HISTORY OF OHIO - 425 abeth Lee, born in 1912, and Margaret Nell, born in 1915, both natives of Isola, Mississippi. The second son, Earnest Lewis, born in Fayette County in 1887, graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1906 and from Ohio Wesleyan University with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1910. In 1913 he married Abbie Le Fevre, and their one child, William Le Fevre, was born in Indianapolis in 1920. The third son, Harry Everett, born near Leesburg in 1889, graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1907, took his Bachelor of Arts degree in Ohio Wesleyan University in 1911, and graduated in law from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. During the World war he was a first lieutenant in the Eighty-ninth Division, was overseas with that command in France, and following the armistice was with the Army of Occupation until honorably discharged. He married at Cleveland Grace Mackey. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barr is Clara Grace, who was born in Ross County, near Greenfield, in 1891, and graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1909. Her higher education was acquired in Ohio Wesleyan University and in the Belmont School for Girls at Nashville, Tennessee. In 1914 she went abroad for a tour of Europe, but came home in August on account of the outbreak of the World war. She is now the wife of Kenneth Campbell Kyle, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have two children, Robert Barr, born in 1916 at Lancaster, Ohio; and Ann Louise, born in 1921 at Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Barr had two other children, Howard, who died in 1894, at the age of one year, and Virgil, who died in 1896, aged eighteen months. NICHOLAS HARRMANN. For forty years Mr. Harrmann has been a conspicuous figure in the industrial agricultural and financial affairs of Paulding County, a resident of Antwerp, where he is bank president and owner of many other interests. Mr. Harrmann was born fourteen miles east of Columbus, Ohio, November 8, 1847. That was his home until he was six years of age, when his parents moved out of Ohio into Randolph County, Indiana. In Randolph County he grew to manhood, getting the rudiments of an education in brief and infrequent terms of school. The home of his parents was three miles northwest of Winchester. In that community Mr. Harrmann lived until he was thirty-three years of age. He worked for his parents, helping clear 160 acres of land, and in November, 1869, when he was twenty-two years of age, he married a neighbor girl, Miss Mary E. Burnworth. At that time he built a house in the same yard where the home of bis parents stood, and he and his wife remained there and cared for his father and mother during their declining years. In 1880 Mr. Harrmann left Randolph County and removed to Jay County, Indiana, where he established a tile factory. Selling this in 1884, he came to Paulding County and acquired the home in the Antwerp community where he still resides. He built a brick and tile factory, and still owns the plant, but retired from its active management in 1921. This has been one of the important industries of Antwerp. He with his son owns 602 acres of farming land in Paulding County. He is president of the Farmers Equity Elevator at Antwerp, and president of the First National Bank of Antwerp. The other officers and directors of this bank are: G. E. Moals, vice president ; W. C. Henderson, cashier ; Bert Smith, John Donart, John Miller, Frank Whittley, Henry Reeb, Albert Reeb, George Forder, directors. Mr. Harrmann for a number of years has been a breeder of cattle and hogs. He has four children living, and he and his wife also reared a boy and girl in their home and gave them the benefits of a good education. Their own children are: Otho Harrmann, who was educated in high school and is now the active manager of his father 's farming interests; Mattie, wife of Harry T. Murphy, of Detroit, Michigan; and Myrtle, widow of J. 0. Potter, and a resident of Muncie, Indiana. Mr. Harrmann 's second marriage was with Sarah Martin and she is the mother of Effie, who is the wife of E. G. Lindemuth, of Allen County, Indiana. Mr. Harrmann is affiliated with Antwerp Lodge No. 336, Free and Accepted MasonS, is a Knight of Pythias and an independent democrat in politics. JOHN TYLER is one of the progressive men in the agricultural and business affairs of Paulding County. His home is at Cecil, where he owns a farm, and is also manager and director of the Cecil Equity Exchange Company. He was born in Steuben County, Indiana, May 6, 1881, only son and child of John and Catherine (Selby) Tyler. His father was born in Marion County, Ohio, in 1842, and his mother, in Mercer County in the same state in 1846. They were educated in public schools in Ohio, were married in Indiana, and then located on a farm in Steuben County. After living there about three years they moved to Marion County, Ohio, where John Tyler, Sr., lived as a renter for two years. He then leased land and engaged in farming southeast of Paulding. where he spent the rest of his life. He was a democrat, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John Tyler grew up at his father's place in Paulding County, was educated in district schools, and about the time he reached his majority both his parents died. On November 14, 1903, he married Miss Bessie Graham, who was born in Darke County, Ohio. Mrs. Tyler was well educated and for three years was a teacher. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Tyler lived for two years on the place his father had farmed and he then bought land. Living on that twelve years, he sold and bought the farm a mile east of Cecil where he is still established. He has eighty acres, most of it in cultivation, and is one of the substantial and prosperous men of his community. He takes an active part in farmers' organizations, and is the present trustee of Crane Township. He is a democrat, and is one of the elders of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler have five children: Marjorie, who is a graduate of the Paulding High School and has been a teacher ; Thelma, a senior in the Paulding High School; Jennie, who finished the eighth grade of the public schools in 1923; Ruth and Paul. JAMES S. PUGH. While his working interests through most of the years of his life have been identified with the farm on which he was born in Harrison Township of Paulding County, James S. Pugh has exercised a diversified influence as an agricultural leader in that section. He is one of the prominent officials of the Grange, and has been active in politics and public affairs. He was born on his home farm, November 24, 1855, one of the thirteen children of Job and Mary A. (Shepherd) Pugh. His grandfather, Eli Pugh, was one of five brothers who came from Wales to the United States and settled in Virginia. Eli Pugh spent the rest of his life in the western part of Virginia. His son, Job Pugh, was born in Frederick County, in what is now West Virginia, in 1812, grew to manhood there, and then made a tour of inspection in Ohio. He went back to Virginia, married, and 426 - HISTORY OF OHIO subsequently brought his family to Ohio. For seven years he lived in Logan County, and then established his farm in Harrison Township of Paulding County, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a republican, served a term as trustee of Harrison Township, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of his large family only three are now living: William M., of Harrison Township; Rachel V., of Harrison Township, widow of Cornelius B. Miller ; and James S. James S. Pugh grew up on the old homestead, attended the common schools, and has been prosperous in his efforts as a practical farmer. His first wife was Anna Renshaw. Of the three children born of their marriage only one is now living, Mamie M., the wife of J. C. Overmyer. Mrs. Overmyer is a graduate of the Antwerp High School. For his second wife Mr. Pugh married Adrienne Gleason. Mrs. Pugh was reared and educated in Defiance County, and for twelve years was engaged in teaching there. She attended the normal school at Defiance. She is a licensed preacher of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Pugh is a Methodist. He is a past grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge at Antwerp, and both he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs, of which she was noble grand for 1923. He acts as business agent for the local Grange of Harrison Center, is a member of the County Pomona Grange, and is a lecturer and deputy master of the State Grange for Paulding County. He has been active in republican politics for many years, a member of the County Executive Committee, and has served as a justice of the peace for seventeen years. BURTON R. HOAGLIN is a native of Paulding County, was one of the county's representatives in the World war, and is prominently identified with the business affairs of the town of Scott. He was mayor of the village, and is manager of the Scott Equity Exchange Company. He was born at Paulding, May 21, 1891, son of George and Jennie (Sehnorf) Hoaglin. His parents are well known people in Paulding County, and his father has had a long and honorable career as an educator. George Hoaglin was born in Union Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, in July, 1861, and his wife was born in Darke County, Ohio, in March, 1868. He was well educated, attending public schools, the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree at the Valparaiso University. As an educator he has been superintendent of schools at Scott, at Kalida, and is now principal of the schools at Payne. He is a democrat, and represented Paulding County in the Legislature one term. He is affiliated with Flat Rock Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife are members of the Reformed Church at Payne. They have two children, Burton R. and Georgia. The daughter is a graduate of the high school at Payne, and has been a teacher, some of her work being done at Wauseon, and she is now the wife of Walter W. White, living near Wauseon. Burton R. Hoaglin attended schools in Paulding County, graduating from the Scott High School in 1906. He then attended the International Business College at Fort Wayne, having two years of technical work. He began his business career as bookkeeper at Payne for the Union Grain & Coal Company, and was identified with that concern for eight years. During the World war he was on duty at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, receiving his discharge January 5, 1919, with the rank of sergeant of the first class. Since his return he has been identified with the Scott Equity Exchange Company, being its manager since February, 1920. On July 13, 1918, Mr. Hoaglin married Miss Marie C. Brune, who is a graduate of the Paulding High School and graduated in the Nurses Training Course at the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Hoaglin are : George, Mary and Burton R., Jr. Mrs. Hoaglin is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is a member of Flat Rock Lodge No. 580, Free and Accepted Masons, Paulding Chapter No. 165, Royal Arch Masons, the Council and Knights Templar Commandery bodies at Van Wert, and Mrs. Hoaglin is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter at Payne. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Van Wert, the Improved Order of Red Men at Scott, and is a past master of his Masonic Lodge. As a democrat he has served as village clerk and handled the affairs of the office of mayor with exceptional efficiency. B. L. GOOD, M. D. In Van Wert, the community where he was born and reared, Dr. B. L. Good has rendered signal service in his chosen profession, and for several years his work has been limited to surgery and X-ray diagnosis. He was born at Van Wert, March, 21, 1877, son of Franklin and Martha Jane (Clippinger) Good. His father was also born in Van Wert County, and is a farmer in Ridge Township. Dr. B. L. Good spent his early days on the farm, was educated in district schools, and lived at home until he was twenty-one. He was graduated from the Van Wert High School in 1897, and after teaching for a year he entered the Hahnemann. Medical College of Chicago. He took the full four-year course, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1904 and for the next four years was engaged in general practice at Wilmington, Illinois. In February, 1908, he returned to Van Wert, and spent four years more in general medical practice there. Then came a year of post-graduate study and specialization at the Harvard Medical College, Boston, and since then he has given his entire attention to surgery and X-ray. Doctor Good is a veteran of the World war. He volunteered in 1917, was commissioned a first lieutenant, and spent nine months in France, being chief of surgical service in one of the base hospitals. He is a member of the various medical societies. In masonry he is a Knight Templar and a past master of the Blue Lodge and a past high priest of the Chapter. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Good married Elizabeth Haven of Van Wert, on October 15, 1899. They have two sons, Roland and Richard, the former a graduate of high school and now a student of medicine at the University of Michigan, and the latter now in public school. RICHARD J. MORGAN, M. D. Fully a third of a century has Doctor Morgan practiced medicine and surgery in Van Wert, Ohio, where his name stands high not only in his profession but in civic and social relations. Doctor Morgan was born on a farm in Van Wert County, August 10, 1866, son of William H. and Esther (Harries) Morgan. His parents were natives of Wales, his father born in 1832 and his mother in 1834. They were brought to the United States when young, finished their educations and were married at Oak Hill in Jackson County, Ohio, and remained there several years, where the father was employed in an iron furnace. In 1863 he removed to Van Wert County, settling on a farm near Venedocia, where he spent the rest of his life. He was active in church and a member of the republican party.. Of the seven children three are now living: HISTORY OF OHIO - 427 Henry, farming the old homestead; John, a member of the police force of the City of Columbus; and Richard J. Richard J. Morgan spent his boyhood days on the farm, was educated in the district schools, and for a time taught school. He acquired his medical education in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1890. Since then he has practiced continuously at Van Wert. He is a member of all the medical societies, and has served as president of the Northwest Ohio Medical Society. Doctor Morgan married Miss Lola M. Lynch, of Van Wert. They have two sons, Richard and Chester. Richard is a graduate of high school, was a soldier in the World war, and is now married and has one child. The son Chester is a graduate of high school and is now attending Indiana University. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Doctor Morgan is a member of the York Rite bodies of Masonry at Van Wert and of the Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree. He is also a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a Rotarian. Among business interests Doctor Morgan is director of the Peoples Bank and is president of the local telephone company. W. E. JACKSON has been one of the well known citizens of Van Wert County for a great many years. For twenty-three years he has been a member of the Van Wert police force and chief of police for the last twenty-two years. He was born on a farm in Liberty Township, Van Wert County, November 29, 1866, son of James A. and Lucila (Bryant) Jackson. He represents a branch of the same Jackson family as that to which President Andrew Jackson belonged. His parents were both born near Loudonville, Ohio, and both were reared on a farm and educated in common schools. James A. Jackson came to Van Wert County with his parents as a youth, and went from this county as a volunteer in the Union army, serving until wounded. After the war he returned home and engaged in the lumber business, and subsequently took up construction work. For three years he was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. There were three children: W. E. Jackson; Cora, widow of Jacob Hire, of Van Wert; and Bertram, of Celina, Ohio. W. E. Jackson spent his boyhood days in Van Wert County, was educated in public schools, and began doing for himself when only eight years old. He has relied on his own efforts to advance him every step in a successful career. He was employed in several factories, later he clerked in stores at Van Wert, and for a time was in the train service of the Cincinnati, Northern Railway. Mr. Jackson was appointed night patrolman at Van Wert in 1902, qualifying after a civil service examination. He has been identified with the police force ever since, and for a number of years has been chief. He married Ella A. Young, who was born in Mercer County, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools of that county. They have three children: Marie L., a graduate of high school and wife of G. H. Fancher, of Cleveland; Datha E., a graduate of high school and now bookkeeper in the Northwest Ohio Light Company 's office; and W. Bert Jackson, a graduate of high school, now in Chicago, and an ex-service man who did duty in the World war. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Jackson is affiliated with Van Wert Lodge No. 251, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also belongs to the Encampment, while his wife is a Rebekah. He is a republican in politics. FRANK P. EDSON. A resident of Van Wert all his life, Frank P. Edson has spent many years in railroad work, particularly in the service of electric traction companies, and is now the legislative agent of the Ohio Traction Company and the Cincinnati Traction Company. Mr. Edson was born at Van Wert, April 22, 1858, son of George F. and Elizabeth (Stater) Edson. His boyhood days were spent at Van Wert, where he attended the grammar and high schools. In 1880 he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, in the same class that graduated William H. Taft. After graduating Mr. Edson practiced law at Van Wert for ten years, and then employed his legal services for railroads in securing the right of way for the Ohio Traction Company from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Lima, Ohio, and subsequently supervised the construction of this road. After this line went into the hands of a receiver he remained with the Ohio and the Cincinnati interests as legislative agent, and has charge of all the real estate and right of way of both companies. Mr. Edson married Miss Elizabeth Baird, and they have one son, Horace, who is a graduate of Ohio State University and was a lieutenant in the World war. Mr. Edson is active in the Masonic Order, being a member of the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery. FRANK A. GAMBLE, present postmaster of Van Wert, has been in public service under the federal law state government for a long period of years and widely known all over Northwest Ohio. He was born in Jay County, Indiana, November 30, 1866, son of Robert W. and Margaret (Williams) Gamble. His father was born in Carroll County, Ohio, March 21, 1843, and was three years of age when the family in 1846 moved to Van Wert County. He grew up on a farm, attended district schools, and was one of the Van Wert County boys to enlist at the beginning of the Civil war. He joined Company K of the Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and was transferred to Company A, serving under Colonel Alexander until discharged on account of disability in 1863. Subsequently he tried to get into the Eighty-eighth Ohio Regiment, but was rejected. He then went South and was accepted for service in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, under General Kilpatrick, and saw service until the close of the war. After the war he returned to Van Wert County, was married in Mercer County, and soon afterward removed to Jay County, Indiana. He followed his trade of harness maker there and subsequently went to Michigan, and was in the railroad business and later lived in Mercer County, Ohio, until 1885. In that year he settled in the woods in Paulding County, cleared and improved a farm, and also followed his trade at Scott, Ohio, until 1901. He is now living retired at Mishawaka, Indiana. He has been a member of the Masonic Order since 1872, is a Baptist, and is an active republican. Frank A. Gamble spent most of his early childhood in Mercer County, Ohio, remaining there until he was nineteen years of age, and then lived in Paulding County until 1900. Since that year his home has been in Van Wert. In 1890 he took the census in his home township in Paulding County. He served as postmaster at Scott, Ohio, and acted as deputy revenue collector for the Tenth Ohio District until 1900. In 1903 he was appointed liquor tax inspector. Afterwards he was made postmaster of Van Wert, and served until 1914. In June, 1921, he was again appointed to the office, under President Harding, and now has that responsibility as the chief demand upon his time and energies. 428 - HISTORY OF OHIO In 1886 Mr. Gamble married Miss Icy M. Horney. Of the three children born to their marriage two are living. Miss Maude has for fourteen years been an employe of the Van Wert postoffice and is general delivery clerk. Aimee M., a graduate of the Van Wert High School, is the wife of Robert C. Pfeiffer, of Van Wert, an employe in the revenue service. Mr. Gamble and family are members of the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has filled chairs in the Order of Moose, the Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Improved Order of Red Men, and is ex-chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He served as president of the Eagles three terms. JESSE FESS BEAM is an Ohio attorney, prominently identified with the professional and public affairs at Van Wert, where he is the present city solicitor. Mr. Beam was born at Willshire, Ohio, April 2, 1883, son of Jacob R. and Mary E. (Detter) Beam. His father was born at Ansonia, in Darke County, Ohio, in 1844, grew up on a farm and had a common school education. In 1861, at Van Wert, he enlisted for service in the Union army, and was in the war until the close of hostilities. He then settled at Willshire, and for many years was in the grocery business. He was holding the office of postmaster when he died in 1910. By his first marriage he had two children, and by his second marriage there were four children. Three sons still living are John, of Denver, Colorado; Jesse F., and Harry H., in Texas. Jesse F. Beam attended school at Willshire, graduating from high school, and took the academic course and also the law course in both the Ohio Northern University at Ada and the Ohio State University at Columbus. He was graduated from Ohio Northern and was admitted to the bar in 1909. Mr. Beam practiced law at Willshire until 1917, since which year he has commanded a large and important practice at Van Wert. Mr. Beam is unmarried. He served four years as deputy clerk of court of Van Wert County in addition to his present office as city solicitor. He is a stockholder in the Van Wert National Bank of Van Wert, is a republican, and is a past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons and a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. SUMNER E. WALTERS has been a man of growing prominence in the affairs of Van Wert County for the past thirty years. He is a former member of the Legislature, and for over fifteen years has carried on a successful practice as a lawyer at Van Wert. He was born in Willshire Township, on a farm, November 12, 1874, son of William G. and Jane M. (Anderson) Walters. His father represented the pioneer family of Van Wert County. He was born near Belleville in Richland County, Ohio, and was brought to Van Wert County in 1846 by his parents. The family located in Willshire Township, where he was reared and educated. He was a member of the State Militia for several years, and was in service as a soldier during the latter part of the Civil war. Jane M. Anderson was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, was educated in public schools and became a teacher, and while teaching near Wren, in Van Wert County, formed the attachment which resulted later in her marriage to William G. Walters. The latter spent his life as a farmer at the old Waters homestead in Willshire Township. He was a republican, and a member of the United Brethren Church. By two marriages he was the father of eighteen children, twelve of whom are now living. The three surviving children by his first marriage are : Mariah, widow of William M. Young; Chalmers S., a farmer at Glenmore, Ohio; and Sumner E. Sumner E. Walters spent his boyhood days on the farm in Willshire Township, and attended school there and also at Middlepoint. After finishing his education he became a teacher. He took a business course in a college at Toledo, and in 1900 he was elected to represent Van Wert County in the Lower House of the State Legislature and served until 1904. Following that he entered the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, and was admitted to the Ohio bar at Columbus in 1907. Since then he has enjoyed an increasing private practice, and from 1917 to 1921 he served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Van Wert County. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Walters' paternal grandfather was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, his grandmother, Scotch, and his maternal grandparents were Scotch-Irish. On September 23, 1894, he married Miss Kittle M. Allen. Five children were born to them, four of whom are now living. The name of the deceased child was Paul A. Mabel I., a graduate of high school, is the wife of Melvin R. Baxter, a farmer in Williams County. Doyt A. is a graduate of high school, took three years of law at Ohio State University and is now associated with his father in practice. The two younger children are William H. and Sumner, Jr., the latter six years old. HUBERT RAY CHESTER, M. D. One of the younger members of the medical profession in Ohio, Dr. Hubert Ray Chester, is located at Van Wert. He took up the work of his profession with a thorough education and training. He was born on a farm in Paulding County, Ohio, May 30, 1894, son of John H. and Elizabeth (Sunday) Chester. He spent his boyhood days on the old farm in Crane Township of Paulding County, attended the district schools, and in 1912 graduated from the high school at Antwerp. Following that he devoted two years to farm work, also taught school two years, and took his pre-medical course in Defiance College. After leaving there he entered the Eclectic College of Medicine at Cincinnati, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1922. During the World war Doctor Chester was enrolled with the Medical Reserve Corps and subsequently was transferred to the Students' Army Training Corps. Following his graduation in Cincinnati he served one year as an interne in a hospital at Springfield, Ohio, and on July 1, 1923, engaged in practice at Van Wert, where he has in a brief time become one of the busy men of his profession. Doctor Chester, who is unmarried, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, belongs to the Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter, and in politics is a republican. WILLIAM G. HOFFER is a newspaper man of wide and interesting experience. Much of his work as a publisher has been done in Ohio. He founded the Van Wert Daily Times and conducted it during 1904 and 1905. From 1909 to 1916 he was manager of the Wapakoneta Daily News, a period of seven years. He is now publisher of the Willshire Herald, and is also postmaster of that Van Wert County village. Mr. Hoffer was born in Pennsylvania, October 26, 1865, son of George and Susan (Durst) Hoffer. His parents were born and reared in Center County, Pennsylvania, both attended common schools and after their marriage located on a farm and spent the rest of their years in Pennsylvania. They were very HISTORY OF OHIO - 429 active workers in the Reformed Church, and the father founded a church of that denomination in his community. He was a member of the Grange, and though physically disqualified for active duty as a soldier, he became a captain of the Home Guards during the Civil war. He was a democrat in politics. Of the thirteen children seven are now living. William G. Hoffer grew up in the vicinity of Center Hall and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, had a rural environment, and attended the common schools. When he was only thirteen years of age he went to work in a printing office in Pennsylvania. Later he was in Mansfield, Ohio, employed in the office of the Shield & Banner. From the mechanical side of printing and publishing he went into the news office, and served as city editor for a number of years. At Lamed in Western Kansas, in December, 1894, Mr. Hoffer married Miss Cora M. Moorehead. While in Kansas he bought the Lincoln County Sentinel, and was publisher of that paper until 1900. Since then most of his time has been spent in Ohio, and he has made a success of the Willshire Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffer had two children: George E., deceased; and Gretchen, who is a graduate of the high school at Piqua, Ohio. The family are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Hoffer is a Mason, a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge and deputy grand chancellor and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Wapakoneta. He is a democrat in politics, and was appointed postmaster of Willshire in 1918 under the civil service rules. He is a director of the Willshire Telephone Company and a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants Bank. WILBERT A. DULL. A large part of the business enterprise that has distinguished the little town of Willshire in Van Wert County has proceeded from Wilbert A. Dull. Mr. Dull is a manufacturer of hardwood lumber, and has a number of other business interests in "that locality. He is vice president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank. He was born in Liberty Township of Van Wert County, March 14, 1869, representative of a pioneer family in this section of the state. His parents were James M. and Martha A. (Lintermoot) Dull. His grandfather, Lenhart Dull, was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and married a girl from Stark County, Ohio. They came to Ohio and located in Willshire Township of Van Wert County about 1840, where Lenhart Dull spent the rest of his life as a farmer. His son, James M. Dull, was born in Willshire Township, in 1846, and grew up there, attending the local schools of that town, and after his marriage he located on a farm near Ohio City. He is now retired. a resident of Van Wert, and has been a man of leadership in the life of the county for many years. He held a number of township offices and is a former president of the Van Wert County Fair Board. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the United Brethren Church. His wife died in 1916. They became the parents of twelve children, and it is a remarkable fact that all of them are still living. Wilbert A., now fifty-four years of age, is the oldest. Arthur P. lives at Rockford, Ohio; Fanny M. is the wife of Frank Custer, of Ohio City; ; Maurice L., Edgar M. and Curtis E., live at Celina, Ohio; Serene M. is the wife of W. O. Taylor, of Ohio City; Herbert O. lives at Ohio City; James M. Jr., at Celina; Daisy M., wife of Sherrill Miller, of Jackson Center; Grover C., of Phoenix, Arizona ; and Thurman A., of Louann, Arkansas. Wilbert A. Dull grew up on the home farm and gained a good education in the local schools. When he was eighteen years of age he became interested in the general merchandise business at the hamlet of Dull, and remained there from 1887 to 1899. Since 1900 his home has been at Willshire. He was in the elevator and grain business there until 1916, and since then has operated mills for the manufacture of hardwood lumber. This is an important business, and he is also builder and owner of the Dull Theater at Willshire. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers and Merchants Bank. The officers and directors of this bank are L. G. Baker, president; W. A. Dull, vice president; F. G. Roehm, cashier, and W. E. Spitler, J. W. Chilcote, H. A. Winkler and John Hoblet, Sr., directors. On March 24, 1892, Mr. Dull married Miss Florence Anspaugh. Six children were born to their marriage, five now living. Two of the sons were soldiers in the World war. Russell L. graduated from Willshire High School, from Ohio Military Institute at College Hill, and was also a student in the Ohio State University. In April, 1917, a few days after America entered the war, he volunteered. He spent one year in training camp and then went overseas and participated in the campaigns of St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and Verdun. The second child, Vera, is a graduate of the Van Wert High School, took the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Ohio University, and is a successful teacher of home economics. Merrill, the third child, graduated from the Willshire High School, and he also went into the war as a volunteer, and after the armistice was with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He and his brother Russell L., are both members of the war organizations, the American Legion and the La Societe des 40 kommes et 8 Chevaux. Clifford, the fourth child, was born at Willshire, January 1, 1900, and has continued his schooling. Leonore is a graduate of the Willshire High School, also the high school at Decatur, Indiana, and has taken the two-year normal course at Miami University at Oxford Ohio. Mr. Dull is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and his son Russell is an Elk, and his son Clifford an Odd Fellow. JAMES W. CHILCOTE. Probably everyone living in the vicinity of the Village of Willshire in Van Wert County has had in the past thirty or forty years some dealings with James W. Chilcote in his capacity as a merchant, public official, farmer and more recently as an automobile dealer. All his fellow citizens speak highly of his work and integrity. Mr. Chilcote was born on a farm in Willshire Township, March 22, 1854. His people were among the earliest settlers in this section of Ohio. His father was Joshua Chilcote, born in 1813, and his mother, Mary Mix, was born in 1823 in Knox County, Ohio. After their marriage they came into the woods that covered the area of Van Wert County, and Joshua Chilcote took up a large tract of land, cleared a farm for himself, and as his example was followed by other pioneers he sold much of his holdings to them. He was very active in the United Brethren Church, was a republican and a trustee of Willshire township. James W. Chilcote is the last survivor of a family of nine children. The first sixteen years of his life he spent on his father 'a farm, and while there acquired a public school education. After leaving the farm he became clerk in a store at Willshire, and then for seven years was associated with his brother, A. W. Chilcote, in a general mercantile store at Wingate, Indiana. After selling his interest there he returned to Wilshire, and for a long period of years as a clothing merchant he supplied an extensive community with needed articles in this line. He continued in the clothing business until 1918, when he 430 - HISTORY OF OHIO sold. After that he looked after his farming and other investments, and in 1922 established the Ford Agency at Willshire, under the firm name of Brandt & Chilcote. He gives most of his time to this business. He is also a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Willshire, is interested in several parcels of real estate in the town, and has a fine farm of 110 acres in Willshire Township. Mr. Chilcote married Miss Idora Beamer, of Convoy, Ohio, in 1890. She is a member of the Methodist Church at Willshire. Mr. Chilcote is a past master of Willshire Lodge No. 667, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and Knight Templar Commandery at Van Wert, and the Scottish Rite Consistory and the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati. He is a past worthy patron and his wife is a past worthy matron of the Eastern Star Chapter. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Willshire and in politics is a republican. For twenty years Mr. Chilcote served as a treasurer of the town of Willshire. WILLIAM E. SPITLER has been a resident of Will-shire for over a quarter of a century and for most of the time since locating there has been a grocery merchant, supplying a wide extent of territory with provisions. He has an up-to-date store in one of the progressive agricultural communities of Van Wert County. He was born at Lancaster in Fairfield County, Ohio, May 26, 1872, son of Jesse D. and Dora (Harmon) Spitler. His father was born in Fairfield County, June 4, 1846, grew up on a farm, getting a common school education, and at the age of seventeen went away as an enlisted man in the Union army to fight the battles of the Civil war. He was wounded, and he was in Sherman's army on the march to the sea. After his return to Fairfield County he married and settled on a farm. In 1875 he moved to Mercer County, and lived on a farm there for nearly thirty years. In 1904 he removed to Willshire, and is now living retired. His wife died several years ago. He is a member of the radical branch of the United Brethren Church and in polities is a democrat. There are four children: William E.; Ora, of St. Mary's, Ohio; Effie, wife of Orville Ayres, of La Grange, Indiana ; and Ode, of Geneva, Indiana. William E. Spitler from the age of three lived on his parents' farm in Mercer County, Ohio. He attended common schools there, also the schools of Middle Point, and most of his working experiences through youth and early manhood were connected with the farm. In May, 1897, he married Miss Elis. A. Byer, a native of Mercer County, where she was reared and educated. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Spitler moved to Willshire, where he engaged in the grocery business, and with brief exceptions has followed that line ever since. He and Mrs. Spitler have five children: Glee, a graduate of high school and of a business college at Fort Wayne, Indiana, now the wife of Miles Ross, of Wilshire; Glenn, who married Rosa Brandon, and Jesse, both graduates of high school and associated with father in the grocery business; Mary, a graduate of high school and assistant cashier in the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Willshire; and Clark, the youngest child, who is attending high school. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Spitler is one of the Official Board. He is serving in one of the chairs of the Knights of Pythias lodge and in politics is a democrat. In addition to his business as a merchant he is serving as township treasurer of Wilshire Township, is a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and is a stockholder in the chicken hatchery in Willshire. W. C. ROLLER, M. D. The community of Willshire in Van Vert County has been well served in a professional capacity by Doctor Roller, who has practiced medicine and surgery there for a quarter of a century. He is one of the able and competent members of his profession. He was born on a farm in Van Wert County, September 5, 1870, son of A. J. and Mary J. (Guthrie) Roller. His youthful days were spent on the farm, and after making the best possible use of his opportunities in the local schools he attended the normal school at Middle Point, Ohio, and also the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana. For five years Doctor Roller was a successful teacher, doing that work partly as a means toward finishing his medical education. Doctor Roller is a graduate with the class of 1898 from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. After his graduation he returned to Van Wert County and took up practice, and has been one of the busiest men in his profession in the county. During the World war he volunteered and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and was assigned to duty at Camp Greenleaf, Chickamauga Park, Georgia. He is a member of the Van Wert County and Ohio State Medical associations. He is also a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Willshire. Doctor Roller married Ida Van Sweringen, of Monticello, Ohio. She is well educated and was also a teacher before her marriage. They have one child, B. Fay, born November 18, 1895, and a graduate of the Willshire High School. He is an electrician at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He married Dove Cully and they have a child, Billie Jean, born June 2, 1921. Doctor Roller is on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge No. 667 at Wilshire, is a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory at Toledo and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chattanooga, Tennessee. OLIVER J. HARMAN has had a busy career in his native county of Van Wert, a farmer, lumber manufacturer and banker. He is president of the Bank of Wren and is also president and manager of the Wren Telephone Company. He was born on a farm near Wren, November 10, 1862, son of Peter and Matilda (Marks) Harman. His father was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1826, and died March 20, 1892, and his mother was born in 1824, and died December 16, 1902. Both grew up in pioneer times, had such advantages as the common schools of that day could bestow, and soon after their marriage they moved from Fairfield County to Van Wert County. They settled on Government land, which in time became a prosperous and well improved farm, and on it they spent the rest of their useful and honored lives. They were very devout Christians, active members of the United Brethren Church, and in politics Peter Harman always voted the democratic ticket. They were the parents of six children, rearing four. Three sons are still living, all in Van Wert County, John, a farmer in Willshire Township; Lewis M., vice president of the Bank of Wren; and Oliver J. Oliver J. Harman was reared on a farm, and has been more or less closely identified with farming all his active career. He was educated in the public schools. He married Miss Eva A. Slentz, who was born in York Township, Van Wert County, May 21, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Harman have two children HISTORY OF OHIO - 431 (twins), Francis Beryl and Oliver Earl, who were born May 16, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Harman are members of the Radical United Brethren Church, and they are democrats. He was a director of the Bank of Wren for several years before chosen president of that institution. This bank was organized in 1904, and has enjoyed a high degree of prosperity. His brother, L. M. Harman, is vice president and Cloyd Glantz is cashier. The other directors are John Harman, W. B. Frisinger and Daniel Myers. Mr. Harman owns and operates two lumber yards, one at Willshire and one at Wren. He also owns farm lands both in Van Wert County and in Adams County, Indiana, and as a trustee he handles the operation of 300 acres of land. In addition to his many other business responsibilities he is in the insurance business and is a notary public. E. H. ALSPAUGH, a graduate doctor of veterinary medicine, is one of the leading men in his profession in Ohio, and has rendered a splendid service in his native county of Van Wert. His home and offices are at Willshire. Doctor Alspaugh was born in Van Wert County, September 8, 1877, son of Jonathan and Christiana Alspaugh. His early education was acquired in the public schools of Van Wert County, and during the early years of his married life he was a successful farmer. In 1908 he moved to Cincinnati and took up the study of veterinary medicine in the Cincinnati Veterinary College. He also graduated from the Hughes High School of Cincinnati in 1910. He graduated with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine on April 16, 1911, and then returned to his native county. He has the finest equipped veterinary office in Northwestern Ohio, and has accumulated a splendid library on his profession, having over two thousand volumes. Doctor Alspaugh is a staunch republican. He served four years as mayor of Willshire, two years as president of the Board of Public Affairs and was elected mayor for the third time November 7, 1923. He is now a member of the County Visiting Board, whose duty it is to inspect all public institutions where county money is used. He has also served eight years as Central Committeeman of his precinct, and is a member of the County Campaign Committee for the republican party. On April 25, 1895, Doctor Alspaugh married Miss Lucy Robinson, of Mercer County, Ohio. To their marriage were born six children: Thomas B., who now holds a responsible position with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at Akron; Heber Harrod, at home; Silas F., connected with the General Electric Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Ina Evelene, Walter Winton and Lynn M., all at home. Doctor Alspaugh served two terms as master of Wilshire Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Four generations of his family took the Masonic obligations over the same altar at Willshire. LESTER GITHENS, M. D. One of the younger members of the medical profession in Ohio, Doctor Githens had a thorough training in college, was a medical officer in the World war, and is now practicing at Wren in Van Wert County, where he enjoys high standing and success. He was born at Alexandersville, in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 27, 1893, only child of Lester L. and Anna B. (McCuteheon) Githens. His father was born at Springboro, Ohio, May 30, 1859, and his mother at Franklin, this state, September 12, 1868. L. L. Githens grew up on a farm, and both he and his wife were college graduates. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from Springboro College, and after his marriage he located in Alexandersville, in Montgomery County, where for thirty-three years he was engaged in the grocery business and was also postmaster. His wife died in 1919. She was a Baptist, while he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He now lives with his son, Doctor Githens, at Wren. Dr. Lester M. Githens spent his boyhood and early youth in the Town of Alexandersville, where he acquired his early education in the grammar and high schools. He then entered Ohio State University, graduating Bachelor of Science, and took his medical course in the Cincinnati Medical College. For a brief time he was in practice at Elmwood Place, Cincinnati, then for three years at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and since then has been in practice at Wren He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations. He received a commission as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and his active service was in Camp Sherman, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and at Cincinnati. Doctor Githens married Miss Esther McKissic, who completed her education in high school at Bluffton, Indiana, and then at the Methodist Hospital at Indianapolis. She graduated in 1922, as a nurse. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Doctor Githens is affiliated with Minerva Lodge No. 98, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Trinity Chapter No. 44, Royal Arch Masons; Reed Commandery of the Knights Templar at Cincinnati; Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a republican in politics. W. J. REUTER, M. D., has had a very successful career as a physician and surgeon, and is well established in his profession and in the good citizenship of Ohio City, Van Wert County. He was born in the City of Cincinnati, March 14, 1889, son of William and Mary M. (Denier) Reuter. His parents were also born in Cincinnati, were educated there and married, and his father for many years was connected with the dry goods house. Of their six children four are now living: Dr. W. J. Reuter ; Edwin and Elmore, both of whom graduated from the Cincinnati High School, and Edwin served in the navy during the World war ; May, the wife of Carl Hohman, of Cincinnati. W. J. Reuter grew up in his native city, attended high school there, and graduated in medicine from Cincinnati University. His father was not a man of wealth, and after leaving the public schools he had to make his own way and earn the money to put him through medical college. After graduating he served nine months as an interne in the Good Samaritan Hospital, and for one year was physician at the B. I. S. at Lancaster, Ohio, and remained in private practice in Fairfield County for five years. He then spent one winter in Minneapolis, and in 1920 located at Ohio City, where his abilities have attracted a splendid practice. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He owns one of the good homes at Ohio City. Doctor Reuter married Miss Mabel M. Fritz, of Cincinnati. They have two children: Jeanette, born in March, 1917, and May, born in October, 1920. JOHN W. VENRICK has developed at Payne, Paulding County, a prosperous business in the handling of produce, including poultry, eggs and cream, and his well directed enterprise contributes materially to the commercial prestige of this village. 432 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Venrick was born in Hocking County, Ohio, on the 16th of August, 1861, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Macklin) Venrick, both likewise natives of the old Buckeye State. John W. Venrick was a child at the time his parents came to Paulding County and settled on a farm one and one-half miles east of Payne, this homestead having continued their place of residence during the remainder of their earnest and worthy lives, both having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Henry Venrick was well fortified in his political convictions and was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party. He served in various township offices, and was otherwise influential in community affairs, with inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. Of the family of nine children two died in infancy, and all of the others are living at the time of this writing, in 1923: Mrs. Thomas Lamb resides at Payne, as do also Joseph and Miss Mary ; Emily is the wife of A. P. Sealey, and they reside in the State of Colorado; John W., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Martha P., the widow of Horace Pease, is a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana; and Charles is a resident of Payne, Ohio. John W. Venrick was about one year old at the time the family home was established on the farm in Paulding County, and there he was reared to adult age, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the district schools. In addition to gaining ample experience in all phases of farm work he developed skill as a carpenter and also as a barber, he having worked eleven years at the barber's trade. In 1898 Mr. Venrick founded the substantial produce business which he now owns and conducts, and he not only owns the building in which his business is conducted but also his attractive residence property at Payne. He is one of the substantial business men and loyal and appreciative citizens of Payne, and has a wide circle of friends in the county that has represented his home from his infancy to the present. He has been influential in the local councils of the democratic party, and in addition to giving effective service as a member of the Village Council of Payne he has served as president of the Council and made an effective record as chief executive of the Municipal Government. He is a past chancellor of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, and in the City of Defiance is affiliated with the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Venrick married Miss Olive Bogart, who likewise was born and reared in Ohio, and they have three children: Helen is the wife of Charles Riley, and they reside in the City of Cleveland. John M., who is now in Chicago, Illinois, served in the United States Marine Corps during the period of our national participation in the World war ; Harlan W., a graduate of the Payne High School, was for two years a student in Heidelberg University at Tiffin, and for an equal period attended the University of Ohio, he being now assistant telegraph editor of the Youngstown Vindicator, a leading daily paper in the City of Youngstown. JOHN J. BURT, a retired farmer residing in the attractive Village of Oakwood, Paulding County, has passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, is a native son of the Buckeye State and is a representative of the third generation of the Burt family in Ohio, where his paternal grandparents established their home in the pioneer days. Mr. Burt was born on the old homestead farm of his parents in Morrow County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was August 1, 1849. He is a son of Lot and Abigail Ellen (Brown) Burt, and the sixth in order of birth in a family of seven children, five of whom attained to years of maturity. Sarah, the first born of the children, is deceased ; Nancy is the wife of Willis Fuller ; Eva is the wife of Alexander Fuller; Jane is deceased; Alonzo, who was born July 23, 1846, died September 12, 1864, while serving as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war; Charles E., who was born May 5, 1863, is a resident of Oakwood. Lot Burt was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1814, and his wife was born in Ohio, May 21, 1824. Mr. Burt was a boy at the time his parents came from the old Keystone State to Ohio and established their home on a pioneer farm in what is now Morrow County, where he was reared to maturity and received the advantages of the common schools of the period, his wife likewise having been reared in that county, where their marriage was solemnized July 18, 1842. After his marriage Mr. Burt was engaged in the retail grocery business in the Village of Edison, Morrow County, until 1858, when he came with his family to Paulding County and settled on a farm near Oakwood. Here his death occurred May 13, 1868, and his widow survived him thirty years, she having been one of the venerable and loved pioneer women residing at Oakwood at the time of her death in 1898, the closing years of her gentle and gracious life having here been passed in the pleasant home provided for her by her son, John J., of this sketch. Both she and her husband were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, and in politics Mr. Burt was a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party from the time of its foundation until his death. John J. Burt was a lad of nine years at the time of the family removal to Paulding County, and here he was reared on the home farm and profited by the advantages of the district schools. He was but fourteen years of age when his youthful patriotism, not to be restrained, led him to enlist for service in the Civil war. He became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service until the close of the war, his record being that of one of the gallant young soldiers of the Union. In later years he became one of the organizers of the post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Oakwood, and with the same he is still affiliated, with deep interest in his old comrades, whose ranks are rapidly becoming depleted by the one invincible foe, death. In 1869 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Burt and Miss Christina Fisher, who was born in Crawford County, this state, in 1846, and after their marriage they continued to reside on their excellent farm homestead near Oakwood until 1894, when they moved to the City of Defiance, where occurred, on the 8th of December of that year, the death of their only son, Adin, who was born August 19, 1878, and who was a noble youth of seventeen years at the time of his death. Mr. Burt continued to be engaged in the carriage and farm implement business in Defiance until 1900, when he returned to his farm. In 1902 he and his wife established their home at Oakwood, where he is living virtually retired, in the enjoyment of the gracious rewards of former years of earnest and worthy endeavor. On August 1, 1923, Mrs. Burt died after a long illness, lasting over fifteen years. The one surviving child, Alfretta, a graduate of the Defiance High School, is the wife of Noble May, a prosperous farmer near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Mr. and Mrs. May having two sons and one daughter. Mr. Burt is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd HISTORY OF OHIO - 433 Fellows, his wife being a member of the adjunct organization, the Daughters of Rebekah. Mr. Burt is the owner of several business buildings and dwelling house at Oakwood, still retains ownership of his well improved farm, and is a director of the Oakwood Deposit Bank, in the organization of which he took part. JOHN L. POCOCK, president of the Antwerp Exchange Bank and also of the Antwerp-Payne Telephone Company, is one of the influential citizens of Paulding County, which he has represented in the State Legislature, and he has served also as treasurer of the corporation of his home Village of Antwerp. Mr. Pocock was born in Defiance County, Ohio, November 22, 1854, and is a son of Jesse P. and Clara (Burwell) Pocock, of whose six children four attained to maturity, the subject of this review being the younger of the two now living (1924), and his sister, Alice J., of Mahoning County, being the widow of John Stall. Jesse P. Pocock was born near the City of Baltimore, Maryland, September 10, 1813, and his wife was born in Ohio, November 19, 1824, a date that shows that her parents were numbered among the pioneer settlers of the Buckeye State. Jesse P. Pocock was-thirty years of age when he came to Ohio and made location on a farm near Orrville, Wayne County, whence he later moved to Defiance County, where his marriage was solemnized and where he continued to be engaged in farm enterprise until his removal to Paulding County, where he lived retired during the closing years of his life and where occurred also the death of his wife, both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. John L. Pocock was two years old at the time of the family removal to Paulding County, and here he duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of the period. As a youth he also learned telegraphy, and in his service as telegraph operator and station agent for the Wabash Railroad he was for eight years agent and operator at Antwerp. After resigning his position with the railroad company he was engaged in the grocery business at Huntington, Indiana, about four years. He then sold his stock and business and returned to Antwerp, where for two years he was engaged in the manufacturing of pails or buckets for use by tobacco and candy manufacturers. The factory was then converted into a plant for the manufacturing of a patented and improved type of barrel hoops, and in this line of enterprise operations were continued until 1898, Mr. Pocock having in the meanwhile become interested also in the retail grocery business at Antwerp, in association with his brother, Emmett E. After his retirement from the manufacturing of hoops he gave his personal supervision to the grocery business until 1916, when he retired. Mr. Pocock has contributed much to the civic and material advancement of his home town and county, and is a citizen who commands unqualified popular esteem. He has been prominent in the local councils and campaigns of the republican party, and was representative of Paulding County in the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature during the Seventy-eighth and the Seventy-ninth General assemblies. In addition to being president of the Antwerp Exchange Bank and the Antwerp-Payne Telephone Company he is the owner of a well improved farm property in Harrison Township. Mr. Pocock and his wife are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village, and he is serving as its treasurer. In the Masonic fraternity he is a past master of Antwerp Lodge No. 335, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, his further York Rite affiliations being with the Chapter at Hicksville and the Council of Royal and Select Masters, and the Commandery of Knights Templar in the City of Defiance. In the Scottish Rite his affiliation is with the Consistory at Toledo, and he is. a charter and life .member of the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star, in which Mrs. Poeock is a past worthy matron of the Chapter at Antwerp, and he is past noble grand of Carryall Lodge No. 463, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. October 10, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Pocock and Miss Genevra Root, who was born and reared in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and whose death occurred in 1884. The one child of this union is Fred H., who was graduated from Oberlin College and who is now a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, he having gained the thirty-third and ultimate degree of the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity. In 1890 was solemnized the marriage of John L. Pocock and Miss Fannie E. McClusky, who was born in Carroll County, Indiana, June 1, 1862, and who acquired her higher education in the. College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, her father, Rev. J. W. McClusky, having been a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. The family genealogy traces back to staunch Scotch origin. Mr. and Mrs. Pocock have no children. ARTHUR M. ARMSTRONG is manifesting admirable personal and official stewardship in his able administration of the office of superintendent of the Paulding County Home and Infirmary. He assumed this position in April, 1920, and had previously served in other offices of public trust in this county, where his course has been such as to command him to unqualified popular confidence and esteem. Mr. Armstrong was born in Hocking County, Ohio, September 22, 1873, and is a son of George P. and Henrietta (Thrush) Armstrong, the former of whom was born in 1849, in that part of Virginia now constituting the State of West Virginia, and the latter of whom was born in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1847. George P. Armstrong was reared and educated in West Virginia, and was about eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Hocking County, Ohio, where eventually his marriage was solemnized. In 1883 he came with his family to Paulding County and settled on a farm in Benton Township. There his wife died in 1896, and in the following year he left the farm and established his residence in the City of Columbus, where he remained until 1900. He thereafter resided for some time in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and in 1914 he returned to Columbus, where he was residing in the home of his daughter at the time of his death, December 3, 1919. He and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his political faith was that of the republican party, and while residing on his farm in Paulding County he served as township trustee and also as a member of the School Board. Of the seven children all but one are living (1923) : Arthur M., of this review, is the eldest; Thurman P. is a successful farmer in the State of Montana; Edward M. is at the time of this writing serving as deputy auditor of Paulding County; Frank is a resident of Antwerp, this county; Myrtle is the wife of Thomas Oglesbee, of Tampa, Florida; and Hazel L. is the wife of W. L. Nobis, of Paulding County. Arthur M. Armstrong was a lad of about ten years at the time of the family removal to Paulding County, and here he continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation from the Payne High School. Thereafter he took a course in the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, 434 - HISTORY and he gave fifteen years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, mainly in Paulding County. In 1909 he was appointed deputy county auditor of this county, a position which he retained four years. In 1914 he was elected county auditor, and in this office he gave an efficient administration for his term of four years. He retired from office in October, 1919, and in the following April was appointed to his present office, that of superintendent of the County Infirmary and Home. Mr. Armstrong is loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with Paulding Lodge No. 577, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Minnie E. (Croy) Armstrong, deceased wife of Mr. Armstrong, is survived by one son, Russell L., who was graduated from the high school, who was in the national, military service in the World war period, and who thereafter was a student in the University of Ohio. The second marriage of Mr. Armstrong was with Miss Mary E. Heimbarger, who was born and reared in Paulding County, and the three children of this union are Thelma B., Pauline D. and Harold M. The elder daughter is a member of the class of 1924 in the Paulding High School, and the younger daughter is a student in the same high school. HENRY C. PETY, the able and popular superintendent of the Columbia Sugar Company at Paulding, judicial center of Paulding County, was born at Aubenton, Department of Aisne, France, on the 13th of March, 1882, and is a son of Henry and Melanie (Gillet) Pety, both of whom are deceased. The subject of this review received excellent educational advantages in his native land, where he was graduated in Montaigne College and where also he attended the historic Sorbonne, in which great university he specialized in the study of physics and chemistry. In September, 1900, Mr. Pety came to the United States and took the position of chemist with the Utah Sugar Company, a company engaged in the manufacture of sugar at Lehi, Utah, where he remained one season. He then moved to the State of Michigan and became chief chemist with the Sebawaing Sugar Company at Sebawaing. He thus continued one year with this concern, engaged in the manufacture of beet sugar, and he thereafter served two years as assistant superintendent of the company's plant and business. Between seasons he gave his attention to the installing of Osmose sugar plants in different parts of the United States, and finally he accepted the position of technical superintendent of the Garland (Utah) plant of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. He next became assistant superintendent of the plant of the Garden City Sugar & Land Company at Garden City, Kansas, where he remained until 1912, when he came to Paulding County, Ohio, and assumed his present executive office, that of superintendent of the Columbia Sugar Company, which here has a large and modern plant for the manufacturing of beet sugar of the finest grade. Mr. Pety has gained authoritative knowledge in all details pertaining to the propagation of sugar beets and the manufacturing of sugar from these products, and his administrative ability in connection with the industry is on a parity with his broad scientific and technical knowledge. Mr. Pety has been a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party since becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States, he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. At Garden City, Kansas, in 1909, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pety and Miss Susanne Brysselbout, of San Francisco, California, and they have nine children : Henry, Germaine, Maurice, Victor, Joan, Melanie, Louise, Charles and Paul. CHARLES H. BITNER, junior member of the firm of Bitner & Pollock, which is successfully operating large and modern grain elevators at Paulding, is known and valued as one of the loyal and progressive business men of this fine little city, the judicial center of Paulding County. Mr. Bitner was born in Kosciusco County, Indiana, March 13, 1876, and is a son of George W. and Inez C. (Upson) Bitner, the former of whom was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and the latter of whom was born in Kosciusco County, Indiana, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of that section of the Hoosier State. George W. Bitner was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, and he was one of the gallant young men who represented the Keystone State as soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, his service having continued until the close of the war and he having been mustered out with the rank of second lieutenant. After the war he went to Kosciusco County, Indiana, and he became a successful merchant at Warsaw, besides being identified with other lines of business and industrial enterprise in that county, where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. George W. Bitner was a stalwart republican, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their six children four are living: Gertrude is the wife of F. T. Jones, of Van Wert, Ohio ; Lucretia, the widow of J. O. Hammond, likewise resides at Van Wert; Charles H. is the immediate subject of this sketch ; and Harry, a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a locomotive engineer on passenger trains of the Pennsylvania lines. In the public schools of Warsaw, Indiana, Charles H. Bitner gained his early education, which included the discipline of the high school, and as a youth he learned telegraphy. As a telegraph operator and station agent he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1891 to 1917, and in the latter year he became associated with H. G. Pollock in the grain business at Cavett, Van Wert County, Ohio, where they continued operations until July 15, 1921, when they transferred their headquarters to Paulding. In this city they have well equipped elevators and are conducting a substantial and important business in the buying and shipping of grain. Mr. Bitner has never deviated from the line of strict allegiance to the republican party, but he has had no desire for political office of any kind. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and also of the Order of the Eastern Star, his basic Masonic affiliation being with Hope Lodge No. 214, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Delphos, Allen County, where also he is a member of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, the Council of Royal and Select Masters, and the Chapter of the Eastern Star. Mr. Bitner is a past chancellor of the Lodge of Knights of Pythias at Middle Point, Van Wert County, and has represented the same in the Ohio Grand Lodge of the order. Mr. Bitner married Miss Fannie E. Giddings, of Washington, Michigan, and she presides most graciously over their pleasant home at Paulding. They have no children. RAY H. MOUSER, M. D., who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Paulding, has secure prestige as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in his native county. The doctor was born at Latty, Paulding County, July 20, 1893, and is a son of Dr. A. H. HISTORY OF OHIO - 435 and Belle (Price) Mouser. In the public schools of his native village he gained his earlier education, and in 1911 he was graduated from the high school at Paulding. Within a short time thereafter he entered the medical department of the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1917, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forthwith opened an office at Paulding, where he continued in active practice of general order until the nation became involved in the World war. He soon subordinated his personal and professional interests to respond to the call of patriotism, and in 1918 he enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, his service in which included nine months overseas, where he was assigned to duty with an English regiment. After the armistice brought the war to a close he returned home, received his honorable discharge and resumed his professional activities at Paulding. Doctor Mouser has built up an excellent practice and has a representative clientele that indicates alike his ability and his personal popularity. He is affiliated with the Paulding County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His political alignment is with the democratic party. The doctor has completed the circle of the York Rite in the Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations are with Wedin's Son Lodge No. 571, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Paulding Chapter No. 165, Royal Arch Masons Van Wert Council, Royal and Select Masters and the Commandery of Knights Templar in the Masters; of Van Wert, both he and his wife having membership in the adjunct Masonic body, the Order of the Eastern Star, and he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Mouser, whose maiden name was Lelia Morgan, was graduated from college with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and is also a graduate musician of much talent. They have one daughter, Elinor N., born April 11, 1924. MAHLON C. TICKLE has been for many years one of the active business men of Van Wert County. He is manager and a fifth owner of the Wren & Glenmore Grain Company. He was born on a farm five miles west of Rockford, Ohio, December 23, 1873, son of Ernest and Christine (Vian) Tickle. His parents are natives of Ohio, his mother of Knox County, and both now live at Rockford. They lived on a farm for many years in Mercer County, and after retiring established their home at Rockford. They are active church members, and the father is a democrat in politics and has held the offices of township treasurer and assessor. Of their five children one died in infancy. The others are: Mahlon C.; Lola, wife of John Wiley, of Rockford; Benjamin, of Mercer ; and William 0.,. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mahlon C. Tickle grew up on the old farm in Mercer County, and in the meantime made good use of his advantages in the district schools. At the age of twenty he left home, and for two years worked on a farm for monthly wages. He then began farming for himself, and for many years has successfully carried his share in the agricultural industry in Van Wert and adjoining counties. The Wren & Glenmore Grain Company does a large business with the grain growers of Van Wert County. The elevator is owned by Mr. Tickle, Fred Gehers, W. B. Frisinger, H. L. Frisinger and John Moser. Mr. Tickle first married Nettie M. Wollet. She died in 1910, the mother of three children: May, wife of Clem Bentz, of Rockford, Ohio ; Irene and Ernest E. For his second wife Mr. Tickle married Effie E. Byer. They have one son, Robert D., now nine years old. Mr. Tickle is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees at Wren, and is a democrat in politics. JOHN H. CHESTER is, in 1923, a member of the Ohio Legislature, as representative of Paulding County, and his election to this office affords distinct evidence of the secure place that is his in the confidence and good will of the people of his native county. He has proved a loyal and resourceful member of the House of Representatives, has ably advocated measures of definite value to his constituent district, and has been specially zealous in his efforts to promote wise legislation in behalf of the farmers of Ohio, the exponents of the basic industries on which rest the general prosperity of the community. On the fine farm which is now his place of residence in Crane Township, Paulding County, John H. Chester was born June 12, 1858, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hale) Chester. Thomas Chester was born at Raunds, Northamptonshire, England, February 14, 1822, and his wife was born in Huntingtonshire, England, January 5, 1816, their marriage having been solemnized in their native land in 1850, and the month of October of the following year having recorded their arrival in the United States, the voyage having been made on a sailing vessel of the type common to that period. Mr. and Mrs. Chester first established residence in Lorain County, Ohio, and in 1852 they came to Paulding County, where he took up a homestead of forty acres, to which he later added until he had a large and productive farm, the homestead now owned by his son John H., of this review. Thomas Chester was a man of sterling character and strong mentality, his having been much of influence in community affairs. He was a staunch supporter of the principles of the republican party, and by election he served four terms as a member of the Board of County Commissioners, besides having served a short appointive term in this office. He was a member of the board at the time of the erection of the present courthouse of the county, and he ever commanded in this county a high place in popular esteem. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They remained on the old home farm until their death, and they became the parents of three children, the first of whom, Jane, is deceased; Miss Sarah still resides in Paulding County ; and John H. is the youngest of the number. The discipline of the home farm and the local schools compassed the boyhood and youth of John H. Chester, and he continued his active association with the work and management of the farm until he was twenty-four years of age. From 1883 to 1889 he resided in the Village of Antwerp, where he conducted a meat market, besides buying and shipping live stock and operating a grain elevator and flour mills. In 1889 he sold his business at Antwerp and returned to the old home farm, which under his progressive management is one of the model farms of Paulding County. He has long been influential in the local councils and campaign work of the republican party, and it was on the ticket of his party that he was elected representative of Paulding County in the State Legislature. He is a past grand of Carryall Lodge No. 463, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a charter member of the local Grange, and is an active and valued member of the Paulding County Farm Bureau. In November, 1888, recorded the marriage of Mr. Chester and Miss Elizabeth Sunday, who likewise was born and reared in Paulding County, and of this union have been born seven children: Adeline C., a graduate of the high school and of the 436 - HISTORY OF OHIO domestic science department of Defiance College, made a record of successful service as a teacher in the public schools, and she is now the wife of Merle White, of Detroit, Michigan; Thomas E., a graduate of the Antwerp High School, is a progressive exponent of farm enterprise in his native county; Margaret D. was graduated from the Antwerp High School in 1910, as were also her older sister and brother, and she was later graduated from the musical department of Defiance College, her musical studies having been continued in the conservatory allied with the great University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and she is now teaching music in the public school at Warren, Ohio; John H., Jr., a graduate of the Antwerp High School, was one of the gallant sons of Ohio to represent the state as a soldier in the World war, and he was overseas eleven months, took part in active conflict in the front lines, and while he escaped wounds he was somewhat severely gassed, and he is now a successful representative of farm industry in his native county ; Hubert Ray, who was graduated from the Antwerp High School when he was but fifteen years of age, was in the national military service in the World war period, though not called overseas, and after attending Defiance College he was graduated from the Eclectic College of Medicine in the City of Cincinnati, he being now engaged in the practice of his profession at Van Wert, Ohio; Paul F., a graduate of the Antwerp High School, volunteered for military service when the United States became involved in the World war, and he had the distinction of being with the first body of American troops to enter active service overseas, he being now engaged in the trucking business in Defiance County, and his younger brother, Albert B., being associated with him in this enterprise. Mrs. Chester 's mother was born in Germany, and came to this country when six years of age and settled in Huron County. Her father was born in Pennsylvania. Both are still living at Antwerp at the grand old ages of eighty-six and eighty-one years. Mrs. Chester 's father, John Sunday, served in the Civil war, having enlisted at the first three-months' call. JOHN H. FINLEY, former judge of the Probate Court of Paulding County and the present efficient superintendent of the public schools of Paulding, the county seat, was born on a farm near Senecaville, Guernsey County, Ohio, March 27, 1871, and is a son of John Ray and Hester Ann (Thompson) Finley. The parents of Judge Finley likewise were born in Guernsey County, the former in 1840 and the latter in 1842. John R. Finley passed his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and was long numbered among the successful exponents of agricultural and live stock industry in his native county. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. Of the five children there are living: Charles J. remains on the old homestead and is one of the substantial farmers of Guernsey County ; B. E., a graduate of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, is now engaged in the banking business in the Panhandle of Texas; and John H., of this review, is the youngest of the number. While gaining cumulative youthful experience in connection with the activities of the home farm Johri H. Finley profited fully by the discipline of the local schools, his public school training having been supplemented by a course of study in the Ohio Northern University. In 1896 he became a resident of Paulding County, and after serving six years as principal of the public schools at Antwerp he gave a similar period of service as superintendent of the schools of that village. Upon his election to the office of judge of the Probate Court he moved, as a matter of course, to Paulding, the county seat, and here he gave eight years of most careful and effective administration in this office. Thereafter he was here associated with the Strauss Brothers Land Company until 1919, when he was elected to his present office, that of superintendent of the public schools of Paulding. In connection with the work of the public schools Judge Finley has proved to be a man of marked pedagogic and executive ability, and his progressive policies have done much to advance the standards of the Paulding schools. He is the owner of a fine farm property of 265 acres in Paulding County, this well improved property being in Crane Township. Judge Finley is a staunch and well fortified advocate of the principles of the republican party. He and his family are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and he has served as a deacon of the church at Antwerp, this county. His wife, whose maiden name was Nettie D. Schilb, was graduated from the high school at Antwerp and prior to her marriage had been a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Paulding County. Judge and Mrs. Finley have two daughters : Margaret H. was graduated from the Paulding High School as a member of the class of 1923, and in the same school Mary E. is a member of the class of 1925. C. E. HUGHES is giving an effective administration as sheriff of his native county, and is one of the popular officials at Paulding, judicial center of Paulding County. On a farm in Carryall Township, this county, Sheriff Hughes was born March 14, 1863, a son of J. N. and Mary (Coffelt) Hughes, both like wise natives of Paulding County, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. J. N. Hughes became one of the substantial farmers and citizens of his native county, and here both he and his wife passed their entire lives, his death having occurred in 1917 and Mrs. Hughes having passed away in 1909, both having been members of the Spiritual Church, and Mr. Hughes having been a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party. J. N. Hughes represented Paulding County as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and in later years he became actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the nine children Sheriff Hughes, of this sketch, is the eldest of the four now living; John is a resident of Antwerp, this county; Orley resides in the City of Cleveland; and Bessie is the wife of C. C. Steed, of Tacoma, Washington. The present sheriff of Paulding County was reared on the old home farm, and continued to be associated with its work and management until the time of his marriage, in 1884, the while he duly profited by the advantages of the public schools. After his marriage he engaged in independent farm enterprise, and with this basic industry he continued his active association until his election to the office of county sheriff in 1920. The popular estimate placed upon his administration of this office was shown in his reelection in 1922. He is a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with Carryall Lodge No. 335, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Dennison Hughes, grandfather of Sheriff Hughes, came to Ohio from the State of New York, and it was in the year 1822 that he numbered himself among the pioneers of Paulding County, where he became the owner of 300 acres of land and reclaimed and developed a productive farm, he having here remained on the old homestead place until his death in 1872. HISTORY OF OHIO - 437 The marriage of Sheriff Hughes and Miss Idella Pickering was solemnized in December, 1884, Mrs. Hughes having been born and reared in Greens County, Ohio, where her father was a successful farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have two children: Addie, a graduate of the Antwerp High School, is the wife of A. G. Stiles, of Cleveland ; and Naoni is the wife of E. S. Hartman, a farmer near Antwerp. ANTON STIALD. The City of Amherst, Lorain County, gained much of value from the sterling citizen to whom this memoir is dedicated, and who was here serving as postmaster at the time of his death, March 9, 1922. Mr. Stiwald, a native son of the Buckeye State, had the qualities of mind and heart that make the highest ideals in citizenship, and during the long years of his residence at Amherst he found many avenues along which to prove of value to the community. He had been a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and the same fine loyalty of stewardship was manifested in his remarkably prolonged service as mayor of the vital little city in which his interests were centered, and in which his circle of friends was virtually coincident with that of his acquaintances. Mr. Stiwald was born in the City of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 15th of August, 1842, and there his youthful education was acquired in the public schools. As a young man he established himself on a farm near Avon, Lorain County, and when the dark cloud of the Civil war spread its pall over the national horizon he subordinated all personal interests to the cause of patriotism and tendered his aid in defense of the Union. In 1861 he enlisted as a member of the One Hundred and Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this gallant command he saw long and active service. He took part in the various engagements in which his regiment was involved, and continued in service until the close of the war. His continued interest in his old comrades was signified by his active and appreciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic in later years. Some time after the close of his military career Mr. Stiwald became associated with his brother in the cigar manufacturing business at Amherst, and in this attractive little city he passed the remainder of his life, secure in the high regard of all who knew him. Here he was for many years engaged in the insurance business, and he found diversion and pleasure also in supervising his attractive little farm of ten acres. Mr. Stiwald was locally recognized as a veritable apostle of civic progress, and was a leader in political affairs in Lorain County. He held for eighteen consecutive years the office of mayor of Amherst, and the duration of his service as head of the Municipal Government affords a most significant voucher for his able administration, as well as an evidence of the secure place that was his in popular confidence and good will. He finally resigned the office of mayor and assumed that of postmaster of Amherst. He continued the incumbent of this latter office about nine years-until the time of his death. In politics he was a staunch and resourceful advocate of the principles of the democratic party. Mr. Stiwald was a young man at the time of his marriage to Miss Maria White, who was born in England, and she still survives him and maintains her home in Amherst. To this union were born six children: Florence, deceased; Earl; Maine, who is the wife of Michael Sehofer ; Grace, who is the wife of Harry Nicoll; Allen; and A. J. Stiwald. WENDELL B. THOMSON, a resident of Winchester, Adams County, nearly all his life, is a young man who in a few brief years has achieved a brilliant record of valued service as a civic and social worker, as a soldier in the great war, and in 1924 was candidate for Representative in the General Assembly. He was born at Xenia, in Greene County, Ohio, January 25, 1893, but a year or so later the home of the family was established at Winchester. His parents are Nathan Richey and Annie (Lippincott) Thomson. His grandparents were Dr. Nathan D. and Nancy (Bretney) Thomson. Nathan Richey Thomson was born at Winchester, Ohio, February 22, 1838, and at the age of eighty-six is the oldest living native resident of Winchester. During the Civil war he was a lieutenant in Company I of the Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he also conducted a general store at Winchester, which was raided by General Morgan during the famous Morgan raid. Nathan Richey Thomson was instrumental in securing the construction of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railway, now part of the Norfolk & Western, from Cincinnati to Portsmouth, personally securing the right of way and raising most of the money. The first engine had the name "Dick Thomson" painted under the cab window. Nathan R. Thomson married on May 29, 1888, Annie Lippincott, who was , born in Urbana, Illinois, August 8, 1857, daughter of Edward and Mary (Wendell) Lippincott. She has been active in church and Sunday school work, in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and in civic betterment and Red Cross work in Winchester. Wendell B. Thomson finished his course in the Winchester public schools in 1909, attended the Mueller School of Business at Cincinnati in 1911, during 1919 was a student in the Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, and in 1920 took his special recreation course at Chicago. During 1912-13, in his twentieth year, Mr. Thomson taught a rural school in Winchester Township. From March to November in 1913 he was in the railway mail service, and from November, 1913, to November, 1915, was a rural mail carrier at Winchester, and then became a postoffiee clerk at Detroit, Michigan, serving until June, 1917. His military service record was a conspicuous one. He enlisted at Cincinnati June 20, 1917, for duty in the United States Army Ambulance Service, and was first stationed at Camp Crane, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, April 7, 1919, having been nineteen months overseas. He was with the following organizations: Section 103, U. S. A. A. S.; Section 86, U. S. A. A. S.; S. S. U. 9/629, U. S. A. A. S. He sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, on the ship San Jacinto August 7, 1917, arriving at Saint Nazaire, France, August 20th, and was stationed at Base Camp Saint Nazaire, Base Camp Sandricourt, at the front with the Eighth French Army in Lorraine, attached to the Forty-first Division French Army with the Second British Army in Belgium, the Forty-first French Division attached to the Tenth French Army on the Marne; the Forty-first French Division attached to the Sixth French Army at Soissons, and in Flanders, Belgium, with King Albert I of the Belgium Army, and during the German occupation was with the Sixth French Army near Dusseldorf, West Rhineland. He was a participant in the battles in French Lorraine from January, 1918, to April 20, 1918; Mount Kemmel in Belgium, May 17 to June 2, 1918; Mount-des-Cats, Belgium, July 7 to July 10, 1918; the offensive of Tardenois on the Marne, July 18 to August 8, 1918; Aisne, August 25 to September 15, 1918; in Flanders October 4 to October 18, 1918. He was near Dusseldorf from December 12, 1918, to January 17, 1919. An infected hand kept him in the hospital at Dunkerque, France, from May 17 to May 27, 1918. He sailed from Brest, France, March 16, 1919, on the U. S. S. 438 - HISTORY OF OHIO Pueblo, arriving at Hoboken March 27, 1919. Accompanying the French Croix-de-Guerre awarded him for bravery in action was the following citation in French : The Lieutenant-Colonel Berthoin, commandant le 128 regiment d 'Infanterie, cite a l'Ordre du Regiment, Wendell B. Thomson, soldat engage volontaire Mle 9785, U. S. A. A. S. "Charge de l'evacuation de blesses du 128 regiment d 'Infanterie pendant les differentes offensives du Regiment a accompli sa mission souvent tres dangereuse, avec un ealme et une perspieaeite faisant l'admiration de tous." "Aux Armes le 20 November, 1918, Berthoin, "Commandant 128 Regiment Infanterie." The citation for the Medaille Commemorative De la Grande Guerre is as follows: "This is to certify that Wendell B. Thomson, a former member of American Ambulance Service, is entitled to wear the French Commemorative Medal with red and white striped ribbon in recognition of his valuable services to France during the World war, 1914-18. "Made at Washington, D. d., this 20th day of March, 1923. "Signed: G. A. L. Dumont, Colonel French General Staff, Military Attache." Mr. Thomson is a member of Cameron Ellis Post No. 242 of the American Legion at Winchester, and also belongs to the United States Army Ambulance Association. Following his release from the army Mr. Thomson for about a year and a half, from May, 1919, to September, 1920, was engaged as a lecturer and minister, and since then has had about four years of legislative experience with the Playground and Recreation Association of America, acting as field representative of the national staff of this association from March 1, 1921, to December, 1924. He was engaged in organizing cities for playgrounds and recreation facilities, and the securing of the enactment of a state physical education law in both Ohio and Tennessee through the General Assembly of 1923. As a republican candidate for the Ohio General Assembly from Adams County Mr. Thomson adopted a thoroughly progressive and enlightened platform, promising his activity not only in behalf of worthy economic measures but also those for total betterment and improved educational opportunities to the young. Mr. Thomson is a member of Winchester Lodge No. 236, Free and Accepted Masons, and from 1909 to 1919 was a member of the Winchester Presbyterian Church, but since 1919 has been identified with the Baptist Church. In the Ninth Street Baptist Church at Cincinnati, July 26, 1920, Rev. John Herget officiating, Mr. Thomson and Miss Norma Cathleen Kellar were united in marriage. All her ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch. Her maternal grandfather, a Union soldier, was killed during the Civil war. Her father, William Kellar, now deceased, was a business man in Cincinnati. Her mother is Mrs. Elizabeth (Fritz) Kellar, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The one child of Mr. and drs. Thomson is Wendell Bretney Thomson H., born at Cincinnati, March 3, 1924. CHARLES E. DENNIS learned in his youth the trade of carpenter, and through the medium of his trade he has won advancement to secure status as one of the representative contractors and builders in the City of Tiffin, judicial center of Seneca County. He was born in Crawford County, this state, July 31, 1881, and in the same county were born his parents, Frank E. and Magdalena (Stuckey) Dennis, who now resides at Tiffin, the father having learned the carpenter trade and having done more or less contracting in line therewith. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Reformed Church. Of the seven children all are living except one. Charles E. Dennis was a boy at the time of the family removal to Seneca County, and here he gained his early education. At the age of fifteen years he initiated a practical apprenticeship to the carpenter 's trade under the direction of his father, and since 1914 he has been successfully established in business as a contractor and builder, with residence and business headquarters at Tiffin. He has erected a number of the large and important buildings in his home city and many of the better grade of houses in this city and vicinity. The republican party receives the loyal allegiance of Mr. Dennis, and his religious faith is that of the Reformed iiurch. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Tiffin Lodge No. 77, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Seneca Chapter No. 42, Royal Arch Masons; Clinton Council No. 47, Royal and Select Masters; and the local Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, besides which he holds membership in the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. HARRY R. PEASE, D. O. Osteopathy, which rests upon the theory that most diseases are traceable to deformation of some part of the skeleton, long since has passed the experimental stage and become a widely recognized and sane factor in the lessening of human suffering. A capable and enthusiastic exponent of this method of cure is found in Dr. Harry R. Pease, whose comparatively brief professional career has resulted in truly remarkable results. The doctor has been a resident of Steubenville since 1919, and during five years has built up a remunerative and encouraging practice. Doctor Pease was born March 21, 1881, at Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, and is a son of Henry H. and Mary E. (Barnum) Pease, and a grandson of Moses and Ruth (Pearsol) Pease. The Pease family originated in Connecticut, but Moses Pease came from New York State with his parents as a pioneer, settling at North Sheffield about 1818. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Pease, Fred and Eliza (Attwood) Barnum, belonged to a Connecticut family which migrated to New York State and then came to Ohio. Henry H. Pease, who during his earlier years was a contracting plasterer and builder at Kingsville, later became the organizer of the American Insurance Union, with headquarters at Columbus, and which has grown to large proportions. Mrs. Pease died in 1917, the mother of four children: F. A., president of F. A. Pease Engineering Company, of Cleveland, who married Belle White, and has two children, Fred A., Jr., and Beatrice; W. E., who is chief enegineer of the Van Swearingen projects in Cleveland, married Bessie Mitchell; Charles U. married Mae Cochrane, and has two children, Vance and Betty; and Harry R. Harry R. Pease attended the public schools of Kingsville, where he was graduated from high school in 1898, and for about six months was engaged in teaching school. He then went into the candy and ice cream business at Youngstown, and remained therein for something like three years. In 1902 he was made foreman and engineer on a steam shovel, and followed this business for ten years, traveling to various parts of the United States and spending eighteen months in work on the Panama Canal. In 1912 he took up the study of osteopathy at Kansas City, Missouri, and continued it at Des Moines, beginning practice at Rogers, Arkansas. After one year he returned to Des Moines for further instruction and graduated in 1916, then going back to HISTORY OF OHIO - 439 Rogers, where he spent one and one-half years. In 1918, feeling that he could be of more use to his country in a mechanical than a professional capacity, he again took up his work with the steam shovel gang at Cadiz, Ohio, and it was while there that he visited Steubenville and became impressed with the possibilities and future of the city. When peace was declared he took up his residence at Steubenville and became associated in practice with Dr. J. F. Bumpus, an osteopath, whose interest in the practice he purchased in 1920, since which time he has practiced alone. He has excellent equipped offices and a large and representative practice. Doctor Pease is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Automobile Club and the Lions Club. On September 5, 1906, at Hiram, Ohio, Doctor Pease was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Woodward, daughter of Alonzo G. Woodward, and next to youngest of six children, the others being: Lucile, who married H. M. Garn, and they have two children, Imogene and Virginia ; Frank, who married Inez Auxer, and had two children, Donald and Margaret, deceased ; Harry, who married Nell Garn; and had a son who died in infancy ; Orlando, whd married Bessie Updegraf, and has two children, Shirley and Genevieve ; and Charles E., who married Clarice Downer, and has one daughter, Evelyn. Mr. Woodward, who is a coal dealer at Hiram, is very active in republican politics and has served as postmaster and tax assessor. He belongs to the Christian Church and is an Odd Fellow. Doctor and Mrs. Pease have no children. MARY F. DOWNS has the distinction of being one of the few women in Ohio to hold a county office. She is the present county treasurer of Fulton County. She has had a varied experience in accounting and in other commercial work with both private business corporations and in the public service. She was born in Knox County, Ohio, daughter of Curtis and Frances E. (Snider) Downs. Her parents were born in Holmes County, Ohio, were reared and educated there, and unmarried, and in 1885 settled in Fulton County, at Wauseon, where her father became a buyer and shipper of horses. Both parents are now deceased. The mother was a member of the Christian Church, and the father was very active in republican politics. Of eight children, three are now living: Harry H., who finished his education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and is now living at Mount Kisco, New York, chief claim agent of the New York Central lines; Katherine, deputy county treasurer and a graduate of the Wauseon High School; and Mary F. Mary F. Downs is a graduate of the high school at Wauseon, and began her business experience with the telephone company as operator, later becoming bookkeeper and chief operator. For a time she was deputy auditor and treasurer in the courthouse, and was bookkeeper for H. H. Williams & Son Lumber Company. After another service as deputy treasurer she was elected county treasurer in November, 1922, and began her first term on September 3, 1923. She is a republican. A. C. CAMERON was born in Defiance County, and for nearly half a century was actively identified with the business and civic affairs of that section. He is now living retired at Evansport. He was born in the Village of Ney, in Defiance County, June 26, 1850, son of Samuel P. and Elizabeth B. (Mullen) Cameron. His father was born at Kingwood, West Virginia, September 1, 1815, and was two years of age when his parents, in 1817, came to Ohio and lived in Wayne County. He grew up there, and his wife was a native of Wayne County. In 1842 he settled at Ney and became a prosperous farmer and stock raiser. He was one of the pioneer pure bred cattle growers in that section of the state. He and his wife were members of the Universalist Church; and he was a staunch republican and filled such offices as justice of the peace and township trustee. . He was a past noble grand of the Independent Order of. Odd Fellows: A. C. Cameron spent the first fourteen years of his life at Ney, and in 1864 the family moved to Evansport. He spent his summers at work on the farm and taught school during the winter sessions until 1876. In that year he engaged in the general merchandise business at Evansport, and he gave the best of his energies to the enterprise for forty years, retiring in 1916 with a competence. On January 26, 1877, Mr. Cameron married Miss Nancy E. Yeager, of Defiance County. She had taught in the public schools before her marriage. Six children were born to their marriage : Jennie L., who was formerly a music teacher and is the wife of Doctor Kiterage, of Bryan, Ohio ; W. P., in the milling business at Evansport; Frank C., in the trucking business at Evansport; Wyatt, a barber at Bryan; Emmett, a merchant at Evansport ; and Mary E., who died when eighteen years old. Mr. Cameron is a past noble grand of Evansport Lodge No. 489, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a republican in politics. Mrs. Cameron is a past noble of the Rebekah Lodge, and is a charter member of the Eastern Star, and was one of the points of the star for seven years. HON. WILLIAM GREEN. A Coshocton boy who had to leave school to go to work in the coal mines has reached distinction in the labor world, his responsibilities affecting a larger number of people than those carried by many officials in state or national government. William Green succeeded Samuel Gompers on the latter 's death in December, 1924, as president of the American Federation of Labor. He has for over ten years served as international secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America with official headquarters in the City of Indianapolis, but his home since birth has been in Coshocton, Ohio. He was born there March 3, 1870, son of Hugh and Jane (Oran) Green. His parents were natives of England, where they were married, and in 1868 came to America, locating in. Coshocton. Hugh Green had been a coal miner in England, and that was the occupation he followed in this country, continuing the work until the weight of years compelled him to retire. He resides at Coshocton at the advanced age of eighty-eight, having been born in 1836. His wife died more than twenty years ago. They reared five children: Mary, who is housekeeper for her father ; Lucy, who is the wife of Charles W. Abbott, of Coshocton; Hugh, Jr., a miner living with his father ; William; and Margaret, the wife of S. L. Nogle, of Columbus, Ohio. These children were reared in the faith of the Baptist Church, the church where their parents both worshiped. William Green grew up in the house of a coal miner, in circumstances of respectable poverty, and with some of the vicissitudes that beset the family of a wage worker. He attended the common schools of Coshocton until he was fourteen years of age, when, like other miner's sons, he had to go to work. For sixteen years he was employed in the mines, and knows every phase of the work of a common miner. From the time he left the school room at the age of fourteen he had no further advantages of a formal kind, but, like many men of his class study, and contact with men of affairs has brought 440 - HISTORY OF OHIO him the equivalent of a liberal education, particularly in economics and on sociology. He has read a wide range of books, and in discussing social and political problems he possesses the resources of facts and claims that elevate his opinion beyond the academic field. As a young man William Green won a place of leadership among his fellow miners. During the past quarter of a century he has continuously held some of the important responsibilities in the labor and political world. From 1900 to 1906 he was subdistrict president of the United Mine Workers of America, and from 1906 to 1910 was president of the Ohio District Mine Workers Union. Then followed two terms in the Ohio State Senate, serving with distinction as a member of the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth General assemblies. In August, 1913, he was elected international secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, and has held this important administrative and executive post for over ten years, during a period including the World war and the many critical adjustments between the United Mine Workers and operators. He is also fourth vice president of the American Federation of Labor and a member of its executive counsel, a position he has held since 1914. In 1919 President Wilson named Mr. Green as a member of the Labor Commission in connection with the peace treaty in France, and he was on that mission three months, aiding in drafting the labor sections of the peace treaty. Mr. Green has long been prominent in the democratic party, being elected to the State Senate on that ticket, and was delegate at large from Ohio to the national convention at Baltimore in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was first nominated for the presidency. In 1920 he was alternate at large from Ohio to the national convention at San Francisco, and in 1924 was alternate at large from Ohio to the national democratic convention in New York City. Mr. Green is author of the Ohio Workmen 's Compensation Law. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, is a Baptist, and affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Elks. In April, 1892, he married Miss Jennie Mobley, of Coshocton. They have an interesting family of six children: Flora E., the wife of Roger W. McGiffin, a teacher in the public schools of Coshocton; Esther, the wife of William J. McManus, a pharmacist of Coshocton; Nellie, the wife of Joseph N. Shepler, a lawyer of Coshocton; Clara May, Ruth and Harry, the three youngest children. GEORGE DORSEY SIMMONS has been a member of the Ohio bar for over a quarter of a century, and for many years has been a successful attorney, banker and business man of Hicksville in Defiance County. He was born on a farm in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana, August 6, 1874, son of Randall McDonald Simmons and Jane Elizabeth (Dorsey) Simmons. His father was born near Warren, Ohio, May 4, 1841, and as a boy moved to Allen County, Indiana, where he was reared. At the age of twenty lie enlisted in Company D of the Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, was mustered into service in 1861, and was on duty as a brave and efficient soldier until October, 1862, when, on account of disability, he was honorably discharged. He was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh, and never fully recovered from the effects of that injury. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He died at Hicksville, Ohio, August 31, 1917. For many years he was a successful breeder of Galloway cattle. He was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Order, the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a republican in politics. His wife, Jane Elizabeth Dorsey, was born in Scipio Township, Allen County, August 14, 1843, and died at Hicksville on June 22, 1921. Her father, George Dorsey, was an early settler of Allen County, Indiana, locating in the woods of Scipio Township in 1838. She was educated in the Methodist College of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Randall M. Simmons and wife were married November 9, 1869. She was active in the various societies of the Methodist Church. George Dorsey Simmons, only child of his parents, spent his early days on a farm in Springfield Township of Allen County. He finished his public school education at Hicksville, Ohio, and in 1897 graduated from the Law School of Ohio Northern University at Ada. He then returned to Hicksville, and for three years practiced with L. E. Griffin, and since then has conducted an individual law practice. Since 1905 he has been secretary and counsel for the Hicksville Building, Loan & Savings Company, and since January, 1912, has been president of the First National Bank of Hicksville, which he also serves as attorney. He is also engaged in farming. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Knights of Pythias at Hicksville, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On October 4, 1905, Mr. Simmons married Miss Ethel Arabelle Beelman. She was educated at Willard, Ohio, also in Ohio University at Athens and in Oberlin College, and is a woman of unusual culture and interest. She taught in the public schools of Willard, was principal of the high school at Hicksville, also was a teacher in and principal of the high school at Willard in Huron County, near her birthplace. In 1900 she spent a summer abroad in England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and France. In 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and Mr. Simmons' mother toured England, Scotland and Wales. Mrs. Simmons is a member of the Hicksville Acme Club, and has been its president. She is a leader in the literary and musical circles of her town, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hicksville Township Library. She was leader of the choir in the Methodist Church for a number of years. Her father, Winfield Scott Beelman, was born in Huron County, Ohio, January 3, 1850. Her mother was born in Richland County, Ohio, October 15, 1853. Mr. Beelman was educated at Berea and Milan, Ohio, and he and his wife were both teachers. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and he was a republican. His father served as county commissioner of Huron County. Winfield S. Beelman was at one time mayor of Willard. Mrs. Simmons has a brother, Taylor W. Beelman, who is president of the Pioneer Rubber Company, of Willard, and an active Ohio business man and citizen. Her sister, Miss Genevieve Beelman, is unmarried. C. E. KINTNER, the present cashier of the Ney State Bank in Defiance County, has been identified with farming, merchandising, grain and live stock and other business matters in that section throughout his active career. He was born in Washington Township, Defiance County, February 25, 1879, son of David A. and Hattie (Stuckman) Kintner. His father was born in Defiance County. His mother was born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, and when a girl came to Defiance County, where she and her husband both attended the public schools. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Washington Township, and remained there until the death of David A. Kintner. She is still living in the county. There are three living children: C. E. Kitner ; Clara, wife of C. A. Beattie, of Sherwood, Ohio; and Florence, wife of Charles Mason, of Ney. HISTORY OF OHIO - 441 C. E. Kintner grew up on the farm and secured his education in the public schools. After his father 's death he remained at home and managed the farm and its work for ten years. On January 1, 1903, Mr. Kintner married Miss Sadie Reynolds. In 1904 he engaged in the grocery business at Ney, and continued a merchant- there until April 9, 1917, when he traded his stock for a farm. For two years he operated the grain elevator at Ney, and after selling out he spent the winters of 1919-20 in Florida. Returning home the next spring he began his duties as cashier of the Ney State Bank on June 14, 1920. Mr. Kintner owns ninety acres of farm land in Hillsdale County, Michigan, and his farm in Defiance County comprises 226 acres in Tiffin Township. The farm is conducted as a live stock proposition, chiefly hogs and cattle, and he has derived a great deal of pleasure as well as profit from his apiary, his bees producing large quantities of honey every year. Mr. Kintner is a democrat, and has served as town and township treasurer of Ney in Washington Township. He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have one son, Todd, born November 18, 1917. MYRON J. SCHELL for many years has been one of the newspaper men of Northwestern Ohio, and is editor and proprietor of the News-Tribune at Hicksville, one of the successful papers of Defiance County. Mr. Schell was born in Allen County, Indiana January 4, 1862, son of Frank V. and Jennie (Reed; Schell. His father was born in Albany, New York, in 1835, and when five years of age was brought to Indiana, his parents settling in Scipio Township of Allen County. Some years later he returned to Albany, New York, to attend college, and while there became acquainted with Miss Jennie Reed, who was born at New Salem, New York, in 1839. After they were married they returned to Allen County, Indiana, and he spent the rest of his life there. He died at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his widow is now living. There are three children : Clarence E., of Fort Wayne; Hattie, wife of J. C. Heller, of Fort Wayne; and Myron J. Myron J. Schell was reared at Monroeville, Indiana, attended public school there and the Jefferson Street High School in Fort Wayne, and he first came to Hicksville, Ohio, in 1879. For several years he was employed in a gristmill, and while here he married Etta E. Dowell, of Hicksville. In 1885 Mr. Schell went back to Fort Wayne, and was foreman and bookkeeper in a grocery establishment, and for two years was a salesman on the road. When he left that position and returned to Hicksville he engaged in the newspaper business, and owns both the plant and building of the News-Tribune, and has made that a prosperous and influential paper in this section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Schell have five children: Hattie G., wife of W. R. Holden; Arthur E., associated with his father in the newspaper business; Margaret E., at home; Fleda G., wife of Clarence Edgar ; and Miss Dorothy F. Mr. Schell is a democrat and a member of the Masonic Order. JESSE O. LONGSWORTH for many years has been a successful merchant at Hicksville, owning a store that has had an increasing popularity in trade extending over a large section of surrounding country. Mr. Longsworth was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, March 7, 1875, son of Jesse and Rebecca (Grabel) Longsworth. His father was a native of Darke County, Ohio, and his mother was born at Three Rivers, Michigan. When Jesse Longsworth was a child his parents moved to a farm four miles from Van Wert, and he grew up there and at the age of twenty enlisted as a Union soldier and fought for the cause until the close of the war. After he left the army he engaged in farming in Van Wert County, and for twelve years was in the hay business at Van Wert, where he lived until his death. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a republican voter, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of his eight children seven are living : George ; Nettie, wife of Ralph Cramer ; Miss Lillie; Melville, of Van Wert; Miss Carrie; Jesse 0.; and Mary, who is the wife of William A. Pearson, a noted physician and for the past ten years dean of the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. Jesse O. Longsworth grew up at Van Wert, attended public schools there, and as a young man had three years of experience in the street contracting business. In 3897 he came to Hicksville and became a partner in a mercantile business, and after a few years bought out his partner and alone has developed the extensive business of which he is the proprietor. Mr. Longsworth married Miss Rosa Smith, of Van Wert. They have three children: Maurice, who is a graduate of high school and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and is now an underwriter for the Lincoln Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne; Mildred, a graduate of high school and a teacher in the public schools at Hicksville; and Robert S., who was born in 1915. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Longsworth is a Mason, and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star, she being a past worthy matron. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Rebekahs. Mr. Longsworth is a republican, and is now president of the Council of . Hicksville. For seven years he was chief of the fire department. He is also president of the Chamber of Commerce. D. VAN BUREN BURKETT, M. D., an able physician and surgeon of Columbus, is best known through his long and honorable record of military service, beginning with the Spanish-American war, continuing in the National Guard, including service during the World war, and he is now chief surgeon with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ohio National Guard. Colonel Burkett was born at Thornville, in Perry County, Ohio, November 12, 1872, son of Joseph W. and Anna (Klingmer) Burkett. His parents were also natives of Ohio. Colonel Burkett had his own way to make in the world from early youth, and has shown his versatility in various ways. He is a graduate of the Thornville High School. Subsequently he came to Columbus and enrolled as a student in the Ohio State University. While in the University he paid part of his expenses by work during vacations and in other spare time as a journalist. He was a reporter on both the Dispatch and State Journal at Columbus, and also held various positions on the college papers. He graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the University in 1897, and the following year became a soldier when the Spanish - American war broke out. Following that he continued his studies in the University in the Medical School and was graduated in 1902. In the same year he began the practice of his profession in Columbus, and has continued in the general practice of medicine and surgery except for such periods of enforced actions caused by his military positions. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He volunteered in 1898 and became a private in Troop D of the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. This 442 - HISTORY OF OHIO was the only cavalry regiment of Ohio in that war. On December 12, 1901, he helped organize the present Troop B of Cavalry, then a part of the National Guard of Ohio. At first he served as a line officer, and after graduating from medical school he was made chief medical officer. He has been continuously in the National Guard and in the Federal Army since that date. In 1916 he went to the Mexican border as captain surgeon with the First Ohio Cavalry. This regiment returned home in February, 1917. Colonel Burkett immediately assisted in organizing an Ohio regiment of cavalry, consisting of twelve troops, and became its surgeon with the rank of major. When the National Guard was federalized for service in the World war, the cavalry regiment was broken up in two regiments of artillery, one of which was the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Field Artillery. Colonel Burkett was made major surgeon of this artillery regiment, which became a part of the Thirty-seventh Division. With this command Colonel Burkett went overseas in June, 1918, and in France he was transferred to the Seventy-fourth Brigade headquarters, Thirty-seventh Division, as brigade surgeon. He served in that capacity until after his return to the United States in June, 1919. Upon the reorganization of the federalized National Guard in July, 1920, Doctor Burkett was promoted to his present rank of lieutenant colonel with the duties of chief surgeon of the Ohio National Guard, which is a part of the Fifth Corps Area. The Ohio National Guard now consists of about 140 units. Colonel Burkett's duties as chief surgeon are largely administrative. Doctor Burkett is a member of the college fraternities Kappa Sigma, Alpha Mu Pi Omega and Theta Nu Epsilon. He is also a member of the Elks, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and was editor in chief of the Phagocyte, Ohio Medical University, and editor of the Lantern and Makio, State University. He married Sarah Jane Miller, daughter of the late W. H. Miller, one of Columbus' prominent citizens. ROSS SWISHER, of Hicksville, Ohio, is a wholesale dealer in poultry and eggs, and has been identified with the produce commission business since early manhood. He represents an old Ohio family, and was born at Redwood Falls in Redwood County, Minnesota, February 21, 1877, son of William A. and Abigail (Strawsell) Swisher. His mother was also a native of Minnesota. His father was born and reared in Crawford County, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen moved to Williams County, this state, and about six years later went out to Minnesota, where he married and where for seventeen years he was a farmer and hardware merchant. He returned to Ohio with his family and settled on a farm in Williams County, and is now living retired at West Unity in that county. He is a democrat, and he and his family are Presbyterian. There are three children: Rose; William, who is field man for the Helvetia Milk Condensery Company, at Adrian, Michigan; and Marian, widow of C. H. Persing, of Toledo. Ross Swisher was thirteen years of age when the family returned to Ohio, and he grew up on a farm in Williams County. He was educated in the schools at West Unity, including the high school. When he left the farm at the age of twenty-one he engaged in the produce business at West Unity as an employe of George B. Bond. He was associated with that merchant for fifteen years, and then, in 1913, established himself in business at Hicksville. He is president of the incorporated company, with George B. Wilderson, vice president, and Clarence J. Chan dler, secretary and treasurer. This company handles a large part of the poultry and dairy products from a large territory around Hicksville. Mr. Swisher married Miss Blanche Shipman, of West Unity, Ohio. They are members of the Presbyterian Church at Hicksville. Mr. Swisher is actively identified with all movements to promote the welfare of his community, is a democrat, and is a past chancellor of Evergreen Lodge No. 637, Knights of Pythias, at West Unity. ERNEST F. ARMSTRONG is well known in a business way and as a citizen in Defiance County. For many years he has directed a successful insurance and real estate business at Hicksville, and has other interests in that section of Defiance County. Mr. Armstrong was born in Franklin County, Ohio, March 13, 1875, son of Thomas T. and Susan E. (Van Schoyck) Armstrong. His father was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, September 2, 1846, and his mother in Franklin County on May 16, 1844. Both are still living in advanced years, and are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas T. Armstrong served twenty-one months as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and has always been a staunch republican. There are two children: Miss Effie A., born May 30, 1872, and Ernest F. Ernest F. Armstrong when three years of age was taken to Paulding County, and grew up on a farm there. He lived there until 1900. He was educated in the district schools, and in 1897 graduated in the conimercial course from Defiance College. He then remained on the farm another year, and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war enlisted in Company M of the Second Regiment of Ohio Volunteers at Paulding. This regiment was kept in training in the United States. Later Mr. Armstrong organized Company E of the Second Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, and served for eight years as first lieutenant and later as captain. After leaving the army Mr. Armstrong married, in 1899, Miss Grace W. Phillips, of Paulding. They have four daughters: Helen J., a graduate of the Hicksville High School and the Anthony Wayne Institute of Forf Wayne, Indiana, and wife of Wilber Hall; Doris R., who graduated from high school, spent one year in the Bowling Green State Normal, taught a year, and is the wife of DeLoy James; . G. LaVerne, a graduate of high school, who took the teachers' normal training course at Columbus; and Rose E., attending school at Hicksville. Mr. Armstrong in addition to his general real estate and insurance business is director and vice president of the Hicksville Building, Loan & Savings Company. He has been a member of the Town Council six years and was nominated by the republicans for the office of mayor. He is a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a Royal Arch Mason. GEORGE W. MCCONKEY grew up on a Defiance County farm, and after a wide experience as an educator and business man elsewhere returned to the scene of his boyhood and is proprietor of the Idle-not Farm, located a mile and a half west of Farmer Center, in Defiance County. By the accident of birth he is a native of Nebraska, though he remained in that western state only a short time. He was born in Pawnee County, November 10, 1871, son of Alexander and Phoebe (Waltz) McConkey. His father was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1840, and his mother in Putnam County, Ohio, and when a girl went with her parents to Defiance County, where she grew up and where she married: Alexander McConkey served four years as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and HISTORY OF OHIO - 443 eighteen months of that time he was confined as a prisoner at Andersonville. After leaving the army he returned to Defiance County, married, and subsequently spent a year or so in Nebraska. He then returned to this county, and was engaged in farming until four years before his death, which occurred June 10, 1923. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and as a republican held several local offices, including those of township trustee and assessor and school director. There are three living children : George W. ; Frank L., of Coldwater, Michigan; and Ethel B., wife of Otto Connolly, of Defiance County. George W. McConkey grew up on the farm where he now lives, attended the public schools at Farmer, and in the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, continued his studies until he was awarded the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. For one year he was a student in Indiana State University. As an educator Mr. McConkey taught and was principal of the public schools at Angola, Indiana, for eleven years. For eight years he was connected with a commercial school at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then moved to Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he served as private secretary to Mr. Williams, one of the executive officials of the Vermont Farm Machine Company. After three years in Vermont he returned to the Middle West and bought a farm in Branch County, Michigan, and also resumed teaching there. From there he returned to the old homestead in Defiance County, having bought the place from the other heirs. He is one of the successful general farmers and stock men in this rich and prosperous district. Mr. McConkey married Miss Lillie E. Burkhardt, of Angola, Indiana. She is a graduate of the Angola High School. They are the parents of five children: Wendell Lowell, a graduate of the Coldwater High School and of Hillsdale College in Michigan, with the Bachelor of Arts degree; Virginia Pauline, who graduated from the Coldwater High School, spent one year in the University of Chicago, and is now a teacher ; Dorothy Louise, a graduate of the Delphos High School; Ruth Lewellyn, attending the Delphos High School; and Margaret May, a student in the public schools of Farmer. Mr. McConkey is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, held various chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs. His position as a farmer is indicated by the fact that he has been honored with the office of president of the Defiance County Agricultural Society. He is also president of the Defiance County Brotherhood of the Presbyterian Church, and has shared a number of responsibilities in connection with church and Sunday school. GEORGE FREDERICK HENNING. Among the men who have been conspicuous as leaders in agricultural enterprise, business and civic affairs in Defiance County, one of the best known is George Frederick Henning, of Hicksville, president of the Farmers State Bank. Mr. Henning has spent most of his life in Defiance County, but was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 26, 1863, son of Frederick and Lena (Hilderhoff) Henning. His father was born in Baden, Germany, March 17, 1831, and when sixteen years of age came with his brother to the United States. He located in Portage County, Ohio, where he married Lena Hilderhoff, also a native of Germany, who came to the United States at the age of twenty. They were married in 1856. Frederick Henning was a cabinet maker by trade, and followed that occupation for a number of years. In 1871 he settled on a farm in Portage County, and in the fall of 1877 moved to Defiance County, where he lived until his death. He was an active member of the Lutheran Church, was a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a democrat in politics. These parents had seven children : Anna, wife of Frank Drulard, of Detroit; Maggie, wife of Buell Jaques, of Hicksville; Carrie, wife of Benson Miller, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Susie, wife of Charles Banks; George F.; Henry, a resident of Oregon; and Hattie, wife of O. H. Hanville, of Dekalb County, Indiana. George Frederick Henning was fourteen years of age when the family moved to Defiance County. He grew to manhood on the home farm, attended the district schools, and as a young man he married Miss Lizzie Brinck, of Mark Township, Defiance County. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was brought to Ohio when a child. After his marriage Mr. Henning located on a farm along the Hicksville and Defiance Pike. While living there he was elected a member of the County Board of Commissioners, and served six years. In 1900 he bought a farm southeast of Hicksville, and moved thereon in 1901. He gave his attention to the management of this fine place of 175 acres in Hicksville Township, a property he still owns, but since 1917 has lived in Hicksville. His time and attention are now devoted to the Farmers State Bank. Mr. Henning has two sons, both highly educated and typical young men. George F., Jr., graduated from Ohio State University and was county agricultural agent of Mercer County, Ohio, located at Celina. He resigned this office to reenter the Ohio State University, where he is now taking a postgraduate course. William L., the younger son, is also a graduate of the State University, and is now teaching in the University of Pennsylvania. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Henning is a democrat, and belongs to all the York Rite Masonic bodies in Defiance County, and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge at Defiance. FRED SWAN, of Marietta, is an attorney by profession, but most of his energies are devoted to his duties as manager of the Bridgeport Machine Company. This company succeeded January 1, 1919, the Swan Underreamer Company. His father, Dr. John C. Swan, a physician, was inventor of the Swan Underreamer, and both of these men have been chiefly, distinguished by their achievements in the industrial field. The Swan Underreamer is one of the most valuable inventions for oil drilling machinery, and is used in every oil district of this country and perhaps the world. The Bridgeport Machine Company operates plants at Wichita, Kansas, and Marietta, Ohio. Fred Swan has had charge of the Marietta plant since 1907, and has also been identified with the field work of the company, these duties having taken him to all the oil producing districts of the United States. He and his father have long been recognized authorities on oil well machinery and the general status of the petroleum industry in this country. Dr. John C. Swan was born February 12, 1854, and was three years of age when his parents came from Londonderry, Ireland, and established a home in Philadelphia. He was left fatherless at the age of fourteen, and soon afterward became a station agent for the Allegheny Railroad at Kelleysville, Pennsylvania. He made his own way in the world by work in different occupations. He furnished the first limestone used by the late Andrew Carnegie in the latter 's iron and steel works. For a time he was a pupil in 444 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Sunday school class taught by John D. Rockefeller at Cleveland, and in that city he attended for one year the Case Medical College. He then entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1875, and engaged in medical practice at Turkey City, Pennsylvania. He lived in various towns of the Pennsylvania oil district, including Dukes Center, Pennsylvania, and Richburg, New York. He was early interested in oil development and production. One of his sons becoming ill, the family moved to the West, establishing a home at Greeley, Colorado. Doctor Swan then took a contract to drill water wells for the Union Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Denver. He had the contract to put down water wells for the United States Geological Survey in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. In the course of this work lie devised the under-reamer, on which he secured patents. He made his first underreamer in the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne, Wyoming. This underreamer, developed and improved from time to time, has proved one of the most valuable devices for underground drilling. For a time Doctor Swan lived at Rawlins, Wyoming, and he put down the water wells on the State Capitol grounds at Denver. He pumped water into the first irrigation ditches in Wyoming. His improved underreamers were manufactured in the Leidecker Shops at Mannington, West Virginia, and in 1899 he established his home in Ohio and began the manufacture of the underreamer at Marietta. Doctor Swan is a republican. He was a friend and great admirer of the late Colonel Roosevelt, and was one of the original committee of five to organize the progressive party in Ohio. Doctor Swan's business interests are widespread. He has been a deep student all his life, a well informed scientist, and is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. John C. Swan married Alice (Hilderbrand) Fox, a native of Pennsylvania. They had three sons and two daughters, the sons being Fred; John, now of Marietta, and Charles W., who is in the foundry business at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Fred Swan was born while his father lived at Richburg, New York, on September 4, 1882. He acquired his early education in the grammar and high schools of Greeley, Colorado, attended the Colorado State Normal School, and in 1904 was graduated in law at Ohio State University, a member of Delta Chi fraternity. Three years later he became manager of the Marietta plant of what is now the Bridgeport Machine Company, and practically his entire career has been devoted to this business and his connections with the oil industry. It was in 1904 that the sale of the underreamer in the oil drilling district was first established. Mr. Swan is also a director of the Pioneer Building Loan Society. He was a director of public safety during the Crawford administration at Marietta. He was president of the Country Club in 1922, and one of the first members, and was a director of the Rotary Club. He is a member of Marietta Lodge No. 1 of the Masonic Order, belongs to the Eastern Star, the Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the United Commercial Travelers. A republican, he was one of the Ohio State Committee in 1920 boosting the nomination of General Wood as presidential candidate. He was a member of the City School Board for two years; was a member of the manufacturers' committee of the Citizens War Board during the World war, and was a member and chairman of Washington County Committee that built the stadium of Ohio State University. Mr. Fred Swan married Miss Eva Barclay, of Circleville, Ohio. They met while students at the Ohio State University. They have one son, Charles F. Swan. FREDERICK J. GEHRES is a native son of Van Wert County, and for thirty years has identified himself with the agricultural and commercial life of that section. He is manager of the Glenmore Grain Company 's elevator at Glenmore, and he also has farming interests. He was born on a farm in Van Wert County, September 22, 1872, son of Philip and Elizabeth (Giessler) Gehres. His father, a native of Germany, was brought by his parents to the United States when he was ten years of age, and grew up on a farm in Harrison Township of Van Wert County, where this family were among the early settlers. He acquired a common school education, and he displayed his American patriotism by enlisting as a Union soldier at the beginning of the Civil war and marching in many campaigns and taking part in numerous battles until the close of the struggle. He then returned to Van Wert County, married and settled on a farm and finally moved to Wiltshire Township, where he spent his last days. He was one of the leading members of the Evangelical Church of his community and a democrat in politics. Of the nble children of Philip Gehres and wife eight are now living. William, of Wiltshire Township; Rosa, wife of W. P. Kreischer; Frederick J.; Adolph, of Convoy, Ohio;Martin, deceased; Edward, a farmer in Michigan; Otta, who is proprietor of a hardware store at Wren; Walter, of the Wren Lumber Company; and Joseph, of Harrison Township, Van Wert County. Frederick J. Gehres grew up on a farm, attended the district schools, and from the age of seventeen until he attained his majority he worked for his father. He then took up farming for himself, and all along has kept some farm interests. He also owns some land in Florida. Since the age of twenty-seven, for a period of a quarter of a century, Mr. Gehres has been in the grain elevator business at Glenmore, and has made this business an important institution for the grain growers of this section. February 8, 1901, Mr. Gehres married Miss Elizabeth Hoverman, who died in 1910. On November 23, 1922, he married Miss Caroline Hoverman. They have two daughters, both high school graduates and still at home, named Esther Josefien and Leona. The family are members of the Evangelical Church, and Mr. Gehres is a democrat and a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. CLAUDE E. MAXWELL. The Maxwell family has long been prominently identified with Defiance County, both in business and public affairs. Claude E. Maxwell, of this family, is the present clerk of courts of the county. He was born on his father's farm in Hicksville Township, Defiance County, January 19, 1875, son of Samuel A. and Mary A. (Banister) Maxwell. His father was born near Fredericksburg, in Wayne County, Ohio, February 23, 1844, and his mother was born near Hamilton, Ohio, January 12, 1847. Samuel A. Maxwell, long one of Defiance County's foremost men of affairs, was a graduate of a college of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for several years engaged in teaching. He then took up farming, and at Hicksville he established a shop for the manufacture of tool handles, and this grew into an important industry. He was elected and served six years and eight months as county recorder of Defiance County. He left the office September 1, 1900, and then reengaged in the handle manufacturing business. He finally sold his plant and lived retired at Defiance HISTORY OF OHIO - 445 until his death in 1916. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, was a Mason and an active leader in local democratic politics. Of his ten children all but one are now living. Claude E. Maxwell spent his boyhood days at Hicksville, where he attended the public schools. He graduated in a business course at Ohio Northern University at Ada, and for a time was with his father in the recorder's office. He has looked after his business interests, and has been a man thoroughly deserving the confidence of his fellow citizens. On November 2, 1920, he was elected clerk of court, and reelected November 8, 1922. Mr. Maxwell married, November 24, 1915, Miss Ethel M. Holycross. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Defiance and the Eastern Star. He is a democrat in politics. J. W. SHUTER, present county treasurer of Defiance County, was born in that Northwest Ohio County, and before taking charge of the office in the courthouse at Defiance, had devoted his time and energies for over a quarter of a century to business at Evans-port. He was born at Evansport, December 19, 1869, son of Samuel and Abigail (Snider) Shuter. His mother was also a native of Evansport, born December 22, 1840, and was reared and educated there. Samuel Shuter was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, December 9, 1834, grew up on a farm, and as a young man enlisted in Company D of the Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was a Union soldier in the Civil war until the close of that struggle. After the war he was engaged in merchandising at_Evansport until 1871. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a democrat and a member of the Methodist Church. Samuel Shuter and wife had four children. Two sons are now living, T. E. Shuter and J. W. Shuter. T. E. Shuter was educated in the Fayette Normal and Defiance College, taught school for several years, and was in the hardware business at Evansport, having recently retired from that business. J. W. Shuter was educated in the public schools of Evansport, and completed the normal course of the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He then took up merchandising at Evansport, and in 1894 entered the undertaking business and devoted his personal attention to his duties as a funeral director for twenty-nine years. He still retains an interest in the business. Mr. Shuter was elected county treasurer in 1922, and entered upon the duties of the office on September 3, 1923. On December 22, 1892, he married Miss Dellie R. Posey. Among other business interests Mr. Shuter owns the Home Telephone Company at Evansport. For twelve years he held the office of justice of the peace, and has been active in democratic politics. He is a past master of the Masonic Lodge, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery, the Mystic Shrine at Toledo, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, represented his district in Grand Lodge eight years and was acting grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge. For twenty years he was connected with the Defiance County Sunday School Association, holding the offices of secretary and president. CAPLES FOSTER. The Van Wert Bulletin is one of the oldest republican newspapers in Northwest Ohio, established in 1860, and there has been a daily edition since 1887. The publishers are now J. H. Foster Sons, the active head of the business being Caples Foster. Jacob H. Foster, the founder of the firm, and one of the veteran editors and publishers of the state, was born at Findlay, Ohio, in 1839. He attended public schools there, and as a boy became a printer's apprentice, and at the age of sixteen was foreman of the office of the Findlay Whig. Later he established the Fostoria News, and after a short time became editor and publisher of a paper at Ottawa, Ohio. In 1866 he came to Van Wert, and was a resident of that city fifty years, until his death February 1, 1915. He married Martha A. Caples, who died in 1917. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Jacob H. Foster organized and for many years served as chief of the Van Wert fire department. He was the father of ten children, three of whom died in childhood and one daughter passed away in 1917. The living children are: Mamie, a teacher in the public schools of Van Wert; Dorothy M., wife of D. M. Gregory, of Chicago ; Caples; H. Glenn; Nellie and Jay H., all graduates of the Van Wert High School. Caples Foster was born at Van Wert, January 21, 1874, and was graduated from the grammar and high schools. He has been interested in the newspaper business since early youth, and he and his brothers have maintained the high standards of the Bulletin. The family are members of the Methodist Church. Caples, Jay H. and Glenn are all York Rite Masons, Caples being a past master of his lodge. He and his brother Jay are also members of the Knights of Pythias. CHARLES S. BOSCH. One of the large and important cities of Southern Ohio, Hamilton owes a great debt of gratitude to the public service as mayor rendered by the late Charles S. Bosch, who was also an able business man of the city for many years. He was born on a farm in Wayne Township, Butler County, July 11, 1858. When he was twelve years of age his parents moved to Hamilton, and there he finished his education in the public schools. Leaving school, he began an apprenticeship to learn the printer 's trade in the offices of the National Zeitung, but before completing the apprenticeship he left and started on another trade, cigar making. After finishing it he established a cigar and tobacco store, and was in that business until he entered the service of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company. Mr. Bosch was elected mayor in 1893 on an independent ticket, though personally he was a strong democrat. He resigned his position with the railroad company, and he served as mayor longer than any other chief executive since the city has been incorporated. Practically all the improvements that have made Hamilton a modern municipality were inaugurated during his time of office. As mayor he became the best loved man in Hamilton. After retiring from the office of mayor he served as deputy state fire marshal, and about a year before his death he engaged in the hotel business. He passed away in 1917. Mayor Bosch was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks. On May 31, 1883, he married Miss Mary K. Schwab, who represents several prominent families of Hamilton. Her father was Daniel Schwab. Mr. and Mrs. Bosch had three children, Walter C., Lillian and Edna. Lillian, who was born in 1885, was educated in the Hamilton High School and is the wife of Mr. R. W. Mock, of Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Mock have one daughter, Mary Ellen, now four years old. Miss Edna, who was born in 1889 and was educated in high school, is now day clerk at the Hamilton Hotel, is active in social circles in Hamilton, and is an indispensable asset to the welfare and success of the hotel. 446 - HISTORY OF OHIO Walter C. Bosch, only son of the late Mayor Bosch, was born in 1884, and after leaving high school became clerk in the Dime Savings Bank. He resigned his office with that institution at the death of his father in 1917, in order to take charge of the Hamilton Hotel. His father had bought this property in 1916, then known as the DeArmond Hotel, and had changed its name to Hamilton. Mr. Walter C. Bosch as proprietor has made this one of the best equipped hotels in Southern Ohio, with a service that is appreciated by the traveling public of this and adjoining states. THEODORE DILLON GRILEY is vice president and general manager of the Fairfield Paper Company, an important industrial and commercial concern established in the village of Baltimore, Fairfield County. Mr. Griley was born in the City of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 21st of October, 1885, and is a con of Michael A. and Elizabeth (Dillon) Griley, who now maintain their home at Miami, Florida, the father having retired after long years of service as a locomotive engineer and being still a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, besides which he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the six children the eldest is George, who married Amelia Girard, their children being six in number ; Theodore D., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Edna is the wife of C. A. Ott, and they have two children; Helen is the wife of C. A. Archer, and they have two children; Katrerine is the wife of W. S. Brooke, and they have three children; and Miss Marguerite remains at the parental home. Theodore D. Griley was a boy at the time of the family removal to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and in the public schools of that city he continued his studies until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1900. After completing a course in the International Business College he became secretary of the Allen County Democratic Committee, secretary of the Allen County Fair Association and clerk in the office of the county coroner. He held these positions simultaneously, and became active in political affairs in Fort Wayne and Allen County. He finally assumed and held for three years a position as clerk in the general offices of the Nickel Plate Railroad at Fort Wayne, and he then had the distinction of being appointed secretary of the Panama Commission at Colon, in the building and construction department of the Panama Canal. He remained at Colon three years, and then returned to Fort Wayne, where he held for three years the position of assistant to C. F. Griffin, general manager of the Fort Wayne Corrugated Paper Company. He retained this position of assistant general manager until 1911, when he became manager of the Fairfield Paper Company at Baltimore, Ohio. In 1920 he was made vice president and general manager of this corporation, and of these offices he has since continued the efficient and valued incumbent. He is president of the Griley Engineer Company of Lancaster, the county seat, a concern engaged in the manufacture of special machinery for paper mills ; he is treasurer of the Armorite Product Company of Chicago, Illinois; is president of the Ajax Box Company of Chicago; is president of the Baltimore Real Estate Company and also of the Liberty Union Oil and Gas Company of Baltimore, Ohio ; and is a director of the Hocking Valley Bank at Lancaster. Mr. Griley is making a splendid record as a captain of industry, and is one of the most liberal and progressive business men of Fairfield County. Mr. Griley is a stalwart advocate and supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He has received in the Masonic fraternity the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In the capital city of Ohio he has a membership in the Columbus Athletic Club, in New York City he is a member of the Old Colony Club, and at the county seat of his home county he is a member of the Lancaster Country Club and the Rotary Club. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. At South Whitley, Indiana, on the 11th of May, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Griley and Miss Emma Kelley, only child of Oliver Rankin. Kelley and Lorena (Parks) Kelley, who still reside in Indiana, the father being a commercial photographer by vocation. Mr. and Mrs. Griley have one son, Richard Franklin. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Griley were Lonjin and Katherine Griley, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, where the former had served as a lieutenant in the German Army, their immigration to the United States having occurred in 1841. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Griley were Lloyd and Margaret (Marshall) Dillon, the latter a descendant of Judge John Marshall, first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. The Dillon family was founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history. C. A. MUSGRAVE, a Doctor of Dental Surgery, who has practiced at Sherwood, Defiance County, for a number of years, has been a capable member of his profession and also deserves honor for the service he has rendered the country as member of the National Guard and as an overseas veteran in the World war. He was born in Seneca County, Ohio, February 16, 1877, son of John L. and Elizabeth (Good) Musgrave. His father was born in Seneca County, February 15, 1845, and though very young served as a boy soldier in the Civil war. He is now a resident of Paulding, Ohio. The mother of Doctor Musgrave was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1848, and died in Paulding County. Of the four children born to these parents three are now living: Gertrude, wife of Clyde A. Parent, of Charlotte, Michigan; Doctor C. A.; and John W., who was a soldier in the World war, with a record of service overseas. He was a lieutenant in the Motor Truck Corps, and is now living at Detroit. The deceased child was Clarence A., who had graduated in dentistry and medicine, and died at Toledo, Ohio. Dr. C. A. Musgrave was five years of age when the family located in Paulding County. He attended the public schools, the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and for four years taught in rural districts. He then enlisted and served out a three-year term in the Regular Army, most of the time being in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. He became a corporal in the army. After leaving the army service he took the course in dental surgery at Cincinnati, where he was graduated a Doctor of Dental Surgery May 11, 1905. Doctor Musgrave practiced in his old home community of Paulding for nine years, and on October 1, 1914, located at Sherwood, where except for the time he spent in the army he has looked after an extensive private practice. While at Paulding he became first sergeant and captain of a local company of the Ohio National Guard. As a member of the National Guard he went to the Mexican border in 1916, returning to Sherwood on March 1, 1917. Soon afterward he passed the examination for membership in the Dental Corps, and was commissioned first lieutenant in the Dental Reserve Corps. On May 26, 1918, he was ordered to HISTORY OF OHIO - 447 Camp Meade and assigned to the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry of the Seventy-ninth Division. With this division he went overseas, landing in France July 15, 1918, and saw active duty near the front lines. In one engagement he was badly gassed, and for meritorious service was promoted to captain and received citation from General Pershing for bravery displayed at the front. On October 1, 1923, Doctor Musgrave entered the Northwestern University Dental School at Chicago as a government student and pursued the graduate course in Oral Surgery until May 7, 1924. From there he was sent to the Edward Hines, Jr., Hospital, a government hospital for the treatment of disabled soldiers, on account of injuries received at the front which prevented the successful continuance of his professional practice. He left the hospital and again located at Sherwood, Ohio, August 14, 1924. Doctor Musgrave married Miss Myrtle V. Wiegel, of Paulding, Ohio, who died September 25, 1910. Of the two children born to their marriage the one now living is Charles W., who was born in 1909, and is a junior in the Paulding High School. Doctor Musgrave subsequently married Miss Nora M. Wachter, a daughter of Rev. A. C. Waehter. To this union have been born four children, Maurice W., Richard L., Mildred J. and Thomas C. Mrs. Musgrave is a member of the Lutheran Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Paulding, and also with the Chapter, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Defiance. He is a republican, and served as a member of the council at Paulding, and is a former mayor of Sherwood. He is a member of the Disabled Veterans of the World War. HENRY F. TOBEREN largely educated and trained himself for civil engineering, and for a number of years has rendered a splendid service as county surveyor, not only in Defiance County, but in other adjoining counties. He was born in Tiffin Township, Defiance County, January 26, 1864, son of Asa and Eliza (Myers) Toberen. His father was born, in Tiffin Township, November 5, 1840, and his mother, in Defiance County, in December, 1841. She died in January, 1880. Both were reared on farms and attended the common schools, and after their marriage they engaged in farming. When Asa Toberen was twenty-nine years of age he was elected county treasurer of Defiance County, and held that 'office when the present courthouse was built. He served four years, and he also represented the county one term in the State Legislature. For many years he was engaged in the grain and elevator business at Defiance, and subsequently retired to his farm near ..the courthouse, where he died. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of his six children two died young, and three are now living: Henry F.; Sarah, wife of Anderson Hall, of Evansport, Ohio; and Charles, of New York City. Henry F. Toberen grew up at Defiance, where he attended the grammar and high schools. Through practical experience and by correspondent courses he made himself proficient in surveying and other branches of civil engineering, and he was elected and served six years as county surveyor of Defiance County. Following that he did some important work as a deputy surveyor in Paulding and Mercer counties, and in November, 1922, was again elected county surveyor of Defiance County. Mr. Toberen married Miss Mary C. Rath, of Defiance, County. They have five children: Elsie, a graduate of high school and the widow of William Harley; Glenn W., who was educated in high school, studied telegraphy and was an operator in Quincy, Illinois, and is now a graduate of a chiropractic college; Grace, a high school graduate, spent one year in Defiance College, and is clerk in the county surveyor 's office; Claude is a graduate of the Embalmers Course at Ohio State University, Columbus; and Edwin is deputy surveyor under his father. The family are members of St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Toberen is affiliated with Lodge No. 195, Free and Accepted Masons, at Defiance, and is a democrat in polities. WARNER M. POMERENE. Ohio claims nearly all the members of the Pomerene family in the United States. This is a name found seldom outside of Ohio. In addition to former United States Senator Atlee Pomerene a related branch of the family has long been conspicuous in the professional life of Coshocton County. One of its representatives is Warner M. Pomerene, a young attorney and ex-service man, whose father and grandfather were able members of the Coshocton bar. The founder of the Pomerene family in the United States was Julius Pomerene, a native of France and who came to this country as a soldier with LaFayette, participating in the American Revolution. After independence was achieved he settled in Pennsylvania. One of his children, Julius Pomerene, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, became a farmer, and was one of the pioneers in Holmes County, Ohio. There his son, Julius Pomerene III, was born June 27, 1835. This Julius was a brother of Peter P. Pomerene, the Holmes County physician whose son is former United States Senator Atlee Pomerene. Julius Pomerene III became a lawyer, and engaged in the practice of his profession for many years at Coshocton, later being elected judge of the Circuit Court for that district. He died February 23, 1897, leaving three children, William R., Frank E. and Helen. Both William R. and Frank E. Pomerene took up the practice of law, and were associated under the firm name of Pomerene & Pomerene. That firm title is still continued at Coshocton. The present members of the firm are William R. Pomerene and Warner M., William R. residing in Columbus, where he is also a member of the firm of Booth, Keating, Pomerene & Boulger. His son, Warner M., is now the resident member of the firm at Coshocton. The other partner, Frank E. Pomerene, died in 1919. William R. Pomerene married Miss Annie Warner, daughter of Gen. A. J. Warner, of Marietta, Ohio. They became the parents of two sons: Warner M. and Walter H. Both sons were born at Coshocton. Walter H., born January 21, 1895, graduated from the Ohio State University in 1917, and is now located at Logan, Ohio. Warner M. Pomerene was born at Coshocton, May 5, 1893, spent his youth there and in Columbus, and graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1915. In 1917 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in August of the same year was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery in the Regular Army of the United States, was later promoted to first lieutenant, and on July 10, 1918, was promoted to the rank of captain. He was in training service at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and served as an instructor in the School of Fire, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and as captain, Fourteenth Field Artillery, at that station. He resigned his commission in the army in February, 1919, and soon after leaving the army associated with his father and uncle's law firm. He is a democrat in politics, a member of the American Legion, a Master Mason, a member of the Ohio State and American Bar associations. War- 448 - HISTORY OF OHIO ner M. Pomerene was married in December, 1919, to Miss Lora G. Kays, of Henry, Illinois. WILLIAM L. MANAHAN educated himself for the teaching profession, and is one of the prominent younger men in that work in Ohio. He is the present county superintendent of schools of Defiance County. Ho was born in Logan County, Ohio, February 24, 1890, son of William and Amanda (Pickering) Manahan. William H. Manahan, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, December 29, 1856, and was only seven years of age when he was left fatherless and soon had to take up the burdens of existence alone. He worked on farms, attended schools at intervals in the winters until he was twenty-two, and on coming to Ohio settled in Hardin County, where he married Amanda Pickering, who was born in that county; August 18, 1862. She died in 1920. He subsequently bought land and engaged in farming in Logan County, where he now lives retired. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he attends that church and Sunday school, and is a republican in politics. Of eight children six are now living: H. A., a Methodist minister at Marine City, Michigan; J. L. Manahan, who is Dean of the department of education in the University of Virginia, William L.; Harry R., a farmer in Logan County; Louis F., connected with a drug business at Kenton, Ohio; and Margaret, of. Belief ontaine, Ohio. William L. Monahan grew upon. the farm, attended first common schools and then graduated from the Belle Center High School. He took the classical course in Ohio Northetn University, where he graduated a 'Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently received his Master 's degree at 'the' University of Wisconsin. His record as an educator has been one of steady progress. He was assistant 'principal of the Paulding High School, then principal of the ,School at Hicksville in Defiance County, and served two years as assistant county superintendent before he was made county superintendent of schools. Mr. Manahan is a republican, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Royal Arch Mason. He married Miss Veda P. Goodwin, of Paulding, Ohio, a graduate of the Paulding High School. They have three daughters, Bettie M., Mary Jean and. Gwendolyn Marguerite. . ERWIN L. SIGISMUND is editor and one of the publishers of the Waverly Republican Herald in Pike County. This is one of the oldest papers with a continuous record of existence in Southern Ohio, having been established in 1842, over eighty years ago: Mr. Sigismund was born at Waverly, son, of Ernest J. and Rose (Adams) Sigismund. His mother's family were all Ohioans. His father, Ernest J. Sigismund, was born in Germany, and was a child when his parents, Ernest C. and Augusta Sigismund, came to the United, States. Ernest J. .Sigismund, now deceased, was a shoemaker by trade, 'an active member of the German Evangelical Church, and his 'three children were Stanley P., Pauline and Erwin L. Erwin L. Sigismund was edueated in the public schools of Waverly, graduating from high school in 1913. He then went to work in One of the local newspaper offices -to learn the printing trade, and is a thoroughly practical printer as well as equipped with qualifications for- editorial management. He became identified with the Republican. Herald at Waverly, and in 1920 he and John F. Douglas bought the paper and printing business and are equal owners. Mr. Sigismund looks after the editorial and printing departments, and 'is a young newspaper man of much initiative and enterprise. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and Pythian. Sisters, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. FRED E. PILLIOD is secretary-treasurer of the Pilliod Company, a widely known manufacturing concern at Swanton, Ohio. Mr. Pilliod has been identified with manufacturing industries most of the years of his life. He was born at Waterville, Ohio, March 20, 1866, son of Augustine and Emma (Harris) Pilliod. His father was born at Belfort, France, and his mother in New York State. Fred E. Pilliod was reared in the City of Toledo, .attending the public and parochial schools there, and continued his education in Assumption College at Sandwich, Ontario. For one year he was located at Holgate, Ohio, in the flour milling business, and then removed to Swanton, where for about twenty-five years he was associated with his brother L. N. Pilliod in the flour milling business. Following that came the organization of the A. D. Baker Company, of which Mr. Pilliod became secretary-treasurer and general manager. In 1909 he started the Pilliod Company, manufacturing locomotive valve gears. He has been vice president of the Pilliod- 'Lumber Company of Swanton, vice president of the Farmers and Merchants Deposit Company, and secretary of the Chagrin Valley Electric Company at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Mr. Pilliod married Miss Mary E. Long, of Waterville, Ohio. They have four children: Harry G., who attended the public schools, Assumption College, St. Johns University of Toledo and is assistant seeretary and treasurer of his father 's business. The second son, Raymond V., was educated in the public schools and Assumption College at Sandwich, and St. John's University at Toledo, and Purdue University. Norbert L., the third son, is a graduate of the Ohio School for the Deaf, and has also graduated from the Galluett Institute for the Deaf at Washington. The daughter, Margaret L., is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy at Adrian, Michigan, and is the wife of William W. Mossing. The family are members of St. Richard's Catholic Church at Swanton, and Mr. Pilliod is a. Knight of Columbus. THE MERSMAN BROTHERS BRANTS COMPANY. One of the most important of the industries which have brought Celina prestige as an industrial center is the enterprise conducted under the firm name of Mersman Brothers Brants Company. Founded in 1900, it has enjoyed a steady and healthful growth, its specialty being the manufacture of dining room and parlor tables, and today it is the largest exclusive table manufacturing plant in the world, its products being shipped to every civilized country on the face of the globe. The founder of the business was J. B. Mersman, who was born in Putnam County, Ohio, but in young manhood moved to Indiana, where he spent several years. Later he returned to Putnam County and engaged in a sawmill and planing mill business for twelve years, and in 1900 came to Celina and centered his interest in founding a table manufacturing business. In 1901 this was sold to his sons, Edward H. and Walter J. Mersman, and Henry Lennartz, and the - business was conducted as Lennartz & Mersman Brothers until 1906, when Edmund Brants bought Mr. Lennartz's interest, the business at that time being incorporated under the name of The Mersman Brothers Brants Company, for $650,000. As before noted, the advancement of the concern has been one of the greatest for the time required in the manufacturing history of the state, this being due to the excellence of the product, the high standard maintained, and the integrity and industry of the officials HISTORY OF OHIO - 449 in charge. J. B. Mersman 's wife was Mary Maag, and they were the parents of several children. Edward H. Mersman, president of the company, was born in 1872, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and received his education at LaGrange, that state, where he later went to work in a bed factory. Subsequently he moved to Ottoville, Ohio, where he was employed with his father in a sawmill, planing mill and furniture factory, and then came to Celina, where in 1901 he commenced his connection with the concern of which he is now the executive head. He married Miss Rosa Greewe, of Delphos, Ohio, and they are the parents of one child, Marcella. Walter J. Mersman, vice president and superintendent of the company, was born May 15, 1876, in Indiana, and received his education in the schools of LaGrange, after which he worked with his father in the planing mill business until coming to Celina to become associated with the present enterprise. Mr. Mersman married Miss Elizabeth Miller, of Ottoville, Ohio, June 5, 1900, and they are the parents of three children: Cyril, Margaret and Madona. Edmund Brants, secretary of the company, was born at Gladbach, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, in 1879, a son of Carl Brants, who during his lifetime was in the woolen business in Germany. Edmund Brants was educated in his native land, and worked with his father in the woolen business until coming to the United States in 1904. In 1906 he entered the present company. On June 6, 1905, Mr. Brants was united in marriage with Miss Lillie Hirsch, of Cleveland, Ohio. WILLIAM H. MONAHAN, M. D. For upwards of three-quarters of a century the name Monahan has been prominently identified with the medical profession in Jackson County. One of the practitioners who served a large clientele in former years was Dr. A. B. Monahan. The son, Dr. William H. Monahan, for fifty years has been a member of the profession in Jackson. Dr. William H. Monahan was born in Athens County, Ohio, December 7, 1850, son of Dr. A. B. and Martha (Farmer) Monahan. The grandparents were James and Maria (Brown) Monahan the Monahans being of Irish stock and coming to Ohio in 1826 from Maryland. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Monahan was Daniel Farmer, of English ancestry and in his day one of the largest land owners in Southern Ohio. Dr. A. B. Monahan practiced medicine for a number of years at Jackson. He was a very able man professionally and also in public affairs. In the Civil war he served with the rank of major in the Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was transferred to General Rosecrans' staff and later to General Blair 's staff. He was wounded at Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862, and was in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Chatta- nooga, Missionary Ridge and others. Finally he was elected and served two terms in the Ohio General Assembly, and died in 1878, while in his second term. His widow survived him until 1910. Of their children Dr. William H. is the oldest. R. F. Monahan married Elizabeth Nichols and had one child. Ida Monahan became the wife of Joseph Forsyth, and had two children. Arthur B. married Annie Owsley, and both are now deceased. Dr. William H. Monahan was reared in Jackson, attending public schools there. He completed his literary education in Ohio University at Athens, and in 1874 was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. Soon afterward he engaged in private practice at Jackson, and a few years later took the place of his father. He has done a great deal of surgery, though always a general practitioner. Doctor Monahan did post-graduate work at Jefferson Medical College. He is a member of the Jackson County and Ohio State Medical societies. His church is the Methodist. In October, 1872, in Jackson County, Doctor Monahan married Miss Mollie Hunt, daughter of Edwin and Eliza (Johnson) Hunt. Her grandfather, John Hunt, was of English ancestry and came to the United States in 1818 and died in Ohio. Edwin Hunt was an Ohio farmer and merchant. The children in the Hunt family besides Mrs. Monahan were : Matilda, who married Allen Mossberger and had four children; Ida, wife of Fred Evans, and the mother of four children; Homer E., who married Evelyn Olive and had five children; Katherine, who married Dr. D. W. Davis and had two children; and Margaret, who married Bert Ruff and had one child. To the marriage of Doctor and Mrs. Monahan were born five children. The daughter Mattie died when a year and a half old. Edward F. married Maud Edwards, and has two children, named Mary and Grace. Miss Myrtle is the third child. The youngest is S. A. Monahan, who married Ethel Paynter and has a daughter, Mona. The son W. H. Monahan, Jr., is a veteran of the Spanish-American and the World wars. He was captain of Company F of the Seventh Regiment of the United States Regulars in the Spanish-American war. At the time of the World war he was with the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, and for a time was stationed at Washington, D. C. He is a civil engineer by profession, and is now living in California. W. H. Monahan, Jr., married Stella Williams, and of their two children, Robert and Thomas, Thomas is now deceased. ALBERT VAN BOULWARE is superintendent of the Gallipolis Chair Company, and founded and has been actively identified with a successful local industry for over twenty years. Mr. Boulware was born at Williamsburg, Ohio, July 24, 1866, son of Andrew Burn and Nancy (Wright) Boulware. His father was a cabinet maker by trade, and for many years owned and conducted a chair factory at Williamsburg. He built up a very solid business, and was much interested in the affairs of the community, holding several public offices though never in politics. He was a Mason and a Methodist. Andrew Boulware died in 1876, and his wife passed away in 1892. They had a large family of children, Eliza, Velia, Charles, Joseph, Albert, Harry, Clifford, Sarah and Edgar. Of these Albert V. is now the only survivor. Albert Van Boulware attended public schools at Williamsburg. He was only ten years of age when his father died, and after that his schooling was very limited. At the age of seventeen, he went to work at the chair factory of his father, learning that business by experience in every department, and now knows the technical and manufacturing as well as the business end. Mr. Boulware in 1891 came to Gallipolis, working in the local chair factory, and in 1903 organized the Gallipolis Chair Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. He and Mr. Johnson, who is president of the company, own all the stock, Mr. Boulware being a director and superintendent and the active head of the business. The special product of this company is the double caned seat chair, an article of furniture widely sold. Mr. Boulware is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Modern Woodmen of America, and is a Presbyterian. He married at Hamilton, Ohio, in December, 1891, Miss Dora Munemaker, daughter of Harrison and Francis (Hopkins) Munemaker. Her father was a wagon maker by trade. Mr. Boulware 's wife died in 1900, leaving a daughter, Mabel, who passed away in 1920.