HISTORY OF OHIO - 425 living retired. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, is a democrat in politics, and his wife is a member of the Lutheran Church. They have two children : Miss Edna, of Bryan, and Earl H. Earl H. Streip after graduating from the high school at Bryan went to work in a lumber yard, and experience with different companies brought him a thorough mastery of the lumber business. Several years ago, with associates, he bought the Sherwood Lumber Company. H. 0. Stine is president and R. O. Stine is secretary of the company, while the practical managemcnt devolves upon Mr. Streip. He married Miss Esther Ruess, a graduate of the Defiance public school, and a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Streip is affiliated with Sherwood Lodge No. 620, Free and Accepted Masons, being a past master of the lodge. He is a Royal Arch, Council degree and Knights Templar Commandery Mason, and belongs to the York Rite bodies at Defiance. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and as a democrat was elected to the Council and also as mayor of Sherwood. HON. DENNIS D. DONOVAN, who for two terms represented the Ohio district including Henry County in Congress, has carried on an extensive general practice as a lawyer at Napoleon for over a quarter of a century. His home town while he was in Congress was Deshler in Henry County, and he was born in that county January 31, 1859, son of John and Catherine (Hannin) Donovan. His father was born in Ireland, but came to America as a young man, where he married Catherine Hannin, a native of Ireland. John Donovan cleared up a fine farm in Henry County and left a valuable estate at his death. He died in 1900, when eighty-seven years of age. Dennis D. Donovan was reared on his father ,s farm, attended the public schools and for three years was a teacher. He also studied law at Valparaiso University in Indiana, and graduated in law at Georgetown University, Washington D. C. In the meantime, while a resident of Deshler, he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1887 and reelected in 1889. In 1890 he was elected to represent the Fifth District in Congress, and about that time this district was changed to the Sixth District and he was reelected to represent that district in 1892. While in Congress he became associated with William J. Bryan, and was actively identified with the political fortunes of the Nebraska commoner for many years. In 1913, while Mr. Bryan was Secretary of State under President Wilson, he selected Mr. Donovan as umpire of the Panama Mixed Claims Commission, but the appointment not being immediately confirmed by the president of the Republic of Panama, Mr. Donovan declined to be considered a candidate for the honor. Mr. Donovan bcgan the practice of law at Deshler with E. N. Warden, and in 1897 they established an office at Napoleon. For five years R. W. Cahill was also a member of the firm, and is now Common Pleas judge of Henry County. The firm of Donovan & Warden continued for a quarter of a century, until Judge Warden was elected as judge of the Court of Appeals of the Third Judicial District of Ohio. Since then Mr. Donovan has continued in the law practice at Napoleon. He and his former partner also own and operate extensive farming interests in Essex County, Ontario, and he has always been interested more or less in farming. Mr. Donovan is a staunch democrat, and in 1898 was a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Ohio. He served twice as mayor of his home Town of Deshler, and was also county school examiner. He served part of one term as postmaster at Deshler, resigning that office when elected a member of the Legislature. Mr. Donovan is a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus and was the third exalted ruler of Napoleon Lodge No. 929, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1891, at Baltimore, Maryland, he married Ginevra Waltimire, who was born in Henry County, Ohio, daughter of J. C. and Nancy (Stovenour) Waltimire. Her father was a prominent land owner and former county treasurer of Henry County. ALBERT G. McCORD, who was mayor of Sherwood, Defiance County, nine years, has had a long and successful business career, and for many years was also engaged in teaching. He is a man of education and of marked leadership in civic affairs. He was born on a farm in Fairfield Township of Huron County, Ohio, May 13, 1858, a son of Alpheus and Mary Ann (Griffin) McCord. His father was born in New York State, in 1823, and his mother in 1824. Alpheus McCord was reared on a farm in Huron County, Ohio, was married there, and he operated a farm, but at the age of sixteen had begun teaching and he taught twenty winter terms of school, spending the rest of the year on the farm. He also practiced medicine, and was a thorough Biblical scholar and a member of the Second Adventist Church. Mary Ann Griffin, was his second wife, and by this marriage there were six sons and one daughter, four of whom are still Albert G. McCord grew up on a farm in Huron County and attended the public schools there and later the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. Like his father, he taught school altogether for a period of twenty years. He engaged in business at Defiance, and from there came to Sherwood, where he is one of the successful men of affairs. He married Miss Hattie M. Coon, who died a few years later. He then married Amelia Dekan, and by this marriage there is a son, Alpheus Albert, born in 1920. Mr. McCord and family are members of the Zion Reformed Church. He is a republican, and was the party nominee for the Legislature. He helped organize Sherwood Lodge No. 620, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master, and was also master of Evansport Lodge of Masons. He is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and the Knights Templar Commandery at Defiance, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He was the founder of the local Eastern Star Lodge, and was its first worthy patron, and has since been made a life member of the lodge. URBAN E. DIENER. The pedagogic ability, professional enthusiasm and executive discrimination that make for maximum efficiency are being distinctly shown in the administration of Mr. Diener as superintendent of the public schools of the City of Celina, judicial center of Mercer County. Mr. Diener was born on the parental homestead farm in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio, July 30, 1892, and is a son of John P. and Sophie (Deitch) Diener, who are well known and highly esteemed residents of this county, where the father was long and successfully engaged in farm enterprise and where he is now living virtually retired after a career of productive industry and marked civic loyalty and liberality. Both he and his wife are zealous members of St. John,s Lutheran Church. 426 - HISTORY OF OHIO In the public schools of his native county Urban E. Diener continued his studies until he had completed a course in the Celina High School, over which he now has a general supervision as a prerogative of the official position he here holds. In 1917 he was graduated from Miami University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. He gave five years of service as a teacher in the rural schools of Mercer County, was for two years a teacher in the Village School at Fort Turkey, this county, and he next gave three years of effective servicc as instructor in manual training and in agriculture in the high school at Rockford, this county. Thereafter he was for two years manual training instructor in the Central High School of the City of Lima, Allen County, and for one year the principal of the high school at Celina, where, in June, 1923, he was elected superintendent of the public schools of the city, the office of which he is now the ablc and popular incumbent. There are at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1924, two school buildings in Celina, with an enrollment of 835 pupils and with a corps of twenty-nine efficient-teachers. It is pleasing to note that the new high school building, a fine modern structure erected at a cost of $150,000, is nearing completion and will be in use before this publication shall have been issued from the press. Superintendent Diener is distinctively progressive in both his scholastic and executive policies, and under his regime the standard of the Celina schools is being admirably advanced in all grades and departments. Mr. Diener is aligned in the political ranks of the democratic party, he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is an active and valued member of the local Kiwanis Cl In April, 1914, at the Fountain Chapel Church in Blackcreek Township, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Diener and Miss Ethel Hoverman, daughter of Conrad and Ida (Hays) Hoverman, of Mercer County, she having received the advantages of the public schools of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Diener have three children: Helen Louise, Urban Lowell and Martha Lucille. JOHN M. SCHLOSSER has been engaged in the practice of law at Celina, judicial center of Mercer County, for nearly thirty-five years, and is now one of the veteran members of the bar of his native county, with incidental prestige as one of the leading lawyers of this section of the Buckeye State. Mr. Schlosser was born in Mercer County, March 3, 1859, and is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this county, within whose borders his father, the late John Schlosser, passed his entire life, the greater part of his active career having been devoted to mercantile enterprise, with which he continued his association until his death. In this county likewise occurred the death of his wife, who was eighteen years of age when she came from her native Germany to the United States, her maiden name having been Mariana Butsch. After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of Mercer County, John M. Schlosser was for a time a student in St. Charles Seminary, and in 1890 he was graduated in the law department of Northern Indiana Normal School, which is now known as Valparaiso University. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws he was admitted to the Ohio bar and in the same year engaged in the practice of his profession at Celina, as a member of the representative law firm of LeBlond, Laughridge & Schlosser. Before the close of the year Mr. Laughridge retired from the firm, the title of which thereafter continued to be Le-Blond & Schlosser about one year, the senior member then retiring and being succeeded by his son, Hon. C. M. LeBlond. Since 1899 Mr. Schlosser has conducted an independent law business, and the same has long been one of broad scope and importance. As an attorney and counselor he has been concerned in much of the important litigation in the courts of this section of Ohio, and his clientage is of distinctly representative character, as may be inferred when it is noted that he is attorney for the Remaklus-Beckman Company ; the Minster Building, Loan & Savings Company ; the Mercer County Building & Loan Company; and the Fort Recovery Building & Loan Company. He was one of the organizers of the Mercer County Bar Association, and has been its treasurer and librarian for more than a quarter of a century. He is sccretary and treasurer of the Celina Public Library, he having been one of the leaders in the establishing of this library and having been secretary and treasurer from the time of the organizing of the same, in 1905. lie is an earnest communicant of the Catholic Church, as a member of the local parish of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of St. John. He is a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party, and has given yeoman service in advancing the party cause. Mr. Schlosser has depended upon his own resources and efforts in making advancement in life, and has wrought worthily and achieved much. He was a member of a family of thirteen children, and while he was working to obtain his youthful education it became incumbent upon him also to aid in the support of the other members of the family. In the Catholic Church at Piqua, Ohio, on the 26th of November, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Schlosser and Miss Thera C. Schaefferling, theirs having been the first wedding in the new church edifice. In this connection it is specially interesting to record that the marriage of the parents of Mr. Schlosser was the first to be performed in the old church at Piqua. Mrs. Schlosser is and has been specially active in the work of the American Red Cross, and was devoted and loyal in her application to service in the World war period, she having done much to advance the local work in behalf of the Red Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Young Men,s Christian Association, and other agencies of patriotic war service. In 1923 she was, a delegate from Mercer County to the national convention of the American Red Cross in the City of Washington, D. C. She is an active member of the Celina Community Club, and is a zealous communicant of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, as are also her husband and their one daughter, Miss Juanita, who attended the parochial school of this church and was later graduated from the Celina High School, when she was not yet seventeen years of age. Miss Schlosser has shown exceptional musical talent, and is distinctly the buoyant, ambitious and vital young woman of the present day, active in athletics and outdoor sports, and appreciative of the finer ideals of life. Before this work shall have been issued from the press she will have initiated her course of study in the celebrated College of Notre Dame, Indiana. DAVID H. RICHARDSON, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his exacting profession for more than fifty years, and is now one of the veteran and representative physicians and surgeons of his native County .of Mercer. He maintains his home and profesional headquarters in the City of Celina, the county seat, and since 1907 he has here confined HISTORY OF OHIO - 427 himself largely to service as a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. During the long years of his earnest professional stewardship he has not permitted himself to abate his study and research, and has kept fully abreast of the advances made in medical and surgical science. Doctor Richardson was born in Mercer County, on the 25th of August, 1848, and here was reared principally in the historic old Town of Fort Recovery, where his father, the late Dr. John Richardson, long held precedence as one of thc leading physicians and surgeons in this section of the state and where he and his wife remained until their death. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College, which now constitutes the medical depart of the University of Ohio, and was a man not only of noble character, but also of high professional and intellectual attainments. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Gray, and both were well advanced in years at the time of their death. In the schools of his home Village of Fort Recovery, Dr. David H. Richardson continued his studies until he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he graduated in 1869, and it was ten years later that he was graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College. His insistent policy of keeping arrayed in the ranks of those representative of progressiveness in the medical profession was signalized by his having completed in 1869 a course in staunch old Starling Medical College, from which he received in that year the supplemental degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1907 he returned to the Cincinnati Medical College for a post-graduate course, and in the following year he took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, where he gave his attention to study and clinical work pertinent to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, which now represent his special domain of professional service. He availed himself also of the clinics of the celebrated specialist Dr. D. W. Green of Dayton, Ohio. As a specialist h2 now controls a large and representative practice, and he maintains his well equipped office at 124 1/2 South Main Street, in the central business district of Celina. For more than ten years past the doctor has been the efficient and honored secretary of the Mercer County Medical Society, and he is a member also of the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In York Rite Masonry he is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council, his political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife and daughter hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the year 1869 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Richardson and Miss Mary L. Lehmkuhl, who was born in Celina. Doctor and Mrs. Richardson had the gracious privilege of celebrating in 1919 their golden wedding anniversary, and that year also marked fifty years of continuous professional service on the part of the doctor. The devoted companionship of the doctor and his wife has continued unbroken to the present time, and as the gentle shadows begin to lengthen from the Golden West they may well feel that their lines are cast in pleasant places, for theirs is an attractive home and in the community their circle of friends is limited only by that of their acquaintance. With them remains their only child, Minnie, who became the wife of John Bretz, his death occurring about two years after their marriage. For more than a decade Doctor. Richardson was a member of the Board of Trustees of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, and his retirement came only when he resigned the office a few years ago. RUSSELL M. PIERSON, M. D., who is established in the successful general practice of his profession at Celina, judicial center of Mercer County, was born at Springfield, Ohio, December 12, 1894, and is a son of Edward and Rose (Langdon) Pierson, the latter of whom is deceased. Edward Pierson is an engineer by trade and vocation. The discipline which Doctor Pierson received in the public schools of Columbus, capital city of Ohio, included that of the high school, and in furthering his education along academic lines he there entered the University of Ohio, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. There he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In preparation for his chosen profession Doctor Pierson entered the Eclectic Medical College in the City of Cincinnati, this being one of the oldest and best American colleges of the Eclcctic system of medical science. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1920, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further reinforced himself by the valuable clinical experience which he gained in a year of service as an interne in the Deaconess Hospital at Cincinnati. In November, 1920, Doctor Pierson established his home at Celina, and here his able and effective professional stewardship has caused a generous measure of success to attend his ministrations as a physician and surgeon. The doctor is an active member of the Mercer County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Ohio Eclectic State Medical Society and the National Eclectic Medical Association. He is serving as local medical examiner for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey. He is a democrat in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. The year 1920 recorded the marriage of Doctor Pierson and Miss Evangeline Hur, of Greenville, Ohio. After her graduation from the Greenville High School, Mrs. Pierson attended the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in 1920, the year of her marriage, she was graduated, as a talented concert singer, in the Cincinnati College of Music. Mrs. Pierson is a leader in musical and other cultural circles in her home community, where she is an active member of the History Club and a popular factor in the representative social life of Celina. She is affiliated with the Mu Phi Epsilon College Sorority. HARRY FRANCIS WIEDMAN, M. D. In the twenty years since he graduated from medical college, Doctor Wiedman has had a busy professional career in Eastern Ohio and ,the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. He was born and spent his early life in the country around Wheeling, and is now located at Bellaire, a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Wiedman was born at West Alexander, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1874, his birthplace being close to the line between Pennsylvania and West Virginia. His parents were Joseph Cyrus and Sarah (Harton) Wiedman, now living retired at Shadyside, Ohio. His father was born at West Liberty, West Virginia, in 1850, and his mother in Marshall County, West Virginia, in 1852. Joseph C. Wiedman was a merchant and farmer in Marshall County, was a photographer at West Alexander, and was in business at McMechen, West Virginia, until he retired. One of a family of five children, Harry Francis Wiedman attended public schools at Glen Easton, and as a youth planned a professional career. He began the study of medicine at Glen Easton with Dr. W. F. Crow, and had two years of medical work at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati. His finances being exhausted, he had to find some other source of 428 - HISTORY OF OHIO livelihood, and for some years did clerical work, at first in the Riverside Mills near Wheeling and then with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway as yard clerk and chief clerk to the yardmaster ,s office. He spent seven years with the Baltimore & Ohio. In the meantime at Glen Easton in June, 1897, Doctor Wiedman married and in 1901 he left the Baltimore & Ohio to resume his medical education, and in 1903 was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College. Doctor Wiedman practiced at Glen Easton, West Virginia, from 1903 to 1905, and in 1907 located at Shadyside in Belmont County, Ohio. He was a general practitioner there and still has his home at Shadyside. After taking advanced work in eye, ear, nose and throat at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York City, he located at Bellaire, and is the only physician in Belmont County confining his practice exclusively to his special field. He is a member of the staff of the Bellaire City Hospital and belongs to the various medical organizations. During the World war he was a member of the medical examining board and at that time did considerable general practice, resuming his specialty after the war closed. Doctor Wiedman is prominent in Masonry, being affiliated with Lodge No. 438; Bellaire Chapter No. 107, Royal Arch Masons, and Hope Commandery No. 20, Knights Templar, at Bellaire. Is a member of the Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, Chapter of Rose Croix, eighteenth degree, in the Scottish Rite at Steubenville, and belongs to the Council of the Knights Kadosh and the Lake Erie Consistory at Cleveland. He is a member of Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. Doctor Wiedman belongs to the Kiwanis Club, the Scottish Rite Club and the Shrine Club, and is a trustee of the Christian Church at Shadyside. His hobby is fishing. Doctor Wiedman married Miss Ada May Wilson, who was born and reared at Wheeling. Her father, William H. Wilson, who died in 1915, was a brick manufacturer at Wheeling, and a merchant at Glen Easton, West Virginia, and during the latter part of his life lived on a small farm. Mrs. Wiedman is active in church, club and social affairs at Shadyside. They have one son, Russell Holmes. IRVIN W. WARDEN is president of the Wellston Manufacturing Company, operating a general foundry but specializing in a distinctive line of manufacture that has made this enterprise known throughout the United States. Mr. Warden was born at Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois, July 24, 1880, son of William G. and Elizabeth E. (Atwood) Warden. His grandfather was John Warden and his great-grandfather, Robert Bruce Warden. The Wardens lived for several generations in old Virginia, and there have been several of the name of more than ordinary distinction. Robert Bruce Warden was at one time judge in Cincinnati and an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and a well-known author. William G. Warden was seriously injured in a boiler explosion and never fully recovered. In 1888 he moved out to California, and lived at Los Angeles until his death in 1909. His wife passed away in 1903. They had three children: Alonzo, who died at the age of twenty-five; William J., who is married and has one child ; and Irvin W. Irvin W. Warden was eight years of age when the family moved to Los Angeles. He attended school in that city, and finished his technical and scientific education in the University of Southern California and the University of Virginia. For about two and one-half years he was employed by the Los Angeles Cement and Iron Manufacturing Company, a corporation that owned and operated several plants in California. On account of ill health he resigned and for a year and a half was manager of the California Irrigated Farm Company, and for six months was district manager of the International Vineyards Company. Mr. Warden then became manager of the Fort Worth Texas Oil Company, and was in the oil industry in the Southwest for five years. In 1919 Mr. Warden came to Wellston, Ohio, and organized the Wellston Manufacturing Company. This company owns the basic patents for the widely known line of store fixtures known as the Eclipse Revolvo Cases. These are steel cases for the holding and display of merchandise, including revolving display stands, and more particularly cases used in the hardware business for holding bolts, screws, nails and similar commodities. It is a special line of equipment sold and distributed among progressive merchants throughout the United States. Mr. Warden, who is unmarried, is a member of the Jackson County Country Club, the Elks Lodge and the Baptist Church. RUPERT R. BEETHAM is one of the most progressive and influential citizens of Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, where he is engaged in the practice of law and where he is also president of the Fourth National Bank. He is a leader in political affairs in this county, which he has represented in the Ohio Legislature, and he has given effective service also as postmaster of Cadiz. Mr. Beetham was born at Greensburg, Trumbull County, Ohio, August 29, 1877, and is a son of the late Rev. John and Mary (Rennison) Beetham, the former of whom died in 1905 and the latter passed to eternal rest in 1890. The parents were born and reared in England, where their marriage was solemnized and where their first two children were born. There Rev. John Beetham was ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and there he continued his ministerial services until 1867, when he came with his family to the United States. Here he continued for many years his active and devoted ministerial services, in connection with which he served in turn as pastor of fully twenty different churches, nearly all of these charges having been in Ohio, where his memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of his kindly and benignant influence. Of the children the eldest is Mary, who is married and has one son, Rennison; John S. married Sadie Hall and they have two children, Emory and Clair ; William N. married Emma Mardon; Alfred C. married Mary Park, and they have five children, William, Marion, John, Helen and Ruth; Emory married Harriet Johnson; Rupert R., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Charles married Mary McManus, and they have two children, Robert and Dorothy. The early education of Rupert R. Beetham was obtained through the medium of the public schools at various places in which his father held pastoral charges in Ohio, and in 1897 he was graduated from the high school at Canton, Stark County. Thereafter he was for one year a student in Scio College, and he then put his acquirements to practical test and use by giving two years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, mainly those of rural districts. It was by this means that he gained the requisite funds to enable him to complete his course in the law department of the University of Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900. In the year in which he thus received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, with concomitant admission to the bar, he initiated the practice of his profession at Cadiz, and here he has long controlled a substantial and representative law business. He has here been specially active and influential in the councils and campaign activities of the republican HISTORY OF OHIO - 429 party, and he gave eight years of effective administration as postmaster of Cadiz, 1906-14, under the administration of Presidents Taft and Roosevelt. In the autumn of 1914 he was elected to represent Harrison County in the lower house of the Ohio Legislature, in which he continued his service until 1922. He was the recognized floor leader of his party in the House of Representatives, was assigned to various committees of importance, and proved an active and resourceful worker in behalf of wise and constructive legislation, besides having had the distinction of being elected speaker. He was the leading champion of the bill that resulted in the establishing of the Ohio Eastern Normal School, and was sponsor of caboose law, touching railroad regulations, besides which he wielded large influence in the passage of other important acts of legislation. Mr. Beetham has been a director of the Fourth National Bank of Cadiz since 1917, and has been its president since 1919. He is the owner of a fine farm property in Harrison County, and finds great satisfaction, as well as recreation, in according to the farm his general supervision, as he has much interest in the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. Mr. Beetham has membership in the Harrison County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, is affiliated with the Grange, the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic fraternity, in which last named connection both he and his wife hold membership in the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Beetham has been a most earnest and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from the time of his youth to the present, has served as a delegate to its Northeast Ohio Conference, and in 1912 was a delegate to the general conference of the church. He was for four years platform manager of the Cadiz Chautauqua, was chairman of the Harrison County Chapter of the American Red Cross in the World war period, besides being a leader in other avenues of patriotic service, and he is now a member of the Board of Education in his home city. At Cadiz, in September, 1900, Mr. Beetham wedded Miss Crete McLaughlin, daughter of Samuel R. and Belle (Snyder) McLaughlin, who still maintain their residence in Harrison County, where Mr. McLaughlin is a substantial farmer, besides being a buyer and shipper of wool. Mrs. Beetham died in the year 1918, and she is survived by four children, Isabel, Ann, Rupert and Charles. Isabel is the wife of Frederick Fuller, who is a law student in the City of Columbus. Ann is a member of the class of 1926 in the law department of the University of Ohio. Rupert is now (1924) a student in the Cadiz High School, and Charles is attending the public schools. WILLIAM R. WALKER, a skilled civil and mining engineer, has done in his profession much important work for coal mining companies in Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, and by a number of these corporations he is still retained as engineer, besides which he is general manager of the Narva Coal Company. He is a native son of Jefferson County, Ohio, and at its metropolis and judicial center, the City of Steubenville, he maintains his residence and business headquarters. Mr. Walker was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, on the 29th of September, 1887, and is a son of Seward and Mary (Ball) Walker, the latter of whom is deceased, her death having occurred in 1897, and she having been a representative of a family that sent representatives to Ohio from Pennsylvania in the pioneer period of the history of the Buckeye State. Mrs. Walker was a daughter of William Ball, who was one of the California argonauts of the histonic year 1849 and who was prosperous in his gold mining operation in California. He was a resident of Ohio at the time of his death. Seward Walker was born and reared in Ohio, and is a son of Henry and Sarah (Hall) Walker. He became one of the prominent business men and influential citizens of Toronto, Jefferson County, where he was long engaged in the grain, flour and feed business. There he is now living virtually retired, and he is serving as an elder in the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise -was an earnest member. Of the two children William R., of this sketch, is the elder, and Delmar, the younger son, who is a resident of Steubenville, married Miss Ethel Dake, their one child being Delmar, Jr. After completing a two years, course in the high school of his native town William R. Walker entered the employ of A. G. White, and under the effective direction of this able civil and mining engineer he gained technical and field experience that, as supplemented by study at home, eventually equipped him most excellently for the practice of the profession in which he has gained much of success and prestige. While Mr. Walker has done a large amount of general surveying and engineering work, his activities in his profession have been largely in connection with the coal mining industry, especially in stripping work. As a mining engineer he has done effective service and gained more than localized reputation. His work in connection with mining industry was considered of such importance that he was retained therein instead of entering the nation,s military service in the World war. Mr. Walker has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry, in which his maximum affiliation is with the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city. In the Scottish Rite of the fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree. He is actively identified with the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Steubenville Country Club, and, he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church. At Toronto, Jefferson County, in February, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Walker and Miss Bess Blake, daughter of George and Ida (Peters) Blake, whose one child is Mrs. Lucy Kerr. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have two children: Donald and Robert. ARTHUR VAN EPP, a representative member of the bar of Medina County and a former mayor of the City of Medina, where he is established in successful law practice, was born on Green Island, in Lake Erie, October 18, 1874, his father, the late Nicholas Van Epp, having been at the time keeper of the government lighthouse on this island, which is a part of the State of Ohio. Nicholas Van Epp was born in Amsterdam, New York, a scion of one of the old and honored Holland Dutch families of the Empire State, but he was reared and educated in Medina County, Ohio, he having been a lad of seven years when he came with his widowed mother to this county. When the Civil war was precipitated he, as a youth of only sixteen years, enlisted in a regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for a term of ninety days, and at the expiration of this term he re-enlisted. His second enlistment was in the Tenth Ohio Cavalry, commanded by General Kilpatrick, and he was with Sherman’s forces in the Atlanta campaign and the historic march from Atlanta to the sea. In an engagement at Fayetteville, South Carolina, three weeks prior to the final surrender of General Lee, he received a gun-shot wound, the bullet struck the watch which he carried in his pocket and the course of the missile was thus deflected upward and lodged in his right shoulder. The bullet was not extracted until 1894, a short time prior to his death 430 -HISTORY OF OHIO having in the meanwhile worked its way down to his right hip. Within a short time after his rcturn home, as a gallant young veteran of the Civil war, Mr. Van Epp wedded Miss Maria M. Owen, who was born and reared in Medina County, Ohio, a representative of a family that was founded in America in the Colonial days, the original American progenitor having been John Owen, a Welshman, who settled at Windsor, Massachusetts, in 1645, a direct descendant having been Gideon Owen, maternal grandfather of Arthur Van Epp, of this review. For several years after the close of the Civil war Nicholas Van Epp was a lighthouse keeper, and he then took up the study of law, his preparation having included a course in the law department of the University of Michigan, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1887 he established his residence at Seville, Medina County, and two years later he removed with his family to Medina, the county seat. He was serving his second term as county clerk at the time of his death, in 1894, when he was forty-nine years of age. Nicholas Van Epp was a man of sterling character, of much ability and of fine civic loyalty. He was a stalwart in the ranks of the republican party, was actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and was one of the honored and influential citizens of Medina County at the time of his death, his widow being still a resident of Medina and he being survived also by all of his five children. In the public schools of Medina Arthur Van Epp continued his studies until his graduation in the high school, and thereafter he studied law in the offices and under the preceptorship of the firm of Hayden & Seymour, of Medina, his admission to the Ohio bar having occurred in 1897. In the following year he volunteered for service in the Spanish-American war. He enlisted as a private in the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command participated in the Santiago campaign. After returning home and duly receiving his honorable discharge, Mr. Van Epp initiated the practice of law at Medina, and here he has since continued his professional activities, in which he has gained secure place as one of the able and successful members of the bar of this part of the state. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Medina, and the high estimate placed upon his administration was shown in his being retained in this municipal office for seven and one-half years. In 1908 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Medina County, and he gave two terms of effective service in this position 1909-13. Even as he has emulated his honored father in professional work and patriotic military service, so likewise he has been a stalwart advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, in the local councils of which he has been influential. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the Order of the Eastern Star, and holds membership also in the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1896 Mr. Van Epp married Miss Mabel Allen, and her death occurred in January, 1898. In 1899 lie wedded Miss Mary E. Burskam, the two children of this union being Frances and Franklin Arthur. SAMUEL C. CALDWELL, M. D., engaged in the practice of his profession at Toronto, Jefferson County, shortly after his return from France, where he had given able and loyal service as a member of the Medical Corps of the United States Army in the great World war. Doctor Caldwell was born in Kansas City, Kansas, April 11, 1887, and is a son of Perry and Elizabeth (Russell) Caldwell, the former of whom died in 1894. Of the five children the eldest is Myrtle, who is the wife of E. A. Person and the mother of one child, Paul; Stella is the wife of James Russell, and they have two children, James and Delmar; Frances is the wife of John Goldworth, and they have a daughter, Jean; Ward is married and is the father of two children. Perry Caldwell met his death while in discharge of his official duties as chief of police at Kansas City, Kansas, he having been there killed by a flat-car in the railroad yards, where he was in charge of the rounding up of malefactors. His father served as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. After the death of her husband Mrs. Perry Caldwell returned, with her children, to her old home in Ohio, at Athens, and it was there that Dr. Samuel C. Caldwell, immediate subject of this sketch, received much of his early education, he having there attended the public schools and also taken a collegiate preparatory course. Thereafter he was for one year a student in Wooster College, and he then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, a fine old institution that is now the medical department of the University of Ohio. He was there graduated as a member of the class of 1912, and after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in practice two years at Vinton, Gallia County. He then entered professional service at the Ohio Boys, Industrial School at Lancaster, and when the nation became involved in the World war he subordinated all personal interests to the call of patriotism, as shown in his enlistment, in May, 1918, for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He passed three weeks at. Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, and then, with the rank of first lieutenant, was ordered to Camp Crane, at Allentown, Pennsylvania. In the latter part of September he sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, for overseas service. He landed at Liverpool, England, and soon afterward crossed over to France, where he was assigned to duty at moveable hospital No. 103 at Chaumont. He soon afterward went to the St. Mihiel sector, and was in active service at the front, with exigent demand for his professional ministrations almost continuously, night and day. He was with his command in the final Argonne drive, and after the signing of the armistice that brought hostilities to a close he passed two months in service at the Remcourt base hospital. His next service was at the evacuation hospital at Brest, in caring for wounded men who were preparing to embark for the home land. While at Brest the doctor received his commission as captain in the Medical Corps. He sailed for home August 3, 1919, and before the close of that month, at Camp Dix, he received his honorable discharge—on the 11th of August. He thereafter passed three weeks at Lancaster, Ohio, and has since been established in the successful general practice of his profession at Toronto. He is an active member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Protestant Church. The first marriage of Doctor Caldwell was with Miss Alta M. Frost, daughter of Charles and Sarah Frost, and her death occurred in October, 1918, within a short time after he had initiated his World war service in France. For his second wife the doctor married Mrs. Jean L. (Glassford) Myers, a daughter of James Glassford. Her mother died many years ago. She is the elder of two children, of whom the younger is John. Doctor and Mrs. Caldwell are popular factors in the representative social life of the attractive little city in which they maintain their home. JOHN R. PIERCE is engaged in the general practice of his profession in the City of Celina, Mercer County, HISTORY OF OHIO - 431 as one of the popular and representative younger members of the bar of his native county. At the time of this writing, in the spring of 1924, he is the democratic candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney of Mercer County. Mr. Pierce was one of the loyal young patriots who represented this county in the nation's service in the World war period. Mr. Pierce was born on the homestead farm of his parents in Mercer County, and the date of his nativity was June 12, 1895. On this homestead his parents, William and Jane (Kennedy) Pierce, still reside, and William Pierce is one of the substantial and progressive exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in Mercer County. The public schools of his native county afforded John R. Pierce his early education, and after his graduation from the high school in the Village of Neptune, in 1912, he entered the high school at St. Marys, Auglaize County, where he carried forward more advanced studies and where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914. In 1915 he was a student in the great University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and he then transferred to the University of Ohio, at Columbus, where he continued his studies until the nation entered the World war, when he promptly enlisted for service in the United States Army. He entered the first officers' training camp established at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and became a member of the first contingent accepted for the army air service. After completing his preliminary training he returned to civilian life, awaiting orders. On the 19th of September, 1917, he was called into active service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he remained until the 28th of the following December, when he was transferred to the University of Illinois, for service in ground work. After there remaining eight months he was ordered to Dallas, Texas, and five weeks later was sent to Columbia University, New York City, for a course in radio. Twelve weeks later he was ordered to Dam Field, Long Island, where he continued in service at the English flying field until he was assigned to the southern field at Americus, Georgia. There, with commission as a second lieutenant in military aviation, he was assigned to the instruction staff, his service in this capacity continuing until the armistice brought the war to a close. He was mustered out December 10, 1918, and duly received his honorable discharge, but he is retained as a second lieutenant of the Aviation Reserve Corps of the United States Army. After his retirement from military service Mr. Pierce spent one year in the oil fields of Oklahoma and Kansas, and he then returned to the University of Ohio, in the law department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1922, his admission to the bar having been virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he opened a law office at Celina, and here his ability and personal popularity have Contributed to his success in building up a substantial law business of representative order. He is one of the active workers in the local ranks of the democratic party and is affiliated with the Delta Theta Phi law college fraternity. In the year 1922 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pierce and Miss Grace Patricia Dawley, of Guatemala, Central America, she being a daughter of Thomas R. Dawley, Jr., and Roseline (Ledeney) Dawley, who still reside in that country. On the paternal side Mrs. Pierce is a first cousin of Hon. William Howard Taft, former President of the United States and now chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. The career of Thomas Robinson Dawley, Jr., has been one of, eventful and interesting order. He was born in New York City, in April, 1862, and is a son of the late Thomas Robinson Dawley and Antoinette (Hoxsie) Dawley. He gained his early education in the schools of Brooklyn, New York, and as a youth of seventeen years he found on a cattle ship a medium of transportation to Liverpool, England, from which port he made his way on foot to London. Later he was engaged in the printing business in New York City, but he yielded again to the wanderlust, and traveled through Central America, the West Indies, Spain and France. After an absence of ten years he returned to New York. He taught school on Block Island, studied law at Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1896, as a representative of Harper 's Weekly, he visited the insurgent camps in Cuba, besides while there going out with the Spanish troops. He was arrested several times and finally, after being confined two weeks in Morro Castle, he was expelled from the island by General Weyler. He returned to Cuba the following year, and in the Spanish-American war he served in turn as a volunteer aide on the staffs of General Miles and General Shafter. After the taking of Santiago he published the first American daily paper. After his paper had been confiscated, under the old Spanish judicial system, by the Cuban authorities, he returned to New York, and thence he returned to Spain, as a correspondent for the Century Publishing Company. As representative of the Outlook magazine he was a special commissioner to the Pan-American Congress of 1901 in Mexico. In the following year he was a United States delegate to the International Coffee Congress, held in New York City; in 1904 he traveled through Santo Domingo, and subsequently made to the President of the United States a report of his investigations there. As a special agent of the Bureau of Labor, 1907-9, he made extensive investigation of child labor and other labor conditions in the South. Mr. Dawley has written much and well, is the author of several published works, and as a writer and correspondent he has made many and valuable contributions to newspaper and magazine literature. Mrs. Pierce is a most popular figure in the leading social, cultural and church activities of her home community, where she holds membership in the Adelphian Society and the Altrusian Society. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have a fine little son, John R., Jr. RALPH D. COLE, of Findlay, Hancock County, has honored his native county by his successful achievement in the legal profession, by his effective activities in public affairs, by his service as a member of the United States Congress and by his distinguished service as a soldier and officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war. In the practice of his profession at Findlay, he is a member of the representative law firm of Dunn & Cole. A member of a fine family of seventeen children, Mr. Cole was born on a farm in Hancock County, and that he profited fully by the advantages he received in the public schools was demonstrated by his youthful success as a teacher in the schools of the county. In due course he followed the line of his ambition, studied law and gained admission to the Ohio bar. He has made a splendid record as an able trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and has appeared in many important litigations in the various courts of the Buckeye State. Mr. Cole has gained much of leadership in the councils of the republican party in this section of the state, and he effectively represented the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio in the United States Congress, besides having appeared as republican candidate for the office of governor of Ohio. When the nation became involved in the World war he promptly subordinated all personal interests to the call of patriotism. He enlisted in the United States Army, 432 - HISTORY OF OHIO accompanied his command oversea, and served with distinction with the American forces in the greatest conflicts known in the history of human existence. Mr. Cole is preparing a history of his regiment and the part it played in the World war, and is passing the summer of 1923 on the battlefields of France for the purpose of gaining additional data that shall contribute to the accuracy and value of his history. Mr. Cole has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are active church members. Mr. and Mrs. Cole have one son. ROBERT J. BISSONNETTE is editor and proprietor of the Fulton County Tribune, a newspaper with a consecutive history covering forty years. Mr. Bissonnette has been identified with newspaper work since early youth, and is a veteran of the World war. The Fulton County Tribune was established in 1883, and has had a number of owners and editors, but has always been a republican paper. For ten years it was owned by Levi S. Jameson. A period of special growth and prosperity was the seven years it was owned and edited by Frank H. Reighard. He sold out in 1910 to Rev. Frank B. Kenyon and Catherine B. Weir, and on October 6, 1919, Miss Weir sold her interest to Robert J. Bissonnette. Mr. Bissonnette was born in Henry County, Ohio, May 24, 1890, son of Henry and Anna L. (Decker) Bissonnette. His father was born in Canada, of French ancestry, and was twelve years of age when taken to Henry County, Ohio, where he was reared and received most of his education. He married, in Henry County, Anna Decker, who was born at Groves-port, in Piqua County, Ohio. Since their marriage they have owned and operated a farm in Henry County, and are substantial members of their community. They belong to the Presbyterian Church, and the father is a democrat. Their four children were: Bessie, wife of Benjamin Bechtol, of Deshler, Ohio; Rosella, wife of Alfred Market, of Essex, Ontario, Canada; S. A., a farmer in Henry County ; and Robert J. Robert J. Bissonnette was reared on the home farm, attended the public schools and also attended a typographical school at Charles City, Iowa. Mr. Bissonnette was a member of the first detachment that left Fulton County in 1917 for service in the national army. He saw most of the strenuous fighting in which the American forces participated in France, being with the Thirty-eighth Infantry of the Third Division at Chateau Thierry, the campaign of the Argonne, and after the signing of the armistice spent eight months with the Army of Occupation in Germany. During the greater part of that time he was foreman in the plant of an Army of Occupation newspaper called "The Watch on the Rhine." Mr. Bissonnette had been a printer and member of the staff of the Fulton County Tribune before going into the war. He has been editor of the Tribune since August, 1920. The Tribune is now the only republican newspaper in Fulton County. On July 12, 1922, Mr. Bissonnette married Miss Gertrude M. Seeley, a graduate of the Delta High School. They have one daughter, Alice L., born December 9, 1923. Mr. Bissonnette is affiliated with Wauseon Lodge No. 349, Free and Accepted Masons; Royal Arch Chapter No. 111; Wauseon Council No. 69, Royal and Select Masters; Defiance Commandery No. 130, Knights Templars; Toledo Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and the Knights of Pythias. JOSEPH RICHARDSON MILLER. At the age of four score Joseph Richardson Miller is retired, but takes a keen interest in the present as well as the past. His has been a life of fruitful activity, most of it spent in Northern Ohio and in the County of Lorain. He still makes his home on his farm near Amherst in that county. Mr. Miller was born in Winlaton, in County Durham, England, January 14, 1843, son of James and Mary Ann (Young) Miller. In 1845 his parents set out on a ship bound for the United States, and six weeks later landed at Philadelphia. From there they went on to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James Miller was a blacksmith by trade, and at Pittsburgh he operates a foundry, using the old hand process of forging nails, ornamental chains and similar materials. In 1857 he again set out, traveling by stage overland to Akron, Ohio, and thence by passenger canal boat to Cleveland. At that time there were two docks on the east side of the river in what was then known as Ohio City, and on the west side were two warehouses where wheat was unloaded from boats by hand. On the fiats James Miller built a shop, expecting much business, but failing health interferred and he went to work for Mr. Whipple, a lumberman. It was in the agreement that James Miller was to secure a couple of boat loads of shingle bolts to make shingles. However, death overtook him before he had established himself in a permanent degree of prosperity. His widow subsequently married John Wilford, of Amherst Township, Lorain County, a cattle trader. In the meantime Joseph Richardson Miller had achieved the age of nine years. His education was limited to a few brief terms in the local schools. He became a farm worker, and at the age of fourteen went to work on the farm of Morrison Hickox in Sheffield Township, at a wage of seven dollars a month during the summer. In the spring of 1858, when he was fifteen years old, he began an apprenticeship to learn the blacksmithing and horseshoeing trades at Amherst in the shop of James Gahn. Eighteen months later he had so advanced in proficiency that he started a shop of his own. At that time the blacksmith was still a worker in iron in the older sense. He made horseshoes by hand, also hammered out all the horseshoe nails. He was paid $1 for shoeing horses and 50 cents for resetting the shoes. He had not been long in his shop when the Civil war broke out, and he enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio Battery. After physical examination, however, he was rejected. He then entered a school at Oberlin, attending three months, until his money ran out, and then he sawed wood for 50 cents a cord to continue his education for three months more. On leaving Oberlin Mr. Miller went to Norwalk, Ohio, arriving there at nine in the evening and paying his last twenty-five cents for dinner. Then leaving his satchel as security for board, he soon negotiated a job at blacksmithing. Two months later a man from Spears Corners came to secure his services as a blacksmith at $2.50 a day. He next worked at his trade for N. H. Prebbles, with whom he remained until April, 1863, when he married Miss Vandalia Warner. She was born in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County, and died in the fall of 1867. After his marriage Mr. Miller worked on a farm in Amherst Township for his wife,s parents, and then for three years rented the farm of 190 acres, after which he bought the place. This has been his home now over half a century. He remained with his wife's parents until their death. In 1877 he married Miss Adeline Munger, who was born near Lake Champlain in Vermont, daughter of Joel and Sarah (Dean) Munger. Mr. Miller as a farmer made a substantial success and continued his supervision of the farm until 1911, when he turned it over to his sons. His second wife died in 1911. Mr. Miller had served as township trustee, and as a member of the school board, and the election board. He is a republican, HISTORY OF OHIO - 433 and is affiliated with the Stonington Lodge of Masons at Cleveland. His children are : Joseph Richardson, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mary, wife of Thomas Ward Burnett, who is in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, now stationed at Portland, Oregon; William A., an attorney at Amherst ; Norman B. one of the sons on the home farm; Jane A., wife of Stanford Dewey France, of Brooklyn, New York ; and Gamalia Robert, on the home farm. HARRY D. WINTRINGER. One of the more important industrial enterprises that contribute to the commercial prestige of the City of Steubenville, Jefferson County, is that of the Steubenville Pottery Company, and when it is stated that Mr. Wintringer is president of this company it becomes at once evident that he is to be noted as one of the representative business men of his native city. On both the paternal and maternal sides Mr. Wintringer is a scion of pioneer families of the Buckeye State, his paternal grandparents, John and Margaret Wintringer, having come from Pennsylvania to Ohio about the year 1820, and his maternal grandparents, William and Margaret Donaldson, likewise having been early settlers in this state. Harry D. Wintringer was born and reared at Steubenville and after his graduation from the local high school, when nineteen years of age, he took a course in mechanical engineering in the celebrated Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the City of Boston. There he continued his studies until 1883, but was not graduated. Upon his return to Steubenville he entered the pottery plant conducted by his uncle, learned all details of the business and eventually acquired an interest in the concern, in which he now owns the controlling interest. He is now president of the Steubenville Pottery Company, which carries forward, upon an extensive scale, the business that was founded many years ago by his uncle, William B. Donaldson. This pottery is widely known for its high grade and beautiful products, and special attention is given to the output of finer dinner ware of the most artistic type. The trade of the company has been extended into the most diverse sections of the United States, and an appreciable export business likewise is controlled. Mr. Wintringer is a loyal and valued member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, and takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare and advancement of his native city. He is a member of the local Rotary Club, and also of the Century Club and the Steubenville Country Club. He and his wife hold membership in Westminster Presbyterian Church in their home city. In 1898 Mr. Wintringer married Miss Maude C. Mooney, daughter of William H. and Amanda C. Mooney, and she is survived by two sons, Robert and David. Robert Wintringer was a student in Princeton University at the time when the nation became involved in the World war, and there he served as a member of the Student Officers, Training Corps. He was graduated in that university as a member of the class of 1922 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Mcllwraith, reside at Steubenville. David, the younger son, is at the time of this writing, in 1924, a student in historic old Virginia Military Institute. Mrs. Maude C. (Mooney) Wintringer is survived also by three brothers and two sisters, namely: Robert J., who is engaged in newspaper work in the City of Chicago, Illinois; William M., who married Miss Bess Mercer, and who is now postmaster in the City of Washington, D. C.; Hervey, who likewise resides in the national capital; Nellie, who is the wife of A. S. Freeman and has two sons; and Mabel, who is the wife of L. L. Grimes. The second marriage of Mr. Wintringer was with Miss Blanche Wood, a daughter of Joseph M. and Ellen Wood, of Morgantown, West Virginia, the mother being now deceased and the only other surviving child being Daisy, wife of Lewis W. Beall, of Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Wintringer have three children: Harry D., Jr., Eleanor and Margaret. Capt. Nathan Wintringer, whose death occurred in 1886, was the father of Harry D., of this sketch, and virtually his entire active career was given to service as captain on vessels plying the Ohio River. He was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who is now venerable in years, her maiden name having been Elizabeth Donaldson. Of the children the eldest is George, who married Mary Finley; Madge is the wife of W. R. Chapman; Mary is the widow of George W. Wood ; and Lucy is the wife of E. T. Barron. JAMES W. HANNA. Hanna has been an honored and respected name in Henry County for seventy years or more. Men of that name have been successful in business and agricultural pursuits, and have rendered many years of official service in home community and county. James W. Hanna, founder of the Village of McClure in Henry County, has been mayor both of that village and of Napoleon, and is still active in public affairs. He is of Scotch ancestry, and his family is related to that of the late Mark Hanna, whose people were pioneers in Eastern Ohio. J. W. Hanna was born in Scotland, and came to the United States with five brothers. He acquired land at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he spent the rest of his life. He married in America Louise Clendennen, a native of the north of Ireland. Several of their sons lived around Millersburg, Ohio. David Hannah, father of James W. Hanna, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and as a young man moved to Holmes County, Ohio, where he married Elizabeth McClain. She was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of Robert and Rachel (Barton) McClain, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. David Hanna learned the printer ,s trade, and for several years was foreman for the Statesman,s Manual at Columbus. Losing his health, he returned to Henry County, and spent the rest of his active life cultivating his farm and for twenty-three years taught in one school district. He was also justice of the peace, being succeeded in that office by his son, James W. He was a leader in the republican party, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was an ordained minister of that church. Of the eight children born to David Hanna and wife two are now living, James W. and Edward A., the latter a contractor living at Bartlesville. Oklahoma. James W. Hanna was born in Wood County, Ohio, July 12, 1851, and spent his early life on his father's farm in Damascus Township of Henry County. He attended the district schools and a select school at Grand Rapids, Ohio, and taught one or more terms of school. At the age of twenty-one he was elected clerk of Damascus Township and subsequently succeeded his father as justice of the peace. In 1883 Mr. Hanna laid out and incorporated the Village of McClure, becoming its first mayor, and held that office until 1890, when he removed to Napoleon, having been elected county recorder. He served two consecutive terms, six years, and subsequently was for nine years a member of the City Council. In 1913 he was elected mayor of Napoleon, and was head of the municipal government four years, including the World war period. For several years he has been justice of the peace in Napoleon. In a business way Mr. Hanna has been identified with real estate for thirty or forty years, and his operations have covered all of Henry County. Mr. Hanna is a democrat in 434 - HISTORY OF OHIO politics, and is affiliated with Napoleon Lodge No. 156, Free and Accepted Masons, Holly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a past chief patriarch of Maumee Encampment. He helped organize the Knights of Pythias Lodge of McClure, and was its first chancellor commander, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Napoleon. His wife was a member of the Eastern Star. Mr. Hanna married at Millersburg, in Holmes County, Ohio, Lucy V. Teisher, who was born in that county in 1857, daughter of Joshua and Louisa (Miller) Teisher. Her father ,s people were a slave-holding family in Maryland, and her father after his marriage came to Ohio. He was a carpenter contractor. Mrs. Hanna died December 8, 1922. She was the mother of two children. The only daughter, Helen L., was a graduate of the Napoleon High School, and was a finished musician, a performer on the violin and a beautiful singer. She was married to Fred W. Gillette, of Chicago, and she died December 8, 1914, at the age of thirty-one. The only son of Mr. Hanna is Ortez Clay Hanna, who was born in the Village of McClure, was educated in the Napoleon High School, and made a successful record as manager of his father ,s farm, handling high grade livestock, thoroughbred Jerseys and Poland China hogs. He married Mattie J. Brayer, of Henry County. THEODORE F. MOORE, present postmaster of Hicksville, has been one of the prominent business men of Defiance County for a number of years. His early life was identified with a farm in Defiance County. He was born in Noble County, Ohio, March 7, 1871, son of James and Elizabeth (Lindsey) Moore. His parents were born and reared in the same county, married there, and in August, 1871, when their son Theodore was six months old, they moved to Defiance County and located on a farm near Hicksville. That was their home, and the father engaged in farming until about 1908. The mother died at the old homestead in Defiance County December 28, 1906. James Moore now lives at old Washington, in Guernsey County, and has served as mayor of that town. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the United Brethren Church. Of four children born to the parents three are now living: Theodore F.; L. H., of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Mary, wife of Henry Cary, of Defiance County. Theodore F. Moore grew up on the farm near Hicksville, attended the common schools, and until he was twenty-eight his working interests were in the rural district. He then moved to Antwerp, Ohio, and was in the retail notion business for seven years. Selling out his store, he resumed farming for two years, and then took up life insurance, for five years being the local representative of the Bankers Life Insurance Company and the Lincoln Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana. After leaving the insurance business and locating in Hicksville, Mr. Moore was on the road as a salesman, and has proved an efficient business builder for every company he has represented. He gave up his business when appointed postmaster of Hicksville. Mr. Moore married Miss Maggie Kanine. They have three children: Edith L., who is chief operator of the local telephone exchange at Hicksville; Olen L., who graduated from high school at the age of seventeen and is in the decorating business at Hicksville; and Fordyce D., a graduate of high school. The family are members of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Moore is a Mason, and has been active in the republican party for many years, serving for fifteen years as a member of the Defiance County Central Committee. RAY S. MANN has been one of the public-spirited and enterprising younger men in the business affairs and civic life of the Holgate community of Henry County. He is a banker, being cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Holgate, and at all times has been a leader in civic and political affairs. He was born at Napoleon, Ohio, October 1, 1881, on of A. N. and Fannie (Grosscup) Mann. His father was born in Napoleon, December 2, 1857, and his mother, in Pennsylvania, in 1860. A. N. Mann was reared in Napoleon, was educated in the public schools, and after his marriage engaged in the tailoring trade and business at Napoleon until the spring of 1890, when he moved to Holgate. At Holgate he was a clothing merchant and tailor for a number of years. He is now retired. He is a Mason and a republican, and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church. They have two sons, Ray S. and Elsworth. The latter is a graduate of the Holgate High School and is now in Toledo, traffic manager of the France Stone Company and in charge of sales for railroad ballasts. Ray S. Mann spent the first nine years of his life at Napoleon, and since then has lived at Holgate. He finished his education in the Holgate High School, and learned the tailor ,s trade under his father. He was associated with his father in business until 1918, when he accepted the post of cashier in the Commercial State Bank of Holgate. He is also a stockholder in that bank. In the meantime Mr. Mann has accumulated a number of other interests and demands upon his time and attention. For twelve years he was corporation clerk of Holgate, is a member of the Henry County Republican Central Committee, and is a member of the official board of the English Lutheran Church. He is a past master of Holgate Lodge No. 553, Free and Accepted Masons, is a past worthy patron of the Eastern Star Chapter, and a member of Holly Chapter No. 136, Royal Arch Masons, and Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar. Mr. Mann married Miss Anna Voigt, of Holgate, a graduate of the high school there. They have three sons, all attending the grade schools, named Howard, Rayburn and Eugene. WILLIAM FRANKLIN WISE is a Doctor of Veterinary Surgery, and is one of the outstanding figures in that profession in the State of Ohio. He does a large practice in Medina County, and has held official relations with the various veterinary organizations in the state. He was born on a farm in Medina County, July 17, 1883, son of Jacob M. and Amelia (Helmick) Wise. Both his parents were born in Summitt County, Ohio, the Wise family being of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His father was a farmer and teaming contractor, and is now deceased. Of the three children William F. and a brother survive. Doctor Wise grew up on a farm, and learned his first lessons in a country school. He attended the high school at Barberton in Summit County, and while working in the day completed a course in a business college of Akron by attending night classes. He clerked in a store at Akron, also at Barberton, and in this way secured the means to put him through the Ontario Veterinary College, one of the best schools of the kind in America. He was graduated in 1907, and after post-graduate studies in the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, he began practice at Barberton. He was there a year, spent two years at Seville in Medina County, and since June 3, 1910, has had his office and headquarters in the City of Medina. Doctor Wise is president of the North Central Ohio Veterinary Association, is vice-president of the Northwest Ohio Veterinary Association, is a member HISTORY OF OHIO - 435 of the executive committee of the Ohio State Association and a member of the American Veterinary. Association. In addition to his professional prominence he has interested himself in a number of important business and civic affairs at Medina. He helped organize and is a director of the Citizens Savings and Loan Company, is a director of a manufacturing company, and as chief of the volunteer fire department since 1912, has done much to perfect the equipment and discipline of that service. He is a republican in politics, a member of the Congregational Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. In 1906 Doctor Wise married Catherine Seiberling, of Barberton. They have an adopted son, Ralph. THOMAS O. ARMSTRONG is a native of Van Wert County, has spent his life there as a capable and industrious citizen, and for ten years has filled the office of postmaster at Middlepoint. He was born in Washington Township, June 17, 1883, son of Lafayette and Elizabeth (Shrider) Armstrong. His father was born in the same township and county, and his mother was also a native of Ohio. She died in 1891. They were reared on farms, educated in public schools, and were married at Middlepoint and then settled on the farm in Washington Township where Lafayette Armstrong still resides. However, most of his time is devoted to his duties as rural mail carrier on route No. 2 out of Middlepoint. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and has filled chairs in the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Improved Order of Red Men. He is a democrat in politics. Of the four children born to the parents three are living: Thomas O.; Luther A., employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Middlepoint; and Fern, wife of L. R. Evans, of Middlepoint. Thomas O. Armstrong spent the first twenty years of his life on his father,s farm, shared in its work and attended the district schools. He then learned the carpenter ,s trade, becoming a very skilled workman, and that was the source of his livelihood until he began his duties as postmaster. He is a democrat, and was appointed early in the Wilson administration, in 1913. He served eight years under two appointments from President Wilson, and was reappointed under Harding,s administration. Mr. Armstrong married Miss Grace E. Rarick. They have five children, Dorothy and Ruth, both attending high school, Mildred and Alice and Altha, twins, in the grade schools. The family are members of the Lutheran Church, Mr. Armstrong being an elder. He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. EUGENE LEIGHTON ARNOTT, a business man and manufacturer of Greenfield, was one of the originators of a unique industry there known as the Every Ready Can Company. Mr. Arnott was born near Greenfield, May 11, 1865, and passed his early youth on a farm that has been in the Arnott family for over a century. His grandfather was born in Scotland, about 1791, and came to America and settled near Baltimore. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted as an American soldier for the War of 1812, and for many years was a successful physician engaged in practice near Baltimore and was living there when he died in 1853. His wife, Jane Arnott, was born in 1791 and died in 1867. John Arnott, father of Eugene L., was born near Greenfield, Ohio, in 1826, and spent his life on the farm that has been in the family through three generations. He died in 1896. His wife, Louise McMulen, was born on a farm near Greenfield, in 1829, and died in 1901. She was a graduate of the Greenfield Seminary and of the academy at Salem, Ohio. Eugene Leighton Arnott attended the district schools in Highland County, graduated from the academy at Salem in 1887, and continued his education in Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio. He and his brother, the late John Scott Arnott, were the originators of a patented oil can, which is the chief product of manufacture of the Every Ready Can Company. This is a pneumatic oil can, used formerly for kerosene, with a device that makes it very convenient in filling lamps. The first patent was taken out in 1891, and in 1914 the Arnotts patented what they claimed to be an improved device. This is now successfully marketed all over the United States by the Ever Ready Can Company, of which Eugene Leighton Arnott has been sole owner and general manager since the death of his brother. Mr. Arnott is a republican, a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Twentieth Century Club. He has never married. His only sister is Miss Jessie Marie Arnott, formerly a teacher in the Nelson Business College of Cincinnati. His brother, the late John Scott Arnott, died in 1920, and had for many years been a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Greenfield, where he served as superintendent of the public schools of the city in addition to his interests as a manufacturer. He married in 1901 Miss Alice Waddell, who had for several years taught in schools at Greenfield. HON A. A. MAYSILLES has givcn more than thirty years of a busy lifetime to the cause of education. For ten years he has been superintendent of schools of Montgomery County, and during that time a resident of the City of Dayton. Mr. Maysilles was born on a farm in Lanier Township, Preble County, Ohio, April 21, 1870, a son of Benjamin F. and Rachael (De Vinney) Maysilles. The parents spent their last years with their son at Dayton. Benjamin Maysilles was born in Washington County, Maryland, and his wife, in Montgomery County, Ohio, where they were married. In 1868 they moved to Preble County, where Benjamin Maysilles followed his trade as a skilled blacksmith, and was a farmer when he retired at about sixty years of age. Andrew A. Maysilles was educated in the public schools of Preble and Montgomery counties. He attended the high school at Brookville and completed his education in the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, where he took one year of the law course, and graduated in the normal and science departments in 1891. He subsequently spent some time at Miami University. His early work as a teacher was in Randolph, Madison and Clay townships of Montgomery County. For five years he taught in the Clay Township High School and, beginning in 1899, he was the superintendent of the Brookville schools for fifteen years. In August, 1914, he entered upon the duties of his present office as superintendent of the schools of Montgomery County. This is one of the richest counties in the state and has long taken pride in its educational facilities. Consequently, the position of Mr. Maysilles is one of leadership in Ohio education affairs. When he became county superintendent there was not a centralized school in the county. Today, 1924, eleven of the fourteen townships composing the school district of Montgomery County have either centralized or consolidated their schools. In the last six years there have been built twenty-eight new school buildings, with three more yet to complete, in his territory. He has within his jurisdiction seventeen 436 - HISTORY OF OHIO high schools, sixteen of which are of the first grade, about 13,000 children, 401 teachers and thirteen superintendents. He is a member of the Ohio State Teachers , Association and the National Educational Association, and is interested in all causes for the advancement of the educational program of the state. Mr. Maysilles is politically inclined, and was a candidate for the nomination for Congress in the Third Congressional District. He has been actively identified with the temperance movement, and for several years served as chairman of the Ohio Dry Federation. He is a member of the Oak Street United Brethren Church at Dayton, and has served as teacher of the men,s class in its Sunday school, enrolling 200 men, for ten years. He is a member of the Grange, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Scottish Rite and the Shrine. He is a democrat in politics, and served as mayor of the Village of Brookville, Ohio. Mr. Maysilles married, October 6, 1901, Miss Mary Alice McNelly, the daughter of Warren and Sarah (Cloppert) McNelly, of Brookville. With Mr. and Mrs. Maysilles live his mother, Rachael Maysilles, and a foster child, Sarah Ellen Wright. WILLIAM EDWARD LUCAS. A native son of Springfield, William Edward Lucas, a civil engineer of experience, is holding the office of chief engineer of Springfield under the commission form of government, and is regarded as one of the able men of his calling, and a worthy citizen of Clark County. He was born October 2, 1886, and has resided at his native city all of his life. He is a son of Richard Rushville and Mary Elizabeth (McComb) Lucas, the former of whom died November 15, 1914, the latter having passed away January 26 of the same year. They had six children, namely: William Edward, who was the eldest; Albert Lester, who is married; Charles Mitchell, who is also married; Robert Rushville, who is unmarried; Richard Stanley, who is married; and Helen Elizabeth, who is unmarried. For a number of years the father was a carpenter and woodworker, later he became a contractor and builder, and still later was superintendent of the woodworking department of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company. He was a staunch republican, and was very active on the City Central Committee of his party, and he also belonged to the State Central Committee, and frequently served as a delegate to the city conventions at a time antedating the present method of nominating candidates. At one time he was a member of the school board, but while he was so active in politics he never sought or desired office, preferring to work in the ranks for the success of the party, which in his estimation embodied the highest ideals of public service. Fraternally he affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. Always active in church work, he was for a long period superintendent of the Sunday School of Christ Episcopal Church, to which all of the family belonged. The Lucas family originated in Holland, while the McCombs were Scotch-Irish in descent. The maternal grandfather was Mitchell McComb. After leaving the Springfield High School in 1903, William Edward Lucas spent a few months in working at whatever came to his hand, and then, in 1905, he entered upon a career which was to bring him success and prestige, as an employee of the city engineer’s office. While he was serving as rodman and chainman he took up night work and studied draughting in the night school of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and further pursued his studies with a correspondence course in engineering with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Lucas worked his way up through all of the stages of city engineering, and in July, 1920, his ability was recognized by his appointment as chief engineer of the city, following the adoption by the city of the commission manager form of government in the fall of 1913, and he is still holding that important office. During the late war he was placed in the fourth class and was not called into the service. On October 14, 1914, Mr. Lucas married, at Springfield, Miss Minna Geron, a daughter of Frantz and Mary Regina (Krupp) Geron, both of whom were born in Germany. When he was eighteen years old he came to the United States with an elder brother ; and she came to this country with her parents when she was ten years old. Mr. Geron was a merchant tailor by trade. He and his wife had six children born to them : Elizabeth Regina, who is married ; Adam William, who is deceased; Mary, who is deceased; George Henry, who is married ; Emma Margaret, who is unmarried; and Mrs. Lucas, who is the youngest. They all belong to the Lutheran Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Geron are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have no children. He belongs to the Episcopal Church, but his wife is a Lutheran. High in Masonry he has been advanced through the thirty-second degree in that order, and he also belongs to the Mystic Shrine and the Council and Chapter. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a past exalted ruler of the Springfield lodge. Through the medium of the Chamber of Commerce he keeps in touch with the advancement of the city along commercial lines, and is otherwise active in promoting its welfare and aiding in its development, for he takes a pride in it and what has been accomplished through his office in its behalf. DR. HARRY A. NEISWANDER one of the leading and competent physicians and surgeons of Pandora, Ohio, was born on a farm in Hancock County, Ohio, on the 26th of September, 1881, and is the son of Joshua and Susan (Blosser) Neiswander, well known and respected citizens. The father was born in Allen County, Ohio, near Bluffton, and was reared on his father’s farm. His wife, Susan, was born on a farm near Pandora, Putnam County, but when she was only four years old her father died, during an epidemic of smallpox, and she was taken by her uncle and reared until she was ten years old, when her mother remarried and she went back and grew to maturity under the care of her mother. She received her first educational training under the guidance of her uncle, Christopher Steiner, but afterwards finished under her mother ,s jurisdiction. Soon after Joshua and Susan were married they secured and settled on a farm in the south part of Hancock County, Ohio, and there they have passed the remainder of their lives engaged in farming. Both are yet alive and are leading and spirited citizens and courteous and agreeable neighbors. Joshua and Susan Neiswander became the parents of eleven children, as follows: Harry A., subject; Lois, who taught in the rural schools for a number of years, became the wife of Melville Bushong, now owner and manager of a garage at New Stark, Ohio ; Leo C., who is a successful practicing physician at Ada, Ohio ; Claud R., who is a graduate of Ohio State University with the degree of Master of Arts and is now in the service of the Ohio state government as an expert in experimental agricultural work ; Stella, who is an Ada High School graduate, taught in the rural schools several years and then became the wife of Frank E. Freed, now a successful dentist at Forest, Ohio ; Edgar is a graduate of the veterinary department of Ohio State University and is located at Kenton, Ohio, where he is engaged in a good practice HISTORY OF OHIO - 437 of his profession; Byron, a graduate of the Ada High School and also of Ohio State University with a Liberal Arts degree, is now a senior student in the medical department of Ohio State University; Ralph is a graduate of the Ada High School and is now a freshman in agriculture at Ohio State University; Una is a graduate of the Ada High School, taught in the rural schools for a few years and is now a senior student in the Nurses, Training School of Findlay Home and Hospital. The others are deceased. Dr. Harry A. Neiswander was educated in the grade and normal schools at New Stark, Ohio, in the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1907. He taught school for a period of five years, a portion of this time in the rural schools, and one year in the New Holland High School. Following this he entered medical school at Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated with the class of 1912 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon afterward he located at Pandora, Ohio, opened his offices and began the practice of both medicine and surgery, and has continued the same up to the present time. He has on different occasions taken post-graduate work at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and visited clinics at Boston and Mayo’s of Rochester, Minnesota. He is a member of the county, state and national medical societies, and has built up a good practice and has won the confidence of the community and the consideration of his fellow practitioners. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club at Ottawa, Ohio, is a democrat, and is interested in the success Of his party tickets at the various elections in county and state. He married Miss Rosella Spacht, a teacher in the public schools of Hancock County, in 1907. Miss Spacht was educated in the public and normal schools of New Stark, Ohio, and continued her schooling at Adrian, Michigan, and at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. They have three children, Allen, Lois and Claud. They are active members and supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church and its subsidiary organizations. Doctor Neiswander is a member of both the Putnam County and the Riley Township Boards of Education, and takes an active part in the affairs of the community. HARRY STONEBRAKER, for two and one-half years superintendent of the city water department of Steubenville, has been identified with contracting and building work since early manhood. He is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, born near Two Ridge Church, September 30, 1870, son of John D. and Margaret A. (Bairn) Stonebraker. His great-grandfather came from Germany in 1806 and settled in Jefferson County, where he was a pioneer. The grandparents of Harry Stonebraker were John D. and Rebecca Stonebraker, the former a native of Jefferson County. The maternal grandparents were William Vincent and Elizabeth Leonard Bairn. The Bairns settled in Maryland about 1817, and came to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1830. John D. Stonebraker was a coal miner in early life, and for many years engaged in gardening. He is a veteran of the Civil war, having been a member of the Fifth Ohio Cavalry. He was captured and confined in Libby Prison for about ninety days. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died in October, 1910. Of their three children Harry is the oldest. William M., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, married Ada McQueen and has two children, named Lawrence and Dorothy. The daughter, Minnie, is the wife of George Allen, her four children being Mabel, Beulah, Harold and Robert. Harry Stonebraker was educated in the country schools, leaving school at the age of eighteen years to take up construction of macadamized roads in Jefferson County, which he followed for a period of three years, helping to build eighty-five miles of road in Jefferson County, Ohio, starting as a laborer and advancing to general foreman. In December, 1893, he went to California and worked on grain and fruit ranches in Tulare County, staying there until 1897, and then returning to Ohio he was employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on bridge construction work for double tracking. Having finished this work he went to Butler County, Pennsylvania, to act as foreman on the construction of the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad between the Allegheny River and Butler. After completion of this work he was employed on the improvement of the Erie Canal for the Furnaceville Iron Company between Buffalo and Albany. After the conclusion of that work he came back to Jefferson County and found employment in the Mingo Junction Iron & Steel Company,s plant at Mingo, where he worked until the Carnegie Steel Company took over the plant and was retained on various jobs for the new company until he settled in Steubenville, Ohio, to engage in contracting for general stone and concrete and excavating, which he followed for one year. Then he was employed by T. J. Stringer & Company on the building of the Wellsbergh & Wheeling Traction Company ,s lines. After completing this work he returned to Steubenville and formed a partnership with Frank X. Stecker to do general stone and concrete work, later merging their interests in the Steubenville Stone Company, which he had incorporated as the Steubenville Stone Company. Mr. Stonebraker was elected the first president and general manager, which position he held until 1912, when he sold out his interests and went into the general contracting business, thus continuing until he was appointed by Mayor Hawkins as superintendent of the city water works, which position he held for two and one-half years, from January 1, 1922, to May 1, 1924, resigning from this position to take up brick and stone work, which he is now following. Mr. Stonebraker is affiliated with the Masons, being a member of Steubenville Lodge No. 45, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons; also of the Eastern Star, and Scottish Rite Masons. He is also a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Sons of Veterans and Modern Woodmen; also member of the Bricklayers and Masons Local No. 14. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Stonebraker married, October 28, 1903, at Steubenville, Miss Frieda Hout, daughter of George A. and Elizabeth E. Gille Hout. She is a member of the Christian Church and is affiliated with the following fraternities: Eastern Star, Daughters of America, Royal Neighbors of America, Sons of Veterans Auxiliary, and Damascus Shrine, Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Stonebraker have seven children: John A., Elizabeth M., Otis H., Dana, F., Louise, and Paul and Pauline, twins. NETTIE BROMLEY LOUGHEAD, member of the Ohio State Senate from Hamilton County and one of the first women ever elected to the Ohio Legislature, has for many years been a leader in woman,s circles and movements in Cincinnati, but many have regarded as her chief distinction the fact that her participation in politics has revealed no over-emphasis or bias that could be charged to sex. Senator Loughead is a daughter of Robert and Hannah Bromley, of Cincinnati, both of whom came from England. Her grandfather Bromley was a pioneer in the pottery industry at Cincinnati, and her 438 - HISTORY OF OHIO father for many years followed the same line of business and later became an importer of glassware, pottery and china, building up a comfortable fortune before he retired. Mrs. Loughead's parents are both deceased. She was educated in the Sands School, Fourth Intermediate School and the Woodward High School, and on March 20, 1890, was married to Mr. C. W. Loughead. Mr. Loughead is president of the Loughead Dyeing and Dry Cleaning Company, and is regarded as one of Cincinnati,s business leaders and most public spirited citizens. He has served as president of both the National and International Cleaners and Dyers associations. During the World war he was chairman of District D in the various drives, is a member of the Cincinnati Country Club, Business Men,s Club, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a past president of the Cincinnati Kiwanis Club, lieutenant-governor for the Ohio Kiwanis Club, a director of the Anti-Tuberculosis League, and a member of the Advertising Club, and served as major on the program of Progress. Mr. and Mrs. Loughead have one child, Wilber Bromley Loughead, born November 15, 1891, and now associated with his father in business. He is a graduate of the Franklin School for Boys in Cincinnati, and on November 15, 1915, married Miss Ruth Campbell, of Chicago. The four grandchildren of Senator Loughead, all girls, are Jane, Nancy, Susan and Gayle. Mrs. Loughead during the World war was one of the most active of all Ohio women in patriotic endeavors. During the war she was vice-chairman of District D for the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Community Chest and other objects. She is a member of the Cincinnati Woman,s Club, the Business Woman,s Club and the Woman,s City Club, and for eight years has been one of the directors. She was treasurer for one term and chairman of its ways and means committee for five years. She belongs to the Monday Lecture Club, the Tuesday Lecture Club and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Loughead was the first woman in Ohio nominated by the republican party as a candidate for the State Senate. In the fall of 1923 she was elected to the Eighty-fifth General Assembly. In the following session she served on the following committees: benevolent institutions, labor, public health, prison and prison reforms and soldiers and sailors orphans home committee, being chairman of the last named, and was also on the committees of the initiative and referendum. At the close of the session she was chosen a member of the fact finding commission appointed by the Senate to investigate a minimum wage for women in industry, the report to be delivered at the following session of the Senate. Lieutenant-Governor Earl D. Bloom called Senator Loughead to preside over the Senate, and in doing so announced that she was the first woman ever called to preside over a legislative body in the world. In 1924 Senator Loughead received an endorsement for reelection by the republican party in Hamilton County, and was reelected by an overwhelming majority. Naturally a great deal of attention has been paid to Senator Loughead's public opinions, and in judging her public record the most important consideration is, no doubt, her attitude toward public questions. On this matter the following quotation from one of her addresses is in point: "As one woman whose chief interest always has been and always will be in family life and who accepted an unsought public. office as a civic duty, my brief experience in the Ohio Senate has convinced me that their participation in the Legislature will be a good thing for women and also a good thing for legisla tion. But I do not believe that participation in politics and government requires any change in the good old-fashioned standards of womanhood. A' career in politics requires no sacrifice of womanly ideals. It is not necessary to become radical or mannish in order to serve the public and state. If the best influences of home and family life are to be brought to bear on the processes of law making and administration, which is my conception of woman,s place in politics, we must see to it that the women chosen to public office truly represent the great body of home-loving, home-making women rather than isolated groups of extremists devoted to special interests, reforms or propaganda." On another occasion Senator Loughead said : " To some persons my answer to the question, 'What did the women do in the Legislature?, will perhaps be disappointing. If it were expected that the women members would unite to enact a distinctly feminist program, I must frankly admit that no such purpose was achieved. And speaking for myself, I may go a step further and say that I do not think any such program was contemplated by any one except possibly a minority group of extremists. Neither did the women establish any sensational record as orators or debaters, but whatever the personal ambitions of the individual members may have been, it was quickly discovered after their first contact with legislative work that the only effective way to render service was as a representative of the people in thc broadest sense—not as an advocate for any special interests, group or sex." Later on her views with respect to a definite public question were stated as follows: "I think it appropriate at this time to say a word about the minimum wage, which was one of the important issues before the present General Assembly. As a member of the Senate Labor Committee, I am familiar with the entire history of this piece of legislation. On its face, the slogan of a decent living wage for women and children in industry is calculated to strike a sympathetic chord in every heart. The legislator, however, despite his or her decidedly human tendencies, is required to consider something else besides the mere sentimental side of the question. Moreover, the major political organizations, cognizant of the big questions demanding solution, set forth their policies in the party platform. This is a declaration of principles to which the candidates of that party are pledged, and loyalty to party is one of the first requirements under a governmental system resting on party responsibility. All of this brings me to the point that the republican party, which honored me with the nomination for State Senator, pledged itself in its platform of last fall not to the enactment of a minimum wage law, but to a full and impartial investigation of the subject by a duly authorized fact-finding commission. This pledge has been redeemed by the General Assembly through legislation creating an investigating commission. In the course of its adoption, however, there was considerable misrepresentation of the real issue and repeated charges of bad faith. I had no personal interest in the matter beyond doing my duty to the best of my ability and fulfilling my obligation of loyalty to my party and the people." VANCE THOMAS GRIMES. The profession of civil engineering is one that attracts many young men when they are starting out on their careers, but not all are qualified for worthy participation in this calling. One who is singularly well equipped in this direction, by nature, inclination and training, is Vance Thomas Grimes, county engineer of Carroll County, whose experience included much valuable work in the army during the World war. HISTORY OF OHIO - 439 Mr. Grimes was born: at West Middletown, Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1891, and is a son of Chester Larimer and Annetta (Farrer) Grimes, and a grandson of Thomas and Susannah Grimes and Samuel and Mary Farrer, all farming people who came from Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Chester Larimer Grimes, who died in March, 1919, followed merchandising throughout his life, conducting dry goods, groceries and general stores at Atchison and Clayville, Pennsylvania. He was a member and elder of the United Presbyterian Church, and a man who was held in respect and esteem by his fellow-citizens in the several communities in which he made his home. He married Miss Annetta Bell Farrer, who survives him, and they became the parents of four children: Vance Thomas, Daisy Mary, Howard Samuel and Hazel Susannah, all of whom, except Howard Samuel, are unmarried. Vance Thomas Grimes attended public school in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and the high school at Claysville, following which he took a preparatory course at Bethany College, West Virginia. He next matriculated in Pennsylvania State College, at the place of that name, located at almost the exact center of the Keystone State and forming the entire settlement at that place. He took a course in civil engineering and graduated with his degree in 1914. His first employment was with the State Highway Department, being in charge of a division at Little Washington, the site of Washington and Jefferson College, and after one year joined the American Gas and Electric Company, being engaged for two years in work between Wheeling and Canton, in charge of construction. He was superintendent of construction of $2,000,000, condensing and transforming the sub-station at Canton, Ohio, for the same company. In December, 1917, Mr. Grimes enlisted for service during the great World war, and was ordered for duty at once to the Chester shipyard, near Philadelphia, as one of five assistant superintendents of construction of the plant, under Supt. C. C. Campbell. This work did not seem to be active enough to suit Mr. Grimes' energetic nature, and after six months he entered the Regular Army and was sent to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, to act both as a recruiting and training officer. He had classes of 160 raw recruits whom he put into shape, and as soon as they were able to drill he passed them on and took a new lot. This work he continued until he received orders from the chief engineer at Washington, D. C., transferring him to Camp Humphrey, Virginia, the Officer Engineers Training Camp, where he continued his labors until the signing of the armistice. He received his honorable discharge November 21, 1918. At that time Mr. Grimes returned to his home, and, his father dying in March, 1919, he took charge of the elder man's business. However, he did not care for merchandising, and as soon as he could obtain a suitable price, in October of the same year, he disposed of the family 's mercantile interests and closed up the estate. Mr. Grimes was married on December 31, 1919, and shortly, ,thereafter took up his residence at Carrollton, where he was appointed first deputy county engineer He was elected county engineer in November, 1922, and has held that office ever since, having established a splendid record for efficient and faithful performance of duty. Mr. Grimes belongs to the United Presbyterian Church, to the Sigma Nu college fraternity, to the Masonic Blue Lodge and to the Rotary International at Carrollton. On December 31, 1919, Mr. Grimes was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Charlotte Kemerer, of Carrollton, a daughter of Paul H. and Gertrude Amanda (Butler) Kemerer. She is a granddaughter of Rev. D. M. Kemerer, D. D., of the Pittsburgh Synod of the Lutheran Church, the oldest Doctor of Divinity in the service. He has been secretary of the Pittsburgh Synod for thirty-six years, is a member of the Board of Directors of Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, is secretary and a director of the Old Peoples' Home at Zelienople, Pennsylvania, and for the past twenty years has been first assistant auditor of the City of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Grimes' mother is a member of the Butler family, one of the oldest in Carroll County. Paul H. Kemerer is identified with the Free Press-Standard newspaper and president of the Building and Loan Company of Carrollton. He and his wife have four children: Elizabeth Charlotte, Alice D., George Duncan and Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Grimes there have been born three children: Vance Thomas, Jr., Paul Larimer and Charlotte Jane. CARL SCHULER. has won a successful position as an attorney in his native town of Millersburg in Holmes County. He has been prosecuting attorney of the county, mayor of Millersburg, and is just now in the prime of his power and usefulness. Mr. Schuler was born at Millersburg, February 11, 1879, son of Conrad and Hannah (Badd) Schuler. His parents were natives of Wurttemberg, Germany. His father was a participant in the German Revolution of 1848, and after the failure of that liberal movement he came to Amcrica, in 1850, settling permanently at Millersburg. He engaged in the operation of a coal mine, later was in the grocery business until 1881, and then spent his last years retired on a farm until his death in 1897, at the age of sixty-seven. After coming to Millersburg he married the daughter of George Badd. She was fourteen years of age when her father came to America and settled in Holmes County. She is now eighty-two years old, and she reared nine out of the eleven children. Conrad Schuler was a democrat, and he and his wife were active members of the Lutheran Church. Carl Schuler grew up on a farm, attending the country schools and graduated from the Millersburg High School. He supplemented these early advantages by subsequent courses in Wooster College and Western Reserve University. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, and for four years taught in country schools. Mr. Schuler in 1904 was elected county clerk of Holmes County and reelected, and filled the office for six years. He was chosen on the democratic ticket. In the meantime Mr. Schuler was diligently pursuing the study of law under Judge Wellington Stillwell, and in 1909 was admitted to the bar. He retired from office in 1911, engaged in the practice of law, and in 1912 was elected county prosecutor of Holmes County. He was reelected, serving four years. Since July, 1920, he has been engaged in an extensive general practice as senior member of the law firm of Schuler & Putnam. Mr. Schuler has by appointment served two terms as city prosecutor at Millersburg, and in the fall of 1923 was elected mayor and is now the popular head of the town government. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and the Elks. Mr. Schuler is unmarried. WILLIAM NIXON CROW. In the life and affairs of Holmes County William Nixon Crow has been a prominent factor more than thirty-five years. His first public office was that of postmaster of the Village of Mount Hope. He has been an attorney, merchant and a leader in affairs. He is the present judge of the Common Pleas Court of Holmes County. Judge Crow was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 18, 1866. His parents, John N. and Malinda (Sprankle) Crow, were born in 440 - HISTORY OF OHIO Ohio, their respective parents having come to this state from Pennsylvania. The grandfather, William Crow, was a native of Pennsylvania, and on coming to Ohio settled in Holmes County. He was of Scotch ancestry, and he married a Miss Nixon, of Irish stock. They had seven children. Jacob Sprankle, father of Malinda Sprankle, was born in Pennsylvania, married a Miss Weaver, and they represented the Pennsylvania Dutch. Jacob Sprankle lived in Dover, Ohio, where he followed the trade of shoemaker. John N. Crow, father of Judge Crow, was for many years a school teacher and farmer. After his marriage he lived for a time in Tuscarawas County, but when Judge Crow was three years old the family returned to Holmes County. There were seven children in the family. William Nixon Crow was reared on a farm near Mount Hope, attended country schools and also the village schools of Mount Hope and Millersburg. His experience as a teacher in district schools covered two years. When he was about twenty-one years of age he had the distinction of being appointed postmaster of Mount Hope. He was the youngest postmaster appointed by Postmaster General Wanamaker. He was postmaster there four years. Subsequently-he took the law course at the Ohio Normal University at Ada, graduating in 1898, and soon afterward engaged in practice at Millersburg. He was the only republican elected justice of the peace at Millersburg, and for fourteen consecutive years he held the office of superintendent of the Millersburg Water Works. He performed these duties in addition to his general law practice, and for a number of years was also proprietor of a jewelry store at Millersburg, and has had other business interests. Judge Crow in 1918 was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court of Holmes County. He was chosen on the republican ticket over a normal democratic majority of 1,800, this being a distinctive compliment to him personally and to his well-known qualifications for the bench. Judge Crow took his seat in the office of judge February 9, 1919, for a term of six years, and he was reelected by about 800 majority. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Judge Crow married in 1901 Miss Lucy Parkinson, of Millersburg. She was born and reared in that town. ALLEN M. ROWE. Probably the most nearly indispensable man in the business and civic affairs of Coalton in Jackson County is Allen M. Rowe. Mr. Rowe is young, a dynamo of energy, and has more business to attend to in the course of a day than any other man in that locality. Mr. Rowe was born at Coalton, Jackson County, November 1, 1893, son of Jacob C. and Addie (McGhee) Rowe, and grandson of Christian and Mary Rowe, and Allen and Adeline McGhee. The Rowes came from Germany about 1840 and settled in Ohio. The McGhees are an old Virginia family. Addie (McGhee) Rowe died in January, 1900. Jacob C. Rowe is a coal operator in Jackson County, and has made himself quite active in local affairs, serving as a member of the school board. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Lutheran Church. There are five children in the family: Allen M., Elsworth, who married Ida Durst; Harold, Merril and Arthur. Allen M. Rowe was well educated, attending public school at Coalton, the high school at Jackson, and the Bliss Business College of Columbus. His first important business responsibility was as manager of the Twin-Ada Coal Company of Coalton. He still holds that responsibility. In January, 1914, he took the management of the Harper Coal Company, and served in that capacity for four years, until the company went out of business. Mr. Rowe in 1916 was appointed postmaster of Coalton, and that office likewise took up its share of his time and attention. He organized in 1916 the Pomeroy Colliery Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. On May 1, 1918, he enlisted in the navy as a landsman for yeoman, reporting for • active duty July 9, 1918, at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. He was assigned to the auditing department in the Administration Building. In September, 1918, he took examination for entrance into the school for staff officers for ensigns in the Paymaster 's Corps. He was admitted to the school November 1, 1918, at Princeton University, and stood third highest in 250. On the signing of the armistice ten days later he resigned before finishing the course and returned to civil life. He then resumed his place at Coalton, and in January, 1919, was again in full charge of the various duties he had performed before entering the service. He has since acquired additional responsibilties, having in October, 1921, been made president of the Jones Colliery Company. He was one of the organizers and is secretary and a director of the Milton Bank of Wellston, also an active officer and vice president of the United Coal & Coke Company, 824 Atlas Building, Columbus, Ohio, having organized said company. On November 24, 1919, at Coalton, Mr. Rowe married Miss Toulon Haslett, daughter of Charles W. and Mary (Eversbaugh) Haslett. Her parents reside at Wellston, wherc her father is one of the most prominent men in this section of Ohio. He is a lumberman and dairyman, and at the age of twenty-one was elected county commissioner of Jackson County, being the youngest man, ever to hold that office. He served two terms as mayor of Coalton, also two terms as mayor of Wellston, and was democratic candidate for Congress in 1911, and was candidate for the democratic nomination for lieutenant-governor in 1922. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. In the Haslett family were four children, Mrs. Rowe being the third. The daughter Hazel married Frank Rhodes, and has one child, Thomas P. Channcls is the widow of Earl Christman, who was killed by lightning, and she has one daughter, Helen. Piccola Haslett was with a party making the trip to Alaska in the summer of 1923, and while there she overtaxed herself and died December 13, 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe have one daughter, Marguerite Eleanor. They are active members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Elks and the Jackson County Country Club. J. C. ROBINSON, who is one of the substantial representatives of farm enterprise in Van Buren Township, Putnam County, and who is serving loyally and effectively as township trustee (1923), was born in Miller Township, Richland County, Ohio, October 28, 1861. His father, William Robinson, passed his -entire life in that township of Richland County, where his parents had pioneer prestige. William Robinson wedded Mary Kahl, who was born in the State of Pennsylvania and who was a child at the time when her parents came to Richland County, Ohio, and established their home in Miller Township, where she passed the remainder of her life, her husband having been one of the successful farmers of that county. They were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and William Robinson was an influential citizen of his native township, where he served for a number of terms as township trustee, HISTORY OF OHIO - 441 his political support having been given to the republican party. He was a brother of General Robinson, who served as secretary of the State of Ohio and who was a representative in the United States Congress several terms. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of the seven surviving members of a family of ten children. One of his brothers, F. S., represented Hancock County in the Ohio Legislature, and his death occurred March 1, 1922. J. C. Robinson was reared on the old home farm in Richland County, and received the advantages of the public schools of the locality and period. At the age of twenty-one years he became identified with farm enterprise in Hancock County, where he continued his residence twelve years. He has since been numbered among the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and live stock enterprise in Putnam County, where he is the owner of one of the well improved and productive farm estates in Van Buren Township. His high standing in the confidence and esteem of his home community is assured by his having served nineteen years as township trustee, notwithstanding the fact that he is a republican and the normal political complexion of the township is democratic in the strongest tone. At Leipsic Mr. Robinson is affiliated with the lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the latter of which he is a past noble grand. Mrs. Robinson, whose maiden name was Flora L. McClish, passed to the life eternal in 1915, and she is survived by children as follows: William, who is associated in the management of the home farm and who still remains a bachelor, gave twenty-three months of loyal service as a soldier in the World war, and was for twelve months of this period in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France; Paul, who likewise was a soldier in the United States Army in the World war period, is now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; James M. resides in the City of Toledo; and Waldo and Olive remain at the paternal home. Paul, James, Waldo and Olive are graduates of the high school at Leipsic. EARL H. BRIGDEN is a lawyer and business man of Middlefield, Geauga County, and has been a prominent figure in that community for twenty years. He was born over in the adjoining county of Trumbull, and his people represented pioneer New England stock in the Western Reserve of Ohio. His great-grandfather was a New England sailor, and died while mate on a ship plying between New Haven, Connecticut, and Liverpool, England. The grandfather, Charles A. Brigden, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, February 20, 1817, and when a youth of eighteen came to Ohio and located at Mesopotamia, in Trumbull County. For many years he was in business as a merchant there, was elected and served as county auditor of Trumbull County, and when the Civil war came on he became first lieutenant of Company I of the One Hundred-fifth Ohio Infantry. Four of his sons were also Union soldiers. After the war he was again in business as a merchant, and died at Mesopotamia September 29, 1887. He was a member of the Grand Army of the. Republic and the Masonic Order. His first wife was Mary Ann Sperry, by whom he had seven children, the sons being Howard, Edward, Irven, Charley and George, the latter of whom was killed while color bearer in General Hayes' regiment. Howard A. Brigden, father of Earl H. Brigden, was born at Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, November 29, 1841, and was reared at Mesopotamia in Trumbull County. At the age of seventeen he began to learn the trade of carriage painter, and subsequently he took up stone and marble sculpture. He became one of the real artists in this business, and had unusual talent in several branches of fine arts. He was one of the first to enlist as a Union soldier from Trumbull County, joining a company of local militia on April 19, 1861. Subsequently this became Company B of the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, the regiment of which McKinley and Hayes were members. Whilc working in winter quarters his left arm was broken and in the spring of 1862 he returned home. Later he reentered the service as a clerk, and in 1864 he took the place of his brother George, who had been killed, as brigade color bearer on General Hayes staff. In 1881 he removed to Michigan and assisted in the organization of Montmorency County, taking up 160 acres of timber ]and there. He was in Michigan until 1889, and served nearly throughout that period as a supervisor of the county. After selling his Michigan interests he returned to Mesopotamia and was engaged in farming and in his profession there until his death on September 24, 1913. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a democrat in politics. In February, 1865, he married Elsie Belden, of Mesopotamia, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Woolcot) Belden. She was born July 13, 1842, and died at the home of her son Earl at Middlefield on September 22, 1922, aged eighty years. She was the mother of two children, Earl H. and George H. The latter was born July 13, 1875, and died August 17, 1908. Earl H. Brigden was born at Mesopotamia, in Trumbull County, March 6, 1872, and from the age of nine to seventeen lived in Michigan. He was educated in public schools, graduating from the high school at Mesopotamia in 1891, and began the study of law in the offices of Osborne & Breed at Painesville. He was admitted to the bar June 7, 1894, and for a year and a half practiced at Warren, Ohio. After recovering from a long illness he again made his home at Mesopotamia until 1901, in which year he established his home and offices at. Middlefield in Geauga County. Through these years he has had a large general practice in both branches of the law, and various business and public responsibilities have demanded his attention. For twenty-two years he has been manager of the Home Telephone Company at Middlefield. He is also a director of the Middlefield Banking Company, and for sixteen years has filled the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Brigden owns a farm at Middlefield, and has another farm at Mesopotamia, his birthplace. He is a republican in politics, is a past chancellor commander of Middlefield Lodge No. 716, Knights of Pythias, but his chief interest outside of his profession and business is his home and family. On June 10, 1896, at Warren, Ohio, he married Miss Pearl Difford, a daughter of Edwin T. and Nettie (White) Difford, now deceased. Her father was a farmer at Mesopotamia, Ohio. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Brigden are Ernest, born September 19, 1908, and Charles E., born August 30, 1910. BURTON CASE. One of the old, substantial families of Licking County, of New England ancestry, that of Case has been identified with the development of the Town of Granville for more than 100 years. For many years its present leading representative, Burton Case, practically retired, was an extensive farmer and fruit grower in this section of Licking County. Burton Case was born at Granville, Ohio, July 27, 1851, a son of Lucius and Mary (Rose) Case, both of whom were born in Granville Township, where Lucius Case became a large farmer and raiser of fine stock. His great-grandfather, Major Grove Case, was a military man of note in Con- 442 - HISTORY OF OHIO necticut, and his son, Grove Case, Jr., a native also of Connecticut, came to Licking County with his father as a pioneer in 1808 and settled at Granville. Lucius Case married Mary Rose, daughter of Captain Levi and Polly (Stowe) Rose, who came to Licking County from Granville, Massachusetts, with the first colony, in 1805, and established the Town of Granville, Ohio. They traveled by wagon from the old home to the new, consuming six weeks in making the journey. Capt. Levi Rose distinguished himself in the War of 1812. These sturdy, hardworking families with their substantial qualities have been represented here ever since, and still continue to be worth while people who enjoy universal esteem, Burton Case grew up on his father 's farm at Granville and completed his education in Denison University, which had been established at Granville in 1831, and afterward turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and for a number of years has been one of the leading fruit growers and orchardists in the county. He has always been more or less active in republican politics, and frequently has served in public capacities. For twenty years he was a trustee of Granville Township, and for many years also was a member of the Town Council and of the Board of Public Affairs. He is one of the trustees of Denison University. Mr. Case was united in marriage with Miss Dora Howland, who was born in McKane Township, Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of John L. and Elma (Gosnell) Howland. John L. Howland was born in Virginia and came from there in early manhood to Ohio. He was a jeweler and artisan. The mother of Mrs. Case was born, like herself, in McKane Township, Licking County, and through her grandfather, Hon. Elias Howell, was a descendant of the Howells who came from. England to the United States in 1637. Elias Howell, great-grandfather of Mrs. Case, was a native of New York and came to Licking County, Ohio, as a civil engineer. He acquired extensive land holdings, and in the course of time became a great political factor in the state, serving as sheriff, later as state senator and still later a member of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. He was a man of great enterprise, and it is said that he had the first successful silkworm farm in the state. The church he built at Sylvania, Ohio, was but one example of his benevolence and true public spirit. Mrs. Case is a graduate of Shepardson College of Denison University. She is president of the Granville Federation of Woman's Clubs and has long been equally prominent in other bodies, church, club and social. She is secretary of the Festival Association of Granville, and is vice president of the Music Club and one of its sponsors, is a member of the King's Daughters, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Travelers' Club, and belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution. For the last ten years Mrs. Case has been the Granville correspondent of the Newark Daily Advocate. Mr. and Mrs. Case have two daughters: Stella, who is the wife of Robert E. Bell, of Queens, Long Island; and Helen, who is the wife of Roy S. Edwards, and resides at Granville and they have one son, Robert Case Edwards. Mr. Case and his family are members of the Baptist Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and has served as master of Granville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. In political life Mr. Case is a republican. WILLIAM BROCK STEVENS has secure status as one of the representative members of the bar of Tuscarawas County, and has been for thirty-five years established in the successful practice of his profession at Uhrichsville, where likewise he is associated with important business interests. On a farm two miles north of Dennison, Tuscarawas County, William B. Stevens was born May 12, 1866, a son of Rev. Thomas McCann Stevens and Nancy (Brock) Stevens, representatives of sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye State. Rev. Thomas McCann Stevens was born at Sarahsville, Ohio, in what is now Noble County, and the date of his nativity was December 13, 1834. He passed the closing years of his earnest and useful life on his homestead farm in Union Township, Tuscarawas County, where his death occurred in 1898. He was a son of James and Mary (McCann) Stevens. James Stevens was born in the historic old State of Virginia, about 1795, and was a son of Thomas Stevens, who likewise was born in Virginia, of English ancestry, the American branch of the family having been founded in Virginia in the early Colonial period of our national history. James Stevens was a young man when he came to Ohio and became a pioneer settler in what is now Noble County. There he passed the remainder of his life, and he was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death. He first married Hannah Morris, and they became the parents of four children. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Stevens wedded Mary McCann, and of their five children, Rev. Thomas McCann Stevens was the eldest. As a young man Thomas McCann Stevens was ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the course of time he became the rider of a circuit, with central location in Tuscarawas County, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Nancy Brock, who was born in this county July 5, 1839, and who survived him a quarter of a century, she having been venerable in years at the time of her death in 1923, and virtually her entire life having been passed in Tuscarawas County. Rev. Thomas McCann Stevens, a man of fine intellectuality and fervid religious faith, gave long and earnest service in the ministry, and he also became one of the substantial farmers of Union Township, Tuscarawas County, with distinctive prominence and influence in community affairs. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, his father having been aligned in the ranks of the democratic party. William Brock Stevens was the second in order of birth in a family of five children, all of whom attained to maturity and two of whom are now deceased. He was reared on the old home farm, and the district schools afforded him his early educational advantages. That he made good use of these advantages is evidenced in the fact that when he was but fifteen years of age he obtained a teacher's license and initiated service as a teacher in the district schools. By this pedagogic service he acquired funds to advance his own education. In 1883 he was graduated from the Dennison High School, and in 1886, he was graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon. His career as a teacher covered a period of four years, and he began the study of law under the able preceptorship of Judge T. D. Healeah, of Uhrichsville. In 1889 Mr. Stevens was admitted to the bar of his native state, and he has since continued in the general practice of his profession at Uhrichsville, where he has long controlled a substantial and representative law business, the same having involved his appearance in the various state and federal courts of Ohio. Mr. Stevens has ever been a stalwart and effective advocate of the principles of the' republican party, has given several years of service as city solicitor of Uhrichsville, and he was a delegate to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention of 1912. In the HISTORY OF OHIO - 443 Masonic fraternity his affiliations include membership in the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city. Mr. Stevens was one of the organizers of the Union Bank of Uhrichsville, and has served continuously as a member of its Board of Directors. He is attorney for this institution. He was the organizer and is secretary and active manager of the Citizens Building & Loan Company of Uhrichsville, and under his progressive administration this corporation has done effective service to the community and achieved substantial success. Mr. Stevens has been secretary of the Buckeye Fire Clay Company from the time of its organization, was one of the organizers of the Uhrichsville Ice Company, and has become associated with other enterprises that have tended to advance the civic and material welfare of his home city. He is a broad-gauged and loyal citizen, and commands secure vantage place in popular esteem. The year 1893 recorded the marriage of Mr. Stevens and Miss Mary Slade, who was born at Port Washington, Tuscarawas County. Isabel, the one child of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, is a member of the class of 1926 in the University of Ohio. WILLIAM S. FOULKS, attorney at law of East Liverpool, Ohio. Graduate of Ohio State University. Served in the United States Army during the World war. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Sons of Veterans, and the American Legion. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KIMBLE. Measured in volume of important business handled Benjamin Franklin Kimble is one of the most successful lawyers in Southern Ohio. He was a school teacher for a number of years, and his work in the legal profession covers a period of about a dozen years. In that time his reputation has become extended and established over numerous counties surrounding Scioto, where he has his office at Portsmouth. Mr. Kimble was born on a farm near Manchester, in Adams County, Ohio, August 28, 1874, son of Benjamin P. and Lucinda (Boles) Kimble, both now deceased. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were named Elijah Kimble. His great-grandfather, Elijah, was a native of Maryland. Being a younger son, he was cut off from a share in the family property, and came West to find his fortune. Benjamin P. Kimble was a man of real prominence in Adams County for a great many years. He was a farmer, very successful in business, and he made his influence count through his daily life as a true Christian and a splendid exemplar of Masonry. He served as master of his lodge, and for over forty years he was called upon to officiate at all Masonic funerals in Adams and adjoining counties. During that time he performed this service at four hundred and seventy-eight funerals. He was also the mainstay of the Methodist Protestant Church in his community and largely took up the finances of the church. He died in 1913. Benjamin Franklin Kimble was reared on his father 's farm in Adams County, attended the district schools, the Manchester High School, and then entered Adrian College in Michigan, where he took the classical course and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1895. After returning from college Mr. Kimble was principal of the Manchester High School a year, was superintendent of schools at Winchester, Ohio, two years, and superintendent at West Union three years. He still holds his license as a high school principal in Ohio. In the meantime he also served six years as county school examiner. He gave up his work in the school room when elected clerk of the court of Adams County, and he was in that office six years, at the same time studying law under Judge Bayliss of West Union. Mr. Kimble was admitted to the bar by examination in 1910. For four years he practiced in West Union, and for the greater part of that time he was associated with C. E. Roebuck in the firm of Roebuck & Kimble. Their partnership was dissolved in January, 1914. Mr. Kimble has an important record of service as a legislator. He was elected on the democratic ticket to the Legislature in the fall of 1910 to represent Adams County. During the sessions of 1911-12 he proved himself one of Ohio 's most progressive fighters for sound legislation. He was chairman of the conference committee of the House and Senate which perfected the workmen's compensation law, which he had actively sponsored in the House. He is also given credit as being the author of the Corrupt Practice Act passed by that Legislature. Mr. Kimble moved to Portsmouth and opened his offices in January, 1914. For one year he was in partnership with A. Z. Blair, and since then has practiced individually. Those familiar with his professional career estimate that Mr. Kimble does more legal business than any other three individual attorneys, and he has a larger volume of practice than any of the legal firms with few exceptions. He has made a special mark for success in criminal cases, particularly those involving important issues and personalities. He also handles a large corporation practice, being attorney for the First National Bank, the Carlyle-Labold Company, Harbison-Walker Refraction Company, and for H. S. McCall, R. K. McCurdy, McLaughlin and Staker, E. G. Miller and others. Mr. Kimble on August 8, 1901, at Winchester, Ohio, married Miss Ruby Doak, daughter of Alvah S. and Eunice A. (Fox) Doak, her mother a native of Indiana. Her father, now deceased, was born in Ohio and was a druggist and civil engineer, giving up the drug business to devote all his time to engineering work. At one time he was county engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Kimble have two children, Bernice D. and Lawrence M. Bernice is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from Wooster College. Lawrence M. is attending high school. With all his heavy work as a lawyer Mr. Kimble is a regular attendant and one of the most active members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth. For six years he has been a trustee of the church, and every Sunday morning he conducts a men's Bible class, which has an average attendance of over one hundred and twenty-five. He is vice president of the local Bar Association, was a member of the State and American Bar associations, belongs to the college fraternity Alpha, Tau Omega, and is a member of the Lodge of Masons and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Kimble is a trustee of the Portsmouth Carnegie Library. ALFRED M. SCOTT, the present country treasurer of Jackson County, has for many years been actively identified with farming and road contracting. He represents some of the oldest families of Southern Ohio. Her was born in what is now the Village of Coalton, adjacent to Wellston, in Jackson County, February 26, 1877, a son of Quiller F. and Sabrina (McKinnis) Scott. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Scott, was born near Parkersburg, in what is now West Virginia, in 1820, and was a small child when his parents came to Southern Ohio. Benjamin F. Scott married Martha Sell, who was born in 1823, daughter of Adam Sell, of another prominent family of Southern Ohio. Quiller F. Scott spent his life in the Coalton locality of Jackson County, was a merchant and an active figure in the civic affairs of that community. 444 - HISTORY OF OHIO He died December 29, 1881, at the age of thirty-one years. He married Sabrina McKinnis, who is still living at Coalton. Her father, Granville McKinnis, was born at the old McKinnis homestead in Jackson County, in 1823, son of Charles McKinnis, who was one of the pioneers of Jackson County, coming down the Ohio River in a flat boat. Both the McKinnis and Scott families took up land direct from the government. Granville McKinnis devoted his active life to farming, a large part of his farm being underlaid with coal. He married Mary P. Cassidy, whose father, Asa Cassidy, was a charter member of the first Masonic Lodge started in Southern Ohio. Quiller F. Scott and wife had four children: A. B., who married Jeanette Colard; Alfred M.; G. E., who married Winifred Terole, and has a son, Granville E., Jr., and Q. F., who married Laura Sutcliff, and has two children, Quiller and Bettie. Alfred M. Scott was educated in the public schools at Coalton, also attended school at Washington Court House, and in 1894 was graduated from the high school at Coalton. For about eight years he was associated with the dry goods and clothing business at Coalton, after which he went on the road as a traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery house at Marion. He was on the road a year and then took up the contracting business, and is one of the widely experienced men in concrete work, making a specialty of concrete road construction. He built the first concrete road in Jackson County. He is still a concrete contractor, devoting most of the summer months to that business, while the rest of the season he uses his teams for farm work. He operates four farms in Jackson County. Mr. Scott was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1922, his two year term beginning in September, 1923. He is one of the very substantial citizens of this section. He is a Presbyterian, a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is affiliated with the Jacksonian Club, the Country Club and the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. On May 29, 1904, at Coalton, he married Miss Margaret Hippel, daughter of John and Mary C. Hippel. Her father was born in Germany, in 1838, served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, and settled in Jackson County about 1859, where for many years he followed his trade. He subsequently acquired a tract of coal land at Coalton, and became one of the leading coal operators and men of affairs in that section. He died in 1897 and his wife in 1911. Their children were : John R., who married Ida Thompson and have two living children, Willard and Florence; W. D., who married Etta Leach and has two children, Arthur and Pauline; Jacob C., who married Allie Sherlock, and has a son, Virgil; Caroline, who married G. E. Christman, and their four children are Earl, Edward, Ruth and Edith ; Mary, who married J. E. Harper ; Miss Grace; and Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one son, Robert K. WILLIAM HEBERT WILLSON, M. D. The community of Greenfield in Highland County, has known William Hebert Willson in his capacity and relationship as a capable physician and surgeon for over a quarter of a century. Doctor Willson was a medical officer in the Spanish-American war, but otherwise his duties have been closely centered in the locality where he was born and reared. Doctor Willson was born at Greenfield, September 17, 1873, and represents a line of American ancestry that runs back for generation after generation, into the early Colonial period of the Carolinas. His remote ancestor, Hugh Willson, was born in 1690, during the siege of Londonderry, Ireland. He had five sons and two daughters, all of whom, except one son, came to America prior to 1760. His son, John Willson, was born in 1715, and though in advance years at the time was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, being present at the battle of King 's Mountain, North Carolina. While he was in the army his wife conducted the farm with only such help as could be rendered by her two sons, nine and twelve years old. John Willson, son of this Revolutionary soldier, was born March 6, 1767, and died in October, 1838. His wife was Hannah Baird, who was born October 5, 1770, and died September 20, 1837. Their son, Adam Baird Willson, was the grandfather of Doctor Will- son of Greenfield and was the pioneer of the family in Ohio. He was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, April 12, 1790, and in 1816 made the trip to Ohio on horseback, settling in Highland County. He died and is buried at Greenfield. His wifc, Margery Dean, was born in Pike County, Ohio, March 27, 1799, and died at Greenfield October 4, 1881. Samuel Milton Willson, father of Doctor Willson, was born in Highland County, May 21, 1835, and spent an active lifetime as a farmer. He was very progressive, being the first man in Southern Ohio to use steam power for threshing wheat. He died at Greenfield November 2, 1913. His wife, Rebecca Sperry, was born at Austin, in Ross County, Ohio, January 21, 1839, and died December 27, 1910. Their son, William Hebert Willson, received his early. educational advantages at Greenfield in the grammar and high schools, and his medical education was acquired in Cincinnati University, where he graduated in the year 1897. In May of the same year he opened his office and began the practice of medicine at Greenfield. Early the following year, upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, he volunteered for the medical service, and was on duty in Porto Rico for some time. He was mustered out in 1899, and then resumed work at Greenfield. Much of his time has been spent in hospital work, and in 1918 he served as house physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, and in 1923, took post-graduate work in the American Hospital in Chicago. Doctor Willson is a Knights Templar Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a republican, a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Local Reading Club. He married at Cincinnati, February 26, 1902, Bessie Hendry, who was born at Cincinnati, February 16, 1880, and was educated in the public schools in that city and completed her musical training in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She has been heard as a professional singer in various churches, and is an active member of the Presbyterian Church and the Reading Club. Doctor and Mrs. Willson have three children. The oldest, Helen Hendry, born at Greenfield in 1905, died July 14, 1907. Grace Elizabeth, born at Greenfield, October 19, 1908, was edu- cated in the common and McClain high schools. studied reading and expression and has been a popular entertainer. William Howard, the only son, was born at Greenfield, September 26, 1915, and is attending grammar school. ALFRED PUTNAM SANDLES, editor and publisher of the Putnam County Sentinel at Ottawa, the county seat, is a native son of this county and has contributed much to its civic and material advancement. Mr. Sandles has been influential in political affairs in Ohio as a representative of the democratic party, and as a publicist his activities have touched educational work, the raising of the standards of farm industry and the promoting of better civic ideals in general. In a log house on his father's farm near the HISTORY OF OHIO - 445 Putnam County Infirmary, in Blanchard Township. Alfred Putnam Sandles was born February 5, 1871, a son of David E. and Ann (Maidlow) Sandles, the former of whom was born in Fairfield County, this state, and the latter in Blanchard Township, Putnam County. David E. Sandles was a child at the time of the family removal to Licking County, where he was reared to adult age and received the advantages of the common schools. When the Civil war precipitated he promptly tendered his aid in defense of the Union. He was a youth of seventeen years when he thus enlisted in Company D, First Ohio Cavalry. He continued as a loyal and valiant soldier of the Union until the close of the war, and before he was twenty years old he contrived to cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln, republican candidate for president of the United States. After the war Mr. Sandles became one of the industrious exponents of farm enterprise in Blanchard Township. His wife was a daughter of John and Lucinda (Douds) Maidlow, of this township. Reared on the home farm, Alfred P. Sandles early gained health and strength with farm work, and in the mcanwhile he attended the district schools. His ambition for a liberal education was not to be denied fruition, and thus it is to be recorded that he attended in turn Crawfus College, the Ohio State Normal School at Leipsic, and Otterbein University. At the age of twenty-one years he became a teacher in the district schools, and after three years of such service he was for six years a teacher in the public schools of Ottawa. He served two years as president of the Putnam County Teachers' Institute, and in this capacity he arranged for the giving of one day of the annual institute to a meeting of the school directors and the parents in the county—a policy that eventually was widely adopted through Ohio, the while he himself was much in demand as a lecturer on educational topics. In 1896 Mr. Sandles was made chairman of the Putnam County Democratic Convention, and thereafter he held for twelve years the position of chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of his native county, besides having been for two years clerk of the courts for the county. In 1902 he was made secretary and treasurer of the County Executive Committee of his party, and showed much finesse in directing the campaign of that year in Putnam County. He was made the party nominee for secretary of state, but met defeat with the rest of the party ticket. He has continued a valued and effective worker in behalf of the cause of the democratic party, and makes his newspaper a power along this line. In January, 1895, Mr. Sandles was elected secretary of the Putnam County Agricultural Society, and he gave many years of specially effective service in this capacity, his progressive policies and ideas having done much to advance the success and value of the annual county fairs of the county. He has served as president of the Ohio Race Circuit, embracing fifty-one counties, and he has done much to advance the standard of turf events in the state. Among other positions in which Mr. Sandles has found opportunity for loyal service are those of president of the Ohio Agricultural Commission, and clerk of the State Senate. He has taken lively interest in promoting advancement in the affairs of the farms of his native state, has worked to encourage and instruct farm boys, and also to provide the farm girls with instruction in domestic science and the cultivating of fruits and garden products. A resourceful organizer and an earnest and forceful public speaker, he has been much called upon for lectures and speeches, both in various states of the Union and also in Canadian provinces. He is a past master of Ottawa Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is affiliated also with the local chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Commandery of Knights Templar, while in the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree. His Masonic connection includes also his membership in the Mystic Shrine, and he is identified also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Grange, the Sons of Veterans, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Sandles wedded Miss Laura Moffit, who was born September 6, 1874, a daughter of Joab and Amanda (Hopkins) Moffit, natives of Hancock County, whence they eventually moved to Blanchard Township, Putnam County, where they remained on their farm until 1902, when they removed to the City of Findlay. The death of Mr. Moffit there occurred in July, 1914, and his widow is still a resident of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Sandles have one son and seven daughters : Bryan Putnam, Frances, Beatrice, Martha, Dorothy, Helen, Catherine, and Eleanor. C. E. OZIER the efficient and popular proprietor of the Hotel Vonhof in the City of Mansfield, has made this one of the most modern hotels in this section of the state and brought its equipment and service up to the highest standard. The Vonhof is conducted on the American plan, and under the trying conditions that have obtained in connection with public food purveying since and during the World war Mr. Ozier has shown both courage and distinctive ability in retaining the fine old American plan of service and making it a success. The culinary department of the Vonhof has gained more than local fame, and the hotel is a popular place for banquets, in connection with which provision is made for service to large assemblies as well as to those of smaller number. Mr. Ozier is associated also in the ownership of a hotel in the City of Akron, and he has gained prestige as one of the progressive and representative hotel men of his native state. The original building of the hotel now conducted under the name of Vonhof was erected in 1858, and the house was conducted for a term of years under the title of The Teagarden. Later it became the St. James, and the present name was adopted about 1885, when Louis Vonhof became owner of the property and business. Sharp Bird, son-in-law of Mr. Vonhof, conducted the hotel from 1885 until 1897, and thereafter it was conducted by Mr. Shonfield until 1907 when J. P. King assumed control, he having continued as proprietor until 1909, since which year the present proprietor has precided over the destinies of this popular hostelry. The original building was rebuilt and remodeled in the '80s, and in 1912 Mr. Ozier still further enlarged the structure, which he brought up to modern standard and which now has accommodations for one hundred guests. Mr. Ozier still gives a general supervision to the hotel business, but he has assigned to the active direction of the Vonhof an efficient manager in the person of Ross Weakley, who has served in this capacity somewhat more than three years. Mr. Ozier was born in Richland County, in the year 1860, and was here reared and educated. He is a son of the late David Ozier, who was long associated with his brother Nelson, under the firm name of N. & D. Ozier, in the extensive buying and shipping of live stock and wool, this firm having been one of the oldest and most important in this line of industrial commerce in this section of Ohio. David Ozier eventually established himself in the banking business at Shiloh, Richland County, and with this 446 - HISTORY OF OHIO enterprise he continued his active alliance twenty years—up to the time of his death in 1902, at the age of sixty-nine years. His brother Nelson served as postmaster at Mansfield under the administration of President Hayes, and later under the administration of President McKinley. As a young man C. E. Ozier was for several years engaged in clerical railway service, and from 1888 to 1892 he was secretary and treasurer of the National Coal Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thereafter he developed a chain of cigar stores, including the cigar counter in the Vonhof Hotel, and he made a distinctive success of this enterprise, in which he continued until 1909, when he assumed control of the Vonhof, as previously noted in this review. He is liberal and public-spirited as a citizen, progressive and alert as a business man, and in his various activities he has gained a specially wide circle of friends in both business and social relations. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a native son of Richland County who has "made good" in all of the relations of life, so that he fully. merits the popular confidence and esteem so uniformly accorded to him. GEORGE HAYDEN MARSH. The late George Hayden Marsh of Van Wert County, distinguished business man and benefactor, was born at Farmington, Connecticut, December 23, 1833, grandson of James Marsh and son of George Marsh. George Marsh was a clock maker by trade and made his first trip to Ohio selling clocks in 1833. From Athens, his first location, he moved to Dayton, where he continued the manufacture of clocks. He invested in lands in Northwestern Ohio, and was one of the men who laid out the town of Van Wert. In 1845, after a residence of a year or so in Connecticut, he returned to Ohio and settled in Van Wert. George Hayden Marsh was twelve years old when his parents came to Van Wert, which was still a pioneer town. He was educated in the public schools there, attended the Ohio University at Athens, and at the age of sixteen became assistant to a surveying corps. For a time he worked in the Gilbert Clock factory in Connecticut and at the age of twenty-one became clerk to the master mechanic of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway. After leaving the railroad he engaged in farming and stock raising, and for a number of years he was prominently identified with the manufacture of cooperage supplies. He owned the Eagle Stove Works at Van Wert, Latty and Belmore, Ohio. Mr. Marsh left an estate valued over four million dollars. In his lifetime he used much of his wealth for the public good. He built and equipped the Van Wert County Hospital, one of the most complete in the State of Ohio, and also the Van Wert County Young Women's Christian Association Building. His will provided for the building and maintenance of a Children's Industrial School, to educate and train dependent children of Van Wert and nearby counties. He died less than a year after this will was executed, whereupon, according to an Ohio law, this charitable provision became void. However, his only heir, Mrs. Katie Clymer, was completely in sympathy with the object of her father 's generosity, and she and Mr. Clymer have studiously carried out his desires to every detail. Van Wert is deeply indebted not only to the late George H. Marsh, but to his father, George Marsh, who provided sites in pioneer times for the building of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and also donated land for a system of parks. George H. Marsh, who died August 13, 1920, married Miss Hilinda Vance on November 26, 1862. She was born at Millersport, Ohio, June 13, 1844, and died September 19, 1900. The idea of building an orphan's home originated with Mrs. Marsh. Katie, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, was married to Arthur I. Clymer April 25, 1888. Mr. Clymer was born at Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, November 26, 1862, the son of William H. and Louisa M. (Ruhl) Clymer. In 1870, when he was eight years of age, his parents moved to Van Wert, where his father purchased the Van Wert Weekly Times. That paper was owned and edited by his father for sixteen years, and during the last six years of this time Arthur I. Clymer was associated with its publication. He had in the meantime completed his education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Clymer for many years have been students and patrons of music of the highest order. He attended the Cincinnati College of Music for a time, and was pipe organist for the First Presbyterian Church in Van Wert. He has served three years as trustee and three years as treasurer and is now a member of the building committee of this church, which has under way an edifice to cost approximately two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Clymer is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knight Templar Commandery. Mrs. Clymer was educated in the Van Wert High School and also studied music at the Cincinnati College of Music. Mr. Clymer for nineteen years was actively associated with Mr. Marsh in the management of his extensive business affairs. He and Mrs. Clymer are now living at the old Marsh homestead on East Ridge Road, adjoining the 16,000-acre tract on which the buildings of the Children's Home and Industrial School provided by the Marsh Foundation are located. The foundation is under the direction of three trustees, the executors of the will becoming the trustees. They were L. C. Morgan, H. L. Conn and O. W. Kerns. On the death of Mr. Kerns, D. L. Brumback, president of the Van Wert National Bank, was appointed in his stead. Mr. Morgan is now giving his entire time to the Marsh Foundation. FRED P. MCILYAR, now general superintendent of the Newton Steel Company at Newton Falls, has been identified as a skilled worked and executive with the iron and steel industry in Ohio since early manhood. He received his early training at Cambridge, in Guernsey County, where he grew up and where he represents an old family. He was born at Cambridge, January 12, 1875. His father, William H. H. Mcllyar, was born at Cambridge, in 1840, and served as a Union soldier four years in the Civil war. He came out with the rank of captain. After the war he engaged in the dry goods business at Cambridge. He died in 1908. He served two terms as postmaster, during both administrations of President Cleveland. He was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. His wife was Mary Richardson, who was born near Zanesville, Ohio, in 1840, and died at Cambridge in 1916. Of the three children, Fred P. is the youngest. The oldest, Clyde R., was for many years manager of the Guernsey plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, but is now practically retired, carrying on an insurance business at Cambridge. The second child, Florence, died in infancy. Fred P. Mcllyar was reared at Cambridge, attended the public schools there, graduating from high school in 1893, and during 1894 attended Duff 's Business College at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served four years as assistant postmaster at Cambridge under his father, and remained one year in the same office under his father 's successor. Leaving the postoffice, he entered the Guernsey plant of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 447 American Sheet and Tin Plate Company at Cambridge, and was with that industry a period of seventeen years, starting in at the bottom. Subscquently he mastered one of the skilled and highest paid trades in mills, and was hot mill foreman when he resigned. On November 17, 1919, he came to Newton Falls to act as superintendent of the Newton Steel Company, and since 1921 has been general superintendent as well as a director in the company. The plant offices of this industry are between the forks of the Mahoning River at the north end of Newton Falls. The business is one that has enjoyed almost uninterrupted activity for a number of years. There are between fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred employes. The chief product of the plant is full finished high grade automobile sheets, and some metal furniture is also made. The product is shipped all over the United States. Mr. Mcllyar is also a director of the First National Bank of Newton Falls, and is vice president of the Savings and Loan Association of that city. He is a republican in politics and a member of St. John's Episcopal Church at Cambridge. Since coming to Newton Falls he has acquired one of the good homes in the city on Church Street. He married at Cambridge, Ohio, December 24, 1898, Miss Roxie P. Arnold, whose parents were Dr. Guy L. and Hannah (Ross) Arnold. Her father until his death was one of the very able physicians at Cambridge. Mrs. Mcllyar is a graduate of the Cambridge High School. They have three children. Fred P., the oldest, is proprietor of a haberdashery and dry cleaning establishment at Newton Falls. Frank R. is one of the clerical force of the Newton Steel Company. The daughter, Ruth Ross, attends public schools at Newton Falls. GUY C. DITTENHAVER. One of the men of recognized prominence in Paulding County is Guy C. Dittenhaver, a native of Northwest Ohio, who has achieved prominence as a farm owner and operator, as a dealer in real estate, and as a man of varied affairs and responsibilities. He was born at Napoleon, in Henry County, Ohio, March 15, 1867, son of Jerome B. and Malinda A. (Parker) Dittenhaver. His parents were also born in Ohio, and his father who died in 1916, had been for some years in the drug business at Toledo. There were six children in the family, Guy C. being the fourth in age. Mr. Dittenhaver was reared and educated in Henry County, graduating from the Napoleon High School in 1886. He had a varied experience in his younger years. For four years he was a teacher in the public schools of Napoleon. He was also in the newspaper business as a stenographic reporter and correspondent on several papers. At onc time he was editor of the Wood County Democrat, published at Bowling Green. Mr. Dittenhaver has been a resident of Paulding about thirty years. He was early attracted to this region by the development and publicity given to one of the richest black land farming sections in the state. He early became interested in the farm lands himself, and during his many years experience in the real estate business he has bought and sold property in this section to the value of over a million dollars. Mr. Dittenhaver acquired about one thousand acres of black corn land, all of it very valuable and productive. He has been a leader in the agricultural development of this section, and has also interested himself in the improvement of his home city of Paulding. He has served as a member of the Carnegie Library Board, and while an enthusiastic democrat, he has exerted his influence for good government without aspirations for office for himself. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Paulding, and in Masonry is a member of the Toledo Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In 1895 Mr. Dittenhaver married Miss Alethea H. Leach, of Toledo, and it was soon after their marriage that they came to Paulding. They have two children, Frances R. and Harold A. Both are graduates of the Paulding High School and received college educations. GEORGE ANDERSON ELLIOTT. Endowed with a magnificent physical constitution and a well equipped mind, George Anderson Elliott persevered through a period of early years, without funds except those he earned to get an education, and has achieved a place among the leading attorneys of the Muskingum County Bar and is a man of property and distinction in Zanesville. He was born on a farm in Bern Township of Athens County, Ohio, August 24, 1866, son of Richard and Margaret Jane (Barton) Elliott. His mother was bon( in Athens County, and died in 1919, at the age of eighty-one. His father, a native of England, came to the United States with his parents when a child, and was educated here and spent his long life as a farmer. He was a Presbyterian. Richard Elliott died in 1913, at the age of seventy-eight. Fifth in a family of eight children, George A. Elliott spent his boyhood days on a farm, gaining thereby an interest in agriculture that has never left him. After the public schools of his immediate home locality he had to pay for all his advanced education. He worked his way through Ohio University at Athens, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1893. He was president of his graduating class and for two years was president of the Students' Athletic Association. Mr. Elliott taught school for a number of years, beginning in the country district of Athens County. He organized the high school at Nashport in Muskingum County, and was its superintendent four years. For seven years he was high school principal at New Lexington, Ohio, and one year was superintendent of schools at Mentor, Ohio. While teaching he pursued the study of law, and for several years studied under the direction of Judge John J. Adams, Dean of the Law School of Ohio State University. On coming to Zanesville he read law in the office of T. F. Thompson, and in 1910 was admitted to the bar. For five years he was associated in the practice with J. M. McHenry, and since 1918 has been senior member of the firm of Elliott & Secrest. They handle a general practice but have specialized in probate matters. In the law and in everything else he has undertaken,. Mr. Elliott has proved his efficiency. He is a man of affable and congenial char- acter, and is a very convincing public speaker. His surplus means he has used to cultivate an interesting and profitable hobby. He has a 300-acre dairy farm in Meigs Township, known as the Elliott Dairy Farm, one of the finest places in Muskingum County. It is thoroughly modern in equipment and operation. He has a herd of Jersey cows, Chester White hogs, and some of the finest animals of these classes in Southeastern Ohio are on his country place. To this business and recreation he gives his personal attention. Mr. Elliott has taken an active part in republican politics. He served for five years as secretary of the County Executive Committee and is now a candidate for the office of probate judge of Muskingum County. He is a member of the Exchange Club, New Lexington Lodge of Masons, Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Zanesville Council, Royal 448 - HISTORY OF OHIO and Select Masters, Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar and Amrou Grotto. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Zanesville he is teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class. He was identified prominently with every drive made in Muskingum County for war purposes. On March 7, 1893, at Nashport, Ohio, Mr. Elliott married Miss Mae Curtis, daughter of Enoch and Rebecca (Legge) Curtis. Her father, who died in 1913, at the age of eighty-two, was a Union soldier who served four years with the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war he became a stone contractor. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of fraternal organizations, including the Masonic Order and the Grand Army of the Republic. Rebecca Legge was a descendant of the pioneer Legge family of Licking and Muskingum counties. She died in 1923, at the age of eighty-four. Mrs. Elliott is an active worker in the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a member of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine of Jerusalem, the Daughters of Veterans and the Federated Woman's Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott became the parents of two children: Carl Clio, deceased; and Clyde Raymond, who is a law student in Ohio University. HENRY W. CHERRINGTON. In the fifteen years since his admission to the bar Henry W. Cherrington has achieved distinction in the practice of his profession, and also as a public official. He was formerly judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Gallia County. Judge Cherrington was born at Gallipolis, March 12, 1886, son of Samuel M. and Roena (Cooke) Cherrington, and grandson of William and Lucy Cherrington. The Cherringtons are an old and prominent family in Southern Ohio, coming out of old Virginia in 1802 and settling about four miles from Gallipolis the year Ohio was admitted to the Union. There have been six generations of the Cherringtons in Gallia County. The earlier members of the family were participants in the Revolutionary war. The Cooke family was identified with the very early settlement of Ohio around Marietta. i Mrs. Roena (Cooke) Cherrington, who died in 1920, was a direct descendant of Gen. Israel Putman of Connecticut. Samuel M. Cherrington, who died in 1918, was for many years engaged in the insurance and real estate business at Gallipolis, and while much interested in public affairs, was never an office holder. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Of his three children Henry W. is the oldest. Edwin is unmarried, and the youngest son, William P., married Dorothy Corkran, and have two children, named Henry W. and James P. Henry W. Cherrington graduated from the Gallipolis High School in 1902, took an academic and commercial course in Marietta College, and for several years while employed as a court stenographer studied law under Hollis Johnston of Gallipolis. He was admitted to the bar in 1908, and since then has been a practicing attorney save for the time devoted to public office. From 1910 to 1912 he served as president of the City Council of Gallipolis. From 1912 to 1914 he was director of public safety of the City of Gallipolis. Mr. Cherrington in 1914 was elected prosecuting attorney of Gallia County, and by reelection held that office until 1920, having this official responsibility during the World war when many extra duties devolved upon him. He also acted as a member of the Advisory Council of the Local Draft Board during the war. In 1920 he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but subsequently resigned his place on the bench to engage in private practice. Judge Cherrington married at Montgomery, West Virginia, in April, 1911, Miss Vivian Ayers, daughter of John L. and Ella Ayers. Her father, who died in 1918, was a tailor by trade, was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Methodist Church. Mrs. Cherrington has one sister, Miss Mina. The two children of Judge and Mrs. Cherrington. are William P. and Henrietta. The family are members of the Episcopal Church. Judge Cherrington is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Elks and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He belongs to the Gallia County Bar Society. W. LEE COTTER. During recent years manufacturers, producers and jobbers of judgment and farsightedness have reached the conclusion that it is unnecessary for them to maintain such a great amount of floor space for their surplus stocks. They have found that it is more economical to place such stocks in a storage warehouse, where they are cared for until sold, at which time the goods are shipped directly from the warehouse to the purchaser. Thus it is that the warehouse has come to be an institution of accepted importance in the commercial and industrial world. In Ohio what is probably the largest operating company in existence of this nature is the W. Lee Cotter Warehouse Company, of which W. Lee Cotter is the president. In 1882 the late C. D. Cotter, father of W. Lee Cotter, started in the transfer business at Mansfield, his equipment being a one-horse wagon. Gradually his business and equipment developed and grew, and in 1902 father and son formed a partnership and the business continued to flourish and thrive. In 1913 the Cotter Transfer and Storage Company was incorporated. Later the son formed the W. Lee Cotter Transfer and Storage Company, practically taking over the Union Transfer and Storage Company of Akron. In 1923 it was decided that the time had come for a merger of the three companies, and this was effected in February, when there was incorporated for $1,000,000, under the state laws of Ohio, the W. Lee Cotter Warehouse Company, with the following officials: W. Lee Cotter, president; E. A. Cotter, vice president ; A. F. Porter, secretary; G. B. Willis, treasurer; and Henry G. Brunner, sales manager, the Board of Directors being: W. Lee Cotter, E. A. Cotter, A. F. Porter, G. B. Willis, Henry G. Brunner, J. A. Spence, E. 0. Townsend, E. F. Wickwire, E. B. Cappeller and F. M. Bushnell, all of Mansfield, Ohio, and L. B. Rainey, of Beaver, Pennsylvania. Mr. Porter, who formerly served as manager of the Mansfield Company, was promoted to the post of district manager. The Columbus interests are being managed by E. B. Brown, and the Akron interests by H. E. Fox, while Fred Bair, who was superintendent at Mansfield, was promoted to manager of the Mansfield holdings of the organization. The organization of the new company completed a transaction that gives the enterprise 700,000 square feet of warehouse space. MOUNT VERNON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Among the smaller communities of Ohio one of the first to attempt to build up a library for general use was Mount Vernon. As early as 1816 the Mount Vernon Library Society collected volumes. The society was a stock company. Upon its disorganization the volumes were distributed among the stockholders. In 1833 the Mount Vernon Lyceum was organized and incorporated, in 1834 establishing a library of several hundred volumes. In 1856 Reverend Doctor HISTORY OF OHIO - 449 Meunscher formed a new Mount Vernon Library Society, which flourished until 1864. Other attempts at establishing circulating libraries were made in the succeeding years. In 1884 a library committee was appointed by the City Council and acquired the old collections of books from the previous libraries and others by gifts and donations. The members of this committee were Mr. Fairchild, president; H. A. Curtis, secretary, and Messrs. Ewalt, McIntyre, Holbrook and Larimore. The old United Presbyterian Church at the corner of Sugar and Main streets was purchased and transformed into a library. In December, 1887, the books were catalogued and in June, 1888, Miss Jennie E. Calville was appointed librarian at $40 a month. She had a number of successors. The present librarian is Miss Ada Cooper, who has been with the library for the past six years. She has had a broad experience in library work and formerly lived in the states of Virginia and Alabama. In 1884 the library building and equipment was valued at $5,500, and at that time books to the value of $1,500 were purchased. One of the valuable features of the library collection today is the file of the Mount Vernon Banner, which was donated in 1884 by L. Harper, and contains the complete list of issues of that paper up to that time. GEORGE FRANKLIN DONART is head of a prosperous business in real estate and loans at Ottawa, and is a member of an old and prominent family of Northwest Ohio. He was born July 17, 1884, son of George W. and Celeste (Hertzog) Donart. His father was a native of Mercer County, Ohio, and his mother, of Van Wert County. His grandfather, Joshua Donart, developed a farm from the wilderness in Mercer County. Joshua Donart was a Union soldier in the Civil war. George W. Donart was born September 24, 1848, and in early life learned the carpenter's trade. He lived for a time in Tennessee, where with his son 0. W. he attended the law department of Cumberland University. Though admitted to the bar, he never practiced it as a profession. He was a general merchant and miller at Mendon, Ohio, and during Cleveland's administration he was postmaster there for four years. He also became interested in oil production, and drilled the first well in the old field of Mercer County. He was a devout Methodist, was superintendent of the Sunday school, and a democrat in politics. He was also affiliated with the Odd Fellows and Red Men fraternities. George W. Donart died at Pierce City, Missouri, October 23, 1913. His widow is still living there. They had seven children: Orin W., who graduated in law at Cumberland University at the same time with his father, and for many years has been a prominent attorney at Paulding, and also interested in the real estate business with his brother George; Clement F., who was educated at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and is now in business at Van Wert, Ohio; Katherine L., a composer and writer of music, wife of Harry S. Webster, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Susan Julia, wife of Dr. J. Nicolay, of Pierce City, Missouri; George F.; Nettie G., wife of Dan Turner, of Koboka, Missouri; Nellie L., wife of Charles Lecompe, postmaster of Pierce City, Missouri. There was also another child, Mary J., who died in infancy. George Franklin Donart was reared in Mercer County until the age of seven, when he went to Tennessee with his parents. He was educated there, attended the Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Missouri, finishing a business course, and then located at Paulding, Ohio, where he attended high school. For a time he was a student in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and is widely known for his interesting work as a cartoonist. He was associated with his brother at Paulding in the real estate business, and subsequently the brothers established their office at Ottawa on October 16, 1912. On March 27, 1914, Mr. Donart bought out his brother 's interest and has since continued a splendid business service in his line at Ottawa. On December 25, 1914, he married Miss Alice Mildred Ogan, of Ottawa. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Donart is present master of Ottawa Lodge No. 325, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is a Royal Arch and 433 uncil Degrce Mason, being past thrice illustrious master of the Council, and is a member of the Eastern Star. He is a democrat in politics. On August 12, 1907, he enlisted as a private in Company B of the Ohio National Guard, and served until discharged in 1910. MILBURN F. BOONE, the youngest mayor ever elected at Manchester, is a citizen and business man whose enterprise is reflected in a number of ways in that community of Ohio. He is a farmer, tobacco grower and school man, and his qualifications for leadership have been frequently recognized in Adams County. Mr. Boone was born near Manchester, April 13, 1894, son of Elmer and Maude (Martin) Boone, well known farmers of the county. Mr. Boone's grandfather at one time owned all the land including the site of the City of Maysville, Kentucky. This branch of the Boone family is of the same stock as that which produced the great explorer, Daniel Boone. Incidentally it might be mentioned that the wife of the late Gen. Fred Funston was also a descendant of Daniel Boone. Milburn F. Boone was educated in public schools at Manchester, and continued his training in Wilmington College and Miami University. For the past ten years of his life he has been teaching school in Spriggs Township, doing that work in connection with his farming and other interests. He owns one of the most productive farms in Southern Ohio, a property of 105 acres. His chief money crop is white burley tobacco. During the Mexican border troubles in 1916-17 Mr. Boone served as a clerk in the adjutant-general's office at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Mr. Boone was elected mayor of Manchester for the term 1924-26, and was chosen on a platform of law enforcement and has carried out his pledges to the complete satisfaction of law abiding citizens. He is a republican and a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. Boone married at Maysville, Kentucky, March 31, 1917, Miss Carrie Flesher, daughter of Flavius and Nancy (Congrove) Flesher. Her father, now deceased, came from Virginia. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Boone are Helen and Mildred. WILLIAM JACOB SHEPARD, M. D. After graduating from medical college Doctor Shepard practiced for a time at Columbus, but for the past seven years has been one of the able physicians and surgeons located in the City of Bellaire. He is a man of unusual qualifications in his profession, an ardent sportsman, and has served as a medical officer in the Ohio National Guard. Doctor Shepard was born at Woodsfield, in Monroe County, Ohio, April 20, 1884. His father, Joseph Alonzo Shepard, who was born near Capetina, in Belmont County, Ohio, was a railroad man, later a farmer, and for several years in the Ohio State Highway Department. He married Catherine Caroline Christner, and they now live at Key, Ohio. He