150 - HISTORY OF OHIO of the Industrial School at Lancaster, Ohio. On August 1, 1918, Mr. Jenkins was made superintendent, at the time of the retirement of Mr. Leonard. When Mr. Jenkins became superintendent the number of inmates was less than 1,500, but the number has since reached over 2,000. The only change of any moment that has been made in the policies is that here boys have been assigned to outside work, such as the sending of boys to Honor Camp at Soldiers and Sailors Home, Sandusky, State Sanatorium at Mount Vernon, State Farm at Grafton, Ohio, Welfare Department in Columbus, and other state institutions, farm groups, etc. Trustees for this work are selected from the better class of boys, and is a reward for meritorious conduct, the number of such trustees sometimes being as many as from 25 to 30 per cent of the population. From the beginning of their connection with the institution the ideas o4 self control and loyalty are constantly inculcated in the lads, and when they go back into the world the effects are very noticeable. Such results would have been regarded as impossible twenty years ago. About 100 persons are employed in the institution, all of whom are carefully selected with the idea of bringing the boys into contact with no one who will not exert a heplful influence. The estimate has been made, and the facts prove, that at least 80 per cent of the boys discharged from the reformatory become reliable, successful and loyal citizens. Not only is Mr. Jenkins a born teacher and executive, he is much more. He knows just how to reach the heart of a boy, how to awaken his pride and stimulate his ambition, and he is a powerful incentive to his charges to right living and honorable conduct. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Through the medium of the Kiwanis Club he works for the further development of Mansfield and Richland County, and he is otherwise active in local affairs. Mr. Jenkins married Miss Florence Harper, a daughter of James W. and Esther (Heston) Harper, the former a native of Belmont County, Ohio, but spent the most of his life in Morgan County, and the latter was born in Morgan County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have two children: Mary Evelyn, who is attending college, Western School for Women at Oxford, Ohio, and Thomas Eldon, who is attending high school in Mansfield. JOSEPH H. RAY, M. D. Through a period of nearly forty years Dr. Joseph H. Ray has performed the important service of a physician and surgeon in the community of Coalton in Jackson County. He is a member of an old and honored family in that section of the state. Doctor Ray was born near Byer, in Jackson County, November 15, 1857, son of John G. and Louisa (Dixon) Ray, and grandson of Teague and Amy (Graves) Ray, and Joseph and Rachel Dixon. The Ray family came from North Carolina in 1805, and were pioneer farmers in the country between Richmond Dale and Chillicothe, Ohio. John G. Ray, who died in 1896, spent his active career as a farmer. He was a member of the Christian Church, was a democrat and for twelve years held the office of justice of the peace. His wife died in 1895. They had a family of seven children: Lorenzo, now deceased, married first Maranda Brooks, second, Mary Scully, his three children being by his first marriage: Electa, deceased, was the wife of Lewis Smallwood, and they have four children; Priscilla married, William Brooks, and they had a family of three children; Teague married Phebe Lively and had three children; Dr. Joseph H.; E. S. married Zoa Smallwood and had three children, and Dr. A. G. Ray, is another well known physician in Jackson County. Dr. Joseph H. Ray attended district schools, finished a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, and for seven years he taught in the school districts of Jackson and Vinton counties. His first year as a medical student was spent in the Columbus Medical College, and from there he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated in 1885. Doctor Ray established his office at Coalton soon after graduating, and his working interest has ever since been identified with that community. However, he has been away in order to keep in touch with the progress of his profession. He did work in the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine in 1899, and in 1900 went abroad with his family, attending clinics in some of the world famous centers of medicine as well as enjoying the broad culture of travel. He was in Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Germany, and in Berlin attended many clinics in general surgery and diseases of women. On his return to this country he immediately resumed his practice in Coalton. Doctor Ray has a large professional business, has acquired considerable property, including a fine home and a farm which is under the management of his son. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, and is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. His church is the Presbyterian. In December, 1885, in Jackson County, Doctor Ray married Miss Hester Burris, daughter of Jackson L. and Mary (Hull) Burris. Her father was a farmer, and was accidentally killed while cutting down a tree. He was a Methodist. Mrs. Ray has one sister, Della, whose first husband was Dr. Orlando Woodrow, and she is now the wife of William Kelly, of Wellston. Doctor and Mrs. Ray have one son, Earl, who graduated in 1914 in the mining engineering course from Ohio State University, and during the World war was in training as a soldier. At present he is home looking after his father's farm. FREDERICK E. JONES, president of the Royal Collieries Company, is one of the most prominent coal operators in Southern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky. His home is at Jackson, and he is one of several brothers who have made names for themselves in the world of affairs. One of his brothers, Thomas A. Jones, has had a long career as an attorney and jurist, and is an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Eben Jones, father of Frederick E., was one of the ablest men of his time in Southern Ohio. He was born in Wales, June 14, 1834, and died at Jackson in May, 1921, at the age of eighty-seven. His parents were Thomas T. and Mary (Edwards) Jones. In 1837 Thomas T. Jones brought his family to America, crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel, and from New York coming westward by stage coach and canal boat and finally from Chillicothe used wagon and team to penetrate the almost unbroken wilderness of Jackson County. Thomas T. Jones in spite of primitive conditions developed a farm and one of the most substantial farm houses in the county, and subsequently became the contractor in building a portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. After 1853, he became identified with the iron industry, assisting in organizing the Jefferson Furnace Company and the Buckeye Furnace. Eben Jones was a child when the family came to Ohio. He grew up in Jackson County, and acquired a good education in the country schools, in Ohio University at Athens, and in a business college at Cincinnati. For six years he taught school. While teaching he became interested in the iron furnace industry. In 1864 he helped recruit a company and became first lieutenant of Company C of the 179th Ohio Infantry, serving during the last year of the war and participating in the battle of Nashville. After the war HISTORY OF OHIO - 151 he was secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Furnace, and in 1873 helped organize and became secretary and treasurer of the Globe Iron Company at Jackson, and for over forty years was prominently identified with this, one of the most successful iron companies of Southern Ohio. He became president of the company. In August, 1857, Eben Jones married Ann Williams, a native of Wales, daughter of Morgan and Margaret Williams. She died in 1887. Their six sons were Thomas A., Edwin, John E., Newton, Charles D. and Frederick E., all of whom achieved success in their chosen vocations. Frederick E. Jones, youngest of the sons, was born at Jackson, January 14, 1876. He was educated in high school, and in the college of Liberal Arts and Science at Ohio State University. At the university he was a Phi Delta Theta. Following his university career he became associated with the Emma Coal Company, which was owned by his brother, Edwin. He was a salesman for this company several years, and then engaged in business for himself by organizing the Royal Collieries Company. He has a controlling interest in this, organized in 1910, the company operating mines in Kentucky. Mr. Jones has been president of the company since 1910. He is also president of the Low Ash Coal Company, owning and operating properties in Kentucky. He is president of the Elder-Jones Coal Company of Columbus, a wholesale distributing company. He is vice president of Yellow Chief Collieries Company, a holding company. These various organizations own 3,000 acres of choice coal lands in Kentucky. Mr. Jones is also a director in the Globe Iron Company at Jackson, of which the president is his brother, John E. Jones, and he is president of the Central West Bond and Investment Company. In January, 1900, at Florence, Alabama, Mr. Frederick Jones married Miss Grace Estell McGarry, daughter of A. J. and Elizabeth Jane (Elder) McGarry. Her father has been one of the prominent men in the industrial life of Alabama. He is president of the Florence Foundry and Railway Equipment Company, and has extensive interests in iron and coal. For many years he has been interested in the Sheffield Iron Company. There were four children in the Frederick Jones family ; Wylodine V., Frederick Arthur, Robert E. and Grace Estell, but the last named passed away at the age of eight years. Mr. Jones is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with the Elks, is a member of the Jackson County Country Club, and president of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. HENRY P. MCGHEE, a merchant for many years at Wellston, represents a pioneer family of Southern Ohio. The McGhees, sometimes spelled McGee, came to Ohio from old Virginia, settling in Jackson County early in the last century. The grandfather of Henry P. McGhee was John McGhee, a native of Virginia. The late John S. McGhee, father of Henry P., was born in Jackson County, October 21, 1823, and lived to a venerable age. During his early years he had a working experience at salt works, teaming, railroad construction and furnace work. He was superintendent of some of the old time furnaces of Southern Ohio. In his later years he devoted his time to the management of his extensive farm, including a large amount of coal land. He became a coal operator, and was also a speculator in cattle and real estate. He held the office of county commissioner six years, and was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist Church. John S. McGhee was twice married. His second wife was Electa Phillips, daughter of Henry and Phoebe Phillips. John S. McGhee died in 1911, and his wife, nine months later, in the same year. They were the parents of five daughters and four sons: Henry P. ; Eliza, deceased, by her marriage to John Lockard had six children, named Clyde, John, Carrie, Lillian, Arthur and Lorie ; Susan, who married David Walker and had a son, Guy; Ophelia, who married Frank Carrci; Lincoln, who died in boyhood; Miss Sallie; Katheryne B., who was married to Will Gettels Grant, who married Daisy Walton and had two children, John and Ruth; and William, who married Phoebe Massie. Henry P. McGhee was born in Jackson County, March 31, 1858, and grew up on his father 's farm. He attended the public schools at Wellston and at Dayton, and finished a commercial course in the Wilt and Sutherland Business College. For a time he worked in a general store, and for upwards of forty years has been in the hardware business as a merchant at Wellston. Mr. McGhee has been satisfied to give his chief service through the efficient conduct of his business. While he has been interested in republican politics he has never permitted his name to be placed on the republican ticket, though frequently urged to do so. He is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason, a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Episcopal Church. On March 31, 1893, on his thirty-fifth birthday, he married at Wellston, Miss Elizabeth Lockard, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Tiller) Lockard. Her father, who died in 1921, was an Ohio soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. McGhee have one daughter, Gladys, wife of Ora C. Wills, and they are the parents of one son, Richard Henry. HENRY G. BRUNNER, former mayor of Mansfield, and now secretary of the W. Lee Cotter Warehouse Company, is a man in whom the stalwart virtues and good business sense of his German forebears are shown forth in his work and influence: He is a native son of Mansfield, as he was born in the city July 30, 1884. His parents, Henry and Catherine (Kuhn) Brunner, natives of Germany, had come to Mansfield at different times during 1880, and here, they were married, the latter passing away May 25, 1924. They were among the original members of the Saint Paul's German Church. Terminating his schooldays with his completion of the work of the seventh grade, Henry George Brunner entered a foundry and learned the trade of a moulder, but this inclination led him away from his trade into newspaper work, and from 1913 to 1919 he was connected with the Mansfield Shield as a reporter, and then was general manager of the Shield until it was merged with the News. One of the leading democrats of Richland County, Mr. Brunner has been called upon to fill many offices, and has served three terms as mayor, the first time being elected in 1917. After he assumed the duties of this office in 1918 many much needed improvements were either completed or inaugurated, and the total of them includes street improvements, the erection of the City Building, subway, new pump station, with new supply of water from three springs, new reservoir with over 100-foot fall, the development of the present fire department with four stations, thirty-three men and all modern equipment, and a police department of twenty-two. In addition to being mayor, Mr. Brunner was also city judge. He is democratic state committeeman, as he has been for some time, and has served as delegate to the state conventions. Mr. Brunner is a man who has always believed in encouraging local enterprises, and Is a director of the W. Lee Cotter Transfer & Storage Company, is a member of the executive committee of the Mansfield Savings Bank, and is a director and a member of the executive committee of the Central Ohio Mortgage Company. Fraternally he belongs to 152 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Masonic order and to the Knights of Pythias and to all of the other organizations of moment, either fraternal or social, of the city, in whose progress he takes a determining part. He is a member of Saint Paul's German Church. Mr. Brunner married Miss Beatrice Wolff, and they have two children: Martin and Barbara. A man of broad viewpoint, he is not content with making his city the equal of any other municipality of its size in the state, but he is determined to make it lead all others and be recognized as a model in every respect. He was fortunate in having in his cabinet while mayor some very able men, who worked with him to carry out the most public-spirited of plans. ORAL HARRISON MCCLAIN, one of the younger men in the business life of Jackson County, has an admirable record of accomplishment and enjoys high standing for his success in the real estate and insurance business. He was born at Elk Fork, in Vinton County, Ohio, November 19, 1900, and traces his ancestry through the McClains of Scotland. His grandfather, Peter McClain, is an old timer of Southern Ohio, and was identified with some of the pioneer iron furnaces in this section of the state. Frank M. McClain, father of 0. H., is cashier and telegraph dispatcher for the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway at Jackson, and in former years was also in the ice cream business. He has served as mayor of Jackson, and has been very active and influential in local affairs. Frank M. McClain married Emma Kingry, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Kingry. The three children of Frank M. McClain are: Carl Elsworth, who married Lelia Freeland ; Oral Harrison; and Florence Evelyn. Oral Harrison McClain attended school at Jackson, finishing a high school course at the age of sixteen. For a year and a half he was a clerk in the Callahan and Motz Hardware Store at Jackson. While America was in the World war he performed an essential service with the railroad administration, having charge of the demurrage on cars for the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway. He performed a similar service with the Hooking Valley Railway. Subsequently he left the railroad service and opened an office in Jackson as representative of life insurance and real estate business. He has been very successful in this field, and is making a special study of the technique of insurance. Mr. McClain, who is unmarried, is a very active worker in the Christian Church. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge. ROSSITER S. WILLIAMS, postmaster of Oak Hill in Jackson County, is one of the native sons of that locality and has achieved honor and respect among the people with whom he grew up, largely through his own efforts, since he had to support himself from early boyhood. He served a number of years in the United States Navy, including the World war period. He was born at Oak Hill February 2, 1889, son of Harry and Aurora (Foster) Williams, and grandson of Morgan and Mary Williams and Jasper and Mary Foster. The family on the paternal side came from Wales. Harry Williams was a well known resident of Oak Hill, and died February 6, 1920. His wife passed away December 31, 1899. They had two children, Herbert M. and Rossiter S. Rossiter S. Williams had no schooling after he was fifteen years of age, though a varied experience has presented him the opportunities not found in a university. He attended public school at Oak Hill, being two years in high school, and from the age of fifteen until twenty, labored in a brick yard. On March 15, 1909, he enlisted in the navy, and had four years of service. On being released he returned to Oak Hill, and again worked in brick plants. On July 23, 1917, he was recalled to the service of the navy, spending one month at Philadelphia and then serving on board the U. S. S. Camden and U. S. S. Lapwing. With these ships he saw active service in home and foreign waters for upwards of two and a half years, getting his honorable discharge September 19, 1919. The “Lapwing" was a mine sweeper, and while on this vessel he aided in clearing the North Sea of American mines that had been planted to keep the Germans from coming out of their home waters. He then returned home, and on February 16, 1922, was appointed postmaster of Oak Hill. Mr. Williams is a republican, a member of the United Brethern Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Williams married a charming member of one of the best families in Jackson County, Miss Edna Davis. They were married April 16, 1913. Her parents are Evan and Jennie (Keltenback) Davis. Her father is a stationary engineer and is a member of the Methodist Church, the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellow fraternities. In the Davis family were eleven children, and those now living are: E. Truman, John Russell, Wilma, Harry, Marcella, Glendon, Louise and Mrs. Williams. WILLIAM ENOS DOLE, who inherited a talent for mechanical and technical work, is owner of the Oak Hill Foundry and Machine Works in Jackson County. He has built up an important industry, manufacturing a special line of brick making machinery, and has a business that is practically national in extent. Mr. Dole was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, June 19, 1877, son of Samuel Ladstow and Nancy Ann (Allen) Dole and grandson of Eben Dole. The Dole family is of Holland-Dutch ancestry, and from Pennsylvania came to Ohio, went into Kentucky and later returned to this state. Eben Dole had the distinction of manufacturing the first brick in Southern Ohio, the first brick used in Portsmouth being made by him. In the course of subsequent reconstruction, brick taken from walks and foundations are found to bear his name. Samuel Ladstow Dole, who died in February, 1913, was a shipbuilder. He built steamboat hulls at Portsmouth, New Richmond and other places along the Ohio River. He was a member of the Methodist Church. He and his wife, who is still living, had six children: Minnie, who died in infancy; William E.; J. A., who married May Boggs and had seven children ; Thomas, twin brother of J. A., died in infancy; Della and Nellie, twins, the latter dying in infancy, while Della is the wife of C. E. Whitt and has two children, Glenn and Howard. William Enos Dole acquired his early education in district schools and the grade schools at Portsmouth. At the age of seventeen he went to work, but after that he continued his technical education by attending night schools and finished a course in mechanical engineering with the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pa. His technical studies were largely directed along the line of brick making and brick making machinery. Mr. Dole, in 1897, started at Portsmouth his shop for making and repairing all kinds of brick making machinery. Later, in 1901, he moved to Oak Hill and established a permanent plant under the name of the Oak Hill Foundry and Machine Works. The facilities of this industry are almost entirely devoted to the building of brick machinery. He holds several patents on such machinery. The Dole brick making machines, sold to brick plants all over the United States, Canada and some foreign countries, are designed to perform some of the important processes in making high grade HISTORY OF OHIO - 153 brick. These machines repress, refinish, reface and size to a perfect uniform size and also put the name of the brick maker on them. Mr. Dole is especially interested in schools in his home community, that being the chief object of his civic enthusiasm. He was put in the fourth class during the World war and was not called, but was active in the patriotic program at home. He is a member of the Methodist Church, belongs to the Country Club of Jackson, the Portsmouth Automobile Club, the Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters, Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America. On December 26, 1900, Mr. Dole married at Portsmouth Miss Elizabeth Appel. She represents one of the old families of Portsmouth, her father having been in the hotel business there prior to his death. Her mother was Louise Charlotte (Runger) Appel. Of the thirteen children in the Appel family those now living are: Elizabeth, Ella, Lucy, Charles, Lewis, Andrew, John and Annie. Mr. and Mrs. Dole had three children, W. Enos, Jr., Anna Louise and John Edgar. The son John Edgar, died at the age of fourteen years, his death being a heavy loss to his parents. The other son, W. Enos, Jr., graduated from the Oak Hill High School in 1921, and has since been associated with his father in the foundry and machine works and has also been studying electrical engineering. He plans to complete his technical education in Ohio State University. ARTHUR LEE ERVIN, a hardware merchant and prominent citizen of Jackson, has spent his life in that community of Southern Ohio. He is a member of the Ervin Society, a family organization in the United States and Canada, with a membership of 20,000, all of whom recognize a common ancestor. In this country and in England the family record of the Ervins runs back fully four hundred years. One of the ancestors of the present generation of the family was a member of the body guard of the King of England. Arthur Lee Ervin was born at Jackson, January 24, 1865, son of James L. and Myra S. (Phillips) Ervin. James L. Ervin for many years was in the lumber and timber business, and did contract sawing with a portable mill. He was killed in a boiler explosion at his saw mill. His widow died in November, 1922. James L. Ervin was active in public affairs in Jackson County, and was a member of the Masonic Order. He and his wife had four sons and three daughters: E. W. Ervin, who married Ada Miller and had one child, Fay; Arthur Lee ; Mary Lillian, wife of Dr. J. S. Hunter and the mother of two children, Edgar and Ernestine; Lydia L., deceased; 0. B. Ervin, who by his marriage to Marie Basquill has three children, Thomas, Paul and Robert; Hala, wife of Dr. E.. C. Jackson, of Portsmouth, and the mother of two children, Lemoine and Sylvan; and Dr. Charles E., who married Carrie E. Walters and has two children, William and Bettie. Arthur Lee Ervin attended public schools in Jackson, and the Morgan Academy there, and as a youth began his career at the coal mines, being a clerk, bookkeeper and later manager. He was identified with the coal industry for ten years, and then, in 1893, started for himself as a merchant, selling hardware, and continuously for thirty-one years has been one of the leaders in that line in Jackson County. In November, 1883, Mr. Ervin married at Jackson Miss Mame Sutherland, daughter of Thomas P., and Marie (Pickrel) Sutherland. The Sutherland family is one of the old and prominent ones in Southern Ohio. Thomas P. Sutherland, who died about 1895, was a financial power at Jackson, being a banker and with extensive interests in iron and coal. Mrs. Ervin's sister Alice married Judge David Davis of Cincinnati, once a candidate for the nomination for governor of Ohio, and their four children were Lillian, Mabel, Edith and Dorothy. Her sister, Gertrude, became the wife of Dr. John F. Morgan, of Joplin, Missouri, and of this union there were the following children: Thomas, Max, Mary A., Francis and Carrie. Her sister, Stella, married Dr. Frank Quillan, a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, now at Washington as head of a department in the Veterans' Bureau. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had one daughter, Gladys, who is the wife of W. 0. Michael, of Jackson, and they have a son, Robert Lee Michael. Mr. Ervin is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Board of Governors and one of the leaders in the Club. He belongs to the Jacksonian Club, is former president of the Chamber of Commerce and is vice president of the Iron Bank of Jackson. Particularly during the war he had a sustaining part in all patriotic movements, and at all times is interested in the general welfare.. In politics he is a democrat in national affairs. CHARLES H. WORKMAN. One of the old families of Ohio is that bearing the name of Workman, and its representatives are to be, found in different sections of the commonwealth, although the founder of it in Ohio, Elias Workman, settled in Holes County, where Charles H. Workman, an attorney of Mansfield, whose name heads this review, was born April 23, 1859. The Workman family is of English origin, and for some time was located in Maryland, from whence Elias Workman, the grandfather of Charles H. Workman, came west and entered a large tract of land from the Government in what is now Holmes County. The nineteenth century was just beginning; Ohio was still frontier country; and there were no provisions made for the instruction of the children. A well-educated man, Elias Workman in 1800 made an agreement with his neighbors that for four months of the year, when his farm duties left him at leisure, he would teach their children, and take his pay in bolts of cloth or produce of any kind, and through this barter gained the equivalent of fifty dollars a month. His son John Workman, father of Charles H. Workman, was born on his father 's homestead about 1831, and he, too, was a teacher. The elder man encountered more difficulties in his scholastic labors, for he faced an absolute dearth of textbooks, so he had to make his own, and some of his carefully written pages, still preserved, prove him to have been a splendid penman. John Workman also was a farmer, and he died on this same farm when he was in his early '60s. Charles H. Workman was reared on the Workman farm in Holmes County, which became the site of S. camp of Federal soldiers in 1863, at the time of the Holmes County rebellion. With the other children Charles H. Workman was sent to the Smith-vine Academy in Wayne County, Ohio, where he had the good fortune to be under the instruction of J. B. Eberley, a noted educator. This was the last of the old New England academies that had been established in the state from which came so many men later illustrious in the history of the state and nation. So well prepared was Mr. Workman in this academy that he was able to begin teaching in the Normal School at Ada, Ohio, occupying the chair of literature, rhetoric and civil government, and from 1883 to 1893 he maintained this connection with the institution. During this period, however, he was studying law, and taking an active part in local politics. 154 - HISTORY OF OHIO In 1894 Mr. Workman was elected to the Legislature of his native state, and served during the two sessions of the first administration of President McKinley. Mr. Workman was author of two important measures while in the Legislature, one of them the Workman School Law, which recognized the township as the school unit, and which became the basis of the present school law; the other being the law which established a board of arbitration to settle disputes between capital and labor, one of the first moves in this direction in any state. The youngest member of the Assembly, Mr. Workman consulted Governor McKinley with reference to the latter bill before he drew it up, and was advised by that dignitary to submit the matter to Attorney-General Richards, whose views coincided with those of Mr. Workman. As this bill was introduced over thirty years ago, Mr. Workman was a pioneer in this line of legislation. It was in 1894 that Mr. Workman located permanently at Mansfield, and for five years was secretary of the board of managers of the Ohio State Reformatory. He was made a member of the board of examiners of applicants for admission to the bar, and held that office for many years. Probably no one man in Ohio has carried more legal questions originating in the local courts to the higher tribunals where precedent has been established than he. Independent and advanced in thought, new points have been fought out upon original lines, and in this way he has largely contributed to present legal practice, the law now practically demanding his entire attention. He is legal adviser for several important enterprises. Ever a republican, the Blaine campaign found him making stump speeches, and there has not been a campaign since then that has not had his services. In 1896 he was sent by the National Executive Committee of his party into the West to beard the "silver-tongued orator" on his native heath, and made gold-standard speeches all over those states considered strongholds of the free-silver doctrine. Having made a special study of economics, social conditions and civil government he was well prepared to meet any opposition, and so eloquent and convincing was he that although some of his addresses lasted for three hours, he held his audiences enthralled. No matter what questions were put to him he was ready with an answer, and he was very active in what was known as "Mark Hanna 's Educational Campaign." Earlier in life Mr. Workman desired nothing more than to become an editor, and he did conduct a local paper. His institute and normal labors made him a popular figure during a number of years, and he added to those laurels on the lecture platform in connection with educational work. Mr. Workman was married to Mary Sheedy, who had been a teacher in the Miami Valley, and author of "An Americanized Singer in Paris." She is quite familiar with the romance languages, having spent some years in Paris with her two daughters, Helen and Florence, who were both educated there in modern languages and music. Both were accepted by the director of grand opera in Paris, but their studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the World war, although they have continued studying systematically ever since. Long before the United States became involved in the war Mr. Workman had taken a decided stand publicly, asserting that no self-respecting citizen could be neutral. Upon the return of Company M of the National Guard from service on the Mexican border its membership dwindled to about forty men. With them as a nucleus he was constantly working, and after holding "open house" for ten days in the park, and having almost continuous speaking, the company was recruited to 180 men, who responded when the call came, and no Ohio county has greater cause for pride in its "doughboys" than Richland. In Central Park, Mansfield, is erected his design of " The American Doughboy," a figure in Carrara marble mounted upon a granite boulder, seeming to say " The American Doughboy could fight in a just cause in a foreign land, but his feet were forever on the rock of his native hills." It faces Lincoln Highway, and is viewed with interest by tourists from coast to coast. THOMAS KYER, former postmaster of Jackson, is one of the earnest and high minded citizens of Jackson County, and has won his way to substantial honor in his home community by many years of patient industry and on the basis of personal character and personal influence. He was born at Jackson, September 19, 1880, son of Thomas and Ellen (Rudder) Kyer. His grandparents were George and Sarah Kyer and his maternal grandparents, William and Ellen Rudder. Both the Kyer and the Rudder families came from the vicinity of Greenbrier County in what is now West Virginia to Ohio during the forties. Thomas Kyer in early life was a coal miner, was an active member of the Methodist Church. He died in 1894. His wife, Ellen Rudder Kyer, died in 1890. They had four children: Priscilla, who married David Trego and had eight children; Teressa, unmarried; Thomas; and Tena, who married Harry Thompson. Thomas Kyer did not have the privilege of attending the common schools beyond the age of fourteen. His father died about that time. Mr. Kyer drove a team for W. T. Washam, local grocer at Jackson, and was connected with the Washam business in increasing responsibilities for twenty years, for several years having active management of the business. In the meantime Mr. Kyer became interested in local politics. As a democrat he was appointed postmaster under President Wilson, and held that office for a period of eight years. Since leaving the post-mastership he has engaged in the insurance and real estate business, and has made a marked success of this work. He was chairman of the City Democratic Committee, a member of the County Committee, the Board of Elections and a trustee of his township. Mr. Kyer is affiliated with the Elks and Red Men and the Methodist Episcopal Church. On December 18, 1904, at Oak Hill, Ohio, he married Miss Agnes Thomas, daughter of John and Ellen C. (Allen) Thomas. Her father, who died in July, 1915, served as postmaster at Oak Hill for sixteen years, was a farmer and active in republican politics. He was affiliated with the Masons, Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Church. In the Thomas family were six children: Susie, who married David Morgan and has two children; Emma, who married Thomas Dunn and had eight children; Mrs. Kyer; Nellie, wife of Harry Washam and the mother of two children; Bessie, who married Clinton Jones and had two children; Gladys, who married Floyd Smith and had one child. Mr. and Mrs. Kyer are the parents of two children, named Katherine and Thomas, Jr. Hayden D. Davis, active associate of Mr. Thomas Kyer in the real estate and insurance firm of Kyer and Davis at Jackson, was born at Jackson, December 19, 1886, and represents one of the substantial families of this county. His grandparents were David and Elizabeth Davis and Daniel Williams. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth (Williams) Davis. His mother died September 24, 1923. Richard Davis has been a coal miner, and is a member of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. The four children in the Davis family were : Eunice, wife of D. E. Morgan; Miss HISTORY OF OHIO - 155 Mary; Hayden D.; and Arthur, who married Emily Levisey. Hayden D. Davis graduated from the Jackson High School in 1905, and soon afterward became a clerk in the local postoffice, and was identified with work in that office until 1919, throughout the period of Mr. Thomas Kyer 's administration as postmaster. During the past five years he and Mr. Byer have been associated in the insurance business. Mr. Davis is a Presbyterian, is a Royal Arch, Council Degree and Knight Templar Mason and Elk. He married, June 28, 1918, Margaret Bushman, daughter of Frederick and Frederica Bushman. Her father was a coal miner. In the Bushman family were five children: Lena, who married Frank Moss-man, and has three children; Mary, wife of A. L. Walters; Mrs. Davis; Charles, who married Margaret Bushman; and John. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis are Margaret, Francis and Hayden, Jr. ELIJAH T. DANDO, M. D. Without interruption to his good work as a skilled physician and surgeon at Wellston, Doctor Dando during the quarter of a century he has been a professional man there has also been active in local affairs, is former postmaster of Wellston, and is a citizen who has won his own way since early boyhood. Doctor Dando was born August 7, 1876, in County Durham, England, and when ten years of age he came from England to the United States with his parents, Thomas and Ann Dando. His grandparents were all born and reared and lived out their lives in Great Britain. Thomas and Ann Dando both died in 1901. He was a miner in the old country, and after coming to the United States in 1886 he became a coal operator. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and active in both church and Sunday School. In the family were the following children: Thomas, George (deceased), Fred, Lizzie, Ann, Flora, Deborah and Jane. Dr. Elijah T. Dando grew up at Coalton, attended public schools there, and subsequently completed a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school three years in the county, and as a student of medicine first attended the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and then entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, the oldest medical schools in the United States. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1898, and continuously since then for over a quarter of a century has been in the general practice of his profession at Wellston. He is a member of the County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. For a number of years he has been one of the leaders in the democratic party and much interested in public affairs in his home city. He has been chairman of the executive committee of his party in Jackson County, and his service as postmaster was the eight years corresponding with the two terms of President Wilson. Doctor Dando is an attendant of the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Elks, Eagles, Rotary Club and Country Club. A talented singer, possessing a fine baritone voice, he was for sometime the leader of the community chorus, which took all the major prizes at the Eisteddfod, in Southern Ohio. Doctor Dando married, December 24, 1905, Miss Oma Handley, daughter of Albert M. and Flora L. (Oney) Handley. Her parents live at Wellston. He father has been a miner and later a grocery merchant in Wellston. The five children of Doctor and Mrs. Dando are: Joseph,. Bettie, Catherine, George and Mary Jane. ADELBERT E. SHATTUCK has been a leader in the commercial affairs of Wellston for over thirty years. He is former postmaster, is vice president of the Wellston Manufacturing Company, and is a native of Ohio, representing two old New England families that settled in the Western reserve in pioneer times. Mr. Shattuck was born at Chardon, Ohio, July 12, 1867, son of Benjamin and Mary A. (Downing) Shattuck. His grandparents .were George and Eliza Shattuck and Alvin and- Sarah Downing. The Shattucks came from the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, to Ohio early in the last century, settling in the. Western Reserve, near Cleveland. The Downings came from Vermont, also of rugged New England ancestry. Benjamin Shattuck was a farmer in Northern Ohio, and after retiring lived in Painesville, where he died November, 11, 1910. He was a member of the Congregational Church. His wife died March 16, 1916. A. E. Shattuck, only child of his parents, finished his high school course at Chardon in 1885, and soon afterward went South and was in the general mercantile business at South Pittsburgh, near the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He remained there five years, and returning North located at Wellston in 1891. Mr. Shattuck for fifteen years was a merchant in Wellston, selling out after his appointment as postmaster in 1906. He served as postmaster eight years, and in July, 1914, engaged in the insurance and real estate business. He discontinued his insurance work in 1922, in which year he became assistant manager of the Wellston Manufacturing Company. He is now vice president and a director of this important local industry. The company owns patents and manufactures what is known as the sectional revolving ball bearing "Eclipse" steel stands, bins and cases, now being widely used in stores for holding nails and other similar heavy merchandise. The company also manufactures "Senator" furnace and gas furnaces, heaters and radiators and does a general line of foundry and machine work. In the plant at Wellston are made all the castings for the J. Fay & Company, manufacturers of wood working machinery and sewer basins for the City of Chicago. In addition to this business Mr. Shattuck is a director of the Citizens Building Loan Company and a directory of the Sherman Theatre of Chillicothe. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a leader in republican politics. Mr. Shattuck married at Clifton, West Virginia, November 18, 1891, Miss Alice L. Stevenson, daughter of David L. and Sarah E. (Lasley) Stevenson. Her father, who died about 1905, was a salt manufacturer at Clifton, West Virginia, and later a merchant at Wellston. He was a Mason and a Methodist. There were four children in the Stevenson family: John, deceased ; Hiram L.; Miss Sadie E.; and Mrs. Shattuck. EDWIN D. FORD. Among the men of Mansfield whose large transactions in real estate have stimulated business and contributed to the growth of the city and its environs, the leader perhaps is Edwin D. Ford. Aside from such distinction as he may have earned as one of the largest landholders in the city, he is also a member of one of the community's best-known families. Mr. Ford was born at Mansfield, January 23, 1872, a son of Patrick P. and Mary C. (Stone) Ford. His grandfather was the Hon. Thomas H. Ford, a prominent attorney, who was lieutenant-governor of Ohio from 1856 to 1858, serving during the gubernatorial administration of Hon. Salmon P. Chase. Thomas H. Ford was the original captain of Company C of the Third Ohio Regiment, which was organized in 1846 and mustered out at New Orleans June 23, 1847. Judge Osborne, upon the death of Judge Milton W. Worden; in referring to attorneys who had passed away, said of Ford: "A Ford of 156 - HISTORY OF OHIO grand stature, of great physical strength, with intellectual endowments, if aroused, equal to any emergency, but for the most time inactive and useless because not used." General Brinkerhoff wrote : "When I was a student of law in 1850-51, the giants of the Mansfield bar said of Ford: Thomas H. Ford was at his best and was a man of great natural powers, but was indolent and careless and did not make the mark he might have made at the bar.' " Patrick P. (Pat) Ford was one of the best-known and best-liked men of Mansfield. For many years he operated a grocery, but later, for at least twenty years, was superintendent of the Sherman-Heinman Park. He died February 28, 1922, aged seventy-five years, his wife having passed away two years before. One of the leading bankers when asked who was the richest man at Mansfield answered: "Pat Ford." While he did not accumulate property, he always paid his debts, had a wide circle of warm friends and got the greatest possible amount of enjoyment out of life. He was a loyal citizen in every respect and others reaped richly out of his life. For years he was active in the Humane Society. Edwin D. Ford, after some years of association with his father in the grocery business, began to deal in horses, and soon became the best-known horse trader and shipper in the region. His early training had been to the effect that he should save at least a few pennies out of every dollar he acquired and to keep out of debt, but after trying this system until he was past middle life he came to the conclusion that this policy would not yield him great wealth. He thereupon began to assume obligations. His investments on borrowed money yielded large returns, and, attaining added confidence as well as wealth, he increased the scope of his enterprises. For twenty years he has been a trader, and no deal is too large for him to handle. Ever keeping his credit above reproach, it has not been difficult for him to finance large deals, most of which have yielded handsome returns. Mr. Ford is now the largest borrower in the city and one of Mansfield 's leading landholders. He is a member of the Baptist Church and is on the board of the Friendly House. He also has numerous civic, social and fraternal connections. Mr. Ford married Miss Anna Snyder, whose father, Henry Snyder, was for years the proprietor of a grocery at Mansfield. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ford: Kathryn, the wife of Forest Bancroft, of Mansfield; Thomas E., a graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and now engaged in the automobile business in Ashland, Ohio, a dealer in Dodge cars, and Mary Alice, attending high school at Mansfield. MICHAEL EFFINGER. With the exception of three years, the entire industrial career of Michael Effinger has been passed in connection with the postoffice at Lancaster. For more than forty years he has assisted in handling the mails, and in 1923 a reward for his long and faithful service was received in the form of appointment by President Harding for the office of postmaster, which he now occupies with credit to himself and to the benefit of the community. Postmaster Effinger was born at Lancaster, Ohio, August 2, 1865, and is a son of Dr. Michael and Elmira (Catlin) Effinger. On both sides of the family he is descended from Revolutionary soldiers, and the Effinger family is one of the old ones of Virginia, having lived for five generations in the Shenandoah Valley. The Catlins came originally from near Troy, New York. His grandparents were Samuel and Mary (Noble) Effinger. A member of the Noble family came from Maryland in 1811 and settled on a farm adjoining the town of Tarlton, Ohio. Mary (Noble) Effinger was a sister of Col. John Noble. Dr. Michael Effinger was born at Lancaster, Ohio, December 11, 1819, and after attending the public schools and academy at this place entered Miami University, from which he was graduated with honors. He studied medicine in the offices of Doctors Boerstlers and Edwards, leading physicians of Lancaster during their day, subsequently attended lectures, and finally graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. Following his graduation he returned to Lancaster, where he opened an office and for fifty years was a most successful practicing physician and honorable and useful citizen. He served the Union during the Civil war, when he formed a close friendship with General Sherman, they continuing as correspondents throughout life. Doctor Effinger was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which he died January 5, 1890, after having been an invalid for many years. In 1846 Doctor Effinger married Miss Elmira Catlin, a daughter of Augustus Catlin and a niece of Darius Tallmadge, and she died in 1900, having been the mother of six children: Tella, who married Charles C. Duncan and has four children; Noble, who died in infancy; Addie, who married George B. Webb; Mary, who died in 1883; .Elizabeth, who died in 1905; and Michael. Michael Effinger was given the advantages of attendance at the grade and high schools of Lancaster, and after his graduation entered the Lancaster postoffice, accepting a minor clerkship. During the years that have passed he has remained in this office with the exception of three years, faithfully performing the duties assigned to him and gradually winning promotion. In October, 1923, he received appointment as postmaster from President Harding, one of the last official acts of that executive. Mr. Effinger entered the postoffice during the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, and has continued therein through the various other administrations, but has never taken any part in politics. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was one of the charter members of the Country Club, but gave up his membership therein. While he is of a very retiring disposition, he is courteous and affable in the discharge of his duties, and is fond of the companionship of his fellows, being a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Effinger is unmarried. HENRY A. ALSPACH. The year 1924 finds Mr. Alspach giving a most progressive and effective administration of the office of mayor of the City of Lancaster, judicial center of his native county. Mayor Alspach was born on his father's homestead farm in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was December 8, 1877. His father is still concerned with farm industry in this country, but his mother passed away in the year 1912. He is the eldest in a family of three children: Lester, the second son, married Jennie Rowles and they have a daughter, Mildred; Oscar D., married Gale Carnes, and they have four children. Jacob Alspach is an earnest communicant of the Lutheran Church, as was also his wife. He is one of the venerable and honored native sons of Fairfield County, his father having come to Ohio from Pennsylvania and having been one of the sterling pioneer citizens of Fairfield County at the time of his death, in 1896. He was Henry Alspach, and his marriage was solemnized after he came to Ohio. His wife, Matilda, died in 1889. The Alspach family was for many generations one of prominence and influence in Germany, and a street in the City of Berlin perpetuates the family name. Henry A. Alspach gained his early education in HISTORY OF OHIO - 157 the public school of his home district, and he continued his active alliance with farm industry until 1900, when he became a salesman for the Jas. H. Goldeamp Hardware Company of Lancaster. He continued his association with this representative business concern for the long period of thirteen years, besides having given attention to the handling of automobiles. While with this company he also served four years as city treasurer. Upon severing his connection with the Goldcamp Hardware Company Mr. Alspaeh here engaged in the retail grocery business, and he continued this until 1922, when he sold the stock and business. In 1923 he was elected mayor of Lancaster, as champion of law enforcement, and in his administration he has fully justified the popular confidence that led to his election. While he has insistently worked for the enforcement of law, including that pertaining to prohibition of the liquor traffic, he has also been sponsor for progressive municipal policies that have worked greatly to the benefit of his home city. Mayor Alspach is an active and valued member of the local Kiwanis Club, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the United Commercial Travelers. He and his wife are communicants of the English Lutheran Church. At Lancaster, on the 8th of March, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Alspach and Miss Della Bookman, elder of the two children of Jacob and Eliza Bookman, who still maintain their home in Fairfield County, where Mr. Bookman has been a substantial representative of farm enterprise. Thersa, younger of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Bookman, is the wife of John Graybill, and they have two children, Ruth and Ralph. Mr. and Mrs. Alspach have three children: Edna, who is the wife of Lester Pierce; Hester, who is the wife of Clay Groves; and Pauline, who is, in 1924, a student in the Lancaster High School. H. W. WOLFORD, county auditor of Fairfield County, is one of the leading men of Lancaster, and one who stands very high in public estimation, having won approval from his fellow citizens during the years he has lived here. He is a native son of the county, having been born in Hocking Township, March 12, 1867. His grandfather, Adam Wolford, a native of Virginia, founded the family in Ohio, to which locality he came about 1812 and afterward was married in Ohio to Susan Slaine, a native of Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The maternal grandfather of H. W. Wolford was Andrew Groves. He married Mary Alspach, and they came to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1818. John B. Wolford, father of H. W. Wolford, was a wagonmaker in early life, also a manufacturer of hominy, and he retired from his vocation in 1914. He was always active in local affairs, was a staunch democrat and served as township treasurer for five years. In religious faith he was a Lutheran. His death occurred in April, 1923. His wife, formerly Caroline Groves, died in 1902. They had four children, of whom H. W. Wolford was the eldest, the others being as follows: Thomas J., who married Edith Kern, has one child, Donald; George E., who married Bertha M. Smith, had one child, Leon; and Alice, who married Elliott Pence, has one child, Wolford. H. W. Wolford first attended the local district schools, and later was a student of the Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he was a classmate of Senator Willis and Judge Wanamaker. Having prepared himself for the profession of teaching he entered upon his chosen work, and for the succeeding twenty-six years labored in the educational field, in village and township schools. During that period he held several offices, serving as clerk of Hocking Township, and assessor of the same township. For eight years he was deputy state supervisor of elec- tions; for three years he was deputy recorder of the county; for three and one-half years he held the office of deputy sealer of weights and measures; and in 1918 was elected county auditor. During the four years he held that office he made so excellent a record that he was reelected, in 1922, to succeed himself for another four-year term. In October, 1916, Mr. Wolford married, at Lancaster, Elizabeth Baumgardner, a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Crook) Baumgardner, the former of whom died. in 1914 and the latter in 1908. For years Mr. Baumgardner was a blacksmith and farmer at Sugar Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Baumgardner had the following children: John S., who died in 1917, married Clara Fulton, and they had five children; William M., who married Agnes Sharp, has six children; Hocking Hunter, who is unmarried; Agnes, who married Edward H. Hill, has one son, Clyde; George H., who married Maud Edwards; Talmage, who married Nora Miessie, has three children, Mildred, Marvin and Miessie; and Mrs. Wolford. Mr. and Mrs. Wolford have no children. Mr. Wolford identifies himself with the Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Wolford with the Reform •Church. Mr. Wolford is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Royal Arcanum. Very much interested in historical matters, Mr. Wolford has an extensive collection of books upon such subjects, some of which are very valuable. He is also proud of his garden, a very fine one. Genial, wholesouled and hospitable, he knows everyone in the county, and is one of the best-known and well-liked local figures. T. R. BARNES founded the Barnes Manufacturing Company at Mansfield, promoting the original company in 1895, the capitalization of $100,000. The industry has grown and steadily prospered, and in 1920 the capital was raised to $500,000. Mr. Barnes from the beginning has been secretary and general manager of the business. The president is C. H. Voegele, of the old and well-known family of that name in Richland County. Mr. Voegele succeeded the original president, R. G. Hancock. The Barnes Manufacturing Company is a concern that has had much to do with making Mansfield known to the outside world as a source of manufactured products. Its output consists of house and farm pumps, hand and power pumps for spraying of all kinds, also pumps operated by electric and gas power, and pumping machinery for oil wells and highway road construction. A few years ago a line of portable power pumping units was added for contractors, uses. The company also manufacture sanitary porcelain enameled ware. In earlier years the industry employed about fifty, and the average payroll is now for two hundred and twenty-five men. The business has an annual output valued at $1,000,000, and the investment in the plant and equipment is approximately $700,000. An able business man, a citizen of broad public spirit, T. R. Barnes has been a notable figure in the life and affairs of Mansfield. He was born near Salem, in Mahoning County, Ohio, on a farm, son of R. A. Barnes, a native of Maryland, who married Avarilla Ann. Gilbert. In 1858 they settled on a farm near Salem, Ohio. T; R. Barnes had a public school education, and at the age of twenty-one came to- Mansfield. For four years he was an' employe of the Mama Express Company and then became 158 - HISTORY OF OHIO secretary of the Humphreys Manufacturing Company, a concern that manufactured pumps. While there Mr. Barnes acquired his practical knowledge of pump manufacture, and with that experience and some capital he promoted the Barnes Manufacturing Company in 1895. Mr. Barnes has become responsibly connected with a number of Mansfield 's progressive institutions. He is a director of the Mansfield Savings and Trust Company, director of the Mansfield Lock Washer Company, director of the Superior Brass Company, director and vice president of the Buckeye Tempered Copper & Brass Company, vice president and director of the Citizens Savings and Loan Company, director of the Richland Mutual Insurance Company. He has been a contributor to all worthy public causes and acted as chairman of the Community Chest during the war. He is a member of the County Executive Committee of the republican party, is president of the City Club, for six years was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Church, also member of City Council, and is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. Mr. Barnes married Miss Lida R. Scott, daughter of George Scott, a veteran employe of the Pennsylvania Railway Company living at Mansfield. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have one daughter, Ruth, wife of James C. Gorman, who is a graduate of Lehigh University and is treasurer of the Barnes Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Gorman is a graduate of Smith College at Northampton, Massachusetts, and is prominently identified with social work at Mansfield, being active in the Young Women's Christian Association, and is president of the Friendly House in that city. DENVER C. MATZ. Both as an educator and county official, Denver C. Matz has won appreciation from the public, and is accounted as one of the best-educated men of this locality, and one whose conception of civic responsibility is high. He was born near Clearport, Madison Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, May 5, 1887, and belongs to an old and honored family of this country. His great-grandfather, Samuel Matz, lived and died in Pennsylvania, and there the grandfather, Curtis Matz, was born. He left his native county of Burks, and came to Ohio about the time of the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Fairfield County. With the outbreak of the war between the North and the South, he enlisted in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of hostilities. His wife was named Priscilla, and they reared a family of fourteen children, all of whom were born in Ohio, and they all lived to maturity. On his mother 's side Denver C. Matz traces back to honorable ancestors as well. His maternal great-grandfather, Henry R. Risinger, came to Ohio in 1851, from Center County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Madison Township, Fairfield County. His son, the grandfather of Mr. Matz of this review, was John Risinger, and he was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, but his wife, Nancy, was born in Ohio. The father of Denver C. Matz, Daniel Matz, is a farmer of Madison Township, his home being in the vicinity of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a very active member. He is devoted to his home and family. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Margaret Risinger, is also living, and they have two children, the younger being Stanley N., who married Imo Vandagriff, and has four children, Marvine, Marjorie, Joseph and Mildred. The district and high school of Clearport furnished the educational training of Denver C. Matz, and, having secured a teacher's certificate, he began teaching school when he reached his majority, and continued this work for twelve years, first in the district schools and later in the graded schools. In 1922 he was elected county recorder, for a term of two years, and assumed the duties of his office in September, 1923. While he was engaged in teaching he also assisted his father on the farm, but his present official duties now occupy him to the exclusion of anything else. On June 6, 1906, Mr. Matz was first married to Miss Eveline Bussert, who died March 3, 1920, having borne her husband three children now living and one who died at two and one-half years, the former being Marguerite, Ramond C. and Marcella. Mrs. Matz was a daughter of the late George and Samantha Bussert. Mr. Matz subsequently married Miss Nellie Wilson, a daughter of Charles B. and Sadie Wilson, both of whom survive. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had the following children born to them: Ethel, who married Dors Wilkinson, has two children, Frederick and Perry, and Leslie, Harold, James, Rosanna, George and Mabel, all of whom are unmarried, and Mrs. Matz. Mr. Matz has no children by his second marriage. Mrs. Matz was reared on her father 's farm, and was brought up in the faith of the Lutheran Church, to which her parents belong, and to which both she and her husband also belong. Mr. Matz is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, the Pleasant Grange, the Fish and Game Association, and for the past two years has been secretary of the Democratic Club. A man of attainments, he is handling the affairs of his office in a most capable and satisfactory manner, and has the records in first class order in every detail. Mrs. Matz 's grandfather, George Wilson, now eighty-nine years old, is still living, and he is a veteran of the war of the '60s. His wife, whose first name is Gertrude, is also living. They were married in Ohio, and are natives of this state. HARLEY M. WHITCRAFT. One of the outstanding members of the Hocking County bar is Harley M. Whitcraft. His name is favorably known in every precinct of the county, and his reputation as an able lawyer is by no means confined to Hocking. This is the success of his mature years, preceded by a long period of driving and self denial while getting his education and preparing himself for the opportunities he is now facing. He was born on a farm four miles south of Logan, August 5, 1880, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Lanning) Whitcraft. His grandfather, William Whitcraft, came to Ohio from Ireland. Isaac Whitcraft devoted his active career to farming, making a success of that industry and is now living retired at Logan at the age of seventy years. He has been a republican since casting his first vote, and is a member of the United Brethren Church. Isaac Whitcraft's wife, Elizabeth, is the daughter of T. K. Lanning, the Lannings likewise being old settlers of Hocking County. They had four children: Harley M.; Thomas, a resident of Columbus ; Merline E.; and Jennie May, wife of O. A. Price, of Fort Fairfield. Harley M. Whitcraft lived out in the country during his boyhood, studied his first lesson in a little red schoolhouse, and it was a studious disposition and a certain earnestness of good behavior that first marked him out among the boys of his neighborhood as having a future. He acquired his advance education in Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. For seven years he was a teacher in rural districts, and in the meantime was reading law in the office of Wright and Pettit. Mr. Whitcraft was admitted to the bar in December, 1903. The following two years he practiced in partnership with Eugene Wright. The process of dissolving that partnership was a very simple one, each taking an office chair and two or HISTORY OF OHIO - 159 three law books as his individual share of the firm. Since then Mr. Whitcraft has conducted an individual practice, and for some years has been busy with an important clientage in probate and corporation law. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Hocking County in 1912. That was the year of the progressive movement and the split in republican party rank. Hocking County is normally democratic, but Mr. Whitcraft's candidacy appealed to the majority of voters and he was elected by a margin of twelve hundred votes. Two years later, without any effort on his part, he was reelected by a greatly increased majority. For ten years he also served as city solicitor, was for a number of years a member of the Board of Education and is now president of the Rotary Club. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees. Mr. Whitcraft in June, 1901, while still a country school teacher and law student, married Miss Florence Hamblin, daughter of N. W. Hamblin, of Logan. Mrs. Whitcraft is a graduate of the Logan High School and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Whitcraft is actively identified with the United Brethern Church at Logan. Mr. Whitcraft's professional success is reflected in the investments he has made in land. He is owner of a number of farms, and his profitable hobby is farming and trading in live stock. His favorite country place is known as Repose, comprising eighty acres and located two miles southwest of Logan. That is his retreat from the heavy cares of law practice, and he has expended a large amount of money in introducing high grade live stock and developing the fruit growing possibilities of the place. CHARLES H. KEYNES, since early youth has been identified with the flour milling industry at Logan, and is proprietor of a mill that has been turning out a high class product for over a generation. He is the son of a miller, and the family have had extensive business interests in Hocking County for many years. His father, Robert W. Keynes, was born in the South of England, in 1832, learned the milling trade there, and at the age of twenty-one, in 1853, came to the United States. After several years in Columbus he located at Logan. He worked at the Falls Mill, and then with Jacob Keller and John Wellman as partners engaged in the milling business at Logan under the name of J. Keller & Company, and later formed a partnership with John Wellman in the firm of Keynes and Wellman, having bought out the interest of Jacob Keller. The mill burned and was rebuilt in 1886. Robert W. Keynes was a thoroughly practical miller, and under his guidance a roller process was installed and other equipment added to keep up the business in advance of the time. He died in 1894. He was a member of the Church of England, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, attended the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, and became a republican in politics. Robert W. Keynes married Rosanna Frasch, who was born in 1838, and died in 1896. They had four children: Fannie E., of Logan; William ; Charles H., and Alma, wife of Charles Rectenwald, of Logan. After their father 's death William and Charles H. Keynes bought the Wellman interests, and since then the milling business has been conducted under the firm name of Keynes Brothers. William Keynes was one of the prominent men of affairs in Hocking County. He was born December 31, 1860, and died March 19, 1920. In addition to his interest in the milling business he was president of the McGovern Shoe Company of Logan. He married Ella Westernhaver. Charles H. Keynes was born at Logan, August 11, 1863, and he and his brother were educated in the Logan public schools. William took a business course at Dayton, while Charles finished his commercial education in Columbus. As a boy he earned money by working out the road tax for other people, and did other jobs. At the age of seventeen he took his place in the mill, learning every phase of the miller 's art. He gives the mill his active management, and has succeeded in making its product widely known and readily distributed throughout this section of Ohio. The two principal brands of flour are the Purity and Valley Pride. Mr. Keynes’ brother William served several times on the City Council. Charles Keynes is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Grotto and Mystic Shrine, and has served as chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias. He and his family are Presbyterians. He married Miss Lucy M. Moore, daughter of Wilson P. Moore. She was born in Star Township, Hocking County. They have two children, Robert W. and Lucille W. Lucille is the wife of K. W. Kitchen, an attorney at Cleveland. Robert W. is now attending Ohio State University. HENRY WENTZ III. There is much of significance and inspiration in the remarkable career of this venerable and honored citizen of Shelby, Richland County. At the time of this writing, in the spring of 1923, he is eighty-three years of age, but he is still active in the directing of business affairs of broad scope and importance and has the mental and physical vitality and ambition that challenge the years that have been recorded in his life journey. Here is old age as it should be, and Mr. Wentz is proving in a most emphatic sense that his strength is as the number of his days and will not tamely submit to inactivity. He is president of the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company of Shelby, of which he was one of the founders. He is a director of the Citizens Bank of Shelby, and he was a director also of the Shelby Building & Loan Company and the Sutter Furniture Company of Shelby. Still further interest attaches to his life record by reason of his being .a native son of Richland County and one of its gallant representatives as a soldier in the Civil war. Of his connection with the upbuilding of the now large and prosperous business of the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company due record is given in the review of that institution appearing elsewhere in this publication. On a farm in Cass Township, three miles northeast of Shelby, Richland County, Ohio, Henry Wentz was born December 9, 1839. His father, Henry Wentz II, passed the most of his life in this county, where he became a substantial farmer. His father, Henry Wentz I, was a native of York County, Pennsylvania, and died in Perry County, that state. Henry Wentz II came to Richland County in 1834, and settled on the farm which was the birthplace of the subject of this memoir and which is still retained in the possession of the family. Henry Wentz II was seventy-nine years of age at the time of his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Shibeley, having been eighty-seven years of age at the time of her death. Henry Wentz III, the immediate subject of this review, was reared on the old ancestral farmstead, early gained full experience in connection with its activities, and he continued his association with farm industry in Richland County until the call of patriotism became paramount and led to his entering service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company E, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the command of Gen. Lew Wallace, and in which lie rose through 160 - HISTORY OF OHIO the various grades of promotion from private to first lieutenant. Mr. Wentz took part in many important engagements, and after the battle of Winchester, Virginia, had command of Company G until he left the service. He was in active service throughout the entire war, and while he had many narrow escapes he was never wounded. From another source is gained the following brief resume of the military career of Mr. Wentz : "Mr. Wentz entered with his regiment into the early campaigns of 1861-62 in Kentucky and Tennessee, gradually working southwardly, and early in 1862 engaged in the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and the stupendous and disastrous struggle at Shiloh. His regiment took part in the siege of Corinth, Mississippi, and later in the battles of Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Beaver Station, Champion Hill and Jackson, Mississippi, and finally the siege at Vicksburg, that state. After Vicksburg his regiment was sent to New Orleans and participated in the Teche expedition. At the end of three years' service Lew Wallace 's Eleventh Indiana was veteranized, and after a two-month furlough reassembled again at New Orleans, from which point it was transported by water through the Gulf of Mexico and out on the Atlantic and up the coast to Washington, D. C. It was then sent to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and thence to the scene of the operations of General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Here Mr. Wentz's regiment participated in the campaigns at Halltown, Winchester, Fisher Hill and Cedar Creek, and it was at the end of this campaign that Mr. Wentz was mustered out of service, about January 1, 1865." Mr. Wentz has never abated his interest in his old comrades of the Civil war, and has vitalized the same through his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. The pioneer schools of Richland County afforded Mr. Wentz his youthful education, and during the long intervening years he has continued a veritable apostle of action and service. After the close of the Civil war he followed the carpenter 's trade for a time, and thereafter he was engaged in the hard- ware business at Crestline for a period of ten years, at the expiration of which he moved to Shelby, which city has since continued as his place of residence and the central stage of his splendid activities. In 1880 he with others founded the Underwriters Fire Insurance Association, of which he became secretary and general manager, his associates in the organizing of this concern having been Dr. W. R. Bricker and H. W. Hildebrant, both now deceased. The title of the association was changed five years later to the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Association, which was retained until 1918, when the present title was adopted. In the earls. days Mr. Wentz was the one active executive of the modest concern, and it has been in large measure due to his ability and his progressive policies that the extensive and substantial business of, the company has been developed. A brief record concerning the inception and growth of this concern appears in the following sketch. Mr. Wentz well merits the title of "Grand Old Man of Richland County," for his has been a life of signal honor and usefulness, and no citizen of his native county has more secure place in popular confidence and esteem. On June 8, 1865, Mr. Wentz married Sarah A. Bushey, of Shelby. Of their children, Harry Ruckle died aged ten years. E. Blanche married Dr. D. V. Summers, of Shelby, and they have two children, Henry Hugh and Helen Wentz, both graduate nurses. George Ralph died aged seven years. THE MUTUAL PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMPANY. In the vital little city of Shelby, Richland County, are established the headquarters of this corporation, which is the oldest and largest mutual plate-glass insurance company in the United States and the founder of which was Henry Wentz, who is still its president and treasurer and of whose remarkable career may be read in the preceding sketch. In the year 1880 Henry Wentz founded at Shelby the Underwriters Fire Insurance Association, of which he became secretary and general manager and in the organization of which his associates were the late Dr., W. R. Bricker, David I. Foust and H. W. Hildebrant. In 1885 the title of the concern was changed to the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Association of Shelby, and under this name the business was continued until 1918, when the present title was adopted, the only change being the substitution of the word company for that of association. From a pamphlet issued by the company are taken the following extracts: Initially the scope of the enterprise was in Shelby and in towns in adjacent counties. Mr. Wentz constituted for years the company 's sole office force in a single upstairs room at the southwest corner of Main and Gamble streets, and when his duties required him to go out of town for a day or two his office door was locked and a sign tacked on the door, reading 'Out of Town." Compare that humble beginning with the present palatial offices—the home office at 20 West Main Street, Shelby, Ohio, with its force of employes, up-to-date office equipment and a force of salesmen covering Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and Colorado. * * * "In 1918 the total premium income from the total of the policies on the books of this company was, in round numbers, $28,312, while against this appeared an aggregate loss for the same year of $14,408." The business of this company has been ordered carefully along conservative lines, and the growth of the enterprise has been consecutive and most substantial, as is evident when it is remembered that it is now the oldest and largest mutual plate-glass insurance company in the United States. The directorate of the original company consisted of Dr. W. R. Bricker, H. W. Hildebrant, D. I. Foust, Henry Wentz, W. A. Shaw and E. S. Close. Doctor Bricker was the first president and Henry Wentz the first secretary. H. W. Hildebrant succeeded Doctor Bricker as president of the company, and upon his death, in 1918, Henry Wentz became the president and treasurer, of which dual office he continues the incumbent, he having been a resourceful executive with this admirable organization for a period of nearly forty-three years, and at the venerable age of eighty-five years he is still in the harness and giving personal supervision to his important executive duties. It may incidentally be stated that Mr. Wentz has proved one of the most liberal and progressive citizens of Shelby during this long period of years, has assisted in the development and upbuilding of other local business enterprises, including that of the corporation now known as the Shelby Sales Book Company. Mr. Wentz is a stalwart in the camp of the republican party, and while he has had no desire for public office his civic loyalty was shown in effective service as a member of the City Council of Shelby for a period of ten years, and by his service of three years in the office of township clerk. The total assets of the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company, as shown in its official statement of January 1, 1924, are $228,503.63 ; total liabilities, $88,356.35; net surplus, $113,727.24. The substantial business of the company has been developed through effective service and secure indemnity functioning. The personnel of the executive corps of the company in 1923 is as here noted: Henry Wentz, president and treasurer ; R. C. Skiles, vice president; L. A. HISTORY OF OHIO - 161 Dennis, secretary-manager ; J. J. Crum, assistant secretary-treasurer. In addition to these officers the directorate includes George R. Waite and H. G. Hildebrant. BARTON A. HOLL is junior member of the firm, George W. Holl & Son, decorating contractors and dealers in paints and wall paper at Logan. It is an old established and successful business. Barton A. Holl is a veteran of the World war, and he had two brothers also in the service. He is a son of George W. and Amelia (Schlaggetter) Holl. His grandfather, Andrew Holl, a native of Germany, became a brewmaster, and on coming to the United States located first at Lancaster, Ohio, and later at Logan, where he operated a brewery. He died in 1908. George W. Holl was born at Logan in 1864, and as a youth learned the trade of painter, and subsequently built up a successful organization for handling contracts in painting and decorating, and a store for decorating supplies. He is now president of the Logan Home Savings Association, and has been identified with that business since 1905. In former years he served as a member of the City Council, and has been active in the democratic party. He is one of the trustees of St. Mathew's Lutheran Church, to which his children also belong. He is a member of the Bible class and the Sunday school. The wife of George W. Holl was born in Circleville, Ohio. They have five children: Barton; Irma, wife of Joseph Powers, who is a steeplejack, living at Lancaster, Ohio; Fred, geologist, with the Empire Oil and Gas Company at Eldorado, Kansas ; Joe, an employe of the firm of George W. Holl & Son, and Emma, who was a student in Ohio University at Athens, and is now teaching in the Logan public school. Barton A. Roll was educated in the public schools of Logan, graduating from high school in 1909. For fifteen years he has been actively associated with his father's business except for the time he was in the army. His brother Fred was in the Aviation Corps, receiving his training at Berkeley, California, Camp Dix and Langley Field at Norfolk, Virginia, and held the rank of lieutenant. Joe Holl was in the artillery branch, and served with the heavy artillery of the Forty-first Division in France. Barton A. Holl joined the army September 5, 1917. He was trained at Camp Sherman, assigned to duty with Company H of the Three Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry, and landed in England, May 28, 1918, and in France, June 20th of the same year. He was on duty there as a supply sergeant until January, 1919, and received his honorable discharge February 24, 1919. Mr. Holl became interested in politics before he was qualified as a voter, and is now chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee and also a member of the executive committee. He was elected to the City Council in 1919 and chosen chairman of the Council. He is a Rotarian and a member of the American Legion. On August 15, 1917, Mr. Holl married Miss Grace L. Sparnon, daughter of Judge H. E. Sparnon, of Logan. Mrs. Holl is a member of the Methodist Church. They have two children, Elizabeth Amelia and Barton Sparnon. WILLIAM MERRITT WONN has spent practically all his life in Logan, was in the railroad service a number of years, but has also proved his ability in independent enterprise. He is secretary, treasurer and manager of the Logan Ice Cream Company, the company also operating the Crystal Spring Ice Company. This is an important business of Logan, manufacturing ice and ice cream. The president of the business is Edward L. Ewing, and the vice president, Joseph Thomas. The Logan Ice Cream Company was incorporated in April, 1918, the organizers and stockholders being local dealers in ice cream, and established a business to supply their own needs. The enterprise has grown rapidly, and in 1921 the Crystal Spring Ice Company was organized, and the ice plant and ice cream plant were erected on adjoining sites. Mr. Wonn was born at Logan, December 17, 1882. His parents, John Wesley and Sarah C. (Kern) Wonn, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving day of 1923. John Wesley Wonn was for twenty-five years a car inspector on the Hocking Valley Railroad. When the shops were located at Logan the company insisted that he accept a job in the shop for sixteen cents an hour. Instead, he quit the railroad, and though possessed of very small means, he engaged in the cement block and cement contracting business and acquired a competency before he retired. As his name indicates, his family were Methodists, and he has always been loyal to that church. He is a republican, and is one of the oldest members of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Logan. In the family were four sons and one daughter : Chase L., a grocer at Logan; James, a printer ; William Merritt; Gertrude, wife of Clark T. Heft, sales manager for the Cooper Rubber Company of Indianapolis. and George, a railroad engineer with the Hocking Valley Railway. William M. Wonn acquired a high school education at Logan, and in 1899, when seventeen years of age, became a clerk in the offices of the Hocking Valley Railroad at Athens, Ohio. After two years he was transferred to Lancaster, becoming cashier and chief clerk, and altogether spent ten years in railroad work. When he left the railroad he joined his brother Chase in the grocery business, and two years later started out independently. Mr. Wonn conducted two confectionery stores, which he sold to L. K. Showalter in order to devote his entire attention to the Logan Ice Cream Company. The original plant of the company was at first located in the rear of one of his stores. Mr. Wonn married Miss Artie Hane, daughter of Jacob Hane, of Lancaster, Ohio. They have two children, William M., Jr., and Mary Francis. The family are Methodists. Mr. Wonn is a republican, is a member of the Rotary Club, and is not only a successful and progressive business man, but a worker in matters affecting the general welfare of the community. JOHN A. CANTY, a former member of the Legislature, has been prominently identified with the lumber and furniture manufacturing interests of Hocking County for a number of years. He is vice president of the Owen Manufacturing Company at Logan. The Owen Manufacturing Company succeeded the Snider Manufacturing Company, which was established in 1900, with the late J. J. Snider as president and Mr. Canty, secretary and treasurer. J. J. Snider, who died in 1903, was succeeded as president by his son, William A. Snider, and on his death in 1906 John A. Canty became president and treasurer. In 1919 the business was reorganized as the Owen Manufacturing Company. The president is D. T. Owen, of Cleveland. A. J. Conrad was secretary and treasurer for a number of years, and was succeeded at his death by his son, Harold P. Conrad. Albert Schreck is resident manager. The late J. J. Snider was a native of Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, came of a family of woodworkers and timber men, and he was an unexcelled authority on everything connected with the industry, being an expert judge of timber and also an able financier. He operated a number of sawmills, and in order to find an output for his lumber product he branched out into 162 - HISTORY OF OHIO the manufacture of bedroom furniture. At one time he had in operation twenty small mills in Hocking and other counties. lie was only fifty when he died. The furniture plant was one of very modest equipment at the beginning, employing about twenty people, while now the output of furniture of the Owen Manufacturing Company is valued at $1,000,000 a year. The old plant was destroyed by fire in 1913. Mr. Canty, then a principal in the company, was largely responsible for the erection of a larger and better plant. Mr. Canty was born at MacArthur, Vinton County, Ohio, April 26, 1863. His parents, Patrick and Bridget Canty, came to Ohio from Ireland. Mr. Canty finished his school days at MacArthur at the age of fifteen, and then for a time was employed on construction work on the river division of the Hocking Valley Railroad between Logan and Pomeroy. Two years later he began learning the tinner 's trade at Zaleski in Vinton County, remaining there and at Columbus for twelve years. In 1895 he became an office employe of Mr. J. J. Snider at Logan, and has been steadily identified with those interests ever since. Mr. Canty throughout his business career has manifested a keen interest in politics and public affairs. He served two terms as a member of the Logan Council, and was elected in 1908 and for two terms was a representative in the State Legislature. He was chairman of the railroad and telegraph committee and a member of the insurance and other important committees, being in the Legislature during the Harmon administration. He has done much organization work .for the democratic party in county, district and state. Mr. Canty is a Catholic, and for twenty-two years has been a member of the order of Knights of Columbus, United Commercial Travelers, and Elks, serving as exalted ruler of the latter. He married Miss Magdalena Krannitz, daughter of Jacob Krannitz. They have one son, John A., Jr., who is now a freshman in the University of Notre Dame, at Notre Dame, Indiana, taking a law course. CHARLES OSCAR ALLEN, M. D. Forty years of continuous service as a physician and surgeon has made the name of Charles Oscar Allen a household word in Hocking County. His has been a service of real distinction, and he has done the work of a doctor under conditions calling for the exercise of physical strength and endurance as well as professional resourcefulness. Doctor Allen was born near Maysville, Kentucky, July 31, 1857, son of David Diarcha Allen, who was a great nephew of the famous hero of the Revolutionary war, Ethan Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga. David D. Allen was a son of Capt. Consider Allen, a Revolutionary soldier whose home was at Hartford, Connecticut. David D. Allen was born at Hartford, Connecticut, but was reared in Providence, Rhode Island. He received a university education, and for many years taught school in many states. He was an old-fashioned music teacher. He was also at one time a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, the American poet. Soon after the birth of his son Charles Oscar Allen the family moved to Albany, Athens County, Ohio, and that was the home of D. D. Allen until his death, though he died while teaching school in Harrisonville, in Meigs County, in 1863, at the age of sixty-two. He was born in 1801. His wife, Eliza Ferguson, was a native of Augusta, Maine, but when a child was brought to Ohio, and she finished her education at Athens. At her husband's death she was left with her children without means. She proved her noble character by many sacrifices and hard work to keep her family together and give her children educational advantages. For a time she taught a private school. She was a, very devout Baptist and sent all her children regularly to Sunday school. This good woman died in 1909, when eighty-two years of age. Her children were: Dr. Henry Consider Allen, a practicing physician at Circleville, Ohio Dr. Charles Oscar ; William Edgar, who was named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, was an attorney, practicing law at St. James, Minnesota, and Peoria, Illinois, and is now deceased; Ella, who died recently, was the wife of Frank Gillilan, a Methodist minister at Malta, Ohio ; David died when twenty-five years of age. All the children attended the Atwood Academy at Albany, Ohio. Charles Oscar Allen at the age of seventeen began teaching, while his sister Ella taught her first term at the age of fourteen. All the children taught school, and they helped each other to complete their educations. Doctor Allen taught for seven years in rural districts in Athens and Vinton counties, and managed the best he could to complete his medical college course. When he left medical college he had a diploma and also a large debt. He graduated from Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1882, and began his practice at Carbon Hill in Hocking County, but soon removed to Haydenville in the same county, and after fourteen years of heavy work in that community, established his home at Logan in 1897. He did postgraduate work in the New York Polyclinic in 1897. Doctor Allen still does a heavy practice, and is in good health in spite of the hardships and exposure he has endured, especially in the early years when there were no facilities such as the modern physician enjoys. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the family are Methodists. Doctor Allen married Miss Lowie E. Moore, daughter of Samuel Moore, of Logan. They have a daughter, Nellie S., who graduated in 1913 from the Western College at Oxford, Ohio, and while there specialized in music. She has also studied under Prof. Percy Grainger, Richard Hagerman and Edward Collins at the Chicago Musical College. ADDO CLARENCE TIPTON is a merchant and manufacturer at Logan, being treasurer of the Logan Manufacturing Company, one of the largest and most successful furniture making organizations in Southeastern Ohio. Mr. Tipton has also been prominently identified with horticultural interests. The Logan Manufacturing Company was organized a number of years ago as a small concern by a group of thrifty workmen, each one a practical cabinet maker. This group comprised Darius A. White, A. B. Butin, A. Houston, J. A. Murphy, Michael Krieg, J. P. Curtis, Chris Jurgensmeyer and John Strentz. A. Houston became president and D. A. White, secretary, each of them receiving special remuneration for their official duties, Houston getting $2, and White $2.20 a day. Each one of the stockholders was also a worker in the factory. Their product was bedroom furniture and builders' supplies, and this has been the line of output followed ever since. The product of this Logan factory is distributed over the United States from New York as far west as Des Moines, Iowa. In 1916 A. C. Tipton, W. A. Lanning and J. Wolf bought the interest of John White in the original company. In 1921 Wolf and Lanning sold their interest to E. W. Davis, L. P. Mooney, A. C. Tipton and H. R. Tipton. At the present time .the business is owned largely in two families. Edward W. Davis is president of the company; Harold R. Tipton, vice president; Lawrence P. Mooney, secretary, and A. C. Tipton, treasurer. Mr. Tipton was born at Torch, in Athens County, Ohio, May 29, 1861, son of Francis W. and Elizabeth HISTORY OF OHIO - 163 (Cole) Tipton. His father was born near Union-port, Jefferson County, Ohio, and his mother near Smithfield in the same county. After their marriage they located in Athens County, and in 1882 moved to Logan in Hocking County. The mother died at the age of fifty-five as the result of an accident. Francis W. Tipton was a merchant and lumber dealer, and in the early days rafted lumber down stream to Cincinnati and other points. He had unusual gifts as a business man, and was a very upright citizen. He was interested in the councils of the republican party from its organization, and was one of the builders and active members of the- church at Torch. In the family were six sons and five daughters, nine of whom reached mature years. The two sons now living are Francis M., a resident of Des Moines, Iowa, and A. C. A. C. Tipton received his early educational advantages at Torch, and spent three years in Scio College, in Harrison County, Ohio, which some years ago was merged with Mount Union College. At the age of twenty his business career began as a helper in his father's store at Logan. Soon afterward he entered the grocery business, and that business undertaking has developed into a wholesale produce concern. Mr. Tipton in 1906 acquired 160 acres of land at Lockport, New York, near Niagara Falls, and gave his active attention during summer months to the development of this as a horticultural proposition, growing apples, grapes, plums. pears and peaches. He sold the property there in 1914, and is now owner of an apple orchard at Carpenter in Meigs County, Ohio. He is also a partner in the Tipton Shafer Land Company and is interested in the Shafer Coal Company. His two chief hobbies are horticulture and Masonry. In Masonry he has filled chairs in the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council, and is a member of the Commandery, and is also affiliated with Columbus Consistory and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has held all the lay offices in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Logan, having been superintendent of Sunday School and organized and taught the Tipton Men's Bible Class. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and United Commercial Travelers. Mr. Tipton married Miss Mary Price, daughter of Aaron A. Price, of Logan. She died in May, 1923, at the age of sixty years. To Mr. and Mrs. Tipton were born two children, Helen, dying in childhood, and the only son, Harold R., is now vice president of the Logan Manufacturing Company. FRANCIS L. LOMAX, with his brother Peter Lomax constitute the firm of Lomax Brothers, proprietors of the McArthur Wholesale Grocery Company. They are probably the youngest men in Ohio who have achieved a definite rank in the wholesale grocery business. They supply the retail trade of many stores from Logan to Oak Hill. Both these brothers were born in the picturesque country at Hawks Nest in Fayette County, West Virginia, Peter on July 4, 1894, and Francis L. on May 6, 1897. Enterprising and energetic, no work being too hard for them, they have become independent at a time when most men are just beginning their careers. These brothers willingly perform any of the labor connected with their business, from unloading a freight car to visiting the trade. Francis L. Lomax is in active charge of the wholesale business, while Peter gives most of his time to conducting two high class retail grocery stores, one at Logan and the other at McArthur. Their parents, James and Elizabeth Lomax, were born in England, came to the United States as young people, were married in West Virginia, and James Lomax in early life was a coal miner. Later as a coal operator he managed the Lomax Coal and Coke Company in Fayette County, West Virginia. In 1902 he established his home in Vinton County, Ohio, and operated a coal mine two miles southwest of McArthur. This mine supplied fuel for the McArthur rick Company. He died June 12, 1913. His widow 13 still living at McArthur. They had a family of three sons and three daughters : Hampton, who was born in 1889, and now has charge of the Lomax Coal Mine; Peter and Francis L.; while the three daughters are Charlotte, a teacher in the St. Louis High School; Clara, wife of P. M. Peacock, a machinist at Columbus ; and Annie, widow of George Cundiff, who was killed in the Lomax mine while performing the duties of bank boss. Francis L. Lomax is a graduate of the local high school, spent two years in Ohio State University, and as a boy had the arduous experience of a worker in the mines. In 1916 he bought the Jacobs and Westcott grocery business, and conducted it until he engaged in the wholesale trade in July, 1922. He married Miss May Lowry, daughter of Charles E. Lowry, of McArthur. She is a member of the Methodist Church. The Lomax family are Presbyterians. Francis L. Lomax is a Mason and Odd Fellow, and his brother Peter has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. DAVID D. OWEN, D. C. Old methods are giving way to new ; improvements are being constantly made, and progress is shown along all lines of human activity. This is true in the art of healing as in everything else, and the people are awakening to the fact that science of chiropractics has been marvelously developed, and that its practitioners are carefully trained men whose success in their profession is unquestioned. One of these of Scioto County, who has built up a large connection, is Dr. David D. Owen of Portsmouth, one of the city's substantial young men and a veteran of the World war. Doctor Owen was born at Dayton, Ohio, December 16, 1895, a son of Frank B. F. and Mary (Bowen) Owen, both of whom were born in Ohio. The mother is deceased, but the father survives. For many years he has been with the Barney-Smith Car Company and is now one of the expert car builders of that concern. For a number of years he resided on a farm adjoining Dayton, and carried on farming in a limited way before retiring from the firm. He maintains membership with the Modern Woodmen of America. The Owen family, as well as the Bowens, originated in England, but both have been long established in the United States, and Benjamin Owen, the paternal great-grandfather of Doctor Owen, was born in this country. Members of both families have always been representative citizens. Following his graduation from the high school course at Dayton, Ohio, Doctor Owen learned the trade of pattern maker at the Stivers Trade School, and at the same time took up mathematical and commercial work. His plans were interrupted by the entry of this country into the World war, and he enlisted, as did so many of the young men. He was sent to the engineer 's laboratories at Dayton, where he remained during the entire war period. Following his honorable discharge he matriculated at Ross College of Chiropractic at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he took the full course and was graduated therefrom in 1920. Doctor Owen began the practice of his profession at Chillicothe, Ohio, but two years later left that city for Portsmouth and since October, 1922, has conducted a very successful practice here. He is an earnest, hard working young man, enthusiastic with reference to his calling, 164 - HISTORY OF OHIO and convinced that his science is the most effective and scientific for the healing of the ills of humanity. Doctor Owen has suffered martyrdom for the cause of his new science. An attack upon chiropractic and chiropractors was launched in 1923 by the State Medical Board of Ohio. He has become widely known for some of the remarkable cures effected by him in a number of cases. A case had been brought to him of a little girl who had been given up by physicians and surgeons, and who had been in plaster casts for nearly a year, a sufferer from tuberculosis of the spine and legs. Seventeen days after Doctor Owen took charge of the case the braces were removed and she seemed on the way toward complete recovery. Then, on April 17, 1923, Doctor Owen was brought into court and through affidavits filed by an agent of the medical board was fined for illegal practice. He refused to pay the fine and for the sake of principle went to jail. An appeal was made to Governor Vic Donahey, who, moved by humanitarian consideration, permitted Doctor Owen to continue his ministrations in jail to the little girl until she was well on the road to health. Doctor Owen is greatly admired for his courage and steadfastness under persecution. He firmly believes that the health science of the world will in the near future be based on the science of chiropractic. Doctor Owen is unmarried. He is a sincere member of the Portsmouth Methodist Episcopal Church, having been reared in that faith by his excellent parents. The O.B.W.C.A. and the Universal Chiropractic Association hold his membership. Since coming to Portsmouth Doctor Owen has identified himself with the best element in the city, and has allied himself with its constructive forces, for he is a firm believer in the duty of every man to properly discharge his civic responsibilities and intends to live up to his ideas in this respect by giving his support to those movements which have for their object the further development of his adopted city. HUGH SAWYER JAMES, M. D. In his long continued work as a physician and surgeon Doctor James has rendered a service that constitutes a genuine distinction in his profession. For many years he handled the heavy daily routine of cases arising in a mining practice, and for the past ten years has been located at McArthur in Vinton County. He was also a medical officer in the World war, seeing active duty in France. Doctor James is a native of Vinton County, born in Brown Township, April 1, 1865, son of Richard and Eliza (McFarland) James. His father was born in West Virginia in 1819, and his mother was born in Ireland. She died in 1898, at the age of seventy-four. Richard James, who died in 1893, spent his active carer as a farmer and was an honored resident of Vinton County. He had a family of six sons and three daughters. Three of the sons, E. W., T. W. and John, were Union soldiers in the Civil war, John spending three months as a prisoner at- Andersonville and coming home a physical wreck. All three of these soldier sons are now deceased. One son, Benjamin, is now living at Nelsonville, Ohio. Hugh Sawyer James spent his youth as a farm boy, and had his share of the heavy physical toil involved in grubbing stumps, plowing and harvesting the fields. He attended the local schools, took a course in pedagogy at Ohio University at Athens, and for two years taught in the rural districts of Athens County. In 1890 he graduated from Columbus Medical College, and has always been a student of his profession. He took special post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore in 1907. He has specialized in diseases of women. His first practice was performed at Carbondale, Ohio, but after six months he was made physician to the Campbell Creek Coal Company in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and had a busy mining practice there for seventeen years. Following that he was made assistant surgeon of Mount Hope Hospital at Huntington, West Virginia, but in 1913 returned to his native county and located at McArthur. He has been United States district health commissioner since 1920, is a member of the Extension Board, and has a large private practice. He is secretary of the Vinton County Medical Society, and a member of the State and American Medical associations. Soon after America declared war on the Central powers he volunteered, was trained at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, two weeks, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was sent to France, where he was promoted to captain. He spent six months overseas in charge of Convalescent Hospital No. 11 at Chattarauh. He had some hard service, and severely injured his foot when he fell in a shell hole, the injury constituting him a permanent cripple. He received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, in April, 1919. Doctor James is chaplain of Robert Wykoff Post of the American Legion. He is a republican, and fraternally is a Master Mason, a Knight of Pythias and Elk. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. He married Miss Mame Davis, daughter of Edwin Davis, of Athens, Ohio. HON. OTTO E. VOLLENWEIDER, a former member of the Ohio State Senate, has for over thirty years been prominently identified with the profession of law, with home at McArthur in Vinton County. He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, August 26, 1867, son of John and Catherine Vollenweider. His parents came from Switzerland to the United States. His father, who was a machinist and had received a thorough technical education in the schools of his native land, first located at Chillicothe, where he was employed as a machinist in local shops. Being thrifty as well as industrious, he finally with a modest capital established a shop and foundry of his own at Hamden, in Vinton County, where he located with his family in 1872. He did a flourishing business, developing several patents of his own, and finally he sold the business to H. S. Bundy and moved the foundry and machine shop to Wellston. He died in 1898, at the age of sixty-eight. His widow is now eighty-four years of age, a resident of Hamden, and is a very active worker in the Reformed Church. Of the three children Otto E. is the only son. The two daughters were Lillie and Lena. Lillie married D. A. G. Ray and is living- at Jackson, and Lena mar. ried W. J. Ogier and is living at Wellston. Otto E. Vollenweider finished his high school education at Hamden, and from 1884 to J889 was a student in the University of Kentucky at Lexington, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, taking his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1891. On being admitted to the bar he established himself at McArthur, and in 1893 was elected prosecuting attorney of Vinton County. He held this office at a time when the courts were congested with cases, and when the county had a large floating population and many violations of the law. He was reelected prosecuting attorney in 1896, and for some years was city attorney. In 1914 he was elected on the republican ticket to the State Senate to represent the Eighth District, including the counties of Gallia, Lawrence, Meigs and Vinton. He served in the Senate until 1918, being chairman of the judiciary committee in the first term, and was republican floor leader of HISTORY OF OHIO - 165 the Senate in the second session. He was also a member of the state building commission appointed by Governor Willis. Senator Vollenweider during his long career as a lawyer has achieved a reputation as a man of force and learning, and well qualified not only for the routine work of the law, but also for important responsibilities in public affairs. He has been a director of the McArthur Brick Company since it was organized, and is local attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio, Southwestern & Hocking Valley Railroads. He is an elder in the Christian Church, and for many years superintendent of the Sunday School and is now teacher of the Men's Bible Class. He is a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory of Masons at Cincinnati, has served as master of the local Masonic Lodge, and is a member of the Elks, Redmen, Knights of Pythias and Junior Order United American Mechanics. At Lexington, Kentucky, in 1909, he married Miss Ethel Heacox, daughter of N. L. Heacox, of Lexington, and of an old family of the Blue Grass State. WILLIAM A. BARNES. In calling attention to substantial and representative men Licking and adjacent counties are justly proud of the fact that old family names appear that have been familiar in the state since early settlement in the Western Reserve. The Barnes family, a case in point, is worthily represented at Granville by William A. Barnes, formerly a justice of the peace and for a number of years mayor of Brinkhaven, Ohio. W. A. Barnes was born in Holmes County, Ohio, January 4, 1867, a son of Rev. William S. and Jane (Loder) Barnes, both of whom were natives of Coshocton County, Ohio, as were their parents. Rev. William S. Barnes for many years was a well known and beloved minister of the Baptist Church in Holmes, Coshocton and Wayne counties. His death occurred in 1896. William A. Barnes received his early educational training in the public schools of Holmes County, and completed his higher education in Ada College. For some years afterward lie taught school in his native county and then became interested in the hardware business, first at Greersville in Knox County, and later at Brinkhaven, in the same county, near which latter city he owned a valuable farm. During his twenty-five years of residence and business engagement at Brinkhaven he became an active factor in democratic politics and important in public affairs, serving in a number of responsible offices, including justice of the peace, and later was elected mayor of Brinkhaven, which office he administered for four years with business efficiency and public spirit. Mr. Barnes married at Greersville, Ohio, September 4, 1888, Miss Jennie E. Greer, daughter of A. W. and Caroline (Baker) Greer, and granddaughter of Robert and Sarah Greer. The Greers came originally from Ireland, and this family were the founders of Greersville and extensive farmers in Knox County. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have four children: Ruby Barnes, who is a graduate of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and of the University of Chicago, where she specialized in music, is the wife of David B. Cole, of Painesville, Ohio; William Emerson, who was a student in Denison University prior to embarking in business at Painesville, married Miss Virginia Lee, of Tennessee; Helen Greer, who is a graduate of Denison University, is teaching school at New London, Ohio; and Wendell Greer, who is a student in the high school at Granville. Mr. Barnes has been a resident of Granville since 1916, bringing a home atmosphere and the beet of social advantages to his children while they were students in Denison University, in the meanwhile establishing such cordial and pleasant relations with his fellow citizens here that the move may be considered permanent. With his family he belongs to the Baptist Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and has been Master of Granville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and he belongs also to the order of Knights of Pythias. ARTHUR S. HUGHES is one of the prominent factors in the industrial affairs in Mansfield, and is now owner of the controlling interests and the active head of the Hughes-Keenan Company, Incorporated. This business was started as a partnership in 1906, but was incorporated the same year with a capital of $25,000. The Hughes-Keenan Company distributes a large tonnage of the manufactured products that leaves Mansfield for distribution all over the country. It has the facilities for the fabrication of structural and pressed steel and ornamental iron, and some of its feature output consists of steel toilet partitions and pressed steel truck bodies for Ford cars. This is an industry that has had a steady and substantial growth. At first only half a dozen men were employed in the shop and only $5,000 was invested. The company now keeps on its payroll 130 men, mostly skilled labor, the payroll running $25,000 per month. The plant now covers six acres, and there are a number of buildings recently erected. Mr. Keenan retired from the company in 1912, and since then Mr. Hughes has been the controlling executive. Mr. Hughes has been accustomed to bearing unusual executive responsibilities since early manhood. He was born in Mansfield, November 13, 1878. His father is John Hughes, who for forty years was in business as an ice dealer, and is now eighty-six years of age and has spent half a century in one house. The grandfather of John Hughes was William G. Hughes, a Hessian soldier hired from the King of Prussia by King George III to fight the American colonies in the Revolutionary war. Like many others of those mercenaries he deserted and settled in Pennsylvania. His son, the grandfather of A. S. Hughes, moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1828 and settled nine miles east of Mansfield, being one of the pioneers of Richland County. He and his family were early converts to the faith as taught by Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Christian or Disciples Church, who carried on his missionary efforts all through this region. The Hughes family attended services in the old log courthouse at Mansfield, this being one of the early centers of the church denomination started by Alexander Campbell. Arthur S. Hughes after attending the common schools served his apprenticeship as a boiler maker with the Aultman-Taylor Company at Mansfield. When he was twenty years of age the company delegated him to go to San Paulo, Brazil, to install boilers for an electric power plant, probably the first in Brazil. This was a great responsibility for a young man. He had to learn the language of Latin America, to hire and manage a force of workmen composed of half a dozen nationalities. The plates were already bent and drilled, but had to be riveted and installed and the boilers connected with engines which were shipped complete. The captain of the vessel that carried young Hughes as a passenger gave him sound advice how to care for his health in the torrid zone and cautioned as to his dealings with inhabitants of both sexes, advice that proved of incalculable value. The two years spent at San Paulo, Rio Janeiro and Bahia afforded excellent training not only in actual construction, but in contact with human nature and in self-control, per- 166 - HISTORY OF OHIO fecting that ability to handle men which has made Mr. Hughes a responsible executive in advance of his years. Mr. Hughes married Miss Bessie Morgan. They have two children, Alberta May and Mary Helen, both attending the Mansfield High School. EARL A. MONTGOMERY is another of the native sons of Muskingum County whose loyalty to the county has not wavered and who have here found ample opportunity for successful achievement. Mr. Montgomery is the efficient cashier of the First Nation Bank of New Concord. On a farm not far distant from the village of Nashport, Muskingum County, in Licking Township, Earl Arthur Montgomery was born October 3, 1878, and in the same house on this old family homestead was born his father, the late Alexander D. Montgomery, the death of whom occurred in 1916, when he was seventy-three years of age, he having maintained his home in Muskingum County during his entire life and having been a successful farmer and fruit-grower. He was a soldier of the Union in the latter part of the Civil war, as a member of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His wife, whose maiden name was Alice Sheppard, passed her entire life in Muskingum County, where her death occurred in the year 1881. The subject of this sketch was third in a family of four children. The parents were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father was a republican and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. After completing his studies in the Licking Township High School Earl A. Montgomery served three years as bookkeeper for the Buckeye Pressed Brick Company at Roseville, this county, and he then was advanced to the position of superintendent, which he retained until he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the Commercial National Bank at Roseville. Later he served one year as cashier of the First National Bank of Somerset, Perry County, and he then returned to his native county, and in 1907, became cashier of the First National Bank of New Concord. In 1909 he took the position of deputy county auditor at Zanesville, and his service in this capacity continued until his election to the office of county auditor in 1914. He served one term in this office, and Governor Frank B. Willis then appointed him district assessor of Muskingum County. This position he resigned in February, 1919, to resume his place as cashier of the First National Bank of New Concord, he being also a member of the Board of Directors of this institution. Mr. Montgomery has never wavered in his allegiance to the republican party, has been prominent in public affairs at New Concord, where he has served as president of the Village Council and otherwise given evidence of his civic loyalty. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is affiliated with the four York Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, his basic membership being in Roseville Lodge No. 566, and his chivalric affiliation being with the Commandery of Knights Templars at New Lexington. He is a member also of the Zanesville Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Montgomery was zealous in the advancing of patriotic activities in the World war period, including the local drives in support of the government war loans, besides which he served as food administrator of Muskingum County. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Muskingum College, at New Concord, is treasurer of its current-expense and building-fund committee and a member of its finance committee, which controls the Endowment fund of this institution, further mention of which is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of. its president, Rev. X. Knox Montgomery, Doctor of Divinity. At Roseville, in October, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Montgomery and Miss Lulu L. Pace, daughter of Luther C. Pace, of the Continental Pottery Company at Roseville. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have three children: Alice and Luther are (1923) students in Muskingum College, and Jewett is attending the preparatory academy of that institution. THOMAS D. ADAMS, who is one of the substantial citizens of Muskingum County, is owner of one of the best improved and most valuable farm estates in the county, has been identified with mercantile enter. prise at Dresden, where he is now living virtually retired, and has held various offices of public trust, including that of representative in the State Legislature. In 1917, the year when he moved from his farm to Dresden, he became one of the organizers of the Dresden State Bank, and as vice president of this institution he has in large measure had the management of its affairs in the intervening years. Thomas Dick Adams was born in Perry .Township, Licking County, Ohio, January 10, 1849, and is a representative not only of a family that can claim a due measure of pioneer honors in Ohio but one that was also founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history. His father, Joseph Adams, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in the year 1824, and died at Dresden, Ohio, in 1884. Joseph Adams received excellent educational advantages, as gauged by the standards of his day and generation, and prior to accompanying his parents from the Old Dominion State to Ohio lie had prepared himself for the profession of civil engineer. The family moved to Ohio in 1826, when he was about twenty-two years of age, his father having been the owner of many slaves in Virginia, but having conscientiously disbelieved in such human bondage, with the result that he liberated his slaves and came with his family to Ohio, where, even in that early day, slavery was looked upon with marked intolerance—nearly forty years prior to the Civil war. Samuel Adams, grandfather of the subject of this review, was associated with his sou George in founding Adams Mills, which present village of that name in Muskingum County was then known as Preston and recognized as one of the principal business towns on the old Ohio Canal. Joseph Adams taught school in his youth, both in Virginia and Ohio, and he became a man of broad intellectual ken, as he ever continued a deep student and reader, and had the discernment to make his extensive knowledge of value in connection with the practical affairs of life. He married Miss Mary Ellen Cass, a daughter of Capt. Charles L. Cass, who served as an officer in the War of 1812, his father, Maj. John Cass, having served as an officer in the War of the Revolution and having in recognition of this service, received from the government a grant of 4,000 acres of land in Ohio. Joseph Adams was long a leader in farm industry, and was one of the first and most successful growers of fine Merino sheep in this part of the state. He held various public offices of local order in both Licking and Muskingum counties, was a stalwart republican, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Adams survived her husband more than twenty years, and passed to eternal rest at Cheyenne, Wyoming, April 15, 1906, her birth having occurred in 1815. The discipline of the public schools of Muskingum County was profitably received by Thomas D. Adams, and he was a member of one of the early classes in the Dresden High School, besides which he HISTORY OF OHIO - 167 attended Muskingum College at New Concord. He put his acquirements to practical test and made a record of successful service as a teacher in the rural schools. He gave attention also to the study of law, and while he has never sought admission to the bar, his legal knowledge has proved of much value and has been frequently called upon by friends and neighbors. He has never severed his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and his place, known as Ash Knoll, in Jefferson ToWnship, is one of the finest farms in Muskingum County. There he resided many years, and he has always specialized in the raising of fine horses and cattle. He was for several years a director of the Muskingum County Fair Association, and has exhibited his live stock at its annual fairs, as well as at other fairs, including that of the Ohio State Agricultural Association. Mr. Adams was superintendent of the construction of the line of the Cincinnati & Mount Vernon Railroad through Dresden, said line being now a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. In 1917 Mr. Adams moved from his farm to Dresden, where he has since maintained his home. Here he was for sixteen years associated with his only son in the retail hardware business, under the title of the Dresden Hardware Company. Mr. Adams has always paid unqualified allegiance to the republican party, has given effective service in behalf of its cause, and on its ticket was elected representative of Muskingum County in the Ohio legislature, in which he served for the term of 1891-93. From 1898 to 1902 Mr. Adams held the office of superintendent of public buildings in the state capital, Columbus, and within his regime in this office many improvements were made on the capitol and other state buildings. He and his wife are influential members of the Christian Church at Dresden, his membership in this denomination having been continuous since he was fifteen years old. Mr. Adams began independent farm operations when he was twenty-one years of age, and gradually freed himself of the indebtedness he had incidentally assumed, besides adding to the area of his original farm, a small place, until he became the owner of his present large and valuable landed estate. With a full quota of ancestral and individualistic patriotism, Mr. Adams found many opportunities to serve and aid in connection with the nation's participation in the World war. He was a member of the Draft Board of his county, and was active and liberal in supporting the drives for the government war loans, as well as those in support of Red Cross work. Mr. Adams married on November 16, 1870, Miss Susan Vandenbark. The Vandenbark family came from Germany in the early days and settled in Muskingum County, in Licking Township, and some of the family still retain large holdings there. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have five children: Alta B. is the wife of J. D. Stitt, and they have two children, Charles and Hester. Mary Ellen is the wife of William Crabtree, a farmer in Muskingum County. Judson J. was the organizer and is president of the Service Rubber Company at Rock Island, Illinois, a concern engaged in the manufacturing of rubber footwear, he having previously been engaged in the retail hardware business, first at Dresden, Ohio, and later in Virginia, besides having been a traveling salesman for the Beacon Falls Rubber Company, of which he was finally made general manager, a position which he retained until he organized the company of which he is now president. Jessie G. is the wife of V. L. Howell, superintendent of the mills of the John Herman Miller Company at Dresden. Florence is the wife of Earl G. McGovern, superintendent of construction for Dodge Brothers, automobile manufacturers, in Detroit, Michigan. JOHN MARTINITZ is proprietor of the Vienna Bakery at Bucyrus. Mr. Martinitz came to the United States as a youth, learned the baking trade, and by strenuous application to his work and by following strict business principles has achieved a notable success. He was born at Unterhausen, Wurttemberg, Germany, January 24, 1875, son of Andrew and Rosa (Gekeler) Martinitz. His parents spent all their lives in Germany. There are four living children and all in Germany except John. John Martinitz acquired a common school education, leaving school at the age of fourteen, and then for several years worked in a factory. He was eighteen when he came to the United States, and his first location was at Bucyrus, where he found employment in a livery barn at a dollar a week and board. Four months later he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of baker, worked two years and then was a journeyman baker in different cities in Ohio. In 1897 Mr. Martinitz married Miss Rosa Goebelt, who was born in Baden, Germany, and came to the United States when two years of age, her people locating in Bucyrus, where she acquired a public school education. After his marriage Mr. Martinitz bought a small bakery in Galion, but after one year sold out and then started a new establishment at Carey, operating it four years. Disposing of this property in 1903 he returned to Bucyrus, and on a modest scale started the business of which he is now proprietor. In 1907 he built the building and plant of the Vienna Steam Bakery on Oakwood Avenue. This plant has a capacity of 5,000 loaves daily, besides all kinds of pastry products. The business is one that supplies baking products to many towns and villages outside of Bucyrus. Mr. and Mrs. Martinitz have two children : Gladys Ruth, who is a graduate of the Bucyrus High School and the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland, and John C., aged fourteen and attending the local schools. The family are members of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Martinitz is affiliated with Bucyrus Lodge No. 139, Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Council of Bucyrus, the Knights Templar Commandery at Marion, the Toledo Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Moose and the Eagles. He is a democrat in politics. JAMES DAVID WITTMAN, one of the most substantial business men and active citizens of Jackson in Jackson County, James David Wittman is president and owner of the Buckeye Lumber Company and for many years was known as a successful educator and was an editor and publisher. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio, October 17, 1866, and represents pioneer families of this section of the state. His grandparents, Henry and Susan Wittman, were of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and settled in Jackson County in 1838. Their son, John Wittman, father of .Tames David, was ten years of age when the family came to Jackson County, and he lived on one farm there for eighty years. He died October 15, 1920, at the age of ninety. He helped cut all the first roads through his section of the county, and assisted in all matters of general improvement. He served on the Board of Trustees, the School Board and Board of Education, and was an active member of the German Lutheran Church. John Wittman married Elizabeth Ann Elick, who died in 1910. Her parents were David and Ann Elick, the former a native 168 - HISTORY OF OHIO of Germany and the latter of Switzerland, but they grew up and came to know each other since their homes were on the border between those two countries. John Wittman and wife had ten children: Hattie E., who married W. A. Russell and has three sons; Miss Annie, James David, John H., who married Mattie Blair and has two sons and two daughters; Francis E., George B., who by his marriage to Blanch Gordon has two sons; William J. is the father of two sons by his wife, Metta Brown; Henry S. married Effie Hank, and has a daughter; Cecelia E. is the wife of John W. Pratt, and they are the parents of two sons and five daughters; and Miss Jessie Mable. James David Wittman was reared on his father 's farm in Jackson County, attending district schools, and completed his higher education in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and in Morgan's Academy. He spent ten years of his life as a school teacher. He taught at Jackson and also in district schools and for three years taught in California. After retiring from that vocation lie bought the Jackson Herald, a weekly paper, and for fifteen years was owner and editor, making it a very prosperous and influential journal. Mr. Wittman sold his newspaper interests in 1915, and then bought the Buckeye Mill & Lumber Company at Jackson. He manufactures lumber, and also has one of the leading retail lumber yards in Jackson County. In addition to this business he is vice president and a director of the Jackson Building Loan Company. Mr. Wittman is a Methodist, is a Knight Templar Mason, a Knight of Pythias, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Public Library. On July 26, 1900, at Brockton, Massachusetts, he married Miss Clara F. Drake. They met while he was teaching school in California, and while his wife was also in the state with her parents, though the family home of the Drakes remained at Brockton, Massachusetts. Mrs. Wittman is a descendant of one of the oldest New England families, and also of the famous Drake family in English history. The Drakes came to Massachusetts at the time of the Mayflower. Mrs. Wittman was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain Frank and Lyphenia (Shaw) Drake. Her father was an engineer of national reputation, spending most of his life as a mining engineer in California, Nevada and Old Mexico. During the Civil war he served as a captain of the home guards. Like all the Drakes he was very fearless, a natural leader of men. He was a Knight Templar Mason. Mrs. Wittman was the only child of her parents. EDMUND G. CHAPMAN is one of the very capable and enterprising young men in the citizenship of Jackson County. His experience since be left school has been in the printing and publishing business, and he is editor and part owner of the best known paper in Jackson County, The Jackson Herald. He was born at Jackson, July 20, 1889, son of Henry and Alice (Mosier) Chapman. His parents are still living, his father having been well known in Jackson County, at first as a coal operator and later as a farmer. There were the following children in the family: Jessie, who is the wife of Isaac Brookins, and has five children, named Dorothy, Dwight, Edmund, Paul and Henry; Charles, who married Margaret O'Donnell, and has four children, Charles, Helen, Peggie and James; Ada, who died in September, 1921, wife of Richard Dobbins, and left one son, Charles; William, who married Mildred Lewis ; Earl, who died in. 1914, and Edmund G. Edmund G. Chapman attended the public schools at Jackson, spending one year in high school. When he was sixteen years of age he left school to go into a printing office, learning the technical as well as the professional and business sides of a country newspaper office. After several years of active experience as an employe he and Carl L. Johnson in 1914 bought the Jackson Herald, Mr. Chapman becoming its manager. In 1920 Mr. Johnson sold his interest, at which time Mr. Chapman and Arch Marton took each a half interest. Mr. Chapman is now owner of a half interest in the paper and also the Oak Hill Press, a weekly paper at Oak Hill. It is a republican paper, while the Herald, published semi-weekly, is democratic. Mr. Chapman in November, 1914, married Miss Iva Berry, daughter of Samuel B. and Virginia Berry. Her mother died in 1916, leaving two children, Mrs. Chapman and Irene. Irene married John Crabtree, and has one child. Mr. Crabtree is a machinist with the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway, and is a member of the Moose and Knights of Pythias. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are Wilma and Junior. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are members of the Christian Church, and he is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Jacksonian Club. RAYMOND C. WILLIAMS is an active business man at Frankfort in Ross County, where he has the leading automobile garage and repair station. He has been a carpenter by trade, and spent his early life on a farm, his people having been identified with the agricultural affairs of Ross County for a great many years. Mr. Williams was born near Frankfort, in Au. gust, 1877, son of James M. and Sallie (Bowdle) Williams. His grandfather, John S. Williams, was born in Wales, and was an early settler in Ross County. James M. Williams has spent his active life as a farmer, and is a member of the Methodist Church. His wife died in 1881. Their two children were Raymond C. and Walter L. Raymond C. Williams was educated in district schools, finishing his schooling at the age of eighteen. He then took an active share in the labors of the home farm with his father, and his home was on the farm until he was twenty-five. He learned the carpenter 's trade, and also operated a threshing outfit during the seasons, spending the rest of the year in the building trade. Through these two occupations he made for himself a place of creditable usefulness in the community until 1920, when he engaged in the automobile business, erecting the most complete garage and repair shop in Frankfort. He is also the local representative for the Chevrolet car and handles a varied line of automobile parts and acres: sories. Mr. Williams was registered under the second draft act, but was put in the fourth class. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in Twin Township of Ross County, in February, 1902, Miss Almeda Knapp, daughter of Spencer and Mary J. (Steuart) Knapp, her father a farmer. Mrs. Williams was one of four children, her three brothers being Peter, Henry and James. Mr. and Mrs. Williams also have four children, Mary, Simon, Roena and Marie. JOHN EDWARD FOSTER was admitted to the Ohio bar and had about a year 's experience of a practicing attorney before he entered the Aviation Corps for duty during the World war period. Since the war he has returned to his native county of Jackson, and is the present prosecuting attorney. He was born at Jackson, March 29, 1894, son of Edward and Ophalia (Stephenson) Foster. The Stephenson family is one of the oldest in Jackson HISTORY OF OHIO - 169 County. His great-great-grandfather Stephenson was one of the first county commissioners. His paternal grandparents were John and Sarah Foster. His parents are living at Jackson, where his father for forty years has been active in business as a retail dry goods merchant. Edward Foster is a Knight Templar Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Elks, and is a trustee and member of the official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John E. Foster is the only son of his parents, his sister Hazel being the wife of Clifford L. Meyer. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have one child, Foster. John Edward Foster graduated from the Jackson High School in 1911, and then entered Ohio State University at Columbus, where he spent two years in the academic department and three years in the law school. He received his law diploma in 1916, remaining in Columbus to practice until October, 1917. At that date he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Aviation Corps, was sent for training to Self- ridge Field, spent four months at Mount Clemens, Michigan, three months in the Georgia Institute of Technology, and finally was assigned to duty at Call Field in Texas, where he remained until getting his honorable discharge, January 21, 1919. On leaving the service Mr. Foster returned to Ohio and for over a year was a member of the legal department of the Hydraulic Steel Craft Company at Cleveland. In June, 1920, he engaged in general practice at Jackson, and in the fall of 1922, was elected for a two-year term as prosecuting attorney at Jackson County. He is active in civic affairs, being secretary of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the County and State Bar associations, belongs to the college fraternities Phi Delta Theta and Phi Delta Phi, and the Masonic Order. He is a Methodist. On April 16, 1918, at Columbus, Mr. Foster married Miss Martha Hoagland, daughter of William IL and Ruth (Everhard) Hoagland. Her mother died in 1915. Her father is one of the well known business men of the state, being president of the Marble Cliff Quarries Company, of the Clay Craft Brick Company, and for several years was chairman of the State Finance Committee of the republican party. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason and a Presbyterian. Mrs. Foster has a twin sister, Ruth, who married K. H. Minneman, and their two children are Ann and June. The one daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Foster is Ruth. DAVID ARMSTRONG, president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, comes of a family of bankers and business men, and represents a name that has been prominent in Southern Ohio for several generations. He was born at Waverly in Pike County, Ohio, March 7, 1873, son of David and Eliza (Martin) Armstrong, and grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Adams) Armstrong, while his maternal grandfather was John Martin. The Armstrongs came from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Southern Ohio, while the Martins were from old Virginia. David Armstrong, Sr., who died in 1899, was one of the able financiers of his time, being president of the First National Bank of Jackson for a time, later acted as receiver for the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, as receiver of a bank at Little Rock, Arkansas, and also as receiver of the Farmers Bank at Portsmouth, Ohio. His widow, Mrs. Eliza (Martin) Armstrong, is now eighty-four years of age. There were ten children: Benjamin and Ellen, both deceased; Miss Frances and Miss Mary; John, who died in 191.8; Blanche, wife of John E. Jones, president of the Globe Iron Company; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Charles D. Jones; David, Joseph and Daniel H., who married Winnefred Williams. David Armstrong, Jr., was reared at Jackson, attending the public schools. He finished his high school course in 1893, and for several years was identified with the coal industry as a mining operator in Jackson County. He first joined the Citizens Bank at Jackson, as bookkeeper, was promoted to assistant cashier, in 1905 became cashier, and since 1912 has been president of this institution. For a time he served as township treasurer. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, the Moose, Redmen and Elks. Mr. Armstrong married at Jackson in June, 1900, Miss Jessie Miller Thomas, daughter of Reese W. and Ida (Beman) Thomas. Her father, who died in 1923, had been for half a century a business man at Jackson, proprietor and head of the R. W. Thomas Shoe Company. He was one of Jackson's leading men. During the Civil war he was with a regiment of Ohio Infantry and was wounded in battle. He was very active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Armstrong was one of six children, the others being : Beman Thomas and George G., both of Columbus ; Stanley T, a resident of Sitka, Alaska ; Madge K., who married John W. Hood; and Helen Tedford, who married Paul West. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are Ida Beman, born in 1905, and Eliza, born in 1909. RALPH O. PERROTT, secretary and manager of the Hadfield Penfield Steel Company, formerly the American Clay Machinery Company of Bucyrus, was born in that city, and as a small boy exercised his initiative and ingenuity in providing for himself, and at the age of eighteen, in 1901, went to work as a stenographer for the American Clay Machinery Company, and has been an executive of the business since 1906. He was born at Bucyrus in January, 1883, son of John R. and Nancy J. (Bacon) Perrott. His parents were born, reared and married in western Pennsylvania, and in 1860 came to Ohio and located at Crestline, where John R. Perrott was employed as a mechanic in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. In the early seventies they removed to Bucyrus, and John R. Perrott became a mechanic in the shops of the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredging Company, and was connected with that important industry for many years. Ralph O. Perrott was delivering newspapers in Bucyrus while attending the public schools, and these early associations influenced him to learn the printing trade. For several years he was an employe in the Hopley printing establishment at Bucyrus. He made satisfactory progress in the printing and newspaper business, but eventually decided to seek another field. He had proved his thrift and had a small amount of capital to tide him over while getting started. He worked as a stenographer, and subsequently was transferred from the general office to the credit department of the American Clay Machinery Company. Here he proved his abilities as an organizer, and eventually was made head of the department. By his systematic methods and good judgment he had this department soon operating in a most efficient manner, so that it proved its value in collecting a large volume of accounts that had been considered worthless and regulated the line of credits so as to avoid, so far as possible, bad debts in the future. On account of this admirable record Mr. Perrott in 1906 was made secretary of the corporation, and manager of the Bucyrus plant, and has contributed in no small degree to the wonderful success of this, one of the city's leading industries. 170 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Perrott married Miss Blanche Quilter. She was born in Bucyrus, daughter of Frank and Bridget (Kane) Quilter. Her father is superintendent of the Broker Sword Stone Company of Bucyrus. She and her family are members of the Catholic. Church. Mr. and Mrs. Perrott have three children: Margaret Maxine, born May 24, 1909; Ralph Oren, Jr., born July 6, 1912, and Mary Alice, born April 25, 1918. Mr. Perrott is an active worker in the Episcopal Church, is a republican, was presidential elector on the Harding ticket in 1920, and is a Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge, No. 156. Among other interests he was a director of the Farmers National Bank, and was also officially interested in the Bucyrus Hospital. LOUIS S. HOUSER. In civilian life Louis S. Houser is a hard working, respected merchant of Chillicothe, prosperous, respected by all, and of a retiring disposition. Few citizens of Ohio have a longer and more honorable record of military service than Lieutenant-Colonel Houser, who is a veteran of two wars, has been identified with the Ohio National Guard for over a quarter of a century, and had an active part in training many of the splendid soldiers that went from Chillicothe to the World war. He was born at Chillicothe, September 19, 1879. His father, Bartholomus Houser, was born in Baden, Germany, came to America in 1860, and after living for a time at Portsmouth, Ohio, located at Chillicothe. He became a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, being first in the First Ohio Infantry and later in the Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry, serving in Han-cock's Veteran Corps until the close of the war. After the war he was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He followed farming as his chief occupation, and .died •at Chillicothe at the age of sixty-eight. His wife, Mary Moll, was born in Pike County, Ohio, and is now living at Chillicothe. They had six children of whom three are now living : Joseph, Mabel and Louis S. Louis S. Houser was rearer in Chillicothe, attending the public schools to the age of seventeen, and then went to work as clerk in a grocery store. He was connected with several of the mercantile houses of Chillicothe until 1907, when he and his brother Joseph organized the firm of Houser Brothers, and for many years they have conducted one of the high class grocery establishments of the city. In November, 1908, at Chillicothe, Colonel Houser married Martha Page, daughter of John and Susan Page, residents of Chillicothe, where her father is connected with the Express Company. In the Page family were five children, Mrs. Houser being the youngest and only daughter, her brothers being John, William, Frank and Harry. Colonel and Mrs. Houser have six children: Elizabeth, Louise, Anna Mary, Louis, Robert and Bettie Jane. Colonel Houser is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He is a. republican in politics. His record of military service should be treated with greater fullness. Soon after the war with Spain broke out he enlisted May 10, 1898, in Company K of the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, and was mustered into the United States service May 13, 1898, with the Seventh Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers. He was mustered out November 5, 1898. He was transferred to Company H of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, National Guard, April 25, 1899, was appointed corporal September 18, 1899, sergeant, August 2, 1900, and was discharged June 10, 1902, to accept commission as second lieutenant of infantry, accepting the commission and being assigned to duty with Company H of the Fourth Ohio Infantry on the same date. He was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry April 6, 1903, being assigned on the same date to duty with Company H of the Fourth Ohio Infantry. He was commissioned captain of infantry January 30, 1907, being assigned to command of Company H. He was commissioned major of infantry April 9, 1917, being assigned to duty with the Fourth Ohio Infantry, and on July 25, 1917, was mustered into the United States service, being discharged from the Ohio National Guard August 5, 1917, by reason of being drafted into the army of the United States. In the early years of his service with Company H lie participated in its record in the home state, particularly during the flood of 1913. He was called for the Mexican border service, being mustered in July 10, 1916, serving with the Fourth Ohio Infantry and mustered out March 3, 1917. He was called into federal service July 15, 1917, was mustered in July 25, was drafted into the army of the United States August 5, his old National Guard Regiment being renumbered One Hundred Sixty-sixth United States Infantry, and assigned to the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. He sailed for France October 18, 1917, landing at St. Nazaire October 30, and commanded the Second Battalion, One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry, until detached from the Forty-second Division and placed on unassigned officers list July 6, 1918. He was assigned to replacement work and organized and commanded Machine Gun and Automatic Rifle School of Instruction, at Soinges, France, in July-August, 1918. Being detached from that duty he was assigned with the First Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces on August 17, 1918, and was assigned to duty with First Corps Replacement Battalion, transferred with the organization to First Army American Expeditionary Forces as First Army Advance Replacement Depot in October, 1918. He was transferred to Fortieth Division November 12, 1918, for return to the United States for muster out, was assigned to the One Hundred Sixtieth Infantry December 14, sailed from France April 15, 1919, and was mustered out of United States service at Camp Kearny, California, May 8, 1919. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive he was recommended for promotion by G-1, First Army, but as all promotions were held up after the signing of the armistice the promotion did not reach Colonel Houser until he was mustered out, and at that date accepted commission as lieutenant-colonel of infantry, Officers Reserve Corps. While. overseas Colonel Houser took part in action on various fronts, being from February to June, 1918, in the Luneville-Baccarat sectors in Lorraine with the Forty-second Division; in the St. Mihiel offensive from September 12 to September 16, with the First Corps and with the First Army in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from October 15 to November 11. During the St. Mihiel Offensive he was cited by President Poincaire of France for efficient handling of refugees from the devasted front. After the offensive had begun and the Germans were forced to evacuate their positions that they had held since 1914 over 3,500 French civilians who had been caught in the German advance during the first days of the World war were liberated by the advance of the American Army and were hurriedly transported by motor trucks and caissons to a point about half way between Toul and Nancy, where they were housed and subsisted until the French government could take charge and return them to their homes and relatives. Since the war he has resumed duty with the Ohio National Guard, being commissioned lieutenant-colonel of infantry, January 28, 1921, and accepted commission and was assigned to the One Hundred HISTORY OF OHIO - 171 Forty-seventh Ohio Infantry on that date. He was released from assignment with the One Hundred Forty-seventh Infantry and assigned to command of special troops Thirty-seventh Division Ohio National Guard, on April 12, 1922. DAVID H. ROCHE has been continuously identified with the commercial life of Chillicothe since he left high school twenty-four years ago. For several years he has been manager of the Dahl-Campbell Company, wholesale grocers. Mr. Roche was born at Pekin, Illinois, February 16, 1882, son of David and Carrie (Buckingham) Roche, and grandson of John Roche. David Roche was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, moved to Illinois with his parents, and for many years was prominent in Ross County, Ohio, as farmer, rail- road man, coal operator and banker. He was a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Elks. He died in 1917. His widow, still living in Chillicothe, was born in England, and was brought to this country by her parents when she was a small child. Her three children are : Walter, who married Katherine Driscoll and has three children, named George, Walter and Barbara; Cora, who was married to F. C. Secrest and also has three children, Katherine, Louise and Corinne. David H. Roche, youngest child of his parents, acquired his early education in the public schools of Chillicothe, graduating from high school in 1900. Soon afterward he became an employe of the Chillicothe Hardward Company, and for twenty years was actively identified with that important business. He left the hardware business to join the Dahl-Campbell Wholesale Grocery Company as manager of the Chillicothe branch in 1922. In December, 1909, at Chillicothe, he married Miss Winifred Campbell, daughter of T. C. and Margaret (Brown) Campbell. Her father was a farmer and merchant in Chillicothe, and was a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. In the Campbell family were five children: Clifford, Porter, William M., Francis, (now deceased) and Mrs. Roche. Mr. and Mrs. Roche have one son, David C. Mr. Roche is active in Masonry, having attained the Knight Templar degrees, the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and membership in the Shrine. He is a member of the Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. HARLEY E. YAPLE. Representing a family that has been in. Ohio for more than a century, Harley E. Yaple is a resident of Kingston, Ross County, and for many years has been the leading merchant of that prosperous rural town. He was born at Elmwood in Pickaway County, Ohio, May 13, 1876, son of William F. and Eliza (Leasure) Yaple. The early history of the Yaple family runs back to Colonial times in New York State, where they settled on coming from England. Their home was in the Wyoming Valley, and they suffered from the devastation caused by the British and Indians in that valley during the Revolutionary war. Some members of the family were patriot soldiers. John Yaple, grandfather of Harley E. Yaple, was born in Pennsylvania, and in 1810, came to Ohio, traveling with wagon and team. For several years he provided his meat from the wild game which abounded, and was one of the noted hunters of his day. From the woods he cleared a farm, built a log house, and was one of the solid and substantial men in his community. He died at the age of seventy-three. The maternal grandfather of the Kingston merchant was Thomas Leasure, who came from Pennsylvania and settled in Ross County in 1810 and was likewise a pioneer who cleared the land and helped establish civilization on a firm footing. William F. Yaple was one of the prosperous farmers of Pickaway County, and later lived at Kingston, where he died. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, Eliza Leasure, died August 30, 1922. All of their ten children, seven sons and three daughters, are still living: S. T., F. W., Harley E., W. A., C. V., M. L., L. H., Della, wife of William H. Ashworth ; Effie E., and Mary, wife of Daniel B. Watson. Harley E. Yaple after graduating from the Kingston High School in 1897, engaged in school work. For six years he taught school in Ross County, and then engaged in business for himself at Kingston. For twenty years he has conducted the leading dry goods and grocery establishment of that town. Besides making a success of his private business he has carried an important share in the civic affairs of his community. For the past twelve years he has been township treasurer, and during the World war was, a member of the Registration Board. He is a Presbyterian and has been an elder in his church for about twenty years. He is affiliated with the Knights Of Pythias and in politics is a republican. He married at Chillicothe in January, 1913, Miss Maud Hassenpflu, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Ranck) Hassenpflu. Her father, who was a Ross County farmer, died in 1913 and her mother is still living. Her parents were members of the German Reformed Church and her father was a Granger. Mrs. Yaple is the oldest of four children, her brothers being Edgar, Oscar and William, the latter deceased. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Yaple are : Clione E., Theodore W. and Lillian. COLONEL CYRUS W. FISHER, who died at his home in Bucyrus May 17, 1916, was an Ohio man distinguished by unusual attainments in various fields. In early life he was a civil engineer and also in the operating service of railroads. He was one of Ohio 's officers in the Civil war. After the war he followed the profession of law, and achieved a place of high honor in that field. Colonel Fisher was born at Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, September 22, 1835, and had passed the age of four score when he died. His father was a physician, and lived in a number of different localities during the boyhood of Colonel Fisher. The family home was in Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1846, and in that year Cyrus was sent back to Ohio to attend school. In 1849 the family located at Lebanon, Ohio, where Cyrus Fisher continued his education until 1851. In that year he became associated with an engineering corps making a survey for a railroad line through Ohio. In 1854 he became an employe of the Ohio & Indiana Railroad Company, and two years later took the position of conductor with the Bee Line Railroad, with a run from Crestline in Crawford County to Indianapolis. In 1857 he left the train service to take a position in the superintendent 's office, and was thus engaged when the war came on. Colonel Fisher's first enlistment was in Company F of the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, whose commanding officers were Col. W. S. Rosecrans, Lieut.-Col. Stanley Matthews and Maj. Rutherford B. Hayes. In July, 1861, this regiment started for Western Virginia, and in November of the same year Lieutenant Fisher was promoted to major of the Fifty-fourth Ohio Regiment. In February, 1862, this regiment became part of the command of General Sherman. Major Fisher was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-fourth in November, 1862, and from that time until the close of the war he held that rank. In 1864 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and soon after the war he removed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, 172 - HISTORY OF OHIO where he engaged in journalism by purchasing the Oskaloosa Herald. He continued as its publisher until 1868. After selling out his newspaper interest he devoted all his time to the practice of law, and enjoyed a growing reputation in that profession: Finding his health impaired by the climate, he gave up law practice to resume railroading, and, going West, became superintendent and general freight and ticket agent of the Denver Pacific Railroad. In 1878 he was made superintendent of the Mountain Division of the Union Pacific, and the following year was made general superintendent of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad. He continued a prominent railroad official in the West until 1888. Then after a year abroad in Europe he returned to Ohio in 1889, and from that time Bucyrus was his home city. He made some large investments in Bucyrus, was connected with several financial institutions, and always took a keen interest in the city 's growth and institutions. He was president of the Bucyrus public library, and was a prominent republican and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. At Bellfontaine, Ohio, in 1859, Colonel Fisher married Sallie M. Dunham. She died in September, 1860. In 1864 he married Miss Martha I. Hetich, who died in 1888. In 1891 Colonel Fisher married Mrs. Mary D. Beer, who survives him. Mrs. Mary Denman (Swingly) Fisher is a daughter of Dr. Frederick Swingly, and was born at Bucyrus May 30, 1848. Her father was a native of Hagerstown, Maryland. Mrs. Fisher was reared in Bucyrus, completed a high school education, and at the age of seventeen became a teacher. She taught in the Union School of Bucyrus. On November 7, 1868, she was married to Capt. William Nevins Beer, who was born near Mount Hope, Ohio, was educated at Washington, Pennsylvania, and for many years was a prominent lawyer of Bucyrus. Later he moved to Iowa, and he died at the home of his brother, Henry Beer, at Valparaiso, Indiana, July 25, 1875. Captain and Mrs. Beer had three children: Margaret Mary, born December 16, 1870, and died February 20, 1919; Frederick Thomas Beer, born April 10, 1872, and died May 28, 1912 ; and William C., an attorney at Bucyrus. After the death of Captain Beer Mrs. Fisher resumed teaching, and for fifteen years was devoted to her work in the Bucyrus Union schools, not missing two entire days all that time. On June 16, 1891, she was married to Colonel Fisher at the home of Maj. E. C. Moderwell in Chicago. Mrs. Fisher has long had an active part in Bucyrus literary circles, and was organizer and for several years president of the Current Events Club and for two years' was president of the City Federated Clubs. WILLIAM A. SMITH is one of the active citizens and business men of the town of Frankfort in Ross County. For a number of years he has been in the automobile business, being representative of the Ford Motor Company in his locality. He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, January 10, 1882, son of William Penn and Margaret Jane (Adams) Smith. The Smith family came from Pennsylvania and the Adams from old Virginia. His paternal grandparents were John and Mary (Bush) Smith, and the maternal grandparents were Joseph and Violet (Breese) Adams. William Penn Smith has devoted his active career to farming. He served thirty years on the school board, has been mayor of Philo in Muskingum County, and was also a candidate for the State Legislature. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died March 17, 1905. Of their seven children William A. is the oldest. Arthur M. married Blanch Conway. Luke B. married Edna Chappelear. Mary J. is the wife of Oscar Hale. Clarence E. married Wilda Reinhart. Emmett K. married Bonnie Williams. Everett, who is married and living in Oklahoma, was a soldier in the late war in the Thirty-fifth Division, enlisting from Oklahoma, and going overseas in August, 1917 William A. Smith finished his district and grammar school education at the age of nineteen, and took up as a vocation that of stationary engineer. For ten years he followed the work of an engineer and for two years was in charge of the light and water plant at Frankfort. While thus engaged he also took up the automobile repair business, opening a garage, and finally resigned his work with the city. In 1913 he became a sub agent under the Chillicothe Ford agent, and in the following year was appointed an agent with full responsibility in his own territory direct from the Ford Motor Company. Mr. Smith has a fine garage and has proved one of the very capable Ford representatives in Ross County. During the World war he was in the fourth class. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist Episcopal Church. On June 27, 1906, he married Anna May Weller, third child of Albert and Mary (Axline) Weller. Her parents are farmers. The other children in the Weller family were: Homer, who married Eva French; Samuel, who married Nora Daringer; Fred, who is married; Nora wife of Joseph Pletcher; Roy, who married Miss Miller; Mabel, wife of Thomas Mauler, and William, who was a soldier in the World war. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Ellen T.; Russell, now deceased; and Mary Gladys. GEORGE W. HOLDREN, M. D., has been engaged in the active general practice of his profession more than thirty-five years, and is now numbered among the representative physicians and surgeons of Ross County, where he maintains his home and professional headquarters in the village of Kingston. Special interest attaches to his service in and loyalty to Ross County, for he can claim the same as the place of his nativity. The doctor was born on a farm near Greenfield, this county, June 24, 1862. His father, William Holdren, long one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of Ross County, passed away in March, 1922, at a venerable age, and the wife and mother died a number of years previously, both haying been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which William Holdren served as a member of the official board. William and Mary E. (Long) Holdren became the parents of five children, Dr. George W., of this sketch, being the eldest of the number, and one daughter having died in infancy; Martin R., the second son, married Alma Moon, and they have one child, Emil; William L. died in the year 1900; Herbert H. married Stella Dellinger, and they reside in the City of Columbus, Ohio, their two children being Charlotte (Mrs. Gordon McPherson), and Charles Hazard. The late William Holdren was a man who lived a life of unostentatious integrity and usefulness, he having been in a quiet way an influential force in the ordering of community affairs and having given effective service as a member of the school board of his district. Both the Holdren and the Long families were founded in Virginia in the Colonial era of our national history, and records extant show that representatives of the Holdren family were patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution. The paternal grandparents of Doctor Holdren were Archibald and Elizabeth Holdren, the former a son of Henry Holdren. The maternal grandparents were George and Rosanna (Bridwell) Long. The initial educational discipline of Doctor Holdren was obtained in the district school near the HISTORY OF OHIO - 173 old home farm, and thereafter he profited by the advantages of the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. After six years of successful service as a teacher- in the public schools of this section of Ohio he followed the course of his ambition and began preparing himself for the medical profession. In 1889 he was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, in the city of Cincinnati, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he established his residence at Bloomingburg, Fayette County, where he built up a large and representative general practice and where he continued his zealous and able ministrations for more than a quarter of a century, with status as one of the honored citizens who was looked upon as guide, counselor and friend in the community. In November, 1917, Doctor Holdren returned to his native county, where he has since continued in active practice in the attractive Village of Kingston. He was long an influential member of the Fayette County Medical Society, and is now identified with the Ross County Medical Society, besides holding membership in the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The doctor has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry, in which his maximum affiliation is with Garfield Commandery No. 28, Knights Templar, at Washington Courthouse, the judicial center of Fayette County. He has membership also in the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Holdren has reinforced himself effectively in his convictions concerning governmental and economic matters, is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party; and while a resident of Fayette County he served one term in the Ohio Senate. September 11, 1884, was marked by the marriage of Doctor Holdren and Miss Jennie Kearney, daughter of the late James and Eleanor Kearney, the father having long been one of the substantial farmers of Ross County. There were six children in the Kearney family: Thomas is deceased, the family name of his wife having been Vaughan; James, whose wife bore the maiden name of Bruney, became the father of five children; John B. married and became the father of two daughters; Sarah likewise is married; Abraham and his wife became the parents of five children, and Jennie is the wife of Doctor Holdren of this review. Doctor and Mrs. Holdren became the parents of four children: Floyd P. married Miss Hulda Schwartz, and they reside in the City of Cleveland; Bernice Fay is the wife of George Borders, and their one child is a son, Lynn Myron ; Sherla died in infancy; and Miss Pauline attended the Ohio University at Athens, and is (1924) bookkeeper for the J. W. Willis Lumber Company at Washington Court House, Fayette County. In his native county, as well as in Fayette County, Doctor and Mrs. Holdren have a wide circle of friends, and one of their chief pleasures is that of extending to these friends the hospitality of their pleasant home at Kingston. ELMER J. RIDGEWAY, who for many years has followed the business and profession of undertaking, and has the leading establishment of that kind in Jackson, is a native of Southern Ohio and represents some of the pioneer families in that section of the state. He was born in Gallia County, May 26, 1863, son of Naret and Sarah Ellen (White) Ridgeway, while his grandparents were William and Jane (Doherty) Ridgeway, and Jacob and Rebecca (Swanson) White. The Ridgeway family came from Wales, first settling in North Carolina, from there three brothers came into Southern Ohio in pioneer times. Jacob White was a prominent abolitionist in the years before the Civil war, and his home being on the border of West Virginia he rendered much service as a conductor on the famous underground railway, hiding many fugitive slaves in his hay stacks and furthering them in their progress to the North and to freedom. His home was on the main road from old Virginia to Chillicothe, the ancient capital of Ohio. Naret Ridgeway, who is living, during the Civil war acted as a wagon master for the Union army, and on account of his skill in throwing the lariat was usually employed in catching mules and horses that strayed away from camp. After the war he took up farming, and still lives on his farm in Gallia County at the age of ninety-one years. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. His wife died about 1885. There were five children: Olive, who married Dr. C. D. Rawson, of Des Moines, Iowa, and has two children; Elmer J.; Edward E., who is married and living in Muncie, Indiana Har- riet, and Jessie, who married Ross Wells, of Indianapolis, and has one child. Elmer J. Ridgeway grew up on his father 's farm, attended the district schools and spent one year in Rio Grande College. For twelve years he was employed by C. H. Murray, an undertaker at Washington Court House, where he learned all the practice side of his business. He then entered the Massachusetts College of Embalming at Columbus, where he was graduated in 1907. For six years he was employed as an embalmer at Jackson, and then, in 1913, engaged in business for himself, and has made his the leading funeral service in the county. He is a member of the Ohio State Embalmers Association, is affiliated with the Elks and Eagles, is a, member of the Jacksonian Club, the Country Club and the Presbyterian Church. During the Spanish-American war he tried to get into service, but was rejected because he was married and had a child. In June, 1883, Mr. Ridgeway married Miss Lizzie Hare, whose father was a soldier in the Civil war. There were two children by this marriage, Howard, now deceased, and Margaret, who is the wife of Fred Horne and has one daughter, Marjorie. Mr. Ridgeway, after the death of his first wife, married Nellie Washam, daughter of Thomas and Tabitha (Brans- comb) Washam. Her father, who died March 28, 1906, was a farmer and politician, serving as a member of the State Board of Equalization at Columbus for thirty years. Mr. and Mrs. Ridgeway have one child, Tabitha. ANDREW CLARK LOWRY. The career of the late Dr. Andrew Clark Lowry, who died March 1, 1924, was identified with the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, in the capable performance of the duties and responsibilities of physician and surgeon for nearly a quarter of a century. After he retired from practice in 1920 he devoted his time to his investments and business interests and his public duties. He was one of the most influential citizens and men of affairs in that city. Doctor Lowry, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was born in Fayette County, West Virginia, March 4, 1870, and about five years after his birth his parents came to Ohio and established their home on a farm near Gallipolis in Gallia County. His parents, Lee and Mary Emily (Patterson) Lowry, were both natives of West Virginia. The paternal grandfather, William Howard Lowry, married a Miss Humphrey. The maternal grandparents were Joseph and Polly (Puckett) Patterson, the former of Scotch Irish and the latter of German stock. Lee Lowry served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, being with a West Virginia regiment. He was taken captive and for some time held a prisoner of war in the prison known as Devil's Dungeon. He still re- 174 - HISTORY OF OHIO sides in Gallia County, and has given the greater part of his active life to farming. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is now deceased. The early education of Doctor Lowry was acquired in the district schools of Gallia County, later in the public schools at Gallipolis, and in 1892, at the age of twenty-two, entered the medical department of the University of Ohio. From there he transferred to the Louisville Medical College in Kentucky, and was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in the class of 1896. Soon afterwards he opened his office and began general practice at Ironton. A year later he completed a postgraduate course in the New York Polyclinic, and at all times was a thorough student of his profession. He had a busy practice and was in the full maturity of his experience and abilities when he retired in 1920. He was affiliated with the Lawrence County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Lowry during the later years of his life had many important business responsibilities, being president of the Marting Iron & Steel Company, the Foster Stove Company, the Marting Hotel Company, was vice president of the Citizens National Bank, a director of the First National Bank, was owner of the Marlowe Theatre and at one time had been president of the Ironton Lumber Company, the Home Telephone Company and the Iron City Oil Company. His loyalty and excutive ability was evident in his connection with the civic and material advancement of his home city and county. He was never ambitious for public office, though he was elected and represented Lawrence County in the State Legislature and was a valued member of the Ironton Board of Education. In politics his allegiance was given to the republican party. On February 10, 1897, at Ironton, Doctor Lowry married Miss Nelle M. Marting, daughter of Henry A. and Margaret C. (Duis) Marting, natives of Ohio. Her father was a prominent figure in the pig iron industry, was organizer of the Marting Iron & Steel Company at Ironton, and was head of the industry until his death. His widow resides at Ironton. The late Mr. Marting was a member of the Masonic fraternity and for many years on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Lowry has been a leader in the social activities at Ironton, and her beautiful home is the center of gracious hospitality. ROBERT K. SCHELLENGER has been actively identified with the commercial interests of Southern Ohio for a number of years. He is secretary of the Jackson Building and Loan Association, and is one of the civic leaders of his community. Robert K. Schellenger was born at Jackson, January 14, 1873, son of William M. and Elizabeth (Bunn) Schellenger. The Schellengers were of Holland-Dutch ancestry, originally settled at Philadelphia, and came to Ohio in the early days. His grandfather Schellenger was one of the first county commissioners and was on the board when the first courthouse of Jackson County was erected, a building burned during Morgan 's raid in the Civil war. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Schellenger were George Washington and Mary (Ward) Schellenger, and his maternal grandfather was Peter Bunn, who served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. William Schellenger, who died in 1906, was a farmer in Franklin Township of Jackson County.. He was a Union soldier in the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Active in county affairs, he held the office of county auditor eight years, and his son Oscar was incumbent of that office for a similar period. Elizabeth (Bunn) Schellenger, his wife, died in 1917. They had a family of fourteen children : Charles, who married Jessie Bryan, and died in 1913, leaving three children; Katherine, who married Mattison Patton and had three children; Morton, who married Mary Faris, and had four children; Mary, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-five; Oscar, deceased, who married Bertha Miller and had two children; Eliza, who became the wife of Frank Mayhew, is the mother of two children; Harmon, who married Clara Willis, and had four children; Robert K.; Washington, who was the father of one child by his marriage to Minnie Hood; twin sons, Harrison, unmarried, and Herbert, who married Hattie Phillips and had two children; Clyde, who is married and the father of two children; Albert, who died when eight years of age; and Lola, who died unmarried. Robert K. Schellenger grew up on his father's farm, finished his education in the district schools at the age of seventeen, and as a youth performed some heavy manual labor, spending one year in a brick yard at Jackson, Ohio, and did draying for one year. For thirteen years he was connected with the wholesale grocery house of French, Chestnut & Robins, in the shipping department, and for two years was on the road as traveling representative for the wholesale grocery house of Eldridge & Higgins. Following that Mr. Schellenger engaged in the retail grocery business at Jackson, and conducted a store there for eight years. On selling out he became secretary of the Building & Loan Association, and has since given all his time to the administrative details of this institution, which is one of the largest building and loan associations in Jackson County. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, member of the Jacksonian Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Schellenger married at Jackson, November 9, 1898, Miss Ida M. Whitlach, daughter of Elijah and Isabell (Colly) Whitlach. Her father, now deceased, was a pioneer furnace man of the Southern Ohio iron district and an active member of the Christian Church. There were five children in the Whitlach family ; Joseph, who married Mattie Lowe and had five children; Maggie, who died unmarried ; Jennie, who died unmarried; Ida Mae, and William, who married Eliza Stoneburger and had one child. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Schellenger are Harold, Stanley and Maurice. Stanley and Maurice Lee are both attending the Jackson High School. Harold graduated from the Jackson High School, and in 1924 completed the course in journalism at the Ohio State University at Columbus. He was only twelve years of age, when during vacations at school, he began working in the office of the Jackson Herald, and subsequently was an employe of the Standard Journal of Jackson. He has been with that old paper ever since, and now owns 70 per cent of the stock in the publishing company. While attending the school of ;journalism he continued to write all the editorials for the paper. During his first year at Ohio State University he was employed on the Columbus Dispatch, and during his second year he took the management of the Community News, a weekly paper published in the interest of the Columbus suburban communities of Grand View Heights, Marble Cliff and Upper Arlington. The church people of these towns, giving up their denominational preferences, united to found an organization known as the First Community Church, and the Community News has become the official organ of this church. The church now has a membership of over 800, and is now building a handsome new church, with a seating capacity of 1,000. Mr. Schellenger plans to devote all his time to the editorial management of the Standard Journal at Jackson. His two