550 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY and has been for over twenty years an attorney for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company. While reading law with Lutes & Lutes at Tiffin, Ohio, a firm composed of Nelson B. Lutes and his wife, Nettie Cronise Lutes, Mr. Seiders met Miss Edith Sams, who was then practicing law in partnership with Miss Florence Cronise, a sister of Mrs. Lutes. Mr. Seiders and Miss Sams were married on May 1, 1883, at Tiffin, Ohio, and about a month after Mr. Seiders had commenced practicing law at Paulding. Miss. Sams was admitted to the bar of Ohio in December, 1881, and was the first woman admitted to practice in that state by the supreme court. Miss Sams was the fourth child of Alexander Brannen and Marianna Stuart Sams, both of English birth, her mother being a lineal descendant of the royal house of Stuart of Scotland. Mr. Isaac Sams, the grandfather of Mrs. Seiders, came to this country from England in 1824 and established Rock Hill Academy at Ellicott City, Maryland. In 1834 he removed to New York city and there reopened his school, but in 1835, his health having become impaired by overwork, he acquired one thousand acres of land adjoining the town of Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, and in that year removed thither with his family. After the recovery of his health he became the head of a boys' school at that place and continued so for a number of years. He took a great interest in education and everything pertaining thereto, and was during the remainder of his life a member of the board of county examiners. He opened a library and reading room at Hillsboro, was the means of establishing teachers' associations and educational publications, and in many ways, by his culture and energy lifted educational standards in southern Ohio. Being Episcopalians Mr. (Isaac) Sams and his two sons (the uncle and father of Mrs. Seiders) took a leading part in organizing an Episcopal church in Hillsboro, and, in 1853, in the erection of the beautiful Episcopal church at that place. The memorial window placed in the church to commemorate the names of the founders contains the names of the grandfather, uncle and father of Mrs. Seiders, together with five others. Her grandfather was senior warden from the time of the establishment of the church until his death on December 1, 1878, while her father was secretary of the vestry from the time of its establishment until his removal to Tiffin in 1869. Mr. Alexander Brannen Sams, father of Mrs. Seiders, was educated in New York city as a pharmacist, and lived there until 1848, when he, too, came to Ohio, where he met Miss Stuart, who, with her mother, was then making a tour of this country, and they were married shortly after. They lived at Hillsboro, a part of the time on his father's farm and a part of the time engaged in the hardware business and also as collector of internal revenue, until 1869, when he purchased a drug store at Tiffin, Ohio, and removed there, where he died in 1893, having survived his wife eight years. Both of the parents of Mrs. Seiders were not only well educated but liberally so. After their children were of school age Mrs. Seiders joined with her husband in the practice of law at Paulding, Ohio, under the firm name of Seiders & Seiders, and so continued until December, 1896, when Mr. A. M. Waters was associated with them under the firm name of Seiders, Seiders & Waters, and when, in November, 1897, Mr. Seiders removed to Toledo, Mrs. Seiders and Mr. Waters continued the business at Paulding until December, 1898, when the family removed to Toledo. She did not resume the practice in Toledo. While living at Paulding she was elected a member of the board of education and served the full term of three years, being also elected clerk throughout her whole term. Aside from holding the office of village solicitor for one term at Paulding, during TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 551 the first years of his practice, and being a member of the board of education at Toledo from March 5, 1906, to June 15, 1908, at which time he resigned, and during the greater part of which period he was president of the board, Mr. Seiders has neither held nor sought political office. His only diversion has been the study of history, on which subject he has accumulated a library larger than any other private historical library in the city of his residence. After removing to Toledo, Mr. and Mrs. Seiders became identified with the Unitarian church, Mr. Seiders being for nearly fourteen years a member of the board of trustees of the First Unitarian church of that city and, for nearly, all of that period, its president. He is a member of the Toledo Club, Toledo Commerce Club, Toledo Automobile Club, Toledo Museum of Art, the American Historical Association and the Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association. Mrs. Seiders is a member of the Toledo Women's Association and the Women's Educational Club. They have two children living : Marian D., who married Dr. W. Frank Maxwell, and has a son, Gregory W., born July 25, 1917, in Toledo ; and Seth, who is in the advertising business at Chicago and who is married and has a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born April 10, 1910. Mr. Seiders' residence is at No. 1632 Wildwood road. CHARLES S. NORTHUP Charles S. Northup of the law firm of Tyler, Northup, McMahon & Smith, with large and important practice at the Toledo bar, was born in Lexington, Michigan, November 12, 1868, his parents being Dr. Myron and Annie Adelaide (Herson) Northup, who were natives of Steuben county, New York, and of Ontario, Canada, respectively. They became residents of Michigan after the Civil war. The father had served as assistant surgeon until 1863, when on account of illness he received an honorable discharge. He afterward engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Lexington, Michigan, and at Port Huron, that state, his last days being spent in the latter city, where he departed this life in 1904. He served as mayor of Port Huron, being elected by the largest vote ever given a candidate up to that time. He also was president of the local medical society of Port Huron for twenty years until his death. His widow survived him for seven years, her death occurring in Port Huron in 1911. They were the parents of a son and a daughter, the latter being Mrs. Lincoln Avery, now living in Port Huron. Charles S. Northup was largely reared in Port Huron and after completing his studies in the public schools there, he entered the University of Michigan in order to pursue the study of law and received his LL. B. degree at his graduation with the class of 1889. He began practice in Port Huron, where he continued until 1896, when he removed to Toledo. Through the intervening period of twenty-seven years he has been very active in the profession here and is today a member of one of the strongest and best known law firms of the city. He has been highly successful in his profession and is numbered among the ablest lawyers of the Toledo bar, where he has been connected with much important litigation. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the Toledo University, while in 1905 he was elected city solicitor and prior to that time served as assistant city solicitor, having been first called to the office in 1902. He has never lightly regarded a public duty but has discharged every obligation 552 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY with capability and fidelity and the worth of his work has been widely acknowledged in Toledo. On the 27th of November, 1903, Mr. Northup was married to Miss Alice Delia Bachelder of Galion, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Bachelder. Mr. and Mrs. Northup have four children: Kathryn Marie, a junior in Wellesley College ; John D.; Spencer ; and Annette. These children were all born in Toledo. Mr. Northup belongs to the Ohio State Bar Association and also to the Toledo Bar Association, of which he was president in 1908-9. His political endorsement has always been given to the republican party but he has never been exclusively partisan. He was the first chairman of the civil service commission here. Mr. Northup is a Mason and in club circles is well known, being a member of the Toledo Club, the Inverness Club, the Maumee River Yacht Club, the Toledo Automobile Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He ranks with the foremost residents of the city by reason of his high standing as a lawyer, his loyalty and interest in public affairs and his possession of those qualities which make for high regard and strong friendship. Mr. Northup's residence is at No. 3248 Collingwood avenue. GEORGE W. MILLARD The name of Millard has figured in connection with the Toledo bar for fifty-five years, for George W. Millard of this review, has for twenty-eight years practiced in. this city, while his father, Judge Irwin I. Millard, became a representative of the legal profession in Toledo in 1867. Since that date the name has ever been a synonym for the highest standards of professional service and the closest observance of professional ethics. Judge Irwin I. Millard was born in Richland county, Ohio, December 9, 1838, and a life of intense and well-directed activity and service to his fellowmen was ended on the 24th of December, 1907, when he passed away in Toledo. He was of English lineage, his ancestry being traced back to Thomas Millard, who left Birmingham, England, in 1681 to become a resident of the new world. He made the voyage to America in one of the ships of the fleet that brought William Penn to this country and he was in the company which established Philadelphia, where the home of the Millards was maintained for several generations, Judge Millard being of the sixth generation in the new world. His grandparents were the Rev. Thomas and Hannah Millard, the former a Methodist preacher, who engaged in missionary work in the days of Ohio's early development and acquired a tract of government land in Crawford county, this state. He was an intimate friend of the distinguished Peter Cartwright. Rev. Thomas Millard and his wife were laid to rest on the portion of the ground which they took up from the government many years ago. The parents of Judge Millard were Joseph and Molly (Immel) Millard, the former a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He learned the miller's trade and for a number of years operated a flour mill at Lodi, Ohio, there remaining until his death in 1857. Both he and his wife were buried in Crawford county. Judge Millard, the youngest, of a family of three sons, spent his early youth in Wayne county, Ohio, and after leaving the public schools attended the Fredericksburg Academy between the ages of seventeen and twenty years, although teaching during a portion of each year. On the 11th of August, 1861, he responded to the country's call for further troops to aid in the preservation of TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 555 the Union and joined Company I, of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving under Colonel Moses Dickey with the army of the Ohio, being stationed much of the time at Bowling Green, Kentucky, until his never robust health succumbed to the hardships of war and by order of the regimental surgeon he was mustered out on account of physical disability in 1862. Though for a time his life was despaired of he afterward recuperated and resumed the profession of teaching at Weilersville, Ohio. He came to Toledo in 1863 and for a time was employed as clerk in the recorder's office and for one year was deputy recorder. He next became bookkeeper for Alonzo Goddard, consignee of the Erie Railroad line of steamboats and the Miami & Erie Canal line in Toledo. A desire, however, to become a member of the bar prompted him to take up law studies in the office of Bissell & Gorrill, attorneys of Toledo, with whom he remained until the spring of 1867, when he was admitted to the bar and at once formed a partnership with his former preceptors. He thereafter continued in the active practice of law until 1891 and for many years was regarded as a most distinguished figure at the Lucas county bar, being retained as counsel ,for the prosecution or defense in many of the most notable cases tried in the courts here. He soon gained a firm hold upon the respect and affectionate regard of his fellow townsmen by reason of his splendid personal characteristics and his ability as a lawyer, so that when he became a candidate for the office of probate judge in the fall of 1891 he was elected by a very large majority and was three times reelected, being continued in the office for twelve years. His entire service was truly satisfactory to the public and in this connection the Bar Association at the time of his death said : "Judge Millard as probate judge was always courteous and attentive and to those seeking advice or counsel with reference to estates or 'zither matters in his court he was always kind and sympathetic and ready to advise. Not only was he an impartial and careful adviser, counsellor and friend, but as a judge required to pass on important controversies and questions of law and fact, he showed conspicuous ability. While on the bench he was called upon to decide many important matters of law involving new and close questions. His opinions in such and in fact, all cases calling for statement of reasons from the bench were models of judicial clearness and reasoning. It was very rare that any decision of Judge Millard was reversed. It is safe to say that no man in Lucas county ever retired from the probate bench more universally esteemed than Irwin I. Millard. The regard of this community for his memory was shown by the universal expression of sorrow at his death and the great outpouring of people at his funeral." Judge Millard was married on the 12th of March, 1863, to Miss Mary Catherine Keller of Weilersville, Ohio, a daughter of George and Susannah (Meyers) Keller. She was born in Crawford county, Ohio, in September, 1843, and died June 25, 1894. Judge and Mrs. Millard were parents of seven children : Irwin G.; George W.; Edna G., the wife of John Ehni ; Clara M.; Fred J.; Ralph B.; and Edith B., all residents of Toledo. The daughter, Clara M., became an attorney and was the first woman admitted to the bar in northwest Ohio. She held the position of deputy in the office of the probate judge for twenty years. George W. Millard, the second, son, whose name introduces this review, was born in Toledo, December 24, 1872. He studied law with the firm of King & Tracy of this city and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He entered upon the practice of his profession in which he has made steady progress during the nearly thirty years in which he has been a representative of the Toledo bar. In 1904 556 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY he became a partner of his father in active practice under the firm style of Millard & Millard, and so continued until 1907, when Judge Millard passed away. George W. Millard has since practiced independently and his career at the Toledo bar has been a most creditable record of achievement. Mr. Millard is a member of the Knights of Pythias and also of the Commercial Club, while along the line of his profession his connection is with the Toledo and Ohio State Bar associations. A lifelong resident of this city he has always manifested a keen and helpful interest in everything pertaining to Toledo's growth and development and to the maintenance of its civic standards. LEONARD C. PRICE Leonard C. Price, secretary of the Toledo Real Estate Board, is widely and favorably known in this city, in which he has resided for many years, and his career has at all times marked him as a citizen of worth. A native of Canada, he was born in Erin, Wellington county, May 20, 1875, and his parents were William and Louise (Brown) Price, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Canada. In early life the father emigrated to Canada, establishing his home at Erin, where he resided until 1882, when he crossed the border into the United States and came with his family to Toledo. While living in Wellington county he became the owner of two well developed and highly cultivated farms but after coming to Toledo he abandoned active business pursuits, enjoying a well earned rest. Both Mr. and Mrs. Price have passed away. Their family numbered six children : Leonard C., Frampton and Dr. J. C. Price, all of whom are residing in Toledo ; Robert N. Price of St. Thomas, Canada ; and Mrs. S. F. Boville and Mrs. J. T. Copeland, who live at Battle Creek, Michigan. Leonard C. Price acquired his education in the public schools of Plainwell, Illinois, and during his boyhood he worked for a year and a half at the Chicago Club in the metropolis of the middle west. For a time he was connected with the Toledo office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and then turned his attention to the real estate business, entering the service of the Irving B. Hiett Company, with which he was associated for five years. He next became sales manager and secretary for George E. Pomeroy, resigning at the end of three years to accept the position of sales manager for the R. B. Witsey Company, and he remained with that firm for four years. He soon became recognized as an expert valuator and negotiated many important realty transfers. He has converted unsightly vacancies into beautiful residential districts and subdivided that portion of the city which is now known as Wildwood. After disposing of his business interests he was urged to become secretary of the Toledo Real Estate Board and for four years has filled this office for which his experience and ability well qualify him. The fact that he has been chosen for this responsible position indicates his high standing in real estate circles of the city and his course has been highly commended by members of the board. He also has other business interests, being secretary and one of the directors of the Lucas County Mortgage Company, secretary of the Realty Board Investment Company and a director of the Witsey Realty Company. At Watford, in the province of Ontario, Canada, on the 11th of May, 1907, Mr. Price was united in marriage to Miss Maude Gree, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 557 William Gree, and they have three living children ; Janet Maude, who .was born in October, 1910, and is now attending school ; Leonard Gree, who was born in 1915 and is also a public school pupil ; and Evan Lloyd, born in August, 1918. A daughter, Esther Louise, died in 1918, when seven years of age. Mr. Price is a member of Trinity Episcopal church and his political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party. In civic affairs he has ever taken a deep and helpful interest and during 1914 and 1915 he served as one of the park commissioners of Toledo under appointment of Mayor Carl Keller. He is a member of the Toledo and South Side Chambers of Commerce, the Real Estate Exchange and the National Realtors Secretaries Association. He is secretary and treasurer of the last named organization and is also a member and secretary of the Exchange Club. His business record has been marked by steady advancement and his success is entirely attributable to his own efforts. He is a most loyal supporter of his city because of his belief in its opportunities and his enthusiasm finds expression in effective work for its upbuilding and improvement. FREDERICK JESSE REYNOLDS Frederick Jesse Reynolds, chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Toledo and closely identified with financial, railway and other corporate interests, was born in Jackson, Michigan, August 25, 1857, son of Colonel Sheldon C. and Martha A. Reynolds, a sketch of the father appearing elsewhere in this publication. Frederick Jesse Reynolds, having attended the Toledo public schools, with later courses of study in business and collegiate institutions, became a clerk with the grain commission house of Reynolds Brothers and after five years was admitted to a partnership in the business, remaining in active connection therewith until the firm withdrew from the grain trade. He broadened the lines of his activities in harmony with his father's interests and investments and in 1887 became vice president and general manager of the Toledo & Michigan Belt .Railway Company and was its chief managing executive until it was absorbed by the Michigan Central Railroad. His active connection with the First National Bank dates from 1897, when he was elected to the directorate and in 1898 was chosen vice president. In 1909 he succeeded Schuyler C. Schenck to the presidency, serving until 1923, when he became chairman of the board. On the 4th of October, 1882, in New York city, Mr. Reynolds was married to Miss Ida Louise Stone, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Jane (White) Stone. Mrs. Reynolds' death occurred in Pasadena, California, February 12, 1915, while with her husband and daughter she was sojourning on the Pacific coast. She had become the mother of four children : Harold Sheldon, mentioned elsewhere in this work ; Natalie ; Dorothy; and Kathryn. The daughters attended the Dobbs Ferry School for Girls in New York. Natalie became the wife of Roland A. Spitzer, who died May 20, 1916, leaving two children : Philip Adelbert and Frederick Reynolds Spitzer. Dorothy became the wife of Joseph W. Robinson ; and Kathryn was married June 14, 1916, to Augustus Barrett Richardson. Mr. Reynolds has membership in the Produce Exchange of New York, also in the Toledo Commerce Club and his appreciation of the social amenities of life indicated in his identification with the Toledo Club, the Toledo Country Club, the 558 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Middle Bass Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, also the Bankers' Club of New York city and the Ohio Society of New York. He is a Consistory Mason and in Trinity Episcopal church, in which he has long held membership, he is serving as a vestryman. Following in the footsteps of his honored father, he has long maintained high standards in connection with the financial and business development of Toledo and in support of all those forces which make for the upbuilding, progress and improvement of his city. WALTER G. KIRKBRIDE Walter G. Kirkbride, a partner of the well known law firm of Denman, Kirk-bride, Wilson & McCabe, has practiced before the Toledo bar for more than twenty years. He was born at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of January, 1881, a son of Joseph A. and Annie B. (Loftus) Kirkbride. His parents removed to Findlay, Ohio, when he was a boy and in the schools of that city he received his early training, while his college course was pursued in the University of Michigan. He completed the law course in that institution and won his LL. B. degree in 1900. In 1902 he was admitted to the bar and since that time has been licensed to practice in the United States courts. His progress in his profession has been continuous and has brought him to a prominent position among the successful attorneys of the city, where the firm of Denman, Kirkbride, Wilson & McCabe is regarded as one of the strongest combinations at the Toledo bar. On the 21st of June, 1904, Mr. Kirkbride was married to Miss Alice Harrop and they have become parents of three children : Alice, Esther and Mabel. Fraternally Mr. Kirkbride is a Mason, having attained the Knights Templar degree in the York Rite and die thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. His political endorsement has always been given to the republican party and he closely studies the vital questions and issues of the day. Mr. Kirkbride belongs to the Toledo Club and to the Inverness Club, and he is also a member of the Toledo, the Ohio and the American Bar associations. He stands for all that is progressive in community affairs and at all times for the highest standards of American citizenship. His residence is at No. 2439 Scottwood avenue. ORR B. BOVARD One of the chief manufacturing enterprises of Toledo is that of the Pinkerton Tobacco Company, of which Orr B. Bovard is president and sales manager, and the fact that he has been selected for these important positions is proof of his enterprise and business acumen. He was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1866, and his parents, James C. and Mary (Orr) Bovard, were also ' natives of the Keystone state, in which they spent their lives. Mr. Bovard attended the grammar schools of his native town and the high schools of Allegheny and Pittsburgh and after starting out in life independently he became connected with manufacturing interests of Pittsburgh and later of New York city. In 1909 he came to Toledo and has since been identified with the Pinkerton Company, manu- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 559 facturers of the Sunshine cigarettes and other high grade brands of tobacco, for which there is a large demand. This is one of the most important industries in Toledo, five hundred employes being utilized in the operation of their factory. Mr. Bovard is serving as president and sales manager, in which connection he has instituted many well devised plans for the extension of the business, and his intelligently directed efforts have materially promoted the success of the concern. In 1900 Mr. Bovard was united in marriage to Miss Kate Pinkerton of Zanesville, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton of that place, and they have become the parents of four children : Harriet, a native of DuBois, Pennsylvania; Katherine, who was born at Zanesville, and is attending Oberlin College; John W., a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a pupil at the James Franklin school of this city ; and Robert Orr, who was born in Toledo and is also attending that school. Through his connection with the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Bovard does all in his power to promote the welfare and prosperity of the city. He is also a member of the Toledo Club, while his political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party. In his business career he has held closely to the rules which govern strict integrity and unabating industry and he brings to his various duties in life a keen mind and a broad intelligence, which are the basis of his success. ELLSWORTH M. BEARD Ellsworth M. Beard, a member of the Toledo bar since 1890, his entire professional career being characterized by steady progress, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, February 17, 1862, his parents being Philander C. and Lucetta (Manville) Beard, both of whom were natives of Ohio and spent their lives in this state. The father at the time of his death was the oldest Toledo attorney and had been a distinguished representative of the Ohio bar for almost a half century. He was born in Morrow county, this state, March 4, 1829, his parents being Reuben and Eliza Beard, who on removing from the east settled in Ohio, just after the opening of the great Northwest Territory. They were representatives of the best type of American citizenship and while living the circumscribed life of the very early pioneer they still found time for mental improvement. Philander C. Beard spent his youthful days in the log cabins of that period and experienced all of the hardships and privations incident to frontier life. His parents gave him every opportunity possible, however, to attend the district schools and as the result of his perseverance and determination he worked his way steadily upward until he was qualified to teach. He then devoted several years to the profession in Morrow and surrounding counties and still ambitious for further educational training became a student in Oberlin College. When a year had passed he resumed the work of teaching, and becoming imbued with a desire to enter the legal profession he devoted his leisure hours while teaching to the study of law, so that he was admitted to the bar in 1852. In the meantime he had had some experience, in the work of the courts, having been elected justice of the peace for Bennington township in 1850. For a number of years Mr. Beard continued in the active practice of law in Morrow, Knox and Delaware counties, there remaining until 1878, 560 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY when he came to Toledo and later with his son, Ellsworth M., organized the law firm of Beard & Beard. It was but natural that a man of Philander C. Beard's early training and environment should become a lover of liberty and a stanch opponent of slavery. For many years in ante-bellum days he was one of the strong abolitionists of this part of the country and his home became one of the stations for the famous underground railroad whereby many a slave was assisted on his way to freedom and liberty in Canada. Mr. Beard was equally zealous in behalf of the temperance cause, realizing how many of the human race are practically slaves to the alcohol habit. He became a most earnest worker in the cause of temperance and did everything in his power to further the movement, making speeches against the liquor traffic throughout northwestern Ohio. He did this even at a time when it was extremely unpopular and had its effect upon law practice but as the spirit of temperance grew and developed his attitude upon the question brought to him the support of many in a professional way. His life was ever characterized by the principles of Christianity and he held membership in the Washington Street Congregational church from 1884 until his death, which occurred in 1910. He ever sought to follow the example of Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minister and his Christian example remains as an inspiration and a benediction to many who knew him. In early manhood Philander C. Beard was united in marriage to Miss Lucetta Manville, who departed this life on January 28, 1914. They were the parents of eight children, two of whom have passed away, while those living are : Reuben A., a minister, who is now pastor of the First Congregational church of Fargo, North Dakota ; Mrs. Loma McCune of Toledo ; Vernon VCharles, ain New York city; Charles,.a resident of Pennsylvania ; Roland A., located in Tulsa, Oklohoma and Ellsworth M. Ellsworth M. Beard has membership in the "Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations, and merits in notable degree the respect and confidence of his colleagues and contemporaries. On the 12th of July, 1892, Ellsworth M. Beard was married to Miss Lillian E. Donnelly, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Donnelly of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Beard have three living children : William E., who is in the purchasing department of The Toledo Chevrolet Company ; Mrs. Dorothy Aiken ; and Ruth, now a student in Scott high school. In politics Mr. Beard is a republican and he belongs to the National Union but his chief activity outside of his profession is in connection with the church. He belongs to the Washington Congregational church and was assistant superintendent of the Marion Lawrance Sunday school under Marion Lawrance for some twenty-five years. WESLEY CHOATE THORNBURGH Wesley Chcate Thornburgh, a member of the well known bond house of Blanchett, Thornburgh & Vandersall, was born in Seneca county, Ohio, August 28, 1888, and is a son of Dr. Rollo W. and May (Seitz) Thornburgh. The father ranks with the leading physicians of the city and a more extended mention of him will be found elsewhere in this work. Following his graduation from one of the high schools of this city in 1905, Mr. Thornburgh was employed along mercantile lines until January 1, 1911, when TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 563 he joined the brokerage firm of Hoehler, Cummings & Prudden as a salesman, remaining in their' service until the 1st of January, 1916, when the business was dissolved. He then entered the Security Savings Bank in the bond department, but at the end of a year severed his connection with that institution to embark in business independently and in 1917, in association with F. C. Hoehler, he engaged in the bond business, and they conducted their interests, under the style of F. C. Hoehler & Company. Subsequently the partnership was discontinued and the present firm of Blanchett, Thornburgh & Vandersall was organized. They specialize in the sale of municipal bonds and other high grade investment securities. They are known to be men of integrity and reliability, with broad experience along investment lines ; they have had no difficulty in securing a large and representative clientele and are classed with the representative bond houses of Toledo. Their offices are at No. 301-5 Second National Bank building. On the 2d of September, 1914, Mr. Thornburgh was married to Miss Ruth McNulty, a daughter of Edward F. McNulty of Danville, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburgh have become the parents of a son, Robert Wesley, who was born in Toledo, June 25, 1915. In all matters of citizenship Mr. Thornburgh is loyal, progressive and public-spirited and during the World war he was active in promoting the Liberty Loan campaigns and other measures promulgated by the government at that time. He is a republican in his political views and is a member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club and the Inverness Club. He is a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and an exemplary representative of the craft. Throughout his career he has closely applied himself to the work in hand, giving his best efforts to each task that he has undertaken, and the years have chronicled his growing success. Mr. Thornburgh is well known in Toledo, where his life has been spent and where many of his best friends have been acquaintances from boyhood. Mr. Thornburgh's residence is at No. 519 Nottingham terrace. OLIVER S. BOND Oliver S. Bond, as chairman of the board of the Merchants & Clerks Savings Bank of Toledo is an outstanding figure in the financial circles of the city. He has steadily developed his talents and improved his opportunities in the course of an active business career, and step by step has advanced, ever contributing to the fortunes of Toledo in the promotion of one of its foremost financial institutions. Thus there have come to him "the blest accompaniments of age—honor, riches, troops of friends." He is now one of Toledo's most venerable residents, having passed the ninety-second milestone on life's journey, his birth occurring on his father's farm near Richmond, Indiana, June 29, 1831. His parents were William Commons and Hannah (Locke) Bond, and the former was a son of Jesse Bond, who devoted sixty years of his life to preaching the gospel as a representative of the Quaker faith and died at the age of eighty-four. His grandfather in the maternal line was William Locke, who was also heard proclaiming the gospel teaching at the Quaker meeting house in Economy, also for about sixty years, and he, too, had attained the age of eighty-four when he was called to his final rest. The family adhered strictly to the tenets and teachings of the church for a most extended period and Oliver S. Bond, at the age of sixteen, was serving as clerk of the meeting in the old meeting house which stood on his father's farm. His father 564 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY was one of the substantial residents of that community, living quietly and unostentatiously on the old homestead, commanding the respect of neighbors and friends by reason of an upright life and fidelity to every duty. The family has always been noted for longevity. Nathan Bond, an uncle of Oliver S. Bond, celebrated his sixty-seventh marriage anniversary in July, 1887, and an aunt, Ruth Nicholson, her golden wedding in 1886. An uncle, John A. Locke, also celebrated his golden wedding anniversary in 1887. All of these people lived on neighboring farms in eastern Indiana, the Bond family occupying one homestead near Richmond for more than a century. They came of English and Scotch ancestry, as did the Commons family, and on coming to America the family home was established near Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The maternal ancestors of Oliver S. Bond, the Lockes and the Mills families, likewise came from England and settled near Baltimore, Maryland. It was Jesse Bond, the grandfather, who removed west about 1800, his being the first white family to cross the Whitewater river at Richmond, Indiana, for permanent settlement. The youthful experiences of Oliver S. Bond were those of the farm bred boy and after attending the district schools in the winter seasons for some time he supplemented his early training by two terms' study in the Whitewater College. Throughout his life he has been a reader and student and often while working in the fields he would carry a textbook with him, and when a period of rest came he would improve his time by reading. On leaving home at the age of nineteen years he went to. Peru, Indiana, where he was employed by the firm of Smith & Crowell, who not only sold to the early settlers of the neighborhood but also traded extensively with the Miami Indians, who were still numerous in that locality. Mr. Bond became quite friendly with the red men and relates many interesting incidents concerning his association with them and their habits of life and thought. In 1854 he left what was then the western frontier and went to New York city, where he spent two years in a wholesale dry goods and notions house and he also traveled throughout the western territory, making collections and soliciting trade. He took up his abode in Toledo in 1856 and for two years he was employed as a salesman and collector by the firm of Bell, Deveau & Company and its successor. On the 15th of July, 1858, as a partner of William B. Messinger, he opened the first exclusive boot and shoe house in Toledo, under the firm style of Messinger & Bond. The company's trade covered a very wide territory around Toledo and Mr. Bond had been associated with the business for twelve years when he sold out. In the meantime he had entered the field of banking by becoming a director of the Northern National Bank and during 1878 he was elected vice president and acted as president of the institution, while Mathew Shoemaker, the president, was in California. It was during this time that Mr. Bond developed a plan to open in Toledo a bank exclusively for savings. In this connection a contemporary writer has said : "The institution of which he is now the honored head was not born in a single night. It was a product of wise experience and many months of critical investigation of the principles and methods of saving institutions as conducted in New England. While in the east his arrangements for the enterprise were so far advanced that much of the requisite capital was subscribed by his personal friends and relatives. Then on returning to Toledo he brought about the organization of The Merchants & Clerks Savings Institution as it was first known, and the organization was completed on February 10, 1871. Some of the bank's history should be introduced into this sketch as quoted from a handsome pamphlet published in 1911, soon after the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 565 first bank edifice was completed and at the fortieth anniversary of the institution's history. " 'Early in 1871,' to quote this article, 'the Merchants & Clerks Savings Bank had its inception. Organized as the Merchants & Clerks Savings Institution, by Oliver S. Bond, who interested a large number of his friends and citizens in the. enterprise, the capital was fixed at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and what stock was not subscribed for in Toledo was immediately placed with about fifty of the capitalists and retired merchants of New England, of whom it was stated several years later in one of the bank's advertisements that anyone of them could assume and pay the entire deposits of the institution. " 'The bank was first located in the rear of the room occupied by the Northern National Bank at 99 Summit street. A small part of the room was set aside and Oliver S. Bond, the newly elected treasurer, who for the first few months was treasurer, teller, bookkeeper and messenger all in one, opened the bank for business February 10, 1871. It was stipulated that Mr. Bond was to furnish a suitable room, safe and counter for the bank's use free of all expense to the bank, and after the business was well started in July of that year, to partly repay him, he was al. lowed a salary of eight hundred dollars a year. " 'The Toledo of forty-five years ago was a little city with great expectations. The federal census of 1870 had given it a population of nearly thirty thousand, or about the present size of Lima or Lorain, and after the usual fashion of properly ambitious American towns by the time the bank was opened Toledo was claiming at least five thousand more. The period of history of the Merchants & Clerks Savings Bank between 1871 and the present day (1916) is reflected by the history of the city during that time. The bank grew and its influence for sound and conservative business methods were stamped on the community. The panic of 1873 was a test of strength and endurance of all the banks of the United States. Fortunately this young institution, fortified with real capital and guided by men of courage and determination, withstood the shock of that year and came unscathed through the six depressing years following. " 'Matthew Shoemaker, then president of the Northern National Bank and a man with a wide reputation for business experience and conservatism, was made the bank's first 'president. He continued in office and the bank prospered, moved to a larger room of its own at 78 Summit street, and accumulated deposits of over two hundred thousand dollars ; when, in 1884, after thirteen years of service, during which, thanks to his fidelity and sound advice, the bank had been placed on a firm foundation and was already gaining for itself the reputation of a conservative and safely managed bank, Mr. Shoemaker retired, owing to advancing age, and was succeeded by John A. Moore. " `Mr. Moore remained its president until 1888, when Oliver S. Bond, who had been treasurer of the institution since its foundation, was elected president, and continues in that office at the present time. Mr. Bond thus has the enviable distinction of having acted as an executive officer of a bank for the longest period ever served by such an official in Toledo. He is the only one of the original incorporators and the only member of the first board of directors now living. " 'E. Louis Schomburg succeeded Mr. Bond as treasurer (title changed to cashier in 1891). Mr. Schomburg entered the service of the bank as messenger October 1, 1872, and has occupied at one time and another every position of trust in the bank except that of president. His energies have been directed to building up 566 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY the institution, and in appreciation of his long and faithful service, the directors elected him vice president in 1903 (a position he still retains in 1916). " 'Mr. Schomburg continued to hold the two positions of vice president and cashier until January, 1905, at which date Walter C. Bond, who had heretofore held the office of assistant cashier, was chosen cashier, and although at that time the youngest bank official in the city, he proved his executive ability and to him is due the credit for the new building into which the bank has just moved. Persistently presenting before the board of directors the handicap under which the bank was working in its cramped and uninviting quarters, he persuaded them to remodel the old building into an up-to-date banking room, and in less than nine months Ater the demolition of the old building had been started, the new quarters were completed and the bank had moved into them. " 'In 1891 it seemed that the time had arrived to widen the scope of the bank's business. The city had increased in population and was enjoying the prosperity that came. to northwestern Ohio through discovery of oil and natural gas. The institution surrendered its old charter and changed its title to The Merchants & Clerks Savings Bank. The building at 338 Summit street was purchased by the bank and so remodeled that, according to a newspaper clipping of that time, it was the finest building on Summit street. Here the bank moved in the fall of 1891, and in its new location opened a commercial department and prepared to do a general banking business, having heretofore restricted itself entirely to saving accounts. The spring of 1893 found the country in the throes of a financial panic, during which the banks were tested as to their real strength and foundation ; labor was thrown out of employment, and the general depression was aggravated by short crop years. These trying times showed conclusively how solidly and with what conservatism the affairs of this bank were being managed ; and the years of prosperity which followed the depression proved that the community was appreciating its safe and careful policy.' "Some figures taken from the different bank statements in the past forty-five years will graphically illustrate its progressive growth and widening influence. In its first year, 1871, its deposits aggregated about twenty-seven thousand dollars. Five years later the deposits reached more than a hundred thousand dollars, and in 1881 they stood at a little more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fifteen years later, in 1896, in spite of the several years of financial panic just preceding, the deposits were more than six hundred thousand dollars, and in 1902 the deposits passed the one-million-dollar mark." On January 15, 1923, the deposits were two million, two hundred eighty-one thousand, nine hundred thirty dollars and seventy-two cents ; the capital stock one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a surplus fund of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Bond remains in association with the bank as chairman of the board, although for a number of years he has left active management and control to others. On the 23d of December, 1863, in New York city, Mr. Bond was married to Miss Clara A. Raymond, the only daughter of Hon. John Raymond. Six children have been born to them, three of whom are living : Harry, residing in California; Eva R., the widow of the late Judge J. W. Schaufelberger ; and Mabel. A great blow came to the family in the death of the son, Walter C. Bond, who passed away April 10, 1913, at the age of thirty years. He had been made cashier of The Merchants & Clerks Savings Bank in 1905, being at that date the youngest bank official in the city, and at the time of his death was still the youngest bank executive in Toledo. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 567 Mr. Bond has traveled extensively in America and Europe, gaining that broad and liberal culture which travel brings. He is a life member of several charitable and benevolent organizations, was one of the organizers of the Toledo Humane Society and has been its treasurer for many years, and also for many years he was a trustee of the Toledo Library Association, before it was merged with the Toledo Public Library. He has ever been interested in those forces and projects which make for intellectual and moral progress and his life has always been an influencing force for good among his associates. There are few men who arrive at his position and at his years. The nine decades which make up the period of his earthly existence have been filled with a useful activity, helpful to his fellowmen and to the city at large. JOHN MATTHEWS McCABE John Matthews McCabe, one of the well known lawyers of Toledo, is a partner in the law firm of Denman, Kirkbride, Wilson & McCabe. He was born on the 4th of February, 1884, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, his parents being Jacob and Charlotte (Matthews) McCabe. He was reared by his maternal grandparents at Delphos, Ohio, and pursued his early education in the schools of that place, while later he attended the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, receiving his LL. B. degree upon graduation from that institution with the class of 1910. Through the intervening period he has devoted his attention to active practice, and while advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, he has been successful and as a member of one of the most prominent law firms of the city he has been connected with much important litigation. He is likewise well known in the educational field, having been an instructor in the Toledo Law School since 1912. He is not only well grounded in the principles of the law but has had wide experience in the courts and is accounted an able advocate and safe counselor. In September, 1912, Mr. McCabe was united in marriage to Miss Leona B. McCabe of Delphos, Ohio, and they have become parents of two children : John Matthews, Jr., and Virginia Pauline. Fraternally Mr. McCabe is connected with the Masons. He also has membership with the Lawyers' Club and his name is on the membership list of the Lucas County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. CHARLES E. BUNTING Charles E. Bunting was born in Salem, Ohio, April 9, 1886, a son of William and Fannie (Brown) Bunting, the former a native of Belfast, Ireland, and the latter of London, England. In early life they came to the United States and the father subsequently became prominently identified with The Ohio Brass Company, of Mansfield, Ohio. He passed away in Atlantic City, in 1916. The mother is still living. In their family were four children, three of whom lived to adult ages : William H., John W., and Charles E. Bunting. The last named acquired his education in the public schools of Salem and Mansfield, Ohio, afterward serving an apprenticeship as a machinist with The 568 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Ohio Brass Company of Mansfield, Ohio. He later was made traveling installation engineer for that firm, filling that position for one year and a half, at the end of which time he became a student in engineering at Ohio State University at Columbus. In 1907 he went to Alliance, Ohio, and aided his father in forming The Bunting Brass & Bronze Company, which in 1910 was removed to Toledo. He is also connected with The Maumee Pattern Company, The Richardson Company, The Toledo Steel Products Company, The MotoWillys-OverlandCompany, The WillysOverland Company, The Northern National Bank, The Conklin Pen Manufacturing Company, etc. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal church, of which he is a vestryman, and has served on the boards of The Toledo Chamber of Commerce, The Merchants & Manufacturers' Association and The Toledo Community Chest. He is a member of the Chi Phi, a college Greek letter fraternity and is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He belongs to the Elks Club, the Toledo Club, the Rotary Club, the Inverness Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. When national issues are at stake Mr. Bunting votes the republican ticket, but at local elections he casts his ballot in favor of the candidate whom he deems best qualified for office without considering party ties. His residence is at No. 3263 Collingwood avenue. FRANK CHARLES SCHMIDT Frank Charles Schmidt, president of the Liberty Highway Company, has been a lifelong resident of this city. He was born November 29, 1886, and is a son of Frank N. and Anna (Ackerman) Schmidt. The father came to Toledo in 1856 and for a time was employed in the post office department of the government service, while later he engaged in the manufacture of perfume. The mother was a native of this city. Frank C. Schmidt was educated in St. Mary's parochial school, in the public schools and in the high school and after his textbooks were put aside he took up the business of perfume manufacturing in connection with his father. In fact, he became identified with the company while still a youth, being but fifteen years of age at the time, and eventually he was made secretary, a position which he occupied for ten years. He next identified himself with the real estate business as vice president and sales manager of the Charles Fox Company and became thoroughly conversant with realty values in this city, having negotiated many important property transfers. He has a wide knowledge of the realty that is on the market and in all of his dealings employed a most energetic and progressive spirit in promoting sales and effecting property exchanges. At length he organized the Frank C. Schmidt Realty Company, of which he is the president and treasurer. During the World war Mr. Schmidt closed his real estate office and after a time organized and put into operation a trucking system for the moving of war munitions at Detroit and Toledo. At the close of the war, which was followed by the railroad strike, he handled a large volume of business which helped very much in keeping a number of manufacturers going, as he could move their goods, furnishing quick transportation. It was in April, 1918, that he organized the Liberty Highway Company, which he developed until he was operating sixty-five trucks TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 571 during the war period. He now operates twenty-three trucks and trailers and in this connection gives employment to one hundred and fifty people. Of this business he is the president, treasurer and general manager. Alert and energetic he seems readily to recognize the possibilities and opportunities of any business situation and his well directed efforts are bringing to him substantial success. On the 5th of May, 1908, Mr. Schmidt was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Mabel Mundwiler, a native of Wood county, Ohio, and they have become the parents of two children : Frances and Marian. Mr. Schmidt belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and has membership with the Chamber of Commerce, thus manifesting his interest in organized effort for the city's upbuilding, the promotion of business relations and the maintenance of high civic standards. In club circles, too, he is well known, belonging to the Transportation Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, and the Maumee River Yacht Club. He has made steady progress in his business career since making his initial step in commercial circles when a lad of fifteen years. Steadily he has advanced through the intervening period and his activities have been of vital worth to the community, especially in the development of his transportation interests through the war period and at a later date when it was necessary to move goods or cause an awful suspension in trade. For three years Mr. Schmidt served as chairman of the republican county central committee of Lucas county. He is a director of the Michigan State Highways Association and is a member of the Board of Control of the Ohio association. LEWIS HENRY CLEMENT An eminent scholar-actor, lecturing to a Chicago audience said : "Theodore Thomas has done more for this city in the way of development than the great Edison interests, the packing industry or any other of the great industrial or commercial activities here found." What Theodore Thomas was to Chicago, Lewis Henry Clement is to Toledo. There is no one who has labored so indefatigably, so effectively and so successfully in establishing and promoting the interests of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra as he. This alone might constitute a life work, but Lewis H. Clement has labored along many other lines whereby musical interests of the country have been promoted. He has long been a prominent figure in the piano trade, not only in the matter of sales but in the matter of protecting the public through honest advertising, through straightforward business methods, not as exemplified only in the stores with which he has been connected but in the great realm of the piano trade at large. He is at once the practical business man and the artist, and gradually through his efforts and the cooperation he has secured Toledo has constantly advanced her standard in music and has reason to be proud of the performances of her Symphony Orchestra. His labors have been of inspirational value, inasmuch as they have made life larger, sweeter and better, for the thousands who have heard the concert performances in which he has been a participating artist. The life story of Lewis H. Clement is an interesting one. Born in Colon, St. Joseph county, Michigan, July 30, 1864, he is a son of Sylvester Nicholas and Corinth (Legg) Clement. His ancestry is traced to France, through Holland, from which latter country Jan Clement emigrated to the United States in 1663. He was an owner of farms in Flatlands, and in Flatbush (now Brooklyn), New York 572 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY city. He married Marie Boquet and had several children. The military records of the Clements in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil war and the Spanish-American war are notable, and in the early settlements of this country along the Hudson river the name of Clement appears all through the records so carefully kept in the Dutch Reformed churches of those days. Lewis H. Clement has in his possession the original pay roll lists of Lieutenant Aaron Clement in the War of 1812 and the original of several of the wills of those early pioneers, including that of the first settler above, Jan Clement himself. Lewis H. Clement has said "If there is one outstanding trait in the Clement family it is a most wholesome respect for truth and probity. There is something distinctive, it seems to me, in the record of a family which, if it has made enemies, has done so in defense of truth or the denunciation of deliberate crookedness. This may be seen in the fact that the only time my father ever whipped me, except as a parent boxes a child's ears, was because I had lied to him. He simply would not tolerate a lie, and it is a characteristic trait of the family to stand for things which count. My own motto is this : `The greatest thing in the world is truth.' " Sylvester Nicholas Clement, father of Mr. Clement of this review, removed from his native city of Livonia, New York, to Michigan in 1836, after the death of his parents, which occurred when he was seven years of age. He accompanied an older sister to that state and eventually there became a farmer and breeder of blooded stock, being especially a lover of fine horses. Later he engaged in buying and shipping wool, grain and other produce and lived an active, useful life covering eighty years. His wife, who was born in Naples, New York, accompanied her parents to Michigan in the pioneer days of 1836. She was a woman of great natural refinement and love of the beautiful and from her Mr. Clement undoubtedly inherited his artistic nature, while at the same time he possesses the strong business qualities that characterized his father. After pursuing his studies in the schools of Colon Lewis H. Clement continued his course in the high schools of Homer and of Union City, Michigan, and for one term he taught a district school. His musical talent, which he early manifested, was cultivated by study in the Chicago Musical College, and violin with Edward Heimendahi and others, harmony and counterpoint with Albert A. Stanley of the University of Michigan and with Francis L. York of the Detroit Conservatory of Music. From boyhood he has been a constant student of the best in music and literature and the first dollar that he ever earned in his boyhood days was spent for a cheap copy of Shakespeare's complete works. After graduating from high school and teaching for a term he went to Chicago, where he obtained a position with the Illinois Central Railroad in order to continue his music studies under capable teachers. Soon afterward he was employed in the office of the city weighmaster and later by John S. Gould & Company, wholesale grocers, as bill clerk. There during a period of three years he was promoted to entry clerk, "figuring profits," city buyer and assistant on the books. He managed to continue his musical studies by carrying his lunch, of which he hastily partook, and taking a forty-five minute lesson during the noon hour, while his practice was pursued at night. Later he secured a position with Hurlbut & Company, wholesale dealers in tailors' trimmings, as assistant bookkeeper and credit man, there remaining until his marriage, after which he filled in a few months' time before entering in business for himself in the book department of The D. & M. department store on State street, where he was made city buyer during the sixth week of his connection with the establishment. In 1886, following his marriage, Mr. Clement carried out a long contemplated TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 573 plan of entering business on his own account and with the assistance of his father he purchased the piano and music store of Alvin Wilsey at Ann Arbor, Michigan, continuing in the retail music trade there for about two years, after which he was made secretary and manager of the newly incorporated Ann Arbor Organ Company, organ manufacturers. The two interests were consolidated and Mr. Clement managed both the factory sales department and the retail piano and music store. In 1896 he sailed for Europe and established agencies for the Ann Arbor organs in London and in Liverpool. His connection with Toledo began in 1900, when he was made manager of the Whitney & Currier Company, an old established music and piano house of this city. Here he took a deep interest in a movement then being fostered by Mr. A. W. Kortheuer, to establish a symphony orchestra, acting as secretary and treasurer and playing first violin until his removal to New York in 1905. In the latter year he was offered a position by Steinway & Sons as salesman in their New York warerooms and a year later was made New York manager of the old piano house of Mason & Hamlin of Boston, building and opening the warerooms of that company on Fifth avenue in New York, where he remained as manager for five years. In 1911 W. H. Currier, then president of the old Toledo house of Whitney & Currier, desiring to retire, suggested that Mr. Clement return to Toledo as president of the house of which he had formerly been manager. The plan was consummated and he remained president until 1915, when he sold his interest to Grinnell Brothers of Detroit, who continued the business under their own name. With every practical phase of the business Mr. Clement has been closely and prominently associated. In 1908 he began a campaign in the piano trade to do away with fraudulent advertising. Through speeches, pamphlets and in other ways he waged a vigorous educational campaign, the result being that he was sent to Washington by the National Association of Piano Merchants with letters to President Roosevelt, the attorney general and the postmaster general to see what could be done to make effective laws to prevent and punish fraudulent advertising. Two years later he was elected president of the Piano Merchants National Association and, continuing the campaign, was made a member of the National Vigilance Committee, Associated Advertising Clubs of America, speaking before many advertising clubs on "Fraudulent Advertising—Can It Be Prevented ?" He assisted in drafting the Printers' Ink model statute against fraudulent advertising and developed interest and secured the passage of the bill in Ohio, which was the first state in the Union to pass it. In 1911 he was elected president of the Toledo Advertising Club and the following year was chosen vice president of the Central Division Associated Advertising Clubs. It was also in 1912 that he was elected president of the Ohio Piano Merchants Association. In 1915 he took up advertising as a profession and has since been engaged in that business, specializing in financial advertising, and in this, as in other lines with which he has been connected, he has held to the highest professional standards. He is now president of the Bond Outdoor Advertising Company and his initiative and broad vision have enabled him to introduce many new ideas and ideals in connection with the profession. At Homer, Michigan, on the 12th of May, 1886, Mr. Clement was married to Miss Carrie May Green, a daughter of Harry S. and Mary (Ketcham) Green. Her father was a boot and shoe merchant of Homer and for a number of years was the leader of the choir in the Methodist church, in which Mrs. Clement served as organist from early girlhood to the time of her marriage. Her brother, Charles H. Green, No. 105 West Fortieth street, New York, was the important member 574 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY of the directorate in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco and served in connection with other similar exhibitions, notably the great New York silk shows. To Mr. and Mrs. Clement have been born two daughters, Eva Belle and Elsa May, both skilled pianists, while the latter is also a well known vocalist. In politics Mr. Clement has usually allied himself with the republican party where national questions and issues are involved but was a "Bull Mooser" and delegate to the state convention and also treasurer of the Lucas county campaign when Roosevelt—"the foremost American"—headed the ticket. Mr. Clement was the seventh member admitted to the Toledo Rotary Club. He belongs to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, to the Toledo Advertising Club and to the Toledo Yacht Club and he is a Knights Templar and Consistory Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. 'His church connection is with the Disciples of Christ. Perhaps his greatest public work has been in connection with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He has not only contributed to the excellence of the performances but has done perhaps more than any other one man to create public opinion in support of this organization. In this connection the editor in chief of the Toledo Times wrote : "In the possession of a remarkable aptitude or unusual endowment for music, Lewis H. Clement, director of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, is not a genius. At least, not according to the common interpretation of that word. But if genius also can stand for perseverance ; if it can mean continuous effort toward a given goal ; if it can be defined as the ability to meet each new problem with a fresh determination to succeed, then Lewis Clement has genius. In the creation of a symphony orchestra for Toledo, Mr. Clement did not wait for opportunity to knock. He did not delay launching the project until philanthropic gifts made the way easy. Being a practical business man he realized the uncertainty of this course. Being a man of vision he saw the great educational possibilities of a musical organization of this nature and sensed its immediate need. And being a leader among men he perceived that these conditions made the opportunity, of which he took possession, and inaugurated Toledo's symphony orchestra. Many obstacles have confronted him in this worthy civic undertaking. He has not been discouraged. Lack of funds, opposition from unexpected quarters and internal dissension have been encountered. He has refused to give up. Knowing his cause is right Lewis Clement is carrying on. Toledo has a symphony orchestra which is a credit to the city. If given the proper support it will continue to develop and will prove of inestimable value in the musical education of the community. As a factor in elevating civic ideals it will be on a par with Toledo's other great institutions of learning." His work in connection with fraudulent advertising has been a most valuable service to his fellowmen, but in the promotion of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra he has given to the city something of the greatest inspirational value, its elevating influence being immeasurable. From childhood he manifested exceptional natural talent for music but, born on a farm, did not have the early opportunity to develop this talent to its utmost. Almost from the first day he heard the great Theodore Thomas orchestra as a youth in Chicago, he determined to do what he could to help other talented persons to have a chance to develop their talent. While in Ann Arbor he directed the college orchestra, then known by the Indian name, The Chequamegon Orchestra, and added much pleasant and profitable musical experience to the college days of many a young student. In Toledo, as early as 1900, he began to advocate and assist in the movement for a permanent symphony orchestra and in 1911, following his return from New York, where he had come into close contact with the big orchestras and leading musicians, he began again to