250 - HISTORY OF OHIO school of Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1909. In 1910 he engaged in private practice at Gallipolis. His subsequent studies and work that have brought him an eminent degree of fame as a surgeon have been continued through his own private practice and through post-graduate work in the Post Graduate Medical School of New York City and Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. During 1911, and during 191112, he organized and built his private hospital at Gallipolis. He closed it and spent the year 1913 abroad, most of the time at Vienna, where he was accorded unusual opportunities to study, observe and work with the great surgeons of his time. On returning to Gallipolis he reopened his hospital. The Holzer Hospital contains eighty-six private rooms, and in addition to its material equipment, is noted for its surgical and medical staff, comprising specialists, all men of thoroughness in their lines of work. The personnel of the staff makes it possible to give special treatment in obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine, X-ray, and there is a clinic for diagnosis. Doctor Holzer married at Columbus, October 1, 1914, Miss Alma E. Vorn Holt, daughter of Fredrick, J. Vorn Holt, a contractor and builder. Mrs. Holzer is the second of five children, the others being Hugo H., Otto A., Hulda Marie and Lydia Clara. Doctor and Mrs. Holzer have five children, named Charles E. Jr., Alma Christine, Richard V., Louise and Elizabeth Ann. Doctor Holzer is a Fellow in the American College of surgeons. He belongs to the Alpha Kappa Kappa college fraternity, the County, State and American Medical associations, is a Knight Templar Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the war he was commissioned lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, in October, 1918, and was assigned to duty in Hospital No. 13 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, until January, 1919, when he was relieved. JOHN W. DOWNING is a native son of Pike County, and since the organization of the Piketon National Bank, has been identified with that institution. He is now cashier and the executive officer, and one of the very influential men of the community. On November 6, 1923, he was elected mayor of Piketon for a term of two years. Mr. Downing was born near Piketon, August 12, 1875, son of George and Anna (Allen) Downing. His grandfather, George Downing, was of English ancestry and came from Maryland to Ohio in 1796. The father of the Piketon banker was born in 1800, and at age of twelve years began operating a flat boat on the Ohio River to New Orleans. He spent the greater part of his life as a farmer, and became a large land owner and well-to-do. Among the private papers owned by John W. Downing are some land patents issued to his ancestors and signed by Presidents Jefferson, Van Buren and Polk. His father, George Downing, died August 9, 1881, at the age of eighty-one. His mother, Anna Allen Downing, who died March 26, 1884, was a daughter of William and Abigail Allen. John W. Downing is the youngest of five children. His brother George married Phoebe Voelker. His sister Elizabeth married Edward Kendall, and her four children are : Laura, Edith, Eva and George, Laura being the wife of Floyd Elcess and Eva the wife of Clifford Householder. The second sister of John W. Downing, Hannah, married James Hall, and has three children, named John, James and George. The other son, William Downing, married Mary Spence, and his two children are Arthnr and Roy. John W. Downing acquired his education in the district schools and through a normal course in the Piketon schools, and also in 1896-97 was a student in the Lexington Business College in Kentucky. After completing his commercial education he was in the employ of the Will Dougherty Company of Waverly for about five years. On October 20, 1903, the Piketon National Bank was organized and opened for business January l , 1904. Mr. Downing went with the bank as bookkeeper and assistant cashier, and since 1916 has been cashier of this substantial institution. As a banker he was identified with all the monied campaigns during the World war, and was a member of the last registration board. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, Masonic Lodge, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Mod- ern Woodmen of America. On March 17, 1901, in Pike County, Mr. Downing married Miss Minnie L. Voelker, daughter of Frederick and Mary (Foerst) Voelker. The parents were born in Germany and came as children to the United States. Her grandfathers were ministers of the United Brethren Church. Her father was a farmer, and died in 1909. Mrs. Downing is, like her husband, the youngest of five children, the others being George, John, James and Rosa. George Voelker, another son, died of diphtheria October 28, 1910, at the age of seven years. The one son of Mr. and Mrs. Downing is John W., Jr. ELI N. FAIR. During a period of twenty-two years Eli N. Fair has been one of the leading members of the Tuscarawas County bar, with headquarters at New Philadelphia. While his practice has been large and important, necessitating his close attention and much of his time, he has found the opportunity to serve in various public offices, in all of which he has acquitted himself in such a manna as to win universal approval and confidence. Mr. Fair was born December 29, 1867, on a farm in German Township, Holmes County, Ohio, and is a son of Nathaniel and Theresa (Mutschelknaus) Fair. His father was born in the same county, March 13, 1837, a son of Elah Fair, who was of German lineage and came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio. He settled in Holmes County, where he became a prominent citizen and prosperous farmer, and lived to the ripe old age of eighty-four years, his death occurring in 1900, when his community lost a valued resident. He was a staunch republican in politics. In church faith and activities he was one of the pioneer United Brethren of his county. Mr. Fair possessed sterling qualities of heart and mind, and was truly a pioneer of Holmes County, where he cleared from the virgin forest a farm in excess of 160 acres, and contributed a large share to the history and development of the county. Nathaniel Fair, the father of Eli N. Fair, was, like his father, a farmer, a republican and a member of the United Brethren Church, in the faith of which he died May 5, 1918. He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Markley, who bore him a son, Joseph Henry Fair, who died leaving three children. After his first wife 's death Nathaniel Fair married Theresa Mutschelknaus, who was born in Walnut Township, Holmes County. Married in 1864, they journeyed life together for more than half a century, when Mr. Fair was called to his final rest. Mrs. Fair resides on the same farm and has passed the eighty-seventh milestone of life, having been born March 27, 1837. She bore her husband ten children: Mary A., Albert N., Eli N., Oliver, George, Sylvester, Edwin, William, Michael M. and Nathaniel N. Of these Oliver is deceased. Eli N. Fair was reared on the home farm, and there learned the lessons of toil and endeavor which have since served him well in his undertakings in life. He received a good preliminary education in the country schools, and at the age of twenty years HISTORY OF OHIO - 251 began teaching school in the rural districts. This vocation became the means of gaining further education and preparing himself to become a lawyer, and for a while he taught and attended school alternately. In all, he spent eleven years in the schoolroom as a teacher, this, however, not being done consecutively. Mr. Fair matriculated in Ohio Northern University at Ada, and there took both a classical and a law course, and from this institution received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895, the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1896, and still later the degree of Master of Arts. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, but did not begin practicing law at once, continuing to teach school until 1902 and then opening a law office at New Philadelphia, to which city he had moved in 1898, since when it has been his home. Mr. Fair has followed the family traditions as to political matters, being a staunch republican, and at various times has been called to public office by the vote of his fellow-citizens. He served two terms as a justice of the peace, and three terms as city solicitor, and in 191g was elected mayor of New Philadelphia, a post to which he was reelected in 1921. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Encampment of that order, and is a Pythian, belonging also to the Knights of Khorassan of that fraternity. In 1904 Mr. Fair was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Emmerson, a daughter of James R. and Martha Jane (English) Emmerson, of New Philadelphia. Mrs. Fair died November 11, 1922, leaving seven children: James E., Wilbur N., Robert Eli, Martha Jane and Ruth Naomi (twins), Theresa Bertha and Mary Elizabeth. CHARLES BARTHELMEH. A service of thirty years, practically all his mature manhood, devoted to the cause of education makes Charles Barthelmeh one of the prominent men in his profession in Ohio. For the past ten years he has held the post of county superintendent of schools for Tuscarawas County. Mr. Barthelmeh has lived in the United States since early childhood. He was born in Rhenish Prussia, Germany, January 1, 1876. His great-grandfather Barthelmeh was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, and of French ancestry. His grandfather, Karl Barthelmeh, was born in Rhenish Prussia. Jacob Barthelmeh, his father, was born in the same country, and in 1883 brought his family to the United States, locating at Baltic in Tuscarawas County, where he has since had his home on a farm, though most of his living has been earned in the service of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. Jacob Barthelmeh married Caroline Schmidt, of pure German ancestry. She is now deceased. She was the mother of seven sons and one daughter. Charles Barthelmeh lived as a boy in the Village of Baltic, attended the village schools there, and was seventeen years of age when he qualified and undertook his first term as a teacher in the rural district. For ten years his work was in rural schools. Following that he had charge of the village school at Sugarcreek, also the township schools, serving under two school boards. This position he held five years and then was similarly employed at Strasburg until 1914. Mr. Barthelmeh has been a deep student of books and affairs, and has utilized his opportunities to advance his own education. He holds the degree Bachelor of Science in Education, conferred by the Kent State Teachers' College, and has taken short courses in Wooster College and Scio College. In 1914 he was first elected county superintendent of schools, and has been returned to that office by unanimous reelection. He is a member of the Eastern Ohio, the Ohio State and the National Educational associations, and also belongs to the National Superintendents' Association, and is a member of the State Board of School Examiners. Mr. Barthelmeh is a democrat, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias and the Grange. He married Miss Olive Rinehart in 1898. She was born in Tuscarawas County. Their two children are : Addis K., a graduate of the Home Economics Department of Ohio State University, and at present teaching in the New Philadelphia High School, and Robert C., a student in the Colorado State College of Agriculture at Fort Collins, Colorado. ROBERT SELMO BARTON, M. D. Forty years in the active practice of medicine and surgery, accompanied by many civic responsibilities and duties well performed, gives Doctor Barton a place of enviable prominence in Tuscarawas County, where he has practiced the greater part of his professional career. For over a quarter of a century his home has been at New Philadelphia. Doctor Barton was born on a farm near Pleasant City, Guernsey County, Ohio, February 22, 1860, a grandson of Richard and Priscilla (Hawes) Barton. The name Barton is English, and the Bartons have lived in Virginia since Colonial times. Richard Barton was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and, coming from there to Ohio, settled in Guernsey County, where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife reared a large family, including Benjamin, Elizabeth, Sydney, John, Harriet and Sarah. John Barton, father of Doctor Barton, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, August 14, 1837, and died July 22, 1924. He spent his entire life in that community, an industrious and respected farmer. He was reared in the faith of the Christian Church, but as a young man joined the Methodist Episcopal denomination. For many years he was a staunch supporter of the prohibition political party. John Barton married Sarah Zella Call, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1838, and died in Guernsey County, May 23, 1899. Her parents, Nicholas and Margaret (Davidson) Call, were also born in Westmoreland County, and from there came to Ohio in 1850, spending the rest of their days in Guernsey County. The name Call is of Irish origin. Sarah Zella Barton was reared a Methodist, and in early girlhood united with the church and was devoted to its service the rest of her life. She was the mother of four children: Robert Selmo, Alvin Asbury, Ernest and Charlene. Robert Selmo Barton grew up on a farm, being the oldest of the four children. As soon as his strength permitted he assisted in the labor of the homestead, and in that way aided his father in buying a small farm. His was a youth of industry and severe discipline in frugal habits. His opportunities were confined to the country schools and a few terms in the high school, but making the best possible use of these advantages he secured a teacher 's license and for three years taught in country districts during the winter, while he assisted his father on the farm during the summer seasons. During the last two years of his teaching he studied medicine at night and other intervals under the direction of a practicing physician at Cumberland in Guernsey County. For one term he attended a summer medical school conducted by Wooster University in Cleveland. This enabled him to enter the senior class and in one year complete the course of study in Columbus Medical College at Columbus, which he entered in the fall of 1883 and graduated in March, 1884. 252 - HISTORY OF OHIO Doctor Barton began the private practice of medicine at. Young Hickory in Muskingum County, and a little over three years later moved to Baltic, Tuscarawas County. He gained a large practice and remained in that community over ten years. In 1898 he moved to New Philadelphia, and has been one of the outstanding men in his profession in this section of Ohio ever since. Doctor Barton was a charter member of the Dover and New Philadelphia Hospital Association, which promoted the Union Hospital between these two adjoining cities. He was elected a member of its board of trustees, and served several years as trustee and also as president of this association. Five years ago he was again elected trustee, and has since been its president. He has been active in the Tuscarawas County Medical Society and is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, and through his own career and private study and attending colleges and clinics has kept in close touch with medicine and surgery. In 1893 he spent some time in the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine. In his early career he served as coroner of Tuscarawas County, and for twelve years was a member of the City Board of Education in New Philadelphia. Doctor Barton is a democrat in politics, but has never sought honors in politics beyond what service he could render through his profession. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of. the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis Club. He was one of the organizers of the Merchants State Bank of New Philadelphia, and has served as a director and as its vice president. He is also vice president of the Democrat Publishing Company of New Philadelphia. In the World war Doctor Barton was a member of the local draft board, and as a physician and private citizen exerted himself strenuously in the various patriotic activities. It was largely as a result of this arduous work that he suffered a breakdown of health, and on January 1, 1919, was compelled to retire from active practice. Five years later, having regained his health, he resumed his professional work. He has lived a most useful life, has a splendid reputation in his profession and is held in high esteem by all classes. Doctor Barton married Miss Mary E. Markley. They have an adopted daughter, Beulah Marie Barton, who is a graduate of the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, and holds a state life high school teacher 's certificate. She is now instructor in English and athletics in the high school at New Philadelphia. BURT ALLEN MARQUAND, M. D. A physician and surgeon of high standing in Tuscarawas County for over twenty years, Doctor Marquand, of New Philadelphia, was born in Ohio, grew up on a farm, and trained himself by rigid industry and discipline. Among other sources of the esteem in which he is held was his service as a medical officer in the World war. Doctor Marquand was born at Conesville in Coshocton County, Ohio, December 20, 1874, son of James Scott and Mary Ellen (Cave) Marquand. His father was born in Coshocton County, son of John Marquand, a native of the Isle of Guernsey and of French ancestry. Mary Ellen Cave was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, daughter of Paul Cave, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. James Scott Marquand was a well known citizen of Conesville, and devoted his active life to teaching and farming. One of a family of nine children, Burt Allen Marquand, grew up on a farm, attended public schools, and at the age of twenty-one began teaching. The five years he spent in the educational profession gave him the means to attend medical college. He was graduated in medicine at the Ohio State University in 1902. The following year he practiced at Keene, Coshocton County, and since then has been in Tuscarawas County. For eleven years he was a physician at Roswell, and in 1914 moved to Dover. He was conducting a busy practice in that community when America entered the World war. In May, 1917, lie volunteered, and on July 17, 1917, received commission as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps. He was ordered to report for active duty on September 15, 1917. In the meantime he was the victim of an automobile accident, in which one of his legs was injured, and as a .result the order was revoked. It was July 4, 1918, before he was again called to active duty, going to Camp Greenleaf and two weeks later to Camp Lee at Petersburg, Virginia, where he served as surgeon of the Fourteenth Battalion Replacement Camp until after the armistice. He received his honorable discharge December 2, 1918. After leaving the army Doctor Marquand resumed his practice at Dover, in March, 1919, locating at New Philadelphia. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. He is one of the medical staff of Union Hospital. Doctor Marquand is a Knights Templar Mason, and is a member of the Kiwanis and Union Country Club. He married in 1906 Miss Bertha Carr, of Coshocton County. JAMES RAYMOND HILL has been identified as a practicing attorney with the bar of Tuscarawas County for the past twelve years, and is a member of one of the leading law firms in New Philadelphia. He still maintains his home in his native Village of Dennison, and is a son of the late John W. Hill, a conspicuous citizen in the affairs of Tuscarawas County for many years. John W. Hill was born at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, November 9, 1858, son of Eli and Mary (Penn) Hill. Eli Hill, a native of Maryland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, married at Cadiz, Ohio, Mary Penn, who was born in England, and was very young when her parents came and settled in Cadiz. In 1872 Eli Hill and wife moved to Dennison. He was a soldier in the Civil war, and for many years was a manufacturer of lime. John W. Hill was fourteen years old when his parents moved to Dennison. His school advantages were confined to the public schools, and as a youth he became a shoe salesman at Dennison and later engaged in the shoe business on his own account. In 1902 he was elected clerk of the court of Tuscarawas County, serving two terms of three years each. In order to perform his official duties he moved his home to New Philadelphia, and on the expiration of his second term returned to Dennison, where he lived for several years, until he retired, engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He served on the Council and was clerk of the City of Dennison and was three times mayor of that municipality. In politics he was active as a democrat, and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife were Presbyterians. John W. Hill, who died at Dennison June 22, 1923, married Sarah A. Ferguson, who was born in Steubenville, Ohio, daughter of Thomas D. and Jane (Curfman) Ferguson, the Fergusons being of Scotch ancestry. Thomas D. Ferguson was a Union soldier in the Civil war, and afterwards a merchant at Steubenville. Mrs. John W. Hill died at Dennison in 1891, at the age of thirty-three, leaving two children, James Raymond, and Stella, now the wife of H. E. Barnhouse, of Bridgeport, Ohio. HISTORY OF OHIO - 253 James Raymond Hill was born at Dennison, March 10, 1886, and while growing up there, attended the public schools. He was graduated from the high school at New Philadelphia in 1904, and following that worked as a clerk in the office of his father, the clerk of court, for three years. Then followed a year in the Liberal Art and Law Department of the Ohio State University, when he returned home and for two years was chief clerk in the office of the clerk of county court, under his father. Mr. Hill then resumed his studies in the Ohio State University, taking the three years' conrse in law and graduating in 1912. The year before he graduated he was admitted to the bar, upon examination, and since 1912 has steadily practiced with a growing clientage at New Philadelphia, being a member of the firm of Seikel & Hill. Mr. Hill is a democrat, is a Knights Templar Mason and a Presbyterian. lie married in 1914 Miss Pearl M. Mathias, a native of Tuscarawas County and daughter of E. E. and Mary Mathias, of New Philadelphia. They have two children, Ruth Carolyn and Dorothy May. FRED B. LARIMORE, M. D. had the equipment and experience of a general physician and surgeon for a number of years, but since 1912 has confined his practice largely to eye, ear, nose and throat, and is the leading specialist in that line in Tuscarawas County, his home and office being at New Philadelphia. Doctor Larimore was born on a farm three miles south of Granville, in Licking County, July 5, 1878, son of John and Hannah M. (Lane) Larimore, both natives of Licking County, the Larimore and Lane families coming to this state from Pennsylvania. The grandfathers were James Larimore and Richard Lane. John Larimore was a farmer, and one of the more successful sheep raisers of Ohio in his generation. He lived to the age of seventy-nine and his wife to eighty-three, both being active members of the Baptist Church. Of nine children Dr. Fred B. is the youngest. Doctor Larimore attended country schools and the local academy, had a farm for his early environment, and for two years continued his literary education in Denison College. He took his regular course in medicine at Starling Medical College at Columbus, and was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1903. Doctor Larimore practiced for eight years at Port Washington in Tuscarawas County ; following that came a year of post graduate work in New York City, in the New York Post Graduate Medical College and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in 1912 he located at New Philadelphia, where he has found his talents fully taken up with work in his special field. In 1918 he again did special work and attended clinics while a student at the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine. He is a member of the Tuscarawas, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Larimore gives his full time to his profession. His one business duty is as a director of the Canton Brick and Fireproofing Company. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Baptist Church. Doctor Larimore married, in 1906, Miss Emma Brown, of Licking County. They have two children: Rachael Ell& and Fred Brown Larimore. JAMES B. MALONE is a Springfield attorney and has built up an extended reputation and practice in corporation law. He was born at South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, June 2, 1881, son of James and Katherine (Sweeney) Malone. The Malones came from Ireland in 1753, settling at Philadelphia. Of three brothers only one came to Ohio. Bernard Malone, great-grandfather of James B., was a soldier in the Revoluntionary war. His son, James Malone, was a Civil war soldier, and married Katherine Armstrong. James Malone, father of the attorney, was reared in the faith of the Baptist Church, but for many years has been a Catholic. His wife, Katherine Sweeney, is a daughter of James and Mary (Roddy) Sweeney, both of whom were born in Ireland, but were married in the United States, being brought to this country by their parents. James B. Malone, only child of his parents, graduated from the high school at South Charleston in 1900, and then entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904. His law was pursued in Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., where he graduated with the Jurum Doctor degree in 1906. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Springfield in the same year, and his work has more and more involved corporation law. He has been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and all of the Federal and State courts. During the World war he acted as food administrator of Clark County and as a member of the Legal Advisory Board, and was one of the four-minute speakers. Mr. Malone married, January 8, 1908, at Springfield, Miss Alice Wren, daughter of Edward and Kinnane Wren. Her father died in 1917 and her mother in 1898. Edward Wren at the time of his death was the leading merchant of Springfield, and as a monument to his enterprise The Wren Department Store is still conducted in his name and is by far the largest institution of the kind in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Malone have two children, Wren and Margaret, attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Malone are members of the St. Raphael Catholic Church. He belongs to the Delta Chi fraternity, Knights of Columbus, the Chamber of Commerce and both country clubs at Springfield. AL C. RUSSI is a native Ohioan, and for many years has been an expert in the meat packing industry. He came to Athens in 1906, and was the expert in charge of the building of the plant of the F. C. Stedman Packing Company. After the plant was completed he took charge of its operations, and is now vice president and general manager of the business. Mr. Russi was born at Zanesville, Ohio, April 6, 1873, son of Louis and Anna (Sailer) Russi. His father was born in France, and was four years old when brought to the United States, and his mother was seven when her people came from Germany. Louis Russi died in 1916, and his wife in 1900. He spent his active career as a shoemaker and mill worker. He was a member of the Order of Druids at Zanesville, and belonged to the Presbyterian Church. There were eight children in the family, four sons and four daughters. The sons were: Fred, of Zanesville; Louis, who died in 1913; Charles, of Zanesville ; and Al C. Al C. Russi was reared in Zanesville, attended the public schools, and at the age of fifteen began work, since which time he has been the master of his own destiny. He learned the butcher 's trade, and is one of the best qualified men in the state on all phases of meat packing. For several years he was in the Zanesville Packing House, in charge of production. His record there brought him the attractive offer to move to Athens in 1906. The late Mr. F. C. Stedman was for many years in the wholesale grocery business at Athens, and had the packing plant built as a means of extending his local business. After Mr. Stedman's death, on January 20, 1920, Al C. 254 - HISTORY OF OHIO Russi took general charge of both the wholesale grocery and the packing business. In October, 1922, the grocery business was taken over by C. D. Shafer, and since then Mr. Russi has devoted his entire time to the packing company of which he is vice president and general manager. The product of this plant goes to all portions of Ohio, and its capacity was greatly increased by additions and improvements in 1916. Outside of his business Mr. Russi is completely devoted to his home. He married in February, 1898, Miss Pearl Sidle, of Zanesville. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Knight Templar, Mason and Elk. STEWART LAWRENCE TATUM. A successful practice of law at Springfield for a quarter of a century is the first point of interest to note in connection with Stewart Lawrence Tatum. Along with the work of his profession he has maintained an earnest interest and active part in politics and public affairs, and has had not only local but some responsibilities to identify him with the state at large. Mr. Tatum was born at Cleveland, Ohio, July 9, 1871, son of Lawrence W. and Agnes M. Tatum, and grandson of David and Hannah (Butler) Tatum. His father was a mining engineer by profession, and the mother resides at Joplin, Missouri. Besides Stewart L. there are four other children: Wright Hadley, of Joplin, Missouri; Edward H., of Los Angeles; Elizabeth McCurdy, of Glencoe, Illinois, and Marie Carqueville, of Highland Park, Illinois. Stewart Lawrence Tatum was reared in Cleveland, where he attended grammar and high school, took his advanced literary course in Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, and his law course at the University of Michigan. He was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1898, was admitted to the bars of Michigan and Illinois the same year, and in 1899 to the Ohio bar. Since that year he has practiced at Springfield, his first associate in practice being Frank M. Krapp. Most of Mr. Tatum's political campaigning was done in the early years before his practice reached a point where it commanded his full energies and talents. In 1900 he was candidate on the democratic ticket for Congress. In 1903 lie was elected city solicitor of Springfield, serving until 1908. He served as president of the commission that framed the charter for the City of Springfield in 1913. In 1915 Governor James M. Cox appointed him a member of the committee to investigate the financial condition of cities, and to the valuable reports submitted Mr. Tatum 's name is signed as chairman of the committee. He is a member of the Federal, District, Clark County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a Knights Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Tatum married at Springfield, December 21, 1899, Miss Grace- Cowan, daughter of Frank and Harriet Cowan. C. FORGY MOOREHEAD, city auditor of Springfield, is one of the substantial men of Clark County whose abilities are given to the service of the public. He commands the confidence of the people of the section in which he was born, and where practically all of his life has been spent. He was born at Springfield, January 17, 1898, a son of Charles T. and Ida M. (Eshelman) Moorehead. Charles T. Moorehead is a foundryman, and is engaged in work at his trade at Springfield. The mother died in 1906, having borne her husband two children: J. Reyburn, who married Maud Anderson, has one daughter, Pearl; and C. Forgy, who is the younger. The father is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The paternal grandparents were Templeton and Elizabeth Moorehead, natives of Pennsylvania ; while the maternal grandfather was David Eshelman. In the '30s the Moore-heads left Pennsylvania for Ohio, and it was in this state that Charles T. Moorehead was born. It was about the same time that the Eshelmans arrived in Ohio. Graduated from the Springfield High School, C. Porgy Moorehead, in 1916, took a course in bookkeeping and accounting, and then became estimator for the William Bayley Company, manufacturers of steel window sash and door frames. After remaining with this company for two years Mr. Moorehead went with the International Harvester Company for three months, at the end of which period he was appointed assistant city auditor, and continued to hold that position until April, 1922, when he was appointed city auditor to succeed Walter J. Barrett. The City of Springfield being under the commission form of government, he holds his office at the pleasure of the commission. During the late war he was not called into service, although he tried to enlist. In November, 1920, Mr. Moorehead married, at Urbana, Ohio, Miss Evelyn Bentine, a daughter of Fred and Celesta Bentine, both of whom are living. There were four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bentine, namely: Mrs. Moorehead, who is the eldest; Roy, who is a veteran of the World war ; Fred, Jr., and Robert, the last three being unmarried. Mr. Bentine is a printer by trade. He is a Chapter and Council Mason, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead have a son, Fred Forgy. Mr. Moorehead is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Reared in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he early united with it. A thoroughgoing, conscientious man of high ideals, he deserves the position he occupies in his home community, for he has honorably earned it through his uprightness and integrity. HARRY L. AGNER, who has spent the greater part of his life in Union County, is well known as a newspaper publisher and a leader in the republican party in his section of the state. He is proprietor of the Milford Center Ohioan. Mr. Agner was born March 29, 1868. at New Moorefield, Clark County, Ohio, son of William H. and Margaret H. (Burns) Agner, both now deceased. His father was for many years engaged in the cooperage business. His mother was a descendant of the family of Robert Burns, the great Scotch poet. Harry L. Agner attended country schools and also the Marysville public schools, and was only sixteen years of age when he began his apprenticeship and learned the printer 's trade at Marysville. He was trained under the direction of a veteran printer and publisher, John Shearer, of the Marysville Tribune, and subsequently spent some time with the Marysville Journal. He is a master of everything connected with printing, and has had a long and successful experience in country journalism. Mr. Agner in 1910 acquired the Milford Center Ohioan, and is owner and editor of this influential weekly, circulating over the southern half of Union County, and a chief medium of news and advertising for the community centering around Milford Center. The paper is independent in politics. Mr. Agner himself has long been identified with the fortunes of the republican party in Union County and the state. He has served as chairman of the Union County Central and Executive committees, served as an alternate delegate to the National Re- HISTORY OF OHIO - 255 publican Convention at Cleveland in 1924, and was a delegate to the State Convention at Columbus the same year. Mr. Agner has carried some official responsibilities in Milford Center practically ever since he became a newspaper publisher there. He was on the school board four years, from 1912 to 1916, was mayor of the village from 1914 to 1916, and since 1922 has been a member of the county health board. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and with the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan Club at Columbus. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Agner has one of the beautifully appointed modern homes of Milford Center. He married at Columbus, July 4, 1894, Catherine C. Lachenmier, of Marysville, daughter of Gottleib and Louise (Baessler) Lachenmier, who were natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Agner have two children: Margaret Louise, wife of Glenn E. Coe, a farmer near Milford Center, and William Edward, associated with his father on the Milford Center Ohioan. RICHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY. An institution that fills an important place in the educational and cultural side of the community of Richwood, in Union County, is the public library. It was organized in 1915 through the efforts of the Carpe Diem Club, the woman's club of the town. The first books were given by the citizens on a day set aside for a "book shower." The first librarian was Miss Mae Harriman. The continued growth and development of the library has been largely due to the untiring efforts of Mrs. Ed Schambs, Mrs. Charles King, Mrs. Grace Cushman, Mrs. Lewis Beem and Mrs. D. C. Copp. Through gifts from these and other parties and by popular subscription the library is now housed in its own building. The library has a collection of 2,100 volumes, well distributed among the various divisions of literature, and the librarian also subscribes for some of the leading magazines. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Graham, formerly of Richwood, and now with the Methodist Book Concern, have greatly aided with gift books and otherwise. The first library board consisted of the following members: Rev. J. C. Lloyd, Mr. L. J. McCoy, A. R. Klipstine, Dr. H. C. Dukes, Mrs. John Shepley and Mrs. C. E. King. The present board is: A. R. Klipstine, president ; L. .1. McCoy, treasurer ; Mrs. R. C. Peet, secretary ; Prof. William E. Beeman, Dr. A. C. Duke and John Shipley. DALLAS SULLIVAN, member of the Legislature in Union County, has put into his brief career many activities and services that mark him as an important citizen of Central Ohio. Mr. Sullivan, whose home is in Richwood, Union County, was born in Hall Township, Hardin County, Ohio, near Mount Victory, November 17, 1892, son of John W. and Lena May (Larry) Sullivan. His father still lives on his fine farm near Mount Victory. On that farm Dallas Sullivan spent his boyhood years, attending the common schools and graduating from Washington Township High School in 1910. While teaching he pursued his advanced education during summer sessions in Ohio Northern University at Ada, and Ohio University at Athens. Mr. Sullivan has to his credit a successful experience as a teacher. For three years he taught in country schools and five years in high school at Union County. Since 1920 he has been manager of the Richwood Farmers' Exchange Company. The members and patrons of that company have learned to esteem ability and integrity, and Union County has no more popular citizen. In 1922 he was elected to represent Union County in the Ohio State Legislature, and in 1924 was again nominated on the republican ticket for reelection. He was one of the earnest and hard working members of the Eighty-fifth General Assembly. Mr. Sullivan in 1917 began training for service in the World war at the University of Cincinnati and subsequently at Camp Meigs, Ohio, and finally was in the Officers Training School when discharged at Camp Sherman, January 28, 1919. He is a member of the American Legion, is affiliated with the Masons and Odd Fellows and is a member of the Episcopal Church of Richwood. He married at Richwood, March 26, 1916, Miss Martha Graham, daughter of Leonard and Jennie (Kezertee) Graham, her parents being retired farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have one daughter, Helen Louise. WILLIAM HENRY OWREY, collector for the city water department of Ironton, Lawrence County, was for twenty years engaged in the plumbing business in this city, and few citizens are better known or have a wider circle of friends in Lawrence County. Mr. Owrey, was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, March 15, 1856, several years before the segregation of that state from the mother state of Virginia. Mr. Owrey moved from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Ironton, Ohio, May 1, 1864. His parents, the late Adam and Clara (Gibson) Owrey, were both born in the State of Pennsylvania. Adam Owrey established his residence at Wheeling, West Virginia, about the year 1853, his marriage having there been solemnized, and his wife having accompanied her parents on their removal to that city. Mr. Owrey served as a member of the West Virginia Home Guards in the period of the Civil war, and assisted in the capture of Gen. John Morgan, the celebrated Confederate raider who made invasions into Ohio. The subject of this sketch is the eldest in a family of five children; the eldest daughter, Mrs. Ida Sharp, has two children; Charles Lincoln, the second son, is deceased; Joseph Ellsworth resides at Ironton and has seven children; Mrs. Leah Trudy, youngest of the children, is the mother of four children. Adam Owrey came to Ironton, Ohio, at the time the iron works were here established, and he was here foreman of the forge department of the iron works for the long period of thirty-six years. His death occurred here March 29, 1915, fourteen days after the eighty-third anniversary of his birth, which occurred March 15, 1832. His wife preceded him to the life eternal, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William H. Owrey was a boy at the time of the family removal to Ironton, and here he was graduated from high school as a member of the class of 1874. He was thereafter indentured to learn the machinist Ts trade, and served a thorough apprenticeship of three years. Thereafter he worked three years as a journeyman at his trade, and for the ensuing fifteen and one-half years he held the position of bookkeeper in the offices of the same concern, the Lambert Brothers Company. He then established himself in the plumbing business, which he here continued twenty years, at the expiration of which he sold the business. He was also one of the pioneers in the building and loan business at Ironton. After selling his plumbing business Mr. Owrey purchased a farm in Lawrence County, and after giving five years to the management of this place he returned to Ironton, where he has since continued to serve as collector for the city water department. In 1880 Mr. Owrey became one of the organizers of the Eagle Building & Loan Company, which later was merged with the Star Building & Loan Company. April 27, 1887, he and others organized the Iron City 256 - HISTORY OF OHIO Building & Loan Company, and of the same he has served continuously as secretary to the present time, with virtual executive control of the business during the long intervening years. Mr. Owrey is a valued member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a Knight Templar Mason, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Congregational Church. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry back to staunch Holland Dutch origin, the family having early been established in America. On the 18th of December, 1883, in the City of Cincinnati, Mr. Owrey wedded Miss Ida Bliss, daughter of the late Van Rensalaer and Susan (Sidwell) Bliss, the former a native of New York State and the latter of Kentucky. Mr. Bliss was long engaged in the tailoring business at Maysville, Kentucky, and also served as a justice of the peace. To Mr. and Mrs. Owrey were born three children: Lillian Nelson is the wife of William H. Keller, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have two children. William Taylor Owrey, who is now holding a responsible position in the United States horticultural department, Washington, D. C., married in that city Miss Helen Jones. He was taking a course in the agricultural department of the University of Ohio at the time when the nation became involved in the World war, he entered military service at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he won the rank of second lieutenant. Later he as assigned to duty as training officer in charge of three companies of colored troops at Fort Dodge, and after arriving in France he was assigned charge of all soldier entertainments. The transport on which he went overseas lost 129 soldiers on the voyage, as a result of the influenza. After his return to his native land and the reception of his honorable discharge he took his present position with the horticultural department. The third of the children of the subject of this sketch was a son who died in infancy. J. WARREN KEIFER. Among the many able men and women produced by Clark County, one whose life and service have kept up many vital points in the affairs of state and nation is Gen. J. Warren Keifer, one of the last remaining links to connect the modern present with the Clark County of sixty and more years ago. He was a young lawyer trying his first cases before the Civil war broke out, and in that war he gained imperishable fame as a soldier and Union officer. General Keifer since the Civil war has practiced law, has been a banker for about half a century, and has a long and honorable record in public affairs, serving fourteen terms in „Congress, one term in the Forty-seventh Congress (1881-1883) as speaker of the House. He was born on a farm on Mad River, in Bethel Township, Clark County, January 30, 1836, a son of Joseph and Mary, (Smith) Keifer. His father, who was born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, December 28, 1784, was a pioneer of what is now Clark County, settling there in 1812. He was a well qualified civil engineer, and though his main occupation was farming his professional knowledge was of use in developing a new country, particularly in establishing common schools and the construction of highways. He died in Clark County, April 13, 1850. His wife, Mary Smith, was born January 31, 1799, in Losanteville, now Cincinnati, and died at Yellow Springs, Clark County, Ohio, March 23, 1879. Her family was of English ancestry, was early settled in New Jersey, and one branch of the name was established in Ohio in 1790. General Keifer was educated in public schools and at Antioch College ; and while working on the home farm took up the study of law. He also studied in the law office of Anthony & Goode. He was admitted to the bar at Springfield, January 12, 1858, before he was twenty-two years of age, and then began his work as a practicing lawyer in that city. He had just three years in which to win for himself a measure of success and proficiency as a lawyer before the Civil war came on. He was one of the first to offer his services in Clark County, enlisting April 19, 1861. April 27 of the same year he was commissioned major of the Third Ohio Infantry for a period of three months, and soon afterward was recommissioned for three years. His first important engagement was the Battle of Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861, the first general field battle of the Civil war. He was at other points in the West Virginia campaign, being on the field of Cheat Mountain and Elk Water. February 12, 1862, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during the events of that year in Kentucky and Tennessee he was at the capture of Bowling Green, at' Nashville, at Huntsville and Bridgeport, Alabama, and in April, 1862, led an expedition into Georgia and performed an important service by destroying the saltpetre works at Nickajack Cave. September 30, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, then at Piqua, Ohio. He was assigned to General Milroy's command in West Virginia, and was assigned to command a brigade and the post at Moorefield. General Keifer was wounded during the Battle of Winchester, in June, 1863. July 9th of that year he was assigned with his regiment and brigade to the Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and took part in the pursuit of General Lee 's troops after the Battle of Gettysburg. He fought at Wapping Height, and in August he was dispatched with his command to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to enforce the draft. After this service was accomplished he retired to the main theater of war in September, and on November 27, 1863, was in the Battle of Mine Run. March 24, 1864, he was transferred with his brigade to the Sixth Army Corps. At the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, he was seriously wounded, but in spite of his disability, soon resumed command of his brigade. With his wounded arm in a sling he took his place at the head of his troops under Generals Sheridan and Wright in the battles of Opequan, Fisher 's Hill and Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. At Opequan, September 19, 1864, a horse was shot from under him and he was again wounded. October 19, 1864, he commanded the Third Division Sixth Army Corps in the Battle of Cedar Creek, the Sheridan ride battle. President Lincoln brevetted him brigadier-general of volunteers " for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, Virginia," and December 29, 1864, President Lincoln assigned him to full duty as brigadier-general. In December, 1864, with his own corps, General Keifer rejoined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg. March 25, 1865, he led a successful assault, commended in general orders, and on April 2,- charged with his division in the final assault which carried the main works and resulted in the capture of Petersburg and Richmond. On April 5 his command aided in cutting off the retreat of Lee's army and forced it to give battle on the 6th at Sailor 's Creek, Virginia, during which movement General Keifer and Gen. Frank Wheaton, each com- manding a division of the Sixth Army Corps, with some cavalry and artillery, defeated Gen. R. S. Ewell's wing of Lee's retreating army and succeeded in effecting the capture of over 10,000 of the enemy, including General Ewell and many other officers of high rank. Soon after this result General Keifer was given information that a body of the enemy HISTORY OF OHIO - 257 lay concealed in a dense forest to the right. He rode in person to ascertain the correctness of the information, and coming suddenly upon the Confederate troops and taking advantage of the gathering darkness and the smoke of battle he shouted to the Confederates the command "forward," and they followed after him, suspecting nothing. On reaching the edge of the wood they discovered that they were being led by a Union officer, and General Keifer,s troops soon surrounded the Confederate body and captured them all (about 2,000, a Marine Brigade), including Commodore John Randolph Tucker, their commander. Following the conclusion of the scene leading up to Appomattox, where General Keifer was present at the surrender, he started with his corps to North Carolina to aid in the capture of Gen. Joe E. Johnston,s army, but was too late to be present at its capitulation to General Sherman. General Keifer was wounded four times during the Civil war. He was honorably mustered out June 27, 1865. On November 30, 1866, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth United States Infantry, but declined this opportunity to continue a military career. General Keifer was one of a number of veteran officers of the Civil war from both sides who took up active duty again in arms! at the time of the Spanish-American war. In April, 1898, though sixty-two years of age, he was appointed major-general by President McKinley and had command of the Seventh Army Corps at Miami and Jacksonville, Florida, and from Savannah embarked with 16,000 men for Cuba, establishing his headquarters at Buena Vista, just outside of Havana. He was in command of the American military forces when they took possession of the city January 1, 1899. He was mustered out May 12, 1899. At the conclusion of the Civil war General Keifer resumed his law practice, and the law has always been his profession, though many weighty matters and interests have come between him and his practice. In later years he took in as associates his sons, William W. and Horace C. Keifer, and later included the General,s grandson, Horace S. Keifer, who was an officer overseas in the recent World war. In 1873 General Keifer became president of the Lagonda National Bank, and he has been head of that institution now for practically half a century. Soon after the Civil war he was drawn into politics, was elected and served in 1868-69 as a member of the Ohio Senate, was a delegate at large to the Republican National-Convention of 1876, and thirty-two years later a delegate to the convention of 1908. In 1876 he was elected to his first term in Congress, the Forty-fifth Congress, and served continuously in that body as representative of the Seventh Ohio District from 1877 to 1885. General Keifer had the distinction of being the first and only Ohio man who was ever chosen to the speakership of the House of Representatives. He was elected to that honor March 4, 1881, and served in that capacity until March 4, 1883. After an interval of just twenty years General Keifer again consented to represent the Seventh District in Congress, being elected in 1904 and serving in the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses, from March 4, 1905 to March 4, 1911. General Keifer was organizer of the Board of Control in 1868 for the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, and was one of the trustees of this institution from 1870 to 1878. He has long been prominent in Grand Army circles, and was department commander in 1868-70 and vice-commander-in-chief in 1871-72. In 1903-04 he was commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. General Keifer helped organize and was the first commander-in-chief during 1900-01 of the Spanish War Veterans. General Keifer is a well known Ohio orator, and in political campaigns has delivered many formal addresses on various occasions. He is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and during 1895-96 he devoted much of his time to the writing of an important historical work known as " Slavery and Four Years of War," which was published in 1900. March 22, 1860, General Keifer married Miss Eliza Stout, of Springfield. She died March 12, 1899. To their marriage was born three sons and one daughter : Joseph Warren Keifer, Jr., who moved to Nebraska and became a member of the Legislature of that state; William W. and Major Horace C., both of whom took up the law and became partners with their father; and Margaret E., deceased. JAMES WILLIAM WATTS, M. D. For over thirty years a practicing physician and surgeon, Doctor Watts was for sometime a well known figure in his profession at Columbus, but for the past half a dozen years has practiced at Vinton in Gallia County, in the same district where two generations of the family have lived. Doctor Watts was born in Rodney, Gallia County, January 19, 1858, son of William Morrison and Mary E. (Campbell) Watts, and grandson of David Watts and of Samuel and Nellie Campbell. The Campbells were very early settlers in Gallia County. The original home of the Watts family was in the Shenanhoah Valley of Virginia, but one branch of the family came to Ohio and settled in Scioto County in 1803. William Morrison Watts, who died in November, 1891, was one of the old time country physicians of his generation, practicing his profession at South Webster and Scioto County for thirty years. His son, Doctor James W., for a time was associated with him there. Dr. James W. Watts had a brother who was a lieutenant in the Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war, and suffered what modern surgeons call shell shock, and was deaf to the end of his life. William Morrison Watts and wife, who died in 1883, had five children, Mattie E., Margaret, James William, Parker C. and Henry William. James William Watts, only survivor of his parents' children, attended public schools at South Webster, began the study of medicine in the College of Lebanon, Ohio, and subsequently attended Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He received his medical degree there on March 4, 1892, and then for some years engaged m practice with his father at South Webster. After that he practiced in Columbus until 1918, and since that year has engaged in general practice at Vinton. While in Columbus he specialized in diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels, and took several postgraduate courses, both in Columbus and Cincinnati. Doctor Watts married, September 28, 1901, Miss Euthemia Hill, one of the eight children of Wiley and Sarah Hill. Her father was a farmer. Doctor and Mrs. Watts have four children : Phillip Howard, unmarried ; Sarah, who is the wife of a minister ; Mary who married Claudius Smith and has a son, Paul; and Miss Belle, a missionary in India. ELDON L. HAYES. In Eldon L. Hayes, senior member of the firm of Hayes & Barns, Wilmington has an able and experienced attorney, and Clinton County a public-spirited citizen, and for more than half a century the name of Hayes has been connected with the jurisprudence of this city and county. Eldon L. Hayes is a son of Melville and Louisa (Jordan) Hayes, natives of Warren and Clermont counties, Ohio, respectively, who were married in 1871, following which they located at Wilmington, 258 - HISTORY OF OHIO which continued to be their home, and there their seven children were born. The Baldwin and Tyson connections of the family of Rutherford B. Hayes, once President of the United States, run through the Melville Hayes family. While his educational opportunities were few and poor, Melville Hayes overcame his early handicap, and was for some time a public school teacher at Sabina and in Clinton County, and in the meanwhile acquired a knowledge of law. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio July 24, 1869, and from 1882 until his death, in 1918, occupied the same suite as that of Hayes & Barns, and in it both Eldon L. Hayes and George C. Barns studied law. At that time the law firm was Hayes & Swain, the junior partner being another of the older attorneys of Wilmington, and a man high in the profession. Melville Hayes was not only an eminent lawyer, for he distinguished himself in other lines, beginning his public service with his enlistment in Company K, Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. He continued to serve with his regiment until the close of the war, when he was mustered out of the service and returned to private life. Always active as a republican, he became a leader of the local organization, and was sent by the national committee of his party in 1892 to Michigan to reconcile conditions there. An eloquent platform speaker, he threw himself into the issues of the day, and fought the silver fallacy then attracting nation-wide attention. The different newspapers of the country gave daily attention to the subject, and the ordinary citizen was assailed on every side, and the most convincing speakers were placed in the field to combat what was recognized by the saner minds as a dangerous doctrine. Subsequent events have proven the inadvisability of a "free and unlimited coinage of silver," but once that slogan was a popular one among unthinking people. While Mr. Hayes never cared for office, he did consent to act as prosecuting attorney of Clinton County, and was presiding officer of Wilmington during the days when it was still a village, and until the day of his death did not relax in his efforts to further the best interests of his home community. Eldon L. Hayes was admitted to the bar March 17, 1899, and has always felt that the fact that his admission to his profession fell upon Saint Patrick ,s Day is a significant one, as he can trace back in his family history to Irish ancestry. While he has long been an attorney, he has not been in continuous practice at Wilmington, as he spent a few years in Chicago as assistant manager of the export department of Montgomery Ward ,s Mail Order House, but since 1908 has been a member of the Wilmington Bar Association, practicing first in association with his father, and since November 15, 1918, as senior member of Hayes & Barns. On June 6, 1900, Eldon L. Hayes married Virginia L. Longstreth, of Warren County, Ohio, but a native of Fort Ancient, Ohio. She is a daughter of Giles D. and Florence (Hathaway) Longstreth. Both the Longstreth and Hathaway families are traced back into the very beginnings of the history of this country, Ann Hathaway being one of her ancestors. Mrs. Hayes established her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution through her paternal line, but she is equally legible through the maternal side of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have one son, Melville D. Hayes. Since returning to Wilmington from Chicago Mr. Hayes has devoted all of his time to his practice, and the wide experience he gained in this connection is of value to him today. Like his father, he has great faith in Wilmington and the willingness to do everything within his power to add to its prestige. WILL MAURICE HOYT, M. D. An accomplished physician and surgeon whose activities have brought him professional prominence in Highland County is Dr. Will Maurice Hoyt, a native of the county, and a highly educated and well qualified citizen as well as proficient doctor. Doctor Hoyt was born in Highland County, August 29, 1881. His ancestry in America runs back many generations, practically to the very founding of the first colony on the bleak shores of New England. While the ancestors lived in Germany the name was spelled as "Haight." Some of them went to England and thence to America, where the spelling was changed to "Hoyt," and the American born have been usually Hoyt. The founder of the American family so far as can be ascertained was John Hoyt, who was born about 1610. He was one of the early settlers at Salisbury, Massachusetts, and the records of that community show that he was a selectman in 1681 and moderator of the town meeting in 1687. Following him the descent to Doctor Hoyt is traced briefly as follows : John Hoyt, son of the first American John Hoyt, was born about 1638, and became a tavern keeper. He married Mary Barnes, June 23, 1659. Their son, Joseph Hoyt, born July 14, 1666, lived near the Powow River, and died in 1719. His wife was Dorothy Worthen, who died October 5, 1702. Their son, John Hoyt, born July 2, 1703, and died at South Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1754, married Mary Eastman. Their son, Joseph Hoyt, born at Lions Mouth, New Hampshire, 1727, and died about 1808, married Sarah Collins. Family records show that one of his sons became a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, and was captain of a company of twenty men raised to defend the settlement when the Indians attacked and burned Royalton. The next generation is also represented by Joseph Hoyt, who was born at Grafton, New Hampshire, October 17, 1754, and lived at Grafton until about 1800, when he moved to Canada. He married Polly Cass, a native of Grafton, New Hampshire. Their son, Joseph Hoyt, born at Grafton March 5, 1775, became a merchant and farmer in Canada, and died August 27, 1849, and is buried near Lake Memphremagog, Canada. He married Sally Stevens, who was born at Enfield, New Hampshire, June 5, 1779, and died September 1, 1872. Among their children was Nason Hoyt, who was born at Grafton, New Hampshire, December 5, 1805, spent his life as a farmer, and died at Chautauqua, New York, January 28, 1873, being buried at the Town Line Cemetery at Harmony, New York. He married, February 3, 1829, at Sandwich, New Hampshire, Sara Webster, who was born August 16, 1811, and died February 8, 1884. These were the grandparents of Doctor Hoyt of Hillsboro. The father of the Ohio physician was William Hoyt, who was born at Magog, Province of Quebec, Canada, in 1839, and died in 1919, at the age of eighty years. He became a physician, and practiced that profession for fifty-two years. Early in the Civil war he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Twelfth New York Volunteer Infantry, and when mustered out he was given the brevet rank of captain. Dr. William Hoyt married Sarah Keller, who was born in Broome County, New York, August 29, 1849. She was educated in public schools and a private school at Saginaw, Michigan, where she met and married Dr. William Hoyt. Dr. Will Maurice Hoyt was reared in Hillsboro, attending the grammar and high schools there. He was graduated from high school in 1899, and a few months later entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he completed the Bachelor of Science course and graduated in 1903, receiving the HISTORY OF OHIO - 259 degree of Bachelor of Science, and the Master of Arts degree in 1909. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. From 1903 to 1905 he was commandant of the Miami Institute at Germantown, Ohio, and in 1905 entered the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, pursuing his work there until 1907, when he entered Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1909 with the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine. Doctor Hoyt served as an interne in the Alexian Brothers Hospital at Elizabeth, New Jersey; for a year, and in 1910 engaged in private practice at Muncie, Indiana. In 1912 he removed to Hillsboro, where his work has been continued with gratifying success for over a dozen years. In 1914 he did special work at Chicago under Dr. E. H. Pratt, who conducted a personal clinic in various Chicago hospitals. In 1920 he again did post-graduate work, at the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland. Doctor Hoyt is an officer in Highland Lodge No. 38 of the Masonic Order, is a past high priest of Hillsboro Chapter No. 40, Royal Arch Masons, is a member of Hillsboro Council No. 16, Royal and Select Masters, is a past commander of Highland Commandery No. 31, Knights Templar, and is a companion in the Ohio Council of Anointed High Priests. He married Miss Setta Troxell, who was born at Germantown, Ohio, June 3, 1884, daughter of C. E. and Anna B. Troxell. She graduated from the Germantown. High School in 1903, and attended a private school in Dayton, Ohio, during the following two years. Doctor and Mrs. Hoyt have one child, Charles William, born at Hillsboro, Ohio, June 16, 1913, now attending the Hillsboro Grammar School. WILLIAM SHERMAN BARKER, for thirty years or more has been one of the solid business men and influential citizens of Highland County. His home is at Hillsboro, and he is the present county treasurer. He was born in Salem Township of Highland County, January 10, 1865. His grandfather, John Barker, came to Ohio from Virginia, making the journey with a two wheeled ox cart. A blacksmith by trade, he. also followed farming, and used his opportunities so thriftily that he accumulated and at one time owned 1,400 acres in Highland County. He was the father of fourteen children, and in his home he reared two of his grandchildren. Before his death he gave each of these sixteen a farm. One of his sons was James Humes Barker, who was born in Highland County, in 1821, and died September 13, 1898, at the age of seventy-seven. His life for the most part was devoted to farming, but he also for many years was a minister of the Christian Church. He was buried in the Barker Cemetery in Salem Township. His wife, Elizabeth Farris, was born in Salem Township, and is also buried in the Barker Cemetery. William Sherman Barker was reared on the old farm, and for seven winters he attended country schools, while in the summers he worked on farms for his board. He also had some schooling under a private teacher, but most of his education came from home study by lamplight. He began farming on his own account in 1890, and his time and labors were quite fully bestowed upon his agricultural operations for thirty years. He bought his first land in 1893, and today is owner of one of the fine farms of Highland County and also much real estate in Hillsboro. Mr. Barker in 1894 was elected a member of the Highland County School Board, serving in that position until 1900. From 1894 until 1921 he was a trustee of a local school, and it was in 1920 that he was first elected county treasurer, being reelected in 1922. Mr. Barker is widely known in this section of Ohio as a thoroughly trained and educated musician. He has been a member of several bands and has taught vocal music. He is a member of the Christian Church, belongs to the church choir, and for thirty-two years has been superintendent of the Sunday School. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, is a past grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, an imperial adviser of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Barker married Miss Lulu Miller in Salem Township on September 3, 1893. She is a member of the class of 1885 of the High School of Lynchburg, Ohio. She belongs to the Christian Church choir at Princetown, Ohio. Frank Ozro Barker, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Barker, was born in Highland County, January 1, 1895. He graduated in 1919 from the Lynchburg High School, took a commercial course at the Bliss Business College at Columbus, and is a talented musician, playing the violin and other instruments. Frank O. Barker married Marie Wardlow, who was born at Princetown and was educated in country schools. They have four children : William Kermit, born June 4, 1914; Rodger, born August 20, 1918; Pauline, born December 12, 1920; and James Harding, born June 6, 1922. DWIGHT OTIS MILLER. Three generations of the Miller family have 'been identified with banking at Greenfield, and the history. of banking in that community revolves largely around the Miller name. On November 30, 1859, under the name of "Caldwell and Miller 's Exchange," the first bank in Greenfield was organized. During the Civil war this firm reorganized as the First National Bank, with W. W. Caldwell, president, and R. H. Miller, cashier. The charter granted this bank was number 101, being the first issued in this congressional district. Prior to this the nearest banking facilities were at Chillicothe. W. W. Caldwell and R. H. Miller later sold their interests in the First National Bank, and together with the original stockholders of the First National Bank organized the Highland County Bank in 1867 as a private bank, with W. W. Caldwell, president, R. H. Miller, cashier, and E. H. Miller, assistant cashier. One year later E. H. Miller, who was a younger brother of R. H. Miller, bought out the interests of the other stockholders, serving as president until his death. July, 1, 1922, the institution was incorporated under a state charter. The late Fay Baldwin, so well known in banking circles, was vice president for many years, and Mr. Miller 's older son, Edward G. Miller, was cashier at the time of his death in 1910. Dwight 0. Miller, the younger son, is now president, while a grandson, Edward Wilson Miller, is vice president. From the time of its organization the Highland County Bank has been the largest and strongest bank in Highland County. The Miller family has been in America since prior to the Revolutionary war, and they were pioneers in Ohio. The founder of the American branch of the family was Henry Miller, a native of Prussia. He was on the staff of Frederick the Great of Prussia, and owing to a rash act in insulting a superior officer whom he knocked down, had to leave his native land and, coming to America in 1750, settled in Germantown, Philadelphia. About the time of the Revolutionary war he moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, settling near Washington, in Rappahannock County. His wife was Susanna Sibberine or Sibly, who left Germany November 9, 1751, in the twenty-second year of her age, landing at Philadelphia. Henry Miller's will, dated November 21, 1796, was probated June 25, 260 - HISTORY OF OHIO 1801, in Madison County, Virginia. His son, also named Henry Miller, lived in Virginia, and died June 7, 1833, in Culpeper County, Virginia, aged seventy-five years. Aylette Miller, son of the last named Henry Miller, was born in Culpeper County, July 4, 1804, and died at South Salem, Ohio, February 26, 1859. He married Mary J. Spilman, daughter of Robert B. and Eleanor (Tut) Spilman. She was born October 26, 1806, and died October 29, 1892, at Hillsboro' Ohio. The marriage bond of Aylette Miller and Mary J. Spilman was recorded in Culpeper County, now Orange County, Virginia, March 22, 1827. Edward Hamilton Miller, fourth child of Aylette and Mary J. Miller, was born in Highland County, Ohio, April 22, 1838, and died December 20, 1921. He was a first lieutenant in the Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, and while in command of his company, the captain having resigned, he was shot down in the Second Battle of Bull Run and reported killed. He was discharged from service on account of his wounds, and on May 6, 1863, was married to Miss Emma Gore, who was born at Springfield, November 16, 1840, and died at Greenfield March 31, 1917. Her father, Joshua Gore, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, October 25, 1812, and died in Springfield, Ohio, May 21, 1892. Joshua Gore 's father was killed in the War of 1812. Mr. Gore came to Springfield in early manhood, and on October 9, 1838, he married Miss Rebecca Jane Hughes, born at Springfield, December 3, 1820, and died January 10, 1895. Her grandfather was Judge Jesse Hughes, of Wilmington, Ohio. Judge Hughes was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, January 22, 1767, and died at Wilmington, August 9, 1853. He married Elizabeth Drake at Louisville, Kentucky, June 10, 1790. She was born in 1776, and died September 27, 1837. Her mother was Jemima Rose, and her father, Jesse Drake, was of English ancestry. David Hughes, son of Judge Jesse Hughes, and father of Rebecca Jane Hughes, was born near Wilmington, Ohio, December 7, 1791, and died July 19, 1870-, His wife, Emily Whitsett, whom he married at Washington Court House, Ohio, May 23, 1818, was born in Kentucky, April 30, 1801, and died August 18, 1886. Both are buried at Springfield, Ohio. Joseph Whitsett, father of Emily, died in 1819, and her mother, Mary Whitsett, in 1807. Dwight Otis Miller, son of Edward Hamilton Miller and Emma Gore Miller, was born at. Greenfield, March 3, 1871. He is a graduate of the Greenfield High School and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan in 1894. In addition to his duties as bank president Mr. Miller is a director and the treasurer of the Home Building & Loan Company, Greenfield, Ohio. He has given freely of his time to various local activities, was a member of the Board of Public Affairs for a number of years, served also on the School Board, and as officer of the Public Health League. During the war he was chairman of all Liberty Loan drives and of the War Chest Committee and Near East Relief. He is a Knight .Templar, thirty-second degree Mason, member of the Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Sigma Chi fraternity, Modern Woodmen of America, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, United States of America, Ohio Society of New York, and Rotary International. Mr. Miller is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is trustee, deacon, treasurer and member of the church council. Dwight Otis Miller and Madge, youngest daughter of Dr. James Leighton Wilson, were married September 6, 1894. Their three sons, all born in Greenfield, are as follows : Edward Wilson, born October 21, 1895, graduate of Greenfield High School and Miami University, veteran of the World war, and vice president of the Highland County Bank ; Dwight Hamilton, born October 23, 1905, graduate of McClain High School, and now a student in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; Leighton Dean, born October 26, 1908, is a junior in McClain High School, Greenfield. Edward Wilson Miller and Mary Elizabeth Head, who were married August 12, 1921, have one son, John Edward, born May 27, 1922. JOHN CHARLES LARKIN, M. D., F. A. C. S. A leading member of the medical profession of Highland County, Dr. John Charles Larkin, of Hillsboro, has been engaged in practice here for twenty-eight years, during which period he has won high standing in his calling and the confidence of a large and representative following. He is a native of Highland County, and was born June 1, 1868, being a son of Elijah Henry and Rebecca (Stafford) Larkin. John Larkin, the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Doctor Larkin, was the immigrant of the family to America, coming from Coldback, England, and settling in Cumberland County, Maryland, where he died in 1650. His son, John Larkin II, was married in 1730, near Chester, Pennsylvania, to Esta Shelby. Among their children was Joseph Larkin, who married Ann Salkeld. Their son, Joseph Larkin II, who died at Samantha, Ohio, married Rachel Reece, who came from Pennsylvania. John Salkeld Larkin, the grandfather of Doctor Larkin, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and died and was buried at Samantha. His wife, Sarah Yost, also came from the Keystone State. Elijah Henry Larkin was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1838, followed the life of a farmer, and died in Highland County in 1893, being buried at Samantha. He married Rebecca Stafford, who was born in Highland County, and died at the age of thirty years, in 1871, burial being made at Duns Chapel, near Willettsville, Highland County. On the maternal side Doctor Larkin has authentic records showing that one of his ancestors was Samuel Gibson, who fought for the cause of the Colonists in 1777 during the Revolutionary war, and died at Hillsboro, at an advanced age, in 1835, after a most adventurous career. On April 12, 1791, he married Elizabeth Baird, in Bourbon County, Ohio. He served as an Indian scout under Captain Kincade, fought in the battle of King's Mountain, North Carolina, and was a friend and associate of Daniel Boone, with whom he was captured by the Indians, making their escape after running the gauntlet. In 1805 he located near Hillsboro, Ohio, and started a corn mill on a part of the land deeded him by the Government under the Virginia Military Land Grant. About this time he became a friend of Simon Kenton, another famous Ohio frontiersman and Indian fighter. John Charles Larkin attended the public schools of Newmarket Township, and in 1884 began a course at the Hillsboro High School. In 1888 he went to the Normal University at Lebanon, and from 1888 to 1893 taught schools in Highland County, in the latter year entering the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1896 as valedictorian of his class. In the same year he commenced practice at Hillsboro, in association with Dr. T. H. Holmes, this partnership continuing until 1900, when Doctor Holmes moved to the State of Washington, Doctor Larkin continuing alone. In 1903 Doctor Larkin took a postgraduate course at the New York Post-graduate School; in 1906 took a special course in surgery under Dr. Frank H. Martin at the Post-graduate Medical School of Chicago ; in 1913 went to the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland; in 1918 returned to the New York Post-graduate HISTORY OF OHIO - 261 School; and in 1921 took a special course in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, this being the medical department of Harvard University, Dr. Richard C. Cabot, instructor. In 1914 Doctor Larkin received the degree of Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Doctor Larkin holds membership in the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Highland County Medical Society, as well as the American Society for the Advancement of Science. During the World war he was a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and was first sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison. Later he was detailed for service in the aviation section at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, and Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. Doctor Larkin is a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a past master of Hillsboro Lodge ; past exalted ruler and a charter member of the local Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a charter member of the Hillsboro Business Men's Association. On July 19, 1904, Doctor Larkin married at Hillsboro Miss Daisy Spargur, who was born June 2, 1875, and educated at the local high school and at Miss Nurse 's School, Cincinnati. Her father, John D. Spargur, for fifty years a business man of Hillsboro, died in 1917, at the age of seventy-seven years. Doctor and Mrs. Larkin are the parents of three children: John Charles, Jr., born July 2, 1906, at Hillsboro, and now attending Lake Forest Academy, Chicago, in preparation for a collegiate course, has the distinction of having built, at the age of thirteen years, the first audible radio set in Highland County; Brooks Spargur, born April 13, 1908, at Hillsboro, educated in the common schools, and a natural born mechanic; and Richard Rennick, born at Hillsboro, September 2, 1909, educated in the common schools, and likewise keen on the matter of mechanics. ALFRED P. MCFADDEN is prominently identified with business and civic interests in his native city of Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison County, where he has held since the year 1916 the office of secretary of the Cadiz Building & Loan Company. He has done much to advance its effective and valuable service to the community, the company having been a medium through which the civic and material interests of Cadiz have been greatly conserved. Mr. McFadden was born at Cadiz on the 29th of January, 1890, and is a son of George Dunlap. McFadden and Ida (Clark) McFadden, there being one other child in the family, Ephraim, who married Abbie Cooke, their one child being a son, Robert. George D. McFadden was one of the leading merchants of Cadiz, where he was engaged in the hardware business at the time of his death, January 17, 1922. He was a loyal and liberal citizen, and was called upon to serve in various local offices of public trust, including membership in the City Council. He was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who continues active in the work of the First Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. Mr. McFadden was of sterling Irish ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides, he having been a son of John and Esther (Clifford) McFadden, and his mother having been born in Ireland. His widow is a daughter of Ephraim and Isabella Clark, who came to Ohio from the State of Pennsylvania. After his graduation from the Cadiz High School, in 1908, Alfred P. McFadden entered the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he was for a time associated with the activities of his father 's hardware establishment, and he next held for some time the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank. In 1916 he became the secretary of the Cadiz Building and. Loan Company, and he has continuously given his attention to his executive duties in this connection, save for the period )f his military service at the time of the World war. He entered service in the United States Army May 26, 1918, and he was in training six months at Camp Gordon, where he was assigned to Company G, Third Regiment of the Replacement Infantry. The war came to its close before there was requisition for the active overseas service of his command, and he received his honorable discharge November 29, 1918. Mr. McFadden is affiliated at the present time with the local Blue Lodge and Chapter of York Rite Masonry., and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church. October 29, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. McFadden and Miss Helen Brokaw, daughter of Lovejoy and Diadama (Parks) Brokaw, who are well known residents of Cadiz, where Mr. Brokaw is engaged in business as a painter and decorator. JOHN E. CARLETON, present probate judge of Meigs County, and a newspaper publisher and editor, has been a prominent figure in the life and affairs of that section of Ohio for a number of years and represents a family of prominence as well as of pioneer connections with Meigs County. His grandfather, John Carleton, came from Ireland, settling at Kerrs Run in Meigs County and buying land in Chester and Salisbury townships at a dollar an acre. In the locality known as Carleton Hollow lie built a water mill, manufacturing lumber with one of the old-fashioned "up and down" saws. William Carleton, father of Judge Carleton, was born in Ohio, in 1836, and in later years he was one of the few who had personal recollection of incidents in the famous "log cabin and hard cider" campaigns of 1840. As a young man he moved to Syracuse, and acquired a farm bordering the Ohio River above that town. He and his brothers John and Isaac were also associated in the sawmill and lumber business. He was a democrat, a member of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Syracuse, and a citizen of much influence generally. He died in 1912. His wife, Sarah Roush, a native of Meigs County, died in 1910, when about seventy years of age. They had a family of three children: Julia and John E., both unmarried and living at the old homestead farm ; while Alma is the wife of A. J. Edwards, a farmer at Syracuse. John E. Carleton, who was born at Syracuse, July 8, 1871, acquired much of his early education in Carleton College at Syracuse. His grandfather's brother, Isaac Carleton, also a native of Ireland, donated ten acres as a building site and cash for the founding of this school, which was named in his honor. He was always deeply interested in educational progress. Judge Carleton taught school for three years at a salary of thirty dollars a month. During vacations he worked on his father's farm, and throughout his mature career has been interested in farming. In 1900 lie became a reporter and all around man on S. F. Smith's paper, the Leader, and newspaper work has constituted most of his experience since then. Some years ago he purchased the Democrat from Judge C. E. Peoples. This is the only democratic paper in Meigs County, and the only paper of democratic tendencies to exist for any length of time and reach a standing as one of the best papers in the county. Judge Carleton was first elected probate judge in 1916 and reelected in 1920. He is now the only 262 - HISTORY OF OHIO democrat holding office in the courthouse at Pomeroy. Meigs County normally is republican by a majority of nearly three thousand. Judge Carleton has long been interested in politics, and has been a delegate to county, district and state conventions of his party. He is a Presbyterian, is a Knight Templar Mason, has been master of the local lodge of Masons for a number of terms and is a charter member of the Eastern Star. He is also a past grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the Knights of Pythias and Junior Order United American Mechanics. CHARLES DEMOTT WRIGHT, a doctor of dental surgery, who has been successfully established in the profession at Hillsboro for the past twenty years, is not a native Ohioan himself, but he represents a number of families who came into the state in earliest pioneer days and took an effective and prominent part in its early history. Doctor Wright is in the seventh generation of descent from John Wright, who was born in Ireland about 1703, and on account of political disputes in that country he and his wife went to England, came to the United States with James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, and about 1735 moved north to Pennsylvania, where they embraced the Quaker faith. Samuel Wright, of the second generation, was born in 1736, and made his permanent home in a picturesque region known as Apple Pie Ridge, in what is now the extreme eastern end of West Virginia. He married a Virginia girl. Their son, Edward Wright, who was born in 1757, was a surveyor, and in 1784 established a home in Eastern Tennessee, but abandoned this land and came north to the wilderness, enduring great hardships and dangers, finally reaching Ohio in May, 1801. While near Bainbridge in Ross County he died. Edward Wright married in 1780 Hannah Dillon, whose father also came from Ireland. William Wright, of the fourth generation, was born in Tennessee, September 24, 1782, and had just come to early manhood when the family moved to Ohio. In the spring of 1802 he settled in what is now Fairfield Township, Highland County, being one of the earliest pioneers of that region. William Wright married Rachael Stafford, whose father, William Stafford, came to Ohio in 1805 from North Carolina. John Wright, who was born March 17, 1818, married Anne Thornburgh, a representative of a family that took a part in the wars under William, Prince of Orange, and on coming to America settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, where Anne Thorn- burgh's grandfather, Joseph, was living when the War of the Revolution came on, and distinguished himself in the battle of King,s Mountain. The Thornburghs came to Ohio in 1822. John Wright and Anne Thornburgh were the grandparents of Doctor Wright of Hillsboro. Levi Samuel Wright was born November 11, 1847, and in 1876 moved to Hillsboro, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1879 he left Ohio and moving to Carthage, Missouri, practiced law there until 1888, and then went to Ellsworth, Kansas, where he practiced law and served three successive terms as prosecuting attorney of Ells-worthy County. In 1897 he returned to Ohio and established his home on a farm near Highland, in Highland County. Levi S. Wright married in 1872 Arrabelle Woodmansee, daughter of David and Nancy (Shockley) Woodmansee. Her Puritan ancestors came over in 1620, and Robert Woodmansee was the first school master in the City of Boston. Members of the family took an active part in the Revolution, and one branch of them came to Ohio in 1806, settling in Highland County. Charles DeMott Wright, whose ancestry has thus been traced briefly, was born at Carthage, Missouri, March 12, 1880. He began his education in public schools there, and after the age of eight continued his school work at Ellsworth, Kansas. In 1895, when fifteen years of age, he accompanied Cam Clauson to the northeastern part of Colorado, where he worked on Clauson,s ranch, punching cattle at eight dollars a month. In October of the same year he assisted Clauson in driving a herd of 1,500 cattle 600 miles back to the home ranch in Kansas. Doctor Wright's boyhood,s enthusiasm was largely in the line of music. He became a noted cornet player, and in 1896 was a cornet soloist with the United States Army Second Regimental Band. He accompanied the family on their return to Ohio, and graduated in 1898 from the New Vienna High School. Then for some time he taught in that high school, following which he entered Ohio State University at Columbus. He studied for his profession in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1905. While there he was a Psi Omega. In a class of ninety-seven he was awarded a medal for the best attainments in general pathology and honorable mention in chemistry and anatomy. Doctor Wright is a thoroughly well educated dental surgeon, and has accepted many opportunities to keep in touch with the advancing progress in his field. In 1919 he did post-graduate work in dental surgery at the Chicago Polyclinic School of Dental Surgery. He established his office at Hillsboro in July, 1905, and has continued the work of his profession there with gratifying success. He is a member of the Ohio Dental Society and the American Dental Association. Doctor Wright is a past master of Highland Lodge No. 38 of the Masonic Order, past high priest of Hillsboro Chapter No. 40, Royal Arch Masons, past master of Hillsboro Council No. 16, past commander of the Highland Commandery No. 31, Knights Templar, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is also past exalted ruler of the Elks, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America, and is a charter member of the Local Business Men,s Association. He is a republican, and is a member of the Vestry of Saint Marys Episcopal Church. Doctor Wright married, February 8, 1910, Miss Meta Albertina Schweinsberger at Hillsboro, where she was educated in the public schools, graduating from high school in 1900. She specialized in English, and in 1905 graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music. Doctor and Mrs. Wright have two children: Charles Henry, born at Hillsboro, October 15, 1912, now in the seventh grade of the public schools; and Morrow, who was born June 7, 1922. Mrs. Wright is a daughter of Henry John and Fredericka (Urich) Schweinsberger. Her father was born in Germany, in 1852, son of a government inspector there, coming to the United States in 1869. Henry J. Schweinberger established his home at Hillsboro in 1872 and engaged in business. Four years later he married Fredericka Urich, who was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1849, her father having come to the United States in 1847. Her grandfather was a musician and scholar of note, being the regular organist at the largest cathedral in Leipsig and frequently giving recitals to the nobility in the High Court in Germany. He was awarded a prize of $1,000 by Prince Karl for the best essay on music. HISTORY OF OHIO - 263 ISAAC F. WARD, prominent in the insurance business in Southern Ohio, has built up an important agency in life insurance at Ripley, Brown County. In early life he was a school teacher. Mr. Ward was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, September 21, 1872, son of Isaac and Sarah (Chapman) Ward. His father, now deceased, was a sawmill owner and operator. Mrs. Sarah (Chapman) Ward was born in 1848, and now resides at Venice, California. She has made four trips across the country to California. The late Isaac Ward was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Isaac F. Ward grew up in a time and community when there were no local advantages in schools beyond the common schools, and he secured the equivalent of a high school education largely through private study. For fifteen years he taught school in Gallia County. On January 1, 1906, he began his long service with the Western, Southern Life Insurance Company, as agent at Pomeroy, Ohio. He remained there until about 1914, then spent six months as representative of the eonipany at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and the winter of 1914-15 he spent in Texas. Since 1915 he has been the representative of this company at Ripley, Ohio. In addition to his private business Mr. Ward has taken a keen interest in local affairs. He is a republican, but was elected on the independent ticket to the office of mayor of Ripley, serving his first term in 1922-24, and was reelected for a second term. He is also a member of the Ripley Board of Education, and is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, being president of its Men's Club. Mr. Ward has been happily married for many years, and he and his wife have the second largest family of children perhaps in Brown County, twelve in number. He married at Parkersburg, West Virginia, December 23, 1893, Miss Cora Rayburn, daughter of Robert and Matilda (Brumfield) Rayburn. Her mother is living, and her father, deceased, was an official with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The oldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ward is Wendell W., who is now editor of the Beaumont Times and Journal at Beaumont, Texas. He married Miss Luella Barr at Mount Carmel, Illinois, and they have a son, Wendell Curtis. Luella Barr before her marriage also had an extensive experience in the newspaper business. The second son, McKinley, assistant postmaster of Georgetown, Ohio, married Miss Helen Burris, of Georgetown, and has a son, Richard. Isaac F., Jr., is owner and manager of the job printing business at Ripley. These three sons all enlisted for service in the World war and all went overseas. Wendell was the only man in the company selected to attend the Officers' Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was commissioned a first lieutenant and for a time was a rifle instructor at Les Mans, France. The second son took part in the great drive that broke the Hindenburg line. The youngest of the three was in the company using the first American made field guns in France. The other children of Mr. and Mrs. Ward are: Cora, who is the wife of Leon Massie, of Augusta, Kentucky, their three children being William, Robert and Maxine. Evangeline, a teacher in the public school; Lillian, who is office manager for her father ; Martin, a student in the Ripley High School, and who spent the summer of 1924 with the Reserve Officers' Military Training. Camp at Camp Knox, Kentucky; and the five younger children are named: Robert, Arthur, Annabell, David and John J. JOHN E. BAILEY. One of the interesting citizens of Athens County, a man who has achieved success by triumphing over circumstances and adverse conditions, is John E. Bailey, banker and hotel proprietor. For a number of years his home was at Coolville in Athens County and now at the City of Athens. His active business duties are as manager of the Berry Hotel at Athens, and as vice president of the Coolville National Bank. He assisted in the organization of the Bank of Coolville in March, 1906, at that time being superintendent of the schools of Coolville village and Troy Township, and after seven weeks as assistant cashier became cashier, holding that office until 1916, and since then vice president. Mr. Bailey was born at Sumner in Meigs County, Ohio, September 17, 1874, son of Moses and Sarah (Ridgley) Bailey. His father spent most of his life as a farmer. His mother died in 1889, aged forty. John E. Bailey had only a few terms at school and as a boy went to Coolville, where he found employment. At the age of fourteen his services were gaining him a salary of $4 a month. Even in those years he was thrifty and always had a small balance of funds above his immediate needs. In that period of his life, he had singular horror of poverty and the possibility of becoming a public charge. In line with this characteristic he saved $25 from his earnings and put it out to interest so that it might be available for various purposes in case of his death. When he finally collected the principal the interest exceeded the original sum. As he grew older, he kept $200 as the standard of his capital. In these years of work and saving, he managed to attend school and was graduated from the Coolville High School in 1896. For eight years he taught school and while teaching and engaged in other work, he put in three and a half years of study at the Ohio University at Athens. For a time he was employed by W. M. Walden & Company, wholesale produce merchants at Pomeroy. As noted above, while connected with the schools of Coolville, he became interested in the National Bank and when he left the office of cashier in 1916 and took the post of vice president, he became identified with the organization of a national bank at Middleport in Meigs County. In November, 1920, he purchased with S. S. Don-ford, a controlling interest in the First National Bank of Glouster, and took the office of cashier, holding that position until November,. 1923, when he resigned to take the active management of the Berry Hotel Company. He. had removed his home to Athens in July, 1.921. Mr. Bailey organized the Berry Hotel Corporation, and was one of its first directors. He married June 19, 1902, Miss Clara Ashley Ruth, daughter of C. V. and Alice (Parke) Ruth of Hockingsport, Ohio. Into their home have been born six daughters and one son. The daughters are Elizabeth Ruth, Eleanor Ashley, Sarah Alice, Clara Belle, Rachel Louise and Betsey Mills. Elizabeth Ruth is a student of the Ohio .University. The only son is John E., Jr. Mrs. Bailey is a member of the Methodist Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Athens Kiwanis Club and the Country Club. While at Coolville he served as a member of the school board for several years and has also been a member of the County Board of Education. Mr. Bailey is a republican, but he voted for Theodore Roosevelt as a presidential candidate on the progressive ticket. In his business life, he has always endeavored to put into practice one of Roosevelts' slogans concerning the square deal to all. HUGH ELBERT DENING has been a school man all his mature years of experience, and his service in that profession has brought him a generous esteem and a fine appreciation in his native County of Adams. He is now head of the schools at Manchester, and the greater part of his teaching and school administration has been in that community. 264 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Dening was born at Manchester, September 15, 1873, son of Albert and Amanda Jane (Palmer) Dening, both of Manchester. The brief record of Mr. Dening 's association with schools and school work begins with his student days in the common schools, 1879-1887, student in high school from 1887 to 1891, and his teaching career began at the age of eighteen, soon after graduating from high school. He taught in Spriggs Township from 1891 to 1895; was assistant principal at Manchester from 1895 to 1899; was principal of the Manchester High School from 1899 to 1903; superintendent of the West Union Schools, 1903-05; superintendent of Manchester Schools, 1905-14; superintendent of instruction for Adams County from 1914 to 1917; superintendent of the public schools at Peebles, Ohio, from 1917 to 1920; and since 1920 has been superintendent of the Manchester schools, and for the past nine years has also performed the duties of county school examiner. Mr. Dening in the meantime was supplementing his own educational advantages, and for several years was a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he took the Bachelor of Science degree in 1900 and the Master of Science degree in 1903. The Manchester High School graduated its first class in 1875. At that time there was one teacher and some twenty-odd students. At the present time the high school has a class of seven teachers, and in 1923-24, an enrollment of 135 students. It was put on the list of first grade high schools in Ohio in June, 1907. The Board of Directors of the Manchester schools consists of : J. E. McNeil, president; J. S. Craycraft, vice president; Edward Cochran, clerk ; Gordon D. Lovett and Harry C. Brown, directors. Mr. Dening is a republican in politics. He is a past master of his lodge and past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter in Masonry and past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dening married at Manchester, (Tilly 26, 1900, Miss Nannie Kimball, daughter of Walter and Linnie (Wilson) Kimball. Mrs. Dening is likewise a graduate of the Manchester High School. They have a family of six children, all of whom have shown much initiative and a willingness and an ambition to help themselves and make the most of their opportunities and talents. These children are : Walter McIntyre Dening, a student in the Ohio University at Athens, who during the summer of 1924 was with the Chase entertainers on the Lyceum platform; Dorothy, an accountant with the McNeil Department Store at Manchester; Ralph Palmer, a student in the Ohio University at. Athens Eleanor, who graduated from the Manchester High School in 1924; Ruth and Virginia. OTIS WHITE is president of the Signal Publishing Company, publishers of the Manchester Signal in Adams County. This newspaper was founded about 1881 by Jesse Perry, now a resident of Cincinnati. It was taken over by the Signal Publishing Company in November, 1918. Mr. Otis White is president ; Mrs. Otis White is vice president, Miss Ida Rubenaker is secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Margaret White and Mr. Davis Collings are directors of the company. The Signal has a circulation of 2,650, and the paper is distributed all over Adams County, a portion of Brown County, and also in the adjacent territory of Kentucky. Otis White was born in Brown County, Ohio, November 17, 1887, son of George and Margaret (Reed) White. His mother is living. His father, now deceased, was a carpenter by trade. Otis White attended public schools in his native county, and at the age of fourteen began learning the printing trade at Aberdeen, Ohio. He is an old and experienced journalist. fie has spent the greater part of his life at Georgetown, Ohio, from which point he has attended to his duties as a newspaper publisher at Manchester. He owns the controlling interest in this newspaper. Mr. White is an independent in politics, and a member of the Masonic Order. He married at Aberdeen, Ohio, December 21, 1912, Miss Estella Sutton, daughter of Monroe and Francis (McKinley) Sutton. Her parents are deceased. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. White are Anna Margaret, Evelyn, Francis and Jack. DAVIS COLLINGS, a director of the Signal Publishing Company at Manchester, has been for many years a well known and influential figure in the citizenship of Adams County. He was born in that county, April 3, 1861, son of George and Harriet (Conner) Collings. From 1887 to 1896 he was employed in the secretary of state 's office at Columbus, and from 1896 to 1900 was associated with the Columbus Dispatch. In his later years he has given much of his time to his duties as reporter for the Signal, but he also owns and operates a large farm of 175 acres in Adams County. He is a justice of the peace, and a strong republican in politics. While in the secretary of state 's office at Columbus Mr. Collings came to know very well the distinguished Henry Howe, author of the most authoritative work on Ohio history. Mr. Howe used the press of Mr. Collings to prepare the 1888 edition of his history. FRANK A. SHIVELEY was born and reared in Adams County, for many years. has been a member of the West Union bar, and enjoys a practice involving most of the important litigations in the courts of the county. Mr. Shiveley was born in Jefferson Township, Adams County, October 19, 1879, son of John Wesley and Mary J. (Campbell) Shiveley. His parents are both deceased, his father having given his active lifetime to farming. Frank A. Shiveley grew up on a farm, attended rural schools, and completed his professional education in Ohio Northern University, where he graduated from the College of Law in 1906. During 1906-07 he was located at New Philadelphia, but since 1907- has been engaged in a general practice at West Union. He served as prosecuting attorney of Adams County from 1911 to 1915. The only important interruption to his practice came in 1917, when he entered the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, received his commission as second lieutenant, and was promoted to first lieutenant. Until the end of the war he was on duty at Camp Sherman, Ohio, as camp trial judge adjutant. He is a member of the American Legion. Mr. Shiveley is a democrat, is a member of the Lodge and Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Redmen and Modern Woodmen of America. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist Church. On December 10, 1915, he married Miss Carryl McCreight, of Mount Orab, Ohio, daughter of Jesse E. and Ida (Brooks) McCreight. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Shiveley are Frank Glendon, Lawrence McCreight, John W. and Ruth. WILL HAVENS. One of the old and influential newspapers in Southern Ohio is the People 's Defender, of West Union. It was founded January 16, 1866, by Joseph W. Eylar, who in 1890 sold to Edward A. Crawford. In 1916 the Defender Pub- HISTORY OF OHIO - 265 lishing Company was organized to take over the property from Crawford, the officials of the company being Judge Will P. Stevenson, president; Frank McKenzie, vice president; W. A. Eylar, secretary; and Will Havens, treasurer of the company and editor and manager of the Defender. This is a weekly paper, published on Thursday, is the official county paper, democratic in politics. It has a circulation of 3,950, published in a town of only about 1,000 people, and in this respect has one of the largest circulations enjoyed by any country town weekly paper in the United States. Will Havens, its editor has been in the newspaper business thirty-five years. He was born in Mason County, Kentucky, December 1, 1861, son of William J. and Leona M. (Evans) Havens. His father was an old steamboat engineer on the Ohio River. He married at West Union, in 1908, Miss Grace La Porte, daughter of Isaac J. and Esther Ann (Montgomery) La Porte. Mr. and Mrs. Havens have one son, Charles William, born in 1910, a student in the West Union High School. SAMUEL J. ELLISON, M. D. In the twenty years since he graduated from medical college Doctor Ellison, now of West Union, has had an experience much out of the ordinary for a professional man. For a time he was in the far West, was an enlisted soldier at the time of the Spanish-American war, and was a medical officer in the World war, both in home camps and overseas. Doctor Ellison was born in Adams County, Ohio, November 23, 1871, son of William Jasper and Mary Jane (Beaty) Ellison, both now deceased. The Ellisons were among the first settlers at old Fort Manchester, Ohio, locating there about 1790. Doctor Ellison's mother was descended from a family that came from Maryland and Virginia. William J. Ellison was a teacher and farmer by occupation, and moved to Adams County when a boy with his father and family. Dr. Samuel J. Ellison attended public schools in Adams County, taught in public schools for eight years, and graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from the National Normal University at Lebanon, and in his early manhood followed various occupations. He was a soldier with the First Ohio Cavalry during the Spanish-American war period. Doctor Ellison graduated in 1904 from Starling Medical College, now the Medical Department of Ohio State University at Columbus. During the next seven years, he was engaged in practice at Harveysburg in Warren County. In 1911-12, Doctor Ellison was out West to South Dakota, taking up a claim of 160 acres on the Cheyenne River, Standing Rock Indian Reservation. On returning to Ohio in 1912 he engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery at West Union until September 10, 1917. Having been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, he was called to active duty on September 10, 1917, and sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, and subsequently was on duty at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia; Camp Dix, New Jersey; Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and on July 10, 1918, started overseas with the Sixteenth Engineers. Overseas he was on duty with the First Army as a member of Surgical Team 5-3-8, and participated in the battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. After his return home he was discharged from Camp Sherman July 29, 1919, and still has a commission with the rank of captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. Doctor Ellison in addition to his work in private practice is serving as county health commissioner of Adams County. He is a member of the County and Ohio State Medical societies, and a Fellow of the American Medical Association. He is a republican, a Knights Templar Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, the American Legion and the Baptist Church. He married at West Union, December 26, 1899, Miss Myrtle Wilson, daughter of Robert and Nancy (Cross) Wilson, her father having been a farmer in the vicinity of West Union until his death. Her mother is still living. The three children of Doctor and Mrs. Ellison are : Ethel Geneva, Robert Beaty and Mary Ellen. Ethel graduated in 1923 with the Bachelor of Education degree from Denison University, in which the son Robert is a sophomore, and Mary Ellen is a sophomore in high school. ELIJAH CUTRIGHT, JR., judge of the Probate Court for Ross County, has been a member of the Chillicothe bar for thirty years, and has gained prominence in a section of Ohio where the Cutright name has been known since territorial times. His great-grandfather, John Cutright, was a native of Virginia, of Scotch ancestry, and in 1796 joined the General Massie party to settle in the wilderness of the Northwest Territory in Ross County. He cleared up a farm in Springfield, Township, where he lived until his death in 1830. His son, James Cutright, grandfather of Judge Outright, was one of the first white children born in Ross County. His birth occurred on February 26, 1798, in Scioto Township. He was reared during the frontier days in Ohio, and married Sabre A. Neff, who was born in Virginia in 1800, and was brought by her parents, Leonard and Lydia Neff, to Ohio in 1809. In 1838 James Cutright moved to part of the Neff farm, and was sucessfully engaged in his farming and other business there until his death on June 16, 1870. He left a large estate of farm land, and was one of the influential men of the county, serving as county commissioner. Elijah Outright, Sr., was born in Springfield Township, Ross County, July 25, 1823, was educated in the district schools, and after the death of his father inherited the old homestead. He died at the venerable age of eighty-six, in 1909. He served as a trustee of his township, was a member of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Elizabeth Barclay, who was born in Ross County, November 14, 1838, and is now eighty-five years of age. Her father, James Barclay, was born in Ireland, in 1811, and was an early settler in Ross County. He married Mary Pontious, who was born in Ross County, in 1819, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Elijah Cutright, Sr., and wife were the parents of the following children: John F.; Elijah, Jr.; Mary E., who became the wife of E. E. Hough; Florence, who married John Zuber ; Grant; Emma, who married Henry Rose; and Douglas. Judge Elijah Outright, Jr. was born in the old Outright community in Springfield Township of Ross County, September 12, 1865. He was educated in the district schools, and from boyhood showed an admirable degree of self reliance and independence in achieving his own destiny. He attended the district schools, and as a young man entered the National Normal University at Lebanon, where he received a diploma. For six years he taught in district schools of his home county, and at the same time studied law, reading under W. Y. Lawrence. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1893, and soon afterward engaged in private practice at Chillicothe. For twenty-two years in addition to his private practice he served as referee in bankruptcy for Ross County. In the fall of 1920 he was elected judge of probate, and has rendered a very careful and conscientious 266 - HISTORY OF OHIO administration of the duties of this office. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. February 7, 1894, at Chillicothe, Judge Cutright married Miss Minnie Outright, adopted daughter of his uncle, Nelson Outright. Judge and Mrs. Outright have three sons, Howard Elijah, James Frances and Robert E. Howard was for fourteen months in the Aviation Corps, but did not get overseas, though he was in readiness when the armistice was signed. He was an observer and was at Camp Grant, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Paul. CHARLES A. LINN has the distinction of being the oldest practicing attorney at the Brown County bar. The service he has rendered as a professional man and public official covers a period of over fifty years. Mr. Linn was born at Otterberg, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, August 31, 1848, son of Charles A. and Charlotte Spindler Linn. The family came to America in 1849, and after two years spent at New York City located at Ripley, Ohio, in 1851. His father was for many years a dealer in pork and tobacco. Charles A Linn, the attorney, was one and one-half years old when he became a resident of Ripley, and as he grew up there he attended private schools. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated in 1869 and continuously since that date has been engaged in the practice of law at Cincinnati and Ripley. He served as prosecuting attorney of Brown County from 1870 to 1874. Mr. Linn is a staunch democrat, and in those early days he rode over the county on horseback electioneering for votes. Until recent years lie was an active member of the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Linn married at Ripley Miss Louise Weiand, daughter of Jacob and Salomine (Kettering) Weiand. They have a family of one daughter and two sons. The daugh- ter, Alice, now teaching in the Lincoln School at Hamilton, Ohio, is the widow of Lee A. Edwards, former mayor of Ripley, and she has a daughter, Alice Lee, aged fifteen. The son Allen has become prominent in business affairs, being a silk manufacturer and merchant at Patterson, New Jersey, and New York City. He is married and has three children, named Kenneth, Elisabeth and Helen. The other son, Robert Linn, is the leading life insurance broker at Wheeling, West Virginia, and his family consists of four sons, Robert, Jr., Charles A., Eugene and Francis X. HON. CONRAD REBMAN, JR., who for two terms has been a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, is one of the prominent men in labor circles in Southern Ohio and has attained state wide recognition through his activity in behalf of salutary labor measures in the General Assembly. Mr. Rebman is general manager and secretary-treasurer of the American Ice and Storage Company of Cincinnati. He was born in Cincinnati, April 14, 1889, and is one of the young business men to attain prominence in his home city. His parents were Conrad and Theresa (Schneider) Rebman, and he was only four days old when his mother died. His father came from Wurttemberg, Germany, and located in Cincinnati in 1882; Conrad Rebman, Jr., attended public schools in his native city, the Woodward High School, and is a graduate of the Waters Business College. Since leaving school his talents and time have been identified with one line of business. He began with the Heran Court Company as an analyst, and continued with it when the name was changed to the American Ice and Storage Company, of which he is now general manager. While for a number of years he was a labor leader, he has always promoted the cause through leadership and affiliations with the republican party. He was elected in 1921 to the Eighty-fourth General Assembly, and in the following session sponsored a number of bills, including that to compel railroads to build car sheds to protect workmen in bad weather. He served on the labor, liquor traffic and temperance and county affairs committees. In 1923 he was reelected to the Eighty-fifth General Assembly, and in that body earned still more favorable distinction, being known as the champion of labor and chairman of the labor committees. Other committees on which he served were the liquor traffic and temperance and military affairs. Largely through his influence was passed the bill amending the workmen's compensation act, raising the weekly indemnity from $15 to $18.75, and the amount on death awards from $5,000 to $6,500. He also secured the passage of the bill submitting a constitutional amendment to a vote of the people for changing the bases of insurance from six to three and denying the right of workmen to sue employers for damages in the courts, this amendment being adopted by over 20,000 majority. He was author of the bill to prevent workmen from assigning away 50 per cent of their wages, and worked for the passage of a measure, which failed, to investigate the paint industry with a view to eliminating the hazards and dangers of employment therein. Mr. Rebman as a candidate for the third time received the endorsement of the republican organization in Hamilton County and the labor counsel of Cincinnati. He is a member of the Blaine Republican and the North Cincinnati Republican Club, the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards' Republican clubs, is an officer in the International Brewery Workers of America, is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Cincinnati Labor Council and the Evangelical Church. On November 28, 1911, he married Miss Mayme Karg, of Cincinnati, daughter of Nicholas and Charlotte (Conrad) Karg, who live in that city. Mrs. Rebman was educated in the grammar and high schools of Cincinnati, is a member of the Eastern Star, the Evangelical Church, and is active socially. Three children were born to their marriage: Clifford Frederick, who died in 1915, at the age of two years; Conrad Elmer, born in 1914, and Dorothy May, born in 1917. HON. GUY W. MALLON is a distinguished individual of a distinguished family in Southern Ohio. Mallon has been a name of significance in the profession of law and in the public life of Cincinnati and vicinity for a great many years. Guy W. Mallon was born at Cincinnati, April 28, 1864. His parents were Judge Patrick and Sophia (Beadle) Mallon. His father carried the burdens of a heavy practice as an attorney for a great many years, and was also judge of the Common Pleas Court of Hamilton County for several terms. Guy W. Mallon has always been known as a very scholarly lawyer. He attended public schools in his native city, graduating from the Woodward High School in 1881, took the classical course in Yale University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1885, and in 1888 completed his course and received the Bachelor of Laws degree from Cincinnati Law School. He also studied abroad at Heidelberg, Germany. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and has been practicing law for over thirty-five years. HISTORY OF OHIO - 267 In 1889 he was elected a member of the State Legislature. In the following session he introduced the bill providing for the Australian ballot system in Ohio, secured its passage and has since been known as the father of that system of voting in Ohio, which is now practically the system in every state of the Union. Mr. Mallon in 1906 was elected a member of the City Council, filling that office two years. He served eighteen years as a trustee of Ohio State University, being appointed by Governor Nash in 1903 and remaining on the board until 1921. He has been deeply interested as a student and leader in many movements for civic and governmental reform, and practically every such movement in Cincinnati during the past twenty years has had his active cooperation. He has been for sixteen years chairman of the Citizens' Council of Public Education, organized to remove the school board from politics. 'Mr. Mallon was one of the attorneys who drafted an amendment to the city charter to give Cincinnati a government in which the chief executive responsibilities devolve upon a manager to be elected by a board of nine aldermen, these aldermen chosen at large by the proportional representation plan. Mr. Mallon and his associates secured 22,000 signatures to the petition to have this amendment submitted. The petition was filed August 5, 1924. Mr. Mallon was secretary of the committee. In February, 1922, the American Bar Association sent out a call for the members of the United States Supreme Court, chief justices of the State Court, the deans of all reputable law schools to meet in Washington to form an association to simplify the laws of the country. From this resulted the American Law Institute. Mr. Mallon was selected as one of the comparatively few lawyers to be represented as members of the institute. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Ohio State and American Bar associations, the Cincinnati Business Men's Club, the University Club, the Yale Club and Psi Upsilon fraternity. For thirty years he has been a trustee and a devoted friend of Berea College at Berea, Kentucky, an institution long famous for the service it has rendered in affording educational opportunities to the people in the mountain districts not only of Kentucky but of the other states. Mr. Mallon in 1901 organized and for three years was president of the Cincinnati Trust Company. He is a director of the French Bauer Brothers Company, the United States Can Company and the Ozark Coal Company. In 1924 Mr. Mallon became a candidate on the separate judicial ballot for judge of the Court of Appeals in the First District of Ohio, comprising the counties of Butler, Clinton, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren. In his early law practice he was a member of the firm Mallon, Coffey & Mallon. On the death of his father the title was changed to Coffey, Mallon, Mills & Vordenberg. On the death of Mr. Coffey, Mr. Mills withdrew, and since then the firm has been Mallon & Vordenberg. This firm handles a large volume of general practice, and also represents the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the Hancock Life Insurance Company, the City Ice & Fuel Company, French Bauer Brothers Company and other corporations. For over thirty years Mr. Mallon has had the companionship and counsel of a very accomplished woman, one well known in Ohio social and civic affairs. He and Miss Hannah Neil, of Columbus, were married in 1891. Her parents were Maj. Henry M. and Julia (Stone) Neil, her mother now deceased. Maj. Henry M. Neil is now ninety-two years of age and a resident of Columbus, is a son of William Neil, founder of the historic Neil House, which after rendering service to thousands of eminent personages was recently torn down to make room for the modern new Neil House at Columbus. Maj. Henry M. Neil devoted his active career to the management of the family estate and fortune. He and Governor Dennison were brothers-in-law, and he chanced to be in the governor 's office when the telegram came from President Lincoln calling for volunteers to put down the Southern rebellion. Major Neil immediately volunteered, thus getting the distinction of being the first volunteer from Ohio in the Civil war. He was a captain of artillery and later major. Mrs. Mallon was educated in Ohio State University. Besides discharging the obligations of rearing a family of accomplished sons and daughters, she has been much interested in civic movements. She resigned her office as president of the Woman 's City Club of Cincinnati to go to France during the World war, and for a year and a half had charge of the Young Men's Christian Association at Saumur, in France. On her return she was again elected president of the Woman's City Club and subseqnently president of the Ohio League of Woman Voters, and in 1920 was vice chairman of the Democratic Central Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Mallon are members of the Episcopal Church. More than passing .mention should be made of their individual children, the oldest of whom, Gny W., Jr., died in infancy. -41 Miss Mary Mallon graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915 from Vassar College, was for one year assistant in economics in Cincinnati and in 1917 was married to Prof. Alan Tower Waterman, assistant professor of physics in Yale University. They have three children, Alan, Neil and Barbara. Henry Neil, the oldest living son, graduated from Yale University with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1917, served with the rank of major of artillery in the late war, and is now production manager of the United States Can Company at Cincinnati. John Howard Mallon, who graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Yale University in 1919, was a first lieutenant of artillery in the late war, and is now with the Louisville Cement Works at Louisville, Kentucky. He married in 1921 Miss Eleanor Fales Coward at New York. They have two children, John and Thomas. Miss Sophia B. Mallon, who graduated Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1918, is associated with the Keelor & Hall Advertising Company at Cincinnati. Patrick Mallon, a Bachelor of Arts graduate of Yale with the class of 1921, is with the Washburn Crosby Company, millers at Minneapolis. Horace Taft Mallon, who alma mater is Williams College, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree, is with the General Motors Acceptance Company at Cincinnati. Miss Hannah Mallon graduated Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1924, spent a year in college at Saumur, France, and a year in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and is now a post graduate student at Columbia University in New York City. The youngest of these talented children is Dwight Stone Mallon, who entered the freshman class at Yale University in 1924. GEORGE E. SHARPE. Among the older substantial citizens of Steubenville few are better known and none more highly respected than George E. Sharpe, president of the Ohio Foundry Manufacturing Company, a pioneer enterprise of this city, founded in 1846 by his father and continued by himself. It is one of the oldest and most reliable business concerns of Steubenville, and has the unique distinction of having been owned by one family for seventy-eight years. Great expansion has been necessitated by its prosperity, and improvements have been adopted to suit the changing times, but the same honorable busi- 268 - HISTORY OF OHIO ness policy prevails that was one of its corner-stones at its founding. George E. Sharpe was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 10, 1846, the youngest of a family of four children born to W. L. and Isabell (McFadden) Sharpe, the others being: Samuel, who was a missionary of the Presbyterian Church to Bogata, South America, married Mattie Chambers and their one daughter, Isabell, was born in Bogata, South America; John Henry, who married Mamie Semple, and they had three children, John S., Mary and Isabell; and Chrissie, who married Rev. R. F. Bunting and they had six children, Frank, R. F., George, William, Charles and Belle. W. L. Sharpe, father of George E., was born at Coote Hill in the North of Ireland and accompanied his father, James Sharpe, to the United States in 1810. The family settled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where W. L. Sharpe was reared, learned the trade of foundryman, and as a worker at this trade came to Steubenville, Ohio. He was a man of industry and thrifty habit, and when, thereby, he had acquired sufficient capital he established a business of his own under the name of the Ohio Foundry and Manufacturing Company, this being in 1846, in which year his youngest son was born. Of sterling integrity in business, he set a good example also in private life, being an elder and trustee in the Presbyterian Church. His wife, Isabell McFadden, was a daughter of Samuel and Lydia (McIntosh) McFadden, probably of Scotch-Irish ancestry. George E. Sharpe was reared at Steubenville, developing strong and robust physically, and was of so active and cheerful a temperament that in games and pastimes in his boyhood he was very apt to be chosen a leader. He attended school and made rapid progress, but public excitement, owing to the Civil war, then in its second year, permeated the schoolroom, and when an opportunity offered, although but sixteen years old, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served as a competent soldier in this organization for four months. Later he resumed his studies and spent one year. in Washington-Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, after which he studied chemistry and laboratory experimentation at Ann Arbor, Michigan. By that time his father needed his trained observation and intelligent help in his foundry, and Mr. Sharpe immediately became interested in the plant at Steubenville and in mastering the foundry business had a chance to exercise the marked inventive faculty he possessed, which resulted in many improvements in the staple lines of manufactured goods, and ultimately almost shut off competition in certain directions. Upon the death of his father Mr. Sharpe succeeded to the property and assumed the responsibilities, and in large measure has been at its head and its main directing force ever since. Mr. Sharpe first married, at Steubenville, in April, 1867, Miss Sarah Beatty, a daughter of Alexander and Effie Ann (Johnson) Beatty. Mr. Beatty was a successful business man of this city, a pioneer glass manufacturer, and all his life was a worthy member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe had children as follows: Alexander, who married Emma Carter, has two children, Mary and Alexander ; Abbie I., who is deceased; Mary K., who is the wife of C. P. McFadden, and they have two children, George and Sarah; and William L., who married Mary Allison. Mr. Sharpe married a second time on February 2, 1922, Beatrice Kelley, a daughter of James Kelley, a prominent physician of Steubenville. Mrs. Sharpe is a highly educated woman, having graduated at the head of her class from one of the leading schools in America. She was admitted to the bar, but never prac ticed law. At the time of her marriage she was librarian of the Steubenville Library. She is one of the most prominent women speakers in this section of the state, and for many years has been one of the noted speakers on current and historical events in Ohio. Mr. Sharpe has never been as active in political life as in business, but is a public-spirited citizen and a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Order of Elks and to the Steubenville Country Club, and is a member and a trustee of the Episcopal Church. JAMES COLLINS KRATZ, osteopathic physician, is a native of Cincinnati, and has won an enviable place in his profession there. Doctor Kratz is a citizen of progressive ideas, a thinker and scholar, and has not been without influence in promoting some of the ideas and policies affecting the progress of humanity in general. Doctor Kratz was born in Cincinnati July 10, 1893, son of W. H. and Catherine (Collins) Kratz, residents of Cincinnati, where his father is a therapeutist. Dr. James C. Kratz was educated in the high school at Dayton, Kentucky, in the public schools of Indianapolis, took a course in philosophy of literature in the University of Chicago, and graduated after four years of work from the Chicago College of Osteopathy in 1917. In the same year he opened his offices in the Second National Bank Building, where he has a suite of five rooms, and where he continued his practice. He has been licensed under the laws of both Kentucky and Ohio. Doctor Kratz has purposely not affiliated with any fraternal organizations, since he believes that the human family is one great brotherhood and all men should be treated alike. His literary tastes and talents have led him to write considerably, so far as the demands of his profession permit, and he is author of some poetry and has contributed articles on current topics for magazines. One theme he has advocated several times has been his belief that as a result of the decline of the old time courtesy to womanhood mankind thereby is deteriorating. Doctor Kratz is an independent in politics. He was a staunch advocate of woman suffrage before that movement had reached the climax of its success. He married in June, 1920, Miss Florence Vanderhorst, of New Bremen, Ohio, where her parents, Frank. and Catherine (Brand) Vanderhorst, once resided. Her father is now a contractor of Cincinnati. Mrs. Kratz was educated at Cincinnati, and takes an active part in social life. They have one son, Robert Collins, born in 1922. CONROY BUSINESS SCHOOL, an institution that has performed a notable service in Cincinnati and Southern Ohio for some years in the training of stndents for business responsibility is the Conroy Business School, conducted by three sisters, each an expert and highly qualified teacher, Marcella, Alice G. and Nona C. Conroy. The superintendent is Miss Marcella Conroy. They were all born in Cincinnati, daughters of John and Margaret Conroy. Their father until his death was a well known contractor and builder. Miss Marcella Conroy acquired some of her early education in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota, and after that in Cincinnati, where she attended the Woodward High School and graduated from the Walnut Hill High School. After graduating from the Bartlett Business College she remained there as a teacher of bookkeeping, typewriting and shorthand, and subsequently held a similar position with the Miller Business School. Miss Alice G. Conroy HISTORY OF OHIO - 269 is a graduate of the Woodward High School at Cincinnati and the Bartlett Commercial College, and, like her sister, taught there and in the Miller Business College. Finally these two sisters resigned to establish the Conroy Business School. The sister Nona G. after graduating from the Walnut Hill High School attended the Conroy Business School, and since graduating has been one of the assistants, teaching shorthand and English, while Miss Alice is teacher of shorthand and Miss Marcella has charge of the bookkeeping department. It is a select school, performing the service of individual instruction and insisting upon a degree of real proficiency and skill as the primary conditions of graduation. The school is conducted with both day and night classes, and every pupil is required to complete the course before receiving a diploma. The school credits are recognized by the universities of the leading cities in Ohio. ROBERT N. GORMAN. There has been no more distinguished name at the Cincinnati bar than that of Gorman. Robert N. Gorman is a young attorney, has made a brilliant record in his profession, and is a son of the late Judge Frank M. Gorman, one of the ablest lawyers and judges Cincinnati ever produced. Judge Frank M. Gorman was judge of the Common Pleas Court of Cincinnati from 1909 to 1915, and then was promoted to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, serving until his death In 1918. In both courts he proved the possessor of some of the highest characteristics of the able judge. Robert N. Gorman was born at Cincinnati September 27, 1896. His mother is Lillie (Herancourt) Gorman, daughter of George M. and Barbara Herancourt, and representing one of Cincinnati's oldest families. Mrs. Lillie Gorman served as the first president of the Hamilton County Woman's Suffrage Organization, and is treasurer of the Woman's Democratic Club. She was an alternate to the National Democratic Convention in New York in 1924, and owing to the prolonged deadlock in that convention she attended and voted many times in the absence of the regular delegate. Robert N. Gorman was educated at Cincinnati in the Hartwell Public School and the Franklin Preparatory School, attended the University of Wisconsin, and in 1918 graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. On June 3, 1918, he enlisted with the Naval Reserve Corps, was made second class seaman, and went through the various grades until mustered out with the rank of ensign, December 29, 1919. Following that he completed his law course in the Harvard Law School, and has since been engaged in practice at Cincinnati, at first with the firm of Peck, Shaffer & Williams. On January 1, 1924, he formed a partnership with Thomas L. Tallentire, and this firm of young men has achieved definite distinction and success at the Cincinnati bar. Mr. Gorman was elected as president of the Duckworth Democratic Club of Cincinnati on January 1, 1924, This is the second oldest democratic club in the United States, the oldest being the noted Tammany Hall of New York. Mr. Gorman was a director of the club for two years, -was chairman of the committee on, organization and in 1922-23 was chairman of the publicity committee. The club owns its own building at 217 W. Ninth Street. Mr. Gorman has had much experience in practical politics, having acted as state manager in 1922 for Hon. Floyd Williams, candidate for attorney general, and in 1924 was manager of Thomas H. Morrow's campaign for attorney general. Mr. Gorman is a member of the University Club, the Cincinnati Automobile Club, the American Business Club, is affiliated with Excelsior Lodge No. 369, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is himself a candidate on the democratic ticket for prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, and his ability as a speaker has enabled him to play a very important part in state democratic politics. Mr. Gorman is unmarried. His brother, Harold Gorman, is an attorney practicing at Cleveland, while his only sister is Mrs. Guy P. Davis, of Mattoon, Illinois. EDGAR N. MECK. The successful business career of Edgar N. Meck has been identified with shoe manufacturing. He has held important executive positions in some of the larger companies of the country, and is now manager of the Selby Shoe Company of Ironton, Lawrence County. He was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1876, son of James A. and Susan (Caho) Meck. His grandfather was Benjamin Meck, and the town of Meckville in Pennsylvania was named for him. The Meck family has been prominent in that section of Pennsylvania for many generations. James A. Meck was a successful business man of Lancaster, in the wholesale lumber and coal business, and also a wholesale cigar manufacturer. He was an active member and deacon of the Reformed Church. He died in 1910 and his wife, in 1897. They had three sons, Harry, Randolph and Edgar N. The two older sons remain in Pennsylvania, and both are deacons in the Reformed Church. Harry was in the brewing business until prohibition came into effect. Randolph is now president of the Farmers National Bank of Reading, Pennsylvania. Both of them are Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Masons and Shriners, and their father was a Knight of Pythias. Edgar N. Meck was reared at Lancaster, attended public schools there, graduated in 1893 from the Reading High School, and continued his education in Ursinus College at Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Divinity degrees in 1898. His education had been directed with a view to entering the ministry. About the time he graduated he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard, and soon entered the federal service, at the time of the Spanish-American war. He was in the army a year and three months, being at Havana and Saint Argo, and was with General Shafter at Tampa. He was stricken with the yellow fever, but recovered. In 1900 Mr. Meck became identified with the shoe business in the general executive offices of the Brown Shoe Company at St. Louis. He was with that company for thirteen years, rising to executive responsibilities. In 1913 he went to Seattle, Washington, as manager of the Washington Shoe Company, where he remained a year and a half. On returning East he was manager for the Landes Shoe Company two years, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio, four years, and since then has been a resident of Ironton, Ohio. He began here as assistant general manager and on the executive council of the Selby Shoe Company, and after two years was promoted to manager in charge of the plants of the company in Ironton and at Ashland, Kentucky. On August 2, 1916, at Seattle, Washington, Mr. Meck married Miss Ruth P. Tyler. Her mother was Elvira C. T. Cavanaugh, now deceased, daughter of one of the first pioneer settlers in the Puget Sound country of Washington, and who is still living at the age of ninety-seven. Mr. and Mrs. Meck have three children, Helen, Randolph and Susan. 270 - HISTORY OF OHIO While Mr. Meck never carried out his early intention of entering the ministry, he has always been a prominent layman in the Reformed Church and has interested himself in religious and welfare movements, particularly those affecting the children of the communities where he lives. This has been particularly true of his residence at Ironton. He is prominent in the Boy Scouts movement. He is a leading member of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, being president of the Inter-City Rotary clubs and Inter-City Chamber of Commerce, is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. He and Mrs. Meck are members of the Reformed Church, but as there is no church of that denomination in Ironton they attend the Methodist Church. JOHN M. SMITH, M. D. A working service of forty-five years in one community lends dignity to the career of Dr. John M. Smith, one of the old and honored professional men of Tuscarawas County, whose home has been at New Philadelphia since 1880. His life is also interesting because it is a continuation of family lines that have been in Ohio since the earliest times. Doctor Smith was born on a farm in Morgan County, Ohio, March 1, 1856. His first Ohio ancestor was Daniel Smith, of English stock, whose wife, Elizabeth, was of German and. Spanish lineage. Shortly after their marriage they started on horseback from the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, and after traversing the wilderness roads of the mountains, made settlement in Harrison County, Ohio, about the time Ohio entered the Union as a state. Their son, William P. Smith, was born in Harrison County, in 1804. William P. Smith married Elizabeth Parker. They were the parents of Richard P. Smith, who was born and reared in Harrison County, and devoted his active life to farming. Richard P. Smith married Mary Jane Miller, a native of Harrison County, and daughter of Samuel and Mary (Lightner) Miller, the former a native of Germany, of Scotch-Irish lineage. Not long after the birth of Dr. John M. Smith his parents, Richard P. and Mary Jane Smith, re- turned to Harrison County. They reared a family of five children, John M. being the second. His early life was spent on a farm, and in addition to the country schools attended Scio College and Mount Union College. Three winter terms were spent as a teacher in country schools. Doctor Smith prepared for his profession in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, now the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. He was graduated in 1879, and for about a year served as an interne in a Cincinnati hospital. In March, 1880, he began what has been such a long and notable service as a physician and surgeon at New Philadelphia. During the World war he acted as surgeon of the local draft board. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State, Seventh Councillor District and the American Medical associations. Doctor Smith was for several years a member of the City Board of Education, and has interested himself in a number of progressive movements and undertakings in his home community. He is a republican, a Knights Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married November 11, 1885, Miss Emma Taylor, a daughter of the late Col. N. P. Taylor and a granddaughter of John Taylor. Doctor and Mrs. Smith have one daughter, Helen, wife of Alexander Robinson of Uhrichsville, Ohio. HON. JOSEPH R. GARDNER, state senator from Hamilton County, is a native son of Cincinnati, and for a number of years has been achieving a most creditable record as one of the attorneys of that city. Mr. Gardner was born in Cincinnati April 16, 1879, son of the late Joseph and Margaret (Blettner) Gardner. His father was in the wholesale hardware business for many years. The son was educated in the public schools, graduating from high school in 1896 and from an early age, took upon himself the responsibilities of making his own living and getting his higher education. He attended night classes in the Young Men's Christian Association Law School, and in 1907 was admitted to the bar and in the same year formed a partnership with Harry F. Freking. They are still partners, the firm of Gardner & Freking having progressed to a place of leadership at the Cincinnati bar, handling a large general practice, much of it corporation law. They represent the Economy Wholesale Drug Company, the Hohman Furniture Company and a number of other corporations. Mr. Gardner himself is active in business as a director and secretary of the Hohman Company, secretary of the Gilbert Shade Holder Company, directoi of the American Shade Company and treasurer of the American Pitch Company. A number of organizations have his active membership, including the Cincinnati Lawyers' Club, Hamilton County, Ohio State and American Bar associations, Cuvier Press Club, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Blaine Republican Club, and the Business Men's Club. On a number of occasions he has proved himself a brilliant campaigner, and one of the able men in the republican party of Southern Ohio, and has been strongly solicited to run for lieutenant governor. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the Eighty-second Session and reelected for the Eighty-third Session, was then chosen state senator for the Eighty-fourth Session and reelected for the Eighty-fifth, and in 1924 received the full endorsement of the republican organization of Hamilton County as candidate and in August, 1924, was renominated as a candidate for state senator and his fifth term in the Ohio Legislature. Mr. Gardner married at Cincinnati in 1918 Miss Nan M. Murray, daughter of William and Ellen Murray. The father, now deceased, was in the tobacco business for many years. Mrs. Gardner was educated in the Cedar Grove parochial school at Cincinnati, and is socially prominent, and has also taken an active part in political affairs, spending much of her time at Columbus with her husband during the Eighty-fifth Session. She is a member of the Republican Club and the Cincinnati Institution of American Government. HON. THOMAS L. TALLENTIRE. When elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in the fall of 1922 Thomas L. Tallentire was one of the youngest members of the Legislature, yet his singular gift as a speaker and public thinker made him one of the most useful members of the General Assembly. Mr. Tallentire is an attorney at Cincinnati, and is a graduate in law of the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati Law School). He was born at Bellevue, Kentucky, March 28, 1899, son of Lewis E. and Georgia Mae (Hulse) Tallentire. Georgia Mae Hulse 'Tallentire was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Dr. William Hulse and Mary A. Thomas Hulse. The Tallentires are of one of the old and distinguished families of England, and several branches of the family are still prominent in English social and professional life. Lewis E. Tallentire was born in La Fayette, Indiana, HISTORY OF OHIO - 271 the son of Thomas Tallentire and Ann Martin Tallentire. He spent many years in Kentucky, and is now at Washington, D. C., as a special assistant to the postmaster general. Thomas L. Tallentire graduated from the Bellevue High School in Kentucky, and has been a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, •since 1916, when he entered the University of Cincinnati. His law studies were interrupted when early in 1918 he enlisted in the United States Navy, being released from active duty in January, 1919. In that year, he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, but being only twenty years of age he used the following year in acquiring additional knowledge and experience in the office of Hon. Alfred G. Allen, who for many years represented the Second Ohio District in Congress. Admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, he practiced law as an associate of Congressman Allen until January, 1924, when he formed the partnership of Tallentire & Gorman. Hon. Robert N. Gorman is a son of the late Judge Frank M. Gorman, who for many years was a judge of the Court of Appeals for the First Judicial District of Ohio. Elected in the fall of 1922, Mr. Tallentire served as a member of the Eighty-fifth Ohio General Assembly, and was appointed a member of the Judiciary, Public Utilities, Codes, Courts and Civil Procedure, and Federal Relations committees, doing a great deal of work on all these committees. He introduced and secured the passage of the law requiring all applicants for admission to practice law in Ohio to be graduates of some reputable law school and placing such law schools in the state under the supervision of the Ohio Supreme Court. This bill was perhaps the hardest fought measure before the Eighty-fifth General Assembly, having been passed by the House, then reconsidered and passed again, and had a similar experience in the Senate, being finally passed by both houses, then vetoed by the governor. However, since then the Supreme Court has so changed the rules regulating admission of candidates to the bar as to give practical effect to Mr. Tallentire 's essential ideas. Mr. Tallentire was also active in securing the passage of the Uniform Traffic Bill, which was once defeated, but he secured its reconsideration and later put it through. He was responsible for the defeat of the new Blue Sky Law, taking the position that the proposed measure weakened the existing law and that citizens were protected under the old measure. His influence was also used in an effort to pass legislation for the welfare and safety of motorists and the traveling public, and in an effort to secure legislation to make more secure real estate titles by forcing the recording of court judgments before they became a lien on real estate. Mr. Tallentire was president of the organization of members of the Eighty-fifth Ohio General Assembly who had been service men in the World war. As a candidate for reelection in 1924 Mr. Tallentire had the endorsement of the republican organization of Hamilton County. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Phi Alpha 'Delta fraternity, the Cincinnati Lawyers' Club, the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Ohio State and American Bar associations, the University Club, Blaine Republican Club, and the Hyde Park Republican Club and is a state officer of La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, and is an active member of the American Legion, and of the American Business Club. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Tallentire married, May 8, 1924, Nelle I. Sharpe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Peck, of Clayton, Indiana. Her father is a wholesale furniture merchant, and her family is one of much prominence. Mrs. Tallentire holds diplomas and degrees from three schools, De Pauw University of Indiana, Cornell University of New York, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She was appointed State Supervisor of Music for Ohio from 1922 to 1924, having supervision over music in all state schools and universities. She is a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, various musical clubs and societies and the Episcopal Church, and is a leader in the social and musical life of Cincinnati. AVA COBURN. One of the past masters of coal mining from a practical standpoint in the Hocking Valley is Ava Coburn, now president of the F. J. Riddle Coal Comapny at Murray City, in Hocking County. His experience in coal mining in this famous section of Ohio started when a boy of twelve years, when he put in nine and a half hours of daily labor at wages of sixty-five cents a day. Mr. Coburn was born in Ashland, Kentucky, October 1, 1882, son of Taylor and Katharine (Taylor) Coburn. His parents were of old Kentucky families. Taylor Coburn brought his family to Ohio and settled in Hocking County, and as a carpenter and builder did much construction work in mining sections, both houses and mine timbering. Subsequently he moved to Columbus. He died in 1918, at the age of sixty-seven, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-three. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Buchtel. In his family were ten children, named briefly as follows: Alonzo, who is in the mines of Murray City; Curtis, who died when seventeen years of age ; William, who has charge of mines for the Cannelton Coal Company in Fayette County, West Virginia; Ava ; Virgil, who died in childhood; Alexander, a resident of Akron, Ohio ; Harry, of New York ; Denver, a farmer; Gertie, wife of Joseph Burnett, of Columbus; and Fred, of Akron. Ava Coburn had the opportunities of the common schools only a few years and, as noted above, went to work at the age of twelve, at first as a trapper Soy in the mines. There have been few positions or grades of responsibility in inside and outside work at the mines which he has not performed. In 1917 Mr. Coburn opened a wagon mine, and in 1918 organized the F. J. Riddle Coal Company, of which he is president and which contributes a large amount of tonnage to the annual production of this coal center of Hocking County. In 1908 Mr. Coburn married Miss Ruth Brown, a daughter of Zack Brown, of Murray City. They have four children: Donald, Harold, Frederick and Mary. Mr. Coburn is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. LEROY KEYS SHEPHERD, M. D., D. O., is a graduate of a regular school of medicine, as was his father and also his grandfather before him, and for three generations the name Shepherd has been well known and prominently identified with the medical profession in the vicinity of Cincinnati. Leroy Keys Shepherd's chief work, however, is as an osteopathic physician and surgeon, and he was one of the earlier graduates of osteopathy. He was born in Cincinnati June 29, 1883, son of Dr. W. F. Shepherd and grandson of Dr. Albert Shepherd. His grandfather, who located at Springdale, in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1849, practiced medicine there for many years. Dr. W. F. Shepherd is still active in handling a general practice as a physician at Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati. Dr. W. F. Shepherd married Mary Keys, who represents an old and wealthy family of Cincinnati, where her father, Richard Keys, was for many years a merchant and financier. Leroy Keys Shepherd after completing his course in the Glendale High School went to Kirksville, 272 - HISTORY OF OHIO Missouri, and attended the American School of Osteopathy, graduating in 1904. Since that year lie has been engaged in a profitable practice in Cincinnati, and his talents and abilities did much to gain favor for osteopathy in its early years. He is also equipped as a homeopathic physician, having taken the regular course of the Pulte Medical College at Cincinnati and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1907. However, he uses his knowledge. of medicine only to supplement osteopathy. Doctor Shepherd had the interesting experience some years ago of being called to attend a patient who had been the first patient attended by his grandfather after locating at Springdale. Doctor Shepherd is a member of the Cincinnati Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, the Ohio State and American Osteopathic Society, and he has a fine suite of rooms for offices in the Provident Bank Building, equipped with all the appliances and facilities required by his profession. Doctor Shepherd is a Royal Arch Mason, is a member of the Business Men's Club, and, while not a member, is strongly inclined to the New Thought Church. He married in 1918 Miss Lucile Grandin, of Cincinnati, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Eastman) Grandin, who now reside in California. The Grandins are well known and a prominent family of Cincinnati. Mrs. Shepherd finished her education in the Bartholamew School, a select girls' school conducted by Miss Ely at Cincinnati. The three children of Doctor and Mrs. Shepherd are: Richard Grandin, born in 1919; Leroy K. orn in 1920; and John Willard, born in 1923. Jr.,The home is 3208 Menlo Avenue, Walnut Hill. HARRY M. PALMER, a progressive and successful representative of the real estate and insurance business in the City of Norwood, Hamilton County, was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, October 7, 1880, and is a son of Francis M. and Nancy Belle Palmer. His father, now deceased, was prominently identified with the timber industry, as a dealer, for a number of years prior to his death. In the public schools of his native state Harry M. Palmer acquired his youthful education, and upon leaving school he took a position with the Conrey-Barley-Davis Table Company at Shelbyville, Indiana. He continued in the employ of this company about six years, and during much of this period had charge of the pattern department. He next gave about ten years of effective service as superintendent of the Cincinnati Mailing Deice Company, of Cincinnati, and since 1912 he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Norwood. He initiated operations on a very modest scale, and by his energy, progressive policies and fair and honorable methods he has developed in this line of enterprise a business of such scope and importance as to mark him one of the leaders in well ordered real estate business in this metropolitan district, the while success of equal significance has attended the insurance department of his business. He is one of the active and valued members of the Norwood Real Estate Board, and is liberal and loyal in supporting measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his home city. Mr. Palmer was for two years representative of the First Ward as a member of the City Council of Norwood, served three years as city building inspector, and for several years was precinct executive of precinct G of the Second Ward of the city. In the World war period Mr. Palmer was regimental sergeant of the local Home Guard, and was a leader in the varied patriotic activities in his home city and county, especially the drives in support of the government war loans, Red Cross work, etc. In recognition of this earnest and loyal service on his part the citizens of Norwood presented him with a beautiful medal, and the same bears the following inscription: "Presented by the manufacturers, banks and people of Norwood, Ohio, in grateful recognition of patriotic service in the World war. May 23, 1919." The citizens of Norwood presented him also a medal in recognition of his services in the Home Guard. This well ordered military organization did effiective police service during the strike of the regular policemen of Norwood, and came forward in a similar way at the time of the strike of the city firemen, the members of the guard having proved remarkably adept in the unwonted and responsible duties that came to them in this connection. Mr. Palmer was a member of the board assigned to the appraising of Norwood property in 1917, and he is now appraiser and also a director of the Norwood Home Savings Association. In the real estate department of his business he retains two efficient salesmen at the time of this writing, in 1924, these valued aids being John W. Mitchell and Lee Rheinhart. His home is located at 3901 Elsmore Avenue. Mr. Palmer is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and his wife holds membership in the New Thought Church. The year 1908 recorded the marriage of Mr. Palmer and Miss Irene Vogel, daughter of the late Charles and Emma Vogel, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Palmer is a popular figure in club and social circles in Norwood. Harry F., the only child of Mr. and .Mrs. Palmer, is, in 1924, a pupil in the Williams Avenue public school. HON. HAROLD L. HILTON, attorney-at-law, justice of the peace, counsellor for the Piggly Wiggly chain stores, and one of the most prominent men of Norwood, has won the prestige he now enjoys through his own unaided efforts, and deserves the success to which he has attained. He was born at Savannah, Georgia, December 1, 1886, a son of Henry and Edith (Abrahams) Hilton. The father was for years a very prominent man in insurance circles, serving as a general agent, and his death occurred April 22, 1924. The mother survives him. After attending the public schools of Savannah, Georgia, Harold L. Hilton became a student of the Clifton Grammar School of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated therefrom at the age of thirteen years. When he was fourteen he began working, and when only sixteen was sent out on the road as a traveling salesman, and followed this work for three years. In 1908 he began the study of law in the night school of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was admitted to the bar in 1911. However, according to the state law he could not engage in the practice of his profession without a high school diploma, and to remedy this lack on his part he took a special examination at Columbus, Ohio, the results of which gave him his required diploma. Immediately thereafter he opened a law office at Cincinnati, remaining there until August 1, 1922, when he came to Norwood. In 1911 he was elected a justice of the peace, an office he still continues to hold, having been reelected upon three occasions. Very often is he designated by the mayor of Norwood as police judge, and his decisions in many cases have become famous. In the course of his duty as justice of the peace he has often been called upon to try many liquor cases. When the jurisdiction of the justice court was questioned in these particular cases Mr. Hilton brought a test case before the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the court sustained him in every particular. The case is styled Hilton, Police Judge, vs. State, ex-rel Bell, Prosecuting Attorney, Page. 681, North- HISTORY OF OHIO - 273 eastern Reporter. As previously mentioned, Mr. Hilton is attorney for the chain of stores operated under the name of the Piggly Wiggly. A staunch republican, he is very active in politics, is a convincing and eloquent speaker, and is very influential in state matters. He belongs to the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Lawyers, Club and formerly was a director of the Norwood Republican Club. In 1924 he attended the Republican National Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is a Christian Scientist, and formerly chairman of the church board at Norwood. At present he is on the Board of Trustees and a member of the Building Committee for the construction of the new church edifice, costing $250,000. Mr. Hilton married Miss Lucy C. Burrus, of Norwood, a daughter of Charles and Alice Burrus, both of whom are living, he being a retired capitalist of Norwood. Mrs. Hilton was graduated from Walnut High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the University of Cincinnati. She is a very accomplished lady and one of the social leaders of Norwood. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton have two children: Janis and Henry, both of whom are attending the public schools of Norwood. HARRY J. IHLENDORF. Modern science has developed the system of caring for the dead, and popular sentiment demands a sympathetic service which accords a proper respect to the one gone on before, and the sparing of those left behind the details of the funeral. To follow the prescribed system and render the required service there are in every community of any size the country over carefully trained men who know their business and how to take care of each case with expert precision. Such a man is Harry J. Ihlendorf of Norwood, whose mortuary home is well known throughout Hamilton County. Harry J. Ihlendorf was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1874, a son of Henry Ihlendorf, who opened an undertaking business at Reading, Ohio, in 1876. Subsequently he established a branch at Elmwood, Ohio, but still later sold his interest there and opened another branch at Madisonville, Ohio. Still later he opened a second branch at West Norwood, and it was managed by his son, William Ihlendorf, until the latter ,s death in 1911. The father died December 24, 1914, but the mother survives and makes her home in the family residence at Reading, Ohio. Until his father ,s death Harry J. Ihlendorf was associated with him in his various undertaking establishments, after which he took full charge of the Reading and Norwood mortuary homes. While he had a thorough practical knowledge of the business in which he had been reared Mr. Ihlendorf took a course in embalming at Clarke ,s Embalming School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and later one at the Barnes College of Embalming, Chicago, Illinois. He was licensed under the Ohio State law at the first examination held by the State Board of Examiners. The business increased to such an extent that it was found expedient to place the Reading. Mortuary Home under the charge of Frederick Ihlendorf, a brother of Mr. Ihlendorf, of this review, he, himself, managing the Norwood home, and he is assisted by -Raymond Hawkins, a graduate of the Clarke Embalming School, Mr. Hawkins has been associated with Mr. Ihlendorf for the past twelve years, and is a most experienced man in his profession. The beautiful mortuary home at Norwood, a concrete building 150 by 75 feet, is modern in every particular, having chapel rooms, parlors and dressing rooms. The equipment is motorized, and the funeral accessories are the finest known to the business. Mr. Ihlendorf belongs to the Ohio State Association of Funeral Directors, and is very active in its deliberations. Believing in fraternal affiliations for the promotion of good fellowship and brotherly love, he is connected with a number of orders, and he is also active in the club and social life of the city. Mr. Ihlendorf married Miss Katherine Feldhas, of Reading, •Ohio, who is also a prominent factor in the social life of Norwood. Mr. and Mrs. Ihlendorf have two children : Estella and Harold Louis. Mr. Ihlendorf is a man of a sympathetic nature, and his services are a solace to the bereaved. When he has charge of a funeral those employing him know to a certainty that everything will be done properly and in order, without confusion, and that a fitting dignity and impressiveness will mark each feature as it should. He recognizes the fact that in thus lifting, in a measure, the weight of responsibility from those borne down by sorrow he is rendering a service which cannot be over-estimated, and places his patrons under an obligation of friendship to him. JOHN SLATER. One of the most successful mining superintendents in the Hocking Valley is John Slater, general superintendent of Mines No. 5 and No. 7 of the Pittsburgh Coal Company at Murray City in Hocking County. Mr. Slater has been successful not only from the standpoint of efficiency in tonnage output, but in his relations with the men under him, who have learned thoroughly to respect his authority and skill. Mr. Slater learned mining in England, and his father was an old English coal miner. He was born in South Staffordshire, England, October 14, 1871. His parents, Solomon and Elizabeth (Sheldon) Slater, are now living at Murray City, Ohio, home owners and highly respected members of that community, the father at the age of eighty-four and the mother aged eighty-one. They came to this country in 1888, and for a time lived in Chicago, where Solomon Slater was an employe of the Illinois Steel Company. In 1904 he came to Nelsonville, Ohio, and was a mine worker in the Hocking Valley field for the Pittsburgh Coal Company until he reached the age of seventy-seven, when he retired to enjoy a well earned leisure. He had mined coal in England for a number of years before coming to this country. There were three sons and three daughters in the family. Joseph is superintendent of the Betsy Lane Mine in Pike County, Kentucky. John is the second son. Fred is inside foreman at Mine No. 10, in Hocking County. The daughter Georgiana is the wife of William Lewis, auditor in the employ of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. John Slater was seventeen years old when the family came to America. He had attended school in England, and in that country he also learned practically every phase of the work of a coal miner. At Chicago he entered the service of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago, and was for eight years with that corporation, most of the time as coke and coal weigher. On coming to Ohio he located in Perry County, and became weighmaster for the Lost Run Coal Company and also outside foreman. He was there for four years, and for four years a consul with the Johnson Brothers, operating coal cutting machines. After three weeks as superintendent of the Floodwood Mine he came to Murray City in 1902, taking charge of Mine No. 5, and subsequently was given the general superintendence of both 5 and 7 mines. Most of the extension and development work in these mines has been done under his supervision. He has over 700 men under him, and is naturally one of the best known men in Hocking County. 274 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Slater has been deeply interested in the cause of educational progress at Murray City, and. was a member of the school board when the Murray City schoolhouse was built. He and his family are Methodists, and he is affiliated with the Sons of St. George, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Elks. In 1896 Mr. Slater married Miss Anna Bridgewater, daughter of Esau Bridgewater, of Chauncey, Ohio. They have a family of six sturdy children. Edward is in charge of the mine pumps under his father, and Arthur is operating a grocery store and meat market at Murray City. Albert is now a student in Ohio State University, studying for the Civil Engineering degree. The daughter Miriam is attending Ohio University at Athens, while Elizabeth is a student in the Murray City High School. The youngest, a boy, Jack, is six months old. CAPT. DAVID WATSON SHEDD was for many years one of the best known figures in Ohio River steamboat circles. His home was at Cincinnati, and he and his family occupied an exceptionally high place in the social' life of that city. Captain Shedd was born at Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, July 3, 1847, and died June 22, 1924, being laid to rest in the Shedd family plot at Ripley. His people were of English ancestry, and came to America in Colonial times. His father, William Farley Shedd, was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, August 8, 1816, and as a young man lived at Bethel, Vermont, and in 1839 came to Ohio, living at Hillsboro and subsequently at Ripley. Though well advanced in years, he enlisted in 1861 in the Union Army with the 24th Ohio Volunteers, and fought through the struggle, being in the Battle of Shiloh. On November 24, 1843, he married Priscilla Jones, and the two children of their marriage were Laura Clarinda and Capt. David Watson. David Watson Shedd through nearly all his active career was identified with the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Big Sandy Packet companies, at first a clerk, then a captain and finally as general freight and passenger agent. From 1888 to 1891 he was captain of the United States steamer Gen. 0. M. Poe on the Kentucky River. While his father was forty-five when he became a Union soldier, Captain did not reach his majority until several years after the close of the war, but in the meantime he served with the Second Ohio Independent Battery and Capt. S. Espey on duty at Johnson Island. During his long residence at Cincinnati he was honored with several posts of responsibility, being secretary to the fire commissioner and tax assessor. He was very popular and was a friend to all classes. Captain Shedd married, June 26, 1867, Ida Isabel Armstrong, daughter of William and Amanda (Fitzallen) Armstrong, her mother being a relative of Robert E. Lee. Mrs. Shedd died April 27, 1905, the mother of five children: William Oscar, who died in infancy; Miss Lora, wife of Clifford E. Martin, of Cincinnati; Edna Earl, wife of J. A. Salmon, of Portsmouth, Ohio ; Horace Horton, of Cincinnati; and Isabel Lee, wife of John K. Peck, of Cincinnati. On February 21, 1912, Captain Shedd married Miss Eva Macklin, of old Kentucky family lineage, the Macklins having for many years been prominent in the City of Frankfort, where her parents, George B. and Mary (Caldwell) Macklin, lived. Both the Caldwells and Macklins were people of note in Kentucky. Mrs. Mary Caldwell Macklin died in 1899. George B. Macklin, who died March 18, 1888, was in the wholesale and retail coal And grain business, and owned a packet line on the Kentucky River, and as a man of wealth and owner of a mansion in Frankfort he entertained governors and senators and other prominent people in true Southern style. Mrs. Shedd had two brothers and two sisters: Thomas B. Macklin, a wealthy coal dealer at Frankfort, who died November 2, 1901; William C. Macklin, a lumberman, who died April 23, 1902; Anne, who married John William Gayle, a druggist at Frankfort; and Miss Reubena, who still occupies the fine old Colonial residence of the Macklin family in Frankfort. Mrs. Shedd was educated in private schools at Frankfort, and in the Science Hill Institute at Shelbyville, Kentucky. She has been well known in the social life of Frankfort and Cincinnati. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Christian Church. WILLIAM HENRY DUNN. Thoroughly modern in equipment and service is the leading undertaking establishment owned by Mr. Dunn in the Madisonville District of the City of Cincinnati, and he conducts the business under the title of W. H. Dunn & Company. Mr. Dunn was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in November, 1857, and is a son of the late John and Sarah A. (Haney) Dunn, his father having been born and reared in the North of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and having been a young man when he came to the United States in 1848. In his boyhood and early youth William H. Dunn contributed his quota to the work of the home farm, and the discipline which he received in the district schools of the locality and period was supplemented by his attending Parker Academy, in his native county. Iii the earlier part of his independent career he continued his alliance with farm industry, and thereafter he was for four years in the employ of the Behymer Company, engaged in the undertaking business in Cincinnati. In 1907 he engaged independently in this line of business and professional service, and his is now the leading undertaking and funeral directing establishment of the Madisonville District. For the accommodation of his business Mr. Dunn has provided and owns an attractive brick building of fireproof construction 50x140 feet in dimensions. He has the most metropolitan equipment, including two Winton Six sedan cars, each with a capacity for the accommodation of seven passengers, and maintains also a Winton Six funeral car and a Winton Six ambulance. Mr. Dunn was graduated from the Clarke School of Embalming in which he made the highest grade of all students ever graduated from the institution, and he is a licensed embalmer under the state law of Ohio. He is identified with various leading associations of funeral directors, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is serving as trustee of the Presbyterian Church in which he and his family hold membership, and he has previously given many years of service as an elder. He has had no desire for political activity or public office, but his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service in the position of school director. In 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunn and Miss Melvina Frazier, whose father, the late L. S. Frazier, was a prominent live stock and tobacco buyer and shipper, with residence at Bethel, Clermont County. Mrs. Dunn passed to the life eternal in the year 1892, and is survived by two children: Frederick E., who is a licensed embalmer and undertaker, and who is a valued assistant in his father,s business; and Flossie Ann, who is the wife of Edward Rendfleitsh, of Cincinnati. In 1897 Mr. Dunn wedded Miss Ann Gertrude Simpkins, she being a daughter of the late Albert G. and Henrietta W. Simpkins, of Linwood, Ohio. Mrs. Dunn is a past matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, is active in the work of the Presbyterian