150 - HISTORY OF OHIO Ohio, the main offices of the company, of which he is the secretary, being established at Buffalo, New York. Noah Wilson Rein was born at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, January 26, 1863, and is a son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Peters) Rein, both natives of Germany. Anthony Rein was a young man when, as an apprenticed sailor, he voyaged across the Atlantic to New York City. On shipboard he formed the acquaintance of a man named Hipp, and the latter induced him to come to Ohio. Mr. Rein remained for an interval in the City of Cincinnati, and then engaged in the tinning business at Marietta. There he remained until 1873, when he became associated with his brother in the same line of enterprise at Bellaire, Belmont County, where he passed the remainder of his life, his widow having been a resident of Woodsfield, Monroe County, at the time of her death. Noah W. Rein attended the Ohio public schools until he was fifteen years old, and he then went to the home of an uncle, who was editor and publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Times in the City of Brooklyn, New York. There Mr. Rein continued to attend the public schools for a time, and he then entered his uncle 's office and served an apprenticeship to the printer 's trade. He became a skilled compositor, and as such, after his return to Ohio, he found employment in the office of the newspaper known as the Jeffersonian, published at Cambridge, Guernsey County, besides which he became a successful solicitor for job printing. Finally he took a position as express messenger on the old Cleveland & Marietta Railroad, and he continued in the railway express service a number of years during six of which he was express messenger on the Erie Railroad. During the ensuing five years he was in the Cleveland office of the Erie Express, and he then, in 1890, came to Youngstown in the capacity of local agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, with which he continued his service in this city fifteen years. He then resigned and associated himself with H. K. Wick in organizing the Home Supply Company for the handling of coal and ice. Mr. Wick became president of the company, C. M. Boyd secretary and treasurer, and Mr. Rein, general manager. After about two years of successful operation the business was sold to the Youngstown Ice Company, and Mr. Rein then became a traveling salesman and representative for H. K. Wick, Incorporated, in the wholesale coal business. He was thus engaged five years, and then became general agent for the corporation, a position which he retained until the death of Mr. Wick in March, 1916. In the following July Mr. Wick's interests were taken over by the present corporation, and Mr. Rein became secretary of the company, a position of which he has since continued the incumbent, with offices at 322 Dollar Bank Building in Youngstown, the main offices of the company being, as previously noted, in the City of Buffalo, New York, and the business being one of broad scope and importance. Mr. Rein is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Central Christian Church in their home city, in which he is serving as a deacon. He is affiliated with the local York Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, including Youngstown Commandery of Knights Templars, and has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. December 31, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rein and. Miss Gertrude Madison, who was born at Cambridge, this state, a daughter of the late Charles and Margaret (Grimes) Madison, the father having been for a long period engaged in the hotel -business at Fairview, on the old National Turnpike. Of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Rein the younger, Charles, died at the age of two and one-half years. The older son, Harvey M., resides at Youngstown, the maiden name of his wife having been Harriet Davis. JOHN J. KANE. While he began his career as a worker of the steel mills in the Youngstown district, John J. Kane is best known in that city for his long and favorable service as a police officer and for many years as head of a private detective and police organization. He was born at Youngstown, June 25, 1868, son of John and Mary (Berry) Kane. His parents were born in County Mayo, Ireland, and soon after their marriage came to the United States. They lived for a time in Cleveland, locating there at the beginning of the Civil war, and then removed to Youngstown. John Kane was an iron and steel worker, connected with the Brown-Bonnell and other plants in the Mahoning Valley, and was a loyal and capable man and citizen. He died in 1914. His widow still lives at Youngstown. They had a family of ten children. John J. Kane attended parochial schools only to the age of eleven, when he went to work in the steel mills as driver of a horse and cart. He remained there five years, and was then made a brakeman with the steel company's railroad. He was around steel mills for ten years, and then for six years was a brakeman with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Leaving the railroad service, he became a patrolman with the Youngstown police force, serving on the force as a patrolman six years and for eight years was city detective. He resigned to become secret service officer for Mahoning County, and after five years resigned and be-came safety director for the Republic Rubber Company. He filled that position three years, and since then has conducted a business of his own as an investigating agent. He started with three men and now has twenty-three employes. He supplies a special police patrol service for merchants and banks, does special detective work, and carries on his business under the name of the Kane Secret Service Agency Company. On September 19, 1893, Mr. Kane married Miss Lena Boyle, a native of Mahoning County and daughter of Bison P. and Mary (Flaherty) Boyle, natives of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Kane have the following children: William, of Youngstown; Mary, wife of James Dolphen, of Youngstown; Margaret, Mrs. John Ashton, of Girard, Ohio; John, a student in Notre Dame University in Indiana; Paul and Ethel, students in the parochial schools. The family are members of Saint Edward Catholic Church. Mr. Kane is an independent in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Optimist Club and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. For several years he was head of the Youngstown division of the United States Revolver Association, and for four years was jury commissioner of Mahoning County. ANDREW G. MAGUIRE served his business apprenticeship as a steel mill worker at Youngstown, but for some years past has been one of the successful and prominent men in the automobile business in that city, being president of one of the most prosperous sales and distributing agencies in Eastern Ohio. He was born at North Hastings, Ontario, Canada, September 14, 1881, son of Charles and Ellen (Henderson) Maguire. His parents are natives of Scotland, were married there, and in 1870 came to Ontario, Canada, and settled on a farm at North Hastings. They now live retired at New Liskeard, Ontario. The father was born December 8, 1842, and the mother, November 20, 1844. They are, therefore, about eighty years of age, and their great vitality has been transmitted to their children, their six sons and four daughters all being alive, with fifty-one grandchildren. HISTORY OF OHIO - 151 Andrew G. Maguire, the sixth child in age, attended public schools at North Hastings, Ontario, and when fifteen years of age came alone to Youngstown, Ohio. His first employment was as a puddler 's helper in the old. Brown-Bonnell Steel Mill. Two years later he began an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, and followed that as a vocation for twelve years. For five years he was in the automobile accessory business at Youngstown, and following that became service manager for the Henderson Overland Company, later being made assistant general manager of the company. On January 1, 1922, he organized his own company, the Maguire Automobile Company, handling the sale and distribution of the Durant and Star automobiles over an extensive territory, including Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning, Columbiana and portions of Carroll and Jefferson counties, Ohio, also Hancock County, West Virginia. Mr. Maguire is president and treasurer of the company, Charles Cushwa is vice president, and A. M. Henderson is secretary. Mr. Maguire is a director in the Youngstown Automobile Association, and is also a member of the State Automobile Association. On August 15, 1905, he married Miss Jeannie Brownlie, a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Bruce Brownlie, born May 25, 1911, and Virginia Helen, born August 10, 1917. Mr. Maguire is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. He has been a director of the Chamber of Commerce, is past president of the South Side Business Men's Association and a member of the Kiwanis Club and Exchange Club. He is a Royal Arch and Grotto Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. JAMES WILLIAM CANNON, who served overseas in the great war with the engineers, has earned a fine record as an attorney at the Youngstown bar, and is one of the well known progressive younger citizens of that metropolis of the Mahoning Valley. He was born at Youngstown, July 2, 1885, son of James and Anna (McKeever) Cannon. His parents were born in Ireland, came to the United States when young, and were married in Youngstown. His father became an iron and steel worker, and died December 17, 1898, the mother passing away September 2, 1901. They had five sons: James William; John, of New Mexico ; and Patrick, Thomas and Paul, all of Youngstown. James William Cannon was educated in grammar and high school, and finished his course in law in 1915 at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. In December, 1914, he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and soon afterward engaged in practice. The routine work of his profession was interrupted when in May, 1918, he enlisted as first lieutenant in the Engineers Corps. In June of the same year he left for overseas, and was attached to the general staff in front line engineering operations. In July, 1919, he returned to the United States, and received his discharge with the rank of lieutenant of engineers on July 30, 1919. He then resumed his law practice in Youngstown. Mr. Cannon, who is unmarried, is a member of Saint Edward's parish of the Catholic Church, has served as deputy grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of Youngstown Lodge No. 55 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a republican. He is a Phi Alpha Delta, and a member of the Society of American Military Engineers. WALLACE DUNN, an active member of the Youngstown bar, is a native of that city, and from early boyhood has made his own way, achieving independence and a worthy professional career. He was born at Youngstown July 29, 1885, son of James and Fannie (Cooksey) Dunn, natives of England. His father for many years was an accountant at Youngstown, where he died in 1901, the mother passing away in 1916. Up to the age of fourteen Wallace Dunn had the advantages of the grammar and high schools of Youngstown, and then went to work, beginning an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade in the plant of the Youngstown Car Manufacturing Company. Upon the death of his father two years later he entered the general offices of the Erie Railroad Company as messenger boy, and six years later, when he resigned, was clerk. In 1908 he entered the service of the Republic Rubber Company, beginning as timekeeper, and subsequently was promoted to mediator and assistant to the president of the company. While with the Republic Rubber Company he diligently pursued the study of law, and in 1920 was admitted to the Ohio bar. Since then he has had a general practice, and since August, 1923, has been the legal representative for the Morden Detective Agency, which was established in Youngstown in 1920, and now has branches in a number of Ohio cities. Mr. Dunn married, October 28, 1912, Miss LeEtta Canfield, native of Youngstown and daughter of W. W. and Amelia (Llewelyn) Canfield. They have two children, Virginia Mae and Wallace, Jr. Mr. Dunn was reared in the Episcopal Church and now attends the Congregational. He is a republican, and is affiliated with Youngstown Lodge No. 16, Free and Accepted Masons, Youngstown Chapter No. 93, Royal Arch Masons, Buechner Council, Royal and Select Masters, and is affiliated with Hazelton Lodge No. 60 of the Protective Home Circle. WALTER J. STEPHENS. This leading florist of Ohio and now president of the Ohio District of the National Flower Growers' Association was born in Columbus in 1890. His parents are Sherman F. and Augusta (Neunherz) Stephens, both of whom are natives also of Columbus. The present business of which Sherman F. is the senior member was first established in 1876 by the late Joseph. Campbell. It was transferred to Sherman F. in 1881, and has ever since been conducted by the Stephens, father and son, greatly to their advantage and the success of the enterprise. Within the last few years the father has largely retired from active work, and the subject of this narrative has in general taken over the management of the whole concern. The Stephens family was one of the earliest to settle in the present City of Columbus; Adam, grandfather of subject, locating here when Ohio was a new state in the Northwest Territory. Adam was a progressive citizen and for thirty-six years was superintendent of Green Lawn Cemetery. Walter J. was given an unusually efficient education to prepare him for the arduous duties of life. He passed through the grammar schools with credit and was among the leading graduates of the Central High School. He was then admitted to the Ohio State University, took a full course, was among the leaders of his class, finally receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1912 and the degree of Master of Arts in 1913. While securing the latter degree and before, he specialized in chemistry, and after leaving the university he spent several years working and experimenting as a chemist. Since the World war he has been associated in business with his father, and at present is the active executive of the prosperous and attractive occupation of supplying the city and suburbs with the choicest and most beautiful flowers. Of him one of the local newspapers said recently: "Associated in business with his father, under the trade name of Stephens, Florist, at the west entrance 152 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Green Lawn, Walter J. Stephens is one of the best known florists of the state. He is president of the Ohio Flower Growers Association, District of the North, which association is planning a state convention in Dayton in the summer of 1923." Since its start the business of S. F. Stephens & Son, Florists, has been located in the same place adjoining Green Lawn Cemetery in the southwest section of the city. It is one of the largest, one of the most varied and beautiful, and one of the most successful industries of its kind in the state. They are extensive growers of the choicest potted plants, of the richest and sweetest cut flowers and of public and private wreaths, chaplets and garlands. The business is conducted in the highest artistic and modern styles, and the office equipment and the sales department are so well organized and systematized as to facilitate prompt and efficient results. The firm is a member of the National Flower Growers, the Florists Telegraph Delivery, and the Columbus Florists Club. Walter J. took an active part and intense interest in the World war. He entered the army at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, on May 13, 1918, received there preliminary training, was then transferred to Chickamauga where thorough training was continued, was then sent "Over There" with the Sixth Division of Regulars as a machine gunner, and was later transferred to the Chemical Warfare Service, with which he served with great distinction until his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio, in June, 1919. During all these trying days he amply distinguished himself for his activity, loyalty, obedience and capacity. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, the Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Three generations of the Stephens family, grandfather, father and son, have been members of the Columbus Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias. Walter J. is also a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Civitan Club, the University Club of Columbus, the Old Colony Club, and the West Side Business Men 's Association, West Side Board of Trade. In January, 1922, as above stated, he was elected president of the Ohio District National Flower Growers Association. HOMER E. CARLYLE, an ex-service man, has been a Youngstown attorney since the close of the war and his return from overseas, and has won an enviable reputation among the younger members of the bar in that city. He was born at Youngstown, September 15, 1895, son of George A. and Ella (Dunn) Carlyle, and a grandson of Daniel Carlyle, also a native of Ohio, and William and Susanna (Post) Dunn, the former born at Buffalo, New York, and the latter at Franklin Square, Ohio. His mother, Ella Dunn Carlyle, was born at Salem, Ohio, and his father, George A. Carlyle, at Lisbon, this state. George A. Carlyle makes his home at Youngstown, and for many years has been in the service of the New York Central lines. Homer E. Carlyle was educated at Youngstown in the grammar schools and Rayen High School, and studied law in Ohio Northern University. While in school he volunteered for the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, in the spring of 1917, and after being in training there for three months was dismissed on account of defective hearing. He then resumed his work at the school until May, 1918, when he was accepted for duty as a private in the Fifty-fourth Infantry of the Sixth Division. In July, 1918, he went overseas with his command, and was on duty in Alsace-Lorraine and at the front during the Argonne campaign. After the armistice he was transferred to the Two Hundred and Twenty-eighth Military Police Corps, at first at Navarre, later at Chamonix in the Alps Mountains. Later he was sent to Manchester, England, and then to London, where he attended lectures at the Inns of Court, thus continuing his legal education. Subsequently he returned to France and embarked at Brest for. the United States. He received his honorable discharge July 18, 1919. He had been admitted to the Ohio bar on June 24, 1918, and since his return from overseas has been associated in practice with William E. Pfau, with law offices in the Stambaugh Building. Mr. Carlyle married, September 7, 1923, Miss Ruth Janette Morris, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Albert and Nettie (Owen) Morris. Mr. Carlyle is a member of the session of the Memorial Presbyterian Church and is superintendent of its Sunday school. He is a republican, is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason, and a member of the Lions Clubs and the American Legion. PAUL E. CARSON has had fifteen years of successful practice as an attorney at Youngstown. He is well known in the social and civic circles of that city, and has well earned the esteem of his community. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1885, son of I. N. and Margaret (Carson) Carson. His parents were born in the same locality of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father is now a retired farmer in Pennsylvania. Paul E. Carson liberally educated himself, attending the Pennsylvania State Normal, and in the Ohio Northern University graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1905 and in 1909 received his degree in law. He was then admitted to the Ohio bar, and at once engaged in practice at Youngstown. Since 1916 he has served as referee in bankruptcy at Youngstown. In June, 1922, he married Miss Rose Heller, who was born in Cleveland, a daughter of Louis Heller. Mr. Carson is a democrat, is a Royal Arch Mason and Elk, and a member of the Youngstown Club. He is also a member of the Mahoning, Ohio State and the American Bar associations. CARL ARMSTRONG was for a number of years a member of the bar at Steubenville, but at the time of the World war located at Youngstown, and has achieved a successful and honorable place among the eminent lawyers of that city. Mr. Armstrong represents two of the earliest families to settle in Eastern Ohio. He was born at New Alexandria, in Jefferson County, Ohio, September 1, 1876, son of David and Sarah (Fell) Armstrong, the Fells being of English and the Armstrongs of Scotch ancestry. His paternal grandparents were John and Margaret (McCammon) Armstrong, the former a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Shippensburg of the same state. The maternal grandparents were Aaron and Rachael (Naylor) Fell, both born at Smithfield in Jefferson County, Ohio, and of Pennsylvania Quaker stock. Grandfather John Armstrong, bought some of the first land in Jefferson County in 1798, only a short time after General Wayne had conquered the Indians in the Northwest, resulting in the treaty of Greenville. The Fell family settled in Jefferson County about the same time, and on both sides they were farmers. The parents of Mr. Carl Armstrong spent their lives in Jefferson County. He was reared in his native county on a farm, attended public schools, and subsequently continued his education in Mount Union College at Alliance and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He graduated from the Law School in 1906, and after his admission to the bar practiced for ten years at Steubenville. He then returned to Ohio Northern University as an instructor in the law department for two years, and during 1917 served as dean of the department, a HISTORY OF OHIO - 153 position that some years before had been held by present United States Senator Frank B. Willis. Mr. Armstrong in January, 1918, resigned, and, coming to Youngstown, took up practice with the law firm of Osborne & George. He married in 1901, Miss Bertha Scott, a native of New Alexandria, Ohio, daughter of David M. and Mary (Clancy) Scott, natives of the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have two sons, David W., born December 29, 1902, and Lamar S., born August 2, 1904. Both are graduates of the South High School at Youngstown, and are now students in Mount Union College at Alliance. Mr. Armstrong and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a democrat in politics, has been through the chairs in his Lodge of Odd Fellows and is also a member of the Masonic Order and the Sigma Nu college fraternity. JOHN V. MCNICHOLAS is a native of Youngstown, and is proprietor of a prosperous draying and cartage business, an enterprise he has built up from modest beginnings and through his own efforts. Mr. McNicholas was born in Youngstown in January, 1878. His parents, John and Hannah (Newell) McNicholas, came from Ireland to Youngstown prior to the Civil war. His father was a puddler in the steel mills for many years and is now living retired, the mother having passed away in 1917. John V. McNicholas was educated in St. Ann's parochial schools, and at the age of seventeen became a worker in the steel mills. He was connected with the iron and steel industry in the Youngstown district altogether for nine years. Then with one horse and wagon he started draying, and has steadily increased his facilities so that he is now at the head of a business handling an immense amount of traffic annually. He still keeps one horse as part of his equipment, but most of his work i§ done with six automobile trucks. Mr. McNicholas married in 1911 Miss Mary Carney, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of James and Mary (Flynn) Carney. Her parents were born in Ireland. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. McNicholas are John, Henry, Paul and Rosemary. The family are members of St. Ann's Catholic Church. He votes as a republican, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and for a number of years served as president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. EDWARD J. FOX is a funeral director at Youngstown, his business being located at 1825 Oak Hill Avenue. He was reared in Youngstown, and was one of the city 's enlisted men in the World war. He was born August 23, 1888, son of John and Mary (McFarland) Fox. His parents were born in Ireland, and as young children came to Youngstown, where they grew up and married. John Fox was in the grocery business for many years, until his death on May 5, 1908. The widowed mother now resides at 729 'Willow Street. Edward J. Fox was educated in the Catholic parochial schools of Youngstown, graduating in 1908. While working in his father 's store he attended night classes in the Young Men's Christian Association, and in 1914 went to Cleveland, where he secured his training in the undertaking business and was granted an embalmer's license. In February, 1918, he enlisted in the ammunition train of the Sixth Division, and was in training at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, from July 4, 1918, when he sailed for overseas. He was on duty in Alsace-Lorraine and in the Argonne, and after the war returned to the United States, received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman July 13, 1919, and reached home the next day. Mr. Fox on November 20, 1919, engaged in business for himself at 1825 Oak Hill Avenue. He has a well equipped business and renders a highly efficient service. He is a member of the Mahoning and Trumbull Counties Funeral Directors Club and the Ohio State Funeral Directors Association. On February 16, 1920, he married Miss Mollie Holden, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of Edward and Mary (Hennessey) Holden. Her parents were born in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Fox have two children, John, born February 5, 1921, and Mary, born February 29, 1924. They are members of Saint Patrick's Catholic Church. Mr. Fox is independent in politics, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. VICTOR ROLAND TURNER, M. D. Regarding as a priceless heritage his descent from old and honored families of this country, Dr. Victor Roland Turner, one of the able practicing physicians of Newark, is justly recognized as one of the leading men of Licking County and of the medical fraternity. He was born at Waynesfield, Ohio, February 17, 1887, a son of Dr. W. S. and Mary C. (Patterson) Turner. The elder Doctor Turner was a practicing physician at Newark for several years, and spent his life as a professional man. The paternal ancestors came, at an early day in the history of this country, from England, and have since then been numbered among the loyal citizens. The maternal grandfather, William Harrod, was born in Allen County, Ohio, and he was a descendent of Capt. James Harrod, the Indian fighter who with Daniel Boone founded Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Mrs. Turner, mother of Doctor Turner of this review, is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. Victor Roland Turner attended Denison University, Granville, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1909, with the degree of Bachelor of Science ; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1911, with the degree of Master of Arts; Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1915, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine; and the Army Medical School, Washington City, from which he was graduated in 1918. For one year after he completed his medical course, Doctor Turner served as an interne in a Baltimore hospital, and then for two years he was associated with Dr. U. K. Essington. In August, 1917, he enlisted in the medical department of the United States Army, and was called to the colors in 1918. For two years he served in the Regular Army, with the rank of first lieutenant, and had charge of the X-ray department at Camp Dix, New Jersey, and of the heart station at the Army Medical School for several months. For the past four years he has been engaged in a regular practice at Newark. During 1924 he is serving as vice president of the Licking County Medical Society. Fraternally he belongs to Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, and Phi Chi medical fraternity. The First Baptist Church of Newark holds his membership. In June, 1917, Doctor Turner was married, at Baltimore, Maryland, to Marion E. Hendricks, a daughter of Mrs. William Hendricks, a native of Maryland. There are no children. FRED B. KING. During the past quarter of a century the name King has become prominently known in connection with the undertaking business in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. Fred B. King is an official in one of the highest class funeral directing firms in the state. Fred B. King was born at West Middlesex, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1868, son 154 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Benjamin G. and Anna (Lineberger) King. His father was born at Pulaski, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and his mother at West Middlesex. Benjamin G. King was a well-known undertaker in Pennsylvania, and in 1897 moved to Youngstown and bought an interest in the James B. Drake undertaking establishment. He was a member of that firm until his death in July, 1902. At that time the business was incorporated as the Fred B. King Company. The president of this company is P. Jason King, who is a member of King Brothers at Girard, Ohio, undertakers and furniture. Fred B. King is secretary and manager of the business, while Frank W. King is vice president; May M. King, treasurer, and Mrs. Florence Jenkins, assistant secretary. Fred B. King was educated in the grammar and high schools of Pennsylvania and in the Pittsburgh Business College, and has spent over twenty-five years in the undertaking business. He is a member of the Mahoning and Trumbull Counties Funeral Directors Club and the Ohio State Association of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Mr. King began his career at Pittsburgh, in 1890, with the American Press Association, and subsequently was with the maintenance of way department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, located at Lawrence Junction. In 1898 he became an employe of the Ohio Steel Company, in the purchasing department, and then, in 1902, at the death of his father, took charge of the present business at Youngstown. Mr. King is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, is a republican, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and is past master of West Middlesex Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and past commander of Saint John's Commandery of the Knights Templar of Youngstown, and a member of Al Koran Shrine Temple, Cleveland. He served as recorder of his commandery for nineteen years. He is a member of Youngstown Lodge, No. 154, Knights of Pythias, and also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Youngstown Lodge, No. 403. December 31, 1903, Mr. King married Miss Mary P. Gibner, a native of Erie County, Pennsylvania, and daughter of Wesley and Eva (Pruden) Gibner, of Pennsylvania. They have four children: Benjamin G., Frederick B., Richard E. and Margaret Louise. All the children are at home except Benjamin, who is a student of piano and pipe organ in New York City. FRED MONTGOMERY ORR is the active head of one of the old and reliable undertaking firms of Youngstown, John S. Orr & Son, a business that has taken pride in keeping its equipment and facilities up to the highest standard of the profession. Mr. Orr was born at Youngstown, March 6, 1874, son of John Scott and Sarah (Montgomery) Orr. His paternal grandfather was James Orr, a native of Pennsylvania, who married a Miss McLaughlin, and in 1859 moved to Youngstown. His maternal grandparents were Joseph and Nancy (Smith) Montgomery, natives of Pennsylvania, and also early settlers of Youngstown. John Scott Orr was born at Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania, and married Sarah Montgomery on February 16, 1863, while he was home on a furlough from the Union army, being a member of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry. John S. Orr followed the trade of carpenter until the fall of 1870, when he became associated with the firm of Gilman, Orr & Company, furniture dealers and undertakers. The present business, therefore, represents the consecutive history of more than half a century. Later Mr. Shields succeeded Mr. Gilman, and in time the business was made exclusively that of funeral directors. John Scott Orr died July 10, 1911. His widow lives at Youngstown, and is now past four score, having been born in this Ohio city July 17, 1842. The children were: Edith, wife of C. H. Kennedy, of Youngstown; Sarah Bessie, living with her mother ; Fred Montgomery; and his twin sister, Nettie, widow of Dr. James B. Orwig, of Toledo. Fred Montgomery Orr attended the grammar and high schools of Youngstown, and graduated in June, 1892, from the Peekskill Military Academy. Soon afterward he went to work in his father 's establishment, and in 1900 formed a partnership of John S. Orr & Son, funeral directors. The business has been continued under that title ever since. Its home is at 124 Lincoln Avenue. Fred M. Orr is a past president of the Mahoning-Trumbull County Funeral Directors Club, and a member of the Funeral Directors Association of the State of Ohio, and of the National Selected Morticians, with headquarters at Des Moines, Iowa. On October 7, 1902, he married Miss Harriet Sims, a native of Youngstown and daughter of John and Letitia Sims. Two children were born to their marriage, Sarah dying at the age of two years, and the surviving daughter is Letitia Jane. Mr. Orr is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, is a republican, is past commander of Saint John's Commandery No. 20, Knights Templar, and also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is a member of Youngstown Lodge No. 35, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Protective Home Circle. EDWARD L. MORRISON is a native of Youngstown, and for a number of years has been prominently connected with secret service and detective work, being head of the Youngstown branch of one of the most prominent agencies in the United States. He was born at Youngstown, September 20, 1889, son of Andrew and Margaret (Feeney) Morrison, his father a native of Scotland and his mother of England. They were married in the United States, and his father was a steel worker. The father died February 4, 1920, and the mother, October 20, 1923. Edward L. Morrison graduated from the Youngstown High School in 1914 and then went on the road as a salesman for woodenware and hardware. In 1917, while in Los Angeles, California, for the benefit of his health, he became an investigator for a firm doing Government work. He spent two years in that work, and on returning to Youngstown became investi gator for the Morden Detective Company. Since April 16, 1923, he has been general manager for the offices at Youngstown, Akron and Dover, Ohio ; Wheeling, West Virginia, and New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is planning to open a number of other offices during 1924 and 1925. Mr. Morrison married in January, 1914, Miss Anna Whiteside, who was born in England. They have two children, Ruth and Edward. The family are members of Saint Patrick's Church at Youngstown, and Mr. Morrison is a republican. CHESTER R. ADAMS is one of the active and enterprising younger men in the real estate and financial circles of Youngstown, where he is assistant secretary and treasurer of the Liberty Mortgage and Discount Company. He was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1892, son of Andrew J. and Maria (Groff) Adams, natives of Pennsylvania. He acquired a public school education in his native state, and at the age of seventeen went to work as a clerk in a hotel at Dayton, Ohio. He was there a year and a half, and then with a partner bought a hotel and was its active manager for a year. Selling his interest in that he was employed in the Ideal Dairy Lunch establishment at HISTORY OF OHIO - 155 Dayton for three months, and then came to Youngstown, where for three years he was assistant manager of the Ideal Dairy Lunch establishment, and for one year had the active management. He then became manager of the cafeteria at the Engle Aircraft Company's plant at Niles, Ohio. He spent fifteen months in that capacity, and then went with the Realty Security Company of Youngstown. After two and one-half years with that organization he became sales manager of the Home Realty Exchange Company and assistant secretary and treasurer of the Liberty Mortgage and Discount Company. He married in 1916, Miss Edith James, a native of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and daughter of Samuel and Anna James, who were born in Swansea, Wales. They have one son, Gordon Wallace Adams„ born November 18, 1919. Mr. Adams is a republican, is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife belong to the Welsh Baptist Church. JOHN HOWARD WILSON, prominently identified with the insurance business at Youngstown, was educated for the law, and practiced that profession for a time before locating at Youngstown. He was born at Beaver, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1890, son of J. Sharp and Ida (Hazen) Wilson. His parents were born in Franklin Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. John Howard Wilson was liberally educated, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1911 and from the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh in 1914. He was admitted to practice by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and for one year was an instructor in the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh, and engaged in private practice at Beaver. Mr. Wilson moved to Youngstown in 1916 to become manager of the casualty and surety departments of the General Insurance Agency Company. This business is now conducted by the Medbury-Wilson Company, and Mr. Wilson in addition to continuing his responsibilities as manager of the casualty and surety departments, is also vice president and secretary of the company. In June, 1915, he married Miss Rhodabelle Medbury, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Frank B. and Dollie (Brothers) Medbury. They have two children, Dorothy Medbury and John Howard, Jr. Mr. Wilson is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver, Pennsylvania, is an independent in politics, and is a member of the college fraternity Phi Delta Theta and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, and also a member of Saint Albans Lodge of. Masons. He is a member of the Youngstown Club. CHARLES F. SCHEIBLE, who took office as mayor of the City of Youngstown January 1, 1924, is a former director of public service, and for many years has been identified with the Youngstown district as one of the expert iron and steel workers. He was born at Youngstown, May 29, 1869, son of John and Christine (Meyers) Scheible. His father was born in Baden, Germany, and his mother at Strassberg, and they were married in Youngstown. His father died in 1902 and his mother in 1891. John Scheible was a shoemaker by trade, and in early days made shoes for old Governor Tod. Charles F. Scheible attended the public schools until the age of eleven, and as a boy he had some training in the shoemaker 's art under his father. Subsequently he became an employe in the Arms-Belt Nut and Volt Company's factory, at first as a bolt heater and after a year learned the trade of nail feeder, a skilled trade which he followed for four years. Then for seven years he was in the City Flour Mills at Youngstown, becoming proficient in that technical occupation. From January, 1891, for many years Mr. Scheible was in steel construction work, until February 1, 1921, when he became a director of public service. In May, 1923, he again took charge of construction work for iron mills, and in the fall of that year was elected mayor. Mr. Scheible married in May, 1894, Miss Cora B. Williams, a native of Brookfield, Ohio, and daughter of William D. and Sarah Williams, who came from Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Scheible have two children: Juanita, wife of Myron C. Kinder, of Youngstown, and Charles R., of Youngstown. Mayor Scheible has always affiliated with the republican party. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, has filled the chairs in his Knights of Pythias Lodge, and is a member of Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Hazelton Lodge No. 456. GEORGE MCCULLOCK KERR, M. D. Member of a family that has figured in professional circles in Ohio for several generations, Dr. George McCullock Kerr of West Jefferson has gained high rank as a physician and surgeon. He was one of the medical officers in the Thirty-seventh Division during the World war. He was born at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, December 11, 1884. Both his father and grandfather were prominent Ohio newspaper men. His grandfather, Henry V. Kerr, was born at Batavia, Ohio, and in 1878 established his home at Washington Courthouse, where he became owner of the Washing. ton Courthouse Cyclone, and made that a strong and influential democratic newspaper. He always kept in close touch with state and national politics, and for two terms was state librarian at Columbus. He was a cousin of President Benjamin Harrison, whom he entertained in his home at Batavia. John D. Kerr, father of Doctor Kerr, was born at Batavia, Ohio, in 1852, was a graduate of Miami College, and accompanied his father to Washington Courthouse in 1878. After his father retired, he considered him as editor and owner of the Washington Courthouse Cyclone. For a number of years he was in the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Government as a gauger at Linchburg, Ohio. John D. Kerr died in 1910. His wife, Josephine Myers was born and married at Goshen, Ohio, where her father, John Emery Myers, rendered a long and faithful service in the medical profession. He was a graduate of Miami Medical College at Cincinnati. He was also active in politics, serving two terms in the State Legislature from 1880 to 1885, and also two terms in the State Senate. George McCullock Kerr graduated from the Washington Courthouse High School in 1904 and subsequently entered the Sterling Medical College at Columbus where he was graduated in 1910. For seven years he practiced medicine at Lilly Chapel, Ohio. On May 2, 1917, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and subsequently promoted to captain. He was assigned duties with the One Hundred and Forty-second Field Hospital, in the Thirty-seventh Division, and had three months of training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, and then at Camp Sheridan in Alabama.. In the spring of 1918 he went with the Thirty-seventh Division to France, and was on active duty during the rest of the war, sharing in the glorious record made by the Thirty-seventh Division, composed chiefly of Ohio troops. He was in the Baccarat, and the Meuse Argonne, and the Belgian sectors, being in Belgium when the armistice was signed. He returned to the United States March 15, 1919, and was mustered out at Chillicothe, Ohio, April 28, 1919. Doctor Kerr on May 5, following his discharge from the army, located at West Jefferson, and has since been engaged in the general practice of medi- 156 HISTORY OF OHIO cine. He is now serving his second term as a member of the Madison County Board of Health, and belongs to the various medical societies. For two terms he was a member of the school board of Fairfield Township, but is now a member of the West Jefferson Town Council. He is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Church, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Odd Fellow. At Columbus, November 24, 1909, Doctor Kerr married Miss Lillian Woodard, daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Woodard of Madison County. Of the two children born to their marriage, the surviving daughter is Phyllis Carolyn, born in 1914. JAMES M. MCCARTNEY, president of the McCartney Realty Company, with offices in the Home Savings and Loan Building, at Youngstown, has spent practically all his life on land acquired by his grandfather in pioneer times, more than a century ago. The McCartney Realty Company was organized to develop a portion of the old McCartney homestead as a home sub-division. Mr. McCartney was born in Coitsville Township of Mahoning County, February 15, 1873, son of Joseph and Mary (Milligan) McCartney. His grandfather, James McCartney, was born in Ireland, October 1, 1791, and in 1815 married Elizabeth Maxwell, who was born in the same locality in 1793. In 1817 they came to America, and in 1819 settled at Youngstown, where James McCartney worked as a shoemaker and also conducted a brick yard, making the material which entered into one of the first brick houses in the city. Subsequently he bought the land in Coitsville Township which has since been known as the McCartney homestead. He died there April 16, 1869, and his wife, on April 14, 1865. Joseph G. McCartney, their son, was born in an old log house that stood on the McCartney homestead, July 10, 1834, and as a boy he helped erect the substantial brick house in which he spent the greater part of his life. He was a farmer and dairyman, and during his lifetime he laid out a portion of his farm into what he named Marion Heights, in honor of his granddaughter, Marion McGeehan. He was a pioneer in the prohibition movement and also advocated woman's suffrage, and for a number of years was a justice of the peace. He was an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Joseph G. McCartney, who died March 19, 1910, married, December 13, 1865, Miss Mary Milligan. She was born at Coitsville, September 25, 1840, and still lives at the McCartney homestead. Her father, James Milligan, was born in Ireland, son of John and Margaret Milligan, and the family came to the United States when he was a boy. James Milligan married Catherine McGuffey, member of the family of Ma-honing County distinguished especially in educational affairs. She was a granddaughter of Alexander McGuffey, and her mother, Catherine McGuffey, was a sister of William H. McGuffey, editor of the famous " McGuffey Readers." Joseph G. McCartney and wife hat the following children: William, who was educated as a civil engineer, and is now deceased; Matilda, mother of the Marion McGeehan, above mentioned, by her first husband, Thomas McGeehan, and she is now Mrs. William H. Reed, of East Youngstown; Bessie, widow of Dr. Osborne Yost, of East Youngstown; James M.; Adeline, wife of I. L. Small, of Pasadena, California, and Minnie, who died at the age of sixteen years. James M. McCartney, only surviving son, was reared at the old homestead, was educated in the public schools, and as a boy assisted his father on the farm and in operating the dairy. After his marriage he built a modern residence on an acre of ground adjoining the home of his parents, and continued farming, though for five years he was employed in a factory. He then resumed farming and dairying at the old homestead, and in 1920 engaged in the real estate business, with offices in the Home Savings and Loan Building at Youngstown. He and other members of the family organized the McCartney Realty Company, to develop and sell the old homestead farm. He is president of the company, Mrs. Reed is general manager, and Mrs. Yost is secretary and treasurer. The company has also handled a tract of 117 acres on Lake Milton. Mr. McCartney is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years served as a member of the Board of Education of East Youngstown. He is independent in politics, and is a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On June 23, 1897, he married Miss Laura B. Willson, a native of Coitsville Township, and daughter of Albert and Lucille Willson, the only daughter of their marriage, Geraldine, died at the age of fourteen months. RALPH G. DAVIS is active head of one of the oldest and largest insurance agencies in the City of Youngstown, the Davis-Woodman Company. It is a business that was established over forty-five years ago, and with it the Davis family has been identified continuously. Ralph G. Davis was born in Youngstown, in February 1883, son of John R. and Maria S. (Richards) Davis. His mother was born in Wales and died in 1920. His father, a native of Portage County, Ohio, spent his active career in the insurance business and died in 1900. While a member of the State Legislature he took an active part in Legislation which made possible the setting aside of the park known as Mill Creek Park. Ralph G. Davis attended grammar and high schools at Youngstown, and at the age of twenty-one, in 1904, he became associated with his brother John B. in conducting the business known as the John R. Davis Sons. This insurance agency had been established by his father in 1877. In 1906 Ralph Davis bought the interest of his brother, and in 1912 incorporated the business as the Davis Security Insurance Agency Company. In 1923 the present name of Davis-Woodman Company was adopted, with Mr. Davis as president and manager, T. A. Woodman, vice president and treasurer, and A. H. Hardin, secretary. On April 6, 1912, Mr. Davis married Miss Josephine Robbins, a native of Niles, Ohio, and daughter of Charles W. and Julia (Woodward) Robbins. They have two daughters, Julia and Mary. Mr. Davis is a member of the First Baptist Church, is a republican, a member of the Masonic Order, and belongs to the Youngstown Club and Youngstown Country Club. He has had the responsibilities of a successful business, but has also been active in local affairs. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Builders Exchange. SAMUEL F. RUKENBROD is president and active manager of a very successful business of sheet metal work and roofing, an industry with which he has been identified since early youth. Mr. Rukenbrod is well known in Youngstown business circles, and has lived in that city for over thirty years. He was born at Unity Ohio, in March, 1871, son of Jacob and Rosanna (Lautenschlager) Rukenbrod. His parents were natives of Unity, Ohio. His father, a butcher, died six months after the birth of Samuel F., and eight years later the widowed mother married Christian Zeigler, of Columbiana, Ohio. Samuel F. Rukenbrod was educated in public schools, and at the age of sixteen began an apprenticeship at the HISTORY OF OHIO - 157 tinner 's trade. After four years of work he came to Youngstown and became an employe of the James Squire Company, which was later the John R. Squire Company, roofing, spouting and general sheet metal work. He was foreman and vice president of this company until it went out of business. Mr. Rukenbrod then bought the tools and equipment of the old firm, and on November 6, 1922, continued the business under the name of S. F. Rukenbrod and Company, and the business is now incorporated. It is still located at the place where its predecessor was in business, 355 East Wood Street. Mr. Rukenbrod is president and treasurer of the corporation, Charles Watkins, vice president, and W. Rukenbrod, secretary. While connected with the John R. Squire Company Mr. Rukenbrod served as president and treasurer of the Employers Association. He has been a trustee of the Builders Exchange. In his own business he employs about twelve skilled workers. On January 24, 1894, he married Miss Welthy Paulin, a native of Woodworth, Ohio, and daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Snyder) Paulin. They have one son, Howard Jacob. Mr. Rukenbrod is an independent voter, has held the various chairs in the Junior Order United American Mechanics, is banker of the Woodmen of the World and a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. GEORGE T. HALLDEN is proprietor of a general transfer and trucking business at Youngstown, his business headquarters and offices being at 334 East Wood Street. He was born in Staffordshire, England, December 7, 1872. Six years later, in 1878, his parents, Uriah and Lucella (Foster) Hallden, came to America and settled at Youngstown, where his father followed the trade of shoemaker. His parents are now deceased. George T. Hallden was educated in the public schools of Front Street, and when thirteen years of age, with a single horse, began hauling goods through the streets of Youngstown, and from that modest beginning has made a prosperous transfer business and general cartage. His equipment now consists of two large and two small automobile trucks. He also conducts a garage for trucks, and has a modern home. Mr. Hallden married, December 26, 1888, Miss Mary Crawford, who was born at Youngstown, September 24, 1872, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Jane (Arkwright) Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Hallden have five children: John, associated with his father in business; Lucilla, wife of Anthony Ferreri, of Youngstown; Gertrude, wife of Edward McElroy, of Youngstown; George William and Harry, both in business with their father. The family are members of St. John's Parish. Mrs. Hallden is a member of the Woman's Benefit Association, and in politics they are republicans. JOSEPH BUCHHEIT is a general contractor whose work has been a contributing factor to the building enterprise around Youngstown for a number of years. Mr. Buchheit came to Youngstown many years ago as a boy from a foreign land, and has overcome the handicap of lack of knowledge of the American language and has mastered many difficulties in his rise to prosperity. He was born in one of the Rhine provinces of Germany, March 22, 1876, son of Bernard and Mary (Wagner) Buchheit. His parents spent all their lives in Germany. Joseph Buchheit was reared and educated there, and at the age of seventeen came to Youngstown. For one year he worked on farms, and then learned the brick laying trade. He was a journeyman bricklayer eight years, and then took up mason contracting. Since 1907 his business has been that of a general contractor with offices in the Rayen-Wood Building. He has served as a trustee of the Builders Exchange of Youngstown. In 1899 Mr. Buchheit married Miss Mary Wilhelm, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of Mathew and Angeline (Veanthier) Wilhelm. Her parents were born in Germany. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Buchheit are : Bernard, who married Florence Joyce, Carl, Angla, Marian, Earl, Alma and Margaret. The son Bernard is now the active business associate of his father. The family are members of St. Joseph 's German Catholic Church. Mr. Buchheit is a republican and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. CLEMENT A. RUKENBROD, whose parents and grandparents were born in Mahoning County, is one of the young men of enterprise in Youngstown, where he is manager of the Crystal Ice & Storage Company. Mr. Rukenbrod was born at Leetonia, Ohio, November 30, 1889, son of William H. and Elizabeth (Wagner) Rukenbrod. His parents were born in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, and are still living there, having devoted their lives to the farm. The paternal grandparents, Solomon T. and Mary (Baird) Rukenbrod, were born in Mahoning County. The maternal grandfather, John Wagner, was born in the same county, both the Wagners and Rukenbrods having been pioneers of this section of Ohio, and originally came from Pennsylvania. Clement A. Rukenbrod was a farm boy during his youth, attended grammar and high schools, and in 1908, at the age of nineteen, went to work for the Crystal Ice & Storage Company as a collector. A year later he was put in the office, became office manager, then was promoted to assistant manager of the business, and since 1918 has had the management of this prosperous business concern. James A. Campbell is president, F. G. King, vice president, and James L. Wick, Jr., secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Rukenbrod married, May 30, 1913, Miss Ruth Diser. She was born at New Springfield, Ohio, daughter of Dewin and Sarah Diser. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Rukenbrod are Jane Louise and Sarah Elizabeth. The family are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a republican, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association, and has held a commission as notary public since 1915. GEORGE S. GRABER. Of the various mercantile concerns at Columbus, probably the one that has achieved most nearly a national reputation is the antique furniture shop of George S. Graber. It is in accordance with commercial as valid as the law of gravitation that service, reliable goods, specialized and authoritative knowledge attracts trade from all quarters of the globe. That has been the source of Mr. Graber 's unique success in his chosen line of business. He is a native of Ohio born in 1875, son of Augustine and Catherine (Behr) Graber. He was reared and educated in the public schools at Pomeroy, and as a youth learned the upholsterer 's trade. Mr. Graber has been a resident of Columbus since 1897. In 1900 he started a modest shop as a dealer in antique furniture and upholsterer. Upholstering was the foundation of his business, and still remains one of its principal features. He does a greater business in this line than any other concern in Columbus. His workrooms employ eleven skilled workers in this trade. However, at an early date he became personally interested in the collection and sale of antique furniture, and his long continued study and experience have made him one of the foremost authorities on all 158 - HISTORY OF OHIO subjects connected with antique and period furniture. His is now one of the largest antique furniture houses in the United States. He ships to buyers and collectors in practically every state in the union, and to some foreign countries, including India. His main store is at 2485-2489 North High Street in Columbus. He also has a work shop and a separate warehouse. He owns another store in Los Angeles, California, located at 617 North Western Avenue. Of this his brother, Charles S. Graber, has charge. Mr. Graber has agents and correspondents at various points in the country and through them he keeps track of and procures for his stock the finest and most interesting collections of antique furniture, clocks, spinets and various musical instruments. He often procures articles of very great historical value and associations. Many prominent people from all over the country are on his list of regular customers. During the tourist season in the spring and summer his trade is especially large, since many travelers in passing through Columbus make it a special point to stop at the Graber shop. One of his customers, whose visit attracted special attention in the summer of 1923, was Henry Ford, who motored down from Detroit for the express purpose of making expensive purchases from the Graber collections. This gave him the idea of opening a branch store in Detroit, at 2709 Woodward Avenue, where he is doing an extensive business. Mr. Graber is a member of Mount Vernon Methodist Church at Columbus. For many years he has been interested in and active in church work, particularly mission work and work among prisons and reformatories. For three years he was regularly engaged in the evangelistic service. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Automobile Club, and a Knight of Pythias. WILLIAM LAWRENCE MALLOY. Born and reared in Youngstown, Mr. Malloy had a period of training with the military forces of the country during the World war, and since his discharge has been active in the insurance field in his native city. He was born at Youngstown, March 26, 1895, a son of John H. and Ella (Murray) Malloy, his father a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and his mother, of Youngstown. John H. Malloy is a retired steel worker. William Lawrence Malloy attended the grammar school, the Rayen High School, and, beginning at the age of nineteen, was employed in the traffic department of the Concrete Steel Company for several years. When he was called to the colors he was assigned duty with the Seventh Regiment of Field Artillery at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and was made acting sergeant. On his return to Youngstown he became associated with his brother, George F. Malloy, who for several years had been in the insurance business. Their offices are in the Dollar Bank Building. They do a general business in insurance, and their firm is a continuation of a business that was established about 1880. Mr. Malloy married, October 14, 1921, Miss Gertrude M. Gilronan, of Youngstown, daughter of Hugh J. and Mary (Braun) Gilronan. They have one daughter, Mary Elaine, born May 5, 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Malloy are members of St. Edward's Catholic Church. Mr. Malloy is secretary of the Malloy Agency Company. THOMAS WILLIAM MILLER is a native of Youngstown, and for a number of years has been in business as a contractor on public work, chiefly municipal improvements, and is also a coal operator. He was born at Youngstown, December 31, 1884, son of John Andrew and Hedwig (Johnson) Miller. His parents were born in Sweden, and in 1874 came to Youngstown, where they lived out their lives. John A. Miller was in the contracting business. Thomas William Miller was educated in public schools at Youngstown, and at the age of sixteen began a five-year period of apprenticeship and work at the machinists' trade. For two years he was an employe in the city engineer 's office, and since then has been engaged in contracting, chiefly street improvement. In 1918 he also became a coal operator, mining coal at Lisbon, Ohio. His brother, George J. Miller, was associated with him in the contracting business until his death in 1918, and since then another brother, Fred A. Miller, has been associated with him. The Miller Brothers Coal Company, incorporated in 1918, has as its president C. B. Cushwa, D. R. Fithian as vice president, and T. W. Miller, treasurer and manager. Mr. Miller married in 1908 Miss Helen Hallberg, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of John and Henrietta (Blixberg) Hallberg. Her parents were born in Sweden. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller are Dorothy Helen and Thomas W., Jr. The family are members of Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Miller is one of the official board. He is a republican, is affiliated with Western Star Lodge of Masons, the Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Builders Exchange. CHASE T. TRUESDALE, president of the South Side Savings Bank in Youngstown, was for two terms county treasurer of Mahoning County, an office which his father had held many years earlier. Mr. Truesdale was born at Austintown, Mahoning County, September 29, 1855, son of John R. and Mary (Tomson) Truesdale. His father was born at Austintown in 1820, and his mother at Youngstown in 1822. The grandfather, James Truesdale, was one of the early settlers in Mahoning County. The family name has been conspicuous in that county since early days. The Truesdale family settled in America a few years before the Revolutionary war, and one of the ancestors of Chase T. Truesdale was an American soldier for a time. John R. Truesdale, who died in 1879, was a farmer, and twice served as infirmary director of Mahoning County, and was elected county treasurer in 1866 and reelected in 1868. His wife 's father, Cornelius Tomson, was a native of Connecticut, and married Mary Kyle. John R. Truesdale and wife had the following children: William Clark, deceased; Ella, who married W. S. Johnson and is deceased ; Lottie, wife of A. P. Webb, of Youngstown; Chase T.; Charles, deceased ; and Belle, Mrs. F. D. Klotz, of Youngstown. Chase T. Truesdale was educated in schools at Austintown to the age of fifteen, assisting in the work of the farm during his youth. In 1880 he became an employe in the Homer Baldwin flour mills at Youngstown, and for twenty-seven years was with that prominent local industry. In 1906 he was elected county treasurer and in 1908 reelected, serving two terms, having been elected just forty years after his father 's election to the same office. Mr. Truesdale was elected a member of the city council in 1900, serving until he resigned to become county treasurer. Upon its organization, Mr. Truesdale became president of the South Side Savings Bank in 1914. This bank was organized with a capital of $100,000. He is also an official in the school subsidiary organizations, the South Side Savings and Loan Company and the South Side Discount Company. He is also a director in the firm of Rose & Johnson, wholesale grocers. HISTORY OF OHIO - 159 Mr. Truesdale is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church and in politics he is a republican. In 1883 he married Maria E. Wooldridge, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, her father having been born in England. Their only child is Mrs. Bessie Smith, living with her parents, and the mother of a daughter, Elizabeth. GEORGE F. MALLOY. One of the old insurance organizations that has served the interests of Youngstown faithfully and well is the agency conducted by Malloy Brothers. George F. Malloy has been in the insurance business for a number of years, and the agency he now conducts is one that was founded about 1880 by Murphy & Quinn. Mr. Malloy was born at Youngstown, October 31, 1885. Since early youth he has been dependent upon his own exertions, and has made his own way in the world. He attended St. Ann's Parochial School, and in 1904 went to work as general timekeeper in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. After two years he became checker of repairs on cars with the Erie Railroad Company, spending two years with that company and then for three and a half years was employed in the order department of the Carnegie Steel Company. It was after this experience in business that he took up insurance, and has since been successful in building up an organization affording expert service and counsel in all forms of general insurance. His brother, John B., was associated with him as a partner for one year, but the present junior member of the firm of Malloy Brothers is Lawrence W. Malloy. George F. Malloy married, in May, 1919, Miss Alice Brant, who was born at Hagersville, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Robert and Lydia (Lewis) Brant. They are members of St. Brendon 's Catholic Church. Mr. Malloy is a republican, affiliated with Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, Loyal Order of Moose, the Lion's Club, and for four years was first vice president of the Youngstown Association of Insurance Agents. He is a member of the Youngstown Automobile Club and of the Brendon Club. ERSKINE MCDOUGAL MAIDEN, JR., is a Youngstown attorney who saw active service in France during the World war. He had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession as a member of the firm of Henderson, Wickham & Maiden, before he went to training camp, and has acquitted himself with special credit during the past five years. Mr. Maiden was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1891. He is a son of Erskine M. and Grace (Prentice) Maiden, his father born in Kirkcaldy and his mother in Motherwell, Scotland. They were married in Pittsburgh, and his father is now a master mechanic with the Republic Iron and Steel Company at Youngstown. He graduated in 1909 from the Rayen High School of Youngstown, took his bachelor degree at Harvard University in 1913, and for two years studied law in the Harvard Law School. He spent six months in Western Reserve University, law department, and was admitted to the bar in 1916. He then engaged in practice at Youngstown, and on August 25, 1917, entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. He received his commission after three months, was sent to Camp Sherman, and on May 1, 1918, with the 115th Field Artillery in the Thirtieth Division, was sent to Camp Sevier, North Carolina. From there he went overseas to Liverpool, and by way of South Hampton and La Havre, reached the scene of action in France. He was with the 115th Field Artillery until November 20, 1918, and saw active duty in the Saint Mihiel campaign and the Meuse-Argonne drive. He was with the Second Army in the operations on the Troyon sector. After the armistice he was transferred to the Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fourth Division, and was with the Army of Occupation in Germany. May 1, 1919, he was relieved from active duty, and returning to the United States was discharged at Camp Sherman June 30, 1919, with the rank of first lieutenant. He now holds a commission as a first lieutenant of Field Artillery in the Officers' Reserve Corps, and is an active member of the American Legion. Since 1919 he has been engaged in law practice, being a member of the firm Morgan & Maiden, with offices in the Dollar Bank Building. Mr. Maiden is a member of the American Bar Association, in Masonry is affiliated with the lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council ; is a republican in politics, and a member of the Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church. He married, March 23, 1918, two weeks before he went overseas, Miss Irene Fowler, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of William and Annie (Williams) Fowler. ARTHUR MORGAN is senior member of a prominent law firm in Youngstown. For a number of years lie was connected with the law department of a railroad company at Pittsburgh, and much of his practice has been in corporation law. Mr. Morgan was born at Youngstown, February 24, 1880, son of Benjamin G, and Mary Catherine (Morgan) Morgan. His mother was born in Youngstown, daughter of John Morgan, who came to Youngstown from Wales, and was a coal miner. The father of the Youngstown attorney was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, and came to the United States when twenty years of age and located in Youngstown, where he followed the business of carpenter and contractor. Arthur Morgan graduated from the Rayen High School in Youngstown in 1899, and for a year and one-half was employed as a stenographer in the offices of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. In 1905 he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and was employed in the legal department of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company at Pittsburgh. On January 4, 1916, he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and on June 1, 1917, engaged in private practice at Youngstown, with offices in the Dollar Bank Building. Mr. Morgan served as assistant claim agent and general claims attorney for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railway Company. Mr. Morgan, since 1917 has been treasurer of the Plymouth Congregational Church, and is teacher of the Bible School. He is a republican, a member of the Union League, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose, Knights of Pythias, and is president of the Optimist Club and a member of the Exchange Club. He has been associated with the late Hon. Wm. T. Gibson, an attorney of long standing in the city, and since 1920 has been the senior member of the firm of Morgan & Maiden, with offices in the Dollar Bank Building. NICHOLAS A. CENCI, a prominent Columbus citizen of Italian parentage, is senior member of the firm of Cenci Brothers, merchants at 1773 West Fifth Avenue, where they are proprietors of what competent judges have pronounced to be the finest grocery store in Ohio. Mr. Cenci was born at Vastogirardi, province of Campobasso, Italy. It was in 1906 that he came to Columbus, Ohio. Two years later, though still in his early youth, he engaged in business with his brother as proprietors of a small and unpretentious bakery. The fifteen years since then have marked its steady growth and progress, characteristic of the thrift and 160 - HISTORY OF OHIO enterprise of the Vastesi who come to this country to become American citizens. Hard work and constant attention to business have made the Cenci brothers to rank among the most substantial merchants of the city. A grocery business was added to the original bakery, and today the grocery store of the firm of Cenci Brothers, completed in 1923, is located at the corner of West Fifth Avenue and Glen Avenue in Columbus. The building, two stories in height, is constructed of concrete and brick, and is of handsome architectural design, being a structure of the typical Italian style. The building is a distinctive ornament to this beautiful section of Columbus, and has been the direct means of increasing property values in the immediate vicinity. The first floor and basement are used entirely by the grocery and baking business, and a feature of the basement is a handsome and modern soda and lunch room. The arrangement of the store represents what is undoubtedly the last word in the modern displaying and selling of merchandise. The counters, fixtures and equipment generally were made of the finest material upon special specifications, and the arrangements are generally the results of Mr. Cenci's long experience in merchandising, having in view the convenience of the customer and the efficient execution of the day 's business. The store specializes in only the finest grades and brands of domestic and imported foods and table supplies. The second floor contains living apartments of a beauty and luxury that have elicited admiration from all beholders. There are mantels of hand carved stone by Italian artists, rich and beautiful finishing and interior decorations, artistic doors, windows, electric lamps, all of the most expensive quality, and the standard of beauty and good taste extends even to the bathroom and kitchen. Cenci Brothers is composed of Nicholas A. Cenci, senior member, and Pasquale Cenci, and another member of this successful family, although not actively engaged in the business, is John Cenci. These three brothers are among the leaders of the Italian people who are American citizens and prominent residents of Columbus. Mr. Nicholas A. Cenci is a member of various organizations, including the Elks, the Piave Society and the Dante Society. He married Miss Adelina Mormile, and they have an interesting family of four children: Florence, Esther, Mary and Derna. Mr. and Mrs. Pasquale Cenci have three children: Alma, Camillo and Andrew. CLARK H. MATTESON. With the fire insurance business the name Matteson has been linked in Mahoning County for a period of forty years or more. Clark H. Matteson, with offices in the Mahoning Bank Building at Youngstown, is the present proprietor of the general agency that was started in a small way by his father. His father was the late Charles F. Matteson, who was born in Medina County, Ohio, and in 1881 began selling insurance in Mahoning County and continued the business in successful volume until his death on September 20, 1923. His first wife was Florence Stone, who was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and died in 1902, and he afterwards married Fidelia Ripple, who resides at Canfield. Clark H. Matteson was born at the home of his parents in Canfield, Ohio, September 27, 1885. During his boyhood he attended public school, graduated in 1905 from the Rayen High School at Youngstown, and subsequently went to Cuba, where he was associated with the management of a fruit plantation for several years. Returning to Youngstown in 1910, he went into his father 's insurance office. In 1917 he became a clerk in the offices of the Sheet & Tube Steel Mills at Youngstown, but in 1921 returned to take part in the management of his father 's business and succeeded to the proprietorship on his father's death. Mr. Matteson married in 1908 Miss Laura Harry, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of Richard T. and Martha (Billingham) Harry, her father a native of Maryland and her mother of England. Mr. and Mrs. Matteson have one daughter, Mary L., born April 14, 1911. The family are members of the Calvary Baptist Church, and Mr. Matteson is an independent republican and is affiliated with Youngstown Lodge No. 403, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. CHARLES GAMBLE WATSON, secretary and treasurer of the Youngstown Welding Company, is one of the successful men in this industry who has been fitted for his work by technical training and practical experience. Having worked for others, he knows the needs of his men, and is thus better able to direct the policies of his company than can one whose knowledge is but theoretical. He was born at Penfield, Monroe County, New York, December 16, 1891, a son of Abram M. and Martha (Gamble) Watson, natives of Penfield and Groveland, New York, respectively. Since reaching manhood Abram Watson has been a farmer, and he is now a substantial man of his community. Better educated than the majority of farmers' sons, Charles Gamble Watson attended the district school, Webster High School, the Geneseo State Normal School, the Rochester Mechanics Institute and Columbia University, and left the latter in 1912. Coming then to Youngstown, he was engaged in school teaching for three years in this city, and then entered the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, and worked on a construction line for eighteen months. War then broke in upon his plans, and like the majority of the young men of the country he gave a military service during the World war. He enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Engineering Corps of the Regular United States Army, and was sent to France in the spring of 1918. After going abroad he was detailed as draughtsman at general headquarters at Chaumont. In July, 1919, he was returned to the United States and honorably discharged. Coming back to Youngstown, he became field engineer for the Youngstown Pressed Steel Company for four months, and then went with the W. B. Pollock Company as assistant to the chief engineer. This association continued for one year and eight months, when he assumed his present duties with the Youngstown Welding Company, which was the first of its kind established in Mahoning County. The founder of the business, Walter D. McKay, now president of the Youngstown Welding Company, is a pioneer in the industry. Soon after organization Martin Raush was taken into the business, and the partners conducted a general repair shop until August 1, 1919, when the present company was incorporated, with Mr. McKay, as above stated, as president ; Arthur Morgan as vice president and Martin Raush, treasurer. Mr. Watson later succeeded Mr. Raush. The capitalization is for $50,000. Since the company was incorporated the business has been developed into a general manufacturing one, producing transformers, cases, truck tanks, open-hearth hoods and miscellaneous light plate construction. The company owns its own plant at 536 West Rayen Avenue, where the premises are 371/2x150 feet, and 721/2x150 feet, and here employment is given to about twenty-five men. Recently the company has acquired a tract of land at Wickliffe, where the railroad facilities on a branch of the Erie are excellent. This expansion was made necessary on account of the large increase in business, and the new addition embraces four acres, which will afford ample space for some time to come. HISTORY OF OHIO - 161 On June 3, 1920, Mr. Watson was married at Youngstown, Ohio, to Sally Leedy, daughter of William and Sallie (Miller) Leedy, natives of Baltimore and Frederick County, Maryland, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have no children. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. In Masonry he has advanced through the York Rite and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is past master of Beuchner Council. In politicss he is a republican. RALPH R. MILLER completed his education for the law about the time America entered the World war. For a portion of the war period he was with the navy, and then engaged in private practice at Youngstown, and is now an assistant director of law of that city. He was born at Lima, Beaverhead County, Montana, November 13, 1891, son of J. H. W. and Mary J. (Gibson) Miller. His parents were born in Pennsylvania, his father having been born at Freeport and his mother at Blairsville. They were married at Freeport. The father for several years was in the train service of the Oregon Short Line Railway in Montana, but subsequently returned to Freeport, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in merchandising until his death on November 9, 1914. His widow resides at Freeport. Ralph R. Miller graduated from the high school at Freeport, Pennsylvania, in 1909, completed his literary education at Westminster College, Pennsylvania, in 1914, and studied law in the University of Pittsburgh and Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in December, 1917. From January 1, 1917, until May, 1918, he was an employe of Mahoning County. At the latter date he was called for duty with the navy at the Naval Station at Detroit, and remained there until released from active service in December, 1918. He received his final discharge in December, 1921. After the armistice, Mr. Miller engaged in law practice at Youngstown, and during the next five years built up a promising business as an attorney. On January 1, 1924, he became second assistant law director of the city, and now gives his full time to his official duties. He married, June 9, 1917, Miss Margaret Jeannette Smith, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Ett and Jennie E. (Crowe) Smith, her father a native of Youngstown and her mother of Northfield, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two children: Ralph R. and Jane Ett. They are members of the South United Presbyterian Church at Youngstown. Mr. Miller is a republican, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. HERBERT D. HANNUM is the present sheriff of Ashtabula County, with offices in the Courthouse at Jefferson. He was formerly deputy sheriff, and has been well known in business and civic affairs in his part of the state for a number of years. He was born at Huntsburg in Geauga County, Ohio, December 9, 1886, and is of English ancestry. His paternal ancestors settled in New York on coming from England. His grandfather, Lucas Hannum, was born near Oswego, New York, and spent the greater part of his life near Huntsburg, Ohio, where he was a farmer. George R. Hannum, father of the Ashtabula sheriff, was born at Huntsburg, January 3, 1856. His present address is 2052 Hanover Drive, Cleveland. He was reared and married at Huntsburg, became a carpenter, and since 1910 has lived at Cleveland, where he is chief carpenter in the experimental department of the Nealy Lamp Works. While in Huntsburg he served as township clerk and as clerk of the school board for fifteen years. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. George R. Hannum married Alice Strong, who was born at Cleveland, September 10, 1859, and died in that city November 7, 1917. She was the mother of two children, Fannie Eleanor and Herbert D. Fannie Eleanor is the wife of Fred D. Barnes, superintendent of a department for the. Metal Products Company, and their home is at the same address as her father. Herbert D. Hannum acquired his early education in the public schools of Huntsburg, attending high school into the senior year. In the course of his later experience he took a course in architectural drafting with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, and also a finger print course for identification at the University of Applied Science at Chicago. When he left public school at the age of eighteen he went to work as conductor on a street car line in Cleveland. A year later he moved to Pittsburgh and for five months had charge of the ice cream and candy department in Kauffman Brothers Store. Since then his home has been in Ashtabula County. For ten years he conducted a general store at Windsor Corners, and at the same time he engaged in private detective work. From 1918 to 1922 he was chief deputy sheriff of Ashtabula County and also county detective, and in November, 1922, was elected sheriff, beginning his two-year term on January 1, 1923. He has performed his duties with full efficiency, and is one of the most popular officials in the courthouse at Jefferson. Mr. Hannum is a republican, is a member of the Huntsburg Congregational Church, the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with Windsor Lodge No. 329, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Windsor Corners ; Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Lodge No. 547, Loyal Order of Moose, at Ashtabula. He owns a comfort= able residence on West Walnut Street in Jefferson. Sheriff Hannum married at Windsor Corners, August 12, 1908, Miss Cora B. Pinks, daughter of William R. and Addie (Lampson) Pinks, residents of Windsor Corners, where her father is a well-to-do farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Hannum have three children, Doris Genevieve, born May 16, 1912; Betty Marguerite, born March 17, 1920; and Herbert D., Jr., born October 12, 1923. JOHN B. C. ECKSTORMM, M. D. As a physician and surgeon Doctor Eckstorm has been a successful representative of his profession in Columbus for nearly twenty years. He has an honorable record with the Medical Corps of the Ohio National Guard, and was overseas with the Thirty-seventh Division. In addition to these activities Doctor Eckstorm is one of the most useful men in Columbus. He is doubtless most widely known, considering his reputation not only in Ohio, but in other Western states, for his service as a football coach and the acknowledged father of modern football at Ohio State University. Doctor Eckstorm was born at Medelia, Minnesota, but was reared in Chicago. He attended public schools in that city, including the Lake View High School. He earned his first prominence in athletics as a baseball player while in high school at Chicago. From Chicago he entered Dartmouth College, a school that has always enjoyed a high athletic standing in New England. He played halfback on the Dartmouth football team during the four years he was there, and was captain of the team in 1897, when Dartmouth won the championship among the three well known colleges in that section of the country-Dartmouth, Williams and Amherst. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1898. The following season he came to Ohio and was coach of the football team of Kenyon College, which that year overwhelmed the Ohio State team. In 1899 DoctorEckstormm was called to Columbus as the first paid coach of the university team. He remained three years, when the university won the Ohio championship in 1899 and in 1900, and in 1900 played Yost 's famous 162 - HISTORY OF OHIO Michigan team to a scoreless tie, an achievement that perhaps did as much as anything else to focus attention on Ohio State as one of the stronger teams of the Middle West. During 1902 Doctor Eckstorm coached the Ohio Medical University team. He was graduated from the Medical School of Ohio State University in 1903. When the great stadium was dedicated at Columbus in the fall of 1922, Doctor Eckstorm was one of the most prominent figures mentioned in connection with the development of athletics at the university during the years leading up to the stage of power represented in the construction of the stadium. He was not only the first to develop winning teams for the university, but he laid the basis for clean sportsmanship and set the high standards that have been maintained at the university ever since. After graduating in Medicine Doctor Eckstorm practiced two years at Gambier, the seat of Kenyon College, and since then has carried on a successful general practice as a physician and surgeon in Columbus. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations and the Franklin County Pension Board. His military record covers a period of fifteen years. He commanded, with the rank of captain, the Second Ambulance Company of the old Ohio National Guard, and later became major surgeon of the Seventh Ohio Infantry Regiment. When America entered the World war he was commissioned surgeon, with the rank of major, of the One Hundred and Twelfth Ammunition Train, Sixty-second Field Artillery, Thirty-seventh Division. With this division he went overseas in June, 1918, and was on duty at the front during the Meuse-Argonne campaign. After returning home he received his discharge in April, 1919. He is still connected with the National Guard, as major surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry. Doctor Eckstorm is a member of the college fraternity Psi Upsilon and Theta Nu Epsilon, also the Casque and Gauntlet fraternity, and belongs to the A. M. P. O. medical fraternity. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Eastern Star. Doctor Eckstorm, whose address is 1584 Summit Street in Columbus, married Miss Grace G. Youse. Their four children are: Carl H., Martha C., Mary G. and Pauline E. Doctor Eckstorm is still strong in the belief that clean athletic sports constitute an important factor in shaping the character of boys and young men, a belief which has been often confirmed by observation and personal experience in the practice of his profession as a physician. Not only is this applicable in a physical way, but in a moral and mental way as well, and looking back upon his years of activity in athletics Doctor Eckstorm enjoys the satisfaction of knowing that scattered throughout the country are many successful men who were trained under his coaching, and who learned from him the lesson of fair play, the value of loyalty to an ideal, and a spirit of resolute determination to succeed, principles which they have carried with them in surmounting the obstacles which confronted them after they had left the university halls. JAMES MITCHELL MODARELLI, is a Youngstown attorney with offices in the Dollar Bank Building. He has lived all his life since infancy in this part of Ohio, and in thirteen years has achieved a creditable position at bar and as a business man and citizen. He was born in Southern Italy, May 8, 1889, son of Joseph and Louise Modarelli. His father had already come to the United States and located at Girard, Ohio, where he found employment with A. M. Byers Company. In January, 1890, the mother and her son also came to this country. James M. Modarelli was educated in grammar and high school, and took his law course in the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in June, 1911. Admitted to the bar, he began practice at Youngstown on July 13, 1911, and has had a general practice, much of it in commercial law. He is a director of the Union Savings Bank, a director of. the Youngstown Grocery Company and of the Auto Ignition Company. Mr. Modarelli married, October 3, 1912, Miss Mary Bellitto. She was born at Niles, Ohio, a daughter of Gaetano and Dominica Bellitto, natives of Italy. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Modarelli are: J. M., Jr., born in 1916, and Lucille Marie, born February 25, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Modarelli are communicants of the Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. He is a democrat, but has preferred to be a successful lawyer rather than a politician. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and Lodge No. 55, of the Benevolent and Protective Order (,f Elks. VINCENT ANTHONY BUONPANE. One of the most prominent young men of Youngstown, a leader in republican circles, especially among those of Italian birth and ancestry, Vincent Anthony Buonpane is one of the brilliant attorneys of this section, and has a wide acquaintance all over Mahoning County. He was born at Chewton, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1900, a son of Elpidio Anthony and Mary Jane (Arrozzuta) Buonpane, natives of Italy. The father came to the United States in 1891 and settled at Curwensville, Pennsylvania, where he was joined by his wife four years afterwards. Subsequently he moved to New Castle, Pennsylvania, and from there in 1904 came to Youngstown, and has since then as proprietor been in engaged in publishing the Italian-American Citizen, a weekly newspaper, and he is also manager of The Buonpane Printing Company. From the time he was twelve years of age Vincent Anthony Buonpane was taught to make himself useful in his father 's office, in which he served in different capacities from that of printer 's devil up to that of advertising manager, in which latter position he had the opportunity to come into contact with the leading men of the county. This acquaintance has been further extended through his political activities, and in 1922 he conducted the campaign of State Senator Arthur H. Day, when he was candidate for the republican nomination for governor. While serving as his father 's advertising manager Mr. Buonpane attended school, and was graduated from Rayen High School in 1918. A very ambitious youth, he pursued the study of law at night under the preceptorship of his brother, Blase A. Buonpane, of Cleveland, Ohio. His legal studies were completed in the law department of the Youngstown Institute of Technology, and he also took private courses with Judge Frank R. Gusweiler, of Cincinnati, Ohio, prior to taking the state examination at Columbus, Ohio, and December 29, 1921, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio. Immediately thereafter he began the, practice of his profession at Cleveland, in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of Buonpane & Buonpane, but five months later he came to Youngstown to start a branch office under the same name, and he now maintains offices at 512 Wick Building. The firm have a large share of civil and criminal practice among the Italian-Americans of Cleveland, Youngstown and surrounding territory, and both young men are recognized as very able. On November 29, 1923, Mr. Buonpane was married to Josephine Santangelo, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Santangelo, natives of Italy. Mr. and Mrs. Buonpane belong to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church of Youngstown. HISTORY OF OHIO - 163 WALTER E. STANKIEWICZ. A rising young attorney and man of public affairs, Walter E. Stankiewicz, of Youngstown, is one of those of foreign birth but of American training who have so truly absorbed the best spirit of the city and the times. While he has been a resident of Youngstown only since 1922, he has already established a gratifying and important practice, and has a leading place among the Polish element of the city. Mr. Stankiewicz was born June 21, 1894, in Vilna, Poland, a son of Michael and Helen (Kasperowicz) Stankiewicz, who came to the United States in 1904 and settled at Binghamton, New York, where in the following year Michael Stankiewicz met an accidental death. His widow continued to live at Binghamton until 1916, when she changed her residence to Schenectady, New York. Walter E. Stankiewicz received his early education in the grade and high schools of Binghamton, and later took a course at Valparaiso (Indiana) University, following his graduation from which he went to Chicago, and there, October 17, 1917, joined the United States Army for service during the World war. He took an extra course in military tactics which was a preliminary course for non-commissioned officers, and in September, 1918, was sent to the training camp at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He was not called into active service, as the armistice was signed the following November, at which time he received his honorable discharge. At that time he resumed his studies at the Albany (New York) Law School, from which he was graduated in 1920. Next he studied and practiced at Cleveland, Ohio, where he also added to his income by looking up titles for real estate and doing other work for the Guarantee Title and Trust Company, remaining in the Forest City until January, 1922, when he changed his scene of activities and place of residence to Youngstown. He maintains well-appointed offices at 312 Wick Building, and is in the enjoyment of a steadily-growing general practice which carries him into all the courts. Mr. Stankiewicz is thoroughly grounded on all points and principles of legal procedure, and has the reputation of being a stable and reliable attorney and a wise counsellor. Mr. Stankiewicz is unmarried. As to politics he maintains an independent stand and has been so busy establishing himself and looking after his practice that he has had little time to engage in political activities. He belongs to Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Sokols, of which latter he is president. MARTIN DUNN. The handling of real estate and the development of properties to meet the ever-growing demand for proper housing facilities is a business that exacts efficiency and good management from those engaged in it, and these men may take credit to themselves that they not only are acquiring a well-earned competency, but also are rendering a public service of permanent value. One of the men above described is Martin Dunn, of 1536 Florence-dale Avenue, Youngstown, realtor, and assistant manager for the Rayen Company, with offices at 1102 Mahoning Bank Building, Youngstown. Martin Dunn was born in County Waterford, Ireland, January 20, 1862, a son of James and Mary (Powers) Dunn, who came from Ireland to the United States in 1865 and settled in New Jersey. While living in Ireland the father was a copper miner, but after coming to this country was a coal miner. Following his work, he moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and lived in the vicinity of Wheatland until 1871, when, once more a change was made, and Vienna, Trumbull County, Ohio, became the family home. This was exchanged in 1889 for Youngstown, and in this city his death occurred February 4, 19.17. The mother survived until May 28, 1924, and passed away at her home in Youngstown. His early educational advantages limited, when he was ten years old Martin Dunn began to work in the coal mines, and continued this line of employment until 1888, when he engaged with the iron mills as a puddler, and for fifteen years he remained in the iron industry. In June, 1903, being then appointed on the tax review board of Youngstown, he began giving his attention to his duties, and remained on that board until 1915, and then was tranferred to the county tax commission, his period of service on both bodies amounting to something like a dozen years. In 1916 he entered the realty field, and has continued in it ever since with gratifying results. Mr. Dunn is now accepted as one of the reliable and expert real-estate men of the city and county. In 1883 he was first married, but his wife died in 1888, leaving a daughter, May, who resides with her father. In 1892 Mr. Dunn married Anna Savage, of Scotland, a daughter of John Savage, and they have the following children: Anna, who is employed by the Rayen Company, lives at home ; James. L., who resides at Youngstown; and William J. and Raymond, who are both at home. The third child, Marguerite, died in August, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn belong to Saint Edward's Catholic Church, Youngstown. In Political faith he is a democrat, and he is active in local affairs. COL. EDWARD STRODE THACHER, JR. An old and prominent name in Ohio is Thacher, dating back to early Ohio history, but dating much farther back in American history. It has been notable in both professional and military life, and a military man of the present day who worthily bears it is Col. Edward Strode Thacher, Jr. of Columbus, colonel of the Ohio National Guard Artillery, who served overseas with marked distinction during the World war. Colonel Thacher was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1887, a son of Edward Strode and Margaret (McGinnis) Thacher. The Thacher and Strode families belonged originally to England, and early family records disclose that one of the eminent jurists who imposed the death sentence on King Charles the First was Sir Edward Strode, of this family connection. Apparently the first to bear the Thacher name in American history was Rev. Anthony Thacher, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, who came from Great Britain to New England in 1635, spent his life there and left descendants, many of whom became distinguished in the colonial troubles, the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812, and in the Mexican and Civil wars, without present mention being made of the World war. In 1830, the great-grandfather of Colonel Thacher, Dr. N. W. Thacher, moved from New London, Connecticut, to Ohio and established himself in the practice of medicine in the capital city, Chillicothe. He married Nancy Bedinger Van Swearingen, a daughter of Col. James Van Swearingen, a United States military officer who drew the plans for and built Fort Dearborn, now Chicago, long a landmark of Western civilization on the shores of Lake Michigan. The maternal grandfather of Colonel Thacher was an infantry officer in the Union Army throughout the Civil war. Colonel Thacher was seventeen years old when, after successfully passing the required educational, moral and physical tests, he received his appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, spent two years of rigid military discipline there and then resigned in order to enter the United States Army. He did not enter the army at that 164 - HISTORY OF OHIO time, but later joined the Ohio National Guard, enlisting in this organization as a private in Cavalry Troop B, of which he subsequently became captain, through well merited promotion. He went to the Mexican border with this state body in 1916, when he was transferred to the Seventeenth Cavalry, United States Regular Army, and with this regiment served as second lieutenant of Troop H during the border service. When the United States became involved in the World war Colonel Thacher assisted in organizing the Third Ohio Field Artillery, later designated as the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, with which he was prominently identified through a perilous period. He was commissioned major of this organization, and trained it at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and prior to leaving his own country, attended and was graduated from the Officers Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In May, 1918, Colonel Thacher went overseas as major of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, which had been made a part of the Thirty-seventh Division, and took part in the great offensives of the summer and fall of 1918. Following the signing of the armistice with Germany he was transferred to the Nintieth Division, Three Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery, and went with that command to the Rhine, as a part of the Army of Occupation. He acted also as assistant military commander of Trier, Germany. In the summer of 1919 Colonel Thacher returned home and was honorably discharged, soon thereafter being made lieutenant-colonel and, later, colonel in the Ohio National Guard Artillery, and has the same rank in the United States Army Officers Reserve Corps. Since returning from France Colonel Thacher has been active in several engineering projects of importance, and at the present time fills 'a position as engineer for the Ohio State Auditor 's Department. He has always maintained his home in his native city, and resides at 26 Auburn Avenue, Columbus. Colonel Thacher married Virginia Dent Van Swearingen, of Circleville, Ohio. Colonel and Mrs. Thacher have a family of three daughters and two sons : Virginia, Edward Strode, III, Ann, John and Margaret. The family belongs to the Episcopal Church. ISAAC MCCALLUM HOGG. From the beginning of the history of this country the most able of its legislators and public men have been connected with the legal profession, and this rule is still in force today. The long and thorough training to which an attorney is subjected before he is admitted to practice his broad and varied experience, and the knowledge he gains of human nature make him particularly fitted for public service, and few, if any, of the members of this learned profession shirk their responsibilities. One of them, worthy of special mention in this connection, Isaac McCallum Hogg, is one of the able attorneys practicing at the bar of Youngstown, and a leader in the local republican ranks. Isaac McCallum Hogg was born at Youngstown, Ohio, November 11, 1878, a son of Charles and Marion (McCallum) Hogg, natives of Scotland, who after their marriage left that country for the United States in 1864 and upon their arrival here, located at Youngstown. For some years he worked as a master mechanic with the Brown-Bonnell Works, now the Republic Iron and Steel Company. His death occurred when he was forty-five years old. The mother is also deceased. After attending the local public schools, Mr. Hogg matriculated in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University .of Cleveland, and was graduated from that university in 1903. For the succeeding two years he was engaged in newspaper and insurance work, and then, in 1905, he assumed the duties of deputy county auditor, to which office he was appointed. So efficient did he prove himself, in 1911 he was elected county auditor, and held that office until 1915, when he retired. In November of that same year he was admitted to the bar, and since that date he has been engaged in a general practice at Youngstown. In addition to his legal duties he has also been secretary and treasurer of the Mahoning Valley Mortgage Company. In July, 1912, Mr. Hogg married Grace Edith Moherman, born at North Jackson, Mahoning County, a daughter of Robert A. and Catherine (Wanamaker) Moherman, natives of Mahoning County, to which locality the Mohermans came from Pennsylvania in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Hogg have no children. They belong to the United. Presbyterian Church. In addition to other activities Mr. Hogg has served as the county chairman of his party central committee, and he is very prominent in all campaigns. Fraternally he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chaplain, and the Order of Scottish Clans, of which he is past chief. He also belongs to the Kiwanis Club, the Young Men 's Christian Association and the Chamber of Commerce, all of Youngstown. It would be. difficult to find a man more thoroughly representative of his times and locality, or one who has the welfare of his home community nearer to his heart, and what he is accomplishing will live after him, for it is of permanent value. HERMON NEWTON GEORGE, who has been an active member of the bar at Youngstown for the past seven years, began his career as an educator, and was in business and railroad service prior to engaging in the routine of law practice. Mr. George was born in Columbiana County, Ohio March 28, 1886, son of R. E. and Minnie J. (Rayl) George, his father a native of Columbiana County, while his mother was born at Rayltown, Pennsylvania. R. E. George spent his active career as a farmer until 1921, since which year he has lived retired in Youngstown. Hermon Newton George attended public schools in Columbiana County, graduated in 1906 from the Slippery Rock State Normal School in Pennsylvania, and for one year taught in his native county. At New Castle, Pennsylvania, he became a clerical worker for the Standard Steel Car Company, and 1909 was made claim agent for the Mahoning and Shenango Railway & Light Company at Youngstown. Later he took up the study of law and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1916, and since 1917 has engaged in a general practice. He married in 1910 Miss Edna C. Dean. She was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Jennie (Waldorf) Dean, natives of Pennsylvania, her father was born at Harlansburg and her mother in Mercer County. Mr. and Mrs. George have three children: Eleanor Jane, Robert Dean and Jean Louise. Mr. George is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, is superintendent of the Sunday school, is a republican, and a thirty-second degree Mason. JAMES F. LYDEN is a Youngstown attorney with offices in the Wick Building, and was admitted to the bar ten years ago. He was in the Government service before and after the World war. Mr. Lyden was born at Youngstown, August 22, 1889. His parents are Thomas J. and Mary (Brannigan) Lyden, of Youngstown. They were married in that city, the father having come from Scotland and the mother from Ireland. James F. Lyden was educated in parochial schools, graduated from the law department of Baldwin Wallace University in June,' 1914, and was admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. HISTORY OF OHIO - 165 Mr. Lyden practiced in Youngstown for some time, and in 1916 was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue at Youngstown. In September, 1917, he enlisted in the Eighty-second Division as a private, and subsequently was with the Eighty-seventh Division, and was discharged on account of disability February 20, 1918, at Camp Pike, Arkansas. On returning to Youngstown he was given special service for the Government, but on October 1, 1919, returned to Youngstown, and has since been engaged in the general practice of law. He married, September 19, 1922, Miss Alma Ward, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of Thomas J. and Margaret (Enright) Ward. They are members of St. Edward 's Catholic Church. Mr. Lyden was chairman of the City Democratic Committee of 1915. He is a member of the American Legion, Lodge No. 55 of the Elks, the Knights of Columbus, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. GEORGE SCHULLER is a Youngstown business man, and has built up an establishment for, the general repair of wagons and automobiles. He has made a commendable success through his own efforts. He was born in Austria, March 4, 1881. After attending the common schools he learned the trade of carriage and wagon making. In 1901, coming to Youngstown, he started work at his trade, followed it for seven years with others, and then established his shop for the repairing of carriages, wagons, automobile and truck bodies. He has kept adding to this industry, and now has twenty-six men in his employ. He married in 1903 Katherine Depper, of Austria. Their children are Elizabeth, Mary, George, Alma, Minnie and Margaret. Mr. Schuller and his family are members of the Lutheran Church, and in politics is independent. MYRON E. ULLMAN. The law is known as a stern mistress, demanding of her devotees constant and unremitting attention and leading her followers through many mazes and intricacies before she grants them success at her hands. This incessant devotion frequently precludes the idea of the successful lawyer indulging in activities outside of the straight path of his profession, especially if his vocational duties are of a large and important nature. But there are men who find the time and inclination to devote to other interests, and who by the very reason of their ability in the law are peculiarly and particularly fitted to perform capable service therein. Of the members of the legal profession of Mahoning County, one who has shown himself capable of handling the interests of a large clientele and at the same time mingling in the busy life about him in other avenues of activity is Myron E. Ullman, of Youngstown, a member of the law firm of Kennedy. Manchester, Conroy & Ford, with offices in the Wick Building. Mr. Ullman was born at Youngstown, December 12, 1889, and is a son of Edward D. and Fredericka (Seeger) 'Ullman, the former born in Germany and the latter at Springfield, Ohio. His maternal grandparents, John D. and Fredericka (Baum) Seeger, were born in Germany. Edward D. 'Ullman was a youth when he came to the United States, the family locating at Youngstown, where for many years he was advertising manager of the Youngstown Vindicator newspaper. His death occurred in 1902. Myron E. Ullman attended the grade schools of Youngstown and the Rayen High School, following which he entered the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, after an academic course. He then enrolled as a student of the law department of the Bathe institution, and in 1914 received the degree of Jurum Doctor. Returning to his home, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio during the same year, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, having since built up a large and lucrative professional business. He has been connected with much important litigation during the past few years, his success therein indicating his mastery of his calling and his ability in handling the cases of his clients: Mr. Ullman is a member of the First Reformed Church. He is chief deputy of the deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections of Mahoning County, and his political allegiance is given unreservedly to the republican party. As a fraternalist he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a thirty-second degree Mason and Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he also holds membership in the Optimist Club, of which he served as president in 1923-24. In 1917 Mr. Ullman was united in marriage with Miss Helen Seifert, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of Paul and Mary (Krichbaum) Seifert, and to this union there has been born one son, Myron Edward. HAROLD MCKINLEY WILLIAMS. The career of Harold McKinley Williams, of Youngstown, has been one of constant advancement, brought about by initiative, resource and hard work, these elements being directed by good management and the ability to take advantage of opportunities as they have made their appearance. Commencing with only ordinary advantages in the way of education and without the power of family influence, he has become commercial teller of the Dollar Savings Bank and senior member of the real estate and insurance firm of H. M. Williams & Company, and this within the comparatively short period of fifteen years. Mr. Williams is a native son of Youngstown, where he was born in 1891, his parents being John W. and Wilhelmina (Penny) Williams, who now make their home at Poland, Ohio, Mrs. Williams' birthplace. The education of Harold McKinley Williams was acquired in the public schools of Youngstown, and after he had graduated from the high school, in 1909, he secured employment at steel mill work, one of the principal industries of his city. After two years he decided that he could better his condition in some other field of endeavor, and accordingly became a collector for the Dollar Savings Bank. From this humble position, by reason of his fidelity and integrity, he worked his way up through various positions to his present post, that of commercial teller, a responsible office. Some years ago Mr. Williams recognized the opportunities offered by real estate transactions, and began making tentative experiments along this line. His initial operations were naturally small, owing to his lack of capital, but as time went on he was able to command larger sums and thus to enlarge the scope of his activities. Finally, in March, 1923, he organized the real estate and insurance firm of H. M. Williams & Company, his Partner in this enterprise being Harold E. Evans. The company maintains handsome offices at 313 Terminal Building, handling all kinds of city and suburban property and dealing in insurance. This has grown into a successful business, and the firm now has a long list of representative Clients. In 1912 Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Baldwin, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of Edward and Anna Baldwin, natives of England. Mrs. Williams died without issue in 1919. Mr. Williams is a member of the Belmont Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In his political allegiance he is a republican, although he takes only a passive part in political affairs. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, and holds membership in the local Young Men's Christian Association. 166 - HISTORY OF OHIO GEORGE SHERMAN WILLIAMS. Several vocations, those of school teacher, merchant and realtor, have occupied the attention and activities of George Sherman Williams during his career, and at the present time he is part owner of a prosperous real estate and insurance business at Youngstown, which city has been his home since 1911. He has not confined his activities to his business affairs, but has found much to interest him in civic and religious matters, and has contributed to his adopted city 's development and progress in several directions. Mr. Williams was born at West Point, Ohio, April 23, 1872, and is a son of George and Elizabeth (Ketchum) Williams, natives of Columbiana County, Ohio. His grandfather on the paternal side, Joseph Williams, a native of Wales, was one of the early settlers f West Point, and his maternal grandfather, George Ketchum, came from the East. George Williams was a shoemaker by trade, and during the Civil war enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, with which he fought for four years. At the close of the struggle he returned to the West Point community and tried his hand at agricultural pursuits, but ailments contracted during the war kept him from making any great progress, and eventually resulted in his death when he was still in middle age. George Sherman Williams attended school in the Mount Pleasant district of Elk Run Township and the Lisbon High School, and in 1894 and 1895 was a student at Mount Hope College, of which Prof. C. B. Galbreath was the dean. He then began teaching the school which he had attended, and for about five, years followed the vocation of educator, but gave this up to enter the employ of Hill & Ramsey, proprietors of a grocery at Lisbon, with whom he remained for two and one-half years. This was followed by two years with the Grafton Supply Company at Leetonia, Ohio, and three years as manager for P. J. McCaskey, a merchant at Lisbon. Mr. Williams then bought a general store at the corner of Walnut and Beaver streets, Lisbon, remodeled it and conducted a suc- cessful business for ten years, when he sold the enterprise, although retaining the property. At that time he moved to Canton, where he was employed in the wholesale grocery of J. R. Thomas Sons of Youngstown, one year later, in 1911, coming to Youngstown as assistant sales manager of this concern. In 1920, with R. S. Thompson, he founded his present business, real estate and insurance, and they now maintain attractive offices at 220-221 Dollar Bank Building and control a large and profitable business in their line. Mr. Williams is a republican in politics, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Exchange Club and the Business Men's Club, and is a very active member of the local Young Men's Christian Association. He is a Methodist, and in August, 1921, feeling the need of a new church in their locality, Mr. Williams and his wife, with ten other men and women, organized and founded the Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1922 the erection of the structure was started, and thirty days thereafter, in, December, 1922, the edifice was ready for occupancy and the holding of services began. The church now has a congregation of 115 members, while the Sunday School numbers 250, and the Rev. H. E. Buckey is pastor. Mr. Williams is president of the official board of trustees and teacher of the Men's Bible Class. On June 15, 1897, Mr. Williams married Miss Anna Mary Hill, who was born in Center Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Artemetia (Morely) Hill, natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. To this union there have been born three children: Ruth A., the wife of Glenn S. Thompson, of Cleveland, Ohio ; and Walter Hill and Helen Elizabeth, who reside with their parents at Youngstown. TOD BRENNER is automobile appraiser of Youngstown, to which position he was appointed January 1, 1924, and during the time he has been in office he has fully justified the confidence placed in him. He was born in Youngstown, June 10, 1884, a son of John and Catherine (Welk) Brenner, natives of Baden, Germany, and New Middletown, Ohio. The youngest in a large family of children, Tod Brenner attended the grade and high schools until 1903, but in that year left school to begin work in the steel mill, in its electrical department, where he remained for five years. Mr. Brenner began working on automobiles at Youngstown, and in 1911 went to Detroit, Michigan. From 1915 until his enlistment in the army in 1917 he was with the General Motors, but the entry of this country into the World war ;tuned his attention from automobiles to airplanes, and he enlisted in the aviation branch of the service and became assistant senior inspector in the Signal Corps. His period of service was spent inspecting Liberty Aircraft engines. He was honorably discharged from the service January 28, 1919. Returning to Youngstown, he took a position with the Mahoning Buick Company, with whom he remained until his appointment to his present position. His long and intimate knowledge and experience of automobiles eminently fit him for the work he is now doing. On October 1, 1908, Mr. Brenner married Naomi Davis, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of William and Mary Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Brenner have one daughter, Joan Elaine, who was born February 25, 1923. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in .politics he is a republican, although he votes an independent ticket locally. FRANK J. COOK. Although he is now giving his time and attention to various business enterprises, Frank J. Cook, of Youngstown, has made a name for himself as a capable educator, and is recognized as a leader among his associates. He was born at Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1880, a son of Jason and Eliza (Wright) Cook, natives of Erie County, Pennsylvania. The father was a lumberman during his earlier life, but is now living at Albion, Pennsylvania, being now eighty years old. The mother died many years ago, when she was forty-five. Ambitious from boyhood, Frank J. Cook studied hard in the local district schools, and as soon as he was old enough secured a teacher 's certificate and began teaching school. Recognizing that he had need of further instruction, he studied at night, and during vacations took up work at the Ohio State Normal School at Edinburg, and also at Grove City College, Pennsylvania. In the meanwhile his added knowledge advanced him in the educational field, and he was made district superintendent of the schools of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Later for two years he was principal of the schools of Kane, Pennsylvania. In 1905 he returned to the Edinburg State Normal School and completed his work, being graduated with his class, covering forty weeks' work in seventeen weeks. At that time Prof. John F. Bigler, of Farrell, Pennsylvania, was principal of the school, and Mr. Cook has a testimonial from Professor Bigler to the effect that he was never tardy nor did lie miss a single class during the time he was a student under his. charge. For three terms thereafter Mr. Cook was connected with the faculty of his alma mater, and for one term held a similar position with HISTORY OF OHIO - 167 the Southwest State Normal School, California, Pennsylvania. In the meanwhile he began to turn his thoughts to business, and in 1911 embarked in a mercantile venture at Kane, Pennsylvania, which proved so profitable that he decided that in the marts of trade had lie found his life work. In 1914 he sold his interests at Kane, and, going to Ashtabula, Ohio, he conducted a mercantile, business for four years, when he sold it, and, coming to Youngstown, for a year was a stock Salesman. Having looked the ground over, in 1919 he incorporated the Frank J. Cook Company, of which he is president and general manager, his wife secretary and treasurer, and Joseph N. Evans vice president. With these three, K. T. Sanders and Wilbur Scott are associated as directors. Mr. Cook is also president of the Modern Apartments Company, which he organized in 1919, associated with him Thomas Rowney as treasurer, John Zimmerman as vice president, and Mrs. Cook as secretary. Still another concern of which Mr. Cook is president is the Nu Era Company, which manufactures and sells a ready-prepared waffle flour. The other officers of this third company are: James Evans, vice president; K. T. Sanders, secretary, and Marion Foltz, treasurer. On August 19, 1911, Mr. Cook married Miss Pearl E. Weis, born near Warren, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Joseph Weis. In religious faith Mr. Cook is a Baptist, while in politics he is a progressive republican. A Mason, he belongs to Connellville, Pennsylvania, Lodge No. 258, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. A man of unusual talents, and one who has carefully developed his mental faculties, Mr. Cook exerts a strong influence in his community, and his efforts are directed toward the enforcement of law and the maintenance of a high standard of morals. FRANK L. OESCH. The professional intimates of Frank L. Oesch of Youngstown unhesitatingly place him among the able general practitioners now at the bar of Mahoning County, as he is at home in every branch of his calling, and all the more credit should be accorded him because of the fact that he has earned his own way in life, rising from one level to another through his own, unaided efforts. Frank L. Oesch was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 16, 1870, a son of Ulrich and Elizabeth (Thoeni) Oesch, natives of Switzerland. In 1858 the father came to the United States, and, locating in Columbiana County, Ohio, engaged in farming. In 1861 he returned to Switzerland and brought back with him his parents, Isaac and Catherine Oesch. The mother of Frank L. Oesch came to this country with her parents when she was a child, and they settled immediately in Columbiana County, where she grew to womanhood. Although he began his life in Columbiana County with nothing, when he died, in 1904, Ulrich Oesch was the owner of several valuable farms, all of his property having been accumulated through the hardest of work. He was the eldest of five brothers, and did much to assist his family. He and his wife, who died in 1888, had ten children, of whom six still survive. Growing up in a household where hard work was expected, Frank L. Oesch early learned to make himself useful, but he was resolved upon securing an education. Following his attendance on the district schools he took a course at Mount Union College, and when only eighteen years old commenced teaching school. In 1893 he was graduated from college, and for two years taught in the public schools of Columbiana, Stark, Portage and Belmont counties. During the time he was engaged in teaching he was studying law, and did so to such good purpose that in 1897 he was able to pass the state examinations and was admitted to the bar. From then on he has been engaged in practice at Youngstown, and has here built up a very valuable connection. In October, 1911, he was married to Elizabeth John, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth John, natives of Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Oesch became the parents of two children: Frank L., who died at the age of five years; and John Howard, who was born in June, 1918. A republican, Mr. Oesch served as city solicitor of Youngstown for two terms. At present he is president of the Mahoning County Library Association. Fraternally he maintains membership with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the First Reformed Church of Youngstown. An able man, Mr. Oesch may well be regarded as one of the best representatives of his calling in the county. MICHAEL FIALLA came to Youngstown when a boy, has made a success through his own efforts, and for a number of years has been prominently identified with various financial and business organizations. He is One of the leading representatives of the people of Czecho-Slovakia in Youngstown. He was born in Czecho-Slovakia October 15, 1882, the son of Michael and Teressa (Vlasko) Fialla. His parents came to the United States and settled in Youngstown, where his mother is still living. Michael Fialla attended school in the old country, and in 1891 joined his parents in Youngstown, where he continued his education in St. Joseph's School. In the meantime he was contributing to his own support by selling newspapers, both on the streets and on railroad trains as a representative of the Union News Company. Mr. Fialla has made use of his opportunities to acquire a very liberal education, and is a fluent linguist, having command of five languages, the German, Slavic, Polish, Croatian and English. A number of years ago he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and founded the Slovak Building and Loan Association, later the Youngstown Savings and Loan Company and also founded the Youngstown State Bank. On January 12, 1922, he founded the Ohio Savings and Loan Company, with offices at 112 East Boardman Street. He is secretary of the company and is manager of its real estate and insurance department, and is also manager of the National Foreign Exchange, handling money orders, steamship tickets and other commercial transactions between this and foreign countries. William H. Benson is president of the Ohio Savings and Loan Company, and the vice presidents are Fred Gursch and John Loew. Mr. Fialla married in June, 1901, Miss Mary Gelvanish, a native of Canton, Ohio. The children of their marriage are: Amelia and Marie, graduates of Girard High School; Helen, attending high school; Edward, Junietta and Doloris. The family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Fialla is a republican, is affiliated with Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Aerie No. 4681, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the National Slovak Organization of the United States. DAVID S. WHITE, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Ohio State University, is one of the distinguished authorities on veterinary medicine in the United States, and has been individually responsible in an important measure for the high standing now enjoyed by this school or department of the State University. Doctor White, who served with the rank of colonel in the World war, was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1869, son of William Henry and Catharine A. (Elliott) White. His father was a native of 168 - HISTORY OF OHIO Louisiana, representing a family of planters and slave owners. An affliction of the eyes caused him to seek rest and improvement in travel, and during his journeys he met Dr. Samuel M. Elliott, a prominent physician and specialist in New York. Doctor Elliott practically effected a cure for him. In the meantime William H. White had met the Doctor 's daughter, Miss Catharine A. Elliott and they were subsequently married and made their permanent home on Staten Island. Dr. Samuel M. Elliott grandfather of Doctor White of Columbus, was not only a very able physician and surgeon, but prominent in the old time military organization of New York State. When the Civil war broke out he went into the Union army with the Seventy-ninth New York Regiment, known as the Cameron Highlanders, on account of most of its members being of Scotch origin and on their dress parades before the war wearing the Kiltie uniform. Doctor Elliott became colonel of this regiment, and served with it at the first battle of Bull Run and in other campaigns. He was a personal friend of Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, the first secretary of war in President Lincoln's cabinet. David S. White spent his early years in New York, and in 1884, at the age of fourteen, came to Ohio. His home has been at Columbus since 1886, the year he began his studies in the Ohio State University. After two years of the regular collegiate work he took the full course in the College of Veterinary Medicine in two years, and was graduated with the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1890. Following that came three years of study in research and travel in Europe, most of the time as a student of veterinary science in Berlin, Vienna, Dresden and other cities. On his return to Ohio in 1893 Doctor White was made assistant in veterinary medicine in the college of veterinary medicine of the university. In 1896 he was promoted to full professor and made dean of the college. Under his direction this college has become a notable institution, abreast of the foremost American and European schools. It has trained hundreds of young men for the useful and efficient work as veterinarians, and under Doctor White it has also contributed new methods for its laboratory and experiment departments for combating diseases of live stock and other domestic animals. When America entered the World war in the spring of 1917 Doctor White volunteered his services and was called to Washington by Surgeon-General Gorgas as one of the three veterinary medical advisors, the other two associated with him coming one from Cornell and the other from Pennsylvania University. These three were constituted a board for the purpose of organizing the veterinary service of the army. They organized the corps, consisting of approximately twenty-five hundred officers and twenty-thousand enlisted men. Doctor White was tendered and accepted a commission as major in the United States Army, and subsequently while in France was raised to the rank of colonel. It is noteworthy that he was the first man ever to achieve as high a rank as colonel in the veterinary service of the United States Army. In July, 1918, Colonel White was ordered overseas, and was put in command of the veterinary forces of the American Expeditionary Force in France, reporting to General Pershing. He was in the service in France until the close of the war, returning home in the early part of 1919 and being mustered out in February of that year. Since the war Colonel White has been made an officer in the Officers Reserve corps of the United States Army, with the rank of colonel. He married Miss Nellie E. Smith, of Marietta, Ohio, who died April 15, 1924. He has a daughter, Lana, wife of Dr. Daniel G. Sanor, Jr., of Columbus. PHILIP B. LEY has contributed one of the important industries to the City of Youngstown, being proprietor of a mirror and art glass manufacturing establishment. He is an expert in the glass industry, having spent most of the years since he left school in that line of work. He was born at Akron, Ohio, October 31, 1883, son of Joseph and Minnie (Huber) Ley, his father a native of Ohio, while his mother was born in Alsace-Lorraine, coming to this country when a girl. Joseph Ley was a steel mill worker, and died in 1903. His widow is now a resident of Los Angeles, California. Philip B. Ley was educated in public schools, and during his working experience attended night school and business college. In 1907 he went to Buffalo, New York, taking charge of the plate glass department of the Standard Mirror Company, and he also traveled for this concern until 1913. He then became a salesman for the Toledo Plate and Window Glass Company at Cleveland, and four years later entered the service of the Dwelle-Kaiser Company of Buffalo. After six months he returned to Cleveland, and six months later, in 1917, came to Youngstown, where in 1918 lie organized the Youngstown Mirror and Art Glass Company, Incorporated, of which he is president and treasurer and his wife is secretary. This company manufactures leaded glass, mirrors and art glass, and also does a general jobbing business in all kinds of builders' glass. The headquarters of the business are at 655 Market Street. Mr. Ley married in 1906 Miss Mary E. Adams, who is of New England ancestry and a daughter of John Quincy and Emma. (Taylor) Adams, of Copley, Ohio. They have one child, Philip A. Ley. Mr. and Mrs. Ley are members of Westminster Presbyterian Church. He is non-partisan in politics and fraternally is affiliated with Western Star Lodge, No. 121, Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Grotto, Commandery and Shrine. He is a member, also, of Lodge No. 403, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the United Commercial Travelers. ORA B. ANDREWS is well known as a photographic artist in Youngstown, a specialist in portrait photography, and has a studio at 303 West Federal Street that has been patronized by people of exclusive taste, not only in Youngstown, but over a wide section of adjoining country. She was born at Girard, Pennsylvania, daughter of R. and Helen (Roberts) Jones, her father a native of Girard and her mother of Burlington, Vermont. Her father for many years was a cabinet maker, but he and his wife now live in Youngstown, their daughter making her home with them. Ora B. Andrews attended public schools in Pennsylvania, graduating from the Girard High School. She studied photography in Sharon, Pennsylvania, also at Erie, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, and located at Youngstown in 1910. She was employed by other photographers for several years, but in 1914 engaged in business for herself and for seven years her studio was in the Home Savings and Loan Block. Since 1921 she has occupied beautifuly equipped rooms at 303 West Federal Street. She specializes in photography for women and children. She is a Presbyterian, a republican, and a member of the Quota Club for Women. JOHN H. REES came to America when a youth of sixteen and has devoted a large part of his life to the iron and steel industries, in which he was an expert workman in some of the most highly skilled branches, but for the past dozen years has given his time and service to one of the important public institutions of Youngstown. HISTORY OF OHIO - 169 He was born at Neath Abbey, South Wales, July 8, 1866, son of John and Elizabeth (James) Rees, who spent all their lives in Wales. John H. Rees was educated in public schools, and on coming to the United States, at the age of sixteen, first located at Youngstown, where he spent five years working in the Valley Steel Mills. His next experience was at Toledo, where he worked in the shearing department of the steel mills. Before coming to this country he had learned the plasterer's trade, and after eight years in the mills he found work as a machinist in a general bicycle shop. Two and a half years later he moved to Muncie, Indiana, going to work in the steel mills, being assistant superintendent a year and a half, though his first employment was as a bundler, from that being promoted to foreman, then assistant shipper and then assistant superintendent. From there he went back to Toledo, as a shearer and in 1899 returned to Youngstown, being a machinist for George B. Sennett until 1903, when he was made machinist in the Youngstown Foundry and Machine Company, spending four years there, and for one year was machinist for the William B. Pollock Company. While in these positions he was twice elected president of the Machinists' Union. He finally gave up his trade to work at his original vocation, and spent four years as a plastering contractor. On April 12, 1912, when the Detention Home of Youngstown was established, Mr. Rees was elected as its superintendent and Mrs. Rees as its matron, and they have given an uninterrupted service in those capacities ever since, proving their efficiency and ability as managers as well as their kindliness and humanity in looking after those under their charge. Mr. Rees married, May 6, 1890, Miss Hannah Jones, who was born at Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, daughter of Morgan W. and Ann (Elias) Jones. Her parents were natives of Wales, but came to Youngstown in 1862, and spent the rest of their lives in that section of Ohio. Her father was a coal miner. Mr. and Mrs. Rees have two daughters. Eleanor May is the wife of E. J. Thomas, of Struthers, Ohio, their two children being Edwin J. and Paul Rees. The second daughter, Florence Elizabeth, is Mrs. William H. Franklin, of Cleveland, and is the mother of two children, John Howard and Mary Louise. Mr. Rees is a trustee of the Plymouth Congregational Church. In politics he is a republican, and is active fraternally and in Welsh societies, being president of the Youngstown Eisteddfod and of St. David's Society. He is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason and a member of Youngstown Lodge, No. 203, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is a member of the Eastern Star and is a trustee of the Woman 's Welsh Club. WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON as a youth, during summer vacations, accepted some employment with the Bell Telephone Company, and this was the beginning of a permanent connection and a career that has made him one of the expert men in the telephone industry in the United States. For several years he has been the district engineer of the Bell Telephone interests at Youngstown. Mr. Jackson was born at Victoria, British Columbia, December 23, 1884, son of Robert Thomas and Jennie Jackson. His parents were born in England, were married in the United States, lived in Canada for some time, and his father was a representative of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. He died in 1899, and his widow now lives at Austin, Texas. William Henry Jackson was an infant when his parents located in Austin, Texas, where he attended the grammar and high schools. He was a boy when his inclination and necessity combined to make him self-supporting, and during summer vacations he worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company for two summers, and in 1899 began his first summer exprience with the Bell Telephone Company. His ern ployment was confined to the vacation periods of the years until 1902, since which year his service has been continued. In. 1916 he was transferred to Columbus, Ohio, as plant engineer, and in December, 1919, was moved to Youngstown, where he has served as district plant engineer. His service in Texas was given entirely in the cities of Dallas and Houston. Mr. Jackson married, October 1, 1920, Miss Irene C. Goetz, who was born at Altoona, Pennsylvania, daughter of Alfred and Carrie Goetz. They have one daughter, Barbara Jean, born August 13, 1921. Mrs. Jackson is a Presbyterian. He votes as an independent republican, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the Consistory at Columbus. CHARLES HENRY HIGGINS, M. D. A physician and surgeon whose professional work has all been done in Muskingum County except for the period he was a medical officer in the army during the World war, Dr. Charles Henry Higgins represents a pioneer family in Southeastern Ohio, and his individual career has been one of distinctive honor and achievement. He was born on a farm in Athens County, Ohio, October 3, 1863. His grandparents were Michael and Mary (McClintic) Higgins. Andrew Higgins, the father of Michael, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio more than a hundred years ago. Michael Higgins was well known in the early days in Southeastern Ohio as a trapper and hunter. Joseph Seaman Higgins, father of Doctor Higgins, was born in Athens County, in 1828, and died in 1900. He had a farm, raising fine cattle, hogs and sheep, was a progressive man of his community, served six years as county commissioner, and a number of years as president of the County Agricultural Society; during the Civil war was in the state militia, and was always a republican in politics. He married Hanna Wood Hibbard, who was born in Athens County, in 1827, and died in 1903. The Hibbard family is one of the oldest in America, founded by Robert Hibbard, who came from Sheffield, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1632. Ithamar Hibbard, a great-grandfather of Doctor Higgins, was an American soldier at the battle of Bennington during the Revolution and subsequently served as a member of the Vermont Legislature. John Milton Hibbard, maternal grandfather of Doctor Higgins, lived in Dover Township of Athens County, was a farmer and stock raiser, and widely known as an earnest churchman and prohibitionist. He died at the venerable age of ninety-three years. Charles Henry Higgins was seventh in a family of ten children. His early years were spent in rural communities of Athens County. Much of his education after the local schools was acquired through his own earnings and efforts. He taught a number of years of country school. In 1887 he graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University at Athens, and by continued work at intervals was granted the Master of Arts degree in 1890. He was a member of the local chapter of the Beta Theta Pi of the Ohio University. With this literary education he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and became a linotype operator in the plant of the Courier-Journal. At the same time he attended the medical department of the University of Louisville, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1896. For one year Doctor Higgins was resident house physician at the Louisville City Hospital, and in 1897 began his career as a physician and surgeon in Muskingum County. He practiced for a time at Zanesville, and from 1899 to 1905 his home was at Sonora. He then returned to Zanesville, where for nearly twenty years he has been one of the leaders in 170 - HISTORY OF OHIO the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1912 he was elected. county coroner. He has served as secretary and president of the Muskingum County Academy of Medicine and as secretary of the Eighth District of the Ohio. State Medical Society. Interested in politics, he has been secretary of the Republican County Central Committ:?.. He is a member of the Zanesville Kiwanis Club and is affiliated with Malta Lodge No. 118, Free and Accepted Masons, at Norwich, Ohio ; Zanesville Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Masons; Zanesville Council No. 12, Royal and Select Masters; Cyrene Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar, and Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite. In June, 1917, Doctor Higgins was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. In September of that year he was called to active duty at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and in June, 1918, was promoted to captain. At Camp Taylor he was an officer of the Medical Unit of the One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade until December, 1918. He has a reserve commission of captain in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. He is a member of the American Legion. For a number of years he has been interested in the psychological side of his profession, and has prepared a number of papers for medical journals. He served as a neuropsychiatric specialist for his district in the United States War Veterans Bureau. On November 2, 1892, at Athens, Ohio, Doctor Higgins married Miss Louise Brashears. She was born in the City of Columbus, but was reared in Athens. Her father, the late Thomas Brashears, was at one time editor of the Athens Messenger, and was well known in Ohio newspaper circles. Doctor and Mrs. Higgins have one daughter, Rachael, who in 1917 graduated from Ohio University at Athens. She has taught English in the high schools of Marietta and Zanesville, and in 1923 entered Columbia University for post-graduate work, receiving a Master degree in June, 1924. HENRY MORRIS CALDWELL. As one of the sound business men of Youngstown Henry Morris Caldwell has won an enviable place in his home community through his own efforts, and today the house he founded receives a fair share of patronage not only from the people of Youngstown, but of a wide adjacent territory. Mr. Caldwell was born at Youngstown, September 2, 1888, a son of Henry and Anna (Morris) Caldwell, both born near Belfast, Ireland. The paternal grandparents, William and Jane Caldwell, came to the United States at an early day and settled in the vicinity of Youngstown, where they acquired a valuable farming property. Henry Caldwell was for many years a paving contractor of Youngstown, and one of the city 's public-spirited men. It was he who erected the Soldiers' Monument in the public square of Youngstown, and he did many other things to improve the city and county. His death occurred in 1914, and his wife died three years after his demise. Until he was nineteen years old Henry Morris Caldwell was a public school student, but at that age began working in the Youngstown steel mills, where he remained for two years. His next employment was with the General Fireproofing Company, but he left that concern to go with the Youngstown Steel Car Manufacturing Company, and for the subsequent five years was in its concrete roof division. In 1916 he went into business for himself as an architectural engineering supply agent, and has built up a wide connection, and he also handles office supplies. His place of business is at 11 West Commerce Street. His business career was interrupted by the war, in which he saw service from his entry, in May, 1917, in the First Officers Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, until his honorable discharge at Iona Island, New York, February 22, 1919. As a member of the Marine Corps he served on a battleship in Cuba and in various parts of the United States. Mr. Caldwell belongs to First Church of Christian Science, and has served it as treasurer and president. The Youngstown Auto Club holds his membership. ALFRED HOLZ. Each line of business has its own problems which must be solved in order to insure success. With these are allied the usual demands of trade and necessity for good judgment and business methods, and when these requirements can be met success is practically certain to follow. Having been able to do this, and to turn out excellent work, the Youngstown Coach Works, established at 201 East Boardman Street, has made a success of auto painting, and is one of the leaders in this line at Youngstown. Alfred Holz was born at Wurttemberg, Germany, April 9, 1895, and his parents were natives of the same country, and there both died. Until he was seventeen years old Alfred Holz attended the schools of his native land, but at that age began learning the trade of a painter, and worked at it in Germany until 1912, when he came to the United States, and after his arrival here was at Chester, Pennsylvania, for a year. There he continued to work at his trade, and he also found employment at it in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, during a period covering about seven years. In the fall of 1920 he came to Youngstown, and for two months worked at general painting. He then commenced painting automobiles at 819 Fourth Street, and three months later moved his business into the Henderson Overland Automobile Building, where he is doing general automobile painting and conducting a paint shop, the latter being connected with the Cadillac Motor Car Company 's place on West Boardman Street. He employs eight mechanics, and is very particular with reference to the quality of the work he turns out, so that he has established a reputation for it. In February, 1917, Mr. Holz married Miss Louise Arants, of Austria, and they have one daughter, Clara, born in June, 1918. Mr. Holz belongs to the Lutheran Reformed Church. He is a republican. Fraternally he belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he is also a member of the United States Insurance Company. THOMAS H. BELL, organizer and president of the Commercial Bank of Middletown, has done much to advance banking interests and facilities in Butler County, and is a loyal and progressive citizen whose influence is ever to be counted on in connection with measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community. Mr. Bell was born in Marion County, Illinois, September 30, 1874, and he was a lad of seven years at the time of the family removal to Mason County, Kentucky, where he was reared to adult age and where his educational advantages were those of the public schools. Mr. Bell remained in that county, associated with various industrial and business interests, until 1907, when he came to Butler County, Ohio, and established his residence at Trenton, in which attractive village he still maintains his home. There he organized the Bank of Trenton, and of the same he served as cashier until 1923. In 1909 he organized the Farmers National Bank at Seven Mile, this county, of which his brother, James E., became the cashier, and at Somerville, this county, he organized the Somerville National Bank, of which his brother, William B., is the cashier. The unequivocal success that had attended his former banking enterprises in Butler County led Mr. Bell to extend still further his interests in financial operations in the county. In the autumn of 1922 HISTORY OF OHIO - 171 he organized. the Commercial Bank of Middletown, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 and which initiated active business May 12, 1923. The bank, of which he is the president, maintains a surplus fund of $10,000. Dr. Charles G. Barton is its first vice president, John E. Fay is second vice president, and E. T. McCue is cashier. Mr. Bell is a director and the secretary of the Trenton Building & Loan Associaiion, and he has been since 1912 an official of Group 1 of the Ohio Bankers Association. He is actively identified with the Middletown Civic Association, and is a member of its general committee, his attitude at all times being that of a liberal and public-spirited citizen. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church. The year 1908 recorded the marriage of Mr. Bell and Miss Mary Cook Dimmitt, of Germantown, Kentucky, she being a graduate of the high school at that place and also of Verona College, one of the excellent educational institutions of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have four children, whose names and respective ages (1923) are here indicated: Louise M., fourteen ; William H., twelve Margaret E., nine; and Thomas H., Jr., seven. The elder daughter is a member of the class of 1926 in the Trenton High School, has marked talent in both vocal and instrumental music, and will be afforded advantages for the full development of this artistic talent. On Miami Street at Trenton Mr. Bell erected, for the family home, one of the finest residences in Butler County, a brick and stucco house of eleven rooms and of modern architecture and appointments. ROLLAND W. SOLOMON, A. B., Ph. B., who has been superintendent of the public schools of the City of Middletown, Butler County, since 1917, has given an administration marked not only by progressive policies and fine standards of academic and practical scholarship, but also by great improvements in the physical facilities of the schools under his direct and resourceful supervision. It may be noted that when he assumed his present administrative office the schools of Middletown had, in 1917, an enrollment of 3,523 pupils, and that in 1923 the enrollment aggregated 5,210. In 1917 the corps of teachers numbered 110, and at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1923, 170 splendidly qualified teachers are retained. Within the regime of Superintendent Solomon have been erected the buildings of the new Lincoln and Garfield schools; a twelve-room addition has been made to the Jefferson School; the building of the Booker T. Washington School, for colored pupils, has likewise been completed and equipped, its rooms being six in number ; but the crowning achievement marking the liberality of the city in providing for educational facilities has been the recent completion of the admirable new high school building, erected at a cost of $750,000 and representing the most modern standard in school architecture anu accommodations. The auditorium of the high school Dulitang has a seating capacity for 1,300 persons, and the fine gymnasium has a seating capacity of 1,200. By his achievement and unqualified enthusiasm and success in his chosen profession Superintendent Solomon has gained high place in educational circles in his native state. He is an active member of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association, the Ohio State Teachers Association, the National Educational Association, the Schoolmasters Club in the City of Cincinnati, and the Western Ohio Rol nd Table Society. He is at the time of this writing chairman of the executive committee of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association, and a member of the Board of Control of the Ohio Teachers' Reading Circle. In the Masonic fraternity he has completed the circle of each the York and Scottish rites, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias. He is an influential member of the Middletown Civic Association, and holds membership in the Middletown Community Golf Club and the Franklin Golf Club. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rolland W. Solomon was born near Kansas, Seneca County, Ohio, on the 8th of November, 1873, and is a son of Isaac N. and Esther R. (Good) Solomon. There he received in the district schools the major part of his preliminary education. He thereafter took a high school course, and finally he entered Ohio Northern University, at Ada, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1914, upon the completion of a course in the great University of Chicago, he received from that institution the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In the period of his attending both of these educational institutions he was rendering effective pedagogic and administrative service in the position of supeyintendent of the public schools of the City of Fostoria, Seneca County, and there he retained this office until 1917, the year that marked the initiation of his splendid administration as superintendent of the public schools of Middletown. The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Mr. Solomon and Miss Ada Zeis, daughter of Jacob and Alice (Weikert) Zeis, of Tiffin, Seneca County. Mrs. Solomon profited by the advantages of the public schools of Tiffin, and thereafter continued her studies in Heidelberg College, that city, in the art department of which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1902. She has exceptional talent both as a musician and artist, and has done effective work as teacher in both of these lines. Mrs. Solomon is a member of the Current Events Club of Middletown and of the Ohio Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon have one child, Geraldine, who was graduated from the Middletown High School and who is a meinber of the class of 1925 in Oberlin College. JEFFERSON C. CROSSLAND, M. D. One of the older men in accomplishment and service as a physician and surgeon of Zanesville, Doctor Crossland was for fifteen years a member of the State Board of Health, and has accepted and performed all the duties of life without reserve. He was born on a farm near Dresden, in Muskingum Township, Muskingum County, September 6, 1859. His father, George Crossland, was a native of England, and when he was two years of age the family came to America and settled in Muskingum County. He was educated in the public schools there, became a farmer, and was always active in the Methodist Church of his locality. He died when only forty-two years of age, in 1861. George Crossland married Elvira Mutzler, a native of Muskingum County, who lived to the age of eighty-five. The youngest of five children, Dr. Jefferson C. Crossland was two years old when his father died, and his education was secured through his mother's teaching. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, and as a means to his higher education he taught school for a number of terms. In the intervals he attended the Ohio Wesleyan. University at Delaware, and between teaching and attending school he spent seven years. In 1884 Ohio Wesleyan gave him the Bachelor of Arts degree. During 1885 he taught a school in Missouri, and then returned to Ohio and began the study of medicine under Dr. Alfred Ball at Zanesville. He subsequently entered the University of Cincinnati, medical department, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1887, and in the same year Ohio Wesleyan 172 - HISTORY OF OHIO conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. Doctor Crossland began his service as a physician at Zanesville in 1887, and he has given thirty-five years of his life to his profession. His service as a member of the State Board of Health began in 1896, and continued until 1911. He served by appointment from Governors Bushnell, Nash, Herrick and Harmon. Twice he was elected president of the board. He has been president of the local medical society and is a member of the Muskingum County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war Doctor Crossland was a member of the medical section of the National Council of Defense. For four years he was on the board of education at Zanesville. His hobby, recreation and diversion is republican politics, and while never a candidate for an elective office, he has satisfied his public spirit by exercising an unpretentious influence in party affairs and good government. Fraternally he is a member of Lafayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason, Zanesville Chapter and Council, and Cyrene Commandery of the Knights Templar. At Zanesville, October 10, 1893, Doctor Crossland married Miss Elizabeth Harris. Her father was David Harris, a native of Muskingum County, and for some years principal of the Zanesville public school. Doctor and Mrs. Crossland have two sons. Clarence J., the older, while a student in the Ohio State University, was one of the first to volunteer for the Officers' Training Camp and he helped establish an enlistment office at Zanesville, an office in which 120 young men of Southeastern Ohio filed their applications for the first training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He was commissioned, was assigned to duty with the First Infantry at Camp Sherman, went overseas with the Eighty-third Division, and was transferred to the First Division as supply officer under Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. He was in the Meuse-Argonne and the other campaigns of the First Division, and went with that division into Germany after the armistice. After more than a year overseas he returned to the United States, resuming his studies in Ohio State University, and holds two degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, from the university. He is now engaged in law practice in Zanesville, and is quite active in republican politics. He is a member of the American Legion, the Central Presbyterian Church and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. The younger son of Doctor Crossland is David Harris, a graduate in the department of commerce and journalism of Ohio State University. Both sons had special training in the University of Wisconsin. MABEL E. GARDNER, M. D., who is established in the successful practice of her profession in the City of Middletown, Butler County, has the thorough technical fortification and the gracious personality that make for prestige in the exacting vocation to which she is giving herself with fine professional stewardship. Doctor Gardner was born at Middletown, Ohio, on the 3d of July, 1883, and is a daughter of William I. and Elizabeth (Hickman) Gardner, who maintained their home in this city until their deaths, the father having devoted many years to effective service as a teacher in the public schools of the Buckeye State. In the schools of her native city Doctor Gardner continued her studies until her graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1902. Her higher education along academic lines was acquired in Otterbein College, from which she received in 1908 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In consonance with her ambition and well formulated plans she then entered the Ohio-Miami Medical College, in which she completed the prescribed curriculum and was graduated as a member of the class of 1914. After thus receiving her degree of Doctor of Medicine she further reinforced herself by a year of service in the Mary Thompson Hospital (for women) in the City of Chicago, where she held the position of interne. In the autumn of the same year, 1915, she opened her office at Middletown, and here her success in her profession has been on a parity with her earnest application, her abiding human sympathy transcending mere emotion to become a motivating power for helpfulness. In her representative practice Doctor Gardner specializes in gynecology and obstetrics, and in this connection she took a special course of post-graduate work in the celebrated clinic of Dr. Bertha Van-loosen, in the City of Chicago. The Doctor continues a close student of medical and surgical science, and has made valuable contributions to the Woman 's Medical Journal. She is identified with and regularly attends the sessions of the Butler County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. She is a member of the staff of Middletown Hospital, is an appreciative and popular member of the Doctors' Club of Middletown, is a trustee and actively concerned in the work of the Girls' Club in her home city, where also she has active membership in the Civic Association. HENDERSON ESTES, who is one of the representative younger members of the bar of Butler County, has been established in the practice of his profession in the City of Middletown since the year 1916, and his well appointed law offices are at 415 Castell Building. Mr. Estes is a scion of old and distinguished Southern families and claims North Carolina as the place of his nativity. He was born at Henderson, that state, November 3, 1892, and is a son of William T. and Lucy (Henderson) Estes. William T. Estes was born and reared in North Carolina, where his father had gained rank as one of the distinguished physicians and surgeons in that state. His paternal grandfather, Capt. Triplet Estes, was a gallant officer in the War of 1812. Mrs. Lucy (Henderson) Estes is a cousin of Hon. John S. Henderson, who for more than twenty years represented North Carolina in the United States Congress. She is a niece of the late Hon. A. M. Scales, who served as governor of North Carolina, and is a great-great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Macon, who was one of the most influential men of his day in North Carolina. On the paternal side Mrs. Estes is a great-granddaughter of the distinguished Judge Leonard Henderson, who served many years as chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Henderson Estes was a boy at the time of his parent's removal to Middletown, Ohio, and here his educational advantages included those of the high school. Thereafter he was a student in turn at historic old Randolph-Macon College, at Bedford, Virginia, and the fine old Episcopalian School of the West, Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio. In preparation for the profession of his choice he entered another of the historic institutions of the Old Dominion State, Washington and Lee University, in the law department of which celebrated Virginia institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been virtually coincident with his admission to the Virginia bar and the same year having recorded his admission also to the Ohio bar. His professional novitiate was served at Middletown, Ohio, and his sterling character and able professional stewardship have gained to him a substantial and representative law business. Mr. Estes is a member of the Butler County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and in 1917 he served as justice of the peace at Middletown, until he entered the national military service in connection with the World war, as HISTORY OF OHIO - 173 will be noted in a later paragraph of this review. Mr. Estes is affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles the Knights of Pythias, and the Loyal Order of Moose, in which last named organization he holds, in 1923, the office of dictator. In 1917, soon after the nation became formally involved in the World war, Mr. Estes enlisted for service in the United States Army, and was assigned to Camp Sherman, Ohio. On the 1st of June, 1918, he there received commission as second lieutenant, and in the following October he went with his command to the stage of active conflict in France. There he took part in the great Argonne offensive, and in this and other service he proved himself a loyal, resourceful and gallant soldier and officer. He remained overseas some time after the armistice brought the war to a close, and after his return to the United States he received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio, June 19, 1919. His abiding interest in his former comrades is indicated by his affiliation with the American Legion. October 6, 1920, recorded the marriage of Mr. Estes and Miss Gwendoline Johnston, of Bedford, Virginia, in which state she was born and reared, her higher, educational discipline having there been received in Hollins College, at Roanoke. Mr. and Mrs. Estes are most popular figures in the representative, social activities of their home city, and their circle of friends is limited only by that of their acquaintances. They have a fine little son, Johnston. CLINT G. GRIST is one of the progressive and successful representatives of real-estate enterprise in Butler County, where he is secretary, treasurer and manager of the Grist Realty Company, besides conducting also an independent real-estate and insurance business. The well appointed offices of the Grist Realty Company are on the fourth floor of the First and Merchants National Bank Building in the City of Middletown. Mr. Grist was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 15, 1878, and is a son of Joshua and Elizabeth (White) Grist, sterling citizens of that county. Mr. Grist continued his residence in his native county until August, 1901. In 1904 he established his residence at Middletown and engaged in the general real-estate and insurance business, in which he has since continued successfully in an individual way, aside from his activities with the Orist Realty Company. Mr. Crist has shown marked discrimination, enterprise and constructive ability in his varied and important real-estate operations, and incidentally has made valuable contribution to the growth and the civic and material advancement of Middletown. He has been identified with the platting and exploiting of some of the finest additions to the City of Middletown, including the Valley View and the Idlewild additions. He had the distinction of being chosen the first president of the Middletown Realty Association, and was a member of the original or first directorate of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the Commercial Bank of Middletown and of the local Young Men's Christian Association. In June, 1915, Mr. Grist effected the organization - of the Grist Realty Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, the other officers of this vital corporation being G. W. A. Wilmer, who is president, and B. F. Harwitz, who is vice president. This company, which has a splendid working organization and ample capitalistic resources, has opened and successfully developed the following Middletown subdivisions: Auburndale, twenty acres; Avalon, 100 acres; Green Acres, thirty acres; and South Main Court. The company specializes in the erection of high-grade houses to be sold on the easy-payment plan. The gross assets of the company now aggregate $162,000. One of the attractive residence properties on Yankee Road at Middletown is that owned by Mr. Grist, and this beautiful place, at 300 Yankee Road, constitutes the family home. The political convictions of Mr. Grist place him staunchly in the ranks of the democratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church in their home city. Mr. Grist was but thirteen months old at the time of his father 's death, and early became largely dependent upon his own resources. He has won advancement and substantial success through his own ability and well ordered activities, and has at all times commanded the confidence and high regard of his fellow men in all walks of life. Mrs. Grist, whose maiden name was Christine Lang, was born and reared in Butler County, and is a daughter of John and Sabina (Banzhaf) Lang. She received the advantages of the public schools and thereafter attended and was graduated from Glendale College, near the City of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Grist have an interesting family of four children : Dorothy E. is a member of the class of 1924 in Western College, ,Oxford, Ohio; Wilbur Edward is a member of the class of 1926 in Capital University, Columbus, Ohio; and Stanley A. and Eleanore are (1923) attending the public schools of Middletown. ALVA LINCOLN REA. In the course of many years of work as a traveling salesman Alva Lincoln Rea established a home at Zanesville, and after leaving the road engaged in business there. He founded and has been the man primarily responsible for the success of the Eclipse Laundry Company. He has also been interested in banking, and was the first president of the Zanesville Rotary Club. Mr. Rea was born at DeGraff, in Logan County, Ohio, July 19, 1867, son of William and Margaret (Moore) Rea. His parents were natives of Logan County. His mother died at the age of sixty-six. William Rea, who was born in 1845, and died in 1903, was a soldier throughout the four year period of the Civil war, in the Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded in battle. After the war he devoted his time to farming and stock raising near DeGraff, and took an active part in local affairs as a township officer. He was a republican, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. One of the first of his parents' six children, Alva Lincoln Rea spent his boyhood on the farm in Logan County, attended the public schools, and the first occupation that exercised a strong fascination over him was traveling salesmanship. Leaving the farm at the age of nineteen, he went to Dayton, and became a stock room and office employe of a wholesale paper concern. Subsequently he went on the road, and for sixteen years sold goods over Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, with headquarters at Zanesville. Mr. Rea engaged in the laundry business on a small scale in 1907. In 1911 he removed the Eclipse Laundry Company to its present location. Then came the great flood of 1913, practically destroying the plant and reducing him to the lowest level of financial capital. He started all over again, but in ten years' time built up the Eclipse Laundry to be the largest and best equipped for general laundry, cleaning and dyeing purposes in Southeastern Ohio. The business has grown so rapidly that frequent additional units to the buildings have been erected. In 1920 Mr. Rea gave up his personal management of the laundry business, and having helped organize he became secretary and general manager of the Federal Radiator Company, manufacturers of boilers 174 - HISTORY OF OHIO and radiators. He sold his interest in February, 1923, and since then has resumed his personal direction of the laundry business, of which he is treasurer and general manager. Mr. Rea is also chairman of the executive board and a director of the First Trust and Savings Bank, being one of its organizers and first directors. He was one of the organizers and the first president, during 1915-16, of the Zanesville Rotary Club. His helpful spirit has been manifested in many ways, but especially in behalf of crippled children, a work sponsored by the Rotary Club. He is a former director of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, is a republican in politics, a member of the State and National Laundry Men's Associations, and belongs to the Zane Club and the Zanesville Golf Club, golf being his favorite diversion. Fraternally he is a member of Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Mason, Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters,. Cyrene Commandery of the Knights Templar, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Rea has two sons, one by each of his marriages. His first wife, Effie Cory, was the mother of Stanley C. Rea, now assistant manager and secretary of the Eclipse Laundry Company. His son was regimental supply sergeant in the One Hundred Thirty-sixth Field Artillery Regiment during the World war. He married Miss Florence Ansel. Mr. Rea 's second son is William Weaver, and his mother was Beulah Weaver, of Zanesville, daughter of the late Floyd Weaver, a traveling salesman. Mrs. Rea takes an active part in church, club and social life at Zanesville. CLARENCE A. LYNCH, osteopathic physician at Middletown, is a thoroughly qualified and capable representative of his profession, and has been engaged in practice for the past six years. He was born at Clarksburg, West Virginia, April 4, 1886, son of P. I. and Virginia A. (Elliott) Lynch, of Clarksburg. Growing up there, as a boy he attended the Clarksburg High School, and finished his literary education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Subsequently, after experience in other lines, Doctor Lynch entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and was graduated in 1917. On January 2, 1918, he was licensed to practice in Ohio. During a portion of the World war he was a munition worker in one of the plants in the Middle West. For three years Doctor Lynch practiced at Miamisburg, Ohio, and since then has been located at Middletown. He owns a beautiful home at 112 South Main Street, and has his offices in his residence. Doctor Lynch is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the Ohio State Osteopathic Society and the Middletown Osteopathic Society. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Middletown Civic Association. He married Miss Elizabeth England on March 14, 1917, at Jewett, Ohio. Her father, Dr. W. L. England, is a prominent physician of that Ohio town. Mrs. Lynch finished her education also in Ohio Wesleyan University. PAUL K. JONES, D. O. To his work as an osteopathic physician and surgeon at Middletown Doctor Jones brought not only the training exemplified in his diploma of graduation, but an extended and unusual experience as a bacteriologist in army hospitals and camps both in this country and in France during the World war. Doctor Jones was born at St. Louis, Missouri, September 10, 1894, son of Dr. W. A. Jones, who for many years has practiced medicine as a member of the regular school at St. Louis. Paul K. Jones was reared in the City of Columbia, Missouri, where he attended high school and the University of Missouri. Later he entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and left there during the World war to join the Army Medical Corps. He was bacteriologist in a base hospital in the Verdun sector in France. The five hospitals in this sector in seven months' time took care of more than 100,000 patients. For two months Doctor Jones was also stationed at Dijon, France, in the Central Medical Departmental Laboratory, where he was doing special work on typhoid fever. Returning to the United States June 30, 1919, he did special post-graduate work in the Chicago Osteopathic College and also attended Cook County clinics in Chicago. On January 1, 1920, he located for practice at Middletown. Doctor Jones is a member of the American Legion, is president of the Dayton District Osteopathic Society and a member of the Middletown and Ohio State societies of that profession and the American Osteopathic Association. He is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Civic Association, the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Theta Psi college fraternity and the Middletown Golf Club and the Franklin Golf Club. Doctor Jones married Miss Louise Wolverton, of Middletown, Ohio, daughter of George and Phena (Potter) Wolverton. She was educated in the Middletown High School. They have one son, William K., born in 1923. WILLIAM H. HENRY, M. D. A native of Ohio, now in practice as a physician and surgeon at Middletown, Doctor Henry gave five years of his professional service to the army, part of the time being in the Army Medical Corps on duty during the World war, and subsequently held the rank of major in the Regular Army, medical department. His foreign service took him around the world. Doctor Henry was born at Athens, Ohio, October 25, 1872, son of Charles and Katie (Lindley) Henry. He was reared at Athens, where he finished his high school course, and then entered Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. In 1896 he graduated from Starling Medical College, now the Ohio State University. Subsequently he did special work in the Chicago Polyclinic on eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Henry for ten years was engaged in a general private practice. In April, 1917, the same month that America declared war on the Central Powers, he was inducted in the service in the Army Medical Corps, with the rank of first lieutenant. It was his lot to be selected as one of the medical officers to accompany the memorable allied expedition to Archangel, Russia, and in that northern outpost, under the arctic circle, he remained on duty for one year, having charge of the Base Hospital. In the meantime, in April, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of captain and in December, 1918, promoted to major in the Medical Corps. After leaving Archangel he was transferred to Brest, France, and then returned to the United States. For six months he was on duty at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and in 1920 was transferred to the Philippine Islands, where he remained a year. While in the Philippines he was admitted to the Regular Army, medical department, with the rank of major. After his return to the United States he was on duty at MeCook Field at Dayton, Ohio, and his last two years in the service were spent there. Doctor Henry was discharged December 30, 1922, but still holds the rank of major in the Officers Medical Reserve Corps. When he left the army he spent six months in post-graduate work in Chicago and in