400 - HISTORY OF OHIO & Pittsburgh Railroad was built he had the contract to carry the mail from the center of Rootstown to the railway station a mile and a half away. For this his salary was $20 a year. He kept it up for four years, and at the same time worked on the farm, in the fields and pulling flax, which his mother spun into clothes for the family and also in exchange for other goods. His mother had been a school teacher. In 1861 Mr. Reed began the study of law at Mansfield with the firm of Burns & Dickey, remaining there two years. After being admitted to the bar he located at Ravenna, and became associated in partnership with Alphonso Hart, and they practiced together for thirteen years, beginning in September, 1863. In the meantime Judge Reed had taught several terms of school. After his partner, Mr. Hart, was elected lieutenant-governor Judge Reed took over the law business of the firm, and continued it alone for thirty years. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1869, and served two terms of two years each, being the first man ever chosen for two consecutive terms in that office. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Probate Court, and filled that office two terms of two years each. Judge Reed has made a name for himself in his profession, has also been successful in business, and at all times has exercised a constructive influence in his community. He early became a stockholder in. the Second National Bank of Ravenna, and was president of that institution twelve years. In 1873 he and his cousin, G. P. Reed, built the Opera House Block at Ravenna, and he erected several other business buildings. He now owns the old homestead. of 200 acres in the center of .Rootstown Township where his grandfather located in 1804. He owns 100 acres in another part of the same township. Judge donated $25,000 for the building of the new Portage County Library. He still retains an office in the Reed block, but has been retired from law practice for the past ten years. In February, 1865, he married Miss Phebe Folger Ray, a native of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and daughter of Captain and Mary (Folger) Ray. Her parents were Massachusetts people and her father was captain of a whaling vessel. Mrs. Reed, who died in 1890, was the mother of two daughters. Lorena is the wife of Judge A. S. Cole, present judge of the Common Pleas Court of Portage County. Mae is the wife of Delray Waller, a hardware merchant at Ravenna. In November, 1903, Judge Reed married Augusta M. Coe, who was born in Maine, and who died in January, 1924. He has held various offices in the Congregational Church, for many years was superintendent of Sunday school, and while in active practice of law he served as justice of the peace, and for fifteen years was examiner of Portage County teachers. He is a republican, and has filled the various chairs in the Masonic Order. He has been a member of Akron Commandery, Knights Templar, for nearly half a century. DUNCAN BREWSTER WOLCOTT. Combining the careers of Duncan B. Wolcott and his father, the late Simon P. Wolcott, gives a consecutive record of sixty years' important service in the legal profession in Portage County. The Wolcott name has been justly distinguished in the law and in public affairs through the attainments of these two men, father and son. Duncan B. Wolcott has been president of the National Society of Henry Wolcott, made up of direct descendants of the Henry Wolcott who came to America in 1730 and settled at Windsor, Connecticut, and was the founder of the distinguished Wolcott family that has furnished governors, soldiers and many prominent men in other walks of life not only in the State of Connecticut, but in Ohio and other states. The late Simon Perkins Wolcott represented the sixth generation of this family in America. He was born at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, January 30, 1837, son of Alfred and Mary Ann Wolcott. Alfred Wolcott was a native of Connecticut, and was a surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company in the Western Reserve, and while engaged in that duty chose land in Summit County and remained there improving the farm. He was elected to serve as a member of the State Legislature. Simon P. Wolcott had the early advantages of winter terms in country school, later became a fellow student with James A. Garfield in Hiram College, and from Hiram entered Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, where he graduated in 1862. In .1864 he was admitted to the bar, and from that time until his death in 1901 he was engaged in practice at Kent in Portage County. He was an able lawyer, and there is a long record of his public service, including four years as mayor of Kent, ten years on the school board, and in 1881 and in 1883 he was elected to the State Senate and had a prominent influence in the legislation of those two terms. From 1884 to 1888 he was attorney for the State Food and Dairy Commission, and in 1894 Governor McKinley appointed him one of the board of managers of the Ohio State Reformatory, and he was reappointed by Governor Nash about a year before his death. He was a stanch republican. On July 17, 1866, Simon P. Wolcott married Miis Mary Helen Brewster, a lineal descendant of Elder Brewster of New England, and daughter of Anson A. and Sallie (White) Brewster. Anson A. Brewster came from Hartford, Connecticut, and was a pioneer merchant at Hudson, Ohio. Simon P. Wolcott and wife had three children: Nellie B., wife of F. L. Allen, of Kent, former county treasurer of Portage County ; Jennie, wife of Ed S. Parsons, a Kent business man; and Duncan B. The mother of these children died in 1910. Duncan Brewster Wolcott was born at Kent, May 9, 1873, and as a boy attended the public schools of his native city. In 1892 he graduated from Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, and then entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, completing the classical course in 1896. In 1899 he received his law degree from Western. Reserve University, and for a year or so practiced in the office of J. G. W. Cowles at Cleveland. On the death of his father he returned to Kent and took over his father 's law practice, and his professional work has brought him important Connections in both a business and public way. He was elected in 1904 and again in 1908 as county prosecutor of Portage County, filling that office from 1905 to 1911. He is president and director of the Silver Lake Park Company, is a trustee of the Silver Lake estate, is a director of the Kent Building Company, and since 1912 has represented several standard fire insurance companies. He has been a member of the Kent school board since 1917. Mr. Wolcott is a republican, is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Rotary Club, and a former director of the Silver Lake Golf Club. He is a vestryman of the Episcopal Church. On May 9, 1906, his birthday, Mr. Wolcott married Miss Evelyn Daisy Lodge, who was born at Silver Lake in Summit County, daughter of Ralph H. and Julia (Plum) Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott have four 'children: John L., Dunean B., Roger and Henry. HAMILTON E. HOGE, judge of the Common Pleas Court, Hardin County, has served his profession with many marks of distinction for a third of a century. HISTORY OF OHIO - 401 He is a son of the late Judge S. L. Hoge, a well known Ohio lawyer and banker. Solomon L. Hoge, who died February 23, 1909, was born in Logan County, Ohio, July 11, 1836, and was educated in public schools, studied law at Bellfontaine, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1859, and soon after the beginning of the Civil war, he was commissioned lieutenant of Company G, Eighty-second Ohio Infantry, and from that was promoted to captain. He was wounded at the battle of Bull Run, and forced to resign. Subsequently he was judge advocate and court martial general at Washington, and at the close of the war was appointed a first lieutenant in the Sixth United States Infantry. He had some important part in providing military protection to the homes at Washington at the time of Lincoln's assassination. He lived in South Carolina for several years after the war, acting as associate judge of the Supreme Court, and was elected a member of the Forty-first Congress from John C. Calhoun 's old district. In 1872 he was elected comptroller of South Carolina. In. 1877 he returned to Kenton, Ohio, and practiced law at Kenton, and in 1881, helped organize and was elected vice president of the First National Bank of Kenton, and six months later chosen president, a post of duty he held until his death. He took a prominent part in a number of republican party campaigns, and was a well known member of the Grand Army of the Republic. On June 7, 1860, he married Mary M. Runkle. She was born in New Jersey, was a girl when her parents came to Ohio, and she finished her education in the Springfield Seminary. They had three children: Frances, wife of Hugo Hartenstein, of Havana, Cuba; Virginia, deceased wife of R. A..McCreery; and Hamilton E. Hoge. Hamilton E. Hoge was born February 10, 1868, while his parents lived at Charleston, South Carolina. Nine years later they returned to Ohio, and he was educated in the public schools at Kenton, then in Kenyon College, and in 1890 was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School.• He was admitted to the' bar in "May, and immediately engaged in practice at Kenton, where he carried heavy responsibilities in the profession for over thirty years. For six years, from 1903 to 1909, he served as prosecuting attorney of Hardin County. He was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1920. He married August 18, 1897, Miss Minnie E. Schindewolf, daughter of Theodore Sehindewolf of Kenton, her mother 's name being Anna Pfeifer. Her father was at one time county treasurer. Judge and Mrs. Hoge have two children, Virginia, wife of E. S. Booth of Cleveland, and Mary Ann, now deceased, who married Vernon Derickson of Dover, Delaware. Judge Hoge is affiliated with the Elks fraternity. Upon the death of his father in 1909 he was elected president of the First National Bank of Kenton, and was chief executive of that institution for twelve years, until he began his term as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. HENRY H. HARVEY, member of a well known family of Hardin County, has been active in business and public affairs for a number of years, and is at the present postmaster of Kenton. He was born on a farm in Hardin County, June 21, 1874, son of Willis C. and Catherine (Hatfield) Harvey. His father was born in Hardin County, was reared on a farm, educated in public schools, and spent his life as an active farmer. For three years he was county commissionery. After his marriage he settled on a farm in. McDowell Township, and in connection with farming, engaged in business as a road contractor. He was a member of the Christian Church, and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, being in Company B of the One Hundred and Eighth Infantry. In polities he cast his vote as a republican. There were three children: Effie, wife of W. P. Smith, of Roundhead; Linna, wife of E. C. Fields, of Kenton; and Henry H. Henry H. Harvey grew up on his father 's farm, attended public schools and business college at Oberlin, and after reaching manhood was associated in business with his father for ten years. He served as journal clerk in the Senate during the Eighty-third General Assembly of Ohio. For two years he was a maintenance engineer, and on December 30, 1922, was appointed postmaster of Kenton. He married Miss Myrtle McConnell, of Hardin County. They have two children, Willis E., who is a graduate of the Kenton High School and spent three years in college, and Louis A., a graduate of the Kenton High School. Mr. Harvey is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 157 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. JOSEPH KOCH. One of the ablest merchants Ohio has ever had was the late Joseph Koch of Toledo, who exemplified a real genius for the intricate work of organization and administration involved in the building up and conducting those establishments usually known as department stores. Mr. Koch was born at Framersheim, near Frankfort, Germany, in 1850. The first sixteen years of his life were spent there, and during that time he gained a common school education. He also had some training in business as it was by his own efforts that he earned the money for his passage to America: He located in Toledo, where he clerked for two years in the dry goods store of J. W. Muleneaux on Summit Street, between Monroe and Jefferson. For the nine years following, he was in the service of Mr. Eaton, proprietor of the Bee Hive store. At the beginning Mr. Koch had a natural talent for salesmanship, and in ten years he improved his, opportunities by learning American merchandising methods and also by winning a large personal following, through confidence in his integrity, a confidence never misplaced throughout the record of his life. In 1876 he became associated as a partner with Alies S. Cohen in the general merchandise business under the name Cohen & Koch. Mr. Cohen had previously been a partner of Jacob Lasalle in the firm of Lasalle & Cohen. The Cohen & Koch partnership was in business at the corner of Summit and Madison streets for five years. In 1881, Mr. Cohen retired, but the next year again became associated with Mr. Koch and also with his former partner, Jacob Lasalle, in the firm. of Lasalle,' Cohen & Koch. This organization opened. business in the new Bronson Building at Summit and Adams. After the withdrawal of Mr.' Cohen. in. 1887, the firm became Lasalle & Koch, and was " afterwards incorporated as The Lasalle & Koch Company. It is still in existence and is one of the finest department stores in the Middle West. The late Mr. Koch was a master of the fundamentals of sound merehandising, and in addition, he possessed a spirit of enterprise and initiative beyond the natural conservatism of merchants. A, notable expression of this initiative came in 1900 when largely through his influence and based upon his contribution to the expansion of the Toledo business district, the firm: of Lasalle & Koch moved from the Bronson Building to a location at the corner of Jefferson and Superior streets which was outside the—then retail section of Toledo. This move was more than justified in the future by the trade that flowed to the store. At the incorporation of The Lasalle & Koch 402 - HISTORY OF OHIO Company, Mr. Koch became vice president and general manager and he served in this dual capacity until his death on the 26th of June, 1904, when just in the prime of his life and powers. But his work had been done well and the business has continued a steady growth along the lines and the spirit initiated by him, until in 1917 the company occupied its new home, one of the finest department store structures in the entire country. Of his great practicality as a merchant, there is abundant proof, not only in the business itself, but in the opinions of his contemporaries. Nevertheless, he possessed that humility of wisdom which is of itself an indication of the great. A short time before his death, in counseling his oldest son, who later succeeded him as head of the business in Toledo, he said: " There is a better way to run this business than I have been able to find, and I want you to endeavor to find that way and utilize it." While not a church member, Joseph Koch followed the religion of the Golden Rule, being very generous in his charities and kindly and just in all his relations to his employes. He was a charter member of the Toledo Lodge NO. 20, Knights of Pythias, holding all the chairs in the lodge, and he also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Turners Society. His first wife was Hattie Black, daughter of Alexander Black of the Alexander Black Cloak Company of Toledo. He died in 1896, leaving three ehildren: Alfred B., now president of The Lasalle & Koch Company; Arnie, who married Arthur J. Block of Buffalo and died April 6, 1923; and Florence, wife of Henry Zenner of New York City. The second wife of Joseph Koch was Belle Black, sister of his first wife. By this union there are two children, Alice and Harold, both now living in Toledo. TULLUS R. CASTOR has been active in city politics at Kenton for a number of years, and is the present mayor of that city, and in a business way is a general builder and contractor. He was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, Hardin County, October 17, 1870, son of George B. and Mary (Holmes) Castor. His grandfather came to Hardin County from Pennsylvania in 1834, and was one of the early settlers. George B. Castor was born in Hardin County in 1839, and educated in common schools. After his marriage he settled on a farm near Kenton, and spent his last days in the county seat. He was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, doing most of his preaching in Hardin. County. He was a democrat. There were six children, four now living. Tullus R. Castor was reared on a farm and lived there until 1903, in the meantime engaging in the work of a building contractor. For twenty years his home has been in Kenton. In 1907 he was elected a member of the City Council, and served over nine years altogether. For four years he was president of the Council, and in 1923 was elected mayor, beginning his term in that office January 1, 1924. During the four years he was deputy county recorder. Mr. Castor married Miss Jennie W. Fisher, of Pleasant Township. They have five children: Hazel, wife of 0. E. Fields; Edith M., wife of Mac Sine ; Paul R.; Ilarold K.; and Tullus R, Jr., who is four years old. The four older children are all graduates of the Kenton High School. The family are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Castor is a democrat in polities, and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge and a member of the Grand Lodge. GEORGE S. BERLIEN, the present sheriff of Hardin County, has been one of the stalwart citizens of that section of Ohio for a number of years, known as a man of industry, high character, and ever ready to perform his duty. He was born on a farm in Hardin County, October 23, 1871, son of Peter Z. and Frances (Zimmerman) Berlien. His mother, who is still living, was born in Jackson Township, Hardin County, and is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. Peter Z. Berlien was born in West Moreland County, Pennsylvania, came to Hardin County when a boy, attended school there, and engaged in farming. He was a soldier in the Civil war, being in the service over a year, until wounded and disabled. During his active life he was a farmer of the county, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a democrat in polities, serving nine years as township trustee. He had three children : Thomas, deceased; Clark, of Forest, Ohio ; and George S. George S. Berlien grew up on the farm, attended the district schools and the schools at Forest, and his early experience has brought him a practical knowledge of farming. He married Miss Amy Ina Gano, a graduate of the Forest High School. They have one son, Frank A., now in. the first year of his high school work at Kenton. Mr. Berlien continued farming until appointed superintendent of the Hardin County Home in 1913, and gave a splendid administration of that public institution for nearly nine years. In 1922 he was elected sheriff of Hardin County, and on January 1, 1923, entered upon his official duties at the county seat. He was elected a democrat in a county that is normally 500 republican. HERMAN D. LEASE, prosecuting attorney of Hardin County, has been a member of the Ohio bar for over twenty years, but the greatest part of this time he devoted to commercial work. He is well and favorably known in Hardin County, where most of his life has been spent. He was born on a farm two and one-half miles from Belle Center, in Hardin County, December 24, 1874, son of James and Martha J. (McIntire) Lease. His parents were natives of Logan County, where his father was born August 3, 1845, and his mother June 29, 1847. His father grew up on a farm at Northwood, in Logan County, and in 1870 he and his wife were married and settled on a farm in Hardin County, near Belle Center. They lived on farms in that locality and in the southern part of Hardin County, and late in life moved to Kenton. They had been married forty-seven years when death took them in 1917, only two months apart. They were faithful members of the Christian Church, and James Lease was a republican. He was the father of five children: Carrie May, wife of John Walsh; Margaret Ann, widow of David Zupp; Dora Alma, widow of Luther L. Dowing; Herman D.; and Nancy Iona wife of Sheridan Williamson. Herman D. Lease spent some of his early years on a farm near Belle Center, attended the district school at Roundhead, the high school at Ada, and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated in the law department in 1903 and admitted to the bar on the 3rd of June of that year. For five years he engaged in law practice at Kenton, and lastly gave up his practice to join the sales department of the Standard Oil Company. He was with the Moline Plow Company as a traveling salesman, and later as division sales manager, and then became salesman for the International Harvester Company. All these years he kept his home at Kenton, and when he resigned from the International Harvester Company in 1922 he was nominated and elecied prosecuting attorney of Hardin County. He began his term of office January 1, 1923, and has HISTORY OF OHIO - 403 made an admirable record of administration. He married Miss Jessie Hinkle, of Kenton, daughter of Cyrus Hinkle, who is well remembered as a teacher in Hardin County. Mrs. Lease before her marriage taught music. They have one son, Charles F., born October 4, 1908, now attending high school at Kenton. Mr. and Mrs. Lease are members of the Christian Church. He is a past chancellor of Lodge No. 101 of the Knights of Pythias, is a deputy grand chancellor, and both of them are identified with the Pythian Sisters, of which she is a past chief. Mr. Lease is a republican, and from 1905 to 1910 was a captain of Company I of the Second Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. LOUIS N. PFEIFFER, president of the Commercial Bank of Kenton, was born in that city nearly seventy years ago, and has had a varied and influential connection with commercial affairs. He was born June 11, 1855, son of John and Eva (Elsasser) Pfeiffer. His father, a native of Hesse, Germany, came to the United States when sixteen years of age. At Kenton he followed his trade of shoemaker, and did farm work. After six years he went back to Germany, and then with his parents, brothers and sisters, came again to America, all the family locating in Goshen Township of Hardin County. They engaged in farming, but John Pfeiffer also followed his trade of shoemaker. He married at Springfield, Ohio, Eva L. Elsasser, who was also a native of Germany, and came to the United States with her sister, living at Springfield until her marriage. They located on a farm near Kenton, and after improving his land John Pfeiffer bought a gristmill in Kenton, and operated that industry for twelve years. From Kenton he moved to a farm in Hardin County, near the Village of Roundhead, and lived on the farm, operating a general store. After some years he again returned to Kenton, and bought and conduCted a large drygoods business for twelve years. He was retired when he died at Kenton. He was one of the organizers of St. John's Evangelical Church at Kenton, and the Pfeiffer family were among the prominent supporters of that church in Hardin County, many services being held in private homes, particularly in homes belonging to the Pfeiffer family. He was also active in the republican party. The children of this substantial old pioneer couple still living are: John, Louis N., Henry, Lizzie, Barbara and Margaret. Louis N. Pfeiffer was reared in Hardin County, attended common schools, and from youth became familiar with the business establishments of his father. He and three brothers had an interesting and congenial partnership for twenty years, engaged in the grocery business, real estate and farming. After the partnership was dissolved Mr. Louis N. Pfeiffer continued in real estate, farming and the stock raising, and for seven years conducted a harness shop. In the same building where Mr. Pfeiffer had conducted a grocery store was established the Commercial Bank of Kenton in 1914. Mr. Pfeiffer was one of its organizers and has been president of this institution for more than ten years. He also has interests as a stock raiser and farmer. He married Miss Emma Kahler, daughter of Conrad Kahler. She died, leaving one child, Kahler C. Pfeiffer. The second wife of Mr. Pfeiffer was Anna Louise Price, daughter of Louis Price, who for thirty years was identified with the baking business in Kenton. The older son of Mr. Pfeiffer, Kahler C. Pfeiffer, graduated with honors from the Kenton High School, spent two years in Oberlin College, and is now a student in the University of Chicago. Mr. Pfeiffer by his second marriage has one son, Warren Price Pfeiffer, born in 1910, and now attending high school. The family are very active members of St. John's Evangelical Church. Mr. Pfeiffer is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. PERRY COMMODORE KNISELY. During a long and useful life in Tuscarawas County, where his people were among the first settlers, Perry Commodore Knisely achieved some of the unusual distinctions of leadership in agriculture, and good citizenship. His record shows that he was one of the most expert grain raisers in the state. He was born in Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County, son of Joseph and Jane (Slutz) Knisely, and great-grandson of John Knisely. John Knisely who should be remembered in any history of Ohio, as the founder of the City of New Philadelphia, was born September 26, 1752, and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Coming from Pennsylvania to Ohio, he influenced the Indians to deed about one thousand acres of land to the government, and he was then awarded that land by grant from the government. On a portion he laid out and named the town of New Philadelphia, the county seat of Tuscarawas County. His son, Jacob Knisely, grandfather of the late Perry C. Knisely, was born February 15, 1789, and served as a soldier in the quartermaster 's department in the War of 1812. Perry Commodore Knisely taught school during a period of sixteen years at Pleasant Valley, Baltgley Valley, Goshen Hill, Tuscarawas and Ninevah. In 1880 he purchased the Furney homestead in Tusearawas County, and on that land achieved his success as a farmer. Some of his farming was used as demonstration and test work under the auspices of the State Department of Agriculture. He made an official record of producing fifty-one and a half bushels of wheat per acre, and one hundred forty-four and a half bushels of corn per acre. For several years he was a lecturer for the State Board of Agriculture of Ohio. Perry C. Knisely died at his home about two miles east of New Philadelphia on March 21, 1924. He was a man of 'exemplary habits, character and high ideals. His interest in agriculture was deep and sincere, and he found real pleasure in tilling his farm. He well deserved the tribute of praise expressed in the words that " the world is better for his having lived in it." Perry C. Knisely married January 20, 1876, Jennie R. Furney of Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, daughter of Joseph Furney. Their children were: Clyde Jesse, born May 11, 1877; Walter Ralph, born September 5, 1879; Herbert P. and Harold J., twins, born August 25, 1882; Emma, born July 17, 1891 and now deceased and Paul C. born December 26, 1892. Clyde Jesse Knisely, an engineer in the state department of highways and public works and a resident of Columbus is regarded as one of the leading authorities on the economic side of highway construction. He spent his youth on the home farm in Tuscarawas County, attended 'country schools, and the Ohio State University at Columbus where he was graduated in the School of Engineering with the degree of civil engineer in 1907. Before graduating, he was elected county surveyor of Tuscarawas County. Before he had filled out the term, he accepted a position as engineer (division engineer) of the State Highway Department at Columbus. On this appointment he served with the department over two years. Then followed some years of various engineering work until December, 1920, when he accepted another appointment with the State Highway Department. 404 - HISTORY OF OHIO His present position is that of Federal project engineer. While a very competent expert on all phases of road and bridge construction, Mr. Knisely has specialized in economic engineering, particularly all subjects involving the cost of construction and maintenance of roads, and the best methods of taxation for highway construction and maintenance. He married Miss Grace V. Meredith of Tuscarawas County. Their family of children consists of Hal R., May A., Earl P,, Jessie C. and Bettie G. Knisely. CLARENCE M. CESSNA. Few leaders in the field of commercial and corporation law have advanced more steadily to eminence than Clarence M. Cessna, of Kenton, the prime secret of his uniform success being the union of a remarkable business judgment and a keen legal insight into the most involved transactions. As junior member of the firm of Stickle & Cessna he has been engaged in practice at Kenton for more than twenty years, and his devotion to the cause of civic betterment is, aside from his success as a lawyer, the most interesting feature of his career to the general public regard. Mr. Cessna was born on a farm in Cessna Township, Hardin County, Ohio, June 29, 1872, and is a son of Zaccheus and Mary M. (Hagerman) Cessna. His grandfather, William Cessna, settled in that part of Hardin County which was named in his honor in 1835, and there spent the remaining years of his life as an agriculturist. Zaccheus Cessna was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1835, and was an infant when taken by his parents to Ohio. He was reared in Hardin County, and when the Civil war came on enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, returning to his farm at the close of hostilities and there passing the rest of his life in the peaceful pursuits of tilling the soil. He was a devout Christian and active in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a lifelong member. Politically he was a republican, and held mem- bership in the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his worthy wife, who was born at DeKalb, Ohio, April 6, 1842, were the parents of ten children, of whom eight survive: Ida, the wife of Adam Smith, of Cessna Township ; W. S., of Kenton; Mary L., the wife of E. S. Kaylor, of Cessna Township; Lulu, the wife of Frank 0. Rush, of Blanchard Township, Hardin County; Joseph A., of Kenton; Clarence M., of this review; George, of Lima, Ohio; and Martha, the wife of Charles E. Baldwin, of Lima. Clarence M. Cessna was reared on the home farm in Cessna Township and received his early education in the district schools. Subsequently he pursued literary and law courses at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and on receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899, successfully passed the bar examination and was admitted to practice on June 6, of that year. Commencing his practice at Toledo, he remained in that city until 1902, when he changed his scene of operations and residence to Kenton, here forming a partnership with E. J. Stickle, under the firm style of Stickle & Cessna. They have since carried on a practice largely devoted to the field of corporation and commercial law, and are attorneys for the Kenton Hardware Company, the Kenton Brick & Tile Company, the First National Bank of Forest, Ohio, the First National Bank of Dunkirk, Ohio, the Roundhead Oil & Gas Company, and others. Mr. Cessna is a member of Latham Lodge of the Masonic fraternity. A republican in his political tendencies, he has been active in public affairs, and served one term as mayor of Kenton and two terms as city solicitor. Mr. Cessna married Miss Lulu Whitmore, and to this union there have been born two children: Dwight C., a graduate of Kenton High School and now a law student at the Ohio State University; and Geneva, also a graduate of the same school and a student at the same university. ELI J. STICKLE. A successful commercial and corporation lawyer must not only be an alert and broad member of his profession, but a keen and farseeing business man. His is preeminently the domain of practical law, in which hard fact and solid logic, fertility of resource and vigor of professional treatment are usually relied upon, rather than ingenious theory and the graces of oratory. These qualities have contributed to the success of Eli J. Stickle, senior member of the firm of Stickle & Cessna, one of the strong legal combinations of Kenton. Mr. Stickle was born on a farm in Licking County, Ohio, August 13, 1854, and is a son of Thompson and Martha (Chapin) Stickle. Thompson Stickle was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1818, and was only a small lad when he lost his father. He was taken into the home of Adin Slaughter, a neighboring farmer, by whom he was reared, but who gave him only a limited education. He married Martha Chapin, who was born in the same county in 1827, a daughter of James and Susan (Seward) Chapin, and who was possessed of a common school education. They continued to reside in Coshocton County until the spring of 1854, when they changed their residence to Licking County; and made that county their home until their death. At the time of his arrival in Licking County Mr. Stickle was very poor, but through energy, determination and good management he made a success of his operations, and at the time of his death was the owner of two farms, of 105 and 110 acres respectively, both located in Eden Township. In politics he was a republican. Although former members of the Lutheran Church, he and his worthy wife were members of the Methodist Protestant Church in their community, and were active in church work. They were the parents of ten children, and at the time of the demise of the first-born all of the others were living, their average age at that time being fifty-six years. Six are now living: James C., of Newark, Ohio ; Susan, the widow of Leonard Stephenson, of Rapid City, South Dakota ; Eli J., of this review; George M., of Newark.; Enos S., of Des Moines, Iowa; and John D., of Newark. Eli J. Stickle was reared on the Licking County farm, and acquired his early education in the rural districts. Later he had recourse to an academy at Utica, Ohio, following which he attended Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. Mr. Stickle then taught school during the winter terms while attending a select school and studying law, and May 5, 1880, was admitted to the bar after passing an examination before the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus. He began practice at Coshocton, Ohio, in partnership with Sam H. Nicholas, but after a short period went to California, where he remained until April, 1887, then returning to Ohio and engaging in practice at Mansfield for three years and at Marion for one year. In 1891 he located at Kenton, where he has since followed his profession, and since 1902 has been in partnership with Clarence M. Cessna, under the firm style of Stickle & Cessna. They have a large and important clientele and are accounted one of the strong legal combinations of Hardin County. Mr. Stickle married Miss Minnie R. Tipton Teeters, and to this union there have been born three children: Ralph, an attorney who is engaged at practice at Cleveland; Rollin, superintendent of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 405 plant of an iron company at Meadville, Pennsylvania; and Lillian, of Cleveland. Mrs. Stickle is a member of the Church of Christ. Fraternally Mr. Stickle is affiliated with Latham Lodge No. 154, Free and Accepted Masons; Scioto Chapter No. 119, Royal Arch Masons; Kenton Council No.. 65, Royal and Select Masters ; Kenton Commandery No. 58, Knights Templar; and Bay State Chapter No. 160, Order of the Eastern Star, of Boston, Massachusetts, of which he is a past worthy patron. He is a thirty-second degree Mason in the Valley of Toledo. In politics he gives his allegiance to the republican party. RAYMOND G. SCHUTTE, M. D. A lifelong resident of Kenton with the exception of about a year when he was in the United States service during the World war, Dr. Raymond G. Sehutte has gained a large practice and public confidence as a physician and surgeon, as well as having attained a recognized position in the ranks of his calling. His career has been an active and successful one, and the most considerable prosperity which he has gained has come through individual merit and effort. Doctor Schutte was born at Kenton, November 29, 1886, and is a son of Frank and Emma (Zingg) Schutte. His paternal grandfather, Frederick Sehutte, was born in Germany, and was but a boy when brought to the United States, the family locating at Kenton, where the grandfather was reared and married and where he passed his life. Frank Schutte was born at Kenton, and received his education in the public schools. As a young man he learned the trades df tanning and boilermaking, and these he has followed throughout his entire career, being still actively employed. He has led an active and useful life, and has the respect and esteem of those among whom he has passed his life. Mrs. Schutte, the daughter of a German father and a Swiss mother who were married at Kenton, received a public school education. She is a member of the Evangelical Church. Mr. Schutte is a democrat in his political allegiance, but has never sought public office. He and his wife have two children: Dr. Raymond G.; and Edna, a graduate of the Kenton High School, who is unmarried and employed as an assistant bookkeeper in the State Insurance Department at Columbus. After his graduation from high school at Kenton, Raymond G. Schutte became a student in the College of Medicine at the Ohio State University, from which, after a full course, he was duly graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once commenced the practice of his calling at Kenton, where he has since remained, and has succeeded in building up a large clientele. His success in his professional work has made him known as one of the capable and reliable practitioners of Hardin County, and the conscientious manner in which he has cared for the interests of his patients has won gratitude and numerous lasting friendships. Doctor Schutte is a member of the Hardin County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. As a fraternalist he belongs to all the bodies 'in the York Rite of Masonry, and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His political sympathies and principles make him a democrat. During the World war he was connected with the United States Army Medical Corps, holding the rank of first lieutenant and remaining .in the service for about one year Doctor Sehutte married Miss Mary Jane Dalrymple, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, a graduate of the high school at that place. They have no children. Doctor and Mrs. Schutte are members of the Disciples Church. CARLOS W. FAULKNER. During more than a quarter of a century Carlos W. Faulkner has been engaged in the practice of law at Kenton, and in this period has risen steadily to a high place in the ranks of his calling and in the esteem and respect of those among whom he has lived and labored. Connected at one or another time with much important litigation, he has displayed the possession of splendid abilities in his chosen profession, and at the same time has won success without animosity. Mr. Faulkner was born in Union County, Ohio, April 3, 1864, and is a son of William Henry Harrison and Hannah (Herrington) Faulkner. His father was born in 1840, in Champaign County, Ohio, and as his father died when he was still a small lad he was reared in the home of a neighboring family in Union County. In 1861 he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment for service during the Civil war, and after three years of service was honorably discharged because of disability. He was an active member of the Christian Church, and belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic. By his first wife he had four children : Minerva, the wife of John Wheatley; Carlos W.; Lillie; and French L., of Atchison, Kansas. By his second union Mr. Faulkner was the father of five children. Carlos W. Faulkner after the death of his mother was taken to Logan County, where his education, started in Union County, was continued. Later he was given the advantages of attendance at East Liberty College and the Ohio Northern University, following which he studied law with T. B. Black, of Kenton, in the office which he now occupies. Admitted to the bar in 1897, for ten years he continued to be associated with his preceptor, and since 1907 has practiced alone. His practice is general in character, Mr. Faulkner being equally at home in all branches of his calling, and he has built up a large and important professional business. In 1904 Mr. Faulkner was united in marriage with Miss Florence M. Tipton, a graduate of Kenton High School and prior to her marriage a teacher in the public schools. Two sons have been born to this union: Carlos A., a senior in the Kenton High School; and Richard P., a junior in the same school. The family belongs to the Church of Christ. As a fraternalist Mr. Faulkner holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a thirty-second degree Mason in the Valley of Toledo, being a past master of Latham Lodge No. 154, Free and Accepted Masons, a past high priest of his Chapter, and a member of the Council and Commandery, in addition to which he belongs to Aladdin Shrine at Columbus, and, with Mrs. Faulkner, to the Order of the Eastern Star at Kenton. He is a republican in polities, and was formerly city clerk of Kenton for three years and city solicitor for five years. He is the possessor of a number of business interests, and is a stockholder in the Kenton Savings Bank and Trust Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Hardin Mortgage Company. GUERNSEY B. DEWITT, one of the most genial, cultured and forceful members of the Hardin County bar, has for a number of years been engaged in a large, lucrative and growing practice, embracing various branches of his profession. Of late years he has been especially identified with the activities of the cities of Kenton and Dunkirk. His residence is at Dunkirk, where his pleasant home is the center of much social and intellectual activity. Mr. DeWitt was born on a farm near Forest, Hardin County, Ohio, June 21, 1866, and is a son of Charles F. and Angeline (Harris) DeWitt. His paternal grandfather, William H. DeWitt, was one 406 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the pioneers of the Forest community of Hardin County, where he had a primitive home and farm, and during the early days bore the reputation of being a mighty hunter. He spent his life near Forest, where, July 18, 1838, was born his son, Charles F. DeWitt. The latter 's chances for an education were greatly limited, but his wife, who was born in 1833, in Columbiana County, Ohio, a member of a family which early settled near Mount Blanchard, Hancock County, where both maternal grandparents died at an advanced age, was a school teacher, and thus Mr. DeWitt secured an education that fitted him well for any business matters that came up in his. career. After his marriage he moved to Blanchard Township, near Dunkirk, and there followed farming until the close of his life. He was a democrat, and he and Mrs. DeWitt were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of six children, of whom five are living in 1924: Anna C., the widow of Frank Moses; Guernsey B., of this review; John D., an attorney of New York City; Sarah B., the wife of Justin J. Johnson; and Edson C., of Los Angeles, California. Guernsey B. DeWitt was reared on the home farm and acquired his early education in the public schools at Dunkirk. Later he pursued a course at Ohio Northern University, and for several years was a teacher in the public schools, but gave up the life of an educator to enter the profession of law. After being admitted to the bar he opened an office at Dunkirk, where he met with much success and built up a large practice, and in the meantime was selected as the regular candidate of his party for probate judge. In 1924 he was tendered the nomination for Congress from the Eighth Ohio District, but declined to become a candidate. He also served as mayor of Dunkirk for seven years, and gave his fellow-citizens an excellent administration. Eventually Mr. DeWitt opened a law office at Kenton, and here, as at Dunkirk, his success has been unqualified. He is recognized as a capable lawyer, well grounded in all the principles of his profession, and a man of integrity who makes his clients' interest paramount. Possessed of no mean oratorical ability, Judge. DeWitt 's services are greatly in demand at high school cornmencements and like gatherings, where during the course of his talks he not infrequently inserts poetry of his own composition, this being another of his gifts. He has served on the Board of Education and is a member of the Hardin County Bar Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Kenton, and a past master of. Dunkirk Lodge No. 590, Free and Accepted Masons. With his family he attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. Judge DeWitt married Miss Millie B. Welsh, of Hancock County, Ohio, and to this union there have been born nine children: Miles W., connected with the Pennsylvania Railway system at Fort Wayne, Indiana; Neal B., a veteran of two years' overseas service in the World war, now in the auditing department of the United States Steel Corporation, New York City; Gale B., a graduate of the Dunkirk High School, now superintendent of oil drilling and production for the Lone Star Gas Company; Florence, a graduate of the Dunkirk High School, who is now teaching school at Cleveland; Fred, who resides with his parents; Frank, a graduate of the Dunkirk High School, now a law student at Cleveland; . Ruth, a graduate of the high school, who was a student at Ohio Northern University and now a teacher ; Esther, attending high school; and Thomas, attending the grammar school. JOHN H. SMICK, a veteran member of the Hardin County bar, who has been engaged in practice for nearly a half a century, has been a resident of Kenton since 1879. During this time this veteran of the Civil war has seen many changes come to pass in the community in which he arrived in young manhood, and has had his share in the general progress and advancement of the locality. Mr. Smick was born at Canton, Stark County, Ohio, January 29, 1848, and is a son of Solomon S. and Margaret (Echer) Smiek. His paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, was married at Saville, Perry County, that state, following which he joined the popular migration to Ohio and settled in Stark County, where he cleared a tract of land and settled down to agricultural pursuits, which he followed until his demise. After his death his widow went to Indiana, where she passed away. Solomon S. Smick was born on his father 's farm in Stark County, in 1825, and grew up in the vicinity of Canton, where he acquired his education. In 1863 he removed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he engaged in wholesaling and retailing farming machinery and implements. He led a busy and successful career and was known as a man of sound integrity and ability. John H. Smick was reared in his native city and received a common school education in his youth. When he was but sixteen years of age he left the parental roof and joined the Union army, with which he served until the close of hostilities between the forces of the North and South. He then returned to Canton and resumed his education, but on February 10, 1867, took charge of his father 's saw mill at Ada, Ohio. About this time he married Miss Hannah Eekenrod. While engrossed in the management of the sawmill Mr. Smiek found time to apply himself to the study of law, and in October, 1875, was admitted to the bar. fie began practice at Ada, where lie remained until 1879, in that year being elected prosecuting attorney of Hardin County. Coming to Kenton, he filled the office satisfactorily for more than five years, then turning his entire attention to the practice of his calling. Subsequently Mr. Smick formed a partnership with Hamilton E. Hoge, in 1894, and this association continued until the latter was elected to the office of Common Pleas Judge in 3920. Since that time Mr. Smiek has practiced alone, still, controlling a large and important clientele, whose interests he safeguards faithfully. Mr. Smick's first wife died in October, 1916, leaving four children: Stanton, a resident of Chicago; Mary E., the wife of T. . McBride, of Mansfield; Anna, the wife of Ralph C. Lawrence, of Worcester, Massachusetts; and Bessie, the wife of Carl D. Bates, of Rochester, New York. The present Mrs. Smick was formerly Miss Jessie J. Bogardus, of Kenton. Mr. Smick is a member of Latham Lodge No. 154, Free and Accepted Masons, and a past master of Ada Lodge No. 344; a member of Scioto Chapter No. 119, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest'; Kenton Council No. 65., Royal and Select Masters, past thrice illustrious master; and in Kenton Commandery No. 58, Knights Templar, he is past eminent commander. He is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, of the Valley of Toledo. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Smick acts as attorney for the First National Bank of Kenton and the First National Bank of Ada, and is vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of the Dickelman Manufacturing Company of Forest, Ohio. G. RAY MOREHART, county auditor of Hancock County, represents one of the pioneer families of this section of Ohio, and has made an enviable record as a young man of business and public affairs. HISTORY OF OHIO - 407 He was born June 25, 1886, on a farm in Amanda Township of Hancock County. His parents were Jesse D. and Elizabeth (Beck) Morehart. His grandfather, David Morehart, came from Tiffin, Ohio, to Hancock County in 1830 and entered the quarter section including the birthplace of G. Ray Morehart. His quarter section was the northwest quarter of section seventeen in Amanda Township. David More-hart cleared the land, made a farm and reared his family there. He was the father of a number of children, and after his death a half of the quarter section of the homestead was owned by his son Jesse D. Morehart and the other eighty acres by Squire Franklin Morehart. Jesse D. Morehart and wife had four children, and three are now living : Della F., wife of A. L. Woodward, of Delaware Township, Hancock County; Harry J., cashier of the Vanlue Banking Company at Vanlue and G. Ray. G. Ray Morehart grew up on the old family homestead, and had the training of a practical farmer. He attended the district schools and also Findlay College, and as a young man took up teaching and spent ten terms as a teacher in the public schools. He left the schoolroom to accept appointment as deputy auditor of Hancock County under J. R. Hanrahan, and served five and a half years. On November 7, 1922, Mr. Morehart was elected county auditor on the democratic ticket. The fact that he is the only democratic official of the courthouse at Findlay is a striking evidence of his general popularity and the efficiency with which he had performed his duties as deputy before he took the chief responsibility of the county auditor 's position. Mr. Morehart has been an active leader of the democratic party of the county since coming to manhood. He was elected trustee of Amanda Township, and served two terms, and when first elected was the youngest township trustee in the state. May 24, 1911, Mr. Morehart married Miss Mary Brayton, who was reared and educated in Big Spring Township, Seneca County, Ohio. They have two children: Helen D., born January 26, 1913, now attending the fifth grade of the public schools; and Atlee D., born December 30, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. More-hart are members of the United Brethren Church. He is a past grand of Fountain Lodge No. 353, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a past chief patriarch of Golden Rule Encampment No. 92. He also belongs to Findlay Lodge No. 75, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to Findlay Lodge No. 227, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Morehart is a stockholder in the Vanlue Banking Company at Vanlue, and owns a comfortable residence at 204 Locust Street in Findlay. JESSE C. BITLER has been a member of the Ohio bar for almost half a century, and has been one of the most successful as well as one of the oldest men in the continuous service of the profession in Hancock County. Mr. Bitler has filled a number of offices , of trust in connection with his law practice, and is now probate judge of Hancock County. Jesse C. Bitler was born at ,Lancaster, Ohio, April 27, 1854, son of Samuel and Mariah (Nigh) Bitler. His father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1818, and his mother, in Maryland, in 1824, and they were married in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1844. After their marriage they located at Lancaster, where Samuel Bitler was associated with his father in the foundry business for several years. He then located on a farm, and was identified with agriculture until the last ten years of his life, when he resumed his connections with the foundry business at Carey, Ohio. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a republican. There were nine sons and one daughter in the family, six of whom are still living: E. N., who was a soldier in the Civil war and is now a member of a soldiers' colony in Florida; Jesse C.; James, of Delaware, Ohio; Samuel, of Columbus; • Frank, of Arlington, Ohio; and Nan, widow of George Conant. Jesse C. Bitler spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and his education in the public schools was supplemented by three years of study in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Before, during and after college days he taught an aggregate of seven years in the public schools. In the meantime he was studying law, and in May, 1875, was admitted to the bar and at once engaged in practice at Findlay. During his forty-eight years as a lawyer he has frequently been distinguished by the skill and ability with which he has handled important cases. He served two terms as city solicitor of Findlay. He was elected to the probate bench in 1920. Jesse C. Bitler married Mary Wilson, of Vanlue, Amanda Township, Hancock County. They were married in 1876. Mrs. Bitler had been a teacher in the public schools. Six children were born to their marriage: Winnifred, a graduate of high school; Daisy, who became a speaker after graduating from high school, and is now the wife of H. G. Hunter, of Columbus; Samuel W., an electrician with the Ohio Telephone Company at Columbus; Don C., who is a practicing attorney at El Centro in the Imperial Valley of California; Jesse C., Jr., a clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Bellevue, Ohio, and who served fourteen months overseas during the World war, with the rank of first sergeant; and Florence, wife of Ralph Hildebrand, of Bellevue, Ohio. Judge Bitler and family are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 400, Knights of Pythias, and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a republican in politics. In addition to other public services he served as a member of the City Council and the School Board for a number of terms. ROBERT GREEN is general manager of the Lick Run Coal & Clay Company at Nelsonville. He is a practical miner, having started work with a pick and knows all the details of operating a coal mine. His present company was organized in 1920, P. J. Merz being president; Don R. McGill, vice president; and M. A. Krieg, secretary and treasurer. The scene of operations of the Lick Run Coal & Clay Company is an old mine which was abandoned forty-five years ago. It is located on a thousand acres of land owned by the company, comprising a large amount of virgin timber and rich both in clay and coal. New equipment has been installed under the supervision of Mr. Green and it is one of the efficiently operated mines in Athens County. Mr. Green was born in Lancashire, England, August 1, 1891, son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Green. His parents now live at Nelsonville and his father is an employe of the Lick Run Coal & Clay Company. John T. Green learned the work of a practical miner in England, and left that country in order to better the condition of his family. He was the father of two sons and two daughters. The other son Bertram came to this country with the family and as a young man went to Mexico, working for an oil company. When the World war broke out he made his escape with some difficulty from Mexico, went to England and joined the Royal Irish Fusileers. He was in service during the greater part of the World war, was promoted to captain, was wounded, and was in the front line of action many times. He left the service broken in health, and died soon afterward in Arizona when only twenty-two years of age. Robert Green attended school in England at Adlington, and soon after coming to America went 408 - HISTORY OF OHIO to work in the Snake Hollow Mine of the Sunday Creek Coal Company, digging coal with a pick. Eventually he became part owner in this mine, and during the World war he was associated with P. J. Merz and M. A. Krieg in mine operation. Mr. Green in 1911 married Miss Nellie Elizabeth, a daughter of P. J. Merz, of Nelsonville. They have two sons, Robert Harold and John James and one daughter, Virginia Eilene. Mr. Green is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and the Grotto of Masons. He is a republican and a Methodist. HARRY R. RODABAUGH, mayor of the City of Findlay, has a successful record in life insurance circles, and his friends and acquaintances in different parts of the state recognize in him a firm and earnest character that has pursuel an undeviating course from comparative poverty to the plane of substantial achievement. Mr. Rodabaugh was born on an Ohio farm, June 27, 1879. When he was four years old his parents moved to Hardin County, and he grew to maturity on a farm four miles south of Dola in that county. His people were of the Quaker and Dunkard stock, and they were earnest opponents of slavery and were connected with the old underground railroad prior to the Civil war. Harry R. Rodabaugh attended district schools until he was seventeen, and then started teaching in Hardin County. He taught four years and spent the summer months attending Ohio Northern University at Ada, and subsequently finished his higher education by four years in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated, a Bachelor of Arts. After his university career he was a traveling salesman for seven years. In 1913 he located at Kenton and engaged in the life insurance business there for six years and for the past four years has continued this business at Findlay. Mr. Rodabaugh was elected mayor of Findlay November 6, 1921. The program of his administration has been one of law enforcement and material improvement. Mr. Rodabaugh is a republican, and has been quite active in the party and has corapaigned for some of his friends. He is a member of the York Rite Masonic bodies at Kenton, the Scottish Rite Consistory at Dayton, the Mystic Shrine of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Findlay, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club and was a member of the Delta Upsilon college fraternity at Miami. While at Miami he was an assistant in the chemical laboratory for four years. Mr. Rodabaugh married Miss Jessie Unzicker, of Oxford, Ohio. She was a teacher and was likewise a student at Miami University. They have three children, James Howard, born in 1910, Louis Dale, born in 1913, and Martha Elizabeth, born in 1914. The family are members of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Rodabaugh was superintendent of the Sunday school while at Kenton. ALBERT E. DORSEY, vice president of the Buckeye Commercial Bank at Findlay, has been a prominent oil operator in both the Ohio and Illinois fields, and is a member of one of the oldest and most substantial families of Hancock County. He was born on a farm in Allen Township, five miles northeast of Findlay, December 17, 1867. His grandfather, William Dorsey, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1804, was an early settler in Hancock County. In 1835 he married Louisa Bryan, who was born in Kentucky, in 1811. William Dorsey entered government land in Hancock County and developed a fine farm there, served as township assessor and treasurer, and was a leader in the democratic party. He died September 3, 1886, and his wife, in 1896. Of their eight children all survive the parents. Wallace Dorsey, father of Albert E., was born in Allen Township, Hancock County, July 5, 1836, and died in 1914, when seventy-eight years of age. He learned the carpenter 's trade, and was a carpenter and building contractor for many years. He also bought land and developed a fine country estate of 160 acres. Part of the land he used for manufacturing brick and tile, a business he started in 1877. He was a democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Church. Wallace Dorsey married Lois Nelson on February 28, 1861. She was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and was a child when her parents settled in Cass Township, Hancock County. She was born in 1839, and died September 13, 1897. Mr. Dorsey and wife were the parents of nine children, and seven are now living : William W., of Findlay ; Albert E. ; E. N., an oil operator at Fort Worth, Texas ; Lloyd, of Findlay; Mrs. Mary Edie, a widow; Homer, former probate judge of Hancock County ; and Milton L., who is in the oil business at Robinson, Illinois. Albert E. Dorsey grew to his majority on the old homestead, and acquired a grammar and high school education. As a youth he went to work in the oil fields as a teamster, then as a pumper, then became foreman and subsequently district foreman. After leaving the Ohio fields he represented the same company in the oil developments in Eastern Illinois, being superintendent of operations at Robinson seven years and at Casey one year. Mr. Dorsey severed his connections with this company September 1, 1911, and during 1912 was engaged in looking after his private interests. He returned to Findlay in 1913, and he still owns property in the oil district around Casey, Illinois. He has been a director and vice president of the Buckeye Commercial Bank of Findlay for the past nine years. December 25, 1888, Mr. Dorsey married Miss Elizabeth Weirough, a native of Findlay and reared on a farm in Hancock County. They have three children: William E., who is a high school graduate, spent two years in the University of Illinois, and is now a prominent road building contractor living at Findlay; I. L. Dorsey, who is a graduate of Ohio State University at Columbus, now has charge of the A. E. Dorsey Wholesale Company; and Mary E., a graduate of the Findlay High School. The son I. L. is a World war veteran, coming out with the rank of second lieutenant. The family are liberal supporters of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dorsey is an active democrat, and is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. HON. R. CLINT COLE is the distinguished representative of the Eighth Ohio District in Congress, filling his third consecutive term as representative of the counties of Hancock, Marion, Wyandot, Crawford, Morrow and Hardin. He took his seat in the Sixty-sixth Congress, and his younger brother, R. D. Cole, represented the Eighth District in the Sixty-first Congress. These brothers are both natives of Hancock County, where the Coles were pioneer settlers. Their grandfather, Harry Cole, came from the State of Delaware and settled in Ashland County. John W. Cole, father of Congressman Cole, was born in Ashland County, in 1821, and about 1860 moved to Hancock County and spent his active life as a farmer in Big Lick Township. He lived during his later years at Findlay. He married Sarah MeRea, a native of Scotland. R. Clinton Cole was born in Big Lick Township of Hancock County, August 21, 1872. He was reared on the farm, attended the district schools, and by HISTORY OF OHIO - 409 examination acquired a teacher's certificate and for eight years assisted in the program of educating the pupils of the district schools of Hancock County. At the same time he was a student in Findlay College from 1894 to 1896, studied law, and in 1900 graduated, a Bachelor of Laws, from Ohio Northern Uni- versity at Ada. Mr. Cole began practice at Findlay in 1901. He served as city solicitor from 1912 to 1916, and in 1918 was elected on the republican ticket as congressman and was reelected in 1920 and again in 1922, so that he is a member of the present Sixty-eighth Congress. He has achieved recognition as one of the able members of the Ohio delegation at Washington. He is a polished orator, and has enjoyed exceptional success as a lawyer. He is still a member of one of the leading law firms of Findlay, that of Dunn & Cole, the members of which are E. T. Dunn, Ralph D. and R. C. Cole. Congressman Cole was captain and quartermaster of the Second Infantry, Ohio National Guard, from 1903 to 1913. He is unmarried. He is a member of the Methodist Church and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Findlay. His brother, Ralph D. Cole, was born November 30, 1873, graduated from Findlay College in 1896, received a diploma from Ohio Northern University in 1898, and for several years taught in the country schools. He was deputy clerk of Hancock County two years, was admitted to the bar in 1899, and has since been engaged in practice. He was elected and served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1898 to 1902, and in 1904 was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress and served three terms, retiring at the close of the Sixty-first Congress in March, 1911. BENJAMIN D. RICKEY was an ambitious youth of seventeen years when he came from his native Italy to the United States, and his ability and self-reliance have here enabled him to achieve success and advancement in connection with business and to make for himself a secure place as one of the progressive young business men and popular citizens of Steubenville, Jefferson County. Here he now owns a well equipped automobile service and repair station, with an adequate stock of accessories and supplies, and as an authorized sales agent for the Hupmobile and the Cole automobiles he maintains attractive office and show rooms on Market Street. Mr. Rickey was born in Italy on the 14th of May, 1893, and there his parents, Lorenzo and Mary (Vincent) Rickey, still maintain their home, as do also two of their sons and their three daughters, the sons Antony and Benjamin D. being the only representatives of the immediate family in the United States. In the schools of his native land Mr. Rickey received his youthful education, and, as previously stated, he was seventeen years old when he severed the home ties to seek better opportunities in the United States. After his arrival in this country he was for two years employed in the Carnegie steel mill at Steubenville. He then took a position with the Steubenville Ice Company,' with which he continued. his association until 1919, when he initiated his independent business career by opening an automobile service station on Fifth Street, where he still maintains his repair and service shops, with sales and display rooms on Market Street, as previously noted. He has applied himself closely, has insisted. on the best of service in all departments of his business, and has thus developed a substantial and prosperous enterprise that marks him as one of the representative figures in the automobile trade in Steubenville. He is a popular member of the local automobile club and the Chamber of Commerce. In August, 1922, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rickey and Miss Anna Mary Manack, daughter of Octave and Mary Manack, the former of whom is deceased and the latter resides in Steubenville, as do also all of her children, five sons and three daughters. Octave Manack, whose death occurred in December, 1923, was an official organizer of the Knights of St. George. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Rickey have one child. JOSEPH WOOD SHAW, M. D. In Doctor Shaw the City of Coshocton has a highly qualified surgeon and X-Ray specialist, his professional work having been largely consigned to those lines since he began practice there in 1910. Doctor Shaw was born March 25, 1879, and reared on a farm in Coshocton County. He is the fourth in 'order of birth of six children, all living, born to Henry and Mary Ellen (Masterson) Shaw. On both sides the families have been identified with Coshocton County since pioneer times. The great-grandfather, Robert Shaw, came from the East and settled in Coshocton County when the country was nearly all woods. At the time of his settlement his son, Velger Shaw, was seven years of age. Velger Shaw was born in New Jersey. He was the father of Henry Shaw. The Mastersons were likewise early settlers, Mary Ellen Masterson being a granddaughter of William Masterson, a native of Pennsylvania, while her grandfather Masterson was a native of Ireland. Henry Shaw has devoted his energies through his active life to farming and still lives on his place at Coshocton County at the age of seventy-six. His good wife passed away in December, 1923, at the age of seventy-three. Joseph Wood Shaw, while a boy on the farm acquired a good common school education. He was graduated in pharmacy in Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1902, the following three years being given to work as a pharmacist in various cities. He then entered Ohio Medical College at Columbus, attained his Doctor of Medicine degree with the class of 1908, but before engaging in private practice had the advantage of a year and a half further training and experience as an interne in a hospital at Columbus. Since locating at Coshocton in 1910 he has interrupted his work a number of times for the purpose of further training and has attended many conventions and clinics, including the Mayo Brothers clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. He has a splendid professional working library and in his mechanical equipment has the most improved instruments for all branches of radiological work. He uses the X-ray not only for diagnosis for his own patients but as a service to other physicians and surgeons. Doctor Shaw is a member of the Coshocton County, the Ohio State and the American Medical associations. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Methodist Church. In 1912 he married Miss Myrtle Ogan of Ottawa, Ohio. WILLIAM E. ARCHER. is conducting successfully in his native city of Steubenville, Jefferson County, the substantial monument and general cut-stone business that was here founded by his father, the late William J. Archer, whose death occurred August 11, 1890, and whose widow, Mrs. Emma L. (Elliott) Archer, passed away on the 27th of June, 1920. Of the six children, Charles H. married Jessie Jacoby and their children are five in number ; Edward married Lyda Walters; George E. married Edna Horner ; Walter and Grace are not married ; and William E., of this sketch, is the oldest of the number. William J. Archer was born and reared in England, and was a son of John and Anna Archer. He came to the United States about the year 1870, and it was after he had established his residence at Steubenville, Ohio, that he married Miss 410 - HISTORY OF OHIO Emma L. Elliott, a daughter of Edward and Sarah Elliott, her father having been born in England and having become a resident of Ohio when he was a lad of fourteen years. William J. Archer, a skilled worker in marble and granite, founded and developed in Steubenville the prosperous business now conducted by his son, William E., who has been associated with the enterprise from his boyhood, he having been only eleven years old at the time of his father 's death and having left his studies in the public schools to assist in the management of the business for his widowed mother, after whose death he assumed entire control of the busineis by purchasing the interests of the other heirs. The parents were earnest communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. As noted in the preceding paragraph, William E, Archer left school when he was eleven years of age, and his broader education has been that gained through self-discipline and through practical association with business. He has literally grown up in the marble and granite trade, is familiar with every detail, and in his independent management of the enterprise founded by his father he has greatly expanded its scope and importance, his business now .extending over a radius of many miles from Steubenville, and thus into both West Virginia and Pennsylvania. He is one of the progressive business men of his native city, is here- an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, besides which he has membership in the Steubenville Automobile Club, and is affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a republican. He and his wife are communicants of St. Paul's Church, Protestant Episcopal. The year 1920 recorded the marriage of Mr. Archer and Miss Stella M. Hopkins, daughter of Florence and Anna Hopkins, the latter of whom is deceased. The other children of the Hopkins family are : William; Blanche, .who is the wife of Charles E. Reed; and Carrie, who is the wife of Samuel Sharp, their children being two in number. Mr. and Mrs. Archer have no children. EDWARD CADEGAN has been for many years a resident of Jefferson County, where he maintains his home in the vital little city of Toronto, and he has held various public offices, his election to which attests the secure place that is his in popular confidence and esteem. He was elected county commissioner in 1920, and in this important office he is giving loyal service of constructive order and marked by liberal and progressive policies. Mr. Cadegan was born at Sidney, Province of Nova Scotia, August 15, 1861, his paternal grandparents having settled in that province upon coming to America from their native Ireland. Mr. Cadegan is a. son of Dennis and Bridget (Roach) Cadegan, and was but five years old at the time of his father 's death, in 1866, the widowed mother having been venerable in years at the time of her death in 1914, and both having been devout communicants in the Catholic Church. Patrick, eldest of the children, first wedded Elizabeth McNeill, and they became the parents of three children. After the death of his first wife he married Katherine MeGilvery. James likewise is married and is the father of children. John was next in order of birth. Edward, of this review, is the next younger. Annie became the wife of James McNeill, and they have children. Mary is the wife of John McKegan, and they have three children. Julia is the wife of Alexander McDonald, and they have three children. Edward. Cadegan attended district school until he was twelve years of age, and thereafter assisted in the work of the home farm, where the devoted mother had kept her children together after the death of her husband. At the age of nineteen years Mr. Cadegan came to the United States and found employment in railroad construction near Aurora, Illinois. After. being thus engaged some time he joined a friend who had come to Steubenville, Ohio, and in Jefferson County coal mines he was thereafter employed fifteen years. During the ensuing nineteen years he was engaged in business at Toronto, this county, and after having there served. three years as city street commissioner he finally found his services in demand in an office of greater responsibility, that of county commissioner, of which he has been the incumbent since his election in 1920 and in which his administration has fully justified his election. His political support is given to the republican party, he and his family are communicants of the Catholic Church, and in his home city of Toronto he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Loyal Order of Moose, in which two last mentioned fraternities he is a charter member of the local organizations at Toronto, where also, he is a valued member of the. Kiwanis Club. At Steubenville, February 15, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cadegan and Miss Katherine McLaughlin, daughter of the late Patrick and Katherine McLaughlin, whose other surviving child, Bridget, is the wife of Ross Devlin and the mother of five .children. To Mr. and Mrs. Cadegan have been born the following children: Julia died at the age of eleven months. Thomas married Margaret Conley, and their only child is deceased. John is married and is the father of . three children. James is married and has. two children. Leo married Minnie Shellinger, and their only child is deceased. Misses Blanche and Marie remain with their parents. Annie Loraine is the wife of James Stockman, and they have four children.. Miss Bessie is a teacher in the Loretta Convent at St. Louis, Missouri. Alphonso is still listed on the roster of eligible bachelors. NORMAN J. MCKENZIE is actively associated with one of the great and important public utility corporations giving electric service in Ohio. As a valued executive of the Ohio Power Company he has his official headquarters in the city of Steubenville, Jefferson County. The Ohio. Power Company has one of the most modern and complete electric generating plants to be found in the United States. Mr. McKenzie was born in the fair old city of Detroit, Michigan, on the 3d of May, 1870. His father, William McKenzie, died in the year 1896, and the widowed mother is a resident of Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada. Of the eight children the subject of this review was the second in order of birth, and the others are: Albert Joseph, Alice (deceased), Evelyne (Mrs. Samuel McFarland), Frederick, Annie (Mrs. Frank Willock), Adella (Mrs. Robertson) and Herbert. All of the children are married and have children of their own. William McKenzie was born and reared in Scotland, and after coming to the United States, as a young man, he engaged in farm enterprise in Michigan. He came to this country in the early forties and settled at Detroit, Michigan, formed the acquaintance of Miss Margaret McCallum, who became his wife and who is still living, as stated in the preceding paragraph, she likewise having been born in Scotland. After long continuing a resident of Michigan, William McKenzie purchased a ranch in the Province of Alberta, Canada, he having developed one of the valuable farm properties of that province and having there given special attention to the raising of horses. Norman J. McKenzie attended the public schools of Detroit until he was eleven years old, and there. HISTORY OF OHIO - 411 after he was actively associated with the work of his father's farm near that city until he had attained to the age of twenty years. He then found employment on the 700-ton schooner "Canton," owned and operated by Captain Jeffres of Detroit, and he continued his association with navigation on the Great Lakes for a period of five years. For the ensuing three years he was in the employ of the Erie Motor Company at Erie, Pennsylvania, and he then. took a position with what has been known as the Big Consolidated Street Railway system of Cleveland, Ohio. About six months later he became allied with the Mellon interests of the Monongahela Street Railway, which was consolidated with and taken over by the Pittsburgh Street Railways Company. He was thus engaged from 1900 to 1911, in the capacity of district superintendent of lines. In the latter year he came to Steubenville, Ohio, and assumed the office of superintendent of lines of the Steubenville & East Liverpool Railway & Light Company. He retained this position until 1917, when the electric lighting interests of the company were passed to the control of the Ohio Power Company, with which he is now district superintendent of power and lighting of the Ohio River division of the Ohio Power Company. This company owns and operates an extensive light and power system in Ohio. Mr. McKenzie is a man who has achieved success and advancement through his own ability and efforts, and through self-application and practical experience he has effectively made good the educational handicap of his youth. He is a republican in politics, he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Protestant Church, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, and is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce and the Steubenville Automobile Club. At Youngstown, this state, October 27, 1909, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mckenzie and Miss Eva Noey, daughter of the late John and Ella Noey, the father having been a furnace superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie have two children: Thomas Edward and Norman John, Jr. WINFIELD SCOTT SCAMAHORN is a native son of Jefferson County, Ohio, and has here won a place of prominence as one of the representative business men in the City of Steubenville, where he is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the important enterprise conducted under the title of the Union Lumber Company, besides being treasurer of the Eastern Ohio Finance & Collateral Loan Company of Steubenville, and secretary of the Columbiana County Finance Company of East Liverpool, Ohio. He is a liberal and progressive citizen who is always at the forefront, in supporting measures and enterprises tending to advance the civic and material welfare of his home city and native county, the while he is a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio more than a century ago. He is a grandson of Eli Seamahorn, who was born in Holland and who came to the United States and settled in New York, whence he later removed to Pennsylvania, from which -latter state he came to Ohio about the year 1803 and became one of the early pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, where he and his wife, Clara, passed the remainder of their lives. Winfield Scott Seamahorn was born on the home farm of his parents in Jefferson County, Ohio, in May, 1868, and is a son of Luke and Eliza (Haythorn) Scamahorn, the former of whom died in 1920, his entire life having been passed in Jefferson County, and the latter of whom passed to eternal rest in the year 1904. Of the six children Jane, the first born, died at the age of four years; John E. married Laura Barr; Clara died at the age of thirteen years; Winfield S., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; William married Edna Owens, and of their six children four are living; Mrs. Maude Brunstutter resides near Alliance, Stark County, her husband being there a prosperous farmer. Luke Scamahorn was reared to the discipline of the pioneer farm, and in later years never severed his allegiance to. the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, of which he was a substantial exponent in. Jefferson County. He was influential in community affairs, and he and his wife were most zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward, trustee and class leader. His wife was a daughter of James Haythorn, the original American representatives of the Haythorn family having come from England. While early beginning to contribute his quota to the work of the home farm, Winfield S. Seamahorn did not fail to profit also by the advantages afforded in the district schools. He continued to attend school at intervals until he was about twenty-one years of age, and as a youth he learned and followed the carpenter trade. As a skilled builder. he resided for a time at Mingo Junction, and in 1902 he removed to Steubenville and became manager of the Union Lumber Company, which had just been organized. He has since continued with this company and has been a dominating force in the development and upbuilding of its substantial and important business in the handling of all kinds of lumber and other building supplies. Mr. Seamahorn is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce and the local automobile club, is affiliated with the Modern. Woodmen of America, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist .Protestant Church. In April, 1891, at Steubenville, Mr. Scamahorn married Miss Bertha McGrew, daughter of Mansfield and Margaret (Taylor) McGrew, the former of whom is deceased, his death having occurred in 1922. Mr. MeGrew was one of the substantial farmers of Jefferson. County during the course of his entire active career, represented Ohio as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and in later years signalized his continued interest in his old comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. and Mrs. McGrew became the parents of four children who survive the honored father, namely: Mrs. Bertha Scamahorn Plummer, Asa and Mrs. Mary Draught. Mr. and drs. Scamahorn have three children: Jesse is the wife of James Flynn, and they have one son, James, Jr.; Margaret is the wife of Harold VOtey, and they reside in the city of Detroit, Michigan; and Mildred remains at the parental home. ALBERT GRAHAM LEE is in the most significant sense one of the representative citizens and men of affairs in. the City of Steubenville, judicial center of Jefferson County, and it is consistently to be said that his civic loyalty has been on a parity with his large and worthy success in connection with business and industrial enterprises of broad scope and importance. He is president of the Steubenville Bank & Trust Company, a corporation that bases its operations upon a capital stock of $650,000 and the surplus fund of which, as shown in the official statement of October 10, 1924, was $340,785. Mr. Lee is a director of each of the following named corporations: The Unity Coal Company, the Petroleum Supply Company, the Banfield Improvement Company, the Ferguson Oil Company, the Fort Steuben Hotel Company, and the Steubenville Ice Company, besides which he was 412 - HISTORY OF OHIO appointed a member of the committee of three assigned to the reorganization of the Hartye Paper Manufacturing Company of Steubenville. Mr. Lee is a scion of the old and honored Lee family of Maryland and Virginia which gave distinguished patriot soldiers to the War of the Revolution, and which has been prominently represented in every subsequent war in which the nation has been involved. Another of the Revolutionary ancestors of Mr. Lee was named Patterson, who served. as a member of the first Congress of the United States. William MacMillan Lee, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, at the time of his death, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Patterson. On the maternal side Mr. Lee is a grandson of William and Margaret (Orr) Brown, the Brown family having been founded in New England in the early Colonial period of our national history, and representatives of the name having been pioneers at Holliday Cove, West Virginia, just across the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio, where they operated a mill and tannery, as well as a large general store. William Brown was a son of Oliver Brown, whose father was a captain in the Revolutionary war under Gen. George Washington. Albert Graham Lee was born at Holliday Cove, West Virginia, March 25, 1883, and is a son of Albert Graham Lee, Sr., whose death occurred in 1905, and Annie (Brown) Lee, who is still living and who now resides in California. Albert G. Lee, Sr., was a representative merchant at Steubenville, Ohio, for a long period of years. Of the children Albert G. of this sketch is the first born; Annie Lyle is the wife of William Hax; William Brown, the second son, 'died in 1914; and Stephen M. resides in California, his widowed mother being a loved member of his home circle in that state. In the public schools of Steubenville Albert G. Lee continued his studies until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1901. Thereafter he was employed in the local mill and offices of the La Belle Iron Works until 1905, when he here became connected with the Union Deposit Bank, which association continued until 1913. In the meanwhile he had become associated also with the coal industry and the real estate and oil producing business, and upon severing his alliance with the Union Deposit Bank he effected the organization of the Steubenville Bank & Trust Company, in 1914. He was elected president of this institution, the executive policies of which he has since directed with consummate efficiency and progressiveness, with the result that it has become one of the leading financial concerns in this section of the state. The new bank building was completed in 1920, and is one of the largest and most modern and attractive in the city. Loyal, liberal and public spirited as a citizen, Mr. Lee takes intense interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city, and his has been a large influence in advancing its civic and business prosperity and prestige. In the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity his maximum affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templar, and in the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, Sons of the American Revolution and the Steubenville Country Club. In their home city he and his wife hold membership in Westminster Presbyterian Church. In October, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lee and Miss Madge McClinton, daughter of the late John and Mary (Miller) McClinton, of Steubenville, whose other surviving child, Agnes, is the wife of Thaddeus Jones, of Pasadena, California. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have two children: Marjorie and Albert Graham III. JOSEPH J. PISARRO. Among the residents of Steubenville few can lay claim to older or more distinguished family traditions and connections than Joseph J. Pisarro, one of the city's eminent legal lights of the younger generation. He was born in New York City, April 24, 1891, and is a son of Nicola and Maria (Di Marco) Pisarro, the latter's ancestors being of the famous legions of Julius Caesar. The Pisarro family, which boasts a coat-of-arms, now in the possession of Mr. Pisarro, is a very ancient family of Bologne, descendants of Nicola Pisarro, a contemporary of Charles of Anjou, Castela Nouva, Naples, 1270, whose descendants went into the southern provinces of Italy in 1600. The name was changed to Pisarri and later to Pisarro. Benedetto Pisarro was judge of the civil court in Cosenza Province, Italy, and Gaspard Pisarro was created civil and military governor of Terra di Punicocoli. Nicola Pisarro was born in Terra Nova di Siberi Province of Cosenza, Italy, and came to the United States in 1880. He was a contractor on railroad construction, his first work being the digging of the "Fishbon.e" in South Carolina. He then worked on the Baltimore & Ohio cut-off and various other projects around Washington and Pittsburgh and West Virginia, and located at Steubenville in 1903. He retired from active life in 1913. Joseph J. Pisarro attended the parochial school of Holy Name Catholic parish and the Steubenville High School, after which he enrolled as a student in the Detroit School of Law. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1913, to the Federal Court in the same year, and to the Ohio bar in 1915, and at once opened an office at 106 South Fourth Street, the old Bank Building. Later he transferred his office to the Steubenville Bank & Trust Company Building, where he shares quarters with Gardner & Bigger. Mr. Pisarro has built up an excellent practice and is known as one of the thorough, reliable and able members of the Steubenville bar. He belongs to the state and county bar associations and likewise holds membership in the Sons of Italy, the Chamber of Commerce and the .Knights of Columbus. His religious connection is with St. Anthony's Catholic Church. On January 15, 1916, at old St. Patrick 's Cathedral, New York City, Mr. Pisarro was united in marriage with Miss Marion E. Carmel, daughter of Count Joseph and Grace (Oddo) Caracci. Mr. Pisarro has two sisters: Teresa, who married Luigi Panebianco and has seven children, Anthony, Alfred, Dohrman, William, Innocent, Ceasare and Mary; Lillian, who married Ceasare Panebianco and has two children, Thalma and Gloria. Mrs. Pisarro has two sisters and one brother : Grace, who married Santo Lanzarotta and has two children, Nancy and Joseph; Aurelia, who married Charles Trubiano; and Louis Caramel, who is single. Mr. and Mrs. Pisarro are the parents of two children, Maria Eleanora and Grace Lucile. VIRGIL TEMISTOOLES MONTI. One of the brilliant younger members of the Jefferson bar, who during a comparatively short career has made rapid strides toward success and preferment, is Virgil Temistoeles Monti, who is associated in practice at Steubenville with C. J. Borkowsky. He has been the architect of his own fortunes and his rise has been due to hard work as well as to inherent ability. Mr. Monti was HISTORY OF OHIO - 413 born May 6, 1898, at Roccarasse, province of Aquila, Italy, and is a son of Peter and Judith Monti. Peter Monti first came to the United States in 1899, and was followed the next year by his wife and children. On his arrival Mr. Monti became a foreman in the Carnegie Steel Company plant at Mingo Junction, but in 1901 embarked in the shoe business. His advent at Steubenville occurred in 1905, when he opened a wholesale liquor and wine business. on South Fourth Street, in connection with a grocery and bakery business, and in 1906 began conducting the commissary for Harry A. Sims, contractor on the construction of the double track of the Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railroad, continuing in this capacity for two years. In 1908 Mr. Monti disposed of his various holdings and engaged in the transfer business, subsequently becoming general agent for the Uneeda Brewing Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, as Tri-State distributing agent, incidentally handling all the brewing company's business. In 1915 he opened a wholesale liquor store at Mingo and became agent for the Mutual Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, but in 1916 sold out and engaged in the restaurant business for one year. At the end of that time he retired from business activities and took up his residence at Tiltonsville, which has since been his home and that of his wife. As soon after coming to this country as possible Mr. Monti took out his first papers, and has always proven himself a good citizen. He is a republican in politics, a Catholic in religion, and belongs to the Sons of Italy. He and his wife are the parents of four children: Romaine, who is unmarried; Italia, who married Arnold Rosati and has two children, Alga and Judith; Constance, who is unmarried; and Virgil T. After attending the Steubenville High School for two years Virgil T. Monti enrolled as a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where, starting in the fall of 1916, he took academic and law courses and graduated in the former in 1920 and the latter in 1922. It is greatly to his credit that he worked his way through school and college, paying his passage by various employments, particularly in the steel mills of the LaBelle Iron Works. He was married in 1920, and in 1921 he returned to college, taking with him his wife, who worked in the telephone office while Mr. Monti waited on table in the restaurant and accepted such other honorable though humble employment which came to hand. In 1922 his industry and ambition were rewarded by his receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree. In the same year the Order of the Sons of Italy of America decided to send a delegation of college men of the United States to Italy to study conditions in the latter country, as to commerce, trade relations with the United States, economic conditions of all kinds, social and business connections, etc., as between the two countries. Requests were sent out from the central body in New York for men to undertake this task. The requirements were strict, including that each applicant write a treatise on the subject at hand. More than 14,000 aspirants entered the contest, and Mr. Monti was one of the fifteen to be selected from this vast field. With his conpanions he sailed in June, 1922, and returned to the United States in September of the same year, having had an audience with the King of Italy and the Pope, and having visited Italy, France, Austria and Switzerland. This was one of the most important commissions ever sent abroad and was a mark of distinction to be conferred upon Mr. Monti, despite his youth. It has made him one of the outstanding figures among his people. Upon his return Mr. Monti took up his law practice at Steubenville, associating with C. J. Borkowsky, and they now have one of the largest general law practices in the city. Mr. Monti is a member of the Catholic Church, and fraternally is identified with the Knights of Columbus and the Sons of Italy. In June, 1920, Mr. Monti was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Dobinson, who was born in Durham, England, was orphaned in childhood, and adopted by William and Mary Jane Dobinson, Mr. Dobinson being a coal miner. To Mr. and Mrs. Monti there has come one son: Virgil T., Jr., born August 12, 1923. SIDNEY SPITZER. Among the investment banking and bond houses of America, one that in volume of business and the quality of its service, ranking with some of the very oldest institutions of the kind, is Sidney Spitzer & Company of Toledo. The founder and head of this house is Mr. Sidney Spitzer. While Toledo still has the main office of the company, there are branch offices in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, New Orleans and elsewhere. Sidney Spitzer is a native of Ohio, and member of a very notable family who have figured in banking and financial affairs at Toledo for two generations. He was born on a farm near Medina, Ohio, February 15, 1875, son of Aaron B. and Anna (Collins) Spitzer and grandson of Nicholas Spitzer. Aaron D. Spitzer was born near Schenectady, New York, in 1823, and for years was in the banking business in Ohio, and lived on a fine stock farm near Medina, where he indulged his fancy for fine horses. He died at Medina in 1892. Sidney Spitzer graduated from the Medina High School in 1895 and as a youth manifested a strong inclination for a financial career. He and his brother, Frank Spitzer, in 1897, organized the Citizens Sav ings Bank of Pemberville, Ohio, and he acted as its cashier until 1899. In that year he became asso elated with Spitzer & Company, investment bankers at Toledo, and subsequently was made a general partner in the business, and was head of the Bond Buying Department until 1911. In 1912, following an extended .tour abroad, Sidney Spitzer established the banking house of Sidney Spitzer & Company, dealers in government, municipal and other high grade investment bonds. This house in the past twelve years has bought and sold county, city and school bonds and other corporate securities, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. The firm are members of the Investment Bankers Association of America. Mr. Sidney Spitzer is owner of some valuable real estate in Toledo, being one of the owners and managing directors of the seventeen story Nicholas Building. He is a director of the Commerce Guardian Trust & Savings Bank. Mr. Spitzer is owner of the country estate at Horton Hall, located at Perrysburg, Ohio, in the Toledo suburban district. It is a property that has been made wonderfully suitable through the art of the landscape gardener, and it is also historically interesting since the central feature of the estate is a mansion which has been standing more than one hundred years and in which have been entertained as guests such great Americans as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley and Warren G. Harding. Mr. Spitzer is president of the Toledo Chapter of the American Archeological Society. He is a trustee of the Toledo Museum of Art, a member of the Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association, the Historical Society of North America, the Toledo Club, the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, Inverness Club, Toledo Country Club, Toledo Automobile Club, the Carranor Hunt and Polo Club, the Everglades Club of Palm Beach and the Bankers Club of New York. He is a republican in politics. His chief rec- 414 - HISTORY OF OHIO reation has been travel and altogether he has spent several years of his life abroad and in different parts of America. Mr. Spitzer married in April, 1903, Alice Louise Horton of Adrian, Michigan, daughter of George E. Horton, who was a. prominent figure in Michigan politics for a number of years. Mrs. Spitzer is a graduate of the Adrian High School and finished her education in the University of Michigan. They have one son, Sidney Horton Spitzer, born January 11, 1904. HARRY S. MCCONNELL. In the career of Harry S. McConnell, of Steubenville, there are to be found those qualities of industry and fidelity which characterize all successful activities, and which in his case have served to advance him materially in position and the confidence of his fellow-citizens. The assistant cashier of the National Exchange Bank has passed his entire life at Steubenville, where he is known and respected as a capable official and an upright and constructive citizen. Mr. McConnell was born at Steubenville, June 29, 1878, and is a son of Charles J. and Mary B. (Sloane) McConnell. James McConnell, the paternal grandfather of Harry S. McConnell, and his worthy wife, Maria, were born in Ireland, and on coming to the United States settled near Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, where Mr. McConnell set himself up in business as a merchant. At one time he owned the property on which the town of Toronto is now situated. The maternal grandparents, David and Jane (Hood) Sloane, also were early settlers of the same community, the Hoods having originally come from New England. Charles J. McConnell early in life was a merchant tailor at Steubenville, but later turned his attention to other business matters, being a director in the National Exchange Bank and vice president and a director in the Jefferson Building and Savings Association, of which he was the organizer as well as a director in the Peerless Clay Company. He is still one of the leading business citizens and a man highly respected at Steubenville, whose interests he has always had at heart. Mrs. McConnell died in August, 1922, the mother of two children : Harry S.; and Paul B., who married Anna Kirkpatrick and has one child, James Sloane. Harry S. McConnell attended the public schools of Steubenville, graduating from the high school as a member of the class of 1895, going then to the college at Adrian, Michigan, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree and later that of Bachelor of Arts. Returning to Steubenville, he secured a position as messenger in the National Exchange Bank, and from that time forward his advance was steady and consistent until he finally reached his present post of assistant cashier. He is favorably known to the depositors of the bank and possesses their good will and confidence. Mr. McConnell is a thirty-second. degree Mason and Knight Templar, and his religious connection is with the Methodist Protestant Church. On April 19, 1905, Mr. McConnell was united in marriage with Miss Mary Blanche Blackburn, of Steubenville, a daughter of Henry and Matilda (Irvin) Blackburn, the former of whom died in 1908 and the latter in 1906. They had four children: Frank, who married Anna Low and has two children, Frank, Jr., and Elizabeth; Robert A., who is unmarried; John, who married Alice Ridgely and has one child, May; and Mary Blanche. Mr. Blackburn, known as the wire chief, had charge of all wiring and installation for the Bell Telephone Company at Steubenville. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Methodist Protestant Church. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McConnell: Charles, who graduated from high school in 1924; Mary Elizabeth, a member of the class of 1926 at high school; and William Goucher, George Miller and David Sloane, all attending graded school. HENRY E. MCFADDEN. During the nearly a quarter of a century that Henry E. McFadden has been identified with the National Exchange Bank of Steubenville he has worked his way upward through the various positions from that of messenger to cashier and a member of the Board of Directors, and at the same time has established himself fully in the confidence of his associates and the general public. His entire career has been identified with this institution; whose growth and development he has assisted and whose interests he has always made his own. Mr. McFadden was born at Steubenville, March 16, 1882, and is a son of Henry H. and Emma Annette (Beall) McFadden. The McFadden family originated at Coute County Cavan, Ireland, and were early settlers of this country. Mr. McFadden's great-grandparents were Samuel and Lydia (Stafford) McFadden. His paternal grandfather, Henry S. McFadden, started in business at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1831, and continued therein at the same place until 1875, having the largest store in his section of the country at that time. He was one of the leaders of the whig party, and while he would never accept office, was a delegate in 1844 to the convention that nominated Henry Clay for the presidency. He died July 4, 1888, while his widow, who had borne the maiden name of Frances Poore, died August 11, 1911. The Poore family dates back in this country to 1635, when they settled in Massachusetts. John Poore, direct ancestor of Mr. McFadden, moved to Philadelphia where he conducted a young ladies' seminary late in the eighteenth century. The maternal great-grandparents of Mr. McFadden were Charles Merrill and Elizabeth (Carg) Poore. Henry H. McFadden, the father of Henry E., was born August 13, 1848, at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, and married Emma Annette Beall, and both are living. They became the parents of two children: Charles Paul, who married Mary Kate Sharpe and has two children, George Henry and Sarah Isabelle; and Henry E. Henry H. McFadden secured his education in the village schools at Cadiz and through commercial and business courses at Philadelphia, and then entered his father 's general store at Cadiz, where he secured his introduction to practical business life. In 1875 Mr. McFadden located at Steubenville, where, in association with W. H. Hunter, he purchased the Gazette newspaper. In 1900 he bought Mr. Hunter 's holdings, and from that time until 1919 he continued to publish this journal, which he made the leading democratic organ of the Ohio Valley and Eastern Ohio. Mr. McFadden was long known as a leading democrat in this part of the state, and was a member of the State Central Committee, a delegate to numerous conventions and very active in party affairs for many years. He was on the Ohio State Reformatory Board from 1899 to 1905, and served on the Board of State Charities for twenty years, this service being under seven governors. In 1916 he was appointed postmaster of Steubenville, a position to which he was reappointed in 1920. Henry E. McFadden attended the public schools of Steubenville, graduating from the high school in 1899, following which he pursued a business course at the Steubenville Business College. On leaving that institution he entered the National Exchange Bank in the capacity of messenger, and by dint of indus- HISTORY OF OHIO - 415 try, fidelity and evidence of ability, has gradually worked his way up to the cashiership and a place on the Board of Directors. With his family he belongs to the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and the Steubenville Country Club. On October 14, 1908, at Steubenville, Mr. McFadden was united in marriage with Miss Julia Wooldridge Dougherty, who is descended from Revolutionary ancestors on both sides of the family, being a daughter of Franklin and .Hettie (Semple) Dougherty, the former of whom died November 22, 1921, and the latter October 6, 1906. Mr. Dougherty was a dry goods merchant and interested in the local building and loan association, an Episcopalian in religion, belonging to St. Paul's Church, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He and his wife were the parents of two children: Julia W.; and Mrs. James M. Frye, of Monongahela, Penn- sylvania, who has two children, Hettie and James, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden have two children: Henry H. and Julia Dougherty, both attending school. Mrs. McFadden is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. KENT WORLEY HUGHES, judge of the Court of Appeals of the Third District of Ohio, is a resident of Lima, and was born in that city. His father was Charles M. Hughes, who was born in Allen County, Ohio, in 1833. He educated himself for the law, and during the Civil war was captain of Company H. of the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war he served as prosecuting attorney, was judge of the Probate Court of Allen County, and then became judge of the Common Pleas Court. He died January 10, 1892. Judge C. M. Hughes married Nancy Worley, who was born at Piqua, Ohio, April 8, 1842, and lives with her daughter, Mrs. Belle Steckel, at Bloomfield, Iowa. Kent Worley Hughes was reared and acquired his early education in Lima, and was a student in Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, until June, 1893. Returning home, he took up the study of law in the offices of W. H. Leete at Lima, continuing, his education in the Law Department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in June, 1896, and in the same month was admitted to the Ohio bar. In a busy law practice that came to him in a few years he found time for an expression of his public spirit in various ways, but was never a candidate for an important office until 1916, when he was elected for an unexpired term as judge of the Court of Appeals in the Third District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death. of Judge Michael Donnelly. In November, 1918, he was elected for the full term of six years, and in 1924 was candidate for reelection. He is a democrat in national politics. Mr. Hughes, as a young man became a member of Company C of the Second Ohio Infantry, and was with that unit of the National Guard for seven years before the Spanish-American war. In that war he served with Company C of the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after the war became captain of Company K of the Second Ohio infantry, National Guard, serving with that rank for three years. Judge Hughes is a member of all the Masonic bodies at Lima, is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Church of Christ. He married at Greencastle, Indiana, in June, 1904, Miss Edith Morris, daughter of Aaron H. and Anna (Harlan.) Morris. Her father devoted his active life to the ministry of the Church of Christ, and at one time was superintendent of the Indiana Home for Sailors' and Soldiers' Orphans. Judge and Mrs. Hughes have two children: Helen Ann Hughes, born in July, 1905, and Morris Kent Hughes, born in February, 1907. THOMAS D. DOUGLAS. Among the trustworthy concerns of Steubenville, one which has as its directing head a member of the younger generation of business men is the Ohio Valley Electrical Company, doing a contracting, wiring, construction and supply business in all kinds of electrical goods. This concern was founded in 1919 by Thomas D. Douglas, a veteran of the World war and a thorough and capable business man and mechanic. He was born April 10, 1897, and is a native of Shipwash, Northumberland, England, his parents being William and Barbara Douglas and his grandfather, William Douglas. The parents of Mr. Douglas immigrated to the United States in 1904, and settled first at Bellaire, Ohio, when they came to Steubenville, their present home. William Douglas was a miner in his native land, but is now employed in the steel mills at Steubenville. He and his worthy wife are members of the Episcopal Church, and the parents of the following children: Agnes, who married James Junkin and has seven children; Thomas D.; Margaret, who married Robert Welch; and William, Ralph and Rena, who are single. Thomas D. Douglas secured his primary education in the schools of his native land, and completed his school work at Steubenville when only thirteen years of age. At that time he secured employment in the office of the Labelle Iron Works, and later advanced himself by entering the electrical department of the Steubenville Hardware Company, a concern with which he remained one year. During the following four years he was identified with the Swan-Bower Company, after which he joined the forces of the Maxwell Electric Company. Mr. Douglas remained with this company until August 13, 1917, when he enlisted in the United States Army for service during the World war, and was sent to Camp Upton, Long Island, as a member of Company C, Three Hundred and Twenty-first Field Signal Battalion. After a few months at Camp Upton he was transferred to the barracks at Plattsburg, New York, where he remained in training for ten months, being sent then overseas. Landing at Liverpool, his contingent went to LeHavre, France, and to camp at St. Anyon. Their next location was Blois, whence they went to Chateau Thierry and the Argonne, participating in the fierce fighting in those sectors, which practically closed the war and resulted in the signing of the armistice in November, 1918. Mr. Douglas' outfit then returned to. Souilly, the first army headquarters near Verdun, remaining there until February, 1919, following which they spent three weeks at Marsailles. Sailing from Gibraltar, they landed at Hoboken, New York, May 15, 1919, went to Camp Merritt and then to Camp Dix, where they received their honorable discharge, Mr. Douglas then returning to Steubenville. Here he again entered the employ of the Maxwell Electric Company, but August 15, 1919, embarked in business on his own account under the name of the Ohio Valley Electrical Company, a concern in which he has as associates his brothers, William and Ralph. The company is now doing business on an extensive scale, contracting for wiring and construction and dealing in all manner of electrical goods. The business has been built up through industry and along an honorable policy, and now occupies a recognized place among the firmly established enterprises of Steubenville. Mr. Douglas is single and a member of the Episcopal Church. He is an eighteenth degree Mason 416 - HISTORY OF OHIO in the Scottish Rite and holds membership in the Elks Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the River View Country Club and the American Legion. DOMENICO ROSSELLI, manager of the Steubenville branch of the John Amicon Brothers & Company, operating under the name of the Amicon Fruit Company, has lived in Ohio since childhood, and his experience in handling fruits has been continuous since early boyhood. He was born in Italy, July 20, 1878, and eight years later came to the United States with his parents, Antonio and Vincenzia Rosselli. His mother died in 1916. Antonio Rosselli, living at Columbus, has been a fruit merchant. There were three sons and four daughters: Arthur, married and has one child; Michael, who is married, and has one child; Domenico ; Carmelia, who married Peter Corsetti, and has one child; Dora Ditore ; Katherine, who married Joe Cooney, and has three children; and Lenora, who married Charles Amicon. Domenico Rosselli attended public schools at Springfield, Ohio, for three years, and at the age of fourteen went to work in his father 's. fruit store. He was associated with his father in business for fifteen years, and since then has been a working member of the organization known as the Amicon Fruit Company. He began with this organization at Springfield in 1912, remaining there a year, and since has been manager of the company's business at Steubenville. The Amicon Fruit Company is one of the largest organizations of its kind in Ohio, with headquarters in Columbus and with small branch houses over the state. Mr. Rosselli married Sarah L. Whitaker, daughter of Elijah Whitaker, of an old New England family. Elijah Whitaker served as a soldier in the Civil war, and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was active in public as well as business affairs. Besides Mrs. Rosselli, the children in the Whitaker family were: Cora, who married Edward Darby, and had three children; Daisy, who married Samuel Prather, and has four children; Criss, who married Clarence Troup, and has one child; Calvin; Noley, unmarried; Lee, who with his wife, Rose, has three sons and three daughters; and Fred. Mr. and Mrs. Rosselli have three children, named Domenico, Jr., Elizabeth and Frances. Mrs. Rosselli is a member of the local Chamber of Commerce, Steubenville Automobile Club, Knights of Pythias, and is a deacon of the First Christian Church. VINCENT A. M. MORELLI, a useful citizen and substantial business man of Steubenville, who founded his present banking business here in 1901, and in developing it into an incorporated state financial institution has shown great business sagacity and proved worthy of the esteem and confidence in which lie is held in the community. Vincent A. M. Morelli was born December 15, 1881, in Italy, a son of Antonio and Marie Morelli, the latter who died in Italy in 1888. Antonio Morelli accompanied by his son Vincent, came to the .United States in 1890. He had been a saddler and harnessmaker in his own country, and in 1901 established himself in that business at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his death occurred June 16, 1923. Vincent Morelli was eleven years old probably when he found himself making progress in the public schools of Pittsburgh, for learning new customs and an entirely different language is something of a task for boy or man, but he was ambitious, studied diligently, and by the time he left school, at the age of fourteen years, had a very fair knowledge of and command of the English language, while still retaining fluency in his own tongue. This latter fact explained his appointment, notwithstanding his youth, to responsible offices, first as timekeeper and later as superintendent of the waterworks at Braddock, Pennsylvania, then under construction by Italian labor. From Braddock he was subsequently transferred to Steubenville, where Italians were constructing the La Belle Iron Works, and Mr. Morelli has been identified with the interests of this city ever since. Steubenville has a large Italian population, and Mr. Morelli in his official capacity came in close touch with his fellow countrymen, learning their needs and comprehending their disadvantages. Partly on this account he was led in 1901 to open a private bank, which under his careful management became a very successful undertaking, so much so that in 1920 he was able to incorporate as a state bank, with a capital of $50,000 and surplus of $10,000. Mr. Morelli is president of the bank corporation. A regular banking business is carried on, and an important branch is its foreign exchange business. He has proved so trustworthy in every relation that he has influence with the Italian population here and at Pittsburgh. Mr. Morelli was married at Steubenville, October 26, 1900, to Miss Flula Carhahan, daughter of Montfordt and Nancy E. (Theeks) Carhahan, who have had the following children: Susan, who is Mrs. Gibbs; Flula; Abraham and Darrell, all of whom are married. Mr. and Mrs. Morelli have four children: William V., Abraham Antonio, Leonidas Montfordt and Marie Rachel. During the World war lie was a member of the War Draft Board and was chairman of the First District United States Commission. EDWARD MCKINLEY. At one time the great-grandfather of Edward McKinley, a well known and able attorney at Steubenville, lived in Ireland, one of his brothers being the direct ancestor of the William McKinley who subsequently became President of the United States. The McKinleys are of Scotch-Irish stock, and the ancestors of the President came to America more than a century ago, while those of the Steubenville attorney immigrated from Ireland in the early part of the nineteenth century and located in Pennsylvania, later moving to Ohio about 1850. The grandparents of Edward McKinley were Daniel and Nancy (Gallagher) McKinley. Their son, the father of Edward, was Edward D. McKinley, who had three brothers who became Union soldiers in the Civil war, John, David and James. John was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, and David was wounded in the same engagement, both being. members of the Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry. The brother James enlisted at the first call for troops, took part in the first Battle of Bull Run, and after the expiration of his enlistment returned home and reenlisted in the Ninty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a second lieutenant. At the Battle of Chickamauga he and fifteen of his men were captured and endured a period of confinement in the notorious stockade at Andersonville, Georgia. After fourteen months he made his escape and reached the Union lines near Savannah, Georgia., rejoining his command and corning home as captain of his company. Only two out of the fifteen men ever returned. Edward D. McKinley was a puddler in iron and steel mills and also a coal, miner, working in a number of plants and mines. He also took an active part in politics, serving as fire chief of Toronto in Jeffer- HISTORY OF OHIO - 417 son County for five years, and was a member of the State Militia during the riots in 1878, belonging to Company K of the Baron Light Guards. He was a Presbyterian, and a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Edward D. McKinley, who died May 19, 1911, married Rose Hannon, who is still living. Her parents were William and Jane (Hannon) Hannon, who came from the same county in Ireland. William Hannon came to America about 1837, the year that Queen Victoria went, on the English throne. It happened that some property where he was living in Ireland was under a lease, the terms of which provided that the lease should expire at the end of the preceding reign. William Hannon, refusing to pay for a new lease, accordingly brought his family to America. In the family of Edward D. McKinley and wife were five children, including Edward McKinley. The oldest, Margaret, by her first marriage had three children: Arthur, Ernest and Elizabeth, and she subsequently married George Puriton. The son William married Georgia Cusick, their children being Ida, who married Guy Cable ; Georgia, who married Sherl Cable, and has one son, Richard; Elsie; Louise ; and Jr. Ernest McKinley married Rose Davis, their children being Evelyn, Edward, John, Anna Francis, Rose and Donald. Bessie McKinley, the youngest of the family, married Peter B. Brooks, their three children being Florence, Harold and Kenneth. Edward McKinley was born at Steubenville on July 19, 1879, attended public school there and at Toronto, was graduated from high school in 1898, and during the next three years he taught in country districts. At the Steubenville Business College he completed a commercial course, and then for seven years did office work. From the time he left high school he studied law as opportunity and leisure presented, and spent one year at Ohio State University, taking examination for the bar in 1915, when he was admitted, and began practice August 1, 1915. Four years before his admission he was elected a justice of the peace of Knox Township. He has built up a very satisfactory practice, and has had no partnership. From 1916 to 1920 Mr. McKinley served as secretary of the Jefferson County Republican Central Committee, and from 1920 to 1924 has been its chairman, and is now presidential elector of the Sixteenth Ohio District, and is a member of the County Board of Health. He married at Steubenville, October 12, 1922, Mrs. Mabel Richards Gilchrist, daughter of George and Anna (Williams) Richards. She is the oldest of four children, the others being Harold, Elsie and Bertram. Her father is a tinner and is employed in the mills belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Tinners. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley are members of the Presbyterian Church. 'Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Order, having taken fourteen degrees in the Scottish Rite, is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Kiwanis Club, the River View Country Club, County Bar Society and is a trustee of the County Law Library Association JOSEPH B. DOYLE. One must live long in a community to enjoy the peculiar esteem and respect paid by the people of Jefferson County to Joseph B. Doyle, veteran attorney, journalist, author and historian, acknowledged authority on the past and near past in that section of the state. Mr. Doyle was born at Steubenville, September 10, 1849, grandson of John Brown Doyle, and only child of Joseph C. and Elizabeth Ann (McPeely) Doyle. His father died February 25, 1885, and his mother passed away January 7, 1902, and Joseph B. Doyle has never married. He devoted himself for many years to the care and support of his widowed mother. Joseph C. Doyle was until his death agent for the old Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, now a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system at Steubenville. Being a general agent of the company, he was called to civilian duty by General Brooks, who took him as train dispatcher during the Morgan raid in the Civil war. He was a member of the Masonic Order and the American Episcopal Church. Mr. Doyle attended the public schools at Steubenville, graduated from high school at the age of sixteen, finished a commercial college course at Pittsburgh, was in the railroad service, and then studied law, being, admitted to the bar September 29, 1870. He was admitted a few days after his twenty-first birthday, the youngest man admitted at that time, and practiced in the courts of that county. After about one year in practice he turned his chief attention to journalism. In 1872 he became identified with the Steubenville Herald, serving it most of the time as manager and editor until 1905. In 1908 he was made county law librarian, and he still holds that office, and in addition is president of the Steubenville City Library Board. While it duplicates in some respects what has been said before, the following quotation from the official bulletin Of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution contains information that should be published concerning Mr. Doyle. "Joseph B. Doyle, elected historian general at the Thirty-third National Congress at Springfield, Massachusetts, May 16, 1922, is a descendant of Benjamin Doyle, who was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1762. The latter 's wife, Patience, horn in 1771, was the daughter of John McGuire, of Winchester, Virginia, a member of the George Rogers Clark expedition to the Ohio country in 1778-79, which secured the Northwest Territory to the Union. Mr. Doyle is also a great-grandson of Col. Alexander McLean, member and organizer of the first Pennsylvania Legislature, 1776, and officer in General McIntosh 's campaigns under direction of Washington in 1780. The Doyle family were among the pioneer settlers of Steubenville, Ohio, going there from West Middletown, Pennsylvania, in 1798. John B. Doyle, son of Benjamin, was then four years old. His son Joseph C. was born at Steubenville, September 26, 1823, and the subject of this sketch dates from September 10, 1849. His life has been comparatively uneventful. He followed journalism thirty-four years, and then after a season of travel and rest abroad, he was appointed county law librarian, which position he still holds to a certain extent, keeping up his journalism and other literary work. "His leading productions have been: 'Memorial Life of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,'Gen. Frederick William Von Steuben and the American Revolution,' The Church in. Eastern Ohio,' Twentieth Century History of Jefferson County,' with numerous minor publications. Mr. Doyle has been a participant in local activities such as the Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce, chairman of Soldiers' Bonus Board, the Public Library, Union Cemetery, past president and historian of Ohio Society, and the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of St. Paul's Church of Steubenville, and has been vestryman in that organization for many years." ARTHUR ERNEST MORGAN, president of the Dayton Morgan Engineering Company of Dayton, Ohio, president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and vice president of the Moraine Park School, Day- 418 - HISTORY OF OHIO ton, is a civil engineer in the field of flood control drainage and reclamation. He maintains head- quarters at Dayton and his resident at Yellow Springs. Mr. Morgan was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 20, 1878, a son of John D. and Anna Frances (Wiley) Morgan. He began this work as an engineer at Saint Cloud, Minnesota, in 1901. From 1907 to 1909 Mr. Morgan was supervising engineer for the United States Government, and during that period was in charge of designs for reclamation works in the southern states, one of which was the $8,000,000 reclamation project for the Saint Francis Valley in Arkansas. In 1909 he became president of the Morgan Engineering Company and operated as such until 1921. In 1913 he was appointed chief engineer of the Miami Conservancy District, designed to prevent recurrence of the Dayton flood. Mr. Morgan has planned and superintended the construction of about seventy-five water control projects. In 1905 he drafted the revised drainage code adopted by the Minnesota Legislature, and in 1909 performed the same service for Arkansas. In 1911 and 1914 he assisted in drafting the codes adopted by Mississippi and Ohio, and in 1921 that of Colorado. Ms present company, the Dayton Morgan Engineering Company of Dayton, Ohio, is. now engaged in carrying out a program for flood control for Pueblo, Colorado. Mr. Morgan belongs to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, the Dayton Engineers' Club, the New England Water Works Association, the Dayton Rotary Club, and the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. In 1904 Mr. Morgan married Urania T. Jones, of Princeton, Illinois, who died in 1905. In 1911 he married Lucy Middleton Griscom of Woodbury, New Jersey. Mr. Morgan has three children : Ernest, Griscom and Frances Morgan. CHARLES W. ROBERTS, formerly a farmer and live stock dealer, has for ten years or more been identified with the automobile business at Bucyrus, where he handles the sale of the Buick car. Mr. Roberts represents a pioneer family of Crawford County, but was born in Tulley Township, of Marion County, July 15, 1862. He is a son of Wesley and Elizabeth (Newson) Roberts. His grandfather, John Roberts, a native of Pennsylvania, arrived in Crawford County, then a wilderness, in 1823, and located near New Winchester, subsequently moving north of Bucyrus. His son, Wesley Roberts, was born in Whetstone Township of Crawford County in 1832, and became one of the leading farmers, stockmen and land . owners of the county, building up a large estate through his many years of industrious application. He was a republican voter and a member of the Methodist Church. He spent practically all his life in Crawford County except one year in Illinois. By his marriage with Elizabeth Newson he was the father of seven children, four of whom are living: Charles W.; Willis G., a farmer living at Bucyrus; Marcellus N., a retired farmer and stockman at Bucyrus; and Ida, wife of Harry Kile, of Cleveland. Charles W. Roberts spent his early life on his father's farm, and had a common school education. Farming was the object of his sturdy endeavors until 1912, when he moved into Bucyrus and became a live stock shipper. In 1919 he took up the automobile business, and constructed his present brick garage and salesroom, where he handles exclusively the Buick car. Mr. Roberts married Miss Lavina Loyer. Their son Earl was killed in Montana, and the three living children are George, a resident of Montana; Helen, wife of Charles V. Truax; and Franklin, a student in high school. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the United Brethren Church. He is a republican in politics. G. HAROLD JANEWAY. One of the sons of Ohio who has not only succeeded in his native state, but also at Los Angeles, where he is now maintaining his residence, is G. Harold Janeway, one of the leading attorneys practicing at the bar of Los Angeles County. Although still in the very prime of young manhood, Mr. Janeway has traveled far in his profession, and his former associates at Columbus are proud of him, and are following his career with deep interest. G. Harold Janeway was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1888, a son of W. F. and Anna E. (Elrick) Jane-way, both natives of Ohio. Growing up in his native city, G. Harold Janeway was educated in the Ohio State University, in which he took both the arts and legal courses, and after he was graduated with his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910 he went to Los Angeles and established himself in a general law practice. It was not long before his ability received recognition, his practice expanded, and today he ranks with the most representative men of his profession in Los Angeles County. He is also an active factor in the different progressive movements of that marvelous city. His faith in Los Angeles is great, but in spite of his pride in it and its accomplishments he has never lost his love for Columbus or Ohio, and takes pride in the fact that he belongs here. Through Revolutionary ancestors who fought in the American Revolution he belongs to the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California, and to the Society of Colonial Wars. His right to belong to these organizations comes to him through the Elrick family, branches of which family were established in America when this country was still a colony of England. Mr. Janeway was married at Racine, Wisconsin, December 30, 1916, to Miss Mary Louise Davis, of Racine, Wisconsin, and they have three children: Gertrude D., Richard W. and William F. JAMES J. KISSELL has developed a substantial and prosperous wholesale poultry business, with residence and headquarters at Columbus Grove, Putnam County. He was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, this county, August 31, 1873, and is a son of Jacob and Rachel (Van Meter) Kissell, the former of whom was born in Franklin County, Ohio, August 3. 1849, and the latter, now deceased, was born July 25, 1843. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Allen County, Ohio, and thereafter Mr. Kissel] was actively engaged in farm enterprise until 1873, when he engaged in the poultry business at Columbus Grove. He continued his association with this business until 1898, and thereafter developed a prosperous enterprise in the buying and shipping of live stock, with which he is still concerned, though not on so large a scale as in former years. He is a democrat in politics, has served two terms as township trustee and four terms as a member of the Municipal Council of Columbus Grove. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Christian Church, as was also his wife. He now resides at Leipsic, this county. Of the six children, four are living (1923) : Carson L. is engaged in the wholesale poultry and egg business at Napoleon, Henry County; James J. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Albert, a graduate in pharmacy, is now engaged in the drug busi- HISTORY OF OHIO - 419 ness in the State of Alabama; and Elizabeth is the wife of Phelan Taylor. James J. Kissell continued his association with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the public schools of Putnam County. He became allied with his father's poultry business at Columbus Grove, and since his marriage, in 1898, he has here been independently established in this line of enterprise, in which he controls a substantial wholesale business, with the handling of eggs as an adjunct. He also conducts a general ice business at Columbus Grove. He is the owner of two excellent farms in this county, and specializes in the raising of Holstein cattle. He is a director of the Exchange Bank of Columbus Grove, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are zealous members of the local Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder. Mr. Kissell is a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party, and while he has had no ambition for public office, he has given effective service as a member of the Board of Public Affairs in connection with the Municipal Government of Columbus Grove. The year 1898 recorded the marriage of Mr. Kissell and Miss Mary C. Begg, daughter of John Begg, and a sister of Hon. James T. Begg, a representative of Ohio in the United States Congress. Catherine, eldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Kissell, was graduated from the Columbus Grove High School and thereafter pursued a college course, she being now a popular teacher in the public schools of Columbus Grove. Theodore J., a graduate of high school, was for two years a student in the University of Ohio, and he is now associated with his father in business. Alice, after graduation from 'high school, was for two years a student in Wooster University. Harry is a student in Defiance College, and Howard is a student in the home high school at the time of this writing. William, Edith and Jeremiah are attending the graded schools. IRA R. LONGSWORTH, attorney-at-law, is one of the capable members of the legal -profession at Lima who is devoting his energies to that branch of his calling that deals with the problems of corporation law. He was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, October 2, 1859, a son of Dr. William N. Longsworth, born in Maryland, in 1818, and died in 1903. About 1845 Dr. William N. Longsworth came to Ohio, and subsequently was graduated from the Fort Wayne, Ohio, Medical College. For a number of years he was engaged in the practice of medicine in partnership with Dr. Leander Firestone at Wooster, Ohio. In addition to his practice he was engaged in the manufacturing of handles for agricultural implements. The plant was located in Van Wert County, and a branch factory was established at Lima in March, 1878. A man of strong personality, Doctor Longsworth was a well-known figure in political and social life, and his death was a distinct loss to his community. The public schools gave Ira R. Longsworth his elementary education, and he was graduated from the Van Wert High School in 1876. Following this he was prepared, by a private tutor, for the junior year at Wooster College. In 1878 he came to Lima and became manager of his father 's manufacturing plant. In 1882 he bought the plant, and continued to conduct it and engaged in a general contracting business for six years. At the expiration of that period he moved the plant to Anderson, Indiana, where it remained until 1898, when once more a change was made and Somerset, Kentucky, was selected as the new home of the plant. In the meanwhile Mr. Longsworth was studying law, and in 1889..he was admitted to the bar and, opening an office at Lima, formed a partnership with F. M. Dotson, under the firm name of Longsworth & Dotson. After eighteen months this connection was dissolved and the name became Longsworth & Kephart, but after a year he retired from this association and has since practiced alone. Mr. Longsworth has also been interested in oil production in the Trenton Rock Field of Indiana. and also in Ohio. He has been active in local politics, and in 1890 was elected mayor of Lima for a term of two years. While in office he gave the city a businesslike and satisfactory administration. In 1883 Mr. Longsworth married Miss Esther Metheany, of Lima, a daughter of Charles A. Metheany, at that time a prominent business man of Lima. Mr. and Mrs. Longsworth became the parents of the following children: Mary Esther was educated in the public schools and Western Reserve University, and became a teacher in the Lima, Ohio, High School, and in the Detroit-, Michigan, High School. She is the wife of John E. Breese, of Lima. Walter I., who was educated in the public schools and the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, Ohio, is now secretary and sales manager of the Lilly Varnish Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Helen Olivia, who was educated in the public schools and Denison University, Granville, Ohio, is now a teacher in the public schools of Lima. During the past few years Mr. Longsworth has been devoting himself almost exclusively to his practice, and, mainly confining himself to his special branch of his profession, has built up a wide reputation in it as a man of sound learning and great capability, which enable him to successfully handle with resourcefulness and success the intricate problems always present in corporation law. DAVID F. OWENS, a substantial retired farmer residing in the attractive Village of Continental, Putnam County, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, February 1, 1855, and is a son of John B. and Rachel (Spencer) Owens, the former of whom was born in Trumbull County, this state, and the latter was born in Tuscarawas County, where their marriage was solemnized, both having been reared on the respective home farms and having received the advantages of the common schools. John B. Owens was a successful teacher in the district schools when a young man, and in 1864 he engaged in such pedagogic service in Putnam County, where later he gave his attention to farm enterprise and became the owner of a well improved farm estate. He was a democrat, and was influential in community affairs, as is shown in his having been called upon to serve in various public offices of local order, including those of township clerk, treasurer and trustee. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the five children the eldest is Elizabeth, who became the wife of William T. Fickle and both are deceased; Emma J. is the widow of William Gillespie, and she maintains her home in Oklahoma ; David F., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Amanda is the widow of David Grant; and Ida C. is the wife of Judson Jones. On the home farm in Monroe Township, Putnam County, David F. Owens remained until he was twenty-four years of age, he having been about nine years old at the time of the family removal to this county. He profited by the advantages of the public schools, and after his marriage, in 1879, he established his residence on a farm in Monroe Township, where he continued his successful oper- 420 - HISTORY OF OHIO ations for nearly a quarter of a century and made his farm one of the model places of that township. In 1901, incidental to his election to the office of county commissioner, he moved with his family to Ottawa, the county seat, and there he remained until 1907, since which year he has lived virtually retired at Continental. Mr. Owens is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the democratic party, and he has held various township offices, besides having given. effective service as a member of the Board of County • Commissioners. He continues the owner of two excellent farms in Putnam County, the same having a total area of 245 acres,. and he gives a general supervision to their operations. His. wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village. Mr. Owens is a member of Defiance Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the judicial center of Defiance County; he is past noble grand of Continental Lodge No. 869, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in whieh fraternity he is also past chief patriarch of the Encampment of Patriarchs Militant, while both he and his wife hold membership and have passed official chairs in the Putnam Lodge No. 727, Daughters of Rebekah, of which Mrs. Owens was the first noble grand, she having also been president of the Daughters of Rebekah organization of the Fifth District of Ohio. She is also a past chief of the Pythian Sisters, and Mr. Owens is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Owens was one of the organizers of the Farmers State Bank at Continental, and is a director of this substantial institution. In February, 1879, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Owens and Miss Ida M. Gilbert, who was born and reared in Monroe Township, this county. No children have been born of this union, but in their home they reared a foster son, Roy Edwards, who remained with them until he was seventeen years of age, when he initiated his independent career. GEORGE RISSER. BASINGER, one of the alert, wide-awake young farmers of Putnam County, resides on the old home place, three and a half miles east of Columbus Grove, Ohio. There his birth occurred December 7, 1899, his parents being William and Minnie A. (Risser) Basinger. (See sketch of William Basinger.) On this farm George R. Basinger has spent most of his life, and his educational training was received in the district school, at Pandora, and in the high school at Columbus Grove, Ohio. On the 17th of July, 1917, he enlisted in Company M, Second Ohio, but was transferred to the Thirty-seventh Division of Ohio and went in training at Montgomery, Alabama. There he continued until May, 1918, as a private, but on the 15th of June, 1918, he sailed from Hoboken, New York, on the Leviathan, landing in France, June 23, 1918. In that country he remained for about a month, after which his division went to the front. He was in Alsace-Lorraine sector for three weeks, and then on a division in the Argonne, September 25, 1918. He was there until October 21, 1918, when he went to St. Miehl, where they held the trenches for about a week. From there his command was sent to Belgium November 2, 1918, and after remaining in Belgium about a month he went to La Mans, France, where he was transferred to the Motor Transport Corps. July, 1919, he went to Brest, France' and returned to the United States, July 16, 1919. He was mustered out at Chillicothe, Ohio, after which he returned home, where he subsequently engaged in farming in partnership with his father: He is one of the foremost farmers and stock men of the county, feeding stock in car load lots, and conducting the large farm in a most satisfactory' manner. On the 10th of May, 1921, he was wedded to Miss Florence Hall, of LaFayette, Ohio, and to them was born a daughter and son, Mary Alice, whose birth occurred April 6, 1922, and William Edwin, born July 5, 1923. Mrs. Basinger was born in Allen County, Ohio, and is a graduate of both the LaFayette High School and Bluffton College of this state. Later she engaged in teaching, and was most popular and efficient in that calling. Mr. and Mrs. Basinger are members of the Presbyterian Church at Columbus Grove, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias of that place. He is also a member of the American Legion Post No. 516 and was vice commander of the same. Both are interested in all movements that have for their object the upbuilding of Columbus Grove and the community at large. WILLIAM P. FRANTZ, the efficient superintendent of the Putnam County kome and its excellent farm near Ottawa, the county seat, was born in Blanchard Township, this county, August 20, 1873, and is a son of William W. and Elizabeth (Hoskinson) Frantz, the former of whom was born in the same township, on the 27th of September, 1849, and the latter was born March 6, 1851. The death of the father occurred October 9, 1907, and the widowed mother still maintains her home in Putnam County. After his marriage William W. Frantz settled on a farm in Blanchard Township, and there he continued to reside until his death, the passing years having been marked by worthy achievement on his part and he having been one of the substantial representatives of farm industry in his native county. He was a stalwart democrat, and his many years of service as township treasurer indicated the unqualified popular confidence and esteem that were accorded to him. He was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. Of the ten children all but one still survive the honored father, and of the number William P., of this review, is the eldest; Robert is a farmer in the State of Michigan; Jennie is the wife of J. T. Maidlow, and they reside in the State ofIowa• Zella is the wife of Reno Krohn, of Pandora, Putnam County; Zoe, a graduate of Crawford College, is a popular high school teacher; Eva is deceased, she having been the wife of Julian Kemp ; Tony married Miss Zella Steele, and they reside at Pandora, Putnam County; Clyde married Miss Mabel Kersh, and their home is at Gilboa, this county; Nettie is the wife of Nelson Redden, and they reside in the City of Columbus; and Grover the maiden name of whose wife was Vera Folk, resides at Gilboa. William P. Frantz has never had cause to regret the sturdy discipline which he early gained in connection with the activities .of the old home farm, and he continued to be associated with its operations until he was eighteen years of age, his educational training in the meanwhile having been received in the public schools. After leaving the parental home he was for some time employed by the month at farm work, and in 1897 he found employment on the county farm, it having been here that he formed the acquaintance of Miss Estella Maidlow, who likewise was an employe at the County Home. Their marriage was solemnized December 24, 1899, and they passed the ensuing two years on a farm in this county. He was then, June 18, 1902, appointed superintendent of the Putnam County Home, and of this office he has since continued the loyal and valued incumbent. Mr. Frantz is a staunch supporter of the principles and cause of the democratic party; his wife is an active member of the United Brethren Church, and in the Masonic fraternity his affiliations are as here HISTORY OF OHIO - 421 noted : Ottawa Lodge No. 325, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Ottawa Chapter No. 115, Royal Arch Masons; and Putnam Council No. 69, Royal and Select Masters. In the City of Findlay he is a member of Findlay Lodge No. 75, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mrs. Estella (Maidlow) Frantz was born in Blanchard Township, Putnam County, October 3, 1872, a daughter of William and Marinda (Corrine) Maidlow, and she received the advantages of the public schools of her native county. Mr. and Mrs. Frantz' have six children: Mary is the wife of Dorvan Van Sickle and they reside at Lorain, Ohio ; William, a graduate of. Craw-fis College and of the Putnam County Normal School, is now residing in the City of Toledo ; Glenn, who was graduated in the sane schools as his elder brother, resides in the City of Columbus; and Mildred, Dwight and Marthella are attending the public schools at the time of this writing, in 1924. STANLEY O. KERR. The first position Stanley 0. Kerr held after leaving school was a clerkship in the Ottawa Postoffice. He has given part of his business career to promoting the sugar beet industry of Northern Ohio, but for the past year has again been identified with the Ottawa Postoffice, this time as postmaster. He was born in Brown County, Ohio, September 28, 1888, son of Samuel V. and Cora 0. (Dixon) Kerr. His father was born in. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1864, and his mother was born August 31, 1870. Samuel V. Kerr grew up on a farm in Brown County, he and his wife were educated in public schools there and they were married at Georgetown in that section of Ohio. They became farmers, lived in Adams County in Southern Ohio in 1894, and in 1907 moved to Ottawa, where they now reside. They are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Samuel Kerr, is a past grand of the Lodge and a past chief patriarch of the Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a republican in politics. There were four children: Stanley O.; William Lynn, of Detroit, Michigan; Robert D.; and Helen, deceased. Stanley O. Kerr spent the first fourteen years of his life on a farm in Southern Ohio. After coming to Ottawa he attended the public schools, and in 1908 graduated from business college. Soon afterward he was made a clerk in the Ottawa Postoffice, and served a year and one-half as deputy postmaster. On resigning he went to Chicago, remained in that city nine months, and on returning to Ottawa was again in the service of the postoffice until 1912. In that year he was made agent for the Ottawa Sugar Company. This company dissolved and went out of business in 1914, and following that he became field man for the Holland - St. Louis Sugar Company of Decatur, Indiana. In 1917, when the. Ohio Sugar Company was organized, he was made its chief agricultural agent, and did field work for that organization until October, 1922. At that date he qualified as postmaster of Ottawa, and his previous experience in the office enabled him to give a most efficient administration from the start. On January 17, 1911, Mr. Kerr married Miss Leona Carr. She is a graduate of the Ottawa High School and subsequently attended the higher institutions of learning at Ada and Lima and for five years was a successful teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is prominent in Masonry, being a past secretary of the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council at Ottawa, a member of the Knights Templar Commandery at Lima, the Valley of Toledo Scottish Rite Consistory, and both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star Chapter, of which he is 'worthy patron. He is also a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. WILLIAM D. STARLING, who is one of the representative merchants at Leipsie, Putnam County, where also he is agent for the New York Central Life Insurance Company, was born at Middle Point, Van Wert County; Ohio, April 2, 1881, a son of Edward B. and Alice (HaMilton) Starling, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. It was within a comparatively short time after the close of the Civil war that Edward B. Starling came from the old Keystone State to Ohio and established his residence in Van Wert County, where he eventually became successfully identified with farm enterprise and where he and his wife maintained their home until their removal to Payne, Paulding County, their present place of residence. Both are members of the. Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party. Of the four children the eldest is Flora, who is the wife of George Elick, of Payne, Paulding County; William D., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Homer L. likewise resides at Leipsic, and he and his older brother are here the principals in the Starling Dry Goods Company; Schuyler C. was graduated from the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and is now engaged in the drug business. William D. Starling was reared at Payne, Paulding County, and after there receiving the advantages of the public schools he completed a course in pharmacy at the Ohio Northern University at Ada. As a registered pharmacist he became associated with the retail drug business at Leipsie, as a member of the firm of Starling Brothers. The brothers sold this business in August, 1922, and are now allied in the conducting of one of the leading dry goods and general merchandise establishments of Leipsie, under the title of the Starling Dry Goods Company. Mr. Starling is one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Leipsie, has given effective service as a member of the City Council and the Board of Education, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the Masonic fraternity he is a past master of Leipsic Lodge No. 548, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Ottawa Chapter, Royal Arch Masons Putnam Council, Royal and Select Masters; the dommandery of Knights Templar in the City of Findlay; and the Consistory of the Scottish Rite in the City of Toledo. He is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias, and in polities is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the republican party. Mr. Starling wedded Miss Mary Archer, and they have four children: Helen, Maxine, Mary Jane and William D., Jr. HON. DAVIS J. CABLE. A career of distinguished attainments in the law, business and affairs was that of the late Hon. Davis J. Cable. Throughout his professional life his home was in the City of Lima, covering a period of over forty years. In that city his death occurred May 18, 1924. While his public life was comparatively limited except as his profession and business connections brought him in vital touch with larger affairs, his father was at one time an Ohio Congressman, and one of his sons has been in Congress. The family as a whole has been a very notable one. Hon. Davis J. Cable was born in Wilshire Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, August 11, 1859, and was in his sixty-fifth year at the time of his demise. His parents were John I. and Angie R. (Johnson) 422 - HISTORY OF OHIO Cable. His paternal grandfather, Hon. Joseph Cable, was a lawyer and journalist for years, being editor of the Jeffersonian at Carrollton, Ohio, and also editor and publisher of a newspaper at Sandusky. Prominent in state politics as a democrat, he was elected on his party ticket to the Lower House of the National Congress in 1848, and again in 1850, representing the old Fifth District of Ohio. While in Congress he was identified with constructive legislation, being the father of the first United States homestead law. John I. Cable Was a veteran of the Civil war, and a newspaper man. On the maternal side, Davis J. Cable 's grandfather was Davis Johnson, one of the pioneers of Van Wert County, settling there when it was part of the wilderness. A civil engineer, he was engaged in making the first survey on the greater part of the lands of the County, and subsequently served as county surveyor and treasurer. After graduating from the Van Wert High School Davis J. Cable taught school and prepared for college, and in 1879 entered the law school of the University of Michigan. In 1920 that university, in recognition of his substantial achievements, gave him the honorary degree Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1881, and coming to Lima in October of the same .year, he was for the first twelve months in the law office of Richie & Richie, then formed a partnership with Mr. Long, under the name Long & Cable. This association continued until the retire. ment of Mr. Long in 1885. From that year until 1910 Mr. Cable was alone. He then took in his son John L. as a partner, and in 1916 another son, Chester M., came into the firm of Cable & Cable. In polities a republican, Mr. Cable was active in public affairs without seeking the honors of politics. During 1882-83 he served as city solicitor. His practice was a very large one, involving a great deal of corporation law work. Some of his activities that were influential in the development of the commercial prosperity of Lima should be noted. He was one of the organizers of the local telephone company, served as its president for over twenty years and helped expand it from a small beginning to the condition where it now has approximately 12,000 telephones, a fireproof building and a capitalization of $3,000,000. Another enterprise with which he was long connected is the Lima Trust Company, which he helped organize, and served as its first president. This has grown to be one of the leading banking institutions of Northern Ohio. He was instrumental in making Lima a center for interurban railway service, beginning the construction work on the line between Lima and Fort Wayne, Lima and Toledo, and Lima and Springfield. Subsequently he and his associates sold their interests to the Ohio Electric Railway Company, Mr. Cable continuing as counsel of the new corporation, as he had been of the original one. One of the organizers of the Masonic Hall Company, Mr. Cable was its president four years, and during that time the company erected the beautiful Masonic Building on the corner of High and Elizabeth streets. He was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner a member of the Lima Club, the Rotary Club, the Lima Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club of Columbus, the Toledo Club and the County, State and American Bar associations. In 1882 he married Miss Mary A. Harnly, daughter of Levi and Milla (Morse) Harnly. The children born to their marriage were John L., Davis A., Ethel R., Chester Morse, Jo Harnly and Marion Ruth. Mrs. Cable has always been prominent in church, civic and social affairs. She was president of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church for a number of years, regent of Lima Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, first president and prime organizer of the Lima Young Women's Christian Association, and a very active club member. John L. Cable, oldest son, has become a prominent figure in Lima and Northern Ohio. He served two terms as the first republican prosecuting attorney of Allen County, and later, following in the footsteps of his distinguished great-grandfather, became a member of the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses, and was a candidate for governor. Like his father, he took up the profession of law and is a member of the firm of Cable & Cable, attorneys. By his marriage to Miss Rhea Watson, there are two children, Alice Mary and Davis Watson Cable. Davis A. Cable, the second son, a mechanical engineer, graduated from the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and three years after graduating was awarded his master's degree. At present he is general superintendent of the United States Tile Company with plants at Sparta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. Chester Morse Cable, who was born at Lima, Decembdr 14, 1889, attended the grammar and high schools of his native city and Kenyon College. His legal training was secured in the Law Department of Ohio State University, and after being admitted to the bar he became a member of the law firm Cable & Cable. In May, 1918, he enlisted at. Camp Holibird, Maryland, in the motor transport corps; in July was promoted corporal, and in August, to a first lieutenancy. In October he was sent to France, as commanding officer of Company B, Repair Unit 307, and for three months was adjutant officer of the Overhaul Department an Langres, France, being there when the armistice was signed. In the period which followed he was judge advocate of the General Court Martial in the Langres District for four months. In July, 1919, he was returned home as commanding officer of Repair Unit 322 and was honorably discharged July 28, 1919. Coming back to Lima, he resumed his practice with his father's firm. On July 11, 1917, he married Bessie Creps, daughter of Dr. A. H. and Mary (Brotherton) Creps, and they have a son, Chester Morse, Jr. Chester M. Cable is a member of the County and State Bar associations and belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The son Joseph Harnly Cable, born at Lima, June 21, 1897, took his grammar and high school work in Lima and then entered Cornell University. While there America entered the World war, and he enlisted in the aviation section, being discharged with the rank of second lieutenant, international licensed pilot. Returning to the university, he graduated with the degree of Mechanical Engineer and is now engaged in the oil business at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The daughter Ethel R. Cable, was with the Young Women's Christian Association during the World war, at times having charge of the industrial work at Charleston, South Carolina, Baltimore, Maryland, and supervisory duties in different parts of the United States. She was married to Captain J. R. McCabe at Coshocton, Ohio, in 1921. Mr. McCabe is now a practicing attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The other daughter, Marion Ruth Cable, is now a senior at the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. DANIEL MARVIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY. The Daniel Marvin Memorial Library is one of the institutions of which the citizens of Shelby and in fact of all Richland County are justly proud. Its founder was Daniel S. Marvin, who thirty years ago, in 1894, gave to the city of Shelby a house and ground known HISTORY OF OHIO - 423 as the old Doctor Bricker home, which he had purchased at the cost of $6,500, to be used for library purposes. The grounds are 120 feet by 160 feet, and the old home was remodeled, a large additional room having been constructed for the increased demands made upon the institution. The library has 8,000 volumes of history, science, philosophy and general literature and many of the current magazines. The officials in charge are: Miss Ella Askew, librarian; Miss Helen Williams, assistant librarian; John 0. Hughes, president of the Board of Trustees; Mrs. John Selzer, secretary and treasurer ; R. I. Lewis, superintendent of schools, while the other trustees are Mrs. Boyd Smith, Miss Georgia Ott, George Williams and Frank Benham. Daniel S. Marvin was born in the old Marvin homestead at Shelby, November, 5, 1825. His parents, Stephen and Sarah (Burr) Marvin, came from Connecticut and settled at Shelby as early as 1818. His father died in 1868 and his mother, in 1878. Daniel S. Marvin was educated in local schools, took up the study of law at the age of eighteen, and after three years was admitted to the bar. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, and had an interesting experience and a large practice in that state, his practice being largely mining litigation. For two years he was located at Clark's Bar and then at Forest City in Sierra County. Returning East, he had his home and law offices in Kansas City until the outbreak of the Civil war in 1861. He then returned to Shelby to volunteer, and was assigned to Company H of the Sixty-fourth Ohio Infantry, participating in the Battle of Shiloh and subsequently was wounded at the Battle of Stone River and discharged. From 1863 until 1897 Mr. Marvin had his home at Watertown, New York, and carried on a successful nursery business. In 1897 he returned to his old home town at Shelby, and there spent his remaining years. He was a member of the Grand Army Post in New York and also in Ohio, and he organized the Jefferson County Historical Society at Watertown, of which he was librarian for many years, an experience that no doubt caused him to think of a library as the best benefit he could confer upon his native town. He married in 1863, Caroline Sherman, of Watertown, New York, who passed away October 24, 1896. He died August 23, 1910. HARRY BURNS GALBRAITH, superintendent of city schools at Uhrichsville, is also a lawyer by profession, and has combined these two vocations through a period of about thirty years. He has held a number of responsibilities in schools in Ohio. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, near Kimbolton, November 16, 1876, son of William H. and Eliza (Harding) Galbraith, his father a native of Tuscarawas County and his mother of Guernsey County. His grandfather, Joseph Galbraith, was born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch lineage, while the maternal grandfather, Wesley Harding, was also a native of the same state, and, likewise of Scotch descent. Both grandfathers were early settlers in Ohio. William H. Galbraith served three years as a Union soldier in Company M of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, and for many years was identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a teacher and farmer, and died in Tuscarawas County at the age of fifty-two. His wife survived him to the age of seventy-seven. They were active members of the Christian Church, and he was a republican. Next to the youngest in a family of five children, Harry Burns Galbraith was born on a farm and spent the first eighteen years of his life in a rural environment. While there he attended district schools, and was nineteen when he taught his first term. He completed his higher education in Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduating with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1901. From 1901 to 1907 he was a high school principal, and from 1907 to 1912 was superintendent of schools at Mingo Junction, Ohio. He then reentered Ohio Northern University Law School, and took his Bachelor of Laws degree there in 1914, being admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. For nearly four years he carried on a successful general practice as an attorney at Steubenville, giving up the work of his profession on account of his wife's health. Going to Houston, Texas, he remained there about one year, teaching for a time in the high school. On returning to Ohio he was elected superintendent of schools at Uhrichsville in 1918, and for seven years has had charge of the school system there. He is a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Education Association. During the summer of 1920 he was a special student in the University of Wisconsin, and he also spent one summer in Harvard University. Mr. Galbraith is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and a Presbyterian. He married in 1903 Miss Evelyn Westhafer, her father, J. B. Westhafer, being a well known banker of Uhrichsville and is secretary of the Stillwater Clay Products Company of Uhrichsville, and vice president of the Toronto Foundry & Machine Company of Toronto, Ohio. WILLIAM HENRY ANGEL, superintendent of city schools at Dennison, has to his credit an unusually long and valuable record of service in the educational field. He has devoted more than one-third of a century of his life to teaching and school administration, and for two decades has been head of the city school system of Dennison. He was born at Stone Creek, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, November 12, 1870, son of Hiram and Caroline (Hahn) Angel, and grandson of Israel and Annie (Harrier) Angel. Israel Angel was born near Cumberland, Maryland, of German ancestry. Hiram Angel was born near Carrollton, in Carroll County, Ohio, December 23, 1826, and was eleven years of age when his parents moved to Tuscarawas County, where he lived a long and useful life as a farmer and a citizen of earnest public spirit and piety. He died at Stone Creek in November, 1913, when eighty-seven years of age. His wife, Caroline Hahn, was born at Weirbach, Germany, coming to the United States at the age of nineteen. She died at New Philadelphia January 16, 1916, when eighty years of age. She was the mother of five daughters and two sons. William Henry Angel, the older of the two sons of his parents, had- the farm as his early environment, remaining there to the age of nineteen and sharing in its duties and the discipline of its work at the same time that he attended public and private schools. When he was seventeen he taught his first term in a rural school. His work in country districts as a teacher continued nine years altogether. In the meantime he was a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and for a year attended Scio College. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ohio Northern University in 1895, and four years later received the Master of Arts degree from the same institution. Mr. Angel is now in his thirty-sixth year as a school man. For four years he taught at Uhrichsville, for three years was superintendent of schools at Mineral City, and since 1905 has been superintendent of schools at Dennison, where his consecutive service covers twenty years. He is a member of the Eastern Ohio and Ohio State Teachers' associations, and a member of 424 - HISTORY OF OHIO the National Education Association. He has. made some important contributions to education through work in normal schools, and he published in 1899 a text book called "Supplementary Problems in Arithmetic." Mr. Angel is a republican, a member of the Methodist ,Church, and is affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Dennison Rotary Club. He married in 1887, Miss Grace L. Roll, a native of Tuscarawas County, who is also a graduate of Ohio Northern University, and taught school for four years. They have two children: Alice Dale, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, who taught four years in the schools of Dover, and is now a student at Boston University, and Hiram Fess Angel, now a senior in high school. ' GREENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The spirit of educational progress in Greenville is admirably illustrated by a brief history of the City Public Library. In 1888, when F. Gillum Cromer was superintendent of schools, school, entertainments provided the funds for . the establishment of what was then called the free school library. Frank M. McWhinney, a public spirited citizen, donated :the use of a room in his building on West Fifth Street, and the library was moved there in 1892. Henry St. Clair, a frequent and generous contributor, provided a fund for the purchase of reference and other works. The first librarian was Miss Josie Ford, succeeded by Miss Callie Biltemeir. In 1901 D. L. Gaskill asked Andrew Carnegie for a building, Greenville promising $1,500 annual support. In three days a reply was received from Mr. Carnegie that a gift of $15,000 for a building was forthcoming. A committee consisting of D. L. Gaskill, L. C. Anderson and A. H. Brandon went to Pittsburgh to study libraries, and they reported that $15,000 would be inadequate to provide a building such as Greenville needed. Henry St. Clair then agreed to continue his support of the library, and Mr. Carnegie raised his gift to $25,000. Plans were drawn, and when it was seen that $30,000 would be required as a building fund, Mr. St. Clair gladly made up the deficiency. D. L. Gaskill took personal charge of the construction, while the School Board then consisted of L. C. Anderson, D. L. Gaskill, George W. Mannix, Jr., H. C. Jacobi, A. F. Markwith and F. T. Conklin. The total cost of the building was $31,177.50. The building covers ground space of 90x75 feet, the basement being of Bedford stone and the second story of buff pressed brick, trimmed in oolitic stone with a tile roof. The inner vestibule is of marble and the finish is in quartered oak and Mosaic tile. The basement floor is occupied by the public museum, while the second floor has book stacks, and the beautiful Henry St. Clair reading room. The corner stone was laid October 30, 1901, and the library was dedicated March 19, 1903. The librarians have been Miss Isabelle M. Rosser, Miss Lucy Gard Arnold and Miss Minnie J. Routzong. The library now has about 20,000 volumes, and about seventy-five current periodicals are received. WILLIAM ISRAEL BARR. With home and business headquarters at Greenfield, William Israel Barr has many of his interests in the South. He is a lumber manufacturer, being a veteran in the business, and while his start was made with a small saw mill, his holdings and operations now class him as one of the very successful lumber operators in the state. Mr. Barr was born in Ross County, near Greenfield, December 15, 1861. His grandparents were Andrew Barr and Israel and Elizabeth Bond Cory, the latter a native of Fayette County, Ohio. The grandfather and grandmother Barr died at Columbus, and the grandfather and grandmother Cory were buried at Frankfort, Ohio. The father of the Greenfield lumberman was Lewis R. Barr, who was born near Columbus, and died in 1906, at the age of sixty-eight, being buried at Greenfield. He married Martha Cory, who was born at Frankfort, Ohio, and died in 1910, aged sixty-four. William Israel Barr was educated in public schools in Fayette and Highland counties. During 1884-85 he taught school in Morgan County, Tennessee. During his youth he also worked for wages on a farm, and his first experience in the timber business was getting out railroad ties. From 1886-88 he farmed as a renter, getting land for that purpose from James Sollers in Fayette County. From his savings as a farmer and teacher he purchased a small saw mill near Greenfield in 1889, and he made a success of his first venture in manufacturing lumber. In 1893 he purchased another mill, near Leesburg, and during the last thirty years his operations have constantly broadened in scope. Mr. Barr has the distinction of having been the first man in Ohio to cut quarter sawed white oak. His market for this product was in the New England states. In 1904 he became associated with the Holaday heirs of Isola, Mississippi. They put up a mill on land owned by them and a Mr. Farren of Wilmington, Ohio, and the same year Mr. Barr bought the timber land owned by Farren and the other Holaday heirs. In 1906, associated with the Greenfield banker, D. O. Miller, and B. A. Holaday, he purchased 2,800 acres of timber land in Washington County, Mississippi, installing an eight-foot band saw mill and logging railroad at Isola. Mr. Barr in 1918 bought out Mr. Miller 's interest in the timber and lumber business. In 1911 they moved their mills to Louise, Mississippi, where he has an interest in 3,500 acres that contain a supply of standing timber with other timber purchased later, sufficient to last the mill under normal conditions until 1928. A number of other interests share Mr. Barr 's time and attention, including the Home Building & Loan Association, National Lumber Export Association, Delta Export Corporation of Memphis, Tennessee, in all of which he is a director. He is president of the Home Telephone Company of Greenfield, and owns and operates five Ohio farms devoted to stock and general farming, and also owns an 870-acre cotton plantation in Mississippi. One of 'his very early connections with his primary line of business came in . 1890, when he was a partner in the Bentwood and Chair Factory at Greenfield. Mr. Barr is president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Greenfield. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, an Odd Fellow and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics he is a republican, and has served on the Council and as a member of the Greenfield School Board. The local and state prohibition cause found in him a warm supporter, and during the World war he was chairman of the local war chest and is president of the' loCal health league. Mr. Barr married Miss Lizzie, May Haines, who was born near Leesburg, Ohio, in 1864, of Quaker parentage. She was educated in Highland County schools, and is very active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and its missionary causes. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have a family of four children. The oldest, Earl Edward, born in Fayette County in 1886, was educated in the Greenfield public schools and in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. He married at Greenfield in 1910 Miss Juaneta May Squires. They have two children, Eliz-