150 - HISTORY OF OHIO near London, which is maintained at the highest state of productiveness, and the dairy plant of which is one of the finest in the United States. There are fine dairy herds also in connection with the state institutions at Athens, Dayton, Toledo and Massillon. These herds have an aggregate of more than 1,600 head of cattle, including many of the finest type of registered stock. On the Dayton farm is Ohio's champion cow in the matter of butter production, a registered Holstein to which has been given the very ample name of Dayton Meta Pontiac Beets. This pure-bred Holstein cow has a record of thirty-eight pounds plus. In 1922 these Ohio State farms produced milk to the value of $400,000, and butter to the value of $50,000. Mr. Hogsett wedded Miss Pauline Held of New London, Huron County, and the one child of this union is a fine little son, John N. WILLIAM SUMNER SPIDLE has devoted a busy career of over forty years to educational work, the profession of law, real estate and public affairs at Massillon and in Stark County. He was born on a farm in Sugar Creek Township, Stark County, September 24, 1858. All his ancestors have been in Stark County more than a century. His grandfather, Abraham Spidle, was born in Pennsylvania, and as a youth moved to Stark County, where he married Elizabeth Putnam. Her father, John Putnam, was born in Pennsylvania, and as a pioneer of Sugar Creek Township took up a quarter of a section of land which he developed into a farm and on which he lived out his life. That farm was in the Putnam family for a century. John Spidle, father of William S. Spidle, was born in Sugar Creek Township, January 5, 1838, and served from the spring of 1864 as a Union soldier in Company K of the One Hundred and Sixty-third Ohio Infantry. He came out of the army a cripple, and for many years was engaged in merchandising at Wilmot, in Stark County, was postmaster, land appraiser and township assessor. He married Annetta Wyandt, who was born in 1840 and died in 1879. Her father, Henry Wyandt, was born in Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth Warner, and settled in Stark County just after the close of the War of 1812, about 1816. The Wyandts owned much of the land including the village of Wilmot, and on that old farm William S. Spidle spent his early youth. He attended common schools, was a student in Mount Union College two years, and took his law course in Ohio State University. Both before and after his admission to the bar he taught school a number of years. He was admitted to practice in 1886. He was elected before qualifying as a lawyer justice of the peace in Sugar Creek Township, being then the youngest man to hold such an office in the entire state. He practiced at Wilmot until 1896, removed to Massillon. In Massillon he served as justice of the peace four years and was a teacher in the city schools three years. He was census enumerator in 1890, 1900 and 1910, and clerk of the Board of Review two terms. In addition to his general law practice he became president of the Massillon Realty Company and attorney for the State Bank of Massillon. Mr. Spidle is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Protected Home Circle, the Massillon Chamber of Commerce. He has been a trustee of the First Methodist Church, and prominent in Sunday school work since early youth, being elected president of the Stark County Sunday School Association in 1915. Mr. Spidle married Miss Ada Foreman, who was born at Navarre, Stark County, daughter of Daniel and Mary A. (Welty) Foreman. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania. Her mother was born in Sugar Creek Township, Stark County, in 1837, and during her later years was the oldest surviving native of the township. Her father, Philip Welty, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and for that service received a grant of land in Stark County, that land having been continuously in the Welty ownership, for over a century. JOHN JOYCE. When John Joyce died at Columbus, January 31, 1908, he had lived more than seventy-seven years, and nearly sixty of these years in Columbus. His character and energy had produced a great mercantile institution and all the power and influence of an American merchant prince but the most impressive feature of his career was the constructive influence he exercised in submitting the commercial welfare of Columbus, and the example of integrity he put before his associates and which still continues as a vital source among the business men and citizens of today. John Joyce was born in County Kilkenny, Ire. land, July 14, 1830. He spent his early youth there, acquiring his education at Greigne. He came to America at the age of nineteen. On May 25, 1849, he arrived at Columbus and the next day was on the pay roll of Kilbourne & Jones, hardware merchants, as bookkeeper. His fidelity, ability and interest were such that within a few years he was a member of the firm. Subsequently he resigned from Kilbourne & Jones Company to serve four years as assistant postmaster of Columbus. In a commercial way his biggest achievement was one of the best known wholesale houses of the middle West. He engaged in the wholesale dry goo business in 1866 as a member of the firm of Miller Green & Joyce. Subsequently Mr. Miller withdre and on the death of Mr. Green in 1899, Mr. Joy remained as sole proprietor of the Green & Joyce Company. This company did as much as any other individual firm to enhance the prestige of Columbus as a great wholesale and distributing center in the middle West. Mr. Joyce was active in the manage. ment of this business until his death. He was also for a number of years vice president of the street railway company, was one of the organizers and directors of the Commercial National B and was vice president of the Citizens Telephone Company. His contemporaries as well as many younger business men of Columbus derived strength and confidence from his counsel and active cooperation as well as many financial assistance and this was an important source of the continuing memory of t friendly citizen, merchant and business man. The late Mr. Joyce was one of the organizers and until his death a member of the Columbus Club The estate he left was valued at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. When he built his home at 471 E Broad Street it was one of the largest and costliest in Ohio, containing forty rooms. During the Wor war it served as one of the patriotic headquarters in Columbus, the family donating it to the use of the Red Cross. In 1858 Mr. Joyce married Eliza L. Miller, a daughter of Thomas Miller, one of the pioneer citizens of Franklin County. Mrs. Joyce survived her husband, passing away May 28, 1911. Three children survive, William J. Joyce, Mrs. Mary Joyce Byrne and Mrs. James E. Hagerty. J. B. FRANCIS McDOWELL, talented organist and able and popular teacher of organ music, has played a large part in the development of musical art in the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio. He gave nearly twenty years of service as organist of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 151 Central Presbyterian Church of Columbus, with coincident administration as choir director, and in October, 1923, he resigned his position with this church to become organist and choir director of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of this city. Concerning this change, a local newspaper made the following statements: " The latter church has completed its program for developing the music of the church, has engaged a quartet choir of popular singers, and, with the addition of Professor McDowell, will make music a larger factor in the services. Professor McDowell is one of the best known organists in the city, and represents a family that has given more than half a century to musical culture and study in Columbus." Professor McDowell was born at Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, and is a son of the late B. M. McDowell, who was a teacher of music in the State of Ohio for forty-two years and who ever commanded high place in popular esteem, besides having had much of leadership in musical affairs. B. M. McDowell passed many years as a teacher of music at Cambridge, this state, and thereafter followed his profession in the City of Columbus, where he remained until his death. Prof. J. B. Francis McDowell was reared in the gracious atmosphere of music, was given the best of advantages for the development of his exceptional musical talent, and has found in the realm of music his life work and inspiration. It may be recalled that he was but four years old when he received from his father his first music lesson, and that at the age of eight years he did his initial concert and recital work, in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He passed several years in New York City, where he not only carried forward his musical studies but also served as a church organist. He there made a record of effective service as organist of Tremont Baptist Church. In 1903 Professor McDowell returned to Columbus, and in this city he has since continued his effective work as a teacher and organist. In his teaching he specializes in organ work, and is a recognized authority in theory, harmony and counterpoint. In Columbus he has aided in the development of noteworthy musical talent, a number of his former students having won fame both local and general. He has done a large amount of concert or recital work in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and high estimate has been placed upon his artistic interpretations. For several years he has given attention to the instructing of theater organists, in connection with the splendid development of the musical features of moving picture theaters of the highest grade. CHAUNCEY J. RANDALL. When in 1922 the Ohio Motor Bus Owners Association was formed, Mr. Randall, whose experience since early youth has been identified with railroading and other transportation interests, was engaged to fill the position of secretary. As the name indicates, this association is composed of owners and operators of motor busses and motor bus lines of transportation in Ohio. Though of comparatively recent origin and development, the interests represented by this association comprise enormous values in invested capital and have a significance for the present and future welfare and comfort of the public that might easily be underestimated. For several years past transportation has been in a process of revolution as much so as that occasioned by the advent of the steam railway nearly a century ago. While American railway mileage and equipment have, increased very slowly in the last two decades, the demands for transportation have grown enormously, and a large part of the traffic burdens have been shifted from the railway to the improved highways and the motor trucks and motor buses. That traffic promises even greater acceleration with the continued improvement of highways and the connecting up of the great transcontinental lines of good roads. Even now motor bus lines run on schedule for long distances, and transportation by motor truck is no longer confined to local and short hauls, but there have been numerous cases where household goods have been transported by motor truck 500 miles or more across the country. Chauncey J. Randall was born on a farm in Eagle Township in the hills of Vinton County, Ohio, in 1886, a son of William M. and Ruth (Graves) Randall. Though he grew up in a rugged rural district of Southern Ohio, his youthful ambition was for railroading, and soon after completing his common school education he left the farm and has been a resident of Columbus since 1904. For several years his railroad service was rendered with the traffic department of the Zanesville and Western, now a branch of the New York Central lines, the Hocking Valley Railway and the Pennsylvania System. His experience has brought him qualifications for that profession known as traffic engineer. For some years he was connected with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, having charge of the adjustment of railroad rates in the commission 's offices in Columbus. During the World war period when the railroads were under Government jurisdiction Mr. Randall had charge of the transportation department for the food administration of Ohio.. He is one of Columbus' popular citizens, and is active in Masonry, being a member of Westgate Lodge No. 623, Free and Accepted Masons, and is secretary of Westgate Royal Arch Chapter and recorder of the council. He married Miss Edna A. Price. Their two daughters are Jean and Edna Ruth. GEORGE J. KARB. Among living ex-mayors of the City of Columbus, George J. Karb has the distinction of having filled that office longer than any other man. Altogether his term of service as chief executive of the municipal government of Columbus, amounted to twelve years. He has been a Columbus business man forty years or more, and is president of the Central Ohio Oil Company. He was born in Columbus, February 15, 1858. He acquired a public school and business college education, and at the age of sixteen years sought and ob- tamed a position as clerk in a drug store, in Columbus, and remained with this employer for ten years. He was also an ambitious student and in due time had passed the required examination and had become a registered pharmacist. By the practice of rigid economy he managed to save a goodly portion of his meager earnings and was thereby enabled to establish himself in the drug business, in a store at the corner of Fifth and Main streets. Here he continued until 1898 in which year he disposed of the business and became treasurer and manager of the Central Ohio Oil Company. He founded this business, and is now its president. In twenty-five years the company has greatly expanded and broadened its service. It is now one of the largest distributors of oil, gasoline and similar products in Central Ohio. The company has built a large number of stations in Columbus and vicinity to supply automobiles with oil, gasoline and other supplies. These oil stations have frequently been admired and praised for their expression of good taste in modern architecture, so that instead of detracting from surrounding appearances they have actually improved the value of adjacent property. In all his political and business relations Mr. Karb has represented the quintessence of courtesy, and 152 - HISTORY OF OHIO while that is the expression of a natural and innate quality, it has been responsible in no small degree for his success. This quality is exemplified in all the subordinate employes of the Central Ohio Oil Company, so that courtesy and efficient service are found in every one of the stations of the company. Mr. Karb first entered politics as a member of the City Council from the old Fifth Ward. After that he was police commissioner, and in 1891 was first elected mayor for a term of two years, being reelected in 1893. In 1903 he was elected sheriff of Franklin County, holding that office two terms. In 1911 again the votes of his fellow citizens called him to the duties of Mayor, and in 1913 and 1915 he was reelected. Soon afterward the term of office of mayor was changed to four years, so that he served until 1920. He was mayor of the city throughout the period of the World war, and officially gave his earnest support to the splendid patriotic activities that distinguished Columbus among Ohio cities. Mr. Karb is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Elks, Redman, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. For a number of years he has been regarded as one of Columbus' ablest after dinner speakers as well as a convincing orator on the political platform. He married on January 10, 1884, Miss Kate M. Van Dine, of Columbus. JOHN E. RYDER, since early youth, has been identified with one organization, R. G. Dun & Company, and for a number of years has been chief clerk of the Columbus office of that nationwide mercantile credit organization. Mr. Ryder was born on a farm near Pickerington in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1880, but has lived in Columbus since 1886. He was educated in the public schools, and while still a school boy went to work in the Columbus office of R. G. Dun & Company. He has filled many successive positions leading up to his present responsibilities, and it is not too much to say that his intelligent work and long experience have contributed much to the reliability of the R. G. Dun & Company service as pertaining to Columbus and vicinity. Mr. Ryder's home is in the beautiful suburb of Grandview Heights, where many of the city 's most prominent and substantial men have their homes. He has been actively identified with the development and civic welfare of this splendid suburb. He was elected mayor in 1919, reelected in 1921 and again in 1923, and has been leader of the progressive administration that has brought many improvements to the village. He is also a member of the First Community Church of Grandview Heights. Mr. Ryder married Miss Lucy M. Rider. She was born in Hocking County, Ohio, but has lived most of her life in Columbus. They have one son, Jack D. Ryder. JOHN A. KELLEY. Though one of the younger men in the financial circles of Columbus, has achieved a place of well deserved prominence as vice president and manager of the bond department of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, one of the strongest financial institutions of Ohio. Mr. Kelley was born in New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, August 7, 1886, son of Hugh and Mary (Duffy) Kelley. His mother, Mary Duffy, was a daughter of Sophia (Tinker) Duffy. Sophia Tinker was a granddaughter of Maj. John White, who, accordingly, was the great-great-grandfather of the Columbus banker. Maj. John White served with the rank of major in the War of the Revolution and was an eye witness to the execution of Major Andre. He had a wide experience as a soldier both during and after the Revolutionary war, and was identified with the pioneer white settlement in Ohio at Marietta. John A. Kelley when about two years of age in 1888 was taken to Columbus, and was reared in the family home in this city. He was educated in public schools, and as a young man he bent special ability in organization work and civic enterprises. For some time he was manager of the Industrial Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, and secretary of the Manufacturers and Jobbers Association, an auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce. One of his very important efforts while in this position was the year and one-half he exerted his influence to establish the present College of Commerce of Ohio State University, to which since it was established has been added a department of journalism, so that it is now known as the College of Commerce and Journalism of the university. Prior to this Mr. Kelley had been for some time secretary of the Columbus Builders Exchange. In the presidential campaign of 1920 he was chairman of the ways and means committee of the State Republican Executive Committee which carried out such a notably successful campaign for President Harding in Ohio. He also acted as a member of the executive committee which built the great stadium of Ohio State University. Mr. Kelley had an important and responsible share in the war activities of Ohio. At Columbus he acted as secretary of the Liberty Loan committees on the first two Liberty Loan campaigns, and then became executive secretary of the Ohio War Savings Division of the Federal Reserve Bank, and in that capacity conducted the campaign for the war savings issues. Mr. Kelley came to the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank November, 1921, as vice president and manager of the bond department and foreign exchange. Perhaps no bank in recent years has grown more rapidly than the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank of Columbus. This growth has been due in part to the increasing prosperity of the original bank and also to the consolidation with it of a number of other banking institutions. At the present time besides the main bank there are eight branches in Columbus, and the bank as a whole is credited with resources of approximately $22,000,000, while the deposits aggregate nearly $20,000,000 and the capital stock is $1,500,000. Mr. Kelley married Miss Mary Josephine Nash of Columbus. Their four children are: Nash, Robert, Emily Jane and John Paul. He is a member of Athletic Club of Columbus, the Knights of Columbus, the Upper Arlington Golf Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. LEON C. HERRICK. When Governor Herrick called to the office of director of the department of state highways Leon C. Herrick, it was well known among technical men, contractors and others informed on the highway situation that a man of undisputed qualifications had been selected for this high responsibility. Mr. Herrick became director in January, 1921, and in the following two years he thoroughly, justified the wisdom of his selection by the thoroughness and technical ability with which he administered the enormous amount of detail in connection with an unprecedented volume of highway construction. Mr. Herrick retired from office of director of the Department of State Highways July 1, 1923, and immediately resumed his former position of consulting engineer on highway construction, with offices in Suite 715 at 16 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Herrick was born in Binghamton, New York, HISTORY OF OHIO - 153 and another branch of his ancestry links him with Hon. Myron T. Herrick, former governor of Ohio and now Ambassador to France. Mr. Herrick was educated in grammar and high schools and as a youth soon after leaving school took up engineering and by practical experience has risen to high position in that profession. In 1900 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, as engineer with the firm of Snow &.Barber, consulting engineers on hydraulic and sanitary systems. For three years he superintended the construction of the disposal plant at Mansfield. 'Since 1905 Mr. Herrick has specialized as an engineer on highway construction and had been doing work in that line for fifteen years before he was called to the office of director of the Department of State Highways. B. A. OGDEN state sales manager of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, Columbus, has been identified with some phase of the telephone industry for a period of thirty years. His experience covers field work and local exchange operations as well as the telephone supply manufacturing business. Mr. Ogden was born at Salina, Kansas, in 1878 and was a son of John A. and Mary J. (Snyder) Ogden. His mother is still living. John A. Ogden was a native of Ohio and became a pioneer settler of Kansas. He lived through the picturesque and thrilling history of that state 's early days, going West with his family in a covered wagon in the early '70s. He bought a section of virgin land from the old Kansas Pacific Railroad, adjoining what is now the rich and flourishing City of Salina. The land he purchased at about $3 an acre has sold in recent years at $450 an acre. However, in the early '80s he returned to the State of Ohio, settling with his family at Hillsboro, in Highland County. B. A. Ogden was reared in Hillsboro, attended the public schools and in 1893 when he was fifteen years of age, went to work at Hillsboro for the Bell Telephone Company. He has been with the Independent Telephone industry for twenty years and his experience has covered practically every phase of construction, maintenance and operation of independent companies, and he has also represented manufacturers of telephone equipment. For a time he was located at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and for a period was salesman for a battery concern. For about ten years he was superintendent of equipment for the Clinton County Telephone Company at Wilmington, Ohio. In 1917 Mr. Ogden came to Columbus as assistant manager of the office and plant of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company. This corporation, with a number of plants, is the largest manufacturer in the world of independent telephone equipment. Since December, 1923, Mr. Ogden has been manager of the Columbus branch of the company. He is a member of the Catholic Church. By his marriage to Helen B. Smith he has seven children, Elmer W., Albert J., Vernon, Marjorie, John, Katharine and James. GERR CATHCART, president of the Cathcart Companies, Commercial Engineers at Columbus, has been a man of great force and enterprise in business affairs in the capital city, and is also a recognized leader in public and political life. He was born in Toronto, Canada, son of Charles and Mary Cathcart, of pure Scotch ancestry. Reared and educated in Toronto, Gerry Cathcart came to Ohio in 1903, and since 1908 his home and business activities have been centered at Columbus. His chief business field has been investment securities, real estate and insurance. The Cathcart Companies, of which he is president, are leaders in their specialized field of commercial engineering, and under these auspices have been consummated a number of important transactions in business and industrial properties and in building projects. Mr. Cathcart is also resident vice president of the National Surety Company. Qualified by natural taste and character for leadership among men, he has enjoyed an increasing influence in republican party politics, and has served as chairman of both the County Advisory Committee and the City Executive Committee of that party in several campaigns. Also managed the Hiram W. Johnson for president campaign in the Twelfth District in 1924 primaries, and ran for delegate-at-large for State of Ohio in Johnson 's interest. While America was engaged in the World war he devoted a large part of his time to various war activities, being a four-minute speaker in behalf of the Liberty Loans and other war measures not only in Columbus but over Franklin County and other sections of Central Ohio. Mr. Cathcart is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Conventions, also a member of the Foreign Committee, and is a prominent member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Automobile Club, is a life member of the Buckeye Lake Yacht Club, and a member of the American Order of the Sons of St. George. His hobbies are yachting, hunting and fishing. He owns an island in Lake Muskoka in North Ontario, and each summer gratifies his enthusiasm and taste for outdoor life in the North woods and the waters, where he has a hunting and fishing lodge. HENRY E. MUSSELMAN, vice president and general manager of the Franklin Mortgage Company of Columbus, has won for himself deserved recognition as one of the younger business men whose initiative and energy, applied along progressive lines, have done so much to give Columbus prominent place among our leading industrial and commercial centers. Mr. Musselman is a native son of the Buckeye State, his birth having occurred in Phillipsburg, Montgomery County, May 5, 1878, a son of Henry Peter and Lydia (Spitler) Musselman, and through his maternal ancestry, is descended from one of the oldest families of the Miami Valley. His great-grandfather, John Spitler, was one of the earliest settlers in Montgomery County. He obtained from the Federal Government a large tract of land in the northwestern section of the county, located at what is now the Town of Phillipsburg, about the year 1804. He also became an extensive land owner in other sections of the county, including the land upon which the courthouse at Dayton now stands. John Spitler 's wife was the first white woman to cross the Ohio River, coming to the state from Virginia. The old homestead at Phillipsburg remained in the possession of their descendants until very recent years. The father of Lydia Spitler Musselman was also named John. This pioneer family, the Spitlers, was originally of the Dunkard faith, and was exceedingly progressive, and actively identified with the development and improvement of their community. Through long continued residence and active participation in the affairs incident to the early settlement of Western Ohio the family name has become synonymous with the history of the state. Henry E. Musselman, immediate subject of this review, was reared amidst the environment of his native village, attending the local school at Phillipsburg, and later becoming enrolled as a law student in the university at Valparaiso, Indiana, from which 154 - HISTORY OF OHIO he graduated in 1896. He at once began the practice of his chosen profession in Indianapolis, where he remained about four years, coming to Columbus in 1910. His law practice brought him into close association with men of prominence in financial affairs, and in 1916 he and a few associates organized the Franklin Mortgage Company, of which he is vice president and general manager. The Franklin Mortgage Company enjoys the prestige and distinction of being the first company of its kind to be established in Columbus, and is recognized as the pioneer in this particular field of finance. It now ranks as one of the substantial financial institutions of the city, and its steady growth reflects its capable and conservative management. In addition to his personal activities in connection with the management of the affairs of the Franklin Mortgage Company, Mr. Musselman is president of the Columbus Mortgage Association, and is also treasurer of the Mortgage Association of Ohio. He has made careful study of finance, and is regarded as an authority upon mortgage investment securities. On June 12, 1907, Mr. Musselman married Miss Belva McBride of Indianapolis, and they have two children: Jeanne and Joan. The family home has been maintained for a number of years at 1214 Cambridge Place, Marble Cliff, one of the fashionable residential suburbs of Columbus. Mr. Musselman takes that measure of active interest in community affairs consistent with good citizenship, and he is president of the Marble Cliff Improvement Association, also a member of the village council. In fraternal and social circles Mr. Musselman is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Mount Vernon Commandery, Knights Templar, and. a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member, and one of the trustees, of the Aladdin Country Club, a member of the Columbus Athletic Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. OTTO WALTER BRACH is a former member of the Legislature, is now chief of the division of labor statistics and employment in the department of industrial relations at Columbus. He possesses exceptional qualifications for this responsible post, having had a long training and experience in industrial life himself. Mr. Brach was born in Toledo, Ohio, April 4, 1881, son of Fred Brach. He attended the common schools until he was fourteen, when he started to learn the moulder 's trade. This trade he followed for a period of sixteen years, though in the meantime he had spent five years working in a public office as a clerk. In November, 1916, Mr. Brach was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature, and being reelected served during the sessions 1917-18 and 1919-20. At the close of the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly, Mr. Brach was made a member of the special committee on election laws, and his influence was impressed upon the present Ohio laws governing elections. On March 1, 1923, he was called by Governor Donahey to his present post. The division of labor statistics and employment has a staff of fourteen sessions in the office in the Ohio Building at Columbus, and his office also has supervision of the employment bureaus maintained in twelve cities of the state. Mr. Brach married in 1903 Miss Elizabeth Tilly, of Toledo. Their three children are Maybelle, Norman and Esther. ELBER J. SHOVER, secretary and manager of the Ohio Automotive Trade Association at Columbus, is a lawyer by training and has rendered notable legislative, legal and business service both to private corporations and to the state. Mr. Shover was born in Jackson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1885. When but a mere boy, his 'father, Ashbury F. Shover, took the family to Kansas, locating in Ness County, far out on the Western frontier where rattle raising and wheat growing were the principal industries. Here in the short grass country, Mr. Shover, and his twin brother, Elba A. Shover, were reared, practically growing up in the saddle with every experience connected with herding cattle on the open range. At that time he attended the local public schools, and in 1903 was graduated from the high school at Ness City. Soon after leaving high school at the age of eighteen Mr. Shover returned to his native county in Ohio. His home has been in Columbus since that time. He finished his schooling in a business college, and soon became a stenographer and bookkeeper for a real estate firm. Following that he was stenographer for a law firm, and at the same time studied law in the Young Men 's Christian Association night law school. Mr. Shover has been a qualified member of the Ohio and Columbus bar for some years. However, he has never practiced law as a general profession. His work for a number of years identified him with different corporations in the capacity that might be called corporation expert, as an authority of the details of organization and conduct of corporations. In 1909 he took an executive position with the San Pedro Development Company on the Isle of Pines. Mr. Shover was absent on that tropical island until 1916. In 1917 Mr. Shover accepted a commission to perform special work in the office of the Secretary of State of Ohio. Primarily, this work consisted of assembling, grouping, examining and indexing all of the corporate papers filed in the Secretary of State 's office by both domestic and foreign corporations since 1851. At that time the constitution of Ohio was amended providing for the forming of corporations under general laws instead of by special act of the Legislature and placed the same under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State. All corporate papers had previously been filed chronologically. For the first time each corporation was given a number and a file of its own. A very complete card index was installed covering these matters. On the completion of this important work in 1918, Mr. Shover became special counsel for the Ohio Good Roads Federation. This post he resigned in 1920 to become the secretary and manager of the Ohio Automotive Trade Association. This association has a state-wide membership of retailers, distributors, jobbers and manufacturers of all motor vehicles and automotive equipment in Ohio. The association represents in the aggregate one of the largest and most important industries in the state, involving immense sums of invested capital and vast employment of labor. Mr. Shover handles the affairs of this association with executive offices in the Majestic Building at Columbus. Legislation and the application of laws to the motor vehicle are among his principal duties, and he is recognized as the leader of the motor vehicle industry in those matters in Ohio. Associated with Mr. Shover's organization are the Ohio Association of Commercial Haulers and the Ohio Motor Bus Owners Association for which he acts in an advisory capacity. He married Miss Hazel Grace Stewart of Kingston, Ohio. Their four children are: Margaret, Robert, Jack and Kathryn Louise. The son, Jack, is a "Pinero," having been born on the Isle of Pines under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cuba. HISTORY OF OHIO155 SYLVESTER MORRILL SHERMAN, M. D. A faithful and continuous service in the medical profession for upwards of half a century constitutes a record of achievement worthy of all honor in the case of Dr. Sylvester M. Sherman, 244 North Twentieth Street, Columbus. Doctor Sherman is a native of Columbus, and comes of the same family stock as the Shermans of statesmanship and military fame. He is also a descendent of Roger Sherman, and there is a strong family resemblance to General Sherman in the venerable physician. Doctor Sherman was born December 23, 1842, in a house that stood on Fulton Street just off High Street in Columbus. His father, Levi H. Sherman, came to Columbus from the vicinity of Wheeling, Virginia, when a young man. He was a comb maker, but in 1849 started West with an overland party to California, and died on the Pacific Coast in 1850. His widow left with several children supported them by her work as a tailoress, and subsequently she married George Cookman and lived in Columbus until her death in 1910 at the age of ninety-two. One of her sisters, Sarah, is the widow of Col. G. S. Innis, and a daughter, Cynthia, is the widow of Oliver Marion. One son, Levi William Sherman, died at Columbus in 1910. Sylvester M. Sherman made the best of his early advantages in schools and taught country school for a time. He was studying law in 1864 when he enlisted for service in the Union army. Subsequently he read medicine and graduated in 1875 from the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati. For eight years after graduating he practiced at Garrett, Northern Indiana, but since 1883 has been at his work without interruption in Columbus and always in the same section of that city. His name is significant of some of the best ability in his vocation, and he has also achieved success as measured in a business way. He has served, as a director in varied banks, and is a director and secretary of the Home Building & Loan Association, an institution that has operated for twenty-five years and is one of the oldest and soundest institutions of the kind in Ohio. Doctor Sherman married Miss Lemira A. Shoemaker of Columbus, daughter of Christopher Shoemaker who was a pioneer brick .manufacturer of the city. Doctor and Mrs. Sherman had a long and congenial married companionship of forty-six years. She died in 1911. In 1915 Doctor Sherman married Miss Amanda J. Hance of Barnesville, Ohio. Doctor Sherman was the father of eleven children and it has been estimated that their total attendance in grammar schools amounted to eighty-seven years, thirty-four years in high school and thirty-one and a half years in college. Three of the sons became civil engineers, one a dentist and one a physician, while one daughter married a civil engineer and another a well known judge at Zanesville. Two daughters were college graduates. Rose Eva is the wife of Judge Isaac Humphrey, of Zanesville. Christopher E. Sherman, who was born in 1869, has had a distinguished career in, civil engineering work, with state and federal governments and for many years has been head of the civil engineering depart ment at Ohio State University. Edward C. Sherman is a doctor of dental surgery, practicing at Columbus. Oliver C. is a farmer in Franklin County. Cynthia Ellen is the wife of J. C. Howald, a farmer at Delaware, Ohio. Miss Grace is at home. John K. is a civil engineer, now maintenance of way engineer for a division of the Pennsylvania Railway, with headquarters at Fort Wayne, Indiana. James Garfield Sherman is a practicing physician at Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Sylvester M., Jr., also a civil engineer, is connected with the engineering force of the Illinois Central Railroad, handling the electrification work in Chicago, and is an ex-service man, having been a captain in the Three Hundred Thirty-first Artillery. Sarah Ruth is the wife of George R. Schoedinger, of Columbus. Lemira Ann is the wife of George P. Gascoigne, a civil engineer, now practicing as a consulting engineer at Cleveland, specializing in the installation of sewerage plants. Doctor Sherman has been an active Mason for forty years and is a charter member and past master of East Gate Lodge No. 603, and has attended Grand Lodge. He is a life member of Mount Vernon Commandery of the Knights Templar, belongs to Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shine. In former years he was also active in Odd Fellowship and helped organize a lodge at Gahanna. He has been active in all the medical organizations and is a former president of the State Eclectic Medical Association. He belongs to the General Practitioners Society, of which he has served as president, and for a time was a trustee of Grant Hospital. For more than twenty years he served as a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, his service thereon was made the subject of a vote of appreciation, adopted by the Columbus Academy of Medicine, as follows: "Resolved : That a vote of appreciation be extended by the Columbus Academy of Medicine to Dr. S. M. Sherman, for the uniform courtesy, the eminent fairness and the sound judgment which he has always manifested in his conduct of the affairs of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, from which he has just retired after twenty years of most acceptable service. Adopted June 5, 1922." LLOYD E. STURM for over forty years has been identified with railroad construction and contracting, and is president of the Sturm & Dillard Company at Columbus, one of the important and reputable firms of this kind in the middle west. Mr. Sturm is a native of Virginia, born in 1860, but his birthplace, Enterprise, Harrison County, was two years later placed within the boundaries of the new State of West Virginia. He represents one of the earliest families in the Monongahela Valley of what is now West Virginia. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the continental army during the war for independence and after that war moved from his native State of Maryland to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and in 1796 went over the mountains to what is now Harrison County, West Virginia. The family had been well known in that rich district for four or five generations. The parents of Lloyd E. Sturm were John F. and Harriet Virginia (Harrison) Sturm, and his father was also born in Harrison County, and was a contractor. Lloyd E. Sturm was educated in the common schools at Enterprise, and before completing his own education he took up teaching when seventeen years of age. He taught four terms of school in West Virginia. He finished his education in private schools at Shinnston, West Virginia. His first work on railroad construction was done in 1880 in Washington County, Ohio, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In 1884 he began contracting for himself in railroad construction. In the early years he helped construct the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburg Railroad, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio System, from Fairmont, West Virginia, to Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He also helped build the Ohio River Railroad, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio, from Wheeling to Kenova. Beginning in 1898, for some years he carried on construction work exclusively for the Norfolk & Western Railroad in 156 - HISTORY OF OHIO West Virginia and Ohio, but for the most part in Ohio. During 1902-1903-1904, he carried out construction contracts on the Big Sandy line of the Norfolk & Western in West Virginia. During the past twenty years Mr. Sturm has performed a number of construction contracts for the Southern Railway, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Baltimore & Ohio. His home has been in Columbus since 1905, and that city is the business headquarters of Sturm & Dillard Company of which he is president. Mr. Sturm is well known in business and social circles at Columbus, and is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club and the Socioto Country Club. He married at Portsmouth, Ohio, Nellie F. O'Connor. They have three daughters, Margaret H., Harriet, who is the wife of W. L. Avery, and Janet Eleanor. HERBERT SIMON HIRSHBERG, librarian of the Ohio State Library at Columbus, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, July 7, 1879, son of Simon and Eva (Warsehauer) Hirshberg. His experience in library work covers more than twenty years. He was graduated Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1900, and during 1902-03 was cataloguer in the Boston Public Library and was assistant in the New York State Library in 1904-05. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the New York State Library School in 1905. His next service was in the library of Congress, where he was assistant in the music division, in 1905-06. From 1906 to 1908 he was assistant and branch librarian in the Carnegie Library at Pittsburgh, and going to the Cleveland Public Library was reference librarian from 1908 to 1914. In the meantime while at Cleveland, from 1909 to 1914, he was an instructor in the Western Reserve University Library School. In 1914 he became librarian of the Toledo Public Library, and in 1922 took up his present responsibilities with the Ohio State Library at Columbus. From June to October of 1918, he was camp librarian Oder the American Library Association at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago. After the war he also served as secretary of the Toledo Americanization Board. During 1917-18, he was president of the Ohio Library Association, and served previously in various capacities as a member of the executive' committee, member of council of American Library Association, president of the Grandview Heights Public Library Board. On June 16, 1910, he married Miss Blanche A. L. Lowe, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of the following children: Robert Lowe and Richard Lowe, born April 9, 1919, and Herbert Simon, Jr., born December 9, 1923. EDWARD E. SMITH, M. D., left a promising practice as a physician and surgeon in Columbus to become a medical officer in the World war. He tendered some distinctive and very interesting service both in home camps and overseas, was promoted to major, and still holds the rank of an active captain in the medical corps of the United States Army. Doctor Smith was born at Columbus, May 23, 1886, son of John H. and Philipina (Radel) Smith. He was reared in Columbus, attended the public schools there, is a graduate of the South High School, and studied medicine in the Starling-Ohio Medical College, now the medical school of Ohio State University. He was graduated in 1910 and in the same year began the work of his professional career. In March, 1917, before America declared war against Germany, Doctor Smith became a private in the Second Ohio Ambulance Company. In April he was commissioned a first lieutenant. On June 22d he was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis for three months of special training, and subsequently was assigned to service with the Sanitary troops of the Thirty-seventh Division at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. With this division late in June, 1918, he went overseas, and his active service at the front was with the One Hundred Forty-sixth Ambulance Company, One Hundred Twelfth Sanitary train of the Thirty-seventh Division. He was promoted to captain of this company after the Argonne offensive, and shortly after the armistice was promoted to major: Major Smith performed his first duties in France at Baccarat. From there his command was moved to the Argonne as part of the shock troops. Subsequently they went into the St. Mihiel offensive, and later were moved around to participate in the Ypres-Lis offensive in Belgium. They were on duty in Belgium when the armistice was signed. Major Smith remained in France until early in the spring 'of 1919. Returning home he was discharged at Camp Sherman, April 29, 1919, after twenty-five month of continuous duty in the army. Since then he has been commissioned a captain, active in the Medical Detachment, Quartermaster Corps, Thirty-seventh Division, attached to the Fifth Corps Area, stationed at Columbus. That is his present connection with the United States Army. Soon after his return from France Doctor Smith resumed private practice in Columbus. Though he had been away two years his high professional standing had not been forgotten, and he soon got back into a very busy career as a general practitioner in medicine and surgery. Doctor Smith is assistant surgeon in St. Clair Hospital and a member of the executive board of that institution. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine and the State and American Medical associations. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Order and Elks, and the American Legion. Doctor Smith married Miss Leantha Hellwig of Columbus. They have one daughter Nathalie Marie born in June, 1922. LOWELL FESS holds the office of secretary of the Ohio Retail Dry Goods Association, which is an integral part of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants—perhaps the strongest and most efficiently functioning state organization of retail business men to be found in the entire Union. In his executive capacity Mr. Fess maintains his headquarters in the City of Columbus, where the offices of the association are established at 175 South High Street. He is also assistant director of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants. Mr. Fess was born at Ada, Hardin County, Ohio, April 8, 1895, and is a son of Hon. Simeon Fess, Doctor of Laws, who is now a member of the United States Senate. Senator Fess, one of Ohio's distinguished sons, was born on a farm in Allen County, this state, December 11, 1861, a son of Henry and Barbara (Herring) Fess. In 1889 he was graduated in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, he having received in '1891 the degree of Master of Arts, and the year 1900 having recorded his reception of the degree of Doctor of Laws. At Ohio Northern University Doctor Fess held the chair of American history from 1889 to 1896, and from the latter year until 1896 he was there the executive head of the college of law. He was a graduate student and also a lecturer at the great University of Chicago in the period from 1902 to 1907, and then became president of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, where also he became president of its board of trustees. The Senator was vice president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1910, was the author of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 157 amendment creating the department of the state superintendent of public instruction, and in 1913 he was elected representative of the Sixth Ohio District in the United States Congress, his service in the House of Representatives having continued until his election to the United States Senate, of which he is a member at the time of this writing (1924). The Doctor is the author of various scientific, historical and political works, and from 1903 to 1906 was editor of " World 's Events," a leading American periodical. He is a republican and lie and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In March, 1890, Doctor Fess married Miss Eva C. Thomas, of Rushville, Ohio, she having been a teacher of latin in the Ohio Northern University at the time when her husband was there professor of history. Lowell Fess received the best of preliminary educational advantages at Ada, Ohio, and during the period in which the family residence was maintained in the City of Chicago. His father, as previously noted, became president of Antioch College, and in this institution Lowell Fess continued his studies until his graduation, as a member of the class of 1915 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he was for two years a teacher in the public schools at East Liverpool, Ohio, and when the nation entered the World war he entered the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, where he received commission as first lieutenant. Thence he was transferred to Camp Sherman, at Columbus, Ohio, and finally he entered overseas service with the Eighty-third Division, with which he continued in service in France until the close of the war. He received his honorable discharge in February, 1919, and soon afterward he became private secretary to his father, who was then a member of Congress. He continued in the same capacity after his father was elected to the United States Senate, and after retaining the position of private secretary to his distinguished father for a period of five years, he resigned the position, in August, 1923, to assume the executive office of which he has since continued the efficient and popular incumbent, that of secretary of the Ohio Retail Dry Goods Association. While residing at the national capital, Mr. Fess there took a prominent part in various activities connected with the social and professional affairs of the national House and Senate. Thus it is to be noted that he served as speaker of the "Little Congress," the famous organization composed of the secretaries to the various members of the two bodies • of Congress. Mr..Fess holds loyally to the political faith of the republican party, and continues to take lively interest in governmental and economic affairs, the while he is proving a resourceful representative of the important business interests with which his official position identifies him. SCOTT KRAUSS has lived in Columbus practically all his life, is still a young man, and has achieved a noteworthy business success as. founder and proprietor of Scott Krauss Wholesale News Agency. For several years he has been prominently identified with the work of the Rotary Club in Columbus. Mr. Krauss was born in Mount Sterling, Ohio, in 1887, and a year later his parents removed to Columbus. He grew up in that city, attended the public schools, and was only fifteen .years of age when he began business for himself with a tobacco and cigar and news stand at High and Russel streets. He started there in 1902 and in four years had developed the business to such successful proportions that it had assumed the character of a wholesale news distributing agency. Since then it has been known as Scott Krauss News Agency. Mr. Krauss' contract with publishers makes this the distributing agency for Columbus and Central Ohio of all the leading magazines and periodical publications of America, and a large number of newspapers. He supplies about 250 retail dealers in Columbus and 12J outside the city. As an active member of the Rotary Club of Columbus, Mr. Krauss served as chairman of the Rotary Committee on Christmas seals, and directed the campaign which in December, 1922, resulted in $17,000 worth of seals being sold in Columbus. This has been a regular feature of the Rotary Club work at Columbus since 1918. The sale of Christmas seals as a means of raising funds for the campaign against tuberculosis was started about fifteen years ago, and the annual volume of sales has steadily increased until it is now approximately half a billion each season. Mr. Krauss is also a prominent figure in local Masonic affairs. He is past monarch of Achbar Grotto, Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, and one of the active leaders who have made the local Grotto of nation-wide fame through its prize-winning patrol and drum corps. MAURICE V. KESSLER was a field artillery officer during most of the World war and now holds a commission as a captain in the Army Reserve corps. He has been successfully identified with the practice of law in Columbus for the past ten years. He was born near Sugar Grove, in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1882, son of John J. and Mary A. (Mulligan) Kessler, the former deceased and .the latter still living. His father was a farmer, and Maurice V. had a farm as his early environment. About the year 1890 the family moved to Lancaster, where he supplemented his early advantages in the district schools by attending St. Mary 's Parochial High School. He graduated from that high school, and studied law in the famous Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee. This school in three quarters of a century has accumulated a long list of distinguished lawyer graduates, many of whom became eminent at the bar and in . the service of their country. Mr. Kessler was graduated at Cumberland in 1913, and in 1914 began the practice of his profession at Columbus. He makes his home with his mother in that city. He has a general practice, and is a member of the Franklin County, the Ohio State and the American Bar associations. Fraternally he is affiliated with Sigma Alpha Epsilon, National Fraternity, the Elks, and the Knights of Columbus. He is also a member of the United States Field Artillery Association and of the Society of American Military Engineers. He entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, August 27, 1917. On November 27, 1917, he was commissioned second lieutenant of field artillery, and was transferred to Camp Funston, Kansas, as a member of the. Three Hundred and Forty-second Field Artillery of the Eighty-ninth Division. He remained on duty at Camp Funston with the Three Hundred and Forty-second until April 28, 1918, during which time he was an instructor in field engineering in the Third Officers Training Camp at Camp Funston, and also acted as assistant to the judge advocate of the Eighty-ninth Division on the staff of Gen. Leonard Wood, commander of that division. On April 28, 1918, Lieutenant Kessler was transferred to Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, being given command of a , provisional training battery of field artillery. On July 3, 1918, he was sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, where he had command of a provisional training battery for thirty days, 158 - HISTORY OF OHIO being in the meantime promoted to the grade of first lieutenant. On August 4, 1918, he was transferred to Camp Lewis in the State of Washington, where he organized and commanded a battery in the Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, Thirteenth Field Artillery Brigade, Thirteenth Division. He was stationed at Camp Lewis when the armistice was signed, received his discharge there, and was commissioned a captain of field artillery in April, 1919. He holds this rank of captain of field artillery in the Army Reserve Corps. He has taken a very active interest in the American Legion since its organization, and is past commander of Fred Norton Post No. 141 at Columbus. He is also a member of the American Society of Military Engineers and of the United States Field Artillery Association. WALTER A. ALSDORF, executive secretary of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, and a former member of the Ohio State Senate, was born at Utica, Licking County, Ohio, in the year 1867, and he now maintains his residence and executive headquarters in the City of Columbus, with offices in the Hartman Build- ing. Mr. Alsdorf, a son of John R. and Ellen (Hollister) Alsdorf, acquired in the public schools his early education, which was supplemented by his attending both Oberlin College and Wooster College. As a young man he went to Sioux City, Iowa, where for some time he was associated with the Fullerton Lumber Company and where subsequently he was identified with construction work in the building of the large stock yards. Thereafter he was connected with railroad construction work in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. When the financial panic of 1893 brought depression in the West, Mr. Alsdorf went to New York City and became general manager for the Hudson River Stone & Supply Company. Later he was similarly associated with the New York Stone Company. In 1899 he became associated with his father in a general warehouse business with headquarters at Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio, and operating several warehouses at outside points, under the firm name of J. R. Alsdorf & Son. The business was continued successfully for a number of years. Mr. Alsdorf has been a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and in 1908, from Licking County, he was elected a member of the Ohio State Senate, in which he served one term and in which he made a record of loyal and effective effort to advance wise and constructive legislation. The original tax limitation law of Ohio was sponsored and advanced by him, and was known as the Alsdorf act. This act, passed in 1910, was the basis of the Smith law, passed in 1911. Senator Alsdorf was associated with State Treasurer Kramer in drafting the bill for the placing of all state institutions under the control of one board, and this bill, which he introduced and vigorously championed, was potent in the eventual creation of the State Board of Control, which has supervision of all state institutions. Senator Alsdorf was largely instrumental also in bringing about the legislation that led to the establishing of the present state tax commission of Ohio. During his term of office Senator Alsdorf was recognized as the personal representative of Governor Judson Harmon, in all matters of legislation coming before the Assembly. He was also the originator of the act, finally adopted, establishing the Agricultural Extension School, of the Ohio State University, and the magnitude attained by this department fully justifies the forethought and wisdom which brought it into existence. It is perhaps worthy of note that this was the only bill, introduced by a democratic member, which was adopted and passed at that session of the Legislature, thus clearly indicating the high esteem and respect accorded the author of the bill by his fellow members. In January, 1910, Mr. Alsdorf assumed the office of executive secretary of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, and of this position he has since continued the efficient and valued incumbent, his vigorous policies and careful methods having done much to advance the great service of this important organization. As measureably defining the functions and service of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, the following extracts, with minor modification, are taken from a circular issued from the offices of the federation: " The Ohio Good Roads Federation was organized and incorporated in 1909 as a public-welfare agency to study the highway problems of the state, and for the purpose of furthering highway betterment, promoting greater efficiency in highway transportation, and advancing the prosperity of the state. It is organized not for profit, and is non-partisan and non-commercial. In its activities and deliberations it participates in neither politics nor in the advocacy of the cause of any special interest as against the public good. It is an association of organizations, industries, citizens and officials engaged in the task of developing a highway transportation system for the state and for every county and township. Its officials are made up of many of Ohio 's most active community workers, civic and industrial leaders, and public-spirited citizens who are devoted to the promotion of the organization and its work, their only recompense being the gratitude of their communities and of the people of the state. Its members and supporters are found in every county of the state—civic, agricultural, automotive and scientific organizations; citizens, officials, firms and industries representing every phase of life and activity in the state concerned in highway development. It is devoted to the cause of providing a good road from every farm in the state to its logical marketing place, from every town to its neighboring towns, as well as adequate highway communication between the larger industrial centers of the state. "Guided by no motive or purpose but to promote the public interest, representative of all classes, uniting all organizations and influences in a single purpose, impartial and unselfish in its activities and sincere in its efforts to inspire and help every community, the Ohio Good Roads Federation stands as the clearing house for good roads information and opinion, and the impelling force behind the good Toads movement of the state." Mr. Alsdorf is an enthusiast in the work of the splendid organization of which he is the secretary, and his name and service shall have prominent place in the history of highway improvements in the great state in which he was born and reared and to which his loyalty is one of appreciative order. He is a member of the executive committee of the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, and holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. In 1890, Senator Alsdorf married Francis Pollock, who died in New York, in 1898, leaving one daughter, now Mrs. Isabella Eichelberger, of Dayton, Ohio. In 1900, he married Marion Francis Lewis, of Perry County, Ohio. She died in 1910. Two children had been born to this union, Reed, who died in 1907, and Judson still at home. In 1914 was solemnized his marriage with Anna Hupfeldt, of Dayton, Ohio, and she died in 1915, leaving a daughter, Gertrude, now at home. In 1916 Sen- ator Alsdorf married Mrs. Louise S. Tatum, of Dayton, Ohio. The Alsdorf family home, maintained in Grandview, a residential section of the capital city, HISTORY OF OHIO - 159 is a handsome and commodious domicile, and is the center of social and hospitable refinement. GEORGE CHESTER HUNTER. Representing the fourth generation of a family that has been in southeastern Ohio since pioneer time, George Chester Hunter spent the early years of his life pioneering in the West, but for the past fourteen years has been a resident of Columbus. He is a man of varied and interesting experience and is at present superintendent of Washington Park. Mr. Hunter was born near Cumberland, Noble County, Ohio, in 1861. He is a son of John Steele and Mary (Barton) Hunter. In the little cemetery at Cumberland are buried his grandfather, James Hunter and his great-grandfather, Henry Hunter. Henry Hunter was a Scotchman, born in the north of Ireland and on coming to America first settled in New Jersey, later removed to Pennsylvania and from that state the family came to Southeastern Ohio. Their names as pioneers are identified with Noble and Guernsey counties. The Barton family, George C. Hunters' maternal ancestry, is also of pioneer stock in Ohio and is also of Scotch ancestry. Mary Barton was a daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Wallace) Barton. She was of Revolutionary ancestry. Her grandfather, William Wallace and her great-grandfather Moses Wallace were members of the Cumberland County Militia of Pennsylvania during the Revolution. They were descendants of the famous Scotch character, William Wallace. In 1865 when George Chester Hunter was four years of age, his father moved from Noble County to Logan County, establishing a home on a farm near Huntsville in McArthur Township. That was the environment of George C. Hunter during his youthful years. He attended school there and had a training in the industry on his fathers farm. In 1884 as a young man of twenty-three he went West, and spent about ten years in Southwest Nebraska, Northwest Kansas and Eastern Colorado. For several years he was a cowboy and range rider with some of the great cattle ranches operating in that section. Incidentally he also took up three claims in Cheyenne County, Kansas, in the extreme northwest corner of that state. He experienced the usual hardships of the pioneer settler and home maker. His crops repeatedly failed on account of drouths and other inclement elements, and he also suffered from the unprecedented financial depression of the late '80s and the early '90s. Mr. Hunter still has a farm in Cheyenne County, Kansas, but since he left there, remarkable changes have occurred. The land that the buffaloes grazed over when he first went there is now divided up into substantial farms with comfortable homes, the best of schools, and the population equals that found anywhere in the country in point of intelligence, in size and progressiveness. While the material conditions of farming there as elsewhere have remarkably proved, farming as a business is still a strenuous struggle and in an era of comparatively high prices, the farmer 's dollar is still relatively low in value. After returning from Kansas, Mr. Hunter was for a few years engaged in the oil business at Findlay, Ohio, operating in the great oil field around that city, and was also identified with the oil fields of Illinois. In 1910 he established his home in Columbus. As a park superintendent under city government, he has his home in Washington Park, and has direct charge of that as well as nearly fifty other parks and parkways in the city. While in the West, Mr. Hunter married Miss Rebecca Priscilla Woods. She had gone out there as a young school teacher. They were the first couple to take out a marriage license in Cheyenne County. An interesting family of nine children comprises the family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter. Their names are Vernon D., Leon W., Ruth M., Neil M. Hal B., Helen J., Dean D., Anna K., and Esther M., The family was on the roll of honor during the World war, four of the sons being in the military service of their country. Vernon D. went overseas with the shock troops of the Eighty-ninth Division. Leon was in the Aviation Department and Neil was in the secret service work in Washington, while Hal was with the Marines. Mrs. Hunter, who is a daughter of John H. and Marieanne (Gries) Woods, was born in Hancock County, Ohio, of a line of ancestry reaching back to Colonial times in our country 's history. Her great-grandmother, Catharine Graef, rendered effective and valuable service to the Revolutionary cause when, as a young woman, she served as a confidential and trusted messenger. Upon one occasion when carrying dispatches to General Washington, she was captured by British outposts, but by swallowing the thin paper upon which the message had been written, she struck one of her captors across the face with her riding whip, and putting spurs to her horse, swam a river and made her escape. R. L. WATSON has been a resident of Ohio forty years and for nearly thirty years has been in business at Columbus as manufacturer agent representing building materials and equipment. His business is now conducted under the title of R. L. Watson & Co. Mr. Watson was born in Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1863, son of Bartholomew and Mary C. (Smith) Watson. Both the Watson and Smith families were settled in Jefferson County in the Valley of Virginia in pioneer times. The maternal grandfather of R. L. Watson was John F. Smith. Of him it should be recalled that he was a member of the jury that tried John Brown at Old Charlestown, the county seat of Jefferson in what was then Virginia now West Virginia. This was after the capture of John Brown at Harper 's Ferry after the failure of his raid. The Watson home place, where R. L. Watson was born was a farm seven miles from Charlestown. He grew up there, attended public schools, and as a boy he had an ambition to be a salesman. In 1884 when he was twenty years of age he left home to realize that ambition, and going to Cincinnati went to work for his uncle James S. Smith, a dealer and contractor in tar roofing and pipe covering, and still a resident of that city. Following his experience and training under his uncle Mr. Watson for several years had a successful career as a salesman, most of the time on the road, handling contractors' supplies. For three years he traveled out of Cincinnati for the H. W. Johns Mandeville Company, manufacturers of asbestos products. Mr. Watson established his home in Columbus, August 5, 1895. In the same year he opened his office on the top floor of the Columbia Building, and his business headquarters have been at that location ever since. Mr. Watson has a knowledge of building materials based on an experience and study covering a period of forty years. After coming to Columbus he soon had a growing and a prosperous business in handling building materials and building specialties and his extended clientele has enabled him to secure the privileges of an extended territory from some of the largest companies engaged in the business in this country. Most of his clients are contractors and architects, and for a number of years he has exerted himself less in soliciting business than in practically attending to the volume of business awarded to him without competition and merely on his submission of 160 - HISTORY OF OHIO prices. Mr. Watson does a large business for Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta manufacturers and also handles some of the most approved types of building, equipment and builders hardware, such as are found in most of the high class office buildings. Mr. Watson has been an active member of the Columbus builders and traders exchange ever since he came to the city. He has been president of the organization and is still on the board of directors. On many occasions likewise he has exerted his influence effectively in behalf of some movements of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a most loyal member. Mr. Watson is affiliated with the Elks, and he became a member of the Home Guards Company organized under the auspices of the Elks and which was designated as one of the units in the State Home Guards during the World war period. Mr. Watson married Miss Mildred Van Schoyke from Alleghany County, New York. They have one daughter Jane Watson. KENNETH M. WHITEHEAD. In many of the early records of Lorain County, Ohio, in connection with substantial development and good citizenship, will be found the family names of Ingersoll and Nesbett. From this sturdy pioneer stock that practically founded civilization in Grafton Township, settling in the wilderness there in 1816, came one of Elyria’s well known business men and respected citizens, Kenneth M. Whitehead, bond salesman, representing the Union Mortgage company, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Whitehead was born at Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1888, the only child of James Murdoch and Harriet (Manville) Whitehead, the latter of whom was born at Elyria, Ohio, and the former at Brampton, Canada, where his people, of English and Scotch ancestry, were prominent all through the Province of Ontario. In early manhood he came to Ohio and in November, 1878, was married at Elyria to Miss Harriet Manville, a daughter of Jerome and Catherine (Nesbett) Manville. Dr. Jerome Manville was born near Waterbury, Connecticut. He was a pioneer druggist at Elyria, where he Was in business for many years. His wife, Catherine Nesbett, was born in Lorain County and was a daughter of Daniel and Harriet (Ingersoll) Nesbett, natives of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and pioneers in Grafton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Immediately after their marriage, the parents of Mr. Whitehead went to Chicago, Illinois, a city not yet entirely recovered from the devastation of the great conflagration that had almost wiped it out of existence. Mr. Whitehead was in the insurance business and he was sent to Chicago as adjuster for the Imperial & Northern Fire Insurance Company, an able man in his line of work, careful and trustworthy. His death occurred at Chicago, in February, 1890, after which his widow and son returned to Elyria, and her death occurred there in June, 1913. Kenneth M. Whitehead attended the public schools at Elyria and after leaving the high school he entered Culver Military Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1908. Subsequently, Mr. Whitehead joined the Ohio National Guard, as second lieutenant of Company B, Fifth Ohio Infantry, and at time of his honorable discharge, was first lieutenant. During the great flood that caused such destruction at Dayton, Lieutenant Whitehead was in command with his company and was active in the work of saving both lives and property. For a number of years Mr. Whitehead was in a general insurance business at Elyria, representing several old line companies, but in January, 1921, he retired from the insurance field and became associated with the Union Mortgage Company, stocks, bonds and investments, at Cleveland. His offices are at Elyria, in which city he is known as an able and upright business man. Mr. Whitehead was married on June 30, 1915, to Miss Anne Hammond, who was born at Dansville, New York, and is a daughter of James Morgan and Louise (Martin) Hammond, natives of Livingston County, New York, of old and well known families of that section. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead have two sons: Frederick I., who was born December 2, 1917, and Gardiner Hammond, who was born November 27, 1918. They are members of the First Congregational Church. Mr. Whitehead belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and in political sentiment is a republican. AUGUST FILLGROVE has been a resident of Ohio nearly seventy years, and for half a century was engaged in business as a mechanical worker and manufacturer. In his early life he lived in Southern Ohio, and since 1905 has been a resident of Lorain, where until recently he conducted a sheet metal business. He was born in Hanover, Germany, May 29, 1850, son of Carl and Henrietta (Reuper) Fillgrove. In 1853 the family came to America, living for a time in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Carl Fillgrove was a charcoal burner by trade. In 1856 he moved his family to Southern Ohio, locating at Ironton, where he became an employe in the rolling mills. He died at the age of sixty-eight and his widow passed away at Ironton in 1883. August Fillgrove secured most of his schooling after he was grown, having no opportunity to attend school when a boy. When he was thirteen years of age he went to work in a nail mill at Ironton. He was employed in this line for twelve years. In 1877 he and his brother Louis A. Fillgrove established a small plant and began the manufacture of dripping pans. This proved to be a prosperous industry of Ironton, and the brothers continued it for thirteen years. In 1905 Mr. Fillgrove moved to Lorain, buying a home at 124 Fifth Avenue, now 212 Twelfth Street, where he lives retired. He also built a large two-story business block, and engaged in plumbing and sheet metal work. He remained the active head of this business nail 1921 when he turned it over to his sons. Mr. Fillgrove is a talented musician and is widely known over the state in musical circles. He learned to play nearly every musical instrument while a boy at Ironton. For several years he was pipe organist of the Lutheran Church at Ironton and was a member of the orchestra there for twenty years, also a member of the old Yankee Band and of the Seventeenth Regiment Band of the Ohio National Guard. In 1878 Mr. Fillgrove married Miss Ernestine Horn, who was born at Ironton, daughter of Henry and Sophia Horn. Her parents were natives of Germany. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Fillgrove are: Ottille, wife of Arthur J. Broll of Lorain; Otto, of Columbus; Walter and Emery H., the two sons now in charge of the business of the Lorain Roofing and Plumbing Company. WILLIAM F. ELDRED for forty consecutive years has been identified with practically one line of business at Elyria, beginning as a small retail stationery store and by progressive steps developing into a wholesale paper and grocery business. Mr. Eldred was born at Cleveland, Ohio, December 2, 1864, son of Charles Murrey and Lucy A. (Bauder) Eldred. He represents a family that has been in Northern Ohio for more than a century. His HISTORY OF OHIO - 161 grandparents were Noah and Minerva (Murrey) Eldred. Noah Eldred, a native of Rome, New York, in company with his father, Moses, and other members of the family, left that state prior to 1812 and came West to Ohio. Ohio before the War of 1812 and even afterwards contained a very large Indian population and Indian hostilities were frequent in the western and northwestern sections, fear of the Indians constituting perhaps the chief handicap to rapid settlement and migration to this region. The Eldred family kept progressing in their pioneer homes in the period of trouble and have remained factors in Ohio ,s life ever since. The maternal grandparents of William F. Eldred were Charles and Anna (Eddy) Bauder, their daughter Lucy A. being a native of Utica, New York. After her birth the family came to Ohio by way of the Erie Canal to Cleveland. Charles Bauder purchased a tract of land extending from the public square to the lake in Cleveland. He was a furniture maker and undertaker and engaged in that business at Cleveland. The nearby swamps proved such a source of sickness to his family that he finally traded his land there for a horse and wagon and drove all the way back to Utica, New York. A few years later he returned, purchasing land on what is now Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, and engaged in business in that city for some years. He finally moved out to Erie Street in Cleveland and spent the rest of his life. Charles M. Eldred, son of Noah, was born at Murrey Ridge, Elyria, Ohio, and as a young man learned the carpenter ,s trade under a Mr. Brooks and became an expert in all manner of building and construction enterprises. For some time he was employed in the Pittsburg Car Shops and in 1865 moved to Elyria, where for many years he followed his trade. His services were always in demand where thorough workmanship was required and many of the better homes of his day were finished by him. Finally in 1884 with his son, William F., he bought the book and art store in Elyria and as an occupation for his reclining years he took charge of the picture framing department, while his son had the general management of the business. In this way Charles M. Eldred had congenial occupation until his final illness. He and his wife became the parents of six children, providing good home and school advantages for all who reached mature age. The oldest, Luella, died when fifty years of age. Charles died in childhood; the next in age is William F.; Florence, now deceased; Milton, a resident of Lorain, Ohio; and Fannie, who died in childhood. William F. Eldred was about a year old when his parents moved to Elyria. At the age of seventeen he began his mercantile life as clerk in a grocery store and later was bookkeeper for a hardware store. It was then, about 1884, that he became associated with his father in the book and art store enterprise. That business commanded his best energies and talent for a period of twenty-four years. During that time he laid a solid foundation of his business career. After the destruction of his store by fire, he accepted the opportunity to broaden his enterprise, establishing a wholesale stationery house at Elyria. This was eventually merged into a wholesale paper and grocery business. Mr. Eldred continued it as a partnership, his son-in-law, A. G. High- gate, being his partner until March, 1919, when they organized a stock company, known as the Eldred and Highgate Company, capitalized at $100,000. Mr.. Eldred is president of the company, W. C. Fowls, vice president, and A. G. Highgate, secretary and treasurer. The company has a reputation for an excelled service in grocery and paper supplies, and they supply the retail trade in their vicinity. The business occupies a two-story and basement building 50x90 feet. Mr. Eldred married in June, 1891, Eleanor Z. Eager, daughter of William B. and Mary (Bush) Eager. W. B. Eager, born in New York City. Mrs. Mary (Bush) Eager, born in New Haven, Connecticut. Both came to Ohio in childhood with their parents, who purchased land in Lorain County, over a century ago. Mrs. Eldred was born in the State of Ohio and is a natural born artist, flower fancier and gardener. They have one daughter, Marjorie E., the wife of Mr. A. G. Highgate, secretary and treasurer of the Eldred & Highgate Company, Inc. at Elyria. Mr. Eldred is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has served as a steward since 1913 and for about twenty years taught in the Sunday School and is interested in all public questions and civic movements. WILLIAM H. SMITH, of the Canton bar, of which he has been a member for a third of a century, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 30, 1864, and grew up on a farm there. When he was sixteen years of age his parents moved to Wellsville, Ohio, where he completed his high school education. In 1888 he graduated from Wooster University, and in 1890 was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court. In June, 1890, he came to Canton, where he has practised his profession ever since. He handles an important general practice, and has a number of business interests, being a director in and attorney for the Citizens Building & Loan Company. He was elected mayor of Canton in 1904, serving one term, and is a member of the Stark County Bar Association and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and belongs to the Brookside and Congress Lake Country clubs. Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Frease, a daughter of Judge Joseph Frease, one of the most distinguished jurists in the early history of Stark County. When Judge Frease was elected to the common pleas bench in 1867 he was succeeded in the law firm of Belden & Frease by a young attorney, William McKinley, who for a number of years practiced law in the courts presided over by Judge Frease. Judge Frease was a member of the Ohio bar from 1851 until his death in 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, Elizabeth F., Joseph F. and Eleanor R. LEWIS E. ELWOOD, vice president and general manager of the Farmers Fertilizer Company of Columbus, has been actively identified with the fertilizer business over a third of a century. The Farmers Fertilizer Company is one of the prominent industries that make Columbus an outstanding industrial city. The business is one that affords profitable employment to many persons. Its average total of manufactured fertilizers each year is approximately forty thousand tons. This large output is chiefly distributed in Ohio, but also in surrounding states, and is responsible for an enormous increase in the crops yield and quality of the fields and orchards of the state. Mr. Elwood was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut, was well educated, and has lived in Ohio since 1886. In 1890 he moved to Cleveland, and for thirty years was associated with the American Agricultural Chemical Company in that city. In 1917 he came to Columbus to assume the position of vice president and general manager of the Farmers Fertilizer Company. This company has widespread facilities for the manufacture of concentrated fertilizers in all the standard combinations of nitro- 162 - HISTORY OF OHIO gen, phosphate and potash. The company also manufacture large quantities of sulphuric acid, much of which is used in breaking up the phosphate rock as a preliminary process in manufacturing available phosphate for agricultural purposes. The Farmers Fertilizer Company is one of the essential units in the modern agricultural industry, and Mr. Elwood and other officials of the company have recognized the close relationship of their business to the general prosperity of the state and country. Mr. Elwood has cooperated with all agencies, including the county and state agricultural departments, the agricultural department of the Ohio State University and similar institutions and organizations. December 26, 1888, he married Anna Olmstead, a daughter of William H. and Charlotte (Olmstead) Olmstead, the father a native of Connecticut. They have one son, Spencer F. Elwood, who is associated with his father in business. Spencer Elwood married Cornelia A. Bast, a daughter of Lawrence and Flora (Gassman) Bast. The father is a resident of Columbus and a native of Indiana. The mother is a native of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Elwood have one daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born November 27, 1922. Lewis E. Elwood is a, republican and a member of the Congregational Church and of the Columbus Athletic Club. HON. GEORGE HOWARD CLARK, one of the associate judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, has been an active member of the Canton bar for thirty years. Judge Clark has been very successful in law practice, but cultivated few outside interests in business or politics, and never held an important office until he went on the bench. He was born at Canton October 18, 1872, son of James J. and Ada F. (Schlabaugh) Clark. As a boy at Canton he attended the public schools, and subsequently entered the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1894. He immediately returned to his native city and engaged in practice. For many years his reputation has been widely extended over Stark and adjoining counties. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio August 10, 1922, serving until January 1, 1923, and in the meantime was elected to the short term of the court. Judge Clark was for twenty-five years active in the republican party, and he served as state chairman in the 1920 campaign. He is a director and treasurer of the' Canton Public Library Association, and has been identified with that institution for twenty-five years.' He ie a member of the Canton Club, the Brookside Country Club and Congress Lake Club. August 15, 1900, he married Miss Harriette Crum, daughter of Levi H. and (Aralanta) Crum. Judge and Mrs. Clark have two sons, John J. and Tom C. Clark. E. J. MARCH, M. D. A physician and surgeon at Canton for thirty-five years, Doctor March has a reputation among the profession throughout the state as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. Doctor March was born at New Franklin, Ohio, January 24, 1858. He was educated in public schools, in Marysville College and for a time was engaged in teaching. Later he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1884. After four years of practice at Nashville Doctor March located at Canton in 1888, and throughout his practice has largely specialized in women,s diseases and obstetrics. His fellow members in the profession have frequently shown a disposition to honor him. He has served as president of the Stark County and District Medical societies, is a former vice president of the State Medical Association, and was a member of the Council for six years and has been a delegate to the American Medical Association. He is on the staff of one of Canton,s hospitals. Doctor March is a Mason, is a former member of the Canton Board of Education, and is treasurer of the Canton Mortgage Securities Company. He married Miss Irene Kappes, of Zanesville, Ohio. Doctor March is the father of two sons by a former marriage, Chandos H. and Thorald T. Their mother was Carrie E. (Hughes) March. MARTIN BRENNER has been a prominent business man of Massillon for many years, and is the present county treasurer of Stark County, with offices in the Courthouse at Canton. Mr. Brenner was horn at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1863. When he was twelve years of age he came with his parents to a farm in Stark County, Ohio, and grew to manhood there. He had only a country school education. Mr. Brenner at the age of twenty-five became clerk in a grocery store at Massillon. After a few years he acquired a partnership, and was a member of the firm fifteen years. While a merchant he began taking hand in local affairs, and was elected treasurer of the City of Massillon four consecutive terms. He was in that office eight years, and during that time he also served as treasurer of the Massillon School Board. When Mr. Coldren was elected county treasurer Mr. Brenner moved 'to Canton and served two years as deputy treasurer under him and four years under Ed S. Wilson. Then, in 1920, he was nominated and elected county treasurer, and in 1922 he led the county ticket for reelection. Mr. Brenner is a member of the Masonic Order and the Presbyterian Church, being a trustee of his home church. He has a number of financial interests, being director of the Peoples Building Loan Company of Massillon, director of the Union National Hank of Massillon, and was one of the incorporators of the Canton Bank and Trust Company, which he 'is serving as director. Mr. Brenner married Miss Ida Maewecht, of Delton, Ohio. Their children are Ralph F., Harold M. and Florence Martina. HON. ABRAM W. AGLER began practice as an attorney and member of the Stark County bar more than a quarter of a century ago. In 1922 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court, assuming the duties of the office January 1, 1923, as successor to Judge Robert H. Day, who was elevated to the supreme bench of the state. Judge Agler was born at Wilmot, Ohio, on the old Agler homestead, April 13, 1873. He is a son of Williams H. H. and Mary J. (Wilhelm) Agler. His people on both sides were Ohio pioneers. He is 'a descendant of William Agler, who came from Pennsylvania and took up Government land in Stark County in' 1814. The title to that old farm has gone through five generations, but never outside the family. He was a soldier during the War of 1812 under. Gen. William H. Harrison. His son, Peter Agler, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was young when the family moved to Stark County. George Agler, grandfather of Judge Agler, was born in 1808 in Pennsylvania. William H. H. Agler was born in the family homestead at Wilmot, Ohio, December 21, 1840, was a soldier for three years in the Union army in the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and was a substantial farmer. He died at the old home July 7, 1909. He married Mary Jane Wilhelm, who was born at HISTORY OF OHIO - 163 Wilmot, November 10, 1849, daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Gilbert) Wilhelm. Her maternal grandfather, Henry Gilbert, was a pioneer educator and gained great renown as an astronomer and mathematician. Abram Wilhelm Agler was born and spent his boyhood days on the old homestead farm. He attended the public school at Wilmot, and for three years, from 1891 to 1893, was a student in Mount Union College at Alliance. He is an alumnus of the Ohio State University, where he graduated from the law school in 1897. He was admitted to the bar in May of that year, and at once located at Canton. He was admitted to practice in the United States District Court in 1912. Judge Agler received a substantial law practice, but in 1908 was elected clerk of courts of Stark County and by reelection in 1910 served four years, until 1913. After that he gave his time to his practice until he went on the bench. From 1910 to the date of his resignation, to become a candidate for a judicial position, to which he was elected, he was active in the affairs of his party, and served as a member of the Republican Central and Executive Committee. He is a member of the County and Ohio Bar associations, and is affiliated with Canton Lodge No. 60, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Lily Lodge No. 362, Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans. On June 16, 1904, Judge Agler married Miss Lida M. Deal, daughter of John Deal, of Stark County. JOHN T. BLAKE has become one of the leaders of the Canton bar, being known as a hard working and ambitious lawyer, with an extensive experience both in the routine of his profession and in public affairs. Mr. Blake was born at Canton, July 7, 1877. He was educated in grammar and high schools in his native city, and for two years pursued the engineering course in the Ohio State University. On returning to Canton he took up the study of law, continued it in local offices for two or three years, and then entered the law department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated with the class of 1901. Mr. Blake since then has built up a large private practice at Canton. For six years he was city solicitor of Canton, Ohio. Mr. Blake is a democrat in politics and is a member of the Catholic Church. ROSS H. HURFORD is a native of Stark County, is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and for over twenty years has been identified with the official life of the county. His work has been in the courthouse at Canton, and he is the present efficient clerk of court, an office to which he brings long experience and thorough qualifications. He was born at Canton, February 22, 1882, and as a boy he attended the grammar and high schools of his native city. On August 2, 1898, while the Spanish-American war was in progress and when he was sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the regular army at Cleveland. He was assigned to duty with the Hospital Corps in the Dispensary at Montauk Point, where so many of the victims of disease were quartered. On October 18, 1898, he was given an honorable discharge at Fort Wingate, Mexico. Mr. Hurford is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans. From January, 1910 to 1917, Mr. Hurford was a clerk and part of the time deputy of the Criminal Court at Canton. He resigned in August, 1917. In 1920 he was elected to the office of clerk of courts of Stark County, and began his present official term in 1921. He was chosen on the republican ticket. Mr. Hurford is a thirty-seocnd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks, and the Methodist Church. On August 30, 1901, he married Miss Alma R. Eberly of Canton, Ohio, and they have one child, Mary Elizabeth. FRANK N. SWEITZER. For the past sixteen years Frank N. Sweitzer has been an active member of the Stark County bar. The qualities of a fine mind, the endowment of leadership and a steady and persevering industry have brought him well to the top of his profession, and he is known both as a lawyer and man of affairs. He was born it Marlboro, Stark County, in 1877, son of Jesse and Emily (Baum) Sweitzer. During his boyhood days at Marlboro he attended the grammar and high schools, and like many successful professional men he relied upon teaching as an experience preliminary to qualifying for the law. From 1901 to 1905 he was assistant principal of the Canton High School. During the summer terms of 1902 and 1904 he taught in Wooster University. In the meantime his higher education was being acquired in Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in the Illinois College of Law. Mr. Sweitzer was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1909, in 1913 was admitted to the United States District Court, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1917. He has rendered important public service as an attorney. From 1910 to 1913 he was a solicitor of Canton, was assistant prosecuting attorney of Stark County from 1913 to 1915, and from 1916 to 1918 held the office of county prosecuting attorney. He is a member of the Ohio State and Stark County Bar associations. In former years Mr. Sweitzer was a member of the Teachers Examining Boards of Canton and Stark County, and for six years was a member of the Ohio State Library Board. During the World war he was legal advisor to the Local Draft Boards of Stark County and took an active part in the various patriotic campaigns of that period. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 68, of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Moose, and in politics is a democrat. Mr. Sweitzer married Miss Alletha Mae Friedly, of Ada, Ohio. They have one daughter, Marylyn Irene. HARLEY L. STONEBURNER, secretary of the Lilley Building and Loan Company and president of the Columbus League of Building and Loan Associations, is an acknowledged authority in Ohio on everything connected with the practical work and the financial management of building and loan companies. The development of the essential principles of cooperative home building has nowhere proceeded with such satisfactory results as in Columbus. It has been estimated that over ninety per cent of the home building in the city has been accomplished through building and loan companies. Consequently the work and the position of Mr. Stoneburner is one of vital connection with a great and important industry. He was born at Portersville, in Perry County. Ohio, in 1885, son of Isaac. J. and Caroline (Smith) Stoneburner. His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Smith, was a pioneer of Perry County and a noted carriage maker in his day. The paternal grandfather, Peter Stoneburner, was of a Pennsylvania family and one of the first settlers in the district around Portersville, his farm being just over the line in Morgan County. Harley L. Stoneburner was educated in public schools at Portersville and subsequently attended the Ohio University. For eight and one-half years he was a teacher in Perry County. His last work in the school room was as superintendent of the school at Congo, a unit of the Corning Special School District 164 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Perry County. On leaving teaching Mr. Stone-burner went with the paymaster ,s department of the Sunday Creek Coal Company at Athens, Ohio, and leaving there in 1911 came to Columbus as an employe in the secretary and treasurer ,a department of M. C. Lilley & Company. Since July 1, 1915, Mr. Stoneburner has been secretary and manager of the Lilley Building and Loan Company. This is one of the largest of the many organizations of the kind in the city. Besides having active charge of the affairs of this one company, Mr. Stoneburner in November, 1922, was elected president of the Columbus League of Building and Loan Associations, comprising about eighteen of the individual organizations of that nature in the city and representing an aggregate capital and investment of about $65,000,000. Mr. Stoneburner is also chairman of the finance committee of the Ohio State League of Building and Loan Associations, and a member of its Publicity Committee. :In his present line of work he has found that supreme satisfaction derived from congenial employment and a knowledge that his business is at the very foundation of permanent prosperity and welfare, the corner stone of which is the building of homes for the people. Mr. Stoneburner in Masonry is affiliated with York Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Temple. Chapter Royal Arch Masons, York Council, Royal and Select Masters, Mount Vernon Commandery, Knights Templar and Scioto Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons. He is trustee of the Como Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He was president of the Men,s Bible Class of the church until the beginning of 1922. Mr. Stoneburner by marriage to Miss Esther Wooley has three. children, Nellie Mae, Neva Hannah and Harley L., Jr. JAMES HARVEY ROBERTSON. Through a period of over thirty years, without partnership association, Mr. Robertson has applied himself to the private practice of law at Canton, and has represented some of the ablest qualifications of his profession as one of the important elements in the orderly conduct of civic affairs and business. Mr. Robertson is an Ohioan of distinguished ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, John Robertson, was born in Scotland and settled in County Tyrone, Ireland. The grandfather of the Canton attorney was Denny Robertson, a son of William Robertson. Denny Robertson was born in County Tyrone, January 12, 1784. Six of his brothers came to America and became pioneers in several states. Denny Robertson arrived in this country in 1816, and after five years in Western Pennsylvania settled in Stark County, Ohio, where he lived until his death in February, 1829. He had accumulated about six hundred acres of land. He was a Presbyterian. His wife, Eleanor McConkey, also a native of County Tyrone, died in the same year as her husband. They left a family of eight children, their son James being only eight years of age at the time. James Robertson was born in Sandy Township of Stark County, September 22, 1821, and devoted his life to farming. He died in June, 1900. He was a fine type of citizen, liberal and tolerant in his beliefs and in his relations with his fellow men. He cast his first vote for Henry Clay for president, and was one of the original republican voters in Stark County. In the Civil war he enlisted in Company I of the One Hundred Sixty-second Ohio Infantry and served as a wagoner. James Robertson in 1847 married Margaret Sickafoose, youngest child of George and Margaret (Wagoner) Sickafoose, pioneers of Stark County. She was a descendant of Johann Jacob Zigenfuss, who came from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1751. Jacob Zigenfuss, grandfather of Margaret Robertson, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, a private in Capt. Daniel Good 's Third Company, First Battalion Northumberland County Militia, in 1871. The father of Mrs. James Robertson, George Sickafoose, was a soldier in the War of 1812, in service from September 11, 1812, to September 15, 1813, and participated in the defense of Fort Meigs. Margaret Robertson died in 1898. James Harvey Robertson, one of the large family of children of his parents, was born on his father,s farm in Sandy Township, Stark County, January 23, 1862. He attended the public schools near the old homestead, also a normal school, and for eight years was a teacher. He began the study of law under Harter & Kirchbaum at Canton, and completed his senior year in the Law School of Cincinnati College, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1892. In June of that year he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and on March 2, 1903, was admitted to the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. Mr. Robertson opened his law office at Canton in August, 1892, and has practiced steadily without important diversions into politics or business, well satisfied with the rewards and honors of a successful law practice. However, he has rendered public service, and for four years, by election in 1899 and 1901, was mayor of the City of Canton. As mayor he was made, by order of the Secretary of War, chairman of the executive committee, having in charge the arrangement for the funeral of President McKinley. He was one of the incorporators of the National McKinley Memorial Association. During the World war he was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board, local board No. 1, selective military service, and chairman of the Legal Aid Bureau, Council of National Defense in Stark County. Mr. Robertson is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and the Stark County Bar Association. He is a republican. On October 7, 1899, he married Miss Gertrude S. Shaffer, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Reese) Shaffer, of Stark County. She was educated in Canton, and had three years of musical training at Leipsic, Germany. GEORGE E. SEESHOLTZ is a leading funeral director of Stark County, and has been in business in Canton either as an embalmer for others or in business for himself over a period of nearly forty years. He was born at Myerstown, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1858, a son of Ruben and Sarah (Spangler) Seesholtz. As he grew up there he attended the grammar and high schools, and served a three years apprenticeship at the cabinet making trade. Cabinet making at that time brought him naturally into connection with the undertaking business, and he subsequently learned embalming and undertaking. When he came to Canton in 1895 Mr. Seesholtz was employed as an embalmer for the well known firm of H. D. McCray, undertakers and furniture dealers. He also clerked in the furniture department of the business. Later he was with the Milhuish Furniture Company until 1902, when he engaged in the undertaking business for himself. His establishment is at 301 Third Street Northwest. His quarters are now in a handsome three-story brick building, each floor devoted to some department of the business. The first floor includes a funeral home. He carries a large stock of equipment, does some wholesale business, and has a splendid service. His equipment is completely motorized. Mr. Seesholtz and his family are active members of the Lutheran Church. He is the father of three children. The daughter, Miss Annie G., is secretary of the Young Women,s Christian Association Board HISTORY OF OHIO - 165 of Missions and for the last five years has been located in Shanghai, China. The son, Ruben L., is associated with his father in the business. The daughter, Sarah, is the wife of George Webber, and they live in Canton. The mother of these children was, before her marriage to Mr. Seesholtz, Miss Mary Ann Groh, of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Seesholtz is a member of the National Selected Morticians, member of the Ohio State Embalmers and Funeral Directors Association, and fraternally is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. LAUREN E. FLICKINGER, M. D. Graduated in medicine more than thirty years ago, Doctor Flickinger after six years of general practice located at Canton, aid has had abundant opportunities to exercise his varied gifts and abilities as a professional man in this city, Doctor Flickinger was born at North Lima, Ohio, October 31, 1869, son of Henry and Sophia (Beard) Flickinger, and when he was eight years of age his parents returned to the old farm. He grew up in the country, was educated in the district schools and high school, and attended Northeastern Ohio College. When he was sixteen years old he began teaching, and for portions of four years he taught school as a means of getting his higher education. In 1892 he graduated Doctor of Medicine from the medical department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and he first located at North Industry, Ohio, remaining, there four years and two years at Salem, Ohio. For over a quarter of a century his home has been at Canton. By attending clinics, conventions and other gatherings and by private study he has kept in close touch with the advancing ideas of his profession. He is a member of the Canton and Stark County, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a former president of the County Society. He was head of the staff of the Canton Hospital for several years. He is a member of the Trinity Reformed Church and is a democrat in politics. Doctor Flickinger married Miss Jennie A. Serva. Three children were born to their marriage. A son, Clement A., while attending college, was killed in a basket ball game. GEORGE W. MONNOT is one of the oldest dealers in Ford cars in the State of Ohio, having taken his first agency and made his first sale nearly twenty years ago, when the entire automobile industry was in its infancy. He is head of the firm Monnot and Saches, a prominent automobile sales organization at Canton, located at 221 Eighteenth Street Northwest, and Market at Sixth Street Southwest. He was born in Canton, September 29, 1872, was educated in the grammar and high schools of his native city, and as a youth entered the factory of his father, a bicycle manufacturer. Thus his early training well qualified him for the business he took up in 1905 when he became one of the early agents of the Ford cars. He has sold the Ford, representing the successive years of improvement and development ever since, and is now head of an organization that sells and distributes all over this section of Ohio the Ford automobile, the Lincoln car and the Fordson tractor. Mr. Monnot is vice president of the Canton Automobile Dealers Association. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus. By his marriage to Miss Alice D. Hassler he is the father of three children, George, Richard and Barbara. DAVID F. BANKER, M. D. One of the valued physicians and surgeons of Stark County is Dr. David F. Banker, a former president of the Stark County and Canton Medical Association. Doctor Banker has spent his life in Stark County, and has been known as a very able physician for over twenty years. He was born on a farm in Canton Township, near the county seat, December 28, 1868. Several years ago Doctor Banker bought the old homestead, and has found a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure in owning the property which was his boyhood environment. He grew up there, attended the country schools, also public schools in Canton, and continued his education at intervals in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, in Wooster University at Wooster, and when he was twenty years of age he began teaching, a vocation he followed for several terms. He then entered the Medical School of Western Reserve University, taking the full four-year course and graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1900. Since then he has maintained his offices in Canton, and has had an extensive general medical practice. He is a former member of the Canton Board of Health and belongs to the County, State and American Medical associations. Doctor Banker is affiliated with the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and in politics is a democrat. February 17, 1921, Doctor Banker married Miss Gertrude Dayhuff, of Canton. THURMAN C. SMITH, prominently connected in automobile circles at Canton, is president of the Thurman C. Smith Motor Car Company, exclusive dealers in the Studebaker cars. Mr. Smith owns one of the finest sales rooms and service stations in the city. The business was established in February, 1917, and since 1922 it has been conducted in a new building especially erected and equipped for the purpose, located at 730 South Market Avenue. Mr. Smith was born at Canton, September 21, 1888. He was reared there, acquired a good education in the grammar and high schools, and after leaving school he spent five years working in his father ,s hardware store. He then took up the automobile business, and hag made a splendid success of this line. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the Masonic, Order and is a republican. Mr. Smith married Miss Nell V. Shannon, of Orrville, Ohio, and they have one child, Dorothy Lucille. OLIVER J. DEMUTH, mayor of New Philadelphia, has been prominently identified with the agricultural, political and civic affairs of Tuscarawas County throughout the period of his manhood. A lifelong resident of the county, he was born April 1, 1860, son of Daniel and Mary M. (Roth) Demuth. His parents were born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and soon after their marriage came to Tuscarawas County and settled on a farm. Daniel Demuth died in 1864, and his wife survived to the age of seventy-nine. Of their large family of seven sons and five daughters two died in infancy. Oliver J. Demuth was four years of age when his father died. He grew up on a farm, acquired a public school education, and in young manhood engaged in farming. After seven years as a general farmer he specialized in truck growing, and for a number of years was one of the leading truck growers in the vicinity of New Philadelphia. Eight years ago he retired, selling a half interest in his business to his youngest son, and since then has lived in the City of New Philadelphia. Mr. Demuth has a wide acquaintance over the State of Ohio, due to his long prominence in the work of the Grange and various farm organization movements. For the past fourteen years he has been treasurer of the Ohio State Grange. In politics he is a republican, and from 1905 to 1909 served 166 - HISTORY OF OHIO as county commissioner. In the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth General assemblies he served with credit in the Ohio State Senate. Mr. Demuth was elected mayor of New Philadelphia in the fall of 1923, his two-year term beginning January 1, 1924. During 1916-17-18 he did Farm Institute work as a member of the force working under the auspices of the Ohio State University. He is a member of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. In 1880 Mr. Demuth married Miss Caroline Schmitz, who died in August, 1912. The four children of this union are Florence, William F., Cora E. and George S. Mr. Demuth in November, 1916, married Belle M. Wills. He was for many years identified with the Moravian Church, but in the absence of such a church at New Philadelphia he hag with his wife worshiped at the Methodist Episcopal Church. J. A. PEARL. Prominently identified for a number of years with the automobile business, Mr. J. A. Pearl is vice president and general manager of the Pearl Motor Company at Canton, and is also president of the Canton Automobile Dealers Association. He is well known in automobile circles not only in Stark County, but elsewhere in Northern Ohio. Mr. Pearl was born at Buckeye City, Ohio, February 6, 1885, and lived there until he was ten years of age, when the family moved to Centerburg and located on a farm. He was educated in the public schools of these two communities until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to work. Beginning at the age of eighteen, for three years he was employed in a hoop factory and for three years managed the Centerburg Creamery. Mr. Pearl in September, 1910, removed to Cleveland and for four years was an employe of the Street Railway Company there. In 1915 he went to work as a mechanic in the shops of the Neighbors Motor Company at Cleveland, and eight months later was promoted to the sales force. He began selling the Dodge Brothers cars, but in July, 1917, was transferred to the Ohio Buick Company. After six months he resumed his work with the Neighbors Motor Company, and in October, 1918, became a salesman for T. H. Towell, selling the Dodge Brothers cars. On April 1, 1921, Mr. Pearl made his advent into motor circles in Canton, where he took over the local agency of the Dodge Motor Company. The business was conducted as Pearl & Evans, his partner being D. J. Evans until March 1, 1922, when he reorganized and incorporated the business as the Pearl Motor Company. This company handles the Dodge Brothers cars and the Graham Brothers trucks. It has equipped one of the best sales and service stations in Canton, having a two-story brick building 75x117 feet at Market and Sixth streets South. Mr. Pearl is president of the Optimist Club at Canton, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a republican in politics. CHARLES E. PAQUELET represents the fourth generation of a family that has been identified with the undertaking business. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him were all men of high standing in their profession. Mr. Paquelet was born in Louisville, Ohio, July 25, 1875, and was educated in parochial and public schools. As a youth he learned his business and profession in his father ,s furniture and undertaking establishment, and in 1906 came to Canton, where he established his present business. He was associated with his brother until 1919, when he became sole proprietor. Mr. Paquelet has his office at 603 Cleveland Avenue Northwest, and his funeral home at 617 Cleve land Avenue. He has complete motor equipment, including hearses and ambulances. Mr. Paquelet is also secretary of the Canton Material Company, dealers in building supplies and coal. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, belongs to the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus, and is interested in all good causes in his home city. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Paquelet married Miss Laura Pierson, and their three children are Eugenia, Mildred and Charles J. JAMES D. MOORE on leaving the farm entered business as a salesman of agricultural machinery, but subsequently went to work for the Buick Company, and is one of the oldest representatives of that motor company. He is now owner of the Canton Buick Company. Mr. Moore was born in Michigan, May 27, 1871, grew up on a farm and had a public school education. He remained on the farm working until he was twenty-three years of age, and then on account of his proficiency in machinery and mechanics in general he found work as a traveling salesman for the International Harvester Company. He left that company in 1910 to go with the Buick Automobile Company of Flint, Michigan, as a traveling representative. In 1914 Mr. Moore came to Canton and founded the Canton Buick Company. A large brick building used as sales room, office and service plant was erected by him in 1917. He is a life member of Elks Lodge No. 47 of Saginaw, Michigan, and the Order of Eagles. J. E. MAUGHIMAN is secretary and manager of the Maughiman Undertaking Company at Canton. He has been in the undertaking business for many years, and at Canton has built up one of the finest and most complete services of its kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Maughiman was born at New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, December 2, 1866. He is one of six brothers, and they and their father all became staunch adherents of the democratic party, and none of them ever voted any other ticket until the youngest was thirty-five years of age. J. E. Maughiman was reared on a farm in Tuscarawas County, his educational advantages being supplied by the public schools. When he left the farm, at the age of twenty, he operated a meat market for a time, then became a general merchant at Leesville, and in 1891 started in the undertaking and furniture business. After seven years he moved to Selo, Ohio, and was an undertaker in that city for fifteen years, and served as mayor of that city for two years, 1906 and 1907. He located at Canton in 1913, and for a decade has furnished a thoroughly up to date service. His company now has a complete motor equipment, including ambulances, hearses, limousines and sedans. Mr. Maughiman is active in the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders and their auxiliaries, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics is a democrat. He married Miss Elsie Capper of Leesville, Ohio. Her father and his six brothers were all soldiers in the Civil war. HENRY D. POWNALL. One of the highly specialized industries. based upon the scientific discoveries and inventions of the past century is refrigeration, and the refrigeration engineer has become one of the most valuable men in solving the problems connected with the extensive food industries. On the basis of his inventions and perfection in processes involved in the art of refrigeration, Henry D. Pownall, of Canton, is one of the outstanding figures in American refrigeration engineering. He is president and general manager of the Arctic Ice Ma- HISTORY OF OHIO - 167 chine Company, Incorporated, a $400,000 corporation, that conducts one of the largest plants in the country making refrigerating and ice making machinery and at present doing a business of more than $3,500,000 annually. Mr. Pownall was born at Huntington, West Virginia, September 12, 1876, son of Captain Bland and Margaret (Boatman) Pownall. His father was a captain on Ohio River steamboats. Henry D. Pownall was reared in Cincinnati, and leaving the public schools at the age of fifteen went to work as an oiler in the engine room of one of the plants of the Stone Lake Ice Company. After a year he was promoted to night engineer, the next year was promoted to chief engineer of one of the plants, and finally became chief engineer of all the company ,s plants. In the meantime he was steadily perfecting himself in his chosen profession through other opportunities than those afforded by his daily experience. He took corresponding courses and attended the night schools of the Young Men,s Christian Association and the Ohio Mechanics Institute. For one year he was a consulting engineer of refrigeration, served three years as chief engineer with the Cincinnati Ice and Cold Storage Company, and for four years was chief engineer of the Triumph Ice Machine Company of Cincinnati. Mr. Pownall has been a resident of Canton since 1911. He began his duties as general manager of the Arctic Ice Machine Company on November 17 of that year. This company was organized in 1905, by H. H. Timken, W. R. Timken, A. B. Clark, Frederick Goff and W. C. Laiblin. At the beginning of 1911 Mr. Pownall was elected president and general manager of the company. Mr. Pownall's patents are the basis of practically all the varied line of ice making and refrigerating machinery manufactured by this company. He is also interested in several ice plants in Cuba. Mr. Pownall is one of the prominent members of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, the National Association of Stationary Engineers, the Ohio Electrical Engineers Society, and the Ohio Steam Engineers Society. He belongs to the Refrigerating Builders Club. At Canton he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Canton Club, the Lakeside Country Club, and other social organizations. He married Miss Lulu Oleon Weaver, of Cincinnati, and they have one son, Henry D., Jr. S. L. BERKMAN is a Canton business man who has made remarkable progress, overcoming the obstacles of foreign birth and education. He is president of the Canton Produce Company at 532 Fifth Street. Mr. Berkman was born in Russia, December 5, 1894, and was brought to the United States in 1899, the family locating at Canton. He was reared in that city, attending the grammar and high schools, and he also spent some time in the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace University. In 1911 he went to work at Cleveland, and in 1916 engaged in the wholesale produce business there for two years. He then bought his present business at Canton, and is one of the leading wholesale produce merchants in this section of the state. He handles fruit and all kinds of general produce. Mr. Berkman is a prominent member of the Canton Chamber of Commerce. RICHARD CROASDAILE has had an active business career covering several different lines, but for a number of years had a successful practice in his profession as an optometrist at Canton. His business is located at 111 Court Street Southwest. Mr. Croasdaile was born at Dublin, Ireland, April 21, 1861. He was educated there and in England, and also attended Amherst College in Gera, Germany. In 1886 he went out to Utah and spent three years in gold and silver mining. Leaving the mining industry he became a traveling salesman, covering territory in Colorado and Oregon, and for five years was in Texas. Coming to Ohio, he located at Columbus, where he took up the practice of optometry, spent five years at Dayton, and since 1900 has had a successful business at Canton. He is a stockholder in the Northern Hotel Building, is a member of the Episcopal Church and the Knights of Pythias Lodge. In 1897 he married Miss Emma E. H. Hurt, of Bristol, Virginia. Their children are Richard E. and Cameron. The latter is attending Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. JOHN C. MONNOT is a member of the Dueber Avenue Motor Company at Canton, and has been identified with the automobile business for a number of years. He was born at Canton, April 18, 1875, was educated in the public schools, and for several years worked in his father ,s bicycle factory at Canton. He was in the bicycle business altogether for eight years. He then spent twelve years in New York City, and on returning to Canton in 1913 operated a store for one year, after which he became associated with his brother George in the automobile business. In July, 1922, in conjunction with Howard C. Ehmann, he bought the Dueber Avenue business from the firm of Monnot and Saches. They deal in Ford cars, the Fordson tractor and the Lincoln cars. Mr. Monnot is a member of the Canton Automobile Dealers Association, the Chamber of Commerce, is a Catholic and a Knight of Columbus, and a democrat in national politics. He married Miss Helen E. Cook, and they have one son, John C., Jr., born in 1917. HERBERT SPENCER ATKINSON, better known in Columbus and throughout the wide circle of his acquaintance over the state as " Hub " Atkinson, is a prominent young lawyer of the capital city, and is representative of Franklin County in the State House of Representatives. He was born at Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, October 22, 1887, son of W. A. and Mary Ann (Arnold) Atkinson. Mr. Atkinson first came to Columbus as a student in the Ohio State University. He enrolled there in 1906 and took both the liberal arts and law courses. He was graduated in 1913, and has since been engaged in general law practice here. While in the University he was active socially and in athletics, being a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi and Bucket and Dipper fraternities, was a member of the basketball team for three years, and is a member of the Varsity " O " Association, having played on the varisity basketball team. Mr. Atkinson’s law offices are in the Hartman Building. He has interested himself in several local business enterprises. Mr. Atkinson is a democrat, and as a leader in that party has achieved the signal success of carrying Franklin County in the face of an overwhelmingly normal republican majority. He has been three times elected a member of the General Assembly by the people of the county. During his second term he became minority floor leader, and was reelected floor leader during his third term. In the election of 1922 the people of Franklin County bestowed upon him one of the most unusual honors in politics, a direct tribute to his personal popularity and ability, in the fact that he was the only democrat chosen on the county ticket, the other elective officers all being republicans and chosen by heavy majority. Franklin County has five representatives in the General Assembly and Mr. Atkinson was the only democrat. In 1920 he was elected first vice president of the Ohio State University Alumni Association. He is a 168 - HISTORY OF OHIO member of the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Riding Club and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Elks. In 1917 he married Miss Laura Harrison, of Massillon, and their home is in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. They have one son, Griffin, born in 1919. CHARLES BALOUGH. One of the very important and live industries in the manufacturing city of Canton is the Hercules Motors Manufacturing Corporation, makers of internal combustion engines. The business is incorporated for a $1,000,000, and though established only a few years, its product has reached a standard of excellence so that it is known practically wherever internal combustion engines are used. The vice president and general manager of this company is Charles Balough, who was born in Hungary in 1883. He was liberally educated, having studied mechanical engineering in Royal St. Joseph University, Budapest. When he came to this country in 1903 he found work in his profession, and from 1906 to 1912 was connected with the engineering department of the Ford Motor Company at Detroit. Following that he was an engineer at Springfield, Ohio, and in 1915 came to Canton and organized the Hercules Motors Manufacturing Corporation. He has been responsible for its rapid growth. It is a business employing 300 men, mostly skilled workers. Mr. Balough married Miss Eva G. Myers. Their five children are: Virginia, Ariadne, Mary Elizabeth, Charles, Jr., and Henry Yerby. Mr. Balough is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Masonic fraternity and is a republican voter. J. C. BOWMAN is president of Bowman Brothers, an important wholesale and manufacturing house of Canton, manufacturers of physicians' supplies and proprietary medicines. Mr. Bowman has been a business man of Canton for over twenty years, and has been responsible for the growth and prosperity of one of the city 's leading commercial enterprises. He was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, August 25, 1878. He attended the grammar and high schools of Perry County, Ohio, continued his education in Scioto College, and finished a pharmacy course. Mr. Bowman came to Canton in 1900. For three years he was in the retail drug business, and then started on a modest scale as a wholesale drug dealer and manufacturer. Since 1920 his business has been located in a fine two-story brick and basement building 40x145 feet, with an L 25x45 feet. He has other important business interests in Canton. Mr. Bowman is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Shrine Club, and belongs to the Trinity Reformed Church. He is a republican in politics. E. C. ROBERTS, president and manager of the E. C. Roberts Agency Company, real estate and insurance at Canton, was formerly connected with some of the great rubber companies at Akron, leaving that work to take up life insurance, and has developed one of the strongest real estate and insurance agencies in Stark County. He was born in Lake County, Ohio, May 24, 1878. He grew up in the country adjoining Cleveland, attended grammar and high schools, and as a youth qualified as a teacher. He taught two and one-half years, using that as a means of getting money to defray his expenses in Oberlin College. After graduating from that institution he taught three years more, one year of which was in Akron, after which he spent four and one-half years with the Goodrich Rubber Company and three years with the Firestore Rubber Company. After a brief experience in the life insurance business Mr. Roberts moved to Canton in the spring of 1916 and began his present business. He is secretary and treasurer of the Maple Realty Company, which in 1916 laid out the Maple addition of thirty acres to the city. In 1917 he put on the market the Royal addition of forty-three acres. He was secretary and treasurer of the Georgetown Realty Company, which laid out Marietta addition. Through Mr. Roberts' agency in 1920 was handled the sale of the City National Bank Building, a deal involving $175,000. He is now manager of this office building. His business associates honored him with election as president of the Canton Real Estate Board in 1923. He is also a member of the University Club, is a republican and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On June 28, 1906, he married Miss Gertrude Oberlin, a daughter of Adam W. and Marietta (Gans) Oberlin. The former served for two terms, or eight years, as sheriff of Stark County, also represented his district in the State Legislature, being a member of the House and Senate. He died in 1921. To Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have been born the following children: Oliver 0., a Junior in the Canton High School; Frederick C. and Addison W., both attending the North Canton Grammar School; Judith Eleanor, who died when three years of age. HARRY T. BEBB is president of the Canton Stamping and Enameling Company, a million dollar corporation, and one of the important sources of industrial prosperity to the City of Canton. Mr. Bebb was born in Columbus, Ohio, February 17, 1884. He was reared and educated there, attending high school, and in September, 1909, came to Canton and went to work in the plant of the Canton Stamping and Enameling Company. This was a business in which his brother Richard E. Bebb was prominent and at that time manager and treasurer and president and general manager. Harry T. Bebb made himself invaluable to the business, and in 1918 was elected vice president and manager of the company, and since January 1, 1923, has been its president. Mr. Bebb is a member of the Christian Church, the Canton Club, the Brookside Club and the Country Club. He married Ida T. Doebele. Their two children are Margaret Catherine and John Richard. HENRY S. BELDEN for a number of years has figured prominently in business circles of Canton. He is president of the Belden Motor Car Company and also does a large business in real estate. He was born at Canton, January 12, 1879, son of Henry S. Belden, Sr., and a grandson of the distinguished early attorney and jurist of Stark County, George W. Belden. George W. Belden was admitted to the Ohio bar about 1833, after his early years were spent in business and newspaper work. 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. Henry S. Belden was educated in the grammar and high schools of Canton and in Western Reserve Academy, and left school to go into his father 's business as a brick manufacturer. He left that to take up real estate, and has been a successful dealer in HISTORY OF OHIO - 169 Canton property for many years. He organized the Belden Motor Car Company in 1913. Mr. Belden is also a director in the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company of Canton. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a democrat. He married Miss Catherine Dewalt Barber, a niece of the late Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley. They have three children, Marshall B., Elizabeth Seymour and Henry S., III. JAMES L. AMERMAN. Two of the ablest members of the Stark County bar during the past half century have been James L. Amerman and his father, James Amerman. James L. Amerman, who is senior member of the Canton law firm of Amerman and Mills, was born two years before the death of his honored father, so that an interval of over twenty years separated the close of the professional career of the one from the beginning of that of the other. The late J. Amerman died in 1884, and though only thirty-six years of age, his reputation as a lawyer extended all over the state. He was born at Genesee, Michigan, August 20, 1848. His father 's name was John Laidler, a native of Scotland. John Laidler brought his family to America in 1842, locating in Michigan. His wife was Mary A. Duns. She died in 1850, when James, the youngest child, was less than two years old. James was then adopted by Daniel and Mary Amerman, who in 1858 removed to Alliance, Ohio. James Amerman served two years as a Union soldier in the Civil war, with the Eighty-second Ohio Infantry. He was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run and was taken prisoner at Gettysburg. Soon after the close of the war he began the study of law at Alliance, was admitted to the bar in April, 1867, and for seventeen years his time and talents were fully engrossed with his profession. His practice brought him connections on one side or another with a number of the noted criminal trials of that period, and he was also a counsel in cases involving large property and other interests. Associated with him or as opposing counsel in such trials were many of the most eminent lawyers of the Ohio bar at the time. On November 7, 1870, when he had been practicing law three years, James Amerman married Rachel Teeters. Her father, Elisha Teeters, was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, January 11, 1814, a grandson of Elisha Teeters, who came from Germany, and was a pioneer settler in Eastern Ohio, and a son of John Teeters, who served as a colonel in the War of 1812. Elisha Teeters made the original plat of the Town of Alliance in 1851, having bought a farm at the north edge of what is now the City of Alliance in 1846. At one time he owned Alliance College, and was generous of his means to support educational institutions. He was a merchant, a private banker, a railroad official and one of the conspicuous citizens of his day. Elisha Teeters died in 1899. James L. Amerman, the youngest of the four children of James and Rachel (Teeters) Amerman, was born at Alliance, March 23, 1882. He attended the public schools of his native town, also Mount Union College, and in 1906 graduated in law from Western Reserve University. He was admitted to the Ohio bar the same year, and soon afterward admitted to practice in the United States District Court and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. He began his professional career at Alliance, but in the fall of 1908 removed to Canton. He was a member of the firm Ake, Day & Amerman, subsequently Day & Amerman until Luther M. Day removed to Cleveland, and was then in the firm of Amerman & Quinn two years. When Judge C. C. Bow left the probate; bench the firm of Bow, Amerman & Mills was organized, and at the present time Mr. Amerman is senior mem ber of the firm Amerman and Mills. They are engaged in general practice, and have represented a large volume of important interests. Mr. Amerman is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations. He belongs to the Canton Club, the Brookside Country Club, and Congress Lake Club. He is a republican in politics. On November 23, 1910, Mr. Amerman married Miss Mary G. Milbourne, of Alliance, daughter of M. S. Milbourne, who was a banker and manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Amerman have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. HON. JACOB B. SNYDER.. A native son of Stark County, Jacob B. Snyder began the practice of law at Canton thirty years ago, about the time his distinguished fellow townsmen, William McKinley, was serving as governor of Ohio. Mr. Snyder has enjoyed a large and successful practice as an attorney, but has also given time to public duties and is a former member of the Ohio Legislature. He was born at the old Snyder homestead near Osnaburg in Stark County, July 2, 1866. His grandfather, Jacob Snyder, was a native of Burks County, Pennsylvania, and was a pioneer settler in Stark County, hewing a farm out of the woods here. Jacob B. Snyder, Sr., father of the Stark County attorney, was born at the old homestead in 1826, and spent his active career as a farmer. He died October 25, 1891. In 1863 he married Mary Bollinger, a native of Pennsylvania and daughter of Daniel Bollinger. The Bollingers were also a pioneer family in Stark County. Mrs. Mary Snyder died January 1, 1897. Jacob B. Snyder, Jr., grew up at the family estate near Osnaburg, attended the grade schools there, completing his public school education in 1886. During 1887 he attended the Normal College at Ashland, Ohio, and was a student in Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1888. In the meantime he had begun teaching country schools, and he continued teaching until 1889, when, after the election of President Harrison, he was appointed postmaster of Osnaburg. He held that office two years, resigning to enter the Cincinnati Law School, where he took his law degree in May, 1892. He was admitted to the Ohio bar the 30th of May of the same year, and for a time engaged in practice in his native Village of Osnaburg. In 1893 he moved to Canton, and throughout the greater part of the time has conducted an individual practice. From 1900 to 1911 he was member of the law firm Crain and Snyder. Mr. Snyder is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Loyal Order of Moose, and is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations. From 1892 to 1894 he served as mayor of Osnaburg. In 1898 he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature and was reelected in 1900, serving in the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth General Assemblies. In the Seventy-fourth Assembly he was chosen speaker pro tern. On November 27, 1894, Mr. Snyder married Miss Alice Steinmetz, daughter of George Steinmetz, of Pike Township, Stark County. The two children born to their marriage are Bernice and Huber. CALVIN B. ROSS was educated for the technical profession of engineer, but for the past ten years his time and talents have been centered upon the real estate business in Columbus. He is a member of a firm that ranks among the first in quality of expert service in everything connected with the sale and management of centrally located business property in the capital city. Mr. Ross was born at Urbana, in Champaign County, in 1882, son of Frank S. and Max Amelia (Colwell) Ross. His father was born in Urbana, and that family, of Scotch ancestry, were pioneers 170 - HISTORY OF OHIO in Ohio. Calvin B. Ross was reared and received his early education in Urbana, and in 1903 was graduated from Ohio State University at Columbus. During the next five years he was engaged in engineering work, with headquarters at Springfield, Ohio, and then took up technical advertising, representing some of the leading trade journals in New York, Chicago and Cleveland. Before the World war Mr. Ross located in Columbus, and has since been engaged in the real estate business. The firm of Ross and Case, of which he is senior member, handles Columbus business property exclusively. His technical training and general business experience and the close study he has made of every influence and detail affecting Columbus real estate constitutes him a generally recognized authority in matters pertaining to central business and industrial property. He knows his subject so far as the present valuations and future possibilities, and has developed an organization whose service is considered indispensable to many of the largest property owners in Columbus. His firm has been the medium for handling a large number of transactions during the last few years in leasing of central business sites, this business alone running up into millions of dollars. The firm also has a management department devoted to the management of business property. Outside of his business Mr. Ross' particular hobby is civic affairs in Columbus. He has identified himself in a public spirited and helpful manner with every movement for the growth and advancement of the city. He is a member and director of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, is a member and ex-president of the Columbus Real Estate Board, is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, is a director of the Columbus Country Club, and a member of the Columbus Club and Columbus Athletic Club. Mr. Ross served during the World war as a captain in the Ordnance Department, United States Army, with station at Washington, D. C. He is a member of the American Legion, Franklin Post No. 1. Mr. Ross married a daughter of the late Jacob Schrader, a prominent business man of Columbus. CHAUNCEY D. SPIKER has been a prosperous undertaker at Canton for the past thirteen years, and has accumulated a number of business interests and social and civic responsibilities in that community. He was born on a farm near Wooster, Ohio, February 1, 1886. He grew to manhood on the farm, attending the common schools, and at the age of twenty-one began fitting himself for the profession of undertaker. Two years later he started in the undertaking business at Wooster, and in 1911 removed to Canton, where he established his present business. He introduced the first motor hearse in the city, and has a complete equipment of motor ambulances and other vehicles. The business is carried on under the name of C. D. Spiker. He is also president of the Whipple Heights Realty Company and a director of the Preferred Mortgage Company of Canton. Mr. Spiker is a thirty-second degree Mason, and is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Elks, is vice president of the Kiwanis Club, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the United Brethren Church. He married Miss Letha Snyder, of Barberton, Ohio. They have two children, Helen and Ralph. HON. HUBERT C. PONTIUS, former judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Stark County, and now associated in practice with the old Canton law firm of Lynch, Day, Fimple & Lynch, represents the fifth successive generation of the Pontius family in Stark County, where his earlier ancestry goes back to a Holland-Dutch family that settled in Pennsylvania in Colonial times. A brief record of the successive heads of the family in the five generations of Stark County residents is given below: Frederick Pontius, who was born in Pennsylvania, July 4, 1772, married in that state Margaret Reedy, and in 1816 they brought their family to Stark County and settled in Plain Township. Frederick Pontius cleared up and made a farm and lived at the old homestead until his death on July 18, 1848. His widow passed away in 1861. Jacob Pontius, son of Frederick, was born in Pennsylvania in 1802, and was fourteen years of age when brought to Stark County. He became a farmer and died in early manhood, in 1832. He married in 1827 Rebecca Essig, who was born in Maryland, May 6, 1806, and was brought to Stark County in 1808. She lived beyond her ninetieth birthday, passing away October 14, 1896. Andrew Pontius, second child of Jacob, was born August 22, 1829, and devoted his active career to farming and stock raising and the various duties assigned him as an influential citizen. He served as a justice of the peace, filled an unexpired term as county treasurer, and was actively identified with the Lutheran Church at Canton. In 1851 he married Sarah Jane Correll, who was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1828, and as a child was brought to Stark County. Jackson Warren Pontius, one of the numerous children of Andrew Pontius and wife, was born in Plain Township, April 17; 1854. He was educated in the public schools at Mount Union College at Alliance, and from 1884 for ten years served as superintendent of the Stark County Infirmary, and in 1894 became the first superintendent of the, newly established Stark County Workhouse. He resigned his public office in 1899 and devoted the rest of his active years to the real estate business in Canton, where he died July 2, 1909. His wife was Elvira Clay, a native of Stark County, and daughter of Moses and Catherine (Madison) Clay. Judge Hubert C. Pontius, oldest child of his parents, was born at Canton, January 29, 1877. He graduated from high school in 1893, and in 1899 cony pleted the classical course and received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Wittenberg College at Springfield. He pursued his law course in Ohio State University, and in December, 1901, was admitted to the bar. He engaged in practice at Canton in the spring of the following year, and his professional record covers more than a score of years. He has had a large private practice, and has filled public office from a sense of civic duty and not for its reward. He was assistant prosecuting attorney from 1909 to 1913, was elected prosecuting attorney in 1912, and served the regular term of two years, 1913-14. In 1917 he was appointed common pleas judge, serving eighteen months, and in 1918 was elected to the common pleas bench for the full term of six years. However, after two years of capable service, feeling that his duty to the public had been performed, he resigned and has since been associated with the law firm Lynch, Day, Fimple & Lynch. This firm has a corporation practice exceeded by few law firms in the State of Ohio. Judge Pontius is a member of the Stark County and Ohio Bar associations, is a democrat in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Church. He married Miss Mary S. Gotwald, daughter of Rev. Luther A. Gotwald, of Wittenberg College, Springfield. A. H. ELLIOTT is an Ohio lawyer with a record of active experience and practice covering a quarter of a century. During most of that time he has been a member of the Canton bar, and his offices in that city are in the Daily News Building. Mr. Elliott was born in Carroll County, near the HISTORY OF OHIO - 171 Town of Minerva, on the line between Carroll and Stark counties, September 20, 1872. His boyhood days were spent on a farm, with the advantages of common schools and later the high school at Minerva. When he was nineteen years of age he began teaching, and that was his occupation for six years, and in the meantime he was continuing his higher education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He graduated in the literary course in 1895, and in 1898 received his law degree. In the same year he was admitted to the Ohio bar and to practice in the Supreme Court, and during the next four years he built up a successful general practice at New Philadelphia. In 1902 he removed to Canton, and in a bar that has long been one of the most conspicuous in point of ability in the state he has won recognition as an able and reliable attorney. He has found his satisfaction in the practice of law and has never been a candidate for public office. Mr. Elliott is a member of the Stark County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. In 1901 he married Miss Olive Whitacre. They have two daughters, Marguerite and Lucille. LORIN C. WISE has been a practicing attorney at the Canton bar for thirty-eight years. He is a senior member of the law firm Wise & Wise, with offices in the First National Bank Building. His partner is his son, Reuben Z. Mr. Wise was born in Plain Township, near Canton, August 13, 1862, son of Reuben Z. and Lydia (Gans) Wise. Mr. Wise as a farm boy attended country schools in Plain Township, and from 1879 until 1883 was a student in Mount Union College at Alliance. He studied law under that eminent Stark County attorney and jurist, Judge Joseph Frease of Canton, and in June, 1886, was admitted to the bar. Subsequently he was admitted to practice in the Federal Court, and his practice from early years has been of a volume and character that is the best evidence of his exceptional abilities in his chosen profession. Mr. Wise is a member of the Stark County Bar Association, is a republican and served as a member of the Canton Board of Education. On October 4, 1890, he married Miss Violet M. Wise. Their three .children are Cyrus, Reuben Z. and Margaret. HON. WILLIAM B. QUINN, a member of the Canton bar for seventeen years, and former judge of the Criminal Court of Canton, took up the practice of his profession after a long and thorough education and training, and has frequently proved his exceptional abilities and qualifications. Judge Quinn was born in Wayne County, Ohio, October 5, 1881, son of Joseph and Mary (Myers) Quinn. When he was a boy the family moved to Canton, where he attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1900. Subsequently he continued his literary education. in Kenyon College, where he was graduated in 1905. For two years he was a student in the Cincinnati Law School, and in June, 1907, was admitted to the bar and in September of the same year opened his office and began practice at Canton. He was first associated with former Judge Harvey F. Ake and Luther Day, both distinguished members of the Canton .bar, and later for two years was an associate of James L. Amerman. For the past ten years he has practiced alone, handling an extensive and important general law practice. He was nominated and elected judge of the Criminal Court of Canton in 1909, serving a term of four years, at the end of which time he was reelected for a second term of four years. For eight years he gave complete evidence of his judicial character and temperamental fitness for the duties of the bench. Judge Quinn is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity, the Lakeside Country Club, the Congress Lake Club, Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations, and is a republican. On April 7, 1910, he married Miss Emma R. Rommel. They have one son, William R. Quinn. HENRY ARCHER WILLIAMS has achieved a real eminence among the leading members of the Ohio bar, and at the same time has cultivated many outside interests, and has performed a wide range of useful service in the civic affairs of Columbus and the state. It has been a constant source of admiration to his friends that he should handle his share of law practice in one of the busiest law firms in the state and perform almost a normal man's day's work in other lines. Mr. Williams was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 4, 1864, son of Rev. Charles H. and Harriett (Langdon) Williams. For many years he has been identified with the Sons of the American Revolution. He has his membership in that order through both his father and his mother. Through his mother he is a descendant in the seventh generation from Capt. Paul Langdon, who commanded a company in Colonel Danielson's regiment in the Revolution. In the paternal line he is a great-great-great-great-grandson of John Hamilton, who fought at the battle of King 's Mountain. The early life of Henry Archer Williams was spent in Springfield, Ohio. He attended public school there, and is a graduate of Wittenberg College, taking his Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1885. Wittenberg in 1890 in recognition of his subsequent attainment bestowed upon him the degree of Master of Arts. While pursuing the study of law Mr. Williams was appointed by Governor J. B. Foraker as commission clerk in the executive office at Columbus. He was still in that office when he was admitted to the bar in 1887. Subsequently he was admitted to practice in the various Federal courts and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Williams has been in practice at Columbus since May, 1890. For about five years he was in the office of Judge Nash, and from 1898 to 1907 was a member of the firm Dyer, Williams & Stouffer. In 1907 he became a member of the firm Williams, Williams, Taylor & Nash. In 1913 the partnership was reorganized as Taylor, Williams, Cole & Harvey, and by a subsequent change the title became Williams, Sinks & Williams. The firm consists of Mr. Williams, Frederick N. Sinks and Langdon T. Williams. Mr. Williams was appointed March 1, 1895, assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, and held that office one term. In 1900 President McKinley appointed him supervisor of the census for Franklin, Fairfield and Licking counties. He was secretary of the Taft National Bureau, an organization that had much to do with bringing about the nomination of William Howard Taft for President in 1908. During the following campaign he was chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee. In 1909 President Taft appointed Mr. Williams national bank examiner for the Pittsburg-Cleveland District. He performed the duties of this office in addition to his law practice until 1913. Mr. Williams was a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce two years, served as vice president, in 1916-17, and in the latter year was elected president and reelected in 1918. This was the first time in the history of the Chamber of Commerce that a president was honored with a second consecutive term. Mr. Williams is a charter member of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 172 - HISTORY OF OHIO and has served it as secretary, treasurer, vice president and president. He is a charter member of Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, at Columbus, and has been both vice president and president of that chapter. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and was at one time on the National Board of Trustees of the organization. During the World war he acted as chairman of the Franklin County Fuel Committee and on the advisory council of the draft board. Mr. Williams is a director of the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association, director of the Columbus Athletic Club, is former president of the Kit Kat Club, and is a member of the Columbus Club, Columbus Country Club, the Scottish Rite Consistory of Masons and the Shrine, and belongs to the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. November 24, 1887, at Springfield, Mr. Williams married Miss Elizabeth Lorena Thomas, daughter of John Wesley and Sarah (Morris) Thomas. They have three sons, Morris Holliday, Langdon Thomas and Gordon Early Williams. Morris H. is a graduate of Amherst College, and served as a lieutenant of field artillery during the World war. Langdon Thomas Williams, now junior member of his father 's law firm, is a graduate of Cornell University, and was in the naval aviation service during the war. Gordon E. Williams was also a student at Cornell University. MILTON A. PIXLEY is president of the Erner & Hopkins Company, one of the leading concerns of its kind in the City of Columbus, its province of operations including the handling of electrical and radio supplies both at wholesale and retail. The well equipped establishment of the company is situated at 146 North Third Street. Mr. Pixley was born at Marion, Ohio, on the 24th of May, 1879, and is a son of Marcellus M. and Elizabeth (Naylor) Pixley. He was two years of age at the time of the family removal to Columbus, where the public schools afforded him his early education. At the age of thirteen years Mr. Pixley initiated his association with the electrical business by securing employment with the firm of F. A. & W. J. Hutchison, pioneers in this line of enterprise in Ohio 'a capital city. With the passing years Mr. Pixley mastered the technical details of the business, and in 1900 he entered the employ of the Erner & Hopkins Company, a corporation that was founded in 1898 by John A. Erner and William A. Hopkins, both now deceased. By efficient and loyal service Mr. Pixley won consecutive advancement with this concern, and in 1916, upon the death of Mr. Hopkins, he became president and general manager of the company. Under his energetic and progressive management this corporation has become one of the leading electrical supply and electrical contracting concerns in Ohio, with a name and reputation that constitute distinct business assets. Mr. Pixley is one of the alert and progressive business men of the capital city, is an active member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and holds membership also in the Old Colony Club, the Columbus Club, Columbus Athletic Club, Scioto Club, Columbus Country and Aladdin Country clubs. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Pixley has the distinction of having received the ultimate and honorary thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite, besides which he is past potentate of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of which he was a representative at the Imperial Council of the order in its assembly in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1893, where he was made a perpetual or life member of this Imperial Council. Mr. Pixley married Miss Grace Hauenstein, who was born and reared in Columbus, and their one child is Lloyd A., who, as "Butch" Pixley, is a star football player with the team of the University of Ohio, of which he is captain at the time of this writing, in 1923. CAPT. LEWIS A. AMARINE has rounded out a quarter of a century of service in the police department of the Pennsylvania Railway System. For a number of years he has been captain of special police of the Pennsylvania, at Columbus. He is a native of Ohio and member of two old families of Union County, near Marysville, where he was born January 23, 1868. His parents, Rodney P. and Sarah J. (Cavil) Amarine, were natives of the same vicinity. Rodney Amarine was a Union soldier in the Civil war, being a member of the Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was captured and spent eight months in Libby Prison, and he served under General Hooker in the march from Atlanta to the sea. Captain Amarine grew up and spent the first twenty-nine years of his life on a farm in Union County. He was educated in the local schools, and early showed himself a man of industry and keen intelligence. For a year or so after leaving the farm he was employed in one of the factories at Urbana, Ohio. On September 15, 1899, he entered the service of the Pennsylvania System, and his service has been continuous since that date and without the loss of a single day from duty. He was first employed as a patrolman in the police department on the Chicago and Logansport division, was promoted to lieutenant July 13, 1900, and on November 1, 1903, at Louisville, was promoted to captain. Captain Amarine was transferred to Columbus as his headquarters in 1904, to take charge of the special police on the Columbus division. During his long residence he has become a well known citizen of the capital. His jurisdiction comprises the Columbus terminals and the Columbus division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The force of men under him number ninety-eight. Captain Amarine has been on duty in a number of strikes and labor disturbances. The first was the Pittsburgh switchmen's strike in 1900, then the freight handlers and teamsters strike at Chicago in 1902, later the meat handlers and packers strike of 1904 in the same city, and in 1920 he represented the Pennsylvania Railway police force during the switchmen's strike and also the shopcraft strike of 1922 at Columbus and other points. His has been a brilliant record as an officer and police executive. He married Marian M. Rhoades, of Delaware, Ohio. They have two daughters. Helen is the wife of W. B. Bartels, assistant district attorney of Columbus. Eulalia married Maj. S. J. Randall, an army officer, now stationed at Fort Myer, Washington, D. C. HERBERT V. AKERBERG. In the marvelous achievement credited to radio communication and the development of radio apparatus, an Ohio man who shares some of the distinctive honors is Herbert V. Akerberg of Columbus, who began his experiments with a simple wireless outfit when in high school and almost at the inception of practical experiments with the radio as a means of communication. Mr. Akerberg is one of the prominent radio engineers of the country, and is chief engineer of the Avery & Loeb Electric Company, 114 North Third Street. He was born at Columbus, June 24, 1897, son of O. M. and Mary (Vestner) Akerberg. His mother was born in Columbus. His father, a native of Sweden, has lived in Franklin County, Ohio, since coming to America, his home being at Worthington, north of Columbus. HISTORY OF OHIO - 173 Herbert V. Akerberg finished his education in the West Side High School. He started with the great modern science of radio engineering in 1908, when he was only eleven years old. In 1913 he installed a little spark radio station at his home, then at 132 Midland Avenue on the West Side. Many will recall the heroic service he rendered by his simple apparatus during the great flood of 1913, which centered in the devastation of Dayton, but also caused tremendous damage through the overflow of the Scioto River at Columbus and adjacent territory. This flood swept across the West Side, leaving Hill Top, where the Akerberg home was high and dry, but cut off by communication by either telephone or telegraph, since all poles were swept away. At his radio Herbert Akerberg sent out an S. 0. S. which was received by the radio station at Ohio State University and from there relayed by telephone to the municipal authorities down town. For about three days and nights, practically continuously for seventy-two hours, young Akerberg remained on duty at his radio set, in communication with the radio station on top of the Huntington Bank Building, sending messages to the mayor and keeping the public advised as to the conditions on the devastated West Side. Many messages were sent to the friends and relatives of those in the devastated district. He kept this constant vigil during heavy downpours of rain, and at intervals waded in water up to his knees to the doorsteps of adjoining houses to get information to communicate to the city. His services were highly commended by the city authorities, and his achievement widely heralded over the country as a new contribution to the comparatively new science of radio. Mr. Akerberg's radio set was the second to be established in Columbus. He decided upon wireless communication as a profession after experimenting for a time with aeroplanes. During the World war he was an assistant instructor of radio in the Aviation Department of the United States Army. He was at Cincinnati during the war period. One of his notable pioneer achievements in radio was installing an outfit on the private car of R. K. Rochester, district superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This apparatus enabled the officials to communicate and to receive messages while traveling at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The Avery & Loeb Electric Company in which Mr. Akerberg is chief engineer, is a corporation having stores and supply and broadcasting stations in various cities, including Columbus. Mr. Akerberg 's work is now largely confined to assembling and installing radio stations. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. EDWIN H. SELL, founder and executive head of E. H. Sell & Company, dealers in office equipment and manufacturers of blank books, has in this connection developed one of the important and well ordered business enterprises in the City of Columbus, and his prominence in his chosen sphere of commercial activity is indicated by his having been in October, 1923, elected vice president of the National Association of Stationers, Office Outfitters and Manufacturers, at the annual convention held by this organization at Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Sell was born at Delaware, judicial center of the Ohio county of that name, and the date of his nativity was October 19, 1870. He is a son of John A. and Hannah C. (Heller) Sell, his father having been a young man when he settled in Delaware County. Mrs. Hannah C. (Heller) Sell was born and reared in that county, where her parents became pioneer settlers, they having made the overland journey from Pennsylvania to Ohio with a covered wagon drawn by an ox team. In addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools of his native city Edwin H. Sell there attended also the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1890 he established his residence in Columbus, and here in 1894 he founded the modest enterprise which figures as the nucleus of the large and prosperous business now controlled by E. H. Sell & Company. Mr. Sell 's original work at Columbus was in the capacity of typewriter salesman, and he eventually became the head of the Columbus agency of the Remington Typewriter Company. He gradually expanded the scope of his business by adding lines of office stationery, furniture and general equipment, and eventually he established a department for the manufacturing of blank books, this manufacturing enterprise being now one of the largest of its kind in the State of Ohio. Mr. Sell has built up a substantial and prosperous business enterprise, and the same is based upon effective service in all departments, with progressive policies and fair and honorable dealings ever in evidence. Mr. Sell has kept his business headquarters up to the best modern standards in equipment and service, and has made for himself a record of large and worthy achievement that has contributed not a little to the commercial importance and prestige of Ohio 's fair capital city. Mr. Sell takes loyal interest in all that touches the civic and material welfare and advancement of his home city, and he is president of the Eastgate Improvement Association, organized for the advancing of the interests of the beautiful residential district of Eastgate, were he has his attractive home. He is a member of the local Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other civic and fraternal organizations of representative character. His wife is his partner in the business of E. H. Sell & Company. The maiden name of Mrs. Sell was Carrie May Miller, and their marriage was solemnized in Columbus. Mrs. Sell is a great-granddaughter of the late Judge William Mellvaine, who was long an honored member of the Columbus bar and who here gave many years of service as associate judge of Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. Sell have two children: John M. and Mary Catharine. T. G. COOK. One of the younger men in the business life of Columbus, T. G. Cook since the close of the great war, in which lie served a little over two years, has made himself one of the prominent builders and construction engineers of the capital city. His offices as a general contractor are in the Grand Theater Building. Mr. Cook was born at Sylvania, Ohio, in 1895, a son of George T. and Lottie (Chandler) Cook. He was reared in Sylvania, attending the public schools there, and supplemented his education in Ohio State University and pursued an engineering course in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cook enlisted in August, 1917, at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, and was sent to Camp Jackson at Columbia, South Carolina, subsequently was in training as an artilleryman at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, at which place he received his commission as a lieutenant in light artillery. During the last few months of the war he was in the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Upon leaving the army Mr. Cook engaged in construction engineering work at various places in the United States, but since the latter part of 1919 has had his home and business headquarters in Columbus. In less than five years his efficiency and enterprise have brought him a business sufficient to rank him among the larger contractors. Each year sees a notable change in the character of his business, which is tending to the 174 - HISTORY OF OHIO larger contracts and the larger construction enterprises. During 1923 he erected some of the handsome modern apartment houses in Columbus and a number of the fine homes in and around the city. His organization also handles the construction work of several commercial buildings and industrial plants. One of his most important construction enterprises was the building of the great Wagnalls Memorial at Lithopolis, Ohio, which was completed in the fall of 1924. It is a beautiful structure of the English type of architecture, erected by Mable Wagnalls Jones, the pianist and author, as a memorial to her father, A. W. Wagnalls, one of the original founders of the great publishing house of Funk and Wagnalls of New York. A. W. Wagnalls was born at Lithopolis, Ohio, and was one of the successful men who conferred distinction upon the state of their birth. Mr. Cook married Miss Helen Eisele, of Columbus, a member of an old and prominent family of that city. She is a graduate of Ohio State University, also took post-graduate work at Columbia University, New York City. They have one daughter, Helen Anne Cook. Mr. Cook is a Mason, member of Achbar Grotto, and a member of the American Legion. HERBERT R. GILL. Gill has been one of the most familiar names in Columbus, beginning in 1822, ten years after the city was founded. One of the most enterprising and far-sighted citizens Columbus ever had was the late John L. Gill. In his later years as a manufacturer his sons Wilson L. and Herbert R. were associated with him. The latter is still the head of a large business there and a man of splendid influence in the civic affairs of the city. Wilson has become a noted educator and apostle of modern democracy. John L. Gill was born in 1806 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his parents maintained a boarding school for young ladies. In the next decade the family migrated to Pittsburgh. Soon the parents died, and he was bound out as an apprentice to a sheet metal worker in Pittsburgh. After serving two and a half years the court released him from his bonds on account of the hardships imposed by the employer. With his companion apprentice, James Greer, he started a sheet metal working shop and store in Columbus. This rapidly developed into an establishment with a foundry, forge and machine shop, making stoves, plows, mill machinery, bridge castings, etc. His stove, the " Mayflower, " is believed to have been the first square cook stove, in which the draft passes over and under the oven, that was ever made of cast iron. He invented and patented what is now the plow ordinarily used throughout the world, each part being standardized and sold separately for repairs. The business soon outgrew the territory that could be reached profitably by distributing wagons, and Colonel Greer drew the lot to go West and with duplicate patterns set up a similar establishment. He went to Dayton, Ohio, where his son, Rear Admiral James Greer, and daughter, Mrs. Wood, wife of Major General Wood, famous Union general in the Civil war, were born. Previous to this the partners were connected with the State Militia and were members of the governor 's staff, and gained the titles of Colonel Greer and Major Gill, but the latter never tolerated the use of this title. The first coal brought to Columbus from the Hocking Valley came in Mr. Gill's wagons on their return trips, and he later subscribed for the stock that made the building of the Hocking Valley Railroad possible. John L. Gill was one of the leaders in promoting the first and all railroad building in every direction from Columbus, and was a member Of the board of directors of most of them. His plant became the largest manufacturing industry in Columbus, making stoves, plows, railroad cars, etc., and supplied many of the railroads of the entire nation with cars and car wheels. He started the movement for building the street car lines of Columbus. He was the first president of the Columbus Board of Trade, predecessor of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. By his energetic example and influence he stimulated and brought success to many worthy enterprises. He lived to be eighty-nine years of age and died at Columbus in 1895. John L. Gill married Mary Smith Waters, a descendant of Governor William Bradford. She was born in Easton, Massachusetts, and with her brothers and sisters inherited Governor Bradford's family Bible which he brought in the Mayflower. Herbert R. Gill, son of John L. Gill, was born in Columbus in 1855. He attended the public schools in Columbus, a preparatory school at East Hampton, Massachusetts, the freshman year at Yale, and graduated in 1877 from the Ohio State University. He then became associated with his father and brother, Wilson, in the Gill Car and Car Wheel Manufacturing 'Company. Later he developed a building supply business. In 1917 he organized the Columbus Consumers Supply Company, of which he is president. This is one of the largest establishments of its kind in the state. The company has three yards in Columbus, and by means of its own railroad cars handles an extensive line of standard building material products, including practically everything entering into building construction except lumber. His value to the business affairs of Columbus is not measured alone by his individual business activities. Mr. Gill is given credit by all the great manufacturers of the city for being responsible for the principle of open shop in industry. It was largely under his leadership that the present peaceful and amicable relationship of labor and capital was secured in Columbus. He has never been in party politics, yet has exerted an influence steadily for those principles which are the very ground work of a prosperous state and nation. Mr. Gill is a charter member of the Columbus Athletic Club and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married Miss Amy W. Wilson, of Cincinnati, a member of a prominent family of that city. Mrs. Gill for many years has been active in civic affairs, her chief interest being the Columbus Humane Society, of which she is president. Mr. and Mrs. Gill have a daughter, Mary, wife of John Fred Ogelvee, a prominent tea merchant with headquarters in Japan. WILSON L. GILL, a son of the late John L. Gill, and brother of Herbert R. Gill of Columbus, was a member of the first kindergarten class in America. This kindergarten was established by Caroline Louise Frankenberg, Fraebel's, first kindergarten. He made an educational tour through Europe with Emilius O. Randall, with Rev. D. A. Randall as guide and instructor. He was a freshman at Dartmouth, studied engineering and law at Yale, and specialized in social and political science in the post-graduate department of Yale. For ten years he was general manager of the great industry founded by his father, the Gill Car and Car Wheel Works at Columbus. He was the projector and original engineer of the railroad tunnel under Forty-second Street and East River in New York, one link in his plan to bring all the railroads from the South and West under the Hudson and East rivers and Hell Gate into New England. He gave up business to perform a feat in engineering most extraordinary, in the field of morals and of government, to solve the vital problem of the