TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 625 as in hospital experience. In 1902 he returned to Toledo, where he has since engaged in general practice and has steadily advanced in his profession. During the World war he received a commission as a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps and specialized in neuro sciatic treatment. He was located at Fort Houston, Texas, and at Camp Funston, where he was discharged in 1919. He has since remained in Toledo, specializing in nervous diseases, being recognized as one of the foremost representatives of this branch of the profession. He is also physician for the treatment of nervous diseases in the United States War Veterans' Bureau and in addition he has a large private practice. He is a member of the staff of St. Vincent's Hospital and is likewise on the staff of the Toledo District Nurses Association; and belongs to the Toledo and Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Dr. Tait holds membership in Sanford L. Collins Lodge, F. & A. M., the American Legion, and the Toledo Automobile Club. WILLIAM A. BRIGHAM William A. Brigham, first vice president of the Home Savings Bank of Toledo and long active and prominent in the commercial and financial circles of the city, was born in Toledo on the 21st of September, 1853, and is a son of Mayor and Malinda P. (Merrell) Brigham, who are mentioned at length on another page of this work. The family has been associated with the city from early pioneer times and for almost threescore years and ten William A. Brigham has been a witness of the development and progress that has transformed Toledo from a little village into one of the great commercial and cosmopolitan centers of the middle west. He pursued his studies in the public schools to the age of fifteen years, when, feeling a desire to enter upon a gainful occupation, he obtained employment with N. M. Howard & Company, grain merchants, remaining with that firm for two years. He was afterward in the employ of Cray & Rood and later became chief bookkeeper in the wholesale grocery house of Emerson & Company, with which he was associated for eight years. On the expiration of that period he became connected with the Woolson Spice Company and bent every energy toward the further development and upbuilding of the business, of which he became vice president and finally president. His labors were a forceful element in making this one of the largest coffee-roasting houses in the United States and one of the most important shipping firms in Toledo. This business was incorporated in 1882, at which time .Mr. Brigham was elected to the first board of directors and was made chairman of the examining committee, which position he filled until 1885. In that year he entered more actively into the business management of the company as secretary and assistant manager and this position he occupied until 1897, when he was elected general manager. After two years' service in that connection he left the business in smooth working order, with the details systematically arranged, and decided to retire, but in June, 1909, he resumed an advisory connection with the company as vice president and director. Some years ago he became a director of the Home Savings Bank and a member of its executive committee and he is today the first vice president of that institution, so that his name has long been a familiar one in both commercial and financial circles. His indefatigable energy has declined no call to labor or service until in recent years, when he felt that his intense 626 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY activity of former years entitled him to a period of relative rest ; to a considerable degree, therefore, he has put aside active business affairs. On the 22d of September, 1875, Mr. Brigham was married to Miss Cora Frances Steele, a lady of liberal education and inherent culture and refinement. They have two daughters : Cora Steele, who is the wife of Truman H. Mitchell; and Bessie, the wife of James C. Anderson, both daughters being residents of Toledo. Mr. Brigham has given his political allegiance to the republican party since casting his first presidential vote and has ever kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day, supporting his position by intelligent argument. His opinions are based upon a thorough understanding of the question at issue, derived from close study of all points which he deems essential to national existence and to public welfare. In former years he was identified with a number of the leading clubs of Toledo but has retired from active connection with all except the Toledo Club. He has always been known as a man of unfailing courtesy and of most kindly spirit, capable and resourceful in business, loyal in citizenship and actuated by a progressive spirit in every relation of life. CHARLES L. REYNOLDS Charles L. Reynolds, president of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, has been an official of that institution for over thirty-seven years and long .an outstanding figure in banking and business circles of Toledo. The record of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company shows continual development and expansion along the lines in which progressiveness is balanced by a safe conservatism—a policy which has been instituted and fostered by Charles L. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds came to Toledo from Jackson, Michigan, where his birth occurred March 29, 1851, his parents being Wiley R. and Mary (Terry) Reynolds. The father was also an interested factor in Toledo business affairs, although he maintained his residence in Jackson, where he conducted a milling business and also was one of the partners in the dry goods establishment, which was carried on under the firm style of W. R. & S. C. Reynolds. The death of Wiley R. Reynolds occurred in Jackson in October, 1900. The mother of Charles L. Reynolds passed away when he was about twelve years of age. Charles L. Reynolds attended the public schools and continued his education in Racine College, at Racine, Wisconsin, and in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He arrived in Toledo on the 1st of April, 1869, and soon afterward entered into close association with the grain and milling business here conducted by his father and uncle, under the firm style of Reynolds Brothers. At first he occupied a clerical position and then became his father's successor in the business and a partner in the firm about 1875, the old firm style of Reynolds Brothers, however; being maintained until it went out of existence in 1908. Mr. Reynolds had in the meantime entered banking circles, giving his time more and more largely to financial interests and for a number of years his attention has been directed to the management of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, which was established in 1868 and with which he has been officially connected since 1886, becoming its president in 1906, a position which he has occupied ever since. He has directed the destiny of the bank and established its policy in large measure, TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 627 while the continued growth of the institution is proof of the soundness of his judgment and the enterprise which actuates him in all of his business affairs. He is one of the largest stockholders of the Second National Bank of Toledo and was formerly a director in the old Merchants National Bank, which was merged into the Second National, of which Mr. Reynolds has since been a director. He likewise represents the directorate of the Toledo Scale Company and is the president of the Merrill Manufacturing Company, while his cooperation is a valued asset in the profitable management of a number of other important financial and business concerns of this city. On the 6th of June, 1878, Charles L. Reynolds was married to Miss Annie Groff, who passed away December 4, 1906, a few weeks after returning with her husband from a trip abroad. She had been a leading figure in social circles in Toledo and for many years was a consistent member of Trinity Episcopal church. By her marriage she became the mother of three children: Lawrence G. and Donald L. were educated in St. Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire, and in Yale University, and Lawrence G. is now connected with the Bostwick-Braun Company, wholesale and retail hardware merchants of Toledo, while Donald L. is connected with The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company ; an only daughter, Annie, attended Miss Peebles School of New York city and is now the wife of Rt. Rev. Robert L. Harris, Episcopal bishop of the Marquette diocese. They have one child, Rosalind, and by a' former marriage Mrs. Harris had one son, Charles R. Macomber. Mr. Reynolds has long been identified with St. Mark's Episcopal church of Toledo and his membership connections extend also to the Ohio Society of New York and to various clubs of this city, including the Toledo, the Toledo Country, the Toledo Yacht, the Chamber of Commerce and the Toledo Automobile clubs. In his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers, but keeping his hand steadily upon the helm of the banking business, with which he has been so long identified. His personal characteristics and social qualities are pronounced and he is an acceptable companion in any society in which intelligence is a necessary attribute to agreeableness. Mr. Reynolds' residence is at No. 2040 Collingwood avenue. FRANK M. DOTSON Frank M. Dotson is one to whom the opportunities of life have always furnished a stimulus for indefatigable efforts and successful achievement. Life has ever been to him worth while and he has found joy in accomplishing his purposes, whether his acts have taken him into the field of public service or to the arena of legal battle. The practice of law has been his real life work and he is now city law director of Toledo, having been appointed to that office on January 1, 1922. Ohio numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred November 2, 1861, on his father's farm, where now stands the town of Hume, in Allen county. His parents were Samuel and Hester Ann (Bowsher) Dotson, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, the father being of English and the mother of Alsatian descent. In early life they were residents of Pickaway county, Ohio, but were married in Allen county and subsequently lived for a time in Ross county. They afterward returned to Allen county, where they resided until 1869, 628 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY when they took up their abode on a farm in Auglaize county, the father devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits until some years later, when he established a. furniture business at Cridersville, there continuing in business for a time but later retiring from active life. He served as a soldier of the Union army in the Civil war, being for three years under the command of General Sherman, and held the rank of orderly sergeant. He died at Hume, Ohio, in 1900, and for almost two decades was survived by his wife, who passed away at that place in 1918. In their family were the following children, but the third in order of birth has passed away. They were : Mrs. David T. Barton and Rufus M., who are residents of Lima, Ohio ; Frank M., of this review ; Mrs. Isaac P. McClure, who died in 1911 ; Mrs. E. A. Spees of Lima ; Mrs. A. V. Cawood of Robinson, Illinois ; Mrs. William Reed of Fort Worth, Texas ; and Justice A., a resident of Lima, Ohio. The youthful experiences of Frank M. Dotson were those of the farm bred boy, who early learns many valuable lessons with nature as his teacher, while he acquires a knowledge of the fundamentals of education in the district schools. Mr. Dotson later attended the public schools at Whiteman and then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed successfully through the succeeding seven years. Later he entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, pursuing there the scientific course and also prepared for the bar, being graduated from that University with the LL. B. degree, as a member of the class of 1888. The following year he was dean of the law department at his Alma Mater, but resigned that position to remove to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was admitted to the bar and engaged in practice, being for a time a partner of Charles G. Dawes, afterward comptroller of the currency under President McKinley and recently in charge of the financial budget at Washington under President Harding. While at Lincoln, Mr. Dotson, in association with Mr. Smith, also a well known attorney there, organized a law class of twenty-five students and conducted this under the name of the Central Law School. Two years later it was formally adopted as a department of the State University and thus he had an important part in creating the present University Law School of Nebraska. With his return from Nebraska to Lima, Mr. Dotson was admitted to the Ohio bar and entered into partnership with Ira A. Longsworth, under the firm style of Longsworth & Dotson. There he remained until April, 1892, when he came to Toledo, where he has since engaged in practice, steadily advancing to a position in the foremost ranks of the leading attorneys of this city, devoting his attention largely to real estate and corporation law, being a recognized authority on these branches of jurisprudence. He is also the president of the Lindsay Banking Company and for a number of years has been prominently known as a representative of banking interests in this city. Other business interests have also felt the stimulus of his cooperation and benefited by his sound judgment and unlike many men who are prominent in the profession, he seems to possess marked business and executive ability. He is now a director of law in the Toledo University Law School and is city counselor of Toledo. On the 30th of November, 1892, Mr. Dotson was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite Nungester of Lima, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Nungester. She passed away September 7, 1894, leaving a daughter, Hazel Marguerite, who was born in Toledo, in September, 1894, and was educated in the schools of this city and of Northfield, Massachusetts. She is now the wife of Justice B. Shurtz of Toledo. For his second wife Mr. Dotson was married to Miss Helen Grace Whitlock, at Garrett, Indiana, on the 21st of August, 1895. She is a daughter of Mr. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 629 and Mrs. Jefferson R. Whitlock. There are two children of this marriage : Helen Ruth, who is a graduate of the Ohio State University and is now the wife of Howard G. Courtnay of Cleveland ; and Marian Constance, who was graduated from the Scott high school of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Dotson are members of the Collingwood Presbyterian church and he is identified with various organizations representative of cultural or uplift work. He is connected with the Toledo Art Museum, with the Toledo Research Club and with the Young. Men's Christian Association. He is also identified with the Commerce Club and he belongs to both the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations. His political endorsement has always been given to the republican party and in 1914-15 he served as a member of the city council. He was the attorney who framed the Dotson street railway franchise, which, however, was defeated in the election of 1915. He has served as chairman of the city cleanliness committee and of the Workhouse farm committee, all of which indicates his interest in activities which effect the public welfare, his influence being always on the side of reform, advancement and improvement. He responds readily to every call of duty and public service and his labors have at various times been effective forces in the attainment of desired results. DAVID E. DERBY Toledo finds an enthusiastic advocate in David E. Derby, who is serving as vice president of the Ralph B. Smith Company, prominent operators in real estate, and his deep interest in the welfare and progress of the city has found expression in effective efforts in its behalf. He was born in Toronto, Canada, December 17, 1884, and is a son of William J. and Margaret (Smith) Derby, the latter also a native of Canada, while the former was born in Connecticut. When quite young the father went to Canada and in the early '80s he established his home in Syracuse, New York, becoming connected with the L. C. Smith Typewriter Company. He is now acting as sales manager for that firm and is still a resident of Syracuse. Mrs. Derby is living and four children have been born of their marriage, one of whom has passed away. Those living are : Mrs. Charles Cooper, of Toronto, Canada; Mrs. Margaret Shirley, who is residing in Ontario, Canada ; and David E. The public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and Toronto, Canada, afforded David E. Derby his early educational opportunities and later he entered Toronto University, which he attended until 1900, when ill health forced him to abandon his studies. His initial experience along business lines was gained with the L. C. Smith Typewriter Company of Syracuse, New York, and after spending a year in their office at Grand Rapids, Michigan, he was transferred to the Cleveland branch of the firm. He remained in that city for seven years and after severing his relations with the company he came to. Toledo, becoming connected with the sales department of the Willys-Overland Company, with which he was identified for five years. In 1918 he joined the Ralph B. Smith Company and two years later was chosen to fill the office of vice president, in which connection he has voice in the management of one of the leading real estate firms of Toledo. He has made a close study of the business and nothing escapes him concerning the realty market. In development projects he has not only studied present needs and conditions, but has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities of the future and in the 630 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY control of his interests he has worked toward making Toledo a most attractive and desirable place of residence. At Cleveland, Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1908, Mr. Derby was united in marriage to Miss Essie Ellis, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ellis of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Derby have one child, Dorothy, who was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1910, and is attending the public schools of Toledo. Mr. Derby is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Toledo Real Estate Board, while his political support is given to the platform and candidates of the republican party. He is a self-made man who has constructed his own success and the force of his personality, the keenness of his insight, and the soundness of his judgment have brought him to a position of prominence in real estate circles of Toledo. His labors have been a direct agency in the improvement and upbuilding of the city, in which he is widely known and highly esteemed. ARTHUR BURR TAGGART A representative of one of the pioneer families of Ohio, Arthur Burr Taggart is prominently identified with manufacturing interests of this city as secretary and general manager of the Toledo Glue Appliance Company and has become recognized as a sagacious and enterprising young business man who has already won a substantial measure of success, although he has not yet reached the age of thirty years. He was born in Canton, Ohio, March 17, 1894, and is a son of James Arthur and Mary L. (Lyon) Taggart, who are also natives of the Buckeye state. The father is now living retired in Washington, D. C. The mother is a resident of Toledo. Arthur Burr Taggart, their only child, attended the grammar schools and the Central high school of Toledo and after completing his education began assisting his father, who was then engaged in the manufacture of heavy machinery, gaining a comprehensive knowledge of this line of work. Following the retirement of James A. Taggart the subject of this review has continued in this business, in which he has been very successful, and is now secretary and general manager of the Toledo Glue Appliance Company. The concern manufactures machinery for preparing and applying glue for all purposes and has developed a very large trade in this connection, its output being shipped to all parts of the world. From fifteen to thirty persons are employed in the operation of the plant and the special type of machinery which the concern manufactures is applicable to many uses. Mr. Taggart has made an exhaustive study of the subject and has published the result of his investigations, being the author of "The Glue Book" and the "Glue Manual," which are now used extensively as textbooks in a large number of schools and which have had a large circulation both in this country and abroad. On the 6th of June, 1917, Mr. Taggart was married to Miss Lula W. Sallume, a daughter of Dr. N. N. Sallume, a well known physician of this city. A son, Arthur Burr Taggart, Jr., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Taggart on April 14, 1922. They are members of the First Congregational church of Toledo and in politics Mr. Taggart maintains an independent attitude, placing the qualifications of a candidate above all other considerations. He is a junior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club and is a Knights Templar Mason, while in the Scottish Rite Consistory he has taken the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 633 thirty-second degree. He enlisted for service in the World war and was commissioned at Camp Hancock. He was with the Signal Corps at Washington, D. C., and later was transferred to the aviation department. He is an unusually capable and progressive young business man whose well developed powers have placed him among the foremost representatives of industrial interests in the city, and judging from what he has already accomplished the future holds for him unlimited possibilities. EARL HAMPTON WADE Earl Hampton Wade, secretary-treasurer of the B. F. Wade Sons Company, printers and binders of Toledo, is a native son of the city, his birth having occurred on the 7th of April, 1878, his parents being Benjamin F. and Margaret Jane (Tate) Wade. The father was long a conspicuous figure in the business circles of this city and was the founder of the B. F. Wade Company, owning and controlling a printing and bookbinding establishment which was developed into one of the chief enterprises of this character in the city. The little shop was constantly enlarged, its equipment augmented and the business grew and developed year by year until it took its place with the important productive industries of Toledo. Earl H. Wade obtained his early education in the public schools of Toledo and afterward attended the Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897. With his return home he became associated with his father in the business of the B. F. Wade Company and after receiving thorough training in this line was elected secretary and treasurer, in which official connection he continues. He has acquainted himself thoroughly with the business and his efficiency in solving intricate and involved business problems has constantly increased. It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but in considerable measure he has contributed to its growth and development in recent years and has become an acknowledged power in printing and binding circles in Toledo. On the 8th of February, 1902, Mr. Wade was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Betts of this city and their social position is an enviable one, their circle of friends being almost coextensive with their circle of acquaintances. Fraternally Mr. Wade is a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and loyally follows the teachings and purposes of the craft, which are based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. In club circles lie is well known, having membership in the Rotary, the Inverness and the Sylvania clubs. MARTIN S. DODD With a nature that can never be content with mediocrity Martin S. Dodd has thoroughly qualified himself for law practice and is successfully conducting important work in the courts, his devotion to his clients' interests being proverbial. He has always made his home in Toledo, where he was born July 21, 1880, a son of Major E. S. and Annie (Acklin) Dodd, who were natives of Michigan and of Kentucky, respectively. They became residents of Toledo in the early '70s and 634 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY were married in this city in 1878. The father was a distinguished lawyer, who served as prosecuting attorney of Lucas county and enjoyed an extensive practice in this city for years. He was also chosen to represent his district in the state senate and gave thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement during his connection with the general assembly. He passed away in 1892. His widow still makes her home in Toledo. They were parents of three children : Martin S. ; Grafton, living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Mrs. J. Blinn Stone of Detroit. Martin S. Dodd entered the University of Michigan after completing a high school course in Toledo and finished his law studies in 1902, when he was graduated with the LL. B. degree. Returning to his native city he became associated with Clarence Brown and remained with him for three years, at the end of that time entering into practice with Captain Everitt, continuing for two years. Following that he was in partnership with Mr. Averill for ten years and has since been practicing independently. In a profession where advancement is entirely dependent upon individual effort and merit he has worked his way steadily upward and his comprehensive knowledge of the law, combined with the natural analytical, logical and inductive trend of his mind, has brought him to a place among the more successful lawyers of Toledo. He was appointed assistant law director of the city in 1922, for the present administration, and he belongs to the Lucas County and the Ohio State Bar associations. During the World war Mr. Dodd was a captain of artillery at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. On the 12th of September, 1913, Mr. Dodd was married to Miss Isabel Hewitt, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hewitt, her father having been one of the organizers of the Harnit & Hewitt Company, wholesale .grocers, of which corporation he is now the vice president. Mr. Dodd belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club, is interested in the organized efforts to benefit the city' by concerted action in regard to its adornment and improvement and for the advancement of all those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He belongs also to the Kiwanis Club and the nature of his recreation is indicated in the fact that he is identified with the Sylvania Golf Club and the Toledo Tennis Club, finding in out-of-door sports the necessary balance for his intense professional activity. JAMES E. PILLIOD James E. Pilliod, a widely known Toledoan who spent the greater part of his life in this city, passed away on March 14, 1923, when sixty-three years of age. For a number of years he enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of the most active members of the Toledo bar and prior to prohibition was one of the recognized leaders of the brewery interests of the middle west, being at the head of The Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company, the second largest concern of the kind in Ohio. His birth occurred in Fort Loramie. Shelby county, Ohio, August 17, 1859, his parents being James and Mary Jane (Homer) Pilliod. His grandfather in the paternal line was James M. Pilliod, who came to America from Europe in 1824 and settled on virgin land near Fort Loramie, concentrating his efforts and attention upon the cultivation of the soil and the production of crops. He became one of the successful and highly respected farmers of that locality and as time passed on he added to his holdings and to a large extent colonized the properties with people TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 635 from his native country. He thus added greatly to the growth and progress of the community. He was a man of broad culture and of marked business capacity and he aided materially in the improvement and upbuilding of his section of the state. Before coming to this country he was a soldier under the great Napoleon, serving with the rank of captain. He died in Ohio, at the advanced age of ninety-four years. His son, James Pilliod, was also a native of Shelby county, Ohio, and in 1869 removed to Toledo, where he engaged in the milling business for an extended period but in his later years lived retired, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil. He gained distinction as Toledo's pioneer miller and as the founder of one of the most extensive flour-milling companies in the early history of the city. He passed away in 1890. His widow lives in the old homestead in Toledo, and is more than ninety years of age. She is a remarkably well preserved woman, retaining all of her faculties unimpaired, and she seems to possess much of the vigor and ambition of young womanhood. James E. Pilliod, an only child, came to Toledo with his parents when a small boy and received his early education in a parochial school of this city, while subsequently he entered Canisius College at Buffalo, New York, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1881, when twenty-two years of age. While a college student he manifested an intense interest in languages. He learned to speak five languages fluently and had a limited knowledge of two or three others. After completing his college course he studied law in the offices of a number of Toledo attorneys and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He practiced in partnership with Rathbun Fuller, made rapid progress in the profession and was regarded as one of its keenest representatives, first winning success as a criminal lawyer but later branching into corporation work. From 1882 until 1896 he was recognized as one of the brilliant members of the bar of this city and an orator of splendid ability. In the meantime he had become interested in the politics of Shelby county and soon became a leader of the democratic party there. He continued his connection with the democratic party until 1896, when the platform adopted by the national convention of that party, which declared for free silver, was not to his liking and he declared himself for William McKinley, the republican candidate for president that year. In 1896 he gave up the law, notwithstanding his almost marvelous success, to assume the ownership and management of the Toledo Brewing & Malting Company, in company with John Huebner, the name of the company being changed to the Huebner Brewing Company. This company soon acquired the capital stock of The Maumee Brewing Company and The Schmitt Brewing Company. In 1906 he was the moving spirit in the merger of The Huebner Brewing Company, The Grasser-Brand Brewing Company and The Finlay Brewing Company to constitute The Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company, which became the second largest syndicate of this kind in the state. As head of the new concern Mr. Pilliod guided its affairs until the dissolution of the company after the passage of the National Prohibition Act. He also served as secretary and treasurer of The Woolner Brewing Company until within a short time prior to his death and after prohibition went into effect he spent a small fortune on scientific studies of near-beer formulas and directed the manufacture of non-alcoholic products at his plant on Hamilton street. He was also engaged in the real estate business, acted as secretary of the Joseph F. Kieswetter Carpet Cleaning & Rug Manufacturing Company and was financially interested in many other business activities. His commercial interests and large investments brought to him a very substantial and gratifying return, 636 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY and at the time of his demise a local newspaper characterized him as "one of the most prominent men in Toledo's business life for more than a quarter of a century." He was a thoroughgoing business man who in the development of his interests displayed splendid powers of organization and of executive control. On the 15th of September, 1885, Mr. Pilliod was married to Miss Anna Becker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Becker. They became the parents of six children : Fanny is the wife of Erwin R. Effler of Toledo; Gerard is assistant United States district attorney at Cleveland ; Theresa, a twin of Gerard, is the wife of John F. Kumler, also living in Toledo ; Marie is the wife of L. W. Rohr of this city ; Edmund resides in Toledo; and Charlotte is deceased. Mr. Pilliod was a popular member of the Toledo Club and the Inverness Golf Club, while fraternally he was identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Cathedral Chapel parish. He was a great reader of history, a student of all the advanced sciences, an accomplished pianist and patron of music and art. He had traveled widely, thus adding to his store of knowledge. He made frequent trips to France, Germany and the Netherlands and had also toured Egypt. At his death one of the local papers said : "Mr. Pilliod's sudden passing away will prove a shock to hundreds of Toledoans who knew him personally and to many who had been beneficiaries of his proverbial generosity." OSHEA S. BRIGHAM, M. D. Dr. Oshea S. Brigham is one of the oldest physicians in point. of length of practice in Toledo, for through forty-five years he has been a representative of the profession here and is deserving of special mention in this work because of the valuable service which he has rendered to mankind in the field of his chosen labor. Born in Erie, Michigan, on the 17th of August, 1852, he is a son of Reed M. and Lucy J. (Stowell) Brigham, who were natives of New Hampshire and of Michigan, respectively. The father removed to the Wolverine state in early life and there engaged in farming for many years. Both he and his wife have passed away. Oshea S. Brigham attended the public schools and the Toledo high school, from which he was graduated at the age of seventeen years. He afterward became a student in the University of Michigan, where he completed his course in 1874, winning the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He then went to the east, where he entered the Long Island College Hospital and was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1876. The following year he again came to Toledo, where he opened an office and has since engaged successfully in practice. He is serving on the staff of St. Vincent's Hospital and he has long enjoyed a very extensive and important practice. Great, indeed, are the changes which have occurred in medical and surgical methods since his graduation, but at all times he has kept abreast with the trend of modern thought and scientific investigation and is thoroughly conversant with the latest ideas and theories advanced by the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the country. He belongs to the Lucas County Medical Society, the Toledo Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association and through the interchange of thought and experience there is constantly promoting his knowledge and advancing his efficiency. In addition to his TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 637 practice he is a director of the Toledo Savings Bank but has concentrated his efforts and attention practically upon his work as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Brigham has long been a consistent member of the Washington Congregational church. In 1880 he was united in marriage to Miss Carrie A. Mulhollen of Erie, Michigan, a daughter of Samuel and Frances (Gager) Mulhollen. Dr. and Mrs. Brigham have a son, who, like his father, is now a prominent physician and surgeon of Toledo. This is Dr. Reed 0. Brigham, also practicing in Toledo, where the family name has long been a synonym for high professional standards and marked ability. ANCEL ROY MONROE STOWE Ancel Roy Monroe Stowe, president of the Toledo University and accounted one of the foremost educators of Ohio, was born August 30, 1882, in Walkerton, Indiana, and is a son of Dennis Lowery and Leonora Grace (Monroe) Stowe. From his early boyhood the parents planned that their son should enjoy the benefits of college training and did their utmost to stimulate in him an interest in higher education. He responded to their efforts and after mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of Chicago, where the family home was then maintained, he took up regular collegiate work in the Northwestern University, near that city, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1903, while in 1904 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree, at which time he was but twenty-two years of age. After resident work of a year at Harvard University, that classic old institution conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1905, while Columbia University accorded him the honor of making him a Doctor of Philosophy in 1909. Through the intervening years his attention has been given to the teaching profession. He accepted the position of principal in the Darien Center school at Darien, Connecticut, for the year 1906-7 and in the latter year became principal of the training school of the State Normal at Hyannis, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1909. He then went to Emporia, Kansas, where he was professor of history and philosophy of education in the State Normal School until 1912 and through the scholastic year of 1913-14 he was supervisor of training in the Wisconsin State Normal at Whitewater. He next became active professor of education and psychology and also director of university secondary education in De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. In 1916 Dr. Stowe came to Toledo as president of the Toledo University and his work as administrator and teacher in the school has been of highest benefit to this institution, which is one of the few municipal universities in the United States. Under his guidance the school has made notable advance, gaining rapidly both in influence and prestige in the community and in comparison with other similar institutions. He is a man of ripe scholarship, holding to the highest educational standards, actuated by an unfaltering zeal to advance the interests of the school and render the institution of the greatest possible service in the preparation of the young for the responsibilities and duties of life, which is the real object of education. On the 5th of September, 1907, Dr. Stowe was married at New Canaan, Connecticut, to Miss Marjorie Henry, the second daughter of William and Margaret (Waters) Henry. Dr. and Mrs. Stowe have one son, David Henry Stowe, who was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, September 10, 1910. Dr. Stowe has held mem- 638 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY bership in the Masonic fraternity since 1909 and he belongs to the Congregational church, while his political attitude is that of a progressive republican. He has membership in several educational societies, including the National Education Association, Association of College Teachers of Education, the American Academy of Political Science and the Ohio Academy of Social Science. He likewise has membership in the Commercial Club of Toledo and is the author of a thesis entitled, "English Grammar Schools in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth," which was published in 1909. He was recently elected corresponding academician of the Royal Academy of History and Art, Toledo, Spain. Progress has actuated him at every point in his career and in the educational field he has attained a notable position. IRA ELLIS HUNTER, M. D. The horizon of every man's achievements is fixed by his own capabilities and Dr. Ira Ellis Hunter, who possesses the requisite ability and the equally necessary qualities of industry and perseverance, has steadily progressed in the field of professional service until he now ranks with Toledo's leading obstetricians. He was born at Shiloh, Richland county, Ohio, May 13, 1869, a son of Samuel and Julania C. (Breneman) Hunter, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Huron county, Ohio. Samuel Hunter was a small child when his parents left New York state and came to Greenwich, Huron county, Ohio, where they were pioneers. Samuel was reared to farm work but in his early life followed the trade of carpenter. He also was a gifted musician and was well known in that connection. For many years previous to his death he conducted a mercantile business at Shiloh, Ohio. Both he and his wife passed away at the old homestead at Greenwich, which is now the property of Dr. Hunter, who is deeply attached to the place because of the memories associated therewith. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hunter. Ira Ellis Hunter attended the public schools of Shiloh until he reached the age of ten years, when he went to reside with his grandparents, who were living on a farm near Greenwich. He pursued his studies in the district schools and after completing his course in the Greenwich high school he entered Hiram College at Hiram, Ohio. After leaving that institution he taught school for a year at Greenwich and then became a student at the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1900. He began his professional career at Wooster, Ohio, but was forced to abandon his practice a year and a half later, owing to impaired health. While recuperating he was appointed assistant surgeon for the Soldiers & Sailors Home at Sandusky, Ohio, with which he was connected for twenty-three months, and during that period he completely regained his health. He then came to Toledo, where he has since successfully followed his profession, devoting the greater part of his attention to obstetrical cases, in the treatment of which he has developed expert skill. He is a member of the staff of St. Vincent's Hospital, and East Side Hospital, and visiting physician to Robinwood, Flower, Maternity & Children's hospitals, and his practice has become one of large proportions. Dr. Hunter has been married twice. At Des Moines, Iowa, on June 24, 1903, he wedded Miss Lena Mary Kleinfelder, a graduate nurse and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Kleinfelder, prominent residents of that place. Mrs. Hunter passed TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 639 away in this city, August 20, 1909. On the 24th day of June, 1913, Dr. Hunter married Miss Pearl Belle Langendorf, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Langendorf, members of a well known family of Toledo. Dr. and Mrs. Hunter have two children : Thomas E., who was born July 5, 1915; and Margaret E., born August 15, 1917. Dr. Hunter volunteered for service in the World war, enlisting in the Medical Reserve Corps, receiving the commission of captain, and was stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, during 1918 and 1919. While there he was medical advisor to General Peyton C. March and family as well as the family of Major General Charles T. Menoher, who commanded the famous Rainbow Division in France. Dr. Hunter is well known in Masonic circles, being a member of Yondota Lodge, No. 572, F. & A. M.; Port Lawrence Chapter, No. 161, R. A. M.; Vistula Council, No. 108, R. & S. M. ; St. Omer Commandery, No. 59, K. T.; and in the Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree and is a Noble of Zenobia Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of Maumee Valley Lodge, No. 515, I. 0. 0. F.; Reuel Encampment, No. 250, and Canton. Lucas, No. 3. He is a member of the Toledo Automobile Club and his professional relations are with the Toledo and Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Maumee Medical Society, of which he is president, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. His residence is at No. 2608 Fulton street. THOMAS FERRELL Thomas Ferrell, one of Toledo's wide-awake and progressive young business men, is numbered among the popular automobile dealers of the city and well merited success has attended his efforts in this field. He was born at Hamilton, in the province of Ontario, Canada, June 25, 1888, of the marriage of John R. and Mary (Daugherty) Ferrell, the former also a native of Canada and the latter of Pennsylvania. As a young girl the mother went to Canada and in that country her marriage occurred. She is still living. For many years the father was employed by the Grand Trunk Railroad Company and his death occurred in 1916. They were the parents of five children: John Robert and Norman, both of whom are residing in Toronto, Canada; Longworth, whose home is in Winnipeg, Canada ; and Gordon C. and Thomas, both of Toledo. Thomas Ferrell received limited educational advantages, attending the public schools of Hamilton and Toronto, Canada, and when twelve years of age he became a wage earner, securing work as a messenger boy. After his duties for the day were over he attended night school, being anxious to progress, and as his experience and ability increased he was given positions of greater responsibility and importance. For some time he acted as a traveling salesman, representing various manufacturing firms, and in 1916 he came to Toledo. Shortly afterward he entered the service of the Roberts Automobile Company and after leaving their employ he joined the E. E. Culver Automobile Company. He remained with that firm until 1921 and on the 25th of July of that year organized the Thomas Ferrell Company, of which he has since been the head. They are distributors for the Ford and Lincoln cars in this section, while they also handle automobile parts and operate a garage. Mr. Ferrell keeps in close touch with the advancement that 640 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY is constantly being made in connection with the automobile industry and displays keen discernment and marked executive force in the control of his interests, and his business has become one of large proportions. Mr. Ferrell was married September 16, 1912, to Miss Mary Morrissey of Buffalo, New York, and they have two sons : John Edward, who was born in that city in 1913 ; and Thomas James, whose birth occurred in Toledo in 1916. Both are attending the public schools of this city. Mr. Ferrell is a Roman Catholic in religious faith and when national issues are involved he supports the republican party but at local elections he casts his ballot in favor of the candidate whom he considers best qualified for office. His deep interest in the welfare and advancement of the city has led to his identification with the Toledo and South Side Chambers of Commerce and he is also a member of the Maumee River Yacht Club. HOWARD LEWIS Howard Lewis, of Doyle & Lewis, one of the strongest and most resourceful law firms of the city, was born in Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, on the 18th of October, 1877, son of Charles T. and Dora (Glidden) Lewis. For more than a third of a century the father practiced at the bar of northwestern Ohio, winning distinction, and the family has long occupied a place of social prominence here. Howard Lewis attended the city schools of Toledo until graduated from the Central high school, after which he entered upon a preparatory course in Doane Academy at Granville, Ohio, being there graduated with the class of 1896. He next entered Denison University and received the Bachelor of Arts degree at his graduation in 1900. Entering Harvard as a law student, he was there graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1903 and in the following December he was admitted to practice at the Ohio bar. Immediately afterward he returned to Toledo and entered upon active practice in association with his father and Judge John H. Doyle, who under the firm style of Doyle & Lewis had long been extensively and successfully engaged in law practice in this city. No change occurred in the firm of Doyle & Lewis for many years, or until 1910, when Howard Lewis and his brother, Frank S. Lewis, were admitted to the partnership and on the 1st of January, 1913, they were joined by judge Emery, thus organizing the firm of Doyle, Lewis, Lewis & Emery. In 1907 Mr. Lewis became attorney for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern division of the New York Central Lines. Since then he has become prominently associated with many important corporations and while he has in a way continued in general practice his attention has largely been given to corporation law. He and his partners are not only district attorneys for the New York Central Lines but also for the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, for the Big Four Railroad and for other well-known corporate interests. Howard Lewis is also a director of the Conklin Pen Company, the Fifty Associates Company, the Toledo Sugar Company and other important business interests of Toledo. On the 20th of April, 1910, Mr. Lewis was married to Caroline Melvin Palmer, a native of Fostoria, Ohio, daughter of Melvin R. and Frances (Crockett) Palmer, long prominent in the social circles of this city. Mrs. Lewis has been a resident of Toledo from her infancy and was educated in Miss Smead's School for Girls and at the Mount Vernon School in Washington, D. C. By her marriage she has be- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 641 come the mother of two sons : Howard, Jr., born January 27, 1912 ; and Melvin Palmer, who was born December 25, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are members of the Ashland Avenue Baptist church, in which Mr. Lewis has served as a trustee. He is fond of golf as a means of recreation and belongs to the Inverness Golf Club, the Country Club and the Toledo Club. He also has membership in the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the Sigma Chi, a college fraternity. The circle of his friends is almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintances and he is spoken of in terms of the highest regard in professional circles, in club life because of his kindliness and uniform courtesy, and in the church, where his principles and ideals are manifest in his effective work for the upbuilding of the organization. The family has ever been a synonym for all that is worth while and valuable in the life of Toledo and Howard Lewis has sustained the honored family name. Politically he is a republican and along professional lines has membership with the Lucas County, the Ohio State and the American Bar associations. LOUIS O. BROWN Louis O. Brown, president of the Brown Stamping Company, manufacturers of high-grade metal ware and burial vaults, was born in Genesee county, New York, June 19, 1864, and is a son of Tristram and Maria (Cagle) Brown. The father, Tristram Brown, was born in Genesee county, New York, and was a veteran of the Civil war. The mother was a native of England and came to America in early life. They were married in New York state. The father was engaged in the manufacture of various articles, devoting his life to activity of that character and continuing his residence in the Empire state until called to his final rest. The mother is still living in Canandaigua, New York. Their family numbered six children : Louis 0., Alva H., S. Elmer, Howard, Mrs. Maude Atwater and Mrs. Minnie Steves. Louis O. Brown, the eldest of the family, attended the schools of Genesee county, New York, and pursued a high school course, after which he entered the factory that his father conducted and there learned the business of manufacturing galvanized iron and tinware. The knowledge he thus obtained in early life has stood him in good stead in later years, constituting the basis of his success in his present line of business. In 1895 he came to Toledo and with his brother, Alva H. Brown, established the Brown Brothers Galvanized Iron & Sheet Metal Company, which was later reorganized under the name of the Brown Oil Can Company. This was in 1907 and the business was carried on under that style until 1917, when the Brown Stamping Company was established and under this name the interests have since been conducted, with Louis 0. Brown as the president. The firm manufactures all kinds of high-grade metal ware and its stamping processes add distinction to its manufactured lines. Its methods are thoroughly up-to-date and its progressiveness has enabled the company to advance to a point ahead of that which many manufacturers have attained. Mr. Brown was one of the first directors of the Commercial Savings Bank & Trust Company, serving for eight years, and is today regarded as one of the prominent and representative business men of the city. In March, 1890, was celebrated the marriage of Louis O. Brown and Miss Grace Shoup of Colton, Ohio, daughter of William and Sarah Shoup. Mrs. 642 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Brown passed away July 23, 1916, at their home in Toledo. There were three children of that marriage: T. Owen, who was born in Colton, Ohio, in 1893, was educated in St. John's College and the Toledo high school and is now assistant secretary of the Brown Stamping Company. He married Miss Irene Steiner of this city and they have two children, Bobby and Dick, both native sons of Toledo; Edna is the wife of Amos Kendall and was born in Colton; Mabelle, the younger daughter, born in Toledo, is a graduate of the Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart. Mr. Brown has always voted for the men and measures of the democratic party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, is a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and of the Merchants & Manufacturers Association. He is at all times actuated by a progressive spirit and this has brought him to a point of leadership among the business men of his adopted city. His opinions carry weight among manufacturers and his ideas concerning trade conditions and relations always elicit earnest attention and consideration. He has ever manifested a persistency of purpose that has enabled him to accomplish the object for which he is striving and legitimate success is his, while his entire career illustrates the fact that prosperity and an honored name may be won simultaneously. PAUL L. RAPP Paul L. Rapp, an enterprising and aggressive young business man of Toledo, is prominently connected with commercial activities of the city as local agent for The Texas Company, his carefully formulated plans and untiring efforts contributing to the success of the corporation in this field. He was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, July 19, 1887, and is a son of John W. and Eva (Reed) Rapp, also natives of the Buckeye state, the former born in Muskingum county and the latter in Logan county. The father was reared, educated and married in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and there engaged in the grocery business until 1911, when he sold out and came to Toledo. He is now numbered among the successful grocers of this city, catering to both the wholesale and retail trades, and his business is a very extensive one. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rapp have three children : Ernest J., Albert and Paul L. The last named acquired his education at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and when seventeen years of age was graduated from the high school. On starting out in life for himself he secured work with a railroad company, with which he remained for three years, and he was afterward employed by the Milwaukee Bridge Company. He was next connected with the firm of Worden & Allen, engaged in steel construction work, and subsequently entered the service of the Mineral Point Zinc Company of Depue, Illinois. In October, 1919, he joined his father and brother, Ernest J. Rapp, in establishing the J. W. Rapp Company, distributors of petroleum products for The Texas Company, their territory comprising eight counties in northwestern Ohio. In the dual executive capacity of treasurer and manager Paul L. Rapp devoted every effort toward the legitimate expansion of the business, which greatly profited by his intelligently directed efforts. The J. W. Rapp Company did a large jobbing business and also supplied oils and petroleum products in carload lots to lake steamers, railroads and automobile industries. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 643 On the 15th of November, 1922, the business was purchased by The Texas Company, which corporation Mr. Rapp has since represented as local agent. On the 8th of May, 1912, at Decatur, Indiana, Mr. Rapp was married to Miss Ella Schneider, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Schneider, and they have become the parents of two children : Elizabeth, who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1914 ; and Virginia, whose birth occurred in Detroit, Michigan, in 1916. Mr. Rapp is a Mason and he is also a member of the Toledo Automobile Club, while his political views are in accord with the tenets of the republican party. Throughout his career he has closely applied himself to the work in hand, giving his best efforts to everything that he undertakes, and the years have marked his progress along lines which lead to success, while his integrity, industry and ability have won for him high regard and esteem. REED O. BRIGHAM, M. D. Dr. Reed O. Brigham, born in Toledo, December 20, 1888, is a son of Dr. Oshea S. and Carrie (Mulhollen) Brigham. He attended the grade schools and the high school of the city, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1907. He next entered the Ohio State University, in which he pursued a course that brought him the Bachelor of Science degree in 1912, while from the University of Illinois he received the Master of Science degree in 1914. He continued his studies at the University of Michigan until in 1916 he gained the Doctor of Philosophy degree, later matriculating in the University of Michigan for professional training and was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1921. Since that time he has engaged in practice in Toledo and is already making steady progress in his chosen profession. He is visiting physician to the Toledo Hospital and is a member of the staff of Mercy Hospital, where he is specializing in internal medicine. Dr. Brigham belongs to the Sigma Xi and to the Gamma Alpha societies. He is a member of the Washington Congregational church and politically is a republican. He has never been ambitious to hold office and practically his entire time and attention are concentrated upon his professional duties, which are steadily growing in volume and importance. He belongs to the Toledo Academy of Medicine, the Lucas County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is widely known in this city, standing high in the regard of his fellowmen, and his own record is fully sustaining the excellent reputation which has always been associated with the name of Brigham in connection with medical and surgical practice in Toledo. MAVOR BRIGHAM Ninety-one years were added to the cycle of the centuries ere was brought to a close the life record of Mayor Brigham, which began in Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York, on the 16th of May, 1806, and which terminated in Toledo, on the 8th of January, 1897. He was fortunate that he was one of a family of eight children, for in such a household one learns to give and take, to know when to be independent and when to seek the cooperation and aid of others. His youthful 644 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY environment was that of the home farm, where he learned many lessons concerning the out-of-door world, while he also mastered the branches of learning taught in the district schools of the neighborhood. While still a youth the family home was established in the little village of Vienna, Oneida county, and there he afterward learned the carpenter's trade, in which he developed high skill and efficiency. Before leaving the east Mr. Brigham was married, in Vienna, to Miss Clarissa Bill, and in the spring of 1835 he brought his wife and the little child that had come to gladden their household, to Toledo. They took passage on the "Commodore Perry," commanded by Captain David Wilkinson, and thus by way of the lakes reached their destination. From that time forward Mr. Brigham was closely associated with the history of the city and was again and again called upon to fill positions of public honor and trust. He served for various periods as township clerk, as township treasurer and infirmary director and when the little hamlet in which he had taken up his abode had grown to such an extent that it could be incorporated as a city, he was chosen to represent his ward for two years in the city council. He afterward filled the position of waterworks commissioner for three years and in 1852 was appointed to the position of mayor to fill out an unexpired term. He ever regarded a public office as a public trust and it is well known that no trust reposed in Mayor Brigham was ever betrayed in the slightest degree. His loyalty to his duty was one of his outstanding characteristics and this combined with his ability kept him much of the time in public office. In 1856 Governor Salmon P. Chase nominated him for collector of canal tolls and subsequently Governor Cox made him a member of the first organized police board of the city of Toledo. In his later years Mr. Brigham's reminiscences concerning early events which mark the history of city and state were most interesting. He often spoke of the historic mass meeting at Fort Meigs in 1840, when General William Henry Harrison, afterward president of the United States, opened the campaign of that year. Mr. Brigham had been a resident of Toledo for only about seven years when he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died in 1842, leaving two children : Harriet, who became the wife of William A. Beach of Toledo ; and Charles O., who passed away May2, 1906. In 1843 Mr. Brigham returned to his native state and was there married to Miss Malinda Parsons Merrell of Westmoreland. They became parents of five children : Stanley F., George M., William A., Frederick M. and Harry C., the surviving members of the family being still residents of Toledo, with the exception of Frederick M., who resides in Philadelphia. Mayor Brigham was among the first to take a decided stand in opposition to slavery and while still a young man he organized, in 1832, in Vienna, New York, one of the first anti-slavery societies in the Empire state, of which he served as secretary for three years. Throughout his long life his aid and influence were ever given on the side of reform, progress and improvement. He became one of the charter members of the First Congregational church of Toledo, organized in 1844, and for fifty-three years served as deacon and church clerk, occupying both positions at the time of his death, which occurred on the 8th of January, 1897. In this connection a contemporary writer has said : "His death closed a chapter in the history of the city of Toledo, where for sixty-two years Of his life he labored long and earnestly for the upbuilding of the community. For thirty years he had gathered his children about him each twelve months in a family reunion. This last gathering was an especially felicitous one, for all present felt that owing to his advanced years he would not be spared to them for many, if any, more such cele- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 645 brations. His devoted wife survived him some nine years, as her death occurred May 12, 1906. With her demise came to its end a beautiful career. She was eighty-five years of age, and for sixty-three years of that time had been a resident of Toledo, coming from her home in Oneida county, New York, when a bride of but a few weeks. All through her long, useful life her home was her chief delight, and her time and labor were devoted lovingly and willingly to her husband and her children. It has been truly said of Mrs. Brigham that in her was exemplified the most beautiful type of mother, and her memory remains with her children as an inspiration of unselfishness and nobility of character. One year after her arrival in Toledo, she identified herself with the many activities of the First Congregational church, and was still interested in it when she answered the summons of Him whose life she had so well emulated." EDWIN F. VETTER, M. D. In the field of professional service Dr. Edwin F. Vetter has made continuous progress and he now ranks with the leading physicians and surgeons of Toledo, where he has engaged in practice for the past twelve years. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1873, of the marriage of Dr. John Jacob and Helen Virginia (Donahough) Vetter, also natives of that city. The father was one of the leading medical practitioners of Pittsburgh and there spent his life, passing away in 1891, when forty years of age. Mrs. Vetter still makes her home in that city. They were the parents of two children : Edwin F. and Mrs. Nellie Vilsack of Pittsburgh. Edwin F. Vetter acquired his early education in the public schools of his native city and his academic training was received at Georgetown University; from which he was graduated in 1893. He took advanced college work at Charlotte, North Carolina, and afterward reentered Georgetown University, which conferred upon him the M. D. degree in 1907. He then became an interne at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and was later connected with the McGee Memorial Hospital of that city, remaining with the last named institution until 1910. In that year he came to Toledo and has since successfully followed his profession in this city, maintaining an office at No. 802 Nebraska avenue. He devotes each summer to post-graduate work, attending the University of Chicago and also the New York Post-Graduate School, and is a member of the visiting staff of Mercy Hospital of Toledo and Flower Memorial Hospital. He has never regarded his professional education as completed with the termination of his college course and is a student of the highest order, who utilizes every opportunity to broaden his knowledge and increase his efficiency. He holds to high standards in his professional work and is accorded a large practice in recognition of his pronounced ability. Dr. Vetter was married June 23, 1914, to Miss Mary B. Dussceau, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Dussceau of Toledo, and they have become the parents of one child, Mary Ellen, who was born in August, 1915, and is now attending school. Dr. and Mrs. Vetter are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and for a quarter of a century Dr. Vetter has been identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. During the World war he enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States army and was commissioned a lieutenant. He was sent overseas and was placed in charge of Base Hospital No. 126, holding the rank 646 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY of captain at the time of his discharge. He is a member of the American Legion and the Military Order of the World war and is also serving on the United States Health Board, while he is likewise connected with the Toledo Automobile Club. His professional relations are with the Lucas County and Ohio State Medical societies and he is a fellow of the American Medical Association. Merit has gained him his advancement and his professional associates and the general public accord him a position of distinction in his chosen calling. JOSEPH NAST For thirty years Joseph Nast has been prominently identified with mercantile interests of Toledo and he is now at the head of one of the leading clothing establishments in the city, displaying sound judgment, administrative ability and enterprise in the conduct of his interests. Of European extraction, he was born May 6, 1867, and his parents, Philip M. and Minnie (Cohn) Nast, came with their family to the United States in 1872, establishing their home at Hornell, New York. There the father opened a dry goods store, which he conducted successfully until his demise. The mother is also deceased. Their family numbered eight children: Philip, Lewis, Samuel, Nathan, Jacob, Mrs. Henrietta Tuchler, Daniel and Joseph. Joseph Nast acquired his education in the public schools of Hornell, New York, and at an early age he became a wage earner. That he was diligent and thrifty is indicated in the fact that when twenty years of age he had saved a sum sufficient to enable him to embark in business independently at Mount Morris, New York, where he successfully conducted his interests until 1892, when he sold out and came to Toledo. He organized the Famous Clothing & Shoe Company, of which he remained the head for six years, building up an enterprise of profitable proportions. In 1898 he disposed of the undertaking and then formed the Joseph Nast Company, which is now conducting one of the finest clothing stores in the city. They are outfitters to men and children and their stock is well assorted and of high quality. Mr. Nast has a thorough knowledge of the principles of merchandising and has succeeded in maintaining a high degree of efficiency in the operation of the business. He closely studies trade conditions and the wants of the public and owing to his progressive methods and reliable dealing he has won a large share of public patronage in this line. He has a very desirable location on the northwest corner of Summit and Jefferson, and employs twenty-eight salesmen in his establishment. On the 4th of September, 1892, Mr. Nast was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Less, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Less, prominent residents of this city, and they have become the parents of two children, a son and a daughter : Nathan N., the elder, was born in 1894, and attended the grammar and high schools of Toledo, being now associated in business with his father. He married Miss Helen Kraus, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Kraus of Toledo, and they have a son, Nathan, Jr., who was born in 1916; Sylvia, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nast, was born in 1901 and her education was obtained in the public schools of the city. She is now Mrs. Max S. Leitner of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Nast are of the Jewish faith, being members of the Collingwood Avenue temple, and he is also connected with B. R. B., a charitable organization maintained by those of that creed, and is serving on its board of directors. Mr. Nast is a valued member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Merchants TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 647 Association of this city, while fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a Royal Arch Mason. His carefully devised plans of conducting his business are promptly executed and his enterprise and persistency of purpose have enabled him to overcome all obstacles and difficulties in his path and advance steadily forward to the goal of success, while at the same time his intelligently directed labors have contributed to the commercial development and prosperity of his city, whose welfare and progress are to him matters of deep and vital import. Mr. Nast's residence is at No. 2152 Robinwood avenue. CHARLES FEILBACH Charles Feilbach, president of the Feilbach Company, wholesale grocers, is one of Toledo's prominent business men and valued citizens. His activities outside of business have largely been directed along those lines which have for their object public improvement and the advancement of the general welfare. Business success has never been to him the sole end and aim of existence, for he has found far greater pleasure in performing kindly deeds and in ameliorating the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He has been especially interested in the various societies for crippled children and has frequently set aside all business affairs to go on some mission in connection with the work of such organizations. His zeal and enthusiasm in this service are an index to the true character of the man. He is now serving as president of the Toledo Society for Crippled Children, as vice president of the Ohio Society for Crippled Children and as a director of the International Society for Crippled Children. Charles Feilbach was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, April 23, 1862, and his parents were Philip and Margaret Feilbach, of European birth, who came to the United States in the early '50s, locating in Sandusky county, Ohio. The father devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and passed away in that part of the state, but the mother's demise occurred in Toledo. In their family were nine children, eight of whom survive, namely : Mrs. Caroline Herzig, C. M. and J. H., all of Toledo; Andrew, whose home is at Elmore, Ohio ; Mrs. Fred Gerber, who is living in Sandusky county ; and Mrs. Thomas Pearse, P. W. and Charles, all of whom are residents of Toledo. The last named acquired his education in the schools of Sandusky county, Ohio, and assisted his father in the cultivation of the home farm until he reached the age of sixteen years, when he came to Toledo and started to learn the harness maker's trade. He found the work uncongenial, however, and did not complete his apprenticeship, securing a position as traveling salesman for a grocery house. This led to his identification with his present business and five years later, or in 1889, he was one of the organizers of the Feilbach Company, which was incorporated the following year. In 1900 Mr. Feilbach became president of the company, and owing to his progressive management the business has enjoyed a steady and prosperous growth. The first building was erected in 1908 and ten years later the rapid increase in the firm's trade compelled it to construct an addition in order to provide adequate space for its growing business. It is exclusively a wholesaler and its interests are among the most important in the city in its line. This, however, constitutes but one phase of Mr. Feilbach's activities, for he is also serving as 648 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY president of the Buckeye National Fire Insurance Company and is a director of the Travelers Life Insurance Company. For ten years he has been a member of the executive committee of the National Wholesale Grocers Association, of which he has been a director for more than fifteen years, and he is also a director of the Ohio Wholesale Grocers Association. On the 22d of December, 1886, Mr. Feilbach married Miss Lillian Narramore, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Narramore, well known residents of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Feilbach have a daughter, Vera May. Mr. Feilbach is a stalwart champion of everything pertaining to the welfare of his city and as president of the Toledo Board of Education he is doing all in his power to promote the standards of the public schools. He belongs to the Art Museum Association ; the Toledo Club ; the Rotary Club, of which for seven years he has been chairman of the Good fellowship committee ; the Toledo Motor Club ; the Inverness Club, of which he was one of the early members ; the Toledo Yacht Club; and the Young Men's Christian Association. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His life record presents an excellent example of the power of perseverance and industry in the attainment of prosperity, for he started out in life empty-handed, with no capital save ambition and determination and has never feared to venture when the opportunity was presented. The years have brought him success and honor and his business interests are such as add to the industrial activity and consequent prosperity of the city. Mr. Feilbach's residence is at No. 618 Stratford place. SIMS S. HINDMAN, M. D. The medical fraternity of Toledo finds an able representative in Dr. Sims S. Hindman, who has had broad experience along professional lines and has become widely known as an expert pathologist and bacteriologist. He was born at Stony Ridge, now known as Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 16, 1879, and his parents, W. H. and Martha (Seward) Hindman, were also natives of that state, in which they spent their lives. The father was a successful merchant of Florence, Tennessee. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hindman are deceased. Dr. Sims S. Hindman, their only child, attended the grammar and high schools of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and then became a student at Vanderbilt University of Nashville, that state, from which he was graduated on the 4th of April, 1900, with the M. D. degree. He began practice at Murfreesboro, where he maintained an office for two years, and then entered the Hospital Corps of the United States navy, with which he was connected for four years, during which he was stationed in China and Japan and also at the Philippine islands. At the time he left the service he was acting as chief hospital steward and afterward he went to Detroit, Michigan, becoming identified with the biological department of the pharmaceutical establishment of Parke, Davis & Company. For two years he remained with that firm, later engaging in bacteriological work on his own account in that city, and subsequently went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was with the H. K. Moffitt biological laboratory for three and a half years and upon leaving the Quaker city he went to Washington, D. C., where for a year he was connected with the Army Medical Museum. His next removal took him to Milledgeville, Georgia, where for three years he was pathologist for the insane asylum. In 1915 he came TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 649 to Toledo and for five years served as pathologist at St. Vincent's Hospital. In 1920 he established the Hindman Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory and has since engaged successfully in research work for physicians of this city, his professional services being in constant demand. He is also pathologist for the County Hospital and is recognized as a man of high scientific attainments. At Seaford, Delaware, on the 2d of October, 1910, Dr. Hindman was married to Miss Anna Larimore, a daughter of George H. and Katherine Larimore, and they have three children: Katherine, who was born at Norwood, Pennsylvania, in 1911 ; Seward, whose birth occurred at Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1912 ; and Annabel, who was born in Toledo in 1918. During the World war Dr. Hindman served as a member of the medical advisory board for this district. He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church and his professional connections are with the Lucas County and Ohio State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. Through comprehensive study and research he has gained valuable truths in connection with the science of medicine and has won that position of leadership in his profession which follows concentrated effort and ability of a high order. J. H. CAUFFIEL Possessing originality and initiative in thought and in action, J. H. Cauffiel is now at the head of one of the large business enterprises of Toledo, alert to the opportunities that life has offered, responsive to his duties and obligations and at all times enjoying life to the full, yet with sympathy for the unfortunate and oft-times reaching out a helping hand where aid is needed. The outline of his career may be different in no particular degree from that of hundreds of other men, but his individual qualities are such as make a strongly marked personality and one that has ever gained favor with his fellows. He has traveled life's journey for sixty years and during the entire period, as he expresses it, has been a student in the university of hard knocks. He was reared amid the "hills o' Somerset" in Pennsylvania, a region immortalized by. James Whitcomb Riley, and there as a boy he was a pupil in the proverbial little red schoolhouse, while later he had additional training in various schools and colleges. In young manhood he started to acquaint himself with the plate glass industry and devoted about eighteen years to that line of business. He then started out independently and with the passing years has improved his opportunities to good advantage, bringing him eventually to the presidency of the American Steel Tube Company, manufacturers of high grade welded steel tubing. During a portion of his early manhood, however, he engaged in teaching but left the profession to go out among men and has found both pleasure and success in the game of life. When twenty-six years of age Mr. Cauffiel was married to Miss Jennie E. Sellers of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and they have become parents of four sons and two daughters : Daniel Wood, James Ford, Joseph Lowell, John, Zella and Marjorie. Two of the sons are married, while John is now a student in the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. All of the sons are associated with their father in the American Steel Tube Company. Mr. Cauffiel has long been a loyal adherent of the Masonic fraternity, his membership therein covering more than a quarter of a century and bringing him into