HISTORY OF OHIO - 75 holding various positions with it at Trenton, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa. In 1907 he returned to Columbus as principal assistant engineer to the chief engineer of the Hocking Valley Railway, continuing until 1910, when he was made real estate and tax agent of that line, with headquarters at Columbus, and still holds this responsible position. As has been before stated, Mr. Mattoon is very prominent in the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, in the state organization of which he has been historian, and he is an ex-president of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter at Columbus, of this organization. His affiliation with this society comes through various lines of his ancestry, but is based particularly on his descent from the following: "He is a great-great-grandson of Jeremiah Kendall, Sergeant .and Private in Pennsylvania and Virginia troops in the Revolution, who was also a neighbor and Aide to George Washington, wounded at Brandywine, came back to the army at Valley Forge, sent home by Washington to bury his father, Wm. Kendall, Jr., then served five years in Guerilla warfare in Virginia and North Carolina under Captain Wm. Washington, moved after the war to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, from whence he served under Anthony Wayne in the Indian Campaign in Ohio, and was present at the signing of treaty of Greenville, at which time he was said to be carrying nine Indian bullets in various !Juts of his body—great-great-grandson of Israel Field, a private in Capt. Oliver Capron's Company, Samuel Ashley's New Hampshire regiment, presiding in Brattleboro, Vermont; great-great-grandson of Jotham Sawyer, Sr. and of Samuel Fisk, *Jr., both of Templeton, Massachusetts; great-great-great-grandson of Jacob Shute of Malden, Massachusetts, all of whom served in Massachusetts regiments." Mr. Mattoon is also prominent in the Sigma Pi fraternity, of which he is past natipnal president, and he was chairman of the National Executive Council for six years, and represented his fraternity at the National Infraternity Conference for four years. He is a certified member of the American Association of Engineers, is past secretary-treasurer of the Ohio assembly of this association, and is past president and member of the board of directors of the Columbus Chapter of this association. In the Railway Real Estate Association he is past vice president and a member of the board of directors. he is also a member of the Ohio Tax Association, the Ohio Tax League, and -the National Tax Association; and also is a member of the Ohio State Board of Commerce, of the Federal Valuation Committee of the Hocking Valley Railway. In addition to all of the above Mr. Mattoon belongs to the National Geographic Society, the archeological Institute of America, the American Red Cross, the New England Historical Genealogical Society, National Genealogical Society of Washington, D. C., the Sons of Veterans, the Franklin County Pioneers Association, the- Columbus-Denison Alumni Association, of which he is secretary, and the alumni associations of the Ohio State University and Otterbein College. His social and business affiliations include membership with the Lions Club, the American Social Hygiene Association, the Columbus Automobile Club, and the Columbus Real Estate Board. He belongs to the Buckeye Republican. Club. In religious faith a baptist, he belongs to the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church, and is a member of its board of trustees. On February 16, 1909, Mr. Mattoon married at Kansas City, Missouri, Miss Inez Newton Clark, a daughter of Rev. Isaac Newton Clark, D. D., and Sarah Elizabeth (Carson) Clark. Reverend Doctor Clark, who died in 1917 in the pulpit of the Baptist Church at Wellsville, Kansas, where he had gone to make an address, was for sixty-four years a minister of the Baptist Church. Reverend Doctor Clark was born at Rossville, Indiana, and held pastorates at Urbana and Portsmouth, Ohio, in the late '60s and early '70s, but the greater portion of his pastoral work was done in Indiana, from where he was called in the early '80s to accept secretarial work by the General Board of the Baptist Church, and for thirty-five years he was district secretary of the Southwestern District, comprising Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Northern Texas and Oklahoma and part of Missouri of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, and was one of the most widely known and greatly esteemed ministers of his denomination. On October 13, 1914, the Baptists of Kansas presented him with a beautiful watch as a token of their appreciation of his twenty-eight years of service in their midst. This has been handed down to his grandson, Philip Clark Mattoon. Mrs. Mattoon attended Denison University at Granville at the same time as Mr. Mattoon, specializing in music and art, and where she: became a member of Kappa Phi Sorority. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her ancestor, Judge Samuel Clark, who was judge of the Common Pleas Court of Morristown, New Jersey, and a soldier of the Revolutionary war. She is also a descendant of Margaret Stuyvesant, a half sister of Governor Peter Stuyvesant of New York. Mrs. Mattoon is a member of the Executive Board of the Columbus Federated Women's Clubs, a member of the College Women's, the Sorosis and Excelsior clubs, and a past president of the Women's Union of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Mattoon have two children: Betty Alice, who was born April 25, 1915, and Philip Clark, who was born September 28, 1922. RUSSELL KARR NICHOLL. The wonderful advancement made by the automobile business during recent years has completely revolutionized certain industries, and in itself has formed a new vocation to which many of the young men of the country are attaching themselves eagerly. The sale of the various makes of cars, alone, has provided men of capability with a new medium through which to demonstrate their power of salesmanship, and these men are making rapid progress up to the ladder of success. One of the young men of Lorain County who is thus engaged, and who is making his personality felt in automobile circles, is Russell Karr Nicholl, of Elyria, who has the agency for tlne Hupmobile and Packard automobiles. Mr. Nicholl was born at Amherst, Ohio, July 31, 1900, and is a son of James and Ella (Hutton) Nicholl, and a. grandson on the paternal side of James and Jean (Karr) Nicholl. James Nicholl was a native of Scotland and one of the early settlers of Amherst, Ohio, where, with his brother, he opened the first sandstone quarries. His maternal grandparents were William and Ella Hutton, like- wise early residents of Amherst, where Mr. Hutton was. a quarry owner. James Nicholl, the younger, father of Russell Karr Nicholl, succeeded his father in the ownership of the sandstone quaries, of which he continued the owner until his death in 1909. He was born in Scotland, and was a child when brought to America, growing up in the neighborhood of Amherst, where he met and married Miss Hutton,' who had been born in that locality. She still survives him as a resident of Amherst. They were the parents of the following children: Albert, a resident of Akron, Ohio; James, of Amherst, who 76 - HISTORY OF OHIO succeeded his father in the management of the quarries; Jessie, the wife of Henry r Wesbecher, of Amherst; Harry, vice president of the National Bank of Commerce, Lorain; and Russell Karr. Russell Karr Nicholl attended the graded and high schools of Amherst, following which he pursued a course at the Oberlin Business College. In July, 1922, he took the agency for the Hupmobile and Packard automobiles for Lorain County, and now has splendid sales and show rooms at 117 West Avenue. He likewise maintains a branch at Lorain, at 738 Broadway. His home, however, is at Elyria, located at 222 Cornell Street. Mr. ,Nicholl is one of the popular members of the Lorain County Automobile Club and of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is independent in political views, preferring to use his own judgment rather than to accept that based on strict party lines. With his family he belongs to the Congregational Church. On May 16, 1919, Mr. Nicholl was united in marriage with Miss Evangeline Garrish, who was born at Oberlin, Ohio, a daughter of William and Julia (Gage) arrish, and to this union there has come one son, James Russell, who was born February 20, 1921. WARD J. LEPPER. In modern days one of the busiest business centers in a community is apt to be an automobile exhibition and sales room, and this condition, if close observers are right, is not only to continue but to increase. The development of the automobile has been so rapid and its uses so generally recognized that the manufacture, handling and sale of many reliable types of car have become a most profitable line of business and has engaged the attention of men of enterprise everywhere. A well known and experienced automobile business man at Elyria is Ward J. Lepper, general agent for the Chevrolet cars. Mr. Lepper is a native of Ohio and was born at Mesapotamia, in Trumbull County, in June, 1889. His parents, Smith A. and Elizabeth (Difford) Lepper, were born and reared in one of the farming districts •of England, and were married there. When they came to the. United States they settled on a farm in Trumbull County, Ohio, where the mother of Mr. Lepper died in March, 1911. His father is now a resident of Elyria. Ward J. Lepper attended the public schools and also Hall's Business University at. Youngstown, Ohio, and when twenty years old became a clerk in the office of a Youngstown automobile firm. Later he went to Cleveland, where he had sales experience with such well known automobile houses as Jackson & Viele and the Buick up to 1913, when he came to Elyria with the 'Buick people. Later, in partnership with C. A. Wise, Mr. Lepper took the agency for the Studebaker, the Chevrolet and the Chandler cars at Elyria, and, eighteen months later *he bought his partner 's interest and conducted a very successful business alone for the next eight months. Then, having other business projects in view, he sold out and 'subsequently bought the Overland agency and took also the Oakland and Hudson agencies, and with marked business enterprise handled them all successfully up to January, 1922, since when he had devoted himself exclusively to the Chevrolet cars as general agent. There are few better informed auto salesmen in the business along the line of high grade cars, and through his honesty and reliability Mr. Lepper has built up a fine business and gained the respect and confidence of the community. Mr. Lepper married, on June 12, 1910, Miss Edna Reed, who, like himself, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, and was educated there. She is a daughter of William and Letitia (Bundy) Reed, of West Farmington, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lepper have one daughter, Lois Lorraine. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and. Mr. Lepper is a member of the Men's Church Club and is athletic director. Fraternally he is a member of the Benevo• lent and Protective Order of Elks and has served as chaplain of the local lodge. He belongs to the Lorain County Auto Club, and is deeply interested in its welfare as an organization, and in political life has always been identified with the republican party. ANTHONY NIEDING. One of the able men and recognized leaders in professional life and public affairs in Lorain County, Ohio, is Hon. Anthony Nieding, who has served with distinction in the State Legislature and is one of the foremost members of the bar at Elyria. Like many other men of prominence in this state, he comes of solid old pioneer stock and spent his early years on a farm. Mr. Nieding was born in Elyria Township, Lorain County, Ohio, August 2, 1875, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Newfer) Nieding, the former of whom came to America in early youth with his parents from Germany, and the latter was born in Michigan. The paternal grandparents were early settlers in .Elyria Township, Lorain County, and spent their lives there on the farm which they acquired through their industry. There Henry Nieding grew to manhood, and after marriage continued in agricultural pursuits. He has always been a farmer and stock man and now lives on his well cultivated farm in Ridgeville Township, Lorain County. His wife died on June 8, 1915. Anthony. Nieding attended the country schools through boyhood and afterward Berea College. Although the family up to this time had been an agricultural one, the young collegian developed ambition in another direction and as his talents seemed to justify it, his father probably made no objection when he entered upon the reading of law in the office of Judge Lee Stroup at Elyria, after which he attended the Cleveland Law School, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1903. Mr. Nieding has built up a large and substantial practice, and stands very high in his profession at Elyria. In 1905 he was elected a justice of the peace, and served continuously in that office until 1920. He is prominent in the republican party throughout Lorain County, and in 1914 was elected a member of the General Assembly, in which he served in the sessions of 1915 and 1916, giving his support during this time to numerous measures of public importance. Mr. Nieding was married in October, 1903, to Miss Grace Babcock, who was born at New London, Connecticut, of old New England ancestry and pos sibly of Revolutionary stock. .Her parents were George and Lois A. (Mathewson) Babcock, the former who was a customs officer and is deceased, while her mother makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Nieding. Mr. and Mrs. Nieding have one daughter, Lois E., who was born in June, 1905. Mr. Nieding is a member of several representative professional bodies, and fraternally is identified with the Mason; the Elks, the Eagles and the Modern Woodmen of America. FRANK A. STETSON is a well known Ohio lawyer, and for twenty years has had a large and important volume of practice at Elyria, his home city. Mr. Stetson is a descendant of Cornet Robert Stetson, who was born in 1613 and came to Massar chusetts in 1634. His descendants number hundreds, including many conspicuous men in business in th professions and in politics. The Elyria lawyer is HISTORY OF OHIO - 77 in the ninth generation of descent from Cornet Stetson. Rinaldo R. Stetson, father of the Elyria attorney,. was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, March 22, 1844, and was of the seventh generation born in the Pearson-Leigh house near Old Town Hill, Newbury. This house was built by Capt: John Pearson in 1728, and three generations of the Pearson family and three generations of the Leighs were born there. R. R. Stetson was a son of Thomas and Mary Little (Leigh) Stetson, the latter born at Newbury in the house mentioned in 1814, while Thomas. Stetson was born in New London County, Connecticut, in the same year. Rinaldo R. Stetson was educated in public schools in Massachusetts and New York, learned the printing trade with the Rochester Evening Express in New York, and for a number of years followed his trade in the East and also at Chicago. In 1876 he came to Oberlin, Ohio, to take charge of the mechanical department of the News Printing Company. He was connected with the printing industry at Oberlin for thirty years, and since 1906 has Eyed retired at Elyria. He cast his first vote as a republican, and has followed the fortunes of that party, ever since. He is a past master of Oberlin Lodge of Masons and a Methodist. He married at Rochester, New York, August 18, 1868, Mary Elizabeth Read, daughter of E. H. and Lucinda Read. Her mother, Lucinda Felt, was a descendant of a Felt who lived at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1633. Frank Arthur Stetson, only surviving son of Rinaldo R-. Stetson, was born. at Oberlin, April 27, 1877, and was reared in that old college community. He attended public schools, and while a student in college taught for several years, both in the country district and in town schools .and high schools. • He graduated Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1900, and while a student in the Western Reserve University Law School at Cleveland in 1901-02 taught in the city night school in that 'city. Mr. Stetson was admitted to the bar in 1903, and until 1910 practiced as a member of the firm Ingersoll & Stetson. He does a large general practice, his offices being in Elyria Savings & Trust Building. Mr. Stetson has been a leader in Lorain, County republican politics, but has seldom sought office for him-. self. He had the distinction of being the first assistant prosecuting attorney of the county, when that office was created. He began his term January 1, 1915. He has served as an officer in the Republican County Executive Committee. October 6, 1910, Mr. Stetson, married Miss Ethel M. Bartlett, daughter of Willis P. and Nettie (Hall) Bartlett, of Cleveland, where her mother died May 19, 1915. Her father still resides in Cleveland. Mrs. Stetson is a graduate of Oberlin, College. They have three children, Neva C., Carol E. and Frank A., Jr. Mr. Stetson was for a number of years a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Lorain County Bar Association, and is .a past master of King Solomon's Lodge. No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons; is a member of. Marshall Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Elyria Council, Royal and Select Masters; Elyria Commandery, Knights Templar ; .and Lake Erie Consistory, Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite; and is also a member of Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Cleveland. He has served two terms as exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective 'Order of Elks, and was a delegate to the National Convention of Elks at Atlanta in 1923. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a director of the Elyria Savings and Trust Company, and a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club and the Elyria Exchange Club. HON. DAVID J. NYE. One of those rare occasions in the life' of the individual came to David J. Nye of Elyria on March 16, 1923, a day marking the fiftieth anniversary of his continuous practice of the law and service on the bench at Elyria and in the State of Ohio. His conservative and dignified career as a lawyer, jurist and business man.r has given Judge Nye an eminence surpassed by none and excelled by few in this section of the state. From a farmer 's son he has become one of the foremost lawyers of the state. Though practically unknown during his youth outside of his immediate locality, he was at that time laying the sound foundations of character, learning and experience upon which all his subsequent achievements have been based. It was in those early years that he set for himself the ideals of personal character and professional conduct that have guided him and which beyond most men he has abundantly realized and fulfilled. Fortunate' is the man who thus early conceives high ideals and a fixed purpose, and no matter what the endeavor has cost him in work or denials, no matter what the sacrifice might be, Judge Nye faced all in his hard struggle to reach his destined goal. Born at Ellicott, Chautauqua County, New York, December 8, 1843, David Joe Nye is a son of Curtis F. and Susan Jerusha (Walkup) Nye, both of sturdy Vermont stock. The original founder of the Nye family in America was Benjamin Nye, an early English pioneer who did his part in establishing the material and spiritual elements of a new nation. Benjamin Nye and Katherine Tupper, who afterwards became his wife, landed on the shores of New England in 1634 and made their home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where they reared a family which has continued to grow and prosper. A few years ago the descendants of Benjamin Nye in this country founded what is known as the Nye Family of America Association: Judge Nye was one of the prime movers in its organization, and served as its president for two years. When David J. Nye was five years of age his parents moved from their farm at Ellicott to Otto, Cattaraugus County, New York, where they resumed the tillage of the soil and spent the rest of their days. During those years David Nye's work on his father 's farm was interrupted only by a few months during the winter with his attendance at the district school. When the Civil war came on two of his brothers enlisted and entered the Union army. David was withheld from following them by parental objections. Denied this opportunity, he concentrated his energies on his preparation for the future. In 1862 he entered Randolph Academy in New York, spending the following winter in teaching school. The next year was practicaly a repetition of this. For several following years while not teaching he did farm work to accumulate funds for his higher education. Coming to Oberlin, Ohio, in the spring of 1866, he entered the preparatory department and a year later became a member of the freshman class of Oberlin College. Although his studies were interrupted by teaching during the vacation terms and in other work, he received the degree Bachelor of Arts in 1871. Oberlin College conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree in 1883. During his final year at Oberlin he also occupied the position of superintendent of the public schools of Milan, Ohio, and at the solicitation of the Board of Education, taught there another year after graduating. While in Oberlin and also at Milan he devoted his spare 78 - HISTORY time to the study of law. In August, 1872, he successfully passed the requirements for admission and was admitted to the bar at Elyria. The same year he went to Emporia, Kansas, with a view to growing up in that frontier community of the Middle West. He was not suited by conditions, and returning to Elyria he engaged in the practice of law with John C. Hale, who later became one of the leaders of the Cleveland bar and a most worthy judge of the Circuit Court. A year later Mr. Nye opened his own office, and for twenty years he devoted his time and energies to a growing volume of private practice, though from 1881 to 1884 he served a creditable term as prosecuting attorney of Lorain County. During his private practice he also served as county school examiner, member of the City Board of Education and member of the City Council. With the unanimous approval of the members of the Lorain County bar Mr. Nye's name was placed in nomination for judge of Common Pleas bench for the district composed of Lorain, Medina and Summit counties, at the judicial convention held at Medina in July, 1891. In the following November he was elected by a handsome majority and took his seat in February, 1892. Toward the close of his term he received the nomination by acclamation for a second term and was reelected for another five years. Judge Nye's record on the bench is distinctly unique, both in the character and the amount of work which was accomplished. Taking the position at a time when the court docket was literally clogged with old cases, he set his energies at once to a clearing away of this accumulation of cases. He made it a rule that the attorneys should try their cases as they appeared on the assignment, and the oldest cases were brought forward and disposed of with as great rapidity as justice would permit. After ten years of the most arduous and exacting labor, which for a time impaired his health, Judge Nye left as a heritage to his successor a practically up-to-date assignment with scarcely a ease on the docket which had been started more than three years before. Many were the decisions of great public importance that came from his pen. As a jurist he pursued a course of conservative intelligent, wise and painstaking dignity, ever watchful for that true justice which is tempered with equity and mercy. It was with much relief that he often remarked that his duty never called upon him to impose a capital sentence upon ̊Ire who was tried before him. During his long term he maintained a record of having but one criminal case at which he presided, overruled by a higher court. Probably a greater strain was never placed upon a judicial officer than during the trial of famous liquor cases of Elyria. Regardless of the influence, violent threats and affidavits that were used as a means to shake him, he clung tenaciously to his honest and fearless convictions that law and order should prevail. His was a mind that concentrated itself upon a principle of law until the fundamental theories were solved and their application placed upon the case in question without regard to anything except right and justice, and yet ever guided by his own high conception of gentlemanly courtesy. Among those of his decisions which will ever stand as precedents of jurisprudence in this state and nation was one in which Judge Nye decided that the holder of National Bank shares had no right under the laws of Ohio to deduct his legal bona fide debts from the value of such shares. The Circuit Court of the .county reversed Judge Nye, but the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Supreme Court of the United States sustained him, consequently setting a new and unique precedent in matters of the relation of Federal banks to counties and states. On retiring at the end of his second term Judge Nye again opened an office for the general practice of law, which he still maintains in his service to a large clientele. Significant of the respect and esteem in which Judge Nye has been held during his long career in this one community is the fact that among his present clients are the grandchildren of some of those who formed his clientele in the early days of his practice in Elyria—three generations having continued to come to him for counsel and advice. In 1911 the electors of Lorain County complimented Judge Nye by choosing him as one of its representatives to amend the State Constitution. His work in the Fourth Constitutional Convention was of a high order, dignified, conservative and based on the sound judgment of a long experience and familiarity with legal and constitutional questions. Shortly after the adoption of the amendments to the state constitution it became necessary to draft new rules for the procedure in the newly established Courts of Appeals. Judge Nye was chosen by the president of the Ohio State Bar Association as a member of a committee of prominent lawyers of the state to assist the judges of the court to prepare regulations for its government, in accordance with the new constitutional requirements. Judge Nye has also been interested in the business prosperity of Elyria. He has been president since its organization of the Century Building Company, is a stockholder in all the Elyria banks, and in a number of the manufacturing plants, and has been vice president of the Savings Deposit and Trust Company. He has been president of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, a contributor to the El Hospital, a member of the Elyria Hospital Company a contributing member of the Young Men's Christian Association. In Masonic circles he is well known. In September, 1915, at Boston, Massachusetts, the thirty-third, honorary, degree in Scottish Rite Masonry was conferred upon him by the Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States. In the York Rite he is a member of Oriental Commandery of the Knights Templar of Cleveland, and on the establishment of a Commandery in Elyria he was made an honorary member. He is a member of the Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Politically he is a staunch republican, and what honors he has received at the hands of his party he has fully compensated for his counsel and activity in the interest of the principles for which the party stands and the good has accomplished. On September 15, 1880, Judge Nye married Luna Fisher, daughter of Alfred Fisher, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The Fisher family were pioneer settlers in Independence Township of that county, and highly honored and respected leaders of their community. Mrs. Nye has always been an active influence for good in her home and community, her inspiration being an important factor in Judge Nye’s career. Two children were born to Judge and Mrs. Nye. The older, David Fisher Nye, born October 27, 1882, was graduated from the Elyria High School in 1902, from Oberlin College in 1906, and received the Bachelor of Laws degree at Western Reserve University in June, 1909. Admitted to the bar same month, he soon formed a partnership with his father, under the firm name of D. J. and D. F. Nye. Of a most estimable character, regarded as one of the most promising young attorneys of the Lorain County bar, his death on June 23, 1912, deprived his family and community of a cherished member. He married May C. Canfield, who survives him, and HISTORY OF OHIO - 79 makes her home with Judge and Mrs. Nye. She is a teacher in the State Normal School at Buffalo, New York. Horace Hastings Nye, the surviving son, was born August 4, 1884, graduated from the Elyria High School in 1902 and from Oberlin College in 1908. For two years he was engaged in newspaper work, and in 1915 received the .degree of Bachelor of Laws from the law school of Western Reserve University and was admitted to the bar July 1, 1915. At that time he and his father associated themselves together in practice at Elyria, relations that still continue. He is an active energetic lawyer and good business man. He. married Ruby McClure, and has two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Virginia:. DONALD W. MYERS completed his legal education and began practice at Elyria in 1915, and has had a career of steadily growing success, interrupted only while he was in service during the World war. Mr. Myers was born at Sullivan, in Ashland County, Ohio, September 30, 1889, son of Doc Nathan and Nettie M. (McDonald) Myers, and grandson of Nathan and Elizabeth (Wright) Myers and of William and Mary (Drushal) McDonald. 'Nathan Myers and Elizabeth Wright were pioneer settlers of Ohio, the former born in Heidelberg Township of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Dublin, Ireland. William McDonald and Mary Drushal were both born in Ohio. Doc Nathan Myers was born in Medina County, at Spencer, and his wife in the same county, at Homer. They were married at Erie, Pennsylvania, but have spent all their married lives on a farm in Ashland County. Donald W. Myers was reared on the home farm, graduated from high school .in 1907, and then for several years was a student, first in Ohio Wesleyan College and then in Wooster University. On account of illness he left school in the spring of 1910, and subsequently resumed his studies in Baldwin and Wallace College at Berea, where he graduated. In the fall of 1912 he entered the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1915. He was admitted to the bar in July of the same year, and at once located at. Elyria and has since been associated in practice with G. B. Findley. In 1923 he was elected city solicitor, a position he is now capably filling in the City of Elyria. Mr. Myers in July, 1917, joined the construction division of the army at Camp Sherman, and in August, 1918, enlisted in the regular forces. During March, April and May, 1919, he was stationed at Washington, and received his honorable discharge June 2, 1919. November 30, 1917, Mr. Myers married Hazell Rust, a native of Haviland, Pauling .County, Ohio, and daughter of Albert and Estella (Dunson) Rust. Mr. Myers is a member of the Church of Christ, belongs to the Men's Club of the Congregational Church, is a republican, a Council degree Mason, a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the college fraternity Phi Alpha Delta. He is a member of the Elyria Masonic Club, the Lorain County Automobile Club, the Lakewood Country Club and the Young Men's Business Club. He is a highly qualified young attorney, with a record of achievement in his profession and with a promise of a splendid career before him. CHARLES W. SCHEIDE. Photography, the wonderful art of producing permanent pictures by means of the chemical action of light on sensitized surfaces, was a discovered earlier but no less marvelous than others that have followed since 1814. The credit must be given to Niepee, of .France, who in 1829 entered into a partnership with another scientist, Daguerre, who was interested along the same line, and the invention of the process known as the Daguerreotype was made about 1839. Through patient experimentations improved processes were discovered in France, Germany and England, and in 1857 with the introduction of the use of collodion, photography made a great step forward. Since then, largely through the interest and intelligence of the photographers themselves, other mediums and methods have been discovered, and the art has been so perfected that it may be said that it has become one of the leading forces of modern life: A skilled photographer of today finds ready subjects for his camera wherever he may turn, and a visit to his studio will often disclose artistic work comparable to that produced by oil and color. A photographer held in high esteem for his superior work at Elyria, Ohio, is Charles W. Scheide, who enjoys the distinction of being the oldest man, in point of years of service, in his profession in this city. Charles W. Scheide was born at Elyria, Ohio, July 4, 1870. His parents were Frederick and Mary (Asmus) Scheide, who were born, reared and married in Germany, their marriage taking place just before they embarked for the United States. They came to Elyria, Ohio, where the father was variously engaged during his entire active life, an honest, industrious man who was respected by all who knew him. Both he and his wife were members of the German Lutheran Church. His death occurred at Elyria in 1917, but Mr. Scheide 's mother still survives and resides at Elyria. Charles W. Scheide attended a German school at Elyria until he was fourteen years of age, and when he left school set about earning his own living, but not accepting the first job that was offered, for even then he had artistic learnings that in all probability would have been of some influence in his life if he had not found his proper place as an assistant and learner in a photograph gallery. He took up the work here with vigor and enthusiasm, and during his eleven years with his employer, Charles 'F. Lee, became a skillful operator. During this time he had prudently saved his money, and in 1895 bought his employer 's interest and has continued alone in the business ever since. He has kept fully abreast with the remarkable improvement in his art, and has reason to take pride in his fine studio work and in the generous patronage he still enjoys. His studio equipments, cameras, lenses and furnishings are of modern type and of large money value, while his long experience in the business makes his advice on photographic work well worth _consulting. Mr. Scheide as practically spent his life at Elyria, and as a good citizen has taken a deep interest in the city 's growth and substantial development. He is a republican in politics, but has never been willing to serve in a public office, although in business standing and personal character he is well qualified. CLAYTON ASA MCCLEARY, from the beginning of the present century, has been an active and successful member of the Columbus bar, and at the same time has exerted himself and his influence in behalf of the institutions of his home city, and in social, fraternal and civic matters generally. Mr. McCleary represents some of the pioneer family names of Eastern Ohio. He was born at Harrisville in Harrison County in 1875, son of Clayton A. and Henrietta (Holmes) McCleary. The McClearys came to Eastern Ohio from Maryland. There are .Revolutionary soldiers on both sides. In the McCleary line the Revolutionary patriots came 80 - HISTORY OF OHIO from the Phelps family. In the maternal line the Columbus attorney is a descendant in the seventh generation from Joseph Holmes, who was a delegate to sessions of the Provincial Congress held at Trenton, New Brunswick and Burlington, New Jersey, and a member of the Committee of gafety of Monmouth, New Jersey. His great-grandfather Holmes came from New Jersey, and with his family was identified with the early settlement of Harrison County. Clayton Asa McCleary was reared in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, attended country schools there, and in 1897 was graduated from Franklin College. He then came to Columbus and was a student of law in the Ohio State University from 1897 to 1900. He received his law diploma in the latter year and then began practice. Mr. McCleary has come to be known as a very thorough and hard working attorney, and in the extent of his general practice he ranks as one of the leaders of the Columbus bar. He has handled much litigation in the various State and Federal courts. Mr. McCleary is one of the leading democrats in point of influence in Franklin County. He is a member of the County Executive Committee and was a member and president of the State Library Board of Ohio for a number of years. He held that position until the reorganization act under the Governor Davis administration. Mr. McCleary has acted for many years as a director in the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association, being chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors. He was a member of the charter commission of Columbus, and with the sub-committee of the commission drew up the present city charter. Mr. McCleary is president of the Board of Trustees of the Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, a member of the Elks, of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club and the gcioto Country Club. Mr. McCleary married in 1906 Maybelle Crawford, of Columbus. SCOTT HINMAN , The various important business concerns that have their homes in convenient centers and aim to extend their commercial connections over the whole country owe a considerable amount of their property to that able, intelligent body of employes known as their traveling representatives. Wisely an ambitious business house takes into consideration the fidelity as well as the ability of its representatives, and is not slow in offerina promotion as opportunity arises. In one case at least, this has been the policy of a leading firm of Elyria, the I. T. S. Rubber Company, of which Scott Hin- man was made sales manager after being identified with the company for five years as traveling salesman. Mr. Hinman is a native of Lorain County, and was born at Amherst on November 8, 1879, a son of E. H. and Ada M. (Faxon) Hinman. His paternal grandparents were Charles and Mary (Brusu) Hinman, natives of Summit County, Ohio, and Lee, Massachusetts, respectively. His maternal grandfather, Hiram' Faxon, belonged to an old New England family and was born in the State of Connecticut, but came early to Ohio. E. H. Hinman, father of Scott Hinman, was born at Ravenna, in Portage County, Ohio, was well educated and became a member of the Ohio bar and later an important factor in political life at Amherst, where he engaged in the practice of law and was elected mayor of that place. It was during his administration of this office that he married Miss Ada . M: Faxon, and they passed the rest of their lives there, the father of Mr. Hinman dying in 1913 and the mother two years later. After completing the high school course at Elyria, Scott Hinman entered the Oberlin Business College and afterward, in 1902, accepted employment in the laboratory of the United States Steel Plant at Lorain, Ohio, where he remained for five years. Mr. Hinman later became a traveling salesman for the Norman C. Haynor Company of Rochester, New York, and from 1914 to 1916 was connected with a firm at Cleveland engaged in the manufacture of artificial marble. In the meanwhile, however, he had been active in other than business lines. On April 1, 1898, Mr. Hinman enlisted as a private in the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was soon made a corporal, served through the Spanish-American war, and from 1900 to 1903 as lieutenant of Company I, Ohio National Guard. From early manhood Mr. Hinman has taken a good citizen's interest in politics, and at times, as his business activities have permitted, he has served in local offices, for four years, from 1906 to 1910, being township clerk of Elyria Township, being elected on the republican ticket. From 1906 to 1910 he served also as cashier of the Elyria Water Works Company. In 1916 Mr. Hinman became identified with the I. T. S. Rubber Company at Elyria, as a traveling representative, and continued in that relation with his house until 1922, when he became sales manager. For this line of effort Mr. Hinman is eminently qualified, his energy and enterprise being the natural outcome of his conception of honorable business responsibility, and a pleasing personality enabling him to make both personal and business friends. He is connected with some social and business organizations, and in fraternal life has been a member of the Order of Elks for a number of years. Mr. Hinman is unmarried. EDWARD. A. WELSH. One of the represents citizens and substantial and reliable business man of Elyria, Ohio, is Edward A. Welsh, undertaker and dealer in household furnishings, with business quarters at 202 West Bridge Street, Elyria. He has been continuously identified with the interests of this city for the past seventeen years, is very generally known, and commands the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens. Mr. Welsh is a native of Ohio, born in Columbiana County, April 16, 1871, a son of John and Mary (Doyle) Welsh. His father was born in Pennsylvania, where his people were farmers. He came to Ohio when comparatively a young man, and at Summitville, this state, was married to Mary Doyle, who was born in Ireland, and died on the home farm in Columbiana County in 1892. For a number of years John Welsh was a farmer in the above county, but in later life came to Lorain County and purchased a residence on West River Road. His death occurred in the fall of 1918. Both he and his wife were faithful members of the Roman Catholic Church. Edward A. Welsh obtained his education in the country schools. A good obedient son, making his parents' interests his own, he remained with them, helping his father on the home farm until he was eighteen years old, and after that alternated farming with school teaching, and had taught five terms to before he was twenty-two years old. The death of his beloved mother left a vacant place in the household, keenly felt, and as changes came about he left the farm and started out for himself. In 1893 Mr. Welsh went to work in a butcher’s shop at Lorain, Ohio, where he remained for a time, but on finding himself not greatly interested he looked about for other employment and finally HISTORY OF OHIO - 81 entered the steel mills at Lorain. Never having had any experience in this line of hard work, he had to begin at the bottom, but he soon made headway, and and during the seven years he remained there was advanced from time to time, both as to salary and responsibility. In 1906 Mr. Welsh came to Elyria and soon afterward went into the undertaking business, which he has conducted ever since, his establishment being the oldest in its line in his section of the city. Mr. Welsh has kept abreast with the times and his equipments are modern in every particular. In 1915 he embarked in merchandising along the line of . house furnishings, rugs, carpets, linoleums, curtains and other properties, and his attractive and reliable goods have found ready sale and a large business has been built up. Mr. Welsh married in Lorain County, in 1906, Miss Anna M. Wilhelmy, who was born here 'and is a daughter of Nicholas and Anna (Stopp) Wilhelmy. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have a family of four sons and two daughters: Raymond E., J. Regis, Marion, Marcella, Robert and Thomas. In politics Mr. Welsh has always been an active and loyal supporter of the democratic party, although he has never consented to accept a political office. For years he has also been interested in several reliable fraternal organizations, beginning before he left the farm, when he was a charter member in the organization of a local Grange. He belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose, and to the Lorain County Automobile Club. With his family he belongs to St. Mary's Catholic Church at Elyria. For a. number of years he has been a member of the Knights of Columbus, and has served as warden of the local body; served four years as president of the Knights of St. John and is now serving as treasurer of same and is a member of St. Joseph's Society. WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON. A wealthy resident of Elyria, William R. Huntington is probably best known as a patron of sports and one of America's leading yachtsmen. His boats have been in competition with the world's best on the Great Lakes. He is one of the Americans who have won the Sir Thomas Lipton's trophies at Chicago and Cleveland. Commodore Huntington was born September 3, 1857. His parents, John and Jane Huntington, were natives of Preston, Lancashire, England, and came to America in 1853. John Huntington was a roofer by trade, was a pioneer in the slate and gravel roofing industry, and was one of the chief stockholders in the Cleveland Stone Company. He was one of the group of Cleveland. men who became identified with the development of petroleum, and was associated with John D. Rockefeller in the organization of the company. He was also financially interested in Great Lakes transportation. John Huntington, who died in London, England, in 1893, was a resident of Cleveland many years, served fourteen years in the city council, was a republican in polities, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias fraternities. His wife died in 1882. William R. Huntington was reared in Cleveland, educated in the public. schools and in the Spencerian Business College, and as a youth he became a prospector and contracting driller in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio. While in this business he was operating part of the time on his own account and otherwise in association with his father. Beginning in 1882, he became a member of the Cleveland hardware firm of McIntosh, Good and Huntington, retiring in 1891. He has been a director of the Elyria Telephone Company and has large investments in real estate both in Ohio and elsewhere. From 1878 to 1882 he was deputy county treasurer of Cuyahoga County. Mr. Huntington served ten years as commodore of the Sandusky Yacht Club, has also been commodore of the Put-In-Bay Yacht Club, was commodore of the Inter-State Yachting Association in 1901-1912 and again in 1918, and is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club, the Toledo Yacht Club and the Maumee River Yacht Club. He belongs to 'the Cleveland Athletic and Union clubs, the Cleveland Gun Club, the Ottawa Shooting Club, and was one of the founders of the Elyria Country Club. He is a life member of Holyrood Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar, is a Scottish Rite Mason, Mystic Shriner, Elk and a member of other fraternities. For six years he held the office of Ohio game commissioner. In January, 1884, Commodore Huntington married Miss Mary E. Baldwin, daughter of Jonas C. and Ann Eliza (Foote) Baldwin and granddaughter of Judge Horace Foote of Cleveland. They have one daughter, Lillian Elizabeth, wife of Edward E. Bishop. GEORGE P. WALTON. One of the prosperous business institutions of Elyria is The Walton Ice Company, founded by the late George P. Walton, and during the eleven years since his death it has been conducted with expanding facilities by his widow and children. George P. Walton was a native of Elyria and iived at 671 East River Street practically all his life. He was born there October 31, 1859, son of John and Catherine (Garrity) Walton. His father was a native of Northamptonshire, England, and his mother of Dublin, Ireland, and they came to Elyria in 1844 from Vineland, New Jersey. John Walton was a brick maker, and during his later years was an invalid. He died in April, 1897, and his wife died when her son George was thirteen years old. All their children, three sons and .two daughters, are now deceased. George P. Walton was reared in his native city, and he and his father and another man burned the brick for the construction of the brick home that was erected on the site of his birthplace at 671 East River Street, where the family still reside. He was educated in the local schools, learned the butcher's trade and followed that employment until 1893. He then engaged in the ice business, at first handling the natural product. His supply was obtained from Black River, which for many years was the source of much of the ice supply in this section of Ohio. In the spring of 1911 Mr. Walton built an artificial ice plant, with a daily capacity of fifteen tons of ice. The ice is manufactured from distilled water. He had this plant in operation and a successful growing concern before his death. While in the plant he was injured when an iron bar fell on his foot. Blood poisoning developed, and on January 4, 1912,. when a little past fifty-two years 'of age, his death brought a heavy sense of loss to-not only his family, but the entire business community of Elyria. He was one of the city's most popular citizens. He was a large man physically, big hearted and genial, gained a. host of friends, and was extremely generous of his time and means for worthy causes. He was a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, and all his family are communicants of St. Mary 's Catholic Church at Elyria. Mr. Walton and Miss Elizabeth O. Neipfoot were married at St. Mary 's Church on May 17, 1882. Mrs. Walton was born on Sugar Ridge in Elyria Township, December 11, 1861, daughter of John 82 - HISTORY OF OHIO Henry and Elizabeth Catherine (Meyer) Neipfoot. Her mother was born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country with her parents at the age of eleven years. Henry Neipfoot was a native of Sax Wymer, Germany, and at the age of twenty-one came to Amherst, Ohio, to join his sister, and soon afterward moved to Elyria. _He was a cabinet maker by trade, and at Elyria established himself in the furniture business. He was twice burned out, but achieved prosperity. About ten years after his last fire he bought a farm on Sugar Ridge, East Broad Street, where he died December 6, 1897, at the age of seventy-seven. His wife passed away December 11, 1895. Mrs. Walton is the mother of five children, all born at the old home on East River Street and all of whom received their first educational advantages in St. Mary's Parochial School and then in the public schools. The oldest child, Florence Mary, born August 17, 1884, was bookkeeper for her father and is now secretary and treasurer of The Walton Ice Company. This company is incorporated under the laws of Ohio, with $25,000 capital. and operates in addition to the ice plant, with a forty-ton daily capacity, a storage plant and distributes ice by twelve horse drawn wagons and three trucks. In 1924 another feature was added to the business. Tripure Distilled Water is manufactured by them, and its distribution covers a large adjacent territory. The second child, Roland Henry, born August 6, 1887, is vice president of the company and is prominent in fraternal and business organizations at Elyria. He married Mary Catherine Conroy. The third child, Charles Frederick, born October 1, 1888, lives at Elyria, and by his marriage to Pauline Catherine Snider has two. sons, John William and George Peter, named for his grandfather. The fourth child, Karl Peter, born April 29, 1894, married Anita Katherine Kaiser. The youngest of the family is Elmer William, born October 9, 1896. The family was represented by two sons in the World war. Elmer W. enlisted June 21, 1918, as a radio operator in the navy, and was at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and also at the Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his honorable discharge. December 17, 1919. The son Charles F. enlisted April 26, 1918, in the Three Hundred Thirty-second Infantry, was in Camp Sherman until June 6, 1918, sailed for England on the Aquitania, reaching Liverpool June 15, LaHavre, France, June 17, and the following day left for camp. July n6, 1918, he left. Ville Frank, Italy, and on August 13, went to Camp Valeggio, Italy; October 2, 1918, taken to the Italian Cavalry Barracks at Treviso.; October 24, 1918, went over the Piave River in the great battle between the allied and Austrian .troops and participated in that offensive until November 4. November 5 he went to the Austrian Camp and on November 6, to Lipps, Austria, arriving November 8. November 12 he went to Camp Langars, Corman's Austria, and on November 24, was put in the Army of Occupation. November 28 he was billeted in the Italian Hospital, and on February 14, 1919, went to Genoa, Italy, billeted at Hotel Mirmore, and sailed on the Steamship Duce de Asota for the United States, stopping three days at the Straits of Gibraltar, and arriving in New York, April 14, 1919. He paraded on April 21 in New York, left Camp Merritt and paraded in Cleveland, April 24, and was discharged at Camp Sherman May 2, 1919, after more than a year of active service. JOHN J. VAUGHN. It would be a difficult matter to overestimate the value of the work accomplished by the conscientious school teacher, or its influence upon the life of the child during its formation period. The very heart of the nation is its rising generation, and unless these children are properly trained and made ready for the continual warfare of life, there will be no true prosperity for this country, as there is for no country which neglects the proper education of its children. There is a large body of efficient and earnest men and women whose lives have been devoted to this soul-inspiring work, who do not measure their recompense by the narrow gauge of material recompense, but who are willing to make many sacrifices so as to be allowed the privilege of participating in what cannot help but be a most patriotic service. One of those who has attained to a well-deserved celebrity which has out grown local bounds is John J. Vaughn, principal of the commercial department of the Elyria High School, one of the capable and zealous members of his profession in Ohio. John. J. Vaughn was born at Cleveland, Ohio, March 7, 1856, a son of Silas B. and Nancy (Annis) Vaughn, and grandson of John B. and Olive Annis, natives of Connecticut, who came to Ohio at an early day and settled on a farm ten miles south of Cleveland. Following their marriage Silas B. Vaughn and his wife settled at Cleveland, where he worked at his trade of ship carpenter in the ship yards of that city. Mrs. Vaughn died in 1861, and he immediately thereafter enlisted for service in the Twentieth Indiana. Battery, under Smith Knight but was injured when he and several others attempted to lift a cannon, which fell upon him and injured his back, and he was honorably discharged for the disability which followed the accident. Returning to Cleveland, he spent a short time in that city, but then left it for Bayfield, Wisconsin, taking his five children with him, and for two years worked there with his brother. Once more he came back to Cleveland, and it was deemed necessary for his children to be separated on account of his ill health. John J. Vaughn went, with an older sister, to Litchfield and lived with a farmer. From his youth up he was ambitious, and determined to secure an adequate education, and therefore strained every energy to enable him to attend the Litchfield public schools through the high school courses. Having by that time decided to enter the educational field, he continued his studies at the Lodi Academy and Normal School, and Oberlin College, and remained a student of the latter institution until he was twenty-five years of age. Beginning at a teacher in the country districts, he rose in his calling to grade and high school work at Grafton, Ohio, and then for two years was principal of the Penfield High School, and at the same time he was superintendent of the township schools. In June 1902, Mr. Vaughn came to Elyria and commenced his long connection with the high school of city. He takes a deep interest in his work, and it is his pride that the graduates from his department are prepared to at once take a position with any commercial house, and that the business men regard the training he gives his pupils as superior to almost any other preparation for practical uses. On December 25, 1883, Mr. Vaughn married, at Litchfield, Ohio, Miss Edna M. Carpenter, bo Litchfield, a daughter of James H. and Charlotte (Sparry) Carpenter, .the former a successful physician and surgeon of Litchfield. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn have three children, namely: Kenneth J., who is a resident of Elyria, Ohio, married Corinne Wiseman, and they have two children, Beverly and Robert; Kathleen E. and Karyl Marian, both of whom are at home. These children are a credit to their parents, the son being one of the rising young business men HISTORY OF OHIO - 83 of the city, and the daughters, charming girls. Mr. Vaughn is a member of the First Congregational Church of Elyria. Strong in his support of the republican party, he has become something of a local leader, and since 1911 he has been a justice of the peace, his present term not expiring until 1927. A Mason, he has been advanced to the chapter and council of his fraternity. He is also a member of the Masonic Club. Mr. Vaughn is a man who has never been content to rest upon what he has already accomplished; but is ever reaching out to acquire more knowledge and to extend the sphere of his usefulness. Since 1904 he has served continuously as secretary of the Lorain County Teachers, Association, and he belongs to the Elyria Teachers, Club, the Ohio State Teachers, Association and the National Teachers, Association. The weight of his influence is felt in the cultural life of Elyria, and his advice is sought by those who seek further enlightenment upon various subjects, for his good judgment and literary attainments are universally acknowledged. CARL H. SMITH, who is a successful representative of the real estate and insurance business in the City of Elyria, Lorain County, claims the Hawkeye State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Clayton County, Iowa, in April, 1872. His parents, Jacob and Catherine (Lattiman) Smith, natives of Germany, became. early settlers in Clayton County, Iowa, where the father developed a good farm. In 1903 the parents established. their residence at Kipton, Lorain County, Ohio,. where the death of the father occurred April 6, 1921, and where the widowed mother still maintains her home. In the public schools of Iowa Carl H. Smith continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the Monona High School, and after completing his studies, at the age of nineteen years, he continued his active association with farm enterprise in his native county. Later he engaged in the real estate business at Riceville, Howard County, Iowa, where he remained until 1910. He then came to Ohio, where his parents had previously established their home, and he was engaged in independent farm industry near Wilmington, Clinton County, until 1916, when he established himself in the real estate and insurance business at Elyria. He has built up a substantial business of representative order, his operations including the handling of both city and farm property, and the general insurance department of his business proves an important adjunct of his real estate operations. Mr. Smith gives special attention to dealing in farm realty in various states of the West and Northwest, as well as Ohio and neighboring states. In his home county he is the owner of a well improved farm of 183 acres in Pittsfield Township. He is independent in politics, is affiliated- with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. January 15, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Smith and Miss Maude B. Whitney, who was born and reared in Lorain County, Ohio, and, is a daughter of William K. and Ella J. Whitney) Whitney, her father being a: substantial farmer in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, Harold C., who is associated with his father 's business; Marjory, who is the wife of Victor Myers, of Elyria, and Roland C. RUSSELL PHILO VAUGHN has given prolonged and effective service in connection with the public schools in the City of Elyria, where he has been principal of the high school since the year 1916, and he has secure standing as one of the successful and popular educators in his native state. Mr. Vaughn was born at Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on the 30th of November, 1869, and is a son of Hiram Albert and Lucina (Bradford) Vaughn, both likewise natives of Cuyahoga County, where the former was born at Spencer and the latter at Olmsted Falls. Hiram Albert Vaughn was born January 16, 1843, his entire active career was marked by close and effective association with farm industry in his native state, and he was eighty years of age at the time of his death, April 16, 1923, his wife having passed away at the age of thirty-three years. He was a son of Hiram and Ruth (Darrow) Vaughn, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Bebeetown, Madison County, Ohio, representatives of sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye State. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Philo and Delight (Underhill) Bradford, the latter of whom was born at Dorset, Vermont, whence she accompanied her parents on the long overland trip to Ohio, with wagon and ox teams. Russell P. Vaughn gained his first practical experience through the medium of his alliance with the activities of the tome farm, and his preliminary education was obtained in the public schools of his native county. He became a successful teacher, first in the district schools and later in graded schools, and through his own earnings in this and other ways he defrayed the expenses of his higher education. In 1900 he was graduated from the Ohio Northern University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and lie further fortified himself by effective post-graduate work, during two summer sessions, in Columbia University, New York City. Subsequent to his graduation he became superintendent of the public schools of Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, where he remained three years. After coming to Elyria he here gave twelve years to effective service as teacher of physics and chemistry in the high school, and since 1916 he has been the successful and popular principal of the high school, the high standard of which he has done much to advance. Mr. Vaughn is a member of the National Educational Association, the Ohio Educational Association, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers, Association, and the Elyria Teachers, Association, of which last named organization he has served as president. He is (1923) a 'member of the Elyria Board of Teachers Examiners. Mr. Vaughn is loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is a member of the Lorain County Automobile Club, and he and his wife are zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Elyria, of which he is a trustee. On the 1st of June, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Vaughn and Miss Jessie L. Fields, who was born at Ridgeville, Lorain County, a daughter of Gilbert and Esther (Seeley)' Fields, the former of whom was born at North Eaton, this county, and the latter at Grafton, in the same county. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn the first- born Esther, died at the age of three years; Ruth is :the wife of Harold E. Birch, of Elyria, and they have one child, Douglas; and Marian is the wife of J. H. McElhinney, of Youngstown, this state, and they also have one child, John Harold, Jr. SAMUEL A. KINNEAR. In a career of sustained activity covering a period of over forty years Samuel A. Kinnear has realized almost a maximum ideal of that service, which is thoroughly actuated by public spirit and constitutes a vital community asset. The record of his own life could hardly be omitted from any historical account of Columbus, and beyond that it is interesting to note that he is a member of a pioneer family of the state and city. His grandfather, Samuel Kinnear, was born in Pennsylvania, and from there came to Ohio in 1806, 84 - HISTORY OF OHIO three years after Ohio came into the Union. His first settlement was made in Pickaway County, and he was the first county clerk of that county. There he endured all the hardships of life on the frontier, his courage and industry enabling him to hew a home out of the wilderness. In 1833, having performed his full share of such heavy labors, he removed to that section of the capital city then known as North Columbus. He built a house on North High Street, and there "kept tavern" for many years. His old home stood opposite, but has since become known as Olentangy Park. Samuel Kinnear was a justice of the peace for over thirty-eight years, and was the first and only postmaster of North Columbus; In every proper sense he was a man of leadership and influence in the early days of the city. Samuel Kinnear married Ellen Hill, who was born in Virginia and came with .her parents to Ohio in 1833. Samuel Kinnear built his old home on North High Street in 1833. His son, Josiah Kinnear, was born there June 27, 1834. Josiah finished his education in Otterbein and Capital universities, and took up the profession of civil engineering. For thirty years he was county surveyor of Franklin County, also city engineer of Columbus, and was sheriff of the county in the early '70s. Josiah Kinnear, who died in August, 1905, married in 1857 Josephine Shattuck, daughter -of Capt. Alexander Shattuck. Captain Shattuck was a native of Groton, Massachusetts, and an early settler of Franklin County. Samuel A. Kinnear, son of Josiah and Josephine (Shattuck) Kinnear, was born at the old homestead opposite Olentangy Park, January 7, 1858. The public schools and the commercial college gave him his early training. He learned surveying and civil engineering under his father. In 1876 he had his first business experience, when he took charge of some improvements on North High Street under the supervision of, his father. For six years he was deputy county surveyor under his father, and then he took up contracting, a line of business in which his success was most conspicuous. He had the contract for building the northwest sewer system for the City of Columbus. He was a member of the contracting firm of Hess & Kinnear, and in connection operated the mill at. Olentangy Park. Following that he was for six years clerk of the Probate Court, tax inquisitor two years, and in 1893 was elected county treasurer. Having discharged the official duties in these capacities with admirable efficiency he resumed private business as a member of the contracting firm of Hoover & Kinnear. This firm had some large contracts in different sections of the country. Mr. Kinnear had charge of the building of five bridges for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, then took charge of the construction of twenty-five miles of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, after the completion of which an additional contract for fifteen miles of road with the same company was secured.. He also had personal charge of the work of making an extensive fill at Lodi, Ohio, for the Baltimore & Ohio, and supervised the track elevation work for the Baltimore & Ohio at Wheeling, West Virginia. After retiring from the firm of Hoover & Kinnear, Mr. Kinnear and his brother, E. F. Kinnear, established the firm of Kinnear Brothers. They had the contract from the State of Ohio for the masonry work at Akron and St. Marys, and the building of eight locks on the old canal at Toledo. Samuel A. Kinnear and his brother, E. F. Kinnear, carried out a very notable contract for the drainage of 81,000 acres of land in Harris County, Texas, a work that was completed in two years. As these instances indicate, his work as a contractor made him well known throughout the Middle West. For ten years, until his recent retirement, Mr. Kinnear was again busied with official affairs. January 1, 1912, Mayor Karb appointed him director of service for the city. He resigned that position when he was appointed postmaster by President Wilson on September 6, 1914. Mr. Kinnear was postmaster eight years and eight months, being reappointed February 27, 1919, and before the close of his second term resigning the office, his resignation' to take effect December 31, 1922. In the meantime Mr. Kinnear had become interested in the general insurance business, and is now senior member of the firm Kinnear & Clark, general insurance, surety bonds, with offices in the Central Bank Building. Mr. Kinnear was postmaster throughout the period of the World war. While in charge of the War Savings Stamps sales he brought to Columbus the distinction of being the leading city of its size in the sale of these stamps. It was also due to Intis efforts that Columbus was the only city with less than 500,000 population to achieve motor mail delivery service. This was secured three years before he retired from the postmastership, and, beginning as an experiment, proved so successful that thirty automobile trucks were used by the postoffice at the time he retired. Mr. Kinnear was chairman of a committee of eleven postmasters chosen from different cities of the country to devise a course of education in the American postal system. Mr. Kinnear was author of the plans which were adopted by a recent National Convention of Postmasters to provide such a course of training. Mr. Kinnear's entire record both as a public and private citizen has been a most honorable one, and thoroughly deserves the tribute paid him in an editorial in the Columbus Dispatch at the time he resigned from the postoffice. A part of that editorial is as follows : "His efficiency in the management of that office, the improvements he brought into the service, his energy, vision and farsightedness, to say nothing of his uniform courtesy and affability under all trying circumstances, combined to bring to him officially the reputation of a leader among the post masters of the country. " That the time has come for him to resign his position for the field of private business is a matter of common regret. That his new work does not take him away from Columbus is pleasing to his or of friends. This city could ill afford to lose him, for while he was in the service of the Government he was also almost continuously a volunteer for active duty in the interests of his home city. No drive, no campaign, no public project, large or small, which might be for the betterment of Columbus was p over without his shoulder to the wheel. Any red blooded American would be proud to possess the splendid record Mr. Kinnear made in war work activities. What he accomplished is too well known to need repetition here. "Young at sixty-five, he is seeking no relaxation from any efforts that may be of real service to Columbus. He deserves to enjoy the satisfaction that comes with a consciousness of good will and a work well done." Mr. Kinnear is a member of the Chamber Commerce, the Columbus Athletic Club, is a thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner a a member of the Elks and the First Baptist Church of Columbus. He married Miss Clara A. Foster, daughter of Samuel G. Foster of Columbus. Th have one daughter, Clara, now the wife of Jas S. Kinslow. IRA D. CARTRIGHT, whose residence is at West Street, Elyria, is the son of Ichabod and Druzilla (Cartright) Cartright, and was born near HISTORY OF OHIO - 85 Hinklesville, Upshur County, West Virginia, on July 16, 1879. Theodore Cartright was the father of Ichabod, and Theodore was the son of John, who' was born in England, came to America at an early day and became one of the very first settlers in Upshur County. A Mr. Pringle located there with him, and both were at once made targets by. the hostile Indians, who killed the two and no doubt enjoyed the killing. The Cartrights, maternal grandparents of Ira D., were natives of North Carolina and finally settled in West Virginia; the husband enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil war and served with credit, but was at last killed in battle. Ichabod Cartright grew to maturity in West Virginia, was given the usual country education, and became a successful farmer and a reputable citizen. 'He finally passed away in 1917, after a useful and honorable life. His wife died in 1881. Ira D. Cartright, subject of this record, was educated in the district schools of Upshur County, and remained at home on the farm until he was thirteen years old, when he began business operations for himself. He first experienced hard work in the big lumber mill at Alexander, West Virginia, and was there employed for two years, during which time he learned a great deal which benefited him vastly in his future business career. He then returned home and worked on the farm for one year, still further improving his knowledge of the science of agriculture. Succeeding this experience, he moved to Kent, Ohio, where he was given employment for one year in the car shops of the Erie Railroad Company, where he gained much valuable experience concerning practical mechanics and railway operations generally. Soon afterward he secured a position as locomotive fireman for the same company, and was thus employed for seven years and eight months, during which eventful period he became proficient as a locomotive engineer, owing to his being constantly in contact with practical engineering. He then quit the railway business and was given a position as motorman on the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company's lines, and was thus employed with much credit to himself for about eighteen months. Not long after this he was employed as night foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad at South Akron, Ohio, and was there attending to his duties for four years and three months. After a little delay he secured a position with the New York Central Railroad at Collinwood, Ohio, and was there employed for one and a half years. By this time he was well known among the railway authorities as a reliable and faithful employe. About this time he came to Elyria, Ohio, and took charge of the roundhouse of the New York Central Railway, and served during the nights for about two years, when he was promoted to 'the important post of day foreman of the roundhouse, and has served as such with striking competence down to the present time. His long career in various branches of the railways has made him a notable expert in car handling and operation, and has qualified him for any such task. On October 20, 1914, he married Lulu May Ogle, who was born at Tiffin, Ohio, and is a daughter of John and Matilda Ogle, both of whom are natives of Ohio. Mr. Cartright is a democrat in politics, and invariably takes an active part in local municipal and political events. LYMAN KNOWLES, one of the prominent and successful business men of Lorain, but now deceased, was born at La Grange, Lorain County, on July 13, 1840, and was the son, of Horace and Catherine (Lown) Knowles, both of whom were natives of New York State and were among the pioneers at La Grange, Ohio. There they followed the occupation of farming, and became prominent and distinguished citizens, and there passed the remainder of their useful lives, both- dying in that section of the state. Lyman Knowles attended the public schools of La Grange, and was given a good education and was reared to the rules and exactions of moral life and exemplary citizenship. He became a farmer from the start, and made that occupation a success. At the first call of President Lincoln for 75,000 volunteers he promptly enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and not long after his time had expired he reenlisted, in 1862, in the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K, and served with gallantry and distinction until the end of the war. After his honorable discharge from the service he returned to La Grange and renewed his labors on the farm. While in the army he participated in numerous historic campaigns and many important strategic movements, at all times displaying his bravery and loyalty to the "Red, White and Blue." He continued to farm at La Grange until 1880, when he sold out everything and moved out to Kansas and located in about thirty miles of Topeka, where he purchased 160 acres of excellent land that was partly improved. He went to work in earnest and finished the improvements until he had the whole place in excellent tillable condition. There he continued to operate the place with notable success .until 1895. He grew large crops of grain and grass, and sent all to the nearest market—all that he did not need to fatten his fine herds of cattle, hogs and sheep and his superior flocks of poultry. He disposed of his farm there in 1895 and returned to La Grange, Ohio, where he remained for a year and then came to Elyria, where he bought home property and resided until his decease. During the latter years of his useful life he was retired from active labor, though he still took deep interest in all movements for the welfare of the community. While at the reunion of his regiment on Lake Erie, between Lorain and Cleveland, he was accidentally hit by an interurban car and died from the effects on August 19, 1920. His demise was deeply deplored by his old comrades and by all who had the honor of his acquaintance and friendship. His widow still lives at . the old home on Gates Avenue, No. 213. In his old age Mr. Knowles served as infirmary director for about four years. In addition he was township trustee in Elyria for several years. He was an ex-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, both in Kansas and Elyria, and was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. His widow is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of several of the church societies and also of the Relief Corps. On January 4, 18.60, he Was united in marriage with Miss Jane Holcomb, who was born in La Grange, Ohio, on December 23, 1839, and was the daughter of Noah and Emily (Crane) Holcomb. Her parents were born near Schenectady, New York. Mr. Holcomb in early times often drove an ox team to La Grange from the farm, and was a prosperous farmer and a reputable citizen; both. are deceased. To Mr. Knowles and his wife these children were born : Emma, now Mrs. Stowell Dale, of Lorain County; Mina, now Mrs. Lynn Johnson, of Central Kansas; and Robert, of Oberlin, Ohio. THADDEUS W. FANCHER, one of the venerable and honored citizens of Lorain, where he is now living retired, has played a large part in the civic and material development and progress of this metropolis of Lorain County, where he served as one of the early mayors of the city, besides having held the office of city treasurer and other official positions through which he effectively expressed his fine civic loyalty and stewardship. 86 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Fancher was born in Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, February 25, 1839, a son of William and Mary (Van Scoy) Fancher, the former of whom was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, August 1, 1811, and died October 4, 1886. The latter was born February 16, 1816, in Geauga County, Ohio, where her parents had pioneer honors. She was married October 24, 1833, and died July 22, 1866. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Thaddeus and Sally (Mead) Fancher, the latter 's father, Col. Matthew Mead, having been a patriot soldier and officer in the War of the Revolution. Thaddeus Fancher was born at Stamford, Connecticut. The maternal grandparents, Abram and Sally (Knapp) Van Scoy, were natives of the State of New York, he having been a scion of one of the fine old Holland Dutch families early founded in the Empire State and his wife having been of English lineage. Lysander Fancher, great-grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a member of the same regiment as was Col. Matthew Mead in the War of the Revolution, and he was assigned special duty in supervising the extinguishment of fires after the army forces had left different localities that required this protective service. Thaddeus Fancher gained status as one of the sterling pioneer settlers in Huron County, Ohio, to which he made his first visit, on horseback, in the year 1818, his trip having been made for the purpose of selecting a location for a future home in the wilds of Ohio. After this prospecting trip he returned to New York State, and in the autumn of 1819, with wagon and ox team, and with a horse for leader of the team, he and his family made the long and arduous overland journey from New York State to Huron County, Ohio, five weeks and four days having been required to complete the trip. He took up fire lands in the Western Reserve, the same having been purchased at the rate of 50 cents an acre. On his homestead tract in Huron County, Thaddeus Faucher erected a large frame house, and that the .same was constructed with the characteristic solidity and care common to that day is evidenced by the fact that the ancient building is still in excellent preservation and utilized for residence purposes. The Van Scoys likewise became early settlers in the same locality and made purchase of fire lands. After their marriage William and Mary (Van Scoy) Panther settled on a part of the land which his father had purchased, and he continued his farm operations in Huron County until 1865, when ho removed to Camden Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he acquired property and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Thaddeus W. Fancher was reared under the conditions and influences that marked what may be termed the middle-pioneer era in the history of the historic old Western Reserve. He attended select school, a typo of school common to the locality and period, and thereafter was a student in Oberlin College until he attained to the ago of twenty-two years. At the age of seventeen he initiated his service as a teacher during winter terms of school in his native county, he having taught nine such terms in Huron County, Ohio, and two in Montcalm County, Michigan, and his pedagogic work having been continued for some time after he left Oberlin College. The marriage of Mr. Panther occurred February 21, 1863, and he and his young wife then established their home on a tract of land in the woods near Bloomer Center, Montcalm County, Michigan. There he reclaimed and made available for cultivation the greater part of his tract of 110 acres, and after remaining there nine years he returned to Ohio and established his residence at Lorain, April 7, 1873, Here it was his purpose to serve as railroad station agent, but one of the varied duties incidental to such a position at that time was the frequent work of coupling cars. In this special work he was severely pinched between cars, with the result that he quit his job and turned his attention to work at the carpenter's trade. As a contractor and builder he developed a substantial and prosperous business, and incidentally he brought some of the best timber from his Michigan farm, manufactured the same into lumber and utilized the product in the erecting of a fine house at 624 Oberlin Avenue, where the family home was maintained until 1906, when removal was made to the present attractive and modern mansion owned by him at 606 Oberlin Avenue. Mr. Fancher continued his contracting business six years, and then became associated with F. W. Edison in the retail hardware and implement business. Seven years later he sold his interest in this enterprise to his partner, and in 1880 he received appointment to the office of postmaster of Lorain, a position which he retained seven years. About four years later, in 1891, he was again appointed postmaster, and under this appointment he served four years. He was the fourth mayor of Lorain after its incorpora tion as a city, held this office one term and served two terms as city treasurer. He was a valued member of the Lorain Board of Education from 1874 to 1.884, soon after the village was incorporated, and was president of the board five years. He gave effective service also as a member of the City Council, as Township treasurer, and as a member of the Board of Review, on which he served ten years. Upon the failure of the Citizens Savings Bank of Lorain, Mr. Fancher was appointed its receiver, and this position he retained from 1905 to 1911, in which latter year the tangled affairs of the institu tion were finally adjusted to the best possible advantage. Since 1913 Mr. Fancher has been retired from all active business or official service. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he has received the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, and has been affiliated with the time-honored fraternity since February 26, 1860, becoming a Master Mason at Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio, the day after his twenty-first birthday. Both he and his wife are members of the adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, and their religious affiliation is with the Congregational Church, Mr. Fancher's service during the Civil war consisted of sending a substitute, but later he joined the Minute Men, who were called " The Squirrel Hunters," and on the call for troops in 1862 he went with his command to Cincinnati, where he remained thirty days. The strange part of his service was that forty years after his service in the War of the Rebellion he received his discharge, and a check from the Government for thirteen dollars for his services as a soldier. February 21, 1863, recorded the marriage of Mr. Fancher and Miss Ermina Griffin, who was born at Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, on th 19th of July, 1843, a daughter of Riley and Philena (Washburn) Griffin, the former of whom was born in Hunter Township, Greene County, New York, in 1812, and the latter was born in Ulster County, that state, in 1817, their marriage having been solemnized at Norwalk, Ohio, Abijah and Abigail (Bloomer) Griffin, parents of Riley Griffin, were born and reared in New York State, he having been a son of Gersham Griffin and his wife having been a daughter of Daniel Bloomer, who was born in Greene County, New York. The marriage of Riley and Philena (Washburn) Griffin occurred January 28, 1839. Mrs. Griffin was a child of three years at the HISTORY OF OHIO - 87 time when her parents established their home in Huron County, Ohio. She was a daughter of Henry and Mary (Craft) Washburn, and her grandfather, Joseph Washburn, obtained 1,000 acres of land in Huron County. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fancher : Elvadore. R, born October 17, 1864, was a member of the first class to be graduated in the Lorain High School, and has been identified with the banking business since he was seventeen years of age, he being now governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in the City of Cleveland. February 15, 1893, recorded his marriage to Miss Harriet L. Schroeder, who was born in the City of Chicago. Millicent Alfre, born November. 2, 1866, became the wife of Albert E. Richards May 17, 1894, and her husband died at Clyde, Ohio, October 28, 1898. Thereafter she remained at the parental home until her second marriage, June 25, 19.01, when she became the wife of Charles J. Tiffany, who is now engaged in the drug business at 404 Broadway in the City of Lorain. GEORGE U. MARVIN for many years was a prominent newspaper man in Ohio, and . from that profession was recruited for the responsible administrative duties of the state government at Columbus, where he is chief of the Ohio Division of Markets, State Department of Agriculture. His father is the distinguished Judge U. L. Marvin, one of the oldest active members of the Ohio bar and one of the few lawyers who took their first cases prior to the Civil war. Judge Marvin was born in Stow Township, Summit County, Ohio, March 14, 1839, He is now eighty-five, and gives most of his time to his duties as professor of law in Kenyon College at Gambier. He was graduated from Bissell,s Academy in Twinsburg Township, Summit County, a famous preparatory school of that day. He studied law at Kent, Ohio, was admitted to the bar and began practice there in partnership with D. L. Rockwell, whose daughter, Miss Dorena Rockwell, he married. Mr. Rockwell's father served as a member of the Ohio Legislature. While practicing. law Judge Marvin also acted as superintendent of schools at Kent before the Civil war. When the war came on he enlisted at Massillon in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Volunteer Infantry. With that regiment he went to Cincinnati, and sub- sequently was made first lieutenant in the Fifth Ohio, a regiment of colored troops. Later he was promoted to captain, and served with that command until the close of the war. He was wounded at Newmarket Heights, Virginia. After the close of hostilities in 1865 he was stationed at Raleigh, North Carolina, as judge advocate general, and was brevetted as major for gallant and meritorious. service. He returned to his native state in the latter part of 1865 and resumed law practice at Kent, later at Canton, and in 1867 removed to Akron. He was in the general practice there until 1869, when he was elected judge of the Probate Court, serving two terms. He then resumed his private practice. In 1882 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County, by Gov. Charles Foster, to fill the unexpired term of Judge N. D. Tibbals. In 1892 Gov. William McKinley appointed him to what was then known as the Circuit Court, now the Court of Appeals, for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, comprising four counties in Northeastern Ohio. This appointment was made to fill the unexpired term of Judge Baldwin. He was elected to succeed himself, and by successive- elections continued the important duties of judge of the Court of Appeals for twenty-three years. During his last year he was chief justice of the court. That long and capable service gives him rank as one of the ablest jurists of Ohio. Judge Marvin's wife died in 1898, and soon afterward he removed to Cleveland. After retiring from the Appellate bench he engaged in law practice in that city with his son, the late Frank R. Marvin, who was a graduate of Williams College. Judge Marvin was elected to the chair of law in Lincoln Memorial University at Harrowgate, Tennessee, and served in that capacity until 1921. In the latter year he was chosen professor of law in Kenyon College at Gambier, and in spite of his advanced age is engaged in general practice in that town as well at attending to his law professorship. Judge Marvin's second wife was Miss Carrie Ensign, of Cleveland. Judge Marvin had five sons: Frank R. Marvin; David L., who was educated in Kenyon College, became a lawyer at Akron, and at one time was engineer of the state board Of public works; Richard, who died in infancy; Charles A., who was educated in Oberlin College and became a newspaper man; and George U., who is the only survivor of these five sons. George U. Marvin was born at Kent, Ohio, in 1866. He was educated in Kenyon College and Oberlin College, and soon after completing his education took. up newspaper work. His first experience was as correspondent at Canton for the Cleveland Press. Later he became a reporter with the Akron Beacon and Akron Journal, and then he joined the staff of the Cleveland Leader. For fourteen years he was political writer and correspondent for this paper at Columbus and Washington, and part of the time while he was stationed at Washington he acted as correspondent for the Toledo Blade. Mr. Marvin at one time was associate editor of the Warren Chronicle, and was editor of the Newton Falls Herald. He was at Newton Falls when, in September 1921, he was called to his present office as chief of the division of markets at Columbus. His administration of this important office has been one of highest efficiency and has made the division one of indispensable service to the agricultural interests of Ohio. Mr. Marvin is a member of the National Association of Marketing Officials and chairman of its transportation committee.. He is a pledged member of the Kenyon College Chapter Psi Upsilon, belongs to the Agricultural Forum and the Sons of Veterans. He married Miss Jessie O'Brien, of Akron. She was formerly a teacher in the public schools of that city. FRANK WAGNER, of Elyria, represents a family which for three successive generations has followed one of the oldest of mechanical trades, blacksmithing, and he and his brother are now conducting a business established many years ago by their father. Frank Wagner was born at Elyria, Ohio, August 20, 1862, son of Nicholas and Catherine (Thome) Wagner. His parents were both born in Prussia, Germany. The paternal grandfather, Mathias Wagner, brought his family to the United States in 1841 and settled near Cleveland. He was a blacksmith by trade, and subsequently conducted a shop at Avon in Lorain County for many years, until his death. The maternal grandparents were Peter and Mary (Reiter) Thome, who came from Prussia to America in 1843 and located on a farm at Avon, Ohio. Nicholas Wagner was born in Prussia, April 10, 1830, and his wife, on February 10, 1832. They were married in 1852, and at once moved from Avon to Elyria, Ohio. Nicholas Wagner had been well trained as a blacksmith, and was in business in that line at Elyria for many years, and for a number of years was in the retail coal business, finally turning over his blacksmith plant to his sons, Frank and John. 88 - HISTORY OF OHIO After that he was engaged in the restaurant business on Broad Street for a number of years, then finally retired, and died September 19, 1911. His wife passed' away July 31, 1899. There were nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wagner, seven of whom grew to maturity: John, of Elyria; Emma, of Elyria; Catherine, deceased; Frank; Fred W., of Detroit; Anna, wife of A. Wehinger, of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands; and Louise, wife of Joseph A. Kemper, of Elyria. Frank Wagner was educated in St. Mary's School at Elyria, and when fifteen years of age began his apprenticeship at his father's trade. He became a skilled worker, and in 1891 he and his brother John took over the business, and they have continued it with a high degree of prosperity now for over thirty years. Mr. Frank Wagner is unmarried. His brother John married Katherine Kelling, a native of Elyria, and their children are: Carl, Orellia, Leonard, Joseph, Claude, Alma, Gertrude, Mary -and Albert. The daughter Gertrude died in infancy. The family are members of St. Mary's Catholic. Church. John Wagner is a member of St. Joseph 's Beneficial Society and Frank Wagner is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. The home of John is at 321 West Seventh Street, while Frank resides at 319 Lake Avenue. IRVING W. GILBERT. One of the prominent dealers in real estate of Elyria, Irving W. Gilbert, while still accounted a young man, has made a success of his operation and is now one of the substantial citizens of. Elyria. Mr. Gilbert was born in Lena-way County, Michigan, August 30, 1884, and is a son of Charles and Esther (McMath) Gilbert, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Michigan. Mr. Gilbert, the elder, was for many years engaged in agricultural operations and also conducted a hay and grain business, but is now retired from active affairs, and is living comfortably on one of his valuable farms, enjoying the fruits of his early years of toil. Irving W. Gilbert secured the advantages offered by the district school of his native community, and his youth and young manhood were passed on the home farm!, where he assisted his father in the cultivation of the soil as well as in the operation of the hay and grain enterprise. When he reached the age of twenty-five years he and his brother Fred entered into the latter line at Clayton, Ohio, where they remained for four years. Later they purchased a grain elevator at Litchfield, Ohio, which they operated for seven years, and then sold out, Irving W. Gilbert at that time going to Medina, where he was employed in the Farmers Exchange Elevator for three years. Leaving that position he went to LaGrange, Ohio, where he bought an interest in a grain elevator, but was not satisfied with the proposition and sold out after six months. He then bought an interest in the real estate business of Coding, Bagley, Case & Company at Medina, but in 1921 disposed of his holdings there and came to Elyria, . where he again joined his brother Fred in a partnership, which continued to 1923. Irving W. Gilbert is a member of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in the lodge at Litchfield, Ohio. He is likewise a member of the Grange. In politics he supports the principles of the democratic party, but at no time in his career has he had aspirations for public office. A supporter of all worthy movements, he is progressive and constructive as to citizenship. In April, 1918, Mr. Gilbert was united in marriage with Miss Nova Miller, who was born in Michigan, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Rhodes) Miller, and to this union there have been born three children: Gloyd, Neal and Bernadine. Mr. Gilbert and the members of his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. MARK C. HENDRICKSON, one of the American veterans of the World war, who saw service at nearly all the battle fronts in France and Belgium, has since his return from overseas been a prominent factor in the real estate business in Columbus. He is one of the leading young men in that field. He was born in Florence Township, Huron County, Ohio, in 1896, representing one of the old families of that county. He attended the public schools at Norwalk, the county seat, and in 1917 graduated from Ohio University at Athens. Early in the spring, of 1917 Mr. Hendrickson left the university to enter the first training camp for officers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. He was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry, and had the fortune to be assigned duty with the First Division of the Regular Army. He was one of the first Americans to go overseas, sailing with the First Division in August, 1917. He was attached to the Sixteenth Regiment of the First Division, and was with the American forces for more than a year before the signing of the armistice. He was given two wound stripes. He was wounded by shell, also was gassed. Returning home he received his honorable discharge in July, 1919. After leaving the army Mr. Hendrickson took post-graduate work in Ohio State University at Columbus,. and from there entered the real estate bus. ness. He is a member of the Galbreath-Hendrickson Realty Company, doing a general business in real estate. It is a firm noted for its aggressiveness and enterprise, and dominated .by youth, enthusiasm and hard headed practical business. Mr. Hendrickson is one of the organizers and is secretary of the Mercator Club of Columbus. It is composed chiefly of young men in the different lines of profession and business, and has a representative membership on the same order as the Rotary. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Aladdin Country Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hendrickson married Miss Helen Laylin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laylin, of Norwalk. They are related to the Gallup and other prominent pioneer families of Huron County. They have one daughter, Ruth Anne. MARY ANN HOWELLS COFFMAN is a resident of Lorain, owning one of the fine homes of that city, and is active in social circles there. She was born in Cardiff, South Wales, December 15, 1857, daughter of David and Margaret (Beynon) Howells. She was educated in the common schools of her native land, and on February 17, 1877, was married to Ambrose Frosdick. He was born in Yarmouth, England, March 23, .1855. He was a blast furnace worker, and they came to America and on September 19, 1881, located at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Frosdick worked at his trade. In November, 1889, they removed to Steubenville, Ohio, and about two years later Mr. and Mrs. Frosdick separated. By this marriage there was a daughter, Margaret H., now Mrs. Charles Delo, of Welland, Canada. On September 20, 1891, Mrs. Frosdick married Francis Joseph Greenwood. He was born in North England. After their marriage they took up their home at North Platte, Nebraska, November 7, 1891 On July 12, 1893, they went to McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Greenwood has lived at Lorain since 1906, and owns a fine modern residence at 2051 Twenty-ninth Street. She is a member of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 89 Woman's Relief Corps of Ohio and the Protective Home Circle of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. She had two adopted sons, one of whom, William Francis, died at the age of thirty-seven. The other, Prank, lives in Lorain. On December 24, 1923, Mrs. Greenwood married the third time, wedding Mr. Elwert Coffman, of Lorain. CHARLES DOLL, one of the adventurous and aggressive business men of Lorain, Ohio, and one of its prominent citizens, was born in Youngstown, this state, on the 24th of September, 1864, and is the son of Frederick and Rachel (Barth) Doll. The father was born in Alsace-Lorraine (France or Germany) and the mother in Dresden, Ohio. In 1843 the father crossed the ocean to America and first located in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, and there joined his brother John in the business of hauling freight with teams in the Mahoning Valley, in Alleghany, in Youngstown, in Beaver Falls and r in Alliance, Ohio. They conducted this business for several years on a large scale. A few years later Frederick Doll located permanently at Youngstown, where he became associated in business ventures with Mr. Todd, who afterward became governor of the state, also with Chauncey Andrews and Henry Wick, who were the pioneers of the iron industry in that section of the state. Frederick occupied the position of "general development agent" of the coal and iron industry then being developed, and was thus brought in business contact with some of the most prominent men of Ohio and was thus associated for many eventful and prosperous years. After the death of his wife .in 1876 he lived a somewhat retired life until his second marriage, to Catherine Spieler. He finally passed away on the 6th of August, 1914, at the age of ninety-three years. His career in business was full of activities, adventures and diversities, but was always characterized by a steadfast adherence, to honesty and exemplary citizenship. Charles Doll, the subject of this review, was the oldest of five children born to Frederick and Rachel Doll. In early youth he received a good education in the common schools, and continued to live with his parents until he reached the r age of twelve years. He was then sent to Coshocton County to live with near relatives, and during the first two years he was there he attended the public schools. At the age of about fourteen years, spurred no doubt by the daring and adventurous qualities which he inherited from his father, he ran away from his temporary home and dashed out in the wild world to fight the battle of life for himself. He located himself at Massillon, and there secured the position as transfer bus driver between the railroad stations, and there remained actively at work until 1879, when he went to Black River, Ohio, now Lorain, and there began work for the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as an engine wiper and at other subsidiary tasks. As his work was unsteady and fragmentary he became dissatisfied and finally quit and began to sail the Great Lakes and to follow the occupation of fishing for the markets, though still occasionally continuing his labors for the railroads. He was then about eighteen years old and was full of energy and ambition. For a time he worked in the lumber yards for Mr. McKinley, father of President McKinley, and also in the yards of . S. 0. Edison, an uncle of "blizzard" Edison. But he was not yet satisfied with what fate had handed out to him; he was full of adventure and intrepidity and 'was keyed up to any emergency or transaction. Accordingly, in 1885, he took passage on the freighter "George W. Caldwell," and landed at Duluth, Minnesota, and from there went on to St. Paul. There he encountered an attraction that appealed to his venturesome heritage. On the streets one day he saw the call of "Uncle Sam" for volunteers, whereupon he entered the office, offered to enlist, took the required physical examination passed the same and was sworn in as a member of Company .A, Seventeenth Regiment, United States Infantry, which was then stationed at Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory. After six months spent in that camp he was sent to Standing Rock Indian Agency at Fort Yates, Dakota Territory. After this change he experienced many other transfers from this point to that and from this duty to something else, all of which pleased his adventurous spirit, though still not violent enough to smother his belligerent impulses. While at Camp Carlin, Wyoming, he was assigned to the duty of conducting a pack train which was sent out against Geronimo, the Apache chief and continued in that service until the chief surrendered to General Miles. He was sent out on other trips .of a difficult and hazardous nature. He was honorably discharged at Fort Russell, Wyoming, on June 16, 1890. He then returned to Lorain, Ohio, and found employment with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company in the shops where the steel mills were being constructed and where a very rough element of workers werc employed. Very soon there he was appointed chief of police to control the radical elements, and served in that position for two years. He then worked for a time in securing the right of way for the Lake Shore Electric Railway and for other enterprises. Soon. thereafter he was appointed assistant postmaster of Lorain, and upon the death of S. L. Bowman, postmaster, in 1909, he was appointed postmaster of the city and served as such until 1913. At this time he began to deal in real estate, but spent some time in regaining his health, which was depressed. Since January, 1923, he has been engaged in the retail coal business. On October 21, 1891, he married Lucy Barth, daughter of Frederick and Phebe (King) Barth. She was born at Coshocton, and has borne her husband these children: Clyde W., who died in infancy, and Gladys Marie, who is at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Doll are members of the Congregational Church. They are republicans. He served on the county tax board one year, and also as appraiser one year. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. EMERSON LEE TAYLOR is a native of Columbus, qualified himself for the law and. has been in practice about seven years except for the period of his army service. He has gained special distinction by his abilities as a corporation lawyer. He was born at Columbus in 1893, son of Dr. Sterling B. and Lila (Piper) Taylor. His father for many years has been an accomplished physician and surgeon. Emerson L. Taylor was educated in the Columbus Public Schools, attending the high school, and later the Ohio State University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the university with the class of 1913, and in 1915 he completed the law course and obtained the Bachelor of Laws degree. Mr. Taylor had practiced law in. his native city about two years when the war came on, and in the spring of 1917 he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and was commissioned second lieutenant, subsequently being promoted to first lieutenant. He was assigned to duty in the Signal Corps and served at Kelly. Aviation Field at San Antonio, Texas, and subsequently was ordered back to Columbus.. and assigned to duty as teacher of military law and artillery observation in the Ohio State University. Later he 90 - HISTORY OF OHIO was in Dayton, Ohio, on the staff of Col. T. H. Bane, in charge of the Technical Section, Division Military Aeronautics there. Mr. Taylor received his honorable discharge in February, 1919, and shortly afterward resumed his law practice. For two years he acted as special counsel in the department of fire marshal of the State of Ohio. Since then he has given all his time to his private law practice, and particularly to his work as a corporation lawyer. In the organization of new corporations and in handling important problems of law affecting business organizations he has shown exceptional talent and ability, and has built up an enviable practice along these lines. Ever since leaving college Mr. Taylor has had a sustaining interest in several of the Greek letter fraternities, particularly in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi. He is a former member of the County Republican Executive Committee. Mr. Taylor married Miss Florence Mitchell Smith. Their three children are Richard Lee, Patricia Lee and Robert Baldwin Taylor. FOSTER IRA ARMSTRONG is well known in the business affairs in the City of Lorain, a real estate man, and a leader in local politics and social affairs. Mr. Armstrong was born at Cedar Rapids, Kansas, October 12, 1879, son of Lee and Sarah (Bradley) Armstrong. His parents were born and married at Batavia, New York, and in 1877 moved to Cedar Rapids, Kansas. Lee Armstrong Was a cement worker. Foster Ira Armstrong has lived in Lorain County since he was nine years of age. He came to Lorain in 1888, and finished his education in the grammar and high schools and also attended Oberlin Business College. At the age of nineteen he was clerk in the wall paper and dry goods store of his uncle, and subsequently learned and followed the trade of paper hanger. As a side line he took up real estate and insurance, and since 1919 has had a business of proportions to justify his giving his entire time and attention to it. His offices are at 938 Broadway. November 26, 1903, Mr. Armstrong married Miss Ella Sons, a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and daughter of George and Jennie Sons, natives of Pennsylvania. To their marriage were born five children: Thelma, who died in infancy, Foster, Bernice, Ruth and George. The family attend the Christian Science Church. Mr. Armstrong served one torm on the city council, and in November, 1921, was elected city treasurer, an honor carrying with it the distinction of being the first democrat ever chosen to that office. He is a member of the real estate board, and fraternally is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Commandery, the Scottish Rite Consistory and Shrine at Cleveland, and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No. 1301 of Lorain, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America. WILLIAM G. CAMPBELL, one of the reputable and noteworthy residents of Lorain, Ohio, and one of its successful business men, was born at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 10th of July, 1875, and is the son of William and Sabra (Grimes) Campbell. The father was a native of the Emerald Isle, his birth occurring in County Down in the fifties. The grandfather was John Campbell, also a native of Ireland, where he lived the greater portion of his life. The parents of Sabra Grimes were Doctor and Anna Grimes, both of whom were born in Ohio. After their marriage William and Sabra Campbell located in New Philadelphia, and there began the duties of married life. They became engaged in keeping a hotel, and soon had a large patronage from travelers and from local business men and pleasure seekers. Here they both became well known for their courteous and mannerly behavior and for the exemplary and commendable citizenship. They took active and distinguished part in all local steps to build up a moral and righteous community. He died in 1886, but she had gone to her last resting place when the subject of this record was still an infant. The latter was given a sound education in his youthful days, first at the grade schools and later at the high school. Then he entered the nomal school at New Philadelphia, and in that institution finished his educational career. At the age of sixteen years he became bell boy in the Exchange Hotel of New Philadelphia, but after a year or so changed his job and secured a position as helper in a veterinary hospital in the same city and was thus occupied for about two years. He then secured a position as aid in a newspaper office in that city, and there to continued for one year. At the age of twenty-one years he came to Lorain and became one of the partners of Ralph McConnell in the ready-made clothing business. In this business he was busily engaged for two years, but was then forced to sell out on account of a period of ill health. After recovering he secured a position with the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company now the Baltimore and Ohio line, as an assistant dock agent. This occupation suited his physical condition and met his financial requirements, and he remained in the employ of this company for the period of ten years, gaining much prominence as a faithful and efficient manager of dock affairs and winning also at the warm approval of his employers. Succeeding this long period of faithful work he finally accepted the position of local manager of the Great Lakes Towing Company, with headquarters in Lorain, and here he has been occupied with much credit up to the present time. He has made himself useful and prominent in other walks of life. He is a republican, and takes an active concern in the success of his party tickets. During the year 1918 he served as deputy collector of customs for the government at the port of Lorain. About that time he was appointed to membership on the city council, and served with such prominence and credit that he was elected to succeed himself in the political campaign of 1921 and reelected in 1923. He is a member of the Congregational Church and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks .No. 1301, of Lorain, in which order he has served in every position except that of treasurer ; he is a past exalted ruler. He is also a charter member of the Modern Woodmen of the World. On April 15, 1897, he married Miss Maude Bowen, who was born in Lorain and is the daughter of Capt. James F. and Elizabeth Bowen. Her father was born in New York and her mother in Canada. Her father was for many years an active and competent lake captain. To William G. and Maude Campbell these children were born: Helen, James B., and George E. Mr. Campbell and wife were then separated and divorced, and on June 23, 1908, he married Mary Jane Treasure, who was born in Indiana, and is the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Price) Treasure, natives of Wales. O. F. HAGEMAN, who for many years has been a successful business man and is one of the reputable and well-known citizens of Lorain, Ohio, was born in Black River Township, this county, on the 11th of April, 1859, and is the son of Adam and Catherine (Hildebrand) Hageman. His grandfather, John Hageman, came to Lorain County about the year HISTORY OF OHIO - 91 1840; and David Hildebrand, grandfather on his mother’s side, came to Black River Township, this county, back in 1834. Both grandfathers were farmers by occupation, made a pronounced success of their agricultural operations, and both attained local prominence for their sterling qualities and dignified citizenship. The parents of the subject of this memoir grew to maturity on the farms and there received in youth as good an education as the early schools afforded. Many days in those early times were spent at hard work on the farms, by her at the kitchen stove or in the garden slaughtering the weeds, and by him in the stableyards feeding and cleaning the live stock or in the fields planting the grain or tilling the soil. Upon reaching mature years they met, became attached to each other, and finally were married in Brownhelm Township. Soon afterward they located in that township, but later moved to Black River Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Both took an active and prominent part in the affairs of their neighborhood and became well and favorably known for their good qualities and companionable gifts and merits. Farm life to them was attractive and successful. O. F. Hageman, subject, was reared to maturity on his father's farm and there learned in boyhood all the steps necessary to be taken to make farming a profitable business. He at first attended the common schools of the country districts, and there passed through the eight grades, or what afterward became the eight grades. At a later date he attended Oberlin College, and there rounded out and finished his educational career.. At the age of nineten years his schooling thus ended and he was ready for the busy activities of existence on this earth. He first secured a job as clerk in a grocery store at Lorain, and was thus occupied for about eight months. He then succeeded in getting a position as brakeman on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad, which line afterward became the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and was at work for seven months. This experience made him competent, and he undoubtedly gave his employer satisfaction, because he was promoted to the position of freight conductor and served as such with credit until June, 1881, or about eighteen months. He then went to Des Moines and was given a similar position on the St. Louis, Des Moines & Northwestern Railroad as passenger conductor, and was thus engaged for about four months. lie then returned to Lorain, and started in the grocery business, and was thus occupied for, about four months. From November, 1881, to April, 1882, he worked for the Braun Brothers & Company in the lumber business, and while thus occupied became familiar with lake traffic. In April, 1882, he again changed his occupation and became a sailor on the Great Lakes, and was thus at work during the summer months and continued the same for four seasons. He sold oil during the winter months from 1885 to 1888. He then went to North Carolina and manufactured brick until June, 1890. In that year he returned to Lorain and there manufactured brick for one season, and about that time started in the grocery business at Amherst, Lorain County. He owned and conducted this store for about eight months, and then sold out and went to Traverse City, Michigan, where he undertook a job of ballasting on what is now the Pierre Marquette Railroad. Succeeding this he worked for a time at the same task at Charlevoix and Petoski. He was thus occupied from October, 1892, to June, 1893. He then changed to Oberlin, Ohio, and established the first steam laundry in that city. He conducted the same for five months, and then sold out and went to New Bavaria, Henry County, Ohio, where he conducted a general store for about four months. About this time Mr. Hageman went to St. Louis, Gratiot County, Michigan, and there engaged extensively in the creamery business, but one year later sold out. He then succeeded in securing a job as steam shovel engineer on the Ann Arbor Railroad, and was there engaged for two years. He then changed his residence to Toledo, where he resided for about one year and then returned to Lorain. About this time he took up the real estate and building business. It was at this time also that he engaged in the farming and dairying business. In 1906 .he purchased in Central Ohio a fine tract of marketable timber land, and for three years was engaged in cutting the timber into lumber for the markets. From 1909 to 1911 he conducted a large and profitable brokerage business at Lorain. On June 1, 1911, he engaged in the wholesale grocery business, and is thus occupied at the present time. His business changes have been many, but he has steadily forged ahead no matter what he did. In 1892 he married Miss Maine Porter, who was born in Amherst, Ohio. His second wife, to whom he was married in September, 1902, was formerly Miss Anna Hull, who was born in Butler, DeKalb County, Indiana. She is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Hageman is independent in politics, is a Mason, Chapter, Commandery, and Knight Templar, and is a member of the Lorain Automobile Club. He now resides in a beautiful limestone residence out on West Erie Avenue beyond the city limits, where he owns a rare tract of land with a 200-foot frontage on Lake Erie. ELISHA MACK PIERCE, who lived virtually retired in the City of Lorain at the time of his death, August 6, 1923, had been long and prominently identified with business and civic affairs in the metropolis of Lorain County, and in all of the relations of life he had so. ordered his course as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and esteem of his fellow men. Mr. Pierce was born in Medina County, Ohio, June 26, 1845, and was a son of Thompson and Harriet (Little) Pierce, who were born and reared in picturesque old Berkshire County, Massachusetts, representatives of Colonial New England families. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in their native county, and in 1835, with team and wagon, they made the long overland journey to Ohio. The father purchased a tract of land in Medina County, where he reclaimed and developed a productive farm, and in earlier years he also followed the carpenter 's trade and erected many buildings in that county. His wife died in 1883, and he was one of the patriarchal pioneer citizens of Ohio at the time of his death, which occurred at Lorain in 1901, the death of his wife likewise having occurred in this city. After having profited by the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, Elisha M. Pierce was for some time a student in Oberlin College. He thereafter learned the trade of telegrapher and found employment as railroad telegraph operator. He finally became railroad station agent at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and it was in the year 1880 that he came to Lorain and assumed the position of station agent at Lorain for what is now the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He continued in the service of this railway corporation about thirty-three years, and in the meanwhile had identified himself with varied business interests in Lorain. He was one of the organizers and first directors of the Lorain Barking Company, and soon became its secretary and treasurer. A few years later he 92 - HISTORY OF OHIO became secretary and treasurer of the Thew Shovel Company, one of the important industrial concerns of Lorain, and of this office he continued the incumbent until impaired health led to his retirement in 1919. He was in the most significant sense a loyal and progressive citizen, and had much to do with the development of the shipping interests of Lorain and providing of adequate docking facilities as well as those incidental to the handling of coal. He was in former years an influential figure in the local councils and campaign activities of the repubcan party, and he gave valued service as a member of the City Council, of which he was president some time, besides which he was for a number of years president of the Board of Education of his home city. His was a long period of constructive service as president of the Black River Telephone Company. He was active and influential in the affairs of the Lorain Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a former president; he was for many years president of the Lorain Library Association, which he assisted in organizing, as did he also the local Young Men's Christian Association, of which likewise he was president for some time. A zealous and honored member of the First Congregational Church, he held for many years the position of chairman of its Board of Trustees. The foregoing brief statements offer significant evidence of the worthy part Mr. Pierce played in the civic and business life of Lorain, and no citizen has more secure place in popular confidence and esteem in this community. April 29, 1868, marked the marriage of Mr. Pierce and Miss Almira Penfield, who was born at Penfield, Lorain County, a place named in honor of her father, Samuel Penfield, who was born in Connecticut and who was one of the pioneer settlers of Lorain County. Mrs. Pierce passed to the life eternal January 5, 1887, and she is survived by two daughters: Marian is the wife of T. M. Duncan, of Bridgeport, Belmont County, Ohio, her only child, Mary, having died. at the age of twenty years; Inez Julia remains at the paternal home and has supervision of its domestic and social affairs, she having received her higher education in Lake Erie College, at Painesville. In October, 1889, Mr. Pierce wedded Miss Mary Penfield, a sister of his first wife, and their gracious companionship of nearly thirty years was finally severed by her death in January, 1916, no children having been born of this union. In 1905 Mr. Pierce erected his present modern and attractive residence, on Arkansas Avenue, adjoining his former home place and near the shore of Lake Erie, and here he enjoyed the rewards of former years of earnest endeavor and the pleasing association with a host of friends. WILLIAM H. JONES, one of the active and prominent young business men of Lorain, Ohio, was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, on the 6th of February 1896, and is the son of William H. and Elizabeth E. (Wright) Jones. The father was born in the southern part of England, back about the time of the American Civil war, and the mother was born at Leroy, Ohio. The grandparents were William and Hannah (Barron) Jones, both of whom were natives of old England and were there reared and educated. Both became reputable citizens wherever they resided, and at all times took a prominent part in the affairs of their communities. The grandparents crossed the ocean to America about the year 1867, and came on West to Ohio and located at Avon, Lorain County, where they began the business of butchering, which they had followed for a number of years in the old country. They made the business a success and also made American life a success, though they had to encounter the remaining dismantled conditions resulting from the war. William H. Jones, father of the subject of this narrative, grew to early maturity at the home of his father in Avon, Ohio, and while there received a fair education and at the same time learned the butcher business. But he apparently was dissatisfied with existing conditions, and accordingly, when still a lad, ran away from home, went West to Nebraska, secured employment at various pursuits, laid up some money and finally married Miss Wright and settled down to hard work as a gardener. He made that occupation a success, constructed a greenhouse and later added to it several large additions until he was the owner of one of the best operated greenhouse gardens in the whole state. He finally concluded to change his location, and in accordance therewith, about the beginning of the twentieth century, left Nebraska came back to Ohio and located at Painsville, Lake County, and there continued his occupation of gardening and also at Geneva a little later. He remained at these places only a short time. In 1900 he came to Lorain and soon established his business on a successful scale at the corner of Eighth Street and Broadway. There he had purchased a house and lot at 333-335 Eighth Street some time before, but now concluded to transform the whole premises into a greenhouse. This he accomplished, and at the present date the establishment which he founded has 5,000 square feet under glass. He achieved notable success and built a large and profitable business. He died in May, 1920, but his widow, who had assisted him materially while he was actively at work and had contributed much to his excellent reputation, is still alive and resides in South Lorain, Ohio. William H. Jones, subject of this sketch, was educated in the schools of Northern Ohio, first attending the grade schools and later the high school. His education was thorough and efficient, and at the sometime practical and comprehensive. It impresses one with much force when it is realized that he finished his high school education with much credit at the age of seventeen years. And during this eventful period he managed in addition to learn wireless telegraphy at Lorain, which art proved of much use to him in his later career. He was competent to become an operator. The World war altered his schemes for the future. On the 5th of December, 1917, he enlisted in service of "Uncle Sam" as a private in the air service, and was first ordered to the training field of Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he remained actively at work for about six weeks. He was then sent to the famous Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, where for about six weeks was even more active and conspicuous then when at Camp Sherman. Then he was again transferred, this time to Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois, where he was assigned to the duty of instructing a large class of the boys in wireless and radio studies and information. Still later he was ordered out to Fort Crook, Omaha, where he became a flying cadet and was there occupied with high credit and distinction until he was finally discharged with honor on the 27th of November, 1918. He then returned to Lorain, Ohio, where for a time he was a wireless operator, serving thus for about one year. A little later, his father having died, he took over the old business establishment which had been founded by his parents years before, and at the present day is still conducting and managing the same with success and credit. On the 17th of November, 1920, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha W. Emery, who was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, on the 19th of December, 1896, the daughter of Alexander and Garrie (Murdock) Emery. Her HISTORY OF OHIO - 93 father was a native of Canada, his birth occurring at Fort Burwell, while her mother was a native of Massachusetts. Her mother died on the 28th of eh, 1921. For many years Alexander Emery was proficient and successful farmer and stock raiser Ashtabula County, Ohio. To William H. and a W. Jones one child was born: Paul Edward, was born on the 21st of December, 1922. Mr. es is independent in politics, which means that is not a partisan, but a supporter of good, sound government. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, is a prominent member of these organizations. wife was educated first at the grade schools and at the Ashtabula High School. PETER A. BUNGART, one of the leading and most prominent citizens of Lorain, Ohio, was born at North Amherst, on the 23rd of January, 1877, and is the son of Nicholas and Catherine (Wolf) Bungart. Nicholas was born in Sheffield Township, Lorain County, his parents being Lawrence and Emma (Burkhardt) Bungart. Both were of German descent, coming from the old country many years ago and settling in the United States. Lawrence, when a young man, came to Lorain County, where he married and settled on a farm and there resided for about fifteen years, when, owing to ill health, he gave up farming and passed the remainder of his days in North Amherst. The parents of Catherine Wolf died in Germany, but she came to the United States, where she met and married Nicholas Bungart. She was given a good education in North Amherst, and there resided for many years. Nicholas was also given as good an education as the times and surroundings permitted, and at an early age learned the trade of brick and stone masonry, and was soon prosperous and successful. In 1879 he concluded to change his occupation, and accordingly moved out, on the old Bungart farm, where he remained until the fall of 1908. During this long period of nearly thirty years he became one of the most successful and prominent farmers of the county. He raised all sorts of the grain of this region, and became an expert in the rearing of live stock for the markets. In the fall of 1908 he moved to Avon, Lorain County, and there spent the remainder of his days, passing away in April 1911. His widow resides on the same place. To Nicholas and Catherine Bungart the following children were born: Lawrence, who is now a resident of Lorain County; Peter A., subject; Eva, who died at the age of two years; Dora, who now lives on the old place; Frank, who is a business man of Wisconsin; and Alvin, who occupies the old home place. Peter A. Bungart received a fair education in youth by attending the local common schools, mainly during the winters. He spent the summers hard at work on the farm. He thus learned all the arts of agriculture, and would have become a successful and prosperous farmer had he remained on the farm. But he had other objects in view for his life's duties. At the age of twenty-three years he began working at ship building in the ship yards at Lorain, and was thus occupied with success and profit until 1915. During this eventful period he completely mastered the difficult task of constructing vessels of all shapes, sizes and formation, and became familiar with the its ports of the United States on the Great Lakes, and also with those of Canada. In 1915 as an assistant he undertook the unusual task of making a geological survey of the Red Deer River District in Alberta for the Canadian Government, and was thus occupied for five months. He then returned to Lorain and was there busy at work until 1921 on various ship building ventures, becoming an expert carpenter at vessel construction, or rather perfecting his previous knowledge of that useful and problematical art. At the same time he still further completed his knowledge of the North American problems of geology. About this time he joined the Sternberg family, who were distinguished and masterly geologists for the Canadian Government, and joined them in another geological survey in the same district of Alberta as before. There he spent another five months in uncovering the mysteries of the fossils and strata under the cold Alberta surface. Succeeding in this attractive occupation he again returned to Lorain and renewed his work as a carpenter, and was thns engaged with profit and success until May 1, 1923, when he was employed by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to explore the most important geological fields of Northern Ohio and make all the collections he could of objects fit to be preserved. He is still engaged in this educational project. It should be noted in this connection that ever since he was twenty years old Mr. Bungart has been gathering a valuable collection of archaeological specimens, and that at the present time he is the possessor of one of the most valuable and meritorious collections of Indian relics and archaeological specimens to be seen in this portion of the state. On the 1st of December, 1910, he was united in marriage with Marjory Brown, who was born in Elyria Township on March 28, 1880, and is the daughter of Samuel S. and Louisa (Gow) Brown. Her father was born at Kirkland, Ohio, and her mother was born near Berlin, Germany. Her grandparents were Asaph and Sophronia (Wood) Brown, of Chester, Massachusetts. In 1828 they came to Lorain County. Samuel S. Brown was a successful and reputable farmer. He died in May, 1909; his wife died in 1898. Marjory Brown received a sound education in her girlhood, and was graduated from the Elyria High School. Mr. Bungart is a sturdy democrat in politics, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. HARRY A. KELLER was one of the first certified public accountants to qualify for that title or degree under Ohio laws. Mr. Keller was born with a faculty for figures, and since early manhood his proficiency has given him an important range of responsibilities in the work of accounting and auditing. During the past two decades he has maintained an office and has developed a large organization for handling all phases of public accounting. He was born at St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, February 28, 1861, son of John and Rebecca (Armstrong) Keller, the former a member of Miamisburg, Montgomery County, and the latter of Auglaize County. John Keller was at one time a dry goods merchant at St. Marys, but gave up that to become local station agent for the Lake Erie & Western Railway. While in the railroad service he was elected clerk of the courts for Auglaize County, and subsequently removed to the county seat, Wapakoneta. He was one of the best known citizens of the county, and a man of the highest integrity of character. Harry A. Keller acquired his early education in the public schools of St. Marys. He was only seventeen years of age when he began working in a minor capacity at the railroad station at St. Marys while his father was station agent. Industry and aptitude brought him substantial promotions, and from the Lake Erie & Western, where he had shown special proficiency in accounting, he was advanced to the auditing department of the Cincinnati Northern Railway. He finally was made traveling auditor for that road. His headquarters in this position were 94 - HISTORY OF OHIO first at Van Wert and later at Toledo. From traveling auditor he was appointed auditor of the Cincinnati Northern, and held that office until the road was taken over by the Big Four Railway in 1903. In the meantime to audit the company's accounts he removed to Columbus in 1902, and that city has been his home ever since. During 1902 he became associated with the Columbus office of the New York Public Accounting firm of Patterson, Teal & Dennis. The resident manager was J. S. M. Goodloe. Subsequently Mr. Keller and Mr. Goodloe became partners in the accounting business. The partnership was continued until 1910, in which year Mr. Keller took over the business and has since conducted it under his own name. His offices have been in the Guaranty Title & Trust Company 's Building at 16 East Broad Street continuously since 1902. Mr. Keller has been in this business practically throughout the period of the greatest development in public accounting as an indispensable service to modern business conditions. Public accounting is now a highly specialized profession, requiring expert services in various departments. These departments have been added from time to time by Mr. Keller, and he now has a staff of ten thoroughly trained and qualified accountants, and audits and investigations handled by his office bear the stamp of authority recognized all over Ohio. Mr. Keller was one of the sponsers for and took an active personal part in securing the enactment of the Ohio law providing for the semi-public profession of certified public accountants, which was passed in 1902, and he was one of the very first to qualify under this law. He became a charter member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, serving it as treasurer and president. For several years he was a member and for two years treasurer of the American Association of Certified Public Accountants, the predecessor of the present American Institute of Accounting. Mr. Keller is a very popular citizen of Columbus. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, the Aladdin Country Club, the Humboldt Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, he is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Eastern Star. He married Miss Laura Guy, daughter of Davis Guy, a merchant of Celina, Mercer County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Keller are properly proud of their two sons, John Guy and Laurence Davis Keller, both of whom are ex-service men and both now on their father 's staff of accountants. Both are graduates of the Ohio University at Athens. John Guy was in the army for eighteen months during the war, being overseas, while Laurence D. was in the navy. JAMES PORTER, who for many years was one of the most active and reputable citizens in this portion of the state, was born at Elyria, Ohio, on the 21st of October, 1833, and was the son of Nathaniel Porter, formerly a resident of Massachusetts. Nathaniel was a native of the Emerald Isle, and probably reached the United States soon after the Revolutionary war. He was married in Massachusetts, but soon afterward left that state and came West to what is now Lorain County, before this region was well populated. As the principal object of the pioneers was first to clear off the forests, it became imperative that all should go into the logging business, at first in conjunction with their farming and other occupations. Accordingly Mr. Porter engaged in the logging business, and followed it for many years, but at the same time he found much to do in connection with the Great Lakes. James Porter, the subject of this review, was brought to Black River, now Lorain, when he was but an infant. Here he grew to maturity and was given as good an education as the times afforded___ the rude common country schools. As soon as he was old enough he was put to work by his fath various jobs, among which was driving teams of half-taught oxen in the old logging camps during the winter months and serving as a sailor on the lakes during the summer months. This exacting experience during even his boyhood was sufficient to develop his likings and habits for steady work, which characterized his career when he became a man. He became a regular sailor at the age of fifteen years, and traversed the Great Lakes summer after summer for many years. He served both on sailing vessels and on steamers of the old. patterns, and became an expert at reefing the sails or operating the engines. On the 4th of July, 1857, he was joined in marriage with Miss Julia Ulyssa Cornell, a native of Elyria, Ohio, born on the 20th of September, 1840. She was the daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Phelps) Cornell, her mother 's birth occurring at Rochester, Lorain County. Both Isaac and Hannah Cornell were useful and reputable citizens and warm and friendly neighbors. After his marriage James Porter continued to work on the waters of the Great Lakes, and was thus occupied for forty years, during which period he became well known to the business men of all the cities bordering on the lakes. He became the owner, or the part owner, of important and serviceable vessels which carried large cargoes of logs, lumber, grain and store products to the various ports. Soon after attaining manhood he became captain of vessels, and was thus engaged for the greater portion of the aforesaid forty years. But he did not confine himself wholly to the water. He secured property on land, and finally bought a large hotel at the corner of Ninth and Broadway, Lorain, which he conducted for many years with both profit and efficiency. It was while he owned this hotel that he took great and active interest in high grade horses, was a horse lover, and became noted for the so-called blooded horses he owned. He took special pride in the race horses he owned and kept for sale. His hotel was called The Porter House, and there it was that the many deals in horses which he made were negotiated. At a later date he rented. the hotel and gradually retired from active business. Some time after his retirement from hotel was destroyed by fire. Mr. Porter died November 27, 1915, at West Twenty-ninth Street, Lorain. His widow now resides at 2652 Broadway. Mr. Porter and wife were members of the Congregational Church, of the Protective Home Circle and of the Old Settlers of Lorain. Their children were: Rose, now Mrs. W. J. Cochrane, of Nevada, Missouri. If May, now Mrs. O. B. Wallace, of Kansas City, Missouri; William J., of Joplin, Missouri; and Ellsworth, deceased. LEON H. HAWLEY, one of the prominent and prosperous business men of Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, was born at Hesperia, Michigan, Oceana County, on the 6th of March, 1867, and is the son of Dr. Henry C. and Clarissa (McGill) Hawley. Both parents were natives of New York, the father 's birth occurring at Schenectady and the mother's at Poughkeepsie. They were of English descent, and their ancestors crossed. the ocean far back in Colonial times and settled in Connecticut and there multiplied and their descendants moved West from time to time as the savages were driven farther toward. the Pacific Ocean. The parents of Leon H. were united in marriage at Albany, New York, in 1851, and two years later, or about the year 1853, Henry C., having secured a contract to construct a section of the new Louisville and Nashville Railroad, moved with his wife to near Hardin, Kentucky, where they remained HISTORY OF OHIO - 95 until the contract was completed, when they moved to the vicinity of Seymour, Indiana. This experience in railroad construction was really an innovation on their contemplated occupation for the future, but was accepted because it promised a satisfactory remuneration which was wanted at the time. When they settled down in Indiana, Mr. Hawley at spare times, took up the study of medicine and soon prepared himself for the practice. In 1900, owing to the ill health of his wife, they went to Michigan to live, and there Doctor Hawley continued practice with excellent results. He was in reality a pioneer physician in that section of the state. He became prominent in other walks of life then the practice of medicine. He held many local official positions with credit and even distinction, and became widely known as an active and public spirited citizen. While residing in Michigan his wife was called by death in 1886. He continued practice there, both medical and surgical, until he attained the age of seventy-three years, when he went to Seattle, Washington, on a visit to his two sons and a daughter. While there he was taken sick and died in 1906. His whole life was filled with activity and was a blessing to the community where he lived. His son Leon H., the subject of this message, was treated properly during his youthful days and grew up to a vigorous and enjoyable manhood. He was given a thorough education in the public schools, and was finally graduated with high credit from the local high school. He then at once secured a certificate to teach, and followed that occupation for seven years, in the meantime attending the normal school for two years and thus perfecting himself for that occupation. He then taught in the same high school where he was graduated, a distinction which proved his fitness and capacity as an instructor of youthful minds. While engaged in teaching he concluded to change his occupation, and connected himself with a local newspaper and learned the printing business and all its accompanying arts and abstractions. During this period he was busy at odd times in various cities of Michigan perfecting his knowledge of the newspaper business. In 1899 he went to Chicago, and there worked at the printer's trade and at the same time was solicitor for various printing establishments. He finally came to Lorain, Ohio, where he became the manger of the Times Printing Company, but in 1903 the company sold out, whereupon he became connected with the Modern Printing Company and was thus engaged until 1905, when he was appointed city mail carrier and was thus busily engaged until 1916. He then changed his occupation and engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and continued the same with success until 1921, when, with others, he organized the Lorain Automobile Club. He was afterward secretary of the organization until September 15, 1923, when he resigned, and is now in the real estate and insurance business at 1932 Broadway. In 1888 he married Miss Inez Alexander at Newaygo, Michigan, and they had the following children: Clyde J., of Lorain; Grace, now Mrs. Baylis Healey, of Ironwood, Wisconsin; Vera, now Mrs. Forest Haines, of Muskegon, Michigan; and Dale of Ironwood, Wisconsin. His wife died in 1902, and the following year he married Oga Rensimer who is a native of Wisconsin. She has presented him with the following children: Leon S. and Dorothy M. Mr. Hawley is a republican. He was elected councilman at large and took the office January 1, 1923. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Letter Carriers Association, of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the National Motors Association and others. He has been particularly active as a Pythian in the Holman Lodge of Lorain. This lodge now owns property valued at $60,000 and is called the Pythian Temple Company, with a three-story building and a lot worth $10,000. Mr. Hawley did much to advance this great concern, and is now chairman of the finance committee. THEODORE WALKER, the efficient and popular chief of the police department of the City of Lorain, metropolis of Lorain County, was born in Knox County, Ohio, April 17, 1875, and is a son of Alexander and Margaretta (Gault) Walker, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Muskingum County, Ohio. After their marriage the parents established their home on a farm in Knox County, where the father became a successful exponent of agricultural and live-stock enterprise. It was on this farm that Lorain's popular chief of police was born and reared, his early education having been received in the public schools of his native county, where he continued his alliance with farm enterprise until his marriage, when he was twenty-three years of age. After his marriage, in 1898, he was for two years engaged in farm enterprise in Richland County, and thereafter he devoted several years to work at the carpenter 's trade in Knox County. In 1905 he removed with his family to Lorain, and after having here continued in the work of the carpenter 's trade about three years lie became a patrolman in the city police department, a position to which he was appointed October 14, 1908. In 1915 he won promotion to the office of police sergeant, and in this position he continued his service until 1918, when he was advanced to the rank of lieutenant. For nine months he was acting chief of police, the regular incumbent having been suspended and having resigned soon after his reinstatement, with the result that Lieutenant Walker was chosen chief of the department January 1, 1922, his distinct eligibility having been proved in his previous service and his able administration since that time having fully justified his selection for this important office. The Chief is found aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party, and is a popular member of Lorain Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. September 8, 1898, recorded the marriage of Chief Walker and Miss Zona Steele, who was born and reared in Richland County, a daughter of Edwin and Mary (Hendrickson) Steele. The children of this union are three in number: Frederick C. is serving in the cavalry arm of the United States Army; and Howard C. and Theodore C. remain at the parental home. HARRY D. FREEMAN, who is head of the Freeman-Neff Company, one of the most important organizations engaged in real estate improvement and development in Columbus, has been associated with that city 's commercial life for a number of years, and is a son of one of Columbus old time manufacturers and civic leaders, Col. George D. Freeman. The late Colonel Freeman was a lifelong resident of Franklin County, Ohio. He was born at Ovid in that county, August 11, 1842, and died at his home in Columbus May 11, 1911. His grandfather, William Freeman, was a soldier of the Revolution, and the family struggled in the Northeastern States in Colonial times. George D. Freeman was a son of Usual W. and Margaret (Christy) Freeman, who came from New Jersey to Ohio in 1833. Usual Freeman was a member of the New York Militia in the War of 1812. Subsequently he was assistant engineer for the City of New York during the platting of the part of the city north of Canal Street. When George D. Freeman was six years of age his father died, and five years later he had to assume 96 - HISTORY OF OHIO the burden of supporting himself and his mother. His early education was therefore limited, and subsequently he made up his deficiencies by attending night school. During the '50s Nelson H. Van Vorhees, the speaker of the first republican Legislature of Ohio, appointed him a page in the House of Representatives, and he served during the last session held at Odean Hall and the first in the modern capitol. After this experience he became a clerk in the dry goods house of Headly & Elerly, in 1866 was admitted as junior partner, and subsequently, as senior member of Freeman, Stanley & Norton, succeeded to the business of Headly and Elerly. On withdrawing from this business Colonel Freeman in 1880 entered the furniture business, and for several years was head of the firm Freeman, Halm & McAllister. Later he founded one of the important industries of Columbus, the Freeman Manufacturing Company, a concern that manufactured mantels and other interior furnishings. Colonel Freeman was not only a very successful business man, but had a prominent part in the Ohio National Guard and at one time was president of the famous Republican Glee Club of Columbus. While interested in party politics, he never held a political office. When the State Militia became the Ohio National Guard in 1878, he yielded to an urgent request to become colonel of the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard. In that capacity he served thirteen years and did much to give the regiment its well justified reputation. He was on active duty several times, and his abilities as a commanding officer were prominently displayed on the occasion of the Cincinnati riots. He resigned in 1890. At the beginning of the Spanish-American war he was appointed acting assistant quartermaster-general and helped establish Camp Bushnell to equip the Ohio troops for the front. For several years afterward he was superintendent of the State Arsenal. For a number of years he was a member of the County Board of Agriculture, and was instrumental in establishing Franklin Park in Columbus. Colonel Freeman married Miss Julia A. Diemer, October 31, 1865. She was born near Grove City in Franklin County, about eight miles from Columbus, daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth (Cook) Diemer. She is still vigorous mentally and physically, and has many interesting recollections of important events in the history of Columbus. Her memory runs back to the time of the Lincoln campaign of 1860. Colonel and Mrs. Freeman had four children, Harry D., Stanton S., George D. and Julia E. The son, George D. Freeman, had a notable service in the United States Army. He volunteered at the time of the Spanish-American war, and went with the old Fourteenth Ohio to Porto Rico in the summer of 1898. Subsequently he graduated from Ohio State University, where he was major of cadets, and then joined the Regular Army. He was promoted from time to time and now holds the rank of colonel. He is an assigned officer of the Regular Army, commandant of cadets at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. The other son, Stanton S. Freeman, is a business man of New York City, associated with the Lake Champlain Iron and Ore Company. Harry D. Freeman, who was born in Columbus, was educated in the grammar and high schools of that city, attended a business college in Cleveland, and after completing his education was associated with his father for a number of years in the Freeman Manufacturing Company. Following that for several years he was with the Columbus Bicycle Company. Since then his time has been successfully employed in the real estate and building business. He established the Ohio Realty and Construction Company, and out of that has come the present Freeman-Neff Realty Company. They have specialized real estate development. One of their large a successful operations is at Buckeye Lake, where they who have developed Harbor Hills, a community of homes. Harry D. Freeman married Miss Frances K. Otto of Columbus. He is a member of the Athletic Club is a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk a republican. WILLIAM L. FLETCHER, who for one year held the office of service director in connection with the municipal government of Lorain, the important lake port city and metropolis of Lorain County, was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, May 13, 1869, a son of William D. and Rachel C. (Lockwood) Fletcher, the former of whom was born in Erie County, Ohio, and the latter in Wexford County, Michigan. The Fletcher family is of English lineage and has been established in the United States for many generations. William D. Fletcher was only forty years of age at the time of his death, and had been a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower near Norwalk, Huron County. His widow remained on the old home farm, of eighty acres, for a number of years death, and she too is now deceased. Of the two children the subject of this sketch is the elder, the younger son, Anson, having died in childhood. After his high-school course in Norwalk William L. Fletcher took a commercial course in Oberlin College. As a youth he became a skilled telegraph operator, and as such was employed four years by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. He then rejoined his mother on the old home farm, to the management of which he continued to give his attention until his marriage, in 1889. He then purchased a farm near Norwalk, and after continuing successfully the enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower during an interval of six years he accepted a position as conductor on the line of the Lake Shore Electric Railroad, for which he later became the general agent at Norwalk. In 1915 he removed to Lorain and found employment as a machinist in the electrical department of the shipyards, with which he continued his connection until 1920, when he became a salesman for Lorain City Mills. In this capacity he continued his service until his affective appointment to municipal office, that of service director. Mr. Fletcher is independent in politics, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum. On the 9th of March, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Anna C. Dipple who was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenner) Dipple. Mr. Dipple was born in Germany, came to the United States when young and eventually became an extensive farmer and fruit-grower in Huron County, Ohio, where also he conducted a dairy enterprise and was a successful raiser of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have one son and one daughter : Rachel is the wife of R. H. Slater, of Lorain, and they have one daughter, Joan; Homer, who likewise resides at Lorain, married Miss Frances Geiger, and they have one child, Rosamond. J. CLAYTON STANDEN is one of the leading exponents of the real estate and insurance business in the City of Lorain, and is serving as city auditor. He is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Lorain County, where his venerable father, John Standen, was born in the year 1842, and were he still maintains his home though he now passes a part of each successive year in the South. He is a HISTORY OF OHIO - 97 son of John and Carrie Standen, who likewise were born in Lorain County, the respective families having here been founded in the early pioneer days. John Standen, father of the subject of this sketch, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, and in his native county he continued his active and successful association with farm enterprise until 1907, when he retired. His wife, whose maiden name was Carrie Eno, was born at Blissfield, Michigan, and her death occurred in 1912. The public schools of Lorain County afforded J. Clayton Standen his early education, which included the curriculum of the high school, and at the age of twenty years he engaged in the cigar and tobacco business in Lorain. He continued in this line of enterprise until 1916, when he sold out and turned his attention to the real estate and insurance business, in which he is associated with F. A. Sanford, the firm having developed a substantial and important business. From 1914 to 1917 Mr. Standen served as treasurer of Black River Township, and the interval of 1918-21 marked his service as city treasurer of Lorain, where he has held since 1922 the office of city auditor. He is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party, is a member of the local Kiwanis Club and the Lorain County Automobile Club, is affiliated with the four York Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, as well as the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, including the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city, and in the sunday school of the same he is president of the men's class. September 10, 1911, recorded the marriage of Mr. Standen and Miss Nettie Fowl, daughter of Charles and Anna (Trinter) Fowl, of Elyria, and the two children of this union are Dorothy and Charles. REV. ANDREW A. RADECKI is pastor of the Church of The Nativity at Lorain, and has been the beloved head of the Polish Catholics of that community for over twelve years. Lorain received its first important quota of Polish people in 1895, and church services were held there beginning in 1898. The first permanent pastor was Rev. Charles Ruszkowski, who took up his duties in June, 1898, and remained there nearly fifteen years. Under his administration and ground was purchased and a two-story frame church and school building was completed in 1900. After a brief pastorate by Rev. Thomas Wilk, who resigned on account of ill health, Rev. Andrew A. Radecki entered upon his duties at the Church of The Nativity July 4, 1912. Father Radecki has been a progressive leader of his people, and many important improvements have come about since he began his pastorate. A new church was built in 1915, and ground adjoining was purchased for a school site. The church debt was paid off four years after it was built, and then came a new modern school building, fireproof, with twelve class rooms and gymnasium. Father Radecki was born at Toledo, Ohio, October 15, 1886, son of William and Anna (Stefaniak) Radecki. His parents were natives of Poland and settled in Toledo in 1882. His mother is still living. There are ten surviving children. Andrew A. Radecki was educated in St. Hedwig parochial school at Toledo city, St. John's College in that city, St. Mary's College in Detroit and St. Mary's Seminary of Baltimore, Maryland. He holds the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts and Doctor of Sacred Theology from St. Mary's Seminary, and is a fluent linguist, having command of the Polish and the English and a number of relative tongues. Father Radecki was ordained a priest June 4, 1910, by the late Bishop Farrelly of Cleveland. From 1910 to 1912 he served as assistant priest at St. John's Cantius Parish in Cleveland, and then began his duties at Lorain. He is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and is chaplain of the Catholic Union of the United States, which has its headquarters in Cleveland. JOSEPH JAMESON, postmaster of Lorain, brought to his incumbency of that office the record of a successful business man and one of the community 's most active and public spirited citizens. Mr. Jameson has been a resident of Lorain about twenty years. He was born in Durham, Ontario, Canada, August 9, 1878, son of Anthony James and Etta (Rodgers) Jameson. His mother was a native of Buffalo, New York, and his father, of Northumberland County, England, and was two years of age when brought to America by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Jameson. Anthony James Jameson became a carriage builder, and from Canada removed to Detroit, Michigan, and subsequently conducted a carriage store at Bryan, Ohio, until his death in 1905. His wife died in 1904. Joseph Jameson was a small boy when his parents located at Bryan, Ohio, and he was educated in the grammar and high schools there and completed his course in pharmacy in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he graduated in 1900. After leaving college Mr. Jameson spent two years in a drug business at Toledo, and for four years managed a drug store at Tiffin, Ohio. On removing to Lorain he bought an interest in the Floding Drug Store, and a year later became sole proprietor. Since then he has owned several other drug establishments in the city. In 1911 he acquired by purchase the Rathbun Drug Store in South Lorain and in 1913 the Hambly 's Store. He also started a store in Opfer 's Department Store at Lorain, but sold it four years later. He subsequently sold his business at Broadway and Eighth streets. He now conducts two stores, one at South Lorain and the other the East Side Drug Store. Mr. Jameson married Miss Her= Scott in September, 1900. She was born at Bryan, Ohio, daughter of Robert Scott, a native of Williams County, Ohio. Her mother was a Miss Meeks, who was born at Wauseon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson have two children, Joan S. and Richard S. They are members of the Baptist Church. Along with building up a prosperous business Mr. Jameson has maintained an active cooperation in public affairs. For six years he was councilman at large of Lorain and two years president of the city council. He was appointed to the office of postmaster September 1, 1922. He is a republican, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Al Koran Temple of the Shrine at Cleveland and also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. HENRY W. WURST. The long and useful career of Henry W. Wurst of Elyria is an illustration of the success that can be achieved in America by a poor boy gifted with industry and a persistence that has carried him through all difficulties and adversities. Mr. Wurst was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, November 7, 1849. The following year his parents, Eckert and Elizabeth (May) Wurst, started for the United States, being seven weeks on the ocean in a sailing vessel. From New York they came to Amherst, Ohio. Eckert Wurst was a stone cutter by trade. His death in 1855 was the result of stone 98 - HISTORY OF OHIO cutter 's consumption. His widow subsequently married John Brell, a resident of Elyria, and she lived to the age of eighty-three, passing away in 1908. Henry W. Wurst was only six years old when his father died, and his education in the common schools ended at the age of eleven. He then left home, and going to Elyria was employed four years by Colonel Parks, under an agreement that he should receive board and clothes and at the expiration should have five dollars in cash. Instead he accepted a hive of honey bees, but they soon deserted after he got them home. Then followed employment by different people and in various lines of work and at the same time he was studying and also attended high school for one term. The beginning of his commercial career was as an employe in the general store of Baldwin Laundon & Nelson, at $75 a year and board. Five years later the firm sold out to Hannah & Obitts, and under the new firm Mr. Wurst was given charge of the grocery department. In the meantime he had bought a home on. Second Street for $1,500 and had paid $600 down.. In order to get into business for himself he mortgaged his home and bought the grocery department, and continued as an independent merchant in the grocery business for fourteen years. He prospered, and on selling out he went to Chicago and during the World's Fair of 1893 conducted two hotels in that city. In the spring of 1894 Mr. Wurst returned to Elyria and bought forty-one acres on the East Side, but within the city limits. For two years he farmed this property. Then, in 1896, he formed a company known as the Lake Erie Electric Light Company and built an electric power plant at Lorain, securing the contract for the electric lighting of the National Tube Company's plant. In 1900 Mr. Wurst sold his fifty-one per cent of the stock in this company, and then returning to Elyria, platted his land and put it on the market as a subdivision. Altogether he built 165 houses in Lorain and Elyria, and also erected with J. C. Hill and W. G. Sharp the Lorain Block, was interested in the construction of the Kent Building and several others. He purchased a hardware store, with building, and bought the old Central Bank Building on Broadway at Lorain, and in 1886 built the Wurst Building on Broad Street in Elyria. He and Mr. William Heldemyer erected the Elyria Block, but he subsequently sold his interest in that property. At the present time he owns the Wurst Building, his residence at 638 Broad Street, a residence on East River Street, and a part of his mother 's old homestead. He built three theatres, two in Lorain and one in Elyria, and conducted all of them for a time and still owns the Dreamland in Elyria. Mr. Wurst is a director of the Elyria Savings and Deposit Bank & Trust Company, is a stockholder in all the other Elyria banks and in the Central Bank of Lorain. He is now practically retired from business. During his many years as an American citizen he has voted the republican ticket, is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife attend the Congregational Church. On November 27, 1871, he married Miss Ella J. Robson, who was born at Ridgeville, Ohio, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thong) Robson. Her parents were natives of England. Mr. Wurst's first wife died January 28, 1921, the mother of three children: Earl H., of Cleveland; Charles J., of Los Angeles, California, and Ralph, who died when nine months old. On December 14, 1922, Mr. Wurst married Mrs. Anna G. Glendenning Standen, who was born at Cleveland, Ohio, December 22, 1864, daughter of Walter and Susan (Chute) Glendenning. Her parents were natives of Canada. Mrs. Wurst’s first husband was Charles Standen, and by this marriage there were three children, Ralph G. And Joshua B., both of Cleveland, and Susan Leslee, who died when fifteen months old. Mrs. Wurst was educated in the grammar and high schools of Dover, Ohio, and later in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. JAMES F. STRENICK, judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Lorain, began the practice of law more than twenty years ago, and has carried many responsibilities both in private practice and the public, life in that community. Mr. Strenick was born at West Salem, in Wayne County, Ohio, July 5, 1874, son of James and Amanda Jane (Royer) Strenick. James Strenick was born in Ireland, in 1836, son of Robert and Ann (Smith) Strenick, and grandson of a native of Scotland. Robert Strenick brought his family to America and settled at London, Canada, where he engaged in farming. After his death his widow came to Ohio and lived with her son at West Salem. James Strenick as a young man went to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and assisted in the building of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroads, now part of the Erie Railroad system. He continued in the service of this railroad as section foreman in Ashland County two years, and was then transferred to West Salem, where he remained in the service as a section foreman for a number of years. He died Feb 7, 1923, and his wife, on November 18, 1909. Judge James F. Strenick was reared in West Salem, attended the grammar and high schools of that city, and largely on his own initiative and by his own earnings realized his ambitions to become a lawyer, graduating in June, 1903, from the law department of the University of Michigan. Judge Strenick began practice at Lorain July 21, 1903, and gave most of his time to his private clientage until he went on the bench. He has held a number of offices. He was township treasurer from 1908 to 1911, and in 1908-09 was assistant city solicitor of Lorain. On May 1, 1911, he was elected justice of peace of Black River Township, and held that office until January 1, 1922. At the latter date he took the office of judge of the municipal court. Judge Strenick is a republican, and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Royal Arch and Council Degree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Elks and the Lorain County Automobile Club. Judge Strenick married Miss Arline Mellen on August 29, 1896. She was born at Angola, Indiana, daughter of Charles A. and Charlotte (Sanders) Mellen, her father a native of Ohio and her mother of Indiana. Judge and Mrs. Strenick have one daughter, Helen, now living with her parents, the widow of Charles A. Wright. Mrs. Wright has a daughter, Patricia Ann. HERMAN ESSIG. For over a quarter of a century the citizens of Lorain have learned to appreciate and demand the high grade bakery products made in the shops of Herman Essig. Herman Essig is a master baker, one of the ablest men in his profession, and is still active in business, proprietor of one the of most modern baking plants in Northern Ohio. He was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, in December, 1863. His parents lived and died in Germany. Up to the age of fourteen he attended the common Volk schools of Germany, and then began his apprenticeship at the baker's trade. He learned it thoroughly, and in 1882, as a youth of nineteen came HISTORY OF OHIO - 99 to America and for a time was a journeyman worker in Cleveland. In 1892 he opened a shop of his own at Oberlin, and after two and one-half years there sold out and came to Lorain, which has been his home city and business headquarters ever since. His first shop here was at the corner of Eighteenth and Broadway. A year and one-half later he moved to Twenty-second and Oakdale, buying property and erecting a new plant. This was the home of the Essig bakery products until October, 1919. At that time Mr. Essig sold his business, and believed that he was ready to retire and look after his private interests. Eventually he made up his mind that he would be happiest in his old line of work, and accordingly, in April, 1922, he started the erection of a complete new building, 25x134 feet and two stories at 726 Broadway. In this he opened his bakery establishment December 14, 1922, and his plant is the last word in sanitary and working efficiency. He employs three bakers and operates three wagons in delivering his wholesome product to the trade. Mr. Essig also owns a fine home just outside the city limits, on East Erie Avenue. In November, 1891, he married Miss Barbara Cushman, a native of Cleveland, and daughter of Charles and Christina Cushman. Her parents were born in Germany. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Essig are: Louisa, wife of Joseph Kalenek, of Lorain; Herman and Ray, partners in their father's business; Jay, twin brother of Ray, and a resident of Cleveland; Elmer, of Lorain ; George and Margaret. Mr. Essig and family are members of the Evangelical Church. He is independent in politics and fraternally is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. EDWARD KIEFER is one of the prominent men in musical circles in Northern Ohio. For many years he has been a teacher, orchestral and band leader, and is director of one of the finest military bands in the state, known as Kiefer 's Band, an organization of forty pieces, at Lorain. Mr. Kiefer, whose home has been at Lorain for many years, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1889, son of Henry and Susanna (Sehring) Kiefer. His parents are natives of Germany and came to the United States in 1878. Edward Kiefer acquired a public school education at Lorain, and early exhibited musical talent that was first trained by local teachers. He studied violin under C. V. Rychlik, and for a number of years has been a noted virtuoso himself. He began the teaching of violin in 1905, and his range of instruction has since been broadened to all orchestral and band instruments. In 1921 he finished a course in band mastership at the F. M. Innes School of Denver, Colorado. On May 10, 1913, Mr. Kiefer married Miss Edna Zimmerman, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and daughter of Adolph and Elizabeth (Meyers) Zimmerman. He and his wife have one daughter, Elizabeth, born September 6, 1916. When Mr. Kiefer took charge of the Lorain City Band as its manager and director the name of the band was changed to Kiefer 's Band. During the years since 1908 he has also been choir director and in charge of the music in St. John's Evangelical Church, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and the United Brethren Church at Lorain. He has also been a director of orchestras, and has conducted several large choruses. He is a member of et. John's Evangelical Church. Mr. Kiefer is independent in politics. He is a Knight Templar Mason and member of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 1301. J. FORD THOMPSON, funeral director at Lorain, has given many years of study and practice to his profession, and for a number of years before coming to Lorain, was with a leading undertaking firm at Cleveland. He was born at Akron, Ohio, October 11, 1878, son of George and Mary (McBurney) Thompson, his father a native of Canal Fulton, Ohio, and his mother of New York State. His grandfather, Thomas Thompson, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and married a girl from Maine. He was an early settler of Ohio. George Thompson married his wife in Akron, and spent his last days in Cleveland, where he died in 1920. He was a machinist by trade. His wife passed away in 1916. J. Ford Thompson acquired a grammar and high school education in Akron and Cleveland, and when he was eighteen years of age he went to work for father, who was then master mechanic of the Cleveland Worsted Mills. He had three years of training as a machinist, but then chose another occupation and for eleven years he worked in all branches of the undertaking business at Cleveland. For a year and one-half he was with the firm J. H. Brown & Son, undertakers. Leaving there he came to Lorain, and for three years was employed by the pioneer funeral director of this city, George Wickens. On April 15, 1915, he engaged in business for himself under the title of J. Ford Thompson Funeral Home, at 319 Fourth Street. He was located there about three years and then bought and moved his business headquarters to a fine old home at 214 Sixth Street. In this new location he has greatly improved and amplified his service as a funeral director. Mr. Thompson is a member of the National Funeral Directors, Association. He is a republican in politics, and in 1922 was republican candidate for sheriff of Lorain County. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is Royal Vizier of its social order, the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, is a member of Lorain Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 343, the Knights of Malta, Loyal Order of Moose, Kiwanis Club and Lorain Automobile Club. June 19, 1906, Mr. Thompson married Miss Flora Morris, who was born at Peninsula, Ohio, daughter of Edward Morris, also a native of Peninsula, and Mary (Hayne) Morris, his wife, who was born in Bath, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have three daughters, Lois, Eunice and Arline. The family are members of the Church of Christ. WILLARD A. SANDS. That the inspiration of band music, under able leadership, is a momentous factor in battle winning, is recognized by military experts. While in times of peace band music is always enthusiastically accepted by every populace for its inspiring message of cheer and elation, it is in times of war that its influence may become stupendous. What heroic member of the famous Rainbow Division that took so notable a part in the World war will ever forget the cheer, the buoyancy, the hope, that swept over their wearied ranks when the justly celebrated Fourth Ohio Infantry Band led them across the fields of France, giving courage for the performance of deeds of valor that can never be surpassed. The leader of this band during the World war and for many years previously has becn a resident of Columbus during the greater part of his life, Willard A. Sands, now active in business affairs as president and manager of the Ohio Bureau of Credits of this city. Willard A. Sands was born at Morganville, Morgan County, Ohio, in 1868, a son of Miles and Elizabeth (Horseman) Sands. He was eight years