HISTORY OF OHIO - 25 Anna Maria Simpkins, a native of Philadelphia, and descended on one side from the Hempstead family that came from Prussia to America before the Revolution, having been a chaplain in the Prussian Army. Mrs. David W. Brooks was a woman and fine character and deep religious convictions, and was one of the leading members of St. Paul's • Church. She died March 19, 1866. Later David W. Brooks married Emma L. Brooks, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who died February 17, 1889. Herbert Brooks, a son of David W. and Anna M. (Simpkins) Brooks, was born at Columbus, December 16, 1853. He acquired a good education, and at the age of sixteen entered his father 's bank as messenger, and by subsequent promotions reached an executive position. He had charge of the liquidation of the bank about 1895. For several years' he was in the structural iron and steel business, and since its organization in 1898 has been a director of the Ohio States Savings Association. Mr. Herbert Brooks is a life member of the Franklin Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution in Columbus. He has two Revolutionary ancestors, David Brooks of Lancaster, Massachusetts, and Capt. John White. He is a member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, holds the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry and is a. member of the Kit Kat Club. Mr. Herbert Brooks married Miss Clara Belle Tate, daughter of John H. and Emma Holt Tate. John H. Tate was a banker of Rockville, Indiana. Mrs. Brooks is a descendent on her mother 's side from one Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut, one of the eminent men of his day. Mrs. Brooks is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution and the Colonial Dames. CHARLES L. BEATHARD has for twenty years been a prominent figure in the hotel business at Columbus. In January, 1924, he was elected manager of the Southern Hotel, as successor of Benjamin H. Harmon, deceased, and who brought the Southern Hotel to a high place of distinction among the hotels of the state. Mr. Beathard was born near Delaware, in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1879, son of Charles W. and Mary C. (Hancock) Beathard. His mother, now deceased, was a descendant of John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a kinswoman of Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, soldier and once candidate for president. Charles W. Beathard, now a retired business man, represents an old Ohio family of pure Scotch ancestry. Charles L. Beathard was educated in the public schools of Delaware, attended Ohio Weslyan University in- that city, and on January 1, 1904, at the age of twenty-five, came to Columbus as auditor for the Southern Hotel under the late Benjamin H. Harmon. In March, 1910, he went to the Neil House as auditor, later becoming assistant manager. In August, 1921, Mr. Harmon induced him to return to the Southern Hotel as assistant Manager, and during the last year of Mr. Harmon's life he had practically the .executive control and responsibility in the management of the Southern. Mr. Harmon died in January, 1924. Mr. Beathard is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Aladdin Patrol and Aladdin Country Club. He served six years as vice president of the Aladdin Country Club. He is also a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Columbus Automobile Club. Mr. Beathard married Miss Virginia King. Their home is at 98 Miami Avenue. They have three children, Robert Kenneth, Charles, Jr., and Virginia King. OHIO PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION is the only state wide voluntary public health association in Ohio, and has proved a powerful factor as an educational and advisory body in promoting the general public health program. Affiliated with it are over seventy county and city public health leagues, and in an important degree the practical methods and the inspiration for the work of local organizations are derived from the State Association. When formed in 1901 the Ohio Public Health Association's primary purpose was to combat tuberculosis. The Association was incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1911. In 1920 it was reorganized on a program of enlisting the voluntary support of the public in behalf of the new' state .health program. It is affiliated with the National Tuberculosis Association, which has been in existence since 1904. For twenty years it has been working in cooperation with the State Department of Health, the State Medical Association and kindred organizations in promoting the public health of the state. The program of the organization has changed from time to time to meet changing conditions. Early history of the organization shows it engaged in securing hospitals for the sick, sanatoriums for treatment of incipient cases and nurses and dispensaries for defined cases of tuberculosis and getting them into the hospitals and sanatoriums. It was soon found that more active measures should be taken to prevent individuals from becoming ill; that the tuberculosis program was a general public health problem. Hence better housing conditions were advocated, anti-spitting signs were posted, fresh air schools were started, and the pasteurization of milk was urged. A more recent development has been the campaign of education among school children, instructing them in health habits in order that they might avoid becoming victims of the disease. Physical examination and medical instruction of school children, clinics and facilities for correction of defects have come along with this movement. It is not the function of the private organization to engage in actual health measures, that being the province of full, time health commissioners and public health nurses. At the present time the activities of the State. Association are directed toward organizations of local health leagues; development of local health programs; educational work; and legislation. The secretary in charge of all the activities of this beneficent institution, whose headquarters are in the Evans Building at Columbus, is Robert G. Paterson, himself a native of Columbus, and who holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree and has had an extended experience in public and philanthropic affairs. I id Doctor Paterson was born at Columbus in 1885, son of Robert and Rosa (Gildersleeve) Paterson. His mother is now deceased. His father, a resident of Columbus, has the distinction of having for fifty years been the principal of the Ohio State School for the Deaf at Columbus. He became deaf in early childhood, and his life has been one long consecrated service to the education of those similarly afflicted. Robert G. Paterson acquired a thorough and liberal University education. He finished a course at the Central High School in Columbus, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University in 1905, took his Master of Arts degree in Columbia University in 1907, and in 1909 received the Bachelor of Philosophy degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He also did post-graduate work in the New York School of Philanthropy, his period of study being accompanied by practical experience in civic and social centers. Doctor Paterson became associated with the Ohio 26 - HISTORY OF OHIO Public Health Association in 1911, and for several, years has been the executive secretary. He is a member of the Columbus Rotary Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. By his marriage to Miss Alma H. Wacker of Columbus he has three children, Pauline W., Anne W. and Robert W. Paterson. W. H. DITTOE. As a sanitary engineer W. H. Dittoe has rendered exceptional service to the many cities of Ohio for over ten years. He is now chief of the division of sanitary engineering, department of health of the State of Ohio. He was born at Somerset, in Perry County, Ohio, in 1885, and a year later his parents moved to Columbus. He was reared in that city, attended the grammar and high schools, and in Ohio State University took the engineering course and was graduated with the class of 1908. His early experience was with the engineering department of the city government of Columbus, and he has since had an extensive experience in the different branches of municipal and sanitary engineering. He became chief engineer of the old state board of health in 1912. Since then he has had an increasing range of responsibilities, resulting from the development of public health work in Ohio. He now occupies the position of chief of sanitary engineering, state department of health. On October 16, 1911, Mr. Dittoe married Miss Helen' Spencer, of Columbus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Spencer. Mrs. Dittoe passed away February 10, 1920. Their two children are: William Edward and Mary Elizabeth. GEORGE W. BRIGHT has been a conspicuous 'figure in commercial and financial life of Columbus for half a century. He has been a merchant, coal operator and banker, chairman of the board of the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank, one of the strongest banking institutions of Central Ohio. Mr. Bright was born at Tiffin, Ohio, April 25, 1846, son of Rev. John C. and Sophia Ann (Stoner) Bright. Both the Bright and Stoner families became identified with Ohio in pioneer times. His grandfather, Major Bright, was a native of Maryland, and on coming to Ohio settled in Fairfield County, and in 1835 went to Hancock County. In that section of the state he subsequently owned by entry and purchase upwards of 4,000 acres of land. The maternal grandfather of the Columbus banker was George Stoner, who was also born in Maryland, and settled in Seneca County, Ohio, about 1825. About 1852 he moved to Westerville in Franklin. County. Rev. John C. Bright was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1818, at the age of nineteen entered the ministry of the United Brethren Church, and for a quarter of a century was on active duty with different congregations. He was chosen the first secretary of the United Brethren Foreign Missionary Society. George W. Bright grew up and acquired his early education in different communities where his father had his ministerial duties. Hp attended public schools, Columbus High. School and Otterbein College at Westerville. While a school boy in Columbus in 1863. he attempted to enlist in the Union army, but was rejected on account of his age and physical condition. However, his ambition for experience as a soldier was not to be denied. In May, 1864, having sucessfully passed the examination, he left high school and was mustered into Company H of the One Hundred Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Three and one-half months later he was invalided home with typhoid malaria and discharged from the service. In February, 1865, having recovered, he reenlisted in Company A of the One Hundred Eighty-seventh. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in service until mustered out and honorably discharged January 20, 1866. After his army life he resumed his studies in a business college at Oberlin, Ohio, but two months later, the severe illness and death of his father permanently ended his college career. 'In 1866 he came to Columbus, and in 1872 he and his cousin, J. W. Souder, purchased the wholesale millinery business that had been founded by Mr. Souder 's mother, Mrs. A. E. Souder. Under the firm name of Souder & Bright they conducted this business, Mr. Bright finally retiring in 1894. Early in his career as a merchant he acquired financial connections and official interests in other lines of business. One of these was the Sunday Creek Coal Company, of which he was made vice president. Later he became president of the St. Paul Coal Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, a subsidiary of the Sunday Creek Company, and he continued as an official of these corporations until the Sunday Creek Company was sold to the J. P. Morgan interests. Mr. Bright was also one of the organizers of the. Boomer Coal and Coke Company of West Virginia, and served it either as vice president or president until 1904. However, it has been his interests and activities as a banker that has brought Mr. Bright his best known distinction in Columbus. He first entered the banking business in 1876, as vice president of the Capital City Bank of Columbus. He became one of the organizers of the Ohio Trust Company in 1900, and was elected its president. At the start it was exclusively a trust company, but after a year added a commercial banking department. By July, 1909, the capital stock of the bank had increased from $200,000, to $700,000. In 1909 the Citizens Savings Bank, of which General Beatty was the founder and president, was purchased by the Ohio Trust Company, and the consolidated institution was then 'given its present name, Citizens Trust & Savings Bank. Since this consolidation Mr. Bright has held the post of chairman of the board of directors. Subsequently the Lincoln Produce Exchange Bank and the Capital City Bank were purchased and merged with the Citizens Trust & Savings, as were also the Central National and. Steelton banks. These five have since their merger been operated as branch banks, and in addition three other branch banks . have been established, named the Produce Exchange Branch, the West Side Branch and the Hilltop Branch. Due to these developments and the general expansion in the business in general the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank has become one of the largest and strongest institutions in Ohio. At the report of September, 1923, the item of deposits totalled almost $19,000,000, while the total resources stood- at $22,000,000, and the capital stock at $1,500,000. Mr. Bright and his associates also have controlling interests in the Bank of Basil, at Basil, Ohio, the Bank of Corning, at Corning, Ohio, and the Bank of Westerville, at Westerville, and he is president of each of these banks. Mr. Bright was honored with the office of president of the old Columbus Board of Trade in 1896. He has served as president of the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association of which he was one of the organizers, and has been a member of the First Congregational Church since 1874. He married Miss Martha Worrell, daughter of Samuel Worrell, of Pickerington, Ohio. They have one daughter, Mary Louise, who is the wife of M1. S. B. Nace. ELMER E. JENKINS is one of the most popular and efficient of Columbus City officials, having been city treasurer for the past eight years. He was born at Jackson, Ohio, in 1879, son of HISTORY OF OHIO - 27 Rev. David J. and Ellen J. (Davis) Jenkins. Both his parents were of Welsh ancestry. The Jenkins family came from Wales and settled in Ohio about 1830. Rev. David J. Jenkins was a minister of the Presbyterian Church. He lost his life in a railway accident, and in 1890 the widowed mother brought her children to Columbus. Elmer E. Jenkins was then about eleven years of age. He had attended school at Jackson and finished his schooling in Columbus, but as early as possible got into work that would sustain him and contribute to the support of the family. For several years he was a railway employe, being clerk in the offices of the superintendent of motive power and in the general superintendent's office of the Pennsylvania Railway at Columbus. For about two years he was associated with his brother in the tailoring business. It was in 1916 that the City Council appointed Mr. Jenkins city treasurer. It is a tribute to his efficiency, honesty and faithful attention to his duties that he has been retained in this office continuously. The city treasury carries a daily balance of around $4,000,000, and pays off a force of about 2200 city officials and employes. The office is therefore one requiring a large amount of technical and administrative detail. Mr. Jenkins married Miss Nora A. Williams, of Van Wert County. They are the parents of three children: W. R. Jenkins, now a student in Ohio State University, Miss Frances Jenkins and Edward Jenkins. RT. REV. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN, D. D. Early in 1924, at Cleveland, Ohio, there was held the first ecclesiastical trial in America, in which a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church was accused of heresy. The defendant was the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D. D., the fifth bishop of Arkansas, resigned. The accusation was based upon extracts from his book, Communism and Christianism, Banish the Gods from the Skies and Capitalists from the Earth. The Court of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the trial of a bishop is composed of nine bishops. Eight of these were present and were unanimous in finding the defendant guilty of heresy. Bishop Brown was born at Orrville, Ohio, September 4, 1855. Since his retirement from the active ministry, in 1912, he has resided in Galion, Ohio. The record of his career is a stimulating story and properly belongs in the history of Ohio. His father lost his life in the Union Army. Because of the resultant hard economic conditions, his mother was forced to turn her little son over to a German farmer named Jonas Yoder. Thus it was that in fighting to free the negroes, the father enslaved his own son; for probably no southerner during ante-bellum days made more unreasonable demands upon a young slave, than did Jonas Yoder make upon our embryonic bishop. Doubtless it was this exploitation which produced in Bishop Brown his lifelong sympathy and activity for the oppressed. Finally, after eight years, it became so shameless that the public authori- ties took him away from his taskmaster with the intention of sending him to the poorhouse. In the meantime, taken into the home of one of the county officials, the lad was stricken with typhoid fever. While sick he promised God to become a preacher if He. would allow him to recover. Thus came the dynamics for his clerical career. When he renewed his journey to the poorhouse, he was intercepted and given a home by Jacob Gardner and his wife, on whose place he was born. His parents were working for them at the time. Mrs. Gardner was a generous, devout Methodist, and hoped the lad would adopt her religious faith. He tried long and hard to be "convicted of sin" and Bishop Brown today, looking back from his present broad and liberal standpoint, pities the harassed child struggling to rid himself of imaginary sins. Mrs. Gardner 's benevolent disposition and religious enthusiasm did much to impress our future bishop with the idea that religion was the only method for making effective, his interest in civilization's "under dog." He now thinks socialism or communism the better way. With his majority he took his freedom and with the $75 he had saved, went to Omaha. Here he became a coachman for Judge Clinton A. Briggs, through whose kindness, young Brown was enabled to attend school. So neglected had been his education that at the age of twenty-one he could enter only the fourth grade. His steady and rapid progress showed his determination to make good. After securing, through great self denial a high school education, he took a business college course and became a school teacher. With the money thus earned, he entered a Methodist school at Mount Vernon, Ohio, but did not continue his studies there because he could not find work enough to pay his way. Then going to Cleveland, Ohio, he talked with John Gardner, a son of his former foster-parents, about entering the ministry. John Gardner introduced young Brown to a wealthy lady, Mrs. Mary Scranton Bradford, who was using a portion of her means to educate worthy young men for the ministry. She took the young man to Rev. John Wesley Brown, rector of Trinity Church, Cleveland, now the Cathedral of the Diocese, but formerly a Methodist. This clergyman convinced the conscientious young man that his failure to respond to the influences of a Methodist revival meeting did not necessarily mean that he was lacking in true religion, and Mrs. Bradford agreed to finance his study for the ministry. The young man rejoiced at the prospect of living up to his sick bed promise to God. His higher education was acquired at Faribault, Minnesota, and in Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. In 1883 he was ordained a deacon of the church, and a priest in 1884. On April 9, 1885, he married Ella Scranton Bradford, a daughter of the good woman who had so generously assisted him. It was at Galion, in 1883, that he first took up the work of his ministry. He accepted the charge determining to remain only until he could gracefully get away. Regardless of this desire, he went to work with a zeal that resulted in fifteen new preaching stations in the region of Galion. He remained at Galion until 1891. In that year he was made general missionary with the title of Archdeacon of Ohio and organized or revived many churches throughout the Diocese. He was the first general missionary in the United States to bear the title of Archdeacon. His first book, " The Church for Americans," published in 1895, attracted much favorable comment and rapidly ran into many editions. This book, together with the administrative ability he had shown, resulted in his elevation in 1898 to the Coadjutor Episcopate of Arkansas. In 1899 he became the fifth bishop of that jurisdiction. In a service of thirteen years, as bishop of Arkansas, he organized and built forty-nine churches and twenty-four rectories. One of the first problems which confronted him when he assumed the duties of his new office was that relating to the negro. His solution of this problem he has embodied in his second work, " The Crucial Race Question." He believed that the best results would be obtained through the establishment of an autonomous Africo-American Episcopate. These views were not then satisfactory to either the whites 28 - HISTORY OF OHIO or the blacks, but ultimately they were to a large extent adopted. The third book of Bishop Brown which appeared in 1910, was entitled, "The Level Plan for Church Union," a plea for the union of all churches into a more efficient single organization. Here he again showed his independent thinking, by admitting that the historic Episcopate and apostolic succession conferred no special sanctity upon Episcopalian clergymen. Not long afterwards, in 1911, on account of ill health, he took a vacation for two years from the active service of a Bishop ; but having within a few months concluded that he could do more good as a student and author, he resigned in 1912. With the outbreak of the World war in 1914, Bishop Brown began to urge upon his brethren of the Episcopate the necessity of taking a stand against all wars. His failure to secure their cooperation led him to add to his studies that of economics. As a result came finally in 1920, his heretical and most famous book, entitled; "Communism and Christianism, " which has since been translated into German, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Greek, Bohemian and Hungarian. He has suffered from having overestimated the intellectual hospitality of church fellowship. But with him, as with others who have strayed from the beaten path, authority is as nothing compared with the joy of independent thought and research. Bishop Brown's trial for heresy was unlike any other, in at least two particulars. He has abandoned all belief in the supernatural, and yet would like to retain his church affiliations. He claims this as a right because he says that, treating all religious formulations as being merely figurative and symbolic, he continues to affirm his belief in all of them. But he reinterprets them by reading his own recently acquired naturalistic .concepts into the language much of which for most people still symbolizes the supernatural. He insists that the progress of the race has exhibited itself by this process of reading new meanings into old word-symbols. He believes that the church should frankly adopt this method of the scientists. He claims that all other members of the House of Bishops have also used this method to some extent, for example, they reject the Bible astronomy and accept the Copernican. This brings us to the second novelty of this trial. Bishop Brown claims that when belief is psychologically analyzed we will get behind the creed to understand the mental content which the words symbolize for different individuals. Then we discover that uniformity of religious mental content is impossible. If orthodoxy is to be measured by identity of mental content with those who wrote the Nicene Creed, then of necessity our great cultural progress has made heretics of all Bishops. But beyond this is the important psychologic claim that orthodoxy has never been, and in the nature of things cannot be defined in terms of the religious mental content, as it is now understood by psychologists. If the Catholicity of the Church is to be ever made a fact, the Church must be content to unite humanity, under its habitual symbolism, and allow each to work for human betterment according to his own light. By making a great point of these psychologic facts Bishop Brown hopes to so promote intellectual hospitality toward the time when all lovers of mankind can unite under the symbolism of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the common welfare, without inquiring too closely, if 'at all, about anyone's theories of supernaturalism. Bishop Brown evidently belongs to what is known in England as the Broad Church Party. Of them it has been said: " They are willing that the portals of the Church should be flung as widely open as the gates of Heaven." By his defense he hoped that he might induce the Church to again make an official endorsement of the Broad Church Party's position, as had been done in England during the Reformation period. We cannot do better than to close this account of a useful life by quoting part of a statement made by one of Bishop Brown's admirers who understands this disciple of humanity. This is his characterization of a really great and good man: "I see in him a gentle, kind, elderly man who, as he walks to the tomb ever grows in charity; a man unmindful of self, ever more devoted to others. He is glad when children stop him on the street and ask little favors, and he astonishes the poorest man who knocks at his' door by his respectful behavior to him. With his wife he lives in affectionate intercourse and while he has no children, he has seen to it that the gathered wealth which he believes he holds in trust, shall some day be used by those whose needs are great. So he has provided that on his decease a hospital shall stand on the ground he owns." The accompanying engraving shows him as, he appeared when he was Bishop of -Arkansas. . DANIEL GALBREATH SANOR, JR., M. D. This is a name that for some years has been significant of expert knowledge, skill and service in that branch of medicine and surgery specializing in eye, ear, nose and throat. For several years there have been two specialists associated together in practice, father and son, so that the name is properly followed either by senior or junior. One of the finest equipped private hospitals in the state, and one reserved exclusively for eye, ear, nose and throat cases, is that erected by Doctors Sanor and Sailor, in the fall of 1923, at 206 East State Street in Columbus. It is a modern three-story structure, the front of lime stone and brick, and 'the entire building of beautiful architectural design. The first floor is given over to physicians'. offices, on the second floor are the offices of Doctors Sanor and Sanor,' and the third floor is the private hospital, containing two operating rooms. It has a capacity of twenty-five beds, and every modern convenience and facility is afforded for the most complete service in a hospital of this kind. Dr. Daniel Galbreath Sanor, the older, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio. He graduated in medicine at the University of Baltimore in 1894, and after a few years, practice at Malvern, Ohio, came to Columbus in 1898 by appointment of Governor Bushnell as physician to the Ohio State Penitentiary. Resigning that office he helped reorganize the Mercy Hospital of Columbus, and served as its chief-of-staff until 1904. For the past twenty years his work has been almost entirely within the lines of his specialty, the eye, ear, nose and throat, and in that field his reputation is easily state wide. During the World war he volunteered for service with the Army Medical Corps, was commissioned a captain, and spent some time as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist at Camp Grant. Daniel Galbreath Sanor, Jr., was born at Columbus, in 1898, son of Daniel Galbreath and Nellie (McGaffic) Sanor. He was educated in Ohio State University, graduating with the degree Bachelor of Arts in 1919, and having done his premedical work he finished the regular course of medicine and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1921. Since then he has been actively associated with his father in the same special lines. Both are members of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Opthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. HISTORY OF OHIO - 29 Doctor Sanor, Jr., married Miss Lana White, daughter of Dr. David White of Columbus. Her father is dean of the veterinary department of Ohio. State University. The two children of their marriage are Lana and Bettie Nell. JOHN ALDEN BUMSTEAD, assistant manager of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau and president of the Columbus Kiwanis Club, has lived in Columbus for the past ten years and has had a many sided experience in the thirty odd years of his life. Mr. Bumstead was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1889, son of A. B. and Ida May (Post) Bumstead. Through his paternal grandmother, who was a Foote, he is directly descended in the tenth generation from the famous New England character John Alden of the Mayflower. His paternal grandfather, who makes his home at Delaware, Ohio, had a varied pioneer experience in the Western States of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. A. B. Bumstead was also a pioneer. He was associated with the early discovery and opening up of the famous Cripple Creek old mining district in Colorado, owning and operating the first store there and being a leader in the development of the famous mining camp that is now all but deserted. He died there at the age of thirty-nine. One of his brothers is Dr. L. A. Bumstead, a prominent physician at Delaware, Ohio, and owner of Delaware Springs Sanitarium. Mrs. Ida May (Post) Bumstead, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Illinois, and is prominent among the women of Nebraska. She is Grand Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star for Nebraska: John Alden Bumstead attended the public schools of Lincoln, also the University of Nebraska, and as a- youth he joined the engineering department of the Burlington Railway Company, and for several years had an interesting work and experience in Nebraska and Wyoming. In Wyoming he was with the engineers engaged in the noted Thermopolis-Shoshoni construction. For a time he was connected with geological surveys and ordinary land surveys in the "Bad Lands" of Nebraska-Wyoming, also for a period he held an official position under the State of Nebraska in the department of Physical Valuation of Railways. Mr. Bumstead has had many years of active association with lyceum and chautauqua management. He took a position in the offices of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau at Kansas City in 1911. Two years later, in 1913, upon the organization in Columbus, Ohio, of the Redpath Chautauquas by Mr. Harrison, he removed to this city, and has since remained here, with increasing responsibilities' as assistant director of the Redpath Lyceum and Chautauqua Bureau. For some years he has been prominent in the Kiwanis Club of Columbus, having served as vice president and one of the directors, and in December, 1923, that body honored him with election as president. He is admirably qualified to exemplify the splendid principles and program of this noble order. He is a member of Kinsman Lodge of Masons and of the Aladdin Country Club. Mr. Bumstead married Miss Gladys Pettit, a native of Macon, Missouri. They have one daughter, Jean. Their home is in the beautiful residential section of Columbus known as Arlington. WILLIAM E. DAVIS is one of the prominent young insurance men of Columbus, is a veteran of the. World war, and is commander of Fred Norton Post of the American Legion. He was born at Shawnee in Perry County, Ohio, in 1890, but since 1905 the family has lived in Columbus. His parents, J. L. and Harriet (Abram) Davis, are both of Welsh ancestry. Harriet Abram was born in Wales and the father of J. L. Davis was born at Minersville, Ohio. J. L. Davis is one of the representative business men of Columbus, enjoying the highest esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He has been in the insurance business for nearly twenty years, and is head of the firm of J. L. Davis & Son, general insurance, of which William E. Davis is junior member. William E. Davis from the age of fifteen was reared in Columbus, and finished his education in the public schools, and as a young man joined his father in business. He married Miss Edith Davis, of an unrelated branch of the Davis family, and they have one daughter, Pollyanna. Mr. Davis was inducted into service for the World war at Camp Sherman, October 6, 1917. He was assigned to duty in the Three Hundred Twenty-fourth Field Artillery, which at first was a part of the Eighty-third Division, but on going overseas became a unit of the Thirty-second Division. Mr. Davis went overseas with the Three Hundred Twenty-fourth Field Artillery in June, 1918, and saw active duty at the front during the last three months of the war. After the armistice he went with the Three Hundred Twenty-fourth to Germany as part of the Army of Occupation, and was stationed at Ruschied. He returned to America and was discharged June 5, 1919. He became identified with the American Legion upon its organization, and at the annual election of Fred Norton Post No. 141, in November, 1923, was honored by being chosen commander of the post. WILLIAM LINCOLN HART. As qualifications for the distinction of being elected president of the Ohio State Bar Association for the years 1923-24, William Lincoln Hart has a record of long and successful practice at Alliance, and a success not only as an able lawyer but of a broad minded and public spirited citizen. Mr. Hart was born at Inverness in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 5, 1867, .son of Benjamin F. and Ariel S. (Dreghorn) Hart. His maternal grandfather, John Dreghorn, was born in Scotland and was a pioneer in the typically Scotch village of Inverness in Columbiana County. The Hart family has been in America since early Colonial times. His great-grandfather, Silas Hart, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, while his grandfather, John S. Hart, served in the War of 1812. John S. Hart became the father of eight sons and nine daughters, seven of the sons becoming soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, most of them in the three years' service. All of them returned home. Benjamin F. Hart was born in Columbiana County in -1843, was a soldier in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Battery, and spent his mature career as a farmer in the home locality. William Lincoln Hart was the first in a large fam ily of children and spent his boyhood days on a farm in Columbiana County. He attended local schools, and at the age of eighteen began teaching in his home district. He taught for seven years and at the same time paid his expenses as a student in Mount Union College at Alliance, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1893 he became city editor of the Alliance Daily Critic, later known as the Alliance Daily Leader, but in 1895 entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws with the class of 1897. He was president of the senior class of law school, and a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and also the Wranglers Club. He was admitted to the bar June 10, 1897, standing third in a class of ninety applicants. On October 1, 1897, he opened a law office at Alliance, and in March, 1898, became a partner of Dennis E. 30 - HISTORY OF OHIO Rogers, with whom he practiced until the death of Mr. Rogers in January, 1903. Since February, 1903, he has been associated in practice with Hugo C. Koehler in the firm of Hart & Koehler. This is a partnership of more than twenty years standing, and is a firm that has handled cases of great magnitude. The firm specializes in railroad and corporation law. Mr. Hart was admitted to practice in the Federal courts of the Northern District of Ohio March 23, 1903. Mr. Hart is a trustee of Mount Union College and is lecturer on international law in that institution. He has prepared a number of articles for law magazines, and is a member' of the American Society of International Law, the Stark County, State and American Bar associations. During the war he was a member of the legal advisory board of Stark County. Mr. Hart is a member of Conrad Lodge of Masons, Alliance Commandery No. 67, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, and is also affiliated with the Lone Rock Lodge No. 23, Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Rotary Club and the Country Club of Alliance, the Chamber of Commerce, the Congress Lake Country Club, and is a member of the Ohio Society of Mayflower descendants. He is a member of the Stark County Republican Executive Committee and he and his wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He married September 15, 1897, Miss Ida B. Caskey, daughter of Nathan and Bertha Caskey. They have two children, Ian Bruce, born December 28, 1899, now a practicing lawyer at Canton, Ohio; and William Lincoln, Jr., born January 11, 1910. FRED W. ELLIOTT, a well known and popular citizen of his native city of Columbus, has gained prestige as a leading representative of the architectural profession in Ohio, with specially high reputation as the designer of theater buildings of the highest class. Mr. Elliott was born in Columbus on the 19th of July, 1867, and is a son of James M. and Caroline (Bentz) Elliott. The discipline of the public schools of the capital city was duly received by Mr. Elliott, and thereafter he was for some time a student in the University of Ohio. He studied architecture under the preceptorship of leading local architects, and his high standing in his profession offers the best voucher for his exceptional ability as an architect. His reputation and his work in his profession have extended beyond the limits of his native state, and he has held various important offices in line with the work of his chosen vocation. Thus it may be noted that he has served as architect for the Ohio state department of workshops and factories; consulting architect of the state building code commission; architect for the state building commission; architect for the state armory board; and consulting architect for the building code commission of Dayton, Ohio. He is now (1923) architect for the adjutant general's department of Ohio. Mr. Elliott has been specially successful in the designing of modern theater buildings of the most artistic and substantial type, and he has designed and supervised the erection of more than sixty such buildings, in Ohio and adjoining states, and including the splendid Majestic Theater in Columbus. Mr. Elliott's affiliation with the various bodies of the time-honored Masonic fraternity has been marked by special loyalty and appreciation. His basic affiliation is with David N. Kinsman Lodge No. 617, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master. His other York Rite affiliations are here briefly noted: Ohio Chapter- No. 12, Royal Arch Mason; Columbus Council No. 8, Royal and. Selected Masters; and Mount Vernon Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar. In Scioto Consistory, Valley of. Columbus, he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is not only a noble of Alad- din Temple of the Mystic Shrine but is also a charter member of its band, one of the finest Shrine musical organizations of the United .States. His Masonic affiliations are further extended to Achbar Grotto No. 31, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. Mr. Elliott wedded Miss Naomi A. McKeown, of Barnesville, Ohio, March 27, 1894, and their attrac- tive home in the capital city, at 854 Franklin Avenue, is known for its gracious hospitality, with Mrs. Elliott as its popular chatelaine. EDWARD D. HOWARD. This well-known lawyer of Columbus, Ohio, is the son of Mitchell C. and ,Kate (Thompson) Howard, both deceased. The father, Mitchell C., was born in Columbus in 1841, and was the son of Edward D. and Nancy L. (Clark) Howard. Edward D. was a native of Massachusetts, where he was born in Berkshire County. About the. year 1832 or 1833 he pioneered to Ohio and located in the rapidly growing town of Columbus, and was instrumental in founding the broom manufacturing business in 1836 which he conducted for many years and was continued by his son, Mitchell C., until near the date of his death, which occurred November ,4, 19.22. Kate Thompson was the daughter of Rev. John W. Thompson, who was one of several brothers. that be- came pioneers at a very early period in the history of this state. Her father was a wagonmaker by trade, at which he worked during the weeks, but occupied the pulpits of the pioneer churches during the Sundays. He was one of the prominent preachers of the Presbyterian Church during the pioneer period, and was the founder and first minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Reynoldsburg, Franklin County. One of his brothers, Reverend George, made himself conspicuous by his open opposition to slavery,. and became one of the leading abolitionists in the state for many years before the Civil war. He distinguished himself in the so-called "Underground Railroad" that was formed to conduct slaves from the South across the United States to Canada. He was a near friend and associate of Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an anti-slavery advocate, who was mobbed and finally shot at Alton, Illinois, in 1837, by the pro-slavery advocates of that region. Upon the death of Lovejoy, his brother, Owen Lovejoy, conducted a more rigorous campaign against slavery in Illinois, and was greatly aided by Rev. George Thompson, whose operations in the "Underground Railroad" became more active and effective that before. He joined the strong anti-slavery movement at Alton, and carried his underground operations across the river to Missouri. He was finally arrested by the Missouri authorities, convicted under the Fugitive Slave Law, sentenced to imprisonment and served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary. But never during his life did he regard this service as a disgrace; he regarded it as a glorious martyrdom. Originally the Thompsons resided at Morristown, New Jersey. Edward D. Howard received a liberal education in the public schools of Westerville and in the Ohio State University. At the latter school he took two courses—academic and law—and graduated from the law department with the class. of 1894 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since that time he has distinguished himself in the practice of his profession in the City of Columbus. From the start he has taken an active, candid and prominent part in local, state and national politics, and has distinguished himself as a leader of the republicans of Columbus and vicinity. He became so eminent at an early stage of HISTORY OF OHIO - 31 the political game that he was brought forward as a candidate for the State Senate by the republicans to represent Franklin County, was triumphant, and served with credit and distinction during the session 1900 and 1902. His unusual capacity for satisfactory public service was still further disclosed when, in 1903, he was appointed assistant secretary of state under Secretary of State Laylin, in which capacity he served much to his credit for three years. Prior to these events he served with eminence as assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, also a term in the City Council, and also as secretary of the code commission that compiled the last code of the state. In early manhood he married Eliza Miller, daughter of the late James T. Miller, whose home was the beautiful property that in recent years has been developed into the present attractive suburb of Upper Arlington. Mr. Miller died in January, 1920. To Mr. and Mrs. Howard have been born two children: Eliza M. and Edward D., Jr. RALPH JACKSON BARTLETT is a Columbus attorney, a young man who has made his way in the world in the face of obstacles, paying his expenses through college and law school, and has already made his mark in the profession. He was born at Albany, Indiana, in 1889, was reared there, had the advantages of the common schools only, and after leaving home spent two or three years in Kansas and Colorado. His ambition as a boy was to be a lawyer. He had to pay his own expenses while in school. Deciding upon Ohio as his future home, he finished his literary education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. While a student there in 1912 he was appointed a page in the Constitutional Convention of Ohio, then holding its session at Columbus. This gave him the opportunity of cultivating a wide acquaintance among prominent men from different parts of the state, and it was also an opportunity of which he availed himself to gain knowledge at first hand of the organic and basic law of the state then in process of being written at this convention. Mr. Bartlett had previously served as a page in the State Senate. His law studies were pursued in the Ohio State University at Columbus. He graduated Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1916, and at once began practice in a city whose bar has been notable for its lawyers of distinguished rank and ability. He has made a name for himself and a high place in his profession. He handles a general practice in the County, State and Federal courts, and is also acting as general attorney for the Central Building, Loan & Savings Company, one of the largest and most successful financial corporations in Columbus. In the primary elections of 1922 Mr. Bartlett received the democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney of Franklin County. He had the enthusiastic support of many staunch friends outside of his own party, but was defeated in the face of the usual and normal republican majority in the county. Mr. Bartlett is one of the active young spirits in civic, college and social circles. He Married a Columbus lady, Miss Mary Seidensticker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Seidensticker, of one of the old families of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have one daughter, Betty Ann. ROBERT J. BEATTY has found liberal exercise for his talent since beginning practice at Columbus, and in twenty years has risen to a very high position in the Ohio bar. The recent honor and responsibility conferred upon him was his election as Exalted Ruler of the Columbus Lodge of Elks. Mr. Beatty was born at Cardington, in Morrow County, Ohio, March 13, 1879, son of Robert A. and Mary (Shaw) Beatty. He grew up in his native county, graduated from the Cardington High School in 1896, and soon afterward entered the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus. He completed his course in 1900, passed the bar examinations, and began practice immediately after leaving the University. He has handled an important general practice, appearing as consul in the various Counties, State and Federal courts. In addition to his private practice he, was for seven years attorney for the tax department of Franklin County, and for two years was special consul for the State of Ohio under Attorney-General Hogan. Although not subject to the first draft call Mr. Beatty offered himself to the government in any capacity that his services could be used as soon as war was declared. In the early part of the war he was particularly helpful in the financial campaigns for the prosecution of the war. He was assistant secretary for Franklin County during the second liberty loan drive, when the quota assigned was only $38,000 but the county subscribed $1,500,000. Mr. Beatty traveled over the state and delivered many speeches for the thrift stamp campaign, and in the spring of 1918 he was accepted for duty with the war consul of the Young Men's Christian Association and spent three and one-half months on the Alsace Loraine front, and altogether six months on duty with the Young Men's Christian Association in France. Mr. Beatty is a democrat in polities, and for six years was general secretary of the executive committee of the National League of Democratic Clubs. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Beatty for a number of years has been a loyal and enthusiastic Elk, and since his return from abroad he has not missed a single meeting of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has taken a considerable share of Elks activities, serving on the various committees and chairman of the Sick Committee and Visiting Committee. He has filled the chairs in the Elks Lodge of Loyal Knight and Leading Knight, and in March, 1923 was elected Exalted Ruler. Mr. Beatty married Miss Glendora Robb. GEORGE MORRISON LOGAN, M. D. In 1907 Doctor Logan, recently graduated from medical college, located at Akron, to complete his training as an interne. He was an American surgeon overseas during the latter part of the World war, but except for that his work has been in Akron. His associates declare that he has ideal qualifications for the practice of surgery, and to that field his practice has been limited since the war, and his attainments have been such as to rank him among the leaders in his profession in Ohio. By birth and early environment he is a product of the West. He was born at Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas, September 21, 1878. His father, James Logan, a native of Belfast, Ireland, came to this country at the age of fifteen, and with an older brother had an arduous working experience in the pineries of Wisconsin. In 1873 he settled in Kansas, developed a farm and became an extensive land owner. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Congregational Church. From 1906 until his death in 1914 he lived retired at St. Joseph, Missouri, being eighty-two when he passed away. His wife was Sarah Elizabeth White, who was born in Michigan in 1848, and died in 1906. George Morrison Logan spent most of his boyhood days on a Kansas farm, learning his first lessons in a country school. However, his home was close to the seat of learning at Manhattan, and he attended high school there and the Kansas Agricultural College, 32 - HISTORY OF OHIO from which he graduated with the degree Bachelor of Science in 1902. While pursuing post-graduate work on his own account he remained at the college during 1903-04 as assistant instructor in bacteriology and physiology. Doctor Logan graduated in 1907 from Rush Medical College of Chicago, and soon afterward came to Akron, where he served a year and a half as an interne in the Akron City Hospital. In 1909 he engaged in general practice, but a short time before he entered the army service he had limited his practice to surgery. At that time, he was a surgeon on the staffs of the People's and the Children's hospitals. Doctor Logan in 1917 was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, having his first training at Camp Sherman, Ohio, being assigned to the Base Hospital there until August 31, 1917; was then sent to Scudder 's Clinic at Boston for military surgical training until November 1, 1917. His next assignment was at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, with the Evacuation Hospital Organization, and while there he was promoted to the rank of captain. He was then ordered to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and on May 8, 1918, went overseas with Evacuation Hospital No. 5, and served with that unit on the western front with the American Expeditionary Forces in the Toul sector until July 13, 1918; at Chateau Thierry until August 22; at Soissons until September 12; at Verdun until October 3; at Rheims in the Champaigne sector until October 22; and was then in Belgium until January 16, 1919, and on February 15, 1919, was sent to Savenay, Hospital Center Four. He returned home as commanding officer of nurses of Base Hospital No. 24, and received his honorable discharge March 8, 1919. Since the war he has practiced as a general surgeon. He is visiting surgeon of the People's Hospital and associate surgeon of the City Hospital. He belongs to the Summit County, Ohio, State and American Medical associations, the. Cleveland Academy of Medicine and the Sixth Councilor District of Ohio Medical Society. Doctor Logan is a member of Summit Post, No. 19, of the American Legion, is a member of the Silver Lake Country Club, the University Club, the Masonic Club, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his Masonic affiliations are with Akron Lodge, No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter, No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council, No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Yusef Khan Grotto, No. 41, and while at Allentown, Pennsylavnia, during the war he received his thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Doctor Logan is a democrat in politics, and is a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. He married Miss Christine Kennedy. They have two children, Elizabeth Jane and George Morrison, Junior. ARTHUR MCWILLIAMS, present chief of the division of dairy and food in the Ohio State Department of Agriculture, has had an unusual career of usefulness, as teacher, farmer, pharmacist and as public official. He was born in Center Township, Noble County, Ohio, in. 1874, son of William and Louisa (McCollum) . McWilliams. He represents a family that has been in Noble County for at least a hundred years. The first treasurer of that county was his grandfather, Philip McWilliams. William McWilliams was born on the same farm as his son Arthur. After his early training in the common school and the normal schools of Noble County, Arthur McWilliams became a teacher. He is a. graduate of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and also .of the College of Pharmacy of the Ohio State University. For a time he was in the drug business at Uhrichsville in Tuscarawas County, and though almost a newcomer there he was honored by election as representative of the county in the Lower House of the Ohio General Assembly. He was in the seventy-ninth session during the administration of Governor Harmon, and served on a number of important committees. On leaving Uhrichsville Mr. McWilliams returned to his old home in Noble County. In 1918 he was made an inspector in the food and dairies division of the Department of Agriculture, with headquarters at Columbus. The first year his work was almost entirely in connection .with the World war, and this constituted his individual war service. Altogether he was an inspector four years, and in February, 1923, was made chief of the division. This division of the State Department of Agriculture constitutes a vital service of the state government, primarily concerned with assuring the public of clean, pure, wholesome food and drink, and in addition to laboratories and facilities for testing food products, a force of twenty-three inspectors is maintained, covering the entire state. As head of this department Mr. McWilliams has charge of the inspection of food products, drugs and narcotics, whether manufactured, stored, distributed or sold. His many years of public life in Ohio have given Mr. McWilliams a wide acquaintance and friendship with Ohioans of prominence and distinction. He is a democrat in politics, but the only one in his family, his brothers being republicans. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. Mr. McWilliams married Miss Bertha Eisnaugle, of Portsmouth, Ohio. HARRY E. FRENCH was the first man appointed a member of the police department of Columbus under the provisions of the civil service rule, was for fifteen years superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Identification, and since 1920 has been chief of police. Chief Trench is a man of versatile accomplishments, and one of the most popular citizens as well as officials of Columbus. He was born in this city, August 3, 1878, son of Edwin A. and Rebecca (Robey) French. His paternal grandparents were Lloyd Dillon and Ellen Frances (Quigley) French. His grandfather was born at Dillon's Falls, near Zanesville. His wife, Ellen Frances Quigley, was a sister of Wallace Quigley, a well known journalist and writer at Zanesville, and her mother was Elizabeth (Walker) Quigley. The father of Elizabeth Walker was the author of a dictionary of the English language that was published about the same time as Noah Webster's original dictionary. The father of Ellen Frances Quigley was known as Squire Quigley of Zanesville, and for about forty years he held the office of justice of the peace. He was born in one of the Ulster counties of North Ireland and came to America when a boy. Edwin A. French, father of Chief French, was born at Zanesville, in 1849, and died January 6, 1923. The maternal grandfather of Harry 'E. French was Emanuel Robey. He was a native of the Shenandoah Valley of 'Virginia. Two of his brothers joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the Civil war, while Emanuel and another brother espoused the Union cause. After his service as a soldier Emanuel Robey located at Athens, Ohio, where his children were born. Harry E. French was reared in Columbus, attended the public schools to the fifth grade, and after that his education was directed by a private tutor; on account of his health. As a youth he found employment with the Franklin Typewriter & Supply Company, Mr. E. H. Sell being at the head of this business. He was with that firm two or three years, and then became an employe in the -Columbus offices of the Smith Premier Type- HISTORY OF OHIO- 33 writer Company at Syracuse, New York. At first he was in the mechanical department, subsequently became city salesman, and finally was salesman in other cities of Ohio, including Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo. His service with the Columbus police department began November 24, 1900, as a patrolman. Subsequently he was detailed as secretary to the Chief of Detectives and then became a member of the detective force. On March 1, 1904, he was appointed to organize and establish the Bureau of Criminal Identification for the police department, including the photographing, measuring and finger printing of criminals and suspects. On April 1, 1905, the City. Council having provided for the position of superintendent of this bureau, to be filled by civil service examination, Mr. French having qualified in the examination, was appointed superintendent. He held that office nearly fifteen years, until March 5, 1920, when he was made chief of police. The promotion to chief of the force also came under the civil service rule, requiring examination. Chief French is one of the new police department heads in the country who have served throughout under civil service rules. His various promotions have been gained by merit and a first class record, without political influence. This no doubt accounts in part for the remarkable record he has made in administering the department. He has conducted it according to the spirit and letter of civil service, and has applied the principles of merit, character and efficiency. It has been no empty boast that Columbus has one of the best police departments of any city in the country. Chief French has one ambition, and that is to make the police force as nearly 100 per cent perfect as possible. A great deal of justified praise has been bestowed upon the traffic squad, which is particularly well trained and efficient. One of Chief French's instructions to these men is, that they should endeavor to "sell" Columbus to many thousands of tourists and travelers who pass through the city in automobiles. The good results of this are indicated by the many letters, now approximating nearly 2,000, which have been sent to Chief French from people who have passed through Columbus and noted the courtesy of the traffic police, being sufficiently impressed to write their appreciation. Mr. French is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, of the Ohio Police Association and the International Police Conference. He is chairman of the Radio Research and Extension Committee of the International Police Conference. One of the tributes recently published in a local paper indicating some of his versatile accomplishments reads as follows: "Harry E. French, chief of police, a student of medicine and of criminology, an exponent of efficiency and courtesy, a terror to law breakers, an accomplished after dinner speaker, an expert tomato grower, an officer and a gentleman." Mr. French is past master of Humboldt Lodge No. 476, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is a member of Ohio Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine and belongs to Junia Lodge of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Anna O. Mulzer. FRED W. POSTLE. Graduated from law school in 1907, Fred W. Postle has had sixteen years in which to make his talents and abilities known as a lawyer and citizen at Columbus. His professional associates speak of him in the highest terms as a skillful and hardworking lawyer with a large practice. He has given his talents also to the community for service on the City Council and as a leader in other movements. Mr. Postle is a son of Theodore D. and Mary (Busbey) Postle, and was born at Alton, Prairie Township, Franklin County, May 10, 1882. The Postles are one of the oldest of Ohio families in Franklin County, and the Busbeys were pioneers of Clark County and a number of men of distinction represent that name. Shadrach Postle was the founder of the family in Franklin County, coming from Maryland to Ohio when this was still a part of the Northwest Territory. He settled at the present site of Camp Chase, a few miles west of Columbus, about 1800, or possibly earlier. In 1810 he acquired the old Postle homestead, a place now owned by two of his descendants in the fifth generation, Fred W. Postle and his brother. The five generations of the Postle family have lived in Prairie Township, have been sturdy, industrious and high minded people, and have contributed in good measure to the material and moral development of their community. Mary Busbey, the mother of Fred W. Postle, was the youngest child of Thomas C. and Anna (Botkin) Busbey, of Clark County. Thomas C. Busbey and wife had eleven children, reared nine of them, eight of them became teachers, two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil war, and several of them had achieved national distinction. William H. Busbey was at one time city editor of the Ohio State Journal, associate editor on the Toledo Blade, and until his death in 1906 was managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Hamilton Busbey was a newspaper man under George D. Prentice on the Louisville Journal, and later was one of the founders and was editor of the Turf, Field and Farm at New York until 1903, and became a noted authority in American racing, circles. White Busbey was at one time Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean and finally acted as private secretary to Congressman Joe Cannon of Illinois until the retirement of that famous statesman in 1922. Still another son, Addison Busbey, was for a quarter of a century associated with the Railway Age at Chicago. Fred W. Postle grew up at the old homestead in Franklin County, attended the schools at Alton, and was graduated in 1903 from the Central High School of Columbus. He taught school two years, and in 1907 graduated from the law department of Ohio State University. While he is still in general practice, much of his work is connected with corporation matters. Mr. Postle was a member of the charter commission which framed the present city charter, as a result of which the old councilmanic system was superseded in 1916 by the commission form of government. Mr. Postle was one of the last members of the old City Council, serving as councilman at large in 1914 and 1915. In 1923 he was elected republican candidate for the City Council. He is president of the Eleventh Ward Republican Club, and has participated in a number of local campaigns. At the university he received his letter in athletics, having been one of the pitching staff of the university ball team. He is still an ardent baseball fan. Mr. Postle is a. Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Elsie Ashton, of Reynoldsburg, Franklin County. Their interesting family of four daughters are named: Martha, Helen, Freda and Phyllis. COL. DANIEL S. WILDER, of Columbus, at the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in that city in June, 1923, was honored by being elected department commander of Ohio. He received his baptism of fire in the first year of the Civil 34 - HISTORY OF OHIO war, when he was only seventeen years old. He made a brilliant record as a soldier, and for many years has been a prominent official in the Grand Army of the Republic. Colonel Wilder was born at. Columbus, August 25, 1844, and represents two pioneer families of Ohio. His father, Daniel S. Wilder, Sr., was a native of Ohio, and the grandfather, William Wilder, brought the family from Massachusetts to Ohio in the early '30s, settling six miles from Painesville in Lake County. Daniel S. Wilder, Sr., removed to Columbus about 1840. A few years later 'he left for Missouri. Still later he was a California '49er, and after spending several years in that mining region he lost his life in 1852, while on his way home in the shipwreck of the Yankee Blade in, the Pacific Ocean. Daniel S. Wilder, Sr., married Elizabeth Yantis. Her people came from Hagerstown, Maryland, her father moving to Ohio in 1817 and after a short residence at Worthington, north of Columbus, made his permanent home at New Albany, in Franklin County. Colonel Wilder spent his boyhood at Columbus, acquired a common school education, and it was in the summer of 1861 that he enlisted in the Eighteenth United States Infantry of the Regular Army. He was assigned to Company F, First Battalion. The Eighteenth Infantry was brigaded with the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth infantries, and these, together with Battery H, Fifth United States Artillery, founded what was officially designated as the regular brigade of the Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, under the command of General Thomas. All of Colonel Wilder 's active army service was with this organization. The first campaign was at Mill Spring, Kentucky, in January, 1862. He was in the fighting around Corinth during the following summer, was at the Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862, in all the skirmishes leading to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and in December, 1862 was wounded at the Battle of Stone River. Subsequently he rejoined his regiment and was in the fighting leading up to the great Battle of Chickamauga on August 19. and 20, 1863. In that battle he was captured, and as a prisoner was taken to Richmond, where he was confined in the Smith Building. Subsequently he was transferred to Bell Isle in the James River, still later to Danville Virginia, thence to Andersonville, Georgia. When Sherman invaded Georgia he and other prisoners were transferred to Charleston, then to Florence, South Carolina, and finally, at Richmond, he was exchanged on February 28, 1865. Eighteen months of confinement had left his health shattered, so that he was unfit for further active service and did not reach home until shortly before the close of the war. He had been made sergeant of his company, and in later years, on account of his official positions on the staff of the department commander of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, he had been generally known by the title of colonel. Following the war Colonel Wilder was for many years a popular railroad official in Columbus. For four years he was in the passenger department of the old Indiana, Bloomington & Western, now part of the Big Four system. Following that he became city passenger agent for the Big Four in Columbus, ten years subsequently was made division passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at Columbus. He retired from the railroad service in 1904. Colonel Wilder was one of the founders and since 1914 has been president of the Ohio Building & Loan Company. He became a. charter member of Wells Post No. 451, Grand Army of the Republic, and was also a charter member of J. C. McCoy Post. He is former president of the association of the Army of the Cumberland, and has frequently been a delegate to the National Encampment and other important gatherings of ex-Union soldiers. Colonel Wilder married Ruversa L. Landon. They reside at 992 Harrison Avenue, and have three daughters and two sons living: Miss. Yura N.; Edna, wife of R. W. Sperry, of Cleveland; Mrs. Ruversa L. Webber, of Columbus; Kilbourne W., and Bliss W. Wilder. JOHN J. CHESTER, JR. The name John J. Chester has been prominently identified with the Columbus bar for forty years. The ripe abilities and prestige of the elder John J. Chester have in recent years been supplemented by the work of his son, John J. Chester, Jr., associated with him in practice, and the present police prosecutor of Columbus. The family is one that has been in. Ohio for several generations and represents a very old family of New England stock. Prior to the year 1663 Capt. Samuel Chester, who commanded the brigantine "Adventure" after its capture by the French, settled in the East Parish of New London, Connecticut, now Groton, where he owned large tracts of land. His son, John Chester, representing the second generation, married Mary Starr. Her father, Thomas Starr, through his mother, Hannah Brewster, was the grandson of Elder William Brewster, "Chief of the Pilgrims" and one of the passengers on the Mayflower. The third generation of the family was represented by Simeon Chester, who removed to Truro, Nova Scotia. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war his loyalty to the colonies caused him to sacrifice his valuable property there and return to Connecticut to take sides with the colonists in the war for independence. His loyalty was recognized by Congressional act in 1789-1791. These acts accorded him 960 acres of land in three separate tracts in Ohio, two located in Licking County and one in Franklin County. His oldest son, Elias Chester, of the fourth generation, was the Ohio pioneer, and settled on the Franklin County tract in Truro Township. He was instrumental in naming this township in honor of his father's old Nova Scotia home. The Licking County tracts were settled by Simeon Chester, second. A son of this latter Simeon Chester was Austin Eaton Chester, who was born at Groton, Connecticut, in 1821, and was five years old when his family came to Ohio. He became a successful merchant and manufacturer at Newark, where he died in 1891. Austin Eaton Chester married Cordelia McCune, who was a sister of the late Jonas M. McCune of Colum- bus. John Jonas Chester, Sr., of the Columbus bar, son of Austin Eaton and Cordelia (McCune) Chester, was born at Newark, Ohio, in 1860. He was liberally educated, attending Worcester University in Ohio, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1882 from Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, and this school conferred upon him the Master of rts degree in 1885. At Columbus he read law with the firm Converse, Booth & Keating, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and has been continuously engaged in a broadly successful practice in the capital ever since. This practice for the most part has been connected with corporation law. He is a member and former president of Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of various. local clubs and civic organizations.. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. In 1894 John J. Chester, Sr., married Harriet E. Lisle, of Milwaukee. John J. Chester, Jr. was born at Columbus in 1898. He attended public schools in his native city, HISTORY OF OHIO - 35 was a student in the Miami Military Institute at Germantown, Ohio, also at Kenyon College at Gambier, and from there entered Amherst College in Massachusetts. While a student at Amherst, the United States entered the World war, and returning home he enlisted, at the age of eighteen, in Headquarters Troop of the Thirty-seventh Division. He went abroad with the Thirty-seventh, and as a sergeant participated with the division at various points on the western front. After the war he studied law at the Ohio State University, and in January, 1922, was admitted to the bar and at once joined his father in practice at 16 East Broad Street. In December of that year he was appointed police prosecutor, effective. January 1, 1923. Mr. Chester is a thirty-second degree Scottish trite Mason and Shriner, belongs to the Modern Woodmen,. Odd Fellows and the Psi Upsilon College fraternity and is a member of Franklin Post of the American Legion. He married Miss Bonnadine Rice, of Columbus, daughter of Dr. R. A. Rice. They reside at 2363 Fair. Avenue; Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, and their two children are John J., III, and Barbara Jane. Mr. Chester is a member of the Franklin Park Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs to the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club of Columbus, the Elks and to various other civic and fraternal organizations. EDWARD O. MORROW, M. D. One of the most prominent men in the medical and surgical profession at Canton is Dr. Edward O. Morrow, who began his professional career in that city more than thirty-five years ago. He was born at New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia, son of Alexander and Rebecca Morrow. His father went to California in 1849, during the days of gold discovery, but returned to his home in West Virginia, where he resided until his death. Doctor Morrow received his medical education in Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the Ohio State University, taking his medical degree in 1887, and since that year has steadily practiced as a physician and surgeon. He is consulting physician to the Aultman Hospital and Mercy Hospital at Canton, and during the World war was chief medical member of the Local Draft Board. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the University Club, the Congress Lake Club and the Shrine Club. He married at Canton, June 1, 1912, Miss Ida M. Steiner. FRED L. ROSEMOND, who was admitted to the Ohio bar forty years ago, was a prominent attorney and resident of Cambridge until 1920, since which year he has lived in Columbus, and practices law in that city. Mr. Rosemond is former state director of the Free Educational Service maintained for ex-service men by the Young Men's Christian Association. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, August 25, 1861, son of James Henry Rosemond, grandson of James Rosemond and great-grandson of Philip: Rosemond. Philip Rosemond was born and reared in County Leitrim, Ireland, where he married and where part of his family were born. In 1795 he came to America, landing in Philadelphia in August, and during the next fifteen years lived around Philadelphia, at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and at St. Clairsville in Eastern Ohio. In April, 1810, he settled on a quarter of a section of land adjoining the site of the Fletcher Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxford Township of Guernsey County. He located there for a few days before the county and township were organized. His home remained at Fletcher until the old National Road was built westward from Wheeling, when Fairview, on that road, and not far distant from Fletcher, sprang up and the family moved to the new locality, where the Rosemoods lived for many years. Philip Rosemond died there October 14, 1831. He was a stock raiser, drover, tavern keeper, farmer and was postmaster at Fletcher. He is said to have kept the first stopping place for travelers between Wheeling and Cambridge, Ohio, and to have been the first postmaster between Wheeling and Zanesville. This pioneer, Philip Rosemond, was a descendant of a drill sergeant who was in the army of William of Orange during the invasion of. England in 1688. He settled in the North of Ireland about 1689, but refused to accept any grant of land. which the Government confiscated. Three generations passed before the emigration of Philip Rosemond, though some of the name immigrated and settled in the Southern States of America as early as 1740. Rose. monde were all Protestants and Orange men. James Rosemond was seven years of age when his father, Philip Rosemond, came to America. Fred L. Rosemond was reared in Guernsey County, graduated from the Cambridge High School in 1878, and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University as a member of the class of 1882. During 1880-83 he was associate-editor of the Hamilton Daily News and Weekly Telegraph at Hamilton, Ohio. In the meantime he studied law at Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1883, after passing the examination before the Supreme Court. In the same year he began practice at Cambridge, and conducted a large business as a lawyer there until 1920. Mr. Rosemond has served in many. appointed positions of trust and responsibility, but has never sought an elective office nor one carrying financial remuneration. He was president of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Public Library, a trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University. He formerly served as president of the Guernsey Hardware Company, as a director of the National Bank of Cambridge, director of the Cambridge. Grocery Company, and secretary and director of the Cambridge Improvement Company. When America entered the war with Germany Mr. Rosemond volunteered for Young Men 's Christian Association work, became camp secretary and served as such at the Great. Lakes Naval Training Station and Camp Sherman, Ohio. He was then put in charge of the demobilization of the War Work Council for Ohio, and following that, when the Young Men 's Christian Association Educational Service was instituted, he was made state educational director for Ohio, beginning in December, 1919. That service it will be recalled involved the granting of free scholarships to soldiers, sailors and marines. This .educational service was continued for eighteen months, until the end of June, 1921. During that time every county in Ohio had received free scholarships and the total value of the awards made under the plan exceeded $280,000, the volume and value in Ohio being about one-sixteenth of the total throughout the nation. It was also noteworthy that the average expense per award for Ohio was the lowest of any state of the ten in the central region, and also' the lowest for any other state. During the past two years Mr. Rosemond has continued to render valuable service to the Young Men's Christian Association educational program for ex-soldiers, and from many of these ex-service men he has received numerous expressions of the gratitude they feel for what he did for them. Mr. Rosemond married Miss Ella Grimes, daughter of James O. Grimes, a well known lawyer and citizen of Cambridge. They have four children. Two 36 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the daughters, after receiving their Master of Arts degrees at Ohio State University, are members of college faculties—Alice, in Spanish, at Denison University, and Leslie, in French, at Hiram College. A son, Philip a, is in business at Orrville, Ohio, and Miss Marjorie, an accomplished musician, is at home. The family residence is at 2090 luka Avenue. JOHN E. MONGER, M. D., on January 1, 1923, assumed the duties of director of the State Department of Health of Ohio by appointment from Governor Donahey. In that position he succeeds Dr. H. H. Snively. Doctor Monger came to these great responsibilities with exceptional endorsement and with a record of previous service justifying his selection. He was born at Connersville, Indiana, in 1877, but when about twelve years of age his family moved to Greenville, Darke County, Ohio. He was reared in the home of his uncle, Thomas H. Monger, who for many years was superintendent of the Darke County Children's Home. The Mongers are an, old family in America. They came to this country soon after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts. The founder of the family was John Monger, who had served with the rank of an admiral, in the British Navy. Doctor Monger is a graduate of the Greenville High School, and was graduated in medicine in 1902 at the University of Cincinnati. He enjoyed a successful private practice at Greenville until 1917, when he was appointed state registrar of vital statistics. He filled that office at Columbus three years and then was engaged in general practice in the capital city until he became director of the State Department of Health. While living in Greenville, Doctor Monger organized and for several years was secretary of the Darke County Historical Society. Under his leadership this society gathered an historical library and museum representing what is probably the largest and most valuable county exhibit in the country, consisting of books, documents, relics and antiques of pioneer and Indian life in Ohio and the old Northwest Territory. Doctor Monger is a member of many medical organizations, including the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He married Miss Nellie Hough, and they have two sons and one daughter, Thomas, Mary and William. R. J. WILLIAMS is serving his second term as county recorder of Franklin County. He has been prominent in county republican politics for a number of years, and the efficiency with which he has managed his office is a compliment to his thoroughness as a business man. He is former president of the famous Buckeye Republican Club. Mr. Williams was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1880, son of Morgan and Mary (Thomas) Williams, both natives of Wales. Morgan Williams when six years of age was brought to America by his parents, about 1838 or 1839. The family settled in Licking County, Ohio, in the Welsh Hills community, North of Newark. Morgan Williams grew up there, and he had to his credit four years of service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He joined the Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry, which was organized at Newark. Later he removed to Gallipolis, on the Ohio River, in Gallia County. When R. J. Williams was about six years old the family moved to Oak Hill in Jackson County. That was the environment in which he was reared, and he acquired his education in public schools and in normal school. Mr. Williams came to Columbus in 1898, when a young man of eighteen. He soon became an employe of the Columbus Buggy Company, and for sixteen years was chief clerk of that company. At the same time he was doing his part as a public spirited citizen and also doing much for the success of the republican party in the county. In 1913 he was honored with election as president of the Buckeye Republican Club, a famous organization which includes in its membership the most prominent republicans in the country. He is now secretary for the club. For seven years Mr. Williams was a member and five years of that time was secretary of the, Municipal Civil Service Commission. At the general election of 1920 he was elected on the republican ticket county recorder, beginning his official term in September, 1921, and in November, 1922, was reelected. During his first term he conducted his office with an efficiency that made it possible to handle a larger volume of business at less. expense. Mr. Williams is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Sadie J. Milstead, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Their four children are: Ruhama, John F., Cread M. and Dorothy V. WILLIAM MICHEL has had a continuous service of nearly forty years in the engineering department of the Hocking Valley Railway. He is now chief engineer of this railway system, essentially an Ohio enterprise and which has done as much to develop the natural resources and furnish transportation therefor as any other single factor. Mr. Michel, whose official headquarters are in Columbus, was born in that city in 1866, son of Frederick and Catherine (Glass) Michel. His father was born in Alsace-Lorraine, of French ancestry, and was a boy when his parents came to America, settling at York, Pennsylvania, and during the '50s locating at Columbus, Ohio, where the name Michel has continued to represent one of the respected old time families of the city. William Michel was reared and educated in Columbus. In 1885, at the age of nineteen, he became a rodman with the engineering department of 'the Hocking Valley Railway. This was then a comparatively new railroad, and a large ,part of its modern mileage has been built since Mr. Michel came into the service. He has had a steady promotion in the engineering department, and in 1910 was made chief engineer, a just reward for long, faithful and efficient service of a quarter of a century. Mr. Michel formed an acquaintance with the original builders and pioneer officials of the Hocking Valley Railway. Through all the years of his active service he has been an interested observer and student of its material and industrial progress, and in his memory and otherwise has accumulated an immense amount of valuable historical material in connection with the construction and early operation of the system. He is regarded as perhaps the leading authority on all matters connected with the history of this Ohio enterprise. Much of his material was used in a very interesting article contributed by him to the December, 1923, number of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley Employes' Magazine, under the title, "Historical Sketch of the Hooking Valley Railway." Mr. Michel is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club, and is president of the Board of Trustees of the Northminster Presbyterian Church. By his marriage to Virginia Pritchard he has four children, Helen, Virginia, Phoebe and Thomas. HISTORY OF OHIO - 37 PAUL F. BROWN. A resident of Columbus since early boyhood, Paul F. Brown was one of the first American soldiers from Ohio to get overseas, going with the engineer corps, and was in active service until after the armistice. Mr. Brown is commander of Franklin Post No. 1 of the American Legion and is one of the prominent younger men in the insurance business. He was born at New Holland, in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1893, and his parents, J. K. and Bina (Chaffin) Brown, were also natives of this state. In 1903 the family moved to Columbus, where J. K. Brown engaged in the retail grocery business. After completing his education in the grammar schools and the North High School, Paul F. Brown went to work in his father 's grocery store, and remained there until June, 1917. At that date he enlisted in the regular United States Army for service in the World war, and was assigned to duty in the engineers corps. With his command, consisting of about 80U men, he went overseas in July, 1917. This was the first contingent of American ships to go to the scene of the war, and had the further distinction of being the first troops marched through the streets of London under a foreign flag, a sight that had not been witnessed there for 800 years. The engineering unit to which Mr. Brown was attached was assigned duty in the construction of Base No. 1 at St. Nazaire, France, for the American troops that later came on by hundreds and thousands to that base. After about a year and a half of duty with the engineer corps, and after the armistice, Mr. Brown was transferred as a student of artillery to the French Heavy Artillery School at Saumur, being under the instruction. of French artillery officers. He graduated from that school. Returning home in March, 1919, Mr. Brown received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman. His work in the insurance business has brought him steady advancement and he is now secretary of the Bryson-Bedwell-Brubacher Company, fire and general insurance, one of the leading firms in Columbus. His popularity among the veterans of the World war has brought him. the honor of election as commander of Franklin Post No. 1 of the American Legion. This was the . first American Legion Post organized in Ohio, and is one of the largest in the state in point of membership. Mr. Brown is also a Royal Arch Mason. SIMEON ANDREW ROACH is a practical banker, and had a number of years of experience, in executive positions before he was called to his .present office as secretary of the Ohio Bankers Association. Since then he has been a resident of Columbus. The Ohio Bankers Association is made up of about 1200 Ohio banks, the object of the association being to promote welfare and usefulness of the banks in general, and insure concerted action coming from free discussion and interchange of opinions on questions regarding financial matters, and also in-. fluence wise legislation affecting the banking interests of the state. Mr. Roach was born at Sedalia, in Madison County, Ohio, in 1877, son of R. W. and Mary V. (Workman) Roach. His parents in 1883 moved to Chillicothe, where Mr. Roach was reared. He was educated in the public schools, and in 1899 graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus. After his university career he was for eight years identified with the Citizens National Bank of Chillicothe in various capacities, and for ten years was a cashier of the Citizens National Bank of New Lexington. Mr. Roach was made secretary of the Ohio Bankers Association in 1919. To his duties he brought: a wide and sound experience as a banker, and has been well qualified technically and in personal character for the many duties involved in his office. He is also editor and manager of the Ohio Banker, a Monthly magazine, which is the official publication of the association. Mr. Roach is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Optimist Club and is president of the fraternity alumni of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, comprising the chapters of the fraternity located at Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio . State University. Mr. Roach married Mabel Z. Marshall, of Chillicothe. Their five children are Wilson M., Clinton A., Sarah Anne, Robert G. and Simeon Andrew, Jr. HARRY C. ARNOLD. A prominent figure in the public life of Franklin County for many years has been Harry C. Arnold, present chairman of the County Executive Committee of the republican party and also deputy state supervisor and inspector of elections. Mr. Arnold, who has been a resident of Columbus since high school days, was born. at Basil in Fairfield County, October 1, 1875. His father, T. J. Arnold, still living, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was a soldier in the Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry during .the Civil war. After the war he came to Ohio and settled in Fairfield County, where he married Martha L. Crumley. She was born in this state and is now deceased. She represented a staunch Union family, and she did her full share of woman's work to help the cause of the government at the time of the Civil war. Harry C. Arnold was reared in Fairfield County, attended public schools there, and at the age of eighteen came to Columbus to complete his education in the Central High Shcool. Subsequently he took up the study of law and journalism in the Ohio State University, and finished his work there in 1900. For many years he has been an official at the Court House, beginning as deputy county clerk, and continuing another two years under County Clerk Park. Following that he was chief clerk in the office of the county recorder. Mr. Arnold in 1914 became a member of the Franklin County Board of Elections, and has served continuously, being its present chairman, as well as executive state supervisor and inspector of elections. In 1922 Mr. Arnold was called upon to become leader of the county republican organization, and in that capacity he harmonized to a remarkable degree the diversions and factional interests of the party in the county. The best index of his work as chairman came in the November election, when the republicans swept the county with their county ticket in the face of a large majority given in the county for the democratic candidate for governor. It was the most complete victory for the republican party in the county in more than a decade. Mr. Arnold is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also holds membership in other fraternal organizations, including the Odd Fellows, Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Sons of Veterans. He married Miss' Cornelia C. Allonas, of Canton, Ohio, and they have one son, Harold C. JOHN E. DAVIS, president of the National Guarantee and Finance Company of Columbus, and formerly general manager of A. Davis, Sons & Company, cigar manufacturers, is of the third generation of the family to be identified with that large and important industrial concern founded by his grandfather in the year 1872. John E. Davis was born in Cincinnati, in the 38 - HISTORY OF OHIO year 1892, and there he supplemented the discipline of the public schools by course in the University of Cincinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913. He forthwith became associated with the business founded by his grandfather, as general manager of the Columbus plant and business of A. Davis, Sons & Company. In April, 1917, before the close of the week in which the United States became formally involved in the World war, Mr. Davis subordinated all personal and business interests to the call of patriotism, for in that month he enlisted for service in the aviation department of the United States Army. His initial training was obtained at the ground school at Columbus, and thereafter he received flying instruction in the Wilbur Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio. He was then sent to Ellington Field, near Houston, Texas, he having been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and having continued in service until the close of the war, though he was not called to overseas duty, greatly to his regret. He is now captain in the Officers Reserve Corps of Air Service, United States Army. He received the Medal of Merit for distinguished aeronautical achievement, first flight from the .Gulf of Mexico to Canada and return, in October, 1918. Mr. Davis has the distinction of being president (1923) of the Aero Club of Columbus, its membership being composed largely of veterans in the army air service, and its purpose being to advance the art and practice of aeronautics, for both military and commercial functions. It is interesting to record that one of the charter members of this club was Eddie. Rickenbacker, of Columbus, America's ace of aces in the American air service in the World war. In July, 1923, Mr. Davis retired from the cigar manufacturing business and organized the National Guarantee and Finance Company, of which he has been president since its inception. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club and the Aladdin Country Club. In 1921 Mr. Davis married Miss Ruth Wilson Parish, of Columbus, a daughter of James Gordon Parish. GEORGE WARD LINN. Collecting stamps is a hobby that strikes nearly every normal boy and frequently remains an absorbing avocation in later years. Many interesting and famous persons all over the world have become well informed philatelists, as those who pursue the science of stamp collecting are known. An internationally known dealer in rare stamps and stamp collector lived at Columbus, in the person of George Ward Linn. Mr. Linn began collecting when about ten years of age, and continued it for a number of years as an amateur and gradually developed it into an important business. Mr. Linn was born at Greenville, in Darke County, Ohio, in 1884, son of William McMillan and Belle (Radabaugh) Linn. On his mother's side he is descended from the Ward family. The Wards were among the first settlers of Darke County, and had to protect their pioneering efforts of home making against hostile Indians. William M. Linn, his father, was born at Greenfield, in Highland County, Ohio,. and for a number of years was a prominent Ohio journalist. He was editor and publisher of papers at Versailles, Greenville, Wapakoneta and Hamilton, from where he went to Dayton and conducted a general printing business. From Dayton he moved to Columbus in 1893. For thirty years he has been prominently identified with the printing business of the city. This business is now conducted as W. M. Linn & Sons Company. His two active associates are his sons, William J. and Edward R. Linn. The Linn plant is famous for its fine quality of artistic printing. In the Linn family printing is revered as an art as well as a practical business. George Ward Linn learned printing under his father. Samples of very beautiful and artistic books he produced for his stamp business show high skill in the printing art. While earning his living as a printer Mr. Linn became more and more interested in stamp collection, and gradually built up a small business as a dealer until finally he left printing to concentrate his entire attention upon his specialty. His business is known as the George W. Linn Company, and has been conducted under that name since 1904. In the sale and collection of old and rare stamps his business runs into thousands of dollars annually. He makes purchases and receives orders for stamps from practically every country where stamps are used in any way. Some of his specimens have been Among the rarest and most highly valued among philatelists, and have brought large prices. He ransacks all corners of the earth for specimens of old, rare and obsolete issues, some of them of much historic interest. He is an active member of the American Philatelic Society, the New York Collectors Club and other national and local Philatelic societies. Mr. Linn married Mayme Julia Phyllis, and they have one daughter and one son, Hazel Phyllis and Ward Roy Linn. RALPH W. CLARK is junior member of the firm of Kinnear & Clark, which controls a substantial insurance and bond business in the City of Columbus, with offices in the Central Bank Building. Mr. Clark has been a resident of Ohio's capital city since he was a lad of five years, his birth having occurred at Zaleski, Vinton County, Ohio, in 1884, and the family removal to Columbus having occurred in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Clark, parents of Ralph W., still maintain their home in this city. In the public schools of Columbus Ralph W. Clark continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the North High School, and thereafter he gave fifteen years of effective service as secretary to the postmaster of Columbus—first under the administration of Postmaster Krumm and thereafter under the regime of Samuel A. Kinnear. In 1921 he became associated with Mr. Kinnear in the general insurance and bond business, the firm of Kinnear & Clark having been formed in August of that year and active business have been instituted in the following October. The members of this progressive firm are well known and command high esteem in Columbus, and the business which they conduct has become one of broad scope and importance. Mr. Clark is a democrat in political allegi- ance, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In September, 1905, Mr. Clark married Bertha R. Gheen, also of Columbus, Ohio. CHARLES A. WARD, now a resident of Columbus, and president of the Dayton Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Pure Oil Company, is a native of the City of Marietta, the first permanent white settlement in the Northwest Territory, and the community old and rich in historic reminiscence and facts. Mr. Ward has the honor of being one of the trustees of Marietta College, the oldest educational institution in Ohio, and elsewhere referred to in the general history of the state. Mr. Ward is also deeply interested in the town where he spent his boyhood and the environment so rich in history and the source of the early beginnings in civilization out of which came the great state of Ohio. HISTORY OF OHIO - 39 Mr. Ward was born at Marietta in 1870, son of A. T. and Katharine (Wakefield) Ward. His father was born near Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio He was a Union soldier, being a captain in the Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry in the Civil war. Katharine (Wakefield) Ward was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, and her ancestors were English puritans who settled in Massachusetts about 1632. Charles A. Ward was reared in Marietta, when he attended the public schools and graduated fron Marietta College with the class of 1890. His earl: years were spent in newspaper work. After graduat ing at Marietta he moved to Superior, Wisconsin and for ten years was editor of the Inland Ocean in that northern city at the head of the lakes. When he returned to Ohio in 1900 he engaged in business in his native city, and during the administration of President Taft he served as postmaster of Mari etta. In 1916 Mr. Ward became president of the Day ton Gas Company at Dayton. The Pure Oil Company is one of the largest corporations in America producing and refining oil. Since 1922 Mr. Ward has made his home in Columbus, his office being in the Gasco Building at 246 North High Street. He married April 16, 1901, at Marietta, Ohio, Miss Annie Rep pert. They have one son, Kenneth. MILTON S. COX. To the office of chief of the Division of Markets, Ohio State Department o: Agriculture, Milton S. Cox brought a long and practice cal experience as a general farmer and a fruit grower, and also the broad qualifications of a busi ness man, newspaper publisher, and one acquainted with marketing and publicity mediums. Mr. Cox represents one of the oldest families of Southern Ohio. He was born in Richland Township Venton County, in 1872, son of James G. and Nam: (Groves) Cox. Members of the Cox family were soldiers of the Revolution, fighting with the Virginia troops. For such services they were granted lands in what was known as the Virginia grant in Ohio. Mem hers of the family came from Virginia and settled 03 the present site of Frankfort, in Ross County, 1800, before Ohio entered the Union and when thi was still a part of the Northwest Territory. Th grandfather of Milton Cox, Thomas Cox, moved from Ross County to Vinton County, and at the Chillicoth land office entered land in Richland Township. Thi constitutes the old Cox homestead, where Milton F. Cox still has his residence. He has a farm of 161 acres, including a splendid orchard, and for man-years in connection with his outside interests he ha done general farming, stock raising and fruit grow ing. At this homestead he spent his early years. H was educated in the public schools, and for thre years attended the Morgan Brothers Normal School at Oak Hill, Ohio. This was one of the best of th old time private select schools, and many Ohio me: of distinction received the foundation of their edu cation there. One of the Morgan brothers, Steve: W., after school was discontinued entered public life and at one time represented his Ohio district Congress. Before completing his work in the norms school Mr. Cox began teaching at the age of sixteer This was his profession for about twelve years. Al his teaching was done in Vinton County, and for par of the time he was superintendent of schools a McArthur, the county seat and was recently elected county superintendent. Mr. Cox is also familiar wit: the law, having been a student in the law depart meat of Ohio State University at Columbus in 1898-99. During those years he was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the Legislature, representing Vinton and Hacking counties. He serve in the Seventy-third Session of the General Assembly. The outstanding feature of that session was the memorable campaign for the election of Mark Hanna as United States senator. When making his own campaign for election Mr. Cox pledged himself against the selection of Mr. Hanna, and he carefully carried out this pledge and all others he had made in his platform. Mr. Cox has served as supervisor of schools in his home county. In 1920 he was appointed supervisor of the Fourteenth Decennial Census for the Tenth Congressional District. During the World war he had a leading part in the various drives in campaigns for the war chest and the sale of liberty bonds. He devoted all his time for several months to such causes. He was clerk of the draft board, and was secretary of the war chest and the Red Cross. Mr. Cox since 1918 has been editor and owner of the Democrat-Enquirer at McArthur. This is Vinton County's leading democratic newspaper. Mr. Cox assumed his duties as chief of the Division of Markets in February, 1923. His appointment came from Director of Agriculture Truax, at the request of Gov. Vic Donahey. Mr. Cox's knowledge and experience in Ohio agriculture was reinforced by his experience of several years while a resident of Southern California, where he had opportunities to study the advanced methods of marketing of fruit, which reached the highest perfection in California. The Division of Markets maintains a continuous service for the benefit of farmers throughout the state. A daily letter is sent out from Mr. Cox's division to the newspapers, and more complete news and information are contained in the weekly "Market News and Exchange Bulletin," sent to farmers all over the state. As chief of the Division of Markets Mr. Cox has his official headquarters in Columbus, in the state capital. However he retains his home and other interests at McArthur and in Vinton County. He is a member of the Christian Church of McArthur, and has for some years taught a class of young ladies in the Sunday school. Mr. Cox married Miss Ida B. Timms, a native of Vinton County, who at that time was secretary of the Central Newspaper Association of Cincinnati. She died in 1915 in California. They had gone to California primarily to benefit her health. EDDIE GETTROST, one of Columbus exceedingly popular citizens; is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, was a captain in the World war, and the quality of the good soldier has been evidenced throughout the strenuous efforts he has put forth to achieve success as a man of affairs. He was born in Bellaire, Ohio, in 1877, and came to Columbus in 1893, as a boy of sixteen. For a time he worked during the day in restaurants and attended night school, and followed a similar program in Cincinnati for a time, where he attended a night business college. In that way he managed to acquire a good common school and business education, the equivalent of six years in day school. When the Spanish-American war broke out in the spring of 1898, Mr. Gettrost, who had recently returned to Columbus, enlisted in the regular United States Army, joining Company B of the Seventeenth United States Infantry as a private. He went with the regiment to Cuba and from there accompanied General Miles' expedition to Porto Rico, landing at Guanica July 25, 1898. He was in the service until June, 1899, when, returning to Columbus, he was honorably discharged. In 1902 Mr. Gettrost bought out the old Swift bowling alleys on East Gay Street, and continued the operation of the property as bowling alleys and 40 - HISTORY OF OHIO restaurant. In 1913 was opened his South High Street billiard hall and bowling alleys. In 1916 his third place was opened at 592 North High Street. These have been three popular resorts for men in the city. In November, 1922, he opened a fourth and the most pretentious of them all, the Gettrost Recreation Hall on Front Street, near Gay. This recreation hall comprises the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of the building, each of which is equipped with magnificent bowling alleys, twenty-eight in all, Comprising unsurpassed facilities for that justly popular sport. He is and has been for eleven years president of the Ohio State Bowling Association. Mr. Gettrost's service in the World war began in June, 1918, when he enlisted as a private in the artillery. He was commissioned first lieutenant in July, and was sent to Fortress Monroe, Virginia where he organized and trained a company of colored. soldiers. He went to France as their commander in August, 1918, and was assigned to duty in the Quartermaster 's Department. He was located at Gievres, France, and was on duty there until July 20, 1919. While overseas he was promoted to captain, and was honorably .discharged with that rank at Camp Sherman, August 22, 1919. Captain Gettrost is a member of Franklin Post of the American Legion at Columbus, and is former president of the Franklin County Council of the American Legion. He is also a member of Camp No. 49 of the Spanish-American War Veterans and belongs to the Automobile Club, Athletic Club, the Elks and the Columbus, Country Club. He married in 1900 Miss Bertha Long, of Bellaire, Ohio. They have one daughter, Miss Dorothy Gettrost. GEORGE W. TOOILL was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1912, and thereafter continued in the general practice of law in the City of Columbus until the spring of 1923, when he was appointed inheritance-tax expert in the department of the Tax Commission of Ohio, an office which has since demanded his undivided time and attention. Mr. Tooill was born at Melford Center, Union County, Ohio, December 15, 1864, and was reared at Carroll, Fairfield County, where he completed the curriculum of the high school. He thereafter attended Ohio University, at Athens, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1905: To his credit is a record of long and successful service as a teacher in the public schools of Ohio, his pedagogic work having included his service as teacher of mathematics in the North High School of Columbus. While the incumbent of this high school position in the capital city he here studied law in the law school maintained by the local Young Men's Christian Association, and in 1912 he was admitted to the bar and established himself in practice- at Columbus. Here he continued his independent professional activities until he was called to his present official post, .as previously noted in this context. As a youth Mr. Tooill enlisted in the old Fourteenth Infantry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard at Canal Winchester, Franklin County. His company was then commanded by Capt. John C. Speaks, who now has the military rank of brigadier. general. For several years Mr. T.00ill did not maintain active affiliation with the National Guard, but under the administration of Governor Harmon he was made a captain the Quartermaster Corps, he having previously gained the rank of captain in the regiment in which he first enlisted. After another interval of nonmembership he was again called into military service, in the autumn of 1923, when he received from Governor Donahey a commission as captain in the section of the Judge Advocate General, and was assigned to the staff of the Thirty-seventh Division, commanded by Gen. Benson W. Hough. Captain Tooill has likewise this same rank and assignment in the Officers. Reserve Corps of the .United States Army. Captain Tooill married Miss Louella M. Smith, and they have three children: Kenneth D., Kathleen O. (Mrs. Roy S. Snively), and McKendree S. JOHN F. CIANFLONA is a practicing lawyer at Columbus, and a prominent leader in Italian professional and business circles there. He is a native of Columbus, where he was born in 1894. His father, Michael Cianflona, was born in Italy and came to America in 1888, and since that year has been a resident of Columbus. John F. Clanflona received his early advantages in the public schools of Columbus, and for three years, from 1904 to 1907 attended a school in Italy at Nicastro, near Naples. While earning his living in other lines of work Mr. Cianflona studied law in the Young Men's Christian Association law school at Columbus. and was admitted to the bar in 1920. He has gained a substantial general practice, and already has represented important interests before the County, State and Federal courts. In the spring of 1918 Mr. Cianflona entered the Officers Training Camp at Camp Gordon, Georgia, where he was commissioned lieutenent in the Officers Reserve Corps. He is prominent in the various Italian societies at Columbus, particularly the Sons of Italy, a national organization, and the Dante Society, of which he . is president. The Dante Society is a social organization of professional and business men of Italian birth or ancestry in Columbus. It includes some men of exceptionally high standing. Mr. Cianflona is affiliated with Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Lena Mone, of the capital city. CHARLES C. JANES. The Ohio State Automobile Association was organized in 1901, and one of its charter members is Charles O. Janes, who for four years was its president and since 1919 has been secretary. This office is an executive one, and through it is handled the large volume of business comprising the program of activities of the association, which in general represents the interest of the various local automobile associations and the broad welfare of motorists and motor car owners in general throughout Ohio. There are 78 local clubs in the various cities and larger towns of Ohio affiliated in membership with the state association, and the latter is affiliated with "the American Automobile Association. The state association looks after the interests of motorists, is active in the enforcement of laws governing motor traffic, and in the enactment through the Legislature of whatever measures may be deemed wise both for the motorists and the public. Needless. to say the state association has been one of the strongest and most steadily working influences in behalf of the building and maintenance of good modern roads. The association maintains its executive offices in Columbus, with Mr. Janes in charge, and to his duties as secretary he gives all his business time. Mr. Janes was born in Delaware County, near the City of Delaware, Ohio, son of Hubert A. and Emma (Beardsley) Janes, also natives of Ohio. His father served with an Ohio regiment in the Civil war. Charles C. Janes was educated in the public schools of Delaware, and also at Cardington in Morrow County. His higher education he pursued in Otterbein College at Westerville, and in the Ohio State University. Mr. Janes has been a resident of Columbus since 1890, remaining here at the close of his University training. In addition to his active asso- HISTORY OF OHIO - 41 ciation with civic affairs in general he was for many years engaged in the newspaper business, most of the time with the business department of the Columbus Dispatch. He was one of the charter members and for fourteen years was president of the Columbus Automobile Club. He is also a charter member of the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. He is past exalted ruler of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During his two-year term as exalted ruler the Columbus Elks Club Building, one of the costliest and most beautiful of the kind in the country, was built and Mr. Janes had been one of the leading advocates of this handsome home for the fraternity. WALTER D. MURPHY. The home and supreme offices of the United Commercial Travelers of America are at Columbus. The order was founded January 16, 1888, by eight commercial travelers living in and working out of Columbus. The order was incorporated September 25, 1890. While the order experienced vicissitudes it was founded on rockbed principles, and for many years it has been one of the most exemplary fraternal and beneficiary orders in America, and it is the pride of every commercial traveler of good moral character and business connections to have membership in this brotherhood. The order now has about 600 subordinate councils, represented in every large city and in practically every important town where commercial travelers in any number reside, both in the United States and Canada. The order is one now of great power, membership and financial strength. For the year 1922 the United Commercial Travelers paid out $841,000 in personal injury and accidental death claims. The supreme victor to handle the administrative details of the national headquarters at Columbus is Walter D. Murphy, who himself was on the road many years and was one of the early members of the United Commercial Travelers. Mr. Murphy was born in Trenton, New Jersey, but as a boy the family moved to Indiana. For twenty-five years his home was at Terre Haute. He was a salesman on the road for thirty-two years, beginning in 1882, and his personal qualities brought him a host of friends not only among his business patrons but' among his fellow travelers. His longest connection was with the well known Ward Brothers Drug Company, wholesale druggists of Indianapolis. He traveled for them over the territory of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky: Mr. Murphy was called from his work on the road to the office of supreme secretary of the United Commercial Travelers of America on January 1, 1913. He was elected to this office by the Supreme Council. Mr. Murphy is also a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and is affiliated with Columbus Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Nellie S. Scott, who died in August, 1922. He has two daughters, Mrs. Howard R. Charman and Miss Jean Murphy. In September, 1923, Mr. Murphy married Mrs. Bessie E. West. JOSEPH W. HORNER has been a qualified member of the Ohio bar twenty years. For fifteen years he practiced at Newark, and came to Columbus. as assistant secretary of state, and since leaving that office has had a busy practice as an attorney. He is an official and counsel for a number of prominent corporations in Ohio. He was born in Jackson Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1871, son of John and Margaret (Riley) Horner, both deceased. His mother died in March, 1923, at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr. Horner was reared on a farm,, had only a common school education and earned the rest of his schooling, at first by farm work and later by teaching. In 1899 he was graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He began teaching before graduating there. For four years he taught at Roscoe in Coshocton County, and for two years was principal of the high school at St. Louisville in Licking County. In the meantime he studied law in the Ohio Northern University, graduating in 1903. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, and in the same year began his practice at Newark, Licking County. Mr. Horner in 1914 was elected on the republican ticket to the office of prosecuting attorney of Licking County. His election was an important event in state politics, since he was the first republican ever chosen to that office in Licking County. In March, 1919, Mr. Horner was appointed assistant secretary of state, and he came to Columbus and served in that capacity four years, until January 8, 1923. After retiring from office Mr. Horner remained in Columbus and resumed his law practice. He has given special attention to corporation law and to matters coming under the blue sky law of Ohio. He is attorney for the Cities Mortgage Company, and attorney and director of a. number of corporations. These are all successful concerns, and their officers and directors have been drawn from some of the most substantial citizens and business men in the state. He is also a member of the Ohio and American Bar associations and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Horner is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. For a number of years he has been interested in singing, and is a member of the Shrine chorus and the Republican Glee' Club. He married Miss Marie Blatt;, of Cleveland. They have a beautiful new home at 325 South Parkview Avenue in Bexley. WYATT LESTER MILLIKIN. This distinguished citizen was born on a farm in Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio, in 1875, and was there reared and educated in boyhood at a country school three miles from the family residence. At a later date he likewise attended the public schools at Marysville. Upon the removal of the family to Columbus in 1895 he entered Parsons Business College, where he completed his scholastic career with honor and credit. He was then engaged as cashier and paymaster for the Columbus Street Railway Co. He was for several years in the grocery business with is brother and there learned the art and routine of store-keeping. In 1904 he established his present business at 2420 West Broad Street, near the center of the celebrated Hilltop section of the city. He conducts a general retail hardware store, and from the start has made the venture a steady and continuous success, much to his advantage and prosperity. He was one of the organizers, and is now a director in the Hilltop Building and Loan Company. He has made himself conspicuous and advantageous to this community in many other ways. From the start he has taken a keen and active interest in all movements designed to advance the public welfare and to develop and improve the city, particularly the Hilltop section. At the time his father settled on what is now the Hilltop section when they came to Columbus for permanent residence, that part of the city was yet largely unpopulated and without modern municipal improvements. The subject of this sketch has been one of the chief directors in making this section one of the most attractive subdivisions of the city. He has taken equally as well an eager and exultant pride and enthusiasm in civic and municipal affairs. This active interest and his unquestioned ability and popularity led to his election in 1919 to a membership 42 - HISTORY OF OHIO in the City Council of this great municipality. There he officiates as leader of the service department. When in 1923 it was determined by the citizens to change the form of government, from commission to mayoralty, Mr. Millikin was brought forward as one of the leading candidates for the latter exacting position. He accepted the candidacy, announced his views of municipal improvements, animated the people with bright visions of the future, pledged himself to an administration that would satisfy the citizens and further said: "I am for Columbus. I believe in its future. I feel that I am familiar with its needs and aspirations, and if I can be of service to the people of this community I am willing to give my time and best efforts to the city as its mayor. I am in the race to win and will be elected." He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, having once- been its vice president, is a member of the Hilltop Chamber of Commerce, is vice president of the Gladden Community House, is a member and officer of Glenwood Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Family Service Society. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine; is a past master of Goodale Lodge No. 372, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a life member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery. He is a charter member of Westwood Lodge, Knights of Pythias, a member of the Dramatic Order, Knights of Khorassan, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Columbus Athletic. Club, the Columbus Automobile Club and others. He is a democrat, and has been connected with that party ever since his maturity. With him politics is a matter of principle; he spurns the artifice and chicanery resorted to by so many prominent men brought forward as candidates for high office. His active career as a member of the City Council, his conspicuous interest in the civic welfare of the city, and his unquestioned high character and intellectual ability place him among the few really great leaders of the capital city. A man who has taken an active and intense interest in all the affairs of a great city for a period of twenty-five years knows what he is about and what in all probability he can accomplish. Such a citizen is the subject of this sketch. During the World war he played a lively part in all the drives and activities of a military character carried on in both the city and the county. Much of the local success in meeting the demands of the state and the government were due to his activities and loyalty. On November 22, 1900, he married Miss Lula Angeline Plank, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Plank. She died July 29, 1903, leaving no issue. On October. 15, 1908, he married Mabel' E. Singley, a daughter of Rev. Dr. W. H. and Emma E. (Houck) Singley, and to this union has been born a son, Arthur Dale Millikin. Mr. Millikin's parents were John L. and Elizabeth (Thomas) Millikin, the former a native of Pennsyl- vania and the latter of Ohio. The father came to Ohio in 1856 and engaged in farming in Madison County. He retired in 1895, since which time he has been a resident of Columbus. The wife and mother passed to her eternal rest June 28, 1920. DEAN C. THROCKMORTON is one of the active younger members of the Columbus bar, and recently has been called to one of the important official positions in the state government, as assistant chief of the Division of Securities. The Division of Securities is a bureau of the State Department of Commerce, and is commonly known as the "Blue Sky" department of the state government. The Division of Securities passes judgment upon the validity or legality of stock issues offered to the public by stock companies and corporations, and has jurisdiction in the matter of deciding whether such issues are allowed to be sold. Investigations are made of all stock promoting. or stock selling enterprises, and as a result a high standard has been set for such securities. It may well be estimated that through the elimination of worthless stock, millions of dollars have been paid to the citizens, a saving that is the direct result of the work of the Division of Securities. Mr. Throckmorton was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1891, son of Harley B. and Elizabeth (Dines) Throckmorton. The Throckmorton family is one of the oldest in America, having come from England in 1630 and settled in Virginia. From Virginia they came into the Northwest Territory in 1801, and have been identfied with Ohio throughout the statehood period. The grandfather of the Columbus attorney was Judge Jonathan L. Throckmorton, one of the leading lawyers of his day, and for a number of years a judge in Ross County. Dean C. Throckmorton has been a resident of Columbus since 1909. He studied law in the Ohio State University, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1916. He then took up a general practice, and made a successful record as a trial attorney and counselor. On the basis of this record he was called to his present duties in February, 1923. Mr. Throckmorton is a democrat in politics, and has been interested in the local organizations of his party. He is president of the Franklin County Democratic Club. Fraternally he is a member of the Masons, Moose and Eagles, and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Mr. Throckmorton married Miss Elizabeth Jones, of Ross County. HARRY R. ALLEN is one of the successful representatives of the wholesale lumber business in the City of Columbus, where in this line of enterprise he is the executive head of the firm of H. R. Allen & Company, with officers in the Chamber of Commerce Building. Mr. Allen was born at Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio, on the 13th of November, 1874, and is a son of Charles F. and Annie (Drake) Allen, both natives of Ohio. Charles F. Allen was born in Ross County, a son of George Allen, who was born and reared in New England, a direct descendant of Ethan Allen, of historic Colonial fame, and who became a pioneer settler in Ohio. He eventually moved from Ross County to Sabina, Clinton County, where he founded the lumber business that was later continued by his son Charles F. Mrs. Annie (Drake) Allen is a lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, and among her interesting possessions of historic order are copies of the wills of all of her Drake ancestors back to the time of Sir Francis. American representatives of the Drake family were established for many generations on Staten Island, New 'York, and members of the family were early settlers in Ohio. Mrs. Allen was born and reared in Clinton County, this state. Harry R. Allen profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native place, and there early became associated with his father 's lumber business, as a representative of the third generation of the family to be -there identified with this line of enterprise. He has successfully continued his association with the lumber business, of which he has been an exponent, in the wholesale trade, at Columbus since the year 1906. As a youth Mr.. Allen won promotion to the rank of captain of his company in the Third Infantry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, and he was commander of Company M of this regiment when it HISTORY OF OHIO - 43 entered service in the Spanish-American war. This regiment formed a part of the expeditionary forces under command of General Shafter, but failed to get to the stage of active conflict in Cuba, owing to the accidental sinking of the vessel Miami, which was to transport the regiment from Tampa, Florida, to Cuba, the vessel having sunk in Tampa harbor just prior to the proposed embarkation. Mr. Allen has completed the circle of both the York and Scottish Rites of the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, and he has also been specially prominent and popular in the affairs of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, which has the distinction of claiming President Harding as a distinguished member and which is the only temple thus to have on its membership rolls the name of a president of the United States. Mr. Allen was elected potentate of Aladdin Temple in December, 1923. He is also reigning sovereign in St. Jerome Conclave, Order of the Red Cross of Constantine. He has been captain of the Aladdin Temple Patrol since 1910, and under his skilled and enthusiastic training and leadership this famous organization has won numerous honors at national Shrine assemblies in various cities of the Union, from coast to coast. Mr. Allen is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is an active member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Allen wedded Miss Evelyn Robinson, who likewise was born and reared in Clinton County, and they have one son, Arthur B. HORACE STANLEY KERR. In the years of his practice as a lawyer at Columbus, Mr. Kerr has won an enviable reputation as a trial attorney, and has handled a number of important cases in the criminal and civil dockets of the local courts. Mr. Kerr represents an old family of Southern Ohio, and was born at the village of Kerr in Gallia County, August 20, 1882, son of Samuel J. and Margaret (Watts) Kerr. His father 's family came from Pennsylvania and was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was born near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The village of Kerr, named for the Kerr family, who were founders of the community, is located about six miles from Gallipolis, the county seat of Gallia County. From that community Samuel J. Kerr in 1861 went into the service of the Union with the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and subsequently was captured in one of the battles of the Civil war, and for thirteen months was confined in Andersonville prison. After being paroled he rejoined his regiment and was with the army in Tennessee when the war closed. Horace Stanley Kerr spent his youth on the old Kerr farm, attending the rural schools nearby. When he left home he studied in Ohio Wesleyan University for a time, and then in the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws with -the class of 1905. The same year he located at Columbus, and did his early practice as one of the staff of the well known law firm of Arnold, Morton and Irvine. Through his individual talent and increasing experience as a lawyer he has built up a substantial and permanent practice in the various County, State and Federal courts of Columbus. His practice consists largely of trial cases, which he conducts personally in the courts, and the profession has come to rate him as one of the ablest men in this department of the law. In 1910 and 1911 Mr. Kerr acted as prosecuting attorney for the Municipal Police Court at Columbus. He is a past master of Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is past high priest of Ohio Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is president of the Lions Club of Columbus, is a member of the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Gun Club, and his recreations are outdoor life, hunting and all the sports of field and stream. Mr. Kerr married Miss Lille M. Recob, of Columbus. Their two children are : Stanley Joseph and. Marian Esther. JOHN G. MOODY is secretary of the Central Building, Loan and Savings Company, is also secretary of the Tenth District of the Ohio League of Building and Loan Associations, and through his long and active service with the former organization has become a prominent figure in Ohio financial circles. He was born in 1880, near Circleville, in Pickaway County, son of L. P. and Kate (Knight) Moody. His parents are both deceased. His father was born in Ohio and was reared by the well remembered Johnny Boggs on the historic Logan Elm Farm in Pickaway County. When John G. Moody was a small child his parents removed to Madison Township, Franklin County, to a farm near Groveport. There he spent his childhood and early youth, attended public schools and the Madison Township High School. When he left the farm he became an employe of the Grove-port Banking Company, and had served that institution six years as cashier when he resigned and came to Columbus in 1911, to take the position of bookkeeper in the offices of the Central Building, Loan and Savings Company. Later he was made assistant secretary, and subsequently advanced to the post of secretary. The Central Building, Loan and Savings Company is one of the strongest and most prosperous of the Building and Loan Associations in Columbus., It was founded in 1888. For over a third of a century it has had an undeviating record of unimpaired resources and of splendid service to home builders, contributing its share to the fair change made by Columbus as one of the leading cities in point of individual ownership. This company has reserve and undivided profits of nearly $160,000, with certificates and pass book deposits reaching. almost $3,000,000 dollars. Its officers and directors are men of the highest character and financial standing. Mr. Moody received his significant honor as secretary of the Tenth District of the Ohio League of Building and Loan Associations in November, 1922. This Tenth District comprises twelve counties in Central Ohio. Mr. Moody is a member and director of the Civitan Club, and is affiliated with the Masons, Odd Fellows and Elks. He married Miss Clara R. Rarey. Her father,, the late Charles Rarey, was one of the well known citizens of Columbus, served as clerk of the Probate Court under Judge Black for a number of years and was also deputy county recorder. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Moody are Charles, Margaret, Garman and Mary. NORMAN E. BECK, commissioner of the Division of Securities, Department of Commerce, State of. Ohio, is one of the men who are accomplishing notable work in protecting the investors of Ohio from promotional schemes lacking solid foundation. His department, commonly known as the "Blue Sky" department, has authority to revoke certificates of compliance when the law has not been complied with, when the business is fraudulently conducted, when stock is disposed of on grossly unfair terms or where the 44 - HISTORY OF OHIO issuer is insolvent. Investigations are being conducted every day by this department, and it has full cooperation from the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Better Business Men's associations in cities, the Savings and Loan associations and many banks. So thorough has been the work of the department under Commissioner Beck that he received a gratifying compliment from Robert M. Mount of the Ohio Business Men's Commission, which is working to educate stock buyers and has sent many complaints to the Department of Commerce for investigation by the "Blue Sky" department, when he wrote as follows : “I feel that at no time has the Division of Securities apparently made such an earnest effort to serve the public as at present. It is apparent to us that the division is functioning very effectively." Norman E. Beck is a native son of Columbus, and he was born in 1889. His parents, E. L. and Olga (Corzilius) Beck, were also born at Columbus, the Beck family being one of the oldest of the city, and in it Commissioner Beck's paternal grandfather was born in 1830, over ninety years ago. He was reared at Columbus, and became one of its influential men, and served Franklin County as treasurer. Norman E. Beck is a product of the public schools of Columbus, and he was graduated from the South High School. Becoming an accountant, for 7Y.2 years he held a responsible position in the United States Treasury Department at Washington City, Cincinnati, Ohio, and other cities, and prior to that had gained an experience which made him an expert in the general offices of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus. With the country's entrance into the World war Mr. Beck felt the urge to enlist in the army, but he was already in the Government service, and was needed in the position he was "occupying. However, by the summer of 1918 he secured a leave of absence from the Treasury Department, and was assigned to the Quartermaster 's Department, United States Army, Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri. After the signing of the armistice he was honorably discharged, and returned to the Treasury Department. Subsequently he came back to Columbus, and in January, 1923, he was appointed by Governor Donahey commissioner of the Division of Securities, as above stated, a position for which his experience and capabilities fit him. Commissioner Beck belongs to the American Legion, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. MAJ. ARTHUR S. BURKET, commander of Franklin Post of the American Legion at Columbus, is one of the popular and successful lawyers of the city, and for a man only thirty, has enjoyed an unusually rich and varied experience. He was born at Columbus in 1893, and attended the public schools of his native city. He acquired both his collegiate and legal education in the Ohio State University, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1913 and received the degree Juris Doctor in 1915. While maintaining a high . standing in his studies he participated in all the students, activities of the university. He paid his own way by work in various occupations outside of class hours. He was a member of the varsity debating team for four years, a major in the cadet regiment, and associate editor of the University Journal. He is a member of Acacia, Delta Theta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho, Sigma Delta Chi, and Scabbard and Blade fraternities. He began the practice of law in 1914, a year before he received his degree from the University. In 1916 he removed to Vinton. County in Southern Ohio, and was elected prosecuting attorney. Following a brief service in that office he spent a year as professor of public speaking in the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing. Fron Lansing he went into the war, being commissioned first lieutenant of infantry under the old law on May 6, 1917, and promoted to captain of infantry August 15, 1917. He was assigned to duty with the Eighty-fifth Division, later was transferred to the Tenth Infantry of the Fourteenth Division, and in December, 1917, was commissioned major in the Tenth Infantry. Most of his service during the war was at Camp Custer, Michigan, and Fort Sheri- dan Illinois. Major Burket was discharged February 6, 1919. He soon returned to Columbus and resumed the practice of his profession. He is admitted to all the State and Federal courts and the United States Supreme Court. His genuine ability as a lawyer and his personal popularity have won for him a large practice and a place of high standing at the Columbus bar. He is also a director of The Arro Oil and Gas Company, The James Building Company, The Ohio State Theatres Company, and The Hassler Shoe Company. Major Burket was honored by election as commander of Franklin Post of the American Legion in 1922. He is worshipful master of East Gate Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a past patron of Burma Chapter, Order" of the Eastern Star, a York and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar, a Shriner and a member of the Grotto, is leading knight of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of various other fraternities, including the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Woodmen and Redman. He is colonel and national commander of Scabbord and Blade, a national honorary military fraternity. Major Burket married Miss Elma Williams, of Columbus. Mrs. Burket died in 1922, and is survived by four children, Anne, Arthur S., Jr., Mary and Jack. EDWIN R. SHARP, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Huntington National Bank, has been associated with the banking history of Columbus for over forty years, and rose to bank presidency from a messenger boy. He was born at Groverport in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1858, and represents one of the earliest pioneer families in this section of the state. He was born not far from the place where his grandfather, John Sharp, made his original settlement on coming to Ohio in 1809 from Pennsylvania. John Sharp took up land from the Government in the southeastern part of Franklin County. The father of the Columbus banker was Abram Sharp, who was born in 1819 in Franklin County, Ohio. Abram Sharp married Harriet Rees. In 1869, when Edwin R. Sharp was eleven years old, the family moved to Columbus. He was educated in the public schools of that city, and soon after leaving school he went to work as a messenger boy in the Commercial National Bank. This bank was founded in 1868. He remained with it several years, enjoying several promotions, but in the latter part of 1891 withdrew to become associated with W. A. Hardesty, William F. Burdell and others in the founding of the State Savings Bank and Trust Company. This bank was opened in the old Chittendon Hotel in 1892, and subsequently acquired the sixteen story building at 8 East Broad Street. Mr. Hardesty was the first president of this bank. At his death he was succeeded by Mr. Sharp, who previously had been secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Sharp and his active associate, Mr. Burdell, made the State Savings one of the most substantial banking houses in the city. Its Board of Directors rep- HISTORY OF OHIO - 45 resented some of the most important business and industrial concerns there. The. State Savings Bank and Trust Company had capital stock of $400,000, and surplus of $200,000. In February, 1923, this bank was merged with the Huntington National Bank, the oldest bank of Columbus, founded in 1866. The price agreed upon in the negotiations for the merger to be paid for the stock of the State Savings Bank was $225 a share, a figure indicating the success of the institution under the management of Mr. Sharp and Mr. Burdell. Since the merger Mr. Sharp has been chairman of the Board of the Huntington Bank. As a young man Mr.. Sharp was for two years a member of the Governor's Guard, the crack military organization of Columbus during the '70s and '80s. Ile is a member of the Columbus Club, Columbus Athletic Club, Scioto Country Club and Wyandotte Club. Mr. Sharp married Miss Flora Field. She died some years ago, and is survived by two Children, Col. Edwin R., Jr., and Esther, wife of George T. Johnson, of Columbus. Colonel Sharp was with his command on the Mexican border during 1916. While in service in the World war he had several promotions, culminating in the rank of colonel. In addition to his banking interests he has ever found time and opportunity to espouse the cause of all movements of a public character tending towards the advancement of the community, and by so doing has exemplified the belief that a full measure of public spirit is a component factor in good citizenship. He was one of the original incorporators of the Scioto Valley Traction Company, and is now its vice president and treasurer. He was also one of the organizers and for a number of years served as vice president and treasurer of the Columbus Citizens Telephone Company. He is a member of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, where for several years he served as treasurer and member of the Board of Trustees. JOHN W. BRICKER. The Buckeye Republican Club is the leading organization of the party in Ohio, a state that now and for many years past has held a dominant position in American politics. It is a famous organization, and it was a most unusual honor and tribute to the character and ability of a young Columbus attorney, when John W. Bricker was chosen president of the club, being the youngest man ever so honored. Mr. Bricker was born in . Pleasant Township, Madison County, Ohio, in 1893, son of Lemuel S. and Laura (King) Bricker. His mother is still living. His father was a farmer in Madison County, and both parents represented old time families in this section of the state. John W. Bricker was fortunate in having his boyhood and early youth cast in rural conditions. He attended public schools there, and acquired both his higher literary and his professional education in the Ohio State University. He was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1916 and received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1920. While in the university he was prominent in all student and college activities, both athletic and literary. He played on the state university ball team and was captain of the varsity debating team. He also served as president of the Varsity "0" Association, made up of university men who received their "letter" in athletics, and of the University Young Men's Christian Association, as well as president .of his class in 1914-15. Mr.. Bricker's law school work was interrupted by the war. For two years he served in the camps of this country, first as athletic director of the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment at Camp Sherman and later attached to the coast artillery at Camp Eustis, Virginia. After graduating in law school and being admitted to the bar Mr. Bricker began practice at Columbus in the summer of 1919. For one of the younger men in the profession he has made remarkable progress having become established as a lawyer with an important clientele. At the present time he is special counsel to the attorney-general of Ohio. He was honored with election as president of the Buckeye Republican Club in December, 1922. Mr. Bricker is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, a member of Franklin Post of the American Legion and is a deacon of the First Community Church of Grandview Heights. This church is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the country and one of the few that have been really successful. Its membership represents practically all the denominations of Christianity . and comprises many individuals who have never been allied with any denomination. It is an interesting experiment in detaching religion as a common denominator of all mankind from the many minor interests that have clustered about this fundamental force in most churches. This organization, therefore, is important historically, and has done much to realize the hope of its founders and the large number of Columbus citizens who have given it their whole-hearted support. Mr. Bricker married Miss Harriet Day, of Urbana, Ohio, in 1920. She graduated from the Ohio State University in 1919. MARSHALL ALEXANDER SMITH, president of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, and an active business man. of Columbus for nearly thirty years, is a native of Ohio, and inherits some of the sturdy virtues and rugged character of the old New England stock found in his forebears, who were among the earliest pioneers of Delaware and adjoining counties in this state. His ancestry possesses general historic interest, and is unusually rich in Revolutionary records. Mr. Smith was born near Sunbury, in Delaware County, in 1869, son of Marshall Black and Elvira A bbie (Thrall) Smith. Mr. Smith is descended in direct line from Nehemiah Smith, the first of this family in America, who was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, about 1605. His coat of arms showed: Arms-Barry of six, ermine and gules, a lion rampant, ducally crowned sable. Crest-Anheraldic tiger passant; argent, wounded on the shoulder, gules. Nehemiah Smith made application to be admitted as freeman at Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 6, 1637. His wife, Anne Bourne, was of aristocratic lineage. Later he removed to Stratford, Connecticut, and was the largest land owner of any of the first settlers. He was a minister of the Gospel, and died in 1686. Another ancestor in the paternal line was David Smith, who was born near Wilkes-Barre, in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, in 1770. In 1778, following the terrible massacre of the inhabitants of this Valley by the British and Indians, David Smith, with two other children, was carried away in captivity and kept for six months. David Smith married Sarah Murphy, and early in the following century came to 0hio, settling near Galena in Delaware County, where he died in 1845. A number of other prominent characters in the early history of New England are included in the ancestry of Mr. Smith, in both the paternal and maternal lines. One of them was John Howland of the Mayflower, and another, Peter Brown, one of the signers of the Mayflower compact of 1620. His mother's ancestor, William Tharall, came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, on the ship Mary and John. Others are: Richard, Mather, the ancestor of the famous Cotton Mather; Thomas Chase, the 46 - HISTORY OF OHIO forebear of Salmon P. Chase, and other distinguished Americans of this name; Robert Holmes, the progeni- tor of the Stonington name; family for whom the town of Stonington, Connecticut, was named; Obediah Gore, the progenitor of Capt. Obediah Gore of Norwich, Connecticut, a prominent military figure in the Colonial wars; Samuel Sherman (early spelling Shermon), the ancestor of a long line of notable Americans; and a large number of members of these families who took part in the American Revolutionary war. James Smith, son of David, and grandfather of Marshall A. was for many years the leading business man of Sunbury. He married Malinda Black, whose name introduces another interesting record of ancestral connections. Malinda Black was a daughter of Marshall and Polly (Gardner) Black. Her grandfather, Isaac Black, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, in 1745, and was one of the pioneer New England settlers of Delaware County, Ohio. He died at Cheshire in that county in 1826. Isaac Black married Mehitable Brown, whose father died in the Revolutionary war. Their son, Marshall Black, married Polly Gardner, daughter of Stewart and Lydia (Ames) Gardner, whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower. Marshall Black and his wife and children moved from Genesee County, New York, to Springfield, Ohio, and a few months later, in December, 1817, removed to the Yankee settlement at Cheshire, Delaware County. Marshall Black Smith, father of the Columbus business man, was born at Sunbury, near Galena, in Delaware County, in 1837, and died at his home at Westerville, Ohio, October 8, 1900. For many years he was a prominent merchant and banker at Sunbury. In 1861 he married Miss Elvira Abbie Thrall, who is still living. She is a direct descendant in the eighth generation from William Thrall, who founded the Thrall family in America, coming, as previously noted, from England in 1630. The Thralls were among the first families of Granville, Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall is also a descendant of the tenth generation from Rev. Richard Mather of Massachusetts, father of Increase Mather and grandfather of Cotton Mather. Through the Thralls he is also a descendant of Peter Brown of the Mayflower. Elvira Abbie Thrall's parents were William Cooley and Mary Chase (West) Thrall. Her great-grandfather, Capt. William Cooley, commanded a company in John Moseby's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution, fought under Washington at White Plains, and was wounded November 16, 1776. Samuel Thrall, Sr., grandfather of William Cooley Thrall, was staff quartermaster in Colonel Robinson's Third New Hampshire Regiment in the Revolution. Dated in camp at Ticondroga, February 24, 1777. August 8, 1781, he raised a company for three months, service in western department on Mohawk River, and served as captain of Samuel Thrall's company, attached to Col. Marimon Willett's regiment, and was discharged from this service on November 9, 1781. His son, Samuel Thrall, Jr., was a private in several Massachusetts regiments. Mrs. Elvira Abbie Smith had other Revolutionary ancestors in the West and Chase families of Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall was reared and educated at Granville, Licking County, Ohio, a town founded by her ancestors, the Thralls and Cooleys and their associates in 1805, and named in honor of their ancestral home town of Granville, Massachusetts. Granville in its modern history was a center of education and high moral influences, and reflects some of the fine character and the spirit of its New England founder. Mrs. Elvira Smith finished her education in Granville Female College. For many years she has been recognized as an authority on the genealogy and general history of Granville. Marshall Alexander Smith spent the first thirteen years of his life on his father's farm near Sunbury. The family then moved to that village, where he continued his education in the public schools. As a youth he went to work in his father's mercantile establishment at Sunbury, and subsequently was connected with the Farmers Bank, which had been founded by his father and three associates in 1872. Mr. Smith with his three brothers removed to Columbus in 1895, and soon afterward started the manufacture of commercial fertilizer and sulphuric acid. Later the industry was incorporated under the name of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, with Marshall A. as president and principal owner. The company maintains a branch plant at Indianapolis. This is one of the important and essential industries of Ohio. Mr. Smith is former president of Benjamin Franklin Chapter at Columbus of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. For many years he has been an active member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He married at Columbus in 1893 Cora M. Smith, of an unrelated branch of the Smith family. She was born in Delaware County, near her husband's birthplace, daughter of Newton and Lunette (Sherman) Smith. Her father moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio when a boy. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Harold Albert; Hurtha M., wife of Frank Rankin Schwartz; Marjorie E. and Adrienne L. Smith. CHARLES A. STANTON is founder and president of the Agricultural Appraisal Company, one of the most notable organizations in plan of work and service within recent times. In fact the company is the first and only corporation in the United States dealing exclusively in farm appraisal work and kindred services. Its main purposes are to develop the farm appraisal service of the United States to the highest state of commercial efficiency, to supply the public with a dependable scientific farm appraisal- service that can be accepted everywhere for all practical tax and commercial purposes, and also to stabilize farm land values, provide better facilities for handling farm loans and farm sales, and help in the proper development and settlement of farm property. The company was organized by Mr. Stanton in Ohio in 1919, and it has operated extensively in Southern and Central Ohio, where its plan has the written endorsement of more than a hundred bankers. The company owns and has the exclusive use of a copyrighted mathematical formula for appraising farm property, known as the Stanton System, which was awarded the Gold Medal at the Panama-California International Exposition. This appraisal system is based upon the fertility of the soil and gives full consideration to all the living and farming conditions of the community in which the farm is located. Among the other officers and directors are Robert W. Boyd, a banker at London, Ohio; N. E. Shaw, editor of the Ohio National Stockman, and formerly secretary of the Ohio State Department of Agriculture, Murray Hoffman, a banker at Columbus, and George L. Gugle, president of the Guarantee Title Trust Company of Columbus. Charles A. Stanton, the president of the company, was born at Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1880. In 1884 the family moved to Cairo, Illinois, and later HISTORY OF OHIO - 47 to Chicago, in which city Mr. Stanton was reared and educated. At the age of sixteen he went West, and has had the benefit of many years of travel and experience in the country beyond the Mississippi. He became connected with colonization enterprises first as a young salesman for land companies and later as an operator on his own account. Among notable colonization projects with which he was identified were some in California and Idaho. During this time he was a keen student of the underlying principles involved in the valuation of lands for agricultural purposes and as well of all other factors entering into farm and farm life. Out of these studies he eventually compiled the data that enabled him to produce the system of scientific appraisal of farm lands now the basis of the Agricultural Appraisal Company. The advantages of such a scientific and generally approved and accepted system of appraisal are obvious as one of the first means to bring about a stabilization of the economic position of the American farmer. About 1916 Mr. Stanton left California and removed to New York City and was in the East during the World war period and took an active part in the various Liberty Loan campaigns. He came to Ohio in 1919, first locating in Cincinnati, and has been a resident of Columbus since 1920. JUDGE JOHN T. GALE, former probate judge of Franklin County, has lived at Columbus more than seventy years, and knows the history and affairs of the city from the standpoint of an old settler and of a man of affairs. For over thirty years Judge Gale has been in the printing and stationery business, and is president of the Columbus Blank Book Manufacturing Company, a company that enjoys undisputed supremacy as the largest legal blank book publishing house in the United States. Judge Gale was born at Zanesville, Ohio in 1846, and was an infant when his parents, Franklin and Mary J. (Cleveland) Gale moved to Columbus. His father was one of the historic men of Ohio during the middle of the last century, and was associated with some of the great Ohio statesmen of that period. Franklin Gale was a native of Massachusetts, was a graduate of Amherst College, afterwards came to Ohio and found his first opportunities in the educational field. He became principal of the Woodfield Academy at Woodfield, Monroe County. For a number of years he continued at the head of this school, which ranked as one of the best of the academies and small colleges which at that time were very numerous in Ohio and in the Middle West, and in the absence of great state universities and endowed colleges were the principle source of the education, training and culture that went into the making of the character and intellect of many of America 's greatest men. While at Woodfield Franklin Gale met and married Mary J. Cleveland, daughter of Timothy Cleveland. Soon afterwards they moved to Zanesville, where Franklin Gale and his brother-in-law, Thomas Cleveland, established and edited " The People's Platform," a Free Soil paper. It was an important organ of this political party. The Free Soil leaders in Ohio, headed by Salmon P. Chase, induced Mr. Gale and Mr. Cleveland to move the paper to Columbus, where it was established in 1849. After the dissolusion of the Free Soil Party Franklin Gale took up the practice of law. However, he retained more or less active interest and part, in journalism. He did editorial work on several Columbus papers, being editor of the Ohio Statesman at. one time and, one of the editors of the Capital City Fact. For several years he acted as official reporter for the Ohio' State Senate. John T. Gale acquired his early education in the public schools of Columbus. For a few years as a young man he taught school in Franklin County, and gave up teaching to become deputy clerk in the office of the Probate Court of Franklin County. He was connected with that important county office altogether twenty years, and from 1879-1885 inclusive he served as judge of the court. The Columbus Blank Book Manufacturing Company may justly claim a consecutive history of over seventy years. It is the logical successor of the old firm of Siebert & Lilley, printers and book binders. Upon retiring from the probate bench Judge Gale became associated with this firm. In 1892 there was a reorganization of the business, which was then incorporated, and Judge Gale became its secretary and treasurer. In 1907 the present name The Columbus Blank Book Manufacturing Company was adopted, and since then Judge Gale has been president of the corporation. This company 's plant is at 317 South High Street, where it uses 75,000 square feet for office, show rooms, bindery and printing plant. The company carries a complete line of office furniture and equipment, but the distinctive feature of the business is the bindery and printing plant, which carries 125 persons on the pay roll and has facilities for manufacturing all kinds of blank books and legal stationery, particularly the legal forms and blanks used throughout the extensive territory of the Middle West, particularly Ohio and West Virginia. Judge Gale is a progressive democrat in politics, and has frequently acted independently of party lines. His home for many years has been at 324 Oak Street. Judge Gale married Miss Sarah Jones, a native of Wales, and they have two children, Frank H. and Cora. A. C. BAXTER, who is now executive secretary of the League of Ohio Sportsmen, is widely and favorably known throughout' the state as a former chief of the fish and game division of the State Department of Agriculture. He gave nearly twenty years of his time, study and energy to this department, and his able work, constituting a real service to all of the important interests involved, is known and appreciated in every locality of the state. He was born at Marysville, Ohio, in January, 1879, son of W. E. and Mary (Miller) Baxter. His parents had 'eleven children, all born at Marysville, where the family is an old one. A. C. Baxter had a common school education, and in 1894, at the age of fifteen, came to Columbus. For a number of years he was employed in bookkeeping and office management, and among other corporations which he served in that capacity were the Tracey-Wells Company and the Columbus Coffin Company. His first duty under the state government was as game warden, an office to which he was appointed in 1905. Later he was made chief game warden. From that he was appointed to chief of the fish and game division, with jurisdiction extending over the entire state. His wise and efficient administration of this office has been heartily approved by the public generally, especially by the great army of sportsmen whose diversion and pleasure are found in the woods and fields and fishing waters of Ohio. A true sportsman himself, Mr. Baxter has a keen appreciation of the laws and regulations that are necessary for the preservation of fish and game life, and while strict in the enforcement of essential laws he has been liberal in recognizing the proper rights and privileges of the hunter and fisherman. He has a heavy burden of executive duties in his office at Columbus, and in addition in recent years has spent much time in eduactional work, particularly through lectures and local addresses over the state. Mr. Baxter was one of the leaders in the move- 48 - HISTORY OF OHIO ment that resulted in the acquisition of the magnificent State Park in Scioto County as a game preserve. This park was dedicated and opened for public use early in December, 1922. Mr. Baxter is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and a member of the Elks. He married Miss Maude Dieter, of Toledo, Ohio. CHARLES H. DUNCAN. The Ohio Contractors Association, made up of contractors and contracting firms handling street and highway paving, was organized in 1918 with thirty-nine charter members: While it is designed. to promote the interest of its members, it has in principle and practice carried out a noteworthy public service idea. For its executive officer the association decided to secure the services of an attorney having special experience in the law relating to road. and street construction, and therefore employed as its secretary and attorney Mr. Charles H. Duncan, who for two years had been an assistant in the office of the attorney general assigned as special counsel to the department of highways. More recently the association has added to its staff a consulting engineer. Thus the association has facilities for advising and planning with local authorities with regard to any of the legal or engineering problems connected with road and street improvement. Among some of the chief activities of the association have been its -efforts to secure standardized plans; plain, explicit and easily understood specifications and contract forms; adequate material supply and car service for contractors; and the conducting of educational campaigns relative to improved methods of construction. Mr. Charles H. Duncan was born in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1877, son of John and Rebecca (Moore) Duncan. His father was born in Scotland and his mother in Champaign County. John Duncan was a small child when his parents came to this country and settled in Ohio. John Duncan still regards Champaign County as his home, though he spends part of his time with his son in Columbus. Charles H. Duncan as a young man taught school in his native county, and subsequently entered the law school of the University of Michigan., where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1901. Until 1915 he enjoyed a large general law practice in Urbana. During that time he was twice elected and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Champaign County. He was elected as a republican, and it is noteworthy that in his state campaign he carried his county when Warren G. Harding lost it as candidate for Governor, and in the second election he carried the county when it failed to give a majority vote to Mr. Taft for president. Mr. Duncan has been a resident of Columbus since 1915. He came to the capital city to become assistant attorney-general under Atty.-Gen. Edward C. Turner. He was assistant during 1915-16, and then resumed the general practice of law until he accepted his executive duties as secretary and attorney for the Ohio Contractors Association at Columbus. As this office requires all his time he has abandoned his private law practice. Mr. Duncan is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married Miss Margaret Houston, of Urbana, daughter of Frank Houston, of a prominent Ohio family. On, her maternal side Mrs. Duncan is closely related to the Edwin M. Stanton family of Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have three children: Nancy, Charles and Isabel. FOSTER COPELAND. A native of Indiana, with his early education and business training acquired in the East, Foster Copeland has been a resident of Columbus for over forty years, and is one of the city's leading bankers and men of affairs. His career reflects credit upon his pioneer' ancestors, who were early identified with the history of Ohio. Mr. Copeland was born at Evansville, Indiana, March 9, 1858, son of Guild and Eliza Jane (Foster) Copeland. On both sides he is of Revolutionary ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Elijah Copeland, was a soldier in Daggett's Massachusetts Regiment in the Continental line. His great-grandfather, Samuel Guild, was a Revolutionary .soldier and also a member of the Committee of Public Safety of Massachusetts. Josiah Copeland, grandfather of the Columbus banker, came to Ohio and settled at Zanesville in 1810. He was the first mayor of that town. Eliza Jane Foster, mother of Foster Copeland, was a sister of the distinguished Indiana: diplomat and statesman John W. Foster, who died a few years ago and who had served as an American minister abroad and as secretary of state under President Harrison. Foster Copeland acquired most of his early education in the Brooklyn Polytechnic School and in the Mount Pleasant Preparatory School at Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1876, at the age of eighteen, he went to work as errand boy in his father 's office in New York City, and in 1882 came to Columbus' -and entered the office of H. C. Godman, who later became a manufacturer of shoes and incorporated The H. C. Godman Company as bookkeeper. He was with that concern for many years and was treasurer of the company from 1889 to' 1899. In the meantime he had become interested in the Old City Deposit Bank, and in 1899 became president of that institution, and when it was reorganized in June, 1905, as the City National Bank of Columbus, he continued as president, an office he has held ever since. He has also been president of the Columbus Forge & Iron Company and a director of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company. His generous contributions and his strong influence have for many years been behind all worthy civic, social, educational and religious movements in Columbus. From 1908 to 1913 he served as president of the jury commission of Franklin County. He was a trustee of the teachers, pension fund at Columbus, is president of the Columbus School for girls, is treasurer of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and president of the Columbus Home for the Aged. He has been president of the Columbus Young Men 's Christian Association for ten years, and is a director of the Columbus Academy, the Children's Hospital and a member of the Evangelistic Committee of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. He is an elder of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church at Columbus, and treasurer of its benevolences. Mr: Copeland is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, has received the supreme honorary thirty-third degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, and is a member of the Columbus Country Club. On January 26, 1893, he married Miss Martha Hoge. Thomas, of Columbus, Ohio. She is a granddaughter of one of the remarkable pioneer characters of Ohio, Rev. James Hoge, who arrived in Ohio prior to 1810. He established the First Presbyterian Church in what is now Columbus, this church being established at Franklinton; on the west bank of the Scioto River, in the scene of the original settlement here. Reverend Hoge was commissioned by the general assembly to Ohio, Indiana and territory adjacent thereto. He continued' the pastor of this church for fifty years. When the Indians in 1810 threatened the settlers of Franklin-ton, Reverend Hoge was chosen the leader and given charge of the defenses of the settlement. Later, when the community was visited by plague and many HISTORY OF OHIO - 49 left, he took care of the sick and buried the dead. He donated the land for the first deaf and dumb asylum in Ohio, was a patron of education and throughout his life a powerful influence for good in his community and state. He left a record of remarkable achievements. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have four children, Alfred, Thomas, Eleanor Foster, Martha Hoge and Foster, Jr. BEECHER W. WALTERMIRE. An able member of the Ohio bar for many years, Beecher W. Walter-mire is best known in the public life of the state by his service as former chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. He is regarded as an expert on traffic questions, and has a large practice in a special field of corporation law. Mr. Waltermire represents an old Ohio family, but was born at Sedalia, Missouri. His father, Hiram Waltermire, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, and just before the Civil war went out to Missouri and served as a soldier. Subsequently he returned to Ohio with his family. Beecher W. Waltermire was reared in Wyandot and Hardin counties, Ohio, attending the public schools and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He is a graduate of the Ada School, and subsequently studied law. After being admitted to the bar he began practice at Kenton, and a year later removed to Findlay, where he laid the foundation of his reputation as an able lawyer. He also took an active part in public affairs in that city, and served as mayor. Governor Willis appointed Mr. Waltermire, in January, 1915, a member of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. Coming to Columbus, Mr. Walter-mire served six years on the commission, and the first three years of that time was its chairman. When in the latter part of 1921 he retired from the commission he resumed the practice of law in Columbus. His practice is limted to cases before the Public Utilities Commission and the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Supreme Court of the United States. Before these tribunals he has represented such important organizations as the Ohio Coal Exchange, the National Paving Brick Manufacturers Association, and similar corporations, chiefly on questions regarding transportation and railroad rates. Mr. Waltermire is a member of the Optimist Club at Columbus, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is married and has three children, named Claude C., Arthur B. and Eloise, wife of R. M. Grove. In his earlier years Mr. Waltermire delivered many addresses before some of the leading Chautauqua assemblies of the country, during which time he contributed short stories and poems to leading publications. He has for twenty-five years been a teacher of men's Bible classes, and is now the teacher of that class in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus. W. A. WENTWORTH is an agricultural expert, having specialized in the technique and- process of dairying, and recently came to Ohio and to the capital city to become secretary of the. Ohio .Dairy Products Association. His offices are in the Outlook Building at Columbus. Ohio ranks seventh among the states in value of dairy products, dairying, therefore, being one of the largest resources of the state. These resources are represented by the Ohio Dairy Products Association, which is divided into three units: Ohio Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, Ohio Milk Distributors Association, and Ohio Association of Creamery Owners and Managers. Mr. Wentworth, secretary, in charge of the general program and work of the association, was born at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1888, but when five years of age was taken to Iowa by his parents. He was reared and educated in that state, and his experience as a boy on the farm was supplemented by a technical course in the great agricultural college, the Iowa State College at Ames, where he gradu- ated in 1910. At first he used his technical education to help him as a dairy farmer. He specialized in dairy cattle at his farm near Waverly, Iowa, for seven years. He then became identified with county agricultural agency work in Iowa, ,under the auspices of the Federal Government, and in 1939 he was called to more special activities to represent the National Dairy Council and Creamery Association work in Iowa. It was his record of able service in: Iowa that caused him to be chosen as secretary of the Ohio Dairy. Products Association in the spring of 1923. He took charge of his office at Columbus April 1, 1923, and has also established his home in the capital city. CHARLES G. SAFFIN, JR., has been one of the active attorneys of the Columbus bar for the past twelve years, and his record has given increased distinction to the name Saffin, which has long been identified with the bar of Central Ohio. Mr. Saffin was born in Columbus in 1886, son of Charles G. Saffin, who is also a lawyer and one of the able members of his profession at Columbus. He served two terms as probate judge of Franklin County during the early '90s, and was a native of Cincinnati. Charles G. Saffin, Jr., attended public schools at Columbus, the Ohio State University, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910. He remained a student in the law course and finished with his degree in 1912. Since then he has been continuously engaged in a successful general practice at Columbus, though for four years he devoted most of his time to his duties as assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County. Since retiring from that office in 1921 he has resumed private practice. During the period of the World war Mr. Saffin was United States Government appeal agent for the Franklin County Draft Board, and also acted as appeal agent for the district board, comprising several counties in Central Ohio. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Wood- men of the World, the Young Business Men's Club, the 'Franklin. County Bar Association and the State Bar Association. Mr. Saffin is married and has one daughter, Dolores Jane Saffin. ADAM G. INNIS, president of the International Telephone Company of Columbus, was born and reared in an environment now within the city limits of Columbus, and is a member of an old and respected family that was established there more than a century ago, before the state capital was moved from Chillicothe to Franklin County. Adam G. Innis was born in 1857. His birthplace was on a farm in Clinton Township, just north of Columbus. His parents were William H. and Mary M. (Lantz) Innis. His grandfather, Henry Innis, was born in Pennsylvania. He left there for the purpose of joining the army for service in the War of 1812 against Great Britain. He was with the troops sent into the West, but while in Harrison County, Ohio, fell ill and was nursed back to health by Miss Isabella Pegg, a member of one of the first pioneer families in this section and whom he afterwards married. That and other reasons caused Henry Innis to become a permanent resident of Ohio. After his marriage his first home was at Franklinton,