HISTORY OF OHIO - 375 tions include Mt. Akra Lodge No. 680, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery No. 72, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. In 1924 he was elected monarch of. Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41, an organization for which Master Masons are eligible, and numbering now over 2,500. He also belongs to the Shrine Patrol, is chairman of the entertainment committee of the Shrine Club, and is president of the Hot Sands Club, a local Masonic social organization. Mr. Myers married at Akron Miss Lillian Johnson, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania, from which state her father, W. C. Johnson, came to Ohio and was a concrete contractor in Sandusky and Akron. He was a Quaker. Mrs. Myers is active in the woman's branches of Masonry, the Eastern Star, White Shrine of Jerusalem and Daughters of Mocanna. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Myers are John and Helen. HAROLD VICTOR JOHNSON, who has become known as "Kenmore's fighting mayor," is one of the younger members of the Akron bar, and on more than one occasion has proved himself a member of the militant Church of. Christ and of civic righteousness. His home has been in Akron and vicinity for a number of years, but he was born on a farm at Owensville, Indiana, August 7, 1895. His father, Jasper Johnson, who died September 9, 1923, aged sixty-two, was a farmer and stock raiser, and a strong force in his community, being a prohibitionist, an elder and local preacher in his Church of Christ. The mother of the Akron attorney is Ella (Williams) Johnson, who occupies the old Indiana homestead. She is the mother of seven children, Harold. V. being next to the youngest. His life to the age of twenty-one was spent on the. farm, and while there he formulated the ambition to become either a minister of the Gospel or an attorney. His early education was acquired. in country schools, and in the Owensville High School, and when he left home he came to Akron, working in a factory for a year. With limited. savings and on his own resources he then entered Bethany College in West Virginia, an institution founded by Alexander Campbell of the Church of the Disciples and a training school for ministers of that church. After one year in college his means were exhausted. and he then returned to Akron, subsequently continuing his education for a short time in Akron University. During the. World war Mr. Johnson served in the Personnel Division at Camp Sherman. After his discharge he located. at Kenmore, in Summit County, engaging in the real estate business, and at the same time studied. law by correspondence courses. He was appointed justice of the peace at Kenmore for an unexpired. time and was then elected for a regular four-year term. The conduct of this office gave him much valuable experience in legal work. For a short time he supplemented his legal studies by attending the Cincinnati Law School, and was' admitted to the bar December 29, 1923. He has since then engaged in a general practice as an attorney at Kenmore. He held the office of justice of the peace for two years, resigning when elected. mayor of Kenmore on November 6, 1923. After a conquest in which he gained the name of a fighting mayor, he entered the office January 1, 1924. Mr. Johnson is a director of the Re-Nail Aluminum Heel Company and the Oriental Lumber Company, and has other business interests. He is a former adjutant of Kenmore Post No. 480 of the American Legion, is superintendent of. the Sunday school of the Church of Christ, and is affiliated with Victory Lodge No. 480, Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and Junior Order United American Mechanics. He has put himself on record as a vigorous friend. of every worthy civic and public cause at Kenmore, and is ready with his time and talent to advance the community's interest. He married. at Akron in 1918 Miss Hazel Irene Whitney, who was born and reared at Lodi, Ohio, daughter of the late Maurice Whitney, who was a watchmaker by trade. Mrs. Johnson was a teacher before her marriage, and is active in church work. The three children of their marriage are Harold Victor, Junior, and Gerald. Richard, twins, and. Ralph Whitney. A. W. BURNS, of Columbus, has been one of the men prominently identified with the business of building and paving highways and streets in Ohio. He is senior member of the A. W. Burns Construction Company, with headquarters in Columbus, but with a business extending over many counties in the state. He was born in Scioto County, Ohio, June 1, 1882, son of Michael Burns, who came to this country from Ireland. A. W. Burns was reared. and educated. in Southern Ohio, and as a young man became associated with his brother, M. J. Burns, contractors of street paving. After the death of M. J. Burns in 1914 A. W. Burns continued the business associated with W. T. Williams. During ten years the firm of A. W. Burns & Company handled. a number of important street and road. building projects, doing much road work for county, city and state governments. They built streets and roads of concrete, brick or bituminous macadam. By personal attention to details every bit of paving was built under their personal supervision, and by standing the test of usage made for the firm an enviable reputation. In March, 1924, the partners in the old firm of A. W. Burns & Company dissolved. partnership, and Mr. Burns organized the present business of the A. W. Burns Construction Company, whose modern offices and asphalt plant are located at 1400 North Grant Avenue, in the City of Columbus, and. here an enlarged. and extensive business is now being conducted. A. W. Burns married Elizabeth Keppler. They are the parents of five children: Eleanor J., Ruth E., Margaret J., and A. W, Jr., and M. J. twins. WILLIAM ROLAND PRICE. In the Ohio Legislature, in both the House and Senate, William Roland. Price, of Akron, took to the consideration of many important measures a thorough understanding of the basic principles of the science of property, business and the common welfare, with the result that he has, been one of the most valued. contributors to the legislative program of Ohio since the close of the World war. Mr. Price, who was born at Akron, July 15, 1877, is of. Welsh parentage, his parents, Thomas and Mary Elias Price, both coming from Wales. Thomas Price was born in Radnorshire, South Wales, January 7, 1830, and learned the iron and steel business. In 1867 he came .to the United States, his family following him six months later, and he was for many years employed in the rolling mills at Akron. He was an active worker in the Baptist Church. He died in 1902, and his wife in 1919. William Roland Price was reared in Akron, attending public schools, and since early youth has been dependent upon his own resources. He was clerk in the office of a manufacturing plant until 1906, since which year his time has been fully taken up with the real estate, loan and insurance business. He is proprietor of the Will Price agency and of the Sherbondy Service Station. Mr. Price has been giving service to the republican organizations in his home city since he attained 376 - HISTORY OF OHIO his majority. He was the first president of the Akron Lincoln Republican Club. As representative of Sum:. mit County he served in the House in the Eighty-fourth General Assembly, distinguishing himself by his activity in behalf of tax reduction legislation. He was a member of the committees on building and loan societies, insurance, codeS, fish and game, sailors and soldiers' orphan home and universities and colleges. In the Eighty-fifth Assembly he entered the Senate, being elected in 1922 from the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth districts. In the first session he was chairman of the enrollment committee, and served as a member of the committees on finance, commercial corporations, federal relations, fish culture and game, library, military affairs, privileges and elections, state buildings and villages. Practically all his time, how- ever, was given to his work on the finance committee, which had before it for consideration appropriations aggregating $72,000,000 for state institutions and other purposes. His hobby was Senate Bill No. 246, requiring that owners of motor vehicles in taking out licenses should list the vehicles for taxation. at the same time. He also introduced the Gerrymander Bill. Senator Price is an outdoor man, planning his favorite recreations in fishing and hunting. He is a deacon in the Wooster Avenue Reformed Church, and in Masonry his affiliations are with Akron Lodge No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Areh Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rite; Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41; also is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Price married at .Akron, October 23, 1901, Miss Nellie M. Sherbondy, who was born and reared in that city, bearing the name of one of the oldest and most honored families in Summit County. The Sherbondys came to Ohio in the person of John Sherbondy, who was a veteran of the War of 1812. After the war as captain he commanded a small detachment of troops sent out to Marietta to exchange prisoners. He returned to Pennsylvania, but in 1816 established his permanent home in Ohio and became owner of a large tract of land, including Sherbondy Hill, which is now in Akron, and is the site of the city water works. His holdings also include the place of business of Senator Price. The father of Mrs. Price was Frank D. Sherbondy; who was born at Akron and died in July, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Price have three children: Dorothy, Donald and. Ethel. COL. BENJAMIN WILSON, though his home throughout his life was in Virginia, was with the military forces on one of the first expeditions into the old Northwest, including Ohio, and seven of his children subsequently occupied his large land grant in Licking County. Many of his descendants are in the. state today. One of them is his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Orson Dudley Dryer, of Columbus. An ancestor of the family was David Wilson, who at the failure of the Scotch Rebellion of 1715, in which he was a participant, fled from his native land to the Province of Ulster, Ireland. His son, William, born in Ireland in 1722, came to America in 1736, and subsequently married Elizabeth Blackburn. They located in Shenandoah County, Virginia, where his son Benjamin was born November 30, 1747. The family subsequently moved to what is now West Virginia and settled in Hardy County. Col. Benjamin Wilson died in Harrison County, January 2, 1827. Largely self educated, at the age of twenty-three he married Ann Ruddle, aged sixteen, and they soon located in Tygart's Valley, in what is now Randolph County, West Virginia. While living there he was a lieutenant in the army under Lord Dunmore, and served as an aid to the commander-in-chief in the expedition against the old Chillicothe towns near the Scioto River in 1774. He was present at the treaty with the Indians at Camp Charlotte, about seven miles east of the present site of Cireleville. From him Withers obtained much of the data for his description of the Shawnee chief, Cornstalk, in his book, "Chronicles of Border Warfare." Early in the Revolution Colonel Wilson was appointed captain in the Virginia forces, doing duty mainly on the frontiers. To the close of the Revolutionary struggle he was the organ through which most of the military and civil business of the part of the state in which he lived was transacted. He frequently served as commander of the forces raised to pursue the marauding Indians, and in all these expeditions he was prompt, influential and conspicuously courageous. In 1781 he was commissioned colonel and equipped his own regiment. In 1802 Colonel Wilson purchased 4,218 acres of land north of Newark, Licking County, Ohio. After the war he served for several sessions in the Legislature of Virginia. He and his brother John were delegates in the convention of Virginia in March, 1788, which ratified the Constitution of the United States. He was the first clerk of Harrison County, which office he held for thirty years. In the fall of 1777 Indians murdered the Connelly family near the Wilson plantation, and Colonel Wilson went in pursuit at the head of thirty men. He left his wife and three children at the cabin some distance from Wilson's fort. With them was a slave named Rose. Late in the afternoon a young horse came dashing up, and from its excitement Mrs. Wilson knew that the horse had seen the Indians. While Rose was capturing the horse, Mrs. Wilson, with wonderful coolness and presence of mind, worthy the daughter of Captain Ruddle, took one of her strong petticoats, tied both ends, put the two older children in it as a sack, with their heads out, threw the sack over the horse's back, one child on each side. Then, with the baby in her arms, she mounted the horse bareback, telling Rose to run for her life. The horse was apparently as eager to escape as she was, and went at full speed toward the fort. Though the river was full with rain and melting snow, Mrs. Wilson plunged in and when in midstream she discovered the child on the upstream side, Mary, had struggled from the sack and was bobbing up and down against the horse's side, held there by the strong current. Mrs. Wilson caught her by the clothes and brought her safe to shore. She then rode with them to the fort. By this time the alarm had been given and several families had arrived. It is probable that Mrs. Wilson and her children would have been murdered had she not made her escape when she did. A few minutes later the girl Rose put in her appearance, carrying a churn of cream on her head, which she was determined to keep from the handg of the redskins. The second wife of Col. Benjamin Wilson was Phoebe Davisson. By his two marriages he was the father of twenty-eight children, two of whom died in infancy. When he died, at the age of eighty, he was survived by twenty-four children, seventy-three grandchildren, thiity-two great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. One son by the second marriage, Daniel Davisson Wilson, became a courtly old-style gentleman, long and favorably known in Licking County, Ohio. He was born in Harrison County, West Virginia, January 30, 1810, and came to Ohio in 1839, living here until the time of his death, at Newark, in 1890. He was married twice, his first wife being Susan O'Bannon, daughter of Margaret Seymour and William O'Bannan. His second wife, Elizabeth I. Kidd, was born in Winchester, Virginia. He was the father of HISTORY OF OHIO - 377 the following named children : Henrietta, Russel, Welton, Janet, Creed, Wert, Gideon, Henry Clay, Mary, Robert, Benjamin, Buena, Kate, Frank, Lynnly and Grace. Judge William O'Bannon, the father of Susan 0 'Bannon Wilson, was the son of Joseph O'Bannon, who immigrated to America from Ireland and located in Hardy County, Virginia. He came to Licking County, Ohio, in the year 1803, the same year Ohio was admitted to the Union, and lived there until the time of his death, in 1857. He built a home two miles east of Newark, and was elected by the General Assembly associate judge of the Common Pleas Court of Licking. County in 1825 and reelected in 1832. Judge O'Bannon was married twice, his first wife being Margaret Seymour, born in 1785, daughter of Catharine Hider and Thomas Seymour. The children of William O'Bannon and Margaret Seymour were as follows : Patsy, Catharine, Presley Neville, Elizabeth, Mary J., Susan, Joseph, Thomas, George Washington, Jathes Russel and John. His second wife, Mary Oliver, born September 19, 1795, died December 9, 1850. No children were born of the second marriage. Lieut. Presley Neville O'Bannon, of Kentucky, the hero who first planted the American flag on foreign soil in Tripoli, April 27, 1805, has frequently been associated in newspaper reports with the O'Bannons of Licking County, Ohio. He is understood to have been related to them, though the exact degree of kinship has not been definitely stated. Presley Neville O'Bannon, son of Judge William O'Bannon, was doubtless named after Lieut. Presley Neville O'Bannon, of Kentucky. Col. John O'Bannon, of Woodford County, Kentucky, was also understood to be related to the O'Bannons of Licking County, Ohio. He was a surveyor whose name often occurs in the records of land surveys in Southern Ohio. Colonel O'Bannon evidently enjoyed the acquaintance and respect of Jefferson and Washington, as he was the surveyor who located and surveyed over 3,000 acres of land for Washington in Ohio. He was a large land and slave owner, and in his will, dated 1810, he devised certain land and slaves to his brothers, Presley and William. Thomas Seymour, father of Margaret O'Bannon, was born in Hardy County, Virginia, in 1756, and enlisted from the same county during the Revolution, serving under General McIntosh, and also in the War of 1792. He was one of the early settlers in Licking County, and died there in 1831. His wife, Catharine Hider, was born in 1782, and died in Licking County in 1842. Both were buried in the O'Bannon graveyard, and afterwards, at the request of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the bodies were reinterred in Cedar Hill Cemtery at Newark, Ohio. There were thirteen children born of this marriage, ten in Virginia and three in Ohio. The names were Margaret, Adam, Mary, James, Christinia, George, Elizabeth, Sarah, Thomas, Isaac, Catharine and William Renick. There was one child whose name is unknown. Henrietta Wilson, a daughter of Daniel Davisson Wilsbn and Susan O'Bannon, born in 1836, on the Wilson plantation, near Clarksburg, West Virginia, came to. Ohio with her parents when a small child, and was married in 1857 to William Clinton Maholm, locating upon his farm in Licking County. William Clinton Maholm was the son of James Maholm and Mary Taylor, who moved to Newark in 1821. James Maholm was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1792, and was the son of James Maholm and Jean Cully. He came to Ohio in 1815, and lived six years in Jefferson County, a portion of that time in Steubenville. On the 30th of September, 1817, he was married to Mary Taylor, daughter of Judge James Taylor and Rebecca Cully, the daughter of John Cully, who came from Western Virginia in 1808 and located in Newark, Ohio. Judge James Taylor came from Western Virginia in 1804 and settled in South Fork Valley.. He was elected judge of one of the first courts in. Licking County. Judge Taylor was an active and prominent pioneer of marked influence, intelligence and extensive information, who came to that locality four years before the organization of Licking County and before any church organization was effected within the present limits of the county. He was one of the original members of the First Presbyterian Church in Newark, which was established in 1808, and was one of its elders for thirty-six years, up. to 1844, the time of his death. He was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and lived on the frontier most of his life of ninety-one years. He was a member of Colonel Williamson's expedition, and voted with seventeen others against killing the Moravian Indians at Gnadenhutten in 1782. In 1830 James Maholm purchased a farm in. Newton Township, Licking County, and moved there with his family, where he resided up to the time of his death in 1870. Four children were born of the union of James Maholm and Mary Taylor, named Mary Jane, Thomas, William Clinton and James. The son, William Clinton Maholm, .was born in Newark in' 1825. He was a large land owner and breeder of fine cattle. and horses. For over twenty years he was a stock drover, sending stock to Pittsburgh to be sold, when cattle had to be driven overland, there being no railroad facilities. He is said to have shipped the first car load of cattle ever sent over the Pennsylvania Railroad. Several times en route the train was derailed and the cattle unloaded and reloaded. Later he moved with his wife and three children, Mary Lee, Emma Jeannette and William Welton, to Newark, where he became extensively interested in the development of the Hocking Valley coal fields. He built the Newark and Straitsville Railroad, which is now the Shawnee branch of the Baltimore and Ohio. He opened up the mines in the Shawnee district and purchased all the coal land owned by the Hocking Valley Railway up to the time of his death. He purchased land in his own name, afterwards transferring the title to the company. He was known as the best mine broker in the state. When past middle age he failed in business, owing to his extensive investments in the coal fields. Not discouraged, he started in business again as a stock broker, shipping both to Pittsburgh and Chicago, and as he accumulated money he invested in coal lands. In 1889 he moved to Columbus, devoting all his time to buying and selling coal. property. At the time of his death, in 1901, he had accumulated a small fortune, leaving in his estate 3,000 acres of Hocking Valley coal land. Mr. Maholm's wife, Henrietta Wilson, having died in 1869, he married in 1876 a widow, Mrs. Flora Haughey Long, and they became the parents of a daughter, named Grace. Mrs. Orson Dudley Dryer, of Columbus, is the second daughter of William Clinton Maholm and Henrietta Wilson. Her first husband was Frank B. Dodson, of Newark. He was survived by one daughter, Amy Jeannete, who died shortly after her marriage to Brooks Fleming, Jr., of Fairmont, West Virginia, a son of former Governor Fleming of that state. Orson D. Dryer is actively engaged in the business of an interior decorator in Columbus, and is well known in musical circles and was one of the organizers of the Apollo Male Quartet of that city. His father, Elon Dryer, was the first vocal teacher in Columbus, having come here from. Rochester, New York. He later married Mary Dudley, who was principal of a girls' school 378 - HISTORY OF OHIO in Dayton, Ohio, and one of the first graduates of Central High School in Columbus. Mrs. Orson D. Dryer has long been prominent in social, literary and suffrage organizations in. Columbus. She is a charter member of the Newark Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is now regent of the Columbus Chapter. She was chairman of the Franklin County League of Woman Voters when suffrage was secured. She is president of the Woman's Missionary Society in the Central Presbyterian Church, and former president of the Columbus Presbyterian Society. For many years she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Young Women's Christian Association, and during the war she performed many important services with the Red Cross Chapter and as a speaker for the Liberty Loan. Mrs. Dryer is a member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. Her special study in history has extended to some of the noted and influential Indians of the Western Colonial period. MAURICE ACOMB KNIGHT. The largest factory in the United States entirely devoted to the manufacture of "acid-proof chemical stoneware" is in Akron and is the .fruit of the technical genius and study and business energy of Maurice Acomb Knight, himself a lifelong resident of Akron and a citizen whose individual success and leadership have been a source of inspiration. With the increasing use and manufacture of acids and chemicals in modern industry came the necessity for greater use of acid-proof apparatus, equipment and containers. A. J. Weeks of Akron was one of the pioneers to undertake practical methods of manufacturing chemical stoneware from clay, but a really scientific solution of the difficulties awaited the experimental skill and ingenuity of Maurice A. Knight, who after he graduated from Buchtel College entered the employ of A. J. Weeks. In 1909 he bought a small plant in East Akron from F. K. Weeks, and with this as a nucleus has developed the important industry of which he is now sole proprietor. Instead of depending upon glaze or enamel, he treats, mixes and burns the clays so that the entire body of the apparatus is acid proof throughout. His wares have met all the exacting tests of use, are manufactured in America "by Americans who know how" and are sold and distributed in all industrial countries of the world. His trade-mark is the knight's head in medieval armor. His company has membership in the American Rice Leaders of the World Association, and maintains offices in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Buffalo, San Francisco and Toronto, Canada. Mr. Knight was born at Tidioute, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1883. His father is a distinguished and greatly beloved citizen of Akron, Prof. Charles M. Knight, a sketch of whose career appears on another page. Maurice A. Knight graduated from Buehtel Academy in 1902, following which came four years in Buchtel College, where he graduated in June, 1906, with the Bachelor of Science degree. He specialized in chemistry and geology, and his graduating thesis was a discussion of " The Chemistry and Geology of Clays." He was also prominent in athletics and social affairs, being a member of the Lone Star fraternity. Mr. Knight met and overcame many discouragements and difficulties in putting his ideas into execution, getting his special process wares introduced to the market, but in a half a dozen years after he bought the small plant in East Akron he had the satisfaction of knowing that the chemical •stoneware bearing his trade-mark was known to every government and university and important manufacturing establishment on two continents. Mr. Knight is also president of the Rubber City Sand and Gravel Company, is vice president and a director of the Mill and Mine Supply Company, is a director of the National City Bank of Akron, and is president of the Metropolitan Building Company, which owns the Metropolitan Building, one of the finest office structures in Akron. His value to the community is also represented in a wide variety of affiliations and connections with civic, technical and social organizations. He served as a director in 1921-1924 of the Rotary Club, was director from 1921 to 1924 of the Akron City Club, was a director of the University Club, is a member of the Portage Country Club, the Fairlawn Country Club, the Silver Lake Country Club, the Luna Lake Fishing Club, League of Ohio Sportsmen, Akron Chapter of the American Aeronautical Association and the Portage Fish and Game Association. His Masonic affiliations are with Henry Perkins Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Comman.dery, Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rites, Yusef Khan Grotto and Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Chemists Club of New York City, the American Ceramic Society, the old Colony Club, the American Chemical Society, the American Electro Chemical Society, American Navy League, and since 1921 has been a director of the Akron Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He is a Universalist in religion, and a republican. From 1919 to 1923 he served as a member of the Akron Board of Education and was chairman of the construction committee. During the World war he served as captain of Company A of the Home Guards, and was also captain of the American Protective League and the National Council of Defense, and served as captain of teams in every drive, representing East Akron. One of his classmates at Buchtel College was Miss Lulu L. Weeks, daughter of Mr. A. J. Weeks, above mentioned. Mr. Knight and Miss Weeks were married June 4, 1907. Their five children are Maurice Acomb, Jr., Lavina May, Lulu Weeks, Edmund Hal and Lillian Dorothea. The residence of the Knight family is on North Portage Path and is known as "The Woods." CHARLES MELLEN KNIGHT was for thirty-eight yedrs professor of science and chemistry in Buehtel College, now the Municipal University of Akron, and since 'the change of name in 1913 has been Professor Emeritus. He was born at Dummerston, Vermont, February 1, 1848, and was graduated in 1868 from Westbrook Seminary at Deering, Maine. In 1873 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts College, and the same college awarded him the Master of Arts degree in 1878 and Doctor of Science degree in 1897. In the meantime he had spent a summer vacation helping survey the Union Pacific through Denver, and had several summer vacations of experience in engineering work on the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. He did post-graduate work in Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1875 was called to Buehtel College as professor of natural science. From 1883 to 1907 his chair was physical science, and from 1907 to 1913 that of chemistry and from 1896 to 1907 he was acting president of the college, and was Dean from 1907 to 1913. Doctor Knight in 1909 established a course in rubber chemistry, the first in any American' college. When with the aid of a gift from Andrew Carnegie in 1908 the trustees of Buchtel College put up a chemical building, they named it Knight Chemical Laboratory, in honor of the long service of Doctor Knight. He is a member of many technical societies, being a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of HISTORY OF OHIO - 379 Science, a member of the Ameriean Chemical Society, the fraternities of Phi Betta Kappa, Zita Psi, Phi Sigma Alpha and an honorary member of the Chemists Club of New York City. He has contributed a number of articles on sanitary science and the chemistry oi rubber. He is a member of the University Club of Akron and the Universalist Church. Doctor Knight married, August 31, 1882, Miss May Acomb, of Tidioute, Pennsylvania. Their three children are Maurice A., Hal J. and Helen L. WALTER DUNLAP THOMSON is managing editor of the Dunlap Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers in Ohio, founded more than a century ago, and for ninety years its ownership and control has been largely vested in one family. The owner of the paper today is Henry Clay Thomson, father of the 'managing editor. The pioneer of the family in journalism in Ohio was Abram Thomson, grandfather of the managing editor today. Abram Thomson was born in Maryland, October 15, 1814. His grandfather was an American soldier in the Revolution. His father, Hugh Thomson, was with a Maryland regiment in the War of 1812 and was on military duty when Abram Thomson was born. Abram Thomson had few opportunities to attend school, and gained most of his education while working in a printing office. At the age of eighteen he went to New York City and worked as a compositor on some of the metropolitan dailies of the time. He had the distinction of the press for the manuscript of Horace Greeley. Abram Thomson came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1834. At that time a relative, George W. Sharpe, was publishing the Delaware Gazette, which had been established in 1818. Abram Thomson soon acquired an interest inthe paper, became its publisher, and did not retire from its management until January 1, 1897, when he sold the Gazette to his two sons, Henry C. and Robert. C. Thomson. He had several associates in the management and editorial control of the Gazette, but its success as a business institution and its great influence as a newspaper were due to him. He was a whig in politics, and represented Delaware County in the Legislature in 1848-49 and in 1850 was elected to the ,Senate. He was a member of the Whig State Central Committee in 1854, when the whig party was formally disbanded and the republican party took its place. He was a presidential elector' on the Lincoln ticket in 1860, and under appointment from President Lincoln was postmaster of Delaware from 1861 to 1868. He was a personal friend and associate of all the great Ohio statesmen of the last century. He was a member and secretary of the first Board of Trustees of.the State Industrial Home for Girls. He was also deeply interested in the subject of horticulture, and in 1852 began developing a superior quality of grapes grown at Delaware, and was largely instrumental in making the Delaware grape one of the standard varieties grown in this country. His first wife was Delia Storm, who died in 1848, and his second wife was Sallie M. Wright. He had two sons by each marriage, and 'all of them at, some time or another were connected with the Delaware Gazette. The oldest son is Henry Clay Thomson, the venerable owner of the Gazette today. He was born at Delaware, March 11, 1842. It was said that he was only five years old when he started selling the Gazette. He acquired a good common school education, and for several years attended the Ohio Wesleyan University. He learned the printing business, and from 1866 to 1871 was actively identified with the management of the Gazette as part owner. Still retaining his interest in the newspaper, he removed in 1871 to Dayton, Ohio, and for over a quarter of a century was active in the grocery business in that city. Disposing of his interests there he returned to Delaware and on January 1, 1897, with his brother Robert, acquired the Gazette from their father, and a year later he became sole proprietor.. Though now eighty-two years of age, he is in his office every day, and is one of the oldest active newspaper men in the state. While a resident of Dayton he was twice elected a member of the Board of Education, and was one of the committee who had charge of building what was then the finest high school building in the state. Henry C. Thomson married. Eliza Dunlap McKinnie, who was born January 18, 1846, and is now deceased. Their son, Walter Dunlap Thomson, was born at Dayton, January 19, 1880. He was reared in that city, attended grammar and high schools there, and was about seventeen when the family returned to Delaware. For a time he was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan Academy, but in 1,900 went into the Gazette office, and has mastered practically every technical work connected with the publication of a newspaper. He learned typesetting, press work, commercial printing, aiid has had .a Tong, experience as a reporter' and editorial writer. His enterprise as a newspaper publisher reached an interesting peak of achievement during the great flood of 1913. During the high waters most of the Gazette plant was submerged, but not a single issue of the daily Gazette was missed. Mr. Thomson printed paper on a job press with type that was in a portion of the building above the water. Three extra editions came out during the flood. All the typesetting and press work was done by hand. As a mark of appreciation of the undaunted spirit of the personnel of the Delaware Gazette under almost impossible conditions, the Pittsburgh Gazette reproduced in full the special flood extra of the Delaware paper, of which there were 5,000 copies. Mr. Thomson is a director of the Delaware Chamber of Commerce, and has been aligned with all the progressive 'movements in the city. He is a member of the Masons and Elks, the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity, the Kiwanis Club, the Delaware Club and the Presbyterian Church. In May, 1901, at Delaware, Mr. Thomson married Miss Antoinette Edwards, daughter of Charles M. and Mary (Campbell) . Edwards. Her father is a traveling salesman, and is a veteran Union soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have three children: Mary Katharine, Ruth and Henry Clay. WILLIAM G. AMAN is one of the prominent and progressive younger business men of the City of Canton, where he is president of the Wm. G. Aman Company. This company is the authorized dealer in Ford and Lincoln cars and Fordson tractors. This company maintains a model establishment in a new building, including attractive sales rooms and all the service facilities for which the Ford organization is noted. Mr. Aman was born at Canton, December 31, 1893. He was educated in public and high schools, also had a business college course, and after some training in the home offices and plant went on the road as a salesman for the Dannemiller Wholesale Grocery Company. He was in the service of that company eleven years except for the period of the World war. He entered the service with the Aviation Corps, was promoted to sergeant, and was on overseas duty thirteen months. In July, 1922, having resigned from the Dannemiller Company, he bought the James Finney Motor Company of Canton, and organized the Wm. G. Aman Company. Mr. Aman is a member of the American Legion, the Canton Automobile Dealers Association, the Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, Young Men's Christian Association, the . Elks, the 380 - HISTORY OF OHIO Congress Lake Club and the Ohio Automotive Trade Association. On December 1, 1923, he married Miss Rosanna Santry, of Cleveland, but formerly of Canton. REV. J. H. WAGNER. is pastor of Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Delaware. This is one of a number of successive pastorates in this state. In practically all of them he has had the opportunity to show his ability as a constructive worker and church builder in both his church and in behalf of the welfare of this community. His name ranks high in the Catholic Church of Ohio. He was born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, February 12, 1865, and a son of Alexander and Jane (Bushu) Wagner, both natives of Ohio and now deceased, Alexander dying during the infancy of his son, J. H. He was ,a farmer. The paternal grandparents were Michael Wagner and wife, who were born in Alsace-Lorain, France, and some of their children were born there. After they came to this country and settled in Ohio their first child born on American soil was Alexander Wagner. The maternal grandparents were Jonathan and Rachel (Anderson) Bushu, both from Pennsylvania. Father Wagner was raised at Lancaster, Ohio, attended the parochial schools there, and to pursue the training of his present career in the priesthood he then spent three years in Saint Charles College at Baltimore, attended Mount Saint Mary's College at Emmittsburg, Maryland, and for five years was a student of theology at Mount Saint Mary 's College at Cincinnati. He was ordained as priest in Pittsburgh, August 15, 1894, and all the work of his twenty-seven years in the ministry has been done in Ohio. For three years he was assistant pastor at Newark, and following that was pastor for six months at New Lexington, five ,years at MeConnelsville, two years at Millersburg, and then took. up his work as pastor of Saint Benedict's Church at Cambridge. Father Wagner was at Cambridge twelve years. He found the parish and the church property almost disorganized, and while he was there he paid off all the debts after building one of the finest parochial schools in the state and also a handsome church edifice. A history of Guernsey County, of which Cambridge is the county seat, gives Father Wagner the credit of having done more for the community than anyone else in the way of improvements, especially in reference to the parochial school. While there Father Wagner also built a new church at Byesville, a place of 2,775 inhabitants. To know Father Wagner makes it possible to understand his ability as an administrator, organizer and constructive worker. He possesses a most engaging personality, has a wonderful fund of energy, and is always making friends and succeeding in carrying them off for worthy causes in the community. In 1916 he came to Delaware to take charge of Saint Mary's Church. He is the head of a large and prosperous congregation, and also stands high among business men, generally and the Chamber of Commerce. CALVIN C. DUNLAP. In accumulating business interests that represent a wide and useful range of important activities, in making himself a citizen of power and influence, and in rearing a large family of sturdy sons and daughters, constituting a splendid family group now including forty-three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, Calvin C. Dunlap, 'of Delaware, has achieved all the best elements of substantial success. What he has done he has accomplished through his individual energies and ambition. He is still a hard worker, and from industry has derived the best satisfactions of living. He was born in Delaware Township of Delaware County, May 5, 1858, son of James and Sarah (Cowells) Dunlap. His grandfather, David Dunlap, was a native of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish stock. As a boy he went to sea, and the boat on which he was employed was captured by pirates. For eleven years he was kept a prisoner. He was finally released, and about 1830 came to the United States and settled in Ohio. He was a Mason fraternally. James Dunlap, father of Calvin C., was born in Concord Township, Delaware County, and spent his life as a farmer there. He married Sarah Cowells, who was of Yankee ancestry and .a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Cowells, who were early settlers of Ohio. Calvin C. Dunlap attended country schools, and after receiving a common school education he entered high school. However, he remained only three days. He was then a strong boy of fifteen, and fell that he had enough book learning and could properly go to work to satisfy his' ambition for useful employment. For six years he followed an apprenticeship at the butcher's trade. About 1885 Mr. Dunlap bought twenty-one acres of good timber, and put himself at the head of a crew to log it off. He sold the logs at a profit, and this opened for him what has proved his permanent business as a lumberman. His work was mainly logging for many years. In 1900 he built his first saw mill, and started his wholesale and retail yard on the site of his present plant at Delaware. He has developed a complete woodworking plant, manufacturing rough lumber, and he also has planing mill and flooring mill for the manufacture of interior finish of all kinds. He still keeps an organization busy in logging. He buys stumpage from farmers, and frequently buys the land outright. The lumber business in recent years has become with him almost secondary to his interests and responsibility as a practical farmer. He has improved a large number of tracts on which the timber has been removed, and he now operates over 600 acres of farm land. The farmers of Delaware County recognized him as the leading farm owner and farm operator of the county. Recently Mr. Dunlap sold to his two sons, Earl and Joy, each a one-third interest in the business, and while he still retains a third interest and is active in the supervision, he allows his sons to take the major part of the work, and he devotes more of his time to farming. Both in a public as well as in a business way when Mr. Dunlap becomes connected with an undertaking there is every reason to believe that it will be prosecuted to a successful issue. He' is a member of the City Council of Delaware. During the war he was on the County Food Commission, and he handled the work of that office with such good results that it attracted attention all over the country. He helped organize and is vice president of the Delaware Springs Sanitarium, and has held many township and other offices. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his family are members of Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Dunlap evidently was born with a talent for hard work. However, from very early manhood he has had another strong incentive to accomplishment, and that was his growing family. He was only eighteen and still a butcher's apprentice when on November 28, 1876, in Delaware Township, he married Miss Mary S. Converse. Her parents were William and Jane (Sible) Converse, her mother of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap became the parents of twelve children, and their family circle still includes ten of them, besides the numerous grandchildren. A brief record of these children and grandchildren is as follows: Jennie Elizabeth, the oldest, is the wife of Rev. Sager Tryon, and their ten children are named Mary, Agnes, HISTORY OF OHIO - 381 Margaret, Pauline, Anna, Martha, Sager, Jr., Calvin Converse, Genevieve and James. Iva Dunlap was married to E. B. Welch, and they likewise have a household of ten children, named Gladys, Mildred, Calvin S., Russell, Herbert, Georgie, Harold, Marion, Lillian and Bernard. The oldest son, Nay ond B., married Marjorie Howison, and has four children, Paul, Marjorie, Dorothy and Lewis. Earl T. Dunlap by his marriage to Marie Newhouse likewise has four children, Edna, Elma, Harold and Dale. George, the third son, married for his first wife Effie Anderson, by whom he has one son, George, Jr., and his second wife was Elizabeth Beth Wealthy, the sixth child, is the wife of Guy Mussard, and they have a group of seven children: Ruth, Winnifred, Beatrice, Carroll, Earl D., Grace and Warren G. Clarence E. Dunlap married Susie Adams, and they have a daughter, Eleanor Virginia. Mary Grace Dunlap is the wife of Vernon Mast and has one child, Janet. Emma Opha. married Herman Leady, and their two daughters are Mary Grace and Elizabeth, the older named in honor of her aunt. The youngest of the family is Calvin C., Jr., who married Betty Gladys Black, and their two children are. Elizabeth Ann and Joy Howard. RUSSELL DE WITT KISSNER is a young Delaware business man, and represents some of the progressive ideals of modern business life. His is a very positive character, and he is always known to stand firm on his principles, and at. the same time he has proved his ability to build up a fine and prosperous business and is one of the most popular men in the city as well. Mr. Kissner was born at Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio, December 24, 1890. His parents are Samuel C. and Alberta May (Smith) Kissner. His grandfather, Nicholas Kissner, came from Switzerland and married a Miss Bigler. The maternal grandparents were Marion and Levina (Snow) Smith. Samuel C. Kissner and wife are both natives of Ohio. He was a teacher in early life also a farmer, and later took up construction work. It is with justifiable pride and satisfaction that he can point to his enviable record as a builder. He had put up bridges and public buildings all through Central Ohio. He built many bridges in Coshoeton and Delaware County, and one especially notable construction handled by him was the viaduct at Massillon, more than 1,000 feet long, which crosses the Ohio Canal, Tuscorawas River, Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Baltimore & Ohio tracks, nine in number, connecting the largest manufacturing district to the City of Massillon. The 3,000,000 gallon Corinth concrete reservoir for the City of Coshocton was also constructed by him. Russell DeWitt Kissner was reared in Coshocton County, where he attended public schools, graduating from high school in 1909. During the following year he worked, with his father on construteion contracts. Then, in 1910, he came to Delaware to enter Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained to complete the full classical course, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1914. About the time he was graduated he went to assist his father, who was then engaged in the building of the Massillon viaduct. Later he returned to Delaware, and founded the business which he now owns, handling building material and coal. His is one of the largest establishments in the county. He does business on thoroughly clean principles, and he has had the greater satisfaction in his business methods because they have proved successful and at the same time have conformed to the Christian principle of the Golden Rule. During the World war period Mr. Kissner assisted in many of the local war campaigns, and he did some real patriotic work in handling his coal distribution so as to benefit especially the poor and needy. September 15, 1916, at Massillon, he married Miss Grace Mae Pocock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Pocock. Her father is a retired flour miller and grocer at Massillon, and for many years was president of the Massillon School Board. He takes special pride in the. fact that the fine high school building there was constructed while he was president of the board. Mr. and Mrs. Kissner have two children, Eleanor and Paul DeWitt. The family are active members of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, where Mr. Kissner devotes much of his time to the Sunday school, being superintendent. He is also a trustee of the Delaware Young Men 's Christian Association, and is a member of the National Builders Supply Association. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of Sciota Consistory, a thirty-second Scottish Rite and a member of Alladin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is president of the Delaware Kiwanis Club and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. CURTIS N. WADE, president of. the Canton Provision Company, has been identified with the meat business as a retailer, wholesaler, and packer in Stark County for over thirty years. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 10, 1864, was raised on a farm and had a country school education. He remained on the farm until 1893 and then established a retail meat business in Massillon. After eight years he then moved to Canton and engaged in the wholesale meat business, taking over the old plant of the Canton. Provision Company, located on Maple Avenue. Several years after the present site was acquired and a new and modern plant erected in 1906. Additions have been made from time to time and all the buildings are of modern concrete and brick construction, the main building being three stories and basement. The Canton Provision Company is one of the leading meat packing plants in this section of Ohio and set a standard of the highest quality, being especially noted for their high class "Canton Brand" hams, bacon, and sausage products. Curtis N. Wade is president; Frank Wade, vice president; Murray I. Rank, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Wade is a member of the Masonic order, the Rotary Club, and is a republican in polities. He married Miss Mary Rank of Wichita, Kansas. They have two children, George L., plant superintendent of the Canton Provision Company, and Ellen, wife of Robert B. Hogan, who is also connected with the company. JOHN JOSEPH SHEA. One of the oldest business establishments in Delaware is the Delaware Marble & Granite Works, of which John Joseph Shea is the present proprietor. The business was started by his father in 1859. The Sheas have been experts as stone cutters, and the plant at Delaware has turned out some of the most artistic monumental work in the state. John Joseph Shea was born at Delaware, November 1, 1864, son of John and Catherine (Doyle) Shea, and grandson of William Shea, of County Carlow, Ireland, and of John Doyle, also a native of Ireland. John and Catherine (Doyle) Shea were reared in the same section of Ireland, were acquainted there, but were not married until they came to America. They married at Columbus in 1852. John Shea was born June 17, 1824, and was well educated in his native country, and partly finished a course to fit him for civil engineering. In 1849 he came to the United States, and engaged in railroading for several years, at first at Syracuse, New York, then a year at Chillicothe, Ohio, and from there removed to Columbus. At that time the new Capitol Building was under construction, and high wages were being paid stone cutters. John Shea determined to take up that trade. His work attracted the attention of a Frenchman named William Monier, who had marble works in 382 - HISTORY OF OHIO Columbus, and under him he became an expert cutter. At that time one of Columbus largest contractors was Mr. Strickler, who employed John Shea on work at different places, and eventually he went to Delaware to establish a branch of the business. A year later Mr. Shea bought out the establishment, and in this way founded the Shea Monumental Works. He made it a very prosperous concern, and at the same time he helped several of his nephews to get into business at other locations in Ohio. John Shea died, one of the most highly respected citizens of Delaware, on March 31, 1905. John Joseph Shea was reared in Delaware, attended the common schools, and at the age of twenty began working for himself. He too had some experience in railroading, but at the age of twenty-two he went to his father and said that he wished to learn the business of stone cutter. He set to work, served his apprenticeship, and his activities have been engaged in that line continuously since 1886. In 1894 his father retired from the active management of the business. At this time John Joseph and his brother James F. organized the firm of Shea Brothers and succeeded to their father 's plant. James F. Shea died November 30, 1904. The brother then took over the entire business under his own name. He owns an up-to-date plant, and has facilities for all kinds of stone cutting and monumental work. Mr. Shea is unmarried. He and his sister, Catherine A. Shea, keep house together. They are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. JAMES H. LONG, M. D. With the best years of his life before him Doctor Long has already achieved a reputation that places him among the leading surgeons of Central Ohio. His home is at Delaware, where lie has been chief surgeon for the Delaware Springs Sanitarium since that institution was established. Doctor Long was born at Grand Rapids, Ohio, November 9, 1880, son of Rev. James and Sarah (Foulk) Long. He comes of a line of ministers of the Gospel. Both his father and his grandfather, Rev. Samuel Long, were ministers, and some of the earlier generations produced men of the same calling. Rev. Samuel Long came from Pennsylvania. Rev. James Long was a native of Ohio, and for many years active as a minister of the Central Ohio Methodist Conference. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died in 1900, when eighty years of age. His widow, Sarah Foulk Long, is still living. Doctor Long acquired his early education at Weston in Wood County, Ohio. He graduated from high school in 1898, and his first acquaintance with the community at Delaware was as ,a student of Ohio Wesleyan University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904, and followed that with the full course in the field of osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. He graduated with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy in 1906. For three and one-half years he was engaged in practice at Lancaster, Ohio. Doctor Long gave up private practice for further training in his chosen profession, spending one year in the Yale Medical School and then entering Harvard School of Medicine, where he specialized in surgery and graduated in 1914. Doctor Long keeps in touch with the most advanced methods in his profession and with the greatest men in it. He has attended clinics three different times in the great Mayo Institution at Rochester, Minnesota, and has also taken post-graduate work in New York, Chicago. and Philadelphia. Doctor Long while at Kirksville, Missouri, became associated with Doctor Bumstead, and since 1914 they have been associated in the Delaware Springs Sanitarium; Doctor Long being a surgeon of the institution and also chief of diagnosis. In June, 1909, at Lancaster, Ohio, he married Miss Katherine Clarke, daughter of Joshua and Ella (Wiseman) Clarke. Her parents live at Lancaster, where her father is in the grocery business. Five children were born to Doctor and. Mrs. Long, one son, Robert W., dying at the age of three years. The other children are James Clarke, Sarah Margaret, Elizabeth and John Edward. Doctor Long and family are members of the Methodist Church. He is a Delta Tau Delta, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. ROBERT S. MAY came to Delaware to complete his education, and after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University joined the Delaware Chair Company, and for a number of years has had much to do with carrying on one of the city's leading industries. He is president and general manager of the company. Mr. May was born at Kingston, in Ross County, Ohio, March 5, 1884, son of Clarence and Roberta (Shannon) May. He is of Revolutionary ancestry, and one of his sisters is a Daughter of the American Revolution. His paternal grandparents, James and Eliza (Taylor) May, were born in Virginia. His great-great-grandfather Shannon came from Ireland. The maternal grandparents were Robert and Margaret (Mowery) Shannon, also natives of Virginia. Both families were early settlers in Ohio, and the father and mother of Robert S. May were born in this state. Both are now deceased. Clarence May was owner of a general store at Kingston, also owned several farms, and his enterprise and public spirit were such that he was consulted whenever anything of importance was done in the-community. He was a township officer, member of the school board, trustee and treasurer of the. Presbyterian Church, and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Robert S. May was graduated from the high school at Kingston in 1902, and soon afterward he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He took the liberal arts course, graduating Bachelor of Letters in 1906. Soon after graduating he went to work for the Delaware Chair Company. Mr. May mastered everything connected with the factory as well as the business end, and in 1911, five years after he went on the pay roll, he was made secretary of the company, and in 1919 became president and general manager. Mr. May was examined and classified during the World war, but was not called to the colors. In June, 1922, at Delaware, he married Miss Dorothy Welch, daughter of Lewis' and Mary (Lybrand) Welch, both natives of Ohio. Her mother is still living. Her father was in the retail furniture business at Delaware, and an iMportant citizen of the locality, being a member of the school board and active in the Masonic Order. Mr. and Mrs. May have two sons, Robert Lybrand, born in 1922, and James Taylor, born in 1924. Mr. and Mrs. May are members of the Presbyterian. Church, of which he is trustee, and he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Delaware Club. Mr. May has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University since 1920. LUCIUS A. BUMSTEAD, Doctor of Osteopathy, who has had a successful professional career at Delaware for a number of years, is also president of the Delaware Springs Sanitarium. As the moving spirit in developing this successful institution he has done a big thing for the town and community. Doctor Bumstead was born in Indiana, May 1, 1869, son of John A. and Maryetta (Foote) Bumstead. His mother was a daughter of Adrian and Philomela (Alden) Foote, the latter a direct descendant of John Alden. Through this ancestor Doctor Bumstead has HISTORY OF OHIO - 383 membership in the Sons of the Pilgrim Fathers. On both sides his people were representatives in the Revolutionary war. His paternal grandmother bore the maiden name of. Lucia Bowles. Doctor Bumstead's mother was born in New York State, and is now deceased. John A. Bumstead was a native of Connecticut, and is now eighty-six years of age. He was a sergeant in the band. of the Twentieth and Eighty-seventh Indiana Regiments during the Civil war. While in the army he suffered a sun stroke, and has never fully recovered from that. His active life has been spent as a farmer, and for many years he was a deacon in the Baptist Church. Lucius A. Bumstead was eight years of age when his parents moved. to Lincoln, Nebraska,. and he lived there for twenty-five years. He acquired a public school education in that city, and after leaving high school engaged in the mercantile business with a wholesale grocery house. He followed that line three years and then, in 1892, engaged in the clothing business, and was one of the active merchants of Lincoln until 1904. In that year he sold out his mercantile affairs and, going to Kirksville, Missouri, took a full course in the American School of Osteopathy, graduating in 1906. Doctor Bumstead chose Delaware as his home and professional center, and soon had a good practice. At Delaware Doctor Bumstead became interested in the Magnetic Spring Waters. The waters of this locality have been famous since pioneer times, and several attempts were made as far back as eighty years ago to capitalize these resources, but it remained for the enterprise of Doctor Bumstead to utilize them as the basis of a permanent and prosperous institution. In the fall of 1914 Doctor Bumstead organized the Delaware Springs Sanitarium Corporation, becoming its president, with C. C. Dunlap, vice president, and ProfesSor W. G. Hormell, treasurer. Doctor Bum-stead from the beginning has had the management of the business, and the service of the Sanitarium is complete not only in personnel but in material equipment. The chief of the surgical staff is Dr. Ralph P. Baker, and Dr. John Pfarmstiel has charge of the dental department. August 21, 1896, at Lincoln, Nebraska, Doctor Bumstead married Miss Julia Prescott, daughter of Alvan S. and Josephine (Allen) Preseott, natives of Utica, New York. Her father for many years was a merchant, and spent the later years of his life as a field man and traveling representative of the Standard Oil Company. Doctor and Mrs. Bumstead have two sons, Alvan Dale and Arthur Prescott. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he belongs to the Iota Tau Sigma college fraternity, the Masonic Lodge, the Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce. WILLIAM E. HAAS, postmaster of Delaware from May 1, 1916, to June 4, 1924, has had a most interesting business and public career, has made success through his own efforts, and is one of the recognized leaders in the affairs of Central Ohio. He was born at Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, December 17, 1875, and a year after his birth his parents moved to Delaware, so that he has been practically a life-long resident of this city. He is of German ancestry. His mother's people settled in Pennsylvania and from there came to Ohio, Crawford County. His father's people settled in Crawford County directly after coming from Germany, and were pioneers. Joseph E., father of William E., married Mary Frank, both natives of Ohio. His father is still living, and during his active career followed the blacksmith's trade in Delaware and Bucyrus. He has always taken a keen interest in local affairs, though never would take an office. He is a Catholic. William E. Haas attended the gramMar and high schools of Delaware, but before completing his high school course he started his apprenticeship at the cigar maker 's trade. From apprentice and general worker he set up as an independent cigar manufacturer, and for ten years conducted a cigar factory and also did a retail business. He prospered in that way, and at the same time gained the confidence of his fellow citizens, and while in business was elected a member of the City Council, serving two terms in that capacity. For two terms he was elected and served as mayor of Delaware. From that he was promoted to a still higher office that of member of the State Senate, serving two office, 1911-12 and 1913-14.. After leaving the Senate Mr. Haas went on the road as traveling representative for Riddle Gray & Company, cigar manufacturers, and for four years covered an extensive territory over Ohio, Indiana and Southern Michigan. On May 1, 1916, he was appointed postmaster by President Wilson and by reappointment in 1920 his present term expired in 1924. He gave a most capable administration of the postoffice. June 29, 1898, at Delaware Mr. Haas married Miss Katherine Hoch, of Lancaster, Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Katherine Hoch. Her mother is still living. Her father was a machinist. Mr. and Mrs. Haas have three children: Mary Katherine, wife of Floyd Knox, who is connected with the Sunray Stove Company of Delaware ; Anna Josephine and J. William: Mr. Haas is a democrat in polities, is a member of the Catholic Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Kiwanis Club. WILLIAM RIGBY. Coming to the United States a feiv days after his marriage, William Rigby for forty years has been prominently identified with the coal mining industry in Guernsey County and adjacent fields. He is president of a company operating a number of mines, and is also officially identified with two of Cambridge 's leading industries. Mr. Rigby was born near Liverpool, in Lancashire, England, March 13, 1860, son of John and Jane (Mollineaux) Rigby, his father a native of Lancashire, where his mother was also born. His father was a miner, and for a number of years was a contractor engaged in sinking mines and tunneling, while in his last years he became a merchant in the Village of Crawford. He died in 1886, and his wife in 1862. He was very active as a Methodist, and served as a local preacher in his section of England. He was also active in behalf of temperance. Second in a family of three children, William Rigby had a very limited education, and was eight years of age when he began working more or less regularly in the mines. The desire to come to America grew upon him with succeeding experience, and he waited only the confirmation of his marriage to put his plan into effect. He was married August 17, 1880, and on the 19th of August he and his bride set sail for the United States, having borrowed the money to pay for, their passage. On arriving in the United States Mr. Rigby went to Staunton, Illinois, and spent a year working in the coal mines in that section. After one year he was owner of his home. From the Southern Illinois coal fields he came to Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1883, and from the work of a practical miner he was soon promoted to executive responsibilities. In 1891 he was made superintendent and mine boss of the Trail Run mines near Pleasant City. When the Loomis-Moss Coal Company was organized in 1896, he was financially interested in the organization, and later became its president. The company was incorporated in 1896, and subsequently was -sold to the Akron Coal Company. The Akron Coal Company at present operates the Murray Hill, Kings, Klondyke No. 2 and Rigby mines in Guernsey County, the Moss Mine in Noble County, 384 - HISTORY OF OHIO and the Beaver Dam and Tippecanoe mines in Tuscarawas County. Its production is sold chiefly for steam coal. The company has up-to-date equipment in all its mines, and has a working force of about 1,200 men. Mr. Rigby is also vice-president of the Oxford. Pottery Company, a successful industry manufacturing the Brown ware, and is vice president of the Cambridge Products Company, which operates the Cambridge Steel Company, of which Mr. Rigby was formerly president. While many business duties claim his time, Mr. Rigby is also prominent in religious and civic affairs, and is especially interested in every movement and object that promotes the chances of youth, and tends to give them better advantages than he himself enjoyed as a boy. He is president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is president of the Cambridge School Board, is a member of the Christian Men's League and was its first president, and is a member of the Rotary Club. Fraternally he is affiliated with Pleasant City Lodge No. 366, Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a member of the Royal 'Arch Chapter, the Council and Knights Templar Commandery at Cambridge. He is president of the Henry Wells Hospital Company of Cambridge. He is a republican, and has supported the temperance movement for many years. At the date mentioned above, August 17, 1880, Mr. Rigby married Mary Jane Moss, whose brother, the late Henry Moss, was one of the members of the Loomis Moss Coal Company of Cambridge. Her father was James Moss, a miner and later for many years a grocery merchant at Digmoore, England. Mrs. Rigby died some years ago, and is survived by four children: Elizabeth, wife of John L. McCreary, a hardware merchant at Frederiekstown, Ohio, and the mother of one son, William Loomis; John James, who is a graduate of Ohio State University, is now superintendent of the Akron Coal Company, and is married and has three children, John William, James and Helen; Harry, a graduate of Ohio State University, and now connected with the New York Telephone Company at Mount Vernon, New York, is also married, and his two sons are Gordon and Howard; William, Jr., a graduate of the School of Architecture of the Ohio State University, and superintendent of the Murray Hill Mine for the Akron Coal Company, enlisted as a private in the Fourth Ohio Infantry, going to France with the Supply Company of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry in the Forty-second or Rainbow Divi- sion, and was promoted from private to lieutenant while on active duty in France. Mr. Rigby's second wife was Mrs. Martha Pickering Williams. She takes an active part in church work, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Children's Home, Infirmary and other Guernsey County Institutions. CYRUS BROOKS AUSTIN, D. D. In recognition of the forty odd years of service rendered by Doetor Austin as a teacher and administrative official of Ohio Wesleyan University, the college authorities recently determined that the name of a new dormitory, costing nearly $500,000, should be Austin Hall. This is an impressive monument to a man who has done so much for the great school at Delaware, though his best services can have no better record than that found in the grateful hearts of the thousands of students whose characters he has influenced during the many years he has been connected with the university. Cyrus Brooks Austin was born in Clinton County, Ohio, August 21, 1851, son of David Sharp and Lois (Smith) Austin. His grandparents were William and Elizabeth Austin and his maternal grandparents, Ephraim and Rebecca (Dalby) Smith. His grandfather Austin was a native of Maryland and of English descent, while the Smiths were Pennsylvania English people of Quaker lineage. Doctor Austin's parents were both born in Clinton County, Ohio. His father was a farmer and also a minister of the Methodist Church, and two of the sons were Union soldiers in the Civil war. He was deeply interested in schools and improved educational facilities, and was a republican in politics. The early environment of Cyrus B. Austin was a farm, and his opportunities to obtain an education were limited to the usual three months' winter term of a country school. He worked on farms during vacations, and in that way largely paid the expenses of his higher education. At the age of twenty-two he graduated from the high school at Wilmington, the county seat of Clinton County, and following that taught for a year. He then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1879. In 1883 he won his Master of Arts degree, and many years later, in recognition of his services to the church and cause of education, Miami University bestowed upon him the degree Doctor of Divinity, and during the same year, 1907, he was similarly honored by Ohio Northern University. In 1881 he was ordained to the Methodist ministry, and has been a member of the West Ohio Conference since that year. Doctor Austin has been actively identified with the faculty of instruction at Ohio Wesleyan since he graduated. He was tutor in mathematics from 1879 to 1882, was adjunct professor of mathematics from 1882 to 1884, held the chair of mathematics from 1884 to 1906, and from 1916 to 1920 was professor of both mathematics and astronomy. Since 1920 he has resumed his former duties in the chair of mathematics. Doctor Austin was dean of the university from 1883 to 1920, and since that year has been vice president. Doctor Austin is a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the social fraternity Delta Tau Delta. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club. He is a republican and is president of the Delaware Savings Bank. Doctor Austin is a member of the Association of Mathematics and Science, and is a member and was president in 1911-12 of the Association of Ohio College Presidents and Deans. He is also a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences. August 28, 1884, at Columbus, Doctor Austin married Miss Mary Pickering McVay, daughter of Jason and Mary (Garvey) McVay. Her father for many years was general superintendent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company. The three sons of Doctor and Mrs. Austin all distinguished themselves as soldiers in the Wolld war. The oldest, Jason McVay Austin, is a graduate of Culver Military Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University. He joined the army in 1910, was all through the World war with the rank of major in field artillery, and now holds the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He married Ruth Doyen at Bremerton, Washington, where her father was an official of the United States Navy at the Bremerton Navy Yard. The second aon Raymond Brooks Austin, gradu- ated from Culver Military Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University, entered the army in the field artillery in 1913, and was one of Ohio's most brilliant young officers and one of the few whose service Congress has recognized. He was a major in the. Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, and received numerous citations for bravery and was awarded the distinguished service cross. He was killed at the battle of the Argonne while leading his command on October 6, 1918. The youngest son, Cyrus B. Austin, Jr., enlisted in 1917, when •America declared war on Germany, was HISTORY OF OHIO - 385 in the coast artillery, and was on duty at Fortress Monroe, New Orleans, and at Panama, and was at Hoboken, New Jersey, on his way overseas when the armistice was signed. He is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, and after the war he studied law at Harvard University, was admitted to the bar in New York City in December, 1922, and is now connected with the New York law firm of Rounds, Schuman and Dwight. KARL O. BURRER is by training and profession an engineer. He is a. technical man with a broad grasp of general business, has been prominent in industrial and the development of electric power facilities in Central Ohio, and is well known in the business circles of Columbus, though his home and headquarters are in the Town of Sunbury, in Delaware County. He was born in Delaware County, August 22, 1879, son of Gottlieb and Amy (Gammill) Burrer and grandson of Gottlieb and Catherine (Bolenger) Burrer. His maternal grandparents were Samuel and Mary Gammill. The Burrers were a German family. His father, Gottlieb, was born in Germany. On coming to the United States Gottlieb Burrer settled in Delaware County, where he engaged in flour milling in 1872. He is still the nominal head of G. Burrer & Sons, proprietors of the Sunbury Flour Mills and Centerburg Flour Mills. The sons are Karl 0., Paul Parker, Rudolph 0. and Gorden J. Their mills manufacture the White Loaf and Light Sponge brands of flour, sold and in great demand throughout Central Ohio. Mr. Burrer has been a leader in public affairs in his home community and is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, of the Masonic Lodge and the Baptist Church. Karl O. Burrer attended the district school at Sunbury, finished his high school course there in 1896, and subsequently entered Denison University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. For three years he was an instructor in the department of science at Denison, and another three years he spent at the University. of Wisconsin at Madison, teaching and a student of electrical engineering. For one year Mr. Burrer was teacher of science in Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York. Giving up a promising career as an educator, he returned to Sunbury and has since been active manager of the milling business. His interests have extended beyond flour milling to electrical development, and he was active in organizing the Big Walnut Electric Company, being its vice president and general manager. Mr. Burrer in December, 1908, at Sunbury, married Miss Daisy Sperry, daughter of Isaac and Sophronie (Cummins) Sperry. Her father is still living. They have one son, Carleton, attending school at Sunbury. Mr. Burrer is treasurer of the Sunbury Baptist Church, is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. OATFIELD W. WHITNEY is owner and editor of the Sunbury News, and he and Mrs. Whitney have made that one of the most interesting and influential country newspapers in Central Ohio. Both are active in its management, and the Town of Sunbury regards the News as an indispensable institution, though hardly more so than its two editors. Mr. Whitney was born about three miles west of Sunbury, in Delaware County, December 15, 1881, son of Robert W. and Angeline (Degood) Whitney, and grandson of Horace and Eliza (Swallow) Whitney. His grandfather came from Rhode Island. Both parents are natives of Ohio and still living. Robert W. Whitney is a veteran Union soldier. He was with the One Hundred Twenty-first Ohio Infantry, and was three times wounded, once in the arm and once in the leg and one ball went clear through his lung. In spite of such injuries he lived a very active life for over half a century after the war, being a farmer, but his chief business was that of a wool dealer. He is now retired. Oatfield W. Whitney attended grammar and high schools at Sunbury, and took a two years' course in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. About the time he completed his education he became a rural mail carrier, one of the first appointed during the early years of that extension of the postal service. He carried mail out of Sunbury five years, beginning in 1901. After that he was successfully engaged in the transfer, ice and coal business for five years. He sold this and in 1912 was appointed postmaster at Sunbury by President Taft. He filled the office four years, and on retiring he acquired a half interest in the Sunbury News and subsequently became its sole proprietor. In connection with the newspaper he does much business in insurance and real estate. He and Mrs. 'Whitney have always worked together in their business affairs, and their common purpose has also pervaded their activity in public matters. During the World war Mr. Whitney was chairman of all the local Liberty Loan drives, and helped in the campaigns for the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. He made many speeches here and over the county. October 10, 1902, at Johnston, Ohio, in Licking County, Mr. Whitney married Miss Pearl Green, daughter of Homer N. and Rovena (Van Fossan) Green. Her father is a retired farmer. The Green family came originally from Virginia, and Mrs. Whitney had Revolutionary ancestors. To their marriage were born three children, William H., Hoyt G. and Oatfield W., Jr. The son William is now in his first year in Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are Baptists, and fraternally he is a member of the college fraternity Alpha Tau Omega, is a Royal Arch and Council Degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks. WALTER S. RUFF. A lawyer, able and scholarly, with a record of important public service, Walter S. Ruff became a resident of Canton before he was admitted to the bar, and has been practicing there over twenty years. He is a member of a law firm that in a sense of practice is one of the most successful in Northern Ohio, Herbruck, Black, Mc,Cuskey & Ruff, with offices in the George D. Harter Bank Building at Canton. Mr. Huff was born in New Chambersburg, Ohio, a son of Albert and Malinda (Summer) Ruff. His education after the common schools was acquired largely through his individual efforts and earnings. He attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in his career as a teacher he taught in rural districts, village schools and finally in the high school at Canton. In the meantime he was diligently pursuing the study of law, and on December 23, 1904, was admitted to the Ohio bar. In 1912 he was admitted to practice in the United States District Court. Mr. Ruff achieved a reputation and a successful general practice before he was willing to devote any of his time and abilities to politics. From 1914 to 1918 he served as city solicitor of Canton, and in 1918 was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark County and reelected in 1920. He is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Moose. On November 23, 1899, Mr. Ruff married Miss Loretta Sailor, of East Rochester, Ohio. They have one daughter, Beatrice M. 386 - HISTORY OF OHIO. EDWARD T. HUMES, for just a quarter of a century has been a member of the Delaware Bar, has enjoyed many of the best honors of his profession, is still active in private practice, and in the meantime has given fourteen years to the cares and responsibilities of office. Judge Humes was born in Brown Township, Delaware County, March 7, 1872. The Humes are Scotch-Irish, and the family has been in Ohio for several generations. His paternal grandparents were John and Margaret Humes, and his maternal grandfather was William Overturf. Judge Humes is a son of I. N. and Mary (Overturf) Humes. His father, who is still living, was born in West Virginia, was a farmer, and was a member and in former years was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Judge Humes attended public schools in Delaware County, and took a three years course in the National Business College at Logansport, Indiana. His early experiences and work were largely directed with a view to fulfilling his ambitions to become a lawyer, and finally, in 1898, he graduated Bachelor of Laws from the Cincinnati Law School and in the fall of the same year opened his office and started practice in Delaware. He became well known to the people of the county, and, recognized as an able young lawyer, he was soon in End for political advancement. He was elected and twice reelected, serving six years as prosecuting attorney, from January, 1901, to January, 1907. Two years later he was elected judge of probate of Delaware County, and by reelection held that office eight years, from February, 1909, to February, 1917. Since 1917 Judge Humes has declined further political preferments, and has since been busy with an extensive private practice. During the World war, however, he served as legal advisor and in other capacities of helpfulness to the cause. October 12, 1898, at Delaware, he married Miss Ora Bell Perfect, daughter of Wayman and Helen (Derthiek) Perfect. Her parents were born in Ohio, and are deceased, and her father was a Union soldier in Company K of the One Hundred Twenty-first Infantry. Judge and Mrs.‘Humes are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the County, State and American Bar associations. HIRAM D. HOUSE who enjoys a successful law practice as a member of the Delaware bar, was for many years in business as a merehant in that city. He was born at Batesville, Noble County, Ohio, March 25, 1873, son of John and Annie M. (Snyder) House. His parents were both born in Ohio, and his mother is still living. The paternal grandfather, Reason House, served all through the Civil war as a Union soldier. He married Lydia Reinhardt. The maternal grandfather, William Snyder, married Nancy Miller. All these grandparents were of Dutch ancestry and came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. The late John House, father of the Delaware attorney, was, a successful farmer, served as township trustee, and was known as a very -reliable citizen, devoted to his business affairs and to his home. Hiram D. House was reared on a farm, and acquired a good education in the local public schools and the Quaker City High School, where he graduated in 1896. For ten years his work alternated between teaching in the country schools and farming during vacations. On leaving the school room Mr. House engaged in the grocery business at Delaware, and built up a very successful trade. At the same time he studied law privately, and in June, 1920, passed the examination and was admitted to the bar. Soon afterward he disposed of his business and since December, 1920, has been busy with the interests of his law clients. He is a member of the County Bar Association and religiously belongs to the Church of the Advent. At Batesville, August 26, 1896, he married Miss Frances Robinson, daughter of William and Katherine Robinson. Her parents were born. in Ohio, were farmers, and her father was in an Ohio regiment of infantry throughout the Civil war. In the Robinson family were thirteen children Frances, Bettie, Amos, Hiram, John, Rose, Annie, Bell, Elmer, Thomas, Andy, Katherine and Carrie, all of whom are married except Annie. GEORGE O. HIGLEY, professor of chemistry in Ohio Wesleyan University, has distinguished himself both in scientific scholarship and in the inspirational quality of his teaching. He has been a teacher of chemistry over thirty-five years, and his work has been divided between two universities, having come to Ohio Wesleyan from the University of Michigan. He is a descendant of Captain John Higley, founder of the American family of that name. According to the old church records of Frimley, Surrey, England, he was born July 22, 1649, only son of Jonathan and Katherine (Brewster) Higley. His parents were married at Frimley, January 3, 1647. His mother was of the ancient Brewster family of England, a family that had settled in Kent, England, in 1560, and one of them was Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower. John Higley was thirteen years old when his father died, and he was then apprenticed to a glove maker. Tiring of the tyrannical conduct of his task master he broke the bond of his apprenticeship by running away one Sunday, .without leaving word even with his mother. Taking advantage of a custom of that time he made arrangements with the Captain of a boat sailing for America that the captain should sell him to some one in America as remuneration for his passage. The boat sailed up the Connecticut River to what is now Windsor, and John was sold to John Drake, of a very prominent family of New England. John proved his dutifulness and industry and put himself in high favor with the Drake family. He and a son of his employer became staunch friends, and on November 9, 1671, Hannah Drake and John Higley were married. John Higley was one of - the men who helped hide the Colonial charter in the old Charter Oak at Hartford, and was in other respects a leader in Colonial affairs. He held many town offices, was a member of the local militia in the Indian wars, including King Phillip 's war, and for this service the General Assembly at Hartford in 1698 conferred upon him the rank of captain. His first wife, Hannah, died August 4, 1694. They were the parents of eight children. John Higley married for his second wife Sarah Strong Bissell in 1696. She was a daughter of Return Strong and a granddaughter of Elder John Strong. Her father was a tanner and a wealthy man of the Colony. Capt. John Higley while a member of the Colonial Legislature at its session in May, 1698, brought about the passage of the act providing for the October session of the Legislature to be held at New Haven, thus giving Connecticut two capitals. By his second marriage Captain John had seven children. The second of these was Nathaniel Higley, born November 12, 1699, at Simsbury, Connecticut. He was fifteen years old when his father died. March 29, 1720, he married Abigal Filer, of Windsor, daughter of Samuel Filer and granddaughter of Lieut. Walter Filer. Abigal Filer was born February 6, 1703. Nathaniel Higley was a surveyor by profession and one of the substantial men of his colony. He and his wife had eight children. The fourth child was Solomon, born January 8, 1728, at Simsbury, Connecticut. About 1749 he married Lydia Holcombe, daughter of Lieutenant David and Mehitable (Bottolph) Holcombe. She was born in 1730, and of her ten children HISTORY OF OHIO - 387 the next to the youngest was Dudley Higley, born May 17, 1770. About 1792 Dudley Higley married Esther Davis, of Becket, Massachusetts. She was born in 1777. They lived in Washington County, New York, then Richmond, Vermont, and finally moved to Essex County, in the region of the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Dudley Higley was a soldier in the War of 1812, and he and his oldest son were participants in the battle of Plattsburg. The eldest child of Dudley and Esther Higley was Joel, born February 14, 1792. As noted, lie was a soldier in the War of 1812. In 1816 he married Sally Esterbrook, of Essex County, New York. In 1840 they moved to Ohio, locating at Fredonia, Licking County. Dudley died in 1848, at the age of fifty-six. He and his wife had eight children. The sixth child was Julian Higley, father of Professor Higley. This brief genealogy gives his connected descent from Capt. John Higley, who came to America more than 250 years ago. Julian Higley was born in Keene, Essex County, New York, April 27, 1828. In 1851 he came to Ohio, to the home of the family at Fredonia in Licking County, and in 1853 he married Selvina M. Currier, who was born in Bangor, Maine, May 9, 1826, daughter of Samuel and Mehitable (Stevens) Currier. Julian Higley was a farmer and also conducted an ashery for the manufacture of pearlash and salaratus. In. March, 1861, he and his family removed to Potsdam, Saint Lawrence County, New York, where he continued his work as a manufacturer. In 1863 he moved to Plain City, Union County, Ohio, in 1864 to Monroe, Wisconsin, and in March, 1872, he returned to Potsdam, New York. He was an official member of the Methodist Church and interested in the schools, serving on school boards in several localities. He and his wife reared a family of four children, the second of whom was George O. Higley. George O. Higley was born in Licking County, Ohio, August 19, 1858. He acquired most of his early education in the public schools of Northern New York. He attended the State Normal School at Potsdam New York, and in 1887 entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He holds, also, the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan. Mr. Higley remained at the University of Michigan as instructor in chemistry for thirteen years. In 1900-01 he had a year 's leave of absence, which he spent in post-graduate study in chemistry under Alfred Werner at Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Higley came to Delaware to take the chair of chemistry in Ohio Wesleyan University in 1905. Some of the men who began their study of chemistry under him have made reputations, including Prof. J. S. Hughes of the Kansas Agricultural College, Prof. E. C. H. Davies of West Virginia University and Capt. Walter C. Russell, who during the World war was a sanitary engineer with the American forces in France. Throughout the war period Professor Higley was busy training students for the chemical warfare division of the army. Professor Higley is a member of the American Chemical Society, and was twice chairman of the Central Ohio section of the society at Columbus and for three years a counselor of the section at the national meeting. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Sigma Xi scientific fraternities and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He belongs to the Methodist Church. In December, 1880, at Potsdam, New York, Mr. Higley married Miss Alice Wood, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Morgan) Wood. Her parents were born in Vermont, and her father was a farmer and took a lively interest in school matters and in town affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Higley have a son, Frank C., and a daughter, Bertha L. The daughter is now in charge of the storeroom of the chemistry department of Ohio Wesleyan University. The son, Frank C., is a civil engineer by profession and has spent two summers in charge of parties for the United States Geological Survey in Oregon and in Illinois. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the Engineer Corps during the war and stationed at Camp Humphreys, near Washington. He is now assistant division engineer in the eighth division, Ohio Highway Department. He married Ruth E. Byers; and their four children are : Alice Elizabeth, Richard Byers, Robert Wood and Paul Franklin. HON. CARRINGTON T. MARSHALL, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, was called to this responsible position after thirty years of law practice at Zanesville. It is very noteworthy that he came to the bench on his merits as a successful attorney and learned member of the bar, rather than on account of previous activity in party politics. Judge Marshall was born at Zanesville, Ohio, June 17, 1869, son of John W. and Rachel (Tanner) Marshall. Both parents were descendents of pioneers of Ohio and Virginia. Judge Marshall attended high school at Zanesville, graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from the Law School of Cincinnati University, and was admitted to the bar in 1892. Prior to that time he had taught school for three years. After his admission to the bar he applied himself to private practice, with a steadily growing clientele in his profession and an extensive and general practice in State and Federal courts. He gave up this practice when in 1921 he was elected chief justice of Ohio for the six-year term. Up to that time Judge Marshall had never held any public office either by appointment or election. He is one of the charter member of the American Law Institute, an organization of national scope, organized for the purpose of restating and simplifying the English and American common law. He is also the president of the Judicial Council of the State of Ohio, an organization of nine members created by the General Assembly of Ohio for the purpose of studying and recommending judicial reforms. Mr. Marshall is an honorary member of Ranney Senate Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. He belongs to the Columbus Country Club and the Presbyterian Church. He married at Columbus Grove, Ohio, June 20, 1900, Dora Foltz, daughter of Daniel M. Foltz, of Columbus Grove. Mrs. Marshall was educated in public schools at Columbus Grove, Ohio, and acquired her higher education in the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, also Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Judge and Mrs. Marshall have one daughter, Constance, now a student in Columbia University at New York City. HON. ARTHUR. N. KALEY, who was elected first judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Massillon, and is now incumbent of that responsible office, has had a distinguished career of public service in his native city. He made a splendid record as mayor during the years immediately preceding the World war, and has kept his interest at a high point of tension in all civic movements.. Judge Kaley was born at Massillon, December 1, 1867, son of Joseph S. and Miriam C. (Warren) Kaley. Through his mother he is descended from old Massachusetts Colonial and Revolutionary families, being a direct descendant of Sawtell Holden, who answered the Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775. Through this ancestor he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 388 - HISTORY OF OHIO Judge Kaley graduated with honorable mention from the Massillon High School in 1886, and for a time was an instructor of the Commercial Business College at Massillon. He was a student in Ohio Wesleyan University until ill health compelled him to leave, and from 1891 to 1896 he was private secretary in a law office at Cleveland. From 1896 to 1899 he attended the law department of Western Reserve University, graduating Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar October 14, 1899, and for a time remained in practice at Cleveland. Since 1900 he has been a prominent member of the Massillon bar. Judge Kaley has shown a great capacity for work, and in addition to the heavy demands made upon him by his private practice has repeatedly enlisted his best energies in behalf of public movements. He is a student of government, and before he began the practice of law he traveled and studied institutions and municipal government in various countries in Europe. He was a justice of the peace at Massillon from 1904 until elected mayor in 1911. His time as mayor from 1912 to 1916 was notable for many reasons. He regarded himself as the first servant of the city and its people, and the result was that his administration set a high mark for that time. Under his administration a free bathing beach was established and official attention given to provisions for public recreation. He was also one of the first mayors of an Ohio city to organize a system of cooperation between the government the business interests to lighten the burdens of unemployment, instituting a free employment bureau. After his term as mayor Judge Kaley resumed private practice for several years. In 1920 he was elected the first judge of the Municipal Court, and has filled that office since that date. He is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations and is prominent in fraternal affairs, being a member of the Masonic Order, past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has served as treasurer of the Massillon Protected 1:lome Circle, one of the Board of Managers of the Modern Woodmen of America and as past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. JOHN E. DAVIS is owner of the Zack Davis Seed Company of Delaware. This company is now one of the largest concerns in Ohio engaged in the growing and distribution of seed for agricultural purposes. The business was started more than a quarter of a century ago, and John E. Davis has been identified with it almost from the beginning. The founder of the business was the late Zachariah Davis, who was born in Wales, and as an infant came with his parents in 1841 to America. His father had been a Welsh shoemaker. On coming to Ohio he settled on a farm a mile east of Delaware, on the Sunbury pike, and here he engaged in agriculture. Zachariah Davis was reared on the home farm, educated in the district schools, and about the time he attained his majority the Civil war brol out and he served with the One Hundred and Fort-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He did his full duty as a soldier, and after the war resumed his place on the farm. He and a brother also were associated in the business of brick manufacture. About 1890 their partnership was dissolved and the brick yard was sold. It was in 1896 that Zachariah Davis started a nursery and began growing and handling seeds. He kept his goods to the mark of highest quality, and had the satisfaction of seeing this business grow very rapidly. In 1899 he opened a store on Williams Street in Delaware City, and from that handled the growing mail order business. He continued the active head until his death in 1914. One of his sons was also associated with the business until his death in 1917. Since then the business has come under the ihdividual ownership of John E. Davis. Zachariah Davis married Elizabeth Evans, who is now living with her daughters, Jane and Anna, in Cleveland, Ohio. John E. Davis was born at Delaware, June 1, 1879, and acquired a public school education, followed by two years in the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1899, when his father opened the seed store and headquarters in Delaware, he took charge and has had a continuous association with the business now for twenty-four years. He has been very successful in building up trade over several states, and a large warehouse is now required to handle the products of the Zack Davis Company. In October, 1911, at Delaware, Mr. Davis married Grace Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Henry and Caroline (Neilson) Miller. The Millers and Neilsons were among Ohio 's pioneer families. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two daughters and one son, Ruth Elizabeth, Thomas Zachariah and Jane Caroline. They are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Davis is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, United Commercial Travelers, and the Delaware Chamber of Commerce. WALTER H. BODURTHA for many years was a banking official at Delaware, is former county auditor, and is now prominently identified with one of the leading industrial institutions of the city, the Sunray Stove Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. Mr. Bodurtha was born at Delaware, September 27, 1871, son of Charles H. and Amy (Simmons) Bodurtha. The Bodurtha family is of an old New England line living around Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. They settled in Massachusetts as early as 1645, and some of the later descendants still own and occupy the original farm in Berkshire County. The grandfather of Walter H. Bodurtha was Charles Hall Bodurtha. Charles H. Bodurtha, the father, was born in Massachusetts and came to Delaware in 1870. He was a photographer, and many of the best examples of photographic art in Delaware County came from his studio. He continued the business until his death on September 27, 1915, and one of his daughters succeeded him as owner and operator of the photographic studio. Charles H. Bodurtha married Amy Simmons, a native of Saint Louis, Missouri, and daughter of Charles W. and Emily Simmons. Her grandfather Simmons came from England. Walter H. Bodurtha was graduated from the Delaware High School in 1892, and immediately went to work in the Delaware Savings Bank, and for seventeen years was an officer in that institution. He resigned when elected to the office of county auditor in 1908. He served two full terms in office, his first term beginning January 1, 1909. He retired January 1, 1913, and the following two years he was salesman and traveling representative for the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company of New York City. Since his return to Delaware he has been secretary and treasurer of the Sunray Stove Company and has had an important part in making that one of the highly prosperous industries of the city. During the World war Mr. Bodurtha was chairman of the local Red Cross, in charge of the drives for funds and he also served as president of the Delaware County unit of the. American Protective League. This was an office of unusual responsibility and involved a great deal of hard work. Mr. Bodurtha is a member of the. Chamber of Commerce, the Delaware Club, the Kiwanis Club and is a member of the Order of Elks, the Masons and of the Presbyterian Church. October 3, 1901, at Delaware he married Miss Helen Westfall, daughter of Doctor and Helen (Eckley) Westfall. Her father served as a surgeon HISTORY OF OHIO - 389 with an Ohio regiment in the Civil war, and for many years he conducted an extensive practice as a physician in Carroll County. Her mother was a daughter of E. R. Eckley, a prominent Carroll County citizen. Doctor Westfall was a Mason and Presbyterian. Mr. and Mrs. Bodurtha have one son, Charles E., a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University and now a student at Harvard. WALTER S. HUTCHINSON is an Akron attorney, is a native of Ohio, and has been successfully engaged in practice for seven years. He was born at Scott, Ohio, August 11, 1892, son of Alvin T. and Margaret M. (Walton) Hutchison, Reared and educated in his native town, where he attended grammar and high school, Mr. Hutchison spent the year 1909-10 in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and in 1916 graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1917, and in 1918 was admitted to practice in the United States District Court. He has always engaged in a general practice. He is a member of the Summit County Bar Association. On September 14, 1916 he married Eva Carey Mead. FRANCIS SEIBERLING for thirty years has had a law practice at Akron, is accounted one of the ablest members of the Ohio bar, and at the same time has taken an active part in the direction of some of Akron's leading institutions of social welfare. Mr. Seiberling was born at Des Moines, Iowa, September 20, 1870, son of Nathan Septimus and Joseva (Myers) Seiberling. When he was a boy his parents returned to Ohio, and he grew up in the Town of Wadsworth, attending grammar and high schools there. Mr. Seiberling graduated in 1892, with the. Bachelor of Arts degree, from Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, and studied law in the Akron offices of the firm of Marvin, Sadler and Atterholt. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1894, and has been steadily engaged in a general practice ever since. He is a member of the prominent Akron law firm of Slabaugh, Young, Seiberling, Huber and Guinther, with offices in the Second National Building. Mr. Seiberling is president of the People's Hospital of Akron and the Akron Young Men's Christian Association. He is also a director of Wittenburg College at Springfield, Ohio. His other associations are with the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, the University Club, Portage Country Club, Fairlawn Heights Golf Club, Congress Lake Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. Politically he is a republican, and is serving as a member of the State Central Committeeman of the Fourth Congressional District. He is a member of the board of directors of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Akron, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Mohawk Rubber Company, Wellman Seaver Morgan Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and of a number of other corporations. He married, June 16, 1897, Miss Josephine Laffer, of Akron. They have two daughters, Eleanor, who is the wife of R. G. Shirk, of Akron, and Josephine, who married Donald M. Me11, also of Akron. GEORGE WALTER BOOTH since 1909 has been an Akron attorney, with his talent and resources largely devoted to corporation civil practice. His offices are in the. Second National Bank Building. Mr. Booth is also known for the variety of his outside interests. He was president in 1923 and vice president in 1924 of the Akron Philosophical Society. He was born in Akron, May 15, 1885, son of Frank H. and Lillian (Bert) Booth, his father a native of Connecticut and his mother of Pennsylvania. His father for many years was connected with the Goodrich Company in Akron. George W. Booth attended grammar and high schools at Akron, had two years of experience as a reporter on the Akron City papers and one year of journalistic work in Cleveland. His higher education was acquired in Buehtel Academy and Buchtel College, and in 1909 he graduated Bachelor of Laws from . Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was for. a time librarian of the Summit County Law Library and a court bailiff. Since his admission to the bar in 1909 he has concentrated his attention upon civil and corporation law, and has been counsel for a number of organizations, including the People's Savings and Trust Company. Mr. Booth is a member of Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, and during the World war was volunteer assistant to "the Draft Board and identified with the Red Cross and War Chest work. He is an expert rifleman, has been a member of the Akron Rifle Club, is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Rifleman, and a contributor to several rifle and sporting magazines. He is author of a volume, "Springer Spaniel Dogs." He was the first secretary of the Portage Path Canoe Club, is a member of the City University Clubs, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Zeta-Alpha-Epsilon and Theta Lambda-Phi fraternities. In 1910 he married Miss Ruth A. Slabaugh, by which marriage there was a daughter, Betty Virginia. On January 1, 1920, he married Ruth L. Fouser of Akron by which marriage he has two daughters, Eleanor ' eanor and Joan. WILLIAM GETZ, who died August 5, 1913, was one of the sterling business men and public spirited citizens of Kent. He was the senior member of Getz Brothers, hardware merchants. He was born in Tusearawas County, Ohio, December 19, 1860, son of Jacob and Catherine (Sheetenhelm) Getz. His parents were born in Germany, but after coming to America settled on a farm in Tuscarawas County. Jacob Getz was a stone mason by trade, and engaged in contracting as well as farming. He died in Tuscarawas County in 1874, and his widow survived until 1897. William Getz grew up on the farm, attended the district schools, the high school at Kent and Buchtel. College at Akron. By practical experience he learned the hardware business, and on October 17, 1887, with his brother John G. he established the firm of Getz Brothers at Kent, dealers in general hardware, paints and oils. He was the senior partner in the business until his death. Since then the firm has remained Getz Brothers, but the active partners today are John G. Getz, George Getz, Harold Bluestone, Bruce Kellogg and Bert Smith. On September 2, 1890, William Getz married Miss Julia Stewart, who was born in Franklin Township, Portage County, January 19, 1865, daughter of Thomas C. and Adeline (Hart) Stewart. Her father was a native of Ravenna Township, Portage County, Ohio, and her mother, of Vermont. Her paternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Clemens) Stewart, were of Scotch ancestry. Her maternal grandparents, Homer and Mary (Knowlton) Hart, were natives of Vermont, and early settlers of Portage County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. William Getz had the following children: Elnora, a trained nurse; Margaret, a stenographer; Mary, wife of Harold Bluestone, and the mother of a son, William Robert; and Catherine, who died when fourteen years old. Mrs. William Getz was educated in grammar and high schools, and is an active member of the Congregational Church. William Getz was a trustee of the church, was a member of the school board and identi- 390 - HISTORY OF OHIO fled himself in every possible way with movements for the improvement and general welfare of his home community. He took part in the prohibition movement and was vice president of the Better Roads. Committee. He was a Mason and republican. CHARLES ELLIS MOORE, who for three terms has represented the Fifteenth Ohio District in Congress, is a native of Guernsey County, and has enjoyed a successful record as a lawyer and is one of the ablest public speakers in his section of the state. His home is at Cambridge. He was born in Oxford Township of Guernsey County, January 3, 1884, son of Lycurgus Passmore and Kate (Cunningham) Moore. His father has spent his life as a farmer, and is still living on the old homestead, where the mother died in November, 1909. The father for seven years held the office of county commissioner. The oldest of four children, Charles Ellis Moore was educated in public schools, and as a youth set his mind upon the law as a career and steadily worked toward the achievement of professional qualifications, never deviating from his course on account of difficulties or lack of financial means. He taught school for several terms, with honors and the Bachelor of Science degree from Muskingum College in 1907, and then entered the Ohio State University, where he won his law degree in 1910. While in law school he served twice on debating teams, and was a member of the Delta Sigma Rho fraternity. After graduating he engaged in law practice in Cambridge, and in 1914 and again in 1916 was elected prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County. In 1918 he was elected as republican member of Congress from the Fifteenth Ohio District, and took his seat in the Sixty-sixth Congress in March, 1919. He was reelected in 1920 and again in 1922, and is one of the important members of the present Ohio republican delegation in the Sixty-eighth Congress. Mr. Moore has also been a leader in moulding the opinion of his section of the state. He has served as county chairman in dry campaigns, is an elder of the United Presbyterian Church and a worker in its Sunday school. He belongs to the Kiwanis Club and is a trustee of Muskingum College. On June 30, 1910, he married Miss Nannie B. Hammond, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles F. and Isabelle (McClellan) Hammond, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer in Guernsey County, and served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children, Charles Lycurgus and Martha Christine. JAMES BLAIR STEWART. In the course of a very active life James Blair Stewart has manifested the characteristics of giving the best that was in him to. every undertaking. In line with that characteristic when he was elected mayor of Cambridge he sidetracked his various business interests, so that all h0 abilities and business experience could be devoted to his administration, which has been an unusually successful one. Mr. Stewart was born in Cambridge Township of Guernsey County, June 8, 1867. His father, John Stewart, also a native of Guernsey County, was a son of James Stewart, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, who came to the United States when a boy, and on arriving in Guernsey County, Ohio, engaged in farming and also taught school. He died at the age of seventy-six. John Stewart was likewise a substantial farmer of Guernsey County, served a ninety day enlistment as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Margaret Starkey, a native of Otsego, Muskingum County, Ohio. James Blair Stewart was early attending the public schools in Cambridge. Arriving at the age of eighteen, he qualified both as a teacher and farmer, and for twenty years taught in the country school districts of Cambridge, Center and Jefferson Township in Guernsey County, all the while carrying on his farming interests. For a number of years he operated a farm and dairy. Removing to Cambridge in 1911, Mr. Stewart organized the Stewart Feed & Supply Company, becoming secretary, treasurer and general manager of the company. This was a wholesale and retail business, and he was in its affairs until he sold out in 1920. He has several other business investments. It was in 1921 that Mr. Stewart was elected mayor of Cambridge. In a community normally republican he ran far ahead of the other democratic candidates on the ticket and was elected by a handsome majority. In 1923 he was again elected. This is not the first public office he has held with credit, since he represented Guernsey County in the Eighty-second General Assembly in the House of Representatives during 1917-18. Asa member of the Legislature he was interested in all measures designed to promote the successful prosecution of the World war, and in his home community he was an effective four minute speaker. He has served as a member of the Democratic County Central Committee, is teacher of the Men's Bible Class in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a lay delegate to church conferences. He was a member of the City Council in Cambridge in 1914-15. A subject that always elicits his enthusiasm is that of good roads. Since 1918 he has been chairman of the Guernsey County Good Roads Association. In 1887 Mr. Stewart married Miss Cora Belle Johnston, of Guernsey County. Their marriage companionship continued for more than a quarter of a century, until her death in April, 1913. Subsequently he married Mrs. Fannie E. (Dolman) Cooper, of Cumberland, Ohio. She takes an active part in church and club affairs at Cambridge. Mr. Stewart has five children. The oldest, Charles W., who was a machinist in the Northwest Navy Yard during the World war, is now in the automobile business at Cambridge, and is married and has three children. John Edgar, a Guernsey County farmer, also has three children. Cecilia M. married Ernest if. Weisenstein, of Cambridge, and they have two children. Miss Mary is in the office of the Ohio Fuel Supply Company at Cambridge, James Starkey, the youngest son, is employed by the Maintenance Division of the Ohio Highway Department and is married and has one child. JOHN RUSSELL LLOYD, postmaster of Cambridge, has for twenty years been a business man of that city, and is a veteran of the World war, having gone overseas with the Thirty-seventh Division, largely made up of Ohio troops. Born at Martins Ferry, Ohio, December 15, 1888, he is the son of Thomas Reese Lloyd, for many years identified with the iron and steel industry in Ohio. Thomas R. Lloyd was born at Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales, in 1854, and came to the United States at the age of sixteen. From the ranks of steel and iron workers he rose to executive responsibilities, and in 1902 came to Cambridge as the first superintendent of the Cambridge Rolling Mills Company. Later he became superintendent of the Greenville plant of the United States Steel Corporation, and continued there until he retired to private life. ire is a republiean, and while living at Martins Ferry was a member of the School Board. He is also a Mason and Presbyterian. Thomas R. Lloyd married Rosanna M. Thomas, who was born in Gallia County, Ohio, her father being a Congrega- tional minister, Rev. John P. Thomas. HISTORY OF OHIO - 391 Fifth in a family of ten children, John Russell Lloyd was fourteen years of age when the family moved to Cambridge, and after completing his education at the high school there he engaged in the retail shoe business in 1903. The firm of Lloyd & Ruby, shoe merchants, is still in existence in Cambridge. Subsequently Dr. Lloyd acquired other interests, and is now president of the Bellaire Stove Company, manufacturers of an extensive line of cast iron stoves. The plant is at Bellaire, Ohio. In July, 1917, Mr. Lloyd became a private in the One Hundred and Twelfth Ammunition Train of the Thirty-seventh Division, Ohio National Guard unit, subsequently being made first sergeant of Company E, and later regimental supply sergeant of Headquarters Company with that division. With the Thirty-seventh he had eleven months of overseas experience in France and Belgium. Mr. Lloyd after the war became one of the organizers and the first adjutant of Cambridge Post No. 84 of the American Legion. He was the first and has been the only secretary of the Kiwanis Club. The late President Harding appointed him postmaster of Cambridge, March 3, 1923, and his time is fully given to the administrative details of the office. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lloyd married Miss Margaret Patterson, of. Cambridge, and their two sons are John Russell, Jr., and Thomas Reese. CHARLES CLINTON COSGROVE. Starting out on his own responsibility as a youth of seventeen, Charles Clinton Cosgrove has in forty years achieved a degree of business success that makes him one of the outstanding men in the commercial affairs of Guernsey County. He is in the real estate and loan business at Cambridge, and is also president of two banks and secretary and treasurer of another. He was born at Cumberland, in Guernsey County, August 14, 1860, son of Wilson and Ruth (Gay) Cosgrove, now deceased. His mother died at the age of seventy-four. Wilson Cosgrove, who died in his eightieth year, was a cabinet maker by trade, and for many years was in the hotel business at Cumberland. Educated in the public schools of his native village, Charles Clinton Cosgrove went to work at the age of seventeen, and began his business career on the lowest rung of the ladder. In 1885 he became a traveling salesman for the Cambridge Chair Company, and was with that local industry in increasing responsibilities for a number of years, becoming a director in the eom-, pany, and when he retired in 1903 was general manager of the business. Mr. Cosgrove has been in the real estate and loan business at Cambridge since 1903, though a diversity of other interests command his time and attention. He was one of the organizers and is seeretary-treasurer of the Cambridge Savings Bank Company. He organized in 1911 and has since been president of the Byesville State Bank, organized and is president of the Bank of Buffalo Company at Buffalo in Guernsey County and is one of the directors of the First National Bank of Senecaville. He is a direetor of the Cambridge Home Telephone Company, a director of the Cambridge Steel Company and a stockholder in the Freeport State Bank and the Columbus National Bank. His business investments also include the ownership of several business buildings at Cambridge. He was a liberal subscriber to all the liberty loans and other war purposes. His chief recreation is derived from travel, and as a factor in community affairs he is a member of the Christian Men's League of Cambridge, the First Presbyterian Church, and is a thirty-Second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Knight Templar. On September 5, 1887, at Cumberland, he married Miss Alta McCortle, daughter of Thomas G. and Mary (Spooner) McCortle, of Camberland, where both of them died. The father, a blacksmith by trade, was for many years in the hardware and grocery business at Cumberland. Mrs. Cosgrove is representative of an old American family, and has membership in the Cambridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also a leader in the Presbyterian Church. Karl M. Cosgrove, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Cosgrove, graduated with the Civil Engineer degree from Ohio State University in 1911, and for four years was city engineer of Cambridge, but is now associated with his father in the real estate and loan business. By his marriage to Miss Edna Mae Miller, of Cambridge, he has one son, Robert Charles. WILLIAM E. N. HEMPERLY began his career as a practicing attorney at Massillon in 1896, the year of the great political campaign between William McKinley and William J. Bryan on the sound money issue. He is a lawyer of splendid gifts and achievements, and has played an important part in the business and civic history of Massillon. Mr. Hemperly was born at West Brookfield, near Massillon, October 10, 1870. The date of his birth was also the date of an Ohio state election, and he was named for two of the prominent republican candidates on that day, the first being William McKinley, then running for prosecuting attorney, and the second being Edward Noyes, who was elected governor of Ohio. Mr. Hemperly is a son of Daniel and Louisa M. (Hamilton) Hemperly, and a grandson of David and Mary (Houck) Hemperly, of Pennsylvania. Daniel Hemperly was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1830, settled in Stark County in 1846, completed an apprenticeship at the trade of blacksmith, and in 1850 went out to California, spending two or three years around the mines. When he returned to Stark County he set up a blacksmith shop at West Brookfield, and in 1875 became member of a hardware firm at Massillon. He continued active in this business for over thirty years. Finally one of his sons became a partner, and the business was known as Hemperly & Son, later as the Hemperly Hardware Company, a large and prosperous business. Daniel Hemperly married in 1855 Louisa M. Hamilton, a native of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Her father, Rev. John Hamilton, moved to Stark County in 1843, and was one of the first ministers of the English Lutheran Church at Canton. Daniel Hemperly and wife celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. William E. N. Hemperly grew, up in the home of a prosperous merchant and business man, attended public school at West Brookfield, the Massillon High School,' and from 1887 to 1889, the Western Reserve Academy at Hudson. In the latter year he entered Adelbert College, now one of the colleges comprising Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1893, and then engaged in the study of law in the office of R. W. McCaughey at Massillon. During 1894-95 he attended the New. York Law School in New York City, and then returned to Mr. McCaughey's office. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1896, and in 1900 was admitted to practice in the United States District Court. He was senior member of the law firm of Hemperly and Howells from 1900 to 1906, and since then has carried on an extensive individual practice, largely in corporation law and as counsel for various business interests. He was the attorney assisting in the organization of a number of industries at Massillon and over Stark County. He helped organize and had charge of the legal details of the Massillon Chamber of Commerce when it was established in 1915, prior to whieh he was an active director of the Massillon Board of Trade, and at this time is a director of the 392 - HISTORY OF OHIO Massillon Board of Trade and the Massillon Chamber of Commerce. He has served as treasurer of the St. Timothy Episcopal Church at Massillon, is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar associations, and president of the Massillon Bar Association, is a Knight Templar, Mason and Shriner, belongs to the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, is a republican and a member of the Brookside Country Club, Elmwood Country Club, Massillon Club and Massillon Social Club. CLYDE RICHARDSON MCILYAR. McIlyar is one of the old and honored family names in Guernsey County. It has also been conspicuous in relation with the commercial and industrial life of Cambridge. Clyde R. McIlyar for many years was an active executive with the local iron and steel works of Cambridge, and is still engaged in business as an insurance man. He was born at Cambridge, February 5, 1868. His father, William H. H. McIlyar, also a native of Cambridge, where he was born in 1840, represented a pioneer family there. William H. H. McIlyar was for four years a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, going in as private and coming out with the rank of captain. After the war he engaged in the dry goods business at Cambridge, being associated with his brother, James O. McIlyar, and later as member of the firm of McIlyar and Price, and finally in business for himself. He was always an ardent democrat, and he served two terms as postmaster under Cleveland. As a young man he studied for the ministry, and in his mature years was a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. William H. H. McIlyar, who died in 1908, married Mary Richardson, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1840, and died in 1916. One of three children, Clyde Richardson McIlyar was educated in the public schools of his native city. At the age of seventeen he became mail clerk in the Cambridge postoffice, of which his father was then postmaster, and on leaving that service he became an employe of the Cambridge Iron and Steel Company. In the service of this industry for twenty-two years, he had promotions through the grades of assistant shipping clerk, shipping clerk, assistant superintendent, superintendent and finally as general manager of the plant. He still holds the office of secretary of the Cambridge Steel Company. After giving up his post of duty in the iron and steel plant he was in the hardware and building supply business at Cambridge as a retail merchant. During the period of the World war, when industrial output was being urged to the utmost, he accepted the post of general labor foreman in the Lorain plant of the National Tube Company. In 1919, after the war, he returned to Cambridge, and served as secretary of the local Board of Trade until 1921, and since then has conducted a general insurance agency, handling fire, life and other forms of insurance. Mr. McIlyar has been generous of his time and efforts in assisting worthy movements in his home community. He is a republican in politics, is a vestryman of Saint John's Episcopal Church, served several years as president of the Cambridge Public Library, was the first secretary of the Rotary Club, holding that office three years, and was secretary in 1923 of the Cambridge Ad Club. In Masonry he is affiliated with Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons; Cambridge Chapter No. 57, Royal Arch Masons; the Scottish Rite Consistory and the Masonic Club. In Cambridge Lodge of Elks he was exalted ruler in 1902 and again in 1907, and in the latter year was a delegate to the national convention at Salt Lake City. Mr. MeIlyar married at Cambridge, in September, 1894, Miss Gertrude Veitch. Her father, Henry H. Veitch, who died in 1917, at the age of sixty-eight, volunteered as a Union soldier when fifteen years of age, and for many years after the war was in the mercantile business at Cambridge. Mrs. McIlyar is a leader in the activities of the Guild of Saint John's Church, and the Federated Woman's Club. They have two sons : William V., a hardware merchant at Galion, Ohio, and James Orme, who is traveling freight and passenger agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway, with headquarters at Seattle, Washington. FRANK LESLIE SCHICK, vice president of the Citizens Savings Bank of Cambridge, was in early life I identified with the building trade, particularly railroad and other construction work, and has long held an influential place in business circles. He is one of the most prominent Masons in Ohio, being a thirty-third, honorary, degree Scottish Rite Mason. Mr. Shick was born at Cambridge, September 27, 1861. His father, Frank Louis Schick, was born in Baden, Germany, January 24, 1827, learned the trade of stonecutter there, and was in the military service during the German revolution of 1848. Soon afterward coming to America, he was employed on the Canadian Southern Railway. In 1853 he moved to Belmont County, Ohio, and was in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway the remainder of his active life. He was foreman of construction of the Newark shops and later became a construction superintendent and for many years made his home at Cambridge, where lie died June 13, 1892. He was a charter member of Cambridge Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married at Barnesville, Ohio, Harriet T. Dorsey. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. She was born in Calvert County, Maryland, May 7, 1828, and died at Cambridge in 1918. Fourth in a family of seven children, Frank Leslie Schick after being educated in the public schools, went to work to learn the trade of stonecutter under his father. From 1877 to 1893 he was employed as a stonemason and in other lines of construction work with the Baltimore & Ohio. He then did work for Guernsey County, handling the stone construction for bridges along the National Pike. In 1895 he became foreman for Scott & Hoyle, of Cambridge, and was superintendent of construction for a number of public buildings, including schools in Cambridge, and was superintendent of construction for a time during the building of the State Hospital at Massillon, Ohio, Mr. Schick in 1897, with his brother John, established the firm of Schick Brothers in the laundry business, and he was active in that line for twenty years, finally selling his interest in 1917. Since then he has devoted most of his time to his duties as vice president and director of the Citizens Savings Bank. In Masonry Mr. Schick has been master of Cambridge Lodge No. 66, and was chairman of the building committee during the construction of the Masonic Temple and served as a trustee of the Masonic Temple Company seventeen years. He is also a member of the Cambridge Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, the Council degree, and the Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Columbus. For twenty years he was active in the Cambridge Lodge of Perfection, the Cambridge Council, Princess of Jerusalem, and the Cambridge Chapter of the Rose Croix. From 1903 to 1923 he was T. P. M. of Cambridge Lodge of Perfection. Because of his continued activity in the philosophical and chivalric degrees he was raised at New York City, September 17, 1917, to the thirty- HISTORY OF OHIO - 393 third, supreme honorary, degree in the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, northern jurisdiction. Mr. Schick married on November 18, 1884, Miss Lillie B. Porter. She was born in Belmont County, Ohio. Her father, John Porter, was in early times a teamster and freighter over the National Pike and later followed the carpenter's trade at Fairview, Ohio. Mrs. Schick is active in church and fraternal organizations, being affiliated with the Eastern Star and the White Shrine. Five children were born to their marriage, the second and third, Fred Porter and Harry Howard, being deceased. Charles Lee, connected with the Cambridge Buick Company, is married and has two children, named Charles L., Jr., and Mary Belle. Lillie Ruth Schick married Henry Edward Cleary, who is with the Middle State Coal Company at Columbus. Frank Schick, now a salesman for the Cambridge Buick Company, enlisted as a private with the Fourth Ohio Infantry, and was mustered into the National army as corporal of Supply Company, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry, in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. He participated in the brilliant service rendered by this division overseas. During the Champaign Marne defensive July 15th to 17th in 1918, he was cited in division order for meritorious service in getting to the front an ammunition train under almost impossible eonditions. FRED WARFIELD LANE, M. D. A physician and surgeon with many years of successful experience, Doctor Lane in recent years has confined his practice largely to surgery and gynecology. He is one of the most prominent men in his profession in Guernsey County, with home at Cambridge. He was born at Columbus, in Franklin County, Ohio, May 10, 1872. His father, Isaac Richard Lane, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1842, was reared there, and devoted many years to the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway as ticket, freight and express agent at Barnesville. He retired in 1913. He was a .soldier of the Civil war, in the Ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry, and was once taken prisoner. In after years he became affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Ohio Veterans' League, and also gave much of his time to civic affairs, serving on the city school board and the city council, was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Isaac R. Lane married Mary Warfield, who was born in 1843 and died in 1913. Of their five children four are living, Doctor Lane being the third in order of birth. As a boy at Barnesville he conceived an ambition for a medical career, and after attending public schools entered Wooster College in Ohio. He was there two years, becoming a member of the Phi Delta Theta. He finished his medical education in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1893. After graduating he returned to Barnesville, practiced there three years, was then located at Fairview, Ohio, from 1895 until 1902, and since April, 1902, his home has been in Cambridge. Here his success has brought him enviable prominence in his profession. He is a member of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Surgeons' Association, has served as secretary several years and president of the Guernsey County Medical Society, and is also a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Lane was in the World war service more than two years. He was commissioned first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps May 9, 1917. He was ordered for training to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, then to Camp Taylor at Louisville, Kentucky, where he became battalion surgeon of the Forty-sixth Infantry, was promoted to captain in September, 1917, and in April, 1918, was sent to Camp Gordon at Atlanta, Georgia, and six weeks later to Camp Sheridan at Montgomery, Alabama, where he was regimental surgeon of the Sixty-eighth United States Infantry. He was then transferred to the Forty-sixth Infantry as regimental surgeon, in February, 1919, and in June, 1919, was promoted to the rank of major. He received his honorable disgcharge in August, 1919, but now holds a commission as major in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, attached to the Three Hundred and Forty-fifth Engineers. He is a member of the Reserve Officers' Association of Ohio, and the American Legion. Doctor Lane is a member of the Kiwanis Club, and plays his favorite game of golf on the links of the Cambridge Country Club.. He is a republican, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Cambridge Lodge No. 66 of the Masonic Order, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He married at Fairview, Ohio, in 1899, Miss Alice Lloyd, who was born and reared at Columbus, daughter of Charles Lloyd, a real estate operator at Columbus, who died in 1915. Mrs. Lane is an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and does much club work at Cambridge. They have one daughter, Elizabeth. HARRY C. HUGHES. Since 1907 Mr. Hughes has been a business man of Columbus, engaged in the general insurance business. Throughout this period he has been one of the active members of the Chamber of Commerce, and his good work on various committees during succeeding years caused him to be honored in May, 1921, by election as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber. On March 14, 1916, the Kiwanis Club of Columbus was organized, and Mr. Hughes was elected its first secretary and has held that post of duty continuously. This Kiwanis Club now has 270 members, representing the best citizenship of the capital, and in many ways has been a potent influence in good work. Mr. Hughes was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in March, 1875, and completed his education in the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, that state. At the age of eighteen he entered the engineering department of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Hazleton, and had several promotions with this corporation. Following that for five years he was division engineer with the Fairmont Coal Company at Fairmont, West Virginia. In 1905 Mr. Hughes became a resident of Ohio, locating at Barnesville, as manager of the Media Coal Company, owned by the Hysylvania Coal Company. He removed from Barnesville to Columbus in 1907, and during the past fifteen years has built up and developed a large and successful general insurance organization. Mr. Hughes is a director and former secretary of the Columbus Automobile Club. He organized the Belmont County Society, which helped make the Columbus Centennial a success. He gave liberally of his own time and the prestige of his business organization to further the success of all war campaigns. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Athletic Club, Columbus Country Club and Aladdin Country Club. Mr. Hughes married Miss Annie Hillis Bradfield, of Barnesville. Their two children are Janet Bradfield and Charles Davis Hughes. HARRY WALTER DENNIS. The Oxford Pottery Company, of which Harry Walter Dennis is president, has its plant at Cambridge in Guernsey County, and is one of the notable industries of its kind in the State of Ohio. Mr. Dennis has been a business man 394 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Cambridge all his life and has become eonspieuous for his initiative and great energy. He was born at Cambridge, September 15, 1867. His father, Peter Dennis, a native of Perry County, Ohio, was reared on a farm, but as a young man engaged in the grocery business at Cambridge. During the Civil war he was a soldier in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry. After a number of years in business for himself he took his son into partnership, under the title of P. Dennis & Son, and continued so until his retirement. He was very successful in business ways, and identified himself in a public spirited manner with all local improvements. Peter Dennis, who died in 1910, at the age of eighty-five, married Elizabeth A. Phillips, who was born and reared at Toms River, New Jersey, and died at the. age of seventy-six. Only child of his parents, Harry Walter Dennis was reared at Cambridge, attended the grammar and high schools, and as a youth went to work with his father in the grocery store. Later he was a partner in the firm of P. Dennis & Son, and after 1891, when his father retired, he continued the business under his personal management until 1896. In 1897 he took charge as business manager of the Republican Press, a republican paper published at Cambridge during the McKinley campaign of that year. He continued as a part owner of the Press until 1899. In 1899 he became one of the three original mail carriers of Cambridge, and was on the postoffice force until 1917. In the meantime, in 1913, he assisted in organizing the Oxford Pottery Company, was elected its first president and has served continuously in that capacity. Since 1917 he has given his entire time to the business. This company specializes in the famous brown cooking and serving ware, and does the largest manufacturing business in this specialty of any potteries in the state. The product is shipped all over the United States and also to Cuba, Hawaii and South America. Mr. Dennis takes his recreation in motoring and gardening. He is an active republican, and has served as chairman of the county and city central and executive committees. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and is active in church and Sunday school work in the First Presbyterian Church, being secretary of the Men's Bible Class. On September 25, 1889, at Washington in Guernsey County, he married Miss Cora D. Stiles. She was born on a farm near Washington, daughter of Hiram and Mary Stiles. Her father was a carpenter by trade: Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have one daughter, Nellie, wife of Dr. Harry L. Stewart, a dentist at Cambridge. JACOB ELLIS ADDISON is founder and active head of .the J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company of Cambridge, makers of the noted Cambridge brand of work clothes, a product sold and distributed over four or five states. Mr. Addison started life with a worthy ambition but with little capital, and through hard work and learning by experience has created a business that deserves attention among the commercial enterprises of Southeastern Ohio. He was born on a farm in Newton Township of Muskingum County, Ohio, May 14, 1867. His grandfather, Richard Addison, was an early settler in Muskingum County and became a large land owner. Jacob Addison, father of the Cambridge manufacturer, was born on the same farm, and died in 1867, when only thirty-three years of age. He married Eliza Long-shore, of a pioneer family of Muskingum County, and a native of Brush Creek Township. She is now living, at the age of eighty-two years, at Byesville. Jacob Ellis Addison was reared by his widowed mother and attended the common schools of his home locality. In 1884, when he was seventeen years of age, he went to Zanesville, and soon went on the road as a traveling salesman, selling hats for J. O. Wilhelm of that city. His territory was Southeastern Ohio, and he built up an extensive acquaintance with dealers all over that section .of the state. After four years he transferred his service to the wholesale notion firm of Freilich & Greenfield, covering the same territory for them three years. After that he was with J. L. Carmen, wholesale notion dealer of Barnesville, and in 1898 engaged in business for himself in the firm of Burt & Addison of Byesville. It was a very modest establishment. A year later Mr. Addison went with the Diamond Pants & Notion Company of Marietta as salesman in Southeastern Ohio. He acquired a membership in this firm, but soon decided to go into business for himself. In 1899 he moved to Cambridge, and with a capital of only a few hundred dollars started a wholesale notion business. His business as a wholesaler grew and prospered, but for a number of years he has concentrated the business in a single line, the manufacture of work clothing. From 1904 to 1921 he operated a branch factory at Belmont, Ohio. The J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1904, and Mr. Addison has been its president and executive head for twenty years. In 1906 he also established a branch of the J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company at Marietta. In the meantime the business quarters at Cambridge became too small, and larger buildings were secured in 1909 and again in 1913, and in 1923 the company built its present modern factory building, 38x120 feet, the basement being used for the cutting department and storage, the first floor for offices and stock room, the second floor for manufacturing. This is the largest plant for the manufacture of overalls, shirts and gloves in Southeastern Ohio. All the output is marketed under the Cambridge brand, and the firm has salesmen traveling over Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mr. Addison is also a director in the Cambridge Savings Bank Company and the Cambridge Products Company. He takes an active part in local civic affairs, is a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married at Quaker City, Ohio, Miss Mary I. Hunt, who was born there, daughter of John R. Hunt, a. very successful merchant and business man of Guernsey County for many years, being in business at Spencer Station and later at Quaker City. Mr. and Mrs. Addison have five living children, Harry, Harlan E., Helen, James Robert and Charles. Harry is vice president of the J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company, is married and has four children. The son, Harlan E., who is secretary-treasurer of the J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company, spent fourteen months with the American Expeditionary Forces during the World war. WADE WALWORTH LAWRENCE, M. D. A native of Guernsey County and practicing medicine there for twenty years, Doctor Lawrence has in recent years devoted most of his time to surgical eases, and is proprietor of the Lawrence Hospital, a splendidly equipped private institution at Cambridge. He is also president of the County Medical Society. Doctor Lawrence was born at Cambridge, November 10, 1879. James E. Lawrence, also a native of Guernsey County, was a successful attorney,. and followed his profession at Cambridge until his death in 1903, at the age of fifty-four. He was city solicitor, mayor, and accepted other responsibilities in his home town and county. He was active in republican polities and a member of the First United Presbyterian Church. James E. Lawrence HISTORY OF OHIO - 395 married Anna Adair, of a pioneer family of Guernsey County. She is now living at Antrim in Guernsey County, her birthplace. The only one living of three children, Wade Walworth Lawrence as a youth determined upon a career in medicine and surgery. After finishing high school he entered the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine May 2, 1903. His first practice was done at Derwent, but six months later he moved to his mother 's old town, Antrim, and was a busy general practitioner in that community more than fifteen years. While there he served on the school board. After special post-graduate work in surgery in Chicago in 1919, Doctor Lawrence located at Cambridge. The Lawrence Hospital, which he owns, is a thoroughly modern institution, for surgical cases only, and has accommodations for fourteen beds. It is located at 614 Clark Street. Doctor Lawrence was elected and served as president of the Guernsey County Medical Society in 1923. He is also a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He and his wife are active members of the First United Presbyterian Church. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite, at Cambridge. In politics he votes as a republican, and his hobby and recreation are the radio and fishing. He married at New Concord, Ohio, in September, 1902, Miss Anna Stewart, who was born and reared there, daughter of Wilson and Mary (Wallace) Stewart, both now deceased. Her father was a soldier in the Civil war, for many years a merchant at New Concord, and influential in the life of that community. Doctor and Mrs. Lawrence have six children: Bessie, attending the Nurses Training School at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland ; Mildred, a teacher in public schools of Belmont County; Mabel, Glenna, Wade S. and Mary Louise. HERBERT RAY FAIRALL began the practice of law at Akron about the time America entered the World war, and save for about six months of training as a soldier has been one of the active members of the bar in that city, now being senior partner in the law firm of Fairall and Fairall in the Herberich Building. He was born on a farm near Frazeysburg, in Muskingum County, Ohio, August 19, 1893, son of Cary L. and Elzina (Adams) Fairall, both parents representing pioneer families in that section of Ohio. His father spent his life as a farmer. Second in a family of seven children, Herbert Ray Fairall grew up on a farm and attended the Fairview and Black Run public schools, graduating from the Fairview School, where both his father and mother had also completed their common school education. After attending the Frazeysburg High School he taught the old Fairview School, and then entered the law department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated with honors in 1917. He was admitted to the Ohio bar June 30, 1917, and was admitted to practice in the United States District Court February 11, 1922. In law school he was a member of the Honorary Fraternity Order of the Coif. After Mr. Fairall moved to Akron in 1917 he was associated with the law firm of Herberich, Burroughs and Smith until January 1, 1922, when he engaged in individual practice. In July, 1922, his brother L. LeRoy Fairall, who was a graduate of the Ohio Northern University in law, became associated with him in the firm of Fairall and Fairall. They handle a general practice in the State and Federal courts. Herbert R. Fairall joined the colors on July 23, 1918, at Zanesville, and was sent to Camp Sherman with the Sixteenth Training Battalion, but was trans- ferred to Headquarters Company of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade and was promoted to corporal October 7, 1918. Following that he joined the Thirty-first Company of the Officers Training School at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was honorably discharged November 29, 1918, after having been recommended for a commission. He is a member of Summit Post No. 19 of the American Legion, belongs to the Ohio State University Alumni Association, the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, the Chamber of Commerce and the Young Men's Democratic Club. Mr. Fairall married, April 4, 1920, at Newark, Ohio, Miss Loucina Pearl Calebaugh. They have two daughters, Fenella La Fern and Juanita Pearl. GEORGE FEICK. For half a century much that is substantial and prominent in the City of Sandusky has borne the impress of the individuality of George Feick. Mr. Feick is a contractor and builder whose work finds striking testimony in many familiar structures not only in Erie County but elsewhere. These include some of the notable public and institutional buildings. Many of the qualities of durability and strength which he has introduced into his buildings have been found latent factors in his own character, and accounts for his success. Coming to the United States at the age of seventeen, he has molded his destiny by his own efforts and honorable purpose. He was born at Steinau, Kreis Dieburg, Hesse Darmstadt, January 23, 1849. He was reared in his native land, was confirmed in the Lutheran Church, and had a common school education. For three years he also served an apprenticeship at the cabinetmaker 's trade. With this experience and qualifications lie set out in 1866 for the new world, and on July 10th of that year joined his brothers, Philip and Adam, in Sandusky. For several years he was employed by Adam Feick, but in 1872 they formed a copartnership, which endured to their mutual satisfaction and success until the death of Adam Feick in 1893. While the Feick brothers were associated in partnership they erected many fine buildings, some of which may be mentioned as follows: Tenth Ward School Building; Erie County Jail; part of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home; the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad stations in Sandusky and in Painesville; Talcott Hall for Oberlin College; the State Capitol Building at Cheyenne, Wyoming. During the last thirty years Mr. George Feick has been in the contracting and building business alone, and during a greater part of the time has had as his capable associate his son, Emil Augustus Feick. In this time the work has gone forward characterized by the same ability and skill as in earlier years. George Feick was the contractor who built the Law Building of the Ohio State University at Columbus ; the Edward Gymnasium for the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; several buildings for Oberlin College, including the Severance Chemical Laboratory; the Warner Gymnasium ; the Carnegie College Library and the Phinney Memorial Chapel, the Men's Building, Rice Hall, Keep Cottage, the Administration Building; and in 1915 he built the handsome new Sandusky High School Building. In 1916 the contracting firm of the Geo. Feick & Sons Company was incorporated, with George Feick, Sr., president; Emil A. Feick, vice president, and George Feick, Jr., secretary-treasurer. They have since built the Savings Bank and Mohican blocks at Mansfield, Ohio ; the Hotel and Administration Building for the Lakeside Association at Lakeside, Ohio : the St. Joseph's Church at Marblehead, Ohio ; and 396 - HISTORY OF OHIO various buildings in Sandusky, and have just finished the Feick Building, an eight-story office building, the first floor of which is occupied by the Citizens Banking Company. Mr. Feick is not only a practical builder, and a man who understands all the technical details of the industry, but possesses a thorough , artistic taste and talent, and has employed that not only in his business but in his avocations. Besides his business as a contractor and builder he is a director and vice president of the Citizens Banking Company of Sandusky and was president of the Sandusky Telephone Company. His public spirit has led him to accept the post of councilman in Sandusky at different times, and his name and influence are counted upon as strong individual assets in the community. Mr. Feick is a member of the Lutheran Church, is a liberal republican, and has attained thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite in Masonry. His first wife was Miss Augusta Ernestine Klotz, who was born in Dresden, Saxony, January 31, 1852, and died December 24, 1888. She was the mother of five children: Emil Augustus, who was born March 20, 1874, was liberally educated in the public schools at Sandusky and in the Ohio Capital University, and now for a number of years has been in the contracting and building business with his father. This son married Miss Louise DeLor in 1900, and they became the parents of two children, Richard and Antoinette. Clara Sofia, the second child of Mr. Feick, was born May 30, 1877. She married Edward Yunek and they have three children, George, Mary and Frederick. George, Jr., was born January 28, 1881. He married Miss Elizabeth Grrefe, and to them was born one son, George III. Olga Charlotte was born June 20, 1885. Ernestine, born December 7, 1888, married Clarence Sanderson' and they have one child, Claire. On June 22, 1892, Mr. Feick married his present wife, Minnie A. Klotz. The only child of this union is Augustus H., born June 22, 1893. HARMON NELSON SHIVELY. From a business career that was more than ordinarily successful, Harmon Nelson Shively entered the law, and for twenty years has been one of the busy attorneys of the Akron bar, handling a general practice, with offices in the Everett Building. Born on a farm near North Jackson, Ohio, July 14, 1864, he is a son of John and Harriet (McMahon) Shively, the latter deceased. The McMahons and also the Shivelys were Ohio pioneers. Howe's Historical Collection of Ohio names the McMahons, and in the courthouse at Youngstown hangs an old painting representing pioneer scenes and actors, depicting among others one or two members of the MeMahon family. John Shively, who was born in 1838 and is living retired at Akron, was a farmer in early life and for a number of years a hardware merchant at Mogadore in Summit County. He has been active in the democratic party and in the Disciples of Christ Church. One of three children, Harmon Nelson Shively experienced a boyhood and youth on the farm, attending country schools high schools at Cortland and the Northeastern Ohio Normal College. Three years were spent in teaching, part of the time in Mahoning County and the remainder in Butler County, Kansas. On returning to Ohio he was in a grocery store at Youngstown, and for a time associated with his father-in-law in the meat market business there. He then joined his father in the hardware business at Mogadore, employing all the intervals of time in the study of law. In this way he obtained a thorough grounding in the fundamentals, so that when he entered the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada he was able to complete the three year course in fourteen months, getting his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1904. The same year found him enrolled as an Akron attorney, and.since then work in general practice in all the courts has been continuous. Throughout he has been a close student of the speeches and methods of the eminent lawyers of the present and past. He is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with Summit Lodge No. 50, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On November 28, 1889, at Youngstown, he married Miss Maude M. Shields, daughter of the late Howard and Lois. M. Shields. Her father was a prominent man in Mahoning County, being a farmer, stock buyer, shipper and feeder, and in the wholesale and retail meat business at Youngstown. He served a term as sheriff of the county, and was a stanch influence in public affairs and politics. Mrs. Shively is .a member of the Trinity Reformed Church at Akron, and is active in club and social work. JESSE PECK DICE has been a member of the Akron bar for over a quarter of a century. He was one of the Ohio officers in the World war. Mr. Dice was born at Akron, November 29, 1875, son of William B. and Sophia (Coleman) Dice. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of his native city, attended Buchtel College, and in 1898 graduated Bachelor of Laws from the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus. Since his graduation he has been engaged in a successful general practice at Akron. His offices are in the Second National Building. He was commissioned a major of field artillery in February, 1918, and was in the service until honorably discharged in April, 1919. He also served in the Spanish-American war. Major Dice in 1916 was elected president of the Akron Public Library Board. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations, the Chamber of Commerce and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity. WILLIAM HAMILTON CRAWFORD has been identified with the practice of law in Akron for many years. His offices are in the Ohio Building. He was reared and educated in the South, and has made for himself a very favorable reputation and station in the rubber city. He was born at Evergreen, Alabama, November 14, 1881, son of William and Mary (Stacy) Crawford. The grammar and high schools of Alabama gave him his early education, and he took his law course in the Mercer Law School at Macon, Georgia, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1903. He was admitted to the bar in the South, had some experience in law practice there, but has earned his real reputation in his profession at Akron. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations and the Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is a democrat. He belongs to the Baptist Church, in which he has taken an active part, and is secretary of the Akron Baptist Associatidn, and is a member of the Board of Managers of the Ohio State Convention. Mr. Crawford married Miss Elizabeth Hancock at Montgomery, Alabama, July 15, 1909. They have one child, Isabelle, born July 4, 1910. AUGUSTIN FRANCIS O'NEIL was born at Akron, April 20, 1887. He is one of seven children of Michael and Patience Jane (Mahar) O'Neil, of Akron. He attended St. Vincent's School in Akron, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Holy Cross College in 1910, and attended Columbia University, also HISTORY OF OHIO - 397 Georgetown University Law Sehool. Mr. O'Neil was engaged in a general law practice at Akron until November, 1919, when he was elected judge of the Municipal Court, being on the bench until December, 1923. In 1920 he was candidate for the democratic nomination for United States senator. During 1918-19 he was a member of the Naval Aviation Corps. He belongs to the American Legion, the Knights of Columbus and the American Bar Association. Judge O'Neil married, November 17, 1915, Miss Marie A. Kramer, of Canton, Ohio. Their four children are Mary, Robert, James and Patience Jane. EDMUND BURROUGHS, member of an Akron law firm closely connected with real estate and corporation law, is a member of a family of scholars and professional men. He was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, February 16, 1890, son of Rev. George Stockton and Emma Francis (Plumley) Burroughs. His father was a Bachelor of Arts graduate from Princeton University, finished the work of the Princeton Theological Seminary, and became widely known as a minister of the Congregational Church. He held pastorates at Fairfield, Connecticut, and New Britain, Connecticut, was college pastor at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and from 1892 to 1899 was president of Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana. From Wabash College he came to. Oberlin, Ohio, as a professor in Oberlin Theological Seminary. fie died at Oberlin in 1901. His widow now lives at Akron. Edmund Burroughs, the youngest of three children, decided to take up law while he was a boy. He attended the Oberlin High School, Oberlin Academy, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1911, and then entered Harvard University Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1914. While in Harvard he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. He was a Phi Beta Kappa at Oberlin. Admitted to the Ohio bar in December, 1914, Mr. Burroughs began practice at Cleveland as an associate in the office of M. B. and H. H. Johnson. In 1916 he came to Akron, becoming a member of the firm of Herberich, Burroughs and Smith, and since 1921 has been a member of Herberieh, Burroughs and Bailey. The members of the firm are Alfred Herberieh, Ralph Burroughs, Edmund Burroughs and George E. Bailey. The business handled by this firm is largely concerned with corporation, real .estate and probate law. The firm acts as counsel for the Depositors Savings and Trust Company, for the Herberieh Realty Company, for the Herberich-Hall-Harter Company of Akron, the Peoples Saving and Banking Company of Parberton, The Peoples Saving and Loan Company P nd The Wayne Building and Loan Company of Wooster. Mr. Burroughs has the record of an ex-service man. He attended the Fourth Officer 's Training School at Fort Monroe, Virginia; was commissioned second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps June 26, 1918, and, going overseas, was assigned to the Fifty-fourth Coast Artillery CorpS at Mailly, France. From there he was transferred to the Heavy Artillery School at Anglers, France, and on completing the course of training was made an instructor in artillery in France at the Army Heavy Artillery School at Anglers. Subsequently he was assigned to the Seventy-First Coast Artillery Corps, and with this organization returned to the United States in February, 1919, being discharged at Camp Sherman March 17, 1919. Mr. Burroughs is a member of the University Club, the Portage Country Club, the Board of Deacons of the First Congregational Church, of which he is clerk, and he is a lover of outdoor recreations, his favorite game being tennis. Mr. Burroughs married at Akron, September 24, 1921, Miss Esther Swinehart, daughter of Mr. J. A. Swinehart, founder of the Swinehart Rubber Company. ALFRED HERBERICH is an Akron lawyer, member of one of the older families of the city, and has contributed something to the honorable reputation so long enjoyed by the name here. Alfred Herberich was born at Akron, January 28, 1892, son of David and Lena (Fuchs) Herberieh. David Herberieh was for many years president of the Herberieh Company, one of the oldest and most successful real estate and insurance organizations in Akron. Alfred Herberieh graduated from the Central High School of Akron in 1908, took his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Buchtel College in 1911, and received his law degree at Harvard Law School in 1914. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and has been busily engaged in a general law practice. Since November' 1916, he has been in partnership with Edmund Burroughs, and the firm is now Herberich, Burroughs and Bailey. Mr. Herberich has also been identified with a number of busineSs organizations, including the Herberieh-HallHarter Company. During the World war he served as Government appeal agent, for the Local Draft Board. He is a member of the Akron Real Estate Board, the University Club, the City Club, the Portage Country Club, the Summit County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married, May 25, 1916, Miss Agnes LaRoe, a daughter of James Albert LaRoe, of Terrell, Texas. They have two sons, Edward Alfred and Robert Walter. GEORGE A. DUSTMAN has retained since 1920 the office of County Agricultural agent for Lawrence County, under the auspices of the Ohio State University, and his administration, vigorous and resourceful, has done much to advance the standards of agricultural and horticultural enterprise in Lawrence County. Mr. Dustman, one of the popular young bachelors of Lawrence. County, was born in Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, November 30, 1898, and is the fourth in order o birth in a family of five sons and two daughters born to George S. and Christina (Barclay) Dustman, both of whom still reside on their home farm in Mahoning County and both of whom were born and reared in Ohio. The names of the children are here entered in the respective order of their births: Henry, Robert, Anna, George A. Frank, Mary and Paul. Henry Dustman and his A., reside in the City of Youngstown, where be holds a position with the drafting department of the Carnegie Steel Company. Robert Dustman married Miss Elsie Zinn of Phillipi, West Virginia, and they have two children. He is on the faculty of West Virginia University at, present. The parents are zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church.. After receiving the discipline of the Boardman schools of his native county George A. Dustman there continued his studies in the South High School in the City of. Youngstown, and. in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916. In 1920 he was graduated from the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State University, and in the same year he was appointed county agent of Lawrence County, the office in which he has since continued his effective service. In the World war period Mr. Dustman was a member of the Naval Reserve Corps 398 - HISTORY OF OHIO and received technical training at the Ohio State University, he having received his honorable discharge in June, 1920. Mr. Dustman is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and with the Grange. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Dustman were Henry and Julia (Simon) Dustman, who passed their entire lives in Ohio. The original American representatives of the Dustman family came from their native Germany and settled in Pennsylvania. About the year 1800 was recorded the settlement of members of the family in Mahoning County, Ohio. Mr. Dustman's great-grandfather, Henry Dustman, and his great-great-grandfather, Henry Dustman (1768-1816), both lived on the home farm in Mahoning county. The latter was the first pioneer buried in what is now known as the "Lake Park Cemetery." He was hauled by oxen through the dense forest to the burial grounds in 1816. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Dustman were Robert and Charlotte (Robertson) Barclay, members of the Barclay family having come from Scotland and settled in Canada, from which dominion came the representatives of the name in Ohio. NICHOLAS A. ULRICH, Doctor of Osteopathy, is one of the prominent representatives of his profession in Portage County. For the past eight years he has enjoyed a very successful practice in the City of Kent, and has many business, civic and social interests to identify him with that community. Doctor Ulrich was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, November 16, 1881, son of John and Lydia (Turner) Ulrich. His parents were both natives of Ohio, his father born on a farm near Barnesville. His mother died in 1892. Nicholas A. Ulrich attended public schools, and acquired a thorough literary education in Muskingum College, also in Wooster University, and gained his professional preparation in the American School of Osteopathy, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Osteopathy degree in 1916. He immediately located at Kent, and has practiced there. His address is 627 Park Avenue. Before beginning his professional career Doctor Ulrich married Miss Laura Tredway, a native of Warsaw, Ohio, and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Tredway. They have one son, Donald Joseph. Doctor Ulrich is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the Ohio Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and the Osteopathic Society of Ophthalmology, Rhinology and Otolaryngology. He is a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kent, is a republican voter, is a Council degree Mason, is secretary of the Rotary Club, is a director of the Twin Lakes Golf Club, a member of the Silver Lake Country Club, and among his business interests he is a director of the Twin Lakes Company, a stockholder in the City Bank of Kent, and is one of the owners of the Twin Lakes Silver Fox Farms. JOSEPH HARMON KRAPE, M. D. An honored physician who has made of his profession a real service to his fellow men, Dr. Joseph Harmon Krape is distinguished by thirty years of residence and professional activity at Kent, Portage County. He was born at Howard, Center County, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1868, son of John and Abigail (Reber) Krape. His parents were born in Center County, and are now living at Kent, Ohio. His father for many years was in business as a dealer in grain and farm implements. Doctor Krape was liberally educated, attending Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, at Selins Grove, where he graduated in 1888. In 1890 he graduated from Penn State College, and then entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894. Prepared and trained in one of the oldest and best medical schools in the country, Doctor Krape soon after graduating located at Kent, and has had a busy practice in both branches of his profession for thirty years. He is physician to the Kent State Normal College, and is a member of the Kent, Portage County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. In June, 1894, Doctor Krape married Miss Bessie Stoner. She was born at Salona in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Ira C. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Stoner, both natives of Pennsylvania. Doctor and Mrs. Krape have two daughters. Zell Marie is the wife of C. E. Satterfield, of Kent, and the mother of one daughter, Priscilla Marie. The younger daughter, Bessie Isabelle, is the wife of A. P. Phillips, of St. Louis, Missouri, and to their marriage were born twin daughters, named Judith Ann and Jane Marie, in November, 1922. Doctor Krape is a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He owns one of the fine modern homes of Kent, located at 131 Columbus Street. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. IRA R. MARSH is one of the oldest business men of Kent. For forty-five years he has been identified with one line of industry, harness making. At the same time he has given public spirited attention to the affairs of the community, and is one of the citizens held in highest esteem in Portage County. Mr. Marsh was born at Shalersville, Ohio, September 4, 1858, son of Ransom R. and Leah Aldrich (Capron) Marsh. Both the Marsh and Capron families were New Englanders, and were among the pioneers of Northern Ohio. His father was born in Harrisville Township of Medina County, October 17, 1823, and his mother, in Copley Township of Summit County, May 27, 1828. Ransom Marsh was one of the old time harness makers, and during 1848-49 had his shop and home at Kent, but in 1850 moved to Streetsboro. He returned to Kent in 1878, and lived in that city until his death, when well upwards of eighty years of age, in February, 1902. His wife died in November, 1890. Their children now living are: Kitti, of Aurora, Ohio, widow of David Landon; Ira R.; William H., of Ravenna, and Gertrude of Ravenna, who, by her first marriage, has a son, Glenwood W. Rouse, of Toledo, and she is now the wife of William Ely, and has a son, Howard Ely, of Kent. Ira R. Marsh was educated in the public schools of Portage County, spent one year in Lodi Academy, and then by teaching and working on farms accumulated a small capital which in 1878 he invested, forming a partnership with his father in the harness business. His father supplied most of the trade knowledge and technical experience, but Mr. Marsh rapidly mastered the business, and in 1887 became sole proprietor. He has continued in business ever since, and for over a quarter of a century since March, 1898, his establishment has been at 226 North Water Street in Kent. He manufactures a full line of harness, and also has a shop for all classes of leather repair work. On April 4, 1883, Mr. Marsh married Miss Emma Louise Wells, born at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in 1857, daughter of Edward and Mary A. (Clanagan) Wells. Mr. Marsh lost his wife by death on January 23, 1921. Of the three children born to their marriage, Roy died in infancy. The two daughters are Metta, wife of H. A. Kunsman, of Kent, and Leah, Mrs. A. B. Petroske, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Marsh was for twelve years a member of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 399 council of the Village of Kent, and is president of the board of education, having been a member of this board when the Roosevelt High School was built in 1921 and 1922. He is a dethocrat, has filled all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias lodge, is a member of Lodge No. 1377, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. JOHN GRAHAM PAXTON began work in a printing office when a boy, and is a veteran printer and newspaper man. For many years his home has been at Kent, where he founded and is editor of the Kent Tribune. Mr. Paxton was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1872, son of John G. and Anna (White) Paxton, both natives of the same county. His mother died there in February, 1872. John G. Paxton, Sr., was born August 27, 1834, and is still living at the old homestead in Southwestern Pennsylvania, now in his ninetieth year. John Graham Paxton was left motherless when a few weeks old, and when he was six years of age he went to live with his aunt, Mrs. Charles McManus, at New Concord, in Guernsey County, Ohio. While there he attended public schools until he was fourteen, and then began his apprenticeship in a printing office. He was in this one office four and a half years, and part of the time was foreman under J. H. Aikin, proprietor. Mr. Paxton came to Kent in 1891, and was editor of the Kent Courier until. the paper was sold by its proprietor, W. S. Kent. Mr. Paxton then resigned and with S. W. Baker' he founded, in November, 1915, the Kent Tribune. On May 1, 1917, he became sole owner, but in March, 1923, sold a half interest to J. B. Holm, who is now business manager of the Tribune, leaving. Mr. Paxton with the duties of editor. He has made this one of the influential weekly papers of Portage County. On September 17, 1896, Mr. Paxton married Miss Amy Edna Geissinger. She was born at West Salem, Ohio, daughter of Henry W. and Rebecca (Reid) Geissinger, her father a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and her mother of Columbiana County, Ohio. Mr. Paxton is a member of the Congregational Church, is a republican, a Rotarian, and he served twenty years as township clerk. W. A. JACKSON. Dependability and progressiveness are the outstanding characteristics of W. A. Jackson, proprietor of the Third Avenue Lumber Company, one of the solid business houses of Columbus. Not only have these qualities been proven in the lumber field, but in insurance, realty and public life, and he is a well-known figure in this city. He was born in Gallia County, Ohio, in 1878. His great- grandfather had come to Scioto County, in 1804, from Pennsylvania. A hatter by trade, this ancestor had first located at Portsmouth, Ohio, but soon thereafter moved to a farm on Hale's Creek, which property is still owned and occupied by a grandson. The grandfather, William Jackson, was also a farmer, and a widely-known man, whose death occurred on the homestead at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His son, Oscar S. Jackson, father of W. A. Jackson, and now serving a pastorate at Martinsville, West Virginia, is a Baptist clergyman. He was born in Scioto County, and married Theadoeia Broy, of Gallia County, where he lived for twenty-five years. For many years he has been connected with different charges of his church in Southeastern Ohio and West Virginia. In 1899, during the fall months of that year, W. A. Jackson came to Columbus, and his initial experience in the business life of the city was gained as driver of a laundry wagon, for which work he was paid one dollar per day. Leaving this employment after some months, he entered the insurance field, and for six years was successful as an agent for the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company. In the meanwhile his attention was turned toward real estate, and he began improving and selling properties. During the years which have followed he has owned and improved much realty, including residences, apartments and stores, and in this connection alone has rendered a very valuable service to his community. Four years ago he founded his present business, which has been successful from its inception, far outdistancing his fondest hopes with regard to it. He also owns the Northwestern Service Company, operating three oil and gas stations. Mr. Jackson's efforts have not, however, been confined to his own affairs, for during the administration of Mayor George J. Karb he was made appraiser of all new structures, and during the four years he held that important office, became recognized as an expert of unusual ability. He is a Knights Templar and Shriner Mason, and is a trustee of the Aladdin Country Club, which he helped to organize. The Civilian Club also holds his membership, and he and his wife are members of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church. Mrs. Jackson, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Murphy, was born in Delaware County, Ohio. They have four children, namely: Ruth, Bonnie, Myrle and Wilma. HON. CORNELIUS A. REED has been a member of the Portage County bar sixty years, and devoted fully a half century to the burdens of professional practice, including service as prosecuting attorney and probate judge. Judge Reed represents one of the oldest families settled in Portage County, and was born at Rootstown, in that county, July 3, 1838. His parents were Horace and Lois Esther (Baldwin) Reed. His grandfather, Abram Reed, a native of Connecticut, came to Ohio in 1804, and his was the second family to settle in Rootstown Township. Horace Reed was born at Rootstown in 1805. His wife, Lois Esther Baldwin, was born at Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1803, daughter of John and Lois (Hamilton) Baldwin, who came by ox team to Ohio in 1811 and settled in Charlestown Township of Portage County, where they secured wild land from the Connecticut Land Company. Horace Reed after his marriage settled at Rootstowli, and spent his active life as a farmer and dealer in live stock. He died in 1886, at the age of eighty-two, and his widow reached the venerable age of eighty-nine. Of their seven children two, are now living, Cornelius A. and Edward A., the latter a resident of 'Oliver Springs, Tennessee. Cornelius A. Reed was reared at the old Reed homestead. When he was eleven years of age his right foot was cut by a scythe, and this injury more or less disabled him for physical activity and later from actual participation in the Civil war, during which period he was studying law in Mansfield, Ohio, where he served as one of the "Squirrel Hunters," and a valued souvenir in his possession is his discharge papers signed by Governor David Todd in 1862, also another one which he received in 1909, forty-seven years after the war, is his pay check for services rendered his country, the amount of which is $13. This check he has never cashed, but is keeping as a memento of the occasion. He acquired a liberal education, largely at the expense of his own efforts. After attending the public schools at Rootstown he continued his education in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and in Hiram College, at which time James A. Garfield, later President of the United States, was president. When the Cleveland