50 - HISTORY OF OHIO the original settlement of what later became the City of Columbus. Their first child was born there. About 1820 they removed to a farm in Clinton Township where they spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. Innis' father, William H. Innis, was born in Clinton. Township February 2, 1824. Adam G. Innis was educated in the common schools, spent his early life on the old farm, and finished his education in the Ohio State University, then known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. Throughout his active career he has been a farmer, in Clinton Township, and still classifies his occupation as farming. In late years important business interests in Columbus have demanded more and more of his attention. One of .these interests. is the International Telephone Company, with which he has been identified for several years. In the spring of 1923 he was elected president, and now gives most of his time to his executive duties. This company owns the patents and manufactures a remarkable telephone switchboard and auxiliary apparatus which enables the telephone user on a party line to make such individual selection of the wine as to carry on conversation entirely private without the possibility of interruption or overhearing, thus doing away entirely with the objectionable features of 'the party line. Mr. Innis married Miss Emma B. Schneider, and they have reared a fine family of nine children, named John B., Ray A., Charles D., Mrs. Esther Rusk, Miss Harriet Innis, Emmerson, Merrill, Mrs. Helen Bale and Miss Mary Innis. Mr. Innis has always taken a lively interest in the upbuilding of the community of which he has been a part, his entire life having been spent within two miles of the place where he was born. He has served as justice of the peace in Franklin Township' for twenty-four years. He is a trustee in the McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been the treasurer for forty-four years. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic. Shrine. RALPH W. HOVER. One of the most successful life insurance agencies in Ohio is that of Ralph W. Hoyer, general agent for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. His father started in the life insurance business forty years ago, and his son, Ralph W. Hoyer, since graduating from the State University, where "he achieved special distinction in athletics, has taken up the same line of work and has done much to extend the connections and the splendid reputation of this Columbus agency. William E. Hoyer, the senior member ,of the firm, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His father was born near Philadelphia and became a pioneer of Holmes County, Ohio. W. E. Hoyer for a number of years was an. educator. For fourteen years he was a teacher in Holmes County, most of the time being principal of the high school at Millersburg. He entered the life insurance business in Mount Vernon, and in 1885 he removed with his family to Columbus. From the standpoint of the number of years of active service he became one of the oldest in this profession in Columbus. He married Amanda F. Harris July 1, 1873, and his death occurred at Columbus September 12, 1923. Ralph W. Hoyer, their son, was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, February 1, 1883, but has lived practically all his life in the City of Columbus. He is a graduate of the North Side High School, and in 1902 entered the Ohio State University. He was-graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1906. During his student career Ohio State was just rising to its appropriate rank as one of the leading: universities of the Middle. West in athletics. He was one of the players who brought early fame to the University team. He played on the football team in 1903, 1904 and 1905, being captain in 1905. He then remained as coach during 1906 and 1907. His record of achievement and service is one of the highest in the athletic annals of the University. He has served for a number of years as athletic member of the Board of Directors of the Ohio State University Alumni Association. Prior to graduating he had definitely chosen his father 's as his own vocation. He joined his father, as junior member of W. E. .and R. W. Hoyer, and individually is one of the best known insurance men in the state. At the university Mr. Hoyer was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He is a member of the First Congregational Church, the Columbus Athletic Club and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. On June 2, 1909, he married Miss Eva Barnhill, of Columbus. She is also a graduate of Ohio State University. Her father, the late Dr. James U. Barnhill, was distinguished both as a physician and scholar. At one time he was chancellor of Ohio Medical College, and Wooster College conferred upon him the Doctor of Philosophy degree. He was greatly interested in educational affairs, and was author of a history of the public school system of Columbus. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyer are: William Barnhill and Elizabeth Jane. JOHN BRUCE DOLLISON, former newspaper man, former member of the State Senate, is best known over 'his native State of Ohio for his prominence in building and loan associations. He is regarded as an expert in everything connected with the financing and management of building and loan societies. For five years he was an examiner in the State Building and Loan Department, and for three years of that time was chief examiner in the Columbus District. Mr. Dollison was born at Logan in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1869, son of Dr. G. W. and Jane (Barker) Dollison. His home was at Logan for many years. He completed his public school education there, later attended the Zanesville Business College, and in the office of the old Logan. Sentinel learned typesetting, and gradually became interested in all phases of newspaper work. He was editor and publisher of the Logan Sentinel for a number of years, and his experience in the journalistic field at Logan covered about a score of years. After selling his newspaper interests Mr. Dollison entered the service of the state in the department of building and loan associations. In that capacity he appeared on the program in many building and loan district conventions, and for a time was instructor in the Building and Loan Institute at Youngstown. As examiner he made the annual inspection of the Columbian Building and Loan Company at Columbus, and in that way attracted the attention of the directors of the company. On April 1, 1923, leaving the service of the state, he became vice president and manager of the Peoples Savings Company at Warren, Ohio. However, four months later he resigned, and, returning to Columbus, accepted the offer of the board of directors to act as secretary and cashier of the Columbian Building & Loan Company, which .position he now holds. Mr. Dollison's home has been in Columbus since 1918. His service in the State Senate was as representative of what is known as the Athens District, comprising Hocking, Athens and five other counties in the southern part of the state. He was elected in 1912 on the democratic ticket, and was a member of the General Assembly of 1913. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and HISTORY OF OHIO - 51 Protective Order of Elks and several other fraternal organizations. Mr. Dollison married Miss Alberta Devore, of Gallia County, Ohio. Their two children are Edna C. and James Bruce. JOHN FRANKLIN CARLISLE has been a practicing Columbus attorney for over twenty years, and has enjoyed a large business in his profession. He is perhaps best known professionally in his work as assignment commissioner of the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Carlisle was born in Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio, September 4, 1875, son of James M. and Lillie Jane (Frey) Carlisle. His mother is still living. The Carlisle family came to America from Scotland about 1751.. William Carlisle was born on the Atlantic Ocean while his parents were making the voyage. His three sons became the founders of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. One of .these sons, William Carlisle, II., was the grand ancestor of the Columbus attorney. From Pennsylvania representatives of the family came to Ohio between 1820 and 1830, and settled near New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County. The name has been prominent in that section of the state ever since. The late James Milton Carlisle came to Columbus in 1872, and for a time was in the wholesale grocery business. He then established his home at Crestline in Crawford County, where he was a wholesale grocer until 1894, and subsequently for a number of years was connected with the Bench Plow Works at Crestline. It was at Crestline that John Franklin Carlisle acquired his public school education. He also spent two years there in a select school studying languages and higher mathematics, taught country school, and for two years studied law in the office of J. C. Laser at Mansfield. To assist him while getting started in his profession he acted as official court stenographer for Richland and Ashland counties. With the benefit of his private studies and his practical training Mr. Carlisle came to Columbus and entered the law department of the Ohio State University, and completed the regular two-year course in one year. He graduated in the class of 1899, which contained 175 members. In the same year he took up private practice at Columbus. From 1901 to 1903 Mr. Carlisler was deputy clerk of the courts of Franklin County. He as well as other officials had to contend with the great difficulties connected with assigning cases in the Common Pleas Court. Better methods of handling the problem had been tried by both the judges and members of the County Bar Association, but without success. Mr. Carlisle after much study devised a plan which he presented and which was approved and adopted by the court and bar and inaugurated in actual practice in September, 1903. As an official charged with responsibility of carrying out the plan Mr. Carlisle was appointed assignment commissioner, which name he invented, and that office he has held ever since. The assignment of cases for trial in the various divisions of the court is now centralized in one office and under one authority. A " call list" is made up containing the style and number of cases. The list is divided into two general classes, jury cases and equity cases. Cases are set for trial from these lists either by the assignment commissioner or by agreement among counsel. The plan devised by Mr. Carlisle and put in practice by ,him has greatly expedited the work of the courts. It has been estimated that the improvement amounts to forty per cent over the old system, naturally resulting in the saving of thousands of dollars per year to courts and litigants. Mr. Carlisle is a past exalted ruler of the Columbus Lodge of Elks, is a former president of the Buckeye Republican Club and is president of the McGuffey Society of Columbus. He married Easter. B. Gledhill, a. native of Ohio. Their two children are John G. and Jeannet Z. Mr. Carlisle has been and is now identified with a number of organizations. He was twice president of the South Side Civic Association of Columbus, Ohio, which had 'much to do in the matter of civic improvement in South Columbus, such as the new Greenlawn Avenue bridge, schools and parks. Professionally he is identified with the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, of which he is now and has been treasurer for six years, and a member of the Franklin County Bar Association. COL. CHALMERS R. WILSON, a native Ohioan with a distinguished record in the military organization of the state and in the service overseas during the World war, has been a resident of Columbus for over thirty years, and is present registrar of automobiles for Ohio. He was born at Morristown, Belmont County, in 1878, and during his boyhood attended public schools in that section of the state. His home has been in Columbus since 1891, and for a number of years he was active in business in the capital city. His military service covers a period of nearly thirty years with both the old National Guard and the Federalized National Guard. In 1895 he enlisted as a private in Company B of the Fourteenth Ohio Regiment of Infantry. In 1904 he reenlisted in Company B, Signal Corps. He rose to the rank of captain -of the Signal Corps Company, and commanded it on the Mexican border during 1916-17. In the spring of 1917, after the return from the border he was assigned to duty with the Signal Corps troops at Camp Perry, Ohio, during the summer of 1917. In September of that year he was promoted to major and became signal officer of the Thirty-seventh Division on the staff of Maj.-Gen. C. S. Farnsworth, commander of the division. He accompanied the division overseas in June, 1918, and was from that time constantly on duty along the battle front in Northeast France and in Belgium until the armistice. For distinguished service in the Signal Corps he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in December, 1918, and in January, 1919, the Belgium Croix de Guerre was conferred, regarding which honor the following article is quoted: "Col. Chalmers R. Wilson, registrar of the state automobile department, yesterday received a diploma, bearing the signature of King Albert of Belgium, awarding him the Croix de Guerre of Belgium in appreciation of his services as chief signal officer of the Thirty-seventh Division, during the big drive against German forces in Flanders, during the last year of the world war. "This prized possession recently was forwarded to the war department through the military attache, U. S. embassy, Paris, and was sent to Colonel Wilson by Adjutant General H. L. Walthall of the war department. "Accompanying the diploma was an official translation by the war department, translating the inscription of the diploma, which reads: 'Kingdom of Belgium, The Minister of National Defense has the honor to inform Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers R. Wilson, headquarters, Thirty-seventh Division, that, by Royal Decree No. 6624, of the 22nd day of January, 1920, the Croix de Guerre has been conferred upon him, as of the 22nd day of January, 1919. He particularly distinguished himself by his courage 52 - HISTORY OF OHIO during the victorious offensive in Flanders. (Signed) : Albert Deveze. ‘" Colonel Wilson returned home in March, 1919. For two years he was in the adjutant-general's department as assistant chief of operations and training of the Federalized Ohio National Guard, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is now a staff officer with the title of assistant chief-of-staff G-3, Thirty-seventh Division Headquarters. At the beginning of the present state administration, on January 8, 1923, Colonel Wilson assumed the office of registrar of automobiles for Ohio, receiving his appointment from Secretary of State Maj. Thad H. Brown. His department has charge of the licensing of automobiles, to the number of about 1,000,000, yearly. Colonel Wilson is a member of the American Legion and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and Elk. He is married and has one son, Chalmers R. Wilson, Jr.. WILLIAM H. FISHER, of Columbus, is one of the best known railway officials in Ohio. He has been general passenger agent for the Hocking Valley Railway for a 'third of a century,, and was identified with railroading in various other capacities for a dozen years prior to this long and continuous service. Mr. Fisher was born Auguste 5, 1854, five miles east of Elyria, in Lorain County, son of Hart E. and Lucretia (Lilley) Fisher. His father 'was a native of Vermont and his mother of Massachusetts. William H. Fisher was reared in Elyria, attended the public schools there and learned the printer 's trade. He worked at printing for several years. In 1879 he was publishing " The Railroader" at Toledo. This was a weekly paper devoted to the interests of the railroads and railroad people. Doubtless it was 'the means of introducing him to what has filled his permanent career in the railroad service. When he retired in 1880 from the management of the paper it was to take a position .as traveling passenger agent for 'the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railway, now part of the Lake Erie & Western. His headquarters were in Indianapolis. Subsequently he was ticket agent for the Wabash Railroad at Indianapolis, and while there he was attracted back into his old field, journalism, and for three years had charge of the outside circulation of the Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Fisher following this became general agent at Indianapolis for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and in 1889 was made general passenger agent of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville, with Fort Wayne, Indiana, as 'his headquarters. This road subsequently became a part of the Lake Erie & Western. It was in 1890 that Mr. Fisher came to Columbus to take up the duties of general passenger agent for the Hocking Valley Railway. During the World war Mr. Fisher had charge of Liberty Bond sales among the employes of the Hocking Valley system. Under his leadership, and with the assistance of his chosen associates, more than a million dollars worth of bonds were sold. Mr. Fisher was one of the organizers in June, 1908, of the old Columbus Rifles, a famous independent military unit of its day, and one which acted as a picturesque adjunct of many notable occasions not' only in Columbus, but in distant cities as well. The Columbus Rifles attended officially the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, being a full company of 100, together with a military band of fifty. Similarly they participated at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. The organization was maintained a period of eleven years, and for ten years of this time Mr. Fisher was captain. When the war with Germany came on Captain Fisher secured a reorganization of the old company, which was designated as Company E, being part of the regiment of Reserve Guards. Mr. Fisher was elected captain, and subsequently, was promoted to major. Captain Fisher 's home is at Worthington, a suburb north of Columbus. He is an active spirit in the local affairs of that community, being former president of the Chamber of Commerce, is the present mayor of the village, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Fisher married Miss Mary S. Cunningham, of Elyria. Her father, Myron H. Cunningham, is one of the oldest persons in the state, his one-hundredth birthday anniversary falling in September, 1923. He is still in possession of his physical and mental qualities, and is a remarkable instance of vigorous old age. Captain and Mrs. Fisher have three children and seven grandchildren. Their children are Carl H. and Lewis W. Fisher, and Ruth, wife of Frank E. Archer. MAURICE HERBERT DONAHUE has rounded out a quarter of a century of continuous service on the bench, and has earned a position among Ohio's ablest and most distinguished jurists. For the past five years his service has been as United States judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Donahue was born at Chapel Hill, in Perry County, Ohio, May 10, 1864, son of Maurice and Louisa O'Neil Donahue. His parents were bah born in the United States, his father being of Irish and. French descent. Louisa O'Neil's father was Irish and her mother German. The father of Judge Donahue was a contractor in stone construction, and had a widely extended business, his work being in connection with navigable river improvements. The mother of Judge Donahue was born and educated in Philadelphia. Maurice Herbert Donahue was educated in the public schools and under private instructors. A successful experience as a teacher preceded his entrance to the legal profession. He began teaching in the public schools at the age of sixteen, and when he was nineteen years old was elected superintendent of the Corning public schools, a position he held two years. In the meantime he had been diligently studying law, and in 1885, at the age of twenty-one, was admitted to the bar. He was engaged in private practice at New Lexington, Ohio, until 1901. His first important official service was as prosecuting attorney of Perry County, an office he held two terms. His career on the bench has been continuous since 1900. From 1900 to 1911 he was judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, then known as the Ohio Circuit Court, Fifth Circuit of Ohio, and during 1909-10 he was chief .justice of the Court of Appeals. From 1911 to 1919 he was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, being elected for two terms, but resigned to become judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Sixth Circuit in November, 1919. Judge Donahue is a democrat. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Optimists Club, the Athletic. Club, the Kit-Kat Club, the Scioto Country Club, and belongs to the Elks, Knights of Columbus. and the Catholic Church. He married at New Lexington, Ohio, September 10, 1889, Martina Johnson, daughter of J. J. Johnson, president of the Perry County Bank of New Lexington. Judge and Mrs. Donahue, whose home is in Columbus, have one daughter, Zita, wife of J. A. Ruthemeyer, of Cincinnati, Ohio. FRED H. TIBBETTS, the present postmaster of Columbus, has been identified in a business way with that city for many years as a printer, but is known HISTORY OF OHIO - 53 all over the state as one of the most popular leaders in the republican party. For many years he has been actively identified with the famous Republican Glee Club, of which he is president, and he is a former presidcnt of the Buckeye Republican Club. Mr. Tibbetts was born at Milan in Erie County, Ohio, in 1870, son of J. M. and Caroline (Hoag) Tibbetts. His parents both came from Connecticut, and were people of high educational ideals and represented the strong and virile stock of Ohioans characteristic of the old Western Reserve. J. M. Tibbetts was a graduate of Oberlin College. In 1872 he moved with his family to Columbus to take the position of clerk to Thomas W. Harvey, then state superintendent of education. Thomas W. Harvey is known to fame as author of the famous Harvey grammars, text books that figured in the school life of millions .of American boys and girls of the past generation. After Mr. Harvey went out of office J. M. Tibbetts took up the practice of law at Columbus, and was so engaged until his death. Fred H. Tibbetts has, therefore, spent practically all his life in Columbus. He was educated in the public schools, and as a boy learned the printer's trade. Printing has been his business for nearly forty years. While still in his teens he bought a small job printing office, and from that was developed the successful job printing business which he has conducted for many years. Mr. Tibbetts received an unsolicited honor from his old time friend and fellow craftsman, President Warren G. Harding, who appointed him in December, 1922, postmaster of Columbus, to succeed Mr. Samuel A. Kinnear. Mr. Tibbetts took charge of the postoffice January 1, 1923. His appointment has given universal satisfaction. Mr. Tibbetts became a member of the Republican Glee Club of Columbus in 1892. He has sung with the club in all National campaigns for thirty years, and has appeared with it on many notable occasions when the club has shared an important part in such programs as the Presidential inauguration in Washington, and at conventions and other gatherings of the party in New York and other cities. His long association with the club has given Mr. Tibbetts a most interesting acquaintance and friendship- among men' who have been conspicuous in politics and public affairs for a quarter of a century. He is also one of the older members of the Buckeye Republican Club, and its former president. While he was president this club enjoyed a larger increase in membership and general efficiency than ever before. Mr. Tibbetts married Miss Nettie Belle Adams, of Delaware County. They have two sons: Fred H., Jr., is a senior in the Ohio State University, specializing in mechanical engineering, and Kingston E. is attending East High School at Columbus. ERWIN THEODORE WITTENMEIER, vice president of the Columbus Builders Exchange, secretary of the Eureka Stone & Marble Company, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Ohio Stucco Company, is master of one of the most important and popular departments of the building construction, stucco work, in which he has done a very extensive business as a contractor. Mr. Wittenmeier was born. in Columbus, February 9, 1889. His father, the late Frederick Wittenmeier, who died in 1920, long occupied a prominent place in the building industry. at Columbus. He was a stone contractor, was a master of the trade himself, and eventually built up an organization with equipment and capital to enable him to carry out the largest contracts. Some of the ;large buildings which he erected at Columbus include the Franklin County Courthouse, the addition to the State Capitol, and many others in the city and throughout the state. E. T. Wittenmeier was educated in the grammar schools and the South High School at Columbus, and as a boy he learned the stone cutter 's trade under his father, and he r can hardly remember a time when he was not familiar with the atmosphere and some of the technic of the building industry. All his active experience has been in • this one line. He has been a contractor of both stone and stucco construction. In 1918 he organized the Ohio Stucco Company, of which he is the managing executive. The company has expert workmen and all the facilities and trade rights for stucco work for all kinds of building. It has performed many contracts for the popular pebble dash, with finish in all colors, also the imitation stone, rough cast. The contracts of the company are not confined to Columbus, but really make it a state wide business concern. It is the company that has done most of the business in large construction in its territory, particularly churches, schools, hospitals, business blocks, the larger and more expensive public and private buildings. Mr. Wittenmeier 's workmen are all skilled and technically expert. Most of them learned their trade in Austria, where stucco construction has always been featured and where the finest examples of this work are to be found, often in buildings hundreds of years old. Mr. Wittenmeier had been a director of the Columbus Builders Exchange when in January, 1924, he was honored with the office 'of vice president. The Builders Exchange ranks next in importance to the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Wittenmeier is also affiliated with the Elks and with the members of the Lions Club. He married Miss Alice May Wilkinson, and they have two children, Erwin Joseph and Alice Virginia. WAYNE BREHM, M. D. As obstetrician Dr. Wayne Brehm of Columbus has achieved first rank in the profession. He was a major in the Medical Corps during the World war, serving eighteen months, and with that exception has practiced at Columbus since he graduated. Doctor Brehm was born at Somerset, in Perry County, Ohio, in 1890, son of G. M. and Lucy (Lenhart) Brehm. He was reared in his native town, graduated from the Somerset High School and taught school for a time. He then entered the Medical Department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, and was graduated with the class of 1914, and immediately began practice in that city. Almost since graduation, with the exception of the war period, he has been instructor in obstetrics and gynecology in the-Ohio State University. For a number of years his practice has been confined to obstetrics and gynecology and diseases of women and children. Doctor Brehm was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps before America entered the World war. In May, 1917, he was called to active duty, and was promoted to the rank of captain in the Army Medical Corps in November, 1917. Throughout the entire period of war he was on duty at. Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, as instructor in, the Medical Officers Training Camp. In the spring of 1918 he was promoted to the rank of major, and served until his honorable discharge in December, 1918. Following his discharge he took a post-graduate course in New York, and yearly has taken some special study and observation. His private r practice and his duties at the University make him one of the very busy professional men of the city. 54 - HISTORY OF OHIO Doctor Brehm is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias. In June, 1923, he was honored by election as president of the North Side Commercial Club of Columbus. This is a live organization of public spirited citizens engaged in promoting the best interests of that section of the capital city. Doctor Brehm married Miss Evah Wells. CHARLES W. COOKSON. Among the men endowed with the true gift of inspired leadership in the educational life of the state, one of the most notable is Dr. Charles W. Cookson, present superintendent of public schools in Franklin County. Doctor Cookson has been a teacher, school administrator, lec- turer on the educational platform and at all times has had a vital message to deliver and an influence for good to exercise, whether in contact with children or in his work among teachers. His own life has been a record of self achievement. He was born in Clayton Township, Perry County, Ohio, son of William and Maria Cookson, and his early advantages were limited to the country schools of that day. He attended Fultenham Academy in Muskingum County, completed his sopho- more year in Wooster College, and in 1895 was graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Pedagogy at the Ohio University at Athens. Subsequently Ohio University conferred upon him the degrees Master of Arts and Doctor of Pedagogy. These degrees marked real achievement as a scholar and also in his work as a teacher, since he had taught school at intervals throughout the period he was obtaining his college education. He taught at Shawnee, New Straitsville and Somerset, and in 1906 was appointed superintendent of schools at Troy, Ohio. That office he held for thirteen years. In the summer of 1919 he accepted the offer made by the county Board of Education of Franklin County to become county superintendent of schools, and since then his office and home have been in Columbus. In Franklin County Doctor Cookson has repeated the success that has long attended his efforts as a teacher and superintendent. He is thoroughly modern, progressive, a fine type of the school man of the twentieth century. He has under his jurisdiction all the schools of Franklin County except those of the independent District of Columbus. Altogether there are about 100 hundred schools and almost 400 teachers. Doctor Cookson is a member of the Masonic. Order, the Columbus Optimist Club, and for years has been active in church and particularly in Sunday school work. He has regarded the Sunday school as a sort of corollary to the secular school, and each Sunday he mates it a rule to attend as many Sunday schools as he can visit over the county. Doctor Cookson was formerly assistant professor of English at Miami University Summer School, and for a number of years has been one of the most popular and forceful lecturers and institute instructors. He has been connected with a number of summer institutes and has also delivered some short addresses and lectures at educational gatherings and at chautauquas. His fame as a lecturer is appreciated in many Ohio communities and also in other states. In closing this brief sketch something should be said of the notable occasion at Troy in June, 1919, when Doctor Cookson left that community to begin his new duties at Columbus. The occasion was a farwell service in his honor at the First Presbyterian Church, and, as described by the Troy Daily News, it was "such a demonstration as has never been witnessed in Troy before, testing the seating capacity of the church by those come to express by their presence their sincere regret in losing such an efficien. head of the schools and such a worthy citizen as Mr. Cookson." Rev. R. H. Dunaway, pastor of the church, presided, and one of the guests, H. C. Sellers, a boyhood friend of Mr. Cookson's, was present and told of his friend's exemplary boyhood life and his struggles for an education by working on the farm and in the coal mines. Other appreciative speeches were made by Leonard H. Shipman in behalf of the church; Vernon C. LeFevre, for the Masonic Order; Rev. Upton Thomas, who represented the Rotary Club; Warner Arnold, a graduate of the Troy High School, who paid the tribute in behalf of the colored people of the community; while Mrs. Hannah Gahagan delivered the tribute from the social leaders, Mayor Clay E. Harmon, the appreciation of the city officials. O. B. May, in behalf of the labor element; E. E. Edgar, for the manufacturers' and other speakers were B. E. Gibbs, J. C. Fullerton, Jr., William Babb, Mrs. Walter C. Pierce, Miss Rebecca Epply, Ivan Terrell and C. W. Walters. DEMUS B. ULREY. Throughout his professional career as a lawyer Mr. Ulrey has been established at Columbus, and has practiced law for more than a quarter of a century. His time and interests have been wholly devoted to his profession, and his only important public service has been in capacities where his legal training has personally qualified him. Mr. Ulrey was born at Marengo, Morrow County, Ohio, June 11, 1873, son of David and Melinda (Bennett) Ulrey. His father was an Ohio farmer, and the son grew up on the old homestead in Morrow County. He graduated from the Marengo High School. For several years the family lived in East Tennessee, their home being in Cleveland in that state. While there Demus Ulrey attended the Cleveland public schools. Subsequently he was a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and took up the study of law in Cincinnati Law College, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1896. Soon after graduating Mr. Ulrey came to Co. lumbus, and has been engaged in a steadily increasing law practice in that city ever since. He is an attorney of the highest standing, and has always enjoyed high esteem as a citizen. Mr. Ulrey served as city civil service commissioner during the municipal administration of Mayor Hinkle. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Lions Club and the Co lumbus Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Ulrey married Miss Alice Rogers, of Cleveland, Tennessee. They have one daughter living, Esther. ALBERT L. FREY, imperial secretary of th Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, with official headquarters for the international organization at Columbus, has been an active member of the Knights of Pythias and its official auxiliaries as well as its allied order, the Knights of Khorassan, for many years. The Knights of Khorassan was first organized in Milwaukee in 1895 and was incorporated by special act of Congress in 1909. Every Knight o Khorassan is necessarily a Knight of Pythias, the Khorassan being primarily a social and yet a dark-able order, and there is hardly an important section of the United States where it is not represented in membership. The imperial officers of the order at the present time are as follows: Imperial Prince, Gus Meese, HISTORY OF OHIO - 55 Spokane, Washington; Imperial Basha, D. W. C. Yarbrough, Birmingham, Alabama; Imperial Kadi, C. F. Weiland, Dallas, Texas; Imperial Secretary, A. L. Frey, Columbus, Ohio; Imperial Treasurer, Charles Stansbury, Los Angeles, California; Imperial Sheik, A. W. Fossum, Aberdeen, South Dakota; Imperial Adool, W. H. Duthie, Barre, Vermont; Im-. penal Ikfir, F. E. Braggins, Erie, Pennsylvania ; Imperial Azim, W. W. Austin, San Diego, California; Imperial Trustees, J. L. Heizer, Charleston, West Virginia; J. G. Eager, Racine, Wisconsin, and Henry Hesse, St. Joseph, Missouri. Mr. Frey of Columbus was chosen imperial secretary at the Imperial Palace Session in 1913, held at Minneapolis, Minnesota. At that time the order numbered about 18,000 members, and in the past ten years has grown in strength to approximately 100,000, and now embraces 165 subordinate temples covering the entire states and Canada. The business of the order is transacted through the offices of the imperial secretary at Columbus. Mr. Frey was born in Coshocton. County, Ohio, in 1867. He was fifteen years of age when in 1882 the family located at Columbus, where he finished his public school education and also attended business college. Mr. Frey is well known in local business circles, having received his early training in the store of his uncle, Z. L. White, which at that time was one of the most prominent dry goods houses of Columbus. Later he engaged in the carpet and furniture business as a buyer for the Howald Furniture Company of Columbus, and was with that firm thirteen years, until he resigned in 1913 to take up his present duties. Mr. Frey is a charter member of Champion Lodge, Knights of Pythias, which was instituted June 2, 1892, and during his thirty years of membership has served his lodge in all of its official stations, and for five terms represented it in the Grand Lodge. Mr. Frey married, May 23, 1902, Miss Mabel Innis, of Columbus, daughter of Henry M. Innis, and they have two children, Innis Gordon and Bruce Beatty Frey. JoHN F. WARD. The position of John F. Ward as a member of the Columbus bar rests upon a quarter of a century of earnest and successful practice and a worthy performance of all the varied obligations of a professional man. Socially Mr. Ward is well known as past exalted ruler of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was born at New Lexington, Ohio, in 1873. He finished his work in the New Lexington public schools, and for a time was a teacher in Perry County. His early law studies were pursued in the office of L. A. Tussing at New Lexington, and later he finished his law course in the Ohio State Univer sity, where he received his diploma in 1898. In 'the same year lie began practice at Columbus, and for a number of years has been busy with an extensive practice in the various State and Federal courts. His offices are in the Outlook Building. For many years Mr. Ward has been a hard working member of Columbus Lodge Of Elks. During 1921 he was esteemed leading knight, and in the spring of 1922 he was nominated and elected exalted ruler of the lodge. He was nominated by former Governor James E. Campbell, who emphasized especially as his qualifications his irreproachable private character and the fact that he has never shirked an Elk responsibility or neglected a fraternal obligation. The Columbus Lodge of Elks is one of the most prosperous organizations of the kind in the United States. The Elks home at Columbus is one of the very finest, and the lodge also maintains a country club house exclusively for the members of the club. In many respects Columbus Lodge has served to deepen the impression of the real influence and work of the Elks order. It has exemplified this spirit in deeds of charity and genuine helpfulness to the unfortunate and has stood for a program of unselfish generosity at all times. Mr. Ward married, June 30, 1903, Theresa A. Greene at St. Joseph, Perry County, Ohio. They have one child, a daughter, Jane Frances. CHARLES H. ORR is one of the leading business men of Columbus, being active head and proprietor of Beck & Orr, book manufacturers and stationers. Mr. Orr has been in this line of business since early youth, and the establishment reflects his long experience and keen commercial ability. He was born in Cincinnati, in 1864, but since 1880 his home has been in Columbus. He acquired a public school education, and learned the book binder 's trade with the firm of Siebert & Lilley. In 1888 he joined the late Edward L. Beck and founded the firm of Beck & Orr, bookbinders, stationers and manufacturers of loose leaf systems. Mr. Beck died in 1918, but the business is still. conducted under the old firm name, with Mr. Orr as sole proprietor. This is one of the largest firms of its kind in the state. It has enjoyed a steadily growing prosperity for over thirty years. Some years ago the firm erected its own factory and offices, a modern commercial structure two stories and basement, at 214-216 Oak Street. The building occupies a frontage of 61 1/2 feet on Oak Street, and has a depth of 108 feet. Mr. Orr is a member of the famous Republican Glee Club of Columbus. This club is regarded as a state institution. Through a long period of years it has sung in presidential campaigns, has appeared at many notable and historic functions not only in Columbus but in distant cities, and has been heard at national conventions and presidential inaugurations in. Washington. Mr. Orr is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is also a member of the Kit-Kat Club of Columbus. Mrs. Orr, whose maiden name was Grace Lee Henderson, a native of Tennessee is one of the prominent figures in club life in dolumbus. For a number of years most of her interest has been devoted to the Altrurian Club, the largest literary club in the city. The members of this club in January, 1923, honored her by electing her president. JUDGE FRANK E. RUTH. All members of the legal profession do not possess the judicial mind, the poise, the carefully-balanced judgment and the keen insight into human nature, all of which qualities are so necessary in one to whom is accorded the honor of a position on the bench. When the recipient of such honors does have these characteristics he is able to render a service difficult to over-estimate in its great value, and without doubt one who measures up to the highest standards for judicial aspirations is Judge Frank E. Ruth, former judge of the Municipal Court of Columbus, a man of great ability, and one whose standing professionally and personally is beyond any question. Judge Ruth was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 14, 1882, a son of George and Rosa (Holler) Ruth, both of whom were born in Germany, but came to the United States early in life, and became thoroughly Americanized. The mother is now deceased, but the father survives, living in Columbus, Ohio. He has long been .regarded as one of the substantial and worthy business men of the city, and one who is held in the highest esteem by all who know him. After completing the eight grades of the public schools of his native city, Judge Ruth took .the high school course, was graduated from Central High 56 - HISTORY OF OHIO School in 1900, and subsequently entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, and was graduated from its legal department in 1904. Judge Ruth earned his own way through school and college, beginning his work as a newsboy, later becoming. a regular carrier for the Ohio State Journal. While at the university he worked inr the office of the Columbus Savings Association. Following the securing of his legal degree and his admission to the bar, Judge Ruth began his practice in 1904, and continued in it until 1915, when he was elected judge of the Municipal Court for a term of four years, and in 1919 was reelected to the same office, but resigned in December, 1922, when he had yet three years to serve, to become general legal counsel for the real estate firm of Zinn & Robbins, and counsel for other important corporate interests. Zinn & Robbins represent the financial interests in Columbus, Ohio, of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and are also rental agents for the company which owns and operates a number of hotels, including the Deshler at Columbus, the Secor in Toledo, Ohio, and the Biltmore in Providence, Rhode Island. As counsel Judge Ruth has charge of the examination of and litigation relating to all leases, land titles and other matters affecting the very large amount of invested capital represented by his clients, and as a lawyer in general practice he specializes in real estate, corporation and land title matters. His rise to the position of prominence and influence from a newsboy on the streets of Columbus is indeed remarkable, and unusual. Some idea of the attitude of the profession and his associates of the Municipal Court with reference to the service Judge Ruth rendered the city may be gained from the following memorial which was presented to him upon his resignation from the bench, and which was signed by Presiding Judge John F. Seidel, the associate judges, the prosecuting attorney, the public defender, the clerks of the court and all of the attaches thereof : "To the Honorable Frank. E. Ruth: "Remembering that for seven long years you held the exalted position of Judge of the Municipal Court of Columbus, Ohio, in which you dispensed justice so impartially that you won the praise and admiration of attorney and litigant alike; that you decided cases with such skill and insight into both law and fact, with a kindness and sympathy toward parties in litigation and with a touch of aptitude akin to genius that compelled respect and reverence for law by both winner and loser; that through all the vicissitudes of onerous judicial exactions, your sunny disposition and genial bearing ever radiated sunshine and joy. "Because of all these admirable qualities you always exhibited, we, your fellow judges and attaches of the Court, fully realize that in your resignation from the position you so long occupied we lose a true friend and most worthy companion. “With the best wishes for your continued success and happiness, we very earnestly and respectfully subscribe our names." It is needless to say that Judge Ruth cherishes this document as one of the most valuable he has ever received. He is a thirty-second degree and Shriner Mason, and he also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Sigma Chi and Delta Chi, the Columbus Athletic Club, and the Exchange Club, and is a member of the national board of control of the last-named organization. In politics he is a very staunch republican, Judge Ruth married Miss Grace T. Maholm, of Columbus, Ohio. PERL S. MILLER. By specializing in central real estate, with an active, personal and confidential service, Perl S. Miller has contributed largely to the phenomenal progress of downtown Columbus. Alway confident. of the city's future, he has put heart and hand into a series of commercial developments that will be to him an enduring monument. Perl S. Miller is a Columbus promoter by nativity. Born February 8, 1890, to William S. and Alberta C. (Whitaker) Miller, he was educated in Columbus grade schools East High School and Ohio State University. kis university work was followed by valuable experience in the advertising department of the Ohio State Journal. Then for eight years he was identified with the real estate firm of Martin & Cooke. There followed two years as a member of the firm of Miller, Ross & Case, real estate brokers, handling business properties. In 1920 Perl. S. Miller & Company organized and immediately became an important factor in central real estate transactions. As head of his company Mr. Miller negotiated the sale and purchase which gave the Commercial National Bank the desirable location at Southeast 'High and Long streets. He represented the Buckeye State Building & Loan Company in the purchase of the old Keith Theater property at Northeast Gay and Pearl streets. On behalf of the Hartman estate he disposed of the Hartman Theater and office building at Southwest State and 'Third streets. In addition to these major transactions, many others culminated under his direction. His services as appraiser of downtown prop erties have been demanded as authoritative. One of the greatest of Mr. Miller 's achievements came as receiver for the Dusenbury interests. The appointment was by Judge Daniel H. Sowers, December 3, 1922. Although more than a $1,000,000 was involved, he so capably handled the situation that within fourteen months, on February 6, 1924, the receivership was lifted. It is the outstanding receivership success in all Columbus history, and involved such amusement projects as Olentangy Park, the State, Grand, Vernon and Hilltop theaters, and many thousands of dollars worth of other real estate. The election of Mr. Miller as president of the Columbus Real Estate Board for 1924 was an honor. ary recognition of his contributions to Columbus' commercial progress. New significance was attached to the office during his incumbency. Since his student days at Ohio State. University Mr. Miller has remained active in the affairs of the Delta Tau Delta College fraternity. In 1920, at a convention held in Columbus, he was chosen head of the fraternity's northern division, including fifteen chapters in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Two years later, in Indianapolis, he again was so honored. He retired from the office in March, 1924, at the same time retiring from the Arch Chapter of the fraternity, in which he had rendered notably progressive service. June 2, 1915, is the date of Mr. Miller 's marriage to Miss Helen Taylor, daughter of Harry A. and Nellie W. Taylor, a name long connected with Columbus history. In the Miller home at 2475 Bexley Park Place are two children, Barbara Roy and William Henry. Club and fraternal affiliations of Mr. Miller include Kinsman Lodge. No. 617, Free and Accepted Masons, Mount Vernon Commandery No. 1, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Columbus Shrine Club, Columbus Club, Columbus Athletic Club, Columbus Country Club (director), Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Real Estate Board (president), Young Business Men's Club, Buckeye Lake Yacht Club, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, New HISTORY OF OHIO - 57 York Delta Tau Delta Club, Columbus Alumni Association of Delta Tau Delta, and the Old Colony Club. Congregationalist. Offices : No. 1 Commercial National Bank Building. RUSSELL M. KNEPPER was born on, a farm in Hopewell Township, Seneca County, Ohio, February 11, 1878, a son of Benjamin F. and Mary (Reeme) Knepper. His father was a native of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and his mother of Dauphin County in the same state. His father, a prominent Ohio farmer, died January 31, 1905, and his mother passed away November 12, 1917. Russell M. Knepper was reared on the farm of his birth and attended the district and select schools. He began teaching at the age of seventeen, and continued to do so for five years. During those years he also attended Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1901. He began the study of law in Tiffin under the instructorship of Judge George M. Hoke, and in 1904 returned to the Ohio Northern University, from which he graduated in the law department in June, 1905. He began the,. practice of law in Tiffin, associating himself with Judge W. Scott Wagner, under the firm name of Wagner & Knepper. In politics Mr. Knepper has always been a staunch supporter of the democratic faith, and in November, 1912, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Seneca County and was reelected in 1914. The vigorous manner in which he performed the duties of that office during the two terms caused him to be called to the office of attorney-general, as special counsel under Attorney-General Joseph McGee, during the administration of Governor James M. Cox. Upon Mr. Knepper's retirement from the attorney-general's office he reentered the practice of law, locating in Columbus, where he has since remained. In March, 1923, he formed a partnership with Alfred N. Wilcox of Paulding, Ohio, under the firm name of Knepper & Wilcox. Associated with them also is. Peter E. Dempsey. The success of this business association is best exemplified by the esteem in which it is recognized in the business and legal field. Mr. Knepper's work in the state law department gave him added advantages and well fitted Mm for the prominence he has gained as a successful legal advisor and energetic trial lawyer. He is now general counsel of various business associations and corporations, whose affairs occupy much of his time, although he prefers to have it said that he is in the general practice of the law. On December 12, 1906, Mr. Knepper married Miss Mamie A. Corn, a daughter of William D. and Birdie (Gates) Corn, of Ironton, Ohio. To this union two children were born, William E., October 25, 1909, and Alice M., June 29, 1912. Mr. Knepper has taken a prominent part in fraternal work and is a member of the Columbus Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, the Scottish Rite Bodies, Aladdin Temple, Knights Of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Knights of the Maccabees, and others. He is judge advocate general for the Domain of Ohio of the Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias, with the rank of colonel in that body. HENRY BOHL. Now retired, Henry Bohl devoted many years to the business and profession of insurance, and is one of the oldest and best insurance authorities in the state. His life throughout has been one of prominent connections, and his has been an interesting career in business and public affairs. He has held many responsible positions as insurance manager, legislator and Government official, and in all of them has acquitted himself with the greatest credit. His home has been in Columbus for many years, and he is especially well known in the capital city. Mr. Bohl has been an Ohioan since early childhood, having grown up near Marietta in Washington County, where his parents, Conrad and Catherine (Altvater) Bohi, settled in 1855. He was born July 4, 1844, and in 1861, at the age of seventeen, he left the farm and moved to Marietta. He had a good common school education. It was in 1869 that he entered the insurance business at Marietta. Three years later ill health compelled him to go South, and he connected himself with a prominent insurance company ..at Atlanta, Georgia. In 1873 he was unanimously elected secretary of the Underwriters' Insurance Association of the South, which covered a territory embracing eleven states—a distinct compliment to a Northern man at -that period of history. He returned to Marietta in 1874. In 1888 he was appointed superintendent of agencies for Ohio of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey. He held that office five years. For forty-four years Mr. Bohl has been a director of the Ohio Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Salem, Ohio, a well managed and successful institution, one of the oldest leading companies in the state. From April 1, 1895, for seven years, Mr. Bohl directed the Columbus office of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, as superintendent of agencies for Ohio and Indiana. Insurance men are fully cognizant of the splendid efficiency of Mr. Bohl. One comment on his work, found in the National Underwriter of Chicago in 1901, may be quoted: "Those who have watched the progress of the Prudential in Ohio and Indiana cannot help but recognize the dominant personality behind the agency machinery in those two great life insurance states. The dash and spirit, the system and wholesomeness manifest in the building up of this section of Gibraltar are largely due to the head and heart of Hon. Henry Bohl, superintendent of agencies for the territory named. Mr. Bohl has enthusiasm tracing every vein, and intelligence runs with it. His faculty to stimulate and to produce results is peculiarly fitted to agency guidance. Mr. Bohl is a widely known factor in Ohio politics, and .his renunciation of Bryanism was a significant event in the Buckeye *State. Mr. Bohl was one of the organizers in 1903 and from the beginning has been president of the Union Building & Savings Company of Columbus. This has the strongest reserve of any building and loan company of Columbus. For years Mr. Bohl was a member of the board of directors of the State Savings Bank & Trust Company, which in 1923 merged with the Huntington National. Bank of Columbus. Mr. Bohl is now a stockholder in the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank of Columbus. While Mr. Bohi was superintendent of agencies of the Prudential Company he was commissioned by that old and substantial company to deliver a series of lectures on life insurance in seven Middle West and Western states, including Ohio. As early as 1899 he lectured on the subject of life insurance at the Ohio State University and suggested that the subject of insurance be made a part of the University curriculum. Mr. Bohl's experience in public life covers a long term of years. While living at Marietta he served several years as a member of the board of education of that city. In 1875 he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature from Washington County, and was reelected in 1877 and was again elected in 1883. Each time he was nominated by acclamation. For several years he was chairman of the House Committee on Insurance. During the administration of Governor Hoadly he was chairman of the House 58 - HISTORY OF OHIO Finance Committee, the most important committee of the House. Until 1896 Mr. Bohl was an influential member of the democratic party. He was a delegate at large from Ohio to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876, when Samuel J. Tilden was nominated for President. He was unanimously elected delegate from the Fifteenth Ohio Congressional District in 1880 to the National Convention at Cincinnati, when Gen. W. S. Hancock was nominated. He was secretary of the Ohio State Democratic Executive Committee in state campaigns of 1884-1885, was chairman of both the democratic Ohio State Central and Executive committees in 1886, chairman of the State Central Committee in 1887, being in each instance elected by acclamation. Early in President Cleveland 's second administration he was appointed United States marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, at which time William H. Taft was Federal judge of the district. He was in that office through three great strikes in Ohio, including the Ohio miners, strikes and the great Pullman railway strike of 1894. His management of these strikes was highly endorsed by United States Circuit Judge Taft and the public press of Ohio, irrespective of party. Ike resigned as United States marshal to remove to Columbus and assume his duties as superintendent of agencies for the Prudential. Mr. Bohl has had the honor of close acquaintance and friendship not only with ex-President Taft, but with Presidents Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt and Harding. He was a visitor at the White House and had pleasant interviews when it was occupied by Presidents Cleveland, McKinley and Roosevelt. From Mr. Harding he has personal letters of friendship and appreciation written not long before the President's untimely end. Mr. Bohl has always been fortunate in enjoying friendships and associations with men of real distinction. In 1878 he was a candidate for Congress in the Fifteenth Ohio Congressional District, and was strongly supported for the nomination at the convention at Marietta through more than eighty ballots, until the second day, when he withdrew. In 1880 the democratic press brought him forward for the office of secretary of state, but he declined to be a candidate. In 1881 he was urged by the democratic press of Ohio to be a candidate for the lieutenant= governorship, and also for the senatorship in his district, but he declined to accept the nomination for either office. In 1884 many prominent democrats of his district again_ insisted on nominating him for Congress, and at a time when his nomination was deemed possible he withdrew from the field in the interest of harmony. In 1887 Mr. Bohl was appointed receiver of the .Second National. Bank of Xenia, Ohio. His work there was so well appreciated that in 1893 the late J. H. Eckels, comptroller of the currency, offered him the receivership of the Citizens National Bank of Hillsboro, Ohio, but this honor was declined. He also declined the position of receiver of the public money for Wyoming during Cleveland's first administration, and the offer of an Indian agency in Oklahoma, and the chief clerkship in the office of the Department of the Interior. When the democratic party nominated Bryan and his free silver plank in 1896 Mr. Bohl withdrew and has since been affiliated with the republicans. During that campaign he made speeches in favor of McKinley over the states of Ohio and Indiana, also three in Chicago, Illinois. In April, 1903, he was elected on the republican ticket a member of the board of public, service at Columbus, under what was then a new municipal code for Ohio. This board of service had charge of all municipal public improvements, including public buildings, streets and all city employes. He was elected president of the board, serving in that capacity until January 31, 1905, when he resigned and became a member of the city board of review, which had charge of all taxation matters and appraisements of all public and private property, real and personal, in the City of Columbus. To that position he was unanimously appointed by the state board of assessors and appraisers. He remained a member of this board until the expiration of his term, June 1, 1908, and was then, without a single written endorsement, reappointed by the state board for five years, serving in that capacity over eleven years, a large part of this time as president. Mr. Bohl is probably the only man in Columbus who has held important public positions of an executive nature in all four of the city's public buildings, the Federal Building, the State Capitol, the Franklin County Courthouse and the Columbus City Hall. In March, 1901, he was appointed chairman of the legislative committee of the Columbus Board of Trade, that being one of the most important committees of the board. In that position he served eight consecutive years, holding committee meetings every Saturday evening during the winter season, while the Ohio Legislature was in session. At the end of eight years he declined reappointment, and at the annual session of the board of trade a set of resolutions were approved expressing the gratitude of that body for the very efficient services rendered by Mr. Bohl. Mr. Bohl is a member of the Buckeye Republican Club and the Republican Glee Club of Columbus, is a member of the First Congregational Church, and for over fifty-seven years has been affiliated with the Masonic Order. He was initiated in American Union Lodge No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons, Marietta, Ohio, September 19, 1867, passed October 24, 1867, raised November 23, 1867. Demitted to Fulton Lodge No. 216, Atlanta, Georgia, 1872 to 1875, redemitted to his old lodge February 15, 1875, demitted from American Union Lodge to York Lodge No. 563, Columbus, Ohio. November 18, 1901, was an honorary member of York Lodge five years before his affiliation, in which he holds a life membership. He is also president of the Union Building and Savings Company. Mr. Bohl married Miss Margaret Radenbaugh, of Marietta, Ohio, to which marriage were born seven children. Mrs. Bohl died in Columbus in 1906, and in 1908 Mr. Bohl married Miss Mamie Schultz, of Cleveland, Tennessee, who died at Columbus in 1911. Mr. Bohl's son Edward Vernon Bohl, born at Marietta, died in infancy. Another son, the late Henry G. Bohl, who died in 1909, at Marietta, had a long and honorable career in the public service of the state. He was actively engaged in the insurance business at Marietta until appointed to a responsible position at Columbus under L. C. Laylin, secretary of state. He had charge of taxation matters in the secretary of state's office. When Mr. Laylin was succeeded by Carmi A. Thompson, Mr. Bohl remained with the latter until the time of his death. The five living children of Mr. Bohl are: Mrs. Kate Coleman, of Toronto, Canada; Mrs. Lucinda Dye, of Denver, Colorado ; Mrs. Fannie I. Curtis, of Chicago, Illinois; Miss Clara C. Bohl, at home ; and Mrs. Sara R. Schueller, of Columbus. JOHN C. SARGENT is an Ohio man with a native gift for business that brought him very important responsibilities and executive duties by the time he -had achieved his majority in years, and since his return from overseas, where he was a lieutenant of infantry, he has become manager of the Columbus offices of the Van de Boe-Hager Company, an old and prominent real estate firm specializing in subdivision HISTORY OF OHIO - 59 work, the main offices of the company being at Cleveland. John C. Sargent was born at Marion, Ohio, in 1890, son of C. E. and Mary B. (Kishler) Sargent, and grandson of Frank Sargent. In the paternal line he is a great-great-grandson of an historic character of early Ohio, Eber Baker, whom history credits as the founder of the City of Marion, the home of the late President Harding. Eber Baker, assisted by Alexander Holmes, made a legal plat of Marion in 1822. In 1922 the town celebrated its hundredth anniversary, at which President Harding and many other notables were present. Among Eber Baker's benefactions to the town were four lots for churches, two for schools, five for courthouse and jail, and several acres for what is now known. as "Old Cemetery." Eber Baker was born at Litchfield Corners, Maine, in 1780, and settled in Ohio in 1822. He was widely known as a generous and public • spirited John C. Sargent was educated in the public schools of Marion. On leaving school he went immediately into commercial life and became a traveling salesman for the Hole Proof Hosiery Company. In a short time the company thought so well of his services that he was put in charge" of the Boston office. He remained at Boston for about five years. The company then commissioned him to open the Canadian factory for the manufacture of the Hole Proof Hosiery and also branch sales offices at Montreal and Toronto. He had barely accomplished the preliminaries of this work when America declared war against the central powers. He at once returned to Ohio, and early in the spring of 1917 entered the Officers, Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He was commissioned first lieutenant and assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Eighty-third Division, at Camp Sherman. Lieutenant Sargent sailed for Europe June 8, 1918, and his regiment was the only one that was taken from the main body of the American Expeditionary Forces to serve on the Italian front. In Italy Mr. Sargent participated in the battle on the Piave River, regarded as one of the twelve major engagements of the war. Ile was in the Tenth Italian Army under the command of the Duke de Abruzzi. Following the armistice he was for a time located with the Army of Occupation at Fiume, and subsequently the regiment was reassembled at Genoa, sailing from there March 8, 1919, and reaching home March 23. While overseas Mr. Sargent was recommended for a captain's commission, and with that rank he was discharged at Camp Sherman in May, 1919. He is now a captain of infantry in the Army Reserve, commanding Company F, Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Inf an- , try, Eighty-third Division. A few weeks after leaving the army Captain Sargent entered the Columbus offices' of the Van de Boe-Hager Company of Cleveland. In a short time he was promoted to sales manager, and is the executive in charge of the Columbus office. The heads of the company are J. S. Van de Boe and W. M. Hager, of Cleveland. The firm has a most enviable record of business success. They have handled exclusively their own property, and have developed and sold and improved some of the finest residential sections of Cleveland and Columbus. The firm established its Columbus office in 1896. Since then among the prominent subdivisions opened and developed by them may be mentioned the Wicklow, Hilltop, Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Blendon, Elmore, Crestview and East Lawn additions. Mr. Sargent,s offices are in the Citizens Bank Building. RALPH H. BEATON is an expert in financial and industrial organization, and in this capacity is well known not only in his home city in Columbus, but in financial districts of the East and Middle West. He has served as the head of several corporations and has conducted an extensive business for some years in investment securities. The Beaton family has been in Ohio for a century. In 1822 George Augustus Beaton and his wife, natives of Invernesshire, Scotland, came to Ohio and settled at Athens. The father of Ralph H. Beaton was Thomas A., a son of rGeorge A. and Jeanette (McDonald) Beaton. He was born at Athens and married Laura Smith, a daughter of the late Lot L. Smith, a pioneer citizen of Columbus. Ralph H. Beaton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the few years his parents made that city their home. He was born in 1876, and in the early eighties the family moved to Columbus, where Ralph H. Beaton was reared and educated. After the public schools he had two years in the Ohio State University. Mr. Beaton early took up a business career, and since about 1900. his activities have been in connection with the organization and financing of industrial and public utilities corporations.. For about seven years he was connected with this line of work in New York, though Columbus has practically been his home since coming here as a boy. He has organized and financed several industrial enterprises that have been very successful, and has been instrumental in negotiating the sale of many large blocks as investment securities through banking circles with which he maintains connections. One of the successful enterprises with which he has been identified is the Smith Scale Company of Columbus, which he organized and of which he is president. Mr. Beaton is also president of the Vicksburg Gas Company of Vicksburg, Mississippi; The Sioux Falls, (South Dakota), Gas Company and the Lockhaven (Pennsylvania), Gas Company. During recent years a large part of his time has been devoted to financing and acquiring interests in artificial gas companies' in several states, which are financed, operated and managed from his office in Columbus. He is a member of the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club, and is well known in the social and civic affairs of the city. At Columbus in 1904 he married Miss Eleanor Kurtz, daughter of Charles L. Kurtz. Her father is president of the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company. Mr. and Mrs. Beaton have one daughter, Ione Beaton. CURTIS CHANDLER WILLIAMS, a distinguished lawyer and jurist of Ohio, has practiced law at Columbus nearly forty years. He was born in Columbiana County, August 13, 1861, of Scotch-Irish and Welsh ancestry. Joseph F. Williams, his grandfather, was a pioneer in Columbiana County, coming from Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Legislature both in the House and the Senate. His wife was Mary Gilson. The father of Judge Williams was Dr. R. G. Williams, who was born in Columbiana County in 1836 and died at Alliance, Ohio, in 1906. He was in the drug business and a Doctor of Medicine, and represented his county in the Ohio Legislature for two terms., His wife, Elmira Frost, was a daughter of William A. and Beulah (Chandler) Frost. Curtis Chandler Williams, who represents the third generation of the family in Ohio, was educated in the public schools of Alliance, and Mount Union College of that city gave him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1883 and subsequently the degree Master of Arts. He taught school, being a school superintendent for two years, and at Columbus read law in the office of Converse, Booth & Keating. Admitted to the bar in 1886, he has been continuously active in his pro- 60 - HISTORY OF OHIO fession ever 'since, and his name stands high on the roll of names of men that have procured honor in the profession in Central Ohio. He has likewise as a citizen of high public spirit given the best of his talents and ability to the community and state. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin County in 1891, serving one term of three years. At this election he was chosen the democratic ticket in his county, normally republican by a large majority. In 1897 he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His service of six years on the bench was admirable from every point of view, - whether in the technical interpretation of the law or in respect to the general welfare. Since retiring from the bench he has devoted his attention to a large private practice, his offices being in the Buggery Building. He has the honor of being past commander of Mount Vernon Commandery No. 1, the oldest organization of Knight Templar Masons west of the Alleghany Mountains. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, is, a Knight of Pythias, being a Grand Lodge officer, and has affiliations with the Independent Order of Odd, Fellows and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Judge Williams married, July 5, 1893, Miss 'Margaret Owen, of Columbus. They became the parents of five children;' Elmira Ann, now deceased, Curtis Chandler, Jr., •Margaret Lola, Marie Owen and Arthur Frost. JOHN M. ROAN. Family misfortunes derived largely from the devastation of Civil war times made it necessary for John. M. Roan to become a wage earner when a small boy. His first employment was at a coal mine, .and coal mining has been his occupation, business and profession ever since. For many years his home has been in Ohio, and he is widely known among the coal men of the state. For the past eight years he has been commissioner of the Coal Operators, Bureau at Columbus. Mr. Roan was born in Virginia, son of John and Bridget (Rowan) Roan. The Roans are an historic family of Virginia. John M. Roan was nine and one-half years old when he went to work as a "nipper." Since then. he has filled every position in the coal industry, from the ranks of the poorest paid mine worker to mine operator and manager of large coal mining corporations. For some time he was general manager of the Clinchfield Coal Company of Virginia, one of the largest operators in the. Appalachian coal region. Mr. Roan on coming to Ohio located at New Straitsville, Perry County, which was his home for twenty-eight years. He was a. coal miner there, and he also worked in various mines in Indiana. As a coal mine owner he operated for several years in the Hocking Valley coal district. Under appointment from Governor James M. Cox, Mr. Roan served as chief mine inspector of Ohio during 1914-1915. He continued to hold that office during the first part of Governor Willis, administration. In the latter part of 1915 he was made commissioner of the Coal Operators, Bureau, with executive offices in Columbus. This is an organization of the coal operators of Ohio and neighboring states, maintained for the purpose of looking generally after the varied and extensive interests of the operators in the industry. Mr. Roan is a recognized authority on every phase of the coal industry, and his services as commissioner have been of the greatest value in safeguarding the vast amount of capital invested in coal mining and promoting the welfare of the business as a whole. While living at New Straitsville Mr. Roan married, in 1881, Miss Katherine O'Neil. Since about 1890 their home has been in Columbus. Mr. an Mrs. Roan have four fine song, whom they reared and educated well, and all of them are now in business or in the professions. Their names are Thomas., John M., J. A. and F. J. Roan. MILTON WALLACE WESTLAKE, a resident of Columbus over thirty years, by profession a glass engraver, has long been prominent in the public affairs of this city and county. He made a splendid record during the nine years he was on the city council, and recently he took his place on the board of county commissioners. Mr. Westlake was born at Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio, in 1867, son of George W. and Sarah K: (Beveridge) Westlake. His father was a Union soldier with the Forty-first Ohio Infantry, and among other campaigns was in Sherman's march to the sea. Milton Wallace Westlake has been in every important sense the architect of his own destiny. The responsibility of honest work, beginning when a mere boy, did much to develop his character and initiative. While attending the common schools and laying the ground work of his fundamental education, lie sold papers and drove a mule in a coal mine and also did helpful chores and other work around the home to make life easier for his mother. Mr. Westlake served a four, years, apprenticeship in a glass factory at Bellaire. In that way he became a glass engraver, and for many years has ranked as one of the leaders in this difficult art. Much of his work executed from his designs has attracted attention from experts for its beauty and attractiveness. During spare time at night Mr. Westlake as a youth also studied music. He was cornetist with a local band at Bellaire, and during three different summers while strikes or depression made work dull in the glass industry he traveled over many of the states as cornetist with a circus band. After coming to Columbus he played with the Fourteenth Regiment Band. Mr. Westlake came to Columbus in 1892. His introduction to public affairs began with memberships in the Columbus City Council in 1913. By subsequent elections he continued with that body effectively until January 1, 1923, almost ten years. He then resigned to take up his duties as a member of the board of county commissioners, to which office he was elected on the republican ticket in November, 1922. His election as county commissioner was on the basis of the record he had made in the city council. In the council he was chairman of the public service committee for several years and for two years was vice mayor and during the last two years in the council he was a chairman of the finance committee. An improvement credited to him personally while in the council was the building of the two public comf stations in the heart of the city, on the state house grounds. He originated the movement, drew up tentative plans, and secured the option of the General Assembly, which donated the land to the city for this purpose. He also was instrumental in designating the free camping ground for automobile tourists on West Broad Street. Mr. Westlake is a Scottish- Rite Mason and Shriner. He and his wife are members of the Glenwood Methodist Episcopal Church. They have a beautiful home at .2499 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. He owns other property in that sectio of the city. Mr. Westlake married a daughter John C. and Sarah (Merryman) Ralston, of Steuben ville, Ohio. The Ralstons are of close kinship with Governor Ralston of Indiana, who in 1922 was elected United States senator from Indiana. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Westlake, the oldest HISTORY OF OHIO - 61 Don, was taken by death. The two survivors are Sarah E. and W. Ralston Westlake. RAY R. SMITH, a doctor of dental surgery and secretary of the Ohio State Dental Board, has been a prominent man in his profession and in public affairs at Columbus. Doctor Smith was born in Licking County, Ohio, October 14, 1880, and was five years of age when his father, Henry P. Smith, came to Columbus. His father has been a prominent building contractor, and has handled an immense volume of work in the construction of private residences. The Smith family came to Ohio in pioneer times from New Jersey. Ray R. Smith graduated with the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery from Ohio State University in 1903, and has been in active practice for over twenty years. For two years he was an instructor in the dental department of the State. University. Governor Willis made him a member of the Ohio State Dental Board in 1916, and in 1921 he was reappointed by Governor Davis. He has filled the office of secretary of the board for three years. He is also a former president of the Columbus Dental Society. Doctor Smith is a Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, an Elk, and has always been fond of fishing and hunting. He is a member of the celebrated Buckeye Republican Glee Club, and for fifteen years has participated in that organization, during its appearance on many political and other occasions in Ohio and also in other states, particularly at presidential inaugura- tions in Washington. Doctor Smith married Miss Ida M. Duvall, of Zanesville. They have one daughter, Doris, a junior in high school. WILLIAM FRANKLIN ANDERSON, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Morgantown, West Virginia, April 22, 1860, son of William and Elizabeth (Coombs) Anderson. He was educated in West Virginia University, the Ohio Wesleyan University, the Drew Theological Seminary, and the New York University, and holds many scholastic degrees in recognition of his student work and his services to the church and humanity. He was ordained to the ministry in 1887 and was pastor of churches in New York City until 1898. From 1898 to 1904 he was recording secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was corresponding secretary from 1904 to 1908, and in the latter year was elected a bishop. His home is at Cincinnati. He has served as trustee of the Drew Theological Seminary of Goucher College at Baltimore, the Ohio Wesleyan University, the Ohio Northern University, the Baldwin-Wallace College, Meharry Medical College at Nashville. He is president of the Board of Education for negroes, the Methodist Episcopal Church, first vice president of the Board of Education of that church. He was associated with Bishop Hartzell in special work in behalf of the negro in missions in northern Africa during 1914. As member for Europe of the committee of emergency and reconstruction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he made five trips abroad during the war, administering the work in France, Italy, Spain, Norway, rSweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia. He was with the army Young Men's Christian Association during the spring and summer of 1918, and was guest of the French and Italian governments on inspection tours of the battle front. In 1918 he served as a delegate for the Methodist Episcopal Church to the English Wesleyan and Irish Wesleyan conferences, and in November, 1919, was fraternal delegate from the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America to L 'Assemblee General du Protestantisme Francais at Lyons, France. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1922. WALTER D. McKINNEY. Never before in the history of the world has such thought been given to the production and distribution of coal as today, and every angle of these subjects is being studied by experienced and intelligent men, whose practical knowledge is being placed at the command of their companies. One of the dominant figures in this great basic industry, whose work has been national in character, is Walter D. McKinney, an industrial engineer, and former Government district fuel representative for Southern Ohio, and who through the "heatless days and lightness nights" of the war and after, distributed one-fifth of the bituminous coal production of the United States as a volunteer without pay, and whose life has been of continued action, and whose work has been directed along different channels, among others that pertaining to the development of the telephone industry. Walter D. McKinney is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and was born August 1, 1860, son of George D., a captain in the Civil war, and Amelia (Cridland) McKinney, and a member of one of the oldest families of Ohio, which was founded in this state by Robert McKinney, a Revolutionary soldier from Pennsylvania, a pioneer of Clark County. Coincident with his settlement at Springfield, in that county, another pioneer joined the little settlement, George. Fithian, who served in the American Revolution, from New Jersey. Robert McKinney had- a son, Joseph; George Fithian had a daughter, Eliza, and the two were married at Springfield Ohio, in 1801, and in 1802 a son, William, was born to them at Springfield, and this son, William, became the grandfather of Walter D. McKinney. The McKinney and Fithian families were associated with some of the notable people in the early history of the state, among whom Simon Kenton was an intimate friend, and in the Cridland family was preserved the original oil portrait of Kenton for eighty-nine years, when it was placed in the custody of the Ohio Archaelogical & Historical Society in 1924. It was in the Fithian cabin at Springfield that the present County of Champaign was organized. William J. McKinney was one of the distinguished lawyers and jurists of Ohio, and served for several years as judge of the Superior Court, and was also, at one time, mayor of Dayton, Ohio. During his younger years he served as a member of the Ohio State General Assembly, as did George Fithian before him. William McKinney married Rebecca Gregg of Virginia, whose grandfathers,. John Gregg and Capt. Timothy Hixon, also served in the Revolutionary war. Walter D. McKinney's maternal grandfather,. T. W. Cridland, an Englishman by birth, immigrated to Kentucky in 1833 and was himself quite a notable character. A friend and, associate of Henry Clay and Cassius M. Clay, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, the Beechers and others, he was an ardent abolitionist and actively -participated in the operation of the "underground railway," which aided escaped slaves to get away -from the South. Mr. Cridland was also well known because of the fact that he was the first photographer west of the Alleghany Mountains. He learned the art of taking daguerreotypes from Prof. John W. Draper and S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, who had learned the process from its originator, Daguerre, in France. He moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1852, and in 1859 made the celebrated photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Walter D. McKinney had but a common school education, and from earliest childhood worked at odd times, but between the ages of eleven and twelve he began to work permanently, first as a newsboy 62 - HISTORY OF OHIO and bootblack on the streets of Cincinnati, and as train boy on what is now the Big Four Railroad, between Springfield and Cincinnati, Ohio. For several years he did such work as could be obtained, and spent some considerable time in an iron and brass foundry. In 1878 Mr. McKinney entered the employ of the Dayton Edison Telephone Company as switchboard operator, boys being then employed for that work. On the absorption of the Dayton Bell Telephone Company with the Edison Telephone Company, he went with the new corporation as lineman and electrician. In 1880 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and entered. the employ, of the American Bell Telephone Company as an electrician, and later became superintendent of that company for Boston and New England. While at Boston he was associated with the pioneers of the telephone industry, including Bell, Edison, Blake, Berliner, Vail, Phillips, John J. Carty, and others. While in Boston he invented a telephone transmitter for use in the telephone exchanges, developed .a multiple switchboard and various intercommunicating and telephone devices. His place in the history of the development of the telephone industry is recognized in various ways by those at the head of this industry. He is a member of the Telephone Pioneers Association of America, and one of the earliest members of the art. While in Boston Mr. McKinney was associated with Thomas Edison in the installation of electric lighting in the first theater and public building in which incandescent light was used. From Boston Mr. McKinney went to Washington, D. C., as general superintendent of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, and instituted the first multiple switchboards used in the telephone systems of Washington and Baltimore. Returning to Dayton, he was engaged in rebuilding the telephone properties and then, having married a Columbus girl, he moved to Columbus and entered the railroad service in an advisory capacity, later becoming operating officer and treasurer of the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Railroad, with which he continued for many years. That railroad being absorbed by the Pennsylvania System, and desiring, as he did, to remain at Columbus, Mr. McKinney accepted the position of superintendent of the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. During this period having become equipped as a practical mechanical and electrical engineer with experience with labor, legal problems and other matters pertaining to general business and industry. He finally went into business for himself as an industrial engineer. With this equipment, and realizing the possibilities in the coal industry, he aided in the organization and upbuilding of the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange, as secretary, confining himself exclusively to coal and its problems. Shortly after the organization of the operators such economic changes were brought about by the World war as to set aside for the time all thought of former conditions of competition. Prices took care of themselves until controlled by the Government. Doctor Garfield was appointed fuel administrator, and Mr. McKinney was appointed district representative over Southern Ohio, and was placed in charge of the coal distribution. War conditions brought on the necessity for national cooperation, and Mr. McKinney was one of those taking part in the formation of the National 'Coal Association, serving on practically all of the committees, including those on Standard Accounting, Railroad Relations and Statistics. Mr. McKinney believes that now as never before is the time for the closest and most effective cooperation of the industry. Competition of the most drastic kind is sure to follow the over development of mines, fields, and property, but cooperation should be intelligent, and every element that enters into the production and distribution is a proper subject for general and thorough consideration, and this can best be done through association, having at all times as a prime thought "highest service to the public. " Mr. McKinney married Miss Annie Blake, of Columbus, whose father, Levi Blake, of pure New England ancestry, was one of the pioneer locomotive engineers of Ohio, and they have one son, Walter Blake McKinney. Mr. McKinney belongs to Benjamin Harrison Chapter; Sons of the American Revolution, of which he is an ex-president, and he is president of the Old Northwest Genealogical Society and member of other historical societies. He is also a thirty-third degree of Scottish Rite Mason Knight Templar, and a member of other Masonic bodies, as well as Odd Fellows and Elks and many national and civic organizations. With others he gave to the State of Ohio the Trade. School and Workman 's Compensation Law. HERMAN RHODES CAMPBELL has given more than twenty years to the service of the Ohio State Government at Columbus. He has been identified with the rstate auditor's office. through changing administra tions and is an authority on Ohio financial statistics. He represents one of the prominent old. families o Ohio. He was born at Delaware, Ohio, March 1, 1877, son of George and Daisy (Rhodes) Campbell and grandson of George W. Campbell. George W. Camp• bell was born in New York State, in 1794, and married Elizabeth Little, of Boston, direct descendent of the distinguished Massachusetts family of War. ren. A prominent early member of the Campbell family in Ohio was David Campbell, who came from New York State to Sandusky and founded in 1821 a newspaper that subsequently became the Sandusky Register. He was president and secretary of the Ohio Horticultural Society and the originator of the Delaware Grape. George Campbell, father of Herman Rhodes Campbell, was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 15, 1848, and his wife, Daisy Rhodes, was born in the same Ohio town and was well known through her literary productions. Herman Rhodes Campbell attended the high school at Delaware, finished his literary education in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and during the Spanish. American war enlisted in Company K of the Fourth Ohio Regiment of Infantry. After his military se ice he was for about two years connected with t National Cash Register Company of Dayton and 1903 took a position in the auditor 's office at state house in Columbus. His service has been continuous, and he is one of the most valued emoyes of the state government. During the greater portion of this period he has held the position of statistician in the State Bureau of Uniform Account. ing. As a result of his long experience and accurate knowledge he wrote and compiled a work published by the state under the title "Ohio Comparative Statistics," the first copy of which was issued in 1914, under the administration of Hon. A. V. Donahey, state auditor. Mr. Campbell married in 1902 Estella Marie Edwards, of Cincinnati. They have one child, Mary Katherine, born at Columbus May 9, 1906. Ohio has not only contributed many favorite personages to the nation, including presidents, soldiers and statesmen, and great inventors, but also in Miss Mary Katherine Campbell possess a young woman designated again and again America's most beautiful girl. She was HISTORY OF OHIO - 63 graduated from the East High School at Columbus and has a record of excellent scholarship. In January, 1924, she entered Ohio State University, taking the liberal arts course. In .1922 she was selected to represent Columbus in the National Beauty Contest held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September of that year, and was awarded first prize. She is called "Miss America," the most beautiful girl in the country. She is well entitled to that honor, not only through her personal charms also because she represents generations of pure American stock. In 1923 she was selected to represent Columbus, and again awarded first prize and designated at Atlantic City as the most beautiful girl in America. Many other honors have been shown her, and in January, 1924, she was an honor guest of the Ohio Society of New York. FRED W. PIERCE, one of the notable and dignified citizens and one of the most successful business men of Lorain, Ohio, was born in Medina County, this state, on the 1st of November, 1855, and is the son of Philemon and Diantha (Hovey) Pierce. The father, Philemon, was born near Hoosick Falls, New York, and was there reared to maturity and given a good education in his youthful days. In early maturity he learned the carpenter trade, and was given employment for several years in constructing 'railroad coaches for one of the first railroads built in the United States, extending along the Hudson River. Philemon and Diantha Pierce were united in marriage in New York, and came by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, where they took a sailing vessel for Chicago. Upon landing there they journeyed across the country in rude wagons to Peoria, where they remained for a few years engaged in the same business as before. Then they came back across the wild prairies to Chicago, then a comparatively small place and took boat to Cleveland, traveled out into the interior and settled on a farm in Medina County. There they remained hard at work until 1857, when they sold out and moved to Lorain County, where they purchased a two-acre tract and built thereon a fairly large wagon shop. Here it was that Philemon died in 1862, at a comparatively early age. His widow and family continued to reside there until the termination of the Civil war, and then part of the children were scattered out while their mother took up her residence with a daughter. In 1867, when the subject of this review was only twelve years old, being the youngest of a family of five children, he went with a brother to Michigan and resided in that state for about two years. He then came back with his brother to La Port, Lorain County, but in 1872 they moved to Lorain, Ohio, and there established a wagon making shop, the place then being known as Black River and the present Main Street being then a wheat field. Here they prospered from the start and soon had a good living and more. Fred W. Pierce was not in partnership with his brother, but worked for him at good wages and finally branched out for himself at the carpenter trade and also learned the business of carriage painting and ornamenting. Thus he continued until 1888, when he began the business of general contracting for the construction of all sorts of buildings here or elsewhere. The result was that in the end he' became the constructor of many of the best buildings in the present City of Lorain. This pursuit he has continued with success up to the present time, greatly to his credit and decidedly to his own pecuniary advantage. He has been slowly retiring since 1919. In 1900 he constructed a three-story brick structure, 43x60, at 630-632 Broadway, property of his own, the first story being used for store purposes, the second for offices, and the third for a lodge room. He resides at 537 Reid Avenue, which structure he built about 1891. He owns another business block on Broadway, several other residences and a one-half interest in the Pantheon Theatre Building. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In Masonry he is a Knights Templar, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and a member of Al Koran Temple Mystic Shrine, of Cleveland. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Lorain Country Club and helped to organize the first Chamber of Commerce of Lorain. - On July 4, 1877, he married Adeline Balis, who was born in Camden Township, Lorain County, and is the daughter of Bert and Nancy Balis. They have the following children: Pearl, who is now the wife of John Campbell, of Gary, Indiana; Ray, a resident of Lorain; Frank, a resident of Elyria; Clara, who became Mrs. Unger and died in 1923, at the age of thirty-seven years; Blanche, who is now Mrs. McChristan, of Cleveland; and Irma, now Mrs. L. D. Andrus, of Lakewood. JUDGE HARVEY C. SMITH, former judge of the Probate and Juvenile Court of Muskingum County, Ohio, and also a former secretary of state of the State of Ohio, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, July, 7, 1874. He removed to Muskingum County when four years of age, and it was here that he grew to manhood, acquired his education and started upon his career by teaching in the public schools. Judge Smith served four years as chief clerk of the Probate Court of Muskingum County and was then elected to the office which also carried with it the Juvenile Court. It was in this work, in his dealing with the children that came into his court, that he excelled, although he has the enviable reputation of never having been finally reversed in any opinion rendered during his more than ten years occupancy of the bench. He has never lost his interest in the less fortunate of the human family and is frequently consulted on matters pertaining to child welfare. Judge Smith was twice reelected to the office of probate judge, each time by increasing majorities, and in 1918 was nominated on the republican ticket and elected secretary of state. In 1920 he was renominated and was reelected by the. largest majority ever given a candidate for any state office in the history of Ohio politics. He was a candidate for the nomination for governor in 1922, but was defeated in the primary. Since leaving public office Judge Smith has been actively connected with The Cities Mortgage Company, with offices at 66 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, and he is now president of this company. He is a director in the Columbus Joint Stock Land Bank and a director in the Zanesville Publishing Company, which company owns and operates three live newspapers. Judge Smith married Miss Cora E. Littick, of Adamsville, Indiana, August 21, 1895. They reside at 1066 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio. Their son, Clyde, also lives in Columbus, where he holds a responsible position with The Pure Oil Company. He is a graduate of Ohio State University and saw overseas service during the recent war. Judge Smith is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is also a member of the York Rite in masonry, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He holds membership in the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club and the Lions Club. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. GEORGE C. CANALOS, a prominent resident of Lorain, Ohio, was born at Lorain on the 17th of 64 - HISTORY OF OHIO December, 1880, and is the son of C. and Cristine C. (Lang) Canalos, the father a native of Greece and the mother, of Alsace-Loraine, France. About the year 1873 the father came to America, having heard, no doubt, much of the great country across the Atlantic. Soon after his arrival he came West to Lorain, Ohio, and here began his first work in the new home land. He secured at first a position as sailor, but after a while changed his ideas and established a cigar and tobacco shop or store. This pursuit he followed for many years, securing a comfortable income and at the same time gaining the confidence of the citizens by his good conduct and his interest in the up-building of the city. At last he retired from the active duties of his business and now lives in Lorain, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. His wife died at the age of sixty-five years, in the year 1913. Both became prominent and distinguished citizens and warm and friendly neighbors. George C. Canalos subject of this narrative, attained in his youth a good education in the public and the high schools. Upon leaving school he secured a position in the ship yards, and from time to time worked at various jobs, in the meantime laying up considerable finance. He had not yet decided upon any definite occupation for the rest of his life. He was getting a start and hence worked at anything that would furnish him with satisfactory compensation. Finally, in 1911, he agreed to take over his father 's business, and accordingly was placed at the head of the concern and at the same time added to the business a wholesale department of tobaccos generally, and now conducts a fine warehouse at 711 Fifth Avenue, Lorain. His business is large and steadily growing larger. This is his home town and the citizens know him well and have confidence in his exemplary conduct and distinguished renown. His interest in the affairs of the community is revealed by the fact that he is a member of many of the best clubs and societies that have been organized in the city, and in many of them he has occupied commanding and conspicuous positions. He was one of the organizers of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was chosen as its first exalted ruler and served as such in dignified manner for two terms. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 343, of the Loyal Order of Moose, of the Knights of Pythias, of the Lorain Automobile Club, and is one of the prominent leaders in the development of local athletics. He is at the present time president of the Ohio State Elks Association. He is amply competent to fill that high position with superior credit. REV. JAMES B. MOONEY is pastor of St. Mary's Church at Elyria, and is the worthy successor of the earnest and high minded men who have administered to the Catholic population of Lorain County for more than half a century. The Catholic diocese of Cleveland was not created until 1847, and prior to that time there was a very limited Catholic population in either Cleveland or Elyria. Elyria was a station, served by - occasional visits from Catholic priests of Cleveland, until 1833, when Rev. Michael Healy was made the first residential pastor. He was succeeded in 1859 by Rev. Robert A. Sidley, during whose incumbency the church was enlarged the parish house built and the school founded. In 1865, soon after the close of the war, Rev. Louis Molon became pastor of St. Mary's and remained in his work of usefulness for over fifteen years. The Catholic population of Elyria greatly increased while he was pastor, and the church was greatly enlarged and school facilities were also increased. Father Molon was succeeded by Father Schaffeld, whose long service began in the spring of 1880 and continued until his life, full of labors and merits, came to close in June, 1911. He had been for thirty-one years pastor of Elyria. In 1883 the corner stun of the permanent church was laid and the chum building dedicated three years later. In 1901 a large and imposing new school building was completed, th Sister's Convent was erected in 1907, and in 191 St. Mary's High School was established. The seventh and present pastor of St. Mary's is Rev. James B. Mooney, who came from Conneaut Ohio, to this pastorate on September 20, 1911. Father Mooney was born at Cleveland, July 22, 1870, son of John and Catherine (Brennan) Mooney His parents were natives of Ireland, came to Amerie when children, were married in Cleveland, and his father was a well known building contractor there John Mooney died in 1919, and his widow is still resident of Cleveland. James B. Mooney attended St. Edward's Parochial School in Cleveland, and at the age of fourteen entered St. Vincent's College at Beatty,. Pennsylvania, and after three years became a student at St. Charles College at Ellicott City, Maryland. Following that he took a theological course in St. Mary’s Seminary at Cleveland, and on October 18, 1894, was ordained. He made a record of earnest and constructive work as a Catholic clergyman during the seventeen years before he came to Elyria. He was assistant pastor of Sts. Peters and Pauls Church at Sandusky for two years, assistant at St. Rose Church at. Lima, six years, spent two years as pastor of St. Patrick's at Kent, and was pastor of St. Mary's Church at Conneaut for seven years. Elyria has grim vastly in population and wealth during the twelv years of Father Mooney's pastorate, and under his wise and faithful administration St. Mary's Parish has proportionately grown and flourished in material and spiritual power. ALBERT V. HAGEMAN is one of the prominent business men of Lorain County. For a number of years he was identified with banking, but for fifteen years or more has been an executive officer in some of the local telephone companies and is president of the Black River Telephone Company. Mr. Hageman was born in Black River Township, Lorain County, October 12, 1871, son of Conrad and Catherine '(Claus) Hageman. His father was born in Germany in 1831, and was brought to America by his parents in 1846. His mother was a native of Lorain County, and her father, John Claus, was born in Germany. Albert V. Hageman was reared on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and in 1889, at the age of eighteen, he graduated from the Oberlin Business College. During the next four or five years he was shipping clerk for the Cleveland Stone Company, and in 1894 entered the service of the Lorain Savings and Bank Company, at first as bookkeeper and in 1897 was promoted to cashier. When this bank was sold to the Cleveland Trust Company in 1905 he remained as local manager until 1907. In 1897 Mr. Hageman became treasurer and general manager of the Black River Telephone Company, and on February 1, 1923, was elected president of that corporation. He is also president of the Amherst Telephone Company. Mr. Hageman has also since leaving the banking business been engaged in real estate, and has handled a large volume of the important real estate transactions of this vicinity. Since 1917 he has been sinking fund commissioner of Lorain. Mr. Hageman married in 1895 Miss Edith Leimbath, a native of Vermilion, Ohio. She died in 1896. In June, 1901, he married Eleanor M. Cunningham, HISTORY OF OHIO - 65 native of Clyde, Ohio. Mr. Ha.geman is a vestryman in the Lorain Episcopal Church. He is a republican voter, and fraternally is affiliated with the Royal Arch and Knight Templar degree of York Rite Masonry, the Shrine, the Knights of Pythias, and is a charter member of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, No. 1301. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, and is president of the Chamber of Commerce. HERMAN E. HAGEMAN is prominently connected with the telephone industry and business in Northern Ohio, being an executive officer of several of the telephone companies operating in Lorain and adjoining counties. His home is at Lorain and he is a native of that county. Mr. Hageman was born in Black River Township, Lorain County, December 1, 1881, son of Conrad and Catherine (Claus) Hageman. His father was born in Germany, October 10, 1831, and his mother in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County, daughter of John Claus also a native of Germany. The paternal grandparents, John and Catherine Hageman, brought their family to America in 1846. Conrad Hageman after coming to America went west and bought land near Independence, Iowa, and engaged in farming there for a few years. He then returned to Lorain County and after his marriage settled on a farm. He finally sold his land to the Knox Syndicate and spent his later years in the City of Lorain, where he died March 26, 1917. His wife passed away in 1896. They were the parents of a family of fourteen children, six living: Anna, wife of M. C. Gegenheimer, of Vermilion, Ohio; Edna, Mrs. M. J. Trinter, of Vermilion; August, of Lorain; Martha, wife of Ford Kuhlman, of Vermilion; A. V., of Lorain; and Herman E. Herman E. Hageman was liberally educated and started his business career with a training acquired in some of the best schools of Ohio. He is a graduate of the high school of Amherst, Ohio, and in 1903 graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University .of Delaware. After leaving college he worked as collector for the local telephone company in Lorain for two years. He was then made assistant secretary, and in 1917, when the telephone company was changed into an automatic system, known as the Black River Telephone Company, he was made secretary and since February, 1923, has been treasurer of that public utility. He is also treasurer of the Amherst Home Telephone Company and is president of the Avon-Sheffield Telephone Company. He is a recognized expert on telephone matters, and has done much to improve the telephone service in Lorain County. June 12, 1906, Mr. Hageman married Miss Clara L. Oldaker a native of Knox County, Ohio, and daughter of James W. and Jennie (Ingraham) Oldaker. They have three children, Majorie, James and Carolyn. Mr. Hageman is trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and president of its finance committee. In politics lie is a republican, and is affiliated with Lorain Lodge No. 552, Free and Accepted Masons, Lorain Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club and the University Club. Mrs. Hageman is active in all the church organizations, the Sorosis Society and the Wimandancis Club. JOHN BLAINE JOHNSON. One of the contributing factors to the development and welfare of the City of Elyria and its people is the Ohio Public Service Company, which, as its name would indicate, is a concern the activities of which appertain to the distribution of public utilities, thus directly affecting the interests of the residents of the city. This company, as now organized, is the result of capable and energetic businessmen, skilled in their special lines, one of whom is John Blaine Johnson, who occupies the position of vice president and district manager. Mr. Johnson was born at Marathon, Iowa, December 17, 1884, and is a son of Charles X, and Hulda A. (Larsen) Johnson. His parents, natives of Sweden, came to the United States as children, grew to man and womanhood at New Milford, Connecticut, where they were married, and afterwards moved to Hot Springs, South Dakota, and finally to Santa Monica, California, their present home. John Blaine Johnson attended the public graded and high schools at Hot Springs, South Dakota, following which lie entered the University of Nebraska, and after a course in electrical engineering in that institution was graduated as a member of the class of 1909, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. He began his career with the Denver Gas and Electric Company, and by 1910 had won promotion, being transferred to Fremont, Nebraska, as distributing superintendent. In May, 1912, he was transferred to Massillon, Ohio, as superintendent of the Massillon Electric and Gas Company. In March, 1914, he came to Elyria, as general superintendent of the Elyria Gas and Electric Company, and when, in September, 1915, he was made general manager of the plant he introduced a number of needful and useful innovations. In February, 1922, this company consolidated with others, the new enterprise assuming the name of the Ohio Public Service Company, and at that time Mr. Johnson was made vice president, a position which he still retains. He has been successful in his efforts to give the people of this city the best of service in the way of gas and electricity, and is accounted a skilled specialist in his line of work, his associates having the utmost confidence in his ability. Mr. Johnson is a republican in his political views, but has never been an office seeker, having been too busy following his professional labors. However, he maintains a good citizen's interest in his city and has assisted other right-thinking and progressive men in the attainment of results that have proved beneficial to Elyria. As a fraternalist, he belongs to one of the local Masonic lodges, and to Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to the Reform Club and the Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York City. While in college was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. On June 2, 1917, he married Miss Clara Louise Gerhart, of Elyria, and they have two children, John Blaine, Jr., and Clara E. LANDON COVINGTON BELL, counsel for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, is one of the leading corporation lawyers of Columbus, and has been a resident of the city since 1913, although his connection with his present company dates back to 1907, and his career as an attorney to 1902. He was born on a farm in Lunenberg County, Virginia, September 14, 1880, a son of Isaac Bonaparte and Etta Wilburn (Hardy) Bell, the latter being a native of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Although he was a practicing attorney, Isaac B. Bell so preferred a rural life that he maintained his office, as well as his residence, on his farm, which was not only remote from any village, but also from the county seat. Growing up in his native county, Landon C. Bell attended its public schools, following which he became a student of Milligan College, Tennessee, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In subsequent years this same institution conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. From Milligan College he went to the University of Virginia, from which he took his .degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1902 and was immediately 66 - HISTORY OF OHIO thereafter admitted to the bar. He had also taken diplomas in the school of business connected with Milligan College, which included shorthand, bookkeeping, accounting and banking, so in numerous ways he was fully prepared for different phases of professional life, and has turned his knowledge to excellent account. Since his admission to the bar of Virginia Mr. Bell has been an active practitioner, first for a few years in his native county as junior member of his father 's old firm, the style of which upon his entry into it being changed to Turnbull, Bell & Bell. Mr. Bell then went to Welch, West Virginia, where he and M. O. Litz, now justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, formed the firm of Bell & Litz, and still later Mr. Bell became a member of the special partnership of Bell & Litz and Greever & Gillespie. In 1907 Mr. Bell severed his connection with these firms to become assistant to the general counsel of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, and has since that time served that company as counsel, and has for a number of years been a member of its board of directors, as well as assistant secretary. From 1908 to 1913 Mr. Bell was located at Asheville, North Carolina, representing the company in North Carolina and Tennessee and in the southern section, and in the fall of 1913 he came to Columbus, where he has since resided. In addition to being counsel of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company he is also connected with the Raleigh Lumber Company and the W. M. Ritter Flooring Corporation; he is general counsel and a director of the Colleton Cypress Company and a director and officer of the Big Sandy & Cumberland Railway Company, and of the Smoky Mountain Railway Company. He is a member of the Kit Kat Club, the Crichton Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, a life member of the Ohio Historical and Archeological Society, a member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Scioto Country Club, the Athletic Club of Columbus, and the Colonnade Club of the University of Virginia. As a diversion Mr. Bell is a litterateur, and his researches as a student of Poe, and his really, fine collection of Poe's works and bibliography, and his thorough familiarity therewith, have gained for him the reputation of being a scholar in matters relating to the great American author. Mr. Bell has also been engaged for some years in writing a history of Lunenburg County, Virginia, has an excellent library on Virginia, and is greatly interested in genealogy and history, especially as relating to the Old Dominion. He has served as chairman of the. Publicity Committee and of the Committee on Forestry ,of the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, and is an ex-president of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, at Columbus. Mr. Bell's Revolutionary descent comes to him through both the paternal and maternal sides of the family. On the Bell side he is a great-great-great-grandson of Nicholas Davis, who was a lieutenant of militia from Prince Edward County, Virginia; and on the maternal side he is the great-great-greatgrandson of John Boswell, a private in the First Virginia Regiment, Continental Army; and also through his mother he is a great-great-great-grandson of William Hardy, of Capt. William Grimes, company, Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, Continental Army. In 1912 Mr. Bell married Miss Mary Walden Williamson, of Kentucky, although of Virginian descent, and of Revolutionary stock of prominence. She traces her ancestry back to Robert Bruce of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have six children: Landon C., Junor, Mary Walden, Hardy Winston, John Williamson, William Ritter and Robert Johnson. The Bell residence is in Grandview Heights. GEORGE HENRY ELY.- A resident of Elyria for nearly four score years, George Henry Ely has been associated intimately with its interests, both business and public, and has occupied a place of importance in financial, industrial and official circles. He was born at Elyria, November 15, 1844, a son of Heman and Mary (Monteith) Ely. Heman Ely, the elder, grandfather of George H. Ely, was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, April 24, 1775, and on March 17, 1817, he arrived in what is now Elyria. He married Celia Belden, October 9, 1818, who was born at Weathersfield, Connecticut, October 5, 1796. He had traveled through this part of the state previously, as the son of Justin Ely, one of the members of the Connecticut Land Company, and an original stockholder of the company, which held vast properties in the Western Reserve. Here Herman Ely secured a township from his father and cleared and improved a tract where Elyria is now located. He was the first postmaster, became greatly interested in developing the town and continued to reside during the rest of his life at Elyria, where he was greatly esteemed as a leading citizen. Heman Ely, the younger, father of George H. Ely, was born at Elyria, October 30, 1820, and married Mary Monteith, who was born at Clinton, Oneida County, New York, November 12 1824, a daughter of John and Abigail (Harris) Monteith, the latter of whom was born May 5, 1801, at Newtown, Connecticut. John Monteith, a professor of Hamilton College, New York, was one of the first missionaries of Detroit, but later settled at Elyria, where he passcd his last years. Herman Ely, following his marriage, settled down to real estate operations at Elyria. Like his father, he took a special interest and pride in the city, which he assisted in its growth and development, being president of the first bank, a leading figure in securing the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and at one time a member of the Ohio State Legislature. He was a thirty-third degree Mason, and served as -treasurer of the Supreme Council for many years. Mr. Ely died July 8, 1894, and his first wife passed away March 1, 1849, leaving three children, of whom George Henry was the only one to grow to maturity. On May 27, 1850, Mr. Ely married Mary Frances Day, of Hartford, Connecticut, and they had four children: Edith, born November 27, 1851, who 'married James D. Williamson, of Cleveland, Ohio ; Charles Theodore, born October 27, 1856; Albert Heman, born November 22, 1860, now a physician of New York City; and Harriet Putnam, born October 9, 1861, who married George Morley Marshall. George Henry Ely attended the public schools of Elyria, following which he pursued a course at Western Reserve College, and was graduated from Yale College with the class of 1865. On January 1, 1866, he embarked in the business of manufacturing carriage hardware, a business with which he was identified until 1888. He then disposed of his holdings and became interested in a stone quarry, but following the death of his father took over the litter's large real estate interests, which he still supervises. For eighteen years Mr. Ely served 93 president of. the National Bank of Elyria, and he also has numerous other large and important connections, being a director and official of a number of leading enterprises. A republican in his political sentiments, he has not been a professional politician, but has also been ready to discharge his obligations and responsibilities as a citizen, and from 1894 to 1898 served capably as a member of the Ohio State Senate. His religious connection is with the First - 66 - HISTORY OF OHIO - 67 Congregational Church, in which he is president of the Church Society. On December 11, 1867, Mr. Ely was united in marriage with Miss Annie E. Moody, who was born at Chicopee, Massachusetts, September 20, 1844, a daughter of Loman and Louisa (Patrick) Moody, the former born at Granby, Massachusetts, September 1, 1803, and the latter at Warren, Massachusetts June 12, 1806. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ely: Malcolm Monteith, born November 14, 1869, a resident of Elizabeth,. New Jersey, Heman, born June 9, 1873, a resident of Canton, Ohio; and Mary Louise, born October 4, 1883, now the wife of Todd L. Moise, of Elyria. CHARLES MARTIN BRAMAN. Because of the number and importance of his business connections, his prominent place in financial circles and the worth of his activities in various lines of civic endeavor,. Charles Martin Braman justly may be accounted one of the leading citizens of Elyria. Coming to this city in 1914, he identified himself with the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, of which he is now president, and in addition has formed other connections that make his prestige an imposing one. Mr. Braman was born in Carlisle Township, Lorain County, Ohio, March 5, 1869, and is a son of William A. and Sophia E. • (Patterson) Braman, the former a native of Carlisle Township and the latter of Laporte Township, Lorain County. The paternal grandparents were Anson and Emmeline (Brooks) Braman, natives of New England and early settlers of Michigan, whence they migrated to Ohio, while the maternal grandparents, Hiram and Cynthia (Brooks) Patterson, were among the pioneers of Lorain County. William A. Braman was editor and publisher of the Elyria Republican, and was one of the organizers and the president of the Elyria Savings and Trust Company, as well as being treasurer of Braman, Horr & Warner Company, cheese and butter manufacturers and large exporters. In the fall of 1872 he was one of the organizers of the Savings Deposit Bank later incorporated and known as The Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, of which he became vice president, T. L. Nelson being president, a position he held twenty years. Jetduthan. C. Hill then became president and served as such until 1916, when he was succeeded by Charles M. Braman. This company has a capital stock of $250,000, and is accounted one of the strong and reliable concerns of its part of the state. The vice president and trust officer is C. E. Blanchard, the second vice president and secretary, J. B. Seward, and the treasurer is F. R. Eskler. In addition to his various business connections William A. Braman had other interests to occupy his energies, and for a long period of years was prominent in public life, serving at different times as a member of the Ohio State Legislature; county treasurer, county commissioner, president of the School Board of Elyria, and president of The Lorain Company Agricultural Society. Charles M. Braman attended the public schools of Elyria, and after his graduation from high school, at the age of nineteen years, embarked upon his business career as collector and bookkeeper in the bank of which his father had been one of the organizers. He remained in these humble capacities until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time he gave evidence of his own organizing abilities by being the main factor in the founding of the Savings Deposit Bank Company at Medina, Ohio. He was cashier of this institution until 1895, which year he resigned and became one of the organizers of the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank Company at Lorain, which later became the Central Bank Company. Mr. Braman remained as cashier thereof until 1914, when he returned to Elyria and became vice president of the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, succeeding Hon. W. W. Boynton. He remained in that capacity until 1916, when he was elected president, a position which he still retains. Mr. Braman is treasurer 'of the Eastern Heights Land Company and vice president of the Northern Savings and Loan Company. He attends the Congregational Church. Politically he is a republican, and has been city auditor for one and one-half years, as well as a member of the Board of Education. Fraternally he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; King Solomon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and to the Elyria Country, Club. His tendency is to be philanthropic and his benefactions have been numerous. He has served as president and treasurer of the Social Settlement Association, as a member of the Elyria Memorial Hospital Company, as treasurer of the Elyria Red Cross, as a member of the Board of Public Health and as treasurer of the Elyria Recreation Association. On June 20, 1895, Mr. Braman was united in marriage with Miss Anna Folger, who was born at Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Della M. (Beswick) Folger, the former born at Wadsworth, Ohio, and the latter at Medina, Ohio. To this union there have come two children: Theodore Folger, born November 10, 1897, who is now serving as advertising manager for the Elyria Enameled Products Company; and Josephine Louise, born March 13, 1900, who is a student at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.' The family belongs to the Congregational Church. JAMES A. MADDOX. A mainspring of some of the important organizations that handle welfare movements in the City of Columbus is James A. Maddox, president of the Columbus Board of Education and deeply interested in every movement effecting the life and welfare of the young, particularly the crippled and defective. Mr. Maddox has been a resident of Columbus for many years, and has been well known both in theatrical circles and in the insurance business. He was born at Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, And when he was a child his parents removed to Higginsport in Brown County. He was reared and educated there, and as a young man came to Columbus. For several years he was in business in the city as a theatre owner and manager. For six years he man aged the Majestic Theatre, operated by a stock company, and for some years was manager of the Colonial Theatre. Since 1922 Mr. Maddox has given his business energies to life insurance. He has built up a very large and successful business in Central Ohio as district agent for the Missouri State Life Insurance Company. After the General Assembly of Ohio passed the film censorship law, Governor Cox appointed Mr. Maddox first chairman of the Ohio State Board 'of Film Censors, the- first board of its kind in the United States. For a number of years .he has assumed very heavy responsibilities as a director, district governor or chairman of organizations interested in children's welfare. He is director of the Godman Guild, where about 500 children assemble nightly for study of use- ful occupations and American citizenship. He has been chairman of several athletic and, social events that yielded large sums for such purposes as the Family Service Society, for the Children's Hospital campaign, and he headed the organization which built the Tuberculosis Dispensary, the finest institution of its kind in the country. He is chairman of the American Red Cross at Franklin County, is a 68 - HISTORY OF OHIO director of the Humane Society, and is district governor of thirty-one Rotary clubs in Central and Southern Ohio, composed of five thousand business and professional men who are doing a special work for crippled children. He is a member of the state advisory committee of the Parent Teacher Association. Mr. Maddox took a prominent part in the movement to collect the funds to finance the bond campaign for the construction of new schools in Columbus. He has been a member of the Columbus Board of Education since 1922, and was reelected in November, 1923. He is president of the board, an office for which he is admirably qualified; not only as a successful business administrator, but as one possessing an exceptional knowledge of the needs and opportunities of popular education. During the World war Mr. Maddox was a member of the State War Savings Committee. Ohio sold more war savings stamps than any state in the Union, holding the record during and after the war. He was also active in all Liberty Loan drives,. going about the county selling these bonds by the aid of motion pictures, speaking in churches and school houses. He also furnished the entertainment for the boys at Camp Sherman. Mr. Maddox was largely responsible for the civic center movement which .gave Columbus the beautiful water front. He made a motion picture which was shown in all parts of the city, showing the deplorable conditions and how Columbus could improve her waterway. He is a director in the Columbus and Convention Bureau, which will give Columbus the largest convention hall in the world. In 1906 Mr. Maddox married Emma S. Speer, of Zanesville, who came from a prominent Ohio family. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. Stuart Speer, of Zanesville. Her grandfather, Alex Speer gave the land for building of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at New Concord, Ohio. Her mother was a member of the Hazlett family of Toledo, one of the oldest and best known families in Ohio. ELLIS C. SEALE. The time has long since gone by when individuals of indifferent education or irresponsible character may find a welcome haven as a teacher in the public schools of the country. Modern communities, watchful for the future of their youth, demand in their instructors the highest degree of efficiency based. on their' solid knowledge and their capacity to wisely impart it and adapt it to various needs. In Ellis C. Seale, superintendent of schools for Lorain County, Ohio, is found a trained college man and an experienced educator. For many years he has been active in educational work in different sections of the country, and has filled positions of great public usefulness. Mr. Seale was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, June 28, 1878, and is a son of George W. and Margaret (Evans) Seale, the latter of whom was born at Harlan, Kentucky. George W. Seale was born also at St. Joseph, Missouri, and now lives retired at Major, in Owsley, County, Kentucky. During the greater part. of his life he followed the profession of teaching, mainly in .Kentucky, and on several occasions became a school. superintendent. Eliss C. Seale was reared at Berea, Kentucky, where he attended the public schools, and after completing the high school course entered. Miami University (Ohio), from which institution he was graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1907 received the degree of Master of Arts. Not every university graduate with learned degrees finds himself on leaving college entirely satisfied as to choice of a future career, but Mr. Seale, with an inherited tendency and an ambition to . be a useful member of society, hesitated very little, and in a short time had made a place for himr self among the educators of Madison County, Kentucky, and during the next three years there found his work enjoyable and appreciated. For a time he taught Latin in the high school at Berea, and four years later became a member of the faculty at Berea College, and this congenial association con. tinned until 1913, when he came to Ohio. During the next seven years Mr. Seale. and his family were residents of, Portage County, Ohio, where they still have a wide' circle of friends. He became identified with the Ohio State Normal School at Kent, and subsequently became head of the department of Rural Education, to which subject h had devoted mueh attention and in which he was deeply interested. On many occasions he had deplored the lack of sufficient school facilities in the country, notwithstanding the intelligence and ambition of country boys and girls, and during his long term of service in the Normal School in this department, had the satisfaction of seeing many reform brought about through his practical suggestions and efforts. In many ways he was respected and esteemed at Kent, where he took an active interest in civil matters and social affairs, and from 1914 until 1919 served as superintendent of the Sunday school and taught the Bible Class in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1920 he was elected superintendent of schools for Lorain County, and in the administration of this office has proved himself a man of resources and a real educational leader. Within four years he has completely reorganized the schools of the county, more than $2,000,000 having been expended in new buildings and equipment. In November, 1905, Mr. Seale married Miss Martha Ambrose, who was born at Berea, Kentucky a daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Miller) Ambrose, both now deceased. The father of Mrs. Seale was born at Conway, and the mother, at McKee, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Seale have five children: Velma, Kathryn, George, Margaret and John. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, In political. sentiment Superintendent Seale is a republican. In late years he has seldom accepted a city office, but while teaching in Berea College, was a member of the City Council of Berea. He belongs to a number of representative educational organizations, and is a member of the educational committee of the Kiwanis Club at Elyria. CHARLES M. WILLIAMS. Among the foremost men of Elyria, Ohio, few are better known than Charles M. Williams, trust officer .with the Elyria Savings & Trust Company, one of the largest financial institutions in Lorain County, and former county clerk of Lorain County; and for many years an educator in county and city. It was through Mr. Williams, energy and efficiency that manual training was introduced into the public schools of Elyria, of which department he served as head for fourteen years. Mr. Williams is a native of Lorain County, born at North Ridgeville on October 24, 1869. His parents were. William E. and Mary A. (Seaman) Williams, and his paternal grandparents were Lyman and Rovena (Reed) Williams, the former of whom was born in Connecticut and the latter in New York They became acquainted and were married in. Ohio, and spent the rest of their lives there. William E. Williams, was born at Middleburg, Ohio, where he had school privileges, and then learned the shoemaking trade, which he followed for many years or as long as hand work was profit, able. After his marriage, which took place at Cleve• land, he .settled at Olmsted, and from there moved to Elyria in 1890, where his death occurred in January, 1919, at the age of eighty-two .years. He married HISTORY OF OHIO - 69 Mary A. Seaman, who was born in Marion County, and died at Elyria on April 8, 1900, in her fifty-eighth year. Of their four children Charles M. was the first born; Pearl the second born, died July 2, 1905; Jessie E., who was born July 14, 1875, is the wife of James Fox, of Boise City, Idaho; and Helen I., who was born October 8, 1878, is the wife of Benjamin F. Kelly, of Elyria, Ohio. The parents were highly respected in the community. Charles M. Williams grew up in a home of comfort directed by industry and thrift, and had excellent educational advantages in the public schools of Lagrange, the high school at Ada and the Ohio State University at Columbus. He had been a close and interested student, and then turned his attention to educational work, teaching his first school in 1889. He continued to teach in the country districts for a number of years, and for three years was school superintendent in Grafton and Carlyle townships. In 1899 he came to Elyria as principal of the Lake Avenue public school and. continued in this position for four years. In the meanwhile Mr. Williams, as a progressive educator, had become deeply interested in what was a startling innovation to the less intelligent and thoughtful, this being the introduction of manual training into the public schools. To men of his mental caliber it seemed a beneficent as well as logical outgrowth of the necessary technical or trade school, and in 1903, when the Elyria Board of Education appointed him to establish manual training in the public schools of this city, he accepted the responsibility and . remained at the head of this department until 1917, the manual training course being at present an important feature in the curriculum. In the fall of 1917 he was elected county clerk of Lorain County, in which office he served with efficiency until August 5, 1923. He has served two terms as president of the Lorain County Teachers, Association and one term as president of the Cleveland Manual Training Club. Mr. Williams married, on October 28, 1896, Miss Mamie B. Genge, who was born at Dover, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a daughter of R. and Lavina (Baker) Genge, natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one son, Ralph, born February 26, 1898. He married Miss Reva Allen, of Oberlin, Ohio, and they live at Elyria, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he belongs to the Official Board, is former president of the Men's Club and teaches the Bible Class in the Sunday school. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity; is past grand of Elyria Lodge No. 103, Odd. Fellows; is past thrice illustrious master of Elyria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters; is past commander Elyria Tent No. 3, Knights of the Maccabees; and belongs to Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and. Protective Order of Elks. CLAUDE E. BLANCHARD. Among the prominent business men of Elyria, Ohio, who are justly proud of this beautiful city as their place of birth and are equally held in high esteem by their fellow citizens, may be mentioned Claude Eugene Blanchard, who is first vice president and trust officer of the Savings Deposit Bank Company of this place. Mr. Blanchard was born at Elyria May 9, 1874, second son in a family of four children born to John and Mary (Disbrow) Blanchard, and a grandson on the paternal side of Justus H. and Jane (Myers) Blanchard. The Blanchards were old New York State people who came to Ohio and settled in Penfield Township, Lorain County, in 1850, and became substantial citizens and successful farmers. John Blanchard was born at Palenville, Greene County, New York, and accompanied his parents to Lorain County, Ohio, where he attended the country schools and assisted his father on the farm until the Civil war came on, when he enlisted for service in Company B, First Ohio Light Artillery. On December 24, 1861, at Stone River, Tennessee, by the accidental discharge of his gun, he lost his right arm. His honorable discharge followed . and he returned home, later attended a business college and after that taught school until 1873, when he was elected county recorder, in which office he served continuously for nine years, his home being at Elyria. After leaving the recorder 's office he became secretary and treasurer of the Brock Hill. Coal Company, and later embarked in the coal business for himself and continued in that line until he retired from active life. His death occurred May 2, 1912. About 1870 John Blanchard married Mary Disbrow, who was born in Penfield Township, Lorain County, Ohio, and now resides at Elyria. The Disbrow family came to Lorain County in pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard became the parents of four children: James, who died when three years old; Claude Eugene; and Paul E. and Jessie L., both of whom live with their mother. Claude Eugene Blanchard attended the public schools of his native city, and in 1890 was graduated from the high school. He then attended Oberlin College for one year, then worked for a. year, in the meanwhile watching for an opportunity to identify himself with a reputable business house, a commendable ambition for any youth to cherish. When he found an opening in the Savings Deposit Bank Company at Elyria he eagerly accepted it, although it meant beginning at the very bottom of the ladder, as janitor and office boy, Many business men have deplored the lack of early training in their employes along 'their own special line .of work, but this banking company could find no fault with the new office boy, for he performed every duty with fidelity, quickly learned every detail and thus very soon was ready for promotion. He has been with this organization since August 1, 1892, and is now first vice president and trust officer, and is counted with the leading financiers of Lorain County. He is a member and the present chairman of the Board of Sinking Fund Trustees of the City of Elyria. Mr. Blanchard married, on October 14, 1896, Miss Grace Birdsall, who was born in New York City, a daughter of Robert M. and Lottie (Brooks) Birdsall. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard have two children: Linda May, who is attending Oberlin College, and Homer D. The family belongs to the First Baptist Church of Elyria. In political sentiment Mr. Blanchard is a republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and belongs also to the Knights of Maccabees and to the Sons of Veterans. BOYD B. HADDOX. Numbered among the prominent attorneys practicing at the bar of Columbus, Boyd B. Haddox is carrying on a general practice and occupies a high position both professionally and socially. He was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1889, a son of Rev. Louis C. and Caroline Belle (Ireland) Haddox, both of whom were of Virginian ancestry. Reverend Haddox was a graduate of Marietta, Ohio, College, and during the remainder of his life was a minister of the Methodist faith. He was born in what was then Virginia, but is now Ritchie County, West Virginia. In his ministry he occupied pulpits at Portsmouth, Columbus, Chillicothe, Zanesville and Athens, Ohio, and for a number of years was a presiding elder of his church. Mrs. Haddox on her maternal side is a great-greatgreat-granddaughter of Col. William Lowther, who 70 - HISTORY OF OHIO was an officer of the Virginia troops in the American Revolution, and she is an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is through her that Mr. Haddox is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, although he also has Revolutionary ancestry on the Haddox side. Boyd. B. Haddox attended school in the various cities to which his father 's pastoral duties took him, particularly those of Columbus, Athens and Chillicothe, and he was graduated from the high school course of the last named city in 1908, and subsequently he was a student of the Ohio State University, being graduated from the law school of the latter institution in 1912, and that same year entered upon the practice of his profession at Columbus. Mr. Haddox is admitted to practice in all of the State and Federal courts, and also in the United States Supreme Court, and has been connected with some very important litigation. He is a member of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, of which he is now president; and upon assuming the duties of that office in 1923 he took hold of its affairs with a determination to increase its influence and usefulness in every way possible. In addition to this connection Mr. Haddox maintains membership with the University Club of Columbus, the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio Bar Association and David Kinsman Lodge No. 617, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons. Boyd B. Haddox married Nellie B. Walcutt, who was born at Westerville, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Barbara Jeanne. Mr. Haddox is a skilled and resourceful lawyer, whose "careful preparation of his cases, his intimate knowledge of the law and his thorough mastery of the interests involved are largely responsible for the frequency with which lie wins a verdict for his client. However, he has always made it a rule of his practice not to accept a retainer from one of whose innocence he is not convinced, for he believes that in order to favorably impress a jury he must know that the cause he is pleading is a righteous one. Knowing that he is right, he can present his arguments with a forceful sincerity which is convincing beyond any technical quibbles or rhetorical logic, no matter how eloquent. GEORGE H. LEWIS. One of the countries of Europe that has contributed to the best citizenship of the United States is Wales. Taken as a whole, they have been industrious, thrifty people, intelligent, musical and law-abiding, in the main cherishing many of the ideals . close to the heart of America, and the study of the Nation's history discloses the great number who have attained honorable place in the professions, business and public life. It is to Wales that George H. Lewis, one of Elyria's leading business men, refers when he proudly. speaks of his old-country ancestral home. Over ninety years have passed, however, since the founders of the Lewis family in Ohio settled as farmers in Lorain County. George H. Lewis was born near Columbia, Lorain County, Ohio, in February, 1864, a son of Henry J. and Emeretta (Brown) Lewis, the former of whom was born also near Columbia, and the -latter near Wellington, Ohio; The paternal grandparents, James Perry and Sarah (Jones) Lewis, both of whom were born in Wales, spent many years of their lives in Lorain County, Ohio, to which they came in 1830. The maternal grandparents, Willard and in (Couch) Brown, were still earlier settlers in Lorain County. They were New England people, natives of Massachusetts, and they came in 1820 and located near Wellington. Henry J. Lewis grew up on his father 's farm near Columbia, and probably in his youth there learned the art of cheesemaking, together with the basic principles of many other industries and vocations that at present are entirely disassociated with the business of farming. After his marriage he settled on a farm of his own and later went into the business of manufacturing and handling cheese. Es was a man of sterling character, well educated and trustworthy, a friend of education and religion, and a republican in his political views. For eighteen consecutive years he served as county clerk of Lorain County. His death occurred in 1916, his widow still surviving and living at Cleveland. George H. Lewis was educated in the grade schools and the high school at Elyria. When twenty years old his father accepted him as a helper in the county clerk's office, and the three years he spent under his father 's strict supervision were of in estimable benefit in relation to his after life. Although undoubtedly Mr. Lewis is particularly well equipped by nature for special work that requires unlimited patience and capacity to absorb detail, he later appreciated the thoroughness of his early training when he was elected county clerk of Pecos County, Texas, which office he held for three years during his residence in that state. Upon his return to Elyria he became deputy auditor of Lorain County after seven years of service as such becoming and auditor, and continued in that responsible office for th following nine years. Since 1914 Mr. Lewis ha been identified with the I. T. S. Rubber Company of which, large business corporation he is secretary. In 1890 Mr. Lewis married Miss Caroline Starr, of Elyria, a granddaughter of Henry Starr and a daughter of Henry and Fannie (Kitchen) Starr the former a native of Elyria and the latter of Piqua, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have one daughter Anna, who is the wife of T. E. Conklin, of Elyria. In political life Mr. Lewis has always been a republican, having been in a manner of speaking, reared in that party. As mentioned above, he has served long and faithfully in public office, and additionally served two years as service director of Elyria. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is prominent also in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he is a past exalted ruler Mr. Lewis and family are members of the Episcopal Church. ARTEMAS BEEBE. It is a long way to travel back to 1817 when the busy modern City of Elyria, Ohio was not yet thought of, its site being a beautiful stretch of farm and pasture land that had been purchased for a homestead by young Artemas Beebe who had been pleased with its situation when he had come to Lorain County in 1815 on a prospecting trip from West Springfield, Massachusetts. Thus was the representative and substantial Beebe family founded here. Artemas Beebe, fourth in line of descent to bear the family name of Artemas, was born at Elyria, Ohio, May 26, 1869, a son of Artemas, grandson of Artemas, a founder of the family in Ohio, and a great-grandson of Artemas Beebe, who was born in Scotland. Grandfather Beebe was born in Hampden County, Massachusetts, where he was reared on a farm. When ready to begin life for himself he became interested in the Western Reserve lands, and in 1815 came to Lorain County to judge of their value for himself. He worked as a carpenter for one year, and then returned to West Springfield, where he married Permelia Morgan, and in 1817 returned with his wife to Lorain County and bought a tract of land which is a part of the present site of Elyria. He was a very valuable pioneer, being a carpenter and millwright, and he did the most of the early building that followed the founding of the hamlet that grew rapidly in population and im- HISTORY OF OHIO - 71 portance. He erected the first hotel and his son-in-law conducted it, and built another at Put-in-Bay, which his son Henry operated. He was concerned in many of the early activities here. Artemas Beebe, father of Artemas Beebe of Elyria, was a native of Elyria and practically spent all his life here, a useful citizen and worthy in every relation of life. He owned almost 300 acres of land, much of which is now included in the City of Elyria, and its environs, and after Elyria became a city, served at times on the City Council. He was a man of Christian principles, gave support to both the Presbyterian and Congregational churches, and was particularly active in furthering Sunday school work. His death occurred in 1890. He married Nancy Fisher, a member of an old Ohio family, and they had four children: William Artemas, who was born October 14, 1848, died December 10, 1902; Mary Maria, who was born January 6, 1854, died August 9, 1894; Frank, who was born November 12, 1856, was a resident of Elyria at the time of his death, May 12, 1923; and Artemas. Artemas Beebe was educated in the public schools of Elyria and was graduated, from the high school. In 1890 he became a clerk in the bookstore of Frank Williams, and in April, 1891, in partnership with George Mapes, bought the business from Mr. Williams. They conducted this business for five years, when Mr. Beebe felt 'like retiring, as he had other plans in prospect, and ultimately the partners sold the bookstore to J. C. Binns. In the meanwhile Mr. Beebe had married, and his father-in-law, the late George H. Mapes, who was general agent for the L. S. & M. S. Railroad, opened the way for him to enter railroad service. For two years he was agent at the Junction, Elyria, and then became identified with the Cleveland & Elyria, now the Cleveland & Southwestern Railroad, as a conductor on their line, and when he resigned in October, 1920, he was a veteran with a quarter of a century's faithful service behind him. Since then Mr. Beebe has given his attention to Masonic insurance. In December, 1891, Mr. Beebe married Miss Minnie Angeline Mapes, who was born at Bellevue, Ohio, a daughter of George H. and Marietta (King) Mapes, and a granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah Mapes, and of Joseph and Matilda King, old and prominent names in this state. The father of Mrs. Beebe was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1841, and died in March, 1907, and her mother was born there in June, 1845, and died in March, 1920. Mrs. Beebe is active in both social and public affairs at Elyria, where she is a leading member of the Woman,s Civic Club, of which organization she has served as treasurer. Politically Mr. Beebe is a sound republican and a member of the Lorain County Republican Executive Committee. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and was influential in securing the erection of the new Masonic Temple in 1909. He belongs also to the Maccabees and to the Exchange Club, and both he and Mrs. Beebe are members of the Congregational Church. CHARLES C. ENSIGN. The late Charles C. Ensign was for many years connected with the business and political life of Lorain County, and spent his last days at Elyria, where he had important interests. For two terms he was sheriff of Lorain County, having heen first elected when only twenty-seven, and was his own successor in the dace. Prior .to this time he was for seven years chief deputy sheriff under his father and M. A. Pounds. He was born at Spencer, Ohio, August 18, 1863, a son of Calvin and Deborah (Burdick) Ensign, the former of whom served Lorain County as sheriff. He made his son one of his deputies, and it was after having an experience as such that the young man was elected sheriff. Following the expiration of his second term as sheriff he went to Lorain, Ohio, and bought an interest in a furniture and undertaking establishment, and conducted the business for two years, but then sold and came to Elyria, and went into the furniture and undertaking business here with Charles H. Wilkins, and this association continued until his death, August 17, 1905. He bought a farm at Ridgeville, Ohio, and made his home upon it, although he continued his business operations at Elyria. Charles C. Ensign was married March 30, 1886, to Cora F. Hulbert, who was born at Grafton, Ohio, August 1, 1858, a daughter of James and Nancy A. (Fish) Hulbert, natives of Grafton, Ohio, and Shoales, Indiana, respectively, Mrs. Ensign's grandparents were Orrin and Lydia (Stevens) Hulbert, he born in one of the New England states, and she at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. When she married Mr. Hulbert she was a widow, a Mrs. Crittenden, And she and her first husband drove from Massachusetts to Grafton, Ohio, with oxen, she carrying a baby in her arms. Charles C. Ensign and his wife had the following children: Mabel Lucile, who is the wife of George A. Paddock of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and the parents of two children, Gladys and Donald; Walter Charles, who is a resident of Miami, Florida, and Dorothy June, who is the wife of Edwin C. Wise, of Wellington, Ohio. Mrs. Ensign attended the grade and high schools of Elyria. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but her husband was a Baptist in his religious belief. A very prominent republican, he was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Lorain County at the time of his death. Fraternally he belonged to the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and held offices in both orders. Mrs. Ensign is also prominent in politics, and has the distinction of having been elected as councilwoman-at-large of Elyria, in. November, 1921. She is a member of the Civic Club, and has been chairman of different departments; she belongs to the Audubon Bird Club, of which she is now vice president, and she has served on the board of directors of the Young Women's Christian Association. Mrs. Charles C. Ensign is one of the most prominent women of Elyria, and one who is deeply inter:. ested in the development of her home city. She has long been recognized as a leader among her sex, and her capability and efficiency are unquestioned. ELLIS RAY SHILLING, M. D., who has a state wide reputation. as .a diagnostician, is a Columbus doctor with an important side line, comprising his interest in and devotion to the welfare of boys. He finds his outlet for this interest chiefly in the Civitan Club of Columbus, of which he" is president. Doctor Shilling was elected president of the Oivitan Club in December, 1923. .For some time previously he was chairman of the committee on Boy Scout and children's work of the club. On taking up the office of president Doctor Shilling made an inspiring address appealing to the sense of the Civitan's duties and his attitude towards civic affairs and the public welfare. He emphasized the meaning of the word Civitan, which signifies "builders of good citizens," and pointed out that the phrase "Good Citizen" is not used in a restructed sense, but comprises all the attitudes and activities of the citizen in relation to his community, particularly in the observance of laws. Doctor Shilling has concentrated his juvenile work on the class known as "normal" in distinction from those recognized as "sub-normal" and physi- 72 - HISTORY OF OHIO cally and mentally deficient. He states that the latter class hag been given unusual consideration from public and private sources and that in reality the normal" juveniles are the class most neglected. Under his leadership a troop of Boy Scouts was organized at the Franklin County Childrens Home, and these boys, under the auspices of the Civitan Club, are receiving special training and instruction. The Civitan Club under Doctor Shilling as president has extended this beneficent work to include girls as well. Doctor Shilling was born ;near Troy, Miami County, Ohio, finished his literary education at Denison University at Granville, and in 1909 was graduated from the Medical Department of the Ohio State University. For fifteen years he has been in active practice at Columbus. His work is confined exclusively to diagnostics, and in this he is a specialist working in cooperation with other physicians. He acts as a consultant to general practitioners both in his office and at the bedside. In addition to his special talents and broad experience he calls to his aid all the facilities of a chemical laboratory equipped with' the most modern apparatus for such work. Doctor Shilling is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, also the American Society of Clinical. Pathologists. By his marriage to Miss Blanche Wilkinson of Columbus they have two sons, Ellis. Ray and Ralph Herbert Shilling. CARL GEORGE FRIDAY. For many years the late Carl George Friday was known to the people of Elyria as the efficient undertaker whose services insured a dignified rendering of the last offices to the dead. He was born at Elyria, February 14, 1881, a son of Charles F. and Anna if. (Rimbach) Friday, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Elyria. Mr. Friday's maternal grandparents, Henry and Anna Rimbach, natives of GerMany, came to the United States, and, locating at Elyria, founded a furniture house in 1861, and he continued to conduct it until his death, at which time his son became the proprietor. After a time he took his brother George in as a partner. Still later it became George & Ernest Rimbach, and afterward George Rimbach & Carl Friday. On October 13, 1913, the firm became 'Friday & Thomas, and this association was maintained until 1916, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Friday taking the undertaking establishment and Mr. Thomas the furniture branch of the business. Until his death, September 11, 1919, Mr. Friday continued in the undertaking business, and it was later sold by his widow to William C. Sudro, the present owner. The marriage of. Mr. Friday occurred on November 27, 1910, to R. Mae Arpin, who was born at Alpena, Michigan, April 29, 1880, a daughter of Adolphus J. and Mary rA. (Emmick) A rpin, he born at Montreal, Canada, and she at Port Huron, Michigan. Mrs. Friday came to Elyria in 1906, and has made this city her home ever since. Mr. Friday had but few educational advantages, but he was a man who had learned much from association with others. His widow attended the grade and high schools of Michigan and is a very well-educated lady. Mr. Friday was a strong republican. Fraternally he belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and was prominent in all of these organizations. He was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors, Association, and was a member of the National Funeral Directors, Association. Possessing an intelligence and public spirit which urges her to be of service, Mrs. Friday is one of the leaders in various movements, is a staunch republican, and was chairman of the political science department of the Woman's Civic Club for two years, 1922 and 1923. She belongs to the. Republican Woman's Club, was vice president of the League of Women Voters of Elyria, ex-secretary of the Lorain County League of Women Voters, financial secretary of the National Union of Evangelical Women, and in 1921 was elected as councilwoman of the Third Ward of Elyria, and reelected in 1923 by a large majority. In her club and political work Mrs. Friday is proving the ability of her sex to hold public office as competently as men, and the women of Elyria are very proud of her and of what she is accomplishing, not only for women, but also for Elyria and Lorain County, in whose progress she is so deeply and unselfishly interested. WILLIAM C. SUDRO, successor to Carl G. Friday, undertaker, is one of the young business and professional men of Elyria who is giving satisfaction, and is holding the patronage of his predecessor. He is also a veteran of the World war and a member of the American Legion. The birth of William C. Sudro occurred at Elyria, September 1, 1893, and he is a son of Fred and Minnie (Bussey) Sudro, natives of Germany. After their marriage in Germany they came to' the United States and located at Elyria, where he worked in the Elyria Bottling Works. His death, occurred October 28, 1911, but his widow sup wives him and makes her home at Elyria. Growing to manhood in his native city, William C. Sudro attended the Lutheran Parochial School, and his first connection with the business world was as an employe of the old furniture and undertaking firm of Rimbach & Friday, which later became Friday & Thomas. Mr. Sudro continued with the new firm, and when it was dissolved, Mr. Thomas taking the furniture branch, and Mr. Friday the undertaking business, Mr. Sudro remained with the latter, an after his death bought the business from Mrs. Friday In 1921 Mr. Sudro moved into his present fine funera home, Cedar and Broad streets, where he has a fu equipment, and here he is fully prepared to give to the dead a dignified and appropriate care according to the most advanced ideas of the profession. In May, 1920, Mr. Sudro married Fern Dyer, who was born at New Lebanon, Ohio, a daughter of Mar vin Dyer. They have one child, Hugh. Mrs. Sudro was a professional nurse. Mr. Sudro attends th services of the Church of Christ. In politics he is a republican. Fraternally he is a Scottish Rite and Shriner Mason, and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Loyal Order of Moose. His social connections are maintained through his membership with the Automobile Club, and he also belongs to the Kiwanis Club and the Young Men's Business Club. On October 7, 1917, Mr. Sudro enlisted in Company D, Three Hundred and Forty-seventh Infantry, Eighty-seventh Division, was sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and thence to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and finally to Camp Dix, New Jersey, and in May, 1918, left for France on the Persia, which was torpedoed 200 miles off the Irish Coast. They took to small boats and were landed in England, where, owing to the fact that they had lost all of their effects, they were detained for two months for new equipment. Their division was split up, and by the time it was reassembled the armistice was signed, and the troops were sent back to the United States. Mr. Sudro was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio, in January, 1919, as a sergeant. He is a young man of the high personal character, and his professional ability is un questioned. His long connection with the business HISTORY OF OHIO - 73 he now owns makes him a well-known figure at Elyria, and his work in the past, as now, is such as to commend him to the public. WILLIAM G. MITCHELL. Among the men of substantial character at Elyria, Ohio, who have been active, useful, trustworthy citizens of Lorain County is William Glen Mitchell, of many years, standing, who was elected to the important office of county recorder early in 1923, assuming the duties of this office in September, 1923. Mr. Mitchell does not come to this office as a stranger with everything to learn, for he has been, as deputy recorder, associated with it for the past thirteen years. Mr. Mitchell is a native of Pennsylvania,' and was born December 6, 1875, in Somerset County, where his mother was also born, his father being a native of Bedford County, that state. His parents were John A. and Phebe (Thomas) Mitchell, both old and respected family names in the Keystone State. In 1895 the Mitchell family came to Lorain, Ohio, where the mother of Mr. Mitchell died two years later. His father still resides at Lorain, and he followed the carpenter trade until he retired. William Glen Mitchell was educated in the public schools in his native state, and by the time he was eighteen years old had completed his high school course. He then went to work in the steel mills at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and several years later accompanied the company when it removed to Lorain, Ohio, at that time being an electric craneman. He was connected with the National Tube Company at Lorain and other places until 1910, when he became deputy recorder of Lorain County, a position he filled with complete efficiency for thirteen years. During these years of faithful attention to duty he became well and widely known and as county recorder his already established policy of courtesy and efficiency will but increase the high regard in which he is already held. Mr. Mitchell was married on June 11, 1921, to Miss Maud M.. Cahoon, who was born and educated in Avon Township, Lorain County, and in the Ada Normal School, Cardin County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Horace J. and Elizabeth (Lucas) Cahoon, sub- stantial farming people in Avon Township. Mr. H. J. Cahoon was also county recorder of Lorain County, Ohio, for about ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have no children. They are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Mitchell being a member of the Young Men's Bible Class and a member of the Men's Club. In political life he has always been a republican, and in fraternal life belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Eagles at Lorain, Ohio. HENRY M. ANDRESS. During a long and honorable career at Elyria Henry M. Andress has been engaged in a number of lines of business, in all of which he has been successful. After following the implement business for a number of years he turned his attention to the sale of automobiles and real es; tate, in which he is now engaged, and is also a director and member of the finance committee of the Elyria Savings & Trust Company. Mr. Andress was born in Henrietta Township, Lorain County, Ohio, June 19, 1855, and is a son of Carlo and Wealthy (Smith) Andress, the former born in New York State and the latter at Poughkeepsie, New York. His paternal grandfather was Ruluf Andress, an early settler of Henrietta Township, who was one of the early builders of covered-bridges in Lorain County, while his maternal grandfather was Arab Smith, a native of New York.. Carlo Andress followed farming during the active years of his life, but about 1867 retired from farming opera- tions in Henrietta Township and moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where he died November 8, 1870. His widow survived him until April 24, 1871. For many years Mr. Andress served as a justice of the peace. Henry M. Andress attended the school at Berlin Heights, Ohio, and after the death of his parents began to work for his brother, by whom he was employed one year. His next employment was in a meat market at Birmingham, Ohio, where he continued for one year, and for six months, during one winter, he taught school at Berlin Heights. In 1876 he came to Elyria, where he first worked as a bookkeeper. One year later he seized the opportunity of entering the real estate business, and subsequently opened an implement and buggy establishment, which he conducted for about twenty years. In 1891 he and Henry Wurst bought the old Beebe House from Artemas Beebe, at the southwest corner of Court and Broad streets, on which was located an old hotel, which had been allowed to run down. Messrs. Andress and Wurst proceeded to rebuild this structure, making it into a four-story building; which they named the Andwur Hotel. In June, 1920, he was a member of the building committee which erected the Elyria Savings & Trust Company, an eight-story brick building, 54 feet on Court Street, and 105 feet on Broad Street. The first brick paving ever installed at Elyria was put in on Broad Street by Mr. Andress. In 1903 Mr. Andress sold out his implement and carriage business and became Elyria's first dealer in automobiles, his line at that time being the Orient Buckboard. In 1910 he became agent for the Cadillac, and 1922 he added the Hudson, Essex and Franklin cars, which he now handles, and February 1, 1920, admitted D. D. Smith to partnership, their showroom being at 528 Broad Street. Mr. Andress still maintains his interest in the real estate business, and among other transactions, in 1921, sold two hotels, the Brown and the Topliff. As before noted, he has other interests, and is a director and member of the finance committee of the Elyria Savings & Trust Company. Mr. Andress served as president of the first service board of Elyria, and for many years was a member of the Lorain County Agricultural Board. In politics he is a republican, and his fraternal connection is with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1921 Mr. Andress was elected president of the Elyria Kiwanis Club, being the third man to be honored here in that manner. At this writing, in 1924, Mr. Andress has the distinction of being the only business man on Broad Street, who started here in business nearly fifty years ago. He has resided within a stone 's throw of his first location ever since his arrival at Elyria, in April, 1876, and his business ventures have always had their headquarters on Broad Street. In 1877 Mr. Andress married Miss Medora Boynton, and to this union there were born three children: Maude, who is deceased; Jean, of Oakland, California; and George, of Elyria, Ohio. On February 7, 1916, Mr. Andress married Mrs. Ida M. Shank, born at Litchfield, Ohio, who had three children by her first marriage; Clyde, of Elyria; Laone, now Mrs. Scott Lyons, of Akron, Ohio ; and Lavone, twin of Laone, now Mrs. Elmer Smith, of Elyria. WINFORD LECKY MATTOON. Not only is Winford Lecky Mattoon known in his official capacity as real estate and tax agent for the Hocking Valley Railway Company, but he is also a prominent member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a man of high standing in his home city. ,He was born at Plain City, Madison County, Ohio, August .29, 1881, a son of Dr. Francis Nathaniel and Miriam Rhoda (Lecky) Mattoon. Doctor Mattoon was ,born at' Maxwell, 74 - HISTORY Genoa Township, Delaware County, Ohio, June 22, 1843, a son of Seth (5) [Philip (1) Nathaniel (2) Philip (3) Nathaniel (4)] and Louisa (Sawyer) Mattoon. An uncle of Seth Mattoon, John Mattoon and his wife, Thankful (Stebbins) Mattoon, came from Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, and settled in Worthington, Ohio, in 1802. The Mattoon family, which is of Scotch ancestry, first appears in the United States in the person of Philip Mattoon, as fax as authentic records go. He had come to America probably as one of about 400 Scotch prisoners exiled to the British Colonies in America by Oliver Cromwell after their capture at the Battle of Dunbar, Scotland, where, after fighting against odds, the British suddenly turned the tide of battle and with a reputed loss of less than fifty men, killed 3,000 Scotsmen and took 10,000 prisoners, together with baggage, equipment, and wagon trains. Philip Mattoon settled near Boston, Massachusetts, from which place he accompanied Capt. William Turner to Deerfield, Massachusetts, to assist in the defense of that town from the second attack of the Indians under King Philip. Philip Mattoon married Sarah, daughter of John Hawks, of Hadley, and died at Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1696. The family later divided, part of its members settling at Northfield, Massachusetts, in the Connecticut River Valley, and later Nathaniel (4) Mattoon and his family and brother John went from Northfield further up the valley and settled at Vershire, Vermont. John Mattoon, above referred to, came to Worthington, Ohio, in 1802, and thirty-five years later, in 1837, five nephews: Seth, the grandfather of Mr. Mattoon of this notice Ancil, Lumen, Jesse and Israel, migrated to Ohio, locating near Worthington in the northern part of Franklin County. Four of these nephews, who were brothers, remained there; one, Lumen, returned to Vermont, and Seth later settled on the Sunbury Road, just over the line in Genoa Township, Delaware County, above Central College. He was thrice married, his first wife having been Laura, daughter of Gideon Hart, a Revolutionary soldier from Connecticut, by whom he had two sons, Hiram and Henry. His second wife was Louisa, daughter' of Jotham Sawyer, Jr., and was born near Syracuse, New York. When Seth Mattoon came to Ohio the trip was made entirely by water, he and his bride coming from her home near Syracuse, New York, on a canal boat to Buffalo via the Erie Canal, thence in a sailing vessel on Lake Erie to Cleveland, thence by way of the old Ohio Canal to Lockbourne in Franklin County, and from there on the feeder canal to Columbus. Dr. Francis N. Mattoon served as a fifer in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and was wounded in the ankle during a skirmish along the Chattahoochie River, and because of this wound was disabled in the hospital for three months, but recovered in time to rejoin his regiment and participate in the historic march to the sea with General Sherman. Following the close of the war he studied medicine, at first privately, but later was a student at Starling Medical College at Columbus, from which he was graduated in 1872, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His preliminary education had been obtained principally from Central College in Franklin County. For many years Doctor Mattoon was engaged in the practice of medicine at Plain City, Madison County, Ohio, where he was a prominent citizen, member of the village council, president of the school board during the building 'of the present school buildings, trustee for many years of the Methodist Episcopal Church and past master Urbana Lodge No. 311, Free & Accepted Masons, He retired and moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1910, where he died September 13, 1920, and was buried in Central Cemetery in Blendon Township, Franklin County, just southwest of Central College, where his father, mother and half brother Henry and his family are buried, Hiram having gone over the plains in 1849 on the Oregon Trail and lived and died as a teacher of mathematics in the college at McMinn. ville, Oregon. Hiram was also a Baptist preacher, and before his death wrote and published "T Baptist Annals of Oregon" in two volumes, a ye valuable addition to the church history of that see. tion. It is recalled that in his 'younger days Doctor Mattoon taught the first school in what was then incorporated as the Village of North Columbus, non a part of the main city. The mother of Winford Lecky Mattoon, who is still living, was born near Holmesville in Prairie Township, Holmes County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas William and Margaret (Bigham) Lek members of pioneer families of Ohio, coming from near Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, when the families, as emigrants from Ireland, first settled. Mrs. Mattoon is descended from John Lecky, who came to America with the movement of William Finley, heading a company of Scotch Presbyterians who settled at old Red Stone Fort, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. During his life he dedicated a plot of ground near McClellandtown, a short distance from Uniontown, for burial purposes, and this is still known as " The Lecky Graveyard," and a large number of the family are buried there. Mrs. Mattoon and her sister Anna (Mrs. W. Fitch), were graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, class of 1867 and 1869, respectively, and following her graduation she took a position teacher of mathematics in Central College, Ohio, where she met Francis N. Mattoon, who was then student of that institution, to whom she was married in Millersburg, Ohio, on July 29, 1875. She is n the only survivor of the. old faculty of Central College. For several years past Mr. Mattoon of review has been compiling and recording a ye extensive genealogical research into the history of the Mattoon and allied families, which history reaches back through the maze of British and Euro. pean monarchical lines, particularly through the Sawyer, Prescott and Rice families, through medieval and ancient times, into the Biblical era, and thence back to the time of Adam. His genealogical records have been verified by the highest authorities and are exceedingly valuable. His researches in gene alogy and the painstaking manner in which he corn piles and records his data have made him an author on this subject. Winford Lecky Mattoon had a very complete legiate education, beginning in Otterbein Univer preparatory department, Westerville, Ohio, where was a student during the years between. 1896 1898. From 1898 to 1900 he entered as a freshen in classical course in Denison University at Gran. ville, Ohio and from the latter year until 1903 was a student of the Engineering College of t Ohio State University at Columbus. In the meanwhile, in 1901, he had gone to work during summer vacations in the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, building second track at Plain City, and subsequently he became instrument man for the same company at Columbus, In 1903 he went with the engineering department of the Hocking Valley Railway, and the following year entered the employ of the engineering depart, went of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,