650 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY close connection with all the Masonic bodies in Toledo. He is modest and unassuming, with a strongly developed sense of humor, an appreciation of life, its opportunities and its pleasures, and an understanding of its sorrows and its difficulties. In a word, his experiences are such as develop a well rounded character and a forceful personality, and there are few, indeed, who would not be proud to call J. H. Cauffiel friend. H. W. BEHREND As factory manager for the Toledo Steel Products Company for many years H. W. Behrend occupied a prominent position in industrial circles of the city and his enterprise and ability have carried him forward to a substantial point on the highroad to success. He has recently become associated in the same capacity with the Toledo Pipe Threading Company, designing tools and special machinery. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 6, 1872, a son of Louis and Johanna (Rink) Behrend, both of whom were of European birth and came to the United States when twenty years of age, settling in Cleveland, where they continued to reside until called to their final rest. The father engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business and also in draying. His demise occurred in 1907, when he was seventy years of age, while the mother passed away in 1914, at the age of seventy-two. Nine children were born to their union, but only four are living: William H., of Cleveland, Ohio; H. W. ; August, also a resident of Cleveland ; and Ralph, who is living in Macedonia, this state. H. W. Behrend acquired his education in the public schools of his native city, from which he was graduated at the age of sixteen, and he then became a wage earner, working along various lines. He was ambitious to advance and devoted his evenings to study, attending a night school, in which he completed a mechanical course. He then secured a position with the Cleveland Automatic Machine & Tool Company and was employed in their plant until 1904, when he was selected as their foreign representative. For ten years he traveled throughout Europe, selling and installing the products of the firm, and was very successful in his work, gaining the confidence and respect of the most influential manufacturers. He also became acquainted with many public officials and men who stood high in military circles of Europe and long before the outbreak of the World war had been warned by a German officer of distinction who greatly esteemed Mr. Behrend, that he must leave the country at once if he valued his safety. Through his assistance Mr. Behrend and his family secured a passport through the German lines, departing from Berlin on the last train to leave the city before war was officially declared between Germany and the triple entente and leaving behind him all of his household effects, which were never recovered. He had previously obtained transportation for a great number of Americans, who had been caught and rendered helpless in the whirling vortex of war, and they were thus enabled to leave Germany and reach a place of safety. He also rendered invaluable service to the government, securing many views of German cities, military camps, gun works, aeroplane factories, etc., which he turned over to the authorities upon his arrival in Washington, D. C. From Holland he had crossed the strait of Dover to London, England, whence he embarked for the United States, and after reaching his native land he spent several weeks in New York city, Washington and Philadelphia before returning to the home office in Cleveland. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 651 During the period which he spent abroad Mr. Behrend made fourteen round trips between Europe and the United States, and being a keen observer, he gained much useful and valuable information during his sojourn in foreign lands. In April, 1921, he severed his connections with the Cleveland Automatic Machine & Tool Company and became factory manager for the Toledo Steel Products Company, one of the largest industries of the city. Subsequently he accepted the position of factory manager with the Toledo Pipe Threading Company. He is a skilled mechanic with an expert knowledge of machinery and is exceptionally well qualified for the responsibilities which devolve upon him in supervising the labors of a large number of workmen. He has secured their hearty cooperation and goodwill and maintains a high degree of efficiency in the operation of the plant. On October 24, 1896, Mr. Behrend was married to Miss Elizabeth Miller of Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Miller, the former of whom is deceased. They have become the parents of two children : Mrs. Robert Fall, the elder, was born in Cleveland, December 25, 1897. She obtained her education in the public schools there and also in private schools in Europe and is still a resident of Cleveland Ralph was born in Cleveland in 1900 and acquired his early education in Europe, completing his studies in Cleveland. He now resides in this city and is in the employ of the Toledo Steel Products Company. He married Miss Katherine Kingham of Cleveland,. and they have a daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in that city in 1921. Mr. Behrend is nonpartisan in his political views, placing the qualifications of a candidate above all other considerations, and his public spirit finds expression in his identification with the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Manufacturers and Foundrymen's Association and his fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Cleveland and the Independent Order of Foresters. He is a self-made man who has fought life's battles unaided and victory has crowned his efforts. His entire career has been actuated by a spirit of progress that has been productive of substantial results and he stands as a high type of American manhood and citizenship. EUGENE RHEINFRANK Eugene Rheinf rank, one of the prominent lawyers of Toledo, whose successful practice in this city extends through more than twenty-two years, was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, July 15, 1877, his parents being Dr. John H. and Sophia W. (Bruckner) Rheinf rank, both of whom were natives of Michigan, the former born in Bridgewater and the latter in Monroe. They came to Ohio in early life, settling in Wood county. The father took up the study of medicine and became a physician and surgeon of distinction and at the time of his death was the oldest member of the medical profession in Wood county in years of continuous activity in practice. He passed away in August, 1920, at the age of eighty years. His widow is a resident of Perrysburg. They had a family of four children.: Eugene; William H., who is a physician and surgeon of Perrysburg ; George B., an architect of Toledo ; and Mrs. Charles G. Lampman, living at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. Eugene Rheinf rank attended the schools of his native city and entered the University of Michigan as a law student, being graduated with the class of 1901. He afterward pursued a special law course at Harvard University. He began 652 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY practice in Toledo in 1901 and through the intervening years has gained a clientage that establishes his position as one of the foremost lawyers of the bar of northwestern Ohio. His professional activities have been characterized by a constant upholding of the highest ethics and standards of the legal profession. He is a member of the Lucas county and Ohio State Bar associations. On the 25th of June, 1905, Mr. Rheinfrank was married to Miss Laura Lamson of Toledo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. B. Lamson. Mr. and Mrs. Rhein-f rank have three children : Lamson, Anne and Laura. Mr. Rheinfrank belongs to the Masonic lodge and is well known in club circles of the city, having membership in the Toledo, Toledo Country, Toledo Commerce and Toledo Auto clubs, being one of the directors and attorney for the last named. He has a wide acquaintance in Toledo, and with his family is well known in the city's best social circles. Mr. Rhein frank's residence is at Eagle Point Colony. CHARLES E. FISHER, M. D. Dr. Charles E. Fisher, member of the medical profession at Toledo, was born September 12, 1867, in the city which is still his home, his parents being Albert and Elizabeth (Wise) Fisher, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, whence they removed to Toledo about 1865. The father became a well known physician and surgeon here, engaging in the active practice of his profession for fifty-five years. His record was one of. signal service and benefit to mankind as he labored among his fellows in checking the ravages of disease. He always kept abreast with the trend of modern professional thought and progress and was the loved family physician in many households of Toledo, his death, in 1916, being deeply regretted. His wife also died in this city about 1914. Dr. Charles E. Fisher, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, became a public school pupil at the usual age and passed through consecutive grades to the Central high school, from which he was graduated at the age of nineteen years. Whether environment, natural predilection or inherited tendency had most to do with shaping his career it is perhaps impossible to determine, but at an early age he resolved to follow in his father's footsteps and when he had completed his public school training he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as a medical student and was there graduated in 1895, at which time his professional degree was conferred upon him. He then began practice in Toledo and through the intervening period has made steady and notable progress until he has long since left the ranks of the many to stand among the successful few. After practicing his profession for several years he took a special course in surgery, in the Post Graduate school of New York, confining his attention exclusively to surgery and is regarded as one of the most eminent surgeons of northwestern Ohio. He is a member of staff of St. Vincents Hospital, served fifteen years as United States marine surgeon and the same number of years for the Ursuline convent of Toledo. During the World war Congress appointed him to take care of all soldiers in transit through this district. After the armistice was signed he had the care of all returned soldiers in this district comprising twenty counties and is at present doing the surgery for the government. In April, 1912, Dr. Fisher was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Herb, a daughter of the late Louis and Marguerite Herb, pioneer residents of Sandusky, Erie county, TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 653 Ohio. Dr. Fisher belongs to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, to the Toledo Club and to the Inverness Club, while his fraternal relations are with the Masons and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In the former he has attained high rank and is now a Mystic Shriner. Along strictly professional lines he is identified with the Lucas County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association and his professional activities claim the greater part of his thought and energy. Actuated by a laudable ambition to make his service of the greatest possible benefit to his fellowmen and prompted also by broad humanitarian principles in his chosen life work, he has advanced step by step, adding continually to his knowledge through study and research as well as experience, and is today regarded as one of the ablest surgeons in the state, his opinions carrying weight among the representatives of the profession at all times. JOHN MATHEW SHERIDAN John Mathew Sheridan, a contractor, devoting his attention to municipal work, was born in Toledo, Ohio, December 12, 1873, and is a son of Francis and Bridget (Degman) Sheridan. The father was a carpenter, continuing in that line of business to the time of his death. John M. Sheridan was educated in the public schools and in St. Patrick's parochial schools and with his initiation into the business world became shipping clerk, while later he was bookkeeper for the Builders Supply Company and was identified with that corporation for a period of fifteen years. He then turned his attention to contracting in municipal work, engaging in the building of streets, waterworks, sewer systems and bridges. He has built in Toledo about twenty miles of sewers and water mains and has executed many important contracts as the result of his thorough and efficient workmanship and his knowledge of the scientific principles which underlie the task which he attempts. On the 30th of October, 1898, Mr. Sheridan was united in marriage to Miss Lula Taylor. He is fond of baseball and fishing and turns to these for recreation. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church, as is indicated by his membership with the Knights of Columbus. He also belongs to the Associated General Contractors of America. His life has been spent in Toledo and his fellow townsmen recognize the fact that industry, energy and determination have been the salient points in his career, enabling him to work his way steadily upward until he today occupies a prominent position as a representative of industrial interests and activity in his native city. WALTER W. BRAND, M. D. Among Toledo's highly respected physicians and surgeons there are perhaps none better known nor more deserving of mention in this volume than Dr. Walter W. Brand, who is chief of staff and obstetrician of the Maternity and Children's Hospital, one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the country, and who in addition has an extensive private practice. The hospital is founded upon broad humanitarian principles and the high degree of efficiency here maintained is indi- 654 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY cated in the fact that physicians are constantly coming to Toledo from other parts of the country to get ideas as to the manner of conducting similar hospitals elsewhere. Dr. Brand is a native son of Toledo, born August 29, 1871, his parents being Adolph and Thresa (Zundel) Brand. The mother came to America in early life, being a daughter of John Zundel, who acted as organist in the church of which Henry Ward Beecher was pastor during the Civil war period. Dr. Brand's father arrived in the new world in 1864 and established his home in Toledo, where later he organized the mercantile business conducted under the firm name of Brand & Marx. For many years he was successfully engaged in commercial pursuits here. He passed away in 1916, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife departed this life in 1910, at the age of sixty-two years. In their family were three children: Rudolph, now living in Los Angeles, California; and Herman and Walter W., both of Toledo. In his boyhood days Walter W. Brand attended the public schools of this city and later entered the University of Michigan. He afterward became a student in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia and was there graduated with the M. D. degree in 1894. Returning to Toledo, he here entered upon the active practice of his profession. He strongly urged the building of a hospital for smallpox and other contagious diseases and while he served as health commissioner, from 1901 until 1906, the hospital was built at a cost of sixty thousand dollars. It has fully met every requirement in this connection and is an institution of the greatest value to the city. Following its successful establishment Dr. Brand began agitating the question of building a maternity hospital, and since its completion in 1920 he has been its chief obstetrician. It is splendidly equipped, being today one of the finest institutions of the kind in the country and its patronage is extensive. Dr. Brand is also serving on the staff of the Lucas County Hospital and of St. Vincent's Hospital, and he has membership in the Lucas County Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Brand was married April 17, 1895, to Miss Julia Layng, a daughter of George W. Layng, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Toledo. Dr. and Mrs. Brand have a daughter, now Mrs. Austin Waite, who was educated in the Toledo schools and in an eastern college and is residing in this city. Dr. Brand belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Toledo Club and the Toledo Country Club. FRANK STUART LEWIS Frank Stuart Lewis, a Harvard man, prominent in law practice in Toledo as a member of the firm of Doyle & Lewis, was born on the 18th of June, 1879, in Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, his parents being Charles T. and Dora (Glidden) Lewis, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. During his active life the father was a prominent attorney, with a large practice in Toledo and for many years he was also actively interested in education, serving as president of the Toledo school board and doing much to standardize the schools and stimulate progress in the educational development of the city. He passed away here in 1918. His widow makes her home in Toledo. In their family were five children : Howard, an attor- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 655 ney ; William G.; Mrs. Gertrude Richardson ; Charles T., Jr.; and Frank Stuart. All are residents of this city. In his youthful clays Frank S. Lewis attended the Toledo schools and after leaving the high school entered Doane Academy, while later he matriculated in Denison University, from which he was graduated in 1902, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He next became a student in Harvard Law school and won his LL. B. degree at his graduation in 1905. He was admitted to the bar before the supreme court at Columbus in December of that year and at once entered upon active practice in connection with his father, while in 1910 he was admitted to the firm. In 1916 the present style of Doyle & Lewis was adopted, the partners thereof being: John H. Doyle, Charles T. Lewis, Frank S. Lewis and his brother Howard Lewis, Richard D. Logan, Robert Newbegin, Milo J. Warner, Frederick W. Gaines, Charles H. Lemmon and C. T. Lewis, Jr. They have their offices in the Nicholas building and the firm enjoys a very extensive practice of a most important character. Frank S. Lewis has served as general attorney for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company and has in large measure confined his attention to corporation practice, being thoroughly familiar with that branch of the law. He and his brother Howard are also connected with a number of important business enterprises in Toledo and they were active in the development of Fort Miami, one of the attractive suburban districts of the city. On the 6th of October, 1909, Mr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Belle Chesbrough of Toledo, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abram M. Chesbrough. They have become parents of two children: Nancy Jane, born in August, 1910 ; and Natalia Dorothy, born in 1913. Both daughters are now in school. In his political views Mr. Lewis has always been a stalwart republican. He belongs to the Sigma Chi, a college fraternity, and is a popular member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Country Club, the Toledo Automobile Club and the Sylvania Club and he has been a trustee of the Toledo Commerce Club. In Masonry he has attained the Knights Templar degree and his religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Baptist church. Along strictly professional lines he is connected with the Lucas County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. While the activities of his life are well balanced, his interest naturally centers in his profession and his developing powers have resulted in the attainment of a prominence that places him in the front rank among the attorneys at law of Toledo. HARRY E. FISHER Among the large productive enterprises which have contributed to Toledo's prestige along commercial lines is that of the Conklin Pen Manufacturing Company, of which Harry E. Fisher is the president, and in this connection he is successfully controlling a business of extensive proportions. He was born in Piqua, Ohio, June 21, 1871, and his father, George H. Fisher, was a well known manufacturer of that city. In 1872 he came to Toledo, where he entered the drug business, with which he was connected until 1881, when he again turned his attention to manufacturing lines, becoming president of the Gendron Wheel Company and continuing to fill that office until his demise, which occurred in December, 1901, when he was fifty-four years of age. He was a man of marked business 656 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY ability and enterprise and was numbered among the foremost citizens of Toledo. The mother was called to her final rest in 1873. Harry E. Fisher, an only child, obtained his education in the grammar and high schools of Toledo and on entering the business world he became connected with the Gendron Wheel Company, starting in an humble capacity and working his way steadily upward through merit and ability until he was made a director of the company. Later he directed his energies into other channels and at length purchased the patent rights to the Conklin fountain pen, organizing the Conklin Pen Manufacturing Company, of which he has served as president since 1900. The concern makes both pens and pencils and the superiority of these articles has gained for them an extensive sale in all parts of the world, shipments being made to eighty-three foreign countries. Mr. Fisher has always carefully planned his business, while he also has the ability and executive force to carry it forward, and in his manufacturing operations he gives employment to four hundred persons. In this city, on the 14th of March, 1894, Mr. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Cecile L. Warren and they have become the parents of a son, George H., who was born November 27, 1895. He acquired his education in the public schools of Toledo and Worcester Academy of Massachusetts and is now associated with his father in business. He is married and has two children. Mr. Fisher, Sr., is a republican in his political views and as a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce he does all in his power to promote the welfare and upbuilding of the city. He is an Episcopalian in religious faith and is connected with the Rotary, Inverness and Toledo clubs. He is a Mason in high standing, having attained the thirty-second degree in the order, and is a member of both the York and Scottish rites. With industry and determination as dominant qualities he has made steady progress in the business world, until he now ranks with Toledo's foremost business men. A splendid commercial enterprise stands as a monument to what he has accomplished and its influence upon the industrial activity of the city can scarcely be over-estimated. HARRY A. NUSBAUM There is no greater stimulus to individual activity and enterprise than that which is found in the life records of such men as Harry A. Nusbaum, who has worked his way upward from an humble position in the business world and is now vice president of Toledo's largest wholesale hardware firm. His birth occurred at Ashland, Ohio, on the 27th of March, 1882, and his parents, Abraham and Ann (Cotner) Nusbaum, were also natives of that place. The father, a well educated man, became a successful school teacher and his attention was also given to the operation of a farm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Nusbaum are deceased. Harry A. Nusbaum attended a country school near his home, receiving instruction from his father, and later he became a student at Ashland College, from which he was graduated in 1901, winning the A. B. degree. On entering the business world he secured the position of shipping clerk in the wholesale hardware house of the Bostwick-Braun Company and has remained in the service of that concern, advancing through the various departments as he demonstrated his worth and ability and at length reaching the office of vice president, in which capacity he is now serving. He combines a detailed knowledge of the business with a high order of execu- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 657 tive ability and has contributed materially toward the success of one of the oldest and largest hardware firms in the state. Mr. Nusbaum is a member of the United Brethren church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is identified with both the York and Scottish rites in Masonry and has taken the thirty-second degree in the consistory. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Toledo Club, the Inverness Country Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. In mercantile circles of Toledo he occupies a position of leadership and his course has been characterized by integrity and honor in every relation, commanding for him the respect, confidence and goodwill of all with whom he has been associated. IRA C. TABER Ira C. Taber, a well known and successful lawyer of Toledo, has long maintained a foremost position among the ablest advocates and counselors in this city. During the nearly forty years of his professional activities Mr. Taber has held to the highest ideals and standards of his profession. He was born near New Rochester, Wood county, Ohio, October 4, 1860, his parents being Nelson D. and Samantha (Skeels) Taber, who removed from the state of New York to Ohio during the first half of the nineteenth century. The Skeels family was established in Seneca county, Ohio, as early as 1832, and the Tabers a few years later settled in Fulton county. It was in Seneca county that the parents of Ira C. Taber were married and they became parents of three children, but only Ira C. Taber is living. The father was a successful farmer and about 1882 he established his home in Bowling Green, where his wife passed away February 27, 1902. Afterward he became a resident of Toledo; where he departed this life on June 15, 1903. The early educational opportunities of Ira C. Taber were those afforded by the district schools near his father's farm. In 1882 he completed a course in the high school at Bowling Green, being one of the first alumni. Having determined upon the practice of law as a life work, he matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in May, 1885, and about that time was admitted to practice at the bar of this state. He first opened a law office in Bowling Green, where he remained until 1896, and during the first ten years of his professional career he was alone in practice, save for about ten months when he was associated with the firm of James, Taber & Beverstock. During 1895 he was a partner of C. R. Painter. He had already had broad and varied experience in his chosen profession when on the 1st. of January, 1896, he became allied with the Toledo bar and from the beginning of his residence here he has occupied a prominent and enviable position in the ranks of the legal profession. After some months alone he became a member of the firm of Taber & Clapp, which was continued until February 15, 1908, and on the 1st of December following, Mr. Taber became senior partner in the firm of Taber, Longbrake & O'Leary, an association that was continued until 1914, the firm ranking as one of the most prominent and successful at the Toledo bar. In December, 1914, Mr. Taber was joined by John E. Daniells in organizing the firm of Taber & Daniells, with offices in the Nicholas building. Throughout his professional career Mr. Taber has tried all kinds of cases and has tried them well but more and more largely he has concentrated his efforts and attention upon corporation and realty law. He has represented 658 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY many of the leading corporations of this section of the country and has figured in some of the most important litigation before Toledo courts in recent years. On the 18th of January, 1888, at Haskins, Ohio, occurred the marriage of Ira C. Taber and Miss Adelia J. Thomas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Thomas, who were pioneer residents of Wood county. The birth of Mrs. Taber occurred in Haskins and she there pursued her early education, while later she continued her studies in Ada, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Taber have four children : Merl N.; Marie E. ; Melva ; and Esther V. The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church, their membership being in St. Paul's,. in the work of which Mr. Taber takes a most active and helpful part. His political endorsement has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, and few men are more thoroughly informed concerning the vital questions and issues of the day, yet political honors in office have had no strong attraction for him. In early manhood he served at Bowling Green for four years as city clerk and for two years as city solicitor, was also school examiner for six years and a member of the board of education for an equal period. Otherwise he has held no offices, the demands of his profession fully monopolizing his time and energy. He is a member of the Toledo Bar Association and the Toledo Commerce Club, and is recognized as a man of well balanced capacities and power, who has long occupied a central place on the stage of legal action. His entire career has shown a mastery of the lessons of life day by day, until his postgraduate work in the school of experience has placed him with the men of eminent learning and ability in the profession of law. Mr. Taber's residence is at No. 2040 Glenwood avenue. WILLIAM IRA MILLER In real estate and insurance circles the name of William Ira Miller is well known, for he is the treasurer and general manager of the Miller-Baither Company, operating in those fields. He has comprehensive understanding of everything that has to do with the lines of business in which he is engaged and his thoroughness, diligence and persistency of purpose are recognized as the salient features in the attainment of his present-day success. Mr. Miller was born in Blissfield, Michigan, December 26, 1888, his parents being Christian and Mary (Knight) Miller. The father was a carpenter and contractor who devoted his life to building operations. The son obtained a public school education, continuing his studies in the Toledo high school following the removal of the family to this city in 1890. He afterward took a course in the Ohio State University, and thus liberal educational opportunities well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties. He subsequently entered the real estate and insurance business and became one of the incorporators of the original company which preceded the Miller-Baither Company. The original company was formed in 1909 and the present organization was effected later for the purpose of conducting a real estate and insurance business. Both departments of the business are well organized and are under the competent management of Mr. Miller, who is both treasurer and general manager and who is most efficient in directing the labors of those who are representatives of the corporation. The company has negotiated many realty transfers and has directed the investments of many TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 659 patrons to the satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Miller has intimate and comprehensive knowledge of the real estate market and conditions affecting it, knowns the property that is for sale and is a splendid valuator of all realty. Aside from his connection with the Miller-Baither Company he is the vice president of the Buckeye Savings Association. What he undertakes he carries forward to successful completion and his determined efforts are crowned with excellent results, while at all times his business methods will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. On the 14th of June, 1919, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Gladys Long of Toledo, Ohio, and they have become parents of a daughter, Mary Ellen. Fraternally Mr. Miller is a Mason and an Elk. In the former organization he has taken the degrees of lodge and chapter and is a faithful follower of the teachings of the craft. He likewise belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in its well organized efforts for the city's upbuilding, the promotion of its business relations and the maintenance of all those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. In leisure hours he turns to motoring for recreation and spends many a delightful day in this way. His social qualities make for popularity and he has a large circle of warm friends in the city in which he has made his home from early boyhood. GEORGE B. RICABY George B. Ricaby is numbered among those real estate dealers of Toledo whose progressive business methods are resulting in the substantial upbuilding and improvement of the city as well as in the attainment of individual success, and he also has other important business interests. He was born in Montague, Michigan, November 24, 1884, and is a son of William H. and Mary E. (Bell) Ricaby, the former a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, while the latter was born in Milton, Canada. About the time of the Civil war the father removed to Michigan, locating at Montague, where he successfully engaged in the jewelry business until about 1891, when he went to Benton Harbor, that state. He is now living retired in Toledo, having accumulated a comfortable competence through close application and the capable management of his business affairs. Of a family of three children George B. Ricaby is the only one living and in 1903, when eighteen years of age, he was graduated from the high school at Benton Harbor. Entering the newspaper field, he became owner and editor of the Twin City Blade, a leading journal of Benton Harbor, being at that time but nineteen years of age and ranking with the youngest editorial writers in the country. He later owned and edited the Galion Advocate and Blade but in 1904 disposed of his newspaper interests and came to Toledo, becoming a salesman for George E. Pomeroy, now one of the leading real estate dealers of the city. Later Mr. Ricaby was placed in charge of the down-town office and he continued in the employ of Mr. Pomeroy until 1909, when he joined the Close Realty Company, of which he became vice president. He continued to fill that office until the 1st of October, 1918, when he sold his interest in the firm and organized the George B. Ricaby Company, of which he has since been the president. His thorough knowledge of the business, untiring energy and capable management have enabled him to build up one of the largest and most successful real estate corn- 660 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY panies in Toledo and he now employs about one hundred and ten people, seven men having charge of the down-town properties. He has developed the Eagle Point, Sheridan Place, Mount Vernon, Wildwood, East Harbor, and Island View subdivisions, converting unsightly vacancies into attractive residential districts. He also has other large holdings in various parts of the city, including apartments and hotels, and is the owner of the Belvidere, which he also operates. He likewise represents the Prudential Insurance Company, deals in real estate investments and also sells first mortgage bonds of properties controlled by the George B. Ricaby Company. In addition, he is serving as president of the Bond Hotel Company and the Bond Theatre Company and his business interests are important and extensive. On the. 25th of July, 1914, Mr. Ricaby was united in marriage to Miss Violet J. Corbett, of Detroit, and they have a large circle of friends in this city. In his political views Mr. Ricaby is an independent republican and fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, while his social nature finds expression in his membership in the Toledo, Inverness and Toledo Yacht clubs. His labors have been a direct agency in the material upbuilding of his city, which has greatly benefited through his activities, and an analyzation of his life record shows him to be a man of unusual ability, foresight and business acumen, in whose vocabulary there is no such word as fail. THOMAS HUBBARD, M. D. Dr. Thomas Hubbard was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, July 22, 1859, and is a son of Amos Fisk and Ursala Graves Hubbard. The father descended from the Hub-bards of Middletown, Connecticut, was a native of the state of New York and a representative of one of its old families. He came to Ohio in the early '30s and was among the pioneer settlers of Ashtabula. With the passing years he became a successful banker of that city, devoting his life to the banking business there. Both he and his wife have passed away. In their family were eleven children, five of whom are living, namely : Thomas; Sarah C., a resident of Ashtabula; Amos F., who is a dentist practicing in Ashtabula ; Mrs. Thomas B. Cooley, living at Detroit, Michigan ; and George H., a resident of Fort Worth, Texas. The boyhood days of Thomas Hubbard were devoted to the acquirement of an education in the grade and high schools of Ashtabula. Dr. John C. Hubbard of Ashtabula, one of the most distinguished pioneer Western Reserve physicians, initiated his nephew into the chosen profession. By precept and example he taught the noble humanitarian ideals of the art and as preceptor directed his medical education. He entered the Western Reserve University Preparatory School in 1879 and the next year went to the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the Ph. C. degree in 1882. In 1882-3 he began the study of medicine at Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio. He entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and won his professional degree at graduation with the class of 1885. Dr. Hubbard located for practice in his native city, where he remained for two years. He went abroad in 1887, spending six months in study at the University of Vienna, Austria, during which time he visited other medical centers of the old world. On the expiration of that period he returned to America and since 1888 has been a resident of Toledo, TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 661 where he has successfully practiced. He has ,devoted his talents to diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Dr. Hubbard began the practice of intubation for membranous croup, soon after the invention by O'Dwyer, in December, 1891, and in December, 1894, initiated the use of diphtheria antitoxin in Toledo, Dr. B. Becker having obtained one of the first importations direct from the Behring's laboratory. Dr. Hubbard has for fifteen years specialized in the line of esophagoscopy and bronchoscopy in the treatment of foreign bodies in the esophagus and lungs. Dr. Hubbard is serving on the staff of the Toledo Hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital, Robinwood Hospital and Flower Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Association, Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, The American Laryngological Association (of which he was president in 1913), The American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society and the American Otological Society. On the fourth of September, 1889, Dr. Hubbard was married to Miss Charissa Graves of Fort Wayne, Indiana, daughter of Charles E. and Mary Ann Graves. Dr. and Mrs. Hubbard have two sons : Holland Amos, born in Toledo, in 1892, and educated in the public and high schools and in Lehigh University of Pennsylvania, is now a prominent real estate man of this city, of the firm of Hanson, Hubbard and Hansen. He married Miss Eleanor Seymour of Ashtabula, Ohio ; Pomeroy Graves Hubbard, the younger son, born in 1895, was educated in the schools of Toledo and Asheville, North Carolina, and is now engineer for the Delco Light Company of Toledo. Both sons were in the service during the World war. Holland was with the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Field Artillery, Thirty-seventh Division, with the rank of sergeant, and saw active duty in France for a year ; while Pomeroy was chief machinist mate in the United States Submarine Chaser Service and was also overseas in 1918-1919. Dr. Hubbard gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but has neither sought nor held office outside of the strict path of his profession. He is identified with the Adams Street Mission of Toledo and he is a member of Trinity church. He has made his life of service and benefit to his fellowmen and his position as a physician and surgeon is among the foremost representatives of the profession in northwestern Ohio. THOMAS CALKINS With the pioneer development of Toledo, Thomas Calkins became closely associated, and aided in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which has been built the later progress and prosperity of the city. He was born in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland, in 1828, and in the acquirement of his education he attended the schools of that country and was also instructed by private tutors. When twenty years of age he crossed the Atlantic to New York and for a period was employed as timekeeper and bookkeeper by a railroad company. He lived for a while in New York, but after five years in their employ the Lake Shore Railroad sent him to Toledo as an accountant, at which time he journeyed westward by canal. He worked as an accountant in connection with the books of grain merchants and from his earnings he saved enough to purchase the Barrington homestead and farm, which occupied the present site of the Scottwood apartments, then situated on the outskirts of the town. Mr. Calkins followed a trail on horse- 662 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY back to the city every day and the most farsighted could scarcely have dreamed of the rapid changes which would occur and utterly transform the district. In those early days Indians prowled around the farm and there was a large pond on the place, which is now the site of some of the most beautiful thoroughfares and fine homes of the city. The little lake was all filled in as time passed and the land platted and sold. In the early days land could be purchased for three dollars an acre where the Washington Street school now stands. Mr. Calkins purchased much property and built houses, which he sold as the land was added to the city in various subdivisions. He hired a landscape gardener at five dollars per day, considered a high wage at that time, to lay out the grounds around his home. The man was a foreigner, familiar with the finest landscape gardening of the old world, and he developed one of the most attractive homes of the city for Mr. Calkins through the improvements which he made on the grounds surrounding the residence. Croquet and boating were to be enjoyed in the summer and skating on the pond in the winter and it was the favorite resort, where all of the young people of the city congregated. Moreover, they had access there to a splendid library, for Mr. Calkins was a great lover of books and possessed many choice volumes. In the early years of his residence in Toledo, Mr. Calkins was married to a daughter of one of the old and honored pioneer families. They became parents of nine children, some of whom died in infancy. Those who reached adult age are: Richard ; Edward ; Mrs. Nellie Cox of New York ; and Mary, who is the owner of the Scottwood apartments now built on the old homestead site. One son, Dr. Thomas Calkins, late of Cleveland, together with his sister, Miss Mary Calkins, received as their share of the estate the old home site and unit by unit there built the extensive Scottwood apartments. Dr. Calkins was born April 28, 1869, in Toledo, and attended the public and parochial schools of the city. As a lad he was employed as office boy by such men as Clarence Brown, Emery Potter and Will Carrington, but when eighteen years of age he entered the Fordham University, where he studied for seven years, specializing in the classics. The school was conducted as a military academy and Dr. Calkins was a student there at the time General Clarence Edwards had charge of the military department. Between them there sprang up a strong and enduring friendship. Having graduated from Fordham, Dr. Calkins entered the Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., where he took up the study of medicine, and in June, 1899, was graduated with high honors. After a few weeks at home he became house physician at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, of which Mark Hanna was a patron. He purchased a residence on Superior street in that city, where he also had his office for private practice, and there he resided to the time of his last illness. He was appointed a member of the staff of St. Alexis Hospital in 1903 and he devoted all of his time and energy to his practice, having but few periods of recreation. In order to get away occasionally he made trips to Europe, attending clinics and visiting points of interest, among them the old ancestral home in Ireland. He was a man of great personal charm and his friends were legion. In connection with his sister Mary he founded a working girls' home in Cleveland, which is presided over by the Catholic Sisters. Dr. Calkins bore all the expense and labor of establishing and building the home, which contains four hundred rooms with modern equipment. He contributed generously to many charities, besides doing much in a private way himself. On the 8th of May, 1922, Dr. Calkins succumbed to a nervous breakdown and was widely mourned by people of all classes. His funeral was held at Toledo TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 663 and eight physicians of Cleveland came to act as honorary pallbearers, while many other members of the profession, besides patients and old friends, came to pay a last tribute of love and respect to him. He belonged to all the various medical societies and was a member of many of the social clubs of Cleveland, in the ranks of which he was very popular. HENRY LAWRENCE THOMPSON Henry Lawrence Thompson, president of the Bostwick-Braun Company, one of the leading wholesale and retail hardware houses of the country, is one of Toledo's foremost business men and leading citizens. He was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, May 28, 1871, a son of James William and Sarah (Lawrence) Thompson, and was reared in that city, where he also received his schooling. His connection with the Bostwick-Braun Company dates back more than one-third of a century ; or, to be exact, since April 1, 1890. At that time, not yet nineteen years old, he entered the employ of this company in a minor capacity, in fact at the bottom, but his natural energy, ambition and adaptability soon started him on his rise in the business that eventually carried him to the position of chief executive, which he has filled for a number of years. The history of The Bostwick-Braun Company is an important part of the story of Toledo's mercantile growth and development ; founded in 1855, incorporated in 1893, the business of this house has been no small factor in gaining for Toledo the position of commercial importance the city now holds. Mr. Thompson is also president of the W. Bingham Company of Cleveland, one of the old and prominent wholesale and retail hardware houses of that city. Aside from his mercantile interests, he is connected with various corporations that figure prominently in the financial and industrial life of the city. He is chairman of the board of The Willys-Overland Company, chairman of the board of the Paragon Refining Company, a director of the Second National Bank, chairman of the board of The Summit Trust Company, director of the Toledo Plate and Window Glass Company, vice president of the Toledo Steel Products Company, director of the American Swiss Magneto Company, as well as other industrial and financial enterprises that are factors in the city's development and prosperity. Mr. Thompson is an example of the type of a man who deserves success and for years has belonged to that class of dependable and constructive citizens who do many unselfish things to advance public movements and promote substantial enterprises. In 1921, when the situation in Willys-Overland affairs challenged the help of Toledo business leaders, if the plant was to be retained in this city, Mr. Thompson was one of a coterie of the city's prominent business men who accepted the responsibility of extending the required assistance. This is but an instance in his career that has been marked by the most genuine public spirit and unmistakable devotion to the city's good and welfare. His friends and associates feel for him a peculiar esteem not only for his abilities, but for his many congenial and wholesome qualities of mind and heart. Mr. Thompson is thoroughly appreciative of the social amenities of life and his due consideration thereof constitutes the even balance to his intense business 664 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY activity. His club memberships include the Toledo Club, the Toledo Country Club, and the Union Club of Cleveland. In politics Mr. Thompson has always maintained an independent attitude, holding allegiance to no party organization, supporting those candidates and measures that, in his judgment, stand for the best interests of the nation, state and city. Mr. Thompson was made a Mason in Sanford Collins Lodge, F. & A. M., and had reached the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite when but twenty-eight years old. He is also a member of Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine. On June 14, 1900, Mr. Thompson was married, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Kate Stone, a daughter of S. E. Stone of that city, and they have a son and daughter : Henry Lawrence, Jr., and Kate Stone. WILLIAM JAMES KELLY William James Kelly, who for twenty-three years has been a prominent figure in real estate circles in Toledo and is now identified with the Kelly Improvement Company and various other corporations operating successfully in the real estate field, is of English birth, born on the Isle of Man on the 10th of April, 1875, his parents being John R. and Alice (Kerruish) Kelly. His educational equipment was obtained in the public schools and in a business college and in 1889, when a youth of fourteen years, he came to America, making his way at once to Toledo, where he began earning his living by working at the carpenter's trade. He was thus employed for a few years, and seeing the opportunity for the attainment of success in the real estate field, he turned his attention thereto in 1900. Throughout the intervening period he has constantly broadened the scope of his activities as a realtor and in 1910 he organized the Kelly Improvement Company, which he incorporated in that year and of which he has since been the president and manager. He is likewise the vice president of the Security Land Company and has also organized the Lucas County Realty Company, of which he is vice president. Through these three different companies he is operating extensively as a real estate dealer of Toledo, handling a large amount of property annually and possessing intimate and accurate knowledge of property values. Mr. Kelly married, for his first wife, Miss Hermia Neuhaus, and her death left a son, Lawrence William, born April 19, 1901, who was but a little over sixteen years of age at the time of his enlistment, September 17, 1917. He served in the World war as a member of One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Infantry, Thirty-Seventh Division, and was eleven months in France and Belgium. At the time of his discharge, April 19, 1919, he was regimental supply sergeant of the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Infantry. For his second wife he wedded Miss Louise Weidner, a native of this city, and they have become parents of one son, Robert James, born April 13, 1908. Mr. Kelly is a loyal follower of Masonic teachings, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, the principles of the order being exemplified in his relations with his fellowmen. Mr. Kelly certainly deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. As the architect of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well, for he started out empty-handed when a youth in his teens and since that time has depended entirely upon his own resources. He has TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 665 eagerly and wisely grasped each opportunity that has come to him, never losing sight for a moment of the eternal principle that industry wins, and as a result of his indefatigable effort, perseverance and thorough reliability he has gained a most creditable position in the real estate circles of his adopted city and has therefore never had occasion to regret the fact that he left his native isle to become an American citizen. Mr. Kelly's residence is at No. 3261 Parkwood avenue. ROGER P. BRESNAHAN Roger P. Bresnahan needs no introduction to the readers of this volume, for as president of the Toledo Baseball Club of the American Association he occupies a high position in baseball circles of the country and his activities in connection with the national game have extended throughout his life, making his name a familiar and honored one to those who are lovers of this clean and popular sport. Mr. Bresnahan is a native son of Toledo and a member of a family which was established in this city fifty-three years ago. He was born June 11, 1879, and his parents, Michael C. and Mary (O'Donohue) Bresnahan, were natives of Ireland. In 1870 they came to the United States, establishing their home in Toledo during pioneer times, and in this city the father passed away, but the mother is still living here. The seventh in order of birth in a family of eight children, Roger P. Bresnahan began his education in the parochial schools of. Toledo and completed his studies in the Central high school. From early boyhod his interest has centered in baseball and his leisure hours were devoted to the sport, in which he soon grew proficient, and while yet in his teens played semi-professional ball with several strong teams in this section of the state. He began as a pitcher and his first major league connection was with the Washington team, where he remained for two seasons, going from there to the Baltimore team of the American League. From this organization he joined John J. McGraw and a number of others who went to the New York Giants of the National League in 1900, and it was with this famous team that Mr. Bresnahan acquired the reputation that stamped him one of the greatest ball players in the history of the great national game. It was here he changed from pitcher to catcher, and his remarkable work in the new position from the start made him the most conspicuous figure in the game, to be a star in both of these positions. For a number of years he was the first string catcher for the Giants, and his value for all-around work was evidenced by the fact that when not in the game as catcher he was used in the outfield and was for a considerable period the lead-off hatter, the only catcher ever known to bat continuously in that position. As partner with the famous Christy Mathewson he formed the battery of Mathewson and Bresnahan, considered by authorities as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, combinations ever in baseball. Mr. Bresnahan remained with the New York Giants until 1908, when he was signed as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, filling that position from 1909 until 1913 and effecting a great improvement in the team. He next joined the Chicago Cubs in a similar capacity, successfully managing that club until 1916, when he seized the opportunity to acquire his home team, the Toledo Mud Hens, of which he has since been the principal owner. He has spared neither time, energy, money nor patience in his efforts to give Toledo the best team in the American Association and has never lost faith in the ultimate attainment of his purpose. A wonderful tribute to Mr. Bresnahan's 666 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY skill as a ball player came recently when John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, admittedly baseball's greatest and brainiest manager, in an autobiography, "My Thirty Years in Baseball," selected a mythical All National League team of players he considered greatest in their respective positions. He selected Mr. Bresnahan as catcher, and for the mythical team of All Time he again selected Mr. Bresnahan, stamping him as the greatest catcher that ever played the game. Mr. Bresnahan is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church and a third degree Knight of Columbus. He is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose and in politics he maintains an independent attitude, placing the qualifications of a candidate above all other considerations. He is a loyal supporter of the city, because of his belief in its opportunities and advantages, and his enthusiasm has found expression in effective efforts in its behalf. No man has done more to promote the national sport than Mr. Bresnahan, who has always stood for the highest ideals and standards in his work, and his record is a matter of pride to Toledo's citizens, for his strongly marked characteristics are those of an honorable, upright manhood—a manhood that makes for personal popularity and at the same time commands the unqualified respect of all. F. A. FRANKOWSKI Business development in Toledo receives stimulus from the efforts of F. A. Frankowski, who is numbered among the successful real estate dealers of the city, while in public affairs he also figures prominently as deputy county auditor of Lucas county, in which office he has been retained for the past six years. Mr. Frankowski is one of Toledo's native sons, his birth having occurred in this city on the 4th of November, 1887, and his parents, Thomas and Mary Frankowski, are both natives of Poland. In 1879 they came to the United States, settling in Toledo, and for a number of years the father engaged in the florist's business, but he is now connected with the Edison Company of this city. The mother also survives and of the eleven children born to their union ten are living, namely : Peter F., Stephen W., Mrs. Josephine Fox, Mrs. Julia Hojnacki, Clara, Leo, Stella, Roman, Sylvester and F. A., all of whom are residents of Toledo. F. A. Frankowski acquired his early education in the parochial schools of this city and later became a student at St. John's College, from which he was graduated in 1904. After completing his academic course he entered the employ of the Kirschner, Wideman & Uhl Company, a well known real estate and insurance firm of Toledo, but left their service a short time later, becoming connected with the American Can Company in the capacity of timekeeper and cost clerk. For three and a half years he was with that concern and was then appointed deputy state fire marshal during the administration of Governor Harmon, capably filling that important position for six years and two months. On the expiration of that period, or in 1916, he received an appointment as deputy county auditor of Lucas county and has proven systematic, efficient, accurate and faithful in the discharge of his duties rendering valuable public service. In 1918 he became a member of the firm of Trepinski & Frankowski and they have since conducted a successful real estate and steamship ticket business. They have an intimate knowledge of property values and have negotiated many important realty transfers. Their commercial transactions have been conducted on the basis of honorable, straightforward dealing TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 667 and they are rapidly building up a large business. On March 5, 1923, Mr. Frankowski was appointed manager of the Opieka Savings Bank Company, Lagrange street branch, which is his present employment. Mr. Frankowski was married April 29, 1914, to Miss Regina Zielinski, a daughter of Frank Zielinski, a well known resident of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Frankowski have three children : Beatrice, whose birth occurred in 1915 ; Alice, who was born in 1919; and Mary Jane, born in 1920. Mr. Frankowski is a Roman Catholic in religious faith and a member of the Knights of Columbus, St. Michael's Society, the Polish National Alliance and the Hurd Club, while his political support is given to the men and measures of the democratic party. Throughout his career he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker and success has rewarded his efforts. He does all in his power to exploit the resources and advantages of Toledo, and is widely and favorably known in the city in which his life has been passed. WILLIAM COGHLIN Into various fields William Coghlin has directed his labors, ultimately arriving at the presidency of the Coghlin-Kirkby Machinery & Supply Company of Toledo. Not by leaps and bounds has he reached this position but by an orderly progression that has marked his full-faithed attempt to make every step in his career a forward one. Born in Toledo, September 27, 1872, he is a son of Dennis and Mary (McTague) Coghlin, the father a grain trimmer. The son was educated in parochial schools and when but twelve years of age began earning his living by working in a grocery store. He afterward acted as clerk of the school board for one term and, from early youth taking an active interest in politics, he served as a member of the democratic county central committee. He was also at one time chairman of a labor union. Thus his interests and activities have covered a wide scope, bringing him comprehensive knowledge of many questions which are vitally prominent before the public today. In early life he learned the machinist's trade and working his way upward he became department manager for the National Supply Company, with which he remained for nine years. Ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he ultimately organized the Coghlin-Kirkby Machinery & Supply Company, of which he is the president and general manager. The company's store is situated on the site of the old Wheeler Opera House and the business is now one of substantial proportions, having been developed along safe and progressive lines, so that the trade has increased year by year. On the 7th of October, 1897, Mr. Coghlin was united in marriage to Miss Daisy M. Roberts of Toledo and they have become parents of three children : Mary Margaret, Paul Edward and Joseph Medor. Mr. Coghlin finds his recreation in the game of golf and in his rose garden. He also greatly enjoys fishing and sailing. He is a member of the Tampa (Fla.) Yacht & Country Club and he belongs to the American Rose Society. He has carried his study of the queen of flowers to a point of expert knowledge and is justly proud of his beautiful rose garden, which is not only a joy to the family but to the many friends who annually visit it. In club circles, too, Mr. Coghlin is a prominent figure, belonging to the Toledo Club, Sylvania Golf Club, Toledo Automobile Club, Toledo Yacht Club and the Commerce Club. He is also identified with the Toledo Art Museum as one of its generous patrons and, indeed, is interested in all of those movements and 668 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY forces which make for the cultural uplift of the city. His is a career of notable achievement, inasmuch as he started out empty-handed to earn his living when a lad of but twelve years. He soon recognized the value of industry, perseverance and reliability as factors in the attainment of success and these qualities have been assiduously cultivated by him as the years have gone by. Step by step he has progressed until he has reached a position among the prominent business men of Toledo, controlling extensive commercial interests, while his name is an honored one on commercial paper to a large amount. Such a record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what can be accomplished through individual effort, intelligently directed. WILLIAM HENRY COMTE William Henry Comte, the secretary and treasurer of The Comte-Naumann Company, building contractors of Toledo, has spent his life in this city. He was born on the 23d day of September, 1893, his parents being Julius and Margaret (Baker) Comte. The father has been engaged in building construction in Toledo for approximately thirty-five years. William Henry Comte was educated in the Sacred Heart parochial school and in St. John's College. At the age of eighteen years he joined his father in the latter's business, which in March, 1921, was incorporated under the name of The Comte-Naumann Company of which William H. Comte has become the secretary and treasurer. Mr. Comte was married on the 9th of May, 1917, to Miss Anna Rose Ochs of Fremont, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Mary Angela. The religious faith of Mr. Comte is manifest in the fact that he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, which is formed only of those who are identified with the Catholic church. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is also a member of the Lions Club. Thus his interests and activities have become of broad character and scope and he is keenly alive to the opportunities and the responsibilities that come to each American citizen. RALPH A. PARKER One of the most popular representatives of automobile interests in Toledo is Ralph A. Parker, the genial manager of the local branch of the Cadillac Company, who for the past six years has capably discharged the duties of this position. He was born in this city, January 11, 1883, and his parents, Torrence D. and Jennie (Mehl) Parker, were natives, respectively, of Ohio and New York. As a young man the father came to Toledo, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, becoming the owner of a grocery store. He passed away in this city in 1915 and the mother's demise occurred two years later. Ralph A. Parker, their only child, attended the grammar and high schools or his native city and after laying aside his textbooks he entered the pattern-making department of the Toledo Machine & Tool Company, with which he was connected for four years, gaining valuable experience along mechanical lines. He then TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 669 secured a position in the office of the Bour Coffee Company, which he later represented as a traveling salesman, serving in that capacity for five years. On the expiration of that period he opened the Standard Garage, which he conducted successfully from 1908 until 1912, when he sold out and made his way to the Pacific coast. For a time he engaged in business in Portland, Oregon, and then went to California, becoming manager for the San Francisco Tour, Company, which position he filled for three and a half years. In 1915 he returned to the east and in the early part of 1916 he took over the Toledo Cadillac Company, which he has since successfully conducted. Broad experience has given him a detailed knowledge of the business and owing to his expert salesmanship, enterprising and aggressive methods and thorough reliability he has been able to build up a large volume of trade for the company which he represents. Mr. Parker is a member of the First Congregational church and his political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party. Through his identification with the Chamber of Commerce he does all in his power to promote the industrial prosperity of this city and he is also a member of the Exchange, Automobile, Inverness and Toledo clubs. His fraternal connections are with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Masons and in the latter organization he has attained the thirty-second degree. He had no special advantages to aid him at the- outset of his career but realized that energy, determination and honest dealing are indispensable concomitants of success, and through the employment of these agencies he has steadily advanced. He is recognized as an alert and progressive business man and public-spirited citizen and his personal qualities are such that he has gained the warm friendship of many. EDWIN M. GOODWIN, M. D. For more than a half century Dr. Edwin M. Goodwin was an honored representative of the medical profession in Toledo. He was born in Cazenovia, New York, on the 27th of May, 1842, and his life record covered the intervening years to the 17th of March, 1920, when he passed away in this city. Early in life he determined upon the practice of medicine as his vocation and in preparation therefor entered a medical school at Albany, New York, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree. Soon after completing his course he enlisted in the United States navy during the Civil war and was assistant surgeon, serving on the gunboat "Exchange" until after the cessation of hostilities. In the late '60s Dr. Goodwin came to Toledo and for a time was associated in practice with Dr. Rouse on Summit street. Subsequently he removed to the Yeager block, where he had his office and residence for many years, and later he maintained his office in the Smith building, where he also continued for an extended period, or until about 1918, when he retired from the more active practice of his profession and from that date until his death two years later had his office in his residence, ministering only to a few of his old patients who were loath to give up his service. Throughout his professional career he had kept in touch with the trend of modern thought and scientific investigation along the line of medical and surgical practice, being a man of pronounced ability and one who long enjoyed an extensive patronage. On the 6th of March, 1872, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Goodwin was married to 670 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Miss Caroline Russell, who resides at No. 1933 Parkwood avenue, which has been her place of abode since 1889. Dr. Goodwin was a republican in his political views, always stanchly supporting the party which was the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war and has always been the party of reform and progress. He belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and to the Loyal Legion and he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He attended the Trinity Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Goodwin is a member, and his influence was ever on the side of progress and improvement. He held membership with a number of the leading medical societies and with the Microscopical Society and was actuated by a spirit of progress in every relation of life, so that he made steady advance in his chosen profession and in his relations to public duty and public service as well. He lived to the ripe old age of almost seventy-eight years and his career was ever one of usefulness. WATSEN HAWLEY For twenty-two years Watsen Hawley has been identified with business interests of Toledo and he is now devoting his attention to the installation of power plant equipment, in which connection he has been very successful, having been awarded many important contracts. He was born in Greene county, New York, July 19, 1856, and his parents were James P. and Elizabeth (Bedell) Hawley, both of whom were natives of New York city. In 1860 they removed to the middle west, settling in Michigan, and the father became one of the pioneers of Jackson county. He was a very successful agriculturist, developing a large farm, and both he and the mother continued to reside upon that property until called to their final rest. Their son, Watsen Hawley, attended the district schools of Jackson county and at an early age he started out in life for himself, serving an apprenticeship to the milling trade with a firm of Jackson, Michigan. Later he went to Sandusky, Ohio, to supervise the erection of a flour mill for the firm of Barn & Kilby of that city and remained with them for about two years. He then established a flour mill at Archbold, Ohio, operating the plant successfully until 1900, when he sold out and came to Toledo. He was identified with the McNall Boiler Company of this city until 1915 and then resigned, having decided to launch a private business enterprise in this city. He organized the firm of W. Hawley & Company, handling power plant equipment, and has since been president of the undertaking. His reputation has spread beyond the confines of the city and he has installed the equipment in many large power plants in various parts of the country, his services being in constant demand. One of his most notable achievements was the installation of the boiler in the plant of the Edison Electric Light & Power Company, situated on West Congress street, Detroit. This is a twenty-nine hundred and eighty horse power boiler and is the largest single boiler in the world. Broad experience and careful study have given Mr. Hawley an expert knowledge of his line of work and he gives his close personal attention to all the details of the business, while he also has the ability to see clearly its larger aspects. His well directed efforts have been attended with gratifying results and the business which he controls is one of large extent and importance. On the 6th of December, 1883, Mr. Hawley was married at Maumee, Ohio, to TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 671 Miss Florence Sherwood, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sherwood. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have become the parents of two children, a son and a daughter. •Mrs. C. M. Bancroft, the elder, a native of Archbold, Ohio, was educated in the public schools of Toledo and is now a resident of Canandaigua, New York ; Sherwood J. Hawley was also born in Archbold, Ohio, and attended the grammar schools and Central high school of Detroit, Michigan. He is now associated with his father in business. He married Miss Hazel Fordum of Toledo, and they have a daughter, Eva Florence. Mr. Hawley, Sr., is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club and his political support is given to the republican party. His life record is one in which notable business ability and the recognition and utilization of opportunity are well balanced forces. His progressive spirit and executive force have found culmination in the development of a large industrial enterprise and he is a self-made man whom Toledo regards as a valuable addition to its citizenship. DONALD LOUIS REYNOLDS Donald Louis Reynolds, vice president of the Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, is the son of Charles L. Reynolds, president of that institution. He was born in Toledo, on the 1st of March, 1886, and has lived in this city all of his life. He is one of three children born to Charles L. and Annie (Groff) Reynolds, who are mentioned at length elsewhere in this work. The other two children are: Lawrence G. Reynolds ; and Annie, the wife of Robert S. Harris. After attending the public schools of his native city Donald Louis Reynolds entered Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut, from which he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1909. At the conclusion of his college career Mr. Reynolds returned to Toledo to accept a position in the Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, one of the oldest and best known financial institutions in the city, with which his father was already connected as a high administrative officer. Beginning his banking experience as a bookkeeper, he has held various positions, serving as clerk, teller, and in other capacities, and now knows from personal participation in the work the duties of the several departments of the bank. In January, 1919, he was made vice president in charge of the loan department. In addition to his duties in connection with this office Mr. Reynolds is a member of the board of directors of this institution and also of the Second National Bank, in which he is financially interested. In his political views Mr. Reynolds supports the policies of the republican party. He attends St. Mark's church of Toledo and belongs to the Toledo and Country clubs. SAM DAVIS Business enterprise in Toledo finds a foremost representative in Sam Davis, who has devoted his life to the coal trade and the moving and storage business, and from a most modest beginning his interests have constantly expanded until he is now the largest dealer in this commodity in the city of Toledo, while he is also at the head of other large enterprises, all of which contribute substantially 672 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY to the development and upbuilding of the city. He is a native son of Toledo and was born June 27, 1883, of the marriage of Isaac and Mary (Freid) Davis, who were of European birth. In 1882 they became residents of Toledo, where the father became connected with mercantile interests. His demise occurred in this city in 1916, and the mother passed away on the 17th of February, 1922. In their family were eight children : Jacob, Morris, Mrs. Goldie D. Levison, Mrs. Pearl Arenson, Mrs. Fannie Myers, Mrs. Rose Sworzyn and Sam, all of whom are residents of Toledo ; and Edward, the second of the family, who is deceased. In the public schools of this city Mr. Davis obtained his education and on starting out for himself in 1904 he turned his attention to the line of business that he has ever since followed. He began in a small way and with the passing years his business has steadily grown, through capable direction and close application, until he has become the largest retail coal dealer in Toledo, giving employment to almost one hundred persons. He is sole owner of this extensive undertaking and he also has a large storage warehouse, which he erected in 1917. Mr. Davis incorporated The Sam Davis Company in June, 1923, to facilitate the handling of his coal, trucking and storage business, as well as to give an opportunity to a number of his faithful employes to acquire an interest in the business. Mr. Davis has recently become principal owner of the Toledo Factories building, the incubator of many infant industries, succeeding Irving B. Hiett, as president of the company. It was organized in 1912 by Irving E. Macomber, R. B. Crane, W. C. Carr, W. W. Knight, James Bentley, I. B. Hiett, C. D. Smith, E. H. Cady, J. N. Willys, Rathbun Fuller, Isaac Kinsey, Frank P. Chapin and other prominent men of Toledo, as a means of encouraging small industries and thus promoting the commercial development of the city. The plant was so organized that power, heat, light, fire protection, insurance and other necessary facilities were provided at minimum rates and has been the means of fostering many enterprises which have since taken their places among the leading industries of the city. Owing to the great demand for room in this building, which is four stories in height, of modern fireproof construction and affords a floor space of two hundred thousand square feet, Mr. Davis is planning to erect a half million dollar addition to the Woodruff avenue structure, which now contains twenty small industrial concerns. He possesses a genius for organization and an aptitude for successful management and is a dynamic force in any movement with which he is associated. The activity of Mr. Davis in other connections includes the improvement and development of the Canton street business section. This improvement started in 1902, when he was agent for the real estate holdings of Graff M.. Acklin in that locality, and although Mr. Davis was but a boy in his teens, his business foresight was exceptionally good, as subsequent developments have proven. Mr. Davis is now the most extensive property owner on Canton street and erected the first new building thereon, as well as a number of modern buildings since then. On the 29th of November, 1903, Mr. Davis married Miss Annie Copelan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Copelan of Toledo, and they have become the parents of three children : Roi, who was born December 21, 1905, and is a student at the Scott high school of this city ; Leora, who was born April 20, 1907, and is also attending that school ; and Ira, born January 25, 1917. Mr. Davis has ever recognized the brotherhood of mankind and his benevolence reaches out broadly to his fellowmen. He is vice president of the Jewish Federation of Charities, is a director of the Collingwood Avenue temple and is also identified with the Loyal Order of Moose and the Progress Club, and is a director of the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 673 Toledo Zoological Society. Mr. Davis is a very successful business man, yet he has not achieved his success by selfishness. A strong believer in the practice of "live and let live," his donations to charity and deserving projects have always been liberal and frequent. He built and presented to the city the beautiful band stand in Willys park. This structure was dedicated June 7, 1922, by Mayor Brough. In 1923 Mr. Davis erected in Ottawa park a beautiful band stand and comfort station in memory of his mother, Mrs. Mary Davis, and also presented this to the city. The career of Mr. Davis is a striking illustration of what a young man can accomplish if he has energy and push and tries to be square. He was but ten years old when he began to do for himself and now at middle age has acquired a competence that would be a credit to the activity of a full lifetime. He has ever supported those interests which are calculated to benefit humanity and his individual qualities are such as have gained for him a most creditable position among Toledo's prominent business men and citizens. Mr. Davis' residence is at No. 2483 Scott-wood avenue. ARTHUR J. RICHIE, M. D. The medical fraternity of Toledo finds a leading representative in Dr. Arthur J. Richie, who for twenty-two years has successfully followed his profession in this city. He was born in Sylvania, Ohio, March 24, 1877, and his parents, James J. and Irene E. (Comstock) Richie, were also natives of this state. The Richie family is one of the oldest in America, having been established in this country in 1625. The immigrant ancestor, John Howland, was a passenger on the Mayflower and settled in New York. His daughter, Desire Howland, married John Gorham, of which couple Abigail Gorham was a descendant and she was Arthur J. Richie's mother's grandmother. She died at New Lisbon, Otsego county, New York. James J. Richie was born at Cape Vincent, New York, in 1829, and later moved to Kingston, Canada, where he lived some few years before coming to the states. He died in 1900, when seventy-one years of age. The mother is still living. They had a family of three children : Carl D., a resident of Lorain, Ohio; Mrs. Leona E. Heath, a teacher in the public schools of this city; and Arthur J. Arthur J. Richie attended the grammar and high schools of Sylvania, Ohio, and a business college of this city, later becoming a student at the Toledo Medical College, from which he was graduated on the 5th of April, 1898. He began the work of his profession at Sylvania, where he maintained an office for two years, and since 1900 he has been located in Toledo. He has built up a large general practice and is a member of the auxiliary staff of St. Vincent's Hospital. He has never regarded his professional education as completed with the termination of his college course and has taken postgraduate work in New York city and other leading medical centers, thus promoting his knowledge and increasing his efficiency. Recognition of his professional ability led to his appointment as city physician and for two years he capably filled that office. Dr. Richie was married April 5, 1899, to Miss Regina Haley, a daughter of Adam S. Haley of Findlay, Ohio, and they have become the parents of two children: Gerald S., who was born at Sylvania in January, 1900, and was graduated from the Scott high school of this city ; and Margaret, who was born in Toledo in 1905 and is now a junior in the Smead school, a private educational institution of the city. 674 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Dr. Richie is a veteran of the World war and his son was a member of the Student Reserve Corps. The doctor was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was sent overseas. He was attached to Base Hospital No. 66, and received his discharge at Baltimore. Professionally he is identified with the Toledo & Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a man of high purposes and ideals, whose life work is one of broad usefulness, and his professional labors have been attended by that success which is the merited reward of concentrated effort and marked ability. MRS. NELLIE B. MARTIN Mrs. Nellie B. Martin, president and treasurer of the Toledo College of Music, was born in Monclova, Lucas county, Ohio, July 2, 1861, a daughter of John and Margaret (Sheplar) Barton. She was educated in the schools of Lucas county and when quite young displayed decided talent for music. At the age of ten years she was a pupil of Mrs. Gilbert at Maumee, the latter a granddaughter of Little Turtle, a full-blooded Indian. There were comparatively few music teachers in Toledo at that time and such was the demand for instruction in the art that Mrs. Martin, when but thirteen years of age, was giving lessons and has practically continued in the work throughout the intervening years. She studied with the best private instructors, among whom were Professor Holcomb and Amer Berum of Stuttgart, Germany. Wishing for a broader and more comprehensive musical training than was afforded in Toledo, she attended the Chafee-Noble School of Expression in Detroit, Michigan, from which she was graduated. After this she went to Adrian College, where she was graduated from the musical department and later she completed a course of study in the Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature. On the 28th of June, 1888, Nellie B. Barton became the wife of Theodore Corson Martin. All of this time Mrs. Martin had been instructing pupils on the piano and at the same time giving public dramatic readings, her labors of this kind covering a period of more than twenty years. She had many flattering offers to take up dramatic readings exclusively but her delight and ambition lay in her teaching work and particularly in the art of music. Mrs. Martin for years has been an active member of the Toledo City Federation of Women's Clubs, which she has served as treasurer for two years, as president for two years and as chairman of the music committee for five years, as well as in various other helpful capacities. For four years she was president of the Readers Dramatic Club. She was also president of the Informal Study Club and has been president of the 1900 Study Club. At a former period she was president of the Nautilus Club and at one time was the presiding officer of the Musical Study Club. She is a member and chairman of the music committee of the Woman's Educational Club, belongs to the National Music Teachers Association and also to the National Speech Arts Association. She is a member of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association and is a member of the Toledo Woman's Association, of which she was at one time a trustee. Her various connections with these organizations show how broad and comprehensive are her interests and activities, especially along those lines which make for cultural uplift and value. Neither is she neglectful of her TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 675 duties in relation to the moral progress of the community and is numbered among the loyal members of the Methodist church. In the year 1910 Mrs. Martin became one of the organizers of the Toledo Musical College, which was incorporated under the laws of the state and has the power to issue diplomas for pupils graduating from the different branches of the school. Mrs. Martin has been the president and treasurer of the college from the beginning. The school had rooms in the Zenobia building for a time and the branches taught were piano, voice, violin and other stringed instruments such as banjo, guitar and ukulele. Other branches taught were public school music, harmony, history of music, theory, dramatic art, story telling, aesthetic dancing and the languages, principally Spanish and French. Mrs. Martin has held to the highest standards in maintaining and promoting the school and her graduates have high rank in musical and art circles. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have one daughter, Margaret Eleanor, who is now the wife of A. H. Brachvogel and who is a teacher of piano in the college. Among the pupils of Mrs. Martin are found competent musicians in all sections of the country and her own daughter is a representative of this class. Mr. Martin was born in Toledo, November 20, 1860, and is a son of Preedom and Hannah (Gorson) Martin. He acquired his early education in the schools of Lucas county and his first position was that of clerk in a general store at Scranton, Ohio, where he worked for a time and later took up the business of selling life insurance. In the year 1890 he joined the organization of the J. W. Greene Company as a salesman and is now a stockholder in the company and one of its directors. He has been with this great musical house for more than thirty years and is prominently known in musical circles throughout this section of the state. Mr. Martin is a republican in his political views, always supporting the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is .a member of the United Commercial Travelers, also of the Knights of Pythias and of the Commerce Club. His duties have taken him so largely 'away from home that he is not much of a club man, preferring when it is possible, to spend his time at his own fireside. BENJAMIN K. BAER Benjamin K. Baer, a progressive young business man of Toledo, is secretary and treasurer of the Ringold-Baer Realty Company, whose operations in this field have not only been a source of individual prosperity but have also contributed materially to the upbuilding and improvement of the city. Mr. Baer was born in Deshon, Ohio, July 20, 1891, and his parents were Mason and Frances (King) Baer, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of English birth. In early life the mother came to the United States, taking up her residence at Indianapolis, Indiana, where she met and married Mason Baer. He was a member of the United States Broom Company of that city and later went to Maumee, Ohio, becoming connected with the John Kaufman Realty Company. His demise occurred at Toledo, on the 12th of February, 1915. The mother is .still living. In their family were fourteen children, twelve of whom survive: Jeannette, Mrs. Herbert Davis, Joseph, Emanuel, Mrs. J. J. Snyder, Mrs. J. J. Collins, Mrs. W. E. Good, Milton, Selma, Maurice, Samuel and Benjamin K. In the acquirement of an education Benjamin K. Baer attended the grammar 676 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY schools and the Central high school of Toledo, from which he was graduated in 1909, and he then secured a position as salesman for the John R.. Grossman Company, dealers in men's furnishings. He remained with that firm for nine years, resigning to accept an offer of the Reuben Realty Company, and later was placed in charge of their down-town investment department. He acquired a thorough knowledge of the business and at the end of five years severed his relations with that company in order to enter the- real estate field independently. On the 1st of February, 1921, in association with Joseph H. Ringold, who had also been connected with the Reuben Realty Company, he organized the Ringold-Baer Realty Company, of which he is now serving as secretary and treasurer, while Mr. Ringold is filling the office of president. They handle residential properties, industrial plants and business realty in the down-town district and also deal in insurance and loans and each department of their business is enjoying a prosperous growth. Mr. Baer has an intimate knowledge of the worth of all realty in the city and is seldom in error in his estimate of property values. He displays sound judgment and keen discernment in the conduct of his interests and by reason of his enterprise and diligence is contributing toward making this one of the most successful real estate firms in the city. On the 23d of February, 1916, Mr. Baer married Miss Celia K. Himelhoch, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Himelhoch of Toledo, and they have two children : Mason, who was born November 29, 1916; and Betty Jane, born December 14, 1920. Both are natives of this .city. In matters of citizenship Mr. Baer is loyal, progressive and public-spirited and during the World war he served as local chairman of the Thrift Stamp campaign, while he also aided in promoting other measures promulgated by the government at that time. He is of the Jewish faith and is a member of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, of which he is president, and is' also connected with the Progress Club, of which he has likewise been made president. This organization has eight hundred and fifty members, representing Toledo's most prominent Hebrew citizens. Mr. Baer is also identified with the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, the Toledo Real Estate Board, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Toledo Automobile Club and the Masonic fraternity. His career has been marked by steady advancement, due to his close application, his earnest study of the business to which he has turned his attention, and his unquestioned integrity and reliability, and Toledo numbers him among her progressive young business men and valued citizens. JUDGE AARON BERNARD COHN Judge Aaron Bernard Cohn is a representative of the Ohio bar whose career reflects honor and credit upon the legal and judicial history of the state. At the present time he is serving for the second term as one of the four judges of the municipal court of Toledo, this term covering a period of six years. While in this way he is contributing in notable measure to the forces of law and order in the city, he is doing perhaps even a still greater work through his labors in connection with the Boy Scouts, whereby he is training the youth of the city for the duties and responsibilities of citizenship and endeavoring to instill into his mind high ideals whereby he may be guided in the later performance of public duties when he shall have reached manhood. Judge Cohn's work is indeed of far-reaching benefit and TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 677 effect and the boys of Toledo recognize in him one who is truly their friend, as well as their adviser and counselor. The Judge was born in Hungary, March 29, 1883, and is a son of Sam and Fannie (Friedman) Cohn. Born in Hungary of a wealthy Jewish family and educated to be a rabbi ; coming to America when a young man ; spending a time at Panama while the Frenchman De Lesseps was making his vain attempt to cut a canal through the Isthmus ; traveling through the Central American republic and through the southern states as a pack peddler ; several times established successfully in business and as many times suffering disaster ; injured for life in a railroad wreck ; taking up his residence at Toledo in 1889, where he lost another modest fortune ; in, Toledo politics for a quarter of .a century, surviving the ups and downs of many political leaders, and ending his days as an honored public official of recognized high ability—such in summary was the life of Sam Cohn of Toledo, who for years had cheerfully looked death in the face and who finally yielded to its importunities and passed away November 10, 1915. His death closed an unusual career. It was such a career in American life and politics as is found portrayed oftener in fiction than in reality. Within his fifty-nine years were compressed experiences such as rarely come to one man and still leaves his life a modest one. Dominating every other fact in his life was that he did more for others than he did for himself. Afflicted for years by physical infirmity before which most men would have quailed and become dependent, he had the quaint and sound philosophy which comes from having conquered suffering and constant trouble, and many others were dependent upon him. His children were reared to comfortable situations. Hundreds of people in and out of his own faith found occasion to lean on his capable assistance ; many younger and older politicians looked to him for guidance ; he was the confidante of makers of governors, senators, and the president, and politicians and statesmen of much magnitude profited by his advice. Perhaps the keynote of his life was in a brief bit of philosophy which he once confided to a friend : "I never worry a minute over a thing I can't change." Mr. Cohn lived intensively in the present. He seldom became reminiscent, and it is only by piecing together many fragmentary incidents which he told his intimate friends that anything like a complete sketch of his life can be given. He was born in Nanash, Hungary, October 16, 1856. He was of pure Jewish blood, and his grandfather was a rabbi, and, as already stated, Mr. Cohn himself was educated to follow in the same vocation. He revolted against Old Country conditions, particularly of religious intolerance against the Jews, and set out for America in 1883. In the meantime he had married, taking his wife from the village of Vilmaney, Hungary. All their children except the youngest were born in Hungary. The youngest, a native of this country, is Mrs. Julia Salzman, wife of Dr. Sam Salzman. The other children who survive their father are: Mrs. Sarah Salzman of Chicago; Mrs. Theresa Kessler of Toledo ; and Aaron B., of this review. Another son, Jacob, died eight years before his father. Leaving his family in Hungary until he could establish a home in this country, Sam Cohn arrived at Panama while the French were endeavoring to build the canal, and started out as a peddler. During a yellow fever scourge his partner fell a victim and Mr. Cohn, having won the good graces of the commander of a visiting American war vessel, was carried to New Orleans. Again he started out as an itinerant peddler and went through many of the rural districts of the south. Mr. Cohn was one of several well known Toledo men who got their start in that way. In time he accumulated capital which enabled him to establish himself permanently. 678 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COLYTY In one southern city he conducted a laundry. For a time he was superintendent of railways in Baton Rouge. He reached the high tide of his business success in the south at Greenville, Mississippi. On the very banks of the Mississippi river he had a hotel and four stores. The treacherous conduct of the waters of the mighty river is well known, and in a single night this portion of the little city was undermined, and Mr. Cohn's entire fortune and property was swept away. About the same time a passenger train on which he was traveling ran off the track and he was crushed in the ruins. Mrs. Cohn came on from Hungary and by constant attention and the best medical science his life was saved, but his spine was twisted so that for his remaining years he walked with a crutch and cane. In 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Cohn came to Toledo, and sent for their children that remained in Hungary. Mr. Cohn is said to have brought thirty thousand dollars in cash with him to Toledo. For a time he conducted a wholesale notion store successfully, but investments in the Findlay oil field caused his failure. He paid his creditors dollar for dollar. For a time Mr. Cohn conducted a saloon business, though personally he had no liking for that trade and it was only as a last resort that he accepted the opportunity. During the eleven months he conducted such a model place and fed so many men who didn't have work or didn't want it, that he found all his capital dissipated and he closed his doors. At this juncture he was afflicted with a long and severe illness, one of many such during his lifetime of battle against weakness and disease. His home at that time was on Canton street in sections of the fourth and fifth ward. At one election a candidate for assessor asked Mr. Cohn to electioneer for him. He accepted the responsibilities, and the man was elected, and immediately appointed Mr. Cohn his assistant. Such was his entry into Toledo politics. What he did in politics is well worthy of record, and might make a story that could be read with profit by every native American citizen. Some of the more significant phases of his political career are best told by the Toledo Blade: "His subsequent political career is one of these which go to disprove the popular fiction that a politician's life is one of ease. Like most of those men who make honest politics a profession, Mr. Cohn worked early and late and it is well known he performed services which would have taxed seriously the strength of an able-bodied man. Yet Mr. Cohn's reward for his political service was small. He was appointed market master by former Mayor Guy G. Major, and continued in that position under Mayor Samuel M. Jones. This paid only sixty-five dollars a month. During Governor Nash's term he was appointed superintendent of the Toledo State Free Employment Bureau, a fifteen hundred dollar position, which he continued to hold under Governor Herrick and Governor Harris. "During these years Mr. Cohn stood the brunt of much political criticism and attacks from his opponents. It was when he was appointed member of the old board of review in 1908 to succeed the late James M. Brown that his real capacity for public service received recognition. He applied himself assiduously to his work. He studied tax authorities and eventually attained state prominence as a tax expert. So substantial was this recognition that twice, when his tenure of office was threatened by political changes, recommendations from Toledo real estate and business men that amounted to a public demand for his reappointment poured in on the state authorities. All Toledo newspapers, including those which had fought him in prior years, endorsed him. The public confidence thus expressed was regarded by Sam Cohn as one of the sweetest things in his life. But in spite of this public goodwill Mr. Cohn had to fight to hold this position. Before the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 679 Warnes law providing for a district tax board was passed, the members of the board of review were appointed by four state officials. Mr. Cohn's term expired before the Warnes law went into effect. Three of the four democratic state officials determined to appoint a democrat, and only the most vigorous public campaign in Toledo obtained Mr. Cohn's reappointment. "Although a republican, Mr. Cohn stood high in the respect of former Governor Cox, and there was no question of Mr. Cohn's appointment as one of the two district tax assessors under the Warnes law. But when Cox was defeated there was a new state administration which knew not this modern Joseph of politics. Governor Willis removed the district tax assessors throughout the state. Again the realty and business men of Toledo came to Mr. Cohn's aid and hundreds of telegrams insisting on his appointment were sent to the governor. Governor Willis heeded the advice. Mr. Cohn was reappointed. He continued to pursue his consistent service and it is known that Governor Willis so valued him that he was in a fair way to become one of the closest advisers of the state administration. One of Mr. Cohn's greatest assets as a tax official was the logical reasoning by which he persuaded large taxpayers to agree to high valuations of their property without resort to force. "Mr. Cohn became the adviser of many politicians of state and national importance. He frequently was the confidential representative of the late Senator M. A. Hanna. A story which signifies the important events which have at times swung on him relates to the memorable Taft-Roosevelt contest in the Ohio state convention in 1912. The fight was for the control of the four delegates at large. A majority of the district delegates were for Roosevelt. The Taft forces had a margin of only five votes in the state convention to elect the delegates at large. There were enough Roosevelt men in the Cuyahoga county delegation to switch the margin, but they were held for Taft by the unit rule imposed by the Burton organization. It became known they would vote for the Roosevelt candidate if a poll of the delegation could be obtained. The usual rules provided that any member of the delegation could demand a poll of the convention, but none of them would go that far. To Mr. Cohn was entrusted the task of securing the adoption of rules which would break this deadlock. He performed it. By the exercise of diplomacy he succeeded in having the rules committee adopt rules which were as usual except for one word. They contained the word 'convention' instead of 'delegation.' If the rules had gone through the convention in this form it would have permitted anyone in the convention to challenge the vote of the Cleveland delegation. A poll would have been taken and, according to expectations, enough Cleveland delegates would have voted for the Roosevelt delegate to change the complexion of the convention. The plan did not quite succeed, since the Taft forces discovered the stratagem and the offensive word was changed to its original form. Had the plan not failed, current history might have been different. It is a well established belief that if President Taft had not secured the Ohio delegation at large he would not have been a candidate before the Chicago convention, the progressive wing of the party probably would have won, and the national split in the party probably would not have occurred." Many more incidents might be related to show the character of the late Sam Cohn, whether as a business man or politician. But enough have been told to explain those deep forces which moved his life and enabled him to move and influence an entire community. No better commentary of his hold upon people of all conditions and classes could be found than the tribute paid to him after his 680 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY death. The funeral services were held in the Jewish Educational building in Toledo, Mr. Cohn having been closely identified with the founding and life of the Jewish Educational League, the main purpose of which is to aid Jewish immigrants. He was also prominent as an orthodox Jew in the congregation of B'nai Jacob, was a member of the B'nai B'rith, the Independent Order Sons of Benjamin and the Maccabees. A great cosmopolitan assemblage crowded in and around the doors of the building in which the last rites were held for Mr. Cohn. Court proceedings in the county and federal buildings were suspended. County offices were closed during the hours of the funeral. Business establishments in the Canton Street district conducted by Jews who came under Mr. Cohn's aid and guidance under his lifetime, were closed. After the Jewish Educational building was filled to the doors there stood outside in the rain judges of the common pleas court, lawyers, professional men, politicians of prominence and hosts of others. Members of the Commerce Club, Central Labor Union, Real Estate Board, city officials, merchants and small shopkeepers and persons of all parties and creeds were represented. One of Mr. Cohn's closest personal friends was Colonel John W. Dowd. Many years ago they made a compact that the survivor of the two would speak at the funeral service of the other. It is fitting that some of the words spoken by Colonel Dowd over the body of his dead friend should be repeated : "I like to think of him as a lineal descendant of those noble old patriarchs who loved mercy, who dealt justly and who walked courageously all the days of their lives. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was in the public service. Little by little, by industry and energy and earnestness and perseverance, his merits became known and received recognition. At last he became a member of the board of review, a sphere in which he found a scope for his abilities. He delighted in his work and it is no disparagement to others to say that he was largely instrumental in so equalizing the burdens of taxation that the homes of the poor paid no more than their just proportion in comparison with the rich and well-to-do. He always looked out for the poor. And when his term expired, men of all creeds, classes and conditions and parties, with practical unanimity demanded that he be retained in the position. And this confidence of the public in him rendered happy the last years of his life. "And all his success .he achieved while suffering from ills that would have crushed the ordinary man. For the last fifteen years of his life he was never free from pain, and always his face was cheerful and always his heart was courageous. Outside of his home this man's chief delight was in the society of his friends. He radiated cheerfulness. It was always a happy crowd when Sam Cohn was there. His smile, his cheer, his wit, his wisdom, these a host of friends can never forget." To conclude this brief sketch of one who must long be called a first citizen of Toledo, there should be quoted a brief tribute from the words of Rabbi Alexander, who took as the text of his discourse the words of Samuel, "Here Am I." Rabbi Alexander then continued : "The theme of his life was, 'Here am I to serve the people, to make sacrifices for the well-being of the community.' He lived a life of service as few men have lived it, blending the ideal of Judea and the ideal of America. He was an intense Jew and a stanch American. It has been said that he was an American before he reached these shores. True to the traditions of Judea, he had a big conception of the part America, should perform in the drama of the world. Every act of his was a commentary on this text. He may not have been conscious of this philosophy, yet he lived it. The world honors such men. w This great outpouring from all the walks of life testifies the esteem in which he was held." TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 681 In his youthful days Judge Aaron Bernard Cohn was a pupil in the public schools of Toledo, mastering the work of the grades and of the high school, while later he took up the profession of teaching manual training, being active in that field from 1903 until 1905. In this way he gained notable insight into the character, habits, desires, activities and ambitions of boys and his knowledge has stood him in good stead in his efforts to be of real assistance to the youth of Toledo in later years. Ambitious to become a representative of the bar, Judge Cohn while still teaching in the manual training school, became a student in the Ohio State University, which he entered in 1905 and from which he was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1910, having taken the complete law course. He was admitted to practice in the state courts and also in the United States courts and continued in the general practice of law for a number of years, trying all kinds of cases and trying them well. One of the strong elements of his success was his careful preparation of every case entrusted to his care and he prepared not only for the expected but also for the unexpected, which happens quite as frequently in the courts as out of them. He continued to engage in general practice until January, 1918, when, having been elected judge of the first municipal court of Toledo in 1917, he entered upon a four years' term in that position and is now serving for a second term which will compass a period of six years. Throughout his life Judge Cohn has been called upon for active service that has placed him in a position of leadership. During his college days he was vice president of the Students Council in 1906 and 1907 and was president thereof through the two succeeding years. He was also business manager of the Makio in 1908 and during his college period was chairman of the Students Building Committee. He was also president of the Ohio Union and became a member of the Bucket and Dipper, and Sphinx. Graduated in 1910, he was admitted to the bar in the same year and his professional history constitutes no unimportant chapter in the judicial records of the city. He has also become well known in the educational field, having taught law in the night school of St. John's College for three years, while he is now serving for the fifth year as dean of the law college of the Toledo University. He was a member of the committee that drafted the municipal court bill for Toledo in 1917 and as one of the judges of this court he has made an excellent record, showing wisdom not only in his decisions but also attempting in every possible way to arouse in those who come before him a desire to become better citizens and men. Judge Cohn was a member of the legal advisory board of Toledo during the World war and he became a first lieutenant of Troop D of the First Ohio Cavalry of the Ohio National Guard, in which capacity he served for a number of years in his earlier manhood. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a representative member of the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations. His interest outside of his profession centers in the youth of the land. He has been actively interested in the Boy Scouts work for nine years as scout master and during the last six years as commissioner of the Boy Scouts in Toledo. He has written two plays for the Scouts, called "Dads," adapted for Father and Sons banquets, and such a banquet in Toledo has been attended by twelve hundred. He has also written a pamphlet on "Gimogash," which is an attempt at the solution of the older boy problem. During the past five years he has been a trustee of the Toledo Newsboys' Association, which gained national attention through the work of John E. Gunkel, now deceased. He was also chairman of a district of northwestern Ohio. 682 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY containing twenty-one counties, in connection with the building of the Ohio Stadium. In 1916, as chairman of the summer camp committee of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, he promoted the first municipal summer camp, whereby vacations were provided for two weeks for mothers and children. These families were selected by the District Nurses and Health Department from among the city's most needy. The camp was on Lake Erie and was a very successful project, taking many families out of the heat of the city during the hottest part of a very hot summer. His hand is continually extended to help those less fortunate than himself and his life and work have indeed been an inspiration and in many respects a benediction, particularly to the boys of Toledo. The following resume and appreciation of his life was written by Wendell Johnson, former editor of the City Journal and now of the Social Service Federation : "Judge Cohn has for years been an outstanding figure in Toledo's civic affairs. Wherever there was a work to be done, of uplift, of civic betterment, of constructive good for humanity, there Judge Cohn was to be found, lending his tremendous energy, his unusual resourcefulness, his untiring zeal toward its accomplishment. Where the job to be done required strong leadership he did not hesitate to accept the responsibility of assuming command. Where an inconspicuous supporting role needed capable handling, he stepped into the place just as willingly and carried on with a self-effacing spirit but with the same energy and ability with which he led others. "He has filled the position of municipal judge with dignity, courage, and painstaking attention to the matters coming before him. His reelection to the office by an overwhelming vote attests the confidence he has won among the citizens. In addition to his municipal court duties he has filled with ability the position of dean of the law college of the University of the City of Toledo. He has taught law classes both there and at St. John's College. "But it is perhaps in his unremunerated public services that Judge Cohn has won his chief reputation for active citizenship. In the year 1916 he conceived the idea of a summer camp for tired mothers and their children. He headed a committee of the Commerce Club which sponsored the plan and he himself devoted days and weeks of arduous effort arranging for the camp and directing its management. The camp, established near Toledo Beach, was a huge success. It made possible a vacation for scores of poor mothers who had never before had a respite from the cares and drudgery of a drab home life. "Judge Cohn has probably found his greatest opportunity for welfare work in organizations for boys. Himself a former newsboy, he has taken an active part in the affairs of the Toledo Newsboys' Association ever since its inception. He has for years been a director of the Association and no officer has entered more wholeheartedly into the organization's work among the newsboys. "Even more of his time has been given to the Boy Scout movement. Here he has indeed achieved lasting fame, for he is credited with having done more to promote Scouting in Toledo than any other one man. He was for years Scout commissioner, and in that capacity he became known among Boy Scout locals throughout the country for his splendid work. Not only in his wise, farseeing counsel in the management of the Toledo organization, not only in his inspirational speeches on the value of Scouting to Scout leaders and the general public, but in actual participation in the work among the boys themselves did he contribute toward making Toledo one of the chief centers for Scouting in America. "In quite a different field, the broader one of citizenship, Judge Cohn has TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 683 contributed much in the way of arousing interest in public affairs. A very concrete example of his success in this field was afforded by his personal campaign for a new Safety building, to replace an antiquated, unsanitary police station that had been for years a disgrace to the city. Through a unique campaign of publicity, itself a demonstration of his unusual resourcefulness, he aroused such a wave of public sentiment for the project that the council finally passed unanimously a bond issue for a modern, adequate building." FRANK JOSEPH McDONALD Frank Joseph McDonald, secretary of the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company, was born in Carey, Ohio, January 11, 1890, a son of John and Catherine Griffin. His mother died when he was very young and he was reared by the McDonalds, whose name he now bears. The country schools afforded him his educational privileges until he reached the age of thirteen years, after which he continued his studies in the public schools of Toledo and thus laid a good foundation upon which to build the superstructure of success in later life. He afterward learned the lithographer's trade, acquainting himself with every phase and principle of the business and upon the organization of the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company he became its secretary. His active experience and knowledge of the business is proving an important element in the successful conduct of the present enterprise. During the World war he was connected with the Evacuation Hospital service. On the 6th of March, 1918, he joined the army as a private and was sent overseas on the 26th of July, being with the army until mustered out on the 27th of May, 1919, being engaged in active duty in France for about ten months. It has been since his return that he became associated with the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company and the diligence, thoroughness and capability he displays in connection with the business are substantial elements in his growing success. WILLIAM WASHINGTON COLDHAM, M. D. The attractiveness of Toledo as a place of residence is manifest in the fact that a large majority of her native sons have remained within her borders, enjoying the countless opportunities for business progress and advancement. Among those representing the medical profession here who are natives of the city is Dr. William Washington Coldham, who since preparing for the practice of medicine and surgery has remained here. He was born on the 22d of February, 1865, and is a son of James and Anna (Williams) Coldham. He pursued his early education in the public schools of Toledo and then went to Toronto, Canada, where he entered the Trinity University, in which he prepared for his chosen calling, winning the M. D. C. M. degree. He has also studied in London, England, and throughout his career has availed himself of every opportunity to promote his knowledge and advance his efficiency through wide study and scientific research and investigation. With his return to Toledo he opened an office and has since engaged in practice here. The years have chronicled his success and he enjoys the reputation of being most careful in diagnosis, while in his expression as to the outcome of disease he 684 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY is seldom, if ever, at fault. He is keenly interested in anything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life and he has kept in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress through his membership in the Academy of Medicine and in the American Medical Association. For fifteen years he has been chief of staff in St. Vincent's Hospital, doing splendid work there in connection with his large private practice. On the 29th of October, 1889, in Toledo, Dr. Coldham was united in marriage to Miss Kathryn Shaw, a daughter of E. C. Shaw. They have become the parents of three daughters : Winters, now the wife of John E. Cameron Kathryn, who married David Robison; and Anna Carrol, at home. Dr. and Mrs. Coldham are members of St. Mark's Episcopal church. He belongs to the Inverness Golf Club and his military record covers service as surgeon of the First Ohio Battery of the National Guard from 1887 until 1893. The major part of his time and attention has always been concentrated upon his professional interests and duties, which he has ever performed with a sense of conscientious obligation, and by reason of his developing powers he has advanced steadily to the front in his chosen calling, being long well known as a leading and capable physician and surgeon of Toledo. ALFRED A. BENNETT Among the varied industries which are important factors in the business development and material upbuilding of Toledo is that of the Copperstone Products Company, of which Alfred A. Bennett is president, and the present success of the enterprise is largely attributable to his well devised' and carefully executed plans. He was born in Adrian, Michigan, May 29, 1879, of the marriage of Andrew H. and Mary (Green) Bennett, the former a native of Canada and the latter of Michigan, to which state the father removed in early life. After reaching manhood he became connected with the building and contracting business at Adrian and later went to Jackson, where for a time he continued his activities along that line. Later he became associated with his brother in the conduct of an undertaking establishment and his demise occurred at Toledo, May 27, 1889, while the mother passed away at Adrian, Michigan, in 1884. They were the parents of three children : Mrs. Albert Polscher, a resident of El Paso, Texas Miss Louise Thompson, who has been legally adopted by her uncle and now bears his name ; and Alfred A., of this review. Alfred A. Bennett acquired his education in the public schools of Toledo, following this by a course in a business college of this city. On starting out in life for himself he secured employment with the Ames-Bonner Company and later was with the Simmons Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Company for a short time, after which he obtained a position with the Lloyd Brothers Company, marble and monument manufacturers. He remained with that firm for fifteen years, winning promotion from one position to another of greater responsibility until he finally became president of the corporation. After selling his interests in the business he organized the Copperstone Products Company, of which he is now serving as president. The firm manufactures cement products, such as flagging composition and aggregate copper products for use in the construction of floors and roads, employing at times as many as fifty workmen. Mr. Bennett thoroughly under- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 685 stands all phases of the business in which he is engaged and this practical knowledge, together with his sound judgment and keen insight, has enabled him so to direct the affairs of the company that its trade has shown a steady growth. Mr. Bennett was married June 25, 1902, to Miss Gussie L. Weis of this city, and they have become the parents of four children: Jane, whose birth occurred in 1910 ; John, born in July, 1913 ; Betty, born in 1915; and Robert Andrew, born in 1923. Mr. Bennett is a member and one of the vestrymen of Trinity Episcopal church of Toledo and his political support is given to the candidates of the republican party when national issues are involved, but at local elections he casts his ballot in favor of the man whom he deems best fitted for office without regard to party ties. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner and is also a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, the Sylvania Golf Club and the Kiwanis Club. As a business man his standing is of the highest and in all matters of citizenship his influence is on the side of progress and improvement. ROBERT J. WEST Robert J. West, president and manager of the West Crescent Fuel Company, is an outstanding figure in commercial circles in Toledo. For twenty-three years he has conducted the West Crescent Fuel Company and has guided its destinies until it has become one of the leading institutions of its kind in this part of the state. Robert J. West was born in Toledo, on the 18th of May, 1868, his parents being Charles and Mary (Williams) West. The father, a native of London, England, was born in 1829, and died in Toledo on the 18th of September, 1909. He was for a number of years identified with the wholesale drug business and had an extensive circle of friends in this city. Robert J. West attended the public schools of Toledo and began his business career in 1888, with the old Merchants National Bank, where he was employed for two years. In 1900 he was appointed by President McKinley, supervisor of census of the ninth census district, in the taking of the United States census, and was again called to that office in 1910. In 1900 he organized the Leeper, West & Terry Company, which has become the West Crescent Fuel Company, wholesalers and retailers of all grades of coal, of which he has been president since its inception. The firm conducts four local distributing yards and enjoys one of the largest patronages of any company in Toledo. Mr. West's activities, however, are not confined to this business alone. Of pronounced executive ability; his interest in civic matters has proven of public benefit to the community. He has been on the board of trustees of the Community Chest Fund and has been untiring in his efforts in behalf of that organization's work. He is a past president of Toledo Council of Boy Scouts and a member of the executive council of Toledo. He has been vitally interested in all agencies and forces which tend to promote the civic welfare of Toledo, and it has been truly said of him that he has filled a place in local activities that few men are gifted with the ability to fill. Mr. West married, in 1904, Miss Elizabeth Dority, a daughter of the late James Dority. Mr. and Mrs. West have one son, James, born in 1905, who is attending Hackley School at Tarrytown, New York. 686 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Mr. West is a thirty-third degree Mason, and has been a prominent and active figure in both local and state Masonic affairs. He is a member of the Toledo Club, Toledo Country Club, Toledo Yacht Club, Chamber of Commerce, and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks ; he is a generous supporter of the Symphony Orchestra; and for the last five years has been a director of the Security Savings Bank & Trust Company. J. PRESSLY LYLE, M. D. Dr. J. Pressly Lyle, who passed away on the 8th of November, 1922, after many years devoted to the practice of medicine and to active promotion of f raternal interests, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of March, 1850, a son of John and Sarah Jane (Simpson) Lyle. His grandparents in the paternal line, Joseph and Jeanette (McNary) Lyle, were also born in Pennsylvania and passed away in Washington county, that state, the grandfather attaining the ripe old age of eighty-three years. Pennsylvania was also the native state of the maternal grandparents, Robert and Ann (Lyle) Simpson, who spent their lives in Washington county. The birth of Dr. Lyle's father occurred in Washington county, April 21, 1821, and he was the senior of his wife by only about three months, her birth occurring in the same county on the 19th of July, 1821. John Lyle devoted his attention to the occupation of farming as a life work and thus provided a comfortable living for his family. His early political allegiance was given to the democratic party, but with the organization of the republican party he joined its ranks and remained a faithful follower of its principles to the time of his death, which occurred in 1907, when he was in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His widow survived him and passed away in Jefferson county, Ohio. They were long devoted members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Lyle served as an elder for more than a half century. This worthy couple became the parents of eight children, of whom five sons and two daughters are living. The youthful days of J. Pressly Lyle were spent in his native county and to the public school system of Pennsylvania he was indebted for the early educational opportunities which he enjoyed. He afterward continued his studies in the McNeely Normal College at Hopedale, Ohio, and next entered Richmond College at Richmond, Ohio, where he completed his preparatory studies. In preparation for a professional career he entered the Columbus Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and there received his M. D. degree upon graduation with the class of 1882. Immediately thereafter he returned to Pennsylvania and for three years was an interne in Passavant Hospital at Pittsburgh, thus gaining that broad and practical knowledge which can never be so quickly secured in any other way as in hospital practice. He was also associated for a year with the wholesale drug house of J. H. Henderson & Brothers and he became one of the early members of the Allegheny County Medical Association and was the first solicitor for the Pittsburgh Medical Journal. Dr. Lyle's association with professional interests in Ohio dated from 1882, when he opened an office in Unionport, Jefferson county, there remaining until 1891, when he located at Cleveland. In the following year he occupied the position of pharmacist with a large drug house and in 1892 he removed to Toledo, where he spent the remainder of his life and enjoyed an extensive practice, being particu- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 687 larly skilled as a diagnostician. At all times broad reading and study kept him in touch with the trend of modern scientific advancement and research and he ever utilized the most progressive methods of the profession in his daily practice. He was an honorary member of the Allegheny County Medical Association at Pittsburgh and while residing in Unionport, Ohio, he was an active member of the Jefferson County Medical Association. Dr. Lyle was very prominently known in connection with his work in various fraternal orders. As a Mason he was a past master of Yondota Lodge, F. & A. M. ; past high priest of Port Lawrence Chapter, R. A. M.; past illustrious master of Vistula Council, R. & S. M.; and a member of Eu-Tah Commandery, K. T. He was also past worthy patron of Yondota Chapter of the Eastern Star. He became an Odd Fellow in 1876 and was identified with the Knights of Pythias from 1882. In 1895 he became a member of the Knights and Ladies of Columbia, of the Order of Chosen Friends in 1897 and of the Tribe of Ben Hur in 1898. In 1903 he organized another fraternal society known as the Order of Love, Light and Truth. He belonged as well to the Protected Home Circle and filled the office of supreme deputy grand riboni of the Order of the Philosophy of the Living Fire. In all of these fraternal societies he was local examining physician and he did everything in his power to stimulate an interest in and secure the adoption of the high principles and ethical standards upon which these organizations are based. On the 30th of May, 1875, Dr. Lyle wedded Miss Ellen Shoemaker, a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, and they became parents of two daughters, Georgia 0. and Bessie A., the latter deceased. The former is the wife of Wilhelm F. Widell and has two children : Sigrid Caroline, now the wife of Ralph M. Winters ; and Kathleen Ellen. Dr. Lyle was long a firm supporter of republican principles and served as committeeman of the party for more than a quarter of a century. At local elections, however, where no issue was involved, he cast an independent ballot. In fact, he was an independent thinker, liberal and broad-minded, not holding to creed or man-made divisions of religion but adhering to the high standards which recognize the brotherhood of man and the obligations thereby imposed. JOSEPH M. MURPHY It is a matter of deep interest in the study of biography to find that industry is the key which unlocks the portal of success. Many of the most prominent figures in the business world today are those whose start has been of most humble origin. Such is the record of Joe Murphy, who first earned his living by serving as water boy with a railroad gang. Today he is president of the Citizens Ice Company, which controls a business of very gratifying and substantial proportions. Joe was born in Toledo, July 14, 1867, and is a son of James and Bridget (McGrath) Murphy. His education was acquired in the Immaculate Conception parochial school and when quite young he started out to provide for his own support, securing a position as water boy with a railway section gang. He was ambitious and not afraid to work and step by step he advanced. His second position was that of messenger boy with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and again his fidelity and diligence won him promotion, so that after a time he became bill clerk. His progress was continuous and for a few years he occupied clerical positions in the general offices of the Michigan Central Railroad, acting as bookkeeper for The 688 -TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Gendron Wheel Company for a number of years, then advertising manager for The Famous Clothing store and later went into business for himself in meats. Actuated by a most laudable ambition, he carefully saved his earnings until he felt that the time was ripe for him to start out independently. His economy had enabled him to acquire considerable capital and he organized the Citizens Ice Company, of which he became the manager and secretary. From the beginning the enterprise prospered and after a time Mr. Murphy was chosen to the presidency and has since been the head directing official of the company, which today has an extensive trade, its business growing steadily. On the 4th of October, 1894, Mr. Murphy was married to Miss Lillie Bourdette of Toledo and their living children are: Claire Marie and Robert Arthur. Their religious faith is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Murphy is identified with the Knights of Columbus. He belongs to the Toledo Club, to the Rotary Club, to the Commerce Club and to the Toledo Yacht Club, the latter association indicating much concerning the nature of his recreation. In 1921 he organized a singing organization of twelve male voices called "The Ice House Quartet," whose pep has added zest to many a civic gathering. He discovered the song, "We're Strong for Toledo." He is interested in all those forces which have to do with civic righteousness and upbuilding and his cooperation and support can be counted upon to further all plans and measures for Toledo's improvement. GEORGE A. DENMAN, M. D. The medical profession of Toledo finds a prominent representative in Dr. George A. Denman, who is specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has been very successful. He was born in Allen county, Kansas, July 8, 1877, a son of Francis M. and Lydia (Harding) Denman, the former a native of Indiana. The father enlisted for service in the Civil war, joining the Ninety-seventh Illinois Volunteer Regiment, and was commissioned a captain. He participated in many notable engagements but was never wounded and after receiving his discharge he went to Kansas, where he took up a soldier's claim, on which he engaged in the raising of cattle, while later he developed a large nursery. Subsequently he removed to Charleston, Illinois, but afterward went to California, hoping that a milder climate might restore his health, but his demise occurred in the Golden state in 1905. The mother had passed away at Charleston, Illinois, in 1900. Of the children born to their union two are living : George A. and I. 0., a prominent physician of Toledo, who is also a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. In the acquirement of an education George A. Denman attended the public schools of Allen county, Kansas, and Savonburg Academy of that state, after which he became a student at the University of Kansas, in which he completed an academic course. From 1901 until 1903 he was in the office of Dr. James S. Campbell, a well known physician of Chicago, Illinois, and during that time he also attended the Hahnemann Medical College of that city, from which he was graduated in 1903, with the M. D. degree. He began his professional career at Tuscola, Illinois, where he remained until 1907, when he went abroad for the study of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, taking postgraduate work at the University.of Vienna, Austria, and at Frieburg, Germany. In 1908 he returned TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 691 to the United States and established his office in Toledo, where he has since concentrated his attention upon the treatment of diseases pertaining to the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he has developed expert skill. He has also attended the Chicago Post Graduate School and has ever remained a close and discriminating student of his profession, utilizing every opportunity to broaden his knowledge and promote his efficiency. With the passing. years his practice has steadily increased and his professional services are now in constant demand. On. the 15th of March, 1916, Dr. Denman was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Bell, a graduate of the Nurses Training School of Toledo and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bell, well known residents of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Denman have a daughter, Dorothy E., who was born March 15, 1921. In his political views the Doctor is a republican and while a resident of Tuscola, Illinois, he was elected coroner of Douglas county, filling that office from 1904 until 1906. He is deeply interested in the welfare and progress of his city and his public spirit finds expression in his membership with the Chamber of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to Perfection Lodge at Danville, Illinois, to the chapter, council and commander), at Tuscola, that state, and to Valley Lodge, the Scottish Rite Consistory and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chicago. He is also a member of the Toledo Automobile Club and his professional connections are with the Lucas County, Northwestern Ohio and Ohio State Medical associations, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the National Ophthalmological and Oto-Laryngological Society. He is a man of advanced scientific attainments, whose professional career has been marked by continuous progress and as a member of the medical fraternity he has attained high rank among those whose skill is uniformly acknowledged. EUGENE A. DAUTELL Eugene A. Dautell, the newly appointed general manager of the Toledo Cadillac Company, is exceptionally well qualified for this responsible position and (luring the period of his residence in this city he has made many stanch friends. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1879, of the marriage of Frank and Katherine (Dautell) Dautell, the former of whom died when the subject of this review was very young. The mother still resides in the Quaker city. In the public schools of Philadelphia Eugene A. Dautell acquired his education and he afterward served an apprenticeship to the mechanic's trade, having a natural predilection for work of that character. For a time he was connected with the manufacture and sale of gas meters but later became identified with the theatrical profession, displaying considerable ability as an actor. As a member of dramatic organizations he toured the United States, Canada and Mexico, winning favorable notices from the press and appreciation from the public, and for a number of years he continued in the profession. Subsequently he decided to return to business pursuits and in 1913 came to Toledo, securing a position as salesman with the Campbell Motor Car Company. Later he joined the Cadillac Company in a similar capacity and recognition of his ability on the part of his employers led to his appointment as general manager of the Toledo Cadillac Company, on the 12th of July, 1922. He is energetic, aggressive and determined and it is his ambition to build up the sales organization of the Cadillac, both in Toledo and the 692 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY out-of-town territory under his charge. He is an expert mechanic and salesman and the company is fortunate in securing the services of a man of his.efficiency and worth. At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of November, 1916, Mr. Dautell was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Read and they have become the parents of three children : Betty Jane, who was born in 1918 ; Phyllis Read, born in 1919 ; and Eugene A., Jr., whose birth occurred in 1920. Mr. Dautell gives his political support to the republican party, because he believes that its principles will best conserve the interests of good government. His public spirit is denoted by his connection with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and he is also a member of the Inverness Club and the Toledo Club. He is very thorough in everything that he does, never undertaking a task unless he deems it worthy of his best efforts, and the position which he now occupies has been won through merit and ability. WILLIAM FRANCIS MALONE Various business interests have claimed the time and attention of William Francis Malone, who is now the secretary. and treasurer of the Harter Candy Company. He has also spent a period of years in public office and in every relation of life he has measured up to the demands made upon him in the way of progressive, intelligently directed and honorable business activity and public service. Mr. Malone is a native of Toledo, born February 15, 1863. His father, Edward Malone, was one of the early contractors and builders of the city, being accorded the contract for the erection of the Boody House and also of the State Asylum. In fact, he erected most of the large buildings in Toledo in his day and occupied a leading position among the contractors here. His son, William Francis Malone, attended St. Patrick's school and the Assumption College, thus acquiring the education which qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties. He later spent one year with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad and then joined his father in business, being thus associated until 1889. In the latter year he became secretary-treasurer of the Buckeye Paint & Oil Company and so continued for fourteen years, or until 1903, when he was made a member of the board of review of Lucas county and occupied that position altogether for sixteen years, or until 1919. Since his retirement from office he has been the secretary-treasurer of the Harter Candy Company and is active in control of what is today one of the important commercial interests of the city. On the 7th of May, 1889, Mr. Malone was married to Miss Mary White, a native of Chicago, and they have become the parents of seven children : Rev. Francis E. Malone, D. D., who is now a chancellor of the Toledo diocese ; Robert J., who married Agnes Schindler of Toledo, and has two children, Robert Charles and William Francis, Jr. ; Elizabeth ; Catherine, who is now known as Sister Aloysia, being a Sister of Mercy ; Helen ; Margaret ; and Richard W. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church. Mr. Malone is a member of the Inverness Club and he has a very wide acquaintance in Toledo, where his life has been passed, many of his stanchest friends being those who have known him from his boyhood to the present time. INDEX Acklin, W. C. - 177 Adams, H. E. - 473 Albrecht, W. H. - 128 Allemeier, A. W. - 131 Allen, H. N. - 55 Allen, Maurice - 45 Ansted, R. E. - 42 Arbogast, W. S. - 460 Armstrong, F. A. - 126 Aschbacher, K. P. - 32 Averill, F. C. - 307 Babcock, R. W. - 122 Baer, B. K. - 675 Baker, H. C. - 82 Baker, R. H. - 146 Bamberger, Herman - 371 Banting, J. W. - 58 Barlow, Harriet M. - 338 Bash, H. M. - 610 Baumgardner, C. M. - 26 Baumgardner, F. L. - 101 Baumgardner, N. L. - 376 Bay, A. - 381 Beard, E. M. - 559 Beckley, S. W. - 62 Beckwith, H. K. - 489 Beecher, W. H. - 37 Behrend, H. W. - 650 Belden, E. H. - 405 Belford, Fordyce - 429 Bellman, C. N. - 543 Bellman, Sam - 142 Bennett, A. A. - 684 Bentley. Thomas - 547 Berger, C. A. - 525 Berkebile, J. H. - 12 Bettridge, W. E. - 311 Bevan, Larry - 175 Bierly, T. N. - 207 Bitter, R. H. - 316 Blanchet, B. K. - 202 Boggs, Nolan - 305 Bond, O. S. - 563 Bostelmann, J. C., Jr. - 271 Bovard, O. B. - 558 Bowman, G. F. - 613 Boyd, J. H. - 614 Bradley, W. F. - 192 Brady, C. H. - 584 Brand, W. W. - 653 Bresnahan, R. P. - 665 Brigham, Mayor - 643 Brigham, O. S. - 636 Brigham, R. O. - 643 Brigham, W. A. - 625 Brim, B. B. - 16 Brown, L. O. - 641 Brown, T. H. - 469 Buelow, H. V. - 526 Bunker, W. H. - 464 Bunting, C. E. - 567 Burgess, T. E. - 27 Burke, W. T. - 211 Burt, J. C. - 416 Calkins, Thomas - 661 Campbell, C. A. - 67 Campbell, Persons - 112 Campbell, W. W. - 11 Carr, J. E. - 367 Carr, W. C. - 505 Carroll, C. H. - 258 Cartwright, C. E. - 275 Cassidy, Florence G. - 420 Cauffiel, J. H. - 649 Champion Spark Plug Company - 355 Chenevert, C. E. - 261 Chesbrough, Alonzo - 81 Christen, Fred - 594 Christensen, W. G. - 327 Clement, L. H. - 571 Coghlin, William - 667 Cohen, A. S. - 292 Cohn, A. B. - 676 Coldham, W. W. - 683 Collins, E. T. - 46 Colter, M. W. - 176 Comstock, O. G. - 201 Comstock, R. R. - 463 Comte, Victor - 196 Comte, W. H. - 668 - 693 - 694 - INDEX Conn, A. L. - 486 Cooley, L. M. - 222 Coover, J. W. - 298 Cordill, W. E. - 161 Crawfis, N. L. - 424 Crossett, F. A. - 68 Crowther, J. S., Jr. - 266 Cuff, W A. - 187 Culver, E. E. - 378 Cummings, John - 65 Dachtler, H. W. - 619 Dahn, T. A. - 585 Dautell, E. A. - 691 Davies, Sara A. - 286 Davis, E. E. - 459 Davis, J. F. - 470 Davis, Sam - 671 Day, T. P. - 231 De Argentage, Charles - 278 Deeds, C. L. - 480 Deibert, C. M. - 137 Delaplane, J. F. - 430 Demorest, R. H. - 403 Dempsey, S. D. - 433 Denman, G. A. - 688 Denman, I. O. - 241 Denman, U. G. - 529 Derby, D. E. - 629 Dice W. G. - 601 Diebel, F. W. C. - 285 Dodd, M. S. - 633 Dodge, H. P. - 540 Donnelly, J. M. - 251 Dotson, F. M. - 627 Douglass, F. M. - 38 Drew, H. L. - 108 Duffeck, F. W. - 466 Duffey, W. J. - 362 Duncan, F. F. - 620 Dye, C. A. - 31 Earl, T. B. - 85 Emery, J. R. - 429 Eppstein, J. O. - 351 Evans, E. E. - 276 Fallis, L. H. - 272 Farman, F. L. - 15 Farrell, T. C. - 423 Feilbach, Charles - 647 Fell, G. N. - 167 Ferrell, Thomas - 639 Fioritto, Michael - 605 Fisher, C. E. - 652 Fisher, H. E. - 655 Florian, E. A. - 225 Foard, H. T. - 238 Folger, F. B. - 385 Forster, A. E. - 152 Frankowski, F. A. - 666 Frantz, E. E. - 602 Friedman, C. K. - 586 Fritsche, W. J. - 465 Froehlich, F. H. - 347 Fuller, F. M. - 235 Gaines, F. W. - 308 Garrison, R. T. - 47 Gasser, M. H. - 125 Gaynor, P. T. - 27 Geer, F. H. - 17 Gendron, A. J. - 97 Gerken, J. D. - 443 Geroe, W. B. - 105 Gerow, L. H. - 578 Gerson, E. H. - 382 Gessner, G. A. - 228 Gettum, Paul - 367 Gibson, M. S. - 415 Gifford, T. L. - 296 Gluck, J. G. - 345 Goldmann, M. E. - 132 Gomph, J. P. - 98 Goodwin, E. M. - 669 Goosman, F. N. - 445 Gotshall, L. D. - 446 Gould, L. H. - 172 Grasser, F. J. - 18 Gray, V. I. - 78 Greenhalgh, G. P. - 245 Grose, F. F. - 197 Grzezinski, S. A. - 317 Gulick, F. M. - 135 Guthrie, L. E. - 404 Hahn, G. P. - 95 Hall, L. B. - 539 Haller, O. B. - 426 Hammer, I. H. - 608 Harbauer, J. W. - 8 Harpst, L. J. - 400 Harpster, C. M. - 483 Harris, J. S. - 305 Harris, V. H. - 248 Hassett, H. C. - 22 Hawley, Watsen - 670 Heath, H. H. - 318 Heck, F. E. - 302 Hein, B. J. - 21 INDEX - 695 Hein, G. A. - 36 Heiner, H. H., Jr. - 178 Helwig, J. C. - 75 Herrmann, J. B. - 532 Hiett, I. B. - 520 Hillebrand, W. B. - 232 Hindman, S. S. - 648 Hirsch, Henry - 444 Hoeflinger, Michael - 440 Hoot, W. N. - 337 Hopkins, Edward - 288 Horn, H. F. - 512 Hubbard, Thomas - 660 Huebner, John - 449 Hufford, C. E. - 47 Hummel, W. A. - 188 Hunter, I. E. - 638 Hurley, J. P. - 327 Husted, C. E. - 86 Hutchinson, H. L. - 268 Jetter, E. G. - 453 Johnson, Alfred - 454 Johnson, A. J. - 593 Johnson, F. T. - 266 Jokel, S. M. - 536 Jones, A. C. - 287 Jones, E. C. - 136 Jones, S. M. - 493 Kable, D. M. - 72 Keilholtz, K. D. - 76 Keller, E. F. - 435 Keller, J. Q. - 102 Kelly, W. J. - 664 Kelsey, A. L. (II) - 156 Kelsey, E. W., Jr. - 347 Kerscher, G. J. - 388 Kerscher, W. J. - 388 King, G. P. - 358 King, H. A. - 464 Kirby, G. P. - 61 Kirkbride, W. G. - 558 Kirkby, J. A. - 256 Knight, W. W, - 35 Koch, A. B. - 322 Koehrman, J. W. - 168 Kohn, Samuel - 597 Kranz, A. J. - 322 Kromenacker, Joseph - 145 Kruse, F. H. - 91 Lamb, C. D. - 181 Lamb, C. M. - 181 Lane, J. W. - 221 Lang, R. W. - 406 Langdon, C. A. - 325 Lasalle, Jacob - 331 Lasalle, J. J. - 277 Lay, W. A. - 506 Ledbetter, H. T. - 176 Lee, H. C. - 516 Leist, R. S. - 187 Leppelman, J. C. A. - 196 Lewis, F. S. - 654 Lewis, Howard - 640 Libbey, E. D. - 5 Lisiakowski, W. J. - 51 Logan, R. D. - 393 Long, R. L. - 66 Lorenz, G. E. - 372 Lucas, E. E. - 577 Lukens, Charles - 591 Lumm, A. H. - 434 Lyle, J. P. - 686 Lynch, E. J. - 332 McAfee, J. A. - 425 McAfee, S. L. - 592 McCabe, J. M. - 567 McDonald, F. J. - 683 Machen, A. J. - 242 Malone, W. F. - 692 Manning, W. G. - 226 Manton, F. J. - 592 Manton, T. R. -137 Mapes, Katherine M. - 237 Marti, H. A. -148 Martin, Nellie B. - 674 Mason, C. J. - 352 Mather, J. S, - 92 Matthes, L. H. - 348 Mauk, C. A. - 267 May, J. J. - 216 Meilink, C. F. - 162 Middleton. H. A. - 91 Millard, G. W.- 552 Miller, W. F. - 326 Miller, W. I. - 658 Miller, W. S. - 28 Mills, G. S. - 387 Mills, R. D. - 578 Moburg, F. O. - 328 Moon, L. D. - 336 Morgan, H. W. - 236 Moss, G. S. - 357 Mulholland, F. L. - 41 Mull, E. P. - 436 Murphy, J. M. - 687 696 - INDEX Nast, Joseph - 646 Neill, W. A. - 215 Nettleman, G. H. - 439 Neukom, A. H., Jr. - 116 Newcomer, E. W. - 216 Newton, F. H. - 37 Nichols, W. G. - 342 Nordholt, J. B. - 475 Northup, C. S. - 551 Norton, H. H. - 141 Nusbaum, H. A. - 656 O'Donnell, O'Brien - 485 Ormond, J. M. - 599 Otte, C. F. - 619 Owen, C. W. - 312 Paine, L. H. - 157 Parker, R. A. - 668 Parrott, P. F. - 357 Parsons, J. E. - 87 Patrick, B. W. - 126 Peabody, F. M. - 257 Pennoyer, C. A. - 321 Pheatt, J. H. - 409 Pickard, G. C. - 255 Pilliod, J. E. - 634 Pioch, W. F. - 212 Poggemeyer, Thad - 246 Potter, H. G. - 205 Prestler, William - 127 Price, L. C. - 556 Rapp, P. L. - 642 Rapparlie, J. W. - 277 Ray, W. R. - 117 Reeves, T. W. - 368 Reiser, A. W. - 218 Reuben, Z. A. - 132 Rex, C. R - 88 Reynolds, C. L. - 626 Reynolds, D. L. - 671 Reynolds, F. J. - 557 Reynolds, H. S. - 535 Reynolds, S. C. - 541 Rheinfrank, Eugene - 651 Rheinfrank, G. B. - 490 Ricaby, G. B. - 659 Richie, A. J. - 673 Rier, N. J. - 410 Ritter, G. W. - 590 Roberts, L. H. - 623 Robinson, P. B. - 77 Robison, H. F. - 155 Roose, W. H. - 598 Rosengarten, Walter - 191 Roulet, G. U. - 414 Rowley, C. S. - 247 Rowley, L. A. - 265 Rude, E. H. - 151 Rupp, J. W. - 366 Ryan, J. H. - 346 Sanger, Sigmond - 227 Scheub, W. G. - 142 Schmidt, F. C. - 568 Schmitt, Theodore - 111 Schmitt, Theodore, Jr. - 115 Schuttler, C. H. - 450 Segur, Daniel, Sr. - 394 Segur, Daniel, Jr. - 365 Seiders, C. A. - 549 Selby, C. D. - 377 Seney, A. J. - 590 Seney, G. E. - 581 Sheridan, J. M. - 653 Shields, A. W. - 522 Simmons, F. W. - 419 Simmons, W. H. - 399 Skeldon, J. L. - 281 Slayton, W. L. - 147 Smith, D. R. - 515 Smith, F. W. - 301 Smith, H. A. - 148 Smith, R. B. - 490 Smith, W. W. - 221 Spieker, A. G. - 519 Spitzer, C. B. - 413 Spitzer, C. M. - 606 Standart, W. H. - 206 Stautzenbach, Henry - 138 Stautzenbach, H. S. - 158 Stollberg, John - 97 Stowe, A. R. M. - 637 Surgeson, Richard - 436 Swartzbaugh, C. E. - 217 Swindeman, J. G. - 171 Taber, I. C. - 657 Taggart, A. B. - 630 Tait, P. G. - 624 Talaska, L. S. - 57 Taylor, J. T. - 502 Taylor, R. W. - 295 Thacher, A. Q. - 358 Thal, R. P. - 306 Thompson, H. L. - 663 Thornburgh, R. W. - 479 Thornburgh, W. C. - 560 Thurstin, W. S., Jr. - 530 INDEX - 697 Tillinghast, A. M. - 297 Tillman, J. L. - 71 Tillman, L. J. - 86 Tische, F. F. - 609 Toledo Club - 256 Torgler, C. V. - 118 Tracy, T. H., Jr. - 96 Tracy, W. N. - 456 Trotter, Albert - 195 Turner, C. S. - 282 Uhl, P. E. - 182 Urschel, G. C. - 476 Ursuline Academy of the Sacred Heart - 315 Vetter, E. F. - 645 Voigt, W. A. - 121 Vrooman, S. G. - 335 Wacke, C. G. - 265 Wade, E. H. - 633 Wade, T. A. - 544 Walbridge, H. S. - 509 Waldvogel, J. J. - 48 Walinski, N. J. - 262 Wannamaker, A. C. - 208 Warner, M. J. - 597 Warren, H. C. - 291 Watson, J. J. - 52 Weber, Oscar - 361 Weil, S. E. - 198 Welker, J. J. - 375 West, R. J. - 685 Whalen, P. F. - 166 Wiener, Herman - 396 Wilcox, M. I. - 185 Willard, F. B. - 252 Williams, W. E., Jr. - 385 Wilson, T. I. - 236 Witters, R. L. - 252 Wood, S. B. - 227 Woodward, J. G. - 455 Woolson Spice Co. - 474 Yoder, D. A. - 308 Zolg, W. A. - 165 Zopfi, A. S. - 424 Zorn, E. A. - 45