250 - HISTORY OF OHIO in 1834, and died there in 1910. She was a daughter of Alexander and Ellen (McConnell) Waid, both natives of Kinsman. She was the mother of five children, Judge Roberts being the oldest, Harriet A. lives at Kinsman, Frank A. is a hardware merchant at Kinsman, Perry M. is a carpenter and builder at Geneva, Ohio, and Arba L. is a blacksmith at Kinsman.. James W. Roberts spent his boyhood days at Kinsman, attending the grammar and high schools there. For six, years, however, his parents lived across the state line from Trumbull County, in the vicinity of Jamestown, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. While on the farm there Judge Roberts attended the Jamestown Seminary until 1876. For three years he worked on the home farm, teaching terms of winter school, and about that time he began the study of law. He continued teaching and studying in Mercer County until ,1880, and was then in Trumbull County until 1882. Judge Roberts for a time read law in the office of Clarence S. Darrow, at Andover, Ohio, his preceptor having since become the famous criminal lawyer of Chicago. Judge Roberts was admitted to the bar in May, 1881, and from the fall of 1883 until 1897 he practiced at Andover. In the latter year he moved to Jefferson, becoming a member of the law firm of Northway Perry and Roberts. After the death of Congressman Northway in 1898 the firm continued as Perry & Roberts until 1905. Judge Roberts was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1905 to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Theodore Hall. In 1906 he was elected for the regular term of six years, and he was reelected in 1912 and again in 1918. However, he resigned midway of this term, in 1920, to accept the nomination for judge of the Court of Appeals. He was elected, and on February 9, 1921, went on the Appellate bench, representing the Seventh District, comprising fourteen counties in Eastern Ohio. As an attorney and as a judge Mr. Roberts has been before the public for over forty years, and he has deserved all the honors that are a mark of successful achievement and high character. He is a republican, is affiliated with Tuscan Lodge No. 342, Free and Accepted Masons, at Jefferson ; Jefferson Chapter No. 141, Royal Arch Masons ; Cache Commandery of the Knights Templar at Conneaut; Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Kinsman Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Ohio State and Ashtabula County Bar associations. He was one of the incorporators and a director of the Jefferson Banking Company, and has a number of business interests. He owns a fine home on West Jefferson Street in Jefferson, and other real estate at Lake Shore Park. During the World war Judge Roberts accepted the duties of director of the Ashtabula County Chapter of the Red Cross, and is still a member of the board. On May 24, 1883, at Girard, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Clara C. Brockway, daughter of Jeremiah and Caroline (Herriott) Brockway, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mrs. Roberts finished her education in the Jamestown Seminary in Pennsylvania. Judge and Mrs. Roberts are the parents of three children. Ethel E. is official stenographer of the Ashtabula County Court. Burke B. is a civil engineer living at Cleveland, Ohio. He married Charlotte Heym, of Cleveland, and they have two children, James W. and Burke B., Jr. Mary Caroline married Ralph A. Van Wye, who was in France two years as a member of Pershing 's Military Band during the World war, and is now a chemical engineer living at Cincinnati. They have one son, John R., and a daughter, Nancy. WALTER S. WEISS, M. D. Few men in the medical profession give such rich and varied service to the public welfare as Dr. Walter S. Weiss of Jefferson, present health commissioner of Ashtabula County, and who in addition to performing the routine work of a doctor for thirty-five years has been influentially identified with the educational, civic and general welfare of his community. Doctor Weiss was born in Champion Township, near Warren, in Trumbull County, Ohio, March 6, 1864. He is of Colonial ancestry, the Weiss family having come from Virginia to Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Abram Weiss, was a native of Ohio, and spent his career as a farmer in Champion Township. of Trumbull County and in Austintown, Mahoning County. Amos Weiss, father of Doctor Weiss, was born January 29, 1826, at Austintown, but after the age of ten years lived in Champion Township of Trumbull County, where he married and where he devoted his life to farming. He died in Champion Township in August, 1906, when 'eighty years of age. He became a republican after the formation of that party, and was a leader in the affairs of his community, holding several township offices. He was a member of the Church of the Disciples. Amos Weiss married Hannah Price, who was born at Youngstown, March 14, 1830, and died at her home in Champion Township in April, 1906. They were the parents of six children: John and Charles, both of whom died in childhood ; Salome, who died at Southington, Trumbull County, wife of Wallace Brunson, a farmer who also died there; Dr. Walter S.; Nellie, wife of Charles Gaylord, a traveling salesman living at Los Angeles, California, and Mary, of Warren, widow of Ira Hatch. Dr. Walter S. Weiss attended public schools in Champion Township, spent three years as a student in Hiram College in Portage County, and one year in Ohio State University at Columbus. His professional studies were pursued in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in the class of '88. Doctor Weiss has repeatedly gone to larger centers to keep in touch with the progress in medicine and surgery, and twice has pursued post-graduate work in Chicago clinics. He began his regular practice at Cortland, Ohio, in 1888, but two years later established his home at Rock Creek, in Ashtabula. County. Doctor Weiss was a competent physician of that community for a period of twenty-eight years. During the World war he became a medical member of the Ashtabula County Draft Board. The duties of this position required so much of his time that he moved from Rock Creek to Jefferson in 1918, and has remained in the county seat, engaged in a general medical and surgical practice and attending the various official duties. In 1922 he was elected county health commissioner, and has given most of his time to that office since August 1, 1922. Doctor Weiss was president of the school board of Rock Creek for twenty-five years, that length of service constituting perhaps a record. He had been in Jefferson only six months when he was appointed a member of the Board of Education, and in 1921 was elected as president, an office he fills today. For the past six years he has been president of the Ashtabula County Board of Education, and became a member of that organization when it was instituted nine years ago. Thus officially and through his industry and zeal he has conferred many signal benefits on the educational program of his county. For seven years he held the office of mayor of Rock Creek, and for several terms was on the Town Council and served one term on the City Council of Jefferson, resigning when elected county health commissioner. Doctor Weiss is a republican, is a member of the First Congregational Church of Jefferson, is a past master of Rock Creek Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; HISTORY OF OHIO - 251 past high priest of Grand River Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Rock Creek, and is now a member of Jefferson Chapter No. 141; a member of Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, at Conneaut, and the Commandery at Conneaut, Ohio, and belongs to the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Ashtabula County, Ohio State and Americal Medical associations. He owns two residences, one occupied by his family on West Jefferson Street in Jefferson, and another at Rock Creek. August 19, 1890, at Cortland, Ohio, Doctor Weiss married Miss Alice Anderson, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Anderson, now deceased. Her father was a farmer in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Doctor Weiss lost his wife by death on June 18, 1920. Four children survive. Helen E. is the wife of Walter Bender, an employe of the General Fire Proofing Company of Youngstown, Ohio. Mildred E. is her father 's housekeeper. Agnes N. married W. Clinton Burnett, a rancher and cattle buyer at Lewistown, Montana. Walter A. is a student in the Jefferson High School. HON. ELBERT L. LAMPSON. One of the interesting figures and striking personalities in Ohio politics and public affairs during the past half century has been Elbert L. Lampson, of Jefferson. Mr. Lampson is a former lieutenant-governor of Ohio and former state Senator. A lawyer by profession, his time has been taken up with a great diversity of interests. He is a banker, and for many years was a newspaper publisher. He was born at Windsor, in Ashtabula County, July 30, 1852. He is of old New England ancestry, the Lampsons settling in Connecticut when they came from England in Colonial times. His grandfather, Ebenezer Lampson, was born in Connecticut in 1754. He served three enlistments as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. In the cemetery at Windsor, Ohio, is a monument erected to the memory of the soldiers of the American Revolution, and one of the names on that monument is Ebenezer Lampson. He came West and settled in the Western Reserve, at Windsor, in 1809. He served as a member of the first grand jury of Ashtabula County in 1811. He was a farmer, and developed a good home, though he lost part of his property through a defective title. He died at Windsor March 12, 1835. His second wife and the grandmother of Elbert L. Lampson bore the maiden name of Martha Griggs. She was born in Connecticut in 1777, and died at Windsor in 1862. Chester Lampson, son of this Revolutionary soldier, was born at the old homestead in Windsor Township, March 12, 1823, and lived there all his life. He was killed by a falling tree while cutting timber on September 12, 1879. He remained at home and assisted his widowed mother, who received a pension as a Revolutionary widow, and, while starting life in very modest circumstances, he left an estate of 523 acres of valuable farm land. He was a staunch republican, and for a number of years served as township trustee and as a member of the District School Board. As a young man lie received military training as a member of the State Militia. Chester Lampson married Ernerette A. Griswold, who was born at Windsor in 1829, and died there June 25, 1893. Her father was Nathaniel Griswold, who came to Ohio from New Hampshire. Of the seven children born to Chester Lampson and wife Elbert L. is the oldest; Carrie A. is the wife of Eugene C. Hoskins, a farmer at Middlefield, Ohio; Deette H., who died at Mesopotamia, Ohio, married Thomas H. Bell, a retired. farmer at Windsor ; Addie is the wife of William R. Pinks, a farmer at Windsor, and former county commissioner of Ashtabula County ; Clayton L. is a farmer at Windsor ; Ray D. is manager of the Jefferson Gazette; and Edith is the wife of Walter Norris, cashier of the Middlefield Banking Company at Middlefield, Ohio. Elbert L. Lampson was reared on his father 's farm, and with increasing years and strength he performed an increasing share of the duties of the establishment. At the same time he attended the district schools, and when he was seventeen he entered the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, attending one term each year and then teaching, and in this way he continued until he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1875. About that time he married, and continued teaching and also began the study of law at Jefferson under the late Congressman Northway. In 1876 he became a student in the law department at the University of Michigan, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1878, and admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. Mr. Lampson then engaged in private practice at Jefferson, and was an active member of the bar until 1883. Since that year other interests have served to deflect him largely from the legal profession. In 1883 Mr. Lampson bought the Jefferson Gazette, and was editor and publisher of that sterling republican paper until about 1900. Sometime afterward the ownership and management of the Gazette were transferred to a new firm, consisting of E. C. Lampson, son of Elbert L., and R. D. Lampson, brother of Elbert L. The Gazette is now the only paper published at Jefferson, the present owners having bought the Ashtabula Sentinel, the owner of which was J. A. Howells, the brother of the distinguished novelist W. D. Howells. Mr. Lampson is now vice president of the Jefferson Banking Company and is chairman of its discount committee. Through his private business interests has been woven a thread of public service, portions of which have demanded all his time and energies. From 1877 to 1885 he served as county school examiner of Ashtabula County. He also held such offices as township trustee, president of the Board of Education, justice of the peace and treasurer of the Ashtabula County Agricultural Society. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884, being secretary of the Ohio delegation and a member of the Blaine Conference Committee. In 1885 he was elected to represent Ashtabula County in the General Assembly of Ohio, and was reelected in 1887. In 1888 he was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives, and during the two sessions he presided the only appeal, taken from his decisions was sustained in his favor. In the Republican State Convention of 1889 Mr. Lampson was nominated for lieutenant-governor, taking second place on the ticket headed by Governor J. B. Foraker. That was one of the most notable campaigns in Ohio State politics. Governor Foraker was defeated by James E. Campbell of Columbus, but the rest of the republican ticket was elected, Mr. Lampson having a plurality of twenty-three votes. However, he filled the office of lieutenant-governor only eighteen days. The democrats held control of the Senate by a 'majority of one, and this majority unseated him and gave the office to his opponent. Mr. Lampson served as permanent chairman of the Republican State Convention at Dayton in 1888. In 1891 he was elected to the State Senate to represent the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth districts, including Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Portage and Summit counties, and in January, 1892, he was chosen president pro tern of the Senate. He twice voted for John Sherman for the United States Senate. In December, 1895, Mr. Lampson was appointed reading clerk of the National House of Representatives, and during the sessions of Congress he was on duty at Washington and held the position continuously for nearly sixteen years, until May 11, 1911. In 1912 252 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Lampson was a prominent member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio. He was parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1912. Under the auspices of the National Republican Committee he has been a speaker in five national campaigns, those in which the republican candidates for president were Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Harding. He has spoken in twelve different states, and in the campaign of 1892 he delivered over thirty speeches in New York and Connecticut. Mr. Lampson is a trustee of the Congregational Church of Jefferson, and fraternally is affiliated with Tuscan Lodge No. 342, Free and Accepted Masons, at Jefferson; Jefferson Chapter No. 141, Royal Arch Masons, and Conneaut Commandery, Knights Templar, at Conneaut. He is a member of the Ashtabula County Bar Association and the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce. He has a number of business interests, including real estate in Ashtabula, and one of the finest residences in Jefferson is the home of his family, located at the corner of Chestnut and Ashtabula streets. He was one of the organizers of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is one of the very few men at the present time who can claim the distinction of being a real grandson of a Revolutionary soldier. On August 5, 1875, at Hartsgrove, Ohio, Mr. Lamp-son married Miss Mary L. Hurlburt, daughter of Edward G. and Jane (Babcock) Hurlburt, now deceased. Her father was a farmer at Hartsgrove, and for twelve years was county commissioner of Ashtabula County. Mrs. Lampson also attended Grand River Institute at Austinburg, and it was there that they began the friendship which ripened into marriage. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lampson. Edward C. is the successor of his father as editor of the Jefferson Gazette. The son Lawrence V., who is a literary graduate of Oberlin College, spent ten years as a teacher in the Central High School at Washington, D. C., and still lives in that city, a representative of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Lillian D., now living with her parents, is the widow of Gould R. Anthony, who died as the result of hardships endured while a soldier in the Spanish-American war. The youngest child, Clara May, is a graduate of Oberlin College and the wife of L. J. Pauley, a dentist at Mason City, Iowa. CHARLES A. BONSOR, editor of the Geneva Free Press, at Geneva, Ashtabula County, has shown a fine appreciation of the proper functioning of modern journalism and has had a varied experience in the newspaper field. His policies and effective work have done much to bring the Geneva Free Press up to its present high standard as a vehicle of news and as an exponent of the principles of the republican party. He is a forceful and discerning writer, and his published utterances bear weight in the community whose interests he represents. Mr. Bonsor was born at Lorain Lorain County, Ohio, on the 1st of January, 1897, and he thus became a welcome New Year 's arrival in the home of his parents, Walter A. and Lena (Deiss) Bonsor, who still reside at Lorain. The former was born in old Saint James Hotel in New York City, in the year 1853, and the latter was born at Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1863. Walter A. Bonsor passed a part of his childhood in Iowa, where his parents settled in the pioneer days and whence they made their way with old-time equipment of team and "prairie schooner" on the subsequent overland journey to Oberlin, Ohio, the Civil war having been in progress at the time. Some time after the close of the war the family removed to Missouri. Walter A. Bonsor received the advantages of a common school education and was a young man when he established himself at Lorain, Ohio, where his marriage was solemnized and where he continues to maintain his home. He has been a specially successful contractor and builder, and is now one of the oldest active exponents of this important line of business enterprise in the State of Ohio, with a record of long and successful service in his chosen vocation. Mr. Bonsor is a stalwart republican, and in earlier years was active in the local councils and campaign work of his party. He was a close friend of President McKinley, and a great admirer and loyal supporter of President Roosevelt. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church. Millicent, eldest of the children, is the wife of Claude A. Rowley, and they maintain their home at Ashtabula, Ohio, Mr. Rowley being one of the prominent newspaper publishers in Ohio, where he figures as owner and publisher of the Ashtabula Star-Beacon, the Geneva Free Press and the Painesville Telegraph. Clifford C. maintains a partnership with his father in the contracting and building business at Lorain. Charles A., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Lucile is the wife of Philip Weigand, of South Amherst, Lorain County, in which locality Mr. Weigand is engaged in the quarrying of stone. Toletha and Helen remain at the parental home. The public schools of Lorain afforded Charles A. Bonsor his early education, and there he was in his senior year in high school when he withdrew therefrom, in 1914, to make his initial voyage on the choppy sea of practical journalism. He gained at Lorain his novitiate experience in newspaper work, and thereafter was for a time similarly engaged in St. Petersburg, Florida. After his return to Lorain, in 1915, he there associated himself with the Times-Iierald, with which he continued his alliance until 1920, he having been its editor during the last two years of this period. Since 1920 he has been editor of the Geneva Free Press, which he made an admirable exponent of community interests and of the principles and policies for which the republican party stands sponsor. The Geneva Free Press has been published as a daily paper since 1899, and its founder as a daily was J. D. Field. It has been previously noted in this context that Claude A. Rowley, brother-in-law of the present editor, is now publisher of this paper. The Free Press has a large circulation in Ashtabula County and receives a substantial support also in Lake County. The newspaper property included the substantial business block in which its offices and general printing establishment are found, at 19 South Broadway. This is the first really modern business block to have been erected at Geneva, with steam heat and other modern facilities and accessories. One of the best equipped small town printing establishments in Ohio is that of the Geneva Free Press, and perhaps no other town of the same approximate population in the entire United States can claim a daily paper that is conducted as a going and paying business enterprise. Mr. Bonsor and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Church. He is an active member of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, is a director of the Community House Association of Geneva, and in the Masonic fraternity his present affiliations are with Geneva Lodge No. 334, Free and Accepted Masons and Geneva Chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Mason, while in his native town of Lorain he is a member of Lorain Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1923 he has completed the erection of his modern and attractive Geneva residence, on Cummings Avenue. In May, 1917, the month following that in which the United States became formally involved in the World war, Mr. Bonsor enlisted for active service, HISTORY OF OHIO - 253 and after passing a brief time at Columbus, Ohio, he was sent to Fort Howard, Maryland, and assigned to the coast artillery. There he remained two months, after which he passed three weeks at Camp Lowe, New Jersey, and one month at Camp Eustice, Virginia. He was next stationed for a time at Camp Stuart, Virginia, still being in the heavy artillery arm of service, and he had embarked with his command for overseas service when the armistice was signed and the transport on which he had embarked was called back. He was mustered out in January, 1919, and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. He was later the leader in organizing Lorain Post of the American Legion in his native town, and with this post he still maintains his affiliation. September 5, 1923, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bonsor and Miss Marian K. Mylander, who was born and reared at Oak Harbor, Ottawa County, Ohio, where she was graduated from high school, this discipline having thereafter been supplemented by her attending Skidmore Preparatory College in the State of New York. JOHN McWILLIAMS. Noble County has no better known citizen than John McWilliams, farmer, stock man, land owner, banker and former county treasurer. He represents one of the oldest families of the county, and his grandfather had the distinction of being the first county treasurer. This grandfather was Phillip McWilliams, a native of Ireland who came to the United States in 1794, first locating at Wheeling, West Virginia, and then moving to Guernsey County, where he acquired a farm near, Gilbert's Station. He became a resident of Noble County upon its organization, and was chosen the first incumbent of the office of county treasurer. William McWilliams, father of the Noble County banker, was born in Guernsey County, July 6, 1826, and became a well known and highly respected man of affairs in Center Township of Noble County. He lived on his farm near Sarahsville until his death in 1895. His wife was Louisa McCollum, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, and is also deceased. Their son, John McWilliams, was born on the home farm in Center Township, October 7, 1862, obtained his education in the country schools, and lived on the home farm until he was twenty-two. He started farming for himself in Center Township. For several years lie farmed rented lands. Possessed of great. ambition and great energy, he contrived opportunities beyond the limit of a farm tenant, and began buying stock and farm produce of all kinds, including wool, and soon built up an extensive business in which he is still engaged and which has been an important source of his prosperity. Mr. McWilliams is now reputed to be the largest land owner and farmer in Noble County and one of the largest in Southern Ohio. He owns a thousand acres of land in the county, and carries on a large business in buying, selling and feeding the live stock. For several years he held the office of vice president and since 1921, president of the Noble County National Bank. This is the oldest bank in the county. He gives much of his time to its management. His home since 1913 has been in Caldwell. He held the office of county treasurer two terms, and has been one of the men most prominent in the local republican party, serving as chairman of the county executive committee, the county central committee and was a member of the Fifteenth Congressional District Committee. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has participated in all movements for the upbuilding of the town and county, particularly those concerned with good roads. He is affiliated with Caldwell Lodge No. 280, Knights of Pythias, and has been deeply interested in the preservation of the history of Noble County and has supplied much data for the local historical records. Mr. McWilliams married Miss Rose L. Secrest, of Noble County, where she was born and reared. Her father, Frederick Secrest, was a member of a pioneer family of the county. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams have two children. The daughter, Clara, married Dr. Ellis D. Kackley, who is a graduate of medicine from Ohio State University, and served as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps with the Three Hundred Sixth Infantry in the Seventy-seventh Division and was overseas on duty in the Argonne and other campaigns. Doctor and Mrs. Kackley reside at Adena, Ohio, and they have one son, John McWilliams Kackley. The son, William Frederick McWilliams, is a farmer and business man at Caldwell, and by his marriage to Catherine Rich, has a son, John Rich McWilliams. GLENN C. WEBSTER. In addition to his effective executive service as secretary of the Geneva Metal Wheel Company, at Geneva, Ashtabula County, Mr. Webster is according equally valuable administration as manager of the factory of this industrial corporation. He is a scion of the third generation of the Webster family in Ohio, and of a collateral branch a distinguished member was Noah Webster, the great lexicographer. One of the great-grandmothers of the subject of this sketch bore the maiden name of Laura Cochran, and she was a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell. James Webster, grandfather of him whose name introduces this paragraph, was born and reared in the State of New York, and was a young man when he came to the Cleveland district of Ohio. In this section of the state he passed the greater part of his long and useful life, he having been a buyer and shipper of cattle and also engaged in business as a wholesale cheese merchant. Late in life he removed to Kansas, and there he lived virtually retired until his death. Glenn C. Webster was born at Garrettsville, Portage County, Ohio, on the 9th of June, 1872, and is a son of Waldo D. and Polly (Cannon) Webster, who now maintain their home at Geneva. Waldo D. Webster was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 20, 1845, and he supplemented the discipline of the common schools by attending a business college in his native city. His wife was born and reared at Solon, Cuyahoga County, the date of her nativity having been April 10, 1847, and it was at that place their marriage was solemnized. Soon afterward they established their residence at Garrettsville, and there Mr. Webster continued to be successfully engaged in the hardware business until 1881. He then beame associated with pottery manufacturing at Wellsville, but in 1884 he sold his interests at that place and removed with his family to Geneva, where he has since maintained his home and where he has lived retired since the year 1908. He here became one of the interested principals in the old Enterprise Manufacturing Company, which manufactured hardware specialties and which was eventually succeeded by the present Champion Hardware Company. Mr. Webster has never deviated from a line of strict allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, he having been very active in Sunday school work during a long term of years. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. Glenn C. Webster is the eldest of the three children, the second N. C. having died at the age of six years, and the youngest being Miss Minerva M., who is a Christian Science practitioner in the City of Cleveland. The public schools of Garrettsville, Wellsville and Geneva afforded Glenn C. Webster his early education, and after completing the work of the junior year in 254 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Geneva High School he continued his course in the high school at Warren, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891. For one year thereafter he was in the employ of S. W. Park & Company, wholesale and retail hardware dealers at Warren, and during the ensuing ten years he was there actively associated with the Warren Electric & Specialty Company, with which he won advancement from the lowliest of work as a laborer to the responsible post of manager of the five factories of this company. In 1902 Mr. Webster resigned his executive position and organized and incorporated the Sterling Electrical Manufacturing Company, for the manufacturing of an incandescent lamp on which he held the patent. This company manufactured this and other types of electric lamps, at Warren, until 1906, when the plant and business were profitably sold to the General Electric Company, with which great corporation Mr. Webster accepted the position of factory manager, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1909 he became manager of the engineering department of the National Electric Lamp Association, a subsidiary of the General Electric Company, and in this capacity he continued his service, with headquarters in Cleveland, until 1914, when he returned to Geneva and assumed his present dual office, that of secretary and factory manager of the Geneva Metal Wheel Company, manufacturers of steel wheels for industrial and agricultural uses. The well equipped manufacturing plant of the company gives employment to 160 hands, and the concern contributes much to the industrial and commercial prestige of Geneva. Mr. Webster is a staunch republican. He is an active member of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, and was president (1923) of the Geneva Fish & Game Association. He holds membership in the Cleveland Advertising Club, is an associate director of the Geneva Savings Bank Company, owns his attractive residence property at 34 Eagle Street, Geneva, as well as an excellent farm near this place and valuable realty in the City of Warren. His Masonic affiliations are here noted : Geneva Lodge No. 334, Free and Accepted Masons ; Geneva Chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Masons; Painesville Council No. 104, Royal and Select Masters; Columbia Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar, at Ashtabula ; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in Cleveland; and Lake Erie Consistory of the Valley of Cleveland, in which Scottish Rite body he has received the thirty-second degree. He is a member of the Cleveland Masonic Club. With characteristic loyalty and enthusiasm Mr. Webster directed his activities in the period of American participation in the World war. He served as chairman in connection with Government loan and Red Cross drives, and was chairman for Ashtabula County in one of the vigorous Red Cross drives. He was the Geneva city chairman in two of the Liberty Loan drives, and secretary for other local drives, besides having been chairman of the committee directing the four-minute men, speakers who did valiant service in advancing patriotic measures and enterprises. In recognition of his zealous and effective war services along these lines Mr. Webster received from the War Department of the United States a medal of honor. In June, 1907, Mr. Webster wedded Miss Olive Love, daughter of the late Seth L. and Grace (Ewalt) Love, of Trumbull County, Mr. Love having been a substantial farmer near Warren. Mrs. Webster is a graduate of the Warren High School, is prominently affiliated with the Order of the Eastern Star and various woman's clubs, and her influence in civic and political affairs is by no means insignificant. She is a member of the Republican County Committee of Ashtabula County, and was chairman in connection with local Red Cross activities during the entire period of the World war. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have two children: Ruth M. is the wife of Sterling T. Moulton, of Geneva, and Grace Cannon is attending the public schools of Geneva at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1924. CHARLES AUSTIN WILMOT, who has practiced law at Chardon since the beginning of the present century, has frequently appeared in some of the notable trials held in that section of Ohio and has acquired a number of business as well as professional connections. He represents some of the oldest families of Geauga County. Mr. Wilmot was born at Cleveland, Ohio, September 22, 1875. The Wilmot family came to America under the leadership of the noted Puritans, Goff and Whaley, who fled from England at the time of King Charles I, and settled near Judges Cave, near Hartford, Connecticut. The great-grandfather of the Chardon attorney was Abraham Wilmot, who was born near Hartford, Connecticut, and was an early settler in Geauga County, spending the rest of his life on a farm at Chardon. He married a Miss Turner, also a native of Connecticut. Their son, Charles Wilmot, was born at Hampden, Ohio, and devoted most of his life to his farm at Chardon. His first wife and the grandmother of Charles A. Wilmot, was Belle Moffett, who was born and spent her life at Chardon. His second wife was her sister Jeannette Moffett. One of the Moffett ancestors was with Washington at the beginning of the French and Indian war in the Braddock campaign and in the War of the Revolution. Frank A. Wilmot, son of Charles and Belle (Moffett) Wilmot, was born at Hampden, Geauga County, December 27, 1850, was reared on the old homestead at Chardon, and after completing his education in Oberlin College removed to Cleveland, where he became superintendent of D. M. Osborne & Company, manufacturers and dealers in farm machinery, reapers and binders. He remained there until 1877, when he went to Chicago and organized the Fairbanks oleomargarine department, and established offices for this department in a number of states and larger cities, including Philadelphia, New York and St. Louis. Having finished this business, he returned to Geauga County in 1879 and bought a farm at Chardon, where he lived out the remainder of his busy life and where he died November 23, 1917. He was a republican, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a member of the Congregational Church. Frank A. Wilmot married Anna L. Brewster, who was born at Cleveland in 1847, and died at Chardon, January 23, 1907. She was a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. Of her five children Charles Austin is the oldest. Arthur Brewster operates the • home farm at Chardon, Walter A. is a merchant at Hunts-burg in Geauga County. Frank Ellis is a clerk at Collinwood, in Cuyahoga County. Henry is locomotive engineer with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, living at Painesville, Ohio. Charles Austin Wilmot was four years of age when his parents returned to Geauga County and settled on the farm at Chardon. He attended public schools there, and is a graduate of the Chardon High School with the class of 1893. He shared in the labors of the farm while attending school, and he began the study of law in the offices of Metcalf and King at Chardon, and in 1900 graduated from the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus. In December of the same year he was admitted to the bar, and since then he has attended to a general civil and criminal practice. He also specializes in land titles and abstracts. His offices are in the Chardon Savings Bank Building, and he is a stockholder in the Chardon Savings Bank Company and the First National Bank. HISTORY OF OHIO - 255 He also has a farm of fifty acres at Hampden, and has an interest in the old homestead at Chardon. Within the line of his profession Mr. Wilmot has rendered some important public service. For eight years he was a justice of the peace, and from 1916 to 1920 held the office of prosecuting attorney of Geauga County. Again, during 1922-23, he acted as assistant prosecuting attorney. He is a republican, and while a member of the Christian Church at present affiliates with the Congregational Church. Fraternally his connections are with Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons; Chardon Chapter No. 106, Royal Arch Masons, is post chancellor commander of Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Chardon Kiwanit Club. During the World war he was Government appeal agent for Geauga County, and assisted to the extent of his means and abilities in all the local campaigns, being a member of the Speaker 's Bureau. On September 12, 1906, at Chardon, he married Miss Mabel L. Shaw, daughter of Lesley and Ellen (Randall) Shaw, both deceased, Mrs. Wilmot is a graduate of the Burkey and Dyke Business College at Cleveland. They have one son, King Austin, born August 21, 1908, now a student in the Chardon High School. HON. GEORGE T. WATTS has made a record of loyal and constructive service as a member of the House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature, in which body he is representative of Ashtabula County. Prior to his election to the Legislature he had given yeoman service in connection with the Ohio State Grange and in a private way he has made his influence felt in sucessful farm enterprise, and he has ever remained signally appreciative of the manifold advantages and attractions of his native state, the fine old Buckeye commonwealth. Mr. Watts was born at Perry, Lake County, Ohio, September 5, 1859, and is a son of Newton I. and Lois (Thompson) Watts, the former of whom was born at Chardon, Geauga County, this state, and the latter was born at Perry, Lake County, where she died in 1865, when her only child, George T., of this review, was about six years of age. Newton I. Watts later married Miss Louisa Thompson, a sister of his first wife, and she likewise died at Perry, no children having been born of this second marriage. Newton I. Watts was a child at the time of the family removal to Perry Township, Lake County, where he was reared to manhood and where he passed the remainder of his life, he having been one of the substantial farmers of that county for many years and having been one of the venerable and honored citizens of the county at the time of his death, in 1910. He was a stalwart, advocate of the principles of the republican party, was influential in community affairs, and served a number of years as trustee of Perry Township. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which both his first and his second wives likewise held membership. In the Civil war period he served as a member of the Home Guard, with rank of orderly sergeant. He was in service 100 days, on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, where many Confederate prisoners were confined, and at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati. He was a son of George and Lois (Dimmick) Watts, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Connecticut. Upon coming to Ohio George Watts first resided at Shalersville, Portage County, and later at Chardon, Geauga County, whence he finally removed to Perry Township, Lake County, where he became a successful farmer and where he and his wife continued to reside until their death. In a little red schoolhouse in his native township George T. Watts acquired his early education, this training being coincident with his initiation into the work of the home farm. He thereafter advanced his education by three years of attendance in Grand River Institute at Austinburg. He continued to be associated in the management of the old homestead farm until he had attained to the age of thirty-three years, and he then came to Ashtabula County, and assumed the management of his own farm, two and one-half miles east of Geneva. There he continued his vigorous activities as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of this county until 1912, since which year he has maintained his residence at Geneva. Here he is the owner of his attractive home property at 150 East Main Street, and as he here has five acres of fine land he finds it unnecessary to divorce himself entirely from productive enterprise in connection with Mother Earth, his gardening operations affording him both satisfaction and recreation. Mr. Watts was for ten years a valued member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Grange, and during seven years of this period did most effective work as state business agent of this Grange. Unequivocal and undeviating has been his allegiance to the republican party, and he has given yeoman service in behalf of its cause. He was for six years trustee of Geneva Township, was a member of the Geneva Board of Education four years, and in November, 1919, he was elected a representative of Ashtabula County in the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature, the estimate placed upon his service being shown in his reelection in 1921. He was a sincere and constructive worker in the Legislative sessions of 1920 and 1922, during the latter of which he was chairman of the fees and salary committee and a member of the committees on agriculture and insurance. He was specially zealous in advancing legislation for the benefit of the farmers of the state, and he was a staunch advocate of the ice cream bill and the bee inspection bill, both of which were enacted. He introduced and effectively championed to enactment the bill providing for more thorough protection against the inroads of the insect pest known as the corn-borer, which is an undesirable immigrant from Europe. Mr. Watts is actively identified with the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, and in their home city he and his wife are earnest and influential members of the Church of the Disciples, in which he is serving as an elder. At Austinburg, Ashtabula County, in December, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Watts and Miss Grace Craft, who was born and reared in this county and who is a daughter of the late Ira and Melvina (Vaughn) Craft, the father having been one of the prosperous farmers in Denmark Township, this county, for many years prior to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Watts have no children. LEANDER FERGUSON CAIN, M. D. Few men have more useful points of contact with the world of affairs about them than Doctor Cain of Caldwell. For many years he has carried on a large practice as a physician and surgeon. He has served in the Ohio Legislature, has been a teacher, property owner and business man, and has been generous of time and means to promote every worthy project. Doctor Cain was born in Noble County, Ohio, on a farm, July 21, 1856. His father, James Cain, son of a Noble County pioneer who came from Ireland, was born in Noble County, was engaged in teaching many years and subsequently in merchandising and farming. He died at the age of seventy-one. He was always active in democratic politics, well read, served as justice of the peace twenty-four years, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. His wife was Rosanna Racey, who died at the age of sixty-six. Leander Ferguson Cain was one of a family of 256 - HISTORY OF OHIO ten children, being eighth in order of birth. He was reared in a good home, but beyond the common schools had to make his own way and get his own higher education. He taught school, pursued a literary course in the Ohio State University, read law and taught school for a time, and also studied in Indiana University at Bloomington. After his marriage he continued work in various lines and completed his professional education in the Medical School of the University of Kentucky, where he was graduated in 1887. Doctor Cain practiced in Indiana and later in Ohio, and has been a resident of Caldwell since 1898. He engaged in active practice there until 1907, and from 1907 to 1911 was in Washington, D. C., as president of the Drillery Business College. He then returned to Caldwell and has since engaged in practice in this city. Doctor Cain represented Noble County in the Seventy-fifth General Assembly of Ohio in 1901. During that session of the Legislature he was one of the authors of tax reduction measure known as the Cain-Dow law. He again represented the county in the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, and on this occasion was responsible for the increase of the maximum workmen's compensation from $3,000 to $5,000. For a number of years he has frequently been heard throughout Southern Ohio as a speaker on the good roads subject, and that has been his main hobby in public affairs. He is a leader in the republican party, is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Noble County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Noble Lodge No. 459, Free and Accepted Masons; Cumberland Chapter No. 116, Royal Arch Masons ; and Olive Lodge No. 259, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. One form of recreation in which he delights is a hunting trip in the West. Doctor Cain and his sons also own a large farm near Caldwell. On the land have been constructed two artificial lakes, one covering six acres and the other two acres, and they have developed the place as the Pine Lakes resort. The lakes are fed by underground springs, and are stocked with bass and other fish. The facilities include a high class modern hotel, dancing pavilion, skating rink, boating and fishing facilities, free camping space and filling stations. The resort is located on a paved road three and one-half miles south of Caldwell, on the Marietta-Cleveland highways. Doctor Cain has served as a member of the county executive, county central and state central committees of the republican party, and is a member of the Christian Church. He married Quintella J. Wiley, now deceased. He has three living children. The son, Durward C., his active associate in the Pine Lakes resort, has a record of service In both the Cuban and Philippine wars, being with the Seventh and later with the Ninth United States Infantry. For eight years he was Ohio state accountant, and during the World war, with the rank of first lieutenant, he served as accountant in the Secretary of War office at Washington, and had duties that required visits to all the army camps in the United States. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and his home is at Columbus. He is married and has two children, Fred Ferguson and Jean Josephine. The second son of Doctor Cain is Claude Walter, a graduate of the Ohio Dental College and also of Northwestern University Dental Department in Chicago. During the World war he was a first lieutenant in the Quartermaster 's Corps, and is now in the automobile business at Muskogee, Oklahoma. He has one son, Claude W., Jr. The only daughter of Doctor Cain is Josephine B., who was a teacher for several years, and during the World war became a clerk and stenographer in the War Department and since has remained in Washington as a clerk in the Department of Agriculture. HON. HARRY K. BRAINARD is giving characteristically effective service as judge of the Police Court in the City of Ashtabula. Judge Brainard was born at Trumbull, Ashtabula County, on the 12th of August, 1876, and in that same community his father, Albert H. Brainard was born in the year 1842, his death having occurred at Rock Creek, this county, March 15, 1917. The name of the Brainard family has been worthily linked with civic and industrial affairs of Ashtabula County since the pioneer days, and has here been constructively represented by three successive generations. Albert H. Brainard was reared and educated in Trumbull Township, this county, and he became one of the substantial business men of his native county, where he operated a cheese factory for a number of years, besides having been a successful saw-mill operator. He removed to Rock Creek, in 1889 and later he removed to Ashtabula, where for many years he was engaged in the grocery business. On his retirement from active business he removed to Rock Creek, and there passed the remainder of his life. He was a republican of unqualified loyalty, and he served a number of years as clerk of Trumbull Township. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic, he having enlisted in defense of the Union in 1861, within a short time after the inception of the Civil war, and having served during virtually the entire period of conflict, the history of his Ohio regiment constituting the record of his gallant military career. His wife, whose maiden name was Araminda Searles, was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, in 1847, and she survived her husband only a few months, her death having occurred December 15, 1917. Of the children the eldest is the wife of Charles S. Wiles, a locomotive engineer, and they reside at Sharon, Pennsylvania; Clyde died at the age of four and Paul, at the age of two years; Harry K., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and M. Gladys is the wife of G. Owen Hollenbaugh, superintendent of the McKinney Steel Works at Lakewood, Ohio. The public schools of Rock Creek, and Ashtabula Harbor gave to Judge Harry K. Brainard his early education, and he was graduated from the Ashtabula Harbor High School as a member of the class of 1893. For seven years thereafter he was a member of the reportorial staff of the Ashtabula Beacon, then one of the leading newspapers at Ashtabula. He then became assistant postmaster in that city, and of this position he continued the incumbent until 1909, in September of which year he entered upon his administration as county recorder, an office in which he served two terms, of two years each. In 1913 Judge Brainard turned his attention to the buying and selling of real estate, and with this important line of enterprise he has since continued his association. In March, 1921, he was appointed police judge at Ashtabula, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Don V. Parker, and in the autumn of the same year he was regularly elected to this office, his term in which will expire December 31, 1925. His executive offices are in the city hall, and his business offices are established in the Ashtabula National Bank Building. The Judge is secretary and treasurer of the Northwestern Finance Company of Ashtabula and also of the Water Front Properities Company. The political adherency of Judge Brainard is with the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church in their home city. He is past exalted ruler of Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; is HISTORY OF OHIO - 257 past chancellor of Unity Lodge No. 133, Knights of Pythias; and is affiliated also with Ashtabula Lodge No. 547, Loyal Order of Moose. In June, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Brainard and Miss Ethel Cline, daughter of Capt. Sidney A. and Jennie (Alexander) Cline, whose home is at 42 Walnut Street in the City or Ashtabula. Captain Cline formerly served as captain of vessels on the Great Lakes,' and is now in the employ of the Ashtabula Dock Company. Mrs. Brainard, like her husband, was graduated from the high school at Ashtabula Harbor. Dorothy, elder of the two children of Judge and Mrs. Brainard, was graduated from the Ashtabula High School as a member of the class of 1922. She remains at the parental home and is a popular figure in the social activities of Ashtabula. Sidney A., the younger of the two children, is, in 1923, a student in the Junior High School at Ashtabula. WALTER E. PUTNAM has proved his ability and resourcefulness in connection with newspaper enterprise in his native county of Ashtabula, where he is editor and manager of the Conneaut News-Herald, published in the City of Conneaut and having a representative circulation not only in Ashtabula County but also in Erie County, Pennsylvania, Conneaut being near the border line between these two counties. Walter Edward Putnam was born at Conneaut, February 14, 1886, and in a direct way, as well as through the medium of the paper of which he is the editor, he is a loyal and effective exponent of the interests of his native county and home city. He is a son of Charles Sumner Putnam and Laura E. (Stone) Putnam, the former of whom was born near Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York, in 1859, and the latter of whom passed her entire life in Ashtabula County, Ohio, her birth having occurred on a farm near Conneaut in 1863, and her death having occurred in the City of Conneaut on the 29th of December, 1918. Charles Sumner Putnam, a direct descendant of the Revolutionary patriot Israel Putnam, was reared in his native county in the old Empire State, and after receiving the discipline of the common schools he advanced his education by attending a well ordered academy or finishing school at Jamestown, New York. He was a young man when he came to Conneaut, Ohio, where his marriage was solemnized and where he still maintains his home. Here he was for a number of years connected with the old Conneaut Reporter, which was at that time one of the leading newspapers of Ashtabula County, and later he was editor and publisher of the Geneva Free Press, at Geneva, this county, where he was thus engaged several years. He then returned to Conneaut, and after here being for a number of years the publisher of the Conneaut Reporter, he then made a radical change of vocation by here engaging in the retail furniture business. From 1900 to 1912 Mr. Putnam was retained by the State Tax Commission of Ohio in the position of special railroad auditor, and since his retirement from this service he has been again associated with the printing and newspaper business. He is treasurer and auditor of the Conneaut Printing Company, which published the Conneaut News-Herald, of which his son Walter E. is editor. He has given yeoman service in the ranks of the republican party, and his fraternal affiliations at Conneaut are with Evergreen Lodge No. 222, Free and Accepted Masons, and Conneaut Lodge No. 256, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Of the children Walter E., of this sketch, is the younger, and the elder is Eppie M. whose husband, Karl List, is manager of the H. B. M., jewelry store at Conneaut. The public schools of Conneaut engrossed a due share of the attention of Walter E. Putnam during the period of his boyhood and earlier youth, and after his graduation from high school, as a member of the class of '03, he became a reporter for the Conneaut Evening News, with which he continued his alliance until 1907, when his father effected its consolidation with the Conneaut Post-Herald and gave to the combination the title of the Conneaut News-Herald. With this influential paper Walter E. Putnam has continuously been associated since that time. In 1909 he acquired a financial interest in the News-Herald, of which he has since continued the editor and general manager, besides being secretary of the Conneaut Printing Company. The Post-Herald was the outgrowth of the old Conneaut Reporter, and thus the present paper represents the coalition of three papers that have been of special prominence in the local journalistic field. The News-Herald, a daily paper of really metropolitan appearance and functions, wields much influence as a sponsor of the community interests in general and as an advocate of the principles and policies of the republican party, to which its editor given unequivocal allegiance. The Conneaut Printing Company, by which this paper is published, owns the News-Herald Building, at 180-182 Broad Street, Conneaut, and the equipment in both the newspaper and job departments is of the best modern type. Mr. Putnam is a loyal and vital member of the Conneaut Chamber of Commerce ; is secretary of the local Rotary Club at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1923; is affiliated with Conneaut Lodge No. 256, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; with the Associated Press, in the interests of the paper of which he is editor ; is a stockholder in the Conneaut Mutual Loan & Trust Company and the Citizens Banking & Trust Company, besides having interests in numerous other business and industrial corporations. In addition to his attractive home property, at 219 Mill Street, Conneaut, he owns several pleasant summer cottages on the shore of Lake Erie. October 28, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Putnam and Mrs. Charlotte (Bartlett) Laughlin, whose father, Ellery C. Bartlett, now resides at Brooklyn, New York, as a manufacturers' agent in the wholesale leather trade. His wife, who was Ida E. Hassell, is deceased. Mrs. Putnam received excellent educational advantages, including those of a leading finishing school in New York City. She is a direct descendant of Mr. Joseph Bartlett, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. She is a popular factor in the representative social and cultuial circles of Conneaut, and the gracious chatelaine of one of the hospitable homes of this city. CASSIUS OAKLAND DYE. Representative of one of the oldest pioneer families of Southeastern Ohio, Judge Dye has been a member of the Noble County bar thirty years, has had an unusually busy, eventful and serviceable career. He was born November 28, 1866, on a farm in what was then Morgan County and now Noble County. His grandfather, Ezekiel Dye, was one of the earliest settlers in Noble County, coming from Pennsylvania in 1804 and entering a tract of Government land. He had a record of service in the War of the Revolution. Furman Dye, father of Judge Dye, was born at Renroek, Noble County, in 1820. He studied medicine, though he never practiced, and devoted his active life to farming and politics. He was a very eloquent speaker. His death occurred in 1904. His wife, Lucy McElroy, was born in Ohio. Cassius O. Dye as a boy on the farm looked forward to a professional career as an attorney. After completing his education in public schools he taught in country districts for eight years. In the mean- 258 - HISTORY OF OHIO time he studied law privately, and since 1892 has been a resident of Caldwell, where after being admitted to the bar in 1893 he began practice. His abilities brought him early recognition, and he has always had an extensive general practice. In 1895 he was elected mayor of Caldwell, was again elected to that office in 1899, and in 1913 he went on the bench of the Probate Court, giving a careful and systematic administration of the probate office for eight years. On retiring in 1921 he again resumed his general law practice. Before going on the bench he was one of the original incorporators of the Citizens National Bank. He is now attorney for the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Caldwell. Few men make so much out of a hobby as Judge Dye. He is one of the prominent men in poultry circles in Ohio, and has developed a flock of Rhode Island Red chickens, many of which he has exhibited in the poultry shows of the state and has carried off many trophies. He is a member of the executive committee of the Ohio Poultry Breeders Association. During the war period he acted as chairman of the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association drives, and was also active in the Liberty Loan campaigns. He is a democrat, is past chancellor commander of Caldwell Lodge No. 280, Knights of Pythias, and has been district deputy grand chancellor. Judge Dye married in 1888 Florence Thorla. They have four children: Valeria is the wife of Vincent Ferguson, of Cambridge, Ohio. Dorothy is the wife of Harry Cooper, of Woodsfield, Ohio. Donald, who was in training as a soldier in Camp Taylor, Louisville, is now with the Miller Tire and Rubber Company at Akron. Muriel is the wife of E. C. Jordan, of Caldwell. EARLE W. HAMBLIN, B. S., an able educator whose professional loyalty and enthusiasm have been expressed in constructive service, has the distinction of being principal of the oldest endowed academy in the State of Ohio, the Grand River Institute, at Austinburg, Ashtabula County. He has been the academic and executive head of this historic institution since the year 1908, and his administration has been marked by loyal adherence to the splendid traditions of the school and by the progressive policies that make for efficient service in all departments. A general review of the history of Grand River Institute more consisently finds place in the chapter of this publication devoted to educational matters, but in the present connection may be entered brief quotation from the latest catalogue issued by the old and popular school. "Grand River Institute is the oldest endowed academy in Ohio. Its charter was granted February 22, 1831. It grew out of the needs of the Western Reserve ninety years ago. It had its beginning in a select school taught in a cooper shop in 1830-31 by Lucius M. Austin. The movement, however, received its main impulse in the great revival of that winter, and the school was established as 'A manual labor school to educate worthy young men for the Gospel ministry,' and was called ' The Ashtabula County School of Science and Industry,' In 1836 a number of young men, with a teacher named Amos Dresser, came from Oberlin, and the school received a new impetus. During the same year it was re-endowed, by Jacob Austin, and the manual labor idea was abandoned, the while the name of the school was changed to Grand River Institute. In 1840 ladies were admitted to the advantages of the institute on the same terms as gentlemen. The original building, now the Gymnasium, was built soon after the founding of the school. In 1883 the third building was erected, for chapel, recitation and society rooms. Early in 1915 the new Boys' Dormitory was completed. It is the gift of the alumni and other friends of the school, and is known as Alumni Hall. A ladies' hall was built in 1858 to take the place of one which had burned the year before. This hall was destroyed by lightning April 1, 1917. A much more elegant and commodious structure was occupied in January, 1918. “The Institute is located at Austinburg, a pleasant town in Ashtabula County, Ohio, seven miles south of Lake Erie, on the Pennsylvania lines. Its buildings stand in the midst of the eight-acre park, which affords abundant shade and also room for recreation and sports of all kinds. Grand River Institute aims to be a fitting school of the first grade. It has the reputation or maintaining a severe standard of scholarship, earned by more than three-quarters of a century of progressive work, in which it has sent hundreds of stuuents to the various American colleges, and has had a total enrollment of more than 10,000. * * * There are few schools of its class that have graduated so many men and women who have taken prominent and useful positions in life. One of the pest things about the institute is that it is a school for all the people. It aims to be and is a school for the average wide-awake American.* * * While the school is strictly one for college fitting, still it recognizes that many are unable to attend college, and for such it offers a wide range of courses, affording excellent opportunities for culture and preparation for active life. * * * The thoroughness and genuineness of our work have secured recognition from our best institutions of learning, and our graduates, by special arrangement, are now received without examination by any American college." Earle W. Hamblin is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the early Colonial period of our national history, the first representatives having come from England, on the ship "Hopewell," in 1621, and having settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Professor Hamblin of this review is a grandson of David C. and Elsie (Davis) Hamblin. David C. Hamblin was born and reared in the State of New York, and came to Perry, Lake County, Ohio, about the year 1863, he having become one of the prosperous farmers in that locality and having there passed the remainder of his life. Elsie Davis became his first wife. His second wife likewise passed away, and for his third wife he wedded Nancy Chappell. The present principal of Grand River Institute was born in Perry Township, Lake County, Ohio, December 24, 1869, and is a son of Darius D. and Olive (Rowland) Hamblin, the former of whom was born at Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1837, and the latter of whom was born at Perry, Lake County, Ohio, in 1842, her death having there occurred in the year 1906, and her husband having there passed away June 30, 1919. Darius D. Hamblin was reared and educated in the old Keystone State, and came to Lake County, Ohio, shortly after the close of the Civil war, in which he had served as a gallant young soldier of the Union during the last two years of the conflict, he having been a member of the Two Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Hamblin became a successful farmer in Lake County, Ohio, was a staunch republican, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the children, Professor Hamblin of this sketch is the eldest; Ray died at the age of five years; Elbert is a sucessful fruit-farmer near Perry, Lake County. The public schools at Perry afforded Earle W. Hamblin his preliminary education, and in 1896 he was graduated from Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. At that college he became affiliated with the Sigma Nu fraternity. After his graduation he was for one HISTORY OF OHIO - 259 year teacher of mathematics in West Farmington Seminary, and thereafter he gave four years of effective service as principal of the centralized school at Troy, Geauga County. He then became superintendent of the centralized school at Kingsville, Ashtabula County, where he remained six years. His character and achievement that led to his being called to his present important office, that of principal of Grand River Institute, and his administration has been fruitful in advancing the standard of service and promoting the general success of this old and admirable school. In politics Professor Hamblin is to be classified as an independent republican, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Congregational Church of Austinburg, in which he is a deacon. At Madison, Lake County, he is affiliated with Madison Lodge No. 307, Free and Accepted Masons; at Geneva, Ashtabula County, with Geneva Chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Masons; at Painesville, with Painesville Council No. 104, Royal and Select Masters; and at Perry, with Diamond Lodge No. 792, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is actively identified with the National Educational Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association. He is the owner of a valuable fruit farm of forty acres one mile northeast of Perry, Lake County. December 28, 1898, recorded the marriage of Professor Hamblin and Miss Jessie Richards, daughter of John and Mary (Hayes) Richards, the father having been a leading merchant at Carrollton, Ohio, at the time of his death and the widowed mother being still a resident of . that place. Mrs. Hamblin received excellent educational advantages, including those of Scio College, at Scio, Harrison County. Professor and Mrs. Hamblin have one daughter, Marjorie, who is now (1924) a student in Lake Erie College at Painesville, Ohio. BEN E. HOTCHKISS, the present sheriff of Geauga County, has long been known as a man who gets results from any undertaking, and has been successfully identified with the farming and business affairs of his community since early manhood. Mr. Hotchkiss was born at Burton, in Geauga County, January 21, 1871, and is descended from one of two brothers who came from England and located in Connecticut in Colonial times. His grandfather, William Frederick Hotchkiss, was born at Cheshire, Connecticut, and married a native girl of the same town, Hannah Gaylord. While in Connecticut he followed the sea as a sailor, and was also a farmer. In 1837 he and his family started for Ohio, traveling in wagons overland and located at Burton, where he and his wife spent the rest of their days. He owned a large amount of land there and developed much of it for farming purposes. Their son, Henry Hotchkiss, was born at Cheshire, Connecticut, March 10, 1831, and was six years of age when he accompanied the family on their long journey to Ohio. He lived in the community of Burton from 1837 until his death eighty-five years later, May 24, 1923. His life was remarkably long and included many experiences. He farmed on an extensive scale, was a breeder and raiser of thoroughbred cattle and sheep, and he was one of the first six men to volunteer as soldiers from his county in the Civil war. For two years he was in nearly all the battles fought by his regiment, the One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Infantry. He was a member of Company B, and participated in the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. For a short time before his death he enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest living Odd Fellow in Ohio. He was always a staunch republican and an active supporter of the Congregational Church. Henry Hotchkiss married Sarah A. Connant, who was born at Troy in Geauga County, and died at Burton at the venerable age of eighty-four years. They had three children. Clarence A., the oldest is a florist owning and operating greenhouses at Cuyahoga Falls. The second son, Harry P., became a farmer, and died at Burton when forty-four years of age. Ben E. Hotchkiss, the youngest son, grew up on the farm, and attended the public schools at Burton until he was seventeen. Then, after a year or so of farm work, at the age of nineteen he went to Cleveland and worked for the Standard Oil Company in that city, two years. After returning home he helped operate the old farm, and at the age of twenty-two began farming for himself at Burton, and was actively identified with the agricultural enterprise of that vicinity for nearly thirty years. He retired from the farm in 1922, but still owns a place of ninety-one acres of valuable land. Since 1903 Mr. Hotchkiss has also been an auctioneer, and has cried sales all over this section of the state. In the line of public service he was a member of the Burton School Board twenty years, a member of the Geauga School Board from 1915 to 1921, and his present office as sheriff of the county was conferred upon him by popular election in November, 1922. He entered upon his duties in January, 1923, for a term of two years. His offices are in the County Jail at Chardon. Mr. Hotchkiss is a republican, affiliated with Geauga Lodge No. 171, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Burton, his father 's old Lodge, and also Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Chardon Kiwanis Club, and was one of the working citizens of Geauga County who insured the success of the Liberty Loan and other drives during the World war. On February 22, 1893, Mr. Hotchkiss married at Chardon Miss Tina Herendeen, daughter of Monroe and Lucinda (Layman) Herendeen, now deceased. Her father was a carpenter and builder. Mr. and Mrs. Hotchkiss have three children: Ralph H., who operates his father 's farm at Burton; Paul M., who lives with his parents and is also a farm worker ; and Millie It., a teacher in the third grade of the public schools at Chardon. STANLEY HENRY KINZER, county treasurer of Butler County, was born in that section of Ohio, and both in business and in politics has become one of the important men of influence in the county. He was born at Seven Mile, Butler County, February 15, 1885, son of Henry and Rachael (Winkler) Kinzer. His father for many years was in the shoe business at Seven Mile, but is now retired. Stanley Henry Kinzer is a graduate of the Hamilton High School, took a business course, and soon afterward entered the brokerage business, and for a time was in Southern California acting as assistant manager of the Colina Lumber Company at Los Angeles. On returning to Hamilton he was manager of the Brown Cigar Store for a time, and then went on the road as a traveling salesman. Mr. Kinzer was elected county treasurer of Butler County in 1922 by a majority of over 500. He has the distinction of being the first republican to occupy the county office in a period of forty-three years. Butler County was formerly one of the most reliable democratic strongholds in Ohio, and while still nominally democratic, the republican party has been mounting in strength rapidly and the odds are now about equal. Mr. Kinzer has been one of the leaders of the republicans to have brought about this desirable change. Before his successful race for the county treasury ship he had previously been a candidate of his party for city treasurer and county recorder. 260 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Kinzer is a Mason, a member of the United Commercial Travelers, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, Loyal Order of Moose, International Credit Men's Association and the Chi Sigma Chi college fraternity. He married, June 20, 1917, Miss Lillian Fisher, daughter of Joe and Katie (Von Burg) Fisher. She finished her education in the Hamilton High School, and is a talented musician and much interested in outdoor sports and athletics. She is one of the leading members of the Hamilton Young Woman's Christian Association, and is a member of the Woman's City Club and the League of Ohio Woman's Voters. Mr. Kinzer is a lover of good dogs, and at his private kennel he has a number of registered Airedales of which he feels justly proud. THOMAS B. WYMAN, who is city manager of Painesville, was born in Lake County, Ohio, but the qualifications that led to his selection as the administrative head of the city government at Painesville were based primarily upon his known experience and ability in engineering, particularly through his work as a forestry expert and engineer. Mr. Wyman was born in Perry, Lake County, July 14, 1880. His grandfather, Don Wyman, was a native of Vermont, a descendant of Colonial settlers in New England, and as a young man came to Perry, Ohio, who married there and spent the rest of his life as a farmer. He married Mary Tisdel, who was born at Madison, Ohio, and died at the family homestead at Perry. Lloyd Wyman, father of Thomas B., was born at Perry, February 16, 1842, was reared and married there, and was an early graduate in law from the University of Michigan. As a practicing lawyer he lived for several years at Salem, Nebraska, and in 1895 settled at Painesville, where he carried on a general law practice until 1913. Following that he was in the insurance business and since 1921 has lived reared. He held township offices while living at Perry, and his polities has always been republican. Lloyd Wyman married Mary Elizabeth Tisdel, who was born in Madison, Lake County, March 26, 1845. They had a family of six children. Vaughn E. is in the abstract and real estate business at Painesville. Bayard operates a bonding business at Washington, D. C. Grace E. has for over twenty years been a teacher in the public schools of Painesville. The son Guy is in the real estate business at Painesville, and Thomas B. is the fifth in age. Charles, a regular army officer, with home at Los Angeles, California, graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1907, and has won promotions to the rank and grade of lieutenant-colonel in the army. He is a veteran of the World war, having been overseas two years with the Ninety-first Division as lieutenant-colonel in the signal corps, and was in the engagements and offensives of St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Chatteau-Thierry and others, and for a year after the armistice was stationed at Coblenz, Germany. Thomas B. Wyman found his early training in the public schools of Perry and also at Painesville, graduating from the high school of the latter city in 1898. For a time he was connected with a hotel at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, but in 1900 entered Ohio State University at Columbus, spending one year with his studies there. He was then receiving teller in the Pioneer Trust Company at Painesville until 1903, when he entered the Biltmore Forest School at Biltmore, North Carolina, graduating in the winter of 1904 with the degree Bachelor of Forestry and Forest Engineer. Mr. Wyman for a number of years lived in Northern Michigan, spending one year as forester for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company at Negaunee, and performing a similar service for the same corporation at Munising, Michigan, until 1911. In that year he became secretary forester of the Northern Forest Protective Association, with a large amount of administrative detail and responsibility. He held that post unfil the winter of 1920, when he returned to Painesville to accept the appointment tendered by the City Council as city manager. As city manager Mr. Wyman has had the technical supervision of an extensive program of improvements, including the rebuilding of the municipal utilities of light, gas and water plants, all of whieh are now in a thorough state of efficiency. He also supervised the construction of storm and sanitary sewers and grade separation. His offices are in the City Hall. During his residence at Munising, Michigan, he was supervisor of Grand Island Township several years, and for one term president of the village. He is an independent republican, and is very active in local and municipal affairs through his membership in the Chamber of Commerce at Painesville and the Kiwanis Club. While in Northern Michigan he organized and conducted Wyman's School of Woods, having personal supervision over it from 1909 to 1919. As high as fifty pupils were enrolled in this school, training for forestry and kindred subjects. He is still president of the school. Mr. Wyman during the World war was an enlisting officer for the Forest Regiment. He owns one of the good homes at Painesville, at 116 Lusard Street. He married at Negaunee, Michigan, December 17, 1907, Miss Lillian Penglase, daughter of William and Ann (Allan) Penglase, now deceased. Her father was a mining captain at Negaunee. Mrs. Wyman, who finished her education in the Marquette Normal College, at Marquette, Michigan, was a teacher for five years in the public schools of Negaunee, until her marriage. The. two children born to them are Max Allan, born December 6, 1911, and Don Lloyd, born September 4, 1916. JAMES MIX JOHNSTON is a business man of Geauga County who has been successfully identified with three lines of endeavor, farming, banking and the lumber industry. He is proprietor of the leading lumber business in the county, and has a large plant at Chardon, carrying all supplies for building purposes and also operating a planing mill. Mr. Johnston was born at Chester, in Geauga County, June 26, 1863. He is of New England ancestry. His great-grandfather, Walter Johnston, a native of Conriecticut, came to Ohio and established a home in Trumbull County, where a village grew up named Johnston in his honor. He served as a colonel in the State Militia. His son, Heman D. Johnston, was also a native of Connecticut, and from Trumbull County moved to Chester and engaged in farming there. He was quite active in building up the Free Will Baptist School at Chester, later known as Geauga Seminary. Heman D. Johnston married Louisa F. Miller, who was born at New Lyme, in Ashtabula County, and died at Chester. They had two sons, Walter Johnston and James Mix Johnston. Walter Johnston was the father of the Chardon lumber merchant. James Mix Johnston, his uncle, was born at Johnston in Trumbull County, and as a boy lived at Chester. He was a graduate of Oberlin College, became superintendent of schools at Orwell, Ohio. and died while visiting at the home of his brother Walter in Chester, while on his way to enlist in the Civil war. He married Adelia A. Field, a native of Chester, who for thirty years served as preceptress of women at Oberlin College. She died at Oberlin. Walter Johnston was born at Johnston in Trumbull County, in 1836, and was reared there and at Chester, where he was successfully engaged in farming for a number of years. When he retired he removed HISTORY OF OHIO - 261 to Chardon, where he died in 1907. He was a republican, being trustee of Chester Township and member of the School Board, and was elected but declined to serve as justice of the peace. From early manhood he had an interesting part in the work of the Congregational Church, and also sought in every way to be useful in a public capacity. He was a member of the Patrons of Husbandry or Grange. Walter Johnston married Lydia Hale Rust, who was born at Chester in 1837, and died there in 1889. They had three children: Elgie, who died in infancy; James Mix; and Nettie, wife of Mahlon K. Parsons, farm owner and lumber mill operator at West Hampton, Massachusetts. James Mix Johnston was reared on his father's farm at Chester, attended public schools there and finished his education in Oberlin College. After that he returned home and was identified with the operation of the homestead farm until he was forty-two years of age. Mr. Johnston in 1905 became teller in the Chardon Savings Bank Company, was promoted to assistant cashier and cashier, and only resigned the latter office in 1916. He entered the lumber business by purchasing an interest in the F. P. Sarles retail lumber yards, and later in the same year became sole proprietor. He conducted the business as the Chardon Lumber Company, selling lumber at retail and conducting a planing mill for the manufacture of interior woodwork and finish. The offices, yard and mill are located on Water Street. In 1922 Mr. Johnston introduced a cooperative feature into his business, a plan that has been received with much favor by his patrons. Under this plan all purchases of material amounting to twenty-five dollars or more, during the year, share with the proprietor in the net profits of the business half and half after deducting eight per cent on the investment at the beginning of the year. The fine home occupied by Mr. Johnston and family in Chardon is at 306 South Street. He is a republican, served two years as assessor of Chester, is a member of the Chardon Congregational Church, and is affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 213, Knights of Pythias, and Chardon Kiwanis Club. He married at Chester, December 11, 1889, Miss Mary S. Little-johns, daughter of William and Susan (Collacott) Littlejohns. Her parents are now deceased. Both of them were born in England, went from there to Canada, and from Canada came to Chester, Ohio. Her father was regarded as one of the most skillful and progressive farmers of that community. Mrs. Johnston finished her education in Hiram College at Hiram, Ohio. They have one son, Paul W., a graduate of the Illinois School for Opticians and now practicing as an optician at Akron, Ohio. JOHN R. PATTERSON, a prominent educator, did his first teaching in a rural district in Eastern Ohio, and as teacher and as principal has made a splendid record, so that he ranks among the leading school men of the state. He was born near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, January 15, 1886, son of John and Laura (Coss) Patterson, natives of the same locality, where they married and devoted their active lives to farming. John R. Patterson had the training and environment of a farm boy, attended rural schools, and subsequently graduated from Bridgeport High School. After leaving high school he spent four years as teacher in rural districts. He then became principal of the South School at Martins Ferry, Ohio, and from there came to Crawford County as principal of the high school at New Washington. He was identified with that school for two years. In the meantime he was attending summer sessions at the University of Wooster, and in that way he completed half of his college work. In the fall of 1912 he entered Wooster University in the Junior Class, and remained in residence until graduating in June, 1914, with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree Cum Laude. While in university he was also instructor of physics and algebra in Wooster Academy. After graduating Mr. Patterson was superintendent of schools at Amherst and Xenia, Ohio, and in August, 1919, was called to Bucyrus as superintendent of city schools. In August, 1924, he resigned at Bucyrus to accept a similar position at Athens, Ohio, the seat of Ohio University. Mr. Patterson married Miss Bertha Bunker, a native of Portage County, Ohio. They were summer students together at Wooster University. Their one son, James E., born August 15, 1910, is now attending Bucyrus High School. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Patterson is affiliated with Stonington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Amherst, Bucyrus Chapter Royal Arch Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a charter member of the Rotary Club and in politics is a democrat. He is a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. EDWARD WILLIAM EDWARDS, prominent Cincinnati manufacturer, was born in that city May 1, 1874, son of Walter Raleigh and Ellen (Bryan) Edwards. He has been identified with iron and steel manufacturing for over thirty years. In 1901 he founded the Edwards Manufacturing Company, makers of iron and steel products, and subsequently purchased Scott & Company of Cincinnati, the Cannonsburg Steel & Iron Company, the Kinnear Manufacturing Company, and is now president of these and other organizations. He is also a director of the Columbia Gas & Electric Company and the Union Trust Company, is president of the Cincinnati Rapid Transit Commission, which is building the subway for Cincinnati, having been head of this commission since it was organized in 1918. He was a member of the Officers' Examining Board in 1917-18, is a republican, was president of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, and the Business Men's Club, and is a man with varied interests and tastes. He is well known as a collector of pictures. HERBERT KENNING, M. D. A physician and surgeon of many years' experience and practice, Doctor Kenning is present health commissioner of Lake County at Painesville, and was engaged in private practice for a quarter of a century at Willoughby. He was born at Elmira, Ontario, Canada, May 8, 1862. His father, Robert Kenning, born in County Down, Ireland, in 1809, was reared in that country, was married there, and accompanied by his wife and their first two children came to America and settled in Canada, at Elmira, Ontario. He followed farming there on an extensive scale for many years, and after 1882 lived retired at Kitchner, Ontario, where he died in 1887. He was a liberal in polities and a staunch Presbyterian. His wife, Margaret Walker, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1814, and died at Norwich, Ontario, in 1892. They had a large family of sixteen children, three of whom died in infancy. A brief record of the others is as follows: James, who became a blacksmith and died in Kansas at the age of sixty-five ; Agnes, who died at Elmira, Ontario, aged seventy-five ; Robert, a blacksmith, who died in Ohio at the age of forty-five; Richard, who became a veterinarian and died at Pembroke, Ontario, aged seventy-three ; Margaret, who died when seventy years old, at Hamilton, Ontario ; Matilda, who reached the age of seventy-five and passed away at Manchester, Ontario; Thomas, a physician and surgeon at Detroit, 262 - HISTORY OF OHIO Michigan; Maria, wife of William J. Knowles, a hardware merchant at Buffalo, New York ; Ewen, who became a veterinarian, and died of typhoid fever in Kansas at the age of thirty-five years ; David, a twin brother of Ewen, who was a mechanic and died at Windsor, Ontario, aged forty-five; Alfred, who was a hotel clerk at Detroit when he died at the age of sixty-two ; Herbert, the twelfth and next to the youngest of the children who grew up ; and Miss Martha, a resident of Cleveland. Dr. Herbert Kenning spent his boyhood days on his father 's farm near Elmira, Canada, where he attended the public schools, and he also attended high school at Kitchner. He was only fourteen when he began an apprenticeship as clerk in a drug store at Kitchner. He served three years at a salary of $225 for the entire period. With this training he clerked for a short time in a drug store at Toronto, and at the age of seventeen, in 1880, went to Detroit, and for two years was in a drug store in that city. For a year he was a nurse in the Marine Hospital at Detroit, and he finished his professional education in the Detroit College of Medicine, where he graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of '86. He earned his way through medical college by working in the summers in drug stores. Doctor Kenning began the practice of medicine in 1886 with his brother Thomas at Detroit, remaining there a little over a year, and for two years was at Plymouth, Michigan. In 1896 he located at Willoughby in Lake County, Ohio. Doctor Kenning remained there engaged in a heavy routine of general practice until 1920, when, in February, he moved to Painesville to begin his term as health commissioner of Lake County. His offices are in the courthouse, and he is a thoroughly well qualified man for the duties of this position. He is a member of the Lake County and the Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Kenning is a director in the First National Bank of Willoughby, and owns a home there and other real estate in Cleveland. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, and is active in the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Willoughby Lodge No. 302, Free and Accepted Masons, past king of Painesville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons, a member of Painesville Council No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, is past commander of Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knights Templar, and a member of Lake Erie Consistory, Valley of Cleveland, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. He also belongs to the Knights of Malta at Willoughby, and the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce. During the World war he volunteered his professional services, but was rejected on account of physical disability. On June 15, 1898, at Willoughby, Doctor Kenning married Miss Gertrude Alice Sherman, daughter of Dr. Joel L. and Mary (Beckwith) Sherman. Her father is a retired dentist and her parents are now living retired at Cassadaga, Florida. Mrs. Kenning is a graduate of the. Willoughby High School. They have one child, Gyneth Maxine, a student in Western Reserve University. VAN NEWHALL MARSH, M. D. Former city health commissioner of Painesville, Doctor Newhall Marsh was graduated from medical college and began practice nearly a quarter of a century ago, and has achieved a well deserved reputation for his skill in both medicine and surgery. Doctor Marsh was born in the City of Chicago, Illinois, January 14, 1876. His grandfather, Madison Marsh, was also a physician. Born in New York State, he lived in Indiana for a number of years and practiced medicine there. He was also interested in politics, and was elected and served as a member of the Indiana State Senate. Before the Civil war he moved to Louisiana, and when the war came on he served all through the struggle as a surgeon in the Confederate army. He died in Louisiana His son, Tamerlane Pliny Marsh, was a scholar, educator, and one of the ablest men in the Methodist ministry for many years. He made his mark in the State of Ohio, where for ten years he served as president of Mount Union College at Alliance. He was born in Indiana, in 1848, was reared there. and was a graduate with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut. He subsequently graduated from the Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey, and during his active career the honorary degrees Doctor of Divinity and Bachelor of Laws were bestowed upon him. As a minister of the Methodist Church he filled a number of prominent pastorates in and around Chicago. At one time he was pastor of a Methodist Church in Evanston, Illinois, was pastor of the Wabash Avenue Church in Chicago, and also filled the pastorate at Rockford, Illinois. From 1888 to 1898 he was at Alliance in his duties as president of Mount Union College, and subsequently lived retired there until his death in 1905. He served on the Union side in the Civil war, while his father was with the South. He became a clerk in the quartermaster 's department, and before the end of the war was chief clerk of the quartermaster 's department in Washington. He always voted as a republican, and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. The late Dr. T. P. Marsh married Harriet Newhall, who was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1851, and now lives at Painesville, Ohio. She was the mother of four children: Harriet P., wife of Thomas T. Thoburn, a minister of the Methodist Church at Pittsburgh; Winifred, wife of Emmett W. Morton, a teacher in the high school at Painesville ; Van Newhall; and Marion, wife of William I. Randall, a mechanical engineer living at Parlin, New Jersey. Dr. Van Newhall Marsh was educated in public schools in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, and was twelve years of age when his father moved to Alliance, Ohio. He finished his preparatory course in Mount Union College in 1892, and was graduated with the degree Bachelor of Philosophy from Mount Union College in 1896. He then attended Western Reserve University Medical School at Cleveland for two years, and spent one year in the New York University and the Bellevue Hospital at New York, receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree with the class of '99. While he completed the course and received his degree after three years' study, lie complied with the law requiring four years' residence study in medical school, and during his fourth year attended the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, doing review work in post-graduate study and in 1900 again received. the Doctor of Medicine degree. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity. After graduating in 1900 Doctor Marsh practiced for fourteen years at Flushing, Ohio. He gave up his work there and spent two years in the Northwest, in Montana and Washington, for recuperation, and in 1916 located at Painesville, where his work has been in both medicine and surgery. He served four years as president of the Painesville Board of Health, and in 1923 began his duties as city health commissioner. He is a member of the Lake County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Volunteer Relief Corps. Doctor Marsh owns a modern home at 562 Manor Avenue at Painesville, and offices at 145 Park Place. He served six years as a member of the City Council of Flushing, and was on the school board there four years. He is a republican, is a member of the Painesville Methodist Episcopal Church, and Temple Lodge No. 28, Free and Accepted Masons, at Painesville. HISTORY OF OHIO - 263 He married at Flushing, Ohio, in 1899, Miss Anna Hobson, daughter of Doctor John A. and Martha (Branson) Hobson, now deceased. Her father was a physician and surgeon. Mrs. Marsh finished her education in Mount Union College at Alliance. Five children were born to the marriage of Doctor and Mrs. Marsh, Margaret, the oldest, graduated Bachelor of Arts from the Woman's College of Western Reserve University of Cleveland, and is now connected with the Cleveland Public Library. Miss Virginia is a student in the Nurses' Educational Training Course of Western Reserve University and Lakeside Hospital of Cleveland, being now in her third year of the five-year course. The younger children are: John, who has completed his first year in Cornell University at Ithaca ; Thomas P., a student in the public schools of Painesville ; and Elizabeth. CLARENCE T. MEHAFFEY, secretary of the Lake County Savings and Loan Company at Painesville, has been in the abstract business there for twenty years, and is also president of the Mehaffey Abstract Company. He was born at Perry, in Lake County, May 16, 1884. He represents the fourth generation of the Mehaffey family in America. His great-grandfather, Joseph Mehaffey, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, came to the United States about 1800, and settled in Western Pennsylvania. He was a shoemaker by trade. He died at Washington in Southwestern Pennsylvania. He was an active member of the Methodist Church, and after acquiring American citizenship voted as a democrat. His wife, Jane Patterson, was also born in County Tyrone, and likewise died at Washington, Pennsylvania. Their son, Alexander Mehaffey, who was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1806, learned the cabinetmaker 's trade, and lived for many years at Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1862 he moved to Painesville, Ohio, bought a farm, and lived there until his death in February, 1882. His wife, Elizabeth Thompson, was born at Scarborough in Yorkshire, England, in 1829, and died at Painesville June 29, 1878. Charles T. Mehaffey, father of Clarence T., was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1862, and was an infant when his parents moved to Painesville. He was reared and married there, and for a period of thirty-eight years has been connected with Storrs, Harrison & Company. The company does the largest general nursery business in the United States. He is an independent in politics. Charles T. Mehaffey married Lucy A. Stanhope, who was born at Painesville, March 3, 1861. Of their three children Clarence T. is the oldest; Howard A., living at home, is in the nursery business, and Harriet L. is also at home. Clarence T. Mehaffey attended the public schools of Painesville, graduating from high school in 1903. Soon after leaving school he engaged in the abstract business, and The Mehaffey Abstract Company, of which he is president, was organized by him and his associates in the business. Since April, 1918, he has also been secretary of the Lake County Savings and Loan Company. Mr. Mehaffey served eight years as clerk of Painesville Township. He is treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Painesville, is a member of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, and is treasurer and a trustee of the Painesville Young Men's Christian Association. In politics he follows the example of his father and is an independent. Mr. Mehaffey 's home is at 118 Gillett Street in Painesville. He married, June 29, 1910, Miss Mary C. Tuttle, daughter of Judge Grandison Newell and Elizabeth (Wilder) Tuttle, now deceased. Her father was a well known man in the law and public affairs of Northern Ohio, and at one time was probate judge of Lake County. THE GRIESMER-GRIM COMPANY. Nowhere does the divine quality of human service count for more than at the burial of a loved one, and those who render such careful attention earn and hold the regard and gratitude of the community in which they are located. The people of Hamilton, Ohio, have proven in numerous instances that the Griesmer-Grim Company, funeral directors, are prepared to make each case a particular one, and every detail important. They have a beautiful home, modern in every particular, that is placed at the convenience of their patrons without cost. This reliable company was incorporated with a capital of $18,000, and its officials are: Louis Grim, president; and Paul A. Sick, secretary and treasurer. So admirably are the affairs managed that this is the leading concern of its kind in Hamilton, and one of the most important in Butler county. Louis Grim was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 18, 1849, and began his career as a funeral director at Ripley, Ohio, in 1866, and for the succeeding forty years continued his business there. Coming then to Hamilton, he established his present company in 1906, and is a member of th State Undertakers' Association, which he served as president. He has been very active in the work of the association, and took a prominent part to secure the state board of examiners for embalmers. His own license is No. 23 A. Mr. Grim was graduated from the Cincinnati School of Embalming in 1882, and is an expert in his profession. His company was the first to install motor ambulances and motor hearses in Butler County, and he is equally progressive in other matters, keeping his equipment up-to-date in every particular. Always a delegate to the state and national conventions of his profession, he is active in all of their councils. He has a beautiful brick funeral home of ten rooms, and carries a full line of funeral accessories. His motor equipment is of the finest and best obtainable. Mr. Grim is a member of the State and of the National Funeral Directors' Association. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic Order, in which he has. been advanced through the chapter ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In church matters he affiliates with Bethel. Church. For several terms prior to coming to Hamilton he was a member of the Ripley City Council. On May 22, 1876, Mr. Grim married Miss Emma Stamm, who died May 24, 1920, having borne her husband two children: Albert J., who was associated with his father in business until a few years ago when failing health necessitated his retirement; and Bessie, who married George H. Long, of Kansas City, Missouri. Paul A. Sick was born in Europe about twenty-eight years ago. He, too, is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Embalming, and is licensed by the State of Ohio. About eleven years ago he formed connections with his present company, and has risen in it to his present position. His religious connections are with Emanuel Lutheran Church, of which he is a member. PAUL E. BLACET has been a resident of Painesville for a third of a century, and is treasurer and general manager of the Educational Supply Company. This is a printing and school supply house, in some respects the largest of its kind in the country. Mr. Blacet was born in Clinton County, in Southern Illinois, November 20, 1863. His father, Theodore Blacet, born in Picardy, France, in 1826, was reared there and as a young man came to the United States and joined a large colony of French and Swiss people in Madison County. Soon afterward he moved 264 - HISTORY OF OHIO over the county line into Clinton County, Illinois. He was a farmer there, and died May 10, 1870. After becoming an American citizen he voted as a republican. His wife, Florentine Genre, was born in France, in 1842, and died near Denver, Colorado, September 2, 1912. She was the mother of three children: Ernest, who died when fifteen months old; Paul E.; and Emma, wife of Philemon Chartrand, a hardware merchant at Denver, Colorado. Paul E. Blacet spent the first twelve years of his life on his father 's farm in Clinton County, Illinois. He was only seven years old when his father died. He had a limited school education there, and for several years worked on farms in the neighborhood. When he was eighteen years of age he went out to McPherson County, Kansas, and for ten years was in the service of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, advancing himself to the position of section foreman. Following that came employment in a grocery store at Newton, Kansas, and in 1897 he went to Winfield, that state, and for two years was an advertising solicitor for the Winfield Tribune. Mr. Blacet became a resident of Painesville, Ohio, in 1899. He joined the force of the Lake County Herald as an advertising and job printing solicitor, continuing with that establishment until 1906. In that year, upon the organization of the Educational Supply Company, he became a salesman, . and has been a forceful factor in the development and growth of the business ever since. He was made treasurer of the company in 1912, and in 1916 was given the general management, holding both offices at the present time. The company does a general line of printing, copper plate and steel die engraving, and handles an immense volume of school supplies. The company owns its offices and plants on South State Street, and has a working force of about 100 hands. Mr. Blacet has identified himself with other institutions in Painesville, being moderator of the Painesville Baptist Church, superintendent of its Sunday school, and is a member of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and the Painesville Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. He owns a good home on Gillett Street. Mr. Blacet married at Newton, Kansas, October 16, 1884, Miss Anna M. Stevens, daughter of Thomas and Maria Stevens, now deceased. Her father was a farmer at Newton, Kansas. Mr. Blacet lost his wife by death on July 7, 1918. There were three children: Ernest D., a photographer with the Central Steel Company of Massillon, Ohio ; .Duke N. A., a metallurgist at Massillon and a graduate of the Painesville High School ; Miss Helen E., at home. ROBERT G. GOFF, postmaster of Painesville, has been long and favorably known in business and civic affairs in Lake County. Part of his early life was spent on the Great Lakes as a sailor and in the fishing industry. Mr. Goff was born at Cleveland, Ohio, January 13, 1861. His father, James P. Goff, born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1839, was reared there, and at the age of eighteen came to the United States. After a brief residence in Ontario, Canada, he came to Cleveland. He began his career there as a bookkeeper, subsequently for a year was in the retail lumber business, and was then made city inspector of lumber for the City of Cleveland. He performed the duties of this position until 1871, when he went to Caseville, Huron County, Michigan, as general foreman and lumber inspector for Frank Crawford, one of the great lumbermen of his generation. He was identified with the Crawford lumber interests in -Michigan for over forty years, finally returning to Ohio and locating at Painesville in 1915, and lived there retired until his death in 1918. He was a republican in politics. His wife, Catherine Martin, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1842, and died in that city in 1868. She was the mother of two sons, Robert G. and James. The latter was a farmer at Caseville, Michigan, where he died at the age of twenty-eight years. Robert G. Goff was about ten years of age when his father moved to Michigan. In the meantime he had attended public schools in Cleveland, and later attended the Caseville public schools, graduating from the Caseville Academy in 1880. Then followed seven years of experience as a sailor on the Great Lakes, and for three years he was in the service of J. W. Averill at Cleveland, a firm engaged in the wholesale fresh and salt fish catching and shipping. For five years in the service of the same firm, he had his headquarters at Richmond, in Lake County, following which he engaged in business for himself with headquarters at Richmond, catching and shipping fish from Lake Erie. He was in that business three years, and gave it up to enter the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company, spending four years in the accounting department and for sixteen years was chief clerk in the motive power department at Painesville. He finally resigned from the railroad company August 7, 1923, and, having been appointed postmaster, took charge of the office on August 8, 1923. Mr. Goff has been a member of the Republican Central Committee of Lake County for many years, and is now secretary of the executive committee of the county. He is a member of the Painesville Episcopal Church. For many years he has been prominently identified with the various Masonic bodies at Painesville, serving twelve years as secretary of Temple Lodge No. 28, Free and Accepted Masons, twelve years as secretary of Painesville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons, has been recorder of Painesville Council No. 104, Royal and Select Masters, since it was instituted in 1910, and for the past four years has been recorder of Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knights Templar. He is also secretary of the Lake County Masonic Building Company, Incorporated, at Painesville. Mr. Goff is a member of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce. His home is at 209 Wood Street. He was active in all the war campaigns for the sale of Liberty Bonds and raising of funds for auxiliary war purposes. In 1881, at Cleveland, he married Miss Jessie V. Shappee, daughter of Henry and Melissa (Davenport) Shappee, now deceased. Her father was a carpenter and contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Goff have five children: Henry W., the oldest, is a machinist at Berea, Ohio; Jessie V. is a teacher in the West Technical Junior High School at Cleveland; Ellen married John McCloskey, an electrician at Cleveland; Mary is educational secretary at the Episcopal Cathedral at Cleveland ; George R., the youngest child, now an automobile salesman at Cleveland, is a veteran of the World war, having served as second lieutenant of the commissary department for one year. HARRY T. NOLAN, who was born and reared at Painesville, has for over twenty years conducted a dignified and successful practice as an attorney there, and is one of the leaders in the Lake County bar. He was born at Painesville, May 20, 1880. His father, Owen E. Nolan, who died at Painesville October 17, 1914, was born in 1848 in County Wexford, Ireland, and at the age of eighteen came to the United States, locating in Lake County, Ohio. He brought with him a practical experience gained by work in a nursery in Ireland, and for a number of years he was connected in the nursery business in Northeastern Ohio. Later he specialized on his own account in the growing of onions and other market produce. He subsequently removed to Painesville, HISTORY OF OHIO - 265 and was an honored resident of that city over thirty years. He served several terms on the City Council, was a democrat, and a member of the Catholic Church. Owen E. Nolan married Mary Brennan, who was-born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1849, and died at Painesville June 21, 1916. They had a family of four children : Miss Catherine, who died at Painesville at the age of thirty-four ; Eugene J., a factory worker in Cleveland ; Harry T.; and John J., who died in infancy. Harry T. Nolan attended parochial schools in Painesville, graduated from the high school in 1899, and then entered the law department of Western Reserve University of Cleveland, where he finished his work with the class of 1902. On June 11, 1902, he was admitted to the bar, and steadily has devoted his talents and energies to a general law practice at Painesville. His offices are in the Cleveland Trust Company 's Building on Main Street. In addition to his private practice he was prosecuting attorney of Lake County in 1913-14, and still earlier served as mayor of Painesville from 1905 to 1909. He is a democrat, is a member of Saint Mary 's Catholic Church, and is a past grand knight of Painesville Council No. 947, Knights of Columbus. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and to the American Bar Association. He has acquired considerable real estate in his home city, including his own home on East Erie Street. He married at Painesville, June 1, 1909, Miss Lillian Procter, who was born at Fairport in Lake County, and is a graduate of the Painesville High School. They have had three children, Mary, Thomas and Rita. The two oldest are students in the grammar schools of Painesville. EGBERT H. PHELPS, postmaster of the Village of Andover, Ashtabula County, is a native son of this county and a representative, in the third generation, of one of its sterling pioneer families. His paternal grandfather, Harlow Phelps, was born and reared in New England, where the original representatives of the name settled in the Colonial era of American history. Harlow Phelps made the long overland trip from New England to Ohio by the medium of wagon and ox team, and he became one of the pioneer settlers in Cherry Valley Township, Ashtabula County, where he reclaimed and developed a productive farm and where he continued his residence many years. He finally removed to Kent County, Michigan, and settled on a farm near Grandville, where he passed the remainder of his life, his wife having died while making a visit to the old home in the Cheery Valley district of Ashtabula County, Ohio, and her family name having been Powers. Orville M. Phelps, father of the postmaster of Andover, Ohio, was born on the old homestead farm in Cherry Valley Township, Ashtabula County, in the year 1839, and there he passed his entire life, save for one year of residence in Michigan. He became one of the successful and representative farmers of his native county, was called upon to serve in various township offices, and was retained in such public service in his community during a long term of years, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party. Mr. Phelps served as a loyal young soldier of the Union during the closing year of the Civil war, in which he was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the venerable native sons still residing in Ashtabula County at the time of his death, in 1905. His wife, whose maiden name was Flora Sweet, was born in Cherry Valley Township, on the 19th of September, 1843, and there her death occurred in 1897. Of the two surviving children the subject of this sketch, Egbert H., is the elder, and Millie L. is the wife of Lyle E. Gray, their home being at Canton, Ohio, where Mr. Gray is a draughtsman in the offices of the American Bridge Company. After attending the public schools of Cherry Valley and also the New Lyme Academy, at New Lyme, Ashtabula County, Egbert H. Phelps entered the National Normal University at Ada, Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896 and with the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy. His initial experience of practical order had been in connection with the operations of the old home farm in Cherry Valley Township, where his, birth occurred on the 20th of February, 1871. After his graduation as a pharmacist he was employed one year in a drug store at Jefferson, the judicial center of his native county, and he then resumed his active association with farm enterprises in Cherry Valley, where he and his sister inherited the two farms of their father. Egbert 11. Phelps purchased additional land in his native township,. and there continued to devote his attention to productive farm enterprise until 1902, when he became a mail carrier on a rural route from the postoffice at Andover. In this service he continued thirteen years. On the 1st of April, 1921, he was appointed postmaster at Andover, where he has since maintained his residence and continued the the efficient and popular incumbent of this office. Mr. Phelps is a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and prior to assuming his present office he had given five years of effective service as township clerk of Cherry Valley Township. He is an active member of the Andover Chamber of Commerce and the Andover Grange. August 31, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Phelps and Miss Anna Bella Creesy, who likewise was born and reared in Cherry Valley Township, where her father was a substantial farmer. She is a daughter of Lyman T. and Elizabeth Creesy, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps have three children Creesah is the wife of Edward F. Roach, a progressive young farmer in Cherry Valley Township ; Frieda E. is (1923) a student in Oberlin College, and Orville is a student in the Andover High School. FRANK W. CLEMENTS. son of a secret service operator of the Federal Government, Frank W. Clements, the present chief of police of the City of Hamilton, has himself had a long experience as a criminal investigator and detective. Mr. Clements was born in Butler County, Ohio, November 24, 1872, son of John W. and Lavanda Clements. His father for eight years was one of the managers of the Ohio State Prison. After that he went east and for several years was in charge of the New York City Secret Service, and spent the rest of his active life as an investigator in the Internal Revenue Bureau of the Federal Government. Frank W. Clements was educated in the public schools of Butler County, and during 1901-02 was a student in the Technical Institute of Cincinnati. In the meantime he had been a clerical worker for several years, and he first joined the Hamilton police department in a clerical capacity. However, he filled practically every office on the force during his service from 1895 to 1904. When he resigned in 1904 he engaged in business with Charles F. Bosch, the outgoing mayor, and they were actively associated until 1910. However, police work to Mr. Clements constituted a fascination beyond all the substantial rewards of a commercial career, and accordingly he took up secret service and investigating work attached to the prosecuting attorney 's office. He continued in that special capacity for twelve years, and in March, 1923, was 266 - HISTORY OF OHIO given the honor of appointment as chief of police of the City of Hamilton. During his long service with the police department and the office of prosecuting attorney he ferreted out many perplexing crimes and brought many criminals to justice. Of such cases the one that attracted greatest attention all over the country was the Ward-low poisoning case. After more than twelve months of careful work on the part of Mr. Clements, Belle Wardlow, the wife of the murdered man, and Harvey Cowdrey were arrested, tried and convicted of having poisoned her husband, and both are now serving life sentences in the state prison. Mr. Clements married Miss Carrie Young, of Hamilton, daughter of Charles and Lena Young. They have one child, a son, now a student in the Hamilton public schools. EDWARD S. SAWYER, now a resident of Mentor and manager of the Mentor branch of the Lake County Savings and Loan Company of Painesville, was born in this historic community of Northeastern Ohio, but he spent a quarter of a century of his active career in the West, engaged in cattle ranching and other lines of business. Mr. Sawyer was born at Mentor, July 12, 1859, and comes of old English and Colonial ancestry, the family having located in Connecticut. His grand- father, Joseph Sawyer, was born in Massachusetts, moved! to New York State and there lived for some years, and arrived at Mentor, Ohio, about 1808. He acquired some valuable holdings of land, and followed farming during his active life. He died at Mentor. His wife, Rhoda Tolles, was born in Connecticut. Their son, Almon Sawyer, was born at Mentor in 1821, and devoted all his years to farming in that community, where he died April 23, 1873. He was a republican, and in religious belief was a Universalist. His wife, Lucinda Blish, was born in Painesville Township of Lake County in 1823 and died at Mentor in May, 1869. They had four children. Zenas Blish became a physician and surgeon, and was practicing at Willoughby, Ohio, when he was accidentally killed by a train in 1921. The second child, Mary Lucinda, died when two years old. Willard A., now a resident of Mentor, was formerly associated with his brother in the cattle industry in Utah. Edward S. Sawyer, the youngest child, was reared at Mentor, and was ten years of age when his mother died and fourteen when he was left an orphan. After attending the public schools of his home locality he finished his education with two years in Oberlin College, leaving there in 1878. After that he applied himself to farming at Mentor until 1882, when he went West. In Beaver County, Utah, he and his brother Willard owned and operated a cattle ranch for fifteen years, and after that Mr. Sawyer was a merchant in Milford, Utah; until 1907. After twenty-five years in the far West he returned to Mentor, and for a number of years was occupied chiefly with his private affairs and investments. In 1918 he helped organize and became an original stockholder in the Mentor branch of the Lake County Savings and Loan Company of Painesville, and has since acted as manager of that local institution. Mr. Sawyer was mayor of Mentor for four years. He votes as a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the World war period he was leader in his community in promoting the sale of bonds and raising funds for war purposes. He married at Akron, Ohio, October 20, 1881, Miss Inez V. Pardee, daughter of William and Helen (Dickey) Pardee, now deceased. Her father was a very prominent lawyer in Nebraska City, Nebraska, and died there. Mrs. Sawyer, who died January 15, 1918, was a graduate of Buchtel College of Akron. WILLIAM BARRETT COLE. The Cole Nursery Company, Incorporated, of Painesville, Ohio, is a family corporation, the founder and active head of which is William Barrett Cole. This is one of the largest industries of its kind under individual ownership and control in the country, and the nurseries have supplied stock for the foundation of hundreds of orchards, vineyards and landscape gardens all over the East and Middle West. William Barrett Cole, head of the business, was born in the Village of Colebrook, Ashtabula County, Ohio, March 23, 1864. His grandfather, Gilbert Cole, a native of New York State, was a pioneer at Colebrook, owning and operating a large farm there, and spent his last days in Illinois. He married Sallie Owen, also a native of New York State, who died at Colebrook. Their son, William Franklin Cole, was born at Colebrook, in 1840, and during his brief lifetime was engaged in farming there. He died in July, 1865, at the age of twenty-five. He was reared a Whig and voted as a republican, and was an active supporter of the Baptist Church. William Franklin Cole married Addie Eliza Barrett, who was born at Highland in Oakland County, Michigan, in 1842. By their marriage were two children, Edith C., of Perry, Ohio, and William Barrett. The mother of these children subsequently married Luther R. Jayne, a nurseryman at Painesville. Both of them died in August, 1920. To their marriage were born the following children: Ethel Jayne, wife of Lewis T. Curtis, a grocery and meat market owner at Painesville; Alfred Jayne, engineer of the municipal waterworks of Painesville; and Forrest M., engineer in an ice plant at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William Barrett Cole was an infant when his father died, and his education was acquired in the grade schools and high school at Geneva in Ashtabula County, and the high school at Corry, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1881. Soon afterward he became interested in the nursery business at Painesville, and in time became an independent operator and has kept the business growing through all subsequent years. He was the individual owner and head of the business until January, 1923, when he took his three oldest sons into the business as partners, giving his two other sons an interest, and since then the industry has been the Cole Nursery Company, Incorporated. The company has about 500 acres of land in use for nursery purposes, these farms being in the three townships of Painesville, Perry and Concord. The offices are on Mentor Avenue in Painesville. Mr. Cole owns a fine brick residence, remodeled in 1923, on Mentor Avenue, and has three other dwell- ing houses in the city. He is an independent in polities, and is a member of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In August, 1894, in Ashtabula County, he married Mrs. Mary (Stowe) Shepard. She was born in Ashtabula County, October 15, 1867, and died at Painesville November 10, 1917. To this marriage were born five sons, the three oldest active partners in the nursery business, and the two others still in school. They are: Gilbert Stowe, who took the engineering course in the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh; William Alfred, a graduate of the Austinburg High School in Ohio; David Barrett, who finished his education in Denison University at Granville, Ohio; Kenneth Roosevelt, a graduate in 1924 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and Victor Arthur, a student in the public schools of Painesville. On February 21, 1921, at Painesville, Mr. Cole married Miss Frances Dann, a daughter of HISTORY OF OHIO - 267 Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Dann, residents of Painesville. Her father is a minister of the Baptist Church. MURRAY NEWTON GOODRICH. A prominent young attorney of the Lake County bar, Murray Newton Goodrich has been in practice at Painesville for over five years, having taken up the work of his profession immediately after leaving the army service during the World war. Mr. Goodrich was born at Chardon, in Geauga County, Ohio, December 13, 1893. He is of New England ancestry, the Goodriches having settled in Connecticut in Colonial times. His grandfather, Alonzo Goodrich, was born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, in 1827, and married Electa Holmes, also a native of Connecticut and of Scotch descent. About 1870 they came west to Ohio, living four years on a farm at Montville in Geauga County, and after that in Chardon, where Alonzo Goodrich was in the real estate business. He died at Chardon in 1884. He was a democrat in politics. Wesley A. Goodrich, father of the Painesville attorney, was born March 16, 1854, at Rocky Hill, now a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut. He lived there and attended school during the first sixteen years of his life, accompanying his parents to Geauga County, Ohio, and for many years was engaged in the ice business at Chardon. From 1921 he lived retired in that Ohio town where he died February 22, 1924. He was a democrat in politics. Wesley A. Goodrich married Ella Collins, who was born in Chardon Township of Geauga County, December 21, 1854. The oldest of their children, Fred, was a teacher in public schools, and died at Chardon at the age of forty-one. Harley F. is engaged in business at Chardon. Clyde W., a dry goods merchant at Chardon, is a member of the firm of Goodrich Brothers, and he and his brother Harley also own the moving picture theater at Chardon. The fourth child, Lucile E., is the wife of Stuart N. Austin, present postmaster at Chardon. Murray Newton Goodrich, the youngest child of his parents, was reared in Chardon, attending the grammar and high schools. After graduating from high school in 1912, he entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, pursuing the classical course and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1916. He continued his studies in the law department of Western Reserve University, taking his Bach. elor of Laws degree with the class of 1918. He is a member of the Sigma Nu literary fraternity and the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. On May 28, 1918, Mr. Goodrich was inducted into the army service, and was sent for training to Camp Gordon, Georgia, with the infantry. He received a commission as second lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve Corps, and is still a reserve officer. He received his honorable discharge December 1, 1918. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1918, and after the close of the war he located at Painesville, and has built up a successful general, civil and criminal practice there. His offices are in the Masonic Building. In addition to his private practice he is solicitor of the Village of Fairport in Lake County, and is also attorney for the Lake County Humane Society. Mr. Goodrich is a democrat, is affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons ; Painesville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons; Eagle Commandery No. 29 of the Knights Templar at Painesville, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, and Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland. He also belongs to Cornucopia Lodge No. 212, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Painesville, Painesville Lodge Knights of Pythias and Painesville Lodge No. 549, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Lake County Bar Association, the Painesville Athletic Club, and is owner of some very valuable real estate in Painesville and Lake County, including one of the finest residences in the county seat, at 1020 Mentor Avenue, this home being known as " The Old Oaks," and also a summer residence on the lake near Painesville. His town home is surrounded by approximately two acres of ground, and Mr. Goodrich finds one of his favorite diversions in keeping up this estate. On his suburban property he has a natural gas well, and his home has all the facilities of running water and electric lights, with double garage. At Chardon March 2, 1918, he married Miss Beatrice L. Basquin, daughter of Ward A. and Varuna (Bliss) Basquin, residents of Chardon. Her father is the present county recorder of Geauga County. EDWARD J. KAUTZ, of Hamilton, is a native of Southern Ohio and has gained distinction in the law and in local and state politics. His abilities have brought him opportunities of service both in general practice and on the bench. He was born at Arnheim, in Brown County, April 23, 1881, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bohrer) Kautz, natives of the same county. One representative of this family was Admiral Kautz, a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who died in 1907. He gained distinction in March, 1899, by commanding the Philadelphia, and taking a prominent part in settling the Samoan troubles in the Pacific. Samuel Kautz, father of Judge Kautz, was long prominent in Brown County, a farmer, tobacco dealer, and at one time county treasurer. Ile is the father of four children: William, Luella (who married Clarence W. Smith), Harvey and Edward J. Edward J. Kautz attended public school at Georgetown, Ohio, completed a high school course there, was a student for a time in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and for three years a law student in the University of Michigan. Since his admission to the bar he has been engaged in general practice at Hamilton. In November, 1917, he was elected judge of the Municipal Court of Hamilton, an office he still fills. Judge Kautz is an eloquent orator and an able campaigner, and has taken part in a number of political campaigns. He has been a delegate to state democratic conventions. He used his influence effectively in behalf of the various causes for the successful prosecution of the late war. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Eagles, Moose and other organizations. Judge Kautz in 1906 married Frances M. Theiss, daughter of Frank Theiss, of Georgetown. Her children are Samuel and Margaret. C. HENRY SIMONDS is one of the leading business men and loyal and public-spirited citizens of Conneaut, Ashtabula County, in which attractive little city he is senior member of the firm of Simonds & Bennett, which conducts a large and well equipped furniture store, besides which he is president of the Citizens Banking & Trust Company. His deep interest in all that concerns the welfare and advancement of Ashtabula County is not only a matter of appreciation but is characterized also by the loyalty of a native son. Mr. Simonds was born at Jefferson, this county, November 19, 1844, and is a son of Charles Stetson Simonds, who was born in Vermont, in 1815, and whose death occurred at Jefferson, Ohio, in 1891. Moses Simonds, grandfather of him whose name introduces this paragraph, likewise was a native of the old Green Mountain State, and was a representative of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial era of our national history. Moses Simonds came with his wife and their young children to Ashtabula County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, instituted the development of a farm near 268 - HISTORY OF OHIO Saybrook, and there his death occurred a few years later, his wife, whose maiden name was Priscilla Cook, having likewise been born in Vermont, and having survived him a number of years, she having passed the closing period of her life at Saybrook, Ashtabula County. Charles S. Simonds became a successful exponent of pioneer farm industry in Ashtabula County, near Saybrook, whence he later removed to Jefferson, where his marriage was solemnized, and where he studied law in the office of the firm of Wade & Ranney. He was in due course admitted to the bar, and he became one of the successful and representative members of the bar of Ashtabula County, where he continued in the practice of his profession, at Jefferson, for many years. He was a leader in the local councils of the republican party, and was a man who ever commanded unqualified popular confidence and esteem. His wife, whose maiden name was Louise Warner, was born at Jefferson, this county, in 1822, and there her death occurred in 1898, a venerable representative of another of the sterling pioneer families of Ashtabula County. Of the five children, C. Henry, of this review, was the first born ; Albert C. acquired a large orange ranch in Los Angeles County, California, and in the City of Los Angeles his death occurred May 3, 1922; Maria is the widow of Edward C. Wade, an able lawyer who died at Jefferson, Ashtabula County, and she now resides at West Chester, Pennsylvania; Adeline is the widow of Clinton C. Canfield, who was engaged in the wholesale drug business in the City of Cleveland and whose death occurred at Ravenna, this state, where his widow still resides ; Amelia is the wife of Benjamin F. Beardsley, who is engaged in the insurance business in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the public schools of Jefferson, C. Henry Simonds continued his studies until he had completed a course in the high school, and at the age of seventeen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the tinner 's trade at Geneva, this county, where he remained two years. He then moved to Ashtabula, where he followed his trade three years, at the expiration of which he returned to his native town of Jefferson. There he was engaged in the general merchandise business a number of years, and where he served two years as deputy county clerk. He was then elected county clerk, in which office he served nine years, 1879-88. Thereafter he showed his deep filial solicitude by caring for his father in the latter 's final illness, which was prolonged. In June, 1893, about two years after the death of his father, Mr. Simonds moved from Jefferson to Conneaut and here purchased an interest in a furniture store. The business was thereafter continued under the firm name of Putnam & Simonds until March, 1899, and the firm of Simonds & Bennett has since conducted the substantial and representative business, which, under the progressive policies of Mr. Simonds, now gives the firm precedence as conducting the leading furniture store in Conneaut. The large and modern building in which the business is carried on, at 221 Broad Street, was erected by Mr. Simonds in the year 1899, is owned by him, and here the furniture business of his firm has been continuously conducted since 1900. Mr. Simonds here owns also his attractive home place at 378 Liberty Street. He has been president of the Citizens Banking & Trust Company of Conneaut since 1919, and is a stockholder also in the Conneaut Leather Company and the News-Herald Publishing Company.. He is a valued member of the Conneaut Chamber of Commerce and a staunch supporter of its progressive civic and business policies. He gave an effective administration as mayor of Conneaut during one term of two years, and for an equal period was a member of the City Council. In the Masonic fraternity he is a past master of Tuscan Lodge No. 342, Free and Accepted Masons, at Jefferson, his present ancient-craft affiliation, at Conneaut, being with the Evergreen Lodge No. 222. Here also he is a member of Conneaut Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters ; and Cache Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he is a past commander. In the capitual branch of the York Rite he is a past high priest of Jefferson Chapter No. 141, Royal Arch Masons. In Lake Erie Consistory of the Valley of Cleveland he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he formerly held active membership in Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland. He is a member also of Conneaut Lodge No. 256, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In February, 1915, at Conneaut, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simonds and Miss Kathleen Willard, daughter of Frank and Miranda (Buss) Willard, the former of whom died in Western New York and the lattern of whom now resides at Conneaut. Mr. and Mrs. Simonds have no children. In politics he is a stalwart republican. HON. WILLIAM RAYMOND DAVIS. A former school man, always interested in educational progress, a lawyer, banker and former legislator, Hon. William Raymond Davis has been one of the most conspicuously useful citizens of Geauga County for nearly twenty years. William Raymond Davis was born at Edinburg, in Portage County, Ohio, June 6, 1877. His grandfather, William D. Davis, was born in Connecticut, in 1801, and as a young man came to Ohio and acquired and developed the farm that has since been known as the Davis homestead at Edinburg in Portage County. Iu connection with farming he also operated a tailor shop. He died at Edinburg in 1878. His wife was Rhoda Sheldon, who was born in Connecticut in 1803, and died at Edinburg, Ohio, August 13, 1894. Their son, Dexter D. Davis, was born and lived all his life in the same house at Edinburg. His birthday was September 23, 1844, and it was on the same day of the month, the twenty-third of September, seventy-nine years later that he passed away in 1923. Farming was the vocation he successfully pursued. For a number of years he was trustee of Edinburg Township, and was a democrat in politics. His wife, Frances E. Turner, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, near Georgetown, December 6, 1846, and is now living with her daughter in Manhattan, Kansas. The oldest child is William Raymond, and the second son is Charles D., a mechanic living at Cleveland. Mayme T., the only daughter, is a graduate of Ohio State University and is the wife of Robert K. Nabours, a former member of the faculty of the University of Chicago and since 1912 professor of zoology at the Kansas Agricultural College at Manhattan. He has had much to do with the experiment to domesticate the earacal sheep in this country. William Raymond Davis was reared at the old homestead in Portage County, attended the public schools there, and spent two terms in the Ohio Normal University, now the Ohio Northern University, at Ada. He finished his work there in the summer of 1895, and for one year after that taught school in Rootstown Township, Portage County. Entering Mount Union College at Alliance, he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1900. At Mount Union he was an Alpha Tau Omega. Mr. Davis after graduating was for two years superintendent of schools at Windham, Ohio; three years superintendent at Aurora; and in 1905 came to Chardon, Geauga County, and for five years was superintendent of the city schools. He then went on the road as traveling salesman and lecturer, spending about two years. He had begun the study of law while in school work at Chardon, and during 1911-12 he was a student in HISTORY OF OHIO - 269 the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1912. Since then he has conducted a general civil and criminal practice in Chardon, his offices being in the Randall Block. Mr. Davis is also an abstractor, and is vice president and a director of the Chardon Savings Bank Company. He was elected a member of the General Assembly of Ohio, representing Geauga County in 1912-14, and did some especially valuable work in the Legislature through his study of and interest in educational and agricultural problems. He was a member of the taxation committee, the initiative and referendum committee, and also the committee on conservation of national resources. Mr. Davis for the past five years has been president of the Chardon Village Board of Education, and for two years was president of the Geauga County Board of Education, and from 1905 to 1910 was county examiner of teachers in the county: He is an independent republican, a member of the First Congregational Church, and is affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons; Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias; Chardon Lodge No. 213, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to the Kiwanis Club and to the Ohio State Bar Association. He owns a fine home at 313 Water Street in Chardon, is a part owner of the old homestead at Edinburg, and has other real estate. During the World war he was on the Legal Advisory Board of Geauga County, was a member of the Speakers Bureau and exerted himself to the full measure of his means and ability to assist the government in that crisis. On July 17, 1907, at Windsor, in Ashtabula County, Mr. Davis married Miss Jennie E. Turner, daughter of Warren C. and Carrie (Baird) Turner, residents of Windsor, where her father is a farmer and blacksmith. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have one daughter, Mary Frances, born July 3, 1917. ETHEL D. BRYANT. For Miss Bryant not the least of journalistic handicap need be ascribed by reason of her sex, for she has proved her resourcefulness and exceptional journalistic and executive ability in her effective administration as editor of the Willoughby Republican, one of the representative newspapers in Lake County. Miss Bryant was born at Mount Vernon, the .judicial center of Knox County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Oscar F. and Marie Antoinette (Parmalee) Bryant, the former of whom was born in Center Mountville, Maine, and the latter of whom was born at Dresden, • Muskingum County, Ohio. Oscar F. Bryant is a son of Oliver F. Bryant, who was born at Searsmont, Maine, and whose death occurred at Mount Vernon, Ohio, in which latter state he passed the last twenty-three years of his life, he having been nearly seventy years of age at the time of his death, and his life vocation having been that of farm industry. Oliver F. Bryant was a son of Seth. Bryant, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and who became an early settler in the State of Maine, where he passed the remainder of his life. Oscar F. Bryant was reared on the' old home farm in the Pine Tree State, and received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He was a young man when he made his way to Indiana, and when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation he promptly tendered his services in defense of the Union. He enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and continued in service during virtually the entire period of conflict, save the last ten months of the war, during which interval lie was held a captive in the famed Andersonville Prison of the Confederacy. Mr. Bryant participated in many engagements, including a number of major battles, and lived up to the full tension of the conflict through which the integrity of the nation was perpetuated. His marriage was solemnized at Lafayette, Indiana, and thereafter he conducted for a number of years a cooper shop at Bellville, Richland County, Ohio. He later followed the same line of business at. Mount Vernon and Ashland, and finally he moved with his family to the City of Cleveland, where he engaged in newspaper work and where he continued his activities along this line until 1915, when he removed to Willoughby. Here he is now living retired, and he and his daughter, Ethel D., here own and occupy an attractive homestead at 48 Euclid Avenue, besides having other local real estate holdings. The loved wife and mother died in the City of Cleveland when about sixty-five years of age. Oscar F. Bryant is a stalwart and resourceful advocate of the principles of the republican party, and in the City of Cleveland he maintains affiliation with Memorial Post No. 141, Grand Army of the Republic, through the medium of which organization he vitalizes his interest in and association with his old comrades in arms. Of the two children the subject of this review is the younger. Bert, the elder of the two, resides in East Cleveland, and is publisher of twelve different newspapers in Ohio, this notable publishing business being conducted under the corporate title of Bryant's Weeklies, and he being the executive head of the significantly prosperous journalistic enterprise. Miss Ethel D. Bryant gained her early education in the public schools of Ashland and Cleveland, including the high school in the latter city. After her graduation from the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland she there became secretary and stenographer for the White Tool and Supply Company, and from 1911 to 1915 she was employed in connection with her brother 's newspaper enterprise mentioned in the fore. going paragraph. In 1915 she and her father established their home at Willoughby, and here she has since held the position of editor of the Willoughby Republican, one of the well ordered and influential weekly newspapers of Lake County, the well equipped printing establishment and newspaper office of the Republican being at 1 West Spaulding Street. Miss Bryant makes the paper an effective exponent of community interests and also of the cause of the republican party, to which it is loyally committed. Miss Bryant *herself is found staunchly arrayed in the camp of the republican party, and is known as one of the able and progressive business women of her native commonwealth. She is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Willoughby, is a member of the National Editorial Association, and her name appears also on the membership rolls of the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce, the Willoughby Woman's Club, the Ohio Newspaper Woman 's Association, the Cleveland Writers' Club, the Woman 's City Club of Cleveland and the Woman's Club of Cleveland. WILLIAM SMITH CONKLIN is an engineer of technical education and broad experience, and is now serving as surveyor of Butler County. He is a native of Butler County, born at Middletown August 30, 1887, son of William R. and Clara Dell (Robinson) Conklin. His father for many years was a leading building contractor at Middletown, but is now retired. William S. Conklin attended the grammar and high schools of Middletown, continued his higher education in Adrian College at Adrian, Michigan, and took the engineering course at Purdue University at LaFayette, Indiana. His first employment in his profession was as field engineer for the American Rolling Mills of Middletown, Ohio. He held that position for two years, for six years was assistant city engineer for Middletown, and then for six years acted as assistant engineer for 270 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Miami Conservancy District. In 1922 he was elected surveyor of Butler County by a majority of 211 votes. Mr. Conklin has the distinction of being the first republican ever elected county surveyor in Butler County. He carried eleven out of the thirteen townships in Butler County, every ward in his home town of Middletown, and one-third of the wards in the City of Hamilton. He is one of a group of young republicans whose work and influence has practically evened up the relative strength of the republican and democratic parties in Butler County, for many years one of the strongest democratic counties in the state. Mr. Conklin is a thirty-scond degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the American Society of Engineers, and the Young Men's Christian Association. In the Methodist Protestant Church he is a member of the Church Finance Committee and president of the Young Men's Bible Class. WILLIAM GILLESPIE made a record of long, able and loyal service as a teacher in the public schools, held various executive positions in connection with educational work, and has made his influence count for good in all the relations of life, with the result that to him comes the fullest measure of popular confidence and good will. He is now serving as justice of the peace at Willoughby, Lake County, and in his administration is making the office justify its name. Mr. Gillespie was born at Goshen, Clermont County, Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1854, and is a son of Jonathan and Mary (Gaskill) Gillespie, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the same year, 1806. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in the old Keystone State, and about the year 1831 Jonathan Gillespie established himself as a pioneer farmer in Goshen Township, Clermont County, Ohio. In that county the death of his loved and devoted wife occurred in the year 1871, and thereafter from the year 1877 he made his home with his son William, of this sketch, who is the only child, until he, too, passed to the life eternal, his death having occurred at Maineville, Warren County, Ohio, in 1883. Mr. Gillespie was a staunch republican from the time of the organization of the party of this name until his death, and both he and his wife were most devout and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was fifty-five years of age at the inception of the Civil war, and though he was thus ineligible for active military duty at the front, he gave effective service as a member of the local militia organization known as the Home Guard. William Gillespie passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm in Clermont County, and in addition to profiting by the advantages of the public schools at Goshen he there pursued a higher course of study in the select school conducted by Prof. W. 0. Hopkins, an able educator. Mr. Gillespie completed his studies in this select school when he was twenty years of age, and for the ensuing one year he followed farm work in Butler County. In 1880 he. became principal of schools in Wayne Township, Clermont County, and after twelve years of effective service in the pedagogic profession his impaired health led him to abandon teaching and to engage in the insurance business at Akron, which now populous industrial city was a mere village at that time. Two years later he removed from Akron to Painesville, where he became shipping clerk for the Grand River File Works. The manufacturing plant of this company was destroyed by fire ten months later, and Mr. Gillespie then, in the autumn of 1895, became principal of the public schools of Wickliffe, Lake County, where he continued his service twelve years. In 1907 he was made superintendent of schools for Willoughby and Mentor townships, this county, with headquarters at Willoughby. Later he was made superintendent of schools for the district comprising the two townships mentioned and also Kirtland Township. In this office he continued his effective administration until 1917, when he was incapacitated by a slight stroke of paralysis. His wonted determination and resourcefulness soon came into effective play, however, for when the principal of the schools at Hartland Ridge, Huron County, was called into military service in connection with the World war, Mr. Gillespie met with equal loyalty the conscription which drafted him into service as principal of the consolidated school thus left without an executive head. He remained in charge of the school work at Hartland Ridge until the armistice brought the war to a close, and shortly afterward, in November, 1918, he was elected justice of the peace at Willoughby. In 1920 he was reelected to this office, for a term of four years, and he maintains his official headquarters in the Willoughby City Hall. He has been unswerving in his allegiance to the republican party, and he is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred in April, 1916. Mr. Gillespie is affiliated with Western Reserve Tent, Knights of the Maccabees, at Painesville, and with Willoughby Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce, and from 1907 to 1919 he was one of the trustees of the Willoughby Public Library. August 13, 1882, recorded the marriage of Mr. Gillespie and Miss Ella Hill, daughter of the late Charles and Rebecca (Hand) Hill, of BeHatt, Clermont County, Mr. Hill having been a blacksmith by trade and vocation. As previously noted, the death of Mrs. Gillespie occurred in April, 1916, and her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. Two children likewise survive the devoted wife and mother : Stanley Edgar was graduated from the University of Ohio, and received degrees in both electrical engineering and constructive engineering. He now resides in Japan, where he is an oriental representative of the Union Switch and Signal Company, a subsidiary of the great Westinghouse Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Florence, the younger of the two children, is the wife of James Crobaugh, of Willoughby, where Mr. Crobaugh is chief electrician of the Buckeye Rubber Products Company. ROBERT O. BURTON, former city engineer of Willoughby, Lake County, was born in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, August 11, 1890, and was one of the patriotic young men who represented the fine old Buckeye State in the nation's military service in the World war period. Mr. Burton is a son of Charles F. and Minnie (Oldham) Burton, both natives of Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio, where the former was born January 10, 1858, and the latter August 11, 1859, both having there been reared and educated and their marriage having there been solemnized. After his marriage Charles F. Burton was for some time express agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at Delaware, Ohio, and in 1884 he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a department manager in a large dry goods store. In 1893 he accepted a similar position at Toledo, Ohio, where he remained until 1896, when he removed with his family to Cleveland, in which city he and his wife still maintain their home. There he was manager of a department in one of the leading department stores until 1913, since which year he has been in the employ of the East Ohio Gas Company, with which he has charge of the pressure department. Mr. Burton is a stalwart democrat, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 271 Protestant Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Of the three children Robert O., of this sketch, is the eldest. Paul H., a railroad employe, resides in Cleveland. He gave more than two years of service in connection with the World war. As a member of an artillery command his original overseas service with the American Expeditionary Forces was in his assignment to duty with the British forces in. Belgium, and later he was with the Allied Army of Occupation in Germany, his rank having been that of sergeant. Ruth Elizabeth, youngest of the three children, remains at the parental home. Robert O. Burton received his early education in the public schools of Toledo and Cleveland, and in the latter city he was graduated from the Technical High School as a member of the class of 1910. He soon afterward entered the employ of the F. A. Pease Engineering Company of Cleveland, and one year later he became associated with the William H. Evers Engineering Company, with which representative Cleveland concern he continued his alliance until the summer of 1918, his service having been principally in the capacity of field engineer. In 1918 Mr. Burton came to Willoughby, Lake County, as chief field engineer for the Clark & Pike Company, of which he was made vice president January 1, 1921. On the 31st of December, 1921, he was appointed village engineer of Willoughby, an office which he assumed January 1, 1922, and which he continued to fill until December 31, 1923. In August, 1918, the professional activities of Mr. Burton were interrupted by his entering the nation's service in connection with the World war. At Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, he was assigned to an artillery regiment, and six weeks later he was transferred to Company D, One Hundred and Twentieth Engineer Corps, at Fort Benjamin Hartison, Indianapolis, Indiana. He continued in service, with the rank of first sergeant, until April 1, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Burton gives his political allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife are communicants of Grace Church, Protestant Episcopal, at Willoughby, he being a member of the vestry of this parish. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Willoughby Lodge No. 302, Free and Accepted Masons; Painesville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons; Painesville Council No. 204, Royal and Select Masters, besides which he is a member of Ascalon Commandery No. 588, Ancient and Illustrious Knights of Malta. He is actively identified with the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce and the local Kiwanis Club, and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Willoughby. On the 17th of November, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Burton and Miss Helen C. Cole, daughter of William H. and Leota (Townsend) Cole, of Cleveland, where Mr. Cole is president of the Holland Trolley Supply Company. Mrs. Burton was graduated from the Woman's College of Western Reserve University, and received therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. and Mrs. Burton have two children, Barbara Elizabeth; born April 4, 1920, and Helen Louise, born August 11, 1922. JOSEPH LOTH has been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust in his native city of Sandusky, and has at all times measured up fully to the requirements of the positions to which he has been chosen, the while he has always had secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He is now serving as city treasurer and auditor, and is giving a characteristically effective administration in this dual office. Mr. Loth was born in Sandusky, on the 1st of March, 1875, and is a son of Joseph and Christina (Kessler) Loth, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in which state their marriage was solemnized. Joseph Loth, Sr., was reared and educated in his native land, and was seventeen years of age when he came to the United States. He made Ohio his destination, and this state he represented as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted as a private in the Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he served until the close of the war, with a record of participation in many engagements, including a number of major battles. After the close of the war he took a course in a business college at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served for several years as a bookkeeper and accountant in that city, where he also learned the cigar making trade. In 1872 he came to Ohio and established his permanent residence in Sandusky. He engaged independently in the manufacturing of cigars, and with this line of enterprise he here continued to be identified until his death, which occurred in the year 1919, his widow being still a resident of Sandusky. The present city treasurer and auditor of Sandusky gained his earlier education in the public schools of this city, and after initiating his connection with business affairs he attended night school and also completed a course in a local business college His first business experience was gained when, at the age of twelve years, he found employment as bundle-boy in a local dry-goods. establishment. He won advancement to the position of clerk, and his service in this capacity continued about two years. He thereafter learned in his father 's factory the trade of cigarmaker, and at various intervals he continued to be associated with his father's business during the course of fifteen years. Mr. Loth has shown unqualified civic loyalty and progressiveness, and has held numerous positions of trust. He was for two years a member of the Sandusky Board of Education, was deputy city auditor three years, was twice elected city auditor, in which office he thus served four years, and under the commission system of municipal government he received his appointment to his present dual office, city auditor and treasurer, on the 1st of January, 1924. As a skilled and reliable accountant he has also held various office positions in connection with business, and to service of this order he gave a share of his time and attention during a period of fourteen years. He is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, and is affiliated with Sandusky Lodge No. 285, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On the 26th of January, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Loth and Miss Anna Plain, who was born at Aurora, Illinois, and whose death occurred January 26, 1923. She is not survived by children. HON. GEORGE W. SIEBER. Since his admission to the Ohio bar in 1882, George W. Sieber has been continuously engaged in the general practice of law and in many associated interests, particularly real estate developments in Akron and vicinity. His name has been identified with many important undertakings and causes of a patriotic and civic nature. He was born in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1858, on Washington's birthday, hence his name. His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Moyer) Sieber, natives of Pennsylvania, where his father was born in 1818 and his mother in 1819. They came to Akron in 1868, and Joseph Sieber died in 1896 and his wife in 1909. The father spent his active career as a farmer, butcher and tanner. George W. Sieber was educated in Pennsylvania and in the public schools of Akron, graduating from high school in 1876. He continued his education in Buchtel College, and graduated with first honors in 272 - HISTORY OF OHIO the class of 1882 from the Cincinnati Law School. In 1891 he became a member of the firm of Green, Grant & Sieber, which after the death of Judge Green continued as Grant & Sieber until the elevation of Judge Grant to the Ohio Court of Appeals in 1912. For a number of years Mr. Sieber has had as his associate his son in the firm of Sieber, Sieber & Amer, with offices in the Second National Building. Mr. Sieber was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1897. As an attorney and also as a business man he has been identified with the organization or development of a number of Akron's business concerns, including several leading industries. He was instrumental in putting on the market the Sieber and Sieberling allotment, the first real estate development on North Hill, and helped develop the old Wise farm into a line residence section, referred to as the Wilcox, Noah and Sieber allotment. During the World war Mr. Sieber acted as chairman of Elective Service Draft Board No. 4, and as chairman of the Liberty and Victory Loan campaigns. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County and by reelection served until 1892. In 1899 he was elected to the State Senate, serving one term; and was chairman of the finance committee and member of the judiciary committee. He has been active in the republican party and in the Lutheran Church, being a teacher in Sunday school. He is a member of Akron's Commandery of Knights Templar and Lake Erie Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, and is a past potentate of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has served as president of the company building the Elks' home at Akron, is a member of the City Club, Portage Country Club, Congress Lake Country Club, the University Club, the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He married, September 11, 1883, Miss Elsie C. Motz, daughter of George Motz. The three children born to their marriage were : Joseph Byron, Florence Sarah Carnahan and Ruth. Both daughters finished their education in Wellesley College. The son was born in 1886, graduated from the Akron High School, attended Western Reserve University and Yale University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908, and in 1911 graduated from the Harvard Law School. Since 1912 he has been in practice with his father. MARY W. SEELYE, superintendent of the Andrews Institute for Girls, a splendid educational institution located at Willoughby, Lake County, has the fullest measure of professional enthusiasm and loyalty, and in her present official position has found admirable opportunity for expressing this enthusiasm through constructive service along both academie and executive lines. Mrs. Seelye has been associated with this institution from the time of its founding, in 1910, and has been its superintendent since 1922. The Andrews Institute for Girls, designated as "a practical school to render worthy girls self-supporting," was founded in accordance with provisions made in the wills of the late Wallace C. and Margaret M. (St. John) Andrews, who lost their lives in a fire in their home in New York City on the morning of April 7, 1899. The Andrews Institute was incorporated May 13, 1902, but it was not until the summer of 1909 that the funds for its maintenance became available. Instruction began April 4, 1910, with eighty-five special students enrolled for sewing lessons. The first regular students entered on the 19th of the following September. The original headquarters of the school were established in the fine old Andrews-St. John homestead, a property given for the purpose by Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, the generous founders. From the 1923 announcement of the institution are taken the following pertinent statements: "The institute has purchased 268Y2 acres of land on the east side of the Chagrin River, opposite the Village of Willoughby. * * * It is a beautiful property of native forest trees, nut grove, orchards, fertile fields, valleys and brooks. This site is the permanent location for the school and cottages. * * * The institute does not compete with schools of college grade, nor does it prepare girls for normal school or college. Its appeal is to girls who desire a vocational training. To these it offers exceptional opportunities. While the ultimate aim of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, as specified in their wills, was to afford the pupils employment for life, that is, for a trade training, still, practically all of the courses are valuable preparation for the home." Literature of descriptive order is issued in a direct way by the Andrews Institute, with incidental tribute to the noble founders, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, both natives of the historic old Western Reserve in Ohio, Mr. Andrews having been born at Vienna, Trumbull County, and his wife, Mrs. Margaret (St. John) Andrews, having been born at Willoughby, Lake County. A fitting and enduring monument to the memory of these loved and influential philanthropists is the school which perpetuates their name. The improving of the permanent site of the institute is proceeding in excellent order. A very fine Practical Arts Building was erected in 1923, and among other modern structures to be erected in the near future will be a second school building and an administration building, besides cottages planned to afford accommodations for 500 girl students, the enrollment of students at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1923, being 207, and 170 of the number being afforded living accommodations in the cottages maintained by the school in the Village of , Willoughby. These five cottages are owned by the institute, which will retain them even after cottages are erected on the regular campus tract. It is unnecessary in this brief review to attempt to give details concerning the courses of study and the general work of the Andrews Institute, for these matters are adequately covered in the catalogue issued by the institution and available through direct application. Mrs. Mary (Whitacre) Seelye was born in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of William and Arrial (Hanna) Whitacre, the former of whom was born at Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1836, and the latter of whom likewise was born in Ohio, she having been a daughter of Robert and Harriet (Brooks) Hanna, the former of whom was born at Lisbon, Columbiana County, this state, in 1813, and the latter of whom was born in Vermont, in 1814. Robert Hanna, an uncle of the late Senator Mark Hanna, passed the greater part of his life in Cleveland, where he was a prominent banker, and there both he and his wife died in the year 1881. William Whitacre was reared at Lisbon, and his marriage was solemnized in the City of Cleveland. He became prominently identified with iron manufacturing, with headquarters in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 1878, when he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he continued his alliance with the same line of industrial enterprise until his death in 1888. His wife was born in the year 1841, and her death occurred in 1876, at Pittsburgh, both having been earnest members of the Congregational Church, and Mr. Whitacre having been a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party. Mrs. Seelye acquired her youthful education mainly in private schools in the City of Cleveland, and she has made a record of most effective and constructive stewardship in connection with educational work in Ohio. In 1910 she was appointed a director HISTORY OF OHIO - 273 of the cottage department of Andrews Institute for Girls, and since 1922 she has been the popular and progressive superintendent of this admirable institution. Mrs. Seelye is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Willoughby Public Library, holds membership in the Woman's City Club in the City of Cleveland, and from 1919 to 1921 she was president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Willoughby Post of the American Legion. She takes deep interest in civic affairs, and is a popular figure in the cultural and social circles of her home community. FRED GENUNG BATES, postmaster at Madison, Lake County, is giving an administration that fully justifies his appointment to this important community office in his native village, he having been born at Madison on the 19th of September, 1883. The paternal grandparents of the postmaster of Madison were John D. and Mary Jane (Darrow) Bates, both natives of Otsego County, New York, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. John D. Bates came to Lake County, Ohio, in the early '50s, purchased a large tract of land in Madison Township, and here reclaimed and developed one of the fine farm properties of the county. On their old homestead place he and his wife long remained, and both were honored pioneer citizens of Madison Township at the time of their death. He whose name initiates this review is a son of Delos and Caroline E. (Genung) Bates, both likewise natives of Madison Township, this county, where the former was born January 28, 1858, and the latter in the year 1860. They here continued their residence during the long intervening years and now have their home in the Village of Madison. Delos Bates was graduated from Madison Seminary, and in addition to his early alliance with farm industry he has been a prominent representative of the lumber business, as a dealer and manufacturer, besides which he has done an appreciable service as a contractor in road construction and improvement. He is now living virtually retired from active business. He is a republican in politics, and he gave many years of service as trustee of Madison Township. He and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church at Madison, and in their native county their circle of friends is coincident with that of their acquaintances. Of the children Fred G., of this review, is the eldest; Minnie E. is the wife of Rev. J. U. Stotts, of Tujunga, California ; Bertha G. is the wife of Roland Standish, manager of a large department store at Salt Lake City, Utah ; Stanley P., who owns and conducts a well equipped automobile garage at North Madison, is a veteran of overseas service in the World war, he having been in the ambulance service on the Italian front nearly two years; Martha G. is the wife of Royal A. Stewart, a successful ranchman near Highland, California ; Clarence W., who resides in Los Angeles County and who is prominently identified with the real estate business and other lines of enterprise, likewise gave nearly two years of service in the ambulance corps on the Italian front in the World war ; and Robert D. is, in 1923, a student in the University at Redlands, California. Fred G. Bates is indebted to the public schools of Madison for his early education, and after his graduation from high school, as a member of the class of 1900, he passed two years in Chicago, where he was employed in piano factories. He then returned to Madison and took a position in the music store conducted by his uncle, Charles Bates, under the title of the Bates Music Company. He thus continued until 1917, when he initiated independent activities as a piano-tuner. In the same year, however, he passed the required civil service examination and was then appointed mail carrier on one of the rural routes from the Madison postoffice. In this capacity he continued his service until January 1, 1923, when he was appointed postmaster of Madison, this advancement having come to him by reason of his status on the civil service list in connection with the examination previously referred to in this paragraph. Mr. Bates holds unswervingly to the political faith for which the republican party stands sponsor. He is a loyal and valued member of the Madison Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church in their home village. Mr. Bates is the owner of his attractive residence property on East Main Street. September 12, 1908, was marked by the marriage of Mr. Bates and Miss Emma L. White, daughter of Rev. Ulna A. and Emma (Alderman) White, both of whom are deceased, the father having been a clergyman of the Christian, or Disciples Church. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have five children: Oliver W., Walter R., Caroline L., Muriel B. and Dorothy J. JOHN HENRY CHALMER LYON, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County, has been a practicing attorney in the Youngstown district nearly twenty years. Today one of the best known men in that populous section of Eastern Ohio, Judge Lyon started his career amidst struggles, poverty and obscurity, and his position is the reward of unwavering energy and ambition. Judge Lyon was born December 10, 1878, at Clarkson, in Columbiana County, Ohio, and his ancestry included several of the solid and enterprising families that represented some of the finest characteristics of the early Ohio pioneers. His father, Marcena Lyon, also a native of Columbiana County, was the son of Henry Lyon, who was a first cousin of General Lyon, one of the most brilliant and resourceful men on the Union side at the beginning of the Civil war. Marcena Lyon completed his education in the Lisbon High School, and as a youth was bound out to a tanner, learning that trade, but after the age of eighteen he took up carpentry work. Going out to Marshalltown, Iowa, he bought a farm, but subsequently sold it and returned to .Ohio, where he married, and in 1879 he removed to Iola, Kansas, where he spent another year on a farm. He then returned to Ohio and located at New Waterford, where he lived until his death in 1894, engaged in farming and contracting. Marcena Lyon married Hannah Jane Lewis, who was born in Ohio and is still living at the old homestead at New Waterford. Her grandfather Lewis was a cousin of Merriwether Lewis, of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. This grandfather Lewis was a builder of bridges on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and at one time was an associate contractor with Phillip Lewis, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. The Hannahs were also pioneers in Columbiana County. Grandfather Lewis married a Miss Young, who was related to John Young, the founder of Youngstown, and also to Philip Young, the last surviving Revolutionary soldier west of the Alleghany Mountains. Judge Lyon spent his early boyhood on the farm at New Waterford, and his education, acquired in intervals of teaching and other work, after finishing the high school at New Waterford, was continued in Mount Hope College at Rogers, in the Northeastern Ohio Normal School at Canfield, in Mount Union College at Alliance, and in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He began teaching when he was sixteen years of age, and for two years was principal of the Canfield village schools and for a time was principal of the Second Ward school at Alliance. He began the study of law at New Waterford, took the law course at Ada, and in June, 1906, was ad- 274 - HISTORY OF OHIO mitted to the bar, and is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity of Mount Union College. After six months of practice with his brother, Everett L. Lyon, at East Palestine he moved to Youngstown on December 10, 1906, and was associated at different times with such lawyers as David G. Jenkins, Clyde W. Osborne, his brother, Walter I. Lyon, G. F. Hammond, I. G. Matthews, Clinton J. Wall and Ralph Miller. After the struggles of the first year or so Judge Lyon rapidly established a reputation for the successful handling of jury trials, and for over ten years was identified with nearly all the important cases in the courts of his section. On January 2, 1923, by appointment from the governor, he became judge of the Court of Common Pleas to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his former law partner, David G. Jenkins. He was endorsed by the Mahoning County Bar for this appointment. On June 1, 1910, Judge Lyon married Miss Lucille C. Strong, who was born at North Benton, Ohio, daughter of Ashley E. and Anna (Malmsberry) Strong. Her parents came to Ohio from Connecticut. Judge and Mrs. Lyon have one son, Ashley Marcena, born October 11, 1913. Judge and Mrs. Lyon are members of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 55 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Loyal Order of Moose, the Protective Home Circle, and is on the board of control of the Youngs- town Optimist Club. For a number of years Judge Lyon was the attorney representing the village government of several localities around Youngstown. He was attorney for Struthers for fourteen years, for Lowellsville, nine years, for Poland, six years, and for East Youngstown, two years. Judge Lyon is a republican, and was active in the campaign of 1912 for the progressive cause, being associated as a speaker with such notables as Hiram Johnson, Roosevelt, Governor Willis, Mr. Hughes and the late Vice President Fairbanks. He resigned from the State Republican Central Committee in 1912, when the party split over the progressive issue. ERNEST CROCKETT, M. D. One of the prominent members of his profession at Ashtabula, Dr. Ernest Crockett has practiced there over twenty years. He is a native of Ashtabula County, representing the third generation of his family here. Doctor Crockett was born at Dorset, in Ashtabula County, July 9, 1873. His grandfather, William Crockett, was born in Ireland, in 1806, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and as a young man came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, and later moved to Dorset, Ohio, where he engaged in farming. He died at Dorset in 1883, when Doctor Crockett was ten years old. The second wife of William Crockett, and the grandmother of Doctor Crockett, was Sallie Ann Caldwell, a native of Pennsylvania, who died at Dorset, Ohio. William Crockett, Jr., father of Dr. Ernest Crockett, was born in Richmond Township of Ashtabula County, November 10, 1849, was reared there, and as a young man went to Dorset, where he became a well-to-do farmer, and for seventeen years he held the office of township trustee. He was a democrat in politics. His death occurred at Jefferson May 2, 1917. He had retired from the farm and moved to Jefferson in 1915. His first wife was Amelia Brown, who was born at Penn Line, Pennsylvania, in 1852, and died at Dorset July 13, 1873, four days after the birth of her only child, Dr. Ernest Crockett. The second wife of William Crockett was Minerva S. Thompson, who was born at Denmark, Ohio, and now lives at Jefferson. By this marriage there were five children: Dora A., wife of James A. Reed, an employe of the O. & W. P. Dock Company at Ashtabula; Glenn S., proprietor of a moving picture theater at Cleveland; Lassie V., wife of Clifford Jerome, a machinist at Jefferson, Ohio; Homer, who died when four years old, and another son who died in infancy. Dr. Ernest Crockett was reared on his father 's farm at Dorset, attended the common schools there, and in 1893 graduated from the Jefferson Educational institute. For two years of his early manhood he was principal of a grammar school at Jefferson, and subsequently entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1900. In the same year he engaged in practice at Ashtabula as a physician and surgeon. He was elected and served two years as coroner of Ashtabula County, and is a member of the Ashtabula County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Advisory Board for the district including Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga counties. Doctor Crockett is a democrat, is a member of Harbor Lodge No. 558, Free and Accepted Masons. at Ashtabula; Western Reserve Chapter No. 8, Royal Arch Masons; Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, at Conneaut, Ohio; Columbian Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar, at Ashtabula, of which he is a past commander; Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland; and Lake Erie Chapter No. 10 of the Eastern Star. Doctor Crockett is also a member of Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Ashtabula Country Club and the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce. He has acquired considerable real estate in Ashtabula, including his fine residence at 26 Park Street. At Dorset, Ohio, July 11, 1900, Doctor Crockett married Miss Mamie B. Kennedy, daughter of James and Harriet (Reed) Kennedy, the latter living with Doctor and Mrs. Crockett. The father, who died at Dorset, was a retired farmer. Doctor and Mrs. Crockett are the parents of four children: Amelia, who graduated from the Ashtabula General Hospital; Lorene Alice, a graduate of the Ashtabula High School; Louise Elizabeth, a junior in high school; and Mary Jean, a student in the Junior High School of Ashtabula. NORMAN B. OSBORNE, M. D., who is established in the general practice of his profession at Andover, and whose personality and successful achievements mark him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Ashtabula County, is able to revert to the old Empire State of the Union as the place of his nativity, and is a scion of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial period of our national history. The original representatives of the Osborne family came from England and numbered themselves among the early settlers in Connecticut. Dr. Norman Bellinger Osborne was born in the City of Buffalo, New York, July 20, 1884, and was about two years old at the time when the family home was established at Youngstown, Ohio. His father, George S. Osborne, still a resident of Youngstown, was born at Danbury, Connecticut, July 21, 1853, and is a son of Judge Levi Osborne and Emma (Moffett) Osborne, both likewise natives of Danbury, where the former was born in 1825 and the latter in 1828. Judge Osborne was reared and educated in his native state, and became a man of versatile ability. At Danbury, Connecticut, he served as judge of the Probate Court, and after his removal to the State of New York he did faithful and effective work as a clergyman of the Christian Church, he having there held pastoral charges at Tonawanda and Williamsville. In 1886 Judge Osborne and his wife established their home at Youngstown, Ohio, where he became associated with his son George S. in the mercantile busi-