 1880, at the age of about seventy-two. His widow for several years kept house for her youngest sons, Frank and George, in Amherst Township, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lenz, in Greytown, Ottawa County, February 4, 1901, at the advanced age of eighty-five. There were twelve children in the family, all of whom grew up except Peter, who was accidentally drowned when four or five years of age in a well. The names of the children were: William, Jacob, Catherine, Frederick, Elizabeth, Peter, Phillipine, Adam, Carry, David, Frank and George. The son, William, early in life went to Michigan, where he was engaged in lumbering, served with a Michigan regiment all through the Civil war, and was afterwards identified with lumber in that state until his death; he was twice married, and by the first wife had two children, Kittie and Willie, and by the second marriage there is a son, Fred, who still lives in 'Michigan. Jacob Decker, the second son, also lives in Lorain County. Catherine, the third child, married Abraham Halter, lived in Elyria Township a number of years, from there moved to Hancock County, and she died there about five years ago when seventy years of age; she was the mother of four children : Edward, Susie, Arthur and Clarence. The next the family is Frederick, who was a farmer in Elyria Township up to the age of twenty-two, then went to the war and died while fighting for the Union cause. Elizabeth lived in Elyria Township until her marriage to Jacob Lenz, which occurred in 1863, and she is now living at Greytown in Ottawa County, a widow and the mother of nine children: Fred, deceased ; Alice ; Henry; Julia ; Edward; Frank, and three others now deceased. Phillipine was married at the age of seventeen in Elyria Township to George Hansman, a blacksmith, and they are now living in Amherst ; their children are: Allie, deceased; Fred; Elmer ; Kittie ; and Arnold. Adam, who now lives at Elyria, was first a farmer, later was engaged in shop work and is now an engineer in the steel mills at Lorain by his marriage to Margaret Wonder of Carey, Ohio, he has two children named Mamie and Clarence. Carry is the widow of. the late Orland McQueen, who for a number of years was captain of a lake vessel, though they made their home at Elyria, and she is now living. at Elmore in Sandusky County ; her three children are Catherine, Lillian and Ralph. Frank, now deceased, was a farmer, later a teaming con-tractor at Amherst, and died about fifteen years ago; he married Lizzie Ackerman, who is still living, and her children are Frank, Martha, Arnold and Leland. George was associated with his brother, Frank, in the contracting business and died the same year as the brother he 954 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY married Kate Wenard, who lives at Amherst, and has four children, Anna, Albert, Edith and George. Mr. David Decker grew up in Lorain County, attended the schools near his boyhood home, and was well trained for the business. which he has made the basis of his career. He lived with his parents until twenty years of age, after which he followed the carpenter trade several years. He did his first farming for himself for one year in Elyria Township, and in 1878 moved to Sheffield Township, where for eighteen years he operated a farm of 136 1/2 acres. Returning to Elyria Township in March, 1896, he has since prospered as the proprietor and manager of the old Michael Eppley farm. On April 24. 1879, He married Angeline May Botamer. She was born. in Elyria Township, a daughter of Christopher Frederick and Chassie (Fessler) Botamer. Her father was born in Germany, but was married in Sandusky, and his wife was of English stock. Airs. Decker was one of a family of twelve children, two of whom died in infancy. Her brothers and sisters were named: Emma, deceased; Sarah, deceased; William, who lives in Elyria; Mamie, who died after her marriage; Catherine (Botamer) Beese, who lives in Elyria : John ; Frank and Adam, both residents of Elyria; George, deceased; and Leon. To Mr. and Mrs. Decker have been born three children. Ruby is the wife of Samuel A. Beal. Edward C., who is foreman for John Hal-pin, a. contractor. married Mabel Gibson. Harley, who lives on the farm with his father, married Myrna Hughes; their first child, a son, died at the age of five months, and the two living children are Nina Belle and Wanda Veda. Mrs. Decker is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Decker's father was a very liberal supporter and constant attendant of the same church. Air. and Airs. David Decker are both members of the local Grange in the Patrons of Husbandry, and Mr. Decker at one time filled the office of township assessor. He was elected to that position on the democratic ticket and that has been his brand of politics. HUGH L. HALL, M. D. One of the busiest physicians of Lorain County is Dr. Hugh L. Hall of Amherst, where be has been serving his clientage faithfully for a period of more than thirty years. He is a conscientious. high minded and skillful physician, and his professional work and civic prominence have brought him an enviable position in this county. He was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, May 17, 1860, a son of Ozias L. and Laura (Hyde) Hall. Both the Hyde and the Hall families were Connecticut people who came to Northern Ohio in the early days. His paternal grandparents, Daniel and Sallie (VanWormer) Hall. emigrated from their native State of Connecticut to Ashtabula County, Ohio, and had their first home in a log cabin. They spent the remainder of their useful years in that county. The maternal grandfather, Oates Hyde, was also an early farmer in Ashtabula County. Doctor Hall's father was born in 1831. and died in 1885. He was a child when brought to Ashtabula County and at the age of sixteen he suffered a serious impairment of health and being, unable to continue on the farm took up teaching.. and followed that profession for a number of years. Always under the handicap of ill health. he prospered and became a man of considerable material influenced. He died suddenly at Macon, Georgia. and was buried there, though his old friends and neighbors held a funeral service at his home in Ashtabula County. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were active members of the Congregational Church at Rock Creek. He was married at Lenox, Ohio, to Miss Laura HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 955 Hyde. who was born in 1839 and died in 1895. Their three children were : Dr. Hugh L. ; Floyd M., who is a farmer at Cherry Valley ; and Laverie. wife of Frank Beck, a successful laundryman at Atlanta, Georgia, and at one time the owner of several laundries in different cities. Doctor Hall had the advantages of a good home and received a good education as a boy, and when old enough to take up life on his own responsibilities he followed out his ambition to become a. professional man. He completed his literary training in Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, and in 1884 graduated M. D. from the Western Reserve Medical College. He also had two years of training in a hospital in Cleveland. and in 1885 he located permanently at Amherst, buying the practice of Doctor Maynard, a physician whom many recall in that section of Lorain County. Almost from the start Doctor Hall had a large following and his ability has kept him secure in the confidence of a large and profitable practice. He is a member of the Lorain County and Ohio State Medical Societies. In June, 1885, Doctor Hall married Harriet Tinker. She was born at Rome in Ashtabula County, a daughter of Daniel and Alathea (Ackley) Tinker, who were an early family in Ashtabula County. Doctor and Mrs. Hall have one son, Howard L., who was born December 26, 1898. Throughout his four years in high school he maintained the highest aver-age in his studies and graduated with the class of 1916 as valedictorian. His education will be continued in Oberlin College. Doctor and Mrs. Hall and son are members of the Congregational church, and Mrs. Hall served as president of the Ladies Aid Society during 1915, and under her administration the society raised $1,100 for carrying out its purposes. In politics Doctor Hall is independent. He has served on the village council and is now a member of the school board. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, has filled all the chairs in the subordinate lodges, and in Masonry is also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and the Knights Templar degrees. WILLIAM H. SPIEGELBERG. Undoubtedly one of the finest farms to be found in all Lorain County is that of William H. Spiegelberg in Elyria Township. As an agriculturist he is a man of progressive ideals and while his efforts have always brought him an abundant degree of mate-rial prosperity he is constantly going ahead and looking ahead for further improvements and better methods of utilizing his opportunities. The Spiegelberg home is a place of great attractiveness. In 1908 he erected a residence of thirteen rooms with all the modern conveniences, including a complete lighting and heating system. Following this came another substantial improvement, an immense barn erected in 1909; and one of the more recent additions to his farm enterprise has been the erection of a large silo. While classified as a general farmer, Mr. Spiegelberg gives much attention to special crops and to live stock, and operates a large dairy. Born in Amherst Township January 23, 1863, William H. Spiegelberg is of sterling German ancestry, and his family has been identified with Lorain County more than eighty years. His grandparents were John and Barbara (Heiser) Spiegelberg; who were married in Germany. In 1833 as young people they came to the United States, and during the first winter, spent at Norwich, Connecticut, twin children were born to them, George W. and Olive, the latter being later Mrs. Adam Stang of Elyria Township. In 1834 the family started West, intending to locate at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The vessel on which they were coming up the lake encountered a severe storm and was taken into Lorain VOL   II - 26 956 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY harbor, where all the passengers were landed. John Spiegelberg hunted up an old friend from Germany at Lorain, secured his assistance in getting employment, and thus became a permanent resident. He was a man of industry, a money maker, and for many years lived on a good farm in Amherst Township. The late George W. Spiegelberg, whose birth has already been recorded and who died April 14, 1902, spent practically all his life in Lorain County. After his marriage he succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead in Amherst Township, and continued its operation successfully until the close of his career. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Kolbe, was born in Germany in 1840, a daughter of N. W. and Elizabeth (Heisner) Kolbe, who settled in Ohio in 1856, and for many years lived on a farm near Lorain Village. George W. Spiegelberg and wife had ten children: Barbara Elizabeth, who married Jacob Eschtruth ; George, a twin brother of Elizabeth, lived only about a year; William H.; Mary, who married Moses Eppley ; Olive, who became the wife of John Bechtell; Louisa, wife of William Beal; Carrie; Elizabeth, who married J. F. Fowle ; Amelia, wife of Frank Rahl ; and Louis, who married Odelia Smith. William H. Spiegelberg spent his early years on the old homestead, gained an education in the local schools, and was with his parents until his marriage on March 28, 1889. The maiden name of his wife was Lydia A. Eppley. She was born in Morgan County: Ohio, a daughter of Michael and Rosa (Harch) Eppley, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Spiegelberg have six children: Elmer William, who died at the age of ten weeks; Edna Catherine.; Earl William; Lydia Alberta Elizabeth; Ruth Marian and Marian Elizabeth. During the ten years following his marriage Mr. Spiegelberg, with the co-operation of his thrifty wife, followed farming as a renter in Amherst Township, and proved his energy and successful ability by making enough out of his operations as a renter to finally buy a home for himself. He finally located on the old John M. Vincent farm of 128 1/2 acres, and after renting that estate for ten years bought it. Under his own proprietorship improvements have gone forward at a rapid pace, until there is now nothing lacking to make it au ideal country home. Mrs. Spiegelberg attends the Zion Evangelical Church. In politics he is an independent voter. GEORGE H. ANDRESS. Among the energetic young business men of Elyria, one who has won prominence although a comparative newcomer to commercial circles is George H. Andress, "The Studebaker Man," representative here for the famous Studebaker automobile. He was born in this city, September 28, 1892, and is. a son of Henry M. and Medora G. (Boynton) Andress. His father, a business man of Elyria for forty years, for half of this time conducted an establishment within twenty rods of the location of the son's store and garage, which is situated on the property on which the old home stood for a long period. A. review of the career of Henry M. Andress will be found elsewhere in this work. George H. Andress received a public school education and when ready to enter upon his commercial career associated himself with his father, under whom he received his business training. From 1910 until 1913 he remained with the elder man in the handling of automobiles, and in the latter year, with this experience, took over the agency of the Studebaker automobile and has built up a large and important business. Mr. Andress is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, the Elyria Automobile Club and Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 957 Order of Elks. He is popular in business and social circles and is justly accounted one of Elyria's leading young business citizens. Mr. Andress was married January 21, 1913, to Miss Lora J. Waite, who was born at Lorain, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Waite, who are living at Lorain. One daughter has come to this union : Maude Augusta, born at Elyria. Mr. Andress owns his own home and place of business, the latter being located in a desirable part of the business section of the city, at No. 635 Broad Street. LESTER C. COOK, whose death on April 12, 1909, was a cause for gen-eral regret in Lorain County, was one of the factors in agricultural and civic progress in Eaton Township for many years. Mrs. Cook, his widow, is still living on the old homestead at North Eaton, and his work as a farmer is continued through his son. This is one of the best known and most prominent families of Eaton Township. Born on a farm in Medina County, Ohio. December 6, 1841, a son of Erastus and Lemira (Ayer) Cook, Lester C. Cook grew to manhood on the Medina County farm, received a good education, and for several years was a school teacher. He also took a business course in Oberlin, and for a couple of years was interested in a furniture store. at Hillsdale, :Michigan. On January 19, 1875, he married Miss Minnie Streeter of Eaton Township in Lorain County, where she was born October 21, 1848. Mrs. Cook is a daughter of Sheldon and Mary (Cutts) Streeter. Her father was born on a farm in Shalersville Township of Portage County, Ohio, August 7, 1824, while her mother was born on a farm in Paris Township of Portage County February 25, 1828. They were married January 19, 1848, and in the following March they moved to Lorain County, where Sheldon Streeter bought fifty acres in Eaton Township. Only a part of this had been cleared, and its chief improvements were a log house and a small barn. It was in that one community that he concentrated his efforts and made his home the rest of his days. From time to time he invested his surplus in other lands and finally had 238 acres under his individual ownership. ln 1867 Mr. Streeter built the large commodious residence which is now occupied by Mrs. Cook and her family. Besides this residence Sheldon Streeter put up good barns and other buildings and his was a career of useful effort and of substantial citizenship. Mrs. Cook was the only child of her parents, and she was eight years old when her mother died, and though her father married again there were no children by the second marriage. Sheldon Streeter was a republican in early life and later a prohibitionist. He became an ardent admirer of William J. Bryan. Though interested in politics be was never a seeker for official honor. He was a member and served as an elder forty-three years in the Christian Church at Eaton Center and was also a Sunday School worker. His death occurred September 11, 1902, as a result of being struck by the railway cars at North Eaton. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cook were born seven children. All of them were born on the old home farm in Eaton township, and four of them died in early childhood. The oldest is Grace B., born November 21, 1876, a graduate of the Academy at Oberlin, following which she took a course in a nurses' training school and is now a nurse in the Brownell & Eagle Schools in Cleveland. The second daughter, Harriet, born September 29, 1884, attended high school at Oberlin, took courses in music and elocution at a college in Berea, is a Chiropodist and now lives at Cleveland with her sister. Don Sheldon Cook, the only living son, was born January 16, 1888, attended the Elyria High School until within three months of graduating, and is now the active manager of the old 958 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY home farm for his mother. He is conducting a successful business as a dairyman and a breeder of high grade Holstein cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs. In 1912 he built his second silo with a capacity of 135 tons. He is a republican in politics, as was his father, but has no aspirations for official honors. He and the other members of the family are communicants of the Disciples Church. His father served as a deacon in that church. On January 19, 1909, Don Sheldon Cook married Miss Freda Davis, daughter of L. T. and Mida (Roberts) Davis. They have three children : Russell Kenneth born March 12, 1910; Lester D., born November 26, 1912; and Jean Elizabeth, born March 11, 1914. ELMER A. RICHMOND. One of the old and prominent families of Lorain County is represented by Elmer A. Richmond, whose farm enterprise and good citizenship have made him well known in that section of the county around Wellington. The Richmonds have lived in this county for three successive generations, and a great deal of development and improvement can. be traced to their energy and effective citizenship. Born in Lorain County, September 20. 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond. who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville. Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns be-ginning in the fall of 1862. participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat. at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville. After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866. married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10. 1843, a daughter. of Robert Dalglish. who came from Scotland and was a mill-wright by trade, although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield. where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. His next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven years he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when. he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A.. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington; Nora, wife of Walter Hull. a motorman at. Elyria ; Mamie, who died when about four years old ; Victoria. wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington: and Robert. in a grocery store at Elyria. Elmer A. Richmond spent his early life chiefly in Penfield Township and attended the Wellington public schools. He has followed farming ever since reaching his majority and has made a success of the business. In 1893 he married Ada Fetterman, who was born in Medina County, Ohio, daughter of Joseph Fetterman. When a child she was brought to HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 959 Penfield Township, and received her education in. the local schools. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond have three children : Mary, aged twenty-one and still at home ; Glen, aged eighteen ; and Arthur, aged nine. Mr. Richmond is a member of the Congregational Church and his wife belongs to the .Methodist denomination. The family are all members of the Grange, and he affiliates with the Maccabees. Mr. Richmond has taken considerable part in local affairs, and is a republican in politics. He has served as trustee of Penfield Township, having been elected to that office in November, 1915, and was a member of the school board for seven years. As a farmer he looks after the operation of 161 acres of land, which he devotes to the general crops and to dairying purposes. He has a herd of eight thoroughbred Holsteins besides a herd of grade Holsteins and he is making that a very profitable feature of his general business. His farm is without doubt one of the very best in Penfield Township. It is also a fact worth recording that it was one of the very first to be cleared from the wilderness. Its first owner was a Mr. Penfield, whose family were honored by having the township named for them. Mr. Richmond and his family reside in one of the most attractive rural residences in that section of the county. C. J.. BEHNKE. Among Penfield Township farms that are deserving of mention as places of value in the material sense and as homes of thrifty and energetic citizens, there is the Behnke place, known as the Elm Grove Farm, which for nearly twenty years has been modified and increased in value by the energy of C. J. Behnke, one of the ablest farmers in that locality. A native of Lorain County, Mr. Behnke was born in Russia Township, September 21, 1863, a son of Ernest and Wilhelmina (Mohrman) Behnke. Both his parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in 1829 and died in 1884 and his mother in 1831 and died in 1891. They were married in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernest Behnke came to Lorain County about 1861. He was a blacksmith and carriage maker by trade, and started to work at his trade in America at $7 a month,. eventually set up a shop of his own, and by rendering a service that brought him increased patronage he laid the foundation for his substantial success. Out of his earnings at his trade he paid for 192 acres of land, and was very well off when he died, though he had started almost penniless. He was a democrat in politics and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. Of their seven children the four now living are: C. J. Behnke ; Minnie, wife of William Fowles of LaGrange Township ; William, a farmer in Elyria Township ; and Lewis, a farmer in Amherst Township. C. J. Behnke acquired his early education in the district schools, grew up and learned the business of farming, and after his father's death inherited a share of the homestead. Later he sold his land in Amherst Township and in 1897 bought his present place of a little more than 100 acres in Penfield Township. This at the time was uncleared land and be has since improved it into a wonderful farm, erecting a good home and a large barn, and making other improvements in keeping with the best standards of agriculture in this vicinity. Mr. Behnke has succeeded by general farming and dairying, and in the way of livestock keeps Jersey and Holstein cattle and Percheron horses. On March 17, 1889, he married Lizzie Stickroth. She was born in Germany, but was brought to America when a child. They are the parents of three children: Wallace has become a successful railway official and for the past five years has been division superintendent on the Frisco lines at Fort Worth, Texas; Nellie is a trained nurse, located 960 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY at Chicago; Julia is the wife of Lesley Preston, farmer in Wellington Township. Mrs. Behnke, the mother of these children, died in 1903. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On December 2, 1906, Mr. Behnke married Allie (Newton) Bernt, a widow. Mrs. Behnke is a member of the Adventist Church. Fraternally Mr. Behnke belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees, and is also a member of the Grange, holds the certificate for sixth degree and has filled various chairs of these orders. Politically he is a republican, and was trustee of his home township for eight years. WILLIAM TYLER WILLIAMS. To find farm improvement and efficiency at its best it is only necessary to visit the Riverside Farm owned by William Tyler Williams in Carlisle Township, two miles from the public square of Elyria. This was formerly known as the W. E. Miller Farm, and comprises 70 3/4 acres and is remarkable not so much for its size and for the intensive cultivation of the land and for the many splendid improvements which make it not only a farm in the ordinary sense but a splendid home. Every building is of most thorough construction and the barns have cement floors, cement feed troughs, and the stock have running water without leaving their stalls. The specialty of the farm is graded and registered Holstein and Jersey cattle. A great deal of credit has been given to the equipment of this farm, and one of the prominent features are two large silos built of hollow tile. Water is piped not only throughout the barn but to other buildings and there is both hot and cold water throughout the house. A gas well on the farm supplies ample fuel and light. Mr. Williams came to this place September 1, 1912, from Cuyahoga County, in 'Mayfield Township, where he had spent the greater part of his life and where he was born February 15, 1841. His parents. were Daniel and Alice (Blish) Williams, both of whom were born and reared on farms near Colchester, Connecticut. His father was a carpenter and joiner by occupation in early days, used his trade to become a contractor, and was a quite successful man.- He was not married until forty-one years of age, and soon after that event he Moved out to Northern Ohio and located in Mayfield Township of Cuyahoga County. He came there in order to make a sale of some Western Reserve land, and he was engaged very extensively in the selling of such land for several years. He bought on his own account 257 acres, and that was the old homestead where William T. Williams spent his early boyhood. There were four sons in the family, William T. being the youngest. The oldest, Daniel B., moved out to California on account of his health and died there at the age of seventy-seven leaving three children. Abram F., the second son, lived on the old home farm in Mayfield Township until his death at the age of sixty-seven and was survived by two children. The other living son, Henry C., is a farmer in Van Wert County, Ohio, and has three children. When William T. Williams was about a year and a half old his father died, and he was reared by his mother on the old Mayfield township farm. During his childhood and early youth he attended the common schools. and every morning and night walked a distance of three miles between the home and school. He managed to secure the equivalent of a high school education. and when he was about twenty years of age the old farm was divided and he and a brother became owners of ninety acres. About that time he also took up work as a teamster for the government in the Civil war, having enlisted for that service. Exposure and hardship brought in train a serious illness on account of which he was honorably discharged, but after recuperating he again enlisted and this time HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 961 was made assistant wagonmaster. Thus he rendered a very necessary service to his country in time of peril. On February 22, 1866, Mr. Williams married Miss Cornelia Smith of Cleveland Township, where she was born May 3, 1841, a daughter of Horatio N. and Rebecca (Mattox) Smith. Her father was a native of Vermont, came to Ohio when still single, and met and married his wife in Cleveland. For nine years after his marriage Mr. Williams and wife lived in Mayfield Township, but in 1874 he bought fifty acres of land in Olmsted Township, and that was his home for thirty-nine years. It was in that community that he developed his extensive business as a stockman and farmer, and his farm was known for miles around as the home of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. He was also one of the founders of the village of North Olmsted, which is now incorporated and a flourishing community center. Mr. Williams' father had been an active whig in the early days of Northern Ohio, and in 1860 the son first took an active part in a political campaign, supporting the republican party, and in 1864 he had the inestimable privilege of casting a vote for Abraham Lincoln. Throughout his residence in North Olmsted he was again and again honored by places of public trust. He served as trustee of the township three times and was twice a candidate for county commissioner, being defeated by a very narrow margin. He was also urged at one time to become a candidate for state senator. Some years ago he was a delegate to the State Republican Convention at Toledo and was one of the men who supported and endorsed the candidacy of Mark Hanna for United States senator. Mr. and Mrs. Williams became the parents of five children, two of whom died in childhood. Their son Howard O., born in Mayfield Township, is a graduate of the high school at North Olmsted and is now the practical assistant of Mr. Williams on the home farm and is looking after the dairying end of the business. The daughter, Ste11.a A. married Frederick B. Nelson and lives in New York City. The daughter, Mable A., graduated from the high school at North Olmsted, attended school at Elyria and was also in the Woman's College at Wooster, and for a number of years has been a very successful and popular teacher, being now connected with the South School in Cleveland. J. W. BARTHOLOMEW of Penfield Township, is a man who has carved his own success in life. As a young man he worked as a clerk and in other occupations, but finally invested his small accumulations in land in Lorain County, and for many years has been one of the prosperous agriculturists in Penfield Township. He was born in Chautauqua County, New York, March 6, 1854, and was adopted by Samuel and Hulda (Cummings) Bartholomew. His fathcr was a New York State farmer, but afterwards came to Ohio and was in the hotel business at; Berlin Heights. Educated in the public Schools at Mayville and Portland, New York, J. W. Bartholomew did his first work as clerk in a store at Portland, and on March 4, 1874, arrived in Ohio, where he supported himself several years by clerking in a store at Vermillion. On August 20, 1874, he married Samantha Daniels, who was born in Pennsylvania, where her parents died. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew have two children : Alice Hulda, wife of Alexander McCoy, a farmer in Penfield Township, and they have one child, Robert ; and Ray Elsworth, in the grocery business at Lakewood, near Cleveland, Ohio. He married Fern Smith. and they have one child, Richard Kent. Mrs. Bartholomew is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 962 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY and Mr. Bartholomew is affiliated with the Maccabees, the Grange, the Good Templars and politically acts with the prohibition party. In 1887 he came to Penfield Township and bought his present farm of seventy acres. With the exception of $600 which he received from his father's estate, he has made his prosperity by his own labors. and has been able to provide a good home and all the comforts and advantages for his family. ERNEST L. PIERCE. Representing the good old American stock that first peopled and settled this section of Northern Ohio. Ernest I, Pierce has for many years applied himself successfully to his chosen work as a farmer in the vicinity of Wellington. With farming He has combined dairying and has one of the finest herds of Holstein cattle in the county. His work, thrift and industry has been well rewarded. His name is always spoken with due respect in the community where he has spent most of his life, and his accomplishments and those of other members of the family well justify that such record should be printed in permanent form. He was born in Penfield Township, June 12. 1868, and is a son of James Madison and Malinda (Starr) Pierce. His paternal grandfather Pierce, a native of New York State, came to Lorain County when it was largely an unsettled wilderness, and lived on a farm there until his death at the age of seventy-seven. The maternal grandfather. Orin Starr, was also young when he came to Lorain County, and was a man of great business judgment and energy. acquiring a great landed estate. He had eleven children, and three of them are still living. James M. Pierce was born in New York State in 1823 and died in March. 1887. Both he and the mother of Ernest Pierce were twice married. and by their first marriages had each three children. James M. Pierce married for his first wife, Marietta Hoyt. while Miss Starr married for her first husband. Lewis Hart. There were also three children by their second marriage, and the two now living are Ernest L. and Lena, the wife of J. B. Murray, who is in the grocery business at Wellington. James M. Pierce was an active republican in politics and his wife was a member of the Methodist Church. He owned a farm of ninety-six acres in Penfield Township, but sold it before he died and moved to Elyria and died at the home of a daughter in Penfield. Ernest L. Pierce grew up on the farm in Penfield Township. attended public schools there and also those of Elyria and Wellington. and for ten years worked out at monthly wages and by his careful savings laid the foundation for his present prosperity. The only money he ever inherited was $461 from his grandfather's estate, and all the rest he has acquired for himself. In 1894 he bought his farm and assumed a debt of $2,400 on it. He now owns a fine place of 103 acres. while his wife has a farm of seventy-one acres. He has put up buildings. and in many ways has developed the value of his property. As a dairyman he has a herd of registered Holstein cattle, and the care. and management of this herd is the most important department of his farm enterprise. In 1891 Mr. Pierce married Theresa P. Starr, daughter of Lemuel Starr, who was an early settler in Penfield Township. They have three children: J. Blair Pierce, born in 1893; Treva, who was born in 1895 and is the wife of Charles Pelton ; and Louise, born in 1900 and still at home. Mrs. Pierce is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both she and her husband are members of the Grange. He is active in the Maccabees and for four or five years was record keeper. Politically a republican, he served as township trustee six years. as a member of HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 963 the school board eight years, and is now by appointment filling a vacancy in the office of town clerk. GEORGE ROY WISEMAN, M. D. To a profession than which there is none greater in its opportunities for rendering service to humanity, Dr. George R. Wiseman has given himself with a devotion appropriate to his high calling and in ability and attainment ranks as one of the first physicians and surgeons of Lorain County. He is president of the Amherst Hospital, which he promoted and organized, and which at this writing is being constructed at Amherst under his supervision. This institution means a great deal to the community, and it represents the culmination of ten years of successful practice there. Doctor Wiseman was born in Licking County, Ohio, March 8, 1878, a son of William H. and Anna K. (Fickel) Wiseman. His father came to Licking County when a boy with the grandfather, who attained the remarkable age of 100 years, dying in Delaware County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather Fickel was a veteran of the Civil war, and one of the very prosperous men of Muskingum County, where he spent many years in comfortable retirement. William H. Wiseman, father of Doctor Wiseman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1840 and is now living in Columbus, Ohio, being connected with the pension department. During the Civil war as a young man he served in Company K of the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until the close of the war in 1865. His regiment saw some of the hardest fighting of the war, and he was with it at Shiloh, during the siege of Vicksburg, in the Atlanta campaign and in the march to the sea. For many years he was a general merchant at Jacksontown, Ohio. He \vas married in Muskingum County to Miss Fickel, who was born in that county in 1852 and died in- 1897. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which William H. Wiseman still has a leading part. He is a democrat in politics and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Their three children are : Dr. George R. ; Blanche, wife of E. E. Binder, assistant superintendent of the Telephone Company at Columbus, and they have two children, Mary Katheryne and Marie ; and Katheryne, wife of George Strain, a bookkeeper at Columbus. When Doctor Wiseman began practice he had behind him a fair training in schools and universities. In May, 1895, he graduated from the Jacksontown High School, and continued one year in high school taking special studies. For one year he was a student in the Starling Medical College and then for three years in the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, where he graduated M. D. in 1900. For several years he practiced in Morrow County, but in December, 1905, moved to Amherst. Doctor Wiseman is a member of the Lorain County and Ohio State Medical societies, and keeps closely in touch with all the progress of his profession. He is Surgeon for the American Dynalyte Co., the New York Central R. R. Co., the U. S. Automatic Co. and for several life insurance companies. In 1899 he married Ruth Reid, who was born at Cardington, Ohio, a daughter of Charles F. Reid, who was a cabinet maker. Doctor and Mrs. Wiseman have two sons : Clovis Reid, now in high school ; and George Roy, Jr., who is also attending the public schools. Mrs. Wiseman is a member of the Baptist Church and her son Clovis belongs to the Congregational Church. Fraternally Doctor Wiseman is a Knight Templar Mason, is past worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and Brotherhood of American Yeomen. 964 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY His politics is republican. For two years he served on the city council, and where not conflicting with his professional work he has been diligent and ever ready to serve the interests of his community. SAMUEL NAYLOR. When Samuel Naylor died on July 19, 1908, it was the general expression of community esteem in the locality where he had lived for many years that a successful farmer, a public spirited citizen, a kind husband and father, and a man of irreproachable char-acter and fine integrity had been removed from his position in Lorain County. During his long life he exemplified the success that goes with industry and intelligent management. He became one of the most extensive land owners in Penfield Township. Of old Pennsylvania stock, he was born in that state in Cumberland County, February 27, 1823, and was eighty-five years of age when called to his final rest. His grandfather, Jacob Naylor, was a farmer and distiller and made whiskey when that was one of the principal industries of the mountain regions of Pennsyl-vania. Samuel Naylor, Sr., father of the late citizen of Lorain County, was born in Little York, Pennsylvania, grew up on a farm, and for several years of his early manhood spent much of his time in hauling whiskey from his father's and other distilleries to Baltimore, where the principal market was for their product. It took six horses to haul a load of thirty barrels of whiskey over the mountain highways. .Samuel Naylor, Sr., was married in Cumberland County to Elizabeth Uhler, a native of that county and of German ancestry. After their marriage they located on a small farm in Cumberland County, renting the land, and from there in the fall of 1829 they set out in a covered two-horse wagon for Ohio. It took them two weeks to make the journey. Samuel Naylor had previously visited Ohio and had bought land in Guilford Township of Medina County. This land he bought from an immense tract of country which was sold under the supervision of Judge Heman Ely. the founder of Elyria. Samuel Naylor hired a man to build him a log house. but when he and his family arrived the house was found to be of such poor construction that they had to rent another cabin to live in. Samuel Naylor and wife had the following children while living in Pennsylvania : Mary, who married Amos Fritz; Samuel; Benjamin K., who lived in Lucas County, Ohio; Jacob, who became a farmer at Spencer ; Rebecca, who married W. W. Hutchisson. While the family were en route to Ohio the daughter Eliza was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In Medina County four other children came to the parental circle: John, who died at the age of twenty-one; William, who was a soldier in the Civil war; Sarah; and Henry. The mother of these children died on a farm in Medina County, and Samuel Naylor, Sr., subsequently moved to Seville, buying a small farm and residence in the village. He married for his second wife, Harriet Sheldon, by which union there was one child, Harriet, who married James Ross. Samuel Naylor. Sr.. died at the age of seventy-three. He was a whig and abolitionist in the early days, and afterwards a strong republican. Hav-ing traveled much over the South. he was thoroughly convinced that the practice of slavery would never be decided except by war. Samuel Naylor. Jr.. was six years old when the family moved to Guilford Township in Medina County. His education came from the pioneer schools of that county, and he early put his strength to test by helping clear up his father's land. Besides working at home he also hired out to other parties and became a skillful shingle maker. In 1845 he was married in Guilford Township of Medina County to Barbara Long, who was born near Toronto, Canada, in September, 1824, HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 965 a daughter of John Long, who subsequently settled 011 a farm in Medina County. After his marriage Samuel Naylor rented land in Litchfield Township for several years, and from there moved to Penfield Township in Lorain County, where he bought a tract of 107 acres of wild land, paying $6 an acre. At that time there was no highway by which his land was accessible and he had to cut a way through the woods. He bought the land on credit, and after a few years, by hard work, paid for it and converted a piece of the wilderness into a fertile farm. Samuel Naylor by his first marriage had the following children : Jacob, who enlisted for service in the Civil war before he was seventeen years of age and who died while still in the army at Camp Denison; Henry, who died young; Elizabeth, who married Stewart Long of Penfield Township ; Rebecca, now deceased, who married Andrew Sigourney ; Harriet A. ; Laney E., who died at the age of seven years; Emma, married William Bradstock ; Mary, who died at the age of seventeen; Harvey G., a farmer at Spencer, Ohio; and Dora, who married Lemuel Hower. The mother of these children passed away January 7, 1874. She was a member of the United Brethren Church. For his second wife Samuel Naylor married Nancy E. Yocum, who died in 1882, without children. In 1894 Mr. Naylor married Sarah Elizabeth Arbaugh, who still survives and resides at Wellington. Mrs. Naylor was born May 28, 1862, in Knox County, Ohio, where she was married. Her parents were Elias and Sarah (Capper) Arbaugh, both natives of Carroll County, Ohio. Her maternal grandfather, David Capper, was an early settler in Carroll County, w1N-as a miller and was killed while at work in his mill. Mrs. Naylor's father died in 1869. Of seven children, five are living, namely : Mary Jane, wife of Scott Blair of Mansfield, Ohio; David James of Mansfield ; Louisa, wife of David Frazier of Butler, Ohio; Mrs. Naylor ; and John C., a farmer at Mansfield. Mrs. Naylor's parents were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Her father was a very successful farmer. .Mrs. Naylor received her education in the district schools and is a woman of intelligence and refinement, and has carefully looked after the various business interests entrusted to her charge since her husband's death. She owns 108 acres in Penfield Township and fifty acres in Medina County, besides her home at Penfield Center. Mr. Naylor acquired a large estate of 400 acres and in 1892 erected one of the finest country homes in that section of Lorain County. He was not only a successful business man, but was a leader in educational matters, and donated the land for the erection of a district school. He was an active member of the United Brethren Church and a republican in politics, while Mrs. Naylor and her sons belong to the Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Naylor had two children : Charles William Naylor, who is now twenty years of age and graduated from the Penfield schools and is now on a farm at Strongsville, Ohio; and Samuel Hobart, who was born in 1898 and lives at home. W. H. SCHIBLEY has for a number of years been cashier and one of the executive officers of the Amherst German Bank Company, is connected as an officer or stock holder with a number of other Lorain County business institutions, and altogether his position as a business man and citizen is one of the most substantial in his community. He has hardly yet reached the meridiaf life's activities. With no capital to start with, he has depended on industry. sound intelligence, and a strict probity himl his relations to carry hitn forward to the goal of success. He has been cashier of the Amherst German Bank Company since 966 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY 1907. This is a bank which deserves some mention in a history of Lorain County finance. The officers and directors are all well known business men, including E. H. Nicholl, president; George Hollstein. vice president ; William H. Schibley, cashier; Joseph Wesbecher, Jacob Baus and M. C. Kendeigh, directors. The management of the bank has been thoroughly conservative and yet so far as is consistent with sound banking has endeavored to furnish a courteous, helpful and prompt service to its widely extended patronage. A recent statement shows how the bank has prospered under such a regime. The capital stock is $50,000. and the total resources aggregate approximately $600,000. The best index of a bank's popularity is shown in its deposits, and the Amherst German Bank Company in the spring of 1916 had upwards of $600.000 in its deposit account. Mr. W. H. Schibley was born at Amherst, Ohio, April 3, 1867. His people on both sides were from the German fatherland, and both his grandfathers fought with the army of Napoleon and participated in that ill-fated campaign into Russia. His paternal grandfather died in 1839 and his maternal grandfather in 1840. Michael Schibley, father of the Amherst banker, was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, in 1826 and died in 1907. He came alone to Pennsylvania when a young man in 1853 and from there went to Huron, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Cath-erine Brandau, who was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1836 and died in 1914. For several years Michael Schibley paid his way by day labor, and was employed in the construction forces building some of the New York Central lines through Northern Ohio. Afterwards he took up farming and lived on his farm until a few years before his death, which occurred in Amherst. His wife also died there. They were members of the Evangelical Association and he was a democrat in politics. There were five children: George is a farmer in Amherst Township: Christian is also a farmer there; Anna Goll lives at Lorain, Ohio; the fourth in age is W. H. Schibley; and J. II. is manager of the Amherst Supply Company. Starting life with a common school education. supplemented with a course in the State Normal School at Ada, Ohio, W. H. Sail)ley found his first serious occupation in teaching. While following that occupation he attended slimmer sessions at Oberlin College. Altogether he taught six years in the district schools and had charge of the school system at Amherst for eight years, finally resigning in 1900 after a most creditable record whether as an individual teacher or as a school executive. On leaving school work he engaged in the grain busincss with his brother Jacob. This grew into a flourishing enterprise under the direction of the two brothers, and in 1908 their firm was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. W. H. Schibley was the first president of the com-pany and he is still a large stock holder. He has stock in a number of different enterprises, and is president of the U. S. Automatic Company of Amherst, and is a director of the local waterworks. For recreation he looks after a small farm and conducts it on scientific principles. In 1891 Mr. Schibley married Dorothea Ludwig. Her father. Charles Ludwig, was in the stone business at Amherst for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Schibley are members of the Evangelical Assoeiation. which he has been trustee for a long time and also active in Sunday School work. Politically he is independent. However, he 'WAS elected on the democratic ticket to the office of township treasurer. L. S. BOISE. For nearly a century members of the Boise family have materially influenced the progress and development of various localities in Northern Ohio. The chief center of the family activities HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 967 has been in Penfield Township and there L. S. Boise has constructed out of his individual labors, persistent work and ambition a fine farrn home and is enjoying a well deserved success and rendering an adequate service to the community both in a business way and by his public spirited citizenship. He was born at Litchfield in Medina County, Ohio, December 2, 1847, a son of William and Lydia (Severcool) Boise. His paternal grand-father, Chester Boise, was born in one of the New England states and settled in Huron County, Ohio, about 1821, and as a pioneer helped to influence early development. William Boise was born in New York State in 1814, came to Oxford in Huron County when seven years of age. and from. there moved to Medina County and in 1882 went to Wellington, where he died in 1902. He was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics and held several local offices. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. He was married in Medina County and his wife was born in New York State in 1820 and died in 1901. Of their eight children, seven are living: George, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and a retired lumberman in Northern Michigan ; James, who served a little more than a year in the Civil war, afterwards was a druggist at Seville, Ohio, and died at the age of fifty-one largely as a result of illness contracted in the army ; Charles, who. lives at Chattanooga, Tennessee ; L. S. Boise; Alvarado, who was at first engaged in the lumber business in Northern Michigan and from. there went to Chattanooga. Tennessee, with $1,600 capital, and in sixteen years made a fortune of $100,000, being still a leading factor in the cement business in that southern city ; Benjamin, engaged in the real estate business at Lorain and Elyria ; Frances, wife of Friend Starr, a farmer at Litchfield and William, in the grocery business at Lorain. L. S. Boise grew up in Medina County on a farm, attended the district and select schools, and made farming his regular work in life. In 1873 he married Josephine Pierce, a daughter of James and Marietta (Hoyt) Pierce. The Pierce is an old and well known family of Lorain County. Mrs. Boise's mother was born at Marcellus, New York, in 1824, and died in 1861. Mrs. Boise was born in New York State, August 9, 1854. To their marriage have been born three children : El Ray, born September 29, 1873, homesteaded a farm in Oklahoma, where he now lives, and he married Hattie DeLay and has three children, Leonard, Gladys and Irene. Byron Fay, born August 3, 1876, is a farmer in Penfield Township. He married Miss Marabah Bartlett, and their two chil-dren are Myron and Ruth. Lydia Loring was liberally educated at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in Oberlin College and is now teaching music in Elyria. Mrs. Boise is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both she and her husband are active in the Grange and he is also affiliated with the 'Maccabees. Politically he is a republican and has served as trustee, assessor and in all the various township positions. He had charge of the improvement of the local cemetery, and has done much to make that a place of beauty. It was in 1898 that Mr. Boise bought his farm of fifty-six acres in Penfield Township. He had also lived for five years in Kansas, and for eight years was a farm renter. Starting life with little capital he has succeeded by the exercise of much good management and constant hard work. He does general farming and dairying, and has a herd of thirty registered Holstein cattle. EDWARD H. WEST. Success consists in a steady betterment of one's material condition and an increase of one's ability to render service to 968 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY others. Measured by this standard, one of the.successful men of Lorain County is Edward H. West, who has spent most of his life in the county and now has an attractive and valuable farm in the vicinity of Spencer. Hard working, thrifty, genial and progressive, Mr. West has a host of friends in this part of the county and is a valuable factor in community enterprise. He was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County. October 17, 1859, a son of Turner and Lorena (Dimock) West. His paternal grandparents spent all their lives in the East. The maternal grandfather, William Dimock, moved to Medina County, Ohio, and thence to Cuyahoga County, where he spent his last years. He was a Baptist minister. Turner West was born in Connecticut, March 5, 1821. and died September 26, 1875. His wife was born in 1826 and died May 5, 1910. They were married in Medina County, Ohio. Soon after marriage they settled in Huntington Township, where for two years Turner West rented a farm, then bought some land, cleared it up, and though he started life at the bottom of the ladder he succeeded in acquiring a handsome competence represented by 266 acres of well improved farm lands. He attended the Baptist Church, of which his wife was an active member, and he actively supported the church and was a good Christian man, well read and well educated, and doing a useful part in life's affairs. He was a republican, though inclined to independence in voting. At one time he served as assessor and as township trustee. Edward H. West has two brothers: John, a retired farmer of Wellington Township; and J. O. West, also a retired farmer of the same township. Mr. West received his early education in the district schools and started life on a farm. When quite young he went west to Colorado and invested all his savings in a gold mine. He lost the investment, and after that experience he decided that farming was the surest road to wealth. He spent four years in Kansas and his father died in that state, where at one time he owned over 200 acres of land. After his disastrous experience in mining, Mr. West worked for his brother by the month on the old homestead, and then bought the farm he now owns, comprising 154 acres of land. 'He has effected many improvements on his farm, has rebuilt his barn, repaired the residence. and now has one of the best rural homes in Huntington Township. In 1882 he married Miss Edith Stroup, who was born in Spencer, Ohio, a daughter of John and Christina (Wood) Stroup, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Medina County. Ohio. Her father was an early settler at Spencer, where he conducted a hotel and also had a farm. Mr. and Mrs. West have two children. Florence is the wife of Perrins Brenenstul of New London, Ohio, a printer by trade. Blake is a conductor on the street railway lines in Elyria. married Treva Boice and has a daughter Constance, born June 1, 1912. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. West is affiliated with the Maccabees, and both he and his wife belong to the Grange. Politically he acts with the democratic party. In the way of public service he was for nine years a trustee of Huntington Township and filled the office of assessor for two years. He is now enjoying a well earned prosperity, and manages his good farm and conducts a small dairy. FLOYD M. PELTON. One of the oldest families of Lorain County is represented by Floyd M. Pelton, whose name and personal activities as a farmer and cattle breeder are well known to stockmen throughout Ohio. Mr. Pelton many years ago turned his attention to stock farming, at which he has made such a success as few men in the country might ever HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 969 attain. He has demonstrated that his peculiar fitness among the world's workers has been for the development of farming and stock enterprise and through this avenue he has done his greatest service, not only to himself but to the world. His is one of the fine country homesteads in La Grange Township. The 160 acres comprised in his farm is the southwest quarter of Lot 24, Range 17 West, Township 4 North. It is Darticularly noted as the home and breeding place of some of the finest thoroughbred Holstein Fresian stock in Ohio. It was on this farm that Mr. Pelton was born June 18, 1860, a son of David C. and Mary (Tippin) Pe1ton. David C. Pelton was born in Jefferson County, New York, a son of James K. PeIton, who first came to Lorain County about 1824, and his family followed in 1833. They located in the eastern part of LaGrange Township, where James K. Pelton acquired about a hundred acres of land. David C. Pe1ton later bought sixty-six acres in the woods and the family lived for a number of years in a log cabin. This was subsequently replaced with a substantial frame building and another twelve acres was added to the homestead. David C. Pe1ton was the father of twenty children, only three of whom grew up, and Floyd M. is the only one still living. His sister Clarisa married A. E. Van Linder and left five daughters. The son Sylvester died when about seventeen years of age. David C. Pelton was about ninety years of age when he died, and his wife passed away at the age of seventy-three. He was a republican in politics. Floyd M. Pelton grew up on the home farm, and gained his education in the country schools. Early in life he took a companion and helpmate whom he has always considered an essential factor in his substantial success. On June 18, 1879, he married Miss Charlotte Johnson, who was born in LaGrange Township September 15, 1864, a daughter of Elijah and Lydia (Haynes) Johnson. Her father was born in LaGrange Township, a son of Nathaniel and Rhoda (Crowner) Johnson. The Johnson family came to Ohio from New York State and located in LaGrange Township. Mrs. Pelton's father died when about seventy-six and her mother passed away at the age of sixty-five. Of the six Johnson children five grew up and four are still living. The son Bird died leaving a wife who before marriage bore the name of Lillie Woodmansee, and two children, Ford and Luella. The second in age is Mrs. PeIton. Lizzie, who married Merton Perkins, lives in Wellington and has three children, Flossie, Frank and Howard. Carrie is the wife of John White, and they live in Akron and have six children, Grace, Lydia, Archie, Herbert, Bessie and Lincoln. John, who lives in LaGrange Township, married Gertie Richards and has three children, Marion, Marjorie and Charlotte ; and a son, Kenneth, who died aged about one year. About thirteen years after his marriage Mr. Pelton bought eighty acres adjoining his father's farm, and that is included in his present estate. He took care of his parents during the last fourteen years of their lives, and then succeeded to the ownership of the farm where he was born and on which he spent his boyhood days. Everything indicates the progressive nature of Mr. PeIton. There has never been a year in which he has not accomplished some improvement on his fine farm. It is one of the features of the landscape in Lorain County. One of the splendid buildings is the large barn covering a foundation 37 by 110 feet and with 20-foot posts. This barn has cement floors, a slate roof, and all facilities and equipments for handling of stock, for expeditious feeding, and it is one of the model barns of the county. In 1908 Mr. Pelton built a fine home. Another feature of the farm that deserves mention is a 160-ton silo, constructed in 1911. It was in 1881 that Mr. Pelton began the breeding of registered 970 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Holstein cattle. In fact he was the man who introduced this class of cattle into Lorain County, bringing two imported cows from Pennsylvania, and he was the first man to sell a bull in Ohio that brought more than a thousand dollars. A number of years ago he exhibited his stock at the county fairs, and won many prizes and trophies. On his farm is a splendid young bull from King of the Pontiacs for which he paid $750. In recent years Mr. Pelton has had three notable sales of stock. The first one, in which he sold forty-nine head, He received an average of $200 a head. The second sale comprised fifty-three head and brought an average of $180. In the spring of 1915 he sold thirty-eight head of cattle, and the average price was $165. Through farm husbandry and stock raising Mr. Pe1ton has performed his best service to mankind. He has never been a seeker for official honors, though he is a steadfast and loyal republican. He and his wife and four of their daughters are active members of the Baptist Church. There are six children. Cora, who graduated from the LaGrange High School, is the wife of Alonzo Jones of Penfield, Ohio, and they have a daughter named Dorothy. Mary, who also graduated from the LaGrange High School, married Mark Kelner of LaGrange, and their two sons are Aubrey and Malcolm. The daughter Clara is the wife of George Dague of LaGrange, and their three children are Byron, Celia and Maurice. Charles, who lives at home, has completed a technical education fitting him especially for the work of dairying, an industry which has reached considerable proportions on Mr. Pelton's farm, and he took a course in the Ohio State University where he specialized in the milk testing department. He married Treva Pierce and they now reside in Akron. The two younger children are Esther and David. the latter a freshman in the local high school. David C. Pelton was married three times and was the father of twenty-one children. For his first wife he married Lydia Dodge and they had six children, four of whom lived to be named as follows: Maria, Martha. Mary and Charles, the last named coming to Ohio with his father and is now living in Illinois. The mother of these died, and in 1832 Mr. Pelton married, in New York, for his second wife Hannah Smith. By his second wife David Pelton had ten children: Lydia, Mrs. Charles Crowner, of La Grange, Ohio (now deceased) ; Mary, married to Manford Ripley, of Eaton County. Michigan (deceased) ; Clark. of Portland. Oregon (deceased) ; James K., of Waukesha, Wisconsin ; John, of Rising Sun, Ohio (deceased) : Groveller, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Third Regiment. and died in hospital at Hickmans Bridge and was buried there; Adeline. Mrs. Edward Beaver, of La Grange, Ohio; Hannah, Mrs. Thomas Cornell, of Eaton County, Michigan: Elizabeth. Mrs. Laurence Van Wormer, of Elsie, Michigan (de-ceased) ; Winfield, a farmer of Eaton County, Michigan. The mother of these died June 30, 1852. and was buried in La Grange. For his third wife Mr. Pelton married Mrs. Mary (Tippin) Burns, widow of Thomas Burns. By this union there were five children, as follows : One who died in infancy unnamed ; Clarisa. who married A. E. Vanlinder, and died in New York in 1885, leaving five children; Sylvester. who died young in 1864: Fredric. died of spotted fever when seven years old, and Floyd M.. of this memoir. GEORGE SIMONSON is one of the native sons of Lorain County who has found in farming a congenial and profitable vocation, and for a number of years he has carried on operations as a farmer and dairyman and at the same time has borne his share of responsibilities as a citizen of the community. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 971 He was born in Rochester Township of Lorain County, October 11, 1874, a son of Asa and Eliza (Shubers) Simonson. His father was born in New Jersey and his mother in Ashland County, Ohio, and they were married in Rochester Township of Lorain County. There were two children, and the daughter Emma is the wife of Charles Leach of Huntington Township. Asa Simonson was a democrat in politics, followed farming all his active career and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In Rochester Township he owned a good farm of 160 acres. Mr. George Simonson grew up in Rochester Township and gained his education in the public schools. In 1895 he married Clara Jones of Huntington Township, daughter of Albert Jones, who was a carpenter by trade. To their marriage have been born five children: Claude, Harry, Donald, Pauline and George, all of whom are living at home. Mrs. Simonson is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Maccabees and the Grange and is a democrat in politics. Most of the people in Wellington Township are familiar with the activities of his farm, which comprises 142 acres, and where he carries on general farming and a dairy business. He keeps some thoroughbred cattle of the Holstein breed, and he also raises some first class Percheron horses. GEORGE N. SNYDER, M. D. In 1868 a young man arrived in the community of LaGrange and after being engaged in the practice of medicine for a year and a half he taught school. He made a favorable impression whenever his services were requested in a professional line, and in the course of about a year and a half his practice had reached such proportions that it required all his time and he gave up teaching as a vocation. Since then for forty-eight years Doctor Snyder has been one of the leading physicians and surgeons in his section of Lorain County, and is also founder and proprietor of the principal drug store at LaGrange. He is a type of the kindly family physician, is a friend to all his patrons, and there is no citizen in that community who stands higher in popular regard and esteem. He was born in Vermont July 8, 1845, a son of Hiram and Sophronia (White) Snyder, but about a year after his birth his parents moved to Ohio, lived in Medina County a time, and then went to Wood County, where the father acquired a farm. When Doctor Snyder was about ten years of age he returned to Medina County, and somewhat later went to Lorain County, where he attended country schools during the winter terms. Returning to Medina County he worked on a farm until he was about twenty years of age. At the age of eighteen, however, he had begun teaching country schools, and the earnings of his teachings during the winter he employed to pay his way as a student in summer sessions. While teaching he took up the study of anatomy and physiology, and later entered the medical department of what is now the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated M. D. with the class of 1868. He was at that time twenty-two years of age, and he soon after located in LaGrange. There he taught school and practiced his profession until be had established a good practice. On April 30. 1868, at Spencer, Medina County, Doctor Snyder mar-ried Miss Mary J. Welcher, who was born at Spencer November 21, 1847, a daughter of Jacob H. and Elizabeth (Wood) Welcher. Her father was born on a farm at Phelps, near Rochester, New York, June 29, 1803. After growing to manhood and marrying he came to Ohio about 1845, locating on a farm at Spencer in Medina County. Mr. Welcher served many years as county commissioner and as justice of the peace, was Vol. II-27 972 - HISTORY OF LORAIN' COUNTY also postmaster, and was a vigorous exponent of the temperance cause in his locality and did much temperance lecture work. Mrs. Snyder's mother died at Spencer in 1881, and in the same year her father moved to Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he died at the age of eighty-six, January 2, 1889. Mrs. Snyder grew up in Medina County and had a common school education, also attended a select school for three or four years. Doctor and Mrs. Snyder have one son, Mark A. Snyder, who was born January 28, 1873. He has distinguished himself as a musician. He was graduated from the Union School at LaGrange, took up the study of music at home, and when hardly more than a boy in years became a teacher of that art. He studied music in the conservatory at Oberlin for five years. and then went abroad and continued his studies under some of the best masters of Europe at Berlin, Germany, for three years. Returning to America in 1897 he became an instructor of music at a conservatory in Springfield, Ohio, with which he remained six or seven years, and at the same time he was one of the members of the noted Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, a membership which in itself is a high distinction for any musician. Later he established a school of his own at Spring-field, and is regarded as one of the leading music teachers in his section of the state. Mark A. Snyder was married at LaGrange June 11, 1898, to Miss Gertrude Schultz. They had met at Berlin, Germany, where Miss Schultz was born and reared. Mark A. Snyder and wife have three children : Mary Emilie, who was born in LaGrange May 13. 1899, and was graduated from the Wittenburg Academy in 1916; George W., born at Springfield, March 9, 1903; and Gertrude Amy, born at Springfield, March 29, 1906. In 1875 Doctor Snyder established a drug store at LaGrangc. The store was opened in a building which he had constructed and which is still standing. It is a two-story frame building 24 feet in front and 47 feet depth, and is a combination store and resident property. and it served as the home of Doctor Snyder and wife until February 10, 1899, when they moved into a commodious residence and store building which he also built. Doctor Snyder is a registered pharmacist, while his wife is a registered assistant pharmacist. A republican in politics, Doctor Snyder cast his first presidential ballot in 1868 for General Grant. While not an office seeker, he has twice served as postmaster of LaGrange, first to fill an unexpired term. and then by regular appointment for several years. He took his first degree in Masonry at LaGrange and has served as junior warden of LaGrange Lodge No. 399. He is a charter member of the Maccabees, and has been examining physician for that order since its organization. Mrs. Snyder's name was proposed as a charter member for the Chapter of the Eastern Star, but on account of ill health she was unable to take part in the initiation, and she never became a member of the order. Doctor Snyder at one time was a leader in the choir of the Baptist Church. and his wife also sang there, although neither has membership in the church. Mark A. Snyder also took his first degree in Masonry at LaGrange. and is now a Knight Templar in Springfield, and before going abroad took his chapter degrees at Elyria. GEORGE C. CASSELL. The record of George C. Cassell of Huntington Township, includes a service of upwards of twenty years as a teacher, but in recent years he has applied his energy with much success to the business of farming, and he is one of the substantial men in his part of Lorain County. He was born in Ashland County, Ohio, December 9, 1871. a son of HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 973 Michael Cassell and Catherine (Marks) Cassell. His paternal grandparents were John and Margaret Cassell, who came from Pennsylvania and settled in Ashland County, being originally of German stock. The maternal grandparents were George and Sophia (Hartman) Marks, who were early settlers in Ashland County, Ohio. George Marks died quite young, when his daughter Catherine was three years old. Of the five children in the Marks family the three now living are : Mary Binehour of Wellington; Mrs. Catherine Cassell; and Hannah, wife of Christian Zahnley, formerly of Ashland County, but now living on a farm in Kansas. The late Michael Cassell, who was born in Orange Township, Ashland County, May 12, 1848, passed away January 26, 1916, aged sixty-seven years nine months fourteen days. He was the youngest of the ten children of his parents. Three of these children died very young. Three of his brothers, John, George and Frederick served in the Civil war. John went through the war and was one of the victims of the ill-fated steamer Sultana, which was sunk in the Mississippi River in 1865, while carrying home a large number of discharged soldiers from the South. George is still living in Ashland County, and Frederick is a resident of Sandusky. Of the daughters in the family Sophia, Lanah and Barbara died several years before Michael. When his brothers went to the war Michael remained with his mother and assumed many of the responsibilities connected with the farm. At the age of fourteen he went to Mansfield and enlisted as a soldier, but his brother George at once wrote home and secured his release. Michael Cassell made a success as a farmer, and about 1899 bought a farm in Huntington Township, and at the time of his death owned an estate of 312 acres. He was a democrat and for a number of years served as trustee and assessor. When only a boy he joined the United Brethren Church and remained steadfast in that faith until his death. He was a man of many commendable qualities, faithful to duty whether private or public, was devoted to his home and family, and performed all the numerous responsibilities which come to a good citizen with credit to himself. In Ashland County on April 2, 1868, he married Miss Catherine Marks, who was born in Ashland County, December 16, 1849, and is still living. She became the mother of twelve children, and the oldest child, Clara, died in 1887, and the daughter Mary passed away in 1891.. Those still living are : John, who is assistant postmaster at New London, Ohio ; George C.; Richard Addison, who conducts the home farm in Huntington Township for his mother ; Charles, who also lives at home with his mother ; Clyde, a farmer at Homerville in Medina County ; Mort, at home ; Mrs. L. B. Crittenden, wife of the foreman for the General Electric Company in Shelby, Ohio ; Mrs. W. H. Linderman, of Akron, Ohio ; Mrs. Lyle Wolfe, whose husband is connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron ; and Mrs. Lee White, wife of a farmer in Sullivan, Ohio. George C. Cassell grew up in Ashland County, and largely by his own efforts acquired a liberal education. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and also the college at Wooster, but on account of illness did not remain to graduate. When quite young he was qualified and began teaching and continued that profession in Ashland and Lorain counties for about twenty years. Since then he has been farming and he also owns a saw and grist mill. In 1899 he married Lucy May Nimocks, a daughter of Edgar Nimocks, a well known farmer in Huntington Township. Mr. and Mrs. Cassell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are very active in church affair's. He is now superintendent of the Sunday school. 974 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Fraternally he is record keeper for the Knights of the Maccabees, be-, longs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which his father was at one time a member, and is also a member of the Grange. Politically he is a democrat, and exercises considerable influence in local affairs. He has served as clerk and treasurer and health officer of the township. ANDREW J. JACKSON. Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land. In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio. He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township. where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with his father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength. self-reliance, in-dustry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in 'Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan. On December 15, 1885, at Elyria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education. For five years after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township. and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township. though he never occupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the build-ings had been badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom. running water electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land. An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given good education, and is now living in Youngstown. Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 975 Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Pickard of Youngstown. Mr. Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian. Mr. Jackson is a republican. having. cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church. G. A. HART is one of the men who are carrying out the farm enterprise of Wellington Township. He is now one of the prosperous and successful citizens of that locality, but gained his prosperity by hard work beginning in early boyhood, and has seldom failed to improve an opportunity. He was born in Union City, Ohio, January 28, 1860. a son of John and Sarah (Stull) Hart. His paternal grandfather, Elijah Hart, with six brothers, served in the War of 1812. Not long after the close of that struggle and when Northern Ohio was still a wilderness he came to Mansfield when that now thriving city had only three houses. His permanent location was made. at Petersburg near Mansfield, where for many years he was the principal shoemaker. followed that trade when it was the custom for the shoemakers to travel about the country from house to house, stopping long enough at each place to make up all the footwear required by the family. He lived a long and useful life and passed away at the age of ninety-seven. John and Sarah Hart took up a farm where Union City now stands. but finally moved to Ashland County. Ohio, and from there to Mansfield. where John Hart died. He was a plumber by trade. and followed it for a number of years. He enjoyed a good deal of prosperity, but for some years before his death was an invalid and spent most of his means in an effort to recover his health. He was an active democrat in politics. His widow died in April, 1916, at Mansfield, at the age of ninety-one years three months and eleven days. She was a member of the United Brethren Church. There were seven children: Tillie, wife of Henry Brinkman, a well to do retired citizen at Sandusky; Samantha, widow of Charles Fiddler; G. A.. Hart; Ida. wife of Charles Beaver of Mansfield: Anna. wife of Mr. O'Connor, a fur cutter at Detroit; Agnes, who is living at Detroit, a widow; and William, a blacksmith at Mansfield. G. A. Hart received most of his education in the district schools of Ashland County. He lived five miles from the schoolhouse. and walked back and forth nearly every night and morning. While he was still a boy his father suffered an injury which made it necessary for the son to leave school and begin work for his own living. For some years he worked on a farm and took any job which would enable him to earn an honest two bits. For a time he drove a dray in Mansfield. By keeping everlastingly at it he was able to acquire a modest capital, and for a number of years has been on a solid plane of prosperity. In 1900 he bought his fine farm in Huntington Township. where he now owns fifty-two acres and also forty-two acres of land in another place. His chief business is general farming. For a number of years he has also conducted a contracting business in teaming in this county. He hauled a large quantity of the stone for the making of the improved roads in this county. At the same time he has invested much in improvements on his farm, and among other up to date features he has a fine silo. On April 24. 1882. Mr. Hart married Martha Brouse, daughter of Henry and Anna (Collins) Brouse. Her mother was born in England. 976 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Her father was born near Doylestown, Ohio, was a carpenter and brick mason in early life, and is now retired and living at Spencer, Ohio. Mrs. Hart received her early education in Penfield Township of Lorain County. They have one son, William, who is now thirty-three years of age and is single and lives at home with his parents. Mrs. Hart is an active member of the 'Methodist Church, while he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and in politics is a republican. C. C. FINKEL. One of the best known families of Huntington Township is represented by C. C. Finkel, a young business man of that section, actively associated with his father, Peter Finkel. Their operations as threshermen, machinists and farmers have long been thoroughly appre-ciated in that section. C. C. Finkel was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County, June 7. 1885. His father, Peter Finkel, was born in Washington County, Ohio, February 19, 1852, a son of Peter and Lena Finkel. Both the grandparents were natives of Germany, and they lived in Marietta, Ohio. for a number of years. Peter Finkel, Sr., and wife were members of the Catholic Church, and in politics he was a democrat. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that for a number of years, but he also conducted a small farm in Washington Township. Peter Finkel, Sr., was born in 1801 and died in 1868. Before leaving the old country he served a time in the German army. His wife was born in 1827 and died in 1886. Their seven children were: Henry, who is connected with the timber industry in the State of Washington; Peter Finkel; Frank, a rancher in the State of Washington; Charles, a farmer at Beverly, Ohio; Adam. a farmer and carpenter in Huntington Township; Joseph, a brick mason and builder at Marietta, Ohio; Tracy, wife of George Lawrence. a farmer. Peter Finkel, Jr. who was born February 19, 1852, received his early education in the district schools of his native county and started out as a farmer. He removed to Huntington Township in 1883, and for a time was employed on a farm. For a number of years he has operated a hay press and threshing machine, and he also owns two houses and lots and a small tract of land in Huntington Township. He is a demo-crat. and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1877 he married Clara Miller, daughter of George W. Miller. Mrs. Finkel was born in Washington County, Ohio. Her seven children are: Dudley, who was born July 28, 1878, and is a farmer in Huntington Township ; Lillian. born March 24. 1880, and the wife of E. A. Wheeler; Helena, born May 14, 1882, wife of J. B. Berry, who follows concrete construc-tion work; C. C. Finkel; Stella, who was born March 31, 1887, and is the wife of William Sharp, employed in the hoop mills at Columbus; Cora, born September 9, 1889, and the wife of Alfred Fuller, a farmer at Spencer, Ohio; and Edward R., born August 20, 1892. C. C. Finkel received his early education in Huntington Township, where he was born, and for a number of years followed farming as a regular occupation. He is DOW associated with his father in the season when threshing and hay pressing are done. and he also owns a good farm. As a citizen he is now serving his second term as township trustee. He is an active democrat, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. in which order he has filled the various chairs, and also belongs to the Grange. In 1909 be married Ethel Bliss, who was born in Huntington Township. Their two children are Eunice and Kenneth, the former six and the latter three years of age. HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 977 CONRAD ZILCH. One of the younger business men of Amherst who has distinguished himself by a remarkable amount of progressiveness and enterprise is Conrad Zilch, who is an expert undertaker and embalmer and is manager of the principal undertaking and furniture house of the city. He has reached an independent position in business affairs when only a little more than thirty years of age. He was born in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County February 18, 1885, a son of Henry C. and Mary (Hilderbrand) Zilch. Both parents were natives of Germany and his grandparents all died in that country. His grandfather, George Zilch, reached the venerable age of ninety-two years. The maternal grandparents both died at the age of forty-nine from typhoid. fever. Henry C. Zilch was born in 1850 and died January 29, 1899. His wife was born May 4, 1852, and is still living, They came to this country when young people and were married in Brownhelm Township. Henry C. Zilch was a very industrious man and for a number of years worked as a quarryman and died from stonecutter's consumption. By hard work he established a home, provided for his large family of children, and had a good thirty-acre farm all paid for before his death. He was a democrat and he and his wife members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their nine children eight are still living: Werner, in the grocery business at Brownhelm ; Anna, wife of E. C. Waugh, in the transfer business at Lorain; George J., a farmer in Brownhelm ; Conrad ; Rose E., who was deaf and dumb and was graduated from the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and a few years ago was killed in an auto-mobile and street car accident; Marie is the wife of Elmer Fulmer, a farmer in Eaton Township ; Benjamin, in the automobile business at Lorain ; Katie, wife of William Grobe of Amherst; and Amelia, who has a clerical position in Elyria. Mrs. Henry Zilch married for her first husband John Miller, and their two sons, Carl and William J. Miller, are successful farmers in Brownhelm Township. After his early education, acquired in the district and high schools of Brownhelm Township, Conrad Zilch found employment on a farm, and then laid the foundation of his business career by experience in the furniture business with the Wickens Company at Lorain. He also studied embalming at Cleveland under P. A. Hayden. After three years of work in his profession and in the business at Lorain, he estab-lished the Amherst Furniture Company on May 1, 1913. He is secretary and manager of this concern, and has been the mainspring of its very prosperous career since establishment. April 19, 1908, Mr. Zilch married Louisa Bouis. She was born at Lorain, a daughter of Charles Bouis, a carpenter. To their union has been born one daughter, Mildred, on November 23, 1911. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amherst and Mr. Zilch is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Knights and Ladies of Security, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, in which he is a trustee, and the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a republican. EDWARD F. WEBSTER. For many years a successful business man of Lorain County, Edward F. Webster represents the pioneer Webster stock at Wellington, and there is hardly a family in Lorain County whose work and influence have been more valuable in the upbuilding of that section of the county during the past 100 years. He is in the eighth generation in the direct line from Governor John Webster of Connecticut and Massachusetts. John and Agnes Webster came from Warwickshire, England, to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. He 978 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY was made a freeman in 1634, and in 1636 moved.with Rev. Mr. Hooker's party to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was among the first settlers. He.was prominent in official affairs at Hartford, serving as magistrate or.judge, as lieutenant governor and in 1656 as governor of the colony, being the fifth incumbent of that office. On account of a ehurch controversy at Hartford, he and fifty-eight other members of the society withdraw, and in 1659 most of them settled at Hadley on the Connecticut River. John Webster in 1660 was appointed one of the judges or commissioners of the courts, but died there April 5, 1661. One of his descendants was the great lexicographer, Noah Webster. who erected a monument to the memory of Governor Webster. Thomas Webster, a son of Governor John, married Abigail Alexander, and their fourth child and second son was John, whose first wife was named Elizabeth and whose second wife was Grace Loomis. ln 1699 he became one of the first settlers at Lebanon, Connecticut. His fourth child and third son by his first marriage was Thomas Webster of the fourth generation. Thomas married Lydia Lyman and moved to Bolton, Connecticut, in 1751. Their seventh child and fifth son was David of the fifth generation, who married Mary Wilcox. Their third child and first son was David of the sixth generation. David married Hannah Post. The second child and first son of David and Hannah was Russel Bidwell Webster, who represented the seventh generation and was the father of Edward F. Webster. He was born April 25, 1799:at Otis, Massachusetts, had an education in the common schools and the academy at Lennox, Massachusetts, and in 1820 started west for Ohio. carrying a fifty-pound pack on his back all the way from Otis to Wellington. He was a man of remarkable physical endurance. During the last days of his journey he walked forty miles in a snowstorm with snow nearly a foot deep at the close of day. Arriving in Wellington Township he bought 100 acres, cleared it and erected a log building. But before performing any other duties connected with the making. of a pioneer home he interested himself in the establishment of regular or stated religious meetings in the neighborhood. Though not a church man himself, he was thoroughly imbued with the religious training of his youth and believed that one of the first essentials in the settlement of a new country was a religious organization and suitable observance of the Sabbath. While his instant zeal in behalf of religious institutions was perhaps somewhat unusual, he was on the whole only a type of that class of citizens who as pioneers laid the foundation for civilization in Lorain County. He had come to this country not only to make himself a home but also to blaze the way for his father and the family. The first to join him was his sister Betsey, the wife of Josiah B. Manley. and about 1822 they joined him in Wellington, and Mr. Manley's was the first death to occur in the neighborhood. In 1823 his parents. David and Hannah Webster, and their sons Oliver and William and their daughter Mary arrived in the 'Wellington neighborhood. David Webster was an active church member in Massachusetts, but it was not until the family came into the woods of Ohio that his wife and children joined the church. In 1824 Russel B. Webster returned to Massachusetts and married Orpha Hunter. She was born at Otis, Massachusetts. November 26. 1799. In the spring of 1825 the young bride accompanied her husband to Well-ington, their household goods being on a wagon drawn by oxen. E. F. Webster has in his possession two old mirrors brouglit by his father and grandfather from Massachusetts, and also the Webster bible which was printed in 1712. David Webster died at the age of ninety-six and his wife Hannah at the age of eighty-four. In 1870 Russel B. Webster and wife removed from the farm to the HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 979 Village of Wellington, and spent the rest of their days with their son Edward. Russel died January 31, 1881, and his wife Orpha on April 2, 1882. The first frame house in Wellington was constructed by Russel 13. Webster. He was one of the most active citizens of that community in the early days, and was as strong in character as he was in physical ability and endurance. He and his wife had nine children. Samuel H., born September 15, 1825, afterwards became a very prominent merchant and influential citizen at Shelbyville, Illinois, and died July 10, 1905; he married, January 21, 1856, Lucy A. Jagger, who died September 12, 1898, the mother of five children. E. Bidwell Webster, born April 21, 1827, was a civil engineer and died at Wellington, September 7, 1856. He married, January 21, 1854, Lucy Billings, who died September 7, 1857. M. Leander Webster, born January 27, 1829, also moved to Shelbyville, Illinois, served three years as captain of a company in the Seventh Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, afterwards moved to Iowa, and died there May 4, 1900, a. wound received during his military service having contributed to his death. He married, May 31, 1882, Emma J. Windell. David Philander Webster, born November 5, 1830, died May 9, 1832. Philander R. Webster, born February 10, 1833, also served as captain of an Illinois Company during the war, and died April 14, 1884, as a result of injuries received during his service; he married April 15, 1862, Eleanor M. Bryant. William W. Webster, born November 26, 1835, went to Colorado in 1859, became president of the Upper House of the first Territorial Legislature and afterwards was chairman of the committee for statehood, and it was at his suggestion that Colorado was admitted in 1876 instead of January, 1877, and thus its electoral vote was given to R. B. Hayes. He spent his last years in Pasadena, California. and by his marriage, on February 4, 1873, to Mary I. Bryan, had three children. Elvira Loret, born January 4, 1838, died accidentally December 16, 1840. Edward F. Webster, the eighth child of his parents, was born April 24, 1840. Leveret. F. Webster, the youngest of the children, was born December-3, 1842, and died as the result of an accident, January 29, 1861. Edward F. Webster spent his early youth in Lorain County, and August 26, 1861, enlisted as a private in Company H of the Second Regiment of Ohio Cavalry. He was made a corporal, and a year later was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Independent Ohio Battery, made up of details of the Second Regiment, and became fifth corporal of the battery, subsequently first sergeant, first lieutenant, and during the last year of the war was on the staff of Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds as chief ordnance officer of the department of Arkansas. He veteranized at Little Rock, January 4, 1864, previous to his last promotion, and was discharged December 12, 1865, after having been at the front over four years. He served successively under the command of Generals Schofield, Blount, Herron, Davidson, Steele and Reynolds. On returning to Lorain County after the war, Captain Webster, in the spring of 1868, became associated. with Starr & Horr, cheese manufacturers. One year later the firm was reorganized as Horr, Warner & Company and Captain Webster was made a partner in the business. For many years this was the largest cheese manufacturing concern in the West, operating as many as twenty-five factories. The firm also acquired a number of vegetable farms, the farm department being conducted by Wean, Horr, Warner & Company and the cheese department under the title of Horr, Warner & Company. In 1897 both departments were consolidated as Horr-Warner Company, with Mr. Webster as president of the corporation. As a resident of Wellington Mr. Webster has been one of the most 980 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY influential citizens, served twenty-four years continuously as a member of its board of education, and president of the board for fifteen years, and has been a trustee of the Wellington Public Library Since 1896, and much of the time as president. He joined the First Congregational Church in 1868. He is also a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion. On December 3, 1870, Captain Webster married Flora Ladd, who was born at Danville, Vermont, May 18, 1846, a daughter of Edward and Sophia (Gooking) Ladd. Of their three children, Florence, who was born April 24, 1873, died February 10, 1887. The son Leveret F. was born January 8, 1875. Edward F., jr., born January 1, 1877, died September 16, 1906;a few months after his marriage to Ora Mae Foote. A. E. STIWALD. For half a century A. E. Stiwald has been one of the sterling and useful citizens of Lorain County, and his activities and service have covered a varied field. When a boy his public spirit was manifested by his service in the Union army during the Civil war, and more or less ever since he has shared his time with the public welfare. At the present time Mr. Stiwald gives all his time and energies to the administration of the Amherst postoffice. He was appointed post-master October 21. 1915, and has filled the office with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the patronage of the local office. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 15, 1842. His .parents, Michael George and Marie (Fox) Stiwald, were both born in Bavaria, Germany. His father died in 1846. His mother, who was born in 1798, died in 1883. They were married in Germany, but in 1836 emigrated to America and settled in Cleveland. The father, a miller by trade, followed that line in Cleveland until his death. He came to the United States with nothing, and made excellent use of his opportunities and provided well for his family before he died. He was the son of a prominent German land owner, miller and hotel proprietor, who also served as mayor or burgomaster of his home town. Though he accumulated considerable wealth, he lost it all by the dishonesty of a son-in-law, and thus it was that his son, Michael George, had to come to America to build up his individual fortune without any capital to start with. The family were members of the Catholic Church. A. E. Stiwald was one of six children and the only other one still living is his brother Con-rad, who lives on a farm in Lorain County. Owing to the fact that his father died when A. E. Stiwald was four years of age, he had limited advantages in the way of schooling and early contributed his labors to the support of his widowed mother and the household. He. was just twenty years of age when, on August 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry and later with the Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. He was with that regiment in all its campaigns, marches and engagements. until honorably discharged at Washington. D. C., July. 1865, with the rank of first duty sergeant. Most of his service was in the East in the army of the Potomac, and a complete record of his military service would include many of the notable engagements of that army. He was slightly wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, and he also participated in the great and decisive three days' battle at Gettysburg. Mr. Stiwald has always been a popular member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and served as commander of his local post for six years. After the war he returned to Ohio and went on a little farm with his mother near Avon for four years. He then moved to Amherst, and in January, 1870, with his brother, Conrad, engaged in the cigar and HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 981 tobacco business both as retailers and as cigar manufacturers. He C011- tinued in that line until 1880, when desiring a business less confining he sold his interests and took a more active outdoor life. Mr. Stiwald now owns some land within the city corporation of Amherst. Few men in that part of the county have been more frequently honored with public offices of trust and responsibility. He served as township trustee fourteen years, was assessor three years, was village clerk fourteen years, justice of the peace ten years, clerk of the school board and for almost nineteen years filled the post of mayor in Amherst. He has held chairs in the lodges of Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a democrat in politics and he and his family attend the local churches, though they are not regular members. In 1865 Mr. Stiwald married Sarah Ann Jaycox. She was born in Lorain County, and died in 1869. In August, 1878, Mr. Stiwald mar-ried Maria White. who was born in England. To their union were born six children, all of whom are living but one: Florence E., who died in 1910; Earl C., a painter at Amherst ; Maria G., wife of M. B. Schaffer, who lives at Amherst, but is employed in the steel plant at Lorain ; Grace E., wife of Harry Nicholl, with the Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio ; Allen G., a contractor at Amherst; and A. J. Stiwald, who is connected with an industry at Elyria but resides in Amherst. FRANK D. WARREN. It was in pioneer times that the Warren family established its home within the wilds of the present County of Lorain. They were of the finest class of people, God-fearing, industrious, independent, and well fitted for the trials and privations of frontier life. Of such an ancestry honorable in all things is descended Frank D. Warren, long one of the prominent citizens of Wellington Township and for some years living retired in the village of that name. He made his success as a farmer and still has a share in the landed possessions of this county. He was born on a farm in Wellington Township, November 28, 1848, a son of Luther D. and Laura (Wait) Warren. His father was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, March 2, 1813, a son of Benjamin Warren, Jr.. who was born April 19, 1772, just four years before the first battle of the Revolutionary war. Benjamin Warren, Jr., married Lucy Burr of Norfolk, Connecticut. It was in 1831 that he brought his family out to Wellington Township, at a time when only thirteen fami-lies resided in the entire town. Benjamin Warren was an industrious farmer, and spent the rest of his days in Lorain County. The Warrens are old American stock and the first ancestor came to America as early as 1650. Luther D. Warren was eighteen years of age when he came to Lorain County, and being strong and vigorous he took his full share in those tasks and responsibilities which confronted the early settlers. He acquired and developed a good farm in Wellington Township, and died there in 1886. In matters of political interest he affiliated with the whigs in early life and afterwards as a republican. His wife, Laura Wait. was born in Fredonia, New York, February 6, 1814, and she also died in 1886. Of three children the two living are Frank D. and Walter D.. the latter a hardware merchant at Wellington. Frank D. Warren as a boy attended school district No. 4 in Wellington Township, and for one winter was a student in a business college at Oberlin. After his marriage he spent thirty-three years on one farm, and in 1904 retired and has since lived in the Village of Wellington. However, he still owns a farm of 136 acres, and it is one of the leading dairy farms of the county. 982 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY In December, 1870, Mr. Warren married Metta Sage. a daughter of Samuel Lewis and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Sage. Her father was born in Milford, Connecticut. April 20, 1827, and died in 1890, while her mother was born in New York State in 1830 and died in 1890. Her parents were married in Huntington Township. Mrs. Warren is a granddaughter of Rev. H. P. Sage, a minister of the Universalist faith and prominent in the early history of Lorain County. She is a great-granddaughter of Joseph Sage, who at one time owned half of Huntington Township. but he lived only a short time in the county. returning to the East to spend his later years. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have one daughter, Ella E., now the wife of R. H. Clifford, a mechanical engineer at Tiffin. Ohio. Mrs. Warren is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is also identified with the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Warren is a member of the Grange and held all the offices in that order. Politically he is a republican. served as township trustee for a number of years. was secretary and treasurer of the Agricultural Society, and has been a member of the city council at Wellington. WILLIAM LOVELAND. A Lorain County farm that represents Many of the ideals in the way of cultivation, productiveness. arrangement and equipment is that of William Loveland of Wellington. His farm contains seventy acres. and it exemplifies diversified agri-culture. He grows the standard crops of this section. and has always followed the plan of feeding his crops on his own land. In the fifteen years he has lived there Mr. Loveland has effected many improvements. both in the buildings and in the management of his fields. and He has found a great deal of profit in dairying.. He keeps a herd of twenty, and twelve of them are thoroughbred HoIsteins. He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, September 25, 1861, a son of Linas and Martha (Hogal) Loveland. His grand-father, Lorin Loveland, came to Lorain County in pioneer times. and spent his life in Brighton Township. The Lovelands in America are all descended from three brothers, Thomas. William and John, who came from England and located in the eastern states. Mr. Loveland's maternal grandfather, Henry Hogal. was born in New York State. where he married Eleanor Ann Woodward, and then came to Lorain County and spent the rest of his days in Brighton Township. Linas Loveland was born in Watertown, New York. while his wife was born in Freedom, Ohio, and they were married at Ravenna. this state. Linas Loveland was brought to Lorain County when a boy of nine years, and during his youth he helped clear up a farm out of the wilder-ness. At the time of his death he was the oldest resident of Brighton Township. He was a democrat in politics. served as a trustee a number of terms, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. At the time of his death he left an estate of ninety acres. Of the ten children, seven are now living: Charles. a mechanic living in Columbus, Ohio; Jay. of Columbus. Mississippi ; William ; Welby, whose home is on a farm in Wellington Township; Addle. who is unmarried and lives at Wellington: Leon, of Wellington ; and Alda. who is a trained nurse. William Loveland grew up on a farm, gained his education in the district schools. and has always applied his energies and labors to the vocation for which he was trained as a boy. He remained at home with his father until he was twenty-one. and then worked out by the month and afterwards rented land, and thus by degrees and by much self-denial and hard work put himself in a position to own and enjoy a place of his HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 983 own. In 1901 he bought his present farm, and has since given all his time to its cultivation and management. On March 14, 1891, Mr. Loveland married Grace H. West, daughter of Frank West. who is still living at Wellington, and has followed the trades of shoemaker and cheesemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Loveland have a daughter, Alice, who is now in school. Both are members of the Methodist Church and very active in its affairs, and Mr. Loveland is a republican. TERRY C. WHITNEY. A scion of the third generation of the Whitney family in Lorain County, he whose name initiates this article is one of the substantial farmers of his native county, and as a citizen is well upholding the prestige of a name that has been closely and worthily linked with the history of this section of the Buckeye State for nearly eighty years. His well improved farm, comprising 150 acres, is an intregal portion of the valuable landed estate left by his father and is most eligibly situated in Pittsfield Township, about four miles from the city of Oberlin. Mr. Whitney was born in Pittsfield Township, this county, on the 12th of October, 1864, and is a son of Augustine and Nancy (West) Whitney, the former of whom was born at Peru, Vermont, in 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Wellington Township., Lorain County, Ohio, in 1833, her father, Oliver West, having been a native of Massachusetts and having become one of the pioneer settlers of Lorain County, Ohio, where he continued to hold place as an honored and influential citizen until the time of his death. Augustine Whitney gained his early education in the old Green Mountain State and was about seventeen years of age when, in 1837, he accompanied his parents on their removal to Lorain County, Ohio. He was a son of Joseph Whitney, Who was born in Massachusetts and who was a sterling pioneer of Lorain County, where he purchased a tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm; he continued his residence in this county until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, and his name merits enduring place on the historical records which mark with due approbation the lives and labors of those who assisted greatly in the development and upbuilding of Lorain County in the formative period of its civic and industrial progress. Augustine Whitney was about eighty-three years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in 1903, his devoted wife having passed away in 1896. Of their three children the eldest is Ada, who is the wife of Arthur M. Sherburne, a substantial farmer of Lorain County; Terry C.. of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Mrs. Luna True, who is a widow, maintains her home in tilt city of Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. Augustine Whitney was a man of broad mental ken, of high principles and of exceptional business acumen. He became one of the leading agriculturists and stock-growers of Lorain County. and at the time of his death was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres in this county, beside's which he had become the owner 'Of land in various western states. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, was liberal and public-spirited as a citizen and was called upon to serve in various township offices, besides being otherwise influential in community affairs. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Congregational Church at Pittsfield. and their memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of their kindly influence. Terry C. Whitney early gained familiarity with the various details of work incidental to the cultivation and other operations of the home farm and his preliminary education, acquired in the district schools 984 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY of his native township, was supplemented by his attending the public schools of Oberlin and a commercial college in that city. He continued to be associated with the work and management of his father's farm until 1886, when, within a short time after attaining to his legal majority, he became associated with the milling business in Oberlin, where he remained thus engaged for five years. For fifteen years thereafter he was identified with business activities in the city of Cleveland and at the time of his father's death, in 1903, he returned to Lorain County, where he has since been the owner of 150 acres of his father's estate, in Pittsfield Township. This homestead is one of the fine farms of the county, is improved with excellent buildings and is devoted to diversified agriculture, to the dairy business and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock. Mr. Whitney is one of the active and influential members of the local Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and both he and his wife are members of its auxiliary organization. He has served as a member of the school board but has manifested no predilection for public office and is independent in his political proclivities, giving his support to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. irre-spective of partisan dictates. He is prominently affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, and while a resident of Cleveland he was a representative to the Ohio Grand Council of that order. He and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church, and Mr. Whitney has been clerk of the Congregational Society in Pittsfield Township for the past six years. This is one of the oldest church societies in the county. The family is prominent and popular in connection with the repre-sentative social life of the community. In September, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitney to Miss Margaret Turton, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Turton, of Cleveland. Her parents were born in England and her father became a leading painter and contractor in Cleveland. where he continued to re-side until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have two sons and two daughters, all of whom remain at the parental home and all of whom were born in Cleveland except the youngest, -who is a native of Lorain County, their names being here entered in respective order of birth: Lois, Clarence, Marion and Russell. LEWIS FISHER has occupied his present fine farm home near Wellington since 1907, and in that time has brought to a fine state of perfection his homestead. He has proved himself upright and honorable in citizenship and business dealings, and is one of the vigorous men who are now carrying the burdens of agricultural management in Lorain County. A native of Michigan, he was born in Barry County, September 27, 1866, a son of O. L. and Sarah (Ledyard) Fisher. Both parents were natives of Lorain County. the father born in Brighton Township in 1841 and the mother in 1847, and both are still living. Of their two children, the daughter is Mrs. Erva Barnes of Norwalk. Ohio. Mrs. Sarah Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and her husband is a republican. He served in the First Ohio Light Artillery for three years during the Civil war, but without exception has spent practically all his life as a farmer and now owns and occupies a fine place of 127 acres in Huntington Township. His father, Danford Fisher. was a native of New England and came to Lorain County in the early days. The maternal grandfather, Hiram Ledyard, was a native of Pennsylvania, moved first to Portage County, Ohio, and afterwards to Lorain County, HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 985 where he died at the advanced age of ninety-three, his last fifteen years having been spent in blindness. Lewis Fisher grew up on a farm, had a practical education, and at an early day identified himself with farming pursuits. On November 1, 1899, he married Miss Mary Fay, who was born in Rochester Township of Lorain County, a daughter of John and Ann (Meach) Fay. The Fays were early settlers in Rochester Township, Lorain County, as were also the Meach family. One member of the Meach family, Jarvis Meach, gained considerable note by his heroic action by killing two robbers who tried to get his money. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have three children : Ruth, Herbert and Marjorie, all of whom are in school. Mrs. Fisher is an active member of the Congregational Church. Politically Mr. Fisher is a republican. Since leaving school he has gone continuously ahead working out his own salvation, and in 1907 he bought his present farm in order to settle up an estate. He has 142 acres, a fine brick house, does considerable dairying, and is enjoying the prosperity which he so richly deserves. ORSEMUS L. FISHER is one of the oldest living native sons of Lorain County. His life career covers more than. three-quarters of a century, and among the distinctive parts of his record which shed honor upon his own name and distinction to his family was three years in the service 'of the army that defended the integrity of the Union. He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, June 11, 1839, a. son of Danforth and Lucinda A. (Wilcox) Fisher. His grandfather, Eleazar Fisher, was born in Massachusetts, and was one of the pioneer settlers in Brighton Township, where he acquired a farm and spent the rest of his life. He was the father of fourteen children. The maternal grandfather was William Wilcox, a farmer, who died at Toledo. Dan-forth Fisher was born at Burlington, Otsego County, New York, July 9, 1807. He was married at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, January 1, 1832, to Lucinda Wilcox, who was born in that county April 14, 1812. In 1836 they came West and located in Brighton Township, which was then comparatively a wilderness. After some years of pioneer farming they moved, in 1863, to Michigan, and made their permanent home at Johnstown in Barry County. There the mother died May 12, 1888, and the father on April 16, 1889. The mother was a member of the Disciples Church and politically he was a strong republican. They were the parents of eleven children. Those now living are: O. L. Fisher ; Alma, widow of Hiram Wilson and living in California ; George F., who is connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Chicago; Oren: D., who was educated in Oberlin College, Olivet College in Michigan and Yale University and is a minister of the Congregational Church now living in Massachusetts; Peter A., a farmer in Michigan ; and Wil-bur, who is in the lumber business in Lorain County. O. L. Fisher gained his early training in the district schools of Wellington Township, along with a practical discipline in farming on his father's place. On August 29, 1862, he answered the call of patriot-ism and enlisted in Company I of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and served three years. He was sent to Eastern Virginia, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and later the battery was sent to Eastern Tennessee, fought at Lookout Mountain and all the engagements from Chattanooga to the fall of Atlanta, including, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and other historic battles. After being in the hospital for five months he received his honorable discharge on June 13, 1865. After the war he returned to Brighton Township, but soon moved to 986 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Michigan, where he bought a small farm and lived on it for six years. In 1872 he came to Huntington Township and bought the 127-acre place which has been his home now for forty-five years and where he has carried on a profitable business as a farmer and dairyman. He has made most of the improvements on the farm, has a good residence, and has earned the prosperity and comfort which he now enjoys. As a young man he worked out at wages, and he bought his present farm on credit, paying for it as a result of much self-denial and eonstant hard work. On December 27, 1865, Mr. Fisher married Sarah A. Ledyard, who was born in Huntington Township July 11, 1846, a daughter of Hiram Ledyard, one of the early settlers of that township. To their marriage have been born two children: Lewis, now a farmer in Wellington Township; and Erva, wife of George W. Barnes, a music teacher at Norwalk. Mrs. Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fisher has been loyal to the principles for which he fought as a soldier and has always been an active republican. He has done his part in public affairs, has served as road supervisor and school director and has lived a straightforward, holiest career, useful alike to his own family and to the entire community. W . T. TWINING. The Twining family has been represented in Lorain County for nearly sixty-five years. W. T. Twining is now living practically retired in Henrietta Township but for many years was en gaged in the vigorous prosecution of his business as a general farmer, dairyman and stockman. The name is one that has always been associated with honorable citizenship and a substantial influence in behalf of community welfare. A native of New York State, W. T. Twining was born September 4, 1847. a son of Charles A. and Nellie (Schermerhorn) The Twining family is of old American ancestry, and the first of the name was William Twining who came from England and settled on the Atlantic coast soon after 1630. Grandfather Samuel Twining was born February 22, 1796, and followed the business of farmer and miller, making his home in Broome County, New York. In that county he was married in 1813 to Elizabeth Stout. Charles A. Twining was born in New York State April 23, 1821, and died December 21, 1903. His wife was born in the same state October 8, 1824, and died in 1907. Charles A. Twining, so long known as one of the most successful men of Lorain County, started iife with absolutely nothing, and for a number of years had to support not only his sisters but his mother and stepfather. At the time of his death his estate included over 500 acres of land. He first came to Ohio in 1849, but it was in 1852 that he made permanent settlement in Lorain County. He brought to this county $500 and with that as capital purchased his first land in Pittsfield Township. Later he bought a farm in Camden Township and still later in Henrietta Township, in which locality he lived until his death. He became a prominent stock raiser and also dealt extensively in lands, and at one time owned eight different farms. Charles A. and Nellie Twining were married in 1842, and of their eight children seven are still living: Sarah Ann, widow of LeGrand Gibson, and living at Clarksfleld, Ohio; W. T.; Gertrude Elizabeth, now deceased; Alvah F, of Henrietta Township; Floyd Odell of Henrietta Township; Virgil Leroy, who has gained success in the hotel business and is now owner of four different hotels and lives at Maumee, Ohio: Perry Eugene, a farmer in Maryland; and Fred A., who is a minister of the Regular Baptist Church at Coshocton, Ohio. The parents HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 987 were members of the Free Will Baptist Church, and the father was a democrat in politics. W. T. Twining gained his early education in the public schools. He worked for his father on the farm until gaining his majority, and was then married to Miss Drucilla Ann Bulkley. They have lived together and worked out their destinies for almost a half a century. Mrs. Twining was a daughter of Jeremiah and "Mary Ann (Vincent) Bulkley. Her father was born in New York State September 12, 1824, and died October 20, 1908, and her mother was born in Canada August 8, 1825, and died December 7, 1905. The Bulkley family came to Lorain County in pioneer times and the grandfather and father of Mrs. Twining cleared up a large acreage of land in this section. The Vincents were also early settlers in Henrietta Township. Mr. and Mrs. Twining have three children : Estella Jane, wife of Lewis F. Peabody, a farmer in Camden Township, and they have one child living, Juva ; George E., who occupies a farm adjoining that of his father, married Jessie Hales and their three children are Clarence, Harold and Edna ; and Minnie Ethel married Robert Wyler, a farmer in Henrietta Township, and their seven children are Earl, Elsie, Harley, Ila, Florence, Doris and 'Mildred. Besides these three living children one son, Charles Tracy, is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Twining are members of the Regular Baptist Church, and while a democrat he is inclined to independence in his political activities. When he started in life he inherited some land from his father, but subsequently bought more land, and his farm now comprises eighty-three acres. At one time he conducted a large dairy, but has abandoned that feature of his business, and for a number of years he also raised and dealt extensively in live stock. He is now practically retired, and finds plenty to do in supervising his well improved farm. FRANK ZIEGLER. Of that sturdy stock of Germans who have so numerously peopled Lorain County, perhaps none has won a better earned success and represents more of the thrifty, industrious virtues of the Fatherland than Frank Ziegler of Brighton Township. Begin-ning as a renter, he has steadily pursued his calling as a farmer and his lot has been one of steady improvement until he is now recognized as one of the best established and most prosperous citizens of his community, He was born at Weingarten Baden, Germany, December 8, 1862, a son of Frank and Caroline (Langendorfer) Ziegler. Both parents spent all their lives in that section of Germany. His father was born in 1828 and died in 1904 and the mother was born in 1832 and died in 1892. They were married in 1857, His parents were members of the Lutheran Church, and they were thrifty farming people of Germany, Their seven children were: Frank ; Henry, who lives in Germany on a farm; John, a farmer in Germany ; Frederick, a farmer in Huron County, Ohio; Louis, a retired and well-to-do citizen of Cleveland ; Catherine, wife of Carl Habel, a farmer in Germany ; and Karl, who came to the United States, but went back to his native land, served in the army, and is now in the German army in the European war. Frank Ziegler acquired the regular German training in schools and by practical experience, and was eighteen years old when in 1880 he came to America and reached Erie County, Ohio. The first eight years he worked for other farmers. In 1883 he returned to Germany for a short visit. In 1886 Mr. Ziegler married Caroline Langendorfer, who was also born in Germany. Their five children are : Christine, born in January, 1888; Emma, born in September, 1889 ; William, born in July, 1892: Louisa, born in September, 1894; and Berta, born December 10, 1898. Vol. II-28 988 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY All of them were born in Erie County, Ohio, except William, who was born in Tacoma, Washington. After eight years of experience as a farm tenant Mr. Ziegler moved out to the State of Washington in 1890, but after several years returned to Ohio and in 1895 bought his first farm of sixty acres in Erie County, Ohio. With characteristic energy he improved and developed this place, and sold out at a considerable advance in 1898. He then bought a place of 166 acres in Huron County, and owned it five years. After selling his interests there he came to Brighton Township in 1904, and bought 354 acres of land. On his establishment in Lorain County Mr. Ziegler was over ten thousand dollars in debt. He paid it all in four years, and has made all his prosperity by his own labor and good management. He uses his land for general farming purposes and also runs a dairy and raises considerable livestock. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. CHARLES D. MURRAY. In the person of Charles D. Murray is found a sample of that material which has brought Lorain County to the fore-front in the field of agricultural enterprise. Endowed with more than average ability, backed with true business judgment, he has prospered in the affairs of life, and is now enjoying the comforts of one of the attractive farm homes of Brighton Township. Born in Lorain County February 28, 1877, he is a son of James and Isabelle (Monroe) Murray, both of whom were natives of Scotland. His grandfather James Murray was born in Scotland and came to the United States but afterwards returned to his native land before he died. The maternal grandfather, James Monroe, spent all his life on a farm in Scotland. James Murray was born in 1822 and died in 1900, and his wife was born in 1846 and died in 1910. They were married in Scotland, and some years later, in 1871, came to Lorain County, buying a farm in Rochester Township. They sold that place and moved to another farm in Rochester Township, where they were renting, and then bought the farm on which they spent the rest of their years. Both were members of the Baptist Church, and James Murray was a republican and a man of considerable influence in his locality. There were eight children : James, a farmer in Rochester Township ; Mary, wife of Ernest Butson of Brighton Township ; William, a farmer in Rochester Township : Isabelle, wife of Walter Jewett, a farmer in Rochester Township : Jessie. twin sister of Isabelle and wife of Bert Rawson, a retired farmer in Elyria ; Charles D.; John, a farmer in Rochester Township ; and Nellie, wife of Dow Miller, a carpenter at Elyria. Charles D. Murray acquired his early training in district schools of Lorain County and has been a farmer all his active life. His operations are distributed over a fine place of 250 acres, and in addition to general farming he has a small dairy of from ten to fifteen cows, and is also making a success in the raising of full blood Percheron horses. Mr. Mur-ray has for the past ten years served in the office of trustee of his home township, and has always given his aid to movements for progress and development. Politically he is a republican, is a member of the Maccabees, and he and his family attend the Congregational Church. In May, 1903, he married Abbie Stocking. Their one child is Mildred, now attending school. Mrs. Murray is a daughter of the late C. D. Stocking, who was born in Brighton Township. November 17. 1840, a son of Jonathan S. Stocking, who was one of the first pioneers in this section of Northern Ohio. Jonathan S. Stocking was born in Massachu-setts in 1810 and was brought to Ohio by his parents when child. His father had visited Northern Ohio in what is now Cuyahoga County HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 989 during the years 1811-12. He came west with his family with ox teams and wagons and after six weeks arrived in Cuyahoga County in 1815. At that time there was only one frame building on the present site of Cleveland. His father was a man of prominence in his part of Ohio and it is an interesting fact of his political record that he cast his first vote for Thomas Jefferson and voted for every presidential candidate for seventy-six years, having voted for R. B. Hayes a short time before his death, on February 23, 1877. Jonathan Stocking married Sabrina Lilly and they had six children, among whom was Conant D., father of Mrs. C. D. Murray. In 1836 the Stocking family moved to Brighton Township. C. D. Stocking, father of Mrs. Murray, spent nearly all his active career on the old homestead, and acquired one of the largest farms in Brighton Township. On January 7, 1874, he married Ann Eliza Fish, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1838, a daughter of Daniel Fish. Mrs. Murray was one of their two daughters, the other being Jennie, who is the wife of Walter C. Day, and they have one child, Donald. Mrs. Stocking resides with her daughter, Mrs. Murray, in Brighton Township. JOHN G. PARSONS. One of the oldest and best known family names in Lorain County is that of Parsons, one of whose representatives is John G., a highly successful farmer in the vicinity of Oberlin. It was in the early '30s that the Parsons family was established in this section of Ohio. Lott Parsons, father of John G., was born in England in 1828 and was brought to America when four years of age, his parents locating in Lorain County, where Lott Parsons was reared and where in time he became a prosperous farmer of Russia Township. He died in 1892. He married Catherine Kendeigh, whose father, John Kendeigh, established his home in Lorain County in the period of pioneer settlement. Catherine Kendeigh was born in Lorain County in 1833 and died in 1893. She was an active member of the Congregational Church, and Lott Parsons was a prominent republican. They were the parents of six children and the five now living are : Frank S., a retired farmer ; William, who is also a Lorain County farmer but spends his winters in Florida ; Viola, of Oberlin ; Clayton, of Oberlin ; John G. John G. Parsons was born on the old homestead in Russia Township January 4, 1864. His early education came through the country schools and he gained a practical vocational training by assisting on his father's farm until the age of twenty-one. He and his brother, Frank, then bought a farm together and they were associated in its management for five years. John G. Parsons then became conductor on an electric car line in Cleveland for three years, after which he returned to the old home place and continued its management for nine years. He then re-moved to his present farm, on which he lived 2 1/2 years, had his home in Oberlin for two years after that, but since 1904 has given all his time to farming and development of his 145-acre place, which is regarded as one of the best rural estates in the neighborhood of Oberlin. Under his management the buildings have all been improved or re-modeled, and he added a great deal of value to the land by laying approximately 100,000 tile. One of his chief crops is hay, and during the year 1915 his meadows produced about 135 tons. He also raises the different staple grains, and keeps about fifteen head of live stock. On December 1, 1884, Mr. Parsons married Miss Mary Collins, a daughter of Ransom and Christiana (Packard) Collins. Both parents were born in Ohio and the mother at one time lived in Cleveland in a house occupying the present site of the courthouse. Both the Collins and Packard families were early settlers in Northern Ohio. 990 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have two sons. Clarence, born March 18, 1886. married on April 26, 1912, Lottie May Horning and they have one child, Tharon Eugene, who was born November 30, 1915. Albert, born May 12, 1891, married Ada West on September 18, 1910. These sons conduct a prosperous automobile trucking business in Cleveland, and operate about twenty-seven motor trucks, employing a large force of men as well as having a big investment in the business. Mr. Parsons is affiliated with the Masonic Order in Oberlin, and both He and his wife take a very prominent part in the Grange. which He has served as master for eight years and for two years was the state delegate. In politics he is republican. Mrs. Parsons is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her people were directly descended from John Alden, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While Mr. and Mrs, Parsons were comparatively poor people when they were married, they have prospered and at the same time have gained the esteem and good will of hundreds of loyal friends. JAMES A. MURRAY has reason to be especially satisfied with his position and accomplishment, since his prosperity is the direct result of his individual work and carefully laid plans. He has one of the fine farm homes of Rochester Township and is one of the substantial citizens of that locality. He has all the hardy qualities of the Scotch people and was born in Aberdeenshire. Scotland, September 25, 1867, a son of James and Isa-belle (Monroe) Murray. His father was born in Scotland in 1827 and died in 1899. This is a well known family in Lorain County, and James A. Murray is a brother of Charles D. Murray, whose career is sketched on other pages. Brought to this country when a boy, James Murray received most of his education in the local schools of Rochester Township, He then started out to make his own way in the world, and for three years worked on the farm of C. F. Emery. He then went to Cleveland. and from 1896 to 1907 was an employee of the street railway system of that city. His next location was in Russia Township, and he was employed most of the time while there driving horses on the track. After 3 1/2 years he came to Rochester Township, and settled down to an independent career as a farmer. Mr. Murray now owns a fine place of 148 acres, and carries on general farming together with some dairying. On January 7, 1902, he married Nellie Currey, who was born in Rochester Township September 23, 1871, a daughter of John Currey, who for many years was a leading merchant at Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Murray have four children John Murray, born December 29, 1902; Russell, born .August 4, 1904; Corrine, born March 8, 1906; and Donald, born April 22, 1911. Mr. Murray is an active member of the Baptist Church and politically is an independent republican. He has held some of the township offices and has also served on the village council Rochester. CHARLES S. JONES, whose home is at Wellington, has for a number of years conducted the elevator at Brighton, and is one of the leading dealers in grain and hay and other supplies in that section of Lorain County. His father, Ezekiel Jones, is now living retired at Wellington, after a long and active career which included service in the Civil war and many years of activity as a farmer and business man, Ezekiel Jones was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1841, the only child of his parents. His widowed mother, Margaret Jones, married for HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 991 her second husband Roswell Lewis and there were four children. by that union : Lydia, widow of George Williams, living at Meadville, Pennsylvania ; Jerry of Meadville; Hattie, widow of Mr. Van Horn.; and William, who is a farmer three miles from Meadville. Educated at Meadville, Ezekiel Jones came to Brighton Township in October, 1859, and from early in the following year he was employed on the farm of William Battle, until he enlisted August 15, 1862, in Company F of the 103rd Ohio Infantry. While in Kentucky with his command he was taken sick of typhoid, was sent to Lexington and afterwards to Franklin, and spent so much time in the hospital that he was finally sent to Columbus and discharged unfit for service. He suffered from the illness a long time after returning home, and on resuming employment was in the planing mill at Wellington. Then in 1864, having recovered his health, he again enlisted, this time in Company C of the 176th Regiment, He was in the great battle of Nashville, and in some other minor engagements, and was finally given an honorable discharge. On returning from the war he bought land in Brighton Township, comprising 150 acres, and besides farming he was also in the cheese and butter business for a number of years, conducting several factories. He left the cheese business in 1907 and has since lived practically retired. On January 15, 1867, Ezekiel Jones married Agnes Whitney, who was born in Pittsfield Township of Lorain County in 1843, a daughter of Sever S. Whitney, who came to Pittsfield Township in 1832 and cleared up a farm out of the wilderness. He acquired large land holdings and was one of the influential men in that section of Lorain County. Ezekiel Jones was a member of the Grand Army Post at Wellington until its charter was surrendered. He and his good wife have lived at Wellington since October, 1915, and they reside with their son, Charles, and family. Charles S. Jones, the only one living of his parents' two children, was born in Camden Township of Lorain County March 29, 1870, and received his education at Kipton and Oberlin. He left high school to go to work and for nine years was associated with his father in the creamery business at Fostoria, Ohio. He then moved to a farm in Brighton Township, was a progressive farmer fourteen years. and for the past eight years has been proprietor of the elevator at Brighton, conducting a general elevator business, handling grain, hay and coal. He also owns a farm of seventy-five acres. Mr. Jones is a republican in politics, and by strict attention to business has long been a useful factor in the community. In 1891 he married Laura Button, who was born in Michigan. Their four children are : Tressie, wife of Carl Webber, a farmer in Brighton Township ; Carl, on his father's farm ; Artie, at home ; and Hazel, wife of Harry Hall, a farmer in Brighton Township. OTIS J. WHITNEY. it is now almost three score and ten years since Otis J, -Whitney started out on the journey of life, and he first saw the light of day 013. the farm which is his present home in Pittsfield Township. He belongs to some of the substantial older stock, of sterling New England antecedents, which was most closely identified with the settlement and development of Lorain County in the early days. His own career has been consonant in its activities and influences with those of his ancestors. As a farmer and stock breeder Mr. Whitney's name is widely known not only in his home county but in many sections of Ohio. He was born June 26, 1846, a son of Mark and Cordelia K. (Gifford) Whitney. His grandfather, Joseph Whitney, was a native of Rutland, 992 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY Vermont, and was one of the early settlers in Lorain County, coming to this section about 1836 and taking up a tract of government land in Pittsfield Township. The maternal grandparents were Cornelius and Hannah (Nye) Gifford. Cornelius Gifford was born at Lee, Massachusetts, and died at a great old age November 13, 1900. His wife was born November 17, 1782, at Columbus, New York. Cornelius Gifford settled. in Pittsfield Township in 1833, and built himself a home in the midst of the woods, and a number of years were devoted to clearing up the land as a farmer. The Nye family' was among the early settlers in the New England states, and some of that name became prominent in politics and church affairs. Mark Whitney was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1818, and died in 1882. His wife was born in Lee, Massachusetts, April 5, 1825, and made her home with her son, Otis, and though ninety years of age at the time of her death was in splendid health and in full possession. of her mental faculties. She died March 10, 1916. Mark and Cordelia Whitney were married in Pittsfield Township April 27, 1848. He had come to the county at the age of eighteen and afterwards became known as a man above the average in education and reading and as one of the banner farmers of the township. He was a republican and filled all the township offices. Having little to start with in the way of capital he built up a good estate, and on the old homestead he constructed a two-story brick residence which was one of the best in Pittsfield Township. He also put up a good home at Oberlin and lived there until his death. He left an estate of about 240 acres. Mrs. Mark Whitney had for years been an esteemed member of the Second Con-gregational Church at Oberlin. They were the parents of six children, and the four now living are: Otis J.; Mark A., in the grain elevator business at Oberlin ; Frank S., a Pittsfield Township farmer; and Flora, wife of A. M. Hall, a retired resident of Cleveland. Otis J. Whitney received most of his early education in the common schools of Pittsfield Township and spent three terms at Oberlin public schools. Reared on a farm, he has always been a farmer, and to that vocation he has brought unusual energy, thrift and business management. His specialty is the breeding and raising of registered Holstein-Friesian cattle, and at the present time he has about fifty head of this fine stock. He has shipped a great many of these cattle and takes his stock to public sales all over Ohio, His farm comprises 150 acres, and it is thoroughly improved, and he and his family still reside in the comfortable two-story brick house erected by his father many years ago. On February 14, 1883, he married Miss Ann Rogers. Mrs. Whitney was born March 25, 1860, a daughter of John and Fannie Ann (Burrows) Rogers. Her parents came to this country from England, where they were born and they located in Pittsfield Township in 1870, where Mr. Rogers died. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have been born four children. Clara is the wife of Levi Worcester, who is connected with the Electric Light Company at Oberlin. Alice is the wife of Arthur Mills, and they live on her father's farm. Charles is also a farmer on his father's estate. Jessie is still at home. Mrs. Whitney is an active member of the Congregational Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees and in politics a republican. He has filled all the township offices with credit, and the quality of his public spirit has been on a par with his individual business management. C. J. DIMICK. Rochester Township has no more progressive and public spirited citizen than C. J. Dimick. He got his start working in HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 993 Cleveland at the carpenter's trade, but for many years has operated one of the well equipped and well managed farms of Rochester Township. His influence has extended beyond his own place, and he has aided in every constructive movement for the benefit of the community. He was born in Berlinville, Erie County, Ohio, July 1, 1870, a son of Edwin and Mary E. (Eddy) Dimick. His father died soon afterwards, and C. J. Dimick grew up in the home of his mother and his stepfather Cephas Myers. Mr. Myers, who was a very liberal and kind hearted man and a successful farmer, moved to Rochester Township in 1878 and died in 1902. Mrs. Mary (Eddy) Dimick Myers was an active worker in the Free Will Baptist Church, and she represented one of the very old and prominent families of Northern Ohio. Her great-grand-father, Caleb Eddy, was born in 1754 and about 1790 moved to Wash-ington County, Pennsylvania. In 1807 he moved from Pennsylvania to Euclid Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and was one of the earliest pioneers in that section, where he died in 1819. He was a blacksmith by trade. David Eddy, grandfather of Mrs. Mary Dimick, went from Pennsylvania to Northern Ohio about 1806 and erected a log house for his father, Caleb. On March 4, 1814, David Eddy married Elizabeth Sherdine of Pennsylvania, and in 1815 they moved to Columbia Town-ship in Lorain County, where he lived until his death on October 21, 1853. His wife passed away October 6, 1854. Their four children were: Jesse ; Enos, born December 1, 1816; Susanna, born March 24, 1820 ; and Eunice, born February 22, 1822. Jesse Eddy, father of Mary E. Eddy, was born December 15, 1814, and on January 30, 1837, married Caroline Chamberlain. For two years after his marriage he rented a farm and his father then gave him twenty acres of land, which he increased by the purchase of ten acres. This he traded for sixty acres of woodland, where he built a log cabin, and after clearing up his tract he lived on it until 1870, when he moved to Rochester Township. His wife died February 5, 1855. Jesse Eddy held various positions of trust, having served 41/, years as postmaster of Rochester, and during that time he registered 900 letters, the smallest amount being for fifty cents and the largest $7,000 in bonds which were sent to Fort Collins, Colorado. Jesse Eddy, in 1843, joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and in politics was a whig and afterwards a republican.. C. J. Dimick grew up in Lorain County, learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at it for eighteen years. Since then he has given his business energies to the management of his fine farm of 100 acres, and has made improvements which classify it among the best places in Rochester Township. He has constructed a number of buildings and a fine two-story residence. A profitable enterprise which Mr. Dimick conducts on his farm is the raising of ferrets, and at this writing he has about 175 of these animals. which are shipped to all parts of the United States. In 1900 he married Sadie Biddinger, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, They have one son, now sixteen years of age, and attending the Wellington schools. Mr. Dimick is a republican, though inclined to independence in local affairs. He served as township clerk nine years, as president of the school board, and a member of the village board. He was trustee of the township two years, declining a second term. One of the accomplish-ments of his official work which brought him a high degree of credit was the improvement of the local cemetery, one of the best now in the county. He has taken infinite pains in making this burial place of the dead a place of beauty, and he now has a complete record of every grave in the cemetery, recorded on blue print. This record extends back to 1840. 994 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNT'S.' LEWIS BARNES is one of the substantial farmer citizens of Rochester Township. He has lived in that locality all his life, and has discharged the responsibilities of the individual worker, the home maker and the citizen with credit and usefulness. He was born in Rochester Township September 11, 1849, a son of Moses and Eliza (Stone) Barnes, both of whom were natives of Berk-shire County, Massachusetts. His father was born in 1803 and died in 1889 and his mother in 181:3 and died in 1889. They were married in Massachusetts and afterwards came to Lorain County, settling in the woods of Rochester Township. Both were charter members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that township, and the father was a republican and a successful farmer. On coming to Lorain County they established their home in a log cabin, and lived to prosper and enjoy many of the good things of life. Of their twelve children Lewis Barnes is the only survivor. Lewis Barnes is a grandson of Nelson Barnes, who spent his life on a farm in Massachusetts. One of the sons of Nelson was Almon Barnes, who became quite a prominent man in Massachusetts and served as a member of the Legislature. Mr. Barnes' maternal grandfather, Lewis Stone, spent his life in Massachusetts. Educated in the old red schoolhouse of Rochester Township, Lewis Barnes took up farming at an early age, and He now has the old home-stead of sixty acres. He has lived there for many years, has made many improvements, and still carries on the farm in connection with some dairying and the raising of good livestock. In 1888 he married Elizabeth Colgrove of Pike County, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have no children. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically he is a republican, but rather independent in local affairs and has served as a member of the town council. FRED C. BRANDT. In his native county Mr. Brandt has found the best of opportunities for the achieving of definite success in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock growing, under the influence of which he was reared, and on his admirably improved farm. in Pittsfield Township, he now gives special attention to the dairy business, He is one of the vital, progressive and popular citizens of the county- and is well entitled to specific recognition in this publication. Mr. Brandt was born in North Amherst Township, this county, on the 12th of September, 1873, and is a son of William and Mary (Hasselman) Brandt, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1847 and the latter in 1845, their marriage having been solemnized in North Amherst Township, Lorain County. Mr. Brandt passed to the life eternal in 1895 and his widow now resides in Pittsfield Township. William Brandt was reared and educated in his native land, whence he immigrated to the United States in 1870, after having served his allotted time in the German army. After establishing his home in Lorain County he was employed for eight years in a stone quarry at North Amherst, and he then purchased a farm in Russia Township and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Later he sold this property and bought another farm, in Pittsfield Township, where he continued to reside until his death,—an industrious, substantial and upright citizen who ever commanded unqualified popular esteem and good will. He won success entirely through his own efforts and his life was guided and guarded by the principles of integrity and honor. He was a son of Lewis Brandt and his parents passed their entire lives in Germany. William and Mary (Hasselman) Brandt became the parents of four chil- HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 995 dren, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest; Minnie C. is the wife of Isaac Bricker, a prosperous farmer in Camden Township ; Carl G. is a progressive farmer of Pittsfield Township; and Henry L. resides at Shelby, Richland County, in which city he is engaged in the milling business. The father was a zealous communicant of the German Lutheran Church, as is. also his widow, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. Mrs. Brandt is a daughter of the late John Hasselman, who came with his family to the United States when she was a girl, both he and his wife passing the closing years of their lives, in Lorain County, where he became a successful farmer. Fred C. Brandt duly profited by the advantages of the public schools and also a German school at North Amherst, and from his youth to the present time he has not wavered in his allegiance to the agricultural and live stock industries, of which he has become one of the progressive and representative exponents in his native county. He was formerly the owner of a farm of 130 acres in the western part of Pittsfield Township, and in 1913 he sold this property, after which he purchased his present well improved place of 108 acres in Pittsfield Township. He has made many improvements on the farm, has erected a number of buildings and made repairs and alterations on others, has installed an effective system of tile drainage and has brought his homestead up to the best modern standard. He raises thoroughbred Holstein-Friesian cattle, of which he maintains an average herd of about twenty head, and he has made dairying one of the most important and successful departments of his farm enterprise. He began his independent career with very limited financial resources and his independence and prosperity thus represent the results of his own efforts and excellent business ability. He is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church. In 1899 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Brandt to Miss Margaret Williams, daughter of Florus and Abbie (Whitney) Williams, a sub-stantial farmer near "Wellington, this county, and they have four children : Harold F., Silas W., Evlyn W. and Frances, the elder son being a member of the class of 1918 in the high school at Wellington. C. G. ASCHENBACH has been one of the capable figures in Lorain County business circles for a number of years. His present position is the more noteworthy because of the fact that he has been entirely the architect of his own destiny. He started without money or influential friends and when there were no opportunities he made them, and as he is still only forty years of age the promise for his future is very bright. He was born at Amherst, February 12, 1876, a son of George and Martha (Huessner) Aschenbach. Both parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in 1833 and died in the fall of 1915. His mother, who was born January 21, 1840, is still living. She was brought to Lorain County when a child of six years., George Aschenbach was seventeen years old when he came to Lorain County with his mother, Elizabeth (Gerlach) Aschenbach. After coming to Lorain County George Aschenbach spent a time in the shipyards at Lorain, and afterwards was a contractor and builder in Amherst for a number of years. He was a democrat, and his wife is an active member of the German Evangelical Church. They had nine children, and the four living are Bertha Brown, wife of a machinist at Amherst ; George, of Amherst ; Lizzie, who has charge of her brother C. G. Aschenbach's dry goods store at Amherst ; and C. G. When C. G. Aschenbach was a boy in school his father failed in busi- 996 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY ness, and that threw upon. him unusual responsibilities for his years. He went to work and afterwards completed his education. in the school of experience. His first employment was on a farm, and later he became clerk in a grocery store. He conducted a store at the quarries, and then was in the employ of the Lewis & Company store of Elyria. When he began his independent business career at Amherst it was in a small store 18x20 feet, handling a stock of dry goods, and he now has an entire two-story building 25x65 feet, and completely stocked with all the wares required of a store in a city like Amherst. He is also a director of the Amherst Park Bank Company, and a member of its finance committee. In 1911 at Amherst He married Miss Louise Plato whose father, H. A. Plato, an old time dry goods merchant of Amherst, is living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aschenbach. They have one child, Conrad Girard, born April 12, 1916. Mr. Aschenbach is a member of the German Evangelical Church while his wife is a Catholic. He is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and is also affiliated with :the Royal Arcanum and the Woodmen of the World. For a number of years he served as village clerk and has always shown a public spirited attitude toward his community, though the requirements of his own business success have demanded so much of his time and energies that he has found little opportunity for public service or fraternal participation. In November, 1915, Mr. Aschenbach, leaving his store at Amherst in charge of his sister, became assistant general manager of the well known dry goods establishment of the Lewis Company at Elyria, a place in which he formerly worked as a clerk. A. K. JENNE has been closely identified with the business enterprise at and around Amherst for twenty-five or thirty years. Much of his time is now given to the Amherst Cold Storage Company, of which he is treasurer, with W, H. Schibley president and Joseph Wesbecher vice president, He is general manager of this company, which is capitalized with a stock of $25,000 and since its establishment in 1914 has been highly prosperous. The company has in operation a very complete and modern plant and at this writing they are building an ice plant in connection with the main building. His is one of the old families of Lorain County. Mr. Jenne himself was born in Amherst Township on a farm, August 18, 1867. That old farm is still owned by the family. His parents were Ansel and Phoebe (Wing) Jenne. His grandfather was also named Ansel Jenne and brought his family to Amherst Township in 1840, when there were only eight or ten families in the entire township, He cleared up a farm and was one of the industrious and honored citizens. Ansel Jenne, Jr., was born in Orange, New Jersey, August 27, 1825, and was fifteen years of age when he came to Lorain County. He soon had an opportunity to test his strength and endurance in competition with the tasks of clearing^ up and developing a. tract of land, and he lived and prospered on his farm for fifty years. He died February 7, 1907. He was a democrat in politics and for many years was a loyal member of the Grange. In 1860, in Amherst, he married Miss Phoebe Wing, who was born in New York State September 1, 1837, and died December 14, 1914. She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of her five children four are now living: Sarah E., wife of Bird Richmond, a gardener in Amherst Township ; William H,, a farmer in Amherst ; George B., who is custodian of a large business block at Elyria ; and A, K. Jenne. After attending the district schools, A. K. Jenne followed farm work for several years, and after his marriage he bought a truck farm, and by HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 997 hard work and close attention to business made a success of that industry, which he followed for twenty-three years. He still owns this farm. In. 1913 he removed to Amherst, and after a brief retirement was for two years real estate and personal property appraiser. He then became secretary and general manager of The Amherst Cold Storage Company, Mr. Jenne is also secretary and treasurer of the Amherst Supply Company and is a director in the U. S. Automatic Company, a corpora-tion capitalized at $100,000 and doing a large and prosperous business in the manufacture of automobile parts. He is also a stockholder in the Amherst German Bank Company. His part in public affairs is also worthy of special record. For a number of years he was township treasurer and is now president of the local school board. Politically he is a democrat, and he and his wife are very prominent in. the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amherst, he being superintendent of the Sunday School, while Mrs. Jenne is chorister and a worker in all the church movements. On September 10, 1889, he married Mary E. Giltner, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Her father gave the better part of his active career to the ministry of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Jenne have three children : Bert, who is a carpenter at Amherst, married Gertrude Heathcote, and they have one child, Foster ; Lucile, wife of Ray Hearn, in the grocery business at Amherst ; and Merle, still attending school. JACOB H. SCHIBLEY. Among the various successful business enter-prises located at Amherst, one that is deserving of special mention is the Grain, Elevator and General Supply establishment conducted by Jacob H. Schibley, one of that town's most progressive and energetic citizens. Mr. Schibley is the type of man who makes his own oppor-tunities in life. He has never been discouraged by obstacles or difficulties, and has made a steady progress from a young man of no capital or influential friends to a place among the highly respected citizens of one of the best towns in Lorain County. He was born in Amherst Township of Lorain County November 23, 1869. His people on both sides were from the German fatherland, and both his grandfathers fought with the army of Napoleon and par-ticipated in that ill-fated campaign into Russia. His paternal grand-father died in 1839 and his maternal grandfather in 1840. Michael Schibley, father of Jacob H., was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1826 and died in 1907. He came alone to Pennsylvania when a young man in 185:3 and from there went to Huron, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Catherine Brandau, who was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1836 and died in 1914. For several years Michael Schibley paid his way by day labor, and was employed in the construction forces building some of the New York Central lines through Northern Ohio. After-wards he took up-farming and lived on his farm until a few years before his death, which occurred in Amherst. His wife also died there. They were members of the Evangelical Association and he was a democrat in politics. There were five children : George is a farmer in Amherst Township ; Christian is also a farmer there ; Anna Goll lives at Lorain, Ohio: W. H., a banker in Amherst; and Jacob H. The educational equipment of Jacob H. Schibley. before he started his active career comprised the advantages furnished by the district schools and one course in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Going to Cleveland, he found employment as a fireman and then as a stationary engineer, and was in that city for six years. Returning to Amherst, in July, 1898, he and his brother, W. H. Schibley, built a large grain elevator and they soon had built up one of the most suc- 998 - HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY cessful concerns of the kind in the county. Some years ago the business was incorporated, and Jacob Schibley has been its active man-ager. Besides the general grain business the firm handles farm implements, builders supplies, fertilizers, and it is now conducted under the name Amherst Supply Company, incorporated, and with a capital stock of $20,000. In 1891 Mr. Schibley married Catherine Schott. Their seven children are: Hazel, wife of James Grapes, a cabinet maker at Cleveland; Ethel, at home; John, who has been well educated and is already self supporting; Ruth, living in Cleveland; Emery, at home with his father ; Dorothy and Blanche. ln the fall of 1912 Mr. Schibley married Elizabeth K. Stine. who was born in Amherst Township and prior to her marriage was a very successful teacher of music, having studied both at home and abroad in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Schibley attend the Congrega-tional Church at Elyria. Politically he is a democrat, and for four years served as a member of the city council. H. A. CAMPBELL, whose home is near New London, is one of the industrious and reliable farmers of Lorain County, classed with the modern agriculturists who are acknowledged to be as broad and scientific in their methods and as fruitful in valuable results to the community as the workers in any other branch of modern industry. Through his well directed efforts he has accumulated a farm of 100 acres, the possession of which stamps him as one of the substantial men of this county. Representing some of the older stock of Lorain County, he was born in Camden Township November 18, 1862, a son of Frank and Hannah (Lewis) Campbell. His father was born in New York State in 1835 and died in Lorain County in 1910, and his mother was born in New York in 1838, a daughter of Harry Lewis, who came to Camden Township in the early days and spent his last years in Rochester Township. She died in 1910. They were married in 'Michigan, For a number of. years Frank Campbell followed his trade as a wagon maker at Camden Center, and spent his last years as a farmer. He started with little, but by industry and thrift accumulated a good estate of 100 acres which is now owned by his son, H. A. Campbell. During the Civil war he served a short time in the 196th Ohio Regiment of Infantry and was afterwards a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Campbells are of Scotch-Irish stock, Frank Campbell and wife had seven children, and the three now living are H. A. Campbell ; Inez, who married Lenn Brumby and she lives in Wellington; and Frances. wife of Dr. R. A. Garrison of Sullivan, Ohio. H. A. Campbell started life with a district school education, grew up and had the experiences and discipline of the home farm. but started his career in other lines of employment. For two years he was a loco-motive fireman, then spent two years with a bridge construction gang, and another two years as a stationary engineer. Since then he has given all his time and attention to farming, and in 1909 he bought out the interests of the other heirs in the homestead and is doing a very successful work as a general farmer. He has his land well tiled, and is constantly making improvements. In 1888 he married Alta Williams, who was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County, a daughter of Edwin Williams. Of their three children Effie is now deceased. Albert married Jennie Grime and has one child, Lenora, and he is a farmer in Rochester Township. Roy, who lives at New London, married Zelma Rhoerback. The mother of these children died in 1898. She was a member of the Universalist HISTORY OF LORAIN COUNTY - 999 Church. Mr, Campbell affiliates with the Tribe of Ben Hur and in politics is independent. W. B. LINDSLEY. Of W. B. Lindsley it can be said as an expression of the general esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and fellow citizens that he is an industrious and successful farmer, a citizen who looks well after the interests of his own home and family, and not without regard for the benefit and welfare of the community in which he lives. On the farm that he now owns and occupies, with many improvements representing his own labor and management, W. B. Lindsley was born in Penfield Township of Lorain County, March 6, 1859, a son of A. D. and Abigail (Baird) Lindsley. His parents were both natives of Delaware County, New York, where they were married. The father was born in 1818 and died in 1886, while his mother was born March 2, 1821, and died in 1873. Her father was Daniel Baird. On June 1, 1847, the family came to Penfield Township, where A. D. Lindsley took up a farm, and at the time of his death he owned over two hundred acres. He cleared up the land and his first home was a small house, but five years later he built a commodious residence and that with some changes is still on the place. He was a republican in politics and held various town-ship offices and was a man of high character. During the war he belonged to an organization known as the Squirrel Hunters, and trained many soldiers for the army. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There were four children, three sons and one daugh-ter : Alphonso, a farmer in Penfield Township ; Allie, wife of Charles Cragin, a retired resident at Seattle, Washington; W. B.; and Clifton. W. B. Lindsley had a very good education in preparation for the serious responsibilities of life, having attended the district schools, an academy at Oberlin and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, After some years of hard work and careful saving he made his first purchase of ninety acres, and afterwards traded with his brother for a portion of the old homestead. His farm now comprises 109 1/2, acres, and he has remodeled all the buildings and has constructed some very substantial barns. He does general farming and dairying, and keeps some registered Holstein cattle. In 1882 Mr. Lindsley married Carrie Hart, a daughter of Willard Hart, a native of Penfield Township, and a granddaughter of Hawley Hart, who was one of the first settlers of Penfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley have two children: Marion, who married Clarence Dixon in the hardware business at Wellington, is the mother of three children, Robert, Russell and Ralph Eugene; Dorothy is the wife of Mack Smith, a farmer in Penfield Township, and they have one child, Leonard W. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a republican in politics. He has served as a member of the school board. ALFRED B. EVANS. In that fine and fertile agricultural district around Oberlin, one of the most substantial farmers is Alfred B. Evans, who is a native son of Lorain County and whose family has been identified with this section of Ohio for more than fifty years. Born at Oberlin October 22, 1859, Alfred B. Evans comes of some of the substantial Welsh stock which has permeated the life of Lorain County. His parents, William and Mary (Griffith) Evans were both born in Wales, the father in 1825 and the mother in 1826. All the grandparents died in Wales. William Evans and wife were both long lived, sturdy and industrious people, and they lived to a good old age, the father dying in 1904 and the mother in 1906. They were married