HISTORY OF OHIO - 325 the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association and the Trumbull County Teachers' Association, of which last named organization he is serving as president at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1923. He was a delegate from the Ohio State Teachers' Association to the meeting of the National Educational Association held at San Francisco and Oakland, California, in 1923. Mr. Turner is a member also of the Ohio State Committee on Patriotic Instruction in the Schools. In the World war period he was active in advancing the various government war-loan drives in Trumbull County, and was a member of the Speakers' Bureau of the county, besides having been chairman of the community war-camp committee of Trumbull County, an organization formed to aid in providing recreation facilities and advancing moral conditions in the neighborhood of the war camps. He was loyal and influential in the various patriotic services thus rendered in his home county, and the same spirit of loyalty characterizes him in his civic attitude. At No. 9, Iddings Road, is found Hawthorne Cottage, the home of Mr. Turner and his family, this attractive Warren property being owned by him. October 7, 1905, recorded the marriage of Mr. Turner and Miss Blanche Kent, who was one of his classmates at Hiram College, in which she was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Mrs. Turner is a daughter of the late Eugene E. and Lucinda (Bayard) Kent, her father having been a substantial farmer and honored citizen near Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County. Mr. and. Mrs. Turner have one son, Clarence Eugene, who was born August 28, 1908. James P. Turner, grandfather of Professor Turner of this review, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1828, and died at Freeport, Harrison County, Ohio, in the year 1900, he having been a young man when he numbered himself among the pioneers in Harrison County, where, as a skilled millwright, he found much demand for his services in connection with the build-. ing of early mills in that section of the state. He was originally a man of great physical strength and vitality, but the hardships he endured while serving as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war so undermined his health that he never recuperated his powers, though he lived to attain to the psalmist's span of three score years and ten. His wife, whose maiden name was Lucy Ankrim, died at Freeport in 1880. The father of this sterling Ohio pioneer came from the North of Ireland and established his home in Pennsylvania, he having been of staunch Scotch ancestry. CHARLES EVERETT WHITE has been a substantial business man of Coolville, Athens County, for over forty years. He learned undertaking from his father, was one of the pioneer embalmers in his section of the state, and in later years his interests have extended to the ownership of a large department store and other business affairs. Mr. White was born at Coolville, August 27, 1860. His father was a carpenter and cabinet maker, and, as was the custom in those days, the local cabinet maker was also called upon to perform the duties of undertaker, making the coffins as occasion demanded. Charles E. White when a small child frequently held the light so that his father could see to perform the work in an emergency order for a coffin. His parents were James Leander and Ann (Lawrence) White. His grandfather was David White, of Muskingum County, who in early days moved with his family to Washington County. Ann Lawrence was born in New Hampshire, daughter of John and Kaziah Lawrence, who came to Ohio during her infancy. James L. White was born at Little Hocking in Washington County, Ohio, learned the carpenter 's trade, and at the age of twenty-one located at Coolville. When he Was twenty-two he married, and he set up in business for himself in 1858. A year or so later he volunteered as a Union soldier and served three years and four months, and for six months was a prisoner of war at Andersonville and Libby.- While in the service he was shot through the lung, a wound that eventually developed tuberculosis, and he died when only forty-two years of age, in 1878. He was the father of two sons, Charles E. and John, the latter dying in infancy. His daughters were : Lizzie, wife of J. H. Peters, a resident of California; Mary W., wife of Anderson Bentz; Cora, who died in childhood. Charles Everett White attended public schools at Coolville, and when not in school helped his father in business. After his father died he continued the work of undertaker, and subsequently secured a license as an embalmer. In his business as an undertaker a strong element of human kindliness has given distinction to the routine work of his profession, and he has done his duty to the rich and poor alike. In 1921 Mr. White organized the White, Sarson Company, and this company has built and maintains a depart-ent store at Coolville that would be creditable to a much larger town. Mr. White is president and general manager of the company. Mr. White in his younger years served two terms as township clerk. On September 19, 1881, he married Miss Nellie Yagala, daughter of G. Yagala, of Coolville. Mrs. White and their only child, Clyde L. White, are both associated in the business. Clyde graduated from Ohio University at the age of twenty-three, taught school in Coolville for a time, and during the World war he went overseas with Sanitary Train No. 8, and was a sergeant in this service at LeMons. CLYDE WALLACE KIRKLAND, M. D. Engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Bellaire for ten years, Doctor Kirkland has assumed unusual responsibilities in the public side of his profession, particularly public health work. He is president of the Belmont County Public Health League, and also a past president of the Ohio State Public Health League, one of the most vital organizations for the educational as well as the practical measures in the public health program. Doctor Kirkland was born on a farm in Mead Township of Belmont County, August 23, 1881. His father, Henry Palmer Kirkland, now seventy-four years of age, is a son of Samuel Kirkland, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and settled in Belmont County. Henry P. Kirkland, who was born in Mead Township in 1849, has devoted his life to farming. He married Theiza Jane Trimble, who was born in Belmont County in 1852. Clyde Wallace Kirkland grew up on the farm, attended public schools, and as a boy made a definite choice of a medical career. His liberal education was acquired in Marietta College and Academy, where he spent six years, graduating with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. During his college course he depended largely upon his own exertions, spending the summer vacations working on farms. After leaving Marietta College he entered Starling Ohio Medical College at Columbus, and was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1911. During his junior and senior years in medical college he was assistant histologist, and after graduating he remained a teacher in the Ohio State University Medical Laboratory and was associated in private practice with Doctor Horton of Columbus. He served an internship in Saint Francis Hospital in Columbus. Doctor Kirkland located, at Bellaire for private practice in 1913. While his work covers the general field of medicine and surgery, he is a recognized specialist in pediatrics, having taken post-graduate 326- HISTORY OF OHIO work in pediatrics in Chicago hospitals, and also in the post-graduate hospitals in New York City. He has served as president and in 1923 was elected secretary of the Belmont County Medical Society, and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the National Anesthetic Research Society. On September 5, 1918, Doctor Kirkland was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was sent to Camp Greenleaf for military training and subsequently to General Hospital No. 14 as anesthetist, serving in that capacity until his honorable discharge on May 3, 1919. He is a member of Bellaire Post No. 52 of the American Legion. Doctor Kirkland is a member of the staff and a director of the laboratory of the City Hospital at Bellaire. In 1920 he organized and was elected first president of the Belmont County Public, Health League, and in 1923 was chosen president of the Ohio State Public Association. He is unusually qualified for leadership in public health work. He has given much attention both in his private practice and as a public health worker to combating tuberculosis. Doctor Kirkland is a member of the Presbyterian Church, belongs to the Kiwanis Club and the Americus Club, and is affiliated with Ionic Lodge No. 438, Free and Accepted Masons, and Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He married Miss Ona Jebb, who was born and reared in Michigan, and is a leader in the woman's clubs and social service and public health movements, furnishing Doctor Kirkland important aid in cooperation in his work as a public health leader. Doctor and Mrs. Kirkland have two children, Clyde Wallace, Jr., and Elmer Jebb. CHARLES STUART MCDOUGALL, M. D. In the early years of his medical practice in Athens County, Doctor McDougall had his full share of the heavy labor demanded of the medical profession, including riding and driving over all but impossible roads, serving the needs of his patients without regard for any regular schedule of his own. He has spent all his life in Athens County, and is a member of one of the oldest families of that section of the state. He was born at the old family homestead in Ames Township, September 27, 1861. This homestead was settled by his grandparents, John and Hannah (McKinney) McDougall, in 1817. John McDougall, of Scotch parentage, was born in 1777, and was reared in a French neighborhood in Ontario, Canada. When he left there he could speak French better than English. On leaving Canada he went to New York City, where he was steward of the first hospital in that city, his wife acting in the capacity of matron. After five years in New York they came west to the wilderness of Ames Township, Athens County, finding but few other settlers in the entire township when they moved here. He entered land here, and distinguished himself as a typical citizen as well as a typical farmer, and did much toward establishing good schools and churches. He died at the age of seventy-seven. His wife, Hannah McKinney, was a cousin of Elizabeth Patterson, who married Jerome Bonaparte against the strenuous objections made by the Emperor Napoleon. Gilbert McMasters McDougall, father of Doctor McDougall, was born in Athens County in 1819, and died November 30, 1899, when eighty years of age. He acquired his early education in district schools, finished the civil engineering course in Ohio University at Athens, and did some surveying in early life. He then took charge of the home farm and looked after his parents, his older brother having gone West. His farm of 500 acres in Ames Township came to be pointed out as one of the best managed farms in the county. Re also took a very intelligent interest in public affairs, serving as township trustee, justice of the peace and for ten years held the office of county commissioner. No one before or since has served so long in that office in the county with such general satisfaction. Physically Gilbert McDougall was big and strong, weighing 220 pounds, and bore a marked resemblance to P. T. Barnum. lie also contrived a reputation for shrewd Scotch sense and wisdom, his advice being sought by his neighbors, and he moved as a real leader among the people. He was a high tariff republican in politics, and, like other generations of the family, was a Scotch Presbyterian. He belonged to the Masonic Order. Gilbert M. McDougall married Sarah Woodworth, who was born at Williamsfield in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and was twelve years of age when her parents moved to Athens County. She was a daughter of Zebina Woodworth. Her death occurred in 1901, at the age of seventy-six. Gilbert McDougall and wife had a family of three daughters, all now deceased, and two sons, both of whom are physicians. The other is Dr. John Gilbert McDougal, of New Lexington, Ohio, who, as noted, spells the family name with a slight difference from the custom that has prevailed in previous generations. Charles Stuart McDougall passed his early life at the old homestead farm, and attended the country schools and then Ohio University at Athens. He graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1883 from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, and received the same degree from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1885. Doctor McDougall for eighteen months practiced at Chillicothe, Ohio, and then for a period of five years was connected with the Ohio State Hospital at Athens, assistant to Superintendent Dr. Richardson. Since that period of public service he has devoted himself to private practice. Doctor McDougall has always been a lover of horses, and it was with considerable reluctance that he accepted the automobile to make his rounds of duty. He and his brother John are both of the slender type physically, energetic, and men of intellectual tendencies. His outside interests have been numerous. For ten years he was a director of the Pomeroy National Bank, was a member of the local school board seventeen years, has been a delegate to local, district and state republican conventions, is an Elk, and a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations. He served several years as secretary of the County Agricultural Board. However, by inclination he is decidedly a home man and has always cultivated the domestic comforts. Doctor McDougall married Katheryn Fisher, daughter of John and Sophie Fisher. Two children were born to their marriage, the son, Gilbert W., and daughter, Louise, but the latter died in childhood. The son Gilbert was educated in the Athens High School, in Ohio University, and did post-graduate work in Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin. He entered the Officers' Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison during the World war, was commissioned second lieutenant, and was trained with the Three Hundred Eighth Ammunition Train of the Eighty-third Division. While overseas he was at various fronts, including the Argonne Forest, and was slightly gassed, otherwise uninjured. He is now a structural engineer living at Greenville, Pennsylvania. He married Edna Sillers, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and has one daughter, Katheryn Jane McDougall, born August 12, 1923. HENRY CURTIS was a lad of about ten years at the time when the family home was established in Sandusky, Ohio, and here he has maintained his residence during the long intervening years, save for a HISTORY OF OHIO - 327 brief interval passed in California. He is here a prominent representative of the wholesale and retail oil business, as president of the Curtis Oil Company, which he organized in October,. 1922, and which is incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. He is president also of the Peoples Loan & Savings Cornpany and chairman of its appraising committee. Mr. Curtis was born in the fair old city of Detroit, Michigan, and the year of his nativity was 1867. He is a son of James William and Catherine (Ryan) Curtis, the former of whom was born in Toronto, Canada, and the latter in Ireland. Their marriage was solemnized in Detroit, Michigan, where they remained until 1877, becoming then permanent residents of Sandusky, Ohio, where Mr. Curtis is now living retired from active business. He learned the cooper 's trade in his youth, and followed the same a number of years. The death of Mrs. Curtis occurred in October, 1921. Henry Curtis attended the public schools until he was thirteen years old, and his broader education has been that acquired in the school of practical experience and service. He learned the cooper 's trade, largely under the direction of his father, and he was employed at this trade in Sandusky until 1889, when he went to California. In that state he followed his trade about six months, and he then returned to Sandusky, which has continued the stage of his successful business activities during the intervening years. In 1901 he here engaged in the jobbing and retail oil business, and for seven years he here had charge of the local business of the Standard Oil Company, which corporation purchased his. interest at the expiration of the period noted. He resigned his position with the Standard Oil Company in October, 1922, and forthwith effected the organization of the Curtis Oil Company, of which he has since continued the president, F. W. Ohlemacher being vice president, and Albert Ritter, the secretary and treasurer. With the best of facilities and with effective service in both wholesale and retail departments this company has developed a substantial oil business and receives a representative supporting patronage. The progressiveness of the Curtis Oil Company has been shown in its establishing of a free camping ground for automobile tourists who visit Sandusky. This camp-ground has been fitted with modern conveniences and accessories, and is attractively situated at the junction of the Lincoln Highway and McKinley Street, in the eastern part of Sandusky. The advantages of this camping ground have met with high appreciation on the part of tourists, and its establishing indicates the civic loyalty and progressiveness of the principals of the Curtis Oil Company. In connection with his other activities Mr. Curtis has for a number of years given attention to the handling of real estate in and near his home city. He is one of the liberal and valued members of the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Erie County Automobile Club, is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers, and is found staunchly arrayed as a supporter of the cause of the democratic party, as a representative of which he was for six years a member of the City Council. May 21, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Curtis and Miss Amelia Steible, who was born and reared in Sandusky and who is a daughter of Capt. John and Mary (Ruemmele) Steible. Captain Steible was for many years commander of vessels on the Great Lakes, and was a prominent figure in navigation circles at the time of his death, in March, 1924, his widow being still a resident of Sandusky. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have two children : Nellie is the wife of Walter J. Bender, of Bellevue, Huron County, and Kenneth Earl remains at the parental home. THOMAS HENRY STOFFEL, who is engaged in the general real estate and insurance business at Saint Clairsville, Belmont County, and who has important interests in connection with oil production in this part of Ohio, was born near Bergzabern, Rhineland district of Bavaria, Germany, on the 1st of July, 1864, and in the same locality were born his parents, Balthasar and Christina (Gerhardstein) Stoffel. The father passed the closing period of his life at Crabapple, Ohio, where he died in 1910, at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, his wife having died in Monroe County, Ohio, when she was sixty-six years of age. Balthasar Stoffel became a prosperous merchant in his native land, where he continued to reside until 1880, coming then with his family to the United States and settling on a farm near Leavisville, Monroe County, Ohio. Later he continued his farm enterprise in Perry Township, that county, and upon removal to Belmont County he became one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in Washington Township. He was a man of sterling character and ever commanded popular confidence and esteem in the land of his adoption. He was a strong advocate of prohibition as touching the liquor traffic, and he and his wife were zealous communicants of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Stoffel never learned to speak the English language, he having been somewhat more than sixty years of age when he came to the United States. Thomas H. Stoffel gained his early education in the schools of his native land, and was sixteen years of age at the time of the family immigration to the United States. In Monroe County, Ohio, he profited by the advantages of the public schools and also those of a normal school at Antioch, where he also gave effective service as a teacher of German and penmanship. He initiated his independent career on a small farm in Washington Township, Belmont County, and there he gave nine years of efficient administration in the office of township clerk. While still. engaged in farm enterprise he amplified his activities by selling farm machinery, as well as stoves, ranges and other household supplies. As a specially fine penman he found demand for service also in the teaching of penmanship. One of his feats in penmanship was in a contest for the writing legibly of the greatest number of words on a standard postal card. Mr. Stoffel won, having written the first and second chapters and the first eighteen verses of the third chapter of Saint John. He also wrote the Lord 's Prayer, name and address on a three-quarter-inch square. Mr. Stoffel graduated from Scio College in Penmanship in 1893, also receiving a diploma from Bixler Business College at Wooster, Ohio. While still residing on his farm Mr. Stoffel engaged also in the securing of leases for oil and natural gas production. His strong hold upon popular confidence and respect in Washington Township was shown in his long retention of the office of township clerk in this republican township, notwithstanding that he is a democrat in his political allegiance. In 1911 Mr. Stoffel moved to Saint Clairsville, the county seat, and here he served four years as chief deputy in the office of the county recorder. In 1916 he was the democratic candidate for the office of county recorder, but in an automobile accident he received injuries that prevented him from making an active campaign, with the result that he was defeated in the election. Since 1916 Mr. Stoffel has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Saint Clairsville, and his initiative energy and progressive policies have enabled him to build up a large and important business in the handling of village and farm properties and in furthering the development and upbuilding of Saint Clairsville. He has been prominent also in the handling of coal and 328 - HISTORY OF OHIO oil lands. Mr. Stoffel platted, improved and placed on the market the Stoffel and East Lawn additions to Saint Clairsville. His East Lawn tract, comprising 126 acres, was formerly a farm lying adjacent to Saint Clairsville, and he has made the same one of the finest residential districts of the county seat. In connection with oil and gas production Mr. Stoffel has important interests in both Monroe and Belmont counties, Ohio, and also in Kentucky. He organized the Wayne Oil & Gas Company, which is operating in Wayne Township, Belmont County, and the Hooppole Oil & Gas Company, operating in Monroe County. He and his wife are zealous members of the Thoburn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee, besides being a member of the Men 's Bible Class. He was a member of the Official Board at the time of the building of the beautiful new church edifice in 1921. Mr. Stoffel is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Grange. Though of German nativity, he evinced the highest type of American loyalty in the World war period, was active and liberal in the advancing of local patriotic service, and had kinsfolk in both the American and German armies. He is a leader in movements for the advancements of the city and county that represent his home, and in this connection it may be noted that he was one of the first to advocate the establishing of automobile bus service between Saint Clairsville and the City of Wheeling, West Virginia. Mr. Stoffel has read widely and with discrimination, and through this medium has gained a liberal education and a fine intellectual ken. Mrs. Stoffel, whose maiden name was Mary L. Robertson, was born and reared in Smith Township, Belmont County, and is a daughter of the late Frank Robertson. Mr. Robertson was a member of a Maryland regiment in the Civil war, and in later years was actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he came to Ohio and became identified with the coal mining operations. Mr. and Mrs. Stoffel have three daughters, Beulah, Mary and Olive, and the two younger daughters remain at the parental home, Miss Mary being an assistant in the office of her father. Beulah is the wife of Thoburn R. Stewart, a progressive farmer near Saint Clairsville, and they have two children: Thomas Ray and Robert. ZALMON O. SHERWOOD, M. D., has been established in the successful practice of his profession at Geneva, Ashtabula County, for more than a decade past, save for the period of his service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army in connection with the nation's participation in the World war. The Doctor has developed a substantial and representative general practice, and maintains his offices in the Munger Block. Doctor Sherwood was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, on the 7th of February, 1886. His father, Horace A. Sherwood, Doctor of Medicine, was born at Unionville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, in the year 1856, and his death occurred in the City of Cleveland, this state, in 1898, his remains being laid to rest in the cemetery at Unionville, his native place. Dr. Horace A. Sherwood was reared at Unionville, and received his early education in the schools of Ashtabula County. In 1876 he was graduated from the medical department of Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, and after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Madison, Ohio, until 1885, when he removed to Westerly, Rhode Island, which place continued the stage of his professional ministrations until 1891, when he returned to his native town of Unionville, the remainder of his life having been passed in Ohio. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Walding, was born at Madison, Ohio, in 1858, and her death occurred at Westerly, Rhode Island, February 15, 1886, only a few days after the birth of her son, Zalmon 0., who figures as the immediate subject of this review. Mrs. Sherwood was a member of the first class to be graduated in the high school at Madison, Ohio, that of 1876. Horace A., elder of the two children, resides at Akron, Ohio, where he holds a position with the Akron Beacon-Journal, a leading daily newspaper in that city. Zalmon Sherwood, grandfather of Dr. Zalmon O. Sherwood, was born in the State of Vermont, in 1825, and died at Unionville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, in the year 1906. He was a young man when he came to Ohio, and was a pioneer in the merchant-tailoring business at Unionville, where he and his wife continued to maintain their home until their death. Zalmon Sherwood married Miss Ellen Sherwood, who likewise was born in Vermont, and who was a representative of the same family line as was her husband. On the paternal side Doctor Sherwood is of the fourth generation ir direct descent from Colonel Alexander Harper, who served as a gallant officer in the war of the Revolution and who became a pioneer settler in the Western Reserve of Ohio, he having made the journey from Vermont with an ox cart and having arrived at his destination in June, his death occurring in the following September and he having been the first white man to be buried within the confines of historic old Western Reserve. His remains rest in the old-time burying plot at Unionville, Ashtabula County. The Sherwood family was founded in Vermont in the Colonial period of our national history, and the ancestral line traces back to sterling English origin. In the high school at Madison, Lake County, Ohio, the school in which his mother had been a member of the first graduating class, Dr. Zalmon 0. Sherwood was graduated as a member of the class of 1903. About one year later he entered Adelbert College, and from this institution he received in 1908 his degree of Bachelor of Arts. In preparation for his chosen profession he then entered the Medical School of Western Reserve University, and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1911, he having there become affiliated with the Nu Sigma Nu medical college fraternity. In 1910-11, before his graduation, Doctor Sherwood had given a period of service as an interne in St. Alexis Hospital at Cleveland, where he gained valuable clinical experience. In 1911-12 he was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital at Cleveland, and thus he gained further practical experience after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine and before initiating the private practice of his profession. Upon severing his connection with the Marine Hospital Doctor Sherwood established his residence and professional headquarters at Geneva, which has since continued the central stage of his successful service as a skilled physician and surgeon, except for his interval of patriotic interposition in the nation's service in the World war period. In 1914, without solicitation or desire on his part, he was elected coroner of Ashtabula County, an office which he immediately resigned, owing to the exactions of his rapidly expanding private practice. The Doctor is a loyal and popular member of the Ashtabula County Medical Society, besides being identified with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a republican in political allegiance, and in the Masonic fraternity his affiliations are with Geneva Lodge No. 334, Free and Accepted Masons; Geneva Chapter No. 147, Royal Arch Masons; and Painesville Council, Royal and Select Masters. At the judicial center of his home county the Doctor holds membership in Ashta- HISTORY OF OHIO - 329 bula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In May, 1917, only a few months after America entered the World war, Doctor Sherwood enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He was stationed three months at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, thereafter passed six weeks in service at Oklahoma City, Okalahoma, whence he was transferred to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he remained from January to March, 1918. His final service was at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, Louisiana, where he remained until December 1, 1918, when he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of captain. In addition to his attractive home property, at 51 S. Broadway, Geneva, Doctor Sherwood owns a farm near Madison, Lake County, and a summer cottage at Geneva-on-the-Lake, and an attractive property at the corner of Walnut and Grant streets. June 21, 1915, at Sharon, Pennsylvania, Doctor Sherwood wedded Miss Della G. Owen, daughter of James D. and Elizabeth (Jones) Owen, the former of whom has been a successful coal-mine owner and operator, with mines in Carroll County, Ohio. His death occurred at Cleveland, this state, and his widow is now a resident of Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Sherwood was graduated from the Cleveland Kindergarten Training School, and for four years prior to her marriage had been a popular teacher in the schools at Geneva. Doctor and Mrs. Sherwood have two children: Elizabeth Ann was born at Alexandria, Louisiana, November 21, 1918, and Zalmon O., Jr., was born at Geneva, Ohio, May 13, 1922. GEN. PERRY L. NULL, commander of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Sandusky, is one of the veterans of the Spanish-American war, and a man whose loyalty and patriotism have been proven in times of peace as they were when this country was at war. He was born at Genoa, Ohio, December 29, 1877, a son of Levi and Emeline (Showwalter) Null, natives of Ohio, farming people, both of whom are now deceased. Trained for the work of a school-teacher in the public schools, and in the Angola, Indiana Normal School, when he was only eighteen years old, Perry L. Null secured his teacher 's license and commenced teaching. His peaceful occupation, however, was broken in upon by the declaration of war with Spain, and in April, 1898, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry as a private. His military training was given him at Camp Mount, Indiana, and Chickamauga, Tennessee. Subsequently he was sent to Tampa, Florida, and after three months at that port he was transferred to Fernandina, Florida, and he received his honorable discharge from the service in November, 1898, and returned to his school-teaching. The schoolroom, however, could not hold the returned soldier, and he went on the road as a traveling salesman for Arbuckle's sugar and coffee, continuing this work for eight years. It was at the termination of this period that he began his connection with the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Sandusky, when he contracted to supply the home with vegetables, and conducted his own market garden. From then on he has been associated with the home, and November 1, 1921, was appointed commander of the home with the rank of brigadier general. General Null married in February, 1909, Dorothy Sturzinger, a daughter of Gottlieb C. and Dorothy Sturzinger, natives of Germany, both of whom are deceased. General and Mrs. Null have two children, Virginia Alice and Doris Kathryn. General Null belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a republican. High in Masonry, he has been advanced through the thirty-second degree in the Consistory, Scottish Rite, and belongs to the Shrine at Toledo. He is also a member of Sandusky Lodge Number 285, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, Northern Ohio District. JOSEPH ADDISON OKEY. The name Okey has been a familiar one at the bar of Noble County more than seventy years, and many of the best honors of the profession have gone to the late William C. Okey or his son, Joseph A. Okey. The Okey family has been in Ohio since 1801, before the state was carved from Northwest Territory. James Okey, grandfather of Joseph A. Okey, served as a magistrate for twenty-one years in Noble County, and was also in the Ohio Legislature for two terms. The late William Crawford Okey, who was born August 24, 1828, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He first practiced at Sarahsville, then the county seat, and was clerk of court from 1855 to 1858. With the removal of the county seat to Caldwell in 1858 he transferred his residence to that point and then resumed law practice. Soon after the Civil war broke out he raised Company E of the Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, and went to the front with the rank of first lieutenant. He was in the service until disabled and discharged in 1863. He then resumed his law practice at Caldwell, and from 1866 to 1882 was a member of the firm Okey and Belford. Following that he practiced alone, and finally was associated with his son Joseph A., until he retired. He died in 1910. William C. Okey was a bank director, was a leader in all civic movements, was active in democratic politics and a Member of the Baptist Church and the Masonic fraternity. William C. Okey married Ruth Caldwell. She died in 1905, aged seventy-five. Her grandfather, Robert Caldwell, was a soldier in the American Revolution, and was a pioneer in Southeastern Ohio, living for a few years in Washington County and in 1809 came to Noble County and entered the first lands in Olive Township. Joseph Caldwell, father of Mrs. William C. Okey, owned lands on which part of the Town of Caldwell was built. Joseph Addison Okey was born at Caldwell, January 9, 1861. He was educated in the public schools there, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1885, then studied law with his father. He graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from the Cincinnati Law College in 1887. Following that he was associated in practice with his father, and from 1905 to 1913 was with Lewis B. Frazier. Since 1913 he has practiced alone. For over thirty years he has stood with the leaders in volume of practice and individual abilities at the Noble County bar. He served as a member of the Fourth Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1912, and has taken a leading part in democratic politics, being a member of the State Central Committee in 1896 and again in 1920, and has been chairman of the County Central and County Executives committees. During the World war he was a member of the Southern Ohio District Draft Board No. 1 and was chairman of the fifth Victory loan drive. Outside of his professional work he is attached to home, and gets recreation from his work with poultry and flowers and in hunting. He is a deacon in the Baptist Church, and from 1913 to 1923 was superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a Lodge and Encampment degree Odd Fellow, being a past noble grand of Olive Lodge No. 259, and has been district deputy grand master and representative to the Grand Lodge. Mr. Okey married, on August 28, 1889, Laura Collins, who was born at Carlisle in Noble County. Her father the late William W. Collins, was a farmer, 330 - HISTORY OF OHIO tobacco merchant and prominent business man, and served as county commissioner. DENNIS T. MURRAY, now a prominent and honored railway official in the City of Youngstown, initiated his career in railway service in the dignified capacity of water boy for a section gang on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and it has been entirely through his own ability and faithful service that he has advanced step by step in the long intervening years and has finally become the incumbent of his present important official position, that of general agent of traffic and transportation for the New York Central lines, with executive headquarters in the City of Youngstown. Mr. Murray was born in the City of Ripley, New York, November 13, 1854, and is son of Thomas and Teresa (Burke) Murray, who were born in Ireland and whose marriage was solemnized after they had come to the United States, they having been residents of Pennsylvania at the time of their death and the father having been a veteran in railroad service. The early educational advantages of Dennis T. Murray were limited to a somewhat curtailed attendance in the public schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, and there, at the age of twelve years, he found employment as water boy on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Later he became a track laborer, and after four years of service in this capacity he was a switchman one year. His ambition was not one of static order, and, looking to advancement, he learned telegraphy, with characteristic thoroughness, with the result that he became a skilled operator and served as such at different points on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, which is now a part of the great New York Central system, with which he is at present associated. After having been thus employed for a period of eight years he served six years as telegraph manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, at Erie, Pennsylvania. He next held, for three years, the position of train dispatcher at Buffalo, New York, and he was then advanced to the position of chief train dispatcher for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern in that city. Seven years later he was promoted to the position of train master of the same railroad on the line between Buffalo and Cleveland, and two years later he was transferred to Youngstown and made superintendent of the division of the New York Central lines south of Ashtabula, Ohio. After eighteen years as division superintendent he was promoted to the position of assistant general superintendent, as well as chairman of the Car Service Committee for all railroads at Youngstown during the war. In 1920 he was appointed to his present office, that of general agent of traffic and transportation for the New York Central lines at Youngstown, besides which he is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lake Erie, & Eastern Railroad, a freight-switching system that is a part of the New York Central lines. He is a member of the Special Committee on Railroad Relations to Legislation Touching the State of Ohio. Mr. Murray is an active, loyal and valued member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, and is serving (1924) as a member of its diversified industrial committee. He is independent in politics, and while never ambitious for public office he served two years as president of thc Select Council of. the City of Erie, Pennsylvania. He is affiliated with Youngstown Lodge No. 55, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Youngstown Council No. 455, Knights of Columbus, and he and his wife and their son are communicants of St. Edward's Catholic Church. In the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Murray and Miss Nellie F. Hannon, who was born and reared at Erie, Pennsylvania, and who is a daughter of William and Mary Hannon, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter in Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Murray became the parents of two children, of whom the first, Florence, died at the age of eight years. The son, Philip B., is now engaged in the oil business in Youngstown. EDWARD E. SHAFER, of Nelsonville, comes of a family of men with a natural genius for business in mercantile lines. Mr. Shafer is a member of the C. D. Shafer Company, wholesale grocers, operating two houses, one at Nelsonville and one at Athens. Edward E. Shafer has charge of the Nelsonville busi- ness, where the firm started many years ago. Mr. Shafer was born at Beaumont in Athens County, March 18, 1872, son of George Van Sickle and Margaret (Shoemaker) Shafer. His father was born near Trenton, New Jersey, in February, 1839, son of David and Margaret (Ciders) Shafer. David Shafer was the son of a soldier in the War of 1812. When George Shafer was a boy his father, David, and the latter 's brother-in-law, Wesley Ciders, brought their families to Ohio. They had a two-horse team and vehicle and one horse hitched to a lighter vehicle, and they traveled over the old national highway. George was permitted to ride half of each day, and the rest of the time he walked. On reaching Athens County they evaded Nelsonville, which was considered a dangerous place, and drove through Coe Hollow to their destination. Their settlement was on land near the present site of Chauncey, and the family attended the Old Factory 'Union Church. George V. Shafer as a youth was made a permanent cripple by inflammatory rheumatism. For three years he worked in the David Zenner store at Athens. David Zenner was one of the old-time business men who bought and sold everything. Afterwards George V. Shafer had a little store at Beaumont, and in 1879 moved to Nelsonville and opened his modest shop in a room 8x10 feet on Washington Street. Later he opened a store on the square, and about 1883 built a storeroom and home on Fayette Street. He continued active in business there uutil his death in June, 1911. His wife, Margaret Shoemaker, was born near Jerseyville, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Shoemaker, the Shoemakers being also New Jersey people. Margaret Shoemaker was eleven years younger than George V. Shafer. The Shafer family' were visitors at the Shoemaker home when Margaret was an infant, and the youthful George was then informed that the baby girl was his little wife. She died in 1919. George Shafer was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the twelve children in the family the oldest and youngest died in infancy, and the other ten are still living: Edward E.; Eva, widow of George Silcott, of Columbus, Ohio ; Lou, at the old home; H. W., who conducted a store at the old home ; Dow F., a coal operator living in Columbus; Clint D., whose business career is sketched elsewhere; Mabel, at the old home; Eugene, in the retail coal business in Columbus Donald, who conducts a cigar and news stand at Nelsonville; and Cecil, owner of a confectionery store in Nelsonville. The oldest son, Edward E. Shafer, began assisting his father in the business at the age of fifteen, He attended the public schools of Nelsonville, and as a youth he made regular trips, rain or shine, with the huckster wagon for ten years, his territory being through Buchtel, Orbitson, Jobs and other places. When he was thirty years old he opened a coal mine at Floodwood, and operated it eight years, and then sold out to the New York Coal Company and remained in charge of the mine as its manager for six years longer. For a period of four years he operated a HISTORY OF OHIO - 331               dairy farm at Coe Hollow, and then became associated with his brother C. D. in the wholesale grocery business. For several years he was a traveling salesman of the firm, calling on the trade every week. In October, 1922, they took over the Stedman Wholesale Grocery Store at Athens, and his brother Clint then took active charge of the Athens department of the business, while Edward E. remains in charge of the Nelsonvillc store. Mr. Shafer is also secretary-treasurer of the Tipton-Shafer Land Company, of Hawks, Vinton County, is secretary-treasurer of the Shafer Coal Company, and secretary-treasurcr of the Carbondale Oil and Gas Company, of Hocking County. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the Masonic Order. In 1896 Mr. Shafer married Miss Lydia Warehein, daughter of Jacob Warehein, of Athens County. They have one daughter, Hazel, who married Edward Kitzenbach. Mr. Kitzenbach is a mining man living at Nelsonville and is associated with Edward E. Shafer in the ownership of the local theatre. WILLIAM T. BEAN. One of the oldest and most prominent families in Athens County is that of Bean. William T. Bean, of the third generation, has been a competent business man for many years. He assisted in organizing the Citizcns Central Bank of Nclsonville, and has been its cashier from the beginning. His father, O. W. Bean, was president of that bank up to the time of his death. Mr. Bean was born at the end of the bridge two miles east of Nelsonville, at his father 's farm known as the Monday Creek Farm. This place was hewn out of the wilderness of heavy timber by his grandfather, William Bean, from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He bought land here, paying at the rate of 50 cents an acre for that on the hills and $1.00 an acre for that in the valley. He clearcd the place and erected a log cabin, and to this introduced his young bride, whom he had married in Virginia. They were active Methodists, and when they went to church he carried a rifle for protcction. William Bean died in middle age. Oliver W. Bean, his son, was also born on the Monday Creek Farm, in 1841, and he kept the old homestead. 0. W. Bean had a brother, Martin, who lived at Albany in Athens County, and who dicd at the age of seventy. He also had a sister, Mary, who became the wife of Joshua Jackson, a farm owner on Monday Creek, four miles north of Nclsonville. 0. W. Bean during his youth suffered the accidcntal loss of an eye, and consequently was ineligible for servicc as a soldier in the Civil war. As a young man he began trading in live stock, and that was his business for a long period of years. He shipped cattle to market and also bought live stock and carried on an extensive business. Later he bought and sold coal lands. Public spirit and generosity were among his strong characteristics, and he helpcd many a poor man to own a home. A republican, he voted for those he considered best fitted for office. 0. W. Bean, who died in 1914, first married Mary Jane Jones, of an old family of the Sunday Creek Valley. She died in 1869, when her son William T. was three years old. The second wife of 0. W. Bean was Lizzie Courtney, who was born near Athens, and died in 1918. By the first marriage there were five children, namely: Ida, of Nelsonville, widow of Robert E. Jewett; Esther, wife of W. W. Young, of Nelsonville; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Ed. H. Davis and lives on a farm near Nelsonville; Stanley I., who was a coal operator and died at Nelsonville in 1890. William T. Bean, who finished his education in the Nelsonville High School at the age of nineteen, had much to do with the work of the home farm while growing up. When he left home he became an em ploye of the East Clayton Clay Manufacturing Company near Nelsonville, being bookkeeper and store manager, and subsequently was store manager for the Maple Hill Coal Company. He had his office at Nelsonville. He resigned from the coal company to help establish the Citizens Central Bank, and with him as cashier this institution has steadily grown and prospered and is one of the strong banks of Athens County. In 1900 he married Miss Mary Washburne, daughter of Charles E. Washburne, of Nelsonville. Mr. Bean is a liberal democrat in politics. Like his father he is a good judge of men, and has found pleasure in helping his neighbors and friends, and many go to him for business advice. LLOYD GERHARDT DITZLER has had a very progressive business career, formerly was in the railroad service, and for over ten years has been at Woodsfield, Ohio, identified with one of the leading oil companies in the Middle West. Mr. Ditzler was born at Taneytown in Carroll County, Maryland, November 1, 1886, son of Rev. Henry and Lillie (Wehler) Ditzler. His mother now lives at Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania. Rev. Henry Ditzler, who died at the age of sixty-five, was born in Pennsylvania, was educated at Lancaster, taught school, and as a young man entered the ministry of thc Reformed Church. In the course of his active career he held pastorates at Taneytown, Maryland, Mount Jackson, Virginia, and Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania. Lloyd Gerhardt Ditzler was the second of threc children, and acquired his early education in the schools at Mount Jackson, Virginia. When fifteen years old he learned telegraphy, and during the next nine years was employed as a telegraph operator by the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railway companies. He left railroading to become clerk in the shipping department of the H. C. Frick Coal Company, and then for a short time was with the Standard Oil Company in the Pittsburgh office. On March 4, 1913, he came to Woodsfield, Ohio, as purchasing agent for the Pure Oil Company, and still performs those responsibilities. At Woodsfield Mr. Ditzler has also taken an active part in civic affairs. He is chairman of the Monroe County Republican Executive Committee, a member of the Kiwanis Club, and has membership in the Reformcd Church, although there is no church of that denomination at Woodsfield. Perhaps his greatest hobby and subject of study is Masonry, and he is very prominent in the order. He was master of Woodsfield Lodge No. 189, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1919, served as district lecturer in the Eighteenth Masonic District in 1920-21, and in 1923 was again chosen master of Woodsfield Lodge. He is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Council at Barnesville, and at Columbus has affiliation with Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Ditzler married, January 29, 1913, Matilda Datz, who was born and reared in Pittsburgh. Her father, Jacob Datz, was a professor of music. ALBERT C. CLOSE, with offices in the Ritter Building at Sandusky, Ohio, has been so closely identified with the official affairs and business life of Erie County for the last thirty years that perhaps there is no bettcr known citizen of the state. He was born at Sandusky on February 4, 1876, son of John Henry and Louisa (Erckman) Close. His parents were both born in Germany, and his grandfathers, Jacob Close and Jacob Erckman, were early settlers in Sandusky. John Henry Close was a foundryman by occupation, and died in 1899, his wife passing away in 1896. 332 - HISTORY OF OHIO Albert C. Close was reared in Sandusky, attended the public schools there until the age of eighteen, and soon afterward began what was destined to bet one of the longest periods of public service in county annals. For twelve years he served in the various offices of the Erie County Court House, finally resigning his position as deputy sheriff to take over the general insurance agency of H. F. Spencer, thus becoming proprietor of what is the oldest insurance agency at Sandusky. The broad training and experience he gained while serving the public gave him such a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of county affairs that many prominent men have paid him the tribute of being "the best versed man in public affairs of Erie County." In addition to his insurance business he has been an active real estate broker and promoter, and has been very influential in the development and progressive growth of real estate values in his home town and county. His inherent real estate instinct and complete understanding of real estate conditions have made him an invaluable asset to his community and won for him a preeminent place among real estate men of the state. His office handles abstracts of title and financing of loans, in connection with its real estate enterprises. Mr. Close married, October 28, 1902, Miss Walla Young, daughter of Judge Stephen M. and Belle (Wagner) Young, of Norwalk, Ohio. They have three children: Albert Stephen, a student at the University of Pennsylvania ; Isabelle W. and Robert John. Mr. Close is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Sandusky, Ohio. He has served on the board of elections and has also acted in the capacity of chairman and secretary of the city and county central republican committees for a number of years, and at the time of the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency, on the progressive ticket, served as county chairman, being instrumental in piling up a huge vote for that party. Since 1907 he has been keeper of records and seals of the local Knights of Pythias Lodge and has actively entered into the Grand Lodge work of that lodge in the state. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery and the Shrine. He is a member of the Sunyendeand Club, Chamber of Commerce, Sandusky Yacht Club, Plum Brook Country Club, and is a charter member and director of the Sandusky Rotary Club. HON. EDMUND B. KING. Both as jurist and lawyer, Hon. Edmund B. King has distinguished himself, and is recognized as one of the leading and most representative men of Sandusky and Erie County. Many honors of a professional and private character have been bestowed upon him, but he has always proven able to cope with added responsibilities, and today the firm of which he is the dignified senior is one of the strongest in Ohio. Judge King was born at Medina, Ohio, July 4, 1850, a son of Cyrus and Harriet (Bennett) King, he born at Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, and she at Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio. The paternal grandparents, Joel King and his wife, were born in Rhode Island, while the maternal grandfather, Timothy Bennett, was born in Medina County, Ohio, and all were farming people. Cyrus King was a farmer and carpenter and builder. When he was of age he came to Wadsworth, Ohio, worked at his trade, and there was married in 1849. For a number of years he was engaged in farming, and after his retirement he lived at Medina, where his death occurred March 29, 1903. The mother of Judge King died in 1852, and the father later married Clymina Porter, who is also deceased. Judge King attended the local schools and Medina Academy and Oberlin Academy, the latter now Baldwin-Wallace University. When only twenty years old he commenced the study of law in the office of Wickham & Wildman at Norwalk, Ohio, and he was admitted to the bar in August, 1873. In October of that year he was elected prosecuting attorney of Medina County. In 1875 he came to Sandusky and became associated in private practice in partnership with Mr. Bowen, under the firm name of Bowen & King, and then he and E. M. Culver formed the firm of Culver & King, and this association was maintained for eight years. Upon its dissolution the firm became King & Hull, but with Judge King's elevation to the circuit bench, three years later, the partnership was terminated by mutual consent. During the five years he was on the bench Judge King served with dignified capability, and then, resigning, resumed his private practice, first under the firm name of King & Guerin. Four years later the name was changed to King & Ramsey, and still later J. F. Flynn and Joseph G. Pyle were taken into partnership. Offices are maintained in the Masonic Temple, and a very large practice is carried on, a number of very important cases being handled by this firm annually. Judge King has also rendered additional public service as a member of the city council for four years, being elected to that office on the republican ticket. In 1888 he had the distinction of being one of the presidential electors in the college which elected Benjamin Harrison president of the United States. He also served as a member of the Fourth Constitutional Convention of Ohio, held in 1912. Judge King has attained to the highest honors in Masonry, as the thirty-third degree, Scottish Rite, has been conferred upon him. He has held all of the offices in the blue lodge, chapter and commandery at Sandusky, and is past grand commander of the State of Ohio, and also belongs to Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Cleveland, Ohio, and the consistory at Toledo, Ohio. His fraternal affiliations are not confined to the Masonic order, however, as he also is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor commander, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is president (1924) of the Plum Brook Country Club, of the Kiwanis Club and the Sandusky Community Fund. Originating the Erie County Chapter of the Red Cross, he has served it as president since 1917. In fact it would be difficult to mention any worthy or public-spirited project with which he is not now, or has been in the past, a moving factor, for he possesses a strong sense of personal responsibility, and believes it his duty to do all that lies in his power to assist in advancing the community welfare, and raising the standard of morals of its people. On February 26, 1874, at Milan, Ohio, Judge King married Miss Emma E. Hackett, born at Norwalk, Ohio. Judge and Mrs. King became the parents of the following children: Cora, who married Thadeus Graves, has three children: Elizabeth, who is residing with her grandfather, and Edmund and Janet, both of whom are students; Capt. Clifford M., who died at Cleveland, Ohio, January 2, 1922, leaving a widow, but no children. By profession he was a civil engineer, and served as city engineer of Sandusky for three years, and as surveyor of Erie County for two years. When war broke out between this country and Spain, in 1898, he enlisted and served throughout the Spanish-American war, with the rank of sergeant. During the World war he commanded a company, and was in France for a year. The death of this brilliant man and brave HISTORY OF OHIO - 333 soldier occasioned deep regret to those who appreciated his worth and the sacrifices he had made for his country. W. B. GOLDEN has rounded out forty years of active and continuous connection with the Bank of Athens, one of the oldest and most substantial financial institutions in the southern part of the state. He is vice president of the bank, and has held almost every possible position in its service. Mr. Golden was born at Athens, December 10, 1857. His grandparents were William and Jane (Crossen) Golden. William Golden was a native of Ireland, and on coming to America settled in Pennsylvania, and then moved to Ohio. He was a plasterer by trade, but for many years operated a farm in Athens dounty. He became a man of distinction here, serving as sheriff of the county and later as mayor of Athens. He . was an active democrat. He died in 1888, at the age of eighty-eight years, having survived his wife. Three of their sons were in the Union army, and all of them attained commissions as officers. Columbus Golden was killed in battle in Missouri, and the Grand Army post at Athens is named in his honor. The son John, who lived in Meigs County, Ohio, was in the infantry branch of the service. These two sons remained faithful to their father 's example in political allegiance and always* voted as democrats. Maj. Elmer Golden was the first member of the family to become a republican. He was born in Alexander Township of Athens County, in 1835, was educated in the local schools, including Ohio University, and before the war was in business as a merchant at Athens, associated with David Zenner. When the war came on he organized Company A of the Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with that regiment throughout the struggle. He was promoted to the rank of major. He was in the battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and many other sanguinary engagements. For a brief time after the war he was in business in Cincinnati, after which he was a hardware merchant in Jackson, Ohio, until 1868, and then removed to Kansas and became a hardware merchant in the pioneer town of Garnett. In 1874 he left Kansas and returning to Athens operated a hotel, was a grocery merchant and for nine years held the office of county recorder. The death of Maj. Elmer Golden occurred in 1914. His first wife, Mary Parker Cooley, died in 1862. In 1866 he married Hattie Butin, daughter of Jaco.b Butin. She now lives at Logan, Ohio. Maj. Elmer Golden's two children were by his first marriage. W. B. Holden, whose sister is Bessie G. Cable, was only five years old when his mother died. He began his education in Athens, later attended school at Jackson, Ohio, and also in Kansas, and after his father returned to Ohio he was a student in Ohio University. He also helped his father in the hotel, and in 1880 became an employe of the establishment of F. C. Stedman Company. It was on August 28, 1882, that Mr. Golden went on the pay roll of the Bank of Athens. At first he was a utility man, sweeping out and making the fires in addition to various clerical duties. Since then he has filled such offices as bookkeeper, assistant cashier, cashier, and vice president. The Bank of Athens has been operated as a national bank since 1909, but it still retains the old name, which is the object of so much confidence on the part of its patrons. Mr. Golden is also a director of the Security Savings Bank of Athens. He held the office of city clerk fourteen years, and is now a member of the sinking fund board. He is a Master Mason and Elk, and a member of the Country Club, his favorite recreation being golf. In 1887 Mr. Golden married Miss Cora A. Port, of Athens. They were ideally mated and have many things in common, and they exemplified the wise rule to retain the spirit of youth by constantly mingling with the young. Their home for years was a place of entertainment for students of Ohio University. Mr. Golden had the great misfortune to lose his wife by death in 1913. Their only son is James Brown Golden, now a captain in the Sixth Field Artillery in the United States Army, stationed at Camp Hoyle, Maryland. Captain Golden was educated in Ohio University and in other schools, and for nine years was in the oil production industry in Oklahoma and other points in the Southwest. He entered the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Leavenworth, was commissioned a second lieutenant, and was in training at many points over the country and abroad, and in various branches of the service. He spent two years overseas. While on the battle line at Chateau-Thierry he was promoted to the rank of captain. At the signing of the armistice he was on the staff of General Malone. After his return to the United States he attended and graduated from the Infantry School at Camp Benning, and subsequently the School of Fire at Fort Sill. Captain Golden married Elizabeth Nuttman, the daughter of Col. Louis M. Nutt-man, chief of staff of the Second Division at San Antonio, Texas. WILLIAM C. BROWN, of Steubenville, who served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, has the respect and regard of his profession, and is not only a very able lawyer but a high minded citizen. He was born in Toronto, Canada, February 15, 1877, son of Benjamin J. and Margaret (Bell) Brown, while his grandparents were William and Elizabeth Brown, and Samuel McClure and Isabell Craig. The paternal grandparents came from England and settled in Ontario, Canada, about 1834. The maternal grandfather, Samuel McClure, was born in Ireland, while his wife represented the old Craig family of Revolutionary stock. Benjamin J. Brown was a Presbyterian minister, and in 1883 moved to Bluffton, Ohio, and for nearly a quarter of a century held pastorates in Ohio. He died in 1908 and his wife in 1921. They had three children: Rev. S. T., who married Nell Herron, and had two children, John and Margaret; William C.; and John C., who married Ethel Hinds. William C. Brown was about six years old when the family came to the United States. He acquired his first educational advantages in a private school, attended Wooster College, where he graduated in 1899, and subsequently entered the Ohio State University Law School. He was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1902, and since that year has been engaged in practice at Steubenville. In 1912 he was elected prosecuting attorney, serving two terms, until 1917. He handled many important cases while in office, and in all court work has attracted attention by the clear and lucid exposition of his side of the cause. Besides his law practice he gives much time to the affairs of the Ohio Valley Savings & Loan Company, of which he was one of the organizers and is a director and attorney of the company. He is heavily interested in the Schenly Park Land Company of Steubenville, Ohio, which has handled the financial side of real estate developments of several cities, including Steubenville and Youngstown. Mr. Brown has been active in the republican party, serving as a member of the County 334 - HISTORY OF OHIO Central Committee. He belongs to the County Bar Association, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. Mr. Brown married, June 21, 1906, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miss Catherine Silvey, daughter of George W. and Sarah (Hunter) Silvey. Her mother died in 1878 and her father in November, 1923. He was a Civil war veteran, a capitalist and financier. The only two children of Mr. and Mrs. Silvey were Mrs. Brown and George W. The latter died unmarried, and Mrs. Brown passed away December 6, 1921. Her two children died in early childhood. ARTHUR L. PRITCHARD, M. D. Graduated in medicine nearly forty years ago, Doctor Pritchard has had an interesting routine of service and experience in his profession, largely in mining communities of Southern Ohio. For over a quarter of a century his home has been at Nelsonville in Athens County. Doctor Pritchard was born at West Milford, Harrison County, West Virginia, October 11, 1864, son of T. F. and Helen (Ramage) Pritchard. His grandfather, Maj. Jacob Pritchard, was an officer in the Confederate army during the Civil war. T. F. Pritchard moved with his family to Nelsonville, Ohio, in 1877. For many years he was a merchant, and for twenty-five years has been an employe of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company and lives at Columbus. He is eighty-one years of age. He is a democrat and a member of the Knights of Pythias. His wife died September 30, 1920, at the age of seventy-seven. She was a devout Presbyterian. Of the nine children born to their marriage five are now living: Doctor Arthur ; Mrs. William Michaels, wife of the chief engineer of the Hocking Valley Railroad, living at Columbus; Mrs. Oscar Meise, wife of a dentist at Columbus; James M., with the Universal Body Company, an auto top manufacturing concern at Columbus, and Mrs. George W. Smith, wife of an employe of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company at Bucyrus. Arthur L. Pritchard was thirteen years old when brought to Ohio. He acquired his early education in West Virginia, and in 1883 graduated from the Nelsonville High School. In the meantime he had been making good use of his time and abilities working for his father in the store during vacations. After high school he entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1886. He then located at Buchtel, which was then the liveliest mining town in Ohio. He had a practice that tested every degree of skill in medicine and surgery. After ten years he returned to Nelsonville, in 1896, and has continued his profession here with honor and distinction. For several years after he began practice he visited his patients on horseback. Following that came a period when he drove a buggy. Since then he has depended upon the car: Doctor Pritchard has kept himself physically fit by regular routine and temperate habits, and is a man of keen interest in things outside his immediate work. He is active in the Methodist Church, is a Sunday school worker and is an officer in the Sunday school class No. 24. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Grotto, and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a democrat, and has served on the executive committee of his county and district and did much to build up the support to help elect Governor Campbell a number of years ago. He is a member and has served as president of the Athens County Medical Society and is a member of the Ohio State Medical Association. In 1888 Doctor Pritchard married Miss Cynthia E. Ferguson, daughter of John Ferguson, of South Point, Ohio. They have an adopted daughter, Mary, who is now twelve years old. BENJAMIN D. LECKLIDER, president of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, had many years of successful business as an underwriter and salesman. Shortly after the close of the World war B. D. Lecklider and Howard Sloneker, of Hamilton, Ohio, organized the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company. The original incorporators were S. D. Fitton, Chas. Sohngen, S. M. Goodman, Howard Sloneker and B. D. Lecklider. The company gives unique service to its policy holders in that it is one of the few companies that combine a variety of coverages in one policy. The charter is as broad as could be made under the laws of Ohio, and grants the company the privilege of writing all classes of casualty business. The present officers of the company are: B. D. Lecklider, president; Chas. Sohngen, vice president; Howard Sloneker, secretary; Martin J. Wys, assistant secretary; S. M. Goodman, treasurer Alberta M. Huesman, assistant treasurer, and D. W. Fitton, chairman of finance committee. B. D. Lecklider was born September 4, 1866. He is a member of an old and prominent family of Western Ohio. His father, William C. Lecklider, was a farmer near Greenville, Ohio. B. D. Lecklider was educated in the public schools of Greenville and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and for seven years devoted most of his time to teaching while he studied law. He, however, never entered the practice of law. He was for a number of years attorney and collected for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago, resigning that position and entering the insurance business as an agent of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was afterwards appointed general agent of the company for the counties of Butler and Warren, with offices at Hamilton, Ohio. At the beginning of the World war he abandoned the writing of insurance, and after one year spent in the service of the Government in campaign work throughout Southern Ohio, he decided to enlist in the war work. With that object in view he disposed of his real estate and insurance business, and in August, 1918, was accepted for overseas service as divisional business secretary of the Young Men 's Christian Association war council. He was assigned to duty in the Pyrenees Leave Area Division, one of the largest leave areas in France, with headquarters at Pau. Mr. Lecklider is a Mason, Odd Fellow, a member of the Reformed Church, the Hamilton Club, Butler County Country Club, and a director of the local chapter of the Red Cross. In 1890 he married Lillie B. Reck, daughter of Elias O. Reck. She is an active member of the Church of God. HOWARD SLONEKER, who has been in the insurance business since leaving college except for the time he spent with the colors during the World war, is secretary of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company of Hamilton. Mr. Sloneker was born April 19, 1890, son of Joseph W. Sloneker, of Hamilton, and member of an old and prominent family of that section of Butler. County. Howard Sloneker was educated in the Hamilton High School, and in the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was in the general insurance business after leaving university until 1916. On March 30, 19182 he was inducted into the army as a private in infantry, and in July was sent to training at Camp Sherman and then transferred to the Officers' Train- HISTORY OF OHIO - 335 ing Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, where he was on duty until the close of the war. In 1919 Mr. Sloneker and Benjamin D. Lecklider organized the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company of Hamilton. He has served as secretary of the company from the start, and has had an active part in its notable service. This is one of the leading companies in the field specializing in automobile insurance, and writing all forms of risks in a single policy. Mr. Sloneker is a member of the Hamilton Club and the Butler County Country Club. On March 23, 1918, he married Miss Emma W. Goodman, of Hamilton. Her father, Samuel Goodman, is president of the Valley Mortgage Company, and is treasurer of the Ohio Casualty Insuranee Company of Hamilton. Mrs. Sloneker finished her high school education at Hamilton. They have three children : Howard, born March 12, 1919; John, born December 27, 1921, and Sarah, born February 14, 1923. J. SPENCER SINGLETON. One of Ohio 's educators whose work has been attended with achievements of a distinctive character is J. Spencer Singleton, supervising principal of the south district at Middletown. Mr. Singleton was born at Cold Spring, Kentucky, September 28, 1888, son of John H. and Susie (Mell) Singleton, of Cold Spring. His education, thoroughly liberal, has come from many schools, much of it in the intervals of his own experience as a teacher and educator. He attended grammar and high school at Newport, Kentucky, took the academic course in Union College at Barboursville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1908, and in 1909 he received a diploma from the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. Ten years later, in 1919, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilmington College at Wilmington, Ohio, and in the same year was granted a life teacher 's high school certificate in the State of Ohio and holds a state teacher 's life certificate in Kentucky. He also has a certificate in the public speaking course from the department of applied technology of the American Rolling Mill Company, a certificate from the Home Correspondence School in mathematics, and .has completed the radio course with the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He also has a teacher 's diploma from the Palmer School of Penmanship, Boston, Massachusetts, and has done extensive work with Miami University in measurement of intelligence and psychology. Mr. Singleton is now a registered student in the Graduate School of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and will continue as such until he receives his degree as Doctor of Philosophy. His service as a school man includes the following important positions : Principal of Campbell Avenue Public School at Portsmouth, Ohio, two years ; six years as superintendent of schools at Uniontown, Kentucky; one year as superintendent of schools at Augusta, Kentucky; and since 1919 principal of the South Public School at Middletown. Professor Singleton has accomplished some unusual results in organized and group work, and has made some important contributions to school methods in these fields. His school has taken the prize for three consecutive years in the May Day contest for perfect team work. The Ohio State fire marshal has pronounced his school as one of the best trained in fire discipline of any in the state. Mr. Singleton has twenty-four teachers under him and an enrollment of approximately 1,000 pupils. Mr. Singleton is now supervising principal of the whole south district at Middletown, having been promoted in June, 1924. In 1911 he married Miss Morell Bain, of Lebanon, Ohio, daughter of Hiram and Jennie (Gustin) Bain, of Lebanon. She was educated in the high school of her native city, also the National Normal University there, and has been a successful teacher for a number of years. With her husband she pursued the classical course in Wilmington College, and both graduated in the same class In 1919 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. For a number of years she was a teacher at Lebanon, and for six years has been a teacher in the public schools of Middletown. Mr. and Mrs. Singleton have one daughter, Dorothy Louise, born in 1913. FRANK B. PAULY for ten years has been editor-manager of one of the most remarkably successful newspapers in Ohio, the Middletown Journal. The Journal, published in a city of 25,000, has the standard, performs the essential service and gets results that many newspapers with greater circulation and published in the large cities might well envy. The Journal is the only newspaper of its proportions in a city of Middletown's size with an Associated Press leased wire. About three years ago the Journal came into a home of its own, a handsome two-story tapestry brick building in the center of the civic district of Middletown, a building arranged to facilitate all the mechanical and technical work of a modern newspaper plant, and containing equipment usually found only in the larger or commercial printing establishments. The Middletown Journal was established as a weekly paper in 1857, and since 1891 has been a daily paper. It is one of the few papers anywhere "published daily except Saturday." The dropping of the Saturday issue has been a bold step that many larger newspapers would like to take. Frank B. Pauly was born in Warren County, Ohio, April 13, 1887, second of the three sons of Elwood B. and Mary K. (Schwerer) Pauly. His father was a successful merchant at Lebanon, Ohio. Frank B. Pauly is a graduate with the Bachelor of Science degree from the National Normal University at Lebanon, and began his journalistic career in that city when he was nineteen years of age. Subsequently he worked for newspapers at Keokuk and Des Moines, Iowa, and at Dayton, and in 1912 became city editor of the Middletown Journal and since 1914 has been editor-manager. He was city editor during the great flood of 1913, when most of the newspaper plant was put out of commission by the high waters, but issues and bulletins were printed by emergency equipment, and these issues, supplying information eagerly desired by all the inhabitants of the valley, had much to do with improving the prestige of the Journal in this vicinity. In 1914 the plant was burned, at a total loss, but the Journal did not miss a single issue, though for a time it was published in miniature. The plans to erect a new home were delayed during the World war, but in 1921 the handsome home, briefly described above, was completed at a cost of over $60,000. The success of the Journal has been due to broad and liberal policy, involving a personnel of energetic news-gatherers, the publication of everything of importance or interest to the community, and a distributing service that places the news columns and market reports of the Journal before the readers over the territory in and around Middletown within a few hours, a fact that has had much to do with the extensive circulation of the Journal throughout the rural districts. Mr. Pauly was appointed postmaster of Middletown on July 1, 1923. He is a republican, having cast his first presidential vote for William McKinley. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His younger brother, Karl B. Pauly, graduated with highest honors in the department of journalism at the Ohio State University in 1923, and is now 336 - HISTORY OF OHIO Sunday editor of the Middletown Journal. The older brother, Fred L., is a business man at Lebanon, Ohio. JOHN H. BERRY, M. D. Since his graduation from medical college Doctor Berry has found his abilities drawn into the public service rather than in private practice, and he has been identified with several public institutions of Ohio. He is widely known as a specialist in nervous diseases, and is eminently well qualified both professionally and as a business administrator for his duties as superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Athens. He not only has the supervision of the buildings, laboratories and the equipment and personnel in the hospital itself, but also has charge of the 1,000-acre farm which is an adjunct of the hospital. On this farm is the finest dairy herd in the state, and it produces most of the supplies required in the institution. Doctor Berry graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1910 from the University of Cincinnati. Following that he spent eighteen months as an interne in Christ 's Hospital of Cincinnati. He was assistant surgeon of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home from June, 1910, to April, 1911, then of the Longview Hospital for the Insane at Cincinnati for five years, and was then called as assistant physician at the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima. He was there when the building for the accommodation of this institution was in course of construction, and while the inmates assigned to the institution were being received from other asylums, reformatories and prisons. Doctor Berry was one of the early volunteers for service during the World war, and on October 10, 1918, was commissioned first lieutenant of the Army Medical Corps. He took intensive training at the Pyschopathic Hospital at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at the Government Hospital at Washington. He was given leave of absence from his duties at Lima and was in the service until June 3, 1919. On September 15, 1919, Doctor Berry passed the civil service examination with high honors and was given appointment as superintendent of the State Hospital for Insane at Athens. Doctor Berry was born on his father 's farm at Hillsboro, in Highland County, Ohio, October 21, 1883. His parents, William N. and Nancy K. (Hawk) Berry, were also natives of Highland County. His mother is still living, at the age of sixty-three. His father died in April, 1912, aged sixty-seven. William N. Berry was in his lifetime a very progressive farmer and leader in the affairs of Highland County. He had two brothers who were physicians and one an attorney. William N. Berry served as justice of the peace for thirty years and also as township trustee and on the local school board. He was a democrat and a member of the German Reformed Church. The grandfather of William N. Berry was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and came to Ohio from Westmoreland County, Virginia, being a pioneer in this state. Doctor Berry is one of a family of six children, and the oldest of the four now living. His brother Thomas B., is teacher of agriculture in the Hillsboro High School, and has charge of the Smith-Hughes vocational training work for Highland County. G. Arthur Berry is farming the old homestead. The daughter, Amy E., is taking the nurses' training course in the Jewish Hospital at Cincinnati. Doctor Berry grew up on his father 's farm in Highland County and attended country schools. He was also educated in the Hillsboro High School, and he taught for one year in Highland County and one year in Clinton County. Following that he entered the medical college of Cincinnati. Doctor Berry is president of the Athens County Medical Society. He is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the American Psychiatric Society. On April 29, 1915, he married Miss Chlora Stockwell, daughter of L. C. Stockwell, of Highland County. They grew up in the same community, attended the same country school, and he was her boyhood sweetheart. Doctor Berry as a boy had two ambitions, one to become a physician, and the other to marry the girl who is now his wife. Doctor and Mrs. Berry are members of the Methodist Church. He is a member of Athens lodge of Masons, the Royal Arch and council degrees at Lima, and the Knight Templar commandery. He is also an Elk and Rotarian and a member of the American Legion. ROBERT H. JACKSON. Through an active career of industry, good judgment and integrity Robert H. Jackson has achieved a position of leadership in the business and industrial affairs of Nelsonville, Athens County. He is president of the. Citizens Central Bank of that town, and is also secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Nelsonville Foundry and Machine Company, of which his brother, H. H. Jackson, is president. This important industry was established in 1881. The first president of the company was C. A. Cable, and C. E. Poston was secretary and treasurer, while the first four successive superintendents were: Thomas Knauss, Mr. Schrumm, E. S. Jennings and W. H. McConnell. Located in one of the great mining sections of Ohio, this company specializes in tipple equipment and mine cars, and it produces an impressive annual volume of business, and its pay roll is an important factor in the welfare of the local community. Mr. Robert H. Jackson was born in York Township of Athens County, January 23, 1867, son of John W. and Kate (White) Jackson. His grandfather was also Robert Jackson, and came from Morgan County to Athens County in 1834, settling in York Township, three miles east of Nelsonville, on Monday Creek. This pioneer died at the age of fifty years. His son, John W. Jackson, fell heir to an interest and afterwards he bought the interests of the other heirs to 235 acres of coal land. He sold this property, and he was well known for his ability in trade. He bought and sold a number of parcels of coal land and achieved much success. He was known for his great liberality and public spirit, and also his physical vigor and strength. He stood six feet two inches high, and carried easily his 200 pounds weight. About 1879 he established a meat market in Nelsonville, and this was continued with the aid of his sons for twelve years. He served a brief time as a soldier in the Union Army, and he was always a contributor to good causes, particularly the support of the Methodist Church and its building at Nelsonville. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, served as a township trustee, and at the time of his death was on the board of county commissioners. John W. Jackson, who died in 1900, at the age of seventy-two, married Kate White, who was born at Beaumont in Athens County, her mother being a sister of Hill Foster, Sr. Mrs. Kate White Jackson died in 1910, at the age of seventy-five. She was the mother of three children : Lillie, who died when fourteen years old; H. H. Jackson, who is a farmer just south of Nelsonville, and Robert H. Robert H. Jackson at Nelsonville secured his education in grade and high schools and finished a course in the Columbus Business College at the age of nineteen. Returning home, he was employed in the store conducted by the firm Slater & Jackson, consisting of Joe Slater and his father, John W. Jackson, at the coal mine, and then became assistant book- keeper for C. L. Poston, and later for the Ohio Coal HISTORY OF OHIO - 337 Company. Following that he was a partner with his father in the grocery business, and in 1891 entered the service of the Nelsonville Foundry and Machine Company as bookkeeper. He has developed increasing interests in this industry, and the business is now owned by the Jackson family as a close corporation. In 1890 Mr. Jackson married Miss Hattie Cooley, daughter of Frank Cooley, of Nelsonville. They are the parents of four children. Earl C., now in advertising work in New York, was in the air service during the World war, having been trained at the Princeton Flying School, then transferred to a detention camp in Texas, and finally in the Flying School at Americus, Georgia. The second son, Frank R., was overseas in Belgium with the Three Hundred Forty-seventh Machine Gun Battalion of the Ninety-first Division, and was several times wounded. He is now commander of the Nelsonville post of the American Legion and is postmaster of Nelsonville. The third son, John W. H., is a student of metallurgy and mining engineering at Ohio State University. The only daughter, Helen, born in 1911, is attending the local schools. Mrs. Jackson is president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion and recently was elected state treasurer of that organization. Mr. Jackson is affiliated with the Masonic order, as are also his three sons. WILLIAM MCKENZIE was born in Scotland, though he has been a resident of the United States since boyhood. He has some of the staunch Scotch characteristics, and these have stood him in good stead in his rise from humble place to a position among the leading financial and business men of Delaware. Mr. McKenzie has been fortunate in a partnership that has now been in existence for a great many years, an alliance to which he credits the most substantial part of his success. This partner in his affairs has been Mrs. McKenzie, his wife, the mother of his children, his counselor and adviser in business, and the steady source of his inspiration. Mr. McKenzie was born at Elgin, Scotland, October 7, 1870, and in 1884 came to the United States with his parents, William and Margaret (Samuel) McKenzie, both now deceased. His grandfather was James McKenzie. Mr. William McKenzie has made several trips back to Scotland, and has kept in touch with the family, which is an old and honored one there. His father was a stonecutter and mason. His first home on coming to this country was at Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, where he was in charge of the masonry work during the construction of the courthouse. Subsequently for many years he was superintendent of stone work for the Norfolk and Western Railway. William McKenzie, Jr., acquired all his education in schools in Scotland. While his father had charge of the work at the courthouse at Tiffin he operated the elevator during 1884-85, and that and other experience gave him a practical knowledge of building work. He was in the employ of Mr. Murphy, superintendent of the construction of the street car line at Tiffin. He was delegated with the responsibility of buying horses for this old horse car line. His father had bought a farm ten miles east of Tiffin, and Mr. McKenzie took charge of that and was engaged in farming there during a period of fifteen years. During the first three years he had a contract with the H. France Company, using his three teams to haul lumber from the mill near the farm to Tiffin, ten miles away. In this way Mr. McKenzie became interested in the lumber business, and that has been the main field. of his operations for many years. From 1889 to 1893 he was associated with E. P. Ruperd in getting out sucker rods for oil wells, and following that he engaged in the lumber and sucker rod business at West Mansfield. He was there during the hard times following the panic of 1893. In the fall of 1896 Mr. McKenzie removed to Delaware, and in March, 1897, bought a local lumber plant. since then his business has been steadily growing and expanding. He is a wholesale and retail lumber manufacturer, and has worked up many millions of feet of lumber on the timber lots throughout Central Ohio. He operates saw mills and planing mills as well as several yards. He retained his plant at West Mansfield until it was burned in 1916, and did not deem it profitable to rebuild it. In the course of years Mr. McKenzie has organized four successful lumber companies, and is the active head of all of them and president of the companies. These are the McKenzie Lumber Company of Delaware, the McKenzie Lumber & Coal Company of Springfield, the largest plant of its kind in that city, the McKenzie Lumber & Timber Company of Waldo, and the McKenzie & Smith Company of Cardington. These companies have a somewhat specialized line. It is their policy to buy farm wood lots, and frequently the entire farm, and after working up the merchantable timber to sell the land. The various companies at the present time own and are working up the timber on more than 800 acres in farms. Mr. McKenzie has the controlling interest in all four companies. The lumber output of the mills runs more than 5,000,000 feet annually, and in addition over 3,000,000 feet are annually sold through the retail yards. Mr. McKenzie has a number of other active business interests. He owns and controls the Delaware Automatic Incubator, manufacturing one of the most popular incubators on the market. It is manufactured under a patent awarded the invention of Professor Leas a number of years ago. Recently a new plant was erected to handle the business of the incubator company. The secretary of the company is Bruce C. Burgees, son-in-law of Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Burgees is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and for a time was assistant advertising manager for the Goodyear Rubber Company. Mr. McKenzie is also a director in the Deposit Bank of Delaware and the People's Building and Loan Association. He was happily married, June 27, 1900, to Miss Ratie, whose full name is Rachael Victoria Colbert, daughter of I. C. and 011ie Colbert. Her parents were natives of Ohio, and her father was a carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie have a family of six children: Margaret, wife of Bruce C. Burgees; Frances E., a graduate of the Wallace School at Columbus, and now a student in the Ohio State University; Mary Olive, attending the Wallace School; Loyd William, Rachael and Charles Arthur, all in grammar school. The family are members of the William Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. McKenzie is a Royal Arch and Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, an Elk, and an active figure in the Chamber of Commerce. AARON ESTERLY for over twenty years has been one of the able attorneys practicing at the Youngstown bar. As an attorney and citizen his reputation for usefulness is recognized all over Mahoning County, and before taking up the profession of law he was well known as a business man. He was born at Columbiana, Ohio, October 22, 1858, son of Jacob B. and Malinda (Overholt) Esterly, each parent descended from early pioneer settlers. At the age of twenty, after completing the common and high school courses, Aaron Esterly became a school teacher, and after one term in the country districts, taught for two years in the public schools of Columbiana. This experience was followed by his departure from his native community. For 338 - HISTORY OF OHIO a few months he was timekeeper for a grading con-tractor at Tama, Iowa, and for eight months was in similar service for another contractor in Upper Michigan. Then, on his return to Columbiana, he conducted a merchandise business for four years, and for five years following was bookkeeper for his uncle in a Columbiana bank. This occupation he left to become secretary and general manager of the Columbiana Pump Company. In 1896, at the death of his uncle, Jonathan Esterly, Mr. Esterly was appointed receiver of the bank and served for eight years, the time required to close up the affairs of the bank. Meanwhile he used his opportunities to study law under the direction of H. G. Bye, and in April, 1902, came to Youngstown. In June of that year he was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in a general practice. In 1884 Mr. Esterly married Adella H. Bomesberger, who was born in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, daughter of Abram and Susan (Flickinger) Bomesberger. The three children born to their marriage were: Fred B., principal of the high school at Old. Fort, Ohio; Ada M., wife of H. J. Weber, a professor in the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and Marcus Herbert, an extended mention of whom is given below. IN MEMORIAM. Among the native sons of Ohio who made the supreme sacrifice for their country, none is more deserving of lasting memorial than Lieut. Marcus Herbert Esterly, United States Navy, the youngest son of Aaron Esterly, the Youngstown attorney. He is the only one of his family whose service and sacrifice place the name in the annals of his country ,s history, and they were offered and the sacrifice made in the advancement of aeronautics. Lieutenant Esterly was born at Columbiana, Ohio, June 30, 1891, attended the schools in his native town until he was about eleven years of age, and after that attended school at Youngstown. He graduated from the Rayen High School in 1909, and soon afterwards found employment in the Ohio works of the United States Steel Corporation as an electrical worker. He held a similar position in the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and out of this experience developed the training of a civil engineer, a profession he followed for a year. He was one of the first to begin training for service in the great war which impended over America. In December, 1916, in response to the prewar call of Congress, he entered the Navy Reserve Flying Corps as one of the first volunteers. He has had considerable experience, since on September 12, 1912, he had enlisted in the United States Navy and taken up wireless telegraphy. His preliminary training was secured at the Brooklyn, New York, Navy Yard, and after eight months he was detailed to the United States Steamship Delaware, making cruises to Cuba, France and Mexico. After two years of active service he was detailed to land duty at Norfolk, Virginia, and later to Beaufort, North Carolina. In 1915 he was detailed for duty at the radio station at Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, and attained the rank of chief radio officer. Then with his enlistment for service in the Navy Reserve Flying Corps, he was detailed for sea duty on board a United States cruiser at Boston, Massa- chusetts, to sail for Guantanamo, Cuba, for training, where he was advanced to the rank of ensign, and later at Pensacola, Florida, to that of lieutenant, junior grade. In June, 1917, Mr. Esterly was detailed for service at the Goodyear Aviation Field near Akron, Ohio, as an installer and instructor of radio in connection with dirigible balloon development. Here he qualified as an expert aviator and was advanced to the rank of lieutenant. In connection with this service Lieuten ant Esterly was the radio officer in charge of radio on the longest continuous dirigible balloon flight ever attempted up to that time, from Akron, Ohio, to New York City, by way of Washington City. On January 1, 1918, Lieutenant Esterly was detailed for service at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, later at Washington City with the Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, and still later was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, as ranking officer in full charge of all radio at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Hampton Roads. During this service another and longer dirigible flight was made, from Montauk Point, Long Island, to Saint John, New Brunswick. In the early part of June, 1920, Lieutenant Esterly was detailed as a member of the United States Navy Flying Corps crew to go to England as ranking officer of the installing and operating of radio in connection with the construction and proposed flight to the United States of the R-38 (English) ZR-2 (United States) under contract construction by the English for the United States, the largest dirigible balloon ever built. He sailed for England July 7, 1920, and with the crew was stationed at the Navy Air Detachment, Royal Air Station, Howden, England. Lieutenant Esterly with sixteen others of the United States crew was invited and detailed to go aboard the ZR-2 on a trial trip as observers, with the Royal Air crew in full charge and control. On August 24, 1921, the ill-fated dirigible, after more than a thirty hours, trial trip, buckled and exploded and fell into the Humber River near Hull, England. The English crew and Lieutenant Esterly with fifteen of his comrades were killed in the accident. While stationed at Beaufort, North Carolina, June 30, 1915, on his twenty-fourth birthday anniversary, he married Martha E. Ramsey, who with three children survives him. These children are Marcus Herbert; Jr., De Witt C. R. and Nancy Jane. The body of Lieutenant Esterly was sent from Hull, England, to the home of his parents at Youngstown by the United States Navy Department, and was laid to rest in Lake Park Cemetery, September 24, 1921, with military honors in charge of the American Legion. The funeral was said to have been the largest and most impressive military funeral ever held in the City of Youngstown. A plain granite monument in memory by his family, with a marker, bears this inscription: Lieut. Marcus H. Esterly, U. S. N. 1891 - 1921 Martyr—ZR-2 disaster, Hull, England, August 24, 1921. JOHN W. ROTZEL. One of the well known realtors of Youngstown is John W. Rotzel, who is associated in business with Louis S. Kreider in the handling of real estate and loans and the carrying on of a general brokerage business. Mr. Rotzel is also interested in other affairs of the city, where he has practically resided all of his life and where his entire business career has been passed, and is justly considered a progressive and constructive citizen. Mr. Rotzel was born in Green Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, August 30, 1885, and is a son of H. L. and Barbara (Callahan) Rotzel, natives of Mahoning County. His paternal grandparents were Frederick Rotzel and his wife, who were born in Germany, while his maternal grandfather was Nathan Callahan, who was born in Mahoning County, where the family is an old one. H. L. Rotzel, who during the greater part of his life followed the trade of wagonmaker, is now living in comfortable retirement at Greenford, Ohio. John W. Rotzel attended the grade and high school at Greenford, and in his youth mastered the trade of carpenter, at which he worked for four years. However, a career of this nature did not HISTORY OF OHIO - 339 suit him, and he finally secured employment as a salesman for a local retail piano company. This business he followed with pleasing success for eleven years, during which time he accumulated some capital and in the spring of 1920 formed a partnership with Louis S. Kreider and opened an office at 602 Wick Building for the handling of real estate and insurance. This business has since grown to large proportions, built up through the industry and good management of the partners. Mr. Rotzel is well known in the business world of Youngstown as a man of ideas and with a knowledge of realty values, and his integrity has never been questioned. He is a member of St. Luke ,s Lutheran Church, is a member of the church council, secretary of the finance committee and treasurer of the Whittenburg Fund, as well as chorister in the Sunday school. His political tendencies make him a republican, but politics has played but a small part in his career. He is well known fraternally, being a member of Youngstown Lodge No. 403, Independent. Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was a trustee three years and a past noble grand; a charter member and first grand hystytee of Murad Sanctorum 202 of O. O. H. & P. He is also district deputy supreme monarchos of District No. 38 composing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Youngstown, Ohio; Clarksburg, West Virginia, and Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, having passed through all the chairs. On October 3, 1908, Mr. Rotzel was united in marriage with Miss Pearl L. Glenn, who was born at North Lima, Ohio, a daughter of Elmer and Nancy (Double) Glenn, natives of Trumbull County, Ohio, and to this union there has been born one son, Richard G. GEORGE FRANK LEINGANG, manager of the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce, is one of the carefully-trained men of his calling, and under his able supervision this body is rendering an efficient public service, and attention is being attractcd to it because of its manner of transacting business and forwarding important projects. All of the larger chambers of commerce of the country are now in charge of men who have been prepared for the work of special courses, for it is too important to leave to haphazard methods. Mr. Leingang is not only well-trained, he is also capable, and takes great pride in doing well whatever he undertakes. This in part explains his most remarkable success. Born at Cleveland, Ohio, November 15, 1870, George Frank Leingang is a son of Jacob and Josephine (Lutz) Leingang, natives of Germany, and Erie, Pennsylvania, respectively. She died March 4, 1924, at Sandusky. He is living in retirement at Dennison, Ohio, although for a number of years he was engaged in business at Cleveland, Ohio, as a meat and provision merchant. After attending the Sterling Avenue Public School of Cleveland, in 1886 Mr. Leingang began working as a messenger boy for what is now the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and worked his way up in the employ of that company to be chief clerk in the general freight and passenger departments. In 1899 he was transferred to Sandusky as chief clerk for this road in this city. This position he held until October 1, 1911, when he was made division freight agent for the same road. This position he resigned July 1, 1918, to become traffic commissioner, and assistant manager of the Sandusky Chamber of Commerce. On April 14, 1920, he resigned and went to Chillicothe, Ohio, as manager of its chamber of commerce. There he remained until April 15, 1923, when he returned to Sandusky as manager of the chamber of commerce of this city, which important position he still holds. In order to prepare himself for this line of work he took courses at the American City Bureau, Eagles-mere, Pennsylvania ; two courses at the University of Wisconsin, and two courses at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. In November, 1895, Mr. Leingang married Miss Frances A. Gruss, born at Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of Frank and Anna Gruss. Mr. and Mrs. Leingang became the parents of the following children: William Charles, who resides at Detroit, Michigan, took his degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan; Marguerite and George Henry, both of whom are at home. Mr. Leingang belongs to Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, and has served on the church board, and was a member of the executive committee of Saint Mary ,s Oath̊, lic Church at Chillicothe. In politics he is a republican. Very active fraternally, he belongs to Sandusky Lodge No. 285, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is past esteemed leading knight; Sandusky Council No. 546, Knights of Columbus, in which he is a fourth degree knight, and he has passed all of the chairs, and is comptroller of the fourth degree assembly; Cleveland Council No. 82 of the Royal League, in which he has held several offices, and is one of the charter members of the lodge, which he joined in 1891. While a resident of Cleveland he became one of the original members of the League of American Wheelmen, and of the Cleveland Wheel Club, and he also belonged to the Young Men,s Christian Association of that same city. While he lived at Chillicothe he was vice president and director of the Athletic Club, and a member of the Rotary Club. From the above brief review it is easy to see that Mr. Leingang is a born leader, and a great believer in fraternal and civic betterment work, and a man who is willing to give liberally and loyally to further those projects he deems will prove beneficial to the individual and community. CAPT. GAIL K. BUTT, M. D. Soon after receiving his diploma as a Doctor of Medicine Doctor Butt was commissioned an officer of the Medical Corps, went to France, and was in active service during the latter months of the war. He was with the Army of Occupation, returned home with the rank of captain, and is one of the able physicians and surgeons engaged in practice in Miamisburg. Doctor Butt was born at Johnstown, Ohio, November 6, 1889, son of Friend and Emma (Knorr) Butt. His father is a retired farmer. Doctor Butt graduated from the Johnstown High School, attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in 1917 received his degree from the Ohio State University Medical School. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, was assigned with the Three Hundred and Twenty-second Field Artillery, and with that organization went to France. While at the front he was wounded and gassed, and for gallant service received the Croix de Guerre, and in April, 1919, was promoted to the rank of captain. He was with the Army of Occupation after the armistice, and since his return home, has held commission as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps. Following the war, Doctor Butt practiced for three years at Columbus Grove, Ohio, and since April, 1923, has been located in Miamisburg. He has a general practice and also does a great deal of diagnosis, having his office equipped with one of the latest model X-ray machines. He has a beautiful home and office on the same lot on East Central Avenue. He is a member of the Montgomery County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Captain Butt is a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. 340 - HISTORY OF OHIO Besides his general practice he is physician for the Mutual Furniture Company, and is examiner for the John Hancock, New York Mutual, Bankers Life and New York Life Insurance companies. He married Lucile Sparger on March 2, 1918; daughter of John Sparger, a merchant of Rainsboro, Ohio. Mrs. Butt was educated in the Hillsboro High School, is a graduate of the White Cross Hospital and for a year before her marriage was engaged in the work of her profession as a trained nurse. She is a member of the Pythian Sisters, the Eastern Star, and the Daughters of America. Doctor and Mrs. Butt have one daughter, Julia Graynell, born in March, 1920. ELI REYNOLDS LASH, who has been in business at Athens for fifty years, has performed many of those duties that come to the good 'citizen and with such credit that his name is known all over that section of Ohio. Mr. Lash is a former trustee of the Ohio State Hospital for the Insane at Athens, under api pointment from Governor Campbell. Since 1912 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University, appointed to that office by Judson Harmon, and is chairman of the auditing committee of the Board of Trustees. Through Wilson,s administration he served as postmaster of Athens. Only a citizen of well known integrity and success in private business would be accorded these honors. Mr. Lash was born in Alexander Township of Athens County, November 20, 1848, and represents a pioneer family of this Ohio county. His parents were Jacob and Susan (Morrison) Lash. His father was born in Athens County, in 1820, lived to the venerable age of eighty-eight, and died in 1908. The mother was born at Cadiz in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1823, and died in 1902, aged seventy-nine. Jacob Lash was a farmer, and moved from the birthplace of his son Eli Reynolds to a small farm a mile from Athens. This farm is now owned by the State of Ohio, and is part of the great dairy farm operated by the Ohio Hospital for the Insane. Jacob Lash was a lifelong democrat and a Baptist. He was the father of four children. H. M. Lash was a noted physician and surgeon, and died at Indianapolis, Indiana, W. D. Lash was for thirty-seven years superintendent of schools at Zanesville, where the W. D. Lash High School is named in his honor. The daughter, Lydia, is the wife of Professor Evans, of Athens. Eli Reynolds Lash spent his boyhood days on a farm, attended the district schools, and subsequently completed his education in Ohio University. He finished a course in pharmacy in 1872, and in November, 1873, began his career as an Athens druggist by purchasing the drug store situated in a building diagonally across Court Street from his present location. He bought this business from John Perkins, who came from Boston and founded the drug store in Athens in 1828. Mr. Perkins continued the active head of the business for forty-five years. Mr. Lash has now rounded out a half century as proprietor of the business. This constitutes perhaps a unique record for any commercial establishment in Ohio, since in a period of ninety-five years the business has had only two proprietors. Mr. Lash moved his store across the street to its present location in 1879. Mr. Lash has attended nearly all the democratic conventions in county, district and state since early manhood. He voted for Tilden in 1876. He helped nominate James E. Campbell for Governor, and as the nominee of his party for Congress against C. H. Grosvenor he made a good showing. He was democratic presidential elector in 1896 and in 1900. On November 18, 1875, Mr. Lash married Miss Alice Johns, daughter of J. M. Johns, of Guernsey County. They are the parents of two children. The son, E. Rey, was educated in Ohio University, is a graduate of the Ohio Northern University in pharmacy, and now has active charge in his father ,s drug business. The daughter, Florence, is the wife of Clarence S. Williams, of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Lash served as the first chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Athens when it was organized in 1877. He was a member of the Grand Lodge in 1878, and in 1922 was made a life member of the lodge. He is also active in Masonry, and has been presiding officer of the local lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knight Templar Commandery. HENRY B. SCHAAL is one of the scholarly business men of Athens County. For many years he was a successful teacher, has always been a student of books and affairs, and has used a singular degree of energy in making a success of business. He is vice president and secretary of the Hocking Valley Fire Clay Company of Nelsonville, and is also vice president and secretary of the Jewett Coal Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Rittenour Coal Company. The Hocking Valley Fire Clay Company manufactures a salt glazed brick, a high class building material which is shipped over many states, and is one of the most distinctive of Ohio ,s clay products. Mr. Schaal was born on a farm near Logan, in Hocking County, Ohio, September 2, 1868, son of Adam David and Margaret (Wolf) Schaal. His mother was born in Hocking County, and died December 16, 1871, when her son Henry was three years old. Adam David Schaal was born in Vinton County, Ohio, son of a German pioneer who first settled in Vinton County and later moved to Illinois, where he spent his last years. Adam David Schaal was an unusually successful farmer and stock man in Hocking County, and was known for the skillful judgment he exercised in all his transactions. He died in 1915, at the age of seventy-six. His second wife was Susan Funk. He was the father of five sons and three daughters. The four children by his first marriage were Henry B., Mary, Charles, William and John Daniel, the two latter passing away in infancy. Mary and her half sister, Amanda, live at the old Schaal home near Laurelville in Hocking County; James, another son, lives on a farm near Laurelville in Pickaway County ; Emmanuel lives on a farm near Laurelville, Hocking County, and Caroline died when thirty-one years of age. Henry B. Schaal was reared on the farm, attended the country schools, and for his higher education depended on his own efforts and earnings as a teacher. His early schooling was acquired in country districts in Hocking County. For eighteen years he taught school, and all the time he was studying to perfect his own education. He took a commercial course in Columbus. For seven years he taught country schools in Hocking and Fairfield counties, and the rest of the time he was a school principal, located at Whisler, Monday and Murray City. After leaving the school room Mr. Schaal engaged in the hardware business as secretary and treasurer of the Chris Holl Hardware Company at Logan. He sold his interest in that concern and moved to Nelsonville, and in 1909 was made bookkeeper of the Hocking Valley Fire Clay Company. In the course of a few months he had made himself an indispensable factor in this business and was promoted to vice president and secretary. The chief object of his pride and affection is his home and family. He has a beautiful residence on a hill overlooking Nelsonville. In 1904 he married Miss Flora A. Browne, daughter of Clarence Griffin and Effie (Jackson) Browne. Their three children HISTORY OF OHIO - 341 are : Mary Virginia, David Hollister and Henry Mansfield. Mr. Schaal is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Schaal is also a member of the local Kiwanis Club and takes a helpful interest in anything that is good for his county and state. He is a democrat in politics, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Nelsonville, and was school examiner in Hocking County for six years. WALTER N. McCOY, a former president of the Ohio Funeral Director ,s Association, has been an undertaker for a quarter of a century, and since 1907 has been in business at Middletown. He is one of the leaders in his profession in the state. Mr. McCoy was born November 23, 1878, at New Holland, Ohio, son of Joseph D. and Irene (Haggard) McCoy. His father is a carriage builder by trade, and has served several terms as mayor of Frankfort. Ohio, and was reelected to that office in the fall of 1923. Walter N. McCoy was educated in the public schools of Frankfort, the high school of Washington Court House, Ohio, and when he left school he began learning the undertaking trade. He was employed by various undertaking firms in Cincinnati, Chillicothe and Columbus, and in 1899 opened an undertaking parlor of his own at Williamsport, Ohio. He was in business there for seven years, and in 1907 came to Middletown. He is a licensed embalmer and employs as assistants two licensed embalmers, A. D. Moses and Ernest Lamphier. At his headquarters at Broad and First Avenue he has splendid equipment and facilities, including invalid carriage, six Packard and Cadillac sedans, and two hearses. In addition to his long and active connection with the Ohio Funeral Director ,s Association Mr. McCoy is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he is a past president; the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen. He married in 1899 Miss Mary V. Cory, of Frankfort, Ohio, daughter of O. A. and Ella (Jones) Cory. She was educated in the public schools of Frankfort, and also attended Granville High School and Ohio Wesleyan. University. Mrs. McCoy is a member of the Eastern Star and White Shrine, and is very active in social affairs at Middletown. They have one son, John P., born in 1909, now attending the Middletown High School. GEORGE W. ROSE has been a practicing attorney in the Glouster community of Athens County for over a quarter of a century. He is the present representative of Athens County in the Ohio General Assembly. The Rose family has contributed a great deal of the development of this noted mining community of Athens County. George W. Rose was born on a farm near Athens, September 7, 1871, son of Harvey S. and Elizabeth (Bobo) Rose. Harvey S. Rose was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, the oldest in a family of three sons and three daughters. He was eleven years old when his parents died, and after that the support of the younger children largely devolved upon his youthful shoulders. He was of old Yankee stock from New York State. Harvey S. Rose was a farmer, carpenter, engineer and contractor, and built a great many houses over Athens County. For a time he had charge of the Glouster Brick Plant. He was engineer for the New York Coal Company in the Hocking Valley. He kept his home on the farm south of Athens until 1888, when he moved to Glouster, then a very small village, and he helped build the town. He died August 30, 1916, at the age of sixty- nine. He was an active republican, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Church. His wife, Elizabeth Bobo, was born in Athens County, and is now living at Glouster at the age of seventy-six. George W. Rose, only son of his parents, spent his early years on the old farm near Athens, attending the local schools. At the age of eighteen he graduated from the Glouster High School, and as a young man he taught three terms of schools, one in a rural district and two years at Hollister. He attended Ohio University and finished his law course at Ohio Northern University in 1895. In 1896 he was employed as attorney to represent the Village of Glouster. The following year he was elected solicitor, and by repeated elections has held that office now for over a quarter of a century. He is also attorney for the Glouster State Bank. He assisted in organizing and is vice president of the Union Telephone Company, and has been one of the most effective and public spirited citizens in promoting every line of needed improvement. As a member of the Ohio Legislature, representing Athens County,, he was given a place on the very important committee of finance. He has served as a member of the County School Board. May 20, 1903, Mr. Rose married Miss Adda L. Carpenter, daughter of Joseph Carpenter, of Glouster. They have one son, Harold, who graduated in June, 1924, from the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia, and will enter Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, in September, 1924. WILLIAM ERVIN HOFFER, M. D. In William Ervin Hoffer, Doctor of Medicine, Warren County has a young surgeon of distinctive abilities and training, and with all around qualifications in his profession. Doctor Hoffer was born in Paulding County, Ohio, November 23, 1887, son of John and Almeda Jane (Lyons) Hoffer. His father was a successful contractor. William E. Hoffer attended public schools in Allen County, Ohio, and acquired his higher education in several institutions, using his earnings as a teacher to defray his expenses. He attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, was a student in the Valparaiso University in Indiana in 1915, took special work in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and for six years taught in Warren County, being principal of the South Lebanon School for a portion of the time. Mr. Hoffer graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati in 1919. He is one of the most prominent representatives of his school of medicine in this part of Ohio, and has attended all the state and national eclectic conventions, and read papers before the Ohio State Medical Society. He served six months as interne in Saint Mary ,s Hospital at Cincinnati, and since then has been engaged in general practice at Franklin, though his abilities have brought him more and more to do in the line of surgery. In 1922 he took post-graduate work in the Chicago Institute of Surgery. About twice during each year Doctor Hoffer attends clinics under Doctors Ochsner and Percy at Augustana Hospital in Chicago, and also the Mayo Brothers Clinics at Rochester, Minnesota. He has also taken a post-graduate course in operative surgery at the American Hospital, Chicago, under the supervision of Dr. Max Thorek. He is a member of the Warren County and Ohio State Medical societies, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Association. Doctor Hoffer is medical examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the George Washington Life Insurance Company, and is local physician for the Dayton Power and Light Company. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of 342 - HISTORY OF OHIO Odd Fellows. On December 18, 1909, he married Miss Mary Belle Rogers, of Morrow, Ohio, daughter of William and Hannah Rogers. She was educated in the public schools of Clermont and Warren counties, in the National Normal University of Lebanon, and for a number of years was a successful teacher. She was a member of the Mothers, Club and the Warren County Teachers, Association. Doctor and Mrs. Hoffer have one child, John Milton, born in 1915. MARCELLUS A. KRIEG. For half a century an important industry in the Hocking Valley was the lumber and planing mill industry maintained by the Krieg family, and which manufactured immense quantities of material used in the construction of houses over a large territory in the valley. The business was founded by the late Michael Krieg, and for forty years it was continued under the firm name of M. A. Krieg & Company, with headquarters at Nelsonville. Marcellus A. Krieg, head of the business, has since retired, and now gives his time to other interests at Nelsonville and vicinity. Mr. Krieg was born at Logan, Hocking County, April 13, 1857, son of Michael and Leah (Friesner) Krieg. The Friesners came from Switzerland to the United States, and have long been prominent in Hocking County. Leah Friesner was a daughter of Frederick Friesner. Michael Krieg was born in France, February 15, 1824, son of Francis Joseph Krieg. who was one of Napoleon,s old guards in the Napoleonic wars. He was a follower of the Great Emperor fifteen years, being one of the army of 250,000 that marched into Russia, to Moscow, and one of the few thousand soldiers that came back from that disastrous expedition. He was with his Emperor at the final battle, Waterloo. In 1828 the Krieg family came to America and settled in Wayne County, Ohio, and later at Junction City in Perry County. Francis Joseph Krieg followed farming in this country. Michael Krieg and his wife, though self educated, exemplified some of the old country love of literature and art, and they were life long readers and students. Michael Krieg had a fluent command of the French, German and English. All their children became students, and as a family they have been book lovers. Michael Krieg as a young man took out his citizenship papers, and was a man of quiet influence in the community where he lived. He learned the cabinet making trade, later became a carpenter, and in the early days he was the undertaker of his community, making coffins by hand. As a house builder he erected many of the residences in Hocking County, and subsequently became a manufacturer of building material. In 1865 he and A. B. Dutin, E. G. Collins, Arch A. Houston and Darius White started a planing mill and furniture factory. This business in 1872 was incorporated as the Logan Manufacturing Company. In 1878 he established a planing mill at Nelsonville, successor to Freer and Wolf, and when Michael Krieg retired from the business in 1890 it was taken over by his son Marcellus A. and the latter ,s brother, H. D., and most of the business since that time has been concentrated at Nelsonville. Michael Krieg in his early years owned a farm near Logan. He and his wife established their home in Logan in 1855, and lived the rest of their lives in that community, where Michael Krieg died in December, 1901. He was a democrat, and all his sons followed him in politics except Marcellus A. The wife of Michael Krieg was born April 21, 1831, in Hocking County, and died August 20, 1917. They are survived by six sons and one daughter : Marcellus A., Homer D., Lafe C., M. M., Arch A., Irving and Lucy. Lucy and Irving, both unmarried, live at the old home in Logan, Hocking County, Irving being connected with the First Na tional Bank. Homer was formerly associated with his brother Marcellus in the planing mill business, and lives at Nelsonville. Lafe is a contractor in Texas. M. M. is a prospector living at Boise City, Idaho, and Arch is a druggist in Charleston, West Virginia. Marcellus A. Krieg was educated in the public schools of Logan, and studied architecture and the building trades under his father. As a young man, following Greeley,s advice, he went West to Kansas, partly for reasons of health, and spent three years there, part of the time employed on a cattle ranch in Jackson County, and for eleven months he taught school. On returning East he went to work in the furniture store maintained by the Logan Manufacturing Company, and subsequently mastered all the technical details of manufacturing. In 1887 he disposed of his interest in the Logan Manufacturing Company and for several years followed the business of a contractor and builder. In 1890 he purchased his father ,s interest in the Nelsonville plant, and continued the business under the firm name of M. A. Krieg & Company until August, 1921. The planing mill of the company supplied building material used by contractors all over this part of the valley. Since August, 1921, Mr. Krieg has given his time to his duties as secretary-treasurer of the Lick Run Coal and Clay Company. On March 17, 1904, he married Miss Harriett S. Frazier, of Carbon Hill, daughter of Richard and Samantha Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. Krieg are members of the Episcopal Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and in younger years he served several terms on the City Council of Nelsonville. C. E. BENNETT is the secretary, treasurer and general manager and the man chiefly responsible for the success of the Bennett Company at Nelsonville, a business handling and distributing milk, manufacturing ice cream and soft drinks, and with market for the products all up and down the Hocking and the Sunday Creek valleys. The business was incorporated in June, 1922, with Mr. C. J. Bartels as president and sales manager. Mr. Bennett represents an old and prominent family of Athens County, and was born on his father ,s farm three miles south of Nelsonville, September 9, 1885. His parents were John W. and Mary L. (Thornton) Bennett. His father died in 1920, at the age of seventy-two. His mother was born in 1851, on the old farm where the Bennett family lived for so many years, and she died there in 1918, at the age of sixty-six. John W. Bennett was throughout his lifetime a man of splendid capabilities and excellent influence in his community in Athens County. He was a coal operator for a time, also a farmer, and did a successful business as a carpenter, builder and contractor. A leading democrat, he served two terms as county commissioner, from 1908 to 1912, and at all times was an enthusiastic advocate of good roads building. He served repeatedly on the school board and as township trustee, and was held in high honor and esteem. He was a Methodist, and for thirty years was superintendent of the Sunday school. John W. Bennett and wife had a family of ten children, nine sons and one daughter. The seven sons now living are : Loving, a coal operator at New Lexington; Frank E. and Charles W., farmers near Dashler, Ohio ; J. M., a coal operator at Nelsonville; James V., who is associated in business with his brother, C. E. Bennett, the next in age; and W. H., a coal operator at Nelsonville and New Lexington. C. E. Bennett while a boy on the farm attended the district schools of York Township, completing his education in Ohio University at Athens. When he left home at the age of twenty he studied embalm- HISTORY OF OHIO - 343 ing, and for a time was in the undertaking business. For two years he was in Detroit, an employe of the Hupp Motor Company. Returning to Nelsonville, with the purpose of engaging in coal production, he found his plans temporarily frustrated, and to secure immediate action he bought a milk route from his brother. From this he has developed the business briefly described above, and has enlarged his plant three times and given it modern equipment in every respect. In July, 1924, he opened the second plant and began operations in Athens, Ohio. In 1915 Mr. Bennett married Miss Garnett Spencer, daughter of Joshua Spencer, of Nelsonville. She is the active partner of Mr. Bennett, and they have cooperated throughout in achieving their business success. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Masonic Grotto, and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. ARTHUR AUGUST BECKMAN, an ex-service man who spent over two years in France, is prominent in publicity work and is secretary of the Bellaire Chamber of Commerce and also secretary of the Ohio River Highway Association. He was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, April 12, 1889, son of August and Augusta Beckman. His father has had a long experience in banking, being connected with the Capital National Bank of St. Paul. After finishing his education in the public schools of St. Paul, Arthur August Beckman took up publicity work, and so continued until America entered the World war. On May 26, 1917, he enlisted as a private at St. Paul with Company E of the Sixtieth United States Engineers. He went to France as a private, was made a private of the first class, and was then commissioned second lieutenant of infantry. He was transferred as an adjutant in the postal service at Paris for seven months, was promoted to first lieutenant of infantry, and altogether served in France from August 10, 1917, to September 16, 1919. After returning to the United States Mr. Beckman resumed publicity work, assisting in the organizations of chambers of commerce, hospitals and other institutions. Since May 13, 1921, he has been secretary of the Bellaire Chamber of Commerce and secretary of the Ohio River Highway. He organized the chamber of of commerce, and this chamber has made an enviable record of accomplishment for commercial and civic improvement. Both organizations have endorsed and made a primary feature of their program of work the construction of a hard surface road from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati on the west bank of the Ohio River. Mr. Beckman is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the American Legion and the Forty and Eight Society of ex-service men. He belongs to the Kiwanis Club and the Episcopal Church. Mr. Beckman married Miss Eleanor Truckles, of Maplewood, New Jersey. They have one son, John Arthur. WILLIAM HENRY CANN, doctor of dental surgery at Nelsonville in Athens County, has had a very busy practice in his profession there for the past fifteen years, and he has also become one of the solid, substantial citizens of that community. Doctor Cann was born at Oswego Falls, New York, August 12, 1882, and since boyhood has been the master of his destiny, relying upon his industry and initiative to rise above circumstances. His parents were George and Mary (Garside) Cann, both natives of England. His father was a finisher in textile mills, and worked for a number of years in the Renfrew Manufacturing Company at Adams, Massachusetts, and had also been connected with the textile plant at Oswego Falls, New York. He died in March, 1912, when seventy-two years of age, and his widow survived him until July, 1922, passing away at the age of seventy-six. They had a family of five sons: Wilfred, who is a physical director at Elizabeth, New Jersey; Walter, a florist at Millbrook, New York ; Arthur, whose home is at Adams, Massachusetts; Herbert, a pearl button cutter at Attleboro, Massachusetts and William Henry. Dr. William Henry Cann was reared at Adams, Massachusetts, and while attending school he exercised his ingenuity by earning money at different occupations during holidays and vacations. After completing the high school course he had to depend upon himself to achieve his ambition of becoming a dentist. He worked and paid his way through the dental department of Ohio State University, being employed as a grocery clerk and in other occupations, working Saturdays and Sundays. He was graduated in 1907, and is a member of the Psi Omega dental fraternity. Doctor Cann for a brief time practiced at Monticello in Wayne County, Kentucky, and then moved to Nelsonville. He exemplifies some of the most advanced ideas and methods in the science and practice of dentistry. Doctor Cann has served as a member of the City Council at Nelsonville. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and is affiliated with the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter at Nelsonville, the Knights Templar Commandery at Somerset, Kentucky, Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Rema Johnson, daughter of James W. Johnson, of Bridgeport, Ohio. She is a member of the Methodist Church. Their three children are James, William H., Jr., and Mary. LOUIS T. NEIN, of the Nein Brothers Realty Company, one of the most prominent real estate firms in Butler County, with offices at Middletown, is a former county treasurer of Butler County and has been a man of conspicuous prominence there for many years. He was born at Milton, Indiana, September 25, 1882, son of Henry and Margaret (Grau) Nein. His father was born in Germany in 1839, and came to the United States at the age of sixteen, devoting his active career to farming in Indiana and in Southern Ohio. He died in Butler County in 1901. Margaret Grau was born in Butler County, February 14, 1848. Louis T. Nein was a child when his parents settled on a farm in Morgan Township, Butler County, and he grew up there, attending the district schools. In 1901 he was graduated from the New London High School, and for two years he was a teacher, first in a rural school in Milford Township and then as principal of the Millville School. Mr. Nein’s early business experience was as an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was in the offices of the company at Indianapolis, and his efficiency and faithfulness in the performance of duty brought him promotion to chief clerk of the accounting department. Resigning in 1912, Mr. Nein returned to Butler County and established a general insurance agency at Middletown. He found time also to interest himself in local affairs and politics, and in 1914 was appointed city auditor of Middletown. He held that office until August 31, 1919, when he began his duties as county treasurer of Butler County. He was elected county treasurer in November, 1918. He resigned that office to return to Middletown and become associated with his brothers, John F. and Edward H., in the Nein Brothers Realty Company with offices in the First National Bank Building. Mr. Louis Nein is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective 344 - HISTORY OF OHIO Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Young Men,s Christian Association. In 1907 he married Miss Ethel Hawk, daughter of George Hawk. The children born to their marriage are Earl Louis and Helen Elizabeth. REUBEN J. BOESEL, M. D. A prominent young physician, specializing in nose and throat work and surgery, Doctor Boesel is one of the busiest professional men in Athens County, located at Carbondale, where he has an extensive mining practice and is also interested in coal mining. He was born at New Bremen in Auglaize County, Ohio, April 22, 1895, son of Adolph and Ida (Haveman) Boesel. His father has long been prominent in the business life of New Bremen, where he is vice president of the First National Bank, president of the First City Bank, and for many years held the office of city treasurer. Doctor Boesel was the only son of his parents, and there were five daughters in the family. Doctor Boesel was liberally educated, and after the public schools entered Ohio State University at Columbus, where he graduated from the College of Liberal Arts in 1918. He remained in the State University a student of medicine, and during the World war, as a young medical student, was in the Students, Army Training Corps. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1921, and for a year was an interne in Mount Carmel Hospital and had six months of special work in New York hospitals, training as a nose and throat specialist and surgeon. Mr. Boesel began his practice at Carbondale, in Athens County, in October, 1921. He is physician and surgeon for nine mines in Carbondale and vicinity, and has achieved a reputation as one of the most skillful and expert young men in his profession. He is also part owner and manager of the Caloric Coal Company at Carbondale. Doctor Boesel is a member of the Athens County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. EDWARD D. POWELL, a Youngstown attorney with offices in the Stambaugh Building, is a member of a well known family of that city, and nearly all of them at some time or other have been identified with the iron and steel industry of the Mahoning Valley. Mr. Powell was born August 10, 1888, son of Edward and Adeline (Cook) Powell. His father was born at Evervales, Wales, and the grandfather, William Powell, brought the family to Youngstown in 1862. William Powell was a puddler in the steel mills. The maternal grandfather, Dugal Cook, was a native of Scotland, and at Youngstown, where he became a mill worker, married a girl from the North of Ireland. Edward Powell, Sr., in early life was an employe in the steel mills, later for many years was in the grocery and meat business, and acquired a large amount of property and dealt in real estate until 1908. Since then he and his wife have lived retired at 1920 Market Street. Their children are: Jennie Belle, wife of Frank E. Douthel, of Youngstown; Adeline M., Mrs. Edmond Reynolt, of Youngstown; Edward D.; and William Donald, of Youngstown. Edward D. Powell continued in the public schools of Youngstown to the age of fifteen, and on leaving school he was employed by his father a few years. For about five years he was in a business for himself, and in the meantime he was getting his advanced education, spending two years in preparatory work in the Northeastern Ohio Normal at Canfield, and then attending Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, and Ohio Northern University at Ada. He was graduated in 1914, and in June, 1915, was admitted to the Ohio bar. For the past ten years he has been engaged in an independent practice of his profession. He has found satisfaction in the strict limits of the law, and has made no important diversion into politics or business. In November, 1915, he married Miss Emma Dell O’Dell, a native of Attica, Indiana, and daughter of John O. O’Dell. They have two children : Edward D., born July 29, 1916, and Mary Lillis, born December 16, 1920. Mr. Powell is a member of the Pleasant Grove United Presbyterian Church, is a republican, and a member of the Delta Theta Phi, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Grotto and the Mystic Shrine. SAMUEL GIBSON was born in a district of Youngstown Township that is now an integral part of this city, the year of his nativity having been March 9, 1819, and he was a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of this city and county. Samuel Gibson was here reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer period of the history of this now favored section of Ohio. His marriage was solemnized at Nesshannack, Pennsylvania, to Miss Nancy Jane Gault June 8, 1847. Samuel Gibson, eldest son of Robert Dixon Gibson and Lydia (Marshall) Gibson, was born on the old Youngstown homestead March 9, 1819, and he passed his entire life in Mahoning County, his death having occurred at Youngstown December 14, 1910. In 1843 he wedded Ann Irwin, and upon her death, January 16, 1846, she was survived by one son, James D., who at this writing (1924) is residing in the Village of Poland. The date of the second marriage of Samuel Gibson has already been here recorded, his second wife having been born at Nesshannack, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1825, and her death having occurred May 5, 1897. Of the children of Samuel and Nancy J. (Gault) Gibson the eldest was William T., who became a prominent and influential citizen of Youngstown, of which city he served for some time as mayor. William T. Gibson, whose death occurred August 24, 1920, prepared and published a most interesting record concerning his ancestors who were the pioneer founders of the Gibson family in Mahoning County, and this history of Capt. James Gibson, a Revolutionary soldier, and of his noble wife, whose maiden name was Anna Belle Dixon, is available for much interesting family data impossible of incorporation in this brief review. Many other Ohio historical works likewise make special mention of Captain Gibson and other representatives of this sterling pioneer family, which was here founded in the Mahoning Valley in the year 1799, when this section was on the very frontier of civilization. Of the children of Samuel and Nancy J. Gibson, there are living only three, Minnie A.; Ben M., who owns and resides upon a part of the old homestead farm, now included in the City of Youngstown; Harry G. resides at Poland, Mahoning County. Miss Ella remained with her sister Miss Minnie A. until her death in 1908. Robert A. died at the age of thirty-five years. Samuel Gibson inherited a portion of the old homestead farm at Youngstown, and here he passed his entire life, a sterling citizen who commanded unqualified popular esteem. It is but fitting that further reference be here made to Capt. James Gibson, founder of the family in Ohio. Of Scotch ancestry, Capt. James Gibson was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1740, and in 1770 he came to the New World and established his residence in Pennsylvania. In Cumberland County, that state, he gained a full share of frontier experience, including conflicts with the Indians, in which connection he served as captain of a company of rangers, besides which he later held a captaincy in the command with which he served as a patriot soldier in the HISTORY OF OHIO - 345 Revolution. With horses and wagons Captain Gibson came with his wifc and their four sons from Pennsylvania to Ohio in the year 1779. They arrived in Mahoning County, as now constituted, in November of that year, and they camped one night at what is still known as Gibson Spring, which is on the present Poland Avenue of the City of Youngstown. From John Young, Captain Gibson purchased the tract of forest land, about 300 acres, which became the family homestead and much of which he reclaimed to cultivation, the family having lived up to the full tension of hardships and responsibilities incidental to the leading of the march of civilization into this frontier district. The death of Captain Gibson here occurred in 1816, and his widow was eighty-six years of age at the time of her death, in 1833. Two of their sons, James, Jr., and Robert D., served in the War of 1812. It may be noted in this connection that the devoted wife of Captain Gibson was a charter member of the first Presbyterian Church organized at Youngstown, in 1800. Robert D. Gibson, father of Samuel Gibson, was born in Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents on their immigration to Ohio, he having been named in honor of his maternal uncle, Robert Dixon, who lost his life while serving as a patriot soldier in the Revolution, this uncle having been the first American soldier killed at Quebec, Canada, in 1775. Robert D. Gibson was born in 1784, and his death occurred at Youngstown April 16, 1863. He served in three different Ohio regiments within the period of the War of 1812. In 1818 he married Lydia Marshall, who was born in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1796, a daughter of James Marshall, a Revolutionary soldier who became an early settler in Trumbull County, Ohio. Mrs. Gibson survived her husband, and died August 4, 1873. Of their five children Samuel, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest. Robert D. Gibson added much to his landed estate in and near Youngstown, and the substantial stone house which he erected about the year 1840 is now one of the land marks of Mahoning County. Samuel Gibson became the owner of the north part of the land originally acquired by Capt. James Gibson, and here, near the historic Gibson Spring, still stands the house which he erected and afterward enlarged and in which he passed the closing years of his life, the attractive old homestead being now the place of abode of his daughter Minnie A. He served as a captain in the Ohio Militia in the early ,40s, was a democrat in politics, and he and his wife held membership in the First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown. Miss Minnie A. Gibson and her brother William T. became the owners of the old homestead. William T. Gibson was one of the organizers of the City Savings & Trust Company of Youngstown, and was president of this institution at the time of his death. He was one of the representative members of the bar of Mahoning County, and served as solicitor of the city and as prosecuting attorney of the county, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party. He was one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Youngstown, and had served as its mayor. He remained a bachelor and continued to reside with his sister at the old homestead until his death on August 24, 1920. Of the land constituting the old homestead of Samuel Gibson nearly all has been sold and developed for business and residential usage, but Miss Minnie A. Gibson still retains the substantial old house, which is her home, together with seven acres surrounding the same and including the famous old Gibson Spring, long known for its pure and sparkling water. MORRIS H. SQUIRES. Some men are born with a flare for business, and no matter what the line may be into which they direct their efforts, success is sure to attend them. They understand both buying and selling ; can judge accurately the changes in the market, the increase or decrease in the supply and demand of the public, and direct their course accordingly. Such men stimulate trade, as well as build up private fortunes. One of the live and progressive business men of Youngstown, whose efforts have made him a well-known figure in the realty circles of Mahoning County, is Morris II. Squires, president and treasurer of the Front Street Development Company. He is a man whose progress has been steady and cumulative, and he has worked his own way up from very small beginnings to his present responsible position in business life. Morris H. Squires was born in Russia, in 1885, a son of Jacob and Rosa Squires, the former of whom immigrated to the United States and settled at Akron, Ohio; in 1891. Two years later his wife and son joined him, and some years later they moved to Colorado, where they are now residing. Growing up at Akron, Morris H. Squires attended the city ,s public schools, and while acquiring a substantial education, was well-grounded in true Americanism. Owing to financial conditions he early began to be self-supporting, working for several years as a factory hand. When only nineteen years old he went into business for himself, and for three years bought and sold scrap iron. His attention was then turned to real estate, and he bought and sold properties for six years. For the subsequent five years he was equally successful in handling automobiles, and then, disposing of that enterprise, he began to concentrate all of his energies toward developing Front Street, and has made his influence felt as a potent factor in enhancing property values in this part of Youngstown. Since 1906 he has been a resident of Youngstown, and intends to remain here, where he has acquired wealth and prestige. In 1912 Mr. Squires married Miss Edith Cutler, who was born at Cleveland, Ohio, and they have four children: Howard, Bettie, Rhodo S. and Ensiemath. His political belief makes him a republican. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while through his connection with the Kiwanis Club he keeps in touch with civic improvements and betterment. JOHN F. NEIN. In Butler County citizenship John F. Nein has been a conspicuous figure for many years. He has been active in the real estate business at Middletown since 1907, and at the same time every movement involving an element of public interest has enlisted his complete and hearty cooperation. Mr. Nein was born near Cambridge City, Wayne County, Indiana, August 15, 1880, son of Henry and Margaret (Grau) Nein. His father, who came to the United States in 1855, was born in Germany in 1839, and became well known in Butler County, where he was engaged in farming for many years and where be died in 1901. The mother of John F. Nein was born in Butler County in 1848. Educated in the country schools of Butler County, John F. Nein after finishing his high school course at Shandon remained on the farm, and the foundation of his career was a thorough knowledge of farming. In 1907 he began dealing in real estate at Middletown, and after three years his brother, Edward H. Nein, joined him. Three brothers finally constituted the Nein Brothers Realty Company. Mr. Nein from the first was interested in the constructive side of his business. He has instituted several important developments, and has contributed in no small degree to the housing construction that has enabled the increasing population of Middletown to find appropriate homes. He and his partners have improved several tracts 346 - HISTORY OF OHIO adjacent to Middletown, and have built and sold under the easy payment plan numerous homes to people in moderate circumstances. Mr. Nein is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, in which latter order he is a past chancellor. He is a member of the Middletown Real Estate Board, and also holds membership in the Ohio State and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. On August 5, 1903, he married Miss Flora L. Henry, daughter of Halsey and Elizabeth Henry. She was a graduate of the high school at Hamilton and at her death, on July 31, 1918, she was survived by three children: Velma, born in 1904; Floyd, born in 1906; and Russell, born in 1910. On January 7, 1920, Mr. Nein married Florence Carolyn Abbott, of Hamilton, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Abbott. EDWARD H. NEIN, senior member of Nein Brothers Realty Company at Middletown, has long been recognized as one of Butler County ,s most enterprising business men. His experience in the real estate field covers a period of over fifteen years. Mr. Nein was born near Cambridge City, Wayne County, Indiana, February 6, 1878, and was a boy when his parents came to Butler County, Ohio. His father, Henry Nein, came to the United States at the age of sixteen, having been born in Germany in 1839. He was a farmer in Indiana and later in Butler County, Ohio, where he died in 1901. His wife, Margaret Grau, was born in Butler County, February 14, 1848, and survived her husband. Edward H. Nein made good use of his advantages in the local schools near his father ,s farm. For two years he attended the high school at Shandon in Butler County, and for another two years was a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, and his work in the district schools continued four years. He had a year of additional training in Valparaiso University in Indiana, following which he took up bookkeeping, and subsequently for four years was on the road as a traveling salesman. Mr. Nein engaged in the real estate business at Hamilton in 1908, and in 1910 he and his brother, John F. Nein, formed a partnership at Middletown. The Nein Brothers Realty Company has been a successful organization and has been potent in advancing the material interest of the city in many ways. The firm has done a great deal of constructive work, home building and subdividing. Mr. Nein has at all times recognized the close relation between his business and the public welfare of his community, and both in business and through his other connections he has exercised a steady influence for betterment and improvement. He is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Presbyterian Church. On November 6, 1902, he married Miss Elizabeth M. McCoy. She is a daughter of William McCoy, who lived near Oxford in Butler County. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Nein are: Lyman Randolph, born in 1903, and Gordon Russell, born in 1905. CLIFFORD A. WISE immediately after graduating from high school took up automobile work, and for several years has been one of the accomplished automobile salesmen of Northern Ohio. He has been in business at Elyria for some years, the only interruption to his work having been during the war, when he was in the aviation service. Mr. Wise was born January 20, 1891, at Jackson, Michigan, son of Charles N. and Nancy J. (Hazard) Wise. His father was born at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and his mother in Orange County, New York. Charles Wise became a railway engineer on the Michigan Central Railroad, and as such his home and headquarters were at Jackson, Michigan. Clifford A. Wise was educated in Michigan, graduated from high school in 1909, and then went to work as an automobile mechanic with the Jackson Automobile Company. Three years later he came to Cleveland and was shop foreman for an automobile dealer. In the fall of 1913 he became manager of the Buick automobile' sales room at Elyria. He continued in that business until the World war. In the aviation service he was appointed division instructor and pilot for dirigibles. In 1918, after the war, Mr. Wise took the agency for the Studebaker car, and has handled a great volume of business for that company at Elyria. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Elyria Automobile Club, the American Legion Post and the Fish and Game Club. He is also affiliated with the Elks, and is a member of the Baptist Church. In March, 1918, Mr. Wise married Esther V. Baker, a native of Amherst, Ohio, and daughter of A. and Harriett Baker. They had one son, Clifford Charles. WILLIAM B. PONYMAN, of Youngstown, is one of the honored veterans of the World war, and was a soldier in the Regular Army, both in France and for two years after the armistice in this country. He was born at Farrell, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1898. His parents, Louis and Sarah Ponyman, were natives of Russia, and about 1893 came to the United States, locating at Farrell, Pennsylvania, where Louis Ponyman found employment as a steel worker. In 1898 he moved his family to Youngstown, and continued work in the steel mills of this district. William B. Ponyman grew up at Youngstown, attended the common schools, and has achieved a liberal education in the intervals of his work and employment in other occupations. For a time he attended the Franklin Institute at Rochester, New York, studied law in the Hamilton College of law at Chicago, and also did special work in applied science. In 1913, while attending the public schools, he worked in a grocery store at Youngstown. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the Regular Army of the United States. He was sent overseas April 1, 1918, landing in France, and in May went to the battle line and saw active service in some of the defensive and offensive movements in the last six months of the war. In April, 1919, he returned to the United States, and spent one year at Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Mexican border, and thereafter was in service at different army posts in the United States until honorably discharged in August, 1920. He then reenlisted for another year, and saw service in the Middle West until his final discharge in November, 1921. Returning to Youngstown after a service of four years in the army, Mr. Ponyman completed his studies and soon took up private investigation and detective work. In 1922 he established the Ponyman Detective Agency, and has made it one of the most reliable organizations of the kind in Ohio. Mr. Ponyman, who is unmarried, is an independent in politics. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the International Association of Identification, and the Illinois State Association for Identification. FRANCIS MAYTON SNOOK, of Youngstown, is a young man, but with an unusual length and diversity of experience, beginning in boyhood. He was in the Regular Army for a time, and served in the Philippines. Mr. Snook was born at Canton, Mississippi, February 2, 1879, son of Francis Mayton and Alice E. HISTORY OF OHIO - 347 (Murrell) Snook, his father a native of Dayton, Ohio, and his mother of Winona, Mississippi. The elder Snook was a newspaper publisher and politician, served at one time as a member of the State Senate of Kansas, and died at Warsaw, Missouri, about 1884, his wife passing away in 1887. Francis Mayton Snook was only eight years old when left an orphan. At the age of fifteen he began working a small orange grove at Azusa, California. After five years in that work he joined the United States Army, and served four years, including the war in the Philippine Islands. In 1904, on returning to the United States, he entered the New York Uni-. versity School of Commerce, where he supplemented his early limited advantages in school. He then became a representative of the Underwood Typewriter Company at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a year later was made a branch manager of the company at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and subsequently entered the service of the Alexander Hamilton Institute as a district representative, spending four years at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then coming to Youngstown, where he has charge of the district for this great educational institution. In 1915 he married Miss Clara Elizabeth Wilke, a native of Pittsburgh, and daughter of Ernest M. and Lydia (Seif) Wilke, native of the same city. They have one daughter, Beth Frances. Mr. Snook is a member of the Christian Science Church, and is independent in politics. KERTIS L. COBOURN is a native of Columbiana County, and has been a prominent lawyer at Salem for over twenty years. While he has practiced law rather than held office, he has been a leader in the republican party in his section of the state. He was born in Perry Township, near Salem, January 15, 1871, son of Nathan and Harriet J. (Carle) Cobourn. Mr. Cobourn was reared on a farm, taught school in rural districts five years, and completed his literary education by graduating from the Damascus Academy with the Bachelor of Science degree on June 17, 1892. Subsequently, in the spring of 1898, he was elected justice of the peace. He studied law under attorney A. W. Taylor at Salem, and on June 13, 1901, was admitted to the Ohio bar He was admitted to practice in the United States Court of the Northern Ohio District February 5, 1907. Mr. Cobourn has conducted a general practice as an attorney, and has come to be recognized as a hard working, earnest and fair minded member of his profession. He is past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 305, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 316, He served two years as president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, and his political activity in the republican party runs back more than twenty-five years. He was president and secretary of the Republican Local Committee and is now a member of the County Executive and Local Central committees. On January 20, 1897, Mr. Cobourn married Myrta L. Kille. They have one son, Frank Marcus. PAUL RAINEY MCLAUGHLIN, M. D. Through a period of fifteen years Doctor McLaughlin has given his very best talent and experience to the practice of medicine and surgery in the community of Guysville in Athens County. However, for more than two years he was absent from his home community in army service, coming out of the army at the close of the World war with the rank of major in the Medical Corps. Doctor McLaughlin was born on a farm at Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio, May 20, 1883. His parents, J. W. and Minerva (Rainey) McLaughlin, still live at the old homestead in Wayne County, his father aged sixty-nine and his mother, sixty-six. His father for years has been known as one of the successful and progressive men in the agricultural community of his county. He is a republican. There are two sons, Dr. Paul R. and Ralph. The latter has worked his way from lineman to chief clerk in the Chicago offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Paul Rainey McLaughlin was reared in a country community, attended country schools, also high school, and finished his literary education in Wooster University. He graduated in 1904 from the pharmacy department of Ohio Northern University, and subsequently entered the medical department of Ohio State University, from which he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1909. Soon after graduating he located at Guysville in Athens County, and has made and sustained an enviable record as a professional man. He spent fourteen years in the Ohio National Guard, becoming a member of the Fourth Infantry in 1904, and in 1909 he was made first lieutenant of the Medical Corps and captain in 1912. In 1916 he went out with the troops sent to the Mexican border, a member of Companies A and B of the Ohio Signal Corps. He was trained for the medical service at Fort Bliss, Texas, also at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and Camp Perry, and Camp Sheridan, Alabama. In September, 1917, he was raised to the rank of major and at Sheridan, Ohio, his corps became the One Hundred and Twelfth Field Signal Battalion, and in November, 1917, he was transferred to command Field Hospital No. 146, Thirty-seventh Division, and went overseas with that outfit. He was discharged about the 1st of May, 1919, at Camp Dix, and immediately returned home to take up his practice. He is now a member of the Officers, Reserve Corps and a member of the American Legion, Crossen Post, at Athens. He had ten months of service overseas as administration officer at Camp Hospital No. 51 and Hospital No. 29 in France. Altogether his active service as a soldier and medical officer covered a period of two years and ten months. He is a member of the various medical organizations and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1905 he married Miss Leta Richmond, of Moundsville, West Virginia. They have three children: Claire, Paul R., Jr., and Paulleta. ORA MORRIS SPINE. In county and local politics and public affairs probably no citizen of Ohio has been more frequently and distinctively honored than Ora Morris Spink, of Painesville, present sheriff of Lake County. Mr. Spink, who has been a resident of Northeastern Ohio for over twenty years, was born in the Village of Texas, Oswego County, New York, November 9, 1879, and represents a prominent American lineage. He had at least six ancestors in the War of the Revolution, namely: Lieut. William Vincent and David Crumb-Crumby, of Rhode Island; Joseph Denison and Joseph Rudd, of Connecticut ; Robert Spink, of Massachusetts; and Ensign John Casterer, of New York. The mother of his paternal grandfather was Cynthia Castor. Her father, who spelled his name Casterer, and whose first name was John, was born at New London, Connecticut, July 16, 1748, and served with the rank of ensign in the Revolutionary Army and after the war drew a pension for his services. He was an educated man and a musician. He died at Ellisburg in Jefferson County, New York, May 21, 1835. The father of this Revolutionary soldier bore the name of John DeCasterer. Born of noble French family he left that country during the uprising against nobility, and at the age of nineteen came to America and settled in New London, Connecticut. This French exile married Lucretia Richards, who was 348 - HISTORY OF OHIO baptized October 24, 1731, and died at the age of ninety-six. The Revolutionary soldier, John Casterer, married Anna Calkins, a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. She was born in Lyme, Connecticut, May 9, 1745-46, was married in 1770, and died at Ellisburg, New York, October 25, 1835. Elijah Spink, grandfather of the county sheriff, was born at Nobletown, Columbia County, New York, November 22, 1803, but spent most of his life in Jefferson County, that state. He was a son of Elijah Spink, Sr., and great-great-grandson of Robert Spink, born in Rhode Island November 10, 1738, great-grandson of Capt. Benjamin Spink, born in 1712; grandson Captain Ishmael, great-great-great grandson. Robert Spink 1st. Elijah Spink, Jr., was one of the old time mechanics of surpassing skill, with trained hands and eye. He was a carriage maker and blacksmith, and did not only the rough work of his trade, but also made such things as clock springs and knives. He died at the Village of Texas in Oswego County, December 5, 1880. The wife of Elijah Spink was Wilhelmina Vincent, daughter of Thomas and Polly (Crumb-Crumby) Vincent. She is a descendant, through her mother, of John Howland, of the Mayflower ; Capt. George Denison and his wife, Lady Ann Borodell, of Connecticut, and Lieut. Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Connecticut, who was descended from a long line of kings, beginning with King Eghbert, first Saxon King of all England. She was born at Russia in Herkimer County, New York, January 30, 1813, and died at Port Ontario, in Oswego County, November 13, 1892. Her grandfather, Dr. William Vincent, of Wesley, Rhode Island, was a surgeon and lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army. Albert Milo Spink, son of Elijah Spink, was born at Depauville, Jefferson County, New York, in 1836; spent his early life in that and in St. Lawrence counties, was married at Ogdensburg, and he also became a carriage maker. In 1877 he moved to the Village of Texas, and in 1892 to Pulaski in Oswego County. He built up a prosperous business as a carriage maker, and died at Pulaski in February, 1901. He was active in local republican politics, and was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among other attainments he was noted for his splendid tenor voice, and took part in many musical events and taught singing schools. Albert M. Spink married Mary Ann Hemens, daughter of Sylvester and Maria (Box) Hemens, both born in England. Her grandparents, John and Ann (Robins) Box, came from England in 1833-35. She was born at Pulaski, New York, October 11, 1845, and died there August 15, 1913. She was the mother of seven children: Harlow E., a civil engineer in the Government service living at Oswego, New York ; Wilhelmina Maria, who died unmarried at the age of thirty-two ; Nellie Jane, who died in December, 1920, aged fifty, at Hannibal, Oswego County, New York, where her husband, Rev. Willis A. Havens, is a Methodist minister ; Miss Alice Bertha, of New Haven, Oswego County, New York ; Melzar Myron, a mechanic at Pulaski; Ora Morris ; and Florena Mae, a graduate of the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland, Ohio, now a private secretary and stenographer at New Haven, New York. Ora Morris Spink spent his boyhood days at Texas and Pulaski, New York, attending public schools and high school in the latter village. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, he worked for his father until the latter ,s death in February, 1901. After passing a successful examination under the United States civil service rule he was appointed a member of the United States life saving service, and in June, 1901, was assigned to duty at Fairport Harbor in Lake County, Ohio. Three years later he resigned, then going to work for the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Electric Railroad Company, working up to dispatcher. In June, 1906, by civil service examination, he was appointed a member of the Painesville city police department as patrolman, and in 1908 was promoted to lieutenant. Mr. Spink’s first election as sheriff of Lake County occurred in November, 1912. He was the republican candidate. On January 1, 1913, he began his first term, and in November, 1914, was reelected for a second two-year term. Not being eligible for a third successive term, in January, 1917, he took the state civil service examination for the office of superintendent of the Lake County Home at Painesville, Mrs. Spink at the same time taking the examination for the position of matron. They were chosen over eight other couples who were similarly examined, and on April 1, 1917, removed to the Lake County Home. They remained on duty there, giving a careful and considerate administration of the office, until January, 1921. In November, 1920, Mr. Spink had the singular distinction of being elected sheriff of Lake County as an independent candidate, the first time an independent was ever elected to any county office in Lake County. It was also the first time any one who had previously served four years as sheriff was again elected to that office. In January, 1921, Mr. Spink began his first term and in November, 1922, was accorded reelection, this time on the republican ticket. In that election he received more votes than were given to any candidate on the national, state or county ticket. The sheriff’s residence is at 132 East Erie Street, Painesville, Ohio. Mr. Spink has other services to his credit. He spent four years on the Painesville Township School Board, and for two terms, six years was a trustee of the Painesville City Hospital. While superintendent of the County Home he took an active part in the various local campaigns for the successful prosecution of the World war. Fraternally he was affiliated with Watertown Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Watertown, New York, belongs to the Union Encampment of that order, and Adams Lodge No. 350 of the Rebekahs. He is also a member of Painesville Lodge, Knights of the Maccabees; Painesville Lodge No. 549, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, State No. 2674 ; and Sons of the American Revolution, National No. 37031. He owns the old family homestead in Pulaski, New York, and also has a modern home of his own, built in 1917, at 503 South St. Clair Street in Painesville. Mr. Spink married Miss Arta Mena Harrison at Little Mountain in Lake County, Ohio, August 10, 1904. She is a daughter of William D. and Almena A. (Tuttle) Harrison, grand-daughter of William and Phebe Flint Hopkins Tuttle. She was born in Mentor Township of Lake County, September 22, 1881, graduated in 1902 from the Painesville High School, from the Painesville Normal School in 1903, and for a year before her marriage was a teacher in Concord Township of Lake County. Mrs. Spink is a member of the Christian Church, is affiliated with the Rebekahs and her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, National No. 181918, is based on the service of several ancestors in the war for independence. Isaac Messenger, a soldier of the Revolution, was her great-great-great-grandfather on her mother’s side. Through her father she is a great-great-granddaughter of William Deming, Sr., a native of Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, who at the age of sixteen enlisted as a soldier, participating in the battles of Lexington, Bennington and Morristown, and who died at Elizabethtown in Essex County, New York. Another Revolutionary soldier and a direct ancestor of Mrs, Spink was Capt. Ebe- HISTORY OF OHIO - 349 nezer Hathaway, who was born in Bristol County, Massachusetts, and who died at Freetown in that county in 1791. His son Shadrach, born in 1752 and died in 1780, was also in the army in the war for independence. Her great-great-grandfather, Walter Dean, born at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1764, was one of the patriots from Bristol County, and died at Dalton, Massachusetts, in 1833. In addition to her Revolutionary ancestry Mrs. Spink is a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford of Massachusetts through his 'granddaughter, Hannah Bradford, who married Nathaniel Gilbert. Nathaniel Gilbert was of the family of the distinguished Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the explorer. She is also a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Alden, and of Thomas Rogers, another Mayflower passenger. Four children were born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Spink. Albert William, the oldest, born June 9, 1905, died August 15, 1907. The daughter Geraldine Ruth was born July 7, 1910. The two younger children, both of whom were born in the official residence of the sheriff of Painesville, are Roland Ora, born October 12, 1913, and Myra Jane, born August 17, 1916. JOHN M. HOWARD, M. D., of Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, was born April 16, 1863. He is the only son of Peter and Mary (Wolfe) Howard. His great-grandfather, John William Howard, was born in England. Immigrating to this country he settled in Maryland. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His ancestors belonged to an old historic and honored family of England. His grandfather, John Howard, was born in Maryland in 1796, and moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1823. In 1827 he married Lydia Koons, whose ancestors immigrated from Germany and located in the same county. They were the parents of three sons: Mason, Peter and John. Mason and John lived and died in Pennsylvania. Peter, the second son, was born near Everett, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1830. In 1848, when he was eighteen years of age, he moved to Athens County, Ohio, and in 1852, September 9th, he married Mary Wolfe. They were the parents of one son and five daughters: Amanda (Mrs. M. L. Fornwalt), Blair County, Pennsylvania ; Lydia (Mrs. J. M. Brookins), Millfield, Ohio ; Laura (Mrs. B. F. Roberts), New Castle, Wyoming ; Elizabeth, widow of the late Dr. George E. Knode, Alexandria, Pennsylvania; Dr. John M., of Amesville, Ohio; Helen, of Millfield, Ohio. Peter Howard was a farmer, and in 1861 purchased and removed to what is known as the Peter Howard farm, located in Dover Township, Athens County, near Millfield. He was a member of the Christian Church, an earnest worker for the welfare of the community and the advancement and improvement of the public schools. He was an officer of the church and a member of the school board for many years. He was a lifelong republican, and took great interest in political history. He was a good citizen, a highly moral and temperate man and was respected by all who knew him. He died November 13, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mary (Wolfe) Howard, the doctor ,s mother, was born October 15, 1829, in Athens County, Ohio. Her grandfather, George Wolfe, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors immigrated from Germany. In 1796 he came to Ohio with a company of pioneers and settled on the head waters of Federal Creek in Athens County. Her father, George P. Wolfe, was born at this settlement in 1805. In 1826 he married Elizabeth Wilkins. They were the parents of two daughters and ten sons. Six of the ten song were soldiers in the Civil war. He died in 1856, at the age of fifty-one years. Her mother, Elizabeth (Wilkins) Wolfe, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Ohio from Bedford County, Pennsylvania. She died in 1875, at the age of sixty-six years. Mrs. Howard was a woman of fine character and great ability. She was a teacher in the public schools before her marriage. She was a faithful wife and mother, and consecrated her life to her family and her home. She was a member of the Christian Church. She died January 21, 1924, at the advanced age of ninety-four years, three months and six days. Doctor Howard spent his boyhood and early youth on his father ,s farm. He attended the public schools and normal schools, where he fitted himself for teaching. He taught in the country and village schools and for two years was principal of the Jacksonville schools. In 1892 he resigned the superintendency of the Buchtel schools and entered the College of Medicine known as the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from this institution in 1895. After graduation Doctor Howard located. in Jacksonville, Athens County, where he successfully engaged in his profession for three years. In 1898 he moved to Amesville, where he has earnestly and faithfully continued his practice and has richly earned a place in the ranks of the leading physicians of the county. He is an alumnus of the Ohio State University, and a member of American Medical Society and of the State and County Medical societies. He is a republican and is active in the affairs of state, of church and of school. In 1899, May the 11th, Doctor Howard married Vinnie Adelaide, only daughter of James A. and Mary (Green) Henry. Doctor Howard is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of which he is a member. He is a man of high ideals and noble character, and has won the confidence and esteem of the community he so faithfully serves. JOHN D. RIGGS. One of the most modern undertaking establishments in Southern Ohio is that conducted in the City of Middletown, Butler County, by John D. Riggs, and in all departments he has brought the service of his establishment up to the best metropolitan standard. Mr. Riggs was born at Moundsville, West Virginia, January 15, 1875, and is a son of Wesley C. and Amanda Jane (Hammond) Riggs, his father having been influential in political affairs in that section of West Virginia and having served many years as sheriff of Marshall County. The public schools of his native place afforded John D. Riggs his early education, and in 1894 he was graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Embalming, in the City of Pittsburgh. Later he was graduated also from the Massachusetts College of Embalming, in the City of Boston. In 1896 he was licensed as an embalmer in West Virginia, and in his native state he gained large and varied experience in connection with the general undertaking business. There he was employed in turn in the undertaking establishments of William Hicks & Company at Bluefield, D. L. Garrison at Morgantown, and the Palace Furniture & Undertaking Company, the A. C. Byha Company and Louis Bertschy, all in the City of Wheeling. On the 22nd of July, 1905, Mr. Riggs established his residence at Middletown, Ohio. and opened undertaking parlors on Main Street. He later purchased a building on Broad Street, and there he successfully continued his business until 1923, when he sold the property to the White Star Oil Company, for a consideration of $75,000 and purchased a new site, one block north on Broad Street, where he forthwith instituted the erection of his present fine building, equipped both for his undertaking business and for residence purposes. Mr. Riggs here maintains the largest stock