HISTORY OF OHIO - 275 ness. There his death occurred in the year 1913, and there his widow remained until her death in 1917. George S. Osborne was reared and educated at Danbury, Connecticut, and was a youth at the time of the family removal to the State of New York. At Tonawanda, that state, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Olive Bellinger, whose birth there occurred in October, 1860, and thereafter he became manager of the cloak department in a large department store in the City of Buffalo. There he remained until 1886, when he came to Youngstown, Ohio, where he has since maintained his home. He continued as one of the leading merchants of that city until 1916, and has since lived virtually retired, though he is president of the Osborne-Norman Com pany, which conducts a leading department store in the City of Erie, Pennsylvania. He is independent in politics, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Central Christian Church at Youngstown. Of the children the eldest is Eugene C., who is identified with the stock and bond business in the City of Cleveland ; Dr. Norman B., of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Marian is the wife of James E. Bennett, a prominent younger member of the bar of Mahoning County, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession at Youngstown. The public schools of Youngstown continued to engage a due quota of the time and attention of Doctor Osborne until he was there graduated from the Rayen High School, as a member of the class of 1903. He next passed one year as a student in the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, and in preparation for his chosen profession he thereafter passed four years as a student in the Hahnemann Medical College in the City of Philadelphia. In this institution he was graduated in 1908 and duly received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. There he became affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Alpha Sigma medical fraternity. After his graduation Doctor Osborne had one year of valuable experience as an interne in the Metropolitan Hospital in the City of New York, and he then returned to Ohio and established himself at Andover, where he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since 1909 and where he has built up a substantial and representative practice, besides which he is a member of the staff of the Andover Sanitarium. The doctor is a member of the Ashtabula County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society. In politics he maintains an independent attitude, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Andover. Doctor Osborne is a past master of Andover Lodge No. 506, Free and Accepted Masons ; at the county seat, Jefferson, he is a member of Jefferson Chapter No. 141, Royal Arch Masons ; at Conneaut he is a member of Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters ; and at Andover he holds membership in Ridgely Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is the owner of valuable real estate at Andover, including his attractive home property on West Main Street. The private professional activities of Doctor Osborne were interrupted by his patriotic service in connection with the World War. He enlisted in July, 1918, and at Camp Hancock, Georgia, he gained a commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. There he continued in service for some time after the armistice brought the war to a close, and there he received his honorable discharge on the 1st of March, 1919. At Wilmington, Delaware, on the 23rd of May, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Osborne and Miss Estrella Andrews, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Brown) Andrews, who now maintain their home at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Andrews is associated with the Cambria Steel Company. Doctor and Mrs. Osborne have no children. ARTHUR J. KANE, of Ashtabula, has made a notable record as a police officer. He has been on the Ashtabula police force for over thirty years, and for fifteen years has been chief of police in that city. Mr. Kane was born at North Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1867. His parents, Patrick and Margaret (Norton) Kane, were natives of Ireland, and came from that country and located at North Springfield, Pennsylvania. For many years he was an employe of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. He died at North Springfield in 1879. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. His wife, Margaret Norton, was also born in Ireland, and she died at Ashtabula in 1901. They had a large family of children, briefly mentioned as follows: Mary, Peter, Henry, William, George, Charles, Arthur J., Alice, Frank and Agnes. Arthur J. Kane was twelve years old when his father died, and shortly afterward the family settled at Ashtabula. He continued to attend the public schools of that city until he was sixteen, and then went to work, proving his ability at earning a living in various occupations. Like several of his brothers he took up railroading, and for one year was with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and for four years with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, with headquarters at McKees Rocks, a Pittsburgh suburb. On returning to Ashtabula he was in the mercantile business two years. On April 19, 1892, Mr. Kane became a member of the police force of Ashtabula, his initial salary being $50 a month, whereas in recent years the minimum salary of patrolmen is nearly three times that figure. He was appointed by Mayor F. C. Moore. Mr. Kane has been in all departments of the service, and for some time was a plain clothes man. On December 4, 1909, on the basis of his efficient record, he was elevated to the post of chief of police, and it has been his pride and satisfaction to give to Ashtabula one of the most efficient police systems in the state. He refused to retire in accordance with the provisions of the- state law permitting retirement on the pension list when he had completed a quarter of a century of service on the force. Mr. Kane is independent in politics. He is a member of Saint Joseph 'a Catholic Church of Ashtabula, is affiliated with. Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce, and is owner of considerable property in his home city. In January, 1902, at Ashtabula, he married Miss Amelia Strubbe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Strubbe, the latter a resident of Ashtabula County. Her father was a well known and successful farmer in Ashtabula County, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Kane have two children: Leo J., born in April, 1903, and Arthur J. Jr., born in May, 1911. JAMES WEAVER SNODGRASS, a popular citizen of Youngstown, metropolis of Mahoning County, has gained international reputation as the "king of human flies," owing to his daring and marvelous feats in climbing the sides of high buildings and performing other remarkable exhibitions of similar order. He has gained fame and success also as a landscape gardener, tree doctor and tree expert, and to these lines of professional enterprise he now gives his time and attention. Mr. Snodgrass was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, October 1, 1881, and is a son of John Nelson Snodgrass and Mary E. (Fisher) Snodgrass, the former of whom still resides at Steubenville, the 276 - HISTORY OF OHIO latter being deceased. In the public schools of his native city the early educational discipline of Mr. Snodgrass included that of the high school, and at the age of nineteen years he became associated with steel erection work, with which he continued to be identified ten years and in connection with which he developed his wonderful skill and daring in climbing high points. The next move of Mr. Snodgrass was made when he initiated independent business as a contractor in steeple work, and he has ascended the highest of church spires in various kinds of repair work in many of the leading cities of the Union, besides holding the world's record in climbing up the sides of tall buildings and effecting a change of clothing while doing this perilous feat. His exhibition feats, which have attracted wide attention and admiration, were made under the title of the "Masked Marvel," and his career in this line was initiated at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903. Mr. Snodgrass has devoted much time to studying and experimenting in the growing, moving and cultivating of trees, and has become one of the most expert of "tree doctors," with much ability in eliminating tree pests and applying "surgical" and other treatments in the preserving of fine trees. He is the inventor of a most efficient moving wagon for the transplanting of large trees, and as a landscape gardener and tree expert he has been actively and successfully established in business since 1907, his services being in demand far aside from his home city and county. He maintains his office headquarters at his attractive home, 304 Lucius Avenue. Mr. Snodgrass is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and has never manifested any desire to exercise his climbing skill in escaping from these ranks. He is a past chancellor of Golden Lodge No. 52, Knights of Pythias, at Youngstown, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The year 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. Snodgrass and Miss Eva Kelty, daughter of Joseph and Ellen (Grove) Kelty, who were residents of Steubenville, Ohio, at the time of her birth. Mr. Kelty was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass have one daughter, Evelyn. JOHN EVERT GLANTZ is a prominent attorney of Ashtabula, conducts an extensive general practice, and is also interested in financial and business enterprises. He is one of the gifted leaders among the large population of Finnish descent living in Northeastern Ohio. He was born at Isokyro, Finland, July 18, 1886, and bears the name of his stepfather. His own father was Isaac Ojala, who was born at Isokyro, in 1862, son of John Ojala, a native of the same place and a farmer there, and grandson of Erie Ojala, also a farmer at Isokyro. Isaac Ojala was reared and married in Finland, followed farming there, and after. coming to America settled at Ashtabula Harbor, where he died shortly afterward. He was a staunch Lutheran, and in Finland received military training as a member of the Reserves. The wife of Isaac Ojala was Marie Charlotte Enstrom, who was born at Seinajoki, Finland, in 1864. John Evert was the only child of her first marriage. Later she married Robert Glantz, who was born at Orimattila, Finland, and in, 1891 came to the United States and settled at Ashtabula Harbor. He is an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company there. He is a republican, a member of the Finnish Congregational Church, and he likewise was given military training in Finland. Robert Glantz and wife live at 31 Whitlan Street in Ashtabula. Their children are : Aino, wife of Walter Lakari, a furnace foreman for the Great Lakes Engineering Company at Ashtabula Harbor ; Sarah, wife of Clyde Frye, a farmer at Avon, Massachusetts ; Miss Olga, Robert, Jr., an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; and Miss Laura. John Evert Glantz was six years old when his parents came to America, and he grew up in a thorough American environment and acquired his education in the public schools of Ashtabula Harbor, including the high school. While a working boy he attended classes at the Central High School, and studied law in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1913. He also received a diploma from the Central High School and from the Ashtabula Harbor High School. Admitted to the bar in June, 1913, Mr. Glantz at once engaged in practice, and has handled a large and varied amount of litigation, both civil and criminal, in the courts of this section of the state. His practice extends over into Pennsylvania. His offices are in the Marine National Bank Building at Ashtabula Harbor. Mr. Glantz is secretary of and attorney for the City Savings and Loan Company of Ashtabula, and is secretary of the Citizens Loan Society of Ashtabula. He has acquired considerable real estate in the city, including his home at 48 Whitlan Street. During the World war he assisted in all the drives for patriotic purposes, being a four-minute speaker. He is a republican, is holding the office of justice of the peace, and for four years was a member of the Republican County Central Committee of Ashtabula County. He is a member of Bethany Lutheran Church, the Ashtabula County Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Ashtabula, and has participated in all civic movements. In November, 1911, at Ashtabula Harbor, he married Miss Ida M. Kangas, daughter of Andrew and Fiina Kangas. Her mother lives at Ashtabula Harbor, where her father died. Her father was a foreman for the M. A. Hanna Dock Company. Mr. and Mrs. Glantz are the parents of four children: Paul S., born January 5, 1913; Richard H., born in 1915; Allan E., born in 1917; and Miriam I., born in 1919. WILLIAM ARTHUR DAVIS as a young man learned the machinist's trade, and his business career has been with manufacturing industries. For several years his home has been at Ashtabula, where he was manager of the Ashtabula Ice Company. Mr. Davis was born in Henderson County, Tennessee, February 25, 1889, and represents an old family of that state. He is of Welsh ancestry. His grandfather, William Davis, spent his life in Decatur County, Tennessee, where he owned and operated a large farm. His widow, Mary Davis, was born in Decatur County, and lives with her son, Martin Luther Davis. Martin Luther Davis was born in Decatur County in November, 1869, was reared there, and as a young man went to Henderson County, where he married, and for many years he owned and operated a large farm. His home is now at Luray, Tennessee. He is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Martin Luther Davis married Ellen Elizabeth Harris, who was born in Henderson County, Tennessee, in 1866. Of their two children William A. is the older. The daughter, Ada, is the wife of John Threadgill, a farmer in Madison County, Tennessee. William Arthur Davis was reared on his father's farm in Tennessee, attending the public schools and subsequently completing his education in the intervals of his employment at Nashville. He attended night sessions of a business college there, and during the day worked at the machinist 's trade. Prior to going to Nashville he had learned his trade at Jackson, HISTORY OF OHIO - 277 Tensessee. At Nashville he was employed by the Marathon Motor Works, automobile manufacturers. He started there in 1910, and before he left was chief inspector of the company. In 1914 Mr. Davis removed to Hamilton., Ontario, Canada, where for eight months he had charge of a shell plant manufacturing shells for the British government. His home has been in Ohio since 1915. In that year he located at Painesville, and became foreman of the machine shop of the Coe Manufacturing Company, manufacturing war materials. After the war was over this company returned to its peace time program of manufacturing veneer machinery, and Mr. Davis remained with the company until September, 1920, when he changed his position to chief engineer of the ice products company of Painesville. He is still a stockholder in that industry. On November 1, 1922, he removed to Ashtabula as manager of the Ashtabula Ice Company, the plant and offices being at 259 Lake Street. Mr. Davis is an independent voter, is a member of the Second Congregational Church of Ashtabula, and is affiliated with Edgefield Lodge No. 254, Free and Accepted Masons, at Nashville, Tennessee, Painesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and is a member of the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce. Since coming to Ashtabula he has bought a good home at 210 Walnut Street. He married, at Nashville, September 15, 1914, Miss Jessie Gilliland, daughter of George W. and Geneva (Mills) Gilliland. Her parents now live at Akron, Ohio, her father being a retired lumber manufacturer. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis are Martha Marie, born December 19, 1915; Anita C., born February 12, 1917; and Geneva E., born November 19, 1919. WILLIAM WALLACE. In the thirty years he has been in the United States, William Wallace has been identified with the New York Central Line shops at Cleveland and Ashtabula. He is assistant general foreman of the New York Central car repair shops in Ashtabula. Mr. Wallace was born at Stockton-on-Tees England, January 11, 1874. His father, Isaiah Wallace, was born at Princess Anne, Staffordshire, England, and spent the greater part of his life in Northern England. He was a driller on bridge construction. His death occurred at Middlesborough, England, in 1920. He was a liberal in politics and a member of the Church of England. His wife, Mary Gibson, was born near Leeds, in the north of England, and died at Middlesborough in 1917. They had three children, William being the oldest. The daughter, Mrs. Annie Calvert, is the mother of two children, Victor and Florence, and they live at Harrogate, England, where her husband owns a taxi business. The third child, Victor, living with his brother William in Ashtabula, married Elsie May Holliday, of Cleakheaton, England. William Wallace was educated in the public schools at Sunderland, England, but only until he was thirteen years of age. Leaving school, he went to work, and at the age of thirteen became an employe in ship yards. He was there four years and for one year in a bridge yard. On coming to the United States in 1893 he located at Cleveland, where he entered the blacksmith shop at the old Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, learning the trade, and in a few years was advanced to leader of steel car repairs in those shops. In 1898 he was transferred to Collinwood, Ohio, as assistant foreman of steel car repairs, and he remained there until October 1, 1915, when he was transferred to the New York Central Lines shops at Ashtabula as shop foreman. Since 1921 he has been assistant general foreman, and has under his supervision 236 workers. He is a man of thorough skill himself, knows every detail of the work constructed under his supervision, and has brought a high degree of efficiency to his department. Mr. Wallace is a stockholder in the Ashtabula Steel Company. He owns a fine home at 14 Stark Street in Ashtabula. He is a republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, is affiliated with Rising Sun Lodge No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons, at Ashtabula, the Knights of Malta at Ashtabula; Cleveland Camp, Woodmen of. the World, Cleveland Chapter of the American Insurance Union, and is a former member of the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce. On July 27, 1898, at Cleveland, he married Miss Flora N. Richardson, daughter of Joseph and Annie (Search) Richardson. Her father was a farmer, and both her parents are now deceased. JOHN N. ANDERBERG. Though he learned and followed a mechanical trade and engaged in business for some years, his endowment of real talent in music was too strong to be resisted, and John N. Anderberg for some years past has been best known in Youngstown and Eastern Ohio as a violin and cornet performer and teacher of those instruments. Mr. Anderberg was born in Sweden, October 12, 1871, grew up in his native country, attending high school there, and was nineteen years of age when, in 1890, he accompanied his parents to America. They spent six months at Ashtabula, Ohio, and then moved to Youngstown. In that city John N. Anderberg, who had learned the trade of shoemaker, took up work in that line and also even then did some teaching of the violin and cornet. From Youngstown he went to Marinette, Wisconsin, and was employed in a shoe store and playing instruments in a band and orchestra. After two years he returned to Youngstown and engaged in business there for himself, installing the first modern machinery for a shoemaking and shoe repairing plant. He also resumed his connections with musical organizations, and in 1912 gave up his shoe business altogether and has devoted his time to instruction and teaching of the violin and cornet. Since 1920 his studio has been at 139 E. Federal Street. Mr. Anderberg married, March 7, 1896, Amanda Carolina Wickenberg, who was born at Oconto, Wisconsin, of Swedish descent. Their children are Elsa .C., a piano teacher who married Chester Arthur Johnson, of Youngstown, Ohio ; Angner W., a clerk with the Republic Iron & Steel Company of Youngstown; and Franz W. J., a musician, living at Youngstown. John N. Anderberg is a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church, is a republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, its social branch, the Knights of Khorassan, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and the Scandinavian Fraternity of North America. J. MARION KENNEDY is superintendent of the Pollock-Becker Company, owning and operating ore docks at Ashtabula Harbor, and the chief representative on Lake Erie Shore for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. Mr. Kennedy has had a long and active experience in the transportation business, beginning as a railroad man. He was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1868. His grandfather, George Kennedy, was a native of Ireland, and married a full-blooded Scotch woman. Their son, James Kennedy, was born in London, England, in 1826, and when eight years of age came to the United States with his sister. He was reared and married in Erie, Pennsylvania, and just before the outbreak of the Civil war he founded at Erie the first barrel factory in the State of Pennsylvania. This factory was destroyed by fire after the war, causing him other losses, so that he had to begin again at the bottom of the ladder. He was in the 278 - HISTORY OF OHIO oil refinery business at Erie, and again accumulated a modest fortune, and this, too, was swept away by fire. On account of ill health, he moved to his farm of 250 acres at Dorset, Ohio, and for the rest of his life he pursued agriculture and made himself an influential factor in the affairs of his community. He was a very zealous republican, served a number of years as chairman of the Ashtabula County Republican Committee, and was local manager of the Garfield campaign in 1880 and was responsible for the unprecedented majority given that candidate in his district that year. He was a personal friend of General Garfield. For twenty-five years he held the office of justice of the peace, and lawyers in this section of Ohio frequently were astonished at his amazing knowledge of the law, a knowledge gained altogether through reading and experience. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James Kennedy, who died at Dorset, Ohio, in June, 1902, married Miss Harriet Reed, who was born at Bridgetown, Ontario, Canada, in 1839, and is now living, at the age of eighty-six, with her son Marion in Ashtabula. There were eight children : Johnson R., rural mail carrier, living at Dorset, Ohio; William E., foreman for the Pollock-Becker Company at Ashtabula; Harriet J., wife of Robert Cowin, station agent at Sharon, Pennsylvania, for the New York Central Lines; Margaret C., twin sister of Harriet, and wife of Lynn Brown, who is boss carpenter for the New York Central Railroad at Cleveland ; J. Marion; Clark D., a telegraph operator with the New York Central Lines at Ashtabula; Charles B., also a New York Central telegraph operator, living at Dorset, Ohio, and serving as township clerk and treasurer there; and Mary B., wife of Dr. Ernest Crockett, a physician of Ashtabula. J. Marion Kennedy was two years of age when the family moved to Dorset, Ohio, and as a boy he attended the public schools there. In 1889 he graduated from the high school at Jefferson, Ohio, and in the fall of the same year he became a telegraph operator for the Lake Shore Railroad Company. He was in the service of this road for eight years, and resigned to become a clerk for the Pittsburgh Coal Company at Ashtabula Harbor. At the end of three years he was promoted to cashier for the Pittsburgh Coal Company and also for the Angeline Dock Company, the Mahoning and Shenango Dock Company and the Union 'Dock Company. He acted in this capacity for these different corporations doing business at Ashtabula Harbor until 1913, in which year he was made assistant superintendent for the three ore dock companies just mentioned. Five years later the ore dock companies were merged into one ownership, under the Pollock-Becker Company, and since September 15, 1918, Mr. Kennedy has been superintendent of the company, his offices being in the New York Central Railway Building on Columbus Avenue. Mr. Kennedy has other interests than that of a successful man and public-spirited citizen. He is vice president and director of the Ashtabula Ice Company, and is president of the Harbor Investment Association at Ashtabula Harbor. He is a republican, a member of the Lake Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Ashtabula Harbor and chairman of its Official Board, and fraternally he is affiliated with Rising Sun Lodge No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons, Western Reserve Chapter No. 8 Royal Arch Masons, Columbian Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, the Ashtabula Country Club, and the Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a director for six years. He owns two dwelling houses in Ashtabula, one at 127 Walnut Street and his own, a fine residence, at 125 Walnut Street. On November 23, 1898, at Ashtabula, Mr. Kennedy married Miss Annetta Assell Dennart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dennart, now deceased. Her father was a building contractor in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have an interesting family of four children. The oldest, Paul R., though too young for the service, volunteered and paid his expenses in the Students Army Training Camp at the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh during the World war, and is now traveling salesman for the Wildroot Company of Buffalo, with headquarters at Cleveland. The second child, Harriet Ruth, is the wife of Kenneth Parks, a resident of Cleveland, and stock foreman for the McKinney Steel Company. Eleanor L. Kennedy is a student in the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and Howard A., the youngest child, is attending the Ashtabula Harbor High School. ELTA B. LYNN has been identified with the real estate business a number of years, and at Ashtabula has developed a business service that is probably the most efficient and successful of any field. Mr. Lynn was born at Espyville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1869, and represents one of the old Colonial families of that state. His father, Joseph Lynn, spent all his life in Crawford County, where he was born in 1829 and died in 1889. His home was at Espyville, and he owned and operated a farm in that vicinity. He was a republican, and a very generous supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His second wife was Nancy Bennett, who was born in Crawford County in 1842 and died at Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1913. She was the mother of four children: Frank, who is in the real estate business in New York City; Charles A., a farmer at Richmond Center, Ohio; Dr. Sylvester M., an Ashtabula physician; and Elta B. Elta B. Lynn spent his boyhood days on his father 's farm in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, attending the public schools and was graduated from the high school at Linesville in 1887. Since leaving school over thirty-five years ago he has been continuously identified with some form of commercial enterprise. For five years he clerked in a shoe store at Conneaut, Ohio, for two years was in the shoe department of the Barnes-Henniger Company, now known as the Williams- Henniger Company, of Buffalo, New York, and leaving there he moved to Geneva, Ohio, and bought a drug store, continuing that business until 1901. During the next ten years Mr. Lynn engaged in the real estate business in the City of Cleveland, and from there came to Ashtabula in 1911. He has his offices in the Cook 's Arcade, at 154 Main Street, and he individually owns some valuable real estate in Ashtabula and vicinity, including his own home on West Prospect Street. Mr. Lynn is a republican, is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member of Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On May 16, 1901, at Geneva, Ohio, he married Miss Jessie Corbett, daughter of George and Henrietta (Nickels) Corbett, now deceased. Her father was a mechanic. Mrs. Lynn is a graduate of the Geneva High School. They have one child, Louise, now attending Ohio Wesleyan University. JOSEPH HULBERT RICE trained himself for the profession of civil engineering, and for several years was engaged in railroad and marine construction, until he took the management of the family interests in the greenhouse industry at Ashtabula. He is secretary and general manager of the Griswold Greenhouse Company, Incorporated, one of the largest growers of vegetables under glass in Northern Ohio.. Mr. Rice was born at Ashtabula, September 8, 1873, and on both sides represents pioneer families of Northern Ohio. The Rices came from Holland and HISTORY OF OHIO - 279 were Colonial settlers in Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Peter James Rice, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1806, and .as a young man came to Ohio and located at North Amherst, where he owned and operated a farm. About 1860 he moved to Ashtabula, where he established a pioneer factory for the manufacture of agricultural implements. Leaving Ohio in 1875, he went to Tabor, Iowa, and reengaged in farming, but in 1878 returned to Ohio and lived retired at Oberlin until his death in 1887. His wife was Eliza Townsend, who died at Tabor, Iowa, in 1877. Milo L. Rice, father of Joseph H., was born at Amherst in Lorain County, April 9, 1849, and was reared in his native village. He finished his education in Oberlin College, and moved to Ashtabula. For the greater part of his life he was engaged in real estate business, and was the medium of an immense volume of business in that line. For many years he was also collector of internal revenue at the Port of Ashtabula, served on the City Council, and was an active republican. Milo L. Rice died at Ashtabula November 24, 1913. He married Eliza M. Hulbert, who was born at Ashtabula, October 28, 1850, and died in that city October 11, 1916. Her ancestors came to America with the founders of the colony of Saybrook, Connecticut. Her father, Joseph Dewey Hulbert, was born at Holland Patent, New York, in 1808, moved to Ashtabula as a young man, and lived in that city until his death on April 17, 1897. Joseph Hulbert married Lucinda Chadwick Hall, who was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, and died there. Joseph D. Hulbert at Ashtabula was associated with his brother-in-law, Henry Hubbard, under the name of Hubbard and Company, operating an extensive fleet of vessels on the Great Lakes. Joseph Hulbert Rice is the older of two children. His brother, Milo Sanford, lives at Pasadena, California, and is sales manager for Renshaw-Jones-Sutton & Company, manufacturers of paper boxes and shipping cartons. Joseph H. Rice while a boy attended the public schools at Ashtabula, and later attended Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, where he graduated Bachelor of Science with the class of 1896. In 1902, in recognition of his work in railroad and marine construction, Case conferred upon him the degree Civil Engineer. At Case he became a • charter member of the Phi Delta Theta Greek letter fraternity. After leaving college Mr. Rice for a brief time was with an engineering party locating the shore line of the C. P. & E. Electric Railway Company, and for eight years was assistant engineer with the New York Central Lines in charge of construction work and with headquarters at Cleveland. In 1904 he became superintendent of the Dow Chemical Company at Mount Pleasant, Michigan, but two years later took charge of the investments of his family in the greenhouse industry at Ashtabula. In 1906 he was the primary factor in organizing the Griswold Greenhouse Company, Incorporated, and for nearly twenty years has been secretary and general manager. This company specializes in the growing of cucumbers and tomatoes under glass, and has about 300,000 square feet under glass, the greenhouse being located on Woodman Avenue, along the Nickel Plate Railway. During the World war Mr. Rice served in an advisory capacity to the Council of National Defense, and was also one of the citizen volunteers for the war work of the department of agriculture at Washington. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the Second Congregational Church of Ashtabula. He is prominent in Masonry, being affiliated with Rising Sun Lodge No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons, at Ashtabula, Western Reserve Chapter No. 8, Royal Arch Masons, Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, at Conneaut, and is past eminent commander of Columbian Commandery No. 52, Knights Templar. He also belongs to Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. On April 3, 1899, at Jacksonville, Florida, Mr. Rice married Miss Juliet Elizabeth Boalt, daughter of John M. and Fannie (Griswold) Boalt. Her father, now deceased, was president of the Sandusky Wheel Company. Mrs. Rice is a graduate of Ogontz College, a young ladies' seminary near Philadelphia. The two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Rice are Ethelinda Griswold and Lucinda Hulbert, both graduates of Simmons College at Boston, Massachusetts. Miss Ethelinda G. is now assistant in the science department in the Winthrop High School, Boston, Massachusetts. Miss Lucinda H. is on the faculty of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. WILLIAM A. FISHER has been prominently identified with the police and other law and order forces in the Youngstown district for many years. He is now a justice of the peace in Mahoning County. He was born at Lowellville, Ohio, June 5, 1891, son of Joseph and Rose Fisher, natives of Italy. His father came to America and settled at Canton, Ohio, in 1871, being followed by his wife later, she having been nine weeks crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel. Joseph Fisher was a blast furnace worker, and in 1872 settled at Lowellville. William A. Fisher was reared in Lowellville, and attended the grammar and high schools in that city until he was about seventeen. Following that he put in five years of work in one of the blast furnaces of this district, and then went on the Lowellville police force as patrolman. A year and a half later he was elected city marshal, serving two terms, and later he was connected with the Street Railway Union for one and a half years, while for the following three years he was deputy sheriff under Ben Morris. He has had many narrow escapes. At Lowellville he was stabbed in the back and right hand by an insane man. On April 9, 1912, while marshal of Lowellville, he was shot at his home while eating supper, supposedly this being the act of the black hand. On July 29, 1920, he was shot in the abdomen and right hand, and for two months was in the hospital. On November 7, 1920, he was elected justice of the peace of Poland Township, and has since held that office, his offices being at the corner of Boardman and Phelps Street in Youngstown. Mr. Fisher married, January 9, 1910, Miss Ida Orlando, a native of Italy, but reared in South America. Their children are Joseph Carmen, Percy, Rose, Robert Haigne, Woodrow Wilson and Virginia. Mr. Fisher was reared a Catholic. He is a republican, is affiliated with Lowellville Lodge No. 537, Knights of Pythias, with the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Struthers, Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Protective Home Circle at Lowellville. He is vice president of the Justices and Constables Association of Ohio, and for one year was chief of police for the Youngstown Iron and Steel Company. His aunt, Mrs. Aramando, was cook for. President McKinley while in the White House. GEORGE H. ROBERTSON, D. D. S., has had a specially wide and varied experience in the work of his profession, including his technical service in connection with the World war, and he now operates two of the most modern of dental offices—one in his home City of Dayton, Montgomery County, and the other in the City of Middleton, Butler County. Doctor Robertson is a representative of a family that has given many skilled practitioners to the dental profession. His father, Dr. Lucius Robertson, was engaged in the practice of dentistry in the City of 280 - HISTORY OF OHIO Cincinnati for a period of more than sixty years, was a leader in his profession in Ohio, and had the distinction of being the first dentist in the state to administer gas in connection with the extraction of teeth. Dr. E. L. Robertson was engaged in the practice of dentistry in London, England, for twenty-five years, and is now in practice at Dayton, Ohio. Dr. O. T. Robertson, a brother of the subject of this review, has been for many years a prominent dentist in the City of Cincinnati. It may further be noted that Dr. E. T. Broadwell, a brother-in-law of Dr. O. T. Robertson, is associated with him in practice at Cincinnati. Dr. George H. Robertson was born at Newport, Kentucky, October 11, 1866, and is a son of Dr. Lucius and Mary E. Robertson, the former a native of Granville, Licking County, Ohio, and the latter of Wheeling, West Virginia. The parents were residents of Cincinnati at the time of their death. In the public schools of Cincinnati Dr. George H. Robertson continued his studies until he had profited by the curriculum of the high school, and in that city he was thereafter graduated in St. Xavier Academy, as a member of the class of 1885. In Cincinnati also he entered the Ohio Dental College, and in this well ordered institution he was graduated in 1888. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he was for ten years associated with his father in practice at Cincinnati, and in 1898 he was appointed post dentist at Camp Columbia, Quemodas, Cuba, where he thus continued his service until 1901. From that year forward to 1913 he was engaged in active private practice in the City of Havana, Cuba, and he then returned to the United States and established his residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he continued his professional activities two years. He then returned to Ohio and established his home at Dayton, where he has since continued in successful practice, his office here, with six operating chairs, being of the Most modern equipment, as is also his office in Middletown, where four chairs are demanded in the handling of the substantial business. The Dayton office is at the southwest corner of Third and Williams streets, and the Middletown office is at the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Main Street. Doctor Robertson employs only skilled assistants, and is insistent in giving the high-grade service that insures satisfaction to clients and that incidentally proves the best of business assets. The doctor is a member of the Protective Dental Association, and is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is now a veteran in his profession and it may be noted that in his practice he has continuously maintained the most approved facilities for anaesthetic-gas administration during the course of more than thirty years—in fact, since 1888. In Dayton Doctor Robertson has an idyllic home, at 1139 Platt Circle, and he takes special care and pride in making his grounds beautiful through the medium of well kept lawns and the cultivation of flowers and shrubbery. In 1923 he won first prize for the most attractive residence grounds in his district of the fair City of Dayton. It may further be stated that this beautiful family home is known for its refined and generous hospitality and its atmosphere of good cheer. The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Doctor Robertson and Miss Marion C. Willard, a daughter of Henry Willard, of Albany, New York, in which city Mrs. Robertson was reared and educated. Doctor and Mrs. Robertson have two sons, George H., Jr., who is six years of age at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1924; and Earl M., born April 21, 1924. WINCHESTER H. BOONE, president and manager of the Marietta Furniture Company, was a native of Ohio, and represents the Pennsylvania branch of the Boone family that came out of England, and which furnished the pioneer frontiersman and Indian fighter, Daniel Boone. Winchester H. Boone was born on a farm at Crooked Tree, ten miles west of Caldwell, Noble County, in August, 1877. His great-grandfather was of Quaker stock, and came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Samuel Boone, grandfather of the Marietta business man, was a Methodist, and gave a tract of land where Crooked Tree Church and Cemetery is now located. William Boone, son of Samuel and father of Winchester H., was born in 1846, became a successful farmer, was a man of retiring disposition, and died in February, 1923. His brother George was quite active in republican politics in Noble County. William Boone married Frances Smith, who was born near Elba, Washington County, Ohio, in 1849, and still lives at the old homestead at Crooked Tree. She is the mother of two children, Minnie, wife of H. S. Shriner, near Caldwell; and Winchester H. Winchester H. Boone was reared in'the vicinity of Crooked Tree, and attended the schoolhouse there, a building replacing that which his grandfather had helped build. Later he attended the Macksburg and Lowell High Schools, and for five years was a teacher, being for four years of that time nrincipal of schools at Good Hope and in Washington County. After leaving school work he became associated with S. A. Mullikin in the publishing business at Marietta, their publishing being limited to purity books. It was a profitable business for the partners, and was continued twelve years, from 1905 to 1917. The partners were also associated in the ownership of the Marietta Furniture Company. Finally, in 1917, Mr. Boone exchanged his interest in the publishing business for Mr. Mullikin's interest in the furniture store, and has since been sole proprietor of the latter business. It is known as the triangle store, dealing in furniture and floor coverings, and also in musical merchandise. Mr. Boone married, in September, 1901, Miss Lot-tie R. Matthews, of Crooked Tree, daughter of Oscar Matthews. She and he were schoolmates when children. They have five children, Bernard I., Forrest I., H. Kenneth, Winchester L., and Frances J. The son, Bernard, is now associated with his father in business. Mr. Boone is a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and former superintendent of the local Sunday school. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 390 of the Masonic Order of Marietta, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council, the Knights Templar Commandery, the Scottish Rite Consistory at Cincinnati, also Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Rotary Club, and is a republican in politics. HERMAN R. WESCHER conducts one of the leading undertaking establishments in his native city of Dayton, and his headquarters, modern in every equipment and facility, are established at 621 Warren Street. As a mortician and funeral director he has here been engaged in business since 1917, and he is one of the prominent representatives of this line of important business enterprise in Montgomery County. Mr. Wescher was born at Dayton, on the 17th of December 1893, a son of William F. and Mary L. (Ruff) Wescher. The public schools of his native city afforded Herman R. Wescher his early education, and later he reinforced himself for the profession and business of his choice by completing a course in the Columbus Training School of Embalming in the Ohio capital city, after which he was duly licensed as an embalmer, under the provisions of the Ohio law. Prior to engaging in his present business Mr. Weseher had learned and followed the trade of patternmaker, HISTORY OF OHIO - 281 and had been employed about nine years by the National Cash Register Company and the Delco Company, at Dayton. In March, 1917, as junior member of the firm of West & Wescher, he was associated in the opening of an undertaking establishment at 703 Washington Street, the firm later removing to 607 of that street. In March, 1918, Mr. Wescher purchased his partner 's interest in the business, which he thereafter continued at 607 Washington Street until May, 1922, when he moved to 919 Brown Street, and in 1922 to his present admirably equipped and appointed funeral parlors at 621 Warren Street. Has facilities include automobile ambulance and hearse, and all other provisions of the best metropolitan standard. Mr. Wescher is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and the Patternmakers Union. He, like his parents, is a communicant of Hope Lutheran Church, and in the affairs of this church he is an active and earnest worker. On April 22, 1924, Mr. Wescher married Miss Elsie Landis, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Harper Landis, a well known citizen of Mercer County. CHARLES W. MOORE is a member of the firm of Spivey and Moore, funeral directors at Dayton, a business that has been in existence for a number of years and represents every detail of the perfect funeral service. The firm has remodeled a beautiful residence, and among other facilities has two ambulances. Charles W. Moore, the younger member of the firm, was born at Sabina, Ohio, March 30, 1894, son of W. H. and Rosa E. Moore, of Leesburg, Ohio. His father has been in the buggy and harness business. Charles W. Moore was educated in the grammar and high schools of Sabina, and in 1920 graduated from the Cincinnati College Of Embalming and was licensed under the Ohio laws the same year. However, he has been identified with the undertaking business since 1912, first at Leesburg. When he formed the partnership with Earl C. Spivey, of Dayton he took charge of the branch house of the firm of Spivey and Moore at Eaton, remaining there a year. Mr. Spivey had been in business at Dayton since 1911. He died February 15, 1924, at which time Mr. Moore closed the Eaton branch and took charge of the main business at Dayton, continuing the partnership with the widow, Mrs. Laura B. Spivey. Mr. Moore married, July 19, 1914, at Leesburg, Ohio, Miss Roxa Barrett, daughter of Adam and Imogene (Moorehead) Barrett. They have two children, Frances Anita, born in 1916, and Donald Eugene, born in 1922. Mr. Moore is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Laura B. Spivey, who was married to the late Earl C. Spivey in August, 1912, is the daughter of Walker and Mary Barto. Her father was in the dairy business at Dayton. Mrs. Spivey is a member of the Daughters of America and the Rebekahs, of the Third Street Baptist Church, and is active in the missionary societies. She has two daughters, Irene, born in 1916, and Janet, born in 1920. JOHN F. HARRIS is proprietor of the Harris Funeral Home at 825 East Fifth Street in Dayton. He has been in the undertaking business for many years, and has built up one of the most complete institutions and services of the kind. in the state. Mr. Harris was born at Dayton, in September, 1860, son of Thomas and .Margaret Harris, now deceased. His father was in the shoe business at Dayton for many years. John; F. Harris as a boy attended Saint Joseph's School in Dayton, and then began an apprenticeship at the trade of steam and gas fitter. For several years he was employed by the firm of Barney and Smith, interrupting this service to become assistant superintendent of the street water system of Dayton. After a year he returned to Barney and Smith as foreman of the steam fitting department, and was with that firm for ten years. After that for about four years Mr. Harris was in the gas and steam fitting business for himself. In September, 1898, he opened his first undertaking establishment, at 829 Fifth Street, moving from there to larger quarters at 825 Fifth Street in 1914. Mr. Harris is a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Order of Bears and the Automobile Club. For many years he has been connected with the Chamber of Commerce. On November 1, 1912, Mr. Harris was one of the original incorporators of the Dayton Savings and Banking Company, and has been connected as a director with that institution ever since. This bank is now controlled by the Dayton Savings and Trust Company. Mr. Harris married Miss Mary Maloney, of Greenville, Ohio. MADISON WRIGHT WADE is one of the veterans of the profession of photography in America, and has been known to members of the profession for many years on account of his original work. For many years he has had his studio in Youngstown, and is widely known as a specialist in infant photography. He was born at Logan, in Hocking County, Ohio, June 1, 1866, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Wright) Wade. His parents were born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and his father spent his life as a farmer and traveling medicine man, dying at Columbus, while his wife died at Logan. Madison Wright Wade was educated in local schools and in the Ohio Northern University of Ada. In 1886, when he was twenty years of age, he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and spent three years in photographic work, and while there originated a novelty that attracted great attention for some years, known as the "Ping Pong" pictures, and he traveled all over the western states making the picture. After two years in the West he opened a studio at Canton, Ohio, establishing branch offices at Akron, Mansfield, Cleveland and Columbus. In 1904 he disposed of all these offices and established his studio at 17 W. Federal Street, Youngstown, where he continues his work. He is a member of the Photographers Association of America, and has served on some of its committees and has demonstrated baby and children photography before different international conventions. Mr. Wade has never married. He is a Methodist, a republican, and affiliated with Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. Wade has two completely equipped camera rooms in his studio, this being the only studio su equipped in the Mahoning Valley. One room is used for ladies and children, while the other is given over to adults, groups, weddings and home portraits. HON. THOMAS R. STEVENS, member of the Ohio Legislature from Montgomery County, has been a successful and popular business man of that location, where for over a quarter of a century he has conducted a commercial printing business. Mr. Stevens, was born at New Waverly, Indiana, January 15, 1874, son of James C. and Anzonetta (Cox) Stevens. After completing the eighth grade of public schools he had to give up any idea of further schooling and go to work, contributing to his own support and to aid his parents. For five years he 282 - HISTORY OF OHIO was employed by the Reynolds and Reynolds Printing Company of Dayton, and for about three years was an employe of the United Brethren Printing Company. It was in 1898 that Mr. Stevens established a modest job printing office of his own, and has kept that business growing and has maintained it as one of the most efficient establishments of its kind in Southwestern Ohio. The home of his business is 100 North Broadway Street. Mr. Stevens has filled the chairs in the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the First Christian Church, for many years was secretary of its Sunday school and secretary of the Men 's Bible Class. He was republican nominee for the Legislature in 1916, but was defeated that year. In 1922 he was nominated and was elected by over 2,000 majority. In the following General Assembly he was made a member of the cities and county affairs and the public utilities committees. He proved a good thinker, a hard worker and rendered some excellent assistance in forwarding the legislative program of that session. He introduced and made a strong fight for a bill to exempt from taxation Spanish war veterans. He was also a strong advocate of measures to force publication of all property listed for taxation so the public may see who the slackers are under the tax laws. Mr. Stevens married, in 1900, at Dayton, Miss Lillian B. Stuckey, daughter of O. W. Stuckey, of Dayton, who was a Civil war veteran, being with Sherman on the march to the sea. Her mother was Margaret (Lehman) Stuckey. Mrs. Stevens is a member of the Woman's Republican clubs of Montgomery County, and is a member of the choir of the Christian Church. They have two children. Thomas R., Jr., educated in the Dayton High School and Defiance College, is now associated with his father in the printing business. The daughter, Miss Helen I., a graduate of high school, completed her course with the class of 1924 in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. JESSE A. MCCONAUGHY has been identified with the business life of Dayton for nearly a quarter of a century. His business during most of his time has been as a funeral director, and he is proprietor of one of the leading establishments of that kind in that city. He was born in Brown County, Ohio, August 11, 1868, son of John C. and Ellen Jane (Hodlins) McConaughy. His parents, who spent their lives as farmers, died in 1923, the father at the age of eighty-six and the mother at eighty-three. Jesse McConaughy grew up on a farm in Southern Ohio, attended country schools, and farming was his regular vocation for a number of years. Moving to Dayton in 1901, he spent about a year in the dairy business, and for over six years was connected with the National Cash Register Company. Mr. McConaughy in 1907 graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming, was licensed under the Ohio laws in 1908, and for two years following was associated with one of the leading undertaking firms of Dayton. He then opened a business of his own, and has his funeral home at 1446 West Third Street, having a building with fourteen rooms, devoted to the various departments of the service. Mr. McConaughy is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows' the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and takes an active part in the Euclid Avenue United Brethren Church. He married, in 1896, Miss Mabel Cropper, of Brown County, daughter of Lige and Albertina (Louden) Cropper, the former being deceased. Her father was a teacher, a very able, educator and also a noted musician. Mrs. McConaughy is a member of the Missionary Society, the Ladies' Aid Society and the Otterbein Guild, and is very active in the United Brethren Church. Mr. and Mrs. McConaughy have two children. Miss Rhea M., born in 1900, graduated from the Dayton High School, from Otterbein University with the class of 1923, and is now a teacher of the fifth and sixth grades in the Kemp District School and also teaches in Sunday school and has a prominent part in certain literary affairs. She is president of the Girls' Missionary Association of the Euclid Avenue United Brethren Church, is a member of Dayton Chapter of Alpha Iota Alpha Sorority, belongs to the Alpha Literary Society, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. The son, Gwynne H. McConaughy, born in 1906, is a graduate of the Dayton High School, and is now a student in Otterbein University. GEORGE F. BRADFORD is a member of the firm of Bradford and Routsong, funeral directors at Dayton. This firm has a well organized personnel and service, having their funeral home in a large brick building of sixteen rooms, with every equipment for their work. George F. Bradford was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, May 18, 1893, son of Sherry and Anna (Rice) Bradford. His father is deceased. His early education was acquired in the rural schools, and two years of his early manhood were devoted to farming. Moving to Dayton in 1914, he has since been engaged in the undertaking business, and in 1915 established his headquarters in the building now occupied by the firm. He was licensed under the state law as an embalmer February 18, 1918. Mr. Bradford is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Lions Club, Triangle Club and Reformed Church. He married Miss Hazel Routsong, of Montgomery County, daughter of Edward and Anna (Kohl) Routsong and a sister of his partner, Carl T. Routsong. They have one daughter, Dorothy Anna, born in 1919. Carl T. Routsong, member of the firm of Bradford and Routsong, was born in Montgomery County, January 6, 1889, son of Edward and Anna (Kohl) Routsong. He attended rural schools, for several years was a traveling salesman, and spent ten years in the mail service. Locating at Dayton in 1916, he continued his work as a salesman for two years, and in 1918 formed a partnership with George F. Bradford in the undertaking business. He was licensed as an embalmer in 1919. Mr. Routsong is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Exchange Club and Reformed Church. He married Miss Blanche Barr, of Van Buren Township, Montgomery County, daughter of George W. and Catherine (Smallwood) Barr. STUART N. AUSTIN is one of the young, progressive men in the citizenship of Chardon, is postmaster of that town, and during the World war gave service in the navy. He was born at Montville in Geauga County, January 13, 1891. The Austin family is of English ancestry, and settled in Connecticut and from that state came to Ohio in pioneer times. His grandfather, Newton Austin, was a lifelong resident of Montville in Geauga County, where he owned and operated a farm. His wife was Amoret Stevens, likewise a native of Montville. Dwight A. Austin, father of the Chardon postmaster, was born at Montville, May 1, 1863, and for over twenty years, until he retired recently, was prominently identified with the official affairs of the county seat. He was reared and married at Montville, conducted a mercantile establishment there, but in HISTORY OF OHIO - 283 August, 1902, moved to Chardon, to serve four years as county treasurer. After leaving that office he was deputy county treasurer four years, then served another term of two years, and continued a member of the official circle in the courthouse at Chardon as deputy county auditor until 1923, when he retired. He is a republican, is a past master of Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of the Grand Masters Association of Ohio, is a past high priest of Chardon Chapter No. 106, Royal Arch Masons, is a charter member and past chancellor commander of Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias, and is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club. Dwight A. Austin married Mattie L. Whitney, who was born at Montville in 1873. They have two children, Stuart N. and Miss Florence A. Stuart N. Austin attended public schools in Montville until he was twelve years of age, and after that continued his schooling in Chardon. He graduated from high school with the class of 1910, and spent one year in Ohio State University at Columbus. Returning home, he was for two years deputy county treasurer under his father, and then became a clerk in the dry goods store of his brother-in-law, C. W. Goodrich. He resigned his position, and on May 17, 1917, enlisted in the United States Navy. He became a first class petty officer, and was in active duty on a ship patrolling the Mexican and Cuban waters. He received his honorable discharge December 28, 1918, and after his return home again became associated with the Goodrich dry goods business. On January 1, 1922, he took charge of the postoffice at Chardon as postmaster, having been appointed during the republican administration of Mr. Harding. Mr. Austin is a member of the Chardon Congregational Church, and is the present worshipful master of Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons. He also belongs to Chardon Chapter No. 106, Royal Arch Masons; Chardon Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias, and is past grand of Chardon Lodge No. 213, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. At the university he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, and is a charter member of Chardon Kiwanis Club and a charter member of Chardon Post No. 167 of the American Legion. Mr. Austin owns a good home at 208 North Hampden Street in Chardon. He married in his home community, December 31, 1917, Miss Lucile Goodrich, daughter of Wesley A. and Ella (Collins) Goodrich, residents of Chardon. Her father until he retired was a real estate operator and owner of extensive property in Geauga County. Mr. and Mrs. Austin have one child, Matilda Ann, born March 16, 1923. GEORGE ERASTUS RINDS, who spent practically all his life at Kent, was regarded by his acquaintances and associates as a man singularly gifted in business, high minded, public spirited and fulfilling his obligations with utmost diligence. He was born at Kent, July 13, 1850, son of Erastus Chenery and Emily (Rouse) Hinds, his father a native of Connecticut and his mother of Chautauqua County, New York. The grandfather, Chenery Hinds, who was an early settler in Portage County, Ohio, located in Brimfield Township. Erastus Chenery Hinds after his marriage located at Kent. He was a cooper by trade, and for many years was employed in the Erie Railway shops. He died at Kent. There were two children, George E. and Carrie, but the latter died in early womanhood, at the age of twenty-two. George Erastus Hinds attended the grammar school at Kent, and the Spencerian Business College at Geneva, Ohio, and was only fifteen years of age when he went to work as a messenger boy in railway offices. Then followed a service of more than a third of a century with what is now the Erie System. His first employer, however, was with the Atlantic & Great Western Railway. This subsequently was taken over by the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, and these lines were later consolidated with the Erie Railway. From messenger boy Mr. Hinds was promoted on the score of faithfulness and ability to storekeeper, clerk of the shops, chief clerk of the railway shops, and in June, 1876, to passenger, freight and express agent at Kent. This last position was one of important responsibility, and he discharged his duties at Kent for a third of a century. He had been in the service of the railroad for nearly thirty-seven years when he resigned in 1904 to become cashier of the Kent National Bank. As a banker he accepted many opportunities for serving not only his institution but the welfare of the business community, and came to be esteemed by all for his integrity and good judgment. His death on July 2, 1922, was a real loss to a community where he had lived uprightly for over seventy years. Mr. Hinds had something more than the ordinary sense of responsibility to the city that was his home. For many years he was a member of the Kent School Board, manifesting a deep interest in good schools. He was director of the Carnegie Library Board. He and others were instrumental in obtaining this library for the City of Kent. In earlier years he had acted as librarian in charge of the distribution of books at the old Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Library. His own work and influence did much to make that a real and important source of culture to the employes of the railway. After his regular day 's work at the railroad he remained after hours serving as librarian. Through his efforts the library was turned over to the city and became a part of the Carnegie Library, of which he was a director until a few years prior to his death. He was a republican in politics, was a Knight Templar Mason and for over thirty years secretary of the local Masonic lodge, and also belonged to the Eastern Star. Mr. Hinds married, September 15, 1875, Ann Selina Jerome, who was born at Edinburg, Portage County, Ohio, November 16, 1852, daughter of William Redfield and Selina Maria (Botsford) Jerome, her father a native of Rootstown Township and her mother of Edinburg Township of Portage County. Her grandparents, Sylvester and Mary (Redfield) Jerome, were natives of Connecticut, and her maternal grandparents were Harvey and Lucy (Northrup) Botsford, also born in the New England states, and all of them be- came pioneers of Portage County, Ohio, the Redfield family arriving with ox teams. Her grandfather Jerome bought a tract of timber land for a farm in the southeast corner of Rootstown Township, and improved that land, clearing away the timber. Mrs. Hinds' father owned a farm in the northwest corner of Atwater Township, but died there at the early age of twenty-eight, on November 10, 1852. Her mother afterward married Samuel Craig, a farmer and carpenter, and lived in the south part of Atwater Township. Mrs. Hinds was reared by her mother until she was five years of age, and then made her home with her grandparents Jerome until she was about fourteen. Her subsequent education was acquired in the schools of Mount Union, Ohio, and the Union schools at Ravenna. Her home has been in Kent since she was seventeen years of age. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hinds were: Jessie Mary, Mrs. Marcus Burt Spelman of Kent; Albert Jerome, who died in 1897, at the age of nineteen; William Jerome of Springfield, Ohio; George W., of Kent; and Carrie Emily, who lives at home with her mother and is also assistant cashier of the Kent National Bank. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hinds lived for two years on Carthage Avenue, and then bought 284 - HISTORY OF OHIO ten acres, including a fine home which they remodeled. At this place they resided thirty-one years. In 1909 the property was traded for one of the apartment blocks now owned by Mrs. Hinds, and three years later they erected a three apartment terrace building at the corner of West Main and Prospect streets. Mrs. Hinds is a charter member of the Eastern Star Chapter and belongs to the White Shrine, and is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Travelers Club. DAN MILLIKIN, M. D. The career of singular devotion and service to his fellowmen is the life of Dr. Dan Millikin of Hamilton, who deserves a record in every biographical work of eminent Ohioans. Doctor Millikin was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. While there are many families with different spellings of the name in America, all of them traced back to a common origin. Some of them have been in this country since the early Colonial period, and they have been represented in all the wars of the nation. It is said that more than one hundred soldiers bearing the name were represented on both sides of the struggle between the North and the South. The direct ancestor of Doctor Millikin in America was James Millikin, born in 1727, died at Dormore, April 17, 1789. He married Martha Hamphill, born in 1729, died May 12, 1800, and they had nine children: James, William, John, Mary, David, Martha, Samuel, Nancy and Robert. James, son of James and Martha (Hemphill) Millikin, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, January 27, 1752, and married, March 31, 1778, Dolly McFarland, born June 6, 1762. In 1771 he came to America and settled on Ten Mile Creek, Am-well Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and died July 30, 1821. He and his wife had eleven children. Daniel Millikin, their eldest son, was born in the Washington County home, February 4, 1779. He married, December 31, 1801, Joan Minor, of a staunch New England family, which had come to the colonies soon after the arrival of the Mayflower. When eighteen years of age Daniel Millikin was sent by his parents to Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained over a year devoting some time to the study of languages preparatory to the study of medicine. He then began a course under Dr. James Bell, of Greensboro, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice at his early home, but moved later, by way of the Monongahela, to Cincinnati by flatboat, and reached Hamilton May 7, 1807. He was the earliest permanent practitioner at Hamilton, and "Old Doctor Dan" became widely known and greatly beloved all over the countryside. He was a surgeon in the regiment of Colonel Mills during the War of 1812, and for a time was acting, quartermaster. He served as trustee at Miami University for many years, and in 1816 was a member of the House of Representatives. He was likewise a major-general of the Third Division of State Militia, and served as associate judge (or wooden head) of the Common Pleas Court for three terms. He died at Hamilton, November 3, 1849, the father of twelve children, of whom four were by his second wife, Ellen Curry, who survived him. John Minor Millikin, second son of Daniel Millikin, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1804, and came to Hamilton with his father as a child. He married, September 6, 1831, Mary G., only daughter of Joseph and Jane (Hunter) Hough. After being instructed by Doctor Proudfit, of Hamilton, Maj. John M. Millikin returned to his birthplace in 1824 and entered Washington College. He subsequently studied law with Jesse Corwin, of Hamilton, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1827. At that time he formed a partnership with William Bebb, who afterward became governor of the state; but this relation was dissolved in 1844 and Mr. Millikin retired to his farm three miles east of Hamilton, to recruit his health. He did not return to legal practice but became much interested in agriculture, contributing many able papers to the farm journals. For many years his farm was a model one. In 1846 he was a member of the State Board of Equalization, and in 1856 was made a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and was twice reelected, being president of the board one year. In 1860 he was appointed a trustee of Miami University, a capacity in which he served until his death, and in 1873 was named one of the commissioners to make a treaty with the Creek Indians. In 1876-77 he was state treasurer. His death occurred April 9, 1884. Major Millikin was the father of six children: Joseph Hough, born July 5, 1832, died October 3, 1838; Col. Minor M., born July 9, 1834, was killed at the Battle of Stone River December 31, 1862 ; Mary Jane, born January 29, 1837, died September 23, 1838 ; Joseph, born January 28, 1840, died November 4, 1883; Mary Ella, born March 19, 1843, died October 17, 1870 ; and Dan was born April 17, 1845, in Fairfield Township, Butler County, youngest of the six children of Maj. John M. Millikin. His boyhood and youth were passed at his father 's country home, where he was surrounded by all that a cultured home could give. His natural love of learning inclining him to employ his leisure moments profitably, he gained in his youth a fund of knowledge not often acquired by boys of his age. As a little lad, with his pony and books, he would spend whole days in the woods surrounding his home, acquiring a thorough acquaintance with nature. He knew at an early age every tree and shrub that grew, and his knowledge of the birds and insects was a marvel to everyone. The studious habits of childhood remained with him throughout life, and he ever considered a day wasted in which he did not accomplish some reading and study. After graduating in 1862 from the local high school in 1863-66 he was a student in the Sheffield School of Yale College. During this time, as an ardent supporter of the cause of the Union and ever earnest in its uplift and upholding, he served for a brief period as a member of the "Squirrel Hunters" in the dark days of the Civil war. After his marriage, at the age of twenty-one years, he settled down on his father 's farm, where he did horticultural work and passed his leisure time in study and writing. During the summer of 1872, the year of the Greeley campaign, while on a visit with his family at Minneapolis, Doctor Millikin contributed many editorials to the Minneapolis Times, a paper devoted to Horace Greeley, and edited by Pliny Bartlett, formerly of Hamilton. The journalistic fever was now very strong with him ; life on the farm hardly afforded the opportunities desired, and he sought a larger sphere. It was a choice between journalism, law and medicine, and he chose the last named. After graduating with honor in 1875 from the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, he began the actual practice of his calling at the age of twenty-nine years, and rapidly acquired a large lucrative and important professional business. His devotion to his work was unflagging, while his success came as the result of his ability and assiduous application. He taught in his alma mater, Miami Medical College, from 1884, first holding the chair of Medieal Chemistry, then of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and finally the chair of Medical Jurisprudence. He was elected to the presidency of the Ohio State Medical Society in 1895-96, was a member of the American, Union District, and Butler County Medical societies, and from December 31, 1906, until December 31, HISTORY OF OHIO - 285 1913, was president of the Board of Education, and was a strong governing force in placing the public schools of Hamilton upon the high plane they occupy today. A profound student, widely read on topics of the times and in a wide range of literature, scientific, economical and medical, his services were much in demand as a contributor to literary and scientific journals, and his lectures were of the utmost interest. He was not only a man of science and professional attainments, but a man of letters, having a recondite knowledge along general lines of thought. He was a prolific writer of pedagogics, especially along physiological lines, and delivered many addresses on that and kindred subjects. Doctor Millikin was appointed a trustee of Miami University by President McKinley, then governor of Ohio. For many years, up to the time of his death, Doctor Millikin was a member of the State Forestry Board, and shortly after his marriage wrote a prize essay on the preservation of the forests, which was published by the state. He read a paper, "The Ruin of the Hills," at the meeting of the Ohio State Forestry Association at Columbus January 15, 1888, which was published. "Doctor Dan" possessed one of the finest private libraries on literary and scientific subjects in the state. But it was not so much for his great professional ability and brilliant attainments that he was so well loved, as it was for his fine personality, his splendid and manly charm of character, his forcefulness and geniality, his cheerfulness and good humor, his willingness at all times to lend himself to the cause of charity and to the advancement of all that tended to make men happier and conditions better. A contemporary writer said: "The name of Dr. Dan Millikin stands for many things. We think of him as the man of many gifts —physician, lecturer, writer and a walking encyclopedia to whom the whole town might turn for knowledge upon any subject, and, busy man that he was, he always took time to give the needed information, even to the humblest inquirer. Yet, neither as scientist, lecturer or scholar will 'Doctor Dan' be remembered best by some of us—but in a much humbler role—as `Gankie,' the mender of dolls and toys. The childish lips which found 'Grandpa' too long and dignified a name, so shortened it in comradeship to ‘Gankie'—christened the doctor for all time with his most beloved title. It was always to ‘Gankie ' that the broken toys were brought." Doctor Millikin lived a full, active and happy life. During the last eighteen months of his earthly existence he was troubled by a pernicious anaemia, of the encroachments of which he was fully aware. He calmly and courageously faced the outcome, and when his spirit took its departure, June 5, 1914, his house was in order. His death came as a great and lasting sorrow to many hearts, and the City of Hamilton never has been called upon to mourn the loss of a distinguished citizen whose death occasioned as widespread sorrow. Said the Cincinnati Medical News: "It is difficult to refrain from the use of superlatives in speaking of services rendered to the medical profession—indeed, to humanity—by the late Dan Millikin. * * * The American Medical Association, the profession of Ohio and of Hamilton and Cincinnati lose a leading member, science loses a devoted follower, art a cultured patron, literature a valued contributor. The citizens of the entire country lose by his death one who always advocated and fought for the highest ideals of a member of a democratic community." At the age of twenty-one years Doctor Millikin married Amanda, daughter of William and Anna (Jenifer) Hunter, pioneers of Hamilton, the Jenifers being an old family from Baltimore, Maryland. William Hunter, who was a well known business man and merchant of Hamilton, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1797, and came to Hamilton in 1807. In 1826 he located in Butler County, where in 1835 he was elected county treasurer, and subsequently served as president of the City Council of Hamilton. His death occurred in 1856. He was part owner of the old grist and flour mill that stood on the side now occupied by the part of the bridge that joins West Hamilton and Hamilton, and which later became known as the Morey mill. William and Anna Hunter had ten children, of whom five grew to maturity. Amanda, the youngest, became Mrs. Millikin. In private life, Dr. Dan Millikin was domestic in his tastes, his home life was ideal, and his friends were always welcomed at his home. He and his wife were schoolmates in early life, and he secured in her a companion fully suited to the qualities of his mind and character. To a large degree it was due to her ready sympathy and mental capacities that he was enabled to make for himself so noble a record as a physician and a citizen, and to their children have been transmitted those principles of honor and integrity which they made the rule of their lives. Four children were born to Doctor and Mrs. Dan Millikin: Dr. Mark; Mary, who was married in 1.894 to Thomas M. Beckett; Minor, who died in 1880; and Guy, who died in 1894. Mark Millikin, M. D., only surviving son of Dr. John Millikin, has himself achieved some special distinction as a physician and surgeon. He was the first doctor to introduce the radium treatment in Butler County. While taking a special course in radio therapy at Pittsburgh he met Madam Curie, discoverer of radium, while she was on her tour of America. Dr. Mark Millikin now gives his special attention to general surgery. In 1918 he entered in the National Army as a captain in the medical corps, and for a time was located at Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. He was sent overseas to France in charge of Base Hospital No. 136, and after the armistice was selected by the Government for a special course and was sent to the University of Bordeaux. He was mustered out in 1919. Dr. Mark Millikin in 1893 married Miss May Beckett, and to their marriage were born six children: Frances, Katheleen, Madeleane, Neil, Ruth and Eleanor. JOHN TRYON MARSHMAN, professor of oratory in Ohio Wesleyan University, has been a teacher for a quarter of a century, and has held the chair of public speaker in several of the best known colleges in the country. Professor Marshman was born August 6, 1874, at Blooming Grove in Morrow County, Ohio, son of Daniel McGill and Caroline (Harding) Marshman. His parents were born in Morrow County. His mother is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and an aunt of the late President Warren G. Harding. The Marsh-mans were English and settled in Massachusetts. Both families were represented in the Revolutionary war. One of the family whose life deserved to be remembered by every branch of the family was Rev. Joshua Marshman, who spent many years in foreign missionary work in India and set a high example of self sacrificing devotion to duty. The grandfather of Professor Marshman was a prominent man in the Presbyterian Church, holding the office of elder for a great many years. Daniel M. Marshman was a farmer in early life, but for many years has been a stockman with the Erie Railroad, at first at Galion and later at Marion, where he and his wife still reside. John Tryon Marshman received most of his early 286 - HISTORY OF OHIO education in a two-room district school at Blooming Grove. He attended the Galion High School eleven weeks, and for two summer terms was a student in Wooster University, where he received a diploma in pedagogy in 1897. While attending summer college he taught district schools during the remainder of the year. For two years he taught in his home school at Blooming Grove, and spent two years at Iberia and in a district school in North Bloomfield Township. During 1897-98 Professor Marshman was principal of the eighth grade of the East Ward School at Galion, and in 1898-99 taught mathematics in the Galion High School. Professor Marshman took the full .classical course in Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating Bachelor of Arts in June, 1905. Following that for one year he was teacher of English and literature in the Utah State Normal School at Cedar City. For four years he was professor of oratory in Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio, and in the fall of 1910 returned to his alma mater as associate professor of oratory in Ohio Wesleyan. In 1914 he accepted a call to Penn State College as associate professor of English and public speaking, and was on the faculty of that great school for six years. Mr. Marshman in 1920 returned to Delaware, and has since been engaged in congenial duties among his old friends and associates as professor of oratory and head of the department. From 1912 to 1922 he did a great deal of Chautauqua work, both lecturing and for five years as superintendent. Professor Marshman is a Presbyterian, and is a member of the Masonic Lodge. He married at Delaware in August, 1905, Jeanette Perry, daughter of Charles and Margaret (Henry) Perry. The Perrys were a. pioneer family of Delaware County. Her father is a foreman in the shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Marshman have five children: Margaret Darice, Robert Perry, Kathryn Elise, Alyce and John Harding. SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CATHEDRAL One of the most beautiful and imposing church edifices of Ohio is the stately Roman Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Sandusky, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1866. The present incumbent of this parish is Rev. William F. Murphy who has been in charge since February 5, 1904, when he succeeded Rev. Robert A. Sidley. Rev. William F. Murphy was born November 5, 1857, a son of William and Bridget (Donahue) Murphy, natives of Ireland, who were married in St. John's Cathedral of Cleveland, Ohio. For many years the father was engaged in the contracting business. Dedicated to the priesthood, Reverend Murphy attended Mount St. Mary 's Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Bridget's Parochial School, Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Mary's Seminary of Cleveland, Ohio, and was ordained by Rt. Rev. Richard Gilmore, July 6, 1884. For the following year he was assistant priest at St. Columba 's Catholic Church, Youngstown, Ohio, and later was made pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Wellsville, Ohio. Three years later, on account of ill health, he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and soon took charge of a church at Idaho Springs, Colorado. After five and one-half years in that vicinity he returned to Ohio, and had charge of St. Mary's Church at Conneaut, Ohio, leaving it to assume the duties of his present charge. In politics he is an independent. A member of the local chapter of the Knights of Columbus, he has served it as chaplain for two terms. A man of great energy and executive ability, Father Murphy has accomplished much for his parish since coming here. He erected Sidley Memorial Hall, corner of Jackson and Jefferson streets, for the Sisters of the Order of St. Francis, a beautiful and substantial building of vitrified cherry-colored brick of Spanish architecture. The alteration of the rectory was accomplished under his direction, and he had charge of the remodeling of the interior of the church. He imported the marble from Italy for the communion rail, at a cost of $11,000, and for the baptismal font, that is beautiful with Mosaic emblems. The magnificent Austin Church organ, one of the finest in this locality, was installed by him at a cost of $6,500, as well as the fine electric lighting plant, with moonstone globes over each light, that can be raised and lowered at will. The entire floor of the church sanctuary is Mosaic of artistic design. Several oil paintings of rare value and on church subjects are on the walls, while the way of the cross is illustrated in a wonderful series of statuary. In fact, the alterations and decorations made on this wonderful old structure, whose cornerstone was laid in 1866 by Rt. Rev. Bishop Rosencrans, of Columbus, Ohio. have raised it to leadership in church architecture, and this perfection has been attained largely through the efforts and capabilities of Reverend Murphy. ROBERT STONE PARKS has been an Ohio attorney for thirty years, and most of his practice has been done in the county seat of Geauga County, at Chardon. He is the present prosecuting attorney of that county and all his relations as a lawyer and public official have brought him a high degree of esteem in that section of Ohio. Mr. Parks was born at Chardon, Geauga County, December 10, 1872. His father, Orrin R. Parks, who was born at Chardon, December 31, 1845, as a young man entered business as a tinner and hardware merchant, and subsequently organized and became senior member of Parks Brothers and later Parks & Warriner, a hardware firm that for many years has stood in the front rank of Chardon business enterprises. He was a republican, served on the City Council a number of terms, and while on the council was also a member of the board that established a village light plant. In the Civil war he was a Union soldier, a member of Battery C of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and served through the last two years of the war. He was affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons. Orrin R. Parks, who died at Chardon in January, 1918, married Virginia Stone, a native of Newbury, Geauga County, who died at Chardon December 20, 1872, just ten days after the birth of her only child, Robert Stone Parks. The second wife of Orrin R. Parks was Chloe A. Barker, who was also a native of Newbury, and now lives at Chardon. Her only child is Mildred, who married E. E. Clark, of Cleveland, Ohio, now deceased. Robert Stone Parks as a boy attended the public schools of Chardon, graduating from high school in 1891. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and finished the course and received the Bachelor of Laws degree with the class of 1894. Admitted to the Ohio bar June 6 of that year, he immediately engaged in practice at Chardon, and his active membership in the bar of that city has been continuous except for two years while he was engaged in practice at Lorain, Ohio, and a year and a half at Willoughby. His law offices are in the Firs' National Bank Building. For twenty years Mr. Parks has been village clerk of Chardon, his present term expiring January 1, 1924. He has had charge of the official records of the village through an era marked by many important improvements, including the installation of a water plant, building of sewers, street paving. On March 1, 1921, Mr. Parks was appointed attorney of Geauga County to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of R. H. Patchin. In November, 1921, he was elected for the regular two-year term, which began January 21, 1922. Mr. Parks is a republican, has served as secretary HISTORY OF OHIO - 287 of Chardon Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons, as secretary of Chardon Chapter No. 106, Royal Arch Masons, is noble grand of Chardon Lodge No. 213, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past chancellor commander of Lodge No. 731, Knights of Pythias. He organized and is a charter member of Chardon Kiwanis Club. Mr. Parks is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Chardon, and among other real estate owns a modern home at 141 North Main Street. He married in his native town, September 10, 1899, Miss Nina Ames, daughter of Bernard D. and Victoria Ames, now deceased. Her father for sixteen years held the office of clerk of courts of Geauga County. Mr. and Mrs. Parks have three children: Virginia Victoria, at home; David R., a student in Syracuse University in New York; and Edward Ames, attending the Chardon High School. EARL SHEPPARD MCCUNE, ex-mayor of Nelsonville, is also an ex-service man, having been one of the young officers of the American troops on the battle lines in France. He was born at Nelsonville, March 30, 1893, son of Albin C. and Jane (Mason) McCune. His parents were also natives of Nelsonville. His mother died in 1895. His father, who is now sixty-one years of age and a resident of Chicago, served an apprenticeship as a mechanic in railway shops and finally became a master mechanic of the Hocking Valley Railroad, and held a smilar position with the Pennsylvania lines at Richmond, Indiana. His father was a Hocking County farmer. Albin C. McCune had four sons. Walter is a railroad engineer living in Chicago, Herbert lives at Denver, Colorado, and Clifford, in Buffalo, New York. Earl Sheppard McCune graduated from the Nelsonville High School, and attended Ohio University at Athens. He then had a period of employment with the American and Adams Express companies as an express agent at Nelsonville, and for five years at Akron. When America entered the war against the central powers he joined the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was assigned to duty with the First Division in France, and in France was on the battle line many days. He was promoted to first lieutenant while over seas. During the Aisne-Marne offensive he was wounded in the leg. Mr. McCune remained in France until July, 1919, and was returned as a casual. In 1920 he was made president of the City Council in Nelsonville, and in February, 1921, was appointed mayor to fill the unexpired term of Peter Burrows, and at the next election was chosen for the regular term. On February 23, 1923, he married Miss Mary Pensyle, daughter of Charles L. Pensyle. Mr. McCune has filled the various offices, including that of commander, in the post of the American Legion, and has been a member of the finance committee. He is a Council degree Mason, is past exalted ruler of the Elks, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and in politics, a republican. LEO JAMES WELSH is one of the prominent younger citizens of Hamilton, is a railway man in business, and is active in politics and public affairs, being councilman from the Fourth Ward. He was born at Hamilton, November 21, 1890, son of J. Henry and Margaret (Dowd) Welsh. His father was a well known Hamiltonian, and for a number of years before his death in 1915 had been general yard master of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. For twenty-four years he represented the Fourth Ward as city councilman. The fourth was a strongly democratic ward, yet J. Henry Welsh was repeatedly honored with the election as a republican, and his personal character brought him more votes than his party. He was a member of the committee to organize the first electric light plant in Hamilton, and many frequently refer to him as "father of the electric light plant." Leo James Welsh acquired his early education in St. Mary 's Parochial School, and he studied accounting under the noted James 0. Carson of Hamilton. He has been continuously in the service of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, at first as assistant cashier in the freight office at Hamilton, holding that position thirteen years. For the past four years he has been chief clerk to the general yard master. Mr. Welsh was a candidate for councilman from the Fourth Ward in 1921, being defeated by three votes. In 1923, against the same opponent, he made the race, and was elected by 381 majority. In the City Council he is chairman of the committee on legislation, election and contracts and a member of the committees on finance and taxation, grades and engineering, street and steam railways and public service. He is an influential republican, and has contributed to the notable growth and strength of that party in Butler County within recent years. Mr. Welsh, who is unmarried, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, Lodge No. 93, with the Elks, Loyal Order of Moose, of which he is dictator, Knights of St. John, and the Crescent Aid Society. He is a member of St. Mary 's Catholic Church. BLONDON JORDAN, D. S., is one of the progressive younger professional men of the City of Middletown. In his qualifications for service he represents the fundamentals of the old gentle technique, also the new modern plans of dental surgery. Doctor Jordan was born November 29, 1897, son of Theodore and Lou (Marshall) Jordan, of Blanchester, Ohio. He was reared and acquired his early education at Blanchester, attending high school there, and has been in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He graduated in 1923 from the Cincinnati Dental College. He specialized in anaesthesia, 'preventive dentistry and dietetics. Since opening his offices in Middletown in October, 1923, he has come into a profitable general practice, and specializes in preventive dentistry. He has offices in the Schoner Building, equipped with all the modern appliances known to the dental profession. He is a member of the Butler County, Ohio State and National Dental societies. Doctor Jordan is a member of the Beta Theta Pi College fraternity, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Christian Union Church at Middletown. He married Miss Alma Spivey, of Hamilton, daughter of a well known business man of that city, W. M. Spivey. She was educated in the Hamilton High School and took a business course in Cincinnati. Mrs. Tordan is a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Legion. Doctor and Mrs. Jordan have one daughter, Betty Lou, born in 1923. VAN EVERETT D. EMMONS. Head of the Emmons Realty Company at Akron, Mr. Emmons has at different times in his twenty-five years' residence held numerous responsibilities in the business and civic affairs of his home city, being at this writing one of Summit County 's representatives in the State Legislature. The Emmons family have been in Eastern Ohio since the first years of the last century. His grandfather, Enos Emmons, who married Catherine Reamer, was born in 1808, shortly after his parents settled in Columbiana County. David Emmons, father of the Akron business man, was born in that county in 1843, and fought for the Union through the Civil war, serving with the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry and several other Ohio regiments. After the war he was a farmer, merchant and postmaster at East Rochester, Columbiana 288 - HISTORY OF OHIO County, and died December 12, 1919. His wife, Mary A. Whiteleather, who was born in 1851, and died in 1912, was the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Firestone) Whiteleather. Her great-grandfather was a Hessian soldier, but not liking his employment deserted, settled among the Pennsylvania " Dutch", who were more congenial to him, and afterward joined the colonists themselves in the struggle for independence. A son of David and Mary A. Emmons, Van Everett David Emmons, was born at East Rochester, Columbiana County, July 14, 1868. He grew up on a farm, attended district schools, and at the age of eighteen years an injury in a railway accident incapacitated him for certain physical activities as a source of livlihood, and he turned his attention into directions where his abilities counted for more in real constructive service. He assisted his father in the store at East Rochester, and taught country schools for about eight years, and it is interesting to note that the first certificate to teach given him has the signature of Charles B. •Galbreath, examiner, who is author of the history of Ohio contained in this publication. He was also clerk of the Board of Education and township clerk, and was identified with the Eastern Ohio Telephone Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Eastern Ohio Creamery Company at East Rochester. In 1896 he graduated from Duff 's Commercial College at Pittsburgh, and was professor of bookkeeping there both before and after graduation; and was also bookkeeper and telegraph operator with the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. From 1897 to 1899 he had charge of the bookkeeping department of the International Society in New York City. Mr. Emmons on removing to Akron in 1899 became acountant and correspondent for the Werner Publishing Company, serving in that capacity until 1911. In that year he assisted in organizing the Akron Adjusting and Sales Company. In 1914 he was one of the organizers of the Wagoner-Emmons Realty Company, a $50,000 corporation, of which he is president and general manager. This company, with holdings of real estate valued at more than a $1,000,000, has put on the largest allotments and subdivisions in and around Akron, including the Springfield Heights, Numbers one, two and three, which contained over 2,000 building lots. He is also president of the Emmons Realty Company. Through these companies he was identified with the subdivisions known as Eastholm, Arlington, Numbers one, two, three and four, Emmons small farms and others. The Akron Real Estate Mortgage Company, incorporated at $500,000, of which Mr. Emmons is vice president and member of the executive committee, is another important financial organization, and he is identified with the Mason Tire and Rubber Company and the Akron Savings and Loan Company. Mr. Emmons has been active in the Akron Real Estate Board and is chairman of the Local Tax Committee of the board. He is a member of the legislative committee of the Ohio Real Estate Board and a member of the National Real Estate Board. For over fifteen years he was financial secretary of Akron Camp No. 4334, Modern Woodmen of America, and twice was one of the delegates from Ohio to the head camp at Chicago and once at Saint Louis. He is affiliated with Summit Lodge No. 50 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Old Hickory Camp, Junior Order United States American Mechanics, Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of Akron Camp No. 27, Sons of Veterans, having served as treasurer of the Ohio Division. He is a member of the High Street Church of Christ, the Akron City Club, is a director of the Portage Fish and Game Club, member of the Municipal Golf Association and a member of the Ohio Sportsman's League. During the World war he was actively interested in and identified with the various committees handling the local patriotic programs. He was elected in 1915 and again in 1917 a member of the City Council. His service was on the finance, city property and educational committees, and he had a prominent part in promoting the grade crossing elimination campaign in Akron. lie has been recognized for some years as one of the local leaders of the republican party. Mr. Emmons has served on the County Central Committee, and as a delegate at different times attended congressional district conventions which nominated for Congress, William McKinley of Canton, Bob Taylor of Lisbon, and Tom Morgan of Alliance. He is a member of the Akron Republican Lincoln Club. Elected from Summit County to the Eighty-fifth General Assembly, he served as a member of the State Finance Committee and the State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Committee, the City and Village Committee and helped formulate the Blue Sky Legislation of that Assembly, and as a member of the State Finance Committee, led the fight for the appropriations for the Kent Normal School, securing the best appropriations the school ever had, one on which the institution could function properly with additional new buildings. Mr. Emmons married Lilly M. Williston, daughter of John and Louisa (Liber) Williston, at East Rochester, Ohio, in 1895. Four children were born to their marriage: Roscoe McKinley, who is manager of the Cleveland branch of the Ajax Rubber Company and is married and has a son, Roscoe M., Junior; Clande, who during the World war was in training at Camp Gordon and in 1921 graduated from the Akron University and in June, 1924, graduated from the law department of Western Reserve University, being admitted to the Ohio bar June 23, 1924; Myrtle Loraine, who married Wilbur Marquardt, of the M and M Company of Akron, and has a son, Wilbur, Jr., and Miss Pauline Drabelle, a senior in the Akron High School. DAVID SNOWDEN. The insurance business is one which has expanded with remarkable rapidity during the east score of years, until it is now one of the most important features in the commercial life of any community, and is attracting to it men of big caliber and determination, who in it are finding expression for their personalities, and the means of securing a satisfactory livelihood. Such a man is David Snowden, who after a long and varied experience is now handling a general line of insurance and representing some of the leading insurance companies of the country. David Snowden was born at Dumfries, Scotland, May 12, 1875, a son of William and Margaret Snowden, both of whom are deceased. In 1881 they came to America and located in Canada, where the father worked as section foreman at railroad work. Until he was nine years old David Snowden attended school, but at that tender age was put to work with farmers, and when he was old enough he went into railroading, becoming in the course of time a freight conductor with the Grand Trunk Railroad. In the meanwhile, at the age of sixteen years, he had come to the United States, but subsequently returned, for two years, to to Canada. Once more he came to the United States, where he has since remained, and selected Sandusky as the seat of his operations. In 1916 he entered the employ of the Matthews Engineering Company of Port Clinton, Ohio, as foreman of their crating and shipping at Sandusky. In 1920 he began handling real estate, and a year later began handling general insurance, in the latter finding the work for which his abilities are best suited. He thoroughly understands his business, and is prepared to sell all kinds of in- HISTORY OF OHIO - 289 surance, and to give expert advice as to the best methods of securing adequate protection and the most reliable companies with which to place risks. The success which has attended him from the start is remarkable, but it has been earned by hard work and complete concentration, and while he has been thus firmly establishing himself in this line he has won and- retains the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. In political faith he is a democrat, but he is not active in public affairs. H. CLARKE COZAD, clerk of the courts of Lake County, is one of the prominent young men in politics at Painesville, and is now serving his second term at the courthouse at Painesville. He was born at Madison, Lake County, June 22, 1892. His grandfather, Samuel Cozad, was a native of Cleveland, and spent his life there. He was a farm owner, but his chief business was that of contractor and builder. He came of a family that were of the pioneers of Cleveland. His son, William H. Cozad, born at Cleveland, August 12, 1855, is now living at Geneva, Ohio, was reared in Cleveland, and shortly after his marriage moved to a farm at Madison, in Lake County. In 1909 he located at Geneva, and has since been in the mercantile business. For a number of years he was a member of the school board at Madison, has always been an active churchman, being a deacon in the Geneva Congregational Church, and in politics has cast his influence with the republican party. He is affiliated with Geneva Lodge No. 334, Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Masons, and Painesville Council No. 104, Royal and Select Masters. William H. Cozad married Mary Barker, who was born at Cleveland, May 17, 1856. Of their four children H. Clarke is the youngest. Homer D. is now vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company. Alice B. lives at Geneva, the widow of Lewis Alderman, a business associate of her father, and she owns her husband's former interest in the mercantile business at Geneva. Mr. Alderman died at Geneva, March 12, 1921. The third child, W. Howard, is bookkeeper for the Barber Insurance Company at Painesville. H. Clarke Cozad attended public schools at Madison, and was in the high school there until fifteen years of age. His business experience following the time he left school was begun in the store of Harry Rand at Madison, for whom he clerked a short time, after which he was a clerk for A. J. Ford & Son, grocers, at Geneva, until 1909, for three years assisted his father in business at Geneva, and for two years was with Thomas Murphy, one of the oldest grocery merchants in Ashtabula. Coming to Painesville, he was engaged in the retail grocery and meat business until elected clerk of the courts November 4, 1920. His first term of two years began August 1, 1921, and in November, 1922, he was reelected for his second term. He is a staunch republican and a member of the First Church, Congregational, at Madison. He is affiliated with Temple Lodge No. 28, Free and Accepted Masons, at Painesville, Painesville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons, Painesville Council No. 104, Royal and Select Masters, Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, and also Lake Erie Consistory, Valley of Cleveland, of the Scottish Rite. Other affiliations are with Painesville Lodge No. 549. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Cornucopia Lodge No. 212, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Adams Lodge No. 350 of the Rebekahs and the Painesville Shrine Club. Mr. Cozad is owner of considerable real estate in Lake County. He has his home at 119 Orchard Grove Avenue, Painesville. He married at Painesville, April 20, 1911, Miss Florence Brick. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Brick, died at Painesville June 2, 1921. They have one son, William Clarke Cozad, born June 24, 1915. HOMER W. HAMMOND has been a member of the Columbiana County bar since 1910, and has achieved success as a business lawyer and business man. He has made the practice of law the object of his best endeavors, and has participated only as a good citizen in political affairs. Mr. Hammond was born at Lisbon, Ohio, June 6, 1886, son of George and Annie (Knepper) Hammond. He grew up at Lisbon, attending the common and high schools there, and finished his academic education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. Subsequently he returned to Ada to complete his law course in the same institution, and was admitted to the Ohio bar June 24, 1910. He was admitted to practice in the United States District Court November 13, 1914. Since his admission to the bar his home and office have been at Columbiana, Ohio. He is legal advisor to a number of financial and manufacturing corporations located both in Youngstown and Columbiana, Ohio. His chief interest is in the manufacturing industry, and he is very substantially interested in the U. S. Standard Manufacturing Company of Columbiana. During the World war he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of Columbiana County and active in all of the various drives for funds and other war purposes. Mr. Hammond is a member of the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is a republican, and belongs to the Columbiana County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. On December 24, 1913, he married Miss Elizabeth Shingler, of Columbiana, Ohio. HAROLD HERMAN CHOGUILL is cashier of the First National Bank of Stockport, the Morgan County town where he was born and reared and where he represents two old settled families. Mr. Choguill was born at Stockport July 3, 1886. His parents are William T. and Meda Worthington Choguill, each of them now sixty-four years of age. His father has been one of the up-to-date scientific farmers of Morgan County, and is known among his neighbors as a man concentrating upon the better grades of live stock. He is a stanch republican, and is a member of the Official Board of Todd's Methodist Episcopal Church. William T. Choguill and wife have two children, Harold H. and Lucille, the aaughter, who died in 1919, was the wife of Arthur Penrose. Harold Herman Choguill was educated in the common schools at Pennsville, and some years later, in 1909-10, took the commercial training course at Oberlin College, where he graduated. His early career was spent in teaching. Altogether he put in eight years at that occupation, at first in a country district, then in the Barnesville High School, and then five years in the high school at Zanesville. As cashier of the First National Bank he has brought some exceptional qualifications to the official personnel of that institution, which is one of the leading financial enterprises of Morgan County, and has done much to support the progressive regime in agricultural and other affairs. Mr. Choguill has served as a member of the local school board and was instrumental in securing the new modern high school in Stockport, being president of the Board of Education at time of its building. He is master of Webb Lodge of Masons at Stockport, and belongs to Morgan Lodge of the Independent 290 - HISTORY OF OHIO Order of Odd Fellows at Pennsville. His father is also a Mason and has represented the Lodge of Odd Fellows in the Grand Lodge. J. T. MERWIN, M. D. During the many years of his successful practice in Athens County Doctor Merwin has kept in touch with advancement in medicine and surgery by post-graduate courses, and has rendered a splendid service both as a professional man and as a citizen.. Doctor Merwin was born at Guysville, Athens County, February 19, 1866, son of Erwin D. and Margaret (Caldwell) Merwin. Both the Merwin and Caldwell families were pioneers in this section of Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Doctor Merwin were Thomas and Adda (Butts) Merwin, who came from New York State to Athens County, and established their home on a farm. Erwin D. Merwin spent his life at Guysville, where he died in 1879, at the early age of forty-two. He had a wide variety of business interests that made him well known over that section of Ohio. He was a farm owner, and was a contractor in railroad construction when the Baltimore & Ohio line was built through Athens County, during 1873-74, He also owned stores and was an extensive shipper of produce. He was active in politics as a democrat, and was a member of the Masonic order. After his death his widow married Henry Martin, and she died in 1916, at the age of seventy. The two sons of Erwin D. Merwin are Dr. J. T. Merwin and Erwin C. The latter is a graduate of the Ohio University and is now with the Westinghouse Electric Company at Pittsburgh. Dr. J. T. Merwin had the advantages of the home schools at Guysville, and also attended Ohio 'University. He was only thirteen when his father died. In 1892 he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1895. He then returned to his native village of Guysville, and engaged in practice there until 1898. Then, following special work in the Post-Graduate College of Medicine in New York, he located at Athens, where he has had his home for nearly a quarter of a century. Every year or so he has gone away to attend colleges and hospital clinics, and recently attended the Children's Hospital in Boston, which is under the supervision of the Harvard Medical College. Soon after America entered the World war Doctor Merwin was commissioned a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, and in 1918 was called to active duty at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. Later he was sent to Tubercular Hospital No. 16 of Camp Crane. He received his honorable discharge in December, 1918. Doctor Merwin has served as president of the Athens County Medical Society and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, is a Master Mason, and a member of the Rotary Club. Doctor Merwin in 1890 married Miss Adda Tullis, daughter of Lyman Tullis. They have one daughter, Margaret, who attended Ohio University, and is an accomplished musician, having finished her musical education in the Cincinnati Conservatory. PHILIP HENRY SCHNEIDER. In the development of the modern city of Akron, Philip Henry Schneider has been a factor of more than ordinary importance for a quarter of a century. He has been a merchant and banker, a constructive business man and purposeful citizen, working through his own enterprises and through various offices he has held to realize the highest ideals of a progressive city. Born on a farm in Wayne County, New York, December 1, 1866, he was three years old when, in 1869, his parents, Martin and Margaret (Wakeman) Schneider, moved out to Michigan. His father was a native of Baden, Germany, and came to the United States at the age of twenty, having learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed in connection with farming after locating in Kent County in Western Michigan. He was always active in the Methodist Church, and died in 1904, at the age of seventy-five. His wife passed away at the age of seventy. Philip Henry Schneider grew up on the farm in Kent County, Michigan, attending country schools, and at the age of eighteen left the farm to continue his education a year in high school at Lowell, Michigan. When he quit for the serious battles of life he became a clerk in a grocery and dry goods store, and through several positions worked up to the management of the dry goods departments in stores operated by the J. L. Hudson Company in Detroit. He was in the service of this corporation ten years, part of the time as manager of a store at Sandusky, Ohio. He married in 1890 Miss Jennie Vinegar, of Michigan. He came to Akron in 1897 as manager of the William Taylor Son & Company Dry Goods Store at 155-157 So. Howard Street, which position he held for eighteen months, when he purchased the interests of the. Taylor Company and organized the P. H. Schneider Company. He was president and general manager of the new company, and under his directions this became one of the leading dry goods stores in the city. In 1905 he sold his interests to the M. O'Neil Company. In March, 1904, he had become president of the Schneider Building Company. After retiring from active business in 1905 Mr. Schneider gave much of his time to civic and fraternal matters. In 1909 he became one of the organizers and vice president and member of the Executive Board of the Citizens Savings and Loan Company, and also served as a director of the Akron Trust Company. He had a prominent part in the consolidation of the Akron Trust Company and the Central Savings Bank. He was chairman of the Finance Committee which raised the money and acted as treasurer of the Masonic Building Company which constructed the Masonic Temple in 1916. Mr. Schneider in 1910 was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners, during which term of office the concrete viaduct over the Cuyahoga River Gorge was built in 1915, a structure that is 782 feet in length, 196 feet high and cost $100,000. At the time of construction it was reported to be the highest bridge in the world built of massive concrete for highway purposes. In 1916 he purchased the County Infirmary Farm of 188 acres, adjoining Akron on the west, and organized the Central Associated Realty Company, which organization alloted and developed Sunset View subdivision, the finest and most highly restricted residential section of Akron. Mr. Schneider is a member of the Portage Country Club, the City Club, the Shrine Club and the Masonic Club, his Masonic affiliations being with Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons ; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Congregational Church of Akron. For a number of years, as his activities indicate, Mr. Schneider has found his chief hobby in work and service for town and county betterment. WILLIAM H. HENDRICKSON. A useful, substantial citizen and honorable man was lost to Sandusky in the death of William H. Hendrickson, who passed out of life at his home in this city on October 2, 1920. It can be said of him, as it cannot be of every man called upon to handle large affairs, that he was able, just HISTORY OF OHIO - 291 and generous in the faithful discharge of duty in every relation of life, and that his memory will long be preserved by his fellow citizens. William H. Hendrickson was a native of Ohio, born at Cleveland January 5, 1864. His parents were Theodore and Bernadette (Kingler) Hendrickson, natives of Holland, who had come to America and settled in Cleveland before the Civil war. Theodore Hendrickson became well known in that city in manufacturing circles, for a number of years operating a planing mill and box factory, and later was in the building industry as a dealer in sand, continuing in the latter line until his death. Although his father had enjoyed but few educational advantages in his youth, William H. Hendrickson was afforded excellent opportunities, attending the public schools of his native city during hoyhood, and afterward taking a full college course at Dayton, Ohio. Upon his return from college he entered into business with his father, and in 1890 embarked in the sand business for himself at Cleveland. In 1893 he moved to Sandusky, where he continued in the sand business for a time, but later gave the larger part of his attention to developing his stone quarry interests, and, as a far-seeing business man, in the course of time acquired property and became an important factor in many prosperous enterprises at Cleveland. Mr. Hendrickson married, June 14, 1892, Miss Elizabeth Russ, who survives him. She was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 20, 1865, daughter of John and Marie (Schmidt) Russ, both natives of Bavaria, where the father of Mrs. Hendrickson died and where her mother later married Adam Schlict. In 1880, when some of her relatives came to the United States, settling at Cleveland, Ohio, she accompanied them and her marriage to Mr. ilendrickson followed. They became the parents of six children: Alfred, Estella, Florence, Marie, Clarence and Agnes. The family belongs to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. During the World war Mr. Hendrickson was active and helpful in many directions, one of these being conducting a government ammunition factory at Sandusky. He was one of the leading factors in the Chamber of Commerce and indefatigable in promoting movements for the benefit of Sandusky. He was a steadfast republican in politics, but no seeker for public office. In fraternal life he belonged to the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. JOHN F. WEBER, M. D. A physician and surgeon who has rendered a splendid service in practice in various sections of Southern Ohio, Dr. John F. Weber is a resident of Amesville, Athens County, and is now president of the Athens County Medical Society. He was born at Masterton, Monroe County, Ohio, March 15, 1881, son of Philip C. and Margarette (Walton) Weber. His mother, who lives at Marietta, Ohio, is a daughter of Jeremiah Walton, and is descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Waltons were an old English family. The Walton home in Monroe County was near Rhinards Mill. The grandfather of Doctor Weber was Valentine Weber, who came from Germany and was an early settler in Monroe County, Ohio. He became a prosperous farmer and was a leader in his community. As a young man he was converted and became a member of the Methodist Church, and he helped build and was a liberal supporter of the Church at Masterton. He died at the age of eighty-two. Of his children, besides Philip C., Jacob is now an aged farmer in Monroe County, and William died in the West. Philip C. Weber, father of Doctor Weber, entered the Union army in an Ohio regiment at the beginning of the Civil war. After three months he was captured at the battle of Antietam, and soon paroled. He came home and spent the rest of his life as a farmer at the old homestead. His specialty was the raising of sheep. He was a member of the school board and interested in all local affairs and he followed the trade of blacksmith. He was on the Official Board of the Methodist Church, was a democrat, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Philip C. Weber died in 1905, at the age of sixty-two. His widow lives with her daughter Maud at Marietta, Maud being a graduate of Ohio University and now a teacher in the Marietta public schools. Doctor Weber is the second child and only son. Cora is the wife of E. N. Dickson, a machinist at Marietta. John F. Weber was reared on a farm in Monroe County, attended a district school, and when he was twenty years of age he returned to that school in the role of a teacher. Later he was a student in Marietta College and the Ohio State University, and in 1910 graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus. Doctor Weber during 1910-11 remained in Columbus as an interne in St. Francis Hospital, and in 1911 he did post-graduate work in diseases of children at Harvard Medical College, and in 1921 returned for additional work in medicine at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Doctor Weber for six months practiced at his old home town of Masterton, then for three years at Whipple, and since then his home has been at Amesville, in Athens County. In addition to his practice he has carried the burdens of a number of civic duties, serving several years on the school board, and for two years was township clerk, having been succeeded in that office by his wife, Mrs. Weber, who is still the incumbent. On September 8, 1911, Doctor Weber married Miss Lucy Fleming, daughter of John and Flora (Linseott) Fleming, of Amesville. The Flemings are an American family, tracing their ancestry back to the Mayflower Colonial stock. John Fleming was a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Weber was educated in Ohio University, and was a teacher before her marriage. Doctor Weber is a trustee of the Methodist Church, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a democrat. In addition to his official relation with the county medical society, he is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor and Mrs. Weber have two ehildren: Katherine Fleming, born in 1912, and Josephine Fleming, born in 1914. LEE HUMPHREY, M. D. With thirty-five years of successful work to his credit as a physician and surgeon in Morgan County, Doctor Humphrey has also accumulated many other interests and responsibilities. He is one of the active business men of Malta, has played an official part in the educational affairs of the county, and is well known to the medical profession through his service on the State Board of Examiners. He was born on his father's farm west of Malta, in Morgan County, in April, 1864, son of Amos G. and Elizabeth (Parr) Humphrey. His father was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and was a small boy when his parents moved to Ohio. While he followed farming, he did most of his work as a carpenter in building numerous houses throughout this section, and was also a member of the firm Humphrey and McGraff, which operated a small planing mill industry in Malta. Amos G. Humphrey was a man of deep religious convictions, although not a member of any church. He was a democrat. His death occurred in 1906, at the age of seventy-two, while his wife passed way January 1, 1881, aged forty nine. They had a family of two sons and three daughters. The daughter Margaret is the wife of 292 - HISTORY OF OHIO James Clement, a farmer near Malta. The son John was formerly in the building trade, and is now an instructor in the manual training department of the Indianapolis public schools. Dr. Lee Humphrey spent his boyhood on his father 's farm, attended country schools, completed the work of the grade schools in Malta, and finished his literary education in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Taking up the study of medicine, he spent one year in the University of Michigan, and in 1888 was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. Doctor Humphrey at once returned to his home community, and has performed the work of his profession without interruption for thirty-five years. He is president of the Morgan County Medical Society, and for fourteen years has been a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, still continuing in that office. He belongs to the County Medical Society and the Ohio State and American Medical Associations. Doctor Humphrey is president of the Malta Manufacturing Company, a sash and door plant distributing its product over many states, and the outgrowth of the small planing mill started by his father many years ago. He is also a director of the Malta National Bank and of the Malta Electric Light Plant. Doctor Humphrey is president of the Morgan County School Board. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married, in 1889, a daughter of Andrew and Mary Rayner. They have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, recently graduated from the Malta and MeConnelsville High School. LORENZO DOW NELSON, M. D. A busy physician and surgeon, whose work and home are at The Plains in Athens County, Doctor Nelson is a native of Nelsonville, the same county, and a member of the family that has lived there since pioneer times and gave the name to the community. Doctor Nelson was born at Nelsonville, March 2, 1886, son of Charles F. and Jennie (Roberts) Nelson, both natives of Nelsonville, where they now live, Charles, at the age of sixty-five and his wife, at sixty-three. There have been five generations of the Nelson family in that one community. Doctor Nelson, his father Charles, his grandfather, John Nelson, and his great-grandfather, Daniel Nelson, were all born in the same locality. Charles Nelson attended school in his native town, clerked in a store, had charge of the store of the New Pittsburgh Coal Company, and since then has been in business for himself as a grocery merchant at Nelsonville. He has served on the Town Council and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Charles Nelson and wife had four children, two sons and two daughters. The other son is Frank, a grocery merchant at Columbus, Ohio. Lorenzo Dow Nelson graduated from the Nelsonville High School at the age of seventeen. After a year of employment in his father 's store he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, taking the full four-year course and graduating in June, 1908. He then had further training and experience in the Springfield Hospital, and in 1909 located at The Plains. This is a community in the midst of the mining and agricultural district, and Doctor Nelson has had a very heavy practice there for the past thirteen years. When America entered the World war Doctor Nelson volunteered, received a commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and in November, 1918, was called to active duty. He was sent to Camp Greenleaf and later to Hoboken, New Jersey, under orders to go overseas, but received his honorable discharge in December, 1918. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, and is active in all matters of general interest and the public welfare. In 1912 he married Miss Helen Louise Jones, daughter of Lewis Jones, of Orbitson, Hocking County, Ohio. They have three children : L. D., Jr., Charles L. and Miles Roberts Nelson. MARTIN F. VEREKER, M. D. In the twenty odd years since he graduated from medical school Docto r Vereker has accomplished a wide range of service as a physician and surgeon, and for fourteen years has been one of the leading men of his profession in the City of Hamilton. He was born at Oxford, Ohio, November 12, 1875. son of Richard and Mary (Reagon) Vereker. His parents are now deceased. He was reared at Oxford, attending the high school there, and Miami University, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1899. He took his medical course at Cincinnati University, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1902, and for eighteen months remained in Cincinnati as an interne in the General Hospital. Doctor Vereker practiced medicine for six years at Bascon, Indiana, and on March 9, 1910, established his permanent home at Hamilton, Ohio. He is a member of the staff of Hamilton Hospital and of the Butler County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations, and the Union District Medical Society. For the past five years he has been the responsible city official looking after the health program of Hamilton in the office of city health commissioner. He also served three years as councilman at large of the city. Doctor Vereker is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Orders of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose and Knights of Columbus, and is a member of St. Mary 's Catholic Church. During the World war he was a worker in all the Liberty Loan drives and the Red Cross campaigns. On April 26, 1903, Doctor Vereker married Miss Josephine Weidimer, who died September 21, 1916. On October 6, 1917, he married Miss Nellie Leikhardt, of Hamilton, daughter of Edward and Maggie (Calligan) Leikhardt. She finished her education in the Hamilton High School, and is a member of the Daughters of Isabelle. Doctor and Mrs. Vereker have two children, Robert, born in 1918, and Donald, born in 1920. CHARLES J. ANDRES. Among the citizens of Sandusky who were the founders of important and reliable business enterprises and who have now passed to the Great Beyond, one whose memory is still kept green in the hearts of those who knew him and appreciated his many sterling qualities, was the late Charles J. Andres. For many years Mr. Andres was identified with the undertaking business at Sandusky, and his infinite tact and sincere sympathy in times of bereavement earned the gratitude of many families of the city of his adoption. Mr. Andres was born January 31, 1860, at Middle Bass, Ottawa County, Ohio, and is a son of Charles and Rose (Sprenger) Andres, natives of Baden, Germany. The parents were pioneers of Middle Bass. where the elder Andres was a raiser of grapes until his death. Charles J. Andres received his education in the public schools of Middle Bass, Ohio, and Sandwich, Canada, and as a youth was employed by Andrew Werley & Son, manufacturers of wine. In 1885 he came to Sandusky, Ohio, where he entered the employ of A. L. Deck, a furniture dealer and undertaker, the firm soon becoming Deck & Andres. In order to further prepare himself for this business Mr. Andres went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the Oriental School of Embalming, from which he was graduated with the class of 1892. He HISTORY OF OHIO - 293 then returned to Sandusky, where he resumed his association with Mr. Deck, but in 1895 disposed of his interest to his partner and embarked in the furniture and undertaking business on his own account, continuing to be engaged therein with much success until his very sudden death, which occurred March 3, 1902. At the time of his demise his widow sold a half interest in the business to Fred Fruy, Sr., and the business was conducted as Andres & Fruy until the death of Mrs. Andres, January 4, 1921. Mr. Fruy then becoming sole proprietor by purchase. At that time the children of Mr. Andres opened the Charles J. Andres Sons Funeral Home in the old Andres homestead. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Andres were : Carola, who is the wife of E. O. Walker, of Sandusky; Fred H., Louis R., Carl J., and Edmund A. Fred H. Andres graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming April 1, 1921, and is now active in the business. He is a member of St. George Court, Catholic Order of Foresters, Sandusky Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Sandusky Benevolent Association. He married Frances C. Tucker, and they are the parents of two children: Mary Jane and Paul F. Louis R. Andres, a graduate of the Sandusky High School, graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming and is one of the partners in the business, with which he has been identified since April, 1914. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of St. John, St. Mary 's Court, Catholic Order of Foresters and the Young Men 's Society. He married Genevieve M. Erney, and they have three children: Mary Louise, Richard A. and Marjorie. Carl J. Andres, who is deputy county auditor, is a member of the Knights of Columbus No. 546; Sandusky Commandery No. 549, Knights of St. John; St. George's Court, Catholic Order of Foresters ; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 285 of Sandusky, and the Young Men's Society, and is scoutmaster of the Catholic Boy Scouts. During the World war, in April, 1917, he volunteered for service in the Aviation Corps, and during his service was stationed at Waco, Dallas and San Antonio, Texas. He belongs to Perry Post of the American Legion. Edmund A. Andres graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming April 1, 1921, and is a partner in the business. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus No. 546; St. George Court, Catholic Order of Foresters; Sandusky Lodge No. 285, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Kiwanis Club and the Sandusky Benevolent Association, and is an honorary member of the Young Men's Society. He married Esther C. Ritzenthaler. The members of this family belong to St. Mary 's Catholic Church, of which their parents were members. In politics they are independent voters. Of those identified with the business all belong to the Funeral Directors and Embalmers' Association of Ohio, to the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce and to the Erie County Automobile Club. LESTER R. MYLANDER. The science of osteopathy, which bases its tenets upon the theory that the greater number of diseases have their foundation in some deformation of the human skelton, long since has passed the experimental stage and become a widely recognized and sane factor in the lessening of the sufferings of mankind. A thoroughly able and experienced devotee of this method of cure is Lester R. Mylander, whose comparatively brief professional career has resulted in remarkable accomplishments. Since his return from the World war, in 1919, he has been a resident of Sandusky, and during five years has built up a remunerative and encouraging practice. His office is unexcelled in equipment, containing the most practical apparatus thus far discovered, as well as the latest books and periodicals bearing upon the subject which is enlisting his best energy and thought. Doctor Mylander was born at Toledo, Ohio, De- cember 16, 1893, and is a son of Fred J. and Elizabeth (Miller) Mylander. Fred J. Mylander was born at Oak Harbor, Ohio, and for many years was engaged in agricultural pursuits in the vicinity of Oak Harbor, where his death occurred in 1919. Mrs. Mylander, a native of Toledo, still makes her home in that city. Lester R. Mylander attended the grade and high schools of Oak Harbor, following which he went to Kirksville, Missouri, and pursued a full course at the American School of Osteopathy, from which he was duly graduated with his degree in June, 1917. He then returned to Oak Harbor and for a short time followed his profession, but the great World war attracted his interest, and in March, 1918, he enlisted in the United States Medical Corps, with which he saw service in this country for about four months, then sailing for overseas in September of the same year. He was actively engaged in his work of mercy both with the Expeditionary forces and the Army of Occupation, but in June, 1919, returned to the United States and secured his honorable discharge and muster out papers. He at once took up his residence at Sandusky, where he has continued in the active practice of his profession. He is an agreeable and painstaking gentleman and a student whose tendency is towards the best possible acquirement in his chosen calling. He holds membership in the Ohio Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons and the American Osteopathic Association. Doctor Mylander is unmarried. He belongs to the Evangelical Church, and in his political allegiance is a democrat, although he takes only a good citizen 's interest in political affairs and is too engrossed in his professional duties to desire public office. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, holding membership in the lodge and chapter at Oak Harbor, Ohio, and belongs also to the Eastern Star the Loyal Order of Moose and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He also is a member of the Sunyendeand Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Blum Brook Country Club, the American Legion and the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce. JAMES F. LEEPER, M. D. Forty-five years of continuous work in one calling is a record of which any man might be proud, but in the practice of medicine- it means a vital service that perhaps no other occupation or service can afford. That is the record of Dr. James F. Leeper, now of McConnelsville, who has done his work in the rural districts of Central Ohio with a degree of faithfulness and skill that calls for more that passing mention. Doctor Leeper was born near Bishopsville, in Morgan County, January 29, 1859, son of Hezekiah and Katharine (Mowery) Leeper. His grandfather, William Leeper, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, first living in Belmont County, then in Hocking County and finally in Morgan County. Hezekiah Leeper was born in Belmont County, and was still young when the family settled in Morgan County. He became a prosperous farmer there, and died in 1893, at the age of sixty-seven. His wife passed away in 1890. They had a family of three sons and three daughters. The sons are : Judge Leeper, Dr. James F. and John R. John went with an Ohio regiment to the Spanish-American war, and was never heard of again. Judge Leeper was educated in country schools, was a teacher, read law and has attained a prominent position in his profession. His home is at Marietta. James F. Leeper had the experiences of an Ohio farm boy, attended the rural schools, then the Pres- 294 - HISTORY OF OHIO byterian Academy at Amesville, and took his medical work in Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated at the age of twenty-one, in 1880. Through all the years he has had a very heavy practice. For twenty years after graduating his home was at Ruraldale in Muskingum County. Since then he has practiced at MeConnelsville. Doctor Leeper did advanced work in the New York Post-Graduate College of Medicine and Surgery in 1900 and 1901. In answering calls upon his professional ability he has walked, gone horseback, traveled by buggy, and had practiced nearly a quarter of a century before the automobile came in as the most helpful invention for the prompt service of the medical profession. In his practice he has worn out eight automobiles. In addition to his general practice Doctor Leeper has served as president of the Morgan County Board of Health and as United States pension examiner. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, and is affiliated with the Knight Templar Commandery at New Lexington. On August 12, 1880, he married Miss Annie Eliza McMullin, daughter of John McMullin, of West Virginia. Mrs. Leeper is a member of the Methodist Church, and her only son is a Presbyterian. They have two children, Clyde and Winnifred. The son, Clyde Leeper, born April 27, 1882, has made a distinguished record in medicine. After the public schools he attended Doane Academy and Vanderbilt University, graduated from the School of Medicine and Surgery of the Loyola University, University of Chicago, Illinois, and early began speciali- zation in tuberculosis. He also did post-graduate work in Columbia University, New York, and had experience as an interne in a hospital in Chicago. His entire medical career was devoted to research work in tuberculosis. Much of this time was given to the coordinative facts surrounding the benefits of home treatment and that of hospitalization. Every detail bearing on prevention, cure and treatment was thoroughly investigated not only in his native state but in the Southwest, Colorado and foreign countries. This early incentive for this branch of medicine was due to his intimate association with Dr. Theodore Sachs, at that time the foremost tuberculosis specialist and philanthropist of Chicago. After serving as resident physician and superintendent of various institutions in the Southwest, investigating the plans, details and technique of other institutions in the United States, the ideas gathered from these associations were incorporated in 1911 into Ohio 's first private institution for the care and treatment of victims of tuberculosis. The plan in construction and procedure in the care of patients has been carried out until today the Rocky Glen Sanatorium is recognized and admitted to be one of the leading institutions in this country. At the beginning of the World war he was in charge of the Medical Research Department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, also had charge of the Bureau of Tuberculosis for the. City of Akron, giving special study to the cause of fatigue among industrial workers. He served in the World war as captain, being a member of the Tuberculosis Commission for France and Italy. He also served in tuberculosis hospitals in Arizona and Los Angeles, and was associated with his father in building the Rocky Glen Tuberculosis Hospital near McConnelsville. They conducted this institution jointly for several years. In 1921 Dr. Clyde Leeper was in charge of the tuberculosis apartment of the National Soldiers Home at Sawtelle, California. Following that he became Medical Referee for the Travelers Insurance Company, with offices in Cleveland. ARTHUR FRANKLIN JOHNSTON has gained marked success in his profession, and as one of the able civil engineers residing in the City of Sandusky he is now giving effective service in the office of county surveyor of Erie County. Mr. Johnston was born at Fremont, judicial center of Sandusky County, Ohio, on the 23d of October; 1887, and is a son of William R. and Louise (Klopfer) Johnston, the former of whom was born in Binghamton, New York, and the latter at Fremont, Ohio. William R. Johnston was a skilled machinist, and to his trade he gave the greater part of his active business life, both he and his wife having died in the year 1913. After completing his high-school course Arthur F. Johnston entered the University of Ohio, in which he completed a course in civil engineering and was graduated as a member of the class of 1911. After thus gaining his degree of Civil Engineer he was a resident of Coshocton, Ohio, a short time, until August, 1911, when he came to Sandusky and as a civil engineer entered upon his career of constructive service for the County of Erie. He soon became identified with the engineering department of the city government of Sandusky, and finally won advancement to the office of city engineer, of which he continued the incumbent six years. A fuller appreciation of his ability and effective work came in September, 1921, when he was elected county surveyor of Erie County, the office of which he has since continued the efficient and valued holder. Mr. Johnston is one of the loyal and progressive members of the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce, is a republican in political adherency, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in their home city he and his wife are members of the First Reformed Church. The year 1910 recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnston and Miss Haidee Hausman, who likewise was born at Fremont, Sandusky County, and who is a daughter of William A. and Alta I. (Fowler) Hausman. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have two children: Earl Franklin and Norbert Edgar. SEWARD SHERMAN DANFORD, president of the First National Bank of Glouster, has been identified in a constructive way with several of the communities of Athens County. In his busy lifetime he has been a teacher, farmer, mill operator, merchant and banker. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Glouster, and has been president since it was opened for business in 1907. Mr. Danford was born near Trimble, but on a farm in Morgan County, September 20, 1860, son of John and Mary (Bradrick) Danford. His grandfather, Hiram Danford, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. John Danford, who was born on Wills Creek in Noble County, Ohio, in 1812, was married in Morgan County, and was engaged in farming, school teaching, and for twenty-four years was justice of the peace of Homer Township. He was a whig and later a republican in politics, and was a member of the Christian Church, while his wife was a Methodist. John Danford died at the age of eighty-four. His wife, Mary Bradrick, a native of Morgan County, and of an old English Quaker family from New Jersey, died at the age of seventy-eight. They had been married over fifty years. Their family consisted of eleven children, namely: Isaac William, deceased; Dr. H. D., deceased; Silas J., of Athens, Ohio ; Allen, deceased; Lydia Carey, deceased; Nancy, a twin sister of Lydia, passed away in early girlhood ; Rev. Thomas J., deceased; Dr. Edmund F., of Glouster, Ohio; M. E.; Seward Sherman, of this review, and Charles E., deceased. Seward Sherman Danford, until after the age of twenty, lived on the old farm, worked in the fields HISTORY OF OHIO - 295 and attended district schools. He was one of the sons who taught school, and one of the country schools he taught stood on the site of the present town of Glouster. For a number of years he taught during the winters and worked as a carpenter in the summers. He was an employe for a time in the saw mill, planing mill and flour mill of the Trimble Milling Company. For a time he had charge of the Sunday Creek Hardware Company at Glouster, Jacksonville and Trimble, and in 1905 he bought a store at Trimble. One of his early business associations that helped lay the foundation of his prosperity was with F. M. Koons, T. J. Mason and S. F. Wolf. These men bought two sections of virgin timber land at. Burr Oak, going $40,000 in debt for the purchase. They worked up the timber, sold it and had the land left as profit. Two other men who came into this syndicate were 0. D. Eddy and J. W. Bryson. Of this group of six well-known men in that section of Ohio only two are now living. In addition to his duties as president of the Bank at Glouster Mr. Danford is vice president of the Hotel Berry Company of Athens. For a number of years he was treasurer of the Town Corporation of Trimble, and by appointment he filled an unexpired term of seven months as county treasurer. He is a republican, is on the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has served as master of the Masonic Lodge and has been a representative to the Grand Lodge. In 1889 he married Miss Addie Wolfe, daughter of Ezra and Polly Wolfe. They have two children. The son, Charles, now associated in business with his father, was trained as a soldier at Camp Sherman, became a sergeant and was on his way to France when the armistice was signed. The daughter, Merle, is a graduate of Ohio University, and taught for three years at New Lexington and three years at Athens, and is now teacher of English in the high school at Parkersburg, West Virginia. EDWIN ROY ZIEGER was born on a farm at New Middletown, Ohio, October 13, 1883, and is a son of John and Clara (Martin) Zieger, the former a native of Petersburg, Ohio, and the latter of New Middletown, Ohio, where she died in 1918. John Zieger has been engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout his life, and is one of the highly respected citizens of the New Middletown community. The early education of Edwin Roy Zieger was obtained in the district school located in the neighborhood of his father 's farm, and his boyhood was passed much as that of other youths of his locality. He was given the advantages of attendance at the high school situated at Canfield, and as he had no desire for the life of a farmer, but aspired to a professional career, he enrolled as a student at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from the law department of which institution he was duly graduated as a member of the class of 1912, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar during the same year, and at once settled at Youngstown, where he began the practice of his profession in partnership with James A. Dixon. This association was mutually congenial and profitable, and was only terminated by the death of Mr. Dixon, which occurred in 1917. Since that time Mr. Zieger has practiced alone, and now maintains offices at 1002 Wick Building. He has built up a large and representative clientele, and is known as a lawyer of ability, soundly grounded as to l,gal principles and precedents. In addition to handling his large private practice he acts as village solicitor of Canfield and New Middletown, Ohio. He holds membership in the various organizations of his calling, awl maintains a high standing among his fellow practitioners. In 1913 Mr. Zieger was united in marriage with Miss Ethel May Schaff, who was born at Manchester. Ohio, a daughter of the Rev. J. C. and Florence Schaff, natives of Ohio, and to this union there have been born two children: John Charles and Clara Jeanette. With his family Mr. Zieger belongs to the Presbyterian Church, to which he gives his support, as he does to all worthy movements. Deeply interested in his locality, he is secretary of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society, to the work of which he gives a good deal of thought, time and attention. His political allegiance is with the democratic party. As a fraternalist he holds membership in Argus Lodge No. 545, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master ; in the Grotto at Youngstown, and in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Youngstown, in all of which he is popular. PHILIP F. WEAMER, M. D. As a physician and surgeon Doctor Weamer has been engaged in the general practice of medicine at Coldwater for many years, and has likewise supplied the facilities and skill of the specialist there. Besides his heavy duties as a professional man he has been keenly interested in the public welfare and is the present mayor of Coldwater. Doctor Weamer was born in Union City, Randolph County, Indiana, June 5, 1866. His parents, Franeis and Theresa (Taylor) Weamer, were born in Bavaria, Germany, were married there, and on coming to the United States in 1852, settled at Union City, Indiana, where his father followed his trade as a tanner, and also owned a farm. His father died in Union City in 1906 and the mother, in 1893. They were members of the Catholic Church, and in politics the family has been democratic. Doctor Weamer has a twin brother, Joseph, a wooden ware manufacturer at Coldwater, and there were two older children, Theresa Nicholas Swagle and Frank. Philip S. Weamer was educated in the grammar and high schools at Union City, taught school for eight years in Darke County, Ohio, and throughout the period of his early manhood, was contriving the opportunities through his own efforts to complete his education and qualify for his chosen profession. For two years he read medicine with physicians in Union City, spent two years in the Indiana Medical College of Indianapolis, and in 1893 graduated from the Wooster Medical College at Cleveland. He practiced two years at Macedon in Mercer County, but since 1895 his home has been in Coldwater. He has a splendidly equipped office, using his four rooms and basement, and has special facilities for examination and diagnosis, including the X-Ray and Violet Ray machines, other instruments for electro-therapy, and also equipment for work as an oculist. Doctor Weamer has acted as examiner for a number of insurance companies, has served as village health officer, and is a member of the Mercer County and Ohio State Medical societies, also a member of the American Medical Association. In his citizenship he has first of all been public spirited and zealous for the best interests of his home community, and after that has been democratic in politics. In 1923 he was elected mayor of Coldwater, beginning his duties January 1, 1924. He was elected as a result of a popular demand, his name being written on the ballot by the voters, and he was elected over the regular nominees by a vote of four to one. As mayor his official distinction has been due to his effective efforts to control and clean out the whiskey ring in Coldwater. Doctor Weamer is a director in the Home Building and Loan Association in Coldwater, and owns considerable real estate in the town. He has taken several post-graduate 296 - HISTORY OF OHIO courses, spending some time at Western Reserve University at Cleveland in 1923. Doctor Weamer married in October, 1887, Miss Anna M. Van Kirk, daughter of Lorenzo D. Van Kirk, of Fort Recovery, Ohio. By his first marriage Doctor Weamer had five children; F. Gillum; Joseph, who was accidently killed; Johanna, wife of Earl Reed of Lima; Mary B. and Theresa. The second wife of Doctor Weamer was Alice Wysong, whom he married in 1907 and who died in 1909. PAUL W. NEUBERT. While one of the younger citizens of Lake County, Paul W. Neubert has gained. a reputation of efficiency in whatever he has undertaken, and ability to discharge his obligations and responsibilities with credit to himself and others. These facts led to his present responsible office as superintendent of the Lake County Home. Mr. Neubert was born at Collinwood, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 3, 1894. His father, Herman L. Neubert, was born in Germany, November 10, 1858, was reared there, and at the age of twenty-one came to the United States, locating at Collinwood in Cuyahoga County. While there he acquired extensive farming interests, operated his farm in Cuyahoga County for twenty years, and in 1900 removed to LeRoy, Ohio, where he continued farming. Since 1908 his home has been at Perry in Lake County,, where he is now a specialist in fruit growing. He is a republican voter and a member of the Lutheran Church. Herman L. Neubert married Elizabeth Scharan, who was born in Germany, July 6, 1852, and came to the United States when a young woman. A family of nine children were born to them, of which seven are still living, the oldest, Fred G., being a resident of Cleveland, while the second, Marie A., is the wife of Charles McLeod, also of Cleveland. The third, Martha A., is the wife of Fred. Keyerlieker, also living in Cleveland. August H., the fourth child, has for fifteen years been an employe of the New York Central Railroad Company, with home at Cleveland. Herman L., a farmer at Madison, Ohio, is a veteran of the World war, a member of the One Hundred Forty-fifth Infantry, and was in France nine months, participating in six offensive and defensive cantpaigns, including the Baccarat sector, August 4 to September 16, 1918; Avocourt sector, September 21 to 26, 1918; Pannes sector, October 7 to 16, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 to October 1, 1918 ; Flanders offensive, October 31 to November 4; Flanders offensive, November 9 to November 11, 1918. The sixth child of the family is Paul W., and the youngest, William, a farmer at Perry in Lake County, is also a World war veteran, having had exactly the same service and experiences with the same regiment as his brother Herman. Paul W. Neubert was educated in public schools in Lake County, and lived on his father's farm until he was eighteen. Following that came an experience in the machinist 's trade at Cleveland, and in May, 1916, he enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Regiment of Infantry. He was on active duty on the Mexican border for nine months, after which he returned home and received his honorable discharge April 17, 1917. During America's participation in the World war he assisted in the management of the home farm, and in 1919 engaged in farming for himself. His farm is near Perry in Madison Township of Lake County. Mr. Neubert took the competitive examination under the civil service rules, and his standing secured his appointment as superintendent of the Lake County Home. He began his duties there in March, 1922. The County Home is a mile and a half southeast of Painesville. Mr. Neubert still owns and supervises his fruit and dairy farm near Perry. He is a republican in politics, is a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of Painesville, and is affiliated with Diamond Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Perry. He married at Cleveland, April 3, 1919, Miss Mary Dirk, a daughter of Charles and Mary Dirk. Her parents live at Madison, Ohio, where her father is a farmer. A son, James Paul, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Neubert February 16, 1924. GEORGE JOHN DOERZBACH. The business activities of George John Doerzbach have not been confined to any one special line, for during his career he has been identified with several forms of business enterprises, each widely separated from the other. In all of these he has achieved success, evidencing the possession of versatility, and at the present time is the proprietor of one of the leading insurance agencies of Sandusky and a business man of recognized standing in the community. Mr. Doerzbach was born at Sandusky, October 23, 1870, and is a son of Christopher and Louisa . (Sweitzer) Doerzbach, natives of Germany. Christopher Doerzbach was a weaver in his native land, and followed that vocation after coming to the United States and settling at Sandusky, where he died one year after the birth of his son George J., in 1871. His widow survived him for a long period, attaining the ripe old age of eighty-four years. George John Doerzbach attended the public schools of Sandusky, and was about eighteen years of age when he graduated from high school, in 1888. In order to further prepare himself for a business career he pursued a commercial course at the Sandusky Business College, upon the completion of which he joined his two older brothers in a general contracting business, to which he gave his attention for some years. When lie severed his connection with this line of activity he became agent for a phonograph concern, a line which he followed with success until 1910, when, in partnership with Fred Bauman, he embarked in a general insurance business. On August 1, 1912, he bought Mr. Bauman's interest in the business, which he has since conducted alone, his offices being in the Cable Block. Mr. Doerzbach has built up a splendid business in his line and handles all kinds of insurance, representing some of the largest companies in the world. Through close application and personal experience he has thoroughly familiarized himself with every angle and department of insurance salesmanship, and during recent years has written some of the largest policies in the city. The peculiar abilities absolutely necessary to success in the insurance line are his naturally, and to them he has added other characteristics which his experience has taught him are valuable. In 1896 Mr. Doerzbach was united in marriage with Miss Belle Rodgers, who was born at Xenia, Ohio, a daughter of Hazzard and Mary Imogene (Hyde) Rodgers, natives of Ohio, and to this union there was born one son, Rodger Henry, who was born in July, 1898, and is associated with his father in business. With his family Mr. Doerzbach belongs to the Presbyterian Church. He is a republican in his political allegiance, and has served in several political capacities, including clerk of the Board of Elections. He is a past master of Science Lodge in Masonry and a thirty-second degree Mason; past exalted master of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, past president of the Ohio Elks Association, and a member of the Sandusky Kiwanis Club. CLARENCE AUGUSTUS SCHIMANSKY, M. D. In a long period devoted to the general practice of his profession in the City of Sandusky, Doctor Schimansky has shown the ability and stewardship that invariably imply success of unequivocal order, and he has a HISTORY OF OHIO - 297 specially substantial practice as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Erie County. Doctor Schimansky was born in Toledo, Ohio, October 28, 1874, and is a son of Otto Ferdinand and Elizabeth (Vogel) Schimansky, the former of whom was born in Bavaria, Germany, and the latter at Plaster Bed, Ottawa County, Ohio, her father, Christ Vogel, having been a native of Bavaria. Otto F. Schimansky was a boy at the time of the family immigration to the United States, and his father, Dr. Louis Schimansky, became a successful practicing physician and surgeon in Ottawa County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. Otto F. Schimansky learned in his youth the trade of carriage maker, to which he gave his attention for a number of years. He and his wife now reside in Sandusky, and he holds the office of secretary of the Ohio State Board of Commerce. The public-school discipline of Dr. Clarence A. Schimansky included that of the high school, and thereafter he pursued a course of higher academic study by attending Oberlin College. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, and in this institution he was in due course graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Among his early professional services were those rendered by him in the capacity of examining surgeon, at Sandusky, for soldiers enlisting for service in the Spanish-American war. Since that time he has continued in the active and successful general practice of his profession at Sandusky, and he is known as a loyal and progressive citizen. He is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church, he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and has membership in the local Chamber of Commerce, the Sandusky Yacht Club, the Plum Brook Country Club, and the Sunyendeand Club. The maiden name of his wife was Barbara May, and she was born and reared in Sandusky, a daughter of Charles and Barbara (Herbel) May. Doctor and Mrs. Schimansky have one daughter, Yvonne Estelle, who was born April 12, 1922. CHARLES E. DUNCAN. After his early youth from the farm and in public school Charles E. Duncan became an employe in the oldest bank of Glouster, Athens County, soon made his mark for competence and financial character, and has been with that institution for over a quarter of a century. As president of the Glouster State Bank he wields an important influence in the community, not entirely due to his position as a banker, since his success as a banker as well as his position as a citizen is directly the outgrowth of the fine qualities in his personal character. Mr. Duncan was born in Dover Township, Athens County, August 27, 1878, son of Walter and Kate (Learned) Duncan. His parents, also natives of Athens County, are living at Glouster, his father at the age of seventy-three and his mother at sixty-nine. His father has been a farmer, and also for a number of years was a machine operator in the mines. At one time he served as a member of the local school board, and he hauled the stone and brick used in the construction of the first school building erected at Glouster. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There are six children in the Duncan family: James, manager of the Sunday Creek Coal Company's store at Glouster; Mrs. Beatrice McCarthy, of Columbus Charles E.; Elta, an employe in the Glouster State Bank; Minnie, bookkeeper in a Glouster mercantile establishment, and George, manager of the Sunday Creek Coal Company's store at the San Toy Mine. Charles E. Duncan spent his boyhood on the farm below the town of Glouster, and in those days he helped cultivate crops on land now included in the town site. At the age of seventeen he finished a course in the Glouster High School, and soon afterwards was made bookkeeper in the Glouster State Bank. In 1903 he was promoted to the office of cashier, and since January, 1922, has been president. In 1899 Mr. Duncan married Miss Anna Crombie, daughter of William Crombie, of Glouster. They are the parents of five children : Mildred, wife of Ed Matthews, of Jackson, Ohio; Paul, who works in his father 's bank ; William, employed in the local brick plant; Charles and Robert, both attending school. Mr. Duncan is a deacon in the Christian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Shrine at Columbus, and is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has sat in the Grand Lodge. He has served as clerk of the Glouster School Board. THOMAS J. BAILEY, of MeConnelsville, is a well known banker and oil operator, and for a number of years has been esteemed for his solid business success and capabilities. He started life a poor boy, though he represents some of the sturdiest pioneer stock of old Southeastern Ohio. He was born in Wood County, West Virginia, in what was then Virginia, on June 5, 1860, son of David and Millie (Walker) Bailey. His great-grandfather was Caleb Bailey, a native of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and a son of Adam and Sarah (Howard) Bailey: He was born in 1768, went West in 1790 to what is now Parkersburg, West Virginia, and died in what is now Wood County, West Virginia. The first permanent white settlement in Ohio was planted at Marietta, largely by colonists from the New England states, and Caleb Bailey was undoubtedly attracted to the West through the influence of this early colonization project. Marietta was founded about 1788. Caleb Bailey came West with a brother, but was attracted to the settlement on the Virginia side of the river, in the vicinity of Parkersburg. He married a Miss Anna James from Massachusetts, a daughter Capt. John James, a soldier in the Revolution. Her brother William James lost his life in a massacre that occurred at Big Bottom, Morgan County, Ohio, January 2, 1791. Their marriage was celebrated in the place known as Farmers Castle, now Belpre, in Washington County, Ohio, just across the river from the Virginia side. Caleb Bailey spent most of his life in Parkersburg, and he built the first and also the second courthouse of Wood County. He was a merchant and trader. His family consisted of two sons and three daughters. The sons were Charles and John A., both of whom became farmers. Charles lived on the Kanawha River in West Virginia. John A. Bailey was at one time sheriff of Wood County. He married Caroline Edelen, of a family that came from Tidewater, Virginia. David Bailey, father of Thomas J. Bailey, and a son of John A. and Caroline Bailey, spent many years as a farmer in Washington Bottoms in Wood County, West Virginia. In the latter part of the '60s he moved to Ohio and settled at Watertown in Washington County. He died in 1911, at the age of eighty years, and his wife, Millie (Walker) Bailey, passed away when a comparatively young woman, in 1878, They had three children. The son Benjamin died in the West at the age of thirty-three. Lucy is the wife of F. R. Schwerkert, of Watertown, Ohio. Thomas J. Bailey spent his boyhood days on the farm in Wood County, West Virginia, having only the advantages of the rural schools there and later the schools at Watertown, Ohio. At the age of eighteen, about the time his mother died, he left school, and, learning the carpenter 's trade, made that the basis of his business career for a number of years. As a eon- 298 - HISTORY OF OHIO tractor and builder he conducted an extensive business for twenty-one years in Ohio and West Virginia, building a number of bridges along the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad. On locating at Chester Hill, in Morgan County, Mr. Bailey established a planing mill. While there he formed a partnership with Brant Swayne, and, acquiring a well drilling outfit, sunk an oil well on the Joseph Mosier farm. This proved a producer, and was the original strike in what has since been known as the Chester Hill pool in Ohio. The first well was sold by the partners for $7,500. Afterward Mr. Swayne retired from the firm, but Mr. Bailey has since continued his oil well operations and has brought in a number of producers in the Chester Hill district. Since 1903 his home has been at McConnelsville. Among other interests he is president of the Citizens National Bank and the Citizens Savings Bank at MeConnelsville. Mr. Bailey married in 1894 Miss Lucy Geddes, daughter of William Geddes, of Chester Hill. They are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Bailey is a Mason and a democrat. THADDEUS A. WOODMAN has become a well-known factor in the insurance business at Youngstown, where he is secretary of one of the largest agencies in that part of the state. Mr. Woodman was born at Copeland, Kansas, April 6, 1890, son of Charles W. and Minnie (Alexander) Woodman. His mother was also born in Kansas. His father is a native of Ohio, and for many years was a coffee planter in Central America, but is now living retired at Ashtabula. Thaddeus A. Woodman during the year or so he lived with his father at Costa Rica had private instruction, and subsequently attended the grammar and high schools of Ashtabula and Youngstown. He spent one year in the Philip Exeter Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, and at the age of twenty joined his father on a coffee plantation in Central America. After two years there he returned North, and at Youngstown spent a year in an insurance office, and then for one year was in a stock brokerage business. He became secretary and treasurer of the Davis Securities and Insurance Agency, and in 1923 the name of the business was changed to the Davis-Woodman Company. He is a member of the Youngstown and Ohio Associations of insurance agents, is a member of the Youngstown Country Club and Youngstown Club. He is a republican in polities, and has served as deacon in the First Presbyterian Church. On April 6, 1916, Mr. Woodman married Miss Margaret Beach, a native of Kelloggsville, Ohio, and daughter of George W. and Anna (Peebles) Beach. They have four children: Thaddeus A., Jr., Anna Margaret, Charles W. and George B. JAMES BALL NAYLOR, M. D. One of the most prominent Ohio men of letters has spent many years of his life as a practicing physician in the rugged rural localities of Morgan County, his home being at Malta. His work as physician and surgeon has been done with knowledge' skill and faithfulness, as nearly every family around Malta and much of the county can testify. The outside world knows Doctor Naylor as the author of some very popular historical novels, poems and juvenile books, and also as an editorial writer and public speaker. Doctor Naylor was born at Pennsville, in Morgan County, October 4, 1860, son of Robert W. and Nancy (Wells) Naylor. Some of the gentle qualities of his own character have doubtless been inherited from his Quaker ancestry, and his keen sense of humor from his maternal forebears. 'His family line traces back to James Naylor, who was quartermaster-general under General Lambert in the Cromwellian wars in England. Though a Quaker, he left the parent church to establish one of his own, even more devout and simple in its creed and practice. His sons came to America with Penn's colonists and settled in Pennsylvania. The grandparents of Doctor Naylor were Samuel and Abigail Naylor. Samuel came from Pennsylvania and was the pioneer settler in the Pennsville community of Morgan County, where many other Quakers lived. He was an abolitionist. Robert W. Naylor, father of Doctor Naylor, was a Morgan County farmer. In 1861 he went to the front with the Seventeenth Regiment of Ohio troops, and lost his life in the battle of Missionary Ridge when about twenty-eight years of age. Being a Quaker, he was dismissed from the church for taking up arms. He had a brother in the service, who died quite a number of years after the war. Nancy Wells, mother of Doctor Naylor, is now eighty-six years of age, bright and alert for her years. She was about three years of age when she was brought to Ohio from Loudoun County, Virginia, where she was born. Her people were poor, and most of the men of the Wells family had the characteristics of the easy-going hill-country people of Western Virginia, being fond of the chase and cards and all kinds of sport. At the same time they possessed the innate qualities of gentlemen. They were of the tall, slender, sinewy type, and strikingly polite and generous. They were essentially an outdoor people, not at all bookish in their tastes. The father of Nancy Wells was Isaiah Wells. Nancy Wells was married to Robert W. Naylor in 1859 ; and their only child is Dr. James Ball Naylor. The widowed mother subsequently married John Henery. The children of this union were: Frank, of Columbus ; Warren, of Cleveland ; Samuel, of Zanesville; Myrtle, wife of Frank Coulson, an electrician in charge of the light plant at Malta; Cleason, who died in early boyhood ; Clyde, who died at the age of thirty years ; and Fred, an employe of the Brown-Manly Company at Malta, who died some years ago. Dr. James Ball Naylor had the farm as his early environment. His first lessons were obtained in the old Newton Ridge School House in Windsor Township. For one year he attended an ungraded high school at Stockport, and was also a student in the preparatory department of Marietta College during 1879-80, but for five months only. In the meantime he had begun teaching, and spent altogether five years as a teacher in the rural districts of Morgan County. He began the study of medicine at the office of Doctor Gatewood at Stockport, working in the latter's drug store to pay his tuition and earn his board. He gained much practical knowledge of medicine and pharmacy in this way. He defrayed most of his expenses while in medical college by work as a drug clerk. Doctor Naylor graduated with the class of 1886 from the Starling Medical College at Columbus. After graduating he engaged in the practice of medicine at Stockport, remaining there one year. He then spent a year on the road in the South, as a traveling representative for the J. C. Ayers Company, manufacturers of proprietary medicines, and for another year was in the North representing the drug house of C. N. Crittenden of New York City. He practiced three years in Pennsville, and then moved to Malta, where he did the arduous work of a country practitioner until the last day of 1922, when he formally retired after a record of thirty-five years of service. However, he still retains the responsibilities of district health commissioner. He has served on the school board and town council. The first wife of Doctor Naylor was Myrtle Gibson, daughter of Capt. Charles Gibson, .county auditor of Morgan Comity. She died one year later, without HISTORY OF OHIO - 299 children. On August 6, 1888, Doctor Naylor married Miss L. Villa Naylor, of Malta, daughter of John and Olive (C-oulson) Naylor. She is a very distant relative of her husband. She was born in Morgan County, and of the same Quaker stock as her husband. Doctor and Mrs. Naylor have six children. One daughter, Olive Nance, widow of Clarence H. Doty, is now associated with the Palmer Photo Play Corporation of Los Angeles as English critic. N. Lucile graduated in domestic science at Ohio University, and taught there a year. Since then she has been engaged in- teaching and child-welfare work in Syracuse, New York, Dobbs Ferry, New York, Eastern Kentucky and Los Angeles. Anne is the wife of Harland R. Heald, sub-station inspector of the Commonwealth Edison Electric. Company in Chicago. Lena is the wife of John Robison, Baltimore and Ohio Railway agent at Fair Oaks, near Zanesville. James Robert is the only son. Jean, the youngest child, is the wife of Raymond Finley, a merchant at Malta. Doctor and Mrs. Naylor have eight grandchildren: Winston and Weston Doty, twins, nine years of age, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Doty ; Ruanne, Marjorie and Harriet Heald ; Barbara and Mary Frances Robison, and Robert Finley. James Robert Naylor, the only son, was a musician with the Ohio National Guard troops on the Mexican border in Texas; and when America entered the World war, went overseas with Company D of the One Hundred Forty-eighth Regiment in the Thirty-seventh Division. He was trained at Camp. Sheridan, Alabama. He spent many days on the battle lines, his command serving as shock troops in the Argonne Forest and along the battle front. As a platoon sergeant he led thirty-five men into one fight, and only six of them returned. A slight wound he received in the hand became infected, and he was in a critical condition for some time. He was one of the young men who contributed to the wonderful record made by the Thirty-seventh Division of the World war. After the war he helped train home troops for the National Guard, and is now connected with the Federal Prohibition Enforcement Department at Columbus. Doctor Naylor is a member of the Masonic Order and is a republican in politics. He has made many political speeches, and has done a deal of political writing—in the way of editorials and campaign songs. He began writing when a boy of sixteen. He found the greatest pleasure in the rural-school literary society, and was usually called upon to act as editor of the society "paper," and many times he was the only contributor to its literary columns. He wrote verse in his early years. Later, while engaged in the practice of medicine, and while on his lonely night rides, he planned his stories, writing them out when he could find the time. He also composed many poems in this way. Doctor Naylor wrote in longhand until 1916, when he mastered the typewriter. His published works are: "Current Coins," published in 1893 ; "Goldenrod and Thistledown," 1896; "Ralph Marlowe," 1901; " The Sign of the Prophet" 1901; "In the Days of St. Clair," 1902 ; Under 'Mad Anthony 's Banner," 1903; "The Cabin in the Big Woods," 1904; "The Kentuckian," 1905; "Old. Home Week," 1906; "The Witch-Crow and Barney Bylow," 1906 ; " The Scalawags," 1907; "Little Green Goblin," 1907; "Songs from the Heart of Things," 1907; "The Misadventures of Marjory," 1908; "Dicky Delightful in Rainbow Land," 1909. His most popular book has been "Ralph Marlowe." It was one of the six best sellers for six months after publication. His historical novels, "In the Days of St. Clair," "Under Mad Anthony's Banner," and "Sign of the Prophet," have most of their scenes laid in Ohio. Doctor Naylor has always regarded "The Kentuckian" as his strongest and most logical novel. A number of his books, as the titles suggest, were written for children. Since May, 1915, Doctor Naylor has also been special editorial writer on the Marion Star, the newspaper of the late President Harding. For two years he was on the staff of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Doctor Naylor has a well-earned reputation as a public speaker and entertainer. He is a self-educated but cultured man. GEORGE WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, JR., piano manufacturer at Cincinnati, was born in that city, August 18, 1857, son of G. W. and Caroline (Secrist) Armstrong. He has been identified with piano making 'since 1874. Mr. Armstrong is president of the Baldwin Company and of each of its subsidiary corporations. For five years he served as a member of the civil service commission of Cincinnati, was president of the commission for new charter, is a director of the Cincinnati Arts Museum, the Cincinnati College of Music, Rockwood Pottery. He is a member of the Queen City and Cincinnati Country Club. ARTHUR L. BEHYMER is the present postmaster of Cincinnati. His appointment was a well deserved and unusual recognition of many years of faithful service to the United States postal department. He spent about a quarter of a century with the railway mail service. Mr. Behymer has been well known in the civic and public interests of Cincinnati. He was born June 15, 1869, on his grandfather's farm near New Richmond, in Clermont County, Ohio. Almost his entire boyhood was spent in that county. His education was the product of attending village schools and one term in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He completed most of the high school branches, but never finished college. After two years of teaching he entered the United States railway mail service in December, 1889. During the more than twenty-five years he was in that service he was promoted to chief clerk of a district in 1897, and in 1912 was made assistant superintendent, of the Fifth Division Railway Mail Service. In 1918, during the World war, Mr. Behymer resigned to take more important duties as managing secretary of the War Industries Division of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. At the close of the World war this division became the Division of Manufactures., In 1920 Mr. Behymer was made the executive secretary of the Yellow Pine Wholesalers' Association. On March 1, 1922, he was appointed acting postmaster of Cincinnati, and received his regular commission in June of the same year. Various other civic organizations besides those mentioned have recognized in Mr. Behymer a very able leader, and he was president of several of such organizations. He is a past president of the Ohio Postmasters' Association. Mr. Behymer has taken all the degrees and has enjoyed practically all the honors in Masonry, being nominated in 1923 to receive the thirty-third, Supreme Honorary, degree in the Scottish Rite, the same having been conferred on him in September, 1924. JOHN E. STANG. The career of John E. Stang, the owner of numerous properties at his home city of Sandusky and elsewhere in the states of Ohio and Michigan, is illustrative of what may be accomplished by the youth who sets out with determination and confidence to make his way in the world, regardless of all obstacles and discouragements. With a good education as his main asset, Mr. Stang began his business career in a humble capacity, and through initiative, resource and inherent ability, backed by untiring industry, worked his way to preferment and the possession of independent means.