HISTORY OF OHIO - 175 younger brothers are planning likewise to take up newspaper work and join him. Harold Schellenger is a member of the Alpha Phi Sigma Phi college fraternity. ALVAH G. RAY, M. D. A physician who has honored his profession by thirty years of devoted service is Dr. Alvah G. Ray of Jackson. He has practiced medicine in Jackson County since he graduated from medical college, and has exemplified some of the best ideals and traditions of the medical profession. Doctor Ray was born at Byer, in Jackson County, January 30, 1867, son of John G. and Louisa (Dixon) Ray. The Ray family is of Scotch, and the Dixons were also probably of the same ancestry. Both the Rays and Dixons came from North Carolina, the Dixons arriving in Southern Ohio in 1805. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Ray, was a wagon maker and married Charity Graves, whose people also came from North Carolina. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Ray were Joseph and Rachel (Wilkinson) Dixon. John G. Ray, his father, was a farmer in Jackson County, and very active in the religious and educational interests of his community. He served for years as an elder in the Christian Church, and held the office of justice of the peace twenty-six years. During the Civil war he was a member of the Home Guards, and was called out for active duty during the Morgan raid through Southern Ohio. John G. Ray died in 1896. His wife preceded him, dying in 1895. They had seven children: Lorenzo D., who married Maranda Brooks; Electa, who married Lewis W. Smallwood; Priscilla, who married William M. Brooks; Teague, who married Phoebe Lively; Joseph H., who married Hester Burris, and Ethelbert S., who married Zoe E. Smallwood. Alvah G. Ray grew up in a rural community, attended district schools, and largely through his own exertions and earnings paid for advanced education in commercial and scientific courses in the normal schools at Lebanon and Ada. For eight years he alternated between teaching in winter terms and attending summer sessions of school. Following that he took up the study of medicine in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1894. Doctor Ray for twenty-one years practiced medicine in his native community of Byers, and since October, 1915, has been located in the City of Jackson. He still looks after a general practice, but much of his work is done as a specialist in X-ray, for which he has complete equipment and apparatus. During the World war he tried to get into active duty, but had to be satisfied with the service he could render as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. WAR RECORD OF M. A. RAY He enlisted in Troop B, First Ohio Cavalry, at Columbus, Ohio, on April 9, 1917, and was later transferred to Troop H, Third Ohio Cavalry. When accepted for federal service this regiment was changed to artillery, and Doctor Ray was then in Battery C, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery. They were mobilized on July 14th at Columbus, Ohio. The same day Doctor Ray obtained a transfer to Battery F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Field Artillery, then mobilized at Jackson, and was appointed duty sergeant. On September 28, 1917, they entrained for Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and remained there until June 15, 1918, when they entrained for Camp Upton, Long Island. On June 28th the command sailed from New York, landing in Liverpool, England, about July 13th, were passed by train through England to Southampton and from there sailed for France, land- ing at Le Havre on July 15th, leaving there a few days later for Camp De Souge, near Bordeaux. They remained here, training on the artillery range, until the middle of September, when they left for the front. There they occupied positions in the Maybach sector (opposite Metz) and in the St. Mihiel sector. After the armistice they were billeted near Souilly until February 28, 1919, when they entrained for Le Mans were entrained for Brest, sailed from Brest on the President Grant about March 20th, and landed at Newport News, Virginia, on April 2d. They arrived at Camp Sherman about April 12th, and were discharged April 16, 1919. Doctor Ray is government pension examiner in his district, and a member of the County and State American Medical associations. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Red Men, the Moose and Modern Woodmen. September 4, 1895, Doctor Ray married Miss Lillian M. Vollenweider, the oldest of the three children of John and Tina Vollenweider. Her brother Otto is an attorney, and married Ethel Leacox, of Lexington, Kentucky, while her sister Lena is the wife of Dr. W. J. Ogier, of Wellston, in Jackson County. Her father was born in Switzerland, came to this country in 1866, and as an expert mechanical engineer designed and superintended the construction of various plants all over the country. Doctor and Mrs. Ray had three children, Harold, who died at the age of seventeen months, Arden and Carl. The son Arden is a veteran of the World war, having served with Battery F of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Field Artillery. He was in Alsace-Lorraine during his active service on the battle front. He is now an electrician with the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago. Carl graduated from the high school at Jackson, and is attending his second year at the Ohio University, taking a pre-medical course. Doctor and Mrs. Ray are members of the Christian Church at Jackson, Ohio, and Doctor Ray is teacher of the largest men's class in Southern Ohio. CHARLES W. G. HANNAH is a lawyer by profession, but for many years has been chiefly identified with the real estate, lumber and building business at Portsmouth. In business and public affairs he is recognized as one of the leaders in that properous Southern Ohio community. He is a native of Kentucky and was born about eight miles from the City of Portsmouth, in Greenup County, May 28, 1881. His father, James L. Hannah, was born in Kentucky, son of Gabriel and Mary (Triplett) Hannah, who were of Irish descent, and came to Kentucky from Virginia. His mother, Matilda Robinett, was born in old Virginia, daughter of Elias and Julia (Wells) Robinett. James L. Hannah as a young man became a farmer, and from that extended his industries to the timber business, becoming a manufacturer and dealer in railroad timbers, ties and lumber. In connection with this business he opened and conducted a general store at Bennett's Mills in Kentucky. A life of well directed industry and initiative brought him commendable prosperity and a place of substantial influence in his community. He died May 26, 1921, and his wife passed away in December, 1910. Charles W. G. Hannah was educated in district school in Greenup County, Kentucky. As a youth he understood that his career would depend upon his own industry, economy and enterprise. He completed a course in the Greenup County Normal School, received a certificate to teach, and for six years was a teacher in Greenup and Lewis counties, Kentucky. In the meantime he took up the study of law in the Southern Normal School at Bowling Green, and in 1904, after examination, was admitted 176 - HISTORY OF OHIO to the bar and practiced law in Greenup, Kentucky. During the next two years he combined law practice with teaching, and in 1906 engaged in the real estate business by laying out and marketing an addition to Russell, Kentucky, then a small but thriving village about eight miles from Greenup. He named the subdivision Worthington, in honor of W. J. Worthington, a noted lawyer, orator and a former lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, from whom he purchased the land. In 1909 young Hannah subdivided and promoted the sale of the Morton Addition to Fullerton, a growing village on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, immediately south of Portsmouth. In disposing of this subdivision he exchanged some of the lots for Portsmouth improved property to care for and dispose of, which he moved from Greenup to Portsmouth in 1910, and located here only temporarily. Like many young men of the past the subject of our sketch felt the call to the Great West, and when he left Greenup it was his intention to proceed to Arizona, where he expected to locate permanently and "grow up with the country" in his chosen profession of law as soon as he had disposed of his Portsmouth holdings, but his efforts in this direction resulted in his increasing his real estate interests in the Peerless City, and with it his desire to remain here instead of going on westward, until he has become very permanently a resident of the city he has long since been glad he couldn't get away from. For six years after locating in Portsmouth he devoted most of his time to developing subdivisions. Long Meadow, Maplewood and the Northern Addition all now substantial residential sections of Portsmouth, and splendid suburban allotments in scores of towns and cities throughout Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio owe their existence to the ingenuity of our subject during this period of his life. In 1917, Mr. Hannah having fully decided to remain in Portsmouth, founded and incorporated the Land Office, of which he has always been president, and for several years practically sole owner. This institution has enjoyed a phenomenal growth and is favorably and widely known for the liberal service it has rendered to persons of modest means in acquiring homes. Through the Land Office, Mr. Hannah has done an extensive general real estate, insurance and building business. In connection with his building business he operates a planing mill, lumber yard and builders' supply warehouse, and does a general retail business in this line. By this system he manufactures and builds homes at a much lower cost than his competitors, and is always able to make price an inducement to the prospective home buyer and investor. Since establishing the Land Office he has continued to promote the development and sale of a number of subdivisions in and near Portsmouth, namely : Park Place, Valley View, Highland Bend, Long Run Gardens, River View Farms, Richland Farms, Terrace Court, Hannah 's North Side Allotment, Hannah's Sixth Street Allotment and the Frowine Addition. Mr. Hannah while a resident of Greenup County, Kentucky, was very active in local and state politics, serving as a member of the Kentucky Legislature,. two terms. While in the Legislature he took part in the contest between Paynter and Blackburn for the United States Senate in 1906, and in the struggle waged between Bradley and Beckman for the same position two years later. Mr. Hannah married in Boyd County, Kentucky, in October, 1903, Miss" Sophia E. Prichard, daughter of Senator Jerome T. and Olivia (Bolt) Prichard. Her father is still living. Both parents represented prominent Kentucky families. Her father was a farmer and stockman, and one of the prominent leaders in the democratic party in Kentucky, holding offices as county commissioner, member of the school board and chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and serving a term in the Kentucky State Senate. Mr. and Mrs. Hannah have three children : J. Prichard, Charlotte Ruth and Mark Bradley. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hannah belongs to the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WILLS, of Wellston, has had a busy career of useful effort, having been a merchant and is now proprietor of a prosperous general insurance agency and real estate business. He was born in Jackson Township of Jackson County, September 30, 1876, son of John L. and Mary A. (Vaughters) Wills. The Wills family came from old Virginia, and the Vaughters were of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Woodson Wills. His maternal grandparents were Richard and Nancy (Thompson) Vaughters. John L. Wills spent his active career as a farmer, and during the Civil war was a Union soldier in Company K of the Ninety-first Ohio Infantry, and after the war became identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both parents died in the same year, 1895, the father on September 19, and the mother on April 21. They had nine children: Richard W., who by his marriage to Anna Harper had three children; Dr. John W., of Wellston, married Minnie G. Springer and has two children; James S., now deceased, married Dora Stockman and left four children; Alonzo died when one year old ; Dr. L. E. is a practicing physician at Waverly, Ohio, and by his marriage to Georgia McCoppin has three children; Thomas died when two years old; Benjamin F.; Flora is the wife of Charles A. Dray, and the mother of six children, and Verna O., the youngest, is the wife of Calvin Clark, and the mother of one child. Benjamin Franklin Wills attended district schools in Jackson County, also attended school at Richmond Dale, and completed his education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where at the time the present United States Senator Frank Willis was then a teacher. Mr. Wills taught school for five years, beginning before he entered the college at Ada, and taught during intervals of his attendance there. After he gave up school work he entered the retail clothing business at Wellston, and was a merchant there for nine years. On selling out he engaged in the general insurance and real estate business. Mr. Wills married at Wellston on October 29, 1903, Miss Vera O. Springer, daughter of Pleasant and Caroline (Leach) Springer. Her father was a Union sol dier in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Heavy Artillery, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, followed farming as a vocation and for several terms was a county commissioner. There were six children in the Springer family: Minnie G., Edith A., Lulu A, Vera 0., Lillie M., and Emmett V. Mr. and Mrs. Wills have four children, Benjamin Franklin, Vera Alene, George C. and Marjorie. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wills is a Royal Arch and Council degree Mason, also an Eastern Star member. WILLIAM FREDERICK LOHAAS, D. D. S., has practiced. his profession as a dentist for nearly thirty HISTORY OF OHIO - 177 years. He is one of the capable members of his profession in Ohio, and most of his work has been done at Millersburg. Millersburg is his native city, where he was born July 17, 1871, son of Martin and Mary (Hizelman) Lohaas. His father, who was born in Germany, in 1824, came to the United States when about twenty years of age, and spent most of his active life in Holmes County. He died in 1895. He married in Holmes County Mary Hizelman, who was born near Millsbrook, in Wayne County, Ohio, and died in 1920, at the age of seventy-five. Martin Lohaas was a Catholic and his wife a member of the German Lutheran Church. William Frederick Lohaas was one of five children. He grew up at Millersburg, attended the public schools, and in 1894 graduated from the Ohio College of. Dental Surgery. In 1895 he took up the practice of dentistry at Dresden, Ohio, and after four years moved to Millersburg. Doctor Lohaas has never married. He lived with his mother until her death. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Lodge at Dresden, the Royal Arch Chapter at Millersburg, the Knights Templar Commandery at Wooster, and the Shrine at Cleveland. HOWARD W. ANKROM is a native of Greenfield, is now practicing law at Wellston, and is a veteran of the World war, being one of the younger men prominent in the professional and public affairs of Jackson County. Mr. Ankrom was born in Greenfield, Highland County, June 14, 1892, son of Rhesa and Laura (Santee) Ankrom. His father was born in Vinton County, Ohio, and the grandparents were Jesse and Martha (Ewing) Ankrom, the former now eighty-three years of age, while the maternal grandparents were George and Martha Santee. Rhesa and Laura (Santee) Ankrom reside in Cincinnati, Ohio. The former has been a traveling salesman for cigars and in the coal business, and is a member of the Elks Lodge and the Methodist Episcopal Church. The only other child, Bernice, married James H. Price, and has a daughter, Louise. Howard W. Ankrom finished his education in the Greenfield High School in 1911, and then attended Ohio State University at Columbus. He was graduated in the law course in 1914, at the age of twenty-two, and began his professional career at Atlanta, Georgia, with the law firm of Dorsey, Brewster, Howell and Heyman. After America entered the World war he gave up his professional work in Atlanta, and enlisted June 25, 1918. He was in training at Camp Sherman at Chillicothe, Ohio, about forty days, being a corporal in Company C of the Three Hundred Ninth Supply Train. He went with his command to Camp Mills and about August 1, 1918, sailed from Hoboken, landing at Liverpool, three days later at Southampton, and crossed the channel to La Havre. His regiment was in active duty, covering all the headquarters camps, hospitals and front lines with supplies and ammunition. Mr. Ankrom in the course of his service was stricken with pneumonia, and for three months was in hospitals at Dijon and St. Nazaire. He sailed for the United States on a hospital ship, and from embarkation hospital was sent to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there to Camp Sherman, where he received his honorable discharge June 18, 1919. After a short rest on his return to Wellston he began working in his father 's coal office, and then took up the profession of law and has since enjoyed a satisfactory general practice. He became city solicitor of Wellston January 1, 1922, and was reelected for a second term when the voters wrote his name on the ballot. On October 22, 1920, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he married Miss Helen Mathews, daughter of Henry and 011ie (Glenn) Mathews. Her father is manager of the Atlantic & Pacific store at Wellston. Mrs. Ankrom's brothers and sisters are : Mildred ; Raymond, who married Ruth Dempsey and has a son, Kenneth; Glenn, who married Thomas Charlene Thompson, and has a daughter, Bettie Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Ankrom have two children, Howard W., Jr., and Laura. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ankrom is a member of the American Legion, is an exalted ruler of the Lodge of Elks, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias and Fraternal Order of Eagles. COKE LEIGH DOSTER. The leading representative of the Greenfield bar, is Coke Leigh Doster, who has been in practice there for over a quarter of a century, has had an extended clientage, including the principal business institutions and individuals, and has also made an enviable record of service in public affairs, being former state senator. Mr. Doster was born in Fayette County, Ohio, July 16, 1871. His grandparents, John and Catherine (Mooney) Doster, came from Virginia. John Doster was born at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, in 1797, was a farmer and cabinet maker, and died November 5, 1857. The father of the Greenfield attorney was Robert Barclay Doster, who was born in Fayette County, Ohio, July 22, 1835, devoted a long and active life to farming interests, and died June 18, 1923, when nearly eighty-eight years of age. He married Catherine Leasure, who was born near New Holland in Fayette County, Ohio, and resides at Greenfield, enjoying good health at the age of eighty. Coke Leigh was second of a family of six children, all of whom are living. His brother J. B. Doster resides in Springfield, Ohio, and is secretary to the Crowell Publishing Company. Four sisters are: Sada D. Trump, who is connected with the Greenfield public schools; Mrs. J. P. Murphy and Mrs. J. H. McMillen, residing in Cleveland, Ohio; and Fern Doster, who is at the present time supervisor of the Hillsboro Hospital, she being a graduate nurse. Senator Doster attended school near New Martinsburg, Ohio, subsequently continuing his education in the Ohio State University of Columbus, Ohio, and on June 19, 1896, was admitted to the bar. His practice has been continuous at Greenfield since 1897. He is local attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company, The Peoples National Bank, and the J. A. Harps Manufacturing Company. He is a stockholder and director of The Peoples National Bank of Greenfield. During the World war the Senator gave up much of his private law practice to give his time to the Government in raising funds and assisting the selective service board, and was chairman of several of the war committees at Greenfield. His record of public service includes two terms as mayor of Greenfield and sixteen years as city solicitor. His term as state senator was during the years 1910-12, when he represented the Fifth-sixth Ohio Districts. He is a republican, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs to the Rotary and Greenfield Country clubs. Mr. Doster married Miss Gertrude Myrtle Priddy, who was born near Washington Court House, Ohio, October 11, 1871, and acquired her early education in the public schools at Fayette County and at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She is a member of the Country Club, and of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Doster have three children: The oldest, Harry Audleigh, born in Fayette County, April 16, 1895, graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1914, and while a student in Ohio State University volun- 178 - HISTORY OF OHIO teered as a private soldier and immediately entered the World war. On December 8, 1917, he was sent to Fort Thomas, Kentucky, for training, but owing to ill health was not accepted for overseas duties, being sent to San Antonio, Texas, and later to Van Couver, Washington, where he acted as an aide to the commanding officer until his discharge at the end of the war; This son married Garnette Dailey at Greenfield in January, 1924. The second child is Kathleen Marie, born at Greenfield, October 7, 1897. She graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1916, in 1918 completed a course in home economics at Battle Creek, Michigan, and has taught home economics in the Carolina College at Maxton, North Carolina, and for two years in the McClain High School at Greenfield. In 1923 she returned for post-graduate work in the Battle Creek College. The second daughter, Dorothy Priddy, born December 7, 1899, graduated from high school at Greenfield in 1917, attended the Greenfield Business College, and during the World war she was employed in Government service at the McCook Aviation Field, Dayton, Ohio. In the year 1920 she became the wife of Hugh Weimar at Covington, Kentucky, and they now live at Cleveland, where he is a clerical employe of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. DAVID D. DAVIS, president of the Oak Hill Savings Bank Company at Oak Hill, Jackson County, is one of a family of brothers that have been foremost in the industrial and business development of this village. His brothers are Evan J. and Edward P., and all three were associated in the founding and ownership of the leading brick manufacturing establishment that gives industrial prosperity to Oak Hill. DAVID D. DAVIS was born in Gallia County, Ohio, March 12, 1867, son of John and Margaret J. (Evans) Davis, and grandson of David J. and Jane (Richards) Davis, and of Evan and Margaret (Richards) Evans. His grandparents were all born in Wales, coming to the United States in 1840 and settling in Gallia County. David 3. Davis was a farmer. The older brothers of John Davis were soldiers in the Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry in the Civil war. John Davis as a youth worked in the saw mill and lumber business, farmed for a time, helping develop a farm in the woods, and from 1867 to 1873 was a merchant. Selling out his store in 1873, he returned to the lumbering industry, and operated a saw milling plant near the river. He was killed in an explosion in his mill in 1881. His wife, Margaret J. Davis, survived him until 1913. Both were active members of the Congregational Church. Their five children were David D., Evan J., Edward P., Miss Margaret J. and Anna M. The only one married is Evan J., who married May Thomas. David D. Davis attended district schools and select school, and at his father 's death in 1881 left school to go to work. He was then about fifteen Tears of age. The family had moved to Oak Hill about 1876. In /882 he went to work in a brick yard, and by practical experience learned all phases of the brick industry., He was employed by the Oak Hill Fire Brick and Coal Company from 1882 to 1898, being superintendent. In 1898 he and his two brothers organized the Ohio Fire Brick Company, and in 1901 organized the Davis Company, and the three brothers have owned and controlled since then the Ohio Fire Brick Company, the Davis Fire Brick Company, the Cambria Clay Product Company, and. also are heavily interested, in the Oak Hill Savings Bank. David D. Davis is president of these corporations, his brothers being associated as directors and in. other official capacities. They are also heavily interested in the Jackson Iron and Steel Company of Jackson. The Oak Hill Savings Bank Company acquired in 1902 the original bank establishment at Oak Hill, twenty years earlier. During the World war David D. Davis was prominent in all the various war activities, and his bank handled over 85 per cent of the entire quota assigned the Oak Hill community. ROBERT WILSON CALDWELL, M. D. The service that has made Robert Wilson Caldwell one of the honored citizens of Jackson County has been rendered through nearly thirty years as a competent physician and surgeon, with home at the county seat. Doctor Caldwell was born at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, May 8, 1867, son of Samuel and Maria Elizabeth (Wollam) Caldwell. The Caldwells came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents were John L. and Mary (McFarlan) Caldwell, and his maternal grandfather was Noah Wollam. Samuel Caldwell, who died March 13, 1924, lived to be past ninety years of age, was for many years an architect and building contractor at Columbus, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife, Maria Elizabeth Wollam, have four children: Sarah, who married D. C. Marshall, and has two children, Margaret and Mabel; Emma, unmarried; George B., who married Lillian Weller; and Robert Wilson. Dr. R. W. Caldwell has two half brothers, Mark and Harold, both residents of Columbus and engaged in manufacturing the Better-Baby Crib ; and half sister, Josephine E., wife of William Rader. Mark married Georgianna Braid, deceased, and Harold married Avanel Nichols, also deceased, and has four children, named Samuel, Mark, Mary and Fannie Jane. Robert Wilson Caldwell attended public schools at Greenfield, Ohio, graduating from high school in 1886. He had two years of advanced training in the Worthington Normal, and for seven years he was in business as superintendent of the pad factory. He took up the study of medicine at the Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1895. Soon afterward he moved to Jackson, and much of his work has been in the field of surgery. He has taken post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic, and during the World war was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps and finally, on October 28, 1918, was called to active service at Camp Taylor at Louisville. He was relieved December 20, 1918, but still holds a commission in the Medical Reserve Corps. Doctor Caldwell is a member of the County and State Medical societies, and is also a member of the Hahnemann or Homeopathic Medical Society. He belongs to the Country Club, the Knights of Columbus, Royal Arcanum and Elks, and he and his family are members of the Catholic Church. On October 1, 1891, at Greenfield, Ohio, Doctor Caldwell married Miss Margaret E. Mack, daughter of Patrick and Margaret (Hurley) Mack. She is a cousin of the' famous' manager of the Philadelphia baseball team, Connie Mack. Her father is a carpenter and builder and is associated in business with a son. The Macks are Catholic in religious faith. Mrs. Caldwell's parents came from County Carey, Ireland. Her grandmother on her father 's side was a Sullivan, and her maternal grandfather was a Hurley. Her mother 's father was liberally educated and was a teacher in the old country. One of her great-grandfathers was a McGillicody, of the noted family of that name in New York, New England and .Ohio. The McGillicody and Sullivan families possess three coats of arms. Mrs. Caldwell is the fifth child of her parents. The others were: Mary, unmarried; Hannah, deceased; Nell, widow of Elbert Scott, and mother of one son, Robert; Miss Nora; Thomas, deceased; and John, of Greenfield, Ohio. HISTORY OF OHIO - 179 Doctor and Mrs. Caldwell had one son, Clarence, now deceased. W. CRANSTON CLAAR is junior member of Claar Brothers, clothing merchants, a firm that has been in existence for over a quarter of a century, and the business is one that has been conducted at Jackson for over thirty years. His partner and associate is Ripley C. Claar. Jackson County honors the Claar family among the earliest pioneer settlers. Samuel Claar, grandfather of Claar brothers, was born in Pennsylvania in 1800. Three years later his father, Jacob Claar, came West, down the Ohio River and by wagon and team into Jackson County, at a time when practically all the land was owned by the Government. The family erected one of the typical log houses of that day, and Samuel Claar also developed a new homestead and was one of the useful citizens of his community until his death, when past ninety years of age. Samuel Claar married Lydia Stropes, whose father, John Stropes, came from England. William Claar, father of Claar brothers, is now eighty-seven years of age. He was born in Franklin Township of Jackson County, March 5, 1837, and attended a log schoolhouse to obtain his early education. As a young man he took up farming on his own account, and in 1864 assisted in raising a company of troops, of which he was elected second lieutenant, the company subsequently being mustered in as Company I of the One Hundred Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. With this command he did guard duty for four months. He has been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is an official of the Christian Church. During his long life of industry he has done much to improve the old homestead farm of his father. William Claar married in March, 1862, Emily Schellenger, who was born in Franklin Township of Jackson County, daughter of Washington and Eliza (Ward) Schellenger. She died December 17, 1919, the mother of eight children: Carey W., unmarried; Ella E., unmarried; Mary Emma, deceased; Jesse I., who married Mildred Patterson, and their three children are William, Morris and Ripley; Ripley C., senior member of Claar Brothers; Herschel H.; W. Cranston; and Edna, wife of Walter Patterson, and mother of three children, named Mildred, Clarice and Wilburt. W. Cranston Claar was born in Jackson County, July 31, 1873, and was reared on the old homestead farm, attending the district schools and the Normal School at Oak Hill. For a time he engaged in teaching and working on the farm, and in 1897 joined his brother at Jackson, buying out the interest of his brother's partner, Mr. Schellenger, in the clothing business. That was the origin of the firm of Claar Brothers, and Cranston Claar has given the best years of his life to this successful mercantile house. He is a member of the Baptist Church and is a Knight Templar Mason, an Elk and Knight, of Pythias. In April, 1907, W. Cranston Claar married at Jackson, Miss Minnie Walters, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jones) Walters. Her father died about 1909 and her mother in 1920. Her father was in the coal business, and was an active leader in the Baptist Church. The five children in the Walters family were: Mrs. Minnie Claar ; Carrie, who married Charles E. Irvin, and had two children, named Bettie and Billie; Edith, wife of Ira Aten, and the mother of seven children, named David, Mary, Dorothy, Katherine, Robert, Charles and Winifred; Miss Ida and Benjamin, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cranston Claar have one son, Edward W., born in 1911. Ripley C. Claar, senior member of Claar Brothers, was born in Jackson County, July 14, 1869. He was educated in the district schools, in the Oak Hill Normal, and at the age of seventeen began teaching. For four years he taught in district schools, following which he had eighteen months of experience in the office of the Columbus Buggy Company, Columbus. In 1891 he returned to Jackson and with Mr. Schellenger established the clothing firm of Schellenger and Claar. In 1897 Mr. Schellenger sold out to W. Cranston Claar, and since then the Claar brothers have owned and operated the business. Ripley C. Claar married, October 17, 1897, Miss Lena Martin, daughter of Samuel G. and Mary Ellen (James) Martin. She was the only child of her parents. Her father was a soldier in the Civil war with a regiment of heavy artillery, was in the shoe business for many years at Jackson, and afterward retired and died in 1915. Her mother died in 1898. GEN. NATHANIEL MASSIE, founder of Chillicothe, and one of the leaders in settlement north of the Ohio River, was a Virginian by birth, and by training was a surveyor, backwoodsman and frontiersman. He was born December 28, 1763. His father, Maj. Nathaniel Massie, was a Virginia farmer who believed that his sons after getting their education should become usefully employed and earn their own way. Nathaniel chose surveying as his occupation. In 1780, when seventeen years of age, he was permitted by his father to become a substitute in the American Army of the Revolution. Returning from the army, he completed his study of surveying and in the fall of 1783 set out for the West, the West at that time lying just over the mountains in what is now Kentucky and Ohio. He carried a letter of recommendation to Gen. James Wilkinson, and he remained in Kentucky five or six years, part of the time being associated in business with General Wilkinson, one of their enterprises being the manufacture of salt. He soon became very expert in surveying and locating land. It is said that he could steer his course with great exactness in clear and cloudy weather and compute distances more correctly than most of the old hunters. He could endure fatigue and hunger with more composure than many who were inured to want on the frontier. In all the perilous situations in which he was placed he was conspicuous for his good feeling and happy temperament of his mind. His courage was of a cool and dispassionate character, which added to great circumspection in times of danger, gave him a complete ascendency over his companions, who were always willing to follow when Massie led the way. He made his first excursion into the interior of the region northwest of Ohio in 1788. Early in 1791 he founded the Town of Manchester, on the north side of the Ohio and a few miles from Maysville, Kentucky. This was the first settlement in the Virginia military district and the fourth within the bounds of the State of Ohio. During 1793-96 General Massie engaged in extensive survey of the region between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers, and in the spring of 1796 he led a company from Manchester to a point on the Scioto River near the mouth of Paint Creek, where Massie owned a large tract of land, and on this land he laid out the site of the Town of Chillicothe, which subsequently became the first 'capital of the State of Ohio, and largely through the influence of General Massie it attracted to its citizenship the most conspicuous men in the state. At the beginning of the nineteenth century General Massie was one of the largest land owners in the state. In 1802 he became a member of the Constitutional Convention which met at Chillicothe, was elected to the Senate in the first General Assembly after the adoption of the constitution, was chosen to act as speaker, and he was elected the first major-general of 180 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Second Division of the Militia of Ohio. In 1807 he and Col. Return J. Meigs were opposing midi., dates for the office of governor, Colonel Meigs receiving a small majority. General Massie contested the election on the ground that Colonel Meigs had lost his citizenship and the General Assembly upheld his contention and declared that General Massie was the duly elected governor. However, General Massie declined the office. The last act of his public life was to raise volunteers to go to the relief of Fort Meigs, besieged by British and Indians, in the spring of 1813. In the fall of that year he was attacked by a disease and died November 3, 1813, at the age of fifty. In 1800 General Massie married. Susan Meade, daughter of Col. David Meade, of Kentucky, owner of a magnificent estate and home near Lexington. Mrs. Massie died in 1833. In 1870 the bodies o C both were removed and buried with Masonic honors in the beautiful cemetery overlooking the City of Chillicothe, with which the name of Massie is more intimately associated than with any other. General Massie was survived by three sons and two daughters. DAVID MEADE MASSIE, president of the First National Bank of Chillicothe, is a grandson of that distinguished character in early Ohio history, Gen. Nathaniel Massie, whose career is given in the preceding sketch. His father, Henry Massie, was the youngest child of Gen. Nathaniel Massie, and was born July 11, 1811, about two years before his father 's death. Henry Massie spent most of his early life at the home of his grandfather, Col. David Meade, and graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and for a number of years employed his legal talents and his industry in clearing up the hopeless confusion that had settled upon the estate of General Massie. In that way he became an authority on land law and real estate law. He also became interested in banking, and was president of the Chillicothe Bank when he died March 10, 1862. Henry Massie married Susan Burton Thompson, daughter of John B. Thompson, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The only child of the late Henry Massie, David Meade Massie, was born at Chillicothe, February 26, 1859. He was liberally educated, graduating from Princeton University in 1880 with the Bachelor of Arts degree and receiving the Master of Arts degree in 1883. In 1882 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, was admitted to the bar, and was engaged in private practice at Chillicothe from 1884 until the increasing burdens of business and public service claimed most of his time. Mr. Massie was elected a member of the Ohio Senate in 1887, was reelected in 1889, and from 1888 to 1907 served as a trustee of Ohio State University. He was a delegate to the Republic National Conventions of 1896 and 1916. He served as a commissioner to take testimony in Cuba under the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission from 1902 to 1909. Mr. Massie for many years has been a director and president of the First National Bank of Chillicothe. He is also president of the Scioto Gazette Company, and has been interested in the ownership of that old newspaper for many years. He is vice president of the Valley Savings Bank & Trust Company of Chillicothe, is secretary and treasurer of the Marcus Boggs Estate Company, and a director of the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company. Mr. Massie is president of the Chillicothe Country Club, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a Mason and Elk. Like his father and grandfather, he went to Kentucky to find his wife. On November 6, 1883, he married Miss Juliet Matthews, of Covington, Kentucky, youngest daughter of Maj. Thomas A. Matthews, and sister of Claude Matthews, former governor of the State of Indiana. HARRY C. JORDAN is secretary of the Security Say. ings Loan Company at Lancaster, judicial center of Fairfield County, and is one of the representative business men of the younger generation in this vital little city. On both the paternal and maternal sides he is a representative of sterling pioneer families of the Buck. eye State. His paternal grandparents, James and Sarah Jordan, were born in Ohio, and the former 's father came to this state from Virginia about the year 1815, he having first settled in Noble County and later having moved to Vinton County, where was born his son James. James Jordan married Miss Sarah Turner, whose parents came to Ohio from Virginia in the second decade of the nineteenth century, about the same time as did the Jordans. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this review were John and Helen (Remc) Shively, the latter 's parents having come to the United States from their native France, and having early established residence in Ohio. On the parental home farm in Vinton County, Ohio, Harry C. Jordan was born January 21, 1893, and in that county his father still resides, the mother having passed away in 1910. Mr. Jordan is a son of Seymore and Etta (Shively) Jordan, of whose children he was the second in order of birth, the eldest being Winifred, who is the wife of John Amerinc; Sarah is the wife of Ernest Bishop ; Dorothy is the wife of Earl Smith ; Lane married Ruth Patton; and Lloyd is still a bachelor. The public schools of his native county afforded Harry C. Jordan his early education, and in the meanwhile he had close fellowship with the work of the home farm. When about eighteen years of age he found employment as a railroad brakeman, and after being thus engaged about one year he received injuries, in a railroad accident, that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs. Upon recovering from the injury he completed a course in a business college in the City of Lancaster, and he then, in 1912, became bookkeeper for the Security Savings Loan Company of Lancaster, he having been the secretary of this important financial and fiduciary corporation since 1919. He is an active member of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club and the Country Club, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which he was reared. April 23, 1914, recorded the marriage of Mr. Jordan and Miss Lula B. Patton, daughter of George and Barbara (Bungard) Patton, who are well known citizens of Perry County, where Mr. Patton is a substantial farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Patton have six children: Walter, Lula (Mrs. Jordan), Floyd, Ruth, Mary and Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have one son, William Robert. GEORGE ZIEGLER. The most modern tenets of progressive agriculture find expression in the operations of George Ziegler, who has been engaged in farming and stock raising in Eden Township for many years and is accounted one of the substantial agriculturists of Seneca County. His career has been one of continuous industry, directed by good management, and as a result he is now the owner of a valuable and highly improved property of 388 acres. Mr. Ziegler is a product of the community in which he now resides, having been born on a farm in Eden Township, November 10, 1865, and is a son of Henry and Louise (Keller) Ziegler. The parents, natives of Germany, came to the United States separately, their respective families locating in Seneca County, where the young people became acquainted and were subsequently married. They first settled on a farm HISTORY OF OHIO - 181 in Bloom Township, where they resided only a short time, then disposing of their holdings and moving to Eden Township. Henry Ziegler was an industrious and capable farmer who was able to make his efforts achieve results, but did not live long enough to enjoy the full fruits of prosperity, dying in middle life, November 9, 1877. He was a democrat in politics, but did not seek office, and belonged to the Reformed Church. His widow, also a member of that church, survived him for about twenty years, continuing to make her home on the farm until her death. They were the parents of eight children, of whom six survive: Henry, an agriculturist of Bloom Township; John, now living retired at Tiffin, Ohio, after a long career as a farmer ; George, of this review; Christ, who is carrying on farming operations in Eden Township; Emma, a resident of Tiffin ; and Adam, of Lykens Township, Crawford County, Ohio. George Ziegler received his education in the district school in the vicinity of his boyhood home and was reared on his father 's farm, on which he remained until reaching the age of thirty years, assisting his brothers and widowed mother in the cultivation of the home fields. On December 24, 1895, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth M. Hunsicker, a native of Lykens Township, Crawford County, and following their union they settled on the farm in Eden Township on which they now reside. This has been developed into a most valuable tract of 388 acres, on which Mr. Ziegler has had great success in the raising of the standard crops of the locality. He is also a well known breeder of Short Horn cattle, Delano sheep and Poland-China hogs, which he exhibits at various fairs, and has won a .number of prizes for their superiority. Mr. Ziegler is a stockholder in the Seneca County Fair Association. In his political allegiance he supports the democratic party 's candidates and principles, and his religious faith is that of the Reformed Church. Mr. Ziegler has always discharged the responsibilities of good citizenship and has served capably in the offices of township trustee and member of the School Board. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler: Jesse, a graduate of the Eden Township High School, who saw training camp service during the World war, and is now engaged in farming in Eden Township; Calvin, also a high school graduate, who is married and a farmer of Eden Township; Frona and Forest, who are high school graduates and reside with their parents; and Harold, who is attending high school. WILLIAM J. SCHWENCK. In the twenty odd years since he was admitted to the bar William J. Schwenck has built the solid foundation and much of the superstructure of a successful and honorable law practice, and has at the same time interested himself in democratic politics and public affairs, so that he is easily one of the most prominent professional men of Bucyrus. He was born in Crawford County, October 18, 1874, one of the eight children of Hieronymus and Anna M. (Zimmer) Schwenck. His father was a substantial farmer of the county, and both parents are now deceased. William J. Schwenck was reared on a farm, and partly through his own efforts acquired a liberal education. He attended public schools, and in 1898 was graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada and subsequently entered the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus, where he received his law degree in June, 1900. During vacations he had studied law in the office of Judge Phil M. Crow at Kenton, Ohio. Mr. Schwenck began practice at Bucyrus in 1900, and in 1902 was elected city solicitor, an office tie filled until 1906. November 8, 1910, he was elected prosecuting attorney, and since retiring from that office has been busily engaged in looking after a large volume of private practice. Mr. Schwenck has served as a member of the County Democratic, Central and Executive committees. He is a member of the Bucyrus Lodge of Eagles and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 156. He and his wife are Lutherans. Mr. Schwenck married Miss Ruth France, daughter of William and Martha France, who came from Pennsylvania. WILL E. HOUCK, manager of the Boss Manufacturing Company at Findlay, represents the third generation of a family that has contributed to the substantial improvement and progress of Hancock County. His grandfather was a pioneer in clearing up the land, and many of the family have been successful in agriculture and also in commercial affairs and the professions. The grandfather of Will E. Houck was Jacob F. Houck, who was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, and married Eve Ebaugh. In the fall of 1836 they came to Hancock County, Ohio, bought land in Jackson Township, and made a prosperous farm and shared in the prosperity that came to that region. Jacob Houck died in 1880. His oldest son was the late William H. Houck, who was born in Maryland, March 4, 1827, and was nine years of age when his parents came to Hancock County. He helped clear up the land and make a farm, and during his active years he cleared a total of two hundred acres, converting it into agricultural land. For a number of years he operated a saw mill. He owned one of the fine farms in Jackson Township and held some of the township offices there. He spent his last years at Findlay, where he died November 1, 1912. He married in 1852 Elizabeth Smaltz, a native of Hancock County and daughter of Henry Smaltz. She died in September, 1899. Both were active members of the Methodist Church, and he was a democrat in politics. They had eleven children, and those still living are : Anna, wife of Edward Doty, of Jackson Township ; Lottie, wife of A. R. Van Sant, of Jackson Township ; John P., of Findlay; Jacob H., of Youngstown, Ohio ; Robert C., who is in business at Los Angeles, California; Perry H., also a resident of Los Angeles. Will E. Houck was born on his father 's farm in Jackson Township, April 6, 1873, was reared there, attended country schools, is a graduate of the Mount Blanchard High School and finished his education in Findlay College. He put in seven years as a teacher in the country schools of Jackson Township. In February, 1903, he became associated with his brothers John P., J. H. and R. C. Houck in the glove manufacturing business at Findlay, and subsequently went with the Boss Manufacturing Company, and has been with that concern twenty years. Mr. Houck married L. Gail Grindle, of Mount Blanchard, daughter of D. H. and Lizzie U. (Miller) Grindle. They have three children : Hugh H., born in Jackson Township in 1899, a graduate of the Findlay High School and of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and is now in one of Findlay 's manufacturing plants; Mary E., a graduate of the Findlay High School, and of the Findlay Business College, now the wife of Wesley Thomas; and Martha C., born December 1, 1912. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Houck is on the Official Board. He is a past master of Findlay Lodge No. 227, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of Findlay Chapter No. 51, Royal Arch Masons, is past thrice illustrious mas- 182 - HISTORY OF OHIO ter of Findlay Council No. 50, Royal and Select Masters, a past commander of Findlay Commandery No. 49, Knights Templar, and belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and the Shrine at Toledo. He and his wife are members of the Eastern Star. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 75. Mr. Houck is a democrat. For eight years he has been a member of the City Council of Findlay, and was the first president of the Findlay Rotary Club. Among other business interests he is a stockholder in the American National Bank, the Electric Construction Company and the Hancock Savings and Loan Association. WASHINGTON TULLIS PORTER, a distinguished member of the Cincinnati bar, was born in that city February 22, 1850, son of James and Margaret (Tullis) Porter. He graduated from the law school of Cincinnati College in 1871, and since that year has practiced in Cincinnati. In 1918 he was admitted to the United States Supreme Court. A distinguished service was that rendered by him as attorney for the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Railway from 1873 to 1908. This is the only municipally owned railway in the world. He was appointed trustee of the same railway for life in 1908. He served as a member of the Board of Law Examiners for Ohio from 1886 to 1891, and from 1903 to 1908. Since 1891, except for three years, he has been a trustee of the Cincinnati Public Library, and is a trustee of the endowment fund of the American Library Association. His avocation is music, and he is a skilled organist and a composer. He compiled and edited the book, "Cincinnati Southern Railway Legislation-Litigation," first published in 1901, with a second edition in 1920. CLARENCE A. LYNN, proprietor of the Chillicothe Business College, has been in educational work in Ohio for nearly thirty years, and has been unusually successful in business college management and administration. He was born at Evansport, Defiance County, Ohio, May 25, 1874, son of P. M. and Nancy A. (Myers) Lynn, and grandson of John and Sophia (Caughenbaugh) Lynn, and of David and Susan (Carey) Myers. John Lynn and wife came from Pennsylvania, while the other grandparents were born in Ohio. The parents of Mr. Lynn were also natives of Ohio, and spent their lives on a farm in Perry County. They were active members of the Lutheran Church. The father died in 1898 and the mother in 1922. There were five children: John H., George E., Chauncey D., Grace S., who became the wife of John W. Trout, and Clarence A. Clarence A. Lynn was reared on his father 's farm in Perry County, Ohio, attended the district schools, and in 1895 graduated from the Thornville High School. He was soon granted a teacher 's certificate, and for fourteen years his educational work was largely in country school districts. He also taught some grade schools, and in 1903-04 was employed in J. H. Yarnell's hardware store. For a time he taught in the Bliss Business College at Columbus. From there he removed to Chicago and became manager of the Metropolitan Business College, one of the largest business schools in that city. He remained there until August, 1923, and on the first of the month of that year bought the Chillicothe Business College. The Chillicothe Business College was started about 1890 by some of the business men of Chillicothe. In 1893 when Mr. Miller bought it, it became a permanent organization and was put on a paying basis as a shorthand and typewriting school. It has occupied one location in Chillicothe for thirty years. Mr. Miller finally sold it to E. D. Crim, who continued it along similar lines. In July, 1915, when purchased by Miss Ida L. Hodges, the school was reorganized and the standards raised. At that time a secretarial course, a general administrative business course, and a teachers' training course were added. Since then it has been a school equipping its students not only with the technical details, but the broader essentials of commercial service and civic work. There is a young woman's dormitory in the school building. Under the ownership of Mr. Lynn this school has been maintained at the high standards of recent years and he has added some new features to its curriculum. On September 10, 1896, Mr. Lynn married Miss Arminta Clum, of Somerset, Ohio, daughter of Adam and Hannah Clum. Mrs. Lynn died July 28, 1903. By this marriage there are two children: Hazel Vivian, a teacher in the high school at Cardington, Ohio; and Adam Walter Lynn, a Bachelor of Arts graduate of Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, and now (1924) a pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greenville, Ohio. In 1906 Mr. Lynn married Mrs. Martha A. Cooperider, daughter of George H. and Ann Trout. They have two children, Ruth Marie and Bertha Lillian. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn are members of the Lutheran Church. NEFF AND FRY COMPANY of Camden, Preble County, is a corporation that started some years ago on construction of farm silos, but the business has now become specialized and of practically national scope as builders of coal bins, grain warehouses and similar construction. The partnership of Neff and Fry was organized February 1, 1916. The firm in construction silos used a circular designed interlocking concrete block, and this has been the characteristic feature of its construction work ever since. In 1920 the firm extended its business to the construction of coal pockets, grain and gravel bins, and on December 1, 1923, the business was incorporated with a capital stock of $75,000, and during the last year, it handled contracts to the value of $500,000, the work being located in twenty-eight states of the Union and Canada. The company now maintains branch offices in Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The officers of the company are: Murrel B. Fry, president; Charles R. Neff, vice president; Carl E. Sterzenbach, secretary and treasurer ; C. Rodney Neff, second vice president ; William E. Mettler, assistant secretary and treasurer, and John V. Braun, superintendent of erection. M. B. Fry, president of the company, was born at Camden, Ohio, February 12, 1884, son of Solomon L. and Kansas (Armstrong) Fry. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Camden, and at the age of eighteen became rural mail carrier, and continued this work until forming his partnership with Mr. Neff in 1916. Mr. Fry married Miss India Mettler, September 20, 1905. Her parents were Adrian and Caroline (Sterzenbach) Mettler, and she was born in Camden and educated in the local schools. They have one daughter, Arline, who graduated from the Camden High School in 1924 and continued her education in the Western College for women at Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Fry is a past master of the Masonic Lodge, and is a republican and a Presbyterian. Charles R. Neff, vice president of the company, was born at Remington, Indiana, November 5, 1872, but grew up at Camden, Ohio, where he graduated from high school. For three years he was in Denver, Colorado, as superintendent for the L. D. Archer Lumber Company; spent three years in California, and learned the plumbing trade there, and after returning to Ohio, egaged in the implement business at Camden three years. Then for ten years he car- HISTORY OF OHIO - 183 ried mail, and then went into business with Mr. Fry. He is president of the Camden City Council, and has been a member of that body for eight years, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Eastern Star and a republican. Mr. Neff married Ella Fry. By a former marriage Mr. Neff has a son, C. Rodney Neff, now second vice president of Neff and Fry Company. SAMUEL MCFARLAND MEHAFFEY, M. D. In the City of Dennison, Tuscarawas County, Doctor Mehaffey has been a physician and surgeon of note for the past five years, and altogether he has given thirty-two years of his life to the practice of medicine in Ohio. He was born on a farm nead Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, February 18, 1863, son of Joseph and Sarah Elizabeth (Ford) Mehaffey, who were born and reared on adjoining farms in Guernsey County. Joseph Mehaffey was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Boyd) Mehaffey, natives of Ireland. Sarah Elizabeth Ford was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ford, natives of Ohio. Joseph Mehaffey spent his youthful life and early occupation at farming in Guernsey County, and died in 1898, at the age of sixty-three. He was a Union soldier, being a private in Company B of the Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The widowed mother is now eighty-four years of age. They had a family of nine children,, all of whom grew up on the farm in Guernsey County. While a boy on the farm Doctor Mehaffey acquired the advantages of the local common schools. His higher education was largely the fruit of his own efforts and earnings. For eight years he taught in ruarl school districts, and in the meantime took the literary, commercial and pharmacy courses at Selo College. Subsequently he entered the Medical Department of the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1892 and for nine years looked after an extensive rural practice, with home at Kimbilton in Guernsey County. From there he moved to Bowerston in Harrison County, and was the leader of his profession in that community seventeen years. It was in 1919 that he located at Dennison, where he continues in general practice. In the year that he located at Dennison he completed a post graduate course in the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine. He is a student, and through. membership in the medical organizations and other ways, has kept in close touch with the advance of knowledge in his science. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Mehaffey is a republican in politics, has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church for a number of years, is a Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Eastern Star and White Shrine, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and the Knights of the Maccabees. Doctor Mehaffey married, in 1893, Miss Cora A. Livingston, whose home was near Cadiz, Ohio. Doctor Mehaffey has made for himself a fine reputation in his chosen profession, and also enjoys esteem as a patriotic and public spirited citizen and Christian gentleman. WILLIAM COOPER PROCTER, president of the Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, was born at Glendale, a Cincinnati suburb, August 25, 1862, son of William A. and Charlotte Elizabeth (Jackson) Procter. He is a graduate of Princeton University, and since leaving college in 1883, has been identified with the Procter & Gamble Company, soap manufacturers at Cincinnati. He has been president of the corporation since April 16, 1907. He is a director of the National City Bank of New York. Mr. Procter has been a prominent figure in the republican party, and in 1920 was manager of the campaign of Gen. Leonard Wood for the presidential nomination. He married Jane Eliza Johnson of Cincinnati in 1889. JAMES GARFIELD SMAILES, M. D. A representative of one of the older families of Coshocton County, has had an interesting career as a teacher and physician and surgeon, was in the Army Medical Corps during the World war, and is a physician of the highest professional standing at Coshocton. He was born on his father's farm in Virginia Township, Coshocton County, November 25, 1880, son of John and Rachael (Bradfield) Smailes. His father was born at Ampliforth, Hampshire, England, December 1, 1830. The grandfather, George Smailes, brought his family to the United States in 1842, when John was twelve years of age. John's stepmother also came along, and there were two of John's brothers and a sister. Another daughter, too young to stand the hardships of the journey to America, was left with relatives in England, grew up and remained there, and died in 1918. In her will her nephew, Dr. lames G. Smailes, was kindly remembered with in inheritance of £25 sterling. George Smailes on coming to this country settled at New Moscow, Coshocton County, Ohio, was identified with the pioneer development of that section of the county, and initiated the honorable record of the family. John Smailes grew up at New Moscow, and was one of the sturdy young farmers of that vicinity when the Civil war broke out. He promptly tendered his services in the defense of the Union, joining Company F of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and was wounded in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He participated in many engagements during the advance against Atlanta, and on reaching the vicinity of that city, in consequence of his term of enlistment having expired, he was honorably discharged. Owing to the danger of being captured he remained with his command a while longer, though not long enough to join in Sherman's march to the sea. While in the army he was especially attracted by the gallant conduct, among other Union leaders, of Gen. James A. Garfield, and that admiration caused him to name his son James Garfield Smailes. On leaving the army John Smailes married and settled on a farm, and the rest of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits. He died at New Moscow, Coshocton County, May 16, 1906, at the age of seventy-five. His wife, Rachael Bradfield, was born in Coshocton County, her father, William Bradfield, a native of Pennsylvania and of English descent, being a pioneer of this Ohio county. Mrs. John Smailes is now seventy-five years of age. She and her husband reared a family of seven sons and two daughters. In early life she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and John Smailes, though reared an Episcopalian, became affiliated with the same denomination. For many years he was active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics gave unstinted support to the men of the republican party. James Garfield Smailes lived with his brothers and sisters at the old homestead farm during the years of his youth, in the meantime attending public schools. He was a pupil in the high school at Roscoe, and is especially indebted for encouragement and inspiration to the principal, Alexander C. McDonald, 184 - HISTORY OF OHIO a veteran Coshocton educator, now postmaster of Coshocton. At the age of seventeen he passed a successful examination for a teacher 's license, and his career as a teacher identified him with country schools and the village schools at New Moscow, the Roscoe High School and for a time he was principal of the Conesville High School. Teaching enabled him to pay the expenses of his preparatory education in Ohio Northern University at Ada. He also took a business course in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He attended medical lectures in Ohio State University, and was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1913. Doctor Smailes had the advantage of a year of training as an interne in a Columbus hospital, and since that time has been busily engaged with the work of his profession except for the time of his army service. He was a volunteer, being commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Army December 15, 1917. He was called to active duty March 25, 1918, and was at Camp Greenleaf at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, until May 20, 1918, thereafter until June 13, in the Medical School at Washington in preparation for duties as a ship surgeon. He then was assigned hospital duty at Ellis Island, New York, until May 5, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Doctor Smailes resigned the office of county coroner when he joined the Army Medical Corps. He is a member of the American Legion and of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He also belongs to the Kiwanis Club, is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, a republican and a Methodist. While at Ohio Northern University at Ada he met a fellow student, Miss Martha E. Ferguson, and they were happily married in 1904. Mrs. Smailes was born at Appollo, Pennsylvania. Their three children are: Grace, Edith and James Gladstone Smailes. EDWARD WYLLIS SCRIPPS. One of the founders of the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers, is a resident of Cincinnati. He was born in Illinois, November 18, 1854, and in 1874 entered the newspaper business at Detroit. He now owns a controlling interest in twenty-eight daily newspapers in fifteen states of the United States, including the Cleveland Press, of which he was- founder and first editor, the Cincinnati Post, the Toledo News Bee, the Columbus Citizen, Pittsburgh Press. These papers are members of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, including the Scripps-McRae League. He is controlling owner of the United Press Associations of New York City, serving news to nearly 900 newspapers in the United States. He is also controlling director in the Newspaper Enterprise Association of Cleveland, furnishing illustrations and features to several of the daily newspapers. He endowed the national organization for furnishing scientific news in popular form. JUDGE EDWIN MANSFIELD was born at Ashland, Ohio, June 9, 1861, a son of Martin H. Mansfield, who was born in New York City, the son of a shipbuilder who was killed while at his work. After the father's death the widowed mother took her two sons, Martin H. and William, to Baltimore, Maryland, and did the best she could for them until death ended her struggles. Martin H. Mansfield then became attached to the family of the late Senator Patterson, and William Mansfield grew up in the same vicinity. The brothers subsequently went to Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, where they married sisters, Martin's wife being Anna Saeger. In the meanwhile Martin H. Mansfield was working at an idea he had of a clover huller, and finally he was able to build a small shop at Steam Corners, Ohio, in which he made these hullers, and this old building is still standing. He patented his invention, and others in the agricultural implement line, and in 1842 or 1843 moved to Ashland, Ohio, and secured larger quarters. Until 1876 he continued at Ashland, but in that year moved his plant to Massillon, Ohio, his brother, who had joined him at Ashland, going with him, and they continued together as long as Martin lived. His death occurred in 1880, but his widow survived him until 1889. He was a man of remarkable talents, and his inventions were indicative of his mechanical genius. Martin H. Mansfield had eleven children, nine of whom reached maturity, and five now survive, they being: Cloyd, Newton, Henry and Edwin, and a sister. The eldest brother, W. M. Mansfield, was a civil engineer, and a graduate of a polytechnic institute, and was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Zanesville, Ohio, and later at Richmond, Indiana, and subsequently was with the Panhandle Railroad. Still later he was superintendent for the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville at Indianapolis, and developed terminal facilities at Indianapolis. While with the Pennsylvania road he laid out elevators at Chicago for his company. At the time of his death at the age of fifty-eight years he was assistant to the chief engineer at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cloyd Mansfield, who is now a resident of Ashland, Ohio, became county clerk of Ashland County when still a young man, held that office for six years, then for two terms was county auditor; for two terms was probate judge, and for two terms was county treasurer, his period of public service extending over a period of twenty-five years. Henry A. Mansfield was also in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Indianapolis, where he became city engineer, later became a general contractor on government work such as the construction of dams and power plants, with residence at Indianapolis. Newton Mansfield was graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and served on the Detroit in the Cuban campaign, and later in the Philippines. His health failing he retired from the service. During the World war he was recalled to the service and placed in charge of naval recruiting at New York City, but after the signing of the armistice once more retired. Judge Edwin Mansfield attended Ashland University for two years, and then for a few months was with a railroad surveying party during 1881. For four years thereafter he was employed in a railroad eating house at Shelby, Ohio, holding this position so as to pursue his legal studies with the legal firm of Skiles & Skiles of Shelby. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar, having successfully passed his examinations before the Supreme Court of the state. Immediately thereafter he opened his office. From the beginning of his career Judge Mansfield has been active in politics, and two months after he was admitted to the bar he was elected mayor of Shelby, then a city of 1,800. For sixteen years Judge Mansfield continued in a general practice, continually widening the circle of his acquaintance, was in partnership with Frank Long from 1901 to 1907, but this partnership was dissolved when he was placed on the bench as a Common Pleas judge, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1906. The district comprised Richland, Ashland and Morrow counties, and he retired from the bench, after twelve years of service, in February, 1919, during all of those years his district continuing unchanged. Judge Mansfield also served for a number of years as city solicitor of Shelby, and while in office directed the installation of various public improvements, including the paving of streets, the HISTORY OF OHIO - 185 building of the water works, the placing of the sewers, and the construction of the electric light plant. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens Bank of Shelby, and has from the time of the organization in 1903 to the present been one of its directors, being the only one of the original board still connected with the bank, which is one of the strong financial institutions of the county. Judge Mansfield is a very public-spirited man, and has been connected with a number of the various enterprises of Richland County. In 1899 he and several leading men of the county organized the Shelby Telephone Company, of which he has since been a director. In 1890 the Shelby Seamless Tube Company was organized, and Judge Mansfield had an interest in it. Subsequently this company was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. The local plant burned, and the United States Steel Corporation not rebuilding, about 1908 the Ohio Seamless Tube Company was organized, which has since been so developed that it is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country, and is the leading industrial plant of Shelby, giving employment to 850 people. Judge Mansfield was a member of its board for some years, and for five or six years was its chairman. The First Presbyterian Church holds his membership. Since retiring from the bench Judge Mansfield has resumed his private practice. He is a Mason, and belongs to all of the leading clubs, being very prominently identified with all of the activities of the county. In 1902 Judge Mansfield married Mrs. Ada E. Lowe and they have one daughter, Margaret, who lives at home with her parents. CHARLES PHELPS TAFT was born in Cincinnati, December 21, 1843, son of Alphonso and Fannie (Phelps) Taft. His -father was attorney general in 1876-77. C. P. Taft is a half brother of former President William H. Taft. He is a graduate of Yale University, took his degree in law at Heidelburg University, Germany, in 1887, and also studied abroad at Berlin and Paris. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and was engaged in practice in Cincinnati from 1869 to 1879. He then purchased a controlling interest in the Cincinnati Times, consolidating it with the Star in 1880, as the Times-Star, of which he has since been editor and publisher. He has many other interests, including ranches in the southwest, and has been a prominent figure in the republican party of his state. He was a member of the Fifty-fourth Congress, 1895-97, from the First Ohio District. He married in 1873, Annie Sinton, daughter of David Sinton of Cincinnati. WESLEY B. SHUMWAY. To the true lover of nature no occupation known to man furnishes more interesting possibilities than the vocation of florist. Recent developments along this line have been as wonderful as they were formerly unexpected and unbelievable. Yet even to the man who labors faithfully to maintain standards already established and who has no time to explore in luring paths of promise, there always is that satisfaction in accomplishment possible only when one works in collaboration with the elements of creation. Tiffin has, had its share of earnest, painstaking florists, men who have delighted in their labor and contributed liberally to the wellbeing of the community. Pew, however, have had a more satisfactory career than Wesley B. Shumway, the owner of a prosperous floral establishment on Sycamore Street. Mr. Shumway was born in Clinton County, Michigan, February 24, 1879, and is a son of David H. and Henrietta (Rogers) Shumway. He was educated in the district school and the high school at Pewamo, Ionia County, Michigan, and remained on the home farm until reaching the age of seventeen years, at which time he entered the Webber & Ruel Bank at Pewamo to learn the banking business. After one year he resigned and joined S. W. Webber & Company at Muir, Michigan, where he worked as cashier for twelve years, and at the end of that time, with his former preceptor, James H. Ruel, and Fred L. Keeler, superintendent of public schools of Michigan, he entered the banking business at Waldron, Michigan, and remained there for thirteen years, the bank being conducted successfully by Mr. Shumway, his wife and his daughter. During this period of his career, Mr. Shumway indulged himself in the hobby of raising flowers. This he did after banking hours, for the pleasure which it gave him and his family, for the decoration of the churches of his locality and for bouquets to his many friends. Always a great lover of flowers of all kinds, he made a careful study of horticulture, and finally decided to embark in a business of which he had a thorough knowledge and which would prove greatly congenial to him. Accordingly, in 1920, he located at Tiffin, where on November 5 he purchased the business of the E. J. Ullrich Floral Company, established by his father, Louis Ullrich, in 1874. Mr. Shumway at once introduced innovations and had the business on a paying basis. At this time he .has six acres of land and fifteen greenhouses on Sycamore Street and in addition conducts a store at 182 Washington Street, across the street from the Masonic Temple. He is doing a thriving business and his name is associated with all that is best in floriculture. Mr. Shumway is a member of the F. T. D., an organization connected with the floral business, and of the Chamber of Commerce, while as a fraternalist he holds membership in Tiffin Lodge No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons; Seneca Chapter No. 42, Royal Arch Masons; Tiffin Chapter Order Eastern Star ; in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 139, and the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a republican. On August 16, 1901, Mr. Shumway was united in marriage with Miss Maude E. Herrick, who was educated in the Michigan public schools, and was the daughter of a merchant, in whose establishment she gained her early understanding of business methods. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shumway, nine of whom survive: Matilda M., a graduate of the high school at Waldron, Michigan, where she served as assistant cashier in the bank ; Mary L., Ruel K., Gerald (who died in infancy), Wesley B., Jr., Geraldine, David Herrick, Maurice E., Stanley E. and Bob. EDWIN MCKEE THARP is manager of sales promotion of the Pure Oil Company, whose general offices are in Columbus. This is now one of the five great oil corporations in the country. Its president is B. G. Dawes, one of three distinguished brothers, all born at Marietta, Ohio, and sons of General Rufus Dawes. The other two Dawes brothers are Chicago men, one of them being Gen. Charles G. Dawes. The Pure Oil Company is a $200,000,000 corporation. The company does business as oil producers, refiners and pipe line owners, operating oil wells and other facilities in West Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. They maintain stations and selling agencies throughout the United States and foreign countries. The qualifications of Mr. Tharp for his duties as sales promotion Manager are based on a long experience as a newspaper man, editor and correspondent. He was born in Washington Court House, Ohio, was educated in high school and while a high school boy worked for the Record-Republican, a paper then owned by Harry M. Daugherty, formerly attorney- 186 - HISTORY OF OHIO general of the United States. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, Mr. Tharp went to New York city, and during a year in the advertising department of the John Wanamaker stores acquired his first knowledge of advertisement copy writing. When he was only seventeen he became business manager of the Wellston Sentinel in Ohio, and gave that paper a new lease of financial prosperity. Following that he was business manager of the Daily Journal at Middletown, Ohio, and came to Columbus as reporter on the old Columbus News and six months later was made city editor. He was also connected with the Columbus Dispatch, and as Columbus representative of the Associated Press he reported the constitutional convention of 1912. For several years Mr. Tharp was financial editor of the Ohio State Journal and the Ohio Banker. Mr. Tharp has also had a wide experience in practical business. On leaving Columbus in 1915 he organized at Kansas City, Missouri, the Wear-U-Well Shoe Company, a subsidiary of the Wolfe Brothers Shoe Company. He was president and general manager of this business four years, and in that time established nearly five hundred retail stores throughout the Southwest. During 1919-20 he was southwestern representative of the Haynes and Stephens automobiles, with headquarters at Kansas City. While acting as financial editor of the Ohio State Journal in 1913 Mr. Tharp exposed some practices in the old Columbus Gas and Fuel Company which brought about a reorganization of that company, with Mr. B. G. Dawes as the head. This in turn led to the formation of the Ohio Cities Gas Company, and then to the Pure Oil Company. Thus Mr. Tharp 's acquaintance with the industry was well known, and in 1920 he was called to the position of manager of sales promotion for the Pure Oil Company. Mr. Tharp married in 1911 Miss Irene Curtis, of Sabina, Ohio. They have one daughter, Marjorie Tharp. BOYD VINCENT, Protestant Episcopal bishop, was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1845. He is a graduate of Yale University, took his theological degree in the Berkeley Divinity School, and in 1871 was ordained a deacon and in 1872 a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1889 he was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Southern Ohio, and in 1904 became bishop of Southern Ohio, with his Episcopal residence in Cincinnati. In 1904 he was presiding judge of the Court of Review for the fifth Department Protestant Episcopal Church and in 1907 president of the missionary council of the fifth Department. From 1910 to 1916 he was chairman of the House of Bishop. HERMAN S. FOX was born in Montgomery County, has spent practically all his life there, and has made his career in business and in public affairs one of numerous services that count towards the prosperity and good order of the community. He is founder of the Brookville Bridge Company, one of the largest organizations of its kind in that section of the state. Mr. Fox was born in Clay Township, Montgomery County, March 24, 1856. His parents, Levi and Barbara (Studebaker) Fox, were also natives of the same county. His grandparents, John and Susan (Horner) Fox, were natives of Pennsylvania, and the family came to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1808 from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Herman S. Fox, after the common schools, entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduated in the scientific course, and subsequently completed up to the junior year the course of engineering in the Ohio State University at Columbus. During his early career he taught school and from 1888 to 1895 was county surveyor of Montgomery County. He was a member of the Montgomery County Teachers Examiners Board from 1886 to 1894. While in Ohio Northern University he served as instructor of military science and tactics. Mr. Fox founded in 1897 the Brookville Bridge Company, and has been manager of that business continuously for over a quarter of a century. The company has all the facilities for expert construction work on steel bridges and buildings, and has executed a long list of contracts for county and municipal governments and private firms and individuals. Since 1914 Mr. Fox has been a member of the Montgomery County school board, serving as its president eight years. He was elected and served as a member of the Eighty-fifth General Assembly of Ohio. Fraternally he has been affiliated with the Kappa Sigma college fraternity, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America and Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and is a member of the United Brethren Church at Brookville, Ohio. On August 25, 1888, he married Miss Carrie Wentworth, daughter of Obed and Mary Wentworth, of Paulding County, Ohio. The children by this union are: Miss Lillian P.; Lee W., who married Miss Mabel Eleanor Hinkle, and has two daughters, Mary Ellen and Barbara Louise; and Paul W., who married Miss Vesta Marie Rollman, and has a son, Herman Eugene. These children were orphaned by the death of their mother in July, 1895. On February 25, 1904, he married Miss Lillie M. Turner, daughter of Levi and Joanna Turner, of Brookville, Ohio. By this union Mr. Fox has a daughter, Joanna T. ARTHUR NASH, Cincinnati clothing manufacturer, was born in Indiana, June 26, 1870, was educated for the ministry of the Disciples of Christ, but after a short experience entered the clothing manufacturing business at Columbus in 1909. His conspicuous success, which has made his name nationally known, was through the development of the Nash plan of co-ownership of industry by the workers. This was put into practice when he founded in 1916 the A. Nash Company, wholesale tailors at Cincinnati, of which he is president. He is author of " The Golden Rule in Business," a book published in 1923. FRANCIS BACON JAMES, a distinguished authority on law, was born at Cincinnati, June 10, 1864, son of Francis Bacon and Elizabeth (Faris) James. He graduated with first honors from the Cincinnati law school in 1886, and was admitted to the bar and began practice the same year. During 1910-11, he was counsel for shippers in the general advance of rate cases and other cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission and also served as commerce counsel of various short line railways. He was instructor in the Law Department of the University of Cincinnati from 1895 to 1912, was dean of the faculty of the Cincinnati College of Commerce, finance and accounts, was for ten years chairman of the Committee on Commerce, trade and commercial law in the American Bar Association, a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, and a delegate to the Second Pan American Scientific Congress in 1916. He is former president of the Ohio State Committee on uniform state laws, and a life fellow of the Royal Economic Society of London. For some years his offices have been in Washington, D. C. He is author of the "Ohio Law of Opinion Evidence," advertising and other addresses, the "New HISTORY OF OHIO - 187 Jurisprudence," published as a United States Senate document in 1915, "Introduction to Clark on Interstate Commerce," and other books and articles. He married Miriam Loud of Baltimore. MARSHALL N. DUVAL. Natural qualifications for leadership and public, life put Marshall N. Duval into politics as soon as he had attained voting age. He was elected to the Legislature, studied law, and for twenty years has practiced at Steubenville, in the meantime being honored with various responsibilities of a public and political nature. Mr. Duval was born at Wellsburg, W. Va., March 10, 1875, his present home at Steubenville being just across the Ohio River from his birthplace. His parents were William G. and Henrietta (Stewart) Duval. The Duval family goes back to France, one branch of it coming from France in 1685 and settling in Maryland. The grandparents of Mr. Duval were Benjamin Duval and wife, whose maiden name was Marshall. William G. Duval, who died in March, 1904, was a machinist in the Spaulding Iron and Steel Plant for a number of years. During the Civil war he was a member of the Home Guards, and he served in the Village Council and was active in the Christian Church. His wife, Henrietta, died in 1877. There were children as follows : Wiley ; Minnie, who married a Mr. Curtis; Henrietta, who married Ernest Buffet and died leaving five children; Isaac C., who married and had two children; Claude; Wilson, who is married and has four children; Marshall N.; and Neely, who died in infancy. Marshall N. Duval attended public school at Wellsburg, and at the age of nineteen qualified for teaching. Five years were spent teaching in various district schools, and in the meantime he continued his own higher education in Mount Union College, where he took the preparatory course, and in Scio College. He left his studies at Scio College to make the race for the Legislature, and in 1899 was elected a member of the Lower House of the Ohio General Assembly. He represented his home county two terms in the Lower House. One of his fellow members was Nick Longworth, one of Ohio's best known representatives in Congress today, while in the Senate the late Mr. Harding was a member. Mr. Duval subsequently was a successful candidate for the State Senate, and served five years, from 1904 to 1909. In 1904 he was admitted to the bar, and after making a race for Congress he engaged in private practice at Steubenville. Mr. Duval was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1908, when Mr. Taft was nominated for his first term as president. Mr. Duval, who is unmarried, was active in all the campaigns during the World war. He is a member of the Christian Church, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council, and the Lodge of Perfection in the Scottish Rite. He is an Elk, and a member of the County and State Bar associations. HARRY FRANKLIN HARRINGTON, director of the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University at Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, is a native of Ohio, and served his newspaper apprenticeship in this state. He was born at Logan, Ohio, July 25, 1882, son of Frank and Margaret (Walker) Harrington. He was educated in the University of Wooster, took his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Ohio State University in 1905, and in 1909 his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. He did work as a reporter and on the editorial staff of the Ohio State Journal at Columbus for several years, was editor of the London, Ohio, Times, and during 1909-10 was instructor in English and journalism at Ohio Wesleyan University. From 1910 to 1914 he was assistant professor of English in the Ohio State University, and had charge of the courses in journalism offered by the university. For a year he was assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, and was connected with the School of Journalism at the University of Illinois from 1915. In 1921 he took the post of director of the Medill School of Journalism. He has also been director in courses of journalism at other institutions, including the University of California, University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 1919-20 he was president of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, is a member of the National Editorial Association, and is author of "Essentials in Journalism," in which he collaborated with T. T. Frankenburg; "Typical Newspaper Stories," published in 1915; "The Teaching of Journalism in a Natural Setting," published in 1919 ; " Writing for Print," published in 1921; "Chats on Feature Writing," published in 1925. Professor Harrington married, July 15, 1913, Miss Frieda Poston, of Crawfordsville, Indiana. His home is ill Evanston, Illinois. JOHN D. WILLIAMS has been engaged in commercial work since early manhood, and has become well and very favorably known in the business affairs of Chillicothe, Ohio, where he is owner and general manager of the Williams Collecting Agency, collectors and private investigators, criminal and commercial investigations, with associate offices in all the principal cities of the United States and Canada. He was born near Charleston, West Virginia, in a little town called Buffalo, on the Greater Kanawha River, May 10, 1879, son of Wesley and Pauline (Schmitter) Williams. His mother was born in Berne, Switzerland, of Austrian and Bohemian parentage and was brought over to America in 1848. She was born November 22, 1839, and died July 7, 1924. She was a member of the Christian Church (sometimes called Disciples) for more than sixty-five years, and was favorably known throughout the entire State of West Virginia, for her good works and kind and loving service, among rich and poor, the white and black race alike. No night was too dark, wet or cold to keep her from answering the call of the sick or distressed. She nursed the mother and brought into the world many a child. Also washed, dressed and straightened out the limbs of many who were cold in death, after ministering to them through their last sickness. In her time and in the section of country in which she lived physicians were scarce and many miles apart. You traveled the country on horseback or on foot. There were no railroads, street car lines, automobiles, or even wagon roads in the greater part of the country. Many a physician, as well as patient, can testify to her faithful, loving care and service. She was indeed a consistent Christian, a faithful, loving wife and mother. She was united in marriage to Wesley Williams, of Glen Easton, near Moundsville, West Virginia, and to this union were born eleven children: Annie, who married William Crowe; Louis N. (deceased) ; Josephine, wife of Benjamin Carper ; Adeline, deceased; Lena, who married Alexander Stover; Sallie, deceased; Harmon P., who married Zelda Atkins; Jeannette, deceased; John D., who married Anna Cecilia Goelz; George, deceased; and Benjamin F., who married Stella Lewis. Wesley Williams was a native of West Virginia, a stone cutter by trade, a miner, a locomotive fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a mate on an Ohio River steamboat, and later a farmer. Had a most unusual career and variety of experiences. When the Civil war broke out he was one of the first citizens of West Virginia to enlist in the cause of the Union. Coming with Abe Lincoln's first call for 188 - HISTORY OF OHIO 100,000 volunteers, he joined the Twelfth Virginia Regiment. He was several times wounded, his shoulder being shattered by a ball, and he lost his voice from exposure while sick in the Virginia swamps. He soldiered under McClellan and Burn-sides. He later acted as dispatch bearer between Grant and Sherman in the battles in and around Richmond, Virginia, a dangerous and arduous service, on one occasion a horse being shot from under him. For many years he was actively identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he became a farmer. He had the distinction of being baptized by Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Church of Christ or Disciples in America. Wesley Williams helped build the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. During construction work on that road he was stricken with the cholera at Rosebys Rock, West Virginia, and in the course of the epidemic one morning he saw sixty-five dead from the disease near Wheeling. He handled the hammer and drove the Golden Spike when the Baltimore & Ohio road completed its connection between Baltimore, Maryland and Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at his home on the Farm Rose Hill, near Charleston, West Virginia, on the head waters of Davis Creek in London District, Kanawha County, West Virginia, at the age of seventy-three years, a kind father, a loyal friend, respected even by his enemies, a man who made it his business in life to keep his word at any cost. He was generous to a fault, never turning any one away empty handed. He fed and lodged hundreds who came to his house asking food and lodging, his favorite maxim being, " The latch string always hangs out." John D. Williams, the ninth child of Wesley and Pauline Williams, was born on a farm near Buffalo. Putnam County, West Virginia. At one year of age his parents moved with him and the other children of the family by wagon to Gilgal, Nicholas County, in the hill country of West Virginia, living there about one year and then moving by wagon to a place in Fayette County, West Virginia, near Ravens Eye Postoffice, on a farm known as the Bunty Bob Nichols Farm, which later they purchased. A very poor farm as farms go, they had a very hard time keeping the wolf from the door. Lots of little mouths to feed, little bodies to keep warm, and little feet to keep dry. Life was hard. Comforts were few and pleasures simple, the father often working away from home months' at a time, sometimes for the mere pittance of fifty cents a day. So it developed largely upon the dear mother to take the place of both father and mother to her little brood. She often plowed with the team in the fields and with the help of the children large enough to work raised the principal part of the food that kept the family from actual want, while the father slaved to pay for the little home. They tried this plan out for about five years and, finding the grinding work too hard for the small return it paid, they moved to Clifftop, a small mining town in Fayette County, West Virginia, and the father and oldest son, Louis N. Williams, a badly crippled boy, worked in the mines. Louis had been crippled since three years of age from tuberculosis of the bone from a fall, then known as white swelling. This finally killed him. In the meantime, however, the smaller children were in the public schools, such as were provided in the mining section which one can guess were very poor. At the age of eleven John D., together with his next oldest brother, Harmon P., left the school and went into the mines to work, to help support themselves and the family, the father not being very well at this time. Finally, being stricken down with what was known at that time as miners' consumption, he was told by his doctor to get out of the mines, get out of that particular climate and rest up for a while. So he and the mother went visiting back to his old home and folks at Glen Easton, West Virginia, leaving the little family in charge of Lena, the youngest girl, the only girl then at home, the family in the meantime having dwindled down to the four children at home, the three eldest girls being married and living in homes of their own, the next two girls having died, also the next younger boy had died, and Louis N., the eldest son, was away studying photography. This left Harmon P. and John D. to carry on, working in the mines, aged fourteen and twelve years, respectively, to make a living for the little family, which they did and saved a little money besides. Later, the father getting better, the family again moved to a small farm Which the father had purchased, 120 acres two and a half miles from Charleston, West Virginia, on the head waters of Davis Creek, where after a few years the father died. The mother then had a little home built for her near Harmon P. Williams' home and lived there until July 7, 1924, when she died. John D. left the little farm at the age of fifteen years and after visiting Columbus, Ohio; Zanesville, Ohio ; Wheeling, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cumberland, Maryland ; Baltimore, Maryland ; Washington, D. C., and Richmond, Virginia, and finding nothing to his liking to induce him to locate permanently in any of these cities, he returned to New River District, Fayette County, West Virginia, and again entered the mines, on Upper Loop Creek, working evenings and Sundays with his brother, Louis N. Williams, who was then running a photograph gallery at fount Hope, West Virginia. He continued there a couple of years and, saving his earnings, then went to Beckley, West Virginia, with Louis N., who was moving his photograph gallery to this city. Shortly after that John D. entered the Beckley Seminary, which had been founded and was conducted at that time, 1900, by Prof. Bernard H. White and staff. Professor White was a graduate of Lebanon College, Ohio, and really the best instructor in that part of the State. He is now superintendent of schools in Charleston, West Vir- ginia. John D. owes the real foundation of his education and the credit of such success as he has had to the sincere efforts of Professor White to instruct him properly, not only as to text book instruction, but as to ethics and morals as well. He will always hold a warm spot in his heart for Professor White. Mr. Williams later located in Ronceverte, West Virginia, with the Singer Sewing Machine Company, working Greenbrier, Monroe and Summers counties by horse and wagon, later going to Ashland, Kentucky, and still later to Cincinnati and Springfield, Ohio, and finally locating in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1908, he was employed for five months with the firm of Galbraith & Galbraith, mercantile collectors, and then opened a small office of his own on East Main Street, Chillicothe, Ohio, under the name of Independent Collectors Company. Later he moved to West Second Street and opened offices under the name of the Consolidated Adjustment Company and built up quite a collection business, finally changing the name to Williams Collecting Agency and having offices and associate agencies in all the principal cities of the United States and Canada. He is now forty-five years of age, has no children and lives six miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio, on the Scioto Trail, in the yellow house by the side of the road, called Rest Haven and known as John D.'s place. He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Chillicothe Lodge No. 1626; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Eintracht Singing Society, the. Isaac Walton HISTORY OF OHIO - 189 League. His hobbies are the love of children, the study of wild life and plants, also hunting and fishing, especially bass fishing. He is a bass fisherman who fishes only during the regular season, and takes only such bass as are of legal size. You will always find him at home to his friends. WILLIAM FOUST WILEY, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, was born at Tarlton, Ohio, October 21, 1874, son, of Ingham and Ella (Foust) Wiley. He graduated in 1898 from the Heidelburg University at Tiffin, Ohio, and the same year entered newspaper work at Washington, D. C. A year or two later, he returned to Ohio, and from 1901 to 1918 was managing . editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Since then he has been general manager of the Enquirer. He married Flora Lorene Arnold of Tiffin, August 20, 1889. WILLIAM CHARLES HAZLEBECK is a lawyer by profession, but after a few years of practice became interested in business at Portsmouth, and is one of the prominent younger financiers of that city. He was born in Cincinnati, June 10, 1883, son of William and Caroline (Eppler) Hazlebeck. His ancestors on both sides originally came from Germany. His grandfather, William Hazlebeck, was an early settler in Ohio. The maternal grandfather, Casper Eppler, married a Miss Doerr. William Hazlebeck, father of the Portsmouth attorney, was born in Toledo, in 1847, and was only seven months old when his father died and nine years old when he lost his mother. From that time he had to make his own way in the world. He was a boy soldier in the Union army, serving in Company H of the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry. After the war he became an iron moulder, and was employed for a number of years in foundries in Cincinnati, Piqua and Portsmouth. He is now deceased, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Caroline Hazlebeck. William Charles Hazlebeck spent his boyhood at Piqua and Portsmouth, and graduated from the Portsmouth High School in 1901. For two years he worked for the Selby Shoe Company, and then began the study of law in the Ohio State University at Columbus. Graduating in 1906, he was admitted to the bar, and for a brief time looked after a general practice. He Soon accepted the post of assistant secretary and attorney under Mr. Frank Finney, secretary and attorney of the Royal Savings & Loan Company. He also became treasurer and manager of the Frank Finney Insurance & Real Estate Company. More and more of his time was taken up with these dales to the practical exclusion of his general law practice, and on the death of Mr. Finney he took change of the business of the Savings & Loan Association and subsequently took over the insurance and real estate business, which is now the Hazlebeck Company. He has brought the company to a high standing among savings and loan organizations in Ohio, and has made the savings department one of the very strongest. He has also found time to serve for more than fifteen years as clerk of the board of education. Mr. Hazlebeck during the World war took an active part in the Red Cross and other drives. He is a member of the Evangelical Church and is superintendent of its Sunday school. He belongs to the county bar association and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. In October, 1908, he married Miss Sadie L. Knost, who died in 1919. Her parents were Louis and Charlotte (Gulker) Knost, both natives of Ohio and now deceased. Her father was a blacksmith. Mr. and Mrs. Hazlebeck have four children, all at home and still in school, named Caroline, Mary, William C., Jr., and Margaret Ruth. In February, 1924, Mr. Hazlebeck married Miss Helen C. Beltz, of Marietta, Ohio, a graduate of Marietta College. Her parents are J. George Beltz and Caroline (Bentenmueller) Beltz, of Marietta, Ohio. THE NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY Among the public libraries of Ohio few go back in consecutive record over a longer period of years than that at Norwalk. Its origin dates from Civil war times, when four groups of women and girls worked for soldiers' aid, there being two societies of women, the Alert Club of girls and another organization of smaller girls. At the close of the war the group had a total of $1,050 surplus, $900 of which sum belonged to the Alert Club. Shortly after his return from the war Colonel Wickham, who later became a judge and congressman, called a meeting of local citizens to found a library association. He was elected its president and from the fund of $1,050 the first books were purchased. Later Judge and Mrs. Worcester, founders of the Alert Club, deposited $1,900 with the association for building purposes. The first meeting of any record was held January 24, 1866, and one week later the associations adopted the constitution and by-laws for the establishment of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room Association. On March 5, 1867, the Whittlesey Academy of Arts and Sciences gave the association the privilege of using books and bookcases in its possession. The sum of $500 was appropriated and $6 annually for the purchase of books. The lot where the present library stands was purchased in 1899. The dwelling on that lot was used as a library until 1903, when it was razed and the present Carnegie Library was erected at a cost of $25,000. The building was completed and opened to the public May 10, 1905. At the opening of this building the board of trustees consisted of C. P. Wickham, president; H. S. Mitchell, vice president; A. S. Prentiss, secretary ; J. A. Strutton, treasurer ; C. H. Gallup, C. L. Kennan, John Laylin, A. Sheldon, C. D. Smith and G. F. Titus, while Mrs. F. B. Linn was librarian and Lucy E. Strutton assistant librarian. Miss Bertha M. Butler is the present librarian, with Nell A. Roach assistant librarian. The board of directors consists of Mr. C. P. Wickham, president; J. A. Strutton, treasurer; C. L. Kennan, vice president; .A. S. Prentiss, secretary ; Albert Holiday, C. F. Jackson and Theo Williams. JOHN ANDERSON HOWE. Among the representative younger business men of Columbus, whose initiative and constructive energy have done much towards gaining for the capital city a wide prestige in commercial and industrial circles, John A. Howe, president of the Howe Motor Company, has won secure status. Mr. Howe is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth occurring at Rochester, Beaver County, November 24, 1881, a son of William P. and Mary (Anderson) Howe. His maternal grandfather, John S. Anderson, was a representative of an old settled family in Beaver County, and served as a soldier in the Civil war. The immediate subject of this sketch came to Columbus in 1911, and after serving for a while as a clerk in an auto accessory house, engaged in business for himself. In 1916 he organized the Howe-Miller Company, dealers in automobiles, and in 1918 this firm erected the substantial building on the 190 - HISTORY OF OHIO southwest corner of East Main and Third streets, where they continued the business under most favorable conditions. In 1919 Mr. Howe disposed of his interest in the Howe-Miller Company, and organized the present Howe Motor Company, Whose sales and display rooms are located at 1158 West Broad Street. The building originally occupied at this location was later extensively remodeled and enlarged, thereby giving the company one of the most modern, attractive and completely equipped automobile establishments in the city. Under the able management of Mr. Howe the business has steadily expanded until it has assumed imposing proportions. The Howe Motor Company is an authorized distributor of Ford and Lincoln cars and Fordson tractors, and in 1923 its sales aggregated more than 1,000 cars and tractors. In 1912 Mr. Howe married Miss Byrd Walker Darragh of West Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Madison and Elizabeth (Walker) Darragh. Mrs. Howe is a direct descendant of John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and she is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. To Mr. and Mrs. Howe have been born three children: John Anderson, Jr., Robert Darragh and Nancy Byrd. The family home is maintained in Upper Arlington, on Edgemont Road, a select residential section of Columbus, in the upbuilding of which Mr. Howe has taken an active part, having been one of the first to locate in that part of the city. In addition to his business prominence, Mr. Howe is well known in athletic and social circles, being a member of both the Aladdin and the Elks Country clubs, the Buckeye Lake Yacht Club, the Columbus Canoe Club and the Aero Club. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, an Elk, also a Knight of Pythias. He is a past exalted ruler of Rochester Lodge of Elks, and an Episcopalian in his religious affiliations. PHILIP VAN NESS MYERS, a resident of Cincinnati, is author of a series of historical text books that were studied by several generations of American students and are still standard. He was born in New York State, August 10, 1846, is a graduate of Williams College, the Yale Law School, and from 1879 to 1890 was president of Farmer 'a College in Ohio. In 1890. he entered upon his long connection with the University of Cincinnati, serving as professor of history and political economy until 3900, and since 1919 as honorary lecturer in history. His best known text books were "Ancient History," first published in 1882; "Mediaeval and Modern History," 1889; "General History," published in 1889 and translated into the Chinese and Arabic tongue, eastern nations and Greece published in 1890 "History of Rome," 1890; "History of Greece," 1897; "Rome, Its Rise and Fall," 1900 ; " The Middle Ages," 1902; " The Modern Age," 1903. HALLETT O. SHARP, secretary of the Crawford County Historical Society, was born in that county, and has had a richly varied experience in business and other affairs. He is now a member of the editorial staff of the Mansfield Daily Journal but retains his residence in Crawford County as he was elected county recorder on the democratic ticket at the November, 1924, elections, and will assume office in September, 1925. Mr. Sharp was born at Osceola in Todd Township, Crawford County, July 31, 1879, son of 0. M. and Ida V. (Moore) Sharp. His father, who was born in Germany, in January, 1856, was brought to the United States by his parents about 1859, and grew up on the pioneer farm located by them at Osceola. He learned the trade of mason, and followed that occupation until his death in 1892. In Crawford County he married Miss Moore, who was born in Wood County, Ohio, and is still living. Both were active members of the United Brethren Church at Osceola, and the father was active in church affairs and also in the democratic party, serving as township trustee and in other minor capacities. Of six children in the family three are now living: D. L., a bookkeeper at Portland, Oregon ; Clyde L., a decorator at Crestline, Ohio, and Hallett O. Hallett O. Sharp passed his boyhood days at Osceola, attended the public schools there, and when sixteen years of age he passed a successful examination and acquired a teacher 's license. Then for three years he taught school. He acquired his early newspaper training at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he remained there for fourteen years a part of the time as representative of R. G. Dun & Company. For one year he was in the Far West at Tacoma and Seattle. On returning to Ohio he joined his mother at Crestline, and was clerk in a hotel there for five years. Since 1919 Mr. Sharp has been at Bucyrus and in the newspaper business. He married Miss Anna L. Hight on January 24, 1920, at Crestline. Mr. Sharp is an active figure in democratic local politics, and was one of the organizers of the Crawford county Historical Society, and is doing much in the capacity of secretary to make that one of the leading organizations of its kind in the state. JOHN D. A. MORROW, vice president of the National Coal Association, was born at Campbells-town, Ohio, June 10, 1881, son of Richard Edwin and Martha Joanna (Adams) Morrow. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and first engaged in the coal business at Pittsburgh. In 1916 he was appointed assistant secretary to the Federal Trade Commission at Washington, but resigned in December of the same year to organize the Pittsburgh Coal Producers Association. He was elected secretary of the National Coal Association in September, 1917, and on February 1, 1918, was appointed general director of coal and coke distribution under the United States Fuel Administration. He organized and directed this work until June 30, 1919. Following that, he was vice president and active executive of the National Coal Association until December 1, 1922. He is president of two large coal companies at Cincinnati and has a number of business connections there. He is an associate -member of the International Chamber of Commerce and a member of the American Academy of political and social science. CARTER NEWTON ABEL. A practical business man and professional expert in matters relating to electrical and engineering feats, Carter Newton Abel, principal stockholder of the Abel Magnesia Company, is one of the most substantial factors in the life of Greene County. He was born at York, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1885, a son of David and Mary Test Abel. David Abel was an engineer and manufacturer of wood pulp. He built half a score of pulp mills in various sections of the country, including those of Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. Subsequently he was superintendent of construction of a hydro-electric plant of 110,000 horse power in Pennsylvania, and built forty miles of canal connecting Schenectady and Canajahorie and other points in New York. Still another of the achievements which gave him so high a reputation as an engineer was the construction of three HISTORY OF OHIO - 191 hydro-electric plants of 30,000 horse power each in Tennessee. He and his wife had four children born to them, the others besides Mr. Abel of this review being: Roy, who was superintendent of construction of Muscle Shoals during the World war, and who is now engaged in the work as superintendent of construction at Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Wilbur, who was associated with his father in hydroelectric development, met with so serious an accident as to halt him in his career ; and Virginia, who married George Callahan, an engineer who has constructed several gigantic irrigation projects in Idaho. During the World war Mr. Callahan was commissioned a captain and assigned to duty at the Air Nitrates Plant at Toledo, Ohio. The Abel family is of Dutch descent. The grandfather, David Abel, was a farmer and a man of magnificent physique, and his father, also David Abel, was prominent in the City of York, Pennsylvania, following the Revolutionary period, and was engaged in the manufacture of pumps. On the maternal side of the house Carter Newton Abel is of Scotch-Irish descent and is connected with the Nichols, Hoopes and Carters, all well known families of Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather served in the Eleventh Army Corps of the Union army, and lost his life on the battlefield of Antietam. After attending preparatory school and the York Collegiate Institute at York, Pennsylvania, Carter Newton Abel was graduated therefrom in 1904, and from the Pennsylvania State College in 1908, as an electrical engineer. In order to acquire a broad and practical experience he associated himself with the following plants in rapid succession: Southern Power Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was electrical engineer; Pennsylvania Steel Corporation, Sparrow's Point, Maryland; the Illinois Steel Company, where he was special electrician and assistant electrical engineer; and the John Deere Plow Company, where he was efficiency engineer. Subsequently he was consulting engineer for coal mines in Central Pennsylvania, and did some work in settling disputes between municipalities. Thereafter he became engaged with the Bethlehem Steel Company at Sparrow's Point, Maryland, where during a period of the World war, acting as superintendent, he directly supervised millions of dollars worth of work. Still later Mr. Abel was with the Miller Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, with a view of making a technical study of the properties of magnesia as applied to rubber, and subsequently organized the Abel Magnesia Company. Mr. Abel is now located at Cedarville, where the company which he represents is engaged on a very large scale in the manufacture of lime and crushed stone, Mr. Abel being the controlling stockholder. He is president and general manager of this concern, and enjoys the confidence of those associated with him. Within the first year the business showed such phenomenal expansion that a new plant was erected, with a capacity of forty tons of lime daily and 600 tons of crushed stone in the same time. Plans are now being perfected for trebling the capacity of the plant within the next three years. The company is receiving orders for lime from Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other points. During the early part of 1924 -Mr. Abel made an extended tour of 2,800 miles in the interest of this company with the most satisfactory results. On August 22, 1909, Mr. Abel married at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sara Martha Winters, a daughter of George and Elizabeth Thomas Winters. Mr. and Mrs. Abel have two children, Sara Martha, who is attending the Cedarville High School, and Carter Newton, Jr., who is attending the graded schools of Cedarville. Since coming to Cedarville Mr. Abel has done much to advance the general prosperity of the county, although he is not one to actively participate in public affairs. Having decided to make this locality his future home, however, he is greatly interested in its progress and can be depended upon to give an effective support to those measures which in his judgment will be of permanent benefit to the city and county. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish-Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to a number of engineering societies and to the Ohio Lime Association, in all of which he takes a determining part, for he is a firm believer in fraternal affiliation and cooperation. LAWRENCE MAXWELL, Cincinnati attorney, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 5, 1853. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and in 1912 was the commemoration orator at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of that university. He took his law degree at the Cincinnati Law School in 1875, and since that year has been a member of the Cincinnati Bar. During 1893-95, he was solicitor general of the United States. He was professor of law at the Cincinnati Law School from 1896 to 1912, was non-resident lecturer at the Law Department at the University of Michigan from 1909 to 1916, and in 1911 was chairman of the bar committee on revision of the equity rule of the Supreme Court. In 1905 he was chairman of the section on legal education of the American Bar Association. He has been president of the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association. HARRY REASONER GEYER, M. D. A specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat, Doctor Geyer has enjoyed an enviable reputation in his profession and also in the civic affairs of Zanesville. His father was an honored Muskingum County physician, and his mother, Margaret Hazlett (Culbertson) Geyer, was born in Zanesville, and is a member of one of the prominent old families of that city. His father, the late Dr. Joseph Lewis Geyer, who was born in Muskingum County, and died in April, 1916, at the age of seventy-five. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, attended Muskingum College at New Concord, and was in the service four years of the Civil war, in the medical department of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He read medicine, graduated from the Starling Medical College of Columbus, and began practice at Columbia Center in Lorain County. Subsequently he returned to Muskingum County and located at Norwich. His life was spent in medical practice and in doing everything possible to make conditions better, and he was one of the early good roads promoters and was honored with the office of president of the County Medical Society. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Lodge. Dr. Harry Reasoner Geyer is one of two children, his brother being W. C. Geyer. Doctor Geyer was born at Columbia Center, in Lorain County, May 5, 1867, but the family soon returned to Muskingum County and he was reared at Norwich, where he attended public schools. He continued his education in the Zanesville High School, and did his pre-medical work in Wooster College at Wooster, Ohio. At Wooster he was active in athletics, and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Doctor Geyer spent one year of study in his father's old school, the Starling Medical College at Columbus, and then entered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, where 192 - HISTORY OF OHIO he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1892. For one year he was resident house physician in a private hospital conducted by Dr. Thad A. Rainey of Cincinnati, an institution that is now Bethesda Hospital. Doctor Geyer began his career as a general medical practitioner at Zanesville in 1894. Sixteen years later, in 1910, he went to Philadelphia and pursued special work on the eye in the Willis Eye Sanitarium under Dr. C. W. Lefevre, of the Jefferson Medical College, and took courses on the nose and throat under Dr. D. Braden Kyle. When he returned to Zanesville, in 1912, Doctor Geyer limited his practice to the eye, ear, nose and throat, and his abilities in that field are widely recognized. He is a member of the staff of the Good Samaritan and Bethesda hospitals, and is lecturer on subjects pertaining to his specialty before the Nurses' Training School of the Good Samaritan Hospital. On October 5, 1918, Doctor Geyer was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps, and was in service at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe until discharged December 24, 1918. He is now a captain in the Officers' Reserve Corps, Medical Department, and soon after his release from army service he took an active part in organizing the local company of the Ohio National Guard, now designated as Company A of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry. He is a member of the American Legion and the County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Geyer was one of the incorporators and is a stockholder, director and treasurer of the Ohio 'Pottery Company, one of the prominent pottery industries of the Zanesville district, and a pioneer in the manufacture of French china in the United States. The company was incorporated in 1900, with a capitalization of $75,000. It manufactures fireproof cooking utensils, porcelain containers for chemical and other laboratory uses and white and decorated china for hotels and table use. Doctor Geyer finds an interesting hobby in the cultivation of his flower garden, and he also pursues the game of golf on the links of the Zanesville Golf Club. He is a member of the Zane Club, the Rotary Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in Masonry is affiliated with Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters; Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar ; Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. On October 22, 1896, at Zanesville, Doctor Geyer married Miss Margaret Bimple Foye, a native of Zanesville." Her father, the late Henry Foye, was a private in the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry during the Civil war, and for many years was an employe of a local express company. Doctor and Mrs. Geyer have one daughter, Katherine, who in 1925 graduates from the Sargent, School of Physical Education at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Doctor Geyer had an active part in 'all the local war drives before he entered the service. He and Mrs. Geyer are members of St. James Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Geyer is treasurer of the Parish Aid Society and the other auxiliary organizations. WILLIAM MCKIBBIN, president of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, was born at Pittsburgh, May 24, 1850. He graduated in 1869 from Princeton College, in 1873 from the Western Theological Seminary Of Pennsylvania and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in May, 1873. He was pastor of the churches at Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Cincinnati, his pastorate in Cincinnati beginning in 1888. Since 1904 he has been president and professor of systematic theology in the Lane Theological Seminary. HON. GEORGE S. PEASE. In the person of Hon. George S. Pease, now serving his second term in the office of mayor of West Carrollton, this live and enterprising community has a progressive and constructive official and citizen who both in public and private capacities has contributed to the material welfare of his native place and has entered into the various phases of activity which make up its daily life. Mayor Pease was born at West Carrollton, March 3, 1873, and is a son of David W. and Anna E. (LeCompte) Pease, being descended from ancestors who immigrated to the United States from Hull, England. His father was the first agent at West Carrollton for the Big Four Railroad, having entered upon the duties of that position in 1872. The public graded and high schools of his native city furnished George S. Pease with his educational training, and after he had graduated from the latter he took up school teaching at West Carrollton and in the rural districts of Montgomery County. School teaching did not appeal to him, however, and he accordingly went to Carthage, where he acted as station agent for the Big Four Railroad for a time. In 1895 he resigned his position and went to California, but in 1897 returned to West Carrollton and became identified with the asbestos business, being the incumbent of a position the duties of which took him to Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, as well as to points in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1920 he resumed his permanent residence at West Carrollton and became paymaster and timekeeper for the Miami Paper Company, a position in which he still acts. Mr. Pease became well known to the people of West Carrollton, who appreciated his ability and integrity, and in 1921, when the citizens ticket was formed, his name was placed at the top for the office of mayor. His first term of office showed that the confidence reposed in him had not been misplaced, and in 1923 he was again nominated and subsequently elected to succeed himself. He has done much for the betterment of West Carrollton in the way of civic improvements, and can be relied upon to exert every effort in supporting measures promulgated by men of enlightened views. In 1923 Mayor Pease was the republican candidate for the office of county auditor, and in 1924 was a candidate for the post of county commissioner of Montgomery County. Fraternally Mayor Pease is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Eastern Star, the Masonic Engineers and the Rebekahs, and is a past grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also is president of the Auld Lang Syne Association, president of the A. B. C. Club, and treasurer of the Evergreen Cemetery Association. On September 5, 1906, Mr. Pease was united in marriage at West Carrollton with Miss Mary E. Adair, daughter of Dr. J. H. and Laura (Montgomery) Adair, of Blanchester, Ohio, where Doctor Adair is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pease : Howard and George A., who are attending public school. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, republican store leader of the National House of Representatives in 1923-25, and frequently referred to as the most influential and useful republican member of Congress during that time, was born at Cincinnati, November 5, 1869, son of Nicholas and Susan (Walker) Longworth. He is a graduate of Harvard University, attended the Harvard law school, and took his law degree at the Cincinnati law school in 1894. In that year he was admitted to the bar. His public service began as a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1899-01, of the Ohio senate from 1901 to HISTORY OF OHIO - 193 1903, and in 1902 was elected for his first term in Congress as a member of the Fifty-eighth Congress. He served consecutively until 1913, through the Sixty-second Congress, and in 1914 was reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress. At the end of the Sixty-eighth Congress he will have spent twenty years in the House of Representatives as representative of the First Ohio District. Mr. Longworth married in the White House at Washington on February 17, 1906, Alice Lee Roosevelt, daughter of President Roosevelt. HERBERT H. KNAPP, founder and proprietor of Knapp's "Hi-Grade" Hatchery and Poultry Farm at Shelby, Richland County, has gained leadership in connection with the development of the fine poultry industry in the United States. An appreciative editorial estimate of his achievement along this line was published in the Golden Jubilee number of the Reliable Poultry Journal of February, 1923, and the editor headed his article with the following significant words : "Does all that he starts out to do. That, in truth, can be said of Herbert H. Knapp—his record proves it." As indicative of the splendid achievement of Mr. Knapp and the importance of the industrial enterprise lie has developed at Shelby it is but consistent that liberal quotations from the above mentioned article be perpetuated here. "There are four outstanding facts in the poultry record of Mr. Knapp, each one of which is of current importance. First, Mr. Knapp was largely instrumental in organizing the International Baby Chick Association, which in the short period of seven or eight years has become one of the most active and influential factors in this country in behalf of better poultry. Second, Mr. Knapp, in his capacity as president of the international Baby Chick Association, did more than any other one man to persuade the United States postal authorities to admit live baby chicks to the mails for transportation by parcel post. If he had ended his life's journey the next day that achievement would have been a great monument for any poultry man for all time. Third. First to last, as a producer of day-old baby chicks Mr. Knapp has stood solidly not only for a square deal in business methods but for truly good quality in breeding stock and the baby chicks sold therefrom. Fourth. Today Mr. Knapp occupies a position in the front rank as a hatcher or baby-chick man who believes firmly in a combination in domestic fowl of the essential standard requirements, together with high egg production, as determined by the trap-nest and based on pedigree breeding. "The Baby Chick Association was started as a department of the American Poultry Association, with Mr. Knapp as its first president—a position he held with success and honor during a period of five years. The interests of this association were of such wide scope and developed so rapidly that it soon became practically an independent organization, which it is today, holding separate conventions, having a separate constitution, etc. It was during war times that Mr. Knapp, as president of the Baby Chick Association, stepped into the breach and practically saved the baby-chick industry—at least for that period—by securing the admission of live baby chicks to the United States mails." In speaking of Mr. Knapp 's precedence as an extensive producer of high-grade baby chicks, the article continues as follows: "First. His splendidly equipped plant at Shelby, Ohio, has a hatching capacity in excess of 100,000 eggs, made up of downto-date Buckeye Mammoth Forced-Draft Incubators. Second. Mr. Knapp furnishes baby chicks of three grades: A 'Select' grade, the 'Hi-grade' quality, and the 'Hi-Test' grade. 'Select' in this case means from well culled general flocks of good-quality birds. 'Hi-grade' means Hoganized hens mated to pedigreed males. This season,' writes Mr. Knapp, we have selected Standard-type males with Hi-grade pedigrees to sire our Hi-grade quality. Many of these males are sired by a cock bird with a 276-egg record.' Describing briefly his 'Hi-Test' grade, Mr. Knapp writes: 'Approximately 1,000 of our birds are being trapped at the present time, which is the only way to obtain accurate records from which to select breeding birds. In our best 'Hi-Test' mating (S. C. W. Leghorns) the trap-nest average is 257 eggs per hen. We have, however, a much larger number of hens that have done better than 250 eggs in twelve consecutive months. We depend upon the 250-290 birds to produce our breeders.' "Writing further on this vital element in present-day poultry success, Mr. Knapp said: 'The day of the scrub hen is over—no one can afford to keep her. Housing and feeding cost just as much for a non-producer as for a hen that is consistently filling the egg basket. The only economical way to build up a profitable producing flock is to buy chicks that are bred to lay. My present plan has been developed from my forty years of experience with standard-bred poultry. Our big objective is a combination of high-laying qualities with the best standard type and color. We are handling S. C. White, Brown and Buff Leghorns, R. C. Brown Leghorns, Barred and White Plymouth Rocks, S. C. Anconas, S. C. and R. C. Rhode Island Reds, White and Silver Wyandottes, and White and Buff Orpingtons.' " It is needless to say that Mr. Knapp has made prolonged and careful study and experimentation in connection with the line of industrial enterprise in which he has won distinctive success and reputation, and in which he has added not a little to the industrial prestige of his native state. Mr. Knapp issues an attractive catalogue in connection with his poultry business, and the publication gives information that the limitations of this article make it impossible to offer. Mr. Knapp was born at Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, and at the age of fifteen years lie initiated his exhibitions of poultry bred by him. He has continued an enthusiastic poultry fancier during the intervening years, and though he was for some time engaged in the mercantile business he has concentrated his activities in the poultry industry since establishing his residence at Shelby in the year 1906. Mr. Knapp wedded Miss Eva L. Robb, daughter of Hon. I. H. Robb, of Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, and the four children of this union are Harry H., Reginald E., Irene and Evelyn. The elder son is now associated with his father 's business, and the younger son is (1923) a student in Ohio West leyan University at Delaware. PHILLIP SHERIDAN SKEELE. Through the office of general yardmaster of the Pennsylvania Railway at Columbus, Phillip Sheridan Skeele has risen as a result of a third of a century of consecutive work and faithful service. Mr. Skeele was born at Worthington, in Franklin County, Ohio, October 11, 1868, son of John S. and Harriet (Bromley) Skeele. On both sides he is of Revolutionary ancestry. His grandfather, the son of a Universalist minister, was an early settler in Pick-away County, Ohio, coming from Utica, New York. John S. Skeele was born in Pickaway County, in 1832, and in 1861 enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war, being a member of the 113th Ohio Infantry. His wife, Harriet Bromley, born in New York State in 1835, was daughter of Herrick Bromley, a major in the War of 1812, and granddaughter of a soldier of the Revolution. 194 - HISTORY OF OHIO Phillip Sheridan Skeele has spent practically all his life in the vicinity of Columbus. He acquired his education in the schools of that city, and was a young man of twenty-two when he went to work as a railroad man in 1890. His service has been continuous with the Pennsylvania System in Columbus for thirty-three years. He started as a truck man, two months later was made yard clerk in the office of the yardmaster, serving in that capacity nine years, and in 1899 was promoted to yardmaster. His next degree of responsibility came in 1917, when he was promoted to general yardmaster of the Pennsylvania System for the entire Columbus yards and terminals. The Pennsylvania Railway's interests in Columbus are very extensive. Reporting to Mr. Skeele's office are three assistant general yardmasters and thirty-two yard-masters, while the entire department under his supervision has a total of nearly 900 employes. Since 1896 Mr. Skeele's home has been in the Village of Marble Cliff, known as Arlington. This is a fine residence community, and many leading citizens of Columbus have their homes there. In the November election of 1923 Mr. Skeele was honored without any activity or solicitation on his part with election as mayor of the village. However, for many years he has served the community in other capacities, having been a member of the school board and individually working for the general welfare and improvement of the locality. He is a member of the Community Church and the Community Masonic Lodge. Mr. Skeele is married, and he and his wife have one son, Bradley Skeele. HENRY MARCUS LANE, who has to his credit a long list of achievements in mechanical engineering, was born at Cincinnati, still his home city, August 15, 1854, son of Philander Parmelee and Sophia Rebecca (Bosworth) Lane. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1873, and for a time was connected with the firm Lane & Bodley, engine builders at Cincinnati. He served as constructing engineer for the Elm Street Inclined Plane Railway in 1875, for the Mount Adams Inclined Plane Railway from 1879 to 1880, and he built the Gilbert Avenue Cable Railway, the first cable road in Ohio, during 1885-86. He was builder of the Vine Street Cable Railway in Cincinnati in 1887, of the Denver Tramway in 1888, this being the first cable railway in Colorado; of the Providence Cable Tramway in 1889, the first and only cable railway ever built in the New England states. He was consulting engineer for the St. Louis Cable Railway Company, the Western Railway Company of St. Paul, the Boston Tramway Company, and was perhaps the foremost American authority on street railway construction before the introduction of electric power. Since 1890 he has been president of the Lane & Bartley. Company. He married Blanche A. Conkling, on February 4, 1903. HARRY W. MILLER has been a practicing lawyer at the Portsmouth bar for thirty years, and is known all over this part of the state for his success as a business and corporation lawyer. He was born at Portsmouth, Scioto County, March 24, 1869, son of Isaac and Ellen (Ward) Miller, and grandson of Abraham Miller, a native of Ohio, who married a Miss Lossee, who was born in Lawrence County, a member of one of the first families to settle there. The maternal grandfather of the Portsmouth attorney was John L. Ward, a native of Georgetown, Maryland. He married Mary Smith, who was born in Carlisle County, Pennsylvania. Both of Mr. Miller's parents were natives of Ohio and are now deceased. Isaac Miller, who died in 1903, was a steamboat captain, and was known all up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. He was one of the old timers in the business, a man of very interesting experiences. and possessed a kindly character that made him conspicuous among old-time steamboat men. He was a very devout Christian, active in the Presbyterian Church. Harry W. Miller was reared in Portsmouth, attended the grammar schools and later a private school conducted by a well known educator, Professor J. A. Lowes. He learned stenography, and while doing stenographic work and court reporting for the law firm of Harper, Searl and Miller he studied law and was admitted to the bar by examination in 1893. He soon afterward engaged in private practice at Portsmouth, and for many years has been a member of the firm Miller and Searl. While they do a general practice, most of their work is as general counsel for prominent corporations, including the Central National Bank of Portsmouth, the American Building and Loan Association, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the state, the Portsmouth Street Railway, the Ohio Valley Traction Company. I n addition to his law practice Mr. Miller has rendered some good service as a public official. He was city solicitor in 1897-99, has been a member of the City Council, and from 1903 to 1909 was prosecuting attorney of Scioto County. He has also served as a member of the Board of Examiners for admission to the bar. During the administration of President Taft he was solicitor for the navy department and during the World war, being denied the privilege of active service in the field, he devoted much of his time to speeches as president of the Scioto County Red Cross and as a speaker in many patriotic causes. He is a member of the County. State and America Bar Associations, is a Presbyterian and a republican, fraternally is a member of the Masonic Lodge and a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. January 3, 1901, at Columbus. Mr. Miller married Miss Annis McLaughlin. She was born in Albany, New York, but afterward lived in Columbus. Ohio, and is a graduate of the Ohio State University. Her parents were Robert McLaughlin and Mary TenEyck Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two sons: Ward McLaughlin, who graduated Bachelor of Arts in June, 1923, from the Ohio State University at Columbus, and is now studying law; and James Bennett, a junior in the Ohio State University. The oldest son was born in 1901 and James B., in 1904. JOSEPH CRANE HARTZELL, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Cincinnati, was born at Moline, Illinois, June 1. 1842. He is a graduate of the Illinois Wesleyan University, the Garrett Biblical Institute of Northwestern University, and was ordained to the ministry in 1866. From 1873 to 1882 he was superintendent of the educational and editorial work at New Orleans, served as assistant secretary from 1882 to 1887, as secretary from 1887 to 1896. of the Freedmen's Aid and Educational Society of the Methodist Church. From 1896 to 1916 he was missionary bishop of Africa, being retired in the latter year by the age limit. He founded in 1875, the Southwestern Christian Advocate. He has been a delegate to many general quadrennial conferences and was special envoy to the United States and England in behalf of the Republic of Liberia, succeeding in averting a crisis between that country and Germany. He married Jennie Culver of Chicago, November 14, 1869. Their son, J. Culver Hartzell, also of Cincinnati, was born in New Orleans in 1870, graduated in med- HISTORY OF OHIO - 195 icine and has given his life to science. He was professor of chemistry in the University of the Pacific from 1904 to 1910, was consulting engineer in chemistry and metallography at the Illinois Malleable Iron Company, and returned to Cincinnati as chief chemist of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company. Since 1921 he has been president and general manager of the Ohio Less Gas Company. He has published many articles on geology, chemistry, water purification, metallography and similar subjects and is a member of a number of scientific and technical societies. HARRY ROBERT SHICK, manager of the Jackson Iron & Steel Company at Jackson, has a reputation by no means confined to this one plant. Leaders in the iron and steel industry refer to his record of production as surpassing that of any other furnace manager. While a comparatively young man, his experience in the iron and steel industry has been continuous since early youth. Mr. Shick was born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1884. His parents are Robert Henry and Ida (Kichline) Shick. His grandfather Shick was a lieutenant in the Union army during the Civil war. The grandfather Kichline was a Quaker of old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Robert H. Shick is superintendent of the Blooming Mills at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Steel Company. He is an active member of the Presbyterian Church and in former years was superintendent of the Sunday School. He and his wife had four children: Harry R.; William, who is shipping clerk at the McDonald Works at Youngstown, Ohio, and by his marriage to Minnie Bulmer has a son, Howard, and daughter, Jean; Robert, attending Harvard Law School; and Mabel, a student in Wellesley College. Harry Robert Shick was reared at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, attending public schools there and a business college at Pittsburgh. He began his career as a clerk in a blast furnace at Duquesne with the Carnegie Steel Company. After two years there he became furnace clerk with the Illinois Steel Company of Joliet, Illinois, was then promoted to the South Chicago plant as assistant to the superintendent, remaining there three years and being promoted to furnace foreman. He then returned to Duquesne, Pennsylvania, as night superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company, holding that responsible position for seven years. His next duties were with the Pittsburgh Steel Company at Monessen, as assistant superintendent. At that time the most modern steel plant in the United States was being installed at Monessen. He began his duties there in 1912, and after a year was promoted to superintendent of the plant, and while in that position he broke all the blast furnace records as to output for day, week, month and year. His record of volume and quality of production stood until recently as the high water mark. Mr. Shick was for four years manager at Monessen, and then spent three years at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, as superintendent for the Cambria Steel Company, with eleven blast furnaces under his supervision. Mr. Shick on leaving Johnstown, Pennsylvania, came to the Jackson Steel and Iron Company at Jackson, Ohio, as superintendent. Here he has broken all records of production of high silvery iron. The plant at Jackson uses lake ores and coal from its own mine, and the capacity of the furnace is 350 tons per day. There are five blasts, and the eighty employes at the furnace run in three shifts, with forty-five men in the mine. This furnace is the most up-to-date plant of its kind in Southern Ohio, and it has been completely rebuilt under the supervision of Mr. Shick. On account of the high grade of production this plant has been operated at full capacity. Mr. Shick is a republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian Church. On January 29, 1908, at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, he married Elizabeth Weir. Her parents, Robert and Jean (Baird) Weir, were born and married in Scotland, and came to the United States about 1870. Her father, who died in 1916, was a contractor and builder, and very active in republican politics, holding several city offices in Pennsylvania. He was a Mason and a Presbyterian. Mrs. Shick was next to the youngest in a family of ten children. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Shick are : Harry, born in 1909; Alvin, born in 1912; Robert, born in 1916, and Bettie, born in 1919. VICTOR HEINTZ, Cincinnati attorney and former congressman was born in Illinois, November 20, 1875. He is a graduate of both the literary and law departments of the University of Cincinnati, and in 1899 engaged in practice in that city. In 1916 he was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress of the Second Ohio District. He resigned his seat in Congress in July, 1917, to join the army, and declined to stand for reelection while in the army. He was a member of Troop C, First Ohio Cavalry, three and one-half years, captain of the First Regiment Ohio Infantry for three years and at the time of the World war became captain of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh United States Infantry, serving until the close of the war. Since then he has resumed his law practice in Cincinnati and Washington. He was prominent as regional director in the twenty mid-western states during the republican campaign of 1920. H. D. JACKSON, M. D. One of the valuable men in the medical and surgical profession of Pickaway County, Doctor Jackson has made good in his profession and also has an interesting record of service in the Ohio National Guard, was in the Rainbow Division during the World war, and is still prominently identified with the medical corps of the Ohio State Military establishment. He was born at Circleville, son of Henry Allen and Ella M. (Demuth) Jackson, and grandson of William Jackson. William Jackson was an early settler of Pickaway County, and built the first tannery on the canal at Circleville. Henry A. Jackson was for twenty years or more a leading grain dealer of Circleville, where he was reared and educated. Doctor Jackson was the only child of his parents. He was educated in the common schools, graduated from high school in 1901, and after some experience in newspaper work he entered the grain business and for a time managed his father 's grain elevator and subsequently became identified with the Ohio Cereal Company. He gave up business to enter the medical department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1911. He had additional experience in Mercy Hospital at Columbus, and then returned to Circleville to engage in general practice. He is a man of high standing in his profession and is president of the Pickaway County Medical Society and a member of the State and American Medical associations. When Company F of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, was organized, he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and in 1905 was elected captain. When the World war came on he went to France as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Regiment of the famous Rainbow or Forty-second Division. He was promoted to captain and then to major in the medical corps, and was on duty with the division all the time it was in France and 196 - HISTORY OF OHIO also with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He returned to America with the division, and now holds the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the medical corps, assigned to the One Hundred and Twelfth Medical Regiment. Doctor Jackson is active in the American Legion, and is a past and also the present eminent commander of Scioto Commandery No. 35 of Knights Templar Masons. He is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1912 Doctor Jackson married Mary Ludwig, a daughter of David S. and Rosalie (Dreesbach) Ludwig, both natives of Pickaway County, Ohio. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Jackson are Rosemary and David L. ALBERT HENRY FREIBERG, M. D. A distinguished authority on orthopedic surgery, Albert Henry Freiberg was born at Cincinnati, August 17, 1868, is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and its Medical Department, and has taken special work in German and Austrian universities. Since 1893 he has been engaged in practice at Cincinnati, and since 1902 has held the chair of professor of orthopedic surgery in the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. He is orthopedic surgeon to the Cincinnati and Jewish hospitals, and during the World war was a member of the Advisory Board on orthopedics with the rank of major in the medical corps. He was president of the American Orthopedic Association in 1910-11, chairman of the section of orthopedic surgery of the American Medical Association in 1917-18, president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine in 1923-24. He has contributed many articles to periodical literature of orthopedic surgery, both in the United States and Europe. ASA E. McCoy has been successfully and independently engaged in the automobile business in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, since 1920, and here has the agency for the Oakland, Jewett, Paige and Reo automobiles, his well equipped headquarters being the center of a substantial and prosperous business. Three brothers of the McCoy family came from Ireland and settled in Maryland in an early day, and from that state representatives of the name moved to Kentucky, in Pike County, in which state Asa E. McCoy was born April 7, 1881, a son of Rev. Peter B. and Lyda (Goble) McCoy, who likewise were born in Kentucky and who have maintained their home at Ironton, Ohio, since 1915. On the paternal side Mrs. McCoy is of Holland Dutch lineage, her paternal grandfather having been an early settler in Kentucky and the family name of his wife having been Sellards. Rev. Peter B. McCoy was reared and educated in Kentucky, was a successful school teacher in his early manhood, gave five years to the coal-mining industry, for three years was bookkeeper for a lumber company, and he served four years as assessor of Martin County, Kentucky, while engaged in farm enterprise in that county. As a clergyman of the United Baptist Church he has been earnest and zealous in his service for thirty-seven years. In the high school at Paintsville, Kentucky, Asa E. McCoy was graduated as a member of the class of 1901, and he then entered the employ of the J. S. Walker Lumber Company, with which he continued his alliance three and one-half years in the capacity of bookkeeper and timekeeper. For nine and one-half years thereafter he was bookkeeper for the D. E. Hewet Lumber Company, engaged in the lumber business at Huntington, West Virginia. His next venture was made in 1920, when he engaged in the automobile business at Ironton, his energy, ability and progressive policies having here been potent in his upbuilding of a substantial and prosperous business. He is a member of the Business Men's Club of Ironton, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Baptist Church. His paternal grandparents, Asa P. and Caroline McCoy, continued to reside in Kentucky until their death, as did also his maternal grandparents, Christopher and Ella Goble. He is the second in a family of eight children, his eldest sister, Caroline, being married and a resident of Kentucky; Christopher, James P. and Monroe are likewise married and well established in life; Kenis is deceased; Jarva is unmarried, and Ella is married. In Martin County, Kentucky, on the 27th of November, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Asa E. McCoy and Miss Brilla Williamson, daughter of Samuel B. and Mary Williamson, who still reside in Kentucky, where the father is a substantial farmer in Martin County, both he and his wife being members of the United Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy have five children: Wray, Scott, Harley, Tressa and Helena. ALEXANDER GREER DRURY, M. D., has been engaged in practice at Cincinnati since September, 1869, and has enjoyed many distinguished honors in his profession. He was born across the river from Cincinnati at Covington, February 3, 1844, son of Asa and Elizabeth Williams (Getchell) Drury. He is a graduate of Centre College in Kentucky, took his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1868, and the Medical College of Ohio awarded him the same degree in 1878. He served as district physician at Cincinnati in 1874-75, as professor of dermatology in the Laura Memorial Woman's Medical College from 1890 to 1900, as professor of hygiene from 1901 to 1910, and in 1910 has been professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. He held all the important offices in the Academy of Medicine in Cincinnati, and is a member of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, the Cincinnati Research Society, the Ohio Society Sons of the Revolution, and since 1906 has been president of the Cincinnati Folk Lore Society. He is author of "Legends of the Apple," and "Dante-Physician." SAMUEL HORCHOW, a prominent citizen of Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Brody, Austria (now Poland), on February 13, 1867. He died in Columbus, Ohio, on March 21, 1924. He was the son of Isaac and Masie (Dachs) Horchow. His parents were reared in Austria and were of the fine Jewish stock that added so much to the prosperity of the then dual monarchy under many handicaps. His father was a broker, and, possessed of an unusually fine education, devoted much of his time to authorship in the field of Hebrew literature. As was the custom, Samuel Horchow received a sound Hebrew education in his early years before entering the public schools of Brody. In all his work he took very high rank and graduated with highest honors. Not content with this excellent preparation, he entered the University of Vienna, and after a brilliantly studious career, in which he specialized in law, he graduated with honors in 1889. For several years he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Vienna, and then, having fulfilled his military obligations (compulsory military service was then the custom in Austria), he came to the land of opportunity. Arriving in New York in April, 1892, some six months' residence there persuaded him that HISTORY OF OHIO - 197 greater opportunities awaited him elsewhere, and he came to Portsmouth, Ohio. There he resided until his death. He first entered the business world on a very modest scale in the sale of pictures and house furnishing goods. From these humble beginnings he rose by slow steps until at the time of his death the Samuel Horchow Company was one of the largest firms in the state (excepting a few in the larger cities), engaged in the sale of furniture and house furnishing goods of every description. On February 12, 1893, at Portsmouth, he married Miss Laura Brillant, of Brody, Austria, daughter of Rebecca and Joseph Brillant, both of whom were natives of Austria. This was the culmination of a romance of school and college days. To this happy union were born three sons: Joseph, Reuben and Leo. At their father 's death Joseph and Leo assumed the active management of his business, in which they had been closely associated with him during his life. Samuel Horchow was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, an Elk, a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a Modern Woodman of America and most active in the B'nai B 'rith. As a leader of the work of the Bureau of Community Service he did much to put the philanthropic and charitable work of his city on a sound and generous basis. He was a leader in civic and public affairs, a good citizen, a good Jew. His community and state mourned his untimely death. HENRY H. HOPPE is one of the successful younger members of the bar of Trumbull County and is engaged in practice in the City of Warren, the county seat, where he is a member of the representative law firm of Fillius & Fillius. Henry Herman Hoppe was born in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 24th of June, 1894, and that city has ever continued the home of his parents, Henry and Frances (Wuebben) Hoppe, the former of whom was there born July 5, 1861, and the latter on the 22d of March, 1867. Henry Hoppe at the age of fourteen years became associated with the Western German Bank, now the Western Bank & Trust Company, of Cincinnati, with which institution he has continued his active association during the long intervening period of forty-four years, and of which he is now the vice president. He is one of the substantial business men and progressive citizens of his native city and is a republican in politics. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic Church, and he holds at the time of this writing influential membership in Archbishop Elder Council of the Knights of Columbus. Of the five children the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, his eldest sister, Gertrude W., being the wife of John Tuke, vice president of the Sun Mutual Insurance Company at Cincinnati ; Louella is the wife of Adam Mueller, who is now engaged in farm enterprise near Sierra Madre, California ; Hermina remains at the parental home; Marie is the wife of Carl Mitchell, a contractor and builder in Cincinnati. Henry H. Hoppe attended Notre Dame Academy at Cincinnati for a period of five years, thereafter was a student three years in St. Xavier College, that city, and in 1912 he was there graduated from Walnut Hills High School. He then entered the University of Cincinnati, and in this institution he was graduated in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next completed a three years' course in the Law School of Harvard University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1919 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar on the 4th of July of that year, and forthwith chose Warren as the stage of his professional work, he having here become, on the 1st of April, 1922, an associate member of the law firm of Fillius & Fillius, with offices on the seventh floor of the Western Reserve Bank Building. Mr. Hoppe has effectively demonstrated his ability both as a trial lawyer and as a counselor, the while he has proved the solidity and comprehensiveness of his legal knowledge. He is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the republican party, is an active communicant of the Catholic Church, is a member of the parish of St. Mary's Church in Warren, and is affiliated with Warren Council No. 620, Knights of Columbus, and Warren Lodge No. 295, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as is he also with the Phi Delta Theta, the Tau Kappa Alpha and the Sigma Sigma college fraternities. He is identified with the Ohio State Bar Association, besides being a member of the Trumbull County Bar Association. He is a member of the Trumbull County Country Club, and is a stockholder in the Second National Bank of Warren. On the 29th of April, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoppe and Miss Helen Flanagan, daughter of John and Margaret (Kelley) Flanagan, her father being a retired manufacturer who was long connected with the Black Diamnod Paint & Varnish Company of Cincinnati. Mrs. Hoppe is a graduate of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, from whieh she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. and Mrs. Hoppe have three children: 0 'Ine, who was born March 13, 1921; Dorothy Louise, who was born March 31, 1923, and Henry H. Hoppe, Jr., who was born September 20, 1924. Dominic Hoppe, grandfather of Henry H. Hoppe, was born in Ostenabruck, Hanover, Germany, was reared and educated in his native land, and there served his allotted term in the German army. He was a young man when he came to the United States. From New Orleans he proceeded up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and established his residence in Cincinnati, where he became a successful commission merchant, as head of the firm of D. Hoppe & Company, and where he passed the remainder of his life. HARRY PERKINS SPARLING, M. D. A physician and surgeon at London, Madison County, for fifteen years, Doctor Sparling represents the third consecutive generation of the Sparling family to practice medicine in the State of Ohio. His grandfather, Wyndham Sparling, was born in Ireland, graduated from Queen Anne's Medical College in 1848, and for some time was in the medical service of the British navy as ship's physieian. Coming to the United States, he settled in Noble County, Ohio, and practiced medicine there, earning a high place in the community. He married in Ireland and had two sons, one of whom continued the profession of medicine in the family, while the other took up the law. Doctor Francis Ridley Sparling, the second generation in the medical profession, was born in Noble County, Ohio, was educated in public schools there and in Washington County, and in 1880 was graduated from the Starling Medical College of Columbus. For forty years he was one of the ablest physicians in Washington County, a man of rare public spirit and faithful in all his relationships. He died at Marietta in 1922. In 1881 he married Carrie Perkins, daughter of Ezra Perkins, one of the old-time citizens of Washington County. She died at Marietta in 1923. They had a family of four sons and two daughters. One of the sons, Wyndham Clyde Sparling, while a student in the Starling Medical Col- 198 - HISTORY OF OHIO lege at Columbus in 1913 was awarded the Carnegie medal and the $1,000 in money for his bravery in rescuing people during the great flood of that year. Doctor Harry Perkins Sparling, son of the late Dr. Francis Ridley Sparling, was born in Washington County, Ohio, November 23, 1883. He is a graduate of the Marietta High School, also of Marietta College, and took his medical course in Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the Ohio State University at Columbus. After graduating in 1910 he spent a year as house surgeon in Mount Carmel Hospital at Columbus, and since then has been engaged in a general medical and surgical practice at London. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the London Country Club. In politics he is a republican. Doctor Sparling married at Columbus, in February, 1910, Miss Estella Murphy, daughter of William H. and Mary Murphy, of Columbus. Their four children are: Harold, born in 1911; William, born in 1912; Mary Catherine, born in 1913, and Jean Margaret, born in 1915. ROBERT MITCHELL BURTON, one of the most prominent of Cincinnati manufacturers, was born in that city, July 7, 1864, son of Stephen Remington and Jane (Mitchell) Burton. He was educated in the Harcourt Academy at Gambier, Ohio, and the St. Paul School at Concord, New Hampshire, and ten years of his early life were spent in the stove foundry industry and four years in the hotel kitchen outfitting business. Since 1896 he has been one of the leading American manufacturers of laundry machinery. He is president of the American Laundry Machinery Company, a director of the Canadian Laundry Machinery Company, of the Burton Range Company, the Robert Mitchell Furniture Company, Fourth and Central Trust Company, the First National Bank of Norwood. He is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. He married Mary Tylor of Cincinnati, October 24, 1889. SAMUEL K. HUGHES. A busy life devoted to farming, stock raising and many associated interests made the late Samuel K. Hughes, of Butler County, a notable Ohioan of his generation. He was a type of constructive figure who did business combined with public welfare, so that the efficiency with which he directed all his affairs constituted in an important measure a source of direct benefit to a large community. Mr. Hughes died at his home on the Monroe Road, just off the Dixie Highway south of Middletown, August 7, 1924. He had been known for nearly forty years as "the Sage of Lesourdsville." His farm was at the old postoffice at Lesourdsville. He was born at his father's homestead in Lemon Township of Butler County, November 1, 1839, and had attained the impressive age of nearly eighty-five when he died. His grandfather, Elijah Hughes, came from Maryland with his family in the early '20s of the last century. He occupied a tract of land with a log cabin home, and followed his trade of blacksmith, while his sons worked in the fields. He was one of the sturdy pioneers, doing well for his family and for the community. He was liberal in supporting the church and entertaining the early ministers. His death occurred in 1852. Several of his sons became prominent in the financial affairs of Butler County, Micajah being organizer and first president of the First National Bank of Hamilton, and was succeeded in that office by another brother, Philip. Daniel Hughes, the oldest son of Elijah Hughes, was one of the children who drove across the country from Baltimore to Southern Ohio. He acquired the old homestead between Hamilton and Middletown, eight miles from Hamilton, on the Dixie Highway, and in the course of time developed an estate of 500 acres, including some of the finest farming lands in the marvelously rich Miami Valley. He died July 14, 1884, at the age of seventy-nine. He was a democrat in politics and an earnest and high-minded citizen at all times. He married Ann B. Kain, daughter of Samuel Kain. She was a very devout Methodist. She died in 1877. Their children were: Mary Jane, who married Job Mulford; Elijah; Sarah, who died in infancy, and Samuel K. Samuel K. Hughes received his early education in a log schoolhouse and was well trained in the arts of farming by his father. In 1884 he and his brother Elijah took charge of the homestead, and for over forty years they continued its operation interests, was a director in the Monroe National Bank, and a stockholder in other banks, manufacturing and coal mining corporations, and was president of the Union Town Coal & Mining Company. For fifteen years he served as president of the Butler County Agricultural Board, helping make the Butler County Fair one of the best organizations of the kind in the state. His remarkable range of business interests and the efficiency with which he administered them made him respected as an authority on agricultural, country life, economic and political problems. He was a contributor to some of the leading newspapers in Southern Ohio. His argumentative articles were characterized by a vigor and conviction that distinguished them from so much of the colorless writings of modern editors and political leaders. He was a stalwart democrat and a keen student of all national and international affairs, and enjoyed intercourse by correspondence and otherwise with many of the notable men of the opposite party, including Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. In some in partnership. Mr. Hughes acquired other landed of his political writings he showed himself far ahead of his time. A number of years ago he suggested to Congress a tariff commission, instead of allowing the tariff to be a recurring subject for political debates in the halls of Congress. He made that suggestion years before the modified tariff commission was created. Until the last few days of his life he was interested in politics and listened over the radio to both the sessions of the democratic and republican national conventions of 1924. Five years before the outbreak of the World war the Lesourdsville sage contributed an article to the Middletown-Signal, in which he described European conditions and foretold the World war and the alignment of the European nations as they were later found on the battle front. In 1909 he urged upon the United States and England a working alliance which would serve to check the hopes and ambitions of German imperialism. Mr. Hughes was twice married, his wives being sisters, daughters of Joseph and Louisa Boudinet. Their father was a native of France and their mother of Germany, and they were married in Butler County. Mr. Boudinet died in 1901 and his widow on June 17, 1902. The first wife of Mr. Hughes was Hattie Belle Boudinet. She possessed a liberal culture, and was especially interested in painting, an artistic taste which her husband shared. After her death Mr. Hughes married Mary E. Boudinet, who survives him. WALTER ADAMS DRAPER, a business man, civic and social worker at Cincinnati, was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, November 20, 1870, son of Francis Asbury and Elizabeth Jane (Adams) Draper. He is a graduate HISTORY OF OHIO - 199 of the Ohio Wesleyan University. From 1893 to 1902, Mr. Draper was a reporter with the Cincinnati Enquirer, was associate editor and publisher of The Observer in 1900-01, and from 1902 to 1907, was secretary of the Cincinnati Zoological Company. He was secretary of the Cincinnati Traction Company, Ohio Traction Company and the Cincinnati Car Company from 1907 to 1913, and since 1913 has been vice president of those corporations. He has served as president of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, as director of the Council of Social Agencies, as a trustee of the Zoological Park Association, the University School, the Bethany Home for Boys and is a member of some of the city 's most prominent clubs. WALTER L. COLLINS is the present superintendent of schools of West Alexandria, .Preble County, and has given most of his time for the past ten years to educational work. He was born at New Madison, Ohio, attended public schools there, graduating from high school in 1908, and finished his education in Lebanon University and Wilmington College. Mr. Collins did some of his early work as a teacher at Springboro in Warren County, and for four years was technical director of the Young Men's Christian Association at Columbus. From there he came to the West Alexandria schools, but subsequently resigned the position to engage in business, and in the meantime was elected and became president of the local Board of Education. In 1924 he again accepted an urgent call to his former vocation, and in the fall of 1924 again became superintendent of schools. Mr. Collins married, September 5, 1911, Miss Mabel Reynolds, daughter of Del A. and Jessie (Allread) Reynolds. They have three children: Paul, Walter, Jr., and Mary Louise. Mr. Collins is a member of the Methodist Church and a thirty-second degree Mason. WALTER E. HUTTON, proprietor of the flour mills at Frankfort in Ross County, has spent his life in that community. He is an Honored ex-serviee man of the World war, giving more than a year and a half to the service, most of the time overseas. He was born at Frankfort, December 19, 1894, Son of Elias and Jennie (Santee) Hutton, and grandson of Clement W. and Nancy M. (Cochran) Hutton, and of George W. and Delia (Briggs) Santee. The Huttons are of old English stock and came to Ohio from Virginia. Clement W. Hutton was a soldier in the Civil war with the Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded. For many years he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Santee family is of remote French ancestry. Elias Hutton and wife are residents of Frankfort. He established a milling business there many years ago, and only retired recently when he sold the mills to his son Walter. He is active in the Presbyterian Church and its Sunday School, and is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Redmen. Walter is the oldest of four children. George D. married Katherine Hunter. Joseph M. is unmarried, and the son Franklin, died in 1902. Walter E. Hutton attended school at Frankfort, graduating from high school in 1913, and spent one year in Ohio University at Athens. As a youth and young man he worked in his father 's mills, learning the business from the mechanical as well as the business office standpoint. He had experience in practically every department and kept books for several years. On October 24, 1917, he enlisted for service in the Engineers' Corps, spending seven days at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and was at Camp Meade, Maryland, from November 1, 1917, to February, 1918. Leaving for Hoboken and going overseas, his command landed at St. Nazaire, was sent to a training camp, and his first active duty was in road construetion work in the St. Mihiel sector, where he remained from April to August, 1918. They then did road construction work at Les Bains for sixty days, and Mr. Hutton was in the Officers Company Supply Department, S. 0. S. He was on road construction work at a small town named Vignory, and then at Joinville, where as a result of special order he left for home, sailing from Marseilles and landing at Hoboken, May 10, 1919. After six days at Camp Mills he received his honorable discharge, and, returning to Frankfort, at once resumed work in his father 's mill. On September 10, 1923, he bought out the business, and is now giving it his undivided attention. Mr. Hutton is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and is a member of Post No. 483 of the American Legion. He married at Washington Court House, Ohio, February 10, 1920, Miss Jane Paul, daughter of John and Alice Paul. Her father, who died in 1918, was a Union soldier in the Civil war, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a farmer by occupation and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hut-ton's brother and sisters were: John Rankin, who married Ada Woodward and had a daughter, Virginia, who died at the age of fourteen months; Grace, who married T. C. McArthur, and of her two children the one living is William; Helen married Jacob Elliott; and Clemmer married. Margaret Hunt, and has a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton have one son, James: MALLY SIGEL DAUGHERTY, brother of Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general of the United States in the Harding and Coolidge administration, has always kept his home and his principal interests in his native Town of Washington Court House, while his brother many years ago moved to Columbus to engage in law practice and has since become a figure in state and national affairs. Mally Sigel Daugherty was born at Washington Court House, April 2, 1862, son of John H. and Jane A. (Draper) Daugherty. Her father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1836, and came to Ohio when a boy and followed the business of merchant tailor at Washington Court House until he died in 1864. Of his four sons two died in infancy, leaving Harry M. and Mally S. Harry M. Daugherty is two years older than his brother, the banker. M. S. Daugherty was educated in the public schools of Washington Court House, and for many years has devoted his time and attention to banking. In 1905 he became cashier of the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House. At that time the resources of the bank were $300,000. This bank was incorporated in 1892. As cashier and president Mr. Daugherty has made this one of the strongest banks in that part of Ohio. It has a capital of $100,000 and resources approximating $1,723,000. He is also president of the. Commercial Bank of Morris Sharp & Company, organized as a private bank in 1883, with a capital of $50,000. Its present resources are $1,427,000. The combined resources of these banks are $3,000,000. Mr. Daugherty is the leading influence in the financial life of Fayette County, and he is also interested in many manufacturing and business industries. Mr. Daugherty is affiliated with the Methodist Church, is a Mason, is trustee and past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Board of Governors, of the Wash-