HISTORY OF OHIO - 225 who is associated with his father in business. The daughter, Gertrude, is the wife of Vance Higgins, who is in the operating department of the Zanesville and Western Railroad. THOMAS JEFFERSON LYNE, M. D. One of the men whose character and services the people of Morgan County will long cherish was the late Dr. Thomas Jefferson Lyne, physician and surgeon in the county for over a quarter of a century, friend of schools and patron of all worthy activities, banker and merchant. Doctor Lyne, who died at his home in Stockport April 21, 1923, was born at the old Lyne homestead near Mount Olivet Church in East Windsor Township, Morgan County, March 24, 1860, son of Theodorie and Philena (Mummey) Lyne. He is survived by two brothers, Judge John Q. Lyne and Dr. George Leslie Lyne, and a sister, Miss Margaret. The work accomplished by Doctor Lyne is the more remarkable because of the frail constitution with which he started life. He possessed an iron will and invincible determination that enabled him to accomplish more service than most men in physically robust health. He attended the district school, at the age of sixteen began teaching, and continued until two years later he suffered the first serious breakdown in his health. He began the study of medicine in Dr. W. E. Gatewood's office at Stockport, and subsequently entered the medical department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, where he was graduated with the class of 1882. Returning to Ohio, he practiced for ten years at Winterset in Guernsey County. In 1892 he purchased from his former preceptor, Doctor Gate-wood, the practice and the drug store at Stockport, and from that time until his death his home was in Stockport. For over a quarter of a century he rode the hills of Southern Morgan County day and night, taking care of a practice that no one man should have attempted to look after. His energy was remarkable and enabled him to keep up with his duties until about four years before his death, when he virtually retired, after that giving his time to his drug store and other business. He was skilled in diagnosis, and was one of the best general practitioners the county has ever produced, being particularly famed for his treatment of lung trouble and typhoid fever. The late Doctor Ly2ie was one of the organizers and founders of the Stockport Bank, serving as vice president and at the time of his death as president of the Board of Directors. He was one of the founders of the Stockport Hardware Company, was a stockholder in the First National Bank of McConnelsville and vice president of the Herald Printing Company of McConnelsville. His interest in education caused him to serve many terms on the Board of Education. He kept in touch with public affairs and politics, and with every worthy movement in his community. For many years he was a member and treasurer of Webb Lodge of Masons and also Webb Chapter of the Eastern Star, and was buried under Masonic auspices. While practicing in Guernsey County Doctor Lyne married Miss Minta Moore of Winterset, daughter of W. B. Moore. She died in 1913, and later he married Mrs. Emma Perkins, widow of Dr. I. C. Perkins, of Belmont County, Ohio. By his first marriage Doctor Lyne had a family of six sons and one daughter. Three sons are now living. Alva B. Lyne, born in 1888, was educated at Marietta College, and is now a rancher in Saskatchewan, Canada. The second son, Arthur T., who is in the postal service in Cleveland, finished his education in the Bliss Commercial College, and during the World war was trained at Camp Sherman, being in the Motor Tractor Division, and went overseas. Charles C. Lyne, who continues his father's drug business at Stockport, was graduated in pharmacy from the Ohio Northern University at Ada and also spent one year studying medicine in Ohio State University. He was in the navy during the World war, being at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, and as a pharmacist 's mate made five trips overseas. All three of the sons are members of the Masonic Order. GEORGE W. SPRING is a veteran saw mill and lumber man of Southeastern Ohio. His business headquarters for many years have been at Crooksville in Perry County, where he is a manufacturer of lumber, building supplies, boxes and crates. It was in 1892 that he became identified with that locality. He was one of the men, including J. F. Stone-burner, N. H. StoneburrIer, H. D. Woodruff, Thomas Griggs, George Printz, W. W. Brown, W. A. Brown, Wesley Brown, William Orr and Harry Moore, who organized the Diamond Stoneware Company to manufacture certain grades of pottery at Crooksville. Mr. Spring began as a laborer his active connection with the plant when it opened, but eventually was superintendent of the plant. On August 1, 1904, Mr. Spring bought from the organization its lumber interests, and has since developed an extensive business, enlarging his manufacturing facilities so that the plant has furnished materials entering into the construction of many business houses and homes in and around Perry County. Part of his output are doors, sash, crates and boxes. Mr. Spring was born near Roseville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, August 7, 1863, son of Martin Luther and Sarah Jenkins Spring, likewise natives of Muskingum County. His mother, Sarah Jenkins, was born July 26, 1844, and died in 1918, at the age of seventy-four. Martin Luther Spring was born January 2, 1839, and died in 1922, at the age of eighty-three. As a boy, when the Civil war came on, he looked after the home farm and his parents, while two of his brothers went to the front, one of them, John, losing his life in the battle of Gettysburg. M. L. Spring was a Lutheran in religion. He and his wife were married September 25, 1862, and they had a family of eleven children. The four sons are J. H., a farmer at the old homestead ; Ira, a farmer living near Roseville ; Charles, of Roseville, and George W. George W. Spring was born and reared on a farm, and acquired his education by walking to the Belle School two miles distant from home. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-one, and then took up the timber business. He has owned a number of saw mills, and with his mills and logging operations has cleared many tracts of standing timber, converting it into lumber. He sold part of his lumber product for a number of years to the Plow and Farm Machinery Manufacturing Plant at Zanesville, owned by the Browns. Mr. Spring married Miss Addie I. Stoneburner, daughter of N. H. Stoneburner, and sister of J. F. Stoneburner. They had two children: Clara, at home, and Mary, who died when nineteen years of age. Mr. Spring is a Lutheran and Mrs. Spring is a Methodist. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a democrat, though in local politics votes for the best man and gives his support to strong and honest government. HARRY PERKINS THOMAS, banker, lumberman and wool buyer, has been a man of action and progressive spirit in the affairs of Fayette and adjoining counties for a number of years. His home is at Jeffersonville. He was born in Clark County, Ohio, January 8, 1869. His grandfather, Samuel Thomas, a native of the State of Delaware, came to Ohio and settled in Warren County in 1792. That was some years before Ohio was admitted to the Union, and he was 226 - HISTORY OF OHIO one of the real pioneers of the state. Samuel Thomas married Mary St. John, a native of New York State. She died in 1871, at the age of eighty-eight, and was buried at Williams Chapel, near Charleston, Ohio. Their son, James Thomas, father of Harry P. Thomas, died at South Charleston at the age of seventy, and is buried in Kirkwood Cemetery, near London, Ohio. His wife, Sarah Maria Perkins, was born in Washington County, Ohio, and died in 1914, at the age of seventy, being buried in the same place as her husband. Harry Perkins Thomas was liberally educated, attending common schools in Clark County, Wittenberg College at Springfield, and from 1886 to 1888 was a student in the normal school at London, Ohio. For about thirteen years he gave his time to the teaching profession, following it from 1886 to 1899. Part of the time his salary was thirty-four dollars a month. He taught in Madison and Clark counties, and for some time was connected with the public schools of South Charleston. After giving up school work he became an employe of the Houston Brothers Company, and when that business was incorporated as the Houston Company in 1905 he was one of the charter stockholders and acted as its secretary and treasurer. He had also for four years devoted part of his time to the affairs of the Farmers Bank of South Charleston. Selling his interest in the Houston Company in January, 1916, Mr. Thomas acquired an interest in a grain elevator and lumber yard at Sedalia, Ohio, taking its active management. He was also manager and part owner of a lumber and coal business at Jeffersonville. His interest in the Sedalia business was sold in 1919. In 1923 he bought an interest in a lumber concern at Cedarville, Ohio. He became a stockholder in 1920 in the Farmers Bank of Jeffersonville, and since 1922 has been its president. Through all these years he has been a wool buyer, and he estimates that since 1916 he has bought wool to the value of about a million five hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Thomas is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a democrat. He served four years on the board of education at South Charleston. On May 15, 1895, occurred his marriage to Elizabeth Siefert near South Charleston. She was born at Springfield, March 31, 1877, and was educated in the public schools at South Charleston. She is a member of the Progress Club and the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jeffersonville. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have three children, of whose records they are deservedly proud. The oldest, Cela Pearl, born in 1896, near South Charleston, was educated in the high schools there, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1918 from the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, and from 1918 to 1923 was an employe of the Farmers Bank at South Charleston. She is now an employe of the First National Bank at Boston, Massachusetts, also attending night classes in Boston University. She has registered for entrance to Prince College at Harvard. The second child, Dorothy Olive Thomas, born in 1898, finished her high school course at South Charleston, in 1918 entered the Illinois Woman's College at Jacksonville, Illinois, and has since continued her higher education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The only son is Samuel Max Thomas, who was born in 1900 at South Charleston. He took the public school work there, graduated in 1919 from the Sweetwater Military Institute at Sweetwater, Tennessee, and is now associated with his father in the lumber and coal business at Jeffersonville and Cedarville. CHARLES P. YOCOM, president of the First National Bank of Chester Hill, is in point of service the oldest active bank president of Morgan County. He has been identified with the mercantile interests of the county for forty years, rising from clerk to proprietor. Mr. Yocom was born at Pennsville in Morgan County, September 22, 1863, son of Samuel B. and Sarah (King) Yocom, and grandson of Thomas Yocom and Joseph King, both from Pennsylvania and of Quaker ancestry. Samuel B. Yocom was a member of the Hixite branch of Quakers, his wife was of the Wilbur branch. Although Quakers, several members of the Yocom family were with Ohio troops during the Civil war. Samuel B. Yocom was a native of Pennsylvania and was a child when his parents moved to Belmont County, Ohio, and later to Pennsville. He was a man of fine character, but never accumulated a solid competency because of his over confiding nature of going security for and paying the debts of others. For some time he was in business as a merchant at Pennsville. He was assessor and justice of the peace, and was county treasurer of Morgan County from 1869 to 1873. In politics he was a republican, and he died in 1889, when about sixty-one years of age. His widow, Sarah King Yocom, is now eighty-four years of age and lives with a son at Oberlin, Ohio. Samuel B. Yocom's first wife was Miss DeWees, by whom there is a daughter, the widow of L. J. Harmer, of Pennsville. Sarah King Yocom has four sons: E. K., with whom she lives at Oberlin ; Charles P.; F. R., of Barnesville, Ohio; and J. D., teacher of commercial law at Oberlin College. Charles P. Yocom acquired his early education at Pennsville. He was seventeen years of age when he came to Chester Hill, going to work in the store of Nathan DeWees at a salary of $5 a month. A year later he became an employe for W. S. Smith, and worked behind the counter of his store four years. Following that he went on the road as a commercial traveler for the wholesale dry goods house of Black & Grant at Zanesville. He next became a partner in the mercantile business at Chester Hill with his namesake, Charles Penrose, who sold out his interest to J. C. Spurrier. Mr. Yocom was in this partnership for four years, and since then has been in business under his own name, C. P. Yocom. Along with merchandising he early became interested in banking, and was elected president of the First National Bank. He was also one of the organizers and is secretary of the People 's Telephone Company. Mr. Yocom married Miss Mary Humphreyville, daughter of Leonard Humphreyville, of Bartlett, Ohio. They have one daughter, Mrs. Earl Hodgin, of Chester Hill. Mr. Yocom is a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at McConnelsville, the Royal Arch Chapter at Beverly, and the Chester Hill Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he votes republican. GEORGE E. PEEBLES. A hard working, earnest and kindly physician, who has served several communities in Southeastern Ohio during the past years, Dr. George E. Peebles is a resident of Chester Hill, Morgan County. He represents some old and prominent families of Southeastern Ohio, and has the distinction of being a grandson of the first white child born in Ohio. Doctor Peebles was born on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa, September 4, 1864, son of Chalkley and Agnes (Matthews) Peebles. The Peebles family is of Welsh ancestry. Burwell Peebles, his grandfather, came from Virginia and settled in Belmont County, Ohio. Chalkley Peebles, who was born in Belmont County in 1832, devoted most of his active life to farming. He died at the home of his son, Doctor Peebles, at Chester Hill at the venerable age of eighty- HISTORY OF OHIO - 227 two. He early became a republican, was an abolition. ist, and during the Civil war was a member of the tis cup brigade of the local militia, organized to protect Southern Ohio from Morgan 's raid.. Soon afterward, while the Civil war was still in progress, he moved out to Iowa, engaging in farming in Cedar County, but about 1865 returned to Ohio, living in Marion Township of Morgan County, then in Wesley Township of Washington County. He served as justice of the peace in Wesley Township. He was an active member of the Masonic Order, being affiliated with Mount Olive Lodge. The mother of Doctor Peebles, Agnes Matthews, was a daughter of Rev. Philo Matthews, who was born in the historic block house at Marietta, the first white child born in that, the first permanent settlement of Ohio. He became one of the pioneers in the Methodist Ministry in Ohio, but lived only through young manhood. This minister was also a member of the Masonic Order. Doctor Peebles' mother died in 1899, at the age of sixty-four. Of her four sons and one daughter, one son died in infancy, and the two children now living are Doctor Peebles and his sister, Eleanor Agnes, Mrs. H. S. Addis of Long Beach, California. The other deceased sons were Charles, an oil producer, and Luther W., a graduate of the Iowa Medical College of Keokuk, who practiced medicine at Bartlett in Washington County, Ohio. Dr. George E. Peebles was reared in Morgan County, attending school at Chester Hill and the Liberty School. He spent eight years as a teacher in rural districts in Washington, Morgan and Athens counties, and for a time was a teacher in the High School at Amesville. During 1894-96 he studied medicine in the old Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. Doctor Peebles practiced three years at Stockport, Ohio, spent seven years at Jackson Center and Hardin in Shelby County, and since then has been located at Chester Hill. He has done the heavy work of a country physician in the community, and there is probably no one more genuinely esteemed in that section of the state. He is affiliated with the Mount Olive Masonic Lodge and is a republican in politics. Doctor Peebles married, August 17, 1898, Adelia Geddes, daughter of Henry Geddes, of Stockport. The two children of this union are Gerald, a resident of Kansas City, and Margaret, who died at the age of six years. On February 8, 1908, Doctor Peebles married Mrs. Dolly Archer, daughter of William McPeak, of Rosseau, Ohio. Mrs. Peebles is a. member of the Methodist Church. HON. CHARLES H. FOUTS, a member from Morgan County in the Ohio State Legislature, from 1916 to 1924, as an official rendered some distinctive and able service. He has practiced law at McConnelsville for over thirty years, and is one of the best known citizens in that section of the state. Mr. Fouts was born on a farm in Bristol Township of Morgan County, April 19, 1867. He is a man of sturdy mental and physical mould, and he inherits the characteristics of long lived and sturdy ancestry. His grandfather, Absolem Fouts, was a native of Virginia, and married Nancy Hedges, of that state. In 1820 they came to Ohio and settled in Morgan County, making their home on eighty acres and developing a good farm. Absolem Fouts died in 1871, and his wife, Nancy Hedges Fouts, lived to the great age of ninety-eight. They were enthusiastic Methodists, and Absolem Fouts was a sterling Jackson democrat. They reared a family of ten children. Israel Fouts, father of the McConnelsville attorney, is a resident of McConnelsville, and is now (1924) ninety-two years of age. As a youth he taught the country schools in the old log cabin schoolhouses of Morgan County, and when the Civil war came on he volunteered and served as a private in Company C of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Infantry. Most of his services were rendered in the Shenandoah Valley and around Petersburg, Virginia. He was captured and for some time was held in Libby Prison. After the war he engaged in farming, and was honored with various township offices. He married Margaret Glenn, who died in 1910, at the age of seventy-four. They had two children: Charles H. and Mrs. J. W. Cunningham, of McConnelsville. Charles H. Fouts was reared on the home farm in Bristol Township, attended country schools there, and completed his education in Ohio University at Athens, where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1890. For four years he was a teacher in Bristol and Bloom townships. He would teach one year and then attend college the next year, and in this way he paid for his own higher education. He studied law in the office of J. W. McElhiney at McConnelsville, was admitted to the bar in 1892, and since that year has had a very extensive private practice, involving many of the important cases in his section of the state. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1896, holding that office six years. He served in the Lower House of the State Legislature for eight years. During his last term he was chairman of the judiciary committee. He also held the first chairmanship of the important reference committee, to which all bills are referred before being presented for general consideration to the House. Mr. Fouts is a prominent republican, served two terms as a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and has been a member of various county. district and state conventions. He is a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and teacher of the Bible Class in Sunday School. He is a Master Mason and Odd Fellow, and a member of the County and State Bar associations. In 1889 he married Miss Viola G. Mercer, a daughter of William D. Mercer. They have three daughters: Corinne, wife of Dr. D. G. Ralston ; Louise, wife of Allen G. Biggs, of Kansas City, and Lucy, wife of Eugene J. Bell, of McConnelsville. Mr. Fouts on September 12, 1923, married Rosa M. Birch. WILLIAM WILSON REED, postmaster of the City of Kent under three appointments, two from President Roosevelt, and at present with a commission signed by the late President Harding, Mr. Reed has taken a prominent part in the affairs of his native city. He practiced dentistry there until he first took up his duties as postmaster, and later, with his son, took up an extensive general insurance agency. Mr. Reed was born at Kent, November 21, 1867, son of Levi and Clara C. (Stratton) Reed, both natives of Franklin Township, Portage County, and grandson of James Hastings and Thirsa (Scranton) Reed. James H. Reed spent his active career as a farmer in Portage County, his wife being a member of the Scranton family, extensive landowners. The maternal grandparents of William W. Reed were Joseph Beeman and Ruth (Olin) Stratton, Vermonters, who came overland with ox teams in 1815 and settled on land now included in the Akron Water Works plant. James H. Reed, in addition to his main occupation as a farmer, was a veterinary surgeon, and was one of the first men of that profession in the Western Reserve. Levi Reed after his marriage settled on a farm in Franklin Township, but after three years moved to Kent and became a carpenter in the shop of the Erie Railroad. Following that, with Lauren G. Reed and Luther A. Reed, his brothers, he engaged in the general merchandise business, selling groceries, feed and coal and also 228 - HISTORY OF OHIO operating a livery business. These three brothers had all been soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, and another brother, Leveret, was killed while a soldier. After they had dissolved business partnership Levi Reed continued the livery establishment until his death in 1902. His widow passed away in 1919. Their children were: William Wilson; Lorena, deceased wife of Harry L 'Hommedieu' leaving three daughters; Leona, wife of Samuel H. Boyd, of Akron, and Roy R., of Chautauqua Lake, New York. William Wilson Reed spent his boyhood days at Kent, is a graduate of the high school of that city, and prepared for his profession in the Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery. He received his diploma of graduation March 2, 1887, and just five days later on March 7th, opened his office in Kent. For nearly twenty years, until January 1, 1905, he was a capable and very busy member of his profession. He sold his practice and on January 20, 1905, was appointed postmaster, taking charge of the office February 5th. He was reappointed for another term near the close of Roosevelt's administration. On October 1, 1913, the day he relinquished the office, after a service of over eight years, he entered the general insurance business with his son, Glenn H. This agency has developed into the largest in this section of Ohio, and is now continued by his son Glenn and his son-in-law, Ross Strimple. On July 8, 1922, Mr. Reed was again appointed postmaster of Kent. This postoffice in the meantime had become a first class office, and its administration requires most of Mr. Reed's time and energy. On October 24, 1888, he married Miss Minnie A. Musser, who was born at West Salem, Ohio, daughter of George and Lucetta (Hughes) Musser. Three children were born to their marriage. Hattie M. is the wife of Elson C. Dunlap, a farmer at Hudson, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Mary Dean. The son, Glenn H., previously mentioned, married Harriet Tuttle, and they have a daughter, Frances Katherine. Helen L. is the wife of Ross Strimple and the mother of one son, Reed Strimple. Through all the years of his mature life Mr. Reed has interested himself in community affairs at Kent. He has served as an official and is a member of the Congregational Church. In 1895 he was elected city clerk, serving two years, and in 1898 was chosen for a three year term as a member of the board of education, being treasurer one year, For five years he was a jury commissioner of Port age County. In June, 1917, the City Council appointed him city clerk and in November of the same year he was elected without opposition and was reelected in 1919 and in 1921. In the meantime the title of the office was changed to city auditor. He resigned his connection with the municipal government on June 1, 1922, to become postmaster. At the date of both of his appointments to the office of postmaster he was serving as secretary-treasurer of the Portage County Republican Executive Committee. When the Kent Chamber of Commerce was formed he served seven years as its secretary, work involving a large amount of administrative detail, but all his service was given without compensation. He was one of the committee of three to secure the location of the Ohio State Normal School at Kent. He is affiliated with Akron Commandery of the Knights Templar Masons, and he and his wife are charter members of the local chapter of the Eastern Star. He is a member of the Twin Lakes Golf Club and a charter member of the Rotary Club. His son, Glenn H. Reed, enlisted June 22, 1915, in the Eighth Regiment of Infantry at Akron as mess sergeant, and spent nearly a year on the Mexican Border. He handled all money for supplies for the regiment, and also was in charge of the Eighth Regiment Bank. On June 24, 1915, just two days after his enlistment, he married. SAMUEL N. MANLY. One of the old and stable industries in South Central Ohio is known by the modern corporate title of the Brown-Manly Plow Company. It is an agricultural implement factory located at Malta, with branch houses and distributing stations over numerous states. It is a business that proceeds from the energy and enterprise of two families, the Manlys and Browns. The founder of the Manly family in Ohio was William Manly, who came from Pennsylvania to Belmont County, Ohio, and soon afterward settled in Penn Township of Morgan County. His son, James Manly, was born in Belmont County, but lived from infancy in Morgan County. He had few advantages for education, and as a youth was bound out as an apprentice to a wagon maker at Morganville. When he was seventeen years of age he bought his time, and two years later he and his brother Frank B. established a shop of their own at Chaneyville. Here they made wagons and also the threshing machinery of that period. When the Civil war came on Frank B. Manly went into the Union army, James remaining at home to look after the business. When the war was over James and Frank Manly consolidated their business and partnership with Brown Brothers, John and W. P. Brown. This was the start of the great enterprise now known as the Brown-Manly Plow Company and related industries. At first they manufactured as a specialty the double shovel plows. The president of the corporation today is R. K. Brown, a son of John Brown, one of the original partners. The general superintendent of the business is Samuel N. Manly, a son of James Manly, one of the founders. The original partnership consisted of men each expert in a particular line. The Manly Brothers had made a reputation as thorough workers in both wood and iron. John Brown was also an expert wood worker, while his brother, W. P. Brown, was a blacksmith. In the early history of the plant the product was sold from wagons direct to the farmer with the understanding that the plow was to be paid for in corn. The old plant of the company in Malta was located where the Methodist Episcopal Church now stands. As the business prospered larger quarters were needed, and an old stove foundry was bought. Many additions have since been made, and the company now has large branch establishments in Columbus, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and the product has become a general line of agricultural machinery. James Manly, who died at the age of eighty-two, was a very enthusiastic Mason, served as treasurer of his lodge for many years and reached the Knight Templar Commandery. He was largely responsible for erecting the Masonic Hall in Malta, a building that is now the property of the Manly family. James Manly was a republican in politics. He married Lydia Naylor, a sister of the father of the distinguished Malta citizen, Doctor Naylor. The four daughters of James Manly were: Ada M., deceased, the wife of John C. Brown, of Malta ; Sarah D., deceased, wife of Isaac B. Pickett; Elizabeth, wife of Al Scott, of McConnelsville, and Mrs. Capitola McKeown, of Malta. Samuel N. Manly was born at Chaneyville in Morgan County in 1854, and he learned the business by the same process as the older partners, by actual work in the factory. At the age of fifteen he began an apprenticeship at wood working, subsequently became a pattern maker, then assistant superintendent, and HISTORY OF OHIO - 229 since 1908 has been general superintendent of this important business. He is also vice president of the Malta National Bank, is a director of the Electric Light & Power Company, has served forty years as a director of the Brown-Manly Plow Company, and is a director of the Brown Manufacturing Company at Zanesville. Mr. Manly served for a time as a member of the Malta Town Council. He is a republican, is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Mary White. Their children are: James W., owner of the Twin City Garage at McConnelsville; Josie, wife of Harry Cook, of Malta; Fred. B.; Herbert H.; and Frances, wife of Harold White, a merchant of McConnelsville. JAMES J. CHRISTIE became a worker in granite in his native land of Scotland, and at Malta in Morgan County has built up a prominent industry known as the Malta Monument Works. His shops and yards have supplied a large amount of material for monumental purposes and particularly some very elaborate and costly designs, including the memorial monument to the Sisters of Poor at St. Francis in Cincinnati, and the memorial monument erected in McConnelsville in honor of the veterans of the Civil war, and another in honor of the veterans of the World war. Mr. Christie was born in the Granite Hills of Aberdeen, Scotland, November 29, 1891, a son of George and Barbara (Mitchell) Christie. His parents are each now seventy-one years of age, and are living at Oyne in Aberdeenshire. His father is a retired farmer. An older brother, George Christie, some years ago left Scotland and came to America to work at his trade as a granite cutter in the great quarries at Barre, Vermont. He was there until 1915, when, having returned to Scotland, he enlisted in the British navy and was assigned to duty on a mine sweeper off the coast of England. George Christie was twice wrecked in that very dangerous service, and his brother-in-law, Captain Weatherly, lost his life. While on duty as a mine sweeper he studied engineering, and is now chief engineer of a fishing vessel. His home port, while engaged in mine sweeping, was Harwich, England. James J. Christie was reared in Scotland, attended public schools, and served his apprenticeship as a granite worker. In 1911, at the age of twenty, he came to the United States, also locating at Barre, Vermont. From there in 1913 he came to Malta, Ohio, and in less than three years was in business on his own account. He married in 1918 Miss Mae L. Taylor, daughter of Judge J. S. Taylor. They have one son, Robert S. Mr. Christie has actively identified'himself with all causes effecting the improvement of his home locality. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Consistory of Columbus, and a Knight Templar of New Lexington, Ohio. CHARLES E. REEDER has spent his active life in Central Ohio, with accumulating interests and success in the lumber and manufacturing business and as a farmer and grower of fine live stock. He is stockholder and manager of the Jones Lumber Company of McConnelsville. This is an old and important industry of that city. It was organized in 1868 as the McConnelsville Sash and Door Company, the organizers being Ezra Alderman, S. S. Scott, David Mummey, George M. Hammond, Thomas Hammond and E. W. Beckett. Of these founders of the business Mr. Beckett is the only survivor. In 1898 the business was reorganized as the McKay and Jones Lumber Company, the active men being Robert McKay and Herman T. Jones. Another reorganization in 1908 made the Jones Lumber Company, of which T. J. Bailey is president and Charles E. Reeder manager. Mr. Reeder has been actively identified with the business since 1901, and has had its management since 1904. He was born at Mount Vernon, in Knox County, Ohio, December 17, 1868, the same year that the business of which he is now manager was started. His parents, Wilson V. and Elizabeth A. (Haines) Reeder, were also born in Knox County. His father was an honored and substantial citizen of that county for many years, a farmer and live stock man, served as a Union soldier with an Ohio regiment, and filled a number of offices, including township trustee, assessor and treasurer. He was a staunch republican and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Wilson V. Reeder died in 1909, at the age of sixty-eight years, and his widow now lives at the old home, aged eighty-two. They were the parents of seven children : Emma, wife of L. G. Braddock, a farmer, and owner of a string of fast horses at Mount Vernon ; Miss Olive, of Zanesville ; Della, wife of E. H. Sharp, a farmer of Mount Vernon; Charles ; Myrtle, who married Robert Ash, and died at the age of forty, and they owned a dairy farm and mannfact.= d ice cream at Mount Vernon; Bertha, wife of Robert Porter, of Mount Vernon; and Miss Blanch, living with her mother. Charles E. Reeder, the only son of his parents, grew up on the old farm in Knox County. While a boy he attended the public schools of Union Township, and he remained at home contributing his labor to the farm until he was twenty-one. Since then most of his time has been taken up with some phase of the timber and lumber business. For a number of years he bought and sold staves, heading, and the other hickory timber used in the manufacture of vehicles. He is an expert on quality and values pertaining to the hardwood industry. He bought and sold timber in many parts of Ohio, and for a number of years was associated with D. M. Park & Company of Mount Vernon. He left there in 1901 to come to McConnelsville, where his business connections have already been traced. In addition to his business Mr. Reeder had served two terms on the Town Council. He has never lost his love for the country and everything connected with the farm, particularly live stock. He and his son have one of the fine herds of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in Morgan County. Mr. Reeder owns two farms near McConnelsville, and in addition to his herd of registered Herefords he has a number of fine sheep and hogs. He married in 1898 Miss Ida Moore, of Morgan County. They have three children. The daughter, Moss Lucile, is the wife of Oswald Nixon, an employe of the Jones Lumber Company. The son Beryl Parks, now an employe of the United Cigar Company at Springfield, Ohio, though under age volunteered for service in the World war, and spent eighteen months with the quartermaster 's corps, most of the time at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. The younger son, Charles Raymond, better known as Teddy, has charge of one of his father 's farms, and is specializing in live stock husbandry. Mr. Reeder and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is commander of the local order of the Maccabees, and in politics is a republican. WILLIAM MATHEWS, oil merchant and dealer at Delaware, is one of the very few men who have successfully stood up in a contest against the powerful resources and methods of the Standard Oil Company. His entire career indicates that he has been a man of undaunted courage and energy that no obstacles could overcome. 230 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Mathews was born July 7, 1858, in Hilliar Township, Knox County, Ohio, son of Joseph B. and Miranda (Kempton) Mathews. His grandfather, Henry Mathews, was of German and Irish ancestry, and as a young married man came from Maryland to Ohio. That was in pioneer days. He took employment with a man who owned a very large tract of land covered with heavy timber, and he cut and cleared the timber from a large tract, taking his pay in land. In that way he acquired a farm. For a number of years he lived with the Indians and made friends with them, attending their dances and hunting parties. The maternal grandfather of William Mathews was William Henry Kempton, a native of Maine. Joseph B. Mathews was born, lived and died on one farm in Knox County. He passed away in 1908. He was a republican voter and a member of the Universalist Church. William Mathews was reared on his father 's farm in Knox County, and attended country schools there until he was about twenty, spending all his vacations at work on the farm. During one of these vacations he broke his leg, and being unfitted for the heavy work of the farm he learned the barber 's trade and followed it seven years. Following that he began splitting rails for fencing, and he also took several contracts from the county for ditch work. After about six years of this strenuous labor, having saved some money, he bought a farm of 104 acres. After four years as a general farmer he went into the dairy business. After about eighteen months he disposed of that, and for three years operated a coal yard at Centerburg, Ohio. Mr. Mathews sold out his coal business to become an oil distributor, and that opened for him his permanent vocation. At first he did business at Centerburg and Sunbury. The oil was shipped to him in barrels, and he unloaded half a carload at Centerburg and half a car at Sunbury, and then distributed his product through the surrounding country with horse and wagon. He had a tank wagon, and drove a team of three horses. He operated over a territory forty miles in extent. He had his trade well established when the Standard Oil Company tried to prevail upon him to sell the standard products. He refused, having built up his trade with oils obtained from the independent fields and refineries of Pennsylvania of better quality than those manufactured by the Standard Company. At his refusal the Standard brought to bear upon him their well known methods of influencing or breaking down competition. Finding that he was undisturbed about threats, the company obtained information as to his territory, and sent a man in to sell oil at two cents a gallon less, and this failing to bring the desired results, offered it at another concession of two cents on the gallon. In the face of such destructive competition Mr. Mathews temporarily gave up the fight and, taking a bicycle and sample case, he traveled all over Northern Ohio selling the Eastern Pennsylvania high grade oils in car load lots, his orders being so strong that no cancellation was permissible, since the orders were immediately wired into the refineries and shipments made on receipt of wire. The Standard Company soon had another man on his trail. This representative cut the price a cent a gallon, and did everything possible to cancel the orders. They even hired Mr. Mathews' own brother, who had been working for him, paying him a big salary to represent the Standard Company. However, these unfair methods were so obvious that Mr. Mathews' friends and customers resented them and supported him in the unequal fight. He kept it up until the law came to his relief, and since then in a fair field and no favor he has had no difficulty in building up and maintaining a large volume of business as a dealer and distributor in oil. He has been in the business in Delaware for a third of a century, and his business has been built on the principles of honesty and quality and full value for the money. July 7, 1879, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mr. Mathews married Miss Jennie Rea, daughter of James and Mary (Stark) Rea. Her parents were born and married in Scotland. They came to the United State in the '60s, bringing with them a considerable sum of money, intending to buy a farm. In New York they were robbed of all but $5, which Mrs. Rea had on her person. Knowing an Englishman in Newark, Ohio, they came out to his place and went to work for this Mr. Taylor in his dairy. James Rea was in his service fifteen years, and during that time saved enough to buy a farm in Knox County. The Rea family and the Mathews family lived in the same community, and Mr. and Mrs. Mathews attended school together. They are members of the Reformed. Church of the United States. Mr. Mathews is a Mason and a member of the Protective Home Circle. PETER PAUL RIESKE is mayor of the Village of Shawnee in Perry County. He is a very popular and forceful city executive, a man who gets things done, and has thoroughly deserved the respect and esteem accorded him in his home town, where he is also numbered among the successful business men. Mr. Rieske was born at Dayton Ohio September 5, 1870, son of Constantine and Julia (Wise) Rieske His parents were born and reared in Posen, Prussia, but were married after coming to this country, at Dayton, Ohio. Constantine Rieske served his apprenticeship as a millwright in his native land. After coming to America he acquired citizenship as soon as possible, and in a number of communities was known as a very sturdy, thrifty and upright citizen. He built and operated flour mills in Wisconsin before his marriage, and after coming to Ohio he built the Union Flour Mills at Delphos, the Union Mills at Van Wert, and the roller mills at Xenia. As a miller he sought to introduce the use of cereals into more general use as food, according to the custom with which he was familiar back in his native land. He operated the first corn mills at Dayton. He was a republican, and always a great admirer of General Grant. His brother, Charles Rieske, who also' came to this country, served as a soldier in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, and afterward had a feed mill, grinding feed which was sold to street car companies which used horses and mules for motive power. Constantine Rieske was a member of the Lutheran Church. He died in 1906, at the age of sixty-nine, and his widow is now living at the age of seventy-five. They had a large family of seven sons and five daughters. Peter Paul Rieske spent his boyhood days in several Ohio communities, attending the public schools at Delphos and at Van Wert. He began his apprenticeship to learn the baker 's trade when only twelve years of age at Van Wert, and while supporting himself he continued his education by attending night school. As a journeyman baker he worked in many shops over the country, and for a number of years had charge of the kitchen and dining room at the Ohio State Hospital for the Insane both at Athens and at Columbus, receiving this appointment from Doctor Rorick, the superintendent. Mr. Rieske has been a citizen of Shawnee since 1907, when he and Thomas Elder bought the bakery of which he is now proprietor from his father-in-law, J. P. Elder. Mr. Rieske was a member of the Town Council for four years, and was chairman of the finance committee. Since his election to his office HISTORY OF OHIO - 231 of mayor he has held mayor 's court and as a judicial officer his effort is primarily directed to securing a comprise between contesting parties who appear before him. In 1891 Mr. Rieske married Miss Mary Ellen Elder, daughter of J. P. Elder, of Shawnee. They have an adopted daughter, Mrs. Fred Wiles. HARRY COOK. One of the oldest and most successful industries in the Town of Malta in Morgan County is the Malta Manufacturing Company, a plant that for many years has been manufacturing interior building materials, and in later years has specialized in the manufacture of K. D. window frames. Many years ago it was started as a small planing mill to prepare material for the local building trades. The founder of the business was Amos G. Humphrey. In 1900 the Malta Manufacturing Company was incorporated, and Dr. Lee Humphrey has been president ever since. The secretary and treasurer and general manager is Harry Cook, who has practically grown up with the business. Since leaving school all his working experience has been with this one industry. In former years the plant made balustrades and columns, and now its product is sold and distributed over a territory between St. Louis and Boston. The raw materials come from distant sections, cypress from Louisiana, yellow pine from North and South Carolina and Mississippi, and white pine from Oregon and Washington. It is the only factory in the United States specializing in cypress window frames. The great flood of 1903 destroyed the plant, but it was rebuilt as soon as material and labor could be assembled. Harry Cook has filled every position in the industry up to secretary and treasurer and general manager. He was born August 21, 1878, son of U. M. and Martha (Hixnor) Cook, and was only a child when his mother died. He and his three brothers have all been very successful in business, and all of them had to work their way through school. His brother Herbert is now head of the Logan Pottery Company, Guy is New York branch manager of the American Clay Products Company, and Guy and Harry are joint owners of the Crooksville Pottery Company at Crooksville, Ohio. Harry Cook managed to complete his high school course at Malta. In addition to his business responsibilities he has been a member of the Malta Town Council for eight years. He is secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, member of the finance committee and board of stewards, and recently resigned after twenty years of service as secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school. He has been three times master of the local Masonic Lodge, and is a republican in politics. He married in 1903 a daughter of S. N. Manly, superintendent of the Brown-Manly Company. Their three children are: Martha, Harriet and Jean. EMMETT L. MURPHY, a doctor of dental surgery, has practiced his profession at Corning in Perry County for a quarter of a century. His success in his chosen work and his deep public spirit have made him a leader in the community. Doctor Murphy has spent practically all his life in this section of Southeastern Ohio. He was born in Athens County, in Alexander Township, November 30, 1874, son of O. B. and Aretta (Logan) Murphy. His mother 's grandfather was John Logan, an early settler in Athens County, and her father, Henry Logan, was a farmer and justice of the peace and known all over this section as Squire Logan. The Murphy family came to America before the Revolutionary war, settling in Maryland. The grandfather of Doctor Murphy was Amos Murphy, a farmer and stock raiser in Athens County. O. B. Murphy was, like his father, born in Alexander Township of Athens County, and for half a century has been in the insurance business at Athens, now head of the firm O. B. Murphy & Son, his associate and partner being Frank R. Murphy. O. B. Murphy and wife are active members of the Methodist Church, and he is a Mason. He was born in 1852, and he and his wife have now been married for half a century. They had a family of three sons and two daughters: Clarence, a graduate of Ohio University and in the electrical supply business at Columbus; Frank, in the insurance business with his father ; Emmett L.; Mabel, who graduated from Ohio University, and is the wife of Dr. H. A. Green, of Portsmouth, Ohio ; and Carolyn, who also finished her education in Ohio University, and married F. S. Crooks, an attorney at Columbus. Dr. Emmett L. Murphy was reared in Albany, Ohio, graduating from the high school there at the age of eighteen and subsequently choosing a professional career he entered the Ohio Medical College and was graduated in dental surgery with the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1899. He then located at Corning, and is now rounding out his twenty-fifth year in successful practice. He has served eight years on the City Council and twelve years on the Board of Education, and has been president of both. In a business way he is secretary and treasurer of the Thorp-Repack Coal Company. He is chairman of the Corning Methodist Episcopal Church, has been elected four terms as master of the local Masonic Lodge, is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a republican in politics. During the World war he was active in the Red Cross and as a four-minute speaker. Doctor Murphy has spent all the time possible consistent with his profession out of doors, enjoys hunting and fishing, and is an ardent baseball fan. In his younger years he played second base on the old home baseball team. On December 27, 1899, soon after beginning practice, Doctor Murphy married Miss Mary Rizer, daughter of Dr. James Rizer, of Russellville, Kentucky. She was educated in Notre Dame and in Ohio University. They have two children, Richard, who is a Bachelor of Arts graduate of Ohio University, and Helen, who is finishing her education in Ohio University. CHARLES HENRY STAHL, admitted to the Ohio bar in 1902, has made his professional reputation at Akron, where he is senior partner in one of the most successful firms. He was born in Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio, May 18, 1873, son of Charles and Louise (Dodez) Stahl. His early education was acquired in the public schools of the good old community of Winesburg, and largely through his own efforts and earnings he put himself through college at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1898 and subsequently was awarded the Master of Arts degree. In 1902 Ohio State University graduated him with the Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted to practice in the state courts in June of that year, and to the federal courts of the federal district of Ohio on October 20, 1912. Since 1916 his professional work has been done as a member of the firm Stahl & Andree, at 422 Central Savings & Trust Building. His is a general practice. Mr. Stahl is a former president of the Akron Law Library, and for five years was secretary of the Summit County Bar Association, being also a member of the Ohio State and American Bar associations. He is president of the Summit County Children's Home, 232 - HISTORY OF OHIO and in 1918 was democratic candidate for judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth Judicial District. In Masonry he is past master of Adoniram Lodge, No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Washington Chapter, No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Bethany Commandery No. 72, Knights Templar ; Yusef Khan Grotto, No. 42, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Akron, Ohio. Be belongs to the University Club, Akron City Club, Delta Chi fraternity, Chamber of Commerce, Silver Lake Country Club, and from 1907 to 1922 was member of the Official Board of Trinity Lutheran Church of Akron, Ohio. The various causes took his full participation during the World war. He acted as a four-minute speaker and as secretary of the Legal Advisory Board of the Third District. Mr. Stahl married, September 26, 1906, Miss Cora Belle Snyder, of Akron. They had two children, a son, Charles H., Jr., deceased, and a daughter, Margaret, who is a senior at Central High School in the City of Akron, Ohio. ANTHONY T. SHARSHAL is one of the oldest residents of the Town of Shawnee in Perry County. He has been identified with a number of business interests directly related to the vital welfare and prosperity of the community. He was born September 11, 1852, son of Jacob and Margaret (Coble) Sharshal. His grandfather was also named Jacob Sharshal, and was the founder of the family in America, coming from Alsace-Lorraine to the United States in 1832. He landed in Philadelphia and came direct to Ohio, where he ac- quired a tract of Government land in Hocking County, on the north side of the river, for his two sons, Rudolph and Jacob. At that time all land south of the river had not yet been surveyed by the Government. Jacob Sharshal was one of thirty-five Germans to comprise the original German colony in that section of Ohio. After locating his land he traveled largely by blazed trails through the woods to Chillicothe to file on the land at the land office. Jacob Sharshal, father of Anthony T. became a farmer in Hocking County, and died September 29, 1875. His wife, Margaret Coble, was of French ancestry, and she was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Jacob and Margaret Sharshal were the parents of four sons. The two now living are Adam, who is foreman of the asbestos department of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway shops at Parsons, Kansas, and Anthony T. Another son, Nicholas, was a soldier with the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry, was wounded near Nashville, Tennessee, and died soon afterward in a hospital at Nashville, in September, 1862. The other brother, Joseph, joined the army in August, 1862, in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, was twice wounded, was transferred to the One Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry, and after being disabled for active duty was a guard in Washington until the end of the war. In 1868 he moved out to Salem, Nebraska, becoming a pioneer in that Western country, and died there in 1878. The parents of these children, Jacob Sharshal and Margaret Coble, were married at Lancaster, Ohio. She died September 19, 1867. Anthony T. Sharshal was about nine years old when the Civil war broke out. His two older brothers going into the army, his assistance was needed at home, and at the age of twelve years he left school to help his father on the farm. All his education was acquired in District No. 9, Marion Township of Hocking County. When he was nineteen years of age he left home and went to work for the McKinney Brothers, contractors in building the branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway through Perry County. He was a mule driver and operated a scraper with these contractors, and the work brought him for the first time to the then small village of Shawnee. When he left the railroad construction work he helped open the New York and Central Coal Mines, the Central Mine being at New Straitsville. He was engaged in coal mining five years, and subsequently became a wholesale dealer in ice and domestic coal. He opened the Sharshal Mine, now the property of the Double X Company. In 1902, with his son Frank A., he bought a hardware business, and continuously for over twenty years has been selling hardware in Shawnee. His store was burned out in 1907, causing a heavy loss. Anthony T. Sharshal is a democrat in politics, and he was a member of the building committee when St. Mary 's Catholic Church at Shawnee was built. In the spring of 1878 he married Martha Burns, daughter of Jacob and Eliza Burns. She was born at Eagleport, Ohio. Her father was a cooper by trade, and also operated a ferry at Eagleport. Mr. Sharshal lost his first wife by death March 15, 1883. The three children of this marriage were: Bertha, wife of W. P. Welsh, of Akron; Frank A., whose career is sketched in later paragraphs, and Martha Ellen, wife of Bernard Mitchell, of New Straitsville. The second wife of Anthony T. Sharshal was Elizabeth Sweeney, daughter of William and Margaret Sweeney, of Junction City, Perry County. She died in 1903, leaving two daughters: Margaret, wife of Frank Wilson, of Marysville, Ohio; and Mary, wife of Frank Montell, of Shawnee. Mr. Sharshal on February 7, 1907, married Mrs. Emma (Wilson) Auer, of Columbus, Ohio. Frank A. Sharshal, who is a well known citizen of Shawnee and a coal operator, was born in that town of Perry County, May 14, 1880. He attended the local public and parochial schools, and after leaving school took up clerical wor,k. As a telegraph operator he served the Zanesville & Western Railroad. at various points, and was with the Baltimore & Ohio, also, at various points, and finally with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Steubenville, Wellsville and Cleveland. In 1902 he became associated with his father as a partner in the hardware business, and was with the firm until 1906. In that year he became cashier of the bank at Shawnee, remaining there for fourteen years, until June, 1920. Since leaving the bank Mr. Sharshal has been secretary-treasurer of the Blaire-Sharshal Coal Company and of the GroffSharshal Mining Company. For one term he was treasurer of the Shawnee Town Corporation and Salt-lick Township, and is a republican in politics. In 1904 he married Miss Jessie Grant, daughter of Samuel Grant, of Shawnee. They have a family of two sons and three daughters, Thomas, John, Frances, Catherine and Mary. The son Thomas is now assisting his grandfather in the hardware business at Shawnee. LLOYD C. KIRK, county engineer and surveyor of Columbiana County, was in the aviation service during the World war, and one of the few Americans trained for that service who went overseas. He is 'a native of Columbiana County, and had considerable experience in engineering before he went into the war service. He was born at Salineville, Columbiana County, July 1, 1890. His grandfather, Isaac Kirk, was a pioneer farmer, coal mine owner and operator at Salineville, where he spent most of his active life. William Frank Kirk, father of the county engineer, is now a retired resident of Salineville, where he has spent all his life. He was born there in 1854, and until he retired was engaged in farming, mer- HISTORY OF OHIO - 233 chandising and the insurance business. He is a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. William F. Kirk married Miss Jane Carnahan, of Carrollton, Ohio, who died at the family home in Salineville in May, 1919. There are five children : Clare J., who is employed in the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railway at Philadelphia; Lloyd C.; Mary, wife of Jonah T. Moore, a brick mason at Salineville; Nellie, who married John L. Hutson, a furniture merchant and undertaker at Salineville, and Helen, wife of James Boice, a potter, living at Salineville. Lloyd C. Kirk acquired his early education at Salineville, where he did three years of work in high school. He took the four years' regular course in Ohio Northern University at Ada, and was graduated Bachelor of Science with the class of '14. While there he was a member of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. Soon after graduating he went to work for the American Bridge Company as a draftsman in the offices at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He was there two years, and prior to his military service was in the bridge department of the New York Central Railway, with headquarters at Cleveland. On October 16, 1917, Mr. Kirk began his training in the aviation corps, spending one month at Columbus, Ohio ; two months at San Antonio, Texas, and then at Omaha, Nebraska. On February 1, 1918, he sailed for France, landing at Liverpool February 19, and about a week later crossed the channel to France. He was in the baloon service, and was with that branch in the aviation corps in the great offensive of St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne. Mr. Kirk returned home May 10, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Lee, Virginia, in the same month, having been in the service nearly twenty months altogether. In November, 1920, Mr. Kirk was elected county surveyor and engineer of Columbiana County. His first term officially began September 1, 1921. He was reelected in November, 1922, and his present term began September 1, 1823. His offices are in the courthouse at Lisbon. Mr. Kirk is unmarried. He is a republican in politics, and in Masonry is affiliated with Salineville Lodge No. 348, Free and Accepted Masons, has taken eighteen degrees in the Scottish Rite Consistory at Steubenville, and finished the Scottish Rite degree in Lake Erie Consistory, Valley of Cleveland. He is also a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and Salem Lodge No. 305, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His military affiliations are with John Adams Post of the American Legion at Saline-vine, and Private Eddy Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at East Liverpool. JOHN N. CALHOON, M. D. Graduating from medical college in the centennial year of American independence, Doctor Calhoon has been an honored and useful member of the medical profession nearly half a century, and for nearly forty years his home and practice have been at Lisbon, Columbians. County. Doctor Calhoon was born in Georgetown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1855. His father, Richard Calhoon, born in Pennsylvania in 1821, from early manhood lived at Georgetown, where he married and where he died in 1903, at the age of eighty-two. He was a captain and owner of steamboats on the Ohio River plying between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. During the Civil war he placed his boats and himself at the service of the Federal Government, and frequently ran down the river past the hostile forts. Captain Calhoon was a staunch .republican, a valued member of the Presbyterian Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He married Elizabeth McCurdy, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1832 and and died at Georgtown in 1904. They were the parents of four children: Dora M., who died at Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1901, wife of Smith Curtis, editor and owner of the Beaver Argos and Radical, who died in 1921 ; Ella, who died at Springfield, Missouri, in 1923, widow of John Cagley, a wholesale feed merchant who died in that Missouri city in 1904 ; Susan, of Georgetown, Pennsylvania, widow of John R. Peters, who was a coal mine operator and owner. Doctor Calhoon, fourth and youngest child of his parents, was educated in the public schools of Georgetown, spent four years in Beaver College, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and at the age of twenty-one, in 1876, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. Doctor Calhoon for one year practiced at Rochester, Pennsylvania, spent three years at Fairfield, Ohio, and then for several years was out of practice on account of ill health. He located at Lisbon in 1885, and since that year has rendered a most capable service in medicine and surgery. He is president of the Lisbon Medical Board, is a member of the Columbiana County Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical Association, and the South Side Medical Society of Pennsylvania. He owns his residence and office building on North Market Street. Doctor Calhoon is a republican, a member of the Lisbon Methodist Episcopal Church, and has taken all the degrees, Lodge, Encampment and Canton, in Odd Fellowship. He is a past grand of Concordia Lodge No. 88 at Lisbon, and belongs to the Canton Buckeye at Lisbon. Doctor Calhoon's first wife died in 1904, leaving one daughter, Meta, who is the wife of Howell E. Williams, superintendent of a pattern shop at Salem, Ohio. On September 12, 1918, at Cleveland, Doctor Calhoon married Miss Sadie Dennis, a native of that city, a graduate of the Cleveland High School, and also a graduate nurse by profession. JAMES HENRY HERRING has maintained his home at Mansfield since he was a lad of about fourteen years, and from this now thriving and important industrial city he went forth as a loyal young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He has been long and actively identified with business activities at Mansfield, and is now the executive head of the Herring Motor Company. Mr. Herring was born at Everett, Bedford, County, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1842, and in 1857 the family home was established at Mansfield, Ohio, which was then a mere village. Here his father, George W. Herring, followed his trade, that of blacksmith, until he received the injury that resulted in his death at the age of fifty-seven years, his wife, whose maiden name was. Elizabeth Dennison, having died in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and both having been natives of the old Keystone State, where the respective families were early founded. James H. Herring gained a common school education, and as a youth he learned the blacksmith trade under the effective direction of his father, whose pioneer shop at Mansfield was situated on South Main Street. On the 11th of December, 1861, less than one month after his nineteenth birthday anniversary, Mr. Herring enlisted as a member of the First Ohio Independent Battery of Light Artillery, in the company commanded by Captain McMullen of Mansfield. This battery was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Western Virginia, and with it Mr. Herring continued in active service at the front for a period of three years. He participated in the various campaigns in Northern Virginia, and among the more important battles in which he took part were those of Second Bull Run, Lynchburg, Lexington, Frederick, Boonesboro, South Mountain, Antietam (Maryland), the many stirring battles in the Shenandoah Valley of Vir- 234 - HISTORY OF OHIO ginia, and the engagements of his command in West Virginia, including the Battle of Winchester and many other major engagements. After a record of loyal and gallant service as a soldier of the Union during virtually the entire period of the Civil war Mr. Herring received his honorable discharge, and upon his return to Mansfield he resumed work in his father 's blacksmith shop, of which he eventually became the owner. He finally moved his headquarters from Main Street to the corner of Fourth and Foster streets, where for forty-nine years he made a specialty of manufacturing buggies of high grade, as well as carriages. He installed machinery of the best type and continued to conduct a prosperous manufacturing enterprise until the advent of automobiles made his business unprofitable. He has kept pace with the march of progress and he is now identified with the automobile business, as the head of the Herring Motor Company. His four sons became associated with him in his former manufacturing industry, and the title of the Herring Buggy Company finally gave place to that of the Herring Motor Company. In 1913 Mr. Herring and his sons erected on the site of the former buggy factory the present modern building, 60 by 108 feet in dimensions, two stories and basement, this building being headquarters of the garage and automobile business of the Herring Motor Company, which here has the agency for the Overland, Willys-Knight, Nash and other automobiles, as well as for leading motor trucks, besides which a representative general garage and supply business is conducted by the concern. Mr. Herring takes great satisfaction in still maintaining his association with business interests in the city that has long been his home and with the development and upbuilding of which he has been identified. He has been a trustee of the Mansfield Public Library from the time of its founding, and is still one of its most active members, is an honored member of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce, and has been influential in the activities of the republican party in his home city and county. He was a member of the election board of the county for a period of twelve years, during six of which he was its chairman, and he has been a delegate to state and other conventions of his party in Ohio. He and his family are communicants of the Second Lutheran Church of Mansfield. Mr. Herring has continued to maintain deep interest in his old comrades of the Civil war, and is one of the most prominent members of McLaughlin Post No. 131, Grand Army of the Republic, Mansfield, Ohio, of which he was the commander in 1897. He has served from the beginning as a trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Mansfield, and as such was active in purchasing the site and in erecting the fine building in 1888, this being the headquarters of the Grand Army Post, of which lie is one of the most active members. On December 18, 1866, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Herring and Miss Nancy J. West, who was born and reared at Mansfield, a daughter of the late Sylvester West. The devoted marital companionship of Mr. and Mrs. Herring continued fifty-seven years, lacking a few months, and the gracious ties were finally severed when the loved and devoted wife and mother was summoned to the life eternal, her death having occurred February 21, 1923, and ha^iing brought the supreme loss and bereavement in the life of her husband. The -four sons, John A., George W., Diamond and Leroy, are their father 's associates in the Herring Motor Company, and as citizens and business men are well upholding the honors of the family name. WALTER C. NEVIN, M. D. Engaged in practice at Lisbon, during a period of a third of a century, Doctor Nevin has won success and honor by the faithfulness that has characterized his performance of duty. He is one of the most prominent of the older men of the medical profession of Columbiana County. Doctor Nevin was born at New Waterford, in Columbiana County, September 1, 1862. His grandfather, James Nevin, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish stock, and was six years of age when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Nevin, came to America and settled on a Pennsylvania farm. He grew up in Pennsylvania, and when about of middle age settled in Columbiana County, where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer. He died near Negley in Columbiana County. His wife, Hanna Scott, was a native of Pennsylvania, and died near Enon Valley in that state. John Nevin, father of Doctor Nevin, was born in Unity Township of Columbiana County, in January, 1834, and spent practically all his life in his native county. Most of his years were devoted to farming, but for a portion of his life he was engaged in merchandising at Palestine, and also at New Waterford. In 1889 he moved to Lisbon, and lived retired until his death in January, 1917. He was an active member and an elder in the United Presbyterian Church. John Nevin married Duira Brewster, who was born at Petersburg, Ohio, in 1840, and lives with her only child, Doctor Nevin, at Lisbon. Doctor Nevin was reared in a home of a prosperous farmer and merchant, and some of his early discipline in hard work was acquired on his father 's farm. He attended public schools at Lisbon, graduating from high school there in 1880. Subsequently Doctor Nevin pursued his medical education in two of the oldest and best medical schools of the East, spending one year in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York, and two years in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1890. Continuously since his graduation Doctor Nevin has been devoted to his duties as a physician and surgeon at Lisbon. His offices are on the north side of the Public Square, in a building adjoining the Firestone Bank. Doctor Nevin was health commissioner of Lisbon for three years, and is a member of the County and Ohio State Medical societies. During the World war he offered his services to the United States Government, but was kept at Lisbon. All cases of enlisted men that came under his care were treated without compensation. Doctor Nevin is a republican and a member of the United Presbyterian Church. On January 17, 1887, at Lisbon, he married Miss Della Morrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrow, now deceased. Her father was a blacksmith. The only child of Doctor and Mrs. Nevin is Bruce Morrow, who was born June 6, 1903, and is a senior in the Lisbon High School. SEWARD HARRIS, M. D. A prominent physician and surgeon at Lisbon, Doctor Harris has practiced in Columbiana County for over ten years, and has achieved a position of high rank in his profession in this section of Eastern Ohio. Doctor Harris was born at Lodi, in Seneca County, New York, October 27, 1882. The Harris family has been in America since Colonial times, coming from Holland and first settling in New Jersey. Several generations of the name have lived in Seneca County, New York. Doctor Harris' grandfather was born in Seneca County in 1820, and spent all his life there as a farmer. He died in 1896. The grandmother was Lettice Wyckoff, also a native of Seneca County. Abram W. Harris, father of Doctor Harris, was born in Seneca County, November 26, 1853, was reared and married there, and devoted all his active years to farming. In 1921 he retired, and has since had a home in Lodi, where he spends the summer months, HISTORY OF OHIO - 235 and he lives with his son, Doctor Harris, at Lisbon during the winters. He is an active democrat, and one of the prominent members in the Presbyterian Church at Lodi. Abram W. Harris married Minnie Brooks, who was born in Seneca County, November 8, 1855. They have three children: Herbert, a hardware merchant at Lodi, New York ; John B., a farmer in Seneca County, and Seward. Seward Harris was reared on a farm in Central New York, attended public schools, and first prepared himself for the vocation of teacher. In 1904 he graduated from the Cortland Normal School in New York, and for four years was engaged in teaching at South Orange, New Jersey. Then, in 1908, he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, completing the regular four year course and graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1912. He is a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity. After graduating Doctor Harris spent a year as an interne in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Dayton, Ohio, and located at Lisbon on July 1, 1913. He has ever since been busy with a general practice both as a physician and surgeon, his offices being in the People 's Bank Building. He is a member of the Columbiana County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Harris votes as a republican, is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Lisbon, and is affiliated with New Lisbon Lodge No. 65, Free and Accepted Masons ; Lisbon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Salem Commandery, Knights Templar ; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, an Concordia Lodge No. 88, Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Lisbon. Doctor Harris has one of the attractive homes at Lisbon, located on Lincoln Highway, West. He married at Ovid, New York, September 6, 1911, Miss Jane Bodine, daughter of Joseph S. and Maria (Jones) Bodine. Her mother lives at Ovid, and her father died there after many years' association with farming. Doctor Harris lost his wife by death December 1, 1922. WILLIAM HERMAN GEIGER, who represents a family that has lived in Eastern Ohio for a century, is one of the leading educators of the state, being superintendent of schools of Lisbon. His brother, Franklin Paul Geiger, is an educator also, in Columbiana County, being superintendent of schools at East Liverpool. William Herman Geiger was born near Malvern, in Carroll County, Ohio, December 27, 1879. The farm where he was born and where he grew up is now owned by his brother, Edwin C., and is the original Geiger homestead, settled by his great-grandfather, John Jacob Geiger. This ancestor was a native of Baden, Germany, and came to America in the early '20s Of the last century, settling on and improving the farm noted above in Carroll County, where he spent the rest of his life. His son, John Paul Geiger, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1818, mid was about four years of age when brought to this country. He also made farming his lifelong vocation, and died at his farm near Malvern in January, 1892. His wife was Mary Magdalene Schneider, who died near Malvern. John Jacob Geiger, father of William H. Geiger, was born near Malvern, February 4, 1846, and spent all his life in that community, where he was successfully engaged in farming until his death on May 5, 1918, at the age of seventy-three. He was a very sub, stantial and influential citizen, an active worker in the Reformed Church, and always voted as a republican. His wife, Mary Schory, was born near Minerva, De- cember 4, 1847, and is now seventy-seven years of age. Their children were seven in number, the oldest being Franklin Paul Geiger, above mentioned as superintendent of schools at East Liverpool; Anna S., deceased, was the wife of Clarence Foltz, a farmer near Malvern; Edwin C. owns and operates the old homestead; Emma died at the age of two years; William Herman is the fifth in age; Mary Edna married Herbert A. Weaver, who is in the offices of the Timken Company, automobile accessory manufacturers at Canton, and John Q., the youngest, lives at home. William Herman Geiger 's early associations were with the home farm in the community where the Geigers have lived for four generations. He attended rural schools in Brown Township of Carroll County, graduated from the Malvern High School in 1898, and did his first work as a teacher in the rural district of Stark County, where he continued teaching five years. In the meantime he was spending his summers and other vacation periods advancing his own education in Mount Union College, and in 1910 graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree from that college. He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omego fraternity at Mount Union. In the meantime, from 1903 to 1907, he had been superintendent of schools at Waynesburg, Ohio, and during 1907-08 he taught in the City High School at Alliance. In 1908-09 he was superintendent of schools in Lexington Township of Stark County, doing this work while carrying his studies in college. After graduating Mr. Geiger spent the school year 1910-11 as a teacher in the East Liverpool High School, and during 1911-12 did post-graduate work in the University of Chicago, where he received his Master of Arts degree in June, 1912. While at the University of Chicago he was elected a member of the teachers' fraternity, Chi Delta Kappa. Mr. Geiger was superintendent of schools in Caldwell, in Noble County, from 1913 to 1917, and since the latter year has been superintendent of the city schools at Lisbon. Lisbon has three schools and a staff of twenty-eight teachers, the scholarship enrollment being about one thousand. Mr. Geiger is well known in educational circles, being a member of the Columbiana County Teachers Association, the Columbiana County School Masters Club, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. He is a member of the Lisbon Kiwanis Club, is a republican, is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Noble Lodge No. 459, Free and Accepted Masons, at Caldwell, and Cumberland Chapter No. 116, Royal Arch Masons, at Caldwell. On August 8, 1912, in Knox Township, Columbiana County, he married Miss Esther S. Yaggi, whose parents, Christian and Lucinda (Hoffman) Yaggi, now deceased, were prosperous farmers in that section Mrs. Geiger finished her education in Mount Union College. They have two children, Doris Virginia and Martha Lynette. GEORGE E. HAYWARD, president of the Central National Bank of Marietta, was born in Southeastern Ohio, a member of a pioneer family in that section of the state, was educated for the profession of civil engineering, and his career has brought him an unusual diversity of experiences. He was born at Waterford, Washington County, Ohio, June 9, 1868, son of Barkley and Eliza (Murray) Hayward. His great-grandfather was a captain in Pennsylvania troops during the American Revolutionary war, and for his services received a land grant, which he received in Morgan County. The Murrays came to the Northwest Territory in the years following the close of the Revolution, along with the second installment of permanent settlers from the East. The grandfather of the Marietta banker was Edward Tupper Hayward, a brother of Capt. Rotheus Hayward, one of the prominent figures 236 - HISTORY TO OHIO in the early life in this section of Ohio. Barkley Hayward, son of Edward Tupper Hayward, was born in Washington County, was a farmer, stock dealer and lumberman, and died at the family home in 1909, at the age of sixty-seven. During the Civil war, being too young to join the army, he was a member of the militia known as Squirrel Hunters, organized for the purpose of driving Morgan and his raiders from the state. His wife, Eliza (Murray) Hayward, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, and died at the age of sixty-three. She was of a New Hampshire family, and a lineal descendant of Capt. William McMurray, who as a captain in a regiment of the Pennsylvania line, was with Washington at the battles of Monmouth, Trenton and Redbank, and was a prisoner on the English prison ship Jarvis until exchanged. Subsequently the family dropped the Mc from the name, spelling it simply Murray. George Edward Hayward, only child of his parents, spent part of his boyhood at Beverly in Washington County, where he attended high school, and largely by his own efforts and earnings he paid his way through the engineering department of Ohio State University, working as a draughtsman and doing other work. He graduated with the Civil Engineer 's degree in 1893. He taught one country school, and his first regular employment in his profession was with the Chicago, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, now a part of the Baltimore and Ohio system. He was assistant engineer from 1893 to 1898, and from 1898 to 1900 was county surveyor of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. From 1900 to 1902 he was roadmaster with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, with headquarters at Mankato, Minnesota, on the Minneapolis and Sioux City Division. Resigning this railroad work, he spent the years from 1902 to 1904 as manager of the Bronson Portland Cement Company, Bronson, Michigan, leaving there to return to Marietta, where in 1904 he became president of the Rudd Hayward Lumber Company. This was a business for the manufacture as well as the sale of lumber. Mr. Hayward in 1912 became vice president of what was then the German National Bank, serving as vice president and managing director until 1915, when he was elected president. This is now the Central National Bank. He is treasurer of the Marietta Refining Company, and is interested in a number of oil producing organizations. He is president of the S. A. Mullikin Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the New American Oil Company, Marietta, also treasurer of the C. & M. Amusement Company of Marietta. Mr. Hayward married, June 29, 1897, Katherine G. Truesdell, daughter of the late John W. Truesdell. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward are Presbyterians, and their home life is their supreme association. Fors nine years Mr. Hayward was a member of the board of trustees of his church, and is a member of the Country Club. JOHN L. GLEASON, present director of public service and safety for the City of Girard, spent his early years as an educator, and was identified with the public schools of Girard for a time. He is a chemist, and was in the chemical warfare division during the World war. Mr. Gleason was born at Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York, July 11, 1886, member of a family that has been in New York for over a century. He is of English ancestry. His grandfather, John Gleason, was born at Kinderhook, New York, and from early manhood followed his trade as blacksmith at Auburn. He married Alma Friedell, a native of Germany, who died at Auburn, New York. Robert Gleason, father of the Girard public official, was born at Auburn, New York, in 1843, was reared and married there, but spent most of his adult life at Union Springs, engaged in farming. He died there in June, 1888. He served as a soldier in the Civil war four years, enlisting at the age of eighteen, in 1861, in Seward 's Light Artillery, and attained the rank of sergeant. During his four years of military experience he participated in many of the great battles in Virginia and Maryland, including Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Chancellorsville and the Wilderness. He was a staunch republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Robert Gleason married Mary Lawrence, who was then the widow of William Daly, who had been a New York State farmer. By this marriage there is a daughter, Ella K., wife of Edgar K. Dun Van, a physician and surgeon at Sioux City, Iowa. Mrs. Robert Gleason was born at Aurora, New York, and now lives at Rochester, that state. By her second marriage she has four children : James, an electrician at Caledonia, New York; Robert J., assistant traffic manager for the Wheeling Steel Corporation, living at Wheeling, West Virginia ; Max, a retail grocer at Rochester, New York; and John L. John L. Gleason attended public schools at Union Springs, New York, graduating from high school there in 1903. He then entered Cornell University, at Ithaca, graduating in 1907, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Gleason served four years as principal of schools at Walker, New York, for four years was principal at Honeoye, New York, and in 1916 came to Girard, Ohio. For one year he was principal of schools there, but resigned in 1917 to become foreman in the testing laboratory of the Brier Hill Steel Company 's plant at Youngstown. This work he resigned to enlist on April 1, 1918, for duty in the chemical warfare division, in which he held the rank of first sergeant. He was stationed on duty at Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, receiving his honorable discharge February 15, 1919. Mr. Gleason then returned to his old position with the Brier Hill Steel Company. He served there until January 1, 1922. From 1920 to 1922 he was city clerk of Girard, and since 1922 has been director of public service and safety. He is a trustee of the Girard Public Library. Mr. Gleason, who is unmarried, is a republican, a member of the First Christian Church and a teacher in the Bible School. He is past chancellor commander of Friendship Lodge No. 65, Knights of Pythias, deputy grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of the State of Ohio, and in October, 1923, was a delegate to the Grand Lodge at Toledo. He is also a member of the Girard Kiwanis Club. LAWRENCE ANDRESS SACKETT. The Electric League of Columbus, in which Lawrence A. Sackett has been honored with the office of president, comprises all the corporations, firms and individuals engaged in the various branches of electrical trade, electrical manufacture and electrical construction in the city. Its purpose is not only of mutual benefit and protection of its members, but the protection of the public and the general interest and welfare of the electrical industry. It is one of the most useful business organizations in the city. The honor of being elected president came to Mr. Sackett as a result of his long established experience and leadership in the electrical business. He is president of the Sackett Mine Supply Company, the primary feature of whose business is handling electrical supplies. Mr. Sackett was born at Columbus, in 1877, son of Herbert R. and Mary H. (Andress) Sackett, and on both sides represents pioneer Ohio families. His grandfather, Rev. John Buell Sackett, and Rev. Lucius Andress were both Baptist ministers. Her- HISTORY OF OHIO - 237 bert R. Sackett was for many years engaged in the coal mining industry, with headquarters both at Columbus and Athens, and his home is at Columbus. Lawrence A. Sackett attended public schools in Columbus, was also a student in Ohio State University, and is one of the loyal sons of his alma mater. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the old Fourteenth Ohio Infantry of the National Guard, and he was one of the members of this regiment to volunteer for active duty in the Spanish-American war in 1898. It was in 1898 that the Sackett Mine Supply Company was founded. The first headquarters of the business were at Athens. Lawrence A. Sackett was associated in the establishment with his father. The company was incorporated in 1899, and since 1900 the home of the business has been in Columbus, while its trade relations cover practically the entire mining district of Ohio and adjoining states. The company has been an important factor in developing Columbus as one of the great wholesale and distributing centers of the Middle West. This company specializes in mining machinery, starting on that basis, but for a number of years it has been increasing its line of general electrical machinery and other electrical equipment, and these now constitute the largest source of this business. Mr. Sackett is a member of the Optimist Club, and belongs to a number of social and civic organizations of his home city. He married Miss Albertino Briscoe, and their two children are Lawrence B. and Sarah Jane Sackett. HON. ALLEN C. MCDONALD has practiced law at Dayton fora quarter of a century, during which time he has won an enviable professional standing, representing a number of important interests, including the Dayton Building and Savings Association, of which he is secretary. He has also served several terms in the State Legislature, and is a recognized authority on the subject of taxation. Mr. McDonald was born near Laura, Miami County, Ohio, November 29, 1869, son of William and Carrie (Burns) MeDonald. His father is still living. His education in public schools was supplemented in Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, following which he was appointed to a clerkship in one of the government departments at Washington. While there he carried on his law studies in Georgetown University, was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1896, and the following years received the Master of Laws degree. He was admitted in 1897 to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. His work in the treasury department brought him the personal commendation of Secretary Gage, and as a result he was transferred to larger responsibilities in New York. After coming to Dayton in 1899 Mr. McDonald took up the practice of law, and has steadily served an important clientage. The Dayton Building and Savings Association, of which he is secretary and attorney, is capitalized at $10,000,000. He is also attorney for the Brookville Building and Savings Association, attorney for the South Park Savings Bank, and secretary and attorney for the Huber Fire Proof Garage Company, and a director and attorney of the Montgomery Realty Company. He was elected and served as a member of the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General assemblies of Ohio. At that time, and for many years since, he has been deeply interested in problems of taxation. In 1914 he was republican nominee for prosecuting attorney for Montgomery County, and in 1916 appeared in the race for lieutenant governor, but withdrew before the campaign was over. In 1922 he was again elected a member of the General Assembly, and served as vice chairman of the committee on taxation. He was a member and secretary of the Republican County Central Committee in 1907-08, and served as an alternate delegate at the National Republican Convention in 1908. Mr. McDonald is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of many other fraternal societies. On August 3, 1893, he married Miss Mary A. Murray, of Hagerstown, Indiana, daughter of Thomas and Mary Murray, both deceased. She was educated in the schools of Hagerstown and at New Castle, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have one daughter, Mary Francis, who is the wife of John H. Sutton, associated with the Dayton Building and Savings Association. JAMES NORRIS GAMBLE, one of the founders of Cincinnati's great soap industry, was born in that city August 9, 1836, son of James and Elizabeth Ann (Norris) Gamble. He is a graduate of Kenyon College in Ohio, taking his Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1854, and his Master of Arts degree in 1857. He also pursued special work in chemistry at the University of Baltimore. This special knowledge he used as a member of the firm of Proctor & Gamble, manufacturers of soap, candles and oils. He was a member of this firm from 1862 to 1890, and since 1890 has been vice president of the Proctor & Gamble Company. He has also served as president of the Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad Company, was mayor of Westwood in 1895, and is a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University. He married Miss Margaret Penrose in April, 1862. NEVIN OTTO WINTER, Toledo attorney, author and traveler, is an authority on Northwest Ohio history, and is one of the advisory council of the present history of Ohio. Mr. Winter was born at Benton, Ohio, June 14, 1869, son of Adam and Ella (Dunlap) Winter. His father was a merchant. Mr. Winter graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1891, took his law degree in Ohio State University in 1897, and since that year has been a member of the Toledo bar. Ohio Wesleyan awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 1916. He has been a trustee of the Toledo Public Library since 1916, and is a director and was one of the organizers of the Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio. Mr. Winter has been active in republican politics, having spent several weeks campaigning during the Harding campaign in 1920. He is a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. Much of his time has been spent in travel. He has a gift for seeing things that most travelers pass unnoticed, and has been a prolific writer of books of travel and history. His principal works are : Mexico and He,r People of Today, first published in 1907 and revised and republished in 1912, 1918 and 1923; Guatemala and Her People of Today, 1909; Brazil and Her People of Today, published in 1910 and revised in 1918; Argentina and Her People of Today, 1911; Chile and Her People of Today, 1912; The Russian Empire of Today and Yesterday, 1913; Poland of Today and Yesterday, 1913; Texas, the Marvelous, 1916; History of Northwest Ohio, 1917; Florida, the Land of Enchantment, 1918; The New Poland, 1923; Seeing Yellow, 1925. Mr. Winter traveled 'through Eastern Europe in 1919 as a special correspondent for Leslie's Weekly, the Christian Herald and a syndicate of newspapers, and in 1922 traveled through China and Japan for a newspaper syndicate. He has written many short and 238 - HISTORY OF OHIO special articles for such periodicals as World's Work, North American Review, Current History, Leslie's Weekly, Christian Herald, National Geographic Magazine, Travel Magazine, Overland Monthly and the Independent, and has also been a lecturer on travel subjects. He is a member of the Pan-American Society of New York, American Society for Political and Social Science; is a Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Phi, is an advisory member of the National Travel Club of New York, a member of the National Geographic Society, the Rotary Club and is a trustee of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church of Toledo. FRANK WARREN LANGDON, M. D., one of Ohio 's foremost psychiatrists, was born in Cincinnati, in December, 1852, son of Oliver Cromwell and Jane Dorsey (Aydelott) Langdon. He graduated in medicine at the Miami Medical College in 1881, pursuing post-graduate studies in London and Paris. Since 1880 he has practiced at Cincinnati, his work for some years being limited to consultations in nervous and mental diseases. He has been consultant on the staff of various hospitals, is the meritorious professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine in the University of Cincinnati, and attending specialist in neuro-psychiatry for the United States Veterans Bureau of District Seven. He is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine of England, honorary member of the Brooklyn Society of Neurology, member of the American Neurological Association, American Medico-Psychological Association, was in 1902-03, chairman of the section of nervous and mental diseases of the American Mental Association, served as president in 1907 of the Academy of Medicine in Cincinnati, as president in 1919-20, of the Neurological Society of Cincinnati, and is known in scientific circles for many contributions to the journals of medicine. In 1898 he wrote the book, " The Aphasias and Their Medical-Legal Relations." ROBERT WEBSTER DINGEE, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Coal Company at Ashtabula, has been in the service of that corporation and its predecessor at Ashtabula since leaving the public schools when a boy. Mr. Dingee was born at Kingsville, in Ashtabula County, July 7, 1876. The Dingee family is of Holland-Dutch ancestry, and was established in New York State in Colonial times. His grandfather, William Dingee, was born in New York, and during the '30s moves to Willoughby, Ohio, where he died in 1844. His wife was Lucy Alvord, a native of Willoughby, where she spent all her life. Obed J. Dingee, father of Robert W., was born at Willoughby in Lake County, December 23, 1842, was reared there, and as a young man went to Kingsville, Ashtabula County, and until 1880 was with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway as station agent. On leaving the railway service he moved to Ashtabula and engaged in railroad construction work, and in 1883 went with the Youghiogheny River Coal Company, and continued with that corporation the rest of his life. However, some years before his death the Pittsburgh Coal Company succeeded to the Youghiogheny Coal Company's interests. His death occurred at Ashtabula January 10, 1910. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Obed J. Dingee married Agnes F. Fobes, who was born in Monroe Township of Ashtabula County, May 20, 1849, and died at Ashtabula December 9, 1909. They were the parents of five children: Myrta, who died when nine years old ; Orin, who died at the age of six ; and James, who died aged eight months; Robert W.; and Obed, who lives at Rochester, New York, and is sales engineer for the Spencer Turbine Company. Robert Webster Dingee was four years of age when his parents moved to Ashtabula, where he began his education. His attendance in public school continued until he was fourteen years old, he having in the meantime, when only eleven years of age, begun to work as office boy for the Youghiogheny River Coal Company. His progressive responsibilities led up to the position of dock foreman, and in 1900, when the Pittsburgh Coal Company took over the Youghiogheny interests, he was made cashier of the local offices and since 1911 has been superintendent. The Pittsburgh Coal Company is the largest corporation in the United States producing and distributing soft coal. The local offices are in the New York Central Railroad Building on Columbus Street in Ashtabula Harbor. Mr. Dingee is a stockholder in the Pittsburgh Coal Company and also in the Marine National Bank of Ashtabula. He is a man of congenial social qualities and is affiliated with Rising Sun Lodge No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Ashtabula, Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler, is past chancellor of Unity Lodge No. 133, Knights of Pythias, and past chief ranger of Court McKinley No. 3875, Independent Order of Foresters. He is a republican and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. During the World war Mr. Dingee was assistant chief of the American Protective League in the State of Ohio. His home is at 98 Station Street in Ashtabula. He married in that city August 22, 1899, Miss Lula Dorman, daughter of Augusta T. and Mary (Root) Dorman, now residents of Pasadena, California, where her father is a dry goods merchant. Mr. Dingee lost his first wife by death May 16, 1906. On June 10, 1910, at Ashtabula, he married Miss Grace V. Johnson, daughter of John I. and Viola (Simms) Johnson, residents of Ashtabula, her father being a retired farmer. The second wife of Mr. Dingee died March 27, 1919 leaving one daughter, Roberta Kathryn. On April 23, 1920, Mr. Dingee married Mrs. Margaret (Ryan) Belnap, daughter of James and Katherine (Ryan) Ryan, her mother now deceased. Her father is a resident of Willoughby, Ohio, and connected with the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad. BURRITT B. SEYMOUR. One of the families early identified with the Western Reserve of Ohio in Ashtabula County is represented by Burritt B. Seymour, president of the National Bank of Ashtabula. Mr. Seymour entered the service of this bank when he was a young man, and has been with it forty years, except for the period he served as the first state superintendent of banks in Ohio. Mr. Seymour was born at Plymouth, Ashtabula County, February 5, 1856. The Seymours came from England to Litchfield County, Connecticut, in Colonial times. Like many other of the first settlers of the Western Reserve the founder of the family in Ohio, Titus Seymour, was a native of that state, and in 1809 he established his home in a wilderness country near East Plymouth, where he developed a farm and where he lived out his life. Titus Seymour was the great-grandfather of the Ashtabula banker. His son, Bennett Seymour, was born in Connecticut, and was a child when the family came to Ohio. He followed farming as his vocation and died at Ashtabula in 1866. Leverett Seymour, father of Burritt B., was born in East Plymouth, in 1830. was reared and married there, and subsequently moved to Monona, Iowa, where he engaged in farming until his death on March 16, 1866. Monona is in Clayton County, Iowa. He is a HISTORY OF OHIO - 239 republican in polities, and an active supporter of the Episcopal Church. Leverett Seymour married Nancy Gillett, who was born at Sheffield, Ashtabula County, in 1835, and died at Ashtabula January 26, 1884. She was the mother of two children, Burritt B. and Mary E. Mary, who died at Ashtabula January 6, 1917, was the wife of George C. Hubbard, an Ashtabula manufacturer. Burritt B. Seymour was a child when his parents moved out to Iowa, and he lived there until he was twelve years of age, attending the common schools in Clayton County. With his mother he then returned to Ashtabula County, and continued his schooling in Ashtabula, graduating from high school in 1874. For four years he was clerk in the Ashtabula Postoffice, and was employed at several other things until the year, 1882, when he became an employee of the Ashtabula National Bank. The Ashtabula National Bank had been established ten years earlier, in 1872. In 1897 it was reorganized, at which time the name was changed to the National Bank of Ashtabula. This is one of the sound financial institutions of northeastern Ohio, with capital stock of $200,000, surplus and profits of nearly $200,000, and deposits of over $2,000,000. The officers of the bank today are: B. B. Seymour, president; F. E. Crosby, vice president; H. R. Faulkner, cashier. Mr. Seymour entered the bank as a minor clerk, but he possessed some of the qualifications that make a real banker and in a few years he was promoted to cashier. He continued as cashier after the reorganization of the bank in 1897. In 1908 he resigned his position in Ashtabula banking circles to accept the appointment tendered by Governor Andrew L. Harris to become the first superintendent of banks under the new state law creating that position. It devolved upon Mr. Seymour to organize the State Banking Department, and he remained in the office until 1910, having served a portion of his term under Governor Harmon. In 1910 lie returned to the National Bank of Ashtabula, and has since been president of that institution. Mr. Seymour is also president and treasurer of the Ashtabula Water Supply Company, is a director and treasurer of the Ashtabula Telephone Company, and vice president of the Ashtabula Hide and Leather Company. His has been a business career without diversion in politics beyond exerting a helpful influence in community affairs. He is a republican voter, is a vestryman of St. Peter 's Episcopal Church, is a member of the Lake Shore Country Club, and is a trustee of Lake Erie College at Painesville. During the World war he acted as treasurer of the Ashtabula County Chapter of the Red Cross, and gave his assistance to all the patriotic drives made during that period. Mr. Seymour lives in a country home adjoining Ashtabula, having sixteen acres of land in his homestead. He married at Painesville, Ohio, February 11, 1890, Miss Mary H. Greer, daughter of William F. and Cornelia (Huntington) Greer, now deceased. Her father was a farmer and for a time was secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. Mrs. Seymour finished her education in the Lake Erie College at Painesville. She died at Ashtabula July 22, 1906. Mr. Seymour's only child is Eleanor P., who graduated from the National Cathedral School at Washington, District of Columbia. She is now the wife of Holland A. Hubbard, a resident of Toledo, where he is engaged in the real estate business. WINFIELD SCOTT SLOCUM, one of the younger members of the Ohio bar, now practicing at Painesville, is an ex-service man. He was born at Newtonville, Massachusetts, January 8, 1891. His father also bore the name of Winfield Scott Slocum, was one of the prominent attorneys of Massachusetts for many years. Born at Grafton, that state, May 1, 1848, he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1869, being a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity. Studying law in his father 's office, he practiced for a time at Worcester, Massachusetts, then at Boston, and for many years made his home at Newtonville, where he died in January, 1915. He held the office of city solicitor of Newtonville for a longer period than any other incumbent of that office. He was also a member of the State Legislature a number of terms, was a republican, served as moderator of the Congregational Church and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife, Ann Pulsifer, was born at Newtonville in 1850, and died there in 1899. The Painesville attorney, Winfield S. Slocum, represents the third successive generation in the family in the profession of law. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduating from high school in 1909, and in 1913 he graduated also with the Bachelor of Arts degree from his father 's alma mater, Amherst College. He was likewise made a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Amherst. In 1916 he graduated Bachelor of Laws from the Harvard Law School, and from the fall of 1916 until December, 1917, engaged in practice at Boston. In May, 1917, he enlisted for duty in the field artillery of the Massachusetts National Guard, and on January 12, 1918, was sent to Columbus, Ohio, to the School of Military Aeronautics. Later he was transferred to Texas, then to the Wilbur Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio, and finally to Camp Jackson in South Carolina. He received his honorable discharge January 4, 1919. He had been commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service March 23, 1918, and is now second lieutenant, Aviation Service, Officers' Reserve Corps. After leaving the army he was temporarily engaged in the insurance business, first in Boston and then in Akron, Ohio, and in January, 1920, resumed his law practice, associated with the well-known Akron firm of Sieber, Sieber & Amer. Mr. Slocum came to Painesville, February 8, 1921, and became an associate of the law firm of Alvord & Blakely. He is a former president of the Painesville, Athletic Club, is a member of the Painesville Kiwanis Club, the Lake County Bar Association, the Congregational Church and in politics is a republican. He married at Columbus, Ohio, March 23, 1918, the same day that he received his commission in the army, Grace Lienhard. She was born at Bellevue, Ohio. They have one son, Winfield Scott III., born February 20, 1920. AUSTIN S. McKITRICK, M. D. One of the well known members of the medical profession of Hardin County, Dr. Austin S. McKitrick, of Kenton, is the founder of the hospital which bears his name, and a surgeon of much more than local reputation. He has been engaged in the practice of his calling for a period of thirty-six years, during which time he has gained the confidence and esteem of a large following and the respect of his fellow-practitioners. Doctor McKitrick was born at Plain City, Union County, Ohio, October 8, 1863, and is a son of Harry S. and Harriet C. (Hemenway) McKitrick, the former a native of Licking County, and the latter of Vermont. The parents were well educated in the schools of Ohio, and passed their lives on a farm in Union County, where both died. Austin S. McKitrick was reared on the home farm, and attended the district schools of Union County, but had no inclination for an agricultural career, preferring one of the professions. However, at that time the family finances were low and means were not at hand for him to continue his education. This did not deter 240 - HISTORY OF OHIO him, and by teaching school he earned enough to take him through the Ohio Normal University and later through the Cincinnati Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1888. He also received a like degree from Western Reserve College at Cleveland in 1902. He has continued to be a student of his calling, and in 1914 went to Europe and studied in some of the leading universities of Berlin, Paris and Vienna, specializing in surgery. Following his graduation in 1888 Doctor McKitrick began practice, and for a number of years was a general practitioner. His predilection, however, was for surgery, and gradually he began to give more and more of his attention to this branch of his calling. He has been identified with Antonia Hospital at Kenton since its organization, and in 1918 founded his present institution, McKitrick Hospital, of which he has since been proprietor and chief surgeon. He now limits his practice entirely to surgery, and is local surgeon for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad and the Big Four Railroad. He keeps fully abreast with the advancements being made in surgery, and is a member of the Hardin County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. As a fraternalist he holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his religious connection is with the Church of Christ. Doctor McKitrick married Miss May Donaldson, of Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, who graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the same class with her husband. To this union there have been born two children: Donald K., a graduate of Kenton High School and a student of the Ohio State University; and Austa, a graduate of high school and Oberlin College, degree of Master of Arts, and now the wife of Dr. W. A. McIntosh, a prominent physician of Oberlin, Ohio. ROBERT H. NIMMONS, president of the Peoples National Bank of Plymouth, Richland County, was born in Dekalb County, Indiana, December 16, 1855, and ten years later the family home was established on a farm near Plymouth, Ohio, where he was reared to adult age, his educational advantages having been those of the public schools of Richland County. The old homestead farm, south of Plymouth, still remains in the possession of the family. Mahlon Nimmons, father of the subject of this review, was born in this county, a son of Samuel Nimmons, who here settled in an early day and who developed the farm of which mention is made above. Robert H. Nimmons continued his alliance with the industrial activities of the home farm until 1886, where he established himself in the hardware business at Plymouth. With his nephew, S. E. Nimmons, as a partner, Mr. Nimmons continued the enterprise under the firm name of Nimmons & Nimmons for a period of twenty-three years, and the old and well ordered business is now continued under the effective control of his son, Fred M. Mr. Nimmons has been one of the progressive business men and liberal citizens of Plymouth for a long term of years, and in addition to his business interests in this thriving little city he is the owner of three valuable farms in Richland County. He is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and has been influential in its local councils and campaign activities as a member of its executive committee in Richland County. Mr. Nimmons married Miss Maggie Upp, of Huron County, and they have two children: Fred M., who is engaged in the hardware business at Plymouth, as successor of his father in this line of enterprise, and Mayme, who is the wife of S. C. McDonough, of Cleveland, this state. The Peoples National Bank of Plymouth was incorporated November 16, 1903, and initiated business on the 2d of the following January, with a capital stock of $25,000. In 1908 the institution absorbed the old First National Bank of Plymouth, and its capital stock has since been $50,000. Its surplus fund is of equal amount to its capital stock, and its deposits, as shown in its official statement of April 3, 1923, are $468,524.19. H. J. Wilmot was the first president of the Peoples National Bank and Mr. Nimmons was made vice president at the time of incorporation. Upon the retirement of Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Nimmons succeeded to the presidency of the institution, the other officers of which are as here noted : John I. Beelman, vice president ; J. E. Nimmons, cashier, and C. M. Lofland, assistant cashier. PHILIP E. WARD. His first choice of a career made Philip E. Ward an educator, and he has been identified with that profession more or less through a period of thirty years. However, at times he has given his attention to commercial affairs, but is now back at his first love, and is a very capable and highly esteemed superintendent of city schools of Chardon. Mr. Ward was born at Willoughby, in Lake County, Ohio, October 13, 1873. His great-grandfather, Elijah J. Ward, came from Vermont to Northern Ohio and was one of the very earliest preachers and circuit riders of the Methodist Church in the Western Reserve. His son, Ethan Allen Ward, became a farmer in Lake County, and died at Willoughby. His wife, Lucy Carroll, also died there. Further back the Wards were a family that came from England to America in Colonial times, and Professor Ward has Revolutionary ancestors. Joseph A. Ward, father of Philip E., was born at Willoughby, January 20, 1848, and from birth he lived on and during his active career cultivated the old homestead farm, remaining there until 1910, when he sold the land to the Andrews Institute for Girls. However, he still retains the residence, which has been remodeled into a very comfortable modern home. He has been retired since 1910. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist Church. The wife of Joseph A. Ward was Cornelia Ferguson, who was born at Willoughby, August 16, 1853. Of their four children the oldest and only son is Philip E. Anna died when twenty-two years of age. Ethel G. is now head of the English department in the West High School of Commerce at Cleveland. Lucy F., the youngest, has made successful use of her business talents in New York City, where she is member of the firm Ward & Rome, interior decorators. Philip E. Ward was reared at the old home near Willoughby, attending public schools there, and graduating from high school in 1892. Subsequently he pursued his college education in Ohio State University at Columbus, and graduated Bachelor of Philosophy there in 1899. At Ohio State he became a Kappa Sigma. In the meantime for three years he had taught school at Kirtland, Ohio, and after graduating he returned, in 1899, and was principal of schools there for two years. Beginning in 1901 he was principal of the high school at Willoughby one year, and three years superintendent of schools at Mentor. About that time he was diverted into business, having bought a store at Willoughby and continued a merchant there until 1908, when he sold out and went to the Northwest. At Wenatchee, Washington, he bought some orchard property, and also engaged in the real estate business, and was there seven years, part of the time HISTORY OF OHIO - 241 being a teacher in the high school. On returning to Ohio in 1915 he was a teacher of the public schools of Cleveland two years, and soon after America entered the World war he taught foreign service with the Young Men's Christian Association. He landed at Liverpool and then at La Havre, France, in August, 1918, and was on duty at Bazoilles-sur-LeMeuse, then at Lerouville and finally Romagne, France. Romagne is the location of a large plot of land dedicated. for cemetery purposes to the American Army. One feature of his Young Men's Christian Association war work was the organization of schools for 700 illiterate negroes. Leaving France, Mr. Ward arrived in New York City July 1, 1919, and for a year was connected with the educational department of the Young Men's Christian Association at Cleveland. He has been superintendent of schools at Chardon since 1920. The city schools of Chardon have an enrollment of 500 scholars, a staff of seventeen teachers, and there are two school buildings. Mr. Ward is a republican in politics. He was quite active in the party while in Washington, and in 1916 was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago, and served as secretary of the Washington State Delegation. He was president of the Board of Trustees of the Congregational Church at Wenatchee, Washington, and fraternally is affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons, is now in his second year as high priest of Chardon Chapter No. 106, Royal Arch Masons, is a member of Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knights Templar, at Painesville, Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Kiwanis Club of Chardon. Mr. Ward is a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association and is a former member of the Cleveland Schoolmasters Club. Mr. Ward has some valuable property interests, including one of the most attractive homes at Chardon, at 130 South Street, and he also owns a farm of eighty acres in Geauga County and some orchard property in the State of Washington. On July 12, 1901, at Chardon, he married Miss Grace Cowles, daughter of L. Converse and Martha (Fox) Cowles, her mother a resident of Chardon. Her father, who died there, was a farmer and for a number of years a dealer in agricultural implements. Mr. and Mrs. Ward. have one daughter, Martha Cornelia, now a senior in the Chardon High School. HARVEY E. SMITH, of Marietta, is an interesting example of a business man who enjoys the pursuit of his work for the results accomplished equally as well as the financial rewards of his efforts. Not only in Southeastern Ohio, where he was born and reared, but in many states, particularly those states in districts where petroleum is produced, the name of Harvey E. Smith is widely known in connection with Smith and Dunn and other organizations for oil production. His interests extend into Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Old Mexico. It was in Morgan County, at Chesterhill, that he was born, May 27, 1863, son of Humphrey and Susanna (Lewis) Smith. Both Mr. Smith's parents were of Quaker parentage, and all their lives were faithful adherents to the teachings of that church. Susanna Lewis was born in 1832 and died in 1891, being the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Moore) Lewis, of Harrison, County, Ohio. Humphrey Smith was born in 1829, and died in 1912, being a native of Belmont County, Ohio. His people as Quakers were active in the so-called underground railway, by which many fugitive slaves from the South were assisted toward freedom. His career was that of a farmer, merchant and drover, and he. took many droves of stock over the old National Road to market. He also had some part in the early oil development in Ohio. He was a republican in politics. Humphrey Smith and wife had six children, the four now living being: Howard L., a farmer at Stockport in Morgan County; Albert P., a farmer at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania; Harvey E., and Edith V., wife of F. D. Fleming, who is now located at Muncie, Indiana. The oldest son of the family, Frank L., born in 1855, and died in 1915, was for a long time a merchant at Chesterhill, but was employed by the Marietta Safe Cabinet Company at the time of his death. The other deceased son was the late C. C. Smith, who was principal of the School of Mines at Socorro, New Mexico. Harvey E. Smith when a boy of fourteen made a trip with his father driving cattle over the roads to the eastern markets, and quite recently in his car drove over the same road and recognized many of the old stopping places by the wayside. He acquired his early education in Chesterhill School, and spent three years in the Ohio State University. His experiences as a youth were those of a country merchant's son, often moving between the fields of the farm and the counter of his father 's store. When he was seventeen he began teaching, first in country and village schools, and later for eight years in the Marietta High School, where he was principal. Altogether he gave twelve years to educational work. Since that time his energies have been fully bestowed upon oil development. There was an oil well on the old Joy farm near Chesterhill, and another on the east bank of the Ohio River, forty miles to the east. He and J. A. Lovell as an associate began developing the district lying between these points. It was their opinion that a continuous strata containing oil lay between these places, and drilling has proved their judgment was correct ; similar results have come in subsequent experimental work on the part of Mr. Smith and his associates in Oklahoma and other fields. Again and again he has been attracted in his development work to localities where farms were poor, the people making a bare living, but after the country has been opened up by the drill and oil found, he has seen prosperity and plenty take the place of unrewarded labor and poverty. To be a part in this work seems to be a real pleasure in Mr. Smith 's life. About 1912 he became associated with I. L. and O. C. Dunn in developing a method of increasing the production of oil by restoring the rock pressure within the sand which acts as a reservoir for the oil. This was done by pumping air into the sand through the casing or tubing of a non-pumping well, into the oil bearing sand, thus introducing an expansive and expelling force into what was before an inert or balanced condition, thus causing a flow of the oil along lines of least resistance, which would be toward the wells producing that have been drilled on the property. This method is now used by many operators for increasing production, and will reclaim millions of barrels of oil that otherwise never would have been marketed. He has been a practical hard-headed business man where the technical problems of oil production are concerned, and he and his associates are operating many old producing properties, using the latest methods of pressure regulations and automatic air pumps, many of the devices being their own invention. Mr. Smith is president of the Marietta Chamber of Commerce and Washington County Automobile Association, and these organizations under his leadership have been responsible for the construction of improved roads in Southeastern Ohio. This activity has been of great benefit in the development of Washington County 's natural resources. He was a mem- 242 - HISTORY OF OHIO ber of the Seventy-sixth Assembly of Ohio Legislature in 1905-06, serving on the committee of mines and mining. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has been a teacher in the Sunday School and a superintendent ; is a Mason of high standing; a member of the Rotary Club, and for twenty-four years has attended all republican national conventions, having been a delegate from the Fifteenth District to the convention in 1916. He is a trustee of the Ohio State Good Roads Federation, and is one of the directors of the Peoples Banking and Trust Company of Marietta, the Ohio Valley Refining Company of St. Marys, West Virginia, the Omar Gasoline Company of Wichita Falls, Texas, and other oil companies. During the World war period Mr. Smith was identified with all organizations for patriotic purposes, giving liberally of his money and also his time and strength. Mr. Smith, together with the late D. B. Torpy, secured, on the request of Hon. Chas. G. Dawes (now Brigadier-General Dawes), the enlistment of forty young men of Marietta for the Seventeenth Regiment of Engineers, of which regiment Mr. Dawes was colonel. They were sworn into the army at the office of Smith and Dunn in Marietta in the presence of Mr. Dawes, who had come down from Chicago to meet them. It was as a result of the personal efforts and the 'money supplied by Mr. Smith and the Dunn Brothers that a very interesting war memorial was arranged and put in place at Marietta, comprising a collection of photographs of every young soldier of Washington County who died for the cause. These photographs are in a large frame, hung in the lobby of the Washington County Court House. Mr. Smith first married Eva L. Barnes, of Chesterhill, and to this union was born a son, Edward Orton, who is now in the real estate business in Pontiac, Michigan. Two years after the death of his first wife he married Ella Curry, of Chesterhill, with whom he lived thirty years, but she passed to the beyond in 1919, and in 1922 he married Mrs. Coosie Rogers Dye, formerly of Ellenboro, West Virginia. In winter they make their home in Marietta, but in summer on a farm along the Ohio River, three miles above Marietta, and at either place their friends are always welcome. EDWARD N. DIETRICH. Scholastic and executive ability, professional enthusiasm and loyalty, and progressive policies are marking the administration of Edward Noble Dietrich in the office of superintendent of the public schools of Geneva, Ashtabula County. He assumed this position in the year 1922, and has done splendid service in coordinating the work and advancing the standard of the schools under his jurisdiction. This thriving little city has two well equipped school buildings, retains a corps of twenty-five teachers, and the enrollment of pupils totals 850. Mr. Dietrich was born at Piketon, Pike County, Ohio, June 4, 1887, and there his parents, Henry C. and Mary Janet (Craig) Dietrich, still maintain their home, the former having been born in Pike County, June 21, 1852, and the latter having been born on the 24th of November of the same year, at Bear Creek, Scioto County, this state. The subject of this review is a scion of the fourth generation of the Dietrich family in Ohio. His paternal grandfather, George Washington Dietrich, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1830, a son of Henry Dietrich, who likewise was a native of the old Keystone State, whence he brought his family to Ohio and became a pioneer farmer in Pike County, where he developed a large farm property and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as did also their son George W., whose death there occurred on his farm in Camp Creek Township in the year 1893, his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Reed, having likewise died in that county. The original American representatives of the Dietrich family came from Alsace, France, to this country prior to the War of the Revolution, and were numbered among the early Colonial settlers in Pennsylvania. Henry C. Dietrich was born on the old homestead farm in Camp Creek Township, and supplemented the discipline of the common schools by attending college at Lebanon. He continued his association with farm industry in Pike County until 1883, when he established his residence at Piketon, where he continued as a leading merchant for a period of thirty-five years, and where he is now living retired, in the enjoyment of the rewards of former years of earnest and worthy endeavor, and secure in the high esteem of all who know him. He has been an active worker in the ranks of the democratic party, has served as village clerk and treasurer of Piketon, and was for twenty years a member of the Board of Education. He and his wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he has been for the past forty years a member of its Official Board. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Dietrich the eldest is George C., who is (1923) superintendent of the public schools of the City of Piqua, Ohio; H. Claude is superintendent of the public schools in the City of Bexley ; Rev. William Wallace Dietrich is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in the City of Alliance, Stark County, and Edward N., of this review, is the youngest of the number. In the high school at Piketon Edward N. Dietrich was graduated as a member of the class of 1905, and thereafter he taught two years in the schools of his native county. In 1911 he was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1916 he was graduated from the University of Ohio, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. Before this publication is issued from the press he will have completed a post-graduate course in this university, with the degree of Master of Arts to be conferred upon him in June, 1924. He is affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity. After his graduation from Ohio Wesleyan University Mr. Dietrich gave two years of service as an instructor in science in the high school at Chillicothe. During one year thereafter he was principal of the public schools at New Holland, and the following year was marked by his service as principal of the schools at Lockland. He was next advanced to the position of county superintendent of schools in Pike County, an office which he retained three years. Thereafter he was instructor in history in the East High School in the capital city of Columbus until 1922, when he assumed his present position, that of superintendent of the public schools of Geneva. He holds membership in the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association, is affiliated with Orient Lodge No. 323, Free and Accepted Masons, at Waverly, Pike County, and he and his wife are zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Geneva, in which he is serving as steward. He has a pleasant residence and home at 82 West Main Street, this property being owned by him. November 1, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dietrich and Miss Mabel Argabright, daughter of James P. and Mary Ann (Litter) Argabright, who reside at Chillicothe, this state, where Mr. Argabright is foreman in the Meade Paper Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich have two children, Donald James, born November 8, 1914, and John Gordon, born December 10, 1919. HISTORY OF OHIO - 243 CARL R. KIMBALL is cashier of the Exchange Bank in his native village of Madison, Lake County, is here a member of the firm of Kimball Brothers & Company, engaged in the retail hardware and implement business, and he has had the distinction of representing his native county in the State Legislature, besides having been chosen speaker of the House of Representatives in his third term in the Legislature. Mr. Kimball was born at Madison, on the 3d of July, 1876, and is a son of Lemuel H. Kimball, who passed his entire life in this fine old town of Madison, where he was born in 1833 and where his death occurred in 1910. Lemuel H. Kimball was one of the extensive farmers of Madison Township, and was a citizen of distinctive prominence and influence in his native county. He and A. S. Stratton were numbered among the founders of the Exchange Bank of Madison, he having been its first president and having continued the incumbent of this executive office until his death. He was a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and while he had no ambition for political preferment, his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service in various township offices. He and his wife were zealous and influential members of the Central Congregational Church of Madison. Mrs. Kimball, whose maiden name was Caroline Nash, was born at Hinsdale, Massachusetts, in 1841, and she passed to the life eternal in 1908. Of the children the first born, Homer Nash, died at the age of thirty-seven years, he having served as superintendent of the village schools of Madison and as representative of Lake County in the Ohio Legislature, and having been a director of the Exchange Bank of Madison at the time of his death ; Abel is a member of the Madison hardware firm of Kimball Brothers & Company ; Carl R., immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth of the sons, his elder sister, Helen K., being the wife of James P. Smead, a retired merchant and manufacturer at Madison, and the younger sister, Elizabeth S., being the efficient and popular bookkeeper in the Exchange Bank of Madison. The public schools of Madison afforded Carl R. Kimball his early education, and he was graduated from the high schools as a member of the class of 1894. In 1896 he was graduated from Oberlin Academy, at Oberlin, and he then entered Oberlin College, in which fine old Ohio institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he was for one year actively associated with the work and management of his father 's fine farm, and he next diversified his practical experience by being employed six months in a steel mill at Youngstown. In February, 1902, he engaged with his brother in the hardware business at Madison, and he is still identified with this flourishing enterprise, his active connection with which was measurably resigned in February, 1921, when he assumed his present executive position, that of cashier of the Exchange Bank. This substantial and well ordered banking institution initiated business in the year 1875, and its history has been one of conservative management and consecutive growth. Its operations are based on a capital stock of $251000, it has a surplus fund of $75,000, and its deposits at the close of the year 1923 are in excess of $800,000. A. S. Stratton, one of the organizers of the bank, is now its president; J. V. Winans is its vice president ; and its chief executive officer is its cashier, Carl R. Kimball, the directorate including these three officers and also D. D. Smead and H. M. Rand. Mr. Kimball is unfaltering in his advocacy of the principles of the republican party, and has been prominent in its local councils and campaign work in his native county. He served two terms as a member of the Village Council of Madison, has given loyal service likewise as a member of the Board of Education at Madison, of which he was clerk two terms, besides which he gave fifteen years of service as clerk of the Board of Education of Madison Township. He held for a number of terms also the position of township clerk. He represented Lake County in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second General Assemblies of the Ohio Legislature, in which he made a record of constructive service. In the Eighty-first Assembly he was chairman of the public-utilities committee of the Lower House, and was assigned to other important committees. The popular estimate placed upon his service was shown in his reelection to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Assemblies, and in the latter of these he had the distinction of being chosen speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Kimball was specially active and influential in the promoting of wise legislation for the benefit of the farmers of the state, in advancing the interests of public utilities, and also in supporting measures tending to advance general banking and business interests. He supported in the Legislature the movement which resulted in the state's endorsement of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the constitution of the United States, and as speaker of the House he affixed his signature to the document ratifying these amendments. Mr. Kimball and his wife are active members of the Central Congregational Church at Madison, which lie is serving as a deacon. He is a valued member of the Madison Chamber of Commerce, and in his home village he is affiliated with Madison Lodge No. 307, Free and Accepted Masons; Madison Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Madison Tent, Knights of the Maccabees, and Globe Lodge, Knights of Pythias. His residence place, on West Main Street, is owned by him and is one of the finest home properties in Madison. He owns also 120 acres of the ancestral homestead farm, within the corporate limits of Madison, on West Main Street, and he has other valuable real estate holdings in his native county. At Saugatuck, Michigan, on the 30th of July, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kimball and Miss Ethel Felice Sutton, daughter of Warner P. and Lois (Andrus) Sutton, the former of whom is deceased, and the latter of whom is now a member of the family circle at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball. Mr. Sutton was a lawyer of exceptional ability, and was a prominent member of the bar in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. Mrs. Kimball attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is a talented pianist. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have two children: Warner H. is (1923) a student in Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, and Caroline is a student in the Madison High School. The Kimball family, of sterling English origin, was founded in Massachusetts in the Colonial period of our national history. Gen. Abel Kimball, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1801, a son of Lemuel Kimball, and he was about eleven years of age when the family came to Ohio, in 1812, and settled on the farm in Madison, the present fine home of Carl R. Kimball being on a part of this pioneer homestead. Gen. Abel Kimball became one of the extensive and successful representatives of farm industry in Lake County, served as a general in the Ohio Militia in the early days, and was one of the honored and venerable pioneer citizens of Madison at the time of his death, in 1884. His wife, whose maiden name was Philena Hastings, likewise was a native of Massachusetts, and she likewise attained to advanced age. LATOUR D. LAFFERTY. On March 1, 1924, Latour D. Lafferty dedicated what has been pronounced to be the finest equipped undertaking establishment in Southern Ohio. This business is in West Union, and 244 - HISTORY OF OHIO its present proprietor continues a service in that community which was begun by his grandfather and was continued also by his father. Mr. Lafferty was born at West Union, September 20, 1889, and is a great-grandson of Absalom Lafferty, a native of France who came to America and first settled in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and prior to 1820 established a home at West Union, Ohio, being one of the thirty pioneers of this section of Southern Ohio. Absalom Lafferty, who died July 13, 1848, married Margaret or Peggy McDade, who came from England and died in 1859. Their son, William V. Lafferty, born May 12, 1830, had as his home throughout his life from birth until death one house in West Union. He died there June 26, 1922. He was a pioneer undertaker. He married in 1856 Margaret Marlatt, and shse still lives at West Union. Theodore H. Lafferty, father of Latour D., was born March 21, 1862, and died May 14, 1914. He married Cora Belle Shelton, who was born September 11, 1861, and died January 31, 1911, a daughter of Robert and Nancy A. (Truit) Shelton. Latour D. Lafferty graduated from the West Union High School in 1908, and for several years lived on and employed his energies on a farm. He prepared for his professional career in the Cincinnati College of Embalming, where he was graduated in 1914. His father died in that year, and, returning to West Union, he engaged in business with his grandfather and since has become sole owner and manager of the Lafferty Funeral Home, the oldest in the state. This home contains all the features most appreciated in such a service, including reception room, chapel for about 200 people, choir room, access to which is provided without disturbing the service proper, embalming room and morgue, stockroom, and the equipment is completely motorized, including Winton hearse and modern ambulance. Mr. Lafferty is a member of the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association of Ohio, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Red Men. He is a democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Mabel Purdin, of West Union, daughter of Wallie and Mary (Thompson) Purdin, farmers of Adams County. They have three children, Cora Belle, William and Allan. WADE H. ELLIS, lawyer, editor, and public official, was born at Covington, Kentucky, December 31, 1866. He was educated. in Cincinnati, took his law degree at Washington and Lee University in 1889, and was admitted to the bar in 1890. He served as editor of the Cincinnati Tribune, and of the Commercial Tribune, was assistant corporation counsel of Cincinnati from 1897 to 1903, and from 1904 to 1908 was attorney general of Ohio. On November 6, 1908, he became assistant to the attorney general of the United States, holding that office until February, 1910. For some 'years he has practiced law in the City of Washington. Besides his public service, he has contributed to legal literature, being especially known for the Ellis Annotated Ohio Municipal Code. SYLVESTER SPIDEL, who is successfully established in business as a plastering contractor in the City of Dayton, and who is now representing his native county of Montgomery as a member of the Ohio Legislature, was born at Liberty, Montgomery County, on the 27th of October, 1872, and is a son of the late Samuel and Margaret (Barron) Spidel, both of whom died at Dayton, where the father had been a leading plastering contractor. Sylvester Spidel gained his early education in the public schools at Liberty, and thereafter took courses in bookkeeping and chemistry in the excellent school conducted by the Dayton Young Men's Christian Association. At the age of eighteen years he became associated with his father in the business of plastering contracting, and of this line of constructive enterprise he has since continued to be actively identified, he being now one of the leading contractors in his field of activity in Dayton. Mr. Spidel has been a specially loyal and active worker in the ranks of the republican party, and he served three terms as a member of the Republican Central Committee of Montgomery County, as representative from the Sixth Ward of Dayton. Thereafter he gave two terms of characteristically effective service as county assessor, and in 1918 he was elected representative of his native county in the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature. In the ensuing session he was assigned to the committees on cities, manufacturing and commerce, public highways, and fish and game. He was a zealous worker in behalf of constructive legislation, and the popular estimate placed upon his service was significantly shown in his reelection in 1920. In the next General Assembly he served as a member of the house committees here designated: Fish and game, privileges and elections, and cities. The election of 1922 returned him to the Legislature for a third consecutive term, and he was made chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, as well as a member of the committees on fish and game, and public parks and land. Mr. Spidel was largely instrumental in effecting the passage of the bill reducing the number of members of the Dayton Board of Education. He also effectively championed the bill to expedite election returns by preventing certain districts from withholding returns for varying periods, as had been frequently done. Another act that received his resourceful support was that for the improving of the workhouse conditions throughout the state. He introduced a bill to consolidate the holding of primary elections, and this bill would have saved to the state about $700,000 annually had it come to enactment. He obtained the passage of a bill providing for the leasing of state canal lands to cities, but this act was vetoed by the governor. Mr. Spidel appears as a candidate for reelection in 1924, and will doubtless be again victorious at the polls ere this publication is issued from the press. Mr. Spidel is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order American Mechanics, and the Loyal Order of Moose, and is a member of the Dayton Builders' Exchange and the Dayton Automobile Club. He and his wife hold membership in the Reformed Church in their home city. Mr. Spidel wedded Miss Ida M. Detrick, daughter of the late John and Mary Detrick, of Dayton, and she is a popular factor in the social life of her home community. Mrs. Spidel is an active member of the Woman's Republican Club of Dayton and is affiliated with the Pythian Sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Spidel have two children : Jeanette Elizabeth, a graduate of the Stivers High School in Dayton, is the wife of Edwin A. Johnson, a mechanical engineer, and they reside in Dayton, where their marriage was solemnized in June, 1922; Robert S. likewise was graduated from the Stivers. High School, as was he also from the Jacobs Business College, and he is now associated with his father in business. HON. EDWARD E. BURKHART. Honors and responsibilities of an unusual nature have been conferred upon Edward E. Burkhart in his capacity of a lawyer, HISTORY OF OHIO - 245 and also as a citizen of one of Ohio's largest municipalities, Dayton, of which he has served as mayor, and which has been his home for about thirty years. Mr. Burkhart was born at Sidney, Ohio, October 27, 1872. After graduating from high school there he moved to Dayton, in 1890, completed a course in the Miami Commercial College, and began the study of law in the offices of Gottschall and Brown. His studies were interrupted for a few years, during which time he was associated with a manufacturing company. In 1895, returning to Dayton, he resumed the study of law with R. D. Marshall, then general attorney for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway. Mr. Burkhart in 1896 entered the law department of the University of Michigan, graduated in the class of 1898, and immediately engaged in private practice at Dayton. He has had several partnership relations with prominent attorneys of the Dayton bar, and is now senior member of the firm of Burkhart, Heald and Pickrel. Mayor Snyder .of Dayton appointed Mr. Burkhart in 1903 a member of the Board of Health, and he was on the board until it was abolished. The most gratifying honor that has come to him in a public way was his election, in 1907, as mayor of Dayton on the democratic ticket, and his reelection two years later by the largest majority ever given a candidate for the office of mayor in Dayton. After serving four years he refused to be a candidate for reelection, having the satisfaction of setting a high standard of municipal administration during his two terms. Mr. Burkhart has had many associations with organizations of social and civic nature. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, the Young Men's Christian Association, and a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and is identified with the Dayton City Club, Miami Valley Country Club, Dayton Bicycle Club, Comus, Mystic and other social organizations. WILLIAM HIGBY COOK, present county auditor of Ashtabula County, has had an active experience in politics, public affairs and business in Ohio covering a period of forty years. He is undoubtedly one of the best known men in Ashtabula County. Mr. Cook represents an old Ohio family, but was born at Sodus in Berrien County, Michigan, January 9, 1860. His grandfather, Ephraim Cook, was a native of Connecticut, and was a pioneer in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where he developed a farm. He died at Bedford in that county. His wife, Eliza Curtis, was also born in Connecticut, and she died at Ottawa, Kansas. Their son, George B. Cook, was born at Solon in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1832, was reared in that county, and immediately after his marriage moved to Sodus, Michigan, where he developed a farm in the woods and was one of the factors in the improvement of that now rich fruit growing district of southwestern Michigan. After a period of residence in Michigan he returned to Ohio and engaged in farming in Ashtabula County. He died at New Lyme in April, 1913. He was a republican, and very attentive to his duties as a member of the Church of the Disciples. George B. Cook married Minerva Ives, who was born in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, in 1833, and died at New Lyme in 1915. She was the mother of six children, William H. being the oldest. Mary is the wife of Harry A. Warner, a retired farmer at New Lyme. Laura E. married George T. Day, a farmer at Orwell in Ashtabula County. George D. is a pattern maker living at Cleveland Heights. Kate C. married Charles C. Camp, a farmer at Williamsfield in Ashtabula County. Clayton I., the youngest in the family, is a farmer at Andover in Ashtabula County. William Higby Cook was a child when the family returned to Ohio, and he began his education in the public schools of New Lyme. He also attended an old and famous preparatory school, the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, and in 1882 he graduated in a business course at the New Lyme Institute. When he was eighteen years of age he began teaching, and taught altogether in Ashtabula County for nine years. During vacations he worked on farms, and his first initiation into the duties of public office at the courthouse of Jefferson began when he was appointed deputy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. He was appointed to that office in the fall of 1887 and served four years. In 1891 he was made chief deputy in the United States marshal's office at Cleveland, this office also taking four years of his time. On returning to Jefferson he served two years as deputy county treasurer of Ashtabula County, and following that until 1904 was cashier of the Orwell Banking Company at Orwell, Ashtabula County. In the latter year he returned to Jefferson as deputy county auditor, and was on duty in that capacity fifteen years. In April, 1919, he was appointed auditor, and in November, 1922, was elected for a full term of four years in that office, his term beginning the second Monday of March, 1923. Mr. Cook has been ably identified with the republican party in Ashtabula County for many years. He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Ashtabula, and fraternally is affiliated with Tuscan Lodge No. 342, Free and Accepted Masons, at Jefferson; Grand River Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Rock Creek; Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, at Conneaut; Columbian Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar, at Ashtabula, of which he is a past commander; and Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland. He also belongs to Emerald Chapter of the Eastern Star at Dodgeville, Ohio, and Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Ashtabula Grange and the Chamber of Commerce. His home is a very attractive residence at 564 Main Street, Bunker Hill, Ashtabula. On July 13, 1886, at New Lyme, Mr. Cook married Miss Hattie M. Pellett, daughter of Seth H. and Martha (Snow) Pellett, both now deceased. Her father was a lumber manufacturer. Mr. Cook lost his first wife by death December 18, 1911. She was accidentally killed when a train struck a street car at Ashtabula. By this marriage there were four children: Karl, who died in infancy; Earl W. a machinist at Ashtabula; Vera, wife of Tyler F. W., phy, who is a representative of Armour & Company at San Francisco, California; and Lynn H., a bricklayer living at Ashtabula. On January 1, 1912, at Conneaut, Ohio, Mr. Cook married Mrs. Anna (Lane) Cook. She was born at Mendip-on-Leigh. JOHN H. MARTIN, M. D. A physician and surgeon for over thirty years, Doctor Martin has also been an interested worker in matters affecting the welfare of his community. His home is at New Matamoras, on the Ohio River, in Washington County. He is a fruit farmer in that section. His father was a physician, and his only son is one of the talented members of the profession, so that there have been three successive generations of the Martins to take up medicine. Doctor Martin was born in Monroe County, Ohio, March 3, 1861, son of Dr. Francis P. and Adelina A. (Davis) Martin. His father, who was born in Monroe County, May 12, 1836, was educated in Barnesville Academy, and devoted about eight years 246 - HISTORY OF OHIO of his early life to teaching. While teaching he studied medicine, and practiced some years before completing his course at the Cincinnati Medical College, where he graduated in 1869. For forty consecutive years, beginning in 1862, he practiced medicine, finally retiring to his old home farm in Monroe County, where he died in 1917. He was a Master Mason and a democrat, and lived up to high and worthy standards of manhood. Mrs. Adeline A. (Davis) Martin is still living, and of their nine children six survive : John H. ; Thaddeus, an oil refiner at Sand Springs, Oklahoma ; Nimrod A., of New Matamoras; Luther R., deceased, of Gallia County, Ohio; Francis, who died in childhood; Lillian, who is married and living at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Matilda, of California, widow of Henry. Stephens; Lucy, wife of Thomas Fleming, of Marietta, Ohio; and Adeline, who died in childhood. Dr. John H. Martin acquired his early education in the public schools of New Matamoras. Like his father, he made his talent of use to the world in the capacity of a teacher. Altogether he taught fifteen years, being a high school teacher and four years school superintendent. In the meantime he attended and taught in summer normal schools, was reading medicine, and from 1891 to 1893 was at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in the latter year. Since then he has been busy with an extensive general practice as physician and surgeon, and is a member of the County Medical Society, Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war he volunteered his services and was accepted in the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. Successful in his profession, he has proved a generous and public spirited man in his community. He circulated the petition and was largely instrumental in the success attending the laying out and establishment of the Phoenix Highway along the Ohio River. He has always been fond of a good horse, and is a man of unusually broad and liberal ideas. His chief hobby and also a source of profit is fruit growing. The Midway Fruit Farm which he owns overlooks the Ohio Valley for many miles. A part of the fruit farm is located on a high ridge which overlooks the Ohio River and marks the middle of a stretch of the Ohio River known as the long reach, and from this point the Ohio River is visible for twenty-two miles, said to be the longest stretch of river in the world visible from one point. On this point an immense oak tree was located, which was used by pilots to steer their course from the time the river was navigable, but several years ago was ruthlessly cut down. Near this large tree was undoubtedly located an Indian village or fort, as many specimens of Indian days are found at this point. He has served two terms as town clerk, nine years as township clerk and is a member of the Board of Education and a liberal democrat in politics. Doctor Martin married, September 26, 1880, Miss Amelia V. Burgbacher, who was born at Woods-field, Ohio, July 19, 1863. Mrs. Martin for many years has been devoted to good work in the cause of temperance, being county president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, vice president of the state organization, and has been instrumental in bringing many national speakers on temperance to this section of Ohio. Doctor Martin's only son is Francis Eugene Martin, a high class physician and surgeon, who was educated in medicine and graduated in 1905 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore. He is now engaged in practice at New Martinsville, West Virginia. Dr. John H. Martin has twice been master of New Matamoras Lodge No. 374 of Masons, belongs to the Royal Arch and Council degree and also to the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. CHARLES LAWYER. One of the oldest attorneys of the Ashtabula County bar in point of years of continuous service is Mr. Charles Lawyer of Jefferson. He has found ample satisfaction in the success attending his professional career, and at the same time has been prominent in public affairs in his section of state, being a former state senator. Mr. Lawyer was born at Penn Line, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1858. In ancestry he is a mixture of German, Welsh and Irish. His grandfather, John Lawyer, was born in Germany, and as a young man came to this country and settled at Jamestown, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer. His wife was of pure Welsh blood. Their son, Dr. Charles Lawyer, was born at Jamestown in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, was reared there, studied medicine, and soon after his marriage located at Penn Line in Crawford. County, and in 1866 moved to Andover in Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he practiced his profession nearly forty years. He finally retired and moved to Jefferson, where he died in 1908. He was a republican, was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a man of the highest order of usefulness in his home community. Charles Lawyer married Caroline Brown, whose grandfather came from Ireland. She was born in November, 1829, and died at Jefferson in December, 1921, at the venerable age of ninety-two. Doctor Lawyer and his wife had three children: Mary, of Jefferson, widow of Chauncey A. Marvin, who was a farmer ; Charles; and Frank, a retired merchant at Leon in Ashtabula County. Charles Lawyer was about eight years old when his parents moved to Ashtabula County. He attended public schools at Jefferson, and in his early years he taught school, altogether for twelve years. In 1881 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 1883. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Greek letter fraternity. Admitted to the bar in June, 1883, he has had two score years of steady work in his profession at Jefferson. He has always engaged in general practice, and during the last quarter of a century has been counsel in nearly every important criminal case tried in Ashtabula County. His offices are on the Courthouse Square. From 1890 to 1896 he served as prosecuting attorney of the county. On the republican ticket Mr. Lawyer was elected a member of the State Senate in 1906, and attended five sittings of the Legislature in the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Sessions and a special session in 1908. He gave a consistent service on the labor, finance, judiciary and other committees, and was especially interested in all legislation affecting labor. He was one of the five commissioners appointed by the governor to inspect prisons in various states, making a report to the Legislature containing recommendations for the building of a new state prison. Mr. Lawyer represented the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth Districts in the Senate, comprising the counties of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Summit and Portage. Mr. Lawyer is a Methodist, and is affiliated with Jefferson Lodge No. 400, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Ashtabula Lodge No. 547, Loyal Order of Moose; Unity Lodge No. 133, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Ashtabula County and State Bar associations and the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce. He has one of the finest residences in the county, located on Walnut Street in Jefferson. Around his home is over an acre of ground, and his recreation is the improvement and adornment of this HISTORY OF OHIO - 247 place. He has other real estate in Ashtabula, Saybrook and Geneva, Ohio. On June 27, 1886, at Jefferson, Mr. Lawyer married Miss Flora A. Lindaley, daughter of Horatio and Eliza (Creesy) Lindsley, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mrs. Lawyer is a proficient pianist, having finished her musical education in the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin. They have one child, Leah C., now the wife of John D. Williams' a resident of Chicago and a member of the Chicago Display Men's Association. CHARLES B. GLADDING, executive head of the C. B. Gladding Company, which maintains the agency for the Ford Automobiles at Geneva, Ashtabula County, and which has also a well equipped Ford service station in this vital little city, is a native son of Ashtabula County and a scion of one of its pioneer families, as is shown when it is noted that his paternal grandfather, Joseph Gladding, was born in Windsor, this county, in the year 1809. Joseph Gladding was her reared and educated under the conditions of the early pioneer days, and as a young man he engaged in farm enterprise near the Village of Hartsgrove, this county, he having been one of the extensive agriculturists and substantial citizens of that section of the county at the time of his death, in 1866. His wife, whose maiden name was Thankful Norris, was born in Ashtabula County in the year 1798, and here she passed her entire life, which came to its end in 1878. The lineage of the Gladding family traces back to English origin, and the first American representatives settled in Connecticut in the Colonial days, and the family name having been worthily linked with the history of New England both before and after the War of the Revolution. Charles B. Gladding was born on the old homestead farm near Hartsgrove, Ashtabula County, and the date of his nativity was April 1, 1868. He is a son of Charles and Mary (Murphy) Gladding, the former of whom was born on his father 's Hartsgrove farm, in the year 1839, his entire life having been passed in that locality, where he owned and operated a large and valuable farm and where his death occurred in the year 1897, his widow having there remained until she too passed to the life eternal, December 25, 1922. She was born in Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio, in the year 1845. Charles Gladding was a staunch republican, served a number of years as trustee of Hartsgrove Township, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Christian Church. Of the children, Charles B., of this sketch, is the first born; George A. is a farmer in Hartsgrove Township and is serving (1924) as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Ashtabula County ; John Earland likewise is one of the representative farmers in Hartsgrove Township; Eldora is the wife of John Graham, and they reside on the old home farm of her parents. After receiving the advantages of the public schools Charles B. Gladding entered New Lyme Institute, at New Lyme, this state, where he continued his studies until he was seventeen years of age. Thereafter he taught school during the winter terms and assisted in the work and management of the old home farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years. He then brought portable mills into commission and turned his attention to the manufacturing of hub locks, his operations having been in Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga and Trumbull counties, Ohio, and in various districts in the western part of Pennsylvania. He continued in this line of enterprise until 1913, and in the meanwhile, in 1907, became agent for the Ford automobiles in his home city of Geneva, where he had established his residence in the year 1897. He now has the distinction of being, in matter of continuity, the oldest Ford agent representing the Cleveland branch, and in the sale of the ever popular cars he has built up the leading Ford agency in Ashtabula County. He sold the first Ford car in this county, and also the first in Lake County. In addition to the large and prosperous business with which he is thus identified Mr. Gladding has been engaged also in the manufacturing of lumber since the year 1892. The building occupied by the C. B. Gladding Company as headquarters of the Ford sales and service station at Geneva was erected and equipped for the purpose to which it is applied, and is situated at 28 North Broadway. This building is owned by Mr. Gladding. The energy and progressiveness that have characterized Mr. Gladding in his business activities have marked also his attitude as a loyal citizen. He was for twelve years a member of the City Council of Geneva and also gave two years of splendid administration as mayor. His political faith is that of the republican party, and he and his wife are members of the Church of the Diciples. He has been one of the most layol members of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, and was its president four years. He is a director of the First National Bank of Geneva and also of the Geneva Savings Bank Company. In addition to his fine modern home property, at 155 West Main Street, he is the owner of the Broadway Inn, the leading hotel of Geneva, a house and lot on South Broadway and a large and valuable farm estate in Ashtabula County. He was active and influential in all local patriotic service in the World war period, both in an individual way and'as mayor of Geneva. June 15, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Glad-ding and Miss Abbie M. McIntosh, daughter of Henry C. and Orcelia (Young) McIntosh. Mr. McIntosh was a retired farmer at the time of his death, in Ashtabula County, and his widow is now a loved member of the family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Glad-ding, the one other member being Henry Harold Gladding, the only child. Henry H. Gladding is associated with his father, as the junior of the two principles constituting the C. B. Gladding Company. At the time of the World war he was a student at Case School of Applied Science, in Cleveland, and there gave service as a member of the Students' Army Training Corps. GEORGE THOMAS GALE, M. D. A remarkable record of service in one profession has been accorded by the Gale family of Washington County. Three successive generations of the Gales have practiced medicine along the Ohio River, both in Ohio and West Virginia, their services extending over a century. The middle generation is represented by Dr. George Thomas Gale of Newport, Washington County. His son is his associate and partner in practice. Doctor Gale is practicing medicine where he was born December 23, 1851, and where his father began his career as a physician 102 years ago. Doctor Gale has the distinction of being the grandson of an English dragoon who was of Irish birth, who came to the American Colonies previous to the American Revolution. He remained in the Colonies, and evidently was an enthusiastic admirer of the great leader of the War of the Revolution, since he named one of his sons George Washington Gale. In 1820 the Gale family moved over the Alleghany Mountains to Raven Rock, in what is now West Virginia, just six miles above the present location of Newport, Ohio. The old English soldier still later moved on further west and spent his last days at Cape Girardeau. George Washington Gale, the pioneer of the family in the medical profession, was born on the Potomac River in Hampshire County, now West Virginia, in 248 - HISTORY OF OHIO 1798. He studied medicine in Baltimore under the famous physician, Dr. Nathan R. Smith, who was associated with the University of Maryland. While his home was over the river in West Virginia, his practice from the first extended to the country on the Ohio side, including what is now Newport in Washington County and finally, in 1840, he moved to that town and lived there until his death in 1876. He was a fine type of the old country physician and surgeon, a man of rugged physique and great endurance, with the utmost devotion to duty. His practice extended up and down both sides of the river for a distance of forty miles, extending well back into the hills. His trips frequently took him away from home for days at a time, and he crossed back and forth over the Ohio River in canoes, swimming his horse behind. In spite of the exposures and hardships of such an occupation he reached the good old age of seventy-nine. He was a democrat in polities, and the family then, as now, were Catholic. Dr. George Washington Gale married Katherine Wells, who died at the age of sixty-seven. Her father was Nicholas Wells, a farmer at Long Beach, West Virginia. Six sons and six daughters were born to George Washington Gale and his wife. The five now living are : Alcinda B. and Rachel, who occupy the old family home at Newport; Nicholas Wells Gale, a retired farmer ; Constantine, who graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and practiced at Pittsburgh and New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and is now retired; and George Thomas. Four of the sons of George Washington Gale are members of the medical profession. Of those deceased, one was Dr. John Whitten Gale, who graduated from Jefferson Medical College, practiced for some years at Hamilton, Ohio, and was serving as coroner of Butler County when his official duties included the inquest over the noted attorney Vallandigham, who in 1871 met death in the accidental discharge of a pistol in his own hand in the courtroom, with which he was illustrating his theory of the manner in which a homicide had taken place. The other deceased children of George Washington Gale were : Mary, who died at the age of twenty years ; Veronica, wife of Doctor Stephenson, of Parkersburg, West Virginia ; Ellen, who died when forty-eight; Ada, who was the wife of William Kelley, a foundryman at Parkersburg, West Virginia ; Dr. Hammitt Gale, who received training in Baltimore, where he practiced dentistry in that city, and Dr. Bernard Gale, a graduate of Baltimore Medical College, and was associated in practice with his brother George T. until his death in 1892. George Thomas Gale acquired his early education in the home schools at Newport, began the study of medicine in his father 's office, and then took his course of lectures in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1874, just half a century ago. One of his schoolmates was Dr. W. L. West of New Matamoras, Ohio, and they practiced together a year and have been lifelong friends. Doe-tor Gale is an accomplished man in his profession and has taken post-graduate work in Philadelphia Polyclinic. He was associated with his father until the latter 's death, then spent a year with Doctor West in New Matamoras, and afterward he resumed his work at Newport. He has been a member of the Washington County Medical Society since its organization, belongs to the Ohio State and American Medical associations, was for years president of the local school board and has been a member of the Pension Examining Board since the Wilson administration. He has been county democratic executive committeeman, and his family are members of St. Mary's Church. Doctor Gale was a volunteer during the Spanish-American war. For thirty years he has been successfully identified with oil production in Ohio, West Virginia and Illinois. His hobby is good horses, and his fondness for them has been little diminished by the general introduction of the automobile. Doctor Gale married Miss Myra Hays, daughter of Richard and Maria Greene Hays, who were pioneers in this part of Ohio. Mrs. Gale is a direct descendant of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Three children were born to them, the only daughter dying in infancy. The son, George Hays Gale, born in 1883, was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in 1906 at Philadelphia, and is now carrying some of the heavier burdens of practice for his father. The other son is Larry Richard Gale, who attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, but graduated in medicine from the university at Cincinnati. During the World war, he was in training as a medical officer at Fort Riley, Kansas, and at Fort Beauregard, Louisiana, and achieved the rank of lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps. He rendered notable service and had been ordered for overseas duty with an army division that had been stationed at Panama, but the influenza outbreak caused him to be detailed for service with the troops in home camps, and he never went overseas. This distinguished young physician died September 23, 1923. Dr. George Hays Gale was chairman of the war board in Newport Township, received a lieutenant's commission on October 17, 1918, but the armistice was signed before he was called to duty. ORR A. DICKSON, M. D. A busy physician and surgeon for a quarter of a century, Doctor Dickson is especially well known for his ability and skill as a surgeon. With the exception of two years he has practiced at Jefferson in Ashtabula County, in the same community where he was born and grew up. Doctor Dickson was born at Jefferson, June 6, 1873. His grandfather, James 0. Dickson, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1792, and was a man of substantial means in his native country. About 1847 he brought his family to the United States, but did not follow any specific line of business in this country. He lived in New York, Cleveland and finally at Jefferson, Ohio, and died at Sheffield in Ashtabula County in 1876. His wife was Jane Orr, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and she also died at Sheffield, Ohio. James O. Dickson, father of Doctor Dickson, was born in County Down, Ireland, December 25, 1841, and was six years old when his parents came to the United States. He began his education in the schools of New York City, where his parents lived five years, and during the next ten years the family home was in Cleveland, where he continued his public school education. His last schooling was in Jefferson, and he married there and spent his active career as a farmer, accumulating extensive farming interests in Ashtabula County. He was a man of most substantial character and thoroughly public spirited. He served a number of years as a trustee of Sheffield Township and as a director of the school board, and he was a Union soldier in the last two years of the Civil war, a member of the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Infantry. He was always republican in politics. James 0. Dickson, who died at Jefferson, Ohio, May 15, 1922, at the age of eighty-one, married Susan Van Slyke, who was born at Sheffield in Ashtabula County, July 4, 1849, and now lives at Jefferson. She was the mother of five children, Orr A. being the oldest. Sarah J. is the wife of John Simmons, a farmer at Burton, Wisconsin. Maude Elizabeth is the wife of Rufus A. Westeott, a carpenter and contractor at Ashtabula. Grace, who died at Jennings, Louisiana, HISTORY OF OHIO - 249 in 1915, was the wife of Alonzo Early. Ray Nelson, the youngest of the family, is a farmer at Sheffield. Orr A. Dickson acquired his public school education in Ashtabula and Jefferson, graduating from the Ashtabula High School in 1892. For two years after that he pursued his classical studies in the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1898. Through his individual study and experience and also by postgraduate work and attendance at clinics he has made himself proficient in the lines of surgery. In 1912 he attended the New York Polyclinic College and Hospital and in 1914 the New York Post Graduate School of Medicine and Surgery. After graduating from medical college Doctor Dickson practiced for two years at Cortland, Ohio, and since 1900 his home has been at Jefferson. He is consulting surgeon in the Ashtabula General Hospital. His offices are in the Jones Block at Jefferson. Doctor Dickson is a member of the Ashtabula County, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and during the World war he was a volunteer for the medical corps, enlisting June 17, 1917. He was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, was commissioned a captain of the medical corps, and later was transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and was on duty in other camps until mustered out in May, 1919. In his profession he has rendered much public service, and for four years he was also a member of the City Council of Jefferson and for the past eight years has been a member of the Board of Public Service. Doctor Dickson is a republican, is one of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a past master of the Tuscan Lodge No. 342, Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of Jefferson Chapter No. 141, Royal Arch Masons ; Casche Commandery of the Knights Templar at Conneaut; Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Jefferson Lodge No. 400, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Doctor Dickson is a director of the Ashtabula Bond and Mortgage Company, and owns valuable real estate in Jefferson and Sheffield, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania, including his home on Walnut Street at Jefferson. On October 26, 1898, at Jeffeson, Doctor Dickson married Miss Arminta Wolcott, who was born at Lenox, Ashtabula County, in 1874, and died June 20, 1914. She is survived by one son, Robert, now a student in Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio. On January 6, 1916, Doctor Dickson married at Erie, Pennsylvania, Miss Catherine Carlin, daughter of James A. and Mary Carlin. Her father died at Erie, Pennsylvania August 16, 1923, a retired farmer, and her mother still lives in Erie. Mrs. Dickson is a registered nurse. By the second marriage Doetor Dickson has one son, John Arthur, born March 29, 1919. RICHARD STEPHEN PARRISH was born and reared on a farm in Noble County, but early took up a commercial career, and after a successful experience as a traveling salesman engaged in the hardware business on his own account at Belle Valley, and is proprietor of one of the most prosperous stores in that section of the county. Mr. Parrish was born on a farm near Keith, Jackson Township, Noble County, February 11, 1877. His grandfather, Stephen Parrish, was one of the pioneer settlers of Noble County. He was born January 22, 1816, and was taken to Noble County in 1819. Benjamin R. Parrish, father of the Belle Valley business man, was born in Sharon Township of Noble County in 1847, and was one of the successful farmers of that and Olive townships. After he retired from his farm he lived at Belle Valley until his death on July 16, 1923, at the age of seventy-five. For a number of years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He married in 1873 Phoebe J. Keyser. She was born in Belmont County, Ohio, her family being well known both in that and in Noble County. The Keysers came from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Phoebe J. Parrish died August 15, 1916, at the age of sixty-eight. Third in a family of seven children, Richard Stephen Parrish spent his boyhood in a country district, attended public schools, and first learned the carpenters ' trade, a mechanical occupation which he followed about five years. He then entered the service of the Kane-Keyser Company, wholesale and jobbing hardware dealers at Belington, West Virginia. His first experience was in the stock room, after which he was made shipping clerk, and then for two years represented the company on the road as a traveling salseman in West Virginia. On leaving the road Mr. Parrish, in 1907, located at Belle Valley, engaging in the hardware business, and in 1910 built the modern store that now houses the Valley Hardware store. He has made this one of the largest, if not the largest, hardware stores in Noble County, and carries a complete stock of general hardware and implements. Along with the conduct of a successful business Mr. Parrish has made himself a factor in every movement for the general civic welfare. He was especially devoted to all the causes for the winning of the war, contributing both of his time and means to the various campaigns. He is a democrat, and has served on the county central and executive committees. On December 25, 1911, Mr. Parrish married Mary Louella Dutton. She was born and reared on a farm in Noble County, and died August 25, 1922, leaving no living children. She was very devoted to her home and work as a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her father, Raymond Dutton, is a farmer and stock raiser near Keith, an active democrat, and one of the leading men of his community. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. HON. JAMES W. ROBERTS, who has made a distinguished record on the Common Pleas and Appellate bench of Ohio, began the practice of law forty years ago, and for practically twenty years has been on the bench. He is now judge of the Court of Appeals of the Seventh Judicial District, with home and offices at Jefferson in Ashtabula County. Judge Roberts was born in one of the interesting communities of the old Ohio Western Reserve, Kinsman, in Trumbull County, on August 3, 1858. His ancestors came from New England, his grandfather being a native of Massachusetts, but came to Ohio from Vermont during the '30s. He settled at Madison, Ohio, and followed the trade of cooper until his death. The grandmother of Judge Roberts was Elvira Kemp, a native of Connecticut. His father, Lorenzo W. Roberts, was born in Vermont in 1833, and was a small boy when his parents came to Madison, Lake County, Ohio. He was reared there, and as a young man went to Kinsman, where he married and where for many years he was a blacksmith and farmer. He died at Kinsman in 1905. He was a staunch republican in his political affiliation, and was an honored veteran of the Civil war. He served three years with the Tenth Ohio Cavalry. He was under that great cavalry leader General Kilpatrick, and was with Sherman on the March to the Sea. During the concluding scenes of the war, just before the surrender of General Johnston, he was wounded, on April 14, 1865, and possibly was the last Union soldier struck by a rebel bullet. Lorenzo W. Roberts married Mary J. Waid, who was born at Kinsman,