HISTORY OF OHIO - 125 Common Pleas Court, was elected for a term of three years, and in 1895 was again elected. In this election he received the largest majority ever given to a candidate in Butler County, this being attributed not only to the systematic efficiency with which he had conducted his office, but also to his supreme personal popularity. In November, 1900, he was elected county auditor, beginning the duties of that office October, 21, 1901. He was reelected in November, 1903, and in 1907 was elected for a two year term as a member of the Board of Public Service. Governor Judson Harmon in 1910 appointed Mr. Pabst a member of the State Tax Commission for a term of three years. He was reappointed in 1914 by Governor James M. Cox. He rendered valuable service to all the interests of the state while on the tax commission, but in 1915 he resigned to devote himself to his private business. He was laid to rest in Hamilton 's Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Pabst was also a leader in giving Hamilton a splendid system of public schools, and in 1881 became one of the trustees of the Lane Free Library, and served in that capacity a number of years. He was affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and other organizations, and was a member of the German Evangelical Church. April 15, 1896, Mr. Pabst married Miss Katherine A. Gerlach, daughter of Peter Gerlach, of Cleveland. They are the parents of three sons: Robert P. and Warren J., twins, born November 12, 1898 ; and Herbert G., born March 15, 1901. The son Warren graduated in the Engineering School at the University of Cincinnati in June, 1923, and now fills his father 's place in the Pabst Bottling Company. Robert P. graduated from Antioch College in June, 1923. The son Herbert G. is a student in Cincinnati University. CHARLES I. KEELY, D. D. S., president of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, is one of the most distinguished men in his profession in the state and the country. His father was a pioneer Ohio dentist, and no name has been more prominently identified with the profession than Keely. The Ohio College of Dental Surgery was chartered in 1845, and is the oldest college of dental surgery in the United States. Dr. Charles I. Keely was born at Oxford, in Butler County, Ohio, November 13, 1853, son of Dr. George W. and Susanna Keely. He was educated in the public schools of Butler County, attended school at Brookville, Indiana, and finished his literary education in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He was graduated from the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati in 1876, and then remained there two years as a demonstrator. In 1879 he engaged in private practice at Oxford, and in the following year moved to Hamilton, where for over forty years he has looked after an extensive private practice and still maintains his offices. He is best known in his profession, however, through his work as an educator and instructor. He formerly occupied the chair of Orthodontia in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, and has been president of the Board of Trustees ,of the school for many years. the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, and is affiliated with Cincinnati University. He served over twenty years as treasurer and one year as president of the Ohio Dental Association, and is a member of the National Dental Association and the Ohio State Dental Society. He is a republican in politics, though ever active in the party. January 14, 1885, Doctor Keely married Miss Ella Rhodehamel, daughter of Samuel and Priscillia Rhodehamel, of Piqua, Ohio. Two children were born to their marriage, Wells and Priscillia. Wells died in 1909. RAY SHIPMAN was educated for the law, but has used his professional training solely in his business career as a real estate operator. He is president of the Ray Shipman Company, one of the most important real estate organizations in Butler County. Mr. Shipman was born at St. Marys, Ohio, September 17, 1888, son of John N. and Anna Louise (Haas) Shipman. His father was an Ohio farmer. Ray Shipman was educated in the high school of his native town, and in 1911 graduated from the Detroit Law College and was admitted to the Michigan bar the same year. Soon afterward moving to Hamilton, Ohio, he has since been active in the real estate business, his service in that line covering a period of thirteen years. In 1919 he organized the Lienbach, Humphrey, Shipman Company, and in 1920 organized as its successor the Ray Shipman Company, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. Mr. Shipman is president of the company, E. J. Fretchling, vice president; Herbert Miller, treasurer ; Paul Shuler, secretary, and these executives, together with F. K. Vaughn, constitute the Board of Directors. The company with its own capital and also on a brokerage basis does a general real estate business. Its home building department has a notable record, having erected ninety-one homes and put on the Lincoln Park subdivision of 170 lots and the Lawn Park addition of forty-two lots. In 1922 Mr. Shipman organized the Valley Mortgage Company for the purpose of financing home building. It is capitalized at $500,000. The officers and directors are the following : S. M. Goodman, president and director ; F. K. Vaughn, vice president and director ; Herbert J. Miller, secretary and director ; Guy C. Mitchell, treasurer and director ; John M. Beeler, Brandon Millikin, John F. Neilen, Calvin Gurr, E. J. Fretchling, Ray Shipman, L. T. Palmer, L. E. Marshall, Leonard H. Shipman and Herman Kutter, directors. Mr. Shipman is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason, is a member of the Elks, the Rotary Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, and is a director of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. He and Mrs. Shipman attend the Christian Science Church. He married Meta Budzien, of Milwaukee, June 7, 1914. She is a daughter of Gustav and Wilhelmina Budzien, and was educated in high school and the Milwaukee Art College. She is an active member of the Woman 's City Club of Hamilton. CHARLES ALONZO BROWN, of Woodsfield, is a member of a family long and prominently known in Southeastern Ohio. His career has identified him with the railroad service and banking, and he is now vice president and cashier of the First National Bank of Woodsfield. He was born on a farm in Malaga, Township of Monroe County, July 12, 1882, son of David L. and Alvina (Kinney) Brown. His father died at the age of 'eighty-two, and his mother is still living, aged eighty. David L. Brown was widely known for his enterprising record as a farmer and stock man in Monroe County, being the first to import pure bred Shorthorn cattle into this section of Ohio. He exhibited his stock at fairs and sold and shipped them all over the state. He also held various local offices, and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He had lived retired in his home at Woods-field from 1910. The youngest of four children, Charles Alonzo Brown, spent his early years on a farm, attended country schools, and his first experience in commercial lines was clerking in a drug store at Woodsfield for one year. Learning telegraphy, he did some work in that line, but from 1902 to 1909 was teller 126 - HISTORY OF OHIO and bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Woodsfield. For two years of that time he was also purchasing agent for the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, and in March, 1909, became auditor of the Ohio River & Western Railroad. When this road was acquired by the Pennsylvania System in 1912 he continued with it, and in January, 1917, was made special agent in the comptroller 's office of the Pennsylvania System at Pittsburgh on lines west of Pittsburgh. In 1918 he was made credit manager of the lines west of Pittsburgh. Giving up his railroad work, Mr. Brown returned to Woodsfield January 1, 1920, to become cashier of the First National Bank. Since January 1, 1923, he has had the additional duties of vice president of that bank. This is one of the leading banks of Southeastern Ohio, with resources of over one million dollars. Its four-story building would be a credit to a city of 50,000. The upper floors of the building are used by the Masonic Club and as Masonic lodge rooms. Harry E. Stewart is president of the bank, with Mr. Brown as the active officer in charge of the executive details. Mr. Brown organized and became the first president of the Woodsfield Kiwanis Club in June, 1923. His hobby is community cooperation and development, and he has helped in the program of uniting the agricultural, commercial and financial interests of the county into a harmonious unity. He teaches a boys' class in the Methodist Sunday School, and is president of the Boy Scouts of Monroe County. Mr. Brown is well read in a wide range of subjects from history to fiction, and he is much interested in sociology, politics and science. He is a member of the Masonic Club, Woodsfield Lodge No. 189, Free and Accepted Masons; Woodsfield Lodge No. 338, Knights of Pythias ; Woodsfield Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Eastern Star Chapter. Mr. Brown married at Pittsburgh in 1905, Miss Anna M. Hayes, daughter of Charles Asa and Sarah (Daniel) Hayes. Her mother is now deceased. Her father is a retired farmer at Beallsville, Ohio. He is a veteran of the Civil war and active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of the Church of Christ. He is a republican, and a past master of Beallsville Lodge of Masons and active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one son, Charles Asa Brown. DANIEL WYER LOWE, M. D. For over twenty years Doctor Lowe has been accounted one of the ablest members of the medical profession in Monroe County, and has also been a well known turfman and a leader in agricultural and civic affairs. He was born on a farm in Center Township of Monroe County, May 19, 1875. His father, James Lowe, a native of Belmont County, Ohio; came to Monroe County when a young man, and was a farmer in Wayne Township. He enlisted and served four years as a Union soldier with the Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, and when the war was over engaged in farming in Center Township of Monroe County. He was very progressive in his farming methods. His long continued habit of reading made him familiar with everything connected with country life and agriculture, and also ancient and modern history. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His last years were spent retired at Barnesville, where he died at the age of eighty, in May, 1907. 'His wife, Nancy Dougherty, was born in Monroe County, where he parents were pioneer settlers of Wayne Township. She died at the age of eighty-five, in 1917. Dr. Daniel W. Lowe grew up in a home in the country, being the youngest in a family of six children, and while attending the country schools made the resolution to become a physician. He taught country schools, and while teaching, read medicine under Dr. J. M. Keesor at Antioch. Then, on his own resources and by his individual efforts, he put himself through Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine April 16, 1901. Doctor Lowe in the same year began practice at Antioch. He did advanced work in the Post Graduate School of Medicine at Chicago, and continued his work at Antioch until 1914, when he removed to Woodsfield. His large general practice in medicine and surgery covers not only Monroe County, but the adjoining counties of Noble, Belmont and Washington. He is a member of the Monroe County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Lowe is interested in oil production in Southeastern Ohio. He is vice president of the Monroe County Agricultural Society, and served as a member of the Woodsfield City Council in 1921-23. For several years he has owned a stable of fine horses, and has a string of racers that have exhibited their powers at all the tracks over Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. He also takes recreation in hunting and fishing and is a lover of fine dogs. Doctor Lowe is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Lodge No. 419 of the Elks at Bellaire, the Knights of the Maccabees, is a republican and a member of St. Sylvester 's Catholic Church at Woodsfield. He married at Columbus in 1903, Miss Mary S. Dornbusch, who was born and reared at Antioch. Her father, the late William Dornbusch, was a merchant at Antioch. Doctor and Mrs. Lowe have one son, Charles Warren Lowe. WALTER BURNS MOORE, after earning his own way while in college and receiving admission to the bar in 1911, has rapidly made his way to the front in the legal profession in Monroe County, and is regarded as one of the ablest trial attorneys at Woodsfield. He has well established professional, business and civic connections there. He was born on a farm in Malaga Township, Monroe County, February 1, 1887, son of Matthew and Sarah J. (Dickey) Moore, his father a native of Summit Township in Monroe County, while his mother was born in Marshall County, West Virginia. Matthew Moore was a farmer and sheep raiser, a democrat in politics and a member of the Presbyterian Church, and when he died at the age of sixty-six, in 1904, was living retired at the Village of Jerusalem, where his widow still resides. Walter Burns Moore, the youngest of six children, attended country schools until he was sixteen, and finished his public school work at Jerusalem. For two terms he taught in country schools and then in the Woodsfield High School. His law studies were begun in the offices of Jeffers, Moore and De Vaul, the senior member of the firm being his older brother, W. E. Moore. From these offices he entered the Ohio Northern University Law School, and graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1911. After being admitted to the bar Mr. Moore engaged in practice at Bellaire, but in 1913 returned to Woodsfield. He became an associate of the law firm Jeffers, Moore and De Vaul, and since 1918 has been the trial attorney for this firm. Since 1921 the firm has been Moore, De Vaul and Moore, the members of which are W. E. Moore, Hon. J. G. De Vaul and W. B. Moore. While handling a general practice, most of the business of the firm is corporation law, representing oil and gas companies. Mr. Moore is an active democrat in politics. From January 1, 1919, to 1923 he served as prosecuting attorney of Monroe County, and was a member of the Legal Advisory Board during the World war. HISTORY OF OHIO - 127 He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, is past grand of Woodsfield Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and past chancellor of Woodsfield Lodge No. 338, Knights of Pythias. He is a former superintendent of the Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church. At Jerusalem, Ohio, in August, 1910, Mr. Moore married Miss Norma L. Gatchell, who was born and reared there, daughter of William R. and Adda A. (Gibbins) Gatchell. Her parents were born and reared in Monroe County. Her father for many years was a merchant at Jerusalem, and is now living retired on a small farm near there. He is a republican and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Moore takes a very active interest in church matters. They have four children, named Vivian Rebecca, Margaret Adda, Walter Burns and Robert Gatchell. FRANK HENRY WARD is a civil engineer by profession, is former county surveyor and a prominent factor in the good roads program of Monroe County, and now gives most of his time to his business as an oil producer. He was born at Clarington in Monroe County, January 8, 1885, son of Henry and Mary (Hugi) Ward. His father was born in Monroe County, where the grandparents settled on coming from Pennsylvania. Henry Ward spent his early years on river steamboats, and then engaged in buying, selling and shipping live stock and farming near Clarington. He was a member of the Church of Christ, and he died in 1889, at the early age of thirty-six. The widowed mother, now seventy years of age, was born in Switzerland Township of Monroe County. Frank Henry Ward grew up on a farm, attended country schools, and at the age of eleven was working as a farm hand at wages of four dollars a month. When he was eighteen he learned the trade of carpenter. As a journeyman carpenter he had a great deal of travel experience, covering twenty-three states of the Union. For a time he was a carpenter during the construction of the steel trust 's marble city of Gary, Indiana. Finally returning to Monroe County, he completed a course in the Marietta Business College and the normal school of the county, and for two terms taught in his home district. While teaching he completed a course in civil engineering with the International Correspondence School, and also did special work in road and bridge building in the engineering department of Ohio Northern University at Ada. In 1914 Mr. Ward was elected county surveyor of Monroe County, and was reelected in 1916, resigning the office during 1917. While county surveyor he was chiefly responsible for the planning and construction of the paved roads between Barnesville and Woodsfield. Since resigning his office he has devoted his attention to the oil industry. He has been more or less closely associated with the oil business ever since he was a boy. He is senior member of the firm Ward & Cooper, oil producers, and is treasurer of the Keener Drilling Company, oil drillers, well known through the petroleum district of Ohio and West Virginia. Mr. Ward in 1922 was elected to represent Monroe County in the Ohio State Legislature, serving for the term of 1923-24. He is a democrat, and a member of Woodsfield Lodge No. 189 of the Masonic Order, and belongs to the Royal Arch and Council degrees at Barnesville. He is a member of the Church of Christ. During the World war he represented the United States Fuel Administration of Monroe County and was one of the organizers of the Monroe County Good Roads Federation. He married at Woodsfield, July 3, 1915, Miss Clara M. Keyser, daughter of John M. Keyser, of Woodsfield, formerly a deputy sheriff and city marshal, and now custodian of the high school building. Mr. and Mrs. Ward have four children, named Ethel Elaine, John Pershing, Frank Mont and Elmer Orton. HENRY JANSER has given Columbus one of the most distinctive organizations of its kind in Ohio, a complete service for artistic work in decorating, a service exemplified in some of the finest theatres, churches and hotels and other public buildings in Columbus. Mr. Janser, president of the Henry Janser Decorating Company, was born in Cologne, Germany, in August, 1876. He was reared in that city on the Rhine, attended school there, and began the study of art. His uncle was a master painter and decorator, and Henry. Janser had a practical training and apprenticeship under the elder Janser. Following that he spent four years in the Munich Art School, and then remained in that city working as a decorator for thirteen years. Mr. Janser has been a citizen of the United States since 1909. For three years he was in New York City, employed as a decorator with some of the largest firms there. In 1912 he came to Columbus and established the Henry Janser Decorating Company. His artistic experience and taste and executive ability have been responsible for making this a leading concern of its kind in Ohio. The studio of the company is 429-431 South Fourth Street. Many of the fine homes of Columbus had all the decorating details supplied by this company. Its service is also exemplified in such public buildings as the Majestic Theatre, State Theatre, Colonial Theatre, Grand Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, St. John's Church, the Chittenden and Southern Hotel, Huntington Bank Building, Atlas Building, Clinton Building and Scioto Country Club. Mr. Janser married in New York City, in 1909, Miss Katie Walcs, of Germany. Their only child died in infancy. WARREN W. COWEN is a citizen of prominence and influence in the Ohio city and county that figure as the place of his nativity, for at St. Clairsville, judicial center of Belmont County, he is serving on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, with high standing as one of the representative members of the bar of this section of the Buckeye State. The judge is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude, and has had much of leadership in the directing of popular sentiment and action. Judge Cowen was born at St. Clairsville, on the 1st of April, 1868, and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Ohio, as is clearly indicated in the statement that his father, the late Judge Daniel Duane Thompkins Cowen, was born in Moorefield, Harrison County, this state, on the 20th of January, 1826. Judge Daniel D. T. Cowen received the advantages of the common schools and thereafter read law in the office of his father, Hon. Benjamin Sprague Cowen, who was one of the prominent early members of the Ohio bar. He was admitted to the bar on the 20th of January, 1847, and at St. Clairs ville he built up a large and representative law practice that marked him as a leading member of his profession in this part of his native state. He gave three terms of service as county attorney of Belmont County, his successive elections to this office having occurred in 1851, 1853 and 1855. Judge Cowen served with distinction as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and in later years he was actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, through the medium of which he vitalized his interest in and association with his former comrades. In 1862 Judge Cowen was 128 - HISTORY OF OHIO made lieutenant colonel of the Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he retained this command until February, 1863, when he resigned and returned home, owing to the illness of his wife, her death having occurred about a year later. Judge Cowen was a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of the republican party and was a leader in its councils and campaign work in Belmont County. In 1865 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in this office he served one term. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of St. Clairsville, was elected its first president and retained this executive office from April, 1864, until his death, besides which he was prominently interested in other representative financial and business enterprises in his home city and county. He was a delegate from this county to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention of 1873. Colonel Cowen took most loyal interest in all that concerned the welfare of his home city, gave effective service as a member of its school board, and was a member of the Belmont County Board of School Examiners from 1854 to 1862. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he ever retained inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. His first wife, whose maiden name was Hannah F. Martin, died on the 3d of May, 1864, and on the 8th of August, 1865, he wedded Miss Ann E. Martin, who was born at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and who was a sister of his first wife. The death of Judge Cowen occurred at St. Clairsville in April, 1884, when he was fifty-eight years of age, and his widow passed away at the venerable age of seventy-six years. Judge Benjamin Sprague Cowen, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Washington County, New York, September 27, 1792, and at the age of twenty years he entered service as a soldier in the War of 1812. In 1824 he became a pioneer settler in Harrison County, Ohio, where he became the owner of a large farm property. He was educated for the medical profession, and later he read law, his admission to the Ohio bar having occurred in 1830. He continued in the practice of law in Harrison County until 1832, when he removed to St. Clairsville, and he passed the remainder of his life as one of the leading members of the bar of Belmont County. As a candidate on the whig ticket he was elected to the Twenty-seventh United States Congress in 1840, as representative of the Sixteenth Congressional District of Ohio, and in 1842 he was specially influential in the Congressional tariff legislation. In 1854-1856 he represented Belmont County in the Ohio Legislature, in which he was made chairman of the finance committee of the House, a connection in which he was influential in framing the state bond law and also in the readjustment of the tax laws of Ohio-. In 1847 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County, and after serving one term on the 'bench he resumed the active practice of law at St. Clairsville, and here he continued to reside until his death. Judge Cowen was one of the foremost members of the Ohio bar, was long influential in political affairs, and was one of the founders of the Brooks Institute at St. Clairsville, which became one of the prominent educational institutions of its period. He was seventy-six years of age at the time of his death. The public schools of St. Clairsville afforded Judge Warren W. Cowen his early education. He is of the third generation of the family to represent Belmont County in the legal profession and as a jurist. He advanced his education by attending historic old Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, and in the athletic affairs of the college he gained special prestige as a baseball pitcher, his alliance with the great national sport having continued for a number of years. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, and in that year also he was appointed deputy sheriff of Belmont County, an office which he retained until 1899. He then initiated the active practice of his profession, in which he has splendidly upheld the high honors of the family name. In 1912 the judge formed a law partnership with Walton J. Walker, and this alliance continued, under the title of Cowen & Walker, until April 4, 1921. Judge Cowen served two terms as county attorney, besides having previously held this office six months under appointment to fill out an unexpired term. He has been an influential figure in the local councils of the republican party, and was chairman of the Republican County Committee of Belmont County four years, 1917-1921. In the work of his profession Judge Cowen built up a large and important practice, and it may be specially noted that he was retained as attorney for the United Mine Workers' Union of sub-district No. 5 and district No. 6 in the World war period. He has won specially high reputation as a vigorous and resourceful trial lawyer. The judge was a member of the Ohio Electoral College in the national election of 1920, and had the distinction of conveying from the state capital to Marion and delivering personally to the future president, Warren G. Harding, the electoral vote of the state. On the 4th of April, 1921, he was appointed by Governor Harry L. Davis to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas for Belmont County, an office previously dignified by the effective administrations of his father and grandfather, as previously noted in this context. His advancement to this office came as the sequel of a petition signed by every member of the bar of Belmont County, without reference to political affiliation. He assumed his official duties November 22, 1922, and is giving a characteristically able administration on the bench. Judge Cowen has served also as a member of the city council of St. Clairsville, and also as a member of the board of education. He was chairman of the local committee that made a vigorous but unsuccessful effort to effect the removal of Franklin College from New Athens to St. Clairsville, and his influence and cooperation are ever given in support of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his home city and county. He is associated with his former law partner, Mr. Walker, in the ownership of the Belmont Chronicle, a weekly republican paper that was founded in 1813, and he is a contributor to the editorial columns of this excellent paper, besides writing special articles for the same. He is a member of the Arion Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. Judge Cowen held for several years the position of treasurer of the Belmont County Bar Association, in 1893 he became a member of the judicial committee of the Ohio State Bar Association, and in the year 1924 he is a member of its executive committee. In other counties he has served as special judge in the trial of a number of important cases. The judge is past chancellor commander of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, is affiliated with Bellaire Lodge No. 419, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at St. Clairsville, he having been for several years teacher of the Men's Bible Class in its Sunday school. He has served as a member of the congressional and judicial committees of the republican party in his constituent districts. February 21, 1890, recorded the marriage of Judge Cowen and Miss Estelle Kirk, daughter of the late Cyrus H. Kirk, who was for some time engaged in the mercantile business at St. Clairsville and who later figured as one of the representative farmers of Belmont County. Judge and Mrs. Cowen have three children: Elsie A. is the wife of Charles C. Bulger, superintendent of the Maher Mine Company at HISTORY OF OHIO - 129 Bellaire, and they have one child, Beatrice. Beatrice, the younger daughter of Judge Cowen, remains at the parental home and was a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University. Martin Lindsey, the only son, is safety director for the Wheeling Traction Company at Martin's Ferry. He married Miss Agnes Trall, of St. Clairsville, and their children are two in numbcr, Martin Lindsey, Jr., and Laura Lee. Judge Cowen is an active member of the Kiwanis Club at Martin's Ferry, and in June, 1923, he was elected lieutenant governor of the Ohio organization of Kiwanis clubs for the year 1924. In the World war period the judge was active and influential in local patriotic service, was chairman of committees in charge of the Belmont County campaigns in support of the Government war bonds, and otherwise did much to further patriotic activities in this section of Ohio. WALTON JAY WALKER, of St. Clairsville, has won a representative place as one of the able members of the bar of Belmont County, and in addition to his careful attention to his large and important law business he is. the owner of the Belmont Chronicle, a well ordered weekly newspaper that was founded in the year 1813, and which is an effective exponent of community interests and of the principles of the republican party, Mr. Walker having the general management of this newspaper. Mr. Walker was born on a farm near Bethesda, Belmont County, Ohio, November 24, 1887. On the same ancestral farmstead was born his father, Thomas A. Walker, who now resides upon his fine farm near St. Clairsville, and who gives special attention to dairy enterprise, with a select herd of Jersey cows. Thomas A. Walker is one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of his native county, is a stalwart republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is an 'active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His father, the late John Walker, was born and reared in England, and was a young man when he came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Belmont County, his old homestead being the place on which his grandson, Walton J., of this review, was born. John Walker was for some time a millworker in what is now the State of West Virginia, but the greater part of his active life was given to farm enterprise in Belmont County, Ohio. He represented the Buckeye State as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served three and one-half years. John Walker was loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was seventy-seven years of age at the time of his death. Thomas A. Walker married Miss Elizabeth Hill, who was born at Malaga, Monroe County, Ohio, and whose death occurred in 1910, when she was forty-three years of age, the subject of this sketch being the younger of the two children. Walton J. Walker attended the public schools at Morristown and thereafter was a student in Muskingum and Athens colleges. He devoted six years to teaching in the public schools, mainly in rural districts, and by this means largely defrayed the expenses of his higher academic as well as his professional education. In 1912 he was graduated from the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, his admission to the Ohio bar having been virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the year of his graduation Mr. Walker became associated in the practice of law with Judge Warren W. Cowen, and this effective professional alliance, under the title of Cowen & Walker, continued until Judge Cowen assumed his present office, that of judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County, in 1921, a record of his career being given in the preceding sketch. ,Since 1921 Mr. Walker has continued in the practice of law in an individual way, is known as one of the most versatile and effective trial lawyers in this part of Ohio, and is retained as attorney for the United Mine Workers. In 1920 he was retained by the state as a special prosecutor in the famous John I. Morgan riot cases, and in this connection he was instrumental in gaining the only first degree labor convictions ever obtained in trials growing out of labor disturbances. Since this notable achievement he has been retained as attorney for the United Mine Workers. Mr. Walker has the most complete and comprehensive law library in Belmont County, and is a specially deep student of the science of jurisprudence. His general library likewise is one of exceptional scope and excellence. Mr. Walker is one of the influential representatives of the republican party in his native county, and has served as secretary of the Republican County Committee and the Republican County Executive Committee, 1918-1920. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Thoburn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Clairsville, and was chairman of the finance committee which made the remarkable drive that, in one day, cleared the indebtedness on the church property. Mr. Walker is most loyal to and appreciative of his native county, and as a citizen is distinctly liberal and progressive. He has valuable farm interests in Belmont County, and, as previously noted, is prominently identified with representative newspaper enterprise in his home city. He was active and prominent in furthering the various local patriotic activities incidental to the World war, was a four-minute speaker in the campaigns in support of the Government war bonds, and was chairman of the committee in charge of the drive for subscriptions to the War Savings Stamps. He was one of the organizers of the Community Club at St. Clairsville, and is a member of its executive committee. He is past chancellor commander of St. Clairsville Lodge No. 698, Knights of Pythias, and served two years as deputy grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of this order in Ohio. He is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Walker wedded Miss Edna J. Bond, who likewise was born and reared in Belmont County, and who is a daughter of John A. Bond, a pioneer in modern dairy farming in this county, where he owns a large and splendidly improved dairy farm. Mr. Bond is a republican in political adherency, and he gave eighteen years of service as county surveyor of Belmont County. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have two children,. John Thomas and Mary Elizabeth. ADOLPH E. MUNKEL is one of the vital and progressive business men of Columbus, where he is president of the Munkel-Lamneck Company, furnace manufacturers and heating engineers. Mr. Munkel was born at Port Washington, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 25th of April, 1883, and is a son of Emil and Sarah (Barnhouse) Munkel, the former of whom was born in the City of Dresden, Saxony, Germany, and, the latter of whom was born and reared in Ohio. The subject of this sketch has been a resident of Columbus since he was a lad of fifteen years, his educational advantages in his boyhood and youth having been those of the public schools, and his advancement in the domain of business having been gained through his own ability and well ordered efforts. For more than twenty years Mr. Munkel was associated with the W. E. Lamneck Company, manufacturers of coal and gas furnaces, and in the meanwhile he gained experience both in the office affairs of the concern and as a salesman of 130 - HISTORY OF OHIO its products. In 1918 he established the Munkel-Lamneck Company, which is incorporated under the Ohio laws, and of which he has been president from the time of organization. This company has developed a substantial business in the manufacturing of furnaces, and in the general handling and installing of coal and gas furnaces, radiant-fires, ranges, etc., besides controlling a prosperous business as heating and ventilating engineers. Mr. Munkel has long been known as an expert and an authority' in these lines, and has won secure status as one of the loyal and progressive business men of the Ohio capital city. He was for two years president of the Ohio Sheet Metal Trades Association, is a member of the Exchange Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1921 he was elected president of the Columbus Builders Exchange, and in his year of administration in this office he found another opportunity to manifest his marked civic loyalty. The maiden name of his wife was Emma Roehr, and they have one daughter, Josephine. GEORGE THORNBURG. The bar of Belmont County claims as one of its representative and popular members the native son whose name initiates this paragraph, and who is established in the successful general practice of law at St. Clairsville, the judicial center of the county. Mr. Thornburg was born on a farm in Goshen Township, Bclmont County, not far distant from the Village of Spiedel, and the date of his nativity was February 19, 1879. In the same township were born his parents, Carter and Mary C. (Stidd) Thornburg, representatives of old and honored families of this section of the Buckeye State. Carter Thornburg passed his entire life in Belmont County, where he was a successful exponent of farm industry, and he was sixty-one years of age at the time of his death, in 1888, his widow being still a resident of this county. The boyhood experiences of George Thornburg were in close touch with the affairs of the home farm, and his initial educational discipline was obtained in the district schools. He early announced his ambition to become a lawyer, and to the achievement of this purpose he directed his efforts. After a course in the Belmont High School he gave three years of effective service as a teacher in the district schools, his earnings having been used to defray the expenses of his course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Thereafter he read law under the able preceptorship of Hon. Charles J. Howard, and in the National Normal University at Lebanon, and upon his admission to the bar in 1904 he forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession at St. Clairsville. He soon made a record of successful achievement as a trial lawyer of exceptional resourcefulness, and his practice expanded in scope and importance with the passing years. In 1915 Mr. Thornburg was elected prosecuting attorney of Belmont County, and in this office lie served two consecutive terms. In 1919 he became a member of the strong and influential law firm of Thornburg & Lewis, in which his coadjutor is Earl R. Lewis, and the firm controls a large and important law business, especially in the domain of corporation practice. Mr. Thornburg served six years as secretary of the Republican Central Committee of Belmont County, and the year 1924 records him as chairman of this committee and also of the Republican Executive Committee of the county. He is a director of the First National Bank of St. Clairsville, is a member of the local Board of Education, and was for twelve years secretary of the Belmont County Bar Association. In the World war period Mr. Thornburg served as attorney for the draft board of Belmont County, was Government appeal agent for the county, and was zealous in the advancing of all patriotic measures in his native county. Mr. Thornburg was chairman of the building committee under the direction of which the beautiful Thoburn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at St. Clairsville was completed in 1923, both he and his wife being zealous members of this church and he having given seven years of service as Sunday school superintendent. He is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of York Rite Masonry, is past high priest of the Chapter and past illustrious master of the Council. September 5, 1907, recorded the marriage of Mr. Thornburg and Miss Mary G. Thompson, who was born on the parental homestead farm near St. Clairsville, and who is a daughter of the late Thomas A. Thompson. Mr. Thompson was one of the representative farmers of Belmont County, and was sixty-five years of age at the time of his death, in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg have three children: Carter, Glenn T. and Elizabeth Laura. EMERSON CAMPBELL, who maintains his residence in the City of St. Clairsville, Belmont County, is prominently associated with coal mining interests, by reason of his holding the responsible office of tax agent for the Pittsburgh Vein Operators' Association of Ohio. Mr. Campbell was born near Moorefield, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 18th of June, 1871, the fourth in order of birth of the five children of John and Mary E. Campbell, the former of whom was born in Graysville, Monroe County, Ohio, and the latter of whom was born in Harrison County. In 1881 John Campbell came with his family to Belmont County, where he became a successful contractor and builder and where he continued to reside until his death in 19.08, at the age of seventy-six years. His widow is a resident of St. Clairsville and is eighty-four years of age at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1923-1924. John Campbell was of Scotch ancestry and was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his venerable widow. The public schools of Flushing, Belmont County, afforded Emerson Campbell his early education, and thereafter he completed a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. As a registered pharmacist he was employed in turn at Flushing and Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and Wheeling, West Virginia, and he then made a radical change of vocation by taking the position of local news editor at Martin's Ferry for the Wheeling Register. He retained this position four years, and for the ensuing six years was retained in a similar capacity by the Wheeling Intelli.gencer. He served two terms as county auditor of Belmont County, 1911-1915, and besides having given a most effective administration he had the distinction of having been the first democrat to be elected to this office in this republican county in a period of nearly twenty years. While he was incumbent of this office Mr. Campbell was instrumental in securing for Belmont County the improvement of twenty-seven miles of the National Road, and secured from the state its first appropriation from the state half-mill good -road levy for roads, giving to Belmont County the distinction of being the first county in Ohio to pave its entire mileage of the National Road, at a cost of about $900,000. In 1917 Mr. Campbell became special accountant in the service of the Ohio State Tax Commission, and he retained this position until 1919, when he resigned HISTORY OF OHIO - 131 and returned to Belmont County, in the capacity of tax agent for the Pittsburgh Vein Operators' Association of Ohio. In this executive office Mr. Campbell has charge of all tax matters and tax legislation for the coal operators of this association in Belmont, Harrison and Jefferson counties. Mr. Campbell also owns and publishes the St. Clairsville Gazette. This paper was the first to be published in Belmont County, having been established in 1812. Mr. Campbell was one of the most influential figures in the organizing of the Community Club of St. Clairsville, became its first president, and had much to do with the formulating of its progressive civic policies and social facilities, the club being an important feature of progressive movements in St. Clairsville and Belmont County. Mr. Campbell has a fine fruit orchard near his home city, and in the care and improvement of the same he takes the deepest interest as an enthusiastic horticulturist. He is a trustee of the Public Affairs Committee of St. Clairsville and also of the Thoburn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife are zealous members. At Martin's Ferry, Ohio, on the 19th of October, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Campbell and Miss Rachel A. Duff, who was there born and reared. Mrs. Campbell is a daughter of the late William and Mahala (Fisher) Duff, the former of whom was born in Maryland and the latter at Steubenville, Ohio. William Duff was a young man when he came to Ohio and established his residence in Mt. Pleasant. When the Civil war was precipitated he promptly tendered his service in defense of the Union, and he served during virtually the entire period of conflict, as a member of the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He became a successful contractor and builder, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Martin's Perry, Belmont County, at the time of his death, in 1920. He passed away at the age of eighty-four years, and his widow was eighty-three years of age at the time of her death, in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have two children: John William and Jean Fisher. The original American ancestor of Mr. Campbell on the paternal side came in an early day from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania, and it was from the old Keystone State that the first representatives of the family in Ohio came in the pioneer period of the history of the latter commonwealth. JOHN BAKER BARNES for many years has been one of the conspicuous business men and citizens of the old town of Barnesville, in Belmont County, a community famous for its notable men and women, and founded and named in honor of a member of the Barnes family. John Baker Barnes was born in Warren Township of Belmont County, February 27, 1857. His parents were Joshua and Jane (Shotwell) Barnes. Joshua Barnes was born at Kent, Ohio, in 1818, and in 1824 accompanied the family to Barnesville, a town that had been laid out by his cousin, James Barnes, in 1808. Joshua Barnes was a carpenter and builder by trade, and a very influential citizen of Barnesville. He lived in one house in that town for fifty-six years. He was a member of the Home Guards Company during the Civil war, was a republican, and one of the leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife was likewise active in church work, and was one of the organizers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Barnesville. Joshua Barnes died in 1880 and his wife, in 1901, at the age of eighty years. They had a family of seven sons, John Baker being the fifth in age. Mr. Barnes had only the advantages of the public schools at Barnesville, and when he was fifteen he started a practical apprenticeship to learn the carpenter and builder's trade by working with his father. When he was nineteen he took up the study of dentistry, spending two years with his brother, Dr. Henry F. Barnes, and another year under Doctor Taft of Cincinnati. From 1879 to 1884 Doctor Barnes had a successful dental practice at Barnesville, and from 1884 to 1886 followed his profession at Omaha, Nebraska. Then came a serious breakdown in health, and it became necessary to take up outdoor work. For two years he was employed in carpentry and construction work with the Union Pacific Hotel Company, doing work along the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha to Salt Lake City. From 1893 to 1900 Mr. Barnes was at Chicago, as foreman and superintendent of construction with the Fuller Construction Company, one of the largest contracting firms in the Middle West. With the benefit of this unusual experience he returned to Barnesville in 1900 and took up general contracting on his own account. For a number of years he had a large business, putting up store buildings, homes and various industrial plants. Since 1921 Mr. Barnes has confined his attention to a general insurance and real estate business. In real estate he handles his own property, and is the owner of considerable real estate at Barnesville. He was identified with all phases of the patriotic program during the World war. He has been a worker in republican politics, serving on the County Central Committee, and was a member of the City Council from 1904 to 1910. On November 7, 1923, he was elected mayor of Barnesville, on an independent ticket, with a platform calling for tax reduction, law enforcement and a common sense business administration. Mr. Barnes is a member of Warren Lodge No. 76, Knights of Pythias, and has represented Bellaire Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in a state convention. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Barnesville Aerie of the Eagles, and took an active part in their campaign for an old age pension movement. He is also a member of the Barnesville Loyal Order of Moose. His hobby and recreation is the care and superintendance of a small orchard near his home. As a young man he was a member for five years of a local military company known as Tom Young Guards. Mr. Barnes married at Barnesville, in 1880, Miss Laura B. Dalls, who died in 1907. In 1908 he married Mrs. Catherine Dement McGinnis, who was born and reared at Barnesville, where her father, William Dement, was a merchant and later for many years conducted a meat market. Mrs. Barnes has been prominent in the varied branches of organized woman's work in Barnesville, serving as chairman of the Red Cross during the World war, as chairman of the Woman's Republican Committee, is active in the missionary and other societies of the MethOdist Church, and has been identified since its organization with the Pythian sisters. HON. DAYTON A. DOYLE was for a quarter of a century one of the prominent attorneys of the Akron bar, being member of one of the most prominent law firms of that section of the state. He also served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Judge Doyle was born in Summit County, September 27, 1856, and died February 28, 1920. His parents, William B. and Harriet S. Doyle, were early settlers in Summit County. His father was a pioneer in the lumber business in Northern Ohio. Dayton A. Doyle acquired a public school education, graduating from the Akron High School in 1874, and in 1878 received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Buchtel College of Akron. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating Bachelor of 132 - HISTORY OF OHIO Laws in 1880 and being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Columbus on May 27, 1880. Subsequently Buchtel College bestowed upon him the degree Doctor of Laws. For several years he was one of the trustees of Buchtel College. Judge Doyle opened his law offices in 1885, in partnership with Maj. Frederick C. Bryan. In the same year he was elected city solicitor, an office he held until 1889. Charles Dick became a member of the law firm, and the firm of Dick, Doyle & Bryan was one of the highest standing and continued until Mr. Dick was elected to represent Ohio in the United States Senate. From 1898 to 1906 Judge Doyle was referee in bankruptcy in Summit County, and in the latter year was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Eighth Subdivision of the Fourth Judicial District. He was reelected in 1912, and completed two terms in the office, retiring in 1918. Other activities serve to make his name notable in the citizenship of Summit County. He was the first president of the Summit County Bank, which was later consolidated with the Ohio State Bank and Trust Company, one of the largest banking institutions of Summit County. For many years he was president of the Glendale Cemetery Association, and was a director of a number of other organizations. The social and fraternal organizations in which he was active included the Elks, Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was one of the original members of the Summit County Bar Association and was active in the First Methodist Church. Judge Doyle possessed estimable qualities of mind and heart, and exemplified those attributes found in the successful practitioner and able and important jurist. Equipped with nature 's best endowments, supplemented by an intellectual and legal training acquired by a life of industry and study, he brought to his judicial duties all those qualities which served. to make for him an enviable record as a judge. He was diligent and painstaking in his work, and was intellectually and judicially honest with himself as well as with the body of the public which he served faithfully and well in various positions of public trust. As a citizen he was patriotic; in his personal relations, of good conduct and example, and he left behind him achievements worthy of the ambition of those who are to succeed him in the fulfillment of the duties and responsibilities of life. On April 23, 1884, Judge Doyle married Miss Ida M. Westfall. He was survived by his wife and six children, the children being Dayton A., Jr., Arthur W., Frank (who passed away January 23, 1924, at St. Augustine, Florida), Mrs. Harold Dalzell, Miss Harriet K. and Miss Ruth. ARTHUR WILLIAM DOYLE, son of the late Judge Dayton A. Doyle, has given a good account of himself in the legal profesion. He is the present prosecuting attorney of Summit County, and is a veteran of the World war. He was born at Akron, November 3, 1893. His education was acquired in public schools, then in Cornell University, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1915, and in 1917 received his law degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. In July, 1917, he was called to the colors for duty in the World war, being with the One Hundred Thirty-fifth Field Artillery. Becoming first lieutenant of the Sixteenth Field Artillery, in command of the battery, he served overseas, and after the armistice was with the Army of Occupation in Germany until July, 1919. After the war he engaged in private law practice with the firm of Allen, Waters Young and Andress. In 1920 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, and has also served as a member of the Civil Service Commission, and is a director of the Ohio State Bank and Trust Company. In 1924 he was candidate for the republican nomination for Congress in the Fourteenth Ohio District. Mr. Doyle is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a charter member of the Tadmor Temple of Akron, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belongs to the Portage Club and the Akron City Club, and his diversions are golf, hunting and horseback riding. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and the American Bar associations. Mr. Doyle is commander of the Joseph Wein Post of the Veterans of Foreign wars, and a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Veterans of Foreign wars. He also belongs to the American Legion. ALBERT LEWIS BUMGARNER. The year 1924 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the First National Bank of St. Clairsville, Belmont County, and of this old and substantial financial institution Mr. Bumgarner has been the cashier since 1920, on December 16th of which year he resigned the office of clerk of the courts of Belmont County, a position to which he was elected. in 1918 and the duties of which he assumed in August, 1919, his resignation taking place when he was elected cashier of the First National Bank. This bank bases its operations on a capital stock of $150,000, its surplus fund likewise is $150,000, and its undivided profits are in excess of $50,000. Its individual deposits at the close of the year 1923 totaled $468,432.26, subject to check, and its certificate deposits aggregated $345,942.12. Albert L. Bumgarner was born at St. Clairsville, judicial center of Belmont County, Ohio, on the 14th of August, 1871, and is a son of George P. and Mary (Gleaves) Bumgarner, the original spelling of the family name in Switzerland having been Baumgardner. Harvey R. Bumgarner, the founder of the family in America, first settled in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and thence he came eventually to Ohio. George P. Bumgarner was seventeen years of age when he enlisted for service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He became a member of the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command participated in many engagements, including those of Sherman's historic Georgia campaign. Mr. Bumgarner and his wife still reside at St. Clairsville, as venerable and honorable citizens who have here maintained their home for many years. Mr. Bumgarner early learned the trade of shoemaker, and he followed the same as a vocation for a term of years. He is an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the republican party, has given yeoman service in behalf of its cause, and he served two terms as postmaster of St. Clairsville. He is actively affiliated with the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Albert L. Bumgarner continued his studies in the public schools of St. Clairsville until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and thereafter he completed a course in a leading business college in the City of Cincinnati. He soon afterward entered service as court reporter, and in this important capacity he continued his effective work until 1898, when he obtained a year 's leave of absence, and as- sumed the position of stenographer in the office of the secretary of war at Washington, D. C. He was selected by Col. Tasker H. Bliss, of the United States Army, to accompany this distinguished officer as secretary when he went to Cuba, in connection with the Spanish-American war. Mr. Bumgarner thus passed about nine mOnths in Cuba, and on the 1st of January, 1899, he had the distinction and honOr of raising the United States Flag over the building of the treas- HISTORY OF OHIO - 133 ury department in the City of Havana, when that city was taken over by the United States Army forces. Impaired health compelled him to return to the United States in July, 1899, and the Flag which he had raised in Havana, as above noted, was presented to him by Colonel Bliss. This historic souvenir Mr. Bumgarner later presented to the Ohio Historical Society, and it is now preserved in the rooms of this society in the City of Columbus. After his return to his native county Mr. Bumgarner resumed his service as court reporter, and he made a record of twenty-seven years of efficient administration in this office. In this connection he reported many important cases in the various counties of Ohio and also in West Virginia. Mr. Bumgarner has never wavered in his allegiance to the republican party, has been influential in its local councils and campaign work, and twice served as secretary of the Republican County Committee of Belmont County. He is an honorary member of the Belmont County Bar Association, of which he is treasurer for the year 1924. In 1918 he was elected clerk of the courts for Belmont County, and this office he retained until his resignation to assume the position of cashier of the First National Bank, as previously mentioned in this context. Mr. Bumgarner has been an enthusiastic student of the history of the Civil war, has collected a library of more than 200 volumes pertaining to the war, besides having many material trophies of the great conflict. He is affiliated with Belmont Lodge No. 16, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; St. Clairsville Chapter No. 17, Royal Arch Masons; Belmont Council No. 16, Royal and Select Masters; and Hope Commandery No. 26, Knights Templar. He is past chancellor commander of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, and takes special satisfaction in being a member of the society of the Sons of the American Revolution, his eligibility for which is based on the service of his maternal great-grandfather, Peter Tates, who was a member of the Second New Jersey Regiment, Continental Line, in the great struggle for national independence. Mr. Bumgarner is vice president of the St. Clairsville Community Club, a vigorous civic and social body, has served as a member of the city council, and was formerly president of the public service board of St. Clairsville. He is the owner of a fine orchard of sixty acres near his home city, and there raises the best types of the Rome Beauty, Grimes Golden, Wine-saps and other apples. In the City of Cincinnati was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bumgarner and Miss Ida Lee Rand, who was born in Charleston, West Virginia, a daughter of Henry and Alice (McArthur) Rand, the latter 's father having served as president of the Kentucky State Senate. Henry Rand was born at Charleston, West Virginia, and was a soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, as an officer of the Twenty-second Virginia Infantry. After the war he served as sheriff at Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Bum-garner have one son, Rand Bliss, who is (1924) a student in the agricultural department of the Ohio State University. BENJAMIN RUGGLES JOHNSTON, who maintained his home at St. Clairsville, judicial center of Belmont County, throughout the course of a signally useful and honorable life, who became one of the leading business men of this attractive little city, and whose death here occurred in 1897, was a representative of one of the old and honored families of this section of Ohio. He was born in Belmont County, in the year 1844, and was named in honor of Hon. Benjamin Ruggles, the first United States senator from Ohio. Mr. Johnston became a specially skillful cabinetmaker, and was in the early days the leading manufacturer of furniture and coffins in Belmont County. When the Civil war was precipitated on a divided nation he promptly subordinated all personal interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union. Early in 1861 he enlisted as a member of Company A, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served during virtually the entire period of the war, the full tension of which he endured through participation in many battles and campaigns, he having received his honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 13, 1865. After the close of his valiant career as a soldier of the Union Mr. Johnston returned to St. Clairsville, and in 1869 he here engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. The high grade products turned out from his establishment gained him prestige and business support throughout many counties in Eastern Ohio and also in the nearby counties of West Virginia. He was an expert cabinetmaker, as previously intimated, and as such would not permit any inferior work to be sold in his place of business. His pride in the high grade products turned out by him fully justified the reputation he gained in this connection and the worthy success that he won. His son Albert was but a boy when he began to learn the details of the furniture and undertaking business, and upon the death of the father in 1897, Albert Johnston assumed control of the well established furniture and undertaking business, which he continued in an individual way until 1920, when he retired from the active management, which he turned over to his sons, the enterprise having since been continued under the title of Albert Johnston & Sons. In the handling of high grade furniture and the conducting of an undertaking department with the best facilities he built up a business that in scope and importance was excelled by none other of like order in Eastern Ohio. He was the pioneer not only in Ohio but also in the Middle West in adopting the arterial system of embalming, and he utilized other modern and approved methods and accessories in connection with his undertaking business. In 1920 Albert Johnston & Sons took possession of the present three-story brick building in which the business of the firm is conducted and which is metropolitan in equipment, facilities and service. Mr. Johnston was the first funeral director in Eastern Ohio to provide his establishment with automobile hearse and other motor equipment. He has figured as one of the liberal, progressive and loyal citizens and leading business men of St. Clairsville, where he and his wife still maintain their home and where he is now living virtually retired. Mr. Johnston is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masonry. Mrs. John-ton, whose maiden name was Nora Meyers, likewise was born and reared in Belmont County, and of the four children the two daughters are Mrs. E. J. Hatcher, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. R. C. Emblen, of Wheeling, West Virginia. The two sons, Lowell J. and Faris Harwood, have the active management of the furniture and undertaking business with which the family name has here been identified for three successive generations. Lowell J. Johnston, a licensed embalmer, has charge of the furniture department of the business. Faris H., who was born July 16, 1900, is in charge of the undertaking department of the firm's business. After his course in the St. Clairsville High School Faris H. Johnston was for one year a student in the Western Reserve University, and incidentally later he there served as sergeant in the Students Officers Training Corps in the World war period. In 1921 he was graduated from the Ohio College of Embalming in the City of Columbus, he having with his brother become in the preceding year a member of the firm of Albert Johnston & Sons. as previously stated in this review. Faris H. Johnston is affiliated with the Sigma Chi college fraternity, the Masonic fraternity, the 134 - HISTORY OF OHIO Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and St. Clairsville Post No. 112, American Legion. His brother, Lowell J., is a member of the Chapter and Council of York Rite Masonry, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and St. Clairsville Post American Legion No. 112. Faris H. Johnston wedded Miss Gertrude Boggs, daughter of F. W. Boggs, who is manager of the Boggs Mercantile Company of St. Clairsville. Mrs. Johnston is the only woman in Eastern Ohio who is a licensed embalmer, she having been graduated in 1922 in the same school of embalming as was her husband in Ohio's capital city, and her gracious service constituting an important feature of the undertaking business of the firm of Albert Johnston & Sons. JESSE THOMAS MCCARTNEY, M. D. A prominent physician and surgeon of Barnesville, where he has practiced more than twenty years, Doctor McCartney represents a pioneer family of Belmont County, the McCartneys having long been known for their prominence in industry and commercial affairs not only in Eastern Ohio but in other states. Doctor McCartney was born at Barnesville, May 10, 1873, son of William Heslop and Martha French (Hunt) McCartney. His father was born at Hendrysburg, Belmont County, in 1840, and his mother was born in Belmont County in 1842, and died in 1915. William H. McCartney in early life was a contractor, building pike roads, later built a section of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, and then became a successful figure in the lumber industry of Wisconsin. His home was at Medford, Wisconsin, and he remained there seven or eight years. Returning to Ohio, lie engaged in farming at North Salem in Guernsey County, and finally retired to Barnesville, where he died in 1901, at the age of sixty-one. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Jesse Thomas McCartney acquired his public school education in Guernsey County, and spent two years in Franklin College at New Athens in Harrison County. For a time he was a student in a business college at Green Bay, Wisconsin, taking the course there to prepare himself for duties in the McCartney National Bank of Green Bay. Instead, however, he went to Thomasville, Georgia, and for three years was manager of the McCartney plantation in that state. He gave up his business engagement to enter the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1903. In the same year he located at Barnesville, and has handled an extensive general practice. His specialty is obstetrics. He had a service record in the World war, being commissioned a captain in the medical corps on June 21, 1918. He was sent to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, for training as a medical officer, and then to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he became commanding officer of Base Hospital No. 149, and served in that capacity until discharged December 14, 1918. He is a member of the American Legion, the Military Surgeons of the United States, and the Belmont County, Eighth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He is also a member of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Surgeons Association. As a hobby and recreation as well as a matter of profits Doctor McCartney owns and operates a fine dairy farm at Barnesville, having a herd of fifty Jersey cows and producing milk of the highest standard of purity. He is a member of the Barnesville Rotary Club and has charge of the club's work for crippled children. His vacations are spent in Northern Ontario, where he hunts big game, and he has several splendid moose and caribou heads. Fraternally he is affiliated with Friendship Lodge No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, Barnesville Chapter No. 69, Royal Arch Masons, Barnesville Council No. 97, Royal and Select Masons, Cambridge Commandery No. 47, Knights Templar, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He also belongs to the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, being eligible for membership in this order through his great-grandfather, William French, who served as a bugler with Maryland troops in the war for Independence. Doctor McCartney has one son, Charles McCartney. ROY W. SCHERTZER has practiced law in the industrial city of Bellaire for over twenty years. His work has brought him recognition as one of the leaders of the Belmont County bar, and he has earned his reputation and success almost entirely within the limits of his profession and not in politics or business. Mr. Schertzer was born on a farm at Mount Victory, Hardin County, Ohio, September 21, 1875. His parents were Simon and Belle (Carraher) Schertzer. His father was born in Stark County, Ohio, and was brought to Hardin County, Ohio, when four years of age. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and was one of Hardin County 's substantial men of agriculture, in his later years devoting his time to fruit and berry growing. He finally retired to Ada, where he died in 1916, at the age of seventy-six. He was a republican in politics. His wife was born in Indiana, and died at Ada in 1922, at the age of seventy-eight. Second in a family of four children, Roy W. Schertzer was reared on a farm, attended country schools and subsequently the public schools of Ada. He early determined to become a lawyer, but before qualifying for the profession he spent seven years as a teacher in country schools in Hardin and Marion counties, in the meantime keeping up his law studies. He is a graduate of the law school of Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1903. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Bellaire, and has always maintained a general practice. He is a director of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Bellaire. Mr. Schertzer is a republican, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 419 of the Order of Elks at Bellaire, and Bellaire Lodge, No. 378, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married at Bellaire, June 24, 1915, Miss Mabel Waddell, a sister of Paul V. Waddell, present city attorney of Ballaire. They have one daughter, Eleanor Schertzer. CLIFFORD LEVIN BELT in twenty years of successful law practice at Bellaire has accumulated many interests, professional, commercial and civic, and is one of the men of solid worth and prominence in that important industrial community of Eastern Ohio. Mr. Belt was born in Center Township, Monroe County, Ohio, July 15, 1877. His grandfather, Benjamin Middleton Belt, was of English ancestry, a native of Maryland, and settled in Ohio in 1821, spending the rest of his life as a farmer in Center Township of Monroe County. Cornelius Levin Belt, father of the Bellaire attorney, was born in Monroe County, and was educated in a famous school of the time, Springdale Academy. Though he owned a farm in Center Township, his active life was devoted to the cause of education. For over forty years he taught in village schools in Monroe County, but spent his last years retired at Bellaire, where he died in 1921, at the age of seventy-nine. He was an active member of the Methodist Church. Cornelius L. Belt married Mary Catherine Wiley, who was born in Monroe County HISTORY OF OHIO - 135 and is now living at Bellaire. Her parents came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Clifford Levin Belt, one of eight children, grew up near the old Ohio village of Woodsfield, where he attended the local schools. After leaving high school he entered Ohio Northern University at Ada, and was graduated with the law degree in 1902. He stood at the head of his law class of twenty-one at the state bar, examination, and soon afterward engaged in private practice at Bellaire. For a number of years he has specialized in corporation law, and is attorney for and has financial interests in business organizations, manufacturing industries, coal companies and also in farming lands. He is a director of the First National Bank, the strongest bank in Belmont County, The Shadyside Bank, and in May, 1921, he helped organize and is vice president of the Union Savings Bank of Bellaire. In 1923 he served as president of the Bellaire Chamber of Commerce, and has been a director of that organization from the beginning. He was chairman of several of the war drives in his locality, and was a member of district No. 2 draft board in Belmont County. As an active democrat he was a delegate to the national convention at San Francisco in 1920, and was twice elected city solicitor of Bellaire, in 1908 and 1912. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Americus Club, Masonic order and is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and is affiliated with the Elks. He is vice president of the Belmont County Bar Association, is a member of the Ohio State and American Bar associations, and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bellaire and teacher of the Woman's Bible Class. He had some experience as a teacher in the public schools in Monroe County before completing his college education. On October 4, 1910, Mr. Belt married Miss Carrie L. Neff, of Bellaire, a member of a prominent pioneer family of that name in Belmont County. Mrs. Belt takes an active interest in women's club work and the Presbyterian Church. The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Belt are: Robert Weir, Richard Levin, Nancy Lee, David Homer and Frederick Addison. CHESTER CYRUS SEDGWICK is an attorney practicing at Bellaire, is secretary-treasurer of the Daily Times Company of Martins Ferry, and an ex-service man of the great war. He represents a prominent family of this section of Ohio, and was born on a farm near Blaine, in Richland Township of Belmont County, December 5, 1887. His father, Leroy Cyrus Sedgwick, who was born at Otsego, Ohio, served two terms as deputy and two terms as sheriff of Belmont County, was a farmer in early life, and on March 2, 1892, established the Daily Times at Martins Ferry and was actively connected with that newpaper until 1900. He has been retired since that year. During the Civil war he was a lieutenant of infantry in the Union army. He has served as a trustee of the Ohio State School for the Blind, is a republican in politics, and a Mason. He married Sarah Ann Maycox, who was born at Middlesex, Pennsylvania, and is now living at Martins Ferry. They have nine children, Chester C. being the youngest. Chester C. Sedgwick spent his boyhood days on a farm. He was educated in the country schools until eleven years of age, graduated from the Martins Ferry High School in 1905, and had a thorough training in the newspapers business on the Martins Ferry Daily Times while attending public school and college. He was graduated Bachelor of Arts from OhiO State University in 1910, and received his law degree from the law department of Ohio State in 1912. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and has served as president of both these organizations and also as president of the Sphinx Society and the Pan Hellenic Society at Ohio State. Mr. Sedgwick has been engaged in the general practice of law at Bellaire since 1912. In addition he is secretary-treasurer of the Daily Times Company of Martins Ferry, and is a director of the Stanton Heater Company. He is a member of the Belmont County Bar and of the Ohio State and American Bar associations. On January 5, 1918, he entered Camp Sherman, and was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry at Camp Lee, Virginia, July 1, 1918. On July 3 he was transferred to Camp Sevier at Greenville, South Carolina, and in September, 1918, was promoted to adjutant of the Fifty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion of the Twentieth Division, serving in that capacity until his discharge on January 13, 1919. He is a member of the Bellaire Post, No. 52, American Legion. Mr. Sedgwick was appointed city attorney of Bellaire June 13, 1919, and was regularly elected to that office in November, discharging its duties until 1921. He has served as a member of the Republican County Executive Committee, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Americus Club, the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Bellaire Lodge, No. 267, Free and Accepted Masons ; Bellaire Chapter, No. 107, Royal Arch Masons, and Bellaire Lodge, No. 419, Benevolent and Protective Orders of Elks. He married at Riverside, California, April 18, 1921, Miss Kitty Marie Hall, who was born and reared at Martins Ferry, Ohio, where her father, W. Harmon Hall, for some years practiced as a dental surgeon, but who later became a resident of San Diego, California. ROBERT T. CREW, now trust officer of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank of Columbus, gained a state wide reputation through his former connection with the banking and insurance departments of the state, and is one of the best qualified men for his present work in Columbus. Mr. Crew was born at Zanesville, Ohio, and represents families of pioneer and other distinctions in Morgan County. His father, the late Joshua T. Crew, and his grandfather were born in Morgan County and earned high places in the law. A cousin of Robert T. Crew was Judge W. B. Crew, who was born in Morgan County, in the old Chester Hill community, and served twenty years on the bench, at first as judge of the Court of Common Pleas and from 1902 until his death in 1912 as a judge of the Ohio Supreme Court. The mother of Robert T. Crew, Mary (Williams) Crew, also represented a family that moved into the Chester Hill community of Morgan County more than a century ago. Robert T. Crew was educated in the public schools of Zanesville. After graduating from high school he spent two years at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania. He later entered the newspaper field in Zanesville, moving to Columbus in 1910, where he was employed as a reporter and later as assistant city editor of the Columbus Citizen. In 1912 he was appointed private secretary to Congressman George White, of Marietta. Two years later he entered the College of Law at Ohio State University, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1916. In 1917 he was appointed executive secretary to Governor Cox. He joined the army during the World war, being commissioned first lieutenant in Field Artillery. After getting his honorable discharge he resumed his work in the Governor 's office, and left that to accept the position of attorney-examiner in the Ohio Department of Banks and Banking. Subsequently he was promoted to superintendent of the 136 - HISTORY OF OHIO Ohio Insurance Department. He resigned to become identified with The Union Trust Company of Cleve land, and his success in that, one of the most successful trust organizations in the country, brought him promotion to the office of assistant secretary. He resigned as assistant secretary to become head of the trust department of the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank of Columbus on August 1, 1923. As trust officer he supervises all phases of the bank's activities in insurance trusts, corporate trusts, safe-keeping and agency accounts, living trusts, trusteeships under wills, and the other services usually found in such departments. Mr. Crew is a member of the Athletic Club, Young Business Men's Club, the Mason fraternity, the Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi. PAUL VANE WADDELL was born in Belmont County. Largely through his own efforts he acquired a liberal education, subsequently graduating from law school, and for the past six years has been one of the leading attorneys and men of affairs at Bellaire. He is a former member of the Legislature. Mr. Waddell was born on a farm near Lamira, in Richland Township, Belmont County, March 29, 1887, son of Frank &at and Mary (Parkinson) Waddell. His parents are natives and lifelong residents of Belmount County. His father has devoted hit active life to farming, and for thirty-five years was a member of the school board. He is a democrat and a Methodist. Fourth in a family of seven children, Paul V. Waddell grew up on his father 's farm, attended the country schools and St. Clairsville High School, and supplemented such assistance as his parents could afford him by his own earnings to put him through college. He taught for a year, then attended Muskingum College, and subsequently Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911. In university he was president of the Jesters Club. He took his law course in Ohio University, graduating Bachelors of Laws in 1914, and in December of the same year engaged in practice at Bellaire. He continued his work as a general practitioner until May, 1917, when he entered the First Officers Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. After some weeks of training he was discharged for physical disability, and had to be satisfied with a very active part in home war campaigns. He has since practiced law at Bellaire. He was chosen to represent Belmont County in the Ohio State Legislature in 1917-18, and in 1921 was elected and in 1923 reelected city solicitor of Bellaire. He has served on the County Central Committee of the democratic party. Mr. Waddell is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Americus Club, the American Legion and the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Bellaire Lodge, No. 419, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. So far as his work as a busy attorney permits, he spends much of his time outdoors and is a follower of all the outdoor sports. Mr. Waddell married Miss Grace Robinson, who was born and reared at Bellaire. They have two children, Pauline and Frank Scott. HENRY DUANE COWEN is a member of a prominent insurance firm of Bellaire, Ohio, and is one of the well-known young business and civic leaders of that Eastern Ohio city. Mr. Cowen was born at Flushing, in Belmont County, October 10, 1888. His grandfather, Duane D. Tompkins Cowen, was a veteran of the Civil war from Belmont County. The father, Duane Tompkins Cowen, was born at St. Clairsville in Belmont County, and for a number of years was actively engaged in the insurance business at Bellaire, under the name Cowen &. Company. Since 1913 he has been cashier of the Dollar Savings Bank and secretary of the Peoples Savings & Loan Association at Flushing. He is a member of the Masonic Order and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Duane T. Cowen married Belle Meyer, a native of St. Clairsville, who died in 1921. Henry Duane Cowen attended the Bellaire High School, and in 1910 garduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity. Mr. Cowen, before completing his college course, had considerable experience in the insurance business, and for several years past has been secretary of the Cowen-Dickens Company, a general insurance agency, writing insurance of every kind. Mr. Cowen is a charter member and was president in 1923 of the Kiwanis Club of Bellaire. He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, president of the Americus Club (1924) and during the World war was active in the various drives. He married Miss Ada Robinson, of Bellaire. Their four children are Elizabeth Jane, Duane Tompkins, Robert Henry and George T. CARL HENRY KOCH was an artillery officer in the American forces abroad during the World war, is one of the most active among the progressive younger generation in the commercial and civic life of Bellaire. He was born at New Waterford, in Columbiana County, Ohio, January 22. 1893, son of Jacob Henry and Elizabeth (Garlach) Koch, natives of Columbiana County, where they have spent their lives. His father for over forty years was a carriage manufacturer, and is president of the New Waterford Savings Bank. He has been mayor of New Waterford, and is active in the Lutheran Church and the democratic party. One of a family of five children, Carl Henry Koch aspired when a boy to enter the banking profession. He was liberally educated, attending public schools, the Salem Business College, and in 1915 graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Union College at Alliance. He was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity and the College Debating Team. Mr. Koch was first connected with the citizenship of Bellaire as teacher of mathematics and bookkeeping in the Bellaire High School. Two years later America entered the struggle against the Central Powers, and he attended the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, being commissioned as second lieutenant in artillery. He was attached to Battery B of the Seventy-ninth Field Artillery, went overseas with that organization, and was transferred to headquarters, Seventh Field Artillery Brigade at Camp Meucon, France. He was also promoted to first lieutenant of artillery, and spent ten months overseas, returning to the United States in June, 1919. Mr. Koch on January 1, 1920, became teller in the First National Bank of Bellaire, and since 1921 has been assistant cashier of the Union Savings Bank of that city and is also one of the stockholders in the institution. When the Bellaire Kiwanis Club was organized he was elected its first secretary, and on January 1, 1924, became its president. He is a member of the American Legion Post and the Forty and Eight Society of ex-service men. He belongs to the Americus Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with Bellaire Lodge, No. 267; Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Koch married at Bellaire in July, 1921, Miss Bess Rosser, daughter of the late Charles Rosser, of Bellaire. HARRY ROBERT JUNGLING is vice president and cashier of the Bridgeport National Bank, which has the distinction of being the oldest, largest and strong- HISTORY OF OHIO - 137 est unmerged bank in Belmont County. It was established in 1846, as the Belmont Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, took out a national charter soon after the national system of banking was inaugurated, and for over three-quarters of a century held the reputation of being a bank of personal service. Its officers and directors have been well-known men in the business affairs of Wheeling, West Virginia, and Belmont County. The bank has capital stock of $200,000, surplus and undivided profits of nearly $400,000, and total resources of over $4,700,000. Harry Robert Jungling, the vice president and cashier, was born December 10, 1880, at Wheeling, West Virginia. His grandfather, Gottlieb Jungling, came from Germany to the United States as a young man. The parents of the Bridgeport banker are William Frederick and Emma (Hazlett) Jungling, both residents of Wheeling. His father, now retired, devoted all his active career to cigar manufacturing, and was owner of a small factory of his own and for many years associated with the firm of M. Marsh & Son at Wheeling. Harry Robert Jungling attended public schools in is native city to the age of fourteen, and since then has been dependent upon his own efforts and resources to put him ahead in the world. He began his career as a two-dollar-a-week delivery boy for C. H. Abercrombie, a wholesale merchant in millinery and notions at Wheeling. Then for three years he was an elevator boy, was in the order department of the wholesale, drug firm of Reed, Robb & Breiding, then a year with the Aetna Standard Mills and three years in the shipping department of the Stone & Thomas Department Store at Wheeling. In 1902 he became a clerk for J. C. McKinley, coal operator, and resigned as chief accountant in 1905 to go with the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport. With a wide diversity of commercial experience and training Mr. Jungling in 1968 became teller and bookkeeper for the Bridgeport National Bank. In May, 1913, he was promoted to cashier, and since July 2, 1918, has served as vice president and cashier. Since 1914 the Bridgeport National Bank has had the greatest increase in deposits of any bank in this part of Ohio. The president of the bank is J. J. Holloway, of Wheeling. Mr. Jungling's home is at Lennox in Wheeling. He is a member of the Fort Henry Club of Wheeling, the Elks Lodge, the Wheeling Country Club, the Wheeling Tennis Club, and his favorite recreation is golf. During the World war he was chairman at Bridgeport of all the Liberty Loan drives, and put every one of them far over the top. He married at Wheeling Mary Elizabeth Weitzel, born and reared in that city, daughter of John Weitzel, an engineer. They have one son, Robert William Jungling. JESSE MOORE BARTON, secretary of the Martins Ferry Board of Trade and an insurance man, is one of Ohio's distinguished ex-service men of the World war. He was one of the young American officers who went overseas in the flrst months of the war, returned to this country disabled with wounds, and was not restored to civilian life until nearly three years after the close of the war. Mr. Barton was born in the Village of Barton, in Belmont County, Ohio, August 10, 1888. His grand- father, Judge Jesse Barton, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1806, son of Abner Barton, also a native of Chester. Abner Barton brought his family to Ohio in 1814, and was one of the pioneer settlers in Eastern Ohio. He followed the trade of blacksmith and took up a section of land. His son, Judge Jesse Barton, founded the Town of Barton, and was one of the early judges of Belmont County. Wilson Shannon Barton, father of Jesse Moore Barton, was born in 1842, and for many years followed the profession of civil engineering. In the early days in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas he was engaged in railroad building and government surveying. He finally returned to Barton, and is now living there retired, though owner of extensive land interests. He has been active in the democratic party, is a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Wilson Shannon Barton married Jennie Cope, who was born in 1854. Jesse Moore Barton was the second of four children. He attended public schools in his home community, the Linsly Institute at Wheeling, and soon after leaving school he began working in the shipping department of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company at the Aetna Standard Mill. From there he was sent to the Youngstown district, to the Struthers plant, and then to the Laughlin Works at Martins Ferry as assistant order clerk. In 1913 he was promoted to order clerk. Mr. Barton was one of the young men who attended the first military training camp at Plattsburg, New York, in 1916. Early in 1917 he resigned his position with the American Sheet and Tin plate Company to enter the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, where he received his commission as second lieutenant of infantry on August 15, 1917. On September 11, 1917, he was sent to France, attending the French School of Instruction in modern infantry tactics, and then became an instructor at Langres. He was also with the British army, attending the Machine Gun School of Instruction, and subsequently served as instructor with the Seventy-seventh Division, and then with the Thirtieth Division, Headquarters Company, of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. He participated in the Ypres-Lys offensive and the second battle of the Somme. On October 17, 1918, Mr. Barton was awarded the distinguished service cross with two citations. Disabled by wounds, he was sent to Base Hospital No. 24 at Etapes, then to Base Hospital No. 29 at London, and after two months in a hospital abroad was returned to this country and spent thirty-five months iii the New York Polyclinic and the Walter Reed Hospital at Washington. He finally received his honorable discharge on November 7, 1921, after having given nearly five years of his young life to the service of his country. While convalescing in the hospital at Washington he studied law in George Washington University. Mr. Barton on December 1, 1922, located at Martins Ferry, and on April 1, 1923, was made secretary of the Board of Trade. Under his energetic direction the Board of Trade has greatly enlarged its field of usefulness and service. He also does a general insurance business. Mr. Barton is a member of the American Legion Post, is an honorary life member of Lodge No. 895 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a Presbyterian. Most of his recreation now is found in reading, but before his army service he was very active in outdoor sports. He married at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1921, Miss Elizabeth Catherine Mittinger, who was born and reared at Greensburg, daughter of William L. Mittinger. Her father is a retired merchant of that Pennsylvania town. Mrs. Barton is active in the Presbyterian Church and social affairs. They have one son, Jesse Moore Barton, Jr. WILLIAM H. DUFFY, present director of public service of the City of Columbus, came to that office with unusually broad qualifications of experience and personal ability. He was born at Sandusky, Ohio, May 22, 1872, son of James and Mary (McGory) Duffy, his father a native of County Cavin and his mother of County Ty- 138 - HISTORY OF OHIO rone, Ireland. James Duffy was a Union soldier in the Civil war, a member of Company K of the One Hundred Twenty-third Ohio Infantry. For many years he was engaged in the manufacture of wagon and carriage wheels at Sandusky, before the advent of the automobile. He moved to Columbus in 1907, and died in that city at the age of eighty-two. William H. Duffy was reared and educated in Sandusky, and in 1891, at the age of nineteen, became a member of the National Guard. During the Spanish-American war he was second lieutenant in the Sixth Ohio Regiment, United States Volunteers, and served in the Army of Occupation in Cuba. In 1900 Mr. Duffy located at Toledo, and five years later came to Columbus as finance officer in the adjutant-general 's office, under Governor Harris. Mr. Duffy in 1912 was the first editor of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, under Secretary of State Thompson. He was assistant quartermaster general during the administration of Governor Willis, serving under Quartermaster General Hough, and had charge of the construction of Camp Willis, construction work that set a record, since it was completed in eleven days. When America entered the World war he served in the Quartermaster Corps as camp supply officer of the Infantry School of Arms. Mr. Duffy was chosen director of public service January 1, 1920. Under his supervision are the street and sewer division, street cleaning, garbage and refuse collection, operation of the garbage reduction plant, the divisions of electric light, water, sewage disposal, parks, the maintenance of lands and buildings, and new construction work. By virtue of his office he is also president of the Board of Purchase. His office is one of great responsibility, but he has filled it with admirable efficiency at all times. Devoted to official performance, he has before him at all times the ideals of making Columbus a perfect city. While not a professional politician, he is endowed with those qualities that make success in dealing with public affairs. For four years he has been a member of the State Republican Central Committee, and is its present secretary. VICTOR JOHN KEHRER, who was born and grew up near Martins Ferry, has had a successful career as an attorney there, having a good general law practice and other professional and business connections. He was born on a farm in Pease Township, near Martins Ferry, in Belmont County, June 25, 1887, son of Albert G. and Emily (Halm) Kehrer, residents of Martins Ferry. His father was born in Belmont County and his mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, both of German parentage. Albert G. Kehrer has spent his active career as a farmer and truck gardener. He is a member of Saint John's Lutheran Church and a republican in politics. Victor John Kehrer before finishing his high school education decided to be a lawyer. He graduated from the Martins Ferry High School in 1905, and having to depend upon his own earnings and resources he for two years did clerical work in the local freight office of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He then entered the Ohio State University Law School, remaining there three years and defraying his own expenses by work during vacations and at other times. Mr. Kehrer was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1910, and has since been engaged in practice at Martins Ferry. He was associated with William Bates Francis, a former representative of the Eighteen Ohio District in Congress, until 1919. For the past five years he has conducted a general practice alone. Mr. Kehrer is also a director and one of the organizers of the Union Savings and Loan Company and a director of the Martins Ferry Building Company, serving both institutions as attorney. He is active in democratic politics, and in November, 1923, was elected city solicitor. He was identified with all the local war causes. He is a member of the County and Ohio State Bar associations, Saint John's Evangelical Church, and is much interested in outdoor sports. On June 1, 1917, at Washington, Pennsylvania, he married Miss E. Mae Porter, who was born and reared at Bridgeport, Ohio, and is active in the club and social life of Martins Ferry. They have one son, Victor John, Jr. GEORGE COOKE. In addition to handling a large general practice as a lawyer George Cooke has put himself heart and soul into all the worthy civic and progressive movements and undertakings in his home Town of Martins Ferry. He is one of the most valued citizens of that Ohio River industrial city. Mr. Cooke was born near New Athens, in Harrison County, Ohio, May 4, 1869. His grandfather, George Cooke, was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was an early settler in Harrison County, Ohio. James Cooke, father of the Martins Ferry attorney, was a native of Harrison County, was a farmer, and died at the age of sixty-nine. He married Jane McCracken, a native of Belmont County, who died aged eight-four. They were members of the United Presbyterian Church. Third in a family of five children, George Cooke had a farm training, a public school education, and during his youth served three years as assistant postmaster at Bridgeport, Ohio. Then on his own resources he paid his expenses for a year while attending Washington and Jefferson College, and he also had some of his higher training in Franklin College at New Athens, Ohio. Taking up the study of law, Mr. Cooke was admitted to the bar in 1895 at Martins Ferry, and now for nearly thirty years has been engaged in practice there. The larger part of his general practice is corporation law. He represents the Peoples Savings Bank as director and attorney, the Valley Finance Company as director and attorney and one of its organizers, and is a director of the Riverside Bridge Company. Mr. Cooke is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Belmont County Children's Home and is a trustee of the Martins Ferry Hospital, having been one of the local citizens most prominently identified with the establishment of the local hospital. He is a commissioner of the City Sinking Fund, and is a former president of the City School Board and a director of the Martins Ferry Board of Trade. In the democratic party he has served on the County Executive, County Central and also as a member of the State Central committees. He served three terms as city solicitor. He is a United Presbyterian, a member of the Kiwanis Club, Masonic Club, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his Masonic affiliations is with Ohio City Lodge No. 486, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Martins Ferry Chapter No. 173, Royal Arch Masons, Martins Ferry Council No. 122, Royal and Select Masters. During the World war he was a four-minute speaker and a member of the Legal Advisory Board. He served as the first secretary of the Belmont County Bar Association, and is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association. For many years Mr. Cooke has been interested in athletic sports. He married at Delaware, Ohio, April 30, 1902, Miss Lena McKay. She was born at Delaware, Ohio, and finished her education in the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mrs. Cooke is active in the musical, civic and social life of her home town. They have one daughter, Virginia. HOWARD AKEN DUFF, now in his second term as mayor of Martins Ferry, is an ex-service man, has HISTORY OF OHIO - 139 been an iron and steel worker since boyhood, and is a citizen of recognized prominence in his home community of Martins Ferry. He was born there July 14, 1892. His grandfather, Lemuel Duff, came from Pennsylvania to Martins Ferry early in his life, was a captain in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, and in business was a painting contractor. He held various city offices and was active in local affairs. Charles L. Duff, father of Mayor Duff, was born and reared in Martins Ferry, and has spent thirty-two years as an engineer with the Pennsylvania Railway, being an active member of the Pennsylvania Railway Veterans' Association. He is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Charles L. Duff married Katharine Aken, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and died at Martins Ferry in 1913. The oldest of three children, Howard Aken Duff was reared at Martins Ferry, had only a few years of attendance in the local public schools, and was paying part of his expenses when nine years of age by selling newspapers. At the age of fourteen he began an apprenticeship at the trade of moulder with the Center Foundry and Machine Company at Wheeling. He completed a four years' apprenticeship, and was then with the mills of the Whittaker Glessner Company of Wheeling until he answered the call to the colors. He entered the army September 6, 1917, at Camp Sherman, and became a sergeant in Company I of the Three Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry of the Eighty-third Division. He was promoted to first sergeant of Company I, and, going to France, was stationed at Langres and was assigned to the Officers Training School, but the armistice was signed before he was commissioned. He then returned to his company as first sergeant, came home with the organization after six months overseas, and received his honorable discharge in March, 1919. Since the war Mr. Duff has continued his employment as an iron and steel worker. He was candidate for mayor of Martins Ferry in 1919, and in 1921 was elected to that post of responsibility, being the first democratic mayor Martins Ferry has had in sixteen years. He was elected by a majority of 1,000 in a republican town, and, at the age of twenty-nine, was then the youngest mayor in the State of Ohio. In November, 1923, he was again elected mayor by 1,400 majority. As mayor he has emphasized law enforcement without fear or favor. During his first term fines were collected and turned into the city treasury to the amount of over $30,000. His administration was marked by the city getting out of current and floating indebtedness and also by the issue of $400,000 in bonds for the building of light and water plants and paving the streets. Mr. Duff was chosen the first commander of Martins Ferry Post No. 38 of the American Legion. He has been chairman of the City Democratic Committee, is a member of the Elks, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Red Men, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Modern Woodmen of America and belongs to the Methodist Church. Mr. Duff, who is unmarried, was a semi-professional baseball player before he went into the army, and has been at all times an enthusiastic baseball fan, another hobby being Airedale dogs. ALLEN THURMAN SELBY has for over thirty years been identified with the shoe business, and most of that time in business for himself at Martins Ferry. As a citizen and business man he is one of the first called to insure the success of public-spirited enterprises. He is president of the Martins Ferry Board of Trade and well known socially. He was born at Martins Ferry, November 16, 1873, son of Jesse and Emily (Weaver) Selby. His parents were born in West Virginia and his father died in 1903, at the age of sixty-seven, and his mother in 1918, aged eighty-three. Jesse Selby was a brick contractor, and during his long residence at Martins Ferry he built the greater part of the most substantial business buildings in the town. For a time he was associated with the contracting firm of Selby Brothers and then for many years was in business for himself. In addition he was a member of the City Council, was active in the democratic party, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Presbyterian Church. Allen Thurman Selby, only child of his parents, is a graduate of the Martins Ferry High School and for one year attended LaFayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1891, at the age of eighteen, he became a clerk for the Locke Shoe Company at Martins Ferry and also had experience as clerk in the Wheeling store of this company. Then, in 1898, he became associated with R. H. Stewart, establishing the shoe business of Selby & Stewart. The firm dissolved in 1909, and since then Mr. Selby has been in business for himself. He has a fine store, carrying a complete line of shoes and hosiery, and it is the largest establishment of its kind in Martins Ferry. He is also a director in the Citizens Savings Bank and a stockholder in the Peoples Bank. Mr. Selby was elected and served as president of the Martins Ferry Board of Trade for the years 1923-24. He is also a member of the Board of Education, and during the World war was identified with all the local patriotic organizations. He is active in the playground movement and similar enterprises for the welfare of Martins Ferry and its people. He is a democrat, a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Masonic Club, and has served the Presbyterian Church as a trustee and is now a member of the Board of Sessions. He is affiliated with Ohio City Lodge No. 486, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Martins Ferry Chapter No. 173, Royal Arch Masons, Hope Commandery No. 26, Knights Templar, at Bellaire, and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. In February, 1901, at Wheeling, Mr. Selby married Miss Martha Johnson, who was born and reared in that West Virginia city. Her father, George W. Johnson, was head of the well known hardware firm of George W. Johnson & Sons until his retirement, and is now a resident of Martins Ferry. Mr. and Mrs. Selby have two children, Robert Allen and Juliet. O. A. ROBINS is an electrical engineer by profession, and during the past six years has become a prominent figure in that line of work in Columbus. While electrical installation at one time was a superficial and incidental part of the building program, under modern conditions it is an essential part in architectural design and building construction, and in any modern building the electrical construction accounts for one of the large elements of original cost. Electrical contract work in connection with modern architecture demands the services and skill of one of the most recent of the technical professions, electrical engineering. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mr. Robins received a good general and technical education, spending two years as a student of electrical engineering in Drexel Institute at Philadelphia. His first work as an electrician was done for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company at Audenried, Pennsylvania, and for several years he was connected with electrical industries in Pennsylvania. Mr. Robins has been a resident of Columbus since 1918. Here he has done his most important work as an electrical engineer and contractor. Some of the largest contracts in the city during the past six years have been awarded him. He was the engineer for and supervised the electric installation in the plant of the Timken Roller Bearing Company, the new Lazarus Building, the reeonstruc- 140 - HISTORY OF OHIO tion of the Union Store Building, the Medical Arts Building and various other prominent structures in Columbus. In 1923 he took the contract for the electrical construction in the new Fort Hayes Building, to be completed in 1924, one of the largest and most modern buildings in the capital city. As an electrical engineer and contractor Mr. Robins is closely associated with the building interests of Columbus. For two years he was manager of the Electric League of Columbus, and in December, 1923, was nominated for president of the Builders Exchange of the city. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Elks. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Builders and Traders Exchange, the Electric League, illuminating Engineering Society, Society for Electrical Development, Association of Electrologists, International. On September 15, 1909, he married Florence M. Kaufman, a native of Weatherly, Pennsylvania, and daughter of Peter J. and Moriila (Andreas) Kaufman. Their children are Dorothy Mae, Orrin A., Jr., Ruth Leomi and John Sterling. DAVID WILLIAM MEDILL, M. D. A native of Ohio and now a resident of Martins Ferry, Dr. David William Medill has had a long and successful experience in his profession as a physician and surgeon. He has proved his abilities in the practical field of business as well. Doctor Medill was born on a farm near what is now Tiltonville, in Jefferson County, Ohio, July 29, 1872. His father, William Medill, was born at Warrens Ridge, Jefferson County, and died in 1908, at the age of seventy-four. The mother, Martha Jane ( Worthington) Medill, was born at Brilliant, Ohio, and is now eighty-four years of age. William Medill as a young man went out West, and during the Civil war he served as United States marshal at Leavenworth, Kansas. He helped turn back slaves into Missouri, and was on duty during Quantrill's raids. After the war he returned to Jefferson County and engaged in farming. He was active in civic affairs, a democrat, and served on the school board and as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. There were five children in the family: Dr. Walter W., now deceased; W. L., a retired attorney at Martins Ferry; Mrs. Maude Miller, of Sanford, Florida; one that died• in infancy; and Dr. David William. David William Medill while a boy on a farm in Jefferson County attended the common schools, completed his literary education in the Linsly Institute at Wheeling, and on June 22, 1893, graduated in pharmacy from old Scio College. During the following year he did work as a pharmacist at Denver, Colorado, and then entered the medical department of Colorado State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1896. After graduating he became associated with his brother, Dr. Walter W. Medill, in the firm of W. W. Medill & Company, in business as wholesale jobbers of surgical and hospital supplies. Doctor David- William Medill represented the firm as traveling salesman, and covered all the intermountain and Pacific coast states. In 1905 he took work in the New York Post Graduate Medical School, and has returned to that city for further training and inspiration nearly every year. Doctor Medill engaged in general practice at Adena, Ohio, in 1906, in 1910 removed to Youngstown, and since 1916 has looked after a general medical and surgical practice at Martins Ferry. He is a member of the Belmont County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Medill with his brother and sister subdivided the old Medill homestead and platted and sold it partly for residence purposes and also for the site of the mills of the Wheeling Steel Corporation at Tiltonville. Doctor Medill is an enthusiastic fisherman and spends two weeks every year in Northern Michigan. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On November 19, 1906, at Martins Ferry, he married Miss Belle Flora Green, daughter of Thomas Green and Sarah (Bowman) Green. Her father was a well known architect of Martins Ferry, designing the high school and many of the fine homes and business structures of the city. He died in 1917, at the age of sixty-eight, and her mother passed away in 1919, aged seventy. Mrs. Medill was born and reared in Martins Ferry, and has been active in the city's social life and the Presbyterian Church. EARL W. FROOM is one of the active and enterprising young business men of the South Side of Youngstown, being in business as a dealer in dairy products. He was born at Youngstown, March 24, 1894, son of Alfred H. and Emma (Watson) Froom. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania. The family settled at Youngstown in 1892, and Alfred Froom was for a number of years engaged in business as an ice cream manufacturers, but is now retired. His mother died in 1900. Earl W. Froom was liberally educated, attending the public schools at Youngstown, and in 1915 was graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. For six years he was a salesman for Ford cars, and then engaged in the dairy products business, opening his store on Williamson Avenue and Market Street in March, 1922, but this place he sold January 21, 1924. He opened his present store at 2624 Market Street in March, 1923. He handles a complete line of dairy products. Mr. Froom married, June 21, 1916, Miss Emily J. Hoop, a native of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and daughter of Clarence L. Roop. They have two children, Minerva and Robert.. Mr. Froom is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to the Kiwanis Club. He is treasurer of the South Side Business Men's Association. DAVID JAMES WOODS, representing the casualty department of the Medbury-Wilson Insurance Company in the Youngstown district, has been a resident of the City of Youngstown since he was a youth of twenty years, and here he was for many years employed in the steel plants, in which connection he became a skilled boilermaker. Mr. Woods was born at Kanawha, West Virginia, on the 12th of September, 1878, and is a son of Thomas W. and Jane (Cole) Woods, who now maintain their home in Youngstown. Thomas W. Woods was born in Wales, and after coming to the United States he was long employed as a skilled steel worker, he having finally retired from the work of his trade. In the public schools of Nelsonville, Ohio, David J. Woods continued his studies until he was sixteen years of age, when he initiated an apprenticeship to the moulder 's trade, in a foundry at that place. He continued his association with foundry work five years, and in connection with the steel industry he became an expert boilermaker. He continued his service in local steel mills sixteen years, and has since been identified with the insurance business as representative for the Medbury-Wilson Insurance Company. He also served as state oil inspector of Ohio. He is a republican in political adherence, he and his family hold membership in the Baptist Church. He is a trustee and also the executive secretary of the Union League Club of Youngstown, and in his affiliation HISTORY OF OHIO - 141 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees he has passed the various official chairs and also represented the local organizations in the respective Grand Lodge and Grand Camp of Ohio. In August, 1903, Mr. Woods wedded Miss Mary Gething, who was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and who is a daughter of John and Margaret (Jones) Gething, the former a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Woods have four children : David S., Dorothy, Margaret and Jane. JACOB KALVER, of Youngstown, a lawyer by education, is best known through his active interests as a real estate operator. He is also one of the prominent men in the republican party of Ohio. He was born in New York City, October 24, 1873, son of Moses S. and Etta. Kalver, but was reared at Youngstown, where he attended the common schools, and his first business was that of manufacturer of hosiery at Youngstown. On February 1, 1900, he became an expert accountant in the office of the auditor for the War Department of the Treasury Department at Washington, and while in Washington he studied law in Columbia, now George Washington, University, completing his course in 1903. He remained at Washington in the treasury department until about April 8, 1908. For the past fifteen years he has been in the real estate business. He is owner of the Harding Park Allotment at Hubbard, Ohio, and he donated thirty-seven and six-tenths acres of land in Hubbard to the town for park and playground purposes. Under the perpetual name of Harding Park it was dedicated August 16, 1923, being the first memorial to the late beloved President Harding. Mr. Kalver has been active in republican politics and a worker in republican campaigns under and with the late M. A. Hanna from the time that Cleveland business man entered in politics until his death. JAMES HENRY NUTT. A continuous service of nearly half a century to the iron and steel and related industries of the Mahoning Valley, a service of varied importance and responsibility in keeping with its length in years, gives James Henry Nutt of Youngstown a distinction such as is perhaps not enjoyed by any other man in the industry. He started work in a tin mill when he was only nine years of age, and it is literally true that he has been identified with some branch of the iron and steel industry for almost the normal span of man's life, three score and ten years. He was born in Worcestershire, England, November 19, 1848, son of Thomas and Ann (Poultney) Nutt, both of whom remained in England all their lives. His father was a tin plate worker in Worcestershire. James Henry Nutt is a man of extensive knowledge, but his formal schooling was confined to the first nine years of his life and his real education has been the product of extended experience. As a boy he went to work in a sheet mill at Wolver Hampton in Staffordshire, England, and for ten years he had the thorough routine training of a British tin plate mill. In 1868, at the age of nineteen, he came to the United States, and immediately found employment in the mills at Pittsburgh. From there in 1876 he moved to Youngstown, and became identified with the noted old Brown-Bonnell Mill, in which he was employed in the capacity of heater for fifteen years, until 1891. However, the services that have made him best known in the iron and steel industry have been rendered as a labor manager and adviser. In 1892 he became the first incumbent of the newly created office of commissioner of the Labor Bureau of the Mahoning Valley Manufacturers Association, and has filled that office continuously now for over thirty years. In 1906 the Western Bar Iron Association was organized to take in all the iron mills from Pittsburgh west to the Coast, and Mr. Nutt has been the official secretary of this organization ever since. in 1912 he helped organize and has since been secretary of the Western Seet and Tin Plate Manufacturers Association, composed of the independent sheet and tin mills negotiating with the amalgamated associations. Mr. Nutt knows the industry with which he has been identified practically all his life, he knows men, knows the interests at stake, and has earned the thorough confidence and respect of all parties interested. His offices are in the Mahoning Bank Building at Youngstown. In 1884 Mr. Nutt was elected a member of the City Council, and served three terms. In April, 1891, he was appointed one of the first four city commissioners of Youngstown, in response to the acts of the Legislature dividing the administrative functions of the city government. However, after a service of about a year he resigned to become commissioner of the Labor. Bureau. Another important public service was rendered during the World war period as safety director of Youngstown. In addition to his routine responsibilities he did much to promote the efficient functioning of all the local committees formed to assist in the prosecution of the war. He served from 1912 to 1916 as a member of the Board of Education, and is now again a member of that board. Mr. Nutt has served as a member of the Official Board of the Episcopal Church. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Consistory at Cleveland, and also belongs to other bodies at Youngstown. His home is at 238 West Spring Sreet. On November 26, 1871, he married Miss Sarah Ward, of Boston, Massachusetts, where she was born, a daughter of Henry and Susan Ward, natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Nutt were the parents of nine children. Three sons are now living : Harry W. and Albert James, partners in a general contracting business at Toledo, and Dr. George S., a physician at Youngstown, and who served as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps during the World war. HON. JOSEPH H. EBRIGHT. Among the citizens of New Philadelphia who through long residence, sterling citizenship and valuable public service have become well known in their community, few are held in higher esteem than Joseph H. Ebright, a veteran of the Civil war, at present a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and serving as justice of the peace. His career has been a worthy and useful one, both in times of war and peace, and in the evening of life he can look back with a pardonable degree of pride over a life that has been unselfish and that has been of value to his fellow-men. Mr. Ebright was born on a farm in Noble County, Ohio, August 5, 1849, a son of Joseph S. Ebright. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, was a coal miner by occupation, and met his death in a mine accident in Noble County when his son was but seven years of age. After the death of his father Joseph H. Ebright was bound out, and his youth was filled with many hardships and few advantages, educational or otherwise. He was not quite fourteen years of age when he ran away from the farmer who had secured his services, and enlisted in the Union Army, July 4, 1863, becoming a member of Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. When his term expired and he was mustered out of this company he reenlisted, March 4, 1864, in 142 - HISTORY OF OHIO Company F, Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until after the close of the war, receiving an honorable discharge in September, 1865. At the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain he received a severe wound in the chest. The war records show that he was breveted a major, and to this day he is often referred to as "Major" Ebright, particularly in the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is a member. Upon his return from the war the young soldier went to Canton, Ohio, where he secured employment with Sheriff Peter Chance, with whom he remained for two year for his "keep" and privilege of going to school during the winter terms. He then applied himself to learning the trade of machinist, and subsequently went to the West, thence into Mexico and South America, finally returning to Ohio and settling in Tuscarawas County, where he has resided continuously for over forty years. For nine years he was employed as a master mechanic at Dover, and during this time installed the first machinery for the sheet and tin mills there. Eventually he engaged in business on his own account, but gave it up when appointed state examiner of stationary engineers, a position he held for six years, resigning to accept a position in the engineering department of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company as chief mechanic, with headquarters at Bridgeport, Ohio. One year later, on account of ill health, he was forced to resign the position, at which time he engaged in the real estate and insurance business at New Philadelphia, which he has continued. During the past six years Major Ebright has served very acceptably in the office of justice of the peace. In 1922, at the democratic primaries, he won the nomination for representative in the Ohio Legislature, and was elected to that office in the fall of the same year. While in the Legislature, serving in the Eighty-fifth General Assembly, ho introduced the bill (which subsequently became a law) respecting the creation of the Schoenbrunn Historical Association for the preservation of the site of the first church and schoolhouse built in Ohio and west of the Alleghany Mountains, in 1772. Fraternally Major Ebright is a Chapter degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1883 Major Ebright was united in marriage with Miss Laura Humerickhouse, and they are the parents of two sons: Harry C., a prominent realtor of Miami, Florida ; and Howard, who served in the army during the World war, but was not called overseas, and who is now in the West. FRANK H. VOGAN, present county treasurer of Mahoning County, began his career as a printer, still holds a union printer 's card, and for several years was identified with the Court House at Youngstown, before election to his present office. He is undoubtedly one of the best known men in Mahoning County. Mr. Vogan was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1876, son of Gilbert K. and Sarah A. (Lock) Vogan, his father also a native of New Castle, while his mother was born at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Gilbert Vogan, a carpenter by trade, moved to Youngstown in 1877, and died in that city July 27, 1897. His widow still lives there. Frank H. Vogan was an infant when brought to Youngstown, grew up in that city, and had the advantages of the public schools until he was about fourteen years of age. After completing his apprenticeship at the printing trade he worked for several job printing concerns, and was then with the plant of the Youngstown Vindicator, serving many years as foreman of its job department. He resigned in 1911 to become clerk of the county commissioners, serving in that capacity until August 1, 1919, when he was made chief deputy in the county treasurer 's office. Mr. Vogan resigned in June, 1922, to make the campaign for election as county treasurer, and received a substantial majority in November, 1922. He took charge of the county treasurer 's office in September, 1923. On February 14, 1906, he married Miss Cora May Kightlinger, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of Orlando W. and Mary (Hawkins) Kightlinger, her father born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and her mother in Wales. Mr. Vogan is a member of the First Christian Church. He is a republican, and was elected to office on that ticket. Fraternally he is affiliated with Western Star Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the Masonic Grotto, the Eastern Star and the White Shrine, the Knights of Pythias and Youngstown Lodge, No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. For many years Mr. Vogan has been prominently identified with musical circles and activities in Youngstown. He is an expert trombone player, is a member of the Masonic Band and the Musicians Union, and up to 1919 he filled regular engagements, playing with orchestras for theatres and other functions. During the World war he was chairman of the Music Committee in Youngstown. ELIAS MORGAN FAUST, county auditor of Mahoning County, was for nearly thirty years one of the prominent school men of Youngstown, serving as principal until he went into office at the Court House. He was born in Springfield Township of Mahoning County, July 10, 1858, son of Elias and Catherine Anna (Schray) Faust, also natives of Mahoning County. His grandparents, Solomon and Elizabeth (Herman) Faust, were farmers in Mahoning County. The great-grandfather, Philip Faust, a native of Connecticut, was one of seven brothers who fought on the American side in the Revolutionary war. Between 1796 and 1798 he came West to the Western Reserve of Ohio, and under a grant from the Connecticut Land Company secured land at Canfield. About 1812 he sold this land and moved to New Middletown in Mahoning County, where he was a hotel owner and farmer. Solomon Faust was born in Canfield Township in 1803, and spent his life as a farmer.. Elias Faust, Sr., was a teacher in early life and later a contractor and builder, and he died in 1887. His wife, Catherine Anna Schray, who survived him and passed away in November, 1922, at the age of eighty-nine, was a granddaughter of Stephen Rentz, a native of Scotland, and a preacher of the "Separatist Church." Elias Morgan Faust was educated in district schools, in the Poland Union Seminary ,and in later years graduated from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, and also took a course of lectures in the Scientific School at Harvard University. He was seventeen when he taught his first term of district school. He was engaged in country school work until 1887, when he became principal of the New Springfield public school, and in 1889 was made principal of the Flint Hill School in Youngstown. A large part of the school population of Youngstown for thirty years knew him in his capacity as principal. He was principal of the Flint Hill School until 1895, of the Market Street School until 1903, and then had charge of the Wood Street School until 1919, when he resigned to take charge of the county auditor 's office, to which he was elected on the republican ticket in 1918. He was relected in 1922. Mr. Faust proved the possession of exceptional qualifications as a judge during his term from 1910 to 1919 as justice of the peace in Coitsville Township. HISTORY OF OHIO - 143 On May 28, 1880, he married Caroline Welk, a native of New Middletown, Ohio, and daughter of Henry Welk. She died in 1886, her only child, Dale, dying in infancy. On August 17, 1891, Mr. Faust married Miss Flora Bossert, who was born at New Middletown, Ohio, daughter of John and Sally (Welk) Bossert. The two children of this marriage are Veda E. wife of Howard D. Jones, of Scienceville, Ohio, and Homer Morgan, a student in Ohio State University. Mr. Faust is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Science Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, and fraternally has twice filled the office of chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, has been through the chairs and for several years recording secretary in the Junior Order United American Mechanics, is past master and since 1910 has been secretary of Western Star Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and holds all degrees in York and Scottish Rite Masonry except the thirty-third. He is a member of Youngstown Lodge, No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, is former president of the County Teachers Institute, and for some years was on the Executive Committee. He is a member of the Union League Club and the McKinley Club. FRANCIS M. LILLIE. A modern city like Youngstown reflects the technical skill of the engineer on every hand. So far as the public engineering problems are concerned, those dealing with water, sewerage, the laying out of the streets and other public ground, the one individual who has had more to do with the development of these features of the modern city than any other is Francis M. Lillie, who for nearly thirty years was city engineer. He was designated the official to handle such problems when Youngstown was a comparatively small city, with only about eighteen miles of sewerage system and twelve miles of paved street. Before he resigned his office the street paving alone had extended to fully 160 miles in aggregate and the sewerage system had attained a total length of 180 miles. Mr. Lillie was born in Geauga County, Ohio, February 15, 1855, son of William A. and Laura A. (Roberts) Lillie. His mother was born in New York State, and died in 1864. William A. Lillie, a native of Connecticut, and of a family established in New England as early as 1640, studied for the law but eventually became a minister of the Church of the Disciples. For about fifteen years he lived on a farm in Mentor Township of Geauga County, and his last years were spent at Willoughby, in Lake County, where he died in 1887. Francis M. Lillie was educated in district schools in Lake County, and finished his liberal education in Oberlin College in 1880. The following year he moved to Youngstown, where he has been a citizen for over forty years. After a year and a half of employment as assistant to the city engineer he served two years in railroad construction on the Pittsburgh and Western, now a part of the Ohio and Baltimore System, and for four years was in the maintenance of way department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On January 1, 1893, Mr. Lillie assumed the office of city engineer, and served in that position continuously until March, 1920, a period over twenty-seven years. Since he left the office of city engineer he has been engaged in general practice as a consulting engineer, being well known as a specialist in all lines of municipal engineering. The city engineer 's office increased in importance in proportion to the rapid growth of Youngstown, and of the vast amount of work accomplished during Mr. Lillie's administration only a few outstanding points may be mentioned. One of the improvements on which his attention was first concentrated was making efficient the sewerage system in the North Hill district of the city, an improvement carried through by Mr. Lillie, supported by the State Board of Health, and against considerable opposition. He and several public-spirited citizens also developed Wick Park from a site of weeds and bushes into a beauty spot, and he had much to do with planning and carrying out the practical work of acquiring and improving what is known as Lincoln Park. Another improvement demanded early in his administration was a filter plant to purify the city water supply, which had previously been taken unchanged from the river direct. He prepared the plans which were adopted by the Council and approved by the State Board of Health, the plant being constructed by Thomas Lightbody and Mr. Henderson. The distinctive feature of the filtering plant is that it was designed by local men without payments to the filter manufacturers for the use of patents. One of the most important municipal engineering plants around Youngstown is the Milton dam and reservoir, to provide an adequate supply of water for industrial and manufacturing purposes during the dry season of the year. This dam was planned and constructed under the direction of Mr. Lillie, the cost of the land and the dam altogether being about $1,250,000. Mr. Lillie served several years as a trustee of the Unitarian Church, is an independent democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Loyal Order of Moose and Saint David 's Society.. In 1900 he married Miss Mary Whitehead, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of William Whitehead. They have three daughters, all at home, Laura, Annabelle and Eleanor. HARRY R. MCPHERSON is proprietor and publisher of the Eldorado Bee at Eldorado in Preble County, and is a successful young journalist and public spirited citizen of his community. He is widely known through his archaeological interests and studies. He was born near New Paris, Ohio, October 17, 1891, son of Joseph O. and Mary E. (Trucks) McPherson, well-known farming people in the county. Harry McPherson was educated in public schools in Jefferson Township, graduating from the New Paris High School in 1909. During 1909-11 he attended Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, and after leaving college taught school three years in Jefferson Township. In 1914 Mr. McPherson acquired the Eldorado Bee from G. C. Koons, a brother-in-law, and former owner. The Eldorado Bee under Mr. McPherson's energetic management has become a. weekly publication with a circulation of over 600 copies, published each Thursday. The paper was founded about 1878, under the name of Odds and Ends, which discontinued publication about 1881 and has been under its present title since 1898. Mr. McPherson married, June 5, 1912, Miss Elsie C. Commons, of New Paris, daughter of Elmer E. and Cynthia J. (Thomas) Commons, who are now living retired in Florida. Mrs. McPherson was educated in the public schools of Jefferson Township. They have one daughter, Marian, born April 16, 1914. Mr. McPherson is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is an active worker in the United Brethren Church, and is a republican. For several years he was assessor, and is now justice of the peace of his township, and personally and through his paper has given his hearty support to all worthy movements in his community. 144 - HISTORY OF OHIO He is one of the enthusiastic young students of archaeology who has done much to bring to public knowledge the remains of antiquity found in this section of Ohio. In 1923 he published the "Pence Mound," a description of an Indian mound he personally excavated near New Paris in 1922, and he is also author of " The Lee Mound," a similar description of a mound in Monroe Township of Preble County and which was excavated by him in 1920. Mr. McPherson owns a large collection of archeological remains gathered from Darke and Preble counties, also from Eastern Indiana. He organized in 1921 and has since been president of the Preble County Historical Society. It was largely due to his influence that an appropriation of $15,000 was secured from the State Legislature for the purchase of the Fort St. Clair battlefield, a mile west of Eaton. Fort St. Clair battlefield has since been transformed into a beautiful state park, under the guidance of the Preble County Historical Society, and is becoming the mecca of thousands of persons interested in the deeds of their ancestors. PATRICK JOSEPH CARNEY, who for eight months held the office of service director in the municipal government of Youngstown, began his career in the steel mills when a boy, and has been actively identified with both labor and public affairs. He was born in County Galway, Ireland, February 2, 1880, son of James and Mary (Flynn) Carney. His father in 1882 came to America and settled at Youngstown, where he became a steel mill worker. Patrick Joseph Carney remained in Ireland with his grandmother until he was between six and seven years of age, and was then brought by a relative to Youngstown. In that city he attended Saint Anne 's parochial schools, and at the age of fourteen went into the mills as a water boy. His industry and skill brought him eventually to the post of a foreman in the Bessemer department of the Carnegie Steel Company. Mr. Carney in 1919 left the steel mills to engage in the draying business, and continued that work until May, 1923, when he sold his interest. In the meantime, in November, 1921, he was elected councilman at large for Youngstown, taking his seat in the City Council January 21, 1922. On May 1, 1923, he resigned to accept the office of service director, which office was abolished when the new city charter took effect. On July 19, 1924, Mr. Carney engaged in the retail produce business at 1712 Belmont Avenue, where he carries a full line of produce, such as vegetables, butter, eggs, ice cream, soft drinks and groceries. Mr. Carney in 1908 married Miss Mary Lynch, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Michael and Catherine (Giblin) Lynch, her father a native of Ireland and her mother of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Carney have four children, James, Michael, Paul and Mary Catherine. The family attend worship at Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Carney is a republican, is a member of the Knights of Columbus, served one and a half terms as dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, and in July, 1921, was elected state president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and was reelected in August, 1923. NICHOLAS R. HAMILTON, former director of public safety for the City of Youngstown, represents a distinguished family name in that city. He is a son of the late Homer Hamilton, and several of his brothers also reached successful positions in business affairs, his brother, Grant Hamilton, being for many years art editor of the Judge and 'Leslie's Weekly. The late Homer Hamilton was an expert mechanical engineer, and acted as consulting engineer in all the mines and steel mills in Mahoning County. He was born in Trumbull County, was reared in a home of very simple comforts, had to leave school at the age of sixteen, and served an apprenticeship at the machinist 's trade. For a time he was a member of the firm of Predmore & Hamilton, manufacturing portable steam engines. This business, started in 1856, after 1861 continued as the Homer Hamilton & Company, and was the foundation of the widely known engine building establishment of William Tod & Company, under which name it was continued from 1878 until 1915, and was then acquired by the corporation known as the United Engineer & Foundry Company. Homer Hamilton was manager of William Tod & Company until his death in 1893. He was commissioner for Ohio at the New Orleans Exposition in 1883-84, and had been instrumental in collecting the fine exhibit of iron products and mineral resources of the Mahoning Valley for the Centennial Exposition of 1876. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Just after the close of the Civil war he was elected a member of the Village Council of Youngstown, serving two terms in a progressive local government that laid some of the foundations for the city of later years. In 1868, when Youngstown was incorporated as a city, he was elected a member of the first City Council. Homer Hamilton married Adeline Roberts, whose grandfather, Maj. William Roberts, was an American officer in the Revolutionary war. He died in 1913. Nicholas R. Hamilton was born at Youngstown, June 20, 1872, was educated in the public schools, and at the age of nineteen began work in the Youngstown Police Station. Five years later, in April, 1898, he enlisted in Company H of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in camp in Florida. He was discharged in the fall of 1898, having been a trap drummer in the band. He then reenlisted at Augusta, Georgia, joining the Tenth Regiment Band. For two years Mr. Hamilton was identified with the construction work on the street car lines in Sharon, Pennsylvania, then for four years served as assistant engineer, and for eight years as engineer of the Youngstown Fire Department. He was appointed director of public safety in April, 1923. In 1899 he married Alice Hayes, who died in 1917, leaving one son, Harold. In 1919 Mr. Hamilton married Sara J. Snyder, widow of Ralph Wehr, by whom she had a son, Paul Wehr, deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton was born one son, Dale. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a republican in politics, and a Knights Templar and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. THOMAS ROSEWELL ATWOOD. A worker in the steel mills around Youngstown, Thomas Rosewell Atwood was attracted into local politics, and is the present county recorder of Mahoning County. He was born at Youngstown, June 29, 1883, son of Thomas and Mary (Rosewell) Atwood. His father, a native of Shropshire, England, was a son of Moses Atwood, who came to Youngstown in the early '50s. Thomas Atwood was an iron and steel worker in Pennsylvania, and about 1870 worked in the Youngstown district, and died in 1916. He married Mary Rosewell, who was born at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of Edward Rosewell, a native of Pittsburgh, and who served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. Thomas Atwood died in March, 1903, mother of four children: Emma, of Youngstown, widow of James H. Williams ; Flora, Mrs. Ephraim Williams, of Youngstown; Thomas Rosewell; and John, of Youngstown. Thomas Rosewell Atwood continued to attend the public schools at Youngstown until he was sixteen years of age, when he started out to make his own way in the world. In the Ohio works of the Carnegie HISTORY OF OHIO - 145 Steel Company he was employed in work of increasing responsibility until when he resigned he was assistant to the shipper. On January 1, 1914, he was appointed deputy in the Youngstown Municipal Court, holding that office until 1918. He then became chief deputy county auditor, and in 1920 was elected county recorder of Mahoning County on the republican ticket, beginning his official term in September, 1921. On September 23, 1908, Mr. Atwood married Miss Florence Hauserman, a native of Youngstown, daughter of Gottlieb and Mary (Reebel) Hauserman, her father a native of Switzerland and her mother of Youngstown. Mr. Atwood lost his first wife by death in December, 1914. On Sentember 5, 1917, he married Erma Herrmann, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of Jacob and Mary (Theiss) Herrmann, who were born in Germany. Mr. Atwood's four children are: Mary Louise, Eleanor Lydia, Thomas H. and Emma Jane. Mr. Atwood has close ties and working affiliations with several social, fraternal and civic organizations at Youngstown. He is a member of the First Reformed Church and for two years was a member of the finance committee while the new church was being built. In Masonry he is assistant secretary of Western Star Lodge No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and the Grotto, is affiliated with Lodge No. 52, Knights of Pythias, and Lodge No. 403, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the Protective Home Circle, and helped organize and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association. BENJAMIN EDWARD WESTWOOD. In the administration of one of the larger postoffices of the State of Ohio, Benjamin Edward Westwood as postmaster has made a record that fully justifies his place and has shown conspicuous administrative ability and an ambition to make Ms position a medium of thorough service to the community. Mr. Westwood is a former county recorder of Mahoning County. He was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, just over the Ohio state line, on September 20, 1872, son of Samuel and Eliza Caroline (Woodbury) Westwood. His father, a native of Staffordshire, England, was a son of Edward Westwood, a coal miner in the old country, who after coming to America engaged in farming. Samuel Westwood became a puddler in the steel mills, working at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and in 1874 moved to Youngstown, where he died in 1885. He married at Sharon Miss Eliza Caroline Woodbury, a native of that city, and daughter of Edward and Pearl (Grant) Woodbury, also natives of Pennsylvania. She survived her husband over twenty years,. passing away in 1909. Her two children were Benjamin E. and Elizabeth Ann. The latter is the wife of William Wake of Warren, Ohio. Benjamin Edward Westwood was thirteen years old when his father died. He had up to that time been a regular attendant in the grade schools, but at the age of fourteen he began to earn his own living, at first in rolling mills. He started as a dragger out, and in time was advanced to the position of technical skill known as rougher. After being in the steel mills over eighteen years Mr. Westwood in 1903 found other occupation, and for several years was an employe of a bowling alley and poolroom. In 1908 he was elected county recorder of Mahoning County, and made a record of notable efficiency in the administration of that office from 1909 to September, 1913. For the next five years he was connected with the Realty Trust Company in the Abstract and Title Department, and from 1918 to 1922 served as membership secretary of the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Westwood was appointed postmaster of Youngstown April 10, 1922, by the late President Harding. He married, October 27, 1894, Miss Leah Jane Hillier, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Shadrach Hillier, who was born in England. Mr. and Mrs. Westwood have three children: Pearl Amelia, at home; Leah Eleanor, wife of Myron Myers, of Youngstown; and Emerson Edward, attending school. Mr. Westwood is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He served for several years as a member of the jury commission of Mahoning County. He has been through the chairs of the Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Royal Arch, Council Degree and Grotto Mason. JOSEPH M. HUERKAMP, B. S., M. D. In the medical profession of Mercer County there are to be found a number of men who have made their mark when still young in years, due to perfect equipment, long and comprehensive specialized training and intense application. In this class may be numbered Dr. Joseph M. Huerkamp, who has followed his profession in Mercer County for six years, and who is now the leading physician and surgeon of Fort Recovery. Doctor Huerkamp was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4, 1891, and is a son of Martin and Catherine (Bertling) Huerkamp. His father followed the vocation of traveling salesman throughout the period of his active years, and is now deceased, while his mother still survives. Joseph M. Huerkamp received his preliminary educational training at St. Joseph 's College, from which he was duly graduated as a member of the class of 1908. He then pursued a course at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, and was graduated in 1912, subsequently commencing his medical studies at the medical department of Cincinnati University. After receiving his medical degree as a member of the class of 1916 he spent one year as an interne in the General Hospital at Cincinnati, and then commenced practice at Holloway, Ohio, where he remained two years. During the past six years he has been in practice in Mercer County, and at this time occupies four handsome office rooms at Fort Recovery, where he has built up a large practice and a splendid reputation in his calling. Doctor Huerkamp is considered a skilled practitioner and a steady-handed surgeon, and has gained general public confidence. He is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His religious connection is with the Catholic Church. In 1917 Doctor Huerkamp was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Lyle Frisbie, daughter of Alvah and Mary (Hildreth) Frisbie, the former of whom was chief clerk in the office of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Covington, Kentucky. Mrs. Huerkamp was educated at Covington High School, Miss Bristow's private school and Miss Alexander 's private school, and is a graduate nurse from the General Hospital, Cincinnati, and a member of the King 's Daughters. She and Doctor Huerkamp are the parents of three children: Mary Catherine, Alvah and Joseph Edward. GEORGE M. MONTGOMERY. Every history, however brief, of the development of the iron industry in the Mahoning Valley records the fact that the second furnace built, but the first successfully operated, was that built and established by Robert Montgomery on Yellow Creek, about 1806. This Robert Montgomery was of New England stock, of Scotch ancestry, and his father had fought as a patriot in the War of the Revolution. Robert Montgomery learned surveying 146 - HISTORY OF OHIO from his father, and while surveying in Western Pennsylvania, paid a visit up the Mahoning Valley. About 1805 he came again to this section of Ohio, and made a contract for a site for a furnace on land owned by John Struthers. The furnace was put in operation about 1807, and it was operated several years, until litigation and other difficulties closed it down. This pioneer iron master, who died about 1857, has been described as a man of great courage and energy and very outspoken in his opinions. For a number of years he made his home on a farm east of Youngstown. He married Louisa Maria Morris, whose first husband was John Stark Edwards. Her father was a member of Congress from Vermont. She was a woman of education and refinement, and greatly beloved by the young people of the Youngstown community. Robert M. Montgomery, only child of the iron master, devoted his active career to farming near Youngstown. He married Nancy H. Wolcott, of New England ancestry. Their son, Lewis W. Montgomery, also became a farmer, served as a Union soldier during the Civil war, and died at Youngstown in 1912. He married Isabell Cubbison, who was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, daughter of James and Mary (Campbell) Cubbison. Mrs. Isabell Montgomery is still living at Youngstown. George M. Montgomery, a great-grandson of the iron master, Robert Montgomery, has for many years been prominent in his profession as a civil engineer at Youngstown. He was born in that city March 20, 1873, and after attending the public schools acquired his advanced education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and the Ohio State University. He completed his civil engineering course in 1897, and soon afterward began practice with his cousin, Edwin D. Hazeltine. The firm of Hazeltine and Montgomery, civil and mining engineers, has been in existence for a quarter of a century, and it has solved engineering and other technical problems for nearly all the larger industries of the Mahoning Valley. In addition to his extensive private practice Mr. Montgomery has also served for nearly twenty years as county surveyor of Mahoning County. His first term in that office was from 1900 to 1910. In 1918 he was again elected, and is still in the service. He has also at different times been the official engineer for the villages of East Youngstown and Struthers, and resident engineer of the State Highway Commission. Mr. Montgomery is a member of the Ohio Society of Surveyors and Civil Engineers and the Engineers Club of the Youngstown district. He is a republican, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In the fall of 1897 Mr. Montgomery married Miss Ella A. Robinson, daughter of James and Elizabeth Robinson, natives of England, and for many years residents of Niles, Ohio. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery are: Miss Mary Louisa and Robert M., the latter a student in the Ohio State University. Both are graduates of the Rayen High School of Youngstown. RICHARD A. ZENK, an architect of recognized ability and successful achievement, has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Youngstown for more than a score of years, and has gained standing as one of the prominent representatives of his profession in Mahoning County. Mr. Zenk was born in Germany, August 24, 1876, and is a son of Albert E. and Carolina (Knuth) Zenk. He was about five years of age when, in 1881, his parents came to America and established their residence at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whence in the following year they came to Youngstown, Ohio, where the father found profitable employment at his trade, that of patternmaker. The subject of this sketch continued his studies in the public schools of. Youngstown until he was seventeen years of age, he having in the meanwhile profited by the discipline of the high school. At the age noted he entered upon a practical apprenticeship in the office of H. F. Kling, a leading architect at Youngstown, and in the passing years he gained marked proficiency in his chosen vocation. After ten years of association with Mr. Kling he was admitted to partnership in the latter 's business, and this alliance continued until January, 1922, when the partnership was dissolved. Since that time Mr. Zenk has continued in independent practice, as one of the able and successful architects of The county which has represented his home from his boyhood. He maintains his office at 144 West Wood Street, and his resi • dente at 1112 Bryson Street. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are active communicants of Woodland Avenue Lutheran Church. On the 25th of June, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Zenk and Miss Dorothea K. Boehne, who was born at Union City, Indiana, a daughter of Rev. E. A. and Barbara (Emmelhinz) Boehne, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Columbus, Ohio, the father having long been an able and zealous clergyman of the Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. Zenk have four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Theodore R., December 7, 1905; Gertrude E., February 12, 1907; Margaret L., June 18, 1910; and Ernest A., November 7, 1915. Mr. Zenk has designed and supervised the erection of many buildings in Mahoning County, including a number of specially important order, and his reputation constitutes a most valuable asset in his business. As a citizen he is loyal and progressive, and he takes deep interest in all that concerns the welfare and advancement of his home city and county. ALFRED G. MORGAN effectively prepared himself for the profession of civil engineering, of which he is now one of the successful and prominent representatives of the younger generation in the City of Youngstown, the vital industrial city that is the judicial center and metropolis of Mahoning County. Mr. Morgan was born at Girard, Trumbull County, Ohio, in April, 1890, a son of Walter and Jennie (Brown) Morgan, who still maintain their home at Girard, where the father is a skilled steel worker in the mills at that place. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were William and Susan Morgan, who were born and reared in Wales, where their marriage was solemnized and where all of their children were born. William Morgan came to the United States after the death of his wife and established his home at Youngstown, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. In the public schools of his native place, Alfred G. Morgan continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the high school, and in 1908, when eighteen years of age, he took up a technical course of study and gained the practical experience that admirably equipped him for successful work as a civil engineer. Here he has been engaged in the private practice of his profession since 1920, and he maintains his office at 150 West Rayen Avenue. He is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Ohio State Engineering Society. He is actively identified with the United Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, in which he is director of the choir, his musical talent being of high order. HISTORY OF OHIO - 147 He married in 1915, Miss Nettie Armitage, a daughter of William and Lillian (Shook) Armitage, and to this union was born one child, Alfred G., Jr. Mrs. Morgan died in 1918. GEORGE H. GESSNER made for himself a record of successful and worthy achievement in the practice of law and as judge of the Municipal Court in the City of Youngstown, judicial center of Mahoning County, and this record marked him as distinctly eligible for the higher honor that came to him on the 19th of March, 1923, when he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for this county. On this bench he is giving a characteristically zealous and effective administration. Judge George Herbert Gessner was born in Knox County, Ohio, September 13, 1878, and is a son of John and Lucy (Ashburn) Gessner, the former of whom was born at Loudonville, Ashland County, this state, in the year 1834, and the latter of whom was born in Knox County, in 1848, she having been one of the venerable native daughters residing at Mount Vernon, the county seat, at the time of her death, January 6, 1924. John Gessner became a skilled blacksmith, anti he followed his sturdy trade in Knox County many years, his death having there occurred on the 20th of May, 1884. His father, William Gessner, was born in Germany, was a youth when he came to the United States, and he became one of the pioneer settlers in Ashland County, Ohio, the remainder of his life having been passed in this state. Judge George H. Gessner was the fifth in order of birth of the six children now living. The eldest of the number, Frances, is the wife of Lawrence Dermondy, and they maintain their home at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Albert is a resident of Los Angeles, California; Catherine is the wife of George F. Malone, of Baltimore, Maryland; Clinton H. resides in Huron County, Ohio, and Mabel is a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the wife of O. L. Andrews. After completing his studies in high school Judge Gessner was for two years a student in Hiram College, and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913, his admission to the Ohio bar having been a virtual concomitant of his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. At Youngstown he thereafter continued in the general practice of his profession until April 17, 1917, when he was appointed to the bench of the Municipal Court of this city, art office of which he continued the incumbent until he was elevated to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas in the spring of 1923. The Judge has given effective service also in connection with the educational work of his profession, as he has been the dean of the. Youngstown School of Law since November, 1920. In 1914-15 he served as assistant city solicitor of Youngstown. He was a member of the commission that drafted the admirable new municipal charter for the City of Youngstown. The Judge has been distinctively one of the state 's constructive workers, and in this connection it is to be noted that in his youth he gave ten years of successful dispensation as a teacher in the public schools in Milton and Berlin townships, Mahoning County, besides which he was engaged in farming in Milton Township, where for two terms he held the position of township assessor. Judge Gessner is a loyal and well fortified advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Christian Church in their home city. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and with Milton Grange No. 733, Patrons of Husbandry, of which lie was secretary during a long term of years. He is past vice president of the Youngstown Society for the Blind, and is president of the local Kiwanis Club and also of the Chamber of Commerce. August 28, 1917, recorded the marriage of Judge Gessner and Miss Ruth Robison, who was born at Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio, a daughter of Frank and Nora M. (McGranahan) Robison, the former of whom likewise was born at Palmyra, and the latter of whom was born near Greenville, Pennsylvania. Judge and Mrs. Gessner have three children : John Franklin (born May 20, 1919), and Martha and Margaret (twins). BRUNO W. HOLSTEIN. A little more than ten years ago, in 1913, B. W. Holstein started a small machine shop in Columbus on Swan Street, having only one boy as an assistant. He was an expert mechanical engineer and his shop provided facilities for the manufacture of special tools for Columbus manufacturers. This business has steadily grown and is today known as the Superior Die, Tool and Machine Company at 525 Buttles Avenue, having been incorporated in 1923 with a capital of $150,000. B. W. Holstein and C. A. Field are now proprietors of the business; Mr. Field being an expert accountant and has had charge of the office management since 1915. Mr. Holstein looks after all of the technical problems of manufacture, and also has been largely responsible for the building up of the sales. In the early days of the business Mr. Holstein, while visiting in Detroit, secured some contracts to make special tools for automobile manufacturers. This line developed rapidly, demanding an expansion of space and installation of new machinery. In 1918 the present plant on Buttles Avenue was secured. Today eighty men are employed in the industry, and while special tools seem to be the leader, the company does a large business in manufacturing license plates for automobiles, having the contract for manufacturing the plates used in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Washington. The constant aim has been to produce only high grade work, especially work requiring the finest of machinery as well as workmanship. This is the only machine shop in Columbus that has some of the machines of utmost precision used in modern industry, one such machine being graduated to a fineness of one twenty-fifth part of one ten-thousandths of an inch. The details of production have been under the constant supervision of Mr. Holstein, and he has used his expert technical knowledge to build up a profitable business for the concern. He is a skilled designer and has assembled about him a force of experts in the various departments. Mr. Holstein was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1877 and was three years of age when his parents came to America and settled at Columbus. His father, August Holstein, was for many years foreman in the pattern shop of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. He died in 1901. Bruno W. Holstein, as a boy, sold newspapers and was a bootblack on the streets of Columbus. In his mature life he has retained an honorary membership in the News Boys' Association and devotes one day each year for charitable purposes, selling newspapers. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, the Elks Lodge, the Elks Country Club and the Columbus Mannerchor. June 20, 1901. Mr. Holstein married Miss Dorothy Balden, and their two children are: Elizabeth, now Mrs. J. A. Murphy, and Paul J., who is now a student at Ohio State University. CARROLL THORNTON, who was mayor of the City of Youngstown in 1916-18, had long, before won an envi- 148 - HISTORY OF OHIO able place in business affairs, and since the World war has been one of the leaders in real estate activities. He was born in Youngstown, February 20, 1861, son of William and Julia (Hamilton) Thornton, and grandson of Daniel Thornton. His parents were both born in the Mahoning Valley. William Thornton was an engineer in coal mines, and died in 1905, at the age of seventy-six. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic Order. His wife was a daughter of Eli Hamilton. She died in 1914, aged seventy-seven. Their four sons have all been well known in Youngstown business affairs, Anson, Carroll, Charles and Jesse. Carroll Thornton attended the common schools of Youngstown until he was thirteen years of age, and then went to work in the factory of the Arms-Belt Bolt Company, carrying iron. He remained with the company in different capacities for six years, then became a wagon driver for the United States Express Company, later was with Wells-Fargo & Company- at Corry, Pennsylvania, and subsequently was agent for that company in Youngstown. After ten years in the express business he engaged, in 1890, in the laundry business, founding the Youngstown Laundry Company, which subsequently became the Youngstown Laundry and Cleaning Company. He was active in this business for twenty-six years, disposing of his interests in March, 1917. Mr. Thornton was chosen a member of the Charter Commission of Youngstown in 1913. A few years later he was elected mayor, and his administration covered the critical years of 1916-18, including most of the war period. He handled affairs with a wise and energetic hand, and was largely responsible for the adjustment of the labor troubles resulting in the East Youngstown riots. During eight years Mr. Thornton was a member of the Youngstown Board of Education, being president of the board for two years. On February 1, 1919, Mr. Thornton became sales-manager of the real estate department of the Realty Trust Company. After three years he retired, and has since been doing an individual business in real estate. He married in 1889 Miss Bertha E. Stewart, who died February 19, 1891, leaving one daughter, Josephine, now the wife of John Black, of Pittsburgh. In 1896 Mr. Thornton married Miss Ada Miller. The one child of this marriage is William Wallace Thornton, a graduate of the famous preparatory school, Phillips Exeter Academy, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. Mrs. Thornton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Thornton is a republican, is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and is now president of the Youngstown Real Estate Board. He served for ten years as treasurer of the Laundry Men 's National Association, and has also served as president and treasurer of the Ohio State Laundry Men's Association. ARTHUR HECTOR WILLIAMS, director of finance of the City of Youngstown, and an ex-service man of the World war, is one of the younger men in the public affairs of his native city. He was born at Youngstown, April 16, 1896, son of Thomas B. and Mary A. (Jones) Williams. His parents were both born in Wales. His maternal grandparents, David and Jane (Williams) Jones, came to this country in 1873, living in New York State for a time. David Jones was a pattern maker by trade and worked for a number of years at Youngstown, and is now living retired, at the age of eighty-four, on Madison Avenue in that city. The father of Thomas B. Williams was a florist, and after coming to this country was in business at Greenville, Pennsylvania, where he died. Thomas B. Williams was born in 1857, came to the United States in 1877, and was a coal miner by trade. He was identified with the mining industry of the Mahoning Valley, subsequently in the West, and he died at Youngstown in 1919. He is survived by his widow and three children: Edna J., wife of David E. Jenkins, a distinguished lawyer and jurist, formerly of Youngstown, now of Cleveland; Arthur H., and Russell, who is identified with the oil industry in Southern California, with home at Los Angeles. Arthur H. Williams graduated from the Garfield grammar school at Youngstown, and in 1914 from the South High School. In high school he was a member of the Phi Sigma Phi fraternity. He is past president of that fraternity. While in high school and afterward he was employed by the Reed Drug Company, and among his high school studies he was especially proficient in pharmacy. Early in 1917 he became assistant city auditor under Daniel Jones, but resigned to enlist in the army. On account of his special knowledge of chemistry he was assigned to duty in the chemical warfare division, and was at the Edgewood Arsenal, in Maryland, assisting in manufacturing the famous mustard gas. In January, 1919, after a service of nine months, he was honorably discharged, and subsequently in that year was nominated without opposition for the office of city auditor on the republican ticket, and by election entered upon the duties of his office in January, 1920. Mr. Williams is a member of the American Legion Post, attends the Congregational Church, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Masonic Club at Washington. He also belongs to the Youngstown Automobile Club. HERBERT LYMAN FORD has gained marked success and prestige in his chosen profession, that of architect, and has been numbered among its leading representatives at Youngstown, metropolis and judicial center of Mahoning County, for a period of virtually twenty years, his offices being at 210 North Phelps Street. Mr. Ford has designed and supervised the erection of many important buildings and also innumerable high-grade residences in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, so that his professional reputation is not confined to local bounds and constitutes a basis for continued expansion of his activities. He has made investments in a number of residence properties in his home city, and these are kept in excellent condition, so that they give good returns from rentals. A scion of a family that was founded in New England, that gracious cradle of much of our national history, in the early Colonial era, Herbert Lyman Ford claims the old Bay State as the place of his nativity. He was born at Westfield, Massachusetts, March 25, 1875, on the same street and only two houses west of the house in which Speaker Gillett, likely soon to be Senator Gillett, was born, and long friends and neighbors, and is a son of Rufus M. and Harriet Lucretia (Starr) Ford, both likewise natives of that state, the former born at West Stockbridge and the latter at Southwick. Heman Ford, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born at West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in that state was born also his wife, whose family name was Brown, and his grandfather, John Ford, was one of the first settlers of West Stockbridge. Heman Ford was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature on the No-Nothing ticket from West Stockbridge prior to the Civil war, and was one of the few who opposed the sale of the Hoosac Tunnel to the railroad company. The mater- HISTORY OF OHIO - 149 nal grandparents of Herbert L. Ford were Charles Dudley and Sarah Story (Kimball) Starr. Charles D. Starr was born and reared at Groton, Connecticut, was a millwright and builder by trade, and he became a pioneer representative of his trade at Elyria, Ohio, where he established his residence about the year 1822. He was a direct descendant of Dr. Comfort Starr, who came from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630, and some of his immediate descendants united in marriage with the family of William Brewster of Mayflower fame. Charles Dudley Starr, who was more familiarly known by his second personal name, was likewise a pioneer in the State of Michigan, where his first marriage occurred, he having been three times married. After residing a few years at Lorain, Ohio, he returned to Massachusetts, where he passed the remainder of his life, at Westfield. The father of Charles Dudley Starr was wounded by a musket ball, and an uncle only nineteen years of age and the youngest soldier in the fort, was killed in the defense of Fort Griswold on the Groton shore, when Benedict Arnold raided New London in the latter part of the Revolutionary war. Rufus M. Ford attended the State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts. He performed successful service as a teacher in the common schools, besides having been a practical farmer. When the Civil war was precipitated on the nation he enlisted, for a term of three years, as a member of the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was a regiment of the famous Sixth Corps. He participated in many engagements, including the battle of Gettysburg and a number of other major battles, and while he escaped wounds he was somewhat seriously injured by a log that was thrown on the tent in which he was sleeping at the time. After the war he became a telegraph operator, and as such he was employed on the Union Pacific Railroad at the time when its great transcontinental line was under construction. For a few years thereafter he conducted a retail grocery in Chicago, where he was thus engaged at the time when thc great fire of 1871 brought untold disaster to that city. After his return to Westfield, Massachusetts, he there engaged in the furniture and upholstering business, and there he and his wife continued to reside until their death. After completing his course in the high school at Westfield, Massachusetts, Herbert L. Ford found employment in the office of Architect A. W. Holton of that city. He was nineteen years old at the time, and he remained with Mr. Holton six years. During that period he took private instruction from the firm of Garner & Gardner, architects, of Springfield, Massachusetts. During an ensuing period of three years he was in the employ of the Stanley Manufacturing Company of Pittsfield, that state, for which concern he drafted plans for factory buildings, of the con- struction of which he was the superintendent. He then went to Pennsylvania and established his office at Sharon, in Mercer County, where he continued his activities in his chosen vocation until 1904, when he removed to Youngstown and formed a partnership with J. M. Miller, under the firm name of Miller & Ford. Six years later Mr. Ford sold his interest in the business to his partner, and since 1912 he has been independently engaged in architectural work and service, with headquarters at Youngstown. In politics Mr. Ford maintains an independent attitude. He became a zealous advocate of temperance and prohibition many years ago, and identified himself with the Sons of Temperance, the Prohibition Party, and other organizations formed to advance the prohibition movement and eliminate the traffic in intoxicating beverages. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Youngstown, as was also his wife, whose death occurred October 23, 1918. Mr. Ford is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society and a charter member of the Youngstown Kiwanis Club. February 2, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ford and Miss Florence Elliott Warren, daughter of Edwin M. and Emma (Pratt) Warren, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the former a brother of United States Senator Warren of Wyoming, whose daughter became the wife of Gen. John A. Pershing, her death having occurred in California. Mr. Edwin M. Warren is deceased. Mrs. Edwin M. Warren now resides in the old home town of Dalton, Massachusetts, and in her home is Edwin Warren Ford, who was born in Youngstown, Ohio, November 1, 1911, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Ford, he having been taken in charge by his maternal grandmother after the death of his mother. The only living brother of the subject of this review is Charles Starr Ford, who is a jeweler in Palmer, Massachusetts. CLYDE M. RUMFIELD was for a number of years engaged in railroad service, a work that first brought him to Columbus, and on resigning he engaged in the real estate business, and has been the foremost factor in the development of one of Columbus' most important suburbs, Linden. Mr. Rumfield was born on a farm in Salem Township of Meigs County, Ohio, in 1885, son of Henry J. and Sarah (Ritz) Rumfield. His life until the age of seventeen was spent on a farm, and while there he made the best of his advantages in the country schools. His apprenticeship for railroading was secured in a telegraph office, where he mastered telegraphy, and subsequently served as both station agent and operator. He worked in this capacity for the Lexington and Eastern Railroad in Kentucky for a time, but in 1905 came to Columbus and was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad System until he retired some four or five years later. Mr. Rumfield's home has been at Linden since 1909, and since 1910 he has been in the real estate business. Located in Clinton Township and joining Columbus on the northeast, Linden has grown into onc of the thriftiest and most popular suburban communities of the capital city. In the remarkable development that has taken place within the last few years, Mr. Rumfield has been distinctly the leader. Since 1919 in advertising and publicity work he has expended practically $25,000 and has been behind every movement and civic enterprise for the benefit of this splendid community. In 1922 Mr. Rumfield laid out and sold three additions to Linden, and in 1923 laid out and sold two more, and is now engaged in the building of a new town, "North Linden." During these two years he built and sold over thirty homes on the additions. He also built for his own family a beautiful modern nine-room home at 2426 Cleveland Avenue. Mr. Rumfield is vice president of the Linden Civic Association, and in 1923 he organized a movement to bring about the elimination of grade crossings at Linden and vicinity and is chairman of the organization for that purpose. He is president of the Clinton Township Sunday School Association, is a member of the Kohr Memorial Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with Linden Lodge No. 637, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Temple Chapter No. 155, Royal Arch Masons; York Council No. 115, Royal and Select Masters; and Franklin Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Laura Belle Roberts and they have one son, Clyde M. Jr. NOAH W. REIN does business as it ought to be done, with the result that his career has been marked with consecutive advancement and he now has standing as one of the influential and successful representatives of the wholesale coal business at Youngstown,