100 - HISTORY OF OHIO 1919, at the age of seventy-eight, less than a month after the death of his wife, who passed away when seventy years of age. All of their nine children are still living, the sons being: John, at Minersville; Ernst Fred; Theodore, Of Minersville; and Clinton. Doctor Maag attended the common schools at Minersville to the fifth grade, graduated from the Pomeroy High School in 1912, at the age of nineteen, and in the same year moved to Columbus, where .he went to work as night timekeeper for the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. He was with that industry two years and then for a period sold aluminum cooking ware. Having saved a fund of about $350, he entered Ohio State University as a student in 1914, and paid all his expenses while in the university. He graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1920 received his degree in medicine. Doctor Maag had a year of hospital work in Saint Luke,s Hospital at Cleveland, and then spent a year in the United States Government Hospital in Panama, returning to this country by way of San Francisco. He first opened his office at Cheshire in Gallia County, but after a few months removed to Middleport, where he has an extensive private practice. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. Doctor Maag married, August 17, 1918, Miss Aubrey Hart, daughter of Dr. W. S. Hart, of Pomeroy. They are members of the Church of Christ and he is affiliated with the 'Knights of Pythias. AMOS KELLER, of Bucyrus, judicial center of Crawford County, is a native son of this county, and in the varied relations of a signally useful career he has proved distinctively a man of thought and action. He has served both as deputy sheriff and judge of probate of Crawford County, gave nearly a score or years to effective service as a teacher in the public schools of Ohio, and has been a power in Ohio politics. Judge Keller, a son of the late Philip and Hannah (Stocker) Keller, showed marked ambition and perspicacity in his studies while attending the public schools, and his advancement in scholarship was rapid and substantial. He finally completed a course along scientific lines under the preceptorship of Professor Churchill of Oberlin College. By the time he was nineteen years of age he had solved virtually every mathematical problem pertinent to the curriculum of the district schools, and as a loyal and efficient teacher in the public schools he devoted nineteen years to the work of the pedagogic profession, in the meantime giving close attention to the study of law and making himself eligible for the legal profession. Judge Keller early became deeply interested in the problems touching the relations of capital and labor, gave to this subject prolonged and careful study, and finally became an active and effective worker in the councils of the labor party, under the organization of Hon. T. V. Powderly. In 1894 he was chosen a candidate for the United States Congress on the Ohio ticket of the people's party, and, while he failed of election, as he had fully anticipated, he made a splendid campaign, developed much strength in the field and gained a gratifying support at the polls. The judge became a great admirer of Hon. William J. Bryan, and in the national campaigns of 1896 and 1900 he was a most vigorous and influential speaker in behalf of the presidential candidacy of the "Great Commoner," nominee of the democratic party. On the 2d of January, 1911, Judge Keller was appointed deputy sheriff of Crawford County, and of this office he continued the incumbent until he assumed that of judge of the Probate Court of the county, a position to which he was elected February 9, 1913, and of which he continued the incumbent until February 8, 1921, his administration having been characteristically careful and efficient. Judge Keller was one of the five men who organized the Farmers & Citizens Bank & Savings Company of Bucyrus, and of this institution he is first vice president and serving on the executive committee of its board of directors. He is a director of the Mead Utilities Service Company and president of the Western Power Company at Bucyrus, is a member of the Farm Bureau of Crawford County, and is the owner of valuable farm property in this county—eighty acres in Sandusky Township and an equal acreage in Liberty Township. The judge and his wife are zealous and valued members of St. John's Reformed Church in their home city, and he has served as an elder in the same. He is affiliated with the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. October 30, 1895, recorded the marriage of Judge Keller and Miss Hattie M. Carrothers, who was born and reared in Crawford County and is a daughter of James B. Carrothers. Of the four children of this union the eldest is Miss Constance R., who was born February 18, 1897. She was graduated from the Bucyrus High School as a member of the class of 1913, attended the law department of Ohio State University and is a now practicing her profession in Bucyrus. John C., born July 20, 1898, was graduated from the Bucyrus High School, and is now manager of one of his father's farms. Robert W., born January 31, 1900, is employed at the steel mills in Mansfield. James P., born June 7, 1909, is attending the Sulphur Springs Consolidated High School. WILLIAM A. ADAMS, who is now engaged in the bakery business at Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, on August 13, 1884, and is the son of David and Mary Jane (Willis) Adams, both of whom during their lives were prominent reputable and dignified citizens and desirable and agreeable neighbors. The father is now deceased, but the mother is yet alive. She is a native of Kentucky, and received a good education and superior training during her girlhood. Her father, William Willis, served in the Union army during the Civil war, was in actual service for two full years, and participated in many notable army movements and campaigns. While stationed at Memphis, Tennessee, he was taken with typhoid fever, and died on the field. He was unusually well educated and was a teacher in the public schools the greater portion of his adult life. He possessed striking mental and moral qualities and inspirations, and was always conspicuous wherever he went. David Adams, father of William A., was an elaborate and conspicuous farmer and agriculturist, and was a master of the proper management of the farm and the live stock. He was born in Kentucky, and resided there during the greater portion of his useful life. His father, John W. Adams, was a native of North Carolina, and was there reared and educated. He finally moved to Greenup County, Kentucky, and there passed the remainder of his life. He likewise was a prosperous and successful farmer and stock raiser, and was a superior citizen and a courteous neighbor. His wife was formerly Amy Hood, daughter of Andrew Hood. William A. Adams, subject of this chronicle, grew to maturity on the farm of his father, and in youth learned how to properly raise healthy live stock and large crops of grain and grass. At the same time he received a good education in the neighboring schools of the district. This schooling however, was merely a preliminary step to his subsequent elaborate reading and study. Soon after completing his district schooling at home he entered Berea College, HISTORY OF OHIO - 101 Kentucky, took the complete course in the general curriculum and was finally graduated with high merit in the class of 1913 with the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy. Being thus notably fitted for teaching and instructing, he began his schooling duties at once on a much more efficient scale than he had previously pursued before he had gone to college. In order to secure means for his college expenses he had begun to teach in the country or district schools as soon as he could secure a teacher's certificate, and while thus teaching greatly improved his meager education as a boy by steady reading and study of books and newspapers. This study fitted him so that he was able to pass the examination of college entrance and the money earned enabled him. to pay his college expenses. In all he taught for about fourteen years, largely at Booneville and Russell, and for four years in Berea College. He finally entered the government service as an industrial agent during the World war, and a little later engaged in the bakery business, and is thus occupied at the present time. He has a large establishment, and his products, particularly his bread, are appreciated by the inhabitants of the town. In October, 1908, at Hopewell, Kentucky, he married Mary Jane Curry, daughter of Henry and Emma (Riffe) Curry, both of whom were natives and residents of that -state. Her mother is living, but the father is deceased. Henry Curry, grandfather of Mary Jane, came from Scotland to America in early times and settled in Virginia, and there reared his family. He was a renowned minister of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Adams and wife have three children: Kathleen, Ormand and Emma Louise, all at home and in school. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. FREDERICK AUGUST RUHLMAN is president and general manager of the Standard Supply Company, one of the largest wholesale establishments of the City of Portsmouth. Mr. Ruhlman became head of this prosperous business at the age of twenty-eight years, and in his progress he has had many obstacles and disadvantages to overcome. He was born at Portsmouth, Scioto County, February 21, 1882, son of Phillip and Amelia (Goetz) Ruhlman, both now deceased. His grandfather, Frederick F. Ruhlman, came from Germany to the United States about 1842, landing at Philadelphia. He reached this country poor in purse and without knowledge of language or people, but his enterprise and industry opened opportunities for him. He went to Missouri and acquired :tract of land, including a portion of the present site of Jefferson City, the state capital of Missouri. Subsequently he sold this land for a small sum, and then located at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he lived until his death in 1897 at the age of seventy-seven. Phillip Ruhlman, father of Frederick A., was also born in Portsmouth, and as a young man he followed the cigar maker 's trade at Delaware, Ohio. While there he met and married Amelia Goetz, who had come from Germany to the United States at the age of seventeen. She came over in a sailing vessel, requiring twenty-seven days to make the trip. After his marriage Phillip Ruhlman moved back to Portsmouth and worked in the Gaylord Rolling Mill, subsequently became a coal merchant, and finally engaged in the dairy business. Phillip Ruhlman and wife had five children, four sons and one daughter : Robert Charles, who lives at Portsmouth and married Kate Bauer; Frederick A.; Elmer O., who is unmarried ; Walter E., who married Rose Johnson; and Ida, wife of Peter W. Petry, of Portsmouth. Frederick August Ruhlman was reared in Scioto County, attended country schools there, but gave up formal schooling when he was fourteen years of age. When he was about twelve years old he had the great misfortune to lose his left leg above the knee, and his achievements are the more creditable because of of the handicap thus imposed upon him. After leaving school he made whetstones for a time, and subsequently was an employe in the Selby Shoe Company factory until 1904. In that year he engaged on a modest scale in the plumbing business, and he has developed that into a general supply business. The Standard Supply Company was organized and incorporated by him in 1910, and he has since been its president. This company is a wholesale and jobbing house, handling all plumbing supplies, pipes, mill supplies for saw and flour mills, pumps and an extensive line of electrical supplies. Mr. Ruhlman married at Portsmouth, September 15, 1903, Vida Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen. Her mother was Julia Irvin. Isaac Allen was a soldier in the Civil war, and for many years was a substantial farmer of Scioto County. Mr. and Mrs. Ruhlman have one daughter Julia Pauline, now attending high school. The family are members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the United Commercial Travelers, the Country Club and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. JAMES WILLIAMS is one of the interesting representatives of the coal mining industry of Southeastern Ohio, and is a man who has made his way through every branch of the service to the official responsibility of mine superintendent. His home is in Athens, and his official duties are superintendent of Mine No. 211 for the Ohio Collieries Company at Poston in Athens County. He was born near New Straightsville, Perry County, Ohio, January 15, 1884, son Of David H. and Mary Ann (Johnson) Williams. His father was likewise a coal miner, was born at Oak Hill, and went into the coal mines at the age of twelve and held every possible position up to that of general superintendent. He worked in various mines and for various corporations, including the Sanday Creek Coal Company, where he remained for about twelve years. On July 15, 1899, he was appointed mine inspector for the second district, embracing mines located in Athens, Gallia, Meigs, Lawrence and Washington counties, by Governor Asa S. Bushnell. He was reappointed to this position by Governor George K. Nash, July 15, 1901, and again reappointed by Governor Myron T. Herrick, July 16, 1904. For a period of two years he was with the Ohio Collieries Company, with headquarters at Glouster in Athens County, and was general superintendent for that company when he died in 1918. He was a staunch republican in politics. His wife died in 1903, and they were the parents of two sons and two daughters. The other son, David, is a resident of Pennsylvania. James Williams attended school at Glouster, and when thirteen went to work in the mines as a slate loader. He acted as driver in Mine No. 256, at Glouster, and then followed a series of employment that made him experienced in everything connected with the underground and outside operation of a coal mine. In October, 1917, he was made superintendent of Mine No. 209, and remained there during the war period. In September, 1921, he was made superintendent of Mine No. 211, and has been the responsible man in charge of the operations of that mine ever since. In 1905 Mr. Williams married Miss Grace Vernon, daughter of Charles Vernon, of Glouster. They are the parents Of two children, Floyd James and Maxine Elizabeth. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Metho- 102 - HISTORY OF OHIO dist Church. Mr. Williams is affiliated with the Masonic fraternities. ALBERT JOHN REITZ. For more than half a century the name Reitz has been prominently identified with the industrial interests of Portsmouth and Scioto County. The pioneer institution for cutting and dressing building stone was started by the late Ignatius Reitz at Portsmouth. Several of his sons have followed him in industrial lines, and one of them, Albert John Reitz, is president of the Reitz Brothers Company, one of the largest concerns in Southern Ohio manufacturing interior wood work. Ignatius Reitz was born at Hanau, near Frankforton-the-Main, Germany, February 4, 1845, a son of John and Amelia (Weber) Reitz. In 1847 the family came to America and first settled near Chillicothe, Ohio, and later moved to Scioto County. John Reitz was a stone cutter by trade and was born in 1812. Amelia Weaver, whose name in German was spelled Weber, was also a native of Hanau. Ignatius Reitz was one of three children, his two sisters being Mrs. Adolph Hurth and Mrs. Joseph Vollmer of Portsmouth. The family landed at Baltimore, and having sons in Ohio, they came on to this state. John Reitz died at Portsmouth in 1866, and his wife, in 1899. Ignatius Reitz was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth and in St. Mary ,s parochial schools. When he was fourteen he began learning the stone cutter ,s trade with his father. In 1865 John Reitz built the first mill at Portsmouth for sawing stone, the plant being at Second and Massie streets. Ignatius Reitz succeeded to the business on his father 's death, and was a stone quarryman and contractor the rest of his life. The plant was finally burned in 190g. The Reitz Stone Quarries were located at Carey ,s Run, four miles from Portsmouth. At one time Ignatius Reitz employed seventy-five men in his quarry, thirty men in the stone cutting mill, and had fifteen teams and corresponding equipment. The mill was equipped with eleven gangs of saws, and it operated day and night, cutting 1,000 cubic feet every day. Immense quantities of stone for building and paving purposes were cut and shipped to all parts of the country. Ignatius Reitz incorporated the business in May, 1892, as the Reitz Stone Company and continued as its president. Ignatius Reitz was an active member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, and for many years served on the city board of health and the board of equalization. On June 9, 1874, he married Mary A. Balmert, daughter of Simon and Elizabeth (Hauk) Balmert, They were also natives of Germany, of Hesse-Darmstadt. Mrs. Mary (Balmert) Reitz is still living. She became the mother of the follOwing children: Albert J., Eleanor, Simon P., Mary Amelia, Antoinette, Cecilia, John and George. Albert John Reitz was born at Portsmouth, May 26, 1875, being the Oldest son and child Of his parents. Until he was fourteen years of age he attended the Portsmouth grade schools, and then went to work in his father 's stone business. He was active in this industry until the plant was destroyed in 1909. He then turned his attention to the building material business and lumber manufacture, and in 1913 formed the Reitz Brothers Company, handling building material. The brothers bought the plant of the River City Lumber Company, and have mills for planing and the manufacture of all kinds of interior wood work, including sash and doors. It is one of the most complete plants of its kind in Southern Ohio. The three brothers comprising the Reitz Brothers Company are, Albert J., president and general manager, Simon. Peter and George M. Simon owns and gives his personal attention to the Cambria Clay Products Company. George is active with his brother Albert in the business. Albert J. Reitz married at Portsmouth, January 12, 1898, Miss Clara Isabell Legler, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Eck) Legler. Her parents are now deceased. Her mother came from Germany when she was seven years old. Her father, who died in 1880, was in the hotel business at Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Reitz have one son, Charles Albert, a student in the Portsmouth High School. The family are members of St. Mary 's Catholic Church, and Mr. Reitz is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member Of the Portsmouth Country Club, the Portsmouth Chamber of 'Commerce and the old Colony Club of New York City. GEORGE A. KAH. The largest and most complete plant in Southern Ohio for commercial printing, binding, engraving and all departments of the printing industry is the Kah-Patterson Printing and Lithograph Company of Portsmouth. The president of this notable industry is Mr. George A. Kah, himself a veteran printer, who served his apprenticeship at Portsmouth and has been identified with practically every branch of the business during an experience of over forty years. Mr. Kah was born at Portsmouth, November 20, 1866, son of Mathias and Katherine (Cleis) Kah. His father was born at Lichtenau, Germany, and was thirteen years old when his parents came to America and settled in the eastern states. Mathias Kah learned the trade of coppersmith, was an expert in that field, and eventually took up the sheet metal industry at Portsmouth. He continued active in business until advanced years, and passed away at the age of eighty years. His wife, Katherine Cleis, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, and is also deceased. George A. Kah had a common school education, attending the public schools of Portsmouth until he was fourteen. His long experience in the printing business was the university for his higher education and broad culture. For ten years he was a printer and in other departments of the German newspaper plant known as the Portsmouth Correspondent. Later, associated with Carl Huber, he published a weekly newspaper and carried On a general printing business. Finally he and his brother John E. took over the printing plant and in 1898 organized the G. & A. Kah Printing and Stationery Company. Subsequently this was known as the Kah Printing Works. In 1907 they bought the Patterson Printing & Book Bindery Company, one of the oldest establishments of the kind in the state. Since then the business has been known as the Kah-Patterson Printing & Lithograph Company, the merger of the two plants making a business of unexcelled facilities. They have handled some of the very largest printing contracts, and their business territory is all of Southern Ohio and several adjoining states. The Kah Brothers and their nephew, Oscar F. Kah, control the business, George A. Kah being the president of the company. In April, 1895, at Portsmouth, Mr. Kah married Miss Emelie Brombacher, daughter of Charles M. and Marie Brombacher. Mr. and Mrs. Kah are members of the First Evangelical Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Country Club. For years he has been a leader in the musical affairs at Portsmouth. In 1889 he Organized the River City. Band, and under his leadership and business management this has achieved the reputation of being the finest band in Ohio. He was also for a time leader of the Grotto Band. HISTORY OF OHIO - 103 CARL W. WINDEL, now one of the active and promising business men of Portsmouth, was born on the 27th of February, 1898, the son of Charles and Annie (Werner) Windel. The father is deceased, but the mother is yet living and enjoying the hope and sunshine of existence. The father received a fair education in youth, and soon after attaining his majority started in business as a traveling salesman for the B. Augustine Wholesale Grocery, and continued with them for some time, learning all the details and routine of the business. This experience gave him the 'right start. Later he became connected ith the Gilbert Grocery Company, and was with them for a period of twenty-two years. His long association with the same -firm, and its steadily advancing prosperity and success, are satisfactory proof of his capacity for traveling salesmanship and his ability to meet competition and the fluctuations of trade waves and billows. He covered a large scope of country and was able, through square treatment, to retain his old customers and to steadily add on new ones until the firm for which he worked fully appreciated his sagacity and expanded its operations to many side branches. Charles Windel remained with them. until his demise. The father of Charles was Carl, and his mother was Louise Christopher. All distinguished themselves as sound and reputable citizens, and all contributed their shares to our civilization. Annie Werner was the daughter of John Werner, whose wife was formerly Annie Marie Pfaff. John Werner and wife grew to maturity in Germany, of which country they were natives, and in 1862 immigrated to America from Wurttemberg, in spite of the Civil war then raging in this republic. In the old country two children were born to this union, but both died before their parents came over. After their arrival here they became the parents of ten more children, of whom Annie was one to reach middle age. The Werner family was one of the early groups to come to Portsmouth, and here established their permanent home. Ere long they were the owners of much valuable real estate and other property where the city now stands. Here they have built up a reputation both conspicuous and enviable, until at this day Annie shines forth as one of the noteworthy and superior residents. Her commendable pride in her ancestry and in her own exemplary life places her among the leaders in courteous and dignified social, domestic and civic circles. And she takes pardonable pride in the career of her son, the subject of this narrative, who, though comparatively young, is rapidly rising in the tide of our turbulent sea of civilization. Carl W. Windel received his early educational training in the public schools of Portsmouth, and later finished with much credit in the local high schools. This he deemed sufficient for his business career, and accordingly entered into the automobile business, even for some time before he left the high school. In 1915 he secured an agency for several excellent cars, but it was not until two years later that he left school and began to devote his whole time and attention to the automobile business. Soon he had a large and rapidly growing trade. Then the World war burst forth and he was called to the service of liberty and Uncle Sam. He answered the call in dead earnest. He sold out, but by being thus forced to do so lost in round numbers about $8,000, and at once enlisted. Soon he was again engaged with great activity and determination to succeed in the automobile business, and since that date has advanced rapidly in all branches of that occupation until he now conducts one of the best plants in the city. He is the owner of an excellent garage and repair shop, situated in a central spot, and is prepared to perform any required automobile adjustments or repairs. He now handles the Franklin, Gray and Moon cars, and at this day the cars he has sold may be seen all over the city and this part of the state. He carries a large stock of accessories, and is surely a live wire in the automobile business. He is still single and resides with his distinguished mother, and takes the same pride in being her son as she does in being his mother. They are adherents of the Evangelical Church on Fiftieth Street. He is a Mason—Knight Templar, Scottish Rite, Shriner and a member of the Grotto. He is also a member of the Elks Lodge and of the Chamber of Commerce. Annie Windel was the first child of her parents to be born in this country. The other were: Martin; John, who is in the grocery business in Portsmouth ; Marie; William, who is also in the grocery business here; Jacob and Charles. RUSSELL K. RAMSEY is a member of the law firm of King, Ramsey, Flynn and Pyle of Sandusky, and vice president and treasurer of the Hinde & Dauch Paper Company, large manufacturers of corrugated fibre shipping boxes and packing materials, with general offices at Sandusky, Ohio. Mr. Ramsey is not only a native of Ohio and a representative of families whose names have been associated with Ohio ,s development, but is also descended from ancestors who served in the War of the Revolution. Russell K. Ramsey was born in the City of Columbus, Ohio, May 27, 1878, and is a son of Gustavus F. and Margaret A. (Young) Ramsey, both natives of this state. Gustavus F. Ramsey is a great-grandson of Alexander Ramsey, who was of Scotch ancestry, a soldier in the Continental line in the War of the Revolution, and was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill. He is a son of the late Albert and Sophia (Romine) Ramsey. Sophia (Romine) Ramsey was the granddaughter of James Sinclair, who served with the Virginia forces during the Revolution. Gustavus F. Ramsey was forty-five years with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is now living retired in the City of Columbus. His wife, whose death occurred April 7, 1924, was born and reared in Ohio ,s capital city, and was a daughter of William H. and Maria (Biddle) Young, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of North Radnershire, Wales. William H. was a contractor and builder in Columbus in the pioneer period of its history, and erected many of the early buildings in that city. Russell K. Ramsey is the oldest in a family of three children. Edith, the second child, died in infancy and the youngest, Raymond A., is a physician and surgeon in the City of. Columbus, associated with Dr. Andre Crotti. Russell K. Ramsey was educated in the Columbus public schools and Ohio State University in both the academic and law departments. He was admitted to the bar in the year 1900, and in the same year engaged in practice at Sandusky with the law firm of King & Guerin until 1904, when Mr. Guerin retired and the title of the firm became King & Ramsey. The firm has since 1919 been King, Ramsey, Flynn & Pyle. Mr. Ramsey has been in the active practice of law since admission to the bar, but since 1918 much of his time has been occupied with the legal and financial affairs of the Hinde & Dauch Paper Company. In 1901 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Florence L. Samuel, of Columbus, Ohio, who was born and reared in that city. Mrs. Ramsey was a daughter of the late Samuel E. and Julia (Pomeroy) Samuel. Mr. Samuel was of Welsh extraction, settled in Columbus when a young man, and was an early wholesale druggist and real estate operator in that city. Mrs. Ramsey died April 22, 1913, leaving one son, Russell A., 104 - HISTORY OF OHIO now a senior at Princeton University. On June 26, 1915, Mr. Ramsey married Helen Wilcox, only daughter of Clinton B. and Belle (Fuller) Wilcox. Major 'Wilcox, who obtained his title in the Ohio National Guard, was born in Sandusky, where he still resides, and is chairman of the board of directors of the Sandusky Gas and Electric Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have one child, a daughter, Jean, born may 28, 1919. Mr. Ramsey was chairman of the Erie County Liberty Loan Committee during the World war, raising the county ,s quota for the five loans. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, local Ohio State and American Bar associations. Politically he is a republican, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, senior warden of Grace Church Parish, member Bishop and Council Diocese of Northern Ohio, a trustee of Howe Military School of Howe, Indiana, member of all Masonic bodies, past commander of Erie Commandery, member of Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, Sunyendeand (City) Club, Yacht Club, Plum Brook Country Club, all of Sandusky, and the Union Club of Cleveland. JAMES E. TENER, who is one of the prominent and successful business men of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, was born in Adams County, this state on January 11, 1886, and is the son of Jonathan and Ruhama (Herdnan) Tener. The father is still living, but the mother is deceased. Both were natives of this state and distinguished themselves as leading and reputable citizens. The father owned a fruit and produce farm in Adams County, which he conducted with profit for many years. He finally left the farm and came to Portsmouth in 1899, and here engaged in the produce business almost exclusively, but in the end sold out and is now associated in business with his son, the subject of this memoir. His life has been exemplary and his character conspicuous for its sterling qualities and undeviating purity. His father was George Tener, who chose for his wife Miss Martha Simmons. The father of Ruhama Herdnan was Seth. The Teners are of Scotch descent and the Simmons, of Irish. They came to the United States at an early day, locating first in the eastern states, probably Pennsylvania or New Jersey, but in the end came west to Ohio, where they reared their families and became illustrious citizens. James E. Tener, the subject of this narrative, received an unusually sound education in the public schools of Portsmouth, though he did not continue his schooling beyond the adolescent period. He finished his educational career in 1905 as a high school graduate, and then branched out in business for himself. He started by securing a job with the Wurster Brothers drug concern of Portsmouth, and continued with them for one year. He then obtained a position with Excelsior Shoe Company, and was in their employ for two years. By this time he had become settled in business away from his old home and was prepared for any undertaking that promised and assured a reasonable profit. It was about this time that the Ice Cream & Bottling Company manufacturers of the Peerless brand of ice cream, was planned and finally organized. Mr. Tener was one of the organizers and was one of the chief workers to make it successful. He became its secretary in 1910, and so satisfactory were his services that he became its general manager in 1913. He is thus occupied with much credit at the present time. He devotes all his business hours to this conspicuous industrial undertaking, and at the present date it is one of the most prosperous and active business establishments in Southern Ohio. The plant covers half a block and contains all the most modern and practical contrivances and conveniences to be found in the West. It is fully and notably up to date, and its products find a ready and extensive market over a large section of the country. When the World war burst forth and startled the nation he became at once interested in wiping out the menace to the United States. In August, 1917, he enlisted and was sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. There he was strenuously occupied for three months in learning the duties and exactions of the officers' field requirements, and there he fitted himself for a creditable soldierly career. At the end of the first three months he was commissioned lieutenant and then transferred to Camp Custer, and was there required to make practical all the arts of military activity he had learned at Fort Benjamin Harrison. For thirteen months he served as instructor at Camp Custer, Michigan, and while thus engaged perfected his own knowledge of the operations of field movements, so that he was then qualified to take the field or firing line. He was attached to the Eighty-fifth Division, and was ready at any moment to cross the water and help crush the enemy that threatened the democracy of the world. But like many others of the gallant boys lie was doomed to disappointment, was required to remain on this side of the Atlantic, and was honorably discharged on December 24, 1918, and at once returned to Portsmouth and resumed his business as general manager of the company. In November, 1913, at Portsmouth, he was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Hudson, daughter of W. H. and Emma (Gustin) Hudson, both of whom are prominent Ohio people and both are still enjoying the comforts and pleasures of life on earth. Her father is a building contractor, and is now engaged in the construction of good roads, etc. He is a man of high character and renown. James E. Tener is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, is a Knight Templar, belongs to the Scottish Rite and the Mystic Shrine, is a member of the United Commercial Travelers order, of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, of the Country Club, of the Young Men’s Christian Association, of the American Legion and also of the Knights of Pythias. Much of his life career is still before him and is promising and inviting. He is qualified for any position within the gift of his fellow citizens. WILLIAM J. HAYS, one of the active and promising business men of Portsmouth, Ohio, was born at Vanceburg, Kentucky, on the 13th of February, 1892, and is the son of Enos R. and Amanda L. (Darraugh) Hays. The father was called by death some time ago, and so was the mother. They both were natives of Kentucky and were highly reputable and conspicuous citizens. The father was for many years a prosperous merchant of Vanceburg and also a large coal operator, and knew how to make money and how to save it for proper uses. He not only was a prosperous business man, but distinguished himself in municipal and civic affairs until he became one of the really great leaders in public life. He was a republican, and as such became a candidate for the office of magistrate of Vanceburg, and was duly elected and served with high credit and to the satisfaction of his constituents. He occupied other important positions in the political embroilments of this section. He was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and served that organization in various exacting capacities to his credit and to the pleasure of his fellow members. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and advanced until he became one of the Thirty-second degree. His father was Lewis L. Hays and his mother HISTORY OF OHIO - 105 was formerly Miss Sarah Rousch. The father of Amanda L. Darraugh was Leonadis Darraugh. It is believed by Mr. Hays that his ancestors came from some part of the British Empire far back in Colonial time and settled permanently in "Old Virginia." This was the hear-say story that has been handed down from long ago, but may contain some discrepancies and may need correction and revision. William J. Hays, the subject of this record, received an excellent education during his youthful days. Year after year he attended the public schools of Vanceburg, Kentucky, and finally finished his scholastic career with a strict course in the Riverside Seminary in the same town, finishing with high credit in 1909. He was then prepared for the exacting duties and responsibilities of a successful and adventurous business career. His first venture was to become traveling salesman for the M. Marcus Clothing House of Vanceburg, and he was thus actively at work for five strenuous years, winning much praise and renown from his employers. He then accepted a similar position with the Ben Aaron Clothing House of Chillicothe, Rose County, Ohio, and was thus occupied for three years. Upon the death of his father about this time he engaged in the automobile business, and continued the same with success until October 3, 1917, when he was the first to be called into the service of the government in the World war from Lewis County, Kentucky. He passed the examination and was first sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, on October 17, 1917, and was promptly assigned to duty in the motor section of the field artillery. There for some time he had charge of the payroll and the paycar. He was not called across the ocean, but did his full duty in this country until he was honorably discharged on December 23, 1918. He then came home and prepared for business. On January 1, 1919, he became associated with Mr. Prichard, of Portsmouth, in the auto business as sales manager, and was thus employed until October 15, 1922, when he organized the W. J. Hays Motor Company and accepted the general agency of the Durant and Star cars, and has since carried on a constantly increasing and profitable trade, much to his praise and the benefit of the auto owners. He now owns a complete garage and repair shop and handles all sorts of auto supplies. His plant is centrally located, his trade is large and the outlook for the future is bright and auspicious. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Masonic Order, of the Elks, of the Grotto, of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Country Club and of the American Legion. He is taking an active and notable part in the affairs of the city and has the confidence of the citizens. On the 29th of January, 1914, at Chillicothe, Ohio, he married Marie Anderson, daughter of James and Florence (Thomas) Anderson, both of whom are natives of Ohio. The mother is deceased, but the father is still living and is in the insurance business in Portsmouth. He is an active and zealous member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, and is one of the city's most reputable citizens. He takes great interest in the up-building of the city. MARTIN SCHAUDER, who has gained a place as one of the successful general contractors in his native City of Tiffin, Seneca County, for a long periOd Of years has given special attention to contract work and road and sewer construction. He is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Seneca County. He was born at the family home at 190 Clay Street, Tiffin, October 28,. 1865, son of Martin and Caroline (Burkhardt) Schauder. Martin Schauder, Sr., was born in Baden, Germany, in 1830, was reared and educated in the old country, and was a young man when he came to the United States and established his residence at Tiffin. Here he eventually became a successful contractor, assisting in the building of some of the early railroad lines through this section of the state. His wife likewise was a native of Germany. Both continued to reside at Tiffin until their deaths. They were zealous communicants of the Catholic Church. Of the eight children, one died in infancy and the others were : Louis, the oldest of the family, who died October 6, 1920; Albert, who was an invalid; Rosa, wife of Joseph Schira; Martin, of this sketch ; John, associated with his brother Martin in the contracting business ; Miss Teresa, of Tiffin, who died September 12, 1924; and Charles, a contractor at Tiffin. Mr. Martin Schauder grew up in Tiffin, acquired his early education in the Catholic parochial school, and as a boy was associated with his father’s contracting operations. Eventually he fortified himself for independent business as a contractor, and has handled a large number of contracts in connection with road construction, street improvements and sewer building in this section of Ohio. In addition to his business Mr. Schauder has always taken a loyal interest in the welfare and advancement of his native city and county. He has been a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, and though always more interested in the success- of his friends than himself, he was prevailed upon to become democratic candidate for county commissioner at the primaries of 1924. He is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Knights of Columbus, and he and his family are communicants of the Catholic Church. Mr. Schauder married, in 1891, Miss Rosa Schira. The supreme loss and bereavement in his life came when his wife passed away in 1918. Of their children the oldest is Marie, who was graduated from the Ursuline Convent at Tiffin, was married to Hal Smith of that city, and they have five children, named Robert, Lillian, Marion, Catherine and Margaret Jean. Louis Martin Schauder, the second child, is now at home. He was in service with the Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, was mustered out and given his honorable discharge in July, 1919, and on November 29, 1923 married Bessie Fisher, of Tiffin, and has a son, John Louis. Norma Schauder is the wife of Edward Kromer, residents of Cleveland, and they are the parents of three children, named Marjorie, Evelyn and Joan. Cletus, youngest of the children, was in the air service of the United States Army during the World war, spending the greater part of his time in Texas. By his marriage to Miss Hattie Seivert he has a son, Paul Martin, born July 22, 1922. CHARLES D. SCUDDER, of Portsmouth, who has built up one of the largest fire insurance agencies in Southern Ohio, represents an old and distinguished line of American ancestry. He is a descendant of Thomas Scudder who came from London and was at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1635, living there until his death in 1658. His son John in 1651 moved to Southold, Long Island, and before 1660, to Newton, Long Island. He married in 1642 Mary King, who was born in England, daughter of William and Dorothy King. Their son John, born in 1645, lived at Newton, Long Island. In 1669 he married Joanna, daughter of Captain Richard Betts. Lieutenant Richard Betts Scudder, representing the fourth generation, was born at Newton, and was the founder of the family around Trenton, New Jersey, where he located in 1709. His property on the 106 - HISTORY OF OHIO Delaware River, known as Scudder Falls, remained in the possession of the family for many years. He died in 1754. His wife was Hannah Stillwell, daughter of Joseph Stillwell. Lieutenant Richard B. Scudder commanded a section of the New Jersey militia in an expedition to Canada in 1711. His son John Scudder, who died in 1748, married Phebe Howell, daughter of Daniel Howell. One of their children was Daniel Scudder, who died in 1811, at the age of seventy-five. He married Mary Snowden, who died in 1798. Elias Scudder, of the seventh generation, died the same year as his father, Daniel, in 1811. He married Sarah Smith, daughter of Jasper Smith. Jasper Smith Scudder, who died in 1877, at the age of eighty, married Mary Stillwell. Jasper Smith Scudder was the first president of the Trenton Mechanics and Manufacturers Bank. Edward Wallace Scudder, representing the ninth generation of the family, is a son of Jasper Smith Scudder, and grandfather of Charles D. Scudder of Portsmouth, was born August 11, 1822, and died at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1893. He was educated at Lawrenceville Academy, studied law at Trenton, became an attorney in 1844, was president of the New Jersey Senate in 1865, and in 1869 was appointed justice of the Supreme Court, an office he held until his death. Princeton College in 1880 bestowed upon him the degree Bachelor of Laws. He was for many years a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary. Judge Scudder in 1848 married Mary Louisa Drake, daughter of George King and Mary Ailing (Halsey) Drake. George King Drake was also a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and was a son of Colonel Jacob Drake, who was born in 1732 and died in 1823. Colonel Drake commanded the Western Battalion of New Jersey Militia during the Revolution, and was a member of the committee of correspondence and safety, and the first New Jersey Assembly. He was a member of the convention to approve the state constitution in 1776. The Halsey family were of old English stock, and the Halsey homestead still stands in the south part of England. One of the Halseys was a member of the House of Commons. George Drake Scudder, father of Charles D., was born at Trenton, New Jersey, January 17, 1856, and acquired his early education in the State Model School at Trenton. In 1872 he entered Princeton College, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1876, and subsequently received the Master of Arts degree. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1879, and began practice at Trenton. In 1882 he was given the degree Counselor at Law. He had a large private practice at Trenton from 1879 until 1893. November 20, 1879, while at Portsmouth, Ohio, he married Harriet Helen Damarin, daughter of Charles A. M. and Harriet Caroline Damarin. George Drake Scudder was for two years a member of the City Council of the Borough of Chambersburg, New Jersey, and in 1886 was nominated by the democrats for mayor of the borough, but was defeated. In the fall of the same year he was nominated and elected a member of the Legislature, and after one term declined re-election. He was also appointed and served as prosecuting attorney of Mercer County. In 1893, his health having failed, he gave up his professional work and for some months traveled in Europe. On his return he located at Portsmouth, Ohio, was admitted to the Ohio courts, and became a leading attorney of Portsmouth. At the time of the Bryan and free silver issue he left the democratic party and became an independent voter, but was never active in politics after that. At the age of twenty he became a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Trenton, and in 1886 helped organize a new church on the outskirts of that city known as the Bethany Presbyterian Church. He was a trustee and ruling elder until he moved to Portsmouth, where he and his family united with the First Presbyterian Church and soon afterward he was made an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. He twice represented the church in the General Assembly. He was a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason. He passed away March 9, 1921. His wife, Harriet Helen Damarin, was born in Ohio, and died February 12, 1922. Charles D. Scudder, who represents the eleventh generation of the Scudder family in America, was born at Portsmouth, October 21, 1883. During his boyhood he attended the State Model School of Trenton, New Jersey, and also later attended the Portsmouth High School. Subsequently he entered Princeton University, a school in which many of his ancestors had been trained. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1907, and on his return to Portsmouth went to work for the Excelsior Shoe Company in the mail order department, remained there •two years and then took charge of stock for the Reliable Engine Company. Mr. Scudder in 1911 engaged in the insurance business, and he has the agency for sixteen fire insurance companies, and among others he represents the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, the Mutual Life of New York and the Aetna Casualty Insurance Company. April 5, 1910, at Portsmouth, Mr. Scudder mar- . ried Miss Katherine Waite, daughter of Gilbert D. and Sarah D. (Dillon) Waite. Both her parents were born in Ohio, and her mother is still living. Her father, who died in 1914, was a furniture manufacturer at Portsmouth, and a member of the Official Board of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Scudder are Charles D., Jr., Sarah Katherine and George D. Mr. Scudder is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Portsmouth Country Club, and is a member of the Portsmouth School Board. FRANK R. BACHMAN. During the entire period of its history as a commonwealth Ohio has been noted as a center of education and culture second to none in the country, and its institutions of learning rank with the best. Because of their prestige men of unusual capabilities have been, and are, attracted to them, so that the Ohio educators are a body of earnest, self-sacrificing members of this important profession, among whom in this connection it is eminently proper to mention Frank R. Bachman, president of the Portsmouth College of Business, which institution is sending into the business world its pupils as thoroughly prepared for the responsibilities of life as do the other educational bodies along classical and professional lines. Frank R. Bachman was born at Sardis, Monroe County, Ohio, April 29, 1889. On the paternal side Mr. Bachman is descended from grandparents of Swiss birth, who, coming to the United States from Switzerland about 1843, settled in Monroe County, Ohio. The paternal grandfather was a stone cutter, having learned his trade in his native land, and turned out work of the very highest kind, being really an artist of rare ability in stone cutting. On his mother ,s side Mr. Bachman is descended from the Paulsons, a Scotch family which was established in the United States many years ago, the members of which have since been honorable and industrious. The parents of Frank R. Bachman are John and Druscilla (Paulson) Bachman, the former of whom was born in Monroe County, Ohio, in 1851. For a number of years he was actively engaged in farming HISTORY OF OHIO - 107 but is now living retired. Always active in the Church of Christ, he is now an elder of the local congregation. His wife was born in Pennsylvania, and she, too, is living. Growing up amid healthy rural surroundings Frank R. Bachman attended the local district schools, and then became a school teacher. He earned the money for his normal school courses at Ada, Athens and Antioch, Ohio, by teaching country schools, and he completed his training by taking up commercial college work in 1912, at Portsmouth, as an instructor in the college of which he is now president. A year later, however, he went with the Irvin-Drew Company as an accountant, and remained with that concern for two and one-half years. Leaving that company, he went into business for himself and until 1918 found congenial employment for his energies and abilities in handling real estate, building and improving property and then selling it. However, as he is a born educator, he turned back to his old profession, and bought the control in the company owning the Portsmouth College of Business, of which he has since continued president. This is one of the best institutions of its kind in the state, accredited by the State Department of Education as a two-year commercial college giving state high school certificates. The instruction in all branches of business practice is thorough and practical, and the graduates from it are prepared to discharge the duties of a position in an efficient manner, such as years of actual practice could not give them. Employers recognize this fact and give a preference to those who have enjoyed the advantages of a course under President Bachman’s supervision. During the late war Mr. Bachman registered under the draft, but was not called to the colors. While waiting for his call he devoted himself to all of the war activities, and rendered an especially effective service as one of the four-minute speakers of Scioto County. On October 16, 1913, Mr. Bachman married at Portsmouth Miss Sarah Edna Marsh, a daughter of William and Mary (Gibson) Marsh, both of whom were born in Ohio. Mr. Marsh is now deceased, but for many years he was one of the leading farmers of Bloom Township, Scioto County, and his farm was recognized as the finest rural property in that region. His widow survives him. Mr. and Mrs. Bachman have three children: Mary Joanna, Roberta Druscilla and Betty Lee. The Church of Christ at Portsmouth holds Mr. Bachman's membership, and he has been advanced therein to the position of an elder. In every respect he is a fine and representative citizen, and is especially popular with the young people, and a strong influence for good among those who come under his control in his college, as well as in the church and community generally. MARVIN C. CLARK has been trying for some time to trace his ancestry back half a dozen generations or more, but thus far has found it a difficult and perplexing task. He has learned that his grandfather was Thomas Baxter Clark, of Cooperstown, New York, and that he inherited quite a large fortune. He has also learned that the wife of Thomas B., formerly a Miss Fitch, also inherited considerable money, which she invested in valuable timber lands in Lewis County, Kentucky. Both Thomas B. and wife, in 1873, moved from Cooperstown, New York, and located in Kentucky, near her tracts of land. A number of years ago the father of Marvin C. Clark journeyed to Cooperstown to secure all the data concerning the family that he could find. Upon his return he died suddenly, before the facts he had gathered had been told and recorded by his family. The old family records are at Cooperstown, perhaps in the possession of a relative named Gray, who at present cannot be located. The father of Marvin C. Clark was named also Thomas Baxter Clark. He married Emma Alice Harry, a native of Adams County, Ohio. Thomas B., the father, moved from Cooperstown to Kentucky with his parents in 1873. He engaged in the merchandising business in Lewis County, and there remained until 1892, when he changed his location to Portsmouth and opened a store of general merchandise. Later he moved to Stockdale, and there pursued the same business for a period of fifteen years. He finally passed away, leaving an excellent personal record. He was very active and industrious in his early days in Lewis County. Marvin C. Clark received his first schooling in the country districts of Lewis County and his first industrial lessons in the well-conducted store of his father. When in his teens he entered Portsmouth Commercial College and took a full course in cOmmerce. Having shown unusual merit during his collegiate studies and revealed a character unusually high and promising, he was given a position as instructor in this college, where he taught successfully for a period of two years. He then secured a position with the Central National Bank of Portsmouth, and a few years later became bookkeeper and teller with the Portsmouth National Bank. In 1903 he quit the banking business and established himself in the real estate adventure, to which was added insurance, and he made both a success. He became secretary of the Portsmouth Building and Loan Association, and to this important and lucrative enterprise he devotes much of his present time. He is also actively connected with the National Movement of Home Building. He has well demonstrated his capacity thus far in life to make vital industrial enterprises a success. During the World war he served as president of the Real Estate Board, and was one of the organizers of that important commercial body. He was also appointed one of the appraisers for the government in connection with housing and caring for the employes of the steel plant. Mr. Clark is a republican, active in its work and a state central committeeman from the Sixth Congressional District, State of Ohio. On October 20, 1904, at Portsmouth, Ohio, he married Gertrude, daughter of Sanford P. and Elizabeth (Davey) Selby, both of her parents being Ohio people. They have two children, Howard S. and David M. They are members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Selby was for some time manager with the McCormick concern in Des Moines, then with the Selby Shoe Company at Portsmouth, and became the manager of the White House Stone Company at Toledo. Both Mr. and Mrs. Selby are still living. AMOS M. FUDGE. In his early manhood, Amos M. Fudge gave abundant exercise to his energies and talents as a farmer and stockraiser on the ancestral acres of the Fudge family in Preble County. In addition to his farming interests in later years, he has been a pioneer in the Independent Telephone Industry, a banker and business man of many interests. His home is at West Alexandria. He is the grandson of one of the very first settlers and the first sheriff of Preble County. This grandfather was Jacob Fudge, who was born in Virginia December 26, 1779. A few years later he and his brother David were taken by their widowed mother to Kentucky and in 1793 the family settled on the site of Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio. About the time Ohio entered the Union, Jacob Fudge and his brother made another progress into the wilder- 108 - HISTORY OF OHIO ness of Ohio, acquiring 500 acres in Lanier Township of Preble County, land that has been in the possession of the Fudge family continuously for over a century. Jacob Fudge was busy with the improvement of this estate during the rest of his active life. He helped organize and was appointed the first sheriff of Preble County, but holding public office was distasteful to him and the story is that he once gave a friend a gallon of whiskey in order to keep his name off the ticket. He was of the Universalist faith. He died March 27, 1863, at the age of eighty-three. He married in 1810, Elizabeth Potters, daughter of Jasper Potters. She was born in Virginia February 10, 1790, and died February 3, 1869. They reared thirteen children and were survived by seventy grandchildren. Franklin N. Fudge, father of Amos M., was born in Preble County, December 15, 1826, acquired and for many years cultivated a farm adjoining the old homestead. He married Susanna Markey in 1849. She was born in Maryland, August 5, 1830, and attained a venerable age. Franklin Fudge died February 6, 1896. Amos Fudge, the youngest son of these parents, was born on a farm in Lanier Township, Preble County, Ohio, June 27, 1868, and finished his education in the public schools at Gratis. For many years he occupied the home farm, adding to its facilities, and became an extensive tobacco grower. He was also a breeder of pure bred Durham cattle, and sheep. He still retains the personal ownership of 185 acres, and is also an officer in the Twin Valley Bank of West Alexandria, is secretary of the Preble County Heat, Light & Power Company and secretary of the Preble County Telephone Company. The heat, light and power company has been in existence only five years, and has 500 patrons and consumers and is a very prosperous public utility. The Preble County Telephone Company combined the history of the First Independent telephone lines in Preble County, the first effective exchange being operated at West Alexandria. The West Alexandria Telephone Company and the Gratis Telephone Company were combined in April, 1904, as the Preble County Telephone Company which is capitalized at $30,000 and has 800 subscribers. Mr. Fudge was a charter member of the old Gratis Telephone Company and has been secretary of the Preble County Company since its organization. Mr. Fudge is a democrat and a member of the Brethren Church and of the Grange. He married March 30, 1892, Miss Mary Meyer, daughter of J. H. and Catherine Meyer of Lanier Township. They have three daughters and one son, Susie Catherine, Grace Anna, Dorothy Lucille and Russel M. Susie Catherine is the wife of Roy Smith, a farmer, and has one child. Grace married Rev. Elwood Rowsey, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Toledo. They have two children. The daughter Dorothy is the wife of Roy Brubaker connected with G. W. Shroyer & Company of Dayton. They have three children, including twins. The son, Russel Fudge, who occupies the old family homestead in Lanier Township, owning 106 acres of that property, married Miss Eby Royer and they have one son, Royer M. Mr. A. M. Fudge and his son-in-law, Reverend Rowsey, are owners of the noted Diamond Caverns near Glasgow Junction, Kentucky, and only a few miles from Mammoth Cave. These caverns have been improved and opened to the public as one of the most natural exhibits of the kind in the world. GEORGE CHESTER WALLACE. The building shortage all over the country and the increasing demand for properly improved homes have created a great activity in real estate, and many men of superior ability are becoming realtors, their high character and efficient methods of doing business having resulted in making of this important calling a real profession. In a city of the importance of Portsmouth the demand for real estate, especially that of "the better class of properties, is heavy and increasing, and one of the representative citizens of this locality who has recently entered the field, and in it attained to a well-deserved prestige, is George Chester Wallace. The birth of George Chester Wallace occurred in Scioto County, Ohio, October 6, 1870, and he is a son of the late William Riley Wallace, and grandson of Aaron Wallace, William Riley Wallace was born in Ohio, as was his wife, Emma Shelpman. During the war between the two sections of the country he served in the Union army. For many years he was engaged in the lumber business, handling logs and railroad ties, contracted to put in timber, and also carried on extensive teaming operations. Five of his sons became connected with him in this line of business. In addition to his large business connections he was very active in public matters, and was a representative and good citizen. In politics he was a strong republican. Until he was sixteen years old George Chester Wallace attended the district schools, but at that age began making himself useful to his father on the farm. After a year at that work he left home, and, going to Catlettsburg, Kentucky, worked for the Pem Martin Company for about two years. For the following four years he was associated with the Wayne Dameron wholesale Whisky house as general man looking after everything. Returning to Scioto County, Mr. Wallace was with the Olway Welch Brothers, lumbermen, for a year as inspector, and then went to Washington Courthouse, Fayette County, Ohio, and did general farm work and various other jobs for Mart Plymer during the ensuing three years. For the next two years he was first with the Brease Manufacturing Company and later with the Portsmouth Stove and Range Company, both of Ports mouth. Mr. Wallace then began handling secondhand furniture and goods of all kinds, and built up a very fine business in which he continued for seventeen years. Too close application to business, however, resulted in a breakdown, and he was obliged to sell his business, and sought relaxation in Indian Territory and other places. Upon his return to Portsmouth he entered the realty field, where, as above stated, he has been very successful. He handles all kinds of property, but does considerable building and improves a large amount of old property. He stands very high in public esteem, and is recognized as one who is exceptionally honorable in all of his dealings, and who will render a square deal to everyone with whom he transacts any business. In 1892 Mr. Wallace married Miss Minnie Smith at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and she died in 1906, leaving no children. In 1908 Mr. Wallace married. at Portsmouth Miss Emma Copas, a daughter of Harrison C. and Latha Ann (Webb) Copas. Mr. Copas, one of the leading timbermen of this region, was deliberately shot and killed by James Lewis. There are no children of the second marriage. Not only is Mr. Wallace active in his business, but he is deeply interested in the advancement of Portsmouth, and is rendering the city an excellent service and was a member of its Chamber of Commerce. It is such men as Mr. Wallace who do much to raise the standards of business life, and set an example the younger generation would do well to follow. FRANK W. MOULTON, a member of the Portsmouth bar for twenty years, and former prosecuting HISTORY OF OHIO - 109 attorney of Scioto County, represents one of the older families of this section of the state. Mr. Moulton was born at Lucasville, in Scioto County, February 14, 1877, son of Chandler J. and Mary (Smith) Moulton. His mother is still living and a native of Ohio. The Moulton family is of New England ancestry and came to Ohio from Vermont. Mr. Moulton's great-grandfather, John Moulton, served as a Revolutionary soldier. In the paternal line he had another Revolutionary ancestor, a great-great-grandfather, Amasiah Ainsworth, who was a private in Colonel Wyman 's regiment at New Hampshire in 1776 and a private in Colonel Bellow's regiment in 1777. The regiment of Bellows went to the support of General Gates in the battle of Saratoga. The grandparents of the Portsmouth attorney were Norman and Mary (Belknap) Moulton. Chandler J. Moulton, one of Scioto County 's leading men in his day, was born in Randolph, Orange County, Vermont, December 26, 1839. In 1848 his parents came west to Ohio, making part of the journey by the Erie Canal. They settled at Lucasville, where Chandler J. Moulton grew up, acquiring a common school education. During 1857-58 he was a student in Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware. For seven years of his early manhood he was engaged in farming, and in 1867 opened a mercantile store at Lucasville, and was one of the busy merchants of that town until his death on the third of October, 1917. He was prominent in politics, served as chairman of the Republican County Executive Committee and for eight years as a member of the Central Committee, and was twice elected to represent Scioto County in the Legislature. He was known as a citizen of sterling qualities, endowed with wonderful patience and quiet efficiency. He was a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and was a trustee of his church. His wife, Mary C. Smith, was a daughter of Judge John M. Smith, of West Union, Ohio. Chandler J. Moulton and wife had six children: Frank W., Arthur S., Mabel A., Jennie, John N., and Earl C. Frank W. Moulton was reared at Lueasville, where he attended the grammar and high schools. In 1897 he graduated Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University at Athens, aCommanderyber of the same year went to Chicago, where he secured appointment as a clerk in the office of the United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition. While thus employed he attended for two years the law school of Lake Forest University in Chicago. In 1900 he was sent to Paris with the Exposition Commission, being assigned to the textile department, and remained abroad until October of that year. On returning to Ohio he resumed his law studies in the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws June 12, 1902. Since graduating Mr. Moulton has been in a busy private practice at Portsmouth, at first iand Georgehip with Nelson W. Evans. His service as prosecuting attorney of the county was rendered during the years 1909-10. Mr. Moulton lent the full strength of his influence for the successful prosecution of the war, and participated in all the local drives. He had the Master of Arts degree conferred upon him by Ohio University at Athens, and is a member of the Beta Theta Pi social fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He belongs to the County, State and American Bar associations, and is a member of the Masonic Lodge. He is a former member and exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Moulton are Methodists. June 30, 1908, at Portsmouth, Mr. Moulton married Miss Martha Dever, daughter of Noah J. and Mattie (Gilliland) Dever. Their marriage was of short duration, being terminated by the death of Mrs. Moulton, in October, 1919. In September, 1922, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Moulton married Miss Margaret Van Bergen. NOBLE P. KERNS has been successfully engaged in the retail furniture business in the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, since the year 1916, and here has an establishment of metropolitan equipment and appointments—one that offers the best of facilities and service to its large a,s appreciative corps of patrons. Mr. Kerns was born in the village of,sshville, Piekaway County, Ohio, March 17, 1889, and is a son of George W. and Louama (Peters) Kerns, the former of whom was engaged in the grocery business at Columbus at the time of his death, in 1908, and the latter still resides at Columbus. She is an earnest communicant of the Baptist Church, while he was a member of the Lutheran Church. The other two surviving children are daughters. Myrtle is the wife of Thomas W. Davis, and they have three children, Gwenlyn, Ruth and Mabel. Etta Louama is the wife of Van Kiner, and they have five children, Ralph, Helen, Mary, Katherine and Olive. Absolom Kerns, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a resident of Ohio at the time of his death. The original American representatives of the Kerns family came from Holland and made settlement in Pennsylvania, from which state came the first representatives in Ohio. The public schools of his native county afforded Noble P. Kerns his preliminary education, and he was ten years of age at the time of the family removal to the city of Columbus. In the high school of the capital city he was graduated in 1910, and there also he took a course in business college. He then took a position with a wholesale dry-goods and shoe house in Columbus, and in 1912 he formed a partnership and there engaged in the retail shoe business. In 1916 he sold his interest to his partner, Mr. Bates, and came to Chillicothe, where by fair and honorable policies and seLucasville,rogressive methods he has built up a substantial retail furniture business. He was registered for service in the World war, but as he was assigned to the fourth class he was not called into active service. He has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry, in which his maximum affiliation is with the local Commaiidery of Knights Templar, and he is a member also of the Mystic Shrine, the Elks and the Odd Fellows. He is actively identified with the Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce, the local Rotary Club and the Chillicothe Athletic Club. He and his wife hold membership in the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. At Columbus, in August, 1913, Mr. Kerns was united in marriage with Miss Norma L. Meyers, eldest of the six children of James H. and Abbie (Southard) Meyers, the former of whom died in the year 1918 and the latter still resides in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Kerns have two children, Virginia Jane aclsGeorge Richard. CAPT. WILSON WASHINGTON GALLOWAY, general manager of the Hagar Strawboard & Paper Company at Cedarville, is one of the most progressive business men of Greene County, and a veteran of the World war. He is descended from the distinguished Galloways for so many years prominent in the affairs of Greene County, and is connected with a number of other important families of the Middle West, including the one to which the illustrious General Lyons belonged. Captain Galloway was born at Xenia, Ohio, August 17, 1890, a son of Edwin and Maggie (Wilson) Galloway. When he was but sixteen years old Edwin Galloway entered the employ of Hutchinson & Gibney, 110 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Xenia, as an errand boy, and rose in that establishment, during the thirty-one years he was connected with it, through successive promotions, to be manager of the department of floor furnishings and draperies. At the expiration of this long period of service, Mr. Galloway, with Mr. Cherry who had been associated with him in the drapery department, bought the business, and have since conducted it under the firm name of Galloway & Cherry. Since the new owners have taken charge the business has shown a healthy increase, the sales of each month exceeding those of the previous month without a single exception. Graduated from the Xenia High School in 1908, Captain Galloway entered Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and was graduated therefrom in 1914, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. From the university he went to the Newark, Ohio, Young Men’s Christian Association as physical director, and subsequently became assistant purchasing agent for the Dort Motor Car Company, at Flint, Michigan, in which connection he had charge of buying all of the maintenance and factory supplies amounting to more than $200,000 annually. Resigning this position when the United States entered the World war, he enlisted in the service of his country. Sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, he was commissioned a first lieutenant August 15, 1917, and assigned to duty at Watervliet Arsenal, New York. Later he was transferred to Washington City, and under the command of Colonel Hathaway, assisted in the organization of the Supply Division of the Ordnance Department, with a view to expediting the collection, assembling and delivery of supplies to the front in France, it being provided under this reorganization that all supplies should be under the absolute control and direction of this department from the time they left the factory until they arrived at the front. On June 28, 1918, he was commissioned a captain and remained with this department until he was sent overseas in September. Arriving in France he was assigned to the same line of work at Ordnance Headquarters where he remained for thirty days, when he was ordered to the front, and placed in command of Ordnance Depots Nos. 101 and 102. After the armistice was signed he returned to the Ordnance Department Headquarters at Tours, where his duties were similar to those at Washington City, and he continued in the service until he received his honorable discharge, August 6, 1919, in New York. After being discharged, Captain Galloway in December, 1919, became associated with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, being in charge of the employing, assigning to duty and discharging of the salaried employes of this concern. Captain Galloway remained with this company until February 15, 1922. He reigned this position to accept one as general manager of the Hagar Strawboard & Paper Company of Cedarville, which he still holds, the proffer of it having come to him entirely unsolicited. During the two and one-half years he has held the position, he has made some very important changes, among them being the transfer of the office from Xenia to Cedarville, and the thorough overhauling of equipment and methods. The plant has been so altered as to make it like new. All of the buildings have been remodeled, the grounds and surroundings beautified with grass. plots, flower beds and flower boxes, the latter being in the windows in plain sight of the employes. A five day week was adopted January 1, 1923, thus eliminating all Sunday work, and affording the employes a Saturday half holiday. In spite of the decrease in the time put in, the production has increased 25 per cent. Foremen were put on salary, with two weeks vacation annually, each foreman being made manager of his department. These foremen, as an organization, meet with the general manager and superintendent at regular stated intervals, and at these meetings all details of the business are discussed. Thc employes are organized into a social club, literary society and baseball team, and they have their own movie theatre, the president of the company having donated a moving picture machine and projecting machine, while Captain Galloway provided the piano and chairs for the hall. Insurance is provided for all employes, and already this feature has, in several instances, proven a source of much-needed relief. Under the foregoing methods the sordid grind of daily labor has been reduced to a minimum and a spirit and perspective worth while has been infused into the lives of all employes with better salaries, increased production and decreased overhead expenses. Secretary Davis of the United States Department of Labor approved the foregoing plan, and in May, 1924, upon his recommendation, all similar plants in the country adopted the same system put into operation by Captain Galloway sixteen months earlier. In June, 1922, Captain Galloway was also made treasurer of the company, so that his authority was thereby increased. In addition to the improvements already referred to, he has surplanted the old method of hauling loose straw from farms to mill, which required forty-four mules covering a fifteen-mile radius of supply, with specially designed trailers, drawn by Fordsons, thereby increasing the radius-base of supply to more than twenty-five miles, and yet reducing the cost of delivery 28 per cent, with better wages to the employes in this department, and a bonus for extra ton deliveries which enables some of the employes to double their daily wages. Each Fordson draws two trailers with a capacity of two tons each. These trailers were designed by Captain Galloway and his assistant, who personally conducted the experimental work in perfecting them, and he even drove the Fordsons in experimental trips from farm to factory in testing out the capacity, speed and similar matters. The Troy Trailer Company was awarded the contract for building these trailers according to Captain Galloway,s specifications and models, which were so perfect that no changes were made in the process of manufacture. Soon thereafter the Troy Trailer Company induced another paper mill to install the same system, and the company is now manufacturing these trailers for the market. Captain Galloway is a Mason, belongs to the Denison University Chapter of Kappa Sigma college fraternity, to the Xenia Kiwanis Club, and to the United Presbyterian Church of Cedarville. He is teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class of that church. On July 7, 1917, Captain Galloway was married, at Chicago, to Miss Lucile Summers, a daughter of Rev. M. A. and Belle (Langfitt) Summers, the former for a long period engaged in missionary work for the Baptist denomination in West Virginia, was later in charge of the parish of his denomination at Nowata, Oklahoma, where he built a beautiful modern church edifice, and is now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ironton, Ohio. Mrs. Galloway was graduated from the Parkersburg, West Virginia High School in 1911, and from Denison University in 1915 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For one year she was engaged in teaching school in Oklahoma, and for another year she was a teacher in the Cathedral School of Havana, Cuba. She has the distinction of belonging to the Kappa Phi Sorority of Denison University and to the Delta Omicron National Musical Sorority. When she abandoned her profession at the time of her marriage, a most efficient educator was lost. In this work she displayed inherited capability for her mother be- HISTORY OF OHIO - 111 fore her had been a teacher. Eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Galloway is a charter member of the Cedarville Chapter, for which a charter has been applied. Captain and Mrs. Galloway have two children: Rebecca, who was born while her father was in Prance, and Dorothy. Captain Galloway, as might be expected, is very active in the American Legion, and is past commander of the local post. He is at present president of the Community Leaguc, and is unceasing in his efforts to advance the general welfare of Cedarville, as well as to promote the prosperity of the employes of his plant. It is but fair to state that in all of his industrial improvement work he is ably seconded by Harlow G. Funsett, assistant general manager and superintendent, graduate of the University of Wisconsin. WILLIAM A. COOPER. The village of Piketon, Pike County, has a population and a complement of varied business interests, industrial and mercantile, that contribute directly to the important functions of the local postoffice, the affairs of which are under the able administration of William A. Cooper, whose appointment to the office of postmaster was received December 14, 1921. A native son of Piketon, he received the most loyal support in connection with his application for this office and his popularity in Pike County rests not alone on his sterling personal characteristics but also on the splendid record he made as a representative of the county in overseas service in the World war. Mr. Cooper was born at Piketon, on the 14th of March, 1893, a son of Samuel and Effie G. (Wiltshire) Cooper, both of whom likewise claim the old Buckeye State as the place of their nativity. The first representative of the Cooper family in this state come from Germantown, Kentucky, and the original American representatives of the Wiltshire family came from England and made settlement in Maryland. William and Elizabeth Wiltshire were the grandparents of Mr. Cooper on his mother 's side. Alfred and Hannah (Chestnut) Cooper, paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were born and reared in Ohio, and here Alfred Cooper gave the greater part of his active career to farm industry. Samuel Cooper and his wife now resides at Piketon, where he served five years as city marshal, he having previously been engaged in farm enterprise in this county. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Of the two children William A., the Piketon postmaster, is the elder, and the younger is Ina, who here remains at the parental home. The father of Samuel Cooper went forth from Ohio as a loyal soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and his grandson, the subject of this review, later found opportunity to add new military and warfare honors to the family name. In 1911 William A. Cooper was graduated from the Piketon High School, and thereafter he here clerked one year in a store conducted by one of his uncles. He then took a normal course in the local high school, and after thus fortifying himself for the pedagogic profession he continued a successful teacher in the public schools until the nation entered the World war and the call of patriotism led him to enlist promptly for service. His enlistment occurred April 28, 1917, the month in which the United States became formally identified with the great conflict, and he was assigned to the Eighty-third Division of the United States Army, with which he proceeded to the stage of conflict oversea. On arriving in France Mr. Cooper was transferred to the One Hundred and Second United States Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division, with which he was at Marne two days, and for four days at the front in the famous Chateau Thierry sector. Thereafter he took part in the St. Mihiel drive, in which he was somewhat severely gassed, but he accompanied his command to Verdun, where physical conditions, as a result of the gas attack, led to his being officially pronounced unfit for further duty at the front. With this decision came his transfer to the base hospital at Raimecourt, where he remained one month under treatment. He then insisted on joining his company, and prepared to take this action, but the military surgeons declared him still unfit for active service, with the result that he was ordered to return to the United States. He landed in the port of New York City on the 2d of April, 1919, was thence sent to debarkation hospital No. 3, and from the latter proceeded to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, whence he was transferred to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he received his honorable discharge on the 7th of May, 1919. He then returned to Piketon, and he continued as a teacher in the schools of his native county until he was appointed postmaster, December 14, 1921, for the regulation term of four years. Mr. Cooper is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the republican party, and is actively affiliated with the American Legion. His name is still enrolled on the roster of eligible young bachelors in Pike County. CLARENCE V. YAPLE, D. D. S., is not only a native son of Ross County but also has the distinction of being a representative of a family that was here founded in the early pioneer epoch, when this section of Ohio was still a forest wilderness. The Doctor ,s paternal grandfather, John Yaple, was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1801, and from the old Keystone State he came with his family to Ohio in an early day, the journey having been made with teams and wagons, by means of which not only his family but also a goodly supply of household effects, as well as minor farm implements, found an effective medium of overland transportation, long before the day of railway construction through the new country. He made settlement in Colerain Township, Ross County, where he reclaimed and developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, he having been seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. It was on this old home farm that William F. Yaple, father of Doctor Yaple, was born, the date of his nativity having been June 15, 1845, and he having passed his entire life in this county, where he was a substantial and prosperous representative of farm industry and a man of influence in community affairs. He was a stalwart republican, and he and his wife were most zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. One of his brothers entered the service of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. and met his death on the field in the historic battle of Gettysburg. William F. Yaple as a young man married Miss Eliza A. Leasure, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Jones) Leasure. Thomas Leasure came from Pennsylvania to Ohio about the year 1810, and became One of the pioneer settlers and farmers of Pickaway County, where he and his wife remained until their death, he having died at the age of seventy-seven years. The death of William F. Yaple occurred in 1907, and his widow passed to the life eternal in the year 1922. A brief record concerning their fine family of children is consistently entered. here: Dr. Sherman T. married Jessie Terry, and they have two sons; Francis W. married Jeannette Reid, and they have one son and one daughter ; Della L. is the widow of William Ashworth; Effie E. is the wife of Newton Strait and they have two sons; Mary B. is the wife Of Daniel Watson, and they have one son and one daughter; 112 - HISTORY OF OHIO Harley E. married Maude Hassenflu and they have one son and two daughters; Willard A. married Bertha Wheeler, and of their six children three sons and two daughters are living; Dr. Clarence V., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Melvin L. married Mable Steffenhagen, and they have one son; Leland H. married Viola Miller, and they have one son and one daughter. In September, 1908, Dr. Yaple wedded Miss Nellie L. Lynch, daughter of Marcus L. and Keziah (McGuire) Lynch, of Ross County, where the father still resides, Mrs. Lynch having died in 1922. Doctor and Mrs. Yaple have no children. STARLING E. KAY, doctor of dental surgery at Chillicothe, has had a large and profitable practice in that city since he returned from overseas, where he was on duty as a captain in the Dental Corps during the World war. Captain Kay is a native Ohioan, born at Taylorsville, Highland County, March 9, 1890, son of Lee and Sophia (Sauner) Kay. The Kay family is of English ancestry and settled in Pennsylvania early in the seventeenth century. The Sauner family came from France and located at Mowrystown, Ohio, in 1848. Lee Kay, who died July 12, 1921, was a farmer and was a Union soldier throughout the Civil war in the Ohio infantry. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother, Sophia (Sauner) Kay, is still living. There are four children, all married, Homer S., Edward M., Elizabeth A. and Startling E. Dr. S. E. Kay was reared on a farm, attended the public schools of Taylorsville, and in 1909 graduated from the high school at Mowrystown. He took a course in dental surgery in Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, where he was graduated Doctor of Divinity in 1916. For a year he remained at Nashville engaged in practice associated with Dr. J. A. Dale. On August 17, 1917, Doctor Kay was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Dental Corps, and was assigned to the Eighty-third Division at Camp Sherman. He was in training there seven months, and went overseas with the Eighty-third Division, which landed at Liverpool, June 22, 1918, and crossed the channel to LaHavre, France, July 1, 1918, and he was assigned duty at LeMans in American Hospital No. 52. He was there until February, 1919, and was then sent to Chateau-du-Loir Hospital No. 72, where on February 22 he was commissioned captain. He was on duty overseas until June 30, 1919, when he sailed for home, reaching Newport News July 12, and after a week at Camp Dix was allowed a two weeks leave of absence and his honorable discharge was granted August 9, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Doctor Kay came to Chillicothe and opened his offices October 20, 1919, and in less than five years has become one of the busiest professional men in the city. He is a member of the Rehwinkel Dental Society, the Ohio State and National Dental Society, the American Legion, the Kiwanis Club, the Athletic Club and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His church is the Methodist. On January 8, 1921, at Chillicothe, Doctor Kay married Miss Muriel Schauseil, daughter of John C. and Clara (Stout) Schauseil. Her father is a farmer and coal dealer at Waverly in Pike County, Ohio. Mrs. Kay has one brother, Guy. The daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Kay is named Clara Bell, and she was born August 5, 1923. ALPHONSO I. CAHILL, deputy county auditor of Ross County, was born at Chillicothe, and was one of Ross County's officers in the World war, going overseas with the famous Rainbow Division and rising to to the rank of lieutenant in the chemical warfare division. He is past commander of the American Legion Post at Chillicothe. He was born in that city, October 31, 1892, son of Thomas and Nellie I. (Ireland) Cahill, residents of Chillicothe, where his father until he retired was in the retail shoe business. The grandparents, Matthew and Mollie (Fleschner) Cahill, came from County Cork, Ireland, to the United States about 1860, settling in Covington, Kentucky, and moving to Ohio about 1865. The maternal grandparents, Alphonso and Sarah J. (Butler) Ireland, were of English ancestry, the Ireland family having come to the United States in early Colonial times and settled in Pennsylvania, moving to Ohio about 1852. The Cahill family is of Catholic affiliation. Alphonso I. Cahill has one brother, Thomas, who married Gertrude Jones. Alphonso I. Cahill attended the public schools at Chillicothe, graduating from high school in 1911, and pursued a business course in the Chillicothe Business College. He was employed in the cost department of the Portsmouth Steel Company until 1913, and then, returning to Chillicothe, assisted his father in the shoe business. On April 6, 1917, the day after America declared war against Germany, Mr. Cahill enlisted as a private in Company H of the Fourth Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, which was mustered into the national army as Company H of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry. It was sent to Camp Mills, and on September 1, 1917, was mobilized with the Forty-second or Rainbow Division, sailing for overseas and landing in France October 31, 1917. Mr. Cahill was in the Vaux Legrande Department of Meuse in training until December 1, 1917, when he was assigned as a student in the Army Training School at Langres, France, department of Haute Marne. He remained at Langres until March 16, 1918, and was assigned to active duty with the One Hundred First Infantry in the French army at the line at Chemin des Dames, south of Soissons, one of the points where the Germans concentrated their great offensive drive beginning March 21, 1918. From this point Sergeant Cahill was withdrawn and was put with the French troops that were rushed north and thrown into the gap made by the retreat of the Fifth British Army. Later he returned to Langres, and on May 8, 1918, was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry. Going north to Abbeville and joining the Eighty-second Division, he served one month with Company M, of the Three Hundred Twenty-seventh Infantry, and was then ordered transferred to the Eightieth Division and assigned to Company D of the Three Hundred Nineteenth Infantry. He went into battle line with the First Battalion of the Three Hundred Nineteenth in the Ayette sector, where the first battalion was brigaded with the Second Highland Light Infantry of the British Army. He remained on that line until August 26, 1918. At that time they were exposed to a heavy fire from gas shells of the yellow cross and blue cross mixture. During this gas attack the battalion major ordered Mr. Cahill to gas duty to look after the battalion, and he moved Company A and part of Company C into higher position and was very successful in preventing any casualties. Word of his good work got to headquarters and the chemical warfare headquarters, and he was soon relieved of duty with the battalion and detailed for the chemical warfare service. With the Eightieth Division he moved south, participating in the St. Mihiel offensive, and was then ordered to the Thirty-sixth Division as assistant division gas officer, joining the Thirty-sixth at Bar-sur-Aube. This division moved into line in the Champagne sector on September 22, in conjunction with the Second Division, these two HISTORY OF OHIO - 113 American divisions being under the command of General Gouraud, who recently toured America, and participated in the campaign offensive at Blanc Mont and Medeah farm. The Thirty-sixth Division advanced to the Aisne River, and on November 2, withdrew and moved south to the second army and was at Conde-en-Barrois when the armistice was signed. Just two days earlier, on November 9th, Mr. Cahill was promoted to first lieutenant in the chemical warfare service. Subsequently he was ordered to report to the chief of the chemical warfare service at Tours, and was assigned duty as assistant to the chief gas officer of the Third Army Corps and with it moved into Germany. About March 15, 1919, he was ordered to the United States, landing at Hoboken, April 17, and was sent to Camp Lakehurst, New Jersey, receiving his honorable discharge May 2, 1919. On returning to Chillicothe Mr. Cahill resumed his place in his father's store until March, 1923, when he was appointed deputy county auditor. On September 16, 1919, at St. Louis, Missouri, soon after his return from overseas, Mr. Cahill married Miss Ella Catherine Ruhl, daughter of John and Elizabeth Ruhl, of St. Louis, where her parents reside.. Her father is clerk of court of St. Louis County, is active in public affairs there and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Cahill is the only one of the six children of her parents married, the others being George, John, Albert, Laura and Cora. Mr. and Mrs. Cahill have one son, Thomas Ruhl. Mr. Cahill is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge at Chillicothe, and has served as commander of Post No. 62 of the American Legion. He is active in the affairs of the Kiwanis Club. THOMAS J. KENNEDY was born in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, February 2, 1877, and here he is now a prominent and successful representative of the real estate and insurance business, besides which his executive ability as secretary of the Home Building & Loan Association has had potent influence in the development of the substantial business of this corporation, the assests of which now aggregate more than one million dollars. Mr. Kennedy is a son of Thomas and Adelaide (Chamberlain) Kennedy, the former of whom was born in County Galway, Ireland, and the latter was born in the Dominion of Canada, of French and English ancestry. The father of Thomas Kennedy died in Ireland, and the son later came with his widowed mother to the United States. It was in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, that he wedded Miss Adelaide Chamberlain, who had accompanied her parents on their removal from Canada to that city. After his marriage, Thomas Kennedy came to Ironton, and here as a skilled iron-worker in the local mills he continued to be employed many years, both hc and his wife having died in this city. Thomas J. Kennedy continued to attend the public schools of Ironton until he was seventeen years old, his discipline having included the curriculum of the high school. Soon after leaving school he turned his attention to industrial insurance. He continued as a successful representative of his company for a period of ten years, and since 1904 he has conducted at Ironton an independent insurance business of general order, his activities having been extended also to the real estate business, and his operations in both departments being now large and important. In 1911 Mr. Kennedy organized the Home Building & Loan Association, of which he has continuously served as secretary—the chief executive in the development of the large business and effective service of this corporation. Mr. Kennedy is known and valued as one of the specially loyal and liberal citizens of Ironton, has taken lively interest in all that concerns the civic and material welfare of his native city, and had the distinction of serving as its mayor in the year 1912. He is a member of the Rotary Club, has received the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he is a popular member of Ironton Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In September, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kennedy and Miss Emma Mittendorf, daughter of A. H. and Henrietta (Duis) Mittendorf, who still maintain their home at Ironton, Mr. Mittendorf being one of the substantial capitalists of this city, where his financial interests are large and varied and where he is president of the Citizens National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have two children, Lowell G., who is associated with his father in the real estate and insurance business, is a graduate of the military academy maintained at Bliss College, Kentucky. Adelaide, a graduate of the Ironton High School and of Brenau College of Gainesville, Georgia, is now taking an advanced course in music at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1923). WALTER. D. HANCOCK, M. D. A retired physician and surgeon at Hamilton, Doctor Hancock began his professional work in Butler County, half a century ago. His career has represented a long round of continued labor and useful service to his fellow men. Doctor Hancock was born in Butler County, May 25, 1847, oldest child of Alfred and Emeline (De Camp) Hancock. He represents old and patriotic American ancestry. His father was born in Riley Township, Butler County, one of the ten sons of Joel and Jane (Lintner) Hancock, Joel being a veteran of the War of 1812 and a pioneer settler in Butler County. The mother of Doctor Hancock was a daughter of Walter and Sally (Bird) De Camp, and granddaughter of Ezekial and Mary (Baker) De Camp, who came from New Jersey. One of her ancestors was Captain John Baker, who came from England in 1660 and was chief military officer by appointment in 1665 at Albany. A descendant of Capt. John Baker was Daniel Baker, a Revolutionary soldier. Ezekial De Camp came overland from New Jersey to Butler County, where in 1812 other members of the family joined him. Walter D. Hancock attended public schools at Millville in Butler County, continued his higher education in Miami University, from which in 1869 he received the Bachelor of Arts degree. His ambition from early youth had been directed toward a medical career and after completing the Liberal Arts course, he entered Miami Medical College at Cincinnati where he graduated and followed that with a post graduate course in the University of Vienna. Doctor Hancock, thoroughly well equipped for his career, located at Millville and began practice there, and was soon in the enjoyment of a flourishing business and a position of unusual esteem in the community. It was the recognition of his ability and servicc that Miami University, through one of its officials sent in the following letter dated at Oxford, Ohio, July 23, 1887: " Dr. W. D. Hancock. "My dear Sir : Your Alma Mater at the last commencement, duly mindful of her sons, and without solicitation on your part or charge on hers, and in recognition of good talents usefully employed in the general interest of society, conferred on you the degree of Master of Arts. I take pleasure in offi- 114 - HISTORY OF OHIO ciaily communicating to you the unanimous action of the Faculty and Board of Trustees. "Very respectfully, R. W. McFarland." Doctor Hancock married in 1876, Miss Sally Oliver, only daughter of John and Ellen (Cassidy) Oliver, the former a native of Flemingsburg, Kentucky, and the latter of Eaton, Ohio. The only child born to Doctor and Mrs. Hancock was Miss Nellie, now deceased. Doctor Hancock is a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason, being a member of the Commandery at Hamilton and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati. He is a democrat, a Presbyterian, and during the World war, served as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. CLARENCE G. MASSIE was elected county engineer of Lawrence County in November, 1922, and prior to his assumption of the office under this election he served out the unexpired term of his predecessor, Frederick Davis, who resigned. Mr. Massie was born at Arabia, a village near Ironton, Lawrence County, on the 9th of March, 1889, and is a son of the late Gaines P. and Mary E. (Neal) Massie. The Massie family was founded in Southern Ohio in the early pioneer days and has been prominently and worthily identified with the development of this part of the Buckeye State, espe- cially along the course of the Ohio River. Major Massie, an ancestor of the subject of this sketch, platted and thus became the virtual founder of the now progressive City of Portsmouth, in Scioto County, he having also served as an officer in the War of 181.2. Gaines P. Massie, whose death occurred December 19, 1920, was born in Scioto County, and as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war he became a member of Company H, Ninth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. In one of the raids of the troops under command Of the Confederate general, John Morgan, Mr. Massie was wounded and captured, and and he was confined seven months in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, where he endured many hardships, his wounded leg having failed to receive proper attention and he having also suffered an attack of measles. His exchange was finally effected and he then returned home, his honorable discharge having followed in due course. After his marriage he continued for many years as one of the representative farmers of Lawrence County, and he was One of the substantial and highly respected citizens of this county at the time of his death, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest, and Clarence G., of this sketch, being the youngest in their family of six sons and three daughters. The parents were zealous members of the United Brethren Church. The public schools of Lawrence County afforded Clarence G. Massie his early education, which included a course in high school. At the age of nineteen years he received a teacher ,a certificate, and thereafter he taught one year of district school. He then resumed his active association with the work of his father ,s farm, where he continued his activities five years. He was then appointed a road-work inspector in the service of the state highway department, and after one year of service in this capacity he was advanced to the position of superintendent of highway construction. He made in this executive position a splendid record and- continued his service seven years—until his election in 1922 to his present office of county engineer, his previous experience having excellently equipped him for the work of this important office, in which he is giving a characteristically progressive and efficient administration. He is in politics a staunch republican. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. August 11, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Massie and Miss Clara B. Dillon, who was born and reared in Lawrence County, where her father, the late John Dillon, was a prosperous farmer and where the widowed mother, whose maiden name was Jane Dawson, still resides, she being a devoted member Of the United Brethren Church, as was also her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Massie have two children, Maxine and Clarence G., Jr. ISAAC A. RYAN, general superintendent of the Bel-font Steel and Wire Company, and president Of the Ryan & Gilfillan Company, the largest automobile business in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, was born at Coal Grove, this county, on the 31st of October, 1879, a son of Merriam B. and Mary (Griffith) Ryan, and a grandson of Isaac M. and Nancy (James) Ryan, his paternal grandfather having come from Connecticut and made settlement in Southern Ohio. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this review was Andrew Griffith. Merriam B. Ryan was born and reared in Southern Ohio, and represented this state as one of the gallant young soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. He later became a successful contractor in railroad and highway construction, and for a number Of years he was superintendent of the Lawrence COunty Infirmary. He was influential in the local councils of the republican party, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic, and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow, who was born in Virginia and who came to Ohio with her parents. The death of Mr. Ryan occurred in 1895, when his son Isaac A., of this sketch, was a lad of fifteen years. After profiting by the advantages of the public schools of Ironton, Isaac A. Ryan continued a student in the Howe Military Academy, then at Lima, Indiana, but now known as Howe, until he was twenty years of age. He then became associated with the Ironton Door Manufacturing Company, an industrial concern controlled by his widowed mother and his brother-in-law, and with this company he continued his connection until 1900, when he took the position of shipping clerk for the Belfont Steel & Wire Company, with which important corporation at Ironton he has won advancement to the position of general superintendent, an executive office which he has held since 1905. In. 1919 Mr. Ryan in addition to his association with the Belfont Steel and Wire Company formed a partnership with D. M. Gilfillan and engaged in the automobile business at Ironton. In 1922, to meet the requirements of the rapidly expanding enterprise, they formed the present Ryan & Gilfillan Corporation, which has the agency for the Hudson and Essex and other automobiles in a territory comprising several counties and which maintains at Ironton the most complete and modern automobile plant in the city, with a full line of accessories and with a well equipped repair department. Mr. Ryan has gained rank as one Of the most loyal and progressive citizens and business men of Ironton, and he gave five years of effective service as safety director of the city. He was the man who instituted the movement which resulted in the construction of the bridge over the Ohio River between Ironton, Ohio, and Russell, Kentucky. In the World war period Mr. Ryan was zealous in the advancing and support of the local patriotic movements of all kinds, and through his executive association with an important manufacturing industry was able still further tO render service in furthering the nation's war activities. Mr. Ryan served as chairman of the conservation committee for HISTORY OF OHIO - 115 Ohio under the United States fuel administration. He is one of the influential and popular members of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a director, and he is a charter member and a director of the local Rotary Club. He is a past exalted ruler of the Ironton lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite and Shrine member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church in their home city. In June, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ryan and Miss Nellie Millies, of Ironton, a daughter of H. M. and Mary Millies. Her father, a native of Germany, was associated with the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Ironton at the time of his death and his widow is still a resident of Ironton. LEONARD G. HOWELL, chief of the municipal engineering department of the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, was born in this city on the 15th of January, 1894, and is a son of James M. and Eva C. (Sperry) Howell, both natives of Ohio and now residents of West Virginia, where the father is auditor of the state highway department. James M. Howell is affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Modern Woodmen of America, is a democrat in politics and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Derring) Howell, who were residents of Ohio at the time of their death. Mrs. Howell is a daughter of the late Isaac and Olive (Cripps) Sperry, the latter of whom came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Leonard G. Howell is the eldest in a family of three children, the younger two being Elmer and Olive E. Leonard G. Howell was graduated from the Ironton High School as a member of the class of 1911, and he then entered Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, in which institution he completed a thorough course in civil engineering and was graduated in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In the following year he was appointed chief city engineer of Ironton, and he has since continued his efficient administration in this office. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church. In October, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Howell and Miss Fay Henry, daughter of the late Levi M. and Victoria (Payne) Henry, both of whom died at Ironton, where Mr. Henry had been a successful contractor and builder. Mr. and Mrs. Howell have two children: Leonard Henry and James Edwin. WAYNE L. ELKINS of Ironton, Lawrence County, is not only one of the representative members of the bar of his native county, but is also giving at the present time a most effective administration in the office of prosecuting attorney of the county. He was born at South Point, this county, December 27, 1886, and in this county his parents, Oscar M. and Caroline M. (Stanley) Elkins, still maintain their home, both having been born and reared in Ohio. Oscar M. Elkins is a son of William and Julia (Brubaker) Elkins, and his wife is a daughter of Frederick and Dora Stanley, of German lineage. The Elkins family in Ohio is of the same ancestry as the influential Virginia and West Virginia family of this name. In earlier life Oscar M. Elkins gave his attention to farm industry, and he is now a successful contractor and builder in Lawrence County, he being a skilled workman at the carpenter ,s trade. He has served as township assessor and is now a member of the Board of Education of his home township, and also of the South Point Delta High School. Of the two children, the subject of this sketch is the only son, the daughter being Irene Elizabeth. Miss Elkins was graduated from the Beechwood School in Pennsylvania and was a successful teacher of physical culture. She is now attending Ohio State University at Columbus. In the public schools of his native village Wayne Elkins acquired his early education. At the age of eighteen years he received a teacher 's certificate, and thereafter he continued his successful service as a teacher in the schools of Lawrence County during a period of five years. In the meanwhile he initiated the study of law, and in the last year of his work as a teacher he passed the summer vacation as a student in Marshall College at Huntington, West Virginia, and he likewise took a summer course in the law department of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, besides continuing his legal studies under effective private preceptorship. He taught part of a year in the Ohio State Reformatory, and thereafter held for one year a position with the government department of commerce and labor in Washington, D. C., where he availed himself of the advantages of the Hickman School of Oratory, in which he studied oratory. He next completed a two years' course in the law department of the Ohio Northern University, from which he received in 1913 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year, and in April, 1914, he established himself in the practice of his profession at Ironton. In 1922 he formed a professional alliance with the law firm of Johnson & Jones, with which he continued his connection until he assumed the office of prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, to which he was elected in November, 1922. During his term of office there were 250 convictions and $25,000 in fines collected. In the World war period Mr. Elkins served as a member of the Advisory Board of Lawrence County, and was connected also with the government secret service department, in connection with allotments made to dependents upon men called into the national military and naval service. Mr. Elkins is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic fraternity, including the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which he was the worthy patron at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1923, his wife likewise being a valued member of this chapter, and was worthy matron of South Point chapter for 1922 and 1923. Both hold membership in the Baptist Church. At Charleston, West Virginia, on the 2d of September, 1911, Mr. Elkins wedded Miss Daisy Irene McClure, who was born and reared in Ohio. Her parents, Charles W. and Blanche (Robinson) McClure reside at Huntington, West Virginia. Mrs. Elkins was a successful teacher in the public schools prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins have two children, Leonard M. and Warren G., aged respectively nine and five years, in 1923. ROBERT C. PATTERSON. Prior to assuming his present office, that of judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Montgomery County, Judge Patterson had made a specially excellent record of service as prosecuting attorney of the county and gained precedence as one of the leading members of the bar of the City of Dayton. On the bench of the Common Pleas Court his rulings have been marked by a fine appreciation of equity and justice and a broad and accurate knowledge of law and precedent, with the result that few of his decisions have been reversed by courts of higher jurisdiction. Judge Patterson was born on the parental homestead farm, in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was May 116 - HISTORY OF OHIO 9, 1873. His parents were born in Ireland and were young folk when they came to the United States. William J. Patterson, father of the Judge, was born in the year 1831, received his youthful education in the schools of his native land, and was nineteen years of age when he came from the Emerald Isle to the United States, in 1850, and established his residence in Montgomery County, Ohio. Here he was successfully engaged in farm enterprise at the inception of the Civil war, and he enlisted for service in defense of the Union. In the state militia he became sergeant of Company O, One Hundred and Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but his regiment was not called to the front. Thereafter he continued as one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of Montgomery County until his death. His wife preceded him in death by one year. He was for forty years one of the leading teachers and educators of his county. Like many another young man who was destined to achieve success in professional life, Judge Patterson found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the invigorating influences and discipline of the farm, and in the meanwhile he attended the district schools of his native township until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he was graduated in the Steele High School at Dayton, as a member of the class of 1895, and in consonance with his ambition and well formulated plans he then entered the Cincinnati Law School. In this institution he was graduated in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in the same year he was admitted to the Ohio bar, at Dayton, and in this city he initiated the active practice of his profession. He formed a law partnership with his brother, John C. Patterson, and Barry S. Murphy, and after the withdrawal of Mr. Murphy from the firm its title continued as Patterson & Patterson until the death of John C. Patterson on the 21st of March, 1905. Thereafter Judge Patterson continued in individual practice, and from 1909 to 1912 he served as assistant prosecuting attorney of his native county. In the latter year he was elected prosecuting attorney, and the estimate placed upon his administration in this office was significantly shown in his reelection in 1914. He proved a most vigorous and resourceful prosecutor, and within his regime in this office he prosecuted the Mason fraud case, a cause celebre, and effected the conviction of Mason. This case, that of the State of Ohio versus H. G. Mason, whose right name was Clay Wilson, was appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court, which confirmed the decision of the lower court. For thirty years Mason, or Wilson, had been engaged in swindling operations, in virtually all parts of the United States, and he had escaped arrest during all these years up to the time of his trial in the court of Montgomery County. In 1916 further honors were paid to Judge Patterson in his native county, in his election to his present position on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, he having been reelected in 1922, by more than 4,000 majority. Judge Patterson is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Sons of Veterans. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party. He is a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and his wife is a communicant of the Catholic Church. In the World war period Judge Patterson was a Montgomery County leader in advancing patriotic activities, including the drives in support of the government war loans, Red Cross and Young Men’s Christian Association work, etc. On the 9th of October, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Patterson to Miss Katharine M. Ryan, daughter of John and Mary (Ready) Ryan, of Dayton, where her father served many years as city marshal and where he was held in unqualified popular confidence and esteem. Mrs. Patterson was graduated in the Dayton High School, and prior to her marriage was for several years an efficient and popular teacher in the schools of this city. She is prominent in the social and cultural circles of Dayton, where she holds membership in the Dayton Council of Catholic Women and also the Poetry Club. Judge S and Mrs. Patterson have three children: Robert William, who is fifteen years of age at the time of this writing; in the spring of 1924, is junior student in the High School department of the University of Dayton; Mary Elizabeth, nine years old, is attending the Corpus Christi parochial school, and Master John Ford, six years old, is a vigorous pupil in a kindergarten school. BROOK L. CAPPER owns and conducts the most modern and attractive automobile garage in the City of Ironton, the metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County, and here he has the agency for the Ford automobiles, his establishment being equipped with full lines of accessories and supplies for the "universal cars" for which he is here the representative. Mr. Capper was born on a farm in Lawrence County, August 17, 1878, and is a son of Vincent and Addie B. (Smith) Capper, the former of whom is deceased and the latter maintains her home at Huntington, West Virginia, she having contracted a second marriage. Vincent Capper was a successful farmer and also a contractor in highway construction, his having been secure status as one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of Lawrence County at the time of his death, September 10, 1882. Of the five children, Melissa, the first born, is deceased; Sarah E. is married and resides in the City of Springfield, Illinois; Brook L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Minnie is married and resides at Huntington, West Virginia; and Mahala is deceased. Vincent Capper was a democrat in politics, and his religious faith was that of the Baptist Church. He was born and reared in Ohio, a son of Joshua and Sarah Eleanor (Perkins) Capper, the Capper family having early been founded in Pennsylvania, whence came the original representatives in Ohio. The maternal grandparents of Brook L. Capper were Hiram and Sarah (Billips) Smith, who came to Ohio from what is now the State of West Virginia. Brook L. Capper attended the district schools at intervals until he was sixteen years of age, and thereafter he was employed in connection with road construction work in Windsor Township, a line of enterprise with which he continued his association until he attained to the age of twenty years. For two years thereafter he conducted a grocery store in Scott Township, and he then sold this business and gave two years to the active management of the farm which he had previously purchased, and on which he simultaneously maintained a general store which gained good support in that rural district. He continued this general mercantile business eight years, and then sold the establishment and business. He had by this time become the owner of three farms in his native county, and on one of these he erected a modern house and barn and made the place an attractive home for his family. In connection with the general operations of his farms he was for two years engaged in the buying and selling of live stock, with special attention given to dealing in horses. Upon his election to the office of county commissioner he removed with his family to Ironton, the county seat, and in this position he served two terms, HISTORY OF OHIO - 117 with characteristic loyalty and efficiency. Governor Willis then appointed him an investigator of state liquor licenses, a position which he retained three years. In the meanwhile he engaged in the automobile business at Ironton, in December, 1915, and after having here held the agency for several other makes of automobiles he finally obtained the local agency for the Ford automobiles, to the distribution of which he now confines his activities, his being the finest and largest garage in Ironton. Mr. Capper is well fortified in his opinions concerning economic and governmental affairs, and gives staunch allegiance to the republican party. He is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies-of the Masonic fraternity, and also the Mystic Shrine, and is a member also of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is a valued member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce and is known as a loyal and liberal citizen and progressive business man. He and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church. April 21, 1900, recorded the marriage of Mr. Capper and Miss Elizabeth Edwards, who likewise Was born and reared in Lawrence County, she being a daughter of Mahlon and Rose (Morrison) Edwards, both natives of Ohio. Mr. Edwards is one of the substantial farmers of Lawrence County, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Christian Church, as was also his wife, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Capper have five children: Olive, Lucile, Juanita, Edith and Rosemary. The eldest daughter is the wife of Wymer Carroll, of Ironton, and the other children still remain (1923) at the parental home. WILLIAM H. HAYES, city auditor of Ironton, spent the greater part of his business life in the iron industry and represents a pioneer family of the Hanging Rock iron region.. He was born at Ironton, December 29, 1854. He is descended from the same Hayes ancestry as the late President Hayes. His father, John Hayes, resembled the President, so that they were taken for brothers, and R. B. Hayes several times visited his connections in Lawrence County. The grandparents of William H. Hayes were Harry and Mary (Hooper) Hayes. John Hayes, father of the city auditor, was one of Ironton’s leading men of affairs. He was born in Adams County, Ohio, served as a soldier in the Civil war, and early in life became an iron moulder. He was one of the organizers of the Foster Stove Company of Ironton and one of its directors, and served two terms as county treasurer, but refused renomination. He was a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for fifteen years was superintendent of the Sunday school, and belonged to the Odd Fellows. John Hayes, who died February 19, 1921, married Elizabeth Ormston, who was born in Ireland, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Graham) Ormston, who brought her to this country when she was five years of age. She passed her ninety-third birthday in May, 1923. Her eight children are : James F., William H., T. J. Hayes, Mrs. Laura E. Prior, Mrs. Florence Drayer, Ralph O., Sarah E. and Mrs. Mary E. Williams. William H. Hayes was reared at Ironton, attended the public schools, and after one year in high school went into the foundry with his father and learned the moulders. trade. He followed this business for thirty-five years. For seven years he was superintendent of the Richmond Stove Company's plant at Richmond, Virginia. After returning to Ironton he became sanitary director of the city, and held that post until he was elected city auditor in 1921, and two years later was reelected to that office without opposition. Mr. Hayes is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the church of his ancestors, while his wife and children are Methodists. He has been an Odd Fellow forty-two years, has filled all the chairs in the local lodge and sat as a representative in the Ohio Grand Lodge, also in the Grand Encampment of the United States. He and Mrs. Hayes became the parents of five children. The oldest son, Howard, who was in the undertaking business at Steubenville, Ohio, died February 23, 1922. Of the four living children Half ord Postal was trained as a soldier for the World war, and while at Camp Meade, Maryland, was stricken with the influenza, from which he has never fully recovered, and is now acting as salesman for the Florida Fruit Company. The daughter Anna W. Ellis, was a clerk in the ordnance department at Washington during the war. She is the wife of Professor R. S. Ellis, of Knoxville, Tennessee. John C., a salesman for the Chevrolet car, was also in the late war. Alice E., is a clerk in the safety and service department of the City of Ironton. MERLE ERNEST RUDY. In the twelve years comprising his active membership at the Akron bar Merle Ernest Rudy has achieved a practice of large proportions, including some of the important land and financial interests of this vicinity. Mr. Rudy was born at Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio, September 25, 1885, son of Levi S. and Eliza Ellen (Erwin) Rudy. Both his parents were born in Wayne County. His maternal grandfather, Cunningham Erwin, was born in the same county, while his paternal grandfather, David Rudy, settled there early on coming from Pennsylvania. Merle E. Rudy acquired a public school education at Dalton, completing his high school work there in 1903. For three years he was a teacher, and from 1906 to 1909, attended Wooster University in his native county. In 1909 he entered the law school in the University of Michigan, taking his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1912, and in the same year was admitted to the Ohio bar and located at Akron to engage in general practice. His offices for a number of years have been in the Second National Bank Building. In addition to his other clientage Mr. Rudy is counsel for the Mutual Savings & Loan Company, the Wayne Ohio Company, the State Land Company and the Northern Reserve Land Company, all Akron business corporations. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and University Club. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church. On August 18, 1910, at Wooster, Ohio, Mr. Rudy married Miss Martha Appleman, daughter of Robert Appleman. They have two daughters, Jane Ellen and Dorothy, and a son, Merle Ernest, Jr. GEORGE E. BRANDON, who has made a notable record as a mining and industrial engineer, is superintendent of the Solway plant at Ironton in Lawrence County and one of the progressive citizens of that community. Mr. Brandon was born in Normandy, Tennessee, April 8, 1892, son of Samuel and Sarah (Hoffman) Brandon. His father is of old Virginia ancestry, son of John and Harriet (Riggins) Brandon. His Mother is of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, a daughter of George Hoffman. Samuel Brandon is one of the Most prominent men in the agricultural affairs of his community of Tennessee. He is president of the Tennessee Farmers Organization, has been a mem- ber of the State Legislature, and during the late war 118 - HISTORY OF OHIO was appointed by President Wilson as chairman of the exemption board. He has served on the school board for years, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife had eight children, five sons and three daughters: Walter, who has two children, Nell and Katherine; Horace, deceased; Lonnie, who went overseas in the Thirtieth Division, was at Ypres and along the Hindenburg line, was wounded and gassed, and is now located at Fowlertown, Texas; Albert, connected with the Midvaile Steel Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Lillian, a teacher of domestic science at Clarksburg, West Virginia; Glyndon and Emma, both students in the Marysville College at Marysville, Tennessee. George E. Brandon, fourth son of the family, was educated in public schools, prepared for college in the Fitzgeralds-Clark School at Tullahoma, Tennessee, graduated in 1913 from Ruskin College at Ruskin, Tennessee, and then entered Vanderbilt University, taking the general engineering course and graduating in 1915. After leaving the university he spent two years as a mining engineer with the Bon Air Coal Company at Bon Air, Tennessee, and for three years was assistant superintendent of the Chattanooga Coke and Gas Company of Chattanooga. Since then his work as an industrial engineer has been in connection with plants employing the Solvay process. He became general inspector for the seventeen plants operated in the United States by the Semet Solvay Coke Company, and since June, 1922, has been superintendent of the plant at Ironton known as the Ironton By-Product Coke Company. Mr. Brandon is a member of the Rotary Club at Ironton, and has joined heartily in all public movements there. He married at Normandy, Tennessee, in September, 1913, Miss Clara Smith, daughter of William and Katherine (Russell) Smith. Her father, now deceased, was a farmer and stock man. There were four daughters and one son in the Smith family, but the only son is now deceased, and the other daughters are: Nannie, Hattie and May. Mrs. Brandon is a member of the Christian Church. They have two children, George and Russell Brandon. EDWARD F. MYERS. Myers is a name that has figured conspicuously in the industrial and commercial life of Ironton for over forty years. Edward F. Myers, who grew up in this section of Southern OhiO, has been an executive in a number of business and industrial corporations, and is now the active head of the Ironton Fire Brick Company. Mr. Myers is of English birth and ancestry and was born in England, August 22, 1878. His grandparents were Thomas and Mary Myers. In 1881, when he was three years old his parents, Thomas and Ellen (Young) Myers, came to the United States, first locating at Canal Dover, Ohio, and in 1886 removing to Ironton. Thomas Myers, who died in 1916, was an expert miner, and while in England had charge of coal mines. On locating at Ironton he took charge of the building of the gas retorts for the Standard Fire Brick Company, and became superintendent of this plant. He was widely known for his skill in the building of gas retorts, and was a man of successful and progressive characteristics. He was a member of the Church of England. His wife died in 1903. Their children were: John; Thomas and Johsua Henry, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, Thomas, Joshua, Edward, Samuel, Mary, Sylvester, Katherine. Edward F. Myers while a boy in Ironton attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1896. For two years after leaving school he clerked in a grocery store, then clerked in the office of the Ironton Fire Brick Company, a business that subsequently went out of existence. He was with that company four and one-half years, until 1903, when he became secretary and treasurer of the Ironton Cross Tie Company, manufacturers and dealers in railroad ties. Three years later he became one of the incorporators of the W. G. Ward Lumber Company, and was secretary and treasurer and actively identified with the management of the business until 1918. Following that he became general manager of the Diamond Lumber Company, and in 1918 he came with the Ironton Fire Brick Company, a new business under an old name, at first as secretary, then secretary-treasurer and general manager, and is now president, treasurer and general manager of this substantial industry. Mr. Myers was for four years a member of the Ironton City Council. He was one of the organizers of the Rotary Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Refractories Manufacturers' Association, and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He and his family are Methodists. On October 22, 1913, at Ironton, he married Agnes W. Roberts, daughter of George K. and Catherine (Wells) Roberts, of Gallia County. Her parents are now deceased. Her father was a carpenter. In the Roberts family were three children, Emma, Winifred and Agnes. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Myers are: Thomas R. and Mary Elizabeth. WILLIAM C. PAUL. Probably no citizen of Lawrence County has exercised more beneficent influence upon the people of that part of Ohio during the last twenty years than William C. Paul. Mr. Paul is a talented educator, has been in school work since early youth, and is the present county superintendent of schools. He was born in Lawrence County, September 27, 1885, son of Clinton C: and Emma (Willis) Paul. His mother, now deceased, was a daughter of Greenbury Willis, and a relative Of the same family as former governor and United States Senator Willis. The Paul family came from old Virginia. The grandparents Of William C. Paul were Serdina and G. M. Sallie Paul. Clinton C. Paul has been a lumberman, and for thirty years was engaged in logging timber and is now storekeeper for the Ironton Telephone Company. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Improved. Order of Red Men. His first wife, Emma Willis, died when her son William C. was live years old. There was one other child by that marriage, Flora. The second wife of Clinton C. Paul was Flora Eaton, and they have one son, Walter. William C. Paul attended public schools, graduating from the Lebanon High School at the age of nineteen. He spent three years in Valparaiso University in Indiana, pursuing the scientific course, and for thirteen years he was engaged in teaching in Lawrence County. Five years of this time was spent in district schools, and he was high school principal at Coal Grove and Other places. Mr. Paul has also engaged in business affairs, and in 1919, helped to organize the Lawrence Building and Loan Company, of which he was elected secretary. He is alsO in the insurance business. Mr. Paul in 1923 was elected county superintendent Of schools of Lawrence County, and began the duties of that office at Ironton August 1, 1923. In January, 1924, was reelected for the full term of three years. During the World war he was in the service of the Federal Fuel Administration, which had supervision of the distribution of all coal at Russell, Kentucky. In June, 1912, at Huntington, West Virginia, Mr. Paul married Miss Flora COllier, of Lawrence HISTORY OF OHIO - 119 County, Ohio, daughter of John and Rausia (Porter) Collier. Her mother is still living. Her father was a coal miner, was an active member of the Methodist Church and an Odd Fellow. Mrs. Paul is next to the youngest in a family of six children, the others being, James, Charles, Alvin, Calvin and Mabel. All of her brothers were in the World war and overseas at one time. Alvin died of pneumonia on one of the battlefields of France. Mr. and Mrs. Paul’s three children are Eloise, Thelma and Helen. Mr. Paul is a member of the Baptist Church. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knight Templar Commandery and Shrine, has filled all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Junior Order United American Mechanics. GARRETT S. CLAYPOOL has been an able member of the Ross County bar since 1910. His name became well known over the state recently as candidate for the office of attorney-general. He is a son of the late Horatio C. Claypool, a prominent jurist and congressman of Ohio. Horatio C. Claypool, who died in 1921, was born at McArthur in Vinton County, Ohio, February 9, 1859, son of John and Rose (Peterson) Claypool. Rose Peterson ,s father was John F. Peterson, of Crown Point, Indiana. Horatio C. Claypool graduated in 1880 from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and in 1882 was admitted to the bar. He practiced law at Chillicothe from 1884 until his death, for many years being a member of the firm Claypool and Minshall. For two terms, from 1899 to 1903, he served as prosecuting attorney of Ross County, and was probate judge of the county from 1905 to 1910. In 1910 he was elected democratic representative from the Eleventh Ohio District in Congress, and served two consecutive terms, in the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, from 1911 to 1915. In 1916 he was again elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress, and served until 1919. Congressman Claypool married Lizzie L. Kile, of Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, in 1883. Her father was Dr. Hiram Kile. She lives at Chillicothe and is the mother of four children: Garrett S. Harold K.; Forest H.; and Vernis, wife of Max Wissler, of Chillicothe. The son Harold married Frances Helfrich. Garrett S. Claypool was born at Bainbridge in Ross County, September 26, 1884, and has spent practically all his life in Ross County. He was educated in the public schools of Bainbridge and Chilli- cothe, graduating from high school in 1902. For a time he was a student in the literary department of Ohio State University at Columbus, and took his law course in Cornell University in New York, where he graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1910. After examination he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and for six months was engaged in private practice. When his father resigned, in 1910, the office of probate judge to enter Congress the son was appointed judge of the Probate Court to fill the unexpired term of two and one-half years. Since then he has been engaged in general practice, and has made a mark of special distinction in handling trial cases before the jury. Mr. Claypool was defeated for the nomination for Attorney General of Ohio by a small plurality. As a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in New York he made the speech nominating Hon. Bennett C. Clark of Missouri for vice president. During the World war he was a member of the District Draft Board of Southern Ohio, and these duties kept him much of the time in Columbus and at Washington, largely to the neglect of his private practice. Mr. Claypool is a member of the Presbyterian Church, belongs to the college fraternities Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Phi, and to the Kiwanis Club, the Elks and the Eagles. He has one son, H. Kingdon Claypool, aged thirteen. LEROY GLENN JOHNSON, one of the young, active and proficient business operators of this fine city, is a native of the State of Missouri, his birth occurring at Kirksville, Adair County, on the 3d of December, 1895. He is the son of William L. and Jennie E. (Henry) Johnson, both of whom are yet living and are well-to-do and reputable citizens. The father since he was a boy has made farming his life occupation, and has been quite successful in growing grain and raising live stock. He has distinguished himself by his steady and reliable habits and demeanor and his superior citizenship. He is a genuine home or farm man, and has the utmost confidence of all his neighbors. The father of William L. was John Johnson, who chose for his wife Miss Mary Baggs. Mr. Johnson’s grandmother on his mother’s side was Maranda Watson, whose husband, Henry, was a native of Philadelphia. The Johnsons came originally from Vermont, and their presence there dates back to Colonial times. John Johnson, grandfather of L. G. Johnson, had a brother who served in the Union army during the Civil war. He participated in many historic engagements, but ever served his cause with gallantry and high distinction. LeRoy Glenn Johnson was educated in the public schools of Kirksville, Missouri, and upon finishing his career in the common schools, entered the State Normal School at Kirksville, took the full normal course and was then ready for a teacher’s occupation. His qualifications are shown by the fact that he taught with high .credit in the Unionville High School of Putnam County. But then an important change came over his career. The World war had been crushing Europe for several years, and at last it became necessary for the United States, in order to defend itself, to take part in the struggle. On the 7th of May, 1917, LeRoy Glenn stepped to the front, enlisted for the cause of liberty, and was first sent to the camp at Fort Riley, Kansas, where there was an officers, training field. For three months he remained at the Fort Riley Camp, perfecting himself in the routine and stratagems of army life on the battle front. At the end of the three months he was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry and transferred to Camp Cody, New Mexico, becoming a member of the Thirty-fourth Division in September, 1917. There he remained on active duty for two months, when he was again transferred to the Thirty-fifth Division, at Camp Donophan, Oklahoma, and there he spent another two months, working hard and studying diligently to master all the problems of the trenches and fields. He was then transferred to Camp Funston, Kansas, in December, 1917, and was assigned to the Eighty-ninth Division, and was charged with the special duty of instructing the raw volunteers who were then pouring into camp. It was here that Lieutenant Johnson completed his knowledge and training to such a degree that he was competent for foreign service. On the 1st of May, 1918, he was assigned to Company F, Three Hundred and Fifty-fourth Infantry, and, under orders, departed for the East, where he remained for about a week, when, on June 4, 1918, he and many others boarded the vessel at Montreal, Canada, and started across the Atlantic Ocean. On the 20th of June they were landed at camp near London, England, and very soon afterward crossed the English Channel and reached Le Havre, France, where they received the finishing touches in the ex- 120 - HISTORY OF OHIO perienced training camps of the decimated French army for thirty days at Chaumont. They then were ready for anything, no matter how startling and terrific. They were ordered into line on the front at St. Mihiel sector, not far from Fleurey. Here LeRoy G. was assigned to the regimental staff as munition officer, and here the American boys sustained severe losses during the thirty- day drive which started September 12, 1918. Succeeding this hot experience LeRoy ,s regiment was advanced to the Argonne Forest to relieve the Thirty-second regiment, and immediately crossed the Marne and stormed and took Barecourt Heights. Here ,s what our boys were doing. On the Meuse and the Marne and in dense Belleau Wood, At hot Chateau Thierry and in Forest Argonne, In waves of shell-fire against shock troops they stood, O’er black "No Man’s Land" they fought till the dawn. In the air and the trenches, amid cloud waves of gas, In barrage and shell-fire the devils they checked, Thru brambles of barbed wire they smashed a broad pass, And nests of machine guns by hundreds they wrecked. After the armistice was signed LeRoy ,s regiment was ordered to Germany in the Army of Occupation at Bittburg-Prum, and there he remained on duty at general headquarters until the regiment was ordered back home in May, 1919. It sailed on May 14 and landed at Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 21. The regiment was first sent, after its arrival, to Camp Mills, and then to Camp Funston, where on June 17, 1919, LeRoy G. Johnson received his honorable discharge and returned home. He went to Cincinnati and became salesman and district manager for an automobile company, and was there at work until January 1, 1921, when for a time he was with the H. & T. Auto Company. On November 1, 1921, he came to Portsmouth, and on his own account became district agent for the Maxwell, Oakland and Chalmers cars, under the name of the F. & M. Motor Car Company. Now Mr. Johnson is vice president and general manager. On the 10th of August, 1917, at Kansas City, Missouri, he married Neva L. Duff, of Versailles, Missouri. They have four children: Anna Katherine, Mary Francis, William Gleen and Richard Samuel. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Order of Elks, the American Legion, the Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Automotive Trade Association. MAJOR WILLIAM POLAND, who died September 24, 1908, had been a resident of Chillicothe sixty years, and all that time was closely identified with its business prosperity, and in many ways contributed to those improvements which mean so much to the general welfare of all citizens. A native of Ireland, born January 19, 1830, he was the last survivor of the twelve children of John and Mary (Tourney) Poland. In May, 1847, he and his brother James came to the United States, and after a brief time in Chillicothe, where his older brother, Patrick, was in the grocery business, he went to Cincinnati and clerked in that city. In October, 1848, he returned to Chillicothe, and for over a quarter of a century was in business as a grocery merchant, most of the time as a wholesaler. He had many productive business interests, industrial and otherwise. In 1869 he became interested in an iron furnace in Vinton County, and in 1881 became sole owner of the industry. In February, 1873, he was made a director of the Ross County National Bank, was elected vice president in January, 1888, and on August 6, 1888, became president of that institution. He was builder of the Ross County Block, the first modern office building in Chillicothe. For many years he was president of the Chillicothe Gas Light and Water Companay, and in 1876 was instrumental in organizing the first street railway company. He was president of the Chillicothe Foundry and Machine Works. His title as major was gained during his brief service with the Squirrel Hunters in Southern Ohio when Kirby Smith was threatening an invasion of the North. As a young man he was a member of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company, was president of the old Fidelity Building and Loan Association, and was instrumental in organizing and became president of the Ohio Insurance Company. As a democrat he was active in local politics, serving two terms on the Council, and while on that body was active in starting a city park system. He became one of the park commissioners in January, 1884, and was on the board until his death twenty-four years later. He was known as the father of one of the city parks and subsequently a new park was named in his honor. He served fifteen terms as president of the old Board of Trade, helped found and for four terms was president of the Columbus Club, was a charter member of the Eintracht Singing Society and was chairman and treasurer of the executive committee of the Chillicothe Centennial in 1896 and chairman of the joint committees of the Ohio Centennial in 1903. For over thirty years he was a trustee of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Through all these institutions and organizations he gave generously of his time, influence and money for the vital welfare of the community. When he died he was Chillicothe,s leading citizen. A local paper in commenting on his death said: "No man in Chillicothe will be more greatly missed, as in civic and business enterprises he was always a prominent figure, while in his private life he was beloved by a wide circle of friends." November 15, 1864, he married Miss Catherine Ryan, Cincinnati. Her father was a prominent architect and builder at Cincinnati. Eight children were born to their marriage. Their names were: William B., John A., Agnes M., Florence, Charles, Walter, Irene and Nicholas. JOHN A. POLAND, lawyer, business man and public spirited citizen of Chillicothe, is a son of the late Major William Poland, and has exemplified many of the sterling civic traits of his honored father, whose career is sketched elsewhere. John A. Poland was born in Chillicothe, in September, 1868. He was educated in the local schools, graduated as valedictorian of his class at St. Mary’s College in Kansas, and studied law at Georgetown University at Washington, where he finished with post-graduate honors in a class of 160. Besides what the schools could give him and the training of a good home he had among his boyhood experiences the background of outdoor life and the opportunity to satisfy his boyish interests in such mechanical diversions as carpentry and printing. Soon after graduating in law he took the examination for admission to the bar and stood first in a class of fifty applicants before the Ohio Supreme Court. For two years he was in the law offices of Lawrence T. Neal, and in 1893 was private secretary when Mr. Neal was candidate for governor. For thirty years he has been associated with political campaigns and prominent men in the Ohio democratic party, though he has declined all public honors for himself. He was appointed a member of the Ohio-Columbus Centennial Commission by Governor Harmon, and the commission itself appointed him historian of its labors. Mr. Poland gives his professional time to a large HISTORY OF OHIO - 121 office practice involving corporation, probate and commercial law. He is attorney for a number of the important business organizations of Chillicothe and for a number of public utilities in Southern and Central Ohio. Among others he is attorney for the News-Advertiser, the Sears & Nichols Company, the Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company, the Chillicothe Electric Railway, Light and Power Company, the Chillicothe Gas Light and Water Company, and the Ross County Bank. He is director of the Ross County Bank, is its vice president, and is a director of the Mead Pulp & Paper Company. He has served as a director and president of the Chamber of Commerce, and for a quarter of a century was a member of the old Chillicothe Board of Trade. He succeeded his father as a member of the Chillicothe Park Commission. He was president of the Rotary Club of Chillicothe in 1922. During the World war Mr. Poland was actively associated with other Chillicothe citizens in securing here the location of Camp Sherman. He conducted an information bureau at his office, served as government attorney, and handled many of the negotiations involved in the purchase by the government of the 5,000 acres for the camp and rifle range and after the war he persuaded the government to continue the plant as a vocational school and also locate veterans,s' hospital thereon. Mr. Poland, who is unmarried, is a Catholic, and is active in many club and fraternal organizations. He is a member of the Sunset Club, one of the exclusive literary clubs of Chillicothe. EDWIN S. WENIS has been an Ohio newspaper man for thirty years, represents an old family of the city of Chillicothe, and has exceptional qualifications for his post as editor of the Scioto Gazette, The Scioto Gazette, as is well known, is one of the oldest papers in the Middle West, founded in April, 1800, and continuously under one name and without interruption has been published for nearly 125 years. Mr. Wenis on his mother's side represents a family that came to Chillicothe in the early years of statehood, about 1808. Edwin S. Wenis was born in Chillicothe, December 4, 1869, son of Alexander E. and Elizabeth (Thompson) Wenis. His mother was a daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Howard) Thompson, representing families that came to Ohio from what is now Martinsburg, West Virginia. The paternal grandparents of the editor of the Gazette were Leo and Walburga (Bogen) Wenis, who came from Kiechlingsbergen, Baden, Germany, in 1833 and settled at Chillicothe. The parents of Edwin S. Wenis are both deceased. His father served fifteen years as city clerk of Chillicothe, was an active and prominent democrat, and after leaving public office was in the real estate and insurance business until his death. Only child of his parents, Edwin S. Wenis was educated in the public schools of Chillicothe, graduating from high school in 1888. For a time he studied law under Albert Douglas, former congressman from the district, but he gave up his studies in 1889 and went to work as a reporter for the Gazette. In 1890 he transferred his service to the Chillicothe Leader. About that time the monied interests of the Leader took over the control of the Scioto Gazette, the actual transfer being made September 2, 1892. Both papers kept their identity until November, 1896, and after that the paper was published as the Gazette Leader until April 28, 1900, since which time it has been the Scioto Gazette. In December, 1891, Mr. Wenis went to Washington, D. C., and became a clerk in the department of agriculture and later in the postoffice at Georgetown. In June, 1892, he returned to Chillicothe, and went on the staff of the Gazette under George H. Tyler, its publisher. In 1896 Mr. Wenis became editor of the Daily News, but after a year returned to the Scioto Gazette as city editor, and since 1917 has been editor in chief of this venerable and influential journal. In 1900 the Gazette celebrated its centennial anniversary. Mr. Wenis has been without political aspirations, though he was elected clerk of the City Council in 1907 and 1908. He is a Catholic, is a past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus and a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. While exalted ruler he carried out the plans involving the purchase of ground and the construction of the present Elks home in 1910-11. He is a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Chillicothe. Mr. Wenis became the secretary of the Centennial Commission to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Chillicothe in 1896. In 1903 when the hundredth anniversary of the State of Ohio was celebrated at Chillicothe he served as chairman of the state program committee. For seven years he was a member of the Ohio National Guard in Company H, Seventeenth Regiment, going in as a private and being promoted to battalion adjutant. At Chillicothe, April 27, 1897, Mr. Wenis married Miss Elizabeth Callaghan, daughter of Eugene and Catherine (Murphy) Callaghan, both natives of Ireland and now deceased. Her father came to America about 1848, and for a number of years was in the hotel business at Chillicothe. Mr. and Mrs. Wenis have one daughter, Eugenie. CHARLES W. BIERLEY. During a career that has been characterized by constant industry ever since his school days Charles W. Bierley, of Portsmouth, has followed several vocations, including merchandising, and activities as a realtor. Since 1914 he has followed the last-named calling to such good effect that today hisi§ accounted one of the leaders in his line in Scioto County, where he has been the medium through whom a number of large and important transactions have been consummated. Mr. Bierley was born July 15, 1875, at Vanceburg, Kentucky, and is a son of John C. and Lena (Hoffman) Bierley, natives of the Buckeye State, the former of whom is now deceased and the latter a resident of Kentucky. John C. Bierley followed both agricultural pursuits and mercantile operations in Kentucky, making a success of both lines, and in the several communities in which his activities were centered he was known as a man of industry and strict integrity. He was a son of Jacob and Margaret Bierley, of German ancestry, who settled at an early date near Maysville, Kentucky, while his wife's parents were among the early residents of Cincinnati, they likewise being of German descent. John C. Bierley was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and had several civic connections of an official or semiofficial character. Charles W. Bierley attended the public school at Carrs, Kentucky. He then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits on the home farm, where he remained until reaching the age of thirty years. Not being satisfied with the life of a tiller of the soil, he disposed of his holdings and invested them in a mercantile business at Manchester, Ohio, where he remained for six years. He then sold his establishment and located at Portsmouth, where he has since been engaged in a general real estate business, having devoted his undivided attention thereto since 1914. He has built up a large business, and his clientage includes some of the most representative people and largest enterprises of the city. Mr. Bierley is a member of the real estate board and of several other bodies. He has always been ready to discharge his duties as a citizen, and since becoming a member of 122 - HISTORY OF OHIO the city board of health has cOntributed greatly to the success of that organization. His class was not called during the World war, although he was ready to bear arms, but in other ways he aided the American cause. Fraternally Mr. Bierley belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. His religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church. On December 20, 1898, at Carrs, Kentucky, Mr. Bierley was united in marriage with Miss Myrtle Monteith, daughter of William R. and Minta (Norris) Monteith, the latter of whom died in February, 1922, while the former is living and a successful agriculturist. They are the parents of one child, Charles Harold, a member of the junior class in the commerce and journalism college at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and will later take up the study of law and eventually will become associated with his father. ARZIE B. ANDERSON, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, who has been engaged in successful practice in Pike County for nearly thirty years, is also owner and editor of the Piketon Republican. This newspaper was established in 1904 under the name of the Independent by Charles B. Wynn. Some years later Mr. Wynn was murdered in Cincinnati, and on August 1, 1919, Doctor Anderson bought the paper from the estate and is sole owner and editor of this weekly journal, which has a general circulation throughout Pike County. Doctor Anderson was born in Pike County, April 11, 1875, son of R. H. and Caroline (Holton) Anderson, and grandson of John and Elizabeth Anderson and Thomas H. and Sarah Holton. His mother ,s people were natives of Ohio. The Andersons came from old Virginia. Caroline (Holton) Anderson is still living. R. H. Anderson, who died in 1920, was a shipping clerk and a member of the Christian Church. He and his wife had ten children: Floyd, who married Maud Davis; Dr. Arzie B.; Dora M., who married Charles Legg; Alta, deceased; Myrle A., who married Zoe Beekman; Ermie D., deceased wife of Charles Beekman; Bettie J., who married Charles West; Thomas J.; Harvey J.; and George E. Arzie B. Anderson attended the district schools of Pike County until he was sixteen years of age. Soon afterward he begun the study of veterinary medicine at Columbus, and later enrolled in one of the largest and best equipped veterinary schools in the world, the college at Toronto, Canada, where he was graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. He is a thorough student of his science, and has been very successful in its practice. He is secretary of the Ohio State Veterinarians Association. Doctor Anderson on August 25, 1897, in Pike County, married Miss Ella M. Ashbaugh, daughter of William and Emma Ellis (Jones) Ashbaugh. Her father was a farmer and Methodist, and Mrs. Anderson was one of seven children. Six children have been born to the marriage of Doctor and Mrs. Anderson, Calla L., Leta M. William Harold, Opal P., Robert H. and Donald B. The daughter Calla is the wife of Jacob Parks, and Leta M. married Ray Pettit and is the mother of three children, named Reva, Glenn and Ella Jane. The son William married Gladys Keister. Doctor Anderson is a Methodist, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Improved Order of Red Men and Modern Woodmen of America. GEORGE B. BITZER, former judge of the Probate Court of Ross County, has been an active member of the bar at Chillicothe forty-five years, and is one of the outstanding figures in the citzenship of the old and historic community of Ohio. Judge Bitzer is a grandson of Conrad Bitzer, a Pennsylvanian, of Holland-Dutch descent. Conrad Bitzer in the fall of 1796, with his wife, started from Berks County, Pennsylvania, and came to Chillicothe. He was one Of the first settlers in Ross County. In 1801 he located in Colerain Township of Ross County, and that was his permanent home in the county. He died in October, 1860. Anthony G. Bitzer, the eighth child of Conrad and wife, and the father of Judge Bitzer, was born December 27, 1809, and for many years he was best known as proprietor of a pioneer inn or hotel at Adelphi, a favorite stopping place in stage-coaeh days. He continued his business as a hotel proprietor• until about 1870. He died in 1885. Anthony G. Bitzer married Catherine Strawser, who was born' at Adelphi. Her father, Henry Strawser, came from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Ross County in 1803. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was well known as an expert hunter. He reached the age of eighty-two. Henry Strawser married Druzilla Hinton. Anthony Bitzer was a member of the Presbyterian Church while his wife was a member of the German Reformed Church. They were the parents of six children: Susan C., Henry 5, George B., Alfred P., Edward E. and Margaret D. George B. Bitzer was born at Adelphi in Ross County, April 15, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and began teaching at the age of fifteen. His first school was in a log cabin in Vinton County, where he had sixty-five pupils, ranging from five to twenty-five years old. Later he attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and he continued teaching altogether for ten years. The last year he taught in a graded school. While teaching he began the study of medicine, but abandoned that and read law under Judge Van Meter of Chillicothe. On examination he was admitted to the bar in 1879, and since that year has been an active member in the Chillicothe bar. In 1881 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Ross County, holding that office one term. In 1887 he was elected judge of the Probate Court, and was reelected in 1890, serving two terms. Since retiring from the bench he has devoted his time and talent to his extensive general practice. During the World war Judge Bitzer acted as chairman of the local Military Training Association, which passed on applications for military training. He is a republican, having cast his first vote in 1876 for Rutherford B. Hayes. He has served on the City Council. He is a member of the Ross County Bar Association, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in Masonry he belongs to the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knight Templar Commandery. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Judge Bitzer’s home is an attractive country estate adjoining the city of Chillicothe, and he finds it a recreation as well as a profitable incident to his professional career. On December 15, 1880, at Chillicothe, Judge Bitzer married, Miss Louisa B. Grimes, of Bourneville, Ross County, daughter of George and Rachael (Withgott) Grimes. Her father was a native of North Carolina and her mother of Ohio and both are now deceased. Her father was a farmer and noted cattle breeder and at one time owned the famous sire "Duke of Oneida," which sold for $6,000, and was shipped to England. Mrs. Bitzer was one of four children, the others being Frank J., John B. and Maria. The four children of Judge and Mrs. Bitzer are: Altha Maria, who is the wife of John H. Dunlap, and the mother of one son, John H., Jr.; Edwin S., who married Ethel Morgan and HISTORY OF OHIO - 123 has a son, George M., and daughter, Elinor M.; Florence d. and Clarkson B. Bitzer. George E. who died at the age of seven, was a twin brother of Edwin S. ALBERT S. KEECHLE, editor and owner of the Waverly Watchman, was attracted to the printing and newspaper busincss soon after leaving high school and has made a success of his work and is publisher of one of the influential country journals in Southern Ohio. He was born at Sulphur Grove, near Dayton, Ohio, December 10, 1889, son of Cornelius and Anna (Aston) Keechle. His paternal grandparents, Cornelius and Regina Keechle, were natives of Germany and came to the United States about 1861. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Aston, was of English ancestry. Mr. Keechle’s parents are still living. His father is a veterinary surgeon by profession, and practiced near Dayton, Ohio, later moved to Waverly, and is now living on a farm in Warren County, Ohio. While at Waverly he served on the City Council and was justice of the peace. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Cornelius Keechle and wife had five children: Albert S.; Winnie, who married Grover Steinhauer, and is the mother of seven childern; Edward, unmarried; Walter, who married Mary Mercer; and John. Albert S. Keechle secured his early educational advantages in the Sulphur Grove district school, and at the age of seventeen he left the Waverly High School. After a brief time at Dayton he returned to Waverly and learned the printing business in the office of H. A. McKenzie, then owner and publisher of the Waverly News. He continued with Mr. McKenzie until 1912, and then went to work for George B. Nye, owner of the Waverly Watchman. In 1921 he and C. J. Heibel leased the Watchman from Doctor Nye, and later that partnership was dissolved and Mr. Keechle took over the lease himself and now has entire control. The paper is owned by a stock company. The Waverly Watchman is a newspaper with a continuous existence for almost seventy-five years. Mr. Keechle during the World war was clerk of the local election board and handled all the registration until the regular board was organized. He is chairman of the Pike County Democratic Executive Committee. On May 29, 1910, at Waverly, Mr. McKeechle married, Miss Lenora A. Easterday, daughter of George and Mary (Fletcher) Easterday. Her mother is still living. Her father was a farmer, was active in public affairs, serving on the school board, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Keechle's brother and sisters are: George Raymond, who married Laura Spindler; Eva, who married Isaac Feree; and Cora, who became the wife of George Willis. Mr. and Mrs. Keechle are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Modern Woodmen of America. CARL W. PENN, present county auditor of Pike County, became well known to the people of that county in his early years through his effective work as a teacher. He has also been a farmer, and represents a pioneer family of Ohio. He was born at Latham in Pike County, September 18, 1888, son of Thomas E. and Mary E. (Leeper) Penn and grandson of Artemus Penn, who came to Ohio from Baltimore, and of Robert Leeper who came from Ireland to Ohio. Mr. Penn’s parents are both deceased. His father was a farmer. The children were: Robert, Ray, Anise, Frances, Farie, Carl W., Melva, Ella and Inez, all of them married and those now deceased are Ray, Ella and Inez. Carl W. Penn grew up on his father’s farm near Latham, attended the public schools there and acquired the equivalent of a high school education and a business college course. For thirteen years he taught school in district and in the grade schools, and along with teaching he carried on farming. During the World war he was in the railway mail service, and in the fall of 1918 was elected county auditor. He was reelected in 1922, and a man of admirable qualifications for this office. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and Improved Order of Red Men. On July 4, 1910, at Westerville, Ohio, Mr. Penn married Miss Grace Toumine, daughter of E. S. and Kate Toumine. Her father was a farmer, and also operated a summer resort at Kinkaid Springs. He was a Methodist, and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Penn was one of a family of five children, the others being Mary, Maggie, Van and John. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Penn are named Helen and Ruth. WILLIAM W. WEIDNER. The real estate business is at present one of the most important in every center of the country. The great housing shortage. together with the investment of a large amount of capital in realty propositions, and the demand of tenants for the latest improvements, all have combined to demand exceptional service from those mcn who handle the problems of this branch of commercial activity, and the manner in which they have risen has awakened favorable comment from all classes. One of these self-reliant and capable realtors of Scioto County, is William W. Weidner, of Portsmouth. William W. Weidner was born at Awe Postoffice, Lewis County, Kentucky, June 30, 1892, a son of Frederick and Georgia (Evans) Weidner, the mother, a native of Georgia, is still living. Frederick Weidner, who passed away in October, 1920, was born in Germany. In 1887 he came to the United States, and after a short stay at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moved into Lewis County, Kentucky. There he met and married his wife, and they settled on a farm. They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters, of whom William W. is the youngest. For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Weidner attended the services of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was interested in all local matters, and for a long period was chairman of the school board. Until he was nine years of age William W. Weidner attended the district schools, and then, going to Quincy, Kentucky, was a student of the graded schools until he was fourteen. He then came to Portsmouth and went to work in the shoe factory of Irvin Drew Company, with which he remained for eleven years, becoming a pattern maker, having risen to that position from his initial one of office boy. With this country’s entry into the World war his plans were interrupted, and he enlisted, May 31, 1918, in the infantry branch of the service, and went first to Columbus Barracks, and from there was sent to Camp Gordon at Atlanta, Georgia, and six weeks later was sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey. There he remained for two weeks, and was transferred to Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-third Regiment, Forty-first Division of Infantry. They sailed overseas in July, 1918, landing at Liverpool, England, and went direct to Southampton, and from there crossed the English Channel and landed at Cherbourg, France. A few days later he was sent to Saint Aignan, and was at headquarters, having charge of 124 - HISTORY OF OHIO the work there. From there he went to Mont Richard, where he was assigned to the personnel at headquarters, and was engaged in looking after the transportation of the troops to the front. The men in his regiment were taken for replacement at the front, and he was engaged in the above mentioned work for five months, when the armistice was signed. His unit was sent to Brest, France, and was sent home on the cruiser Seattle and landed at Hoboken, New Jersey, in February, 1919. Mr. Weidner received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, and from there returned to Portsmouth. While working in the shoe factory Mr. Weidner used his spare time very advantageously and studied law through the correspondence department of LaSalle University of Chicago, Illinois, and with Mr. B. F. Kimble and A. Z. Blair, attorneys of Scioto County. Mr. Weidner was admitted to the bar by examination May 6, 1918, prior to his entering the army. Upon his return to Portsmouth he took up the practice of law and also went into the real estate business, but in the course of time was obliged to give up his law practice in order to devote all of his time to his realty business, in which he has been exceedingly successful, and is one of the leading realtors of this region, his knowledge of the law being a valuable asset to him. On August 17, 1920, Mr. Weidner married at New York City a Portsmouth girl, Miss Georgia Dillon, a daughter of John and Comfort (Hurley) Dillon. Mr. Dillon was engaged in the pottery business, and died some years ago, but Mrs. Dillon is living. Mr. Weidner has one son, Frederick. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American Legion and the Chamber of Commerce also hold his membership, and he is active in the organizations. A young man of undoubted ability, Mr. Weidner stands very high in popular esteem, and is recognized as one of the leading citizens of Scioto County. MARSHALL N. BILLINGS now has precedence as one of the veteran merchants of the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, where he has been successfully engaged in the retail furniture business for the past thirty-five years, during which he has also stood forward as a liberal and public-spirited citizen of utmost loyalty to the city and county of his adoption. Mr. Billings was born at Woodhull, Henry County, Illinois, November 14, 1863, and is a son of John and Martha E. (Harper) Billings, the former of whom was born at the old family homestead at Cambridge, New York, a son of Elisha and Catherine (Prine) Billings, and the latter was born in Kentucky, the family name of her mother having been Harper. Upon coming to the West John Billings gained pioneer experience in Iowa, but he later established his residence in Illinois, where he became one of the substantial farmers and citizens of Henry County. He was influential in public affairs of local order and was called upon to serve in various township offices. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. The death of Mr. Billings occurred October 2, 1910, and his widow passed to the life eternal in March, 1912. They became the parents of eleven children, namely : John, Marshall N., Emma (Mrs. W. P. Bowers), Henry M. (deceased), Burton N., Roy H., Pearl (Mrs. F. W. Brown), Lillian (Mrs. J. W. Critten), Porter (deceased), Bessie A. (Mrs. Frank A. Stayner), and Donald P. (deceased). The sturdy discipline of the home farm compassed the boyhood and early youth of Marshall N. Billings, and he has never regretted the lessons of practical industry which he gained in this connection. He attended the district schools of his native county until he was fourteen years of age, and thereafter continued to be associated with his father in farm enterprise until he attained to his legal majority. He next devoted about one year to independent farm operations, and during the ensuing year he was engaged in construction work on the line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. His next progressive movement was made when he engaged in the furniture business at Champaign, Illinois, where he remained until 1888, when, as a young man of about twenty-five years, he came to Chillicothe, Ohio, and became associated with W. P. Bowers in the opening of a furniture store. The partnership alliance continued fourteen years, and Mr. Billings then purchased the interest of Mr. Bowers, in 1902, the enterprise having since been successfully continued under the title of M. N. Billings. The year 1922 was marked by Mr. H. W. Cruit's admission to partnership, with a third interest, and also the admission, with an equal interest, of D. F. Brigham, son-in-law of Mr. Billings. This old established business has kept pace with the march of progress, and the large, modern and admirably stocked store of the M. N. Billings Company is distinctly one of the leading mercantile establishments of Chillicothe and Ross County, with a substantial business resting on a reputation for fair and honorable dealings and effective service during the course of many years. Mr. Billings is a loyal and valued member of the Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and is affiliated with Chillicothe Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. At Chillicothe, in the year 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Billings and Miss Emma Miller, who was born and reared in Ross County, a daughter of John and Mary (Scofield) Miller, who, venerable in years, still reside in this county, Mr. Miller having long been numbered among the substantial farmers of the county. Mrs. Billings is the youngest of a family of three children, and the eldest is John O., the maiden name of whose wife was Dennowich, their children being nine in number; Minnie, elder of the two daughters is the wife of C. A. Donnells, and they have two children. Beatrice, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Billings, is the wife of Donald F. Brigham, who as previously noted, is now associated with Mr. Billings in the furniture business. Mr. and Mrs. Brigham have two children, Dorothy Ann and Charlotte Jeane. Mr. Brigham was one of the patriotic young men who represented the nation as a soldier in the World war. He was a member of the famous Rainbow Division, which acquitted itself with distinction and valor on the battlefields of France, where he continued in active service until the close of the war. Mr. Brigham is not only a Knight Templar Mason but has also received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is numbered among the progressive and popular young business men of Chillicothe. ALVIN G. FLICKINGER. In the citizenship of Crawford County, Alvin G. Flickinger has enjoyed a place of high esteem for many years. He has been county auditor, is a substantial business man, and his interests have led him to take an active part in the movement for the preservation of historical records in his home county. Mr. Flickinger represents a pioneer family of Crawford County, and was born in Holmes Town-