200 - HISTORY OF OHIO supporter of the cause of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Christian Church. In October, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hall and Miss Mary Anna Ridman, who was born in Perkins Township, Erie County, August 2, 1855, a daughter of John and Barbara (Daniel) Rid-man, the former a native of Switzerland and the latter of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, they having been for many years sterling and honored citizens of Erie County, Ohio. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hall: Minnie became the wife of John Paff and is now deceased, her one surviving child, Henrietta, being the wife of James Albert, of Sandusky; Walter died at Camp Sherman during the World war ; Mary Anna died at the age of fifteen years; David was thirty-one years of age at the time of his death, he having married Miss Flossie Arheit, who survived him, as did also their one child, Norman Lee. WILL LAKE BEACH, M. D. Engaged in general practice as a physician and surgeon at Newton Falls, Doctor Beach is a member of an old family in Northeastern Ohio, spent his early life on the farm, and at first studied veterinary medicine, afterward taking up the work of his chosen profession. He was born at Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, December 28, 1890. His father, Wesley L. Beach, was born at Mayfield, Ohio, in 1845, was reared there, was married at Mentor, and for a number of years carried on his farming operations at Chester. In 1889 he moved to Geneva, and lived there until his death in 1918. He was well known for the success he had in developing farms, and was a dealer in farm lands and real estate. He was a republican, and a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By his marriage he had two children: Belle, wife of Charles Eaton, a gardener of Girard, Pennsylvania ; and Charles, a mechanic, who died at the age of twenty-three. By his marriage to Julia Clark, who was born at Mentor Headlands, Ohio, in 1855, and now lives at Geneva, there were ten children: Ellen B., a graduate nurse living at Geneva, widow of LeRoy Hayward, who lost his life in a railroad accident while a locomotive fireman; Burr A., a professor in the University of Wisconsin, at Madison; Jeannette, wife of Albert Nelson, a former banker, now living at Trinidad, Cobrado; Arda, wife of Nels Nelson, a railroad engineer living at Ashatabula; Clark I., a steel mill worker at Ashtabula; Dr. Will Lake ; Ruth A., who lives at Salem, Ohio, and is engaged in Red Cross work; Carrie, a kindergarten teacher at Geneva; Elizabeth, an employe of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Allen Penfield, an automobile mechanic at Geneva. Will Lake Beach attended the public schools of Geneva, graduating from high school there in 1910. After a year on the home farm he entered Ohio State University, taking the course in veterinary medicine. He was graduated with the degree Doctor oe Veterinary Medicine in 1915. Subsequently he enrolled in the regular medical department of Ohio State University, finishing the course and receiving the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1920. In the meantime he had enlisted for service in the medical corps at the time of the World war, and was held in training from December, 1917, until after the armistice, when he was given an honorable discharge. Doctor Beach is a member of the Alpha Psi veterinary fraternity, Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity and Phi Sigma Honorary Biological fraternity. During 1920-21 he remained at Columbus as an interne at the Protestant Hospital, and since then has been engaged in a very successful general practice at Newton Falls. He is a member of the Trumbull County and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. His offices are at the corner of Broad and Center Streets in Newton Falls. Doctor Beach is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Geneva Lodge No. 334 of the Masonic Order at Geneva, and Ali Baba Grotto of Masons at Warren. He also belongs to Newton Falls Lodge, Knights of Pythias. At Madison, Ohio, August 16, 1921, he married Miss Mildred Jane Warren, daughter of Charles O. and Lucy (Pomeroy) Warren, resident of Painesville, where her father is a merchant. ELDEN V. BENEDICT, superintendent of city schools at Newton Falls, has employed his versatile abilities for successful work not only as an educator but in business and in public affairs generally. Mr. Benedict was born at Solon, Ohio, August 7, 1889. His father, Charles Harrison Benedict, a resident of Wooster, Ohio, was born three miles north of Newton Falls, in Trumbull County, July 15, 1858, and was reared there. He served as a telegraph lineman for the Erie Railroad Company, with home at Solon until 1913, in which year he removed to Wooster and is now foreman for the Gray & Smith Flour Mills His father, Harrison Benedict, came to Trumbull County in 1809 from Windsor, Connecticut. Through many years Charles H. Benedict has been a staunch supporter of the Christian Church and is a democrat in politics. He married. Jennie Pettibone, who was born at Solon, Ohio, September 24, 1858, and died at Wooster, April 15, 1919. The Pettibones came to America in 1620. They had four children: Arden V., superintendent of schools at Greenwich, Ohio, and died at Wooster at the age of thirty-three; Elden V.; Alice Marie and Lucile Mary, both of whom died in early childhood. Elden V. Benedict attended public school at Solon, graduating from high school there in 1908. He finished the work of Wooster Academy in 1910, and followed that with four years in the regular collegiate department of Wooster University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with the class of 1916. Mr. Benedict was very prominent in athletics and students' activities at Wooster, being one of the Wooster letter men. He was on the staff of the literary Messenger, the college publication, also the Irving Literary Society, and was president of the Young Men's Christian Association in 1914. Mr. Benedict, beginning in 1916, served one year as superintendent of schools at Bristolville, Ohio, for two years was superintendent at Hubbard, and on May 25, 1918, was inducted into the United States service. He was sent to Camp Gordon, and was sergeant in the personnel division until August 14, 1918. Having specialized in chemistry, he was transferred to the chemical warfare division and was made a corporal in the Edgewood Arsenal at Edgewood, Maryland, the plant where a large part of the toxic gasses was manufactured. He was employed in testing these gasses. Mr. Benedict received his honorable discharge December 6, 1918. For several months following he was employed by the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron, and on April 15, 1919, became a director of the Greenwich Rubber Company and was connected with that industry two years. During 192021 he taught in the Savannah Academy in Ohio, and taught athletics there. Following that he was superintendent of schools at Gustavus, and since 1922 has been city superintendent of schools at Newton Falls. He has under his supervision six schools, a total of twenty-nine teachers, and a scholarship enrollment of 863. Mr. Benedict is a member of the Ohio State Teaeh- HISTORY OF OHIO - 201 ers Association and the National Educational Association. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is teacher of the Brotherhood Class, and is an independent in politics. While living at Greenwich he served as a member of the Town Council. He is affiliated with Newton Falls Lodge, Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Newton Falls Grange and the Kiwanis Club. Mr. Benedict owns a fine home at Riverside Park in Newton Falls. He married at Norwalk, Ohio, August 8, 1917, Ina Watts, who was born at Greenwich. She finished her education in Ohio State University and Wooster University, and for two years was a teacher in the schools at Fitchville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict have two children, Dean Gordon, born November 15, 1918, and Ella Jean, born April 2, 1921. WILLIAM H. ZELLER is secretary and treasurer of the Trumbull Banking Company at Girard. This institution is the outgrowth of the Girard Savings and Banking Company, organized in 1911. It was taken over by the Trumbull Savings and Loan Company in February, 1917, and in 1918 the Trumbull Banking Company was formed. Under the new management and with Mr. Zeller as the chief executive officer, the resources of the business have increased from about $75,000 to over one and a half millions. Mr. Zeller was born at Girard, May 2, 1892. His father, George H. Zeller, was born in Alsace, France, and was three years of age when his parents came to the United States and settled at Girard. His father is a painter and decorator, and one of the pioneer business men of Girard, where he owns and operates a wall paper and paint store. The mother of George H. Zeller was a native of Switzerland. George H. Zeller was reared and married in Girard, and has successfully followed the business of painting and decorating and is the leading contractor in that line in this community. He is a republican, is past chancellar of Friendship Lodge, No. 65, Knights of Pythias, and is one of this fraternity's most popular members. George H. Zeller married Elmyra Bennett, who was born at Wattsburg, Pennsylvania. Five children were born to their marriage, William H. being the oldest. Roy, who is now employed in the offices of the Carnegie Steel Company at McDonald, Ohio, is the mayor of the village. He was a soldier for eight months in the World war, being regimental sergeant major at Camp Jackson. The younger children are: Anna, at home ; Edwin Bennett, who is a graduate of Oberlin College and prominent in Young Men's Christian Association and church work at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is preparing to go to China in one or two years for the Young Men's Christian Association; and Vernon, a teller in the Trumbull Banking Company of Girard. William H. Zeller attended public school at Girard, and was one of the first employes of the old Girard Savings and Banking Company in 1911, starting as a messenger boy. He subsequently filled the positions of bookkeeper, teller and assistant secretary, and was elected secretary and treasurer upon the organization of the Trumbull Banking Company in 1918. He also holds the office of manager of the Trumbull Savings and Loan Company, the two institutions occupying the same banking building on Liberty Street. The offices of the banking company are: S. K. Hine, president;. Robert T. Izant and John W. Darr, vice presidents, and William H. Zeller, secretary and treasurer. The banking company has capital stock of $50,000, surplus and profits of $11,000, and deposits of $450,000. The bank building has every modern facility for efficient service. Mr. Zeller is a republican in politics. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and has served as assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. Like his father, he is prominent in the Knights of Pythias, being a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 65, and has served several years as master of finance. He is a charter member and former director of the Girard Kiwanis Club, and is affiliated with Girard Lodge, No. 432, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Zeller is owner of considerable real estate in Girard, including his bungalow home at the corner of Kline and St. Clair streets. During the World war he was especially active in the sale of Liberty Bonds, and supervised the activities as a result of which his bank had the highest average sales in the county for Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Mr. Zeller married at Girard, September 1, 1914, Miss Hilda Muthert, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth Muthert, residents of Fort Recovery, Ohio, where her father is a retired farmer. Mrs. Zeller finished her education in two of the best known of Ohio colleges, Oxford College for Women and Wooster University. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Zeller : Ruth, who died at the age of one year, and Jean, born February 23, 1918. JOSEPH FRANCIS NAGLE, M. D. One of the prominent younger men in medicine and surgery at Girard is Dr. Joseph Francis Nagle, who brought to his work long and thorough training in schools and hospitals, and has a fine endowment of personal qualities for work in his chosen profession. Doctor Nagle was born at Renova, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1894. His father, Thomas Nagle, was born in County Clare, Ireland, February 15, 1855, was reared there, and, coming to the United States, settled at Renova, Pennsylvania, where he married and where he followed the machinist's trade. He finally retired in 1920, moving to Girard in 1921, and died there December 9, 1922. He was a democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. Thomas Nagle married Ellen O'Connor, who was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1869, and died at Renova, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1897. They had two children, Joseph F. and Helen. The latter is a stenographer at Renova, Pennsylvania. Joseph Francis Nagle was educated in the parochial schools at Renova, graduating from the parochial high school in 1912. Following that he spent two years in Mount Saint Mary 's Classical School at Emmettsburg, Maryland, and then entered Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, where he spent one year in the pre-medical course and four years in the regular studies of the medical school. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1919. In the meantime, on January 8, 1917, he volunteered for service in the Medical Corps, and most of his duties were performed at the Children's Hospital at Washington, District of Columbia. He received an honorable discharge from the service in June, 1919, about the time he graduated from medical school. He is a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity. In addition to his work as an interne in the Children's Hospital at Washington, Doctor Nagle served as an interne in St. Elizabeth 's Hospital at Youngstown in 1920. In November of that year he located at Girard, and has since been busy with a general medical and surgical practice. His offices are at 11 North State Street. Doctor Nagle is a member of the Trumbull County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations. He is a democrat in polities, is a member of St. Rose Catholic Church at Girard, Hubbard Council, No. 1072, Knights of Columbus, at Hubbard, and the Girard Kiwanis Club. He owns a home at 221 Second Street. Doctor Nagle married at Youngstown, September 6, 1921, Miss Margaret McCloskey, daughter of Hugh and Beatrice McCloskey. Her father was a Pennsylvania farmer, and died in that state, and her 202 - HISTORY OF OHIO mother lives near Titusville. Doctor and Mrs. Nagle have one son, James, born July 12, 1922. THOMAS C. VAUGHN. While doing work at one of the skilled trades in the iron and steel industry, Thomas C. Vaughn took up insurance, and for thirty years has been following that line at Girard, and has built up the largest agency in that industrial city. He is also city treasurer of Girard. Mr. Vaughn was born at Harrisville, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1867, son of David and Sarah Ann (Howells) Vaughn. His father was born in England, in 1831, and his mother, in Wales, in 1836. The day after their marriage they set out for the new world, and their first location was at Weathersfield, Trumbull County, Ohio. David Vaughn for a number of years was in the teaming business as a contractor, and lived at a number of localities in Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. He died at Youngstown in November, 1872. He was a republican, and was a member of the Congregational Church. His widow survived him more than forty years, and passed away at Girard in December, 1915. They had a family of six children: Benjamin, who was a worker in the iron mills, later a merchant, and died at Youngstown in 1910; John A., a retired rolling mill employe at Youngstown ; David, who worked in the rolling mills and died at Girard in 1910; Thomas C.; Edward H., who began his career in the iron mills, subsequently for twenty years was a merchant at Girard and now manages a shoe store at Cleveland, with home at Girard ; and Isaac A., an employe of a rolling mill at Girard. Thomas C. Vaughn was only five years of age when his father died. He attended a few terms of school at Youngstown, and after 1878 continued his education at Girard. At the age of fourteen his education was acquired out of school and in the practical business of life. When he was fifteen he went to work in the plant of the Girard Rolling Mill, doing such work as was fitted to his strength and inexperience. For several years before he left that work he was employed as an assistant roller. He finally gave up his connection with the steel business in 1904. Following that for two years he was a hardware merchant at Girard. Mr. Vaughn began writing insurance in 1894, and since 1906 has given his full time to the insurance and real estate business. His offices are at 24 South State Street. Mr. Vaughn has a number of important connections with the business affairs of his locality, being a, director in the Warren Building and Investment Corporation at Warren, is president of the Girard Modern Homes Company, Incorporated, and a director in the Trumbull Banking Company at Girard. Individually he is owner of valuable real estate in Girard and Warren, including his office building and his modern home at 122 South State Street. Mr. Vaughn served as a member of the City Council of Girard during 1914-19, and has held the office of city treasurer since 1922. He is a republican, and a member of the Girard Methodist Episcopal Church. He married at Girard, June 5, 1891, Miss Alice Bebb, daughter of John and Jane (Richards) Bebb, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn have one daughter, Ethel C. HIRAM THOMAS HILDRETH. Since his university career Hiram Thomas Hildreth has steadily followed one line of work, the tanning and leather industry. He has filled executive positions in several of the large leather plants of this country, and is now general superintendent of the Ohio Leather Company at Girard, Ohio. This company was organized in 1901, and soon afterward erected a modern plant at Girard. The company manufactures chrome-tanned, calf and side, dress shoe leather and ships the product all over the United States and abroad to Sweden, Spain, Italy and other foreign countries. The company has offices at Boston, New York, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and foreign offices at Buenos Aires, Genoa and Lyons. It is an industry employing about 800 hands, and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the Middle West. Mr. Hildreth, the general superintendent, was born at Middleville, Herkimer County, New York, June 19, 1885. The Hildreth family came from England to Massachusetts in Colonial times. His grandfather, Hiram Hildreth, was a lifelong resident of Herkimer County, New York, where he was engaged in farming. He was a Union soldier in the Civil war. His wife, Cynthia Myers, was born at Utica, New York. Howard Myers Hildreth, father of the Girard business man, was also a lifelong resident of Herkimer County, New York, where he was born in 1854 and died in 1906. He owned and operated one of the fine farms in that section of the Empire State. He was a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. His wife was Mary Anne Thomas, who was born at Middleville, New York, in 1853, and now lives at Memphis, Tennessee. Her oldest child, Margaret C., of Cincinnati, Ohio, is the widow of J. Bradford Laws, who was a sugar broker. The second daughter, Madeline Myers, first married Donald Mann, a box manufacturer at Memphis, Tennessee, and she is now the wife of Peter G. Grant, a banker, insurance and real estate broker, and one of the leaders in the commercial life of Memphis. Hiram Thomas Hildeth is the third child. John C. is maintenance man for the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. Hiram T. Hildreth attended the public schools at Herkimer, New York, prepared for college at the Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1904, and then entered Union University at Schenectady, New York, taking the classical course and graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908. He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Soon after leaving college Mr. Hildreth went to work for the Barnet Leather Company at Little Falls, New York. He regarded this employment as an opportunity to learn a great and vital industry, and on the merit of his performance worked from the ranks to assistant superintendent of the plant. He was with that company eight years, and in 1916 went with C. Galibert & Company, leather manufacturers at Montreal, Canada. He was superintendent for this company eighteen months and then became superintendent of the leather plant of the C. D. Brown Company at Rochester, New York. Mr. Hildreth came to Girard, Ohio, March 1, 1921, as assistant superintendent of the Ohio Leather Company. He was promoted to his present duties as general superintendent in March, 1923. He is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church and is affiliated with William Farr Lodge of Masons at Girard. Mr. Hildreth married at Albany, New York, August 27, 1912, Miss Catherine Jordan, daughter of Patrick and Mary Jordan, residents of Albany, where her father is a shoe manufacturer. BENJAMIN F. JENKINS, Girard attorney, is an ex-service man of the World war, and before taking up the law was a construction engineer doing work in some of the important industrial communities of the Mahoning Valley. Mr. Jenkins was born at Frostburg, Maryland, August 28, 1897. His grandfather, Benjamin Jenkins, was born in England, in 1847. He came to this country at the age of twenty, and has since lived at Frostburg. For several years he owned and operated an HISTORY OF OHIO - 203 iron ore bank, later became a coal miner, and for the past twenty-five years has been in business as a merchant at Frostburg. He married Miss Tuvey, who was born in England, in 1849, and died at Frostburg in 1913. Their son, Arthur W. Jenkins, also a resident of Girard, Ohio, was born at Frostburg in April, 1871. He was reared and married there, and took up the profession of mining engineer. For a number of years he operated Mine No. 1 for the Consolidated Coal Company of Frostburg. The Consolidated Coal Company owned and operated a number of mines, but this was the largest in output. In 1914 Arthur W. Jenkins came to Girard, Ohio, and has since practiced his profession as a mechanical engineer. In politics always an active republican, he was a candidate for Congress from his Maryland district in 1900, but withdrew in favor of another republican and instead took the position of superintendent of the Allegany County Home, an office he filled three terms, six years. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Girard, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Arthur W. Jenkins married Miss Jane D. Reese, who was born at Borden, Maryland, in 1875. They have three children: Olevia Jane, of Girard, wife of Theodore W. Nee, a civil engineer by profession, and at present district engineer for the New York Central Lines; Benjamin F., and William R., a structural engineer at Girard. Benjamin F. Jenkins attended public schools in his native town of Frostburg, and graduated from the Beall High School there in 1915. Beginning in the summer of 1914, he had assisted his father as a mining engineer for the Consolidated Coal. Company, continuing this work during his senior year in high school. Coming to Girard in 1916, Mr. Jenkins became field and construction engineer for the Carnegie Steel Company under his father, who was then superintendent of construction for this corporation, in charge of the new mill being erected at McDonald in Trumbull County. Benjamin F. Jenkins, with two other engineers, laid out the town of McDonald, an industrial community that now has a population of two thousand. In the spring of 1918 Mr. Jenkins resigned his engineering work to join the Tank Corps, and had two months of training with this organization at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after which he was transferred to the Heavy Artillery at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of the Heavy Artillery, and in February, 1919, was released from active duty and has since held a reserve commission as second lieutenant. Soon after his return to Girard Mi. Jenkins entered the law school of Ohio Northern University at Ada, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1921. He is a member of the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity and the Beta Chi honorary fraternity. Admitted to the bar in June, 1921, Mr. Jenkins has since engaged in the general civil and criminal practice at Girard. His offices are in the Pugh Building on North State Street. He is the present city solicitor at Girard, is attorney for and assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the Persing Milk Products Company of Girard, and a director in the Girard Company. Mr. Jenkins married, on June 7, 1924, Miss Len N. Scattergood, of Leetonia, Ohio. He is a republican in polities and an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, being assistant superintendent of its Sunday School in 1922. He is a member of Ada Lodge, No. 344, of the Masonic Order at Ada, All Baba Grotto of Masons at Warren, and Friendship Lodge, No. 65, Knights of Pythias, at Girard. He served as secretary of the Kiwanis Club at Girard in 1922-23-24, and is a member of the Trumbull County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. JULIUS MILLER RICHARDSON for the past seventeen years has practiced law in New Philadelphia, and is a native of Tuscarawas County, where his character and ability have made him prominent not only in his present profession but also as an educator, public speaker and citizen. Mr. Richardson was born on a farm three miles northeast of Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, November 4, 1862, son of Ambrose George and Catherine (Correll) Richardson. The Corrells came from Pennsylvania Dutch stock. His paternal grandparents, George and Barbara (Walter) Richardson, came to Tuscarawas County in 1812. The great-grandparents, George and Mary (Morehead) Richardson also came to Ohio about the same time. George Richardson was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and his wife in Ireland. There is .a well authenticated tradition that he was a soldier in the American Revolution, one proof of which is that he was given a land grant in Ohio, his patent being signed by President Madison. An acquaintance told members of the family after his death that he had frequently heard him say that he was a Colonial soldier in the struggle for American Independence. The Richardsons are of English origin, their first place of settlement in Colonial times being in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, and from there they moved in Loudoun County, Virginia, and then to Ohio. Ambrose George Richardson was a farmer and subsequently a weaver, was a democrat, and he and his wife were Presbyterians. His father, George Richardson, had been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and many of his descendants have held to the same faith. Julius Miller Richardson was the second in a family of seven children. He grew up on a farm under the unfavorable conditions that followed the Civil war, and had to become self reliant and begin earning his own living at an early age. He attended the public schools in the country until he was sixteen, later the village schools at Shanesville, Ohio, and when he was sixteen was given his teacher 's license. He began teaching at the age of eighteen, and for nine consecutive years spent the winter seasons teaching and the summer seasons farming. In 1894, upon examination, he was granted a high school life certificate to teach in Ohio. Mr. Richardson for ten years had charge of the Mineral City schools, for one year was principal of a school in Canton, resigning and for seven years serving as superintendent of the McConnellsville schools. While teaching he studied law and his preceptor for several years was Charles H. Fouts of McConnellsville. Upon examination before the state board he was licensed to practice law June 18, 1907. Mr. Richardson for many years was an instructor in county teachers' institutes, and did a great deal of work as a lecturer during that period of his life. For some time he was listed as a lecturer by the Grant Lyceum Bureau, and appeared before Chautauqua and other audiences, his best known subjects being Shakespeare and Robert Burns. Since 1907 Mr. Richardson has applied his time and energies to the practice of law at New Philadelphia, and has attained success in this profession, as in teaching, through reliance upon his individual talent and great industry. He is a staunch republican, but has never used politics as an aid to success. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Richardson married, June 8, 1884, Miss Lena Brick, a native of Tuscarawas County. Their four 204 - HISTORY OF OHIO children, are : Elizabeth, now Mrs. F. O. Deibel ; Milton Clarence, who married Sarah Thompson; Gertrude, now Mrs. Dewey Beaty; and Katherine, wife of Howe Tebeau. EARLE P. LEIGHTON, chief clerk at the Niles Works of the Republic Iron & Steel Company in the City of Niles, Trumbull County, is a scion of a representative family, of Scotch-Irish stock, that was founded in Virginia in the Colonial era of American history. William M. Leighton, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was reared and educated in that state, where he became a skilled maker of chairs in his native county. His wife, whose maiden name was Loretta Peters, likewise was a native of the Old Dominion State, and there their marriage was solemnized. William Leighton was thirty-five years of age when he came with his young wife to Ohio and established his home at Steubenville, his wife having there died when she was but twenty-eight years of age, and lie having there continued to reside until his death, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a manufacturer of chairs after he came to Ohio, and turned out fine cabinetwork when the same was made entirely by hand. His son, Paschal Early Leighton, was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, January 22, 1860, and there he passed his entire life. Paschal Early Leighton became one of the leading painting contractors in the City of Steubenville, and was fifty-two years of age at the time of his death, April 25, 1912. In his native city and county he long controlled a large business. He was a staunch republican, but never a seeker of public office, was affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and was a consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who now resides at !oungstown. Mrs. Leighton, whose maiden name was Jennie A. Allison, was born at Alliance, Stark County, Ohio, January 13, 1855. Of the two children, Earle P., of this sketch, is the elder, and the younger, Lulu E., is the wife of Charles Nickman. Earle P. Leighton was born at Steubenville, Ohio, on the 11th of February, 1879, and there he continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1897, he having been the first boy student to win scholarship honors in the Steubenville High School, and this scholarship having enabled him to attend a three years' classical course in Adrian College, at Adrian, Michigan, but did not participate in this privilege. Thereafter he completed a two-year classical course in Muskingum College, at New Concord, Ohio, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905. He is affiliated with the Alpha Beta Gamma College fraternity. In 1904 Mr. Leighton returned to his native city, and after two years of service as accountant for the Steubenville Ice & Storage Company he took a position in the stationery and book department of a leading mercantile establishment in that city, his service there being in the capacity of accountant. One year later he became weigh-master at the Youngstown plant of the Republic Iron & Steel Company, and he won advancement through various departments until he was made chief clerk. He has been employed at the company's plants at Youngstown and Niles, Ohio; East Chicago, Indiana, and New Castle and Sharon, Pennsylvania. He came to the Niles Works of this great industrial corporation in 1919, and here he holds the responsible position of chief clerk. At this industrial plant employment is given to 1,250 hands. Mr. Leighton is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife still reside at Youngstown, where they own a beautiful modern home, at 41 East Glenaven Avenue, both being active members of the German Reformed Church in that city, and Mr. Leighton there being a trustee of the Metropolitan Savings & .Loan Company. November 15, 1912, recorded the marriage of Mr. Leighton and Miss Elizabeth Afra Pfund, who was born and reared at Youngstown and who was there graduated from the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Leighton have no children. HENRY V. ORMEROID, M. D. has been established in the general practice of his profession in the City of Niles for virtually a quarter of a century, and his is secure vantage-place as one of the successful and distinctly representative physicians and surgeons of Trumbull County. Doctor Ormeroid is a scion of sterling English stock, and his paternal grandfather, William Ormeroid, a blacksmith by vocation, passed his entire life in Manchester, England. Doctor Ormeroid was born at Rochester, Lorain County, Ohio, December 20, 1865 and is a son of Henry and Martha (Critehley) Ormeroid, both natives of Manchester, England, where the latter was born at Hulme. Henry Ormeroid was born in the year 1825, and his death occurred in 1890 at Spencer, Medina County, Ohio, his widow having survived him a number of years and having there continued to maintain her home until she, too, passed to the life eternal. Henry Ormeroid was reared and educated at Manchester, England, and there learned the trade of blacksmith, largely under the direction of his father. He became a skilled artisan at his trade, and was a man of exceptional mechanical ability. Mr. Ormeroid was an ambitious youth of nineteen years when he came to the United States. He passed one year at Sing Sing, New York, working at his trade, and then came to Ohio and established his residence at Rochester, where he successfully followed his trade until he gave splendid evidence of his loyalty to his adopted land by tendering his service in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. He volunteered early in 1861, and became a member of Company H, Second Ohio Cavalry, with which gallant command he served during virtually the entire period of conflict, his skill at his trade having led to his assignment to the position of farrier of his regiment. He took part in the various engagements in which his command was involved, and at the close of the war lie received his honorable discharge. He soon afterward, in 1865, removed from Rochester, Lorain County, to spencer, Medina County, where he continued in the active work of his trade for many years and where he remained until his death, secure in the confidence and high esteem of all who knew him. He was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ormeroid was possessed of a remarkably fine robusto-tenor voice, and gave many years of service as leader of the choir of his church. He vitalized his association with his old comrades of the Civil war by his appreciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the children the firstborn, Sarah, died at the age of sixteen years, and the second, Mary Ann, at the age of fifteen years; Thomas, who became a prosperous farmer near Spencer, died at the age of forty-five years, and his twin brother, who likewise became one of the substantial farmers of Medina County, died in 1915; Robert died at the age of four years and Edward, at the age of two years; Dr. Henry V., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Elizabeth is the wife of William Owens, a prosperous farmer near Holmesville, Holmes County ; Frederick, a sales agent by occupation, resides at Marysville, Union County ; and Dr. George H., a dentist by profession, is engaged in successful practice at Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County. HISTORY OF OHIO - 205 Dr. Henry V. Ormeroid, after profiting by the advantages of the public schools of Spencer, took a three years' literary or academic course in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and in the medical department of this university he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898, he having been a member of the Eustian Society at the university. In 1899, shortly after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, he opened an office in the city of Niles, and here he has since continued in the successful general practice of his profession, with a clientage of representative order, and with offices at 123 West Park Avenue, which is the location of the attractive residence property which he here owns and occupies. The doctor is an active member of the Trumbull County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, besides being a member of the American Medical Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Christian Church in their home city. The Masonic affiliations of Doctor Ormeroid are as here designated : Sullivan Lodge No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons, at Sullivan, Ashland County; Warren Chapter No. 66, at Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County ; Warren Commandery No, 39, Knights Templars, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He is a member also of Niles Lodge No. 1411, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. October 3, 1900, marked the marriage of Doctor Ormeroid and Miss Sarah R. Robinson, daughter of the late James and Elizabeth Robinson, of Niles, the father having long been a skilled artisan in tlite steel mills of this section of Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Ormeroid have two children : Henry R., who was born January 1, 1902, and who remains at the parental home, is a graduate of the Niles High School, and in 1923 he was graduated from Western Reserve University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, he being now in the employ of the Ohio Galvanizing Company at Niles ; Martha Elizabeth, who likewise remains a member of the parental home circle and who is engaged in private secretarial work, is a graduate of the Niles High School and also of Mount Vernon Seminary at Washington, D. C. EDWARD M. MILLIGAN, the city engineer of Niles, Trumbull County, has had varied and important experience in the work of his profession as a civil engineer, and has held in this connection many positions of exceptional trust and responsibility. Edward Marshall Milligan was born at Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, December 6, 1866, and is a son of Levi and Sarah (Busier) Milligan, the former of who was born at Rutland, Vermont, in 1846, and the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, their marriage having been solemnized at Bedford, Ohio. The death of the father occurred in 1913, in the City of Cleveland, where the widowed mother still maintains her home. Levi Milligan passed the period of his boyhood and youth in the State of New York and in Canada, and he early learned the trade of tanner. After his marriage he continued his residence for a time at Bedford, Ohio, and he finally removed with his family to Kirksville, Missouri, in 1870. There he owned and operated a tannery, and within a comparatively short time he sold the plant and business and removed to the City of Chicago, where he erected and equipped a tannery. This establishment was destroyed in the historic Chicago fire of 1871, before it had been placed in operation, and as Mr. Milligan had no insurance on the plant he was financially ruined. He returned to Ohio and here reengaged in the work of his trade. In 1876 he established his permanent residence in Cleveland, and there he passed the remainder of his life. His sterling integrity in all of the relations of life commended him to the confidence and esteem of his fellow men. Of the children Edward M., of this sketch, is the eldest; Bertha A. is the wife of Warren Brainard, of Cleveland ; Alice L. is the wife of George Nuss, and they likewise reside in Cleveland ; Harry W. served in the United States Army in the World war period and was still in the service at the time of his death, in 1919; Mae died in childhood, and Warren is employed in the City of Cleveland. The public schools of Cleveland afforded Edward M. Milligan his early education, but at the age of fourteen years he left school and found employment in a printing establishment. He was thus engaged about one year, and then entered upon an apprenticeship in an electrotype and stereotype foundry in Cleveland. He became a skilled workman and gained the grade of journeyman electrotyper and stereotyper when he was eighteen years of age. He did not follow his trade long thereafter, but became associated with civil-engineering work, in the capacity of rodman and general helper. While thus gaining practical experience he fortified himself technically by careful study of civil engineering, and in due course he became a competent surveyor and engineer. In 1890 he was assigned charge of wharf and dry-dock construction work in Cleveland, and after having been thus engaged two years he was associated with engineering service in connection with railroad work and city improvements in Cleveland until 1919. He then became assistant division engineer of the Erie Railroad, with headquarters at Youngstown, Ohio. In 1902 he became city engineer of Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County, where he thus continued his service until 1909, returning then to Youngstown and assuming charge of the good-roads district of Mahoning County. In 1910 he had supervision of both survey and construction work in the building of the Milton reservoir to supply water to the City of Youngstown, and with this important branch of municipal service he there continued his association until 1918. During that year he was in charge of grade-crossing construction in Youngstown, and in 1919 he was chosen principal assistant engineer of that important industrial city. He retained this position until 1921, since which year he has continued his efficient service as city engineer of Niles, where he has had charge of much important improvement work in the intervening period. Mr. Milligan is a loyal advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, and at Youngstown he still retains his affiliation with Robert E. Johnson Lodge No. 614, Knights of Pythias. He owns his home property at Niles, on Russell Avenue. In the City of Cleveland, in November, 1891, Mr. Milligan wedded Miss Alice M. Krause, daughter of the late Frank L. and Alice V. (Burlingame) Krause, both of whom died in that city, Mr. Krause having been a civil engineer by vocation. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan have no children. PERRY H. STEVENS a few months after his admission to the Ohio bar joined the colors for service in the World war, was with a machine gun battalion overseas, and since the war has earned a successful place at the Akron bar. He was born at Ravenna, in Portage County, Ohio, October 7, 1892, son of Dr. Thomas Howard and Perla Ann (Evans) Stevens. He was reared and educated in Portage County, attending public schools there, and during 1911-13 was a student in Dartmouth College. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1916. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1917, and from 1916 to 1919 was associated with the Cleveland law firm of Crampton & House. On November 3, 1917, he enlisted in the Three Hundred Twenty-second Machine Gun Battalion, was assigned to the Eighty-third Division, and after going 206 - HISTORY OF OHIO overseas was commissioned second lieutenant at Langres, France, in October, 1918. He was assigned to duty with Company B of the Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion in the Fourth Division. After the war he returned, and was discharged from Company C. of the Three Hundred Forty-seventh Machine Gun Battalion. He spent thirteen months overseas. On his return he located at Akron, and is a member of the law firm of Sheck & Stevens, with offices at 430-433 Second National Bank Building. He is a member of the American Legion Post, University Club, the Cleveland City Club, Fairlawn Country Club, and the college fraternities Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. He is also a Mason and Elk. Mr. Stevens was married October 25, 1921, to Miss Lucy Sawyer of Akron, a daughter of W. T. and Bessie (Voris) Sawyer. They are the parents of a daughter, Bessie Voris Stevens. WALTER F. MACQUEEN is a representative member of the bar of Trumbull County, where he is engaged in the practice of law in the City of Niles. He is a scion of the fourth generation of the MacQueen family in Ohio, his great-grandfather, Daniel MacQueen, having been born and reared in Scotland, where his marriage was solemnized, and whence with his wife and their young children he came to the United States in the early '20s. He became one of the pioneer exponents of farm industry in the fine Scotch settledient near the village of Highlandtown, Columbiana County, Ohio, where he became influential in community affairs, a leader in the local Presbyterian Church, and a citizen of utmost loyalty and of fine personal stewardship. There this worthy pioneer and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Walter Fulton MacQueen was born on the parental homestead farm near Highlandtown, Columbiana County, January 6, 1887, and in that same district of early Scottish colonization his father, John Falconer MacQueen was born in the year 1856. John F. MacQueen attended Mount Union College in Stark County, and as a young man he was a successful teacher in the schools of his native county. In the old home district he thereafter continued his productive activities in connection with farm industry until 1896, when he removed to the City of Wellsville, Columbiana County. There he was for ten years editor of the Daily Union, and he was then elected city auditor, an office of which he continued the incumbent until 1922, since which year he has there served as postmaster. He was a member of the Wellsville Board of Education several years, his political allegiance being given to the republican party. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are zealous member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has held the position of elder for more than thirty years. Mrs. MaeQueen, whose maiden name was Anna Patterson, is likewise Of staunch Scotch ancestry, and her birth occurred in the immediate vicinity of the old Scotch settlement in Columbiana County in the year 1866. Of the two children Walter F., of this review, is the firstborn, and the daughter, Jennie, died at the age of twenty-two years. In the Wellsville High School Walter F. MaeQueen was graduated as a member of the class of 1905. After graduating from high school he was variously employed, having helped on the home farm and worked in the rolling mill at Wellsville, Ohio. In the fall of 1907 he entered the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1910, and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws he was admitted to the Ohio bar June 24, 1910, and to the Federal courts in 1920. In January, 1911, he opened his office in the City of Niles. Here he has gained a substantial and representative general law practice. He gives special attention to commercial and banking law, and is counsel for a number of important industrial and commercial corporations at Niles. On the 1st of September, 1922, he formed a law partnership with William W. Giffen, and the firm of Mae Queen & Giffen maintain well appointed offices in the McKinley Savings & Loan Building, 38 South Main Street. Mr. MaeQueen was city solicitor of Niles for seven and one-half years, and is solicitor also of the neighboring village of McDonald. Politically he favors the principles of the republican party, and he and his wife maintain active affiliation with the First Christian Church in their home city. He is a director of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Board of Education of the Niles City School District. He is a director of the McKinley Savings & Loan Company, and has made judicious investment in Niles real estate, including his home property at 44 Lincoln Avenue. He is a member of the Trumbull County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. In the Masonic fraternity the affiliations of Mr. MacQueen are with Mahoning Lodge No. 394, Free and Accepted Masons; Niles Chapter No. 223, Royal Arch Masons; Warren Council No. 58, Royal and Select Masters, at Warren, the county seat, and Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar. He is affiliated also with the Delta Theta Phi law college fraternity. In the World war period he was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of Niles, and was otherwise prominent in advancing local patriotic measures. June 18, 1914, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mac-Queen and Miss Martha Mae Stephenson, daughter of Roland and Emma (McCoy) Stephenson, the latter of whom is deceased, and the former of whom still resides at Niles. Mrs. MacQueen attended the Dana Musical Institute at Warren, and is a talented violinist. John Roland, first born of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. MacQueen, died in infancy, and the surviving son, James Robert, was born May 25, 1917. In a preceding paragraph reference has been made to the paternal great-grandfather of Mr. MacQueen. His grandfather, Hugh MacQueen, was born in Scotland, and was a child at the time when the family home was established in Columbiana County, Ohio, in the pioneer days. He there passed the remainder of his life, and there was one of the representative farmers in the fine old Scotch settlement near Highlandtown, where he remained until his death in 1888. During the year 1864 he served as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having been a member of an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Falconer, passed her entire life in Columbiana County, both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. JOHN DANIEL MCBRIDE assumed his official duties as mayor of the City of Warren at the opening of the year 1920, and by reelection continued as chief executive of the municipal government at the judicial center of Trumbull County up to January 1, 1924. This statement indicates the popular estimate placed upon his administration, but does not in any degree express the fine work he achieved in the making of needed improvements, the furthering of good government in the way of law and order, and the valiant carrying through of many progressive measures that marked him as mayor in constructive action as well as in name. On a farm near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, the former mayor of Warren was born January 4, 1873, and he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of that county, where his father, William H. McBride, was born in the year 1838. William H. McBride gained prestige as a teacher in the schools of his native county, taught during many winter terms in the rural schools, and became a man HISTORY OF OHIO - 207 of broad intellectual ken. His teaching was an avocation, as he devoted the major part of his active life to farm industry in the vicinity of St. Clairsville, where he continued to reside until his death in 1920. His political faith was that of the democratic party, he was long affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and gave many years of earnest and faithful service as an elder in the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted member. Mrs. McBride, whose maiden name was Martha Jane Kelley, passed her entire life in Belmont County, where she was born in 1845 and where her death occurred in 1921, she having survived her husband about one year. Of the children the first born, Albert Kelley McBride, was a farmer in Belmont County at the time of his death, at the age of twenty-seven years ; Mary is the wife of Marion Shepherd, a traveling salesman, and they maintain their residence at St. Clairsville ; William Robert Campbell McBride resides at St. Clairsville, where he is employed ; Isaac Jonathan Franklin McBride has for the past twenty-six years held a position in the postoffice at St. Clairsville ; Elizabeth is the widow of James Rinker and resides at St. Clairsville, where her husband died in 1919; James Chalmers McBride is engaged in farm enterprise near St. Clairsville ; John Daniel McBride, of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Eckert Alexander McBride, a commercial traveling salesman, resides in the City of Buffalo, New York ; and Annie Victoria is the wife of William Weems, secretary and general manager of grain transportation of the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with headquarters in the City of Philadelphia. After duly profiting by the advantages of the districts schools in his native county John D. McBride there attained the St. Clairsville High School until he had attained to the age of sixteen years. Thereafter he was employed by the month at farm work until he was twenty-twO years old. He then became associated with his uncle, Daniel H. McBride, in the hardware and farm implement business at St. Clairsville Two years later he became traveling salesman for the Deering Harvester Company, which he thus effectively represented in the Pittsburgh territory during a period of six years. From that time forward to 1916 he held a similar position with the International Harvester Company, which he represented through the territory tributary to Cleveland, Ohio. He resided one year at Minerva, Stark County, Ohio, and in 1906 he established his residence at Warren, where he continued in the service of the International Harvester Company until he assumed the office of sheriff of Trumbull County January 1, 1916, he having been elected to this position in the preceding November. He gave a characteristically careful and vigorous administration throughout his term of two years, and thereafter devoted one year to real estate business at Warren. In November, 1919, Mr. McBride was elected mayor of Warren, and in November, 1921, he was reelected for another term of two years. Certain salient points in the administration of Mayor McBride are properly mentioned here. Under his regime the city purchased the local waterworks plant and system, enlarged and improved the same and brought the service up to metropolitan standards, the plant now having a capacity of 8,000,000 gallons daily. The administration of Mayor McBride was marked also by the widening of various streets and by the effective zoning of the city. He was unremitting also in his efforts to effect strict observance of the national prohibition laws within his bailiwick, and "bootlegging" operations and operators found in him a formidable adversary. In 1920 the Mayor, as ex-officio police judge of Warren, collected more than $63,000, in fines, and the most of this amount was tribute thus involuntarily paid by those engaged in illegal handling of liquors, the amount of fines collected for that fiscal year having been greater than the total for the preceding ten years. Every measure and every enterprise that promise to advance the civic and material welfare of his home city received the loyal support of Warren's popular mayor, and few individually have been able to do more for the good of the city than he achieved. Mr. McBride has ever given unequivocal allegiance to the democratic party, and has been prominent and influential in its local councils and campaign activities. He and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church of Warren. He was made a Mason at the age of twenty-one years in Belmont Lodge No. 16, Free and Accepted Masons, in his native county. His ancient craft affiliation is now with Old Erie Lodge No. 3 at Warren ; he has served as senior councillor of Warren Council No. 222, United Commercial Travelers; and he is a member of Warren Lodge No. 295, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, besides being one of the active and valued members of the Warren Board of Trade. He has various real estate holdings at Warren, including his attractive home property at 921 East Market Street. Mr. McBride was sheriff of Trumbull County in the World war period, and not only his official position but also his patriotic impulses moved him to strenuous service in furthering the various patriotic movements in this county, he having aided in the drives in support of the government war loans, in Red Cross work, etc., and having made his individual subscriptions as liberal as his resources justified. May 15, 1895, at the home of the bride 's parents, the late William and Martha Jane (Kinney) Bentley, near Belmont, Ohio, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McBride and Miss Elma Sophronia Bentley, who was born and reared in Belmont County. The children of this union are two in number : Miss Mary Fay, now a popular teacher (1924) in the East Junior High School at Warren, was graduated from the college at Painesville, Ohio, and received therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Arts ; Lyle Bentley is at the time of this writing a student in Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. AMOS HARMON ENGLEBECK is a member of the prominent Akron law firm of Commins, Brouse, Engle-beck and McDowell. He is a comparatively young man in the profession, and has won distinction for his abilities as a trial lawyer. Mr. Englebeck was born on a farm near Port Clinton, in Ottawa County, Ohio, November 30, 1886, son of Charles G. and Jennie Fall Englebeck. His mother is now deceased. His father was an old time locomotive engineer of the New York Central Railway, and since retiring from the railroad has devoted himself to his farm interests near Port Clinton, being one of the peach growers in that fruit district. He has been active in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Amos Harmon Englebeck grew up in that portion of Northwest Ohio that fringes the waters of Lake Erie. Some of his relatives were seafaring people, and his early ambition was for the life of a sailor. In the meantime he attended country schools, the Port Clinton High School, and finally directed his attention to the law and graduated from the law department of Ohio State University in 1908. He was admitted to the bar and began his practice at Akron as an associate in the office of Frank B. Burch, and four years later was admitted to partnership in the firm of Cornmins, Brouse, Englebeck and McDowell. Mr. Englebeck is a thorough scholar of the law, has a great deal of resourcefulness in the trial of eases, and his influence as a trial attorney is reinforced by his commanding physical presence. At Ghent, Ohio, he has a small farms and work on the farm constitutes his chief recreation. He is active in republican politics, and in 1920 was president 208 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the Akron Kiwanis Club, and in 1924 was elected president of the Akron Bar Association. He is a member of the Ohio State and American Bar associations, the University Club, the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Knights Templar Commandery and the Scottish Rite Consistory of Masonry. He also belongs to Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41 of Akron. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Episcopal Church. Mr. Englebeck married, October 15, 1914, Miss Martha H. Ozburn. She was born in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, daughter of the late Walter Ozburn. They have one daughter, Alice Jane Englebeck. Their son, Amos Harmon Englebeek, Jr., was born in 1917 and died in 1923. Mrs. Englebeck is an active member of the Church of Our Savior, Episcopal, at Akron. Mr. Englebeck served as Government appeal agent during the World war. FRED P. MCBERTY, the resourceful and popular manager of the Federal Machine & Welder Company, one of the important industrial concerns in the City of Warren, Trumbull County, claims this city as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred September 25, 1869. He is a son of Robert and Harriet (Knowles) McBerty, the former of whom was born at Lockport, New York, in 1833, and the latter of whom was born in Canandaigua, that state, in 1837. Robert McBerty was reared and educated in the old Empire State, as was also his wife, their marriage having there been solemnized in the City of Lockport. Mr. McBerty was twenty-six years of age when he established his residence at Warren, Ohio, where he long owned and operated a planing mill, and was a successful business man and honored and influential citizen. He had the distinction of being a member of the City Council for three years, as representative of the Third Ward, and he was a leader in the local councils of the democratic party. The death of this sterling citizen of Warren occurred in the year, 1919, and here his widow still maintains her home. Of the children the eldest is Frank R., who is president of the North Electric Company, manufacturers of telephone apparatus, at Galion, Crawford County, Ohio ; Fred P., of this review, was the next in order of birth, and Carl E. resides in the City of Chicago, where he holds a position with the American Telegraph & Telephone Company. Fred P. McBerty continued to attend the Warren public schools until he was seventeen years of age, and thereafter he served an apprenticeship of three and one-half years in the establishment of the Warren Machine Works. As a skilled machinist he was next employed one year in the machine shops of William Tod & Company at Youngstown, and he then returned to Warren. Here he was employed two years by the Packard Electric Company, and the ensuing two years found him rendering effective service in the capacity of master mechanic for the Warren Electric & Specialty Company. The next year he passed as an electrician in the United States revenue service, with headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in 1898 he returned to his native city and became superintendent of the Warren Electric & Specialty Company. This position he retained until 1901, when he became superintendent of the Peerless Electric Company. With this Warren corporation he thus continued his connection until 1906, and he then organized the Peerless Transformer Company, of which he became the manager. In 1908 the concern was incorporated under the title of the Enterprise Electric Company, and Mr. McBerty became superintendent, a post which he retained until 1911, this company having been engaged in the manufacturing of electric transformers. The next progressive movement on the part of Mr. McBerty was in the organization of the National Electric Welder Company, which engaged in the manufacturing of electric welding machines. He served as secretary, treasurer and manager of this company until its plant and business were sold in 1917 to the Federal Machine & Welder Company, with which he has since continued as manager, the well equipped and thoroughly modern plant of this company at Warren being situated on Dana Avenue, and the concern being the largest of its kind in the world. At the factory employment is given to 150 operatives, and the products of the plant are shipped to all parts of the world. The foregoing brief record indicates that Mr. McBerty has been closely associated with the advancing of the industrial and commercial interests of his native city, his loyalty to and appreciation of which are of the most insistent order. He is independent in poli- tics is a director of the Warren Manufacturers Association, and is here affiliated with Old Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, and Mahoning Chapter No. 66, Royal Arch Masons. His somewhat extensive real-estate holdings in the City of Warren include his handsome and modern home property at 29 Washington Avenue. October 14, 1892, marked the marriage of Mr. McBerty and Miss Minnie Jones, daughter of Daniel Jones, who is a successful contractor and builder in Warren. Of the children of this first marriage of Mr. McBerty the following brief record is available : Donald R., born October 4, 1893, resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is engineer of the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel Works ; Paul A., born July 11, 1905, has a position with the Warren & Swasey Company, manufacturers of machine tools in the City of Cleveland. August 10, 1909, recorded the marriage of Fred P. McBerty and Mrs. Zella A. (Wilson) Helwick, whose parents are deceased, her father, William Wilson, having been a carpenter and contractor. Mrs. MeBerty is secretary and treasurer of the Federal Machine & Welder Company, of which her husband is the manager. HOWARD L. GRIFFITH conducts one of the leading general insurance agencies in the City of Warren, county seat of Trumbull County, and is known as one of the progressive business men and substantial citizens of this attractive Ohio city. Mr. Griffith was born at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. March 14, 1873, and is a scion of a family, of Welsh origin, that was founded in the old Keystone State about the time of the War of the Revolution. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Samuel and Elizabeth (Boone) Griffith, both of whom passed their entire lives in Pennsylvania. Samuel Griffith was born in Lancaster County, that state, in 1801, and he passed the greater part of his life at Canonsburg, where he was a successful contractor and builder and where his death occurred in the year 1861, his wife likewise having died in that city. Samuel Griffith, Jr., father of Howard L., of this sketch, was born at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1832, and there his death occurred June 7, 1908. He, like his father, long held place as a leading building contractor at Canonsburg, besides which he had large farm interests in that locality. He was influential in his community, was a republican in political adherence and served in various township offices, and he was a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who still maintains her home at Canonsburg. In the Civil war period he served as a member of the Home Guards. His widow, whose maiden name was Margaret Hamilton, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1843, and at Cinonsburg she has an attractive home at 131 West College Street, where she still de- HISTORY OF OHIO - 209 lights to extend welcome and entertainment to her wide circle of friends in that community. Elizabeth, the first born of the children, died at the age of eleven years, and Howard L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Roland H. is a successful farmer near Houston, Pennsylvania; Myrta is the wife of James M. White, a substantial farmer near Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio ; Margaret V. is the wife of William H. Niell, a civil engineer, and they reside with her widowed mother at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Ina T., youngest of the children, died at the age of twenty-one years. The public schools of Chartiers Township, in his native county, gave to Howard L. Griffith his preliminary education, much of his childhood and youth having there been passed on his father 's farm. In 1895 he was graduated from Canonsburg Academy, and his ambition for liberal education was further shown in his attending historic old Washington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pennsylvania, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he continued his active association with the work and management of the old home farm, a portion of which he inherited, but in 1912 he sold his portion of the estate and came to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he engaged in the raising of pure-bred Guernsey cattle, with a farm near Leavittsburg. There he continued his productive activities until the year 1920, when he removed with his family to Warren, where he has since been successfully engaged in the general insurance business as local representative of a number of leading insurance corporations. His office headquarters are maintained at 29 Stone Block, and he has gained a substantial and representative clientage in the various departments of his business. The political allegiance of Mr. Griffith is given to the republican party, and at Warren he and his wife are zealous members of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he gave five years of service in the office of elder. He is affiliated with Carl F. Clapp Lodge No. 655, Free and Accepted Masons, at Warren, where he is a member also of the Masonic Club, the Lions Club, and the Warren Automobile Club. In addition to his exceptionally fine home property at 24 Central Parkway, he owns also other valuable realty in Warren and its suburbs. On the 26th of August, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Griffith and Miss Marion MacVean daughter of James D. and Catherine (McColl; MacVean, who reside at LeRoy, New York, the father being a retired farmer and his ancestry tracing back to staunch Scotch origin, as does also that of his wife. Mrs. Griffith was graduated from Geneseo Normal College, at Geneseo, New York, is a woman of culture and gracious personality, and is a popular figure in the social activities of her home community. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have two children, Helen K., who was born December 4, 1911, and James MacVean, who was born on the 18th of May, 1913. The attractive Griffith home in Warren is known for its gracious hospitality, with Mrs. Griffith as its popular chatelaine. DALLAS KELLER is the leading representative of the automobile business in Salem, where he is owner of the Keller Automobile Company, dealers in and distributors of the Overland, Whip-Knight and Oakland cars and Reo Truck. Mr. Keller was born in Columbiana County, August 5, 1881. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools, and his working environment was in the country until December, 1916, when he moved to Salem and established his present business. For the first year he handled the Reo cars, and subsequently took the local agency for the Oakland and Willys-Knight cars. He is a member of the Automobile Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Keller married Miss Charity Hoke. They have two children, Donald and Richard. JOSHUA C. BOONE has been a practicing attorney in Columbiana County for forty-five years, is a former judge of the Probate Court, and has won high standing in the work of his profession and in the citizenship of his community. Judge Boone was born in Salem, Ohio, April 22, 1856, son of Joshua J. and Leah (Heaton) Boone. As a boy at Salem he attended the grammar and high schools, and studied law in the office of J. A. Ambler and Son of Salem. He finished his literary education in the Phillips Andover Academy of Massachusetts, and in 1878 was admitted to the Ohio bar. Subsequently he was admitted to practice in the District, Circuit and Appellate courts of the United States. He has handled with an eminent degree of success an extensive general practice, including many interests outside his home county. In 1897 he was elected judge of the Probate Court, holding that office until 1903. He then resumed an individual practice, but in 1909 became a member of the law firm of Boone & Campbell. Judge Boone is vice president and director of the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company of Salem, is president of the Salem City Hospital and vice president of the Carnegie Public Library. He is a member of the Columbiana County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married on June 28, 1881, Miss Kate Thomas, of Salem, who is now deceased. Of the three children born to their marriage, only one is now living, G. Thomas Boone. CHARLES FREDERICK SCHNEE is an Akron attorney specializing in corporation, income tax and other commercial branches of the law, eschewing altogether the criminal cases and jury trials of the general lawyer. His has been an altogether successful career in the law. His father and grandfather both lived in Summit County, Ohio, but Charles Frederick was born while his parents occupied a farm near Kalamazoo, Michigan, on June 18, 1887. His grandfather was a tanner in Pennsylvania, and, coming to Ohio in 1864, established a home at Millheim, near Akron, where he followed farming until his death in 1872. Charles M. Schnee was born in Pennsylvania, in 1856, and was about eight years old when his parents moved to Ohio. In 1882, however, he left a farm in Springfield Township of Summit County to move to Michigan. He farmed near Kalamazoo until 1900, since which year his home has been in Akron, where he is now employed in the shipping department of the Akron Baking Company. He is a democrat, and an active member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. His wife, Sylvia Long, was born in 1858, and died in 1918. Third in a family of four children, Charles F. Schnee was about thirteen when his parents established their home in Akron. His early schooling was acquired in Michigan, and was continued in the Akron High School and in Buchtel College, now Akron University, where he showed skill in baseball and was a member of the Delta Sigma Epsilon fraternity. Illness terminated his college course in 1907, and his law studies were pursued in the offices of Grant, Seiber and Mather. He was admitted to practice in the State of Ohio in December, 1910, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1916. In 1912 he became a paitner of Charles R. Grant in the firm of Grant & Schnee, dissolved when the senior member was elected judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth District on Febru- 210 - HISTORY OF OHIO ary 9, 1913. His associate for two years following was Ford L. Carpenter, and from 1915 to January 1. 1922, he was head of the firm of Schnee, Grimm and Thomas. For two years he has continued an individual practice. He is at this time (1924) president of the Akron Law Library Association. He has been entrusted with the legal details in the organization and administration of a number of corporations, including the Guaranty Mortgage Company, of which he is secretary and chairman of the executive committee; Federal Oil & Gas Company, of which he is secretary and general counsel; acting also in a similar capacity for the five subsidiaries of the Federal Oil; Long Lake Estates Improvement Company, president ; Akron Equipment Company, secretary; Dime Savings Bank, attorney and stockholder; Pennsylvania Crude Oil Company of Pittsburgh, general counsel; and is secretary of the Pine Ridge Oil Company, producers in the Kentucky field. Mr. Sehnee is a member of the bar organizations, and during the World war was Government appeal agent for Summit County and chairman of district No. 1 of the Akron Legal Advisory Board. He is a republican, member of the City Club, plays an enthusiastic game of golf at the Portage Country Club, and is also a member of Fairlawn Gun Club, being an expert shot. He belongs to the Masonic Club, being affiliated with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and has held chairs in various Masonic bodies. Mr. Schnee married, at Akron in November, 1911, Miss Ellen Mitchell, a native of Cincinnati, but reared in Akron, where her father, John J. Mitchell, was for many years a cafe proprietor. Mrs. Schnee is active in all the societies of St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Schnee were John Charles, who died at the age of six years, Frederick, William Joseph and Louise. DAVID R. ESTABROOK is one of the progressive and influential exponents of the real estate and insurance business in his native county, his offices being maintained at 504 Western Reserve Bank Building in the City of Warren. On a farm that is now within the city limits of Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County, David Reed Estabrook was born June 28, 1876. His father, James A. Estabrook, now a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, was born in Hartford, Trumbull County, September 18, 1837, and is a son of Simon Reed Estabrook and Mary (Bushnell) Estabrook. Simon Reed Estabrook was born at Holden, Massachusetts, December 31, 1805, and his death occurred at Warren, Ohio, July 7, 1871, as the result of injuries which he received by being struck by a railroad train, which cut off one of his legs. In 1828 he wedded Miss Frances D. Scarborough, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, and her death occurred in June, 1834. In March, 1836, he married Miss Mary Bushnell, a daughter of Gen. Andrew Bushnell, of Hartford, Ohio, who served as an officer in the war of the Revolution and whose mortal remains rest in the cemetery at Hartford, Trumbull County. In 1838 Simon Reed Estabrook established his residence on his old homestead farm that is now a part of the City of Warren, and here he passed the remainder of his life, as did also his second wife, who died October 20, 1879. This farm later passed into the possession of his son James A., and finally passed to the ownership of the latter's son David R. the subject of this review. It was on this farm that David R. Estabrook was born and reared, and it is specially consistent that to him has been due its exploitation as one of the most attractive allotments or subdivisions of the City of Warren, he having platted the tract of 108 acres into lots and having instituted its development and improvement under the new conditions. The handling of this valuable property constitutes one of his most important and successful real-estate developments in his native county. James A. Estabrook eventually became the owner of the old homestead farm mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, and to its cultivation and management he continued to give his attention many years. In 1909 he removed to Phoenix, Arizona, where he has since lived virtually retire& In an old-time log house that stood on the Parklan Road at Warren the marriage of James A. Estabrook and Martha Matilda Aldridge was solemnized June 26, 1867, and their devoted companionship, covering a period of more than half a century, was severed by the death of the loved wife and mother, who passed away at Phoenix, Arizona, December 3, 1921. Her birth occurred in Trumbull County, Ohio, in the year 1842. Mrs. Estabrook was a devout member of the Central Christian Church, while her husband gave many years of service as a deacon of the Presbyterian Church at Warren. His political allegiance was given to the republican party. Of the children the eldest is Edward Clayton, who was born June 13, 1868, and who now resides at San Jose, California, near which city he owns a fine fruit ranch ; Mary Frances, who was born June 14, 1869, is the wife of Harry A. Diehl, who has been a shoe merchant at Phoenix, Arizona, for approximately thirty years ; Simon Reed (II) was born September 26, 1872, and died May 5, 1874; John Bushnell, who was born May 11, 1874, is manager of the Sunlight Electric Manufacturing Company at Warren; David Reed, the immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; and Florence Mattie, who was born August 2, 1879, died December 27, 1881. David R. Estabrook was graduated from the Warren High School as a member of the class of '95, and thereafter he was for one year a student in the University of Ohio. He then entered the Bliss Electrical School in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, and in this institution he was graduated in 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Electricity. After his return home he held a position with the Warren Electric & Specialty Company, manufacturers of incandescent lamps, until the plant and business were sold to the General Electric Company in 1903. Mr. Estabrook then became associated with the organizing of the Peerless Electric Company, and assisted in the erection of its plant at Warren. With this concern he became electrical engineer, and superintendent of the shops, which dual office he continued to hold ten years, or until the spring of 1917, when he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, of which he has become one of the prominent and influential representatives in his native county. In the World war period Mr. Estabrook was instant in patriotic service of varied orders. He resigned his membership in the City Council of Warren to become director of safety at Warren, and of this office he continued the incumbent during the greater part of the year of 1919. He is at the present time (1924) again a member of the City Council, in which he is serving the second year of his elective term. He was actively identified with the various drives in connection with World war activities in Trumbull County, and was specially successful in the selling of the Government war bonds. He registered for military service September 12, 1918, but was not called into active service, as the armistice brought the war to a close in the following month. In politics Mr. Estabrook is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and though he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, he now affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of HISTORY OF OHIO - 211 which his wife is a member. He is an active member of the Trumbull Club, the oldest business men's club at Warren, and he is president of the Lions Club at Warren. Ile is a member and has served as president of the Warren Real Estate Board, of which he is now a director, and he is a director of the Sunlight Electric Manufacturing Company. His extensive real estate holdings in Warren and at other points in Trumbull County include his attractive home property in the new allotment on North Tod Avenue. June 28, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Estabrook and Miss Frances Cornelia Bailey, daughter of Nelson H. and Minnie (Roberts) Bailey, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom is a a loved member of the family circles of Mr. and Mrs. Estabrook. Mr. Bailey, who was a stone mason by trade, served several years as a member of the County Board of Commissioners of Trumbull County, and was a resident of Warren at the time of his death. Mrs. Estabrook received the advantages of the Warren public schools and is, like her husband, a graduate of the high school in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Estabrook have three children: Dorothy Ruth was born in August, 1904, and is now (1924) a student in the Margaret Morrison School in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this school being a part of the great Carnegie Institute ; James Bailey, the second child, was born April 7, 1909, and Virginia Mae was born in November, 1918. EARL G. KING, who is engaged in the practice of law in the City of Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County, has here gained place as one of the representative lawyers of the younger generation in his native county. Mr. King was born at Bristolville, Trumbull County, on the 26th of February, 1893, and is a son of John and Lucy Ann (Mullen) King, the former of whom was born in the Township of Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, February 12, 1851, and the latter of whom was born in Mecca Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, April 25, 1860, their home being still maintained at Bristolville. The subject of this review is their only surviving child, and the younger of the two children was John Burdette, who died in infancy. John King was reared and educated in his native land, and there learned the trade of stone mason. He was twenty-five years of age when he come to the United States and established his residence at Bristolville, Ohio. He was for many years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and since 1921 he has lived retired, one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of Bristolville. Earl G. King is indebted to the public schools of his native village for his earlier educational discipline, and in 1911 he was graduated from the high school at Warren. In the advancing of his studies along academic lines he thereafter entered the Ohio State University, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of '15, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the law department of the university he thereafter completed the prescribed curriculm, and in the same he was graduated in 1917, his admission to the bar having been virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. At the university he became affiliated with the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. Not long was it given the ambitious young attorney to follow the practice of his profession after his admission to the bar of his native state, in June, 1917, for in the meanwhile the nation had become involved in the World war, and with characteristic loyalty he soon tendered his services to his country. On the 27th of April, 1918, he was inducted in the United States Army, and at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, he was assigned to an infantry regiment. On the 8th of the following month, as a member of Company I, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Eighty-third Division, he sailed with his command from the port of New York City, and on the 17th of June the troops landed at La Havre, France. Mr. King was thereafter stationed at Donne Marie, France, one month, and he was then assigned to service in Italy, where he was stationed with his command along the Piave, between Treviso and Venice. He participated in the Battle of Vittorio,. Venetia, a major offensive, and was at the time serving as corporal of his original company and regiment. From December, 1918, until March, 1919, Mr. King was in service with the food commission at Trieste, France, and on the 29th of the latter month he embarked on the home voyage, he having landed in the port of the national metropolis on the 14th of April, and having thence returned to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he received his honorable discharge May 3, 1919. On the 16th of July, 1919, Mr. King established an office in the City of Warren, where he has since continued in the practice of his profession in connection with civil cases, his practice being of general order and showing a constantly cumulative tendency. His law offices are at 501-2 Western Reserve Bank Building. Mr. King is a popular member of the Trumbull County Bar Association, is a republican in political adherency, and he still holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in his native town of Bristolville. At West Farmingtoll he is affiliated with Western Reserve Lodge No. 507, Free and Accepted Masons ; at Warren he is a member of Mahoning Chapter No. 66, Royal Arch Masons, and Warren Council No. 58, Royal and Select Masters, besides which he is a member of Ali Baba Grotto of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, and is an active member of the Lions Club in his home city. October 23, 1919, marked the marriage of Mr. King and Miss Helen Brinkerhoff, daughter of Dr. Edward and Bertha (Phelps) Brinkerhoff, of Bristolville, where her father is a leading physician and surgeon. Mr. and Mrs. King have three children, Jean Elizabeth, born January 14, 1921; Patricia Ann, born December 13, 1922, and John Edward, born February 11, 1924. FREDERICK THOMAS CHILDS was for some years engaged in successful real estate operations at Akron before he took up the practice of law. His father before him had been a well known attorney, and the name is one of most favorable associations in Summit County and vicinity. Most of his life has been spent in Ohio, but he was born at Marion, Grant County, Indiana, May 13, 1884, youngest of the four children of Thomas L. and Malinda (McFarran) Childs. His father was born in England, came to America with his parents at the age of fifteen, and lived at Cuyahoga Falls, where he studied law. For a time he practiced at Marion, Indiana, but in 1891 returned to Cuyahoga Falls and subsequently had law offices at Barberton and Akron. In early manhood he had followed his trade as shoemaker while studying law. He became successful both in his profession and in business, was one of the promoters of the Akron-Canton electric interurban line, and laid out the first allotment at Lawndale, now a fine residence section of Akron. His death occurred December 15, 1921, at the age of seventy-one, while his wife passed away in 1891. Frederick Thomas Childs attended public schools in Akron, Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls, and graduated Bachelor of Laws from the Ohio Northern University in 1906, being a member of the Adelphion Society there. After a brief period of law practice at Fort Wayne, Indiana, he returned to Akron in 1908, 212 - HISTORY OF OHIO becoming an active member of the firm Kimball-Childs Realty Company, general real estate and brokerage. His operations in the real estate field also extended to Youngstown, but in 1922, having been admitted to the Ohio bar, he directed his energies to the building up of a general law practice, which has since absorbed his time. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a republican, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his two main hobbies are reading and horseshoe pitching. At Youngstown he married Miss Elsie L. Breetz, whose father, John Breetz, is a farmer and dairyman at Youngstown. They have three children, Thomas Frederick, Blanche M. and Clara M. LEWIS P. METZGER has been one of the prominent attorneys of Columbiana County for many years, having practiced at Salem since 1895. He is senior member of the law firm of Metzger and McCarthy. Mr. Metzger was born April 25, 1873, was educated in public schools and finished his literary training in Kenyon College at Gambier. He finished the law course in Valparaiso University in Indiana, was admitted to the bar in 1895, and at once located at Salem. He has had an extensive general practice as a lawyer since that time, and has also rendered public service, having been city solicitor of Salem from 1900 to 1906 and prosecuting attorney of Columbiana County from 1909 to 1913. Mr. Metzger is a member of the Columbiana County and Ohio State Bar associations. He is a Mason, Shriner and Elk, and a republican in politics. He and his family are members of the Christian Church. He married Miss Nettie Farr, and they have one son, South Metzger. WICK YOUNG, who is the efficient and popular superintendent of the Wiek Building, one of the most modern and important business and office buildings in the City of Youngstown, the vital industrial metropolis and judicial center of Mahoning County, was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1884, and is a son of Marcus C. and Euphemia (McDowell) Young, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State. Marcus C. Young was born and reared in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and there learned in his youth the trade of carpenter. In his independent career in his native state he became not only a contractor in the erection of buildings but also in building rigs for use in the oil fields. In 1891 he came with his family to Youngstown, Ohio, and here he built up a substantial and prosperous business as a contractor and builder, with which important line of enterprise he here continued his active alliance until his death in 1920, his wife having passed away in 1887, at the old home in Pennsylvania. Wick Young was a lad of seven years at the time when the family home was established at Youngs- town, and here he gained his early education by attending the public schools. At the age of fifteen years he began to assist in his father 's contracting. and building operations, and his association with that line of activity' continued the greater part of the time until 1910, since which year he has held the position of superintendent of the Wick Building. Mr. Young is a republican in national politics, but in local affairs gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment and without reference to partisan lines. He is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, has received in the time-honored Masonic fraternity the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides, which he is a Noble of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Cleveland, in which he served one year as captain of the degree team. He is a member of the Youngstown Shrine Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Baptist Church. The year 1906 recorded the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Rachel Reese, who was born at Sodom, Trumbull County, Ohio, and whose parents, John and Matilda (Lamb) Reese, likewise were reared in this state, the former at Hubbard, Trumbull County, and the latter at Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Young have no children. CHARLES WESTLAKE. Identified with some of the important movements in real estate and the coal industry, Charles Westlake is recognized as one of the forceful business men of Youngstown, and one whose good judgment and sound principles are of constructive value to his community. While he is progressive, he never allows himself to be carried away by undue enthusiasm, but only goes into an undertaking after he has considered the proposition on all sides and weighed its possibilities and probabilities. Charles Westlake was born at Youngstown, in 1854, a son of Covington and Laura J. (Dabney) Westlake. Covington Westlake was born in New Hamburg, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, a son of Josiah Westlake. Laura J. Dabney was born in Austintown, Ohio, a daughter of Gardner and Catherine (Van Wie) Dabney, also natives of Austintown, Ohio. After marriage Covington Westlake was made mine inspector of the old Crab Creek Mines, near Youngstown, but later went on a farm now known as Westlakes Crossing, and conducted a dairy farm from 1850 to 1868, when he went into a grocery business. Three years later he sold, and went on the road as a traveling salesman for the Youngstown Rolling Mill Company. He continued to represent this company on the road, and was one of the stockholders, until 1878, when he sold his stock and moved to Warren, Ohio, and there he died. December 10, 1883. Following his demise his widow moved back to Youngstown, where she died in February, 1913. Until he was eighteen years old Charles Westlake attended the common schools, and then became an assistant of Mr. E. C. Wells in the Youngstown Rolling Mill Company, and later, in 1878, had charge of the workings of the mill. For a year he was with his father in Warren. Returning to Youngstown, he became general manager of the Witchhazel Coal Company, whose mine worked out in 1887. For some years thereafter he was connected with the Youngstown Rolling Mills, but is now secretary and treasurer of the Witchhazel Coal Company 's new properties. He is also secretary of the Jefferson Mining Company, of the Northeastern Ohio Real Estate Company, and is secretary of the H. B. Wick Land Company, is treasurer of the Poland Avenue Land Company, and is otherwise interested in local enterprises. In 1878 Mr. Westlake married Edith M. Hughes, of Youngstown, a daughter of Capt. William and Abigail (Ruprecht) Hughes, Mrs. Westlake died in July, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Westlake have one son, Charles, who resides at Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Charles Westlake belongs to the First Christian Church of Youngstown. He is a republican, and originated the good roads movement in this region, and established District No. 1 of Mahoning County, Ohio. Fraternally he holds a life membership in Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. RALPH R. KLINGLER. The Youngstown representative of the Aetna Life and affiliated insurance companies, with offices in the Terminal Building, Ralph R. Klirtgler was one of the youngest officers supplied by Ohio to the American forces in the World war. HISTORY OF OHIO - 213 His record. of service and experience in military affairs is notable. He was born at Ada, Ohio, June 21, 1895, son Orion and Emma (Foucht) Klingler, his parents being natives of Ada. His grandparents were John and Mary (Cummins) Klingler, the former a native of Sommerset, Perry County, Ohio, and the latter of Hancock County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Foucht, was born at Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio. Orion Klingler is a farm owner, owning the farm which had once belonged to his father, and was in the grain elevator business, but is now retired from active business. Ralph R. Klingler grew up at Ada, where he attended high school and the Ohio Northern University. His connection with the Ohio National Guard began in 1911, when he was sixteen years of age. In 1916 he accompanied his command to the Mexican border, remaining on duty there ten months. Shortly after his return home he went to Fort Sheridan, Chicago, and was commissioned a captain in the United States Army, being at that time the youngest captain in the American forces. He was assigned duty with the Eighty-third Division, and in May, 1918, went overseas, spending a brief time in England, going then to La Havre, France, and on to Foulaine, near Chaumont, the general headquarters of the American Army. Six months later he was commanding a battalion, and was part of the small contingent of American troops sent to the Italian front. From Verona, Italy, he moved into the front lines on the Piave River, taking part in the grand offensive October and November, 1918. The accidental discharge of a gun on Friday the 13th of September killed seven of his fellow officers, and he was wounded, having three pieces of shrapnel in his left leg. However, he was in the hospital only one week. For two weeks he was adjutant of his regiment, and was then made personnel adjutant, in charge of all money, pay allowances. With one companion he made a trip to Brindisi, Italy, sailing on an Italian destroyer to Cattaro, Montenegro, carrying $100,000 in a suitcase. After paying off this money, accompanied by Schuyler Liggett, a Red Cross man from New York, and Sgt. Evan J. Rummell, a Youngstown attorney, he sailed for Venice, Italy, remaining there four days, and in January, 1919, went to Treviso, Italy, and again was commissioned to make a similar trip, this time with $50,000, to Fiume. After completing his commission he returned to Tureso and was then ordered to Genoa, Italy, to arrange transportation for his regiment back to United States. He secured four Italian liners to take the troops home. His regiment, consisting of 3,600 men, was stationed at Hotel Merimaree, the largest hotel in Europe. After the regiment sailed Captain Klingler remained behind and, going to Paris, was assigned to duty at Tours, France, having duties in connection with the return of troops home. After six weeks he was sent to Antwerp, Belgium, being made personnel adjutant of American troops in Holland. Then followed a special mission, connected with pay, to Coblenz and Cologne, after which he returned to Antwerp and on September 2, 1919, he himself sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, on the same boat with Ambassador Whitlock of Toledo, Jane Addams of Chicago and other celebrities. The ship landed at New York September 16, 1919, and shortly afterwards Captain Klingler resigned. On October 1, 1919, he was commissioned a major in the Officers' Reserve Corps. Following this military experience he was at Akron and entered the employ of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, becoming assistant service manager of the Cleveland branch, resigning in June, 1920. He was made district manager of the Aetna Life and affiliated companies at Youngstown, and in this capacity handled a prosperous volume of business, including all the branches of service of this old organization, both in service and bonding points. Captain Klingler is also a director in the Lincoln Savings & Loan Company. He married in June, 1923, Elizabeth Nowell, a native of Youngstown and daughter of Joe and Mary (Brown) Nowell. Mr. Klingler is a member of the Reformed Church, is a democrat, is affiliated with St. Albans Lodge No. 677 of the Masonic order, Lodge 493, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has served as adjutant and commander of the American Legion Post at Akron. He is president of the Thirty-second Infantry Association, composed of troops who served in Italy. He is a member of the Cleveland Grays. Captain Klingler belongs to the Akron Young Men's Christian Association, and is first vice president of the Optimist Club of Youngstown. HARRY PRESTON McCoy, a Youngstown attorney, has in the years of his experience been identified with educational work, with business and banking, and is also a veteran of the World war. He was born near Rarden, in Scioto County, Ohio, May 20, 1879, son of James N. and Ruth V. (Cartwright) McCoy, and a grandson of James McCoy, a native of West Virginia, and of Peter Cartwright. His parents were born in Pike County, Ohio, and after their marriage settled in Scioto County. During the latter part of his life James McCoy was a contractor. He died in 1908, and his widow now lives at Cynthiana in Pike County. Harry Preston McCoy attended public school at Cynthiana, Ohio, the University of Wooster, and in 1912 graduated from the Youngstown School of Law. In the meantime he had been engaged in teaching and school administration. From 1902 to 1908 he was superintendent of the East Youngstown and Coitsville schools, and in 1908 became school principal in the City of Youngstown. Mr. McCoy in 1917 attended the Officers' Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry. In the summer of 1918 he went overseas with the rank of first lieutenant, and participated in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. He returned to the United States in July, 1919, and immediately resumed his law practice. In November, 1919, he was elected to fill an unexpired term in the Ohio State Senate, and was elected for the regular term in 1920, and reelected in 1922, his present term expiring January 1, 1925. Mr. McCoy is a member of the Kiwanis Club, is a Quaker in religion, is a republican and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. JOSEPH BYRON SIEBER was born in Akron, had the cultural and professional opportunities of some of the best universities in the country, and since 1911 has been successfully engaged in law practice with his honored father, Hon. George W. Sieber, whose career as an Ohio attorney is sketched elsewhere in this publication. Joseph Byron Sieber was born at Akron December 26, 1886, son of George W. and Elsie C. (Metz) Sieber. He graduated from the Akron grammar schools in 1900, from high school in June, 1904, attended Adelbert College of Western Reserve University during 1904-05, and completed his classical education in Yale University, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1908. He took his law degree in Harvard Law School in 1911, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar August 25; 1911, to the Ohio bar on December 23, 1911, and in 1920 was admitted to practice in the United States District Court. From 1911 to 1917 Mr. Sieber was associated with his father in the firm of Sieber & Sieber, the firm was Sieber, Martineau, Snyder & Sieber during 1917- 214 - HISTORY OF OHIO 18 and Sieber, Snyder & Sieber during 1918-20. During 1920 it became Sieber, Snyder, Sieber & Amer, and is now Sieber, Sieber & Amer. The firm specialize and handle an extensive practice in corporation and trust law. In the republican primaries of 1924 Mr. Sieber was one of the eight candidates for the nomination for governor of Ohio. Polling over one hundred thousand votes, he had the distinction of running second to former Governor Harry L. Davis. Joseph B. Sieber has been one of the prominent younger men in Akron's social and civic affairs, for the past twelve years. During the World war he was vice-chairman of the Selective Draft Board of Division No. 4, a member of the Speakers Committee in all Liberty Loan drives. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, the City Club, the Portage Country Club, Fairlawn Heights Golf Club and University Club. His favorite recreations are golf and hunting big game in Maine. Mr. Sieber is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, and a charter member of Tadmor Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Akron. He is a past monarch of Yusef Khan Grotto of Akron, Ohio, and a grand officer of the Supreme Council of the Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. He organized and is a past president of the Akron Exchange Club, has served as national vice president, and is now a member of the national board of control of the National Exchange Clubs. For two years he was president of the Ohio Affiliated Exchange Clubs, he is a member of the National Geographic Society, a member of the Yale Alumnae Association of Cleveland and the Associated Western Yale Clubs, a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations was treasurer of the Akron City Republican Committee of 1915, and has long been a working member of the republican party in Akron, being a member of the central committee. He married at Easton, Maine, November 28, 1911, Miss Leila Marian Tuttle. JAMES A. MURRAY, who for many years has been well known in the steel industry of Youngstown, is a justice of the peace at East Youngstown. He was born in County Galway, Ireland, June 6, 1883, and a few weeks later his parents, Patrick and Bridget (Burk) Murray, came to America, locating at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James A. Murray was educated in public and parochial schools at Braddock, Pennsylvania, but at the age of thirteen went to work. His first duty was water carrier in steel mills. In 1900, at the age of seventeen, he came to Youngstown, and was a millwright in the steel mills. Mr. Murray in 1913 was made marshal of East Youngstown, and served in that capacity until 1923, when he was elected justice of the peace, with offices both in East Youngstown and Youngstown. In December, 1909, he married Miss Elizabeth Kelley, a native of Youngstown, and daughter of John and Emma Kelley. They have three children, Louise, James and Earl. Mr. Murray is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Lodge No. 79 of the Loyal Order of Moose. ANGELO HERBERT BENNELL took up the life insurance business after a long and successful experience as a salesman for one of the great industrial corporations at Youngstown. He was born in London, England, June 13, 1885, and came to the United States in 1889. His parents, Judge A. J. and Mary Langham Bennell, have since resided at Morristown, New Jersey, where his father is a judge of the Municipal Court. Angelo Herbert Bennell attended school at Morristown, and at the age of sixteen became an employe in the First National Bank of that city. He remained in the service of this bank until he was twenty-two, when he entered Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School with the class of '12. In university he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Immediately after the close of his university career Mr. Bennell came to Youngstown, and for ten years was in the sales department of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. On May 1, 1922, he took up the life insurance business as special agent at Youngstown for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. During the war, 1917-19, he was captain of Company B. of the Youngstown Volunteer Infantry. He was chairman of the Red Cross 1924 Roll Call in Youngstown. Mr. Bennell is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Youngstown Club, the Exchange Club, and is a member and deacon of the First Presbyterian Church. On February 3, 1916, he married Laura Belle Powers, a native of Youngstown, daughter of Frank W. and Lide (Ward) Powers. Mr. and Mrs. Bennell have two children: Charles Herbert, who was born at Youngstown, March 16, 1917, and David Lankham, born May 25, 1920. OSBORNE MITCHELL is a Youngstown attorney, and has been engaged as special counsel and in the general practice of corporation law there for ten years. He was born at Washington in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1886, son of James Kelly and Frances (Osborne) Mitchell, being Scotch-Irish on his father's side and English in the maternal line of ancestry. Mr. Mitchell's grandfather, Zachariah S. Mitchell, was a resident of Ohio County, West Virginia, being a son,of Alexander Mitchell and a grandson of Capt. John Mitchell. Capt. John Mitchell was a resident of Ohio County, Pennsylvania, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The wife of Zachariah S. Mitchell was Ann W. Baird, of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her great-grandfather, Lieut. John Baird, was an officer in the Braddock Expeditionary Forces at Fort Duquesne, and was subsequently killed at the Battle of Grant 's Hill under General Forbes. The son of John Baird was Absalom Baird, a surgeon and officer in the Revolutionary Army, and his son, George Baird, was a resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania. James Kelly Mitchell, father of the Youngstown attorney, is a banker and broker at Washington, Pennsylvania. His wife, Frances Jane Osborne, was the oldest daughter of Joseph Freeman Osborne, of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Osborne Mitchell is an alumnus of Washington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pennsylvania, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1907 and the Master of Arts degree in 1910. From 1905 to 1907 he was a staff reporter for the Washington Observer, and from 1907 to 1909 was secretary of the Washington Board of Trade. In 1909 he was admitted to the practice of law before all Pennsylvania courts and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1915. Mr. Mitchell moved to Youngstown in 1914 and engaged in the practice of corporation law. Since 1919 he has been interested in the success of several republican campaigns, as a member of state and county central committees, also acting as chairman and manager of the Warren G. Harding Campaign Committee for the Nineteenth Ohio Congressional District at the primaries of 1920 and as recording secretary and president of the Union League Club. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Union League Club of Mahoning County, in college was a Beta Theta Pi, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. On February 7, 1911, at Washington, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Nelle E. Foster, daughter of HISTORY OF OHIO - 215 Edward L. and Emma J. Foster, of Washington. Her father was secretary and treasurer of the Union Trust Company of Washington, Pennsylvania. The four children born to their marriage are : James Edward, Jane Frances, Helen Madeleine and Anthony Baird Mitchell. WARREN HENDERSON SMITH, who located at Youngstown after the war, has proved his capabilities in the sales and advertising fields, and is now district agent of Youngstown for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Smith was born at St. Louis, Missouri, July. 23, 1893, son of George Warren and May (Henderson) Smith. His father was a native of St. Louis and his mother was born at Norfolk, Virginia, where the parents were married. George W. Smith was a salesman for the Buxton & Skinner Company, printers and stationers of St. Louis. Warren Henderson Smith graduated from the Soldan High School in 1912, and was employed in St. Louis for several years. Just before the World war he became executive secretary for the Knot-Hole Gang in the service of the National League Baseball Club of St. Louis and the Young Men's Christian Association. Then, following a month of special training in the Young Men's Christian Association College (war work), at Chicago, he was assigned to duties at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, in charge of the " Y " work with the Second Regiment. In February, 1919, Mr. Smith came to Youngstown for the Young Men's Christian Association. When he left that institution he was in charge of advertising and sales for the "Y" schools. In May, 1922, he became manager of the business department of the Morris Plan Bank, and since May, 1923, has been district manager for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Smith married, August 4, 1920, Annelle Balson, a native of St. Louis, and daughter of William Scott and Daisy (Pipe) Balson, also natives of that Missouri city. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. In politics he holds himself independent. He is secretary of St. Albans Lodge of Masons, is a member of the Mystic Shrine, the Youngstown Exchange Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Youngstown Advertising Club. HARRY M. LOWELL, M. D. Few of the younger men in medicine and surgery bring to their profession a more exhaustive training and experience than Doctor Lowell, a prominent surgeon at Hamilton, Ohio: Doctor Lowell was born at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, May 18, 1890, son of Henry M. and Ellen Mary Lowell. His boyhood was spent at Stevens Point, where he attended the public schools. After that his education was continued in Chicago, where for one year he attended the Holy Angel School, and in 1908 graduated from the St. James High School. For two years he was a student in the University of Chicago, and did his regular medical course in Northwestern University, where he remained four years, graduating in 1914. After graduating Doctor Lowell was for eighteen months a special student and attendant at the Cook County Hospital at Chicago. For two years he attended the Mayo Brothers Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. He also has a record of military service in the late war. As captain of the army medical corps he was in Hospital Corps No. 49, attached to the Eighty-sixth Division with the American Expeditionary Forces. While in France he pursued a special course at the University of Beoune Cate D 'Or. Doctor Lowell received his honorable discharge in July, 1919, after a year of service. Following that he returned to the Cook County Hospital at Chicago, doing special work there for six months, and in December, 1919, located at Hamilton, where he has a busy practice as a physician and surgeon. Doctor Lowell is a member of the Association of Resident and Ex-resident Physicians of Mayo Clinic. He belongs to the Butler County, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. At Hamilton he is a member of the Lions Club, and the American Legion Post. In 1918, at Chicago, he married Miss Mary McDonough, daughter of Michael J. and Marion McDonough. She was educated in the St. James Normal Training School at Chicago. Doctor and Mrs. Lowell have two children: Marion M., born in 1919, and Lenore, born in 1921. JAMES BURTRAM HUBER has been in practice as an attorney in Akron for over twenty years, is a native of that city, and in 1913 was honored with election as president of the Akron Bar Association. He was born at Akron December 12, 1878, son of Henry and Rachel (James) Huber. His early education was acquired in the grammar and high schools of his native city, and he studied law in the office of Slabaugh & Seiberling. During 1901-02 he had a valuable experience as private secretary to United States Senator Theodore Burton of Cleveland. Mr. Huber was admitted to the bar in 1902, and engaged in individual practice until 1908. He then became associated with the law firm of Slabaugh & Seiberling, and is a member of one of the largest law firms in this section of the state, Slabaugh, Young, Seiberling, Huber & Guinther. Mr. Huber was elected president of the Akron Chamber of Commerce in 1921. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Masonic Club, the City Club, the Portage Country Club, the Fairlawn Heights Golf Club, and belongs to the County and State Bar associations. OTTO WILLIAM WENDELL, active vice president of the Zanesville. Bank and . Trust Company, has been identified in progressive importance of responsibilities with the commercial life of that city for a quarter of a century. Mr. Wendell was born in a log cabin located on Beaver Creek, near Batesville, in Beaver Township, Noble County, Ohio, June 13, 1878, son of William and Jennie (Wagoner) Wendell. His father owned and operated a Noble County farm, and in 1880 went West, making his home at Coffeyville, Kansas, and was in the Government service in matters involving his presence over the state line in old Indian Territory. He was one of the men who captured and broke up the famous Dalton gang of bank robbers near Coffeyville. He finally had to return to Noble County on account of illness, and died there when still a young man. His widow now lives at Zanesville. Otto William Wendell grew up in Noble County, had only the advantages of the common schools at Batesville, and as a small boy had to become a bread winner, working on farms and accepting employment whenever he could get it. When he was eighteen years old he came to Zanesville, a penniless youth, and went to work with the Bailey Drug Company at a small wage. He remained there until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in the spring of 1898, and then enlisted in Company L of the Tenth Ohio Volunteers. During his nine months in the army he • was stationed in Ohio, Pennsylvania and at . Augusta, Georgia. After his honorable discharge he resumed work with the Bailey Drug Company, but soon joined the 216 - HISTORY OF OHIO Wiles Grocery Company, and that company had the benefit of his capable service for over fifteen years. In 1913, with a cousin, Mr. Wendell established the Wendell Auto Tire Service, a business dealing in tire and automobile accessories. He operated this successfully until 1918, when he sold out and endeavored to get into the army for service in the World war. He applied for service in the Motor Transport Corps, but the signing of the armistice anticipated his commission and active duty. He had been identified with all the organizations and committees handling local war problems. At the close of 1918 Mr. Wendell engaged in the investment business, and in 1919 organized and became active vice president of the Zanesville Bank & Trust Company. The management of this successful institution devolves upon him personally. He has served as president of the Muskingum Motor Club, and took an active part in its organization. He has been identified with the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to help the town and to all such movements his influence and support are committed. He is a participant in the work though not a member of the Central Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters; Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite; the Masonic Club, and the Zanesville Golf Club. The chief object of his social interests, however, is boy welfare. Mr. Wendell married Miss Kate Matthew, of Zanesville, daughter of the late William H. Matthew. ELMER ELLSWORTH SCHLEY, secretary and general manager of the Youngstown Mantel & Tile Company, one of the substantial and important business concerns in the City of Youngstown, has a due satisfaction in claiming the old Keystone State of the Union as the place of his nativity, and is a scion of the fourth generation of the Schley family in the United States. His grandfather, Samuel Schley, was born at Frederickstown, Maryland, and was a son of John Thomas Schley, who with his brothers, came from his native Germany and early made settlement at Frederickstown, Maryland, where the family became one of prominence and influence and where, it is interesting to record, the first white child there born was a representative of the Schley family. Frederickstown is the birthplace of Rear Admiral Scott Schley, who became famous at the Battle of Santiago, is also a scion of the fourth generation of the Schley family. Samuel Schley eventually moved from Maryland to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and in the latter state he passed the remainder of his life. Elmer Ellsworth Schley, third in order of birth in a family of four children, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1865, and is a son of Thomas Jefferson and Caroline (Conn) Schley, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Thomas J. Schley established his residence in Beaver County in the year 1845, there continued for many years to be successfully engaged in the general contracting business, and there he and his wife maintained their home until their death. Of their other children it may be recorded that Mary is the widow of H. D. Reno, and resides at Rochester, Pennsylvania ; Isaac is deceased; Samuel P. resides at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and Anna is deceased. After having profited by the discipline of the public schools of Beaver and Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, Elmer E. Schley took a course in a business college at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that state, and at New Brighton he thereafter had for five years the management of a general merchandise store. He then became a salesman of tile used for interior decorating, and in this connection he devoted ten years to traveling as representative of a leading house of this order in the City of Pittsburgh. He then came to Youngstown, Ohio, and assumed the position of man- ager of the tile and marble department of the establishment of the Homer S. Williams Company. Four years later he retired from this position and became associated with Hayes Dalzell in the organization of the Youngstown Mantel & Tile Company, of which he has since continued the secretary and general management, Clyde W. Osborne being president of the company and H. N. Merriman its treasurer. This progressive corporation, with the best of facilities, has developed a large and prosperous business in the handling of tile for interior decoration and various architectural purposes of similar order. Mr. Schley is a director of the Youngstown Builders' Exchange. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, in their home city he and his wife are members of Brown Memorial Church, of which he is a trustee, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which his ancient craft alliance is with St. Albans Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. While a resident of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Mr. Schley served as a member of the city council, besides which he was for two terms a member of the local board of education. June 10, 1886, recorded the marriage of Mr. Schley and Miss Anne E. Willis, who was born and reared at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, in which state likewise were born her parents, John B. and Lydia (McDaniel) Willis. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Schley. Arthur A. resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is one of the principals in the Schley & Nash Company, engaged in the heating equipment business. He married Kate McCool Taggart, M. D., and their children are three in number, Margaret, Edith and Kate. Edith May Schley, elder daughter of Elmer E. Schley, is the wife of H. N. Merriman, of Beaver Falls, banker and grandson of John Reeves, Beaver County 's grand old man, and they have two children, Jean and James Frederick. Maude R. is the wife of Frank Knott, manager of the Richard C. May Tile Company of Youngstown, Ohio. PAUL L. MCCRACKEN, an attorney of fourteen years' experience, specializing in real estate lines, is recognized as one of the representative citizens of Youngstown. Paul L. McCracken was born at Youngstown, Ohio, December 14, 1886, son of M. L. and Rosilla Monroe McCracken, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and Portage County, Ohio, respectively. Received preliminary education at the West Side Grade School and Rayen High School; studied law under the preceptorship of Atty. Emory F. Lynn, of Youngstown. In June, 1910, was admitted to the bar and immediately thereafter entered upon the general practice of his profession. His office is now located at 339 West Federal Street, Youngstown, Ohio. In September, 1916, Mr. McCracken was married to Miss Ada Osborn, born in Mahoning County, Ohio, a daughter of Joshua and Kate Osborn, both born in Mahoning County. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken have three children, Jean, Leo and Neal, and reside on South Meridian Road, Youngstown. WILLIAM N. BURLEY. Crooksville in Perry County has been an important center for the Ohio pottery industry for a number of years. It is the home of the Burley and Winter Pottery Company, the output of whose plant is sold practically all over the United States. The president of the company is William N. Burley, who was born on the old farm where the potteries are now located. The vice president and HISTORY OF OHIO - 217 secretary is Wilson Winter, while the treasurer and general manager is John G. Burley, son of William N. The Burley family have had many important connections with Ohio since pioneer days. The grandfather of William N. Burley was John Burley, a Frenchman. On moving to Ohio he kept a hotel at Putnam, and also entered the land on Burley Run where the Burley and Winter Pottery is now located. He was quite old when he came to Ohio, and he reached the age of eighty years. The son, Larzalere Burley, father of William N., was born in Pennsylvania, in 1805, and became a pioneer in the production of clay products. At first he operated a hand pottery, but in later years his business grew until he shipped a large volume of pottery from Zanesville by water, and after 1855, when the railroad was built, he used that means of getting his product to market. He was a primitive Baptist in religious faith, his wife was a Methodist. Larzalere Burley married Rachel Iliff, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She lived to the age of seventy, and Larzalere passed away at the age of ninety-one. He died in the house where he moved when he married. Four sons of Larzalere Burley were soldiers in the Civil war, and they were referred to as "Twenty-four feet of Burleys," since each of them averaged six feet in height. These soldier sons were: John W., who served with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was a potter by trade and died at the age of seventy-eight; James, whose service was in the navy and who died at about the same age as his brother John ; Thomas, who was with the Sixty-second Volunteer Infantry, was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness, and died while in the Confederate prison. The youngest of the four soldier brothers is William N. Burley, who was born March 17, 1846. He grew up on the homestead farm, attended the local schools, and his soldier service was rendered in Company K of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infantry, but subsequently he was transferred to a company of heavy artillery. He was in battles in the Shenandoah Valley and around Cumberland Gap. Mr. Burley 's first introduction to the practical art of pottery making was shaping jugs in his father's hand pottery. After the war he worked as a potter in many clay fields in the West, in Missouri and Illinois, around St. Louis and Burlington, Iowa. Following that he returned to Ohio and became associated with his father 's industry. In 1873 Mr. Burley and Wilson Winter were in business as merchants at Reed Station, under the firm name of Burley and Winter. While the railroad was building through that section they bought the Jacob Reed farm of 126 acres, 60 acres of which was coal land. They had the remaining part of the tract surveyed and laid out into town lots, thus founding the present industrial City of Crooksville. Burley and Winter were exceptionally enterprising and public spirited in promoting the new town. They started several industries, chiefly pottery plants, selling them out as the opportunity occurred and starting others. It was in 1878 that they established the first steam pottery plant in that district. The Burley and Winter Pottery Company now operates plants Nos. 1 and 2 at Crooksville, and have another plant at Zanesville. Though he has lived more than three-quarters of a century, William N. Burley is still active in business, and presents a remarkable figure of manhood, still being as straight as a pine tree. He is alert, capable, and is broad shouldered and physically fit in every way. He has served as president of the Crooksville Bank Company since its organization. In politics he is a republican, and is a member of Thomas Burley Post No. 392 of the Grand Army of the Republic. This post was named in honor of his brother who lost his life during the Civil war. At one time its membership was 100, only 7 of whom are left. Mr. Burley 's wife is a member of the Methodist Church. He married Margaret McKeever, who was born in Perry County, a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Wilie) McKeever. They were born on adjoining farms and went to school together. They have five sons and one daughter. The sons are John G., general manager of the Pottery Plant at Crooksville; S. B., a physician practicing at Lorain, Ohio; Z. W., who has charge of the Burley Plant at Zanesville ; Wilson L., employed at the Burley and Winter Pottery at Crooksville ; Arthur, at home, and Ada C., also at home. HOMER P. DARBYSHIRE, of Poland, Mahoning County, represents families that have been identified with Ohio for at least three generations, and Mr. Darbyshire after a number of years of official service with the Bell Telephone Company has established a very successful automobile storage and service business. He was born in Putnam County, Ohio, September 9, 1884, son of Benjamin and Almira (Good) (Darby-shire, likewise natives of the same county, and a grandson of Jesse and Lydia (Pierce) Darbyshire, natives of Ohio and Ashford, and Catherine Good, native of Putnam County, Ohio. Lydia Pierce Darbyshire was a direct descendant of Anneke Jans Bogardus. The grandparents of Mr. Darbyshire were among the first pioneers of Putnam County. Benjamin Darbyshire and wife still own a large farm in Allen County, but are living retired in a surburban home. Their children are: Bertha, with her parents; Roscoe, of Dayton; Homer Parks; Jesse, at home; Brice, of Lima; and Catherine, at home. Homer Park Darbyshire while a boy on the farm attended the district school held in a red brick schoolhouse in District No. 4, Sugar Creek, Putnam County. At the age of eighteen he left the farm and began work for the Bell Telephone Company as a lineman, and his service brought him steady promotion until he became district superintendent. From these responsibilities he resigned June 1, 1923, to engage in business for himself in the general transfer and automobile storage service. He has developed a very popular service known as the "You Drive It Plan," employing fourteen trucks. Such heavy demands are made upon this service that constant additions and increases to the facilities are being made. He has a three-story and basement building, 50 by 150 feet, and has gasoline and oil stations. Mr. Darbyshire married, May 15, 1913, Miss Nellie Shyrigh, who was born at Urbana, Ohio, daughter of Bert and Anna (Cushbaum) Shyrigh, natives of the same Ohio town. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Darbyshire are Homer Park, born June 15, 1914, and Robert Milton, born December 15, 1920. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Darbyshire is a republican, is affiliated with Lodge No. 52 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Chillicothe, Ohio, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. ARTHUR, S. MOTTINGER has for over twenty years been one of the able attorneys comprising the Akron bar. His law firm has handled an important share of the litigation in local courts, and he has achieved his success in the strict limits of his profession rather than in politics. Mr. Mottinger was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, May 14, 1873, son of Daniel J. and Elizabeth J. (Schumacher) Mottinger, and grandson of John J. and Barbara (Long) Mottinger. His 218 - HISTORY OF OHIO grandfather, son of a soldier in the War of 1812, was born in 1799, and established his home in Summit County in 1830. Daniel J. Mottinger was born in 1841, served as a Union soldier in the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the latter part of the Civil war, and devoted the greater part of his active career to farming. He died at Akron in 1901. The mother was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. Arthur S. Mottinger grew up on his father 's farm, attending country schools, and in 1892 graduated from the Uniontown High School. He was a teacher for two years, then entered Hiram College, where he took his Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1899. He also had one year in law at Hiram, and for a time attended the Hamilton College of Law in Chicago, from which institution he later received the degree of Master of Laws. He was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court in January, 1901, and subsequently admitted to practice in the Federal Court. Mr. Mottinger has practiced individually and also with several of the prominent lawyers of Summit County. His longest association was with the late Judge J. A. Kohler. They were together until a short time before the death of Judge Kohler in 1916. Mr. Mottinger is now senior member of the law firm Mottinger & Evans, with offices in the Ohio Building. He is a member of the Summit County and Ohio State Bar associations. Mr. Mottinger was president of the Akron Young Men's Christian Association from 1909 to 1912. He became a trustee of Hiram College in 1914, and is on the official board of the High Street Church of Christ, and has been active in a number of civic and patriotic movements in his home city. On August 9, 1906, Mr. Mottinger married Miss Cassie M. Lawyer, of Burton, Ohio, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John J. Lawyer. They have two children, Claude W. and Marcia Elizabeth. REV. JOHN HENRY HULL, of Kent, has given over forty years to the ministry of the Congregational Church, most of his service in Ohio or Michigan, though for some years he was in the Northwest. He was born in Erie County, Ohio, in July, 1849, son of John Lynn and Eliza Wilson (Harsh) Hull, his father a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Warren, Ohio. John L. Hull was a farmer and stockdealer, and lived for more than sixty years at Sandusky, Ohio. Other children of John L. were Judge Lynn W. Hull, of Sandusky, and Mrs. Ida M. Barber, wife of Judge J. A. Barber, of Toledo. Rev. John Henry Hull attended high school at Sandusky, and after further study at Oberlin and some years of teaching he entered the Oberlin Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in June, 1882. He helped build the first church at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, and served as Congregational pastor there for over four years. His next work was in Cleveland, where for ten years he was pastor of Grace Congregational Church, and for eight years was pastor at Marble Head, Ohio, where he helped build the present fine stone church. Going to Michigan, he was jointly pastor at Frankfort, and secretary and manager of the Congregational Summer Assembly for six years. From Michigan he moved to South Dakota, and for a year and one-half was engaged in general state missionary work, and then became pastor of the Congregational Church at Deadwood, where he remained three years. In October, 1914, Mr. Hull took up his present pastoral duties at the Congregational Church at Kent, Ohio, and has shared largely in the life of this community during the past ten years. He has served as moderator of the Congregational State Conference of Ohio. Since 1893 he has been a member of the military organization known as the Cleveland Grays, and at different times has given a service aggregating twelve years as chaplain. He is a member of the Wranglers Club, Rotary Club, University Club, Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Pythias at Kent, and in politics votes independently. Rev. Mr. Hull married in June, 1870, Miss Adelaide M. Gustin, a native of Erie County, Ohio. She died in 1891, leaving two sons, John L., deceased, and George Wilson, who married Erie M. Clemons, of Marblehead, Ohio, who resides in Elmore, Ohio, and have three children, John, Walter and Adelaide. In 1894 Rev. Mr. Hull married Minnie C. Deming, of Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio, a daughter of Henry A. and Cordelia M. (Collins) Deming. By this marriage there is one son, Howard Deming Hull, of Kent, who married Deborah Milford, of Atlantic, Iowa, and they have a son, Howard Deming, Jr. All except the more remote members and present children of the above families studied or graduated at Oberlin. JOEL WILLIAM ROBERTS. The practical man is the one who is forging ahead today in every line of endeavor. This is too busy an age to admit of theoretical experiments without the backing of sound experience. Those who are succeeding are those who understand their work, and the demands of the public, and how to meet the needs of their patrons. Especially is this true in those lines connected with electricity and automobiles, the two great developments of the twentieth century. One of the men of Youngstown who prepared himself for his business career in a practical way by actual experience is Joel William Roberts, of 232 East Boardman Street. Joel William Roberts was born at Hadley, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1885, a son of Robert R. and Lottie E. (Bailey) Roberts, natives of Hubbard, Ohio, who were married in Pennsylvania. Robert R. Roberts, of Welsh descent, was a saw-mill operator, and died in May, 1886. The mother subsequently married Frank P. Hibler, of Hubbard, Ohio, and is still living. From the age of seven years until 1914 Joel William Roberts resided on a farm with his maternal grandparents, and in the latter year moved with them to Hubbard, Ohio, where the grandfather died March 19, 1923, but the grandmother is still living at Hubbard. The district schools gave Mr. Roberts his educational training, and farm work developed him physically and taught him the value of honest labor. His preliminary electrical experience was gained as an employe of the Miller-Smythe Electric Company of Youngstown, and after he had been three years with this concern he had charge of the automobile section. In November, 1922, he bought the automobile branch of the business, and has since been engaged in installing automobile electrical equipment, in which he is an acknowledged expert. In 1919 Mr. Roberts married Miss Caroline E. Morrison, born at Hadley, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Thomas J. and Irene (McKay) Morrison, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Roberts is a Methodist. While he is interested in civic matters, he has not seen fit to affiliate with either of the parties, but votes independently. FELIX F. H. IMHOF is a native of Ohio, and for fifteen years has been prominently identified with the business life of Marietta, where he is manager of the Cities Service Oil Company. This company was the first in this territory to create a market for casinghead, absorption and blended gasoline. This has now developed into one of the largest businesses for manufacturing motor fuel and gas machine gasoline. This grade of gasoline is being shipped to all parts of the world. Mr. Imhof was born at Cincinnati, November 13, HISTORY OF OHIO - 219 1876, son of Herman and Anna (Wang) Imhof. His father, a native of Germany, was a brewer by trade and profession. He owned a brewing establishment in Chicago, which was destroyed by the great fire of 1871. From there he moved to Cincinnati and subsequently to Cleveland. Herman Imhof died in 1885. Felix Imhof was only nine years of age when his father died, and soon afterward he was thrown upon his own resources and has been the architect of his own destiny. He first attended school in Cleveland, and was reared in the latter city. His working career soon brought him in the service of the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Company. He held an increasing series of responsibilities for that corporation, being finally purchasing agent and in charge of the manufacturing of gas. With this expert experience in gas and byproducts manufacture Mr. Imhof in 1910 came to Marietta. It was through his efforts that the plant of the Cities Service Company was erected. This company is engaged chiefly in refining and the manufacture of high grade petroleum products. In addition to his responsibilities as manager of the public utility Mr. Imhof is much interested in civic affairs and welfare work. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Rotary Club and the Advertising Club, belongs to the Associated Charities, the Marietta Automobile Club, the Marietta Shrine Club, United Commercial Travelers, and is a republican voter. He married Miss Pauline Walker, of Cleveland, and they have one daughter, Edna, who graduated from Marietta College with the class of 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Imhof are members of the Lutheran Church, and he has served on the council of the church. Fraternally he is affiliated with Harmer Lodge No. 390, Free and Accepted Masons ; Marietta Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Masons ; Marietta Council No. 78, Royal and Select Masters ; Marietta Commandery No. 50, Knights Templar, the Eastern Star, the Scottish Rite Consistory and Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine. WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS, superintendent of Mines Nos. 8 and 5 for the Sunday Creek Coal Company at Corning in Perry County, inherits the native ability of the Welshmen, though since early childhood he has lived in America and his individual abilities have been responsible for a successive rise to important responsibilities in the coal mining industry and in the civic communities of which he is a part. Mr. Williams was born in Wales, December 15, 1879. A few years later his parents, William James and Anna (Lane) Williams, brought their family to America and settled on a farm at Stanhope, Ontario; and subsequently removed to Glouster, Ohio, where the father died two weeks later. He had been a prosperous farmer, but as the oldest son, William J. Williams, had to leave school and become the head of the home and the provider for the family. The widowed mother now lives with her son in Detroit, Michigan. There were eight children in the family, the two sons being William J. and Joseph. Joseph for several years was employed by the Sunday Creek Coal Company at Glouster, and also worked for the Sackett firm in Columbus. He enlisted in the United States Marines and had four years of service, including duty in France during the World war. He was in the battle of the Argonne and was twice wounded. After the war he located at Detroit. He is an electrical engineer and has charge of a shop in Detroit. William J. Williams had his brief schooling in Canada, and when ten years of age was employed as a trapper boy in the mines at Glouster. He did nearly every other service connected with the mining of coal and eventually became electrician for the Sunday Creek Coal Company, and installed all the power, light and telephone systems in the many mines of this corporation. For one year he was with the Paint Creek Coal Company in West Virginia. His first pay in the mines was seventy-five cents a day, and from that he was promoted to wages of a dollar a day. He is thoroughly experienced in the technique of mining operations, and is also a competent executive. His men call him "Billy," and he has their complete confidence as well as respect. For a number of years Mr. Williams made his home at Glouster, and while there was elected a member of the City Council. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Glouster, also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge there, and is a Knight Templar Mason at New Lexington. He is a republican in politics. In 1917 Mr. Williams married Miss Edith Bradley, daughter of William Bradley, of Coal Run, West Virginia. They have two children, William J., Jr., and Betty May. CHARLES DANIEL EVANS. Before completing his legal education, Charles Daniel Evans served a period with the colors during the World war, but for the past five years has been a practicing attorney in Akron, member of one of the reliable firms located in the Ohio Building of that city. He was born at Kensington, New Hampshire, September 27, 1897, son of Daniel M. and Mary Ella (Woods) Evans. He was reared in his native town, where he attended public schools, continued his education in Sanborn Seminary at Kingston, New Hampshire, and, coming to Ohio, entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, where he was graduated with the Bachedor of Arts degree in 1917. During 1918 he was in the Officer 's Training School at Camp Grant, Illinois. In 1919 he graduated from the Western Reserve University Law School, and immediately located in Akron, where for about a year he was associated with A. S. Mottinger and since January, 1920, has been junior partner in the firm of Mottinger & Evans. Mr. Evans is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities, and the Summit County Bar Association. RT. REV. MONS. CLEMENT H. TREIBER, V. F., whose long service as a Catholic priest is rich and conspicuous in achievement, has for a quarter of a century been identified with the work of his church in Canton. In 1923, as a mark of appreciation of his faithful service, he was raised to the rank of domestic prelates, with the title of monsignor. In the many years he has performed his priestly duties in Ohio parishes Father Treiber has demonstrated the possessions of a remarkable range of qualifications. He has been theologian, orator, linguist, musician, a man of affairs and able in administration of important business duties. He was born in Cleveland, July 20, 1856, son of Maximillian and Amelia (Helmer) Treiber. His father died in April, 1870. His parents were married in the First Catholic Church in Cleveland, Old St. Mary 's on the Flats, and they worshiped there for many years. Father Treiber was baptized at St. Peters by the late Very Rev. John H. Luhr, V. G., or St. Peters Church. He attended that church and parish school until 1862, and was then in St. Joseph's parish until 1869, when he began his classical studies under the Franciscan Fathers at Teutopolis, Illinois. He was graduated from that school in June, 1875, and the following September he entered St. Mary 's Theological Seminary of Cleveland. Here he completed his five years work in philosophy and theology, 220 - HISTORY OF OHIO and on July 4, 1880, was ordained to the priesthood in St. John's Cathedral by the late Bishop Gilmour. Father Treiber has devoted nearly forty-five years to the work of a priest since his ordination. His first appointment was to take charge of a large district, including Mineral Ridge, East Palestine, Salem, Canfield and Austintown. During the first year he organized the first congregation at Palestine, and built the church still used by that congregation. In 1881 he built St. Paul's Church at Salem. For seven years he remained in the busy and congenial service among these people, and was then transferred to St. Joseph's Church at Crestline, Ohio, in June, 1887. In 1888 he signalized the efficiency of his pastorate by erecting a new church at a cost of $25,000, and had all the debts except $2,500, liquidated during the twelve years he served in Crestline. In September, 1899, Father Treiber was commissioned by Bishop Hortsmann to organize the new parish of the Immaculate Conception in the southern part of Canton. He took charge of the new parish on October 8, 1899, and during the first six months a large plat of ground centrally located was purchased and on it began the construction of a combination building known as the Chapel School and the Immaculate Conception Church. This building cost $21,700. The building is of vitrified brick. Father Treiber was subsequently commissioned to found St. Joseph 's Catholic Church in the western part of Canton. He organized the congregation in June, 1902, and held the first services in a hall opposite the car barns on Tuscarawas Street. In August, 1902, ground was secured at the corner of Tuscarawas and Columbus streets, and work was begun in the same month on the construction of a combination church, hall, chapel and school. The corner stone was laid September 21, 1902, by the late Bishop Hortsmann of Cleveland, and the building was completed in June, 1903. Many additions have been made to this church property in the past twenty years. An annex school was constructed in 1917, and other buildings include the pastor 's residence, the sister 's home, and in March 1921, the foundation was started for the erection of a beautiful new church building and the corner stone was laid by Bishop Schrembs, of Cleveland, November 13, 1921. On June 25, 1922, the dedication of the basement church took place. In the absence of Bishop Schrembs, who was then in Rome, the Rt. Rev. August J. Schwertner, Bishop of Wichita, Kansas (a native of Canton), blessed and dedicated the present basement church, and at this time he also • sang a Pontifical High Mass. During the past five years Father Treiber has had an assistant priest. Besides his duties in St. Joseph 's Parish he is Dean of the Canton District, including about twenty churches, and about twenty-eight priests. Father Treiber in his career has been distinguished not only by extraordinary gifts as a business organizer and administrator, but by qualities of personal character that make him greatly loved, not only in his church but among all classes of people. He has a sincere love of humanity, and has on many occasions worked impartially for the general good without regard to racial or religious classifications, and through his influence he has done much to soften those unreasoning animosities that account for so much of the strife and contention among social groups. WILLIAM A. WELKER is a very successful Ohio business man and has devoted practically all his time and energies to one business organization, the Snider-Flautt Lumber Company of New Lexington. He is vice president and general manager of this corporation, which operates plants for the manufacture of building material at Somerset and New Lexington, and maintains retail lumber yards at New Lexington, Somerset and South Zanesville. Somerset was the original home of the company, and business was conducted as a partnership from 1891 until 1899. When it was incorporated Mr. Flautt became one of the executive officers and Mr. Snider, the president. Mr. Flautt died in 1918, and Mr. Snider, in 1920. The president of the corporation today is H. D. Flautt. This firm has been a leader in the business of manufacturing and distributing building materials in Southeastern Ohio. William A. Welker's first connection with the firm may be said to have started when as a boy he was employed to cut the grass on Mr. Snider 's lawn. That was back in 1893. Later he was given employment as an office boy with the company, worked in the yards, then in the factory, and in 1895 was sent to Crooksville to take charge of a yard. He was at Crooksville from 1895 to 1898, and was then given charge of the yard at New Lexington. In addition to his present office as vice president and general manager, Mr. Welker is president of the Snider Lumber and Timber Company, operating saw mills in West Virginia. Mr. Welker was born on a farm in Knox County, Ohio, August 13, 1875, son of Ambrose and Agnes (Metzger) Welker. The Welker family is of Welch and the Metzger of German ancestry. Ambrose Welker was born in Knox County and his wife at Somerset. He was a timber worker and later became a turner in lumber and planing mills. He died June 14, 1914, at the age of fifty-nine. His wife died when their son William A. was a small child. The other two sons are : Charles, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and Frank, in the dairy business in Chicago. A daughter, Mary, died at the age of eighteen. William Welker attended rural schools near Somerset until he was about eighteen, and in the meantime was employed during his vacations. His home has been at New Lexington since 1898. Mr. Welker in 1896 married Miss Louise May, daughter of Henry May. She died in 1898, leaving one son, John, who is a graduate of the Somerset High School and was a volunteer at the time of the World war, being in service with the Marines and was assigned duty on the battleship Nevada. After leaving school he was a bookkeeper with the New Lexington branch of the Snider-Flautt Lumber Company, and after the war was employed at the Consolidated Ticket Office in Columbus, Ohio, but is now at the South Zanesville branch of his father 's firm as bookkeeper. In 1903 Mr. Welker married Miss Elizabeth Nugent, daughter of Hugh Nugent, of New Lexington. They have one son, Hugh, now attending Dayton University. The family are members of St. Rose Catholic Church, and Mr. Welker is a Knight of Columbus and an Elk. OMIE JOE LETHERMAN, M. D. One Of three brothers who became physicians, Dr. Omie Joe Letherman, of Thornville, in Perry County, has been in practice for over twenty years, and has achieved a high degree of esteem and success in the prosperous community of Thornville. He was in service with the Medical Corps during the World war. Doctor Letherman was born at Hanover, in Licking County, Ohio, May 23, 1882, son of Joseph and Matilda (Wagstaff) Letherman. His grandfather, John Letherman, came from Germany and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he lived out his life. Joseph Letherman was a young man when he moved to Licking County. Endowed with traits of thrift, he became a very prosperous farmer and stock dealer and acquired two very fine farms. His home was near Hanover, and he lived there all his married HISTORY OF OHIO - 221 life, and it is still the family home. He always kept fine stock on his place, and bought and shipped and dealt in live stock extensively. He died when a comparatively young man, in 1887. He was a member of the Church of the Disciples. His wife, Matilda Wagstaff, was born near Hanover, daughter of Daniel Wagstaff, and after the death of her husband she kept her children together, educated and trained them, and lived to the age of seventy-two, passing away in 1915. She was the mother of three sons and four daughters. The sons all became physicians. John graduated from Starling Medical College and had practiced one year at Hebron, Ohio, when he died at the age of twenty-four. The other son, Dr. Frank P., is a graduate of Starling Medical College and practices at Outville. The daughters are: Mrs. Lewis McCann, of Black Run; Mrs. Enyart Denman, of Hanover; Laura, on the old homestead at Hanover, and Mrs. Joseph Beal, of Millwood, in Knox County. Omie Joe Letherman was five years of age when his father died. He grew up on the farm, attended the local schools, and subsequently entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in April, 1903. He immediately joined his brother Frank in practice, but since November 26, 1903, has given his time and services to Thornville. This is one of the prosperous little towns in Southeastern Ohio, and Doctor Letherman is now the only physician located there. At the time of the World war he volunteered his services, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and in October, 1918, he was sent to the Medical Officers Training Camp at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. After the armistice he was invited to go abroad for service in the reconstruction districts of Europe, with the rank of major, but he returned to his extensive private practice. Doctor Letherman has served two terms on the Town Council at Thornville. In 1911 he married Miss Emma Meredith, daughter of John Meredith, of Thornville. They have one daughter, Mary Norma. Doctor and Mrs. Letherman are members of the Trinity Reformed Church of Thornville, and he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Knight Templar. He was made a member of the Mystic Shrine in the same class as President Harding, and has attended a number of Shrine conventions, including those at San Francisco and Washington. He is also affiliated with the Eastern Star, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Maccabees and the Woodmen of the World. He belongs to the American Legion Post, and is a republican in politics. WILLIAM BRIMGARDNER has been actively identified with the commercial and manufacturing interests of Junction City in Perry County since early manhood. A large industry that means much to the prosperity of that community and whose products are distributed all over Ohio is the Junction City Sewer Pipe Company, of which Mr. Brimgardner is treasurer and general manager. He was born on a farm within a mile and a half of Junction City, on April 8, 1861, son of John and Margaret (Brown) Brimgardner. His father, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, came to Perry County when a young man, was married there, and engaged in farming and stock raising. He was very much of an expert in everything connected wth life stock. He delighted in having fine horses, and for years he was a stock drover to Eastern markets and also to Columbus. He kept stock on his own farm and also owned land in Madison County. It was said that he had almost an unerring ability to buy and sell just at the proper time. As a young man he was employed on construction work on the C. M. & V. Railway, but could never collect his salary from his employer. His brother Martin also lived in Perry County. John Brimgardner, though a man of high esteem in his county, could never be prevailed upon to accept office. He voted with the democratic party. His wife, Mar- garet Brown, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, and was an infant when her parents came to Ohio and settled in Perry County. John Brimgardner and his wife each died at the age of seventy years, having lived from the time of their marriage on the farm, where their son William was born. They had five sons and four daughters. The sons were : Thomas, formerly a farmer, now living retired in Columbus ; Albert, who was in the lumber business in West Virginia and now lives in Columbus ; William ; Simon, an employe of the Junction City Sewer Pipe Plant; and Louis, who died in youth. William Brimgardner attended the local schools near the home farm and later a business college at Zanesville. He was a farm boy until twenty-one, and in his active career of over forty years he has been identified with just two manufacturing institutions in Junction City. He became an employe of the Junction City Gearwood Plant as a bookkeeper, and at the end of fifteen years was general manager of the plant. This company manufactured a product that was shipped to all parts of the country, wherever vehicles were manufactured. When the advent of the automobile made the industry unprofitable Mr. Brimgardner associated himself with the Junction City Sewer Pipe Company, and his energy has had much to do with the great progress and success of that business. Mr. Brimgardner at the age of twenty-eight married a daughter of Daniel Clark, of Perry County. The children born to their marriage were: Earl, who died when twenty-one years of age ; Helen, wife of William Glass, of Mount Vernon, Ohio ; Margie, wife of H. A. Corbin, of Mount Vernon; Gertrude, who completed the nurses' training course at Mount Carmel Hospital in September, 1923 ; Ruth, attending the St. Aloysius Academy of Junction City; Katherine and Paul Joe, in parochial schools. Mr. Brimgardner is a democrat, but in all the years he has lived at Junction City he has consented to serve only one term in office, as a member of the Town Council. He is a Knight of Columbus and Elk, and -his family are all Catholics. D. W. LERCH is one of the old and prominent business men of the City of Canton, where he is president of the D. W. Lerch Company. This company probably does the largest business as dealers in pianos and phonographs in the City of Canton. The company has a beautifully appointed store in the retail shopping district. The company is incorporated for $75,000. Mr. Lerch was born at Bethel, Pennsylvania, was educated in the public and high schools there, attended Palatinate College, and is himself a highly educated musician, having attended the New England Conservatory of Music of Boston. Mr. Lerch has been a resident of Canton since 1895. His present business dated back to the organization of the firm of Lerch & Leonard in 1902. Two years later he bought the interest of Mr. Leonard, and subsequently incorporated the D. W. Lerch Company. Mr. Lerch is a member of the Reformed Church and the Masonic Order. He also belongs to the Congress Lake Club. By his marriage to Miss Ellen Berger there are four children, D. W., Jr., John Berger, Emily C. and Mary E. ALBERT N. KISHLER, Doctor of Dental Surgery at New Lexington, is one of three brothers who were in 222 - HISTORY OF OHIO the World war service, and each of them has achieved a substantial position in a profession, two of them being dentists and the other an electrical engineer. Dr. Albert N. Kishler was born at New Lexington, August 20, 1896. He represents some of the old and prominent pioneer families of Southern Ohio. The Kishlers originally came from one of the countries along the River Rhine to the United States and settled in Baltimore. It is said that eleven members of the Kishler family left Maryland and came to Ohio. The grandfather of Doctor Kishler was Judge Kishler, who was a pioneer associate justice in Perry County, and a man of great business ability. He became very prosperous for his time, but through going security for parties from the East who proposed to develop the coal lands he lost much of his money, although he still succeeded in his ambition to give each of his eleven children a farm. Some of his children went West and settled in the States of Iowa and Wisconsin. Judge Kishler 's brother, Fred Kishler, became sheriff of Perry County, and was the only man in that office who was called upon to conduct a legal hanging, at the execution of David Work. Judge Kishler 's four daughters now living are: Minerva, wife of W. H. Bowman, of Jackson Township, Perry County ; Mrs. Nancy Bugh, a widow of Malone, Illinois; Margaret Sutton, who lives in Iowa, and Sarah Huff ord, of Iowa. Thomas J. Kishler, father of Dr. Albert N. Kishler, was born at the old family home at Mount Hope in Jackson Township of Perry County, being the youngest of the eleven children of his father, Judge Kishler. After he was sixteen years of age he lived at New Lexington, and served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. Subsequently he took up carriage making, and for a number of years manufactured farm vehicles, until the advent of the automobile, when he took up another line of business. He is now a plumbing and electrical contractor. He is a resident of New Lexington, and is sixty-one years of age. He has served the community as a member of the School Board and on the City Council, and for thirty-one years was chief of the fire department. In politics he is a republican. Thomas J. Kishler married Cora Fowler, daughter of William Fowler, and a descendant of the first family to settle at New Lexington. The Fowlers owned large bodies of land in that vicinity, and located there about 1811. Mrs. Thomas J. Kishler is now fifty-seven years of age. The family were in earlier generations primitive Baptists, but are now active in Methodist circles. Thomas J. Kishler is past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter and past commander of the local Commandery of the Knight Templar Masons. He and his wife had four children. The daughter, Kathleen, is the wife of J. O. Newton, vice president of the Perry County Bank. The son, Dr. Lester Kishler, is a graduate of the dental department of Ohio State University, and is now practicing dentistry at Ravenna, Ohio. He went to the Mexican border with the National Guards as a lieutenant in the Dental Corps with the Sixth Ohio During the World war he served as a captain in the Dental Corps with the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Field Artillery until after the armistice, and was then transferred to the Ninetieth Division, composed of Texas and Oklahoma troops, and served with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He is still connected with the Reserve Corps, being under the command of Colonel Snively as major in the Thirty-seventh Division National Guards, Reserve Corps. Another son, Merle E. Kishler, during the World war was in the electrical unit of the Chemical Warfare Division, stationed at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, where he worked eight hours a day, wearing a gas mask. The Edgewood Arsenal was perhaps the largest plant on American soil in the manufacture of poison gases. He is now practicing as an electrical engineer at Columbus. Dr. Albert N. Kishler, the third of these three brothers, was educated in the public schools at New Lexington, took up the study of dentistry at the Ohio State University, and during his senior year was placed in the Reserve Corps and after he completed his education at the State University he was called to active training at Camp Greenleaf, where he remained on duty until discharged December 16, 1918. He now holds a commission as first lieutenant in the Dental Reserve Corps, having been appointed by Governor Cox. Doctor Kishler, after returing from the army, engaged in practice at New Concord, Ohio, for seventeen months, and since then has had a large professional business in his home town. He is a member of the Perry County, Ohio State and American Dental Societies. Doctor Kishler married, July 28, 1923, Miss Josephine Birch, daughter of Harold and Rose Birch. Doctor Kishler is a York Rite Mason and Shriner, also a Grotto Mason, and is affiliated with the Elks. He has served as commander of the local post of the American Legion, and is a director of the Kiwanis Club and president of the local fire department. WILLIAM SCHOFIELD, president of the William Schofield Hardware Company at New Lexington, has been identified with mercantile affairs in that community since boyhood, growing up in his father 's store, and in other ways has proved one of the very forceful men in the community. He was born October 24, 1882, in the building where he now has his store. His parents were George and Mary (Yates) Schofield. His father died in 1903, at the age of fifty-seven, and his mother, in 1920, aged seventy-six. The Schofields came from Maryland to Ohio. His grandfather, William C. Schofield, was a volunteer for a part of the Civil war. He moved from Fultonham to a farm six miles south of New Lexington. A Methodist church was built on this farm. He was an active republican. George Schofield was born at the farm at Whipstown, six miles south of New Lexington, and as a youth had the affliction of white swelling, and was disabled for service as a soldier at the time of the Civil war. He engaged in farming until about 1870, when he went into the harness business. At New Lexington he built a two-story structure for home and shop, and that is now the business place of William Schofield. George Schofield learned harness making at Columbus, and worked at Roseville and also at New Lexington. His wife was a Methodist, but he had his own views in regard to religion, and practiced the Golden Rule. He trusted and was trusted. His two sons were Lawrence L. and William. Lawrence L. was educated in the New Lexington schools and the Meredith Business College at Zanesville, and is now secretary and treasurer of the Ice and Storage Company at Zanesville. William Schofield attended the New Lexington High School, and as a small boy he did work in his father's store. Later he became his father 's active assistant, and with the advent of the automobile the Schofield business has gradually changed from harness to hardware. In 1920 the William Schofield Hardware Company was incorporated, with Mr. Scho; field as president. He helped organize and became the first president of the Kiwanis Club of New Lexington. Civic welfare and matters of local improvement have always enlisted his generous participation. In 1904 Mr. Schofield married Miss Effie Fowler, daughter of J. C. Fowler, granddaughter of David Fowler and great-granddaughter of John Fowler. John Fowler, of an old English family, came from Maryland and HISTORY OF OHIO - 223 first settled in Pike Township. There he set about building his log cabin. Soon afterward some one announced to him the news of the outbreak of the War of 1812. Immediately sticking his ax in a stump he went away to enlist, and after the campaign and on his return he found the ax where he had left it and resumed the building of his log cabin as though he had never been interrupted. Mrs. Schofield 's father, J. C. Fowler, is now in the state auditor 's office at Columbus. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Schofield are George Fowler, James Carrollton and William Carver. Mr. and Mrs. Schofield are members of the Methodist Church. He is a republican voter, served one year as master of the Lodge of Masons and is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. ELLIS I. DOZER, M. D. A hard working physician and surgeon at Crooksville in Perry County, Doctor Dozer started practice there more than thirty years ago, when there was hardly a good road in the county, when the community was without telephones and, of course, without the automobile, which has been such a great aid to the physician. Doctor Dozer was born on his father 's farm near Roseville, in Muskingum County, June 12, 1869, son of Enos and Mary (Stoneburner) Dozer. The Dozer family is of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Enos Dozer owned a large farm, raised and bred fine cattle and horses, and was a dealer in live stock. He was a democrat in politics, and in early life was a Lutheran, but finally he and his wife became members of the Christian Church. He died at the age of seventy-three and his wife at seventy-two. His wife, Mary Stoneburner, was born in York Township of Morgan County, Ohio, near Deavertown. Her people came from Stuttgart, Germany. Her mother, of the Bush family, was a child when her parents sailed for America. On the way the crew mutinied, turning pirates, and the family was two years in reaching America. Enos Dozer and wife had the following children: Martin, a graduate civil engineer from Ohio State University ; L. C., a graduate of the University of Michigan and a dentist ; Jane, a graduate of the school at West Jefferson, Ohio, wife of Ezra Allard, a farmer at Deavertown ; George, a farmer near Roseville ; Dr. Ellis I.; and Pearley, connected with the Mosaic Tile Works at Zanesville. Dr. Ellis I. Dozer finished his early education in the Deavertown High School, and then entered the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati where he graduated and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in June, 1892. He immediately located at Crooksville in Perry County, and for a number of years he gave not only his professional skill but literally his physical strength to his practice, requiring travel from home to home, frequently on foot or horseback, and he earned the confidence of the people by never refusing a call on account of storm or other difficulties. Doctor Dozer is a member of the various medical societies, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason at New Lexington, a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and is district deputy chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias. He is a trustee of the Christian Church at Crooksville. Doctor Dozer married in January, 1893, Miss Ada L. Wanee, of Vinton County. They have one son, Cyril O. Dozer. He graduated from the Crooksville High School, and during the World war was in training as an infantry soldier and later in other brancheF of the army. He was trained at Cincinnati, and spent five months with the colors. In 1919 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, his father 's alma mater, and for the past five years has been successfully engaged in practice at Roseville, only two miles from his father's home. They are frequently associated on the same cases. Dr. Cyril 0. Dozer is also a member of the Masonic Order. MARCUS O. SMITH, M. D. After the essential qualifications of a sound knowledge of medicine and reasonable skill in application of knowledge, the quality that distinguishes the vital service of a doctor is faithfulness. That has preeminently characterized Dr. Marcus 0. Smith during his long practice of over thirty years in the Portersville community of Perry County. Doctor Smith was born near Mount Perry, in Perry County, March 4, 1863, son of James and Eliza (Baird) Smith, and a grandson of James Smith. The Smiths were of Welsh ancestry and first settled in Pennsylvania, and in 1813 they took up government land in Muskingum County, Ohio. The Bairds were Scotch-Irish. James Smith, Jr., was born on a farm in Muskingum County, near Gratiot, married and moved to a farm at Mount Perry, and spent his long and industrious life there, where he died in 1903, at the age of eighty-six. His wife, Eliza, died in 1893, aged seventy-two. He was for sixty years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and always voted the republican ticket from the formation of that party. He and his wife had a large family of children. Alexander, the eldest son, now deceased, was an Ohio soldier during the Civil war ; Edward, at the age of sixteen, tried to get into the army, but was sent out to relatives in Illinois, and even there he managed to get into the service with an Illinois regiment ; Ben is now in the hardware business at Eldorado, Missouri; Preston is a farmer ; Duncan is a farmer near Lamar, Missouri; Archibald died at the age of sixty-four in Missouri, and Marcus 0. is the youngest son. Doctor Smith attended the academy at Mount Perry, spent one year in Muskingum College, and for several years he worked to pay the expenses of his professional training. For one year he taught school in his home district, and taught another year in Hopewell Township of Muskingum County. His summer seasons were spent in work on his father 's farm. After beginning the study of medicine under Dr. C. Z. Axline at Fultonham, he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1891. Doctor Smith, after a year or so of practice at Glenford, located at Portersville in 1893. His practice covers a large territory, and in the early years roads were frequently impossible and he either walked or rode horseback. Many mines have been opened in the district since he began practice there, and other changes have made his individual condition better as well as brought increased prosperity and improved living conditions to the entire community. Doctor Smith married in 1886 Miss Gertrude Ball, daughter of Henry Ball, of Hopewell, Muskingum County. Four daughters were born to their marriage : Moss, wife of T. H. Plummer, superintendent of the Millersport High School; Pearl, wife of Herman King, of Portersville • Fern, wife of Frank Breefie, of Portersville ; and Marie Ormond, who died when seventeen years old. Doctor Smith and family are Presbyterians. He is affiliated with the Deavertown Masonic Lodge, and while nationally a republican, votes for the man rather than the party. LOYD J. NOABER is a native son of Stark County, began his business career at Canton in 1900, and in twenty years has been responsible for the growth and development of several of that city's most successful enterprises. He is president of the Noaker Ice Cream Company, is president of the Molly Stark Creamery Company, and is president of the Peerless Automobile Sales Company. 224 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Noaker was born on a farm in Perry Township of Stark County, May 31, 1876, son of James and Emily (Hoverstock) Noaker. His parents, also natives of Stark County, spent all their lives there. His father was both a carpenter and a farmer. Educated in district and high schools, Loyd J. Noaker grew up on a farm, and for six years taught school. After his last term as a teacher, he came to Canton, in 1900, buying a one-wagon milk route, and for several years his business was limited to the retail distribution of milk. In 1905 he bought the ice cream branch of the Walter Andrews Baking Company, and this was the nucleus of the Canton business now conducted under the name of the Noaker Ice Cream Company. The business has grown rapidly, and for a number of years has utilized the facilities of one of the finest ice cream manufacturing plants in the state. The present company was incorporated in 1912, with Mr. Noaker as president and treasurer. The company supplies immense quantities of ice cream throughout the Canton district and adjoining towns and cities. His notable success in this business has brought Mr. Noaker connections with other related concerns and also other lines of business. Canton business men regard him as one of the most enterprising associates, and he has served as director of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Rotary Club. He is a member of the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers and the Lincoln Highway Association. While close attention and hard work have been responsible for his business success, Mr. Noaker has not neglected the social side of life, and has always been an enthusiastic sportsman. He has had membership in a number of clubs for outdoor sports, including the Sippo Lake Club, the League of Ohio Sportsmen, the Stark County Fish and Game Protective Association, the Congress Lake Club. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Maccabees and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is an independent in politics. Mr. Noaker married Miss Jennie M. Baughman, daughter of James Baughman, of Hartville, Ohio. HANNA H. ESSEX, president of the Hanna Essex Coal Company of Straitsville, has been one of the conspicuous men in the development of the mining resources of the Hocking Valley. He is a brother of another distinguished coal operator, Calvin Essex. Hanna H. Essex was born September 27, 1860, near Malta, in Morgan County, Ohio, son of Nathan H. and Elizabeth J. (Morris) Essex. The Essex family came from England nearly 300 years ago, while the Morris family is of Scotch ancestry. Nathan Essex was a farmer, and was called out for duty as a soldier when General Morgan made his raid through Southern Ohio. On account of being crippled he was sent home. His brother, Martin, was a prominent man in Ohio politics. Nathan Essex died in 1873, in his fifty-first year, and his wife died at New Straitsville in 1896. They were active members of the Bible Christian Church. Hanna H. Essex was named by his father in honor of one of the conspicuous men in American politics in the critical year of 1860, Hannibal Hamlin, who became a member of Lincoln's cabinet. Soon after the birth of Hanna Essex the father moved to the eastern part of Hocking County, about six miles from Nelsonville. He was about thirteen when his father died, and after exhausting the opportunities of the country schools of Hocking County he went to work. As a youth and ever since he has been very fond of horses, and has owned several noted race horses. His first regular employment was driving a delivery wagon for his brother Calvin, who was operating a grocery store at New Straitsville. He was associated in mercantile and other business with his brother Calvin for twenty years. The firm added undertaking, and he studied embalming and took charge of that department. Hanna Essex helped open Mine No. 51 for the firm of Stalter & Essex, subsequently the Essex Coal Company, and later assisted in opening Mine No. 37 and others in the group of mines owned and operated by the Essex Brothers. In 1913 Mr. Hanna Essex became president and general manager of the Hanna Essex Coal Company. His younger brother, Nelson, is secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Essex is also a director of the Remple National Bank of Logan. Twenty years ago he built his home on Essex Hill, overlooking New Straitsville. He married in 1892 Miss Lillie Mason, who was born at Mason City, Ohio, daughter of John Mason. The children born to their marriage are: Eugene, a mine foreman for the Hanna Essex Company ; Edna, wife of Earl Mender, of Nelsonville; Hazel, who is married; Alice, of Akron; Nellie, bookkeeper for the Hanna Essex Com- pany; Winfield, a student of pharmacy in Ohio State University; Stella, attending high school; and Walter, who died in childhood. Mr. Hanna Essex is a member of the Bible Christian Church and is a republican in politics. CHARLES L. SCHROEDER, of Perry County, is a citizen who has achieved a considerable degree of success in the world from an early environment in which his opportunities were limited to the work he could do with his hands. Mr. Schroeder is now a mine owner, operating two mines, and is also a merchant in the little village of Buckingham, and has been in business there for twenty-seven years. He was born in Essen, the great mining and industrial region of Germany, on November 3, 1868, son of Charles and Frances Schroeder. In 1881, when he was thirteen years of age, his parents came to the United States, locating in Perry County, Ohio. His father had been a miner in the coal fields of Germany, and in Ohio he worked in the Sunday Creek mines, and for the last ten years of his life had the management of the Sunday Creek farm. He was an excellent farmer and an upright and thrifty citizen. He and his family were Catholics. He died at the age of sixty-seven in November, 1906, and his wife passed away in 1914 aged sixty-five. All of their seven children are still living, the sons being Charles L.; Theodore, of Shawnee; Ed, of Columbus, and Fred, who is a railroad man. Charles L. Schroeder acquired his early education in the schools of Germany, and after coming to this country he did such work as his strength permitted in the mines in Perry County, and managed to attend classes in night school, thus continuing his general education and perfecting his knowledge of English. As a youth Mr. Schroeder became a teamster, and gradually built up a teaming business, owning several teams. In 1896 he opened a stock of merchandise at Buckingham, and has continued to sell goods there now for twenty-seven years. In 1900 he put up a building with store room below and his residence above. His operations as a mine owner began in 1916, when he opened Schroeder Mine No. 1, and this was followed in 1920 by the opening of Mine No. 2. Mr. Schroeder some years ago served as road supervisor. He is a Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He married Mary Reinhard, who was also born in Essen, Germany. Her father, Frank Reinhard, was a miner in the old country, and came to the United States in 1884, and now at the venerable age of ninety-eight lives at Buckingham. Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder have a son, Charles Theodore,