HISTORY OF OHIO - 175 Tulane University at New Orleans, and this experience and training he brought to the service of his practice at Middletown. He now specializes in eye, ear, throat and nose work. Doctor Henry is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and also a member of the Royal Areh Chapter and Council degrees and the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Shriners Club, the Middletown Golf Club, and the Butler County and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. On May 12, 1923, he married Miss Marion Bishop, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, daughter of Henry J. Bishop, of that city. Mrs. Henry was educated in the Cedar Rapids High School and also attended high school in Chicago. JOHN CARL STRATTON, M. D. In the community of Middletown, Doctor Stratton has performed all the work expected of a competent physician and surgeon for over fifteen years. He has been thoroughly devoted to the ideals of his profession, and has interested himself as well in the civic and social organizations of his home city. Doctor Stratton was born at Atwater, in Portage County, Ohio, October 17, 1879, member of a pioneer family of that section of the Western Reserve, his ancestors having come from Connecticut. His parents were Jared and Lydia B. (McLeish) Stratton, his mother still living there. His father, now deceased, was a prosperous farmer in Portage County. Doctor Stratton grew up on a farm, attended public schools, finished his high school work at Ravenna, and holds the Bachelor of Science degree from the College at Berea, Kentucky, graduating with the class of 1904. For one year he also taught school at Atwater. Doctor Stratton belongs to the Homeopathic School of Medicine, and he was graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic College, and is also an alumnus of the Ohio State University Medical School. He was licensed to practice medicine by the Ohio Board on the seventh day of July, 1908. For six months he was an interne in the Huron Road Hospital at Cleveland, and in April, 1909, engaged in practice at Middletown. He is a member of the Butler County Medical Society, the Ohio State Homeopathic Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is now serving as a member of the Board of Health of Middletown. Doctor Stratton during the World war volunteered for duty in the Medical Corps, but was assigned to assist the Draft Board and otherwise exerted himself in behalf of the Liberty Loan campaigns. He is a member of the Ramblers Club of Middletown, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a thirty-second degree Seottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. On March 25, 1910, he married Miss Anne Crosby, of Elgin, Illinois, who also finished her literary education in the college at Berea, Kentucky. She is a daughter of Frank and M. A. (Starkweather) Crosby. She attended public schools in Elgin and high school in Chicago. Mrs. Sratton is also a member of the Ramblers Club of Middletown, and both are active in the Middletown Civic Association and the First Presbyterian Church. Doctor Stratton was a deacon of the church for more than ten years. They have two children, Jean, born in 1912, and John Carl, Jr., born in 1917, both attending the public schools of Middletown. WILLIAM T. SHIPE, M. D. A physician and surgeon for thirty years, Doctor Shipe has long been favorably known in his profession and as a citizen of Middletown, Butler County. For a number of years he has specialized in eleetro-therapy, and is one of the most competent X-ray specialists in Southern Ohio. He was born March 23, 1867, son of Andrew Jackson and Jennie (Bromley) Shipe. Doctor Shipe spent two years in the Shenandoah Normal College in Virginia, also two years at Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and in 1894 graduated Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland. He has been a post-graduate student of the ear, nose and throat at the New York Post Graduate School, also at Tulane University at New Orleans, and early became interested in the new developments afforded by the improvement of the X-ray and other electrical equipment. Doctor Shipe does a large amount of X-ray work for his fellow physicians and surgeons in Butler County. During the World war he was a captain in the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Camp Stuart, Virginia. He is a member of the Butler County and Ohio State and American Medical Associations, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and the American Legion, and belongs to the Doctors Club of Middletown and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the staff of one of the hospitals in Middletown. In 1894 Doctor Shipe married Miss Ella Pine, of Darkesville, West Virginia, daughter of Anthony and Josephine (Lamar) Pine. She received her high school eduction at Martinsburg, West Virginia, and for five years before her marriage was a teacher. Mrs. Shipe is a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and she and Doctor Shipe are active in the First Presbyterian Church of Middletown. Doctor Shipe is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. WILLIAM AARON MELICK, M. D. Graduated from medical college forty years ago, Doctor Melick has long ago reached an enviable station among Ohio surgeons, and his attainments have brought him many well deserved honors. His home and the scene of his practice throughout the greater part of his professional career has been at Zanesville. Doctor Melick was born on a farm in Perry County, Ohio, January 2, 1859. The Melicks were pioneers of Perry County. His grandfather, William Melick, went there from Pennsylvania and secured and improved a tract of Government land. Robert Melick, father of Doctor Melick, was born at the old homestead in Perry County, in 1812, and spent his long and useful life as a farmer and stockraiser. He died in 1891. He was a republican after the formation of that party, and a member of the Methodist Church. His wife Margaret Clark, was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and her parents took her to Perry County when she was a child. The youngest of six children, William Aaron Melick as a boy on the farm yearned for a career in medicine, and though with limited advantages, his determination and personal efforts gave him a sound literary education as well as an adequate training in the fundamentals of his profession. He attended the public schools, the Madison Academy and paid the expenses of his higher education by teaching. For one year he was a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, spent two years in the Columbus Medical College, and during vacations studied medicine with one of Zanesville's finest physicians, the late Dr. A. E. Ball. In 1882 he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and was graduated Doctor of Medi- cine in 1884. From his graduation until 1889 Doctor Melick practiced at Roseville, and then, following a course in special surgery at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital, he returned to Zanesville in 1890, and from that year his abilities have been steadily growing in favor and recognition for his surgical 176 - HISTORY OF OHIO work. He never gets far away from his favorite profession, and his recreation is found in observing other great men in his profession in clinics in this country and abroad. He was on the surgical staff of the old Zanesville City Hospital, and when it was reorganized as the Bethesda Hospital he became its first chief-of-staff. He is a member of the surgical staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital, and is lecturer tc the Nurses Training School on surgical subjects. He has prepared many papers on surgery for medical journals. Doctor Melick is a former president of the Muskingum Academy of Medicine, has served ac president of the Eighth District of the Ohio Medical Association, is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and represented the State Society in 1923 at the meeting of the American Medical Association in San Francisco. He belongs to the Academy of Medicine at Berlin, Germany, and in 1913 spent several months at Vienna, in the Vienna Hospital. Doctor Melick is a trustee of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and in Masonry is affiliated with Amity Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council, the Knights Templar Commandery and the Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the Masonic Club and the Exchange Club. In 1884 he married Miss Allie I. Johnson, of Zanesville, daughter of the late Jacob Johnson, a substantial farmer of Muskingum County. Mrs. Melia has taken many responsibilities in church, Sunday school, the day nursery and other charitable organizations. Doctor and Mrs. Melick have two daughters and four grandchildren. Their daughter Eva. married R. P. Boggis, of Cleveland, and has three children, William M., Jean and Elizabeth. Margaret Melick married R. G. Geary, of Zanesville, and has a son, Herbert. FRANK H. BYRD, twenty years on the police force of Middletown and now chief of the police department, Frank H. Byrd has been an honored resident of that industrial city of Southern Ohio for over thirty years. Mr. Byrd was born near Newport, Kentucky, October 28, 1868, son of Arthur and Isabelle Byrd. He was educated in the common schools of Kentucky, and during 1889-90 attended the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. Coming to Middletown in 1891, Mr. Byrd was first employed by the P. J. Sorg Tobacco Company, and subsequently was with the Middletown Machine Company until 1904. At that date he joined the Middletown Police Department as a patrolman, was advanced to detective in 1909, and in 1920 became chief of the force. He is an able police officer and thoroughly competent as an executive, and has given the police organization an efficiency that has made it noted among the smaller cities of Ohio. Mr. Byrd is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. He went out in 1898 as a corporal with Company L of the First Ohio Volunteers, under Capt. William Sullivan, going into the service in April and remaining until the end of the war. He returned as a quartermaster sergeant. He was one of the organizers of the United Spanish-American War Veterans, and in June, 1924, was elected senior vice commander, Department of Ohio. He has been affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America since 1895, has been a Knights of Pythias since 1906, and is a democrat in politics. In 1894 he married Miss Laura Kees, daughter of Taylor and Martha (Irvin) Kees, of Middletown. Mrs. Byrd was educated in Cincinnati, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. Their oldest child, Anna May, born in 1896, was educated in the Middletown High School; Marvin, born in 1900, was educated in the Middletown High School and is now with the American Railway Express Company at Detroit, Michigan; Thomas, born in 1904, is a graduate of the Middletown High School; Della, born in 1908, attends high school; Arthur, born in 1909, is in the seventh grade of the publie schools, and Martha, born in 1912, is also in the seventh grade. GEORGE D. LUMMIS, M. D. A physician and surgeon of Middletown for nearly forty years, Doctor Lummis has been distinguished for his leadership in public health work. Not only his private practice but the general public has been benefitted by his consistent work to educate people in matters pertaining to individual and public health sanitation.   Doctor Lummis was born at Middletown, May 10, 1863. It is an interesting fact that he, his father and also his grandfather were all born at the same home in Lemon Township of Butler County, his grandfather in 1802 and his father in 1830. His great-grandfather was the founder of the family in Butler County. He was Joseph Lummis and was a native of Virginia, coming from there to Ohio in 1802. Doctor Lummis' parents were J. G. and Mary F. (Deardorff) Lummis. His father was born in 1830, and served four years as postmaster of Middletown, during the administration of President Cleveland.   Doctor Lummis attended the public schools of his native town, graduating from high school in 1881, and then entered Ohio Medical College, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1884. During 1884-85 he was house physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital at Cincinnati, and since then has been engaged in private practice at Middletown. He early interested himself in educating the community to a proper understanding of measures for safeguarding health. In 1890 he accepted the post of health commissioner of Middletown, and has filled that office continuously now for a third of a century. He is a Fellow of the American Public Health Association, and during the World war was medical member of the County Draft Board. Governor Cox appointed him a member of the Ohio State Council of Health in 1917, and subsequently he was reappointed by Governor Davis. Mr. Lummis is a member of the Butler County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and also the Union District (Ohio and Indiana) Medical Society. He is a trustee of the Middletown Public Library, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in politics is a democrat.   March 21, 1899, Doctor Lummis married Miss Elizabeth S. Barkelew, of New Jersey, daughter of C. H. and Robina T. Barkelew. Doctor and Mrs. Lummis have one son, G. D., Jr., who was educated in the public schools of Middletown and the Ohio State University, and is now connected with the Betterment Department of, the American Rolling Mills at Middletown.   GUSTAV W. A. WILMER. A brilliant young attorney of Middletown and a civic leader, Gustav W. A. Wilmer has won a reputation in his profession that extends far beyond the boundaries of his home County of Butler.   He was born July 17, 1890, son of G. A. and Minnie Wilmer. His father has been long and favorably known in Middletown, where he is president of the Building and Loan Association.   Gustav W. A. Wilmer attended public schools in his native community, was also a student in Purdue University at LaFayette, Indiana, and in 1912 graduated from Ohio State University. He has had a successful law practice for the past ten years, and is well fortified with a comprehensive knowledge of the law and the ability of a fluent public speaker. For six months in 1919 he served as municipal judge in Mid-   HISTORY OF OHIO - 177   dletown, and on January 1, 1920, by appointment he began his duties as city attorney of Middletown. In this office he has become distinguished through the vigorous enforcement of the law, and his prosecution of liquor cases has proved not only his resourcefulness as an attorney, but his moral courage as a leader in the community.   Mr. Wilmer is a democrat in politics. He is a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi, and in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks he has been district grand exalted ruler for Southwestern Ohio. He is a member of the Butler County and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Wilmer was secretary of the Business Men's Club until it was merged into the Chamber of Commerce, and he was one of the three citizens who organized the Chamber of Commerce. He is interested in the Middletown Civic Association, an organization that has taken over the charitable work formerly handled through the Chamber of Commerce. This association is now erecting a handsome building, at a cost of $350,000, to provide a home for the association and headquarters for its varied activities.   Judge Wilmer married, October 2, 1916, Miss Lorine Eikenberry, of Greenville, Ohio. She finished her education in Sweetbriar College in West Virginia. They have two children, Richard, born in 1917, and J. Arnold, born in 1920.   THE OGLESBY & BARNITZ COMPANY BANK, the oldest banking institution in Butler County, was established in Middletown in 1850, when that community had only 800 population.   The original founders of the bank, William B. Oglesby, a native of West Elkton, Preble County, Ohio, and George C. Barnitz, a native of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, were brothers-in-law and had been associated in the mercantile business for a number of years prior to that time. Their general store, located at the junction of Main Street and Central Avenue, on the same site now occupied by the bank, was long known as one of the pioneer business houses of Middletown.   As the population of the village increased and prosperity found its way into the community these two enterprising young merchants added a banking department for the convenience of their patrons, which continued until 1850, when the merchandising was dropped and their entire attention was given to the bank. The banking business was conducted as a private bank until 1889, when it was incorporated as a state bank, with George C. Barnitz as president, in which capacity he continued to serve until, his death in 1895. He was succeeded by the vice president, Charles B. Oglesby, son of William B. Oglesby, one of the original partners. In 1918, at the death of Mr. Charles B. Oglesby, Mr. W. 0. Barnitz, a son of George C. Barnitz, one of the original founders and the first president of the bank, succeeded to the presidency. Mr. W. D. Oglesby, now serving as vice president, is a grandson of William B. Oglesby, one of the founders of the bank.   Thus it will be observed that the control and management of this old established financial institution has remained in these two families for three-quarters of a century. Mr. C. Ed Sebald, who has been connected with the bank for thirty-five years, completes the list of officers, serving as cashier. With resources and credits unimpaired, the Oglesby & Barnitz Company Bank has stood through all the financial storms and periods of depression since its establishment in 1850.   The officers and directors of the bank are : William Oglesby Barnitz, president ; William D. Oglesby, vice president; C. Ed Sebald, cashier ; Joseph M. Iseminger, director, and David E. Harlan, director.   CHARLES NEWELL HARVEY. Inheriting mechanical genius from his father, Charles Newell Harvey has derived his greatest satisfaction from work with machinery, and is credited with some successful inventions. He overcame many obstacles in younger years, pulling not only his own weight, but helping others as he went along. He has a large and prosperous business as the Ford agent at Zanesville.   He was born June 3, 1878, at Malta, in Morgan County, Ohio. His grandfather, Thomas Harvey, was a native of the North of Ireland, and, coming to the United States, followed the trade of wool carder and weaver. He was made a Mason in Ireland, and became a charter member of Valley Lodge No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons, at Malta. He was a Methodist.   The father of Charles N. Harvey was Thomas Potter Morgan Harvey, who was born at Malta, and died in 1916, at the age of sixty-eight. He learned the trade of weaver and wool carder, but turned to mechanical lines and as a machinist and mechanic he was employed by the Brown Manley Plow Company at Malta for over thirty-five years. Failing health finally compelled him to retire several years before death. He was a very young boy when the Civil war broke out, and he ran away from home three times to get into the army, once getting as far as Marietta, but was rejected on account of his youth. He was very much interested in the work of the Masonic order, was a democrat and a member of the Methodist Church. His wife was Lillian Davis, born in Morgan County, and still living. They had four children.   The oldest of the children, Charles Newell Harvey, as a boy showed a passionate fondness for mechanics, and he looked forward to satisfying this genius by becoming a railroad engineer. When he was thirteen years old he built a steam engine, and at the age of fourteen built a generator and operated a small electric light plant. While attending the schools of Malta he spent his vacations working on steam boats, and he frequently took his father 's place in the plow factory when his father was absent on account of illness. After graduating from high school he became an engineer on the steamboat Zanetta running between Marietta and Zanesville. A few months later he was made fireman of the electric plant at McConnellsville, and after that he did duties as night hostler in the engine roundhouse of the Zanesville and Ohio River Railroad. For two and one-half years he was fireman on the railroad, and was well on his promotion to locomotive engineer when he realized that little commercial success could be achieved in that direction, and he accordingly resigned and went to work in the Zanesville Electric Light Plant, starting as third engineer, was promoted to second engineer and within six months was chief engineer of the plant. He performed these duties one year and then removed to Sugar Grove as engineer of the power plant of the Fuel Supply Company. When he returned to Zanesville lie went into the electrical department of the Muskingum Valley Steel Company, now a plant of the American Rolling Mills Company. At the end of twelve months he was promoted to superintendent of motive power, and held this position with the industry for three years.   During all this time Mr. Harvey was not only supporting his own family but providing educational advantages for his three sisters. From 1905 to 1917 he was chief engineer of the City Water Works of Zanesville. It was in 1907 that he first engaged in the automobile business, beginning as mechanic in a garage. On September 30, 1909, having realized the possibilities of the Ford, he bought cars and engaged in business as the Ford representative at Zanesville. His first headquarters were very small, having only fifteen hundred feet of floor space. At the end of five years his business had so increased that in   178 - HISTORY OF OHIO   May, 1915, he ereeted his present building, providing 19,000 square feet of floor space, including a fine show room, stock room, and machine shop. Mr. Harvey owns the building individually, and even with its generous proportions finds it crowded. He has a branch business at Dresden, and is also a wholesale dealer in gasoline.   Because of his efficiency and thoroughness while in the City Waterworks, Mr. Harvey gained a following of friends who were ready to provide him with financial assistance when he started in business for himself. However, even so, the amount he borrowed was only $200. With such a beginning he is now doing the business of almost a million dollars annually. Like Henry Ford, he has found his early day disadvantages have made him rather than hindered him.   Mr. Harvey is on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is an independent voter, and is a member of the Zanesville Golf Club, the Zanesville Exchange Club, Valley Lodge No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons, at Malta, Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, the Council, Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar, Amrou Grotto, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His great delight is machinery. Of his various inventions two that have proved commercially successful are a locomotive attachment for Fordson tractors to be used in gravel pits, lumber camps, coal pits, and another is a portable water pump. His individual experience has given him remarkable opportunity for study of mechanics, but he has also studied through correspondence courses.   On July 11, 1906, at Zanesville, Mr. Harvey married Miss Cora L. Ludman, a native of Chandlersville, Ohio. Her father, John Wesley Ludman, was a general merchant in Chandlersville, and is now in business at Zanesville. Mrs. Harvey is active in club and the various societies of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. She was president of the Alpha Woman 's Motor Club, the first of its kind in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have one son, Newell Charles.   COLIN GARDNER. For more than half a century the name Colin Gardner has served to visualize some of the most important facts in the industrial welfare of the City of Middletown. The late Colin Gardner, Sr., was one of Ohio 's conspicuous business men, one who combined great executive power with far-sighted vision and a sincere purpose to act in common cause with the fundamentals of the general welfare.   Like many other American captains of industry he rose from the ranks. He was born at Cincinnati, November 7, 1839, son of James Brewster and Elizabeth (Ludlow) Gardner, his father being a farmer near Troy. The son completed a high school education in Cincinnati, and for a time assisted his father on the farm. But his ambition was for the opportunities presented in a city and industrial community, and at the suggestion of his father he helped himself to make the stretch from the farm to the city, earning a modest capital of $13 by gleaning the wheat from his father's fields and with that sum he returned to Cincinnati. Beginning as an errand boy with the wholesale dry goods house of George W. Jones & Company, he accomplished the almost phenomenal progress of winning a membership in the firm within three years. During the Civil war he served a 100-day enlistment in the Union army.   He had before him the prospects of becoming a successful merchant in Cincinnati. His marriage opened up another prospect. Early in 1871, shortly after his marriage, he removed to Middletown and became associated with his father-in-law, Francis Jefferson Tytus, in the Tytus Paper Company.   Colin Gardner eventually became vice president of . the company, and the partners started another paper mill, known as the Gardner Paper Mill Company, with Colin Gardner as president, and still later organized and established the Ohio Paper Bag Company, for the manufacture of paper bags, of which Mr. Gardner was also president. These three companies and plants were subsequently consolidated as the Tytus-Gardner Paper & Manufacturing Company, and Colin Gardner served as president of the corporation until 1900, when he resigned and sold his stock in the business, purchasing the site and what remained of the plant of the old Gardner Company, which had been destroyed by fire. Then, in the fall of 1900, he organized the Colin Gardner Company, and from that point the history of the modern phase of the business is continued in the article on the Gardner and Harvey Company.   On December 6, 1870, Colin Gardner married Elizabeth Tytus, of Middletown, daughter of Francis Jefferson and Sarah (Butler) Tytus. She was a graduate of Vassar College. The three children born to Colin Gardner and wife were : Edward Tytus, Colin, Jr., and Robert Brewster.   Colin Gardner, Sr., died March 7, 1919, when in his eightieth year. Some of the outstanding characteristics that made him a dominant figure in the life and affairs of Middletown, as well as in his chosen business, were stated in a memorial tribute from which the following sentences are taken: " The ground work of such a victorious life is simple, yet profound. First, a boundless faith shaped and sustained his history. At times the great interests he had were not sharing as largely as they might in profits. Mr. Gardner never lost hope. He confidently believed matters would right themselves again. Rarely could a man be found with more definite convictions, clearer opinions and firmer attitude. He was no shifter. He never played fast and loose with duty ; when he saw clearly a course of procedure he went forward with invincible firmness. Again, his sincerity and freedom from sham was an outstanding characteristic, he was keen to detect pretense and hypocrisy and burned against it. Few men are more completely above the spirit of envy. When his own business chanced by unfavorable circumstances to make little or no profits, he could readily rejoice in the success and prosperity of others. Indeed, so anxious was he, so optimistic was he, that he was always hopeful for those who were unpromising. But he had small use for a shiftless man who showed no appreciation for the help others offered him. To the man of earnest purpose and faithful effort Mr. Gardner always gave abundant sympathy and generous encouragement. He firmly believed that every man should earn his right to live by his daily effort. As long as it was physically possible, Mr. Gardner was a wonderful example of what he advocated, and was found daily in his office abreast of all the details of his business. The monument he most desired to leave behind would be his three sons as worthy citizens, properly trained and inspired by such ideals as he had ever tried to hold before their vision. It was this high and noble appreciation for home and family that inspired in Mr. Gardner many simple and beautiful unrecorded charities toward less fortunate families. In all our community a more wonderful example of deep, untiring patriotism could not be found. He demonstrated that a true American citizen is never too old to be patriotic. In his eightieth year the fires of patriotic devotion burned with brilliant glow, and he supported with great liberality every measure for winning the war. With all the large interests that filled Mr. Gardner 's big heart, none held a larger place than did the First Baptist Church.   "Every class of persons, every institution in our city, is stricken by Mr. Gardner 's death. The laboring men know they have lost a friendly helper.   HISTORY OF OHIO -179   Times when conditions almost demanded that his mills be closed, he was willing to keep the machines operating at a loss rather than that his men should be thrown out of employment. The big, strong men who stood with him full-breasted against the hard business problems that force themselves upon the attention of manufacturers, shake today with inward sobs because this braver brother-soul will walk with them no more in future tempestuous days. Others whom he scarcely knew will miss him riding through the streets from his home to his office."   His son and namesake, Colin Gardner, Jr., who was born at Middletown, June 30, 1886, was educated in the schools of his native town, in the University of Cincinnati, and in 1909 graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, thus securing a thorough technical ground work of knowledge to serve him as a factor in his father 's business. Soon after graduating he began as a timekeeper at the plant of the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, subsequently went into the sales department of the Colin Gardner Paper Company, and for a number of years past has been the executive officer in charge of the sales group of mills represented by the Gardner and Harvey interests.   When our country became a participant in the World war Mr. Gardner sought enlistment in the military service, but was rejected because of physical disability. He served as chairman of the Middletown Chapter of the Red Cross, was active in the Liberty Loan drives, and all other movements in aid of the cause. In 1916 he became a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Middletown Hospital Association, under which the hospital was opened. Since 1918 he has been treasurer of the Middletown Hospital. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, and at Yale was a Delta Psi. He is a republican. On April 6, 1911, he married Miss Ethel Ames, daughter of Allen and Mary Louella (Johnson) Ames. She was educated in a convent at Brentwood, Long Island, and at Miss Bennett 's School at Millbrook, New York. She died September 21, 1918, the mother of four children: Colin III, Ames, Nancy Elizabeth and Eugenia. On April 12, 1923, Mr. Gardner married Elinor Vandegrift, of Wilmington, Delaware.   ROBERT BREWSTER GARDNER is treasurer of the interests represented in the Gardner and Harvey Company at Middletown, including the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, the Universal Paper Products Company, the Gardner Paper Company, Colin Gardner Paper Company.   A son of the late Colin Gardner, Sr., whose career is given in the preceding sketch, was born in Middletown, July 21, 1890. He was educated in the grammar school of Middletown, prepared for college in the Hotchkiss Preparatory School of Lakeville, Connecticut, but in the fall of 1910 began a practical career to learn the paper industry as a laborer with the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company. He was promoted to receiving clerk, to shipping clerk, to assistant secretary of the Colin Gardner Paper Company and the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company and subsequently to his present executive office.   Mr. Gardner is one of the forceful men in the citizenship of Middletown, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Chamber of Commerce, is a republican, a member of the First Baptist Church, and belongs to Buz Fuz Club of Dayton, the Maketewah Golf Club of Cincinnati, the Butler County Country Club, the Dayton Country Club and the Miami Valley Hunt and Polo Club. He married Miss Edna Woolley, May 21, 1913. Her parents were Edgar Mott and Katherine (Prather) Woolley, of Cincinnati. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are: Elizabeth Tytus and Robert Brewster, Jr.   THE GARDNER AND HARVEY COMPANY. This Corporate name serves to identify several of the industries that have made Middletown one of the chief centers in the Middle West in paper manufacture. For two generations the Gardners and Harveys have been experts in the industry. It is the purpose of the following sketch to outline the chief facts in the business history of the various organizations within the Gardner-Harvey group.   First in point of time of these is the Colin Gardner Paper Company, which was organized in 1900 by the late Colin Gardner, Sr. He had been a paper manufacturer at Middletown for thirty years, as described in the preceding sketch. He became president of the company; Mr. E. T. Gardner, treasurer, and Mr. George H. Harvey, secretary. This company operated one machine mill, trimming eighty-five inch, with a daily capacity of thirty tons. Its success caused the installation in 1904 of a 100-tonnage machine with an additional capacity of about forty tons a day.   The second industry in the group was the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, organized in 1909, with Mr. Tom Harvey as manager, and the mill was built and is still operated under his supervision. Mr. M. S. Johnston, who had been associated with the Colin Gardner Paper Company since its origin, was made secretary of the company, with Colin Gardner as president and Mr. E. T. Gardner as treasurer. This mill was equipped with machine trimming 124-inch, with a daily capacity of about sixty tons. In the summer of 1909 Mr. Colin Gardner, Jr., came into the organization, followed in 1910 by his brother, Mr. R. B. Gardner.   At a receiver 's sale in 1917 the National Box Board Company was purchased, and the Gardner Paper Board Company was organized. This mill was equipped with machine trimming seventy-two inch, and had a capacity of about thirty tons a day, but in a short time this production was increased to about fifty tons. The other machines have all been constantly improved, thereby increasing their tonnage approximately 15 to 25 per cent, so that in 1920 the four machines owned by the Gardner-Harvey interests, under the names of the three mills, Colin Gardner Paper Company, Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, and the Gardner Paper Board Company, had a total capacity of about 500,000 pounds a day.   In order to take care of the machine repair work of the associated Gardner-Harvey Mills, the Enterprise Machine Company was built in 1917, George Harvey being president of the company; Colin Gardner, Jr., secretary; M. S. Johnston, treasurer, and Granville Zecher, treasurer. During the war this company engaged in manufacturing supplies for the army and navy and in doing other work for the Government.   In 1917 Colin Gardner, Sr., retired as active officer of the organization, but occupied the office of chairman of the board of directors until his death two years later, in March, 1919. Mr. E. T. Gardner became president of the companies, Mr. Colin Gardner, Jr., vice president; Mr.. R. B. Gardner, treasurer ; Mr. M. S. Johnston, secretary, while Mr. Tom Harvey continued in the capacity of manager of the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company and the Gardner Paper Board Company, and Mr. George Harvey is manager of the Colin Gardner Paper Company.   Due to the keen competition arising from the fact that mills operated their own box factories, the Gardner-Harvey interests in 1922 found it necessary to further fabricate their own product by securing equipment for the manufacture of paper boxes. Consequently they purchased the Universal Paper Product Company of Chicago, with factories at Clyde, moving the factories to Middletown, where a new building   180 - HISTORY OF OHIO   was erected on the property of the Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, adjacent to the mill. This building, 900 by 400 feet, has a maximum capacity when fully equipped of 80 to 100 tons of box board a day. The officers of the Colin Gardner Paper Company, Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, Gardner Paper Board Company and Universal Paper Products Company are the same—Mr. E. T. Gardner, president; Mr. Colin Gardner, Jr., vice president; Mr. Robert B. Gardner, treasurer, and Mr. M. S. Johnston, secretary. These industries represent an enormous investment, that of the Colin Gardner Paper Company being $1,400,000, Gardner-Harvey Paper Company, $750,000; Gardner Paper Board Company, $400,000; Universal Paper Products Company, $750,000. The industries employ 1,000 people, and they represent an advanced stage of any industrial community, providing many of the services that only organizations can effect. At the plant is an auditorium seating 300 people, and used for lectures, dances and other social functions of employes. The companies employ a visiting nurse, maintain the Gardner Baseball Club and also the Mutual Benefit Association for charitable purposes.   DAILY NEWS-SIGNAL. The Daily News-Signal of Middletown is a newspaper with mechanical facilities, news service and influence to rank it among the leading daily papers of Southern Ohio. It is a paper with an interesting history, and several prominent men in journalism and public affairs have been identified with it at different times.   Its origin was due to an enterprising dry goods merchant of Middletown who fifty-six years ago conceived the then original idea of publishing a weekly newspaper to be given away as the exclusive advertising medium for his establishment. The people of Middletown and vicinity quickly learned to call it "Given Away." Established in 1868, three years later T. J. Ward, a printer journalist of the early day, took over the "Given Away" and operated it as a state weekly paper under the name of the Daily Signal. Under his direction it was continued until 1886, when the Signal was acquired by a partnership including C. H. Bundy, George Hinkle and C. G. Hobart. These were the publishers for two years, and in 1888, more than thirty-five years ago, a purchaser was found in John Q. Baker, who is the present publisher. At various times the •offices of the publication were located in the Masonic Temple, in the Sorg Opera House Building and in the little brick building at 218 Wall Street, changes of location being made from time to time to provide more adequate facilities, but since 1922 it has been in its new and modern home at Fourth and Wall streets.   It was John Q. Baker who, shortly after acquiring the Signal, which under preceding owners had been a weekly, gave Middletown its first daily newspaper. During the first year of the Daily-Signal James M. Cox, former governor of Ohio and democratic nominee for president in 1920, was connected with the institution, acting in almost every capacity which a small country daily requires. He helped to gather the news, helped run the press, washed the rollers, and when the edition had been run off, helped carry the papers to the subscribers in the downtown section. For his subsequent successful position among American newspaper publishers Mr. Cox was indebted in a small measure to the experience gained on the path of the Signal. From the Signal he went to the Cincinnati Enquirer, from there to Washington as secretary to the late P. J. Sorg, and then became publisher of the Daily News and the three other newspapers which now comprise the News League group controlled by Mr. Cox.   Others connected with the Signal in those early days included Sloane Gordon, who later rose to fame as a newspaper correspondent, magazine writer and publicity expert; and John Egan, who came from a humble home in Excello, Ohio, and after a brief and brilliant career in journalism gained success at the bar.   Since 1888, when he first acquired the Middletown Signal, John Q. Baker has been editor and publisher of the newspaper continuously except for about three years while he was associated with James M. Cox in the Dayton Daily News. It was in 1902 that the Daily Signal was sold to C. E. Gaumer, of Urbana, Ohio, who operated the paper until 1905.   In 1905 the Middletown News was established by a company as a third daily paper in Middletown. It had a rapid growth and in a short time a consolidation was effected in which the Signal was absorbed by the News Company, the combined publication becoming known as the News-Signal.   Mr. John Q. Baker was born in Cincinnati, but has resided in Butler County most of his life, and through his work and interests there has become one of the outstanding figures in the journalism of Southern Ohio. After attending Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware he became a country school teacher, for a number of years conducting the excellent school at Amanda, Ohio.   In his early days in the newspaper profession Mr. Baker was a member of the News staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, getting his first big city experience in journalism under the late John R. McLean. As head of the News-Signal Mr. Baker consistently has stood for progress in the community and for clean government, being fearless in exposure of corruption and scandal in connection with public work, waging many a fearless campaign in the people 's behalf, for natural gas, for new industries, for a public library, better roads, better schools, for everything which would tend to make a larger, more prosperous and progressive city. He is a member of the board of trustees of Miami University.   Late in 1921 plans were laid for a new home for the News-Signal. Since 1905 it had been housed in a small brick building on Wall Street. Rapid increase of circulation had made the old place inadequate and afforded cramped conditions for the composing, editorial and business departments. On a site acquired at Fourth Street (now First Avenue) and Wall Street, in October, 1922, the modern and commodious newspaper plant was completed. The news press installed permitted a change from printing on an old style flat bed press, direct from type, to the stereotype system, in which cylindrical plates are used in place of the type itself.   The present managing editor, Paul J. Banker, began his newspaper experience as a reporter on the News-Signal in 1914, later was associate editor of Commerce and Finance of New York City for three years, returning to become managing editor of the News-Signal at the conclusion of the World war. His war service was as a lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry, but in France he was assigned special duty in the press section of the General Staff.   W. EDWARD SLAGLE. Many lines of trade are represented at Youngstown. the needs of the city and its wide adjacent territory creating a demand for almost all kinds of commodities. One of the men who have during years of persistent effort built up solid business houses in this city is W. Edward Slagle, long associated with the seed trade of Mahoning County.   W. Edward Slagle was born near Newton, Kansas, October 7, 1879, a son of Fred C. and Anna E. (Brough) Slagle, natives of Pennsylvania, both now deceased. When W. Edward Slagle was twelve months   HISTORY OF OHIO - 181   old his parents brought him to Ohio, and he had the advantage of attending the excellent public schools of this state through the high school courses. When he was nineteen years old he began to earn his own way in the greenhouse and seed business at Calla, Ohio, where he continued until 1907, at which time he came to Youngstown to take charge of the seed and poultry supply house of the Templin Seed Company, which position he held for eight years. Leaving that company he was for a year with the Wilson Bird Company, and then he and William McBride founded a pet and seed store at 17 Wick Avenue. After eleven years of partnership Mr. Slagle bought the interest of Mr. McBride, and has since continued alone. Since becoming the sole owner he has added the handling of poultry supplies, and he now occupies the premises at 27 West Commerce Street.   In 1904 Mr. Slagle married Della Wonsettlor, who was born in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, a daughter of George and Christina Wonsettlor, natives of Mahoning County and Virginia, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Slagle have one son, Kenneth C. Mr. Slagle belongs to the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church of Youngstown, and is one of its trustees. In politics he is a republican. Active in the work of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, he has passed all of the chairs and is now a past grand. He also belongs to the Knights of Malta.   S. ALBERT SHERMAN. Physicians now admit the value of wholesome sport, and regularly prescribe for their patients a certain amount of exercise, especially that to be found in billiards and bowling. In fact, so generally has the efficacy of this kind of exercise been admitted that the name "health factories" has been accorded the houses providing for its pursuit. One of the men of Youngstown who for a number of years has been connected with one phase or the other of this great business is S. Albert Sherman, now handling a full line of billiard and bowling supplies and equipment.   S. Albert Sherman was born at Clarion, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1876, son of John and Eliza (Shelly) Sherman, both of whom were born in the Keystone State. He died in 1918, but she survives and makes her home at LaHabra, California. Leaving the public schools of Pennsylvania when he was fourteen years old, S. Albert Sherman went into the lumber woods of his native state, and continued lumbering until 1896, when he transferred his efforts to the oil fields of West Virginia. In 1903 he became connected with the Indiana oil fields as a driller, but two years later severed his associations with this industry, going to Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania, owned a bowling alley, and also managed a baseball team. In 1907 he disposed of these interests, and, coming to Youngstown, was connected for a brief period with the clothing industry of this city, and was interested in different callings for about a year, when once more he associated himself with sports and opened a billiard room on Hinman Avenue. Two years later he sold this business and opened a similar establishment on East Federal Street. Three years later he moved it to the public square, and continued to operate it for four years, and then, in 1919, sold it to give his attention to his present business at 128 East Boardman Street. He is the patentee of the Sherman Puncture Proof Tire, manufactured by the Sherman-Stevenson Tire & Rubber Company of Scottdale, Pennsylvania.   On June 16, 1923, he was married to Miss Anna Marie Murray, who was born at Braddock, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Patrick and Bridget (Burke) Murray, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sherman attends the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Sherman Athletic Club, which he organized, and which he is serving as president. It is safe to say that he has been one of the most potent factors in bringing about a wholesome appreciation of the value of recreation in this vicinity, and his kindly sympathy and genial personality have gained for him the warm friendship of hundreds in this locality.   WILLIAM ANSEL LORIMER. Achievement for its own sake, working out constructive plans, and finding new enthusiasm every day for the tasks before him, have apparently been the dominant characteristics of the business career of William Ansel Lorimer, of Zanesville. He has been in real estate and insurance, and has perfected an organization that has probably done more for this city than any other in the direction of practical development.   Mr. Lorimer was born on a farm in Union Township, at New Concord, Muskingum County, October 30, 1882, son of Joseph P. and Nina (Given) Lorimer, natives of the same township, where their fathers, Joseph Lorimer and William Given, were pioneers. Joseph P. Lorimer was a farmer and later for some years in the wholesale commission business at ZaneSville, where he died May 10, 1921, at the age of sixty-three. His widow is still living at Zanesville. Both were active members of the United Presbyterian Church.   The oldest of three children, William A. Lorimer began his education in the country schools, attended the public schools of New Concord, and as a youth he manifested the initiative and inclination for independent effort that have been responsible for his success. After a few years in business with his father he engaged in real estate and insurance at Zanesville, in February, 1901. At the age of twenty-one years he took over a general insurance agency that had been in existence for forty-five years, and has handled it for twenty-two years. It is a business with a record of fifty years. This agency represents twenty-five fire insurance companies, two life companies, two bonding companies and handles insurance of every kind.   In real estate Mr. Lorimer has specialized on downtown business property and home sites. He has been responsible for some of the most attractive developments in the residence district of Zanesville. He put on the market the Lorimer addition of Arlington Place, Harvard Place, Fenton subdivision, Drumm subdivision and White subdivision, all these being located in the Terrace, known as the finest home section of Zanesville. He platted and subdivided Maple Hills, a hundred-acre tract adjoining the city, and has built and sold on the easy payment plan many homes in Brighton and Terrace. His long study and experience have made him a master of every phase of real estate business. He draws his plans, buys lumber wholesale, and oversees the construction work.   Near Zanesville Mr. Lorimer owns a farm which furnishes another outlet for his energy. On this farm he keeps a herd of registered Holstein cattle, all tubercular tested, and his model dairy supplies part of the pure milk for Zanesville. He is also fond of horseback riding and hunting. His public spirit and patriotism have put him into every movement for the welfare of his community, and he was identified with all the war drives. From 1918 to 1923 he served as secretary of the Zanesville Exchange Club. He is a stockholder and director in the American Light Company, the Johnson Drug Company and the Hook-Aston Milling Company. Mr. Lorimer is a trustee of the United Presbyterian Church, and active in its Sunday School and president of the Young Men's Athletic Club of the church. He is identified with the   182 - HISTORY OF OHIO   Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the hospitals and other institutions meeting public support. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the Zanesville Realtors, is a member of the Ohio State and National Realtors Association, and the Zanesville Insurance and the Ohio State and National Insurance associations. His fraternities are the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America.   At Zanesville Mr. Lorimer married Miss Daisy P. Covert, who was born on a farm near Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio, daughter of Morris Covert. Her father, now living, retired at the age of eighty years in Spencer Township, Guernsey Comity, owns two of the finest farms in that county, and has been one of the leaders in the agricultural life of Southeastern Ohio for many years. He specialized in the raising of blooded Belgian horses. Mrs. Lorimer is active in church work, but most of her activities are within her home. She is the mother of three daughters, Harriet, Lucille and Ruth. Harriet is now a student in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.   JOHN LEE MARSH is one of the prominent figures .i.n industrial circles at Youngstown, Mahoning County, in which city he is vice president and general manager of the Vahey Oil Company, which maintains plants not only in this city but also at Warren, Trumbull County. Mr. Marsh is vice president also of the Vahey Gasoline Company at Salem, Columbiana County.   John L. Marsh claims the historic old Bluegrass State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred at Milford, Kentucky, on the 13th of September, 1887. In Kentucky were likewise born his parents, John Harrison Marsh and Martha (Patten) Marsh, the father having long been a successful exponent of farm industry, and being now retired.   In the public schools of his native state the early educational discipline of John L. Marsh included that of the high school, and later he was a student in the University of Kentucky, besides which he completed a course in a leading business college at Cincinnati, Ohio. For a time he was employed in the purchasing department of the Big Four Railroad in Cincinnati, and in that city he held for a time a position in the office of the Breese Brothers Roofing Company. After his return to Kentucky he became associated with the Indiana Refining Company at Georgetown, and with this corporation he eventually became secretary to the vice president. After the company moved its headquarters to Cincinnati Mr. Marsh there continued in its service six years, in the order and sales depart. ments, and when the company established its general offices in New York City he there continued his connection with the concern about one year. He next passed a year as chief clerk in the office of the Texas Oil Company at Youngstown, Ohio, and he was then transferred to the New York office, in the capacity of operating inspector. Later he was made manager of the company's plant at Brooklyn, New York, and then he was transferred to Youngstown, Ohio, where he retained the management of the local plant of this corporation three years. In August, 1918, he was here made manager of the Vahey Oil Company, and in the following year he was elected its vice President, the office of which he is now the incumbent, besides holding also the position of general manager.   Mr. Marsh is aligned loyally in the ranks of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in Trinity Methodist Episconal Church at Youngstown, and here he is an active member of the Kiwanis Club, of which he was president in 1923, and is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Mahoning Finance Company. In the. time-honored Ma ionic fraternity Mr. Marsh has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a noble of the Mystic Shrine.   In October, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Marsh and Miss Grace E. Murray, who was born at Niles, Ohio, a daughter of Jerry C. and Margaret (Paul) Murray, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have two children: John Harrison and Marilyn, the former having been named in honor of his paternal grandfather.   JOSEPH G. BROWNLIE, proprietor and vital and progressive manager of the Ad Letter Shop in the City of Youngstown, the important metropolis and industrial center of Mahoning County, was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1887, and is a son of George and Jane (Gibb) Brownlie, both natives of Scotland and both now deceased, the father having been a mechanical engineer of exceptional skill.   The major part of the early education of Joseph G. Brownlie was acquired in the public schools of the city in which he now maintains his home, and at the age of fourteen years he found employment in a local foundry, in which he learned the moulder's trade. After eight years of active alliance with this line of industrial enterprise he was for a few years employed as a mechanic in an automobile factory at Elyria, this state, and it was about the year 1914 that he founded his present direct mail advertising business, which he has since successfully conducted, with his establishment designated as the Ad Letter Shop and with headquarters at 122 South Phelps Street. He is a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club, has served as secretary of the Youngstown Advertising Club, holds membership also in the Exchange Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is a member also of the Youngstown Automobile Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church in their home city.   March 19, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Brownlie and Miss Gladys J. Corlett, who was born and reared at Youngstown, and whose parents, Sanford G. and Bessie (Gleason) Corlett, were born respectively at Cleveland and Canfield, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Brownlie have no children.   WILLIAM J. MORGAN. In his native City of Youngstown, Mahoning County, which is one of the specially important industrial centers of Ohio, Mr. Morgan is successfully established in the gasoline and oil business, as pertaining specially to the automobile line, and his well equipped headquarters at 325 West Wood Street are known for efficiency and service.   Mr. Morgan was born at Youngstown in the year 1886, and is a son of the late Benjamin G. and Mary Catherine (Morgan) Morgan, the former of whom was born in Wales and the latter in Mahoning County, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized. Benjamin G. Morgan was a skilled artisan at the carpenter 's trade, and became a successful contractor and builder in the City of Youngstown, his death having here occurred in 1906 and his widow having passed away in 1918.   In the public schools of Youngstown, William J. Morgan continued his studies until he was sixteen years of age, and thereafter he served a thorough apprenticeship to the trade of machinist, in which he became a skilled workman. After following his trade five years he purchased a local machine shop, and two years later he became associated with H. B. Smith in here conducting a general automobile-repair business, this alliance having continued three years, and Mr. Morgan having thereafter developed in an individual way a substantial business not only in this line but also in the handling of automobile tires.   HISTORY OF OHIO - 183   His enterprise finally became changed to the handling of gasoline and oil.   Mr. Morgan was one of Youngstown's native sons who represented Ohio as a gallant young soldier in overseas service in the World war. He entered service in July, 1918, and was assigned to field artillery. In October of that year he arrived with his command in France, but as the armistice was signed in the following month he had no opportunity for prolonged service on the battle front. He remained abroad until April, 1919, when he returned to his native land and duly received his honorable discharge.   Mr. Morgan is independent in politics, is a member of Plymouth Congregational Church in Youngstown, has received the thirty-second degree of the Masonic Scottish Rite, and is a Shriner of Al Koran Temple at Cleveland, Ohio. He is affiliated also with Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.   FREDERICK CHURCH BROWN has been active in the Youngstown business life for over thirty years, most of his time having been spent in banking. He is a manager of a branch of the Dollar Savings and Trust Company at 315 E. Federal Street.   His individual career has served to enrich the record of a family of unusual distinction in the Mahoning Valley. Mr. Brown was born in New York City, February 20, 1870, son of Richard and Thalia (Newton) Brown. His grandfather, Capt. John Brown, after serving with the British Army in the battle of Waterloo, came to the United States about 1840 and spent the last twenty years of his life at Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio. His son, Richard Brown, was born in England, and at the age of fourteen was apprentice to a draper and dry goods merchant, spending seven years in learning the business. He had experience both in London and Paris, and while in London was associated with George Williams in organizing the Young Men's Christian Association of the World. Later, after locating in New York City, he assisted in founding and became the first treasurer of the first association in this country. About 1844 Richard Brown came to the United States, and for a time was with the New York firm of Lord and Taylor, and A. C. Stewart. In 1877, on account of ill health, he located at Canfield, Ohio, where he died in 1888, at the age of seventy-one. While visiting his parents in Ohio he met Thalia Newton, who was born at Canfield, daughter of Judge Eben Newton, one of the distinguished lawyers and public men of Ohio. Born in Connecticut in 1795, he came to Ohio about 1814, was admitted to the bar at Warren in 1823, and for twenty years was a partner of Elisha Whittlesey. He also practiced for a short time in Cincinnati with Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1840, Eben Newton was elected a member of the State Senate, and as judge of the Third Judicial District held the first session of the Common Pleas Court in Mahoning County in 1846. He was elected to Congress in 1850, was president of two railroad lines in Northeastern Ohio, and was the prefect in law with Ben F. Wade, Joshua R. Giddings and other great Ohio men.   The mother of Frederick Church Brown died in 1889. The son had spent the first seven years of his life in New York, where he attended a private school, and afterward the public schools at Canfield, was graduated in 1889 from the Northeastern Ohio Normal College, and in 1890 came to Youngstown. For some time he was cashier of the Youngstown Street Railroad Company, and in 1896 was elected city clerk, serving two terms. On resigning that office he became identified with the Wick National Bank of Youngstown, which was subsequently absorbed by the Dollar Savings and Trust Company. He served as teller in the bank until April 1, 1908, at which time he became manager of the Federal Street branch, and has held that responsible executive position in local banking circles for over sixteen years.   Mr. Brown married June 27, 1894, Miss Emma Creed, a native of Coitsville, Mahoning County, Ohio. and daughter of John A. and Caroline (Vail) Creed. Her father was a native of England, and her mother was born in Poland, Ohio. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown : Grace Elizabeth, who died in infancy, and Ethel Caroline, wife of Franklin F. Ferris, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Brown has. served the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Youngstown as an elder since 1897. For thirteen years he was a member of the City Sinking Fund and Tax Commission, is a republican, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and has been active in the Youngstown Young Men's Christian Association.   LEROY ZORGER, who has charge of the Youngstown headquarters and business of TheU-Drive-It Co., is one of the alert business men of the younger generation in the vigorous industrial city that is the judicial center of Mahoning County, and he has no qualified pride in reverting to the fine old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity.   Mr. Zorger was born in the City of Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, February 28, 1894, and is a son of Curtiss and Sarah (Myers) Zorger, the former of whom was born in Richland County, this state, and the latter at Massillon, Stark County. The public schools and a business college afforded Mr. Zorger his early education, and at the age of sixteen years he entered the employ of the B. F. Goodrich Tire & Rubber Company at Akron. There he later became associated with the Goodyear Rubber Company, with which he continued his alliance eight years, since which he has continuously been identified with The U-DriveIt Co., first at Akron and later in Youngstown, where he has had charge of the company's business since 1922. He is a republican in politics, he and his wife hold membership in the Second Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, he is a member of the local Lions Club, and is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose.   The year 1913 recorded the marriage of Mr. Zorger and Miss Lauretta Grue, who was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, and of the two children of this union the firstborn, Phyllis, died at the age of eight months. Robert Leroy, the surviving child, was born in November, 1917.   REV. ANTHONY LAWRENCE LEININGER recently completed a thirty-year service as pastor of St. Nicholas Catholic Church at Zanesville. In this pastorate of so many years he has distinguished himself for his thorough consecration and his ability as an organizer and constructive administrator. In building up a strong and efficient church he has served the entire city and community, and no one is more generally esteemed in Zanesville than Father Leininger.   A native Ohioan, he was born at Navarre, in Stark County, August 17, 1862, son of Conrad and Tecla Leininger. His parents were natives of Germany. Anthony Lawrence Leininger was early chosen for service to the church. After attending the public and parochial schools of his native town he pursued his classical and philosophical studies in St. Vincent's College at Beatty, Pennsylvania, and took his theological course in St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore. He was ordained at Baltimore by the late Cardinal Gibbons on December 20, 1888.   Returning to his native state, Father Leininger became pastor of Millersburg and nearby missions in Holmes County. From the first he showed his successful ability to get constructive work done for his church. While there he remodeled and built the   184 - HISTORY OF OHIO   church of Glenmont, and at Millersburg he cleared up a $9,000 debt on the parish and made extensive improvements besides. In July, 1893, Father Leininger was transferred to St. John's Church at Logan, Ohio, and in the few months he was there he prepared the way for a new church.   His long and successful pastorate of St. Nicholas Church of Zanesville began December 6, 1893. This is one of the old Catholic churches of Muskingum County, having been founded in 1842. Father Leininger's early years of pastorate there coincided with the great financial panic, but in January, 1897, he started a campaign for improvement and soon afterward plans were completed for a new church edifice. The cornerstone was laid July 10, 1898, by Rt. Rev. John A. Watterson, Bishop of Columbus. The handsome St. Nicholas Church of today is built in the Romanesque style of architecture, suggesting the ancient lines of St. Peter 's of Rome and St. Mark's of Venice. The material is mottled brick with terra cotta trimmings. Over the front entrance is a mosaic representing Columbus discovering America, one of the finest examples of mosaic art in the country. Father Leininger himself supervised every detail of the construction, selecting the material, drawing the designs and planning the church. He has been equally interested in providing an adequate educational equipment for his parish. Under his administration a high school building was erected, and there are now eighty pupils enrolled in the high school, which offers a four-year course, and 450 pupils are in the parochial schools. There are twelve teachers, and plans have been made for a new and modern twelve-room school building.   In 1900 Father Leininger negotiated the matter of taking over the Margaret Blue Sanitarium by the Sisters of St. Francis, and in 1902 was begun the erection of the present Good Samaritan Hospital. This was occupied June 20, 1902, and in 1903 additions were made and an entire new building was erected in 1904, giving room for 100 beds. In 1914 a new nurses' dormitory, four stories in height, was put on the west end of the building, and in 1923 the five-story addition, costing $115,000, was erected. The Good Samaritan stands as one of the best equipped hospitals in Southeastern Ohio. Father Leininger is a forceful and eloquent speaker, and many times has given his cooperation to movements for the general civic welfare. He was active in all the war campaigns. He is a man of deep and thorough culture, and has traveled extensively over this country and oriental countries. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Knights of St. George, and the Knights of Columbus.   ROY THOMAS BELL was the organizer of the firm of Roy T. Bell & Company, certified public accountants, and this concern has developed in the City of Youngstown, Mahoning County, a substantial and representative business with a clientage including many of the important industrial and commercial corporations of this city. Mr. Bell is a certified public accountant, as are also his coadjutors in the firm, Ralph F. Mateer and Charles S. Alverson.   Mr. Bell was born on the parental home farm near Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, December 19, 1882, and his parents now maintain their home in the City of Columbus, this state, both having likewise been born in Pickaway County, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. Mr. Bell is a son of Thomas R. and Ella H. (Helvering) Bell, the former being a son of Alexander C. and Minerva (Reber) Bell, and the latter being a daughter of David and Mary (Morris) Helvering. All of the grandparents were likewise natives of Ohio with the exception of David Helvering, who was born in Pennsylvania. Thomas R. Bell was not only a successful farmer, but has also been prominently identified with the grain business, in connection with which he has operated elevators and been a successful buyer and shipper of grain.   At the age of eighteen years Roy T. Bell was graduated from the high school at Circleville, and from 1901 to 1908 he was agent for the United States Express Company on the west side of the City of Cleveland. He next held, for three years, a clerical position with the Glidden Varnish Company, and thereafter was for nearly five years associated with the Cleveland firm of Ernst & Ernst, public accountants. After two years of effective service as auditor for the Marathon Tire & Rubber Company at Cuyahoga Falls he held for one year the position of assistant secretary and treasurer of the Elwell-Parker Electric Company at Cleveland. He next came to Youngstown to assume the office of general auditor for the Republic Rubber Corporation, with which he was thus associated two years, and he then, in 1920, became a member of the firm of Simonton Jones and Company, public accountants, where he remained until August 1, 1921, when he established himself independently in business as a public accountant. July 1, 1923, he formed a partnership with Ralph F. Mateer and C. S. Alverson and established the firm of Roy T. Bell & Company, of which he has since continued the executive head. He is an active and valued member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and is serving on its finance committee. He has membership also in the local Lions Club, is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council organizations of York Rite Masonry, is independent in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in Evergreen Presbyterian Church. His attractive home in Youngstown is at 205 Pasadena Avenue, and his office is maintained at 404 Terminal Building.   October 29, 1907, was the date that marked the marriage of Mr. Bell and Miss Vida Mae Alverson, who was born at Bombay, New York, a daughter of E. Wilbur and Eliza S. (Sears) Alverson, and the two children of this union are Donald, born November 5, 1908, and Martha, born September 3, 1915.   EDWARD ALOYSSIUS MAHON, who is engaged in business as a mortician and funeral director in his native City of Youngstown, was one of the gallant young sons who represented Mahoning County in the nation's overseas service in the World war.   Mr. Mahon was born at Youngstown, on the 4th of June, 1887, and is a son of John and Bridget (Flannagan) Mahon, who were born in Ireland and who were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the United States, both having been reared and educated in Newark, New Jersey, in which city their marriage was solemnized. John Mahon early became a workman in the steel mills at Youngstown, Ohio, he having been a pioneer in the puddling department of old No. 1 Furnace in this city and having here continued his residence, a substantial and respected citizen, until his death, in 1905. His wife survived him and was summoned to eternal rest in the year 1918. Both were zealous and devout communicants of the Catholic Church.   After his graduation from the parochial school of Saint Columbus Church in Youngstown, Edward A. Mahon was for three years a student in the Rayen High School, and it was not until after he had participated in the great World conflict and received at the battle front injuries that left their permanent effect that he prepared himself for the profession and business of which he is now a successful representative in his native city. His higher education included one year of study in Cincinnati University, and in 1920 he was graduated from a school of embalming. Thereafter, as a duly licensed embalmer, he was employed in Youngstown undertaking   HISTORY OF OHIO - 185   establishments until 1923, when he formed a partnership with Andrew Krinspisky, with whom he has since been associated in the ownership and conducting of a thoroughly modern undertaking establishment at 811 South Avenue, where service and equipment are of the highest standard. Mr. Mahon is found arrayed loyally in the ranks of the republican party, is a communicant of the Catholic Church, in the faith of which he was carefully reared, and he is an active member of the Morticians Association of Mahoning and Trumbull counties.   In May, 1917, the month following that in which the United States became actively involved in the World war, Mr. Mahon volunteered for service in the United States Army. After his enlistment he was sent to Camp Gordon, where he took on membership in the first replacement and where in July, 1917, he was assigned to the Forty-second Division, with which he soon afterward entered active service in France. In the lines at Belleau Wood he received a shell wound that injured his spine and incidentally affected his hearing, with the result that he was incapacitated for further active service and was under treatment in military hospitals until December, 1918, and then received a surgical certified discharge. After his honorable discharge he returned to Youngstown, and in his native city his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.   EMIL G. BERTOLINI has utilized most effectively his technical and artistic talent since establishing his home in the United States, and in the City of Youngstown he now controls a substantial and prosperous business as a contractor in the installation of tile, marble and mosaic work, especially in connection with interior architectural work. Along this line he had served a specially excellent apprenticeship in his native. Italy, and had followed similar work also in Germany.   Mr. Bertolini was born in the picturesque and historic old city of Venice, Italy, in the year 1887, and there he received his early education, as well as his original training for the trade and art of which he has become a successful and popular exponent in the land of his adoption. In the year 1913 Mr. Bertolini came to the United States, and after having followed his trade about three months at Akron, Ohio, where he was associated with his brother Arthur, he passed two years in working at his trade in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. During the next two years he was similarly employed in the City of Cleveland, and he then came from the Ohio metropolis to Youngstown, where he has since been engaged in business as a contractor in tile, marble and mosaic construction. It should be noted that he suffered a great loss in the death of his brother Arthur, January 1, 1913, shortly after his arrival in the United States. At Youngstown he and his wife are earnest communicants of the Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church.   In the year 1911 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bertolini and Miss Lucy De Ponte, who likewise was born in Italy, and they have three children, Dominick, Henry and Arthuretta. The well equipped business establishment of Mr. Bertolini was started at 26 North Walnut Street, about 1917, and from an humble beginning he has developed a business of large proportions, which in the fall of 1924 will be housed in a modern up-to-date building located on three acres of ground on Wicklife Boulevard in Youngstown.   GEORGE EDWARD LAUBY, doctor of chiropractic and founder and president of the Akron College of Chiropractic, has been more or less contiuously identified with educational work since early manhood. He is a native of Summit County, and his residence is at his native town of Greensburg, where he was born on a farm September 9, 1882.   His father, Levi Lauby, also a native of Summit County, combined his trade of stonemason with farming. He died in 1917, at the age of sixty-five. His wife was Alice York, and she is now Mrs. L. M. Kauffman, of Clinton, Ohio.   George Edward Lauby was reared on a farm, attended country schools, made farming his principal work until 1907, and he still keeps in touch with that vocation, specializing in the breeding of fine poultry. As a teacher he taught in the schools of Stark, Portage and Summit counties, at Suffield, Mogadore, Uniontown, Greentown, Greensburg and North Canton, most of the time being supervisor of music in these schools. He was graduated in 1916 from the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, and then for several years engaged in a successful practice at Akron. In 1922 he established and become president of the Akron College of Chiropractic.   Doctor Lauby in 1920 was elected on the republican ticket as a member of the Ohio State Legislature and has the distinction of being the first chiropractor to sit in that body. He is affiliated with Akron Lodge of Masons; Washington Chapter, No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Yusef Khan Grotto, and is also a past grand of Hadassah Lodge, No. 450, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Greentown.   Doctor Lauby's first wife was Miss Rosa Carmany, who died leaving two sons, Ralph and Paul. Subsequently he married Myrtle Kauffman. Doctor and Mrs. Lauby have three daughters, Ruth, Grace and Fae.   CHARLES A. REED, who now holds the position of superintendent of beautiful Belmont Park Cemetery at Youngstown, Mahoning County, has marked the passing years with diversified and worthy achievement, not the least of which has been his earnest and effective service as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church.   Mr. Reed was born in the village of Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, January 13, 1884, and on both the paternal and maternal sides is a representative of sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye State. His paternal grandparents, Sylvester and Elizabeth Reed, were natives of Connecticut and were long residents of Portage County, Ohio, where they continued to maintain their home until their death. The maternal grandparents, Orlando and Margaret (Kincaid) Bundy, were born in Trumbull County, Ohio, the respective families having been founded in the northeastern part of this state in an early day.   Mr. Reed is a son of William Albert and Lettie R. (Bundy) Reed, the former a native of Mantua, Portage County, and the latter of Trumbull County. William Albert Reed was one of the substantial farmers of Portage County at the time of his death, when but thirty-seven years of age, and his widow now resides at Mesopotamia, Trumbull County.   Charles A. Reed had the advantages of the public schools, including the high school, attended also night schools of the Young Men's Christian Association in the City of Cleveland, and after he had initiated his service as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church he advanced his scholarship by two years of study in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He continued to be associated with the work of the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he entered the Morse School of Telegraphy at Cincinnati, and besides completing a course in this institution he also gained at the same time practical experience in a railroad telegraph office in that city. In the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad he worked for some time as relief telegraph operator and   186 - HISTORY OF OHIO   station agent, and for three years he held the position of telegraph operator for this road at Niles Junction, Trumbull County. Thereafter he resided in Cleveland until 1909 and followed various pursuits, including that of house painting. In the spring of the year mentioned he became a section foreman of gardening at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, and three years later was promoted division superintendent, a post which he retained one year. He then became manager of the office of the cemetery, and three years later resumed the position of division superintendent, which he held for one season after he had established his residence on a farm near Mantua, Portage County, the place of his birth. He next held for seven months the position of superintendent and manager of the Chagrin Sand & Gravel Company, and he then entered upon his active labors as a local preacher of the Methodist Church. He had a pastoral charge at Twinsburg, Summit County, one year, and passed the succeeding year in similar service at Thompson, Geauga County. He then established his residence in Youngstown and became superintendent of the Tod Cemetery, besides which he continued for three years to act as supply clergyman when called upon for ministerial service. Since March 1, 1922, Mr. Reed has been the efficient superintendent of Belmont Park Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio, and his administration has given unqualified satisfaction. He and his wife are still specially active and earnest workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, both are affiliated with the Grange, or Patrons of Husbandry, he is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Youngstown, and in politics he is to be classified as an independent republican.   On the 18th of June, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reed and Miss Katherine B. Taylor, who was born at Farmdale, Trumbull County, in 1887, and who received the advantages of the public schools of Medina, Painesville and Cleveland. Mrs. Reed is a daughter of Egbert Harvey Taylor and Mary A. (Adams) Taylor, the former of whom was born at Clive, this state, a son of William Harvey Taylor and Melissa (Shattuck) Taylor, natives of Connecticut, and the latter of whom was born at Burton Station, Geauga County, a daughter of Edward and Chloe (Pomeroy) Adams, both representatives of .very early pioneer families of Geauga County. Mr. and Mrs. Reed became the parents of five children, all of whom are living except one, their names and respective dates of birth being here recorded : William Egbert, June 4, 1907; Virginia Alice, November 29, 1912; Frances Laverne, June 4, 1916; Chester A., April 9, 1918, (died March 14, 1921) ; and Mary Louise, March 22, 1922.   HARRY KEY RAYEN has made a record of specially effective service as a teacher in the public schools of the City of Youngstown, the vital judicial and industrial center of Mahoning County, where he is now principal of the Princeton School.   Mr. Rayen. was born at Girard, Trumbull County, Ohio, November 28, 1870, and is a son of James and Rachel (Templeton) Rayen, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter at Austintown, Mahoning County, Ohio. Her father, William Templeton served as a valiant soldier in the War of 1812, and gained pioneer honors in Ohio. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were John and Sarah (Porter) Rayen, both natives of the old Keystone State, and John Rayen was a brother of Judge William Rayen, in whose honor was named the Rayen High School in the City of Youngstown, where he was an honored and influential citizen. James Rayen devoted virtually his entire active life to farm industry, and both he and his wife were residents of Mahoning County at the time of their death.   Harry K. Rayen gained in his boyhood and early youth a goodly fellowship with the work of the home farm, and after attending the public schools of Mahoning County, he continued his studies in the high school at Girard. He forthwith entered active service in the pedagogic profession, and he has continuously been engaged in teaching in the public schools of Ohio during the long intervening years, which have been marked by large and worthy service of constructive order. In Trumbull County he taught four years in the district schools of Wethersfield Township, and after his removal to Mahoning County he was for nine years superintendent of the public schools in the rural districts of Youngstown Township. In the City of Youngstown he thereafter served eight years as principal of the Market Street School, and for the ensuing three years he was principal of the Delason Avenue School. He had held since 1914 the position of principal of the Princeton School, and he has done much to advance the standard of work in the public schools of the city and county, his professional enthusiasm being on a parity with his distinctive professional loyalty and efficiency.   Mr. Rayen shows the trend of his political convictions by the staunch allegiance which he gives to the republican party. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is an active member of the local Kiwanis Club, of which he has served as a director. He and his wife are zealous members of the Hillman Street Christian Church, in which he has been an elder and also chairman of its Official Board since 1915. He was formerly an official member of the Four Mile Run Christian Church in Mahoning County, this church having been founded in 1828, and having been one of the first Christian, or Disciples, churches established in the historic old Western Reserve. The home of Mr. Rayen is an attractive place at the corner of Princeton and Oak Hill avenues, and there he has found both recreation and pleasure in the cultivation of his fine garden and the propagation of a great variety of flowers and ornamental shrubs.   On the 5th of September, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rayen and Miss Caddie Kyle, who was born at Youngstown, in the year 1875, and who is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this now large and important industrial city. She is a daughter of Wesley and Ann (Kerr) Kyle, both likewise natives of Youngstown. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rayen the eldest is Marion Rachel, who was born in 1895 and who still remains at the parental home; Dorris E., who was born May 29, 1897, is the wife of Dr. Walter Strand, a representative physician and surgeon in Youngstown; and James Wendell, youngest of the children, was born January 4, 1908.   A. WESTON HARTFORD, who now holds the position of assistant commissioner of railroads in the City of Youngstown, Mahoning County, has had many years of active association with railroad service, in which his efficiency won him promotion to various positions of large responsibility.   Mr. Hartford was born in the City of Detroit, Michigan, in the year 1867, and there he attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age. He is a son of the late John and Agnes Ann (Hunter) Hartford, the former of whom was born in one of the New England States and the latter in Ireland, they having become early settlers in the State of Michigan. After his school days Mr. Hartford applied himself to such varied occupations as were within his power to find and follow, and at the age of twenty-one years he initiated his railroad career in the capacity of brakeman on what is now the Pere Marquette Railroad in Michigan. Three years later   HISTORY OF OHIO - 187   he was advanced to the position of train conductor, and his service in this capacity continued eleven years. He then became a conductor on the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson Electric Railroad, with which he continued his service until 1906. In that year he came to Youngstown, Ohio, and became conductor on the Youngstown Suburban Railroad, which then utilized steam power. After the electric system was adopted by the road he served as dispatcher and assistant superintendent until 1912, when he was made general manager. This office he resigned in October, 1921, and he then organized the Hartford Piston Company, to the affairs of which he continued to give his attention until January, 1923, when he assumed his present office, that of assistant railroad commissioner of Youngstown, a position for which he is eminently qualified by past technical and executive experience.   Mr. Hartford is a republican, lie and his wife hold membership in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, he is a director of the local Kiwanis Club, and is affiliated with Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.   In November, 1900, Mr. Hartford wedded Miss Edith Phillips, who was born at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on the Detroit River and directly opposite the City of Detroit, Michigan, and who is a daughter of William and Isabel Phillips, the former a native of England and the latter of Ontario, Canada. Harold Weston, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hartford, died at the age of five years.   WILLIAM EDWARD JONES has been a resident of Youngstown, Mahoning County, the greater part of the time since he was a lad of twelve years. Here he learned in his youth the trade of carriage trimmer, and he found his technical knowledge and skill of equal value after the carriage had been almost entirely replaced by the automobile. In the handling of all kinds of trimming work on automobiles Mr. Jones has built up in Youngstown a substantial and prosperous business, and erected and owns the building in which his manufacturing and repair work is carried on with the best of modern facilities.   Mr. Jones was born in Staffordshire, England, in the year 1867, and about twelve years later, in 1879, he accompanied his parents to the United States, the family home having immediately been established at Youngstown, Ohio. He is a son of Lewis and Priscilla (Green) Jones, and his father was a skilled artisan in connection with the steel and iron industry, with which he was long identified in the capacity of puddler in the steel mills at Youngstown, where he died in 1923, at the age of eighty-four years and six months, and where his widow, now eighty-five years of age (1924), is a loved member of the family circle of her son William E. of this review, she being a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as was also her husband, and his faith being virtually that of the Church of England, in which they originally had membership.   The earlier educational discipline of William E. Jones was acquired in the schools of his native land, and he continued to attend school for a time after the family home was established at Youngstown. At the age of fifteen years he entered upon his apprenticeship to the trade of carriage-trimmer, and after becoming a skilled workman he continued to follow his trade until the advent of automobiles, when he made a prompt adaptation of his work to meet the new conditions. In the capacity of trimmer he was employed in various automobile shops in the City of Cleveland, and upon his return to Youngstown in 1913 he opened a shop of his own on Garfield Street. Since 1917 he has maintained his well equipped establishment in the substantial cement-block building which he erected for the purpose at 170 West Chalmers Avenue, this building being 30 by 40 feet in dimensions and constituting the stage of a vigorous and prosperous business enterprise.   Mr. Jones is independent in politics, is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council bodies of the York Rite Masonry, as well as with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is a member also of the engaging Youngstown organization known as the Coon Hunters. He and family are earnest communicants of Saint Andrew 's Church, Protestant Episcopal.   In the year 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss Emma Davis, who was born in Wales and who was a daughter of Thomas H. and Jane (Danks) Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Jones became the parents of three children, of whom the first, Duane, died in infancy; Edith M. is the wife of Henry Bennett, of Youngstown; and Miss Lillian remains at the parental home. Mrs. Jones died in June, 1908.   ROY GILLILAN WERNER, M. D. In the special field of surgical gynecology and obstetrical practice few physicians of Ohio are better or more favorably known than Dr. Roy Gillilan Werner, of Akron. A man of highly specialized training and broad experience, during the period that he has been engaged in practice he has attained a high place in his profession and in the confidence and esteem of a large and important practice.   Doctor Werner was born at Williamsport, Ohio, June 26, 1883, and is a son of Samuel Philip and Cordella (Morgan) Werner. His father, born in Virginia, in 1850, was educated in the public schools of his native state, and in young manhood located at Williamsport, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. Later he moved to Deer Creek and in 1905 to Columbus, where he continued his business operations until his death in 1920. He was one of the prominent citizens of his community, was well known in Masonry and was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which also belonged Mrs. Werner, a native of Ross County, Ohio, who survives her husband as a resident of Columbus. They were the parents of two children.   Roy G. Werner secured his early education in the public schools of Pickaway County, Ohio, and later pursued a course at the Ohio Northern College at Ada. He entered upon his career as a school teacher and rose to be superintendent of schools of Monroe Township, Pickaway County, and with the means thus gained was able to continue his education. He graduated from the Ohio State University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts June 23, 1909, and then again took up his duties as an educator, from 1909 until 1911 being a teacher of physics and chemistry at the Parkersburg, West Virginia, High School. From 1911 he was a student at Johns Hopkins University, from which he was graduated June 8, 1915, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Parkersburg. His career was temporarily interrupted by the World war, for on October 24, 1918, he received his commission as first lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps and was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Base Hospital No. 1, in the surgical sections. He remained there until December 29, 1918, when he was transferred to New York City, there engaging in transporting wounded soldiers on hospital trains from the port of their arrival to various hospitals all over the United States. On June 23 1919, he was honorably discharged from the United States service and returned to Parkersburg. In November, 1920, he located at Akron, where he has since been engaged in surgical gynecology and obstetrical practice. He has built up a large practice, and is also on the   188 - HISTORY OF OHIO   surgical staff of the City Hospital, in addition to which he practices at the People 's Hospital and the Children's Hospital. Since June, 1921, he has been chief medical examiner, Akron District, United States Veterans Bureau. He belongs to the Summit County Medical Society, the Sixth Ohio District Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His chief diversion is music, of which he is a thorough appreciator and an able critic. He belongs to the Masonic Club, the Shrine Club, the Aesculapian Club; Williamsport Lodge, No. 501, Free and Accepted Masons; thirty-second degree Scottish Rite; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, and Nemesis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Parkersburg, West Virginia.   On April 18, 1921, Doctor Werner was united in marriage with Miss Clare Hoon, of Marietta, Ohio. They have no children. Mrs. Werner is a member of the Woman's City Club of Akron, the Ladies' Oriental Shrine of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Akron Oriental Shrine Club. She is a member of the First Congregational Church of Marietta, Ohio, the oldest church in the state.   EDWARD MCMILLAN FISCHER is one of the successful and popular exponents of floriculture and business in the City of Youngstown, where, in partnership with Carl G. Burkland, he conducts one of the largest and most important enterprises of this kind in Mahoning County.   Mr. Fischer was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the year 1869, and is a son of William D. and Ellen (Leslie) Fischer, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State. William D. Fischer was born and reared in the vicinity of New Castle, and became a successful representative of the market-gardening industry in that locality, his death having occurred in September, 1923, after he had attained to the patriarchal age of ninety-three years.   He whose name initiates this review is indebted to the public schools of Pennsylvania for his youthful education, and at the age of seventeen years he was admitted to partnership in his father's market-gardening business and also in the florist business, his brothers likewise being associated with the well established and prosperous business long conducted under the family name at New Castle.   In the year 1906 Mr. Fischer came to Youngstown, Ohio, where for the ensuing three years he was in the employ of John Walker, florist. He then formed the partnership with Carl G. Burkland, and, with modern and well equipped headquarters at 3514 Market Street, they now control a large and flourishing business in the handling of all kinds of cut flowers and decorative plants, their greenhouses having an area of 50,000 square feet of glass and the business being now the most important of the kind in the city. The enterprise is almost exclusively of retail order, and the clientage of the firm is of representative and appreciative order.   Mr. Fischer is a liberal and progressive citizen and substantial business man, is a republican in politics, is prominently identified with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he and his wife are active members of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church.   The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Fischer and Miss Mollie Cromwell, who likewise was born and reared at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and who is a daughter of John Cromwell. Mr. and Mrs. Fischer have one son, Edward, who was born in June, 1911.   GEORGE TAYLOR EVANS, the efficient and popular superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, which provides the industrial water supply to his native city of Youngstown, was one of the gallant young men who represented Mahoning County in the nation's service in the World war, he having been a member of the United States Navy and having had broad and varied experience in connection with the hazardous operations of the navy 's submarine chasers.   Mr. Evans was born at Youngstown, on the 9th of February, 1897, and is a son of Frederick G. and Clara (Taylor) Evans, the former of whom likewise was born at Youngstown, where he has been for many years successfully engaged in the insurance business. Frederick G. Evans is a son of Mason and Lucy G. (Gering) Evans, the former of whom was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter at Youngstown, Ohio. Mason Evans became one of the prominent and influential citizens and business men of Youngstown, where he was president of the Commercial Bank and also of the Mahoning Valley Water Company at the time of his death, in December, 1921, his widow being still a resident of this city. Edward and Louisa (Holly) Taylor, maternal grandparents of the subject of this review, now maintain their home at LaPorte, Indiana, where Mr. Taylor is the owner of the business conducted under the title of the Niles & Scott Manufacturing Company.   In the public schools of Youngstown George Taylor Evans continued his studies until his graduation from the Rayen High School, as a member of the class of 1915. He then took a position in the office of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, but soon subordinated interests to the call of patriotism. In April, 1917, the month that marked America 's entrance into the World war, Mr. Evans enlisted for service in the United States Navy, in which, five months later, he was advanced to the rank of ensign and assigned command of a submarine chaser. With this vessel he worked out of the port of Queenstown, Ireland, until December, 1918, when his vessel became part of the mine-sweeping detachment operating in the North Sea. A few months later he accompanied his command to Plymouth, England, and thence went to France and Portugal. He made the return voyage to the United States by the way of the Azores and the Island of Bermuda, and he arrived at his home in Youngstown on the 19th of June, 1919. He still continued membership in the Naval Reserve until May, 1921, when he was honorably discharged, with the rank of ensign. He has since continued his effective administration as superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Water Company, and is a popular figure in both business and social circles in his native city.   Mr. Evans is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and besides being affiliated with the American Legion he has membership in the Submarine Chaser Club of New York City. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown.   In February, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Evans and Miss Mary Louise Snyder, daughter of George B. and Nettie W. (Walters) Snyder, of Youngstown, and the one child of this union is a fine little son, George T., Jr.   WILLIAM O. BROWN. Business manager of the Youngstown Vindicator, William 0. Brown is the grandson of one of the pioneers in the iron and steel industry of the Youngstown district, and the early years of his own career were identified with that business.   His grandfather was Nathaniel E. Brown, and his parents were James A. and Martha J. (Martin) Brown. James A. Brown was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1852, and for some years lived at   HISTORY OF OHIO - 189   Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was a bank cashier. On returning to Youngstown in 1878 he occupied. the old home of Nathaniel E. Brown, who had been one of the founders of the famous Brown-Bonnell mills. With this well known institution of the iron and steel industry James Brown was himself identified for about twenty years. He died at Youngstown in 1905, survived by his widow and two sons, William O. and Frank L.   William O. Brown has lived in Youngstown since infancy. Graduating from the Rayen High School in 1897, he spent several years in the iron and steel mills, but in 1902 joined the business department of that old and influential newspaper of the Mahoning Valley, the Youngstown Vindicator. He was assistant business manager for several years and since then business manager. Mr. Brown is a republican, and has membership in the Youngstown Club, Youngstown Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Young Men's Christian Association and he is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married, September 9, 1903, Miss Alma M. Maag. They have two children, Elizabeth Martha and James William.   DANIEL WEBSTER BROWN gained varied experience and no little fame as a newspaper cartoonist, and the successful record which he made in this connection begot in him that permanent liking for journalism that eventually led him to engage independently in newspaper publishing, he being now the president of the corporation which owns and publishes the Youngstown Citizen, a well ordered and popular paper that is issued on Friday of each week and that has a large and representative circulation in Youngstown and the territory tributary to this vital industrial city.   Mr. Brown was born at Akron, Ohio, January 28, 1876, when that now important -city was little more than a village. He is a son of Daniel Wilson Brown and Clara C. (Hardy) Brown, both likewise natives of Summit County, Ohio, and both representatives of families there founded in an early day. The paternal grandparents of him whose name introduces this review were James It. and Eliza Brown, the former of whom was born in Summit County and the latter in Canada. The maternal grandparents, William H. and Elvira M. (Dales) Hardy, were lifelong residents of Summit County.   Mr. Brown was but eighteen months old at the time of his mother 's death, and he was reared in the home of his maternal grandparents. He profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native county and also attended Buchtel College, which is now Akron University. While attending school he gave attention also to the study of architeetual art and science, and also had a goodly experience in farm work, with which he continued to be identified until he attained to his legal majority. In the meanwhile he had well developed his natural talent as an artist, and he put this talent into effective play when he became a cartoonist on the Akron Democrat, with which he thus continued his alliance two years. The following year he held a similar position with the Akron Beacon Journal, and his next association was with the Canton Democrat, at the county seat of Stark County. Thereafter he gave effective service about one year as a cartoonist for the Cleveland Press, and his next experience was that of cartoonist with the Boston Post, during a period of eighteen months. He then returned from the Massachusetts metropolis to Akron, and soon afterward removed to Youngstown, where for three and one-half years he was allied with the Youngstown Telegram and with the Youngstown Vindicator one year. He then accepted the position of advertising manager for the Republic Rubber Company, with which important industrial corporation he thus continued his connection eight and one-half years. In the meantime he founded the Youngstown Citizen, the destinies of which he effectively guided, and when a company was incorporated for continuing the publication under broader policies he became president of the company, which executive post he has since retained. E. A. Watkins is the vice president and William Myers the secretary and treasurer.   Mr. Brown has taken lively interest in military affairs since he was sixteen years old, he having then enlisted in the Ohio State Militia and having won appointment to the office of sergeant major. under Charles F. Dick and Charles C. Weybreacht, the latter of whom was major of the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the period of the Spanish-American war. Mr. Brown accompanied his command to Cuba, where he was in active service a few months, his honorable discharge having been granted him at the close of the war on Cuban soil. In connection with American participation in the World war Mr. Brown helped organize for service as home guard the Youngstown Infantry Regiment, and after the close of the war he received his honorable discharge as major of the Fourth Battalion, which he commanded. While an active member of the Ohio National Guard he was several times called into active service in connection with quelling disorder in connection with strikes and riots.   The principles of the republican party receive the loyal support of Mr. Brown. He has passed the various official chairs, including that .of exalted ruler, in Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, he is past master of Saint Albans Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1924, an official of Ashlar Chapter, and he is also a member of the Knights of Malta.   In November, 1898, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Brown and Miss Susan 0. Auble, who likewise was born at Akron, this state, she being a daughter of John H. and Harriet (Day) Auble, the latter 's father having been a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have four children, Dorothy, Edwin W., John W. and Ruth E. All of the children remain at the parental home except Dorothy, who is the wife of Hubert Westcott, of this city, their two children being Theodore and Helen Jean.   THOMAS EDWARD MCSHAFFREY. The T. E. McShaffrey Construction Company is the largest and oldest firm of general contractors and engineers at Akron, dating back thirty years, to 1894, when the business was conducted by Edward McShaffrey. Later came the organization known as E. McShaffrey & Son, and then the present company was incorporated in 1916, with Thomas E. McShaffrey as president.   Edward McShaffrey was born in Ireland, in 1850, came to America in 1860, and at Akron became a sewer builder, gradually extending his activities into various lines of general contracting. Subsequently he took in his son as partner, and in 1912 he retired, selling out his interests to his son. Edward McShaffrey married Margaret Magrath, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1852, a daughter of Thomas Magrath, who for fifty years was a sailor on British ships, and after retiring from the sea, spent his last days at Akron. His daughter Margaret learned typesetting, proofreading and book-binding in Dublin, and was the first woman in Akron to follow those callings in a professional way. She was for several years employed in the office of the old Akron-Beacon. She died in February, 1916.   Thomas Edward McShaffrey was born at Akron, January 16, 1876, and during his boyhood attended parochial schools. When he was twelve years of age he went to work, at first for the Diamond Match   190 - HISTORY OF OHIO   Company, then in the plant of the Beacon Journal, following which for seventeen years he was connected with the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company, part of the time as machinist and also as a department foreman. In the meantime he had continued his studies, taking several commercial college courses and also courses in mechanical drawing and technical arts that would serve him in his chosen vocation as an engineer and contractor.   It was in 1905 that he joined his father in the firm of E. McShaffrey & Son, general contractors, and with his accession to the business its volume of work rapidly increased. Since 1913 he has been sole proprietor, and his personal energies have been chiefly responsible for making the T. E. McShaffrey Construction Company the largest business of its kind at Akron. His organization has handled hundreds of important contracts, some of the earlier of which involved a construction of the main steel water line from Kent to Akron; a sewage disposal plant at Akron; hundreds of miles of city streets and country highway paving, and many industrial buildings for the Goodrich, Goodyear and Firestone Rubber Companies and other concerns. During the World war the resources of the company were taxed to the utmost in handling contracts for the Government and official war industries. The company has hundreds of men in its employ, and has a large investment in machinery and facilities. The organization is equipped to handle the largest contracts in general building work, pile driving, sewer, water main and paving construction, railroad building, steam shovel work involving foundation excavation, grading, constructing of coffer dams and bridges. Mr. McShaffrey is also president of the City Laundry & Cleaning Company. He is a member of the City Club, the Portage Country Club, the Silver Lake Country Club, and is active in the St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. His fraternal affiliations are with Akron Council, No. 547, Knights of Columbus; Akron Aerie No. 555, the Fratgrnal Order of Eagles; Akron Lodge, No. 363, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is president of Division No. 1 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He has been for some years a leader in the republican party in his home county and state. During the World war he was recommended by the United States Senate for a commission as captain of engineers in the Officers' Reserve Corps. Mr. McShaffrey is a stockholders in the First Trust & Savings Bank and the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Akron.   He married Miss Rose Gilbride, of Ravenna, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gilbride, who were born in Ireland. Two sons, Francis and Vincent, both now deceased, and three daughters, Regina, Rita and Alice, all living, were born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McShaffrey.   LESTER F. DONNELL, treasurer and assistant manger of the B. P. Higby Company, which has in the City of Youngstown the authorized agency for the sale of the Ford automobiles, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on the 28th of May, 1892, and is a son of Edgar and Rose (Dickhover) Donnell, the father having died in the following year, 1893. The mother still resides in Omaha, Nebraska.   In the public schools of Omaha Lester Fred Donnell continued his studies until he had profited measurably by the advantages of the high school, which he left before graduation. At the age of fifteen years he took the position of office boy with the Nebraska Telephone Company, and later he became bookkeeper and billing clerk for the Paxton & Gallagher Company, one of the leading business concerns of Omaha. After remaining with this company nearly five years he took the position of bookkeeper in the offices of the Ford Motor Company branch agency.,at Omaha, and his services were in time amplified to include his interposition as cashier, road representative and auditor of this branch agency. He finally was called to the home office of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and after one year of effective service as traveling auditor he became assistant manager of the Gordon Square Automobile Company, Ford dealers at Cleveland, Ohio. Seven months later he became supervising traveling auditor for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, and after retaining this position two years he finally formed his present important alliance, which has involved his specially constructive administration as treasurer and assistant manager of the B. P. Higby Company.   Mr. Donnell is known as a wide-awake and progressive young business man, and is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Exchange Club and also of the Mahoning Valley Country Club. In politics he classifies himself an independent republican, and he is a member of the Christian Science Church. In Detroit, Michigan, he retains his affiliation with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of York Rite Masonry, and at Youngstown he is a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters and the Commandery of Knights Templars.   HAROLD D. GREEN, who is prominently identified with the automobile business in the City of Youngstown, where he is secretary of the B. P. Higby Company, authorized dealers in the all-popular Ford automobiles in the territory tributary to Mahoning County's vital metropolis and judicial center, can claim ancestral affiliation with Ohio, though he was born in Illinois and was reared in Nebraska.   Mr. Green was born at Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois, on the 8th of July, 1879, and in the following year his parents moved to Nebraska and established their residence at Lincoln, the capital city of that commonwealth. He is a son of DeForrest and Sophia (Munshaw) Green, the former of whom was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and the latter in the vicinity of the City of Toronto, Canada. The parents still maintain their home at Lincoln, Nebraska, where the father holds the position of cashier for the Searle & Chapin Lumber Company.   In the high school of the capital city of Nebraska Harold D. Green was graduated as a member of the class of 1900, and thereafter he was there associated four years with the lumber business of which his father was an official. He next became a traveling salesman for the Carpenter Paper Company of Omaha, Nebraska, with whom he remained for fourteen years. It was in 19]9 that he came to Youngstown, Ohio, and formed an alliance with the B. P. Higby Company, of which he is the secretary, he having contributed much to the development of the substantial business of this company.   Mr. Green is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and is a popular and active member of the Commercial Club of Youngstown. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge Chapter and Knights Templar Commandery in Lincoln, Nebraska, where also he has membership in Sesostris Temple of the Mystic Shrine. At Youngstown his Masonic affiliations are with the Grotto of Veiled Prophets and with the Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.   September 14, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Green and Miss Leona Stambaugh, who was born at Trenton, Missouri, a daughter of Charles and Mae (Wallingford) Stambaugh, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Green have no children. Mrs. Green is a popular factor in the social activities of Youngstown, and is here an active member of the Christian Science Church.   HISTORY OF OHIO - 191   BEECHER P. HIGBY, who for some years has been successfully identified with the automobile business, has been a resident of Youngstown for a decade.   He was born at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1889, and his parents, Beecher and Cassie (Van Horn) Higby were also natives of Nebraska. His father was a contractor, and was city clerk and otherwise officially identified with Omaha.   Beecher P. Higby attended the Omaha High School and when seventeen years of age went out to Wyoming as an employe of the engineering department of the Union Pacific Railroad. He was in the far West until 1911, having a varied experience, including work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch. He began selling Ford cars at Omaha, and came to Youngstown in 1915 as a Ford salesman. Subsequently he organized the Higby Sales Company, which became the authorized agency for the Ford motor cars and other products in Youngstown.   Mr. Higby is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He married in 1914 Edith Stambaugh, daughter of Charles B. Stambaugh. She died November 26, 1918, leaving one son, Philip Dee.   JACOB F. GIERING became a resident of Youngstown, Ohio, in the year following that of his birth, which occurred at New Castle, Pennsylvania, on the 27th of July, 1869. His parents, Louis and Mary (Andler) Giering, were born and reared in Wurttemberg, Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came in 1864 to the United States and establishing their residence at New Castle, Pennsylvania, the father having there continued to follow his trade, that of cooper, until 1870, when he came with his family to Ohio and established himself in the cooperage business in Youhgstown, which then gave slight semblance of the important industrial city which it is to-day. He developed a substantial business in the manufacturing of barrels, casks and similar products, and the enterprise grew to such scope as to require his employment of several workmen. He eventually expanded the enterprise to include the manufacturing and distributing of wine, and various aerated beverages now commonly designated as "soft drinks," besides adding to his business a general bottling works. He was long numbered among the sterling and successful business men of Youngstown, and was one of its venerable and honored citizens at the time of his death, in 1914. His widow, now (1924) eighty-eight years of age, still maintains her home in Youngstown. She is an earnest member of the German Reformed Church, as was also her husband.   Jacob F. Giering attended the public schools of Youngstown until he was twelve years old, and thereafter attended night schools and a business college, in the meanwhile being closely associated with his father 's business and familiarizing himself with its varied details. Thus he was well fortified for the successful continuing of the business when he purchased the same from his father, in 1896. He carried forward the enterprise until 1912, when he sold the same to his brother, the late. Charles C. Giering, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this publication. Six months later he purchased property in the City of Alliance, Stark County, where he erected and equipped a bottling plant and operated the same two years. He then sold the property and business and returned to Youngstown. Here he became associated with his brother, Charles C., in building the local Coca Cola Plant on Mahoning Avenue, as a subsidiary of the bottling works owned by his brother and founded by their father. After two years the brothers sold the property on Mahoning Avenue and removed the plant to Sharon, Pennsylvania. After having there conducted the business three months   Jacob F. Giering returned to Youngstown, but he soon made a visit to California, and upon coming back to Youngstown he assumed charge of the old established bottling works with which the family name had long been identified, his brother Charles C., owner of the business, having died February 11, 1923. On the 1st of January, 1924, Mr. Giering incorporated this business, under the title of the J. F. Giering Bottling Company, and of this corporation he has since been the president, while Clyde E. Wood holds the dual office of secretary and treasurer. The company is incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 for the manufacturing, bottling and distributing of carbonated beverages, the trade of the company having been extended throughout the greater part of Eastern Ohio.   Mr. Giering is a loyal and public-spirited citizen, is a democrat in political allegiance, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. For more than thirty years he sang with the Youngstown Mannerchor, and of this fine organization he is still a member. He and his family hold membership in the German Reformed Church.   In 1892 Mr. Giering was united in marriage with Miss Rachel Barnickle, who was born and reared at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and they have one son and five daughters: Julia is the wife of William Holtzman, of Youngstown ; Gertrude is the wife of Merritt Sharp, and they reside at Long Beach, California ; Helen is the wife of Ernest Keller, of Youngstown; Carrie is the wife of Russell Landale, of this city ; Dorothy, who remains at the parental home, is a graduate nurse and is following the work of her profession, and Alfred is associated with his father 's business.   WALTER FRANKLIN KIRK. While his successful business record covers a period of over thirty-five years, the most impressive part of the record of Walter Franklin Kirn is his many active associations with organizations and movements that have been responsible for Akron's development as one of the best cities in Ohio.   Mr. Kirn was born November 22, 1868, at 412 East Exhange Street in Akron, the old homestead in which he has lived the most years of his life and which was acquired by his father, John M. Kirn. His father was born in Germany, in 1822, came to America and located in Akron about 1841, and as a carpenter became permanently identified with the early buildings and for a number of years was a contractor. He died August 22, 1878. After coming to Akron he married Catherine Angne, who was born in Germany in 1828. She died June 2, 1895.   Walter Franklin Kirn, the eighth in a family of nine children, graduated with the last class in the old Akron High School, attended business college and learned his trade with John Robb, the pioneer plumber of Akron. For some years he was associated with the firm of Kraus & Oberlin, and in 1895 became a member of Kraus, Kirn & Company, a business that was later incorporated as the Kraus-Kirn Company. Mr. Kirn in 1913 formed a co-partnership with a John H. Shuman, known as the Kim & Shuman Plumbing & Heating Company, which continued until the death of Mr. Shuman in February, 1924, which brought to a close a remarkable friendship extending over a period of thirty-six years. This company has all the facilities for the highest class of work and the largest contracts in heating and plumbing. Mr. Kim is also a director of the Standard Savings Bank, a partner in W. J. Evans & Company, shoe merchants, and was a director of the Akron Trade Credit Association.   A brief list of his civic connections will indicate the wide scope of his activities. He is former president   192 - HISTORY OF OHIO   of the Summit County Health Protective Association, was a vigorous advocate of the Anti-Tuberculosis Work and Open Air School, the Children's Playground Movement, served twice as president of the Spieertown Civic Association, has been a member of the Water Works Investigation Committee, was on the first City Charter Commission, and also a member of the commission that perfected the present city charter. He is treasurer of the Akron Master Plumbers ' Association, served twice as president of the State Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Master Plumbers ' Association. He acted as Federal fair price commissioner for Summit County and was a member of the Akron Home Guards and worked in conjunction with the police department and the National Council of Defense in handling war emergency matters. In 1923 he was a member of the Akron Board of Education. Mr. Kirn is a republican and a director of the Akron Automobile Club, director of the Portage Fish and Game Association, director of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Rod and Gun Club, hunting and fishing being his chief recreation. He is a past chancellor commander of Aetolia Lodge, No. 24, Knights of Pythias, a member of Nemo Lodge, No. 746, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Congress Lake Country Club and the Luna Lake Club. Mrs. Kirn is prominent in the Woman's City Club and the Auxiliary of the Master Plumbers' Association.   Mr. Kirn married, February 21, 1905, Gertrude Haggerty, daughter of Horace Haggerty, of Akron. The three children of their marriage are Walter Norris, Theodore Ivan and Dorothy Elizabeth.   CHARLES C. GIERING was a resident of Youngstown, Mahoning County, during his entire life. Here he became successful in his business activities, and here he so ordered his course as to merit and receive the confidence and esteem of the community that ever represented his home and to which he was loyal in the fullest sense.   Mr. Giering was born at Youngstown on the 27th of November, 1876, and here his death occurred February 11, 1923. He was a son of Louis and Mary (Andler) Giering and his father long operated bottling works in Youngstown as one of the substantial and honored citizens of the Mahoning County metropolis. The subject of this memoir attended the public schools until he was thirteen years old, and thereafter, while employed in his father 's bottling works, advanced his education by attending night school, besides completing a course in a business college. At the age of twenty-two years he purchased a half interest in the bottling works of his brother Jacob, and this fraternal and business partnership continued twelve years. Charles C. then purchased his brother 's interest, and thereafter he successfully conducted the business in an individual way until shortly before his death. He was a director of the Ohio State Bottlers Association, and held various official positions in this organization. He was a valued member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and was a charter member of the Youngstown Automobile Association. In the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity his maximum affiliation was with the local commandery of Knights Templars and in the Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland he received the thirty-second degree, besides being a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Orders of Eagles. In politics he was a democrat with independent proclivities, and in his native city he was an active member of the First Reformed Church, as is also his widow.   September 6, 1913, marked.. the marriage of Mr. Giering and Miss Lottie Meredith, who was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 3, 1887, and who is a daughter of George and Amy (Carver) Meredith, both of whom likewise are natives of Ohio, where they now maintain their home in the City of Springfield. Mr. Giering is survived also by three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Louis Jacob, August 24, 1914; Alice Marie, July 9, 1916; and Charles Noble, November 3, 1922. The devoted husband and father died about three months after the birth of the younger of the two sons.   JOSEPH M. ADAMS is one of the substantial business men of his native city of Youngstown, where he is treasurer and manager of the Garland Block & Sand Company, which controls a large and prosperous business in the manufacturing of concrete blocks for architectural uses and in the handling of sand and gravel. In the busier summer season the company retains an average force of about twenty-five employes, and in the winters but slight reduction is made in this force.   Mr. Adams was born at Youngstown, on the 4th of March, 1877, and is a son of Adam and Minnie (Grim) Adams, who were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families from Germany to the United States, both having been reared in Youngstown and their marriage having here been solemnized. Adam Adams gave the major part of his active career to the stone-quarry industry, and since his death, in 1902, his widow has continued to maintain her home in Youngstown, where she is an earnest communicant of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, as was also her husband.   The early education of Joseph M. Adams was acquired in the parochial and public schools of Youngstown, and as a lad of fifteen years he gained his initiatory experience in farm work, to which he continued to give his attention four years. Thereafter he was independently engaged in the stone-quarry business seven years, and during the ensuing sixteen years he was a successful mason contractor in his native city and county. He then became an active executive of the company of which he is now the treasurer and general manager, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. In politics he supports men and measures, rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the parish of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.   In August, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Adams and Miss Mary Riley, who was born in Pennsylvania and whose parents, John B. and Mary Riley, were born in Ireland. The home circle of Mr. and Mrs. Adams still includes all of their children, namely : Helen, Theresa, Estella, Theodore and William.   WILLIAM P. HUGHES. Modern methods have eliminated much of the drudgery of housekeeping and simplified the work of the homemaker. In nothing are these changes more apparent than in the removing from the home the burden of laundry work by the well organized concerns which perform this class of work efficiently and at modern prices. Youngstown is the home of a number of these concerns, but none of them stands any higher in popular favor than does the Youngstown Sanitary Laundry Company, of whom the capable general manager is William P. Hughes of this review, a practical man in the business.   William P. Hughes was born in South Wales, January 4, 1893, a son of David and Mary (Davis) Hughes, who, although they have made several trips of different duration to the United States, still reside in Wales, where he follows his calling as a mining engineer.   Carefully educated in his native land, William P. Hughes supplemented his high-school studies with a   HISTORY OF OHIO - 193   course in accountancy. In 1912 he came to Canada, and for two years served as office manager of a dairy business at Edmonton. In 1914 he came to Ohio, and for three months was bookkeeper for the East Ohio Gas Company of Youngstown, leaving that position to become chief clerk for the P. & O. Electric Company of this city. With the entry of this country into the World war he enlisted in the United States Army, and was assigned to the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry. For the first month he was at Camp Meade, Maryland, but was then transferred to Fort Niagara, New York. A month later he was sent to Camp Raritan, New Jersey. Subsequently he was transferred to the intelligence branch of the service, and assigned to New York City, where he remained until in January, 1919, when he was honorably discharged as a first sergeant. Returning to Youngstown, he was with the Republic Rubber Company for six months as one of its credit men, and then became office manager of his present company. After a year he was made secretary and treasurer, and in 1923 became general manager.   On September 15, 1918, he married Miss Jane Williams, born at Youngstown, a daughter of W. P. and Mary (Owens) Williams, natives of Wales. Mr. Hughes is a republican. He belongs to the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church of Youngstown. His fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic Order, and he has been advanced in the latter through the thirty-second degree. He also belongs to the Lions Club, the Kiwanis Club and the Youngstown Auto Club, and is a thoroughly progressive man of many interests.   FREDERICK A. DOUGLAS, editor of the Youngstown Vindicator, is one of the experienced newspaper men of Mahoning County, whose facile pen is wielded in support of public-spirited movements and the betterment of society. He was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, October 30, 1860, the son of William and Henrietta (Newburg) Douglas. William Douglas was born in old Newburg, now Cleveland, Ohio, a son of William Douglas, a native of Virginia, who married a Miss Rice. Henrietta (Newburg) Douglas was born at Freeport, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Frederick and Caroline Newburg, the latter a native of York, Pennsylvania, but the former was born at Amsterdam, Holland, where the family was known as Von Nieburg. He ran away from home and came to the United States to escape the compulsory military service, but after his arrival in this country became a soldier of the War of 1812. For many years William Douglas worked at his trade of wagon and carriage making at Cuyahoga Falls, but later in life moved to Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, and spent the remainder of his life on his farm there. He died December 1, 1903, aged seventy-two years. It was a source of pride to him that during his boyhood he drove the mules on the old canal with James A. Garfield, later President of the United States. His widow survived him until March 22, 1920, when she died at the age of seventy-six years. Their children were as follows: Carrie, who is the wife of Leon N. Sears, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Frederick A., whose name heads this review.   Frederick A. Douglas left the public schools at the age of fifteen years to enter the employ of the Cuyahoga Falls Reporter, in 1875, and has continued his connection with the printing business ever since. In 1881 he and Frederick H. Duffy founded the Cuyahoga Falls Journal, of which he continued editor for a year. At the termination of that period he went to Akron, Ohio, and for a few months was with the Warner Printing Company. For the subsequent year he had charge of the mailing list of the Gospel News of Cleveland, Ohio, and then, in May, 1893, he went to Salem, Ohio, and for the succeeding eight years was editor of the Daily News of that city. From there he went to Canton, Ohio, as editor of the News-Democrat, and in the fall of 1901 assumed his present responsibilities, and for nearly a quarter of a century has been with the Vindicator of Youngstown.   On February 3, 1886, Mr. Douglas married Miss Florence Estelle Holcomb, who was born at Huntington, Indiana, a daughter of George and Eliza A. (Galloway) Holcomb, both born in Summit County, Ohio, his birthplace being Twinsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have one daughter, Ethel Irene, who is the wife of Louis E. Geuss, mentioned elsewhere in this work. A Unitarian, Mr. Douglas was one of the incorporators of the First Unitarian Church of Youngstown, and served as chairman of its Board of Trustees for many years. A liberal in politics, he has served as clerk of Cuyahoga Falls, and has otherwise given a faithful support to his community.   GERMANUS ELVERY GARDNER, M. D. A physician and surgeon engaged in general practice and hospital work at Barberton, Doctor Gardner has had a successful experience in his profession, covering a period of more than thirty years. He is a native of Ohio, and has practiced in several different localities of the state.   He was born on a farm near Mount Vernon, in Knox County, August 26, 1866, his parents, John and Mary (Breckler) Gardner being also natives of the same county. His grandfather, Anthony Gardner, came from Alsace-Lorraine to Ohio in 1829, and for a time engaged in farming near Warwick and Clinton in Summit County, but in 1832 took up 300 acres of Government land in Knox County. It was on his old homestead that Doctor Gardner was born, and there his father, John Gardner, spent his active career as a farmer. John Gardner died April 6, 1914, at the age of seventy-two, and is survived by his widow.   Germanus Elvery Gardner had a farm as his early environment, attended country schools, spent three years in the Normal School at Danville, and subsequently entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated in the year 1891. Before taking up independent practice he spent the year 1891 as resident house physician at St. Francis Hospital at Columbus, and in 1892 was resident house physician of St. Anthony Hospital in the same city. Doctor Gardner for twelve years was engaged in general practice at Doylestown, and since then has been identi- fied with Barberton. His work has brought him substantial recognition and he is a member of the staff of the Citizens Hospital of Barberton and on the staff of the City and People 's hospitals in Akron. He is also medical member of the board of directors of the Citizens' Hospital at Barberton, and is a member of the Barberton, Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations.   During the World war Doctor Gardner was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps, and is now a captain in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps. He is a member of the Akron City Club, the Benevolent and Protective Orders of Elks, is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus, one of the Board of Governors of the Brookside Country Club and a member of St. Augustine's Catholic Church.   He married at Doylestown, September 27, 1897, Miss Abbie M. Trotter, daughter of Joseph and Isabelle (Koehler) Trotter, her mother a native of Ohio and still living. Her father was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria, and died in 1918, at the age of seventy-two. Mrs. Gardner is active in the Akron Woman's Club and the Tuesday Musical Club. They have two daughters, Mary Isabelle and Edna. The former is a graduate of Trinity College at Washington, D. C.   194 - HISTORY OF OHIO   FRANK G. SILVER, a public accountant, with offices in the Mahoning Bank Building at Youngstown, has built up an important clientage in his profession. His qualifications are based upon an unusually wide range of individual experience in many lines of business both in Ohio and in the eastern cities.   Mr. Silver represents an old family of the Mahoning Valley, and was born in Berlin Township, Mahoning County, February 5, 1861, son of Allen and Julia (Gee) Silver, who were born in the same locality. His grandparents, Adna Bradway and Lydia (Allen) Silver, were natives of New Jersey, where the former was born in 1800. They were married there about 1820, and their honeymoon was through the western wilderness to Mahoning County, Ohio, Adna B. walking and driving the team all the way. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in the early days made axes, which he marketed at Salem. He acquired considerable property. He and his wife were Quakers. The maternal grandparents of Frank G. Silver were Peter and Elmira (Day) Gee, the former a native of Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, and the latter, of Connecticut, but was brought as a child by her parents to Deerfield Township. The father of Peter was a Methodist minister and one of the early representatives of that church in Mahoning County.   Allen Silver became a farmer in Berlin Township, and for some years was in the flour and feed business at Alliance, Ohio, where his wife died in 1892, at the age of fifty-six. He then returned to Mahoning County, and he died at Berlin in 1910. Of his two children his daughter, May, is now Mrs. William H. Kirkbride, of Cleveland, Ohio.   Frank G. Silver was educated in district schools, in the Canfield Union School, and at the age of seventeen took a commercial course at Mount Green College. His first experience was as a bookkeeper at the Globe Foundry and Machine Company at Niles, Ohio.   He married in February, 1883, Miss ulia Crowley, who was born in Youngstown, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Crowley. By this marriage there were two children: Warren U., of Cleveland, and Blossom, who is Mrs. Robert G. Lafferty, of Cleveland. Mr. Silver 's second wife was Mary Morgan, a native of Youngstown, and she became the mother of one daughter, Virginia, of Hammond, Indiana.   After his marriage Mr. Silver remained at. Niles as bookkeeper, spent three years as bookkeeper for the Girard Iron Company of Girard, Ohio, and in Youngstown for twenty-one years he had charge of the offices of the Briar Hill Iron and Coal Company. Resigning, he went to New York City and engaged in the hotel business for several years, was a broker in Philadelphia for nine years, and in 1915 located in Cleveland, where he became a traveling salesman. Returning to Youngstown in 1916, he has since conducted business as a public accountant, handling audits and doing other special work for a number of corporations and firms. He is a republican and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the United Commercial Travelers.   DEWITT A. MORROW. Few professions call for the exercise of so much tact and consideration as does that of mortician, for those engaged in this calling are brought into contact with people at a time when sorrow and affliction have prostrated them, and they require a consideration not demanded under ordinary conditions. The funeral director who meets the requirements of his patrons is the one whose services are most in demand, and Youngstown is the home of several men of high standing whose efforts have been concentrated in providing dignified and suitable surroundings for those claimed by death. One of them is DeWitt A. Morrow, manager for the old and reliable house of Orr & Son, funeral directors, and whose apprenticeship was passed under the watchful supervision of his maternal grandfather and uncle, prominent undertakers of Grove City, Pennsylvania.   DeWitt A. Morrow was born at Grove City, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1885, a son of David M. and Jessie (Black) Morrow, natives of Pennsylvania. For a number of years David M. Morrow was one of the leading merchants of Grove City, but he died in 1912, survived by his widow, who resides at Youngstown, Ohio.   While still attending the public schools of his native place DeWitt A. Morrow began working for his Grandfather Black, and continued with him and his uncle until 1905, during which time he learned his profession thoroughly. In that year he came to Youngstown, and, entering the employ of Orr & Son, has continued with this firm ever since, becoming, as before stated, its manager.   On December 23, 1908, Mr. Morrow was married to Miss Lizzie McKeown, who was born at Youngstown, a daughter of Andrew and Eliza Jane (MeMasters) McKeown, both of whom were born near Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow have one son, Andrew Lee, who was born May 18, 1910. Mr. Morrow belongs to the United Presbyterian Tabernacle Church. In political matters he is independent, preferring to support the man rather than the party. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Grotto, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Kiwanis Club, and served the latter body as a director during a period of three years.   MILTON EMERSON HAYES, M. D. Numbered among the experienced and skillful physicians and surgeons of Mahoning County, Dr. Milton Emerson Hayes enjoys a high professional and personal standing in his community, and is an active force in civic matters. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1867, a son of George Washington and Margaret E. (Glasgow) Hayes, natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents, William and Eliza (Williamson) Hayes, were natives of Butler County and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, respectively, and came of Revolutionary stock. Eliza Williamson 's father served under Admiral Perry in the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. On the maternal side Doctor Hayes' grandparents were John and Mary Glasgow, of Irish descent. For many years George Washington Hayes was a carpenter contractor at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he died in that city, in September, 1922, aged eighty-six years. The mother survives at the age of seventy-nine years, and is living at Youngstown.   After leaving the grade and high schools Doctor Hayes was a student of Smart Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then, entering Western University of that city, took his medical training. Following the securing of his degree Doctor Hayes began practicing his profession at Pittsburgh, and remained there until 1899, but in that year left that city for Youngstown, where he has since resided, and for a quarter of a century has been one of the active practitioners of Mahoning County. Of recent years he has specialized in urinary dermatology. His offices are at 306 Home Savings and Loan Building. In November, 1920, he was elected coroner of Mahoning County, and is the nominee of the republican party for the same office. During the late war he served on Draft Board Number 2 of Mahoning County, and otherwise made himself useful in local war work. Professionally he maintains membership with the county and state medical societies. He is unmarried. Since 1889 Doctor Hayes has been a spiritualist, and for a number of years was librarian of the First Church Spiritualist of Pittsburgh, which was organized in 1878, Doctor Hayes' parents being among the organizers. Very   HISTORY OF OHIO - 195   high in Masonry, Doctor Hayes has been the recipient of honors in the different bodies of his order, and is past master of the Blue Lodge, past high priest of the Chapter, and he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He also belongs to the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, the Lions Club and the Shrine Club.   FRED I. SLOANE has spent his life in Ohio, living for many years in one of the southern counties of the state, and since 1914 in Youngstown, where he is superintendent of one of the cemeteries of the city.   He was born at Ironton, Ohio, April 9, 1876, son of Nathan P. and Matilda A. (Colier) Sloane, his father a native of Liberty, Kentucky, and his mother of Lawrence County, Ohio. Nathan Sloane spent many years of his life as superintendent of the Woodland cemetery at Ironton, and died in July, 1893. His widow still lives at Ironton. Fred I. Sloane had a public school education, and as a youth began assisting his father and learned all details of the care and management of the cemetery. After the death of his father he took charge of the cemetery at Ironton, he being then about seventeen years of age. They shared the responsibility together until 1907, when his brother, Edward A. Sloane, became and has since been superintendent of the cemetery at Marion, Ohio, where President Harding is buried. After 1907 Fred I. Sloane remained in charge of the Woodland cemetery until August, 1914, when he resigned and came to Youngstown.   He became superintendent of the Belmont Cemetery, resigning in March, 1922, to act as manager of the Tod Homestead Cemetery. This is one of the beautiful cities of the dead in Eastern Ohio, and the land contained in the cemetery was once the homestead of the famous Civil war veterans of Ohio, David Tod.   Mr. Sloane married in July, 1910, Clara L. Gabler, a native of Ironton and daughter of John and Lydia (Duis) Gabler, also natives of Ohio, and of German parentage. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Sloane are Jean Lucile, Matilda Louise, Betty Jane and Jack Frederick. Mr. Sloane is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, is a republican, and in Masonry is affiliated with Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rites and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland.   W. D. MCCREARY is a Youngstown business man whose experience has been largely in technical fields and for several years he has handled electrical accessories and represented the Prest-O-Lite Company, acytelene gas and storage batteries.   He was born in Chicago, May 29, 1884, son of Jonas E. and Louisa (Wiseman) McCreary, his father a native of Beaver, Pennsylvania, and his mother of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jonas McCreary was master mechanic for the Western Stone Company of Chicago, and his widow now lives at Early Road, near Youngstown.   W. D. McCreary finished the work of the grammar schools in Chicago in 1900, and after a year and a half in high school took up salesmanship as a traveling man. He also studied draughting and engineering, and in 1904 came to Youngstown, where he was employed as an engineer and draughtsman with the P. & 0. Electric Company. He also did work as a general salesman for the General Fireproofing Company, and since 1918 has been distributor for the Prest-O-Lite Company, with salesroom and office at the corner of Commerce and Holmes streets.   Mr. McCreary married in 1921 Miss Hallie Brush, who was born in Buffalo, New York, but a resident of Youngstown, Ohio. He is a republican, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of Al Koran Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of Youngstown Lodge, No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Rotary Club.   SAMUEL I. WATSON is a Youngstown business man, and nearly all his commercial experience since early manhood has been with the mattress manufacturing industry. He is an ex-service man.   He was born at Allen in Copiah County, Mississippi, December 19, 1887, son of John M. and Willie (Osborne) Watson, his father a native of Copiah County and his mother of Jefferson County, Mississippi. Both parents are now deceased. Samuel 1. Watson grew up in his native state, completing grammar and high schools, and completed a course in a business university at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Beginning in August, 1910, he was employed six years in clerical work at Holden, West Virginia, and then at Huntington, West Virginia, became bookeeper for the Specialty Mattress Company. In 1918 the company sent him to Wheeling, West Virginia, as branch manager.   In May, 1918, he enlisted and was put in training at Camp Logan, Texas, from there being transferred in December, 1918, to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in April, 1919, was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio.   He then resumed work for his former company as bookkeeper at Detroit, Michigan, but in November, 1919, came to Youngstown as manager of the Sanitary Mattress Company, a branch of the Specialty Mattress Company.   Mr. Watson married, February 8, 1921, Mildred M. Zimmerman, a native of Youngstown. He is a Methodist, a republican in politics, has filled the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Mangham, Louisiana, also belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Mangham, is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Youngstown Automobile Club.   CHARLES NELSON SPARKS, postmaster of Akron, is a veteran of the Spanish-American war and the Philippine wars, and has been a business man of Akron for the past ten years.   He was born in Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 1880, son of Edward F. and Belle (Akin) Sparks. He acquired a public school education and was eighteen years of age when he volunteered for service in the Spanish-American war, going out as a private. He spent three years in the Philippine Islands, and subsequently completed the trip around the world. For about ten years Mr. Sparks was identified with lumber manufacturing in Ohio, West Virginia and Mexico, and spent four years in the news service at Chicago. In 1914 he came to Akron.   Mr. Sparks has been prominent in republican politics in Summit County, serving as chairman of the organization committee of the Republican County Committee. He was one of the local Harding managers in the campaign of 1920, and in that year was appointed safety director of Akron. He held the office of postmaster under a temporary appointment from May to October, 1921, and on October 1, 1921, was appointed for a full term by President Harding. He is a member of the City Club, is chairman of the Safety Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Board of Trade of SOuth Akron, of the North Hill Board of Trade, and the East Akron Board of Trade and Real Estate Board. He is a member of the Red Men, the Eagles, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Spanish-American War Veterans and of the National Aeronautics Society. Mr. Sparks married Miss Grace Pugh, of Columbus, June 17, 1921.   NELSON C. STONE. The Stone family were among the earliest pioneer settlers of Summit County, and   196 - HISTORY OF OHIO   the name has been prominently identified with the manufacturing and financial history of Akron for more than half a century. Nelson C. Stone is president of the National City Bank of Akron. This is the second oldest financial intitution at Akron, the bank in its present form representing the history of other institutions running back to Civil war times. The City National Bank was organized in 1883, and when the charter expired in 1903 it was succeeded by the National City Bank, at which time Mr. Stone became president.   The grandparents of the Akron banker were Milo and Sarah (Beardsley) Stone, who left their old home in Connecticut in the fall of 1816 and traveled by ox team and wagon to the Western Reserve of Ohio. While they were temporarily at Canfield in Mahoning County, the son, Nelson B. Stone, was born to them, September 18, 1816. The family made permanent settlement in Tallmadge Township of Summit County, though this county was not organized for twenty-five years afterward. Nelson B. Stone became a man of distinction in the county and in Akron. He was reared on a farm, but acquired a liberal education in the public schools, in Tallmadge Academy and Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He clerked in stores and in December, 1840, became a resident of Akron. He was deputy county clerk until the fall of 1851, was then elected county clerk, being the first to hold that office under the new constitution. For a time he was with the manufacturing firm of Aultman, Miller & Company, and in 1865 became secretary and treasurer of the Weary, Snyder & Wilcox Company. He was with that corporation many years. Nelson B. Stone, who died November 9, 1893, was for over fifty years a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and for fifty-two consecutive years served as secretary of the Sunday school of that church. He was a delegate to the First Republican State Convention in Ohio.   The first wife of Nelson B. Stone was Mary H. Clarke, of Akron. Her father, William L. Clarke, was a pioneer of Ohio and was twice elected sheriff of Summit County, and afterwards for twelve years served as justice of the peace for Portage Township. Mary H. Clarke Stone died, April 6, 1854, and her only child was Nelson C. Stone.   Nelson, C. Stone was born at Akron, March 30, 1854. He was reared in his native city, being a graduate of the city schools. He became a member of the class of 1876 in Ohio Wesleyan University, but a short time before graduating left college to accept an opportunity to travel abroad for a year. Subsequently the University conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. After his return from abroad he spent seven years with the Weary, Snyder & Wilcox Manufacturing Company, was also connected with the Seiberling Milling Company, and for a-year or so attended to business interests in Kansas City and New York City. Mr. Stone in 1887 returned to Akron, and in 1888 became cashier of the City National Bank. He has been identified with that institution and its successor for over thirty-five years, and has been president since the organization of the National City Bank in 1903.   Mr. Stone is a member of the Bankers Club of America at New York City, the American Bankers Association, the Union and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Portage and City Clubs of Akron, the Congress Lake Country Club of Stark County, and he succeeded his father as a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Stone married Miss Margaret J. Oburn, of Chicago, in 1879.   HOMER P. WHITSTONE. That this is an electrical age no sane person can dispute, and the ever growing demand for appliances and supplies for the utilization of this potent force, with their installation, have developed lines of business of great magnitude and opened new fields for the energies of competent men. One of them who is achieving a well-merited success at Youngstown as an electrical contractor and dealer in electrical appliances and supplies is Homer P. Whitstone, of 231 North Phelps Street.   Homer P. Whitstone was born at Lowellville, Mahoning County, Ohio, May 8, 1889, a son of Edward E. and Caroline (Weak) Whitstone, natives of Ohio and Frostburg, Maryland, respectively. She died in 1903, but he still survives and is living at Youngstown.   After completing his courses in the grade and high schools, Homer P. Whitstone came to Youngstown in 1895, and began learning the electrical business with the Pennsylvania and Ohio Electric Railroad, and continued with this company for ten years, leaving it to enter the employ of the Electrical Maintenance Company, with which he continued until he entered the army, in April, 1918, as a member of Company A, Fifty-seventh Engineering Corps. Sent to Camp Meade, Maryland, for training, he was subsequently transferred to an engineering camp at Laurel, Maryland, and remained there for four weeks. He was sent overseas to France with the Seventy-ninth Division, and served with the Inland Waterways Transportation Unit, was all over France, and participated in all of the important engagements from Brest to the Marne River. Subsequently he was attached to the vicinity of Paris, and following the signing of the armistice, was stationed at Le Havre, where his duties were in connection with loading troop transports for the United States. On July 19, 1919, he left for the United States, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Merritt, August 2, 1919. Returning to Youngstown, he embarked in his present business, and has since developed it into one of the leading ones of its kind in the city.   On October 6, 1923, Mr. Whitstone was married to Miss Zetta Marshall, of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Whitstone belongs to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Youngstown. He is a republican, although not very active in politics. A Mason, he has been advanced through all of the bodies of his order of both the York and Scottish Rites, and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. Professionally he maintains membership with the Electrical League.   CHARLES E. TAYLOR. Supply and demand control business development in a large measure. Whenever the supply of any article is less than the demand for it, naturally it becomes more difficult to secure an adequate amount and some means must be devised to make up the shortage. The period of warfare, with the withdrawal of so many able-bodied men for the army and for allied industries, caused a falling off in building, and this shortage was not confined to any one community, or country, for that matter, but existed all over the civilized world. In fact, this housing shortage has not yet been overcome, and therefore the abilities of some of the most energetic men of the age have been called into play to remedy the conditions, and so arrange as to throw open to tenants quarters in which they may live and rear their families. Therefore, in every community are to be found a number of alert and progressive men whose attention is given to real-estate matters. One of these representative men at Youngstown is Charles E. Taylor, who has built up an excellent business and established his reputation for fair dealing and honorable practices.   Charles E. Taylor was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, May 26, 1887, a son of J. W. and Catherine (Shoemaker) Taylor, farming people. Growing up in a rural neighborhood, Charles E.   HISTORY OF OHIO - 197   Taylor alternated attendance at the district schools with farm work until he reached his majority, at which time he began farming for himself. In 1914 he abandoned agriculture for real estate, and, coming to Youngstown, opened his present line of business, and has since then been operating in real estate.   In 1916, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Florence Wheeland, born at Youngstown, and they have one daughter, Helen. Mr. Taylor is independent in his political belief. Both he and his wife have many friends at Youngstown and in Mahoning County, by whom they are held in the highest esteem.   JOSEPH NEWTON. Experience has proven that a man succeeds best in that work in which he has acquired a practical knowledge. Theories do not give any one a sound basis for permanent development. Back of them must lie the knowledge that comes of actual experience if sound success be attained. In nothing is this more true than in electrical work with its many ramifications. Therefore, when Joseph Newton entered upon his present business of electrical contracting, at Number 28 South Walnut Street, he brought with him a practical knowledge of it and the requirements of his trade, and from the start has enjoyed a fair share of patronage in his neighborhood.   Joseph Newton was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1888, a son of David and Emma Newton, who came to Youngstown in 1891. The father is a puddler by trade, and he is still living in this city. Until he was fourteen Joseph Newton attended the public schools, but at that early age began working for the Carnegie Steel Company, with which he continued for four years, leaving it to work at boiler-making. Still later he took up electrical work, and became stage electrician at the Park Theatre, Youngstown, which position he held until 1918. In that year he entered the field of electrical contracting, and he also handles all kinds of electrical appliances and supplies. His skill and reliability are recognized by his competitors and the trade generally.   In 1916, Mr. Newton was married, and he has one daughter, Eleanor Josephine. His residence is at 1635 Mayfield Avenue. Trinity Episcopal Church holds his membership. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and to the Association of Electra-gists and to the Electrical League of Youngstown. In political faith he is a republican.   JAMES HARRIS McEWEN, dean of Youngstown bankers, and one of the most prominent men of Ma-honing County, has devoted his life to finance, and is now a member of the directorate of the Mahoning National Bank, successor to the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company. He was born at Youngstown, October 13, 1842, a son of James and Elizabeth (Fitch) McEwen, the former born on a farm near Elkton, Indiana, and the latter born in New York City. About 1885 James McEwen came to Youngstown, having been attracted here during his work as an engineer on the canal. In 1839 he was married and took up his residence in this city, and following the completion of the canal, served as its superintendent, and still later was president of 'the company. When he died, in 1872, at the age of seventy-three years, he was holding that office. His wife died in 1869, aged fifty-seven years.   After a boyhood and youth spent at Youngstown, James Harris McEwen went, at the age of twenty years, into the Mahoning County Bank as a clerk, and continued with that old institution until 1868, during that period laying the foundation for the knowledge of banking which later was to make him such an authority on finance. In 1868 he entered the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company as treasurer, and during the turbulent reconstruction period following the termination of the war, with its numerous problems, a number of the leading citizens of Youngstown, among whom was Mr. McEwen, whose names have since been linked with the great industries of the state, realizing the need for greater banking facilities, organized the Mahoning National Bank in 1877, as the successor to the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company, with which they had already been connected.   With the opening of the doors of the new institution Mr. McEwen assumed the duties of cashier, and ably discharged them until January 14, 1908, at which time he was elected president of the bank, and he served as such for nearly two years, retiring from the office and from business generally, January 11, 1910. Although more than ten years over the three score years and ten of psalmist, he retains his place on the Board of Directors of the bank, and his wealth of experience, gained through almost sixty years of constant service, is freely given and gladly availed by the active officers of the bank. In spite of his age, Mr. MeEwen is very active and visits the bank almost daily. He was an intimate friend of the late Robert McCurdy, and when the latter died in 1904, Mr. McEwen was named as executor of his estate, and this, with his personal affairs, he still successfully administers.   On February 22, 1883, Mr. McEwen married Miss Florence Rayen, who was born at Champion, Trumbull County, Ohio, and was a teacher in the Rayen High School prior to her marriage. This school was named in honor of her uncle, William Rayen, one of the prominent men of earlier Youngstown. Her father, John Rayen, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio. Mr. McEwen is residing at 534 Bryson Street, Youngs-town, Mrs. McEwen having died in 1912, leaving no children. For many years Mr. McEwen was vice president of the McMillan Library, and he has otherwise been of great service to his community. One of the old-line republicans, he has followed his party's fortunes almost from its beginnings, and has met and known intimately some of its greatest lights. He still enjoys meeting his old friends at the Youngstown Club. During his long and varied life Mr. McEwen has witnessed many changes, and has seen most marvelous development in and about Youngstown, in whose history he is so deeply concerned. The stainless record of this honorable gentleman proves that a man may achieve prestige and wealth, and yet never swerve in so doing from the path of strictest probity.   HENRIE E. BUCK. What many critics pronounce the finest private collection of Indian curios and antiques of all kinds in the United States is owned by Henrie E. Buck of Delaware. Mr. Buck is a native of Delaware, is a member of an old and distinguished American family, and for many years was engaged in railroading and also in the real estate business.   He was born in Delaware, March 1, 1849, a son of Israel E. and Sarah Wilson (Vandeman) Buek, both natives of Ohio. There were four of his ancestors in the Revolutionary war, one of them being Israel Buek, another John Vandeman, a third, Lieut.-Col. G. Wilson, and the fourth was Benjamin Collins. Mr. Buck's paternal grandparents were Edmund and Anna Buck, and on the maternal side he is a grandson of Henry and Sarah Vandeman. The father, Israel E. Buck, was regarded as one of the leading lawyers of the state in his time. He served as the first mayor of the City of Delaware, and took a keen and intelligent interest in public affairs all his life. He located in Delaware in 1846.   Henrie E. Buck was reared at Delaware, where he attended the public schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University. He did not complete his university course. For one year he studied law, but failing health compelled him to seek outdoor work and he   198 - HISTORY OF OHIO   returned to railroading. For twenty years he was in the train service. For two years of this time he was assistant superintendent of the Santa Fe Railway at Dodge City, Kansas. He was also in the construction department of several roads, being assistant superintendent of construction on the Nickel Plate, general manager of the D. M. Electric Railroad, and also of the Hocking Valley Railway for several years, and did construction work with the New Orleans & North Eastern and Michigan and Ohio railroads. After retiring from the railroad business Mr. Buck was engaged in the real estate business at Toledo, and handled some of the most successful subdivisions and property deals in that city, including the Laskey Place Addition and East Toledo, the Wagon Works Addition and others.   On account of his wife 's poor health Mr. Buck finally practically retired from active business and traveled extensively. During all these years he has considered Delaware his home. His private residence at Delaware is not only a home but in an interesting sense a museum, since it contains his vast collection. He has been a collector and student of Indian remains, of furniture, art and other evidences of different periods of civilizations in America, and the great private collection he has accumulated is the result of painstaking effort and the expenditure of a large amount of money on his part over a long period of years. The aboriginal mounds of Ohio supplied many of the curios. He also had a wonderful collection of Indian pipes, spears and arrow heads, shovels, hatchets and ornaments. His house is filled with pictures, books, chinaware, pewter plates, cut glass and interesting furniture representing the colonial and other periods of American history, and practically everything is of intrinsic value or historical association. One of the most valued articles is a tea service and the table going with it which at one time belonged to George Washington. He also has the personal autograph of every President of the United States. Students of such matters who are familiar with the great wealth of treasures in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, museums in different cities and various private collections have no hesitation in pronouncing Mr. Buck's accumulative treasures remarkable not only for quantity but also rare quality.   On September 20, 1876, at Urbana, Ohio, Mr. Buck married Miss Jennie Glenn, daughter of Isaac and Martha (McClelan) Glenn, who were substantial Ohio farmers. Mrs. Buck is a direct descendant of the Revolutionary Randolph and Drake families. Mr. Buck was instrumental in organizing the Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Delaware, and his daughter became the first regent of the chapter. There are three children: Anna, wife of A. W. Firestone, who is a banker at Shilo, Ohio, and is the mother of two children, Jennette and Wallace ; Clara Glenn, who married Clarence Mast, a professor in Southwestern University of Georgetown, Texas, and the four children of Professor and Mrs. Mast are Henrie E., Jane, John and Clarence, Jr.; while the only son of Mr. Buck is Joseph Henry, assistant' cashier in the Delaware Savings Bank, who married Martha F. Stoneburner.   Mr. Buck is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is a life member of both the Masons and Elks, and is affiliated with the Royal Arch and Knights Templar degrees of Masonry.   WILLIAM M. JACKSON. Few men are better known to the people of Youngstown as capable and public-spirited citizens than William M. Jackson, who after considerable business experience is now in charge of the Soldiers' Relief Commission and secretary of the board at Youngstown. Having himself, during his young manhood fought to maintain the Union, he has never lost his love for the flag he so honored, and is patriotic instructor in connection with his post of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he has held all of the offices, including that of commander. With such a record behind him he is the right person to look after the veterans of a later war than the one in which he participated so bravely.   William M. Jackson was born at Augusta, Carroll County, Ohio, April 1, 1845, a son of Isaac and Mary (Manfull) Jackson, natives of England, who came to the United States in 1818, and settled on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, becoming prominent pioneer settlers of that county. This property they bought, and lived on it until 1866, when they sold it and moved to Wisconsin. After a brief period spent in that state, however, they again changed, and settled permanently in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1868, aged sixty-seven years. The wife and mother, who was born in 1811, survived him until 1900.   Residing with his parents until he enlisted in the Union army, William M. Jackson was enrolled in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 15, 1862, under Capt. Jacob Weyland, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. In October, 1864, Captain Weyland was succeeded by Capt. John W. Cook. Mr. Jackson participated in the battles of Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 14, 1863; Wapping Heights, Virginia, July 23, 1863 ; Culpeper Court House, Virginia, October 11, 1863 ; Bristone Station, Virginia, October 14, 1863; Realton and Rappahannock Bridge, Virginia, October 24, 1863; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, November 7, 1863; Locust Grove, Virginia, November 27, 1863 ; Mine Run, Virginia, November 28, 1863 ; Wilderness, Virginia, May 5-7, 1864; Alsop 's Farm, Virginia, May 8, 1864; Spotsylvania, Virginia, May 8-18, 1864; North Ann River, Virginia, May 23, 1864; Tolopotomy Creek, Virginia, May 30-31, 1864; Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1-12, 1864; Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, June 18, 1864; Welden Railroad, Virginia, June 22, 1864; Monocacy, Virginia, July 9, 1864; Snickers Ferry, Virginia, July 18, 1864; Charleston, West Virginia, August 21, 1864; Smithfield, Virginia, August 29, 1864; Opequon, Virginia, September 19, 1864; Flint Hill, Virginia, September 21, 1864; Fisher 's Hill, Virginia, September 22, 1864; Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864; Petersburg, Virginia, March 25, 1865; and a second engagement at Petersburg, April 2, 1865. On May 6, 1864, during the battle of the Wilderness, Mr. Jackson was wounded in the right shoulder, and he still carries the ball. Because of this injury he was confined in Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, for two months. On October 19, 1864, he was wounded in the right leg, during the battle of Cedar Creek, but was able to report for duty within a month 's time. His honorable discharge bears the date of May 14, 1865.   Returning home following his discharge from the army Mr. Jackson took a much-needed rest, and then became a clerk in the dry-goods store at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For the succeeding fifteen years he maintained his connection with this house as clerk and later as traveling salesman, and then, going to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a traveling salesman for a wholesale notion house, and represented it on the road for two years. Going then to Sharon, Pennsylvania, he opened a furnishing goods store, and conducted it very profitably for fourteen years, but, selling it, went on the road for ten years, at the expiration of which period he came to Youngstown, and for four years owned and conducted an oil warehouse. Disposing of this business, he spent ten years as assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan Insurance Company at Youngstown, and then assumed his present duties.   HISTORY OF OHIO - 199   On September 28, 1868, he married Miss Laura I. Shaffer, born near Waynesburg, Ohio, a daughter of David and Eliza Shaffer, natives of Ohio and Scotland, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson became the parents of the following children: Alice M., who is at home; Albert, who died at the age of twenty-one years; Harry, who resides at Elyria, Ohio; Isabel, who is a public school teacher ; Mabel, who is the wife of James Burnett, of Coitsville, Mahoning County, Ohio. The First Christian Church of Youngstown holds Mr. Jackson 's membership, and he has served it in several official positions. He is a strong republican. His comfortable residence at 273 Scott Street is his property and he is also a stockholder in the Metropolitan Loan Association.   BENJAMIN L. AGLER. Few lines of business offer such splendid opportunities for public service of a high character, as well as for the acquisition of a fair competence in return for hard work, as does that of insurance, and one of the men of Youngstown who is devoting himself to it is Benjamin L. Agler, of the firm of Benjamin L. Agler & Company, with headquarters at Youngstown, Ohio.   Benjamin L. Agler was born at Garrettsville, Ohio, May 22, 1889, a son of Walter E. and Caroline (Leach) Agler, he was born at Wilmot, Stark County, Ohio, December 10, 1857, and she was born near Niles, Ohio. The paternal grandparents were Jeremiah and Mary (Bell) Agler. Jeremiah Agler was born in Stark County, Ohio, March 1, 1832, a son of Peter and Barbary (Snively) Agler. Peter Agler was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, in 1787, and he was a son of William Agler, who was born in New Jersey. His grandfather, also William Agler, was born in Holland, and came to the American colonies about 1760. Jeremiah Agler died October 14, 1890. During the war between the North and the South he served as a member of the Ohio National Guard. The maternal grandparents of Benjamin L. Agler, of this review, were Benjamin and Mary (Rayen) Leach, natives of Champion, Trumbull County, Ohio, he was born December 1, 1816, and she, March 3, 1825. He died June 30, 1906, and she, January 6, 1912. He was a son of Abram and Amy (Luce) Leach. Abner Leach, father of Abram Leach, was born at Morristown, New Jersey, in 1750, and came west to Champion, Ohio, in 1820. During the American Revolution he served in Dicker-son's New Jersey Continental Line. His remains lie in the cemetery at Champion, Ohio. Abram Leach was a soldier of the War of 1812, as was also William Agler II., who was under the command of Gen. William Henry Harrison. After the close of the war he, too, settled at Wilmot, Ohio, and like the other Aglers and members of the Leach family, engaged in farming.   Following their marriage Walter E. Agler and his wife settled at Garrettsville, where he became connected with banking interests, and for forty years was cashier of the First National Bank of that city. His death occurred May 1, 1918. His widow survives him and makes her home at Youngstown. They had but the one child.   Benjamin L. Agler was graduated from the high school of his native city in 1907, following which he was a student of Hiram College for one year, and then entered the general insurance field at Garrettsville, where he remained until 1914. In that year he came to Youngstown and formed affiliations with the General Insurance Agency Company, and a year later was made its vice president. The name was changed in 1921 to the Medbury-Agler Company, an association that continued until July 1, 1924, since which time he has been engaged in an independent insurance business under the firm name of Benjamin L. Agler & Company.   On October 10, 1922, Mr. Agler married Josephine Butler Ford, born at Youngstown, January 18, 1893, a daughter of Edward and Blanche (Butler) Ford, the former a native of New York and the latter of Youngstown, Ohio, and a daughter of Joseph G. Butler, Jr., one of the prominent citizens of this section of the state.   Mr. and Mrs. Agler have one daughter, Blanche Butler, born November 11, 1923. Mr. Agler is a Congregationalist and his wife is an Episcopalian. They are republicans. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Agler also is a member of the Youngstown Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the American Legion, and during 1923 was commander of his post, and is now a member of the executive committee. He is serving his third term as president of the Ohio Association of Insurance Agents, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio.   The military record of Mr. Agler is an honorable one, and begins with his reporting, May 14, 1917, to the First Officers Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the Fourth Division of the Regular Army, in the motor transport branch of the service. Shortly thereafter he was placed in command of Company F, Fourth Supply Train, at Camp Greene, North Carolina. In May, 1918, he was assigned to active duty abroad, and upon reaching France was sent to the front, participating in the Marne offensive. Subsequently he was in the Saint Mihiel drive, and still later participated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. It was during the latter campaign that he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, and soon thereafter to a captaincy. Following the signing of the armistice he was assigned to the Army of Occupation on the Rhine, but was sent back to this country before his division, in June, 1920.   THEODOR HALL is doing a successful and substantial business in the manufacturing of cement blocks in the City of Sandusky, and his well equipped plant for this construction enterprise is established at 1913 South Campbell Street.   Mr. Hall was born at Danbury, Ottawa County, Ohio, November 17, 1854, and is a son of Christian and Dorothy Maria Hall, who were born and reared in Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to the United States in 1846 and established their home at Danbury, Ohio, on Sandusky Bay. Christian Hall was a fur dresser and also a skilled workman at the tinner 's trade. Within a short time after the birth of his son, Theodor, of this review, Christian Hall moved with his family to Sandusky, and later he removed to the vicinity of Clairmont, Iowa, where he became a pioneer farmer and where his death occurred. His widow and children then returned to Sandusky and Mrs. Hall passed the remainder of her life in Ohio.   Theodor Hall gained his early education in the schools of Ohio and Iowa, and as a youth he was employed by the month at farm work. He was thus engaged about two years, then after his marriage, in 1875, he was for a time engaged in farming on a rented place in Perkins Township, Erie County. He then purchased in Sandusky a city lot on which he erected a small house, and in this city he engaged in work as a mason, besides which he was for several years engaged in contracting and building. In the meanwhile he obtained a small farm near Bloomingville, this county, and there engaged in market gardening, besides continuing his work as a contractor and builder. In 1919 he sold his farm and purchased three lots on South Campbell Street, Sandusky, where he has since built up a prosperous business in the manufacturing of cement blocks for buildings and other structural work. He is a loyal