350 - HISTORY OF OHIO pany, and has also accepted some important responsibilities in the civic affairs of his community. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, is a member of the Canton Young Men's Christian Association, is a Mason, Knight of Pythias and an Elk. He served as a member of the first board of park commissioners of Canton, and is a member of the First Reformed Church. Mr. Schubach married Miss Pearl M. Catcott. She was also born in Tuscarawas County, daughter of James Catcott. Their children are: Hellen, born in 1904; Catherine, born in 1905; Joseph, born in 1910; John Robert, born in 1913; and Stella, born in 1915. WILLIAM ALVAH PARKS, M. D. The greater part of the fifteen years of his professional work at Akron Doctor Parks has devoted to industrial practice as surgeon to the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. His skill in surgery has been frequently recognized, and his reputation is by no means confined to the immediate locality of Akron. Doctor Parks was born at Minonk, Illinois, September 4, 1881, son of Homer P. and Anna Margaret (Mammen) Parks and grandson of William Alvah Parks, who came from his native State of New York and was a pioneer settler in Woodford County, Illinois. Homer P. Parks was a farmer for many years, and subsequently was engaged in the agricultural implement business until he retired. William Alvah Parks attended public schools in Illinois, graduating from high school in 1902, and for three years was a student in Oberlin College in Ohio. He then entered the University of Chicago, taking the Bachelor of Science degree in 1906 and continuing his work in the medical department of that university, Rush Medical College, where he graduated in 1909. He is an Alpha Kappa Kappa. After graduating in medicine, Doctor Parks accepted an opportunity to come to Akron, where he served two years as an interne in the Akron City Hospital. He then engaged in general practice, being a partner of Dr. J. W.. Rabbe, who was surgeon of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. Since the death of Doctor Rabbe in December, 1915, Doctor Parks has carried the duties of surgeon for this great industry. Since 1917 his practice has been confined to general surgery. He is a member of the surgical staff of the City Hospital. Doctor Parks is a member of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of the United States, and a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the City Club, Portage Country Club and University Club. His favorite diversions are playing golf and hunting. Fraternally he is affiliated with Adoniram Lodge, No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter, No. 15, Royal Arch Ma- sons; Akron Council, No. 80; Akron Commandery, No. 25, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the First Baptist Church and a democrat in politics. Doctor Parks married, September 15, 1914, Miss Mary Alice Sell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sell. Mr. Sell is a retired resident of Akron. Doctor and Mrs.' Parks have three children: William Alvah, Jr., James W. and Edwin Don. JOSEPH NEWTON WELLER, M. D . A professional man of Akron since 1902, Doctor Weller carried the heavy burden of general practice a number of years. More recently his time has been devoted to his hospital duties and practice limited to internal medicine. He was born in Greenfield, Ohio, November 5, 1877. Both parents were born in Ohio, and his paternal grandfather, Peter Weller, was a. native of Pennsylvania and his maternal grandfather, John Grim, was born in Ohio. Charles I. Weller, father of Doctor Weller, spent his life as a farmer, and died in July, 1914, aged sixty-nine, while his wife, Mary E. Grim, died April 4, 1916, aged sixty-eight. Doctor Weller while a boy on the farm attended country schools, and finished his - education in liberal arts at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1898. From Ohio Wesleyan he entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1901. He served an internship in the Jefferson Medical College Hospital and the Philadelphia General Hospital, and then, in 1902, located at Akron. His work continued in the field of a general practice of medicine and surgery for twenty years, but is now confined to internal medicine. He is a member of the staff of the City Hospital and the People's Hospital. During the. World war Doctor Weller performed the duties of chest examinations with the District Medical Examining Board for Summit, Portage and Medina counties. In 1916 he was honored with the office of president of the Summit County Medical Society. He also belongs to the Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Weller, is a member of the Portage Country Club, the Celsus Club, the Masonic Club, is 'affiliated with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the First Congregational Church. On October 15, 1902, he married Miss Metta Dague, of Akron, daughter of W. Carman Dague, who was an early merchant at Akron and died in 1904, at the age of fifty-four. Mrs. Weller is active in church and club circles. They have one son, Joseph C., who graduated in 1924 from the Akron High School. JOSEPH LEO MCEVITT, M. D. An American medical officer who had nearly a year of active service in the military hospitals at various points on the fighting front in France, Doctor McEvitt after his return from abroad has engaged in general practice at Akron. His work has become largely specialized in the line of gynecology and obstetrics. Doctor McEvitt was born at South Manchester, Connecticut, March 18, 1889, son of Joseph J. and Mary (Murphy) McEvitt. His father died in 1912, at the age of sixty-one, but his mother is still living. Joseph Leo McEvitt was reared at South Manchester, finished his high school education there, and took his literary and medical courses in Yale University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912, and in 1914 graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Yale Medical Department. He was a Phi Sigma Rho. From 1914 to 1916 he served as a surgical interne in Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1916-17 he was resident surgeon at the Manhattan Maternity Hospital and Dispensary and was appointed adjunct attending obstetrician in the same hospital; also in charge of pre-natal clinic. He is a member of Summit County Medical Society, the Ohio and New York State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. At the same time and in addition to these duties he was building up a private practice in obstetrics and gynecology. Then came the call to military duty, and he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps in October, 1917. He went to France early in 1918 with Bellevue Hospital Unit No. 1, and overseas was transferred to American Red Cross Hospital No. 106 at Pte. Ste. Mayence. May 28, 1918, he was transferred to American Red Cross Unit No. 111 at Compiegne, was next transferred to American Red Cross Unit No. 107 under the command of Major Gaullijac of the French Army Medical Corps at Beauvais. On July 11 he was put with French Evacuation Hospital No. 42 under the command of HISTORY OF OHIO - 351 Colonel Gattilier, Doctor McEvitt having charge of the operating team from this date until the end. of the war. On August 6th he was put with French Evacuation Hospital No. 31 at Chantilly, but subsequently returned to French Hospital No. 107 at Beauvais, remaining there during the British-French offensive of September, 1918. Following the armistice Doctor McEvitt did duty in the Paris-United States Military Hospital No. 3, and did not receive his honorable discharge from the army until June, 1919. Since then he has been engaged in a general medical and surgery practice at Akron. He is assistant obstetrician in charge of the pre-natal clinic in the City Hospital. He is affiliated with the Elks and Knights of Columbus, is a member of the Fairlawn Country Club and Yale Club, New York City, and his favorite sports are golf, trap shooting and big game hunting. Doctor McEvitt married in March, 1917, at Montclair, New Jersey, Miss Olive Hedenberg, daughter of John Edgar Hedenberg, in the insurance business at Akron. Doctor and Mrs. McEvitt have one son, Joseph Lawrence. EDWIN WILLIS BREYFOGLE, M. D. One of Akron's competent medical practitioners, Doctor Breyfogle is a native of Kansas, but has spent practically all his life in Ohio, and has been a resident of Akron since he left military service during the World war. He was born at Olathe, Kansas, October 23, 1885, son of Ernest Chase and Ella (Jones) Breyfogle, who are living retired at Akron. His father was born at Columbus, Ohio, and his mother near Mount Sterling, Ohio and after their marriage they lived on a farm in Madison County for a time, then moved to Johnson County, Kansas, but after some experience with farming there, returned to Ohio and farmed in Madison, Pickaway and Fayette counties until removing to Akron. Doctor Breyfogle acquired most of his early education in the public schools at Mount Sterling, finishing his high school work there. He subsequently entered the Ohio Starling Medical College of Columbus, graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1909, had special training in Saint Francis Hospital, and was then engaged in general practice at Chillicothe, Ohio, until 1918. He entered the army as a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, October 14, 1918, and until December 23, 1918, was on duty at Camp Greenleaf. On February 1, 1919, he established his office in Akron, where he has busied himself with a fine general practice. He is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Breyfogle is a republican in politics and a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. His favorite sport is hunting big game. He is a member of the University Club and Adoniram Lodge No. 517 of the Masonic order. Doctor Breyfogle has one son, Ernest Edwin. DANIEL FRANCIS MATHIAS, M. D. A brief period of general medical practice, and then Doctor Mathias accepted the call to the colors as a medical officer, and for two years he had a strenuous experience—a token of which is the British Military Cross—in France and Belgium. For the past five years he has been winning a high degree of esteem at Akron as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Mathias, like several other well known professional men of Akron, is a native of Iowa, born at Audubon, December 24, 1892. His father, Daniel Webster Mathias, who was born and reared at Findlay, Ohio, was with an Ohio regiment through the Civil war, and then went west to IllinoiIowad from there to fowa, becoming a pioneer in the new Town of Audubon, where he was in the hotel business for a number of years. He finally retired and lived at Biloxi, Mississippi, until his death in 1912, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife was Emma Reif, who was born in Basle, Switzerland, and came to this country when a young woman. Doctor Mathias, the youngest in a family of five children, attended the public school of Audubon, Iowa, the high school at Biloxi, Mississippi, and attended the University of Chicago in 1911, being a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity there. He pursued his medical course in Tulane University of Louisiana, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1915. He is a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. Following his graduation he had some experience in the Natchez Charity Hospital, and then engaged in private practice in his native Iowa town. While there just before America entered the World war he accepted a commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. Upon being called into actual service he was sent to Washington, and then went overseas to join the Royal Army Medical Corps. For a time he was stationed at the Australian base, Sutton Veny, England, and in the Christmas season of 1917 went to France. He was with the First-Second West Lanks Field Ambulance, and later transferred to the First-Seventh Kings Liverpool Battalion, serving with that organization more than a year. He was wounded and gassed in the fighting in the Bethune Ypres LaBasse sector, and was sent back to General Hospital No. 2 at Le Havre, and when fit for duty was assigned work in General Hospital No. 2 in the ear, nose and throat section. In January, 1919, he received promotion to the rank of captain in the United States Army Medical Corps, and he left France May 28, 1919. The British Army Military Cross was presented him for his service in the fighting on March 9, 1918. Doctor Mathias for a brief time returned to Audubon, Iowa, and then, following special work in the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and the Knapp Eye Hospital at New York located in Akron in August, 1919, and since then has performed the work of an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. He is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He belongs to Summit Post No. 19 of the American Legion, is affiliated with Mount Akra Lodge of Masons, and is a democrat and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in September, 1919, at Biloxi, Mississippi, Miss Maude Genevieve Joullian.. Her father, E. C. Joullian, is proprietor of the E. C. Joullian Canning Company, Lake Shore, Mississippi, the oldest firm on the Gulf Coast engaged in packing oysters and shrimps. GEORGE F. YOUNG, whose death occurred at Zanesville, Muskingum County, on the 9th of May 1920, was a man whose ability and well directed efforts gained to him a large measure of success in connection with industrial affairs of importance, and while he was in the most significant sense the architect of his own fortunes, he will be best remembered for the sterling traits of character that marked him as a man of benignant influence and fine spirit of personal stewardship. Mr. Young was prominently concerned in the upbuilding of one of the important industrial enterprises of Zanesville, where he was president of the Roseville Pottery Company at the time of his death. George Frank Young was born at Lower Salem, Washington County, Ohio, February 24, 1863, and thus was fifty-seven years of age at the time of his death. He was a son of Theobald Young, who was born and reared in Germany and who came to the United States in 1850. He was a blacksmith by trade, and as such 352 - HISTORY OF OHIO established himself in business at Lower Salem, Ohio, in which state he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. That the subject of this memoir profited fully by the advantages of the public schools was demonstrated in the success that attended his youthful service as a teacher in the rural schools. In 1884 he established his residence at Zanesville, and after here holding for six ears the position of manager of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, he affiliated himself with the Roseville Pottery Company at Roseville, Muskingum County. This company was incorporated January 4, 1892, in which year he became its secretary, treasurer and general manager. Operations were confined to the manufacturing plant at Roseville. until 1898, when a factory was established also at Zanesville, the county seat. In the manufacturing of high-grade art pottery the two plants were continued in operation until 1911, when the entire business was consolidated in the Zanesville plant, which has been improved from .time to time and been kept up to the highest standard in general equipment and facilities. When Mr. Young identified himself with the Roseville Pottery Company he acquired only a small block of its stock, and of the success which he achieved in this connection it is sufficient to say that he was president of the company at the time of his death, and all of the company stock was held by him and other members of his family, his widow having continued as president of the company since his death. The Roseville Pottery Company maintains an office in New York City, and has sales agencies throughout the United States and the Canadian provinces. In the modern plant at Zanesville is retained a corps of 200 employes, a large number of whom are highly skilled artisans. The products of the Roseville Pottery represents the highest type of artistic pottery, and have given to the concern a reputation that is a great commercial asset. Mr. Young organized at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh High Voltage Insulation. Company, and of this corporation he was president several years. George F. Young was a man who placed high estimate upon civic loyalty and personal stewardship, and was deeply appreciative of the objective responsibilities imposed by individual success. Thus he was most liberal and public-spirited as a citizen, even as he was vital and progressive as a business man. He was a zealous member of the Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church in Zanesville, as is also his widow, and in the Masonic fraternity he completed affiliations with the various York and Scottish Rite bodies, in the latter connection having received the thirty-second degree. Though he had no desire for public office, he was well fortified in his convictions concerning economic and governmental policies, and gave unstinted allegiance to the republican party. Mr. Young wedded Miss Anna M. Twiggs, of Lower Salem, Washington County, and, as before noted, she has been president of the Roseville Pottery Company since the death of her husband, who is survived also by two children. Leota F. is the wife of F. S. Clement, sales manager of the Roseville Pottery Company, and they have one daughter, Georgianna E. Russell Twiggs Young, only son of the honored subject of this memoir, was born at Zanesville, on the 10th of May, 1890, and early became associated with the business of the Roseville Pottery Company, of which he is now the vice president and general manager. He married Miss Mary Pauline Frame, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, and they have two children, Nancy Myrle and Mary Pauline. HON. FRANK E. WHITTEMORE in the course of twenty-five years of active practice as a member of the Akron bar has represented a varied and important clientage, and has also rendered important public service as a member of both Houses of the Legislature and on the City Council. Mr. Whittemore was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, March 6, 1870, son of Nathaniel G. and Adelaide (White) Whittemore. His father was born in Massachusetts, in 1837, son of Jonathan Whittemore. One of the Whittemore family was in the Revolutionary war. Adelaide White was a native of New Hampshire, daughter of Stephen White, and of a family that furnished an officer to the American cause in the War for Independence. Nathaniel G. Whittemore for many years was connected with the Whittman & Barnes Company, manufacturers 'of steel implements and tools. When that business was moved to Akron in 1877 he came along and established his home here. He died at Akron in 1909, and his wife, in 1907. Frank E. Whittemore was seven years old when brought to Akron, was educated in the local public schools, graduating from high school in 1887, and in 1892 graduated from Denison University with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He studied law at Akron with the firm of Marvin, Sadler and Atterholt, was admitted to the bar in October, 1894, and has been continuously in practice since that year. He was in partnership with H. E. Andress, and later with C. T. Grant, and is now a member of the firm of Whittemore and Motz. He has represented a number of business firms, is treasurer of the Burt Manufacturing Company, the Burt Building Company, and a director in the Akron Grocery Company. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. In 1910 he was elected to represent Summit County in the Seventy-ninth General Assembly of 1911-12, and in 1914 was again elected, serving in the Eighty-first Assembly of 1915-16 as speaker pro tern. He was elected president pro tern and floor leader. In 1918 he was elected a member of the Senate for the term 1919-20. He was reelected in 1920 for the term 1921-22, and again elected president pro tem and floor leader. He was a member of the Akron City Council from 1912 to 1915. In the Legislature he was joint author of the Parett-Whittemore state tax law. Mr. Whittemore is a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with Akron Cornmandery No. 25 of the Knight Templar Masons, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and is a member of the University Club. His first wife was Anna G. Clark, daughter of George B. Clark, former treasurer of the Akron Grocery Company. She died in 1908, leaving two children, Marian Esther, who died in 1916, and Robert Clark. In 1911 Mr. Whittemore married Miss Anna Quinby, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. LLOYD EUGENE JUDD has been in the newspaper service continuously since leaving college, and is one of the well known Ohio editors. For the past four years he has been editor of the Press at Akron. Mr. Judd was born at Coshocton, Ohio, May 12, 1893, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor Judd, of Coshocton. He was reared in his native city, graduating from the high school in 1911. In 1912 he took the post of city editor of the Coshocton Morning Tribune, and in 1916 went to Columbus, where he was city editor of the Columbus Daily Monitor, and during the legislative session of 1918 acted as correspondent for the Scripps-McRae League of Ohio newspapers. He served as correspondent for the same group of newspapers with the Eighty-third Division at Camp Sherman. Mr. Judd in 1918 became city editor of the Columbus Citizen, HISTORY OF OHIO - 353 and on May 1, 1920, took up his present duties as editor of the Akron Press. Mr. Judd is a member of the Akron City Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Silver. Lake Country Club, the Akron Art Institute and is affiliated with the Alpha Phi Gamma and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, October 10, 1914, Miss Nelle Lucile Hay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gibson Hay, of Coshocton. AMOS IVES ROOT was a man of a remarkably distinct and noble individuality, and this individuality found divers mediums for effective expression within the course of his long and worthy life, which was marked by splendid achievement and guided and governed by high ideals. The versatility of his genius was shown in the service he rendered as an inventor, writer, manufacturer, publisher, philanthropist, reformer, moralist, agriculturist and constructive thinker, the while his Christian stewardship was exemplified in human sympathy and helpfulness. Amos Ives Root was born December 9, 1839, in a log house that stood about two miles north of the present manufacturing plant of the A. I. Root Company at Medina, judicial center of Medina County, Ohio. He was a son of Samuel H. and Louisa (Hart) Root, both natives of New England and of English ancestry. A child of frail physical powers, the subject of this memoir was the object of the solicitous watchfulness and devotion on the part of his parents, and as he grew older his strength increased and his taste for mechanics and gardening became manifest. Among his early hobbies were poultry, windmills, clocks, .elec- tricity, chemistry and other mediums of study and experimentation. He had little inclination for participation in the general work of the farm, but took special delight in gardening. One of the home assignments which he disliked was that of churning, and to relieve himself of this monotonous occupation he brought to bear his mechanical talent and skill by constructing a mindmill and providing an attachment that effectively did the churning of the family butter. So great became his enthusiasm in connection • with chemistry and electricity that, at the age of eighteen years, he set forth on a lecturing tour, with a fully equipped electrical apparatus of his own construction. He thus early showed his power for getting aside from the beaten track, and was looked upon as somewhat "peculiar." In spite of difficulties and discouragements Mr. Root, both literally and figuratively, electrified his audiences in his youthful lecturing tour, his experiments before the public having met with compliments or measurable ridicule, according to the results which he gained. About this time he engaged Samuel Bates as an assistant, and in one of their journeys from one town to another it became necessary for them, as they thought, to ford a stream. Young Root declared that the water was .too deep, and insisted that the fording of the stream be not undertaken. His companion, who owned the horse and buggy which they were using, insisted that he would drive through the stream alone. Under these conditions Root consented to accompany his companion. The horse became entangled and sunk, and young Bates, unable to swim, sacrificed his life. Mr. Root, who had learned to swim, barely succeeded in reaching the shore, and called for help in the rescuing of his companion, but the attempt was too late. While his tours in thus advancing science among the people did not enrich Mr. Root in a financial way, he gained incidentally a knowledge of human nature that was to prove of enduring value to him. His courage and self-reliance were distinctly shown when he applied for the position of teacher of a country school in which unruly elder boys had previously ousted teacher after teacher, these boys having boasted that they could lick and put out any teacher." When Mr. Root, a young man of slight physique, applied for the post of teacher in this incorrigible school, the directors accepted him, though skeptical of his success. Everything went well for a time, but finally some of the big boys resumed their tactics of disturbance, one of the largest of the boys having overpowered Mr. Root and called upon his companions to aid in putting the teacher out. His temper aroused, Mr. Root, with an almost superhuman effort, flung his burly opponent over, placed his foot upon him and demanded that he lie still or suffer the consequences. The other boys also consented to obey, and the one who had attacked the teacher later became one of the best and most appreciative pupils of the school. The next hobby taken up by Mr. Root was that of clock work and jewelry. He paid $25 for a two weeks' course of instruction, and after earning sufficient money to justify the procedure he opened a modest business establishment in the lines mentioned. Shortly afterward, in September, 1861, he married Miss Susan Hall, and in later years he attributed much of his success to the effective aid and advice of his devoted wife. An enthusiast in his work and imbued with indefatigable energy and ambition, Mr. Root made his business venture a distinctive success and he continued his activities until he made the firm of A. I. Root & Company one of the largest concerns engaged in the manufacturing of semi-silver jewelry in the entire United States. From $200 to $500 in silver coin was weekly manufactured into chains and rings, and in the factory twelve or more employes were retained. In 1865 a swarm of bees passed over the 'business place of Mr. Root, and this seemingly trivial incident changed the course of his entire life. He made inquiries concerning the habits of bees, and, in a semi-joking way, he offered one of his workmen a silver dollar for this swarm of bees. To his astonishment this employe soon returned with the swarm of bees in a rough box, and it was in this connection that Mr. Root initiated his close study of bees and their culture.. He gradually expanded his operations as an apiarist, and in 1869 he began the manufacturing of a better type of beekeepers' supplies, the superiority of his products eventually creating a wide demand for the same. His first factory in this connection was the three-story brick building which had been the headquarters of his jewelry manufacturing enterprise at Medina. Foot-power was at first used in the operating of the buzz saw for the sawing out of parts, and on the roof of the building was subsequently erected a windmill to serve as a source of power. The success of the new industry was of cumulative order and the enterprise eventually became one of broad scope and importance. In 1878 Mr. Root sold his factory building in the business center of Medina and erected a brick structure, 40 by 100 feet in dimensions and two stories in height, with basement, near the Medina Railroad station. Five years later he found it necessary to double the capacity of the factory, and with the passing years expansion and growth continued until at the present time the Root plant at Medina stands as the world's largest manufactory of beekeepers' supplies. For twenty-five years the business was conducted under the title of A. I. Root, and in November, 1894, the A. I. Root Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $100,000. Mr. Root became president of the company, his eldest son, E. R., the vice president, and J. T. Calvery, his son-in-law was made secretary and treasurer. Later another son, H. H. Root, became general manager. Mr. Root, though remaining the nominal president of the company and acting continuously in an advisory capacity, lived virtually retired from active business during the last twenty-five years of his life, his winters in the meantime hav- 354 - HISTORY OF OHIO ing been passed in Florida, where he found pleasure in the growing of fruits and vegetables. The A. I. Root Company grew from a swarm of bees to the largest bee-supply manufactory in the world. Its founder was not only Medina 's leading citizen for many years, but was also known all over the world for his success in his chosen line of industrial enterprise. As a writer he possessed ability much above the average. He was the author of a work known as the "A B C of Bee Culture" the first edition having been published in 1877. In 1873 he founded the Gleanings in Bee Culture, and this became the largest and most widely circulated apicultural journal in the world. The A. I. Root Company not only manufactures all kinds of beekeepers' supplies and accessories, but has also continuously maintained a fine apiary department, in which is produced an ever bettering strain of Italian bees and queens. As a result of the increasing demand for the products of this great Medina concern the company has established three subsidiaries: The A. I. Root Company of California, the A. I. Root Company of Iowa, and the A. I. Root Company of Texas. Mr. Root always took lively interest and active part in movements tending to human betterment. He was for several years president of the Medina Board of Education, and for many years he was an official member of the First Congregational Church of Medina, and most widely circulated agricultural journal in the practical exemplification of human helpfulness along charitable' and philanthropic lines, his services having been broad and beneficent and having included loyal work in behalf of reform movements, notably that of the Anti-Saloon League, of which he was one of the seven original organizers. For half a century Mr. Root was a leader in the temperance movement, and he lived to see the fruition of his earnest desire and cherished dream, that of national prohibition of the liquor traffic. Mr. Root returned from his winter home, at Bradetown, Florida, in the closing days of April, 1923, and en route he contracted a cold that developed into pneumonia and resulted in his death on the 30th of that month, after he had celebrated the eighty-third anniversary. of his birth. His loved and devoted wife passed to the life eternal in November, 1921, and this was the supreme loss and bereavement that came to this noble citizen of worthy thoughts and worthy deeds, the companionship of the two having covered a period of more than sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Root are survived by all of their five children: Ernest R.; Maude, the wife of J. T. Calvert; Constance, the wife of A. L. Boyden; Carrie Belle, the wife of L. W. Boyden, and Hubert H. The character and the life work of the late Amos I. Root were the positive expression of a strong, loyal and noble nature, and in every relation of life his influence was for good, so that its angle continues to widen in beneficence and helpfulness now that he has passed from the stage of his mortal endeavors, and his memory will be revered by all who came within the sphere of his kindly influence. HIRAM PAUL HUGUS ROBINSON, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Medina, judicial center of Medina County, is distinctly one of the popular, successful and representative physicians and surgeons of this county.   Doctor Robinson claims the old Keystone State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at East Brady, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, on the 30th of March, 1872. He is a son of Dr. Robert and Luella (Barbour) Robinson, the former of whom Was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio. Dr. Robert Robinson was a scion in the tenth generation of. the Robinson family in America, and each generation had a representative bearing the personal name of Robert. The lineage traces back to staunch Irish origin, and the original spelling of the name was Robertson. The Robinson family was founded in Pennsylvania at an early period in the history of that commonwealth. The father of Mrs. Luella (Barbour) Robinson was born in France, and was long a leading citizen of Perrysburg, Ohio, where his daughter Luella was born. It is a matter of record that Mr. Barbour built the old turnpike road connecting the cities of Cleveland and Toledo. Dr. Robert Robinson was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he later received from Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1866 he engaged in the practice of medicine at Dayton, Ohio, but in 1870 he returned to Pennsylvania, in which state he continued in the successful practice of his profession for many years, the closing period of his life, however, having been passed at Medina, Ohio, where his death occurred in 1915, his widow being now (1923) a resident of Akron, New York. Besides Doctor Robinson of this sketch Doctor Robert Robinson is survived also by one daughter. Dr. Hiram P. H. Robinson gained his early education in the public schools of his native town, and received also excellent academic and normal training prior to initiating preparation for the profession that had been signally dignified and honored by the scrvices of his father. In 1895 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he continued to be engaged in active general practice at Lorain, Ohio, until 1908, when he removed to Medina, the city which has since been the central stage of his able professional activities. The Doctor is a member of the Medina County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is president of the Citizens Savings & Loan Company at Medina, is a director of the Garden City Craft Company, is a valued member of the local Board of Education, his political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias. After the nation became involved in the World war Doctor Robinson volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he was commissioned a captain, and his service was principally at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. He had previously made a military record by his service as a member of Company D, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish-American war. The Doctor is an appreciative and popular member of the American Legion. The year 1899 recorded the marriage of Doctor Robinson and Miss Effa Jean Creig, who likewise was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and the three children of this union are Ruth E., Doris H. (Mrs. F. M. Greenwood) and Alice R. ALLEN E. YOUNG, the efficient and popular postmaster in the City of Medina, was reared and educated in this city, though he was born at Niles, Trumbull County, on the 19th of March, 1873. His parents, Nelson and Helen (Brown) Young, were born and reared at Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, the Young family having been established in that county in the early pioneer days. Nelson Young was one of the gallant young men who represented Ohio as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He was a member of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in later years he was actively HISTORY OF OHIO - 355 affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, the closing period of his life having been passed in the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio, where he died in 1922. His widow is now a resident of Medina, and two Of the four children likewise survive the father. Allen E. Young received the advantages of the public schools of Medina, and at the age of twenty-one years he enlisted in the Eighth United States Infantry, his service in the Regular Army having continued until 1902, when he received his honorable discharge and returned to Medina. Here he was employed in the plant of the Medina Bending Works until 1910, when he was elected sheriff of Medina County. After two years of effective administration in this office he resumed his connection with the Medina Bending Works, with which he continued his alliance until 1921. He thereafter gave one year of service as deputy United States marshal for the district of Northern Ohio, and in October, 1922, he was appointed acting postmaster of Medina his regular commission as postmaster having been received in the following December and his administration since that time having met with unequivocal popular. commendation. Mr. Young is a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter he has repre- sented his lodge in the Ohio Grand Lodge. He has made hi. own way in life, and has so ordered his course as to commend himself at all times to the confidence and respect of his fellow men. The year 1910 marked the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Winifred Beech, of Sharon Center, Ohio. They have no children. ROY GILBERT STRONG, M. D., has been established in the successful general practice of his profession at Medina, judicial center and metropolis of Medina County, since 1909, and has gained rank among the representative physicians and surgeons of this county. Doctor Strong is a scion of a family early founded in the State of New York, five brothers of the Strong family having come from England and settled in the old Empire State in an early day. Doctor Strong was born at Victor, Ontario County, New York, September 12, 1878, and is a son of Sheldon Milton and Elizabeth (Porter). Strong, both natives of Monroe County, New York, and the latter a daughter of Gilbert Porter. Mrs. Emily (Cleveland) Strong, paternal grandmother of Doctor Strong, was a grandniece of Moses Cleveland, the founder of the City of Cleveland, Ohio. Sheldon M. Strong became a successful farmer in his native state, and later was engaged in the general mercantile business. The closing years of his life were passed in the City of Buffalo, where his widow still maintains her home. The subject of this review is the elder of the two surviving children, the other being Dr. Earl S., who is a successful dentist engaged in practice in the City of Buffalo. In the public schools of his native town Dr. Roy G. Strong continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and in 1897 he was graduated from the New York State Normal School at Genesee. In 1901 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was favored in his eight years of association in practice with Dr. Walter D. Green, who was health commissioner of Buffalo at the time this alliance was formed. In 1909, as previously noted, Doctor .Strong established himself in practice at Medina, Ohio, and here his unqualified success attests not only his professional ability but also his high place in popular confidence and esteem. He took in 1910-.11 a post-graduate course in the medical department of the University of Buffalo, where he gave his attention to study of the diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has since specialized to an appreciable degree. He is a valued member of the Medina County Medical Society and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical. Society. In June, 1917, shortly after the nation became involved in the World war, Doctor Strong volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and was commissioned a captain in the same. In the following December he was called into active service, was sent to San Antonio, Texas, for preliminary training, and in March, 1918, he went overseas and was assigned to duty in connection with the British aviation service, in which he continued, in England, until the armistice brought the war to a close. He was 'mustered out at Garden City, Long Island, New York, December 20, 1918, and after receiving his honorable discharge lie resumed his professional work at Medina. He is an appreciative member of the American Legion, is a Knight Templar Mason, besides having received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the time-honored fraternity and being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a past master of Medina Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Doctor Strong is a stalwart republican in politics, has served two terms as coroner of 'Medina County, is an active member of the local Kiwanis Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church. In 1904 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Strong and Miss Lillian Maytham, and the one child of this union is. Irwin Sheldon Strong. Mrs. Strong is a daughter of Capt. Edward C. and Mary (Moss) Maytham, the former of. whom was born at Medina, Ohio, and the latter in Canada. Captain Maytham and his brother Thomas were for many years owners of the business conducted at Buffalo, New York, under the title of the Maytham Towing & Wrecking Company, and after selling his interest in this business Captain Maytham returned to Medina, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in 1921 and his wife having preceded him to the life eternal by several years. The Captain was a son of John M. Maytham, who was born in England, and who came from Massachusetts and numbered himself among the pioneers of Medina County, Ohio, where his original dwelling was a log house and where he continued to reside until his death, he having reclaimed and developed a productive farm in this county. WILLIAM J. UEBELHART has supplied much of the creative energy and wisdom characterizing the conduct of one of the most successful real estate firms in the City of Canton, the William J. Uebelhart Real Estate Company, of which he is president. Mr. Uebelhart was born at Canton, June 2, 1878. He was educated in the grammar and high schools, and as a youth worker for several years in the plant of the Diebold Safe & Lock Company at Canton, acquiring considerable skill in the trade of safe maker. When he left that business he began selling real estate as a salesman for the Zettler firm, but in 1913 engaged in business for himself, soon afterward establishing the William J. Uebelhart Real Estate Company. This company has laid out and developed some of Canton's best residential districts, including the Lincoln Heights, West Manor, Orchard Acres and the Maples. Mr. Uebelhart is a former president of. the Canton Real Estate. Board. He belongs to the Shrine Club, the Kiwanis Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish 356 - HISTORY OF OHIO Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Baptist Church. He married Miss Elizabeth Young, and they have two children, James and Malcolm. JACK H. WEAVER. In connection with engineering firms and contractors and also through individual practice Jack H. Weaver had a long and thorough experience in civil engineering, an experience which he has utilized to the benefit of Summit County since his election as county engineer and surveyor. When Mr. Weaver became county engineer and surveyor Summit County had just thirty-six miles of improved highway; since then and under the supervision of his office this mileage of improved roads has been increased to more than eighty. He has been the engineer handling several difficult projects in public works. He completed the big viaduct over the Cuyahoga River, connecting Akron with North Hill, an engineering and construction project costing $2,000,000. He also was the engineer who built the viaduct over the Ohio Canal, connecting Akron and Kenmore. The feature of this project that presented the greatest engineering problem was the great depth of the muck which had to be penetrated in order to get a solid foundation for the superstructure. In this Mr. Weaver used pre-cast concrete piling, which was driven through the muck for a distance of 102 feet. Mr. Weaver was born at Mineral City, Ohio, July 25, 1885. His grandfather, Nathaniel Dustin Weaver, a descendant of Nathaniel. Dustin, was born in Ohio in 1821, and spent most of his life as a farmer at Malvern in Stark County, where he died in 1893. He was a Union soldier in the Civil war. John Weaver, father of the county engineer, was born in Ohio, August 12, 1847, was reared in Stark County, was married in Mineral City, and shortly afterwards moved to Malvern. He was a cabinet maker by trade. In 1889 he established the family home at Akron, where he continued to work at his trade until his death in October, 1915. He was a republican in politics, and an active supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife was Sarah E. Winger, born in Ohio in 1852. The oldest of their five children was Belle, who died in childhood. The second child is Dr. Charlotte Winger Weaver, a graduate of Akron University and an osteopathic physician, a graduate of Kirksville, and now practicing medicine in Akron under her maiden name. She is the widow of the late Walter Wingerter, a rubber manufacturer of Akron. Jack H., the third child, is the only son. Estella M. is the wife of William W. Martin, auditor for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron. Mrs. Adeline C. Jones lives in Cleveland, her husband being a traffic manager. Jack H. Weaver was reared in Akron, attending the public schools and graduating from high school in 1902. Then followed a four years' apprenticeship as an architect in the Akron offices of Bunts & Bliss, and he also had architectural training under a Cleveland architect, Mr. Ulrich. He put his training as an architect and engineer to use first, as an employe of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, and was with that great Akron industry in several departments, eventually being promoted to Assistant superintendent. He resigned in 1915 to enter the service of J. A. Gehres, civil engineer of. Akron, and from the second month was chief engineer under Mr. Gehres. He retired from this association in 1918 to ,open. an office and engage in individual practice as a civil engineer and surveyor. From his private practice he was called by popular vote to the office of county surveyor and engineer in November, 1920. His official term began January 5, 1921, and. in November, 1922, he was reelected, his present term expiring in September, 1925. His offices and headquarters are in the courthouse of Akron. Mr. Weaver is a republican, and was elected on that ticket, though his evident qualifications for the post prevailed over his party affiliation. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Akron, and is affiliated with Akron Lodge No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Akron Aerie No. 555, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Akron Lodge No. 64, Loyal Order of Moose, Security Camp Modern Woodmen of America, and is also a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the East Akron Board of Trade, the Akron Automobile Club, the Akron Athletic Club, the Akron French River Fishing Club, and the Portage Fish and Game Association. Mr. Weaver 's city home is at 958 West Exchange Street and he also has a summer residence, Overlook Villa, at State Mills in Summit County. Among other real, estate owned by him is a farm of some valuable land on the Hudson Road. He married at Akron, December 24, 1915, Mrs. Clara (Stegmeier) Wilson, daughter of John J. and Amelia Stegmeier, now deceased. Her father was a painter, decorator and contractor at Tonawanda, New York. By her first marriage Mrs. Weaver has a daughter, Margaret, wife of Roy W. English, an efficiency engineer living at Cleveland. SAMUEL F. ZILIOX is the president of the Commercial Printing & Lithographing Company of Akron, one of the largest establishments of its kind in Ohio, with all the facilities of printing and lithographing. Mr. Ziliox has spent most of his life in the printing and publishing business. He was born at Millville, in Butler County, Ohio, in 1864, and grew up and received his early educational advantages in the City of Hamilton. When he was fifteen years of age he went to work in the printing office of Jacob H. Long. A few years later, after a short period of time at Urbana, Ohio, he returned to Hamilton and later became manager of the Hamilton Democrat. He served in that post until 1889, then spent a short time with the St. Louis Chronicle, then with the Laning Printing Company at Norwalk, Ohio, and in February, 1891, came to Akron, where for several years he was the foreman of the typesetting department of the Akron Printing & Publishing Company. In 1896 Mr. Ziliox with others established the Commercial Printing Company, and in 1899 the company was incorporated. In 1916 a lithographing department was added, and the corporate name changed. Mr. Ziliox has been prominent in other organizations outside his own business. He served as president of the Akron Chamber of Commerce during one of the most constructive periods of its history. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Akron City Club, and has been active in other civic organizations. He married, in 1904, Mrs. Kathryn R. Aydelotte, of Haimilton, Ohio. They are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. EDWARD OTIS HANDY is another of the progressive citizens who have played influential parts in further. ing civic and material development in the fine industrial city of Akron, and who is known as one of the liberal business men of the younger generation in this city. Mr. Handy is here president of the Akron Development Company, and also of the Eaton-HandyHarpham Company, which is one of the prominent real estate, insurance and loan corporations in Summit County. HISTORY OF OHIO - 357 Mr. Handy was born in the City of Cleveland, Ohio, March 19, 1894, and is a son of Edward A. and Amy (Littlefield) Handy, both natives of the State of Massachusetts, where the former was born at Barnstable and the latter at Milton, her home being now maintained at Barnstable, that state. Her husband died in 1906, when he was fifty-five years of age: Edward A. Handy gained high reputation through his achievement as a skilled civil engineer, and besides having been the builder of the Mexican National Railroad he became general manager of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, now constituting a part of the great New York Central Railway system. In Massachusetts, Edward Otis Handy completed a preparatory course in Milton Academy,and his higher education was acquired in historic old Harvard University, where also he became affiliated with the Degamma Club, the Iroquois Club and the D. K. E., and the Institute in 1770, and was also a member of the university football and hockey squads. Upon initiating his active business career Mr. Handy became associated with the John Dunlap Company, engaged in the sheet-steel enamel manufacturing business at Carnegie, Pennsylvania. He remained with this concern six months, and then, in 1913, he came. to Akron, Ohio, nad allied himself with the Firestone Rubber Company, with which he continued up to the time he turned his attention to real estate operations, in connection with the development of the fine residential district known as Firestone Park. In 1920 Mr. Handy became one of the incorporators of the Eaton-Handy-Harpham Company, of which he now holds the office of president. This company figure as agents for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and the United Cigar Stores Company, besides conducting a general real estate brokerage business. This company developed the Fairlawn Heights residential district of the Akron metropolitan area, and incidentally brought into being the fine grounds of the Fairlawn Heights Golf Club. He is also president of the Akron Development Company. Mr. Handy is a director of the Portage Country Club, and also a member of the Board of Governors of the Akron District Golf Association, and also has membership in the City and the University clubs of Akron, and the Canterbury Golf Club of Cleveland. In their home city of Akron he and his wife are active communicants of St. Paul's Church, Protestant Episcopal, and Mrs. Handy was one of the members of the original Board of Directors of the Woman's City Club of Akron. On the 2d of February, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Handy and Miss Alice C. 'Saalfield, of Akron, a daughter of Arthur J. and Adah Louise (Sutton) Saalfield. Mr. Saalfield was president of the Saalfield Publishing Company of Akron, at the time of his death, and his widow still resides in this city. Mrs. Saalfield has gained fame as a writer, and is the author of many volumes that have gained wide circulation and high favor, especially her books for children. Among the more important of her published works are those bearing the following titles : "Drummond Year Book"; "Mr. Bunny, His Book"; "Seeds of April's Sowing"; " Sweeter .Still Than This"; " Teddy Bears"; "Baby 'Dear"; "Little Maid in Toyland"; "Peter Rabbit and His Pa"; "Billy Possum"; "Blossom Babies"; "Cycle of Gems"; "Mushrooms Fairies." Mrs. Saalfield is a member of the Authors' League of America, and of the Alumni Association of New York Normal College. Mrs. Handy is a popular figure in the social and cultural life of Akron, has here served as president of the St. Cecelia Musical Club, and is now a member of the Board of Directors of the Akron City Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Handy have two children : John Robert and Sally Louise. GEORGE W. CROUSE. This name, borne by father and son, has had conspicuous associations in Akron for over six decades. The elder Crouse for half a century was known for his prominence in local and state politics, as a soldier, manufacturer and banker, while the son has for a number of years enjoyed an honorable record for. participation in business and community affairs. George W. Crouse, Sr., died January 5, 1912, and some measure of what his life meant to the community was expressedin the following editorial in the Beacon-Jornal: " The world is full of people who work and strive and accomplish. Most of them remain to the end unknown workers in the ranks. Side. by side, they struggle on together, all cheerful, earnest, efficient workers for a common cause, pleased when their cause succeeds and more than pleased when one of their number is sufficiently successful to rise from the ranks to a place where his identity becomes known. One of the few who achieved such success was George W. Crouse, but' in all of his useful life he never. sought to get out of the ranks of the workers or to forget that he was once one of the army of the unknown. He gave a life-time, almost, to the up-building of his beloved Akron, and in his passing all Akron bows its head in sorrow. He was an example. that has helped . many a young man, unknown to him, but who, seeing and feeling the influence of his personality, has been encouraged to continue the good fight until some of that success that always crowns persistent effort has rewarded him. His death is not only a distinct loss to the city, but a personal bereavement for thousands of friends, whose grief will be second only to that of the members of the immediate family." George W. Crouse was the grandson of a soldier of the American Revolution, and his parents, George and Margaret H. (Robison) Crouse, were pioneers in Summit County. George W. Crouse was born at the old homestead in that county, November 23, 1832. His early life was spent on a farm, and beginning at the age of sixteen he taught five terms of winter school. In 1855 he was appointed deputy treasurer of Summit County, and during the next four years performed the duties of that position and also those of deputy county auditor. In 1858 he was elected county auditor and reelected in 1860, but before the end of his second term he resigned to fill an unexpired term of county treasurer. In the meantime, in addition to his duties of a county official, he was made local representative for the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, which had been built as far as Akron. In 1863 he became local financial manager of C. Aultman & Company, and supervised the erection of a branch factory at Akron. When in 1865 the business was reorganized as Ault-Man, Miller & Company, Mr. Crouse became a stockholder, and for a number of years served as secretary and treasurer and finally as president of that great manufacturing corporation. George W. Crouse and Colonel George T. Perkins were the only two among a number of Akron citizens supporting the establishment of the first rubber factory at Akron who remained with the business through its days of struggle, and Mr. Crouse from 1870 until his death was a stockholder and director in' what became the B. F. Goodrich Company. In 1870 he also helped organize the Bank of Akron, serving as its president until its consolidation with the Second National. In 1890 he was elected president of the City National Bank, and served until 1903, when the bank was succeeded by the National City Bank. At one time he also owned the Akron Beacon. During the early years of the Civil war Mr. Crouse 358 - HISTORY OF OHIO was engaged in his duties' as county official, but in 1864 he became a private in Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-fourh Regiment of Ohio Infantry, serving until honorably discharged. After the war he beeame the only third degree member of the Commandery of Ohio, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and was also prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1872 he was elected and served three years as a member of the Board of County Commissioners. He was also a member of the city council of Akron and its president, was member and president of the Akron Board of Education, and in 1885 was elected to the Ohio State Senate. He gave many important services to the republican party, and was one of the leaders of the state republican organization for many years. He was an intimate friend of William McKinley, and that friendship continued through McKinley's term of governor and while he was in the White House as president. Mr. Crouse in 1886 was elected a member of Congress, and was in Congress at the same time with Mr. McKinley. For a number of years he was a trustee Of Buehtel College, and gave that college Crouse gymnasium. He was a vestryman of the Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic and Elk fraternities. He married, October 18, 1859, Martha, K. Parsons, of Portage County. George W. Crouse, Jr., only son of the late George W. Crouse, was born in Akron, September 7, 1877. He was liberally educated, attending public schools, . Buchtel College and Yale University. His business experience has been continuous since 1897. For a time he was connected with the B. F. Goodrich Company, the Aultman-Miller Company and the Thomas Phillips Company, but in 1906 he engaged in the manufacture of sewer pipe. From that year dates the organization and incorporation of the Crouse Clay Products Company, of which he is president. He is also a director of the First Trust and Savings Bank and has a number of other business interests. Mr. Crouse served as president of the Akron Chamber of Commerce in 1916 and 1917, and during the war was chairman of the Summit County War Work Council. He is a member of the City, University and Portage Country Clubs, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. On November 14, 1900, he married Miss, Elizabeth Alden, daughter of Isaac C. Alden, who for many years was connected with the Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Company at Akron, and died in 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Crouse have one son, George W., III. CHARLES BEEBE RAYMOND, vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the B. F. Goodrich Company and the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, has given a third of a century of his life and efforts to the promotion and upbuilding of those industrial interests with which the name Goodrich is so closely intertwined. His grandfather, William G. Raymond, was born in Western Massaellsetts, in Berkshire County, October 4, 1811, learned the machinist's trade, and settled in Akron in 1834, just ninety years ago. He was employed in carving and spinning machine work, but in 1838 he and his brother John, under the firm name of Raymond & Company, were active in other worthy enterprises, including hotel management, the' operation of a woolen factory and a dry goods store. William G. Raymond died April 9, 1870. His first wife, whom he married may 16, 1840, was Eliza A. Williams, daughter of Barnabas Williams. Their son, William B. Raymond, made his life important in Akron through his relations with banking and finance, although he died when a comparatively young man. He was born in Akron, April 5, 1841, and died June 10, 1888. He was founder and treasurer of the Citizen's Savings & Loan Association until his death. He married Helen Beebe, daughter of Joseph and Caroline (Wadsworth) Beebe. Joseph Beebe, a native of Connecticut, was a pioneer citizen of Akron. The mother, who was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1819, was a descendant of the Sam Wadsworth family, from which the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was descended. The son of William B. and Helen Raymond, Charles Beebe Raymond, was born at Akron, Ohio, February 12, 1866, and he was liberally educated, graduating with the Bachelor of Surgery degree from Amherst College in 1888, and his first important business responsibility was that of secretary of the Akron Woolen and Silk Company, but in 1891 he went with the Goodrich Hard Rubber Company and in 1898 they formed a consolidation of that with the American Hard Rubber Company. He became manager of the Akron plant of the American Hard Rubber Company. In April, 1905, he was made assistant secretary of the B. F. Goodrich Company, in 1906 became its secretary, was chosen a director, was made vice president, and since 1921 has been vice chairman of the Board of Directors of both the B. F. Goodrich Company and the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. He is also a director of the First Trust & Savings Bank. Besides his contribution to the development of one of Akron's largest industries, Mr. Raymond for years has devoted his influence to a number of the institutions and enterprises that give Akron its prestige among American cities. He and C. C. Goodrich organized the Portage Country Club in 1905. He was honored with the offiee of president in 1912, and_from 1905 to 1924 was a member of the Board of Directors. He belongs to the Ohio Society of New York, the Akron City Club, the University Club, the Amherst Club of New York City, and for twelve years was vice president of the Alumni Council of Amherst College, his activities in behalf of that great institu- tion of learning being recognized in 1918 when the college conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In his home city he acted as a member of the Board of Trustees of Buehtel College, now Akron University, which also conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. Since 1912 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Kenyon College, and in 1924 was a member of the Centennial Committee handling the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of that old Episcopal College in the. Middle West. Mr. Raymond was the first president of the Akron Red Cross, but had to resign on account of the need of his presence in Washington as representative of the Goodrich company, which performed a long list of essential service to the Government during the World war. It was the Goodrich plant that made the first gas mask taken to France for use by the American Expeditionary Forces, and they also manufactured balloons- and other war materials. Mr. Raymond is president of the Board of Trustees of the Akron Young Men's Christian Association, is former president of the Children's Hospital, and for twelve years was a director and president of the Akron City Hospital. He was the first president, serving from 1908 to 1910, of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Cham- ber during his presidency sponsored the movement for building a city water system, which has become recognized as a model public utility. Mr. Raymond since 1909 has been junior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and his favorite form of recreation is golf. For several yeari after graduating from Amherst he was president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and during that time the fraternity house was built. Mr. Raymond married, May 23, 1890, Miss Mary Perkins, daughter of Col. George T. Perkins, whose career is briefly given in the following sketch. Three HISTORY OF OHIO - 359 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond. Mary Perkins married William H. Yule, lives in California and has four sons, named William, George Charles and Douglas. George Perkins Raymond left Yale University to enter the World war, was a lieutenant of artillery at the Presidio at San Francisco, and acted as aid to General Green, the commanding officer of the American forees in the Philippines and the far East. He is now in a musical career in New York City, and is married and has two children, named Mary Perkins Raymond and George P. Raymond. The third child is Charles Goodrich Raymond, a student in Harvard University. COL. GEORGE T. PERKINS. The cornerstone of the industrial activity that has made Akron "the Rubber City of America," was the pioneer plant brought here from the East by Doctor Goodrich on the favorable recommendation of Col. George T. Perkins to the Akron Board of Trade. That was more than half a century ago. Colonel Perkins was closely associated with the infant industry during its critical years, and eventually succeeded Doctor Goodrich as president. On nearly every page of Akron's early and later history stands some reference to members of the Perkins family. The grandfather of George T. Perkins was Gen. Simon Perkins, who owned extensive property interests in several Ohio localities. At his death in 1844, his son, Col. Simon Perkins, chose as his share the Akron property, his home having been in that town since 1835. Col. Simon Perkins married Grace I. Tod, a sister of Governor Tod, and she was the mother of George T. Perkins, who was born at Akron, May 5;1836. George T. Perkins was educated in Akron schools and Marietta College, but before graduating entered business life, being connected with the Briar Hill Iron Company of Youngstown until the outbreak of the Civil war. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry for three months, and in August, 1861, reenlisted, becoming major of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Infantry. He made a wonderful war record, participating in such engagements as the battles at Perryville, Kentucky; Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge Kenesaw Mountain, the siege of Atlanta and the march with Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea. July 16, 1863, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and to colonel on February 18, 1864, and was mustered out with his regiment at Washington on June 3, 1865. The men of his regiment all loved ,him, and after the war he was elected president of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment Association, serving in that capacity many years. He attended all its annual reunions, and in later years frequently paid the expenses of his comrades who could not afford to go to the reunions, at times even furnishing a private car for their transportation. After the war Colonel Perkins was a clerk of Taplan, Rice & Company, later became the cashier at the Bank of Akron, and was president after its consolidation with the Second National Bank in 1888. There were many Akron industries that benefited from his participation and influence, but his name is especially identified with the Goodrich organization. He and George W. Crouse were the only two of the original thirteen citizens who helped finance the company to remain faithful through the period of difficulties, and upon the incorporation of the B. F. Goodrich Company, in 1880, he was elected as treasurer and held that office until the death of Doctor Goodrich on August 3, 1888, when he was elected president. He continued as president until he resigned in favor of B. G. Work in 1907, after that remaining chairman of the Board of Directors until a short time before his death, which occurred in September, 1910. After the death of Doctor Goodrich he had purchased all the crude rubber and was known as a very conservative, reliable and successful buyer. In public spirited generosity in behalf of his community none surpassed him among the citizens of Akron. He spent large sums for charity, was a large subscriber toward the starting of the Akron City Hospital, and he built in 1891 what is now known as the Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital, named for his first grandchild, Mary Raymond (now Mrs. W. H. Yule). He married, October 6, 1865, Miss Mary F. Rawson. Three children were born, but two died in childhood, the one surviving child being Mary (now Mrs. C. B. Raymond). Mrs. Perkins in 1911 equipped in pursuance of the wishes of her husband before his death the Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. Colonel Perkins had also erected and given to the Young Women's Christian Association "Grace House," named in honor of his mother. He also gave Perkins Park to the City of Akron. MARK R. HAMBLETON. Some of the big and important things in business and also in citizenship in Canton during the last decade have been credited to Mark R. Hambleton, president of the Mark Hambleton Company, real estate and insurance. Mr. Hambleton is a native of Ohio, born May 24, 1879, on a farm, and when he was nine years of age his parents moved to Columbus. He grew up in the capital city, attended grammar schools there, and after completing a business course started life for himself at the age of eighteen. His self-reliance. initiative and industry have carried him far along the road of success. On coming to Canton he opened a furniture and fixture store, and for five years was a local merchant. He then embarked his experience and modest capital in the real estate business, subsequently developing an important agency for fire, life and casualty insurance. In recent years he has done a very extensive business as a broker handling real estate and insurance, and has also done some important development work in giving Canton more adequate accommodations for home building sites. He was president of the Canton Real Estate Board and president of the Canton Housing Commission, and was responsible for the development and marketing of Colonial Heights, Woodland Park, West Park Terrace and Inglewood Heights. At the present time he has under development what is known as the Joseph D. Miller subdivision and Industrial Heights. Mr. Hambleton is first vice president of the Title & Mortgage Company of Canton, and chairman of its executive committee. From 1916 to 1919 he was a director of the Canton Chamber of Commerce and during the World war was a member of the executive committee, handling the sale of the Liberty Bonds. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish. Rite Mason, is a member of Al Koran Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Noble of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland; member of the Royal Order Jester 's Court No. 14, is past president of the Canton Shriners Club and is delegate to the Imperial Council, 1924. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a past director of the Rotary Club, a member of the Congress Lake and Canton Shrine Club, the Masonic Club, and belongs to the First Methodist Church. On November 11, 1900, he married Miss Della Steinbaugh, a native of Ohio. To this union have been born the following children: Nelle Doris, a graduate of the Margaret Morrison School (Carnegie Tech) for Girls; Donald, attending the Canton High School; W. Paul, who is a student of the Canton grade school; Ray Warren and Virginia Francis, the babies of the family. 360 - HISTORY OF OHIO HURL JACOB ALBRECHT, who served with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of field artillery in the World. war, and has long been prominent in National Guard circles, is one of the younger representatives of a family that for three generations has been identified with the grocery business in Ohio. His grandfather, Frederick Albrecht, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 18, 1818, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Engle) Albrecht. He came to America in 1838, at the age of twenty, being a shoemaker by trade. From New Orleans, his place of landing, he came north by the river and canals, reaching Mas- sillon, Ohio, in the spring of 1839. lie was employed at his trade, and a few years later opened a shoe shop and retail grocery,. his brother Michael having charge of the grocery business for six years. Thus the name Albrecht has been continually associated with the grocery business in Ohio for over eighty years. Frederick Albrecht was in the shoe and grocery business until he retired in 1875. He married in 1847 Elizabeth Daum, who was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1828, daughter of. John Daum. The Daum family came from Germany in 1841. Frederick Al brecht died at Massillon June 29, 1887. His son is Fred William Albrecht, long one of Akron's foremost business men, president of the Fred W. Albrecht Company, owning and operating the extensive chain of Acme Cash Basket Stores, and is also president of the Albrecht Barber Supply and Drug Company. Fred 'William Albrecht was born at Massillon, April 3, 1861, attended public schools' and as a boy learned the grocery business in his father's store. In 1884 he bought out the business, but in 1891 moved to Akron and established his first store near Buchtel College. He was one of the pioneers in perfecting the idea of a chain system of merchandising through a number of stores under a single management. In 1900 he began the chain store idea, and there are today more than five score. of the Acme Cash Basket Stores, owned by the Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Company. These stores are in all the towns joining Akron and as far away as Warren and Canton. Fred W. Albrecht has also been identified with the Central Savings and Trust Company and various business enterprises in the Akron district. He is a member of the Rotary, Akron City and Congress Lake clubs, Chamber of Commerce, Retail Merchants Association, Trinity Lutheran Church, and has given much time to civic affairs. He married Mary E. Buehl, who was born at Akron, April 1, 1862. Her father, Rev. P. J. Buehl, was founder and first pastor of the German Lutheran Church on High Street in Akron, and subsequently founded and for twenty-seven years was pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Massillon. Hurl Jacob Albrecht, oldest of the four children of Fred W. Albrecht, was born at Massillon, February 10, 1886, but has lived since childhood in Akron. His early education was supplied by the public schools. When he was fourteen years of age he began working in his father 's stores, and before the war he had reached the position of general manager of the retail stores under the Acme system, then numbering about thirty. In 1915 he enlisted as a private in Battery B of the First Field Artillery of the Ohio National Guard. During the same year he was elected captain, and in 1916 he went to the Mexican border as captain of Battery B. When the World war came on and he was mustered into Federal service he was at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, Camp Perry and Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of artillery with the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Field Artillery. He was in training with that organization at Montgomery, Alabama, attended the Artillery School of Fire' at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and from Camp Sheridan at Montgomery, Alabama, went with his organizations to Hoboken, where he became liaison officer of the Thirty-seventh Division and the Port of Embarkation. Following the departure of his division he sailed for France as a casual, joining his command at Camp de Souze, near Bordeaux. He remained overseas more than ten months, returning to the United. States in May, 1919, and on resigning his commission resumed his active connections with the grocery business at Akron. When the Fred W. Albrecht Company was incorporated in 1920 he became its vice president and general manager. The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Company has both a wholesale and retail business, including the ownership and operation of the ninety-two Aeme Cash Basket Stores. He is also a director of the Hudson National Bank. Colonel Albrecht has a prominent part in social and civic affairs at Akron, being chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Akron City Club, a member Of the Lions Club, Portage Country Club, Congress Lake Country Club, and Trinity Lutheran Church. Riding and golf are his chief recreations. He is .past post commander of Summit Post No. 19 of the American Legion, and is one of the executive committee. Colonel Albrecht married, in September, 1910, Miss Jessie Anderson, whose father, Judge G. M. Anderson, is senior partner in the Akron law firm of Anderson, Ormsby and Kennedy. Colonel and Mrs. Albrecht have two children, Julia Elizabeth and Barbara Jane.' BEN W. ROLUB. A resident of Akron since childhood, Ben W. Holub was in the midst of his studies in preparation for the bar when the time came for him to join the colors. A period of service overseas, and some further contact with books and studies, then he was admitted and took up the law practice which makes him one of the busiest young professional men in the city. Ben W. Holub was born in Ekatarinoslav, Ukraine, Russia, December 19, 1892. In 1897 his parents, Harry and Mary Holub, came to this country and settled at Akron, where his father for many yeb,rs was engaged in the furniture business, becoming manager of the Max Holub Furniture Company, but is now retired. Ben W. Holub acquired all his education in America, attending the grammar and high schools of Akron, the Detroit College of Law, the Cleveland Law College and Baldwin-Wallace University of Berea, Ohio. In April, 1918, he began his career as a soldier with the Three Hundred and Fifteenth Infantry, Seventy-ninth Division, in training at Camp Meade, Maryland. He was promoted to corporal, and had nine months overseas with the Seventy-ninth Division. He was wounded in the service and received his honorable discharge in 1919. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree June 16, 1921, and for the past three years has been engaged in a general law practice. His offices are in the Second National Bank Building. Mr. Holub is a working member of the republican party, is chairman of the Akron Civil Service Commission, was one of the organizers and has been vice president of the Akron Young Men's Hebrew Association, is vice president of the Jewish Social Service Federation, a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations, and is affiliated with Loyalty Lodge No. 645, Free and Accepted Masons, and Akron Lodge No. 719, Independent Order B B'rith, of which he is vice president. On his return from the army he married, at Akron, in June, 1919, Miss Rebecca Silverman, daughter of Charles and Rachel Silverman, of Akron, her father being a retired business man. Mrs. Holub is a member HISTORY OF OHIO - 361 of the Jewish Council of Women and Jewish Social Service Federation. They have one son, Jerome Lewis. EMERSON CLYDE WOOLF is a World war veteran, and after leaving the army he returned to Akron and took up the practice of law. His offices are in the Second. National Bank Building, and he has an important general practice. He was born on a farm near Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 25, 1887, son of Howard Jerome and Martha (Diehl) Woolf. His father was a farmer near Fort Wayne, Indiana, and now lives at Berlin Center, Ohio. He is an employe of the Ohio State Highway Department. Emerson Clyde Woolf was educated in country schools, in the Fort Wayne High School, graduated with his Bachelor 's degree from Mount Union College in 1912, and while in college, was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He also took an active part in college athletics. For one year he taught in high school at Berlin Center, Ohio, and then entered the University of Michigan, graduating from the law school in 1916. After leaving law school he came to Akron as an associate in the advertising department of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. He resigned in December, 1917, to become a private in the Sixty-fourth Coast Artillery Corps, and transferred to the Officers' Training School, Coast Artillery Corps, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He was commissioned second lieutenant June 26, 1918, was assigned to duty with the Forty-sixth Coast Artillery Corps at Camp Eustis, Virginia, and with that command went to France, landing at Brest, and thenceforth trained at Libourne, and Camp Genicourt, near Bordeaux. He was also at Marseilles, and on January 31, 1919, sailed for home, receiving his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, February 21, 1919. After leaving the army he was in the branch administration department of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, and in April, 1921, took the bar examination, and in June of the same year engaged in a general law practice. He has continued in practice and without partnership. Mr. Woolf accepted a lieutenant 's commission in, the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps. At the organization of Company B of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry of the Ohio National Guard, he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and still holds that commission. He is unmarried, is a republican in politics, a member of the bar association, the Methodist Church, the Knights of Pythias, and the Alumni Association of the University. of Michigan. GILLUM H. DOOLITTLE has. been a member of the Akron bar since 1908, and his career has been characterized by the usual accomplishments and rewards of a successful lawyer, and at the same time by some distinctive services such as only a leader at the bar can perform for his community. He was born at Burton, Geauga County, Ohio, August 14, 1883, son of James Clement and Philena (Townsley) Doolittle, and grandson of James H. Doolittle, a pioneer settler in Northern Ohio, and of Daniel Townsley, who came from Massachusetts and settled in Geauga County. Gillum H. Doolittle was reared on his father's farm, attending the grammar and high schools of Burton, and then entered Adelbert College at Cleveland, where he was graduated with the Baehelor of Arts degree in 1906. His law course was taken in Western Reserve University, where he graduated in 1908, and in the same year was admitted to the Ohio bar. He has been engaged in practice at Akron since August, 1908. He has served as seeretary of the Summit County Bar Association, and is a member of the University Club, City Club, Chamber of Commerce; is a Phi Beta Kappa of Adelbert College and a member of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. He married at Akron, June 12, 1912, Miss Martha Habicht, daughter of August Habicht, of Akron. They have three children: Marloe Jane, Philene Ann and Bruce Frederick. GEORGE W. AUTEN has been a practicing attorney at Akron for over twenty years. He early became interested in land law, and much of his practice has identified him with land litigation. He is one of the prominent men in real estate circles, officially connected with a number of companies at Akron. Mr. Auten was born on a farm near Frederickton, in Knox County, Ohio, February 24, 1875. His father, Jacob Wesley Auten, was born in Knox County, and is a retired farmer. The mother, Mary Pealer Auten, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1875. George W. Auten was the youngest of three children, and was an infant when his mother died. He grew up in the country, attended district schools, taught a term or two, graduated from the Frederick-ton High School, and worked his way through Berea College in Eastern Kentucky, where he graduated iri 1897. After graduating he taught two years in Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio bar. in 1901, and since that year has been engaged in a successful law practice at Akron, specializing in real estate, mortgage and. tax law. Mr: Auten organized and is secretary-treasurer of the Pardee Chambers Company, operating a general real estate business. He also helped organize and became secretary and treasurer of the following companies that have had a successful part in real estate developments and home building in and around Akron: The Goodview Realty Company, Eastlawn Realty Company, East Park Realty Company, Nesmith Lake Heights Company, Fairlawn View Realty Company, and West View Land Improvement Company. He is secretary-treasurer of the East End Building Company, and is president of the Bona-fide Mortgage Discount Com- pany. Mr. Auten has for many years been active in the Akron Law Library Association, and has served it as president. He, is a republican, a member of the Congregational Church, belongs to the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, and in Masonry is a member of Henry Perkins Lodge, Yusef Khan Grotto 41, and Washington Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He is past chancellor commander of McPherson Lodge No. 64 of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Auten married at Akron in September, 1902, Miss Kate E. Daughterty, daughter of William E. Daughterty, a retired carpenter and builder at Akron. Mrs. Auten is an active member of church and club organizations. They have three children: Russell, Ralph and Josephine. Russell is a prominent student and athlete in Akron University. WILLIAM N. ZETTLER. Though one of the younger men in commercial affairs at Canton, William. N. Zettler has been distinguished by remarkable energy and enterprise, and in his chosen field of real estate has probably more definite achievement to his credit than any of his competitors. Mr. Zettler was born at Canton, April 10, 1886, and was educated in grammar and high schools in his native city. Soon after leaving school he began improving , his opportunities to master the real estate business, and from a beginning, with almost no capital and on a brokerage basis, he has expanded his operations to involve a large amount of capital 362 - HISTORY OF OHIO and even more credit and comprising an organization that is a feature of the industrial life of the city. Mr. Zettler is president and manager of two associated companies, one being the Zettler Realty Company and the other the Federal Bond and Mortgage Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. Through these companies Mr. Zettler has built over 450 houses in the Canton district, and has thus supplied facilities to solve the housing problem. His subdivisions improved and sold in and around Canton include the circus ground subdivision, the Fairview, the Shanefelt Heights, Broad Heights, Brownell Park, Sherlock Addition, Fairmount Park, Fulton Orchard, North High, Addmore, Biltmore and Grove-Miller Addition. Mr. Zettler began business under the name of the Zettler Realty Company in 1907, and incorporated in 1909. In 1918 he served as president of the Canton Real Estate Board. He is a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, and was state president of the Catholic Order of Foresters 1918 to 1924. In 1909 Mr. Zettler married Miss Foresters, M. Geiger. They have a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. DEAN F. MAX has practiced law in Akron for the past five years, and is a member of one of the firm May & May, attorneys in the Second National Bank Building of that city. Mr. May was born in Portage County, Ohio, March 25, 1889, son of John J. and Lucinda (Bauer) May. He acquired a grammar and high school education in Suffield, Ohio, and after work in other lines he decided upon the profession of law. In 1917-18 he was a student in Akron University, and he studied law with his brother, C. W. May, and E. E. Zesiger. Mr. May was admitted to the bar in July, 1919, and since September 1, 1919, has been a member of the law firm, May & May. He is a member of the Akron and Ohio State Bar associations, and belongs to the Chamber of Com- merce and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On September 4, 1915, he married Miss Amelia L. Stutz, of Akron. JOHN DONALD HOTCHKISS is an Ohio attorney and has practiced law at Akron for about fifteen years. He was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1887, son of Henry V. and Jessie H. (Tier) Hotchkiss. He grew up in the old and cultured community of Meadville, graduated from high school there in 1899, and spent one year in Allegheny College at Meadville. From 1900 to 1903 he was a student at Buehtel College, now Akron University, graduating with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He took his law course in the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1906, graduating Doctor of Laws. Mr. Hotchkiss was admitted to the. Ohio bar in 1908, and since then has been a practicing attorney at Akron, with offices in the Second National Bank Building. During the period of the World war, from 1917 to 1919, he was in army service, spending a number of months overseas. During 1919 he took some special work in the University of Padua, Italy. Mr. Hotehkiss is a member of the American Legion and the Delta Chi college fraternity. ALBERT MORSE WALKER, who for a number of years after his admission to the bar acted as official court stenographer of. Summit County, is a member of the Akron law firm of Benner, Harter, Walker & Watters. He was, born at Union, Connecticut, October 23, 1877, son of Milo P. and Jennie S. (Morse) Walker. He was reared in his native state, attending grammar and high schools at Stafford Springs, and in 1895 graduated from the Munson Academy at Munson, Massachusetts. He took his arts course at Amherst College, obtained his degree in 1899, and is a member of the Amherst Club Of New York City. Mr. Walker after leaving college came to Akron and studied law under Nathan Morse. He was admitted to the bar in 1906, and was admitted to practice in the United States District Court in 1908. Having special talent to qualify him for the service; he remained at his duties as official court stenographer of the county from 1906 to 1919. In the latter year he became associated with Judge Benner and Mr. Harter; and is a member of one of the leading law firms of Summit County. He is also president and treasurer of the Bailey-Walker China Company at Bedford, Ohio. Mr. Walker is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Cleveland Athletic Club, and the Theta Delta Chi college fraternity. He belongs to the Akron City Club, the Portage. Country Club, the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the County, Ohio State and American Ba;r associations. Mr. Walker married, in March, 1900, Miss Esther M. Cowles, who died in April, 1915. In Augusta 1916, he married Miss Anna Reinecke, of Akron. CHARLES C. BENNER, a former judge of the Common Pleas Court in Summit County, has with brief exceptions concentrated his time and talents upon the practice of law in Akron for over thirty years, and is head of a law firm ranking among the most successful in that city. Judge Benner was born at Manchester, in Summit County, Ohio, March 27, 1870, son of Simon and Caroline (Slaybaugh) Benner. His grandfather, Henry Benner, came from Pennsylvania to Summit County in 1825, conducted a pioneer blacksmith shop, and also cleared and developed a farm. Simon Benner was born in Summit County, January 17, 1846, and spent the greater part of his life on a farm in Norton Township, where he died August 22, 1884. His wife, Caroline Slaybaugh, was born in Summit County, July 21, 1844, daughter of Jacob Slaybaugh, and she died January 7, 1890. Charles C. Benner was fourteen when his father died. He attended district schools while on the farm, was a pupil in the high schools at Norton and Copley and studied law in Ohio Northern University and in the law offices of Baird & Voris at Akron. He passed the law examinations and was admitted to the bar in June, 1893, and subsequently was admitted to practice in the Federal Court. He gave his time and attention to an individual general practice until 1919, when he became senior member of the law firm of Benner, Harter & Walker, and this is now the firm of Benner, Harter, Walker & Watters. His first public service was . rendered as police prosecutor of Akron, from 1897 to 1901. He was safety director of Akron from 1910 to 1911, being the first appointed to that office under the new code. He had previously served as a member of the Akron Board of Safety. From 1912 to 1916 he was a member of the Civil Service Commission, and from August, 1917, to January, 1919, served as judge of the Common Pleas Court by appointment of Governor Cox. He was twice elected a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. Judge Benner is a director of the National City Bank of Akron and treasurer of the Eastland Company. He served as captain of Company B, Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, from 1893 to 1897. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, belongs to the Portage Country Club, the Akron City Club, and in HISTORY OF OHIO - 363 Masonry is past eminent commander of Akron Coramandery of the Knights Templar, is a member of Lake Erie Oonsistory of the Scottish Rite, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce since its organization. Judge Benner married, September 29, 1897, Miss Gertrude Foster, of Akron, daughter of Martin B. and Sarah (Clark) Foster. DOW W. HARTER is a member of one of Akron 's strongest legal partnerships, and has been practicing law since 1907. He was born at Akron, January 2, 1885, son of Josiah J. and Anna L. (Watters) Harter. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Akron, took the literary course in the University of Michigan during 1903-4, and from 1904 to 1907 was a student in the University of Michigan Law Department. He was graduated Bachelor of Laws and has been admitted to the Ohio and United States district courts. Mr. Harter practiced alone from 1907 to 1911, and then as a member of the firm, Harter & Ahern. Subsequently he became a member of the law firm Benner, Harter & Walker, and since January, 1921, the firm has been Benner, Harter, Walker & Watters. Mr. Harter was first assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit County from 1914 to 1916. He has been United States commissioner at Akron since his appointment by Federal Judge D. C. Westenhaven. Mr. Harter was elected on the democratic ticket and served as a member of the Ohio General Assembly during 1919-20. He is a member of the University Club, the Akron City Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the County and State Bar associations and the Lions Club. On .May 16, 1911, he married Miss Winifred M. Cole, of .Akron. G. LLOYD WEIL, present county treasurer of Summit County, has had an extensive experience in the business routine of some of Akron's best known commercial institutions, and his expert qualifications as a business man and financier weighed heavily with the voters of the county when they chose him county treasurer. Mr. Weil was born at Clinton in Summit County, December 21, 1888. His grandfather, John Weil, was a native of Germany, and spent most of his life at Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, where he died. John A. Weil, father of the county treasurer, was born at Canal Fulton, November 13, 1863, but was reared and married at Clinton in Summit County. For thirty-two years he was in the service of the Pennsylvania: Railroad as a trainman, and rose to the position of passenger conductor. He established his home at Akron in 1906, and died in that city in February, 1916. He was a democrat in polities, a member of the Methodist Church, and was affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Order of Railway Conductors. John A. Well married Matilda Daily, who was .born in Summit County, May 17, 1868, and lives at Akron. She is the mother of eight children : Miss Alva M., at home; Eldon B., who also lives with his mother and is an employe of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company; G. Lloyd.; John Milo, who was connected with. the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company when he died. at Akron at the age of thirty-one; Nettie I., of Akron, Ohio; Clyde H., deputy county treasurer of Summit County under his brother ; Effie C., wife of Roy M. Coffman, a securities salesman living at Akron; and Burdette, a student in the South High School at Akron. G. Lloyd Well was reared while the family lived at Clinton, Ohio, and acquired his grammar and high school education there. After graduating from high school in 1905 he completed a course in the Hammel Business College of Akron, and finished there in 1906. For a. short time he was a Pennsylvania Railway employe, but most of his early business training was acquired in the great rubber concerns at Akron. For four years he was in the accounting department of the Miller Rubber Company, and another four years was spent with the Branch Clearing House Department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Mr. Well was thoroughly familiar with the business routine of the county treasurer 's office, due to his service of six years as deputy county treasurer from 1915 to 1921. He resigned in 1921 as deputy to engage in securities sales, organizing the South Akron Savings Association, and has been secretary of that association from the beginning. In November, 1922, he was elected county treasurer, and took charge of his office in the courthouse at. Akron September 4, 1923. Mr. Weil is a democrat in politics, is a member of the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a citizen well known for his public spirit. He owns a home at 312 Russell Avenue in Akron. On June 24, 1910, he married Graee Robinson, daughter of John and Belle (Lewis) Robinson. Her father is a resident of Chicago, and is a master mechanic of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Weil are John Meredith, born June 17, 1914, and Betty June, born June 22, 1917. GEORGE C. SNYDER. is an attorney, has been prosecuting attorney of Delaware County, and is an ex-service man of the great war. Mr. Snyder represents substantial old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and he had ancestors on both sides who were soldiers of the Revolution. He was born in Henry County, Ohio, January 9, 1890, son of Samuel and Belle (Hines) Snyder. His paternal grandparents were Calender and Mary (Schaefer) Snyder, and his maternal grandparents, William and Hannah (Irvin) Hines. Mr. Snyder 's parents were both born in Ohio, and both are deceased. Samuel Snyder was a timber merchant in Henry County, and for about three years tried residence in the far Northwest in the State of Washington, but then returned to Ohio. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Soon after the death of his father, in 1896, George C. Snyder was placed in the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home at Springfield, Ohio, and there received his common school education. He came to Delaware in 1903, and in 1907 graduated from the Delaware High School. The two years following he engaged in teaching, one year in the graded schools and one year in high school. Mr. Snyder took his law course in Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913. He opened his office as a lawyer at Delaware the same year, and has now rounded out a decade of substantial work in his profession. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the county in 1918, serving one term. In September, 1918, he enlisted in the military service of the United States Government and was sent to Camp Humphrey, near Washington, D. C., and soon was transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Department, being commissioned captain. He received his discharge from active duty in 1919, but is still a captain in the Reserve Corps. Captain Snyder after leaving the army resumed private practice in Delaware. He has gained recognition as a very successful trial lawyer, and his services are in great demand in handling important eases before 364 - HISTORY OF OHIO the jury. His principal diversion from professional duties is hunting big game, in which he is both enthusiastic and successful. He spends -a porton of each year hunting in the Canadian forests, and has contributed numerous articles of interest on .big game hunting to the various sportsman's journals. Mr. Snyder is married and has one son, Robert G., and the family home is on South Sandusky Street, Delaware. He is a member of the Williams Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Delaware, and has filled all but the highest office in the Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, is past dictator in the. Loyal Order of Moose and a member of the Maccabees and Elks. FLOYD A. REES is numbered among the successful younger members of the Akron bar, and has achieved a reputation to rank among the abler members of the legal profession in the city. Mr. Rees was born in Minersville, Ohio, April 12, 1893, son of John E. and Lettie E. (Evans) Rees. He grew up in Meigs County, in a mining section in the southeastern part of the state, attended grade schools and graduated in 1911 from the high school at Middleport. In 1913 he entered the law department of Ohio State University of Columbus, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1916. Soon after graduating he established himself at Akron, and in addition to a general practice is treasurer of several amusement companies. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. During the World war period Mr. Rees was captain of a War Savings Stamp team and a four-minute speaker. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity. JOHN RUDOLPH GAMMETER has for many years been in charge of the experimental department of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, his title being that of process engineer. He is an all around mechanical genius, though naturally the rubber-making industry has received the greatest benefits from his technical skill. It is said that a majority of the machinery in the great Goodrieh plants has been perfected by him and his department. He was born at Akron, March 27, 1876. His father, Christian Gammeter, was a native of Switzerland. John Rudolph Gammeter had the formal advantages of public school only to the age of thirteen. As a boy he got the name .of "Tinker," from his habit of repairing every machine he could get access to. For several years after leaving school' he was employed making picture frames, repairing bicycles and assembling baby carriages, and at the age of sixteen began an apprenticeship at the plumber's trade with his brother. In February,, 1896, when he was :twenty years of age, he was given employment at ten cents an hour in the plant of the B. F. Goodrich Company. His first task was operating a wheelbarrow. In a short time from material, assembled from a junk pile, he constructed a machine for trimming rubber corks. This was his first contribution to the rubber making industry, and he was paid $1,000 for the idea involved in his crude machine. B. G. Work, president and general manager of the company, arranged that more and more of his time should be free to develop ideas of his own or of other officials of the company. At the instance of Mr. Work he devised a machine for the manufacture of inner tubes to bicycles, ,a machine that was brought to a high degree of perfection in the engineering department of the company. In 1899 he designed and built the first winding machine for making the original thread rubber golf ball, known as the Haskell patented ball, and this was the beginning of the manufacture of a typical American golf ball, supplanting the old gutta ball and revolutionizing the game. Mr. Gammeter also constructed many labor saving devices, and he was frequently sent to other eountries to install machinery that he had improved. He has been associated with the Goodrich interests at Akron almost continuously, though for a year and a half he was with the Pennsylvania Rubber Company at Erie, Pennsylvania. Soon after his return to Akron he designed the first vulcanizing wagon tire process and the modern type of tire curing heater press. For twenty years he has been in charge of the experimental department of the company. In this capacity he has proved how a body of factory trained mechanics and inventors can keep a factory ahead of its competitors, reduce manufacturing costs, cover new and profitable products, and pay their own way and a profit besides through savings and new earnings. Mr. Gammeter 's process department has not only added a great number of new and original inventions to the rubber making industry, but it has been his policy for some years where certain kinds of machinery have already been designed, to secure permisSion to rebuild such machines to suit the needs of the rubber industry. During the World war and subsequently Mr. Gam-meter has been active in the field of aeronautics. The Goodrich CoMpany was converted almost wholly into a war industry and it was Mr. Gammeter who secured Mr. Henri Joulet of France and with his aid designed and built the "J. R. G.," the first dirigible balloon to be built and accepted by the United States Navy. He has numerous patents on dirigibles, balloon equipments, in addition to about 150 patents on rubber making machinery in general. He is the designer and patentee of the Gammeter balloon valves, which are accepted as standard by the United States Navy. The great airship Shenandoah is being equipped with Gammeter gas valves. They work automatically, keeping a uniform pressure of gas in the balloon. Mr. Gammeter is a bank director, and is president of the Cuyahoga Realty Company. He is an ardent sportsman, and one of the most generous promoters of wholesome sport and recreation facilities in Ohio. He has the game rights on 3,400 acres at Hudson, Ohio, including the Western Reserve and Elsworth properties, and has a 400-acre game farm where he raises nearly 20,000 Ringneck pheasants annually. This is the largest game preserve of its kind in the United States. He also operates a goldfish farm near Portage Lake, where he raises 1,000,000 fish annually. He is a fancier of fine dogs, raising fox hounds, beagles, bird dogs and springer spaniels. Some of his time is spent hunting in Canada and Alabama, where in Macon County he is a member of the Bobwhite Club. He has the largest Mosaic the lined swimming pool in the United States, located at Summit Beach Park. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Grotto and the Shrine, belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Portage Country Club, Akron City Club, the Gruetiljfrein Society, a Swiss organization, and the. Akron Liedertofel. He is vice president .of the Akron Chapter of the American Aeronautical Association and he founded an aerial school in Silver Lake Park in 1910, operating for exhibition and experimental purposes. Mr. Gammeter married Miss Susie G. Garman, and their home is in Portage Path, the beautiful residential section of Akron. MULFORD WADE. Akron has come to know in a period of thirty years Mulford Wade in the character of a very able business man and a citizen HISTORY OF OHIO - 365 of disinterested service in behalf of many worthy causes. His own life has added something worth while to the record of an ancestry that has been in America since the first Wade came from England and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1632. His grandfather was Dr. James Wade, who was born in Massachusetts, in 1789. The brother of Dr. James Wade was Benjamin F. Wade, the great Ohio statesman who was a member of the United States Senate from 1851 to 1869, and one of the men most conspicuous in national affairs during and after the Civil war. The father of Mulford Wade was James Wade, who was born in New York State in 1824. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, in 1842, and in 1843 located at Cleveland. He read law with his uncle, Hon. Edward Wade, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1845, and was associated in practice with several distinguished men of the Ohio bar, including Edward Wade until the latter was elected to Congress. James Wade was a member of the Ohio bar more than sixty years. He died January 27, 1907. His wife was Mary G. Uhl, who was born in New York State, in 1829, and died in 1905, shortly after they had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mulford Wade finished his high school course at Cleveland, was a student in the University of Michigan several years, but his inclinations were for a business rather than a professional career. As a young man he was a clerk in the old Dime Savings Bank at Cleveland, and in 1892 became yard clerk for the Barberton Belt Line Railroad at Barberton, and was acting superintendent when he resigned from the railroad three years later. From 1895 to 1897 his experience was out on the northern frontier as superintendent of the French River Mining Company of Minnesota. His interest in mining thus begun has continued to the present time, and for many years he has been secretary of 'the French River Mining Company, the Carlton Land, Mineral & Mining Company, and the North Shore Mining Company. On returning to Ohio in 1898 he was made manager of the contract department of the Cuyahoga Telephone Company of Cleveland. For a brief time in 1901 he acted as secretary of the Cleveland Stock Exchange, following which he was with a rubber company at Barberton and was manager at Akron of Lamprecht Brothers & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, until the firm went out of business in 1909. In his modest estimate up to that time he had always been working for others, and while he had acquired some interests and investments he had not formulated a field of work where his individual character and energies. would be supreme. This field opened to him in the stock and bond brokerage and life insurance business. Since 1909 he has been district agent for the Equitable Life Insurance Society of New York, and has developed a specialty of income and inheritance tax insurance. In conjunction he operated in the brokerage business from 1903 to 1921. Mr. Wade since 1903 has been a vestryman of the Episcopal Church of our Savior, and is a member of the Men's Club of the church. He belongs to the Equitable Veterans Legion, was a charter member of the Rotary Club at Akron, and is a member of the Philosophical Club, the University Club and City Club, and the Akron Chamber of Commerce. The forms of diversion he enjoys most are billiards and bridge whist. He married at Cleveland, April 29, 1896, Miss Margaret Carse Pope, adopted daughter of E. C. Pope, a prominent iron merchant at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Wade are the parents of three children. The oldest, James Mulford Wade, born January 14, 1898, graduated in 1918 from the Mercers-burg Academy in Pennsylvania, and in 1922 received his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Kenyon College in Ohio. He is a Delta Tau Delta, and for four years was director of the Puff and Powder Dramatic Club, which made an enviable record in Ohio and adjoining states in the presentation of college shows. During his last year in Kenyon College he was president of this club. He was also quartermaster-sergeant in the Students' Army Training Corps while at Kenyon. James Mulford Wade is now in the coal operating department of Pickands Mather & Company of Cleveland. The second child of Mr. Wade is Helen Pope, who graduated in 1918 from Harcourt Place School at Gambier, Ohio, and in 1920 from the Cleveland Kindergarten College. She was married, June 25, 1921, to Rev. H. F. Hohly, rector of Christ 's Episcopal Church at Hudson, Ohio. The youngest child is Franklin Alton, born February 5, 1903, a graduate of the Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, Ohio, in 1921 and a member of the class of 1925, specializing in chemistry; in Kenyon College, where he also is a Delta Tau Delta. CHRIS WEAVER, the present sheriff of Summit County, is a valued type of citizen who has gained a reputation for force and capable direction of his own and public interests through an experience that has been intensely practical, since he has been dependent upon his own exertions from early boyhood. Mr. Weaver was born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 6, 1867, and was an infant when his mother died. His father, Adam Weaver, also deceased, was a gardener 'by trade. Chris Weaver was left on his own resources at an early age, and obtained most of his education in the intervals of employment at various lines of work. He attended school at Columbus, Ohio, and for a time was a fireman with the Pennsylvania Railroad. He left the railroad service to become a painting contractor, and he followed that business in Akron for about a quarter of a century. Mr. Weaver has been a working member of the republican party organization since early manhood. His substantial traits as a business man and citizen brought him the honor of election as sheriff of Summit County in 1922, and he has filled the office with every degree of effort and faith since January 1, 1923. During the "World war he participated in various local campaigns and visited many camps in the state, doing all he could to help the enlisted- soldiers. He is prominent in Masonry, being affiliated with Akron Lodge, Washington Chapter, Akron 'Council, Akron Commandery of the Knights Templar, served four years as steward of the Masonic Temple of Akron, is treasurer of Yusef Khan Grotto, and a member of the Hot Sands Club. He belongs to Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rites and Al Koran Temple of Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is also a member of the Elks, and satisfies his ambition as a fisherman through membership in the French River Canadian Fishing Club. He is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Weaver married Miss Julia May Verial, of Alliance, Ohio. They have one daughter and three grandchildren. The daughter, Ruth, is the wife of Clarence Crichton, of Akron. J. L. ARNOLD came to Ohio as a youth, became identified with furniture factories, and finally entered the undertaking business and for many years has been head of the firm of J. L. Arnold & Sons Company, funeral directors, at Canton. He was born in Germany, April 26, 1865, and during the first seventeen years of his life he acquired a good education in his native land and carried on his 366 - HISTORY OF OHIO studies with a view of entering business life. He was seventeen when he came to America in 1882, first locating at Cincinnati and a short time later moving to Canal Dover, where for three years he was connected with a furniture factory. For two years his home was at Zanesville, where he was also engaged in the furniture business. Mr. Arnold moved to Canton in 1888, thirty-five years ago, and engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He sold his furniture interest, retaining the undertaking business, and formed the present firm of the J. L. Arnold & Sons Company. The sons are Carl P. and Herman A. Theirs is one of the best equipped funeral houses in the country. Mr. Arnold is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is a director in many business and civic organizations. On April 6, 1887, he married Miss Flora P. Gintz, of New Philadelphia, Ohio. The following children have been born to them : Eugene J., Carl P., Herman A., Franklin X. and Hilda F. ROBERT GUINTHER began the practice of law at . Akron before the World war, was in service on the Mexican border and for a portion of the World war period, and is a member of one of the leading law firms of Summit County. He was born at Utica, Ohio, March 11, 1890, son of I. C. and Mary M. (Rexroth) Guinther. He grew up in Northwestern Ohio, graduating from the high school at Galion in 1907. He took his college work in Wooster University in Ohio, graduating Bachelor of Philosophy in 1911. From 1911 to 1913, he was a faculty officer in the Wentworth Military Academy, at Lexington, Missouri. He studied law in the University of Chicago Law School, graduating with the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1915. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in October of that year, and in January, 1916, qualified as a member of his profession in Ohio. From June, 1916, to February, 1917, he was with the Ohio Field Artillery on the Mexican border. From June 24, 1918, to January 21, 1919, he was an officer in the Coast Artillery Corps. Since the war. Mr. Guinther has practiced at Akron, and from January to, June, 1919, was assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit County. For the past five years he has been a member of the law firm of Slabaugh, Young, Seiberling, Huber and Guinther. In 1922 he served as president of the Summit County Bar Association. He is a member of the County and State Bar associations, is a Mason and Elk, a member of the University Club, and belongs to the college societies Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Alpha Delta, Delta Sigma Rho, and the Order of the Coif. WILLIAM ELMORE YOUNG, a former mayor of Akron, has been a prominent attorney of that city for over thirty years. He was born at Mount Hope, Ohio, February 3, 1863, son of Matthias M. and Catherine (King) Young. He acquired a public school education, taught school a year, and largely through his own efforts gained his higher education. Mr. Young graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1888, continued his literary education, until graduating in 1890, from the University of Michigan and in 1892 took his law degree at the University of Michigan. In later years he has served as a trustee of Ohio Northern University. He has enjoyed a large and important law practice. At one time he was secretary of the Akron Law Library Association. During the World war he was chairman of Industrial Committee No. 2 at Akron. His service as mayor of the city was rendered from 1897 to 1901, two terms. He was eleeted on the democratic ticket. Mr. Young is a member of the Akron City, Country, University and Rotary clubs, the Chamber of Commerce and the County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. June 12, 1895, he married Miss Mary Fouts of McConnellsville, Ohio. They have one daughter, Catherine E. HON. FRANK BECKWITH BURCH, a member of the Ohio State Senate, is a resident of Akron, where he has practiced law for a quarter of a century. The work he 'has done in his profession has made his name perhaps as well known in legal circles as that of any other attorney in his part of the state. Mr. Burch was born on a farm at Malone, New York, February 10, 1875, son of John and Marietta (Ketcham) Burch, New York State farmers. His mother was the granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Burch was reared at Malone, attending country schools and Franklin Academy, and was eighteen years of age when he came to Akron, in. 1893. He studied law .in the office of Jacob S. Kohler, of Akron, a former attorney-general of Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio bar and also to practice in the United States courts in 1899, and began his professional career as a member of the firm of Parsons and Burch. Later he was a member of the firm of Wilcox, Parsons, Burch and Adams, and subsequently was senior member of several other law firms. He is now head of the firm of Burch, Bacon and Denlinger, which maintains one of the largest law offices in the state. In 1904 he also organized the firm of Burch and Peters at Cincinnati, but withdrew from that firm in 1910. For a time he was also a member of a law firm at Canton. Through these firms and his individual attainments his reputation has become state wide. He is especially well known in the field of commercial law. Mr. Burch was elected a member of the State Senate of Ohio in 1922. In the Senate in addition to his routine duties he has interested himself in the formation of a state bureau of legislative research. He has attended a number of meetings with the taxing interests of the state in discussing and laying plans for such a bureau. Mr. Burch is a member of the Masonic Order, is former president of the Akron City Club, a member of the Portage Country Club, a former vice president of the Rotary Club of Akron, and former president of the Turkeyfoot • Club. He also belongs to the County and State Bar associations, and is a member of the Church of Our Savior, Protestant Episcopal, in which he is a vestryman. In 1900, early in his professional career, Mr. Burch married Miss Rose Brewster, a descendant of Elder Brewster of early New England history. They have two children: Marjorie H. and Rosemary M. Burch. WILLIAM E. SNYDER has rounded out a quarter of a century of active membership in the Akron bar. His practice has been such as to make him one of the busiest attorneys in that city. He is a native of Summit County and a member of the family that has lived in that section of Ohio for eighty-five years. His grandparents, Michael and Barbara (Weimer) Snyder, came from Alsace, France, in 1838. His father, Michael Snyder, Jr., was born in 1829, was eight years of age when brought to America, and spent his active career as a farmer in Summit County, where he died in 1893. The mother of William E. Snyder was Nancy Marsh, who was born in Summit County, in 1837, and died in 1894, her parents, George and Elizabeth (Hayne) .Marsh, coming from Pennsylvania. HISTORY OF OHIO - 367 William E. Snyder, one of the twelve children of his parents, was born on his father 's farm in Summit County, March 3, 1871, grew up there, attending the common schools, and in 1890-91 attended the Valparaiso Normal School in Indiana, and in 1891-92 was a student at Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio. He taught school portions of eight years, and in 1895 began the study of law in the office of Otis and Otis, at Akron. He was admitted to the bar in 1898, and his practice has always been a general one. For the first ten years he was associated with several other well known lawyers in successful partnership. From 1907 until July, 1923, he handled his practice alone, since which time he has been associated in partnership with his son, Marion E. Snyder. Their offices are in the Second National Bank Building. He served several years as examiner of titles under the Torrens Act, being appointed in July, 1914. He also rendered some effective service for two or three years as a member of the Akron Board of Education. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On September 5, 1894, Mr. Snyder married Miss Olive C. Kerstetter, whose parents, David and Eliza (Haring) Kerstetter, were well known farmers of Summit County. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are Margaret, Marion, Harold and Catherine. JOHN F. REES. Destiny placed John F. Rees at the age of fourteen at work as an errand boy for Everybody's Book Shop in Dayton, his home city. The business of stationery and office supplies has been his business career from that time to the present. Born at Dayton, in 1882, son of A. M. and Mary A. (Quinlan) Rees, of the same city, he grew up there and attended public, schools, but received most of his education in practical training as an employe of the shop above noted. He acquired a thorough knowledge of the stationery and office supply business, and for about ten years was a traveling salesman on the road, handling this class of merchandise. He made many trips to Columbus to call on his trade, and again and again was impressed with the commercial advantages of the city and its strategic position. For several years he had cherished the determination that Columbus should be his independent business. headquarters, and in 1921 he organized and established the John F. Rees Company, office outfitters, wholesale and retail dealers in office equipment and supplies. This firm is located on East Gay Street, not far from High Street, in the center of a high class business district. Under Mr. Rees' experience and skillful management it has become one of the successful commercial concerns of Columbus. Mr. Rees is also a director of the Columbian Building & Loan Association. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, takes an active part in civic affairs, and is affiliated with the Elks, Columbus Athletic Club and the Columbus Country Club. WILLIAM J. LAUB, who was mayor of Akron during the World war period, has been one of the able members of the bar of that city for twenty years. He was born at Cleveland, August 9, 1878, son Fred J. and Minnie (Wentz) Laub. He began his professional career with the advantage of a very liberal education. He attended grammar and high schools, Adelbert College at Cleveland, and graduated in 1903 from Western Reserve University Law School. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June, 1903, and to practice in the United States District Court in 1904. Locating in Akron, he was associated in practice with L. D. Slusser from 1903 to 1908, and since then has practiced alone. His offices are in the Second National Bank Building. His service as mayor of Akron was in the years 1915-18. From 1920 to 1922 he was city manager of Akron. Mr. Laub is a member of the County and Ohio State Bar associations. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Modern Woodmen of America. WILLIAM COLLINS SUITT is president of the Suitt Brothers Manufacturing Company of Cambridge. An industry established under its present ownership less than twenty years ago, it has become one of the important assets of the little city of Cambridge, and its output of high grade upholstered furniture is a distinctive line that has helped identify and give significance to the name Cambridge in the minds of thousands of home owners outside of this section of Southeastern Ohio. Mr. Suitt was born on a farm in Noble County, Ohio, February 22, 1869. His grandfather, Jesse Suitt, was a large land owner and a slave owner in the State of Missouri before the Civil war. Nathaniel Suitt, father of William C., was born at Palmyra, in Marion County, Missouri, but in 1867 moved to Ohio and became a farmer in Noble County. He married there Miss Ella A. Collins, and in 1884 removed to Guernsey County, where he owned and operated a dairy farm adjoining Cambridge until he retired in 1894. He died at Cambridge in 1913, aged sixty-nine, and his wife passed away in 1900, at the age of fifty-four. The oldest of five children, William Collins Suitt attended country schools while the family were living in Noble County and afterwards the public schools at Cambridge and a commercial college there. His time and energies were devoted to farming until 1902, when he became a clerk for the Cambridge Chair Company. A year later he went on the road as a traveling salesman, and in the course of a few years he built up a large acquaintance with dealers and other individuals all over the state, an acquaintance that has been a valuable asset to him in his present business. Mr. Suitt in 1905 bought out the plant of the Cambridge Chair Company, forming a. copartnership with his brother W. W. Suitt. The partnership was known as the Suitt Brothers Manufacturing Company, and in 1906 the business was incorporated. Mr. Suitt has been president and general manager from the beginning. The plant of the old chair company which he took over in 1905 had never aspired to becoming an important enterprise with products distributed outside of the immediate localty. The real growth and development of the business has occurred runder the present corporate management. The business now amounts to half a million dollars annually. The Suitt Brothers started with very modest capital, and their personal energies weighed heavily in the scale of production and sale in the early years. They have always maintained a high standard of production, and manufacture a line of chairs, rockers, davenports and other furniture that is sold all over the United States and Mexico through jobbing and large retail houses. The company 's motto is "Suitt's Line Suits." The company has a thoroughly modern and up-to-date fnefory, with machinery and equipment of the latest design, and their dry kilns are among the largest in the state. Mr. William C. Suitt is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and a worker in the Sunday school. He is a republican in politics, has taken part as a speaker in a number of campaigns and in all the war drives was a four-minute speaker. Mingling with the energy that drives his business is a high degree of public spirit that takes into consideration the welfare of the community. Mr. Suitt 's diversion is checker playing, and he is one of the 368 - HISTORY OF OHIO best known players of that game in the State of Ohio and has won trophies in many tournaments. Mr. Suitt married at Cambridge, July 25, 1905, Miss Hallie Forsythe, daughter of John Forsythe, a prominent retired farmer at Quaker City, Ohio. Mrs. Suitt is active in church work and is a singer in the choir. They have one son, Myron, now attending a military academy at Germantown, Ohio. TOM O. CROSSAN has not failed to realize in large degree the ambition of his early youth, which was to enter the legal profession, and he has gained secure vantage ground as one of the able and representative members of the bar of his native state. The colonel now maintains his home and professional headquarters in the City of Zanesville, judicial center of Muskingum County, and is junior member of the strong law firm of Meyer. & Crossan, which likewise maintains offices at New Lexington, county seat of Perry County. On a farm in Perry County, Ohio, not far distant from the Village of Fultonham, Muskingum County, Tom O. Crossan was born July 6, 1870. He is a son of David and Elizabeth (Weaver) Crossan, the former of whom was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was born in Perry County, Ohio, to which Bounty her parents came from Pennsylvania. David Crossan was a child at the time of his parents' removal to Perry County, Ohio, in 1822, and his father, Isaac Crossan, became one of the pioneer farmers of that county. David Crossan was reared on the old home farm, and received the advantages of the pioneer schools. He continued his active association with farm industry in Perry County until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he subordinated all personal interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union. He served three years, took part in many arduous campaigns and important battles. Thereafter he was long and loyally affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. His political allegiance was given to the republican party. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife were zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Crossan continued to reside on his farm in Perry County until his death, in 1892, at the age of seventy years, his wife having died in that same year, at the age of sixty-four years. Col. Tom O. Crossan has never regretted the youthful discipline which he gained in connection with the work on the home farm, but as he waxed strong in physical and mental powers he formulated definite plans for his future career, which he determined should be given to the practice of law. After having attended the public schools, including the high school at New Lexington, besides having prosecuted his studies. in Fultonham Academy, he engaged in teaching in the rural schools in. order to provide means for prosecuting his course in law school, before entering which he had already given as much time as possible to preliminary reading of law. In 1891 the colonel entered the law department of the Ohio Northern University, and in this institution he was graduated in 1896, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After his admission to the bar he became associated in practice with Hon. T. D. Binkley, of New Lexington, where the firm of Crossan & Binkley built up a substantial law business. Later Colonel Crossan continued in practice in New Lexington in an individual way, and in the meanwhile he served three terms as prosecuting attorney of his native county. He became a leader in the councils and work of the republican party in Perry County, and in 1912-19.14 was chairman of the executive committee, of his party in that county. He was one of the organizers of the Security State Bank of New Lexington, and since its merging with the Perry County Bank he has continued a stockholder in the latter institution. In 1921 Colonel Crossan formed a law partnership with Edward Randolph Meyer, of Zanesville, and the firm of Meyer & Crossan enjoys a large and representative law business in this section of the state, with offices at both Zanesville and New Lexington. Colonel Crossan, the son of a soldier, has taken especially lively interest in military affairs, and has been a leader in the service of the Ohio National Guard. He organized and became captain of Company H, Seventh Infantry, Ohio National Guard, and won promotion to the rank of major and later to that of lieutenant colonel, his advancement to the office of colonel having come in 1916, within a short time before the nation became involved in the great World war. As colonel of the Seventh Infantry he accompanied his command into the Federal service October 14, 1917, and this was the only regiment from Ohio that took a full quota of officers and men to Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama. There the regiment was assigned to the Thirty-seventh Division of the United States Army, and there Colonel Crossan continued in official service until after the armistice brought the war to a close and he received his honorable discharge. He has not since been actively identified with military affairs, though he continues to take deep interest in the Ohio National Guard, as reorganized since the close of the World war. Colonel Crossan is a member of the Exchange Club and the Golf Club of Zanesville, was one of the organizers and is a stockholder of the Gobel Oil & Gas Company, operating in the New Lexington field, and is a stockholder in the Zanesville Bank & Trust Company. In the Masonic fraternity his basic affiliation is with Muskingum Lodge No. 368, Free and Aecepted Masons, at Fultonham. He is a member of New Lexington Chapter No. 149, Royal Arch Masons, and of Scioto Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, in the City of Columbus. He is past chancellor commander of the New Lexington Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and represented the same in the Ohio Grand Lodge for six years. lie maintains affiliation also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is past exalted ruler of New Lexington Lodge No. 509, Benevolent and Proteetive Order of Elks. He is a man of thought and action, and has made a record of large and worthy achievement in his profession and as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. In April, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Crossan. and Miss Victoria Kessler, daughter of the late Frank Kessler, who was a successful mechanic and wagon manufacturer at New Lexing— ton. Colonel and Mrs. Crossan have four children: Corynne, Elizabeth, Evelyn and Carpi. The eldest daughter, Miss Corynne, has received from the Uni versity of Ohio the degree of Bachelor of Music. JOSEPH WILLIAM HOOKE in his early years was engaged in educational activities, particularly in business college work, and finally resigned his connection with the public schools of Wooster to go into business as secretary of the Peoples Savings & Loan Company, and has been largely responsible for the remarkable growth of that institution during the past twenty years. Mr. Hooke was born in Logan County, Ohio, August 6, 1868, son of Lewis J. and Luey A. (Moomaw) Hooke. His parents were Virginians by birth, and were members of the German Baptist or Dunkard faith. As such they were strongly opposed to slavery, and when the Civil war came on Lewis J. Hooke, though without any enthusiasm for the cause of the South, took his place as a soldier in the Confederate army as substitute for a friend. 'In one of the battles he was taken prisoner and exchanged. Very soon after the close of the war, in 1866, he married and came to Ohio, locating in Logan County. HISTORY OF OHIO - 369 He was a miller by trade, an occupation he followed in Virginia and also in Ohio. His home in this state was in Logan County until 1873, when he moved to Delaware County, Indiana, and bought a farm near the City of Muncie. He engaged in farming there until 1903, when he sold the farm and retired to Muncie. His wife died at the age of sixty-seven, and he passed away in his seventy-eighth year. He was a democrat in politics, and was the father of four sons and four daughters. In Indiana he helped organize the German Baptist Fire Insurance Company, and served many years as its secretary, and he was also connected with banks in Muncie. Joseph William Hooke was five years old when his family moved to Delaware County, Indiana, and he grew up on the homestead farm there. After the public schools he entered Mount Morris College at Mount Morris, Illinois, where he completed a commercial and pen art course. By natural gifts and by education he became a talented pen artist, and most of his teaching was in that line. He began teaching at the age of twenty, and was supervisor of penmanship and drawing in a number of public schools and business colleges. His first work as a teacher of penmanship and drawing was done at Bucyrus, Ohio, where he met Miss Bertha E. Morrison. They were married June 20, 1894. In September, 1902, Mr. Hooke came to Wooster, as supervisor Of penmanship and drawing in the public schools, and he also taught in the summer schools of Wooster University. After three years he resigned, and on July 1, 1905, began his duties as secretary and manager of the Peoples Savings & Loan Company. That company had been organized thirteen years, but its assets totaled only $250,000. In the last twenty years, under the able and vigorous administration of Mr. Hooke, the company has built up resources exceeding $6,500,000, and this is one of the largest loan companies in the smaller cities of Ohio. Mr. Hooke has interested himself in community affairs, being an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, is secretary of the Rotary Club, a member' of the Wooster Board of Trade, and served several years as a director. He is active in the Ohio State Savings & Loan League. He is a member of the York Rite bodies of Masonry at Wooster, being past eminent commander of Wooster Commandery of the Knights Templar, and is affiliated with Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine in that city. Mrs. Hooke died August 24, 1922. She is survived by two daughters, Delia Elizabeth and Mildred Annabelle. Delia is the wife of Raymond E. King, who is assistant secretary under Mr. Hooke in the Peoples Savings & Loan Company. FRANK CARBONE. In the musical life of Columbus one of the best known professionals for a number of years has been Frank Carbone, a celebrated cornet soloist. His chief title to distinction among Ohioans, however, rests upon his service as a fighting soldier and also as director of the famous One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry Band. He was born at Nola, Italy, in 1887, and at the age of seventeen, in 1904, came to America. For two years his home was in New York City, where he attended school. Since 1906 he has been a resident of Columbus, and as a professional musician has been connected with a number of musical organizations and events. During the World war he enlisted for service at Camp Sherman, was assigned to duty as a musician, and in that capacity organized and became the leader of the band of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry Regiment, made up almost entirely of Ohio National Guard men. Further reference to this regiment of Ohio troops is made elsewhere in this publication. The One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry was a unit in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division, and Mr. Carbone went overseas with the regiment in October, 1917, under the command of Colonel Hough. The One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry Band was not solely a musical organization in France. Its members did actual service in the front line trenches as regular combat troops on many occasions. It, therefore, shared in the glorious fighting record of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth, which probably did more actual fighting than, perhaps any other single American regiment. It arrived in France long before the great body of American troops. During the last few months of the war the band had little opportunity to perform its musical functions, its members being engaged almost entirely in the fighting trenches. Since the war Mr. Carbone has kept the band organization intact, and has made it one of the famous bands of the country. It is composed' of about forty men, mostly ex-service men, though augmented by other musicians of note. The band not only is called upon for service in all prominent local events and public functions, including parades and pageants, but has made appearances and played engagements at different places. Its very successful engagements at Lakeside, near Sandusky, during the summer season of 1923 did much to increase its popularity as a band organization. Mr. Carbone is also a member of the orchestra of Keith's Theater in Columbus. He is a member of the American Legion and an Elk. Mr. Carbone married Miss Margaret McMullen, one of Columbus' talented, young ladies. For several years he has been secretary to Prof. F. A. Ray, a prominent mining engineer of Columbus. WILLIAM THOMAS JONES has built more than eight hundred homes in twenty years in and around the City of Marion, and has been the largest real estate operator and contributor to the city's housing program and modern development of home facilities. His name is especially identified with Oakland Heights, which he has made one of the most perfect and model suburbs found around any city in Ohio. Mr. Jones was born in Delaware County, Ohio, July 11, 1871, son of Martin and Martha A. (Crawford) Jones, also natives of this state, and grandson of Thomas Jones and William T. Crawford, who was born in Pennsylvania. Martin Jones spent his active life as a farmer. William T. Jones grew up in the country, attended country schools in Delaware County, and took a commercial course in the College of Delaware. He learned telegraphy, and for several years was agent and telegraph operator for the Big Four Railway, and for a time was assistant cashier of a bank. He began writing life insurance for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1894, and a year later moved to Marion, where for twelve years he continued the life and fire insurance business and still is representative of the John Hancock Company at Marion. Mr. Jones engaged in the real estate business as a subdivider and developer in 1905. He has perfected an organization for the complete development of subdivisions, from the platting of the streets and other engineering service to providing complete modern homes for investors on the partial payment plan. The new houses built by his organization would be sufficient for a small city, and he has also erected a number of business houses and public buildings, and has recently finished the Oakland Block, 370 - HISTORY a building in the heart of the suburb, affording not only facilities for stores and offices, but an up-to-date theater. The following slogan is in common use in Marion: "See Jones for Homes. He Knows Marion." All of Mr. Jones' time and energies are devoted to building and selling homes. His favorite recreation is golf, and he is president of the Marion Country Club. He is a member of the Marion Club, is a republican, was former president and is now director of the Chamber of Commerce, served as the first president of the Marion Real Estate Board, and is a former vice president of the Ohio State Real Estate Board and 'is a member of the National Real Estate Board. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery, SCottish Rites Consistory, and Alladin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He is a past chancellor commander of Marion Lodge No. 402,- Knights of Pythias. Mr. Jones. took a prominent part in the various campaigns during the World war, and has served as a member of the Civil Service Commission of. Marion. .He belongs to the Board of Trustees of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in 1894 Miss Flora R. Rhodes, a native of Mattoon, Illinois. They have two children: Paul M. and Mildred, wife of F. M. Cleary, of Marion. W. C. BRYANT is president of the Bryant Brothers Company, decorators in fresco, an organization of the highest artistic merits and one whose clientele and patronage are by no means consigned to Columbus. The Bryants have done some of the finest mural and other interior decorative work in the Middle West. W. C. Bryant was born at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, February 24, 1864. His father, Samuel L. Bryant, was born in Somersetshire, England, and married there in 1856 Elizabeth Strickland. Their wedding journey brought them to the United States. Samuel L. Bryant is now ninety-two years of age and lives in California. When W. C. Bryant was a small boy the family moved out to Kansas, where his father became a prosperous stock man and rancher, extending his operations to a number of Western states. After finishing his schooling W. C. Bryant took up the business of interior decorator, and has devoted forty years of his life to: that occupation. His partner is Charles L. Bryant; and they established a business at Canton Ohio, but for the past ten years their headquarters have been in Columbus. They have executed commissions for interior decoration in many of the states of the Union. A branch of their business was the manufacture of art glass, and that line alone amounts to an important industry, with output distributed from coast to coast. Few people know that the very popular indirect lighting system originated with the Bryant Brothers, letters patent having been issued to W. C. Bryant for important elements in the art of reflected lighting. This line has been so expanded and developed that the American Reflex Lighting Company, with W. C. Bryant as president, has recently been incorporated, and the business has become a distinctive one with many branches in other cities. The Bryants have had many years of expert experience in interior decoration work. Their artistic taste, combined with their ability to direct and organize a corps of artists efficient, have enabled them to broaden their business to one of national importance. Their most extensive work has been designers of interiors for many of the noted cathedrals and larger churches. They have. been fortunate in combining artistic talent with financial resources to develop such an extensive business, and to it they have .given their best endeavors to the exclusion of many of those social and other interests that enlist the time of other men. However, the Bryant Brothers are members of vaPious clubs and fraternities. An unusual event worthy of note is that at Three Forks, Montana, March 28, 1912, their father, then eighty years of age, and his six sons, assisted by a son-in-law, formed a team to work the Fellowcraft degree in Masonry in the local lodge, where some of them belonged. HOWARD CHESTER ALLEN is a Fayette County citizen whose business and other associations have brought him into contact with an unusual range of men and interests. He is well known in several states, though his home practically all his life has been at Washington Court House. He was born there, May 14, 1877, and represents a long line of American ancestors, identified with Ohio in earliest pioneer times. He traces his ancestors back to John Allen, who was born in Virginia in 1721 and died in 1770, his wife, Rebecca, passing away in 1740. Their son, Ananias Allen, was born in Virginia in 1740, and was' one of the early settlers of Fayette County, Ohio, where he died in the year 1805. His wife was Rachael Curtis, who was born in Virginia in 1751, and died in Fayette County in 1820. Their son, Henry Allen, grandfather of Howard Chester. Allen, was born in Fayette County in 1800, and died there in 1827. His son, Harvey Allen, born in Pickavvay County, Ohio, in 1824, was in the hardware business for fifty years at Belief ontaine, Ohio, and died there in 189.7. His wife, Mary Shawan, was born in Virginia in 1827, and died in 1890. Howard Chester Allen's older brother, Hugh Allen, has made a name for himself in journalism. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1900 with the degree of Master of Arts and Civil Engineer, and was engaged as civil engineer on various North and South American railways. He did newspaper work in Washington, D. C., at Seattle, Washington, in New York and Detroit, and is now at Akron, Ohio, being editor of the Akron Beacon-Journal and advertising manager of one of the rubber companies. Howard Chester Allen was educated in Washington Court House, attending the grammar and high schools there. ge has been in the Government post-office service for twenty-four years, and for nineteen years has been local secretary of the United States civil service. He owns and manages a farm in Fayette County and is a representative of a Virginia Joint Stock Land Bank: He has acted as judge in many horse shows and fairs, and was manager of the horse department of the Michigan State Fair at Detroit. Mr. Allen .is secretary and a member of the board of governors of the Washington Court House Country Club, is secretary of the Fayette County Automobile Club, is a director of the Ohio Automobile Association of Columbus, and secretary and president of the Fayette County Fish and Game Association. From 1904 to 1914. he was a member of Company M, Fourth Ohio Infantry, in the National Guard, enlisting as a private and retiring as a captain. During the World war he was a member of the Home Service Section of the Red Cross, and was local secretary of the United States Civil Service Commission. He is a republican, and is very fond. of the game of golf. He is the only man at Washington Court House eligible to membership in the "National Hole in One Club." On November 14, 1906, in Fayette County, he married, Miss Cleo Creamer, who was educated in common schools and finished at Nelson College at Chambers-burg, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Phi Pi HISTORY OF OHIO - 371 Gamma fraternity, and is herself a lover of horses and active in the country club. Her father was a California "Forty-niner,” and invested the money he gained in the gold fields of the West in Fayette . County farming land. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have two. children : Elinor, born in 1917, and Joan, born in 1922. Mr. Allen is affiliated with the Masonic and Elks orders. GEORGE DAMON BAKER. A business that has .grown and prospered through the successes and at times united efforts of three generations of one family 5.4 a lumber, timber and wood preserving industry at Washington Court House conducted by George Damon Baker. It is the business with which his father was earlier identified, and was originally founded by his grandfather. George D. Baker was born at Beaver, Ohio, February 25, 1895, son of George W. and Comfort E. Baker. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Beaver and Washington Court House, took a commercial school course at Springfield, Ohio, and then went to work for his father. His grandfather had started the hardwood lumber business in Pike County, Ohio, in 1877. He died June 26, 1883, at the age of fifty-one and was then succeeded by his son, George W. Baker. The latter continued it for thirty years, and was succeeded in turn by his son, George D. Baker, in 1914. The business is known as the Baker Wood Preserving Company, with George D. Baker as president and general manager. It has a capital stock of $750,000, and the business is now confined to the manufacture, purchase and treating of railroad ties and other timbers. The preserving or creosoting plant is located about three-quarters of a mile from Washington Court House. Its equipment consists of a Worthington creosoting cylinder, 144 feet long and 82 inches in diameter, in which the ties and timbers are placed while undergoing the creosoting treatment. It has a capacity of 1,600 ties every eight hours. The father of Mr. Baker believed in educating children early for the practical responsibilities of life, and the result was that his son George D. was actually permitted to buy hogs and cattle when he was eight years of age, and during the year he was thirteen transacted. a business amounting to $12,000 absolutely on his own judgment. Mr. Baker is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, the Rotary Club, Washington Country Club, the United Commercial Traveleis, and in politics he is a democrat. He married, March 20, 1913, Gladys (Bakersfield), daughter of Frank and Vinnie Bakersfield. Her father was a Fayette County farmer. Mrs. Baker graduated from the Washington High School in 1912. She is a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Baker are: Elma, born in 1914; George W., born in 1917, and Frank, born in 1920. ARTHUR CHARLES KEENEY is one of the younger members of the Akron bar, and is assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit County. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, February 8, 1899, son of C. David and Temperance (Hall) Keeney, his father being in the automobile business at Akron. Arthur C. Keeney attended public schools in Cuyahoga Falls and Kent, the Central High School at Akron, and continued his advanced education in Akron University and St. Ignatius University at Cleveland. He entered the Notre Dame University Law School, and graduated in 1922, Bachelor of Laws Magna Cum Laude. While in college, and during the progress of the World war, he was a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. At Akron University he was a Zeta Alpha Epsilon. Mr. Keeney was admitted to the bar in June, 1922, and shortly afterward was made assistant prosecuting attorney. He is a republican, a member of the Summit County Bar Association, is a Catholic, and is affiliated with Akron Lodge No. 363 of the Elks, Akron Council No. 547, Knights of Columbus, the Canons Club, and the East Akron Board of Trade. RAYMOND FRANCIS BODY had practiced law two years before he was called to the colors during the World war. After returning from overseas he renewed his professional connections at Akron, and is now engaged in a very successful law practice in that city: He has been very prominent in the American Legion. Mr. Body was born at Cleveland, Ohio, January 15, 1891, son of Frank F. and Mary E. (Reilley) Body. In Cleveland he attended public schools until 1904, then pursued the classical course in St. Ignatius College at Cleveland until 1911, when he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied law in St. Louis University, in St. Louis, in 1911-1912, and in Georgetown University at Washington from 1912 to 1915, receiving his law degree. From July, 1915, to April, 1917, he practiced in Cleveland, and in April, 1917, came to Akron as lecturer on law and public speaking in the Goodyear Industrial University. On December 3, 1917, he enlisted, becoming a private in Company C of the Three Hundred and Twenty-third. Machine Gun Battalion of the Eighty-third Division. He was made a corporal, sailed for England with his company in June, .1918, and the following month landed in France. He became a sergeant while in France. In January, 1919, following the armistice, he returned to the United States with his command, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, February 15, 1919. For about a year and one-half after the war Mr. Body was a member of the legal staff of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. In September, 1920, he became associated with William H. Crawford in the law firm of Crawford & Body, and since January 1, 1924, has been engaged in general practice with Judge A. F. O'Neil. Their offices are in the Ohio Building. Mr. Body was elected the first commander of the Akron Post of the American Legion, At that time the post had only fifteen members. When he left the office of commander two years later it was the fourth largest in membership among ..the American Legion Posts of Ohio. He was chairman of the County Council of the Legion Post, and is now vice chairman of the American Legion Board of Akron. Mr. Body is secretary of the Democratic Central Committee of Summit County, and president of the Akron Democratic Club. He is a member of the Akron Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the East Akron Board of Trade, and the Knights of Columbus. He married Miss Marie B. Leichti, of East Cleveland. They were married at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, May 3, 1918, a short time before he embarked for overseas duty. They have two daughters, Mary Ellen and Julia Marie. JOHN A. SMITH. Beginning at the age of nineteen and for a number of years alternating with periods of school attendance for his own education, John A. Smith has taught in rural districts, graded and town schools in a number of counties in Northern Ohio, and is one of the able men in the educational work of the state. He is the present county superintendent of schools of Stark County. He was born near Winesburg, Holmes County, Ohio, August 17, 1879. His father died in 1886. His mother then moved to her father 's farm in Tuscara- 372 - HISTORY OF OHIO was County, and he was placed out on a farm until he was fourteen years of age. After that he was largely dependent upon his own resources and did farm work while attending the public schools. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, and the next year he had ten weeks of normal instruction and while teaching part of the year he continued his advanced education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, in Wooster College and in Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea, Ohio. Following that came post-graduate courses in Wooster, and later he did extension work with the La Salle Extension University of Chicago. After a number of years as a teacher in grade and rural schools he became superintendent of the Wayne Township schools in Tuscarawas County, spent four years as superintendent of the Burbank schools, one year as superintendent at Perrysville, and six years as superintendent of the Riley. Township schools in Putnam County. The following year he became the director of the Normal School at Wooster, and for three years was superintendent of Supervision District No 2 in Stark County. On April 1, 1920, Mr. Smith began his duties as county superintendent of schools of Stark County, with offices in Canton. Under his supervision are 368 teachers, and a total scholarship enrollment of 12,000. For nine summer terms Mr. Smith taught in the Normal School at Wooster, and he has kept in close touch with educational movements and organizations in his section of the state. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to its Official Board and is superintendent of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Sunday School. He is county chairman of the Stark County Young Men's Christian Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association, Canton, and a member of the Americanization Committee of the Canton Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star, the Grange, and in politics is a republican. Mr. Smith married 'Miss Minnie Weaver. They have a family of eight children, named jay H., Eva M., Paul L., Clarke F., W. Dean H., Ralph N., Carl H. and Elizabeth Ann. WARREN F. SELBY has been a practicing attorney at the Akron bar for over ten years. His offices are in the Second National Building. Mr. Selby was born at Columbus, Ohio, February 26, 1889, son of A. D. and. Libbie (Glover) Selby. He was educated in grammar and high school, was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1909 from Ohio State University, and took his Bachelor of Laws degree at Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1912. In 1912 he engaged in practice at Akron. He is a member of the Delta Theta Phi fraternity, the Masonic Club, and is a Knights Templar Mason. Mr. Selby married Phyllis Sabin, of Cleveland, June 9, 1916. WILLIAM FREDERICK FOUSE is an Akron lawyer. He is secretary of the Real Estate Mortgage Company, and though well known in business and professional circles, he has pursued his work quietly and without ostentation; and has never been in politics except incidental to various causes of good government. Mr. Fouse was born at Uniontown, Stark County, Ohio, February 2, 1867, both he and his father having been born in the old Fouse homestead, which was acquired by his grandfather, John Fouse, in 1817. His father, Frederick Fouse, was born in 1825, devoted his life to farming, and died in 1887. Frederick .Fouse married. Elizabeth Gaerte, who was born in Stark County in 1827, and died in 1904. William Frederick Fouse was reared on a farm, attended public school and academy at Tiffin, graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Wooster University in 1893, and for seven years was engaged in teaching school, being for two years principal of schools at Wapakoneta. He studied law with John H. Hall at Akron, was admitted to the bar in 1897, and since that year has engaged in a general practice hi Akron. His offices are in the Central Office Building. He was one of the organizers of the Real Estate Mortgage Company, which he has served a number of years as secretary. He has also been secretary of the Summit County Improvement Association, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Trinity Reformed Church. His first wife was Ada Keller, a daughter of Joel and Susan Keller. She passed away July 5, 1918. Their two children were James K., who died in 1905, at the age of four and one-half years, and Howard Keller Fouse, who died March 28, 1922. Mr. Fouse subsequently married Bessie M. Frazier Clutter, of Mount Vernon, Ohio. JAMES A. COREY, who for two terms was sheriff of Suinmit County, and is now assignment commissioner in the Common Pleas Court, has figured prominently in local politics for a number of years. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American and Philippine wars. He was born at Massillon, Starke County, Ohio, August 13, 1878, son of John C. and Naney (Cassler) Corey. His mother died March 21, 1881, and his father, July 4, 1893. During his boyhood at Massillon he attended public, schools, and in 1893, after the death of his father, began an apprenticeship at the tinner 's trade in Canton. He was working as a journeyman when the Spanish-American war came on in 1898. He served in Company I of the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, known as "McKinley's Own Regiment," participating in a portion of the Cuban campaign, until the regiment was mustered out in November, 1898. In October, 1899, having in the meantime resumed the work of his trade at Canton, he enlisted in Company M, Forty-second United States Volunteers, went to the Philippines, and saw some of the dangerous service involved in putting down the rebellion on those islands. He was there nearly two years, being honorably discharged July 7, 1901. Mr. Corey and his brother William located at Akron in 1902 and established the firm of Corey Brothers, tin roofing and sheet metal work. They were associated in business, William Corey looking after all the details during the time his brother was in public office, until the death of William Corey about 1913, when the business was sold. From 1907 to 1910 James A. Corey was deputy sheriff of Summit County. In November, 1912, he was elected sheriff, beginning his first official term January 1, 1913. He was reelected, and after two terms was out of polities two years. He then took a place as secret service officer under the prosecuting attorney, serving in that capacity until June 1, 1924, when he became assignment commissioner in the Common Pleas Court of Summit County. Mr. Corey, who is unmarried, has devoted much time to fraternal organizations, and for five years was representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose, Akron Liedertafel, and the Spanish-American War Veterans. He is a director of the Commercial Savings & Trust Company, and for six years acted as chairman of the Summit County Republican Central Committee. ROY BERNARD MEADE. Among the younger men in the professional and business life of Akron none has HISTORY OF OHIO - 373 gone ahead. faster on his own resources than Roy Bernard Meade, head of the largest abstract company of Summit County and also senior member of the law firm of Meade & Chapman, doing an extensive law business. His birth occurred at Richfield, Summit County, March 18, 1896, his parents being George G. and Esther M. (Richards) Meade, who reside at Akron, where his father is a contractor and builder. Second in a family of three children, Roy Bernard had his ambition directed into the channel of the law when an old set of law books was given him at the age of twelve. He began reading while a pupil in the public schools of Akron. After high school he spent a year in Akron University, where he became a charter member of the. Sigma Beta, later the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, of which he is trustee of the local chapter. At the age of nineteen Mr. Meade was operating a small cigar store, and a year later became a general accountant in the offices of the Goodyear Rubber Company. Three years later, with the law firm of Myers & Dinsmore, he was handling the abstract work and continuing his law studies. The abstract business, begun on a very modest scale, has since been developed to a service complete for all the requirements of Akron and vicinity. In December, 1920, Mr. Meade was a member of the class of 101 admitted to the Ohio bar, he being at the head of the class with the highest honors with an average of 92 8/10. He then formed his present law firm of Meade & Chapman, doing a general law practice, with offices in the Buckeye Building, where are located also the headquarters of the R. B. Meade Abstract Company, which was incorporated in 1921. Mr. Meade has specialized in corporation, real estate law, banking and tax law, and has come to be regarded as the leading authority on the latter subjects, having contributed a number of articles on real estate law to the Akron Legal News, the Builders Exchange Magazine and other Akron papers. Mr. Meade has been the first and only president of the Summit County Association of Title Men, is chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio State Abstractors' Association, and a member of the National Association of Abstracters. He. is a member of the. Akron Real Estate Board, the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations, is active in republican polities, a member of the Exchange Club, Masonic Club, Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Yusef Khan Grotto No. 42; Akron Lodge No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Aerie No; 555, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1924 he was secretary and a trustee of the Portage Fish and Game Association, is a member of the Silver Lake Country Club, his favorite sports being golf and fishing. Mr. Meade married in 1915, at Akron Miss Ethel Irene Ferguson. Her father, the late William Ferguson, was a farmer, land owner and conducted a wholesale and retail meat business in Akron. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Meade are Robert Bernard, Marjorie Jane and William Ferguson. OWEN M. RODERICK. After qualifying himself for the practice of law, Owen M. Roderick located at Akron, and in a decade has reached a gratifying position and measure of success as an attorney and citizen. He was born and reared in Southern Ohio, and many members of his family have been identified with the coal mining industry. His birth occurred in Jackson, November 22, 1888. All his grandparents were natives of Wales. His father, Thomas W. Roderick, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, was a farmer in early life and after that a coal operator. He married Katherine Davis, who survives him and lives at Jackson. Owen M. Roderick was educated in the grade and high schools of Jackson and in Ohio State and Columbia universities. Graduating with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1913, immediately after being admitted to the Ohio bar he engaged in practice at Akron, where he soon found abundant opportunities to test his abilities and training. In 1915 he was appointed police prosecutor, and during the World war period he was assistant city solicitor. He has been treasurer of the Summit County Bar Association and is a member of Ohio State Bar Association. Mr. Roderick was recently honored with the office of president of the Cambrian Club, an organization whose membership is limited to persons of Welsh descent. He is a member of the Congregational Church, the University Club, the Tuscarawas Country Club, is a republican, and in Masonry is affiliated with Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons, and is past monarch of Yusef Khan Grotto No. 42. Outdoor life has appealed strongly to him. He played football and baseball while in eollege, and varies the routine of his profession by bowling in the winter and fishing in the summer. Mr. Roderick married Miss Clara Carter, who was born and reared in Hardin County, Ohio. Her father, George J. Carter, is a retired manufacturer of Akron. HOMER ANDERSON FORSYTHE is one of the chief men of business capital and business enterprises in the industrial and commercial undertakings of Guernsey County. His home is at Cambridge, and for over thirty years he has been a coal operator. He was born in Center Township of Guernsey County, April 27, 1869, son of Cephas P. and Sarah Ann (Clipinger) Forsythe, both of whom were born and reared in Guernsey County. His father died July 16, 1903, aged sixty-seven, and his mother on September 29, 1920, aged seventy-three. Cephas P. Forsythe as a young man was engaged in farming and stock raising in. Wills Township, but in 1866 removed to Center Township. On a portion of his own farm he started coal mining in 1891, under the name of the Forsythe Coal Company. He continued active in that business until his death. He always voted as a republican, and was a ruling elder in the United Presbyterian Church. Second in a family of six children, Homer Anderson Forsythe was reared on his father 's farm and acquired a public school education. In 1891 he became identified with his father 's coal business as superintendent, and in 1898, when the business was incorporated as the Forsythe Coal Company, he became seeretary, treasurer and general manager of the company, with his brother, Howard J., as president. The company has two mining locations, one at Belle Valley on the Pennsylvania Railway, and the other at Mineral Siding on the Baltimore & Ohio. This company produces steam coal, railroad and domestic coal, and it is the largest local company operating in Guernsey County. Several other evidences of his active business enterprise should be noted. The most substantial modern business and office building in Cambridge is the Forsythe Building, a three-story absolutely fireproof structure, 200x65 feet, with stores below and offices above. Mr. Forsythe erected this building in 1919. He is a director of the. Cambridge Steel Products Company. He is also a director in Harper-Hutchinson-Thompson, a wholesale grocery house. Mr. Forsythe is vice president of No. 8 Coal Company, a holding company holding 18,000 acres of coal lands in Belmont County, Ohio. His home was formerly at the corner of Tenth 374 - HISTORY OF OHIO and Wheeling streets, and he sold it as the site fov the Federal Post Office Building. Mr. Forsythe for two' years was engaged in the automobile business under the name of the Cambridge Buick Company. He is a member of the Cambridge Country Club, is a ruling elder of the Second United Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons and the Mystic Shrine. He married on December 20, 1899, Cora L. Eagleson, a native of Guernsey County. Her father, Thomas Eagleson, who was born in Center Township of Guernsey County; July 17, 1840, went out to California as a young man, returning by the overland route in 1866, and for many years carried on farming in Center Township. In May, 1890, he removed to Cambridge, and since 1905 has lived retired. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas Eagleson married Jennie R. Spence. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe were born six children: Willard H., now associated in the coal business with his father ; Thomas Russell, Olive Jeanett, Ruth Lucille, Robert Byron and Homer A., Jr. ISAAC S. MYERS. Forty years of business activity and action have made Isaac S. Myers one of the leading merchants and bankers of the city, though in recent years his close attention to movements and enterprises of a civic nature, together with social welfare, have made him even better known to the general public than his business interests. He was born on a farm in Green Township of Summit County, Ohio, September 27, 1862, son of Peter and Mary (Stump) Myers. 'Both the Stump and Myers families came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in pioneer days. The maternal grandfather was John Stump, who located in Summit County in 1832, while the paternal grandfather Myers on coming to Ohio settled in Stark County, just across the line from Summit County. Peter Myers was born in Pennsylvania, in 1824, and spent his long and useful life as a farmer, dying in 1908. His wife died in 1910. Isaac S. Myers was reared on a farm, attended public schools, and at the age of seventeen began teaching, a work to which he deviated about seven years. After two years of efforts at proving up a Kansas homestead lie located at Akron, in 1883, his business career beginning as clerk in a clothing store. In 1893 he became a member of the firm Myers, Ganyard & Stump, clothing merchants. A year later the firm became Ganyard & Myers, and in 1900 Mr. Myers became sole proprietor of the business, incorporating the I. S. Myers Company, of which he has since been president and general manager. This is one of the leading clothing stores in Northern Ohio. From merchandising he has extended his interests into many fields of commercial endeavor. He organized in 1908 and has since been president of the Myers-Hoffman Company, builders and manufacturers of artificial. stone. He was one of the organizers and has since 1909 been treasurer of the Citizens Loan & Savings Company of Akron, is a director of the Ohio State Bank, and president of the Real Estate Mortgage Company, and is president of the board of directors of the Central Garage, the largest garage in the United States, located at Akron. Since 1910 much of his time has been devoted to real estate. His operations in real estate are entirely in handling his own property. Individually and as a partner he has put on the market twenty-one 'allotments, best known among which are the fine residence sections known as first, second and third. North Hill and Portage Heights. He has served as a. director of the Ohio State Retail Merchants' Association. One avenue of his active career has been the cultivation of high ideals of sportsmanship and the preservation of the natural game resources of the state and United States. He organized and in 1922-1923 served as president and is now honorary president for life of the Ohio League of Sportsmen. He is a director and former president of the Portage Fish and Game Association of Akron, and is a member of the advisory board to the United States Secretary of Agriculture in enforcing the migratory bird law. For six years, 1917-1923, he was a member of the State Board of Agriculture and chairman of the Fish and Game Committee. He holds membership in a number of fish and game organizations. During the World war he was mayor of Akron, and he enlisted himself, his office and all his personal resources for the war, being active in every local patriotic campaign. His work attracted such attention that he was awarded an honorary certificate of membership by the American Patriotic Society of New York. He is also an honorary member of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' League. He was one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts at Akron, and also helped organize the Girl Scouts, his distinguished and disinterested service to that organization bringing him a " Thanks" badge, presented by the Girl Scouts, the only honor emblem of its kind in Akron. Mr. Myers is a member of Nemo Lodge No. 746, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Akron Lodge No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Akron City Club ; Akron. Civitan Club, Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. He married Miss Mary Sisler, daughter of John Sisler, of Manchester, Ohio. Mrs. Myers is an active worker in the Church of the Disciples. They have one daughter, Ruth, now the wife of G. F. Lane, of Akron. There are two granddaughters, Mary and Martha Lane. WILLIAM DANIEL MYERS. Since early manhood and over a period of thirty years William Daniel n Myers has been the type of citizen and business man exemplifying the highest qualities of trustworthiness and personal efficiency. He has been a merchant and is now a leading realtor. His activities in the Masonic order have brought him many honors, and he has done much to build up the efficiency of that fraternity in Akron. He was born November 24, 1876, on a farm then just outside the city limits of Akron, in Summit County. His grandfather came from Pennsylvania, while his father, William Myers, was born in Summit County, and in 1860 became a bookkeeper for the mercantile firm of Hall Brothers, and was in their service many years. He was a democrat and Lutheran. His wife was Harriet Jane Pryor, a native of Northampton Township, Summit County. The home where W. D. Myers spent his boyhood and youth has in later years become one of the fine residential suburbs of Akron, the North Hill section. He attended the public schools of the city, and subsequently, while working to pay his way, attended Buelltel College. Seven of his early years were taken up with his duties as a grocery clerk, and for five years he did clerical work for a specialty rubber manufacturing concern. For about thirteen years he was a member of Myers-Bailey Company, hardware merchants at Akron, leaving that to become associated with the real estate department of the HerberichHall-Harter Company.. In 1921 he organized the Standard Realty Company, and has since been vice president and secretary of this general real estate and insurance organization. Mr. Myers is a trustee of the Akron Real Estate Board, and has acquitted himself well in the performance of his civic duties. During the World war he worked with all the committees raising funds. He is a democrat and Lutheran, enjoys flowers and gardening, but his chief interest is Masonry. His affilia-