TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 51 a man of studious nature and habits and is particularly interested in ancient and modern history and in the languages. His broad and liberal learning has constituted an element in his success as a lawyer, while at the same time it has been a source of great pleasure to him, as he recognizes the fact, which so many do not appreciate, that the keenest joy comes through intellectual stimulus. Mr. Waldvogel is a Mason and is past master of Boaz Lodge, No. 669, F. & A. M., and belongs to Fort Industry Chapter, No. 208, R. A. M., Vistula Council, No. 108, R. & S. M., and has long been a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of the craft. He also has membership in the Lucas County Bar Association and the National Union Assurance Society. His residence is at No. 1417 Twenty-second street. WALTER J. LISIAKOWSKI Walter J. Lisiakowski, a member of a family which was established in Toledo a half century ago, is a man of resolute purpose and marked strength of character who has overcome obstacle and difficulty in his path and pressed steadily forward to the goal of success. He is now living largely retired after many years of active identification with business interests of the city and is the possessor of a substantial competence, gained through untiring industry and honorable methods. A native of Poland, he was born June 15, 1861, and his parents, Joseph and Katherine (Katafiasz) Lisiakowski, were also natives of that country. In 1872 the father emigrated to the United States and after reaching New York "city at once made his way to Toledo, where he was joined by his family six months later. He was a blacksmith and continued to follow his trade until his demise, which occurred in this city on the 1st of December, 1904, when he was seventy-three years of age. The mother has reached the age of eighty-three years. There were five children in their family : John, deceased ; and Mrs. Wally Wawrzyniak, Mrs. Dorothy Ziolkoski, Frank and Walter J., all of whom are residents of this city. Walter J. Lisiakowski attended the .schools of Poland to the age of eleven years, when he came with his mother to the United States, and for six months he was a pupil in the grammar schools of Toledo. He then secured employment on a farm in this locality, but returned to the city at the end of two years and obtained work at the Milburn Wagon Works, where he remained for three years. He next accepted a position in a lumberyard and continued with that firm until 1900, when he opened a wholesale liquor store at No. 401 Junction avenue, which he conducted successfully until the establishment of prohibition in 1919. Turning his attention to financial affairs, he became one of the organizers of the Opieka State Bank, which he was made cashier, and capably discharged the duties of that office until April 1, 1922, when he resigned. He is a director of the Opieka State Bank, Buckeye Fire Insurance Company and the Maple Baking Company, both of this city, and aided in their organization. He is now looking after his investments, which have been judiciously placed, enabling him to spend his later years in the enjoyment of a well earned rest. Mr. Lisiakowski was married November 27, 1882, to Miss Katherine Zmud- zinski, a daughter of Joseph and Frances Zmudzinski of this city, and they have become the parents of ten children, namely : Mrs.. Dorothy Bartecki of Toledo, who is a widow and has a son, Stephen ; Mrs. Andrew Jankowski, who also resides in this city and has become the mother of a son, Andrew, Jr. ; Rose F., who is 52 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY unmarried and is still at home; Joseph, who wedded Miss Stella Koralewski of Toledo, by whom he has a daughter, Eleanor Koralewski ; Frank, who volunteered for service in the World war and for eighteen months was stationed overseas, being attached to the transportation department of the Thirty-second Division; Anthony, who also'enlisted for service in the World war and was' assigned to duty at Washington, D. C., and Newport News, Virginia; Edmond ; Clementine, a graduate of the Woodward high school ; and Clemons and Edwin, both of whom are attending the public schools of Toledo. All of the children are residents of the city and acquired their education in the local schools. In October, 1922, Mrs. Bartecki and Miss Rose F. Lisiakowski established a dry goods and notion store at 401 Junction avenue, the firm being Lisiakowski Sisters. Mr. Lisiakowski is a communicant of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic church and a member of St. Joseph's Society, the St. Stanislaus Society and the Polish National Alliance. He is deeply interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and advancement of the city which has been his home from the age of eleven years and is a valued member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. He is a self-made man who has fought and won in the great battle of life. He began his business career at a salary of two dollars per week and in order to arrive at the place of his employment he was obliged to walk many miles each day, but the' hardships of his youth served only to strengthen his determination. With him the recognition of opportunity has ever been equivalent to the performance of a task and he is now the owner of valuable real estate in the city; being recognized as one of the leading representatives of Toledo's Polish colony. JOHN JAMES WATSON John James Watson, a landscape architect of Toledo of high professional attainments and with large clientage, was born in Onancock, Virginia, April 26, 1874, and is a son of JoseJohnsondall and Georganna (JohnSon) Watson. The father was a wholesale druggist but is now living retired, making his home in Baltimore, Maryland. The son was educated in the public -schools and in the University of Maryland, in which he completed his more specifically literary course. He also studied in the law department there and was graduated with the class of 1900. He was admitted to practice in the court of appeals a year after his initial admission to the supreme bench of Baltimore city and for three years he devoted. himself to the practice of law. In the meantime, however, he studied city planning and landscape architecture and in fact, had given much attention thereto for a number of years. He was extremely fond of the subject and turned his attention to the work as a profession in 1903. He has laid out the grounds of Ottawa Hills, Homeville, Bancroft Hills, Indian Hills, Rodnor Park, Mayfair Park, Hampton Park, Chevy Manor, Immergrin, Catawba Cliffs at Catawba Island, Lake Erie, and Orchard Beach. His work likewise includes the landscape architecture of Inverness, Toledo, the estate of William Hardee on the river at Toledo, Maple Grove, the grounds of the Maumee Library and also work in the city of Lima, Ohio, Bryan, Ohio, Port Huron, Michigan, and other city planning contracts. His activities have reached a high degree of skill and efficiency in his chosen field of labor. He laid out the grounds of the Country Club and of TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 55 the Toledo University and the beauty of the city has been greatly enhanced through his efforts. His love of color, his delight in design, his ready recognition of effects possible to produce and his broad study, training and experience have made him one of the foremost landscape: architects in this part of the country. In connection with his business he conducts a small nursery for experimental purpose of growing plants, evergreens and trees in this climate. On the 1st of December, 1895, Mr. Watson was united in marriage to Miss Irene Tippett of Baltimore, Maryland, and they have become the parents of four children : Margaret, who is the wife of Merrill N. Pheatt of Toledo ; Nancy Lewis ; Betty Caroll ; and Bayard Tippett, who died on the 25th of March, 1921, at the age of twenty-one years. Mr. Watson is well known in club circles, belonging to the Toledo Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. Along the line of his profession he belongs to the American Association of Engineers and the City Planning Institute. He is well known in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He makes the beneficent spirit of Masonry a workable principle in his life and at all times he commands the respect, confidence and esteem of his fellowmen. HON. HORACE NEWTON ALLEN A well known American business man traveling through Korea—a man who had never manifested any particular interest in religious work—said : "I can imagine no greater joy than to have money enough to send missionary after missionary into Keora, for I realize just what they are doing for the country and its people." It was to this work that Dr. Horace Newton Allen devoted many years of his life, going to that country as a medical missionary. Since 1906 he has made his home in Toledo, honored of all men by reason of his noble character and what he has accomplished in promoting the world's good. His life story had its beginning in Delaware, Ohio, April 23, 1858, his parents, Horace and Jane (Riley) Allen, having become pioneers of that section of the state. Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga in the war for independence, was his grand-uncle, while his mother's father also served in the Revolution. Reared in his native state, Horace Newton Allen was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware with the class of 1881 and then matriculated in the Miami Medical College, from which he obtained his professional degree in 1883. In the year in which he completed his literary course he wedded Frances Ann Messenger, who was also one of the alumni of the Ohio Wesleyan University of 1881 and who is descended from the Messenger family that was of. English lineage and was established in Connecticut in 1630, several of its representatives also aiding in the cause of American independence. Immediately after the completion of his profession course Dr. and Mrs. Allen started for the. Orient, the doctor having been appointed medical missionary. to China by the Presbyterian church. They lived at Nanking and Shanghai, being in the latter city when it was attacked by the French in 1884 and they were obliged to flee for refuge on the night that their first son was born. Immediately after Korea had been opened by treaty Dr. Allen went to Seoul and secured entrance to the country under appointment as physician to the Ameri- 56 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY can legation, as missionaries were not then allowed to reside in Korea. He arrived in the capital city on the 20th of September, 1884, and was present during the emeute of December of that year when the Chinese drove the Japanese from the land. Through his surgical skill he saved the life of Prince Min Yong Ik as well as the lives of a number of Chinese and natives. In recognition of the value of his service in this connection he was, in addition to the usual emoluments, given a hospital and equipment by the government and was made court physician. He was also appointed by the British, Japanese and Chinese governments as medical officer to their respective legations. A contemporary writer speaking of his life of service in the Orient said : "His intimate relations. with the royal family as court physician led to his becoming the unofficial adviser to the Korean government. In this capacity he took an embassy of twelve natives to Washington in 1888-89 and established a legation there in the face of most strenuous opposition from the Chinese government, as the object of this establishment was to demonstrate the complete independence of Korea from China. Yuan Shi Kai, Emperor of China and then Chinese minister to Korea, led in this opposition, but it did not sever the ten years' intimacy of the two, even though the mission was entirely successful in its.object. In 1890 Dr. Allen was appointed secretary of the American legation in Korea, and he was charge d'affaires for a year, in 1893-4. While secretary of the legation he took a commission and an exhibit to the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893. In 1897 President McKinley promoted him, without leaving his post, to be minister resident and consul general, and in 1901 he was promoted to be envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the Korean court. He was also envoy of the United States government to the Korean coronation in 1902, and was twice decorated by the Korean emperor. He left Korea in July, 1905, at the close of the Japan-Russian war, the legation being soon after reduced to the grade of a consulate general under Japan. Dr. Allen was actively connected with the Korean government for twenty-one years, or practically the entire period of the country's independence—in securing which independence he had played an important part. He was present during three wars —the conflict between China and Japan in 1884, as well as the great war between these two powers for the possession of Korea in 1894, and the war between Russia and Japan' for the same purpose in 1904-05. For sympathy and aid during these times of trial he was given the highest honors and decorations the little kingdom had to bestow. Owing to the unique position of trust and influence he held with the royal family and the ruling classes he was able so to promote American interests that they were paramount in Korea prior to the taking over of the country by the Japanese as the result of their success in the war with Russia. Thus it was that Americans built the first steam and electric railways as well as electric lighting and power plants. The fine waterworks system for the capital was built and operated by Americans, who also built the first real wagon roads in Korea. Americans opened up and continue to operate the rich gold and copper mines of the country, while American kerosene was (and is) the illuminant of the people and general imports of merchandise from America made a most creditable showing. In each case these several enterprises were founded upon and made possible by concessions obtained by Dr. Allen from the Korean government—often in the face of strenuous opposition from rival nations." It was during his residence in the Orient that the two sons of Dr. and Mrs. Allen were born : Horace Ethan, the elder, born in Shanghai ; and Maurice, in eoul, Korea. Both were graduated from St. John's Military Academy at Man- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 57 lius, New York, and after a year of study in Switzerland were graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1908. The younger son also completed a course in the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor as a law student in 1911. The elder brother married Lydia, daughter of O. S. Brumback of Toledo, and is now engaged in the practice of mechanical engineering. Maurice Allen wedded Mildred Barton Smith, the only daughter of Barton Smith, with whom he is engaged in the practice of law. Dr. Allen by reason of his long residence in Korea has been able to make valuable contribution to the literature concerning that country. His published writings include : Korean Tales, which appeared in 1889 ; A Chronology of Korea's Foreign Relations, published in 1900 and a supplement in 1903 ; Korea, Fact and Fancy, published in 1904; and Things Korean, published in 1908. He is also the author of several articles which have appeared in the North American Review and other publications and he has been frequently heard on the lecture platform before scientific bodies, in several of the larger cities and universities of the United States. In 1911 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He belongs to the Phi Beta Kappa, the Authors Club at London and in Toledo has membership with the Toledo, Toledo Country and Commerce clubs. He is also identified with the Anthony Wayne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, in which he has served as president. He is an honored resident of Toledo, one who has done much to advance the world's progress and one with whom association means expansion and elevation. LEON STANISLAUS TALASKA, M. D. Dr. Leon Stanislaus Talaska, a prominent Polish physician and citizen of Toledo, where he is occupying the position of assistant city physician, was born in Bay City, Michigan, June 28, 1875, and is a son of Frank and Josephine (Napierala) Talaska, both of whom were natives of Poland, whence they came to America in early life. They established their home in Bay City in 1870 and there the father engaged in various lines of work, removing with his family to Toledo in 1897. Here he passed away in 1914 and is still survived by his widow. Leon S. Talaska, an only child, attended the parochial schools of Bay City and afterward entered the Toledo Medical College, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1898. He has since constantly engaged in practice here and his progress has been continuous. He has served as assistant city physician and in addition to his official duties has cared for a large private practice which has constantly grown in volume and importance. He keeps .abreast with the trend of modern professional thought, progress and investigation through his membership in the Academy of Medicine, in the Toledo and Lucas County Medical societies, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. On the 25th of October, 1905, Dr. Talaska was married to Miss Balbina Hoppa. They have become parents of two children: Frank, born in Toledo on July 25, 1907, and now a junior in the high school ; and Leocadia, who was born on May 10, 1911, and is also in school. During the World war Dr. Talaska was a member of the fourth district medical hoard. He belongs to St. Anthony's Roman Catholic church and he also has member- 58 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY ship in the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, the latter connection being indicative of his interest in public affairs and indicating his support of all those plans and projects which are instituted for the benefit of the city, for the upbuilding of its trade relations and the advancement of its civic standards. He is a member of the Polish National Alliance, the Polish Falcons, Polish Roman Catholic Union of Ohio, and numerous other local societies. He has spent the greater part of his life in Toledo and is well known here, having many friends who have been gained through social as well as professional connections. In 1921 he rebuilt his pleasant home -at No. 714 Junction avenue, where he has lived since 1905. JOHN WILLIAM BANTING To know when and where to use his ability and just what opportunities to embrace is often the salient feature that carries the successful man beyond his fellows and enables him to become a power in his chosen field. John William Banting, who possesses this quality in a notable degree, is specializing in the manufacture of farm ,machinery and the importance and scope of his interests have not only placed him in a position of leadership in industrial circles of Toledo, but have also made his name well known to agriculturists in many parts of the world. He was born in Ottawa county, Ohio, August 6, 1858, and his parents were Carlos Cornelius and Eva (Stadler) Banting, the former a native of the north of Ireland and the latter of Baden, Germany. In 1854 they came to Ohio and the father devoted his attention to the occupation of farming, continuing to cultivate and improve his land until his demise, which occurred at Elmore, this state, in 1881. He was an honored veteran of the Civil war, joining the Third Ohio Cavalry, and he remained in the 'service during the entire period of hostilities. The mother passed away March 12, 1908. In their family were four children : Carlos C., an executive officer of the Banting Manufacturing and Banting Machine companies ; Emma V. and Lucy, who are still residing at Elmore, 'Ohio ; and John W., who is the eldest in the family. John William Banting acquired his education in the country schools of Ottawa county, Ohio, and he obtained his initial experience in his present line of business through selling farm machinery direct to the agriculturists of Ottawa county. In 1882, when twenty-four years of age, he opened a store at Elmore, Ohio, for the sale of hardware and farm implements and this constituted the nucleus of the large business of which he is now the head. He continued to operate his interests at Elmore until 1900, when he sold out and on the 1st of. January, 1901, came to Toledo, having organized the Banting Machine Company in the fall of the previous year, but the business did not get under way until January 1, 1901. On the 1st of January, 1915, the Banting Manufacturing Company, was organized and Mr. Banting is president of both concerns, of which his brother, Carlos C. Banting, is secretary, while J. F. Sanders is vice president. They make the famous Greyhound type of farm machinery, which they sell direct to farmers, and their implements are used extensively- by agriculturists in the United States and Canada, there being a. particularly large demand in the grain-growing districts. They manufacture threshers for grain and beans, hay- presses, steam tractors and other farm machinery and their plant is the only one of the kind in Toledo. They maintain a selling agency in South America and are about to TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 61 establish a branch in South Africa, their ramifying trade interests extending to many parts of the world. Mr. Banting combines keen sagacity and breadth of vision with superior executive ability and has the power of concentration which enables him to give all of his thought to the matter in hand and he thus brings to bear all of his forces upon the accomplishment of his purpose. His labors have been manifestly resultant and an extensive productive industry stands as a monument to his initiative spirit and powers of organization. At Elmore, Ohio, on the 23d of August, 1886, Mr. Banting was married to Miss Anna Jane Ferris, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ferris of that place, and they have become the parents of a son, .Robert Banting, who was born at Elmore, May 19, 1887. He acquired his education in the district schools of Ottawa county, Ohio, and the Toledo high school and is now associated with his father in business, being treasurer and manager of the Banting Machine Company, located at No. 820 Jefferson street. He married Miss Laura Nellis of this city and they have two children : Virginia, who was born in 1914 and is attending the public schools; and John Bloomington, born January 6, 1918, in Toledo. In his political views John William Banting is independent, placing the qualifications of a candidate above all other considerations, and in civic work and progressive endeavor he does his part as a member of the Toledo Chamber, of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and is also connected with the Toledo Club, the Rotary Club, the Inverness Club and the Izaak Walton Fishing Club, which has recently been organized. He finds his chief recreation in fishing and golf. He has fought life's battles unaided and has risen to a position of pre-emience in the business world. His is the record of a strong mentality, stable in purpose, quick in perception, swift in decision, energetic and persistent in action, and Toledo is proud to claim him as a citizen. His home is at No. 2521 Parkwood avenue. GEORGE P. KIRBY George P. Kirby has for more than forty years been identified with the Toledo bar. Continuing in general practice he tries all kinds of cases and tries them well and has long enjoyed a good clientage. He is a native of New York, his birth having occurred in the city of Troy, August 9, 1858, his parents being Peter and Charlotte (Bernard) Kirby, both of whom were natives of England, whence they came to the new world in early life, establishing their home in the Empire state. George P. Kirby pursued his early education in the public schools of his native city and was a young man of nineteen years when in 1877 he came to Toledo. Here he entered upon preparation for the practice of law and after thorough, comprehensive and preliminary training was admitted to the bar in May, 1881. Since that time he has continued in general practice here and earnest efforts, close application and the development of his .native powers have gained for him a creditable position at the bar that has numbered many prominent representatives. An excellent presence, 'an earnest manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the law and the ability accurately to apply its principles make him an effective and successful advocate and .a wise counselor. He has been the general counsel of the National Union Assurance Society since July, 1906. 62 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY On the 26th of March, 1883, Mr. Kirby was united in marriage to Miss Kate F; Krieger and they have become parents of two children : George P. and Paul B. Mrs. Kirby died May 11, 1916. Mr. Kirby is a member of the Unitarian church and interested in all those forces which make for the uplift of the individual, for civic righteousness and for general progress. Fraternally he is both a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason and be belongs to the Toledo Club. SEWELL W. BECKLEY Among the large business enterprises which are important factors in Toledo's commercial activity and prosperity is the wholesale 'tea and coffee house of the Blodgett-Beckley Company, of which Sewell W. Beckley is vice president and general manager. He has had broad experience along business lines and the success which is now attending the operations of the company is largely due to his untiring efforts and administrative ability. Mr. Beckley was born in Bed-f ord county, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1872, and his parents, George W. and Susan (Wendell) Beckley, were also natives of the Keystone state. The father was a successful agriculturist and became the owner of one of the well improved and valuable farms of Bedford county. He was an honored veteran of the Civil war and his demise occurred in 1920, when he was eighty-four years of age. The mother survives him and has reached the age of eighty-two. In their family were five children : William, Manford, Mrs. Mary Sutter and Mrs. James Mickle, all of whom are still living in Pennsylvania ; and Sewell W. In the acquirement of an education Sewell W. Beckley attended the district schools of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and the Lock Haven Normal School of that state, after which he taught school for a term. He was sixteen years of age at that time and one of the youngest teachers in the state. He then secured a position in a grocery store conducted by James Sutter, starting with a salary of eight dollars per month, which included his board. He remained with Mr. Sutter for three years, during which period he rose to. the position of manager and buyer, doing valuable work in promoting the success of the business, and at the time of his resignation was the highest salaried employe of the company. When nineteen years of age he became a traveling salesman for the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, well known as the manufacturers of fifty-seven varieties of pure food products, and for fourteen years he was identified with that firm, winning promotion to the position of general road manager. In the fall of 1905 he came to Toledo and became associated with the Bour Company, wholesale dealers in tea and coffee. In 1912 the business was reorganized, at which time the present style of the Blodgett-Beckley Company was adopted, and the subject of this review became sales manager and vice president, while since 1920 he has been first vice president, manager and general sales manager, one hundred and twenty-five road salesmen being under his charge. Thoroughness in everything he undertakes is one of Mr. Beckley's outstanding characteristics and he has closely studied every phase of the business, visiting the tea and coffee-growing countries and thus gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the various 'processes employed in preparing for the market the products handled by the house. This 'knowledge he has imparted to his salesmen, who are thus enabled to present their line of goods more intelligently and effectively, resulting in a TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 65 large increase in the volume of trade. He keeps in close touch with what is being done in all departments and has succeeded in maintaining a high degree of efficiency in the operation of the business, which has greatly prospered through his well-directed efforts. The activities of the company are conducted on an extensive, scale and theirs is one of the largest undertakings of the kind in this section of the country. In addition to their Toledo house they also maintain establishments at Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan ;. Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Buffalo, New. York ; Louisville, Kentucky ; and Minneapolis, Minnesota ; and in Kansas City, Missouri, they operate a branch roasting and distributing plant. At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of May, 1894, Mr.. Beckley was married to Miss Gertrude Masters, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Masters, prominent residents of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley have two sons: Harold, the elder, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1898, is a graduate of one of the high schools of Toledo, and is now associated in business with his father. He married Miss Gertrude Simon of Toledo, and they have a son, Harold Beckley, Jr.; Raymond Beckley, who was born in Johnstown in 1903, also completed a high school course in Toledo and is now connected with the Landman & Griffith Automobile Company of this city. Mr. Beckley is fond of all outdoor sports and amusements, particularly of horseback riding, and is the owner of a fine saddle horse. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He has membership with the Toledo Commerce Club and is also connected with the Toledo Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. He is likewise identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree in the consistory. He is a self-made man who fully deserves the honor that is accorded the fortunate individual who has fought and won in the great battle of life and he has made his labors count as a forceful factor in promoting the business interests of his city as well as in the attainment of individual prosperity. JOHN CUMMINGS John Cummings, who long figured prominently in connection with the whole-. sale shoe trade and also in banking circles in Toledo, passed away in this city July 1, 1921. He was a. leading and progressive business man and prominent citizen and through an extended period had contributed to public progress and upbuilding here. He was born May 6, 1831, in Lagrange county, Indiana, a son of Robert and Mary Cummings. His education was acquired in the country schools and he assisted his father in the development of the home farm during his boyhood and youth. He was eighteen years of age when in 1849 he started for California, attracted by the tales concerning the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast. He had varied and interesting experiences in the west, becoming a representative of the pony express there in carrying the government mails and also acting as a member of the vigilantes committee. With money earned on his western trip he came to Toledo and here he entered the wholesale shoe house of the W. W. Griffin Company. He thoroughly acquainted himself with the business, worked his way steadily upward and in time became one of the owners 66 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY thereof, the store being conducted later by the R. & J. Cummings Company, of which he was one of the partners. Their ramifying trade relations reached out to various sections of the country and their business steadily grew and developed under the careful direction of John Cummings and his associates in the undertaking. He also entered banking circles, becoming president of the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company, and he was likewise a director of the Blade Printing & Paper Company. His interests and activities thus "were broad and varied and his labors were an important element in the continued business expansion and growth of Toledo. In 1863 Mr. Cummings was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Sinclair, a daughter of John. and Mary Sinclair of Monroe, Michigan. They had three daughters : Cora and Kittie, (twins), the first named of whom died in infancy, and Kittie married Morrison W. Young, but is now deceased and Elizabeth is the wife of Silas Cornell Walbridge of Toledo. Mr. Cummings was a lover of the out-of-doors and greatly enjoyed hunting. He became a charter member of the Cedar Point Gun Club and whenever opportunity permitted he made his way into the open. He was also a lover of horses, greatly enjoyed :racing, and was one of the promoters of the Tri-State Racing Association. He held membership in the Toledo Club and at all times his life was actuated by his belief in the teachings of the Presbyterian church, in which he long held membership. He had reached the venerable age of ninety years when death called him. One could not mourn for him as for an individual cut off in the prime of life or the heyday of youth. His career was as the day with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of completed and successful effort terminating in the rest and quiet of the night. He played well, his part, he achieved his purposes and the interests and activities of his life were at all times well balanced. To an unusual degree he enjoyed the respect, confidence and goodwill of all who knew him and many of his associates still warmly cherish, his memory. REV. R. LINCOLN LONG, D. D. Rev. R. Lincoln Long, a distinguished divine of Toledo, is pastor of the Colling-Wood Avenue Presbyterian church and a strong moving force for moral progress in his community. He is a native of the south, his birth having occurred at Henderson, Kentucky, April 15, 1888. His parents were A. R. and Savina (Osman) Long, who were natives of Pennsylvania, the birth of the father occurring in Franklin county and that of the mother in Schuylkill county, and in early life they went to Kentucky, whence they removed to Freeport, Illinois. There the father engaged in the practice of -dentistry and subsequently he followed his profession in other cities, winning success in his chosen vocation. After his death the mother came .to Toledo, where she spent her remaining years, passing away on the 25th of December, 1921. Two children were born of their union. R. Lincoln Long is the only surviving member of the family and his public school training was received at Freeport, Illinois. He then attended Winona Academy of Indiana and afterward became a student of Lake Forest College, near Chicago, Illinois, from which he won the A. B. degree in 1912. He next entered the McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago, Illinois, and was TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 67 ordained to the ministry in 1915. His first charge was at Paulding, Ohio, where he was stationed until 1918, filling the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church. In the early part of 1918 he came to Toledo as assistant to Rev. Samuel Charles Black, religious educator and pastor of the CoRingwood Avenue Presbyterian church. Soon afterward Dr. Long received from Washington & Jefferson College the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and on returning to this city in 1919 he was appointed to his present pastorate as Dr. Black's successor, in which connection he has charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the city. His desire to uplift mankind has found expression in organized and systematic effort and under his able guidance the influence of the church is constantly broadening, while his undoubted sincerity and devotion to his work have won for him, the esteem and affection of those to whom he administers religious instruction. At Camp Point, Ohio, on the 2d of September, 1915, Dr. Long was married to Miss Reva Henry, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Henry, prominent residents of that place, and they have three children•: Dorothy Martha, who was born at Paulding, Ohio, June 10, 1916; Robert, who is also a native of that place, his birth occurring November 14, 1918 ; and Caroline, who was born in this city August 16, 1920. Dr. Long is deeply interested in both the material and. spiritual welfare of Toledo and is an earnest member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member and one of the trustees of the Kiwanis Club and a Knights Templar Mason, while in the Scottish Rite Consistory he has taken the thirty-second degree. He is a logical thinker, a clear and convincing speaker and a man of scholarly attainments. whose powers and talents have been a leavening force in making high ideals a tangible asset in the daily affairs of life. CLAUDE ALLEN CAMPBELL Claude Allen Campbell, .one of the best known among Toledo's younger men in banking circles, is the secretary of The Ohio Savings Banks & Trust Company, and was born in Gibsonburg, Ohio, June 4, 1892, a son .of William. Wells and Mertie (Laird) Campbell, The father is a well known attorney of Toledo. Claude A. Campbell attended the public schools of Toledo and afterward grad= uated from Oberlin College, where he not only made an excellent record in his studies but was also prominently known in athletics, winning his letter in baseball, football and track. He likewise made a most creditable record in oratorical contests and in his scholastic work stood at the head of his classes. In entering on his business career Mr. Campbell turned his attention to the real estate business, becoming connected with the E. H. Close Realty Company. Later he organized the Cambridge Realty Company and specialized in the operation and development of business blocks. As manager ,of the Ohio Building Company he first became connected with The Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company, later being made manager of its mortgage and loan department. Subsequently Mr. Campbell was advanced to the position of officer. in supervision of seven branch banks, and recently was again advanced to his present position, that of senior secretary of the institution. Mr. Campbell's rise has been rapid and his present position with one of the largest financial institutions in Toledo, is the direct result of his capability. Among his other business connections, he is the vice president of 68 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY the Southway Realty Company and of the Atlas Building Company. He was formerly chairman of the Toledo Building Owners' Association and president of the State Association. On the 24th of October, 1914, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Campbell and Miss Jane Gray of Bolivar, New York, whose father was an oil operator there and at that time mayor of the city. Mr. Campbell belongs to the Toledo Club and to the Inverness Club. He is past president of the Exchange Club, a member of the Toledo Real Estate Board and of the Toledo Builders' Exchange. He has membership in all degrees in the Masonic fraternity and the nature of his interests is further indicated in his connection with the Young Men's Christian Association. In a word, he stands stanchly in support of all those agencies which make for the benefit of the individual and of the community at large, seeking ever to promote the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of both city and state. Mr. Campbell's residence is at No. 3221 Collingwood avenue. FRED A. CROSSETT Fred A. Crossett, one of the best known hotel men of Toledo and the middle west, is proprietor of both the Eastwood Hotel and the Hotel Monticello. He displays the qualities of the pioneer in management, inasmuch as he employs initiative resulting in new ideas in the care of the hostelries under his direction. Mr. Crossett is of Canadian birth. He was born at Eastwood, Ontario, January 6, 1886, and is a son of Dr. Andrew and Mary Ann (Bedford) Crossett, the former devoting his life to the practice of medicine. In the public schools of his native country Fred A. Crossett began his education, which he continued later in Ohio, and in early manhood he devoted three years to teaching school. He was afterward connected with the United States weather bureau at Little Rock, Arkansas, for a period of two years and for an equal time engaged in the real estate business in that city. He returned to Toledo in 1909 to enter the real estate business, in which he was engaged for eight years. He turned his attention, however, to hotel interests in 1914, when he became manager of the Madison Hotel, of which he had charge until 1919. In 1918 he opened the Eastwood Hotel, thus engaging in business independently, and in November, 1919, he purchased the Hotel Monticello, of both of which he remains proprietor. He is a prominent figure in business circles here and is the secretary-treasurer of the Toledo Hotel Men's Association and district vice president of the Ohio. Hotel Association. Mr. Crossett was married July 19, 1922, to Miss Helene Esther Brien, a daughter of Dr. Augustus A. E. Brien of Manchester, New Hampshire. By a former marriage Mr. Crossett has a daughter, Dorothy Virginia Crossett, who was born March 26, 1915, in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Crossett has membership with the Gideons, with the Ohio Hotel Men's Association, with the Toledo Yacht Club, the Toledo Automobile Club and with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is also a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Izaak Walton League of America and a most enthusiastic angler. In fact, if Mr. Crossett has a hobby, it is his great interest in his recreational pleasures of fishing and hunting. His fishing outfit is one of the most modern and TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 71 complete owned by any Toledo angler and has been recently augmented by a glass cabin cruiser. His hunting equipment is equally Complete. He spends several months each year in the hunting and fishing regions of the north. Moreover, Mr. Crossett is identified with the Greeters Association of America and with the Young Men's Christian Association. He is keenly interested in athletics and especially in the work of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. In the foregoing are indicated the nature of his interests and the rules and principles that govern his conduct. He is interested in those forces which make for the uplift of the individual and the benefit of mankind at large and permeated. by the spirit of good cheer and kindliness, he sheds around him much of the sunshine of life. JOSEPH LAMBERT TILLMAN Joseph Lambert Tillman is the president of the Maumee Malleable Castings Company, controlling two of the important iron and steel manufacturing concerns in the state. James Russell Lowell said that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of a man, and certainly the great plant of the company stands as a monument to the business ability, initiative and progressive spirit of Mr. Tillman, whose indefatigable energy has at no time declined a call to labor or to service. Toledo is proud to number him among her native sons, his birth having occurred March 25, 1866. His parents, Frank and Regina (Johnson) Tillman, were both natives of Belgium and in early life came to America, settling in Toledo, where the father learned the meat business and afterward became a wholesale meat dealer, conducting an extensive and successful enterprise. He died in Toledo in 1905, his widow surviving until 1909. They were the parents of five children : John, Mrs. Theresa Vollmayer, Joseph L., Mrs. Fannie Nagle and Frank. At the usual age Joseph Lambert Tillman became a pupil in the parochial schools of this city, pursuing his studies to the age of thirteen, when necessity seemed to demand that he start out in the business world. He afterward attended night school to further his education and better qualify for life's practical and responsible duties. In the meantime he secured employment with the Merchants Dispatch & Transportation Company and after a brief period he left that position to enter the employ of the Bostwick-Braun Company, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware, their establishment being now one of the largest of the country. Mr. Tillman's original position with that corporation was in the shipping department and for more than thirty years he remained as a most substantial and faithful employe of the company, working his way upward through various departments and winning promotion from time to time until he was occupying a position of large responsibility. Later, however, he resigned to organize the Buckeye Boiler Skimmer Company, later the Industrial Steel Casting Company, also the Maumee Malleable Castings Company, all of which have become large industries of Toledo, operating extensively and successfully. Mr. Tillman is the president of the Maumee Malleable Castings Company and of the Industrial Steel Casting Company and is resident and treasurer of the Buckeye Boiler Compnay, also president and treasurer of the Wine Railway Appliance Company and secretary and treasurer of the iamond Theatre Company. His business activities thus cover a wide scope and he has become recognized as a dynamic force in connection with the industrial and commercial development of the city. He brings system and order into all that he 72 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY undertakes and his business methods are thoroughly progressive and, moreover, will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. On the 25th of November, 1891, Mr. Tillman was married to Miss Katherine Nagelbrecher of Toledo, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Nagelbrecher. They have become parents of twelve children : Angela ; Ralph, who married Miss Mildred Gessler ; Lambert J., who is factory manager with the Wine Railway Appliance Company and is mentioned elsewhere in this work ; Theresa, secretary and treasurer of the Adamson Company, wholesale jewelers of Toledo ; Mrs. Florence Snyder, who resides in Toledo and has two children, Sally and William ; Joseph L., Jr., who was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and is now vice president and mechanical engineer of the Industrial Steel Casting Company and who married Miss Hildegard Hering ; Cecilia, who is now with the Adamson Company ; Raymond L., a student in the University of Notre Dame ; Katherine, who was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1922, has taken up chemistry and nursing at St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo ; Robert, who is attending St. Johns University ; and Bernice and Beatrice, twins, who are students in the Notre Dame Academy. The religious faith of the family is that of the Roman Catholic church and Mr. Tillman is a third degree member of the Knights of Columbus, in which he has filled all of the chairs. His political allegiance is given to no political party, he being absolutely independent. He was appointed a member of the new charter commission of the city of Toledo and a commissioner of city planning. He was also made a member of the committee on canal investigation and is doing active work along the line of public service. During the World war he took a most helpful part in promoting all the loans .and was chairman of the fifth district draft board. He belongs to the Merchants & Manufacturers Association, is identified with the Art Museum and has membership in the Toledo Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. The interests and activities of his life are varied, bringing a well balanced development, and there is no phase of substantial city progress that seeks his aid in vain. At the same time he is a resourceful and representative buiness man, controlling large interests whereon the material growth of Toledo depends. His residence is on River road. DAVID MAYER KABLE David Mayer. Kable, 'proprietor of four of the leading lunch rooms in Toledo and treasurer of the General Fireproof Storage Company of this city, has ever manifested a notable alertness and enterprise in the conduct of business affairs and has won a substantial measure of .success as the result of his close application and ability. Mr. Kable is a native of Indiana, his birth having occurred in Knox county, that state, February 17, 1866, his parents being James Williams and Mary (Mayer) Kable. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died in Kansas in 1889. The youthful days of David M. Kable were spent upon the old homestead farm where he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring ,for the crops. His educational opportunities were those afforded by the public schools and when his textbooks were put aside he concentrated his efforts and attention upon farm work and so engaged until 1893, when he went to Peoria, Illinois, where he began working in a restaurant and there learned