TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 277 1920. Through the intervening period of three years or more he has been the chief executive of this business, which in volume and importance o'ertops every enterprise of similar character in the country. Nor has he confined his efforts alone to a single line, for he is the president and one of the directors of the Rossford Savings Bank and is a director of the First National Bank of Toledo, of the Summit Trust Company and the Michigan Alkali Company. On the 22d of February, 1907, George R. Ford was united in marriage to Miss Grace Williams Miller of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman R. Miller, her father a representative business man of that city, connected with the extensive seed house of D. M. Ferry & Company and with the Royal Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Ford was born and educated in Detroit to the time when she was graduated from Miss Liggett's school of that city, while later she attended Miss Morgan's boarding school in New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have become parents of three children : George R., Jr., born in Toledo in 1909 ; Grace, born in 1910 ; and Felia, born in 1920. Mr. Ford belongs to the Toledo Club, the Country Club and the Toledo Yacht Club. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party but inclination and the demands of his business have prevented him from filling public. office. His cooperation can be counted upon to further measures for the general good and he is preeminently a representative of that class whose substantial character constitutes the basis of American progress and development. FRANK J. DALTON in the path of an orderly progression, each step being made at the cost of earnest labor and close application, Frank J. Dalton has reached an enviable position in business circles of Toledo, being closely associated with its industrial interests as president of the Dalton-Webb Optical Company, and in the line of activity in which he is specializing he occupies a place of leadership. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, March 22, 1878, and his parents, John J. and Katherine (Horan) Dalton, were both natives of Ireland. Leaving the Emerald Isle, they sought the opportunities presented in the United States and first located at Washington, D. C. In the early '70s they removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where the father became connected with transportation interests, holding the position of traffic manager for the Wabash Railroad for many years. Loyalty to his adopted country prompted him to enlist as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war and owing to his gallantry and bravery he was commissioned a captain, having entered the service as a private. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dalton passed away in Kansas City, the demise of the former occurring in 1913 and that of the latter in 1910. In their family were nine children, seven of whom are living, namely : Thomas B. ; Joseph, James, a veteran of the World war who saw active service overseas ; Mrs. John Dixon, Mrs. John Mahoney, Mrs. Charles Round ; and Frank J. In the grammar and high schools of Kansas City, Missouri, Frank J. Dalton obtained his education and after laying aside his textbooks he served an appren ticeship of five years to a prominent optician of that city. For fifteen years he followed his profession in Kansas City and .on the 22d of August, 1910, he arrived in Toledo, where he continued to follow his chosen calling in the employ of others until 1917, when he decided to embark in business independently and 278 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY organized the Dalton-Webb Optical Company, which has since enjoyed a prosperous existence. They cater exclusively to the wholesale trade and are classed with the largest manufacturers of optical goods in the city. Mr. Dalton is president of the company and he gives his close personal attention to the details of the business, also has the ability to see clearly its larger aspects, and in its control he displays marked executive ability, foresight and enterprise. At Kansas City, Missouri, on the 7th" of August, 1901, Mr. Dalton was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Zella O'Hara, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James O'Hara, and they have a large circle of friends in Toledo. They are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and in his political views Mr. Dalton is independent, placing the qualifications of a candidate above party affiliation. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, in which he has taken the third degree, and is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In his business career he has been dependent upon merit and ability for advancement. Along the path of opportunity open to all he has reached the goal of notable success, his progress being due to the fact that he has recognized and utilized advantages that others have passed heedlessly by. He has never dissipated his energies over a broad field but has devoted his life to the optical business, thereby gaining that specialized knowledge which has given him expert ability in his line of work, and his initiative spirit and administrative powers have found expression in the development of a large productive industry. JOSEPH KOCH Joseph Koch, deceased, was one of the founders of what is now The Lasalle & Koch Company, conducting one of the largest and finest department stores of the middle west. He was vice president and general manager of the corporation at the time of his death, which occurred on the 26th of June, 1904, when he was still in the prime of life. Mr. Koch was born at Framersheim, near Frankfort, Germany, in 1850, and went to school until at the age of sixteen years he left the place of his nativity and crossed the Atlantic to the United States, having earned the money to pay his passage. He came direct to Toledo and here soon secured employment as a clerk in the dry goods store of J. W. Muleneaux on Summit street, between Monroe and Jefferson streets. About two years later he entered the employ of Mr. Eaton, who conducted the Bee Hive store, where he remained as a clerk for nine years. Mr. Koch was a splendid clerk and salesman and by his capability and personality developed a large personal following, so that he was in 1876 invited by Alies S. Cohen to become associated with him as a partner in the general merchandise business under the name of Cohen & Koch, Mr. Cohen having previously been in partnership with Jacob Lasalle, under the name of Lasalle & Cohen. The firm of Cohen & Koch was located at the corner of Summit and Madison streets until the retirement of the senior member in 1881. The following year Mr. Cohen again became associated with Mr. Koch, and with Jacob Lasalle as a third partner they formed the firm of Lasalle, Cohen & Koch, the business being conducted in the new Bronson building at the corner of Summit and Adams streets. This partnership was continued until 1887, when Mr. Cohen withdrew to engage in the cloak manufacturing business and the style of the firm was changed to Lasalle & Koch. They remained in the Bronson building until 1900, TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 281 when the firm made what was considered a most radical move, leaving the heart of the retail district and locating in the Secor building on the corner of Jefferson and Superior streets, then out of the retail section. Upon the incorporation of the business as The Lasalle & Koch Company, Mr. Koch became vice president and general manager, continuing to serve in the dual capacity throughout the remainder of his life. He was a farseeing business man, a close observer and was in the vanguard of progress. He early sensed the expansion of the retail section of Toledo and did not hesitate to back his judgment with action. Later events proved that his ideas were correct. He was considered one of the ablest merchants Toledo has had and would be in the first rank of success and progress in any period in which he might have lived. He was never content to stand still but was ever on the alert for improvement. As an illustration of his methods and ideas, a short time before his demise he called his only son, then a sophomore in the University of Michigan, to his bedside and after giving him advice and counsel in business matters said to the young man : "There is a better way to run this business (it was then highly successful and the leading one of its kind in Toledo) than I have been able to find, but I want you to endeavor to, find that way and utilize it." Mr. Koch's able management made the history of the business synonymous with success and high commercial integrity. in 1917 the present magnificent building was built for The Lasalle & Koch Company—one of the finest department store structures in the entire country, and in 1923 Mr. Koch's son, Alfred B. Koch, became president of the corporation, which employs about one thousand people in the conduct of its business. Mr. Koch was married (first) to Hattie Black of Toledo, daughter of Alexander Black of the Black Cloak Company. She passed away in 1896, leaving three children : Alfred B., who is the president of The Lasalle & Koch Company and is mentioned elsewhere in this publication ; Amie, who became the wife of Arthur Block and resided at Buffalo, New York, where her death occurred April 6, 1923 ; and Florence, the wife of Henry Zellner of New York city. For his second wife Mr. Koch married Belle Black, sister of his first wife, and they became parents of two children : Alice, a resident of Toledo; and Harold, who is a member of the class of 1924 at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Koch was a charter member of Toledo Lodge NO. 20, Knights of Pythias, and served through all the chairs, and he also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Turners and as a young man was quite proficient in athletics. He was not a church member, but his religion was summed up in the Golden Rule and he gave freely though unostentatiously to charities, no worthy cause appealing to him in vain. His was the career of a truly self-made man and he left to his family not only a goodly estate but the priceless heritage of a name unsullied. CHARLES LE ROY McBRIDE The salient features of success have found expression in the record of Charles Le Roy McBride, who from a most humble beginning has developed a business of extensive proportions which he is now conducting under the name of the C. L. McBride Manufacturing Company, of which he is the president and treasurer. A large and well equipped plant is located in Toledo and is devoted to the manufac- 282 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY ture of canvas gloves. Mr. McBride has built up the trade entirely through his own efforts and as the result of the worth of the commodity which he manufactures, and his prosperity is everywhere acknowledged to be the merited reward of his persistency of purpose, his reliability and his initiative in promoting a new enterprise. Charles Le Roy McBride was born in Leipsic, Putnam county, Ohio, December 26, 1864, and is a son of Benjamin Franklin and Susan (Humburger) McBride: The father was the owner of sawmills and engaged in the manufacture of hardwood lumber. Later he turned his attention to woolen manufacturing at Columbus Grove, Ohio, and remained an active factor in business circles to the time of his death. Charles L. McBride pursued his education in the public schools of Ottawa, Ohio, and afterward secured a clerkship in a dry goods store. In every experience of life he has been an apt student, learning many valuable lessons, and the capability and fidelity which he has at all times displayed to the interests which he has represented have been added features in his advancement. In early manhood he also clerked in dry goods stores at Lima, Ohio, and in 1882 he came to Toledo, where he was employed as a dry goods clerk for a period of five years. He then went to Chicago, where f rim 1887 until 1891 he was in the employ of Marshall Field & Company, and in the latter year he removed to Detroit, where he continued until 1895, being also associated with mercantile interests in the latter city. He next went on the road as a traveling salesman for a jobbing house and was thus employed from 1894 until 1898. He was, however, watchful of opportunities and his eyes were ever open for the chance to take a forward step. At length he organized the Toledo Canvas Mitten Company, beginning business in a very small way. In fact, he made the first mitten at his own home from ticking and displayed this to patrons while he was traveling on the road as a dry goods salesman. It was in this manner that he obtained an idea as to whether his plan would be a feasible one and his mittens would sell. In 1896 he le ft the road and purchased two secondhand sewing machines in order to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his newly established business, which was steadily growing. He first made mittens in a little room in his own home, ten by twelve feet, having one girl to assist him. He sold the goods himself and, going to Defiance, Ohio, he there organized the Defiance Tick Mitten Company in 1898. The business had been steadily developing and he was at that time employing three girls. At the end of the first year he had twenty girls and was making ten thousand dozens of mittens annually. In 1900 he returned to Toledo and has since been connected with the manufacturing interests of this city. He sold to Marshall Field & Company a large order which placed him on his feet in a business way. He made the first canvas gloves in the country, cutting them by hand for a time until he was able to have dies made and thereafter did the 'work of cutting by machinery. He sold to the Boss Manufacturing Company his first big order, which was for ten thousand dozen gloves. During his first year in Toledo, Marshall Field & Company placed an order with him for forty thousand dozen, and the steady growth of his business led to the increase of his plant and the number of his employes, who in a short time numbered eighty-five. In 1905 he sold out to the Boss Manufacturing Company but in 1906 organized the C. L. McBride Manufacturing Company, capitalizing his business for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Of this company he has since been the president and treasurer. The main factory is located at Toledo and employes one hundred, while also at times he TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 283 has from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty people working for him in their homes. The capacity of his plant is four thousand dozen mittens per day and he has a plant in Newark, Ohio, giving employment to sixty-five people. Mr. McBride was united in 'marriage to Miss Mollie Wisler of Defiance, who passed away leaving two children, Charles Le Roy, Jr., and Katherine Lenora. Mr. McBride afterward wedded Sarah Liedell of Toledo and here they make their home ; having many warm friends in the city, while the hospitality of many of the attractive homes of Toledo is cordially extended them. Mr. McBride is truly a self-made man and deserves all the credit which that term implies. Steadily and persistently he has worked his way upward through individual effort and merit, allowing no obstacles or difficulties to bar his path, and today he ranks with, the representative manufacturers of his adopted city. WALTER W. HOSKIN Walter W. Hoskin, a member of one of the prominent pioneer families of Toledo, has spent his life in this city, covering a period of forty-nine years, and has witnessed much of its growth and development, in which he has borne his full share. He is now serving as president of the H. M. & R. Shoe Company; in which connection he is controlling one of the largest enterprises of this character in Toledo, and he is also at the head of other important business interests, all of which contribute to the maternal prosperity of the city. He was born in Toledo, February 9, 1873, and is a son of Richard T. and Emily (Clough) Hoskin, the former a native of London, Canada, and. the latter of England. In 1864 they established their home in Toledo, where the father entered business circles as a builder and contractor, and his labors constituted an important factor in the upbuilding and improvement of the city as well as in the attainment of individual prosperity. He is now living retired in Toledo and he and the mother are widely and favorably known in the city where they have so long resided. Of the children born to their union five are living : Mrs. William Scheerman, Mrs. W. E. Irwin, Mrs. A. F. Sherman, Mrs. T. H. Van Hoesan and Walter W., all of whom are residents of Toledo. Walter W. Hoskin obtained his education in the grammar schools and the Central high school of his native city and then devoted his attention to learning the shoe business, with which he has since been connected. In 1894 he became the business associate of E. T. Mechler and E. F. Raab, opening a retail shoe store in this city, and in 1908 their interests were incorporated, at which time the present style of the H. M. & R. Shoe Company was adopted. Mr. Hoskin is serving as president of the enterprise, which under his able management has rapidly developed until it has now assumed extensive proportions, one hundred persons being utilized in the operation of the business. The firm handles a large stock of fine shoes for men, women and children and in addition to its Toledo establishment it also maintains a branch store in Detroit. This, however, constitutes but one phase of Mr. Hoskin's activities, for he is also serving as president of the Toledo Savings Association, of the Hoskin Realty Company and the H. & G. Realty Company and is likewise a director of the Commercial Savings Bank. In Toledo, on the 20th of August, 1897, Mr. Hoskin was married to Miss Myrtle M. Curtis, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl Curtis of Fowlerville, 284 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Michigan, and they have become the parents of three children : Ronald M., born in 1898, attended the schools of Toledo and the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and is now a resident of Detroit. He married Miss Ellen Mitchell of Toledo, and they have a son, Ronald M., Jr.; Curtis Hoskin, who was born in 1906, is a high school student ; and Wilbur, whose birth occurred in May, 1908, is also a high school pupil. Mr. Hoskin is not bound by the narrow ties of partisanship but reserves the right to vote independently. He is' a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to both the York and Scottish rites, and is also connected with the Retail Merchants Association, the Commerce Club, the Inverness Club and the Toledo Club. He is identified with many interests, to all of which he gives his best efforts, as it is a principle of his life to undertake nothing unless it is worthy of thoughtful attention. He possesses those qualities which make for leadership and his life record is one in which notable business ability and the recognition and utilization of opportunity are well balanced forces. WILLIAM H. H. REEDER The qualities of business leadership are in a substantial degree the possession Of William H. H. Reeder, whose enterprising spirit and powers of organization have found expression in the development of the. Dime Savings Bank of Toledo, one of the leading financial institutions of the city, of which he is serving as the president. His birth occurred at Dunkirk, in Hardin county, Ohio, December 13, 1867, and his parents were William W, and Sarah E.. (Ransbottom) Reeder, also natives of the Buckeye state, the former born in Allen county and the latter in Hardin county. The father was an honored veteran of the Civil war, enlisting as soon as he was old enough to be accepted, and he served during the latter part of that conflict. After receiving his discharge he took up the study of pharmacy and later established a drug store at West Cairo, Ohio, which he conducted successfully for thirty years. He was numbered among the representative business men and foremost citizens of the town. Both he and his wife have passed away. In the public schools of Allen county, Ohio, William H. H. Reeder obtained his education and on starting out in the business world he sought the opportunities presented in Toledo to an industrious and ambitious young man, becoming connected with the wholesale drug house of West and Truax of this city. In 1900 he became one of the incorporators of the Dime Savings Bank, of which he was chosen president on the 1st of May, 1901. He has since filled that office and is recognized as one of the able financiers of the city. He is ever ready to extend the aid of the institution as far as possible, yet careful not to jeopardize the interests of depositors and stockholders. He is a man of sound judgment and keen discernment and in business circles of the city his standing is of the highest. On April 3, 1888, Mr. Reeder married Miss Jane Boyer and they have become the parents of four children : William B., the eldest, was graduated from Oberlin College of Ohio and is now in the employ of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Los Angeles, California ; Robert H. is a graduate of one of the high schools of Toledo and also of the University of Pennsylvania ; Selena E. attended the Smead School for Girls and following her graduation from the Scott high school she spent two years as a student at Hollins College of Virginia, and is now completing TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 287 her college work at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts ; John H., also a graduate of the Scott high school, is now attending Dartmouth College. He has become well known as an athlete and is a member of the famous football team of that institution. Mr. W. H. H. Reeder is one of the directors of the Flower Hospital of Toledo and is also a member of the Lakeside Association, the National Union, the Toledo Commerce Club and the Inverness Country Club. Mr. Reeder and his family are members of Broadway Methodist Episcopal church, and for the past quarter of a century he has served as president of its board of trustees. With clear insight into business affairs and situations and a thorough understanding of every phase of banking, Mr. Reeder has become recognized as one of the substantial business men of Toledo and has labored effectively to promote the commercial development and consequent prosperity of the city with which he has allied his interests. JAMES LYMAN WATSON, M. D. Dr. James Lyman Watson was a man whose constantly expanding powers brought him to the field of large enterprise and activity in connection with the medical profession in Toledo, where he practiced throughout the period of his active life. His great love for his fellowmen and his interest in their welfare contributed in marked measure to his success in the treatment of disease and he was ever the exponent of the most progressive and scientific methods known to the medical fraternity. James Lyman Watson was born at Lamar, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1857, and was a son of James L. and Margaret F. (McClellan). Watson, goodly Christian people who, removing to Ohio, became residents of Toledo, making their home at 1820 Franklin avenue, where in his later life the father lived retired. Dr. Watson pursued his education in public schools, becoming a resident of Tiffin, Ohio, in early life. Later removing to Toledo, he attended the Toledo Medical College until graduated in 1891, with the M. D. degree. As the years passed he became one of the best known physicians. He started in practice with Dr. John D. Howe, with offices on Superior street, near St. Paul's church. Later he was located in a small one-story building which was afterward torn down to give place to the Gardner building. Eventually he maintained offices at his home at No. 2130 Fulton street, erecting his residence there in 1895. From 1893 he was medical examiner for the Toledo Traveling Men's Association, now the Toledo Travelers Life Insurance Company, and continued to act as medical examiner to the time of his death. This covered a period of a quarter of a century and his service was of the utmost worth to the organization. He also filled the presidency of the Toledo Academy of Medicine at one time. He was likewise one of the board of directors of the Toledo Travelers Life Insurance Company, which he aided in organizing, and he maintained an office in connection therewith on the seventh floor of the Second National Bank building. His private practice was extensive and of an important character and he was also a member of the staff of the Robinwood Hospital for twelve years. Following his demise, as a memorial to her husband. Mrs. Watson equipped the new operating room on the fourth floor of the Robinwood Hospital, supplying it with all of the latest appliances known to modern medical and surgical science. A bronze tablet was placed in the operating room, 288 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY giving the dates of Dr. Watson's service on the staff of the hospital, and the room has been called The James L. Watson Operating Room. On the 25th of June, 1891, Dr. Watson was united in marriage to Miss Minerva Olds, a daughter of Edward M. and Emma (Gephart) Olds of Circleville, Ohio. They became the parents of five children, of whom James O., the eldest, died in 1900. The others are : Margaret, who was educated at Wellesley College and is now the wife of Leland Boyd Monroe; Della Marie, who attended Simmons College in Boston and is now a domestic science teacher in the Toledo schools ; William Edward, who completed his education at Cornell University and is now connected with the First National Bank of Toledo and Elizabeth Boyd, who is a student at Wellesley. Dr. Watson gave his political endorsement to the repblican party and he served as a member of the city council and was president of the board of aldermen at the time the new form of city government was adopted, serving for the second term as one of the aldermen of the city. He was likewise on the charter commission that drafted the present city charter and he ever manifested a most patriotic devotion to the welfare and interests of city, state and nation. Fraternally he was connected with the Rubicon Lodge of Masons. He belonged to the various medical societies, including local, state and national, and he had membership in the Yacht Club and in the Commerce Club of Toledo. For an extended period he was one of the trustees and most active and earnest workers in the First Westminster Presbyterian church, his entire life being characterized by his Christian faith. He passed away at Clear Lake, Indiana, on July 11, 1918, and some time afterward his sister, Mrs. William H. Laird, presented to the church a triple illumination, given in memory of her parents and her brother. In all his life Dr. Watson displayed a marked recognition of the responsibilities and obligations of his profession and of his duty to his fellowmen. He was of most kindly spirit, doing good and carrying comfort wherever he went. He exemplified the highest ideals of his profession, of citizenship, of friendship and Christian service, and nowhere were the sterling traits of his manhood more strongly exemplified than in his home relations. WILLIAM HENRY BOSHART William Henry Boshart, vice president and general manager of The Owens Bottle Company and thus active in control of one of the most important business interests of Toledo, was born in this city, September 30, 1871, his parents being Constantine and Anna B. (Winzenreid) Boshart, the former a native of Alsace, while the latter was born in Bern, Switzerland. Both emigrated to America in early life and the father was here engaged in various occupations and also held positions of public trust. He was one of the earliest of the police officials of Toledo and later became identified with the volunteer fire department. He also acted as turnkey at the workhouse for a number of years. During the Civil war he gave evidence of his loyalty to his adopted country by enlisting as a private soldier and he fulfilled every obligation that devolved upon him' in a military capacity. It was in 1861 that he joined the "Boys in Blue" of Company C, Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in response to the call for troops to serve for three months. When it was seen that the war was to be no mere holiday affair but that the country had probably entered upon a long contest, he reenlisted for a three years' TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 291 term of service and took part in many important engagements. He was at the battle of Rich Mountain, Carnifex Ferry and Mill Springs, and was also at New Market, Alabama, on the 5th of August, 1862, when General Robert L. McCook was massacred. He was wounded and captured, serving as guard to General McCook when shot down. His acts of bravery at that time won him mention in the press dispatches that recorded the engagement. The death of Mr. Boshart occurred in Toledo, March 18, 1921, when he had reached the venerable age of eighty-four years. He had enjoyed the respect and good will of all who knew him and was one of the honored and venerated citizens here. His wife passed away March 5, 1922, at the age of eighty-three years. In their family were four children : Frank E., a successful grocer and dealer in meats in Toledo ; William H. ; Mrs. Edward E. Arnsman ; and Lena. In his youthful days William Henry Boshart was a pupil in the public schools of this city and also attended the Davis Business College. He later became interested in glass manufacturing at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and occupied a minor position with the firm of Cunningham & Company there, working his way upward, however, during the eight years of his association with that concern. Promotion after promotion brought him to the position of manager of the sales department. He then returned to his home city and on November 1, 1906, was sent to Manchester, England, as general manager for The Owens European Bottle-Machine Company. There he successfully controlled the business for a year and a half, at the end of which time the company disposed of its overseas interests and Mr. Boshart returned to Toledo, where he was elected assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of The Owens Bottle Company. He has since, through successive promotions, been made vice president and general manager and in this dual position he continues, thus having active part in the direction and development of the business and. in its executive control. From a humble position in the commercial world he has worked his way steadily upward, until his name is now widely known in manufacturing circles. At the present time, besides serving as an executive of The Owens Bottle Company, he is president of The Owens European Bottle-Machine Company, vice president of The Toledo Glass Company, a director in The Libby Owens Sheet Window Glass Company, The American Bottle Company, the Citizens Safe Deposit and Banking Company, and the Collin-Norton Company, all of. Toledo ; The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia ; the Mid-West Box Company and The American Straw Board Company of Chicago. He displays notably sound judgment in all that he undertakes and readily discriminates between the essential and the non-essential in business affairs. On the 6th of October, 1897, Mr. Boshart was married to Miss Emma Katharine Bichlmyer of Cleveland, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bichlmyer of that city. Their children, twin daughters, Jeanne Billie and Lois Emma, were born March 4, 1918. Mr. Boshart is a republican, having supported the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, yet his political activity is rather that of the patriotic citizen than of the office seeker. He belongs to Rubicon Lodge, F. & A. M., to the Ohio Society of New York, to the Chamber of. Commerce, to the Inverness Club and to the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian church—associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his conduct. During the years 1915 and 1916 he was president of the Inverness Golf Club, and is still an enthusiastic golfer. He is well known, popular, and prominent, and his life record should serve as a source of encouragement and inspiration to others, 292 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY showing what can be accomplished through individual effort, intelligently directed. Mr. Boshart and family are now residing in their beautiful new country home, "Ridgevale," Ottawa Hills, Toledo, Ohio. FREDERICK HOLMES DODGE Frederick Holmes Dodge, a member of an honored pioneer family of Toledo which for many years has figured conspicuously in connection with the development and upbuilding of the city, is also contributing materially to its industrial expansion as treasurer of the Milburn Wagon Company and he is likewise identified in an official capacity with other important business enterprises of the Maumee valley, his interests being extensive and varied. He was born in Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, December 26, 1866, and his parents, Frederick B. and Caroline Elizabeth (Perkins) Dodge, were also natives of New England and representatives of old and distinguished families whose members were active in military affairs during the early period in the development of this country. In 1868 Mr. and Mrs. Dodge established their home in Toledo and the father gained recognition as one of the foremost business men of the city, many of the largest commercial undertakings of today owing their inception to his initiative spirit and powers of organization. His demise occurred in this city in 1893 and the mother survived him for a number of years, passing away in Toledo in 1910. Their family numbered four children : Henry P., a prominent engineer of this city ; Georgiana W. ; Mrs. Thomas H. Mills ; and Frederick H. Frederick Holmes Dodge attended the grammar and high schools of Toledo. He was brought to this city by his parents when he was but two years of age, and he afterward became a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he completed a course in mechanical engineering, being graduated with the class of 1890. Returning to this city, he entered the service of the Toledo White Lime Company, with which he remained until 1906, having in the meantime become identified with the Bissell & Dodge Company. Later he became a member of the Merrill, Dodge & Jackson Insurance Company and an active factor in its development, being still connected with insurance interests here. Directing his energies into other fields, he was called to the presidency of the Ohio Electric Car Company and since 1914 has been treasurer of the Milburn Wagon Company, one of the oldest and largest enterprises of the kind in the country, while he is also serving as secretary and treasurer of the Commonwealth Building Company. He has recognized his opportunities, utilizing them to the best advantage, and his rapidly expanding powers have made him capable of controlling large affairs, the success of which depends upon superior administrative ability. On the 4th of April, 1893, Mr. Dodge was united in marriage to Miss Mary Mitchell, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mitchell of Toledo, and they have become the parents of a son and a daughter : Mrs. B. L. Broadwell, the daughter, attended the grammar schools and the Smead high school of Toledo and is still a resident of the city. She is the mother of a son, Latham Stuart Broadwell ; Frederick Perkins Dodge, born May 22, 1895, in Toledo, attended the public schools of this city, after which he became a student at Hotchkiss School, while later he entered Cornell University and is now engaged in business in Toledo. He married Miss Virginia Robertson of Long Beach, California. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 293 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Dodge are members of the First Congregational church of Toledo and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is also connected with the Toledo Club, the Toledo Country Club and the Erie Shooting & Fishing Club. Life has been to him purposeful and crowned with achievement and he has focused his energies in directions where fruition is certain. He has constructed his.own success and the importance of his interests at once establishes his position among the foremost business men of Toledo. WALTER NETTLETON WILSON Walter Nettleton Wilson, president of the George W. Wilson & Sons Company of Toledo, has been a lifelong resident of this city, his natal day being January 4, 1894.. He is a son of Walter Orlando and Marguerite (Killen) Wilson. The father is a manufacturer and his business—that of lumber and box manufacturer—was established by his father, George W. Wilson, in the year 1854. It has been in continuous existence since that time and has thus for sixty-eight years figured as one of the substantial productive industries of the city. Reared under the parental roof, Walter N. Wilson attended the public schools of Toledo and also the Irving School for Boys at Tarrytown, New York, where he completed his course in 1914. With his return to his native city he became associated with the business that had been established by his grandfather and was then conducted by his father. Throughout the intervening period he has been identified with lumber and box manufacturing and, thoroughly acquainting himself with the business, he has worked his way upward until he was called to official position and in February, 1921, was elected to the presidency of this time honored and prosperous corporation. Mr. Wilson is a veteran of the World war. He enlisted as a private in July, 1918, and was discharged in November pf that year following the signing of the armistice. He had been married the previous year—on the 9th of June, 1917—to Miss Mary C. Wilson of Baltimore, Maryland, and they are parents of a son, Walter Thomas, who was born November 30, 1921. Mr. Wilson is a member of the American Legion and in matters of citizenship he has always manifested a keen interest in those forces which make for development and improvement. He finds pleasurable recreation in water sports and automobile touring and his social qualities make him a most congenial companion, while warm friendship is entertained for him by many who have known him from his boyhood to the present—a fact that indicates a well spent life. MARK V. HANNAFORD Mark V. Hannaford, a talented young artist of Toledo, is a native son of the city and a member of one of its old and highly respected families. He was born January 15, 1895, and his parents were Albert S. and Julia (Heck) Hannaford, the former a native of Peterboro, New Hampshire, and the latter of Ohio. As a young man the father came to the Buckeye state, locating in Toledo, and he became 294 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY identified with the National Assurance Society, which was established in 1881 and has since maintained its headquarters in this city. Mr. Hannaford is still connected with this organization and is now acting as assistant secretary of its senate. The mother is living and their three children, Robert H., Alberta and Mark V., are also residents of this city. In the acquirement of an education Mark V. Hannaford attended the grammar and high schools of Toledo, afterward becoming a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, in which he completed his course in 1916. He immediately entered upon the work of his profession in Toledo and was thus engaged until 1917, when he enlisted for service in the World war, joining the Engineers Corps as a private. He was promoted to the rank of corporal and was ordered overseas, spending six months in France and six months in the study of art in London, England following the armistice. He returned to the United States and was discharged from the service on the 1st of August, 1919, after which he returned to Toledo, where he has since followed his chosen profession. His work is of high quality and has attracted the favorable attention of the general public and of others able to judge from technical and artistic standpoints. Mr. Hannaford was married October 21, 1920, to Miss Edna Erswell, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Erswell of this city, and they have become the parents of a daughter, Martha Jean, whose birth occurred in this city on the 18th of March, 1922. Mr. Hannaford is a republican in his political views and fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order. He is a director of the Art Klan of Toledo and is also connected with the American Legion and the Lions Club. 'His ideals of life are high and he utilizes every opportunity that will enable him to climb to their level. He is an enterprising and progressive young man who is making good use of the talent with which nature endowed him, and industry and ability are carrying him steadily forward in his profession. WILLIAM H. HASKELL William H. Haskell, well known in business and financial circles of Toledo, is an alert and energetic business man whose activities have contributed to the progress and development of the city. Mr. Haskell was born in Essex county, New York, August 24, 1863, and is a son of Henry N. and Lucinda (MacMaster) Haskell, both of whom were natives of the Empire state. He completed his education at the Glens Falls Academy at Glens Falls, New York. His training was thorough and constituted an excellent equipment for the duties that devolved upon him when he started out in the business world. He came to Toledo in April, 1882, at which time he was nineteen years of age, and began his business career as a salesman for a feed and milling concern, so continuing until 1887, when he successfully engaged in that line of business on his own account. In 1891 he organized the Miami Maize Company, operating a corn mill on Nebraska avenue, of which he was manager for two years. In 1893 he sold the business and organized the firm of W. H. Haskell & Company, also operating a corn mill. Of this concern he became the president and he made it one of the successful and growing enterprises of the city, continuing in the business until January, 1919, when he disposed of his interest therein. He was also one of the organizers of the Toledo Lumber & Mill Work Company, of which he is vice president. In addition to his other activities he is a director of the TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 297 Commerce Guardian Trust & Savings Bank and he is a trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home. In his later years he has largely lived retired and with Mrs. Haskell has spent considerable time in travel in this and foreign lands. A recent extended journey was to Egypt, Palestine and other sections, Mr. and Mrs. Haskell finding great delight in visiting these old places of historic interest and noting the influences of modern life thereon. On the 15th of September, 1885, Mr. Haskell was married to Miss Mollie M. Hauser, daughter of Jacob J. Hauser of Toledo. They have a daughter, Ruth, who is now the wife of Adolphus L. Kershaw and has one son, William H. Mr. Haskell is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Toledo Club. He also belongs to the Inverness Club, the Sylvania Golf Club and the Castalia Trout Club of Castalia, Ohio. In Masonry he has advanced through both the York and Scottish Rites. He is also a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He attends the Presbyterian church and his life has been guided by those principles which have their root in the Christian faith. All who know him speak of him as a most dependable man, reliable, energetic, progressive, looking ever to the attainment of higher ideals for the individual and for the community. Mr. Haskell's residence is at No. 2717 Collingwood avenue. JOSEPH ARTHUR YAGER Joseph Arthur Yager, engaged in the general practice of law in Toledo, was born near Owensville, in Gibson county, Indiana, March 24, 1890, and is a son of Charles Henry and Eliza Ann (Zengler) Yager. The father devoted his life to the occupation of farming, thus providing for the support of his family, but is now deceased. The youthful experiences of Joseph A. Yager were those of the farm bred boy who early becomes familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His early educational opportunities were those afforded by the country schools and later he attended the high school at Owensville, Indiana, while subsequently he became a student in the Valparaiso University of his native state. He next entered the Indiana University at Bloomington, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915, and in 1920 he completed a course in the law department of the University of Michigan. The pursuit of his education, however, has not been continuous, as at different periods he has been engaged in teaching and in this way earned the funds necessary to enable him to pursue his more advanced literary and law courses. In early manhood he taught in the country schools of Indiana and afterward became principal of the high school at Owensville, that state. Subsequently he was advanced to the position of superintendent of the schools there and continued to act in that capacity for six years. He was also supervisor of the township rural schools of Gibson county for three years and for one year he was an instructor in the University of Michigan. He has been admitted to practice in the state courts of Indiana and Ohio and in the United States district court in the latter state. He came to Toledo in 1920 and is now devoting his attention to general law practice. He tries all kinds of cases and tries them well and is making steady advancement in his chosen profession. On the 2d of September, 1911, Mr. Yager was married to Miss Edna Gertrude Pratt of Laporte county, Indiana, and they have become parents of two children, 298 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Joseph Arthur, Jr., and John Warren. Mr. Yager is a member of the Gamma Eta Gamma, a college fraternity, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the lodge, chapter and council. He loyally follows the teachings of the craft, making its beneficent purposes a workable principle in his life. He is yet a young man but already he has attained a creditable place in the ranks of the legal fraternity at Toledo and what he has thus far accomplished indicates that his future career will be well worth watching. JEFFERSON D. ROBINSON There is no greater stimulus to individual activity and enterprise than that which is found in the life history of such men as Jefferson D. Robinson, president of the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company of Toledo, who has worked his way upward from a humble position in the business world until he is now at the head of one of the largest and best known industrial enterprises in the country. Mr. Robinson is a native of the south. His birth occurred in Richmond, Virginia, on the 19th of July, 1861, and his parents were Joseph W. and Mary (Sewell) Robinson, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Virginia. The father removed to the Old Dominion when twenty-two years of age and for many years he devoted his attention to the manufacture of carriages, building up a large business. Both Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are now deceased. Jefferson D. Robinson, their only child, attended the public schools of Richmond, Virginia, until he reached the age of eleven years. He was nineteen years of age when he became identified with the industry which was to be his life work and since 1880 he has been connected with the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company of Toledo, covering a period of forty-two years. Starting as office boy and messenger to the president of the firm, he was gradually advanced through the various departments of the business as he proved his worth and ability, and in 1920 was called to the presidency of the company, which has long occupied a position of leadership in this field, shipping its products to all parts of the country. Mr. Robinson has an expert knowledge of the glass manufacturing industry and the .fact that he has been chosen to fill this responsible office is proof of his superior business ability and executive powers. No detail of the business is so unimportant as to escape his attention, while he also has the ability to see clearly the larger aspects, and has been farsighted in directing the policy of the concern, never deviating from the high standards upon which the business was founded. Mr. Robinson was married April 28, 1891, to Miss Mary Hahn, whose father, John W. Hahn, is prominently identified with insurance interests of this city, and they have become the parents of two sops : Joseph W. Robinson, the elder, was born in 1892 and after his graduation from high school he attended a preparatory school and Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He is vice president and general sales manager of the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company. He enlisted in the World war and saw service overseas, becoming a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Field Artillery. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. He married Dorothy Reynolds of Toledo, and they have a daughter, Joan. Jefferson D. Robinson, Jr., was born in 1895, and also attended a preparatory school, later becoming a student at the University of Virginia. He is con-