200 - HISTORY OF OHIO ington Country Club and during the World war was chairman of the Fayette County War Council, Chairman of War Savings Stamp Committee and chairman of the Fayette County War Chest, which raised $200,000 by local subscription. He married Miss Lizzie Hegler, daughter of a prominent farmer of Fayette County. She was educated in Washington Court House and Miss Armstrong's private school at Cincinnati. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cecilian Musical Club and the Ladies of the Grand Army. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty had two children; the daughter, Janet, dying in 1890, in infancy. A son, Harry Ellis, born in 18874 married Lorene Martin, and has a daughter, Janet Francis. Mr. Daugherty is fond of travel and has spent nearly every winter in Florida for a number of years and has also been in old Mexico. Like many able men, though he has multifarious duties and demands upon his hands, he is never apparently hurried and accomplishes a volume of work that is astounding to his associates. He has made business both a matter of duty and his hobby, and through his business he has rendered his most important service to the public welfare. THE CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY. A circulating library was established at Camden in Preble County by the Philomathean Club, which was organized in 1895 and federated in 1896. A stock company owned the circulating library, the librarian being a local merchant, Mr. Oliver Brown. Tickets were finally sold at a dollar each to the public spirited citizens, and after the club members put themselves behind the proposition the City Council took it over and eventually a levy was made on the city funds for its support. But for several years past the school board has had the official management of the library, and it is supported by a fund of about $1,500 annually. The present library occupies a large, well lighted room in the Masonic Temple Building. It contains over three thousand volumes and all the current magazines, and has a large patronage and circulation. The official board of the library at the present writing is Dr. Frank E. Fisher, president ; Mrs. S. E. Homsher, vice president; Mrs. Amy Danger, secretary; Miss Laverna Smith, treasurer ; Mayor S. L. Yochum and Miss May Robinson, directors, and Mrs. Arthur Gilmore, librarian. ALBERT SCHOLL. A boy printer, a worker in newspaper offices, Albert Scholl, of Chillicothe, started business on his own account with an outfit vastly inferior to his personal skill and taste in typography. Mr. Scholl is a master of his craft, and in the course of years has developed one of the best equipped printing, engraving and book-binding establishments in Ohio. He was born at Chillicothe, April 14, 1873. His grandfather, Johann Adam Scholl, was born in Baden, Germany, nine miles from the university city of Heidelberg, in 1807. He learned the weaver 's trade. In 1846, accompanied by his wife and four children, he came to the United States, and after a year at Columbus located in Chillicothe, where he lived until his death in 1895, at the age of eighty-eight. He married Magdaline Pommert, who was born in Baumenthal, Germany, in 1807, and died in Chillicothe in 1899. One of the brothers of Adam Scholl came to America and lived in Buffalo, New York, and later in Iowa, where he died, the father of three sons. The sister of Adam Scholl married a Mr. Scholl, not related, and they settled in Algiers, Africa, taking up land there under the French government. Another sister went to London, England. The eldest son of Adam Scholl, George Frederick, moved to Livermore, Kentucky, and his son went to St. Louis, Missouri. George Frederick served as a soldier in the Mexican war and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, being in an Indiana regiment under Gen. Phil Sheridan. He died in 1924, at the age of ninety-seven years. Nicholas Scholl, father of the Chillicothe printer, was born in Mannheim, Germany, in November, 1843, and is now eighty years of age. He attended school in Chillicothe three years, and learned the cooper 's trade, and throughout his life has been distinguished by an inventive genius. He invented and took out a patent on an ironing board, and subsequently invented an ironing stand, founding the Eclipse Manufacturing Company for the manufacture and sale of this device. Nicholas Scholl was a Union soldier in Company F of the One Hundred Forty-ninth Ohio Infantry. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Frederika Gunther, who was born at Chillicothe, a daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Stroacker) Gunther, natives of Germany. The children of Nicholas Scholl and wife were: Walter, who died when four years old; George F., who married Katherine Long, of Chillicothe, and is now a traveling salesman, living at Columbus; William G., chief rate clerk of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Madisonville, Ohio, who married Mary E. Beymer ; Albert, the subject of this sketch; Lloyd R., who is superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Cincinnati, and married Minnie Shelden; Sarah Elizabeth, and Mary M. and Nellie, twins. These three daughters live in Chillicothe, and Sarah Elizabeth and Mary are actively associated with their brother Albert in the printing business and have charge of the office and books of the concern. Mr. Albert Scholl, the subject of this sketch, attended the Chillicothe grammar school, and when thirteen years of age left school to begin an apprenticeship in the job printing office of George B. Moore, of Chillicothe. After two years he joined the job department of the Scioto Gazette, and for nine years was foreman of the Daily News office, then owned by Rufus Putnam. This is now the News Advertiser. For an interval of two years Mr. Scholl was out of the printing business, conducting a dairy farm, and in 1894 was appointed truant officer and assistant librarian, positions he held two years. On August 15, 1898, he started his job printing business with a capital of $26 and an old Gordon foot press made in 1850. For a time he did practically all the work in the office, and has always given a close supervision to the technical and artistic details of the business, a fact that has no doubt been responsible for its rapid growth and development. The Scholl Printing Company does business all over Ohio and in adjoining states. Mr. Scholl has served as vice president of the Ohio Printers' Federation. While building up an important business he has interested himself in the civic life of his home community. For fifteen years he was a director of the Chamber of Commerce, was a director of the old Scioto Valley Fair Association, and since 1918 has been president of the city council, a position that makes heavy demands upon his time. He has taken particular interest in all street and municipal improvements. As a direct result of his personal supervision the city closed its books in 1922 with cash on hand of over $15,000, and all bills paid in every department. This contrasts with previous records of deficits ranging from thirty to seventy-five per cent. During the World war Mr. Scholl had many extraordinary duties, both as a leader of the community and in handling the unusual problems caused by the presence of 65,000 or more soldiers at Camp HISTORY OF OHIO - 201 Sherman. He was chairman of the entertainment committee of the camp, and was one of the committeemen of the Community Chest and the Red Cross drives. In January, 1924, he was appointed president of the Chillicothe Park Commission by Mayor Minshall. Mr. Scholl is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Eastern Star, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Eagles, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Sons of Veterans, the Protective Home Circle, the Rotary Club, the Country Club and United Commercial Travelers. He is one of the prominent Masons of the state, and has taken all the degrees and orders in the York and Scottish rites. He was made a Master Mason in October, 1894. He served as high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter in 1908, and was given the order of high priesthood at Toledo, September 24, 1919. He has filled all the offices in the Council of Royal and Select Masters, and has held chairs in the Chillicothe Commandery of the Knights Templar, and in 1919 he completed the Scottish Rite degrees, including the thirty-second, in the Consistory at Columbus. In May, 1919, he became a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. His service has been conspicuous in the Grand Council. For seven years he was assistant to the right illustrious grand recorder, and for a year assisted in the details of the office during the final illness of the grand recorder, Wm. E. Evans. He was appointed grand representative of the Grand Council of Florida in 1921, and his present office, to which he was elected in 1924, is right illustrious deputy grand master, of Ohio. On November 15, 1894, at Chillicothe, Mr. Scholl married Miss Rosa Myrtle Burgoon, who was born at Chillicothe, May 8, 1873, daughter of William and Ellen (Thatcher) Burgoon. Mrs. Scholl's brothers and sisters were: Lucius, a bookkeeper for the Hertenstein Lumber Company of Chillicothe, who married Elizabeth Trego and has a son, Willard, now chief chemist for the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron; Albert, who now lives at Springfield, Missouri, and who married Anna Offenhouser, of Chillicothe, and their four children are Edna, Katherine, Marjorie and Helen Laura ; George, who lives at Chillicothe, Ohio, and by his marriage to Della Motes, of Vigo, Ohio, has five children, Mildred, Bernice, Donald, Raymond and Helen (who married Russell Von Clausburg, of Chillicothe) ; Clara, wife of Lloyd Dunn, of Columbus, and the mother of a daughter, Beatrice; Mattie, wife of Marion Mackey, of Columbus; and Annie, wife of Otis Delong, of Chillicothe, and the mother of a daughter, Ruth Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Scholl have one daughter, Diathea Centura, who was born January 1, 1901, and was the twentieth century child of the state. She has made a brilliant record in scholarship. After graduating from the Chillicothe High School in 1917, she entered the Ohio State University, graduating in arts and education in 1922, winning the Ohio scholarship in Ohio State and many other honors. Her scholarship honors gave her membership in the fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. She is a teacher in the Chillicothe High School at the head of the history department, and in June, 1923, she was awarded the Master 's degree by Ohio State University. She also won memberships in the National Educational Association for Women and in the National Historical Association. RAYMOND MINSHALL CHESELDINE, former newspaper publisher, now engaged its publicity and advertising work with headquarters at Columbus, is a resident of London, Ohio. He had an interesting service in the World war, being captain in the old Fourth Ohio Infantry, which in the National Army was the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry, in service with the Rainbow Division. Captain Cheseldine was born at London, April 4, 1892, son of Charles and Minnie (Minshall) Cheseldine. Hhis mother was born at London. His father was born at Williamsburg, Ohio, April 10, 1863, and died at London in February, 1908. Raymond Minshall Cheseldine graduated from the London High School in 1910, and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University, where he finished the course with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1914. In the university he specialized in science and English literature, with special work in newspaper and short story writing. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Immediately after graduating Mr. Cheseldine started on a one year trip around the world with his brother, K. G. Cheseldine. They were in Italy on July 29, 1914, when the first events of the great war started in Servia. He remained in Italy during the early phases of the gathering storm, acting with the American Relief Committee at Rome and Naples, assisting Americans to get passage home. In September, 1914, he returned to the United States. During the winter of 1914 and the spring of 1915 he was employed as a reporter on the London (Ohio) Times. On June 30, 1915, he married, at Los Angeles, California, Miss Dorothy Canfield, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Canfield, of Los Angeles. Their children are Dorothy, Elizabeth, Sue and Charles Canfield. Returning to London, he was connected with the Madison National Bank during the winter of 1915, as assistant cashier and director until July, 1916. As a member of the Ohio National Guard, with the rank of first lieutenant in Company C of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, he was called to service for Mexican border duty in July, 1916. At that time he also purchased the London Times, a weekly, and with Ed. S. Neese and L. C. Peyton, organized and started a semi-weekly newspaper, called the Madison Press. Captain Cheseldine was on the Mexican border until March 4, 1917, when he resumed his newspaper work at London as editor and manager of the Madison Press. In July, 1917, he was again called to the colors, for the World war, resuming his old post, as first lieutenant of Company C in the Fourth Ohio Infantry. When this National Guard Regiment was mustered into the National Army, becoming the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division, Captain Cheseldine went overseas with that unit, and in November, 1917, was assigned to Supply Company of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry in France. He was second in command of the supply company until July, 1918, and then took command, being promoted to captain and regimental supply officer. He served in that capactiy until mustered out on May 20, 1919. His duties in France included 120 days in the trenches in the Luneville and Baccarat sectors. He was in the Champagne defensive from July 14 to 20, 1918; in the Aisne-Marne offensive, including the second battle of the Marne, from July 25 to August 4, 1918; in the St. Mihiel offensive. September 12 to 29, 1918; the Meuse-Argonne offensive, from October 14 to November 7, 1918. From November 11, 1918, the date of the signing of the armistice, until April 6, 1919, he was assigned duty with the Army of Occupation in Germany. On April 18, 1919, he sailed for the United States, and was mustered out at Camp Sherman on May 20. In July, 1919, Captain Cheseldine again became editor and manager of the Madison Press. He held that post of duty until November 25, 1921. In the meantime he had been elected a member of the 202 - HISTORY OF OHIO Republican State Central Committee from the Seventh Congressional District, serving two years. In December, 1921, he formed a partnership with Robert Read, of Columbus, making the firm of Cheseldine & Read, publicity and advertising. He was appointed on the staff of Governor Davis in 1921, with the rank of major. Major Cheseldine was appointed superintendent of budget and assistant finance director of the State of Ohio by Gov. Harry L. Davis, May, 1922, serving until February 8, 1923, having resigned with the change of administration. The adjutant general of Ohio appointed him historian of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry to write the official war record of the old Fourth Ohio Infantry, which in the World war was the One Hundred Sixteenth United States Infantry. Major Cheseldine has served as a member of the Village Council of London. He is commander of Madison Post No. 105, American Legion, is state president of the Ohio Rainbow Division Veterans, president of the London Chamber of Commerce, and has fraternal affiliations with the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a member of the Methodist Church. EDWIN C. GIBBS. A Cincinnati citizen to whom that community is under obligation for many services, Edwin C. Gibbs, was born there May 7, 1859, son of Ira B. and Margaret (Clark) Gibbs. In 1884 he engaged in the marine insurance business, and was active in that line until he retired in 1915. A special object of his public work has been the improvement of waterways. He served several terms as president of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, as chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, is a member and director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, and during the World war was regional advisor of the War Industry Board. He is former president of the Business Men's Club, the Cincinnati Commercial Club and the Optimist Club, and is a member of the national Institute of Social Sciences. GEORGE W. RITTENOUR, lawyer and coal mine operator at Piketon in Pike County, represents one of the very oldest families of the State of Ohio. The Rittenours came here when it was a part of the Northwest Territory, and were identified with some of the early settlements in Ross County, where members of the family are still prominent. The pioneer of the family in the West was Anthony Rittenour, who was born and reared in Rockingham County, Virginia. In 1798, accompanied by his wife and children, he came to the Northwest Territory and settled on Government land in Jefferson Township of Ross County. With the assistance of his sons he made a home, and farmed, and lived there until his death in 1835. His wife, Elizabeth Fletcher, was, like him, of German ancestry. They were liberal contributors toward the building of the old stone church of the Methodist denomination in their community of Ross County. Jacob Rittenour, a son of Anthony, was born in Virginia, February 15, 1787, and he grew up on the frontier in Ohio. He was a farmer in Ross County, and died October 15, 1882. His life's span was almost a century, beginning the year the Federal Constitution was made, and he was a witness of the successive periods in the development of the West from the War of 1812 to the Civil war, and the introduction of all the mechanical inventions that produced the mechanical revolution of the nineteenth century. His wife, Anna Claypool, was also a native of Virginia, and of English ancestry, being a descendent of a daughter of Oliver Cromwell. Her father, Abraham Claypool, came to Ohio in 1799, and was a member of the first State Constitutional Convention and the first State Senate, both of which convened at Chillicothe. George C. Rittenour, son of Jacob and Anna (Claypool) Rittenour, was born in Jefferson Township, Ross County, March 11, 1825, and spent all his life in that community, where he died December 30, 1915, when nearly ninety-one years of age. He was actively interested in the hardware and farm implement business at Chillicothe, but for the most part devoted his business energy to the management of the large accumulation of farm lands and other invested interests. On September 1, 1857, he married Elizabeth Sargent, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, daughter of Thornton Williams and Elizabeth (Mustard) Sargent. She died July 29, 1911, aged seventy-eight. Thornton Sargent Rittenour, oldest son of George C. Rittenour and wife, was born and reared in Ross County, but for many years has been a successful farmer in Pike County. He has a large group of business interests, and is president of the Piketon National Bank. Thornton S. Rittenour married Jennie Higby, and they occupy a fine home at Piketon, in keeping with the place of leadership Thornton S. Rittenour had so long enjoyed there. George W. Rittenour, only son of Thornton S. Rittenour, and representing the fifth generation of the Rittenour family in Ohio, was born at Piketon, February 6, 1886. After his graduation from the Piketon High School in 1904, George W. Rittenour passed two years as a student in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and he then entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909 and with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In prepartion for his chosen profession he had the distinction of attending the law schools of both Yale and Harvard universities, and it was from the former that he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1912. He was a popular member of the fraternal and social organizations, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi, and Corby Court. The year in which Mr. Rittenour received his degree of Bachelor of Laws was marked also by his admission to the Ohio bar and by his initiating the practice of law in his native town of Piketon, where he has continued to find ample scope for successful work in his profession, though his varied 'capitalistic and industrial interests demand no small measure of his time and attention. He is president of the corporation owning and operating the Mohawk coal mine near Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, and is vice president of the company controlling and operating the Freer coal mine at Birch Run, West Virginia. During the period of the nation's participation in the World war Mr. Rittenour gave the greater part of his time to the speeding up of production in the coal mines in which he is interested, and thus was able to make a valued contribution of patriotic order, fuel supplies being a matter of great moment to the Government in connection with war activities. In the war period Mr. Rittenour also served as a member of the legal advisory board of Pike County. He has retained a lively interest in athletic sports, and while a student at Yale University he was a member of the boat crew and otherwise active in student athletic affairs. In the City of Chicago, on the 16th of September, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rittenour and Miss Lillian Marple, daughter of William W. and Addie (Cave) Marple, of that city. Her father was one of the organizers of the Beatrice Creamery. HISTORY OF OHIO - 203 Mrs. Rittenour is the younger of two children. Her brother, Edward A., is manager of the Tip Top Creamery at Vincennes, Indiana, and has one child, William W., II, named in honor of his paternal grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour have one child, John Thornton. BENJAMIN B. PUTNAM, of Marietta, for many years connected with banking, contracting and other lines of business and industry, is a direct descendent of Israel Putnam of the War of the Revolution and of the Putnam family so conspicuous in the first permanent settlement in Ohio. His great-grandfather was Samuel P. Hildreth, also a pioneer and one of the early Ohio historians. Benjamin B. Putnam was born November 5, 1871, at Hope, Vinton County, where the family lived temporarily while his father had charge of a charcoal iron furnace that had been built by Douglas Putnam. Soon after his birth his parents returned to Marietta to live in a house built by B. B. Putnam's great-grandfather, David Putnam. His mother and his sister continue to live in this old home, which has the distinction of having also been the home of the first bank established in the Northwest Territory. The father of B. B. Putnam was Samuel H. Putnam, who was born at Marietta in 1835, and died in 1912. Benjamin B. Putnam acquired his early education in the public schools of Marietta, the Marietta Academy, and owing to poor health sought outdoor employment, for nearly two years working as a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. This occupation brought about a complete change in his health. Soon afterward he was sent by the family to Illinois to take charge of a large estate owned by the Putnams, comprising 6,000 acres of rich Wabash River land. He remained there five years, clearing up 500 acres, and doing much to improve and put in cultivation the property. From 1895 to 1897 Mr. Putnam was an assistant bookkeeper in Chicago and then returned to Marietta, and engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business. He has organized a number of companies, and as member of the firm Foreman & Putnam handled many important contracts involving building construction. The last work handled by the firm was the Cabin Creek Refining Plant of the Pure Oil Company. Mr. Putnam's son and a brother of Mr. Putnam's former partner, E. M. Foreman, continued this contracting firm, and recently had the contract for extensive building additions to the West Virginia University. Mr. B. B. Putnam and his brother S. H. Putnam, formed a partnership for purchasing assets of institutes in liquidation, maintaining offices in Marietta, Pittsburgh and Seattle, Washington. They have specialized in taking over banks, industrial plants and business institutions bankrupt or nearly so. Mr. Putnam was one of the large owners of the Marietta Sand Company, which owned a fleet of boats. He sold most of his business interests in 1919, and has since devoted most of his time to his duties as trust officer of the First National Bank of Marietta, of which he is a director. While living in Illinois Mr. Putnam married Miss Lucy Hay, who was born at Fairfield, Illinois, daughter of Col. Lawrence P. Hay and a cousin of the late distinguished American statesman, John Hay. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Putnam are Ben H., George Hildreth and Pauline Webster. The son, Ben, six months before America entered the World war, joined the Marietta College contingent for ambulance service in France, and subsequently he went into training and was assigned to duty in the Aviation Corps, with the rank of first lieutenant. Getting a fluent command of the French language, he did much work as interpreter. He is the only one of his Marietta friends who escaped death during the war. He is now associated with E. M. Foreman in the contracting firm above noted. George Putnam is also a veteran of the World war, having been trained at Rockford, Illinois, and subsequently was assigned to duty with the mechanical department of the Royal English Flying Corps. He now has charge of the Seattle, Washington, business of Putnam Brothers. Mr. B. B. Putnam is affiliated with the Scottish Rite Consistory of Masons at Cincinnati, Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Kiwanis Club, the Elks, and is a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. JOHN H. MILLER. In the thriving little City of Dresden is established one of the important industrial concerns of Muskingum County, and this enterprise is that of the John Herman Miller Company, manufacturers of the celebrated "Footwarmer " brand of high-grade woolen hosiery. Of this company, which bears his name, John H. Miller is the treasurer, besides being treasurer and general manager of the allied corporation the J. H. Miller Sons Company, manufacturers of blankets and flannels. John Herman Miller was born at Freedom, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1876, and is a son of George William and Kathryn (Sanderbeck) Miller, the former of whom was born in Oldenburg, Germany, and the latter at Freedom, Pennsylvania, where she still maintains her home. George W. Miller, who was born in 1844 and died in 1895, was reared and educated in his native land and there learned the trade of stone cutter. In 1869 he came to the United States, after having served as a soldier in the war between Germany and Austria, and at Freedom, Pennsylvania, he engaged in the work of his trade. He became one of the substantial citizens and business men of that place, and there he continued to reside until his death, he having been a communicant of the Catholic Church, as is also his widow. Of their five children, John H., of this sketch, was the third in order of birth. After carrying forward his course of study in the public schools of his native place, John H. Miller took a course in the Duff Business College in the City of Pittsburgh. At the age of sixteen years he there assumed a clerical and bookkeeping position in the establishment of Kapner Brothers & Duga, woolen merchants. He remained in Pittsburgh seven years, and then, in 1900, came from that Pennsylvania city to Dresden, Ohio, and allied himself with the woolen manufactory whose plant is now utilized by the John Herman Miller Company. He was soon advanced to the position of superintendent of this woolen hosiery plant. In 1907 the original company was succeeded by the Forest City Woolen Mills Company, which ampilfied the scope of the enterprise by here establishing a second plant, to be devoted to the manufacturing of bed and automobile blankets and high-grade woolen flannels. In 1912 Mr. Miller became treasurer and general manager of the two allied companies, and eventually the virtual control of the two important idustries became vested in him. His vigorous and progressive policies have been potent in the substantial development of the business of the two corporations, the output of the factories being handled exclusively by the jobbing trade. Mr. Miller has proved a most liberal and loyal citizen during his residence in Muskingum County, and gave eight years of splendid administration as mayor of Dresden. He has shown lively interest in 204 - HISTORY OF OHIO all things touching the welfare and advancement of his home city, and has been specially zealous in improving conditions for the benefit of the young people of the community and the employes of the two manufacturing concerns with which he is identified and to which he himself first came in the capacity of employe. He is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his family are communicants of the Catholic Church. On the 7th of August, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller and Miss Minnie Roney, daughter of David and Kate (Comer) Roney, the former of whom was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, and the latter in Muskingum County, where she still resides, Mr. Roney having died in this county, and having been a blacksmith by trade and vocation. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born ten children, namely: John W., Frank H. Herman C. (deceased), Kathryn Grace, James DeWitt, David Lawrence, John Paul, Arthur Edwin, Donald Timothy and Mary Rose. John W. and Frank H. are now actively associated with the business interests of their father, and into the immediate family circle death has entered only once. EATON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Of those agencies which mould the thought and direct the activities of the people, one of the most important is the public library. Under ordinary conditions there are many who, through lack of opportunity, means or interest, would fail to come into contact with the literature of the present and the past, thereby denying themselves, or being denied the priceless boon of association with books. "Good books, like good friends, are the ones that last through the lengthened years," and a "lie cannot live either in literature or life." Thus it is that the public library when properly conducted, is one of the greatest needs of any live and growing community, and the people of the locality in which such an institution exists will be found to be far more advanced in intellect, general education and broad-mindedness than those who have been given no such opportunity for improvement. One of the well-ordered and popularly patronized libraries of Ohio is the public library at Eaton, which has shown marked growth and development since its inception. The Eaton _Public Library was started with only a handful of books, secured through the kind offices of friends, in the year 1899, in a back room of the St. Clair Building, at the corner of Main and Barron streets. On July 28, 1900, with Mayor A. M. Crisler at the head of the movement, and with funds received through public donations, it was incorporated with the following board of directors: A. M. Crisler, Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Reverend Prentiss, Mrs. Frank Homan, Mrs. Ada Spacht, Mrs. L. Stubbs, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. B. Moses and Mrs. Sarah Ortt. With this board it steadily grew and prospered and, having outgrown its original quarters, was installed at the corner of Main and Maple streets, in the room of William A. Smith and E. A. Deem. Mrs. Lida Gilmore Griswold became librarian, and under her capable and courteous management the institution again found itself too large for its rooms. Accordingly after careful consideration the Town of Eaton purchased the home of G. H. Eidson, at the corner of Barron and Decatur streets, its present location, rather than accept a Carnegie library with its strict stipulations. At the present time the Eaton Public Library is enjoying wide popularity and the most prosperous era of its history. Maj. William H. Ortt has been its greatest friend and benefactor, and the present officials include: president, Mrs. Mary G. Brooke; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Minnie Sylvester; directors, Mrs. Jennie Deem King, Hugh Gilmore, Albert Harris and Grant Hoover. The present librarian, Miss Josephine Hunt, who is most efficient in the discharge of her duties, is a member of a family noted for its fondness for good literature of all kinds, and inherits the family's predilection in this direction. She has a most capable and faithful assistant, Mrs. William Marsh. A BOOK— • "Now let us stop and think. Here is a link that binds; Here is a friend indeed For friendly hearts and minds." At present there are 8,199 volumes on the shelves, including history, the classics, poetry, fiction, etc.; tables of the best magazines, periodicals and newspapers direct from the press. The largest circulation for one day, up to the present writing, has been 302 books. "There are sermons in stones, books in running brooks and good in everything" to those who read and live. MILTON M. SMITH. As in some localities family names have long been identified with the professions or certain industries, so in Darke County, Ohio, for almost three quarters of a century the family name of Smith has been closely connected with merchandising. The oldest and the largest mercantile establishment at Arcanum, Ohio, was founded by John Smith, grandfather of Milton M. Smith, a prominent retired citizen of this place, who until recently was at the head of this prosperous enterprise. The Smiths of this section of Ohio came originally from Pennsylvania, and so numerous were they in early days that the present little City of Arcanum was at first called Smithtown. The grandfather, John Smith, had thirteen children. After coming to Ohio settlement was first made in Preble County, near Lewisburg. Later removal was made to Darke County, and in partnership with his brother, Samuel Smith, he engaged in the mercantile business in a village of 150 population that bore the name of Sampson and was situated two and one-half miles northwest of Arcanum. All trace of this little pioneer settlement has long since passed away. The history of Arcanum may be said to have begun with the coming of the railroad. The Smith brothers continued in partnership for four years. In the meanwhile, John Smith, father of Milton M. Smith, had grown up in the mercantile business, and when the Smith interests were transferred to Arcanum theirs was the first business house open to trade, and it has continued the largest and best managed mercantile establishment to the present day, by three generations of Smiths. Milton M. Smith was born at Arcanum, Ohio, one of a family of nine children. His father, John Smith, was born in Pennsylvania, and was ten years old when his parents moved to Ohio. He was a fine business man and an upright, honorable citizen. Milton M. Smith obtained his education in the Arcanum schools, and when eighteen years old, went into his father 's store, and helped by thrift, industry and good judgment to build up the business, of which he later became active head. For many years he was prominent in business circles, was a director in the First National Bank, and had other live interests. Mr. Smith was married at Dawn, Ohio, September 13, 1877, to Miss Sarah J. Shelly, of Knox County, Illinois, and they have had the following children: Carl, who is in the milling and elevator business at Arcanum, married Grace Dingledine, and they have two children, Harold and Dorothy; Grace, HISTORY OF OHIO - 205 who is the wife of Charles F. Unger, of Chicago; Howard, who married Ada Morrow, of Eaton, Ohio ; Mildred, who is Mrs. Willis Pleasant, of Pleasant Hill, Ohio ; and Joseph Shelly, who resides at Chicago. Mr. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1875. BURLEY HENRY SLAGLE. Recognized as one of the most alert and progressive young business men of Xenia, Burley Henry Slagle has built up so extensive a business in poster advertising that his concern is fast assuming national importance, and he is handling some of the most successful advertising campaigns now being waged. In addition to his work in behalf of his personal business he is very active in public affairs, and is a valued addition to Xenia and Greene County. Burley Henry Slagle was born in Hardin County, Ohio, February 25, 1880, a son of Isaac and Maria (Charlton) Slagle, and grandson of Francis Burley Slagle, a native of North Carolina. By occupation he was a farmer, and for many years he was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Nancy Comer, a native of Virginia. They came to Ross County, Ohio, after their marriage, and in 1853, located permanently in Hardin County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather of the Mr. Slagle of this review was Henry Charlton, a native of Maryland, and his wife was born at Old Town, Greene County, Ohio. Another old and honored family to which Mr. Slagle also belongs is that bearing the name of Monette. Isaac Slagle was a farmer of Hardin County, and specialized in breeding sheep and hogs. He was a member of the official board of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, and taught in its Sunday School. A staunch republican, he cast his first presidential vote for General Grant. After attending the local schools Burley Henry Slagle took a course at Ada, Ohio, College. In 1904 he went to Cucamonga, California, and was there associated with the Lucas Ranching Company from that year until 1907. In the meanwhile he bought a ranch and an interest in a newspaper that by 1907 demanded All of his time, so he resigned his position and was engaged in conducting it until 1911, in which year he exchanged it for eighty acres of fruit land in the San Quinn Valley. This he continued to conduct until he located at Xenia, in 1921. Upon coming to Ohio he closed a contract with the Poster Association of Chicago for the territory of Greene County, sold his fruit ranch and embarked in the poster business. Although from the start lie has carried on a very satisfactory business, within the past few months his operations have undergone a most remarkable expansion, and he is branching out into the surrounding counties and filling all the available space taken by large organizations from New York to California. Among the publicity and advertising contracts closed by him to date are those with the California Raisin Growers' Association, the Ford Company, Paige & Jewett, the Firestone Tire Company and the Quaker Oats Company. His talents are of a nature to particularly fit him for his present work, and through it he is stimulating business in a legitimate and healthy manner, and arousing the interest of the territory he covers in the goods produced by concerns of world-wide fame. On October 12, 1904, Mr. Slagle married at Delaware, Ohio, Miss Edith Stella Muncie, and they have one daughter, Idris Helen, who was born at Cucamonga, California. She attended school in California, and is now a student of the Xenia High School, where she is specializing in secretarial work. A fine spirit of mutual devotion is maintained between father and daughter. She made the trip from California to Ohio alone, as .she is very self-reliant. Very fond of pets and horses, she is an expert horsewoman, and when only seven years old received a prize for riding a Shetland pony and carrying a flag in a procession at Kenton, Ohio. Her love for Shetland ponies was awakened and stimulated by her father 's breeding of them for several years. She is one of the fortunate persons who can tame and attach any pet, and what she can accomplish in this direction is most remarkable. Not only is she a great lover of animals, but she possesses executive ability as well, and when only eleven years old organized a baseball team, of which she was a member, and she is interested in other forms of athletics. Since coming to Xenia she has joined the Garden Club, and Poster Art Auxiliary, of which she is an active member, and she belongs to the Reformed Church. Needless to say, she is the very apple of her father 's eye, and in her his deepest interests are centered, and no wonder, for she is worthy of the highest praise in her beauty and accomplishments. On August 11, 1924, Miss Idris Helen Slagle married Ola R. Woolary, who is a promising young business man of Xenia, engaged in the grocery business. Mr. Slagle is especially valuable to his community in the publicity he donates to the Garden Club, the Rotary Club, the Tuberculosis Drives, the Social Service League, American Legion, Greene County Chapter, American Red Cross, and other civic organization work, he never being too busy to give to such enterprise his best efforts. B. H. Slagle is a strong republican in politics, and was a worker in the Senator Marcus A. Hanna organization before he was of voting age and has always been on the firing line, always serving as a committeeman, but has never been willing to accept public office. He was offered the position of deputy sheriff of San Bernardino County, California, and superintendent of the year book department under the Harding administration, but refused both. He was a life political friend of the late President Harding, also of Senator Frank B. Willis, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. C. HOMER DURAND, engaged in the practice of law at Coshocton during the past five years, is a native of Ohio and has had an unusual legal and administrative experience in the twenty years since he graduated from law school. He was born at Toledo, Ohio, January 7, 1882. His great-grandfather came to Ohio from New York State, representing an old Essex County family of French Huguenot descent. The Durands became a prominent family in Lorain County, Ohio, where some of them still reside. One of the pioneers did much of the early surveying in that county. The grandfather of the Coshocton lawyer was born there, as was his father, Homer Durand. Homer Durand became a sailor very early in life. He acted as captain of some of the old sailing vessels on the Great Lakes, sailing out of the Port of Toledo, where he lived for many years, and died in 1908, at the age of seventy-two. C. Homer Durand was reared at Toledo, attended the public schools there, and in 1900 entered Ohio State University, taking both the academic and law courses. He was graduated in law in 1904, and in the same year was admitted to the bar on examination at Columbus. After three years in practice at Toledo he spent a short time in New York City and then at Cincinnati became managing secretary of the Personal Liberty League of Ohio. He had this administrative position for five years and at the same time practiced law. The work he did at 206 - HISTORY OF OHIO Cincinnati caused him to be called to Toronto, Canada, where for two years he was managing secretary of the Provincial Liberty League. He then went back to Cincinnati, and when America entered the World war he enlisted in the aircraft service at Akron, Ohio. He was an inspector in the non-combatant service when the armistice was signed. Mr. Durand first located at Coshocton in 1910, but remained only a brief time. He established his home and law practice there in 1919. In politics he has always been a republican, and in 1922-24 was a candidate in the primary for the republican nomination for governor, having been the only liberal candidate in the field. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Malta, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a communicant of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Durand married in 1908 Miss Florence R. Peck, daughter of the late Alfred and Catherine (Laughead) Peck, of Coshocton. They have one son, Homer Alfred Durand. REV. J. KNOX MONTGOMERY, D. D., LL. D., president of Muskingum College at New Concord, Muskingum County, has been the academic and executive head of this Ohio institution since September, 1904, and his resourceful and vigorous administration has infused vitality and effected great advancement in the affairs of the college and the attractive community which is its seat. Doctor Montgomery is a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, under the auspices of which Muskingum College is maintained, and he has won distinction in connection with the work of his church, in educational service, and in the general sphere of humanitarian helpfulness. Dr. John Knox Montgomery was born at Belfast, Tennessee, August 4, 1861, and is a son of Rev. Andrew Spence Montgomery and Lavinia Grace (Tate) Montgomery, both of whom passed the closing years of their lives at Brownsville, Illinois, where the mother died an 1874, at the age of fifty-three years, and where' the father died in 1900, at the age of seventy-eight years. Rev. Andrew S. Montgomery was born at Newberry, South Carolina, a scion of a family that was founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history. He received from Erskine College the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and, after due preparatory work, was ordained a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church. He held a pastoral charge at Belfast, Tennessee, at the time the Civil war began, and in this connection he gained great prominence and influence as an advocate and supporter of the cause of the Union, unreserved and fearless in expressing his opinions, even though popular sentiment in Tennessee was largely in favor of the Confederacy. Later he held pastorates at Clarksburg, Indiana, and Brownsville and Sparta, Illinois. After his retirement from the active work of the ministry he continued to maintain his home at Brownsville, Illinois, until his death. A man of fine intellectual ken and of utmost consecration to his service in the vineyard of the Divine Master, he wielded benignant influence throughout the course of his long and useful life. Of the five children Dr. J. Knox Montgomery, of this review, is the youngest. The youthful ambition of Dr. J. Knox Montgomery was to enter the ministry and to serve as a foreign missionary, and while he eventually realized a part of this ambition, in becoming a clergyman, impaired health made it impossible for him to enter the field of foreign missionary service. That he has found a sphere of equally important service and usefulness, the briefest record of his career clearly shows. After attending the public schools, mainly in Illinois, Doctor Montgomery pursued a higher course of study in Enfield College, that state. From 1879 to 1884 he was a student in the University of Indiana. Poor health twice compelled him to temporarily abandon his college studies, but he has found of enduring value the experience which he gained in these intervals by his association with mercantile enterprise at Brownsville and Carmi, Illinois. In 1887 the Doctor completed a course in the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, and the same year marked his ordination to the ministry. In 1904 he received from Sterling College the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1922 from West Virginia Wesleyan the degree of Doctor of Laws. From 1887 to 1890 Doctor Montgomery was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Harshasville, Adams County, Ohio ; his next pastoral charge was at Sparta, Illinois, where he remained until 1895. His next pastorate was in the City of Cincinnati, 1895-99, and in 1900-1901 he was pastor of a church in the city of Chicago. From the latter year until 1904 he maintained his home at Charlotte, North Carolina, in which state he accomplished a large service aside from his immediate pastoral charge. From 1894 until 1902 Doctor Montgomery was editor of The Evangel, a monthly magazine published in the interests of the United Presbyterian Church. He was from 1898 for fifteen years a department editor of the Christian Union Herald, published at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was department editor of The Reformed Presbyterian, published at Due West, South Carolina, in 1903-04, and from 1900 to 1905 he was a department editor of the periodical known as Christian Instructor of Philadelphia. He was general secretary of the young people's work of his church in the South in 1903-04. In the period of 1903-05 the Doctor was president of the All-Healing Bible Conference in North Carolina. He has been for fully a quarter of a century a popular lecturer in connection with the Chautauqua Bureau; he was chairman of evangelistic work in the South in 1903-04, and prior to this, in 1896, he was elected synodical evangelist for Ohio. In 1900 he was candidate for the office of secretary of state in Ohio, on the prohibition ticket, and by the same party he has received nomination for representative in the United States Congress. In the World war period Doctor Montgomery rendered earnest and effective service as special preacher at army camps, his work in this line having been principally at Camp Sherman, Ohio ; Camp Sheridan and Camp Anniston, Alabama. In connection with war work he served also as Young Men's Christian Association secretary. He is director of the Muskingum Bible Conference and Training School, is an advisory member of the Ohio Civil Service Commission, has been president of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League since 1914, and since 1921 he has been president of both the Ohio No Tobacco League and the National No Tobacco League. He was in 1919-20 secretary of the spiritual-life department of the New World Movement of the United Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is an honorary member of the Kiwanis Club at Cambridge, Ohio, and the City Club of New York City. He is affiliated with the Phi Gamma Delta College fraternity. Doctor Montgomery has been unsparing of himself in his indefatigable labors in the upbuilding of Muskingum College, which has made marvelous advancement under his able and progressive administration. Brief statistical statement in this connection is significant: In 1904, when he assumed the HISTORY OF OHIO - 207 presidency, the college had assets of $70,000; in 1923 its assets were $1,350,000. In 1904 the total enrollment of students was 145; in 1914 the enrollment was 240, and in 1924 the total enrollment is 2,075 with 797 in the four college classes, the remainder being in the preparatory academic department, the summer school and the conservatory of music. In 1904 the college campus had an area of four acres; in 1924 its area is 100 acres. The building improvements have been of most munificent and important order, including the erection of Brown Chapel, 1913; Montgomery Hall, 1921, at a cost of $200,000; and the Woman's Dormitory, 1922, at a cost of $200,000. In progress at the time of this writing, in the autumn of 1924, is a new stadium and a vigorous campaign to increase the endowment fund of the college to $1,000,000 and to erect three more buildings, thus carrying forward the building plans that shall make the physical equipment of this college one of the best in Ohio. In his admirable work in building up the college Doctor Montgomery has incidentally done much also for the advancing of the general welfare of New Concord, where Montgomery boulevard was named in his honor. The United Presbyterian Church here has been erected since he assumed the presidency of the college, and also the president's manse of the college—both beautiful buildings of the best modern type. Doctor Montgomery has retained the affection and high regard of the student body, has entered fully into the advancing of college athletics and other student activities, and his attitude has brought about a general spirit of harmony and cooperation. In July, 1923, Doctor Montgomery had the distinction of being the executive representative of Muskingum College in its conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws upon the late Hon. Warren G. Harding, president of the United States. In the period between November 17, 1922, and May 21, 1923, Doctor Montgomery made a trip around the world, and in this connection his services are much in demand in the delivering of lectures on world conditions. On the 25th of December, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Montgomery and Miss Mary Emmazetta Patton, of Harshaville, Ohio, and concerning their children the following brief record is offered: Mary Grace is the wife of Doctor James R. Moore, who conducts a hospital at Clemenceau, Arizona, their children being two sons. John Knox, Jr., is secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Butler, Pennsylvania, and he and his wife have two sons. Rev. Donald Patton Montgomery is the pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville, Pennsylvania. Geneva Kathleen is the wife of Rev. J. J. Mcllwaine, pastor of a United Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Robert Nathaniel is now (1924) a theological student in Pittsburgh. Paul Spence, youngest of the children, is a student in Muskingum College, in which all of the older children were graduated, each with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. CEDARVILLE SCHOOL BOARD. Few schools of a community the size of Cedarville are of the grade of those of this city, and their excellence and standing of the pupils may be directly laid to the credit of the school board, the members of which are W. C. Iliff, R. C. Ritenour, Clayton McMillan, G. H. Creswell, W. J. Tarbox, who are exceptionally well fitted for their work. Lester Day Parker is superintendent and William John Tarbox is president of the board, and Andrew Jackson is the clerk. Such fine results have been obtained through the efforts and cooperation of these gentlemen that it is but fair that a brief record be made of their lives and connection with the community and school board. FOREST H. THORPE. A business that was started at the beginning of the present century with a view to supplying a limited and local demand has grown and expanded until the product of the Columbus Sucker Rod Company now carries the name of Columbus practically around the world. The founder of this business was the late Henry A. Thorpe, who son, Forest H. Thorpe, is now president of the company. Henry A. Thorpe was born at Bristolville, Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1846, of English lineage and of an ancestry that had lived in America for several generations. The Thorpes have been of sturdy pioneer stock, and have helped lay the foundation of Ohio 's great industrial wealth. The late Henry Thorpe was born. and reared on a farm, but early in life went into a buggy factory, learning the carriage maker 's trade. He was still a young man when he started a factory for the manufacture of poles and shafts at Ashtabula. Later he moved his business to Akron, and continued it on a prosperous scale for many years. In 1900 Henry A. Thorpe moved to Columbus and established in that city a small plant for the manufacture of sucker rods used in pumping oil wells and in deep water wells. Henry Thorpe knew how to manufacture a high quality of rods, and he had the business ability to get them distributed, and accordingly his business steadily grew and prospered. It was incorporated as the Columbus Sucker Rod Company, and Henry Thorpe retained his active and vigorous direction of the affairs of the company almost until the time of his death, at the age of seventy-three. He died December, 1919. He lived to see his industry develop into one of the largest of the kind in the United States. Henry A. Thorpe married Mary J. Eckstine, who is also deceased. Their son, Forest H. Thorpe, was born at Alliance, Ohio, in 1876, and acquired a public school education. As a boy and young man he worked in his father 's shaft and pole factory at Akron. Though his father was a prosperous manufacturer, the son showed a complete readiness to acquaint himself with every detail of the business through the medium of hard work and at his father 's death he became president of the company. In 1922 the present plant was completed and occupied the west side of Edgehill Road, between West Third and West Fifth avenues. Prior to that time, and since 1900, the plant had been at 525 West First Avenue. The new plant on Edgehill Road occupies spacious grounds, and the business is carried on under ideal industrial conditions. An attractive feature of the plant is a modern office building of handsome architectural appearance. Within the past few years the business has grown to a point that would not have been conceived possible in earlier times. The output is sold and distributed not only throughout most of the states of the Union, but an important export business has been developed. These sucker rods are shipped to various European countries, Australia and Africa, and particularly to the present great oil fields in Burmah, India. Mr. Forest H. Thorpe is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Scioto Country Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Rotary Club, and a number of local business organizations. He married Miss Emma S. Meese, of Akron. ALICE ARCHER SEWALL JAMES. An Ohio artist and author whose life has been spent largely within the boundaries of her native state, Alice Archer Sewall James is the wife of John H. James of Urbana. 208 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mrs. James was born at Glendale, Ohio, in 1870, daughter of Rev. Frank and Thedia (Gilchrist) Sewall. She studied art in the Kensington schools of England and under Howard Helmick at Washington. She was married in the city of Washington to Mr. James. Her works as an artist have been exhibited in the New York Architectural League, the Society of American Artists, the Pennsylvania Academy of Designs, and in many exhibitions in Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington, Atlanta and St. Louis. They have also been hung in the Paris Salon. Her literary work has been her principal medium of expression. She is author of "An Ode to Girlhood," and other poems published in 1899, "The Ballad of the Prince," published in 1900; "The Torch, a Pageant," produced in 1922, and of a number of poems and illustrations in such magazines as Harpers, Century, Cosmopolitan and others. WEST CARROLLTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It is very unusual to find in a factory town of some 2,000 people such a well-organized educational system as that represented by the public schools of West Carrollton, a system that has been built up and developed by C. W. Plessinger, who has been superintendent of schools since 1911. Many larger cities in Ohio and other states could emulate with profit to the growing generation the spirit and effectiveness everywhere evident in this educational enterprise, which is perhaps one of the most modern and progressive of its kind yet devised. The public school system at West Carrollton consists of a high school of the first grade, a junior high school, intermediate grades, elementary grades and a summer school, the last-named of which has been conducted for the past twelve years under the personal direction of Mr. Plessinger. This school has about 600 students enrolled on its lists, who have been attracted from outside the district by the superior advantages offered. Only a few years ago there were but eighteen pupils in the high school, and today the enrollment amounts to 125. The graduating class of 1924 alone numbered twenty-three, five more than the entire enrollment of twelve years ago. This attests the standing of the high school in the West Carrollton community, for this increase of nearly 700 per cent was an established fact before the recent laws covering compulsory education went into effect. All the modern courses are offered, including public speaking, domestic science, domestic art, shop work, mechanical drawing, complete commercial courses, etc. The school is conducted in a new building, costing $200,000, and equipped with all the latest appliances, including two motion picture machines, laboratories for biology, chemistry, agriculture, physics and domestic science, a fully equipped gymnasium, an auditorium, cafeteria, kitchen, shower baths, etc. One of the splendid features of the school is a $2,000 library, donated by Mrs. Elsie Rice as a memorial to her son, Glenn Rice, who met an accidental death some years ago. The building has fifty-five rooms, and the intermediate and elementary grades are held on the second floor in well-lighted rooms. The high school publishes an annual, "The Wecaton," a $1,000 publication selling at $1.50. That the rating of the students of this school is high is evidenced in the fact that in recent county and inter-county contests they have won forty-six gold and silver medals. The high school is one of the few in the country which has a trust fund to be loaned to students going to college, this having been estab lished by the late Henry L. Newell, West Carrollton's wealthiest citizen and builder of the American Envelope Company, a model plant. C. W. Plessinger, superintendent of the West Carrollton public schools, is a man of broad education and experience, and one who has devoted his life and career to the highest ideals of his calling. After completing his primary training he attended Otterbein College, the Ohio State University and Columbia University of New York City, supplementing this by European study and travel with the late John H. Patterson, the founder of the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, who had Mr. Plessinger specially employed to tutor his children, one of whom is now president of that company. Mr. Plessinger entered upon the duties of his present position in 1911, and from the start has been untiring in his efforts to make the West Carrollton school system the best of its kind in the country, a labor which has been prolific of splendid results. In his work he has had the cooperation and support of an excellent Parent-Teachers Association, of which Mrs. Harry Wilson is president, and which has been of inestimable service in recent years; and of the board of school directors, which is composed at present of C. A. Sprague, president; C. H. Bloss, clerk; Albert Miller, Ratio Hinkson, Charles Arnold and John S. Heeter. Recently there has been added to the West Carrollton School District three adjoining districts between West Carrollton and Dayton. This territory includes the plant of the General Motors Research Division and other valuable properties. This recent addition almost doubles the tax valuation of the district. ELROY MCKENDREE AVERY was a resident of Cleveland forty-eight years. Among Ohio's educators and authors his name is associated with many distinctive achievements. Doctor Avery was born at Erie, in Monroe County, Michigan, July 14, 1844, son of Casper Hugh and Dorothy (Putnam) Avery. He is a lineal descendant of Captain James Avery, who came from England about 1640, and also of two of the Mayflower Pilgrims of 1620, of Steven Hopkins and his daughter Constance, and of Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts Bay colony. In 1861, when seventeen years of age, Elroy McKendree Avery enlisted as a private in Company A of the Fourth Michigan Infantry, and saw active service in the greater part of the war. At the end of the war he was sergeant major of the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. Following the war he taught school and attended the University of Michigan, graduating Bachelor of Philosophy in 1871. The University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Philosophy in 1871 and he has since been awarded the honorary degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Laws and Doctor of Civil Law. He was elected a member of the Scholarship Honorary Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. Doctor Avery was at one time principal of the high school at Battle Creek, Michigan. He was also superintendent of schools at East Cleveland and principal of the City Normal School at Cleveland. He became a resident of Cleveland in 1871. From 1879, the year he retired from the principalship of the Normal School, until 1885 he was in the service of the Brush Electric Company, Cleveland's pioneer electrical engineering organization; in that capacity he organized forty-two electric lighting companies. He was elected and served as a member of the City Council at Cleveland in 1891 and 1892, and served in the Ohio State Senate from 1893 to 1897. HISTORY OF OHIO - 209 Doctor Avery's chief contribution to education was made as author of a notable series of text books, splendid works used in public schools and colleges over the country for thirty years or more. Some of these bore the following titles: "Elementary Physics," 1876; "Elements of Natural Philosophy," 1878; "Elementary Chemistry," 1881; "Complete Chemistry," 1883; "First Principles of Natural Philosophy," 1884; "School Physics " 1895; "Elementary Physics," 1897; "School Chemistry," 1904; is author of the "Groton Avery Clan," 1912; "A History of the United States and its People," published in twelve volumes; and "History of Cleveland and its Environs," 1918. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of many historical and economical societies. In 1919 Doctor Avery transferred his residence from Cleveland to New Port Richey, Florida. He has taken an active part in the affairs of that southern community, being chairman of the board of the First State Bank, founder and president of the Avery Library, Inc., founder and president of the Cotee River Boat Club, president of the Cotee Hardware Company, etc. That he has "made good" in Florida is indicated by the fact that he was recently given "A Municipal Birthday Party," (the only one of the kind on record) at which the following preamble and resolution were unanimously adopted by a rising vote: WHEREAS—The Honorable Elroy McKendree Avery, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Civil Laws, Phi Beta Kappa, etc., (he has more honorary titles and academic degrees than he can use) has by his personality, philanthropy, progressiveness, and by being an all around good fellow, deservedly won the high esteem of this community, therefore be it RESOLVED—That we, the people of New Port Richey and vicinity, in mass meeting assembled on the eightieth anniversary of his birth, do hereby confer on the said Elroy McKendree Avery the Floridian Degree of 0. G. 0. M. (Our Grand Old Man). God bless him. He is an independent republican, Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Congregational Church. On July 2, 1870, at Battle Creek, Michigan, Doctor Avery married Miss Catherine Hitchcock Tilden, daughter of Hon. Junius Tilden, of Monroe, Michigan. She died December 22, 1911. On June 15, 1916, at Cleveland, he married Miss Ella Alice Wilson, daughter of John Wilson of Cleveland. LESTER DAY PARKER was born at Larue, Marion County, Ohio, December 10, 1885, a son of John and Mary (Day) Parker, and grandson of Thomas Parker, a native of England, who came to the United States many years ago. He married a lady, a native of Lincolnshire, England, who was brought to this country by her parents when she was eleven years old. John Parker was a farmer of Marion County, and for twenty years served on the school hoard, and for thirty years was a member of the official board of the local Methodist Episcopal Church. After attending the local schools, Harpster High School, from which he was graduated in 1911, and the Wesleyan Academy, from which he was graduated in 1914, Lester Day Parker became a teacher of Cedarville College, and held that position until 1917, at which time he was made principal of the Cedarville Township High School, and in 1918 was made superintendent of the Cedarville schools, which position he still holds. He received his degree of Master of Arts from the Ohio State University in 1922. Since taking charge of the schools here Mr. Parker has introduced the subject system of promotion, thus incorporating many of the advantages of the opportunity school, and has also introduced into the seventh and eighth grades a number of the principles of the Junior High School system. The Cedarville Township High School is the only accredited high school of Greene County. Mr. Parker belongs to Phi Kappa and Phi Delta Kappa, and he is a member of the official board of the Cedarville Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 3, 1913, Mr. Parker married at Harpster, Ohio, Lola Isett, a daughter of George and Edna (Racy) Isett. Mrs. Parker was a school teacher and graduate nurse prior to her marriage, having been engaged in the practice of nursing for a year when she married. There are three children: Robert, who was born June 5, 1914, is in the sixth grade; Mildred, who was born January 3, 1917, and Eleanor, who was born June 25, 1922. FRANCIS A. STEADMAN is one of the trusted citizens of Marietta and a well qualified business man, proprietor of the Marietta Casting Company. He has been in the foundry business most of his life. Mr. Steadman was born at McConnelsville, Ohio, August 20, 1877, son of John E. and Laura E. (Ramsey) Steadman. His father, who was born at Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1850, represented a family that lived in Western Virginia, opposed to secession. He grew up there, but in 1870 came to Ohio and worked in the stove works at McConnelsville, lived in Zanesville for a time, then at Beverly, and finally moved to Marietta, where for many years he was a shop foreman. John E. Steadman possessed sterling character, and was widely admired. In the republican party he was a delegate to various conventions. It is said he was the first citizen of Marietta initiated a Knight Templar Mason. In Harmer Lodge No. 390 he served as tyler from 1888 until his death in 1914, and at the end of twenty-five years of faithful service he was presented with a sword by his fellow members. After the presentation speech was made his response was the most eloquent possible silence. He was a leader in the building of the Masonic Temple at Marietta, and was made a member of the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati, but subsequently transferred his membership to Wheeling. He belonged to the Episcopal Church. Laura E. Ramsey, wife of John E. Steadman, was born in McConnelsville in 1859. She is a member of the Methodist Church. There are three children : Edna, wife of Carl Weis, of Los Angeles, California ; Mrs. Rose Bouhner, whose husband is a mining engineer and general superintendent of mines for the Consolidated Company, with home at Fairfield, West Virginia, and Francis A. Francis A. Steadman attended the grade schools in Marietta, but when only ten years of age was practicing his talents for trade as a dealer in chickens, pigs, and garden truck, and subsequently for a time he conducted a huckster business, using a car drawn by a white mule. His ambitions in those days were to become a veterinary surgeon, but his people dissuaded him from this career. He served an apprenticeship with the Marietta Manufacturing Company, and was with that corporation altogether twenty-two years, until the company went out of business at Marietta, moving its plant elsewhere. For three years Mr. Steadman was foreman of the plant. In 1915 he engaged in business for himself, establishing the Marietta Casting Company. He had 210 - HISTORY OF OHIO an extensive line of credit but very little personal capital, and his original plant was constructed largely of scraps from the old Marietta Boat Yard, bought by Mr. Steadman from a local bank. He has given the output of the Marietta Casting Company a high reputation for its splendid quality of gray iron castings. Mr. Steadman is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Credit Men's Association, the Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge No. 390 and belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and the Parkersburg Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has many of the characteristics of his father, modest and sincere, unable to make a public speech but with a host of friends. He married, June 29, 1912, Miss Bessie L. Griffith, daughter of Ford Griffith. She is a member of the Church of Christ. They have one son, John Richard. WILLIAM JOHN TARBOX was born November 25, 1860, at Cedarville, a son of John Merrill and Rachel (Nichol) Tarbox. The name was originally spelled Tarbeaux, and this indicates that without doubt the family originated in France. The records show that the Tarbox family were seagoing people during earlier years in the history of this country. The Merrills are of English descent, and the grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Merrill, lived and died at Buxton, Maine. The maternal grandfather, John Nichol, was of Scotch-Irish descent. John Merrill Tarbox was engaged in the lumber business for years, with sawmills at Cedarville. During the war between the North and the South he served with the Thirty-fourth Ohio Zouaves, and was wounded. For many years he was a zealous member of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Cedarville town council had him as one of its members for a number of years. This excellent citizen died in 1918, at the age of eighty-seven years. The local schools gave William John Tarbox his education, and he secured a knowledge of business with his father. For the past twenty-five years he has been a contractor and builder, as well as a. lumber merchant, but recently disposed of his lumber interests, only retaining the hardwood manufacturing branch of his business. He is a director of the Cedarville Building & Loan Association, which office he has held for thirty years, has been a director of the board of managers of the Cedarville Realty Company since it was organized in 1905. He is also a director of the Abel Magnesia Company, and has held that office and that of secretary since the organization of this concern in 1921, and has been chairman of the Cedarville School Board since 1918. For thirty-four years he has been an elder of the United Presbyterian Church. A successful man, Mr. Tarbox is impressed with the fact that no man can achieve to real prosperity without character. For a time he may appear to flourish, but unless his actions are in accordance with high principles his success will be but ephemeral. He is also a strong advocate of Christian education, and is zealous in his efforts to keep the public schools protestant, and to have the Bible read in them each day. On March 19, 1885, Mr. Tarbox married at Cedarville Mary A. Harbison, a daughter of Robert D. and Jeanette (McMillan) Harbison. Mrs. Tarbox's mother was a niece of Rev. Dr. Hugh McMillan, who, because of slavery agitation, led his congregation from South Carolina to Cedarville. She was reared on her father's farm in Greene County. Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox have had the following children born to them: Janet, who is the wife of Harry A. Waddle, a lumber merchant of Colum bus, Ohio, has a son, Merrill, attending the public schools; Rachel, who is the wife of Fred Townsley, has two children, Mary Jane and Dorris Ellen Townsley; and Ellen, who is a graduate of the Cedarville High School, attended Cedarville College, as did her sisters, and is now a student of Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. WALTER C. ILIFF, was born at Cedarville, March 28, 1875, a son of William H. and Margaret L. (Small) Iliff. William H. Iliff was a stone mason and contractor, and for many years served on the village and school boards. A Union veteran, he was the second man to enlist in the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth from Cedarville Township in the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This large quota made this the banner township of the banner county of the banner state in the Union. Although he continued in the service all through the war, he sustained no injury, nor was he captured, although he had a narrow escape from being taken a prisoner. Disobeying orders, he rejoined his regiment after the squad to which he had been assigned had completed the work given them to perform. The remainder of the squad, resting from their exertions, were captured, he alone escaping by reason of his midnight return to headquarters. Of all his engagements Antietam was the most sanguine. For many years he was a consistent member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred when he was sixty-nine years old. The Cedarville High School and Cedarville College are responsible for the education of Walter C. Iliff, and in addition to being a member of the rural school board he is a member of the board of trustees of his alma mater. After leaving college Mr. Iliff and a brother began contracting for local concrete work, and subsequently expanded their business to include county contracts and those with the Pennsylvania system, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Norfolk & Western Railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and the Pere Marquette Railroad. A Presbyterian, he is a member of its board of trustees here; he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Republican Central Executive Committee of Greene County. A warm admirer of William McKinley, he gave him his staunch support both as governor and president, not only because of his strict integrity and clean public career, but also because of his devotion to his aged mother and invalid wife. On January 7, 1903, Mr. Iliff married at Cedarville Lula, Johnson, a daughter of Harrison and Tranqulina (Kelly) Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a farmer, and during the War of the '60s was a member of the famous "Squirrel Hunters," the reserves called out to protect the state against the invasion of Gen. John Morgan and his men. Mrs. Iliff attended Clifton High School, and is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Ladies Club and the Ladies Advisory Board of Cedarville College. Mr. and Mrs. Iliff became the parents of one daughter, Helen Margaret, who was born June 28, 1906. She is a graduate of the Cedarville High School, and the department of music, Cedarville College, and is now taking the regular course at this college. A member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, she is pianist, and a teacher in its Sunday School. She is a charter member of the Cedarville Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, being eligible to this organization through her great-great-grandfather, James Small, on the maternal side, who was a soldier of the American Revolution. The Iliffs, Smalls, Kellys and others from whom she is descended through the paternal and HISTORY OF OHIO - 211 maternal sides of the family were all well known and substantial citizens of this part of Ohio. ELI E. LINDSAY has practiced law in Tuscarawas County nearly thirty years, is a native of Ohio, spent his early years in educational work, and has achieved real success and distinction in his profession and in civic affairs. Mr. Lindsay, who is a resident of New Philadelphia, was born on his father 's farm in Brown County, Ohio, September 9, 1866. The Lindsays have been in Brown County throughout the period of Ohio 's statehood. Mr. Lindsay represents the fifth generation of the family in America. He is a descendant of John Lindsay, who was born in England, of Scotch ancestry, and coming to the American Colonies, joined them as a soldier in the American Revolution. In 1800 he came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in Brown County, where he was one of the very early pioneers. His son, Philip Lindsay, was born in Brown County, also his grandson, Jesse Lindsay, and Jesse Lindsay was the grandfather of the Tuscarawas County attorney.' The latter 's parents were Nimrod and Roanna (Dunn) Lindsay, both born in Brown County, Roanna Dunn being a daughter of Levy Dunn, a native of Ohio, and a granddaughter of Henry Dunn, who was born in Ireland. Eli E. Lindsay grew up on a farm in Southern Ohio, attended the country schools, and supplemented their advantages by one term in the National Normal University at Lebanon. He gave seven years of his early manhood to the vocation of teaching, five years in country schools in Ohio, and then, after entering the Federal Civil Service, taught for two years in Indian schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Mr. Lindsay graduated in 1895 from the Kent College of Law at Chicago, was admitted to the Ohio bar, and for twenty years conducted a successful practice with home and office at Newcomerstown in Tuscarawas County. He was then elected prosecuting attorney of the county, and in 1915 removed to the county seat at New Philadelphia. He served three consecutive terms as prosecuting attorney, a period of six years, after which he resumed his private practice. He has served two terms as city solicitor of New Philadelphia. He has manifested a commendable interest in public affairs, giving his support to all creditable measures and movements in his locality. In addition to his large law practice he is a director of the Peoples Bank and Savings Company and the Tuscarawas Finance Company of New Philadelphia. Mr. Lindsay is a democrat, is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and fraternally is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He married Miss Linda Kimball in 1889. She was born and reared in Brown County, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Kimball, granddaughter of Henry Kimball and descended from the Kimballs who are among the oldest' and most respected families of Brown County, tracing their ancestry back to colonists who came to America at the time of the Mayflower. The six sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay are Aubrey E., Ray T., Harley D., Roy K., James L. and Chester W. Aubrey was in the aviation service during the World war, and spent nearly two years overseas. The son Roy was in training as a soldier in home camps in the United States. HENRY HAMILTON STURTEVANT. The business career of Henry Hamilton Sturtevant of Zanesville is a conspicuous illustration of the value of concentration of energies along one line. Mr. Sturtevant is a merchant, has been working in stores or a store proprietor since early youth, and has been in business at Zanesville for nearly half a century. The H. H. Sturtevant Company, of which he is president, is one of the notable examples of business enterprises in the state. Mr. Sturtevant comes of old New England ancestry and was born at Craftsbury, Vermont, April 19, 1851. His grandfather, Ezra Sturtevant, was a native of New Hampshire. Hiram Sturtevant, father of the Zanesville merchant, was born in Vermont, and in early life was a farmer at Craftsbury. In 1864 he moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire, and became a member of the firm of J. C. Sturtevant & Company, manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds. Hiram Sturtevant died at the age of seventy-five, in November, 1895. He was a staunch republican from 1860, served as selectman of his town and was a member of the Congregational Church. His wife, Eliza Cory, was a native of Vermont, and died at the age of eighty-three. Henry Hamilton Sturtevant spent the first thirteen years of his life on a Vermont farm. After that he continued his education in the schools of Lebanon, New Hampshire, and after school hours worked in his father's factory. However, his ambition was early set upon a mercantile career. When he was seventeen he went to Littleton, New Hampshire, and hired out to work for a local merchant, William Bailey, at wages of $75 a year, performing the variegated duties of clerk, express messenger, cultivating a small farm, hauling wood, etcetera. After a year he sought better opportunities at Woodstock, Vermont, and for four years was clerk in the dry goods store of J. B. Jones, working up to a salary of $10 a week. Leaving there, he went to Boston, and was given employment in the wholesale dry goods firm of Wellington Brothers & Company. After a short time in the stockroom the firm sent him out as a traveling salesman to work the hardest territory in Western Massachusetts. His ability as a salesman brought orders that no other representative of the firm had been able to secure, and in a short time he was transferred to a richer and better field in Indiana, and subsequently his territory was increased until he was covering Ohio, Indiana and the country as far west as Kansas City. He was with that firm four years, and in 1876 he withdrew and embarked his small capital in a retail dry goods business at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Selling out to a partner in 1878, he came to Zanesville and bought the retail dry goods store of Thomas Black. He soon took into partnership John Martin and the firm of Sturtevant & Martin continued until 1890. At that time Mr. Sturtevant became sole proprietor. The original firm started at Fourth and Main streets, occupying one floor 40 by 60 feet. The business was small, but it grew and prospered, and in 1884 the business was moved to Third and Main, occupying a ground floor 50 by 120 feet, and in 1890 these quarters were enlarged to 60 by 200 feet, and in 1893 the business was enlarged and included the main floor 60 by 200 feet, and the second and third floors, 60 by 200 feet. Through the years the business has continued to grow, and it is now the largest retail dry goods house in the state in a town as large as or double the size of Zanesville. Quality merchandise at fair prices and one price to all have been responsible for this gratifying growth. Mr. Sturtevant continued the business alone until 1903, when, to show appreciation to employes who had helped him, the H. H. Sturtevant Company was incorporated. He became president and general manager, five of his older employes being stockholders, directors and officers. While Mr. Sturtevant has other business interests, his time and 212 - HISTORY OF OHIO energy have never been deflected by these interests and have been concentrated on his main enterprise. No one has given more liberally for public enterprise and civic welfare. He has been active in the Chamber of Commerce, and during the World war was chairman of the Muskingum County Food Committee and active in other campaigns. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Zane Club and the Zanesville Golf Club, but his chief club is his home. He finds pleasure in motoring, and is a republican in politics. Fraternally his membership is in Lafayette Lodge No. 79, Free and Accepted Masons; Zanesville Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Masons; Zanesville Council No. 12, Royal and Select Masters; Cyrene Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar ; Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Columbus, and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He is also a member of the Masonic Club. At Zanesville in 1901 Mr. Sturtevant married Mrs. Blanche L. Underner Martin, of Cleveland. While not members, they are regular attendants at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Zanesville. J. EDWARD HURST, who has spent nearly all the years of his life in Tnscarawas County, has been identified with its schools, its public places of responsibility, the real estate business, and for the past seventeen years has been editor of one of the most influential daily papers in this section of Ohio, the New Philadelphia Daily Times. He was born on a farm near New Philadelphia, December 1, 1866. It was in this locality that his paternal and maternal grandparents settled when they came from Switzerland. Mr. Hurst's father, Frederick Hurst, was four years of age when the family came to Ohio, and his mother, Roseann Haney, was two years old when her parents settled here. Frederick Hurst was a Union soldier in the Civil war, first serving a three months' enlistment in Company F of the 161st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and then entering Company A of the 185th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and serving until the close of the war, when he was given an honorable discharge. For many years he was active in the Grand Army of the Republic, was a democrat in politics, and his business activities were identified with farming. He and his wife were members of the Reformed Church and later became Lutherans. Frederick Hurst died at the age of seventy-one, and his first wife, at the age of forty-five. They had "a family of eight children. The oldest of these, J. Edward Hurst, was two years of age when his parents moved to a farm in Clay County, Illinois, and six years later returned to Tuscarawas County, to a farm near Strasburg, where J. Edward spent the rest of his youth. He attended rural schools, the public schools of Strasburg and a normal school in New Philadelphia, and at the age of twenty-one began teaching, a work he followed in the rural districts, for four consecutive years. Then, in 1891, he was appointed deputy clerk in the office of the Probate Court, serving three years. Following that he engaged in a successful real estate and insurance business at New Philadelphia until 1907, when he bought The Daily Times and the weekly Ohio Democrat and Times, and is now president of the Democrat Publishing Company, owning and publishing these two papers. Mr. Hurst for a number of years has been editor and manager of the publications. The Daily Times has grown and greatly extended its influence and prestige, its circulation now exceeding more than eight thousand, and each issue comprises from ten to twelve pages. The Ohio Democrat and Times is a Democratic weekly journal. Both papers are published in an up-to-date printing plant. Mr. Hurst for many years has been prominent in the democratic party organization in his section of the state, having served as chairman of the County Executive Committee, as a member of the State Executive Committee, and was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1908. He has ardently espoused the cause of prohibition, and has wholeheartedly supported the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. Mr. Hurst was elected state senator in 1899 from the eighteenth and nineteenth senatorial district, consisting of the counties of Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe and part of Noble. For many years it was the rule that the senator from this joint district was not eligible for reelection, and when Mr. Hurst was reelected it broke a long standing custom and was proof positive of the popularity of his senatorial record. He served on important committees during the 74th and 75th General Assemblies. His second election was contested by David Taylor, whom he defeated, and in the contest the late Warren G. Harding presided over the contest committee, which decided in favor of Mr. Hurst. Mr. Hurst in 1904 became democratic nominee for Congress, but was defeated in the Roosevelt landslide at the polls that year. In local affairs he has been no slacker of duty. Though his business has exacted the most from him in time and energy, he has given freely in movements commanding public spirited cooperation. During the World war, he was active through his paper and individually in supporting all war causes. He has been active in the local Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club, is a charter member and past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America and Sons of Veterans. Mr. Hurst is much interested in local history, in which his county is so rich, and was appointed a member of the Schoenbrun Historical Association, recently authorized by state legislation, an organization created to preserve the old historic Schoenbrun Church building and to preserve the history of the First Christian Church within the borders of Ohio. In 1887, at the age of twenty-one, while teaching school, Mr. Hurst married Miss Mary Ellen Benfer, a daughter of Elias R. and Caroline (Boyd) Benfer, of Franklin Township, Tuscarawas County, where Mrs. Hurst was born and raised. Her parents were also born in the same county, and her father was first a farmer and later a merchant at Dundee and still later was associated with his sons in the mercantile business at Magnolia. He was a democrat in politics and represented Tuscarawas County in the State Legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst have three children: Lulu M. has for some years been society editor of The Daily Times, and is the wife of Irwin Dale Emffield, who was a lieutenant during the World war, being overseas, and is now secretary of the Democratic Publishing Company and city editor of The Daily Times. Cora L., the second daughter, who has served several years on the editorial staff of The Daily Times, is the wife of George L. Sackett, bookkeeper and auditor of the Democrat Publishing Company. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hurst is Joseph Edward, now a student in Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio. SAM F. DICKERSON, publisher of the Cadiz Democrat Sentinel, learned the printer 's trade when a boy, and for twenty years has been publishing one of the leading papers in Harrison County. He represents an old family of this section of Ohio, and is of an American ancestry that runs back to the earliest HISTORY OF OHIO - 213 Colonial settlements of Long Island and New Jersey. Philemon Dickerson, who was born in Suffolk, England, in 1598, came to America before 1640, first settling at Salem, Massachusetts, and later at Southold, Long Island, where he died in 1672. Some of his descendants moved to New Jersey about 1745, and since that time the name has been a distinguished one in that state. One of the name was Gen. Mahlon Dickerson, who served on the Supreme bench, as governor' of New Jersey, as United States senator and secretary of the navy in President Jackson's cabinet. The ancestry of the Harrison County branch of the family runs back to Thomas and Elizabeth Dickerson, of what is now Montgomery County, Maryland, Thomas took up land there in 1688, and died in 1725. His son, Henry Dickerson, married Susanna Sarratt, and they had three sons, John, Thomas and Sarratt. Of these sons John Dickerson and his wife, Ruth, moved from Maryland to Washington County, Pennsylvania, about 1773-1776, and John Dickerson died there in 1785. He left a large family of children, his oldest son being Joshua Dickerson, who died in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1827, and whose wife was Susanna Whitten. The grandfather of Sam F. Dickerson was John C. Dickerson, who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was a small boy when his parents in 1800 settled in Harrison County, Ohio. Samuel C. Dickerson, father of Sam F., was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, May 19, 1840, and succeeded to the ownership of the old Dickerson mill established by his uncle, Adam, converting it into a steam power grist and saw mill, He was also a farmer and stock dealer, and in 1900 moved to Cadiz, where he lived retired until his death August 27, 1918. He married Mary Elizabeth McCoy, who was born in Harrison County, March 7, 1843, her father, Frank McCoy, being a native of Maryland. Her mother_ was Abigail Lantz, (laughter of Peter and Mary (Patterson) Lantz. Mary Patterson's brother, Rev. Samuel Patterson, was one of the early ministers in Harrison County, and for over forty years pastor of Presbyterian churches there. Sam F. Dickerson was born at Dickerson's Mill in Harrison. County, December 7, 1874, and as a boy on the farm attended district schools and at the age of seventeen left the Cadiz High School to serve an apprenticeship at the printer 's trade in the office of the Cadiz Republican. He spent eight years with that paper, and as a journeyman printer worked in many cities of the East and Middle West, and for two years was a reporter for the Pittsburgh Times. Mr. Dickerson on January 14, 1905, bought the Harrison County Democrat, and in December, 1911, acquired the Cadiz Sentinel, and has since published them under the consolidated title of Democrat Sentinel, building up a paper of great power and influence and published in one of the modern equipped printing plants in Eastern Ohio. Mr. Dickerson has been given many responsibilities in the democratic party organization in his home county, district and state, having been a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis in 1916. He is a Presbyterian; has served as secretary of the Harrison County Agricultural Society, as a member of the Deputy Board Supervisors of Elections, and for six years was chairman of the county board of visitors. FRANK C. DECKEBACH, public accountant and auditor at Cincinnati, has had a wide and diversified experience in all the practical branches of his profession. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, November 11, 1879, son of George 0. Deckebach. His father was well known in public affairs in Cincinnati for half a century. Second in a family of four children, Frank C. Deckebach attended grammar schools in Cincinnati, the Woodward High School and had training in a business college. His first employment was as bookkeeper. For a time he was examiner for the Bureau of Inspection and had supervision of public offices of the State of Ohio. For several years he was with a Cincinnati firm of public accountants, and in 1913 engaged in that business for himself, with offices in the Traction Building. He has a large clientele, including many individual firms and large corporations for which he has done auditing and special accounting. His services have also been engaged from time to time by civic bodies. Mr. Deckebach handled a large amount of professional work in behalf of the Government during the World war. MILTON BROOKS SCOTT, a retired merchant now living at Milford, is a former mayor of that little city in Hamilton and Clermont counties, and he is generally credited with having been the chief factor in the modern development of this community. He was born November 23, 1864, in the Village of Fincastle, Eagle Township, Brown County, Ohio, son of William H. and Adeline Scott, both natives of Ohio. Milton Brooks Scott attended public schools in his native village, and as a young man engaged in the general merchandise business there. From that point he removed to Newport, Adams County, where for a number of years he conducted a store. Following that he became traveling representative for the Sterns Coal and Lumber Company, and then for several years was connected with the Norfolk and Western Railway. For three years he was manager of the Portsmouth Hat and Glove Company. Mr. Scott was vice mayor of Milford in 1918-20, and owing to the illness of the mayor he became active mayor in 1920. While mayor he was approached by the state prohibition agents relative to the trial of liquor cases arising from arrests in Hamilton and Clermont counties, Milford being situated as the dividing line between the counties. His statement was that if the arrests were made legitimately and with positive proof and evidence he would permit the cases to be tried in his court. In the fall of 1921 he was elected mayor for a period of two years. While he was in office as acting mayor or mayor he collected in fines for the town of Milford over $325,000, and out of more than 1,500 cases that came before him his decisions were reversed by the higher courts only five times. People interested in the prosecution of liquor cases and the maintenance of the proper respect for law wrote him letters of commendation from all over the United States, and he was frequently asked for information regarding his policy and system of conducting his village court for the benefit of similar courts elsewhere. His term as mayor had many important results, not the least among which are the remodeled city building, the modern fire apparatus and other improvements for the village. Mr. Scott is a member of the Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Association of Descendants of Daniel Boone, is a Methodist and an independent democrat. He married Miss Ora H. Hilling, daughter of Richard R. and Mary Hilling. She is a descendant of Betsy Ross, who made America 's first flag. Both Mr. and Mrs. Scott take an active part in the social life of Milford. They have a family of six children: Ruby Scott, born in 1893, connected with the Building and Loan Association of Milford; Phyllis, born in 1897, a graduate of the Shuster-Martin School of Cincinnati; Wilmar L., born in 1899, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and manager of a hotel at Yorktown, Virginia; Donna, born in 1902, a graduate of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, and a 214 - HISTORY OF OHIO teacher; Geneva, born in 1904; and Glen Everest, attending the Milford High School. EDWIN M. CRAIG, M. D., is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Hamilton County, and is established in the successful general practice of his profession in the City of Norwood. Dr. Craig reverts to the Hawkeye State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in the City of Davenport, Iowa, on the 30th of October, 1870. He is a son of the late Abram T. and Sarah Jane (Irwin) Craig, and his father devoted virtually his entire active career to farm industry, of which he became a pioneer exponent in Iowa. The earlier education of Doctor Craig was gained in the district schools near the home farm, and in 1899 he was graduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio. Thereafter he took a postgraduate course in Harvard University, and he gave a long period of effective service in the pedagogic profession. He held the position of principal of different village and city schools, served as superintendent of the public schools at Sabina, Ohio, and gave eight years of service as county school examiner of Clinton County, this state. In 1902 lie matriculated in Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. While a student in medical college he held also the position of principal of the evening high school of Cincinnati, and his compensation for this service aided greatly in deferring the expenses of his course in medical college. He has since done valuable post-graduate work by availing himself of the advantages of the leading clinics in the cities of New York and Chicago. For fully a quarter of a century Doctor Craig has held high reputation as a lecturer on clinical subjects, and as a brilliant speaker of distinctive force and with remarkably classical diction he has become well known throughout the State of Ohio. In the World war period he proved one of the most vigorous and resourceful of the four-minute men, in the delivering of addresses in support of the various patriotic agencies and movements in his home county, and in this work he was specially prominent and influential. The Doctor is an active and valued member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has a large and representative practice, and is a leader in his profession at Norwood. He is a trustee and elder of the Christian Church in his home city, and for fifteen years has been teacher of the large adult Bible class in the Sunday School of this church. He is local medical examiner for a large number of leading life insurance companies, including the New York Life, the Mutual Life, the Union Central, the Midland Mutual, the Aetna, the Equitable Life of New York and the Ohio State Life. The Doctor gives as much time as possible to general and technical literary work, and has been a valuable contributor to the standard and periodical literature of his profession. In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Craig and Miss Miriam Cadwallader, daughter of Clarkson and Mary E. Cadwallader, the father having been one of the representative farmers of Warren County for many years prior to his death. Mrs. Craig was afforded the advantages of the Cincinnati College of Music, and has been specially successful as a teacher of voice culture, while as a talented vocalist she is much in demand. She is identified with leading musical clubs in Norwood and Cincinnati, and is a popular figure in church, cultural and social circles. Doctor and Mrs. Craig have two daughters, both of whom are still members of the parental home circle. Miss Jane Craig was graduated from the Knox School for Girls and also from the University of Cincinnati, and Miss Virginia is, in 1924, a student in the Norwood High School. HERBERT T. THORNBURGH, M. D., one of the successful members of the medical profession of Hamilton County, is a man who holds the respect and confidence of the people of Norwood and its vicinity, having won his way by his skill and resourcefulness. He has a fine record, as well, for his work in behalf of crippled children, and for preventive measures in a campaign for public safety. Doctor Thornburgh was born at Rock Island, Illinois, March 27, 1872, but was brought to Ohio at the age of two years by his parents, William and Anna (Fisher) Thornburgh. A prominent railroad man, William Thornburgh was acting president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Akron, Ohio, when that branch of the road that runs through Akron was constructed. Subsequently he was interested in the coal industry and other important enterprises. Both he and his wife are now deceased. After attending Brooks Academy and Military Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1890, Herbert T. Thornburgh entered Cornell University, and was graduated therefrom in 1894, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His medical training was taken at Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1898, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For the succeeding year he was resident surgeon of the Cleveland General Hospital. With the outbreak of the war with Spain he enlisted in the United States Army, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, and was made assistant surgeon for the First Battalion. For three years following the close of the Spanish-American war he was stationed in different parts of the Philippine Islands. At the termination of his period of enlistment he was honorably discharged, and located at San Francisco, California, where he was engaged in practice until 1915. In that year he was made assistant surgeon of the Ohio State Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, which position he later resigned to go with the Ohio State Department of Health as chief local organizer. In this capacity he supervised the organization of the State Health Service under the law of 1920, and the efficiency of this service is due to his effective work. Doctor Thornburgh continued his labors in behalf of this service until he was appointed medical director of the Kentucky State Hospital at Lexington, when he resigned. While at Lexington he did a wonderful work in conducting a vigorous campaign throughout the entire state in behalf of preventive medicine. Resigning in December, 1923, he located at Norwood, where he is engaged in a general practice. Doctor Thornburgh took the extension course at the Ohio State University prior to entering the health service, which enabled him to act very definitely and capably in behalf of crippled children by providing for their treatment in clinics which he organized in every county in the state. Were this the only instance of his work in behalf of the unfortunate, his name would stand high in the roster of his profession, so important it is, and so wide is its scope. He belongs to the Ohio and Kentucky State Medical societies, the Cincinnati Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While at college he made Zeta Psi. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership. In September, 1922, Doctor Thornburgh married Natalie Merrill, of Cincinnati, Ohio, a daughter HISTORY OF OHIO - 215 of Hon. Chester M. and Mary Merrill, the latter whom is living, but the former, a prominent lawyer, is deceased. Mrs. Thornburgh was educated at the University of Cincinnati, from which she was graduated, and she is a Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to her marriage she was chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene of the State of Ohio, assistant to the Bureau of Juvenile Research and field worker for the State Board of Charities. She is an Episcopalian, and is prominent in her church and in social circles. Doctor and Mrs. Thornburgh have one child, William. ALBERT K. B. LYMAN, who holds the rank of major in the Engineer Corps of the United States Army and who in this connection is now in charge of important government work, with headquarters in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, has had a specially interesting and varied career in his chosen profession, and in the same has given distinguished service. Major Lyman was born on one of the Hawaiian Islands, May 5, 1885, his paternal grandfather having been the founder of what is now the Hilo Boarding School on the Island of Hawaii, and was one of the pioneer missionaries on the Hawaiian Islands. Major Lyman is a son of Rufus A. and Hualani (Brickwood) Lyman, he having been the thirteenth in order of birth in a family of fourteen children, all except four of whom are living at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1924. The parents of Major Lyman were born in Hawaii and maintained their home on those fair Pacific islands during the entire course of their lives, the father having served at one time as governor of Hawaii and having been a successful rancher and sugar-planter. He and his wife were residents of Hilo, Hawaii, at the time of their death. As a boy and youth Maj. Albert K. B. Lyman received private educational instruction in the family home, and thereafter -he attended the public schools two years, until his graduation therein. In Hawaii he was for three years a student in a manual training and military training school, and after his graduation he was for one year a student in Oahu College, Honolulu. From his native islands he thereafter received appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, and in this institution he was graduated June 15, 1909. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, and as such his first assignment (1909-10) was in the inspection of government construction work of river and harbor districts. From September to December, 1909, his inspection work was along the Mississippi River from St. Paul to St. Louis, and he had headquarters at Rock Island, Illinois. His service in this connection continued until June, 1910, and thereafter he was in similar service in the Panama Canal Zone until June of that year. From June until October his service was in connection with government work on the Great Lakes, and his next assignment was to similar service on the Ohio River, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In November, 1911, ho completed a post-graduate course and was graduated from the United States Engineers School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, and from that time forward to November, 1913, he was there on duty with the First Battalion of Engineers. In October, 1912, he was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant. From November, 1913, to November, 1916, with Company I, Third Battalion of Engineers, he was on duty at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. July 1, 1916, he was promoted to the rank of captain, and assumed this office with Company D, Third Regiment of Engineers-a company which he had organized. He was in charge of the field survey of the Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, and boundary surveys of the military reservations there. From November, 1916, until the following May he was stationed at Cincinnati, Ohio, as military assistant to the district engineer of the First Cincinnati District. May 1, 1917, he became an instructor in the Engineer Company Reserve Officers' Training Company at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where his service continued until the fifteenth of the following month. He was thereafter stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, until January 1, 1918, the preceding September, having recorded his promotion to temporary major. In January, 1918, Major Lyman was assigned to duty at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he remained until March 1. He was then assigned to the Six Hundred and Second Engineers, United States Army, which he organized at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, and was promoted to the grade of lieutenant-colonel. In June with his command he then entered overseas service in the World war, but in August, 1918, he returned to the United States. Illness contracted during the return trip held him incapacitated until the following October. In October, 1918, he was assigned to duty at the Army War College, Washington, D. C., and in November was promoted to the grade of colonel. From December, 1918, until April, 1920, he was instructor in the Engineer School at Fort Humphreys, Virginia, where he was director of the departments of chemistry, mineralogy and geology and the department of equitation, as well as of the departments of manual training and hydraulics. He supervised the procurement and installation of the laboratory equipment for these departments. From April, 1920, to January, 1922, Major Lyman was .secretary of the Mississippi River Commission and district officer of the Northern District of the commission, with headquarters in the City of St. Louis. His service in this connection consisted primarily of flood-control research work and levee construction. From February, 1922, to February, 1923, he was assistant to General Crowder and military attache to the American Legation in Havana, Cuba. From that time forward nntil June 22, 1923, he was in charge of the intelligence section in the office of the chief of engineers, War Department, Washington, D. C., and since that time to the period in which this review is prepared he has been district officer, Cincinnati District, United States Engineers. In this connection the major is stationed at Cincinnati in charge of the general improvement of the Ohio River, including operating snag boats and construction of locks and dams Nos. 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, and operating dam No. 37, Ohio and Kentucky, operating and care of locks and dams on the Kentucky River. He is a member of the Organized Reserves, Fifth Corps Area, and detailed as superintendant of lighthouses in the Fourteenth Lighthouse District. Major Lyman has become a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and also the Business Men's Club. His religious faith is that of the Congregational Church, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. The major has taken special interest in equestrian sports, did much riding in the period of 1910-13, participated in both army and amateur races, and won several cups as trophies. FRANKLIN OSCAR SCHOEDINGER. The office of biography is not to give voice to a man's most modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave upon the record the verdict establishing his character by the concensus of opinion on the part of his neighbors and fellow citizens. The life of Franklin Oscar Schoedinger, manufacturer, business man and representative citizen of Columbus, has been such as to elicit just praise from those who know 216 - HISTORY OF OHIO him best. He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties in all relations of life. Mr. Schoedinger was born in the city where he still maintains his home, on September 7, 1872, a son of Philip J. and Caroline (Heverly) Schoedinger. The father was born in Germany, in 1825, and the mother in Pennsylvania, in 1833. Philip Schoedinger was five years old when his parents brought him to America in 1830, the family locating in Columbus, where he grew to manhood, attended the early schools and learned the cabinet maker 's trade, later engaged in the manufacture of furniture, finally adding undertaking to his business, and still later he gave all of his attention to the undertaking business. He was one of the well known business men in the earlier years of the city 's development. His death occurred in 1880. His widow survived to a ripe old age, passing away in 1914, at the age of eighty-one years. F. Oscar Schoedinger grew to manhood in his native city, and here he received a good practical education in the public schools, but left high school before graduating, being ambitious to begin his business career, deciding not to wait for a diploma. In 1890 he established a small store, handling stoves and house furnishing goods, later branching out into different lines of manufacturing enterprise, gradually building up a large business with advancing years until today he is one of the most successful business men in Columbus. He established and is sole proprietor of the F. O. Schoedinger Company, manufacturers of sheet metal builders' material, metal window-frames and sash, steel ceilings, roofing, architectural sheet metal works, and distributors of tin plate and metals and everything pertaining to sheet metal workers' requirements. They have built up a vast trade, which has been growing rapidly from year to year under Mr. Schoedinger 's able management, industry and perseverance. He is a director in the National Bank of Commerce ; director in the Iroquois Hotel Company, which operates the Hotel Chittenden ; president of the Board of Trustees of the Childrens Hospital; vice president of the Society for the Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis ; vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church ; one of the organizers and a past president of the Ohio Club, which in later years was succeeded by the Columbus Athletic Club, of which he was a director ; member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Scioto Country Club and Columbus Rotary Club ; was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1907 and 1908, and is still very active in its work. Mr. Schoedinger took a most active part in the raising of all war funds in Columbus, his patriotism and loyalty to the government and her institutions being unquestioned. In all the above named positions of trust he has discharged his duty promptly, ably and in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. He takes as deep interest in public affairs as in his private business, and whatever he has turned his attention to has resulted in favorable returns. He has done as much, if not more, for the general welfare of the capital city during the past quarter of a century than any other one man, and the city owes him a debt of gratitude which it cannot repay. Fraternally Mr. Schoedinger is a thirty-third degree Mason, is a past commander of Mount Vernon Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, and is a past grand commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Ohio. He married Alice G. Seibert, daughter of John Seibert, a well known and highly respected citizen of Columbus. JERRY F. DOUD. The tendency of modern times is to place in authority men who have a practical knowledge of the work of their offices. The day has practically passed when public officials are elected simply because of political influence. Today the voter makes his own investigations, and is very apt to insist that the candidate must know absolutely what he is doing before he is entrusted with the expenditure of the taxpayers money. In the chief plumbing inspector of the City of Cincinnati the people of this community have not only a practical plumber, but also a man whose experience in public office is a long one, and one whose zeal in behalf of the people is unquestioned. During the nine years he has served as chief plumbing inspector, Jerry F. Doud has given entire satisfaction and has considerably raised the standard for the plumbing in his city. Jerry F. Doud was born at Cincinnati, August 31, 1875, a son of Patrick and Ellen (Nagel) Doud. Patrick Doud was born in Ireland, and when he left his native land he came alone to the United States, and, coming to Cincinnati in 1861, took up his residence on East Eighth Street. Although he was not an American by birth, Patrick Doud earned his right to be one by four years' service in the Union Army, where he displayed characteristic bravery. Upon his return to Cincinnati, following his honorable discharge from the army, he resumed work as a general laborer, and continued in this line until the close of his useful life in 1899. He was an honest, upright and conscientious man, with many warm personal friends among his associates. He and his wife had ten children born to them, and of them Jerry F. Doud was the fifth in order of birth. Reared by careful parents, Jerry F. Doud was taught lessons of thrift and industry from childhood. His educational advantages were those of the parochial schools, but he is a close observer, and is ever adding to his store of knowledge. When only twelve years old he began his apprenticeship to the plumbing trade, which lasted for five years. For the succeeding seven years he worked as a journeyman plumber, and then became a foreman, and as such was employed on the principal buildings in course of erection at that time. In 1910 he was appointed deputy plumbing inspector in the department of building, City of Cincinnati, but after two years left the employ of the city to become foreman of the plumbing work on the General Hospital, which was then in process of erection. After eighteen months on this building Mr. Doud returned to the city as deputy plumbing inspector, and in 1915 was appointed to his present responsible position. Ever since he completed his apprenticeship he has been an active member of the Plumbers' Union, and served it for five terms as president. He is also an active member of the Cincinnati Council, Knights of Columbus, and is connected with various charitable movements. He was elected September 19, 1924, to represent the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters to the American Society of American Engineering for four years, and is treasurer of the American Society of Sanitary Engineering, reelected recently for the seventh time. A livelong republican, he gives the candidates of his party an earnest and heartfelt support. Twenty-two years ago Mr. Doud was married to Miss Georgia Atchley, who is also a native of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Doud have one son, Donald, who was born in April, 1903. Both Mr. and Mrs. Doud are very popular, and their influence is exerted in behalf of those movements which make for good government and moral uplift. ALFRED F. DECKEBACH, auditor f the City of Cincinnati, was born in the metropolis of Southern Ohio, and a large part of hiS active career has been HISTORY OF OHIO - 217 devoted to the municipal service, his father likewise before him having been an honored official of Cincinnati for many years. Mr. Deckebach was born at Cincinnati, November 15, 1887, son of George 0. and Kate (Ampthauer) Deckebach, who were natives of Cincinnati, where his father was born June 20, 1849, and his mother, November 9, 1852. She is now seventy-two years of age. George 0. Deckebach, who died April 8, 1920, is remembered as a citizen of splendid integrity and generous character, interested in all lines of welfare work and the development of his native city. He was deputy county recorder ten years, county recorder four years, deputy city auditor fifteen years, and secretary of the courthouse commission for seven years. Alfred F. Deckebach is the youngest of a family of two daughters and two sons, all living, and was reared in Cincinnati, where he attended public schools. At the age of sixteen, on leaving school, he went to work as a clerk for the Kirchner Construction Company. This company then had the contract for building the Cincinnati Water Works at California, Ohio. He was with the firm four years, and then engaged in the contracting business for himself, building up and handling an important volume of business during the next three years. He then resumed his public service as general bookkeeper for the Cincinnati Water Works for four years, following which he was promoted to deputy auditor. He served four years in that capacity, and when Auditor George P. Carrel was elected mayor in 1921 Mr. Deckebach was appointed to fill out his unexpired term, and in 1923 was elected city auditor for the regular term of four years. Mr. Deckebach is a member of the Cuvier Press Club and the Young Men's Blaine Club, and since early manhood has been actively affiliated with the republican party. He is a member of the Walnut Hills Lutheran Church. JOHN CORNELIUS CARDWELL, JR., of Cincinnati, is a banker by training and experience since early youth, having learned the principles under his father, and for a number of years was prominent in banking circles in Kentucky. Mr. Cardwell has especially interested himself in the cooperative movement, in which he is an ardent believer, and has been active in the organization and promotion of a number of labor banks and investment companies scattered throughout the country. He is now vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks National Bank in Cincinnati. He was born in Litchfield, Kentucky, November 27, 1891, son of John Cornelius and Mathilda L. Cardwell, his parents both natives of Kentucky and his mother of Scotch and his father of English ancestry. His paternal grandfather came from England in the early '40s and settled in Muhlenburg County, one of the far western counties of the State of Kentucky. He followed planting all his active career, and died in 1894. John C. Cardwell, Sr., the second in a family of five children, was educated in the schools of Kentucky, attending the Kentucky State College, and was for some years active in educational work, teaching for about eight years and for a time was superintendent of schools at Richmond, Kentucky. He engaged in banking, and since 1907 his home has been in the City of Louisville. For a number of years he was secretary of the Kentucky Bankers' Association, and subsequently was vice president of the Citizens National Bank and president of the Citizens' Union Fourth Street Bank in Louisville, a position he held until his retirement from active business in 1922. He is fifty-four years of age. Possessing strong religious inclinations, he has been a factor in the religious as well as the social and civic affairs of Louisville. John C. Cardwell, Jr., is second in a family of four children and was educated in the high schools of Louisville and attended the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. While in high school he spent some of the hours after school sessions working in the bank under his father, and after completing. his education went with the American Southern National Bank of Louisville, serving it in various clerical positions until 1917. His war record was made as a private with the Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry, and he was in the service until November, 1918. Resuming his connection with banking, he was assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Greenville, Kentucky, and on returning to Louisville, went with the Citizens National Bank when the new institution opened in the shopping district of the city. In the fall of 1920 Mr. Cardwell went to Cleveland as assistant cashier of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Cooperative National Bank, and served that pioneer labor cooperative banking institution three years as assistant cashier, assistant vice president and vice president. Then, in August, 1923, he came to Cincinnati to take charge of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks' National Bank as vice president. This Cincinnati institution was organized in the early part of 1923 by the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, who own the controlling interest. The bank was opened for business in December of the same year. The bank is operated along cooperative lines, sharing its profits with its savings depositors after dividends, not exceeding ten per cent in any one year, to the stockholders have been paid. Four per cent interest is paid on savings deposits. The bank also does a general commercial banking business. It is housed in the new building owned by the Brotherhood at Court and Vine streets. George S. Levi is president, Grover C. Milam is vice president and cashier, with Mr. Cardwell as vice president in active charge. Mr. Cardwell since becoming a resident of Cincinnati has found time to devote to civic, social and religious affairs, and is very much of an outdoor man, his hobby being golf. He is a member of two of Cincinnati's clubs. C. J. MILLER is president of the Fremont Foundry Company, which stands representative one of the important industrial and commercial enterprises of the City of Fremont, Sandusky County, and which has developed one of the substantial manufacturing industries of its kind in Northern Ohio. The manufacturing plant of this company is noteworthy not so much for being one of extensive order; but rather for the exceptional excellence of its modern equipment and facilities and the high grade of its products. Mr. Miller was born in Buffalo, New York, and was reared and educated in the City of Cleveland, and there served in his youth a practical apprenticeship in all phases of fonndry work, in which he became a highly skilled artisan, besides developing marked mechanical and inventive ability. He has devoted his entire independent career to enterprise along this line, and his success has been of unqualified order. Prior to establishing his residence at Fremont, Mr. Miller had been for sixteen years identified with eminently successful foundry industries in Ohio, with well equipped plants at Medina and Chagrin Falls. He thus acquired a competency, and upon making an advantageous sale of these properties he was too young a man to entertain thought of retiring from business, even though his financial resources may have justified such procedure. He has been distinctly a man of productive activity, and has 218 - HISTORY OF OHIO no desire for supine ease, the result being that he soon found a field for continued activity. In 1920 he effected the organization of the Fremont Foundry Company, which acquired at Fremont a plant previously devoted to the manufacturing of stove castings, and in the rebuilding of this plant and the remodeling and equipping of the same for the uses to which it was to be applied about $60,000 was forthwith expended. The machinery and all accessories and incidental equipment are of the most modern type, electric power is utilized in all machine operations, and the establishment has a capacity for the output of 1,000 tons of casting a month. Here is retained a force of 150 skilled workmen, and under the able and progressive administration of Mr. Miller, president of the company, the industry has already become one of broad scope and importance, the enterprise having within a remarkably short time begun to render substantial dividends to stockholders, notwithstanding the general industrial and financial depression that came within a few months after the company was organized, its operations being based on a capital stock of $300,000. The principal products of this well ordered concern are castings required by manufacturers of automobiles, heating apparatus and oil pumps. As a practical mechanic of broad experience Mr. Miller has devised many valuable improvements along mechanical lines, and among the most important of his inventions is the "Humanitarian Air Blast" for the cleaning of castings, this having now become a standard appliance in foundries throughout the country. This splendid air blast mechanism has eliminated what had previously been a most unpleasing and unsanitary operation, as the operator had been compelled to be in close contact with his work and to breath the unhealthful dust which resulted. The Miller device enables the operator to do the work from an adjoining room and to avoid the dangerous inhalation of malignant dust and fumes. Mr. Miller has proved himself distinctly one of the world's productive workers, and while he is to be classified as a successful captain of industry, he has ever maintained a high sense of civic loyalty and lived up to all responsibilities which success imposes. He is thus a liberal, progressive and public-spirited citizen upon whom Fremont places high estimate and valuation. In 1901 Mr. Miller married Miss Josephine Effinger, of Independence, Ohio. Their children are : Myron J., born in 1903; Marion, born in 1909; and Caroline, born in 1913. LOUIS WEILAND. During recent years the matter of taxes of various kinds has assumed such preeminence and importance that a number of the leading lawyers and law firms have concentrated their practice upon this one subject, practically to the exclusion of others. While Louis Weiland, and the firm of which he is the senior member, Weiland, Strother & Weiland, have not confined themselve entirely to this branch of their profession, they have specialized largely in estate tax and income tax returns, this being due in part to the experience gained by Mr. Weiland while acting in the service of the United States Government in regard to these particulars. Mr. Weiland was born April 2, 1886, at Cincinnati, and is a son of Samuel and Regina (Grossman) Weiland, the former a native of Poland and the latter of Hungary, who immigrated separately to Cincinnati in 1882, where they were married. Mr. Weiland's father engaged in the clothing business in a small way, and, being industrious, energetic and possessed of sound business ability, built up a successful enterprise, now the large clothing concern of the S. Weiland & Sons Company. He is still engaged actively in business affairs as president of this concern, and has a number of other interests. The eldest in a family of six children, Louis Weiland, received his elementary education in the grade schools and the Woodward High School, and after graduating from the latter he embarked in the ladies' garment business, with which he was identified for seven years. In the meantime he had become interested in the profession of law, and eventually gave up the clothing business and became a student at the Young Men's Christian Association Law School at Cincinnati. He completed the course there in 1914, and, being admitted to the bar in the same year, began practice at once. On August 1, 1918, he was employed by the United States Government, treasury department, revenue agent service, on income tax and estate +tax, being engaged in the verification of income tax and estate tax returns for the Government and giving advice to officials as to the law affecting) those returns. Since leaving the Government, January 1, 1920, he has been a member of the firm of Weiland, Strother & Weiland, of which he is the senior member, his partners being John P. Strother and Fred Weiland, with offices at 315-316 Provident Bank Building. Through his law business Mr. Weiland has become identified with a number of other enterprises, and is now president of the Washington Finance Company, secretary of the Harry Guttman Company and a director of the S. Weiland & Sons Company, the Rotherand Cooperative Cloak Company and the Inter Valley Building and Loan Association. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and of the Minute Men of that body, of the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Lawyers' Club of Cincinnati, and is secretary of the Avondale Synagogue. In politics he is a republican. On March 21, 1915, Mr. Weiland was united in marriage with Miss Dora Levine, and they are the parents of three daughters. Mrs. Weiland, who is actively interested in civic and charitable affairs, was engaged in Red Cross work during the World war. CINCINNATI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, perhaps the oldest commercial organization of its character in existence, was founded in 1839, and has since rendered a service to the city 's business life worthy of the highest tribute. The Chamber of Commerce was organized October 22, 1839, following a call for a meeting of merchants interested, which was published in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette on the 14th of that month. About that date some of the then leading business men of the city gathered in the hall of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association. On October 29th at the election of officers to serve until regular annual meetings, Griffin Taylor was elected president. At the regular annual meeting, held January 14, 1840, space was rented in the College Building, which then stood on the east side of Walnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth. The rental of $100 per annum was shared by the Mercantile Library Association of the Chamber of Commerce, which paid one-third. In those days and times the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade were the meeting place where trading and bartering were done. As time passed, only trading in hay and grain and commodities which required sampling was handled on the Cincinnati Exchange. The Chamber of Commerce and the Young Men's Library Association continued in the College Building until its destruction by fire in the winter of 1844-45. On the completion of the new College Building on Walnut Street both institutions moved HISTORY OF OHIO - 219 there from the rooms temporarily occupied on Sycamore Street. The first meeting of the Chamber in the new hall was held July 23, 1846. When the growth of the library association required that it should have full occupancy of the space used by the Chamber, the latter organization, in July, 1851, leased a large room on the east half of the building, occupying it until October 20, 1869, when the structure was destroyed by fire. From then until 1887 the Chamber of Commerce occupied space at different locations, including Hopkins' Hall, the Smith and Nixon Hall and Pike 's Opera House. In December, 1881, the Chamber of Commerce had twelve hundred members, divided without distinction among corporations, firms and individuals. On that date Henry C. Urner, then president, submitted a plan for. the reorganization of the membership, which provided for individual memberships only. In 1887, after discussion had extended over several years, the decision was reached that the Chamber of Commerce should have its own building. Committees were accordingly appointed and after their work extended over a number of years purchase was made of the property located at the southwest corner of Fourth and Vine streets, then owned by the United States Government and occupied by the postoffice. The purchase price was $100,000. Following a nationwide contest H. H. Richardson, the famous architect of the day, was selected to draw plans for the building, and upon its completion in 1889 it was pronounced one of the handsomest structures in the United States. It remained the pride and admiration of all Cincinnatians and was generally acknowledged one of the most beautiful and impressive edifices in the country until its destruction by fire January 10, 1911. The ruins were cleared away to make room for the present magnificent skyscraper of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, and the Chamber of Commerce, following its completion, occupied the second and third floors until November', 1922, when temporary quarters were taken in the Herschede Building on Fourth Street, pending the purchase of property and the building of a new home for the Chamber of Commerce. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has played a leading role at all times since its organization in the development, growth and expansion of Cincinnati. A fact of general interest is that the United States Weather Bureau was established primarily through the efforts of the Cincinnati Chamber of ,Commerce. In 1869 the Chamber provided for the securing of weather reports by telegraph from surrounding cities, and in 1870 the Chamber appropriated $600 and appointed Professor Abbe of the Cincinnati Observatory to work with the Western Union Telegraph Company for the publication of a daily weather bulletin extending over a period of three months. Professor Abbe, with the information received, issued a daily system of weather charts containing reports dealing with barometrical conditions from leading points throughout the country. Through its representatives in Congress the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce eventually prevailed upon the Government to take over this important work, and from it grew the present United States Weather Bureaus. This organization has played an equally active part in other projects of national scope. Through its influence organization was brought about of the interests of the Ohio Valley and those interests as a unit succeeded in prevailing upon Congress to make the necessary appropriations for the locking and damming of the Ohio River to provide a 9-foot stage the year around. The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, municipally owned and 339 miles in length, extending between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, was financed and built largely through the efforts of the Chamber. The Atlantic-Pacific and Dixie Highways were routed by way of Cincinnati due to its efforts, and many other projects of a local or sectional nature, making for the city 's advancement along civic, commercial and industrial lines, were either conceived by the Chamber or their culmination brought about throngh its efforts. EDWIN RUSSELL RAYMOND. One of the most important developments in agriculture has been the establishment and maintenance of a farm bureau for the different counties of the various states, for through its medium, and the advice of the experts placed in charge, the farmer learns scientific farming and stock-raising, and is advised as to the best methods of meeting his problems successfully. Some of the most capable men of the times find in this work congenial occupation, and to their interest and enthusiasm the farmer of today owes much. One of these men of Ohio who is rendering a very valuable service in this connection is Edwin Russell Raymond, county agent of Licking County. Edwin Russell Raymond was born at Evansville, Indiana, March 27, 1896, a son of Frank J. and Hattie Bell (George) Raymond. After attending the Evansville Public schools through the high school, Mr. Raymond entered the Ohio State University, and was graduated therefrom with the Bachelor of Science Agricultural degree. For the succeeding years he has been occupied with agricultural extension service, with the Ohio, State University. Prior to coming to Licking County, he was for three years, extension agent of Athens County, Ohio. On May 18, 1918, Mr. Raymond entered the Fourth Officers' Training Camp, Camp Custer, Michigan, but was transferred to Camp Lee, Virginia, where he was commissioned second lieutenant. In October he was attached to the Ninety-eighth Division at Camp McClellan, Alabama, and received his honorable discharge December 9, 1918. On October 16, 1920, Mr. Raymond was married at Logan, Ohio, to Margaret Walker Harrington, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Harrington, the former president of the First National Bank, of Logan, Ohio. Mrs. Raymond is a graduate of the Ohio State University, and a member of Phi Mu Sorority. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond have three children : Robert Franklin, John Walker and Richard Harrington Raymond. Mr. Raymond belongs to the Masonic order, Delta Theta Sigma of the Ohio State University, and the honorary military fraternity, Scabbard & Blade, of the same university. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. Embued with a high sense of personal responsibility, and with a thorough comprehension of his work, Mr. Raymond is making a record as county agent, and deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all with whom he is brought into contact. DAVID LORBACH. Identified with the profession of law at Cincinnati, David Lorbach has won recognition of his sterling ability, and as a general practitioner has built up a representative clientele in a city noted for its able attorneys. He has devoted his entire career to the profession of his choice, never allowing other interests to entice him from his calling, and his connection with many of the leading and prominent cases of the day attest to the thoroughness of his training and the scope of his experience. Mr. Lorbach was born April 5, 1882, at Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, and is a son of David and Emily (Grosse) Lorbach, natives of the same county. His father, reared in Pike County, engaged in farming in young manhood, and at one time moved to Illinois, 220 - HISTORY OF OHIO where he spent several years in agricultural pursuits, but eventually moved back to Waverly, where his death occurred March 18, 1910. Mr. Lorbach was of German descent, while Mrs. Lorbach was of Saxon ancestry. For a time after his return to Waverly the elder David Lorbach was engaged in the insurance business, and also had various other interests. A staunch democrat in his political views, he maintained a strong influence in the ranks of the party organization in his community, and at the time of his death was serving the Village of Waverly in the capacity of mayor. In religion he was an active member of the German Lutheran Church. Of the nine children born to himself and wife five still survive. David Lorbach, the younger, was the sixth child in order of birth of his parents' children, and as a lad attended the public schools of Waverly. He then enrolled as a student at the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1904, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and during the winter of 1904 and the spring of 1905 was a teacher in the high school at Waverly. Next Mr. Lorbach entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, class of 1908. Admitted to the bar during the same year, he at once commenced practice in a law office at Waverly, but at the end of six or eight months deemed that Cincinnati offered larger opportunities for the development of his ability and the achievement of success, and accordingly came to the city and in March, 1909, associated himself with the prominent legal firm of Harper, Allen & Curts. As before noted, Mr. Lorbach is now in the enjoyment of a large and profitable professional business, and is occupying a high place among Cincinnati's lawyers of reliability and capacity. His offices are located at 1306 First National Bank Building. Mr. Lorbach is a member of McMillan Lodge, and has attained to Scottish Rite Masonry, being also a member of Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati. As a lad he became a member of the German Evangelical Church at Waverly, and has never changed his membership from that church. Mr. Lorbach was united in marriage with Miss Grace Vallery, who was born at Waverly, where she was reared and educated, and they are the parents of two children: Richard, who was born in 1914, and Anne Vallery, born in 1917. JUDGE SAMUEL WALTER BELL, presiding judge of the Municipal Court of Cincinnati, is a man of distinction in that city not only on account of the volume of useful work he has done, but because of the individual will and determination that have enabled him to triumph over unusual obstacles and handicaps in making himself a man of usefulness. Judge Bell was born in Cincinnati, June 25, 1870, oldest of five children of Samuel Walter and Mary Alice (Logan) Bell. His father, a native of Philadelphia, was brought to Cincinnati in early boyhood, learned the trade of steam pipefitter, and subsequently was a real estate agent, and for many years was employed in municipal and county offices, being superintendent of the infirmary in 1878-79, and subsequently examiner of titles for the Street Railway Company, and later in the city engineer 's office in the sidewalk department, becoming sidewalk notice clerk and sidewalk inspector's clerk. During the Civil war he served as deputy in the county auditor 's office under his brother, John E. Bell. He was an influential worker in the democratic party. He was never affiliated with any church. His death occurred May 17, 1899. Judge Bell grew up in Cincinnati, attending the Eighth District School, the Hartwell Public School, the Carthage Pnblic School, the Ohio Mechanics Institute and the McDonald Institute of the Young Men's Christian Association. On finishing his public school course he became an apprentice in the Blymyer Machine Company 's plant, and worked as a journeyman machinist until June 8, 1891. In the meantime, during the Harrison-Morton campaign of 1888, from which he dates his active affiliation with the republican party, he was the victim of an accident caused by the premature explosion of gun powder on November 1st of that year, and after fifty-four weeks under the care of Dr. Christian R. Holmes, was discharged with a ninety-five per cent vision, which, however, diminished in 1894, when the left eye was removed and the loss of the sight of the right eye occurred February 2, 1908. In September, 1891, he opened a book store, alt 809 Central Avenue, selling out to his father in April, 1894, but remaining as a clerk in the store until it was closed out by the administratrix of his father 's estate on January 31, 1900. In the meantime he had completed his law course, was admitted to the bar June 8, 1899, and was engaged in practice to some extent while closing out the book business. He then opened his own office on Main Street, at what was then the Lincoln Inn Court, now the Southern Ohio Bank Building, and still maintains a private office. His public service has been one of much variety. He was a member of the Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, was trustee and officer of the Carthage Library Association, beginning April 16, 1900; solicitor for the Village of Carthage, and part of the time for Millcreek Township, and was justice of the peace in Millcreek Township from July 5 to November 28, 1905, and from February 1, 1909, to the annexation of the Village of Carthage on July 10, 1911, and thereafter served as justice of the peace for Cincinnati Township. On January 1, 1914, he became a justice of the Municipal Court, and since 1916 has been presiding judge of that court in Cincinnati. Judge Bell served as assistant secretary of the Hamilton County Agricultural Society for fifteen years, under D. L. Sampson. He was a member of the Young Men's Blaine Club for twenty-five years, and other party affiliations have been with the West End Republican Club, Third Ward Republican Club, South Cincinnati Republican Club, North Cincinnati Republican Club and the Fairview Heights Republican Club. Mr. Bell has been a prominent worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Carthage since August 24,• 1884, and has filled nearly every official position in the church, being for twenty-three years a member of the Official Board and connected with the Sunday school and Epworth League. He is a member of the Hamilton County, Ohio State and American Bar associations and the Cincinnati Lawyers' Club. His fraternal affiliations are with the Iolanthe Lodge No. 385, Knights of Pythias, Guiding Star Council No. 133, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Fulton Lodge No. 83, Daughters of America, Cincinnati Aerie No. 142, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Lodge No. 811, Loyal Order of Moose, Tippe- canoe Tribe No. 5, Improved Order of Red Men, Ulalah Council, Daughters of Pocahontas, Naomi Court No. 133, Tribe of Ben Hur, Carroll Council No. 1473, Royal Arcanum, Court Carthage of the Independent Order of Foresters and the Patriotic Sons of America. Judge Bell married Matilda Snyder Custer at Carthage on October 15, 1903. They have one daughter, Ida Mae, a student in the Hughes High School. ANDREW L. HERRLINGER, of Cincinnati, is one of those who has found in his profession of the law a congenial calling and one for which he is peculiarly HISTORY OF OHIO - 221 fitted. To those who know him it is not imaginable that he could have ever been anything else than a lawyer. But his mental qualities are such that he might have had success in almost any vocation, yet in no other profession or business could it be imagined that he would have been so well adapted. During a long and useful career he has not only held a leading position among Cincinnati and Hamilton legists, but 1183 likewise found the opportunity to aid greatly the cause of education, of which he has been a constant and unfailing friend. Mr. Herrlinger was born at Cincinnati, January 18, 1862, and is a son of Andrew and Mary Herr-linger. His father, who was born in Germany, immigrated to the United States in young manhood and settled at Cincinnati, where he continued to make his home until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he was identified with numerous pursuits and enterprises, in all of which he proved unusually effective. During the latter years of his life he became manager and controlling agent of the principal type foundry of Cincinnati, located at the corner of Opera Place and Vine Street, the present site of the Havlin Hotel, with the responsibilities of which position he was occupied, night and day, up to the time of his death. Of his four sons and three daughters all survive, Andrew L. being the eldest. Andrew L. Herrlinger attended the public schools of Cincinnati, including the Woodward High School, where he graduated with the highest honors of his class. He then entered Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, where he again took the highest honors and received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He was then engaged in educational work at Kenyon College, having been selected to assist the faculty, and also was similarly employed at Kenyon Military Academy, in the meanwhile spending such time as he could spare in the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge Greer, whose office was located at Mount Vernon, Ohio, twelve miles distant. Mr. Herrlinger eventually was admitted to the bar after successfully passing the examination at Columbus, and at this time returned to his home city of Cincinnati, where he found awaiting him the practice of a lawyer who had formerly been the principal of one of the public schools, and who was expected to be at the point of death. At the death of this professor, Mr. Herrlinger took over his practice, which he has since developed into a large and constantly growing clientele. His record as a legist speaks for itself and shows him to be an able, astute and thoroughly informed member of his profession, in the principles of which he is soundly grounded and in the application of which he is forcible, shrewd and energetic. Mr. Herrlinger has been interested in civic affairs, and particularly in educational work, for which he has never received nor asked for compensation. For a number of years he was elected to the Board of of Education of Cincinnati, without opposition, and for many years -served as president of that body. As a delegate thereof he became president of the Board of Library Trustees, of which a fellow member was the Hon. Charles P. Taft, with whom Mr. Herrlinger always worked in the greatest harmony. In political matters Mr. Herrlinger is a republican, and is active in the interests of his party. His religious connection is with the Protestant faith. He belongs to Kilwinning Lodge, Cincinnati Chapter No. 2, Cincinnati Commandery No. 3, the Scottish Rite and the Shrine of Masonry ; the Elks, and the Odd Fellows ; the Delta Tau Delta fraternity ; and is a life member of the Cincinnati Gymnasium. HAROLD ROBINS NEELAND, M. D. A competent physician and surgeon at Cambridge, Doctor Neeland was born in Guernsey County, and is one of the prominent younger professional men of that section of Ohio. He was in service with the Army Medical Corps during most of the World war period. Doctor Neeland was born April 2, 1890, in the community then known as Hartford, now Buffalo, Guernsey County. His parents were Elijah and Jessie F. (Robins) Neeland. His mother 's father, Peter D. Robins, was a son of parents who were among the original settlers in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1807, coming from the Isle of Guernsey. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Neeland was James Nee-land, who came from Tyrone, Ireland, at the age of twenty-one, and in 1841 settled at Cambridge, where he followed his trade as a blacksmith. In 1844 he moved to Claysville. He died August 24, 1900. He married at Cambridge, Miss Marinda Galloway, whose parents were also pioneers of Guernsey County. Elijah Neeland, who was born at Claysville, Ohio, June 20, 1854, learned the blacksmith 's trade, and followed it in Claysville, and in 1879 moved to Hartford. He conducted a blacksmith shop there until 1909, when he retired. The following year he platted twenty-six acres of land into town lots and handled the sale of this property. In 1917 he retired to live in Cambridge, where he takes an active interest in local politics, and is a member of the Masonic Order and the Lutheran Church. Harold Robins Neeland, only child of his parents, is a graduate of the Cambridge High School. In 1913 he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Starling, now the Medical Department of Ohio State University. While in the university he became a Phi Rho Sigma. Following his graduation Doctor Neeland practiced three years in Ohio, and in 1916 took charge of the Industrial Hospital for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company at Akron. In August, 1917, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and in March, 1918, was called to active duty. being one of the medical officers assigned to the Industrial Hospital at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. He remained there until his honorable • discharge on January 20, 1919. On February 10, 1919, Doctor Neeland engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery at Cambridge. He was vice president in 1923 of the Guernsey County Medical Society and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He belongs to the American Legion, the Lutheran Church, and is affiliated with the Lodge of Masons, the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Scottish Rite Lodge of Perfection. His recreation is largely motoring. At Cambridge, Ohio, July 29, 1911, still a student in the medical college, Doctor Neeland married Miss Ada Mustard. She was born in Guernsey County, daughter of the late John Mustard, a farmer. Doctor and Mrs. Neeland have two children, Margaret and James Wallace. LUCIUS WARNER PRICHARD, M. D. With an experience covering thirty years in his profession, Doctor Prichard is one of the honored physicians and surgeons of Ravenna, Portage County, and his individual career adds further distinction to one of the pioneer families of this section. He was born at the old Prichard farm two miles from Garrettsville, October 19, 1864, son of George and Emily (Bosworth) Prichard, both natives of Ohio and of New England stock. His paternal grandfather, John Prichard, was born at Torrington, Massachusetts, and was an early settler in Portage County, Ohio, locating there before 1823 and acquiring land from the Connecticut Land Company. Through his mother Doctor Prichard is a descendant of Daniel Bosworth, a soldier of the Revolution, who was born at Great Barrington, Connecticut, and 222 - HISTORY OF OHIO also came to the Western Reserve of Ohio. Among the children of John Prichard were: John; George; Erastus; Cordelia, who married Henry Tolcott, the first assistant food inspector of the State of Ohio; and Eliza, who married A. Snow, who was successor of Brigham Young as a leader of the Mormon Church. In this family it may be noted that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tolcott had five sons, all of whom graduated from Mount Union College, and three of them from Yale College. The oldest of them, the late John Tolcott, was an attorney, with offices in the Society for Savings Building, Cleveland. Another, Albert, was also an attorney, and for many years had charge of the general tax department of the Erie Railroad. George Prichard, father of Doctor Prichard, was born in Nelson Township of Portage County. He was a cousin of Col. P. B. Pritchard, who spelled his name slightly differently. Colonel Pritchard was also born in Nelson Township, and in the Civil war became captain in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry and was commanding officer of that regiment at the close of the war and commanded the party which effected the capture of Jefferson Davis while fleeing South. George Prichard and wife were married near Garrettsville, and subsequently he bought out the heirs of the original homestead and spent his entire life in that community, where he died at the age of eighty-eight. His wife died at the age of seventy-eight. They had three children, one of whom died in infancy. The daughter, Cordelia, is the wife of Robert H. Crevoise, formerly a business man at Canton, now living on the old Prichard homestead. Lucius Warner Prichard spent a happy boyhood at the old farm, learning manual labor as well as his lessons in the local public schools. He went to school at Garrettsville, walking two miles back and forth each day, and through a period of more than three years he was never absent or tardy. He graduated from the Garrettsville High School in 1884, and subsequently entered Hiram College, from which he received the Master of Philosophy degree in 1890. He studied medicine in the medical department of Wooster University, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1892, and for two years he was also a medical student in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. At various times he has taken post-graduate courses, and kept in touch with the advances made in medicine and surgery. For a year or so Doctor Prichard practiced at West Farmington in Trumbull County, but since December, 1896, has been located at Ravenna. October 19, 1894, Doctor Prichard married Miss Bertha Young, who was born at Hartman in Geauga County, Ohio, daughter of George and Sarah (Shepler) Young, natives of Pennsylvania. The oldest child of Doctor and Mrs. Prichard is Sarah Irene, born November 16, 1895, is a graduate of John Hopkins University and Nurses' Training School and graduated from Oberlin in 1924, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Llewellyn Willard, who married Loretta Wiat, was a student in the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia when the World war came on, became a private in the Four Hundred and Eighty-second Motor Truck Battalion, and was in service eighteen months, being discharged with the rank of sergeant. The third child, Charles Bosworth, is a student of Oberlin College. John Hubert died when fourteen months old. Hilda Louise is a junior in the Ravenna High School, and Georgia, the youngest child, is attending the grade schools. Doctor Prichard and family are members of the Congregational Church. On November 19, 1917, Doctor Prichard received his commission as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, and on May 3, 1918, was called to duty at the port of embarkation at Hoboken, New Jersey, and was in service there until discharged, January 16, 1919. Doctor Prichard was a member of the Ohio National Guards, with a company at Ravenna, in 1898, during the Spanish American war, and subsequently he served as medical examiner of the Ohio National Guard until 1903. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Uniformed Rank of that order, belongs to the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Malta. Professionally his affiliations are with the Portage County, the Ohio State and the American Medical associations. SETH B. SLOAN is active head and manager of one of the leading undertaking firms of Portage County, and is also an honored veteran of the World war. Mr. Sloan was born at Freedom Station in Portage County, October 3, 1896, only child of Seth L. and Agnes (McGill) Sloan. His father was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, and his mother in Portage County. His father for many years carried on a successful practice at Ravenna, where his address is 309 Elm Street. Seth B. Sloan was educated in the public schools at Freedom, and in 1915 graduated from the Ravenna High School. Soon afterward he entered Eckels College of Embalming at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completing a course and receiving a diploma. He was granted a state license as an enbalmer in December, 1916. As an enbalmer he was in the employ of Harry A. Thompson at Ravenna until August 15, 1918, when his active duty as a soldier began. Mr. Sloan was first sent to Columbus Barracks, was transferred to Company G of the Sixty-eighth Infantry, and soon afterward to Company B of the Twenty-fifth Machine 'Gun Battalion. After two months there he was put in the medical detachment and was at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, until discharged in February, 1919. On his return to Ravenna Mr. Sloan engaged in the undertaking business for himself. He is an expert in his line, and has all the facilities for high class service as a funeral director, including invalid car, ambulance and hearse. He is a member of the Ohio State and National Funeral Directors Association. On October 3, 1922, Mr. Sloan married Miss Myrtle Payne, a native of Aurora, Ohio, and daughter of Joseph C. and Dora (Plum) Payne, natives of Portage County. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have one son, Robert Paul, born September 9, 1923. They are members of the Congregational Church. In politics he votes independently, and is affiliated with Unity Lodge No. 12, Free and Accepted Masons, Tyrian Chapter No. 91, Royal Arch Masons, Akron Council No. 80, Royal and Select Masters, and Ravenna Lodge No. 1076, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a trustee of Post No. 331 of the American Legion. JOHN EDWARD HOPLEY, of Bucyrus, is one of Ohio 's veteran editors and publishers, has been a leader in state politics and his associations with prominent men and his extensive travels make him one of the accomplished and most interesting men of his generation. He represents an old Ohio family, but was born while his parents, John Prat and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley, were living near Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. His birth occurred August 25, 1850. His father was highly educated, and Mr. Hopley inherits his father 's library, containing many volumes and documents that have been in the possession of the family for several hundred years. He also has his father 's noted collection of autograph HISTORY OF OHIO - 223 letters, including letters from every republican president beginning with Lincoln. A few years after his birth the family returned to Ohio, first to Logan, Hocking County, and in 1856 settled at Bucyrus. His father was superintendent of schools both at Bucyrus and at Logan. When John Edward Hopley was eleven months old his mother, writing to a sister, made the following prophetic comment: "John Eddie has eyes as blue as the sky and as bright as the stars; he likes to play with books and is only quiet when looking at pictures." His love of books has been, in fact, the most steadfast interest of his long life. He was educated in the public schools of Bucyrus until the fall of 1867. At that time his father bought the Bucyrus Journal. The son immediately transferred himself to the broader school of a printing office, learned printing and newspaper work, and also studied law under Hon. Jacob Scroggs. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. For several years Mr. Hopley was employed in the printing business at New York. From 1883 he was associated with his father on the Bucyrus Journal, and on October 17, 1887, he established The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph. Mr. Hopley became interested in politics while a boy, and ably assisted his father in some of the republican party campaigns of that time. He became one of the organizers of the League of Republican Clubs in the state and also of the Associated Ohio Dailies. He served as a member of the State Central Committee from 1894 to 1896, and in 1894 managed the campaign which sent Hon. S. R. Harris to Congress, and for two years he was at Washington acting as private secretary to the congressman. He had charge of the campaign of 1895 resulting in the nomination of Frank S. Monnette for attorney-general. During 1897, in the interest of the election of M. A. Hanna to the United States Senate, he visited every close legislative district in the state. Under the appointment from President McKinley Mr. Hopley went to England in 1898 as consul to Southampton. Later he served from 1903 to 1905 as American consul at Montevideo, South America. While in the consular service he crossed the ocean fifteen times and accepted the opportunity for extensive travel and study in a number of European countries. His first consular commission was signed by William McKinley and its acceptance signed "Victoria R." Mr. Hopley's parents both died in 1904. In 1905 he returned to Bucyrus to succeed his father as president of the Hopley Printing Company, and since then has been editor of the Journal and Telegraph. Mr. Hopley was elector at large on the republican ticket in 1912. He began in 1911 and completed in 1912 a comprehensive history of Crawford County. Since 1913 one of Mr. Hopley's leading interests has been good roads. When the Lincoln Highway was promulgated he was elected head of that organization in Ohio, and did much to promote its building through the state. In the presidential campaign of 1920 he was president of the Harding for President Newspaper Association, and during the campaign, when the editors met at Marion, he delivered the address of the association to Senator Harding. By a singular coincidence just twenty-four years previously his father, John Hopley, had been selected to deliver the address when the Ohio editors called on Governor McKinley in Canton in the campaign of 1896. Mr. Hopley is a charter member of the Northwestern Ohio Historical Society. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine of Jerusalem, and was the first exalted ruler of Bucyrus Lodge of Elks. In 1922 the Bucyrus Lodge of Masons tendered him a banquet in honor of his fiftieth anniversary as a Mason. Many of his Masonic friends were present from other lodges, and he also received personal letters of congratulations from Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, and William H. Taft, chief justice of the United States. Mr. Hopley has never married. He has lived at the old homestead at Bucyrus for sixty-five years. He values friends above money, and his wealth is in his friendships. WILLIAM NEWTON BRADFORD, M. D. To the heavy routine of a practicing physician and surgeon Dr. William Newton Bradford has given his earnest energies at Cambridge for nearly thirty years. Doctor Bradford started life without special advantages, and had to depend upon himself for his higher education and advancement in his profession. He was born in Highland Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, February 14, 1867. He, his father and grandfather were all born on the same farm. His great-grandfather, John Bradford, came from Virginia to Ohio in 1804, and entered a section of Government land in Muskingum County when that region had a larger Indian than white population. The grandfather of Doctor Bradford also bore the name of John. The father, Harvey Newton Bradford, was born in 1844, spent his active career as a farmer, and died at Cambridge in August, 1903. He was a Methodist, and a democrat in politics. His wife, Eliza Jane Noble, came with her parents from Ireland, first to Montreal, Canada, and then to Muskingum County, in 1848. Her father was a shoemaker at Norwich and at Adamsville. Mrs. Eliza Jane Bradford died May 30, 1887, when forty-three years of age. Third in a family of eight children, William Newton Bradford grew up on the farm, attended the common schools, and from the age of fourteen was on his own resources. In the intervals of farm work at monthly wages he paid the expenses of student advantages at McKorkle College in Muskingum County. He obtained a teacher 's certificate, but never used it for teaching. For two years he engaged in farming in Muskingum County. He first studied medicine with his cousin, Dr. Ira J. Bradford, at Otsego, Ohio, and also spent a year in the Columbus Medical College, and finished his course in the University of Lonisville in 1893. In the meantime he had married, and when he graduated he engaged in practice in Indian Camp in Guernsey County, but since 1896 his professional work has been in Cambridge and vicinity. He did special post-graduate work in the University of Louisville in 1904, and has kept in close touch with the advanced progress of medicine and surgery through reading and attending medical conventions and clinics. At the same time he has been deeply interested in every cause for the advancement of his community. He was elected on the democratic ticket as mayor of Cambridge in 1906 and again in 1907, this being a distinctive honor, since Cambridge is a republican town. He rendered splendid service during his two administrations. He has served on the County Central and County Executive Committee of the democratic party, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His recreation from the busy routine of medical practice is usually a fishing and hunting trip. He has been president of the County Medical Society, and is a member of the Eighth District, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. During the World war he was secretary and medical member of the Southern Ohio District Draft Board for District No. 1. He is affiliated with Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons; Cambridge Chapter No. 53, Royal Arch Masons; Cambridge Commandery of the Knights Templar, Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to Cambridge 224 - HISTORY OF OHIO Lodge No. 301, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Cambridge Encampment No. 150 of the same order, and is a charter member of Cambridge Lodge No. 448, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a director of the Cambridge Loan and Building Association. Doctor Bradford married, January 1, 1891, Mary L. Hutcheson, of Guernsey County. His second wife was Mrs. Carrie Scott Stewart. By his first marriage he has one daughter, Mrs. Winona J. Sheehan, and a granddaughter, Jane Sheehan. COLONEL EDWARD ANDREW DEEDS. Any account or summary of the career of Edward Andrew Deeds of Dayton reveals as a dominant characteristic a certain forcefulness and power in the man, a rare a bility to do things himself and get things done in a large and important way. Several of the business institutions most commonly associated with Dayton as their home reflect in their prosperity some of the individual achievements of Colonel Deeds. His work has been impressed on The National Cash Register Company, on the Delco and the Delco-Light Company, on the great flood conservation project in the Miami valley, on Dayton's contribution to the winning of the World war, and on a great number of the lesser institutions and movements in the community. While the environment of his early life presented him with perhaps better than ordinary advantages, he has been since leaving college entirely responsible for his progress and success. Born at Granville, licking County, March 12, 1874, son of Charles and Susan (Green) Deeds, he acquired his education in public schools, in Denison University at Granville, which awarded him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897, and in Cornell University, which he attended one year. As a partial training for a career requiring technical and expert ability, he was fortunate in his early associations with the Thresher Electric Company of Dayton. Then in 1900 he joined The National Cash Register Company as electrical engineer, installing the power house and equipping the entire plant electrically. In 1902 the Shredded Wheat Company of Niagara Falls secured his services, his capacity for work and getting things done making him a valued member of the personnel of the company. For two years he was busy with the planning and equipping of the great plant which has been one of the showplaces for the tourists at the falls ever since. In 1904 he was induced to return to The National Cash Register Company, which offered a broader field of opportunity, one that appealed to his imagination. As vice president in charge of engineering and production he directed its affairs through some of the most eventful years in the company's history, while the business of the company was being taken td literally the four corners of the earth. During the ten years he remained in the company it came to the high tide of its business prosperity. Part of the time he was assistant general manager of the corporation. Since 1914 his time has been bestowed upon an extended program of constructive, executive and manufacturing enterprises. He left The National Cash Register Company to give more of his time to the growing business of The Dayton Engineering Laboratory Company (Delco), in which C. F. Kettering was his chief associate. Colonel Deeds and Mr. Kettering were founders of both The Dayton Engineering Laboratories (Delco) and the Domestic Engineering Company, which latter company became the DelcoLight Company. They handled the sale of the Delco interests to the United Motors Company in 1916, and the Delco-Light Company to the General Motors Corporation in 1919, this corporation having taken over the United Motors Corporation. He has also been president of The Smith Gas Engineering Company, The Domestic Building Company and The Moraine Development Company. He has extensive interests in the sugar industry of Cuba. In the field of public service he has probably been associated with no movement that has afforded him more satisfaction and honor than the flood prevention project designed to prevent the recurrence of such a disaster as the great flood of 1913. He has served as president of The Miami Conservancy District, the organization created by act of the Ohio Legislature, and which handled the $32,000,000 project comprising five dams, channel improvements and other engineering work. When the nation entered the World war and called the roll and organized its foremost men of finance, industry and technical ability, one of those who went to Washington from Dayton was Mr. Deeds, first as a member of the Munitions Standards Board, and then as a member of the Aircraft Production Board with the rank of colonel. His experience in organization brought him many opportunities for useful service, and he deserves special credit for what was done in supplying the fighting forces with aerial equipment, credit with appropriate praise which was bestowed upon him in generous measure by his superiors. One fact of his war service that is not likely to be forgotten soon is that it was Colonel Deeds who selected Col. J. C. Vincent and Col. E. J. Hall to design the Liberty Motor. The many organizations that claim his membership and some of his interest and cooperation include the following: Army and Navy Air Service Association; Military Training Camps Association; American Officers of the Great War; American Legion; Society of Automotive Engineers; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which he is vice president; Ohio Society of New York ; Auto Club of America; Hamilton Country Club; Engineers' Clubs of Dayton and New York; Detroit and Columbus Athletic Clubs; Army and Navy, and Congressional Club at Washington; Miami Valley Hunt and Polo and Miami Valley Golf clubs of Dayton; the Los Angeles, Dayton, Springfield and Havana Country clubs; Rotary and City clubs at Dayton ; the Bankers' Club and Aero Club of New York; the Beta Theta Pi, Knights of Pythias and Masonic orders. He holds the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. Colonel Deeds is a trustee of Denison University, his alma mater. His interest in education has led him into association with other Dayton men in establishing and fostering that unique school, which has been described so many times in the newspapers and magazines, the Moraine Park School. His home is at the Moraine Farm, and his office is the Mutual Home Building in Dayton. He is an independent republican and a member of the First Baptist Church of Dayton. He married in 1900 Miss Edith Walton, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Walton of Dayton. They have one son, Charles W., now a student in the Business Administration department at Harvard University. GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH. A large number of the enterprises, institutions, organizations and movements that are fundamental in the character of Dayton acknowledge the vital contact, unity and membership of George Bancroft Smith. He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, at Phillipsburg, November 16, 1867, and from the age of twelve years lived at Brookville, Ohio, where he attended the village school. Beginning at the age of eighteen he taught in a country district for two years, having sixty-five pupils