HISTORY OF OHIO - 225 in his school, some of them older than himself. At the age of twenty he began his career as a Daytonian. Following a twelve weeks' business course in the Miami Commercial College he obtained employment at $6.00 a week in Aulabaugh's Hat and Fur Store, but eight months later became bookkeeeper and paymaster at $45.00 a month with the Smith and Vaile Company. That firm and its successor, the Platt Iron Works Company, held him in their service for seventeen years, and when he resigned he was assistant secretary and acting treasurer of a $1,000,000 company. Then for a time he handled and managed the personal investments and other interests of Eugene J. Barney, the well known Dayton capitalist. Mr. Smith in 1907 was elected secretary, treasurer and manager of the Craig Reynolds Foundry Company, one of Mr. Barney 's interests. In 1908 he became president and general manager of the Kinnard Manufacturing Company also one of the Barney group but since 1916 in pratically all of his many business enterprises he has- been associated with Col. E. A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering. Some of his active business connections are: Secretary and treasurer of the Domestic Building Company; secretary and treasurer of the Moraine Development Company; director of the Stemco Engineering Company; director of the Grolan Manufacturing Company; second vice president and director of the Flexible Company ; director of the Triangle Park Company; director of the the Kinnard Manufacturing Company ; director of The Dayton Fan and Motor Company. In 1907 he was elected vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of Dayton, serving four years and then two years as president, at which time the Chamber of Commerce was merged with the Greater Dayton Association, and he then became vice president of the latter. From 1902 to 1905 he was a member of the Dayton Board of Education. In 1917 he was associated with Col. E. A. Deeds, Charles F. Kettering, Arthur E. Morgan and others, in organizing The Moraine Park School of Dayton, which has since become one of the most famous experiments in progressive education in the United States. Moraine Park School has been described again and again in educational magazines and also in newspapers and magazines of popular circulation. Mr. Smith was president and treasurer of the school at its beginning and holds those offices today. Some of the other movements and organizations in the city and of still broader scope that absorb some of his energies and interests and enthusiasm are the Westminster Choral Association of which he is a director ; the Central Theological Seminary, of which he is a Trustee; the Young Men's' Christian Association, which he has served as a director for nineteen years and three years as its president ; the Door of Hope Association of which he is president and a director ; the City Rescue Mission of which he is a trustee ; the Dayton Council on Philanthropy of which he is secretary ; the Dayton Air Service Incorporated Committee of which lie is a director ; the Christian Education Board of the Reformed Church of United States of America, which he serves as a trustee ; and is also a member of the Board of the Ohio Federation of Churches, is a commissioner of the National Forward Movement of the Reformed Church of America, is' a director of the Associated Charities of Dayton, and of the Dayton Community Chest Association, secretary and director of Compania Accionista de la India Occidental of Havana, Cuba ; is acting member of the board of governors of The Engineers' Club of Dayton and a member of the official board of .Hale Memorial Reformed 'Church. Mr. Smith is secretary ad treasurer of the Dayton Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association of the United States of America; is secretary of the executive and finance committees of the International Pulitzer Airplane Races and is an official observer in all local aviation events, including the bringing to Dayton of many world records, those in which he has had an active part in promoting including the following : The performance of 1923 by Lieutenants Macready and Kelley in the T-2, including a new world's record in endurance and long distance flight; in the same year Lieutenant Harris in the Bailing Bomber set a new world 's record in an altitude weight-carrying flight in the largest airship in the world; the new world 's record made in 1923 in speed flight by Lieutenants Maughan and Maitland; and in 1924 the new world's record of altitude flight set by Lieutenant Macready. Mr. Smith has also found some time for literary expression, has contributed a number of articles to newspapers and magazines, being the author of a small volume .entitled, " Timothy and Red Clover." He married in 1890 Miss Holly Denney of West Alexandria. They have a daughter, Miss Martha Catharine, a leader in a number of Dayton movements of the younger group, including College and Young Women 's Christian Association Industrial Department activities. REV. PAUL F. EBERT, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Dover in Tuscarawas County, comes of a family devoted to the learned professions and particularly to the ministry and service of the Lutheran Church. His grandfather, Ebert, was a Lutheran minister in Germany. Four sons of this grandfather became ministers of the Lutheran Church in the United States. Three of these sons had sons who took up and followed the same calling, the other one of the four brothers having no son. Rev. Paul F. Ebert 's father is still active in the ministry, and his wife is the sister of a Lutheran preacher and both of her sisters married ministers. Rev. Paul F. Ebert was born at Houtzdale, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1890, but has spent most of his life in Ohio. His father is Rev. Detlef Philip Ebert, who was born in the province of Hanover, Germany. At the age of seventeen he came to the United States, graduated from the Capital University 'at Columbus and the Theological Seminary of that university, these being institutions of the Joint Synod of Ohio of the Lutheran Church. Ordained a minister, he located at Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, was for one year pastor of a Lutheran Church there, and in the nearby Town of Tyrone ; then returned to Ohio, serving sixteen years as pastor of the Lutheran Church at New Washington and fourteen years as pastor of the church at Marysville, Ohio. This pastorate he resigned on account of failing health, accepting a smaller. and less responsible pastorate at Trenton, Ohio, where he is still preaching and where he and his good wife reside. Rev. Detlef Philip Ebert married at Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, Katherine Feuchter. The three children of their marriage are: Paul F., Emma M. and Rev. Walter W., the' latter' a Lutheran pastor of a prominent church in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rev. Paul F. Ebert was reared and attended public schools at New Washington and Marysville, Ohio, and continued his literary education in the Capital University at Columbus. Graduating, he went to Canada and taught school in the City of Winnipeg during 1909-10. On returning to Ohio he graduated from the theological seminary of Capital University, and was ordained to the Lutheran ministry by his father in 1914. Going to Southwest Texas, he organized and for four years was pastor of a Lutheran Church at Victoria in that state. For twenty-two months he was pastor of St: Mark's Lutheran 226 - HISTORY OF OHIO Church at Delaware, Ohio; and for two years he served the First Lutheran Church at Lancaster, Ohio; and in 1922 took up his duties as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church at Dover. He is head of a progressive congregation. Recently his church completed a large annex for the use of the Sunday school in the rear of the present church edifice, and the next material improvement will involve the building of a new church. Rev. Mr. Ebert has also been active in civic affairs. While at Lancaster he was secretary of the Kiwanis Club and was president of the Kiwanis Club at Dover in 1924. He is a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. On June 24, 1914, at Mankato, Minnesota, he married Miss Irene T. Just, who was born in that Minnesota city. They have one son, Paul William Ebert, born July 11, 1921. ALVIN JEROME HOSTETLER, a resident of Dover, Tuscarawas County, is a veteran school man, his experience covering all phases of work as teacher and school administration. He is now head of the County Normal School. He was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, January 23, 1879, son of Rudolph and Lucinda (Dietz) Hostetler. His parents were born in Tuscarawas County. His grandparents were Daniel and Mary Hostetler, the former a native of Pennsylvania and of Swiss lineage. Lucinda Dietz was a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Levengood) Dietz, the former a native of Pennsylvania, of German lineage. Rudolph Hostetler spent a long and active life as a farmer in Tuscarawas County, and died at the age of seventy-five. His widow is still living. They had six children, two sons and four daughters. Alvin Jerome Hostetler lived on a farm through his youth and early manhood, was educated in country schools, and was only seventeen when he began teaching. His knowledge of methods was perfected in the summer normal schools, and in the intervals of teaching he attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where in 1908 he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree. Up to 1908, for a total of nine years, he taught in rural schools. -After that he was a teacher in the high schools at McComb, Hicksville and Bluffton, Ohio, until 1917, when he returned to Tuscarawas County as a district supervisor of schools. That post he held five years, and since 1922 has been director of the Tuscarawas County Normal School at New Philadelphia, where many of the teachers of the county receive their training. He is a member of the County, Eastern Ohio and the Ohio State Teachers' associations. Mr. Hostetler is a member of the Lutheran Church and is a democrat in politics. He married in 1909 Miss Clara Stewart, who was born in Hancock County, Ohio. She has to her credit a teaching record of about fifteen years. The two children of their marriage are Marion Stewart and Carma Coy Hostetler. GEORGE CARRUTHERS. The public is too apt to take for granted the proper functioning of every department of the city, without stopping to think how much practical knowledge is required along every line to prevent confusion and avoid accidents. The public safety is insured through thorough, painstaking effort and ceaseless watchfulness, especially in those departments connected with the building commissioner. Thousands of elevators, for instance, are in constant use throughout the city, and yet each one of these is inspected at regular intervals to see that it is properly installed, and that its machinery is in safe running order. The man who is in charge of these inspections, George Carruthers, is probably one of the most expert in his line in this part of Ohio, and he is a man long connected with public service, with a practical experience back of him. George Carruthers was born at Saint Louis, Missouri, November 30, 1856, a son of William and Martha (Worley) Carruthers, the former of whom was born at London, England, in 1830. In 1850 he came, alone, to the United States, and two years later located at Cincinnati, Ohio. By occupation he was a horse trader, and, understanding the business, was fairly successful at it. Cincinnati continued to be his home until his death, which occurred about 1886. Of the seven children born to him and his wife, George Carruthers was the second in order of birth. The public schools of Cincinnati grounded George Carruthers in the fundamentals of an education, but he has been taught many additional lessons of value in those of experience. Early beginning his business career, for he was but twelve years old when he commenced working at stemming tobacco. He has always been a worker, and he is proud of the fact that all he has, he has earned by his own efforts. After about a year spent in the tobacco factory he went with the Mills & Loughead Company, by whom he was employed operating wood work machinery until 1887. It was in the latter year that Mr. Carruthers began his connection with the public service by entering the sheriff 's office, under Leo Schott, with whom he remained for four years. For the subsequent seven years he was timekeeper at the Front Street Station of the Water Works Department. Outside business claimed him then for about two years, and he was (luring that time an operator of a planing mill. Once more his services were placed at the disposal of the public, and for three years he was deputy state food inspector for Ohio, with headquarters at Cincinnati. His duties included the collection of food for the food commissioner of Ohio. For another two years he was in charge of his planing mill, but then, securing a reliable man to conduct it for him, he went into the water works of the city and did carpentering. For two years he was the elevator inspector for the City of Cincinnati, served for three years as deputy elevator inspector, and then, in 1920, received his present appointment as chief elevator inspector for the city. His duties in this very important office include the supervision of the work of installing and inspecting all of the elevators of Cincinnati, and he is particularly well fitted on account of his long experience with this line of work. His headquarters are in the building commissioner 's office, City Hall. Mr. Carruthers has been active in political life, and is a stalwart republican. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Cincinnati City Council, and served in that body for four years. Fraternally he belongs to the Maccabees. In 1889 Mr. Carruthers married Miss Catherine Morley, who was born in Ohio, and educated in the parochial schools of her home city. Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers had four children born to them, but all are deceased. It would be difficult to find a more representative man or better citizen than Mr. Carruthers, and while he is recognized as unflinching in the administration of his office, his sense of fairness is such that all are given a proper treatment, and no unjustice is permitted. ALEXANDER PATTERSON, city treasurer of Cincinnati, has lived in that city since early childhood, and has been identified with its business as well as its politics and public affairs. Mr. Patterson was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, November 14, 1865, and was three years of age when his parents came to America, in 1868, and located at Cincinnati. His father, Mark Patterson, followed the trade of miller in Ireland, and on coming to America entered the service of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & HISTORY OF OHIO - 227 Dayton Railway Company in the freight department, but died after a brief service, in 1870. He was the father of eight children, Alexander being next to the youngest. Mr. Patterson attended public school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and since the age of fourteen has been self supporting. He was employed in a dairy for seven years, learning the business, and then engaging in it for himself and for ten years conducted a dairy establishment, supplying milk to the City of Cincinnati. In the meantime, on May 4, 1887, Mr. Patterson married Miss Katherine Miller, daughter of Andrew and Katherine Miller. Two Children were born to their marriage, the daughter, Mrs. Bella C. Brown, being the wife of the deputy county treasurer of Hamilton County. Mr. Patterson for several years was connected with the Fleischman Yeast Company, and then engaged in the hay, grain and building material business, which he conducted at 33 W. Sixth Street until about the time of the World war. Mr. Patterson was elected and served four years on the Cincinnati City Council, and in 1916 was elected city treasurer, a position he has held continuously. He has been a life long republican, has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1892, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Moose. NATHANIEL D. C. HODGES is rounding out a quarter of a century of service as librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library, and is a former president of the Ohio Library Association. He was born at Salem, Massachusetts, April 19, 1852, son of John and Mary Osgood (Deland) Hodges. He graduated Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1874, attended the University of Heidelberg, Germany, during the following year, and after returning from abroad, was private tutor in mathematics and civics at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1876-77. He served as assistant in civics at Harvard University in 1877-81, and gained distinctive recognition for his work in his chosen science, being elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1879; and a Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science in 1882, on account of his investigations in molecular physics. Mr. Hodges for a number of years was connected with the editorial staff of the publication called Science, being its assistant editor from 1883 to 1885, and editor from 1885 to 1894. In 1895 he initiated his long career in the profession of librarian, having been assistant at the Astor Library in New York during 1895-97; assistant at the Harvard University Library from 1897 to 1900; and from April 20, 1900, was librarian of the public library at Cincinnati until resigning in January, 1924. His service as president of the Ohio Library Association was rendered in 1904-05, and he was honored with the presidency of the American Library Association in 1909-10. CHARLES S. BELL, prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, has practiced law in Cincinnati for fifteen years. He is a trial lawyer of great resourcefulness and technical skill, very able also as a public speaker. Mr. Bell was born in Hartwell, Hamilton County, Ohio, October 8, 1880, son of Samuel Walter and Mary (Logan) Bell. He is the youngest of five children, and the younger brother of Judge Samuel Walter Bell, long a prominent attorney and public official at Cincinnati. Samuel W. Bell, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the real estate business until his death in 1896. He was a democrat, and held several public offices, including real estate appraiser and sidewalk inspector for the City of Cincinnati, and was also a member of the Board of Control. Charles S. Bell was educated in the grammar and high schools at Carthage, and then entered the railroad service, remaining in their employ until 1910, in the meantime working and studying at every opportunity to prepare himself for the law. For the railroad he served as yard clerk, chief clerk and yard master. He was admitted to the bar at the age of thirty-one, and in September, 1910, engaged in practice at Cincinnati. His private practice brought him a successful business, and he has handled many important cases. He is the executor of estates involving many valuable business interests. In 1918 he was made first assistant to the county prosecutor, and served in that capacity until January 1, 1923, when he became prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County. His administration has been one proving his resourcefulness in handling the many complicated and perplexing problems involved. He successfully prosecuted the case of Durr vs. Anderson, in which the question of the taxability of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange was involved. Mr. Bell carried the case to the Snpreme Court of the United States, where a decision favorable to the State of Ohio was obtained. He also undertook the long investigation and presented to the Grand Jury the indictment of the brokerage firm of Beazel and Chatfield on charges of embezzlement. He secured conviction in the Court, of Common Pleas, and the conviction has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The case was given a great deal of publicity, and was important as being the first attempt for many years on the part of the state to determine whether the criminal laws were violated by the practices pre-. wailing in many brokerage offices. The testimony of the case was secured by Mr. Bell in the City of New York from the members of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Bell is active in fraternal and social affairs. being a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and Ode Fellow, an Eagle, belongs to the Elk Lodge of Cin cinnati, and is a member of the Country Club, State and National Bar Association, Maketewah Country Club, Municipal Country Club, Cnvier Press Club, Optimist Club and Blaine Club. His hobby is golf. Mr. Bell is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. J. ALFRED LOVELL. A family whose members have contributed for several successive generations to the development of the material resources in Southeastern Ohio is represented by J. Alfred Lovell, pioneer oil producer, whose business headquarters for the last twenty years have been at Marietta. His offices are in the St. Clair building in that city. Mr. Lovell as a boy took up the live stock business, following the example of his father, one of the old time drovers. Farming and the live stock business have continued to occupy him through all the years, though he is doubtless most widely known for his extensive operations in the oil territory. Mr. Lovell was born at Joy, in Morgan County, Ohio, February 12, 1850, son of John and Jane (Wheeler) Lovell and grandson of Thomas S. Lovell. Thomas S. Lovell, a native of Massachusetts, took to the sea when a boy, became captain of a sailing vessel in the famous American Merchant Marine before he was twenty-one years of age, and as a ship owner sailed his ships across the Atlantic many times. His home was in the vicinity of Boston. As his children grew up he desired to put the attractions of the sea beyond the reach of his sons, not desiring that they follow a seafaring career. Accordingly he brought his family west to Ohio. One of his uncles had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and as reward for 228 - HISTORY OF OHIO his service the Government had given him a land grant. This grant was given to Thomas S. Lovell, and under its terms he took up 160 acres near Joy, in Morgan County, Ohio. He lived all his life there, being a man of strong character, influential in local township and county affairs, and reached the good old age of eighty years. He married Charlotte Norcroff, a native of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Of their seven children John Lovell, the youngest, was born in Morgan County, and exemplified the long lived qualities of his ancestors by reaching the age of eighty-seven. He passed away in 1905. He became a farmer, and early took up the business of stock raising and dealing. As a drover he took cattle over the old National Pike to the eastern market. Religion was very vital to him, and he held daily sermon and prayers, being a trustee of the Methodist Church. He served as township trustee, was an abolitionist before the Civil war, and always voted the republican ticket. Jane Wheeler, the wife of John Lovell, was born in Athens County, Ohio, and was seventy years of age when she passed away in 1902. They were the parents of four children: J. Alfred; 0. M., a farmer and stock dealer near Amesville in Athens County; Eliza, of Toledo, widow of Reverend Conkle, and Georgiana, wife of Lincoln Glass, of Portland, Oregon. J. Alfred Lovell spent the first forty years of his life on the old homestead where he was born. He was educated in the Morgan County district schools, including one year in the schools at McConnelsville. As soon as he was old enough he began accompanying his father on trips East with stock, and at the age of fifteen was trading in live stock on his own account. He is one of the veteran shippers of cattle over the Baltimore and Ohio lines to Baltimore. On his own and leased lands he at times had as many as 200 cattle and 800 sheep. When the great slump in wool prices came, during the early '90s, he was disgusted and quit the live stock business almost entirely, selling his cattle, as well as his sheep. In 1892 he moved from the old homestead to the Dale farm, on which oil had been discovered as early as 1860. For over thirty years much of his time and capital has been employed in oil developments. Leasing lands adjoining the Dale place, he sunk sixteen wells before getting. any oil. This persistence in the face of repeated discouragements proved his dominating character. Finally, in 1898, he brought in a well on the Dale farm, and since then has been to a greater or less extent identified with over 500 producing wells. He explored carefully the entire district between the Dale place and the Ohio River to the southeast. For some years he was associated in the oil business with Harvey E. Smith. In 1900 Mr. Lovell moved to Chester Hill, lie and Charles Eckles and William Ritchie, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as associates, leasing the Emmor Bowman place on Wolf Creek, and drilled forty-seven producing wells without a single dry hole. These wells produced from 10 to 600 barrels per day, the deepest well being 400 feet and the shallowest 300 feet. This was indeed a golden stream of oil and set a remarkable record in the shallow oil field of Ohio. It was in 1901 that Mr. Lovell moved his home and headquarters to Marietta. Since then he has been identified with oil development in various fields in Ohio, Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma. He still continues trading in live stock, being interested in Jersey cattle and saddle horses, his favorite pastime being horseback riding. At one time in his career in a period of five years it is estimated that he rode 5,000 miles horseback. Mr. Lovell has been associated with the Peoples Bank of Marietta since its organization. He is a republican, a member of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce at Marietta, and he and his family are Methodists. He has a magnificent home known as Hemlock Place, near the Country Club at Marietta. Mr. Lovell has been married fifty-five years. His wife was Mary Anna Hobson, daughter of S. N. Hobson, of Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Lovell have four daughters: Miss Jessie M. and Miss Anna, at home; Alice, wife of B. H. Robertson, of Nowata, Oklahoma, an oil producer ; and Helen, wife of L. B. Riddle, who is general manager of the Shafer Oil Company. Mr. and Mrs. Lovell also had two sons : Earl, who was educated at Ohio University, and died in 1907, at the age of thirty ; and Paul, who died in October, 1923, when forty-five years of age. Both sons were identified with oil production, Paul being associated with his father and also with George B. Foreman of Buffalo. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, in early girlhood espoused the ideas and principles that have dominated her entire life, and was identified as a working influence with the woman's suffrage cause. She held an important administrative post in the national organizations, and the history of the woman suffrage movement in America can hardly be written without some reference and tribute to this Ohio woman. She was born at Ravenna, daughter of Ezra B. and Harriet (Frazer) Taylor. Her father, a native of Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, became one of the leading lawyers of Northeastern Ohio. He practiced at Ravenna and in Warren, served as prosecuting attorney, Common Pleas judge and succeeded General Garfield as representative of the Nineteenth Ohio District in Congress. He was in Congress thirteen years. Judge Taylor died in 1912, at the age of eighty-nine. Mrs. Upton's mother was born at Ravenna, daughter of William Frazer and Anna (Campbell) Frazer. She was a woman of great intellectuality, but died at the comparatively early age of forty-five. Harriet Taylor Upton received a high school education at Warren, and on July 9, 1884, was married to George W. Upton. Mr. Upton, who died in Washington in April, 1923, was educated at West Point Military Academy, subsequently studied law at Washington, was admitted to the bar in Ohio, and practiced in this state and Washington for many years. Mrs. Upton became actively identified with the National Woman's Suffrage Movement in 1890. She served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, but the office by which she was best known was that of treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association, a post of duties she held fifteen years. She acted as a patron of the National Council of Women. She had the satisfaction of assisting in bringing about the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Since then she has been a prominent worker in the republican party, and for four years was vice chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee, the late President Harding having chosen her for that place. She was elected a member of the Board of Education at Warren a year or two after the school suffrage law was passed, and served fifteen years, part of the time as chairman. She also served as president of the Warren Political Equality Club for 10 years. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, the Washington City Club, the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman's Relief Corps and many other organizations. Mrs. Upton is the author of three books: 'Our Early President, Their Wives and Children," published in 1892; " The History of Trumbull County, Ohio," and a "History of the Western Reserve." She has written extensively for children. HISTORY OF OHIO - 229 JOHN A. CALDWELL. As lawyer, former congressman and four terms as judge of the Common Pleas Court, John A. Caldwell has for forty years been a conspicuous citizen in Cincinnati. His career is not less deserving of record in the history of the state. He was born at Fair Haven, Preble County, Ohio, April 21, 1852, and his early life was one of struggle to achieve the opportunities of a career. He was educated in common schools to the age of fifteen, then worked as farm hand, grocery clerk and baker boy, and in 1869 came to Cincinnati and taught school in Mill Creek Township until the fall of 1873. While attending the Cincinnati Law School he was employed in the law office of Johnson, Moulton & Blinn, and was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1876. For about a year he taught school, and in 1877 engaged in private practice at Cincinnati. In 1881 he was elected and by reelection in 1883 he served as prosecuting attorney nntil 1885. In 1887 he was elected judge of the Police Court. Before the expiration of this term he was nominated and elected to represent the Second Ohio Congressional District, being reelected in 1890 and 1892 and serving in the 51st, 52nd and 53rd Congresses. At the call of what he regarded as a more important duty, he accepted the republican nomination for mayor in the spring of 1894, and was elected and served as chief executive of the city until 1897. In 1899 he was chosen lieutenant governor of Ohio, serving two years. In the fall of 1901 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court for five years, and in 1906 was reelected for the term of six years, again being reelected in 1912 and 1918. His present term expires February 9, 1925. Judge Caldwell enjoys the enviable distinction of being known as "The father of the Juvenile Court of Hamilton County." He had advocated the establishment of such a court as far back as 1887, while serving as judge of the Police Court. In 1904, in addition to his duties as Common Pleas judge, he was appointed judge of the Juvenile Court, and served in that capacity for ten years, until 1914. His career in Congress had results of more than passing interest. He was in Congress more than thirty years ago, and at that time was conspicuous as an advocate of all measures to protect the working man and afford justice and relief to the soldiers. He advocated the eight hour bill, under the provision of which government contractors could be prevented from forcing their men to work more than eight hours, a provision that has now for many years been incorporated in the practice of all contractors on government work. He also introduced and secured the, passage of a bill appropriating $25,000 for a survey for a barge canal from Toledo to Cincinnati. The survey was made, the project recommended by engineers, but public interest was never aroused sufficiently to pugh the matter to conclusion. Judge Caldwell was author of the bill that prevented the desecration of the American flag by placing advertisements thereon. He was author of the anti-lottery bill, which proved the death-knell of the Louisiana lottery. He made the favorable reports that secured the enactment of the car coupler law, requiring all railroad companies to adopt safety couplers on all trains engaged in interstate commerce. He was successful in advocating the reclassification of the various postal employes under which all railway clerks and letter carriers are now working. Another fact that should be remembered is his firm stand against the employment of convict labor on government contracts. He was author of a bill requiring that all prison-made goods of whatever character should be stamped so as to show where and in what prison they were manufactured. While Judge Caldwell was serving his first term in Congress he was unanimously elected chairman of the Congressional. Campaign Committee. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions that nominated President McKinley in 1896 and 1900. Among those. who first advocated the Republican League of Ohio, he was afterwards unanimously elected president of that League. Judge Caldwell married in 1876, the year he was admitted to the bar, Miss Anna Eversull, of Mount Airy, Ohio. They have three children: John, Robert and Bessie Caldwell. EDWARD HUBER. Credit has been given for many years to Edward Huber as the founder and creator of the industrial growth and development of the City of Marion. At the close of the Civil war, he established a small manufacturing plant in what was then a country village, and he was personally identified as founder and executive official with half a dozen or more large manufacturing concerns that make the name of Marion known all around the world through their products Edward Huber was born on a farm near Kelso in Dearborn County, Indiana, September 1, 1837. His father, Phillip Huber, was a native of Weildorf, Germany, learned the cabinet maker 's trade there, and the young man came to America with three of his brothers. In Philadelphia he worked at his trade, and subsequently sent back to Germany for Miss Mary Hurm, who joined him in 1834 and they were married at Philadelphia. Subsequently they moved to a farm in the southeastern corner of Indiana at Kelso, and he and his wife lived out their lives in that community. They were the parents of six children. Edward Huber had limited school advantages in the rural and isolated community in which he grew up in Indiana. He inherited some of his father's marked mechanical skill, and learned to handle all the tools found in his father 's blacksmith and cabinet shop on the farm. There he made sashes, doors, blinds and coffins, all this woodwork being done by hand. The shop also made wagons, not only the woodwork, but also the iron, and Edward Huber ironed most of the wagons in that shop. His skill in handling tools was supplemented by an original genius at invention. His first important invention came in 1863 when he devised a revolving hay rake which he patented. He was attracted to Marion, Ohio, by reason of the ample supply of hardwood for manufacturing this hay rake. He arrived at Marion in 1865, accompanied by his bride and in a short time organized the Kowalke Hammerle & Company, to manufacture the hay rake. Mr. Huber was at first the junior partner, but in 1870 became a member of the firm Huber, Gunn & Company. He acted as superintendent of the planing mill and other branches of the industry that manufactured the original hay rake. As the business grew, he designed and built a number of labor saving machines to increase the capacity of the factory and reduce the cost of operations. In November, 1874, the Huber Manufacturing Company was incorporated, taking over the property and business, not only of the Huber Gunn & Company, but also the Holmes & Seffner Company. While the revolving hay rake continued to be an important line of manufacture, Mr. Huber was constantly broadening the scope of manufacture. He invented a revolving road scraper, which took the first prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. Ha also developed a farm engine for threshing machines, and developed a grain separator. In 1880 the company began manufacturing engines and separators. A traction engine was improved and 230 - HISTORY OF OHIO developed and Mr. Huber patented one of the first self-feeders for grain separators. For a great many years the name Huber has been associated in the minds of hundreds of thousands of American farmers with high class agricultural machinery. Edward Huber gave the business of the Huber Manufacturing Company his personal attention, and served it as mechanical engineer, superintendent and president until his death on August 26, 1904. The importance of his relationship to Marion industrial progress was measured not alone by the development of the Huber Manufacturing Company but by the encouragement and support he gave to many other local industries and the modern industrial district of Marion is in a large measure a reflection of the enterprise Edward Huber, though he has been dead now for twenty years. He gave encouragement and financial assistance to the original inventors of the steam shovel which for many years have comprised one of Marion's chief contributions to the volume of American machinery products. Mr. Huber with his own money built the two first steam shovels. The shovel was patented by H. M. Barnhart. This was the beginning of what is now the Marion Steam Shovel Company. This company was incorporated in 1884 and during the lifetime of Edward Huber, it became one of the largest factories manufacturing steam shovels, dredges and mining and excavating machinery. Edward Huber was president of this company from its organization until his death. He was also founder and president of Marion Malleable Iron Works, was one of the founders and president of the Automatic Boiler Heater Company, was president of the Marion Implement Company, president of the Marion National Bank, and vice president of the Marion Milling and Grain Company. He was interested in the first building and loan association at Marion. He was one of the organizers of the Marion Street Railway Company, one of the founders of the Grand Opera House Company, and assisted in the organization and construction of the Marion Young Men's Christian Association and was one of the trustees. He was financially and officially identified with the Marion Oil and Supply Company, the Marion Tool Works, the Prendergast Lumber and Coal Company and the Marion Bicycle Company. He recognized the place the automobile would fill and was liberal in encouraging the development of its manufacture. Edward Huber was a lover of fine driving horses, and he owned four fine farms near Marion which he made models of agricultural management. Edward Huber married, October 30, 1865, Miss Elizabeth Hammerle, who was born at Tulsa, Indiana, March 15, 1842. She survived his ten years, passing away on Easter Sunday, April 12, 1914. Mrs. Huber is remembered as a woman of great gentleness of manner, modest and unassuming, but constantly engaged in some work of worthy philanthropy. They were members of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Marion. The two children are Francis A., president of the Marion Steam Shovel Company and a daughter Mary Catherine, who is the wife of J. A. Schroeter of Marion. FRANCIS ALBERT HUBER, only son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hammerle) Huber, has evinced a genius for business organization and administration resembling the inventive genius of his distinguished father, who was founder of the modern industrial City of Marion. Francis A. Huber, better known as Frank Huber, was born at Marion, January 29, 1867, and as a boy attended St. Mary 's Parochial School, the Nelson Business College of Cincinnati, and in 1885 when eighteen years of age, became a minor employee in the plant of the Marion Steam Shovel Company. He has been with that business corporation continuously, and since January 6, 1891, has been treasurer of the company. He became a director on January 7, 1895. was elected vice president September 13, 1904, and since January 22, 1918, has been president as well as treasurer of one of the largest concerns in the world manufacturing shovels and other machinery for excavation, dredging, mining and similar forms of work. The accounting and other features of the company's business management are largely the product of the experience and talent of Frank A. Huber. Mr. Huber is also president of the Marion Building, Savings & Loan Company, is vice president of the Huber Manufacturing Company and the Fahey Banking Company, and is a director in the Marion National Bank, National City Bank & Trust Company, Marion Lumber Company, Prendergast Company and the Marion County Telephone Company. He is the owner of two fine farms, one of them known as Huesta, being a dairy farm specializing in Holstein cattle, and the other is Vernonside, a stock farm featured by a herd of shorthorned cattle. Mr. Huber is a modern industrial executive who has succeeded in maintaining close touch with the large body of men employed in his plants and offices. He has kept himself in touch socially as well as through the ordinary relations of the managing official, and he has developed an idea and principle in which his father was interested, that of home owning by employees and has used the opportunities of his business position to promote home ownership wherever possible. He was largely instrumental in having the Marion Steam Shovel Company adopt a group insurance plan for its employees. Mr. Huber is a member of the Marion Country Club, is former president of the Marion Club, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He married on April 27, 1893, Miss Nona B. Fahey. She died November 14, 1910, the mother of three children: Mary Faye, wife of C. F. La Marche of Marion; Edward Timothy, who during the World war served in the Engineer Corps with the Thirty-seventh Division in the American Expeditionary Forces, is now in the purchasing department of the Marion Steam Shovel Company and married Mary Lynn ; and Francis Bernard. Timothy Fahey, father of the late Mrs. Frank A. Huber, was a native of Ireland, son of Dennis Fahey. He came to the United States in 1847 and from New York went west to Sandusky, Ohio, later to Kenton, and in the fall of 1847 arrived at Marion, where he secured work as a hand during the construction of the Illinois Central & Western Railway. He started a boarding camp for men engaged in railroad work, from that went into the grocery and then into the dry goods business, and eventually opened a small private bank in his little store, and took up real estate dealing. From 1872 to 1893 he operataed a private bank, and in the latter year incorporated the Fahey Banking Company, of which he was president until his death. He was a democrat and a member of St. Mary 's Catholic Church. ROSCOE CARWINE HARPER, D. D. S., practicing at Wellston, is a native of Jackson County, and for a number of years has demonstrated his splendid efficiency in his chosen profession. He is a veteran of the World war, and one of the influential men in politics in his native county. He was born in Coalton in Jackson County, December 1, 1886, son of Ezra J. and Laura Mae (Cooper) Harper, and grandson of Calvin and Jemimah Harper and Theodore and Mary Ann Cooper. Doctor Harper 's parents are still living. His father has had a successful career as a farmer, plaster contractor, merchant and coal dealer. He is a HISTORY OF OHIO - 231 member of the Methodist Church and the Knights of Pythias. There were six children in the family : Cora, wife of James F. Long and the mother of a son, Robert McCune ; Iva, who married James Hunley, has three children, Laura Fern, James Franklin and Betty Jean; Dr. Roscoe Carwine; Lola, wife of Prof. E. V. Springer, superintendent of the Scioto Township rural schools, is the mother of two sons, Paul Wayne and Emmett Vance ; Edith, wife of D. E. Parry, and mother of two sons, David 'Edgar and Glendon E.; and Clarence, who married Gertrude Willis and has a son, Joseph Willis. Dr. Roscoe Carwine Harper attended the public schools at Wellston, finishing his high school course in 1905. For a year and a half he worked in his father's store at Wellston, and was then associated with him in the contracting business as a plasterer for a year. Leaving this work, he entered Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, spending one year at that place. He then transferred to the Dental Department of the Starling, Ohio, Medical College of Columbus, where he graduated in May, 1911. After practicing his profession a short time in Cincinnati, Ohio, he opened his dental offices at Wellston, and now is one of the progressive and advanced men in his profession in his county. During the World war he joined the Dental Reserve Corps, and on July 21, 1918, was called to duty at Camp Sherman. He remained at this camp until August 24, when he was transferred to Camp Mills. On September 9 he left New York harbor on the S.S. Melita and arrived at Liverpool, England, September 21. Crossing the English Channel from Southampton to LaHavre on the Archimedes, he was on duty in several of the important war areas of trance, and visited the following places : Nice, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Mentone, also Northern Italy, Paris, Rheims, Chateau Thierry and Verdun. On his return trip to the States he sailed from Marseilles on the S.S. Madonna, visiting the Balearic Isles, Oran, Algeria, Africa and the Azores Islands. Arriving at New York, he was stationed for a time at Camp Merritt, and returning to Camp Sherman, was granted his honorable discharge, June 21, 1919, just eleven months from the day he entered active service.. He immediately resumed, his dental work at Wellston and has built up a splendid practice. As a leader in local politics Doctor Harper has been a member of the City Council and the Republican Central Committee, and is chairman of the Third Ward Republican Club. He is an official in the Elks Lodge, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Psi Omega college fraternity and the American Legion Post. HON. BURCH REASON RIBER. From a boyhood and youth in which hard work was made necessary by a lack of funds for the acquirement of a -desired education to the ownership of important business and other interests and .the mayoralty of his adopted city has been the record established by Hon. Burch R. Riber, of Hillsboro. Still in the very prime of vigorous manhood, his achievements have been numerous, and while his personal affairs have demanded much of his attention he has also found time to associate with other progressive and right-thinking men in the promulgation of movements that have contributed materially to the welfare of his community. Mayor Riber was born at Russellville, Brown County, Ohio, August 24, 1886, and is a son of Charles William and Mary (Inskeep) Riber. His grandfather, Daniel Riber, was born in Germany, in 1830, but was opposed to the right of kings to conscript their subjects for military service, and, accordingly, with three companions left his native land and sought the friendly shores of America. After numerous adventures he succeeded in reaching his destina tion. Charles W. Riber was born in Brown County, Ohio, June 6, 1862. He is now living at Hillsboro, as is Mrs. Riber, who was born in Brown County, July 16, 1866. The parents of Mr. Riber were not well-to-do, and as a result his boyhood advantages were somewhat limited. He attended the common and grade schools of Brown County and the high schools at Williamsport and Washington Court House, and at the age of sixteen years gave up his studies temporarily, owing to poor health, and went to work on the farm of a Brown County agriculturist, receiving therefor his board. In 1904 Mr. Riber returned to Washington Court House, where he secured employment with his uncle, George Inskeep. With the funds thus gained lie took a commercial course at the Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, during a part of the years 1905 and 1906, and late in the latter year located at Hillsboro, where he worked as stenographer for the wholesale grocery firm of the McKeehan Hiestand Grocery Company. His capital at the time of his arrival was but eleven dollars, but he was self confident and enterprising, and from time to time was promoted by his employers through various positions. In 1915 Mr. Riber entered upon his independent career, when lie founded his present wholesale candy, cigar and notion business, which has increased four-fold since its inception and is now one of the prosperous enterprises of the city. He is also a director in the Farmers and Traders National Bank, the owner of two business buildings and a member of the Local Business Men 's Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knight Templar Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Riber belongs to the Methodist Church, is a member of the Board of directors of the Highland County Sunday School Association and assistant superintendent of the Sunday School and a teacher of one of the classes. He is likewise a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hillsboro Hospital. For some years Mr. Riber has been before the public in official capacities. In 1922 he was local manager of the prohibition campaign, and in 1924 was appointed by Governor Donahey as delegate to the national convention of the Anti-Saloon League of American. In 1923 the citizens endorsed him as a candidate for mayor on an independent ticket, and in November of the same year he was elected. He has made an excellent record 'in the office of chief executive, and his administration has been marked by progress and prosperity. At Hillsboro, March 2, 1911, Mr. Riber was united in marriage with Miss Martha Richards, who graduated from the high school at Hillsboro in 1908, also attended school at Oxford, and was a teacher up to the time of her marriage. Possessed of a beautiful voice, she sings in the choir of the Hillsboro Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Riber are the parents of four children : Margaret Ellen, born July 14, 1913, in the fifth grade of the public school; Ruth Marie, born October 26, 1915, in the second grade ; Catherine, born July 24, 1918; and Martha Virginia, born April 11, 1924. JOSHUA BLISS GLENN, M. D. After graduating from medical college Doctor Glenn located at Greenfield, where he quickly attracted favorable attention and built up a practice that has made him one of the busy professional men of Highland County. Doctor Glenn was born in Bloomingburg, Fayette County, May 8, 1873, son of William Walter and Sarah Armand (Marshall) Glenn. His father was born in 1850, and for thirty-five years was a practicing physician of Hillsboro, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty-nine. His mother was born at Sardinia, Ohio, in 1859, and still resides in Hillsboro, Ohio. 232 - HISTORY OF OHIO Dr. Joshua Bliss Glenn attended the grammar and high schools of Hillsboro, and his early association with his father decided him upon a medicar career. From 1902 to 1906 he was a student in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree. While at Miami he became affiliated with the Sigma Chi fraternity. He graduated from the medical department of Cincinnati University, and in 1910 was appointed resident physician of the State Reformatory at Mansfield, but resigned the following year to engage in private practice at Greenfield. He is a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. Doctor Glenn also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen, Rotary Club and Country Club, and is a Presbyterian. He is a stockholder in the Home Building and Loan Association of Greenfield. Doctor Glenn married at Greenfield, January 2, 1916, Miss Edna Carlyle Head, who graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1908. She is a member of the Methodist Church. WILLIAM CLIFFORD MARTINDILL, M. D. Twenty years a physician and surgeon, Dr. William C. Martindill has won success in his profession and a high place in the esteem of the community of Greenfield, which he has served all these years. He was born at McArthur Ohio, August 25, 1878, son of Don Alphonso and Mary Lillian (Hudson) Martindill, and grandson of William Martindill, natives of Ohio. His parents are still living, and have been successful farming people in the southern part of the state. His father was born on a farm at McArthur January 30, 1856, and his mother was born in the same locality May 24, 1856. Doctor Martindill was reared on a farm, attended public schools, and since early manhood has been dependent upon his own labors and exertions to advance him to success in the world. He spent two years in a pre-medical course in Ohio University at Athens and finished his professional preparation in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1904. Doctor Martindill was an interne in the Deaconess Hospital at Cincinnati, until November, 1904, when he located at Greenfield to take up the general practice of medicine. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Country Club. His vote is cast as a republican, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Doctor Martindill married Miss Ruth Ethel Ratcliff at Londonderry, Ohio, where she was reared and educated in the grade and high schools. Two children were born to their marriage: Howard Clifford, born at Greenfield September 9, 1904, graduated in 1922 from the McClain High School, and has since continued his education in the Ohio University at Athens. The second son, Charles Kennett, born December 6, 1908, died July 16, 1920. ROBERT JOHN JONES, M. D. For many years the leading physician and surgeon of Greenfield, Doctor Jones is president of the Greenfield Hospital, and has earned a rank among the leading men of his profession in this part of Ohio. Doctor Jones has lived in Ohio since early boyhood. He was born a British subject, November 30, 1871, at Llanfachrasth Anglesey, North Wales, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Williams) Jones. His father was a merchant in North Wales, and died there in 1880, when thirty-eight years of age. The widowed mother in 1884 brought her little family to the United States and settled at Pomeroy, Ohio. Doctor Jones has always regarded such success as he has been able to win and influence and service that he has been able to give Cincinnati a direct tribute to the fine character and self sacrificing activities of his honored mother. She proved herself a typical business woman, and at Pomeroy opened and conducted a general store, and thus made it possible to educate her son. She died at Middleport, Ohio, in 1922, at the age of seventy-nine. Robert John Jones grew up in Pomeroy from the age of thirteen, attended high school there, and at the age of twenty-one entered the Medical Department of Cincinnati University. He was graduated in April, 1895, and remained about a year in Cincinnati as an interne in the General Hospital. Since then he has accepted opportunities for further experiences, study and observation home and abroad. The summer of 1908 was spent in England taking a course in medicine and surgery in the Middlesex and London Hospitals. He has attended clinics in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston, including the Mayo Brothers Clinics at Rochester, Minnesota, and the Peter Brent Hospital at Boston, Massachusetts. Doctor Jones has been engaged in the work of his profession for thirty years. In 1918 he organized and supervised the building of the Greenfield Hospital, a corporation capitalized at $30,000, with Doctor Jones as its president and the largest stockholder and chief surgeon. The hospital is an eighteen bed institution, modern in every particular, with an operating room that equals many of those found in hospitals of 250 rooms. There is .a complete X-Ray apparatus. Doctor Jones since 1913, on the basis of his attainments, has been a member of the American College of Surgeons. He has belonged to the American Medical Association since 1910. He is surgeon for the Baltimore and Ohio and the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroads. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Elks and Eagles, Country and Rotary Clubs. His first wife was Daisy Bowser, whom he married at Greenfield in 1898. She died in 1904, at the age of thirty, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in 1902 and graduated with the Master of Arts Degree from the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, in 1922. The summer of 1923 she spent abroad in Europe with her uncle, Dr. T. Jesse Jones of New York City, and her aunt, Miss Sara Jones. She is now engaged in the work of the highest social usefulness, in the mountains of Kentucky, teaching children of the mountaineers. Doctor Jones in December, 1912, married at Greenfield, Miss Blanche Doyle, who graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1904 and taught school for several years there. By this marriage there is one son, Robert John, born at Greenfield, November 22, 1913, a student in the public schools. Doctor and Mrs. Jones are members of the Presbyterian Church. WILLIAM E. THOMAS, postmaster at Wellston in Jackson County, has been active in local business and public affairs in that community for a number of years and represents one of the prominent families of Welsh ancestry in Southern Ohio. Mr. Thomas was born at Wellston, February 19, 1881, son of David A. and Mariah J. (Haughay) Thomas. His paternal grandparents were William E. and Mary Thomas, and his maternal grandfather was William Haughay. His grandfather, William E. Thomas, was an iron master in Wales, coming to this country about 1840, and was identified with the old pioneer furnace in Jackson County. David A. Thomas, who died November 11, 1916, was for thirty years local manager in Jackson County for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He was one of the leaders of musical activities, was director of music in the Methodist Episcopal Church and also a mem- HISTORY OF OHIO - 233 ber of the official board of that church. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Royal Arcanum. His widow lives at Columbus, Ohio, and they were the parents of seven children: Cambridge L., who is married and has four children, named John, Claire, Walter and Robert; Claire, who married L. E. Harry ; William E.; Walter, Roscoe and Arthur, all deceased; and Miss Hazel. William E. Thomas graduated from the Wellston High School in 1900, following which he spent a year in the stndy of instrumental music, specializing in the piano. He was in the musical merchandise business, conducting a general store at Wellston until 1910. On selling out he became assistant postmaster, and on January 1, 1923, was promoted to postmaster. He has been active in republican politics for a number of years, and in the Tenth Congressional District was an active campaigner with Gould, former warden of the State Penitentiary. Mr. Thomas has also been a leader in athletics, and for a number of years has been a member of the Western and Ohio Football Conferences, being the only member who is not a college graduate. During the World war he was chairman of the local Red Cross, also chairman of the committee having in charge soldiers' release, and was in all the war drives. He is a member of the Rotary. Club, the Country Club, was for a number of years secretary of the local Chautauqua Association, and is a Knight Templar Mason and Elk. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Thomas' chief hobby is music. Musical talent has been strong in the family for generations, and all of them have the talents so frequently found among the Welsh. Mr. Thomas organized the Wellston Community Chorus, a non-denominational and noncommercial musical organization that has been brought to a high state of perfection as one of the best singing societies in Ohio. There is a mixed chorus of one hundred members, and a male chorus of fifty. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Eisteddfod Association of Southern Ohio, which held its third annual music festival at Jackson in September, 1924. At that time musical events were held with competitors all over Ohio, there being more than a score of events from chorus work to vocal and instrumental solos. Of the $1,500 or more offered in prizes, the Wellston Community Chorus was awarded a total of $960, including the two major prizes for the mixed chorus and the male chorus. On June 24, 1908, at Wellston, Mr, Thomas married Mary C. Rupp, daughter of John H. and Lucretia (Jones) Rupp. Her mother died in 1906 and her father in 1910. Her father was a tinsmith, owning a shop at Wellston, and was a Royal Arch Mason and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Thomas is the second of three daughters, the other two being Louise and Laura. Louise has one son, John. Laura is the wife of H. R. Hausman, and has a daughter, Anna Lu. Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas have one daughter, Catharine. WILLIAM EDWARD KNAPP, cashier of the Peoples National Bank of Greenfield, has a reputation among the higher bankers as a man of exceptional resources and abilities in building up banking institutions, his 'record having been made with several banks in Central Ohio. Mr. Knapp began his career as a railroad man, and for a number of years was in the railroad service. He was born near Lebanon, in Warren County, Ohio, April 10, 1869. His grandparents were natives of. Germany, but spent their last days in Ohio. His father, John Knapp, was born at Strasburg, Germany, and came to America in 1849, at the age of eighteen. His wife, Catherine, was also born in Germany, but they were married near Morrow, Ohio. William Edward Knapp was educated in the public schools of Lebanon and the Academy of Maineville, Ohio, and his years were spent on the farm until the age of nineteen. Learning telegraphy, lie was put on the payroll of the Cincinnati division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1889. In 1891 the company promoted him to station agent at South Lebanon, and in 1892 made him assistant ticket seller in the main office at Cincinnati, while in 1902 he was advanced to chief ticket seller in that office. Mr. Knapp resigned from the railroad in 1907 to become cashier of the First National Bank of Morrow, but in 1909 he resumed his former position with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1910 he again took the post of cashier of the bank at Morrow, and in August. 1912, was made cashier of the Milford „National Bank, with its capital of $60,000. Under his management this bank in six years' time increased its deposits from $200,000 to $600,000, with resources of $800,000, and there is every prospect that he will repeat this favorable record as cashier of the Peoples National Bank at Greenfield. This bank was organized in October, 1914, has capital of $60,000 and resources of $900,000. Mr. Knapp is also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Morrow, which has a capital of $25,000. and resources of $225,000. He is a stockholder in the Miami Telephone Company and the Highland Cigar and Tobacco Company. In politics he votes for the best man regardless of party. Mr. Knapp married Miss Laura Bell Hatwell, who was born at Seymour, Indiana. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp have two children. Elmer Edward, born at Cincinnati in 1895, attended the Hyde Park School and the Ohio Mechanics Institute in that city, graduating as a mechanical draftsman. He married Gladys Fishback, who was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1896, and they have a son, William Elmer, born in 1920. The second child of Mr. and Mrs. Knapp is Bertha Marjorie, born at Loveland, Ohio, in 1900. She attended the Hyde Park School in Cincinnati, graduated from the Woodward High School there in 1915, and continued her education in Denison University at Granville, Ohio, where she was graduated in the French and English course in 1921. For two years she was an instructor at Denison, and is now teacher of French and English in the McClain High School at Greenfield. FRANK LEDVINKA worked in coal mines when a boy of twelve years, and his experience as a practical coal miner. and as a member of the United Mine Workers of America covers every coal producing state in the Union. Mr. Ledvinka now has a responsible position as president of subdistrict No. 5 of District No. 6 of the United Mine Workers of America. His home is at Bridgeport and his offices in the Miners' Temple at Bellaire. Mr. Ledvinka was born April 7, 1880, at Hradich, Moravia, in what is, now Czecho-Slovakia. His parents were August and Theresa (Barton) Ledvinka, both born near Prague. His mother died in 1883, August Ledvinka, now living retired at Bridgeport, Ohio, was a dyer by trade, and in 1889 became a coal miner in Bohemia. In 1899 he came to the United States, working for a time in Armstrong, Pennsylvania, and after 1900 as a miner in Belmont County, Ohio, until he retired. He was a member of the Huss or Moravian Presbyterian Church in the old country,- and the restrictions placed upon worship in that faith were an important cause in his coining to America. Frank Ledvinka acquired his early limited education in his native country, and his real education has 234 - HISTORY been the product of experience and self-training. He is a fluent speaker in several languages, and has strong gifts as a persuasive orator. He was reared in a miner 's home, and from 1892 to 1897 worked in the mines of Bohemia. In 1897 he went to what is now the famous Ruhr Basin of Germany, working in the mines of that industrial district. In 1899 he came to the United States and in 1900 established his home at Bridgeport, Ohio. He was an employe of the Lorraine Coal and Dock Company, and in 1907 was made an internal organizer of the United Mine Workers of America, his jurisdiction being the State of Washington, with headquarters at Seattle. After nine months he was sent to Trinidad, Colorado, for organization work, and since then has been in every coal producing state in America. In 1911 Mr. Ledvinka resumed his employment as a miner with the Lorraine Coal and Dock Company, but in October, 1912, was again called to his duties as a union organizer in the fields of West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. On December 1, 1915, he was appointed justice of the peace in Belmont County, and has filled that office for eight months. He became vice president of subdistrict No. 5 of district No. 6 of the United Mine Workers of America on June 15, 1916, and since March 31, 1920, has been president of that subdistrict. He is also a member of the State Miners' Organization. Mr. Ledvinka has exhibited remarkable enthusiasm in the cause of Americanization, and was largely responsible for the program of naturalizing every foreign born miner in his district during the World war. In war times he acted as a captain in every campaign, speaking in behalf of war activities, and his patriotic record has been met by his eminent public spirit in behalf of every worthy movement in civic affairs in his home locality. He speaks four languages, the German, Bohemian, Slavish and American. He is also a good roads enthusiast, and in politics votes the democratic ticket in national affairs, but otherwise is independent. He is a member of the Czecho-Slovakia Protective Association, the Hussite or Moravian Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a past chief ranger of Bridgeport Lodge No. 115 of the. Foresters of America. On August 17, 1903, at Bridgeport, Ohio, Mr. Ledvinka married Miss Anna Beranek, who was born near Salgo, Hungary, and came to the United States at the age of two with her parents, James and Catherine Beranek. Her father has spent forty years in the service of the Lorraine Coal and Dock Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ledvinka have four children, Alice, Bessie, Frank and Helen. Alice and Bessie are graduates of high school and business college, and Frank is a junior in his business college course. FRED WARE COYNER, of Greenfield, has for over a third of a century been identified with the hardwood lumber industry, manufacturing a product that has been extensively sold and distributed both in the domestic and export trade. Mr. Coyner enjoys a place of exceptional esteem in his home community, where he has done the part of a public spirited citizen at all times. He was born near Lyndon, in Ross County, Ohio, September 5, 1858, and represents a family that has been in America for upwards of two centuries. His ancestry has been carefully traced back to Germany, where one of his forefathers bore the name of Conrad Kenadt. He was born in Germany in 1682, and spent all of his life in that country. His wife was Anna Maria Johanes. Their son, and founder of the American branch of the family, was Michael Koiner as his name came to be spelled. He was born in Germany, January 29, 1734, and died in America on November 7, 1796. He and three of his sons served in the Continental Army during the Revolution. His wife was Margaret Diller, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1734, and died November 18, 1813. Both are buried at the old Coyner Church in Augusta County, Virginia. The next generation was represented by Martin Luther Coyner, who adopted the spelling of the family name as it is today. He was born October 20, 1770, and died at Massy Creek, Augusta County, Virginia, February 9, 1840. His wife was Elizabeth Rhea, who was born November 10, 1765, and died August 10, 1841. They were the parents of Judge Robert Coyner, the grandfather of the Greenfield lumber manufacturer. Judge Coyner was born in Waynesboro, Virginia, July 15, 1794, and came to Ohio in 1837. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His death occurred at South Salem, Ohio, July 7, 1874. He married in 1818 Margaret Gwin, who was born in Bath County, Virginia, July 27, 1800, and died November 2, 1847. Her father Captain David Gwin, was an officer of the American father, and became a large Virginia land owner. Silas Coyner, son of Judge Robert Coyner, was born at Waynesboro, in Augusta County, Virginia, January 30, 1825, and spent most of his life in Southern Ohio. He died March 17, 1899, and is buried at Greenfield. On August 16, 1849, he married Matilda Heizer, who was born at Frankfort, Ohio, August 10, 1827, and died February 19, 1875. Their daughter, Harriette Aschraft, with her husband, Edwin Aschraft, are missionaries in China. Fred Ware Coyner was reared in Ross County, attended public schools there and the academy at South Salem. Up to 1889 his occupation was that of a farmer. That year, moving to Greenfield, he took up the lumber business, and for many years has operated the F. W. Coyner Saw Mill. This was one of the first mills in Southern Ohio to install electric power. The mill is used for cutting hardwood only, and some of its product has been exported to England. Mr. Coyner from 1890 to 1899 served as a school director of Fayette County. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and active in Sunday School, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and the Improved Order of Red Men. Politically he votes republican. He married Miss Clara Pommert, who was born March 8, 1859. She graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1875. For five years she was a teacher in the schools of Ross and Fayette counties. Her parents were John Nicholas and Elizabeth Pommert. Mr. and Mrs. Coyner have two talented daughters. Elvina Pearl, who was born in Ross County, near Greenfield, July 11, 1883, graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1903, and prior to her marriage taught for six years in Greenfield. During the World war, owing to a shortage of teachers, she again took up teaching, and she is now primary supervisor of the public schools in that city. She is also a member of the Board of School Examiners, is president of the local chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, is past president of the Woman's Relief Corps, and is an officer in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United States Daughters of 1812. She was married at Greenfield, December 25, 1909, to Mr. Charles T. Hiser. He was born December 31, 1876, son of Allen T. and Barbara (Cummings) Hiser. Mr. Hiser was educated near Marshall, Ohio, was for ten years a teacher in Highland County, and is now in the insurance business. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, is a democrat, a Presbyterian and active in its Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Hiser have one son, Charles Frederick Hiser, born at Greenfield October 3, 1911, now a student in the McClain High School. HISTORY OF OHIO - 235 Mabel Elizabeth Coyner, the second daughter, was born in Fayette County, May 3, 1889. She graduated from the Greenfield High School in 1908, and finished the course and received the degree of Master of Expression in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. She did high school work at Oak Hill, West Virginia, and has given many public readings over Ohio and West Virginia. On. May 3, 1914, she was married to Mr. Fred Hampton Broyles at Oak Hill, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Broyles now live in Los Angeles, California, where he is in the insnrance business. They have three children: Ned Lee, born at Ironton, Ohio, May 20, 1915; Joan, born at Ironton, October 30, 1916; and June Rose, born at Los Angeles, March 23, 1922. WILLIAM HARRIS AMBROSE, M. D. Several Ohio communities, including his native city of Cincinnati, have had the benefit of the skill and experience as a physician and surgeon of Dr. William Harris Ambrose, now of Greenfield. Doctor Ambrose has regarded his profession as a big opportunity for service. He was among the early ones to volunteer as a medical officer in the World war, was on duty abroad more than a year after the armistice, and remained in the army for two years longer. He was born in Cincinnati September 17, 1878. His grandfather, August Ambrose, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was the inventor of the first Bed Lounge and received a patent from the United States patent office on that invention. He died at Cincinnati in 1890. His wife was Marie Shafer, who died at the age of seventy years. Charles Ambrose, father of Doctor Ambrose, was born at Louisville, Kentucky, October 14, 1853, and though only a boy at the time acted as a drummer boy with the Cincinnati regiment during the Civil war. He is now a resident of Greenfield, at the age of seventy-one. He married Sophia Belle Hasenkamp, who was born in Cincinnati, in 1856. William Harris Ambrose attended public schools at Cincinnati, graduating from high school in 1892. After a three years' course he graduated with the Master of Arts degree in 1896 from Miami University at Oxford Ohio, and then entered the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, taking his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1899. He continued his education in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, graduating in 1900. From 1901 to 1907 he had a busy round of practice in Cincinnati. In 1908, following a special post-graduate course on diseases of children, he resumed the practice of medicine at New Petersburg, Ohio. In 1911 he spent six months in the Johns Hopkins University Medical School at Baltimore, and continued his practice with growing snccess and prestige at New Petersburg until the spring of 1917. Doctor Ambrose in April, 1917, immediately after America declared war against Germany, volunteered as a medical officer, and after examination was commissioned a first lieutenant in May of the same year and detailed for further training at Fort 'Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana. In August 'came his transfer to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, where he was assigned to the Eighty-sixth Division, at first as surgeon of the Three Hundred and Thirty-first Field Artillery and later with the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Machine Gun Battalion. While at Camp Grant on November 11, 1917, he was promoted to the rank of captain. His battalion went overseas in the spring of 1918, landing at Southampton, England, where he was detained several weeks on account of a severe outbreak of influenza among the troops. In August the battalion embarked for LaHavre, France, thence to Asque, at which place he was notified that he had been promoted to major, a promotion based upon his fidelity and efficiency in dealing with the influenza epidemic at Southampton. About this time came a transfer to the Fourth Division, and as acting surgeon of the Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion he was stationed at Saint Mihiel, and was all through the critical campaign of the Argonne, seeing the horrors of war in his capacity as a surgeon on the field. His post of duty was in the Argonne until the armistice, following which his division advanced towards Germany and in December was stationed in the rear of the famous Rainbow Division. In the spring of 1919, when the Rainbow Division returned to the United States, his division replaced it on duty on the Rhine. In August, 1919, Doctor Ambrose with his command was ordered home, landing at Hoboken, New Jersey, was first sent to Camp Mills, then to Camp Dodge at Des Moines, Iowa, and remaining in the service his command in the spring of 1920 was ordered to Gary, Indiana, as part of the Federal troops assigned to keep order during the great steel strike. Doctor Ambrose from there was sent to Chicago as attending surgeon of the Fifth Corps Area, and in August, 1920, was sent to Fort Brown at Brownsville, Texas, and early in the following year became surgeon of the Fourth Cavalry at San Benito, Texas. In November, 1921, he resigned his commission with the army and received an honorable discharge in December of the same year at Camp Sherman, Ohio, leaving the service after more than four years of active duty, his final discharge becoming effective within thirty miles of New Petersburg, where he had started his military experience. Doctor Ambrose at present is a major in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps, attached to the Three Hundred and Eighth Regiment of the Eighty-third Division. Since leaving the army he has engaged in a general practice as a physician and surgeon at Greenfield. Doctor Ambrose married at Cincinnati, April 14, 1898, Miss Helen Stevenson. Her father in 1888 was elected mayor of Cincinnati. She was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from the Hughes High School in 1897, and continued her education in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Doctor and Mrs. Ambrose have one daughter, Georgia, born at Cincinnati, April 17, 1899. She finished her education in the McClain High School at Greenfield and is now the wife of Charles Davis, Jr., of Greenfield, and the mother of one daughter, Betty Jean Davis, born in 1922. CHARLES BUCHANAN MESSERLY, M. D. Engaged in practice as a physician and surgeon at Martins Ferry for twenty years, Doctor Messerly brought to his profession not only a thorough technical training but the character and personality that are essential to real proficiency in that field. Doctor Messerly was born at Clarington, in Monroe County, Ohio, October 15, 1878. His grandfather, Abram Messerly, settled in Monroe County in .1852. William Warren Messerly, father of Doctor Messerly, was born in Herkimer County, New York, May 15, 1849, and has spent most of his life at Clarington. He learned the cigarmaking trade, and for a number of years conducted a cigar factory, but is now retired. He has held several local offices, is a democrat, is secretary of Clarington Lodge No. 597 of the Masonic Order, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Christian Church. During the Civil war he was employed on boats on the Ohio River. William W. Messerly married, October 23, 1873, Martha J. Sterling. She was born at Pittsburgh, March 8, 1847, and died in 1896. She was the mother of three sons and one daughter, Doctor Messerly being the second in age. As a boy his ambitions led him to prepare and utilize his opportunities for a professional career. He 236 - HISTORY OF OHIO attended the public schools of Clarington, and as a means of supplementing his meager finances he sold papers and herded cattle; clerked in a drug store and used his leisure time in reading medicine. Later he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1902. He served his interneship in hospitals at Baltimore and Wheeling, and for about two years was engaged in practice in the West Virginia oil field around Mole Hill. In 1904 he located at Martins Ferry, where most of his professional work has been done. Doctor Messerly during the World war was commissioned a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, and attended a special course of instruction for military surgeons at Camp Greenleaf, this training course being conducted by a group of famous allied doctors. He was honorably discharged December 22, 1919. Doctor Messerly is a member of the Belmont County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a member of the surgical staff of the Martins Ferry Hospital. Doctor Messerly is a professional man who has a real interest in humanity, apart, from technical interest implied in his profession. Since 1906 he has taken a lively interest in educational affairs at Martins Ferry. He has done much to improve and raise the standards of high school athletics. In 1911 he became a member of the Martins Ferry School Board, and while on the board the Elms, North, Mackey and Charles R. Shreve school buildings were constructed, and some of the old ones were remodeled and a. few portable schoolhouses installed. Doctor Messerly gets his recreation by travel, and believes in seeing America first. He is a member of the American Legion, is a deacon of the Baptist Church, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a democrat in politics. He served one term as county coroner of Belmont County, 1910-1912 He married, at Wheeling, West Virginia, June 25, 1902, Miss Nannie R. Whetzel, of Clarington, Ohio, daughter of Singleton and Sophia (Smith) Whetzel. Her mother lives at Martins Ferry. Her father, who died in 1896, was for some years a steward on Ohio River steamboats. Mrs. Messerly takes a prominent part in church work, clubs, the Woman 's Anxiliary of the American Legion, and is a leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the King 's Daughters' Society. Dr. and Mrs. Messerly have two sons, Warren William and Charles Donald. ARTHUR DWIGHT HUFFORD, the efficient cashier of the First National Bank of Bremen, Fairfield County, was born in Perry County, Ohio, December 12, 1880, and is a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio in the very early pioneer days, when this state was on the very frontier of civilization. Daniel Hufford, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Ohio, as did also his son, Daniel, Jr., whose wife, Elizabeth (Blosser) Hufford, likewise was a lifelong resident of the old Buckeye State, they having been the grandparents of he whose name initiates this paragraph. The maternal grandparents of Arthur D. Hufford were Samuel and Sarah (Houtz) Van Atta, and both were representatives of sterling Holland Dutch families early founded in America. Arthur D. Hufford is a son of John Wesley Hufford and Jane (Van Atta) Hufford, who now maintain their home in Bremen, Ohio, the father being one of the substantial retired farmers of Fairfield County. John W. Hufford has been influential in public affairs in his township, and gave effective service as a member of the school board of his district. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their three children Arthur D., of this sketch, is the eldest ; Daisy is the wife of Edgar Henry, and they have four children, Paul, Helen, Neil and Margaret; Bessie is the wife of Roland Brown, and their three children are Gene, June and Roland Lee. After having attended the public schools at Bremen, Arthur D. Hufford took a course of higher study in Denison University at Granville. Thereafter he made a record of nine years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, including high schools, and upon retiring from the pedagogic profession lie assumed the position of assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Bremen, of which solid and well-ordered institution lie has been the cashier since 1911. In the period of American participation in the World war Mr. Hufford was active and influential in the advancing of patriotic work and service in Fairfield County, and was chairman of committees that had charge of the local drives in support of the Government war loans and savings stamps. He is a liberal and progressive citizen of Bremen, and has given effective service as a member of the municipal water board and also the local Board of Education. He is an active member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, is a republican in political allegiance and is a member of the local automobile club. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bremen, Ohio, of which he is superintendent of the Sunday school and president of the official board. October 12, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hufford and Miss Eva Raab, daughter of Casper and Susan (Bodamer) Raab, who are well-known residents of Fairfield County, where Mr. Raab is a substantial farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Raab have six children: Otto married Freda Young and their one child is a daughter, Laverne ; Christie is married and has one daughter, Lillian; Enno married Ethel King and they have two children; Adolph married Marguerite Lacey; Margaret is the wife of W. A. Ellinger, and they have six children ; and Eva, wife of Arthur D. Hufford, of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Hufford have four children, all of whom were born at Bremen, Ohio, as follows: Beatrice Juanita, October 20, 1913 ; Dwight Eberlie, September 5, 1915; Arthur Carl, September 17, 1920, and Albert Dean, April 1, 1923. WILLIAM MILLER deserved his chief distinction for his pioneer leadership in the horticultural development of Ottawa. County, where he lived a long and very useful' life and where he deserves a grateful memory. He was born at Gypsum in Portage Township, Ottawa County, February 4, 1844. His father, Henry J, Miller, a native of Columbia County, New York, moved to Ohio in 1808. The mother was Susan (Wonnell) Miller, a native of Worcester County, Maryland, who came to Ohio in 1828. William Miller acquired a common school education near his native home, and subsequently spent two years in the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. He was about seventeen years of age when the Civil war broke out and he served for a time as a private in Company K of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. William Miller was the first man to grow peaches commercially in Portage Township, the credit for that pioneer horticultural effort being rendered him by the Ohio Horticultural Society. He planted his first orchard in 1868, and throughout his life he kept adding and developing to his own private fruit growing interests and set an example and encouraged other fruit growers. He was the man who introduced the Elberta peach into his section, now famous HISTORY OF OHIO - 237 as a peach growing center, He had been a very successful farmer before fruit growing became so widely spread in Ottawa County, yet horticulture was always his hobby and chief delight. Elberta peaches, Bartlett pears and Baldwin apples were his main money crops. He took great interest in growing new and old varieties of fruits, budding, grafting and observing their growth. He had charge of the Ottawa County Fruit Exhibit at the Ohio Centennial in 1888. By hard work, thrift, methodical ways and business sagacity, Mr. Miller acquired his independence. His country home. at Gypsum, where lie always lived, was one of which any man in Ohio might well be proud. It was in this home that he passed away January 28, 1914, then nearly seventy years of age. To him came more honors than come to. .most men in a busy life, yet he deserved them all. In 1888 he was chosen a member' of the Electoral College which placed Benjamin Harrison in the White. House. He was for two years, 1901-02, president of the Ohio State Horticultural Society and for ten years, 1901-11, was a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. By outwitting two rivals, he was elected a "dry" delegate from a "wet" county to the constitutional convention in 1911. He was a republican, a member of the Masonic order and a life long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William Miller married at Marblehead, Ohio, January 12; 1874, Lida Pettit Alexander, who died May 3, 1923. There were two children a son, Henry A. Miller, who married Alma B. Mackey of Port Clinton and resides at the Miller homestead at Gypsum; and a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Matthews, of Port Clinton. CHARLES BLAINE KEIGLEY, mayor of Mount Vernon, represents a pioneer family of Knox County, where its members have been influential people 'for several generations. His great-grandfather, Adam Keigley, was a native of Pennsylania and moved to Knox County while most of this region was in a state of wilderness. The grandfather, Jacob. Morgan Keigley, Sr., was born just outside Mount, , Vernon in Knox County and married Amelia Disney, who was born in Maryland, where her parents were also natives. Jacob Morgan Keigley, Jr., who was born at Mount Vernon, June 25, 1847, and died January .3, 1909, served two years as chief of police of Mount Vernon. He married Hester Garrison on October 5, 1884. She was born at Newcastle in Coshocton. County, Ohio, July 2, 1851, being the youngest of, a family of eight children born to George Washington Garrison and Lucinda Murphy, his wife. Her parents were natives of Virginia, where their respective parents were also born and George Washington Garrison was a second cousin of President' George Washington. George Washington Garrison was a slave owner in Virginia and in 1836 came from that state. to Ohio. Two sons of George Washington Garrison, Andrew Jackson and George Washington, Jr., were Union soldiers in the Civil war. To the marriage of Jacob Morgan Keigley, Jr., and Hester Garrison were born two children, Charles Blaine Keigley, on October 3, 1885, and Amelia Lucinda Keigley, born April 28, 1888. Charles Blaine Keigley was educated in the public schools at Mount Vernon. While in his junior year at high school at the age of seventeen he left school, going to work, and four years later took an advanced business course in Mount Vernon Business College. He spent four years noted in the transfer business, then for three years was employed in a local grocery store, and for eleven and one-half years was in the service of the C. & G. Cooper Company. Mr. Keigley served as city councilman of Mount Vernon from 1919 to 1921: In, November, 1921, he was elected on the republican ticket for mayor for a term of two years, and in November, .1923, was reelected for the second term, which expires January 1, 1926. He has given a most vigorous administration; acting always with full consideration of the needs and welfare of the community. Mr. Keigley is affiliated with Lodge No. 45, Knights of Pythias, serving as chancellor commander of Timon lodge in 1924. He is also a member of the local Young Men's Christian Assocation and the Methodist Protestant Church. He married at Utica, Ohio, July 3, 1910, Miss Bessie Mae Filloon, daughter of John and Martha Hiner Filloon, being the only child of her parents. She was two months old when her father died and her mother, who subsequently was married to Joe D. Hull, died in January, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Keigley have one son, Glenn Blaine Keigley, born October 10, 1918. ROBERT WILLIAM SCHULENBERG, M. D. A Belmont County physician and surgeon whose work has been done at Bridgeport and vicinity since he left medical college,. Mr. Schulenberg is .a very able man in his profession, particularly in obstetrics and children's diseases. He was born at Covington; Kentucky, May 11, 1890, son. of Charles H. and Margaret (Woods). Schulenberg, also natives of Kentucky, his: father born at Paris and his mother at Covington. Charles H. Schulenberg was a manufacturer of art glass. at Covington, devoted five years to farming, and in 1903 moved to Columbus, Ohio, where lie is now associated with the Empire Glass Company in the manufacture of art glass. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Baptist Church. Robert William Schulenberg, one of two children, was educated in country schools near Covington, Kentucky, in the high school at Columbus, Ohio, and took his medical work in Starling, Ohio, Medical College, where was graduated in 1914. He spent one year as resident house physician in Saint Francis Hospital, and in 1915 located at Bridgeport. The bulk of his practice is obstetrics and pediatrics, on the staff of the Martins Ferry Hospital. Doctor Schulenberg is a member of the Belmont County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He did his part as a professional man and citizen in the various war activities, and is interested in the civic, improvement program in his home community. He is a, republican, a member of Saint Luke 's Episcopal Church, and. in Masonry is affiliated with Bridgeport Lodge.No. 181, Belmont Chapter No. 140, Royal Arch Masons, Hope Commandery No. 26, Knights Templar, and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine. May 16, 1918, Doctor Schulenberg married Miss Ellen Freter, of Bridgeport. three children are named Robert William, Jr., Charles H. and Margaret Augusta. ABEL C. BRIGGS, who holds the chair 'of mathematics in Wilmington College, at Wilmington, Clinton County, is a man who has proved that scholastic associations and service do not preclude the effective exercise of important executive functions in connection with business affairs of broad scope and importance, and in evidence of this is his incumbency of the office 'of president of the Champion Bridge Company, one of the leading industrial concerns of Wilmington. His ability as an expert mathematician has enabled him to handle and solve many problems in connection with the contracts handled by this corporation, which manufactures structural iron and gives special attention to the building of bridges, lie 238 - HISTORY OF OHIO having served the company in an engineering capacity for a long period prior to becoming its president. The Champion Bridge Company controls a business that extends into the most diverse sections of the United States, in the erecting of both railroad and highway bridges of steel and iron, and while Professor Briggs gives to this company much time and executive direction, he continues to do most effective service as a member of the faculty of Wilmington College, an institution to which his loyalty is unqualified. Professor Briggs is a native son of Clinton County and a representative of two of the honored pioneer families of the county—the Briggs and the Clevengers. His paternal grandfather, Abel Briggs, of English lineage, came to Clinton County from New Jersey, and the Clevenger family has here been established fully a century, as may be seen by reference to personal sketches appearing on other pages of this work. Prof. Abel C. Briggs was born in Clinton County, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel .and Catherine (Clevenger) Briggs, the other children having been Alonzo, Jerome, Eldorado and Sarah. All of the children are now deceased, except the subject bf this sketch and his brother Eldorado, who is a leading physician and surgeon at Wilmington. Professor Briggs is indebted to the public schools for his earlier education, which was supplemented by a higher course of study in the University of Cincinnati, and he early developed special ability in mathematics, in the various branches of which science he is now a recognized authority. The generic political faith of the Briggs family has been that represented by the democratic party, but in political affairs Professor Briggs maintains an independent attitude and supports men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, he being in full accord with the policy of national prohibition of the liquor traffic and being confident that the prohibition law will continue an integral part of the national constitution. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his family hold membership in the Society of Friends, in which he is a birthright member. Professor Briggs wedded Miss Ethel Cast, who likewise was born and reared in Clinton County and who is a daughter of Simeon S. and Mary D. (Villars) Cast. The name of the Cast family has been prominently and worthily identified with the history of Clinton County since the early pioneer period. Professor and Mrs. Briggs have three children, Mary Estelle, Lucile and Ronald, all of whom were graduated in the Wilmington High School. Mary Estelle, who remains at the parental home, is a graduate of Wilmington College; Lucile is the wife of Hubert A. Barrett, and they have one son, Hubert Briggs Barrett; Ronald Briggs, the only son, is associated with his father in the directing of the affairs of the Champion Bridge Company. OSCAR. A. STEPHENS is engaged in the practice of law in the City of Warren, judicial center of Trumbull County, and has secure status as one of the sterling and successful members of the bar of his native county, his birth having occurred at Hubbard, this county, July 19, 1888, and his preliminary education having been acquired in the public schools of that attractive little village. He is a son of Alverton L. and Rachel (Anderson) Stephens, the former of whom was born at Coitsville, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1858, and the latter of whom was born near New Bedford, Pennsylvania, in the same year. Alverton L. Stephens was reared on a farm in his native county, and that he is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Mahoning County is evident when it is stated that his father, Demaranda Bucyrus Stephens, was there born, at Coitsville, May 14, 1834, a son of John Stephens, came to America from England, his father, Robert Stephens, who married Joanna Price, having accompanied him, but having established residence on the island of Jamaica. John Stephens settled near Stonesboro, Pennsylvania, and later he made a voyage down the Ohio River into Ohio, where he married a young woman named Cohoon, December 23, 1815. He finally established himself as a pioneer farmer in Mahoning County, this state, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Demaranda B. Stephens was reared on the pioneer farm near Coitsville, and he long continued to be numbered among the substantial and representative farmers and lumbermen of Mahoning County. In 1899 he retired from his farm and removed to Hubbard, Trumbull County, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death having there occurred December 2, 1914. At Coitsville was solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Kimmell, daughter of Tobias and Rebecca Kimmell, who was born at Struthers, Mahoning County, Ohio, May 10, 1836, and who died in the same year as did her husband, December 6, 1914. Alverton L. Stephens continued his active alliance with farm industry in Mahoning County until July, 1881, when he removed to Hubbard, Trumbull County, and engaged as a school teacher and in contract teaming and horse bnsiness. He served as mayor of Hubbard and was otherwise influential in community affairs, lie having remained at Hubbard until Novem- ber, 1920, when lie removed to Warren. He and his wife here maintain their home at 318 Porter Avenue, both being active members of the First Baptist Church. He is a republican in political adherency, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mae N., eldest of the children, is the wife of Clarence E. Crum, an auditor for the Carnegie Steel Company, and they reside in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Charles A. resides at Hubbard, where he is station agent of the Erie Railroad ; Oscar A., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; and Belle Ruth is the wife of Raymond Corll, chief timekeeper for the Republic Iron & Steel Company at Youngstown, Ohio. After having attended the Hubbard High School one year Oscar A. Stephens completed his course in the Rayen High School at Youngstown, in which he was graduated in 1908. He was thereafter a student for one year at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and lie then returned to Youngstown and took a position in the payroll and time department of the local plant of the Carnegie Steel Company. A year later he entered Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and in the law department of this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913. While attending the law school in vacation periods he gave effective playground service in connection with the city playground and park commission of Youngstown, Ohio, and lie later had supervision of the building and equipping of the Steelton playgrounds at Youngstown. Mr. Stephens was admitted to the bar in June, 1913, the month in which he graduated from the university, and his initial work in his profession was done at Youngstown, where he had his law offices in the Wick Building. There lie continued in practice until lie entered the World war service. In June, 1918, lie was assigned to an infantry regiment at Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, and there he continued in active service until June of the following year, when he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of first sergeant. He then resumed the HISTORY OF OHIO - 239 practice of law at Youngstown, but in January, 1920, he removed to Warren and became junior member of the law firm of The Gillmers & Stephens. The firm name is now Gillmer, Gillmer, Stephens & Patchin, and this is recognized as one of the strong and representative law firms of Trumbull County, with a practice of broad scope and importance and with spacious offices on the second and third floors of the Union Savings & Trust Company Building. Mr. Stephens is a stalwart advocate of the principles for which the republican party stands sponsor, and he and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of Warren, he being superintendent of its Sunday school. Here he is affiliated with Old Erie Lodge, No. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Ali Baba Grotto of the Veiled Prophets. He is a member of the local Rotary Club, and is a past commander of Clarence Hyde Post, No. 278, American Legion, besides being a past vice commander of Hubbard Post, No. 51, at Hubbard, of which he was a charter member. He has membership in the Ohio State Bar Association, is affiliated with the Sigma Chi college fraternity, is a director of the Warren Automobile Club and chairman of its legislative committee, and he is a former president of the Youngstown Club of Ohio State University. While a student in the university he was a member of the "Varsity " baseball team, with which he played shortstop and second base in 1913, the first year in which Ohio University held membership in the Western Conference and a year in which its baseball club made an excellent record. While attending the Rayen High School at Youngstown, Mr. Stephens was for three years a member of its baseball team, of which he was captain in 1908. At Howell, Michigan, September 3, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stephens to Miss Alice Josephine Heeg, daughter of Charles and Bertha Heeg, who reside on their fine farm estate near that place. Mr. Heeg gives special attention to the breeding of fine cattle; and has on his farm one of Michigan's best herds of registered Holstein cattle. Mrs. Stephens was reared on a farm and has retained deep interest in the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, her knowledge of the same having been augmented by her experience as a student in the celebrated Michigan Agricultural College, at Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded : Betsy Jane, June 8, 1920; Claribel, October 10, 1921; and Joseph, July 31, 1923. CLYDE ALLISON WALTZ has been engaged in educational work for twenty years and particularly since he took the superintendency of the schools at Xenia, his achievements have attracted attention from educators all over the country. Mr. Waltz was born at Bluffton, Ohio, December 10, 1884, son of Lewis and Margaret (Greene) Waltz, and is a descendant of Frederick Reinhardt Waltz, who came to America in Colonial times from his native Switzerland, having been banished from his native land because of his opposition to the encroachment by the government upon religious and political liberty. The story of this ancestor and many of his descendants has been published in the Waltz family history and genealogy. Mr. Waltz 's paternal ancestry goes back to Revolutionary war times, while his mother is direct descendant of the same family as Gen. Nathaniel Greene of the Revolution. One of the collateral ancestors of Mr. Waltz had a Tory wife who forsook him because he served in the American army during the War for Independence. Lewis Waltz has been a farmer and live stock merchant and has held chairs in the National Union and Royal Arcanum. Clyde Allison Waltz graduated from the Bluffton High School in 1903, and during the next seven years taught school, the greater part of the time serving as school principal. He graduated in 1912 from Ohio Northern University with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in 1916 the Ohio State University conferred upon him the degree Bachelor of Education. He has also been a student in Columbia University Teachers ' College. From 1912 to 1916 he was superintendent of schools at Rockford, Ohio, and from 1916 to 1919 was superintendent of the schools of Grand View Heights, a wealthy suburb of Columbus. Then in 1919 he became superintendent of the Xenia city schools. For the past three years he has also taught education in the summer schools of Wilmington College. He has some unusual gifts as a speaker and on account of his successful educational experience, has been frequently engaged to deliver addresses of a general nature for commencement. Mr. Waltz is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Rotary Club, is on the official board of the Methodist Church at Xenia and teacher of the Woman's Bible Class in the Sunday school. He married at Bluffton, July 30, 1907, Miss Mabel Zehrbach. They have two children, Olin and Evan, both pupils in the Xenia public schools. The accomplishments of Superintendent Waltz at Xenia which have attracted particular attention have been the introduction of the three-group plan and the organization of the Opportunity School. At the same time he has carried out a program of modern school buildings at a cost of $550,000, so that Xenia today possesses the best equipped schools in the state. He introduced the three-group plan after Miss Clara Martin had given the test for such a classification, and during the four years the plan has been in force, it has been demonstrated as successful to the point of marking an epoch in public education. The subject was discussed in the Ohio State University bulletin under date of August 31, 1923. Dr. A. E. Winship, the editor of the New England Journal of Education, in the issue of February 16, 1922, stated that Mr. Waltz was giving as much thought, skill and time to the direction of education in a city of 10,000 as would be required in a city of 100,000. Miss Martin's tests conducted through the department of Educational Research classifies the pupils as slow, medium and fast. The Opportunity School affords the slowest pupil a chance to do the maximum amount of work of which he is capable, and at the same time affords relief to other departments. In this Opportunity School slow pupils are allowed to spend twenty-five minutes privately with teachers at stated intervals. This Opportunity School has received the hearty endorsement and support of all organizations. The pupil is trained for the particular work for which he is suited, and the aims of the department are to make the student self supporting and prepare him for citizenship. Among other results, many students in this department find remunerative employment during vacation and return to their work with renewed energy and new ambition. Miss Mae Harper, principal of the Junior High School, and Miss Martin have introduced Student Government into their departments under Superintendent Waltz. All work of the public schools above the third grade is departmentalized. This self government feature has proved wonderfully successful, eliminating the necessity for punishment on the part of teachers and affording a direct training in citizenship. The government .is modeled after the city plan of government in Xenia, elections of officers being held monthly, while acts of the Legislature and Congress are discussed in class and out of class. 240 - HISTORY OF OHIO HARRISON ARTHUR COLEMAN, M. D. Since 1911 a resident of New Philadelphia, Doctor Coleman has earned many distinctions as an able physician and surgeon and as a popular and progressive citizen, and he held the rank of major for service as a medical officer during the World war, being stationed on duty in the Hawaiian Islands. Doctor Coleman was born at Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, July 19, 1886, son of Louis F. and Mira (Maltbie) Coleman, who were also born and reared in Warren County. His grandfather, Asa Coleman, was a native of the same county, and married Miss Coulson. Mira Maltbie was a daughter of Arthur and Nancy J. (Moses) Maltbie. In lineage the Colemans are of Welsh and English and Irish extraction, the Coulsons of English, the Maltbie and Moses families of old New Jersey stock, probably English. All these families have been in America since before the Revolutionary war. Doctor Coleman's father is now past seventy-two years of age, and has given his active life to educational work. The only child of his parents, Harrison Arthur Coleman grew up at Springboro, graduated from the high school there, and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906. The Master of Arts degree was awarded him by Ohio Wesleyan in 1910, the same year that he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. Doctor Coleman in 1911 located at New Philadelphia. While engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery his talents have proved most effective as a surgeon. He is a member of the medical staff of the hospital of New Philadelphia, and is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Coleman was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and on May 31, 1917, was called to active duty, being sent to the Hawaiian Islands. He reported at Honolulu for garrison duty, and was stationed at the Schofield barracks from June 5; 1917, until the latter part of May, 1919. He was promoted to captain, and for the last seventeen months of his service held the rank of major. Doctor Coleman was in the service for two years, and on getting his honorable discharge returned to New Philadelphia and resumed private practice. He is a member of the American Legion, is a Knights Templar Mason, belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club, the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, and a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. Doctor Coleman has served on the City Council of New Philadelphia, and is a republican in politics. He is a director in the Canton Brick and Fireproofing Company. In 1912 he married Miss Margaret E. Campbell, a native of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Their two children are Robert L. and Norman A. ALFRED A. LOVETT, M. D. For more than forty-five years the community of Eaton, in Preble County, has enjoyed the services of a high class physician and surgeon in the person of Dr. Alfred A. Lovett. Doctor Lovett graduated from Medical College in the Centennial year of 1876, and since the first two years has practiced in Preble County. He was born near Colerain, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 14, 1849, and is of English ancestry, the Lovett family record in England going back to the time of William the Conqueror. His father, William Taylor Lovett, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1808, coming to the United States when a young man, and for many years engaged in farm ing. He was a man of upright character, and died in 1878. The mother of Doctor Lovett was Eliza Ann Larrison, of Holland Dutch ancestry. She was born near Cincinnati in 1811, and died- in 1893. These parents had two sons and four daughters. Alfred A. Lovett, during his early infancy, was taken by his parents to Franklin County, Indiana, and lived the first sixteen years of his life on their farm near Brookville. The family then returned to Ohio, and located at Oxford, where Doctor Lovett, who had attended public schools in Indiana, continued his education in Miami University. He is an honor graduate of that old and splendid institution of learning, receiving both the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in 1873, and his scholarship record made him a member of the fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. During the year following his graduation, while acting as superintendent of schools at Goodland, Indiana, he took up the study of medicine, and in the fall of 1874, entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1876. Doctor Lovett for two years practiced medicine at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, giving up his practice to return home during the last illness of his father. Shortly a fter his father 's death he located at Eaton, and has been continuously represented in the professional work of that vicinity ever since. For many years Doctor Lovett was the only homeopathic physician in that county. Ile is a member of both the Ohio Homeopathic Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner. Politically he is a republican. For several years he was a member and president of the Eaton Board of Education. Doctor. Lovett in connection with his medical practice. owns, and gives his supervision to a fine farm in Preble County. He married, in 1880, Miss Nettie F. Minor, whose father, Dr. W. H. H. B. Minor, long enjoyed an enviable place in the medical profession. Doctor and Mrs. Lovett are members of. the Presbyterian Church. They had two children, a son, W. Lloyd E., who died several years ago, and a daughter, Martha L., who is the. wife of Walter E. McWhinney. Mr. McWhinney is in the automobile business at Richmond, Indiana. Doctor and Mrs. Lovett have two grandchildren, William W. and Francis Elizabeth. JOHN RUSH PHILSON, M. D., is a physician and and surgeon at Racine, in Meigs County. Being the only member of his profession in the east end of that Ohio River county, he is the first and last authority on all matters of health, but has been equally useful to the people as an adviser, and not infrequently nurse to those suffering grave illness. Sometimes he designates himself as John Rush Philson III. His grandfather was Dr. John Rush Philson. He also had an uncle to bear the same name and who practiced in Racine, and until his death the younger physician left out his middle name so as to avoid confusion in mail matters. John Rush Philson III was born at Racine, May 31, 1876, son of Prof. Lewis W. and Augusta (Cowdrey) Philson. His grandfather, John Rush Philson, was born in Pennsylvania and moved out to Meigs County, Ohio, as agent for wooden wheel clocks. Liking the people and the country he concluded to make it his home, studied medicine, attending Starling Medical College, and during the Civil war went into the army as surgeon for the Fourth West Virginia Infantry. He served two terms in the State Senate from this district. This regiment was made up largely of Ohio troops. In the battle of Bayou Sara, Louisiana, he had a skull fractured. The Fourth West Virginia saw a great deal of heavy service and made an enviable record. John HISTORY OF OHIO - 241 Rush Philson before the war was a staunch abolitionist and was one of the conductors on the underground railroad assisting many fugitive slaves to freedom. He became president of the Antiquity Salt Company and other local enterprises, wag an advocate of good roads, and once as a joke his neighbors elected him road supervisor. To square the joke he made all of them do their full legal duty in working the roads, and the result was that he was not reelected. He was a charter member of the local Masonic lodge and its first master, and a devout Methodist. The older Dr. John Rush Philson died in 1878 when sixty-five years of age. He married Cynthia Redding of Meigs County, who lived to the advanced age of ninety-four. One of their sons was Dr. John Rush Philson, Jr., already mentioned, who graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus, and practiced medicine until his death in 1919. The daughter, Margaret, has for many years been the widow of Charles Mcllroy, of Racine, an old soldier of the Rebellion. Prof. Lewis W. Philson, father of the present Doctor Philson, was a graduate of Marietta College and all his life was devoted to affairs of scholarship and education. For a time he was professor of mathematics in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He served forty years as Meigs County school examiner, as principal of the Ravenswood, West Virginia schools, and of the schools at Pomeroy. In no small measure is it true that the modern school system of Meigs County respects the wisdom of his efforts as an educator. He was not only a mathematician, but proficient in the classic languages and the modern tongues of German and French. He was deeply interested in pupils who were willing to learn and exercised a splendid influence in his generation. He was master of the local Masonic lodge and chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and for years held the office of mayor of Racine. Prof. Lewis W. Philson died in 1918 when seventy-three years of age. His wife, Augusta (Cowdrey) Philson, died in 1909 at the age of fifty-eight. Like her husband she was a teacher. Her father, Nelson Cowdrey, was of an old Connecticut family while her mother came from Germany. Prof. Lewis W. Philson and wife had nine children, five sons and five daughters: Clara, the oldest, wife of Eber Cross, of Alexandria, Ohio ; Dr. John Rush; Alban D., of Mercer County, Pennsylvania Mabel and Mary, both graduates of the Nurses' Training School at Cincinnati, and who during the World war were overseas as training nurses at Base Hospital No. 25, Mabel still being in the Government service at Dawson Springs, Kentucky, while Mary is doing work in her profession at Cincinnati, Ohio ; Fred, in the hardware business at Middleport, Ohio ; Ruth, who served as assistant postmaster at Racine, where her father held the office of postmaster for ten years, and is now the wife of Rev. Ray Cross, of Williamsport, Ohio ; Lewis D., who went overseas and is now suffering from an incurable disease as a result of the war, being in a sanitarium near Cincinnati; Ben, who entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and died at the age of eighteen. John Rush Philson III acquired his early education in the public schools at Racine. As a boy he played baseball and enjoyed and became proficient in various branches of athletics. He finished his medical education at Starling Medical College, graduating two months before he was twenty-one years of age. He chose as the scene of his labors his home town, where his uncle and grandfather had left honored names in the medical profession, and he is now the only physician in the East End of Meigs County, having a practice that keeps him busy most of the hours of the day. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, also American Medical Association and member of the Board of Pension Examiners of Meigs County. Doctor Philson has always been very active in local politics, and wields an unusual influence in behalf of movements and measures he favors, though he has never consented to accept office beyond a service for many years on the local school board. Perhaps his chief hobby is good roads, and in recent years the progress of modern highway building in Meigs County has been signally influenced by this energetic physician. He is a republican. During the World war he was not permitted to go to the front since the authorities informed him that he must get some one to take care of his practice or do it himself, which as a matter of fact was no alternative at all. He is a director in the Racine Home Bank, and like his grandfather and father has been master of the local Masonic lodge. He is a Knight Templar Mason and is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias. Doctor Philson married Miss Addie Richards, who was born in Meigs County, daughter of Luman and Ann (McGraw) Richards. The Richards family formerly lived at Washington County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Philson have two daughters, Mabel, born in 1908, and Dorothy, born in 1910. DELBERT BEALY HARTINGER, M. D. For over half a century the name Hartinger has been distinguished in Meigs County by important service in the medical profession, marked by exceptional devotion to duty, skill and ability of high order, and constructive citizenship. Dr. Delbert Bealy Hartinger has practiced medicine nearly thirty years, and was associated with his father, whose record goes back in the medical annals of the county for fifty years. Delbert Bealy Hartinger is a son of the late Dr. Daniel Skinner and Hannah E. (Jacobs) Hartinger. The Hartinger family came from Germany to America in Colonial times. The grandfather was William B. Hartinger, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, and spent most of his active life as a farmer in Meigs County, where he died at the age of seventy-eight. He was an original republican in politics. His wife was Phoebe Skinner, and they had a family of three sons and three daughters. The son William M. Hartinger was a druggist at Middleport, and died at the age of sixty-nine. In the Civil war he saw active service all through the struggle with the Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in many battles, including Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and the engagements on the march to the sea. He served as treasurer of the county, and was a member of the school board and city council. The other son, Isaac Wesley Hartinger, was also a veteran in the Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Missionary Ridge on December 24, 1863. Dr. Daniel Skinner Hartinger was born on a farm three miles northwest of Middleport, January 19, 1847, and passed away at Middleport, March 24, 1924. He attended country schools in Rutland Township, the Middleport High School, had an experience as a teacher in country schools for two terms, worked on a farm and on steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. D. C. Rathburn. For six years he was employed in his brother 's drug store, that being a valuable experience in teaching him pharmacy and the compounding of medicines. For one term he was able to attend Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and was then given a temporary license to practice medicine. In this way he was able to complete his course at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1876. However, for fully half a century he 242 - HISTORY OF OHIO was in practice at Middleport. In that time he rode thousands of miles on horseback, his range of practice covering not only this section of Ohio, but portions of West Virginia. He was always very fond of horses, and kept a number of good ones in his stables long after the advent of the automobile. The last few years of his life he confined his practice to office consultation, except when his old friends demanded his presence at their bedside. He served on the pension board for thirty years, and was a member of the Universalist Church. At the time of the Civil war he started for the army whenever opportunity permitted his slipping away from home, but his father brought him back every time. He was a Mason for forty years, and a charter member of the Knights of Pythias. Dr. Daniel S. Hartinger married in 1870 Miss Hannah Jacobs, daughter of David R. Jacobs. She was born in Meigs County. Three sons were born to their marriage. Doctor Melvin D. is practicing dentistry at Pomeroy. J. E. D. Hartinger is an inspector in the Ohio State Highway Department. Dr. Delbert Bealy Hartinger, the oldest son, was reared at Middleport, attended high school there, and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he took his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894. However, his first preceptor in medical studies was his father. He was associated with his father in practice after graduating to the time of his father 's death. At the time of the Spanish-American war he volunteered, and in August, 1898, was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, being first sent to camp at Knoxville, Tennessee, and then to Macon, Georgia, and during the clean-up period in Cuba after the war he spent five months at Matanzas and other points. He received his honorable discharge in July, 1899. Following that he did post-graduate work in eye, ear, nose and throat at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, and much of his practice is along these special lines. During the World war he served as the medical member of the Meigs County Draft Board. Doctor Hartinger is a director of the Mutual National Bank of Middleport. He has twice served as president of the county medical society and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. For three years he was master of his Masonic lodge, is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Beni Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, West Virginia. He has held all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias lodge and was surgeon major of the Seventh Regiment of the Uniformed Rank of that order. The doctor is also a member of the advisory board of the Ohio Blind Commission, is president of the Masonic Temple Company, having under construction the Masonic Temple for Middleport Lodge No. 363, Free and Accepted Masons, and is president of the Meigs County Health Board. Doctor Hartinger married Miss Elizabeth Carpenter, daughter of the late Jeremiah L. Carpenter, a former member of the Ohio State Senate. Doctor and Mrs. Hartinger have two children. The daughter, Mary Elizabeth, is attending the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The son, Daniel C., is a student in Ohio Wesleyan University. CHARLES MOREHOUSE DEAN, collector of internal revenue at Cincinnati, has been a journalist the greater part of his active career, and is well known in Cincinnati and the southern part of the state. He was born at Ironton, Ohio, January 11, 1881, son of Charles F. and Clara A. (Jenkins) Dean, his father a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and of Puritan ancestry, while his mother was born in Ohio. Charles F. Dean served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and for many years was engaged in educational work, being superintendent of schools at Glendale, Washington Courthouse and Ironton, Ohio. Charles Morehouse Dean was educated in the Glendale High School and in Wilmington College, and left school to become a newspaper reporter with the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. He was with that paper two years, and for eighteen years was one of the staff of reporters of the Cincinnati Enquirer. As a newspaper man he took a special interest in politics, and as a Cincinnati citizen has worked at all times to obtain responsible and honest government in local affairs. He has been active in the republican party, and from 1914 to 1921 served as secretary of the New Courthouse Building Commission. He was appointed collector of internal revenue for this district in 1921, and is now in the fourth year of his service. Mr. Dean is interested in an industrial company in Kentucky, and is a director of the Central Hyde Park Building and Loan Association. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Cincinnati, is a past master of Lafayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, members of the Kilwining Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Ohio Consistory of the Scottish Rite and other Masonic bodies, belongs to the Cincinnati Masonic Club, Hyde Park Masonic Club and the Hyde Park Business Men's Club, and is a member of the Knox Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dean married at Cincinnati, April 7, 1907, Miss Emma McGrew, daughter of Frank and Mary McGrew. Her father was a Cincinnati business man. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Dean is Helen Martha, born in 1908. FREDERICK DOUGLAS PATTERSON was the executive head of one of the old and substantial industries of Greenfield, originally a carriage manufacturer, now an industry devoted to the manufacture of motor bus bodies. Mr. Patterson took up this business after the death of his father, who founded it, giving up a promising career as an educator to become a manufacturer. Mr. Patterson was born at Greenfield, Ohio, September 17, 1871. His grandparents, Charles and Mary Outz Patterson, were natives of Virginia, and his grandfather died at Greenfield at the age of seventy-five and the grandmother passed away in 1914, aged eighty-eight. The parents of F. D. Patterson were Charles Richard and Josephine Outz Patterson, who was born in Virginia. His father died in 1909, at the age of seventy-seven, and his mother is now seventy-five years of age. Frederick Douglas Patterson acquired a common school education at Greenfield, Ohio, and graduated from high school in 1889. His ambition was to complete a college course, but the money for that purpose had to be earned by him individually. His teaching school was a stepping stone to his college education. He walked four miles each way daily from home to teach a school in the country. Finally he entered Ohio State University at Columbus, and when his savings were exhausted he kept himself in college for a time by working at employment offered by the University. However, before graduating he was obliged to leave, at the age of twenty-two, in order to return home and give his service to his family, at that time deprived of the aid of his father, who had become an invalid. Following that he taught school a year at Elizabethtown, and after passing a competitive examination he became a teacher in the history department of the Central High School at Louisville, Kentucky. In the meantime his father and one of his brothers had been conducting the C. R. Patterson Carriage HISTORY OF OHIO - 243 Building Company at Greenfield. Upon the death of Charles R. Patterson and his son, Frederick P. Patterson was obliged to give up his school work and return home and assume the management of the business. In former years this concern manufactured automobiles, the company being known as the Patterson Greenfield Automobile Company. Under the management of Frederick D. Patterson the business has been confined to the manufacture of motor bus bodies, and it is one of the growing prosperous concerns of Greenfield. Mr. Patterson was a delegate to the Republican State Convention at Cleveland in 1923. He is a Methodist and a Master Mason. At Hopkinsville, Kentucky, September 11, 1901, Frederick D. Patterson married Betty Estelline Postell. She was educated at Hopkinsville, graduated in 1894 from the Fisk Teacher's College at Nashville, Tennessee, and subsequently taught in the grade schools at Hopkinsville and also taught a mission school four years. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have two children. The son, Frederick Postell Patterson was born at Greenfield July 20, 1903, was educated in the grammar and high schools there and in a high school at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now taking a course in mechanical engineering at Ohio State University at Columbus. The second son, Postell Patterson, born at Greenfield in 1907, is a member of the class of 1925 in the McClain High School of Greenfield. and is also editor of the High School paper, the "Dragon." His spare time is spent. working in his father 's office at the factory. MARYSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The history of the Marysville Public Library runs back more than half a century, though its real service as a modern library began about twenty-five years ago. In November, 1867, a meeting of young men was called by Judge P. B. Cole at the Union school house for the purpose of forming an organization "the aim and end of which should be 10 enthuse in the minds of its members and the community a love for substantial literature and a knowledge which should improve and elevate." Out of this meeting grew the Marysville Literary and Library Association. Its first officers were Franklin Wood, president; W. S. Johnson, vice president ; James Sterling, treasurer ; S. W. Dolbear, secretary ; and Leonidas Piper, librarian. After the organization of the society in 1874 fifty volumes were turned over to the new association. One hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share, were subscribed, a room in the Town Hall secured for the library, and that was its home until 1887. The Odd Fellows Lodge was then given the duty of administering the library. Circulation lapsed in a few years, but the books were kept and formed the nucleus of the present library, whose origin, success and _maintenance were due to a group of women. In 1897, while Kate Whitney was president of the "Women's Parliament," Hannah Houston made a motion that the Marysville Library and Reading Room Association be fostered by the Parliament. The motion had an enthusiastic response, and the Parliament from its members chose as officers of the association: Hannah Houston, president ; Mary L. Pyne, vice president ; Ethel McCloud secretary; Charlotte Henderson,. librarian, with an executive committee consisting of Celia Pearse, Celinda Lawrence, Anna K. Chapman, Clara Morey, Joanna Mowry and Harriet G. Scott. The Council granted the use of two rooms in the Town Hall. The services of the state librarian, Charles Galbreath, author of the present History of Ohio, were secured,. and under his instructions the Dewey system of cataloguing was started. This system was continued by the librarian, Charlotte Henderson, who for over twelve years without pay kept the books in order and the Circulation Department open every Saturday afternoon and evening, assisted. at times by the efficient secretary, Ethlyn McCloud, Mary L. Pyne and Mary Godard. The reading room was under the charge of the other officers of the association, who served a week at a time in the afternoons and evenings. The citizens gave a generous response to a call for a donation of books. The membership fee of fifty cents from the 150 odd members furnished a small source of supply for books, but most of them were obtained from liberal subscriptions and various other payments, lectures or other programs arranged by the women who were sponsoring the organization. In this way the public was served gratuitously until 1909, when the school board. assumed control of a well established institution, with almost 3,000 books on the shelves and over $1,000 surplus in the treasury. The present librarian of the Marysville Public Library is Miss Lillian Robb. J. EUGENE ROBERTS, a Youngstown attorney, earned. a record as an exceptionally able and eloquent public speaker before he engaged in law practice. He has been active in politics in Mahoning County for a number of years. He was born at Hubbard, Ohio, January 2, 1893, and his address is 604 Home Savings and Loan Building at Youngstown. His parents are Allen T. and Nellie G. (Passmore) Roberts, residents of Hubbard, where his father is a justice of the peace. Allen Roberts was born at Lima, Ohio, son of. Abner and Margaret (Houston) Roberts, while Nellie Passmore was born in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, daughter of Levi M. and Jane Elizabeth (Denison) Passmore. J. Eugene Roberts graduated from the Rayen High School at Youngstown in 1913. He taught school in Wethersfield Township at the City of Niles, worked in steel mills at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and in the meantime was studying law in the night schools at Youngstown. He was admitted to the bar in 1919, and has been engaged in practice since September, 1921. In April, 1918, he enlisted in the infantry at Camp Mead, Maryland, was transferred to another camp, and in August, 1918, went overseas with the Seventy-ninth Division. He was with his command at Caen, France, in the Toul sector, and in the St. Mihiel campaign. He returned to the United States in November, 1918, as a first class private. He then resumed work in the steel mills of the Youngstown district, and in September, 1919, became an employe of the Standard Tank Car Works, remaining there until he engaged in the general practice of law. He is especially well known for his success in criminal law. November 7, 1917, he married Valeria T. Dietrichkeit, a native of Harden County, Kentucky, where she was born February 12, 1893, daughter of Rudolph and Bertha Dietrichkeit. Mr. Roberts has been freqnently referred to as a "silver tongued orator." He has a large following. in politics, and in 1922 was candidate for Congress, and November 4, 1924, was elected Ohio State Senator. He is a Presbyterian, a member of the Nathan Hale Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at Youngstown, and belongs to the American Legion. CHARLES MAINS. An Ohioan by birth, Charles Mains grew up on a farm, acquired a college education, and some thirty-two years ago allied himself with an industry and organization that has become one of the largest manufacturing institutions in central Ohio. This business, located. at Greenfield, ac- 244 - HISTORY OF OHIO knowledges as its founder and executive head Mr. E. L. McClain, and is known as The American Pad and Textile Company, of which Mr. Mains is president. He was born in Ross County, on July 17, 1867, three miles northeast of Greenfield, and is of Scotch-Irish descent, representing an old American family of Colonial stock, his ancestors having come to this country from northern Ireland about 1698. His great-grandfather, William Mains, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1776, his parents moved to Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1873. He came westward from there and settled in Ross County, Ohio, in 1798, when that was one of the most populous centers of Ohio territory. In 1810 he married Mary Hixson who also came from Loudoun County, Virginia. William Mains died in 1842 and is buried at South Salem, Ross County, Ohio. His son, Washington Mains, grandfather of Charles Mains, was born near South Salem, Ohio, in 1815. His life as a farmer was spent near Greenfield. In 1838 he married Hannah Bryan, daughter of John and Hannah Bryan. Their four children were Margaret, John, Archibald and Emma. John William Mains, father of Charles Mains, was born in 1843, and died in 1876. He was a farmer, residing three miles northeast of Greenfield. At the beginning of the Civil war he responded to the call, volunteering in the Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, serving therein to the close of the war. In 1865 he married Nancy Elizabeth Harper, daughter of Robert and Mary Kerr Harper. Three children were born to them, Charles Mains, subject of this sketch, Russell Mains, a farmer residing in Greenfield, Ohio, whose children are Mrs. Inez Hamilton and Lucille Mains ; and Mrs. Hannah Mains Irvine, also residing in Greenfield, whose three children are Robert, Elizabeth and Russell. Charles Mains as a boy on the farm attended district school, first in a log cabin in Ross County, Ohio, not far distant from Greenfield. This rather primitive school building was later supplanted by a more pretentious structure. His educational opportunities until attaining the age of sixteen were limited to this school. For three years thereafter he was a student in the Presbyterian Academy at South Salem, and in 1886 he entered Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, where he was graduated with the Master of Arts degree in 1889. Following this for a period of three years he was superintendent of public schools at West De Pere, Wisconsin. In 1892 he engaged with the E. L. McClain Manufacturing Company, Greenfield, Ohio, as a traveling salesman. Some three and one-half years later he assumed executive responsibility as secretary of The Sun Manufacturing Company, one of Mr. McClain 's industries, but in 1899 again joined the E. L. McClain Manufacturing Company, which was incorporated in 1903, under the name of The American Pad & Textile Company. He was first secretary of the company mentioned, became vice president in 1908, and in 1913 assumed the duties of president and general manager. On July 24, 1889, Mr. Mains was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Thomas, of Ross County, Ohio, her home being near Greenfield. Her earlier education was obtained in the common schools at Rainsboro, Ohio, Highland County, where she was born. Subsequently she attended Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, and graduated in 1887 from the Presbyterian Academy at South Salem, Ohio. Mrs. Mains is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Coterie Club, Country Club, Reading Club, and is a teacher in the Presbyterian Sabbath School. Mr. and Mrs. Mains have three children. Their older son, Charles Franklin, born in 1890, was educated in the Greenfield public schools and Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, where he graduated in 1911. He married Miss Maud Harps in 1913, and they have two children, Mary Jane and Charles. The second son, John Thomas Mains, born in 1903, is a student at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. A daughter, Mrs. Louise Mains King, wife of C. Dudley King, was educated in the public schools of Greenfield, and Ward-Belmont School for Girls, Nashville, Tennessee. They reside in Piqua, Ohio, and have two children, Charles Dudley, Jr., and Thomas Johnson. For more than twenty-seven years Mr. Mains has served as trustee of the Presbyterian Church, Greenfield, Ohio, being chairman of the board for more than half his term of service. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and politically is a republican, having served as mayor of Greenfield from 1896 to 1898, and was a member of the Board of Education. During the World war he took a keen interest in Red Cross and local War Chest campaigns and all other war activities. While it has been his rule of life to attend closely to the business in hand, he nevertheless finds time for outdoor activities, usually spending several weeks each summer and autumn in the woods of Northern Michigan. ELMER ELLSWORTH WELLS, M. D. A native of Scioto County and thirty-five years a physician and surgeon, Doctor Wells during the past twenty-five years of his life performed his professional service at Ironton, where he was a well equipped specialist and also city health officer. His death occurred February 2, 1924. He was born in Scioto County, October 2, 1861, son of Thomas M. and Mary (Belcher) Wells. The Wells family are of English ancestry and came to Ohio from old Virginia. The Belchers were originally Holland-Dutch, and came to Ohio from the big sandy district of Kentucky. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Wells were Joseph and Lucy Belcher. His paternal grandfather was Joseph Wells. Mary Belcher Wells, mother of Doctor Wells, died in 1862, when her son and only child was an infant. Thomas M. Wells was born in old Virginia, and was nine years of age when his parents moved to Ohio. His active career was spent around the iron furnaces, and at the time of his death in 1908 he was stationary engineer at one of the furnaces in Southern Ohio. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. Elmer Ellsworth Wells attended public schools in Scioto County, also in Greenup County, Kentucky, spent one year in the high school at Wheelersburg, Ohio, and at the age of seventeen went to work as bookkeeper and storekeeper at an iron furnace. He was employed around furnaces for about ten years, and in that way earned and saved the money to put him through medical school. Doctor Wells graduated with the class of 1887 from Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, and in the same year engaged in general practice at Etna Furnace. He remained in that community for ten years, and afterward his home and the center of his professional work was at Ironton. He carried the burdens of a heavy general practice though he specialized in the eye. He did post-graduate work on the eye and its diseases at the New York City Polyclinic and at the Ohio State University. Doctor Wells from 1922 was city health officer of Ironton, and was a member of the County and State Medical societies. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Modern Woodmen of America. His church was the Methodist, while his wife is a member of the Episcopal Church. In December, 1883, at Pine Grove Furnace, Doctor Wells married Miss Mary M. Shepard, daughter of Carlton and Margaret Shepard. She died in 1895, the mother of two sons, Albert and Walter. Albert Wells, who is in the dry goods business at Ironton, HISTORY OF OHIO - 245 married Nellie Gabler, of Ironton, and has two children, Marie and Jane Elizabeth. Walter Wells, who married Evelyn Shank, is a musician in the Lyric Theatre at Portsmouth, Ohio. On June 30, 1923, Doctor Wells married Miss Frances Bull, daughter of James and Mary (Huffman) Bull, one of their four children, the others being Gertrude, Warren and Sidney. James Bull was born in England, and was two years of age when his parents in 1846 came to this country and settled in Ohio. Mary Huffman, the mother of Mrs. Wells, was born at Pine Grove Furnace in 1843. ROBERT EDMUND WOLF, M. D. One of the younger men in the medical profession of Tuscarawas County, Doctor Wolf is located at Uhrichsville. He was liberally educated and thoroughly trained for the technical work of his calling, and is giving his professional service in a community where his family has lived for a great many years. He was born at the Town of Tuscarawas, in Tuscarawas County, January 20, 1898, son of John A. and Louisa (Reiser) Wolf. His father was born near Port Washington, September 24, 1862, son of John and Elizabeth (Schneider) Wolf. His grandparents were natives of Germany, John Wolf, Sr., coming to the United States at the age of fourteen and his wife when twelve years old, their respective parents settling on adjoining farms near Port Washington in Tuscarawas County. After their marriage they likewise located on a farm. They reared three sons, John A., Charles R. and Dr. Edmund A. Wolf, and one daughter, Louisa, now deceased. John A. Wolf, Jr., was for many years engaged in farming, but is now in the milling business at Tuscarawas. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. She was born in Tuscarawas County, daughter of John Reiser, of Swiss parentage. The children of John A. Wolf and wife are : Ina, wife of Earl V. Saunders; Eda, twin sister of Ina, the wife of C. F. Veigel; and Dr. Robert Edmund. Dr. Robert Edmund Wolf acquired a good common school education and subsequently attended Valparaiso University and the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, where he took chemical engineering. He also attended Adelbert College at Cleveland for one year, and in 1924 graduated from the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati. Since graduating he has been engaged in general practice at Uhrichsville. JOHN EVERETT GROVES, M. D. The oldest physician in point of continuous service in the city of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, is Dr. John Everett Groves, whose work began there in 1880, and who has for forty-five years stood as the exemplar of faithful service and thorough ability in his professional calling. Doctor Groves was born on a farm near Hendrysburg, in Belmont County, Ohio, November 6, 1855, son of John Fox and Levina (Lloyd) Groves. His parents were also natives of Belmont County, and his grandfather, Barnett Groves, was born in that section of Ohio. John F. Groves was a farmer, and lived to the age of seventy years, while his wife passed away at seventy-one. They reared three sons and three daughters. Doctor Groves grew up on a farm, had the advantages of the common schools in the country district, and for six years of his early life taught school. He attended Franklin College one year, began the study of medicine under a preceptor at Moorefield, and then entered the Columbus Medical College, where he was graduated in 1880. Following his graduation he located at Uhrichsville, and has conducted a general medical and surgical practice. For many years he has been local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. He has filled all the important offices, secretary, treasurer and president, of the County Medical Society, and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Groves is a republican. He is a Knights Templar Mason and a Knight of Pythias, and has been identified with a great many movements for some special community purpose during the many years he has lived at Uhrichsville. He married in 1899 Elva B. Secrest, who is also a native of Belmont County, Ohio. PALMER HODGE LAUGHLIN. The most distinctive industrial concern of Barnesville is the Watt Mining Car Wheel Company, and Palmer Hodge Laughlin is its treasurer and general manager, and has been officially identified with its management for over twenty years. Mr. Laughlin was born not far from Barnesville, but on a farm in Guernsey County, September 2, 1878, son of Capt. John Wilson and Margaret (Cowden) Laughlin. Both parents were born in Guernsey County. His father died in 1917, aged eighty-one, and his mother in 1893, aged fifty-two. Capt. John Wilson Laughlin fought four years as a Union soldier in the Civil war, reaching the rank of captain of the First Ohio Cavalry. Otherwise he spent his active career as a farmer in Guernsey County, and was a man of much prominence in that locality. He was a democrat, and twice served his home county in the State Senate. While in the Senate he cast a deciding vote in the proposal to make Washington 's birthday a legal holiday in Ohio. For over forty years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and his father, Thomas Wilson Laughlin, had likewise a similar service to his credit. Capt. John W. Laughlin after retiring from the farm lived in Barnesville until his death. He was a pioneer advocate of the good roads movement, and possessed extensive land holdings in both Guernsey and Belmont counties. Eight in a family of ten children, Palmer Hodge Laughlin spent his boyhood days on a farm, attending district schools and later the Barnesville High School. On March 7, 1898, before his twentieth birthday, he entered the service of the Watt Mining Car Wheel Company at Barnesville. He began as office boy, but continued his education through correspondence courses and subsequently qualified for a post as bookkeeper and then as draughtsman. These various duties made him familiar with all departments of the industry. In May, 1902, he was promoted to secretary of the company, and on May 7, 1907, was given the additional duties of general manager, and since March, 1923, has been treasurer and general manager. The Watt Mining Car Wheel Company is the largest concern in the world manufacturing mining cars, steel and wood industrial cars and quarry cars, and supplies not only the domestic, but a large part of the foreign markets. It has been an industry in Barnesville for more than half a century. It was started as a copartnership in 1866, and in 1881 was incorporated. The facilities of the plant, the working capital and the output and general prosperity have more than doubled since 1907. Mr. Laughlin takes a lively interest in local affairs, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, is a past master of Friendship Lodge No. 89 of the Masonic Order, is a member of Barnesville Chapter No. 69, Royal Arch Masons, Barnesville Council No. 97, Royal and Select Masters, Cambridge Commandery No. 47, Knights Templar, and Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He is also a member of the Warren Lodge, Knights of Pythias. 246 - HISTORY OF OHIO On June 9, 1909, at Barnesville, Mr. Laughlin married Miss Mary Watt, daughter of one of the founders of the Watt Mining Car Wheel Company. Her father was James H. Watt, who died in May, 1902, at the age of sixty-four. He was a native of Belmont County, had a brief service as a Union soldier of the Civil war, and after the war left his farm and with three brothers started the partnership firm now known as the Watt Mining Car Wheel Company. From its incorporation in 1881 until his death in May, 1902, he served as president of the company, and was also president of the Warren Oil and Gas Company. He was chairman of the Building Committee of the Presbyterian Church, was a republican and a Mason, and a man of great liberality and breadth of public spirit. The mother of Mrs. Laughlin was Elizabeth Adams, who died in 1914, aged sixty-four. Mrs. Laughlin takes an active part in church and social club work at Barnesville. They have two children, James Watt and Palmer Hodge Laughlin, Jr. CHARLES H. SIEGRIST, M. D. Nearly thirty years have elapsed since Doctor Siegrist secured his medical diploma. and began practice. These years have been accompanied by earnest toil and a high degree of ability in his chosen profession, and he is especially esteemed as a doctor and as a citizen in the community of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, which has been his home for over twenty years. Doctor Siegrist was born on a farm near Dresden, in Muskingum County, Ohio, November 30, 1867, son of Jacob and Adeline (Strohacker) Siegrist. His father was born in Alsace-Lorraine, of Swiss parentage. His mother was a native of Germany. They were married after coming to Ohio, in Muskingum County, and soon settled on a farm near Coshocton. Jacob Siegrist was one of the sturdy and self reliant farmers of that section, and lived there until his death in 1916, at the age of seventy-six. The widowed mother passed away in 1923, at the age of eighty-three. They reared a family of eight children. Charles H. Siegrist had a farm rearing, a public school education and contrived many of his own opportunities while getting through college and a professional school. He taught school for several years, and in 1894 graduated from old Scio College. In 1896 he completed his course in medicine at Ohio State University, and then located at Bowerston, where for five years he was a busy physician and surgeon. After one year at Coshocton he located at Uhrichsville, which as a community has chiefly benefited from his skill and experience. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Siegrist is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He married, in 1898, Miss Emma Forsythe. Their four children are : Edmund, Paul, Ronald and Hazel. GEORGE AMBROSE HENRY, M. D. A native of Ohio, representing some of the pioneer families of Muskingum County, Doctor Henry has practiced medicine for over a quarter of a century, and is one of the able physicians in Tuscarawas County, his home being at Uhrichsville. He was born February 1, 1868, at Zanesville, Ohio, son of Simon K. and Dorothy Matilda (Henley) Henry, also natives of Muskingum County. His father was born in Zanesville, son of Beale Henry, of Pennsylvania German ancestry, who went to Muskingum County when a boy with his family. Beale Henry married Ann Cobb, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and her people were among the early settlers of New Comerstown, Ohio. She reached the venerable age of ninety-three years, passing away about twelve years ago. Doctor Henry 's maternal grandparents were George Henley and wife, who came to Muskingum County from Germany. George Ambrose Henry comes of a family of three sons and three daughters. He grew up in Zanesville, attended the public schools there, and followed several occupations during his early manhood. For two years he studied medicine under a preceptor, and then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, and subsequently graduated, in 1897, from Ohio Medical College. For two years he practiced at Adams Mill, and then located at Tuscarawas, where for twenty-six years he was the leading physician of the community. From there he removed about three years ago to his present home at Uhrichsville, and still continues a general practice in medicine and surgery. He is a member of the County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Henry is a democrat in politics, is a member of the Moravian Church, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and its social orders Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club. Doctor Henry married, in 1887, Miss Anna Rudden. They have two children. The daughter, Mary, is the widow of Oliver Good. Isabel married Henry Reiser, and they have a son, Richard. GEORGE WASHINGTON REED, who has been established in the successful practice of law at Uhrichsville for more than a quarter of a century and who has gained distinct prestige as one of the representative members of the bar of his native County of Tuscarawas, has extended his practice into the higher courts, including the Ohio Supreme Court and the Federal Courts of the state, and in his profession he has won many important victories in connection with both criminal and civil cases, the while he has maintained high reputation as a well fortified counselor. Mr. Reed was born on the parental homestead farm in Union Township, Tuscarawas County, and the date of his nativity was February 20, 1863. He is a son of John and Jane Reed, both now deceased. John Reed was born on the farm on which was born the subject of this sketch, where he was reared and educated and where he passed the remainder of his life. He became one of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Union Township, where he owned a well improved landed estate and where he continued to reside until his death in 1919, at the venerable age of ninety-one years. His father, William Reed, was born in Ireland, came to America in 1824, and established his residence first in New Brunswick, Canada, whence he later came, in 1825, to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife remained until the close of their lives. George W. Reed gained in his boyhood and earlier youth a goodly measure of fellowship with the work of the home farm, and after having duly profited by the curriculum of the public schools he entered Ohio University at Athens, in which he was in due course graduated, his degree of Bachelor of Arts having been later supplemented by that of Master of Arts, likewise granted him by his alma mater. His preparation for his chosen profession included a course in the law department of historic old University of Virginia, and in 1896 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, as a member of which he has since continued to be successfully engaged in practice at Uhrichsville. He has served as president of the Tuscarawas Bar Association, and in the summer of 1924, as a delegate from this association, he at- HISTORY OF OHIO - 247 tended the meeting of the American Bar Association, which he accompanied to London, England, where the organization was entertained with distinction by the English Bar Association. Incidental to this trip to London Mr. Reed found opportunity also to visit France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Ireland, and while on his visit to the Emerald Isle he had the satisfaction of going to the old home of his paternal ancestors in County Donegal. Prior to engaging in the practice of law Mr. Reed had made a record of successful achievement as a teacher in the public schools, and his income from this source enabled him to pursue his higher academic and his law studies. He first taught in the schools of Ohio, and after his graduation from Ohio University he served in turn as principal of the public schools at Del Norte, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He has never abated his interest in educational matters, and is ever ready to aid in advancing the standards of educational work. His final pedagogic service was as principal of the public schools of McConnellsville, Ohio. Mr. Reed is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi College fraternity, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Masonic fraternity. He has been a most earnest and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, and has held official positions in the same, is a teacher of the Bible Class in the Sunday school, and on one occasion was honored in being selected a delegate to the General Conference of the church. He has been content to give his undivided attention to his profession, and has had no desire for political activity or public office. His elder son, Paul F., is now associated with him in the practice of law, under the title of Reed & Reed, and of this son more specific mention is made in later paragraphs of this review. The year 1888 recorded the marriage of Mr. Reed and Miss Clara Murtland Baker, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she passed to the life eternal in the year 1922. Mrs. Reed is survived by four children: Hazel, Paul Foster, George E. and Dorothy. Paul Foster Reed, junior member of the law firm of Reed & Reed, as indicated in the preceding paragraph, was born at Athens, Ohio, November 26, 1892. He received the advantages of the public schools and thereafter was for one year a student in Ohio University, in his native city, where also he became affiliated with his father 's fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He was for two years a student in the law department of the University of Ohio, at Columbus, and was there made a member of the Acacia fraternity. He was admitted to the bar in 1920, and has since been associated with his father in active general practice at Uhrichsville. Soon after the nation became involved in the World war Paul F. Reed volunteered, June 4, 1917, for service in the United States Army, and his enlistment took place on the 1st of the following month. He volunteered for service in the medical department, and in the same he was given the rank of sergeant of the first class. He was overseas nine months, in service at the headquarters of the Thirty-seventh Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, and he continued in active service until he received his honorable discharge, April 12, 1919. He took part in two major offensive movements and one major defense. After his discharge he resumed the study of law, and in due time was admitted to practice, as previously noted in this context. Mr. Reed is affiliated with the American Legion, the Elks, and the Masonic fraternity, in which last he is a Knight Templar, besides having received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Uhrichsville. In 1917 Mr. Reed wedded Miss Ruth Brunner, of Uhrichsville, and they have three children: John P., George R. and Richard B. JASPER FREMONT MEEK. A few years ago in a description of Coshocton's business resources, in a list of a score or more plants, factories and productive industries, the largest single group was that represented by the Novelty Advertising Works, which numbered half a dozen and gave a distinctive character to the city 's business. This business, which in the aggregate involves an immense amount of capital and affords employment to hundreds of the city 's population, had its beginning in a very modest and humble way, in the original mind of the late Jasper Fremont Meek. A brief sketch of his career, with some notice of his family connections, has an appropriate place in the History of Ohio. He was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 20, 1856, son of Sylvester and Lucretia (Davis) Meek, grandson of Daniel Hitt Meek, great-grandson of Isaac J. Meek and great-great-grandson of Isaac S. Meek, whose father, Guy Meek, a native of England, came with his brother Samuel Meek to America in Colonial times and settled in Virginia. Isaac J. Meek became a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and the military record of the family through all the generations is impressive. Isaac S. Meek was born in Virginia and became a pioneer on the western border of the state, along the Ohio River. His son, Isaac J. Meek, was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, near the present City of Wheeling, and his name appears in western history as second in command under Colonel Broadhead, when Broadhead made his treaty with the Indians within the borders of what is now Coshocton County. It was Daniel Hitt Meek who founded the family in Ohio, locating in Tuscarawas County, where he spent the rest of his years. His son, Sylvester Meek, was a native of Tuscarawas County, and at the time of the Civil war became a Union soldier in the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was with Sherman on the march to the sea, and in one of the last battles of the great war was killed on the field. He married Lucretia Davis, a native of Tuscarawas County, who survived him with their four children, of whom Jasper Fremont Meek was the oldest. Due to the death of his father on a battlefield in the Civil war Jasper Fremont Meek as a boy had to assume heavy responsibilities in assisting his mother and the three younger children. When he was only fifteen years of age he had made himself so proficient in telegraphy as to be appointed a telegraph operator in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He continued that occupation for several years, but in 1875, at the age of nineteen, came to Coshocton, where he bought a small newspaper. While in the newspaper business he formulated some of the plans that proved the foundation of the advertising novelty industry. His experience as a printer and publisher was an indispensable asset in this new business. In 1886 he started to manufacture under the name of the Tuscarora Advertising Company some schoolbook bags and horse blankets, acquiring the printed advertisements on them. He possessed very limited means, and of course had to establish his product's popularity and sale. His efforts to secure the cooperation and financial interests of others in the enterprise were unavailing. For several years he struggled along under difficult circumstances. His supermanagement and determination to succeed brought him in time a fairly successful business. In 1900 he consolidated with the Standard Advertising Company, owned by Mr. H. D. Beach, and the firm became The Meek and Beach Company, but two years later Mr. Meek bought out his partner and then established 248 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Meek Company. In 1905 he sold this business, on account of ill health, to what is now the American Art Works, the largest advertising novelty company in the world. About forty-five years ago the industry was started with the manufacture of school-book bags made from gunny cloth. To this experimental line was soon added another article, a horse cover made frum gunny cloth and likewise carrying advertisements. Other articles were subsequently added. From 1905 for eleven years Mr. Meek was not connected with the business, but in 1916 he established the J. F. Meek Company, manufacturers of calendars, a business he continued under his direct management until his death on November 25, 1918. The business is continued as part of his estate, its active manager today being his son, Daniel C. Meek. The late Mr. Meek had very little schooling when a boy. However, he loved books and studies and intellectual pursuits and all his life he was making up for the lack of his early advantages by reading and contact with literature and practical affairs. He accumulated what many have been called the most complete private library in Ohio, made up of books of history, biography, economics, philosophy and the classics in literature. He was a pioneer in the prohibition movement in Ohio. He lectured on that cause, and was on the lecture platform frequently on other more general subjects, particularly pertaining to the philosophic and economic phases of life and affairs. He was a Methodist and a Master Mason. Jasper F. Meek married in 1878 Miss Ella Bosley, a native of Tuscarawas County. She died, leaving one son, Guy Sylvester Meek, who is now proprietor of the Guy S. Meek Company, advertising novelties at Coshocton. In 1885 Jasper Fremont Meek married Emma Coe, a native of Coshocton County. She continues to reside in Coshocton. She is the mother of three children, Daniel Coe, Sarah and Mary Meek. Daniel Coe Meek, son of the late Jasper Fremont Meek, was born at Coshocton, May 24, 1889. Unlike his father, he had the advantages of some of the best schools and colleges in the country. He finished his college education in the University of Michigan, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912 and receiving the Master of Arts degree in 1913. He then became associated with his father 's business, and for the past five years has been the active manager of the J. F. Meek Company, Calendar Manufacturers. He also has a record as an ex-service man, having enlisted in May, 1918, in the Tank Corps, and was in training at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was mustered out with the rank of first sergeant, December 25, 1918. He belongs to the American Legion Post and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. Daniel C. Meek married in 1917 Marie Frederick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Frederick, of Coshocton. WILLIAM HENRY STOUTT was the editor and publisher of the Uhrichsville Chronicle, which issues daily and weekly editions at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and made this one of the important and influential papers of this section of Ohio. For rest and recreation he indulged in a fishing trip to Canada, and while on the train on which he was returning home he received a sudden attack of illness that resulted in his death a few moments later, on the 18th of August, 1921. In his death Tuscarawas County lost one of its honored and influential native sons—one who had achieved success and honors of no minor order. William H. Stoutt was born at Gilmore, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, November 14, 1852, and was a son of John and Casandra (Dix) Stoutt, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized. John Stoutt was a blacksmith by trade, and after following his trade for a time at Gilmore, Tuscarawas County, he moved with his family to Rockville, Tuscarawas County, where his death occurred when his son, William H., was but a boy. William H. Stoutt thus found his public school privileges somewhat curtailed, as it devolved upon him as the only son, to assist in the support of his widowed mother and his two sisters. With characteristic bravery and resourcefulness the lad faced the problems that were thus to be solved, and he worked earnestly and indefatigably to make proper provision for his mother and his sisters, the latter of whom were younger than himself. He found employment at farm work and received for his service 50 cents a day. At night he applied himself diligently to study, and finally he made such advancement as to enable him to gain a teacher 's license. His first pedagogic service was given in the district schools of Ohio, and later he taught in West Virginia. Finally he returned to his native county and became circulation manager for the Tuscarawas Chronicle at Uhrichsville. Somewhat later he purchased the Richwood Gazette, and after publishing the same three years he sold the plant and business. He then returned to Uhrichsville and purchased the Chronicle, the publication having been continued as a weekly only until 1895, when he initiated the issuing of daily editions, in addition to the weekly. He con- tinued as editor and publisher of the Chronicle until his death, achieved substantial success and gained rank as one of the influential newspaper men of the Buckeye State. Though he was unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party and an effective exponent of its principles and policies, Mr. Stoutt never consented to become a candidate for public office, save that, under appointment, he served several years as a member of the Ohio State Board of Charities. He was a Knight Templar Mason and was affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias, and he was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as a member of the Official Board for a term of years. His personality was the positive expression of a noble and loyal nature, he was tolerant and kindly in his judgment, and he was ever ready to co-operate in the furthering of worthy causes and to aid those in need. His course was ruled by a fine sense of justice and his stewardship in all of the relations of life was earnest and faithful. The first marriage of Mr. Stoutt was with Theresa Milliken, and they became the parents of five children: Pearl, Dale, Hazel (deceased), Paul H. and Helen. After the death of his first wife Mr. Stoutt wedded Miss Grace Milliken, who survives him, as do also their five children: Donald, Mary, Elizabeth, William and Robert. Paul H. Stoutt succeeded his father as editor and manager of the Chronicle, and in the following sketch is given a brief review of his career. PAUL H. STOUTT, editor and manager of the Uhrichsville Chronicle, one of the well ordered newspapers of Tuscarawas County, is well upholding the journalistic honors of the family name, his father, the late William Henry Stoutt, having been one of the prominent figures in Ohio newspaper circles for many years, as may be seen by reference to the immediately preceding memoir. Paul H. Stoutt was born at Uhrichsville, August 27, 1890, and in the public schools of his native city he continued his studies until his graduation from high school. He then became a reporter for the Uhrichsville Chronicle, later being advanced to the position of city editor, and since the death of his honored father, who was the owner and publisher of HISTORY OF OHIO - 249 the Chronicle, he has been editor and manager. He maintains the Chronicle at a high standard, and is one of the representative young newspaper men of his native state. Mr. Stoutt is an active and influential figure in the local councils and campaign service of the republican party, and under the commission form of municipal government in Uhrichsville he served two years as safety director, as the first incumbent of this office. In the city election of 1923 he was the republican candidate for the office of mayor, and though he was defeated he polled the largest republican vote in the history of the city. He is serving in 1924 as exalted ruler of Uhrichsville Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is affiliated also with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. The year 1912 recorded the marriage of Mr. Stoutt and Miss Mary Templeton, of Columbus, Ohio, and the one child of this union is Paul H., Jr. G. ALBERT GARVER, one of the successful merchants and good citizens of Strasburg, has spent practically all his life in this vicinity. His interests are centered here, and he has always worked hard for the prosperity and further development of his home city. He was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 7, 1865, his birth occurring during a brief residence of his parents in that city. He is a son of the late Philip A. and Francisca (Kapitzky) Garver. The Garver family is of German origin, the paternal grandfather having come to the United States from Bavaria, and located at Navarre, Stark County, Ohio, at an early day. There Philip A. Garver was born. The mother was born in Bavaria, Germany, and came in womanhood to the United States with her father, who located at Cleveland. In 1866 Philip A. Garver opened a general store at Strasburg, and, increasing his stock and facilities, laid the foundation for the present flourishing department store of Garver Brothers Company at Strasburg, regarded as one of the largest country stores in the world. Until 1888 Philip A. Garver continued the ownership of the store he had founded, but in that year turned the business over to his sons and retired. His death occurred in 1905. He and his wife reared five children, namely: Frankie, Rudolph, G. Albert, William G. and Minnie. Rudolph and G. Albert Garver took over the business established by their father, and under the present name developed it into enormous proportions. In 1900 the company was incorporated, and the following year the store was destroyed by fire, the company suffering a very heavy loss. Undismayed, however, the brothers immediately resumed business, and in 1902 erected their present large storeroom, three stories in height. Rudolph Garver maintained his active connection with the house until his death in 1907. G. Albert Garver has continued to be the general manager and actual head of the company, and his business career entitles him to rank among the leading merchants of the county. He was reared at Strasburg, where he attended the public schools, and later Mount Union College. With the exception of a short period when he taught school Mr. Garver 's whole life from boyhood onward has been spent in his present business. He knows the mercantile trade from the ground up, for he has worked in it from boyhood, and this knowledge, combined with natural ability for the work, explains his success in life. He has never heeded any call to public or political life. In politics he is a liberal republican. In church faith he is a United Brethren, and for years has taught a Bible class in the Sunday school. All of his life a hard worker, he has given wholly of his talents and time to business six days in the week, having taken but few vacations throughout his life. Aside from his business interests his chief concern has been with his family and church. Yet in public affairs he has never been a slacker, but has supported every measure and movement that promised to be beneficial to the community in which he has spent his life and achieved such lasting success. In 1890 Mr. Garver married Miss Viola Blatzly, who was born and reared at Beach City, Stark County, Ohio, and they are the parents of the following children: Mary, Philip A., Lydia, John B. and Paul M. Philip A. and John B. Garver are both connected with the Garver Brothers Company, and both are veterans of the World war, in which they served in the aviation branch of the United States Army, as second lieutenants. John B. Garver volunteered in September, 1917, received his training in Texas, and was sent overseas in February, 1918. He was in the active flying service, and was the only ace from Tuscarawas County. Wounded in the service, he remained overseas until March, 1919. Philip A. Garver volunteered in October, 1917, and remained in the service until after the signing of the armistice, when he received his honorable discharge, but was not sent overseas. Both brothers are members of the American Legion, and have served as commanders of the Strasburg Post of that order. CHARLES E. HOLZER, M. D. By a consensus of professional opinion the Holzer Hospital at Gallipolis is called one of the finest equipped private hospitals in the southern part of the state. It ranks with any of the best in the City of Cincinnati. Its founder and owner is. Dr. Charles E. Holzer, one of the very able young surgeons of Ohio. Doctor Holzer was born in Sherwood, Defiance County, Ohio, July 29, 1887, son of William F. and Susan F. (Kinter) Holzer. Both the Holzers and Kinters were of old German-American stock, and in every generation staunch in their American citizenship. Doctor Holzer 's grandparents, Carl and Elizabeth (Miller) Holzer, brought their family to the United States in 1848. Carl Holzer was a close friend of Carl Schurz, who also came to America after the failure of the German revolutionary movement of 1848, and subsequently became one of the distinguished Americans of the last century. Carl Holzer located at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Holzer was John Kinter. His name will always stand high and honored in the history of American agriculture. He first introduced into this country a type of clover grown in Alsace, and long known in America by the term "Alsike Clover." He was a mechanical genius, inventing the first clover seed huller, and also the first hay loader. He was an enthusiastic apiarist, and had much to do with the development of bee culture in the United States. His home was in Defiance County, Ohio. Doctor Holzer 's parents are living. His father has been in the railroad service all his life, was reared and educated in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Valparaiso, Indiana, and is now a division superintendent for the Big Four Railroad. He has been active in the republican party, serving on the county central committee, and is a member of the Masonic order. He and Susan F. Kinter were married in Defiance County, Ohio, in 1883. They had three children; Harry V. whose four children are named Carl, Margaret, Fred and Mary Ann; Doctor Charles E. and Marie, who married George E. Ehrhart. Dr. Charles E. Holzer finished his high school education at Van Wert, Ohio, and entered the medical