TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 351 Distributors Association and he had a wide acquaintance among the men of the profession throughout the state. On the 6th of January, 1890, Mr. Matthes was married to Mrs. Jennie M. (Braddock) Ricard of Toledo, a daughter of Middleton and Mary Magdalene Braddock. Her father was a soldier of the Civil war, serving with Company B, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. By trade he was a silversmith and watchmaker. His daughter, Mrs. Matthes, was born at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August 7, 1860. In his political views Mr. Matthes was a republican and fraternally he was an Odd Fellow, prominent in the order, belonging to Northern Star Lodge, to Reed Encampment and to Canton Imperial, No. 22. He was also a member of the First Baptist church and his religious faith guided him in all the relations of life. He certainly deserved much credit for what he accomplished, as he started out in the business world empty-handed and worked his way upward through earnest purpose and persistency, making the best possible use of his opportunities and ever recognizing the fact that honesty is the best policy. Mrs. Matthes became active in the distributing part of the work immediately after her husband embarked in the business independently. Her training and experience proved of great value to her at the time of the sudden death of Mr. Matthes, when she found herself with a large amount of work on hand. This was completed so entirely to the satisfaction of the advertisers that they have continued to renew contracts with her from year to year and many new customers are constantly being added to her long list of regular patrons. The business is conducted under the name of Matthes Company, Mrs. L. H. Matthes proprietor. Mrs. Matthes, as was her husband, is a member of The Exclusive Distributors Association and is the only accredited member in Toledo. She is likewise one of the stockholders of the company. She belongs to the First Baptist church and she is a member of Central Grove Rebekah Lodge No. 660, in which she is a past Noble Grand and past deputy president. She is also a member of the Militant Ladies, No. 7, a member of the Protected Home Circle, No. 180, and of the ladies' auxiliary, Circle 70, of the Grand Army of the Republic. In October, 1922, she received the decoration of chivalry, the highest honor conferred upon a Rebekah. She is a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Toledo. While a most capable business woman, she also has deep interest in those activities which are of cultural worth and value to the community and which prove uplifting elements in the lives of many. Louis H. Matthes was called to his final rest on the 25th of January, 1916. JOSEPH O. EPPSTEIN Joseph O. Eppstein, attorney at law and one of the faculty of St. John's College of Law at Toledo, was born in this city May 31, 1889, his parents being Julius and Charlotte (Pulvermacher) Eppstein. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public schools and the passing years chronicled his steady advancement until he was graduated from the high school. His desire to become a member of the bar led him to matriculate as a law student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and there on the completion of the regular course he won his LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1912. He entered alone upon general practice, and though 352 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, no dreary novitiate awaited him. He has made a creditable name and place for himself in legal circles and has been connected with much important litigation heard in the courts of this district, while his capability is shown in the many favorable verdicts which he has won as the result of his clear and comprehensive presentation of his cause. For two years he served as special counsel with the attorney general for northwestern Ohio. Since 1920 he has been a representative of the law faculty of St. John's University and is now lecturer on muni corps in that institution. Mr. Eppstein attended the Plattsburg (N. Y.) Military Training Camp in 1918 and was preparing for active service when the armistice was signed. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and he is now the treasurer of the Lucas county democratic central committee. Elected to the state legislature, he served during the term of 1914-15 and in 1916 was renominated for the office but did not care to continue in the general assembly and declined again to become a candidate. He then resumed the private practice of law, which he has since followed in Toledo, concentrating his efforts and attention upon his professional duties, recognizing the fact that the sources of our power lie within ourselves, so that his close application and determined purpose have become salient features in winning promotion. At the outset of his career he recognized the fact that application is what counts and that every man has it in him to work if he wants to do so. He is ever faithful to his clients, fair to his adversaries and candid to the court and he enjoys the respect of his fellow members of the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Eppstein was married in April, 1921, to Mirah Ziegler, and they have a daughter, Phyllis S., born September 10, 1922. CLARENCE JAMES MASON Clarence James Mason is the Toledo manager for the nationally known public accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst and is recognized by the commercial world as one of the leading accountants in this part of the state. He was born in Bellevue, Ohio, on the 23d of July, 1886, the son of James H. and Iona E. (Latham) Mason. After completing his elementary and preparatory education in the public and high schools of his birthplace, Mr. Mason entered Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, At the close of his college days he went out to the Pacific coast, where from 1905 to 1909 he worked in Spokane, Portland and Seattle, gaining his first experience in bookkeeping and industrial accounting. Returning east in 1909 he became associated with the auditing department of the General Motors Corporation, then under the direction of Controller Alfred, where he gained an experience that has since proved very valuable to him in his work, for it gave him an understanding of the methods of accounting employed by one of the largest business organizations in existence. In the spring of 1913 he entered the employ of the firm of Ernst & Ernst in their Cleveland office, where his natural aptitude and diligence soon won for him the confidence of his superiors and he was promoted to the position of assistant manager. He was transferred to the Toledo office in December, 1918, as manager and has since developed the local branch into one of the best in the entire organization. A pioneer in the field of accountancy, the firm of Ernst & Ernst was an important factor in establishing the high standards that characterize that profession through- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 355 out the country today. Through the main office in Cleveland and the branch offices in all the leading cities of the United States, the organization has its hand on the pulse of the industrial life of the nation, being connected intimately with more large business enterprises than any other one firm engaged in a similar line of work. To be employed by the firm in an important capacity is significant in itself, for it is the policy of the company to give its positions of trust only to men who have proven themselves worthy of such promotions. In fact, this policy has been so closely adhered to that no expansion has been undertaken at any time unless the right man for the new office or department was already in the organization and available for the new duties. Once a man has established his ability and won recognition from the heads of the firm, he is given every aid and assistance in carrying on the work assigned to him. The remarkable success of this company is explained by its policy, for it never undertakes a task that it cannot perform well and rapidly and is recognized by corporations and individual business men as being thoroughly competent and reliable. The business of the Toledo office is largely concerned with the affairs of large corporations such as the Willys-Overland Company, the Owens Bottle Company, the Paragon Refining Company, and the Bostwick-Braun Company. There are now twenty-eight people on the staff under Mr. Mason's direction, all of whom are members of Ernst & Ernst organization. They handle the various departments of the business, which include audits, cost systems, income tax and business refinancing and organization. Mr. Mason and Miss Mary Ellen Sweeney of Bellevue, Ohio, were married in February, 1914, and have become the parents of two children, James H. and Mary Ellen. Since coming to Toledo Mr. Mason has become identified with the work of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Toledo Club and the Inverness Club, and is a Mason of high rank, being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY The Champion Spark Plug Company was incorporated in Massachusetts early in the year of 1910 by Robert A. Stranahan, Frank D. Stranahan, and their mother, Elizabeth W. Stranahan, for the purpose of manufacturing and marketing Champion spark plugs. Although started in Boston, Massachusetts, the company moved almost immediately to Toledo, Ohio, where it located on the second floor of the Holmes Snow Flake Laundry building, occupying just half the one floor, or about two thousand square feet of space, and employing about forty people. The company under direct charge and supervision of Robert Stranahan, was successful from the beginning and within a year's time had developed to such an extent that it justified Frank Stranahan in giving up his other connections in Boston and joining his brother in Toledo, to devote his entire time to the Champion Spark Plug Company. These two brothers divided all operations between them and forged ahead at such a rapid pace that the second year made necessary the construction of their own factory building, which is today a small unit in the large Champion manufacturing plant located on the New York Central tracks, near Dorr street at Avondale and Upton avenues. An idea of the growth of this concern can he gained from the fact that the first year's output ran from a beginning of just a few hundred plugs a day up to a 356 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY thousand plugs a day in 1910. The business doubled practically every year, and in 1917 a production had been reached of over one hundred thousand spark plugs per day, and today the plant is turning out in the neighborhood of thirty million spark plugs per year to meet the tremendous popular demand for this article. Champion spark plugs represent nearly two-thirds of the spark plug market of not only the United States but of the whole world. They outsell all other makes combined and this holds good also in most every foreign country as well as in our own. There is an average consumption of two Champion spark plugs per year for every car owned throughout the United States, England, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan, and practically everywhere. The export business of this concern runs close to a million dollars a year. The Toledo plant today represents an investment of over six million dollars, occupies about two hundred and fifty thousand feet of floor space and employs in the neighborhood of one thousand people in the manufacture of Champion spark plugs exclusively. The Champion insulators used in all of these plugs are made in Detroit by the Champion Porcelain Company, a Michigan corporation, which occupies about two hundred thousand feet of floor space, employs eight hundred people and is owned outright by the Champion Spark Plug Company. In Canada there is a separate corporation, namely : The Champion Spark Plug Company of Canada, Limited, employing approximately two hundred people in the exclusive manufacture of Champion spark plugs, which supplies Canada, England and the English possessions. The Champion Spark Plug Company has sales offices in London and Paris as well as in the leading centers of the United States and travels its own salesmen throughout the world. The product today represents the very highest quality that has been attained in this industry, and yet is sold at the lowest price at which a spark plug can be purchased, due to the tremendous production and the fact that every single operation on a Champion spark plug is performed in its own plant, absolutely nothing being purchased by the company except the raw materials, such as bar steel, brass, copper, asbestos and clays. The company even owns mines which produce the basic material from which the Champion insulator core is made. The Champion spark plug is the most widely sold automotive equipment or accessory made. It is widely advertised not only throughout the United States, but newspapers, magazines and sign-boards are used in every market throughout the civilized world. Champion spark plugs are well protected with registered trade marks and numerous patents, Robert A. Stranahan being the original inventor, designer and patentee. Today the company, while doing business as a corporation is in effect a partnership, the two brothers, Robert A. Stranahan and Frank D. Stranahan, and their mother, Elizabeth W. Stranahan, being the real owners. The complete personnel of the company is : Robert A. Stranahan, president ; M. C. Dewitt, vice president ; Frank D. Stranahan, treasurer ; W. W. Hoffman, secretary ; F. B. Caswell, sales manager, jobbing division ; H. E. Butcher, sales manager, manufacturing division ; C. E. Dewar, superintendent; O. C. Rohde, chief engineer ; G. B. Nason, advertising manager ; J. F. Barr, purchasing agent ; H. C. Wildesen, foreign sales manager : I. F. Bush, assistant, sales department. These latter Toledoans are also stockholders in the Champion Spark Plug Company today. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 357 During the European war this company furnished for the United States government a great amount of material, including thirty-seven millimeter shells and fuses of both the high and low explosive types, together with several million Champion spark plugs for equipment of aeroplanes, tanks, tractors, trucks, submarine chasers, motorcycles, etc. PERCY F. PARROTT Percy F. Parrott, who is concentrating his attention upon the practice of law, is most skilful in handling his cases and has won a prominent position at the Toledo bar. He was born in Defiance county, Ohio, September 8, 1886, and his parents were John O. and Laura (Hutchinson) Parrott, also natives of the Buckeye state. For many years the father followed the occupation of farming in Defiance county and later he established his home in Toledo, passing away in this city in 1907, while the mother's demise occurred in 1918. In their family were four children : Dale O., who met death on the battle fields of France during the World war ; Guy, a resident of Sylvania, Ohio ; Arthur, who is living in Los Angeles, California ; and Percy F. Percy F. Parrott obtained his education in the public schools of Defiance county, Ohio, and in this city, completing an academic course in Toledo University, which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1911, while two years later he was graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University. He had previously taken up the study of stenography, in which he acquired expert ability, and for five years was engaged in that work, doing court reporting, while later he was secretary to the service director for the city of Toledo. He is now successfully following his profession and has been accorded a liberal clientele. He is a strong and able lawyer, clear and concise in his presentation of a case, logical in his deductions and sound in his reasoning, and his standing before the court is an enviable one. On the 22d of February, 1919, Mr. Parrott was married to Miss Loretta E. Becker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Becker of this city, and they have a daughter, Jeanne, who was born in 1920. Mr. Parrott is a member of the National Shorthand Association and fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order, belonging to the lodge and chapter. Possessing an analytical, well trained mind and being a thorough and conscientious student, he is fully alive to the important duties of his profession and is deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellowmen. GEORGE SAMUEL MOSS During a period of nineteen years George Samuel Moss has engaged in law practice as a representative of the Ohio bar. He came to Toledo in 1904 and since that time has followed his profession here. He was born in Williams county, Ohio, June 8, 1881, his parents being William and Malinda (Clay) Moss. His youthful lays were largely devoted to the acquirement of a public school education in his native county, supplemented by a course of study in the Fayette Normal University, from which he was graduated in 1899. In his broad literary course, therefore, he laid the foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional knowl- 358 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY edge. Determining upon a professional career, and narrowing his choice down to the law, he then began preparation for practice as a student in the Ohio Northern University, in which he completed the regular course and won his LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1903. He then located for practice in Toledo, Ohio, and his analytical mind, his quick perception, his stability of purpose and his energetic and persistent action, have been dominant factors in his steady climb to success. He has membership with the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations. On the 2d of November, 1916, Mr. Moss was united in marriage to Miss Kathryn Poole. GEORGE P. KING George P. King, proprietor of a letter shop, in which connection he is now conducting a large and growing multigraphing and mailing business, has spent his life in Toledo, his birth having occurred in this city on the 24th of July, 1874. He is a son of Jabez Wood and Elizabeth (Phillips) King. At the usual age he entered the public schools and passed through consecutive grades to the Toledo high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. This constituted his training for life's practical and responsible duties and upon the broad foundation of his liberal public school education he has built the structure of success. Improving his opportunities as the years have gone by, in 1907 he established a letter shop for the conduct of a multigraphing and mailing business, which he has thoroughly systematized and developed along substantial lines until it is now one of the important concerns of the kind in the city, his patronage being most gratifying. Mr. King belongs to the Pilgrim Congregational church, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and also of the Rotary Club. In these connections are indicated the principles that govern his life and the activities which claim his efforts and energies outside of business. He is actuated by a most progressive spirit and his devotion to the general welfare is one of the paramount qualities in his nature. Mr. King's hobby is music. He was baritone soloist at several large Toledo churches before the demands of his business made it necessary for him to relinquish this activity. His voice, however, is now often heard in the Rotary Club and other organizations with which he is associated. ADDISON Q. THACHER Addison Q. Thacher, president of the A. Q. Thacher Company, contractors and marine divers of Toledo, is a representative of one of the old and well known families of this city. He was here born January 3, 1876, and is a son of Horace Coleman and Arabella Amy (Dando) Thacher, both of whom were natives of Ohio and spent their lives in this state. For many years they resided in Toledo, where Mr. Thacher was for thirteen years city engineer. Later he became well known in the diving contracting business as senior partner in the Thacher & Breyman Company. He built up .a business of extensive proportions in this connection, conducting it for an extended period, but both he and his wife have passed away. They TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 361 were the parents of five children : George B., Addison Q., Clarence C., Mrs. William Lyons and Mrs. Stacy McNary, all living in Toledo. The early boyhood of Addison Q. Thacher was largely devoted to the acquirement of a public school education in Toledo and later he enjoyed the benefit of a course in the University of Michigan. There he devoted his attention to civil engineering and thoroughly qualified for work of that character. Following his return to Toledo he became identified with various engineering projects of more or less importance, gradually working his way to the front in the field of his chosen calling, and at the time of his father's death he took over the diving contracting business, organizing the A. Q. Thacher Company, of which he has since been the president. This company does most important work of the nature indicated and has solved many important problems of contract work, carrying forward to successful completion at all times whatevery they undertake. On the 15th of May, 1919, Mr. Thacher was married to Miss Emma Brunner of Defiance, Ohio, and in Toledo they have an extensive circle of warm friends, the hospitality of many attractive homes being cordially extended to them. They are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church and the rules that further guide Mr. Thacher in his relations with his fellowmen are indicated in his membership in the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of both York and Scottish rites. He belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he is well known as a devotee of outdoor sports, being now president of the Toledo Athletic Club and a member of the Maumee River Yacht Club. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, but he never seeks or desires office, preferring to concentrate his energies and attention upon his business affairs, which have constantly grown in volume until heavy demands are now made upon him in connection with the contracting and diving business. He has thrown mediocrity into the discard, prompted by a laudable ambition that seeks the attainment of the best. He has therefore reached a high point of efficiency and his business is today one of gratifying proportions. OSCAR WEBER During the twenty-two years of his residence in Toledo, Oscar Weber has devoted his attention to the fire insurance business and is now president of the Ohio Agency Company, which has many clients and is doing a business of gratifying proportions. Mr. Weber comes to the Buckeye state from New York city, where his birth occurred July 3, 1867, his parents being Edwin and Augusta Weber. The father was an importer in men's furnishing goods in the east. In New York, while spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Oscar Weber pursued a public school education, while later he entered Harvard University' and within the classic walls of that institution was graduated in 1892. For five years after the completion of his college course he was engaged in bookkeeping and then went on the road as a traveling salesman, being thus employed until he came to Toledo in 1900. Here he has since engaged in the insurance business and is now representative of several of the old and thoroughly reliable fire insurance companies. He conducts his interests under the name of the Ohio Agency Company and has gained a large clientele. He is the president of this company and his 362 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY executive force, systematic methods and indefatigable energy have been salient features in the attainment of success. In November, 1898, Mr. Weber was married to Miss Nettie Andrews of Fulton county, Ohio. He finds his recreation in fishing and automobiling and his endorsement of the high principles of Masonry is indicated by his membership in the lodge and the various Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the consistory. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine and he takes a very active part in Masonic work, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He possesses a social, genial nature and many qualities which make for popularity and have won him many friends during the period of his residence in Toledo. WARREN JOSEPH DUFFEY Warren J. Duffey, one of Toledo's native sons, possesses all the requisites of an able lawyer and has established his position among the successful and representative members of the bar of this city. He was born January 24, 1886, and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Duffey, who reside at No. 2384 Fulton street, Toledo. Since March 17, 1890, his father has been associated with the New York Life Insurance Company and in business circles of the city he is well known and highly esteemed. Mr. Duffey attended the Toledo public schools and later became .a student at St. John's College of this city, which conferred upon him the B. A. degree in 1907, while in the following year he received the M. A. degree from that institution. He next entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution of learning in June, 1911, with the LL. B. degree. In the same month he was admitted to the bar of both Ohio and Michigan ; and coming to Toledo, he began practice with O. S. Brumback, later forming a partnership with Henry A. Conlin. This relationship was continued until Mr. Conlin's death on December 22, 1913, and since that time Mr. Duffey has been alone in practice. Like all men who have achieved success in the best sense of the term, he has been an indefatigable worker, and notwithstanding the breadth and exactness of his legal learning and his facility in applying the same, he has never been known to present a case before court or jury without preparation as thorough as time and means rendered possible. This has been one of the secrets of his success and his clientele has steadily increased, his law business now being of a most important character. He is attorney for the Mutual Savings Association, one of Toledo's oldest building and loan organizations, and is also serving on its board of directors. Mr. Duffey was married August 28, 1913, to Miss Marie L. Sawkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Sawkins of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Duffey have four children : Marie Ruth, Warren Francis, Natalie Grace and Richard Comerford. Mr. Duffey's residence is at No. 401 Rockingham street. Mr. Duffey is a Catholic in religious faith and has membership with the St. Francis de Sales cathedral. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club and the Inverness Club. His professional relations are with the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations and he is also a member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. Mr. Duffey served as a member of the general assembly of Ohio from Lucas county during the year 1913-14, having been elected as a democrat. As a legislator he was author of the new mechanic's lien law, and he has frequently discussed and TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 365 explained the general features of this important statute. He also did important work in securing the regulation of the sale and traffic in cocaine, morphine and other habit-forming drugs, and thus brought Ohio legislation upon the subject into harmony with more recent, federal enactments. This legislation was of particular interest to Toledo, and it may be stated that the so-called "dope" law was fought through to the supreme court and has finally been declared valid. Representative Duffey also earnestly supported the passage of the reform judiciary bill, and while in the legislature was chairman of the committee on ways and means, and a member of the committees on codes, courts and procedure, manufactures and commerce, and public utilities. During 1917 and 1918 he ably represented the fourth ward in the city council of Toledo. Mr. Duffey is always ready to give his support to measures for the promotion of the public welfare and is loyal to all those interests which make for honorable manhood and progressive citizenship. Prompted by a laudable ambition, he has made continuous progress in his profession, and his fellow practitioners unite in bearing testimony to his high character and superior mind. DANIEL SEGUR, JR. No student of history can carry his investigations far into the annals of Toledo without learning how closely and prominently associated has been the Segur family with the development and upbuilding of this city. Daniel Segur, Jr., was born in Toledo, on Western avenue, at the present site of the new high school, January 17, 1859, his parents being Daniel and Rosa L. Segur, to whom extended reference is made elsewhere in this work. He acquired his early education here, being tutored at home in early life, while later he became a high school pupil. At this time the family was living on his father's farm, devoted to tobacco culture. After the rather sudden death of his father, his mother became an editorial contributor to the Toledo Blade and throughout the years since Daniel Segur, Sr., first came to Toledo, representatives of the name have been closely associated with all that has marked the city's progress and development. In the year 1876 Daniel Segur, Jr., began working in his father's drug store and closely devoted himself to the mastery of the business in principle and detail. He did with thoroughness everything that he undertook and thus his labors were always a contributing factor to the success of any enterprise with which he was associated. After leaving the drug store he became secretary of the old Summit and Broadway street car line, with offices on Broadway, and when he left that position he was called to the secretaryship of the board of waterworks, with which he was thus connected for some time. Subsequently he became secretary of the National Milling Company and later occupied a similar official position with the firm of Bostwick & Braun. On severing the latter connection he was made secretary and treasurer of the Simmons Hardware Company and became one of its stockholders. On the 3d of August, 1880, Mr. Segur was married in Toledo to Miss Carrie M. Sawyer, a daughter of B. F. and Caroline (Weaver) Sawyer. Their home was blessed with the presence of two children : Frank Daniel, who married Myrtle Baker ; and Daniel K., who wedded Catherine C. Cresswell, by whom he has two children, Robert Daniel and Constance Virginia. In his religious views Mr. Segur was liberal but gave his support to all those agencies which he deemed of essential value in promoting the moral development of 366 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY the community. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party and he was a member of Anthony Wayne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Locally he was connected with the Board of Commerce and with the Credit Men's Association and thus he became actively associated with organized movements for the advancement of trade, for the extension of Toledo's commercial relations and for the upholding of its civic standards. Like his father, he was keenly interested in everything that pertained to the city's welfare and his name was long synonymous with movements for the general good. Mr. Segur passed away June 11, 1917. JOHN W. RUPP For over forty years John W. Rupp has devoted his attention to the drug business, in which he has won a gratifying measure of success, and he has gained a position of leadership in this field of activity, being president of The Rupp-Bowman Company of Toledo, in which connection he is controlling extensive interests. He was born in Whitehouse, Ohio, September 8, 1852, a son of Jacob and Barbara (Kuebler) Rupp, who were natives of Germany. In early life they came to the United States, settling in Lucas county, Ohio, where the father successfully followed the occupation of farming for many years. He later became a resident of Toledo. His demise occurred in this city in 1888. The mother passed away in 1896. They became the parents of six children : David, who is living at Haskins, Ohio ; Jacob, whose home is at Whitehouse, this state ; Mrs. Lena Fells and Mrs. Libby Schultz, both of Toledo ; Mrs. Rosella Collie, who is now residing in China ; and John W. John W. Rupp acquired his education in the public schools of Whitehouse, Ohio, and in 1870 he came to Toledo, securing work in the old Bee Hive store. From this city he went to Waterville, Ohio, and was there employed in a general store for seven years, working his way up to a position of responsibility. In 1877 he resigned and with the capital which he had accumulated from his earnings, entered the drug business in Waterville, later opening a chain of stores in Toledo. He continued to operate all of these establishments until 1910, when he sold the Magnolia avenue and Bancroft street stores in Toledo and in the following year he also disposed of his original store in Waterville. In 1899 he had removed with his family to Toledo and in 1910 he organized the Rupp-Bowman Company, of which he has since been president, the store being located at No. 319 Superior street, where the firm is conducting one of the leading drug houses in the city. In addition to a complete line of drugs and chemicals they also handle surgical instruments, physicians', nurses' and hospital supplies, laboratory equipment and optical goods. The firm has ever adhered to the master formula of honor, integrity and trustworthiness and the name has become recognized as a full guarantee for purity and reliability in connection with pharmaceutical supplies. Mr. Rupp has an expert knowledge of the drug business, gained through long experience and close study, and his progressive spirit and executive ability have enabled him to develop an enterprise of large proportions. At Waterville, Ohio, in April, 1887, Mr. Rupp was married to Miss Mildred Utz, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Utz, prominent residents of that city, and they have become the parents of three children : Mrs. Bernice Marleau, the eldest, was born at Waterville in 1889 and acquired her education in the schools of that TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 367 place and also in Toledo. She is now a resident of Windsor, Canada, and has become the mother of three children, Jean, Margaret and Lois ; Walding G., born at Waterville in 1895, attended the Toledo public schools and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and is now a director of The Rupp-Bowman Company ; Paul F., who was born in Waterville, March 28, 1899, also completed a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and is connected with The Rupp-Bowman Company. In his political views John W. Rupp is an independent republican and he is a valued member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, whose carefully formulated plans for the development of the business interests of the city receive his hearty support. He is identified with the Wakeman Lodge of Masons at Waterville and has been connected with the order since 1879, when he joined Northern Light Lodge at Maumee, Ohio, being one of its oldest members. Energy, perserverance and thrift are recognized the world over as the foundation of success and these three qualities are possessed by Mr. Rupp, who fully deserves the honor that is accorded the fortunate individual who has fought and won in the great battle of life. His labors have aided materially in promoting the commercial prestige of Toledo and in business circles of the city his standing is of the highest. PAUL GETTUM Paul Gettum is probably the best known man in his line of business in Toledo. His merchant tailoring establishment, at No. 715 Madison avenue, caters to the highest class of trade, and the large and exclusive business he has developed is a tribute to his skill and correct methods. Mr. Gettum enjoys the distinction of having for fifteen years been the tailor for Hon. Warren G. Harding and of making his outfit after he was elected to the presidency. This alone would indicate the high character of the work turned out under his direction and from the beginning of his residence in Toledo he has enjoyed substantial success that places him with the representative business men of this city. JEROME EARLE CARR Jerome Earle Carr, engaged in the brokerage business in Toledo, is a native of Mount Lookout, Ohio, born May 10, 1880, his parents being Jerome Samuel and Martha (Lightfoot) Carr. The father devoted his life to the work of the ministry as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was an influential factor in building up the moral stamina of the communities in which he lived. Jerome E. Carr of this review obtained a public school education in Cincinnati and at Orrville, Ohio, and when his textbooks were put aside obtained a clerkship with a railroad company, spending four years in that connection. He was afterward with the Cable Piano Company at Toledo for three and a half years and then organized the J. E. Carr Brokerage Company, under which name he has since engaged in handling stocks, bonds and real estate. He has also been engaged in colonization work in connection with lands owned by the Santa Fe Railroad and his business has assumed gratifying proportions. 368 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Mr. Carr was married to Miss Hattie M. Clark of Toledo on the 4th of April, 1904, and they have become parents of a daughter and a son : Evelyn Mary ; and Corwin Clark, born August 29, 1912, in Toledo. Mr. Carr has membership with the Chamber of Commerce and manifests active interest in those organized efforts which are looking to the development and upbuilding of the city and the maintenance of high civic standards. He belongs to Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, A. F. & A. M., and he is also a member of the Toledo Automobile Club—connections that indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his activities. His residence is at No. 2502 Foraker avenue. THOMAS W. REEVES Thomas W. Reeves, a representative of a family that has long figured prominently in connection with the industrial development of Toledo, is well known in business circles of the city as general superintendent of the boiler plant of the Skeldon Engineering Company and his broad experience along mechanical lines well qualifies him for the duties of this responsible position. He was born in Peterboro, Canada, September 26, 1886, a son of Richard and Maria (Woodsend) Reeves, the father a native of Toronto, Canada, and the mother a native of England. In early life she emigrated to Canada, where her marriage occurred, and about 1891 Mr. and Mrs. Reeves established their home in Toledo. He had previously established the Marine Boiler Works at Ann Arbor, Michigan, but decided that this city offered a better field for his operations and conducted his business on Water street until 1901, when he built the Marine Boiler Works, which is now a part of the Toledo Ship Building Company. Later he disposed of the plant and became connected with the McNaull Boiler Manufacturing Company, with which he continued until 1921, since which time he has lived retired in this city. The mother also survives and they have become the parents of three children : William G., Thomas W. and Richard. G., all of whom are residents of Toledo. Following his graduation from the Central high school of this city Thomas W. Reeves started to work in his father's boiler shop, where he was employed until 1906, during which period he acquired a thorough knowledge of the boiler manufacturing business. He then became connected with the engineering department of the Vulcan Steam Shovel Company and when the interests of that firm were taken over by the Bucyrus Company his services were retained by the latter organization, with which he was identified until 1912. The next year was spent at Marion, Ohio; in the engineering department of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, and after returning to Toledo he entered the employ of the McNaull Boiler Company. This has since been merged with the Skeldon Engineering Company and Mr. Reeves is now acting as general superintendent of their boiler plant. He has an expert knowledge of the work of which he has charge and has succeeded in maintaining a high degree of efficiency in the operation of his department, which is a most important one. At Windsor, Canada, on the 24th of August, 1910, Mr. Reeves was married to Miss Esther A. Fitzgerald, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald of Toledo, and they have four children : Thomas E., who was born in June, 1911, and is attending the Central school on the east side ; Richard G., who was born in Febru- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 371 ary, 1914, and is also a public school pupil ; Ruth C., born December 12, 1916 ; and Robert W., who was born in August, 1919. Mr. Reeves is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and fraternally is identified with the Masonic order, belonging to Rubicon Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Fort Meigs Chapter, R. A. M., of which he is a past high priest ; and also to Toledo Council, R. and S. M. Throughout his career he has closely applied himself to the work in hand and has steadily advanced as he has proven his worth and ability, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. He is highly regarded in business circles of the city and has many friends whose esteem he has won and retained by reason of his high principles and fine personal qualities. HERMAN BAMBERGER, M. D. Dr. Herman Bamberger, arriving in America when a youth in his teens, started out in the business world in Cincinnati, Ohio, as clerk in a drug store and this constituted his initial step toward preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery, in which he has now long been successfully engaged. Born in Germany on the 1st of June, 1867, he is a son of Barnard and Lena (Karn) Bamberger, who spent their lives in that country, where both passed away. They had a family of three children and the daughters, Mrs. Amelia Soloman and Mrs. Gertrude Silverman, remain in Germany. Herman Bamberger first attended the schools of his native country to the age of seventeen years, when he determined to try his fortune in the new world and came alone to America. He made his way to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he secured employment in a drug store, continuing his work there until he had saved enough money to enable him to attend school. He then entered the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, now the Ohio State Medical College, and still later he attended the University of Louisville at Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree is a member of the class of 1889. Dr. Bamberger then went to the Northwest and began practice among the mining camps of northwestern Montana, where he continued to follow his profession until 1895. He then returned to Louisville, Kentucky, where he opened an office and engaged in practice for three years, while in 1898 he removed to Toledo, where he has now successfully practiced for a period of almost a quarter of a century, giving his attention to general medical practice and to office work. He has at all times kept abreast with the trend of modern professional thought and advancement and is thoroughly familiar with the latest researches and discoveries of the profession. He belongs to the Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. On the 12th of July, 1898, Dr. Bamberger was married to Miss Fannie Silverman of Gallipolis, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Silverman, representing one of the pioneer families of that place. Dr. and Mrs. Bamberger had two children : Esther, born in Toledo in 1899 and educated in the Scott high school and Toledo University ; and Samuel J., who died at the age of seventeen years and three months, becoming a victim of influenza and passing away after an illness of three days. Since becoming an America citizen Dr. Bamberger has exercised his right 372 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY of franchise in support of the republican party and fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World. He has worked his way upward entirely through his own efforts and is truly a self-made man, nor has he ever had occasion to regret his determination to leave Germany to become an American citizen. GEORGE E. LORENZ To a notable position in manufacturing and mercantile circles did George E. Lorenz attain and then in the last few years of his life he lived retired, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former business activity. While commercial interests took him of ttimes and for long periods to the east, he always regarded Toledo as his home. He was born in Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio, January 1, 1845, his parents being Peter and Sophia (Billmire) Lorenz. In the paternal line he was descended from Huguenot ancestry, his father being a native of Strasburg, then as now a part of the French republic. He was a designer and pattern maker in his native country and by reason of his skill and ability was able to command good prices for his service. He was also for a time a member of the French cavalry and his father was a brigade commander in the French army for a term, with headquarters at Strasburg. After crossing the Atlantic to the new world Peter Lorenz was married at Harpers Ferry to Sophia Billmire, who was there born. He did not reenter business circles in America but lived retired from active participation in commercial interests. He died in the year 1876, while the mother, long surviving him, passed away at Germantown, Ohio, in 1907, having reached the advanced age of ninety-seven years. They were the parents of seven children. George E. Lorenz completed his preliminary education in the schools of Germantown and afterward attended the State Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which institution he was in due time graduated. He next entered the University of Michigan as a member of the class of 1867 but did note complete his course there, owing to his anxiety to enter the business world. He made the manufacture of perfumes his life work, although for a time he was interested in the development of the oil industry and he was also one of the organizers of the Crystal Refinery, now the plant of the Sun Oil Company of Toledo. In 1864, however, he began the manufacture of perfumes in Toledo, establishing the business in a small way but gradually developing and enlarging it until his position was one of leadership among the perfume manufacturers of America and the world. He continued to carry on business in Toledo until 1908, when he removed his plant to New York in order to be in closer touch with the large foreign and eastern trade which had been developed by the company. For many years Mr. Lorenz continued as active manager of the business, but later a corporation was formed under the name of the George Lorenz Company, of which he became president and so continued until he retired from active connection with the enterprise. During the years 1903 and 1904 he was also president of the Manufacturing Perfumers' Association of the United States and an active member of the American Society of Microscopists. With the development of the business he always maintained the same high standards as to manufacture and at the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 the company was awarded the Universal Medal. Two years later, at the Paris Exposition, in competition with the best foreign and