HISTORY OF OHIO - 325 was a republican and a member of the United Presbyterian Church. James K. Barnett married Elizabeth Henderson, a native of Guernsey County. They had a family of five children, Walter M., being the second in age. Walter M. Barnett's early school advantages were limited to the common schools in his home neighborhood. When he was twelve years old he had to go to work to earn his own living and help support the family. He did farm work, and as he was eager to qualify himself for a higher sphere of usefulness, he managed to acquire two more years of schooling during winter terms, while performing the manual toil of the fields. When he was sixteen years of age he became an employe of his uncle in a general country store at Rich Mills. He remained there, accumulating the wisdom of experience, for seventeen years, and then became proprietor of the business. He was a successful merchant in that community and active in politics and church, serving fourteen years as township treasurer. On 1902 Mr. Barnett was elected county treasurer, an office that took him to the county seat at Zanesville. He filled that office two terms, and on leaving the Court House became one of the organizers and assistant cashier of the State Savings Bank, which was incorporated May 11, 1907. On June 1, 1910, a reorganization was effected of this and other financial interests, making the State Security Bank of Zanesville, and since then Mr. Barnett has been its president. He is one of the most practical bankers in this section of Ohio, knows every branch of the work, and could handle the duties of any employe or official. He is also president of the Hook Aston Milling Company, manufacturers and dealers in flour and feed. In 1923 he was honored with the office of vice-president of the Muskingum Bankers' Association. Mr. Barnett is an elder in the First United Presbyterian Church of Zanesville. He is a former chairman of the Republican County Committee and has served as a member of the state committee. He has never joined any secret society, preferring the companionship and pleasures of the home to all others. Those closely associated with him know that for a number of years he has quietly and unostentatiously but none the less efficiently interested himself in the welfare of the poorcr boys and those handicapped physically for the successful battle of life. Mr. Barnett married Miss Ella I. Morgan, a native of Muskingum County and daughter of John Morgan, who spent his life as a shoemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett became the parents of eight children, and there are a large number of grandchildren. The oldest child, Mary Belle, is the wife of C. M. Ashmore, of Zanes- ville, and they have four children. Fred W., a mer- chant at New Concord, Ohio, is married and has one daughter. The only child deceased was Carl. Faith is the wife of Albert Sarbaugh, farmer in Muskingum County, and has five children. Anna married Charles V. Gaumer, and has two children. Lois is the wife of Addis E. Hull, a ceramic engineer at Zanesville. Ralph H. is a printer with the Tribune at Tampa, Florida, and is married and has two children. Effie, the youngest, is the wife of Dr. Russell Guffey, at San Francisco, California. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett have in their home one granddaughter, a cripple, Lois W. Barnett. FRED ERASTUS SMITH has given more than forty years of a very active lifetime to real estate and banking and many civic movements in Akron. He is president of the Smith-Eaton Company, a real estate organization and of the Akron Realty Company. In his time he has filled such offices as county treasurer, city treasurer, treasurer of the Board of Education, treasurer of the Police Pension Fund, treasurer of the Firemen's Pension Fund and chairman of the Summit County Drive for War Savings Stamps. He was born on a farm in Portage County, Ohio, September 4, 1857, son of Erastus and Mary (Carlton) Smith, and grandson of John D. Smith and Epaphro Carlton, both of whom were pioneers in Northern Ohio, his grandfather Carlton locating in Portage County and his grandfather, John D. Smith, being one of the first settlers in what is now Akron. Erastus Smith was born at Akron in 1828, but spent most of his life on a farm in Portage County, where he died in 1915, at the age of eighty-seven. Fred E. Smith was reared on a farm, attended public school and also Hiram College, and in 1876 became a traveling salesman for .a Cleveland firm. In 1878 he formed his first connection with a real estate office in Akron. He made his first purchase of realty in 1881, and it is said that since then he has been directly interested in over seven thousand pieces of property. From a real estate office he became teller and bookkeeper at the Citizen's Savings Bank, frequently known as the W. B. Raymond Bank. He was with that institution about ten years, and in 1894 became vice president and cashier of the Second National Bank of Akron, filling that office for thirteen years. In 1906 he organized and became the first president of the South Akron Bank, which was consolidated with the Commercial Savings Bank. Finally lie assisted in founding the Kenmore Bank, and was its president about six years, until he resigned in 1923. He is an expert bank accountant, and in former years he frequently assisted not only the staff of his own bank but other banks in the city in figuring interests. Mr. Smith in 1903 was elected county treasurer and reelected in 1905, being chosen on the republican ticket. He has been a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Akron City Club and has accepted many opportunities to work through organizations for the greater material welfare of Akron and has also performed a great many favors to individuals in a spirit of helpfulness and good fellowship. Mr. Smith has enjoyed an ideal home life, and has always been devoted to home interests. He married, in 1882, Addie E. Tuttle, daughter of Seth Tuttle. Their oldest child, Jessie, became the wife of H. M. Eaton, secretary of the Smith-Eaton Company. The other children are: Howard R., secretary of the Akron Realty Company, and Gertrude M., wife of J. R. Stanley, of Akron. ROBERT H. EVANS. An Ohio firm of building contractors known all over the state by its work is that of Robert H. Evans & Company, with offices at Zanesville, Columbus and in other Ohio cities. The founder of the business was Robert H. Evans, who died at his home at Zanesville August 1, 1923. While his home through most of his life was at Zanesville, his interests extended all over the state and to other states. He was a graduate of Scioto College and Boston University, was educated for the law, and for a few years practiced in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Returning to Zanesville in 1890, he gave up his profession and engaged in contracting under the firm name of Robert H. Evans and Company, and had soon developed the business to extensive proportions. Practically every section of Ohio bears evidence of his industry, and it may safely be said that probably no other individual, or company, has erected more of the substantial public and private buildings throughout the state. Among the many buildings constructed in Columbus by Mr. Evans and his company are those of the Edwin G. Smith Shoe Company, Moline Plow Company, National Ice and Cold Storage Company, G. W. Bobb Company, Ford Motor Company, Elks' Club Building, the Home Economics Building, Pomerine Hall, and the Animal Research Building, these 326 - HISTORY OF OHIO last three being parts of the state university. At the time of his death his company held the contracts for the construction of the new Young Men's Christian Association Building in Columbus, also the North High School and Central High School buildings. He built the Carnegie Library and the McKinley High School buildings in Canton, the Reformatory for Women at Marysville, the Ohio State Sanatorium at Mount Vernon, the State Hospital buildings at Massillon, the District Tubercular Hospital at Springfield Lake, Ohio ; the State Normal School at Kent, Ohio; the State Hospital buildings at Cleveland, the State Penitentiary buildings at Columbus, and many others throughout the state. Robert H. Evans was prominent in the business affairs of Zanesville, serving for some years as president of the State Security Bank of that city and was also president of the Zanesville Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Zanesville Rotary Club, the, Columbus Athletic Club and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. At his funeral held in Zanesville the pallbearers comprised superintendents of construction for the Evans Company. Mr. Evans was also president of the Bixler Coal Company of Columbus. He married Martha Crawford, who survives him. There are three daughters, Mrs. Mary E. Palmer, of Columbus; Mrs. Ruth Evans Brush, of Zanesville, and Mrs. Margaret Senhauser, of Dover. The only son is John C., connected with the business at Columbus, with offices in the Atlas Building. John C. Evans was born in Zanesville, Ohio, August 19, 1895. He acquired a thorough education in the public and high schools of his native city, at Culver Military Academy, and at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and holds membership in the Aladdin Country Club of Columbus. THE REV. JOSEPH H. DODSHON is one of the prominent clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ohio, where he holds the responsible post of Archdeacon of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, with residence and executive headquarters in the City of Zanesville, Muskingum County. Rev. Joseph Henry Dodshon was born in County Durham, England, April 19, 1868, and is a son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Dodshon, who passed their entire lives in England, where the father was long engaged in mercantile enterprise, and both of whom were devoted communicants of the established Church of England, the ancient faith of which is represented in the United States by the Protestant Episcopal Church. Joseph H. Dodshon early manifested a desire to consecrate his life to the ministry of the Anglican faith, and was able to direct his progressive education toward this end. After attending King James I. Grammar School and Durham College, he found it expedient, as looking to his eventual vocation, to fortify himself in music. He entered the London College of Music, and in this institution he eventually gained the degree of Doctor of Music, a similar degree having later been conferred upon him by the California Musical College. He has also a Fellowship in the English Guild of Musicians. His initial service was as a teacher in the schools of his native land, and it was in the year 1890 that he came to the United States. Here he finished the work of preparing himself for the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he having received in 1896 the order of the diaconate and having been ordained to the priesthood in 1898 by Bishop Talbot of the Diocese of Wyoming. For five years thereafter he was rector of the parish at Douglas, Wyoming, and gave service also in the parish at Lusk, that state. Within this period he effected the erection of new churches at both places. After leaving Wyoming Mr. Dodshon identified himself with the work of the Diocese of Western Michigan, of which Grand Rapids is the see city. He was archdeacon of this diocese in 1905-6, and in 1907 he had a temporary charge at historic old Gibraltar, Spain. He then returned to the United States, and since 1908 he has been archdeacon of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, a position to which he was called by Bishop Vincent. This diocese includes all of Southern Ohio, with many important parishes and thirty missions, the latter especially being under the direction of the archdeacon. Mr. Dodshon has proved a zealous and effective executive in administering the affairs of the diocese and missions, and has done much to advance their spiritual and material progress. For several years he maintained his residence at Columbus, the capital city, and he then moved to Zanesville, which attractive city has since represented his home. He is the author of various booklets, the diversity of which is indicated by the titles of four of these valuable publications, namely: " The League of Nations," "Aids to Family Prayer," "Motorist's Friend," "What Is Faith; Can We Believe in the Virgin Birth?" Mr. Dodshon is an enthusiast in the use and enjoyment of the omnipresent automobile, and has been for the past several years president of the Muskingum Motor Club at Zanesville, besides which he is vice president of the Ohio State Automobile Association. He has composed many fine numbers for the piano and pipe organ, and has never abated his deep and appreciative interest in musical art. In the World war period he was one of the four-minute speakers, and was indefatigable also in all other patriotic service possible for him to render. In recognition of this work the President of the United States presented him with an autographed diploma, and Governor Cox sent a special representative to Zanesville to award a medal to all the four-minute speakers. He has much of leadership in the directing of popular sentiment and action in connection with civic affairs, and among his earnest services have been those rendered as a national speaker in behalf of the League of Nations. In 1913 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dodshon and Miss Carsonette Porter, of Zanesville, a representative of one of the old and influential families of Muskingum County, and she is a popular figure in the leading social and cultural circles of her home city, as well as a devoted worker in the church of which her husband is a distinguished clergyman. Mr. and Mrs. Dodshon have no children. WALTER, ISAAC JENKINS, M. D. Since locating at Akron, Doctor Jenkins' practice has been largely in the field of industrial surgery. As a surgeon his training was thorough and was acquired through association with some of the most eminent men in the profession. He is surgeon for a number of the large industrial plants at Akron. Doctor Jenkins was born on a farm near St. Paris, in Champaign County, Ohio, September 10, 1889, son of T. J. and Emma E. Corner Jenkins. He was reared on his father 's farm, attended country schools and St. Paris High schools, and took his premedical course at the University of Cincinnati. His regular course followed in the Ohio-Miami Medical College, where he was graduated in the year 1917. He became a member of the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity. While a student in 1916-17 he served as an interne, and during 1917-18 remained as resident house physician to the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati. In May, 1918, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, was given his training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and was then assigned HISTORY OF OHIO - 327 to duty in the Walter Reed Hospital at Washington, where he was put in the section of the • orthopedic surgery. He had six months of work there, receiving his honorable discharge in December, 1918. On his return to Cincinnati he had the inestimable advantage of association with Cincinnati's foremost surgeon, Dr. A. H. Freiburg. He also had post-graduate work in the Jewish Hospital. Doctor Jenkins in October, 1919, moved to Akron, joining the Medical Department of the Firestone Rubber Company. In October, 1922, he became medical director for the Miller Rubber Company, and was also a surgeon for a large number, about twenty-five other industrial institutions. He is also a member of the City Hospital staff. Doctor Jenkins is a member of the University Club, the Tuscarawas Country Club, plays golf, is an enthusiastic fisherman, and has also made a study of birds and is a lover of flowers. He married at Akron, in March, 1920, Miss Susan McDorman, who was born and reared at Jamestown, Ohio. CHARLES E. SMOYER has been one of the most successful members of the Akron bar during the past fifteen years. He is a member of the law firm of Smoyer, Clinedinst & Smoyer, with offices in the Second National Building. Mr. Smoyer was born at Loyal Oak in Summit County, Ohio, September 22, 1882, son of John E. and Sevilla L. (Stuver) Smoyer. His maternal grandfather, Charles Stuver, came from Pennsylvania and was a descendant of a Charles Stuver that settled in America in Colonial times. John Smoyer, grandfather of the Akron attorney, was born in Alsace, France, and settled in Medina County, Ohio, about 1850. Charles Edgar Smoyer spent most of his boyhood on his father 's farm, attended country schools, and in 1898 graduated from the high school at Wadsworth in Medina County. He spent about two years in Oklahoma Territory, most of the time employed in the United States Land Office. In 1901 he entered Ohio State University, pursuing the literary and engineering course. In 1903 he enrolled as a student in the law department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated Bachelor of Law in 1906 and was admitted to the Michigan bar the same year. For two years he practiced law in Omaha, Nebraska, in the office of Byron G. Burbank. Then, in August, 1908, he established his office at Akron, and on January 1, 1917, formed a partnership with Ernest H. Clinedinst. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in June, 1916. Mr. Smoyer is a member of the Summit County, Ohio, and American Bar associations. He served four years as a member of the Akron School Board, being its president two years. He is a former president of the Men's Federation of Church Organizations, belongs to the City Club, the Portage Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and Elks. He is an elder in the Grace Reformed Church. His vacations are usually spent in the West and in Canada, hunting big game. Mr. Smoyer married, August 26, 1908, Miss Ethel Mary Read, of Pinckney, Michigan, daughter of Thomas B. Read. They have three sons, Winston R., Stanley C. and Charles E., Jr. KENT HOWARD HARRINGTON, M. D. Since 1914 Doctor Harrington has given his time and ability steadily to medicine and surgery in his native city of Akron, where his offices are in the Peoples Bank Building. He is a specialist of recognized abilities, and is one of the popular younger members of the profession in Summit County. Doctor Harrington was born at Akron, January 1, 1889, son of Henry Harrison and Ruby (Falkerson) Harrington, both living at Akron, where his father is deputy bailiff of the Municipal Court. His grandfather, William Harrington, at the beginning of the Civil war enlisted for three years, served up to that period and then reenlisted for two years, or until the end of the war. While with Sherman 's army engaged in the siege at Atlanta he was killed. Kent Howard Harrington as a boy determined to take up medicine as his career. He finished. the course of the Akron High School, for a brief time attended Buchtel College, now Akron University, and, entering the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1914. In Medical College he was a Tau Alpha Epsilon. He held an interneship at the Seaton Hospital at Cincinnati, following which he engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. He has done special work in the New York Post Graduate Hospital and in 1924 he rearranged his professional schedule so as to allow him time to practice, more or less to the exclusion of other lines, his specialty as a proctologist. He is on the staff of People's Hospital as proctologist. He belongs to the Aesculapian Club, made up of young physicians, and is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the State and National Eclectic Medical societies. Dr. Harrington belongs to the Masonic Club, is a republican and interested in politics, is affiliated with Coventry Lodge No. 665, Free and Accepted Masons, Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, Akron Council No. 83, Royal and Select Masters ; Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. Since 1914 he has been medical examiner of Akron Tent No. 126 of the Maccabees. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Doctor Harrington married, December 13, 1913, at Cincinnati, Miss Clara Louise Falls, daughter of Rudolph and Sophia (Basholz) Falls, both residents of Cincinnati. Her father was a soldier in the Franco-Prussian war, and for a number of years' has had charge of the traffic department of a wholesale dry goods house in Cincinnati. Mrs. Harrington is very active and prominent in Akron's musical circles, being one of the city's leading vocalists. They have two daughters, Ruth and Naomi Harrington. LOUIS ALBERT BOULAY. On July 1, 1923, Governor Donahey called to Columbus to take the post of director of highways and public works, L. A. Boulay, of Toledo, Ohio, a distinguished civil and consulting engineer, with a long record of achievement. His engineering experience has been worldwide, and he is a veteran of both the Spanish-American and World wars. Mr. Boulay was born in York, Pennsylvania, on March 25, 1878. His father was Albert Boulay, of Tours, France, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and a veteran of the Franco-Prussian war. His mother was Mary Adele Wehrly, of York, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Washington when he was quite young. After attending the public schools, he was educated at Gonzaga College and Georgetown University at Washington. He served in the District of Columbia National Guard for three years, and enlisted as a corporal in Company C, First District of Columbia Volunteers, on May 17, 1898, participating in the siege and surrender of Santiago de Cuba under General Lawton. On leaving the army he engaged actively in engineering, and was one of the men of his profession willing to participate in the most arduous and frequently dangerous engineering undertakings at home as well as abroad. For a time he was an inspector 328 - HISTORY OF OHIO of electrical conduits for the District of Columbia, and then became a civil engineer with the United States General Land Office in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He then secured an appointment as engineer for the Bureau of Architecture, Manila, Philippine Islands, and later assistant chief engineer and chief engineer of the Benguet Road, a forty-mile wagon road in the Philippines. He then went with the American-China Development Company, on the location of the Canton-Hankow Railroad in China, part of this work being through the Tai Ping rebel country, where they were later driven out by the Chinese. After leaving China he went to Tuxpan, Mexico, on an examination of asphalt deposits and railroad location for the Pan-American Company, of New York City. After leaving this foreign service he returned to Washington, D. C., and for six months was engineer for the District of Columbia in connection with the elimination of grade crossings and the building of the new union station at Washington. Subsequently he went to Cuba with the Cuba Company Railroad, on railroad location, and later had charge of the building of the Holguin branch. Mr. Boulay has had his home in Toledo for over fifteen years, locating there in May, 1907. For three years he was office engineer for the Riggs & Sherman Company, consulting engineers of Toledo. That work put him in charge of designs for sewers, sewage disposal, waterworks and paving in about fifty municipalities. He also acted as deputy engineer in the office of the Lucas County surveyor on road construction for a year, and for three years was sanitary engineer for Lucas County, having written the present sewer and water laws permitting the building of sewers and waterworks outside of municipalities, and which were signed by Governor Cox. Mr. Boulay for three years was junior member of the Smith & Boulay Company, consulting civil and mechanical engineers, Toledo, Ohio, handling public engineering works on sewers, sewage disposal, waterworks, paving and industrial plants in about seventy-five municipalities. Prior to coming to Columbus, he was for six years president of the L. A. Boulay Company and subsequently the Boulay-Harrison Company, consulting civil and sanitary engineers. Mr. Boulay was a captain of engineers during the World war, at first at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, and later at Camp Fremont, California, where his organization were preparing to leave for Siberia when the armistice was signed. In September, 1907, Mr. Boulay was married to Mary Ulrica Markey, of Washington. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Athletic Club of Columbus, Buckeye Lake Yacht Club, Maumee River Yacht Club, American Association of Engineers, Columbus Engineers' Club, Ohio Engineering Society, Spanish War Veterans and American Legion. His offices in Columbus are in the Ohio Hartman Building at Fourth and Main streets. GUSTAVUS SEIBERLING. A lifelong resident of Summit County, member of one of its oldest and most substantial families, the interests and activities of Gustavus Seiberling have always remained closely identified with the land, the farms, farming and farmers. He laid the basis of his own considerable fortune as a farmer and stock-raiser before he retired to his town home in Barberton. For many years he has given valuable service in behalf of farmers insurance organizations, being president of the Ohio Mutual Cyclone Insurance Company and secretary of the Norton Mutual Fire Insurance Company. His first American ancestor was Jonas Seiberling, who came from Wurtemberg, Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1745. His son, Christian Seiberling, was noted in his section of Pennsylvania as an Indian fighter and hunter. Frederick Seiberling, grandson of Jonas, was a Pennsylvania soldier in the war for independence. He was the great-grandfather of Gustavus Seiberling. John F. Seiberling, the grandfather, was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, and spent his last years in Summit County, Ohio, where he died December 25, 1875, at the age of ninety-two. His wife was Catherine Bear, and they were the parents of Nathan Seiberling. Nathan Seiberling was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1810, and married, December 6, 1829, Catherine Peter. She was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1811, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Moser) Peter. Nathan Seiberling moved to Ohio in the spring of 1831, settling in Norton Township, Summit County, and founding the homestead that has been in the family now for three consecutive generations. Nathan Seiberling acquired ninety acres of timber land and built the first sawmill in the township. He died November 4, 1889, and his wife survived until February 27, 1894. Gustavus Seiberling was born at the old Seiberling homestead, June 18, 1854, and acquired his early education in the district schools and Western Star Academy. On the farm where he was born and reared he pursued his activities for many years. In addition to his success in business, he became one of the citizens closely identified with the State Fair and progress of the community known as Western Star, and he served twenty-six years as mayor of that village, also twenty-six years on its school board, being clerk of the board twenty-four out of these years. Mr. Seiberling 's home has been in Barberton since August, 1913. The Norton Mutual Fire Insurance Company was organized in Norton Township, March 14, 1879, Mr. Seiberling being one of its charter members. He had served continuously as secretary of the company since 1886. In 1904 he also helped organize the Ohio Mutual Cyclone Insurance Company, and since the first two years has been its president. The general offices of this company are in Columbus, Mr. G. W. Miller, of Bucyrus, being its secretary. Mr. Seiberling is a director of the Great Northern Building and Loan Association of Barberton. From 1905 to 1908 he served as a county commissioner of Summit County, and from 1914 to 1916 he held office for another term on the board. While on the board he helped carry out the plans of building the North Hill Viaduct, including the purchase of the right of way, the purchase of material and letting of the contract. He is treasurer of the Summit County Agricultural Society, and since 1920 has been treasurer of the Barberton Humane Society. He has served as a member of the County Central Republican Committee, is a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Barberton Chamber of Commerce, is a past master of Wadsworth Lodge No. 385, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Portage Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Since he was sixteen years of age he has been active in the choir of the Lutheran Church and prominent in other directions of church and Sunday school work. His wife has shared all his interests in church affairs, and they helped organize the Wadsworth Lutheran Church. Mrs. Seiberling is a member of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine and the Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Seiberling married, November 18, 1875, Miss Julia Kulp, daughter of John M. Kulp, of Norton Township. Five children were born of their marriage: Wilson F., the oldest, is operating part of the old homestead farm, and by his marriage to Kit Moorman, has one daughter, Marcella. The second son, HISTORY OF OHIO - 329 Claude, also a farmer, is the present mayor of the village, Western Star. He married Bertha Wertman, and has two children, Lucille and Ellis. Sarah K. is the wife of Dr. William Wise, of Medina, Ohio. Pauline married Leo Farold Ayers and Mr. and Mrs. Ayers have five children, named Katherine, William, Margaret, Hazel and Marcella. The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Seiberling is Raymond G., who left his studies in Akron University to enter the army at the time of the World war, serving in the Quartermaster 's Department at Camp Sherman. He married Marjorie Middleton, and they have one son, Robert William. H. B. COEN was for a number of years locomotive engineer, but left that service to take up the automobile business, and has one of the most attractive establishments in Columbus, handling Ford and Lincoln cars. His place of business is .at Sixth Avenue and High Street. Mr. Coen is a native of Columbus. His father, Samuel F. Coen, came from Lancaster, Ohio, to Columbus about 1880, and was a wholesale candy merchant. He served on the City Council about 1900, and subsequently died at Tulsa, Oklahoma. There were two daughters, one of whom, Emily, married J. W. Miller, and died in young womanhood. The other, Miss Louise Coen, living with her brother, H. B. Coen, is a graduate of Ohio State University and a teacher in a high school at Columbus. H. B. Coen as a boy sold newspapers on the streets, but acquired a good education in the local schools. From 1906 to 1914 he was in the service of the Hocking Valley Railway, beginning as fireman and subsequently was engineer on freight runs. In 1914, when the assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company was established at Columbus, he joined that organization as an assembler, and went through every step until he was made general superintendent of the local plant. In 1916 Mr. Coen became an independent Ford dealer at Newark, Ohio. During the World he was at Detroit in the Production Motor Transport Corps. Receiving his honorable discharge in February, 1919, he returned to Columbus and in 1920 established his present place of business. He has in addition to his sales rooms a complete Ford and Lincoln car service and has about fifty employes. Mr. Coen is an enthusiastic fisherman, belongs to several fishing clubs and spends part of every season in the fishing waters of .Upper Michigan. He married Miss Minnie Hamilton, of Columbus. JOHN A. MILLENER, a resident of Columbus since 1916, where he is supreme attorney for the United Commercial Travelers of America, Mr. Millener earned his early distinctions as an attorney in the State of New York. He has appeared in some notable court trials, but is best known for his work as legal counsel for fraternal organizations. He was born at Corning, New York, in 1880, son of Alexander H. and Catherine (Corcoran) Millener. His father, who for over half a century was a locomotive engineer with the Erie Railroad in New York State, was a great-grandson of the historic Revolutionary character, Alexander Millener, a drummer boy in Washington's army in the Revolution. It is well authenticated that Alexander Millener was the inspiration for the artist Willard's famous painting, "The Spirit of '76," which has been the property of the Government at Washington for many years. A short time after John A. Millener was born his parents moved from Corning to Rochester, where he was reared and educated. He attended the grammar schools, acquired his high school training in the Syracuse Classical School, and some years later attended the law department of Syracuse University, where he was graduated with the degree Bachelor of Laws in June, 1909. In the meantime he had spent some time with the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, first as a bookkeeper in the general offices and subsequently as a traveling salesman. When he was nineteen years of age Mr. Millener was made a clerk in the State Senate at Albany, and was serving in that capacity in 1900 when Theodore Roosevelt was governor. Before graduating from law school Mr. Millener was connected with the office of John J. Mclnerny, prominent Rochester attorney. Following his graduation in June, 1909, he became associated in law practice with George S. Kirby, of Rochester. It was in 1916 that he was appointed supreme attorney for the United Commercial Travelers of America. The headquarters and supreme offices being at Columbus, necessitated his removal to this city. The United Commercial Travelers, as is well known, is the largest fraternal accident and health insurance organization of its kind in America, its membership of traveling men being derived from all the states of the Union and Canada. In September, 1922, Mr. Millener was, in the convention at Atlantic City, elected president of the International Claim Association, composed of legal representatives of twenty-six accident and health companies. He is also secretary-treasurer of the General Counsels' Association of Accident and Health Companies of the United States. While in general practice at Rochester Mr. Millener appeared in some notable cases, most famous of which was perhaps the Ramsden murder case, in which he was chief counsel for the defense. In Columbus also he has had in addition to his official duties with the above organization some time for general practice. He is a legal representative for several corporations. An important source of his distinction is renown as an orator. He is a legal representative for several corporations. This talent has not only been used in his forensic experience, but on many formal occasions, particularly to deliver addresses at memorial meetings and lodges of sorrow of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a member. He has been an Elks' orator on many occasions in New York State and elsewhere. In Columbus he is lecturer of the Columbus Council, Knights of Columbus. He has also been an active figure in various national conventions of the Elks, and was formerly worthy protector of the Order of Red Eagles. Mr. Millener married Miss Elizabeth C. Howard, of Jamestown, New York. Her father at one time was associated with the late Governor Tod of Ohio in the steel manufacturing interests centered at Youngstown. ELBERT S. MORTON. A Columbus law firm representative of unusual abilities, experience and wide attainments in the general field of law, is that of Morton, Irvine & Blanchard. The membership of this firm includes such well known lawyers as E. C. Morton, E. C. Irvine, C. E. Blanchard, R. D. Touvelle and E. S. Morton. Their offices are in the Rowlands Building at Columbus. One of the junior members is Elbert S. Morton, son of the senior member, E. C. Morton. Elbert S. Morton was born at Columbus, March 6, 1895, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1917. Mr. Morton finished his law course at Ohio State University, being admitted to the bar in 1921, and since then has been associated with the firm of which his father is the head. He is a member of the Columbus Country Club, and Columbus Club. He married Miss Anne Shel- 330 - HISTORY OF OHIO don, daughter of F. B. Sheldon. She is active in the cause of the Children's Hospital and is a member of the Junior League in church work. Their home is at 74 Auburn Avenue. LESLIE LEE BOTTSFORD, M. D., since locating at Akron has confined his practice to obstetrics and gynecological surgery, a specialty in which he enjoys high rank and authority. He was before coming to Akron a member of the faculty of the Medical School of the University of Michigan. He was born at Leicester, Livingston County, New York, August 20, 1887, son of Charles L. and Adelaide (Smith) Bottsford, who spent all their lives in the same locality, where his father was in the general mercantile business until he retired. Leslie Lee Bottsford attended the Leicester High School, the Geneseo Normal. School, and finished his collegiate education in Williams College, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1909. He was a Phi Gamma Delta. For a year after leaving college he was employed with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and then entered the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated Doctor of. Medicine in 1914. He was a member of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity at the University of Michigan. He remained after graduating in the University Hospital, pursuing special work, and for five years was an instructor. The last two years of this term he was assistant professor of obstetrics, obstetrical surgery and gynecology in the University of Michigan. Doctor Bottsford in 1920 located at Akron, and from the first has limited his practice to gynecology and obstetrical surgery, being the first member of the medical fraternity in Akron to confine his work to this field. He is obstetrician to the People's Hospital and the City Hospital, and is a member of the Summit County, sixth district, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Bottsford is a member of the Akron City Club, the University Club, Portage Country Club, and has served as a trustee of the First Congregational Church. Like his father he is an active republican. Mrs. Bottsford takes part in church, social and club life of Akron. He married at Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 5, 1915, Miss Helen Crosby, of Leicester, New York, daughter of the late Newton and Helen (Wheelock) Crosby. Her father was a farmer and in later years in the postal service. GEORGE THOMAS RANKIN, M. D. In practice at Akron since 1901, Doctor Rankin has attained notable rank in general surgery. He has handled or supervised the surgical work for some of Akron 's largest industrial organizations, and his success has brought him recognition in the form of many responsibilities. His father is the venerable George T. Rankin, Sr.,. whose home has been at Akron for more than half a century. He was born at Hudson, New York, in 1843, and from early, youth was associated with the building trades and contracting service. Coming to Summit County in 1872; he was engaged in building and contracting at Akron until he accepted the post of superintendent of the public school buildings, in which capacity he served twenty-five years. Since then he has been retired, though for four years he acted as a member of the Akron Board of Education. He is a republican, a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and in Masonry is past high priest of Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, is a member of the Commandery and the Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland. His wife and companion of many bore the maiden name of Caroline Schumacker. Their three children are, Dr. George T., Jr., and Dr. Fred M. Rankin, both now associated in their professional work at Akron, and Mrs. E. J. Samuel, of Staten Island, New York. George Thomas Rankin, Jr., was born at Akron, September 6, 1875, and as a boy his ambition turned toward a medical career. He attended the Akron High School, took his pre-medical course in Buchtel College at Akron, and in 1899 graduated from the University of Philadelphia with the Doctor of Medicine degree. At the university he was a Beta Theta Pi, Phi Alpha Sigma and in 1898 was president of the D. Hayes Agnew Surgical Society. He served an interneship at Allegheny General Hospital at Allegheny; Pennsylvania, and Kings County Hospital at Brooklyn, New York. Doctor Rankin, on February 1, 1901, located at Akron to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery. For several years past his practice has been limited to general surgery and consultation, being assisted in his work by his younger brother, Dr. F. M. Rankin. Since 1904 he has been surgeon for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, and is also surgeon for the General Tire & Rubber Company and other large industrial plants. From 1902 to 1915 he was surgeon on the staff of the Children's Hospital, and in 1918 was chief of the surgical staff' of the Akron City Hospital. During the World war he was a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps under the National Council of Defense. Doctor Rankin was one of the organizers and is a director of the Ohio State Bank & Trust Company and a director of the Akron Savings & Loan Company. He belongs to the First Congregational Church, the Portage Country Club, the Akron City Club, University Club, Masonic Club, Shrine Club, and is affiliated with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and Yusef -Khan Grotto No. 41. He is also a member of Akron Lodge No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in his profession is a member of Summit County, Ohio State, Sixth District, and American Medical associations. Doctor Rankin married Miss Maude Blum, of River Forest, Illinois. Her father, the late Robert Blum, was a hardware merchant in Chicago. Mrs. Rankin is active in church, social and club life in Akron. CAPT. ATLEE WISE. A World war veteran and since prominently connected with the national defense organization and the Ohio National Guard, Captain Wise is a native son of Akron, and is an executive of one of the city 's well established industries, the Wise Furnace Company, which was founded by his father. His father is Wilbert G. Wise, who was born at Greentown in Stark County, Ohio. After finishing his education at Mount Union College he became a school teacher, and then went to work for J. F. Seiberling, of Akron, spending six years with that industrial leader. For two years he was in the brick business at Catskill, New York, and returning to Akron was with the Werner Company and the Twentieth Century Heating & Ventilating Company. In January, 1904, he organized the Wise Furnace Company, and has since been vice president and general manager. This company manufactures the widely known and distributed Wise Furnaces. Wilbert G. Wise married Emma Filbey, a native of Wayne County, Ohio. Capt. Atlee Wise, the kin, was born at Akron, July 25, 1894, and from high school entered Kenyon College, where he spent three years as a student. HISTORY OF OHIO - 331 While at .Kenyon he was a Phi Upsilon. His military career began with his enlistment on June 21, 1916, as a private in Battery B of the First Ohio Artillery. He was on duty on the Mexican border and was advanced to corporal August 25, 1917. At that time he was in training in the National Army for service in the World war, and on June 28, 1918, went to France with Battery B of the 134th Field Artillery. In France he was put in the Artillery Officers' Training School at Samur, was commissioned in the Field Artillery Reserve Corps and was assigned to duty. with Headquarters Company of the 134th Field Artillery. He saw active service in sectors, one at Marbach. Captain Wise returned to the United States March 24, 1919, and after receiving his honorable discharge became associated with his father 's business, at first in the sales department, but since 1923 as secretary of the Wise Furnace Company. In the meantime, on December 11, 1921; he was commissioned second lieutenant of field artillery with Battery B of the 135th Field Artillery, and was promoted to captain and transferred to the ammunition train of the 135th, serving in that position from April 24, 1922, until November 1, 1922, since which date he has been captain and commanding officer of Troop E of the 107th Cavalry, Ohio National Guard. This military service has been in the nature of a hobby with Captain Wise. Another diversion from business is horses. He is a member of the University Club and Rotary Club. Captain Wise married Miss Marjorie Cole, whose father is Dr. Harry W. Cole, a well known Akron dentist. They have one daughter, Barbara Jane. COL. JOSEPH JACK JOHNSTON, who has been prominent in the Ohio National Guard for a number of years and saw service during the World war, has the distinction of being the first child born in the newly laid out town of Barberton, and his own business career has been closely identified with Akron and vicinity. He was born at Barberton May 14, 1891. He comes of a family that has furnished soldiers to the American War of the Revolution, War of 1812, war with Mexico, Civil war, Spanish-American war and the recent World war. William A. Johnston, his father, has been distinguished by the part he has played in the great industrial army. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born at Story Farm on Oil Creek, on the site of the present Oil City, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1864, son of Joseph J. and Louise (Kilgore) Johnston. He was educated in the public schools, at Greensburg Academy, studied engineering, and at the age of sixteen went to work in the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. During the next ten years he was employed under every superintendent between Pittsburgh and New York, and was in the Johnstown district at the time of the great flood. He became assistant supervisor and finally supervisor. In 1890 he became engineer and manager of the Barberton Land and Improvement Company, and in that capacity laid out the City of Barberton, where his son was the first child born. He supervised the construction of many of the important buildings on that industrial site. Subsequently as engineer he surveyed the Walsh Electric Line from Akron to Cuyahoga Falls and other railways. He also assisted in platting the Village of Kenmore, an Akron suburb. For twenty years or more W. A. Johnston's name has been most familiar through his activities in the rubber industry. He has long been president of the Rubber Products Company, which he organized. He is also president of the W. A. Johnston Land Company and is active in real estate circles. William A. Johnston married Minnie B, Cassell in 1880. Her parents were George and Anna Cassell, of Pennsylvania. Joseph Jack Johnston was liberally educated, attending Buchtel Academy at Akron, and was given his technical education in Purdue University in Indiana, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1915. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Purdue. He also attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania one year. After •graduating he spent a year in the crude rubber department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. His military experience began when he was a boy. In 1907, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted as a private in Company B of the Eighth Ohio Infantry. While at Purdue University he was drum major and finally became colonel and commanding officer of the Cadet Battalion. In 1913 he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery with the First Indiana Artillery, and in 1914 he organized Battery B of the First Ohio Field Artillery, being commanding officer with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1916 he went to the Mexican border, to El Paso, Texas, with Battery B, and was mustered into the Federal service. Shortly afterward, when America entered the World war, he mobilized with Ohio troops at Camp Willis, Ohio, was at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Camp Perry, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis ; and was promoted to captain of field artillery and commanding officer of Battery B of the 134th Field Artillery. From that he was transferred to Battery B of the 134th, and went to France with his organization in June, 1918, going overseas from Montgomery, Alabama, with the Thirty-seventh Division. He spent nine months in France, as commanding officer of a battalion in the 326th Field Artillery in the Artillery Training Center near Bordeaux. On returning to the United States Colonel Johnston was commissioned captain of field artillery in the Regular Army of the United States, and was at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, until he resigned his commission to return to Akron and engage in business. Since the war he has been active in association with his father as vice president of the Rubber Products Company and with the W. A. Johnston Land Company in handling allotments at Coventry and Allenside. In 1920 he was commissioned major of the 145th Infantry in the Ohio National Guard. In July, 1923, he organized the Second Squadron, 107th Ohio Cavalry, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, the rank he holds today. He is a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and his chief hobby is the Ohio National Guard. He is affiliated with Adoniram .Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, the Scottish Rite at Dayton, and Korsair Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Louisville, Kentucky. Active in democratic politics, he is a past president of the Young Men 's Democratic Club of Akron and is also a member of the University Club and Optimists Club. He belongs to the Akron, Ohio State and Realtors associations. Colonel Johnston married, at Montgomery, Alabama, in November, 1917, Miss Elizabeth I. Jackson, of Greenfield, Indiana. They have one son, Joseph J. III. RUSSELL L. WIRTZ. This well known business man and prominent citizen of the state capital was born in Monon, White County, Indiana, December 16, 1889, and is the son of Henry Kirk Wirtz and Ella (Dickerson) Wirtz, both of whom were natives of Jersey, Ohio. The father is still living, but the mother passed away a few years ago. The former has made his business career valuable to the community where he has lived. For several years past he has served as deputy county recorder of Franklin County, Ohio. He 332 - HISTORY OF OHIO resided for a time in White County, Indiana, but returned to Columbus in 1890. Russell L. Wirtz is directly descended from a line of ancestry long identified with early Ohio history. His maternal great-grandfather was Vachel Dickerson, who came from Virginia about the year 1800, and settled at Jersey in Franklin County. He died in 1863. His son, Thomas Dickerson, was born at Jersey, in 1823, and died there November 5, 1865. He married Mary Ellenor Patterson, a daughter of Benjamin, and Elizabeth Patterson. She died in 1879, at the age of fifty years. Thomas and Mary Ellenor (Patterson) Dickerson were the parents of Ella (Dickerson) Wirtz, the mother of Russell L. Wirtz. Russell L. secured his early education in the public schools of Indiana and at the Avondale School on the west side in Columbus, and in 1,908 graduated with credit from the Central High School. During the early days while attending the Avondale School he sold newspapers on the busy streets of Columbus, and has thus greatly distinguished himself in rising from a newsboy to one of the most conspicuous positions among the enormous industrial institutions of the state. Soon after graduating from high school he secured a position in the offices of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, and for three years thereafter was in that company's employ in this city. But all this did not satisfy his industrial ambition. To him it was only a preliminary event to his future business success. Imbued with this praiseworthy incentive and fired with the determination to rise to the top in business, he established in 1911 a contracting business establishment of his own, and was thus one of the youngest men who ever in the history of the city ventured on such a difficult, exact ing and ponderous undertaking. His determination and intelligence have brought him abundant success. So rapid was his advance and so evident his success that in 1921 he was elected president of the Columbus Builders Exchange, the youngest. man ever to hold this office. He served with distinction in that office for one year, and should be proud of his success in administering the affairs of that important body. Under the direction and guidance of Mr. Wirtz a number of conspicuous buildings have been erected in the city, among which is the Medical Arts Building on East State Street. He now has charge of the construction of a fine building to be known as the Fort Hayes Hotel. In 1922, largely through his efforts and enterprise, the Franklin Construction and Realty Company, of which he is vice president and general man: ager, secured the property at the southwest corner of Spring and Wall streets and laid plans to construct one of the.notable hotel structures of the city. Work on the building was commenced in April, 1923, and it is the design to complete it by the fall of 1924. The plan is to construct it thirteen stories high, with all up-to-date and modern improvements and attractions, and with 300 rooms with baths, all planned to secure the commercial and tourist trade and favor. The building will have a frontage of eighty-three feet on West Spring Street, and will extend back 136 feet on North Wall Street. A floor space of approximately 115,000 square feet will be opened to guests, and all rooms will' have windows opening directly on the outer air. Mr. Wirtz is financially interested in this great enterprise. Mr. Wirtz is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. In 1916 he married Gertrude C. Cleary, member of a prominent Columbus family, and they have one son, James Russell. MAJ. WALTER WOODARD PRICE. For many years prominently identified with the Ohio National Guard, Major Price is. a resident of Akron, where he has become well known in business and social circles. He was born at Kent, Ohio, February 19, 1877, but since his service in the Spanish-American war has lived at Akron. His father, John Lewis Price, was born in Quebec, Canada, and coming to the United States. at the age of nineteen was a miller in the flour mills at Kent for many years, and died there in 1919, at the age of seventy. His wife, Ellen Casey Price, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was six years old when brought by her parents to this country. She lives at Kent. Oldest in a family of seven children, Major Price from the age of twelve years has made his own way in the world. He attended public schools at Kent, including a brief term in high school. For several years he worked as an engine wiper in the roundhouse at Kent, and was in railroad service when the Spanish-American war broke out. He enlisted as a private June 23, 1898, in Company C of the Tenth Volunteer Infantry, and was on duty at Camp Bushnell, Ohio; Camp Meade, Pennsylvania; and Camp McKenzie, Georgia. After leaving the army he was employed at Kent with the Kearney Foote File Works. He then became a mechanical engineer with the Akron-Barberton ̊ Belt Line Railroad at Barberton, and served that company four years. For fifteen years he was a mechanical engineer with the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company, and for several years was engaged in business for himself as a plumbing and steam heating jobber, being located both at Barberton and Akron. For the past twenty years since 1904, Major Price has given much of his time to the Ohio National Guard, beginning as a private in Company C of the Eighth Ohio Infantry, was promoted to sergeant, served as captain of Headquarters Company of the Second Ohio Infantry from 1919 to December 11, 1923, and at the latter date was promoted to major of the Quartermaster 's Department and is a member of the staff of the Ohio National Guard. Since 1917 he has performed the duties of custodian of the Akron Armory. He is a member of Joseph Wein Post No. 288 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Ward A. Wilford Camp No. 57 of the United Spanish War Veterans at Akron, being junior vice department commander of this order in Ohio in 1924, is a member of Camp No. 27, Sons of Veterans, Akron Garrison No. 102 of- the Army and Navy Union. In fraternal organizations he is past noble grand of Nemo Lodge No. 746, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Yusef khan Grotto No. 41; and Akron Aerie No. 555, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He finds his recreation chiefly in fishing and hunting. Major Price married at Akron, April 11, 1906, Miss Rilla M. Chambers. Her father, Judson S. Chambers, who died February 26, 1924, was for more than forty years an engineer with the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. Mrs. Price is an active worker in the First Church of Christ and belongs to Camp Wilford, No. 16 of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans.. They have four children, Ruth A., Walter Robert, John Judson and Betty Belle. CARL ROSSOW STEINKE, M. D. A resident of Akron for the past ten years, Doctor, Steinke brought to his work in that Ohio city a training and experience derived from association with some of the eminent men and institutions of the East. He is HISTORY OF OHIO - 333 a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and in and out of his profession has accepted many opportunities for useful service in community affairs. Doctor Steinke was born at Atlantic, Iowa, April 29, 1883, youngest of the three children of Theodore G. and Frances (Cotton) Steinke, both now deceased. His mother was a native of New York State. Theodore Steinke was born in Prussia, learned and became proficient in the trade of cabinet maker, and, coming to the United States when a young man, followed his trade in Illinois for a time and then moved to Atlantic, Iowa. There he became a successful clothing merchant, land owner and interested in banking enterprise. His influence was aligncd with worthy civic undertakings, he was a Presbyterian, a Knights Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. His death occurrcd at Atlantic in 1913 at the age of seventy. Before he left Atlantic Doctor Steinke finished his high school course. His college days were spent at Coe College at Cedar Rapids, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1905. Going East, he entered the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, rcceiving his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1909, and in the same year Coe College conferred upon him the Master of Science degree. His college fraternities were Nu Sigma Nu, Delta Phi Epsilon, and Sigma Xi. The last is an honorary scientific society with a chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. His name is familiar in Coe College circles, where he was prominent in athletics, being captain of the basket ball team, and played football and was president of the Young Men's Christian Association. At the University of Pennsylvania he was presidcnt of the University Undergraduate Medical Association and secretary of his class during the senior year. Following his graduation Doctor Steinke was resident house physician of the Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, and during 1911-12 held a Fellowship, doing special work in surgery with the Mayo Brothers Hospital at Rochester, Minnesota. From 1912 to 1915 he was associated with a distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Charles H. Frazier. Since locating at Akron in 1915 Doctor Steinke has handled a large and important practice in general surgery. In 1923-24 he was chief of the surgical staff of the City Hospital and consulting surgeon of the Springfield Lake Sanitarium. His attainment brought him his Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons in 1917. On October 1, 1918, Doctor Steinke was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and spent some weeks at Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, South Carolina. He is a member of the American Legion, the Military Surgeons Association, the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State, and American Medical associations, and is district chairman of the State Medical Committee on Cancer. He also belongs to the Medical Journal Club, Celsus Club, the Akron City Club, Portage County Club, University Club, and is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Akron. Since 1913 he has given much time to the Boy Scout movement, and from 1917 to 1924 was a member of the Akron Boy Scouts Council. Doctor Steinke married, at Philadelphia, in January, 1913, Miss Ruth M. Gordon. She was born in Texas, but is a graduate of Drexel Institute at Philadelphia and is active in the Presbyterian Church and the Woman's City Club of Akron. They have two daughters, Eleanor Gordon and Ruth Frances. RICHARDS ELLISON AMOS, M. D. In his work as a physician and surgeon Doctor Amos has measured up to the highest standards of the profession at Akron, where he located only a few months before he was called to duty as a medical officer with the American forces in France. After the war he resumed practice there, and continued to take an active interest in the medical department of the National Guard. He was born at Ironton, Ohio, February 15, 1891, and both his father and grandfather were identified with the iron industry of what is known as the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. The father, Horace Leftridge Amos, was born in Ironton, and followed the iron business in the South and also with his father in the Vesuvius Furnace Company. The mother of Doctor Amos is Mrs. Mette Ellison Amos, who has spent all her life in Ironton, where her father, Dr. Owen Ellison, was a physician and druggist and long prominent in the affairs of the community. Richards Ellison Amos was liberally educated in thc Ironton High School, Culver Military Academy of Indiana, and graduated Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan in 1913. In university he was a Nu Sigma Nu and Kappa Sigma. In 1915 he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan, following which he had the experience of an industrial practice with the Quincy Mines Company at Hancock, Michigan, and for a time was associated with Doctor Ricketts Hospital in Cincinnati. Doctor Amos located at Akron in May, 1917. In January, 1918, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and as commanding officer of Ambulance Company No. 36 went to France, being assigned to the Army Sanitary School at Langres, where he volunteered for field service with Casual Operating Team No. 563, and at general headquarters at Chaumont was assigncd to Mobile Hospital No. 3 for the St. Mihiel front. He continued with Mobile Hospital No. 3 until it was burned, and was then sent to Base Hospital No. 31 at Vitelle Vosges. He resumed his original place as commanding officer of Ambulance Company No. 35 with the Seventh American Division, with the rank of battalion surgeon in the Fifty-sixth United States Infantry. In April, 1919, he returned to the United States, and on the first of July resumed his practice at Akron. While his practice is a general one, he is recognized as an authority in the special field of dermatology. He served as a member of the medical staff of the Children's Hospital. Continuing his connection with the military establishment of the country, he was commissioned in 1920 as a major in the Medical Department of the Ohio National Guard, and served as commanding officer of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry, Medical Department, until March 1, 1924, when he became commanding officer of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Hospital Battalion, Ohio National Guard. He is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations, is an associate member of the Cleveland Grays, and Ohio National Guards. Major Amos is affiliated with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons. He is an ardent radio fan. On November 10, 1917, at Ironton, he married Miss Hazel McCauley, who was born and reared in that Ohio town, daughter of Frank L. McCauley, a furniture merchant at Ironton. FRANK H. LAWWELL is one of the oldest men in the automotive industry in Ohio. As a boy nearly thirty years ago he was showing his mechanical genius in what then represented the culmination of a self-propelled vehicle, the bicycle. He has been building motor-driven vehicles, or selling them, for over twenty years. The Lawwell-McLeish Company of which he is president has the distinction of being the largest Ford dealers in Ohio. 334 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Lawwell was born at Corey, near Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1882. He was only eleven years of age when his father died. He had attended the common schools, and shortly after his father 's death in 1893 he came to Columbus. Here he learned the mechanical trade, and one of his first achievements was building a bicycle for himself. He worked in a number of bicycle shops and also took part as a rider in bicycle races. About 1902 Mr. Lawwell worked with W. H. Miller and Lee Frayer in the building of the first chain-driven motorcycle in America. He was the first mechanic engaged in the shop of Oscar Lear Company, which built the Buckeye brand of motorcycles along in 1902-1903. This company later branched out into the making of automobiles and motor trucks, and was one of the pioneer concerns in the industry. The Lear Company is credited with having built the first six-cylinder car in the United States, completed in 1904. This car won the world's record at Long Branch, New Jersey, in a non-stop engine run for six days and nights. In those early years Mr. Lawwell became a well known driver of racing cars. He took part in the races at Indianapolis and other cities and drove a car at New York City in the second national automobile races ever held. While still with the Lear Company, Mr. Law-well assisted in the construction of motor cars for the Santos Dumont Company, the Imperial Automobile Company and the Columbus Harness and Carriage Company. His independent start in his present business was made in 1907 when he established an automobile shop and garage on East State Street, where the Hartman Building now stands. Besides his shop and garage he handled the Reo, Franklin and Interstate cars until 1910. Following that he was connected with the automobile department of the Columbus Buggy Company. Mr. Lawwell has been a dealer in Ford cars since 1913. In that year he formed a direct connection with the Ford Motor Company. Then in 1916 he founded his present business, the Lawwell-McLeish Company, general dealers and distributors of Ford and Lincoln cars, Fordson tractors, and with the largest central headquarters in Ohio for these cars and for their equipment, service and repairs. The business occupies a modern industrial building on Fourth Street, near Long, 95 by 187 1/2 feet, two stories in height. The capacity of the plant was doubled in 1922. Mr. Lawwell is a prominent member of the Columbus Automobile Club, and is also active in the Columbus Athletic Club,. Aladdin Country Club, Yacht Club, Canoe Club and Gyro Club. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner and an Elk. He married Miss Mary E. Eckhart. JOHN HENRY WEBER, M. D., had the distinction of being the first among, Akron's surgeons to be elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a distinction based upon recognized skill and outstanding attainments in that field. Doctor Weber for nearly twenty years has confined his practice to surgical lines. A native of Ohio, he was born August 7, 1877, at Miamisburg, where his father, Christian Weber, for many years was .prominent as a tobacco buyer. Christian Weber was born in Germany, in 1826, was brought to America in 1835, and as a young man became a tobacco buyer in New York City, subsequently transferring his .home to one of the leading tobacco markets of Ohio, Miamisburg, where he lived until his death in 1902. His wife, Lucetta Grove, was born at Miamisburg in 1842, her father George A. Grove, having been an old-time canal ];batman and lumber dealer. Doctor Weber grew up in Montgomery County, but moved to Cleveland to finish his literary and professional education. He was graduated Bachelor of Philosophy from Adelbert College in 1899, and in 1902 received his medical degree from Western Re-_serve University. He remained in Cleveland, where for two and one-half years he was an interne at the Charity Hospital and - for six months an interne in St. Ann's Maternity Hospital. His post-graduate work in general surgery and gynecology has taken him to many medical centers and clinics, particularly at Philadelphia and Baltimore. Doctor Weber in September, 1905, located at Akron, where his time has been taken up with his duties as a general surgeon and gynecologist. He is a member of the surgical staff of the Akron City Hospital and the Children's Hospital, and belongs to the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and is a former president of the County Society. During the World war he acted as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board in Akron. Doctor Weber is affiliated with Akron Lodge, No. 80, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery No. 72, Knights Templar, and is a member of the Masonic Club, City Club, Exchange Club, Portage Country Club, University Club and the Grace Reformed Church. His college fraternities were Beta Theta Pi and Nu Sigma Nu. Doctor Weber married, January 3, 1906, Miss Norma Smith, of Willoughby, Ohio, daughter of Nathan C. Smith. She died leaving three children: John Henry, Jr., J. Allen and Carl Smith Weber. Doctor Weber 's second wife was .Miss Helen Bartles of Akron. FRANK W. ROCKWELL. Through a period of forty years the late Frank W. Rockwell was closely identified with the business interests of Akron, particularly the clay products industry. His name is also associated with the public life of the city, the culminating point in his public career being his four years' service as mayor, and he died in 1917, not long after leaving that office. He was of New England ancestry, and his people were pioneers of the Western Reserve of Ohio, where his grandfathers, Harvey Rockwell and Ward Pendleton, settled early in the last century. Frank W. Rockwell was born at Kent, in Portage County, October 31, 1851. His father, Marshall M. Rockwell, was born in Ashtabula County, July 15, 1826, and died May 20, 1899, while his mother, Sarah Pendleton, was born in Summit County, September 15, 1828, and dicd at Akron January 31, 1885. In 1858 the Rockwell family moved to Northwest Missouri, and in 1862 Marshall M. enlisted as a Union soldier in the Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, his wife and children returning to Ohio, and after the war they lived in Western Pennsylvania for several years. Frank W. Rockwell finished his education in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and in 1871 became a bookkeeper for the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, this being his first connection with the clay products industry. In 1882 he was made secretary of the company, and in 1884 became a member of Johnson, Rockwell & Company, manufacturers of stonework, a business that was subsequently continued until 1890 as F. W. Rockwell & Company. For about five years Mr. Rockwell was in the grocery business at Akron, but in 1899 joined the Robinson Clay Products Company, one of the largest organizations of the kind in the country. He was for two years in charge of the sales department, was then put in charge of the company's real estate holdings and claim adjusting department, and continued his HISTORY OF OHIO - 335 service for the business until January 1, 1912, when he resigned. The late Mr. Rockwell was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1887-89, was a member of the Akron Board of Education from 1881 to 1889, being president in 1883 and again in 1888. In 1902 he was again elected a member of the school board, being president of the board in 1905-06 and continuing a member until 1912. Many of Akron's finest modern school buildings were erected while he was a member of the board. He was elected mayor in 1911, and his first term in that office began in 1912. He was re-elected in 1913. His was a practical business administration, marked by a notable era in construction, including many miles of pavement, the building of the water works, and many improvements in the fire and police department. The late Mr. Rockwell was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum, and was a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. He married, September 21, 1875, Mary A. Johnson, whose father, Thomas Johnson, was one of the firm of Johnson & Baldwin, crockery ware manufacturers. The children born to Frank W. Rockwell and wife were: Dr. George W., an Akron specialist, whose career is described in the following sketch ; Frank J., who became a lawyer; Adelaide A., who died in childhood; Thomas, who engaged in the clay products industry; Mary, Ida, and Wade, who died at the age of twenty years. GEORGE WARD ROCKWELL, M. D. A chemist during his early manhood, Doctor Rockwell since graduating in medicine has confined his attention chiefly to diagnosis. He is an eminent Roentgenologist, and has developed a service invaluable to the medical and surgical fraternity of Akron. Doctor Rockwell is a son of the late Frank W. Rockwell, a conspicuous citizen of Akron, whose career is given in part in the preceding sketch. George Ward Rockwell was born at Akron, January 19, 1877. He was educated in the grammar and high schols of his native city, and graduated Bachelor of Science in 1898 from Buchtel College at Akron, where he was president of the Lone Star Fraternity. In 1900 he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Pennsylvania, his major work being in chemistry. The title of his thesis was "An Electrolytic Study of Pyrocacemic Acid," which was published and received recognition in scientific circles over the United States and Europe. While in university he was a member of the Acacia Club and the honorary Scientific Society of the Sigma Xi. Doctor Rockwell spent eight years in work as an industrial chemist, being chief chemist for the Bruneville Portland Cement Company of Philadelphia, chief chemist for the Lake Superior Power Company at Sault Ste. Marie, and was then in the service of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company as chief chemist, with headquartcrs at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and as superintendent of the plants at Mitchell, Indiana. Doctor Rockwell in 1912 was an honor graduate from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and served as an interne in the Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1913 he located at Akron, and was engaged in practice in Roentgen diagnosis until June, 1921. Since 1921 his individual practice has been confined to internal medicine. He served as X-ray specialist on the staff of the City Hospital from 1913 to 1919. During the World war Governor Cox appointed him a member of the District Advisory Medical Board, No. 1, for Medina, Summit and Portage counties. He is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons. Doctor Rockwell married Nora F. Moyer, a native of Rittersville, Pennsylvania, daughter of Theodore W. and Fianna M. (Ritter) Moyer. The mother is still living. Her father was a veterinary surgeon, and died at Northampton, Pennsylvania, in 1923, at the age of sixty-nine. Dr. and Mrs. Rockwell have two children, Theodore Frank and Harriet Anna. The son, who was born June 5, 1904, is a student of chemical engineering in Akron University. Mrs. Rockwell is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. MARLOW B. PERRIN is a graduate of Ohio State University, a well equipped educator, and has been signed responsibilities as head of one of the most interesting experiments in human social engineering undertaken by and under the auspices of the state government. His title is that of supervisor of the Civilian Rehabilitation Service of Ohio. Congress by the act of June, 1920, provided "for the promotion of rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and returned to civil employment." In alloting the Federal appropriation under this act the condition was made that each state should extend an equal amount to carry out the plans laid down by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. Ohio took advantage of this provision by a state law in April, 1921, and the work actually started in August, 1921. The purpose of the civilian rehabilitation law is to provide vocational training for physically handicapped men and women in Ohio who are incapacitated for remunerative occupations. The administration of the service is directed by the State Board for Vocational Education, all of whom are members of the governor 's cabinet, in charge of the departments of education, industrial relations, commerce, finance and agriculture. Headquarters have been established in the department of education, where the work is administered by the state supervisor, Mr. Perrin, and his assistants. Throughout the state cooperative relationship has been established with many organizations interested in the work, and in addition to it there is an advisory committee in securing for physically handicapped men and women the maximum of service for the minimum loss of time and effort, and the success of the experiment has been largely due to such cooperation. Such social service agencies as the public health nurses, physicians, superintendents of hospitals, home service sections of the Red Cross, Associated Charities, Chamber of Commerce, employers' associations, labor organizations, railroads, Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary clubs, granges and many others in addition to superintendents and teachers in schools and other individuals have made possible the accomplishment of such a definite program of service which is already a matter of record. Mr. Marlow B. Perrin was born in Columbus, in 1891, was educated in the grammar and high schools of his native city and graduated from Ohio State University in 1915, having specialized in the College of Education. He took up teaching, and was also employed in making an economic survey of delinquent children in Columbus. Leaving his native state, he taught for a time in the high school at El Paso, Texas, and was a teacher in the South High School at Columbus. After America entered the World war he became a member of the examining board of the psychological division of the United States Army, in which capacity he was stationed at Camp Meade, Maryland, but his service called him to various sections of the United States. Following the war Mr. Perrin took up work under the civil service department of Ohio, and was instrumental in affecting a systemization of the methods of examination resulting in some needed reform of that branch of the state 's function. Following that he became associated with the vocational 336 - HISTORY OF OHIO rehabilitation division of the United States Veteran Bureau, of which he was made assistant chief. In this service he was stationed at Columbus, having under his jurisdiction about forty counties in Ohio. This service likewise was mainly rehabilitation work, directed in behalf of disabled ex-servicemen. In November, 1922, Mr. Perrin was appointed to his present position of supervisor of civilian rehabilitation service of the state department of education of 'Ohio. Mr. Perrin has collected and made available to the public an interesting description of special features and the general program of the service through a bulletin published by the state. EDWARD SHOEMAKER UNDERWOOD, M. D. Almost continuously for more than half a century the name Underwood has stood for some of the most esteemed personal and technical qualities in the medical profession at Akron. The late Dr. Warren J. Underwood practiced in that city for over twenty years, and shortly after his death his son, Edward S., returned from medical college and has maintained the prestige of, an honored name. The Underwood family is of old Pennsylvania Quaker ancestry. Warren J. Underwood, a son of Joseph and Hannah (Wells) Underwood, was born at Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1840, began reading medicine in 1860, and in 1862 was appointed assistant surgeon in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and after the regiment disbanded he did hospital duty as assistant surgeon at Chambers-burg, at Camp Curtin and finally with the One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvania Infantry. In 1864 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; and, coming to Ohio, practiced for the time at Canal Fulton, but in 1867 located at Akron, where he had a busy general practice until his death on June. 9, 1890. In 1873 he was appointed United States pension examining surgeon for Summit County, and in 1889 was unanimously elected president of the Board of Examining Surgeons, and was a member of the Summit County Medical Society, Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He married on December 8, 1864, Harriet Shoemaker, daughter of John J. Shoemaker, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She died December d, 1873. Edward Shoemaker Underwood was born at Akron, December. 8, 1868, and was about five years of age when his mother died. He was carefully educated, at first in the public schools, then in Buchtel College at. Akron and in Ohio Wesleyan University. He received the Doctor of Medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College at. Philadelphia in 1891, and since that year has given his time and talent to a general practice, involving work as a surgeon as well as a 'physician. He is a member of the medical staff of the Akron City Hospital, was for four years city health officer and for fifteen years surgeon to the City Fire Department, and in 1924 was. elected president of the Summit County Medical Society. During the World war he was medical examiner for the local draft board. He also belongs, to the Northeastern Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Underwood has affiliations with. the. Akron City Club, the Portage Country Club, Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, Akron Lodge No. 131, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a republican, and is a director. of the Society Savings and Loan Company. He married Miss Sarah Grace Kile. Her father, Salem Kile, has for over -thirty years been prominent in the industrial affairs of Akron, serving for a number of years as president of the Kile Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Underwood takes an active part in the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church and the Akron Woman's Club. WILLIAM AARON SACKETT, M. D. This is one of the honored names in the medical fraternity of Akron, where Doctor Sackett has labored earnestly for a period of over thirty years. He has been a lifelong resident of Summit County, and his family has been American for generations. He was born on a farm at Copley, near Akron, March 27, 1866. The Sackett family is of Norman French stock. Jelin Sackett founded the family in the colony of Connecticut in 1632. Doctor Sackett's father, William Chester Sackett, and grandfather, Aaron Sackett, were both natives of Warren, Connecticut. Aaron Sackett brought his family to Ohio and settled in Summit County in 1837, spending the rest of his life as a farmer in Talmadge Township. William Chester Sackett was a farmer, dairyman and to some extent a manufacturer, and died in 1902, at the age of seventy-five. His wife, Harriet H. Galbraith, who died in 1906, in her sixty-ninth year, was born at Mogadore, Ohio. Her father, Henry H. Galbraith, a native of Belfast, came to Canada as a boy with his father, a Scotch general in the British army. At the age of twenty he came to the States, and passed away in Ohio in 1893, at the age of 77 years. William Aaron Sackett had the advantages of the public schools at Akron during his youth, and is a man of very liberal education and culture, the result of a lifetime of study, thought and observation. He took the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Oberlin College, and in 1893 graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Since that year he has been engaged in a general medical practice at Akron, being a member of the Summit County, Ohio State, and American Medical associations. Doctor Sackett is a lover of flowers and garden, and his hobby is Masonry, in which order he has enjoyed some of the 'highest honors. He is past master of Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; past high priest of Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, past thrice illustrious master of Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; and instituted and was the first eminent commander of Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar. He is active in Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and at Cleveland in September, 1922, was awarded the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in the Northern Jurisdiction. On September 30, 1915, Doctor Sackett married Mrs. Della A. Shaffer Stotler, of Akron. W. EDWIN PALMER. As secretary and assistant treasurer of the Seiberling Rubber Company, W. Edwin Palmer is close to the seat of power and responsibility in the "Rubber City" of Akron, and has rounded a full quarter of a century of experience in the rubber industry. His hobby has been Masonic ritual and administration, and the various bodies in Ohio have conferred upon him some of the highest honors of the craft. William Edwin Palmer was born at Hudson Ohio, August 31, 1874, son of James and Malissa man) Palmer. His father, a native of Connecticut, was a railroad man of long and competent experience. He located in Summit County, Ohio, in 1860, and was in the service of the Cleveland, Akron. & Columbus until he retired in 1876. He died at Hudson in November, 1896. His wife was a native of Wooster, Ohio, and died in February, 1923. In his home town of Hudson, W. Edwin Palmer attended high school and the Western Reserve Academy, and soon afterward began his business training in Akron. After several years with the Enterprise Manufacturing Company he became bookkeeper, in January, 1889, for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com- HISTORY OF OHIO - 337 pany. His service became increasingly valuable to the company during the critical years of its development, and in 1909 he was made assistant treasurer, and in 1915 the duties of assistant secretary were added, and a short time afterward he was made treasurer, and about 1919 was also made secretary of the company. In 1921 he took his present responsibilities as secretary and assistant treasurer of the Seiberling Rubber Company. He is also a director of the Ohio State Bank & Trust Company and the First Trust & Savings Bank. Some of his Masonic affiliations and honors are represented as follows: Past master of Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons ; past high priest Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons member Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters ; past commander Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar ; Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite; a charter member and treasurer of Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and Cleveland Court No. 14, Royal Order of Jesters, at Cleveland ; St. Benedict ,s Conclave, Masonic Order Red Cross of Constantine. At Boston, September 17, 1918, he was crowned an honorary member (thirty-third degree) in Scottish Rite Masonary. He has been grand warden, grand standard bearer, grand sword bearer, grand junior warden, grand senior warden, and in 1924 was grand captain general Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Ohio, and has represented the Minnesota Grand Commandery and the Ohio Grand Commandery. He is president of the Akron Shrine Club, vice president of the Akron Masonic Temple Company, secretary of the Scottish Rite Society of Summit County, and for several years has been a trustee of the Ohio Masonic Home of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Akron City Club, Portage Country Club and the First Congregational Church of Hudson, Ohio. He married Miss Mary Gertrude Ramp, daughter of John Ramp, of Cuyahoga Falls. Their two children are Elmer J. and J. Kathryn, the daughter a graduate of Penn Hall and now attending Akron University. Elmer, during the World war, enlisted as a radio operator in the navy, was commissioned ensign, being in the service eighteen months, and was executive officer on sub-chasers out of Norfolk. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1919), where he was a Sigma Nu, and is with the Aetna Life Insurance Company as field representative, group division, and, like his father, is a Royal Arch, Knights Templar and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married Ruth Maginnis of Akron. CHARLES WILLARD SEIBERLING. This name has been identified with the industrial activities for which the Seiberling family have been famous at Akron for a period of forty years. His father, the late John F. Seiberling, began manufacturing farm machinery about the time Lincoln was elected and the Civil war started, and Charles W. Seiberling became foreman in his father ,s factory in 1880. Concerning his father, one of the notable figures in Ohio industry, more is said on other pages of this publication. Charles Willard Seiberling was born at the old home of the family in Summit County, January 26, 1861. Four years later his parents established a home in Akron, where he grew up, attending the public schools, and for two years was a student in Oberlin College. Following this came his experience as foreman in his father 's factory, and in 1884 he was made one of the directors of the J. F. Seiberling Company. For several years he acted as superintendent of this company, and in 1896 joined his father in the organization of the India Rubber Company, which he served as secretary two years. For over a quarter of a century he has been one of the prominent figures in the development of Akron as "the Rubber City." In 1898 he became secretary of the newly organized Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, of which he was made treasurer in October, 1906, and vice president in February, 1909. In 1922 he resigned as vice president and manager of purchases for the Goodyear Company, to become vice president and manager of purchases for the Seiberling Rubber Company. His great business ability and his eminent spirit of helpfulness to all worthy causes have brought him numerous honors and responsibilities in his home city. He is a director of the Akron National City Bank, the Citizens Building and Loan Company, the Macedonia Northfield Banking Company ; was president in 1917, and is a member of the Akron University Club; was president in 1918 of the Akron Chamber of Commerce; is a member of the Portage Country Club, Rotary Club, City Club, Fairlawn Golf Club, Mayfield Country Club of Cleveland, United States Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Society of New York, and is a director of the Barberton Chamber of Commerce. Probably his chief hobby is improvement of the public health service. He is trustee and treasurer of the Springfield Sanatorium, is a trustee of Akron City Hospital, Akron Children ,s Hospital, Akron Young Women's Christian Association, Better' Akron Federation, Barberton Citizens Hospital, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Akron. His home is "Old Acres," Northfield. Mr. Seiberling married, November 18, 1895, Miss Blanche C. Carnahan, daughter of the late Theophilus Carnahan, who was a merchant at Findlay, Ohio. Mrs. Seiberling in 1908 organized at Akron the Woman's Home School League, and has been the guiding spirit in making that a force for education in many states, with a total membership now of more than eight thousand. Mr. and Mrs. Seiberling have four children : Charles Willard, Jr., Theophilus Karnaghan, Lucius Miles and Catherine M. Theophilus is now connected with the sales department of the Seiberling Company. Charles W., Jr., is in the rubber brokerage business at Akron, member of White, Sciberling & Company. During the World war he was sergeant in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, one of the two American regiments sent to the Italian war front. He married Miss Cecil Valarge, of London, England. FRANK M. CLEVENGER, of Wilmington, who is here serving on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County, is a native son of this county and a scion of one of its honored and influential pioneer families, the name of Clevenger having been one of record in the annals of Clinton County for an entire century and the family having been founded in America in the early Colonial period of our national history. Enos and Christine (Crouse) Clevenger, grandparents of Judge Clevenger of this review, came on horseback from Winchester, Virginia, to Ohio, in the year 1824, and this romantic, if arduous, journey represented their bridal tour. They established their residence on what is still known as the Clevenger farm, in Washington Township, Clinton County, which county was not formally organized until about six years later. The young couple had converted all their chattels into money, and they had $500 in gold when they arrived in Clinton County and initiated their experience on the pioneer farm, which was to be developed from the primitive forest wilds. The genealogy of the Clevenger family traces back to sterling English origin, and the name appears in the records of Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1690, in those of New Jersey as early as 1695, and in those of Virginia at a period prior to the Revolution. 338 - HISTORY OF OHIO In the little log house which Enos Clevenger constructed on his frontier farm in Clinton County were born his eight children—four sons and four daughters, and in 1923 only one of the number is living, William, who was born in the year 1836, and who now resides at Wilmington, as one of the venerable and honored native sons of Clinton County. In 1846 the old log house was replaced with the substantial brick house which still marks the old Clevenger homestead farm. September 13, 1862, recorded the marriage of William Clevenger to Miss Martha Compton, and this venerable couple, who have celebrated the sixty- second anniversary Of their marriage, independently maintain their home at Wilmington, with an ideal devotion and companionship that have stood the test of many years. They became the parents of five sons, two of whom died in infancy. Of the three surviving, the eldest is George M., who is a prosperous fruit-grower in the fine Yakima Valley in the State of Washington; Judge Frank M., of this sketch, is the next younger ; and William W. is engaged in mercantile enterprise at Santa Ana, California, all, of these brothers are married and have families. The brothers received the advantages of the schools of Clinton County, and Frank M. attended also Wilmington College. Judge Frank M. Clevenger was born on the old homestead farm of which mention has been made in preceding paragraphs; and the date of his nativity wash March 8, 1866. His early experience was in connection with the activities of the ancestral farm- stead, and he supplemented the discipline of the public schools by a course in Wilmington College. In line with his ambition, he thereafter gave himself earnestly to the study of law, and in 1890 he was admitted' to the bar of his naive state. He thereafter continued in the active and successful practice of his profession at Wilmington until 1916, when he was elected to his present office; that of judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Clinton County. The Judge is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and prior to his elevation to the Common Pleas bench he had represented this district in the Ohio State Senate, in 1909-10. He is one of the three commissioners who were selected, in 1915, as representatives of Ohio in the national commission whose prime object is to bring about the enactment of uniform commercial laws in the various states of the Union. In 1921 Judge Clevenger became a member of the council of the American Bar Association, and he has long been. an active member of the Ohio State Bar Association. As the honored head of the Clinton County Bar Association Judge Clevenger was specially active and. influential in the furthering of all local patriotic activities in his county during the period of American participation in the World war, and his wife was equally zealous in her service, as she has been also in welfare work of general order. Judge and Mrs. Clevenger are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. August 7, 1890, recorded the .marriage of Judge Clevenger to Miss Mary H. Robinson, of Winchester, Virginia, she being a representative of one of the oldest and most honored families of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in that historic commonwealth. Judge and Mrs. Clevenger have two children, Agnes Virginia, and Russell Robinson, both of whom were graduated in the Wilmington High School. Russell R. Clevenger is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York City, and a member of the reportorial staff of the New York Daily Times. CHARLES PHILLIP KENNEDY. A law firm that stands among the first in professional esteem and quality of clientele at Akron is Anderson, Ormsby & Kennedy. Each member of the firm has been known for many years of valued service in the legal profession and public life, Mr. Kennedy, the junior partner, being a former prosecuting attorney of Summit County. His grandfather, David Kennedy, settled in Summit County in 1837, having come from Ireland. Charles P. Kennedy was born in Boston Township of Summit County, July 18, 1883, and his father, James B. Kennedy, was born in the same locality in 1848, spending his life as a farmer, until his death in March, 1913. James B. Kennedy married Mary Carter, who was born in Boston Township in 1847, her father likewise being a native of Ireland. She is still living. While a boy on the farm Charles P. Kennedy attended country schools, graduating in 1900 from the Peninsula High School. After two years of clerking in business offices at Cleveland he began the study of law at Akron, being admitted in 1906 as a law student from the offices of Rogers, Rowley, Bradley & Rockwell. A half dozen years of earnest labor brought him some of the coveted early rewards of the successful attorney, and on January 1, 1913, he became assistant prosecuting attorney. The death of the chief in that office, Howard Castle, in January, 1915, caused Mr. Kennedy to be advanced to the vacancy, and he rendered a term of very satisfactory service as prosecutor, until January, 1917. On resuming private practice he became associated with F. R. Ormsby in the firth. of Kennedy & Ormsby, but subsequently Judge G. M. Anderson joined them in the firm of Anderson, Ormsby & Kennedy, handling a general practice, with offices in the Central Savings & Trust Building. Mr. Kennedy has membership in the County, State and American Bar associations, is a republican, and is a former member of the election board of Summit County. His diversions outdoors are fishing and golf, and he is a member of the Portage Country Club, Akron City Club and Akron Lodge of Elks. Mr. Kennedy married, December 10, 1912, Miss Anna Sullivan, of Leetonia, Ohio, daughter of Michael Sullivan. EUGENE BURDETTE DYSON, M. D. Born and reared in the noted center of culture of which Hiram College is a conspicuous feature, Doctor Dyson for over a quarter of a century has been identified with the practice of medicine and surgery, and since 1917, has been one of the capable men of his vocation in Akron. He was born at Hiram, Ohio, August 13, 1873, son of Henry Nelson and Emma (Young). Dyson. His mother died in 1905, at the age of fifty-three. His father, who resides at Hiram, was for a part of his lifetime engaged in farming, served as postmaster of Hiram, is a democrat and an active worker in the Church of Christ. Eugene Burdette Dyson grew up at Hiram, and after the local schools, acquired his liberal education in Hiram College, where he' was. graduated Bachelor of Philosophy in 1896. He took his professional course in the medical department of the Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1898. Doctor Dyson for a number of years practiced at Rootstown, Portage County, being president while there of the Portage County Medical Society, and for ten years was a member of the United States Pension Board of Examiners at Ravenna. In 1917 he moved to Akron, and has conducted a general practice of medicine and surgery, handling a number of cases in both the People's and City hospitals. He HISTORY OF OHIO - 339 is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Dyson’s favorite recreation is music. He is a democrat, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a trustee of the Wooster Avenue Church of Christ. He married at Hiram in May, 1898, Miss Mary Wilson. She was born at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but was reared in Hiram and attended the old college there. She is active in church work. They have one daughter, Emogene. WILLIAM W. MCINTOSH is a native of New York State and had a business experience covering a quarter of a century before he came to Akron, where his name has been associated prominently not only with business but with constructive movements in community development. He is president of one of the largest insurance organizations in Akron. Mr. McIntosh was born in Schoharie County, New York, August 7, 1863, and in his native state received his education in public schools at Sloanville and Claverack College. After coming West he was in business at Jackson, Michigan, five years, and at Clinton, Illinois, ten years, and was a manufacturer at Constantine, Michigan, ten years. From there, he came to Akron, continuing as a manufacturer for a time, but one year he was vice president of the Hall & Harter Insurance Company of Akron, and then organized the McIntosh-Baum Company, and in 1900 became president of the McIntosh-Bowers-West Company, an agency for general insurance and surety bond. He is also vice president of the Fidelity Deposit Company of Baltimore, and is a director of the Ohio State Bank. Mr. McIntosh is a member of the City Club, the Portage Country Club, the Akron Trout Club, is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the First Congregational Church. For a number of years he has been interested in the success of the republican party, having served twice as treasurer of the city campaign, was chairman of the finance committee during the Harding campaign, and in 1921-22, a member of the state central committee. For thirteen years he has been a member and is now serving as president of the board of the Summit County Children,s Home, an office he has held for seven years. All phases of war work enlisted his earnest cooperation. Mr. McIntosh married in 1889 Miss Grace Bishop, of Clinton, Illinois. They have two children, the son, W. Bishop, being an attorney at Akron, and the daughter, Margaret, is the wife of C. T. Jackson, of Findlay, Ohio. He is a member of the board of trustees of Tadmor Temple, Akron Shrine. ERNEST EMIL ZESIGER, who has been a member of the Akron bar since 1908, has found in his profession an outlet for the interest in his fellow men and the humanitarian principles which are his dominant characteristics. He is now judge of the municipal court, assigned to the criminal bench, and has frequently disposed of as many as forty cases in a day. He is by no means a routine judge, frequently giving a great deal of time outside of court to cases that have come before him. His special interest is in young men and women too old for the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, yet with the greater part of life before them and worthy in many cases of special efforts to save them from criminal careers. Judge Zesiger has many letters from such young men and women expressing gratitude for the chance he gave them to make good. Judge Zesiger was born December 4, 1880, at Clarington, on the Ohio River, son of Lewis F. and Sarah E. (Abersold) Zesiger. His parents were born and reared in Monroe County, Ohio, and his father in early life was in the timber business, and is now retired. Both parents live in Akron. Ernest Emil Zesiger spent his boyhood days in Monroe County and Marietta, where he attended pub-lic schools, and at the age of sixteen was given a certificate as a teacher. After teaching grade school for a year he began the study of law with W. E. Sykes, of Marietta, and a year and a half later entered the law department of the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He was graduated in 1902, was admitted to the bar, and for several years practiced at Bellaire, Ohio. In 1908, he moved to Akron, and was busy in the general practice of his profession until Friday the 13th of April, 1923, when he was appointed to a vacancy on the municipal court and was regularly elected to the municipal bench on November 7, 1923. Judge Zesiger is one of the talented speakers of Akron, and is a man who has much to say from the depths of his experience. He has delivered many lectures, and has filled speaking dates daily for a month at a time. He is a democrat, and has been a member of the Democratic Executive Committee, is prominent in church and Sunday school work, being trustee of the First Universalist Church and a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a trustee of the Charity Organization Society, a director of the North Akron Board of Trade, and has twice been a member of the City Charter Commission. Judge Zesiger is prominent in fraternal organizations, having attained the rank of major of the Second Brigade of Ohio and assistant judge advocate general in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of Bethany Commandery of the Knights Templar and the Grotto in Masonry, Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias, the Elks and the Eagles, and is a member of the Silver Lake Country Club. Judge Zesiger married Anna W. Heuer, a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He has two children, Mrs. Daniel D. Long, of Shadyside, Ohio, and Miss Ruth E. Zesiger. He also has a grandson, the son of Mrs. Long. Judge Zesiger holds court in the City Hall, and his home is at 732 Aberdeen Street. MAJ. WINFIELD SCOTT PEALER earned a distinguished record through his work as head of the selective draft in Ohio during the World war, is a Columbus attorney and a member of an old Ohio family. He was born in Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio, November 8, 1880, a son of Peter A. and Mary C. (Carnes) Pealer. The father was born in the same locality in 1847, while his mother is a native of Pennsylvania. The grandfather, John Frederick Pealer, came to Ohio in 1842 from Hesse-Dermstadt, Germany. His name was then spelled Pieler, and when he became a naturalized American citizen he changed the name to Pealer. He lived in Richland County until his death at the age of eighty-four. Winfield Scott Pealer was reared in Richland County, finished his education at Wittenberg Academy at Springfield, and for some time served as deputy clerk of Richland County. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and early became an influential man in the democratic party organization. He was elected by the Eighty-second General Assembly as chief clerk of the Senate, and held that position until the Federal Government appointed him selective draft officer for Ohio, with the rank of major of infantry. Since the war he has been engaged in the practice of law, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce. As head of the selective draft Major Pealer did some notable work, as a result of which Ohio had an enviable standing among other states for its contribution of men to the cause. 340 - HISTORY OF OHIO Major Pealer is a man of magnetic personality, and in his war work he followed his usual characteristic of getting things done largely through the personal hold he had upon men dealing with him. He supplied the tact and diplomacy required in the handling of many difficult situations, particularly those in which hard feeling had been created by more rigorous methods on the part of subordinates. In many such cases Major Pealer softened antagonism and brought about such understanding and harmony as to have beneficial results over entire communities. December 24, 1907, Mr. Pealer married Mayme W. Shanabarger, a daughter of Manford M. and Annett (Darling) Shanabarger, both natives of Richland County, Ohio. The one child born to Major Pealer and wife is Helen Arlene, born in 1911. WALKER ELLSWORTH MCCORKLE, M. D. The work done by Doctor McCorkle since locating in Summit County has been that of a well trained physician and surgeon. Doctor McCorkle is one of the highly educated men of his profession in Summit County. Besides his Doctor of Medicine degree he holds two other college degrees, Bachelor of Philosophy and Master of Science. He was born at Sidney, Ohio, March 25, 1889, son of Cyrus and Mary (Younker) McCorkle, natives of Pennsylvania. His father is a retired farmer. Walker Ellsworth McCorkle spent the first nine years of his life on a farm. He attended public schools at Sidney, took his preparatory college course in Manchester College in Indiana, and in 1911 graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Ohio University. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. In 1910 he acted as assistant instructor of zoology and anatomy in the university and in 1911-12 was instructor in anatomy and in 1912, received the Master of Science degree. During 1912-13 he was assistant professor and in 1913-15 was instructor of anatomy and took his post-graduate work towards his Doctor of Medicine degree at Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. From 1915 to 1917 Doctor McCorkle was professor of anatomy in Union University at Albany, New York. Then entering the Medical School of the University of Illinois, at Chicago, while carrying his regular subjects he acted as instructor in several courses of anatomy. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Illinois in 1919, and is a member ;of the Alpha Kappa Kappal fraternity. For three years he was associated with Professor Heintz in the gastro-intestinal medical clinic in the University of Illinois Hospital, and was also resident house physician at the University Hospital and attended clinics at other Chicago hospitals. In 1921 Doctor McCorkle came to Ohio and engaged in private practice of medicine and surgery at Kenmore. He is also surgeon on the Citizens Hospital staff at Barberton. Doctor McCorkle is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations, is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, Illinois State Medical Society, Kenmore Medical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Ohio State Academy of Scientific Research. He belongs to the First Baptist Church, is affiliated with the Masonic order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and is a director in the Kenmore Savings and Loan Association. He belongs to the Brookside Country Club. Doctor McCorkle married at Akron in 1921 Miss Bessie Jones. They have one son, Robert Ellsworth. CHARLES SEYMOUR LEHNER, M.D., has to his credit the professional ability and success that mark him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in the City of Akron, and his is the distinction also of having represented Ohio in overseas service in the great World war. In Columbus, the fair capital city of Ohio, Doctor Lehner was born May 14, 1891, and there his parents, Frank Charles and May E. (Bishop) Lehner, still maintain their home, the former having been born in Franklin County and the latter in Fairfield County, Ohio, and both families having early been founded in the old Buckeye State. Frank C. Lehner was long and successfully established in the wholesale and retail hay and grain trade in Columbus, and is now living virtually retired. After completing his course in the East High School in Columbus, Doctor Lehner there entered the School of Pharmacy of the University of Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1911. He thereafter completed forthwith a postgraduate course of one year in the same university, and in this course he specialized in analytical and pharmaceutical chemistry. In 1916 he was graduated from the medical department, old Starling Medical College, of the same university, and incidentally he became a popular member of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he served one year as house physician in St. Clare Hospital, Columbus, and he then initiated a service of patriotism, almost immediately after the nation became involved in the World war. On the 19th of May, 1917, he received commission as first lieutenant in the ambulance company of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to recruiting service in the City of Canton, Stark County, and on the 15th of July he was mustered into the Federal service, with transference to Camp Sheridan, at Montgomery, Alabama. On the 5th of the following October his command became the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Ambulance Company, One Hundred and Twelfth Sanitary Train, of the Thirty-seventh Division of the United States Army. In April, 1918, the Doctor was transferred with his company to Camp Upton, and on the 20th of the following June he embarked for overseas service, the transport vessel having first proceeded to Scotland and thence to Cherbourg, France. In France, Doctor Lehner had broad and arduous service in the various battle sectors to which his command was assigned prior to the signing of the armistice which brought the war to its close. He was thus in service in the Bourmont, Rambervillers, Roziers, Baccarat, Luneville, Nancy and Tonle sectors, as well as at Bar-le-Duc and in the famous Argonne and St. Mihiel sectors. On the 22d of October, 1918, he went with his command. into Belgium, and later returned to France, his promotion to the rank of captain having come March 20, 1918. At Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, he received his honorable discharge on the 22d of April, 1919, and in the following month he came to Akron and assumed a position in the medical department of the Goodyear Rubber Company. In the following December he here established himself in the general practice of his profession and his success has fully justified this action on his part. The Doctor is a valued member of the staff of physicians and surgeons at the People's Hospital, and is an active member of the Summit County Medical Society, the Sixth District Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and his political affiliation is with the republican party. The Doctor is an enthusiast in aero- nautics, and finds exhilarating diversion in his air flights, besides being actively concerned in the HISTORY OF OHIO - 341 devising and manufacturing of airplanes. He is an active and popular member of the Akron Chapter of the National Aeronautical Association. The maiden name of the first wife of Doctor Lehner was Helen E. Mathews, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Virginia May. The second marriage of the Doctor was with Miss Thelma Kiefer, of Mason, West Virginia, and she is a popular figure in the social life of their home city. CARL HOWARD KENT, M. D., is established in the general practice of his profession in the City of Akron, and brings to bear the most approved of modern and advanced methods and remedial agencies representative of surgical and medical science. He is one of the influential and popular members of the Summit County Medical Society and the Summit County Clinical Society, of which latter he is the president for the year 1924. The Doctor has membership also in the Ohio State Medical Society. He gave effective service as coroner of Summit County during the period of 1918-1.922, and he is a valued member of the staff of the People ,s Hospital, one of the excellent institutions of Akron. His office headquarters are maintained at 314 Ohio Building. Doctor Kent was born at Aurora, Portage County, Ohio, December 31, 1891, and is a son of Luther Eugene and Mary Elizabeth (Bissell) Kent, the former of whom was born at Geauga Lake, Geauga County, Ohio, October 13, 1845, and the latter of whom was born at Aurora, Portage County, in the year 1852. Luther E. Kent long continued as one of the progressive and successful farmers of Portage County, and was also one of the leading exponents of the cattle business in that section of the state, his operations as a buyer and shipper of cattle having been carried forward on a large scale. He was not yet sixteen years of age at the inception of the Civil war, but his youthful patriotism was not to be denied expression, and he ran away from home to enlist in the Second Ohio Cavalry. In a runaway accident within a short time thereafter he broke one of his legs, and this injury resulted in his being incapacitated for military service. Mr. Kent was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, was influential in public affairs in his community, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife held mem- bership in the Congregational Church. The death of Luther Eugene Kent occurred April 14, 1909, and his widow passed away on the 15th of December, 1915. The public schools of his native county were the medium through which Doctor Kent acquired his early education, and after taking a pre-medical course in Hiram College he entered the medical department of the University of Ohio. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1915, and there he had active affiliation wtih the Psi Upsilon Rho medical college fraternity. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he gave about one year of service as an interne in the University Hospital at Columbus, and since April 4, 1916, he has been engaged in successful general practice in the City of Akron. The Doctor insistently keeps in line with the advances in medical and surgical science, and he supplements his private study and research by post-graduate courses. He has thus availed himself of the splendid advantages of the celebrated New York Post-Graduate Hospital and College. Doctor Kent gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is a member of the Portage Fish and Game Association, and in their home city he and his wife hold membership in the First United Brethren Church. He is a member of Akron Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his basic Masonic affiliation is with Reicksicer Lodge No. 606, Free and Accepted Masons. His further York Rite Masonic connections are with Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Akron Commandery of Knights Templar ; and he is a member also of the Mystic Shrine and of the Grotto of Veiled Prophets in the City of Akron. In addition to his membership in the medical associations already noted in this review, Doctor Kent, as an able representative of the Homeopathic School of Medicine, has enrollment as a member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. August 16, 1916, in the City of Columbus, Doctor Kent was united in marriage with Miss Alice Rosella Fulton, who was born March 1, 1895, in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William Fulton, who has been for more than forty years in service as a locomotive engineer on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and who maintains his residence in Ohio ,s capital city. Doctor and Mrs. Kent have one son, Carl Howard, Jr. JEROME F. BALL, sole proprietor of the Jerome F. Ball Auto Service Company, does much more than conduct a garage, excellent though his service is, for he is an expert on automobiles, and in connection with his business has conducted a series of most helpful lectures and courses of instruction for automobile owners and drivers. He was born at Richmond, Indiana, in 1893, but has been a resident of Columbus since December, 1917. Growing up at Richmond, Mr. Ball received an excellent education in fundamentals in its public schools, and he has added to his store of knowledge by self-study and training, and in later years by teaching. Mechanics, mathematics and physics have been subjects which have always interested him and he is an authority upon all of them. Since early youth he has been associated with the automob le industry, his connection with it beginning with his employment by the Westcott Motor Car Industry at Richmond, for which in the course of time he became chief inspector, and he went with the company to Springfield, Ohio, when the plant was transferred from Richmond to Springfield. With the entry of the United States into the World war Mr. Ball went to Chicago, Illinois, in the spring of 1917, and enlisted in the aviation service. Subsequently he was transferred to the civilian service and assigned to duty as automobile instructor at the University of Illinois. Still later he was placed in charge of the great automobile school at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. In December, 1917, he was transferred to Columbus, Ohio, as instructor of the United States Army Automobile School at Columbus Barracks, now Fort Hayes, and it is worthy of note that in his examination under the civil service he received the highest grade that had been given to any applicant up to the time his certificate was issued, which was in February, 1920. His examination related to the duties of automotive instructor and supervisor. In December, 1917, Mr. Ball came to Columbus, Ohio, and built the Automobile School of the Young Men’s Christian Association in this city, and became its manager. Subsequently he went back into the army service, after taking the above mentioned examination, and was appointed supervisor of the United States Army Automotive School at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio. Resigning his position with the Government in October, 1922, Mr. Ball went into the automobile and garage business with E. L. Neff, the two conducting what was known as the Buick & Continental Service Company, 210 North Third Street, but Mr. Ball soon 342 - HISTORY bought his partner ,s interest, and February 1, 1923, changed the name to the Jerome F. Ball Auto Service Company, but maintains the original quarters. The service he renders from this modern plant is of an exceptionally expert character, marked by the highest efficiency and honesty of business methods. His series of lectures and courses of instruction are regarded as the best ever given in the lines he follows, and are attended to the limit of the classes, which he places at fifty members. Mr. Ball married Mary Elizabeth Morrow, and they have two children, Dorothy Irene and Hester Marian. SANFORD BUNDY BARRETT, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession more than twenty years, and since establishing his residence in the City of Akron, in 1909, he has here built up a substantial and representative practice that marks him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Summit County. He is one of the popular and appreciative members of the Summit County Medical Society, the Sixth District Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Doctor Barrett was born on a farm in Vinton County, Ohio, June 17, 1879, and is a son of Capt. John and Mary (Sullivan) Barrett, the former of whom was born at Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, and the latter having been a young woman when she came from her native Ireland to the United States. Capt. John Barrett gave twenty years of service as captain on ocean vessels, and after his retirement from a seafaring life he engaged in farm enterprises in Vinton County, Ohio. In 1886 he left the farm and established himself in the general merchandise business at Byer, Jackson County, and finally he retired from active business and established his residence in the City of Springfield, his death having there occurred in 1918, when he was seventy-nine years of age, his wife having passed away at Byer when seventy-four years of age. Of their three children Dr. Sanford B., of this review, was the second in order of birth. Captain Barrett was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. The boyhood experiences of Doctor Barrett were those of the home farm, and he early formed an ambition to prepare himself for the medical profession. At the age of eight years he initiated his studies in the public schools at Byer, and thereafter he followed the course of his youthful ambition by entering fine old Starling Medical College, in the City of Columbus, this being now the medical department of the University of Ohio. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1901, and after thus receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for seven years engaged in successful general practice in the old home town of Byer. He then removed to Randolph, Portage County, where he remained, until 1909, since which year he has been continuously engaged in practice in the City of Akron. In the World war period Doctor Barrett served as a member of the East Akron Medical Advisory Board, and was otherwise zealous in the furthering of local patriotic activities. He is affiliated with Henry Perkins Lodge No. 611, Free and Accepted Masons, and his Masonic connections include also his membership in Yusef Khan Grotto of the Veiled Prophets at Akron. He is a past grand of Byer Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the City of Columbus was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Barrett and Miss Margaret E. Palmer, daughter of the late Joseph Palmer. Dorothy Louise, only child of Doctor and Mrs. Barrett, is now (1924) a student in Akron University, where she is pursuing a course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. LEE ROY REIFSNIDER has most effectively demonstrated in his native city of Akron his powers of initiative and administrative ability. His civic loyalty is shown in his enthusiastic support of all measures and enterprises that tend to advance the civic and material welfare of his native city and county. Mr. Reifsnider was born at Akron, on the 5th of January, 1885, and is a son of the late Lee Clarence Reifsnider, who was born at Uniontown, this county, and who was following his trade, that of plumber and steamfitter, in the City of Akron, at the time of his death, in 1891, when only thirty-eight years of age, his widow, whose maiden name was Ida Maria Adkins, being still a resident of Akron. L. Roy Reifsnider was but six years old at the time of his father 's death, and thus his early educational advantages were limited to somewhat brief and irregular attendance in the public schools of his native city. Since he was a lad of thirteen years he has been virtually dependent upon his own resources, and even as he has shown capacity for the achieving of large and worthy successes in connection with the practical affairs of life, even so has he found opportunity to overcome effectively his early educational handicap. At the age of thirteen years he found employment in the local dry goods establishment of the M. O'Neil Company, and within a short time he took a position with the Werner Company, here engaged in the printing and publishing business. After remaining three years with the latter company Mr. Reifsnider was able to attend for two years the Ohio State University at Columbus, and as a student in this institution he was a member of Acacia fraternity, and the Triangle, a fraternity of civil engineers. During the period from 1901 to 1913 Mr. Reif-snider was actively associated with banking enterprises in Akron, his service having been initiated in the First National Bank and having continued with this and affiliated banks, the while he won advancement through his faithful and efficient service. He was assistant cashier of the First-Second National Bank at the time of his resignation in 1913, in which year he was elected secretary of the Exchange Realty Company, which has developed a substantial real estate and general insurance business, he having been secretary and general manager of this company from the year of its incorporation to the present. In 1921 he became one of the organizers of the Society Savings & Loan Company, and of this corporation he is the vice president. Mr. Reifsnider has served as president of the Akron Real Estate Board, and is identified also with the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He is not only a Knight Templar, but has also received the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Akron City Club and also of the Fairlawn Heights Golf Club. He and his wife hold membership in the West Hill Congregational Church. Mrs. Reifsnider, whose maiden name was Lucretia Ruth Spray, was born and reared in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reifsnider have two children, Lee Spray and Franklin. ROGER Q. DAVIS, M. D., is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in the City of Akron, where he maintains his well appointed office at 206 Hill Building. The doctor was born at Berlin Cross Roads, Jackson County, Ohio, August 20, 1893, and is a son of Dr. Daniel W. and HISTORY OF OHIO - 343 Kate (Hunt) Davis, who now maintain their home at Akron, where the father has been established in the practice of medicine since receiving his honorable discharge from the Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he served in the World war period and in which he gained the rank of captair. Dr. Daniel W. Davis was graduated from the fine old Starling Medical College, which now constitutes the medical department of the University of Ohio, and after receiving, in 1895, his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for twelve years engaged in practice at Berlin Cross Roads. He then removed to Wellston, in the same county, and in that city he continued his successful professional activities until the nation became involved in the World war, when he promptly enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, he having, as previously stated, located at Akron after the completion of his service in this connection. He was born and reared in Jackson County, and his wife was born in Gallia County. Dr. Roger Q. Davis attended the Ohio Military Institute, where he was a member of the First Cadet Battalion. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered his father 's alma mater, Starling Medical College of the University of Ohio, and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1918 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. At the university he became affiliated with the Psi Chi fraternity. After his graduation Doctor Davis further fortified himself through the valuable clinical experience gained in one year of service as interne and house physician in St. Francis Hospital at Columbus, and a similar pediod of service, 1920, as resident house physician at the Franklin County Tubercular Hospital, likewise in Ohio ,s capital city. He has since been established in general medical and surgical practice in the City of Akron, and he is an active member of the Summit County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Under the direction of the public health department of the City of Akron Doctor Davis had supervision of the vaccination of more than 30,000 school children, for diphtheria, during the period of 1924-1925. Doctor Davis wedded Miss Myrtle Burke, who is a graduate nurse and who is a daughter of Michael Burke, a representative citizen of Oconto, Wisconsin, where he is engaged in the lumber business. Doctor and Mrs. Davis have two children: Roger Burke and William Monroe. ALBERT ROWLAND, M. D., has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in the City of Akron since September 5, 1900, and in this vigorous industrial city has built up an excellent practice that marks him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Summit County. In addition to his private practice he has membership on the staff of physicians and surgeons of the People ,s Hospital. The doctor has membership in the Summit County Medical Society, the Sixth District Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Doctor Rowland was born on a farm near Ashland, judicial center of the Ohio County of the same name, and the date of his nativity was January 11, 1870. The Doctor is a son of the late George W. and Lydia (Fraunfelter) Rowland, the former of whom maintained his home in Ashland County from the time of his birth until his death, at the age of seventy-six years, and the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, whence her parents came to Ohio when she was a child, she having been fifty-six years of age at the time of her death. George W. Rowland long continued as one of the substantial and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county. His father, Samuel Rowland, was a pioneer settler and farmer in Ashland County, but was born in Hagerstown, Maryland. George W. Rowland was a soldier of the Union during the last year of the Civil war, his service having been with the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a stalwart democrat, and he and his wife held membership in the Baptist and Lutheran churches, respectively. After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native county, Doctor Rowland gave two years of effective pedagogic service as a teacher in the district schools in Ashland and Lorain counties. Thereafter he was graduated in the pharmacy department of the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, and from 1891 to 1896 he was engaged in the retail drug business at Lodi, Medina County, as a member of the firm of Rowland Brothers. He then entered the medical department of the great University of Michigan, and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900. Soon after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he established his residence at Akron, and here his able professional stewardship has gained to him substantial success and prestige in his chosen vocation. The doctor is aligned loyally in the ranks of the democratic party, he and his wife hold membership in the West Hill Congregational Church, and in the World war period he served as a member of the Medical Examining Board of Summit County. He is affiliated with Akron Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. At Akron, on the 6th of June, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Rowland and Miss Helen M. DeLong, of Waupeton, North Dakota, and the children of this union are five in number, namely: Wallace Oliver, Gerald Ernest, Virginia June, Wayne Merwin and Phyllis Carol. LYMAN WRIGHT ROGERS. One of the prominent younger members of the Canton bar, Lyman Wright Rogers had practiced here only a short time when he answered the call to duty to join the co'ors in the World war, resuming practice after he returned from abroad. In five years he has achieved successful rank in his profession. He was born at Chicago, Illinois, son of L. D. and Ida (Wright) Rogers, and was reared and educated in his native city. In 1900 he graduated from the Franklin School of Chicago, then entered St. John 's Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1904, and came to Ohio and completed his literary education in Denison University at Granville. from which he received his Bachelor ,s Degree in 1908. During 1909-11 Mr. Rogers was a student in the Chicago Kent College of Law, and in 1913 received his Bachelor of Laws degree from that school. He came to Ohio, and in January, 1916, was admitted to the bar, and in the fall of that year formed a partnership under the firm name of Rogers & Kinnison at Canton. Both members of the firm enlisted and served in the World war, and in January, 1919, they renewed their partnership. This relation was continued until 1921, since which time Mr. Rogers has praticed alone In January, 1918, he volunteered, and was appointed to service in the military division of the American Red Cross in Italy, with the rank of first lieutenant. He performed Red Cross service at the front for six months. Four months of that time he was on the Piave River in Northern Italy during the tremendous campaigns in June and October, 1918. On October 26, 1918, he crossed the Piave River at Sandovi, and has the distinction of being the first American to do so. He spent two months of his service in the Alps. Mr. Rogers was awarded the Italian war cross by General Camerano, and received his honorable discharge from duty November 15, 1918. 344 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Rogers is a member of the Stark County Bar Association, the McKinley Club of Canton, and is a staunch republican. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Phi Gamma Delta and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. He is a member of the American Legion Post. On March 4, 1920, he married Miss Ruth Van Hoogenhugye, of Columbus, Ohio. RONALD LEROY ROSS, M. D., is an Akron physician and surgeon engaged in general practice, and has had an extended experience and training both in that city and elsewhere, having been located for a time in the Panama Canal Zone. He was born April 14, 1895, at Woodville, Sandusky County, Ohio, a son of Charles W. and Sarah Jane McArthur Ross. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and his father has had almost a life Iong experience as an oil operator, having begun in Pennsylvania. While his operations subsequently took him over the oil districts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Oklahoma, he is now located at Winchester, Ken- tucky. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. Dr. Ronald Leroy Ross attended schools at Woodville, Ohio, at Marion, Indiana, high school at Palestine, Illinois, and in 1917 graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and continued his professional studies in Western Reserve Medical School, graduating in the. year 1920. Doctor Ross was appointed and served as an interne in the Ancon Hospital at Ancon in the Canal Zone, being on duty there from July, 1920, to July, 1921. After this interesting and valuable. experience he returned to the United States and took up industrial practice, being surgeon and physician to the Pruden Coal Company at Valley Creek, Tennessee. Doctor Ross located at Akron in 1921, and for one year was resident house physician at the People's Hospital. Since 1922 he has engaged in general practice at Akron. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, is, affiliated with Winchester Lodge No. 20, Free and Accepted Masons; Winchester Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Winchester Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, all at Winchester, Kentucky, and is also a member of Indra Consistory No. 2, Scottish Rite, at Covington, Kentucky, and Oleika Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Lexington, Kentucky. He is an Elk, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his favorite diversion is hunting. DAVID CYRUS MURPHY. Some of the chief influences affecting the material welfare and progress of Akron in recent years have emanated from one of the younger citizens, a successful realtor, David Cyrus Murphy, whose name is familiar in many connections at Akron. He was born at Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio, April 20, 1894, the son of Brice H. Murphy, who is in the real estate and insurance business at Maynard, Ohio. The son obtained his early education in schools at Maynard and Bethesda, Ohio, and in Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he took a special course in banking and commerce. Mr. Murphy engaged in the real estate business at Akron in 1916, and about a year later he left his business to join the army, and saw service, both in home camp and overseas. Since then he has given his full time and energy to his business affairs. He is a real estate broker, and specializes in business and industrial property. Mr. Murphy is vice president of the Akron City Planning Commission, and had much to do with promoting the zoning ordinance passed by the Akron City Council, one of the first zoning ordinances passed in the State of Ohio. He is chairman of the City 1 Planning Committee of the Akron Real Estate Board, and is a member of the Ohio State and National Associations of Real Estate Boards. Mr. Murphy is prominent in political circles, having served as president of the Akron Harding for President Club, and is a member of the Republican Executive Committee of Summit County. He is unmarried, is a Mason, a member of the Masonic Club, the City Club and the First Methodist Episcopal Church. WILFRED HAMMOND COLLINS. A resident of Akron for thirty years, Mr. Collins has had an unusual record of experience in. business and professional work. He was at one time a court reporter, then a lawyer, and in recent years has been in business as a realtor, being president of the Real Estate Service Company. He was born a British subject, in Hereford, England, March 21, 1873, son of William and Hannah (Hammond) Collins. His mother was born April 8, 1852, and died in August, 1902. His father, now living in Hereford, England, was born August 18, 1847, and gave his early years to business, then entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, and has also made a reputation as a writer, having been the "historian of Hereford." Wilfred Hammond Collins was educated in the Hereford County College, and was twenty years of age when he came to the United States in 1893. His first employment at Akron was with the famous manufacturers of thrashing machinery, Aultman & Miller, in a clerical capacity. That was followed by his thirteen years of experience as official court reporter of Summit County. While in this work he employed his unusual opportunity to study law, was admitted to the bar June 18, 1906, and gained a high rank at Akron as one of the capable practitioners of the law. .However, in recent years much of his time has been occupied in real estate. Individually he put on the Perkins Park allotments one and two. Besides being president of the Real Estate Service Company he is president of the Collins Alexander Company, builders. At all times Mr. Collins has proved himself a citizen thoroughly interested in civic progress as well as the material upbuilding of the city. He is a trustee of the First Congregational Church, is a member of the Akron Real Estate Board, the Portage Country Club, and his chief hobby is his home and children. His Masonic affiliations .are with the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery and Scottish Rite Consistory. He married at Akron in August, 1899, Miss Clara Belle Smith, whose father, Martin V. Smith, was for many years well known in Akron as a carpenter and buildcr. Mrs. Collins is active in church and musical circles. She is a former president of the Tuesday Musical Club, the organization which has done more than any other to bring the great artists in music to Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have two children, Frances and. Wilfred, Jr. The daughter is now a student in Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. JAMES EARL SPRINGER, M. D. The World war having taken him into the service as a medical officer, following its close Doctor Springer, before returning to Akron, pursued post-graduate work to qualify himself for special practice in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, and for the past five years his practice has been confined to that field. He was born at Jeromesville, Ashland County, Ohio, August 22, 1887, son of William K. and HISTORY OF OHIO - 345 Amanda (Lutz) Springer, both representing old families in that section of Ohio. His father was born in Ashland County in 1846, and died in 1900, and the mother died in 1911, when fifty-four years of age. William K. Springer was a farmer in early life, and then for eighteen years was connected with the schools of Ashland County as a teacher. He was a republican, and a member of the United Brethren Church. Fourth in a family of six children, James Earl Springer grew up in Ashland County, attending public schools at Jeromesville and graduating in 1905 from the high school of Wooster, Ohio. He took his professional course in the Baltimore Medical College, where he was graduated in 1911. For several years he engaged in the general practice of medicine at Creston, Ohio, and in 1914 located at Akron, where he continued in general practice until 1917. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, was assigned duty at Camp Grant, Illinois, and was with the colors nine months. He is on the staff of the Children’s Hospital and the People,s Hospital at Akron, and is a member of the Summit County, District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Springer is a member of the American Legion, and his Masonic affiliations include the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery, Scottish Rite Consistory and Shrine. He is an active worker in the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Springer married Miss Daisy G. Fickes, of Jeromesville. They have one child, Daisy Jean. PAUL ARTHUR DAVIS, M. D. Aside from the service he rendered during the war as a medical officer, the work of Doctor Davis at Akron has been in special lines rather than in general practice. He is a thoroughly competent surgeon, and much of his time is spent in the local hospitals. He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, December 8, 1889. His father, Robert W. Davis, who died in 1923, was in the grocery business and then for a number of years in the signal engineering department of the Hocking Valley Railway. He was a Mason, a republican, and a member of the Methodist Church. The widowed mother is Minerva Tomlinson Davis, a resident of Jackson, Ohio. Paul Arthur Davis acquired his early education in public schools at Richmondale, Ohio, Decatur, Illi- nois, the high school at Jackson, Ohio, and he finished both his literary and professional education in Ohio State University, where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1911, and on January 15, 1915, was awarded the Master of Arts degree for his work in pathological chemistry. On June 6, 1916, he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. For a year he was instructor in chemistry at the State University, and for four years had been assistant professor of physiological and organic chemistry in the medical department of the university. His social connections at the university included the Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Rho Sigma, Lambda Phi Upsilon, Sigma Psi and the Acacia fraternities. Doctor Davis did special work in the University of Chicago in pathological chemistry, and was connected with clinics for children in the Protestant Hospital and the Cook County Hospital, and served an interneship with Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. In 1916 he located at Akron, where much of his practice has been in pediatrics and obstetrics. An important part of his work has been industrial surgery. He is assistant surgeon of the Goodyear Rubber Company's Hospital. He also practices at the City and People’s hospitals. In September, 1917, Doctor Davis enlisted in the Army Medical Corps, being commissioned first lieutenant at Cook Field, Dayton, was transferred to the Wilbur Wright Field as assistant surgeon, was promoted to captain, and did his army duty at Acceptance Field, Moraine City, Ohio. He was honorably discharged in March, 1919, and then resumed practice at Akron. He is a member of the AEsculapian Club, the County, District, State and American Medical associations, the University Club and the Lions Club. His hobbies outside of his professional work are radio, tennis and motoring. He is affiliated with Trowel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Jackson, Yusef Khan Grotto at Akron, American Legion, Chamber of Commerce and the East Akron Board of Trade. Doctor Davis married at Columbus, Marion C. Johnson. Her father, Samuel M. Johnson, was an attorney by profession, was assistant secretary of the State of Ohio under Harry Smith, and is now in the real estate business at Columbus. FRANCIS MARION RANSBOTTOM learned the trade of potter from his father, who in turn had learned it from his father, and all of them have been indentified with the great pottery industry centering in and around Zanesville. Francis Marion Ransbottom is one of the conspicuous figures in the pottery industry of America today. He helped organize and is president of the American Clay .Products Company, which combines half a dozen or more pottery plants formerly operated independently in the Zanesville district. Mr. Ransbottom in addition to his successful business career has interested himself in politics, and is one of the best known Masons of Ohio. He was born on a farm near Roseville, in Perry County, Ohio, June 19, 1873. His grandfather was of English descent, and settled in Delaware County, Ohio, from Virginia. He operated a pottery there. Alfred Ransbottom, father of the Zanesville industrial leader, was born in Delaware County in 1832, and learned the pottery trade from his father. After the latter ,s death he went to live with a Mr. Horr, another potter, and under him continued his apprenticeship. Moving to a farm in Perry County, he established a small pottery there and operated another plant in Licking County. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted, becoming a sergeant, and served with conspicuous credit through four years of the war. For bravery at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he was granted the Congressional Medal of Honor, and was given a ninety-day furlough in order to go to Washington, where the medal was presented. After the war he resumed the pottery business at McLuney in Perry County, and later at Roseville. In 1891 he became superintendent of the pottery at South Zanesville, and was in business there until his death in 1893. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and held various minor offices. He was a republican, a Methodist and a Mason. Alfred Ransbottom married Miss Ruth Wickham, who was born in Licking County, and died March 28, 1905, at the age of sixty-four. Her father, William Wickham, came to Ohio from Kentucky. Among the eight children of Alfred Ransbottom and wife Francis Marion was the fifth in order of birth. He is an American who has made a conspicuous success in business and other affairs with only a common school education. He attended the public schools at Roseville until he was fourteen, and then went to work in his father 's plant, learning the family trade. As an apprentice and workman he was employed until he was nineteen, and he then went on the road as a salesman for the Crooksville Pottery Company, covering Ohio, Indiana and Michigan as his territory. In 1901 Mr. Ransbottom and three brothers organized the Ransbottom Brothers Pottery Company at Rose- 346 - HISTORY OF OHIO vilLe. He continued. as a traveling representative selling the products of the plant until 1906, and thereafter gave his active management to the business at home until 1919. Mr. Ransbottom was the prime mover in the organization of the American Clay Products Company which was incorporated in 1919. The older plants and companies taken in by the corporation were : A. E. Hull Pottery Company, manufacturers of kitchen ware, white and blue banded specialties, at Crooksville; Burley Pottery Company, also of Crooksville, making stoneware; Burley-Winter Pottery Company of Crooksville, manufacturing stoneware specialties; the Star Pottery Company, stoneware and specialties; the Crooksville Pottery Company, stoneware manufacturers; the Ransbottom Brothers Pottery Company of Roseville, manufacturers of stoneware, kitchenware, flower pots and clay specialties; the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company of Roseville; the Logan Pottery Company at Logan, manufacturing stoneware and flower pots; and the Muskingum Pottery Company, stoneware makers. The corporation also owns and operates the Hawthorne Pottery Company in Pennsylvania, stoneware makers. Mr. Ransbottom is president and general manager of this corporation, with A. E. Hull, vice president, and Nelson McCoy, secretary. Mr. Ransbottom was one of the organizers and is a director and vice president of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Zanesville and is a director- of the First National Bank. He is vice president of the American National Fire Insurance Company of Columbus, and a director of the First Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbus. He is a business man who has found the satisfaction of useful service in an active interest in politics. Since 1894, when he was twenty-one years of age, he has been a member continuously of either the repub- lican central or executive committee of Muskingum County, and served as chairman of both committees several times. He has been on the -state republican committees, and in 1908 a presidential elector and delegate to the 1924 National Republican Convention. He was a close personal friend of the late President Harding and was a member of the presidential party on the coast at the time of the President's death. His Masonic record includes many unusual honors. Three times he was master of Roseville Lodge No. 566, Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters, Cyrene Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar, of which he is past eminent commander, and has held all the offices in the Ohio Grand Lodge of Masons, having been honored with the post of grand master in 1922. Since 1907 he has been an active member of Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Columbus, and in 1915 became a member of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third. Degree of the Scottish Rite of the Northern Jurisdiction. He is a member of the Red. Cross of Constantine and since 1901 of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. During the World war he represented the Scottish Rite Northern Jurisdiction at Washington. Mr. Ransbottom is a Member of the Zanesville Golf Club, the Rotary Club, the Zane Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a past exalted ruler, the Athletic Club of Columbus, the Union League of New York and the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. His chief recreation is hunting and fishing. At Belle Valley in Noble County, Ohio, Mr. Ransbottom married: Miss Lizzie May Kackley, who was born there. Her father, George W. Kackley, is a miller and mill owner, and is now retired. from business at Belle Valley. Mrs. Ransbottom has served as worthy matron and district deputy of the Eastern Star. They are The parents of three children. Ruth, a graduate of the Rosewell High School, is the wife of Karl W. Brown, of Roseville. Clare, a graduate of the National School of Domestic Arts and Sciences at Washington, is the wife of Karl E. Brown, assistant sales manager of the American Clay Products Company at Zanesville. Esther Mae, the youngest daughter, is finishing her education in the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C. LOUIS ALEXANDER WITZEMAN, M. D. Among the physicians of Akron who have centralized their activities along a certain branch of their profession and have gained notable success therein, one who has gained. particularly 'high standing is Dr. Louis Alexander Witzeman, a specialist in the treatment and cure of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, bronchoscopy and cesophagoscopy. He has had broad experience both at home and in a number of foreign countries, and is accounted one of the brilliant men of his calling. Doctor Witzeman was born at Leetonia, Ohio, June 20, 1889, and is a son of Alexander J. and Mary J. (Koch) Witzeman. His father was engaged in the drug business for many years, but is now retired from commercial activities and engaged in world-wide travel. After attending the Akron public and high schools, Louis Alexander Witzeman entered Harvard University, from which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then enrolled as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, and after securing his degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1918, saw fourteen months of service as a military surgeon at St. Agnes' Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. For one year he did post-graduate work in the Manhattan Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital, New York City, and spent a like period in special post-graduate work in the Baltimore Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Charity Hospital, and then went abroad. He first did special work at Morefields Eye Hospital, London, England, then went to the University of Vienna, Austria, where he spent about six months, and next to the British Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem. He then engaged in his profession, principally eye operations, in the Punjab, India, where he remained until 1922, in July of which year he settled.' at Akron. He has built up a large and important practice of a private character, with offices at 400 Second National Bank Building, Akron, and 213 Central Savings and Trust Building, Barberton, and practices also at the City, Children,s and People 's hospitals at Akron and the Citizens' Hospital at Barberton. He keeps fully abreast of his profession and is a member of the Summit County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Austrian Otological Association of Vienna. Fraternally he belongs to Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, and his hobbies are motoring and traveling. Doctor Witzeman married Miss B. Evangeline Rowe, of Hagerstown, Maryland, and they are the parents of one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. ARTHUR DICE TRAUL, M. D., has been numbered among the proficient medical men of Akron for the past ten years. He possesses thorough educational qualifications, broad experience and has earned the esteem of both his fellow professional workers and the extensive clientele he serves. He was born at Galion, Ohio, January 17, 1879. His father, Francis Marion Traul, born in 1849, took up railroading in early youth, beginning as water boy during the construction of the Erie line through Crawford County, Ohio, and eventually served the Erie system as a conductor, being on duty in that capacity when he was killed. in an accident in 1916. He was a republican in politics and a member of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 347 Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Susan Dice, who is living at Galion, being the mother of two children. Doctor Traul graduated from the Galion High School June 18, 1897, took the Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1899, and then entered Starling Medical, now the medical department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated in 1903. Doctor Traul for eleven years engaged in general practice at North Robinson in Crawford County, Ohio, removing from there in 1914 to Akron. While he still handles his general practice, an important phase of his work is obstetrics and gynecology, in which field he has demonstrated unusual skill. He is a member of the staff of the People,s Hospital of Akron and is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war he served as a member of the South Akron Medical Board and the Volunteer Medical Corps. Since coming to Akron in 1914 he has been very active in .the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church, being chairman of its board of stewards and chairman of the building committee handling the construction of the beautiful new church in 1924. His Masonic affiliations are with Bucyrus Lodge No. 139, Free and Accepted Masons, at Bucyrus, and the Akron bodies of Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters, and Akron. Commandery No. 80, Knight's Templar. He is a lover of all outdoor sports, including fishing and hunting. Doctor Traul married at Columbus in May, 1902, Miss Roberta Fix, who was born and reared in the capital city, and outside her home activities has become well known in Akron musical circles. Her father, George Marion Fix, now deceased, was a soldier in the Civil war, and spent many years with the Columbus Fire Department. Doctor and Mrs. Traul have one son, Donald Marion, who is one of the ablest performers among the high school athletes at Akron. Doctor Trani 's address is 1121 South Main Street, Akron. ERNEST A. PFLUEGER is president of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Akron, the world's largest factory for the manufacture of fishing tackle and equipment of all kinds. It is an industry illustrating the wonderful possibilities of modern methods of manufacture. Mr. Pflueger, the president of the company, at one time was pursuing the making of novelties as a side line to his regular work. His home industry was the manufacture of rosettes out of tin as ornaments for the harness of horses. Later he made artificial baits for fishermen, and while the business from time to time manufactured a number of different novelties, in time the resources of the plant were concentrated upon the making of fishing tackle, rods, flies, minnows and other artificial bait, and particularly hooks; until this has become the largest plant in the world for the manufacture of fish hooks, which are made to the number of several hundred million every year. Ernest A. Pflueger was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1866, son of Ernest F. Pflueger and Julia (Dunnebeck) Pflueger. His father was born in Germany in 1843, and as an orphan boy came to America with a brother and sister and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He became a molder by trade, and in 1868 established a home at Akron. He worked for the Erie Stove Company, and subsequently was engaged in the retail grocery business until about 1880. He had been of an. inventive turn of mind as a boy, and by 1880 had taken out patents on over fifty of his original devices. In 1880 he engaged in manufacturing, establishing the Enterprise Manufacturing Company for the making of fishing tackle and similar lines. Ernest F. Pflueger died at Akron, November 18, 1890, and his wife passed away in 1905. Their son, Ernest Andrew Pflueger, was reared in Akron, attended public schools to the age of fourteen, and soon afterwards he began adding his individual genius and work to the business of his father’s factory. In 1882 he became secretary and treasurer of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, and for a number of years past has been president and treasurer of that organization. He is also a director of the First Trust and Savings Bank, and president of the Manufacturers' Association of Fishing Tackle of the United States. He is a member of the executive committee of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Portage Country Club, a director of the Akron City Club, a member of the Portage Fish and Game Association, and of Trinity Lutheran Church. He has always maintained a personal interest in the sport which he has served through his manufacturing plant. During the World war, he participated influentially in supporting all war causes. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery, Scottish Rite Consistory and the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Pflueger married in 1896 Miss Ruth Seiberling, youngest daughter of J. F. Seiberling, and a sister of Frank A. and Charles W. Seiberling. Four children were born to their marriage. The son John S. is a graduate of Cornell University, was a lieutenant in the Aviation Corps during the World war, and is now in the insurance business at Akron. All the children bear the middle name Seiberling. The secondson Theodore S., was educated in St. John ,s Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin, in Cornell University, in Babson Institute, was in service during the World war, and is now manager of the export department of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company. William S. Pflueger was educated in St. John,s Academy and Denison University, and is now credit manager of the Enterprise Company. The youngest son, Robert S., is attending school at Middlebury, Vermont. ANDREW NICKAS, attorney and counselor-at-law, with offices in the Clark Building .at Canton, was a soldier in the Eighty-third Division overseas during the World war, and graduated and was admitted to the bar after his return. He was born in Greece, Sertember 3, 1888. He spent his boyhood in his native land, attended school there, and in 1907, at the age of nineteen, came to America. He lived at St. Louis, Missouri, until 1915, in which year he came to Canton and for several years was engaged in the real estate business. He began the study of law in Judge Agler's office, but not long afterward America entered the World war, and on April 2, 1918, he abandoned his studies and enlisted as a private in Company D of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Machine Gun Battalion in the Eighty-third Division. With this division he left for overseas June 11, 1918, and in France he was assigned to the Officers Military School at LeMans, and in April, 1919, was, commissioned a first lieutenant. He received his honorable discharge from the army in 1919, and on his return to Canton completed his law course, graduating from the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada with the Bachelor of Laws degree. In July, 1921, he was admitted to the bar, and in three years has achieved a creditable position and successful business in his profession. Mr. Nickas is commander of George Dilboy Post No. 175, American Legion, composed of Canton ex-service men of Greek origin. He is a member of the 348 - HISTORY OF OHIO Greek Orthodox Church. While overseas he visited his old home in Greece. He is a member of the Stark County Bar Association. He is married and has one child, Andrew Nickas, Jr. GEORGE EDWARD BLACK, M. D. Three generations of the Black family have been represented in the medical profession, their work being done in Ohio and Indiana. Dr. George Edward Black had graduated in medicine and had done some practice when the World war came on. He went into the service, finally in the Hospital Corps, was overseas, and since returning home has been located at Akron, where he is a highly qualified specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat work. Doctor Black was born at Weaver Station in Darke County, Ohio, December 30, 1886. His grandfather, Dr. Daniel T. Black, practiced medicine for many years as a country physician at Weaver Station and Fort Jefferson, Ohio. Dr. Ethelbert Henry Black, father of the Akron physician, was born in Grant County, Indiana, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago, and for thirty-three years handled an extensive country practice at Rossburg in Darke County, Ohio. He died in 1915, at the age of fifty-five. He was very active in all civic and public affairs, owned a farm, had some fine horses, and was vice president of the Farmers Bank of Rossburg. He was also a member of the United Brethren Church and the Knights of Pythias. Dr. Ethelbert H. Black married Flora J. Hamaker, a native of Grant County, Indiana, now a resident of Palms in California. Next to the youngest in a family of four children, George Edward Black grew up in a rural community at Rossburg, Ohio, attending public schools, high school at Ansonia and Greenville, Ohio, and in 1909 graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree from the Cincinnati Medical College, where he was a member of the Tau Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduating he engaged in practice at Rossburg as an associate of his father. In 1916 poor health caused him temporarily to retire from practice. Early the next year, when America entered the Worlds war, he enlisted as a private in the Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry, taking that branch of the service in order to build up his physical constitution. Later he was made a first-class sergeant in the Hospital Corps with the Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry, and had eighteen months of service with the Expeditionary Forces. After the armistice Doctor Black went to London, England, and pursued special post-graduate work in the Central London Nose and Throat Hospital and the Eye and Ear Hospital. Upon receiving his discharge he spent some time at New York City doing special work in ear, nose and throat diseases at the New York Post Graduate Hospital. With this preparation he entered upon his career at Akron, where he confined his practice to his special lines. He belongs to the Summit County, Sixth District and Ohio State Medical associations, and also belongs to the State Eclectic and National Eclectic Medical associations. Doctor Black is prominent in American Legion circles, being a member of Summit Post, No. 19: He follows out-door sports, particularly fishing and hunting, is a member of the Masonic Club and Coventry Lodge of Masons. Doctor Black married at New York City in June, 1919, Miss Blanche Flenniken, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. CARL JUDD CASE, M. D. Since 1914 Doctor Case has been engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery at Akron. His offices are in the Central Savings and Trust Building. Doctor Case is a native of Summit County, Ohio, and had the advantage of thorough training and exceptional talent in preparation for his chosen career. He was born at Hudson, August 7, 1882. His great-grandfather, Chauncey Case, came to Ohio in 1814, and spent his active career as a farmer in Summit County. The father of Doctor Case is John Goodman Case, and he was born at Hudson, was educated at Western Reserve College and for many years conducted a large dairy farm at Hudson. He was interested in civic and public affairs. His home is now a fruit ranch at Los Gatos, California. John Goodman Case married Josephine Peck. Carl Judd Case was reared on a farm, attended country schools in Summit County, the Hudson High School, graduated from Western Reserve Academy at Hudson in 1900, and subsequently entcred Western Reserve University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905. The next two years he spent in England as a salesman of photographic supplies. Returning to this country, he entered Western Reserve University, Medical Department, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1910, and the following year was an interne in the City Hospital of Cleveland. From 1911 to 1914 he was engaged in general practice in Peninsula, Ohio, and in the latter year located at Akron. During the period of the World war he was a member of the Medical Examining Board for East Akron, and he belongs to the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He is a member of the University Club, the Burns Club and the First Congregational Church. Doctor Case married at Cleveland, in August, 1912, Miss Myra Clark. She was born at Shardon, Butler County, Ohio. She is a graduate of the Western Reserve College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and was a teacher of music in Cleveland. She takes an active part in musical clubs, is a member of the Burns Club, the Woman,s City Club and the Oberlin College Club of Akron. Doctor and Mrs. Case take their recreation principally in travel. MORRIS C. TUHOLSKE, M. D. Since getting successfully established in his profession at Akron, Doctor Tuholske has accepted a number of those opportunities open to the able physician for social welfare work, and has served the community with a degree of skill and courage that has made him an invaluable citizen. He was born in Troy, New York, June 12, 1879, but in the same year his parents, David and Hulda (Himmeiweit) Tuholske, moved to Akron. His father is now living retired in Brooklyn, New York, but the mother died in July, 1921. Both parents were born in Germany, the father in 1846, came to the United States when young people, and David became a cigar manufacturer in Troy and afterward in Akron. He is a democrat and a member of the Reformed Jewish faith. Morris C. Tuholske grew up in Akron attending public schools there, and took his pre-medical course in Buchtel College. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1903 from Washington University of St. Louis, and remained in that city ten years, serving his interneship in the City Hospital and the St. Louis Female Hospital, and while engaged in private practice was also connected with the St. Louis City Dispensary and the Tuberculosis Clinic. Moving to Akron in 1913, Doctor Tuholske has since attended a general practice, but largely his work is gynecology and diseases of the chest. For three years he acted as medical inspector of the public schools of Akron, and in that capacity instituted the Open Air schools. He is secretary of the staff of the Peoples Hospital and a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Tuholske is affiliated with Akron Lodge, No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Henry. Perkins Lodge, No. 611, Free and Accepted Masons ; Washington Chapter, No. 25, Royal Arch HISTORY OF OHIO - 349 Masons; Akron Council, No. 80, Royal and Select Masters, and the Rosemont Country Club, golf being his favorite recreation. He is past president and has been representative to the Grand Lodge from Akron Lodge, No. 719, of the Independent Order B 'nai B 'rith. He is also active in the Akron Hebrew Congregation, Temple Israel, and all Jewish welfare work. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Doctor Tuholske married at. Wheeling, West Virginia, Hulda Schwalb, who was born and reared at Wheeling, daughter of Louis and Mary Schwalb, the latter now deceased. The father, who is living retired at Akron, was for many years in the wholesale liquor business at Wheeling. Mrs. Tuholske is prominent in both social and musical circles at Akron. They have one son, Robert Julius Tuholske. JOHN HUNTER SELBY, M. D. The constantly expanding horizons of the medical profession offer such a broad field for humanitarian service that a large proportion of the members of this honored calling are devoting themselves to a single branch of their science. One of the most important and interesting in this connection is that department which has to do with X-ray, one of the greatest discoveries of ail times. A leading radiologist of Akron is Dr. John Hunter Selby, an expert specialist in his line, who possesses not only the trained ability but the finest equipped laboratory in the city and one of the finest in the State of Ohio. Doctor Selby was born February 27, 1878, at Columbia, South Carolina, and is a son of Julian Augustus and Alice Elizabeth (Peers) Selby. His father, who was a newspaper correspondent during the stirring days of the war between the states, was a native of Columbia, where he later published the Carolinian and the Phoenix, and for many years was state printer. He was also prominent in politics. He died in 1907, aged 'seventy-eight years, while Mrs. Selby, who was a native of New York City, passed away when seventy-seven years of age. After attending public and private schools and the Columbia High School, John Hunter Selby spent one and one-half years in the engineering department of the University of South Carolina. He then became a traveling salesman, his territory including South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, and in 1903 he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia. In the following year he enrolled as a student in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1907 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and at that time took an interneship in Lackawanna Hospital, Buffalo, New York, where he practiced surgery. He then served a general interneship at the Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and engaged in. general practice at Warrenton, Virginia, for two years, following which he took special post-graduate work and X-ray at the University of Pennsylvania and Snook Roentgen Laboratory, Philadelphia. From the latter he was called to Mayo 's Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; was assistant for three months, and then for three years was chief of the X-ray laboratories of this famous clinic. He resigned to take further postgraduate work in his favorite specialty at Vienna, Berlin, Munich, London and Paris. Upon his return, in August, 1913, he engaged in X-ray practice at Washington, D. C., and continued thus engaged until July, 1917, when he was commissioned a captain in the Medical Department, United States Army, in charge of the X-ray laboratories, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., and some time afterward was promoted to major. In. September,. 1919, he was transferred to the Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California, and in November, 1920, to the surgeon general's office, Washington, D. C., where he resigned his commission. On January. 1, 1921, he located at Akron, and became associated with Dr. George Ward Rockwell, B. S., Ph. D., M. D., in practice, specializing in X-ray work, this partnership continuing until June 10, 1921, when Doctor Rockwell retired from Roentgenology. A connection with Dr. Arthur Henry Stall was formed later, under the firm name of Drs. Selby & Stall. This partnership terminated in July, 1923, since which time Doctor Selby has practiced alone, occupying offices and laboratories at 310 to 315 Second National Bank Building, where he has, as noted, one of the finest sets of equipment for his specialty to be found in the state. Doctor Selby’s hobbies are horticulture and postage stamp collecting. He belongs to the Akron City Club; the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery of the York Rite Masonry, and is a member of Islam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, San Francisco. In the line of his calling he belongs to the Summit County Medical Society, Sixth Ohio District Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Society, Virginia Medical Society, District of Columbia Medical Society, Mississippi Valley Medical Society, American Medical Association, American Medical Society of Vienna, American Roentgen Ray Society, New York Roentgen Ray Society and the. American Radiological Society. Doctor Selby married Miss Delia Towles Slaughter, of The. Plains, Virginia, and they have three children: Catharine Foster, Mary Mercer and John Hunter, Jr. The family belongs to the Church of Our Savior, Episcopal, of Philadelphia. JOHN SCHUBACH is one of the technical graduates of Ohio State University School of Agriculture, where the practical experience gained on his father's farm and in the trade of cheese making was reinforced by theoretical and practiced courses in dairying. For twenty years since leaving the university Mr. Schubach has been a prominent factor in the growth and development of one of the largest milk distributing concerns in Northern Ohio, the Sanitary Milk Company of Canton, of which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Schubach was born in Jefferson Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, January 30, 1877. His parents, Joseph and Mary (Welty) Schubach, were born in Switzerland. Joseph Schubach as a youth served an apprenticeship at the trades of cooper and cheese maker, and at the age of twenty-two came to the United States. He followed his trade as a cheese maker for a number of years, and later settled on -a farm in Tuscarawas County, where he lived until his death, May 11, 1899. He and his wife were active members of the Reformed Church. John Schubach grew up on the home farm, was educated in public schools, in the Normal School at New Philadelphia, and as a boy learned cheese making from his father. He worked as a farmer until he was twenty-two years of age, when he entered Ohio State University, in the dairying department, and took the full scientific course of two years, graduating in 1903. As a young man of demonstrated technical qualifications he came to Canton, in September, 1903, to act as superintendent of the Sanitary Milk Company, a business that had been established in 1901. At that time its distributing facilities were limited to five milk wagons and one ice cream wagon. Since then the business has steadily grown until it requires a score or more of delivery vehicles. The business was reorganized in 1912, at which time Mr. Schubach b3- came the chief stockholder and was made secretary, treasurer and general manager. He is also director of the Supreme Dairy Company of Alliance, and is president of the B. L. Romar Manufacturing Company. He is a director of the Canton Bank and Trust Com-