250 - HISTORY OF OHIO cestry. His father was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, and his mother at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and both came West when young, with their respective parents, all of them settling along the lake front in Sheffield Township, near the City of Lorain. Winthrop Randall after his marriage secured by purchase 115 acres, with eighty rods of lake frontage. He spent a great many years as a sailor and captain on the Great Lakes. Of his nine children, two sons and one daughter are living. George Randall grew up in the environment of the old homestead, and obtained his educational advantages in the district schools, supplemented with two terms at Oberlin College. After the death of his parents he bought from the other heirs the 115-acre homestead, and for many years cultivated it as a farm. He and his sister lived here together and in time he bought other land, until he owned 185 acres. On part of this he laid out streets, calling it the George Randall addition, and subsequently sold his farming land. His real estate holdings in that vicinity now comprise about six acres, with a modern brick house. His sister, Julia Randall, died in Alabama in February, 1920. Mr. George Randall has never married. His home has a frontage of 370 feet on Lake Erie. He served two terms as councilman from the First Ward of Lorain, and is a republican voter. W. A. GAETJENS is secretary and treasurer of the Star Aluminum Ware Company at Ashland, one of the prominent and growing industries of that city. The business was started in 1918. It was the first concern in the United States to die cast aluminum spoons. In 1921 the business was reorganized and incorporated and the plant opened with new equipment, so that the company now makes a full line of hollow aluminum ware. The present plant is located in an old building used for other factory purposes before the present company took hold. The machinery and equipment is modern in every respect, and there are about thirty employes, making an output that is sold through jobbers over the entire country. The president of the company is F. J. Wensinger, and Mr. Gaetjens handles the office of secretary and treasurer. Both give their exclusive time to the business. Mr. Gaetj ens came to Ashland as representative of Pittsburgh capital in this business. Mr. Wensinger is an old and experienced man in aluminum manufacture. He served in the World War with the rank of major and chief ordnance officer of the Sixth Army Corps in France. ARTHUR B. CRAWFORD has maintained his home in Licking County since he was an infant of seven months, and the measure of his loyalty to and appreciation of this favored section of the Buckeye State has been shown in his civic progressiveness and liberality. He is now serving as a valued member of the Board of County Commissioners, with executive headquarters in the courthouse in the City of Newark, and he owns and resides in a most attractive and semi-rural home just to the northwest of the city limits of Newark, on the Sharon Valley road. He gives a general supervision to his farm properties in Licking County, and to the incidental agricultural and livestock interests thereof. Like his father before him, he was for many years prominently concerned with the importing and exporting of horses of the better grades and types. Mr. Crawford was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, in the year 1879, and in that county likewise were born his parents, Col. George W. and Isabel (McKee) Crawford, who, as already intimated, removed to Licking County when he was an infant. Colonel Crawford devoted a large part of his active career to the importing and exporting of horses, and he developed a business that marked him as one of the leaders in this field of enterprise in the United States. The public schools of Newark afforded to Arthur B. Crawford his early education, and as a youth he became associated with his father 's extensive operations in the exporting and importing of horses, to which business he gave his attention many years and in connection with his independent operations in which he made sixty round trips to Europe. He imported to this country thousands of horses and marketed them in all parts of the United States. In later years he has confined his activities largely to the management of his farm properties and enterprise in Licking County. Mr. Crawford is a wheelhorse of the republican party in Licking County, and has been a resourceful worker. in its councils and campaigns. In 1921 he was elected county commissioner, for a term of four years, and in this office he has given a characteristically liberal and progressive administration. He is president of the Newark Chamber of Commerce, is an active and valued member of the local Rotary Club, has received the thirty-second degree of the Masonic Scottish Rite, besides being a noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he and his wife hold membership in the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark, of which he is a trustee. In the World war period Mr. Crawford was instant in patriotic service and in liberal support of the government war bonds and other agencies, the while he was an active member of the Licking County War Work Committee, a most efficient organization. Mr. Crawford wedded Miss Florence Grove, who was born and reared in Licking County and who is a daughter of Amos Grove. Mrs. Crawford is a popular factor in social, church and cultural activities in her home community and is vice president of the central district of the Ohio Parent-Teacher Association. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford have three children, whose names and respective ages (1924) are here recorded: Evelyn, twelve years; Groveline, seven years ; and Arthur B., Jr., five years. JAMES E. CURRIE is manager and president of the Newark Electric Company, one of the few firms in Central Ohio handling electrical appliances that have been in existence for nearly fifteen years. The company was organized in February, 1910, and since the first few months has occupied the same site, at 18-20 Arcade. The company does a large business in installation of, as well as sale of, electric lighting and power plants. The company represents the sale of Western Electric Lighting Systems over a territory of nine counties. It also handles the Western Electric cleaners, washing machines and other apparatus, and handles the Westinghouse heating and other household electric appliances. It is a large and prosperous business and, since June, 1923, has also conducted a branch house at Thornville. Mr. Currie was born at Springfield, Ohio, and was reared and educated there. He had a varied experience as a commercial traveler in Dayton, Springfield and Chicago, and since 1910 has been located at Newark as president and chief executive of the Newark Electric Company. Mr. Currie is a member of the Newark Rotary Club, the United Commercial Travelers, is a Mason, a republican and a member of the Second Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Anna Orr of Newark. They have two children, James and Donald. JESSE A. GROVE, present county auditor of Licking County, has been in service at the courthouse at Newark for seven or eight years and was formerly a postal employee. Mr. Grove was born in Franklin Township, Lick. HISTORY OF OHIO - 251 ing County, October 2, 1874, and both his parents and all his grandparents were born in the same section of Ohio. His father was born in Franklin Township,' January 22, 1852, and his mother, Mary (Coffman) Grove, was born in Licking Township. They were substantial farming people. Jesse Grove has a sister, Mrs. Lulu Maud Kinney of Newark. Jesse A. Grove was educated in the district schools of Franklin Township and his life was identified with the farm until he was twenty-five years of age: Entering the mail service at Newark he continued an employee of Uncle Sam for seventeen years. In October, 1917, he was appointed deputy County auditor, and became thoroughly familiar with all the routine of that office, preparatory to his election in 1923 as county auditor. Mr. Grove married Anna B. Chism, daughter of David and Samantha Chism of Fairfield County, Ohio. They have one son, Ralph V., born November 22, 1919. Mr. Grove is a democrat in politics. Is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the different branches of the Knights of Pythias. COL. WILLIAM BURKE. Probably the most distinctive industry of its kind in Ohio, and one of the largest anywhere is the Burke Golf Company of Newark, manufacturer of golf clubs and other appurtenances of this ancient game. The founder and president of the company is Col. William Burke, who has had almost a life long experience in the manufacture of hardwood products. Mr. Burke was born at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1859, and was educated in the schools of his native town. His early business experience was with the carriage and woodworking industry. He was employed by the Ohio Wheel and Bentwood Company at Lancaster, and for seven years was at Columbus in charge of the-wheel department of the Columbus Buggy Company, and for about five years was with the S. N. Brown Company, carriage goods manufacturers at Dayton, as general purchasing agent and superintendent. Having been connected with several concerns manufacturing golf clubs, Colonel Burke, in 1910, organized and established the Burke Golf Company at Newark for the the manufacture of golf clubs. The original factory force was four men. At the present time the company employs about 175 persons, and it is a complete and thoroughly equipped industry for this special line of manufacture. Primarily the business was for the manufacture of the wooden shaft for golf clubs, but other departments have been added until the company now has an output of over a thousand golf clubs a day, manufacturing the finished golf club, both the wooden and the iron club. For the shafts the company uses second growth hickory having about 1,500,000 sticks one-inch square in the seasoning rooms at all times, preparatory to the finishing processes. The Burke Company for a number of years has been one of the primary resources for golf club shafts, supplying many manufacturers and golf professionals with these materials. More and more the company has turned to the manufacture of complete clubs, including the wooden head, while there is a blacksmith department for the hand forging and finishing of the iron clubs, the Burke .factory has exclusive right for the manufacture of the non-rusting Monel metal iron heads. In recent years a department has been added for the manufacture of golf club bags. It was the Burke Golf Company that originated the golfing hall, of fame known as the "Burke Hole in One Club." This club now has a membership of 3,000, and the company published a year book called the "Burke Hole in One Club Year Book." Colonel Burke married Miss Margaret Zerling of Fort Loramie, Shelby County, Ohio. They have a daughter, Mrs Edith Back of Columbus, Ohio. Colonel Burke is a Rotarian, a Member of the Episcopal Church, and a republican in politics. WILLIAM HENRY RIDDLE has for forty years or more been a factor in the mercantile and official life of London and Madison County. He represents two prominent families that settled in this section of Ohio in the first years of the last century. Mr. Riddle was born at London, November 6, 1860. His grandfather, John Riddle, came from Virginia to Ohio, and located a farm near Troy in Miami County. William Riddle, father of William Henry Riddle, was born on that farm, near Troy, October 11, '1810, grew up there, spent two years in Iowa, which was then on the frontier, and on returning to Ohio, located at Mount Sterling, where for fifteen years he was in business as a merchant. In 1860 he located at London, and during his later years was retired, merely looking after his farming interests. In 1853 William Riddle married Elizabeth Warner, daughter of Henry Warner. Henry Warner was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1795, and in 1805 was brought to Ohio by his parents, who first settled in Belmont County, and in 1812 located. at London. Henry Warner was a conspicuous citizen in the early days of Madison County, being a merchant, a real estate dealer, and as a surveyor assisted in laying out the Town of London. He held many county offices. William Riddle and wife had two daughters and one son. The son, William Henry Riddle, graduated from the London. High School, and attended Ohio Wesleyan University, and for seven years of his early life was engaged in the drug business at London. For about ten, years he performed the duties of deputy county treasurer, and then entered. the grain business. He is president of the Sedalia Grain and Lumber Company, of Sedalia, Ohio, and is a director of the Central National Bank, of London. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a Methodist and a republican, belongs to the London Club, and for about eight years was a member of the London School Board. At Newport, Kentucky, August 28, 1911, Mr. Riddle married. Mrs. Mary McLean Snyder, of Washington Courthouse, Ohio. They have twin sons, William and James, born in 1913, and one daughter, Hildreth Riddle. W. STEWART SEDGWICK, D. D. S. In the City of Newark, judicial center of Licking County, Doctor Sedgwick has a substantial professional business whose scope and importance indicate alike his technical skill and his. personal popularity. He is a representative of the fourth generation of dentists in the Sedgwick family, and also of the fourth generation to be affiliated with Center Star Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Granville, Licking County. His paternal great-grandfather was a charter member of the Blue Lodge mentioned, and each succeeding generation of the family has been represented in the membership roster of this old and noteworthy Masonic body. The great-grandfather, the grandfather and the father of Doctor Sedgwick of this review all gave service as master of this lodge, and the great maternal grandfather, Timothy Spillman, likewise was the first to serve as high priest of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Granville. The father of the subject of this sketch has passed the official chairs in the various bodies of Yorke Rite Masonry, including the commander of Knights Templar. Dr. W. Stewart Sedgwick was born at Newark, Licking County, in the year 1891, and is a son of Dr. William Henry and Bessie Bain (Baldwin) Sedgwick, who also resides at Newark, where the father 252 - HISTORY OF OHIO has long held prestige as one of the representative dental practitioners of his native county, his father likewise having been a dentist, and the latter 's father having been one of the pioneer exponents of this profession in this part of the Buckeye State. Timothy Spillman, the maternal grandfather, was the son of one of the colonists who came from Granville, Massachusetts, and founded the town of that name in Licking County, Ohio, where Granville is the seat of Denison University. The Sedgwick family has been one of prominence and influence in Licking County from the early pioneer days to the present time. Dr. W. Stewart Sedgwick was graduated in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, as a member of the class of 1919, his father having been there graduated in 1889, and his paternal grandfather in 1869. The great-grandfather was a dental practitioner long before the establishing of colleges of dentistry, private preceptorship having been the means by which persons were fitted for this and other professions. Some of the dental instruments of this Ohio pioneer dentist are still in the possession of the family, are in excellent state of preservation and constitute an interesting exhibit in connection with the development of dental science. and practice. Dr. William Henry Sedgwick, Sr., served as a member of the board of directors of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery and also as president of the Ohio Dental Society. It is altogether probable that in the entire United States there is no other family whose .record in the dental profession can parallel that of the Sedgwick family. Dr. W. Stewart Sedgwick was a student in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at the time when the nation entered the World war, and he soon enlisted in the medical corps unit that was organized in Cincinnati and in which he was made top sergeant. He was in .training at Camp Sherman three months, and continued in service, until the close of the war, with the signing of the historic armistice. After receiving his honorable discharge he resumed his studies in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, and from this institution he received, in 1919, his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He has since been associated with his father in practice at. Newark, and father and son are distinctly to be designated as representative exponents of the dental profession in this section of the state. Doctor Sedgewick is a member of the Board of Health of the City of Newark. Doctor Sedgwick married Miss Edna Waterman, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have a fine little son, W. Stewart, Jr. She graduated from the Grant Hospital in 1914, enlisted from Ford Hospital, Detroit, 136 Base Unit, as a nurse, and served overseas at Vittell, France, for nineteen and one-half months. BRANDT G. SMYTHE. There are manifold conditions that mark Mr. Smythe as one of the essentially representative citizens of Newark, judicial center of Licking County. He now has prestige as the honored dean of the legal profession in this county, where he has been established in the successful practice of law for a, period of fifty-nine years. He was born and reared at Newark, and that a goodly measure of pioneer distinction attached to the family name is assured in the statement that his father became a permanent resident of Newark fully ninety years ago. Mr. Smythe was born at Newark, Ohio, August 21, .1843, and is a son of George B. and Sarah C. (Caffee) Smythe, the former of whom was born in Saratoga County, New York, and the latter of whom was a daughter of Amos H. Caffee, a pioneer and influential citizen of Newark. George B. Smythe received his early education in the schools of the old Empire State, where eventually he was graduated in Union College in 1833. He was a young man when he made his first visit to Newark, Ohio, about the year 1830, and after a brief residence here he went to Washington, D. C., where he read law, besides serving as principal for an academy for boys and also as a correspondent for several newspapers. It was after this experience in the national capital that he was graduated in Union College, and in 1834 he returned to Newark, was admitted to the Ohio bar and here engaged in the general practice of law, in which he here continued until he had attained to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Mr. Smythe became one of the leading members of the bar of this part of Ohio, long controlled a large representative law business of important order, and had much of leadership in the directing of popular sentiment and action in his home city and county. He served one term as representative of Licking County in the Ohio Legislature, but he had no special ambition for public office and preferred to give his time and efforts to the work of the profession for which he had admirably equipped himself and in which he gained unequivocal success. He accumulated a considerable amount of local real estate of valuable order and was liberal and progressive as a citizen, the while he ever held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was one of the most venerable members of the Ohio bar at the time of his death, in 1898, at the age of ninety-two years, his wife having preceded him to the life eternal in 1880. After receiving the advantages of the Newark schools of the period, Brandt G. Smythe entered his father 's alma mater, Union College, in the junior class, at Schenectady, New York, and in this institution he was graduated in 1864, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, having previously been a cadet at the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, 'Kentucky, also attended Washington and Jefferson of Pennsylvania one term. He then returned home and began the study of law under the able preceptor-ship of his honored father. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and at Newark he has continued in the active practice of his profession during the long intervening years. He has appeared in connection with important litigations in both the State and Federal courts of Ohio, has long had a large and significantly representative law practice, and in his character and achievement has honored both the family name and the fine, old Buckeye commonwealth. Mr. Smythe has a secure place in the esteem of his professional con- freres, and is one of the veteran and honored mem- bers Of the Licking County Bar Association, besides being identified with the Ohio State Bar Association. He has been a prominent figure in the councils and campaign activities of the democratic party in this section of Ohio, but has considered his profession worthy of his undivided allegiance, with the result that he has eschewed all inclination for public office. In the year 1865 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Smythe to Miss Sarah Atcherley, of White Church, England, and the children of this union were two in number, Philip B. and Lora, the latter being the wife of John L. Hervey, M. D., of Martins Ferry, Ohio. Philip B. Smythe, only son of him whose name initiates this review, was born at Newark in the year 1869, and here he gained in the public schools his early education, which was advanced by his attending Denison University and also law schools in the City of Cincinnati. He held as priceless the legal training which he received through his association with his father and grandfather, and he was admitted to the bar in the year 1899. In the same year he was elected city solicitor of Newark, and of this office he continued the incumbent until 1904. In 1907 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking County, and after his retirement from this office, at the expira- HISTORY OF OHIO - 253 tion of his second term therein, he continued to give his attention to the private practice of his profession until his death, at the age of fifty-three years. He died at Dayton, this state, while absent from home on professional business, and he had gained distinct vantage ground as one of the able and representative members of the Ohio bar, with a record of distinguished achievement in his profession. Mr. Smythe was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which latter he had served as exalted ruler of the Newark lodge. In 1898 Philip B. Smythe wedded Miss Addie Slick, of Newark, and she died in 1904, no children having been born of this union. On the 16th of February, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Smythe to Miss Katherine Graff, of Newark, and since the death of her husband she has continued her residence in this city. E. DE FOREST LEACH, president of the Universal Mortgage and Discount Company at Newark, is a lawyer by profession, is internationally known as an authority on divorce, and over Ohio is perhaps best known through his service as Assistant Federal Fuel Administrator in the World war. Mr. Leach was born at Genesee, Potter County, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1878, son of Rev. J. M. and Florence (Farnham) Leach. His father was a Methodist minister, and for nearly forty years served as pastor of churches in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. He lived in these various towns, and after the public schools acquired his education in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York, and in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He studied for his profession in law offices in Pennsylvania and New York. For twelve years, beginning in 1900, Mr. Leach practiced law at Moundsville, West Virginia. He served as acting prosecuting attorney of Marshall County, West Virginia. The West Virginia governor appointed him a delegate to the National Congress on Uniform Divorce Laws. This congress met in Washington in 1906. He participated actively in the deliberations and discussions, and in 1907 he went to England to lecture under the auspices of the Divorce Law Reform Union. He has also lectured on the same subject in America, and for many years has given special study and investigation to the general problem of divorce and laws affecting that subject. Besides his lectures he has written many magazine articles. From 1912 until the fall of 1917 Mr. Leach lived at Cleveland, where he practiced law and engaged in the coal business. On October 22, 1917, Homer H. Johnson, head of the Federal Fuel Administration for Ohio, appointed him assistant fuel administrator for the State of Ohio. He at once established his headquarters at Columbus and remained in charge of the executive responsibilities of his post until April 1, 1918. The management of the fuel situation in Ohio during war times involved the administrator in many serious and perplexing problems, the solution of which required the utmost skill, alertness and efficiency. The official records show that Mr. Leach met and handled these difficulties in a manner reflecting greatly to his credit, and he was given official commendation by the fuel administration at Washington. When he resigned as fuel administrator April 1, 1918, he accepted a commission as captain in the ordnance department of the United States Army. He went to Washington and was assigned to duty as personnel officer in the ordnance department, and served in that capacity until honorably discharged in June, 1919. Captain Leach came to Newark, Ohio, in July, 1919, as manager of the Newark Chamber of Commerce. He resigned that position June 1, 1920, and then organized the Universal Mortgage and Discount Company, of which he is president. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Newark, is state trustee of the Congregational Conference of Ohio, and was formerly moderator of the Central Ohio Association of Congregational Churches. He married in October, 1919, Miss Dark Ennes of Princeton, Indiana, member of one of the earliest pioneer families of Gibson County, in that state. FRANK M. MORRISON is one of the progressive business men of the City of Columbus, where he is president of the Accurate Measure Oil Company. This company was incorporated August 1, 1921, for the purpose of conducting an oil jobbing business and its policy, closely observed, is indicated in its title. Mr. Morrison was made president of the company and has wisely directed its progressive activities, which have included the establishing of fully twenty attractive and finely equipped filling stations in the capital city, and the providing of about one hundred curb pumps in the city and surrounding villages. This company also operates the only oil refinery in Columbus, and the effectiveness and integrity of its service have gained to it a substantial and constantly ex: panding business. Mr. Morrison was born in Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, October 8, 1868, and is a son of Andrew Morrison, who was born and reared in Ireland and who was about fourteen years of age when he came to the United States and established his residence in Franklin County, Ohio. In Columbus he found employment with the Barr family, whose old home stood on the site of the present principal or head station of the Accurate Measure Oil Company, the Barr farm having included much of the land now comprising the eastern part of the capital city, and in later years Andrew Morrison frequently referred to the fact that in plowing land of the Barr farm, his operations extended as far west as the present Parsons Avenue. He later became the owner of what is now designated as Marion Heights and constitutes one of the most attractive residential districts of the east end of the city. His death occurred in 1916 when he was eighty-three years of age, and he was known and honored as one of the venerable and representative citizens of Columbus in or near which city he lived from early youth until the close of his long and useful life. Frank M. Morrison was reared to the-sturdy discipline of the home farm and gained his early education in the public schools. He eventually became a successful farmer at Taylor Station, and he became a stockholder in the brick and clay plant that was established and developed on his farm. He was finally persuaded to assume the active management of this industrial enterprise, and his well ordered policies brought to it a large measure of success. This was the only shale brick plant near Columbus, and the excellence of the product needed only progressive policies to bring the enterprise to the status of substantial prosperity. Mr. Morrison was also one of the organizers of the Gahanna Bank of which he has continued the president from the time of its incorporation. He takes lively interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home city and native county, is a stalwart democrat, and has served as chairman of the local democratic committee. He has not attempted however, to rival the political activities of his father, who was long a leader in the councils and campaigns of the democratic party in Franklin County. Mr. Morrison married Miss Ada C. Wagy, and 254 - HISTORY OF OHIO they have one daughter, Helen C., whose husband, Ellsworth A. Frazee, is president of a manufacturing corporation at Winstead, Connecticut. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Columbus Club, the Aladdin Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with Kinsman Lodge of Masons and the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church. GEORGE BELLOWS. The active business career of the late George Bellows as connected with Columbus, covered almost exactly the last half of the nineteenth century. He was justly called one of the real city builders, and the term was applied in both the figurative and literal sense. Undoubtedly, he was one of the ablest architects and builders of Columbus during that time. A son of John and Lauretta (Corwin) Bellows, he was born January 2, 1829, at the Village of Good Ground, near Southampton, at the east end of Long Island, a representative of old Puritan stock, and a descendant of John Bellows, who came to this country in the "Hopewell" in 1635. He spent the first eighteen years of his life by assisting his father on the farm, fishing and sailing and attending school. In 1847 he went to Brooklyn to learn the carpenter 's trade. His first employer having sold out his business to R. A. Sheldon, Mr. Bellows remained in the service of the latter and at his invitation came to Columbus to assist Mr. Sheldon, who was the architect chosen for the Starling Medical College. They arrived June 3, 1849, Mr. Bellows expecting to stay not more than two years. He assisted on the college building and at the same time took up the study of architecture, and after the termination of his contract with Mr. Sheldon, found business opportunities sufficient to make him a permanent resident of Columbus. He and his brother Charles were in business together for a' time, after which George Bellows continued alone and for many years ranked high, not only as an architect, but as a contractor and building superintendent. A great deal of the important building construction during the last half century represents the solid character of his abilities. He furnished part of the plans and specifications for the original high school building, was the architect and builder of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Columbus, found and built six other schoolhouses and a large number of the substantial business and residence structures, including the Green-Joyce Block, the M. C. Lilley factory, the Chittenden Hotel, and was the superintending architect in the construction of the Franklin County Courthouse, which was said to be "pre-eminently the best constructed and the most honestly and the most economically built edifice of its kind in Ohio." The actual cost of constructing the courthouse fell $40,000 short of the architect's original estimate of $500,000. A concise estimate of his character as a business man and citizen is found in the following words: "A hard-headed business man, of excellent business judgment, a devout member of his church, from the services of which he is almost never absent, a man of great integrity, of character, honest in his religion and in everything else." He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Columbus for more than half a century, and was a republican who never missed attending primaries or elections. In 1894 he was chosen county commissioner. He was an enthusiastic sportsman; taking every available chance for a day fishing and hunting, and frequently going for that purpose to the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Bellows married June 21, 1856, Miss Lucille A. Squires. She died in 1879 and of her two daughters, one died in childhood, and the surviving daughter is Laura, now Mrs. Laura Bellows Monett of Columbus. One March 2, 1881, George Bellows married Miss Anna W. Smith. Their son is the distinguished American artist, George Wesley Bellows, and Columbus is justly proud of the fact that he is a native of that city. George Wesley Bellows was born August 12, 1882, graduated from Ohio State University in 1905, and was a student in New York under Robert Henri. His work as an artist has been exhibited in the International Exposition at Venice, the Royal Academy of Berlin, the Royal Society at Munich, the International Exposition of Rome, the Kensington Museum in London, and in many cities of the United States. His work is found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum at New York, and one or more are in the Museum of Art at Columbus. Many honors have been accorded him, including the National Arts Club first prize in 1921, and the bronze medal of the Carnegie Institute and the first Harris prize of the Chicago Art Institute. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Society of Portrait Painters, the New Society of Artists, the League of New York Artists, and other art clubs and social organizations. His home is in New York City. He married Emma L. Story on September 23, 1910. MRS. LAURA BELLOWS MONETT is a daughter of the late George Bellows, a sister of the distinguished American artist, George Wesley Bellows, of New York, and is the widow of the late Benjamin Monett, Jr., who was long prominent as a railway official and in the real estate business at Columbus. Her home is at 556 East Town Street, Columbus. Mrs. Monett was born in Columbus, where she was reared and educated. Her husband, the late Benjamin Monett, represented one of Ohio 's most prominent pioneer families. The Monetts are of Norman ancestry, and in the early part of the nineteenth century members of the family settled in Pickaway, Belmont, Washington and other counties of Ohio. Benjamin Monett, Jr., a son of Benjamin and Susan (Kennedy) Monett, was born at Columbus, in 1855 and died in that city in August, 1912. As a young man he took up railroading and was in the passenger department of the Pennsylvania Company. When he left the Pennsylvania he entered the real estate business at Columbus, and was highly successful in that line, becoming a substantial property owner in his own right. He opened some of the leading additions in Columbus. His brother, the late Henry Monett, had a remarkable career as a railroad man, rising from a youthful clerk in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus, to the position of general passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad. He was born at Columbus in 1853, and died in 1888, just six months after he had been appointed to the position of general passenger agent. He was then thirty-five years of age, and one of the youngest men ever to achieve such responsibilities. He had been general passenger agent of the Nickel Plate Railroad while Calvin Bryce was president of the Nickel Plate. At the funeral of Henry Monett there was gathered in Columbus probably the largest assemblage of railroad officials of high position from all parts of the country ever known in this city. He was universally accorded to be one of the most brilliant railroad men in the country. The town of Monett in Southwest Missouri was named for him. Mrs. Monett is associated with the Columbus Art Club and is a leading spirit in many of the activities of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Her son Howard Bennett Monett is a real estate operator and manager of her property affairs. He HISTORY OF OHIO - 255 is a graduate of Ohio State University and is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Howard B. Monett married Miss Marie Barry of Sag Harbor, New York, November 10, 1921. HARRY H. POSTLE, M. D. A physician and surgeon at Newark for a quarter of a century, Dr. H. Postle has given to the work of his profession unusual abilities, a long and thorough training, and splendid devotion. He is one of the leading physicians of his community. He is also an enthusiastic army man, and was on duty during the World war in the medical service. Doctor Postle was born at the old Postle homestead at Rome in Franklin County, Ohio, son of Alonzo and Elizabeth (Weingarner) Postle, and grandson of John Postle. This is one of the oldest and most historic families of Franklin County. Shadrach Postle was the founder of the family in Franklin County, coming from Maryland to Ohio, and settling 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 farm now owned by two of his descendants in the fifth generation. The five generations of the Postle family have lived in Prairie Township of Franklin County, have been steady, industrious and high minded people, and have contributed in good measure to the material and moral development of their community. Dr. Harry H. Postle graduated from the medical school of the Ohio State University at Columbus in 1896. He soon afterward located at Newark, engaged in general practice, but in recent years his practice has been limited to surgery. He is member of and former president of the Licking County Medical Society, belongs to the Ohio State and Medical Association. He has taken a number of post graduate courses in surgery in Chicago and Philadelphia. Soon after America entered the World war in 1917, Doctor Postle volunteered in the medical corps of the United States Army. He was trained at Camp Greenleaf, was commissioned a captain, and was given his first assignment of duty at New York. From there he was transferred to the Great Lakes Hospital at Hampton Road, where he was put on the surgical staff. During this period of his service he was sent on various journeys on special duties to different points, including San. Francisco. Later in the war he was transferred from Hampton Road to a new hospital containing 900 beds at Richmond, Virginia, where he was a member of the surgical staff. He continued on active duty until June 28, 1919, when he was discharged. Soon afterward he resumed his private practice at Newark. He is now a major in the Medical Officer 's Reserve Corps. EDWIN S. RANDOLPH. The practice of law with steadily increasing success for a period of more than a quarter of a century constitutes the professional record of Edwin S. Randolph, of the Newark bar. The law has been a congenial profession to Mr. Randolph and he has found his greatest satisfaction and success within the sixth limit of his profession rather than in politics or public affairs. He was born near Somerset, in Perry County, Ohio, in 1.872 and a son of Paul and Mary (Barker) Randolph and a grandson of John Randolph. The Randolph family came from Juniata County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio about 1818, locating in Perry County. Edwin was born and reared on a farm, took his preparatory and college work in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he graduated in 1895, and took up the study of law in the office of Tussing & Kelley at New Lexington, Ohio, later he entered the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus, was graduated with the class of 1897, and in the same year identified himself with the bar of Newark. His successful experience has brought him a position as one of the most prominent members of that bar. Mr. Randolph served ten years, from 1902 to 1912, as a member of the Board of Review of Newark. He was elected city Solicitor of Newark in November, 1921, beginning his first term of office on January 1, 1922, and by reelection in November, 1923, is now serving his second term. The only important interruption to his work as an attorney came during the World war; he was active during the various campaigns in the early part of the war in Newark and Licking counties and later he went to France in the Young Men's Christian Association service. He acted as but secretary at Leonval in the Toul area from the fall of 1918 to the spring of 1919. Mr. Randolph is a republican. and a member of the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Louanna Taylor, who was born and reared near Newark and was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in the same class as her husband. Mrs. Randolph was also active in war work and helped to organize and during the war was executive secretary in charge of the Red Cross in Newark and Licking County. Mrs. Randolph was also identified as a pioneer with the Woman Suffrage movement. In the campaigns that led to the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, she was the leader for the city and county of the state campaign as sponsored by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton. JEROME WATSON, chief of the division of mines in the department of industrial relations at Columbus, has his home at New Athens, Ohio, and his experience since early boyhood has identified him with every practical phase of the coal mining industry. He was born in Monroe County, Ohio, January 22, 1883. His father, William W. Watson, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio as a boy, and his active career was spent in the coal mines of this state. Jerome Watson was educated in the public schools to the age of fifteen, was reared in Belmont County, and became a trapper boy in the mines. Work and experience brought him practically every occupation in a coal mine. On October 1, 1918, Mr. Watson was chosen chief inspector of the division of mines. He was endorsed for this position by J. M. Roan, a coal operator at Columbus, by John B. Moore, president of the United Mine Workers of Ohio, and by William Green, the international secretary of the mine workers. He performed the duties of chief inspector for two years and nine months. At that time there were fourteen men in the division of mines under the state government. On March 15, 1923, Governor Donahey made Mr. Watson chief of the division. There are now nineteen men under his supervision. This division of mines performs an important function, largely in safeguarding the lives of mine workers and providing the safety facilities required by the state laws in coal mines. Mr. Watson married December 28, 1902, Anna M. Yoho, a daughter of James and Sarah (Garlock) Yoho and a native of Belmont County, Ohio. Their children are : Charlotte S., Madaline, Evelyn D., James W., Ernest E., Russell J., Charles L. and Harold. Mr. Watson is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Belmont County, White Prince Lodge No. 742. He is a member also of the Christian Church. In politics he is a democrat. C. H. SPENCER has given thirty years of his life to the service of the Newark Advocate, a paper with 256 - HISTORY OF OHIO an honorable history of more than a century and one of the most successful newspaper enterprises in any of the smaller cities of Ohio. Mr. Spencer, who is president of the Advocate Printing Company, publishers of the Newark Advocate, was born in Brownsville, Bowling Green Township, Licking County, Ohio, in 1870. His father, B. F. Spencer, for about sixty years practiced medicine in Licking County. He moved his residence to Newark in 1872, so that C. H. Spencer was reared in that city from infancy. As a boy in school he delivered some of the early issues of the, Daily Ad- vocate, a paper that has exercised the influence over all his working years. After the public schools he attended Denison University at Granville, Ohio, graduating in 1892, and for one year remained at Denison as instructor in chemistry and physics. In 1894 he returned to Newark, beginning his career as a reporter on the Advocate. Subsequently he was made editor, later publisher and owner, and for some years has been president of the Advocate Printing Company. The Newark Advocate was founded in December, 1820, by one of the pioneer printers of Ohio, Benjamin Briggs, who started a little hand press in a small building on West Main Street. For more than forty years the Advocate was located at 31 West Main Street. In 1881 a three-story building was erected for the plant and this building was thoroughly remodeled in 1909 and complete modern equipment was installed. This became inadequate, and later joining property was purchased and recently a building of concrete and steel construction was completed, affording room and facilities for a publishing department, including one of the duplex tubular rotary presses which can print and fold 30,000 sixteen-page papers an hour. The Daily Advocate was first issued March 22, 1882. For a number of years the Advocate has had the full Associated Press service, so that the Advocate carries the World process news up to within a few minutes before the paper goes to press. The Advocate through all the years has been a most potent factor in the progress and upbuilding of Newark, and in its pages it reflects the varied interests of a prosperous industrial city of over 30,000 population. Mr. Spencer himself has in addition to his interest in the Advocate taken an active part in the business and civic affairs of Newark. He is president of the Arcade Realty Company, which erected the Arcade in the heart of the business district, a handsome and modern group of shops and stores to the number of fifty and including the Arcade Hotel. He is vice president of the Newark Telephone Company, and is vice president of the Franklin National Bank. He is secretary of the Newark Real Estate Improvement Company, is secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Select List of Daily Newspapers, and is receiver for the American Motor Truck Company, one of the large industries of Newark. He is the former president of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce, is a Knight Templar and Shriner, was a delegate to the Democratic Convention at San Francisco in 1920. Mr. Spencer married Miss Katharine H. Winegarner, member of one of the old families of Licking County. Her grandfather was a member of the Ohio State Senate. Her father, the late David C. Winegarner, was president of the Franklin Banking Company, now the Franklin National Bank, the oldest bank in the county, having been founded in 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have five children, Mrs. Charles C. Starrett, Frank W. and John D. Spencer, Miss Marian and Miss Emily Spencer. The two sons are now associated with their father in the Advocate. Frank Spencer was a naval cadet at Annapolis and was in service during the World war. EDMUND FREDERICK ARRAS. By concentrating his activities in the highly specialized business of real estate management rather than in the practice of the profession of his collegiate training, Edmund Frederick Arras has gained a place as one of the expert men in real estate service at Columbus. The Arras Rental Agency, of which he is proprietor, specializes in the rental management and has its offices in the Huntington National Bank Building. However, the distinction by which he is known is far beyond the boundaries of his native state, and has been due to his important work in the Kiwanis organization. In May, 1923, at the International Convention of the Kiwanis clubs of North America, at Atlanta, Georgia, he was elected international president of the Kiwanis International, this being the highest office in the gift of this largest of business men's civic clubs. Prior to that he had been for eight years an official of the Columbus Kiwanis Club, served as district trustee, lieutenant-governor, governor and international trustee for three years. Mr. Arras was born at Dayton, Ohio, July 7, 1875, son of John D and Clara H. (Schneider) Arras. His parents were natives of Columbus. His grandfather, Johann Nicholas Arras was numbered among the pioneers of Dayton, but subsequently moved to Columbus. John D. Arras founded the Columbus Tent and Awning Company and for more than twenty years conducted this business. He was a York and Scottish Rite Mason. His death occurred in Columbus, December 21, 1907. Clara H. (Schneider), wife of John D. Arras, was the maternal granddaughter of Frederick Jaeger, a sterling pioneer of Columbus. Edmund F. Arras was educated in public schools in Dayton, in the central high schools at Columbus, and as a means of helping defray the expenses of a university education he served as private secretary to the late Judge Eli P Evans, who for twenty-five years was on the Common Pleas bench of Franklin County. Mr. Arras graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University in 1895. Not being eligible to admission to the bar because of his minority, he continued post-graduate work in the university for a year, and was formally admitted to practice on his twenty-first birthday, July 7, 1896. In the meantime, in 1891, while a student in the university, Mr. Arras established a rental agency in Columbus, and from a business that was started from a college student's side line, this has become the largest enterprise of its kind in Columbus, having a large and representative clientage and having the management of a large amount of business and resident property. Mr. Arras and wife are active members of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. For several years he was superintendent of the Sunday school, served seven years as president of the Adult Bible Class Federation of Ohio, was chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio Council of Religious Education, was president of the Franklin County. Sunday. School Association, and chairman of the religious education committee of Columbus Council of Churches. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Advertising Club, the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio State University Alumni Association, the Columbus Athletic Club, member of the Columbus Automobile Club, the Aladdin Country Club, and the Humboldt Country Club. In Masonry he has taken the degrees of both the York and the Scottish Rite, and is a prophet of the Ach Bar Grotto and a Noble of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. As president of the Kiwanis Club International, Mr. Arras, accompanied by Mrs. Arras, has traveled HISTORY OF OHIO - 257 more than 53,000 miles, visiting every state in the Union, and every province in Canada. He married Miss Elizabeth Phila McDerment, July 12, 1897. She represents an old and influential family of Columbus, her father having long been a prominent merchant of that city. CHARLES R. RAEDEL. Since his admission to the Ohio bar, twenty years ago, Charles R. Raedel has found abundant demand upon his time and abilities for general practice, and he has also rendered official service within the lines of his profession. He is 'one of the solid and reputable lawyers of Canton. He was born in the City of Canton, February 12, 1869, and was reared and educated there, attending the grammar and high schools and later Western Reserve University. In 1896 Mr. Raedel took up the study of law in the offices of Grant & Snyder, and continued his studies in the intervals of other work until he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1903 and in the same year to practice in the State Supreme Court. For five years he was a member of the law firm Bothwell & Raedel, but since then has practiced individually. From 1913 to 1917 he had charge of the legal department of the United States Revenue office at, Cleveland, duties that kept him in Cleveland much of the time though he retained his home in Canton. At the end of four years he resigned and resumed private practice at Canton. Mr. Raedel is a member of the Stark County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. He has been an influential member of the democratic party in Stark County and several times has been chairman of the County Democratic Committee and has served on, the County Board of Elections. He is a member of the 'Masonic Order and the Reformed Church. WILLIAM S. HARMAN, a wholesale dealer in coal and coke at Columbus, is prominent in business affairs and also in university circles in that city. He was born at Milford, Illinois, in 1878, and educated in the public schools and the University of Chicago, where he was graduated in the class of 1900. Mr. Harman is a member of the honorary scholarship fraternity Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. Immediately after graduating he entered the coal business in Chicago, and his entire active career has been connected with that industry. After several years in Chicago his connections with the coal trade, brought him to the southern Ohio field and his home has been in Columbus since 1916: Mr. Harman, whose offices are in the Hartman Building, is a wholesale dealer in coke and is financially interested in and is wholesale representative of mines at Wellston, Ohio; Springdale, West Virginia, and Mossy Bottom, Kentucky. Since leaving the university Mr. Harman has continued his old associations as an active member of the alumni, and has become prominent in the Central Ohio Alumni. Association of the University of Chicago, which has its headquarters in Columbus and has a large membership here, many of the professors in the Ohio State University being University of Chicago men. Mr. Harman is also a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. He married Miss Maud Cone of Massachusetts. Their two children are Verona and Robert. THOMAS ALFRED BERRY, a bacteriologist of fine technical knowledge and varied and comprehensive practical experience, has been able to render most valuable service as chief of the division of laboratories of the Ohio Department of Health, of which office he is now the valued incumbent. The service of Mr. Berry is proving a valuable contribution to the effective workings of the Ohio Department of Health, with which he has been connected since 1908. Mr. Berry was born at Peebles, Adams County, Ohio, in the year 1886, and is a son Of Dr. J. S. Berry, who was numbered among the representative physicians and surgeons engaged in active general practice in that county. Fred Berry duly profited by the advantages of the public schools and then entered the University of Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In his university course he has specialized in chemistry and 'bacteriology, and in 1906 he became associated with the laboratory service and other scientific work of the Ohio State Board of Health, the title of which was later changed to the present form, the Ohio Department of Health. In 1913 he received the degree of Master of Science from. Ohio State University. Since 1919 he has been chief of the division of laboratories in this all important department of the state service, and his advancement to this post came as a fitting recognition of the long and effective service he had given as a bacteriologist and in the excellent work he had accomplished in the safeguarding of public health in his native state. Mr. Berry has been active in the line of original research and experimentation in his chosen profession and has made valuable contribution to the advance of the science of bacteriology. The well equipped and admirably ordered laboratories of the Ohio Department of Health are established in what was formerly the botany building on the campus of the University of Ohio, at Columbus, and here Mr. Berry has the best of facilities for the successful prosecution of his important work, full description of the service of these laboratories being given in the official publication of the Ohio Department of Health. Mr. Berry's family consists of a wife, formerly Miss Anna Thompson of Peebles, Ohio, one daughter, Margaret, aged eighteen, and two sons, James and Alfred, aged seventeen and thirteen respectively. He is a member of Sigma Xi at Ohio State "University, the Society of American Bacteriologists, and the American Public Health Association. CHARLES MORTIMER KERNS, for over twenty years has been a figure, and a successful one, in the mercantile affairs of Hillsboro, where he is proprietor of a large and well stocked department store. Mr. Kerns is also prominent in the Masonic Order, and has accepted many of the obligations of good citizenship. He was born at Samantha, in Highland County, May 10, 1872. His great-grandfather, John Kerns, was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, being with the troops from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He died in 1838. His wife was Isabelle Burch. The grandfather of the Hillsboro merchant was also named John Kerns, and was born March 2, 1793, and died December 28, 1877,, being buried in Highland County, Ohio. His wife was Rachael Merreman, and they were married July 29, 1815. She was born July 17, 1795, and died March 29, 1857. The father of Charles M. Kerns, John Kerns, the third, was born at Bainbridge, in Ross County, Ohio, February 15, 1828, and during the greater part of his life worked at the trade 'of shoemaker. He died in October, 1914, and is buried in the cemetery at Samantha. His wife was Elizabeth Starr, who was born in Highland County, August 30, 1832, and died in June, 1910. Charles Mortimer Kerns acquired a common school education, and when he was eighteen years of age 258 - HISTORY OF OHIO began work as a clerk in the dry goods store of S. E. Hibben and Son at Hillsboro. He was paid. for his work wages of five dollars a week. This old store of Hibben & Son was established in 1826, and will soon achieve a record of continuous operation for a century. Mr. Kerns during the years of his early manhood carefully saved his earnings and mastered the art of merchandising, laid a sound basis for credit, and in 1902 engaged in business on a moderate scale for himself. He has kept this growing and prospering, and today has the most complete department store in Hillsboro. A brief sketch of his Masonic record is given. He was raised to the degree of Master Mason in 1902, and has served as worshipful master, high priest, thrice illustrious master and eminent commander of the York Rite bodies of Hillsboro. He served many years as a member of the Chapter Trustees, in whose hands all Masonic property is held, and was elected chairman of the Masonic Building Committee to rebuild the temple, this work being completed and the temple dedicated in October, 1917. He is now serving his second term as district lecturer of the Seventh Masonic District, which is composed of the counties of Highland, Scioto, Adams, Pike and Ross. He is the president of the Scottish Rite Club and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a charter member and director of the Business Men's Association. His name appears on the records of the Methodist Church as one of the Official Board, and in politics he is a democrat. He has served as councilman and chairman of various committees, and during the World war acted as chairman of the Highland County Food Board and did much in behalf of the Red Cross. Besides his business in Hillsboro he owns two farms in Highland County, on one of which he has maintained a summer camp. He is a lover of nature and hunting. On June 26, 1912, at Mansfield, Illinois, Mr. Kerns married Miss Elizabeth DeHass Hughes. She is a descendant of Burwell Hughes, a Virginian by birth, who came out to Ohio as a pioneer and died in Brown County. His wife was Nancy Kuhn. Family • records show that while her husband was in service in the Revolution their home was attacked by Indians. She locked and barred the doors and windows, and when the Redskins tried to gain entrance into the cabin by sliding down the wide old-fashioned chimney she put a stop to this movement by dragging a feather bed and throwing it into the fireplace, where it made such a smoke that the Indians had to retreat. They then succeeded in breaking open one of the windows, but the heroic woman, seizing an ax, killed eight of them as they crawled one by one through the window. Mrs. Kerns' father was Soloman Hughes, who was born in Brown County, Ohio, June 18, 1839, and died in 1908. He spent his active career as a farmer, and was buried at Hillsboro. Mrs. Kerns' mother was Mary Susan DeHass, who was born in Highland County, November 18, 1849, and died November 22, 1911. She was a direct descendant of Gen. John Philip DeHass, a soldier who earned distinction in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Kerns is an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being now treasurer of the Ohio State Chapter of that society. She has more than ordinary literary accomplishments, being a writer of songs and poems that have been published in Ohio journals. She was born in Brown County, and was educated in the Hillsboro Grammar and High schools and attended Hillsboro College and Ohio Northern University at Ada. HOMER SUTTERFIELD, superintendent of the State Fair Grounds at Columbus, has been a worker in various departments of the State Agricultural Department at Columbus for nearly ten years. Mr. Sutterfield came to Columbus in 1915. He is a native of Adams County, Ohio. At first he was clerk in the agricultural department under the secretary, R. W. Dunlap, and two years later was assigned to the fair grounds, handling the concessions and collecting fees. In 1919 the secretary of the Agricultural Society, N. E. Shaw, put him in charge as superintendent of the fair grounds. This is a position of much responsibility and one for which Mr. Sutterfield has admirable qualifications. He employs all labor, maintaining a force of twelve men the year around and he personally superintends all the work of maintenance and repairs. His own home is on the grounds, which comprise 115 acres, with a half mile race track. Mr. Butterfield derives the greatest possible satisfaction and pride from the handsome appearance of the grounds and delights to give them his personal care. During the week of the state fair there are over 150 employes under him, the pay roll running over $3,500 for a single week. He maintains a small green-house, and has grown all the flowers used at the fair, and is extending this department of his work. Mr. Sutterfield is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Gertrude Cooley, of Manchester, Ohio. COL. ARIE-JOHN SICHTERMANN, a Columbus business man, left his affairs in that city to join the colors at the time of the World war. He served as an officer both in home camps and in France, and since his return from abroad has maintained prominent interests and official participation in military affairs and organizations. Colonel Sichterman was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and when he was a child his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he was reared and acquired his primary education. He is a graduate of Nazareth Hall Military Academy at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, following which he attended Stiles Preparatory School at Ithaca, New York, and then entered the Mechanical Engineering School of Cornell University. After completing his education Colonel Sichtermann was for a time located at Philadelphia in the real estate business. Subsequently he became associated with the Atlas Powder Company, a subsidiary of the Du Pont Powder Company, and in the interest of this business he came to Ohio in 1914 and located at Columbus in the latter part of that year. He had been in Columbus about three years when he entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He was commissioned captain, assigned to duty as instructor in the Third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Funston, Kansas, and while there was assigned to active duty as captain in the Three Hundred and Fifty-third Infantry of the Eighty-ninth Division. That division was trained and commanded by Gen. Leonard Wood. Colonel Sichtermann went overseas with the division in June, 1918. He had been in France only a month when his division went to the front line trenches. It participated in the St. Mihiel drive,' the Meuse-Argonne battle, and following the armistice was a part of the Army of Occupation on the Moselle. While in France he was recommended for promotion to the. rank of lieutenant-colonel, and that commission and rank have since been awarded him. He returned home in May, 1919, and received his discharge June 5, 1919. Since then Colonel Sichtermann has been successfully engaged in the real estate business at Columbus. At the same time he has from patriotic and unselfish HISTORY OF OHIO - 259 motives devoted a great deal of his time and energy to military organizations and the cause of adequate military preparedness. He is a member of the United States Army Officers' Reserve Corps, holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel therein, and is secretary of the Reserve Officers' Association of Ohio. Colonel Sichtermann spent considerable time in Washington and contributed to the successful fight made for an appropriation to maintain the reserve officers' headquarters in the various states. Colonel Sichtermann has been active in the promotion of and is an officer of what is known as the " Three-in-One" Association, the membership of which represents officers of the three different branches of the military establishment, the Regular Army, the Federalized National Guard and the Reserve Officers' Association. April 23, 1924, he was appointed by Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, as a control. officer for Area B, comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and North and South Dakota. The functions of his office are the standardization of examination and medical care, treatment and hospitalization, vocational training and such other, services as may be found necessary for the beneficiaries under the act creating the United States Veterans' Bureau. Colonel Sichtermann married Miss Mabel Louise Brown, of Milford, Delaware. They have become Ohioans in every sense of the term and especially are in love with Columbus. ment for civic welfare and commercial and industrial advancement and has helped make Newark a modern city of varied industry. Mr. Neighbor has expended his best efforts for many years in making the American Tribune what it is, and may well feel proud of his connection therewith. F. S. NEIGHBOR has the somewhat unusual distinction of having given twenty-five years of his life to the service of one newspaper, The Newark American Tribune. He is secretary and treasurer of its publishers — The Newark News Printing and Publishing Company. Mr. Neighbor has lived nearly all his life in Licking County, Ohio. He came here when nine years of age from Missouri. He was born at Holden, that state, in 1872, but his parents were both natives of Ohio. His father, M. O. Neighbor, grew up in the vicinity of New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, and in the late '60s moved out to Holden, Missouri, where he died a few years later. The widowed mother in 1880 returned to Ohio, establishing her home at Utica in Licking County. F. S. Neighbor grew up in that community, attending the local schools, and in 1900 came to Newark and went to work for the American Tribune, an evening daily newspaper. The Evening Tribune represents a merger of the American and the Tribune, which were consolidated in 1897. Mr. Neighbor has had increasing responsibilities with this paper, and for several years has been the active executive in charge of both the plant and the business of the Newark News Printing and. Publishing Company. The American Tribune is one of the most successful Ohio Daily Newspapers published in cities of from 25,000 to 50,000 population. It carries the international news afternoon news service. Its size varies from ten to twenty-four pages daily. It represents a fine standard of a home newspaper, ,tarrying all the important general news and likewise a. complete report of the daily local happenings and the life and affairs of the community. While 'a republican organ and the official newspaper of the republican party of Newark and Licking counties, its service has been such as to commend it almost equally to all classes of people. It is a thoroughly successful newspaper from a business standpoint, its advertising patronage reflecting not only the value of the newspaper itself as an advertising union, but the prosperity of the City of Newark as a whole. The American Tribune has worked wholeheartedly with every movement for civic welfare and commercial and industrial advancement and has helped make Newark a modern city of varied industry. Mr. Neighbor has expended his efforts for many years in making the American Tribune what it is, and may well feel proud of his connection therewith. BENEDICT M. ALBERY. A notable record was that of the late Benedict M. Albery, who spent three score and five years of his life as an attorney at law in general practice in Franklin County. For lengths of service, this record was altogether unusual and notable. He lived to be eighty-seven years old and until he had completed his eighty-fifth year, kept his office open and handled the business that clients brought to him. A short time before his death, he attended the jubilee dinner given by the Bar Association of Franklin County, when all local attorneys with fifty years or more continuous practice were honored; His life was notable for the fact that he chose a small town as his place of residence and practice. He quit Columbus many years ago to locate in New Albany and for a long term of years cared for the legal business in that quiet little village. In a paper prepared by him and read before the jubilee dinner, he told an interesting story of his career and the customs of early days. He drove all over the country trying cases in the courts of the Justice of the Peace, long drives to reach a rural courtroom with the trial in the summer often held in the shade of a protecting tree' or in a residence, a blacksmith shop or a crossroads store. He lived among people whom he knew were his friends, helped them in their legal controversies, helped smooth out many differences so no bitterness would be left, and he was happy in his work; happy because he knew he was doing useful things for his friends. In early days he kept two horses and rode them alternately as he went through his justice court duties about the country. His professional life began before the Civil war and was ended after the close of the, World war, covering .a great period in Ameri- can and local history. Opportunities to have a part in the big spectacular things of life were limited or not in evidence, but he mentioned in his story to the Bar Association the pleasure that was his as he lived and served among his friends, helping others in a constructive way, increasing the happiness of a community and preventing unnecessary bitterness. His was not a life of big business, but was a life of good deeds among friends. . MAJOR LYNE STARLING SULLIVANT, who achieved his rank and title in the Union Army during the Civil war, has been a prominent citizen and a business man in Columbus for many years. Though with him, as with other men, the years creep on apace, he is still in active life, and may be seen every day in his office in the Commerce Building. He was born in Franklinton, November 21, 1841. He graduated from the Columbus High School in 1860, and in the spring of 1861, at Mr. Lincoln's first call for troops, was among the earliest to enlist. He was commissioned lieutenant of ordnance. Resigning that position a few months later, he returned home, raised a company and joined the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Infantry. He was advanced captain of Company H, and later to the rank of major, and was discharged with that rank at the close of the war. His company lost half of its force on June 27, 1864, at the 'battle of Kenesaw Mountain, where nearly 60 per cent of his regiment were slain or wounded. He took part in the battles of Dallas, Chickamauga, Kenesaw, Peach Orchard, 260 - HISTORY OF OHIO Atlanta, etc., serving during the Atlanta campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps. He has revisited all the scenes of the battles in which he participated, and is now the only surviving commissioned officer of his regiment. For thirty years Major Sullivant was traveling auditor of the Hocking Valley Railroad. Warmhearted, genial, and generous even to a fault, he was always ready to lend a helping hand to those in trouble, and thus made many friends during his years of service. Grateful men from the Atlantic to the Pacific come back to say, "The Major set me on my feet! " While engaged in the Hocking Valley he saw the need of more and better homes in the mining communities, and to fill that need organized five companies, called "The Home Building Companies." He is still president of the three remaining companies. In politics Major Sullivant is republican. He is president of the Franklin County Pioneer Association, and a member of the Columbus Athletic Association. He represents a family of distinguished achievements in local history, as his grandfather was that intrepid pioneer, Lucas Sullivant. Lucas Sullivant was born of Scotch-Irish parentage in Meclenberg County, Virginia, in 1765. At the age of sixteen he so acquitted himself in an expedition against Indians threatening the western counties as to win public commendation from his commanding officer. Left an orphan and alone, he removed in early manhood to Kentucky, following a valued neighbor, William Starling, whose daughter, Sarah, he afterwards married. About 1790, at the head of a little band of twenty men—advance guard of civilization—he first came to this region as one of the Government surveyors of the Virginia military lands which lay between the Miami and Scioto rivers. Recognizing the advantages of the location on a (then) navigable river, as well as the great fertility of the soil, he purchased an extensive tract of land, extending west from the Scioto, and in 1797 laid out the town of Franklinton, which was for many years the county seat of Franklin County. About 1803 he built a house of brick which were brought over the mountains from Philadelphia in pack trains. The old house, though still in existence, is no longer visible, having been incorporated into the building which is now the Convent of the Good Shepherd. Versatile and indefatiguable, with strong and vigorous intellect and good judgment, Lucas Sullivant seemed, as one of his contemporaries said, "born to be a leader," and in the young community he had founded he was destined to perform many unwonted tasks. In 1803-4 Franklin County was laid off, and Mr. Sullivant was called upon to serve as clerk of the court until 1806, when his young brother-in-law,' Lyne Starling, came from Kentucky to relieve him of that work. In 1807-8 he superintended the building of the courthouse. That building was still standing during the Civil war, but has since given place to onc of our public schools. In 1811 Mr. Sullivant built of brick, and presented to the congregation of the Rev. James Hoge (Presbyterian), the first church in the community. This building was used during the War of 1812 for a granary, and was destroyed in 1813. Mr. Sullivant was one of those most influential in securing in 1812 the selection of "the high bank of the Scioto, opposite Franklinton," for the site of the capitol, since he gave financial support both to Lyne Starling and to Mr. Johnson, two of the original proprietors of Columbus. In the year 1816, with a charter from the Legislature, he built a toll-bridge connecting Franklinton and Columbus, where the present Broad Street bridge now stands. This was a difficult undertaking, and was the only bridge within a hundred miles. In 1820 he united with other citizens to build the first schoolhouse in Columbus. He was also president and principal stockholder of the first bank in Columbus, the Franklin Bank. Dying in 1823, Lucas Sullivant left three sons : William Starling, Michael Lucas and Joseph. William Starling Sullivant, born in Franklinton in 1803, was graduated from Yale College in June, 1823, but was called home a few months later by the death of his father. For the next ensuing years he was occupied with business—the affairs of the family estate, and the surveys of the Ohio Canal, and later as a member of the Ohio Stage Company, a most important institution at that time. He was also one of the original directors of the Clinton Bank, and for a time its president. Meantime he had become interested in the study of botany, and as early as 1840 published a catalogue of the plants of Franklin County. For the rest of his life he was largely occupied with scientific study and research, specializing in mosses, and he published many valuable works at his own expense, of which the most noted is the " Icons Muscorum." He was made a member of many scientific societies, in Europe as well as in this country, and invested with many degrees, and at his death in 1872, was recognized as the most accomplished biologist this country had ever produced. His botanical collections he bequeathed to Harvard College, and his microscopes and instruments to the Ohio State University and the Starling Medical College. Michael, the second son of Lucas Sullivant, was born in 1807. Educated at Ohio University and Center College, Kentucky, he deliberately chose farming as an occupation, and devoted himself to developing and cultivating the large tract of land inherited from his father. He raised mules and blooded horses, and was one of the originators of the Ohio Stock Importers Company, which introduced a new era of stock-breeding in the West, and also of the State Board of Agriculture. In 1854 he moved td Illinois, where he had purchased an immense tract of land, and there engaged in farming on a larger and more liberal scale than ever before attempted in this country. In 1868 he sold the "Broadlands" farm for $250,000, and began the work of cultivating "Burr Oaks" in Ford County. Here in 1872 he had under cultivation 18,000 acres of corn, with oats and hay in proportion. It was recorded of him at that time, "With a great herd of the finest blooded cattle, and ten or twelve hundred hogs; with 350 mules, 50 horses, 50 yoke of working oxen, wagons, farm implements and machinery in proportion, and usually employing 300 hands, he has established the claim of being the most extensive and enterprising farmer in the United States." His operations attracted attention both in America and Europe, and an account of Burr Oaks Farm was published in Harper 's Weekly for September, 1871. The sudden death of Mr. Sullivant in 1879 prevented the final success of his plans. Joseph, youngest son of Lucas, and father of Lyne Starling Sullivant, was born in Franklinton in 1809. Educated, like his brother, at Ohio University and Center College, Kentucky, he early evinced a strong love for the natural sciences, and accumulated a valuable scientific library. Before he was twenty-one years of age he was appointed by the Legislature one of the incorporators of the Philo- HISTORY OF OHIO - 261 sophical and Historical Society of Ohio, and served it as corresponding secretary and curator for several years. He organized a free library association, and at the request of prominent citizens, gave public lectures on scientific subjects, He was the projector of Green Lawn Cemetery, selected the site, became a member of its first Board of Trustees, and was for several years, president of that corporation. He prepared a pamphlet on "A Water Supply for the City of Columbus," which at the request of the city council was published at their expense, and was a member of the various committees whose labors were instrumental in procuring the system of water-works finally adopted. He was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of Starling Medical College, which had been named for his uncle, Lyne Starling, because of the generous bequest left it by the latter. This college has now been absorbed by the Ohio State University. Joseph Sullivant 's greatest service to the community, however, was in the field of public education. To the Board of Education he gave nearly twenty years of devoted service, the value of which his colleagues recognized by naming for him the largest and finest school building which the city could then boast. Upon the organization of the first Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University he was appointed by Governor Hays to represent this district. On this board, to quote the words of Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, "His influence more than that of any other person determined the character and future of the institution." This loyal friend and associate has recently honored his memory by a gift to the university of a generous fund, endowing a gold medal, to be called the "Joseph Sullivant medal" and to be bestowed once in five years. The first award. of the medal was made to Benjamin Garver Lamme on January 12, 1924. On that occasion Doctor Mendenhall made an address on the life and work of Joseph Sullivant, in which he said: "The roll of eminent and good men whose lives have enriched the State of Ohio includes the name of no one who gave himself more completely or more generously to the promotion of the welfare of his city, his county and his state." Joseph Sullivant died June 24, 1882. Of the 150 or more descendants of Lucas Sullivant who lived beyond. infancy, seventy were born in Columbus. The latest arrival is Starling Sullivant Wilcox, third of that name, born January 9, 1924, sixth in descent from Lucas Sullivant. ANDREW S. MITCHELL since 1906 has been one of the leading and successful members of the Licking County Bar at Newark. Along with a large law practice and a number of business responsibilities, he has found time for active participation in fraternal, religious and social movements. Mr. Mitchell in early life was a teacher and spent some years in the City of Washington. He was born at Mount Sterling, Madison County, Ohio, January 5, 1870, son of Daniel and Maria (Self) Mitchell, who was also born in Ohio. Mr. Mitchell graduated from the high school at Mount Sterling, and for "ten years taught school in his native county. He left Ohio to go to Washington to become a clerk in one of the departments of the Government, remaining there four and one-half years. He studied law in George. Washington University, where his preceptors included Justices Brewer and Harland of the United States Supreme Court. After one .year 's study he was awarded the degree Master of Laws, a degree usually requiring the full four years' course. Then in 1906 he located at Newark. His law practice is largely devoted to business and probate law at Newark and Central Ohio. He is one of the best qualified lawyers in his part of the state in probate, the settlements of estates and in the peculiarly difficult law of wills and trusts. Mr. Mitchell was a leading figure in the organization and development of the People 's Market of Newark, of which he is treasurer and attorney. This is noted for being perhaps the largest and most successful public market for a city of this size, in the country. In 1922 he organized the Newark Savings and Loan Company, of which he is attorney and a member of the Board of Directors. This has developed into one of Newark's most successful building and loan. associations. He has been similarly connected with other business enterprises and movements for the development of the city. Mr. Mitchell is past counsel of Cedar Camp, the Modern Woodman of America in Newark, this being one of the largest camps of that order in Ohio. He served on three different occasions as chairman of the Ohio Delegation to the Head Camp or National Assembly and on each occasion served on important committees. He is also a Knight Templar and Shriner and a Knight of Pythias. Since early youth Mr. Mitchell has been closely identified with the great temperance movement, working effectively in the local campaigns and in the broadening issues which finally brought national prohibition. His name has been associated with the various charitable, humane and civic betterment movements in Newark and he is vice president of the Ohio State Sunday School Association and at Newark has assisted in organizing a number of men's Bible classes. Originally a republican Mr. Mitchell has maintained an independent attitude in politics. He was a member of the original committee on resolutions adopted January 1, 1912, then started the progressive party in Ohio. He, personally campaigned with Roosevelt in that state in the latter, part of that year. Mr. Mitchell married August 15, 1894, Bertha A. Morris. She is prominent in church and club work and with her husband is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Newark. She is corresponding secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Zanesville District of the Ohio Conference, a position in which she made a notable achievement of bringing the fund raised in her district up to $18,000 in a single year. She is an active member of the Unity Reading Circle, and was honored by being elected the first president of the Federation of Woman's clubs of Newark. ANDREW J. PEMBROKE (familiarly known as "Andy") is a Columbus business man. He was born in 1864 at' Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, the son of A. J. and Margaret T. (Mills) Pembroke, natives of Ohio. His grandfather Pembroke was born in England on the border of Wales, and was an early settler in Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. Pembroke's father served nearly four years in the Civil war and died at Circleville, Ohio, in April, 1876. In June of that year Mr. Pembroke left school and engaged employment in his native town until 1880, being then sixteen years of, age, at which time he came to' Columbus and secured a position in the general office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until 1882, accepting then a position as clerk in an insurance office. He has been in the insurance business now for over forty years, about 'eighteen years of which he was special agent for several large fire insurance companies. He has now a well-established and successful general insurance agency in his own building, the Pembroke Building, at 193 East Broad Street. His wife is Clara Schuman Pembroke and he has two children, Warren W. Pembroke and Marcia Pembroke Steffan, both of whom are associated with him in the insurance business. 262 - HISTORY OF OHIO The activities that give Mr. Pembroke most of of a public character are centered in one of the finest philanthropies that can engage the attention of men, that is the care, cure and education of crippled children. Mr. Pembroke is past president of the Columbus Rotary Club. However, the part of the club programine that has chiefly attracted him has been its interest in the crippled children. As chairman of the Crippled Children's Committee for several years, Mr. Pembroke has devoted his time unstintedly to looking after the care, education, medical treatment and general welfare of crippled children in Columbus. The number of such children, as listed by this committee and other philanthropic organizations is over 300, which includes children of all religions and color. Mr. Pembroke gives particularly of his efforts to the School for Crippled Children, maintained at the Fulton Street School. On the medical side of this work the best of attention from orthopedic specialists is obtained, a service free to poor children. This philanthropic interest of Mr. Pembroke's is not confined to Columbus, but extends throughout Franklin County and the whole state. He is one of the directors of the Ohio Crippled Children's Society and chairman of the Public Relations Committee, tak- ing an active part in all of their activities. As official representative of the Rotary Club in this work, Mr. Pembroke makes it a duty to look after legislative acts effecting in any way the welfare of crippled children, therefor exerting both a positive and negative influence at the general assembly. His personal efforts are also directed to enlisting cooperation in such works from clubs, organizations and the public at large, including fraternal bodies as a general means of securing not only the routine assistance but the establishment of additional convalescent homes, schools and hospitals in Ohio for the crippled child. Mr. Pembroke is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, Elk, Odd Fellow and director of the Columbus Athletic Club. FLETCHER S. SCOTT. In Licking County, where he has had his home for over twenty years Fletcher S. Scott is known as an attorney and also as a citizen and professional man who has employed his talent and his opportunities in many ways for the community 's good. He was born at Kalida in Putnam County, Ohio, in 1881, son of Rev. S. W. and Eva (Algire) Scott, also natives of Ohio. His father, now a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church living at Bemidji, Minnesota, was for a long number of years a member of the Ohio Central Conference. Fletcher S. Scott acquired a liberal education, taking both the law and academic courses in Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated in 1900. He also attended Denison University at Granville, having moved to that college town in Licking bounty in 1901. That was the beginning of his permanent residence in Licking County. For some years he was in business at Newark, but since 1916 has conducted a successful law practice in that city and has achieved a favorable standing and reputation as one of the able lawyers of central Ohio. Beginning in 1910 Mr. Scott was safety director of Newark for seventeen months. In the Eighty-third Session of the Ohio General Assembly he served as assistant clerk of the Senate. That long session was memorable to him because of the lasting acquaintances and friendships with a large number of Ohio's most prominent men. From 1912 to 1916 Mr. Scott held the office of Justice of the Peace. All the worthy civic and welfare movements of Newark have readily enlisted his assistance and co operation. For several years he has been one of the active workers of the Humane Society, serving as attorney for the organization without compensation. He is also interested in the work of the "Charity Newsies," being an active member of that organization which dispenses aid and charity on a 100 per cent basis. This is one of the few organizations of its kind in which there is no law in transmission because of salaries or overhead expenses between the donor and the recipient of funds designed to help worthy persons. Mr. Scott has for several years been a trustee of the Newark Lodge of Elks and is a member of the Kiwanis Club. He is a republican. Mr. Scott married Miss Eva Baird. His offices are in the First National Bank Building at Newark. JOHN A. THOMPSON was an officer in the World war, but for some years before and since has been well known as a civil engineer in Licking County. He is the present county surveyor and has a substantial business and professional record to his credit. He was born at Salesville, in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1888. His family came out of Pennsylvania in a covered wagon to find a pioneer home in Guernsey County. His parents were C. M. and Orea 0. (Williams) Thompson. John A. Thompson spent his early boyhood in Guernsey County, attended common schools there and all the higher attainments represented by higher educations, professional work, have been the result of his own ambition and effort. Coming to Licking County in 1905 at the age of seventeen he enrolled as a student in Denison University at Granville. His course was not continuous, since in order to pay his way he was absent several years while teaching school and in service on the Great Lakes. He took the engineering course, graduating at Denison with the class of 1912. During the following years he engaged in practice and in various business enterprises. In August, 1917, he entered the second officers training school at Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, was commissioned a second lieutenant, subsequently promoted to first lieutenant, then" captain. Assigned to duty in the Three Hundred Twenty-fourth Heavy Field Artillery, a unit of the Eighty-third Division, he was for some time stationed with the replacement troops at Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. From there he was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he finished a course in the School of Fire. Following that he was put in command of a battery in the Forty-fifth Field Light Artillery, stationed at Camp Stanley, Leon Springs, Texas. His battery was preparing for service in Russia when the armistice was signed. Mr. Thompson received his honorable discharge in December, 1918, after sixteen months with the colors; however, he has since retained commission in the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army. On being relieved of his army duties Mr. Thompson returned to Newark. He is associated with his brother, Mr. Ewart G. Thompson, in the oil drilling business, being president of the Aetna Drilling Company. Mr. Thompson's brothers and sisters followed him to Licking County and are residents of Newark. They are : Ewart G., oil and gas drilling contractor ; David Dean, civil engineer with state highway department; Gladys L., general insurance; and Janice' J. Thompson, director of physical education. Mr. Thompson in November, 1922, was elected county surveyor of Licking County. He entered this office in September, 1923, and devotes practically all his time to the discharge of his official duties. CAPT. WILLIAM HARRIES MORGAN, M. D., who was a medical officer with both American and British armies in the World war, was a physician and surgeon HISTORY OF OHIO - 263 at Columbus until he began his military service, and for the past five years has been an accomplished member of his profession in the City of Newark. Dr. Morgan was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, in 1884. His parents were born in Ohio, both of Welsh ancestry and it is Welsh ancestry that accounts for the spelling of the middle name of Doctor Morgan. In 1892 the family removed to Columbus, where Doctor Morgan's father, J. E. Morgan, is living. Doctor Morgan is a graduate of the East High School of Columbus. He studied medicine in the Medical Department of Ohio State University, being graduated with the class of 1909. During the following eight years he was associated in practice with two distinguished surgeons, Drs. Will and Charles S. Hamilton at Columbus. In 1917 Doctor Morgan was commissioned a lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, subsequently being promoted to captain. In January, 1918, he was called to Washington for service in the Army Medical School and while there was selected as one of the medical officers to be detached from the United States Army and by arrangement with the British Government attached to the British Royal Army Medical Corps. On this assignment he went overseas in March, 1918, serving in various hospitals and camps in England and Scotland, and later going with the British Army to France. He had duty in several sectors, including the Somme and the great Ypres offensive. After the armistice he went to Germany and while in that country had the advantage of study and clinical observation in the University of Bonn. Doctor Morgan was awarded the Fellowship of Medicine of the British Government, of which the famous Dr. William Osler, now deceased, was chairman. He took the emergency post graduate courses prescribed under this fellowship. Returning home Doctor Morgan was discharged in August, 1919, and soon afterward in the same year located permanently in Newark, where he conducts some extensive medical and surgical practice. His address is 79 Hudson Avenue. He is a member of the County, Ohio State and Americal Medical associations, is a Mason and Elk and belongs to the Lions Club. Captain Morgan married in 1916 Miss Anna Richards of Newark. They have two sons, Richard H. and William Harries, Jr. CHARLES A. RALPH. Among oil men generally, particularly those identified with the producing end of the industry, there is probably no name more significant of a splendid and successful operation than that of Ralph, represented in the incorporated firm of Ralph Brothers. The business was founded in the pioneer days of petroleum oil operations in Pennsylvania fields but for the past thirty-five years perhaps the bulk of the firm's operations have been in Ohio. The operating headquarters of the business today are at Newark, the offices being in the Newark Trust Building. The personal head of the business is Charles A. Ralph. Mr. Ralph was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. His home is in Pittsburgh. He represents the second generation of the Ralph Brothers firm, being a son of one of the original partners. It was shortly after the close of the Civil war that the Ralphs entered the oil industry in Pennsylvania. His father was the late George W. Ralph, a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. He was teaching school in Illinois when the Civil war broke out, and was a Union soldier with a commendable record throughout that conflict between the North and the South. The war over he became associated with his brothers in the oil industry. The headquarters of the firm at that time was at Bradford, Pennsylvania. It was in 1888, shortly after oil development was started in Ohio that the firm extended their interests to this state. Their primary operations in Ohio were at Woodville in Sandusky County. The only survivor of the original firm of Ralph Brothers is James H. Ralph, who now makes his home in Florida. Charles A. Ralph grew up in the oil industry, and that has been his main business interest since boyhood. He has continued the name and followed out the general policies of the original firm of Ralph Brothers. The business is incorporated under the laws of Delaware and maintains an executive office at Wilmington, that state. Mr. Charles A. Ralph is the president of the corporation. While Ralph Brothers directed their primary activities in Ohio in Sandusky County, the present operations of the firm are centered in Wood, Perry, Muskingum, Fairfield, Licking and Morgan counties. In former years the firm was well known for its operations in the mid-continent field, particularly in Montgomery and Chautauqua counties, Kansas. There is a third generation of the family now active in the business, George F. Ralph, a son of Charles A. Ralph. There is no record of any one family or firm that has been engaged as long as this one in the oil producing business. E. T. WAGENHALS, as division manager of the Ohio Power Company, with headquarters at Newark, is the executive of one of the largest and most important electric public utilities in the state. He was born at Lancaster, Ohio, was educated for the engineering profession. Soon after leaving the school he was assigned an engineering position with the Mill Creek Valley Street Railway Company of Cincinnati. Mr. Wagenhals is a self made man applying himself to his work, and graduated from the school of experience. Since 1909 he has been identified with the Ohio Power Company, whose operating headquarters are at Newark. As manager, he is both the executive in charge of both the construction and operating departments. This company furnishes light and power to a large number of cities and towns in central and northern Ohio. In addition to its contracts with the municipalities it furnishes light and power to hundreds of the leading industries of the state. The business since 1912 has had a remarkable growth and development, new transmission lines and power stations having been built to keep up with the constantly increasing demands for the service. The Newark Power Plant was one of the first erected by this company in Ohio. A plant that represents the last word in electrical engineering is the great power plant at Philo, Ohio, located ten miles south of Zanesville, Ohio, one of the largest individual units in the middle west, and completed in 1924. MAJ. DAVID PRICE CORDRAY, retired army officer, graduated from West Point and began his army career as second lieutenant more than thirty years ago. In the course of his service he was at various Indian posts, was in the Spanish-American war and in service in the Philippines and though retired he was able to perform some creditable service for the Government during the World war. Major Cordray is an Ohioan by birth and represents an old family of Muskingum County. He was born at Granville, Licking County, July 27, 1865, and since retiring from the army has lived at Newark, the county seat. His parents were Henry DeWitt and Mary E. (Price) Cordray, and he was named for his mother 's brother, Col. David Price, a United States army officer. His maternal grandfather was Rev. David Price, a Congregational minister who was born in England and was identified 264 - HISTORY OF OHIO with Newark, Ohio, in early days. Major Cordray 's paternal grandfather was George W. Cordray, a native of Virginia. He came with his father, Isaac Cordray, to Ohio in 1800, the family settling at Zanesville in Muskingum County. Isaac Cordray was a prominent character in the early history of that county, serving as a member of one of its first board of trustees. David Price Cordray grew up at Newark, attended the grammar and high schools there. For a short time he worked as a draftsman in the Baltimore and Ohio shops at Newark. While thus employed he was appointed, through the influence of Congressman Beriah Wilson, a cadet at West Point Military Academy. He graduated from West Point in the class of 1891.- With the commission of second lieutenant he was assigned duty with the Eighth Infantry, joining his regiment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. In 1893 he was appointed inspector of Indian supplies at Pine Ridge Agency, in South Dakota. In 1895 he was transferred to the Seventeenth Infantry, serving on the staff of Major-General Ruger at Governor 's Island, New York, in 1896-97. During the Spanish-American war he served in Cuba With the chief engineer of the Fifth Army Corp. In 1900 he was sent to the Philippines, being there during the Insurrection and stationed at North Luzon and Mindanao.. In 1901 he was promoted to the rank of captain, and after two years in the Far East, returned to the United States. In 1907 he again went to the Island with the Twenty-sixth Infantry, and while on duty at Manila in November of that year, during the visit of inspection of Secretary of War Taft, he was intrusted with a mission of a confidential nature to the interior of China, a mission he carried out successfully. He returned to Manila in 1908. Major Cordray was retired with the rank of major December 23, 1913, on account of disabilities received incident to the service. After that he was retained subject to the call of the War Department and during the. World war was assigned to duty with the 'chief of militia in the War Department at Washington. Major Cordray has medals awarded for his service in all campaigns in which he has been engaged since graduating from West Point, including the Indian service, the Spanish-American war, the Philippine Insurrection. Major Cordray has one son, David Price Cordray, Jr., who it is planned shall continue the family military profession. He is now a promising student in the Newark High School, and in 1925 will become a student in Virginia Military Institute. ANNE ELIZA NELSON. One of the conspicuous families of pioneer times in Columbus was that of Nelson, represented by Miss Anne Eliza Nelson, whose home is at 225 North Nelson Road in the east section of the city. Her birthplace is the house in which she now lives, the youngest of the children of David and Mary (Taylor) Nelson. Her grandfather, David Nelson, Sr., served as first lieutenant in the War of the American Revolution. His father was Robert Nelson, Sr. In 1798 the Nelson family came from Juniata County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, and in 1800 settled on the land so long known as the Nelson homestead and in what is now the City of Columbus. David Nelson, Sr., and his son Robert each had 320 acres, these tracts adjoining and lying on both sides of the present Broad Street and Nelson Road.. Some of that land is now included in Franklin Park. The home of Robert Nelson stood at the northwest . corner of Broad Street and Nelson Road. In 1819 David and Robert each built a home. The David Nelson home is still standing, the residence of the family. The old home is situated on the west bank of Alum Creek. It was one of the splendidly built old time homes of that day, the brick being made on the premises. There are massive timbers and a large amount of black walnut added to the construction and trim. It was built by skilled mechanics and stands as a monument to the integrity of the old time builders. It would seem to be good for another century of use. It is perhaps the only one of the old homes in Columbus still standing and used by the same family. Later, Nelson Park, twenty-two acres between Nelson Road and. Alum Creek, was donated to the city in memory of David Nelson. In the same vicinity stands Nelson Memorial Church, occupying a portion of the old homestead, the ground having been donated by one of the family. David Nelson, Jr., erected a water power grist mill near the home on Alum Creek in 1832. He and also his son, David, Jr., 'after him served as an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Columbus. The son Robert, brother of David, Jr., was an officer in the War of 1812. David Nelson, Jr., was about four years of age when the family settled in Ohio, and he like- wise was a veteran of the War of 1812. His wife, Mary Taylor, daughter of Isaac Taylor, represented a family that also came from Pennsylvania, a few years later than the Nelson family, and settled in that part of Franklin County, Ohio, later known as Southeast Livingston Avenue and Lockborn Road, Columbus, Ohio. This farm Isaac. Taylor bought in January, 1818, and sold November, 1837. May, 1838, he bought lots Nos. 52, 55 and 56, and there erected the Isaac Taylor homestead on what was later known as Gay Street, west of Front Street. An old photograph, which is still in existence and is a copy of an ambrotype that was made in 1854, shows it to have been a fine residence of its day. Miss Anne Eliza Nelson is the last survivor of her immediate family. Her last surviving sister died at the old home in 1923. OREN J. BARNES. An Ohio school man who has made a notable record of school administration both in his own state and elsewhere is Oren J. Barnes, superintendent of city schools at Newark. He is former president of the Central Ohio Teachers' Association, and his present responsibilities and previous record make him undoubtedly one of the leaders in the educational affairs of Ohio today. Mr. Barnes was born and reared in Licking County, attending public schools. He took both the preparatory and college course in. Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, graduating in 1902. His career as a teacher began in the State of Pennsylvania where for four years he was teacher of science in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Mansfield. In the meantime he was also pursuing post graduate studies in Cornell and Columbia University. After that for five years he was principal of the high school at West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1911 Mr. Barnes returned to his native. county, becoming principal of the Newark High School, subsequently city superintendent of schools. During the fourteen years he has been officially identified with the Newark schools he has been successful in maintaining and increasing the general standard of school work, and greatly extending the facilities and scope of the school equipment, accomplishing that during a decade When unusual demands have been placed upon school finances here as elsewhere. As school superintendent he has under his direction the high school and sixteen grade schools with a staff of 15a teachers and the approximate attendance of all the schools 5,200. The Central Ohio Teachers' Association, which honored Mr. Barnes with the office of president, draws its membership from about seventeen counties in the central part of the state. He has also been active in civic movements at Newark, having HISTORY OF OHIO - 265 been a member of Newark Rotary Club since its organization and is now president of that body. For several years he has been a director of the Newark Chamber of Commerce and is president of the Board of Trustees of Newark Public Library. He is also a member of the Newark Council of the Boy Scouts, is a Knight Templar Mason and is esteemed leading knight in the Newark Elks Lodge. Mr. Barnes represents one of the oldest and most historic families of Licking County. He was born six miles northeast of Newark in Mary Ann Township in 1877, son of Stewart and Virginia (Jones) Barnes. Stewart Barnes was born at the old Barnes homestead there in 1834 and in 1861 married Virginia Jones, whose father was a native of Wales. Stewart Barnes' father was Charles Barnes, who married a member of the Stewart family, and this Charles Barnes was the third consecutive Charles in the ancestry of Oren J. Barnes. The first Charles, great-grandfather of the Newark educator, lived in Frederick County, Virginia, in Colonial times. He was one of the soldiers in the famous expedition led by Lord Dunmore against the Indians on the Scioto on what is now the State of Ohio. Many years after this expedition, which was carried out before the War of the American Revolution, he left his home in Frederick County, Virginia, and coming to Ohio settled in Newark in 1811. In 1814 he moved from Newark to a farm in Mary Ann Township. The land he took up at that time, more than a century ago, has been owned consecutively by his descendants. The present owner of the homestead is Oren J. Barnes. Charles Barnes, the first, who died in 1815, was the first person buried in the township cemetery which was named Barnes Cemetery in his honor. Oren J. Barnes married Florence Stewart, second cousin. She likewise represents a pioneer family in Licking County. Her great grandparents were John Stadden and Betsy Green. They were the first couple married in Licking County, the marriage taking place on Christmas day of 1800. Isaac and Col. John Stadden, in the early part of 1800, came from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to settle in the Licking Valley, in what is now Licking County. Both are prominent figures in the early history of Licking County. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Oren J. Barnes are Ellen, Mary Katherine and Stewart. E. A. BRYAN has been a resident of Newark about twenty years. His career of activity has brought him some unusual honors and responsibilities, indicating that he is a man of sound judgment, dependable character and steadfast in all he undertakes. Mr. Bryan was born in Pike Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1882, son of Lucy (Ashcraft) and William Bryan. His grandfather, Alexander Bryan, was a pioneer of Muskingum County, Ohio. Lucy Ash-craft was a daughter of Elijah Ashcraft and grand daughter of Jonathan Ashcraft, one of the first settlers of Pike Township, Cochocton County and an important figure in the early history of that county. E. A. Bryan was reared on the homestead farm in Cochocton County, attending local schools and the Meredith Business College in Zanesville. He came to Newark in 1905. Mr. Bryan for some time was employed on the construction of the interurban railway from Zanesville to Columbus. Later he engaged in the grocery business at Newark with his father-in-law, Mr. J. S. Fulton, a member of a prominent family of that name that have been identified with business and public affairs in Newark since the '50s. The first important recognition of the solid esteem Mr. Bryan had achieved during his connection with the people and affairs of Licking County came in the November election of 1918 when he was chosen sheriff on the democratic ticket. He began his first term of sheriff in January, 1919. In 1920 he was reelected for a second term, his incumbency of the office continuing until the end of 1922. It was in the memorable 1920 election that he achieved a distinctive personal triumph such as few democrats in Ohio that year could claim. Licking County like practically all the rest of Ohio was swept into the republican column in the Harding landslide of that year. Mr. Harding 's majority in the county was 2,000. In contrast there should be noted the fact that Mr. Bryan up for reelection, and the democratic candidate carried the county by 3,200 majority over his republican opponent. It was an expression of popular confidence that was not misplaced during the efficient administration of Mr. Bryan. Early in 1923, after retiring from office, Mr. Bryan engaged in the automobile business at Newark. He has the agency for Dodge Brothers in Newark and vicinity and has made a pronounced financial and business success of this enterprise. Mr. Bryan's wife was Miss Alice Fulton, of the well known Licking County family of that name. Their two children are Fulton and Eloise Bryan. C. C. ZWICK, who until recently owned the Star Motor Company at Louisville, went to work as an automobile mechanic when a young boy, and is qualified for his business by long experience, skill and a high degree of business ability. He was born in Ohio February 17, 1892, and when he was twelve years of age his parents moved to a farm in Stark County near Louisville, where he spent another four years of his life. He was educated in the Parochial schools at Louisville, and on leaving the farm became an automobile mechanic in an auto-automobile repair shop of his own, and in 1915 became associated with G. P. Maloney in an agency for handling the Olds and Dodge cars. In 1917 they organized the Star Motor Company, opening their quarters in Canton. Soon afterward Mr. Zwick retired from the Canton business and took the Louisville branch of the business. This he sold in April, 1924. He had the local territory for the sale of the Olds and Chevrolet automobiles and Chevrolet trucks, and did business in a fine brick garage, 78 feet front by 68 feet deep. Mr. Zwick is a member of the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus, and is a democrat in politics. He married Miss Mary Beachet, their three children being Mary, Bernard C., and Paul J. PAUL OFFENBERG, nurseryman and landscape architect with headquarters at 1988 East Livington Avenue in Columbus, was trained for his profession under some of the most distinctive influences and in environment where the land of landscaping has reached its highest form. Mr. Offenberg is a native of Borkoop, Holland. This town has long enjoyed a great fame on account of its many nurseries and bulb growing establishments. There are more than 700 such enterprises and the total product becomes an important element in national trade. Paul Offenberg from childhood had the impressive influence of such an atmosphere, and eagerly made use of his opportunities to learn the art of shrub and bulb growing and landscaping. Finally on account of the World war conditions he came to America and settled near some friends in Columbus. As soon as it was known that he came from Borkoop, offers of tempting positions were made to take charge of other nurseries, but he preferred to engage in business for himself. He has made something of a specialty of growing shrubs and has introduced several new varieties, always letting his nursery stock speak for itself. He was soon asked to take 266 - HISTORY OF OHIO charge of several private gardens, parks and lawns, and the result has been that his business in a few years has greatly surpassed his fondest expectations. Before coming to America Mr. Offenberg had traveled in several European countries, studying landscape architecture, particularly in Berlin, St. Petersburg and some of the great cities. One of his customers was the noted Count Esterhazy. Many park directors in cities where some of the most celebrated landscape work is found assisted him, and in that way he reached a high standing in his specialty. Mr. Offenberg has been thoroughly appreciative of American advantages, and both he and his wife have identified themselves with liberal organizations working for the improvement and elevation of community standards. FEED C. CLARK for over twenty years has been actively identified with the old established business of W. H. Albaugh Company, funeral directors at Circleville, a business that has been conducted on a high plane of service for over fifty years. The founder of the business in 1868 was William Henry Albaugh, Sr. His primary interest was fine horses and he owned several animals that were noted performers on the turf. He conducted a livery and feed stable at Circleville for a number of years. The undertaking business he established' as a side line. Horses were used by the establishment until 1918, when motor vehicles were substituted. W. H. Albaugh, Sr., died about 1886. The business was then continued by his son, William H. Albaugh, Jr. William H. Albaugh, Jr., who died March 22, 1918, was one of the best loved men in Circleville. He was born at Circleville, September 26, 1865. He was a small child when his mother, Sarah Ustick, died and he was reared by his stepmother, Mary Smith. This stepmother survives him, and gave to him a true mother's affection and love. She is now Mrs. Z, T. Sturgeon of Lancaster, Ohio. The late Mr. Albaugh was essentially a business man, and he employed a practical embalmer and funeral director to handle the business. In 1900 Fred C. Clark came into the business as an employe. He is a graduate of the Barnes School of Anatomy of Chicago, and is thoroughly expert in all the technique of his profession. He served six years as County Coroner of Pickaway County. A few years after he Came to the company Mr. Albaugh turned the business over entirely to Mr. Clark, who has continued it under the old name since 'the death of its former proprietor. The late Mr. Albaugh was a man always ready and glad to serve the interests of his community. He shared his father 's enthusiasm for horses, and about 1888 he took several thoroughbreds to Sidney and Melbourne, Australia, where his brother, Marshall A. Albaugh, resided. Mr. Albaugh a few hours before his death called all his employes to his bedside and bade each of them goodbye. He was widely known in fraternal circles, and especially those that had as a fundamental principle beneficiary or charitable work. He lived and practiced the golden rule. Fred C. Clark was born in Cincinnati, December 4, 1881, son of Augustus G. and Mary Katherine (Frederick) Clark, who have six living children, namely: Mrs. Nettie Trevitt of Columbus, Ohio Mrs. C. H. Kirkendall of New York City; Ada M. Clark of Columbus, Ohio ; Mrs. S. W. Lloyd of Indianapolis, Ind.; Zona Bell Iuscho of Columbus, Ohio; Fred C. Clark of the review, and two died in 'infancy. When Fred C. Clark was .two years of age his parents moved to Circleville, where his father engaged in the wholesale mercantile business. Later the family moved to Columbus, where Fred. Clark finished his high school course. For twelve years he was associated with the R. E. Jones Undertaking Company and then in 1900 moved to Circleville. His time is wholly devoted to his business, and he has taken pride in keeping the service at the same high standards cherished by its former owners. He' has been naturally led into connection with the charitable and humane organizations of his home town. He is chairman of the Crippled Children's Association, and is also an active Rotarian, practicing the principle of service above self. He was elected county coroner in 1902. He had also served as a member of the Ohio State Examining Board of Embalmers, and fraternally is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and is particularly active in the Elks because of its benevolent views. He is also a member of the Presbyterian Church. . Fred C. Clark was married July 16, 1912, to Miss Bessie Rush Riegal, born April 24, 1885, She is a daughter of Solomon D. and Mary Rush Riegal,, both natives of Salt Creek Township, Pickaway County. They have one child, Dorothy Elizabeth Clark, born March 19, 1913. CECIL FANNING. In addition to her soldiers, statesmen, inventors and men of affairs, Ohio has given generously to the fine arts. One of the outstanding American musicians today, singers and poets, is a native of Columbus. Cecil. Fanning 's contributions to musical art have met the test of some of the most exacting critics. Mr. Fanning was born in Columbus November 28, 1883, son of Capt. Richard J. and Cecilia (Miller) Fanning. His father, now retired, has earned distinction in military affairs. He was born in Ireland and at an early age came with his family to Cleveland. Captain Fanning was a Union soldier in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, and thirty years later participated in the Spanish-American war and the Philippines insurrection. He served as a captain in the Philippines for five years. During most of his active life he lived in Columbus, but is now a resident of Cleveland. Cecil Fanning through his mother is a grandson of Thomas Miller, and member of one of the historic early families of Columbus. Thomas Miller occupied many important positions in civic and political affairs, being sheriff, postmaster, and supervisor of Ohio canals. His name was in the eastern section of the capital city. Land which he donated for the Ohio State Fair was later made into Franklin Park, the largest and most beautiful in the city. In the same section of the city a street was named in his honor, Miller Avenue. Thomas Miller for some years owned the Ohio Statesman, then the leading newspaper in Columbus. Its editor was the famous Sunset Cox. A brother was Dr. Henry Miller, who lived on a beautiful estate northwest of the city, which in later years was sold and developed into the beautiful residential suburb named Upper Arlington. Another brother was founder of a large dry goods business now known as Green, Joyce and Company. Cecil Fanning had every opportunity to develop his talent. While in Columbus he studied voice under H. B. Turpin. He began his career as concert baritone singer in 1906. He made his debut in London, England, in 1908, and his debut in Berlin in 1912. His recital debut in New York occurred in 1916, and since then he has appeared as soloist with musical organizations throughout the United States. In addition to his annual concert tours, he is a teacher of voice in Columbus. He was decorated by the war camp community service for work in organizing concerts for soldiers and community singing. Mr. Fanning is author of numerous librettos for cantatas, lyrical compositions, and has been a pioneer in the field of securing recognition for the product of American talent as a medium for musical art. HISTORY OF OHIO - 267 His book of poems, the "Flower-Strewn Threshold," was published by the Constable Publishing House in London in 1912, and simultaneously in America by E. P. Dutton and Company, New York. A great number of the poems in this work have been set to music. The American public in general is perhaps most familiar with his poem "Spring in Sicily," which was set to music by the composer Berge and won the prize of the National Federation of Music clubs in 1923. His latest and probably most pretentious work is his libretto for the Indian Grand Opera "Algala," the music of which was composed by Francesco De Leone of Akron, Ohio. It was published by the G. Schirmer music house of New York. The first production of this opera was given by the Cleveland Grand Opera Company in Akron, Ohio, May 23, 1924, when Mr. Fanning created the baritone role. GEORGE WILLIAM WOERLEIN is one of the practical experts in the creamery and butter making industry in Ohio, and has had an extensive experience in business. A number of years ago he established a small plant at Groveport in Franklin County, and has developed there one of the principal centers in that rich section of Ohio to handle and manufacture the output of the local dairy interests. Mr. Woerlein was born at Marysville, Ohio, May 28, 1876. His father, George A. Woerlein, was a native of Columbus and for many years an employe of the street car system in that city, but in later life engaged in farming. George William Woerlein himself was reared on a farm, attended the common schools, and remained with his father until he was twenty-four. In 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo he served as a guard. For a time he was an employe of the Champion Iron Company, and in 1903 went to work in the Rutan Creamery at Marysville. In the five and one-half years he was with that establishment he mastered every detail of the creamery industry. In 1909 he bought a small plant with modest equipment at Groveport, and starting with a capital of not more than $6,000 has steadily increased the facilities out of the profits of the business and has one of the most successfully operated plants in the state. His plant has a capacity of 140,000 pounds of butter yearly. In 1921 as an adjunct of the creamery he started an ice plant, and the manufacture of ice has now become a large business of itself. He supplies the retail trade in ice in all the surrounding villages. In his business he employs four trucks for handling ice and other commodities, and has a force of eleven employes. At the same time Mr. Woerlein has shown a disposition to work for the common welfare in his home community and has served on the school board and as a member of the official board and board of trustees of the Episcopal Church. He is thoroughly progressive in all matters. In 1903 he married Miss Mary Elma Kline, of Knox County, Ohio. They have one son, George William, Jr., now a student in Ohio State University. GUSTAVE A. ACKERMAN, proprietor of the G. A. Ackerman Floral Company of River Road, is a man whose artistic perceptions and business abilities both fit him for his work, and whose success has come from his thorough understanding of his calling. This company was established in 1902 on a very small scale, and for some years thereafter the feature of vegetable growing was the principal one, although Mr. Ackerman had always before him the object of so expanding his business as to become a florist of pretension. As opportunity offered, he added to his equipment, and now has 25,000 square feet of glass. In addition to meeting the demand for cut flowers and potted plants, he specializes in roses, for which he has won an enviable reputation, being recognized as an expert in this line. He is a member of a number of florist and fraternal organizations, and is one of the leading representatives of his calling in the city. His exhibits at the local flower shows are beautiful and inspiring. Mr. Ackerman was born at Baden, Germany, in 1881, and eight years later was brought to the United States by his parents. When only twelve years old he began working in the line he has always followed, and after some years of experience, under different employer, began for himself as above stated. In all of his undertakings he has an able helpmate in his wife, a woman of unusual ability. She bore the maiden name of Ethel F. Huffman, and is a daughter of Harry Huffman, a widely-known provision dealer, Her grandfather, Lewis Huffman, aged eighty-five years, is still living on the farm on which he was born and later inherited from his father located on the Jackson Turnpike, eight miles southwest of Columbus. Harry Huffman married Mary Bretherland Campbcll, a daughter of Henry Campbell, of Scotch descent, whose homestead was located on the Harrisburg Turnpike, three miles southwest of Columbus. Mrs. Ackerman now owns a portion of this property. She is a graduate of East High School, and the Ohio State University, and took from the latter two degrees. For two years she worked with the Associated Charities of Columbus, four years with the Children's Division of the Ohio State Board of Charities, and for two years was supervisor of the psychopathic department of the American Red Cross at Cincinnati, Ohio, continuing in the latter position until her marriage. Since marrying, however, her time has been occupied with her home and the florist business, and she is especially valuable to it as a designer of the more elaborate effects in flowers and plants. Both she and Mr. Ackerman stand deservedly high in public confidence, and their achievements in the past are guarantees for future accomplishments in business and community betterment. HERBERT HENNICK. Recent generations of university students and a large part of the population of Columbus in general have learned to appreciate as a real institution the business founded and built up by Herbert Hennick and known familiarly as "Hennick's Cafe." It is located on ground adjacent to the University Campus, and university students regard it as indispensable to their daily life and comfort. Mr. Hennick was born in Columbus, and has had a remarkable career of achievement. When seven years old he started selling papers on the street, and for twenty years was in the newspaper business, connected with both the Dispatch and Ohio State Journal. He made a notable record as a circulation builder, and was manager of street circulation at different times for both the Dispatch and the State Journal. In 1913 he opened a small shop for the sale of soda water, cigars, tobacco and similar commodities on North High Street, opposite the University Campus. His popularity with the students and the faculty quickly became established, and for ten years he has continued to show his rare gift, amounting to genius, in maintaining a service that has few competitors. He soon installed a cafe, and the restaurant has been the foundation of his larger business and success. To afford ample accommodations for his large business he built in 1919 a handsome building on High Street and uses three floors for his business. The first floor contains the soda fountain, cigar stands, the cafe and lunch counter and the kitchen and other service quarters. The upper floors are used for private dining and banquet rooms, and there is a 268 - HISTORY OF OHIO beautiful and spacious ball room. These facilities are in demand almost daily throughout the year, and are the scene of many of the university's most prominent functions. The establishment is patronized largely by the faculty, and there has been developed a Hennick's atmosphere peculiarly its own, care-free and Bohemian, while at the same time scholarly and never dull. Mr. Hennick is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Columbus Athletic Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In the management of his business Mr. Hennick has had the able assistance of Mrs. Hennick, who before her marriage was Miss Hazel Murray, of Columbus. EDWARD CAMPBELL RECTOR, who had the distinction of being the only republican ever elected to the Ohio Legislature from Pickaway County throughout a long period of years, is a member of one of the old and prominent families of that county and has been a leader in farming, stock growing and agricultural and civic organizations there. His home is in Deer-creek Township, five miles south of Williamsport, eleven miles southwest of Circleville. He is the only child of his parents, George Blodgett and Isabell (Campbell) Rector, was born August 31, 1872. He is still living in the house erected by his grandfather, Edward Rector; in 1828. A notable fact is that in this house all the children of three generations of the Rector family have been born and here also the grandfather and father both died. The Rector family dates back in this country to 1717 when John Jacob Reichter or Recktor with his wife Elizabeth and son John with twelve other householders and their families came from Germany and settled on the Rappahannock in Virginia: John Jacob died about 1724, and his son John married Catherine Fishbaugh and became the head of the Rector family, as the name now came to be called. He laid out the little town of Maidstown, Virginia, where he lived until his death, after which the town was named Rectortown in his honor. John Rector was the father of seven sons and two daughters. Some of these remained in Fauquier County, Virginia, and many of the _Rectors are still living in that part of Virginia, but most of them followed the tide of emigration westward and settled in various parts of the Western Territory where they became important factors in building this then great wilderness. Henry Rector, one of the seven sons of John Rector, died at Rector-town in 1794, leaving a widow and five children, two of whom, Edward the eldest was born in 1786 and Henry born 1788. The widow was before her marriage Mary Tiffin, a sister of Edward Tiffin, the first governor of Ohio. In the fall of 1798 the family followed this famous statesman to the Northwest Territory; the mother and four youngest came from Wheeling to Portsmouth on a flat-boat, Edward the eldest then but twelve years of age followed the Lewis and Clark blazed trail to Chillicothe riding one horse and leading another, joined at Chillicothe by the rest of the family they occupied one of the three cabins at that time constituting the village. In the spring of 1799 the family moved to a farm near the mouth of Deercreek. In December, 1909, Edward married Peggy Brown and in the following spring located in what it now Deercreek Township, Pickaway County, and in 1823 moved to the farm now occupied by his descendants. The other son married Elizabeth Hotsinpiler and settled in the same township, where he lived until his death in 1854, many of his descendants still residing in this same locality. Edward Rector and his wife Peggy were the parents of eight children, those of this family living to maturity, married in this locality and all moved to the western states and their descendants are now mostly living in Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri. Peggy Rector died in 1839 and Edward married his second wife, who was Sophronia Burns Blodgett coming from Plymouth, New Hampshire, as one of the pioneer school teachers of this almost wilderness. By this marriage seven children were born only three living to maturity, two sons, Newton and George Blodgett, and a daughter, Sophronia Isabell. The father Edward died August 11, 1876, at the old home which he erected in 1828, the mother Sophronia died in Circleville, Ohio, April 28; 1894. Newton Rector spent most of his life on part of the old homestead and died in Circleville in 1917. He married Letetia McCoy of Ross County and they were the parents of six children, Fred C., an attorney of Columbus ; Guy, who died in childhood; George Blodgett, who died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1916; Dr. James M. of Columbus; Howard B. of Oakland, California; and Mrs. Florence Jones of Albany, New York. Sophronia Isabell married Hon. A. R. Bolin, who was an attorney of Circleville and represented Pickaway County in the Ohio House of Representatives in the General Assembly. They had three children, Hon. Stuart R. Bolin, an attorney of Columbus and a former United States district attorney; Nellie, who died in childhood; and Mabel, wife of Walter Ebersbaugh of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mr. Bolin died in 1913 and the widow lives with her daughter in Fort Dodge. George Blodgett, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at the old homestead April 19, 1851, and spent his life on the farm where he died July 16, 1875, at the early age of twenty-four, but who lived long enough to establish himself as a leader in agricultural interests and was widely known at the time of his death. He gave every promise of a successful business and public man when his active career was closed by death. He married Isabell Campbell, a daughter of. Robert and Nancy Hanson Campbell, of Wayne Township. Robert Campbell was born in 1824 and was a representative of one of the pioneer families of Pickaway County, who came here early in the history of the county from Pennsylvania. Mr. Campbell was prominent and well known in the early days as a farmer and merchant and was identified with the. early business of Circleville. He was twice married, first to Nancy Hanson, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Broombaugh) Hanson, who died in 1868; the second wife was Rebecca Westenhaver, daughter of Jacob Westenhaver. Several children from both families still reside in this and adjoining counties. Robert Campbell died May 22, 1916, at the age of ninety-two. Edward Campbell Rector, with his mother and family still reside at the old homestead, where he has spent his entire life. He was educated in the common schools and at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and at the age of twenty-one took charge of the farm. He has not only been a successful farmer and stockraiser but has also been active in all social, educational, religious and business interests of his community, county and state. He has been a real public spirited leader in agricultural organizations, including the Grange and Farm Bureau; he has been a director and active member of the County Farm Bureau since the organization and for the past two years has been president. He is also one of the directors of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, representing the district of Pickaway, Ross, Fairfield and Hocking counties; he has served as a member of the Deercreek Township Board of Education almost continuously since 1904 and has been the president of the board many times, and was reelected in 1923 for another term of four years. He has followed in the footsteps of all of his ancestors in being an active member and president of the official board of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 269 Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church, has been a teacher in this Sunday school for thirty years and is the present teacher of the Bible Class. In 1920 he was elected to represent Pickaway County in the State Legislature during the Eighty-fourth General Assembly. During his term he was a member of the agricultural, health, and building and loan committees and was the author of a law regulating mutual insurance companies. November 23, 1899, Mr. Rector married Miss Elizabeth Metzger of Ross County, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Eppaneur) Metzger. They have had five children, one daughter Virginia died in infancy, Charles Dwight, an ex-service man who since the war has been engaged in farming, following the vocation of his ancestors for many generations ; in 1923 he married Miss Laura McDill of Wayne Township, a descendant of another pioneer family in this county ; George Blodgett, the second son is an accountant and is a city examiner in the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices under Auditor of State Tracy; Gwendolen is a student of Ohio State University; and Robert Edward attending the local public school. Mr. Rector is one of the prominent Masons of Ohio. He has been a Mason since 1895 and has presided over all of the local bodies of Masonry at Williamsport and Circleville ; he is a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and Shriner. He has been a member and officer in the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Ohio since 1915 and in 1922 was elected most illustrious grand master of this body, serving for one year, which also makes him a member of the Grand Body for life, a very high Masonic honor and a fitting tribute to his many years of Masonic work and activity. DUDLEY VATTIER COURTRIGHT, M. D., who is established in the successful general practice of his profession in the city of Circleville, as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Pickaway County, was born at Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, July 4, 1875. He is a son of Dr. Alva P. and Annie M. (Vattier) Courtright, the latter a daughter of Dr. John L. Vattier, who was long a leading physician in the City of Cincinnati. Dr. Alva P. Courtright received a liberal academic and professional education, and his ability as a physician and surgeon was supplemented by that fine professional stewardship that ever makes for success, besides which he was influential in civic affairs during the course of a signally active and useful career. The public schools of his native place afforded Dr. Dudley V. Courtright his preliminary education, which was advanced by his attending Miami University. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered fine old Starling Medical College, at Columbus, this being now the medical department of the University of the State of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897. Since thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession. He is a member of the Pickaway County Medical Society, Columbus Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society, besides being a fellow of the American Medical Association. For several years the doctor was a member of the publication committee of the Ohio State Medical Journal. In the World war period he served as a member of the draft board of Pickaway County, in the capacity of medical examiner, he served two terms as county coroner, and for two terms was a member of the board of education of his home city. He has given several terms of service as a trustee of the Presbyterian Church, is a democrat in political allegiance, is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi College fraternity, is past exalted ruler of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, he has been for five years high priest of Circleville Chapter, No. 20, Royal Arch Masons, and his Masonic affiliations include membership in the local commandery of Knights Templar. He has membership in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of the Chillicothe Country Club. At Carey, Wyandot County, on the 30th of October, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Courtright to Miss Nellie L. Straw, daughter of David and Margie (Kirtland) Straw, her father, now deceased, having been a prominent banker and merchant and large land owner in Wyandot County. Doctor and Mrs. Courtright have five children : Alva Vattier, David Straw, John Loring, George Dudley and Margery Ann. The two eldest sons are, in 1924, students in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. As touching the ancestry of Doctor Courtright the following brief data properly find place in this review. Jan Van Kortright settled at Harlem, New York, in 1863. His son Hendrick established residence in Ulster County, New York, married Catherine Hans, and their son Cornelius married Christina Roosekrans. Of the marriage last noted was born Capt-Maj. John Cortright, who married Margriet Dennemerken and lived in Sussex County, New York. Their son, Abram Van Courtright (the patronymic has been variously spelled), married Affy Drake, and they came to Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1803. John, son of these Ohio pioneers, married Elizabeth Grubbs, and their son, Jesse D., married Sarah Stout, they having been the parents of Dr. Alva P. Courtright and thus the grandparents of the subject of this sketch. The father of Mrs. Sarah (Stout) Courtright was an ensign in the Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia in the War of the Revolution. Maj. John Cortright and his son Abram likewise were patriot soldiers in the Revolution. Jan Van Kortright, the founder of the family in America, came from Leerdam, Holland. Dr. John L. Vattier, maternal grandfather of Dr. Dudley V. Courtright, was not only a leading physician in Cincinnati but was also a citizen of prominence in public affairs. He served as postmaster of that city, and was a member of the State Senate at the same time that Jesse D. Courtright was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Doctor Vattier was a son of Charles Vattier, who came from Havre, France, and became one of the first settlers in Cincinnati, Ohio, besides which he was a soldier in the commands of Gen. Anthony Wayne and General St. Clair. Abram Van Courtright, the Ohio pioneer, became a prosperous farmer and extensive landholder, and the farm on which he originally settled in Fairfield County is now owned and occupied by his great-grandson and namesake, Abram Van Courtright. W. M. RITTER LUMBER COMPANY. This is one of the largest organizations of its kind in the world, owning land and timber and facilities for the manufacture and distribution of lumber products. In fact it is the world 's largest producer of hardwood lumber. The company has maintained offices in Columbus for twenty-five years. The company specializes in the manufacture of hardwood lumber, and has its mills in some of the largest hardwood sections of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. The company operates ten mills, employs upwards to 2,000 men in the various branches of the industry, and supplies both a domestic and foreign trade. Its output of flooring is very important, this product alone putting the company among the leaders in that field. The company has an immense acreage of timber land, it being constantly extended. Only recently the newspapers noted the purchase by this company 270 - HISTORY OF OHIO of over 60,000 acres of timber and coal land in West Virginia. The company's holdings are sufficient to permit of normal operations in the manufacture for many years to come. The original owner and present chairman of the board of directors of the company is Mr. William M. Ritter. The president of the company is William M. Pryor. Mr. Pryor resides at Columbus. Mr. Ritter is a citizen of West Virginia, temporarily residing in Washington, D. C. He is a frequent visitor in Columbus, in connection with the business of his company. The treasurer of the company is C. B. Weakley. WILLIAM M. PRYOR. Although he is not a native of the Buckeye State, William M. Pryor, president of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, has been a resident of Columbus for a number of years, and has gained secure vantage in the commercial and civic life of the capital city. Mr. Pryor was born in Hughesville, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1878, a son of William F. and Alvretta (Ritter) Pryor. During his youth he attended the public schools of his locality, and at the age of seventeen years began his career as a lumberman by beginning at the very bottom of the ladder. His first service was as a general laborer and helper in a sawmill, and his successive promotions in the industry have come as the logical reward of close application and industry. His knowledge of the lumber industry is of the broad and comprehensive kind which is based upon practical and personal experience in the various departments, including the manufacturing, marketing and executive branches. Following his apprenticeship in the mills he officiated as superintendent of mills, division superintendent, assistant to the president, and in 1922 was made president and general manager of the company whose employ he had entered when a boy. A brief summary of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, found in the preceding sketch, shows something of the magnitude of its operations, and the administrative duties incumbent upon the man at the head. Mr. Pryor came to Columbus in 1917, and that city has been his place of residence since that time. He is a member of the Athletic Club, the Scioto Country Club, holds membership in the Bluefield, West Virginia, Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a Mason. In 1904 he married Miss Daisy Kinsey of Roanoke, Virginia, and they have four children: Helen K., William F., Ruth and George McClellan. Mr. Pryor and his family are worshipers at the Methodist Episcopal Church. E. M. MANKER, whose offices are at 16 East Broad Street, Columbus, is one of the prominent figures in insurance circles in the capital city. Mr. Manker came to Columbus in 1916. He was born in McLean County, Illinois, but his grandparents went to Illinois from Ohio about 1856. Mr. Manker had a thorough commercial training, and at Columbus was an accountant with the Baker-Vawter Company, commercial stationery manufacturers. In October, 1922, he became associated with the Missouri State Life Insurance Company, devoting his talent to handling corporation and partnership insurance. This is a specialty in which his success has been phenomenal, his early training in accounting having given him a peculiar fitness to develop a scientific system to apply in protection of established enterprises, whether corporate or. partnership. He has been instrumental in improving this system of insurance so as to guarantee the permanency of business investments against the deaths of partners or other executives. Mr. Manker is a man of most unusual personality, is a master of the science of insurance and has been successful in applying the principles in a broad and liberal way. He is a member of the Columbus University Club. TRUITT B. SELLERS is manager of the Ohio Inspection Bureau and Underwriters' Laboratories at Columbus. While this was developed as a private business, it has a semi-official character and is in fact an important public agency maintaining a state-wide service as a result of which lower fire insurance rates on the average have been attained in Ohio than in any other state except possibly New York. The functions of the bureau are to inspect property insurable against fire in the state; to prepare and publish fire insurance rates in accordance with information obtained upon inspection of properties and in conformity to adopt schedules ; to inspect municipal water works systems, fire fighting equipment and facilities for preventing fire; to determine the classification of towns and villages by considering the efficiency and protection afforded by their water works systems, fire departments and fire ordinances; to prepare inspection reports upon towns and villages and industrial or special hazard properties, and to perform general fire prevention and engineering work. The bureau represents an underwriters' laboratory where inspecting and testing of various materials and products used in the prevention and fighting of fire is done. The bureau furnishes gratis highly valuable and essential data and information to owners of property and industries throughout the state for the purpose of reducing the fire waste and conserving property and human life. The staff of the bureau consists of ninety general inspectors, twenty electrical inspectors, fifteen sprinkler system inspectors, and sixty clerical employes. In addition to the principal offices in Columbus, there are ten branch offices, in the cities of Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Lima, Portsmouth, Springfield, Steubenville, Toledo and Youngstown, also officers at Charleston and Wheeling, West Virginia. Mr. Truitt B. Sellers, who has general jurisdiction over this splendid organization, was born at Lebanon, Ohio, and is the son of William B. and Sarah Pullen Sellers, his father and mother being natives of Ohio. When Truitt B. Sellers was a boy his parents removed to Covington, Kentucky, where he was reared and attended school. After leaving public school he had two years of private tutoring, and then entered the First National Bank of Covington. He rose to the division of assistant cashier. Mr. Sellers came to Columbus in 1899. He joined his relative, James W. Cochran, who had in 1895 organized the Ohio Inspection Bureau and had become its first manager. Mr. Cochran subsequently removed to New York, and Mr. Sellers took charge of the bureau as manager. The great system briefly described above is in the main the result of Mr. Sellers' long and assiduous devotion to the development of these various functions. The bureau acts in cooperation with the department of insurance of the State of Ohio and has the full and complete association of practically all the fire insurance companies operating in the state. It has been a most unusual achievement on the part of Mr. Sellers that he has built up an agency with such a service that it supplements and is regarded as coordinate with the kindred service performed by the state insurance department on one hand and the great insurance companies on the other. These insurance companies use the ratings and schedules maintained by the bureau. A resident of Columbus for a quarter of a century, Mr. Sellers has interested himself actively in its civic and public affairs. HISTORY OF OHIO - 271 JOHN W. WENTZ, M. D., has been established in the successful general practice of his profession at Pataskala, Licking County, since 1910, and the scope and representative character of his professional business indicate alike his ability as a physician and surgeon and his personal hold upon popular confidence and esteem. Aside from his profession the doctor has found time to make a record of successful achievement in connection with the automobile industry. Under the title of the Lambert Trublepruf Tire Company, he is general agent in the City of Columbus for the Lambert Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, and his progressive policies have proved fruitful in the upbuilding of a substantial and important business in the sale of famous Lambert Trublepruf tires, the headquarters of the concern in Ohio's capital city being well equipped with attractive sales and display rooms at 75 East Spring Street. In the work of his profession Dr. Wentz likewise has an appreciable practice in the City of Columbus. He is actively identified with the Licking County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Wentz was born near Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio,. in the year 1886, and is a son of Byron B. and Elvira (Keyser) Wentz. Byron B. Wentz was prominent in the political and civic affairs of his community and served as probate judge of Hardin County from 1900 to. 1914. Through the medium of the public schools and other institutions Doctor Wentz acquired a thorough education along academic lines, and in 1910 he was graduated in the medical department of the University of Ohio. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for a time associated with Dr. Barnhill in Columbus, but since 1910 he has maintained his residence and professional headquarters at Pataskala. He has insistently kept in touch with advances made in medical and surgical science and practice, is a close student and has also taken post-graduate work in the celebrated Mayo Brothers Hospital and clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, as well as in the medical depart- ment of the great johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, and also with Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. The doctor wedded Miss Margaret DeFugit, of Columbus, and she is the gracious chate- laine of their home at Pataskala, as well as a popular participant in the social activities of Columbus. CAPT. HARLEY ENNIS JOHNSON of Columbus has a record of service during the World war, and since then in the Ohio National Guard, and as a railroad man is supervisor of materials, Signal Department, New York Central Lines. He was born at Athens, Ohio, in 1886, son of O. L. and Mary (Ennis) Johnson, representing old time families in Ohio. Through his mother he is a descendant of the prominent Ennis family, which came from Scotland and settled in old Virginia. Harley Ennis Johnson had a public school education, and in 1906 at the, age of seventeen entered the employ of the Signal Department of the New York Central Railway at Columbus. He has been in that service continuously except for the time of the World war, and has had many promotions leading up to his present responsibilities as supervisor of materials. His jurisdiction embraces the various New York Central Lines entering Columbus, including the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad as well as the Kanawha and Michigan line extending to Charleston, West Virginia. Captain Johnson was a volunteer at the time of the World war in 1917. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was commissioned second lieutenant, was first assigned to service in the Three Hundred and Eighth French Mortar Battery, and continued his training in the School of Fire at Post Field, Oklahoma, where he graduated. Subsequently at Post Field, Oklahoma, he entered the aviation department, and was made liaison officer of that place. Captain Johnson was discharged in January, 1919, but immediately enrolled as a member of the Ohio National Guard, and in December, 1923, was commissioned captain in the guard and is also a captain in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States Army. Captain Johnson married Miss Elizabeth Garrett. They have a daughter, Helen. He is a member of the American Legion, Humboldt Lodge of Masons, and the Columbus Business Men's Rifle Club. ARVID R. ANDERSON is an electrical engineer by profession, his education in technical school having been supplemented by a very successful practical experience. His home has been in Columbus for a dozen years, and he is president and general manager of the Automatic Reclosing Circuit Breaker Company, one of the concerns whose products widely advertise the City of Columbus. Mr. Anderson was born in Chicago in 1890. His father, a contractor in Chicago, has lived in that city since early manhood. Arvid R. Anderson was reared in Chicago, attended the public schools there, and finished his literary and technical education in the University of Illinois. He graduated Bachelor of Science in 1911, and did post-graduate work leading to the degree Master of Science. He specialized in electrical engineering and is one of the prominent younger men graduates of the engineering department of that great institution. Mr. Anderson has been in Columbus since he left the university. His early work here was as an electrical engineer in the mine machinery department of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. Subsequently he became financially interested in the Automatic Reclosing Circuit Breaker Company, which was organized in 1913, to manufacture a very effective type of circuit breaker which had been devised and developed into practical application by E. C. Raney. Mr. Anderson in 1916 resigned from the Jeffrey Company in order to devote his whole time to the new company of which he was made president and general manager. As executive of this concern he has made it an important manufacturing plant. The plant is located at Sixth and Wesley avenues. It manufactures in large numbers the circuit breaker for use in various industries such as coal mines, street railway systems, etc. Mr. Anderson is prominent in university circles at Columbus, and is a member of various Greek letter fraternities including the Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Psi, Eta Kappa Nu and Gamma Alpha. He also belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. ARDRIE BRIGHTON WEISER, superintendent of schools at Canal Winchester, is an educator of high attainments and possessive character, and represents an old family of Fairfield County. He was born at Greencastle in Fairfield County, March 21, 1890. He is a descendant of the same family as Conrad Weiser, who figured in some of the earliest traditions in the Northwest Territory as an Indian interpreter. A monument has been erected to his memory at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The father of Ardrie B. Weiser is Calvin W. Weiser, formerly a public school teacher in Bloom Township of Fairfield County and later a merchant at Greencastle. The mother, was Mary (Boyer) Weiser, daughter of Marquis Boyer, a farmer of Jefferson, Ohio. A brother of A. B. Weiser is a chemist of national distinction. Harry Boyer Weiser, who was also born 272 - HISTORY OF OHIO at Greencastle, received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Cornell University in 1914, and since 1915 has been identified with the Rice Institute at Houston, Texas, where he is head of the chemistry department. He was captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during the World war and has been an associate editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Ardrie Brighton Weiser was graduated from the Lithopolis High School in 1910, took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Ohio State University in 1914 and by post-graduate work at intervals. of his teaching career earned the Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1918 and has since then completed work leading up to the doctor 's degree at the Ohio State University. Mr. Weiser became connected with the schools at Canal Winchester in Franklin County in 1914, being teacher in the'high schools the first two years, was principal of the high school from 1916-18, and since the latter year has been superintendent of the city schools. He is not only a scholar but a man of broad interest in the welfare of his community. He has done much work in Sunday schools, having at one time been superintendent of the Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church in his native town of Greencastle, and at Canal Winchester has taught in the Sunday school of the Reformed Church and also in the Sunday school of the United Brethren Church. Reared a democrat; he has like many educated. men sought to make his vote most effective by frequently supporting men and measures not completely identified with his own party. He is a Chapter Mason and has held minor offices in the Royal Arch Chapter and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grange. In June, 1919, he married Miss Hazel Codner, Her father, William Codner, for thirty-six years was a telegraph operator with the Hocking Valley Railway, spending most of the time at Canal Winchester. Mrs. Weiser 's only brother, Kile Codner, has been a mechanical engineer, connected with the Ingersoll-Rand Company and the General Electric Company, his present headquarters being in Buenos Aires, South America. For two years he was an engineering representative of the Ingersoll-Rand Company in Cuba. Mr. Weiser has one son, Donald Codner Weiser. GEORGE MCDOWELL is superintendent of the Jackson Township Centralized School in Pickaway County. He is one of the able young men in the educational forces of the county that has made remarkable progress in consolidating its country schools and raising the general standards of educational work. Mr. McDowell was born at Summit County, Ohio, October 17, 1897, son of J. W. McDowell. His father was a real estate broker. His grandfather, Luther McDowell, was a native of Wayne County, Ohio, and a relative of General McDowell. Mr. George McDowell was educated in Summit County, attending high school there, and graduated from Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, in 1920. Soon after graduating he came to Pickaway County as principal of the high school in Jackson Township and in 1923 was made superintendent. This was the first centralized school in Pickaway County, organized in 1911. There is an eight room school building, and the teaching staff at present comprises twelve teachers. There are two full time and two part time high school teachers. In the grades the enrollment is 225, with fifty in high school. Mr. McDowell married a classmate of Muskingum College, Miss Pauline Finch of Carmi, Illinois. She is a graduate of the department of oratory of Muskingum College. HOLLIE M. BROWN. That Mr. Brown has secure vantage place in the confidence and esteem of the people of his native county needs no further voucher than the fact that he is now serving as treasurer of that county, and that he is justifying his selection for this office is being shown in his careful and efficent administration of the fiscal affairs of Licking County. Mr. Brown was born in Jersey Township, Licking County, on the 25th of February, 1893, and in that same township were born his parents, Richard D. and Rose (Merrill) Brown, who now reside at Newark, the county seat. Both the Brown and Merrill families have long been established in Ohio, the paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch having been born in Franklin County, this state, and his maternal grandparents in Licking County. Richard. D. Brown became one of the successful representatives of farm industry in Licking County, and here also he served eight years as postmaster in the Village of Pataskala. In the public schools of Licking County Hollie M. Brown continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school at Jersey, and thereafter he served three years as his father 's assistant in the postoffice at Pataskala. He was appointed deputy county treasurer, and it was largely due to his eight years of effective service in this capacity that he was looked upon as the most eligible of candidates for the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected in 1922, his present term expiring in September, 1925. In the meanwhile he had given loyal service in connection with the World war, as will be more specifically noted. in a later paragraph of this context. Mr. Brown is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party, is affiliated with the American Legion, the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, is an active member of the Lions Club in his home City of Newark, and here he holds membership in the Universalist Church. Mr. Brown entered the Nation's military service April 27, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United. States Infantry.. With this command he entered overseas service, and after remaining in France three months he was for nine months with the allied forces in Italy. He finally returned to his native land, and he received his honorable discharge on the 4th of May, 1919. In the year 1919 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brown to Miss Leota Cartnall, daughter of Jesse Cartnall, a well known citizen of Licking County. The one child of this union is a fine little son of three years (1924), his name being Robert Hollie Brown and he has undisputed dominion in the home of the county treasurer of Licking County. MAX H. MUELLER has made a close and comprehensive study of all phases and details pertaining to photographic science and business and his artistic talent as combined with his technical knowledge enables him to turn out from his Arcade studio in the City of Newark the highest grade of photographic products. His reputation in his profession has here extended beyond local limitations, and in both commercial and portrait photography his services are much in requisition, not only in Licking County, but also in other counties in this section of the state. He has a studio of the most modern equipment and facilities, and also has a business truck well equipped for the doing of effective photography outside the precincts of his studio. His experience as a photographer has been specially broad and varied. He learned the art of photography under the effective preceptorship and direction of his father, who has a well established photographic business in Saxony, Germany, where likewise his father had been a successful exponent of this art and business. Mr. Mueller was born in Saxony, Germany, July HISTORY OF OHIO - 273 10, 1887, and received his early education in the admirable schools of his active land. He was an ambitious youth of eighteen years when he came to the United States and established residence in the City of Philadelphia, where he remained about three years and followed the line of work for which he had fully equipped himself in his native land. He next passed about two years in the old home land, and thereafter he followed his profession for a time in the Panama Canal Zone and other sections of Central America. He returned to the United States in 1911, and after having again been employed for a time in the City of Philadelphia he engaged iphotographic in the photographie business, at Fairmont, West Virginia. There he remained until the spring of 1915, when, after selling his studio and business there, he came, in April of that year, to Newark, Ohio, where he has since maintained his home and business headquarters and where he has community place in community esteem and good will. Here he was associated. with Homer C. Wagoner in the conducting of the Arcade studio for a brief interval, and he then purchased Mr. Wagoner 's interest in the business, which under his effective management has become one of specially broad scope and importance. He has thrice found it essential to enlarge his studio and otherwise expand its facilities and service, and he is recognized as one of the leading commercial and portrait photographers of this section of the Buckeye State. He is a loyal and progressive citizen and is a valued member of the local Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and Young Men's Christian Association. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and he is a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as are also his mother and his sister, Mrs. Hete Tesch, both now residents of Newark. Mr. Mueller's honored father, Hugo Mueller, is deceased, and in 1922 the widowed mother came to Newark, where she has since made her home with her son Max H. of this review. E. CARY NORRIS, president of the Newark Savings & Loan Company, is essentially one of the most liberal and progressive of the many loyal citizens who are putting forth their best thought and energies in the laudable work of advancing the civic and material prosperity and progress of the fine little City of Newark, judicial center of Licking County. Mr. Norris was born at Frazeysburg, Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 7th of November, 1858, and in the public schools of the continued State he continued his studies until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. He then turned his attention to acquiring the art and trade of telegraphy, and during a period of sixteen years, in the capacities of telegraph operator and station agent, he continued in railroad service. Within this interval he was thus employed in turn with the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroads. Mr. Norris finally found it expedient to sever his alliance with railway service, and his marked success in other fields of endeavor since that time have eminently justified the course which he thus took. In the year 1900 he and his wife established their home in Newark, and here he engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business, continues he still continues to be actively identified and in which he has developed an enterprise of substantial and representative order. In the autumn of 1922 Mr. Norris entered into an association with a few other enterprising citizens and effected the organization and incorporation of the Newark Savings & Loan Company, which bases its operations on a capital stock of $2,000,000. and the business of which, under most careful and well ordered administration, is constantly expanding in scope and importance, with the result that it has high standing as one of the substantial and influential financial institutions of this section of the state. Of this corporation Mr. Norris has been from the beginning the president and a director, and admirably has he directed the policies of the institution of which he is thus the executive head. In the Masonic fraternity the basic or ancient craft affiliation of Mr. Norris is with Acme Lodge," Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and his maximum York Rite affiliation is with Luke's Coramandery of Knights Templar. He and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of Newark, and in the same he is serving as a deacon and a member of its board of trustees. Mr. Norris wedded Miss Belle Host, daughter of Henry and Nancy Host, Frazeysburg, Ohio, and both he and his wife are among the most loyal and active members of the church mentioned in the foregoing paragraph while Mrs. Norris is a popular factor in the social circles of her home city. Mr. and Mrs. Norris have no children. CHARLES H. STIMSON, M. D., who is now one of the veteran and representasurgeonsicians and surgeons of Licking County, has long been established in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Newark, judicial center of this county, and in his ability and success he has signally honored a profession that had likewise been followed with no slight distinction by his father and his paternal grandfather. Doctor Stimson was born in the City of Albany, New York, in the year 1857, and is a son of Dr. Charles H. Stimson, Sr.,Stimson,ssa (Dean) Stimson, both natives of Vermont and both children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to Ohio, where they were reared to adult age and where their marriage was solemnized. The late Dr. Charles H. Stimson was one of a family of thirteen children who accompanied their parents to Ohio in the pioneer days, when stage lines furnished the major medium for their transportation. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this review became one of the prominent and revered pioneer physicians of Licking County, where he traversed a wide area of country in making his kindly ministrations to those in suffering and distress, his calls being usually made on horseback, and the distance to be traversed and the bad condition of roads making it necessary at times to be absent from home three or four days when making his professional calls. After due preliminary discipline, Dr. Charles H. Stimson of this sketch entered Ohio University, at Athens, where he completed his higher education along academic lines. In preparation for his chosen profession he received the advantages of not only historic old Jefferson Medical College, in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but also those of the equaly celebrated Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, of which he was graduated. After receiving from the latter institution his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by the valuable clinical experience which he gained through. eighteen months of service as an interne in the great Charity Hospital of New York City, and by one year of service in the United States Marine Hospital of Ellis Island. He then returned to Ohio, and he has long been known and honored as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Licking County, where he has been established in practice in the City of Newark for fully forty-four years. He has been an honored and valued member of the medical and surgical staff of. Newark Hospital from the time of its founding, he was for twelve 274 - HISTORY OF OHIO years local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and for a number of years he was official surgeon of the Licking County Children 's Home. He is now one of the oldest and most influential members of the Licking County Medical Society, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In the period of the World war Doctor Stimson volunteered for service in the medical corps of the United States Army, and was given assignment to its reserve. In recognition of his action in this connection he received a certificate of appreciation, the same bearing the signaturc of the Secretary of War and also those of the officers of the medical corps of the United States Army. In the Masonic fraternity Doctor Stimson has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a noble of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in the City of Columbus. He is affiliated with Newark Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has membership in the Newark Chamber of Commerce. He married Miss Etta F. Fleming, daughter of Joseph Fleming of Newark. Doctor and Mrs. Stimson have no children, but the young folks of the community are their appreciative friends, even as are their acquaintances of their own generation. JOHN J. CARROLL. It is a source of satisfaction to any man to be able to point to achievements for a number of years in any one line, especially if, during that time, the results stand in a material form, and are designed for the betterment of business conditions in his home community. For the past thirty-five years John J. Carroll has owned and operated the dry goods store bearing his name, and this concern now has the distinction of being the oldest business house now operating under its original management. John J. Carroll was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, of Irish parentage. He was reared and educated at Columbus, Ohio, to which place his parents moved when he was four years of age. Following the conclusion of his school days, he entered the Green-Joyce store, and in it he gained his initial experience in retail merchandising, and he remained with it until 1886. It was in 1886 that he, his brother, Thomas B. Carroll, Walter M. Cooney and John M. Caren, all of whom were employes of the Green-Joyce people, bought the dry goods business at Newark, Ohio, owned by James Cregan & Company, and began to operate under the name of Carroll & Company. At the time of the purchase the store was on South Park Place, but the succeeding year the new partners moved it to Donavin Building in West Park Place, to the premises now occupied by The Hub. For many years this location was regarded as suitable, but by 1911 the volume of business had far outgrown the premises, and after the purchase of the stock of the Powers-Miller Company, removal was made to the Hull Building. Once more the demands of the trade necessitated a change, and arrangements were made for the erection of the present handsome and splendidly equipped permanent home. During the time of building temporary quarters were secured on South Third Street, but as soon as the Hudson Avenue store was completed, removal was made to it, and here the old and new customers of the house find not only the same careful consideration of their requirements, reliable merchrndise and reasonable prices, but a store whose facilities and equipment are not exceeded by any in the country for a city of the size of Newark. Over twenty years ago Mr. Carroll bought the interests of his partners, and since that time the store has been conducted under his own name. Admirably arranged, the store affords patrons every convenience, the first floor being devoted to a general line of dry goods; the second floor to women's, misses' and children's ready to wear apparel, and the offices of Mr. Carroll and his assistants. The third floor holds the departments devoted to rugs, draperies, victrolas, leather goods, trucks, lamps and novelties. Mr. Carroll is a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, and has one child, Jean Josephine, whose mother died in July, 1921. During the many years he has been before the public Mr. Carroll has won the confidence and esteem of all who know him, and his reputation as a reliable, honorable and able business man is without blemish and his standing is of the very highest, not only at Newark, but throughout a very wide territory contiguous to it. HOMER JURY DAVIS, M. D. Numbered among the most representative members of the medical fraternity of Licking County, Dr. Homer Jury Davis, of Newark, has won and holds a high position among the people of his community. He was born in Licking Township, Licking County, Ohio, September 12, 1874, a son of Joseph Davis, and a grandson of James Davis, a native of Virginia, who migrated to Ohio in 1806, filing the claim on the last three-quarter government section of land in Licking County, and later farming it with success. He married Susan Grove, also a native of Virginia. Joseph Davis was born in Licking Township, Licking County, May 9, 1832, and farming and stock-raising were his life-long occupations. A democrat, he served on the Township School Board, but was not otherwise active in politics. A deeply religious man, he belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church, and served the local body as a trustee. His death occurred in 1913. He and his wife had three sons, all residents of Licking County, two of them being farmers. Mrs. Davis was Helen Sutton prior to her marriage, and she was born in Licking Township. Licking County, March 23, 1840, a daughter of Joseph Bentley and Sarah Ann (Arthur) Sutton. The Suttons came to Ohio from that part of Virginia which was later set aside as West Virginia. Joseph B. Sutton was born in Licking Township, Licking County, in 1814, and died in the same township in 1892, having always been a farmer and stockraiser. Doctor Davis was graduated from Denison University in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and for the subsequent three and one-half years was professor of physics and chemistry at Williamsburg College, Kentucky. Entering then the University of Chicago he was graduated therefrom in 1904 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Following an eighteen-month internship at Cook County Hospital he came to Newark and entered upon the practice of his profession, and this city has since been his home. Many honors have come to him during his residence here, and for six years he has been chief of staff of the Newark City Hospital; for sixteen years he has served as medical supervisor of the Licking County Children's Home; and for ten years he has been a director of the Juvenile Court of Licking County. At present he is surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway lines and Baltimore & Ohio railroads at Newark. Professionally he belongs to the Licking County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and in 1923, was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has been advanced in Masonry through all of the bodies, including the Commandery, and he also belongs to Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Rho Sigma College societies. In religious faith he is a Baptist, and in political belief a democrat. On May 8, 1912, Doctor Davis was married, at