450 - HISTORY OF OHIO WILLIAM H. MILLER. During the last twenty years his important services as a prosecuting attorney, special prosecutor and assistant attorney-general of Ohio have brought William H. Miller a deservedly high reputation throughout the state. He is one of the eminent men in his profession, and is also a leader in state politics, being chairman of the Ohio Republican Executive Committee. He represents a pioneer Ohio family. His grandfather, Aaron Miller, a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, came to Ohio in 1832 and located in Jackson Township of Highland County. His journey was made on horseback from Leesburg, Virginia. Day by day as he progressed he put down the incidents of his trip in a diary. This is an historical document of the times, and is preserved as one of the valuable exhibits of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Columbus. William H. Miller was born in Jackson Township of Highland County in 1866 and is a son of Dr. J. M. and Mary Louisa (Thurman) Miller. His mother was a daughter of Squire .Tim Thurman, a first cousin of Senator Allen G. Thurman. one of Ohio 's most famous and distinguished citizens. Dr. J. M. Miller spent his active career as a practicing physician. Before William H. Miller achieved his admission to the bar he had finished a working experience calculated to bring out and develop and test his talent, initiative and industry, and this exnerience was perhaps equally valuable with his technical education in assuring him professional success. He was reared in a rural district in Highland County and attended country schools there until he was sixteen. He then secured a certificate and became a teacher, his first school being in Pike County and Dry Bone Creek near the village of Byington and two miles from the famous Kinkead Springs. He taught there in 1881. Following that he taught school in Bratton Township, Adams County. the school being on the site of historic Serpent Mound. He then taught in Highland County. also worked on the farm and ran a portable sawmill and threshing machine. In 1885 he married Miss Emma L. Davis. who was born and reared in the Quaker faith. Following his marriage he removed to Wilmington in Clinton County. He enrolled as a student in Wilmington College. and in order to pay his tuition took the job of janitor, and during vacations he was employed as a binder expert by the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company. At intervals he also taught terms of school and worked in a furnace factory at Wilmington. After making good his educational advantages at Wilmington he came to Columbus and entered the old Columbus Law School, which was then housed on the third floor of the courthouse. Mr. Miller finished his law course in 1894. Tn the same year he returned to Wilmington and began private practice. Then followed several years of earnest and effective service to his clients, and there was a promising career as a legal practitioner before him. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Clinton County, taking up his duties January 1. 1900., In 1904 he was reelected. During his second term occurred the race riot that brought unenviable notoriety to Springfield. Hon. Wade Ellis, then attorney-general of Ohio. called Mr. Miller as a special prosecutor attached to the attorney-general's office in handling this case. He performed his duties with notable thoroughness and credit. Then, in October, 1905. Mr. Ellis appointed him second assistant attorney-general, and in the following year he was made first assistant attorney-general. In these positions he came to Columbus and has been a resident of that city ever since. He continued as assistant attorney-general through the term of Mr. Ellis and the latter's successor, Mr. Denman. During Governor Harmon's administration, while Timothy Hogan was attorney-general, Mr. Miller was again called to the service of the state to assist in the prosecution of the participants in the riot at Newark. which resulted in the lynching of a white man. Mr. Miller personally made the investigation before the grand jury and then assisted the prosecution in court. During these trials he secured the conviction of more people for lynching than had ever before been accomplished in the United States. Not long after this Mr. Miller, in 1912, was employed as secretary of the State Republican Executive Committee. He was also called by Attorney-General Wickersham, of the Federal Department of Justice, to assist in prosecuting for violation of the anti-trust laws. the cases against the Corn Products Company, a $120,000,000 corporation. In 1913 Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, Mr. Miller and Mr. Dunbar of Cincinnati organized the law firm of Miller, Thompson & Dunbar, with offices in Columbus. This firm has since ranked as one of the strongest in Ohio. They handle a general practice, but the business is largely of a corporation nature. They represent a number of large industrial and commercial interests in Columbus and throughout the state. Mr. Miller himself is attorney for the Pullman Palace Car Company in Ohio. As chairman of the Ohio State Republican Executive Committee Mr. Miller personally managed the campaign of 1922. It will be recalled that in the election all the republican candidates for state office except governor and lieutenant governor, and including United States senators, were elected by large majorities. DR. JOHN EYNON, a skilled and successful exponent of the chiropractic science and profession, is established in practice in the City of Steubenville, Jefferson County, and is an active and influential member of the Ohio Chiropractors Association. Doctor Eynon was born in Wales, on the 16th of July, 1870, and his early education was acquired in the excellent schools of his native land. He is a member of a family of three children, the other two being James and Philip, both of whom remain in Wales, the former having married Miss Mary John and their two children being daughters. Philip Eynon, father of the Doctor, passed his entire life in Wales, where his death occurred in the year 1891, his widow, Sarah, having later joined her son, Dr. John Eynon, of this sketch, at Steubenville, Ohio, and having here passed the remainder of her life as a loved member of the family circle of her son. Philip Eynon was a skilled coppersmith, and he continued in the work of his trade until his death. After leaving school Doctor Eynon served, under his father's direction, an apprenticeship to the trade of coppersmith, and in his native land he learned not only the details of manufacturing copper plate but also the making of sheet tin, in which latter line he was a pioneer workman in the United States. Doctor Eynon came to this country in 1893, about two years after the death of his father, and he first followed his trade in Indiana and later in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, as an expert in the manufacturing of sheet tin. In 1908 he entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, and in this institution he completed a full course of instruction under the able preceptorship of its founder, Doctor Palmer. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1910, and after having been engaged in practice at Toledo, Ohio, about one year he removed to Steubenville, where his ability and personal popularity have gained HISTORY OF OHIO - 451 to him in his profession a substantial and representative clientage, he having here maintained his home since the year 1912. Doctor Eynon is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, is a republican in political allegience, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church in their home city. At Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, in June, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Eynon and Miss Margaret Edwards, daughter of William D. and Sarah Edwards, the former of whom died about 1910 and the latter in 1919. They are survived by six daughters, Mary, Sarah, Katherine, Jeanette, Elizabeth and Margaret, all of whom are married and have children. Mr. Edwards was a skilled ironworker, and was engaged in the work of his trade at Youngstown at the time of his death. Doctor and Mrs. Eynon have one child, Sarah Elizabeth, who is now (1924) a student in the Steubenville High School. THEODORE W. SMITH for over a decade has been city health officer of Steubenville. Until an accidental injury he was identified with the iron and steel industry as a blast furnace operator, and was an expert in that field of work. Mr. Smith was born in England, December 4, 1866, and the following year was brought to the United States by his parents, Theodore and Anna (Hart) Smith. His father, who died in 1913, was a native of Germany, and his mother, who died in 1907, was born in England. Theodore Smith was widely known as a blast furnace superintendent, being connected with the old Jefferson furnace, the Belle Font furnace, a furnace at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in Hocking Valley and other ..,cnters of the iron industry. He and his wife had a large family of thirteen children, including : Frederick; Theodore W.; Sarah, who had three children, named George, Elizabeth and Annie ; Fannie, whose children were Frank, Olive, Vern, Frederick and William; Elizabeth, who left four children; Zara; Stella ; and their two sons named John, the first dying an infant and the second John had two sons who were in the World war. Theodore W. Smith attended public school at Frostburg, Maryland, until he was fifteen years of age. Then after two years of employment in the mines he joined his father in a blast furnace, and altogether devoted thirty-three years of his life to blast furnace work, becoming an expert in that line. After his father went to the Bassey furnace at Hocking Valley he remained in Steubenville. On March 28, 1894, he lost his left hand while coupling tiles in the old Jefferson furnace yard, but continued as a labor foreman and timekeeper with the plant until April 1, 1913, when he was appointed city health officer. He has held that office continuously to the satisfaction of all good citizens, being a man of tact and able to enforce laws and ordinances for the welfare of the community without arousing enmity or opposition. Mr. Smith married, January 1, 1902, at Steubenville, Mame Cunningham, daughter of Michael and Mary Cunningham. Her father died in 1917, having for many years been an employe of glass plants, and her mother died in 1904. There were five children in the Cunningham family: Annie, deceased; Katie, whose three children are James, John and Michael; James; John, who left two children, named James and John ; and Mrs. Smith. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are Theodore, Jr., and Clarence. Mr. Smith is a member of the Episcopal Church. His paternal grandfather died at the venerable age of ninety-seven years, and his maternal grandfather, John Hart, lived to be ninety-four. ORA WALDO DRAKE, M. D. From early boyhood to the years of his early manhood Ora Waldo Drake was putting forth every effort to win an education and qualifications for his chosen career. He was on his own responsibilities, had to look to himself for his living as well as any advantages he earned. Since graduating from medical college he has been earning a successful place in his profession. He is a physician and surgeon at Grand Rapids, and has been chosen as mayor of that Wood County town. Doctor Drake was born on a farm near West Mansfield, in Logan County, Ohio, September 17, 1880, son of Theodore and Lavina (Hupp) Drake, the former a native of Warren County and the latter a native of Knox County, Ohio. The grandfather Drake came from England, having been a sea captain for many years, and when he was about forty years of age he settled in Warren County, Ohio, and died there soon after the birth of his son Theodore. Theodore Drake was a farmer, and died in 1890, at the age of thirty-five, while his wife passed away in 1899, at the age of thirty-nine. Both were very devout Methodists. Of their four children two sons died in infancy. The only surviving daughter is Gail, wife of Clarence Nelson, living on the old homestead in Logan County. Ora Waldo Drake was ten years old when his father died. For several years he lived on a farm with the family of Henry Plotner. His early education was acquired at West Mansfield, and as a youth he proved himself a successful salesman at insurance and books, and at the age of nineteen began teaching, continuing for two years. He acquired his Bachelor of Science degree in Ohio Northern University and took his medical course in the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, the University of Toledo, and in 1906 graduated from the medical department of Ohio State University. He worked and paid his way through these schools. His first period of practice was in Lacarne, in Ottawa County, and since then he has been in Grand Rapids. He has served two years as mayor of the town. The various medical societies have him as a member, and he belongs to the Rod and Gun Club. Doctor Drake married Mary Buchanan, of Wise County, Virginia, whose father was a relative of President Buchanan, while her mother was a sister of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy. Mrs. Drake is a graduate nurse by profession. They were married in 1904, and have four children: Lucille, Virginia, Myron and Maud. Lucille graduated from high school in 1924. Doctor and Mrs. Drake are Presbyterians. He is a Master Mason, has held all the chairs in the lodge of Odd Fellows and the camp of Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of the Gleaners Society, the Royal Neighbors and the Rebekahs. He votes as a republican. WILLIAM M. GEORGE, former clerk of the courts for Putnam County, now gives a general supervision to the operations of his excellent farm near Belmore, and is a director and the assistant cashier of the Belmore Banking Company. Mr. George was born on the farm of which he is now the owner, and the date of his nativity was October 16, 1867. He is a son of John H. and Mary M. (French) George. John H. George was born in Germany, in March, 1834, and was there reared to the age of sixteen years, when he accompanied one of his uncles to the United States, his residence having thereafter been maintained in Crawford County, Ohio, until 1861, when he removed to his farm near Belmore, Putnam County, this homestead having continued his place of abode during the remainder of his life, which was marked by worthy achievement 452 - HISTORY OF OHIO and by the characteristics that make for strong and upright manhood. In 1862 he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by enlisting for service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He became a member of an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry, and he continued in active service until the close of the war, with record of having participated in many engagements marking the progress of the great conflict between the North and the South. After the war he returned to his farm, and he made the same stage of his successful activities during the remainder of his long and useful life. He was active and influential in the local councils of the democratic party, served as a member of the Board of County Commissioners for a period of six years, was actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Of the seven children only three are living at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1923: Genora is the wife of Peter Zeller ; R. J. is a retired farmer living at Belmore, where he is vice president of the Belmore Banking Company ; and William M., of this sketch, is the youngest of the three. After duly profiting by the advantages of the public schools and the discipline of the home farm William M. George took a course of study in the Ohio Normal School at Ada, and thereafter he made a record of eight years of successful service as a teacher in the public schools, mainly in the rural districts of his native county. he has since continued his alliance with farm industry, and his present farm, a part of the old home place, comprises 125 acres of the excellent land of Putnam County. He has served as a member of the school board, and he gave four years of characteristically effective administration in the office of clerk of the courts of Putnam County. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, is affiliated with Leipsic Lodge No. 548, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Leipsic, and at Belmore he is a member of the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are active members of the Evangelical Church in their home village. The year 1890 recorded the marriage of Mr. George and Miss Lida Fisher, who was born at Monroeville, Indiana, but whose early education was received mainly in the public schools of the Ohio village in which she now resides. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. George: John H. supplemented the training of the public schools by attending collegt two years ; Na.nnie is the wife of Julian Brown; Bernice is the wife of Howard Walker ; Dr. Bernard J. was graduated from the Leipsic High School, was thereafter a student two years in Miami University, and he gained his technical training in the Eclectic Medical College in the City of Cincinnati, he having served in the Medical Corps of the United States Army in the World war period ; Noel is a. graduate of the Leipsic High School and took a course in a business college at Tiffin: and Dale and Delia are students in the Leipsic High School (1924). JAMES D. GABLE, head member of the firm of T. D. Gable & Son, manufacturers of hardwood lumber and drain tile at Gilboa, Ohio, was born in Riley Township, Putnam County, Ohio, in September, 1865, and is the son of John and Jerusha (Mealls) Gable. The father was born in Richland County, Ohio, in May, 1839, and the mother was born in Riley Township, Putnam County, on April 7, 1845. Both were reared on farms, and were there educated and given the first start in life's duties. The father from the start became an active and competent agriculturist. Even when a mere boy he succeeded in mastering the difficult problems of successful grain growing and live stock raising, so that when he had reached the early years of manhood he was competent to take charge of any farm and manage it with profit and renown. His youth was spent on the farm of his father in Richland County, and there he was occupied until he reached the age of twenty-one years, when he came to Putnam County. He was educated in the common schools of the country, and his wife received a similar education. Thus both received in youth the right training in mind and morals, for both churches and schools were near their old residences and afforded them the means of attaining such results. John and Jerusha Gable were married in Riley Township, Putnam County, but soon after their marriage changed their surroundings for a time and finally located on a fine farm in Riley Township. There they at once took up all the complex and thwarting problems of industrial country existence. Near their farm were good country schools and churches, so that their descendants were not compelled to grow to maturity without the right guidance in these respects. Their children were given the proper training and prepared for sound citizenship. Both parents were members of the United Brethren Church, in which they became useful and. prominent, occupying many positions of importance and requirement. Their children were required to attend the Sunday school and the church service proper, and were greatly benefited by these. observances. The father was a democrat, took part and interest in local political affairs and served as official in several of the township positions. They became the parents of seven children, of whom the following are living: James D., subject; Loni, who became the wife of Gil Bernett; Clara, who married Levi Lorcine; Jennie, who married James Conine, of Cleveland. James D. Gable remained on his father 's farm and on others until he attained the age of twenty-six, when he began operations for himself in other pursuits. Finally, when he was thirty years old, he began operations in the lumber business on his own account, and was first located at Gilboa, Ohio. There he soon became the manager of a steadily growing business that has continued to develop and expand until it now is both large and profitable. Since starting he has from time to time added other branches to this occupation, one of the most important being drain tile, for which there has grown up in recent years a large and increasing demand. As a manufacturer of strong nad durable drain tile he has built up a large trade and a good reputation. He also has a large and remunerative lumber trade. On the 31st of May, 1891, he married Miss Daisy Thrapp. They have two children: Harry A. and Orpha. Harry A. had the advantage over his father in schooling. He first attended the common schools and then entered the high school, from which he was graduated with credit, and finally took a strict course in the business college at Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. All this fitted him for almost any active and exacting business career. He married Miss Mary Clemer, and now resides in Galboa. He served in the World war and first saw service at the front in France and later in the quartermaster 's department in that nation. He served all through with the highest credit, and was honorably discharged when peace arrived to (inlet the world. Orpha became the bride of Ralph Laibe and resides in Toledo, Ohio, where her husband is an active and prominent business man and a good citizen. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James D. Gable is a member of Gilboa Lodge No. 459, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. is a democrat and a member of the local school HISTORY OF OHIO - 453 board. He is the owner of a farm of 274 acres of valuable land in this county. There he raises large herds of fine stock, wide fields of grain and employs many men to care for the place properly. WENDELL KEYSER, who was one of the successful young members of the bar of Crawford County, gave evidence of his loyalty to his home city of Crestline by the efficiency of his administration while serving as mayor of this vital little Ohio city. Mr. Keyser was born at Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, September 9, 1894, and in the same county were born his parents, Grant and Florence (Whitacre) Keyser, the former having been born on a farm near tne City of Bellaire, March 10, 1866, and the latter having been born at Barnesville, on the 28th of February, 1866. Grant Keyser was reared on the home farm and supplemented the discipline of the public schools by attending the Normal University at Ada, he having thereafter given several years to successful service as a teacher in the schools of his native state. He is now a commercial traveling salesman, and he and his wife still reside at Barnesville, where they are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Keyser is a staunch republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Wendell Keyser, the only son of his parents, continued his studies in the public schools until he had profited by the advantages of the Barnesville High School, and thereafter he was for one year a student in Mount Union College. He continued his studies for a similar period in the University of Cincinnati, and he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School as a member of the class of 1917. On June 11th of that year he opened an office at Crestline and was afterward engaged in the general practice of law. His character and ability won him a substantial law business, as well as secure standing in popular confidence and esteem. He served in 1923 as city solicitor of Crestline, and had previously given a vigorous and acceptable administration as mayor of this city. Mr. Keyser was appointed assistant district attorney by Attorney General Dougherty and assumed the duties of this office at Toledo, Ohio, July 1, 1923. The energy and ability with which he discharged the duties of this office was commended by the presiding federal judge, Killetts. While on his way to visit his parents at Barnesville he was stricken with ptomaine poison at Crestline and died there November 6, 1923. He was an active member of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and in politics he was a loyal advocate and supporter of the principles and cause of the republican party. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church in his home city, as is also his wife. December 17, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Keyser and Miss Hazel White, who attended the Ohio State Normal School at Kent and who had been a successful teacher prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Keyser had two children: Marjorie and Wendell Grant. HARVEY ARTHUR FINEFROCK, M. D. Giving full response of his time and abilities to a heavy general practice as a physician and surgeon at Barberton, Doctor Finefrock has also made his influence felt in the civic life of his home community. He is president of the Barberton Board of Education. He was born at Waynesburg, Ohio, August 17, 1885, his grandfather, John Finefrock, having established the family home at Waynesburg on coming from Pennsylvania. The parents of Doctor Finefrock were Emanuel and Rebecca (Robertson) Finefrock, both natives of Waynesburg and now deceased. The father was a farmer and building contractor, and a devout Lutheran in religion. Doctor Finefrock studied his first lessons in a country school, attended high school at Waynesburg, also attended Lima College in Ohio, and in 1911 graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Cincinnati Medical College, where he was a member of the Omega Upsilon Chi fraternity. He served as an interne in Christ Hospital at Cincinnati, and in 1912 he located at Barberton and has since engaged in a general surgical and medical practice. He is a member of the staff of the Citizens Hospital and is a director in the Summit Finance Company. Doctor Finefrock became a member of the Board of Education in 1922, and was chosen president for 1924. He is active in the republican party, is a member of the Lutheran Church, belongs to the County, State and American Medical associations, the Brookside Country Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his Masonic affiliations are with National Lodge, Portage Chapter, Akron Council, Akron Commandery, Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In 1922-23 he served as captain in the Medical Corps with the One Hundred Thirty-fourth Hospital Company in the Ohio National Guard, and now holds a commission as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He married in March, 1914, at Barberton, Miss Mabel Carbaugh, who was born and reared at Loudonville, Ohio. Mrs. Fine-frock is prominent in musical circles. They have one son, Richard Harvey. SAM W. NUNGESSER. One of the best-known business men and public officials of Crawford County is Sam W. Nungesser, proprietor of "Sam's Place" on Lindenway, East, Galion. He was born in Polk Township, Crawford County, June 16, 1861, a son of Christ and Elizabeth (Marshe) Nungesser, both of whom were born in Germany. Their parents traveled to the United States in the same boat when they were children, she being at that time only two years old, and they settled first in Pennsylvania and later in Crawford County, during all of this time continuing to be neighbors. The young people grew up together, were married, and settled in Polk Township, where they enjoyed fifty-three years of happy married life, terminated by his death. By trade Christ Nungesser was a shoemaker, and he died a man of ample means, having earned everything he possessed by his own efforts. In politics he was a democrat. He and his wife were consistent members of the German Lutheran Church. They had nine children born to them. Sam W. Nungesser was reared in Polk Township, and his education was obtained in the country schools. When he reached his majority he left home and worked for neighboring farmers until he was married, in 1884, when he went to farming for himself. At present he owns forty acres of land in Jefferson Township, Crawford County, and for twenty-seven years was a gardener. Very active as a democrat, Mr. Nungesser has held various township offices, and for four years was a member of the county board, during which time the Children's Home at Galion was bought, and he was one of the promoters of this project. For six years he was a director of the county infirmary, and during five and one-half years of that time served the board as secretary. Fraternally he maintains membership with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Modern Woodmen of America. 454 - HISTORY OF OHIO On January 22, 1884, Mr. Nungesser married Miss Jennie Schaad, and they became the parents of four children : Ralph, who was educated in the public schools, is an engineer on the Cincinnati, Georgetown 86' Portsmouth Railroad; Bessie, who is the wife of Frank Bogan, lives in Jefferson Township, Crawford County; Hazel, who is the wife of Adelbert Plotner, lives at Cleveland, Ohio; and Edna, who is a stenographer in the employ of the Galion Iron Works. Mr. Nungesser and his family belong to the English Lutheran Church. JOHN S. COOKSON has developed in the city of Steubenville, Jefferson County, a very substantial and representative automobile garage and general repair business, in connection with which he is local agent for the Oldsmobile and Jordan automobiles and the Prebles motor trucks. His garage is one of the best equipped in the city, and is the stage of a specially vital and prosperous business. Mr. Cookson can claim Jefferson County as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred August 14, 1875, the younger of the two children of William C. and Martha C. (Day) Cookson, both of whom are deceased. The older son is Cyrus W., the maiden name of whose wife was Mary Mansfield. William C. Cookson, whose death occurred in the early part of the second decade of the present century and whose widow survived him by about eight years, was born and reared in Ohio, and represented this state as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in a regiment of Ohio volunteer infantry, and with the same took part in various battles and minor engagements marking the progress of the conflict through which the integrity of the nation was preserved. In later years he was an active and honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Cookson was a carriagemaker by trade and to this trade he gave his attention during the greater part of his active career, though he was long known as one of the successful farmers of Jefferson County. John S. Cookson supplemented the discipline of the district schools by attending Scio College. At the age of twenty years he learned telegraphy, and for twelve years, as a skilled operator, he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, much of his service having been in the capacity of relief operator, he thus having been called upon for work at different points on the various lines of the great Pennsylvania system. After leaving railway service Mr. Cookson was for thirteen years retained as telegraph operator in the brokerage department of the great Chicago packing house corporation of Armour & Company, and it was after severing this alliance that he left the city of Chicago, returned to his native county, and established his present business enterprise at Steubenville. In the period of American participation in the World war he was called into service in the inspecting department of the great Chicago plant of Armour & Company, where he was able to do valuable work in behalf of the government regulation of food supplies. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Cookson has received 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. He is an active member of the Steubenville Automobile Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Protestant Church. In August, 1898, at Steubenville, Mr. Cookson wedded Miss Sarah Jane Leech, who likewise was born and reared in Jefferson County, where her father was a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Cookson is a daughter of the late William T. and Anna Leech, of whose two children she is the elder, the younger being Grace, who is the wife of Charles Smith. As a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war Mr. Leech was finally captured by the enemy, and was for some time held as a prisoner of war in the historic old Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. His continued interest in his old comrades was shown in his affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic for many years prior to his death. He and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Cookson have two daughters : Anna Mary, a college graduate, now retains the position of private secretary in the general offices of the Wheeling Steel Corporation; and Countess L. has charge of the books and general details in the office of her father. THOMAS M. MITCHELL, former mayor of the city of Findlay, is one of the representative citizens of the judicial center and metropolis of Hancock County, and is prominently identified with productive industry in the Ohio oil field. On the old homestead farm which is still in the possession of the family, in Portage Township, Hancock County, Thomas M. Mitchell was born December 28, 1869, a son of Jacob and Emeline (Cusae) Mitchell, both likewise natives of this county, where the former was born November 4, 1840, and the latter in the year 1843. Here the parents were reared and educated, and after their marriage they settled on the farm in Portage Township that continued to represent their home until their death. Jacob Mitchell long held prestige as one of the substantial farmers and loyal citizens of Hancock County, his political support was given to the democratic party, and he served as trustee of Portage Township, beside having been for two terms a member of the Board of Directors of the County Infirmary. He represented his native county and state as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having enlisted as a private in the Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry and having continued in service until the close of the war. He took part in many engagements, was never wounded, and was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign and the historic march from Atlanta to the sea. Of his family of nine children six are living at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1923. Jacob Mitchell was a son of George Mitchell, who came from Pennsylvania and established himself as a pioneer farmer in Hancock County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. Jacob Mitchell and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. The early experiences of Thomas M. Mitchell were those incidental to the life and activities of the home farm and the discipline of the district schools. He remained at the parental home and continued to be associated with the operations of the farm until the time of his marriage, in 1898, and in the passing years he has never severed his allegiance to farm enterprise in his native county, though he now gives his attention principally to oil production in the Lima fields, he being a director of the Tel'Oyle Company. Mr. Mitchell has been active and influential in the affairs of the Hancock County Fair Association, with which he is still actively identified. He is a stalwart in the local ranks of the democratic party, and besides having served in 1920-21 as mayor of Findlay and giving a most progressive administration, he had previously been for one term a member of the City Council. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife is an active member of the United Brethren Church in their home city. HISTORY OF OHIO - 455 September 28, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mitchell and Miss Christina Moorehead, who likewise was born and reared in Hancock County. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have two children: Mabel M., a graduate of the Findlay High School, is the wire of Frank Crawfis, of Findlay; Wallace W. completed a commercial course in Findlay College, and is now identified with business interests at Findlay. Mrs. Christina (Moorehead) Mitchell passed to the life eternal on the 7th of May, 1903. On the 24th of April, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mitchell and Miss Myrtle L. Elsea, who was born in Hancock County and who is a graduate of the Findlay High School and also of the Findlay Business College. No children have been born of the second marriage. WILLIAM FLOYD BRODRICK for a quarter of a century, practically his entire adult years, has been closely identified with the public and business life of his home city of Marysville and home county of Union. There is no better known family in Union County than that of Brodrick, several generations of which have given their activities and influence to the development of the region, beginning in pioneer times. His first American ancestor was Captain Thomas Brodrick, a native of Ireland, a sea captain for a number of years, who established his home in New Jersey. One of Lis sons, William, served seven years with the American forces in the War of the Revolution. Isaac Brodrick, a brother of this Revolutionary soldier, was the ancestor of the Union County family. His son Isaac was born in New Jersey in 1802, and was an infant when his parents moved to Harrison County, Ohio, and later to Warren County, this state. Isaac grew up in Warren County, and married Hannah Wood, who was born in that county in 1804. In 1833 Hannah and Isaac Brodriek moved to Logan County and the following years to Union County. Thus the Brodrick family has lived in Union County for over ninety years. Their first home was a log cabin. Isaac Brodrick, second of the name, spent sixty years on the farm he developed in Union County, and lived to be more than ninety years of age. He was a birthright Quaker and one of the few pioneers who refused to provide whiskey for his laborers. Isaac Brodrick, third of the name, and grandfather of William Floyd Brodrick, was born June 23, 1825, in Warren County and spent his active career as a farmer in Union County, his home being seven miles from Marysville. He married in 1851 Sarah Hoff, a native of West Virginia, and granddaughter of William Hoff, who was a soldier in the War of 1812. Isaac Brodrick was one of the early republicans in Union County, held a number of township offices, and was a member of the Methodist Church. John M. Brodrick, son of Isaac Brodrick and Sarah Hoff Brodrick, became a distinguished lawyer and jurist. He was born on his father 's farm, May 19, 1854, was educated in the common schools, taught for a time, studied law at Marysville, and began practice there in 1876. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1881, serving six years, and was also city clerk and a member of the council. For twelve years prior to his death in 1922 he was Common Pleas judge of Union County. Judge Brodrick was one of the distinguished members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Ohio, being identified with his lodge at Marysville from the age of twenty-one until his death, and held some of the highest offices in the State Grand Lodge, being elected grand master of the Grand Lodge in 1894. He also was an official in the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order. Judge Brodrick married, April 16, 1878, Narcissa Benton, daughter of Benjamin T. and Mary K. (Newhouse) Benton, of Delaware County. She resides at Marysville. William Floyd Brodrick, only son of his parents, was born at Marysville, May 7, 18/9, and was educated in grammar and high schools of his native city, and, from 1897 to 1800, attended the College of Liberal Arts, Philosophy and Science at Ohio Wesleyan University. Since' leaving college his career has been one of steady and faithful devotion to business and public affairs. He was city auditor of Marysville from 1900 to 1914, and during the same period was secretary of the Union County Agricultural Society. He is manager of the City Loan and Savings Association of Marysville, and served two terms as mayor of his home city, from 1920 to 1924. He was elected and served as justice of the peace in 1922-24, and was reelected for a second term. A responsibility that put him in close touch with the business progress of his home city is as secretary of the Marysville Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Brodrick in August, 1917, entered the Second Officers' Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, was commissioned a second lieutenant on November 27, 1917, and was on duty at Camp Custer, Michigan, with the 309th Machine Gun Battalion. He received his honorable discharge March 1, 1919. Before the World war he was an officer in the Ohio National Guard, and now holds the rank of first lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. He helped organize and is a past secretary of the Marysville Post of the American Legion. He is a republican in politics. Mr. Brodrick, like his honored father, has greatly interested himself in fraternal organizations. He belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory of Detroit, the Mystic Shrine at Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a post noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, past exalted ruler and past secretary of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a past officer of the Maccabees, and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, the Eagles at Delaware, Ohio, and the college fraternity Phi Kappa Delta and Theta Nu Epsilon. Mr. Brodrick married at Monroe, Michigan, May 30, 1903, Miss Lillian Buffington, of Milford Center, Ohio, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Johnson) Buffington. Her father is deceased. GEORGE E. DEMPSEY, an influential and progressive exponent of the real estate business in the city of Steubenville, Jefferson County, was born in Lancastershire, England, March 7, 1885, and about three years later his parents, Edward and Martha Dempsey, came to the United States, the father being now a resident of Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio, the mother having died in 1914. Of the children the subject of this review is the eldest; Elizabeth is the wife of Dennis Caniff, and to them four children have been born; Agnes died in young womanhood; Martha is the wife of Joseph Hassell, and they have one daughter, Mary Jane. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic Church. George E. Dempsey was reared at Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he attended the parochial and public schools, his education having thereafter been advanced by his attending St. Vincent College at Youngstown, in which he was graduated in the commercial department as a member of the class of 1903. After leaving school he was for a time employed in his father 's mercantile establishment at Mingo Junction, and he then identified himself with the newspaper enterprise at that place by founding the Mingo Junction Weekly News, of 456 - HISTORY OF OHIO which he became the editor and general manager. There also he published the first International Chiropractic Magazine in the United States. After continuing seven years in the publishing business he sold his interests in this line and established himself in the real estate business at Steubenville where his connections have been of important order and broad scope. He has contributed in this line to the civic and material advancement of the city, and is known as one of the liberal and progressive citizens and representative realtors of Steubenville. Mr. Dempsey has been active in furthering the cause of the democratic party, but has manifested no ambition for political preferment. In the World war period he was a leader in patriotic activities and service at Mingo Junction, where he was influential in the drives in support of the government war loans, etc., besides having served as secretary of the local organization of the American Protective League. He and his wife are active communicants of the Catholic Church. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce and the Steubenville Country Club. At Mingo Junction, on the 3d of September, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dempsey and Miss Marie R. Crossan, daughter of Philip and Bell Crossan, the former of whom died in February, 1924, leaving a widow and two children. Blanche B., the younger daughter, is the wife of Justice Raymond, and they have one child, Marcia. Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey have three children: Blanche B., George E., Jr., and Marion Jane. LEE S. COLLINS. The material growth and substantial upbuilding of Los Angeles within the last decade is a wonderful story in itself, and to have been an important factor in this work is an honor not to be lightly considered, for it means business ability of a high order. One of the leading industries concerned in the solid development of this city, is the Los Angeles Brick Company, an enterprise of magnitude, of which Lee S. Collins is the able and far-sighted general manager. Mr. Collins has been a resident of Los Angeles for twelve busy years. He is a native of Ohio, born in the city of Sandusky in 1885, a son of E. F. and Carlie Eulala (Peterson) Collins, the former of whom has been deceased for many years. The mother of Mr. Collins is a resident of California, having come to this state in 1905. Mr. Collins has sturdy old ancestry behind him. Irish on the paternal side and Danish and Holland Dutch on the maternal side, the maternal grandmother having been born in Holland. On both sides the grandfathers were sea captains, Captain Peterson coming from Copenhagen to the United States about the same time as Captain Collins, and both located at Sandusky, Ohio, and for years afterward operated their own vessels on the Great Lakes. They were brave and hardy men and well known in maritime circles. Lee S. Collins received his early education at Sandusky, from which city his parents later removed to Columbus, where he entered the Ohio State University and completed his course as a member of the class of 1906. Following his university career he went to Cleveland, where he was connected for a time with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He went then to New York City, where he had a period of business experience as a stock and bond salesman, the head of the concern being one of his father 's friends. In the meantime Mr. Collins had become interested in Southern California, where wide business opportunity seemingly awaited and generously rewarded industry and enterprise, and in 1911 he turned in this direction, became a resident of Los Angeles and shortly afterward became identified with the Los Angeles Brick Company, now the leading brick manufacturers in Southern California. Mr. Collins, although still a young man, immediately made his influence relt, taking an active and progressive part in the building up of this corporation, and soon won thereby the position of general manager. Twelve years ago it was a comparatively unpretentious but solidly financed concern, but under Mr. Collins' able management it has been developed into a great industry, and in the company 's three immense plants in Los Angeles and vicinity, have been produced a great volume of the brick material that has gone into the construction of the majority of the finest buildings in this part of the state. While the principal product of the company is common building brick, face brick and hollow tile are also manufactured, the company owning its clay beds and other basic essentials. Additional manufacturing plants are under way and few of the city's building material industries can look more confidently to increased prosperity in the near future. Mr. Collins and his family occupy one of the attractive residences for which this city of beautiful homes is noted. He married Miss Mabel E. Warriner, and they have one daughter, Jane Warriner Collins. Not notably active in politics, Mr. Collins, however, is by no means neglectful of his citizenship privileges and responsibilities. He is a very active member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations, is a member and a director of the executive committee of the Common Brick Manufacturers Association of America, and belongs also to the Jonathan Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. FRANK S. DOHRMAN is one of the progressive young business men of his native city of Steubenville, Jefferson County, where lie is president of the River Sand Company and treasurer of the Narva Coal Company. He was one of Jefferson County's representatives in the nation's naval air service in the World war period. Mr. Dohrman was born at Steubenville on the 13th of November, 1894, and is the only son of H. G. and Carrie (Pettit) Dohrman, both of whom still maintain their home in this city, where the father has large and important industrial and other business interests, he being president of Narva Coal Company No. 1. The public school discipline of Frank S. Dohrman culminated in his graduation from the Steubenville High School as a member of the class of 1914, and he then became associated with his father 's coal production business, in which he continued to be active until there came to him the higher duty of patriotic service. When the nation became involved in the World war Mr. Dohrman enlisted in the aviation department of the Naval Reserve Corps, and in December, 1917, he was called into active service, first in the aviation field near the city of New York, whence he was transferred to New Haven, Connecticut, which continued the stage of his service until lie was transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Station, near Chicago. There, with his commission, he continued his service until January, 1919, when he was placed on the inactive list of the Naval Reserve Corps and returned to Steubenville, where he became associated with his father in organizing the River Sand Company, of which he has since continued the president, besides being, as previously noted, the treasurer of the Narva Coal Company. He is one of the popular young men of his native city, is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Country Club and HISTORY OF OHIO - 457 the local post of the American Legion, in the affairs of which he takes deep interest. Mr. Dohrman is most devoted to his . mother, who is a gracious and popular gentlewoman of prominence in the representative social activities of Steubenville. WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER is another of the native sons of Steubenville, Jefferson County, who have become influential figures in the civic and business activities of this vital industrial city of Ohio, where he is the owner of the substantial business conducted under the title of W. J. Alexander. In this line of enterprise his father was here established for half a century, and in Jefferson County the family name has stood. exponent of loyal and progressive citizenship and successful business achievement. Mr. Alexander was born at Steubenville on the 17th of January, 1867, and is a son of Moses and Margaret (McKeever) Alexander, both natives of Ireland, the former having been a son of William and Martha Alexander, of County Down, where the son Moses was born and reared, and Mrs. Margaret (McKeever) Alexander having been a daughter of William and Jane McKeever, of County Monahan, Ireland. The parents of the subject of this review were young folk at the time they came to the United States, and here they met and married. About the year 1850 they established their residence in Steubenville, and here Moses Alexander won for himself a generous measure of success and prosperity, the while he stood exponent of loyal personal and civic stewardship and was influential in the community life, though lie never manifested any ambition for political preferment or public office of any kind. Here he established himself independently in the retail lumber business in the year 1873, and he continued to conduct the same until three years prior to his death. Upon his retirement he was succeeded by his only son, William J., of this review, who has since continued the enterprise and well upheld the honors of the family name. The death of Moses Alexander occurred April 17, 1899, and his widow passed away September 25, 1914, both having been zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. The first child died at birth; Jennie, the second child, is the wife of J. F. Elder, Doctor of Divinity, of Denver, Colorado, and they have two children, James A. and Paul J.; William J., whose name initiates this sketch was the next in order of birth; and Eleanor H. is the wife of Attorney E. E. Erskine, of Steubenville. The public schools of Steubenville enlisted a due share of the time and attention of William J. Alexander in the period of his boyhood and early youth, and after his graduation from high school in 1885 he became associated with his father 's lumber business. With this substantial business he has continued his connection during the intervening years, and since assuming individual control thereof he has extended its scope and made it keep in line with the march of progress in this thriving community. In the World war period he was active in the advancing of local patriotic service, was a 'member of the official war board of the county and was captain of one of the teams that carried forward the drives in support of the government war loans and other work. Mr. Alexander is one of the active and influential members of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and is a member of the Century Club, the Steubenville Automobile Club and the Steubenville Country Club. He and his wife hold membership in the First United Presbyterian Church. October 23, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Alexander and Miss Mary Kennedy, daughter of James and Nancy (Myers) Kennedy, the former of whom died in 1912 and the latter of whom passed away about thirty years ago. James Kennedy, who was long a leading merchant tailor at Steubenville, served as a gallant soldier of the Union during the entire course of the Civil war, and in later years was an honored member of the local post or the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Alexander has one sister, uarrie, who is the wife of R. J. Peterson and the mother of two children, Mary Caroline and Katherine Hyde. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have two children, William J., Jr., who completed a course in business administration at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and who there served as a member of the Students' Army Training Corps in the period of the World war, and Mary Myers Alexander, who after graduating from the school for young women at Ossining, New York, was married, June 11, 1924, to Frederick Phrks Murphy, of Norwalk, Connecticut. FRANK LEBLOND KLOEB, in his native city of Celina, Mercer County, has given a most vigorous and efficient administration during his incumbency of the office of prosecuting attorney of the county, with secure vantage-ground as one of the able and leading attorneys of the younger generation in this part of the Buckeye State. Both by inheritance and personal predilection and conviction Mr. Kloeb figures as a gallant and resourceful advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party, and in its Ohio ranks he is doing yeoman service that makes him influential in its council. That his father, the late Charles A. Kloeb, was long a recognized leader in the councils and campaigns of this staunch old political organization is evident when it is stated that for many years he was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Ohio, in which capacity he had management of the campaign that resulted in the election of Hon. Judson Harmon to the office of governor of this state. Charles A. Kloeb showed great skill and circumspection in the maneuvering of political forces, was widely known and highly honored in his party, but invariably refused to become a candidate for political office, save one of local order, that of auditor of Mercer County, a position which he retained two terms. He was for a long period collector of internal revenue for this district. His widow, Mrs. Emma (LeBlond) Kloeb, has likewise become a figure of prominence in the Ohio activities of the democratic party, and at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1924, she is the democratic nominee for alternate delegate from this congressional district of Ohio to the democratic national convention to be held in New York City in the fall of 1924. Mrs. Kloeb, who still maintains her home at Celina, is a daughter of the late Honorable F. C. LeBlond, who served many years in the United States Congress and whose distinction in this connection led to his being made the subject of special mention in the monumental work of James J. Blaine entitled: "Twenty Years in Congress." Charles A. Kloeb was the most influential figure in the movement that resulted in the organization of the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company, in the capital city of Ohio, and he was vice president of this corporation at the time of his death. In 1908 Frank L. Kloeb was graduated from the Celina High School, and his higher course along academie lines was prosecuted in the University of Ohio. In the law department of that institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1917, but World war service rather than professional activity forthwith engaged his attention. Soon after his graduation he enlisted in the United States Navy, his initial service having been on the United States Steamship Satilla, from which he was subsequently transferred to the United States Steamship Irish, these two vessels having served as submarine chasers during the progress of the war and Mr. Kloeb hay- 458 - HISTORY OF OHIO ing continued his service in the navy until February 17, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Nearly two years thus elapsed ere Mr. Kloeb was enabled to take up the work of the profession for which he had admirably equipped himself, but after receiving his discharge from the navy he returned to Celina and engaged actively in the general practice of his profession, as junior member of the law firm of Loree & Kloeb. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mercer County, as candidate on the democratic ticket, and significant evidence of his popularity in his native county was given in this connection, as the republican party did not nominate a candidate to oppose him, the same conditions prevailing when he was reelected to the office. He is an active member of the Mercer County Bar Association, the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, and of the Kiwanis Club in his home city. He is a communicant of the Catholic Church, is a past knight of the Knights of Columbus, is a prominent and valued member of the local post of the American Legion, and is affiliated with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. Mr. Kloeb takes deep and loyal interest in all that touches the welfare and advancement of his native city and county, and at Celina is secretary and a director of the Pogue-Rihm Clothing Company, and attorney for the Mersman-Brandt Furniture Company. Mr. Kloeb has gained high reputation as a public speaker, and especially as a campaign orator. He has been called upon in this connection for campaign work in virtually all parts of Ohio, and strong and versatile have been his services in thus advancing the cause of the democratic party. His name still finds enrollment on the roster of eligible young bachelors in Mercer County. HARRY J. MOREHART, of Vanlue Hancock County, may well find satisfaction in his close and effective alliance with important business enterprise in his native county, and as cashier of the Vanlue Banking Company he is giving excellent administration of the affairs of one of the substantial and well ordered financial institutions of Hancock County. Mr. More-hart was born on a farm in Amanda Township, this county, November 22, 1879, and is a son of Jesse D. and Elizabeth (Beck) Morehart, both likewise natives of this county, where the widowed mother still maintains her home. Jesge D. Morehart was reared on a Hancock County farm, received the advantages of the local schools, and after his marriage he established himself on the farm in Amanda Township which continued to be the stage of his successful agricultural and live stock operations during the remainder of his earnest and useful life, his death having there occurred in 1894. He was a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,- and was a zealous member of the United Brethren Church, as is also his widow, who resides in the village of Vanlue. Della, eldest of the four children, is the wife of Adam Woodward; Rose B. died at the age of fifteen years; Harry J., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and G. Ray is serving (1923) as auditor of Hancock County. The environment, influences and discipline of the home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of Harry J. Morehart, and his public school training included that of the high school. After the death of his father he had active supervision of the old home farm for a period of seven years, and thereafter he passed four years as a clerk in a grocery store at Findlay, the county seat. The ensuing four years found him again in charge of the home farm, and in. 1909 he assisted in the organization of the Vanlue Banking Company, of which he has since continued the cashier and in the development of the prosperous business of which he has played a large part, he being also a, director of the company. J. 13. Hemhofel is president of the bank, W. E. Hottington is vice president, and the directorate includes, in addition to the executive officers, Albert Bloomingdale and W. W. Cunningham. That Mr. Morehart has secure place in the confidence and esteem of the people of his home community is vouchsafed in many ways, including his incumbency, in 1923, of the office of mayor of Vanlue, his administration of municipal affairs having been signally liberal and progressive. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Morehart is affiliated with Carey Lodge No. 420, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Carey, Wyandot County, and Carey Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, he being a past master of this lodge. His affiliations are extended to include his membership in Findlay Council, Royal and Select Masters; Findlay Commandery, Knights Templars; the Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at Carey; and the Scottish Rite Consistory of the Valley of Toledo, in which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The year 1909 recorded the marriage of Mr. Morehart and Miss Cora V. Deidrich, and they have four children: Ralph J., Ruth E., R. Rud and Reva. JASPER DUKES. Eleven miles west of the city of Findlay, judicial center and metropolis of Hancock County, is situated the fine homestead farm of Mr. Dukes, who is not only one of the substantial and progressive exponents of farm industry in Hancock County, but also a native son of this county and a representative of one of its old and honored families. His farm is in Blanchard Township, and the village of Mount Cory is his postoffice address. Mr. Dukes was born in Union Township, this county, January 20, 1850, and is a son of Dillard R. and Eliza Jane (McDowell) Dukes, both likewise natives of Ohio, the former having been born in Franklin County and the latter in Licking County, and the respective years of their nativity having been 1814 and 1821—dates that indicate in a significant way that the respective families were founded in the Buckeye State in the early pioneer period of its history. The death of Dillard R. Dukes occurred in 1889, and his widow passed away in the following year. Dillard R. Dukes reclaimed and developed in Union Township, Hancock County, a fine farm estate of 320 acres, and he was long numbered among the honored and influential citizens of that township, his political support having been given unreservedly to the republican party and both he and his wife having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their seven children, Jasper, immediate subject of this review, is the younger of the two now living, and the elder, Laura, who resides on the old homestead farm of her parents, is the widow of Warren Conley. The activities of the home farm and the discipline of the district schools marked the boyhood and youth of Jasper Dukes, and he continued to remain at the parental home until he was twenty-four years of age, when he initiated his independent enterprise as a farmer in his native county. He paid $2,000 in making purchase of a farm of 160 acres in Blanchard Township, and it was at this stage in his career also that he assumed connubial responsibilities, his marriage to Miss Maria Hopkins having been solemnized HISTORY OF OHIO - 459 in March, 1875. Mrs. Dukes was born and reared in Blanchard Township, and after completing her studies in the high school she taught fourteen terms in the schools of her native county with unqualified success. Mr. Dukes cleared and improved his original tract of 160 acres, and in the house on the place he and his wife maintained their home twenty-five years, he then having erected the substantial and attractive house which is now his place of abode. With the passing years, marked by earnest and well ordered activity, substantial success has attended his farm enterprise, and he is now the owner of a valuable farm property of 775 acres, in one body. He has made this one of the fine places of Hancock County, and in connection with his regular activities as an agriculturist and stock grower, he has been continuously engaged in the buying and shipping of live stock since the year 1872. In this line of enterprise he has long been a prominent figure, and as a shipper of stock he is widely known throughout the state of Ohio. Mr. Dukes is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, and while he is loyal and liberal as a citizen he has had no desire for public office of any kind. He is affiliated with Findlay Lodge No. 75, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his wife is a member of the United Brethren Church. Mr. and Mrs. Dukes became the parents of six children, all of whom attained to maturity : Floyd and Cloyd are twins and both continue their residence in Hancock County; D. R. is associated in the management of the paternal home farm ; E. V. is deceased; L. P. is associated with the affairs of the home farm; Nora is the wife of Frank Wineman, of Putnam County. J. R. WIGGERS, M. D., has had a successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Ohio City for the past five years. In addition to his private practice he has given much of his professional time to public duties. Doctor Wiggers was born at Holland, Michigan, February 16, 1886, son of Riekus and Margaret (Poppen) Wiggers. His parents were also born and reared in that section of Western Michigan. Doctor Wiggers spent his boyhood days on his father 's farm, was educated in the public schools, and later took the classical course in Hope College, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts. He also had normal training and for three years was a teacher. In college Doctor Wiggers specialized in chemistry, and for a year and one-half he was assistant chemist in the sanitary department of the City of Cleveland. He then entered the medical department of Ohio State University, and was graduated after two years. He served an interneship at Chicago, and in 1918 engaged in practice at Ohio City. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. He is on the surgical staff of the Van Wert Hospital and is also president of the County Board of Health. He belongs to the County, State and American Medical associations. Doctor Wiggers married Miss Jeanette Van Dyke who is a high school graduate. They have two children, Jane Marjorie, born in 1919, and John Jacob, born in 1921. Doctor Wiggers and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Ohio City, and is a member and medical examiner for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of the Maccabees and belongs to the Knights of Pythias. He is a democrat, and among other duties is the present mayor of Ohio City. JOSHUA HENRY JONES, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church since 1912, and former president of Wilberforce University, is a resident of Xenia in Greene County, Ohio, and his field of work has been in this state for many years. He was born in Lexington County, South Carolina, June 15, 1856, son of Joseph and Sylvia Jones. Tic has always acknowledged the great debt to his parents for their encouragement and lively interest in his education. He attended a private school in South Carolina, and at the age of eighteen, was made a local preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Realizing the need of a broader training for his chosen vocation, he entered Klaflin University at Orangeburg, South Carolina, graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1885 and subsequently was a student two years in Howard University at Washington, D. C., and graduated with the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Wilberforce University in 1887. Wilberforce conferred upon him the Doctor of Divinity degree in 1893. He also studied while serving as a pastor in Massachusetts under Doctor Pullman of Boston University. His service as a preacher was in South Carolina, Wheeling, West Virginia, Wilberforce, Ohio, Lynn, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, and Columbus, Ohio. He served as presiding elder of the Columbus district from 1894 to 1899, becoming pastor at Zanesville in the latter year. While at Columbus he was elected and served four consecutive terms as a member of the Board of Education. Under the land grant act of Congress, providing federal aid jointly with appropriations from the State Legislature for agricultural and mechanical schools, Doctor Jones secured the modification of the provision which allowed Wilberforce University $16,000, and an annual appropriation of $25,000, with an increase of taxable values. Then, in 1900, he was elected president of Wilberforee University, and served eight years. During that time he purchased five hundred acres adjacent to the university grounds as the site of a proposed agricultural experiment farm, but his proposal to devote it to such purposes was defeated by the action of the Board of Trustees, and this was the chief cause of his retirement from the presidency of the university. Following that he turned his attention individually to the development of the property, which now includes six hundred acres of highly improved land in and about Wilberforce, stocked with a fine herd of Jersey dairy cattle. He was elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1912, being assigned to Alabama and Tennessee. He founded Shelby College in Tennessee. In 1916 he was assigned to Texas, where he paid off a $40,000 indebtedness on Paul Quinn College and left $50,000 in the treasury for a new building. On the death of Bishop Schaeffer of Ohio in 1919 the College of Bishops was petitioned to assign Bishop Jones to the jurisdiction of this state, and at the recent general conference in May, 1924, he was reappointed to the Ohio district. He immediately set to work and put Wilberforce University out of debt for the first time in its history and also cleared the indebtedness and provided an endowment fund for Payne Seminary. After a fire which destroyed a large part of the building equipment of the university, Bishop Jones as chairman of the Board of Trustees entered upon a $450,000 building plan, organizing a campaign to finance it. The result was the erection of Delaware Hall, a five story fireproof building at the cost of $400,000 and five times as large as the principal buildings destroyed, and also Lee Hall, erected at a cost of $50,000. Delaware Hall was dedicated June 21, 1924, with a total indebtedness of $128,000, all but $3,000 of which was bonded. The old property was valued at only $175,000, while the appraisal of the financiers floating the loan on the new property was $650,000. 460 - HISTORY OF OHIO In 1888, soon after completing his studies at Wilberforce University, Doctor Jones married Augusta E. Payne, daughter of President Payne. They were married in the house where Bishop Jones and Mrs. J ones now reside and the former home of President Payne, who founded the Payne Theological Seminary awl for fourteen years was president of Wilberforce University. Bishop Jones has three sons. Joshua H., Jr., now a member of the Municipal Cabinet of Boston, Massachusetts, author of two volumnes of poems, and a book entitled, "By Sanction of the Law." He is married and has two children, Joshua III, a graduate of Boston High School, now attending the Boston Institute of Technology, and Helen also a graduate of high school and a student in Mount Holyoke Seminary. Gilbert H. Jones, second son of Bishop Jones, is dean and vice president of Wilberforce University. He graduated from the high school at Xenia, attended Ohio State University, took his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Wilberforce, received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Dunkers College, and subsequently his Doctor degree was conferred by the University of Jena, Germany, and he also studied in the University of Berlin and is a noted authority on German language, and author of a work on theory and practice of teaching. He married Rachel Coledale, and their children are: Gladys, who won first prize in the Ohio State Musical contest in 1923; Gilbert H., Jr., Ruth and Donald, also students at Wilberforce. Alexander Jones, the youngest son of Bishop Jones, is a graduate of the Columbus High School, took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Wilberforce, his Master of Arts degree at Kansas University, his Bachelor of Divinity degree at Yale, and also is a graduate of the Drew Theological Seminary. He is now dean and vice president of Western University at Kansas City, Kansas. JOHN A. GREGG, who was elected a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church May 13, 1924, has been well known in Ohio through his service as president of Wilberforce University at Xenia. He was born at Eureka, Kansas, February 18, 1877, son of Alexander and Eliza F. Gregg. His parents having been deprived of educational advantages, exerted themselves to the utmost that their son might have all the opportunities conferred by schools, and succeeded in enabling him to complete his university course. He graduated from the local high school in 1896, from the Southern Kansas Academy in. 1897, and in the same years entered Kansas University. In 1898 he joined the Twenty-third Kansas Volunteers, which made an enviable record of service in Cuba. He was quartermaster iergeant in Cuba, and was mustered out with the rank of second lieutenant. Resuming his studies at Kansas University, he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902, and after a year of teaching in this country, went to South Africa as head of Bethel Institute at Cape Town. He continued his labors there from 1903 to 1906, and on returning to America was engaged to do pastoral work at Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1906 to 1908, at St. Joseph, Missouri, from 1908 to 1913, and from 1913 to 1920 served as president of Cookman Institute at Jacksonville, Florida. In 1920 Mr. Gregg became president of Wilberforce University at Xenia, retiring in 1924 to take up his duties as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was assigned to the diocese in South Africa on account of his previous experience there and his knowledge of the Dutch and various native African dialects. Bishop Gregg while in Florida served as president of the Florida Teachers' Association of the Jacksonville branch, Methodist Association African College Presidents, president of the National Association of Teachers of colored schools, and president of the Association of College Presidents. He is a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and holds the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Wilberforce University. He married, August 21, 1900, Miss Celia McBrown of Lawrenceville, Kansas. She was for several years a teacher in the industrial department of the Wilberforce University. WILLIAM PARRY LEWIS, cashier of the Citizens National Bank of Ironton, Lawrence County, is one of the popular native sons of this city, where he was born in March, 1870. He is a son of the late Daniel and Mary (Parry) Lewis, both of whom were born in Wales and both of whom were young at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the United States. Daniel Lewis and his wife were reared and educated at Ironton, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized, their parents having come to America about the year 1840. Daniel Lewis became a skilled operator in the steel mills of Lawrence County, was a member of the Home Guard of the county at the time of the Civil war, and here his death occurred in 1871. In the public schools of Ironton William P. Lewis continued his studies until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1887. Shortly afterward he assumed a clerical position in the First National Bank of Ironton, and he was advanced to the position of bookkeeper, in which capacity he continued his service until 1908, when he became assistant cashier of the Citizens National Bank, which was organized in 1890 and which is one of the substantial and well ordered financial institutions of this part of the state. Mr. Lewis retained the position of assistant cashier until 1921, when he was elected to his present responsible office, that of cashier. Mr. Lewis is a member of the sinking fund committee of the municipal government of Ironton, is secretary of the Excelsior Building & Loan Association, is a director of the Martin iron & Steel Company besides being a director of the bank of which he is cashier and a director also in other corporations in Lawrence County. In the World war period he served as fuel administrator for Lawrence County and also in connection with the government secret-service department, besides which he was active and influential in advancing the various local measures of patriotic order, including the campaigns in support of the government war loans. He is a valued member of the local Rotary Club, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Congregational Church at Ironton, of which he is a trustee and also a deacon. The year 1892 recorded the marriage of Mr. Lewis and Miss Gratia Dean, daughter of Judge Dean, of Ironton. The death of Mrs. Lewis occurred in 1921, and she is survived by two sons, Parry W. and William Dean. Capt. Parry W. Lewis was graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and in the World war he served in France as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. James T. Dean, he having been at the front in the Argonne campaign and also in other sectors, the while he won promotion to the rank of captain. Under commission by General Pershing, Captain Lewis is now (1923) in charge of the United States Army Band at headquarters. William Dean Lewis, the younger son, is a member of the class of 1928 in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. In 1923 was solemnized the marriage of William P. Lewis and Miss Charlotte Dean Hill, daughter of HISTORY OF OHIO - 461 James M. and Eliza (Dean) Hill, of Ironton, and she is the popular chatelaine of their attractive and hospitable home in Ironton. More specific record concerning the military career of Capt. Parry W. Lewis is consistently perpetuated in this connection. Capt. Parry W. Lewis, of the Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army, was born at Ironton, Ohio, October 3, 1896. An appointee from the Tenth Congressional District of Ohio, he entered the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June 14, 1914, and in this institution he was graduated August 30, 1917, the same date having been marked by his appointment to the grade of second and then first lieutenant of infantry. On the 18th of the following October he was assigned to the command of Headquarters Detachment, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Infantry Brigade, Seventy-eighth Division, at Camp Dix, New Jersey. With this division he embarked for France May 18, 1918. On the stage of conflict he took active part in the offensive movements of Ypres-Lys, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, and he continued in overseas service about one year, the return to the United States having been made in May, 1919, on the 19th of which month he landed with his command at Newport News, Virginia. He was appointed and commissioned captain of infantry April 7, 1919, and was honorably discharged from the captaincy July 1, 1920, on which date he was appointed first lieutenant. On the 10th of the following November he was appointed captain in the Coast Artillery Corps, and in August, 1921, his corps was assigned to coast defenses of the Potomac River, Fort Washington, Maryland, and Fort Hunt, Virginia. In January, 1922, Captain Lewis organized the Army Military Band at Fort Hunt, and in September of that year he was assigned to his present post, in command of the Army Music School and Army Band at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia. June 28, 1919, recorded the marriage of Captain Lewis and Miss Keturah Dean, daughter of Charles T. Dean, of Portsmouth, Virginia. ALLEN A. TOMBAUGH, M. D. It is to be recorded that Hancock County has its full contingent of able and successful physicians and surgeons, and among the number is Doctor Tombaugh, who is a popular physician of the younger generation in his native county. Doctor Tombaugh was born on the old homestead farm in Madison Township, Hancock County, October 9, 1894, and of the same township his parents, William G. and Kate (Bushong) Tombaugh, likewise are natives, the former having there been born in April, 1862, and the latter in the year 1864. The parents of the doctor were reared on the home farms of the respective families and received the advantages of the public schools of the locality and period. They still continue their residence on their fine homestead farm in their native township, and the father is numbered among the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock growers of Hancock County. His political support is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Dunkard Church, in which he is a deacon. Of the children Doctor Tombaugh, of this review, is the eldest; Mabel is the wife of William Raith; and Mildred is, in 1923, a student in high school. The part which he early took in connection with the activities of the home farm tended to give Doctor Tombaugh strong physical powers, and in the meanwhile he advanced his mental forces by attending the district schools and profiting fully by their curriculum. Later he was graduated from the high school at Dunkirk, Hardin County, and thereafter he was for one year •a student in the Ohio Normal School at Ada. In harmony with his well defined ambition he next entered the medical department of the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1918. It was not given him to follow the course usually pursued by the aspiring young physician after receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, for in the year prior to his graduation the nation had become involved in the World war and he waited only his reception of his degree to discharge his patriotic duty. In September, 1918, he entered the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and was sent to a military camp in Arkansas, where he gained the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and where he continued in service until the armistice brought the war to a close. After receiving his honorable discharge Doctor Tombaugh was for two years engaged in the practice of his profession at Alger, Hardin County, Ohio, and he then transferred to the broader field at McComb, this county, in which thriving little city he has been established in successful general practice since 1920. He is an appreciative and popular member of the Hancock County Medical Society, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The Doctor is affiliated with Findlay Lodge No. 227, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Findlay, where also he is a member of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold, membership in the Presbyterian Church. In 1918 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Tombaugh and Miss Leah Wagner, who likewise was born and reared in Hancock County, where she was graduated in the Arlington High School. She is also a graduate nurse, her training having been received in the Home Hospital at Findlay, and she is an effective assistant to her husband in connection with his professional work. Doctor and Mrs. Tombaugh have two children: Mary Jane, born January 18, 1920, and Robert E., born January 24, 1922. REED M. POWELL, judge of the Probate Court of Jackson County, graduated in law only a short time before he entered service for duty on the Mexican border, and later in the World war as an artillery officer in the Thirty-seventh Division. Mr. Powell is a son of a well known former attorney of Southern Ohio. He was born at Jackson, in Jackson County, April 11, 1892, son of Elmer C. and Sarah E. (Clark) Powell. His father was born in Gallia County, Ohio, November 1, 1849, son of Andrew J. Powell, who spent his active life as a farmer. Elmer C. Powell was reared on a farm, attended common schools and college, and in 1870 went out to Illinois, and for several years was engaged in the trade of carpenter. He married in Illinois. In 1876 he took up the study of law in that state, returned to Ohio in 1877, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Jackson, and in 1880 was elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson County and reelected in 1882. He had a large practice as a lawyer, and was a man of prominence in local affairs until his death on April 3, 1919. His widow is still living. Their children were: Fred A., who is married and has four children; Sybil M., wife of B. R. LeRoy, and the mother of a son, B. R.. Jr.; Mildred deceased wife of Maurice Osborne ; Mabel, who married Edward Althar, and has two children, Edward and Adrinee; and Reed M. Reed M. Powell attended public schools at Jackson and graduated from high school in 1909. He took one year of the academic course in Miami Univer- 462 - HISTORY OF OHIO sity, after which he engaged in business as manager of the shipping and receiving department of the Heer Engine Company of Portsmouth. He remained there until the flood of 1913 put the company out of business. He then entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, studying law and graduating in 1916. About that time the National Guard was being mobilized for duty on the Mexican border, and he joined Troop B of Cavalry, and was on duty in the Southwest for several months. On his return to Jackson he organized Battery F, enlisted for the World war May 16, 1917, and his Battery was mustered into the National Army as the One Hundred Thirty-fourth Artillery in the Thirty-seventh Division. He spent ten months in training at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, where he was commissioned a lieutenant, and from Hoboken he sailed for overseas July 1, 1918, landing at Bordeaux. He was in a training camp, then on front line duty in the Toul sector, and while in a rest area the armistice was signed. From Brest he sailed for home March 20, 1919, landing at Newport News about the first of April. His father died just a day or so after his arrival, and he at once came home, later reporting to Camp Sherman at Chillicothe, where he received his honorable discharge in April, 1919. After leaving the army he returned to Jackson, and then moved to Wellston, where he became manager of the Bachrach Company. He was manager of this coal company about two years and at the same time practiced law. In the fall of 1920 he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Jackson County, and is capably discharging the duties of this office for a four year term. He is president of the Jacksonian Club of Jackson, and is president of the Parent-Teachers' Association of that city. Judge Powell is a member of the American Legion, is a Presbyterian, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Red Men, Eagles and the Grange. On September 4, 1917, at Wellston, he married Miss Katheryn C. Carraci, daughter of H. B. and Nell (Kirker) Carraci. Her mother died in 1915. Her father is a well known coal operator in Southern Ohio, and is a Knight Templar Mason. Mrs. Powell is one of two children, her sister being Harriett. The three children of Judge and Mrs. Powell are : Sara Kay, Reed Kirkir and Eric. RAY A. MCGOVERN is secretary-treasurer of the McGovern Shoe Company, one of the important manufacturing corporations in Hocking Valley, operating plants at Logan and at Nelsonville. The branch at Nelsonville was organized in August, 1923. The Nelsonville plant has T. W. McGovern as its active head and manager. The company has had a prosperous record in manufacturing shoes for girls and children. The business was organized in 1914, with W. W. Keynes, president ; J. W. Jones, vice president; T. W. McGovern, secretary and treasurer. Since then W. J. Frasch has become president of the company. The general sales office of the company is located at 335 South High Street at Columbus, and is under the management of T. W. McGovern. Ray A. McGovern was born on a farm a mile and one-half east of McConnellsville, in Morgan County, May 14, 1888, son of Thomas and Mary McGovern. His father served four years as a Union soldier in the Civil war, losing an eye and also his health. For twenty-eight years he was in business as a merchant at East Union in Noble County, being postmaster there and also justice of the peace. On retiring from business on account of his health he removed to a farm in Morgan County, and died at the age of sixty years. He was a very active leader in the democratic party in Morgan and Noble counties, but all his sons are now republican. The four sons are T. W. McGovern, of Columbus, Ray A. McGovern, F. F. McGovern, plant superintendent of the McGovern Shoe Company, and P. C. McGovern, a salesman on the road for the company. Ray A. McGovern grew up on a farm, attended the McConnellsville High School, spent one year at the Aquinas Business College. His first employment was in the Riley Shoe Company in the plant at Columbus, of which his brother T. W. was general manager. He held various positions with that company, and in 1911 was promoted to superintendent. Three years later he was associated with the organization of the present business at Logan, and installed the machinery of the Logan plant and has had charge of its various additions. He is now manager of the Logan plant as well as secretary-treasurer of the company. Mr. McGovern married Miss Esther Welch, daughter of Warren Welch. They have a family of five children, Thomas, Esther, Mary, Louise and Ritta. Mr. McGovern is vice president of the Rotary Club at Logan, and active in all civic affairs. HON. WILLIAM E. WENNER has devoted his years since college to educational work and is well known in several Ohio communities. He is now superintendent of the Special Schools of Ashtabula Harbor. Mr. Wenner is an unusual school man, and his activities as a citizen have gained him the office of state senator, in which he represents the district including Ashtabula County. He was born at Salem, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1872. His great-grandfather was a Colonial settler in Pennsylvania, coming from Germany. His grandfather, William Wenner, spent most of his life in Clarion County, where he was a farmer and hunter. George J. Wenner, father of William E., was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in 1849, and when he was two years of age his mother walked over the mountains to Clarion County, a distance of over two hundred miles. He grew up and married in Clarion County, became a successful farmer there, and died at Salem in 1917. He was much interested in schools, serving as trustee of his home district, was a republican voter and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. George J. Wenner married Martha Finley, who was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1854, and died at Salem in 1912. William E. is the oldest of their large family of children, the others being: May R., wife of Henry Shirey, a farmer at Salem, Pennsylvania ; Elizabeth, wife of John Weller, who is a superintendent of leases and living at Emlenton, Pennsylvania ; Charles R., an oil well driller, with home at Salem; Ina, wife of Clinton Rhoads, a farmer at Salem; Harry 0., whose home is at Knox, Pennsylvania, and he is also an oil well driller ; Hattie, wife of Arthur Adams, a teacher in the public schools at Butler, Pennsylvania ; Emma, wife of Roy 0 'Neil, an oil well driller living at Butler, Pennsylvania ; Laura, wife of Arthur Pearson, an automobile dealer at New Galilee, Pennsylvania ; Lawrence, a farmer at Salem; Mrs. Grace Adams, wife of a farmer at Salem; and Arthur, the twelfth and youngest child, who died in infancy. William E. Wenner attended the public schools of Salem, spent one year in the Clarion State Normal School, and as a student in the Westminster Preparatory School at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, he completed three years' work in two and then continued his education in Westminster College, where four years later he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1897. Since leaving college Mr. Wenner has had something over a quarter of a century of active participation in educational affairs. He remained at New Wilmington for a year and a half during 1897-99 as principal of the high school, and for eight years, 1899-1906, was superintendent of schools at Fredericksburg, Ohio. HISTORY OF OHIO - 463 He then returned to Pennsylvania and was head of the English department in the Slippery Rock State Normal School through 1906 and 1907. Through fourteen summer sessions Mr. Wenner was teacher of English in Wooster University Summer School at Wooster, Ohio, and from 1907 to 1909 for two years was assistant principal of the Wooster Preparatory School. It was in 1909 that he came to Ashtabula as superintendent of schools of the Ashtabula Harbor special district. He has had the administration of these schools for sixteen years. There are five schools in the district, a total of sixty-three teachers and a scholarship enrollment of 1,600. Mr. Wenner has become one of the well known men in Ohio State legislative circles. He represented Ashtabula County in the Lower House of the General Assembly during the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Sessions, and in 1922 was elected to the State Senate for the Eighty-fifth Session of 1923, representing the counties of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Portage and Summit. His particular interest in the Legislature has been all bills and measures affecting the educational interests of the state, and he has also been a keen student of labor bills. He was patron of the Occupational Disease Bill, part of the workmen's compensation act. Mr. Wenner is a republican, and was elected to the Legislature on that ticket. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church of Ashtabula and teacher of the Men 's Forum in the Sunday School. He is affiliated with Garfield Lodge No. 528, Free and Accepted Masons, at Shreve, Ohio, Western Reserve Chapter No. 8, Royal Arch Masons, at Ashtabula, Columbian Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar, Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masons, at Conneaut. Some of his civic work has been through the medium of the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce, and he has been one of its Board of Directors for ten years. Mr. Wenner is a member of the Exchange Club at Ashtabula, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. He is a stockholder in the Marine National Bank of Ashtabula and the Ashtabula Steel Plate Company. During the World war he was one of the four minute speakers in Ashtabula County and a member of the Flying Squadron during the Liberty Bond campaign. On January 8. 1902, at Salem, Pennsylvania, Mr. Wenner married Miss Margie L. Rugh, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Fowles) Rugh. Mrs. Wenner finished her education in the Clarion State Normal School. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wenner are Thomas J. and Leland C. The latter is a student in the Ashtabula Harbor High School. Thomas, a member of the junior class of Ohio State University at Columbus, served as a page in the House of Representatives during the Eighty-third Session, and in the summer of 1923 made a hiking tour through Europe, visiting every country in Western Europe. EVAN M. JONES. Like so many of the high class technical men in the iron and steel business of Ohio, Evan M. Jones is a Welshman. He is a master of everything connected with the rolling of tin plate and has filled every position in a tin plate mill up to superintendent. Mr. Jones is now established at Ashtabula as manager and vice president of the Ashtabula Steel Sheet Company. He was born at Swansea, South Wales, February 17, 1880, and comes of a family of steel workers. His father, David Jones, was born in South Wales in 1839, and during his early manhood lived at Llanelly in South Wales, and for ten years was manager of the tin sheet mills there. He then removed to Swansea as district manager of the Swansea and South Wales Sheet and Tin Plate Company, and held that position until his death in 1891. Up to that time practically all the best tin plate in the world was manufactured in Wales. He was a liberal in politics and a member of the Methodist Church. David Jones married Miss Sarah Davis, who was born in South Wales, in 1838. She is now living, at the age of eighty-five, at Baltimore, Maryland, where several of her children also reside. Her oldest son, David, is foreman at the Eastern Rolling Mills at Baltimore. Margaret, who died at Cardiff, Wales, when twenty-eight years of age, married John Jones, now living in Canada and a jeweler by trade. Sarah, a resident of Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the widow of Isaac Jones, who was in the book and stationery business, and died at Pittsburgh. John M. is one of the prominent industrial leaders in the City of Baltimore, where he is president of the Eastern Rolling Mills Company and president of the Baltimore Tube and Brass Company. Thomas is superintendent of the shearing department of the Eastern Rolling Mills Company at Baltimore. Gwendolyn married William H. Davey, one of the famous Davey Brothers in the iron and steel industry of Ohio, William H. Davey being president of the Mansfield Sheet and Tin Plate Company and is also president of the Ashtabula Steel Sheet Company. Evan M. Jones, the seventh and youngest child of his parents, was eleven years old when his father died. He acquired a public school education at Swansea. and in 1894, at the age of fourteen, came to the United States. He continued his education for a time in the public schools of Pittsburgh. His experience in the plate industry began in that city as a scrap boy at the Fifteenth Street plant of the Monongahela Tin Plate Company. He served his apprenticeship, and with the skill of his race made himself a shearman, one of the important technical trades. Then followed a journeyman career involving many successive responsibilities. In 1898 he became a shearman with the McIntosh and Hemphill Tin Plate plant at Eleventh Street and Penn Avenue, in Pittsburgh, being promoted to heater and the doubler on the hot mills; from 1904 for three years he was doubler on the tin mills at Sharon, Pennsylvania ; next was in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, working in various mills as shearman, doubler and heater ; for one year was sheet mill shearman at Follansbee. West Virginia ; then became a roller in the tin and sheet mills at Harrisburg. Pennsylvania ; was a roller for the Carnahan Tin Plate Mills at Canton, Ohio, a year, and from there went to Massillon, Ohio, working for the Massillon Rolling Mills Company as sheet mill roller for a number of years. Mr. Jones from Massillon became hot mill superintendent for the Bethlehem Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, and during the five years he anent there, was promoted to general superintendent of the sheet and jobbing mills. For two and one-half years he was again at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as general manager of the Lalance and Grosiean Manufacturing Company's Rolling Mills, and for six months was general superintendent of the Parkersburg Iron and Steel Company at Parkersburg, West Virginia. It was on September 15, 1923, that Mr. Jones came to Ashtabula to become manager and second vice president of the Ashtabula Steel Sheet Company. This plant was completed and put in operation in September, 1922. and is an important local industry. manufacturing black and high grade sheets and blue annealed sheets. It employs 350 hands. The plant and offices are located on the State Road, a mile and half northeast of the business center of Ashtabula. Mr. Jones is a republican voter and a member of the Baptist Church. In December, 1919. at Washington, D. C., he married Miss Martha H. Benson, 464 - HISTORY OF OHIO daughter of Robert and Fannie (Hodges) Benson, residents of Glenburnie, Maryland, where her father is a farmer. Mrs. Jones is a college graduate. They have two children: Evan Morewood, born November 8, 1920; and Marguerite Gwendolyn, born January 20, 1923. EDGAR B. LOCKWOOD, county auditor of Jefferson County, was for many years in the service of the United States Steel Corporation, and is well known over the country around Steubenville. He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 19, 1883, son of William and Margaret (Larkins) Lockwood. The Lockwoods are of English and the Larkins of Irish ancestry. His grandfathers, John Lockwood and Michael Larkins, were both pioneer settlers in Wisconsin. William Lockwood was a Union soldier, fighting four years in the battles of the Civil war as a member of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. All his business life was sent in the service of the American Express Company, and for many years he was agent for the company at Milwaukee. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. William Lockwood died in 1892, and his widow has survived him more than thirty years. They had four children: Everett, William (who died in 1907), Raymond and Edgar B. Edgar B. Lockwood attended the grammar and high schools of Milwaukee, and for about a year was employed in the Army Transport Department at New York City. Following that he entered the service of the United States Steel Corporation, and for a number of years was one of the auditors of the corporation, spending eighteen years at Mingo Plant. While there he became interested in politics in Jefferson County, was made candidate for county auditor and was elected in November, 1922, beginning his official term in March, 1923. Mr. Lockwood married at Steubenville, November 1, 1910, Miss Mary Irene Coates, daughter of John and Francis (Gardner) Coates. Her father was a nailer in a nail factory in the days when cut nails were made. He died November 11, 1918, and his wife in 1921. There were seven children in the Coates family: Harry, deceased; Edna, who married Herbert Burnes and had six children; Mrs. Lockwood; Gardner, deceased; Leland R., who married Elizabeth Hileman, and they have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Richard Roy; Edith, who married S. C. Selah, and they have one child; and Gerald T., who married Julia Farrar and has a daughter, Martha Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Loekwood's little family consists of Dorothy, Jean and Betty. They are members of the Second United Presbyterian Church at Steubenville. Mr. Lockwood is a Scottish Rite Mason and Elk and belongs to the Riverview Country Club.