BIOGRAPHICAL - 125 The following year he dropped all except the Michigan Mutual Life. In a short time he was made district agent, then State agent for Ohio, and, subsequently, manager for the district composed of Ohio and West Virginia, to which Kentucky was later added. During the later years of his life, he was a stockholder and director of the company, and to his persistent and intelligent efforts must be credited much of the present popularity and success of the company. In 1862, Michael Mooney married Miss Catherine Salmon, a native of Maryland, who came with her parents to Ohio in her childhood. Of this union were born ten children, six of whom are still living, viz.: Daniel F., Joseph J., Michael J., Charles A., Margaret, the wife of Charles Lang, of Delphos, Ohio ; and Mrs. Dr. H. S. Noble. Judge William T. Mooney, the oldest son of the family, was cut off by the hand of death, in 1905, just at a time when the future was full of promise. Michael Mooney accumulated a goodly share of this world's goods, through his labors as an insurance man. He died at St. Mary's, Feb. 3, 1907, and his wife died at the same place, in March, 1908. No woman who ever lived in St. Mary's came nearer to fulfilling the highest ideal of a wife and mother. Joseph J. Mooney received his elementary education in the St. Mary's schools and, in 1888, graduated in the Commercial Department of Canisius College, a Jesuit institution, of Buffalo, New York. He then read law awhile with his brother, at St. Mary's. but was not admitted to the bar, as he gave up the law to accept the position of cashier in his father's insurance office. Some time later, he was made assistant superintendent of agencies. in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, and, in 1897, was elected director of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co., which position he still holds, besides being State agent for the company in Ohio, with offices at 431 Nicholas Building, Toledo. Mr. Mooney is a Democrat on all questions of national politics, hut, locally, he is in favor of good government, without regard to party lines. Soon after Hon. Brand Whitlock was elected mayor of Toledo, he appointed Mr. Mooney on the University Board, hut, at the mayor's request, he subsequently resigned. to accept the office of president of the Board of Public Safety. In 1908. he was nominated by an independent movement for the office of State senator, but was defeated. Mr. Mooney is a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. and he belongs to the Toledo Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in all of which he is deservedly popular, because of his genial disposition and general good fellowship. On Feb. 16, 1909, Mr. Mooney married Miss Adele Block, an actress of national reputation, having been associated with such noted stars as E. H. Sothern, Virginia Flamed, Henrietta Grossman, and Bertha Kalich. Mr. Mooney became acquainted with her while she was a member of the Casino Stock Company, of Toledo. Mrs. Mooney is a native of Boston, Mass., and a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. The marriage took place in the Fifth Avenue Cathedral, New York, Rev. Father O'Connel, of St. Francis de Sales Church, Toledo, officiating. Among the guests were Mayor and Mrs. 126 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Whitlock, of Toledo. Since her marriage. Mrs. Mooney has given up the stage. and resides with her husband and mother, at 2040 Collingwood avenue, Toledo. William Bolles is president of the William Bolles Company, manufacturers of the Bolles self-filling, non-leakable fountain pens. He was born in Toledo, Jan. 30, 1877, son of William W. Bolles and Ellen (Collamore) Bolles, of that city. William W. Bolles, Sr., was prominent in commercial circles in Toledo, and one of the best-known real estate dealers in the city. He was a native of Delphi, Ind., born Feb. 25, 1841 ; he accompanied his father, William Bolles, to Toledo, when a young lad, and became a member of the second class graduated from the newly established high school in Toledo. William Bolles, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, became very prosperous in mercantile and real estate dealings in Toledo, and was generally known throughout the little city, and highly respected. William Bolles, second, followed in the footsteps of his father, and also displayed great foresight and wisdom in the purchase of real estate in the rapidly growing city. He bought the beautiful home on Collingwood avenue, which is surrounded by twenty acres of shaded lawn and blossoming gardens, kept in the most careful manner, and situated in the heart of one of the loveliest residence districts in Toledo, the desirability of which has been chiefly caused by the active interests and efforts of Mr. Bolles, combined with the privilege of living within sight of his beautiful estate. This home was almost as dear to Mr. Bolles as a member of his family ; he was essentially a home-loving man, prizing above any other earthly joy his family ties ; he was a devoted husband and father and in social life clung to the traditions of the old school. In April, 1909, the old homestead was sold to the school board for the West Side High School. Ellen Collamore, who became the wife of Mr. Bolles Oct. 27. 1868, is a descendant of an old Colonial family, of Pembroke, Mass., daughter of Dr. Anthony Collamore, of Pembroke. Since the death of Mr. Bolles, Aug. 8, 1907, she has taken an affectionate interest in the upkeep of the beautiful home, in the same way in which Mr. Bolles delighted to have it, and occupies herself in several influential philanthropic enterprises, having been president of the Day Nursery for a number of years. Mr. Bolles was a quiet and unassuming man. who avoided publicity as much as possible ; he was upright and conscientious in his business relations and gained the confidence and esteem of every one with whom he was associated. He was a member of the Toledo Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons, and the Toledo Commandery, Knights Templars. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bolles—William, George A. and Marguerita—all residents of Toledo. William was born and educated in Toledo, graduated from the high school, in the class of 1896, and was employed, during the succeeding six years, by the firm of Barker. Frost & Chapman,' in the insurance business in 1903. he engaged in the manufacture of the fountain pens, which have become inseparably associated with his name. With the perfection of his invention, Mr. Bolles had occupied his leisure moments for some years and, when all the necessary BIOGRAPHICAL - 127 patents had been obtained and preliminary arrangements completed, he placed the pen upon the market with most gratifying results. The offices of the Bolles company are situated at 238 Erie street. Mr. Bolles is also the owner of a farm of 200 acres, in Monroe county, Michigan, twenty miles from Toledo, which has about half a mile of lake shore, upon which Mr. Bolles proposes to erect summer cottages, for rent and sale, and to name it Bolles Beach. It is a very pretty stretch of ground, swept by the. cool lake breeze, and is admirably adapted to make a delightful summer home. In political associations, Mr. Bolles is a staunch Republican, but his busy life has left him little time for active participation in politics. He belongs to the Business Men's Club of Toledo. On April 26, 1905, he was married, in Toledo, to Miss Dorothy Bonner, daughter of Hon. J. C. Bonner, president of the Toledo Stock Exchange and the Ames, Bonner Company, ex-collector of United States customs, and one of the most influential men in Toledo. Mrs. Bolles was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and came to Toledo in her infancy ; she graduated from the Toledo High School, with the class of 1900; is extremely popular socially, and a most gracious and winning young woman. Mr. and Mrs. Bolles have built an attractive new residence at 2428 Scottwcod avenue. Mr. Bolles is active and energetic in the prosecution of the various enterprises he has undertaken ; his honor and integrity are unimpeachable, and he ranks among the most progressive young business men of the city. Warren Lee Smith, judge of the Toledo City Court, was born at Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 21. 1869, a son of Nathan Waite and Rebecca (Rouch) Smith, both natives of that county, where their parents settled upon coming from Pennsylvania, at an early date. The family is of German descent, and was founded in America by a German army officer, Captain Schmidt, who left his native land on account of a duel, in which he participated. Nathan W. Smith was one of the men who crossed the plains in 1849, during the excitement that followed the discovery of gold in California, but, in 1853, he returned to Ohio and settled down to the life of a farmer, which he found to yield more certain returns than prospecting for gold. At the time of his death, in 1906, he owned a fine farm of 265 acres, in Wayne county. His widow is still living and makes her home with her children. Nathan W. and Rebecca Smith became the parents of nine children, all of whom are living, to wit, Ira E., of Midland. Mich. ; Mrs. Emma Wild, of Wayne county, Ohio ; Mrs. Mary Lienhard, of Bellevue, Ohio ; Ambrose M.. of Goldfield, Nev. ; Elmore R., of Seattle, Wash. ; Mrs. Elva Priest, of Wayne county, Ohio : Warren Lee, the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Luella Presler, of Wayne county, Ohio, and James L., who resides in Texas. All were born and educated in Wayne county. Warren Lee Smith attended the common schools in his boyhood, then a preparatory school, and in 1893 he was graduated at the University of Wooster, with the degrees of A. B. and A. M., his diploma bearing the inscription, "Magna cum lauda" (with high honors). At the time he was a student in the institution, it was the custom to give prize scholarships, and one of these was won by 128 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY young Smith, for the highest class standing in Latin and Mathematics, for two years in succession. He was then for four years the principal of a district high school, in Butler county, Ohio, during which time he devoted his spare hours to the study of law. In 1897 he entered the Law department of the Ohio State University, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899. In the fall of that year he located at Toledo and began the practice of his chosen profession, alone at first, but after a few months he formed a partnership with J. G. Austin, under the firm name. of Smith & Austin, which association lasted until March, 1906, when it was dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Smith resuming practice alone again. In the fall of 1907 he was elected judge of the city court and justice of the peace for the city of Toledo and Port Lawrence township, taking the office in January, 1908. In addition to his official duties. Judge Smith is a member of the well-known law firm of Smith, Myers & Canfield, whose offices are located at 425-426 Ohio Building. In national matters, Judge Smith is a Republican, but on all questions relating to local matters he is independent, and he was elected to his present position on an independent ticket. He is a member of Yondota Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Toledo, and of Oak Council, of the National Union. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church. On July 11. 1894, Judge Smith married Miss Ella V. Smith, of Wooster, Ohio. but who was no relation prior to marriage. She is a native of Indiana, but her parents died while she was quite young and she was reared at Mansfield, Ohio. Judge Smith formed her acquaintance while attending the university at Wooster. They have no children, and reside in a comfortable home at 806 Greenwood avenue. Judge Smith is justly proud of the record he made as a student. In addition to the winning of the scholarship already mentioned, he was the salutatory orator at the commencement, an honor coveted by every genuine college man. He was also a member of the college baseball team, which goes to prove that a student can excel in scholarship and athletics at the same time, notwithstanding many hold to the opinion that this can not be done successfully. In his private practice and the discharge of his official duties, his conduct is marked by the same persistence and diligence that characterized him as an energetic and painstaking student,. during his college days. John Franklin Zahm, deceased, was one of the honored citizens and men of affairs of the city of Toledo. where he maintained his home for thirty-seven years, and where he continued in the active conduct of his large financial interests until a short time before his death, which occurred Dec. 27, 1907. His career was characterized by signal integrity of purpose as well as by well directed industry, and he gained not only a position of independence, but was also a citizen well worthy of the unqualified esteem in which he was held. He was a self-made man in the true sense of that phrase, and because of his unflagging energy, resourcefulness and fidelity to duty, rose from the humble position of messenger boy to the managing ownership of two of the most important business BIOGRAPHICAL - 129 houses of Toledo—the J. F. Zahm Tobacco Company and J. F. Zahm & Co., grain dealers. John Franklin Zahm was born in Laporte, Ind., March 30, 1856, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Zahm, the father being a native of Germany and the mother was of English descent. He first entered school in the place of his birth, but when he was nine years old his parents removed to Germany, and for two years he received instruction in the schools of his father's native land. At the end of that period the family returned to America and established a residence at Tiffin, Ohio, where the son continued his studies for three years. Another removal was then made, this time to the city of Toledo, and at the age of fourteen, J. Frank quit school to become a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Company. He remained thus employed for a period of one year and then engaged with the old grain firm of Williams & Hallaran, whose offices were located on Water street, in Toledo. He mastered the various branches of the grain commission business and in 1879, at which time the accidental death of Elijah 'Williams occurred, he was taken in as a partner, the firm becoming R. Hallaran & Co. This partnership continued until Jan. 1, 1886, when Mr. Zahm admitted to partnership with himself two trusted employes, Fred W. Jaeger and Fred Mayer, who, since the death of Mr. Zahm, have continued the business under the old name of J. F. Zahm & Co. In connection with his grain business, for many years Mr. Zahm was a member of the Toledo Board of Trade, and at one time he was president of the Produce Exchange. In 1893, he became financially interested in a tobacco manufacturing institution at Toledo, and four years later, in 1897, purchased the interests of the other members of the firm and organized the J. F. Zahm Tobacco Company. This business became very profitable under his management, and in 1908, soon after the death of Mr. Zahm. was sold to the Pinker-tons, and is now known as the Pinkerton Tobacco Factory, on Council street near Detroit avenue. At one time Mr. Zahm was interested in the grain business in Detroit. He was also largely interested in other concerns of lesser note. In his religious views he subscribed to the creed of the Episcopal Church, in which faith he was reared, and his political ideas were those found in the platform expressions of the Republican party, although he was never active as a politician, his varied business interests demanding his entire attention. He was an active member of the Country Club and also of the Toledo Club. He was a patron of art and assisted numerous works of an educational and charitable nature. For several years he traveled quite extensively, making a number of foreign trips, and his apartments in the Miltimore at the time of his death showed many rare and valuable souvenirs of his travels. At. the time of his death, the "Toledo Blade" said of him : "Few men in Toledo were so widely known or were held in higher esteem than Mr. Zahm. He was kind, generous, and just to all, and his business associates; who knew him best, all speak in the highest terms of his life-work." On account of impaired health, Mr. Zahm had not been very active in business for some time prior to his 130 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY death, although he had by no means relaxed his vital interest in the management of his large interests or in the general affairs of his home city. As a young man, Feb. 22, 1882, Mr. Zahm assumed connubial responsibilities, by his marriage to Miss Mary Edwards, of Toledo, who survives him. Carl H. Keller is the popular state senator from the Thirty-fourth senatorial district of Ohio, and his election to that position was a tribute to his high character as a gentleman and his worth as a citizen. Mr. Keller is a native of the city which has been the scene of his successful career, and he was born in Toledo, Jan. 9, 1875. He is the son of John Jacob and Christiana (Mathias) Keller, both of whom were born in Germany, but have been long-time residents of Toledo. The father came to the United States in 1849, landing in New York City. and two years later he permanently located in Toledo, where he has ever since resided. The mother came to America in her girlhood. accompanying her brother, Louis Mathias, who is one of the honored pioneers of Toledo.• John J. Keller was a vinegar manufacturer in Toledo for many years, but retired from active business pursuits in 1880, and for a period of eighteen years-1890 to 1908—served as assessor of the First ward. He and his life companion now reside in a pleasant home at 1911 Superior street, enjoying the evening of life in sweet contentment. They became the parents of six children—four sons and two daughters—and of these but three sons are living. Julius G. Keller, the eldest son, has been engaged for the past eighteen years as a traveling salesman for the firm of Walding, Kinnan C. Marvin, of Toledo, wholesale druggists. August F. Keller, the second son, is a lieutenant in the Toledo fire department, and is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Although that conflict was of short duration, Mr. Keller has the unique distinction of having two honorable discharges from the military service while it was in progress. He first enlisted in an artillery company, but the prospect of that organization seeing actual service being doubtful, he secured a discharge from it and later enlisted in the infantry service. He very much desired to go to Cuba and participate in real warfare, but the fates decided otherwise and he retired from his regiment when peace was declared with an ungratified ambition but with the consciousness of having performed his full duty as a patriotic American citizen. Carl H. Keller. to whom this review is. more particularly dedicated, received his education in the schools of Toledo and graduated in the high school with the class of 1893. Soon after leaving school he began the study of law, and after faithfully pursuing the usual course of reading he successfully passed the required examination and was admitted to the bar in 1898. Deciding to specialize as a patent attorney, he devoted his attention to that branch of the profession and has become recognized as an expert in causes of that nature. In politics he has always. given adherence to the platform expressions of the Republican party, and in 1908 he was the successful candidate of that organization for the office of state senator. In the sessions of the state legislature he has won recognition as a hard-working and pains- BIOGRAPHICAL - 132 taking member, and his constituency has had no reason to regret the selection of him as a representative of the district. He is a member of the Business Men's Club, the Republican Lincoln Club, and the McKinley Club, and his fraternal connections are with the Sanford Collins lodge, Free & Accepted Masons. In November, 1906, Mr. Keller was married to Miss Maria Duetcher, a daughter of one of the old families of Toledo, and the residence is pleasantly situated at 1823 Superior street. Mr. Keller's law office is in the St. Clair Building. He served as chairman of the committee on Commercial Corporations, and as a member of the following corn- mittees : Judiciary, fees and salaries, fish culture and game, medical colleges and societies, municipal affairs, privileges and election, and temperance. He introduced a bill establishing the authority of the court over trustees of defunct corporations, and was the author of other measures. William J. Finlay, for many years a prominent figure in the business circles of Toledo, and the founder of the Finlay Brewing Company, was born at Townlands, Drum Sangore, County Leitrim, Ireland, Feb. 6, 1819. In 1836, he came to America and in 1843, when Col. John McKinster came to Toledo from Lockport, N. Y., to open the old American House, at the corner of Summit and Elm streets, opposite where the Finlay brewery now stands, he accompanied Colonel McKinster and entered his employ, as hotel porter and solicitor at the steamboat and packet landings. Toledo vast at that time a village of small pretensions, with, a population of not more than 1,000, and the steamboats constituted the principal method of travel. In 1846, a company engaged in operating a line of passenger boats on the old Wabash & Erie canal, appointed Mr. Finlay its agent at Toledo, which position he continued to occupy until the completion of the Wabash railroad in 1835, which practically put the canal traffic out of business. In the meantime, and for many years afterward, he also acted as agent for C. S. Maltby, who was at that time the largest dealer in and shipper of oysters in the country. The perishable nature of the oyster and the primitive method of transportation at that early •day necessitated the most careful attention to a multitude of details, in order to prevent loss, but Mr. Finlay proved equal to every emergency, and conducted the business with such consummate skill and fidelity, that the loss was reduced to a minimum, displaying at all times that high order of executive ability, that intense individuality and persistence, that marked his career through life. Mr_ Finlay's generosity was proverbial, and he never forgot nor proved ungrateful to one who had done him a kindness. To the late Maj.Gen. James B. Steedman, who had befriended him in early life, he erected the Steedman monument—a magnificent bronze statue of that noted officer—at a cost of $23,000, and presented it to the city of Toledo. This monument will be commended as a work of art for generations to come. Mr. Finlay also erected a monument, costing $4,000, over General Steedman's grave, in Woodlawn cemetery. When the Finlay Brewing Company was organized in 1866, he gave to his employes $100,000 of the stock as a recognition of 132 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY their aid in various ways toward the establishment of the concern. At a cost of $20,000 he purchased the ground and fitted up the building for the Home for Friendless Women, of Toledo. In his will he bequeathed to the Protestant Hospital, the St. Vincent Catholic Orphan Asylum, the Old Ladies' Home, and the Protestant Orphan Asylum $30,000 each ; gave to his former employes $50,000. and to other friends and relations $500,000. Mr. Finlay died May 1. 1888. For more than forty years prior to his death he had been afflicted with rheumatic gout—inherited doubtless from his ancestors—but he bore his sufferings without a murmur, and was always the same cordial, genial gentleman to his friends and acquaintances. His last words were : "I have tried to carry on this business honestly, and I want you, my successors, to do the same. Keep the name, the Finlay Brewing Company, forever. Don't get into debt. Keep your neck out of the halter, and, above all things, keep out of court. I have lived nearly my three-score-and ten years, and I am ready to go. I have tried to live a reasonably honest life and the world owes me nothing. It is natural to die. You will have to pass away, sooner or later." Mr. Finlay was succeeded by his nephew, William J. Finlay, who remained at the head of the brewing company for eighteen years, being retired when the brewery was merged with the other Toledo breweries. He died about three years after that event, at the age of fifty-three years, leaving a wife, two sons—William J. and Fred J. Finlay—two daughters—Emma L. and Bessie A. Finlay—and a sister, Mrs. Ned Radbone, all of Toledo. Mr. Finlay was a member of Maumee Valley Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Toledo Yacht Club. The cause of his death was cancer of the stomach, from which he had been a sufferer for some time prior to his final taking off. He was taken ill while at his summer home at Brevoort Lake, Mich., but was brought back to Toledo and died at his residence at 700 Nevada street, in that city. He was a man universally respected, and gave much of his time and money for the improvement of Toledo. He was born Dec. 25, 1856, and died at the age of fifty-three, Feb. 22, 1909. He was married Nov. 1, 1881, to a Miss Dean, who was born in England and came to the United States at the age of nine years. Michael Joseph Owens, whose advanced ideas on matters pertaining to the inventing and manufacturing of glass-working machinery have given him great prominence among people interested in that branch of industry, is a native of the Old Dominion, born in Mason county, Virginia, Jan. 1, 1859. His parents were John and Mary (Chapman) Owens, both natives of the Emerald Isle, and who migrated from County Wexford to America in the early forties. Michael J. Owens commenced his industrial career at Wheeling, Va., in the works of the Hobbs-Brockunier Company, and he helped to build the Union Flint Glass Works, at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, in 1882. His intrduction to Toledo occurred in 1888. when he engaged with the Libbey Glass Company. and he managed the factory of that concern at Findlay, Ohio. in 1891 and 1892. Dur- BIOGRAPHICAL - 133 ing the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 he had charge of the Libbey Glass Works' factory, which was in operation on the exposition grounds, and in 1895, in connection with Edward D. Libbey, he organized the Toledo Glass Company, for the purpose of operating a patented tumbler-blowing machine. Later, the patents and the plant for manufacturing his invention were sold to the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1898 Mr. Owens secured letters-patent upon the Owens Bottle Machine. Again in connection with E. D. Libbey, he organized the Owens Bottle Machine Company, for the purpose of building and promoting this particular bottle-manufacturing device, and it is now extensively operated in the United States and Canada and throughout Europe. In furthering the manufacture of this important invention Mr. Owens built the Owens European Bottle Machine Company's plant at Manchester, England, and on the sale of the patents for the Eastern hemisphere and South America, to a European syndicate, he assisted the Apollinaris Company to construct and operate its plant, at Rheinahr, Germany. He is at present engaged as general manager of the Owens Bottle Machine Company, and his residence is at Toledo. He was married in 1890 to Miss Mary McKelvey. It is to such men as Mr. Owens that the public is indebted for the advancement in the field of manufacture. Each invention is a theory in its embryotic state, but the theories of today are the common practice of tomorrow, and thus he world advances in every line of endeavor. James E. Pilliod, president of the Toledo Huebner Breweries Company, is a native of Ohio, having been born in Shelby county in 1859. After attending the local schools he entered an institution maintained by the Jesuit Fathers, in the State of New York, where he graduated in 1881, at the age of twenty-two years. Having thus acquired a classical education, he turned his attention to the law,. and in 1882 was admitted to the bar. Few men ever made more rapid strides in the profession than did young Pilliod. Within five years his name was coupled with the foremost lawyers in his section of the State, and as a criminal lawyer he had few equals and fewer superiors, being in a "class by himself." As he rose in his profession he became influential in politics. Shelby county, with Sidney as the county seat, was a hotbed of Democracy, and it was but natural that he should cast his lot with that party. His eloquence and courage as a leader of Democracy were quickly recognized, and not many leaders possessed his tact and finesse in political matters. He continued to affiliate with the Democratic party until 1896, when the platform adopted by the National convention was not to his liking, and he announced his determination to vote for McKinley—an announcement that brought joy to the Republican camp and consternation among his former political associates. That same year he gave up the law, notwithstanding his almost marvelous success, and, in company with John Huebner, assumed the ownership and management of the Toledo Brewing & Malting, Company, the name of which was changed to The Huebner Brewing Company. With his new associate in commercial life, he soon 134 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY thereafter acquired all of the capital stock, successively, of the Schmitt Brewing Company and the Maumee Brewing Company. This combination of brewing interests having been effected by himself, was a precursor of the larger consolidation of the individual breweries of the city of Toledo in 1905, and all but one of the Toledo breweries passed under the management of Mr. Pilliod, who then became president of the Huebner Toledo Breweries Company. This position he still holds, and, under his skillful management. the business has been vastly increased. In addition to the presidency of this important corporation, Mr. Pilliod is secretary of the Joseph F. Kieswetter Carpet Cleaning & Rug Manufacturing Company, and he is a large real-estate owner in the city of Toledo. While not a fraternity man, he is a member of the Toledo Club, and he resides at 1909 Collingwood avenue. John W. Carew, Inspector of Police and Chief of the Detective Department in the city of Toledo. is a citizen whose name is one familiarly known in this section of the state, and even in wider confines, and his popularity is measured only by the extent of his fame. His career has been somewhat eventful, and as an officer of the law his strict integrity and genial personality has gained and retained to him the most inviolable of friendships. Mr. Carew claims the old Bay State as the place of his nativity, since he was born in the city of Boston, Mass., Aug. 11, 1854, but his life since infancy has been lived in the metropolis of the Maumee valley. 'When he was but three years of age his parents removed to Toledo. and he received his educational training in the parochial schools of his adopted place of residence, upon the completion of which he pursued various occupations for a few years, until appointed to the police force of Toledo, in February, 1887. His natural aptitude as an officer of the law very early asserted itself, and as a result of running down and capturing several notorious criminals he was detailed to detective duty in August of the same year. A little later he was made a regular member of the detective force, and his efficiency in this new line of duty soon became so pronounced that it was not long before his reputation as a detective had extended not only throughout the country, but into Europe. In the year 1906 he was promoted to the captaincy of the detective force, and two years later, in 1908, was appointed Inspector of Police, though still remaining at-the head of the detective department. As "Silver Jack" Inspector Carew is known to police officials and "crooks" throughout the nation, and he is universally recognized by both law-enforcers and law-breakers as one of the ablest and keenest detectives in the country. He is respected and feared by "bad men" generally, and it is a well known fact that the vast majority of them have long since given up the idea of attempting to practice the art and tricks of their chosen calling in the city of Toledo. While they realize that they will get a square deal from Carew and his men, they are also aware of the fact that they are very likely to he brought to the bar of justice if they attempt to prey upon the property and rights of others in that place, as the experiences of some of their class have taught them. Among professional thieves, Mr. Carew BIOGRAPHICAL - 135 and John O'Connor, now chief of police in the city of St. Paul, Minn., are two of the most highly respected and widely feared detectives in the United States. Mr. Carew resides at 916 Woodland avenue. Charles A. Schmettau, a well known and successful member of the Toledo bar, was born in London, England, Jan. 26, 1868. He was educated in his native city, and at Lausanne, Switzerland, after which he studied law in London and was admitted there as a solicitor, June 2. 1893. The following year, he came to the United States, located at Toledo on New Year's Day, 1895, and, June 7, 1895. was admitted to practice in the Ohio courts. He quickly made a reputation as a thorough and painstaking lawyer, is now the assistant general solicitor for the Toledo, St. Louis & 'Western railroad, and rs a member of the law firm of Brown, Geddes, Schmettau & Williams, with offices at 1103 Ohio Building. The practice of this firm embraces all branches of the law—civil, corporation, probate and criminal—and it has a large clientage. Mr. Schmettau is a member of the Toledo Club and the Country Club, and he attends the Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1895, Mr. Schmettau married, at Massilon, Ohio, Miss Ethel Everhard. They have no children. Raymond T. Garrison has been engaged in the practice of .law at the Toledo bar for a comparatively short period, but he has met with success, laying the foundation for what cannot help being a satisfactory professional career. Mr. Garrison is a native son of the Buckeye State, and was born, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, at Rochester, Lorain county, the date of his birth being Jan. 2, 1877. He is the son of George M. and Almeda ( Jones) Garrison, his father being actively connected with the business interests of Rochester and by occupation a druggist. The son received his preliminary education in the public schools of Rochester, including a course in the high school at that place, and he spent one year in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. Then deciding upon the practice of law as his life's occupation, he began the perusal of Blackstone and Kent, and after diligent study was graduated at the De- troit College of Law, in Detroit, Mich.. in June, 1904. At the same time he was admitted to practice in the Michigan courts, and the following December took the state bar examination in Ohio, which he passed. As Toledo seemed to present an excellent opportunity for the practice of his chosen profession, he immediately located in that city, and it may he added that Mr. Garrison has had no cause to regret his decision in the matter. His practice is of a general nature, and he gives strict attention to business. On Jan. 2, 1905, Mr. Garrison was married to Miss Grace L. Rugg, of Wellington, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two winsome little daughters, Ruth Geraldine and Mary Marie. Mr. Garrison has offices in Room No. 1103, Ohio Building. He is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs. George Philemon Voorheis, distinguished ornament of the Toledo bar, was born Aug. 20, 1847, on a farm in the township of White Lake, Oakland county, Michigan, son of Peter Voorheis, a farmer of that locality, and Arvilla Esther (Barr) Voorheis. Peter 136 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Voorheis was born at Fayette, Seneca county, New York, and lived to the age of eighty-two years ; he was of pure Holland ancestry, and the seventh direct lineal descendant of Steven Coerte Van-Voorhees, who at the age of sixty years, with other Hollanders, emigrated from Holland and settled at Flatlands, on Long Island, N. Y., where he bought a large tract of land and where he lived till his death, at the age of eighty-four. Steven Coerte VanVoorhees had five sons and five daughters, seven of whom- married and settled in New York and New Jersey. His five sons had twenty-six sons who grew to manhood, married, and had children, and from whom descended all the persons in the United States bearing the name of VanVoorhees, in its full or abbreviated form, and makrng twenty-six lines of ancestry, all of whom are related. The line of descent to the subject of this sketch is : (1) Steven Coerte VanVoorhees. (2) Lucas Stevense VanVoorhees, born, in 1650, in Holland, lived at Flatland and died at the age of sixty-three. (3) Roeloff Lucasse VanVoorhees, born in Flatlands and settled in Three Mile Run, N. J., dropped the prefix "Van." (4) Johannis Voorhees, who lived and died in Monmouth county, New Jersey. (5) Isaac Voorheis, great-grandfather, who was born in 1758 and settled in Somerset, N. J.; he served as a lieutenant of a company of militia of New Jersey during the war for independence ; in 1800 he settled in Ovid, Seneca county, New York, where he lived the rest of his life ; he and his wife lived together sixty-two years. (6) Peter Voorheis, grandfather. was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, in 1783, and lived at Fayette, Seneca county. New York. The name "Van Voorhees" means "Before the Village of Hees," a village of long existence in Holland. The VanVoorhees family can trace back its ancestry for 200 years or more, prior to 1660. It runs into feudal times ; and it had a family coat of arms, upon whose crest was found this motto : "Virtus meum castellum." Peter Voorheis (father) was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for thirty-five years, and a deacon in the Congregational Church for eighteen years. In 1872, he was a delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, which met that year in Chicago. Arvilla Esther Barr (mother) was a native of Port Henry. Essex county, New York. born in 1823 ; she died on her eighty-third birthday. She was of Scotch-English ancestry, and could trace a direct lineage back on her maternal side for over 200 years ; the name "Esther" was borne by six out of seven of these lineal ancestors. She was a woman of great mentality, easy manner, and of charming personality, and retained her faculties in a remarkable degree to the end of life, recalling any prominent event of her life as long as she lived. Her father, Rufus Barr, was born in Massachusetts, in 1782, served as a captain of a company in the war of 1812, and died at the age of eighty-seven. When a boy, George P. Voorheis, the subject of this sketch, lived two miles from a country school and did. not go to school until he was eight .years old. His father, who had been a school teacher, taught him reading, arithmetic, geography and spelling; and at the age of fourteen he passed an examination for teaching and received BIOGRAPHICAL - 137 a certificate, on condition that he would not attempt to teach. The school in the district young Voorheis attended until he reached the age of sixteen years ; he then became a student at the State Normal School, at Ypsilanti, and three years later entered the high school at Ypsilanti, to complete his preparation for college. He graduated at the last named institution in 1868 ; entered the classical course in the University of Michigan, in 1868, and .graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1872 ; entered the Law Department, in 1872, and graduated there, in 1874, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In January, 1873, Mr. Voorheis was appointed clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the legislature of Michigan, at Lansing, where he spent four months and acquired valuable information regarding .legislative matters, which afterward proved of value in his profession. Immediately after graduation at the law school, he was appointed the first clerk of the Attorney-General's office and was associated with Attorney-General Isaac Marston, who afterward became judge of the Supreme Court. The experience and information acquired and acquaintances made while in this office were of great advantage. In the spring of 1875, Mr. Voorheis located at Port Huron, Mich., where he practiced his profession for fifteen years. In the fall of 1875, he formed a partnership with A. E. Chadwick, under the name of Chadwick & Voorheis. This partnership continued two years. In the fall of 1877, he formed a partnership with Frank Whipple, afterward, circuit judge, under the name of Whipple & Voorheis. which continued three and one-half years. In February, 1884, he formed a partnership with Harry B. Hutchins. They practiced law together for six months, when Mr. Hutchins was appointed to a professorship in the Law Department of the University of Michigan and moved to Ann Arbor. Mr. Hutchins afterward became dean of the Law Department and is now president of the university. While at Port Huron, Mr. Voorheis acted as assistant prosecuting attorney for the years 1881 and 1882. In the fall of 1882, he was nominated by the Republicans for prosecuting attorney and was defeated at the election, owing to the coalition of the Democrat and Greenback parties in the nomination of their candidates. In May, 1890, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he formed a partnership with the late John T. Greer, under the name of Greer & Voorheis. This partnership continued for one year. Since then he has practiced his profession without any partnership affiliations. Mr. Voorheis' politics have always been Republican and he has worked with and for the success of the Republican party. While a student at the university, he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and still retains his connection with it. He was brought up in the Presbyterian church, of which his parents were members. Mr. Voorheis connected himself with that church in 1867, and has always been a member of it, except during a short time in Port Huron, when he belonged to the First Congregational Church. He is now a member of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church and one of its ardent supporters. For several years while engaged in the practice of law, Mr. Voor- 138 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY heis gathered together memoranda and data on questions relative to personal injury cases. The result was that he put them into proper form and wrote a book on the "Measure of Damages for Personal Injuries," which was published and issued in January, 1903. This book met with a creditable reception and had quite a sale in Ohio, although adapted for any State. About the same time, he supervised and prepared most of the annotations found in the twenty volumes of the Ohio Reports and the first eighteen volumes of the Ohio State Reports. As a writer, Mr. Voorheis uses a concise and easy style and is thorough and accurate in his treatment of the subject matter ; as a lawyer, he ranks among the ablest in Toledo. On May 14, 1874, there was celebrated, at Ypsilanti, Mich., the marriage of George P. Voorheis and Miss Anna Burton Boyce. Mr. and Mrs. Voorheis were both members of the class of 1868 of the Ypsilanti High School and graduated together. Mrs. Voorheis is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, daughter of John Boyce, who is still living in Ypsilanti and was ninety-two years old, Oct. 23, 1909. Mrs. Voorheis is a direct lineal descendant, on her maternal side, from John and Priscilla Alden, of the 'Mayflower, and is of the ninth generation. She taught school for five years before her marriage and had a State certificate, obviating the necessity of any examinations. Of this marriage, two sons and four daughters have been born : viz., Ethel Arvilla, George Burton. Priscilla Ray, Paul Darius, Anna Beth, and Eloise Boyce. All are graduates of the Toledo High and Manual Training schools, except Eloise, who is a graduate of the Toledo High School. George B. is a graduate of Kenyon College and is now general agent of the T. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, having been located at Wrnnrpeg since February, 1909 ; he has filled positions with this company at Jackson, Mich., Nashville, Tenn., and Toronto, Can. Paul D. spent two years in the literary department of the University of Michigan, and is now engaged in business in Toledo. Ethel A. and Priscilla R. are general secretaries of the Young Women's Christian Association. Anna Beth is a teacher of domestic science in the Toledo schools. Eloise B. entered the Toledo University in October, 1909, Four of them are active members of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church, and the other two have membership where they reside. Mr. Voorheis resides at 1064 Lincoln avenue, Toledo, Ohio. General James Blair Steedman, journalist and soldier, one of the gallant generals of the great Civil war, was born in Northumberland county. Pennsylvania, July 29, 1817, and died in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1883. His parents were of Scotch descent and both died while he was yet in his boyhood. leaving but little of this world's goods for their three children, of whom James was next to the eldest. With manly courage, he set to work to support his sister and younger brother, and under such circumstances it was impossible for him to acquire more than a limited education. At the age of fifteen years, he entered the office of the "Democrat," a county newspaper published at Lewisburg, Pa., where for two years he worked at setting type. He then went west, and was engaged in the office of Prentice's "Louisville Journal" when the Texas war BIOGRAPHICAL - 139 broke out. Young Steedman at once joined the celebrated Sam Houston, in Texas, with whom he fought for the independence of that country, after which he returned to Pennsylvania and was placed in charge of a company of men engaged on one of the-public works. In this line of work, he was so successful that he determined to become a contractor on his own account, and removed to Ohio for that purpose. Failing to secure contracts at once, he purchased a printing outfit, at Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio, and began the publication of the "Northwestern Democrat," although he was not yet twenty-one years old. About this time he married Miss Miranda Stiles, who had lately come to Napoleon, from New Jersey. Soon after his marriage, he was awarded a contract on the Wabash & Erie canal, which was followed by others, and, later, he was one of the men who built the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad, though he still' kept up the publication of his newspaper. In 1847-48, he served two terms in the lower house of the Ohio legislature, under the old Constitution. In 1849, he went overland to California, but returned to Ohio the following year, and, in 1851, was elected by the people a member of the Board of Public Works, a position for which he was eminently fitted, by reason of his past experience as a contractor. He served on this board for four years, three of which he was president. In 1857, he was elected public printer by a Democratic Congress, after a protracted and spirited contest, and, in 1859, he began the practice of law in Toledo, where he also published the "Times," the only Democratic paper in the city at that time. In 1860, he was a delegate to the historic Democratic National Convention, which first met at Charleston and later at Baltimore. He not only supported Stephen A. Douglas in this convention, but also supported him for the Presidency during the campaign. That same year, he was nominated by the Democracy of his district for Congress, but was defeated by General Ashley. While taking a sail at Charleston, at the time of the convention. in 1.860. he made a solemn vow that he would resist any attempt of secessionists to tear down the Stars and Stripes from the forts in the harbor, and when Fort Sumter was fired upon, in April, 1861. this oath came back to his memory. His paper was at once filled with war-like expressions, urging the people of Ohio to support the general government in every effort to suppress the uprising. On July 8, 1857, he had been commissioned major-general of the Fifth division,• Ohio State militia, which rank he held at the beginning of the war. Notwithstanding his law practice was important, he immediately began the work of raising the Fourteenth Ohio regiment, which he tendered to the governor as part of Ohio's quota, under President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. The regiment was accepted, he was made colonel, and, within nine days after the fall of Sumter, the Fourteenth was in camp at Cleveland, drilling and equipping for the great contest. During its three months' service, it was one of the first to enter Western Virginia, where it took part in the actions at Philippi. Laurel Hill, Carrick's Ford, and a number of minor skirmishes., Colonel Steedman being always at his post of duty and receiving the praise of his superior officers. The 140 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY regiment was reorganized for the three years' service, with Steed-man still its colonel, and was ordered to Kentucky, where it became a part of what was later the Fourteenth corps, commanded by Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas, and which was later the Army of the Cumberland. In the affair at Camp Wild Cat, or Rockcastle Hills, Oct. 21, 1861, Colonel Steedman went to the relief of Colonel Coburn's Thirty-third Indiana, a detachment of the Seventeenth Ohio under Major Ward, and Colonel Garrard's Kentucky regiment, who were obstinately holding their ground against the assaults of the Confederates, under General Zollicoffer. Upon the arrival of Steedman, the enemy was driven back. across the Tennessee river. After General Zollicoffer was killed, at the battle of Mill Springs, Jan. 21, 1862, Colonel Steedman's regiment is said to have been the first to enter the Confederate works. About this time. Colonel Steedman was placed in command of a brigade, which reached Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., after a toilsome march. from Nashville, in time to hear the roar of the guns during the closing hours of the battle of Shiloh, but too late to participate in the engagement. On July 17. 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and assigned to General Buell's Army of Kentucky. Making a long and tiresome march from Northern Alabama, he reached Perryville, Ky.. in time to take part in the battle there. Oct. 8, 1862, leading his brigade into action and saving General Rousseau's division of McCook's corps, after the right flank had been turned and Rousseau was being forced from the field. For his timely action. General Steedman received the highest commendation from General Buell. At Stone's River, he skirmished with the enemy's cavalry with success, but was not heavily engaged. For a time after this battle, he was in command of an infantry division; and was active in the advance of the army on the Tullahoma campaign, being one of the first to become engaged in the battle at Hoover's Gap. By reason of rank, he was superseded in the command of the division, but he nevertheless received the congratulations of Gen. George H. Thomas for his gallant conduct during the time he was in command. In July, 1863, at Winchester, Tenn., he was assigned to the command of the First division of the Reserve corps, under Gen. Gordon Granger, and, as the main body moved to Chattanooga, he marched with his division from Murfreesboro to Chickamauga, where he arrived in time to take a conspicuous part. During the first day's fighting (Sept. 19, 1863), he was stationed with his command at the "Red House Bridge," with instructions to "hold it at all hazards." but no enemy appeared in his front. That night, the Confederates were reinforced by Longstreet's corps, and before noon, on the 20th. the Union right was cut off and driven from the field, leaving Thomas to contend against Bragg's entire army. General Granger, with his chief-of-staff, was seated on a hayrick, near Rossville. Through his glass, he could see the clouds of smoke constantly increasing in volume, while the sounds of the battle momentarily grew louder. Scanning the road to the south. he saw that no attack was likely to be made from that quarter on his position, and rightly surmising that the whole Confederate strength BIOGRAPHICAL - 141 was being massed against Thomas, he said to his chief : "I am going to Thomas, orders or no orders." After leaving Gen. Dan McCook to cover the Lafayette and Ringgold roads, Granger rode over to Steedman and ordered him to take his command "over there," pointing toward the "Horseshoe Ridge," where Thomas was making his last stand. Steedman arrived just as the divisions. of Brannan and Wood, which formed Thomas' right, were being forced back by overwhelming numbers. Granger ordered a charge, and Steedman, seizing the colors of a regiment. led the way. Inspired by their commander, his men hurled themselves with irresistible force against the enemy's line, and, after twenty minutes of terrific fighting, the Confederates were driven in confusion from the field. The day was saved. Steedman held his position until dark, and then fell back under orders. It has been charged by some that, in this action, Steedman acted Without orders. but the above account has been taken from the official reports of the battle. Even had he acted without orders, the timely arrival of his division saved the clay, and his comrades conferred on him the significant sobriquet of "Old Chickamauga, " as he shared with General Thomas the honors of that hotly contested field. General Steedman took a prominent part in the Atlanta campaign, and, when Sherman started on his "march to the sea," he was left in command of the district of the Etowah, to aid General Thomas in the .defense of Nashville. At the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15, 1864. he opened the engagement by a feint on the Confederate right, his "demonstration being so vigorous that it was virtually an assault." The enemy was forced back, and Steedman advanced and captured a line of earthworks before General Hood. the Confederate commander, realized that the real attack was to be made on his left, and weakened that part of his line, to send assistance to his right.. The next day, Steedman co-operated with General Wood in storming Overton Hill. and here Ile added fresh laurels to his. fame as a cool, but intrepid commander. After the close of hostilities. General Steedman was in command of the district of Georgia, until July 19, 1866, when he resigned from the army and returned to civil life. For years after the war he was an active factor in the Democratic party. His name was urged for Secretary of War in Andrew Johnson's cabinet, and he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue at New Orleans, during the reconstruction period. He returned to Ohio, in 1873, and soon afterward was chosen to succeed Morrison R. Waite as a member of the Constitutional convention, the latter having been appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1880, General Steedman was a delegate to the Democratic national convention, at Cincinnati, that nominated Gen. W. S. Hancock for the Presidency, and, during the campaign, did all he could to secure Hancock's election. In the latter years of his life, he edited the "Toledo Democrat." his last public service being as chief of police of the city of Toledo. General Steedman's service to the Grand Army of the Republic is worthy of more than passing mention. In 1879, when the order in Ohio consisted of only a few languishing posts, owing to the fact that it 142 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY had drifted into partisan politics, he was elected Department Commander, and by his famous order infused new life into the organization—an action which endeared him to every true member of the order. In 1886, William J. Finlay, an ardent friend of General Steedman, erected to his memory a monument, at a cost of $25,000. It stands at the junction of Summit, Cherry and St. Clair streets, on a triangular piece of ground, designated by the city council for that purpose, and given the name of "Finlay Place." The-monument consists of a base, a die, and a shaft of Vermont granite, on the top of which stands a bronze figure of the general, a little larger than life-size, representing him just after dismounting from his horse, with his field glass in his hand. The statue was made in Italy and is considered a work of art. The base of the monument is nine feet square. On the die is the inscription : "Major-General James B. Steedman," and on the shaft the words "Bulwark of Chickamauga." Mrs. Steedman lives at 122 Eighteenth street, Toledo, with her two daughters,—Rebecca Blair and Mary Moore Steedman,—and a son, Samuel T. Tilden Steedman, is located at San Antonio, Tex., where he studied law with Keller & Keller, and where he is now engaged in practice. William Hagenberg Schaefer, of the Schaefer Brokerage Co., manufacturers' sales agents, 770-772 Spitzer Building, Toledo, has been in the brokerage business in the present connection during the past nine years. Twenty-five years of his business career Mr. Schaefer spent in the jobbing, crockery and glassware business. When a mere boy, he was, employed by J. G. and E. G. Paine, of Toledo, in a hair store, also in the dry goods establishment of A. P. Stewart, and as a messenger boy by the Western Union Telegraph Co. He next became a traveling salesman for the Hassenzahl & Dandt wholesale crockery house and remained with that firm twelve years. The firm of H. Schaefer & Co., crockery dealers, was established by William and Henry Schaefer and Henry Oechsler, their brother-in-law, and they successfully conducted a crockery store in Toledo until 1901, when W. H. Schaefer engaged in the brokerage business. Mr. Schaefer still spends four months of the year traveling for several manufacturers, whose products are sold direct to the jobbers. As a member of the Toledo Traveling Men's Association, Mr. Schaefer has been prominent ; he served as its president, in 1896, and ten years was a member of the board of directors. During his term of office, the relief fund of the organization was established and Mr. Schaefer was made its treasurer, a life position of great trust and responsibility, only to be held by an official of recognized, merit. A philanthropic work in which Mr. Schaefer has been very active is the Toledo Newsboys' Association, in which he has been closely associated with Mr. Gunckel, since 1902. In 1905, Mr. Schaefer was a very successful canvasser for funds for the Newsboys' Building, on Superior street, and a ,liberal contributor to the same. He was secretary of the society from its organization to 1909, when the work had grown to such massive proportions as to require more time than Mr. Schaefer was able to devote to it ; he remains one of the trustees of the association. Mr. Schaefer is BIOGRAPHICAL - 143 also affiliated with several Toledo societies and fraternal organizations, among them the following : Rubicon Lodge, No. 237, Free & Accepted Masons ; Fort Meigs Chapter. No. 29, Royal Arch Masons ; Toledo Council, No. 33, Royal & Select Masters ; Toledo Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templars ; Zenobia Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; the Business Men's Club, of Toledo ; the Chamber of Commerce : Toledo Council, No. 10, United Commercial Travelers of the United States ; Charles Sumner Lodge, Knights of Pythias : and the Inverness Club, of which he is a director and a member of the house and entertainment committee. Mr. Schaefer also belongs to the Cleveland Commercial Travelers' Association. He is a devoted member of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church and a regular attendant upon its services. As a business man, Mr. Schaefer is progressive, independent and energetic, endowed with a real genius for the management of large affairs, and with the wise and trustworthy judgment born of wide experience of men and events. He is systematic and punctual in the management of his various business interests and can be relied upon to carry through to a careful finish any work entrusted to him. His prosperity and success are entirely due to his own high principles of perseverance and, while in pursuit of the goal of personal advancement, he has yet had time and thought to devote to public enterprises, to their material benefit. William H. Schaefer is a native-born citizen of Toledo, born Sept. 2, 1860. His parents—William and Margaret (Hassenzahl) Schaefer—were natives of Pfungstadt, Germany. and Hessen-Darmstadt. Germany, respectively, the former born March 26. 1818, and the latter April 2, 1838. Mr. Schaefer came to Toledo, with two brothers, in pioneer days, and Mrs. Schaefer accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hassenzahl. who became known among the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Toledo. Mr. Hassenzahl attained the great age of ninety-three years and four months, and passed from earthly life. Nov. 28, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. William Schaefer are also gathered to their fathers : the former died Feb. 12, 1881. and the latter, May 1, 1909. They were married in Toledo, in 1858, and are survived by three sons and four daughters : Henry Schaefer, of the wholesale and retail crockery and glassware firm of H. Schaefer & Co., 206-208 Summit street. Toledo; William H. Schaefer, the subject of this sketch ; Charles P., who resides in California ; Elizabeth M., a resident of Toledo ; Mrs. George L. Wagner, of Toledo ; and Mrs. H. C. Menter and Mrs. Henry A. Nieuhaus, both of Toledo. The family were all born and educated. in Toledo, where their father owned a grocery store on Monroe street for twenty-five years. When he arrived in Toledo, in the early fifties, he worked for Henry Thorner, a clothier, who took a paternal interest in his employee and was most gracefully remembered by him. Mr. Schaefer was a member of the old Croton Hose Co., an organization of picturesque memory among the old residents of the city. William H. Schaefer was united in marriage, Jan. 10, 1883, to Miss Luella Logan Swain, of Toledo, daughter of Richard W. and Martha Jane (Cameron) Swain. Three children have been born of this mar- 144 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY riage—Otto Hassenzahl, Charles 'Harvey and Clarence Archie. Otto H. is associated with his father in the brokerage firm, as secretary and treasurer ; he is a graduate of the Toledo High School and the Davis Business College. Charles Harvey died, in 1889, aged one year, and Clarence A. is a student of the Case School of Applied Science, at Cleveland, where he will graduate in 1913, and he expects to become a mining engineer ; he is also a graduate of the Toledo, High School. The Schaefer family are socially much esteemed, and their home at 535 Acklin avenue, is a popular gathering-place for their many friends. Mrs. Schaefer is the possessor of many graces of mind and manner, is well educated, and intelligently interested in public questions. Andrew M. Abbott, of Toledo, among the youngest members of 'the Lucas county bar, was born two and a half miles southeast of Bowling Green, Ohio, July 11, 1879, a son of Melvin L. and Laura (Riter) Abbott. He is of Scotch descent on the paternal side, and his ancestry has been traced back to about 1620. Various of his paternal ancestors were gallant soldiers in the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812, and the paternal grandfather, Sylvester B. Abbott, was one of the pioneer lawyers of Wood county. Ohio, where his son, Melvin L., the father of the immediate subject of this memoir, was born. Melvin L. Abbott is now a prosperous retired citizen of Bowling Green, Ohio. and was, during the greater part of his active career, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Some eighteen years ago, he removed to the city where he now resides, and there, for twelve years, he was engaged in business, and since that time he has lived retired, enjoying a well-earned respite from the exacting duties of an exceptionally busy life. During three years of the great Civil war, he was engaged in the contest as a private in Company A, One Hundredth Ohio infantry, and only when his impaired physical condition required it he reluctantly consented to receive an honorable discharge from the service. The mother is a native of Germany who came to this country with her parents when she was but seven years of age. Her marriage to Melvin L. Abbott was solemnized in Wood county, Ohio, shortly after his return from the scene of war. Four daughters and a son were born to the parents. Three of the former survive, namely : Mrs. W. A. Taggart, of Bowling Green ; Mrs. E. J. Long, of Cleveland, Ohio ; and Miss Beatrice Abbott, also of Cleveland. Andrew M. Abbott, to whom this sketch is dedicated, secured his educational training in the district schools, in the immediate vicinity of his boyhood home, afterward supplementing his preliminary course by attending the better equipped schools of Bowling Green. Having determined to make the law his life work, he matriculated at the Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, and later completed his legal studies in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Hardin county, Ohio. On Dec. 23, 1904, he was admitted to the bar and immediately began the practice of his profession in Bowling Green. On April 1, 1907, he established offices in Toledo. Besides his legal business, he is identified. as secretary and treasurer and organizer, with the Sanford Concrete Machinery Company, which is BIOGRAPHICAL - 145 now conducting an extensive business. In the matter of politics, Mr. Abbott gives his support to the men and measures of the Republican party. Fraternally, he is associated with the Bowling Green lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; was formerly affiliated with the Sons of Veterans at that place; and is a member of the Bowling Green Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Abbott is unmarried and his offices are in rooms 1645-1647 Nicholas Building. John S. Kountz, late senior member of the firm of Kountz, Stieg & Co., insurance, real estate and loans, with offices at 213-214 Nicholas Building, Toledo. was born on a farm in Richfield township, Lucas county. Ohio, March 23, 1846. His boyhood was spent on the farm, attending the public Schools during the winter months, until he was nearly fifteen years of age, when he began working in a flour mill. That was in 1861. The great Civil war had commenced and the boy was filled with a desire to take an active part in the preservation of the institutions his forefathers had fought to establish. Consequently, about six months after he had passed his fifteenth birthday, he entered the army, as drummer boy, in Company G, Thirty-seventh Ohio infantry, with which he continued in active service until seriously wounded, at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Many instances concerning the bravery of the young drummer boy might be related. Among these was the rescue of a member of Simmons' battery, on the Kanawha river, in December, 1862. The stream was covered with thin ice, upon which the artilleryman had ventured too far from shore, when he broke through, and young Kountz, without considering the possibility of losing his own life, went to the relief of his comrade and finally succeeded in bringing him to safety. In July, 1863, he was selected by Col. Edward Siber, commanding the regiment, as his sole companion in a night trip to enter the lines, in front of Jackson, Miss., to inspect the situation. During his military service, Mr. Kountz was in the following engagements Princeton, W. Va., May 16, 1862 ; Fayetteville, W. Va., Sept. 10, 1862: Cotton Hill, W. Va., Sept. 11, 1862: the assaults on the works at Vicksburg, Miss., May 19-22, 1863 ; the siege of Vicksburg, May 18-July 4, 1863 ; Jackson, Miss., July 10-17, 1863 ; Missionary Ridge, Nov. 24-25, 1863. In the last named action occurred the most notable, as well as the most serious incident of his army experience. Shortly after noon of Nov. 25, the cannon boomed out the signal for a general advance on the enemy's works. The Thirty-seventh Ohio was at that time in Lightburn's brigade, Gen. Morgan L. Smith's division of the Fifteenth corps, which bore a conspicuous part in that historic charge. Young Kountz threw aside his drum and advanced with the regiment. Just before reaching the enemy's line of works, he was struck in the left leg, just above the knee, with an English explosive bullet, and was left near the Confederate trenches when the Union forces fell back. Comrade William Smith, of Company G, upon being informed of the drummer boy's condition, undertook to bring him off the field, and, under a heavy fire from the enemy, bore him to a place of safety. For this and other acts of bravery Mr. Kountz 146 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY was awarded a medal of honor by the government. This incident has been made the theme of a poem by Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, entitled "The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge," which has been recited all over the country. The wounded from the battle of Missionary Ridge were taken to Chattanooga, Nashville, and to Brown's Hospital, in Louisville, Ky., where Mr. Kountz remained until he received an honorable discharge, April 25, 1864, when he returned to his home, after nearly three years of arduous service in the defense of his country. He then entered the high school at Maumee, Ohio, and, at the age of nineteen years, he accepted a position in the office of the county treasurer of Lucas county, where he remained until 1871, when he was elected treasurer, being at that time but twenty-five years of age. At the close of his term, in 1874, he was unanimously nominated by the Republicans of Lucas county for the office of county recorder, and was elected, running nearly 1,100 votes ahead of his ticket. In 1877, he was renominated by acclamation for the second term, but was defeated, with his entire party ticket, though polling over 500 more votes than any of his associates. He then engaged in the fire insurance business, to .which the real-estate and loan features were subsequently added. The firm of Kountz, Stieg & Co. was organized, July 1, 1901, and was composed of John S. Kountz, George W. Stieg and Walter J. Kountz. Comrade Kountz was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic from the organization of Forsythe Post, in 1866. He served as post-adjutant during the first three years of the existence of Forsyth Post, was commander three times, and was actively identified with the pioneer organizations of the order in Northwestern Ohio ; and, in 1881, he was elected commander of the Department in Ohio. During his term in this office, he established 160 new posts in the State, and the membership grew from 2,000 to over 8.000. In July, 1884, at the National Encampment, at Minneapolis, Minn., he was chosen commanderin-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and, while he was at the head of the order, the number of departments was increased to thirty-eight, and the membership received additions of over 50,000. At the time of his death, he was a member of Toledo Post, No. 107. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, his successor as commander-in-chief, in an address at Memorial Hall, Nov. 19, 1886, said : "The office has been held by brave major-generals and others of high military rank, and yet, Ulysses S. Grant served loyally under the brave drummer boy of Toledo." It was during Comrade Kountz's administration as national commander that the small button, worn in the lapel of the coat, was adopted as a mark of membership. Mr. Kountz was one of the originators of the Soldiers Memorial Building in Toledo, and, from the first, was a member of the board of trustees ; for five years he was a member of the national pension committee of the Grand Army ; was several times elected president of the Toledo Fire Underwriters' Association ; was chairman of the committee on manufactures of the citizens' board of trade and president of the same. He was appointed secretary and historian of the Vicksburg National Military Park Association by President McKinley, and BIOGRAPHICAL - 147 served efficiently and with much credit, from the time of his appointment, in 1898, until the day of his death. Mr. Kountz was a lifelong Republican in his .political affiliations, and, with his wife, belonged to the St. Frances de Sales Catholic Church. He was twice married, first to Sarah Jane Handett, Sept. 21, 1868. She died March 11, 1875, and, June 4, 1879, he married his second wife, whose maiden name was Agnes Jane Denniston, and who survives him. He became the father of ten children. Robert A. died at the age of four, and Frederick J. at the age of twenty-nine. The last named followed in his father's footsteps, enlisted in the Spanish-American war as captain, and served on Gen. Fred. Grant's staff. Those living are : Walter J., a member of his father's firm ; Charles D., who graduated at the University of Michigan, in the law department, class of 1902, and is now a member of the law firm of Kountz, Slagle & Cole ; John S., Jr., and William D., both of Stevensville, Mont.; Sara F., supervisor of the circulating department in the Toledo Public Library ; Helen M., a student at St. Angela's College, in New Rochelle, N. Y., and Agnes M. and Catherine R., at home. All of the daughters are graduates of the Ursuline Convent, on Collingwood avenue, Toledo. General Kountz died at his home, in Toledo, June 14, 1909, and was. buried with the rites of the Catholic Church and military honors, in Calvary cemetery. Gen. J. Kent Hamilton, a life-long friend and comrade, wrote the following eulogy : "The remains of John S. Kountz were yesterday laid away in the beautiful Calvary cemetery. May a friend of many years write a few words of appreciation of his life and character? It is saying a good deal, yet I can say with sincerity, that his life was pretty near blameless. If he had faults I never discovered them. Clean and pure in word and thought, in conduct he was always sincere, honest, manly and courageous. Temperate and prudent in his habits, in business he was active and industrious, not lacking a proper regard for the material welfare of his family, his friends and himself. A more modest man I never knew, yet his modesty never prevented him from zealously and forcibly pushing forward the claims of a friend, or a cause in which he was interested. Naturally, by virtue of his qualities of mind and character, he became a leader among his fellows, and he has for many years been active and prominent in civil affairs as well as in matters pertaining to the military, or the interests of old soldiers. After all these years of activity, leadership, prominence and success, I do not think he leaves behind him a single enemy. Too young to carry a musket, he went into the Union army at fifteen, as a drummer boy. At the assault on Missionary Ridge, in November, 1863, he threw away his drum, grabbed a musket, which had fallen from the hands of a wounded comrade, and went into the thick of the fight, only to be struck down by a musket-ball. He was carried from the field and his leg was amputated. But his soldier days were over, and he came back to this county, where. he was born, and here he has lived ever since. During the forty-six years since his injury, he has been more or less a sufferer from his, amputated limb. Of this, however, few knew. He endured his pain and suffering with fortitude 148 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY and without complaint. In this, as in everything else, he was as manly a person as I ever knew. General Kountz's early education was limited. But this he overcame by his own efforts, for he was a student of books as well as of men, and in his maturity, whenever he was present at any gathering of intelligent men, his ability and culture were always recognized. Elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, when that splendid organization of the defenders of the Union was much stronger in numbers than it is now, he became and was, until his death, one of its leaders. In this and other ways he was thrown into contact with many of the brightest men in the country, and his judgment, counsel and advice were with them always potent. He was in every way the equal of them all. Perhaps his chief interest in life, outside of his love for his family, was the Grand Army of the Republic. Among the veterans of the Civil war were formed his strongest friendships. His purse, his pen, his influence, and his efforts were always at their command. In the cause of friendship, John S. Kountz never knew any labor too arduous or any sacrifice too great. Nor did he evet have a harsh or unkind word for any one. His kindness of disposi- tion in that respect was unusual, if not remarkable. He was a Christian gentleman, a patriot and a soldier, a true friend, an exemplary man and a good citizen. Most fortunate in his family rela- tions, in the companionship of his loved wife and splendid circle of sons and daughters, he found his great happiness. A noble life and a successful life in all that counts for real success has closed. Many there are, not only here, but all over the country, who will mourn his loss. His career was an example for others, and its memory will not soon pass away." William G. Church, the popular wholesale grocer of Toledo, was given birth at Cleveland, Ohio, April 6, 1840, the son of Quimby and Mary (Culver) Church. The father, with his family, migrated from Cleveland to Toledo, in a covered wagon, in 1845. and where he found employment as a carpenter and builder. But, after having pursued this vocation for some time, he launched forth in the retail grocery business, on Summit street, near Monroe, where he remained until the year 1857, when he, with his wife, removed to Illinois, where both passed away, many years ago. They were the parents of seven children—four girls and three boys —of whom William G., of this sketch, ranked second in point of age, though today but four of them—two girls and two boys—are living, of whom the subject is the eldest ; and he is the only member of the family who still resides in Toledo. the other three now being residents of Illinois. He received his scholastic training in Toledo, and, in 1861, responded to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers, enlisting for three months of service in Company A, of the Fourteenth Ohio infantry, which regiment was in charge of General Steedman. But upon the expiration of his term of service, he determined upon a business career, and entered the employ of Secor, Berdan & Co., wholesale grocers of Toledo, with which concern he remained for thirty-seven years, from 1861 to 1898, commencing as shipping clerk, then acting in the capacity of BIOGRAPHICAL - 149 salesman, and, after having been employed about the house for six years, was made the firm's representative in the Eastern and Southern portions of Ohio, where he built up a large and pros-. perous patronage. In 1899, Mr. Church, with several other employees of Secor, Berdan & Co., which later became Berdan & Co., decided to establish a .wholesale grocery concern of their own, organizing under the firm name of the Church & McConnell Co. For three years, 1899 to 1902, they occupied quarters at the corner of Superior and Jefferson streets, but, when Secor, Berdan & Co. vacated the large building, at the corner of Jefferson and St. Clair streets, the firm of Church & McConnell moved in, and so rapidly was the patronage of this new concern developed that it was soon necessary to increase the capacity of the new quarters. Consequently, another story was added and an addition, with a sixty-foot frontage on St. Clair street, was constructed. Here the headquarters of the firm still remain, and the company today enjoys one of the largest and most prosperous wholesale grocery patronages in the city of Toledo, which fact in no small measure is due to the fact that the concern occupies one of the most admirable business sites in the city—situated in the very heart of the business district, on a street along which interurban cars from various points in Michigan and Ohio pass at frequent intervals. Mr. Church is president of the company, Henry H. Hewitt is, vice-president, G. S. Harnett is secretary and treasurer, and George G. Sinclair is manager of the wholesale cigar department. Fraternally, Mr. Church is affiliated with the Knights Templar of the Masonic order, the Elks, the Zenobia Shrine, and the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a stanch adherent of the Republican party. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. On Nov. 22, 1865, he was united in matrimony to Miss Jennie Conlisk, of Toledo, to whom two sons—Norman W.. now engaged in the real estate and automobile business in Los Angeles, Cal., and Frank A., of Toledo, —were born. Ralph S. Holbrook has significantly manifested in his career that power of concentration and consecutive application which makes for definite success, and he is now numbered among the able attorneys-at-law, the representative business men, and the influential citizens of Lucas county. A native of the city of Toledo, his home throughout his entire career has been within her confines, and that place has been the scene of his triumphs and successes, both in the field of his profession and in the perhaps more exacting realm of business. Mr. Holbrook was born in Toledo, Oct. 10, 1866, the son of William L. and Lois W. (Seldon) Holbrook (the mother now deceased), both of whom were born at Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, but who became highly respected residents of the Maumee Valley metropolis. The father has been a prominent mercantile and real-estate man throughout a long and active participation in the affairs of life, and he is still engaged in business at Toledo, to which place he removed in. 1865. Ralph S. Holbrook, to whom this review is more particularly dedicated, received his early scholastic training in the public schools of Toledo. Following this excellent prepara-