HISTORY OF OHIO - 125 1836, and who is now one of the most venerable native daughters still residing in this county, where her circle of friends is coincident with that of her acquaintances. Mrs. Nichols is a daughter of Henry S. and Samantha (Braman) Rockwood, who were horn in the State of Connecticut. Mr. Rockwood was a son of David and Ruby (Rounds) Rockwood, who came from the State of New York and became early settlers in Lorain County, Ohio, where the father developed a large farm estate, he having made the journey from New York to Ohio with ox teams in the late '20s of the nineteenth century. The City of Cleveland at that time was little more than a village, and on its site land could be purchased for $5 an acre. Friends induced David Rockwood to establish his home in the LaGrange district of Lorain County, where he passed the remainder of his life and where he died at the patriarchal age of 100 years, one month and eleven days. Henry S. Rockwood became in his youth a successful school teacher in New York State. He was born in the year 1809, and remained in the Empire State until 1826, when he came to LaGrange, Lorain, County, Ohio, where he became a successful representative of farm industry. In 1849 he was elected county recorder and removed to Elyria, the county seat. He was for a number of years a resident of Lorain and served as mayor of that city. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Lorain County at the time of his death, March 30, 1898, shortly before the eighty-ninth anniversary of his birth. The subject of this memoir, Mr. Nichols, is survived by one son and one daughter. James Ora, of Elyria, married Miss Matie Krueger and they have two sons, Homer, of Wooster, Massachusetts, and Ralph, of Elyria, Ohio. The daughter, Miss Dora Adelia, remains with her widowed mother in the old homestead at Elyria. ARTHUR JAMES LAUNDON, who conducts the most modern and most thoroughly high grade meat market in Elyria, Lorain County, at 114 Cheapside, was born in this fine little Ohio city on the 28th of June, 1865, and is a son of William W. and Elizabeth (Hobill) Laundon, both of whom were born near London, England. William Laundon was a lad of eleven years when, in 1849, he embarked with his father, William, Sr., on the sailing vessel that transported them to the port of New York City, the voyage having been of six weeks' duration. The father and son came on to Cleveland, Ohio, and thence proceeded with team and wagon to Sugar Ridge, Lorain County. Within a short time thereafter the father bought a tract of land on what is now East Broad Street in the City of Elyria, the property extending also along the present Abby Road. Later the father and son established a meat market in Elyria, their market having been in the old Tiffany House, or hotel, building, at the corner of Broad and Mill streets. The son William finally succeeded to full control of the business, and he moved the market to the present site of the Wilder cigar store, on Cheapside Street. In 1860 William Laundon, Jr., sold his market and business to his brother-in-law, John Savage, and became associated with Edward Driggs in the cattle business west of the Missouri River. They bought western cattle and shipped the same to the Buffalo and Pittsburgh markets. In 1867 Mr. Laundon retired from this line of enterprise and reestablished himself in the meat market business in Elyria, his market having been on the site of the present Laundon Block, on Cheap-side Street. In 1880 he engaged in the ice business, and in 1890 he sold both his market and ice business to his sons, Arthur and Burton. They continued to be associated in the conducting of the market until 1908, since which time Arthur J. has individually continued the enterprise, he having purchased his brother's interest. The name of Laundon has for three generations stood for the best grade of meat market service in Elyria, and at all times the Laundon market has received a representative and appreciative supporting patronage. William Laundon was one of the pioneer business men of Elyria, and was one of its well known and highly honored citizens at the time of his death, in 1909, at the age of seventy-two years, his wife having passed away in 1906, at the age of sixty-six years. Of the children the eldest is Miss Lottie, who occupies the old family homestead in Elyria; Arthur J., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth, and Bert is now a resident of Denver, Colorado. The parents were zealous communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The public schools of Elyria afforded Arthur J. Laundon his early education, which was supplemented by a course in the Oberlin Business College. At the age of nine years he began to assist in his father 's market, and later he drove a team and wagon through the rural districts for the selling of fresh meats to farmers. He has a well established reputation as one of the successful business men and loyal citizens of his native city, is independent in politics and served as a member of the sinking-fund commission of Elyria and is now a civil service commissioner. He is a member of the Exchange Club and the Lorain County Automobile Club, is affiliated with Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In Masonry he is a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. December 18, 1888, recorded the marriage of Mr. Laundon and Miss Rose Emily Durman, who was born at Ridgeville, Lorain County, a daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Smith) Durman. Mr. and Mrs. Laundon have no children. WILLIAM C. GROENIGER. An Ohio man, a native of Cincinnati and a resident of Columbus, William C. Groeniger has become one of the outstanding figures in the great and vital profession of sanitary engineering. His experience as a sanitary engineer has been almost world wide. His standing in the profession is indicated by the fact that for five years he has been president of the American Society of Sanitary Engineers, and transacts the executive business of that organization from his offices in Columbus. Mr. Groeniger was born at Cincinnati in 1877. He was educated in the common schools there and learned the plumber 's trade. His first army experience came during the Spanish-American war as a member of the Second United States Volunteers. This was one of the ten regiments comprising what was known as Colonel Hood's Immunes. With this organization Mr. Groeniger was on duty at Santiago, Cuba for several months, beginning immediately after the capture of that city by the American forces. Following this war Mr. Groeniger was for ten years in the plumbing business at Dayton. His ambition and study soon extended beyond the mechanical technique of the trade to the larger aspects of the business and he was pioneer in the modern profession of sanitary engineering. In 1911. he came to Columbus as state inspector of plumbing under the state government. Subsequently he was made director of the division of plumbing of the State Department of Health. While still in that office and shortly after America entered the World war, he sent his name to the war department with request to be placed to whatever service he might be needed. The response was an 126 - HISTORY OF OHIO assignment to duty in the American Red Cross Engineering service, with the military commission of major. Early in 1918 Major Groeniger accompanied the expedition of the division of engineering of the American Red Cross to Palestine, where cooperating with the British Army of Occupation he served for twelve months in General Allenby's great enterprise of perfecting the water supply and sanitary drainage system in and around the ancient city of Jerusalem. The Palestine commission of the American Red Cross was assigned to the Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, and most of its work was division relief among the thousands of refugees, Armenians, Greeks, Arabs, Philistines and others who were being pushed back and forth over Palestine and Syria while the British army was making its slow and steady progress from the Suez Canal toward the capital of Palestine. Major Groeniger was therefore a witness of and participant in one of the most remarkable campaigns of the World war and one, now that the overshadowing effects of the major operations in France has been relapsed, justifies the great appreciation to which it is entitled in a proper perspective of the events of the World war period. Throughout the progress of General Allenby's forces from the Suez to Jerusalem every advance step depended upon the work of the royal engineers in the building of a railroad and the construction of facilities to insure an adequate water supply. At the annual meeting of the American Society of Sanitary Engineers of Cleveland, in September 1919, the president of the society Major Groeniger presided, having just recently returned from abroad. At one session of the meeting he read a paper describing the work of the division of engineering of the American Red Cross and also giving a general account of the great enterprise of constructing a water supply system along the routes taken by the British forces and in the culminating objective of the campaign, the ancient City of Jeru- salem. This address of Major Groeniger which has been published, is probably one of the most illuminating articles ever written on water supply and other aspects of sanitary engineering in the Holy Land. During his eighteen months service Major Groeniger traveled thirty thousand miles, and in the course of his travel visited the British West Indies, South Africa, East South Africa, Portuguese East South Africa, India, the Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Egypt, Palestine and Syria, Italy and France. In December 1919 Major Groeniger established his present business, the Groeniger Manufacturing Company. This is an organization to handle the problems of general sanitary engineering and also for the manufacture of sanitary specialties. These specialties are manufactured and sold under the trade name "Testate" and consist of various modern devices, such as the Testite connection for cast iron pipe, connection for lead pipe, connection for screwed pipe, connection cast with bend, test cap, roof connection, roof drain, floor drain with taps, combined strainer and trap, double saucer shower bath trap, and drainage fittings of various types. These are all Mr. Groeniger's devices and are manufactured under his patent. As one of the prominent men of his profession Major Groeniger was called to the personal staff of Mr. Herbert Hoover, as a member of the Standardization Committee of the United States Department of Commerce. Each year he spends a week or more in Washington, on duty as a member of this committee. Major Groeniger is a member of the Columbus Engineers Club, the Civitan Club, the Spanish-American War Veterans, American Waterworks Association, and American Public Health Association, American Society of Sanitary Engineering. He married Hermana M. Griener of Cincinnati. Their six children are : Edward L., William C. Jr., Champ, Ruth, Jack and Hermana. FRANK M. SHELTON. Engaged in educational work for nearly thirty years, Frank M. Shelton, who in 1924 became superintendent of schools at Springfield, possesses a well-won reputation as a man of intellectual power, broad experience and natural talents as an instructor. During his career he has been influential in advancing the cause of education in various ways and in a number of communities, particularly in Ohio, where the greater part of his life has been passed. Mr. Shelton was born on a farm near Salem, Ohio, June 2, 1877, and is a son of David and Elizabeth (Atterholt) Shelton. David Shelton, who passed his active years in agricultural operations, was born at Teegarden, Columbiana County, Ohio, and died February 22, 1911. His widow, now a resident of Canton, Ohio, was born at Dungannon, this state. Frank M. Shelton attended the district school in the vicinity of his birth and the high school at Lisbon, from which he was graduated in 1895. For further preparation for his career he went to Mount Union College, and in order to pay for his tuition and other expenses, taught school for four winter terms. Graduating in 1899, he secured a place as a teacher at Louisville, Ohio, where he remained one year, following which he spent two years each at the Fostoria High School and the Canton High School. For the next seven years he taught in the Central High School at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then becoming principal of the senior high school at Canton, where h6 remained for five years. In 1916 Mr. Shelton became superintendent of the city schools of Elyria, where he continued until resigning in January, 1924, to go to Springfield. Mr. Shelton, in addition to the foregoing, taught two summers at Mount Union College and a like period at Wooster, Ohio, and has done post-graduate work at Harvard, Cornell and Columbia, from the last named of which he received his Master's degree from Teachers' College in June, 1911. Through his untiring industry and talent for organization the Elyria school system during his eight years' service was built up and developed into one of the best in any city of the same size. Mr. Shelton has engaged in various other activities. While at Canton he was superintendent of the First Methodist Episcopal Sunday School. In connection with the Sunday school he held the first fathers and sons dinner, a function which became immediately popular and which has been adopted by cities throughout the country. In 1913, at Canton, he was a member of the first charter commission of that city, and was chairman of the committee of ten that organized the Canton Chamber of Commerce. At Elyria he helped to organize the Rotary Club, of which he was the first president. He is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities and the Masons. His religious affiliation is now with the First Congregational Church, and in his political sentiment he is an independent republican. In August, 1903, Mr. Shelton was united in marriage with Miss Mary Gertrude Packard, who was born at Chatham, Ohio, a daughter of A. C. and Mary (Comstock) Packard, of Medina County, Ohio. They have two children: Mary Elizabeth and Robert Frank. IRVIN C. PLUMMER, state registrar of vital statistics under the Ohio Department of Health, has HISTORY OF OHIO - 127 rendered a consecutive service of admirable efficiency in that division of the state government for the past thirteen years. He is the only layman, not a physician, who has ever held his present position as chief of the vital statistics bureau. Mr. Plummer was born in Adams County, Ohio, September 23, 1882, a member of an old and prominent family there. The Plummer family came from Wurttemberg, Germany, about ninety-five years ago, his grandfather, Conrad Plummer, being the founder of the family in Adams County. He had the distinction of operating the first thrashing machine in that county. Conrad Plummer died at the age of ninety-two. Jacob Newton Plummer, father of Irvin C., was for many years engaged in farming in Adams County, and is now a retired resident of Columbus. Irvin C. Plummer was liberally educated, finishing his work in the National Normal University at Lebanon. For ten years he was a successful teacher in Adams County, doing his work both in district and in graded schools. On March 25, 1911, he came to Columbus as a clerk of the division of vital statistics in the secretary of state 's department. He has served under every succeeding secretary of state, regardless of politics, and from time to time was promoted until on June 15, 1923, at the reorganization of the State Department of Health, he was made state registrar of vital statistics. Under his division are twenty-six employes, while there are 1,150 local registrars throughout the state. Mr. Plummer is well known both in Columbus and in his old home county of Adams. He is affiliated with Peebles Lodge No. 581, Free and Accepted Masons; Peebles Lodge No. 203, Knights of Pythias, and Peebles Camp No. 3516, Modern Woodmen of America, all in Adams County. He is president of the Board of Education of Mifflin Township, near Columbus; is deputy scout leader for Linden district, and was leader of the scout troop which won the scout championship of the City of Columbus in March, 1923. In April, 1909, he married Miss Clemma Storer, of Marble Furnace. They have two children, Guy, born in 1911, and Ruth, born in 1913. MARK H. MECHLIN is president of the Mechlin Stone Company, one of the largest of the industries around Columbus engaged in quarrying and crushing of stone for road building and other construction purposes. The present business was started in 1912, when the Capital Lime Stone Company was incorporated, with a capital of $100,000. In 1920 it became the Capital Stone Company, and in 1923 was reorganized as the Mechlin Stone Company. The plant is at McKinley Avenue and the Big Four Railway. The capacity is 1,000 tons daily, with twenty-five employes, and most of the output is used for either street or road building or railway ballasts. The company has also been engaged in contracting for road building. The pay roll is about $1,000 a week. Mr. Mechlin, the president and general manager, is a son of H. H. Mechlin, and represents one of the old families in Southern Ohio, of Pennsylvania and Revolutionary stock. H. H. Mechlin has been a lumber manufacturer in Adams County for thirty years, operating two mills there and two mills in Alabama. Mark. H. Mechlin was born in Pike County, Ohio, and for three years had charge of his father 's lumber mills in Alabama. In the World war he was in service nine months, and after his discharge resumed his connection with the lumber business until 1920, when he moved to Columbus and acquired the chief interest in the Capital Stone Company. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and an Elk. In 1910 he married Miss Blaine H. Morgan, of Washington Court House, Ohio. WILLIAM DALTON. The theater-going and music-loving population of Columbus has learned to appreciate the talents of William Dalton as an organist and musical program director of two of the finest motion picture houses of the city. Mr. Dalton is a young man of engaging personality and fine talents, and has a most promising future in the musical profession. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1890, but since early boyhood has been a resident of Columbus. His parents, Louis and Mary (Tucker) Dalton, were born in Virginia, representing old families in that state, and since 1899 have made their home at Columbus. William Dalton was educated in Columbus schools, and his parents have recalled that his predilection for music was shown in his very early childhood, and constant effort, guided by ambition, has rounded him out a thoroughly sound and scholarly musician. Though his special work is music for theater audiences, his training was thoroughly practical. He studied the organ under the famous Bert Williams, formerly of Columbus, where he was organist of St. John's Evangelical Church. Under Mr. Williams he learned the fundamentals of harmony, and his beginning as an organist was along the strictest legitimate lines. Since 1921 he has been organist of the James Theater in Columbus. In January, 1924, Mr. James took over the Grand Theater, installing therein one of the finest organs in the United States. Since then Mr. Dalton has also had charge of this organ. In handling the musical programs of these two picture houses Mr. Dalton has three assistant organists. He devises and arranges his own special programs, which are changed weekly. These programs include his own numbers on the organ and also the music for a three-piece string trio as well as occasional vocal and other special features. His aim is to produce good music that will delight and even thrill the average theater audience without resorting to any of the music that appeals to the lower musical tastes. One of his most popular features during the year 1923 was throwing songs on the screen and having the audience sing them. He is constantly devising special features in music for the pleasure of the thousands of his admirers. Mr. Dalton is a thirty-second degree Mason and an Elk. BENJAMIN LEFEVER PFEFFERLE, an ex-service man of the World war, is a Columbus attorney and one of the able younger men in professional and civic affairs at the capital. He was born at Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, November 18, 1882, son of Carl and Cassia (King) Pfefferle. His father, a native of Germany, came to America at the age of seventeen, in 1857, locating in Shelby County, Ohio. Four years later, when the Civil war came on, he volunteered as a Union soldier and served throughout the great struggle as a member of Company K of the Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Benjamin L. Pfefferle was reared in his native town of Sidney, graduating from high school there, and subsequently moved to Columbus and entered the Ohio State University. He studied law in the Y. M. C. A. Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1914. He had made considerable progress in the achievement of a successful practice when America joined in the World war. In the summer of 1917 he entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, 128 - HISTORY OF OHIO Indianapolis, and was commissioned first lieutenant. He remained in home camps for about a year, and in October, 1918, went overseas with the Eight Hundred and Sixteenth Pioneer Infantry. This in France was attached to the Second. Army Corps. While in France Mr. Pfefferle was assigned to duty as judge advocate of the general court martial, in which capacity he served in the City of Verdun and at Romaine Cemetery. He remained overseas nearly a year, returning home August 12, 1919, and soon afterward was honorably dicharged. He then resumed his law practice at Columbus, and has a very satisfactory business in the various courts. His offices are in the Central Bank Building. Since 1919 he has been a member of the State Board of Deputy Supervisors and Inspectors of Elections for Franklin County. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. Mr. Pfefferle married Miss Ethel May Zimmers, a native of Denver, Colorado. They have one son Benjamin L. Pfefferle, Jr. HUBERT L. KILLAM, who is secretary and chief examiner of the Columbus Civil Service Commission, was a soldier of the World war, with the Rainbow Division in France, and has been actively identified with the Columbus city government since his return. He was born at Shelbyville, Illinois. He was a child when his parents moved to Ohio in 1898, and his home has been at Columbus since 1910. He went overseas in October, 1917, as sergeant of headquarters company of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry in the Forty-second, or Rainbow Division. His regiment, commanded by Colonel Hough, was made up almost entirely of Ohioans, and, as the history of the war shows, this regiment was engaged in more operations than probably any other single American regiment. Mr. Killam shared in the glorious record of service of this unit. Since the war he has continued with the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Regiment of the National Guard, being now personnel adjutant, with the rank of first lieutenant. He was one of the organizers of the famous One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry Band, and is a member of that band, which has rendered notable service at many military and other events. For about a year after returning to Columbus Mr. Killam was connected with the office of Col. W. H. Duffy, director of public safety of Columbus. In November, 1921, he was appointed a member of the civil service commission of the city to fill out an unexpired term, and on February 1, 1922, was regularly chosen for a term of six years. Subsequently he was also given the responsibilities of secretary and chief examiner. The secretary is the only member of the commission whose duties are active, the other two serving in an advisory and consultant capacity. As secretary he has charge of all the detail and office work of the commission. The civil service commission in a city the size of Columbus has the heaviest burden of duties and responsibilities, having charge of the classification and standardization, of positions, examinations and record of eligible lists and numerous other matters in connection with the large body of classified and unclassified employes under the civil service rules. BERT WALTER, a native son of Columbus, member of a pioneer family of that city, has for many years been well known in the building industry. He has come to rank as one of the city 's most successful contractors. Mr. Walter was born at Columbus in 1869, son of William and Sarah W. (Evans) Walter. His father was born in England, establishing his home at Columbus about the time of the Civil war. Sarah W. Evans was born at Columbus. Her father, Daniel Evans, was a pioneer in Columbus, having come from his birthplace, the historic old City of Alexandria, Virginia, in 1820. By trade Daniel Evans was coach painter and letterer, and became well known and influential in the early life of Columbus, serving as a justice of the peace during the 40s. Bert Walter was educated in the public schools at Columbus, and as a youth learned the carpenter's trade. He made his knowledge of the trade the basis from which he has built up an extensive business as a building contractor. His work has constituted no small item in the constructive program of Columbus during the last twenty or thirty years. Among public buildings of the city erected by him as contractor are the engine houses Nos. 15 and 16 of the fire department, the. East Side Market and the Mount Gilead High School. At the same time he has erected a large number of residences and other structures. Mr. Walter was building inspector at Columbus during 1912-13. That experience and his well known qualifications as a builder caused the director of public safety to recall him to the same office in November, 1923, and he now gives most of his time to his duties as city building inspector. Mr. Walter is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Buckeye Republican Club. He married Miss Ida O'Neal, and they have two sons, William E. and 'Clement W. ROSCO G. LELAND, M. D. Now chief of the division of hygiene, Department of Health, State of Ohio, Dr. Rosco G. Leland brought to this service an experience and qualifications gained in years of private practice and other important duties in the public health movement in his native state of Michigan. For over two years he was one of the medical officers in the American forces in home camps and in France, having duties of a peculiarly responsible nature while overseas. Doctor Leland was born in the little village of Mendon, St. Joseph County, Michigan, in 1885. The Leland family has lived in that section of Michigan since pioneer times. He was reared and attended. the public schools at Mendon, including high school, and for one year was a student in Kalamazoo College at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Following that he was a resident student at the University of Michigan five years, taking both the literary and medical courses. He was' graduated Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1907, and Doctor of Medicine in 1909. During his undergraduate work he was on the staff of Dr. J. P. McMurrich in anatomy, of Dr. A. S. Warthin in pathology and Dr. Reuben Peterson in obstetrics and gynecology. He remained at Ann Arbor for a year after graduating, performing duties as assistant in obstetrics and gynecology, and teaching in the medical college and also as assistant to Doctor Peterson in his private hospital. During this time he was also a student in the graduate school of the University of Michigan. Doctor Leland then spent four years in general practice in Southwestern Michigan, locating in Kalamazoo in 1914. During 1914-15 he was associated with the Michigan State Board of Health in the two-year statewide survey made on tuberculosis. In 1915 he was appointed health officer of Kalamazoo and performed the duties of that office until he went into the military service. Doctor Leland joined the colors in June, 1917, and spent two years in the service. He first attended the Medical Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, was commissioned first lieutenant, and in September, 1917, joined the One HISTORY OF OHIO - 129 Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry, a unit of the Thirty-second Division. With that rank he was placed in command of Sanitary Squadron No. 8, and commanded that unit from December, 1917, until January, 1919. He accompanied the squadron to France, and commanded it throughout its association with the French army on the defensive sector in Alsace to the second battle of the Marne, from Chateau-Thierry to Fismes, through the battle of Soissons, a part of the Aisne-Marne offensive. Following that the unit was detached from the division and sent to Tonnere, France, for the purpose of organizing Camp Hospital No. 50. As soon as this hospital was built and organized Doctor Leland served first as adjutant and then as commanding officer of the unit. He was returned to the United States with the rank of major in May, 1919, and for several months 'continued on duty as surgeon of the First Reserve Officers Training Corps Camp, at Camp Custer, Michigan. It was on the basis of his splendid record as an army medical officer that Doctor Leland was called to the Ohio State Department of Health, and in September, 1919, was made chief of the bureau of venereal diseases in this department. From that position he was subsequently promoted to chief of the division of hygiene, Department of Health. Doctor Leland has high individual standing in his profession, thoroughly understands the effective methods of getting results in an organized way in the public health movement, and has been largely responsible for a campaign of education that has accomplished an enormous volume of good in this state. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Social Hygiene Association and belongs to the .Phi Chi medical fraternity. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the American Legion: Doctor Leland married at Owosso, Michigan, in 1909, Miss Clara E. Carson. Their three children are: Elizabeth. C., Jean K. and Robert Doctor Leland has continued his interest in military organization by becoming a member of the Ohio National Guard, in which he holds the position of adjutant of the One Hundred and Twelfth Medical Regiment. Doctor Leland also holds a commission as major, medical section, in the Officers Reserve Corps. JAMES E. BAUMAN, assistant director of health, Department of Health, State of Ohio, is the oldest man in point of continuous service in this state department. He began his service therein in August, 1892, as a clerk, and has lived in Columbus since that year. He became chief clerk of the department under the administration of Doctor Probst, who was head of the department for about twenty-five years. His offices are in the Ohio-Hartman Building at Fourth and Main streets in Columbus. Mr. Bauman was born at , Plain City, Madison County, Ohio. His father, Louis Bauman, was a Union soldier in the Civil war, being a member of the Fifteenth Regiment, United States Infantry. James E. Bauman when seven years old was admitted in the Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home at Xenia, and remained there until he was sixteen. He acquired most of his education there. Mr. Bauman is married and has two children, Eugene Bauman and Martha Cynthia Bauman. His daughter, a member of the class of 1924 in Ohio State University, received notice in October, 1923, from the dean of the College of Arts that she had been awarded the grade of A, the highest mark achieved in the year 1922-23, out of a total of 3,000 students in the College of Arts. This is the highest scholastic distinction possible of attainment for any student- in that college. J. E. SCANLON. Motorists and automobile owners in Columbus, Ohio, either as permanent residents or as temporary visitors know and appreciate the standards of service rendered by "Scanlon's," the tire and battery establishment at 332-336 East Broad Street. It is a business that has grown on merit, and among the numerous concerns of the kind in Ohio this is one of the best. Mr. Scanlon was born at Somerset, in Perry County, Ohio, in 1887, and his parents were also born at Somerset. One of twelve children, J. E. Scanlon has never been presented with opportunities, but has made them through hard work and alert seeking of means to better himself and make himself more useful. After a high school education he left home at sixteen, and, coming to Columbus, entered the service of the Green-Joyce Company, wholesale dry goods. He learned the dry goods business there, and had taken some important steps along the highway of progress when the World war came on. Before the first draft law was put into effect he volunteered and enlisted, being sent to Camp Sheridan, Alabama, where the Thirty-seventh Division was trained. He was made a supply sergeant for this division, and served altogether nineteen months, at Camp Sheridan, until discharged. After the armistice and his return home Mr. Scanlon became a traveling salesman for the great Chicago wholesale house of John V. Farwell & Company. As representative in Ohio, Pennsylvania and a portion of New York State, he made one of the most remarkable records of any man in the service of that house, his sales totaling over seven times his quota according to written contract which he was hired to sell for one year, in fact a record on cotton piece goods for three generations of Farwells. At the time this record was made there was a staff of 170 men selling the same lines of cotton piece goods which he sold. After five years or more with the Farwell Company Mr. Scanlon established his. present business, in 1920. In its rapid growth and expansion it has excelled any similar concern in Columbus. Scanlon's specializes in quality tires and batteries, and is a large distributor in the state of these goods. Scanlon s also has the sole authoritative distribution agency for the Williard batteries in Columbus, the largest selling battery in the world. Mr. Scanlon is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce, the Elks Golf Club and the United Commercial Travelers. WILLIAM WALLACE WILLIAMS. A Columbus business man who has traveled over the rugged road of experience from boyhood and has made practically all of his opportunities, William Wallace Williams for many years has been a dealer in contractors supplies, chiefly road building machinery and equipment. His business in that line covers an extensive territory in Ohio and adjoining states. Mr. Williams was born at Westerville in Franklin County, Ohio, September 17, 1872, son of Sherman Fletcher and Elizabeth (Wickham) Williams. His great-grandfather Williams was Abraham Williams, one of the first three settlers to locate in Plain Township in Franklin County. The grandfather was Jacob Williams. Sherman F. Williams was born in Harlem Township, Delaware County, only a short distance from the birth place of his wife Elizabeth Wickham over the county line in Blendon Township near Wes- 130 - HISTORY OF OHIO terville. Sherman F. Williams was a stone mason by trade and stone cutter. William Wallace Williams is one of five children. One daughter Mary Ethel, was born in 1883, and died in early infancy. His three brothers and one sister living are, Jacob Edgar, Walter Sherman, John Wickham and Mrs. Eva Maud Alberry. In 1880 the family consisting of the parents and three sons removed to Elk County, Kansas, but after a short time returned to Ohio and located at Sunbury in Delaware County, where Sherman F. Wil- liams, followed his trade for two years. After that they lived on different farms until William W. Williams was eighteen years of age. Up to that time his experience had been that of farm work, in learning a mechanical trade, and with very few opportunities to attend school regularly. When he left home he entered high school at Galena Ohio, when the principal of the high school was M. Newton Miller, now internal revenue collector of Ohio. Mr. Williams remained in school there three years, graduating May 12,1893. In the meantime during the summer he worked on the farm, assisted his father in county bridge building, and also did some teaching. After graduating he taught four years in country school districts, and also was a salesman of school supplies, including maps, portfolios, and other materials. Mr, Williams acquired his first experience in the present line in 1896 as a traveling salesman for the Austin Western Road Machinery Company of Chicago. He acted as traveling representative for this firm in the States of Iowa, Nebraska and Michigan. After his marriage in 1898 he lived at Detroit one year. Resigning from the Austin Company he came to Columbus, and took a position as salesman with the Eldredge & Higgins Company, wholesale grocers. Following that he was one of the organizers and incorporators of the G. W. Bobb Company, wholesale grocers. Mr. Williams was with this Columbus firm until August 1905 when he became secretary of the Williams Contractors Supply Company, of which his cousin E. J. Williams was president. At that time the company acted as distributors for several lines of contractors equipment and road building machinery. W. W. Williams remained with the firm until August 1911. • Having in mind the object of going into the same line of business for himself in some western city; accompanied by his wife and two sons he visited Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, San- Francisco and Portland. His investigations not having attracted him to any one of these locations, he returned to Columbus on January 13, 1912, and for several months resumed connection with the Williams Contractors Supply Company. Then on December 28, 1912, he engaged in business for himself with headquarters on the fifth floor of the Brunson Building in Columbus. Mr. Williams handles in a total value of nearly a millioh dollars a year, a general line of contractors equipment for both general contractors and railroad contractors, road and street building machinery and equipment, coal mining machinery and supplies. Mr. Williams has had his home at Columbus sincs August 1899. In 1922 he and his family occupied a new home at 1695 Cambridge Boulevard, Upper Arlington. He has taken an active part in civic and social organizations, is a member and was president of the Kiwanis Club in 1920, a member of the Como Methodist Episcopal Church, is affiliated with the Humboldt Lodge of Masons and belongs to the Knight Templar Commandery, Scottish Rite Consistory, Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No. 37. He is past grand master of Junior Lodge of Odd Fellows, and a member of the Aladdin Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. August 17, 1898, at Westerville, Mr. Williams married Miss Rose M. Clymer. Her grandfather William Clymer was a pioneer settler of Delaware County. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Williams ; Jules Clare, born October 3, 1899; William Wallace Jr., born February 24 1903 ; Elizabeth Rose, born July 6, 1914; and David Philip, who was born October 9, 1918, and died June 10, 1920. ARTHUR I. FISHBAUGH. One of the most conspicuous of men identified with the automobile industry and trade at Columbus, Arthur I. Fishbaugh twenty years ago was working in comparative obscurity in that city, and it has been on the strength of his own efforts and enterprise that he has reached his substantial position as vice president of the Pennsylvania Rubber and Supply Company. Mr. Fishbaugh was born at Pickerington, Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1881, son of John L. and Nancy Jane (France) Fishbaugh. His father was born in Franklin County, Ohio, and was a sturdy representative of the type of men and citizens who made the Ohio of the past generation. He served throughout the war for the Union in the Eighty-eighth and One Hundred Thirty-third Regiments of Ohio Infantry. Arthur I. Fishbaugh acquired a public school education in his native town of Pickerington, and soon afterward was earning his living at a meager wage as clerk in a grocery store. Still with only limited experience and without capital he arrived at Columbus in 1900, and his first employment was as a driver with the American Express Company. His connection with automobile circles covers a period of over fifteen years. In 1907 he entered the service of the Curtain-Williams Automobile Company,. subsequently was with the Early Motor Company, and then went on the road for the Pennsylvania Rubber and Supply Company as a traveling salesman out of Columbus in Ohio territory. He is one of the oldest men in the service of this well known organization, jobbers of garage equipment and automobile supplies and accessories, a company now with eight branch houses. Mr. Fishbaugh was called from the road. in 1913 and promoted to branch manager of the Columbus branch of the company, and in 1917 was elected vice president of the parent company, the headquarters of which are at Mentor, Ohio. His re- sourceful and energetic management has put and kept the Columbus branch in the lead at the various branch houses in volume of business, and as the executive head of this branch it is readily, seen how Mr. Fishbaugh has contributed to the great prosperity of the business organization as a whole. One significant honor accorded him by his business association in Columbus was his election as president of the Columbus Auto Trades Association. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Manufacturers and Jobbers Association, which is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Business Men's Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, the United Commercial Travelers, and is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club. Mr. Fishbaugh is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, an Elk and a member of the Thurman Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Bessie Rager, of Putnam County, Ohio. Their two sons are named Arleigh L. and L. Norris Fishbaugh. FRED A. LITTER. While there are thousands and thousands of men expert in mechanics who are constantly studying improved devices and equipment, for automobiles, Fred A. Litter, of Columbus, has achieved a place of distinction by his inventions, so HISTORY OF OHIO - 131 that if not his name at least a contribution to the automotive industry is nationally well known. He is founder of Litter's Motor. Machine Company, and is designer and manufacturer of the. famous Litter perfection compression piston for automobiles. A native of Ross County, Ohio, he was born in Chillicothe, in 1883, son of Charles and Mary (Hafner) Litter. The Litter family is an old and well known one in Ross County and is of German ancestry. Fred A. Litter grew up on a farm, attended district schools, and farm labor was his chief employment until he was grown. While on the farm .he mastered every machine and appliance, and his strong inclination for mechanics caused him in 1904 to go to Springfield, Ohio, where he learned the tool maker's trade in the plant of the Webster & Perkins Tool Company. In 1906 he moved to Columbus. The beginning of his present industry was a small motor repair shop in the rear of 850 North High Street. In that location his business was continued until it had grown to such magnitude as to require a larger and more central location, and in 1918 it was established in a large and modern plant at 240-242 North Fourth. Street, in the heart of the, downtown industrial district. Associated with him in the business is his brother, also an expert mechanic, Mr. Joseph B. Litter. The corporate name of the business now is Litter 's Motor Machine Company. Fred A. Litter has mechanical genius of high order. His fame rests chiefly on the Litter Perfect Compression Piston, which he designed and patented. Within the short period since 1921 it has become known among all automotive engineers and by thousands of individual car owners. Its popularity is such that the capacity of the plant at Columbus is scarcely sufficient to supply the demand. The Litter piston marks the furthest advance towards solving the problems and difficulties involved in the loss of fuel, oil and consequently power through ill fitting cylinders and piston heads. By a specially designed piston ring ̊ the Litter piston always travels along the cylinder, sealed completely to eliminate crank case dilution and faulty, lubrication, which causes fully three-fourths of motor troubles. CHARLES A. LEACH, with an efficient staff of six assistants, is giving a most efficient administration in the office of city attorney of Columbus, and he has high rank as one of the representative members of the bar of the Ohio capital city. Concerning him the following appreciative statements have been made: "With the extensive financial and property interests of a wealthy and rapidly expanding city such as Columbus is, the legal business of the office of city attorney and the responsibility connected with the proper administration thereof, assume appreciable magnitude. The confidence in Mr. Leach's ability to handle these large matters competently and expeditiously is manifest in the attitude of both the city authorities and that of the local public at large, and this confidence is the result of his many years of faithful and effective service to the city as a lawyer and as an executive of the legal department of the municipal government." Mr. Leach was born on a farm in Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio, on the 9th of April, 1881, and is a son of Watson and Kate (Kenney) Leach. Watson Leach likewise was born and reared in Delaware County, where his father established the family home in the pioneer days upon coming to Ohio from Westchester County, New. York, the Leach family having been founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history, and, the Kenney family having been here established for several generations. The city attorney. of Columbus has never regretted the early discipline that was his in connection with the activities of the home farm and the intervals of his attending the district school. He profited by the advantages offered in the public schools of his native county, and as a youth he taught in the rural schools, at a salary of $25 a month, in order to provide means for advancing his own education. After his graduation from high school at Marengo he entered the Ohio State University, in which he pursued a course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and also completed the curriculum of the law department from which he received in 1906 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. During the following year he was first assistant editor of the Ohio Cyclopedic Digest at Norwalk, and in 1907 he established himself in the practice of law at Columbus. In 1910 he was appointed third assistant city solicitor, under Edgar L. Wyman and he retained this position two years. In .1912 he was the republican candidate for the office of state senator from Franklin County, but an attack of typhoid fever prevented him from making a campaign, and he was defeated by his democratic opponent. In January, in the capacity of special counsel, he resumed his connection with the office of the city solicitor, and after thus serving effectively two years he was appointed first assistant city solicitor. In this position he continued his characteristically loyal and efficient service until January 1, 1921, when he was elected by the City Council to fill out the unexpired term of Henry L. Scarlett as city attorney, an office to which he was returned by popular vote in the election of November, 1922, for a term of four years. Mr. Leach is an active member of the Buckeye Republican Club, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of various representative social organizations in his home city. Mr. Leach wedded Miss Hazel Thatcher, of Circleville, Ohio, and they have four children: Dorothy, Robert, Jane and Russell. WILLIAM BUNDY BARTELS is assistant United States district attorney of Ohio, and was engaged in law practice at Athens until he came to Columbus to take up his present official duties. Mr. Bartels was born in Lick Township of Jackson County, Ohio, in 1889, son of Joseph C. and Flora (Williams) Bartels. His mother's father was a native of Wales, and her mother was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Joseph C. Bartels was born at Bartels Station in Lawrence County, Ohio, a community that had been originally settled by and named for the Bartels family. In early years he was in the charcoal furnace industry, and since then has had varied interests in coal mining and road building. In 1909 Joseph C. Bartels moved to Dayton, where he and his wife still reside. William Bundy Bartels was about twenty years old when the family moved to Dayton. He had attended common and high schools at Jackson, and at Dayton he went to work in the factory of the National Cash Register Company, spending a year there to earn the money to complete his education. His enterprise and resourcefulness as an employe of the National Cash Register Company were written of in a highly commendatory way in the book, " Selling Yourself," by J. J. Munsell, 'who at that time was employment manager for the Cash Register Company. Mr. Bartels paid his way through college, and his initiative and industry have been largely responsible. for the abundant success he has received in the early years of his professional career. 132 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Bartels is a graduate of the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus with the class of 1914. Following his graduation he began practice at Athens, and four years later, in November, 1918, was elected on the republican ticket prosecuting attorney of Athens County. He had in the meantime, on the first of November, been appointed prosecuting attorney to fill out an unexpired term, and he began his first regular term January 1, 1919. In November, 1920, he was reelected, and completed his second term December 31, 1922. Mr. Bartels then resumed private practice at Athens, but in April, 1923, was appointed assistant United States district attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, under Judge B. W. Hough, district attorney, with office at Columbus. Mr. Bartels then removed to Columbus, and he and his family occupy a modern home on Pacemont Road. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.. While a resident of Athens he was a member of the Kiwanis Club. March 29, 1917, he married Helen Amrine, of Columbus. Her father, Capt. L. A. Amrine, has charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad special police service for the Indianapolis Division. The one child of Mr. and Mrs. Bartels is William Bundy Bartels, Jr. COL. JOHN CHRISTIAN VOLKA. One of the oldest men, though still young in years, in the military establishment of Ohio is Col. John. Christian Volka, now assistant adjutant general of Ohio and who has been continuously in service since the time of the Spanish-American war, part of the time overseas with the Rainbow Division as captain and major. Colonel Volka was born at Lafayette, in Madison County, Ohio, August 14, 1878. Before he was twenty years of age he enlisted, in 1898, for duty in the Spanish-American war, in Company E of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After being mustered out of the United States volunteer forces he reenlisted and became a member of Company L of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, National Guard, serving five years, the last two years as second lieutenant. When the National Guard forces were mobilized for duty on the Mexican border Captain Volka recruited and organized Company C of the Fourth Ohio Infantry and was called to active duty June 19, 1916, as captain of the company. On returning from service on the border he was made commission clerk in the state adjutant general's office in Columbus. July 15, 1917, he was again called into Federal service, with Company C, which was made a part of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry, commanded by Colonel Hough. On September 12th he was selected to take the important command of the headquarters company of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth. This company he drilled and trained as one that ranked high among the American Expeditionary Forces. At the beginning of the Argonne offensive he was transferred to the command of the First Battalion and was commanding officer of that unit in the. Argonne campaign from August 5 to November. 3, 1918. Later he was promoted to grade of major and assigned as brigade adjutant of the Eighty-third Infantry Brigade, and was serving in that capacity when he arrived in the United States April 25, 1919, receiving his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman May 28, 1919. On June 1, 1919, Colonel Volka resumed duty in his former capacity as commission clerk in the adjutant general's office, and on June 15 was made chief clerk in the office, serving so until January, 1923, when he was appointed assistant adjutant general of the State of Ohio, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is still active in the National Guard as assistant chief of staff G-1, Thirty-seventh Division, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and holds that rank in the Officers Reserve Corps. Colonel Volka married Miss Bessie Peirce. They have one daughter, Janet. EDWARD A. PETERS. After a half century of hard working service in the ranks of Ohio's agriculturists, Edward A. Peters is now living retired in the capital city, at 546 Linwood. Avenue. His life has been one of worthy accomplishments, high purpose and influence. Mr. Peters was born in Madison Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1850, son of William L. and Susan (Hoffhine) Peters. On both sides he represents some of the earliest pioneer stock in Pickaway County. William L. Peters from early boyhood lived in Madison Township. Susan Hoffhine was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1810, and in 1811 she was carried in her mother 's arms across the mountains and through the wilderness to Ohio, this family locating in Walnut Township of Pickaway County. Edward A. Peters grew up on :a farm, attended the public schools, and one of his playmates and schoolmates was Susan Miller, who was also born in Madison Township of .Pickaway County. In 1873 they were married, and have now traveled life's highway together for over half a century. On September 18, 1923, they celebrated their golden wedding annniversary at their home in Columbus, and •a similar celebration was held in their old home community near Groveport. Eight children and sixteen grandchildren besides a great host of friends congratulated them on this occasion. In 1874, soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Peters moved from their old home in Pickaway County just over the line into Franklin County, to a farm four miles south of Groveport. This farm has ever since been the Peters homestead, and on it Mr. and Mrs. Peters lived from 1874 until 1917, when they came to Columbus. From this farm their nine children were carried in a rig to the high school at Groveport, where they all graduated. For a period of twenty-two years one or more of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Peters was in attendance at this school, the younger ones following the older. Most of the children subsequently attended higher schools and colleges. Mr. Peters had the honor of being one of the three citizens of Franklin County chosen to represent the county in the Ohio State Constitutional Convention of 1912. He had an active part, serving on several important committees, and. impressed his influence on the organic law of the state. Mr. Peters for many years was prominent in the affairs of the grange, being a member of Pomona Grange of Franklin County, of the State Grange of Ohio and the National Grange, and the Farm Bureau, county, state and national. He is a democrat and active in the Presbyterian Church. Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Peters, eight are now living, named Alvah, William J., Harley E., Grover C., Mrs. Lena M. Pontius, Mrs. Edna P. Sallee, Mrs. Harriett A. Rose and Mrs. Helen L. Leyshon. DAN LAWS SMITH. A social function with a deep and impressive significance as marking the regard of this world for an exceptional individual career of service was a banquet in the Chittenden Hotel at Columbus,, tendered by his fellow officials and employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad to Dan HISTORY OF OHIO - 133 Laws Smith upon his retirement after fifty-two and one-half years of, continuous duty with that system. Representatives of practically every division and department of the great railroad were present at the banquet in the spring of 1922, and tributes from officials and employes, high and low, were paid to the veteran railroader. Mr. Smith's long years of service in a position the duties of which are largely diplomatic and brought him into close relation to the public, gained him a wide circle of friends, including many of Ohio 's most famous citizens. Mr. Smith was born in one of the historic communities of old Kentucky, at Harrodsburg, February. 16, 1852, son of Dr. J. W. W. and Nancy (Gover) smith. His people were of old Southern stock and were slave owning planters before the war. The home was broken up 'a result of the war, and Dan Laws Smith had to go into serious life with only the advantages of a common school education. When he was seventeen, in 1869, he came to Ohio looking for employment. At Dennison, Ohio he went to work at $25 a month in the office of the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division of the Panhandle Railroad, long since an integral part of the Pennsylvania Railroad System.. The superintendent of the division at that time was W. W. Card. Ambition, the ability to fit himself into railroad discipline, and a faithful discharge of duties led to many promotions for Mr. Smith. Finally he became time keeper for the entire division. A promotion in 1876 took him from Dennison to Uhrichsville, where he was appointed station agent. A position not ordinarily among the highest paid in the railroad service, Mr. Smith made exceedingly remunerative. His salary was augmented by commissions on the handling of express matter and on the sale of coupon tickets, and through his personal efforts he greatly extended this feature of his work. Later he took over the a gency of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling, now the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Uhrichsville, and for a time was joint agent of both roads. His next promotion took him from Uhrichsville to the City of Denver, Colorado, where for nearly two years he served as traveling passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He went out to Colorado in 1886, and in the latter part of 1888 returned East and became district passenger agent for the Pennsylvania at Fort Wayne, afterward going to Detroit in the same position. In 1890 he came to Columbus, being appointed traveling passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, chiefly in Ohio territory. While his 'official title did not change, the range and scope of his duties and responsibilities were increased in proportion to his zeal and industry in the service, and for over a quarter of a century he gave the best that was in him to the company. Under the United States Railroad Administration, beginning in 1917, he served as a supervisor and inspector of passenger service and equipment on Pennsylvania lines in Ohio. After the war, when the railroads were returned to the private owners, Mr. Smith was again installed in his old position of traveling passenger agent. He continued these duties until March, 1922, when, under the retirement rules and pension system of the Pennsylvania road, he was honorably retired, the honorary banquet above noted being tendered shortly afterward. Mr. Smith married Miss Ella May Dunning. As Ella May Smith she is widely known as an authority and lecturer on travel, history, literature and music. She has been a student and traveler, and is well *known both in the United States and in Europe. For several years she has been conducting annual seasons of lecture courses, courses attended by many patrons and students of literature and the arts in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had three sons. two in the railroad service, Alan B. Smith, now division freight agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wheeling, West Virginia, and Roy B. Smith, an elder brother who died October 19, 1918, then assistant electrical engineer with the Motive Power Department of the Pennsylvania at Columbus. The eldest son (and child), Ralph B. Smith, is now a practicing physician in St. Louis, Missouri. The youngest of the family, a daughter, Helen, married in June, 1915, George C. Fairbanks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newton H. Fairbanks of Springfield, Ohio. JAMES WILLIAM MCHENRY. Since assuming the duties of postmaster, in December, 1922, James William McHenry has given the people of Elyria and the surrounding community greatly improved service and has fully justified his appointment to this important position in every way. Prior to being chosen for this post he, had a business experience of many years, and in the discharge of his official duties he has applied the same progressive and systematized methods that enabled him to gain success in a commercial way. Mr. McHenry was born at Troutville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, November 21. 1875. and is a son of Milton Henry and Susan (Zumpstein) McHenry, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch-Irish descent and the latter of German Ancestry. The father, was was a lumber dealer, *Met his death while fighting a timber fire in Pennsylvania, September 4, 1895. His widow survives him and is a resident of Elyria. James William McHenry attended the public schools until reaching the age of sixteen years, after which he had eighteen months of further training at Northwestern Normal School, Ada. Ohio. At the time of his father 's death he went to Bowling Green, Ohio, where he accepted such honorable employment as he could find, and finally learned the business of meat cutting, which he followed at Bowling Green and other places. It was in this connection that he came into contact, in 1902, with Armour 's meat business at Tittin, Ohio, of which he was first placed in charge, and of which he liter- became the owner by purchase. This he conducted with increasing success until 1907, when he accepted an attractive offer, and in 1908 located at Elyria. where he purchased a bankrupt meat business. Bringing his ability into play, Mr. McHenry built up and developed the enterprise until it 'was the largest at Elyria. He disposed of this business in January, '1922, to take over the management of his two farms. of 248 acres, which he had purchased while engaged in the meat business, although he continues to reside at Elyria, where he had built a handsome modern home at 210 Columbus Street. Mr. McHenry continued to give his attention to his farms until December 8, 1922, when he was appointed postmaster by President Harding, and at once assumed the duties. of his office. This is an office of the first-class division and maintains four rural free delivery routes. In the management of the handling and delivery of the mail Mr. McHenry has been expeditious, systematic, accurate and obliging, so that he has not only pleased the people but has also improved the service materially. He has long been a factor in republican politics, having been a member of the Lorain County Executive Committee for three terms and chairman thereof one term. He was elected a member of the Board of Educa tion without his solicitation, and served until his appointment as: postmaster, at which time he re- signed. As a. fraternalist he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Consistory of 134 - HISTORY OF OHIO Masonry and takes much interest in the work of that order. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a member of the Board of Stewards thereof. On April 1, 1901, Mr. McHenry was united in marriage with Miss Roxanna E. Clark, of Garrett, Indiana, daughter of Orgin C. and Serena (Lung) Clark, and to this union there has been born one son, James Clark, born in May, 1910. EDWARD H. LYON is a native of Ohio and deserves to rank high among Ohio's inventors. He invented and perfected the Lyon Breathing Machine, an improvement over the older type of resuscitating device and a model of simplicity and efficiency. This machine is manufactured by the Lyon Breathing Machine Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. This company is located at Columbus, where Mr. Lyon also resides. He was born, reared and educated in Van Wert County, Ohio. For a time he was a school teacher. As a young man he went to Chicago, and for three years was a salesman in the retail store of Marshall Field & Company. Mr. Lyon then became a traveling salesman, and was on the road for twenty years. During the last eight years of this time he represented the manufacturers of the lung motor, one of the first successful resuscitating devices. Mr. Lyon was one of the three men who introduced resuscitating machines in America, and of these three he has had the longest experience and is the only one now active in the business. Mr. Lyon has made a close study of resuscitating devices and apparatus since 1912. There is no one in the business who could better qualify as a technical expert on the subject. He carried on experiments for a number of years toward perfecting a machine that would effect resuscitation quickly and efficiently, and at the same time would be simpler, lighter in weight and more easily operated than the older type. This result has been achieved in the Lyon Breathing Machine, which has been on the market since 1919, and has been sold not only throughout the United States, but all over the world. The Lyon Breathing Machine is constructed entirely of aluminum, and is the only device of its kind that can be sterilized. It has been made part of the standard equipment in many hospitals, and is also used as part of the safety equipment of mining and other industrial organizations. It is endorsed and is used by the Gas Defense Branch of the Chemical Warfare Division of the Government. A similar type of the same apparatus is the infant breathing machine, used extensively in maternity hospitals and obstetrical practice for the resuscitation of the new born. After seeing the Lyon Breathing Machines introduced and a large field open for their manufacture, Mr. Lyon left the road and located permanently in Columbus, where he organized the Lyon Breathing Machine Company. He started business in February, 1923, with a capital stock of $500,000. The industry is solely for the manufacture of the Lyon Breathing Machine. The president of the company is Mr. Gustav Hirsch, the vice president, Mr. John W. Price, while Mr. Lyon is secretary and treasurer. CHARLES H. FRANK. In the course of the forty years since he reached manhood Mr. Frank has enjoyed a number of the interesting and honorable distinctions of worthy citizenship at Columbus. He is a former president of the Republican Glee Club of that city. In a business way he is vice president and general manager of the J. Rapp Company. Mr. Frank was born in Columbus, in 1863. His father, Charles Frank, now retired and in advanced years, came to Columbus in 1855, and had an active business career for more than six decades. For a number of years he was a furniture dealer, and subsequently bought out the business of the J. Rapp Company, retaining the original name. He became its president, and still holds that office, with nominal duty. The J. Rapp Company is one of the old and substantial business firms at Columbus, handling building material, coal and coke. Charles H. Frank was reared in Columbus, attended the grammar schools and the Columbus High School, and his first work was as clerk in the Columbus offices of the Hocking Valley Railway. During the Harrison administration he was general delivery clerk in the Columbus Postoffice, and for six years was in the county clerk's office as cost deputy. During the Jeffrey City administration he was secretary of the Board of Service. After his prolonged period of public duties he acted for many years as sales manager for the Nelsonville Paving Brick Company. He resigned to join his father, and on account of the latter 's advanced age took over the active management of the business of the J. Rapp Company, and has since been its vice president and general manager. Mr. Frank first became affiliated, though somewhat unofficially, with the Republican Glee Club of Columbus, in 1880. This famous organization has participated in every campaign in Ohio since 1872, and has had a prominent part on the programs of national conventions at Chicago and in other cities, and also in presidential inaugurations in Washington. Mr. Frank was not a regular singer in the club during the campaign of 1880, but during the campaign of 1884, when Blaine and Logan were the republican candidates for president and vice president, he took his place as one of the bass voices, and has been one of the most faithful singers and members of the club now for forty years. He received the grateful honor of being elected president of the club in 1907. Mr. Frank as a business man is a member of the Ohio Builders Supply Association and the National Builders Supply Association. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Achbar Grotto of Masons and Elks. PAUL B. BELDEN is one of the progressive young business men of the City of Canton, and his individual achievements as well as his thoroughly public spirited attitude have won from his fellow business men and citizens the honor of election as president of the Canton Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Belden was born at Canton, February 17, 1882, and represents an old and distinguished family of Stark County. He is a son of Henry S. Belden, and a grandson of Judge George W. Belden. His grandfather Judge Belden was admitted to the Ohio bar about 1833, after his early years were spent in business and newspaper work, and the practice of medicine. He served as prosecuting attorney for Stark County, was elected to the Legislature and served as common pleas judge from 1837 to 1843, and subsequently by election served on the same bench from 1852 to 1855. In 1857 he was appointed United States district attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. In that capacity he successfully prosecuted the parties from Oberlin who had rescued a fugitive slave and the subsequent appeal from this case to the Ohio Supreme Court was a notable event in the slavery discussion of that period. Judge Belden died about 1869. Paul B. Belden attended the grammar and high HISTORY OF OHIO - 135 schools of Canton, and from school went directly into the plant and offices of his father, Henry S. Belden, head of the Belden Brick Company, who was the pioneer brick manufacturer of Ohio, ahd developed the shale paving brick, thereby creating an industry of very considerable importance. The Belden Brick Company today have factories at Canton, Uhrichsville, Somerset and Port Washington. Mr. Paul B. Belden has had a long and successful experience as a brick manufacturer, and is now secretary and general manager of the Belden Brick Company, one of the important institutions in the clay product industry of Ohio. Mr. Belden was elected president of the Canton Chamber of Commerce in 1921. He is also president of the Canton Club, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the First Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a democrat in national affairs, though casting his vote independently in the local and state elections. He and his wife, Mrs. Mary (Hinchliffe) Beldeh, who came from Paterson, New Jersey, have four sons, Paul, William, Daniel and Richard. U. S. JOHNSTON, Canton attorney, has practiced law in that city for thirty years and in both his professional and civic affiliations has measured up to the high standards of service and citizenship. Mr. Johnston was born at Wilmot, Ohio, June 24, 1864. His father, Capt. William Johnston, was a pioneer farm machinery manufacturer in Northern Ohio. U. S. Johnston was reared in his native community, attended the public schools, and after leaving high school he entered Wooster University where he was graduated in 1887. In 1890 he received his law degree from the Washington Law School, was admitted to the Ohio ,bar, and in 1892 engaged in practice at Cleveland. He remained in that city two years and in 1894 established his home and office at Canton. His offices are in the Citizens Bank Building. Mr. Johnston is a member of the Stark County and Ohio Bar associations, is affiliated with the Elks Order and the Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Daisie Barr. They have three children, the daughter, Elizabeth, being the wife of Frank H. Dougherty of Canton. The two sons are Franklin B. and William J. RALPH E. HAY is one of the expert automobile salesmen in the State of Ohio, and has sold the successive models of several well known and recognized standard cars for a period of fifteen years. He is now president and general manager of the Ralph E. Hay Motor Company, dealers in the Jordan and Hupmobile cars at Canton. Mr. Hay was born at Canton, January 12, 1891. Educated in the grammar and high schools, he went to work in 1909 as a salesman for the Chalmers automobile. During 1910-11 he sold the Cadillac, from 1913 to 1917 was salesman for the Ford, and then represented the Essex and Hudson cars until January 1, 1920. At the latter date he engaged in business for himself as the, Ralph E. Hay Motor Company, and has built up a tremendous business for the medium priced cars he represents. Mr. Hay is a member of the Canton Automobile Dealers Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic and Elks orders and the Congress Lake Club. He married Maria C. Lambarn and they have one daughter, Virginia. RAYMOND J. BOUR, JR., is an attorney, and is associated in practice with one of Ohio's most distinguished law firms, Lynch, Day, Pimple & Lynch of Canton. William A. Lynch, William R. Day, and Austin Lynch, were associated in the partnership of Lynch, Day & Lynch fully fifty years ago at Canton. The firm has long been recognized as one of the most successful in Ohio in the corporation law. Raymond J. Bour was born at Canton, November 27, 1890. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Canton, and then went to Washington and took his law course in Georgetown University, where he was graduated Bachelor of Law in 1914. He was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and also in Ohio. For three years he remained in Washington, associated with a prominent international law firm, Crammond Kenhedy. Then on January 1, 1918, he returned to Canton and became associated with his present firm. Most of his work is in the field of corporation law. Mr. Bour is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a republican, and a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church. He married Miss Julia Entwisle. They have two children, Gervaise and Julia. CHARLES B. McCLINTOCK, prosecuting attorney of Stark County, is one of the able young lawyers of Canton and has achieved success in his profession through his individual work and after paying his expenses through college. He was born on a farm in Stark County, May 5, 1885. His father James W. McClintock was born in Stark County, July 18, 1856. He attended grade schools, high school, took the classical course in Ohio Northern University at Ada, and for twenty-four years was a successful teacher and hundreds of people in Stark County remembered him chiefly for his work as an educator. In 1890 he established his home at Beach City, where he was in the hotel business, a farmer, and he filled many public offices. James W. McClintock married Emma Higley, a native of Wayne County, Ohio. They had three children James G., Charles B., and Eva Jerusha. Charles B. McClintock was five years old when his parents located at Beach City. He attended grammar and high schools there, and when twenty years of age he was given a state life teachers certificate. By teaching, a profession lie followed for five years, he put himself through college. He attended Wooster University in Ohio, and the Mount Union College, and studied law. in Western Reserve University, where he was graduated in 1910. He was admitted to the bar and opened his office in Canton the same year and in 1911 formed a partnership and for five years was member of the law firm McCarty and McClintock, at Canton. He served four years as assistant prosecuting attorney and was then given the nomination on the republican ticket and elected prosecuting attorney by a majority of over 8,000 votes. In the election he carried 231 out of the 265 precincts in the county. His official conduct has fully merited the high confidence shown at the time of his election. Mr. McClintock is a member of the Methodist Church, and belongs to the Stark County and Ohio Bar associations. COL. ROBERT DILWORTH PALMER, who died in New York City, December 21., 1.922, had an exceptionally long and honorable career in the National Guard and the Federal Service during the World war. At Columbus he was known as a successful business mah. He was founder and president of the Citizens Wholesale Supply Company. Colonel Palmer was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 4, 1870. After graduating from the Delaware High School in 1887 he entered the service of the American Express Company, and worked in various capacities in that organization until 1892. His home was in Columbus since early youth. In 1894 with 136 - HISTORY OF OHIO J. W. Blue, J. O. Cutler and E. M. Bryant he started the business of which he became president and general manager, the Citizens Wholesale Supply Company. This was a partnership until it was incorporated in 1896. This has become one of the notable enterprises in the Columbus business district. The company are manufacturing chemists and importers and Jobbers in pure food products and toilet necessities. Their trade mark is the Golden Rule and some of their products were awarded the gold medal at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Receiving thirty-seven awards out of forty exhibits. Colonel Palmer was only seventeen when he enlisted in Company K of the Fourteenth Regiment of the old Ohio National Guard. He became a charter member of Troop B, of the Ohio Cavalry, December 12, 1891, and served successively as first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain until 1894. He became quartermaster of the Second Ohio Infantry Brigade with the rank of, major in 1896 and was assigned to the staff of Brig.-Gen. John C. Speaks, commanding the Second Ohio Infantry Brigade. In 1908 he was promoted to brigade adjutant of the same organization and performed such duties until the summer of 1917. This brigade went into the National Army as the One Hundred Seventy-third Infantry Brigade. Colonel Palmer continued with it as adjutant until January, 1918, when he was ordered to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, to take command of the motor section of the First Corps Artillery Park. He was soon relieved of those duties and ordered to report to the inspector general of the army at Washington, Maj.-Gen. John L. Chamberlain, and remained under the inspector general's direction until his honorable discharge February 4, 1919. In October, 1918, Mr. Palmer was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, in the inspector general's department. He retained a commission in the Officers Reserve Corps since the war having been assigned to duty as inspector-general in the Reserve Corps and assigned to the Fifth Corps Area. Colonel Palmer was a thirty-second degree Mason a Knight Templar and member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Red Cross of Constantine. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Riding Club, Automobile Club, Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Old Colony Club and Franklin Post of the American Legion. C. L. HAINES, secretary, treasurer and general manager of. the Haines Motor Car Company, exclusive dealers at Alliance in the Chevrolet cars. He has had a successful experience in the automobile business covering a period of ten years. Mr. Haines was born at Minerva, Ohio, in 1882, grew up on a farm, had a public school education, and in 1914 began selling automobiles. In June, 1916, he organized the Haines Motor' Car Company,, which was incorporated in 1922. Throughout his career in the automobile business he has specialized in the Chevrolet car and Chevrolet truck. He is a member of the Ohio State Automobile Dealers Association. He is a member of the Masonic Order and Shrine, Modern Woodmen of America, is a director of the Kiwanis Club at Alliance, votes as a republican and is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Haines married Miss Gertrude E. Mick.. They have one child, Leo Kathryn. FRANCIS E. HUNTER. Though in active practice less than ten years Francis E. Hunter has achieved an enviable reputation as a lawyer as well as a citizen of Alliance. He is a native of Ohio and member of an old Ohio family. He was born in Columbiana County, January 17, 1884. When he was an infant his parents moved out to Kansas, and lived in that state until he was fifteen years of age; the family then returned to Columbiana County, and in 1902 located at Alliance. F. E. Hunter acquired his first advantages in school in Kansas, continued his education in Columbiana County and. Mount Union College. He studied law in Ohio State University, graduating with the class of 1915. Since that year he has conducted a successful general practice at Alliance, and is the present city solicitor. He is a member of the Alliance, the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Hunter is affiliated with the Masonic and Elks orders and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Edith Kayler, and their four children are Frederick, Francis E., Jr., Robert and William A. JOHN J. BROWN. The reputation and standing of John J. Brown as an attorney at Alliance are based upon a quarter of a century of active practice and participation in the professional and civic affairs of that community. Mr. Brown was born at Hanover in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 16, 1869, son of George and Mary Ellen (Sinclair) Brown. His early years were spent at Hanover, where he attended public schools, and he finished his literary education in Mount Union College at Alliance. On leaving college he went out to Iowa, and subsequently entered the law department of Iowa State University, where he was graduated in 1897, and admitted to the Iowa bar at the same time He soon afterward returned to Ohio and in Match, 1898, was admitted to the bar of this state and subsequently to practice in the Federal 'Court. On August 1, 1902, he formed a partnership with Hon. Edwin W. Diehl, an association that continued until 'September 1, 1923, at which time Mr. Diehl was appointed by Governor Donahey as judge of the Common Pleas Court of Stark County. Mr. Brown served as' city solicitor of Alliance from 1906 to 1912. He is a member of the Alliance, the Stark County, and the Ohio State Bar associations. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, an Elk and a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. He is a republican and has assisted in party councils, though his private law practice has absorbed his time to the exclusion of political aspirations. On December 28, 1905, Mr. Brown married Miss Elizabeth Marsh, of Alliance. They have one son, George D. VINCENT L. FISHEL is an Alliance attorney whose abilities have brought him an increasing share in a successful practice during the past fourteen years. Mr. Fishel was born November 4, 1884, at Minerva, Ohio, in the community where his ancestors established their home more than a century ago. His parents were Charles D. and Anna (Fultz) Fishel. His father spent more than forty years in the railroad service. The founder in the Fishel family in Ohio was Henry Fishel who came from Maryland to. Columbiana County about 1805. As a millwright he operated the first grist mill in that section of the state. His son, Frederick, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and after his return from the army he settled on a farm a mile and a half southwest of Minerva in 1814. He was one of the founders of the first Presbyterian Church at Minerva and he died in that community in 1872 in advanced years. The old Fishel farm near Minerva remained in the possession of his sons until a few years ago. Adam Fishel, a son of Frederick, and a grandfather of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 137 Alliance attorney, was a substantial farmer at the old homestead, served in the Civil war as a Union soldier in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Infantry, and during his last years lived retired at Minerva, where he died August 22, 1912, in his eightieth year. Vincent L. Fishel attended the grade and high schools at Minerva, from 1890 to 1901. The family then removed to Alliance where he finished his high school work in 1902. In 1906 he graduated from Mount Union College with the Bachelor of Arts degree and as the valedictorian of his class, and in 1911 Mount Union honored him with the Master of arts degree. In the meantime he had completed in 1910 the law course at Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in June, 1910, and to practice in the United States District Court of the Ohio Northern District in December, 1912. He engaged in general practice. at Alliance, and in addition to his private practice he served as secretary of the Alliance Business Men's Association from 1912 to 1915, and during the World war was a member of the legal advisory board of Alliance. Mr. Fishel is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, the Sons of Veterans and the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the Alliance, the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations, and in politics is a republican. On November 12, 1913, he married Miss Ann M. Jones, daughter of E. M. Jones of Alliance. They have two children, Edwin Clark and Dorothy Ann. BENJAMIN WOODBURY, a member of the Ohio bar for half a century, and one of the best known attorneys and citizens of Columbus, represents a very prominent family of the Buckeye State. His grandfather, Benjamin Woodbury, was born in Maine, in 1799, and at the age of eighteen came to Ohio and settled at Granville, in Licking County, in 1817. He married Abigail Blanchard, who was born in Maine, in 1801, and came to Ohio in 1817 with her father, Joseph Blanchard. The Blanchards and Woodburys were pioneers in Granville Township. Benjamin Woodbury died at the age of thirty-seven, having survived his wife just three months, and their three children were all young and were reared among relatives and friends. The oldest of the children was William B. Woodbury, twelve years of age at the time of his father's death. He was born in 1825 in the same house in Granville Township, where his son Benjamin Woodbury, the Columbus attorney, was born November 17, 1848. William B. Woodbury went to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to serve an apprenticeship at the carriage making trade with a relative, C. C. Curtis. He continued his apprenticeship for seven years, and in 1846' at the age of twenty-one returned to the old homestead farm, which had been retained in the family. His father had built a shop on the farm, and the son continued the management of both the shop and the farm' the rest of his active life. He died in 1882. He had become interested in religion at the age of thirty-five, and was a speaker and lecturer with the Washingtonian temperance movement. He served as a minister of the Universalist Church for twenty-five years in two congregations. At that time the Universalist was looked upon as a heretic, but he was a man of courage and of the ability to present his doctrines so as to make it popular. Portraits of this old minister still hang over the pulpits in both the churches which he served. Benjamin Woodbury, the attorney, grew up on the home farm in Licking County, and for five years was a student in Denison University, situated three miles from his home. He was graduated with the class of 1872, and then at the age of twenty-four came to Columbus, entering the office of George L. Converse, with whom he studied law. He was admitted to the bar after examination before the Supreme Court, October 22, 1873, and for several years was associated in practice with his preceptor. Since then he has practiced alone. Mr. Woodbury's specialty has been chancery, probate and real estate law. He has never had any criminal practice, and he has rendered many important services in the administration of estates. He has never been active in politics, though he served as a trustee of the Sinking Fund Commission for the City of Columbus. At Denison University he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and forty years after graduating was given a pleasant surprise when he was elected a member of the honorary scholarship fraternity the Phi. Beta Kappa. He has been not only an able lawyer, but a student of literature, and is well versed in the Bible; though he has never subscribed to any church doctrine. His wife and some of his children became affiliated with the Episcopal Church. In 1875, at the age of twenty-seven Mr. Woodbury married 'Miss Margaret Evans, of Licking County, who grew up in the same neighborhood as he did. Their children have reached places of distinction. The son William, is now assistant to the president of the New York Telephone Company in New York, and is vice president of the Rochester Telephone Company, of the Mountain Dome Telephone Company and the Farmers Telephone Company of Syracuse. The second son, Benjamin, Jr., is a telephone official in Chicago. The third son, Howard P. is editor of the Columbus Citizen. The daughter, P., is a graduate of Ohio State University and spent four years in Bryn Mawr College, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and is now head of the department of history in the Columbus School. for Girls. M. NILE FORD. After some years of practical work in his profession as a pharmacist Mr. Ford was called to the office of secretary of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy, with headquarters at Columbus. His many services in his official capacity have made him known among all members of the drug profession and business in the state. Mr. Ford was born on a farm near. Delphos, in Marion Township, Allen County, Ohio, July 5, 1882. His parents were Edward J. and Lovina (Phillips) Ford. His great-grandfather, Joseph Ford, Sr., a native of Maryland, was a pioneer settler in Ohio, locating in Champaign County. Edward J. Ford, son of Joseph Ford, Jr., was born December 19, 1853, in that county, and soon afterward the family moved to Marion Township of Allen County. Lovina Phillips is a daughter of Isaac and Polly (Crites) Phillips. Her grandfather, Daniel Phillips, came from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, to Fairfield County, Ohio, 'and in 1855 the family moved to Marion Township, Allen County; Ohio. The home and environment of M. Nile Ford until he was twenty years of age, in 1902, was his father 's farm. In the meantime he had attended the township schools, had spent two years in. Ohio Northern University at Ada, and he studied pharmacy in the Sclo. College of Pharmacy in Harrison County, a school conducted by Dr. J. H. Beal, for many years famous as a professor and teacher of pharmacy. While in pharmacy college Mr. Ford was captain of Company B of the college cadets, and at the end of his college course he was awarded first prize for the best workmanship in the pharmacy laboratory. Mr. Ford was graduated with the degree Graduate in Pharmacy from this college in 1906, and then 138 - HISTORY OF OHIO returned to his home town of Delphos and was a pharmacist there until 1912. In that year he was appointed secretary of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. This is one of the independent departments of the state government, reporting directly to the governor. In the past ten years the board has done a great deal of important work in raising the standard of requirements for entrance into the profession of pharmacy, and at the present time these requirements are higher than those found in any other state. While the influence of the board has thus acted as a bar to incompetent membership, it has also safeguarded the welfare of the profession and practice of pharmacy by furthering all legitimate legislation affecting the business. Mr. Ford is associated with all state and national organizations affecting pharmacy. Mr. Ford married Miss Goldy May Friedline of Delphos, on April 30, 1913. He had the misfortune to lose his wife by death on March 3, 1920. She is survived by a son and daughter, Robert Edwin, born September 6, 1915, and Mary Ellen, born February 2, 1920. Mr. Ford is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Methodist Church. HON. JESSE S. MILLER, one of the prominent members of the Alliance bar for over twenty years, is also known outside that city for his able work as a legislator, having served two terms in the Legislature as a representative of Stark County. Mr. Miller was born at North Benton in Mahoning County, Ohio, January 23, 1865, son of Jacob F. and Isabella T. (Sproat) Miller. He was reared in a country district, acquired his first educational advantages there, and from 1885 to 1890 was a student in Mount Union College at Alliance, and attended Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, from 1893 to 1895, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees. Mr. Miller was admitted to the Ohio bar March 17, 1899, and to the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio on February 28, 1901. He has been engaged in individual practice as an attorney at Alliance since May 31, 1900. Mr. Miller represented Stark County in the Legislature in the Eighty-second and Eighty-third General Assemblies. He is author of the Miller Utility law passed in 1919, a measure forbidding discontinuance of service by any public utility without the consent and approval of the State Utilities Commission. He is also author of the bill creating municipal courts in Alliance and Massillon. This measure has permitted an important economy of judicial arrangements, since it consolidates all the courts of small cities with the adjoining townships into a single jurisdiction, with extensive powers. The courts established under the act primarily proved so satisfactory that a similar system has been adopted by Akron, Newark, Portsmouth, Zanesville, Canton, Warren and East Liverpool, Ohio. Mr. Miller at one time was a private in Company H, of the Eighth Regiment in the Ohio National Guard, he is a Knight Templar Mason at Alliance, a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and was founder of the Wooster chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served as city solicitor of Alliance from 1902 to 1906. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the Alliance, the Stark County, and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Miller married Miss Olive G. Ruff, of Shreve, Ohio, August 8, 1895. Their four children are Jessie M., Harold M., Ruth A., and Eugene C. JOHN M. DUNHAM, M. D. The history of medical education in Ohio would not be complete without reference to the services of Dr. John M. Dunham, who is one of the most venerated figures in the profession. He has been a kindly and generous teacher, and one identified with the organization and operation of at least two of Ohio 's widely known medical schools. Doctor Dunham is of pioneer American stock and an old Ohio family. His great-grandfather came from England in 1762 and his grandfather, John Dunham, traveled on horseback from Trenton, New Jersey, in 1802, to the wilderness of Ohio, settling four miles west of Lebanon in Warren County. He was one of the sturdy pioneers of that community, where he died, at the venerable age of ninety-six. He acquired a tract of land, aggregating 2,000 acres, and was able to give each of his children a fine farm. His son, John Jr., who was five years old when brought to Ohio, spent his life on the farm inherited from his father, and died in middle age. He was the father of eight children, of whom three were past eighty when they died, and the youngest survivor is now seventy-four, while the oldest is ninety-one years of age. One of this remarkable family, Dr. John M. Dunham, was born in September, 1840, and is now in his eighty-fourth year. He had the hardy training on a farm, and attended the Lebanon National Normal University. While teaching in a college in Canada, he met Miss Anna C. Cross, whose brother was president of the college and she herself a teacher of music, and to whom he was subsequently married. He then attended two terms in the medical department of the University of Michigan in the classes of 1869 to 1871; he attended the third course in Detroit Medical College in which he graduated. The spring of the following year Doctor Dunham came to Columbus, and for over half a century his home and his office have been at 222 East Town Street. In point of years of continuous service he is now the dean of the local medical profession. When he came to Columbus it had a population of 32,000. No other physician then in practice in Columbus now survives. He helped organize the Columbus Medical College, in which he held the chair of diseases of children, and of which he was its secretary during its existence of seventeen years. He was also the first president of the Ohio Medical University, so serving until it merged with the Starling Medical College, finally being absorbed into the medical department of the Ohio State University. He was associate editor of the Columbus Medical Journal for several years, attaining excellence as a professional writer. He is a member of the Ohio and American Medical associations, and for six years was a member of the local board of health. He has been affiliated with the Masonic Order for sixty-two years, being held in highest esteem by fraters in both York and Scottish Rite Masonry. For a long period he was secretary of the First Town Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and for some years he has been a member of the official board of the Broad Street Church. A Columbus paper recently said: "Seventy years have been set as the retiring age of employes by many companies, but at eighty-three Dr. John Milton Dunham, the dean of Columbus doctors, covers his rounds as a general practitioner and feels as well as ever. As the oldest Columbus physician he was the honor guest at a dinner given Thursday evening, September 27, 1923, at the 'Barn' by the General Practitioners' Society and in reminiscing, deplored the fact that 'Along with other professions our HISTORY OF OHIO - 139 own has lost much of its spirit of service.' In those days you never heard of a demand for a fee in advance being made; everyone knew that he could have services of a physician without money being brought into question. "Doctor Dunham has been a conspicuous figure ever ready to attend the afflicted, render aid to the needy and lend a helping hand to whatever enterprise tended to general benefit. There has been no movement for public good but has felt his influence, no instance of distress but has had his sympathy. With voice, hand and heart ever ready to respond, no citizen holds wider circle of friends, none holds warmer place in the hearts of his fellowman." P. C. HARRIS, a resident and business man of Columbus for over twenty years, is an optometrist by profession, is the present secretary of the State Board of Optometry. The business shop and offices of Mr. Harris, well known to the people of Colum- bus, are located at 136 North High Street. He was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the Chicago College of Optics with the degree of Doctor of Optics. He subsequently was given the honorary degree Doctor of. Optometry by the Needles Institute of Kansas City. On locating in Columbus, ,Doctor Harris began business on a small scale, an for a number of years has been one of the leaders in his line in the state. He has twice served as president and is a life .member of the State Organization of Optometrists. Governor Cox appointed him a member of the State Board of Optometry and was reappointed by Governor Davis and since September, 1919, by election of the board, he has served as its secretary. The other members of the board are Clark Sloan, of Cleveland, W. A. Compton, of Pomeroy, Stanley C. Gray, of Toledo, and John C. Eberhardt, of Dayton. CALVIN W. REYNOLDS, attorney at law, with offices at 70 North High Street in Columbus, has been especially well known on account of his varied activities at the State Capital through, a long period of years. Mr. Reynolds was born in West Virginia, and he was a child when the family moved to Lawrence County, Ohio. He was reared and educated there. In 1886 he began his employment with the state government, an employment that covered a period of nearly thirty years. He was a clerk in the House of Representatives that year and the following session. In 1893 he became corporation clerk in the secretary of state's office, and served nearly fifteen years under Kinney-Laylin-Thompson and Graves. For three years he. was a clerk in the statistical department of the Federal Government at Washington and Cincinnati, and later again acted as a clerk of the House of Representatives of Ohio. In the meantime he had studied law, was admitted to the bar and for a number of years has engaged in a general law practice. Mr. Reynolds in former years was much interested in party politics, and acted as delegate to various county, district and state republican conventions during a period of twelve years. He has been closely identified with many movements for general betterment. Of a studious nature, his reading has covered a wide range, including the subject of social science and the fundamental theses of philosophy. The teachings of Theosophy appealed strongly to his religious sense, though more mature investigations have tended to diminish rather, than strengthen former belief. Mr. Reynolds married in 1898 Anna Brown, and the two daughters of this union are Martha Louise and Jean Calve Reynolds. He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association and the Buckeye Republican Club of Franklin County, Ohio. FRANKLIN L. MAIER, a well known member of the Stark County bar, engaged in law practice at Massillon, is also a veteran of the World war. He was born at Hicksville, Ohio, September 13, 1889, son of George E. and Emma. Luella (Mann) Maier. He acquired a public school education at Hicksville, graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1908. He then took up the study of law in the office of George .W. Kratsch and Frank L. Baldwin at Massillon, entering their office in October, 1908, and remaining there until April, 1909. He continued his legal education in the Franklin T. Backus Law School of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, graduating Bachelor of Laws in June, 1912. The faculty of the law school elected him a member of the Coif. On June 25, 1912, he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and subsequently on September 24, 1914, was admitted to practice in the United States District Court and on March 4, 1918, to practice in the United States Supreme Court. From July 1, 1912, to April 1, 1914, Mr. Maier was associated with the prominent Canton law firm of Pomerene, Ambler and Pomerene. He then returned to Massillon and was associated with. George W. Kratsch, and since February, 1919, has engaged in a general law practice at Massillon. He served as legal advisor to the appointment officer of the War Trade Board at Washington from December, 1917, to July, 1918. On July 26, 1918, he became a recruit and began training as a private of field artillery at Replacement Depot, Camp Jackson, .South Carolina. He was retained in the noncommissioned regimental staff of the Fifth Regiment, Field. Artillery Replacement Depot at Camp Jackson. On January 10, 1919, he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of regimental color sergeant. He soon afterward resumed his law practice at Massillon. Mr. Maier is a member of Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, Massillon Commandery No. 4, of Knights Templar, belongs to the Order of the Coif, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member of the Stark County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and is a republican in politics. On June 6, 1923, he was united in marriage with Miss Maude M. Pietzcker, of Massillon, Ohio. JEREMIAH H. KENNY is president of Kenny Brothers Company, proprietors of Kenny 's Store, a business house of Canton that has rounded out thirty years of progress and is one of the best centers of high grade merchandise in Eastern Ohio. The founder of the business Jeremiah H. Kenny was born at Geneva; Ohio, July 24, 1858. He was educated in grammar and high schools and Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and immediately after leaving school went to work in a general store at Geneva. Five years work gave him a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of merchandising. On leaving Ohio he removed to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and for three years engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Selling out ,his establishment and returning east visiting at Cleveland, William Taylor, head of William Taylor, Son & Company, who persuaded him to take over the business of a retail dry goods store in Canton. Mr. Kenny, therefore, abandoned his intention of returning to North Dakota, and manage a wholesale commission business, and instead bought a store occupying part of the site of the present McKinley Hotel in Canton. There in 1894 the Kenny Brothers Company opened their first store, handling dry goods, carpets and millinery, and in 140 - HISTORY OF OHIO spite of the panic that was then sweeping the country the firm did a business the first year larger in volume than the preceding year, and as financial conditiohs became better the house steadily prospered. On December 8, 1900, the store was destroyed by fire, all the stock of goods going up in flame and smoke. Six days later, aided by wholesale firms from Cleveland and Pittsburgh, a new Kenny store was established across the street from the former in what was later known as the Mrs. George D. Harter Block. Succeeding years continued to prosper both Canton and Kenny Brothers. In September 1914 the company began occupying its new home, in a building especially planned and built for it, the ten-story Renkert building, the first four floors and basement of which are occupied by the Kenny Brothers Company. This business was started with merchandise valued at not over $30,000, and in less than thirty years the stock value was raised to over $200,000, and the employes increased from twenty-five to over one hundred and the annual volume of business grew to the million dollar mark. Mr. Kenny, in addition to the heavy burdehs he carries as the executive head of this large mercantile establishment, is also a director in the George D. Harter Bank, director in the Morris Plan Bank of Canton, and a director of the F. E. Schumacher Company of Hartsville. He has not been in politics, but has participated in civic movements, serving as chairman of the first home rule charter commission of Canton, was on the relief committee here to raise funds and supplies for the sufferers in the Dayton flood, and was appointed chairman of the Canton campaigns of the liberty loans during the World war and also acted as a member of the War Relief Committee and the Finance Committee of the Red Cross. Mr. Kenny is a director of the Canton Chamber of Commerce. In 1924 he was elected president of The Canton Business Men's Association. He is deeply interested in the Boy Scouts movement. In Masonry he is a Knights Templar, and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is a member of Al Koran Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canton Masonic Association. He belongs to the Congress Lake Club, Canton Club, Canton Automobile Club, University Club, and in politics votes as a republican. PERRY A. KUHN, city solicitor of Massillon, has had ten years of active experience in the legal profession in Eastern Ohio, except for the two years he was with the colors during the World war. He was born at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1886, son of Perry A. and Elizabeth (Oshul) Kuhn. He attended public schools at New Wilmington, graduated from the Westminster Preparatory School and in 1908 received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Westminster College in Pennsylvania. He took his law course in the University of Michigan, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1911, and was admitted to the bar in June of the same year. Mr. Kuhn was admitted to the Ohio bar in December, 1913, and from that time until August, 1917, was associated with Joseph Friedman, a well known member of the Youngstown bar. In August, 1917, he entered the second officers training school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and was in service until honorably discharged at Camp Meade, Maryland, October 16, 1919. After his war service he resumed his law practice at Massillon, and in November, 1923, was elected city solicitor. He is a member of the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Pi Rho Phi college fraternity. He also belongs to the Lawyers Club of Massillon and the Stark County Bar Association. Mr. Kuhn married Miss Elmira E. Higgins of Erie, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Perry A Jr., and Marjorie. A. A. SERVA, a native of Stark County, is a mechanical and electrical engineer, and for many years has been regarded as one of the most competent men in his profession. A number of years ago he became associated with the various manufacturing and other business enterprises headed by Edward A. Langenbach, and is now vice president and general manager of the United Electric Company, manufacturers of vacuum cleaning apparatus and is vice president, secretary and treasurer of the Allied Coal Company, coal operators and wholesale dealers. Mr. Serva was born on a farm two miles south of Canton, January 15, 1869. He was educated in grammar and high schools, and took the course of mechanical engineer at Ohio State University, where he was graduated in 1893, while there he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Mr. Serva about the time he was graduated became an assistant engineer to the Board of Awards at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Following that for twenty-four years he was in the service of the General Electric Company, being on duty at many points over the country, but for twenty years his headquarters were at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Serva returned to Canton to become assistant to Edward A. Langenbach. Mr. Langenbach was at that time prominently connected with the Berger Manufacturing Company, as well as the United Electric Company, the United Steel Company, the General Stamping Company and various steel and iron manufacturing establishments. Mr. Serva is a member of the Canton Chamber of Commerce, Canton Club, Congress Lake Club, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, being one of the early members of that body. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During the World war period he was an aide to the Naval Consulting Board of Indiana. Was secretary and treasurer of the War Resources Committee Subsection 18, cooperating with Region No. 9, Resources and Conversion Section War Industries Board. Was chairman of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Executive Committee Military Training Camps Association and was active in all war activities, Liberty Loan drives, Red Cross and United War campaigns. He married Miss Antoinette M. Biechele, and they have one son, a graduate of Notre Dame University with the Bachelor of Literature degree. Mr. Serva is a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Elks Lodge. HON. EDWIN W. DIEHL. Long held in high esteem as one of the ablest attorneys in the City of Alliance, Edwin W. Diehl was appointed in September, 1923, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Stark County by Governor Vic Donahey. Judge Diehl was born at Homeworth, Ohio, son of A. J. and Sarah (Boyce) Diehl. His early education was acquired in public schools in Stark and Columbiana counties, and subsequently he entered Mount Union College and was graduated Bachelor of Science from the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He began the study of law in the offices of Alonzo Strong and J. S. Miller at Alliance, and he also took special courses in the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio and in December, 1904, was admitted to practice in the Federal courts. In 1902 he formed a partnership and has since been senior member of the firm Diehl & Brown at HISTORY OF OHIO - 141 Alliance. Judge Diehl served as a member of the Park Commission of Alliance, from May, 1918, to 1920. He is a member of the Stark County Bar Association and is a former president of the Alliance Bar Association. Fraternally he is a Mason and an Elk. June 26, 1904, Judge Diehl married Miss Lotta Raynor, of Alliance. They have two children, Eloise and Edwin W., Jr. ED L. SMITH, for a third of a century, has been a member of the Stark County bar. In late years he has given most of his time to various business interests and among others is president of the Northern Hotel Company of Canton. Mr. Smith was born on a farm in Stark County, January 11, 1869, had the usual environment of an Ohio farm boy. He attended district schools, high school, and finished his literary education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. When he was ninteen years old he taught his first term of school, and he was engaged an teaching while studying for the bar. He was admitted to practice in 1890 and soon afterward established his office in Canton. For many years he conducted a large general practice, but more recently has limited his practice to consulting and advisory relations with his clients. From 1897 to 1901 he was city solicitor of Canton. Mr. Smith is a democrat in politics. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Besides his interest in the hotel, company, he owns considerable real estate, and his offices are in his own building at 426 Sixth Street, Northwest. B. B. PADDOCK, a veteran in the insurance business, with about thirty years of active experience, was one of the founders and is secretary of the Central Casualty Company of Columbus. This is an Ohio corporation, does business entirely within its home state, and in the six years since its founding the business has made enormous strides. Recent statistics issued by the Ohio State Insurance Department show that among the seventy-five companies writing health and accident premiums in Ohio, the Central Casualty Company of Columbus stands fourth in volume of business. Mr. Paddock is a native of Racine, Wisconsin. His father, J. O. Paddock, for many years was president Of the Time Insurance Company of Milwaukee. The name Paddock has been prominent in Southern Wisconsin since pioneer times. J. O. Paddock was a cousin of the late Capt. B. B. Paddock, who was also born in Southern Wisconsin, was one of the youngest officers on the Confederate side in the Civil war, and became the foremost citizen of Fort Worth, Texas. When he died recently he was given tributes as having been the man most insistently influential in the building of railroads and leaving the progress as a result of which Fort Worth became one of the largest and richest cities of the Southwest. B. B. Paddock, of Columbus, who has the same initials as the Texan citizen, was reared in Milwaukee, and was quite young when about 1893 he went to work for the Time Insurance Company of Milwaukee, of which his father was president. After several years with that company he became associated with the Continental Casualty Company in Chicago. In the latter part of 1917 he came to Columbus, and the Central Casualty Company was organized in December of that year and started writing business in January, 1918. In six years time its premium collections have run to an average of $15,000 a month. The company has agencies in practically every section of Ohio and the management of the company throughout has been such as to command the respect as well as patronage of the public and it has been on the basis 'of service that the company has reached its present high place among its competitors in Ohio. THE COLUMBUS CITIZEN was established March 1, 1899, by George W. Dun, with George Smart as editor. On July 6, 1904, the Columbus Citizen was purchased by the then Scripps-McRae League, and is now one of more than a score of daily newspapers in fourteen states controlled and operated by the present Scripps-Howard ownership. Other papers besides the Columbus Citizen in the same group in Ohio are the Cincinnati Post, the Cleveland Press, the Toledo News-Bee, the Akron Press and the Youngstown Telegram. The Columbus Citizen when it was taken over by the Scripps-McRae interests became one of the most progressive papers in the capital city, and it was the first paper in Columbus to issue a ,noon edition, a baseball edition or a night edition. The Citizen now has a circulation of 77,000 daily, and has upwards of 200 employes on its pay roll. The Citizen occupied its new building in 1910, but the growth and improvement surpassed expectations and the building has been greatly enlarged and remodeled since then. The editor of the Citizen at the time of the purchase by the Scripps-McRae League was E. E. Cook, who continued to serve in that capacity until April 28, 1923, when he became editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard Ohio group and was succeeded by Howard P. Woodbury on the Citizen. Mr. Woodbury is a son of a venerable Columbus attorney, Benjamin Woodbury. He 'is a graduate of Ohio State University with the class of 1908. While a student in the university he handled the university news as reporter for the Citizen, and since graduation has worked in almost every phase of editorial work in the newspaper publication. The Columbus Citizen has been an organ of great influence in Columbus. Its policy has been independent, but not neutral, and it is an unusually successful example of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. JOHN A. DEVICTOR. One of the youngest members of the Columbus bar, John A. DeVictor has the qualifications that promise a brilliant career, and he engaged in active practice with, somewhat more of the practical experience than the average young attorney, since he had been dependent upon his own contrivance to get him through school and admitted to the bar. Mr. DeVictor was born in 1898. at Pettorano Sul Gizio, Province of Aquila, Italy. When he was ten years old, in 1908, the family came to America. At that time none of them spoke English. After a few months in Norwich, Connecticut, they came to Columbus, Ohio, where the DeVictors have since made their home. John A. DeVictor has known the responsibility of work ever since he came to Columbus. He was earning his own living while attending the public schools, and after the grammar school he entered the Grandview High School, 'where he was graduated in 1917. He then entered as a special student the Ohio State University at Columbus, began his law studies there, and finished them under Judge Gusweiler in Cincinnati. Mr. DeVictor was admitted to the bar in the latter part of 1922, and in January, 1923, opened his office in the Outlook Building and in less than a year ,s time achieved a very gratifying practice. Without assistance from anyone he prepared himself for his profession, and his record is a most unusual one for a young man coming from a foreign country and having to master a new language and 142 - HISTORY OF OHIO customs in addition to earning his living. Mr. DeVictor is a member of the Sons of Italy, the Piave Club, the Dante Society, the St. Nicholas Society, and the Marble Cliff Social Club. GLENN L. MYERS, secretary and treasurer of the State Board of Embalming Examiners of Ohio, has had a successful career made noteworthy by the obstacles he has overcome and the varied lines his effort and industry have taken before concentrating on the success he now enjoys. Mr. Myers was born June 19, 1887, on a farm in Madison County, Ohio, son of Charles F. and Minnie M. (Connell) Myers, He had to go to work and assist the little family when he was only ten years of age. He made the best use of his limited opportunities in the public schools of Madison County. Later he attended the London High School. His recollections include several years of ,the hard routine of a farm worker. When he was fifteen years of age he went to work as a section hand on a railroad. Mr. Myers came to Columbus in the fall of 1905 when he was eighteen years of age. Here he entered the employ of the Ohio Malleable Iron Works, acquiring the trade of iron moulder. Later he was transferred to the plant of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, owners of the Ohio Malleable Iron Works. With the Jeffrey Company he went to work on the bench as a moulder and later was promoted to foreman of the moulding department. In that capacity he was earning a good salary and with promotion ahead of him, but he decided to give up his position and fit himself for another line of work. Therefore, in the fall of 1910 he became an employe of the Pletcher-Brown Company, undertakers and funeral directors at Columbus, for the purpose of learning undertaking and embalming. Within a years time he was a member of the firm and its chief embalmer. Later he and Mr. Brown of this firm organized the Brown-Myers Company, undertakers. From this partnership Mr. Myers resigned February 1, 1916, to establish a business of his own, at first in connection with the late Harold B. Owens. He is now sole proprietor of one of the largest and best equipped funeral and undertaking establishments in the city. His first location was on West Goodale Street, but within two months he took a ninety-nine year lease on the adjoining property at 23 West Goodale. He has built and rebuilt on this property and has made a business notable for its service. He is thoroughly popular with all classes of people, and his personality and character have had much to do with his success in life. Besides his city home in Columbus he owns a country home at Mount Sterling, where he takes care of his widowed mother, as he has done since early boyhood. He also has a fishing home on a lake and indulges in fishing as one of his chief diversions. He is also one of the enthusiastic home gardeners of Columbus. Mr. Myers was appointed a member of the State Board of Embalming Examiners of Ohio in June, 1922, by Hon. Harry T. Davis, governor. On October 25th of the same year he was made secretary and treasurer of the board. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Khorassan, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Elks, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Sons of Veterans, Caledonian Society, Protected Home Circle, Loyal Order of the Golden Heart of the World, Eagles, Court of Honor, Maccabees, and is a member of the Columbus Automobile Club and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Ruth M. Baker of Columbus, and they have one son, Glenn W. Myers, and an adopted daughter, Charlotte Myers. JOHN S. SHETLER. With an honorable military and civil record behind him, John S. Shetler of Columbus is a member of the unit of solid and responsible business men of this city and is secretary-treasurer of the Master Plumbers, Association. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the National Guards and served with that rank overseas during the World war. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1885, a son of Alonzo A. and Mary Alice (Agler) Shetler, the former of whom died January 1, 1923, but the latter is still living. The father, who was widely known as Colonel Shetler, an honorary title, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and came to Columbus in 1888. He was active in politics, and became a prominent figure as one of the leading democrats of Ohio, and for many years was legislative agent for large interests in Columbus. For many years he held a position of influence in his community and was universally popular. Growing to manhood at Columbus, John S. Shetler attended its grade ahd high schools and the Ohio State University, where he specialized on engineering. For twenty years or more Colonel Shelter has been active in the affairs of the Ohio National Guards, in which he enlisted as a private. He was promoted through every grade up to that of lieutenant colonel, and was attached to the staff of the adjutant general of Ohio for fourteen years, and was quartermaster general of the National Guards under Governors Harmon, Willis and Cox. At the time of this country,s entrance into the World war he had been for some time division quartermaster of the Ohio State troops. In the spring of 1917 he was assigned to duty as division quartermaster of the Thirty-seventh Division, United States Army, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and went overseas with that division, leaving June 13, 1918. He served with his division on the various battlefronts of France, extending from the Voges Mountains to the English Channel, and into Belgium, where his division was located when the war terminated. Colonel Shetler returned to this country March 25, 1919, and was honorably discharged April 8 of that year. On April 9, 1919, he went back into the Ohio National Guards with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was honored with a citation from General Pershing for excellent and meritorius service in the war as quartermaster, and also a letter of commendation from General Rogers, chief quartermaster of the American Expeditionary Forces. Colonel Shetler married Elizabeth Stofer of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Betty Jeanne, who was born in 1923. They have a beautiful home in Bexley, which is built in the colonial style. Colonel Shetler is a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite, Elk, American Legion, and Officer of Great Wars. E. PHILIP GUSTAFSON entered the insurance business when a youth, and his work has brought him an increasing degree of responsibility and during the past half-dozen years he has become widely known over central Ohio as manager of the local department of the American National Fire Insurance Company, with headquarters at Columbus. Mr. Gustafson was born at Marinette in Northern Wisconsin in 1888. His father for many years was connected with the timber and lumber industry around Marinette. Mr. Gustafson was reared in Marinette, was educated in the local schools, and in 1906 at the age of eighteen began acquiring his practical knowledge of the insurance business. The subsequent years have greatly added to his equipment and training for this profession. For several years he was special agent for the Fidelity and Casualty Company in New York, traveling through HISTORY OF OHIO - 143 several of the midwest and western states as far as Colorado. Mr. Gustafson was called to Columbus in the latter part of 1917 to become manager of the local department of the American National Fire Insurance Company. This company is controlled and owned by local capitalists, Gen. Chauncey B. Baker being chairman of the board of directors. As manager, Mr. Gustafson has charge of all business in Columbus and Franklin counties. The company insures both automobiles, city and farm property. Mr. Gustafson has built up a gratifying total of. business that is one of the chief sources of the company ,s strength in Ohio. At the same time he has constituted himself one of the important younger factors in the business and civic life of Columbus. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Automobile Club, the Young Business Men,s Club and the Civitan Club. At the state convention of the Civitan clubs of Ohio at Columbus in March, 1923, he was elected secretary of the state association. He is also a member of the Order of the Blue Goose and the National Association of Insurance Agents, and is now assistant secretary of the American National Fire Insurance Company of Columbus. Mr. Gustafson married Miss Marion Pink of Superior, Wisconsin. Their four sons are Philip and David (twins), Robert and Donald. JOSEPH H. TRAVIS is a veteran in the insurance business, and for many years has been identified with the Mutual. Benefit Health and Accident Association. His reputation as a business producer caused that association to assign him the State of Ohio as general agent, and during the last several years his home and headquarters have been in Columbus. He was born at Roseville, Warren County, Illinois, in 1872, son of M. C. and Mary E. (York) Travis. This is .a branch of the famous Travis family of Virginia and Tennessee. Perhaps the most noted Travis was the Texas patriot of the Texas war for independence, William B. Travis, one of the heroes of the Alamo. M. C. Travis was a native of Tennessee, and one of the first settlers of Burlington, Iowa, in 1838. In later years he removed to Warren County, Illinois, establishing his home at Roseville. He died in 1918 at the remarkable age of 103 years. Joseph H. Travis was reared and educated at Roseville, and acquired his early business training and experience in that town. In 1902 Mr. Travis went to Omaha, Nebraska, and for eighteen years was in that city a representative of the Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association. While there he made a wonderful record as a business producer and contributed a large volume to the total business of this old insurance company in that vicinity. It was in recognition of his success there that he was appointed general agent for the State of Ohio in 1921. Removing his home to that city, Mr. Travis has since repeated his past successes, and has accumulated a splendid business for the association in this state. He has an able staff of representa- tives, and in the management of the agency he is assisted by his son, Harry E. Travis. Mr. Travis married Miss Eva O. Johnson of Galesburg, Illinois. ROBERT T. MCCLURE, member of one of the leading real estate firms of Columbus, has become well known not only in business but in civic and political affairs in the capital city. His father is one of the prominent physicians of Columbus. Mr. McClure's grandfather was Robert B. McClure, representing the old Scotch-Irish family of McClures in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Robert B. McClure made the first thresher and cleaner in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and perhaps in the entire country. Its historic interest so appealed to Henry Ford that when this great industrial leader visited the old McClure homestead in Washington County in 1922 he had the machine restored and subsequently exhibited it at the Michigan State Fair. Henry Ford,s friendship with the family comes through his association with Dr. R. D. McClure, a brother of Robert T. McClure. Dr. Roy D. McClure is surgeon-in-chief of the Ford Hospital in Detroit, having taken this position at the personal request of Mr. Ford. Dr. Roy D. McClure was educated in Ohio State University, in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in European medical clinics, and is one of the best qualified surgeons in the country. Dr. J. A. McClure, father of Dr. Roy D. and Robert T. McClure, was. born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and married Ina H. Donaldson, also a native of the same county. They lived for some years in Greene County, Ohio, and for the past thirty years Dr. J. A. McClure has had a large general practice as a physician in Columbus. Robert T. McClure was born at Alpha in Greene County, Ohio, in 1884, and was about nine years of age when the family removed to Columbus. He finished his public school education here, attended the Bliss Business College and after reaching manhood he served ten years, from 1905 to 1915, as assistant city clerk of Columbus. Since then he has been active in business affairs, and since the fall of 1920 has been- secretary .and treasurer of the Thompson-McClure Company, a prominent real estate organization with offices in the Hartman Building. Mr. McClure became a candidate by petition of his friends for membership in the city council in 1922. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Real Estate Board, the Columbus Athletic Club and the Neil Avenue United Presbyterian Church. Mr. McClure married Miss R. Helen Dinsmore of Washington County, Pennsylvania. They have three children, Margaret Jane, Martha Louise and Robert Dinsmore. WILLIAM J. KING, proprietor of the W. J. King International Detective Agency at Columbus served his apprenticeship in the detective profession in the famous Scotland Yards at London, spent a number of years with the northwest mounted police, and his work for larger agencies, for state and national governments and as head of his own organization has taken him all over the world. He is regarded as one of the expert authorities on finger print identification. He was born at Cleveland in 1875. His great-grandfather William G. King came from Birkenhead, England in 1820 and for several years lived at Chillicothe, Ohio where he operated a wagon making shop. In 1831 he removed to Franklinton, now the west side of Columbus, and lived there until his death in 1857. His body lies in a country cemetery a few miles south of Columbus. It is said that the first Episcopal service in his community was held in his house, and out of that service grew a permanent church organization of that denomination, with which he was actively identified. His son Edward E. as a young man took up government land .in Mercer County, Illinois, where he lived until his death. The patent for that land, signed by Pres. James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce are now in the possession of William J. King. The latter ,s father Franklin King was born in Illinois and subsequently returned to Ohio where he married Anna Hall, of an old family 144 - HISTORY OF OHIO near Canal Winchester in Franklin County. Franklin King for many years was a merchant at Cleveland. William J. King spent most of his youth on a farm near Reese station. He attended local schools and at the age of nineteen responded to the desire of an uncle at Birkenhead, England to join him. He soon enrolled in a school at the famous Eton College near London, and while there became interested in the reputation of Scotland Yard police operations. That strong interest combined with certain natural qualifications and talent caused him to be accepted as an apprentice detective. He remained at the Scotland Yards, for about two years and on returning to America he was appointed a member of the celebrated northwest mounted police force. For five years he was with that organization in Western Canada and proved himself one of the most faithful of an organization whose courage and heroism has become accepted as matter of fact all over the world. One of the traditions of the force was that a man assigned a case was supposed to "go get his man" alive if possible. Of eleven such assignments Mr. King brought in ten prisoners. One after being followed far into the wilderness put up such a battle when overtaken that he was killed. In the meantime the wolves had killed six of Mr. King's dogs, that he felt that duty obliged him to bring back the body since his superiors were somewhat suspicious of the simple report that a quarry was killed. They wanted proof. Slaying a moose Mr. King wrapped the body in a skin and hauled it over a broken trail one hundred fifty miles to Niamo. This record has never been equalled in the annals of the northwest mounted. For twenty years after leaving the northwest mounted Mr. King was associated with two of the leading detective agencies of America and was detailed on many important cases involving some unprecedented experiences. He was assigned the duty of tracing an absconding bank cashier at Des Moines, Iowa. He was on the pursuit nine months, traveled twenty thousand miles, going to San Francisco, Victoria, Ilauka, Unalaska Island, and from the Bering Sea to Honolulu to Yokohoma and Hokadate Japan to Chemuipho in Korea, Vladivostock, Siberia, Tien Sing, China, Shanghi, Chin Man, Kiu Kiang and Hang Kow, the latter eight hundred miles inland from the Yangste River. The chase led him back to Shanghai, Amoy, Fu Chow, Canton, Hong Kong, Siagon, Bangkok, Siam, Singapore, and finally at Batavia on the island of Java he captured his man and returned him to Des Moines. During the World war Mr. King was commissioned by the British government in charge of the Bureau of Identification in France. It was in 1918 when Mr. King established his present agency, with offices in the Comstock Building at Columbus. It is coordinated with the government and other detective agencies. Many important criminal cases in Ohio have been handled by Mr. King. He was the chief detective investigating the killing of J. Scott Kershaw in a box car near Lima by Harold Nierengarten at the instance of accomplice in a gang of narcotic dealers. Another case was that of the burglary of the safe of Dewey Brothers at Blanches ter. The impress of one finger was left on the safe, and Mr. King developed that by a chemical process, submitted it to identification bureaus until it was found to correspond with the prints of a former criminal. After a two months, search a burglar was located in Canada while just on the point of disposing of some bonds he had acquired among other booty. Mr. King was the first detective to give a public demonstration of a branch of the science of deception of single finger prints. Recently his skill in this difficult art resulted in return to his home and friends of a young man whose memory had been completely distroyed when attacked by thugs.. After ten months of aimless wandering he dropped into the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association, where Mr. King was called upon to investigate his case. The only possible clue was a snapshot of a group of five soldier boys. A strong magnifying glass disclosed a finger print on one corner of the picture. Mr. King developed this, and after considerable delay a photographer was located, the names of the soldiers in the picture were given, and in that way the family of the young man at Columbus was discovered. Mr. King married on June 10, 1919, Miss Katharine DeVore a daughter of Frank and Sarah DeVore. Frank DeVore of Georgetown Ohio was born in Pleasant Township, Brown &linty, March 20, 1847. He was the son of Abner and Louise Maria (Gardner) DeVore, natives of Ohio, to which state his grandfather was a pioneer. The DeVore family has lived in the State of Ohio over 150 years. Mr. King has one daughter, Katharine DeVore King, born on September 11, 1923, thereby showing five generations on both sides of her parents as natives of Ohio. ROBERT S. McKAY has had a long and progressive experience in the paint business. He was a paint salesman and branch house manager for a number of years, has had his business headquarters at Columbus since 1911, and has recently become a president of the Dean & Barry Company, paint, manufacturers. Mr. McKay was born at Mount Vernon in Knox County, Ohio, August 15, 1871, son of William W. and Mary (Sandles) McKay. His boyhood was spent in his native village, where he attended the common and high schools, and his early business experience comprised several years of work in the lumber industry. In 1902 he became a traveling representative of the Marietta Paint & Color Company, manufacturers, at Marietta, Ohio. After representing the products of that company on the road for several years he established a branch house at Newark, Ohio, and managed it five or six years. In 1911, removing to Columbus, he opened a new branch house for the company, and remained as manager of the Columbus branch and vice president of the company until September, 1923. Having resigned he and associates bought the controlling interest in the Dean & Barry Company and is now executive head of a business that gives promise of being even more of a success than that which appended his previous successful career in the paint industry. Mr. McKay is a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Columbus Athletic Club and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married Miss Maud Jones and they have one son, George W. McKay. HENRY HOWE. Every citizen of Ohio is indebted to the monumental labors, scholarship and business enterprise of the late Henry Howe, author and publisher of Howe's historical collections of Ohio, a Mine of historical information that has enriched every local and state history published. It was the pioneer authority of work of the kind in Ohio. He was also publisher of similar collections for a number of other states. Henry Howe spent many years of his life in Cincinnati and his final years in Columbus, where his son, Frank H. Howe, now lives. Frank Howe was for some years associated with his father in the publishing business, and is now president of the Columbus Wire and Iron Works. Henry Howe was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 11, 1816. His father was Hezekiah HISTORY OF OHIO - 145 Howe, a publisher ih whose book store Henry often listened to Noah Webster, Jeremiah J. Day, Roger M. Sherman and other scholars and literary celebrities. He adopted his father's profession. When only twenty-three he furnished his first books, "Eminent Mechanics," published in 1839 and sold by subscription, a method by which nearly all his subsequent publications were sold. Soon afterward he canvassed the State of New York collecting materials and making drawings for "Historical Collections of New York," published in 1841, engravings for which were made by John W. Barber, who was his business partner in publication of state histories. Shortly afterward was issued historical collections in New Jersey. Following that he wrote " Historical Collections of Virginia,'' published in 1845. Early in 1846 Henry Howe made a journey through Ohio on a similar mission, and in 1847 brought out the first edition of his "Historical Collections of Ohio," it being the first complete general history of the state. It was received everywhere, by scholars and general readers alike, as a historical work of the first order. It was published in Cincinnati, where he had taken up his residence and where he continued to live for thirty years. His children were all born in that city. During that period he devoted himself to the writing and publishing of books. A third of a million books in his authorship went out to the public. His most ambitious project was "Our Whole Country," designed to give. a complete survey of the United States. It was five years in preparation, but was brought out in 1861 at an unfortunate time, when all the thoughts of the people were on the war. In 1878 Henry Howe returned to New Haven. In 1885 he came back to Ohio for the purpose of preparing a new edition of his history of the state. He greatly enlarged the original work, and first volume of the new edition was issued in 1889, and in 1891 complete work was published in three volumes. The expense of issuing this last edition was guaranteed by advance subscriptions given by several hundred prominent and distinguished Ohioans, the list being headed by three of his personal friends, Rutherford B. Hayes, Governor Hoadley and Judge Taft, father of William Howard Taft. The work was published at Columbus under the imprint of Henry Howe & Son, being entitled the "Centennial Edition of Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio." It had a wide sale as its merits richly deserved. Subsequently it was recognized by the state as the standard history through the purchase of plates and publication rights by the state government. This noble work gave Henry Howe an enduring fame as a historian. His home had been in Columbus from 1887, and he died there in 1893. His son, Frank H. Howe, was born in Cincinnati in 1856, and was educated in the public schools of that city and in Chickering Institute there. For several years after leaving school lie was a commercial traveler representing the lithograph publishing house. His home was at New Haven, Connecticut, during his father's second residence in that city. Returning to Ohio in 1887 he assisted his father in the preparation and publishing of the historical collections, a task that required his time for five years. He was junior member of the firm of Henry Howe & Son. After his father 's death Frank Howe carried out the .negotiations for the sale of the work to the state. For the past thirty years, beginning in 1894, Mr. Howe has been associated with the Columbus Wire and Iron Works, manufacturers of ornamental been president and treasurer of this important industry. A special honor bestowed upon his leadership in this branch of industry was conferred in 1923 when he was elected president of the National Association of Ornamental Iron and Bronze Manufacturers. He has been a director of this association for several years. Mr. Howe has been not less diligent in civic and philanthropic affairs at Columbus. From 1900 he had been secretary and in 1923 was elected president of the Family Service Society of Columbus, formerly known as the Associated Charities. The good this society has done and contihues to do is quite beyond the measure. Its staff, composed of efficient workers mostly college trained and social service, goes about the work of family rehabilitation with good and permanent results that are seen every day. For some years Mr. Howe has been a recognized leader in the important political and economic reform movements, most familiar under the name of Single Tax. He has served as president of the Ohio State Single Tax League, now known as the Ohio Site Value Taxation League, of which he is the present treasurer. Mr. Howe is prominent in Masonry, being past master and present chaplain of David N. Kinsman Lodge No. 617, Free and Accepted Masons, and has taken the York and Scottish Rite degrees and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Rotary Club and the Aladdin Country Club of Columbus. He married Miss Grace D. Clayton, a native of Johnstown, Ohio. ADOLF STELLHORN. In his effective administration as chief engineer of construction of the State Highway Department of Ohio, Mr. Stellhorn is eminently justifying his appointment to this important office, in which his executive headquarters are maintained in the Hartman Building, Fourth and Main streets, in the City of Columbus. Mr. Stellhorn was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1880, and lie was not yet one year old at the time if the family removal to Columbus, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. Here he attended the public schools and the Capital University, in which latter institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899. Later he here entered the Ohio State University, and in the same he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Civil Engineer. He gave initial service in the .engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and later held a position in the engineering department of the Standard Oil Company. He gave about four years of service in :he engineering department of the City of Columbus, and he next gave about eight and one-half years of important service as a civil engineer in the War Department of the United States. He was in this service on the Isthmus of Panama at the time when the nation entered the great World war, and he soon entered the United States Army. Upon his return ;o the United States he entered the engineers, training camp at Fort Leavenworth, where he eventually received commission as captain. Ih January, 1918, Captain Stellhorn arrived in France, and there was assigned command of the construction outfit of the one Hundred and Twenty-sixth United States Engneering Corps. In this capacity he had supervision of the construction of important military roads in Prance, and he eventually won promotion to the rank of major. He continued in service overseas or some time after the armistice brought the war to a close, and returned home in October, 1919. Subsequently Major Stellhorn initiated his service in the state Highway Department of Ohio, and in this con-section he had supervision of the construction of the Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati Highway. In July, 146 - HISTORY OF OHIO 1923, Major Stellhorn was appointed to his present responsible office, that of chief engineer of cohstruction in the State Highway Department, in which he had previously served as thief engineer of the Bridge Bureau. In his official capacity the major has charge of construction work and maintenance of thousands of miles of highways in Ohio. • He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Ohio Engineers Club. Major Stellhorn married Miss Clara Marvin of Findlay, Ohio, and they have four children: Mary, Frederick, Anne and Barbara. HERMAN BRAUN SONS AND COMPANY. For more than sixty years Herman Braun has conducted the reliable drug house of which he is still the head, developing it from small proportions into one of the leading concerns of its kind at Columbus, with a trade which reaches out into adjoining territory of a wide area. During sixty-seven years of his connection with the drug trade of the city his place of business was at 24 North High Street, where it was a landmark, but in the latter part of 1923 removal was made to the present quarters at 80 East Long Street. Associated with him in the Herman Braun Sons and Company are his sons, Carl L. and Herman Braun, Jr. Herman Braun was born at Landstuhl, near Kaisarslautern, Germany, May 31, 1840, but when he was nine years old he was brought to the United States by his parents. Soon after the arrival in this country the father died of cholera at Massillon, Ohio, and, subsequently, in accordance with the traditions of his connections, the lad was returned to Germany to be educated as a chemist and pharmacist. While a student at Heidelberg he had the advantage of being under the tutorship of the celebrated Professor Bunsen, inventor of the Bunsen burner, and with Professor Kirchhof of spectrum analyses. Upon the completion of his studies Herman Braun came back to the United States, and for a brief period was engaged in clerking at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio. Then, in 1857, he located permanently at Columbus, and entered the employ of the old drug house of Roberts & Samuel that had been established in 1830. This firm erected, in 1856, the building on High Street that for so long continued the business home of Mr. Braun. During the war of the '60s, while left in charge of affairs, Herman Braun displayed that foresight and resourcefulness which have always been so characteristic of him, and laid in large stores of oils, extracts and other staples before the sensational advance in price of these commodities. Because of the good judgment he had displayed in this and other matters, Mr. Braun was offered a partnership by Mr. Roberts, and the connection thus formed was continued until the death of Mr. Roberts in 1867, following which Philip Bruck entered the firm. With the election of Mr. Bruck, in 1887, to the office of mayor of Columbus, this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Braun took his two sons into the business, under the present name. At the same time of the admission of the sons, the business was expanded, a laboratory was secured at 56 East Lynn Street, and extracts and elixirs were produced in large quantities to meet the demands of the trade. This house began, from that year, to assume the proportions and character of a physician's supply concern, and carries everything, including instruments, demanded by the profession. Salesmen visit the physicians of Ohio and adjoining states. Always in the forefront of advanced ideas for public betterment, Mr. Braun has been the propelling force back of a number of worthwhile organizations. The Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association had its inception in his store, and his partner, Mr. Bruck, was its first secretary. Mr. Braun is a member of the National Association of Retail Druggists, and was one of the founders of the Humboldt Verein, an association composed of scientific students, before which body he frequently has lectured at the Sunday meetings. In fact, no movement of any importance has been launched that has not received his support, if he was convinced of its value to science or the community. His reminiscences of the changes and occurrences during the long period he has been in business at Columbus are interesting and valuable. Having broadened his naturally virile intellect through the study of higher mathematics, astronomy, as well as various public questions, at the age of eighty-four he shows no mental impairment, but is as deeply interested as ever in the subjects which have always received so much of his attention. He is one of the oldest members of the Independent Protestant Church. His wife, Louisa Hachtel, born at Columbus, died in 1900. They had three sons, Carl L., Herman, Jr., and Walter, the latter being a civil engineer. The other two, as above stated, are connected with the company, and learned the business as traveling salesmen, in this way becoming acquainted with the members of the medical profession throughout the trade territory of their house. Both are devoted to the business, in which their interests center, but Carl L. Braun also served for three terms as a member of the lower house of the Ohio State Assembly, to which office he was elected on the republican ticket. COLUMBUS GALLERY OF FINE ARTS. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts was established in 1878 by a group of men whose lives had become definitely fixed in the then small town of the middle West that was the capital of Ohio. They were not artists, but keen business men of that period. These founders, all now deceased, were Joseph R. Swan, Francis C. Sessions, Alfred Kelley, James A. Wilcox, William B. Hayden, William G. Deshler and Peletiah W. Huntington. Recently through the gift of Mr. Sessions the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts came into possession of the ground and the building in which the gallery now is located at Broad and Ninth streets. Through the generosity of the late Emerson McMillin and the assistance of the Columbus Art Association and public subscriptions it purchased the adjoining property on Broad Street and Washington Avenue and in this building the Columbus Art School, now conducted under the gallery direction, is located. Behind the institution of today stand forty-five years of splendid, unceasing effort. Today it has two fine buildings in which to carry on its work, one for the school and the other for the exhibits and lectures. The gallery up to the time of reorganization in January, 1923, restricted its activities to exhibitions and occasional lectures on art subjects. Since the reorganization the school has been more closely knit into the structure; a broader program for the whole public has been devised and with the administration of the gallery itself there has been framed a definite policy to pave the way toward a more general interest in art. The art school was founded by the Columbus Art Association in January, 1879, and was under the control of the executive board of the association until 1887. From 1887 to 1922 the school was conducted jointly by the executive board of the art association and the trustees of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. In January, 1923, at the reorganiza- HISTORY OF OHIO - 147 tion of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; the Columbus Art Association became extinct and its holdings were merged with those of the gallery. The school is now under the control of a school committee appointed by the trustees of the gallery. The school occupies a large residence and adjoining studios on the most beautiful residence street in the city. As an art school it is reasonably equipped and offers instruction in drawing, printing, sculpture, modeling, design, commercial illustrating, interior decorating and structural designing. Among its students have been: George Bellows, May E. Cooke, Dudley Fisher, Jr., Carl E. Howell, John E. Hussey, Mrs. W. A. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Louis St. Gaudens, Alice Schille, Ray Kinsman Waters, Harry J. Westerman and many others of whom Columbus is proud. William M. Hekking, director of the gallery and school and an instructor in the school, has earned some solid distinctions in the art world. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, being winner of the Hiram Gee Traveling Fellowship. His artistic education was continued through the Art Students, League of New York, the Howard Pyle Colony, the Academy Julien under Laurens, and Academie Colorassi, Paris. He was awarded the Wanamaker prize for black and white at Philadelphia in 1912 and the gold medal at Kansas City Art Institute in 1922; first prize. Columbus Art League, 1924. Mr. Hekking was an instructor in Syracuse University in 1911, acted as director of the School of Fine and Applied Arts at James Millikin University at Decatur, Illinois, from 1912 to 1915, and was assistant professor, department of architecture, at the University of Illinois in 1915-16. In 1916 he took the chair of professor of drawing, painting and history of art at the University of Kansas, remaining there until 1922, when he was called to his present duties with the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. FRANK T. RUTHERFORD is a Columbus business man whose experience for many years has been in the line of stock and bond broker. He has one of the oldest established firms in this line with offices in the Rowlands Building. Mr. Rutherford was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 20, 1864, and represents an Ohio family that has been here since earliest pioneer days. It was founded by his great-grandfather, who came to Ohio from Culpeper County in old Virginia. His grandfather, Archibald Rutherford, was born in Ohio in the year 1810. John S. Rutherford, father of Frank T., was born near W. Rushville, Ohio, in 1841, and gave three years of his early manhood to the service of the Union cause in the Civil war. In 1868 he moved from Fairfield County to Columbus, and in subsequent years became a well known building contractor. He died in 1879. Frank T. Rutherford was four years old. when the family settled at Columbus. He acquired a public school education in the capital city and as a youth learned telegraphy. For some years he was employed as a telegraph operator until he gave up that occupation to engage in the brokerage business. In 1913 his brother, Theodore, joined him and since then the business has been. Frank T. Rutherford and Company, stocks and bonds. Mr. Rutherford has his home at Bexley in Columbus, and has been a factor in the real estate development of that section of the city, and is seemingly interested in all civic movements. Some of his other interests are indicated by his membership in the East End Country Club, the Athletic. Club, the Golf Club and the Polo Club. He is a member of the State Historical and Archeological Society. Mr. Rutherford married Miss Luella Ruhl of Columbus. They have a family of eight living children. CHARLES AUBERT is a Columbus attorney at 39 West Broad Street who has had unusual opportunities and responsibilities in the legal profession. A great many fellow attorneys as well as men prominent in Ohio affairs have esteemed him as a student and scholar, one of the best informed men on economic and financial questions in the state. Mr. Aubert was born in Hamilton Township, Franklin County, Ohio, September 20, 1867. His grandfather, Claudius P. Aubert, was a native of Alsace Loraine and served as a drummer boy in Napoleon's army in the disastrous Russian campaign and -finally in the battle of Waterloo. In spite of the hardship and suffering of his early military career he lived to a ripe age and finally brought his family to America and located on the farm in Hamilton Township, Franklin County. His son, Charles Aubert, Sr., father of the Columbus attorney, was about eight years of age when brought to America and during his early manhood he acquired and developed what was known as the Aubert farm at Lockbourne. His wife was Elizabeth Reiselt, a native of Ohio, whose parents came from Bavaria, Germany. Charles Aubert, the attorney, attended district schools in Franklin County, and in 1887 graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada. One of "his schoolmates was Frank Willis, who subsequently was professor of law at the Ada institution and is now United States Senator from Ohio. From those school days, he dates an intimate friendship between Mr. Aubert and the senator. Mr. Aubert was engaged in teaching for twelve years, most of the time in the public schools, and from 1892 to 1895 was instructor of Latin in the Ohio Medical University of Columbus. He studied law with the well known Columbus firm of Donaldson & Tussing, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and immediately engaged in practice. During the memorable campaign of 1896 he made some speeches on the free silver question under the auspices of the State Executive Committee of the democratic party. His law practice has reached into all the courts. Before he was admitted to the bar and. afterwards his enthusiastic hobby was the study of political economy, particularly problems of finance. Out of the studies he became a politic writer on important issues, and achieved an authority due to his study of original sources of discussion including the debates in Congress and practically all of the voluminous financial reports made by the Government and other institutions. He was the author of many articles widely published, and for years he maintained an uninterrupted correspondence with several leading public men who looked to him for facts and arguments in their discussions. His studious research; eombined with- the demand of a large private practice and some business responsibilities, drew so heavily upon his unusually robust physique that in the end he had to curtail some of his interests and in recent years has given his time almost entirely to his law practice. Mr. Aubert married in 1897 Miss Mary Renner, being a daughter of John S. Renner, a farmer and land owner, late of Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. Aubert hay.e no children of their own, but they took into their home and reared Lillian and Audrey Swartz, after the death of their father, former Mayor Samuel J. Swartz of Columbus. DENNIS KELLY. The life record of Dennis Kelly, closed by death in November 1923, contains a long list of activities and services of a very vital and 148 - HISTORY OF OHIO important relationship with the city's business, social and civic affairs. For years he was one of the city's first men in business, finance and public spirited undertakings, yet he started life without any advantages beyond those of his inborn character and industry. He was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1849, and was an infant when his parents came to America, first settling at Vanceburg, Kentucky, and in 1856 at Columbus. Dennis Kelly's formal schooling ended when he was twelve years of age. He had attended St. Patrick's School in Columbus. From the school room he attended the equivalent of a University, a printing office, starting his apprenticeship under Samuel Bradford, first foreman of the Columbus Dispatch. He was a printer 's devil when the Dispatch was started, and continued the work of his trade until 1873. Then a youn man of twenty-four he engaged in the retail grocery business at Front and Maple streets, and ten years later in 1883 engaged in the wholesale grocery business, which he continued for over thirty years until 1914 when he retired to give his time to the management of his farm in Fairfield County, and his many real estate and other business connections in Columbus. Mr. Kelly assisted in organizing the Columbus Driving Park Company, the Crystal Ice Company, the Capital City Dairy Company, which is now the Capital City Products Company, the Iroquois Hotel Company, which managed and operated the Neil House, the Southern and Chittenden hotels; He was also one of the organizers and for many years a director and vice president of the National Bank of Commerce. He was a business man of broad gauge and liberal interests. He was one of the organizers of the Columbus Baseball Company and also of the Ohio Newsboys Association. He was one of the first well known business men to stand on the street corner and sell Columbus papers for charity, a practice he kept up •until advancing years compelled him to desist. He was a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club of Columbus, the Knights o Columbus and Elks. Dennis Kelly married in 1887 Miss Mary L. Pirrung of Columbus. She survives him. The only son of Dennis Kelly is Edmund P. Kelly, who was born in Columbus and was educated in the public schools of that city and in 1914 graduated from Ohio State University. IDA M. WILSON, M. D. Representing a prominent old Knox County family, Doctor Wilson for many years has practiced medicine with distinguished success at Columbus. She was graduated from Ohio State University in 189.6 and is one of the city's best known women physicians. During the Spanish-American war she was called to the hospital service at Charlotte, North Carolina, and during the World war she was sent to help combat the influenza epidemic at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and subsequently was transferred to the New York Foundling Hospital in New York City. One of her ancestors was Rev. Jacob Johnson, of Wallingford, Connecticut, a graduate of Yale College, and who became a prominent minister at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was there at the time of the Revolutionary war, and the famous Wyoming massacre and rendered valuable service in arranging an armistice with the British and Indians. His grandson, Wesley Johnson, as secretary of the Wyoming Historical Society became author of the most authoritative history. of the massacre. Henry C. Wilson, the father of Dr. Ida M., was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and died on his farm near Mount Vernon in Knox County, Ohio, in March, 1894.. He had spent many years of his life on that farm, which bordered an old Indian trail leading from the Ohio River to Lake Erie. Many fine specimens of arrows and other aboriginal implements were picked up on the farm and Henry C. Wilson became an interested student and an extensive collector. The H. C. Wilson collections in the Archaeological Society at. Columbus contains many hundred interesting specimens. One of his sons was the late Dr. Edwin F. Wilson, of Columbus, who was educated in Kenyon College and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1885. He held the chair of therapeutics and of clinical medicine and was on the staff of the Protestant Hospital and the Mount Carmel Hospital. He died at the age of forty-five having been held in the greatest esteem as a. teacher, physician, friend and public-spirited citizen. Miss Stella S. Wilson, a sister of Dr. Ida M., was for many years a successful teacher and head of the science department of the Central High School of Columbus. She retired in 1922. N. B. THORP has been a Columbus insurance man for twenty years, and conducts one of the leading general agencies in the city. He has been active in fraternal, social and civic affairs and is a native of Ohio. Mr. Thorp was born in Clinton County, September 10, 1869. His grandfather, Joshua Thorp, came from Petersburg, Virginia, in 1831, and was a pioneer settler in Wilson Township of Clinton County, Ohio. He served as a county official. His son, Edmund B. Thorp, was a teacher and attorney at Wilmington, the county seat of Clinton County, and died comparatively young. N. B. Thorp graduated from high school at the age of twenty, for twelve years .taught in the old home district school, the same school where his father had done most of his teaching. In 1901 he engaged in the insurance business and in 1904 removed to Columbus, and for twenty years has had his offices at 16 East Broad Street. He does a general insurance business, having state and general agencies, and a large volume of business throughout central Ohio. He has an office with five employes. Mr. Thorp is a Royal Arch and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is past patron of Crown Chapter of the Eastern Star. In the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he is a past grand and past patriot militant and is also a member of the Elks. He married Miss Gertrude A. Edmondson. Her father, Capt. John Edmondson, raised a company in 1861, became its captain and was in service throughout the Civil war. Mrs. Thorp was reared in Columbus, and is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy. They have two daughters, Norma Gertrude and Elizabeth. Norma is a student in the. Columbus School for Girls. J. C. MCINTYRE is one of the progressive younger business leaders of Columbus, a coal merchant at 332 West Broad Street, being secretary and treasurer of the J. C. McIntyre Coal Company. He was born at Columbus, November 29, 1889, son of Alexander and Nell (Campbell) McIntyre. His parents were born and married in Ireland and settled in Columbus about 1887. His father became an expert chain maker and for many: years was in the plant of the .American Chain Company. J. C. McIntyre was educated in Columbus, and about 1913 established the J. C. McIntyre Coal Company. This HISTORY OF OHIO - 149 is a business handling about 50,000 tons of fuel annually. It employs twenty-two men, fourteen motor trucks and has eleven ,head of the finest work horses in the city. Mr. McIntyre was the .originator of the first work horse parade, and at one of these parades recently some 600 horses were in line, people expressing much surprise that so many fine horses were yet used in Columbus. Mr. McIntyre was the leading spirit in the movement, but was warmly seconded by other users of horses for industrial purposes. Mr. McIntyre is vice president of the Arro Oil and Gas Company, with several filling stations in the city. He is vice president of the Mechlin Stone Company, owning stone quarries. In politics he is a democrat. Each year he has an exhibit of fine horses at the state fair. Mr. McIntyre married Miss Helen Runyan, of Columbus. Their three children are Jack, Margaret and Mary Jane. W. F. ASCHINGER is president of one of Columbus, most important industries, The Columbus Show Case Company, a business with which he started in 1897. Experience has made him familiar with all the practical business as well as technical side of show .case manufacture, and his individual promotions in the business have been matched with the rapid growth and expansion of the facilities of a 'concern, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Mr. Aschinger, who was born at Beaver in. Pike County, Ohio was two years of age when his parents located at dolumbus. He grew up in the capital city, attended the public schools, and was a youth when in 1897 he went to work in the plant of what is now The Columbus Show Case Company: This industry had been founded in 1895 by W. J. Deardorff. Mr. Deardorff was an expert in the wood working and cabinet making industry, and in addition he had always a kindly interest in his employes, particularly in young Aschinger, whom he encouraged in every way to master the show case making trade. Mr. Aschinger for several years was employed in the various technical and mechanical departments of the business was also made acquainted with the business offices, and eventually became a member of the firm. In 1914 he acquired most of the interests of Mr. Deardorff, becoming president and active head of the corporation. Mr. Deardoff then retired and has since lived in his old home in Iowa. The magnificent new plant now occupied by The Columbus Show Case Company was completed early in 1923. The building, located on West Fifth Avenue, west of the Olentangy River, is of steel and concrete construction, two stories high, with a frontage of 500 feet on Fifth Avenue. It is one of the modern type of factory buildings that present a handsome architectural appearance. In construction and arrangement it has carried out the most modern ideas in industrial 'building, great windows affording a flood of light; and the building itself is detached, without adjoining buildings, assuring always plenty of fresh air and light. Working conditions for employes are ideal, and arrangements permit not only perfect efficiency in operation, expeditious handling of each step in the manufacture, but also the advantage and welfare of the workers themselves. Many of the machines were specially made for the plant, and this is one of Ohio's industries that might profitably be studied for advanced lessons in shop practice. The company manufactures a complete line of all plate glass and wood frame floor eases, wood frame counter eases, bakery display cases for both wholesale and retail bakers, sectional unit wall cases, plate glass set-on-top cases and glass window display sets. These designs are carried in stock at all times in several different finishes and in many different lengths and it is the company's boast that they can equip the average store complete with display equipment which they carry in stock at all times. The company 's products are sold by leading wholesale and jobbing houses in every state in the Union and in some foreign countries. A large part of the production is devoted to manufacturing special advertising display cases in large quantities which are used to promote the sale of small articles in the retail stores. The company has served some of the largest organizations in the United States and in several instances have manufactured thousands of cases for one concern. The officers of the company are: Mr. Aschinger, president and managing executive; James M. Hengst, vice president; A. L. Odebrecht, secretary and treasurer; John. Aschinger and W. J. Deardorff, directors. A number of the expert workers have been with the organization for many years and the spirit of the working personnel has had much to do with the success and the prosperity of the business. JOHN T. HOGSETT is not only to be designated as one of the progressive young exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in Ohio, with his inde pendent activities staged on his model farm in Huron County, but he is also a leader in the advancing of farm interests throughout the Buckeye State, by virtue of his holding the office of state agriculturist, under the auspices of the Ohio State Department of Public Welfare, his executive headquarters being in the City of Columbus. Mr. Hogsett was born on the homestead farm of his parents near New Vienna, Highland County, Ohio, in the year 1890, and he is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of that county, his paternal great-grandfather having come from Virginia to Ohio in the year 1803 and having established his pioneer home on the site of the present thriving little city. of Hillsboro, the judicial center of Highland County. He whose name initiates this review is a son of John V. and Mary (Mosier) Hogsett, and his father has long been numbered among the substantial exponents of farm enterprise in Ohio. John T. Hogsett was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the farm, and he has had the good judgment to continue his loyal allegiance to the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing throughout his entire active career. In the public schools of his native county he continued his studies until his graduation from the high school at New Vienna, and in his independent farm enterprise he has been for the past several years owner of a fine farm one mile distant from New London, Huron County. Here he brings to bear the most modern of scientific methods and policies in agricultural enterprise and in the raising of fine types of livestock, and he has made his farm a veritable model. His vital and progressive policies in farm management brought to him merited recognition in June, 1923, when he assumed the office of state agriculturist. In this position he has executive supervision of the eighteen farms belonging to the state and operated for the production of food and dairy supplies utilized by the various state institutions—the penitentiary, the reform schools the various hospitals and other state institutions, the total number being twenty-three. Mr. Hogsett's administration covers everything pertaining to the agricultural, horticultural and dairy departments of these farms, one of the most notable of which is the State Prison farm