50 - HISTORY John Irey, a brother of Mrs. Davis, served in the command of General La Fayette in the war of the Revolution. William P. Thew and Susan Davis were married in Marion County, where she died at the age of thirty-two, her son Richard being then four years of age. William P. Thew was a farmer in Marion County about sixty-five years, and died there in the late '80s. Captain Richard Thew grew up on the home farm, attended the public schools of that locality, and his deep affection for his father led him to remain at home until he was twenty-six years of age. He then found an opportunity for the development of his exceptional mechanical ability as an employe of a threshing machine factory at Akron, Ohio. He was there a year, and then bought an interest in a ,hardware and machinery business at Caledonia, Marion County, and conducted it fourteen years. While at Caledonia he engaged in boat building, building a steamer to carry freight on Lake Erie, known as the William P. Thew, and this boat operated out of Lorain in the iron ore carrying trade for some years. About that time Captain Thew became interested in the development of harvesting and binding machinery, and in 1899 moved to Cleveland, where he gave much attention to the developing and testing of machinery for the handling of iron ore. He established a plant at Lorain, and manufactured various kinds of machinery for the large companies. Subsequently he organized the Thew Automatic Shovel Company, becoming its vice president and manager, and under his personal guidance this business grew from a small plant employing about fifty men to an immense industry with an output known all over the world. Captain Thew for twenty-three years was active in the management of this business, finally retiring to divide his time between his beautiful home at 1422 West Erie Street, Lorain, and his winter home in Tulare County, California. Captain Thew organized and was vice president and manager of the Lorain Casting Company, was president of the Lorain Banking Company, and in the development of modern harvesting machinery it should be recorded that he aided materially in the development of the first efficient knotter head used in the grain binding operatives of harvesting machines. Captain Thew owned an estate of 500 acres, known as Sunny Cove, in Tulare County, California, with 165 acres devoted to the growing of oranges, grape fruit and other citrus products. He made a trip to Alaska in 1901, and became interested in some mining ventures in the Nome district. Captain Thew, who was a staunch republican, was president of the Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Lorain, and was a member of the Lorain Country Club. On October 14, 1873, he married Miss Sarah Priscilla Lawrence, who was born and reared in Marion County, Ohio, daughter of Richard and Sarah Lawrence, her father being a minister of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Thew died July 6, 1914. She was the mother of three daughters. Edna Lawrence, the oldest, was active in charitable work in Cleveland, and died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. The second daughter, Susan Priscilla, spends much of her time in outdoor pursuits at the home in Tulare County, California. Carrie Belle is the wife of James R. Fauver, of Tulare County. Captain Thew on November 28, 1918, married Mrs. Anna L. (Pheley) Lawrence, widow of Schuyler Lawrence, a brother of the captain's first wife. Mrs. Thew was born and reared in the State of New York. WILLIAM ALFRED WALLS, superintendent of schools of the City of Kent, has made education his life work, and has achieved a notable record as a teacher and school administrator. He was born at Ruraldale, Ohio, September 10, 1882, son of James and Mary E. (Elliott) Walls. His father was born in England and his mother at Ironton, Ohio. They were married at Steubenville. James Walls spent his active career as a Methodist minister. William A. Walls was liberally educated, graduating with his Bachelor 's degree from Mt. Union College at Alliance, Ohio. He received the Master's degree at Columbia University in 1913, and has also done graduate work at the University of Chicago. Mr. Walls took up teaching before he had finished his education, and he came to Kent in 1907 as principal of the high school. He filled that office until 1910, and for five years, from 1910 to 1915, was superintendent of the Kent City schools. He was next located at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, as city superintendent of the public schools from 1915 to 1919. In the last year of the World war Mr. Walls became one of the Young Men's Christian Association workers, and was assigned to duty with the Seventy-ninth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. He received his honorable discharge in July, 1919, and from November, 1919, until June, 1920, was employed by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. In 1920 Mr. Walls was called back to Kent as superintendent of the public schools, and in the spring of 1923 was reelected for another three-year term. The city drew heavily upon his experience and his knowledge of school architecture in the construction of the magnificent Roosevelt High School Building, completed in 1922. This is one of the finest high school buildings in the state, containing a large auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria and thirty classrooms. Mr. Walls has interested himself in every phase of educational work. He teaches a college class of young people in the Methodist Church, and is a local Methodist minister. He has served as chairman of the finance and estimating committee of the church, and has been a lay delegate to the annual conference and also a delegate to the General Conference. He is an independent in politics, and is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter at Kent and the Knights Templar Commandery at Akron, and he organized and was the first president of the Rotary Club. He is a member of the chamber of commerce, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association. He belongs to the superintendent 's section of the National Educational Association, the national society for the study of education. He is unmarried, and socially is a member of the Silver Lake Country Club and Wranglers Club. EDWARD L. TAYLOR, JR. Representing two of the older families in Franklin County, the Taylors and Livingstons, Edward L. Taylor, Jr., in his work as a lawyer at the Columbus bar through a third of a century, with eight years in Congress as representative of-the Twelfth Ohio District; has added some important new distinctions to the worthy family tradition in Ohio. Mr. Taylor is general counsel for one of the largest oil refining and distributing com panies in the country, the Pure Oil Company. The history of the Taylor family is traced back in unbroken line to the early years of the seventeenth century. About 1612 a branch of the family moved from Scotland to the north of Ireland. In 1722 Matthew Taylor came to America and settled among other Scotch-Irish people in the colony at Derry, New Hampshire. After the close of the French and English war in 1763, when the English dominion was extended over Canada, a number of pioneers from the original English colonies moved into the New English territory. Matthew Taylor, a son of the HISTORY OF OHIO - 51 original settler Matthew, about 1764, with his wife and children, settled in Nova Scotia. One of the children was Robert Taylor, who was born in 1759. He grew up at Truro, Nova Scotia, where in 1781 he married Mehetabel Wilson. Robert Taylor in 1806 brought his family to Ohio, and after two years at Chillicothe moved • to Franklin County and in 1807 built a house on the west bank of Walnut Creek in what is now Truro Township. This was the first frame house in that part of the country. He lived there until his death in 1828. Truro Township in Franklin County was named for the old community of Nova Scotia from which the Taylor family came. David Taylor, a son of Robert Taylor, was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, July 24, 1801, and he grew up at the old homestead in Franklin County. In 1826 he married Nancy T. Nelson, and then established a home near his father's old place and in 1858 moved to the City of Columbus, where he lived until his death in 1889. The third wife of David Taylor was Margaret Livingston. They were married in May, 1836. She was the oldest daughter of Judge Edward Chinn Livingston, and a granddaughter of Col. James Livingston. Col. James Livingston was born in New York State, was a lawyer by profession, and was practicing law in Quebec when the Revolutionary war began. He left Canada and, returning to his native state, became a colonel in the Continental line and served in the Quebec expedition under Gen. Richard Montgomery. It was at his suggestion that the Township of Montgomery in Franklin County was so named. Colonel Livingston after the war, as one of the patriots who had returned from Canada to espouse the cause of independence, was given a grant of land in what was known as the "refugee" tract in Ohio, then the Northwest Territory. His land was in Franklin County and included a portion of the present City of Columbus. The Livingston farm embraced the present Livingston Park as well as additional land lying along Livingston Avenue which was named for Judge Edward C. Livingston, who came to Ohio in 1800. He was a graduate of Union College, New York, and was an able lawyer, but never active in politics, though he was associate judge in Franklin County from 1821 to 1829. His home was in that section where the original Livingston farm was located, and on the west bank of Alum Creek. Of the same New York State family were Philip and Robert Livingston, signers of the Declaration of Independence. Edward L. Taylor, Sr., second son of David and Margaret (Livingston) Taylor, was born in Franklin County, March 20, 1839, and was graduated from Miami University in 1860. He began the study of law in Columbus, and when the Civil war broke out he served as a private in a volunteer company, and in 1862 raised the company and was commissioned an officer of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Infantry. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, but at its close was incapacitated for further duty and resigned his commission. He was admitted to the bar in 1862, and for a great many years was one of the strong and able lawyers of the capital city. He was a staunch republican, but never consented to be a candidate for any important political office. On July 14, 1864, he married Catherine Noble Myers, a granddaughter of Col. John Noble of Franklin County. Edward L. Taylor, Jr., third son of Edward L. Taylor, was one of the five children of his parents, was born in Columbus, August 10, 1869, and was reared in that city. He graduated from the Columbus High School in 1887 and studied law in his father's office. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1891, and for a number of years was associated with his father and his brother in law practice. In the general election of 1899 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, defeating Albert Lee Thurman, a grandson of the democratic statesman, Allen E. Thurman. He was reelected in 1901 and in the fall of 1904 was elected to represent the Twelfth Ohio District in the Fifty-ninth Congress, taking his seat March 4, 1905. He was reelected for three successive terms, serving the Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses. He was regarded as one of the ablest members of the Ohio delegation in Congress during the early years of the present century, and he was elevated to membership on the appropriation committee. In 1912 he was defeated for reelection, and since then has devoted his time and abilities to his law practice. His law firm handled the organization of the Pure Oil Company, and in 1921 Mr. Taylor, in association with Mr. A. C. Harvey, became general counsel for the corporation. Within a few years this organization has expanded its facilities until it is one of the greatest oil producing and oil refining concerns in the world. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has attained his thirty-third, supreme honorary; degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and was potentate of the Columbus Shrine in 1908-1909. He is a member of the Columbus Club. On January 4, 1894, he married Miss Marie Agnes Firestone, of Columbus. Her father, the late Clinton D. Firestone, was for many years president of the Columbus Buggy Company, a great establishment known for many years as the carriage and vehicle factory, and later a pioneer establishment for the manufacture of automobiles. CHARLES WELLS NEELY. To the credit of this well known and popular citizen of Columbus is a record of half a century of continuous service in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the last thirty-one years of his service having been in the capacity of passenger-train conductor on the Panhandle division, between Pittsburgh and Columbus. Age limitations set by this great railroad corporation led to the retirement of Mr. Neely early in the year 1924, under the provisions of the retirement and pension system of the Pennsylvania lines, and on the 1st of March, 1924, his name was placed on the honor roll of the corporation which he has served so long, faithfully and efficiently, his being secure place in the confidence and good will of officers, employes and patrons of the great railway system. He has been active in the councils and work of the Order of Railroad Conductors, and also in connection with the voluntary relief system of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Neely was born at Paris, Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 27, .1858, and is a son of Robert and Aleatha (Owens) Neely. He is a scion of one of the sterling old Scotch-Irish families that have for many generations been established in Western Pennsylvania. His father became a successful general merchant at Burgettstown, Washington County, and it was there that the subject of this review gained the greater part of his early education, by attending the public schools of the period. At the age of fourteen years Mr. Neely initiated his association with the Pennsylvania Railroad by assuming the dignified prerogatives of water-boy at Burgettstown, his function being to carry water for the quenching of the thirst of laborers on the Pittsburgh division. His advancement in the fleeting years was worthily won through loyalty and efficiency, and his connection with the Pennsylvania continued without interruption until his final retirement in March, 1924. From the position of water-boy he was advanced to that of section workman, in which capacity he worked two years, and on the 4th of June, 1877, he was made a freight 52 - HISTORY OF OHIO brakeman. His promotion thereafter was consecutive, and finally, on the 16th of January, 1893, he was assigned to the position of passenger conductor on the Panhandle division. It was about this time that he established his home in Columbus, and he continued in this service until his final retirement. A fine courtesy, becoming dignity and poise, and unvarying effort to meet the requirement of the traveling public made Mr. Neely the ideal passenger conductor, and in connection with his official service he won hosts of loyal friends, including many men of prominence and influence. His brother, James D., who died May 17, 1922, was for many years station master at the Columbus Union Station. His brother John L. is traffic manager for a large industrial corporation in the City of Pittsburgh, and Ernest, the youngest of the brothers, is connected with one of the city departments of Pittsburgh. The venerable mother of Mr. Neely has long survived her husband and now, at the age of ninety-one years (1924), she maintains her home in Columbus, with alert mind and much of physical vitality, and with the gracious cheerfulness that makes her appreciation of life and its meaning. In Columbus, on the 12th of January, 1887, Mr. Neely was united in marriage to Miss Melissa Coffey, who was born and reared at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of that section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Neely have a beautiful home at 77 East Northwood Avenue, the modern house having been erected by them. Here they delight to extend welcome and hospitality to their many friends, including the young folk as well as those of their own generation. PETER W. EIGNER, president of the Kent National Bank, president of the Kent Building Company and chairman of the Platting and Planning Commission of Kent, was born near Elyria, Ohio, on February 1, 1868, of German parentage, his mother being Kresens (D 'Meister) Eigner, of Munich, Germany, and his father, Peter W. Eigner, a former member of the family of that well known name of the same city. On August 15, 1889, he married Mary L. Park, of Montrose, Pennsylvania, daughter of John J. and Julia (McCahill) Park. Mr. and Mrs. Eigner have two children, Park W. and Kresens Lucile, both living in Kent. The daughter married John Benjamin Gillespie, Jr., and they have one son, John Benjamin Gillespie III. Mr. Eigner 's earlier business experience was gained through his connection with the jewelry business, with which he was engaged for many years in Kent. He is perhaps better known to the jewelry fraternity at large through his contributions of a literary character to the technical branches of that business. Following his high school education in Elyria, Ohio, he acquired a highly technical education at an European horological institute located at Dresden, Germany. His adventure in the jewelry field and the watchmaking business was largely the result of this technical education so derived. Mr. Eigner is the fourth president of the Kent National Bank following the presidency of three generations of the Kent family, the first being Zenas Kent, who died in 1865; the second, Marvin Kent, who held this post from 1865 until his death in 1908, and the third, William Stewart Kent, who filled this position from 1908 until his death in January, 1923. This bank is one of the oldest banks in the Western Reserve, having been founded in 1849. It was first named the Franklin Bank of Portage County. In 1865 it was incorporated into a national bank, and since that time has been operated under a national charter. This bank has a capital of $100,000 and de posits of over $1,700,000. The other officers at the present time are John G. Getz, vice president; G. J. Stauffer, cashier, and C. E. Hinds, assistant cashier. WILLIAM EMORY SMYSER has been head of the English department in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware for over twenty years. Many of the alumni of this period are indebted to him for the cultivation of literary tastes and intimate acquaintance with the masterpieces of English literature. For a number of years Mr. Smyser has also been one of the administrative officers of the university, having held the post of dean since the World war. He was also a prominent educational leader in college war work. He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, September 17, 1866, son of Rev. Martin L. and Lydia Ann (Hoffman) Smyser. The Smysers came to the United States from Germany in 1731, when Matthias Smyser, the founder of the family in America, settled in York County, Pennsylvania. Professor Smyser 's great-grandfather was Jacob Smyser, and his grandfather was John Jacob Smyser, who married Elizabeth Diehl. On the maternal side Professor Smyser is a descendant of William Hoffman, who came to the United States in 1765 from Germany. Locating on Gunpowder Falls, he built there the first paper mill and manufactured the first paper in Maryland. The Hoffmans have been interested in paper manufacture there ever since until the present generation. The maternal grandfather of Professor Smyser was William H. Hoffman, a grandson of the pioneer paper mill owner, and who as a member of the Maryland Legislature during the Civil war and later of the Maryland Constitutional Convention contributed a potent influence in preventing the secession of Maryland from the Federal Union and outlawing slavery from the state. Lydia Hoffman was born on the old homestead where her father, her grandfather and her son were likewise born. Rev. Martin L. Smyser was a native of Pennsylvania, early entered the ministry of the Methodist Church, and did most of his work in Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He was pastor of churches at Bellefonte, Berwick, Bloomsburg, Williamsport and Chambersburg, and was superintendent of the Danville and Altoona districts. William Emory Smyser was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania, attending school where his father was located as pastor: He did some preparatory work in Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and then entered Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1889, and received his Master of Arts degree in 1892. Graduate work in Johns Hopkins University during 1890-91 was credited toward his Master degree at Wesleyan. The honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him by the University of Chattanooga. in 1916. Professor Smyser 's record as a teacher covers a period of over thirty years. He was teacher of Latin in Dickinson Seminary in Pennsylvania during 1889- 1890; instructor of English in Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in 1891-1892; professor of English at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, from 1892 to 1900, and since 1900 has been professor of English in Ohio Wesleyan University. He acted as registrar of the university from 1904 to 1920, and since 1917 has been dean of the college. For several summer sessions he was professor of English at Ohio State University. Dean Smyser was director of the Ohio Students' War Service campaign in the summer of 1918, and was assistant educational director of the Sixth District Students' Army Training Corps during the months of October and November, 1918. Doctor HISTORY OF OHIO - 53 Smyser is author of " Spiritual Truth in the Poetry of Tennyson," published in 1906, and has contributed a number of essays and literary criticisms to magazines and educational publications. He has been lecturer in many teachers institutes. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association of University Professors; and is a Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. June 24, 1890, Doctor Smyser married Elizabeth Arbuckle Craig, of Middletown, Connecticut, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Arbuckle) Craig. Her parents were married in Scotland, and on coming to the United States located at Middletown, where her father was in the marble and granite monumental business. Doctor and Mrs. Smyser have four children, William Craig, Dorothy Elizabeth, Hamilton Martin and Margaret Lydia. William Craig was in the World war, being one of the Ohio Wesleyan students selected for service in the Hospital Unit organized by Dr. Floyd Miller at Delaware, which became a part of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Field Hospital and performed some of the most exacting service required of any of the field hospitals in France during the last year of the war. A more complete account of this hospital unit is given in the sketch of Dr. Floyd Miller elsewhere in this publication. William Craig Smyser is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, and is now an instructor in Ohio State University. He married Frances Holt, a native of London, Ohio. WILLIAM HAMEL DIAL for nearly half a century was an impressive figure in the business life of Washington Court House. His activities were in the field of real estate, insurance and banking, and closely allied him with the progressive enterprises designed to improve and promote the welfare of the entire locality. He was born in Clermont County, Ohio, September 26, 1847, son of Joseph S. and Lucina (Weaver) Dial. His father died in 1896 and his mother, in 1904. Mr. Dial grew up in Southern Ohio, attending common schools at Clermont until the age of twelve, and finished his education in a private school at Amelia, Ohio, and in a commercial college at Cincinnati. His career after leaving school brought him into the service of William Summers & Company at Cincinnati, but in 1873 he was appointed manager of a large firm in Clermont County. Leaving that, in February, 1875, he located at Washington Court House, and through all the years following was identified more or less actively with the real estate, insurance and loan business. This business is now conducted by the firm W. H. Dial & Son, his son being the surviving member. Mr. Dial was one of the founders and the vice president of the Washington Court House Savings Bank, which has a capital of $50,000 and resources of nearly $1,000,000. He was the first president of the Washington Court House Board of Trade, a member of the Washington Court House Improvement Company, and he laid out the Millwood addition to the town. He helped found the Peoples Loan & Building Company, and was one of the founders of the new Citizens Phone Company. Mr. Dial was a member of the Washington Automobile and the Fish and Game clubs. He was a trustee of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, was a democrat, and for two terms township clerk. Fraternally he was affiliated with Masonic Lodge No. 107, Royal Arch Chapter No. 103, Fayette Council No. 100, a past commander of Garfield Commandery, Knights Templar, and a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Consistory, and for over twenty years held the office of treasurer in various Masonic bodies. Mr. Dial married Miss Susan T. Foster at Williamsburg, 'Ohio. She died at Washington Court House, July 14, 1909. By this marriage there were three children: Sarah F.; Georgie May, who died in 1908; and John F., who was born in 1880, and is now in the real estate and loan business. John F. married Ruth Stuckey, of Washington Court House, in 1911, and they have a son, William Richard, who is a pupil in the Washington Court House grade schools and has shown decided talent in music and in mechanics. Mr. W. H. Dial married on October 12, 1912, Georgia Holcomb for his second wife. She was educated in common schools in Perry County, and was born October 21, 1861. She is active in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member of the Eastern Star. FREDERICK ANDREW HINKEL. Among successful men whose achievements seem to proceed directly out of individual force of character and persistent work and ambition, Frederick A. Hinkel, of Hamilton, deserves particular mention. Mr. Hinkel is a prosperous attorney, was in educational work for some years, and he gained his own education and training for life entirely through his own efforts and earnings. He was born in Darrtown, in Butler County, Ohio, December 4, 1886, son of Frederick A. and Mary Etta (Watt) Hinkel, his mother being a daughter of Alexander and Caroline Watt, whose ancestors settled in the State of New Jersey previous to the American Revolution. Frederick A. Hinkel, Sr. was a Butler County farmer; son of Charles Hinkel, a Mexican war veteran, and Caroline Hinkel, daughter of Capt. Michael Baldwin of Trenton. He served as justice of peace of Milford Township. He died when his son Frederick, Jr., was only two years old. The widow was left almost penniless, and after a brave struggle reared her four young sons, Walter, William, Frank and Frederick A. The son Frank is now deceased. Frederick A. Hinkel lived with his mother in the rural districts at Darrtown and attended for eight full terms the common schools there. He passed the Boxwell examination which entitled him to free tuition in any public high school of the state. Darrtown had no high school, nor was there any within a radius of six miles. This forced him to seek further training elsewhere. He worked on farms for wages, and when he was fifteen he left home with $78. At Lebanon, Ohio, he entered the university, taking courses corresponding to the high school curriculum, and he continued in college by earning his living as a waiter and as clerk at the St. Clair Hotel. He traveled in summer for the university, soliciting students and speaking at teachers' institutes. Having done very satisfactory work at Lebanon, he secured a common school teacher 's certificate in Butler County, and at the age of eighteen was employed to teach the primary room of the five grades of the Darrtown schools, where he himself had received his first instruction. He taught there a year, and then, returning to Lebanon, began the course leading to the degree Bachelor of Philosophy. However, he did not remain consecutively, since he stopped a intervals to earn more money. He was hired to finish out a three months' term of school near Blanchester, Ohio, a country school remote from town and which had been abandoned by several other teachers unable to control the pupils. It was there that Mr. Hinkel earned a reputation as an able executive, since he completed the term without struggle and two of his pupils passed the Patterson examination. After that he came to Hamilton and, taking the high school examinations, secured a high school certificate and was then elected superintendent of public schools of 54 - HISTORY OF OHIO Somerville, Ohio. He was then only twenty years of age, and while there he was the cause of reestablishing the second grade high school and his policies led later to the enlargement of the district, the erection of a new school building and the establishing of a first grade district. He acted as superintendent at Somerville two years. At the end of the third year he returned to the Lebanon University, pursuing the summer course in 1909 and at the end obtaining the degree Bachelor of Philosophy. During the summer of 1910 he was a special student in Ohio State University, and in the fall of that year was elected superintendent of schools of Israel Township in Preble County, including the charge of the high school at Morning Sun. In the district he had under his supervision some fifteen teachers. He was there two years, and at the end of the first year attended a summer session of Miami University, and in the fall of 1912 returned to Miami University and in the spring of 1913 was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Hinkel in 1919 was granted a state life high school certificate, qualifying him through life to hold any position in the public school system of Ohio. In November, 1913, Mr. Hinkel was elected mayor of the City of Hamilton. He was then twenty-six years of age, the youngest mayor the city has ever had. He gave a clean and capable administration of two years, having had charge of the city following the disastrous flood of 1913, which included the rehabilitation work of the city. As mayor he was a staunch supporter of the policies which led to the establishment of the Miami Valley Conservancy district. At the end of his term he ceased political activity and moved with his family to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he took up the study of law in the Harvard Law School. He was in Harvard from 1916 to 1918, and in the fall of 1918 entered the Cincinnati Law School, taking special work in Constitutional Law under Hon. Judson Harmon. Mr. Hinkel was admitted to the Ohio bar in June, 1919, and during the past five years has enjoyed an exceptionally successful career as a practicing attorney at Hamilton. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Harvard Law School Association and belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the largest of college fraternities, and the Phi Delta Kappa. While at Miami University he was a member of the debating team which defeated Denison University that year, and in recognition of his debating ability he was elected a member of the Tau Pappa Alpha oratorical fraternity. He is president of the congregation of the United Presbyterian Church of Hamilton, one of the largest and most influential congregations in the county. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. June 24, 1915, Mr. Hinkel married Miss Lena R Magaw, of Morning Sun, Ohio, daughter of James A. and Grizella C. Magaw. Mrs. Hinkel ,s ancestors, the Magaws, came from South Carolina about one hundred years ago, moving to the country northwest of Ohio River as a protest against the institution of slavery. Her father was an Ohio soldier in the Civil war, and for a number of years before his death was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Hinkel since her marriage has been identified with the social life of Hamilton, and has also exerted an active influence for educational improvement there. She and Mr. Hinkel have three children: James Magaw, born in 1916; Mary Kathryn, born in 1920, and Marjorie Lee, born in 1923. SAMUEL C. BISSLER, proprietor of a furniture store and undertaking business at 12-14 East Main Street at. Kent, is a well known citizen of Portage County, and nearly all his business career has been passed in that section of the state. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, November 20, 1871, son of Martin and Louisa (Wise) Bissler, His parents were natives of Germany, and his grandfathers, John Bissler and Joseph Wise, brought their families to Ohio in early days. Martin Bissler after his marriage lived on a farm east of Hartville, in Stark County, but in 1873 moved to Suffield Township, Portage County, where he and his wife bought farms of sixty and forty-five acres, a mile apart, both in the Bissler name. Martin Bissler died there in 1885, and his widow survived until April 1, 1905, Their children were : Katherine, of Kent, widow of Valentine May; Jacob and John, both of Brimfield Township; Barney, of Suffield Township ; Charles, of Akron; Samuel C.; and one daughter and three sons now deceased. Samuel C. Bissler, the youngest son of the family, grew up on the farm in Portage County, attended the district schools, and at the age of seventeen he began his career of work, though he remained at home assisting on the home place for several years. At the age of twenty he moved to Kent, where he was employed as a teamster and also did some farming, and in October, 1892, became an employe of I. L. Herriff in the furniture and undertaking business. He was identified with the Herriff establishment for twenty-one years, assuming an increasing share of responsibilities in the management of business. Finally he traded his town property for a 162-acre farm in Brimfield Township, and personally conducted the farm for eighteen months. Selling out, he returned to Kent with the purpose of reengaging as a partner of Mr. Herriff. Shortly afterward Mr. Herriff fell ill and died a few years later. Soon after that Mr. Bissler bought the Burt Eckert livery business and entered into the undertaking business, and the following February he disposed of the livery interests and has since continued in business as a furniture dealer and funeral director. He has one of the successful business undertakings of his home town. On November 8, 1893, Mr. Bissler married Miss Clara Keener, who was born in Suffield Township of Portage County, daughter of Godfried Keener, a native of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Bissler have four children, Ira S., Thelma Marie, Louise and Robert. Ira S., now associated with his father in business, married Mary Armstrong and has two sons, named Jerry and Dick. Thelma Marie is the wife of Rexford L. Sampsell, of Kent. Mr. Bissler has served two terms on the City Council of Kent. He and his family are Catholics. In politics he is a democrat, and he has served as a trustee of the Knights of Columbus, is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Kent Lodge No. 1376, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a Rota- rian, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Twin Lakes Golf Club. JAMES A. BEER, M. D. That Columbus has a remarkably low death rate is an accepted fact, and this immunity from epidemics has been secured and maintained through the efficiency of the city ,s department of health, at the head of which at the present time is Dr. James A. Beer, whose professional life has been practically spent in work of this department. Doctor Beer was born in Ashland County, Ohio, May 5, 1879, a son of Richard Beer, also born in Ashland County, and a grandson of Rev. Thomas Beer, of Eastern Pennsylvania, who became a pioneer of Ohio. After many years of earnest and self-sacrificing work as a Presbyterian divine he died at the advanced age of eighty-five years,. He aided in HISTORY OF OHIO - 55 founding Wooster University, and he was one of the widely-known and beloved men of the church. Richard Beer spent his life in agricultural work, and died on his farm in Ashland County at the age of seventy-four years. Doctor Beer was reared amid rural surroundings, and farm labor developed him during his boyhood. Given educational advantages, he was graduated from Ohio State University in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and received his medical degree in 1906 from the Ohio Medical College, now the Medical Department of the State University. Practically ever since securing his degree he has been connected with the health department of Columbus, in 1908 being placed at the head of its laboratory. In 1922 he was named director of the department of health. He and the seventy associates in the work have never relaxed their efforts to maintain the healthful living conditions of Columbus, and they have been successful in keeping at a distance many of the diseases which ravage many large cities. In all of his work Doctor Beer has set a record for model sanitation, and his methods and experiments are watched with interest by other health officials, and the profession generally. As a Fellow of the American Public Health Association and the Academy of Medicine, he takes an important part in the deliberations of these bodies, and he is serving the latter as secretary. The honorary scientific society, Sigma Xi, holds his membership. His political opinions make him a republican. Doctor Beer married, in 1906, Gretchen Miller, a graduate of Ohio State University, class of 1900, and they have one son, Richard, a high school student of Columbus North High. Mrs. Beer is active in the managing board of the Young Woman's Christian Association; is chairman of its Travelers' Aid Committee, and is a past president of the Woman's Council of the Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church. JACOB C. BOCKOVEN is a native of Ohio, his grandparents on both sides were born in this state, and in his individual career he has made a success in commercial lines. He is one of the active business men of Newark. Mr. Bockoven was born at Sparta, in. Morrow County, Ohio, in 1869, son of James and Mary (Salisbury) Bockoven, both of whom were also born in Morrow County. Mr. Bockoven attended public schools in Sparta, and ten years of his early manhood were spent with the National Cash Register Company as salesman and mechanical inspector. Since then he has continued his career as a salesman, for various organizations, and for the past seven years has represented the Shelby Sales Company of Ohio, with headquarters at Newark. Mr. Bockoven is a member of the Masonic Order, the United Commercial Travelers, is a democrat and a Baptist. He married at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 21, 1892, Miss Della R. Williams, daughter of Marshall and Sarah (Herfort) Williams. Her father was a native of Delaware, of Pennsylvania ancestry, and her mother was born in Kentucky, where her parents were likewise born. Mrs. Bockoven has been prominent in women's club circles in Ohio, and is now president of the Newark Federation of Women 's Clubs, and is a member of the Unity Reading Circle. Mr. and Mrs. Bockoven have two children, Frederick H. and Lucille Bockoven. The daughter married Edward H. Metz and has two children, named Elizabeth and Charles Henry Metz. Frederick H. Bockoven has attained distinction in the United States Army. He graduated from the Newark High School in 1912, and from Ohio State University in 1916, being a member of the Psi Omega fraternity. At competitive examinations he was appointed dental surgeon in the regular United States Army in July, 1916, receiving a commission as first lieutenant in October of the same year. His first assignment of duty was at Fort Bliss, Texas. In January, 1918, he was promoted to major, and during 1921-22 was stationed in the Philippine Islands and since then has been on duty at Fort Riley, Kansas. Major Bockoven married Ail ene Smith. Their son, Frederick, Jr., was born on the transport Sherman, 600 miles out from Manila. THOMAS P. CORWIN. A resident of Columbus, a native of Logan County, Thomas P. Corwin has made a national reputation through his success in a comparatively new and unique industry, the breeding and raising of silver foxes. He is recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on anything pertaining to this aristocratic fur-bearing animal. He is the president and general manager of the Corwin Silver Fox Company of Hart, Michigan, and spends a great deal of his time at the ranch in Northern Michigan. His name at once suggests relationship with an Ohio statesman and orator one of the most con- spicuous in the history of his commonwealth and of the nation in the years and issues preceding the Civil war. He is in fact a cousin of Senator Thomas Corwin, whose career is sketched more particularly elsewhere in this history of Ohio. Senator Corwin was born in Kentucky and was four years of age when his father, Matthias Corwin, formerly of Pennsylvania, moved to what is now Lebanon, Ohio, in 1798. The progenitor of the Corwin family in America was Matthias Corwin, who came from Warwick, England, about 1633, settling at Ipswich, Massachusetts, later, in 1640, moving to Long Island, New York. The grandparents of Thomas P. Corwin, of Columbus, were George L. Corwin and Margaret (Dickinson) Corwin. Phineas, the father of the former, was a pioneer of Logan County, Ohio, settling near Rush Creek Lake in the early part of the nineteenth century. Phineas Corwin was a millwright, and built the old Pimm mill near West Liberty, Ohio. It was in the community in Rush Creek Township of Logan County that Thomas P. Corwin was born April 13, 1878, son of Phillip J. (1843-1913) and Jane Anne (Kautzman) Corwin (1849). His father was born in the same locality. Thomas P. Corwin was reared and educated there. He established his home in Columbus in 1919. His wife, Elsie Elizabeth Stout, was born in Hardin County, Ohio. Their three children are: Emmett Lawrence, Thomas Floyd and Lois Mae. The Corwin Silver Fox Farm at Hart, Michigan, represents one of the most successful enterprises for the breeding of silver foxes on this continent. The farm comprises 297 acres, and the beautiful buildings are large and adequate for carrying forward the several agricultural activities, which consists of general farming, fruit growing and the breeding of Jersey cattle and silver foxes. At this writing there are 239 silver foxes on the ranch. These magnificent animals when grown are sold for breeding purposes and are worth from $1,500 to $2,500 per pair. Their ultimate value, of course, rests upon the enormous value of their pelts, the silver fox fur being the highest priced fur in the world. Finest quality raw pelts sell at $500 to $650 each. Mr. Corwin has spent many years in the study of the silver fox and has done as much, if not more, than any one man in the United States to stabilize this new industry and help place the same on a firm business basis. Mr. Corwin is vice president of the National Silver Fox Breeders' Association of America. He is a popular writer, and contributes regularly to the leading national outdoor magazines many interesting articles on the different phases of the silver fox industry. 56 - HISTORY OF OHIO The Corwin farm at Hart is also noted for its fine herd of Register of Merit Jersey cattle, and Mr. Corwin has found both interest and profit in developing this department of his live stock industry. In 1923, in conjunction with the Fish and Game Commission, he displayed the first silver foxes ever exhibited at the Ohio State Fair. They proved to be quite an attraction, and of the thousands who visited the fair most everyone was eager to see these rare and beautiful fur-bearing animals. The Agricultural Department of Ohio recognized the importance of fur farming as an adjunct to the many agricultural activities of the farmer and added silver foxes as a new attraction at the state fair. Mr. Corwin was selected by the fair board to manage the silver fox show held at the 1924 Ohio State Fair. JOHN G. PRICE. When he engaged in law practice at Columbus in 1906 John G. Price already had an interesting experience to his credit in public life and an acquaintance with a number of prominent men. His subsequent career has brought him some of the highest honors of his profession, including service of four years as attorney-general of Ohio. He was born at Canton, August 10, 1871, and his parents, Edward Patrick and Catharine A. (Keily) Price, are still living at Canton, a highly respected couple. His father is one of the oldest residents of the city, having lived there continuously since 1848. Both parents were born in Ireland, Edward P. Price coming to this country with his mother after the death of his father. Besides John G. Price there are two daughters in the family : Catharine, wife of R. S. Read, of Syracuse, New York; and Frances H., wife of Dr. George E. Harrison, of Toledo, Ohio. John G. Price was reared at Canton, attending the parochial schools and the Canton High School. After graduating from high school he became an employe in the Canton Postoffice and for several years was a city letter carrier. While there he gained the acquaintance of Canton,s foremost citizen, William McKinley, and in 1899 President McKinley had his useful friend transferred from the Canton Postoffice to a clerkship in the postoffice department at Washington. During his residence in Washington Mr. Price devoted his spare time to the study of law in Georgetown University. He graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1904, but remained in Washington as post-office department employe until 1906. In that year he resigned and returning to his native state, located at Columbus, where he became one of the junior attorneys in the law office of Arnold, Morton and Irvine. So far as his public duties have permitted he has been engaged in private practice in the capital city ever since. Mr. Price served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County under Edward C. Turner. When Mr. Turner was elected attorney-general of Ohio the assistant went with him as special counsel in that department of the state government. In 1918 Mr. Price was honored with the republican nomination for attorney-general, and was elected, beginning his duties in January, 1919. In 1920 he was reelected, and filled the office four years, until January 1, 1923. As attorney-general he made a record of many important legal services to this state. The record of individual causes which he handled in behalf of the state would be too long for enumeration, however, particular mention should be made of the success he achieved in opposing the Steptoe act of West Virginia. This was a measure by which West Virginia sought to prevent the exportation of natural gas beyond the borders of that state. Had it been carried out the result would have wrought havoc among many of the prominent industries of Eastern and Southern Ohio and brought great inconvenience and suffering to the many Ohio people who had for years been using West Virginia natural gas through pipe lines running from that state. Mr. Price carried the matter before the United States Supreme Court, which finally decided in favor of Ohio ,s contention. Both before and after his election as attorney-general Mr. Price put all his talents at the disposal of the. Government during the World war. He was legal advisor to the Ohio Red Cross organization, and was the originator of Columbus, Unique War Chest slogan, which assisted materially in placing this city among the highest in the country in volume of war contributions. Not only locally but throughout the state he spoke in behalf of all the war drives and campaigns for the sale of Liberty Bonds and other auxiliary work. Mr. Price married in 1904 Miss Salome C. Royer, of Columbus. They have an interesting family of three children: John G., Jr., "Jack; " Salome Kathleen; and Richard Royer, " Dick." Among other public services Mr. Price was for three years a member of the State Board of Charities under appointment from Governor Willis. In civic affairs he was a member of the first Public Recreation Commission of Columbus, out of which has grown the present extensive public recreation facilities fostered by the city under the direction of a superintendent. While in the office of attorney-general Mr. Price was honored by election as president of the National Association of Attorneys General of the United States. For many years he has been high in the councils of the Elks and of the Knights of Columbus, of which he is a past grand knight. He is past exalted ruler of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has served as a member of various Grand Lodge committees of the order, and in July, 1923, became chief justice of the Grand Forum, the supreme judicial body of the order. His activities as an Elk were recognized in the highest possible manner by the members of the order at the annual convention at Boston, Massachusetts, when on July 8, 1924, he was elected to the chief executive position in the order, that of grand exalted ruler for the years 1924-1925. WILLIAM H. ALEXANDER. To men of scientific mind perhaps no branch of Federal civil service has more interesting opportunities than the Weather Bureau. William H. Alexander, who is meteorologist for Ohio at Columbus, entered this service twenty-five years ago, and has not only successfully handled the routine of weather bureaus and stations, but has done much original investigation and has contributed to the store of knowledge on the subject of meteorology. Mr. Alexander was born in Hunt County, Texas, in 1867, son of Thomas Carroll and Martha Ann (Banta) Alexander. His great-grandfather was Joshua C. Alexander, who was born in 1770 in North Carolina, probably in Mecklenburg County. He was of Scotch parentage and of kinship with the historic Alexander family of Mecklenburg County, five of whom were signers of the Mecklenburg Decoration of Independence. The Alexanders are a strong and sturdy race, both mentally and physically, preserving their vigor undiminished from generation to generation. Members of this family are today among the most prominent citizens in North Carolina, as they were one hundred fifty years ago. Joshua C. Alexander in the latter part of the eighteenth century moved to Caldwell County, Kentucky. His son, Urbane Alexander, was born in Caldwell County, and from there moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, and was living there when the Black Hawk Indian war was fought in 1832. He volunteered from Sangamon County in the same regiment of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. About 1837 Urbane Alexander left Sangamon County and went to Texas, then a republic. He was one of HISTORY OF OHIO - 57 the pioneers in the eastern part of Texas. Thomas Carroll Alexander was born in what is now Hunt County, Texas, and married Martha Ann Banta of a family originally from Pennsylvania, one branch of which moved to Caldwell County, Kentucky. William H. Alexander of Columbus has membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. His eligibility is based upon the service of one of his Banta ancestors. His maternal grandfather, Henry Banta, was a Baptist missionary preacher in Texas, and a widely known early pioneer. William H. Alexander was born and reared on his father's farm at Campbell in Hunt County. He attended the country schools, and in 1887 graduated from the Sam Houston Normal College at Huntsville. For two or three years he was a teacher at Decatur, Texas, and from there entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and pursued several courses leading to the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees. Mr. Alexander took the examination for service with the United States Weather Bureau at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1898. During the same year he received his first appointment, as assistant in the Weather Bureau Office at Galveston. After about a year he volunteered for the Weather Bureau West Indies service, and was assigned to duty in charge of the station at Basseterre, on the little island of St. Kitts (St. Christopher) in . te extreme southeastern section of the Carribean Sea. While there, on August 31, 1900, he issued the first warning of the great storm that a few days later almost entirely destroyed Galveston. From St. Kitts he was transferred to the Weather Bureau station at San Juan, Porto Rico, as first assistant, and remained in that island little over two years. Mr. Alexander compiled the historical data for and published a book on the subject of the West Indies hurricanes while he was located in Porto Rico. Following that came a temporary assignment at Galveston, and while in Texas he had charge of the removal of the Weather Bureau station from Taylor to the State University at Austin. His next duty was to open the session of the Weather Bureau at Burlington, VefVermontnd he remained in charge there three years. He was then transferred to Baltimore as meteorologist in charge of the section embracing the States of Maryland and Delaware, and this post he held for something over three years. Since then Mr. Alexander's work has been in Ohio. At Cleveland he was made meteorologist in charge of the Weather Bureau of that city, and among other duties issued the storm warnings for the Great Lakes region. Then, in 1916, he was transferred to Columbus with enlarged jurisdiction as meteorologist for the section including the entire State of Ohio. The Columbus office also handles the reports of the various subsidiary stations, between 135 and 140, there being at least one such station in every county of the state. He is also on the staff of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, and in this capacity he has prepared a climatological history of Ohio. His office maintains a river and flood service with flood warnings and gauge readings on the Scioto, Muskingum, Sandusky and Licking rivers. During the growing season the Columbus office maintains their system of daily telegraphic reports as to rainfall and other weather conditions in the corn and wheat regions, these reports being received in the Columbus office from about a dozen sub stations. In the spring of the year a similar service is maintained for the benefit of fruit growers and orchidists, including the reporting and prognosticating of frosts, snows, cold waves, and other adverse conditions. The facilities for forecasting and the distribution of forecasts from the Columbus office are very complete, and under Mr. Alexander's skillful direction are kept up to the highest state of efficiency. Mr. Alexander married Miss Mamie Pauline Clonts, of Decatur, Texas. She was born in Florida. Her father, Rev. Asbury M. Clonts, was a native of Georgia, and became both a lawyer and a minister. In Georgia he was elected to the bench, and while performing his judicial duties he occupied a pulpit each Sunday. He also lived several years in Florida, and from that state came to Texas, where he continued for many years as a Baptist minister. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have two children. Their son, Ralph Clonts Alexander, born at Campbell, Texas graduated from the East High School in Cleveland, and from that city was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He graduated from the academy, was in the navy during the World war and now holds the rank of first lieutenant. The daughter, Miss Ryllis Clair Alexander, who was born on the Island of St. Kitts, British West Indies, graduated Master of Arts from Ohio State University at Columbus, has had one year of resident study at Yale, is now a teacher in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and is pursuing advanced research preparatory to the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Yale. WILLIAM H. BUDD. An organization that insured a prompt, regular wholesome supply of an essential element in the daily food consumption of a large city is obviously one of the most important institutions of such a community. In realizing all the exacting demands of such program Columbus has been properly proud of the Budd Dairy Company, one of the model organizations of its kind in the state and one that has regularly anticipated the progressive requirements affecting the production and distribution of milk and milk products to the public. This company represents an interesting history of development and progress. .On November 1, 1894, nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Simon T. Budd, with a one-horse wagon, started the sale of milk in Columbus, carrying the product from his farm near Mifflinville, seven and one-half miles, northeast of Columbus. The sales for the first day totaled only ten quarts, or sixty cents. Mr. Simon T. Budd is still a director in the Budd Dairy Company, but the active control of the business for many years was in the hands of his son, William H. Budd. William H. Budd was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1877. When he was a small boy his father moved to a farm in Plain Township, Franklin County, and on that farm the dairy business was started in the modest way just described. About twelve years later, with the gradual growth of the business, a local plant was established in Columbus, at 1390 Wesley Avenue. At that time the business was conducted by the S. T. Budd Dairy. Company. By September, 1906, this company was distributing about sixty gallons of milk daily. At that time William H. Budd, who had grown up on the farm and from boyhood had familiarized himself with all the technical processes involved in dairying, bought out his father, and it was subsequently incorporated as the Budd Dairy Company, of which he became president and general manager. The business was continued at the Wesley Avenue location until December 7, 1916, when it was moved to a new plant at North Fourth Street, between Detroit Avenue and Fourth Avenue. The new plant is probably one of the finest in the country. The main building is 70 feet front by 150 feet deep, one and two stories high, and basement under all. It is of concrete and steel construction throughout, faced with red pressed brick laid with black mortar, trimmed in white terra cotta, so that the building as a whole presents a pleasing architectural design. All the air 58 - HISTORY OF OHIO taken into the building passes through washing and sterilizing processes before it is delivered into any of the rooms. The equipment of boilers, engines, ice machinery and pasteurizing equipment is thoroughly modern. The plant produces forty tons of refrigeration every twenty-four hours, and from ten to twelve thousand gallons of water are required for cooling purposes. One notable feature of the building is an assembly hall, kitchen and laboratories, arranged especially for the use of the company ,s customers and friends, frequently used for parties, luncheons, club banquets, either during the day or evening. This is known as Budd,s Assembly Hall, and is open to the company ,s customers during the day. The milk and cream sold from this plant are under the strict testing and approval of the state and city health departments. All employes who handle the milk are required to pass medical examination and have certificates of good health. The milk is received daily by train and motor trucks, and is shipped from farms in a radius of fifty miles around Columbus. At the original point of production the milk is produced under rigid specifications and every successive trip is properly safeguarded until the perfect product is placed at the customer's door. This beautiful and very efficient plant was designed, built and financed by W. H. Budd, and under his personal supervision he purchased and installed all the modern machinery and equipment. When the company moved to its new plant in 1916 it had a capacity of about 900 gallons of milk daily. There was then a delivery equipment of twenty wagons. With subsequent growth the company now distributes about 3,000 gallons of milk daily, employing forty wagons in the delivery. Since then the capacity of the plant has been increased to 9,000 gallons. Out of 45,000 families in Columbus about 11,000 are served with milk and cream by this company. It is an interesting fact that there has not been a single day in the last twenty-eight years where the service of the Budd Dairy has been discontinued. The delivery equipment consists of forty-one horse wagons, electric trucks, gasoline trucks, and their housing requires a barn and garage covering a space 100 feet wide by 140 feet deep. The equipment of the garage includes the company,s own charging plant for the daily charging of the electric trucks. This was the first company in the United States to use electric trucks for retail milk delivery. After an association of more than twenty years, during which time he had expanded its facilities as above described, William H. Budd disposed of his interest in the Budd Dairy Company, in February, 1924, and has since given most of his energies to other affairs. On November 1, 1905, he had, in partnership with W. E. Ranney, organized the Budd Ranney Manufacturing Company, establishing a plant at 37 South Scioto Street, Columbus, for the manufacture of dies, tools and special machinery. In March, 1906, William A. Vance joined the original partners and at a later date the company was incorporated as the Budd and Ranney Engineering Company, of which Mr. Budd is vice president. The present location of the plant is the southeast corner of Chestnut and Water streets, Columbus, and it is a business of flourishing proportions. Mr. Budd is also president of the Safety Wire, Gas, Globe Company, located at 44 East Second Street. Mr. Budd is a popular member of Columbus business social circle, being affiliated with the Rotary Club, Young Men,s Christian Association, the Scottish Rite Masons and Shriners, and is also an Elk. REES PHILPOTT, M. D. One of the highly educated and capable young physicians and surgeons of Del aware is Dr. Rees Philpott, who came to the practical work of his profession after a liberal education in the arts and sciences and a prolonged period of study and experience in medical college and hospital. Doctor Philpott represents an old family of Ohio. He was born at LeRoy, this state, March 24, 1892, son of Rev. Austin and Etta (Rees) Philpott, and grandson of Richard and Mary Ann (Sawkins) Philpott, and Daniel and Mary (Higgins) Rees. All his grandparents were natives of England except Daniel Rees, who was born in Wales. An uncle of Richard Philpott held the rank of colonel under the great Duke of Wellington. Daniel Rees came to the United States in 1835 and settled at Columbus. Mrs. Etta Rees Philpott is now deceased. Both she and her husband were born in Ohio. Rev. Austin Philpott has had a long and honorable career in the Methodist ministry. He was pastor of churches at Belleville, LeRoy, Mount Gilead, Ashland, Bucyrus and Delaware, and at Delaware for several years was superintendent of the Wooster district, and then for six years superintendent of the Worthington Children’s Home. Dr. Rees Philpott attended public schools at Mount Gilead and Ashland, had one year in the Ashland High School, finished his high school work at Bucyrus, and in 1911 graduated Bachelor of Arts from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. After graduating he was for six months an employe of the federal department of agriculture and for six months pursued post-graduate work in science at Ohio Wesleyan. Following that he entered the Western Reserve University Medical School at Cleveland, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1919, and during his senior year was assistant in pathology in the City Hospital. During the World war he was in training with the Medical Reserve Corps, though not called from his studies. After graduating he served one year as resident surgeon in Saint Mark ,s Hospital at Cleveland. Doctor Philpott located at Delaware in October, 1921, and specialized in surgery, and after beginning practice he took post-graduate work in Cleveland ant Philadelphia in 1922. He is unmarried. He had membership in the County, State and American Medical associations, the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity, the Elks and the Methodist Episcopal Church. WALTER C. METZ. The largest banking institution in Newark is the Newark Trust Company, and of the individuals identified with its development and service one of the oldest in point of years of connection, though still a comparatively young man, is the president, Walter C. Metz. Mr. Metz was born at Newark in 1884, son of Charles C. and Cristy Ann (Smith) Metz, also natives of Licking County. The family originally came from Germany, and was identified with the pioneer days in this section of Ohio. His grandfather was Charles C. Metz, an early settler. Walter C. Metz was reared and educated in his native city. After completing his college education in 1905 he entered the Newark Trust Company, which had been incorporated in 1903. It has a capital of $200,000, and surplus and undivided profits of $250,000. He has made his service indispensable to the business, and on his individual merit has won his advancement to president. He was elected president in 1917. The company built and occupies for its home the only modern office building in the city. Mr. Metz as a citizen as well as a banker has identified himself with all movements for the advancement and prosperity of Newark. He is a member of the Rotary Club, and is interested in Ohio affairs in general, being a life member of the Archeological HISTORY OF OHIO - 59 and Historical Society of Ohio. Mr. Metz married Miss Helen W. Weiant. Warren S. Weiant, her father, owns the noted place four miles east of Newark with ten acres under glass, one of the largest floral and horticultural plants in America. JOHN MILTON DENISON, M. D., has long been engaged in successful general practice of his profession in his native state of Ohio, and is now one of the veteran and honored physicians and surgeons in the City of Akron, where his practice is of substantial and representative order. The Doctor has been in the most significant sense the architect of his own fortunes, and that in earlier years he had a measure of fellowship with adversity, has but intensified his appreciation of the real values in human thought and action, and made more loyal and sympathetic his ministrations in exacting and benignant profession. Doctor Denison was born on a farm near Junction City, Perry County, Ohio, April 1, 1859, and is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of that county, within whose borders his father, the late Joel M. Denison, was born and reared and which he represented as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Joel M. Denison became corporal of Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued ip service until he received a wound that necessitated the amputation of one of his legs. Thereafter he was engaged in farm enterprise of modest order, and in his native county he served as a village postmaster under the administration of President Harrison, he having been a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife having been earnest members of the United Brethren Church. Mrs. Denison, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Van Atta, was a representative of one of the sturdy Holland Dutch families early founded in New Jersey, her remote ancestors having moved from Holland to Germany in the ninth century, but the family having later been reestablished in Holland, whence came the Colonial representatives of the name in New Jersey. John M. Denison became virtually dependent upon his own resources when he was a lad of eleven years, and at the age of fourteen he owned and operated a dray—an advancement that bears evidence of his own juvenile initiative and resourcefulness. He provided through his own exertions the means for supplementing the meager education of his boyhood, and after having attended the public schools at New Lexington, judicial center of his native county, he gave five years of effective service as a teacher in the district schools. He bent all his energies to the achieving of his youthful ambition, which was to prepare himself for the medical profession. He finally entered fine old Starling Medical College at Columbus, an institution now constituting the medical department of the University of Ohio, and after receiving therefrom his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for six years engaged in practice at New Pittsburg, Hocking County. He was later established in practice at Blatchford, and there also he served several years as postmaster. The attractive little City of Crooks-vine, Perry County, was the stage of his professional activities for a long term of years, and in his four years of service as health officer he brought the town into excellent sanitary condition. He was one of the influential members of the Perry County Medical Society, and twice served as its president. Since his removal to Akron lie has served one term as president of the Summit County Medical Society, besides which he was chief of the Medical Advisory Board of Division No. 4 Draft Board at Akron in the World war period. The Doctor has been a resident of Akron since 1912, and here the scope and importance of his practice indicates alike his professional ability and his high place in popular confidence and esteem. He is a member of the staff of physicians and surgeons at the People’s Hospital, and thus definitely expands his valued professional services. Doctor Denison has never deviated from the line of strict allegiance to the republican party, and is a stalwart advocate of its cause. He and his wife hold membership in the First United Brethren Church of Akron; and in the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity he is still affiliated with the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery at New Lexington, besides which he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. November 24, 1898, marked the marriage of Doctor Denison and Miss Blanche Sweeney, of Nelsonville, Athens County, and they have two children Miss Mildred, who is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Akron, was graduated from Akron University and was there affiliated with the Delta Gamma sorority. Kenneth is a student (1924) in Akron University, and there is a member of the Lone Star fraternity. Doctor Denison has been an appreciative reader and student, has fine literary appreciation, and has much poetical talent, many of his published poems having gained favorable comment. HON ROBERT S. WOODRUFF. Nearly thirty years have passed since Robert S. Woodruff began his career as a practicing attorney at Hamilton. After a successful period of private practice he was called to public office. He has served as prosecuting attorney and is the present judge of the Probate Court of Butler County. But the work which lends his name real distinction has been his .service as judge of the Juvenile Court of Hamilton. At all times this office is one of great delicacy, but Judge Woodruff has made it an opportunity for expressing his deep seated interest and exercising a rare discrimination in cases that involve not only the individual but society in general. Judge Woodruff was born in Butler County, January 20, 1869. He was reared there, educated in public schools, and from boyhood depended upon his own exertions to get his higher education and make his abilities known. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1894, and in the same year opened his law office at Hamilton. He was engaged in private practice for about eight years. From 1903 to 1909 he served as prosecuting attorney of Butler County, two terms. Each time he was elected on the democratic ticket. After leaving this office he resumed his private law practice. In 1916 he was presented to the voters as a candidate for probate judge on a nonpartisan ticket, was elected, and his record shows that he possesses unusual qualifications for the adjustment of the many difficult interests that come before the Probate Court. When he took this office he was also appointed by the common pleas judges Harlan and Murphy as judge of the Juvenile Court. This is a judicial position comparatively modern, and Judge Woodruff has been able to create and invest his office with traditions and methods of procedure that will stand for many years as the ideals and rules governing this court. The fine results of his humanitarian treatment of juvenile offenders has made for him a state wide reputation. On October 9, 1901, at Hamilton, Judge Woodruff married Miss Bessie Weaver, daughter of John C. Weaver, prominent citizen, surveyor and civil engineer. Mrs. Woodruff, who died September 24, 1920, was a graduate of the Hamilton High School and also studied in Oxford Woman’s College. Judge Woodruff has two children, Helen, born in 1906, a graduate 60 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the Hamilton High School, and Frederick, born in 1910, a student in the Junior High School. Judge Woodruff is a Master Mason, is a life member of the Elks, and a member of the Methodist Church. FRANK A. IRISH. The career of Frank A. Irish, county recorder of Lorain County, is one whose salient characteristic is faithfulness to the duties devolving upon him. In both private and public life he has always sought to live up to what was expected of him, and no one has been in the least disappointed in the results he has produced. He was born at Camden, Ohio, March 14, 1872, a son of Charles and Jane (Ware) Irish, natives of Rutland, Vermont. A blacksmith, Charles Irish left his shop to enlist in the defense of the Union in 1861, and served as a member of the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camden. After the close of the war he bought a farm in Pittsfield Township, Lorain County, where he died. Mrs. Irish was a daughter of Manning and Mary (Maynard) Ware, natives of Vermont. They came to Lorain County many years ago and bought a farm at Pittsfield Center, but he was also a blacksmith, and later moved to Amherst, Ohio, where he conducted a blacksmithing shop, and he also worked at his trade in the stone quarries of that place. After the death of her husband Mrs. Irish was later married to Orick Dale, of La Grange, a farmer of that locality, but she died in 1894, not long after her second marriage. Frank A. Irish attended the grade and high schools of La Grange until he was eighteen years old, at which time he went to Lorain, Ohio, and worked for his brother in a grocery store for sixteen years. At the termination of that period he went into a grocery business of his own at Lorain, but sold it two years later. During that two years he had also served as city treasurer of Lorain. Going upon the road as a representative of the Walter Candy Company, he continued traveling for that concern until the spring of 1917, when he severed that connection and worked as paymaster and timekeeper for the Cedar Point Resort Company. In September, 1917, he assumed the duties of the office of county recorder, to which he had been elected in 1916, and has held this office ever since, his present term expiring in September, 1923. In 1892 Mr. Irish was married to Hortense Curtis, who was born at La Grange, a daughter of Reuben and Sophronia (Yeamons) Curtis, and they became the parents of three children: Lillian who is the wife of Arthur Spadiman, of Lorain; and Harold and Harvey, both of whom reside at Lorain. Mrs. Irish died in October, 191.3. In June, 1917, Mr. Irish married Mrs. Jessie (Jacobs) McLean, who was born in Black River Township, Lorain, County, a daughter of Charles and Gertrude (Byrd) Jacobs, natives of Erie County, Ohio. She was the widow of James McLean. Mr. and Mrs. McLean had no children. While he is not a member, Mr. Irish attends the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lorain. Very prominent as a republican, he has served as a member of the City Council of Lorain for two terms, was city treasurer for two terms, and was assistant mayor of Lorain for two terms. He belongs to Lorain Lodge No. 552, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Lorain Lodge No. 1301, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Holman Lodge No. 699, Knights of Pythias, and has been through all of the chairs in the last named order. He was injured December 3, 1920, a street car running over his right foot. Previous to this accident he was a great advocate and participator in outdoor sports and athletics. For many years he was very active in behalf of Lorain, and is still very much interested in its welfare, although he is now residing on his farm in Black River Township, not far. from Lorain. PERRY H. EVANS is a civil engineer, an expert in waterworks, paving and other forms of municipal engineering. For a number of years his home and technical work have been at Kent. He was born at Columbus, May 6, 1886, son of Edward and Eleanor (Hughes) Evans. His father, was also a native of Columbus, and his mother of Wales, Edward Evans was the son of Moriss and Ann Evans, who was born in Wales. Edward Evans was married in Van Wert County, Ohio, and then became associated with his father in the florist business at Columbus, and when the father died he continued the business alone for about five years. On the death of his mother he settled up the affairs of the business, leaving its ownership and management to his two sisters while he laid out and subdivided a tract of land into city lots and became engaged in the real estate business. He now lives at 1153 East Main Street Columbus. His wife died in October, 1921. Perry H. Evans graduated from the Columbus High School in 1905, took post-graduate work in high school in 1906, then spent two years in Ohio State University. Leaving the University he had two years of practical training with the county engineering of Lake County. After that he continued his engineering course in Ohio State University for a year and a half. In 1911 he became an employe of the waterworks system at Akron, and was with that public utility for six years, being assistant engineer when he left. For a time he continued with the Akron Waterworks in the winter and for two summer seasons was assistant engineer at Cuyahoga Falls. In the fall of 1919 Mr. Evans became associated with the firm Taylor, Vaughn & Taylor of Cuyahoga Falls as clerk in the engineering and order department of that industry. In June 1921, he resigned and became chief inspector during the progress of paving construction involving the improvement of nine different streets at Kent. Then, in January, 1922, he set up in general practice as a civil engineer at Kent, and has a large volume of duties involving the planning and supervision of construction, inspection and field work. Kent has put in a new waterworks system, and Mr. Evans was the expert in handling most of the details. On June 30, 1911, he married Miss Hazel Cleve Jones, a native of Painesville, Ohio, and daughter of James and Alice Cleve (Dondge) Jones. They have two children, Edward. B., born August 3, 1913, and Jean Cleve, born April 19, 1916. Mr. Evans was reared a Presbyterian, but is now a member of the Episcopal Church. He is a republican, and is affiliated with York Lodge of Masons at Columbus, Painesville Chapter, Royal Arch Mason, Akron Council, Royal and Select Masters, Yusef Khan Grotto of Masonry at Akron, and the Eastern Star at Kent. He also belongs to the Acacia Masonic College fraternity, the Rotary Club and the Forensic Club. His home at Kent is a modern residence at 226 South Chestnut Street. For a man of his years he has had a very broad experience not only in his profession, but in other lines of work. During and after his high school course, from 1903 to 1908, he spent his vacations traveling about the country as a commercial photographer, and in 1906 he spent some time in Oklahoma. MICHAEL JAMES HAGERTY is president of an industry that means a great deal to the prosperity of Washington Court House. He is a shoe manufacturer, and represents the Hagerty family in that line of business. He was born in Cincinnati, August 16, 1860, son of Patrick and Mary Hagerty. His father was in the shoe making business for many years. Mr. Hagerty was reared and educated at Cincinnati, at Saint Xavier’s School, and also attended courses in night HISTORY OF OHIO - 61 school at Cincinnati. As a youth he entered his fafather,shoe factory and learned the business in every detail. The factory was subsequently moved to Washington Court House, where Mr. Hagerty established the plant of the Hagerty Shoe Company, capitalized at $150,000. He is president of this industry. His factory is filled with modern shoe making machinery and the special line of output is children’s, misses’ and women’s shoes. Mr. Hagerty has so carefully built up the reputation of his shoes and has so closely watched the economies of operation that through the services of a staff of aggressive traveling salesmen they have a large market for their output in the country. Mr. Hagerty is a member of the Catholic Church at Washington Court House, and is past exalted ruler and present trustee of the BeBenevolentnd Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Lillian Dunn on September 1, 1887, at Cincinnati. She was educated in the Convent School in that city. They have three children: James, born in 1888, John, born in 1890, and Stanley, born in 1892. Stanley is married and has two children: John J. and Robert. Mr. Hagerty is a non-resident member of Cincinnati Business Men 's,slub. CLEOPHAS J. LA VALLEE. Ohio is the home of several nationally known paint and varnish manufacturing establishments, and one of them, specializing on a high grade product largely used by furniture manufacturers, is a Marietta paint and color company. This business recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with a three day convention at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta, attended by about forty members of the company 's,sirect organization, including a number of sales representatives and dealers, also several representatives of other large companies engaged in the same line of business. At the banquet concluding the convention, and after his associates and employes had represented him with a gift significant of their appreciation of his long services, Mr. C. J. La Vallee, founder and president of the company, responded with a few words that have a special interest here : "The building of this business has been hard work—the hardest kind of hard work," he said. "."ut I never looked upon it as hard work or that the work was a sacrifice. It was a labor of love, every hour of it—and I have enjoyed it every minute. When I think that tonight it is through the instrumentality of this business that some five hundred people are now being supported and given the opportunity to do their work and render their service to the world, I feel more than compensated for any effort the business may have cost me. I am grateful to you for this beautiful gift." Cleophas J. La Vallee was born in the village of Bedford, Missisquoi County, Quebec, son of Albert and Julia La Vallee, and of Canadian French ancestry for generations back. Albert La Vallee was a shoemaker, and for a number of years conducted a business of his own, though always working at the bench. He put much interest in the affairs of the communities in which he lived, and was very active in the Catholic Church. When Cleophas La Vallee was sixteen years of age he came to the United States, and the parents subsequently followed him, moving first to East Hampton, Massachusetts, and seven years later to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where they spent the rest of their lives. Cleophas J. La Vallee acquired his early education in schools of his native town. He was second in a family of five sons, there being also four daughters. The other sons are Joseph A. and Ernest E., both paint contractors, Alexander F. and Israel, all residents of Bridgeport, Connecticut. On coming to the United States Cleophas J. La Vallee located at Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he began his experience in the printing trade. Subsequently he opened a shop at Greenfield, Massachusetts, and three years later moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Early in his work it was discovered that he had a natural gift in mixing paints and colors, and this gift, improved by many years of experience, has been the foundation of of the prosperous business of which he is now the head. Mr. La Vallee became a resident of Marietta in 1887. He located there to take charge of the finishing department of the Lobdell Rim Works. Subsequently he decided to open a plant for the manufacture of mixed paints and colors. One of his financial associates in the founding of the business in 1898 was Senator C. S. Dana. They secured a small room in the Lobdell Rim Works, and all the credit the firm had to start with was a good name. A leading material house in New York supplied Mr. La Vallee with three times the amount of credit he had asked. In less than a year the first plant was burned. They next conducted the business in part of an abandoned tannery for seven years, when another fire occurred. The company then began building at its present location. It has grown and prospered steadily through the years until it is now one of the most influential business organizations in Marietta. The products manufactured are distributed all over the United States, and, as noted above, the chief customers are furniture manufacturers. A few years ago a branch plant was opened at High Point, North Carolina. After the death of Mr. Dana, Mr. La Vallee purchased his interest and became president and treasurer, and his son, G. A. La Vallee, vice president, secretary and sales director. Mr. La Vallee in 1886 married Miss Ida McNamara. She was also born in Bedford, Quebec, and they were sweethearts in all that time. The son, George A. La Vallee, attended parochial schools at Marietta, also the Marietta Academy, and had two years at Marietta College and two years at Holy Cross College at Worcester, Massachusetts. He finished his technical education in the Pratt Institute at New York. Both father and son are members of the Country Club and the Knights of Columbus. The company now maintains a chain of distributing stores at Greensborough and High Point, North Carolina, at Steubenville, Newark, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, and in Parkersburg, West Virginia. HUGH K. MARTIN has been a successful lawyer at Columbus since his admission to the Ohio bar in 1914. He left his growing practice to join the colors and saw service overseas as a captain of infantry. He is prominently identified with the American Legion, having served continuously as state adjutant for the Department of Ohio since the first state convention in 1919, and as chairman of several important national committees. He is likewise prominent in other fields of endeavor, being chairman of the international legislative committee and member of the international advisory committee of the International Society for Crippled Children; member of the committee on patriotic instruction of the State of .Ohio ; and member of the state advisory committee of the Ohio Parent-Teachers Association. Major Martin was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1889, son of Rev. Dr. Wallace W. and Mary (Krepps) Martin. His father was born and educated in Ohio and taught school in Franklin County, Ohio. He entered business in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and after the death of his wife there in 1890 he returned North and took up the study of theology and was admitted to the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. DePauw University honored him with the Doctor of Divinity degree, and 62 - HISTORY OF OHIO he is now the district superintendent or presiding elder of the Fort Wayne distriet of the North Indiana Conference. Being but an infant when his mother died, Hugh K. Martin was brought to Columbus, Ohio, where he was reared by his maternal grandparents, Captain and Mrs. C. C. Krepps. In that city he attended the grade schools and East High School, and subsequently studied law in the Ohio- State University, serving as president of both his high school class and also his law class. Since his admission to the bar in 1914 he has been engaged in general practice except for the period of the World war. Several years before America entered the war he enlisted in the cavalry of the Ohio National Guard and became a sergeant of cavalry. In May, 1917, he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, was commissioned a captain of cavalry, and his first assignment of duty was at Camp Sherman. Realizing that there was no likelihood of cavalry officers being sent overseas, he finally succeeded in getting transferred to infantry, and early in September, 1918, went overseas as regimental adjutant of the Eight Hundred and Thirteenth Pioneer Infantry. Shortly after his arrival in France he was assigned by command of Lieutenant General Bullard, commander of the Second Army, to command an independent company which, until the close of hostilities, was engaged in the performance of special duties in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and the defensive sector. After the armistice he was put in command of an American camp in the British Army area in the North of France. After having served two years and three months he was honorably discharged in August, 1919, and recommissioned as major in the Infantry Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He is now executive officer of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry Brigade. Upon the organization of the Department of Ohio, the American Legion, in 1919, Major Martin was made state adjutant for the department. He has developed the organization to more than 500 local posts in every city and town of the state. He has built up an efficient staff and office organization at department headquarters in Columbus. The department through its various functions has been of great service to ex-service men, particularly to those disabled also to the dependents of those who lost their lives in the war, and to the state and nation in the development of community service, Americanization of foreigners, the advocacy of a true Americanism, the detection and answering of destructive propaganda, the betterment of educational conditions in the state, improvement of the physical condition of the school children, and in many other lines. He has represented the legion, on all matters of state legislation before the General Assembly of Ohio, having introduced a number of bills, one resolution memorializing Congress and one resolution for an amendment to the Ohio constitution, all of which were enacted without a "no" vote in either house, and signed by the governor concerned. As chairman of the international legislative committee of the International Society for Crippled Children, he has been preparing and proposing matters for legislation in the several states and the Dominion of Canada for the proper care, development and education of all crippled children. Major Martin has addressed numerous organizations over the State of Ohio and in several other states on a variety of subjects. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a Knight of Pythias and Elk, and a member of the Columbus Athletic Club. In 1916 he married Miss Cornelia Howard, also of Columbus. WILLIAM WEBSTER MILLS, an Ohio banker for over half a century, is prominently known in financial and business circles not only in Marietta, but in New York and Chicago. He was born at Marietta, January 27, 1852, son of John and Dorothy (Webster) Mills. Mr. Mills was reared and educated in his native city, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Marietta College in 1871. Just fifty years later Marietta College honored him with the degree Doctor of Laws. Soon after leaving college he took up banking, and from 1873 to 1887 was associated with the banking firm of Elston & Company at Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1887 he became president of the First National Bank of Marietta, and has been at the head of that strong and prosperous institution for over thirty-five years. Many other interests in business affairs claim his attention. He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Safe Cabinet Company, is a director of the Pure Oil Company, of the Union Gas and Electric Company of Chicago, and the Marietta Chair Company. He is secretary and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Marietta College. Mr. Mills is vice president and director of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, and is a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions under the Congregational Church. He is chairman of the Marietta Chapter of the Red Cross, is a republican, belongs to the Union League and University Clubs in Chicago, the Athletic Club of Columbus, and the Ohio Society of New York. Mr. Mills married, October 12, 1875, Miss Betsey Gates, of Marietta. ASHLAND COLLEGE. The following interesting review of the history of this admirably conducted educational institution at Ashland, judicial center of Ashland County, has been supplied by its reliable and honored president. Ashland College was founded in the year 1878, and was rechartered in the year 1888, as Ashland University, a title that was later abandoned, with the readoption of that under which the institution had been founded. The original charter was taken out by the church denomination known as the German Baptist Brethren, and the second charter was obtained by a liberal branch of the same denomination whose incorporate name is the Brethren Church of America. The college is co-educational, and is Christian but not sectarian. It occupies a tract of eighteen acres of land, with four buildings, at the south limits of the City of Ashland. The situation is ideal, both in its relation to the city and from the scenic standpoint, commanding, as it does, a view of the country far and wide. The first permanent president after the reorganization was Rev. J. A. Miller, D. D. who served until 1906, when Rev. J. L. Gillen was elected to this office, within this interval the finances of the institution were corrected and the courses of study revised. In 1911 Rev. W. D. Furry, D. 'D., was elected president. The World war occurred during his administration, and a military unit was established at the college. In the year 1919 the present incumbent, Edwin Elmore Jacobs, Ph. D., was elected president, and he at once bent his energies to increasing the financial resources of the institution and augmenting the enrollment of students. In the City of Ashland was initiated a campaign for the erection of a new library building at the college, this movement reaching a successful culmination, with the result that the fine new library building was completed and dedicated in the spring of 1923. The grounds of the college have been notably beautified, an athletic bowl has been constructed, and the permanent endowment has been greatly increased under the regime of the present chief execu- HISTORY OF OHIO - 63 tive of the institution. Within four years the enrollment of students has been doubled, a flourishing summer school has been conducted, and the college alumni association has been effectively organized. The college offers courses in the arts and sciences, and has divinity and normal departments, besides sustaining well ordered departments of voice, expression and piano. At the present time (summer of 1923) the faculty of the college numbers fifteen members, and at least one more department it to be added. The academy department was discontinued in 1920, but one year of pre-freshman work is given. Ashland College has a long and honorable history, and counts among its alumni two college presidents, one lieutenant governor, court judges, clergymen, missionaries, Young Men,s Christian Association and Young Women ,s Christian Association workers, business men, succcssful farmers and representatives of many other professions. In connection with the college, and constituting an integral part of the institution, is the Theological Seminary of the Brethren Church. This offers the usual seminary course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Rev. J. Allen Miller, D. D., has been the dean of the Theological Seminary continuously since the college was reopened in 1898. The property of the institution stands in the name of the Ashland College Board of Trustees, the members of which are elected by the board itself after having been nominated by the several district conferences of the Brethren Church. At the present time there are thirty-three members, Ohio being represented by nine members. The board elects annually three members from the City of Ashland, and thus Ohio quota is increased to twelve board members. At the time of this writing Hon. Orion E. Bowman, of Dayton, Ohio, is president of the board, and R. R. Teeter, of Ashland, is its secretary. The annual meeting of the board is usually held in April. ALEXANDER M. SWAN is proprietor of the Swan Lumber Company of Marietta. His business consists of two plants, that handling building materials being located at Third and Butler Streets, while the planing mill and lumber yard are at Philips Street and the Pennsylvania Railroad. This business was established in 1912. Mr. Swan has been very successful in his affairs, and is a very popular and able citizen of Marietta. He was born in Tyler County, West Virginia, October 22, 1877, son of Thomas J. and Hannah Gorrell Swan. His parents were born in Tyler County, and his father died in 1900, at the age of sixty-three, and his mother in 1908. Thomas J. Swan was a miller and farmer, operating several milling plants and water mills. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and a democrat in politics. There are two children, Alexander M. and Hattie E., wife of James Pierpoint, who lives on the old farm homestead in West Virginia. Alexander M. Swan was a farm boy, working in the fields and in his father's mills, attending country schools, and also a grade school. At the age of twenty-one he married Sally Furbee, and soon afterward moved to Marietta, Ohio. Mr. Swan engaged in the retail grocery business on Second Street for eight years, and on selling his interest, moved out to Loveland, Colorado, where he had four years of business experience. Then, in 1912, he returned to Marietta, and has since engaged in the lumber business. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, and for two years was president of the Bible Class. He belongs to the Rotary Club, is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Loveland, Colorado, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Syrian Shrine at Cincinnati. For two years he served as a member of the city council. Mr. Swan is a true son of the mountain state of West Virginia, stands over six feet two inches high, and is broad shouldered and broad also in his mental outlook. HENRY WARREN PHELPS, of 88 Linwood Avenue, Columbus, now retired, at the age of eighty-five, has had a remarkable career of interesting activities. He was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, has been a farmer and live stock breeder and dealer, a genealogist and historian, and a leading spirit in the Grange and other movements that have been significant in the history of the past century. Mr. Phelps was born at the old Phelps homestead three miles south of Westerville, in Franklin County, May 5, 1839. He represents an American family that has been in this country for three centuries. Remotely they were of Italian ancestry, known as the Gulf people, and after immigration became the Guelphs, and finally in England became Phelps. From Tewkesbury, England, William Phelps came to America, being one of the passengers on the ship Mary and John that sailed March 29, 1630, and landed May 30, 1630, the company first settling at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and in 1865, at Windsor, Connecticut. One member of the Phelps family, John Phelps, was clerk at the trial of King Charles the First of England and at the restoration of the Stuarts in England. Edward Phelps, grandfather of Henry Warren Phelps, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1759, and married Azubah Moore in 1789. In 1806 Edward Phelps, with Isaac Griswold and others, made the long journey from Connecticut with wagon cart, oxen and other equipment, to Ohio, first settling on Alum Creek, four and one-half miles east of Worthington, and three miles south of what became Westerville, at what is now Blendon Four Corners, where the first postoffice was established in that part of the county. Edward Phelps acquired a large tract of land in that vicinity, maintained a home of liberal hospitality, and was one of the acceptive men in the community for many years. He died August 10, 1840, and his wife passed away October 18, 1849, at the age of eighty-four. Homer Moore Phelps, one of the children of Edward Phelps the pioneer, was born at the Phelps homestead in Franklin County, February 9, 1812. He was a farmer and stock dealer, a good business man and a frequent adviser to his neighbors and friends. He and his brothers, Edward and William, were associated in the ownership of lands in Franklin County. The house built there in 1824 is used as a residence. Homer M. Phelps was treasurer of the old Plank Road Company, and was a whig and later a republican in politics, serving a number of years as justice of the peace and as a contractor. He died June 1, 1883. His wife was Elizabeth Graham Connolly, a neighbor girl whose parents came from Pennsylvania in 1833, locating on Big Walnut, two miles east of the Phelps home. She was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1811, and died in August, 1899, when eighty-eight years of age. She had been a member of the Methodist Church for seventy-two years. H. Warren Phelps was reared at the old homestead, educated in public schools, and on August 1, 1862, enlisted in Company H of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Infantry. He was made first sergeant, was promoted to second lieutenant and then to first lieutenant. He was in the Vicksburg campaign, and had a long and varied service in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri, was at the Battle of Nashville, and finally at Spanish Port in Mobile Bay. He was mustered out in August, 1865, after more than three years of service. 64 - HISTORY OF OHIO After the war Mr. Phelps became a farmer and stock breeder. He is one of the early breeders of dairy cattle, Southdon sheep and Poland China swine, and his enterprise did much to encourage the pure bred live stock industry. He exhibited his live stock at many fairs, and after he left the farm his sons, Rolland C. and Warren D., continued in the pure bred industry, engaging in the Guernsey breed of cattle and gaining fame for their stock through exhibitions. Warren D. became especially well known in the pure bred live stock industry. In 1896 Mr. Phelps, at the solicitation of his wife, moved to Westerville to educate his children, and since 1900 has been in Columbus. He married in 1868 Miss Louise Maria Clarke, who was born in Franklin County, daughter of George B. and Mindwell E. (Griswold) Clarke and granddaughter of Isaac and Ursula (Clarke) Griswold, this being the Isaac Griswold who accompanied Edward Phelps into Ohio in 1806. Mrs. Phelps was born on the Griswold farm adjoining the Phelps place, and part of that property is still in the family. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps had six children. The oldest, George H., born in 1868, died in 1899, in the midst of a very busy and successful career. The second son, Rolland C. Phelps, was for several years a farmer in Franklin County, and is now a manufacturer of hardwood lumber at Zanesville, Ohio. W. Dwight Phelps, the third son, is in the transfer business at Columbus, and formerly was successfully engaged in farming and the live stock business. The youngest son, Homer Moore, lives at Portland, Oregon. The two daughters are Grace C. and Mary Louise, the former principal of Mount Vernon Avenue Public School, while Mary L. is a bookkeeper. Mrs. Phelps passed away at her home in Columbus, February 17, 1920. Mr. Phelps in 1898 helped organize the old Northwest Genealogical and Historical Society, serving as its secretary twelve years. Its collection of 4,000 volumes is to occupy an alcove in the new Archaeological Society Building at Columbus. This society published fifteen volumes of quarterlies, all of those after 1911 being edited by Mr. Phelps. Mr. Phelps also published the history of the Ninety-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he was an officer, spending ten years in research and selecting and arranging the material for the notable regimental history. Mr. Phelps was also joint editor of the Phelps family history in America. He began making reports on weather conditions to the United States Weather Bureau in 1883, and kept up that custom until recent years. He was also a reporter for the State Board of Health. He joined the Grange in 1874, being one of the few who have held membership in that agricultural organization for half a century. In politics he has been a republican, and was delegate to various conventions of that party. He was a delegate from Ohio to the World,s Farmers at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893. Over forty years ago he was an advocate of cooperative marketing, an idea that within recent years has made remarkable progress in practice. He was one of the founders of the Log Cabin Society, is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was secretary for twenty years of the Ex-Soldiers and Sailors Association of Franklin County. He is a member of the Methodist Church. REV. L. EUGENE RUSH. There is hardly a better instance of a definite calling to the ministry, based on qualifications of character and devotion to the ideals of service to humanity and God, than is found in the pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of Delaware, Rev. L. Eugene Rush. Reverend Rush was born at Hayesville, Ashland County, Ohio, July 5, 1879, son of Freeman K. and Henrietta (Hough) Rush. His grandfather, William Rush, who was from the same line of Rushes as Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, married a Miss Freeman. The maternal grandparents were Solomon and Rebecca (Otto) Hough, the Houghs coming from Pennsylvania. On both sides there were Revolutionary ancestors. Freeman K. Rush, who is still living, was a union soldier in the Civil war. He had been a member of the local militia at the beginning of the war, and went into the volunteer army without getting a discharge. This discharge from the militia he received at the state capital at Columbus during the governorship of Frank B. Willis a few years ago, where it had been held all this time. He went out in Company C of the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This regiment sustained such heavy losses during the Red River campaign that it was consolidated with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Freeman Rush being assigncd to Company I. This regiment, too, became disorganized through losses, and the remnant of the regiment was consolidated with the Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Freeman Rush served in Company B until he was mustered out of service at Galveston, Texas, in August, 1866, when he was given an honorable discharge. During the latter part of his service he served on the staff of Major General Wright. He served as mayor of Hayesville, was a member of the School Board, was past commander of the great army post and was a colonel on the governor ,s staff. He also was a very regular and devout church man and a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Church. His business at Hayesville was blacksmithing, and his successor was his son, Reverend Rush. L. Eugene Rush attended public school at Hayesville, graduating from high school in 1898. At that time he tried to enlist for the Spanish-American war, but his weight was lacking in proportion to his height. While not enjoying the best of health, he went to work in his father,s blacksmith shop, and when his father suffered a nervous breakdown he took over the shop and conducted it for eleven years. All this time he was doing his share of church work as a layman. During the seventh year he was in the shop he attended the first big national meeting of the Foreign Missionary Board at Cleveland. While there he felt called to missionary work and made application to the board as an industrial missionary to South Africa. All matters were arranged in readiness for his departure. Then, upon the examination of his wife, it was found that she did not measure up to the physical requirements, and for that reason the mission had to be abandoned. It was a great disappointment to Mr. Rush. However, he returned to the blacksmith shop, and while working at his trade continued his studies and on a number of occasions filled the pulpits of churches in his locality. He did this work as a supply for about four years. Then it came about that the church of Hayesville was without a pastor. He acted as minister until the Quarterly Conference met, and by that body was chosen to finish out the year. At this time he sold the blacksmith business and moved into the parsonage. In September, 1908, Reverend Rush was appointed pastor of the Grace M. E. Church of Delaware, giving him opportunity to pursue his studies at Ohio Wesleyan University. After he had been there two years the Freedmen’s Aid Society asked him to change his course and specialize in industrial work, to qualify as an instructor in Clark University at Atlanta, Georgia. He finished his preparatory work, but in the meantime Grace Church had enjoyed such a remarkable growth and prosperity that the citizens of Delaware, by a big petition, asked the conference to allow him to remain. The request was granted. When the time HISTORY OF OHIO - 65 came again to change pastorates, another appeal was made by the citizens, so that now Reverend Rush is regarded as a fixture in the ministry at Delaware. The community appreciates all the splendid work of his pastorate, but will never fail to remember especially his leadership and courage during the great flood of 1913, when the east side of the city was completely cut off by the high waters. At a meeting of East Side citizens Reverend Rush was unanimously selected as the temporary East Side mayor, with a full quota of officers to handle the emergency situation. In addition Reverend Rush exerted himself strenuously in rescue work, saving many lives and having three boats smashed under him. When the State Health Department got into communication he was delegated with full authority by that body. Many of his deeds during those tragic days were apparently inspired. He showed the gift of the true executive. One of the first things he did was to commandeer all food, furniture, stoves, coal and building material, and put his men in charge with instructions to keep accurate account of all supplies delivered. On the second day acts of vandalism began, but the offenders were met by armed men who locked them into box cars and shipped them out of town. The adjutant-general of the state gave Reverend Rush full authority to maintain law and order, and the town was practically under martial law for a number of days. In view of all that was accomplished under his lead during these memorable days it is not strange that every class of citizen of Delaware should demand his retention by the conference in his congenial post of labor as pastor of Grace Church. He is an able preacher, and even more successful as a pastor. One feature of his work has been the great sympathy shown by him in all his relations with children and young people and he has earned their confidence. June 23, 1902, at Hayesville, Reverend Rush married Miss Olive Ethel Doerrer, daughter of Charles and Alice (Shenberger) Doerrer. Her parents are Ohio people and are living at Hay esville, where her father for many years was a farmer and is now in the postal service. Mr. and Mrs. Rush have four children: Ralph Eugene, Alice Alberta, Martha Olive and Robert Doerrer. The son Ralph and the daughter Alice, are students in Ohio Wesleyan University. Alice, completing her high school course, won the first prize in 1922 for an essay in state high school contests, in which representatives of forty-nine high schools competed. HARRY G. CHAMBERLAIN. The Crescent Supply Company of Marietta, of which Harry G. Chamberlain is president, is one of the leading organizations in Southeastern Ohio engaged in the production of petroleum and the manufacture of petroleum by products. The business was started in 1896 as a partnership, and in 1906 was incorporated. The original partners were W. T. Schnaufer and H. G. Chamberlain. The plant was established in West Marietta, and was moved to its present location at Norwood in 1913. A diversity of interests makes Mr. Chamberlain one of the outstanding citizens of Marietta. He was born in that city, February 12, 1865, son of Luman Watson and Adeline (Ellenwood) Chamberlain. His parents were natives of Washington County, Ohio. L. W. Chamberlain, who died May 22, 1903, at the age of seventy-three, was educated in Marietta, became an attorney and also served as county surveyor. He held the office of probate judge for three terms, was a republican, and a member of the Congregational Church. His wife died on November 11, 1913, leaving three sons and one daughter. The two children now living are Harry G. and Mrs. W. T. Hastings of Marietta. Harry G. Chamberlain was liberally educated, attending grammar and high schools at Marietta, the Old Marietta Academy and Marietta College. As a youth he expected to follow the profession of law, and read for a time in his father 's,sffice, but practical business affairs proved a stronger attraction. His first employment was in the county recorder 's,sffice, where he was paid $4 a week for the task of writing twenty-one full pages in long hand each day. Later he was clerk in the Marietta post office. He became secretary of the Old Argand Refining Company, and was officially connected with that business for ten years, until it was sold to the Standard Oil Company. The Crescent Supply Company, of which he is president, has divided its business into three branches, one known as the Crescent Supply Company, another as the Crescent Producing Company, and the third, the Crescent Lumber Company. Mr. Chamberlain now gives his time to the Crescent Supply Company and the Crescent Producing Company, a manufacturing jobbing house also active in products, operating oil wells in the Ohio and West Virginia fields. Mr. Chamberlain is a director of the First National Bank, and a former president of the old Marietta Board of Trade. He has been active in county, district, state and national rercpublicanolitics, is a member of the United Commercial Travelers, a life member of the Order of Elks, a Rotarian, and a member of the Country Club. As a boy he played first base on a ball team for which Ban Johnson played second. Mr. Chamberlain has been an ardent fan, and has attended many world series in base ball. He and his family are Unitarians. He married Helen Devol, a native of Marietta. They have three children, John Dudley, editor of the Marietta Register, a paper owned by Mr. H. G. Chamberlain, Mrs. K. L. Kelso, of Marietta, and H. G., Junior, a student in the Ohio State University. CHRISTIAN HENRY SOHN. The progress and advancement of a community is but the reflection of the enterprise and characteristics of those who compose its inhabitants, and in the commercial development, as well as in the social and educational betterment, of Hamilton and Butler County Christian Henry Sohn was long identified in an active and substantial way. Mr. Sohn was born in the City of Bissingen, in Wurttemberg, Germany, May 15, 1846. His father, Charles Frederick Sohn, came to America about 1849, and after a brief interval settled in Cincinnati, where he followed the calling of a brewer. About that time the mother of Christian Henry Sohn died, leaving a family of two sons and two daughters, and a year after her death the children were brought to America by a cousin. 'Following his arrival in America, Christian Henry Sohn was given a home in the family of an uncle, J. G. Sohn, of Cincinnati, and there he remained, attending the public schools of that city, until his fourteenth year, when he began earning his own living. In 1860 he came to Hamilton, having been apprenticed to a butcher, Jacob Rupp, and remained with him until the breaking out of the Civil war. Filled with patriotic ardor for his adopted country, he enlisted for service, but was soon brought back on a writ of habeas corpus, on the charge of having enlisted without the consent of his father, and being under lawful age. In 1863 he engaged as a clerk in a grocery store in Cincinnati, remaining there until he had attained his eighteenth year, when he again enlisted, this time as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-first Ohio Regiment. He remained with this regiment, participating in all of its engagements, until November 23, 1864, when he was seriously wounded during the progress of the 66 - HISTORY OF OHIO Battle of Murfreesboro, and after a long siege in the hospital, was sent home on furlough. His company was mustered out of the service and he received his honorable discharge July 14, 1865. For more than a year following his discharge he was an invalid and a constant sufferer from the effects of his wound. Later he was able to take up work, which he did by accepting a position in a brick yard in Hamilton, and in 1869 became bookkeeper for Henry Egar in a brewery. In 1875 was organized the firm of Sohn, Rentschler & Balle, founders and manufacturers of shelf hardware. The capital of this new enterprise was principally represented by the courage and enterprise of its founders. The following year Mr. Balle retired from the partnership, and the reorganization brought into existence the firm of Sohn and Rentschler. Under the able management of the two men at the head of the business this firm later became one of the best known manufacturers of shelf hardware and gray iron castings in the entire country, and has long been one of Hamilton,s leading industrial establishments. As the passing years brought merited prosperity Mr. Sohn became financially interested in other industrial enterprises, and was always a prominent figure in promoting the industrial growth of his home city. At the time of his death, which occurred January 17, 1915, he was treasurer of the Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company, manufacturers of portable and stationary engines and threshers, and another one of Hamilton’s important manufacturing enterprises. He was also one of the founders of the Phoenix Castor Company, and a shareholder in numerous other important enterprises. The disastrous flood which swept the city in 1913 brought heavy damage to Hamilton, but Mr. Sohn was one of those men to whom discouragement was an unknown factor, and the modern manufacturing plants which have succeeded those swept away stand as monuments to the spirit of resolute energy and determination of the builders, while the increased output of the new plants confirm the wisdom of the optimism displayed. Mr. Sohn was twice married. His first wife was Anna Sophia Morgenthaler, who died leaving no children. January 16, 1907, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma A. Roegge, who still survives him. Mrs. Sohn is a native of Cincinnati, and a daughter of Henry and Mary (Lilly) Roegge, both of whom are deceased. Her father was for many years a well known merchant of Cincinnati. Christian Henry Sohn was a man of sterling character, shrewd and practical, though absolutely just and fair in all of his dealings, and his success in life was never won at the price of another ,s downfall. In society and among his friends he was known as a genial, affable man who won and held friendships, and whose sterling qualities commanded the respect of all who knew him. C. ARTHUR MORRISON, former president of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association, now gives most of his time to his duties as an officer in an automobile tire company. Mr. Morrison represents a pioneer family of Franklin County, and was born on his father ,s farm in Plain Township July 25, 1875, son of Charles Wesley and Loretta (Roberts) Morrison. His mother is still living in Ohio. His great-great-grandfather, David Morrison, was one of three brothers who came from England in the army sent over by Great Britain to fight the colonies in their struggle for independence. David deserted and joined the colonists. His son, David Morrison, married Nancy Mann, of old Holland Dutch stock. The Manns were pioneers of Morristown, New Jersey, and Morristown was named from David Morrison, the first prominent settler. Grandfather David Morrison, on coming to Ohio, settled in Franklin County and developed the farm where his son Charles Wesley and his grandson, C. Arthur, were both born. Nancy Mann was also connected with the Oldham family, a family of the English nobility and identified with the early history of Morristown, New Jersey. In the maternal line Loretta Roberts is a descendant of Bear Roberts, who was a Colonial settler in New England, coming from England. Mr. Morrison had several ancestors in the American Revolution. Charles Wesley Morrison was a farmer in early life, and also a stage driver in the days before railroads. He drove one of the old-fashioned stage coaches on the route from Columbus to Mount Sterling and from Columbus to Kirkersville. He finally left the farm and moved to Delaware, where he engaged in the undertaking business. He was a very active member and on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was master of the Masonic Lodge at New Albany. C. Arthur Morrison was educated in public schools, attended high school, the Presbyterian Temple College and the Normal School at Reynoldsburg, Franklin County. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, a profession he followed for five years. Part of the time he was connected with the schools at New Albany and also with district schools. During the last three years he studied medicine under Doctor Gravina. From the educational profession he joined his father in the undertaking business at Delaware in 1900. Mr. Morrison gave most of his time to the undertaking business until 1921. He is one of the best known funeral directors in the state. His activity in behalf of the profession brought him the distinction of being elected president in 1915 at the Funeral Directors Association. He made many speeches over the state and otherwise exercised his influence toward getting the Legislature to adopt revised and higher standards for embalmers and funeral directors. Mr. Morrison is treasurer and a director of the Rainbow Tire and Rubber Company. This company owns license on a puncture proof inner tube which has been submitted to the most rigid tests and pronounced one of the big things in the automobile world. The plant for manufacturing these tubes is located at Delaware, and the main offices of the com- pany are in Columbus. Mr. Morrison is a leader in church work, being a steward and on the Official Board of the William Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Delaware and superintendent of its Sunday school. He joined the church when he was sixteen years of age. He is a republican in politics. October 22, 1902, in Delaware County, Mr. Morrison married Miss Gertrude L. Finch, daughter of Harmon and Mary A. (Ferguson) Finch, both Ohio people and now deceased. Her father was a farmer, and was a trustee and steward of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have three sons and one daughter, Dorris, Charles, Donald and Lloyd. Dorris graduated from high school in 1923. The children are all musical in their tastes and talents, and derive these qualities in large part from their father, who in his younger days played an instrument in the band and has always kept up his interest in musical matters. DANIEL FREDERICK WALLENFELSZ, M. D. Having put all his early earnings and capital into his medical education, Doctor Wallenfelsz when he located at Pleasant City in Guernsey County was well equipped for the work of his profession but without other HISTORY OF OHIO - 67 capital. He has exhibited remarkable energy in everything he has undertaken, and is not only the leading physician, but one of the bankers of Pleasant City. He was born on a farm near Dalzell, in Washington County, Ohio, March 11, 1871. His father, Casper Wallenfelsz, who was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, August 11, 1828, learned the stone cutter 's trade in his native land. In 1856, accompanied by his mother and sister, he came to America, living for a time in Cleveland, and in 1858 moved to Washington County, Ohio. In the early years he worked at his trade and lived on a farm, gradually accumulating extensive farming interests that required all his attention. He was one of the county's, prosperous citizens, a devout Lutheran and a democrat in politics. Casper Wallenfelsz, who died January 5, 1908, married Saloma Ruch. She was born in Alsace, April 22, 1832, came to the United States in 1841, at the age of nine, being on the voyage seventy-two days, and she died January 4, 1908, aged seventy-six. Ninth in a large family of eleven children, Daniel Frederick Wallenfelsz was reared in a comfortable home, but early had to contrive his own opportunities for any advancement beyond the opportunities of the local schools and his immediate circumstances. He was educated in public schools and summer normal school, and for eleven years taught in country districts. Teaching paid his way through medical college, and he graduated with high standing in his class from Starling Medical College in Columbus in 1902. Following his graduation he was an interne and resident house physician at Saint Francis Hospital in Columbus, and on June 6, 1903, established himself in Pleasant City, Guernsey County, whwhcreor over twenty years he has been constantly busy in handling his general practice. He is a member of the Guernsey County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a willing worker in all community projects. Doctor Wallenfelsz was formerly a director of the Peoples State Bank, and in October, 1916, assisted in organizing and became vice president of the Pleasant City State Bank. The handsome bank building was erected in 1917, and since January 1, 1923, Doctor Wallenfelsz has been president of this substantial institution. He also owns the finest home in Pleasant City, and adjoining it on the principal business street has erected a fine store building. Doctor Wallenfelsz enjoys hunting and fishing, was a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps during the World war, is a Methodist, and fraternally is affiliated with Masterton Lodge No. 429, Free and Accepted Masons, Cambridge Chapter No. 53, Royal Arch Masons, Cambridge Council No. 74, Royal and Select Masters, Cambridge Commandery No. 47, Knights Templar, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He also belonged to Pleasant City Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Doctor Wallenfelsz on June 3, 1903, married Miss Laura B. Hall, a native of Washington County, Ohio. Her father, William M. Hall, was born near old Washington, in Guernsey County, was a quiet and industrious farmer, a member of the Methodist Church, and died in November, 1921, at the venerable age of ninety-four. Her mother bore the maiden name of Sarah Anna Forshey, and died in March, 1918, aged seventy-six. Mrs. Wallenfelsz is an active worker in the Methodist Church at Pleasant City. WILLIAM HARVEY SMITH. His extensive general practice and his many civic and business interests during the past twenty years have made William Harvey Smith one of the best known attorneys and men of affairs in Noble County. He was born in that county, and for many years before taking up the profession of law was engaged in teaching. He was born on a farm October 14, 1867, son of Henry and Mary J. (Spence) Smith, his parents also natives of Noble County. His father. at the age of sixteen enlisted as a Union soldier in the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Infantry, and saw service during the last year of the war. Afterwards he took up farming, but since 1909 has been a guard in the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. With a boyhood spent on a farm in Noble County, William Harvey Smith made the best of his advantages in the public schools, and, obtaining a teacher's certificate, he started work in one of the rural school districts, and for many years was well known in the educational circles of Washington and Noble counties. [n the meantime he was advancing his own education, and in 1902 graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. While teaching he also took up the study of law, reading under Hon. Martin D. Follett, of Marietta. Mr. Smith was admitted to the bar in 1900, but continued teaching until 1904, when he located at Caldwell and for ten years was associated in practice with Judge C. 0. Dye. For the past ten years he has conducted his practice alone, and has come to rank with the leaders of the local bar. He was elected county attorney in 1905 and again in 1910, winning the election on the democratic ticket in a county largely republican. He has served as chairman of the County Central and Executive committee of the democratic party. He is a director of and attorney for the Caldwell Building and Loan Association. Since youth Mr. Smith has been a devoted nature lover, and this interest in outdoors has brought him two hobbies, chicken raising and the love of fine horses. He has a flock of chickens that represent some of the finest breeding in this part of Ohio. He is superintendent of the racing department in the Noble County Fair Association. During the World war he participated in all the drives. Mr. Smith is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and has also been district deputy grand chancellor, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On October 27, 1891, he married Miss Effie C. Archer, a native of Noble County. Her father, Bell Archer, was born in Stock Township of Noble County in 1845, and for fifty-one years was a teacher in the schools of the county. Her mother was Clara Thompson Archer, who died February, 1924. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Marjorie, wife of Dr. L. B. Walters, a dentist at Caldwell, and she is the mother of a daughter, Mary Elane, Harold A. and Helen. THOMAS H. DILL, one of the venerable retired citizens of the fair capital City of Columbus, where he and his wife have their attractive and hospitable home at 20 West Hinman Avenue, has been a resident of Ohio since he was a youth of seventeen years, and where he has made not only a record of successful achievement but has also served as a member of the State Legislature and as mayor or president of the common council at Lithopolis, Fairfield County. Mr. Dill was born in Kent County, Delaware, in the year 1839, and is a son of Philemon and Rebecca (Hurd) Dill. He is a scion of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and the Dill family was early established in Maryland, where several of its generations worthily lived and wrought. In the schools of his native state Mr. Dill received his preliminary education, and in 1856, at the age of seventeen years, he came to Ohio, where for two terms he was a student in Oberlin College. He gave some time also to the study of law, but the basic industry of agriculture made greater appeal to him than the dry intricacies of jurisprudence, with the 68 - HISTORY result that he engaged in farm enterprise in Morrow County, where he remained eight years. He next passed one year in Fairfield County, and then returned to Morrow County, where he continued his farm activities six years. During the ensuing four years he maintained his residence at Westernville, Franklin County, and in 1877 he purchased a farm in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, near the Village of Lithopolis. In that county he continued an honored and influential citizen for the long period of twenty-six years, and since 1903 he has lived virtually retired, in the City of Columbus. In 1888 Mr. Dill was elected representative of Fairfield County in the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature, he having made a record in the advancing of constructive and wise legislation in the Sixty-eighth session of the Legislature, and also in the Sixty-ninth, as the popular estimate placed upon his service was shown in his reelection in 1890. He was assigned to various House committees of major importance, including that on agriculture, but his work in the Legislature is best remembered in connection with the prominent and influential part which he played in the initial legislative movement for the establishing of local option in Ohio, a movement that was a very part of the subsequent activities that led to national prohibition of the liquor traffic. Mr. Dill has always been an ardent apostle of temperance, and when in the Sixty-eighth session of the Ohio Legislature there came up for consideration the matter of giving local option powers to the counties of the state, he was one of the most virile, loyal' and persistent advocates of the proposed legislation, his vote having been cast in support of the measure, which was carried by a majority of only one vote. By his activities in this connection Mr. Dill won many loyal friends among high-minded and representative citizens of the Buckeye State, and also gained secure vantage-ground in county and state politics. He has always been aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, and it was on the ticket of this party that he was elected to the Legislature. He held for six years the office of mayor or president of the municipal government of Lithopolis, and gave a characteristically loyal and effective administration. Mr. Dill had the distinction also of being chosen an Ohio delegate to the Western and Southern Commercial Congress held at Kansas City, Missouri, in April, 1891. This congress was an assemblage of governors and other public officials and leading professional and business men from all of the Middle, Western and Southern states, and Mr. Dill was made chairman of the committee of organization, to which was assigned the selection of the president of the congress, an honor which fell to Hon. David R. Francis, of Missouri. Mr. Dill has substantial property interests to attest the constructive results of his many years of earnest endeavor since he established his home in the Buckeye State, and in his venerable years he is enjoying the comfort and repose that should ever attend those who have thus Jived and wrought to goodly ends. In the year 1858 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dill and Miss Marian Harris, daughter of Philemon and Jane (Needles) Harris and a granddaughter of George Needles, who came from his native state of Delaware to Ohio in 1803, and became one of the first settlers—in fact the first taxpayer—in Fairfield County, where he reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm in Bloom Township, the first Methodist Episcopal Church in that county having been organized in his home. Mr. Dill has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for sixty-five years, and his wife for an even longer period. They are now among the most venerable and revered members of the South Methodist Episcopal Church in their home City of Columbus, and in the gracious evening of their lives they may well feel that "their lines are cast in pleasant places." Mr. and Mrs. Dill have three children: Willard, Philemon C. and Nellie. Well worthy of preservation in this connection are the following extracts from a Columbus newspaper of recent date : "Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dill will celebrate their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary March 5, 1924. Mr. Dill is one of the oldest church members in Columbus, and will be honor guest Monday evening at a reception celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday, to be held in South High Street Baptist Church. He has been a teacher of Bible classes for more than sixty years." It may further be noted that this occasion was made one of noteworthy order in the church circles of the capital city, and that the wedding anniversary of this gracious and loved couple of venerable citizens was marked by their reception of innumerable tributes of honor from their host of friends. HOMER JOHNSON has been one of Caldwell's most active business men and workers for the community welfare and prosperity of that Noble County town. His own career has been spent as a teacher, farmer and merchant. He is now the active executive in the Caldwell Produce Company. Mr. Johnson was born at the old county seat of Noble County, Sarahsville, April 29, 1878. His grandfather, Reed Johnson, came from Rhode Island to Ohio, and established the family in Noble County. Thomas Buckley Johnson, father of Homer, was born at Sarahsville, and has spent his active career as a farmer. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, Alberta Davis, was also born in Noble County. Homer Johnson grew up on the farm, attended public schools, and at the age of eighteen qualified as a teacher. During the next sixteen years he alternated between farming and teaching in Center Township, and a large number of his old pupils testify to the inspiring quality of his service as an educator. Mr. Johnson in 1913 became clerk of court at Caldwell, and filled that office two terms. For a short time after retiring from office he was a clerk in the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Caldwell, but later in 1917, took his present offices as vice president and general manager of the Caldwell Produce Company. This company deals in butter, eggs and poultry, manufactures the Caldwell brand of creamery butter, and has a model plant for its business. The company is a subsidiary of the Newcomerstown Produce Company. Mr. Johnson for a number of years has practiced as a recreation the growing of flowers, and has used his skill to adorn not only his home but the grounds of his business plant. Another recreation is hunting and fishing. He is an active member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a republican, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias. He married at Sarahsville, July 29, 1901, Winnie Belle Perry, who was born there. Her father, the late Francis Perry, was a brick layer by trade, was a Union soldier, serving throughout the four years of the Civil war, and late in life engaged in the general nursery business at Sarahsville. Mrs. Johnson is an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church and also the Woman,s Clubs in Caldwell. They have five children, Okey, Virgil, Pauline, Dorothy and Geneva. Okey is now connected with the Blue Valley Creamery Company. Virgil is in his second year in Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio. Pauline will enter Bliss College at Columbus, Ohio, September 1, 1924. Dorothy and Geneva are attending the local schools. HISTORY OF OHIO - 69 J. WALTER DONALDSON, M. D. For more than twenty years Doctor Donaldson has been a hard working physician and surgeon at Marietta. During this time he has been a leader in public health work, and much of his time has been devoted to a service such as only a professional man can render, but which has little direct remuneration in money. For fifteen years he was township health officer, and since August, 1920, has been city health officer of Marietta. Doctor Donaldson was born on a farm in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1873, son of Alexander and Mary (Calvin) Donaldson. Alexander Donaldson, who died September 19, 1922, at the age of eighty-one, served four years as a Union soldier through the Civil war, being a member of Company B, of the One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the Ninth Army Corps. He was offered a commission, but declined. He participated in twenty-six major battles, being in Virginia, as far south as Florida and also at the siege of Vicksburg. For some time he was a prisoner at Libby Prison and at Belle Isle, and in the battle of the Wilderness received two wounds, one in the scalp and was shot through the hand. After the war his career was devoted to farming. His widow passed away February 11, 1924, in Pennsylvania. There were two children, a son and daughter. J. Walter Donaldson was reared in the rugged country of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and after the common schools attended Grove City College in his native county, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Marietta College in 1897. He took up the study of medicine in the Medical Department of the University of Pittsburgh, in the Homeopathic School, and after a year entered the College of Homeopathy at Cleveland, graduating in 1901. Since that year he has been engaged in private practice at Marietta. For the past two years he has been a member of the Executive Board of the Ohio State Institute of Homeopathy, and is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations. For ten years he has taught physiology and anatomy in the Nurses Training School at Marietta. Doctor Donaldson was a volunteer at the time of the World war, received a commission in the American Reserve Corps, but was not called to active duty. He was examining surgeon on the Local Draft Board and is now a member of the Pension Board. He belongs to the Sons of Veterans, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Woodmen and is a republican in politics. He was a member of the City Council from 1908 to 1914, being president of the Council the last two years. In 1901 he married Miss Mary P. Simpson, daughter of John S. Simpson. They have two children, John A., who recently graduated from Marietta College, and Ruth, a student in high school. The family are members of the First Congregational Church, Mrs. Donaldson and her son John teaching classes in the Sunday school. JAMES UNDERWOOD, superintendent of public parks of Columbus, is by early training and many years of experience an authority on everything connected with the growing and propagation of trees and plants and on the different phases of landscape gardening. Practically his entire life has been lived on the border of Franklin Park, of which he was superintendent before being elevated to the present responsibility, where he has charge of all of the parks of the city. Mr. Underwood was born in Columbus, and his father, the late John Underwood, was one of the old time citizens, and was highly esteemed both as an individual and a business man. He located at Columbus in 1865 and started in the green house and nursery business. That was his occupation all his life, and he was known as an authority on everything connected with the growing of plants and trees. His knowledge combined both the scientific and practical. John Underwood died at Columbus in 1903, at the age of eighty-four years. James Underwood grew up on the border of Franklin Park, his present home. The original Underwood home was on Kelton Avenue, near the southwest corner of the park. After attending the public schools, he worked for his father and grew up in the floral nursery and landscape business. In the meantime, on August 1, 1900, Mr. Underwood was appointed superintendent of Franklin Park, and he has continued to serve the city government in the field where his qualifications are most expert for over twenty years. In 1911 the Forestry Department was created, Mr. Underwood being placed in charge of this department in addition to his duties as park superintendent. Then, in 1917, when the entire system of municipal parks and park places were combined under one jurisdiction, Mr. Underwood was given the title of superintendent of public parks and chief tree warden. In this office he has charge of about sixty-five parks and street plots, including all the parkways where trees are planted outside of the property lines. In the park system of Columbus, Franklin Park stands out as the largest and most conspicuous, containing over 142 acres, and is a place of beauty and a source of pride to the city. Mr. Underwood directs the work of a large staff, having charge of the care of the different parks, the operation of the greenhouses and the handling of the trees and plants and other items in the landscape gardening program conducted by the city. Mr. Underwood married Miss Fannie Mclntroy. He had the misfortune to lose his wife by death in the summer of 1923. His two sons are James Franklin and Edward Karb Underwood. SAMUEL H. PUTNAM, of Washington County, Ohio, at the time of his death was a retired business man and extensive land owner and occupied the old family residence at 519 Fourth Street in Marietta. The Putnam family came from Buckinghamshire, England, and in America located at Salem, Massachusetts. Maj.-Gen. Israel Putnam was born at Salem, Village, near Danvers, January 7, 1718. His son, Col. Israel Putnam, was also born at Salem, January 28, 1740. Of these historic figures nothing need be mentioned in this brief article beyond their names. A son of Col. Israel Putnam was David Putnam, who was born February 24, 1769, and was the founder of this particular branch of the Putnam family in Washington County, Ohio. He was a native of Connecticut, and was a single man when he moved to Washington County, Ohio, in 1790, joining the first permanent colony at Marietta. Eight years later he returned to Connecticut and was married, and became a clerk in the Ohio Company ,s purchase office, being one of the first employed by Gen. Rufus Putnam. David Putnam was a lawyer by profession, and dealt extensively in real estate, leaving a large amount of property when he died. He also held the office of postmaster. David Putnam married Elizabeth Perkins, of Plainfield, Connecticut, on September 16, 1798. Of their twelve children the last survivor was Douglas Putnam. Douglas Putnam, father of Samuel H. Putnam, was born in Washington County, Ohio, April 7, 1806, and died December 20, 1894, at the age of eighty-eight years, eight months, thirteen days. He was engaged in the real estate business and was also connected with a bucket factory for many years. He assisted in the construction of the first railroad between Marietta and Parkersburg, a road later sold to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Com- 70 - HISTORY OF OHIO pany. He was secretary of Marietta College from its infancy to the day of his death, 1835-1894. His activities and affairs made him one of the very prominent men in and about Marietta. On February 16, 1831, Douglas Putnam married Mary Ann Hildreth, a daughter of the distinguished Dr. S. P. Hildreth, physician, scientist and historian. She died October 24, 1842, leaving five children: Benjamin, deceased; Samuel H., Douglas, president of the Iron Works at Ashland, Kentucky; John Day and Harriet Day, both of whom died in childhood. On May 16, 1844, Douglas Putnam married as his second wife Mrs. Ann Eliza Tucker, a daughter of Levi and Eliza Whipple. She died September 9, 1862, leaving two children: Mary Hildreth, who married Dr. Frank H. Bosworth, of New York; and Eliza Whipple, wife of C. S. McCandlish, of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Douglas Putnam was married the third time, January 24, 1867, to Sara C. Diamond, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Samuel H. Putnam, son of Douglas and Mary Ann (Hildreth) Putnam, was born at Harmer, in Washington County, Ohio, June 19, 1835. He was reared in his native community, engaged in clerking for a time, and in 1856 became identified with the bucket factory, an industry with which his name and service were identified for many years. Before the war he became a member of the State Militia, and in 1861 enlisted in Company L of the First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. This was the first regiment of cavalry raised in Ohio for the Civil war. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant, and for a time was with the escort of Gen. George H. Thomas, commander of the Fourteenth Army Corps. He served nearly three years, then returning home to attend to his manufacturing interests. He was active in the bucket factory until 1885 and afterward lived practically retired, though supervising the management of a farm. Samuel H. Putnam was a member of Buell Post No. 178, Grand Army of the Republic, and a member of the Harmer Congregational Church. The home where he and his family live at 519 Fourth Street, was built in 1798 by David Putnam. Samuel H. Putnam died May 2, 1911. October 18, 1866, he married Abigail Forbes Mixer, who was born April 12, 1839, at Unionville, Lake County, Ohio, and died June 20, 1924. The three children of their marriage are Samuel Hildreth, Jr., Benjamin Barnes and Mary Dorcas. Samuel Hildreth, Jr., was born January 10, 1869, and is identified with an assets realization business under the name of Putnam Brothers. His home is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He married March 31, 1902, Miss Clara Louise Mooney, of Rochester, New York, and has two children Clara, Louise and Samuel H., Jr. The second child, Benjamin Barnes Putnam, is a prominent figure in business and civic circles at Marietta, whose career is given in the following sketch. Mary Dorcas Putnam, youngest child of Samuel H. Putnam, was born May 21, 1879. BENJAMIN HAY PUTNAM, who represents the fifth generation of the Putnam family in Washington County, is an ex-service man of the World war, and since the war has been a member of a prominent general contracting firm doing business over several states. He was born at Fairfield, Illinois, July 6, 1896, son of Benjamin B. Putnam and grandson of Samuel H. Putnam. A complete record of his father and grandfather and other ancestors is published elsewhere. Benjamin H. Putnam was reared at Marietta, attending the grammar and high schools, Marietta Academy and was a student in Marietta College when he left on account of the war. He had joined the Motor Reserve before America entered the war, and he went overseas with the Motor Transport Division, French Army, being on the battle lines attached to the French Army seven months and then enlisting in the Aviation Corps. He was in actual flying service at the battle lines. His two companions who went with him from Marietta to France, Cramer Tabler and Sol Lindsley, both lost their lives in France. Benjamin Hay Putnam served as a second lieutenant and was promoted to first lieutenant in the Aviation Corps and received his honorable discharge in March, 1919. His brother George was also in the flying service in England, and while with the American Aviation Corps was attached to the Royal Flying Corps of England. Benjamin H. Putnam married Esther Harrington, daughter of William Harrington, of Marietta. Mr. Putnam is affiliated with the Elks Lodge. As a youth he was associated with his father in the contracting business, and in 1920 he formed a partnership with a brother of his father 's old partner, Mr. Foreman. The firm is now Foreman & Putnam, and is doing building and construction work, comprising large contracts in Ohio and West Virginia. The chief contract of the firm at present is the building of extensive additions to West Virginia University. CLINTON CHARLES OESTERLE, a member of one of the old families of Washington County noted for its sturdy industry, its fine mechanical skill and good citizenship is that represented by Clinton Charles Oesterle, who is proprietor of the Galvan Manufacturing Company at Marietta, and is a veteran of the World war. He was born in the little village of Constitution, near Marietta, in Washington County, September 20, 1894. His grandfather, Jacob Oesterle, was a native of Germany, and was thirteen years of age when brought to America by his parents, who settled in the vicinity of Marietta. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of wagon making in Cincinnati, and became an expert woodworker. He followed his trade at Lower Salem, Watertown and Unionville, and then at Marietta established the Oesterle shop on the banks of the Muskingum River. His output was the Oesterle wagon, well known for its substantial and enduring qualities, not only in this section of the country, but wherever used. Jacob Oesterle at the time of the Civil war, and when General Morgan invaded Southern Ohio, joined a local organization of militia known as the Twin Cook Brigade or the Squirrel Rifles. He and his family were active Lutherans in religion. He was the father of five sons. His son Henry as a young man worked in the mines of Colorado and the Klondyke, and is now a prosperous banker, hardware merchant and sheeprancher at Prosser, Washington. Mrs. Oesterle's father was George Parker, of Boaz, West Virginia. Mr. Oesterle is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a Baptist. Clinton Charles and Ralph L. Oesterle are members of the Masonic Order, C. C. being a member of Lodge No. 129 of Williamstown, West Virginia, while Ralph L. is a member of Lodge No. 390 of Marietta. C. C. Oesterle is also a member of the local Kiwanis Club. The son George became a wagon maker, and worked in the wagon making plant established by his father. Emil is associated with the National Service Station at Marietta. John H. carried on his father 's wagon making industry under the name of J. H. Oesterle and Company, and was president of the Liberty building and Loan Association at Marietta when he died. Jacob F. Oesterle, father of Clinton C., was born at Marietta, and also engaged in the wagon making industry. He married Alice Mitchell, daughter of George Mitchell, of an old family of Southeastern HISTORY OF OHIO - 71 Ohio. Jacob F. Oesterle and wife had the following children: Clinton Charles; Ralph L. and Glenn M; Clem, who died in infancy, Alice, wife of Ray McCann, of Marietta; and Edith, wife of E. W. Wagner, of Marietta. Clinton Charles Oesterle grew up and acquired his education at Marietta. As a boy he was employed in the Galvan plant, and has filled every position in that industry from laborer to owner. Mr. Oesterle married, April 2, 1918, Miss Hope Parker. They did not ask exemption on account of marriage, and both served in the World war. Mr. Oesterle at first was on duty with Company I of the Sixty-eighth Infantry, in training at Columbus Barracks and at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and after his discharge he immediately volunteered again and was assigned to duty at the naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, where his wife was located. She was on duty there, and both received their discharge June 5, 1919. KARL D. MARSCH. One of the important industries of the City of Marietta is the Marietta Fruit Package and Lumber Company. It was established over thirty years ago, and turns out a product used by fruit growers and shippers all over this section of the Ohio Valley. The manager of the company is Karl D. Marsch, and his father is president. Karl D. Marsch was born October 16, 1883, son of Jacob P. and Elizabeth (Zimmer) Marsch. His parents were born at Stanleyville, his father on December 20, 1859. Jacob Marsch as a young man worked in a saw mill, and in 1890 moved to Marietta, where for two years he was employed in the hardware store of L. A. Kropp. In 1892 he and John Gearhart and Charles Pape established the Marietta Fruit Package and Lumber Company. They began operations in a building 20 by 40 feet, with six employes. Some years later the business was incorporated, with Jacob Marsch as president and William Plumer as secretary-treasurer. For a number of years the plant drew its material from the hard wood districts of adjoining states, but in order to insure a reliable supply of raw material in 1918 the company established a veneer mill at Boyd, Alabama. The company now runs at a maximum capacity, supplying fruit and berry crates and boxes for the growers in many of the leading fruit counties of Ohio and adjoining states. Jacob P. Marsch is affiliated with the democratic party, served five years on the Marietta City Council and is active in local affairs. He and his wife had three children, Karl D. being the only son. Karl D. Marsch was educated in the public schools of Marietta and had a business college course. As a boy, in holidays and vacations he worked at his father's plant, grew up in that atmosphere, and since 1918 has been its efficient manager. He is one of the serious and earnest younger business men of Marietta, and while independent in politics concerns himself with the problems of good government. He married Miss Anna Schultheis, and both are teachers in the First Congregational Sunday School. Two daughters were born to their marriage, Mary Anna dying at the age of seven years, and the living child is Susan. ARTHUR SELLMON BELL for over twenty years has had a useful part in the business life of Washington County. He is a banker, farmer and wholesale produce dealer at Waterford. He is secretary of the Waterford Commercial and Savings Bank, having been identified with that institution since it was organized. Mr. Bell was born on a farm in Pleasants County, West Virginia, February 15, 1882, son of Moses C. and Nancy (Anderson) Bell. His mother died in 1885. Moses C. .Bell moved from West Virginia to Ohio in 1901, and is now living as a retired farmer at Waterford, having been active in farming in this community until recent years. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. In the family were three sons and six daughters, the oldest son, William J. Bell, is a West Virginia farmer living at the old homestead in Pleasants County. Another son, Charles R., is in the real estate business at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Arthur Sellmon Bell was reared in Pleasants County, West Virginia, where he attended country schools. He accompanied his father to Ohio and remained on the farm until he was twenty-three. He then became associated with his brother Charles R. Bell and Mr. Joseph Oliver as partners in a lumber and contracting. business. They all learned carpentry and brick laying, and as expert mechanics they shared in the labors of the contracting business, at the same time employing other skilled workers. As contractors they erected some of the finer residences of Beverly, Waterford and surrounding territory. After three years Arthur S. Bell sold out his interest in this firm, and for fourteen months was engaged in the general mercantile business, then became a farmer, and has since engaged in the wholesale produce business. He still retains his home farm two miles south of Waterford. Mr. Bell married, June 4, 1905, Miss Mary Hill. She died May 12, 1906, leaving one daughter, Celia May, now a senior in the Waterford High School. On February 6, 1909, Mr. Bell married Kate Bartlett, daughter of Capt. George Bartlett, of Waterford. Her father was captain of Company B of the Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have one daughter, Sylvia Marie. Mrs. Bell is a member of the Local School Board. Mr. Bell has always had an interest in local affairs and politics, though he has never been a candidate for office. He is a member of the Christian Church, and is an active member of the Grange and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. HON WALTER S. HARLAN, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Ohio, was born near the Village of Twenty Mile Stand in Warren County, Ohio, November 9, 1868. His father, Jonathan E. Harlan, was a leading physician in that county. His mother, Elizabeth Nixon Harlan, came from the Nixon family, one of the pioneer families of Warren County. Judge Harlan followed the course so common to self-made men of his day. He obtained an education, taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1893 he began the practice of law at Middletown, Ohio, and soon obtained prominence in his profession, taking high rank as a trial lawyer. In 1899 he was elected city attorney of Middletown, Ohio, and was reelected without opposition. In 1904, upon the invitation of Hon. Allen Andrews of Hamilton, Ohio, he entered into partnership with him for the practice of law under the firm name of Andrews and Harlan, and moved for that purpose to Hamilton, Ohio. Upon the entrance of Mr. Andrews' son some time later the firm became Andrews, Harlan and Andrews, and continued as such until Judge Harlan's election to the bench. Judge Harlan took a leading part in the litigation in Butler County, Ohio, as long as he remained at the bar. He was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1912. At the request of the bar he was a candidate for a second term and was elected without opposition, and at the end of his second term he is again a candidate, with the indorsement of the bar and without opposition. This is a unique record in Butler 72 - HISTORY OF OHIO County. His decisions are rarely reversed by the reviewing courts. As a jurist his outstanding characteristics area clear, analytical mind, accuracy in statement, a thorough knowledge of the law, courage to administer it without respect to persons, and a delight in administering justice. He has frequently been mentioned for higher judicial positions. He married Miss Lulu Curryer, of Middletown, Ohio, daughter of Ira Hunt Curryer and Mary Ann (Wicoff) Curryer. Mrs. Harlan has been active and prominent in the social and civil affairs of her city and county, rendering especially valuable services in war time activities. FRED PRICE. The Beverly despatch is one of the older papers of Washington County, having been founded in 1877. It is now published by the firm of Price and Holdren. Mr. Fred Price is a veteran printer and newspaper man, well known on both sides of the Ohio River. He began his career at Marietta. He was born in the City of Marietta, July 9, 1877 son of John N. and Hannah (Hill) Price, also natives of this Ohio city. John N. Price, now seventy-six years of age, has been superintendent of cemeteries at Marietta for twenty-five years. He served a long term as a member of the Harmer School Board, and was on the council of that village when Harmer was annexed to Marietta. He is a republican, a Methodist, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. After the death of his first wife, in 1919, he married Jennie Hoff. John N. Price by his first marriage had three sons and two daughters. The youngest son, Samuel H., is a machinist living at Columbus, and the son Harry died in childhood. Fred Price spent his boyhood in the old town of Harmer, attending grade schools there. He was fourteen years of age when he went to work in the old Register office in Marietta, and during his apprenticeship learned the printing business in every phase. He was with the Register from 1891 until the printer 's strike in 1899, at which time he had charge of the job department. In 1899 he took charge of the power and mechanical department of the Fairmont Free Press at Fairmont, West Virginia, and for six months had charge of the job department of the Grafton Sentinel in West Virginia. After this experience in West Virginia he returned to Marietta, and was connected with the job department of the Marietta Register until 1915. In 1915 Mr. Price, J. F. Hovey and Harry D. Knox bought at receivers sale the Beverly Dispatch. In December, 1916, the Intercity Printing and Publishing Company was incorporated at Marietta, with H. D. Knox as president. Fred Price, vice president, and J. F. Hovey, secretary-treasurer. This company published the Sunday Morning Observer, the Beverly Dispatch and the Lowell Citizen. In 1916 Mr. Price took over the Dispatch as his interest in the corporation, and since 1920, with Mr. Frank Holdren, has published it as The Beverly Dispatch. This is one of the well edited country newspapers in Southeastern Ohio, independent in politics, and with an extensive circulation through this part of Ohio and in adjoining states. The company maintains a fully equipped job department for commercial printing. Mr. Price married in 1903, Miss Helen Stossmeister, of Marietta, daughter of Dr. A. Stossmeister. They have one son, Jesse C. Mr. Price is a Presbyterian, treasurer of the Sunday school, is affiliated with Harmer Lodge 390, Free and Accepted Masons, the Masonic Club and the Modern Woodmen of America. JOHN H. SEELY grew up in the atmosphere of a flour mill, learned the business almost at the same time as he learned the alphabet in school, and has spent most of his active life in that official industry in Washington County. He and Edwin W. Pabst are now proprietors of the Waterford Roller Mills. This new plant was erected in 1914 by Mr. Seely and his partner, Mr. H. D. Woodford. Mr. Woodford eighteen months later sold his business to Edward W. Pabst. The firm has a modern, well equipped plant, manufacturing a high grade of flour sold and distributed all over this part of the Ohio Valley. Mr. Seely was born at Watertown, in Washington County, February 27, 1871, son of John A. and Diantha C. (Laflin) Seely. His mother was born in Washington County, in 1832, and died in 1917, at the advance age of eighty-five. John A. Seely, who was born in Sullivan County, New York, in 1821, learned the miller 's trade as a youth, coming to Ohio in 1845, and locating at Watertown. He erected there the Wolf Creek Flour Mill, a plant that was afterwards reequipped and the roller process installed. He continued active in the milling industry until his death in 1891. He exemplified the popular conception of a miller, being kindly, affable, an energetic business man and with a host of friends. During the Civil war he served as a member of the so-called tin cup militia, organized to meet the Morgan raiders and drive them from the state. He and his wife belonged to the Universalist Church at Watertown. They had six children, the only son being John H. Seely. John H. Seely grew up at Watertown, attending public schools there and spending other portions of the day and holidays and vacations in his father 's mill. He was of a mechanical turn of mind and familiarized himself with every detail in the milling business. He dressed the burrs and looked after all other mechanical details. Mr. Seely lived in the house where he was born for a period of forty-two years, and after his father 's death he continued the milling business until 1911, when the milling property was sold, after having been in the Seely family for a period of sixty-five years. Mr. Seely for about two years was engaged in farming, and in December, 1913, moved to Waterford, Washington County, where during the following year he erected the Waterford Rolling Mills. During his long residence at Watertown he served as township clerk and clerk of the school board. He is a charter member of Watertown Lodge, No. 852, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. in which he has held all the chairs, and is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons of Beverly. He is a democrat, and he and his family belong to the Universalist Church. He and his wife, Laura Wood, were schoolmates at Watertown. Her father is C. B. Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Seely are the parents of five children: Imogene, John, Charlotte, Charles Wood and Carolyn. The daughter Imogene is the wife of E. H. Earnest, a dealer in electrical and plumbing supplies at Waterford. The son John acquired his early education at Watertown, spent three years in Bethany College in West Virginia, and is now in his second year in the Law School at Ohio State University. John Seely has a record of service during the World war, having trained at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and went overseas with the One Hundred Thirty-sixth Field Artillery in the Thirty-seventh Division. He had some arduous duty during the Argonne campaign and battle, and, returning to the United States, was discharged in April, 1919. AMOS ELMER ROBERTS. As a result of his various business activities, his public service and his relations with the worthy causes of church and schools and other affairs, Amos Elmer Roberts has long been considered one of the most youthful and influential HISTORY OF OHIO - 73 citizens of the Waterford community of Washington County. Mr. Roberts was born at Swift, in Waterford Township, February 11, 1869, son of Henry and Rowena (Webster) Roberts. In recent years Mr. Roberts has acquired the old homestead where he was born and reared, and uses it as a diversion from his heavier responsibilities. His mother was born in Washington County, and now lives at Utica, Ohio. She is a devout Methodist. The Roberts family has been in this section of Ohio for several generations. His great-grandfather, Abram Roberts, came out of New England and settled on the Muskingum River, near Lake Shute. He died in 1850. His son, Amos Roberts, made his home at what is now Swift's Station, where he was engaged in farming. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Henry Roberts, father of the Waterford business man, was one of two sons. His brother, Elijah, enlisted as a Union soldier in the Civil war, enrolling in the Sixty-third Ohio Regiment, and was killed at New Madrid, Missouri. Henry Roberts, who spent his active life as a farmer, died June 19, 1916, at the age of seventy-two. He was the father of four sons and two daughters: Jennie, the wife of John Love, a farmer near Swift; Amos Elmer ; John E., of Zanesville; C. 0., a merchant at Beckett Station; W. H., a merchant and an employe of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, and Cora, wife of Austin McKibben, of Utica, Ohio. Amos Elmer Roberts acquired his early education at the Beverly graded schools, and from early youth manifcstcd a disposition for practical business and for affairs. His career has demonstrated that he possesses a full share of executive ability. He is popular, and his qualities as an organizer have been helpful in politics, making him a power in the local republican party. For ten years he conducted a store of his own at Beckett, and then continued in the mercantile business at Waterford five years. For a number of years he has been a member of the firm owning the Waterford Mill & Lumber Company, his partners in that enterprise being John Mummy and John Deering. This firm, in addition to manufacturing building materials, do an  extensive business as contractors, and have built houses in the locality. Mr. Roberts is also a director of the Dime Savings Society of Marietta. He held the office of township trustee of Waterford Township ten years, following which, from 1919-1923, he served as sheriff of Washington County. He is now a member of the County Board of Supervisors. Mr. Roberts married, in 1890, a schoolmate, Miss Cora M. Beckett. Their three children are P. L., of Parkersburg, West Virginia, Grace and Lester. Mr. Roberts is a trustee of the Waterford Methodist Episcopal Church, being active in the Sunday school work. He is a Royal Arch Mason. JOSEPH WILLIAM FORSHEY, M. D. A citizen of Washington County, whose career can be sketched as that of a representative Ohioan, is Dr. Joseph William Forshey, of Lowell. Doctor Forshey as a boy learned that success if he would obtain it depended upon his own exertions. He paid his own way through medical school, has had a successful practice for over twenty years, keeping in touch with the advancing progress of medicine and surgery at the same time, and is also a business man, a factor in the oil and gas industry of Northeastern Ohio. He was born on a farm near Carlisle, in Noble County, Ohio, January 2, 1870, son of Thomas and Margaret Ellen (Morrison) Forshey. His parents were also born in Noble County. His mother, now seventy-eight years of age, lives at the old home near Dalzell in Washington County. Thomas Forshey was a democrat in politics, but by reason of the fact that he supported the war by military service he was what is known as a war democrat. He enlisted and became a corporal in a regiment of Ohio infantry, and fought in many battles and campaigns, being wounded at the battle of Buzzard's Roost. He was with Sherman's army in the Atlanta campaign, the march to the sea, and finally, after the war, marched with Sherman's troops down Pennsylvania Avenue at Washington in the Grand Review. Following the war he married, and soon moved to Washington County, where he became a successful farmer. He died May 20, 1905, when sixty-three years of age. He was a member of the Masonic Order and an elder in the Christian Church. His family consisted of three sons and one daughter : Charles F., a farmer at the old homestead; Dr. Joseph William; Edward, who is associated with his brother, Doctor Forshey, in the oil and gas industry and lives at Marietta; and Jennie, wife of William Shaffer, an oil producer at Emlinton, Pennsylvania. Joseph William Forshey was a boy on the farm, attending country schools, and, getting a certificate, he taught a, total of seven winter terms. In the meantime he attended the Marietta Normal School, and while not teaching or going to school was in the old fields as roustabout, tool dresser and in other capacities, spending considerable time in the field around Sistersville, West Virginia ; Newport, Ohio, and elsewhere. In the meantime he was studying medicine, and later entered and took the regular course in the Starling Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated in 1903. Doctor Forshey then returned to his old home community at Dalzell, engaged in practice there and after seven years moved to Pennsville, Morgan County, and seven years later located at Lowell in Washington County. He took post-graduate work in the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine in 1913, and is a member in good standing of the various medical societies. Doctor Forshey has been identified with the oil and gas production financially or otherwise since 1905. By appointment from Governor Cox he served as a member of the State Industrial Board. He is a member of the local school board, is a democrat, and is affiliated with Masterton Lodge, No. 429, of Masons and Pennsville Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Doctor Forshey married Miss Edith Rogers, daughter of John Rogers, of Tollgate, West Virginia. She is a member of the Christian Church. Doctor and Mrs. Forshey have three daughters, namely: Marjorie, Mary E. and Marion V., all at home. CHESTER A. DYER, of Columbus, is a native son of the, Buckeye State and a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Jackson County, where his ancestors settled upon coming from Virginia, over the mountains and through a veritable wilderness, with teams and covered wagons of the type common to that period. Mr. Dyer has gained a wide reputation as an authority on taxation, and he holds not only the office of overseer and chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio State Grange, but is also legislative agent for this Grange and for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. He maintains his executive offices in the Southern Hotel in the City of Columbus, and is one of the most vigorous and influential workers in behalf of the platform of the Lower Taxes-Less Legislation League, which is endorsed alike by the Ohio State Grange and the Ohio State Farm Bureau League, as well as by similar organizations in the states of New York and Virginia. Mr. Dyer was born on a farm in Lick Township, Jackson County, Ohio, and that he profited fully by 74 - HISTORY the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period was demonstrated in his later and effective service as a teacher in the schools of his native county, he having finally been chosen superintendent of the Consolidated Schools at Coalton. He was for three years editor of the Jackson Herald, and he served some time also as deputy county auditor. Mr. Dyer initiated his constructive service in connection with Grange work when he was made county deputy of the Ohio State Grange for Jackson County. Later he was made district deputy of a district comprising eleven counties, and further advancement came when he was elected state overseer of the Grange, an office which he has since retained, besides which in 1923 he was made chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio State Grange, besides having been for the past several years its legislative agent, in which capacity he has done most effective service in the furtherance of needed legislation on the part of the Ohio Legislature. He acts also as legislative agent for the Farm Bureau Federation of the state. Though he still retains his home ifi Jackson County, where he is the owner of a farm estate, he has for the past several years maintained official headquarters in the capital city of Ohio. Mr. Dyer has made a close and intensive study of taxation problems, and no greater problems confront the nation at the present time. He has written and delivered addresses on taxation problems, was one of the organizers of and is a leader in the Ohio Tax Association, and it was largely due to his mature judgment and progressive civic policies that the Ohio State Grange initiated the movement that resulted in the organization of ti* Lower Taxes-Less Legislation League. The work of this league is being extended to many other states of the Union, and is gaining virtually uniform support on the part of organizations of farmers, whose tax burdens are a matter of grave importance in both a direct way and as touching the great productive industries that must ever form the basis of national well being. As pertinent to the objects of the league just mentioned, the following quotations are worthy of introduction in this connection: "Answering a constantly growing demand for a return to the simplicity and economy in government as instituted by the founders of this republic, the Ohio State Grange and Ohio State Farm Bureau Federation crystallized this widespread sentiment in the establishment of the Lower Taxes-Less Legislation League. One of the first objectives sought by these two groups, overburdened by the high cost of living (with the rapidly increasing extravagance in the expense of local, county, state and national administration as chief contributing cause), was to unite this awakening of the common sense of the American people. A return to a pay-as-you-go form of government was the first mission. While individuals were complaining bitterly of ever increasing taxes, and certain groups were making strenuous efforts to protect their special interests, the Lower Taxes-Less Legislation League was formed to include all Americans who favor a return to the ways of our fathers in government. Particularly was the league established for those who favor going back to the original guaranties of the Constitution, protection of life, liberty and happiness, and an equal chance for all. Started by farmers, it was immediately recognized that 'we are all in the same boat and all headed the same way.' As a result, the league opened its membership to all interested. Instantly citizens joined the movement in large numbers. Then followed organizations such as chambers of commerce, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, manufacturers' associations, women's clubs, labor unions, groups of business men, and other civic, social and fraternal bodies, each catching step with the procession—all marching the same way. Even churches joined, on the ground that a great moral question is involved in present taxation costs, and that anything that is uneconomic is immoral." ALLAN CRAWFORD HALL, operator of the Hall Grindstone Company, was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1890, and is the son of William McLaurine Hall and Jean Agnew Crawford Hall. Mr. Hall is a direct descendant of five lines of American officers of the Revolution. On the maternal side one of these was John Hazlett, who was colonel of the First Delaware Regiment and was commanding his regiment when killed at the battle of Princeton. Prominent also among his ancestry was Maj. Gen. Samuel Wiley Crawford, who for a time had charge of the defense of Fort Sumter at the outbreak of the Civil war and who later successfully defended Little Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg. On Mr. Hall's paternal side his ancestry has been traced as far back as Colin McLaurine, who was born in Scotland in 1628 and who was a very eminent mathematician, and who by appointment wrote the biography of Sir Isaac Newton. Mr. Hall's father has many achievements to his credit which have given to him some distinction in the engineering world. In the late '80s he was associated in the building of the Croton Aqueduct to New York City, where he had charge of a large section, with over 5,000 men under his direction. Later he assumed charge of and completed the building of 200 miles of the Norfolk & Western Railroad in the vicinity of Bluefield, West Virginia. In the year 1894 Mr. Hall's father entered the employ of the United States Government, where he has remained to date. During this long period of thirty years he has built fortifications at New Bedford, Massachusetts, and locks and dams on a number of inland rivers. In the '90s he was a pioneer in the use of concrete in the building of locks and dams. During recent years his work has been confined to the building of locks and dams on the Ohio River. Mr. Hall's brother, William McLaurine, Jr., graduated from Lehigh University in 1920 and is a chemical engineer. His sister, Eleanor Swann, received her education at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and later at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon completion of her work at Pennsylvania she enlisted as an army nurse, and spent three years in France during the World war. She returned to the United States with the rank of lieutenant. Allan C. Hall was educated at Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. At the end of his college course he associated himself with his father and uncle, who had determined to invest on a small scale in the manufacture of grindstones, which is a prominent Industry in the vicinity of Marietta. The Hall Grindstone Company was formed and the work practically from the outset was carried on by Mr. Hall under the direction of his father and uncle. The industry after a long, tedious and discouraging beginning, found recognition by the trade with the advent of the European war, and today it holds quite an important place in the field to which it caters. In recent years Mr. Hall, in addition to assuming complete supervision of the business, has acquired the entire ownership. Allan C. Hall married Miss Ida Davis on December 20, 1916. Mrs. Hall is the daughter of the late D. C. Davis, of Marietta. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Hall are Virginia Davis, Alida Crawford and David Crawford. Mr. Hall has taken part for a number of years in the civic activities of Marietta. He has served as a director of the Chamber of Commerce, as chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Com-