HISTORY OF OHIO - 325 loyal member of the Methodist Church and the Knights of Pythias. His chief hobby and study has been Masonry, and his Masonic record should properly be stated in some detail. He is honorary member of Sojourner ,s Lodge No. 653, Free and Accepted Masons, which, as acting grand master, he instituted December 1, 1920. In Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master, he was E. A., March 22, 1889; F. C., April 26, 1889; M. M., May 24, 1889. Of Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest, he was M. M., January 21, 1890; P. M., January 28, 1890; M. G. M., February 4, 1890; and R. A., February 11, 1890. He is a past thrice illustrious master of Marion Council No. 22, Royal and Select Masters, in which he took the Royal Masters degree, September 23, 1890, and Select Masters degree, February 2, 1891. He is a past eminent commander of Marion Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar, and was made a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Columbus April 9, 1897. He took the Scottish Rites degrees in Scioto Consistory at Columbus April 17, 1914, and on September 16, 1919, at Philadelphia, received the Supreme Honorary (thirty-third) degree in the Scottish Rites, Northern Jurisdiction, and is a thirty-third degree honorary inspector general. He also belongs to Kadgar Grotto and the Eastern Star, and for the past six years has been treasurer of the Marion Masonic Temple Company. Mr. Waddell gave fully of his time and means to promote all war causes, and had a son with the colors. He married in 1879 Miss Mary Rupp, a native of Marion County, daughter of George W. Rupp. She died in 1886, leaving two children: George Earl, formerly a grocery merchant, and well known citizen of Marion, who is a past eminent commander of Marion Commandery of the Knights Templar ; and Bessie, wife of Dr. C. H. Weisman, of Spokane, Washington. Mr. Waddell in 1887 married Nettie Redd, daughter of P. O. Redd, a Marion County farmer. Three children were born to this marriage. Roy E., the only son, secretary of the Home Building Savings & Loan Association, was with the first American Division of the Expeditionary Forces of the World war, and is a past eminent commander of Marion Knights Templar. The daughter, Helen Grigsby, lives at Marion, and the other daughter, Donna L. Harris, is a resident of Detroit. ALVAH COVERT MCDOUGAL as a boy was ambitious to become an attorney, but had to depend entirely upon his own efforts and earnings to qualify for the legal profession, and those early years of struggle strongly impressed him with courage and self-reliance that have been characteristic of his career as a member of the Monroe County bar. Mr. McDougal was born in Sunsbury Township of Monroe County, February 18, 1873, son of William and Harriet Matilda (Mallory) McDougal. His grandfather came from Dalkeith, Scotland, and settled in Sunsbury Township, October 1, 1838, and is still blacksmith and farmer. William McDougal was born in Sunsbury Township, October 1, 1838, and is still living on the old homestead that was his birthplace. He is a stonemason and farmer, served over twenty years as justice of the peace, was one of the organizers of the East Sunsbury Baptist Church, and is a democrat. His wife, Harriet Matilda Mallory, was born at Powhatan Point in Belmont County, Ohio, and is now deceased. Fourth in a family of eight children, Alvah Covert McDougal was reared on a farm, making the most of his advantages in the local schools, and by teaching several terms obtained the money for his higher education. He worked his way throught old Scio College, since merged with Mount Union College, and he continued teaching while studying law under F. A. Jeffers of Woodsfield. After being admitted to the bar he engaged in general practice at Woodsfield, and has handled a large amount of professional work. He is best known in a public way through his service as prosecuting attorney of Monroe County. He held that office from 1914 to 1918, including the World war period, and in 1922 was again chosen prosecuting attorney. Both times he has been in the office he has shown unusual ability in getting results from a campaign of law enforcement. He is a member of the Democratic Central Committee of Monroe County, is on the Official Board of the Methodist Church and teacher of the Goddard Bible Class. He is affiliated with Woodsfield Lodge No. 189 of the Masonic Order, has filled all the chairs in Woodsfield Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is past patriarch and present scribe of Woodsfield Encampment No. 168 of Odd Fellowship, and a member of Monroe Lodge No. 645 of the Rebekahs. Mr. McDougal is a great lover of outdoor life, his hobby being practical botany and flower culture. On February 24, 1906, at Beallsville, Ohio, he married Miss Edna Frances Bolon, of Beallsville. He is active in church and fraternal work. They have eight children: Frances Edna, wife of Emmett Barnes, of Woodsfield; Mildred May, Laura Edna, William Henry, Charles Wilson, Mary Virginia and Martha Lee, twins, and George Alvah. HON. GRANT EARL MOUSER, SR. Marion has a number of distinguished men whom it seeks to honor, realizing that one who has achieved excellent results in one office is certain to render an equally efficient service in another. One of these native sons of the Buckeye State, now one of the highly esteemed residents of Marion, is Judge Grant Earl Mouser, Sr., judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and former United States Congressman. He was born at La Rue, Ohio, September 11, 1869, a son of Dr. Justus A. Mouser, and grandson of Isaac Mouser, who came from Virginia to Ohio at a very early day, and in early years was a surveyor. Later he became a farmer and large land owner. With the organization of the republican party he espoused its principles. The Methodist Episcopal Church had in him a zealous member, and he was one of the first of that denomination in Marion County. Dr. Justus A. Mouser was born on a farm in Marion County that is now included in the City of Marion, December 13, 1835. He married Sarah De Long, who was born in Hardin County, Ohio. Her family came to Ohio in 1810, first settling at Marietta, but in 1832 moved to Hardin County. Doctor Mouser received his preliminary education at La Rue, and in order to earn the money to further pursue his studies, taught school. In 1862 he was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, and in 1865 was graduated in medicine from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. During the war between the North and the South he served as regimental surgeon. Upon his return to civil life, after receiving his honorable discharge, he entered upon the practice of his profession at La Rue, where he remained until his death in 1903. Growing up at La Rue, Judge Mouser attended its public schools and the Ohio Northern University. Like his father, he entered the educational field for a brief period, and then took up the study of law at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1891, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For the succeeding three years thereafter he was associated with Judge Boston G. Young, and then for five years had as his partner, Harry Q. Quigley. From 1893 to 1896 Judge Mouser was prosecuting attorney 326 - HISTORY OF OHIO for Marion County. Becoming active in politics, he was elected in 1904 to the National Assembly, and was returned to that body in 1906 from the Thirteenth Ohio District, and served in the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congress. In 1908 Judge Mouser formed a partnership with W. P. Moloney, and this association was maintained until 1916, when he was appointed by Governor Frank B. Willis, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, when the firm was dissolved. Judge Mouser was elected and reelected to this exalted office, and his present term will expire in 1929. Since 1919 he has been president of the Marion County Bar Association. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias. During the late war he was chairman of the Marion County Chapter, American Red Cross. Both the Marion Club and the Marion Chamber of Commerce hold his membership. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is one of its pillars at Marion. His hobby is reading, and he is the owner of one of the finest libraries in Ohio. He is a republican. On March 30, 1894, Judge Mouser married Della E. Ridgeway, who was born on a farm near LaRue, Ohio, a daughter of Basil R. Ridgeway, now deceased, who was born at Marion. During the War of the '60s he served in the One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry for four years and two months. Following his return to private life he turned his attention to agriculture, and became one of the prominent farmers of Marion County, and specialized in raising fine cattle. Judge and Mrs. Mouser have three children: Helen, who married James Young, of Cleveland, Ohio ; Annabelle, who married Herman Collins, of Lorain, Ohio ; and Grant Earl, Jr. Judge Mouser is not only a shrewd lawyer and able jurist, he is also a practical man of affairs, skillful, farseeing and reformatory. He is an originator of actualities as well as an originator of good and new movements. While a member of Congress he distinguished himself as an advocate of much needed laws and reforms. On the bench he has proven himself a jurist fair in his opinions, courteous in his manner, and one whose improvements in procedure greatly facilitate the dispatch of the business of his court. GRANT EARL MOUSER, JR., city solicitor of Marion, and one of the able young attorneys of Marion County, is fortunate in the choice of his profession, for its employments are congenial to him, he follows them with unflagging interest and zeal, and inherits his talents in this calling from his distinguished father, Hon. Grant Earl Mouser, Sr., judge of the Court of Common Pleas, ex-congressman, and one of the most prominent men of Marion. Born at Marion, Grant Earl Mouser, Jr., came into the world February 20, 1895, and was reared by watchful parents. He first attended the public schools, and later, during 1913 and 1914, the Ohio Wesleyan University. Deciding to follow in his father 's footsteps, he took his legal training at the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1917, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the meanwhile this country had entered the World war, and Mr. Mouser offered his services to the Government and was sent to Army School, Washington, District of Columbia, as part of the Ambulance Unit of the Western Reserve College. He was graduated in bacteriology and chemistry, and commissioned a second lieutenant of the Sanitary Corps, and September 16, 1918, was sent to Plattsburg Barracks, New York, as post adjutant and judge advocate. There he remained until he was honorably discharged in September, 1919. He is a past commander of Bird McGinnis Post No. 162, American Legion, and has served on the Legislative Committee of the American Legion, Department of Ohio. Upon his return to private life Mr. Mouser entered upon the practice of his profession at Marion, first being a member of the firm Justice, Young & Mouser, but since 1924 his firm has been Justice & Mouser. He is a republican, and November 7, 1923, was elected city solicitor of Marion. In 1924 he served as president of the Marion County Republican Club, and is admitted to be one of the leaders in local party affairs. He belongs to the Lodge and Grotto of the Masonic fraternity, to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, Phi Gamma Delta, and Phi Delta Phi. The Marion Country Club, the Marion Club and the Marion Kiwanis Club hold his membership, and he was the first secretary of the last named. Reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, he early united with it. On November 7, 1918, Mr. Mouser married, at Marion, Miss Hilda Gorham, a daughter of S. K. Gorham, a retired merchant of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Mouser have two children: Gwendolen and Grant Earl III. Belonging as he does to one of the old and prominent families of Marion County, Mr. Mouser is well known in this locality, and during the brief period he has been practicing at the bar of his native city lie has proven his right to be considered, either as a lawyer or man, as one who is straightforward, fairminded and forceful. LOUIS EDMUND MYERS, one of the able attorneys practicing at the bar of Marion, and a former senator of Ohio, is one of the most representative sons of Ohio, and a man whose professional and personal reputation is not confined to local boundarics, for he is known all over this and adjoining states. He was born at La Rue, Marion County, Ohio, October 9, 1874, a son of William J. and Emma (Topliff) Myers. Through his mother Louis Edmund Myers is connected with two of the oldest families of Massachusetts, the Topliffs and Bents. The genealogy of the Topliff family is as follows: Clement Topliff, the American progenitor, was born November 17, 1603, and in 1635 came with his wife, Sarah, to Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had five children. He died December 24, 1672, and she survived him until July 29, 1693. Samuel Topliff, son of Clement and Sarah Topliff, was born May 7, 1646, and died October 10, 1722, having had nine children born to him. One of the nine children, also Samuel Topliff, was born May 30, 1695, and died November 1, 1754. He had ten children born of his marriage. Calvin Topliff, one of the ten children of the second Samuel, was born August 24, 1729, died December 23, 1809, having had sixteen children. Horatio Topliff, son of Calvin, was born August 31, 1785, and died April 16, 1851, having had twelve children. Louis Topliff, son of Horatio, was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, August 12, 1807, and died February 20, 1867, at La Rue, Ohio. He married Dorcas Bent. Emma, daughter of Louis and Dorcas (Bent) Topliff, and mother of Louis E. Myers, of this review, was born November 16, 1856, and married William J. Myers on October 1, 1873. In the eighth generation from the American founder of the Topliff family is Louis E. Myers, son of Emma (Topliff) Myers. The American founder of the Bent family was John Bent, born at Penton-Crofton, England, in 1596, married in 1624, and with his wife, Martha, sailed in the ship Confidence out of Southampton, England, in 1638, to Sudbury, Massachusetts. There he died September 27, 1672. She survived him until May 15, 1679. Peter Bent, son of John and Martha Bent, was born at Penton-Crofton, England, in April, 1629, and died May 1, 1678. The HISTORY OF OHIO - 327 records show that in 1656 he was a petitioner for the laying out of Marlboro, Massachusetts. Hope-still Bent, son of Peter Bent, was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, January 17, 1672. He later moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, and died at Wayland, Massachusetts, August 18, 1725. In 1690 he served in King William's war. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Maj. Thomas Brown, November 27, 1700. She was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, March 17, 1678. They kept the Bent Tavern. Elijah Bent, son of Hopestill, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, August 15, 1713. He kept the Pequot Inn. He married Susanna Stone, who was born April 20, 1720, and died July 3, 1801. Silas Bent, son of Elijah, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, April 14, 1744, died at Belpre, Ohio, April 4, 1818. From April, 1760, to December of that year he served in Capt. Ephraim Jackson's Company, in Canada in the French and Indian war, and at Lexington Alarm, 1775. He marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a private in Capt. Thomas Justis' Company, Fourth Massachusetts Line, and was an ensign in Capt. Adam Wheeler 's Company. On January 1, 1776, he was made a first lieutenant in the Fourth Continental Line ; in 1781 was made lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Massachusetts Continental Militia, which rank he held until 1789. He started in an ox cart to Ohio, and located at Marietta. His wife, May Carter, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, March 22, 1747, and died June 10, 1831. Abner Bent, son of Silas and May (Carter) Bent, was born at Rutland, Massachusetts, September 22, 1780, and died in Marion County, Ohio, July 12, 1834. Dorcas Bent, daughter of Abner Bent, was born December 9, 1820, died at La Rue, Ohio, in 1908. She married Louis Topliff. Emma Topliff, daughter of Dorcas Bent and Louis Topliff, was born November 16, 1856. She married William J. Myers. Louis E. Myers, son of Emma Topliff and William J. Myers, was born October 9, 1874, in the ninth generation from John Bent, the American progenitor of the Bent family. Louis E. Myers attended the La Rue High School, and, after reading law, was admitted to the bar when he reached his majority. In 1895 he took his degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Cincinnati Law School. He began his practice at Marion, Ohio, where he has since remained, building up a wide connection as a trial lawyer in criminal cases. His powers of oratory are well known and generally recognized, and he possesses the ability to so present his arguments to the jury as to usually secure a verdict for his client. Always active in politics, he served, before he was twenty-one years old, on the Marion County Central Committee, and has been on this body continuously since 1895. For three terms he was on the Board of Elections for Marion, and was a member of the Upper House of the State Legislature during the Eighty-first Assembly. Mr. Myers has large land and city realty interests, including his handsome residence at 832 East Center Street. Through his Revolutionary ancestors he belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution. For some time he has been local attorney for the American Federation of Labor. During the World war Mr. Myers was very active in all local war work, prior to being called into the army, and was attorney for the Civilian Relief Commission Allotments-Allowances, and was on the Legal Advisory Board. In August, 1918, he was sent to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. On November 7, 1918, he received orders to proceed to Camp Knox, Central Officers' Training Camp, but the signing of the armistice cancelled these orders. On June 15, 1905, Mr. Myers married Mrs. Ethel Burnett. Her mother, Mrs. Missouri Clark McAdams, died July 29, 1924. She was a member of the prominent McAdams family of Ohio. Mrs. McAdams was born in 1843, and had been a life-long member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and in 1873 was a crusader in the cause of temperance. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have no children. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN SCOFIELD. The name Scofield has been distinguished at the bar of Marion County for more than half a century. The first to lend distinction to the name in this profession and as a public man of the county was Capt. William E. Scofield. One of his sons was the late Judge W. E. Scofield, and another son is George B. McClellan Scofield, who since 1888 has practiced law at Marion and is also a banker and business man. Capt. William Scofield was born in Waldo Township, Marion County, was educated in Ohio Wesleyan University, was admitted by the Supreme Court and practiced law until his death in 1883. He served as captain of Company A of the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and became a member of Gen. George B. McClellan's staff, naming his second son in honor of that Civil war leader. Captain Scofield was himself a leader in democratic politics, and was a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1872. He was a Presbyterian. His older son, Judge W. E. Scofield, was highly honored both on the bench and as a practicing attorney, and died in 1916. George B. McClellan Scofield was born in Marion, July 13, 1862, was educated in the Marion High School and read law with his brother W. E. Scofield until admitted to the bar in 1888. He practiced for a time as member of the firm Scofield & Scofield, the firm’s title being then Scofield, Durfee & Scofield until 1916, then Scofield, Durfee & Hardin, until 1924, and at present is Scofield & Hardin. The firm does a general law practice. Mr. Scofield was for several years president of the Marion Water Company, is a director of the Fahey Banking Company, and is president of the Marion County Law Library Association. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1889-90, and has been active in democratic politics all his life. During the World war he was chairman of the County Draft Board. Mr. Scofield is a member of the Marion Country Club and the Marion Club. He married, October 26, 1887, Miss Oda Monnette Wright, a native of Crawford County, Ohio. She is an active member of the Presbyterian Church at Marion. FRANK J. BEASLEY. The substantial business interests of Athens County have no more enterprising figure and factor than Frank Beasley. Mr. Beasley for a number of years has been identified with the milling industry, and is organizer and head of the F. J. Beasley Milling & Grocery Company at Athens. His milling plant is one of the most modern and efficient in Southeastern Ohio. Mr. Beasley was born near Amesville in Athens County, November 22, 1863, son of William and Melvine (Moore) Beasley. The Beasley family is of old Virginia ancestry. William Beasley died in 1909, at the age of eighty-six, and his wife in 1902, aged seventy-four. William Beasley was a well known business man of Athens County. He was a stock dealer, and in early days was a drover to Baltimore and other eastern markets over the old national road. Later he shipped his livestock by railroad. He was a republican in politics, and his wife was a devout Methodist. They had a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters. All the sons grew up on the farm, attended the public schools of Amesville, and have filled various positions in the world of affairs. Frank J. Beasley and his brother, D. M. Beasley, now retired at Athens, were for many years actively associated in business. They started as farmers and 328 - HISTORY OF OHIO subsequently bought a small grist mill at Amesville. This plant they enlarged and successfully conducted for many years. Frank J. Beasley remained at Amesville until 1917, when he moved to Athens and built the modern mill, which has a two hundred barrel capacity. He also established the wholesale grocery business, and his enterprise has done much to make Athens a supply center for a large surrounding territory. He is also a director of the J. H. Grayson Company, stove manufacturers. Mr. Beasley is a member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the Country Club. In 1886 he married Miss Jane Johnson, daughter of A. B. Johnson, of Morgan County, Ohio. To their marriage were born eight children: Bessie B. is the wife of A. L. Elliott, grain dealer, of Toledo, Ohio ; Fred R. is a live business man of Athens County, a representative of the Ford Motor Company at Athens, Nelsonville and other places ; Edna Marie is the wife of Rev. C. L. Strecker, a Methodist minister at Cincinnati; Carl H. is actively associated with his father in business; Edith is the wife of J. C. Briggs, of Columbus, salesman for the J. H. Grayson Stove Factory; Letha married R. C. Hess, of Athens, Ohio, manager of the shipping department of the F. J. Beasley Milling & Grocery Company; Otha Claris married R. H. Galigher, of Athens, Ohio, credit manager of the F. J. Beasley Company ; and Norris is at home. JOHN WILBUR JACOBY has been a member of the Marion bar since 1897, and is an attorney with many commercial and civic interests to identify him as one of the prominent men of his community. He is a native of Marion County, born December 23, 1871. He was reared in the country, attended rural schools, and from boyhood his ambition was directed steadily to a career as a lawyer. He spent five years in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1895, and in 1898 his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the Master of Arts degree. In the meantime, in 1897, he had taken the Bachelor of Laws degree from Cincinnati Law School, was admitted to the bar, and from 1897 to 1902 engaged in an individual practice at Marion. From 1902 to 1911 he was in partnership with Hoke W. Donithen in the firm of Jacoby & Donithen, and since 1911 has again been alone in practice. Much of his work as a lawyer has been done in connection with commercial organizations, and he has himself acquired a number of business interests. He is president of the Marion Development Company, president of the Economy Lumber Company, vice president of the Marion Savings Bank, vice president and attorney of the Citizens' Building & Loan Association, and is secretary of the New Hotel Company, which built the Harding Hotel, one of the finest hotels in the state. He also has some extensive farming interests. Mr. Jacoby’s hobby has been the study and writing of history, and he is author of a history of Marion County and was an associate editor of the history of Northwest Ohio. He has a fine private library. Mr. Jacoby served from 1900 to 1904 as city solicitor of Marion. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1908 to 1912, is a member of the Marion and Ohio State Bar associations, is independent in politics, but has given much attention to civic affairs. From 1916 to 1922 he was chairman of the Marion Red Cross Chapter, and in 1922 was chairman of the Marion Centenary Celebration , observing the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Marion. In 1.924 he was appointed by the State Tax Commission as a member of the committee to draft a new tax amendment to the state constitution. He is a former director of the Marion Country Club, a member of the Marion Club, belongs to the Odevene Country Club of Delaware, is one of the Board of Governors of the Ohio Realtors, Association, and is president of the Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Association, which is an international association. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Jacoby married, August 8, 1900, at Covington, Kentucky, Miss Edna Bird. Their two sons are Wilbur Bird, a junior, and Robert Bird Jacoby, a freshman, at Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Jacoby is a descendant of John and Catherine Jacoby, who established a home in Marion County a century ago. They were born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and both were descendants of Holland Dutch. The John Jacoby family came to Ohio in 1819, first settling in Fairfield County, and in 1824 moved to Richland Township in Marion County. Their son, Michael Jacoby, grandfather of J. Wilbur, was born in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1809, and was about ten years of age when his parents came to Ohio. J. Wilbur Jacoby is a son of Michael and Catherine (Emery) Jacoby, both natives of Richland Township, Marion County, where the father was born May 24, 1843. JAMES HEPBURN EYMON, while a practicing attorney at Marion for over twenty years, had an ambition when a boy to become a mechanic, and his career has been largely molded by his propensity for mechanics. He is inventor of a device largely used by railroads and manufactured in one of the large industrial plants at the City of Marion. Mr. Eymon was born on a farm near Circleville, in Pickaway County, Ohio, December 19, 1872, son of Samuel and Catherine Ann (Hepburn) Eymon. His father was born near Washington Court House, Ohio, and his mother, at Circleville, and both of them died when about seventy-four years of age, having spent their active lives on a farm. James Hepburn Eymon was reared on the home farm, attended country schools, the high school at Williamsport, and was usually occupied when not in school or engaged in other labor with some mechanical experiments and studies. For seven years he taught country and village schools, and studied law at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1903, and was admitted to the bar the same year. Since that year he has been engaged in a general law practice at Marion. He is district attorney for the Pennsylvania Railway Company. His most important result of mechanical experiments was the Eymon patent interlocking railroad crossing, which he invented and which is now used by the Pennsylvania, Hocking Valley, Baltimore & Ohio, Big Four & Toledo & Ohio Central railroads. It is manufactured by the Eymon Crossing Company of Marion, of which he is a director. Mr. Eymon was one of the organizers and since the organization has been attorney for the Marion Humane Society. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a past master of Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons; Marion Council No. 22, Royal and Select Masters ; Marion Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar ; Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rites; and is a past worthy patron of the Marion Chapter of the Eastern Star. He also belongs to the Marion County and Ohio State Bar associations, and is a republican. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. HISTORY OF OHIO - 329 Mr. Eymon married at Circleville, August 10, 1896, Miss Nina A. Slyh, daughter of the late Jacob and Margaret Slyh, farming people in Pickaway County. Mrs. Eymon is secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion. Three children were born to their marriage. The only son, Harold S., enlisted and served as a mechanic, with the rank of corporal, in the One Hundred and Twelfth Signal Corps, and died while in France. Margery graduated in 1924 from the Teachers' Training College of Ohio State University, and Katherine is attending high school. FREDERICK WASHINGTON WARNER has been a practicing attorney in the City of Marion for twenty years, has likewise been an influential figure in the republican party, and is a leader in business, fraternal and civic affairs. He was born in a log cabin on a farm in Union County, Ohio, February 22, 1882, son of Francis Marion and Florence May (Miles) Warner, and is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father was born in Union County, in 1853, while his mother was a native of Galesburg, Illinois. Francis M. Warner moved to Marion County in 1884, engaged in business as a dairy and stock farmer, and he died on the home farm near Marion, June 15, 1924. He was formerly very active in republican politics and was a Baptist. The youngest of four children, Frederick Washington Warner acquired his early education in country schools, attended the high school at Green Camp, Ohio, and subsequently on his own resources acquired his higher education, attending the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1903, and in 1904 received his law degree. He had previously read law at Marion with two prominent lawyers, Harry N. Quigley, and Judge Grant E. Mouser. Mr. Warner was admitted to the bar, December 22, 1904, and has been in active practice at Marion since January 2, 1905. For two years after his admission he was associated with F. L. Carhart, then conducted an individual practice three years, following which he resumed his association with Mr. Carhart, and the firm Carhart & Warner is still in existence, handling a general practice in all courts and acting as attorneys for a number of corporations, including the New York Central Lines, the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway, the American Railway Express, and a number of local corporations. Mr. Warner was admitted to practice in the United States District Court in 1907. He is a director of the Houghton Manufacturing Company. Since 1905 he has been an influential worker in the republican party, and he served twice as city solicitor of Marion, in 1912-13 and 1914-15. He was county prosecuting attorney in 1921-22• and again elected for the term 1923-24, being the first republican ever twice elected to that office and receiving the largest majorities ever given a candidate in the county. In 1923-24 he was state central committeeman. Mr. Warner gets away from his professional work annually for a fishing excursion in Northern Michigan. While on the trip in 1924 he was elected by the Republican Central Committee to the position of chairman of the Republican State Central and Executive committees. He is a member of the Marion Club, the Marion Country Club, Marion Lodge No. 32, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a past master of Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons, is a past thrice illustrious master of Marion Council No. 22, Royal and Select Masters, a member of Marion Commandery No: 36, Knights Templar, and is chief justice of Kadgar Grotto of Masons. In the Knights of Pythias he is a past chancellor and commander of Marion Lodge No. 402, and a member of Marion Company No. 15, Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Order of Druids, to the Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men,s Christian Association, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and during the World war, was a four-minute speaker in all the campaigns. He married at Chillicothe, Ohio, November 7, 1906, Miss Edith Grace Lockwood, daughter of Dewitt and Angeline Lockwood, the former deceased and the latter living at Marion. Her father was a farmer. Mrs. Warner is active in church, social and club life at Marion. Four children were born to their marriage : Persis Lucille, Robert, John and Frederick Washington, Jr. The son Robert is now deceased. CHARLES DELNOW HOPKINS is a lawyer by profession, having qualified as an attorney thirty years ago. His practice brought him into connection with some of the large coal companies of Southern Ohio, and in later years he has given practically all his time to his executive duties as president of the Hocking Mining Company, with operations at Carbondale in Athens County, and the Eureka Coal Company, which has four operations at Montgomery, West Virginia. Mr. Hopkins has been more or less actively identified with coal mining for twenty years. He was born July 28, 1869, at his father's farm, about three miles from Athens, near the present Country Club. His parents were George W. and Rachael (Cline) Hopkins, both natives of Albany, Meigs County, Ohio. After their marriage they moved to Athens County. George W. Hopkins was a Union soldier in the One Hundred Forty-second Ohio Infantry, and for many years was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was possessed of a quiet disposition, had no interest in politics beyond voting as a republican, and was a member of the Masonic order and a trustee of the Methodist Church. He died August 21, 1914, at the age of seventy-six. The widowed mother, now eighty-one years of age, lives with her daughter in Baltimore, Maryland. Of the four children, Charles D. is the oldest. Glen F. is a merchant at Baltimore, Maryland. George is an automobile dealer at Athens. Wealthy is the wife of John W. Race, of Baltimore. Charles D. Hopkins spent his early years on his father ,s farm, attending the district schools, and subsequently entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1891. While getting his higher education he taught school in Meigs and Delaware counties, and after graduating he served one year as principal of schools at Delaware. He began the study of law in the office of Judge Freshwater, and in 1892 entered the senior law class of Ohio State University, where he received the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1893. For a brief time he was associated as partner with C. E. Peoples at Pomeroy, but soon returned to Athens, and for two years was associated in partnership with Charles Townsend, former secretary of state. His most diversified experience as an attorney was gained during the eight years he filled the office of city attorney at Athens. As a corporation lawyer Mr. Hopkins helped organize a number of the big coal companies in Southeastern Ohio, and thus readily found opportunities for executive position in some of these operations. On October 8, 1895, Mr. Hopkins married Miss Adda Carpenter, daughter of Judge Rufus and Elizabeth (Cornell) Carpenter. She was his classmate in Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have two children. Rufus, who was educated in Ohio University and Ohio State University and was a lieutenant in training for service during the World war at Camp Grant, is now treasurer of the two coal companies of which his father is president. The daughter, Rachael, is a graduate of Ohio University 330 - HISTORY OF OHIO at Athens. Mr. Hopkins is affiliated with the Masonic and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Since 1915 he has been chairman of the finance committee of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University. He is chairman of the County Republican Committee, a member of the District Executive Committee, and for a number of years has attended all the republican conventions in his county and district. THOMAS A. LANKER, chief of police of the City of Lima, is an old and experienced police officer in Ohio, and for a number of years was with the department of Dayton, where he rose from the ranks to second in command of the entire police force. Chief Lanker was born June 13, 1878, in Wyandot County, Ohio, next to the youngest of nine children, all living. His father, Rev. M. B. Lanker, who died in 1906, was a minister of the United Brethren Church, and well known in his section of Ohio. Thomas A. Lanker attended grammar schools in Auglaize County, and as a youth learned the butcher 's trade. About the time he was twenty years of age he enlisted in the Regular Army, in Company L of the Fourteenth United States Infantry, and had a service record of three years and three months. He was in the Spanish-American war, also in the Philippines, and went with the American forces to China during the Boxer rebellion. He participated in the battle of Peking, the fighting leading up to the gates of the Celestial City. He was severely wounded in that engagement. After his wound he was kept in a hospital in China from June to August, was then returned to the hospital relief ship for thirty days, and then transferred to the general hospital at the Presido at San Francisco. After four months there he was granted his honorable discharge, on December 1, 1900. Soon after leaving the army he returned to Ohio, spent a year at home, and on October 6, 1901, married Miss Bessie C. Nuhfer, daughter of Jacob Nuhfer, of Grand Rapids, Ohio. Mr. Lanker and wife had three sons and three daughters, the oldest son being now a clerk in the locomotive works at Lima, while a daughter is a proofreader in the office of the Lima News. The other children are students in high school. After his marriage Mr. Lanker spent two years in the grocery and meat business, and then, having passed a successful examination under civil service rules, was appointed a member of the Dayton Fire Department. He was in the service two years, and having in the meantime taken the examination for the police force he resigned from the fire department and was appointed a patrolman in Dayton. He was with the Dayton Police Department for ten years, was promoted to sergeant, then to lieutenant, and was the second highest officer on the force. While in Dayton he took a course in the New York Police School, and is thoroughly acquainted with metropolitan methods of police management. Soon after his return to Dayton he started a training school, and trained three classes of twenty-four men for police work. He also furnished the plant police protection for the airplane manufacturing interests at Dayton, and had a large amount of extraordinary responsibilities during the World war. After leaving the police department at Dayton Mr. Lanker was financially interested in and on duty at the Overland automobile plant for two years, these duties taking him to Toledo. At the beginning of 1923 he was called from Toledo to become chief of the police department of the City of Lima, beginning his duties on April 1. His appointment was unprecedented in the municipal history of Lima since it was the first time that the city had gone outside in selection of a chief of police. However, only a short time before Lima had gone under a commission form of government, and the city manager had also been brought from the outside. Chief Lanker has accomplished almost a revolution in the Lima Police Department, especially through his effective discipline and leadership in doing away with the old controversies. Since taking charge he has kept the local police in training and working for greater efficiency all the time. He has also installed a comprehensive and practical criminal record under the Bertillon Fingerprint System, and has an organized traffic squad and has divorced the police telephone from the regular telephone system of the city, installing a modern police signal system. HENRY DENNIS BEACH. The distinctive contribution made by Coshocton to American business and industry has been as a center for the manufacture of advertising novelties. Through printing and kindred trades many substantial business fortunes have been developed in this Ohio city. Of the individuals who have contributed to this business, none has perhaps been more influential than Henry Dennis Beach, founder of three of the principal organizations in the advertising novelty industry today. He was born at Fredericktown, Ohio, September 9, 1850, son of Daniel C. and Eliza (Amadon) Beach, the former, a native of New York, and the latter, of Vermont. Daniel C. Beach, after coming to Ohio, learned the tailor’s trade at Fredericktown, and in 1806 they located at Mount Vernon, where for two years he operated a clothing store and tailor shop, and after 1862 his home was in Coshocton where he built up a pros- perous business as a clothing and tailoring merchant. Henry D. Beach was twelve years of age when the family settled at Coshocton, and has since spent his years, save for a few brief intervals in Coshocton. The success he has achieved in business has been the result of determined energy on his own part, since he began life without special opportunities, having had limited advantages in the public schools. When he was seventeen he became an apprentice at the printing trade. His first newspaper experience as publisher was the founding and conducting of the weekly newspaper known as the Saturday Visitor. This paper suspended after he sold his interests. For a short time he was in the state printing office at Columbus, and then was lessor and publisher of the Eaton Democrat at Eaton, Ohio. Returning to Coshocton he opened a job print. ing shop and subsequently spent another three years in the state printing office at Columbus. On returning to Coshocton in 1879, Mr. Beach founded the weekly newspaper, the Democratic Standard, and published it ten years, during the latter part of the time W. H. McCabe being his associate partner. While in the newspaper business Mr. Beach served four years 1885-89 as postmaster of Coshocton during President Cleveland's first term. In 1889, on selling his newspaper Mr. Beach engaged in the advertising business, establishing the Standard Advertising Company. This was consolidated in 1900, with the Tuscarora Advertising Company, and became the Meek & Beach Company, which in turn was succeeded in 1905 by the present American Art Works of Coshocton. In the meantime, however, in 1901 Mr. Beach had sold his interest in the Meek & Beach Company and in January, 1902, bought a lithographic sign plant at New York, reorganizing it as the H. D. Beach Company. This corporation was continued for six months in New York City, and was then removed to Coshocton. The H. D. Beach Company has enjoyed a marvelous growth and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the country, manufacturing from sheet steel an extensive line of decorated display devices and signs for merchants. Then in 1907 the Beach Leather Company was organized to manufacture leather goods for advertising purposes. This was followed in 1913 by the organization of the Beach Enameling Company. These three companies HISTORY OF OHIO - 331 constitute an industrial group that gives Coshocton a large part of the prosperity it enjoys from year to year. Of these companies Mr. Beach has continued the active head and president, although on account of failing health he has given up his active connections. From the outset of his participation in the advertising novelty business, he has had as an active associate his son Harry L. Beach, who is now vice president and active manager of the three companies above named. He holds the post of general manager of the H. D. Beach Company. Henry D. Beach is a democrat in politics, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married in 1871 Miss Camila S. Cantwell, of an old and respected family of Coshocton. She died several years ago, and her six children, who grew to mature years were Harry L., born at Richmond, Indiana, March 20, 1872, and married in 1894 Elizabeth Clendenning. Bessie, who keeps house for her father ; Edwin, deceased. Alice, wife of Hervey L. Speckman of Coshocton, and Daniel, deceased, and Louis K. Beach. PETER P. POMERENE, M. D. A notable Ohio family is that of the Pomerenes. In addition to the distinction given to the name by the career of former United States Senator Atlee Pomerene, other members of the family have been persons of solid importance in the state and in their home localities. One of the very able physicians of Holmes County was the late Dr. Peter Pomerene. Senator Pomerene was a son of this old time physician. Dr. Peter P. Pomerene was born in Holmes County, September 18, 1832. His grandfather, Julius Pomerene, was a native of France, and came to the American colonies during the Revolutionary war as one of the French volunteers under General Lafayette. Following the war he settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, where he died. His son, Julius Pomerene, father of Dr. Peter P. Pomerene, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and in 1821 settled in Holmes County, Ohio, where he spent the rest of his life. He married Elizabeth Piersol, and had a family of four sons and two daughters. Peter P. Pomerene was reared in Holmes County, and began the study of medicine under his brother, Dr. Joel Pomerene, of Mount Hope. Dr. Joel Pomerene was a Union soldier in the Civil war and was surgeon of General Garfield 's regiment. Peter Pomerene began the practice of medicine at Berlin in Holmes County. In 1861 he was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He had a successful career in the medical profession for over thirty years, and was a charter member of the Holmes County Medical Society, and also a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the International Medical College. For a time he lectured in the medical department of Ohio State University. Dr. Peter P. Pomerene died at Berlin in 1892. His first wife was Annie Maxwell, who died in 1862. She left one son and two daughters, Ada Z, Haidee Aldee, who died when two years old, and Da Costa. The second wife of Dr. Peter P. Pomerene was Elizabeth Wise. She was the mother of seven sons and two daughters: Former United States Senator Atlee Pomerene; Harry P., a physician and surgeon at Canton, Ohio; Celsus, a lawyer at Canton; Lister, physician and surgeon at Coshocton; Ida; Ora ; Lee, deceased; Melvin, deceased; and Myron B., a physician and surgeon at Millersburg. MYRON B. POMERENE, M. D. Several of the sons of the pioneer physician, Dr. Peter P. Pomerene, followed the profession of medicine, including Dr. Myron B. Pomerene of Millersburg. The name Pomerene has been associated with the profession of medicine in Holmes County for over sixty years. Dr. Myron B. Pomerene was born at Berlin in Holmes County, February 14, 1876, and was liberally educated. He finished his literary education in Georgetown College at Georgetown, Kentucky, and then entered the Hospital Medical College at Louisville. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree there in 1902. Doctor Pomerene has never been out of touch with the advancing progress in medicine and surgery. He has supplemented the opportunities of his own practice with numerous post-graduate courses and fellowship with prominent members of the profession. He has taken seven postgraduate courses in the Chicago Polyclinic, beginning in 1906, and beginning in 1915 has attended every alternate year. After graduating he practiced in his father 's old town, Berlin, and in 1913 moved to Millersburg, where he is a member of the Holmes County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Association. Doctor Pomerene married in 1907 Miss Florence E. Maxwell, of Holmes County. Their three children are Elizabeth, Collista and Margaret. WILLIAM B. LINVILLE, D. O. The first osteopathic physician to locate in Butler County, Ohio, and one of the first in the state, Dr. William B. Linville, of Middletown, grew up in that section of Missouri where the science of osteopathy had its birth, and was one of those early attracted to the school at Kirksville. He has practiced in Southern Ohio for over twenty years. Doctor Linville was born March 4, 1876, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Findley) Linville, of Edina, Missouri. He attended public schools in Sullivan County, Missouri, high school at Kirksville, and in February, 1900, graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville. On the 14th of February, 1900, he located at Middletown, Ohio, and was licensed to practice under the State Board in 1902. Doctor Linville continuously for nearly twenty-four years practiced in the same office. In the meantime he has taken many post-graduate courses, attending Dr. S. S. Still,s Osteopathic College at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1902, in 1919 attended the Chicago College of Osteopathy, and in 1922 and again in 1923 did post-graduate work in the Delaware Springs Hospital at Delaware, Ohio. In 1903 he took a special course in the Illinois School of ElectroTherapeutics at Chicago, and in 1924 a post-graduate course in the Andrew Taylor Still College, at Kirksville, Missouri. Doctor Linville has not missed attending a state or national meeting of the osteopathic societies in twenty-four years. He served one year as president of the Dayton District Osteopathic Society, and has been active in the Ohio State and American Osteopathic associations. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Middletown Civic Association and the Baptist Church. He owns a beautiful home with adjoining office at 121 South Main Street in Middletown. Doctor Linville married, on September 14, 1902 , Miss Bertha Barlow, of Franklin, Ohio, daughter of Arthur and Martha G. (Girard) Barlow. Her mother, being left a widow, taught in one school in Franklin for over forty years. Doctor and Mrs. Linville, have one daughter, Martha Elizabeth, born in 1918. HAROLD KARL MOUSER, M. D., has practiced medicine and surgery at Marion since 1912, except for the period of the World war, while he was a medical officer in home camp and with the Expeditionary Forces in France. 332 - HISTORY OF OHIO Doctor Mouser was born at La Rue, Ohio, July 13, 1884, son of Dr. Justus A. and Sarah Ellen (Delong) Mouser, his father dying in 1898 and his mother, in 1908. Dr. Justus A. Mouser was born in 1832, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1862 with the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, and in 1865 graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He began the study of medicine under Dr. Robert L. Sweeney, one of the pioneer physicians of Marion County. J. A. Mouser practiced for many years at La Rue. Harold Karl Mouser, one of a family of nine children, was reared at La Rue, attended high school there, and spent one year in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He became a Phi Delta Theta at Delaware. He graduated in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in 1907 graduated from the Indiana University Medical School at Indianapolis. He acted as resident house physician to the institution for the Feeble Minded Youth at Fort Wayne until 1910, and from 1910 to 1912 practiced medicine at Oakwood, Ohio. In 1912 he located at Marion, and for several years has specialized in surgery, in which his skill is pronounced. He is a member of the Marion County, Third District, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Mouser was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in 1917, and attended the Medical Officers' Training School at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was then sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, and in New York City took a special course in military surgery at Rockefeller Institute and Bellevue. He remained at Camp Upton until August, 1918, when he went overseas with Evacuation Hospital No. 15, this hospital being located at Verdun, France. While overseas he was promoted to captain, and altogether he served with the Expeditionary forces ten months. Doctor Mouser is a member of the American Legion, belongs to the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church at Marion, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery, Grotto and Scottish Rite Consistory. He married, January 1, 1910, Miss Faye Strother, a native of Paulding County, Ohio, and daughter of Clarence B. Strother, who is connected with the Galion Iron Works at Galion, Ohio. Mrs. Mouser attended Oberlin College, and has been active in musical and literary circles at Marion. HENRY ACKERMAN. It is not until after a man’s earthly career is ended, and all that remains of his mortality has been consigned to the earth from which he sprung, is his spiritual side truly appreciated. Then it is that his deeds through life stand forth, and his accomplishments receive their real status. To his former associates the man himself is then revealed, and in this piercing light the life work and personality of the late Henry Ackerman of Marion are shown as worthy of the highest commendation. During the years he lived at Marion he was connected with many important movements, and his influence was always exerted to raise the standards in his home community. Henry Ackerman was born at Nieder Modau, Germany, February 2, 1845, and died at Marion, December 3, 1923. He was a son of George and Margaretta B. (Bossler) Ackerman. Educated in his native city, and at Darmstadt, he also learned the trade of a barber. According to the customs of his country he was obligated to give a military service to his country, and this took the years between 1866 and 1868, inclusive, but with it completed, in November, 1868, he came to the United States. After a stop of a few months at Crestline, Ohio, in 1869, he located at Marion. For a time he conducted a barber shop, but like so many of his countrymen he was very musical, and it was not long before he began to carry on a musical business. The latter grew to such an extent that he was soon forced to abandon his trade to give it his attention. What he had commenced in a small way expanded in the course of time into the Henry Ackerman Piano Company, and he was its president until his death. In addition to doing a large retail business this company for years manufactured pianos at Marion. For over twenty-five years he was president of the Home Building & Loan Association. He had extensive real estate holdings, was a director of the Marion County Bank, and was otherwise interested in local enter- prises, which he believed in encouraging. One of the founders of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Marion, he continued zealous in its behalf the remainder of his useful life. A man very active in fraternities and social organizations, he belonged to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery in Masonry at Marion, and to Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Columbus. He was also a member of Kosciusko Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Marion Lodge No. 402, Knights of Pythias; Marion Lodge No. 32, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; and had held all of the offices in the Grand Lodge of Ohio, had represented Ohio in the Supreme Grove, and was treasurer for life of the Supreme Grove of United and Ancient Order of Druids. The Marion, Marion Country and other local clubs held his membership, as did the Marion Chamber of Commerce, and he participated actively in every civic or public movement promulgated for the uplift. ing of Marion. On December 26, 1868, Mr. Ackerman married at Crestline, Ohio, Miss Elizabeth Matthes, who was born in Germany, May 18, 1847. She is deceased. They had two children, William Henry and Alice P. William Henry Ackerman died at the age of twenty-eight. He married Pauline E. Blaich, of Marion, who survives him, and they had one son, Henry C. Ackerman, who was born August 23, 1894. He is a resident of Marion, and is secretary and treasurer of the Henry Ackerman Piano Company. Fraternally he is a Scottish and York Mason, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Alice P. Ackerman is the wife of O. H. Boyd, president of the Henry Ackerman Piano Company. JULIUS E. FOSTER. During his residence of over thirty years in Coshocton County a number of interesting activities have contributed to make Julius E. Foster a man of enviable leadership and prominence in the community. He is still active in business as an insurance man, and is a former representative of the county in the State Legislature. He was born on a farm in Wayne County, Ohio, March 9, 1867. His parents, John and Eliza (Juillerat) Foster, were born in Switzerland, where the. father of John spent all his life, while Adolph Juillerat, coming to the United States, lived in Wayne County, Ohio, and joined a son at San Francisco, California, where he died. John Foster became a potter by trade. On his farm near Mount Eaton, Ohio, he operated as a potter for several years. He died when fifty-three years of age. His first wife was a Miss Rudy, and by that marriage there were three sons and one daughter. By his marriage with Eliza Juillerat the only child was Julius E. His widow survived him, passing away at the age of seventy-three, having married, her second husband being Ulysses Marchand, by whom she had two sons and one daughter. Julius E. Foster was nine years old when his father died, and practically from that age has been dependent upon himself and has made his own way in the world. He did a variety of common farm labor without wages until he was twelve, and then for four years HISTORY OF OHIO - 333 received in addition to board and clothing only $25 per year. As a monthly wage worker he was on farms until he was nineteen, in the meantime spending the winter seasons in country schools. For one year, at the age of nineteen, he worked at the trade of carpenter, then for several years clerked in a general store at Mount Eaton and when he was twenty-three years of age he put into practice a resolution long before made, using his savings to put him through the veterinary college at Toronto, Canada, where he was graduated in 1891. As a doctor of veterinary medicines he returned to Ohio, practicing a year and a half at Navarre, in Stark County, and since then has been a resident of Coshocton. For thirty years Doctor Foster had an extensive practice covering practically all of Coshocton County and became one of the leading veterinarians in his section of the state. When he finally gave up his practice he took up a new business interest, life insurance. He now devotes all his time to his duties as an agent for the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company. From 1908 for a period of nine and a half years Doctor Foster was health officer for the City of Coshocton. He was elected a member of the Legislature on the democratic ticket, serving first in 1917 and was reelected for a second term. While in the Legislature he was a member of a number of important committees, including public health, chairman of the food and dairies, secretary of the liquor traffic and temperance, the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the joint committee on the reorganization of the House and Senate. Mr. Foster is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, also belongs to Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married in 1891 Miss Tillie Cabut, who was born and reared in Wayne County, Ohio, daughter of Stephen and Zeline (Schaffter) Cabut. They have one son, Glenn W. Foster. CARL FREDERICK LA MARCHE, through his connection with the American Malleable Castings Company, is wielding a strong influence, and is doing his part as one of the determining factors in the industrial life of Marion. Since 1918 he has held the office of vice president and treasurer of this company, starting with the company in 1912, and he has been connected with it during all of its career. Carl Frederick La Marche was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1894, a son of Charles Louis and Clara Louise (Catoir) La Marche. In 1905 the father moved to Marion, and in the same year assisted in establishing the American Malleable Castings Company, manufacturers of castings for railroads, auto trucks and agricultural implements, of which he has since continued president. The American Malleable Castings Company succeeded the Marion Malleable Iron Company. The plant is a thoroughly modern one, and the trade territory is constantly expanding. In 1920 Charles L. La Marche went to Los Angeles, California, and in 1923 located permanently at Cleveland, Ohio, which continues to be his home. Growing up at Marion, Carl Frederick La Marche attended its high schools, and the Staunton, Virginia, Military Academy, at which institution he made the Pi Phi Greek letter fraternity. Since 1912, as before stated, he has been connected with the American Malleable Castings Company. With his father at Cleveland, the active management of the company's affairs at Marion is in his hands, and his time and attention are occupied with them to the exclusion of other business connections. On August 7, 1916, Mr. La Marche married at Marion, Ohio, Miss Mary Faye Huber, a daughter of Frank A. Huber, one of Marion's leading citizens, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. La Marche have the following children: Marian Faye, Charles Richard and Natalie Ann. Mr. La Marche belongs to the Marion Club, the Marion Country Club, the Marion Rotary Club and to the Old Colony Club. He is a member of the Central Ohio Manufacturers' Association, the Railway Business Men,s Association and the American Foundrymen’s Association, and is active in all of these organizations. CASMIR J. BORKOWSKI, who was born and reared at Steubenville, was away from this community for over two years as an American soldier in the World war, and since his return has qualified and made an enviable success as an attorney. He was born in Steubenville, March 4, 1895, son of Joseph and Victoria Borkowski, also of Steubenville. All his grandparents were natives of Poland. Joseph Borkowski came to the United States about forty years ago and settled in Steubenville, and has been a veteran employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He lost his leg in the service about thirty years ago. Joseph Borkowski had the following children: Joseph; Margaret, who died in 1919; John; Mary; Casmir J.; Helen; and Rose, who died in 1920. Casmir J. Borkowski attended public schools in Steubenville, from 1908 to 1913, attended St. Mary's Preparatory School at Orchard Lake, Michigan, and then entered Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, taking the course in its famous law school. Before graduating he returned home, taught school at Steubenville for a time, and in January, 1917, entered Ohio Northern University at Ada. In May, 1917, he volunteered, entered the First Officers, Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was assigned duty with the Eighty-third Division, companies C and D, at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in August, 1918, went overseas, landing at South Hampton, crossed the channel to LeHavre and after a week was sent to a training .school at Chatilonsur-Seine. He was assigned duty with the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Machine Gun Battalion in the Eighty-fourth Division, remaining there six weeks, and in October was put in the Thirty-fifth Division, in Company D of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion. This division was then in reserve back of the Appermont in the Verdun sector, but was exposed to shell fire all the time. Later the division started for Metz, the armistice being signed while they were en route. Mr. Borkowski,s troops were in St. Mihiel sector and in Toul, and at St. Nazaire embarked for home in April, 1919, landing at Norfolk about May L He then was put in charge of a detachment of Ohio boys, taking them to Camp Sherman, where he received his honorable discharge in May, 1919. He had been with the colors two years and one month. In June, 1920, Mr. Borkowski successfully passed the bar examination, was admitted and since then has engaged in a general practice at Steubenville. Shortly after being admitted he was appointed United States commissioner, which office he still holds. He married in November, 1917, Miss Catherine Trusilla, daughter of Lewis L. and Victoria Trusilla. Her father is a retired resident of Steubenville, having for many years been in the confectionery business and is a real estate owner. Mr. and Mrs. Borkowski have one daughter, Dorothy. They are members of the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion. Mr. Borkowski was instrumental in organizing Argonne Post No. 33 of the American Legion at Steubenville, and was elected its first commander. 334 - HISTORY OF OHIO CHARLES DAVID SCHAFFNER. A man of unusual business capability, Charles David Schaffner has developed his talents in the financial and real estate fields, and is today accepted as one of the most effective workers along both of these important lines in Marion County, while he has played a distinctive part in the advancement of the City of Marion. He was born at Marion, August 7, 1869. His father, Henry Schaffner, was born at Effingen, Canton Aargan, Switzerland, May 31, 1831, a son of David Schaffner. The latter came to the United States in 1848, and first stopped at Mansfield, Ohio, moving from there to Galion, Ohio, in 1850, to Agosta, Marion County, in 1862, and in 1869 went to Dyer County, Iowa, and finally located in Clay County, Kansas, where he died. Coming to the United States with his parents in 1848, Henry Schaffner located at Marion December 14, 1849, and began an apprenticeship to the cabinetmaking trade. He completed his trade at Kenton, Ohio, and worked at it at Indianapolis, Indiana, and Lafayette, Indiana, but after a short period returned to Marion, and worked at his trade in partnership with Samuel Saiter. During the cholera epidemic at Marion in 1854 they were engaged in manufacturing coffins to bury the victims. Later on, in 1866, he, with his partner, added undertaking to their cabinetmaking business, but dissolved this connection in 1877, and from then until 1882 he was alone as a cabinetmaker. In the latter year he added undertaking, and continued in it until his death May 24, 1906. The business he founded so many years ago is still conducted by his son Frank. During the war between the North and the South Henry Schaffner served in a hundred-day regiment. He was a democrat in his political faith. The Protestant Evangelical Church held his membership. In 1856 he married Margaret Schultz, born in Germany, but brought to the United States by her parents when she was three years old. She, too, is now deceased. Educated in the Marion public schools, Charles David Schaffner learned furniture and cabinetmaking with his father, but not finding in this line the work he liked he, in 1887, entered the Marion County Bank as collector. After twelve years as collector he was made assistant cashier and April 8, 1907, became cashier, which position he held until 1918. While serving as cashier he became interested in real estate, and in 1918 began operating extensively in building homes for the people of Marion and selling them on the partial payment plan. This proved so profitable that he formed the firm of C. D. & W. E. Schaffner, the junior member being his son, and they are doing a very large business. Through their plan of making payments many working people have obtained homes of their own, and this movement is one which has a number of excellent features. Not only is it economical, and one affording a good investment for the savings of a family, but in giving a man a permanent place of residence, and thus awakening his interest in local improvements and conditions, the best form of patriotism is called forth, and those who are effecting such changes are displaying citizenship of the highest type. Mr. Schaffner is vice president of the Marion Cemetery Association, which owns one of the finest cemeteries in Ohio, located on the outskirts of Marion. It is planted with every known species of tree or shrub indigenous to the climate, and the well-trimmed lawns are a marvel of landscape gardening. The greenhouses, artificial lakes and Soldiers, Memorial all add to the beauty and dignity of this "God's Acre." This is a self-supporting proposition, and all of its officers, including the Board of Directors, serve without any compensation. One of the best known men in Marion County, Mr. Schaffner, belongs to a number of the leading associations, and is a member of the Rotary Club, the Marion Real Estate Board, the Ohio Real Estate Board, the National Real Estate Board, the Marion Club, the Marion Country Club, the Marion Chamber of Commerce, and he was active in all of the local war work. Fraternally he belongs to Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons; Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons; Marion Council No. 22, Royal and Select Masters; Marion Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar ; Scioto Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a director of the Marion Masonic Temple Company. It is a source of great pride to him that not only was he held in warm friendship and high esteem by the late President Harding, but that the distinguished American made him the executor of his will, and a trustee of his estate, honors Mr. Schaffner most capably discharged. Mr. Schaffner 's hobby is nature study and fishing. In 1894 Mr. Schaffner married Miss Bertha Muntsinger, of Marion, a daughter of the late William Muntsinger, who during life was a drygoods merchant of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Schaffner have one son, Walter E., who is associated with his father in the real estate business. During the World war he served as corporal of the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Supply Train, and as a member of the American Expeditionary Forces spent a year in France. PETER EVEREST STUDEBAKER. The name of Studebaker has long been connected with the industrial life of Ohio, and products bearing the same name, in different lines, have attained to worldwide distinction. For many years the Studebaker vehicles have commanded the highest price and greatest prestige in every portion of the civilized world, and today the fame of the Studebaker-Wulff tires, tubes, men,s rubber belts and running board mats is equally widespread. As a son of one of the five famous Studebaker brothers who founded the famous Studebaker Wagon Works at South Bend, Indiana, Peter Everest Studebaker, president of the Studebaker-Wulff Rubber Company of Marion, Ohio, was early trained as to the importance of excellence of production and honorable dealing, and has never ceased to embody in all of his operations the lessons taught him during the formative period of his life. Peter Everest Studebaker was born at South Bend, Indiana, July 30, 1877, a son of Henry and Priscilla (Kreisbaum) Studebaker. Henry Studebaker was born at Snider, Pennsylvania, and died at South Bend, Indiana, in 1895, aged sixty-eight years. His wife was born at Elkhart, Indiana, and died in 1915, aged seventy-one years. Growing to manhood in his native town, Peter Everest Studebaker attended its high school, and later De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1897. While at the university he was active in all athletics and the Sigma Chi fraternity. Following his return from the university he entered the employ of Studebaker Brothers, and remained with that concern until 1914, when he left it to organize the International India Rubber Company, manufacturers of auto tires and tubes, and continued president of that corporation until 1921, when he resigned to become president of the Studebaker-Wulff Rubber Company. This corporation has two plants at Marion, where the general office is also located, another plant at Wadsworth, Ohio, and a third plant at Carey, Ohio. In addition to his onerous duties as president of his large industrial enterprise, Mr. Studebaker finds time to devote considerable attention to civic affairs, and is deeply interested in the further advancement of his home city. He is a director of the Marion HISTORY OF OHIO - 335 Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Marion Club, the Marion Country Club, the Marion Kiwanis Club, and is a life member of the Harding Highway Association. Golf is his favorite recreation. During the late war he was zealous in behalf of all of the war activities, and produced some remarkable results. In January, 1907, Mr. Studebaker married, at South Bend, Miss Olive Klingaman, a daughter of Henry Klingaman, who after a service as a Union soldier in an Ohio regiment of infantry became a wagon manufacturer of South Bend. Mrs. Studebaker is very active in social life, and in church matters she, like her husband, is a member of the Presbyterian Church life. One daughter, Leah, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Studebaker. GEORGE BUSBY CHRISTIAN, SR., one of the leading business men of Marion, is a dependable, influential and successful citizen who gives a loyal support to every movement for the betterment of the city and county and for the expansion of the work of the church. Many of the prosperous enterprises of Marion have either been organized or developed by him, and to him is due much of the present prestige of the city. Mr. Christian was born at Marion, December 27, 1846, a son of Dr. John Miller Christian, who was born in New Kent County, Virginia, March 21, 1821, and came of Huguenot ancestry. Following his completion of a course at Rumford Academy he became one of the pioneer postal clerks of Ohio, and in that position earned the money to carry him through the University of Ohio, Athens, and after being graduated from that institution he, in 1843, located at Marion and became one of the early teachers of this city. While connected with the Marion Academy as an educator he studied medicine, and from 1851 to 1854 was engaged in the practice of homeopathy at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In the latter year he returned to Marion and continued his practice until his death, March 29, 1882, and became one of the leading physicians of the county. In 1846 he married Pauline Busby, a daughter of Maj. George H. Busby, a native of Pennsylvania, who served in the second war with England. In 1823 Major Busby came to Marion County, and from 1824 to 1837 served as the first clerk of courts, and also as county recorder. Very active in the democratic party, he became its local leader, and served during 1851 and 1852 as a member of the Thirty-second Congress. In 1866 he was elected Probate Judge, and was holding that office at the time of his death in 1869. Still a youth, attending the Marion schools, Mr. Christian enlisted as a drummer boy with the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but in June, 1863, he reenlisted in the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served at Camp Chase, Columbus; Camp Todd, Columbus, and at Cleveland, in the latter city the troops being camped on the present site of Cleveland Heights. His organization became Company B of the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, and was later sent into the mountains of Kentucky, where it remained until March, 1864, maintaining order. The Fourth and Fifth regiments of Ohio Cavalry later were merged into the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry. After receiving his honorable discharge following the Declaration of Peace, Mr. Christian returned to Marion, and in 1866 was appointed deputy county auditor, and also discharged the duties of deputy county recorder and deputy county surveyor. In 1873 he was elected county surveyor, but after two years in that office he embarked in the business of building and contracting. It was Mr. Christian who first sounded the tocsin for the good roads movement in Marion County, and from then until the present day, has never relaxed his efforts in behalf of this much needed improvement, and it was he who built the first gravel road in the county, which extends from La Rue to the Union County line. He also built the Radnor Road and the Christian Turnpike, the latter being named in his honor, as being the one to whom the present excellent roads of the county are due. For some years he was also engaged in the lumber business in conjunction with his building operations, and then, in 1877, he branched out into a new line, becoming editor of the Marion Mirror, a weekly democratic journal. In 1882 he became interested in the lime and stone business. From that year until 1907 he served as president of the Norris & Christian Lime & Stone Company, but in the latter year sold his interest in it and in 1908 organized the White Sulphur Lime & Stone Company, with its plant at White Sulphur, Delaware County, Ohio, and continued as its president until 1922. For several years he was president of the Home Building, Savings & Loan Company, and in 1888 assisted in organizing the Marion Building, Savings & Loan Association. The cause of education has always had in him a strong advocate, and for a number of years he was a member of the City School Board. Reared in a democratic household, he is a democrat by inheritance as well as conviction, and has been active in local politics for many years, but, regardless of this, he supported Warren Harding for President. At present he is engaged in writing the memoirs of his busy life at Marion, which is looked forward to with a great deal of interest. Having numbered many of the leading men of the state and country as his personal friends, he has had many opportunities of getting the inside story of historic happenings, as well as knowing these men as they appeared to their intimates, and his recollections will be entertaining as well as authentic. The Presbyterian Church has him as a member. High in Masonry, he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine of his order, and he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of Cooper Post No. 117, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is a charter member, and for several years he has been president of the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry Association. During the late war he took a zealous part in the local war work, and was especially active as a speaker in behalf of the different drives, his standing and eloquence resulting in some remarkable responses in sales and contributions. On October 14, 1869, Mr. Christian married Miss Lydia E. Norris, of Green Camp, Ohio, and they have three living children: George Busby, Jr., one of the outstanding figures of President Harding's administration, as he served that distinguished American as his secretary both while he was United States Senator and President ; Mary Belle, Mrs. J. F. Dombaugh, of Marion; and Mildred, Mrs. Chester C. Roberts, of Marion, whose husband holds the rank of major in the Reserves. ROY N. MERRYMAN. A member of the Steubenville bar since 1906, Mr. Merryman has had a very successful practice in business and civil law, and his name is also favorably known in republican politics and public affairs, his reputation being by no means consigned to Jefferson County. He was born at Steubenville (1882), son of D. M. and H. May (Armstrong) Merryman. The Merryman family have lived in Jefferson County for three generations, the great-grandfather having come from England, and the Armstrongs are likewise of English ancestry. The paternal grandparents were Samuel and Margaret (Frazier) Merryman, and the maternal grandparents were Robert and Hannah Armstrong. May (Armstrong) Merryman died in January, 1921. 336 - HISTORY OF OHIO D. M. Merryman has been well known in Jefferson County as a contractor and builder, and while living at Bloomingdale was a member of the Town Council. He is a republican, a Presbyterian and a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. There were just two children, Roy N. and Bessie, the latter the wife of George Deist. Roy N. Merryman attended public schools at Bloomingdale, finishing his high school course there in 1898. He then attended a commercial college at Pittsburgh, and remained there two years as private secretary to the general manager of the Pittsburgh & Allegheny Telephone Company. Soon after returning to Steubenville, in 1900, Mr. Merryman began the study of law under Judge Mansfield, his present partner. He had some valuable experience in training through acting as a special court reporter. He also completed a course in law at the Cincinnati Law School, and successfully passed his examinations and was admitted to the bar in June, 1906. He then became associated as junior partner with Judge Mansfield. This firm' has handled no criminal practice, and in corporation and civil, law has represented many large and important interests at Steubenville. Mr. Merryman served as city solicitor from 1912 to 1916, and in the latter year was candidate for attorney-general of Ohio. He was chairman of the county committee when Mr. Harding was elected in 1920, and did some good campaign work when Taft was a candidate. In 1924 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County. During the World war he was made a special prosecutor of the Federal Department of Justice and was assigned headquarters at Muskogee, Oklahoma, having charge of federal violations. Mr. Merryman is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, belongs to the Country Club and Chamber of Commerce, and to the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He married at Steubenville in December, 1911, Miss Mary Vorhees, daughter of D. F. and Lyde H. (Hall) Vorhees. Her mother is living but her father died in May, 1920. D. F. Vorhees was well known in Jefferson County, active in politics, was deputy sheriff, also sheriff, and at the time of his death was probation officer of the county. He was a Methodist and a Knight of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have one son, Robert. HON. JOHN J. HANE, one of the native sons of Ohio, prominent in financial circles of this city, in later years a leader in movements beneficial to the welfare of the city, was untiring in his energetic work in behalf of the local banks, and displayed remarkable initiative in reorganizing them so as to expand their field of usefulness and secure to the depositors the utmost safety. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, September 13, 1836, a son of John and Matilda (Kitzmiller) Hane, and grandson of Christian Hane, who came to Stark County, Ohio, in 1814, from Pennsylvania. Until he was eighteen years of age John J. Hane remained on his father 's Stark County farm, but was given the privilege of attending school at Canton, Ohio. He began his contact with the business world as a clerk, and soon saw that he needed more training in order to rise. Therefore, he took a course at Duff's Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and still later one at Granger ,s College, Columbus, Ohio. Possessing a mind that found congenial employment in matters of finance, he studied banking, and in 1857 came to Marion as cashier of the Bank of Marion, which had been established in 1851. It was not long before this astute young man recognized the necessity for a national bank at Marion, and after hard work and good management he succeeded in reorganizing the Bank of Marion as the First National Bank, of which he continued cashier. In 1869 this bank was succeeded by the Farmers Bank, a private bank, with himself as cashier, and this bank was succeeded by the Farmers & Mechanics Bank, under state charter. He continued as head of these institutions until his death, which occurred at Marion March 23, 1898. The Marion National Bank was organized by his son, Henry B., in 1902. Mr. Hane was not always content, howcver, with his accomplishments in the fields of finance. His outlook was broader, and he was always striving to improve the condition of the city and secure its civic betterment. Believing in the encouragement of local enterprises, he invested heavily in a number of Marion business houses, giving to their management the stalwartness of his vigorous mind and great heart, and some of them, surviving today, owe their present prosperity to his initial work in their behalf. A republican of the highest character, he held many offices, being county commissioner, corporation treasurer, presidential elector in 1876, and State Senator from the Thirteenth Ohio Senatorial District. He was twice married, the second time June 14, 1865, when he was united with Miss Melissa A. Bell, born at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1842. She died September 20, 1924. They had six children born to them, all living. They are: Henry B., Florence A., Alice M., Mrs. Mary John Rapp, Mrs. Eleanor Bell and Walter E. HENRY BELL HANE, president of the Marion National Bank, and one of the aggressive business men of Marion County, comes of one of the old families of the Buckeye State, and one which is honored in local history. His father, the late John J. Hane, was long associated with the banking interests of the city and county, and held offices of importance, for he stood high in public confidence. Through his father and mother, Mrs. Melissa A. (Bell) Ham. Mr. Hans traces his ancestry back through good American stock, and he is proud of his forebears and their connection with the development of the country. Henry Bell Hane was born at Marion, Ohio, April 21, 1866. His high school courses completed, in 1884 Henry Bell Hane entered the banking business, and July 7, 1902, became president of the Marion National Bank, the outgrowth of the Bank of Marion, established in 1851, and held that office for three years, when he retired. On November 11, 1918, he became secretary and treasurer of the Columbus, Marion & Bucyrus Railroad Company and of the Prospect Electric Light Company. In 1921 he was appointed national bank examiner, city banks only, of the Fourth Federal Reserve District. With the death of J. E. Waddell, then president of the First National Bank, Mr. Hane was induced to resume the presidency of his old bank, and is still serving as its executive head. He is also a director of the Huber Manufacturing Company, and of the Marion County Telephone Company. Always a republican, he served as president of the Election Board in 1900, and has always been active in party affairs. Mr. Hane belongs to the Marion Club, the Marion Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Marion County War Board, and other local organizations. A Mason, he belongs to Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons; Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons ; Marion Council No. 22, Royal and Select Masters; Marion Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar ; Scioto Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Cleveland. HISTORY OF OHIO - 337 On October 14, 1897, Mr. Hane married Ava Wilson at Marion. She is a daughter of the late Harvey Wilson, a hardware merchant of Marion, and a Union Army veteran, having served in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. and Mrs. Hane have two children: John J., who is auditor of the Columbus, Marion & Bucyrus Railroad Company; and Henry Wilson, who is assistant bank examiner of the Fourth Federal Reserve Bank District. Mr. Hane ,s record, in all of its varied phases, is one which reflects honor and dignity upon the city which esteems him. He has been a life-long resident of the city of his birth, and no citizen has been more fearless in conduct, more constant in service, and more stainless in reputation. He has always felt a love for Marion that has been made manifest in countless ways for municipal development and welfare, and the expansion of its business and financial resources. CORTEZ L. WILLIAMS. In the law, in politics and in public affairs generally Cortez L. Williams is one of the notable figures in the citizenship of Jefferson County. His membership in the bar of Steubenville runs back more than twenty years. Mr. Williams was born at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, January 15, 1877, a son of William M. and Mary J. (Blackburn) Williams, while his paternal grandparents were William Owen and Margaret (Tipton) Williams. William Owen Williams was born in Wales, came to the United States about 1840, and at once acquired American citizenship. He married in this country, and shortly after the discovery of gold in California he started for the West, and died in the gold fields of California in 1853. The last ever heard from him by his family was a letter in which he stated that he had acquired a fine placer gold mine in the famous mining camp of Grass Valley, and that he would be back home before long. His family waited nearly a year, then one of them went West, but could find no definite information as to his end. The Blackburn family is of English ancestry. The maternal grandparents of the Steubenville attorney were Samuel and Jane Blackburn. William M. Williams has for a number of years been a contractor and builder of Steubenville. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. There are three children, Cortez L. being the oldest. Samuel Owen married Olive Copeland. The daughter, Hattie, is the wife of Arba Williamson, and their three children are named Arba, Jr., Sherman William and Jane. Cortez L. Williams secured his early education in the public schools at Bloomfield and Steubenville, graduated from the Jewett High School in 1896, and subsequently took his law course at the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating in 1901. Soon afterward he entered practice at Steubenville. From the first he has taken an active part in politics and public affairs. He was elected and served two terms, from 1902 to 1906, as journal clerk of the House of Representatives, but maintained his law office in Steubenville. He was city solicitor from 1916 to 1920. In 1922 he was a candidate at the primaries for lieutenant-governor of Ohio. Subsequently he was again elected city solictor, his present term in that office beginning in January, 1924. Mr. Williams married at Jewett, Ohio, December 26, 1901, Miss Mary Estelle McElroy, daughter of Joseph Mitchell and Irene (Winning) McElroy. Her father, who died in October, 1919, was a live stock and grain buyer, was a Presbyterian and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Williams has a brother, William H., who married Clara Pratt, and has two children, William and Beatrice, and her other brother, Joseph Harold, married Miss Maud Baird, their four children being Harold, James, Lee and Wilma. One sister, Wilma Catherine, married George J. Barthold. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one son, Cortez McElroy. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Williams belongs to the County and Ohio State Bar associations, is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, and Elks, and a member of the Steubenville Country Club. JOHN F. MCNEAL, one of the eminent attorneys and forceful citizens of Marion, always used his fine legal talents in the furtherance of what he conceived to be for the best interests of the city, merging the two characters of citizen and lawyer into a high personal combination which, despite differences of intellectual opinion, has been generally recognized as an example well worthy of emulation. In whatever movement Mr. McNeal participated he stimulated discussion and won the respect of the public because of his flaming sincerity and sterling integrity. John F. McNeal was born at Iberia, Morrow County, Ohio, April 28, 1840, and died at Marion in 1907, leaving behind him an honorable record of notable achievements. He was a son of Allen McNeal, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1809. Leaving his native hearth in 1829, Allen McNeal came to Ohio, and buying a farm in Morrow County, continued to reside upon it until his death, which occurred in July 1883. A product of the rural regions, John F. McNeal was trained according to the somewhat rigid customs of his day, and from childhood learned stern lessons of thrift, honesty and industry. His early education obtained in the district schools was supplemented by a course at Iberia College. When war was declared between the North and the South he was one of the first to volunteer from Morrow County, enlisting April 22, 1861, in Company I, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a three-months' man. With the expiration of his enlistment, August 22, 1861, he re-enlisted the following day in Battery E, First Ohio Light Artillery, and served with his unit until receiving his honorable discharge September 1, 1864. Returning to Marion County, Mr. McNeal read law, passed the state examinations, and was admitted to the bar April 8, 1865, and in 1872 was admitted to practice in the United States District courts. Coming to Marion in 1865 he established himself in a general practice, during several years being associated with J. C. Johnson. Dissolving this connection after three years, Mr. McNeal was with Philip Dombaugh, and then from 1879 to 1894 he was senior member of the firm of McNeal & Wolford. In the latter year he took his two sons, L. B. and A. F. McNeal, into partnership with him, the name being J. F. McNeal & Sons. Still later he and his elder son formed the firm of J. F. & L. B. McNeal, which continued until his death. Mr. McNeal espoused the principles of the republican party, as he believed them best adapted to secure the welfare of the public and the perpetuating of good government. For several years he served Marion as mayor, and was one of the best executives the city has ever possessed. On May 9, 1867, John F. McNeal married Miss Annie M. Francis, and they had two sons born to them: L. B. and A. F. The professional intimates of Mr. McNeal unhesitatingly placed him among the most able general practitioners who ever graced the Ohio bar, as he was perfectly at home in every department, whether civil or criminal, common law or chancery, real estate or corporation law. Because of this breadth of eminence he earned a firm place as one of the great lawyers of the state, whom in many respects had no superior. Throughout his life 338 - HISTORY OF OHIO he was an associate of great lawyers and statesmen, and barely missed the distinction of being classed with the latter. He was one of the ideal gentlemen in public life-a man of remarkable strength of character, and of unassuming courtesy and tenderness. HON. LOUIS BERTEL MCNEAL, judge of the Probate and Juvenile courts of Marion County, is a jurist of state-wide reputation, whose connection not only with the bench but the civic interests of Marion are of lasting importance. He was born at Marion, April 28, 1868, a son of the late John F. McNeal, mention of whom is to be found in the preceding sketch. Judge McNeal was a student of the Marion High School and Wooster College before he matriculated in Cornell University, from which he was graduated in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. After graduation from the university he read law with McNeal & Wolf ord. After his admission to the bar he was associated with J. F. McNeal & Sons from 1894 to 1901, and then for the succeeding six years he and his father were in partnership under the name of J. F. and L. B. McNeal. With the death of his father in 1907, Mr. McNeal entered upon a period of practicing alone, which continued until his elevation to the bench in 1921. Always a republican, he has been active in his party, and was its successful candidate in 1902 for the Lower House of the Ohio General Assembly, in which he served for one term. On February 9, 1921, he was elected Probate and Juvenile judge for Marion County, and is still serving. Joining the Ohio National Guard, he served as a musician from 1899 to 1917, becoming assistant bandmaster, and as a member of the organization was on the Mexican border in 1916. Upon receiving his honorable discharge he returned to Marion and resumed his practice. With this country,s entry into the World war he became active in local war work, and was on the Marion County Draft Board. Subsequently he went to Montgomery, Alabama, and enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry Band, and was sent to France with the Thirty-seventh American Division. With his return to the United States and his honorable discharge Mr. McNeal once more resumed his professional work at Marion. He is a member of the American Legion. Fraternally he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine in Masonry, and to the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and other organizations. Music is his hobby, and he has cultivated his talent for this art. On June 14, 1894, Judge McNeal married Alice H. Fairfield, and they have three children: Dorothy, Mary and John Allen. EVERETT HUMPHREYS MORGAN, M. D., recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Marion, is enjoying a large industrial practice in surgery, as he is retained by the numerous plants of this vicinity to care for their employes in case of accident. He is also a veteran of the World war, and a citizen who displays commendable public spirit. Born on a farm near Gallipolis, Ohio, August 10, 1876, Doctor Morgan is a son of David J. and Mary (Davis) Morgan. The father was born in Wales, but came to the United States in 1842, and bought a farm in Gallia County, Ohio, and there he continued to reside until his death in 1905, at the age of eighty-four years. The mother, also a native of Wales, died September 7, 1915, aged eighty-four years. They were very prominent people of Gallia County. The fourteenth child in a family of fifteen, Doctor Morgan early formed the ambition to be a physician, and his after life was shaped with that end in view.. In order to begin his preparation he supplemented his country school training with a course in the Rio Grande College, and was engaged in teaching in the country schools until he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war, and was made first sergeant of Company C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, June 30, 1898, at Camp Alger, Virginia. Following his honorable discharge at the close of hostilities he returned home, and, going to Columbus, he entered Starling Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine April 16, 1903, and as a member of Phi Beta Phi. His first experience as a medical practioner was gained at Montgomery, West Virginia, as surgeon for the Carver Brothers Coal Company. While there he took an active part in school and political affairs, and also was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Montgomery. In 1911 he severed his connection at Montgomery, and, going to Jackson, Ohio, embarked in a general practice, and was later made president of the local medical society. He became interested in banking, and served as a director of the Citizens Saving & Trust Company. In 1916 he went to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was carrying on a general practice in that city when this country entered the World war. Doctor Morgan then enlisted, May 19, 1917, in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, as a first lieutenant. On August 9, 1917, he was sent to Fort Riley, Kansas, and after a course of instructions was retained as instructor in the Medical Officers, Training Camp, and received his commission as captain December 26, 1917. In September, 1918, he was transferred to Camp Meade as director of Ambulance Corps, Eleventh Division, which he organized (Ambulance Sector). In October of that year he was sent overseas to the Army Sanitary School as senior medical officer of the Advance School Detachment and was there when the armistice was signed. Returned to the United States, he was honorably discharged December 27, 1918, having been promoted to the rank of major October 21, 1918. On February 24, 1919, he was commissioned major of the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, which rank he still holds. In 1919 Doctor Morgan came to Marion, and has since been located here, and has built up a very large practice, especially in industrial surgery. The County, State and National Medical associations hold his membership. Very active in the American Legion, he is an examiner for the War Veterans' Bureau. Doctor Morgan belongs to the Marion County Club. He is a York Rite Mason, and belongs to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Astronomy is his hobby, and in this science he has become an expert. Doctor Morgan married Elizabeth Bovie, of Gallipolis, Ohio, daughter of Fred M. Boyle, a prominent business man of Gallipolis. Mrs. Morgan is an active worker in the Episcopal Church of Marion, and is also active in club life. She and Doctor Morgan have four children: Bovie, David J., Elizabeth and Roger. CHARLES R. WHITE, newspaper publisher and postmaster at Millersburg, grew up in the atmosphere of a newspaper office. His father was one of the successful men in Ohio journalism in the last century. Charles R. White was born at Wooster, Ohio; August 6, 1869, son of Henry G. and Mary Elizabeth (Steinman) White. His father was born in London, England, and his mother in Holmes County, Ohio. Henry G. White came to the United States when a young man, learned the printer 's trade, and for several years engaged in newspaper business at Wooster. Then with a partner he bought the Holmes County Republican at Millersburg, and continued active, in. newspaper work there until his death in 1897. The Holmes County Republican was subsequently changed to the Millersburg Republican, and HISTORY OF OHIO - 339 finally to the Holmes County Hub, an independent republican newspaper. This newspaper in 1920 was awarded first prize in its class of Ohio papers by the journalistic department of Ohio State University. Charles R. White was reared in Millersburg, was educated in the public schools, and learned the printer ,s trade in his father ,s plant. He succeeded his father as editor and publisher of the Millersburg Republican, and has subsequently changed its name to the Holmes County Hub. Mr. White has been active in the republican party for a number of years. He has filled the office of postmaster for nine years. He was first appointed to that office by President Roosevelt. In April, 1921, he again took up the duties of this office under appointment by the late President Harding. In 1920 he was presidential elector for the Sixteenth Congressional District. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights Templar Masons and Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Rotary Club and the English Lutheran Church. Mr. White married in 1898 Miss Bertha V. Mast, of Holmes County, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Mast. Four children were born to their marriage: Howard A., Raymond M., Mary R., a student in Wittenberg College, and Lawrence M. The son Howard was a cadet in the Annapolis Naval Academy, but on account of ill health resigned after three years and subsequently took a course in journalism at Ohio State University. ALBERT T. COLE, M. D., graduated in medicine thirty years ago. He has practiced almost continuously at Millersburg, the county seat of the county where he was born and reared. Doctor Cole is one of the able men in his profession, and specializes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat. He was born on a farm near Millersburg, July 5, 1872, son of Joseph and Etta (Snyder) Cole. His great-grandfather, Frederick Cole, was born either in Pennsylvania or Germany, and spent the greater part of his life in Pennsylvania. Thomas E. Cole, grandfather of Doctor Cole, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and married Barbara Ackerman. They reared the following children: Sarah E., Hannah, John, Joseph H. and Jacob E. (twins), Elizabeth, Mary, Fannie, Thomas and Melissa, all of whom have passed away. The sons Joseph H., Jacob E. and Thomas were Union soldiers in the Civil war. Jacob was killed at the Battle of Champion Hill, and Thomas died of typhoid fever at Vicksburg. Joseph was in the army three years and four months, and returned without serious injury. He was for many years a faithful member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Joseph Cole, father of Doctor Cole, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a child when brought to Ohio. He married in 1868 Miss Marietta Snyder, whose father, Reason Snyder, after coming to Holmes County, engaged in the milling business until he retired and moved to Wooster, Ohio, where he died in 1866. His widow is now seventy-seven years of age and lives in Cleveland with her son Joseph H. Joseph Cole was a republican in politics and a member of the English Lutheran Church. They had a family of three children: Altha B., now deceased; Joseph Harold Cole, banker of Cleveland; and Albert T. Dr. Albert T. Cole spent the first twenty years of his life on the farm, attending district schools. He completed his education in the Millersburg public schools, graduating from high school, and for one term taught in a rural district, but in 1892 he entered Ohio Medical University, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1895, and in 1896 completed the course and received his diploma from the New York Polyclinic. During 1897 he was engaged in practice in Chicago, and then returned to Millersburg. He has endeavored to keep his ability and skill equal to the heavy demands made upon him, and has supplemented his experience by post-graduate studies. In 1905 he again attended the New York Polyclinic, and in 1922 attended the Illinois Post Graduate School at Chicago. While engaged in general practice of both medicine and surgery, he is one of the best equipped members of his profession at Millersburg in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is a member of the County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Cole is a Master Mason, a member of the Rotary Club and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in 1896 Alice Cary. They have two sons, Warner C. and Allen A. The son Warner during 1918 spent five months at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station preparing for service in the World war. HUGH S. COBLE. A long, active and prosperous career at Steubenville, during which he has given his aid and encouragement to the management of the city's industries and enterprises, has made Hugh S. Coble one of the best known citizens of the community. He is identified with a number of Steubenville,s activities, being secretary of the Jefferson Building & Savings Company, and in the various institutions with which he has been associated his labors have been invariably of a constructive character. Mr. Coble was born at Leaviddsville, Carroll County, Ohio, May 23, 1850, but has been a resident of Steubenville since his second year, having been brought to this place in 1852 by his parents, Jacob and Jane (Sterling) Coble, the former of whom died in 1877 and the latter in September, 1875. His great-grandfather was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. His maternal grandfather was Hugh Sterling, who came with his wife, Jane, from Ireland and first settled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Coble's mother was born. Later grandfather Sterling bought the property at Fourth and Adams streets, Steubenville, Ohio, which is now in the possession of his grandson, Mr. H. S. Coble. Jacob Coble on coming to Steubenville in 1852 began an active career. A merchant by vocation, he built up one of the largest establishments of the community, was likewise prominent in all affairs of public interest, served on the school board and the City Council, and was a leading member and supporter of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly known as Kramer Chapel. He and his wife were the parents of five children: Margaret, who married L. V. Brandenburg and has two children, William C. and Ottomer G.; Mary Hood, who is unmarried; Katherine, who married H. 0. Hukill, and has one child, J. L.; Hugh S.; and Martha, who married Rev. W. D. Grace, and has one child, Frank S. Hugh S. Coble following his graduation from the high school at Steubenville when sixteen years of age, entered his father ,s store as a clerk, and remained with the elder man as his associate until death claimed the founder of the business. The heirs subsequently selling the business, Mr. Coble then secured employment in the store of Winfield Scott, with whom he remained for eight years as cashier. For some time Mr. Coble had been interested in politics, and at this point in his career was elected county treasurer of Jefferson County, an office in which he served two full terms, followed by a term as. deputy county treasurer under his successor. On leaving 340 - HISTORY OF OHIO the county office he became secretary of the Jefferson Building & Savings Company, of which he is also a director, and which company carries on an extensive building and loan business. He has remained in this capacity to the present, and is accounted one of the able business men of his community. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs also to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Country Club and the Century Club, in all of which he has numerous friends. On October 2, 1872, Mr. Coble was united in marriage at Youngstown, Ohio, with Miss Mary Paine, daughter of O. D. Paine and Susan P. Mostelaur) Paine, both deceased. O. D. Paine was a prominent physician of Youngstown who died in 1910, his wife passing away in 1920. They were the parents of three children: Mary; Ida, who married Mr. Gulick; and Belle, who married Kenneth Reinholt, and had one child, Helen Paine. Mr. and Mrs. Coble had one son, the late Dwight Hukill Coble, who married Alice Bair, and had one son, Dwight Sterling, who is also deceased, although the widow survives. CHRISTIAN J. FISHER, attorney and banker at Millerburg, has been a prominent factor in the legal and civic affairs of that community for over thirty years. He was born March 12, 1861, on a farm in Clark Township of Holmes County. That farm was also the birthplace of his father, and it was originally acquired by his grandparents, Jacob and Catherine Fisher, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. The parents of the Millersburg attorney were Jacob and Julianna (Deal) Fisher. Julianna Deal was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Joseph Deal, an early settler in Holmes County, Ohio. Jacob Fisher spent his active career as a farmer, and he served as a county commissioner from 1865 to 1871. He was a democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church. Jacob Fisher died at the age of sixty-five, and his wife at forty-five. They reared the following children: Catherine and Naomi (both deceased), Jemimah, Lizzie Ann, Susanna, Mary Ellen, C. J. and Joseph. Christian J. Fisher, only representative of the family now in Holmes County, grew up on the old homestead, attended the country schools, and finished his literary education in Ohio Northern University at Ada. For eight winter terms he taught in country schools, carrying on in the meantime his law studies in the office of Wellington & Stillwell at Millersburg. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1892, and steadily since that date has practiced at Millersburg. Mr. Fisher was elected prosecuting attorney of Holmes County in 1902, and by reelection in 1905 served six years in the office, making a most creditable record. He is a democrat. In 1918 he resigned, after three years of service, as a state deputy supervisor of elections in order to enter a three-cornered fight for the democratic nomination for judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Fisher is a Master Mason and Knight of Pythias. In 1889 he married Mrs. Minnie (Thompson) Wisard. Mr. Fisher was one of the organizers of the Farmers & Merchants Bank in 1904, and has been continuously secretary of that institution and also a director and attorney. He was one of the organizers of the Deposit, Building, Savings & Loan Company of Millersburg in 1893, and is director and attorney for that institution as well. HON. JAMES GLENN, judge of the Common Pleas Court of Coshocton County, attained the qualifications of a practicing attorney in Ohio a third of a century ago. He is now in his second term on the bench, and his entire record has been in keeping with the character and service he has exemplified as a judge. Judge Glenn was born on a farm just north of the City of Cambridge, in Guernsey County, Ohio, April 13, 1868. His family had been in Ohio for over a century. Three Glenn brothers came to this country from Scotland in Colonial times, and one of them, John Glenn, settled near Richmond, Virginia, where he lived all his life. His son, John Glenn, who married Nancy Cox, moved from Virginia to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and as early as 1814 moved over into Ohio, settling in Columbiana County, which was then receiving a large volume of Scotch-Irish migration from Pennsylvania and adjoining states. Joseph Glenn, a son of John and Nancy (Cox) Glenn, was born while the family lived in Pennsylvania, accompanied his father to Ohio, and married Anne Moore. After his marriage he moved to Cadiz in Harrison County, Ohio, and also lived in Noble County, but finally returned to Columbiana County, where he died. John Glenn, son of Joseph and Anne (Moore) Glenn, was born in Noble County, Ohio, and made a record of three years as a gallant soldier in the Civil war. He was in the Seventieth Ohio Infantry, was with Sherman on the March to the Sea, and fallowing the close of the war he married Margaret Ferguson, a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and daughter of James and Margaret Ferguson. James Ferguson came from Belfast, Ireland, to this country, bringing enough gold to buy a section. of land in Guernsey County, where his subsequent life was devoted to farming. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. James Ferguson married Margaret Walters, whose father was William Walters and whose mother was a Miss Stutz. William Walters served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and descended from an old Pennsylvania Dutch family. Judge James Glenn, one of four children, of John and Margaret (Ferguson) Glenn was reared on a farm in Guernsey County, attended the common schools there, and finished his literary education in Muskingum College at New Concord. For three years he taught school, studied law in an office at Cambridge, was admitted to the bar at the- age of twenty-one, and did his first work as a practicing attorney at New Concord, in Muskingum County. In 1891 he came to Coshocton, and soon earned a successful practice here. Since early manhood he has been affiliated with the republican party. Though living in a normally democratic county, he was -elected in 1896, on the republican ticket, a member of the Legislature, and subsequently was elected and served one term as prosecuting attorney. In 1916 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court, and was reelected in 1922, in that year achieving a real personal triumph on being elected on the republican ticket against an adverse democratic majority. Judge Glenn married in 1891 Miss Emma Lee Lawyer, a native of Guernsey County. Seven children were born to their marriage, of whom six are living: Claire Alfreda; Ione, wife of Richard Bixler; Margaret, wife of Draper St. Clair, who was a soldier in home training camp during the World war; John Lawyer Glenn, who married Ann Reed, and during the World war was in the Officers' Training School when the armistice was signed; James Arthur and Annabel Lee. The other child, Emily, died at the age of nine years. JAMES CLARENCE ELDER, M. D., is a practicing physician now located at Millersburg. Dr. James Clarence Elder represents the second generation of HISTORY OF OHIO - 341 the family in the medical profession in Ohio. He is a son of the late Dr. William T. Elder. His grandfather, also William T. Elder, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was about fifteen years of age when he accompanied his mother to Holmes County, Ohio. They settled there about 1840, and William T. Elder reached the advanced age of ninety-one. His son, Dr. William T. Elder, was born in Washington Township, Holmes County, was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and for a quarter of a century was engaged in a general medical practice at Nashville, Ohio, where he died in 1903. Dr. William T. Elder married Sophrona Vance, who was born in Knox Township, Holmes County, Ohio, daughter of John and Mary (Hughes) Vance, and he was of Revolutionary ancestry. Dr. James C. Elder, one of three children, was born at Nashville, Ohio, October 6, 1877. He was reared in his native town, was educated in the public schools, and attended one year at Wooster College. He attended high school at Columbus, Ohio, and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was a student for two years, and finished his medical course in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he remained for three years, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1904. Doctor Elder then returned to Nashville, Ohio, but since 1920 his home and offices have been in Millersburg. He is very proficient in general practice, and has had a heavy weight of professional responsibility. He has served as county coroner, and is a member of the Holmes County, Sixth District and State Medical societies. He is also' a member of the County Board of Health. He is serving on the County School Board, is a democrat in politics, and a member of the Rotary Club, Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Elder was commissioned April 1, 1919, a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He was very active in the different campaigns during the World war, and assisted both in a professional and a civic capacity in the various war campaigns. He has been president of the County Medical Society. In 1905 Doctor Elder married Miss Pearl Drake. They are the parents of four sons: Guy P., Marion D., James C. and William T. Mrs. Elder was born in Holmes County, daughter of C. E. and Mary (Ullman) Drake. ALLIE L. SCHAFER has the distinction of being the only woman ever elected to a public office in Holmes County. She has given a very efficient administration of the duties of county clerk, and has proved herself admirably qualified for the duties she now performs. Mrs. Schafer was born in Shelby County, February 15, 1888, daughter of Charles J. and Carrie A. (Verdier) Frazier. Her parents were born in Ohio, the Fraziers being of Scotch ancestry. Charles J. Frazier was a farmer in Shelby County, but since 1911 he and his wife have lived at Millersburg, in Holmes County. Mrs. Schafer was reared in her native county, attended public schools there, and after securing a teacher's license was teacher of music in the public schools of Shelby County during 1906-07. In 1908 she was married to William J. Shafer, a native of Shelby County, Ohio. Mr. Schafer was a son of Michael Schafer, a native of Germany, who came to this country at the age of sixteen. In 1911 Mr. and Mrs. Schafer came to Holmes County and located on a farm near Millersburg. At Millersburg Mr. Schafer became one of the industrious members of the rural district, and was prospering until his accidental death in 1915. Mrs. Schafer at the time of her husband ,s death was left with four children, Thelma, Eileen, Wayne and Leland. In 1918 she moved to Millersburg, and in 1922 was nominated on the democratic ticket and elected as county clerk for a term of two years. Mrs. Schafer is a member of the Presbyterian Church. GEORGE D. NEWCOMER was a faithful Union soldier during the greater part of the Civil war, and since the war has been actively identified with farming and other interests in Fulton County. He is now living retired in the City of Wauseon. Mr. Newcomer was born in Holmes County, Ohio, April 15, 1844. His parents, John and Naomi (Debolt) Newcomer, were natives of Pennsylvania, where his father was born April 17, 1807, and his mother on February 14, 1814. They were married in Pennsylvania, and in 1837 moved to Holmes County, Ohio. In 1844 this family made another move, bringing them to what was then Lucas County, now Fulton County. They were among the first pioneers to break the wilderness in this section of the state. They made the journey from Holmes County with covered wagon, while the mother rode horseback, carrying her infant child, George D. Newcomer, in her arms. They made settlement just north of Wauseon, and the father cleared and developed a farm there, on which he lived until his death on April 23, 1890. The mother passed away in 1886. Both were very active members of the Methodist Church, and John Newcomer was the first candidate for Masonic honors in the Wauseon Lodge of Masons. He afterward served as treasurer of the lodge a number of years, and held the office of master in the York Rite. He was a democrat in politics, and held the office of justice of the peace. George D. Newcomer is the only survivor of six children. He grew up on a farm and attended the common schools. He was seventeen years old when the war began, and he enlisted in Company D of the Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently lie was transferred to Company D of the Eighty-seventh Infantry. He was captured at Harpers Ferry, but was paroled, and in 1863 enlisted in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry. He was with that regiment six months, being discharged, and in 1864 joined the One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio Infantry, serving until the close of the war. He was a first sergeant. When the war was over he returned to Fulton County and engaged in farming. In 1869 he married Miss Clarissa Poorman, and they settled on a farm two miles north of Wauseon. His wife died in 1875. One son, Frank M., was born to this union. In 1876 Mr. Newcomer married Miss Malinda Mike-sell. The three children of this marriage are Ethel, Guy and Mary. Their mother died in 1902. Subsequently Mr. Newcomer married Louisa A. Cornell. He has been commander of the Wauseon Grand Army Post. He is active in the Methodist Church, is affiliated with Wauseon Lodge No. 349, Free and Accepted Masons Wauseon Chapter No. 111, Royal Arch Masons; Council No. 68, Royal and Select Masters ; Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, and the Scottish Rite Consistory in the Valley of Toledo. He filled all the offices of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council. He is a republican, and served as township trustee six years and as county commissioner seven years. His home in Wauseon is at 254 Depot Street. WILLIAM F. CARY, funeral director at Millersburg, has been one of the conspicuously influential men in his profession in Ohio and is president of the State Board of Embalmer Examiners. 342 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Cary was born January 31, 1863, son of George W. and Jane (Pinkerton) Cary, his father a native of Holmes County and his mother of Wayne County. George W. Cary was born in Millersburg, June 23, 1824, son of John and Susan (Gibson) Cary. John Cary was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch ancestry, and became one of the very early settlers of Holmes County, Ohio, coming here before the Indians had left their homes in the wilderness. He helped to build the first substantial courthouse in Holmes County. He reached the good old age of seventy-five. George W. Cary attained to the age of eighty-one. He was a merchant, and when the Civil war came on he sold out and in after years was "a street broker," lending money. He was a democrat in politics, and was a liberal supporter of the Methodist Church, of which the Carys have been members for a number of generations. The wife of George Cary died at the age of seventy-six, and they had a family of seven sons and one daughter. William F. Cary grew up at Millersburg, and that town has been his home practically without interruption since childhood. He was educated in the public schools, and in 1892 engaged in the undertaking business. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Embalming, also the Columbus Training School of Embalmers, and of the Cleveland School of Embalmers, and was engaged in post-graduate study at the Chicago College of Embalmers. He has held all the offices in the State Funeral Directors' Association, and is serving his fifth term of three years each as member of the Ohio State Board of Embalmer Examiners, being president of the board. In this capacity his name has become known in his profession throughout Ohio. Mr. Cary is a democrat in politics, and has served eight years on the Millersburg City Council, and has held various minor offices. He is a member of the National Funeral Directors' Association and the National Conference Board of Embalmers. Mr. Cary is a Knight Templar Mason, having filled various chairs in the different bodies of the order, and is past eminent commander of the Knights Templar Commandery No. 48 at Wooster, Ohio. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1885 Mr. Cary married Miss Mary Lemmon. They have one daughter, Mildred, now the wife of D. D. Miller, a manufacturer at Canton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have a son, David D. CLYDE C. MILLER, county treasurer of Holmes County, was only twenty-eight years of age when elected to that office. He has made an admirable record in public office, and is a member of one of the older families of the county. He was born on a farm in Holmes County, February 8, 1892, son of William O. and Lucy A. (Martin) Miller. His father was born August 9, 1868, son of John H. and Sydney L. (Kerr) Miller. His grandparents came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. William O. Miller was engaged in farming and stock dealing until 1912, and was also active in the affairs of the Washington Township Insurance Company of Holmes County. He then served two terms of two years each in county office, and still makes his home at Millersburg, where he is engaged in business as a dealer in live stock, real estate and insurance. Clyde C. Miller spent his early life on the farm, acquired a high school education, and attended commercial college. He acquired his familiarity with the routine of the county treasurer 's office as deputy under his father. Then, in 1920, he was elected to that office on the democratic ticket, and in 1922 was reelected, his present term expiring in 1924. Mr. Miller is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married in 1918 Miss Wilda M. Badger, of Holmes County, daughter of Dr. William Badger of Millersburg. SCOTT V. MAST, former deputy county treasurer, and now deputy auditor of Holmes County, was born in that county and represents a pioneer family in that section of Ohio. He was born at Berlin, Holmes County, March 31, 1877, son of Joseph A. and Ellen E. (Hitchcock) Mast, and grandson of Abraham and Sarah (Beechy) Mast. Abraham Mast was born in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The founder of the family in Ohio was Jacob Mast, father of Abraham. He was an early settler in the eastern part of Holmes County. Joseph A. Mast was born in Holmes County, learned the wagon makers' trade, and for eight years he and his wife were superintendent and matron of the Children's Home of Holmes County. He then engaged in the musical instrument business at Millersburg, but is now retired. He is seventy and his wife is sixty-six years of age. He has always voted the democratic ticket, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church, though the earlier members of the Mast family were Mennonites. Ellen E. Hitchcock was born near the Village of Berlin, in Holmes County, daughter of John and Ruth (Rainsberg) Hitchcock. Her father was born in Harrison County, Ohio, but lived most of his life in Holmes County. Joseph A. Mast and wife had two children, Scott V. and Nellie, the latter the wife of W. G. Lerch, of Akron. Scott V. Mast spent the first eighteen years of his life on his father 's farm. He attended the public schools and Wooster Business College, and for eight years was employed as a clerk in Millersburg. Since then he has given most of his time to public service. For six years he was . deputy county. treasurer, and in 1910 was elected county auditor, holding that office two terms of two years each. He was elected on the democratic ticket. After leaving the county office he was deputy internal revenue collector in the Northern District of Ohio for three years, continuing to reside in Millersburg. He resigned this office in the Federal Government to become deputy county auditor in 1919, and has filled that position in the courthouse for the past five years. Mr. Mast is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a Methodist. He married in 1902 Miss Helen E. Smith, daughter of James A. and Isabelle Smith. They have one son, Lyman C., born in 1907. ALEXANDER C. MCDONALD, postmaster of the City of Coshocton, has in varied forms of usefulness contributed his character and activities to that city and county for over forty years. He has been one of the very successful men in educational affairs in the county and is also a former sheriff. Mr. McDonald was born on a farm in Virginia Township of Coshocton County, April 14, 1860, son of William T. and Jane (McClanahan) McDonald. His parents were born in Muskingum County, but spent the greater part of their lives in Coshocton County, where his father was a substantial farmer and highly respected citizen. One of a family of seven children, Alexander C. McDonald grew up in a rural environment, attended country schools and had two years of college instruction, first at Antioch and then at Wooster College. He was only eighteen when he did his first teaching in public schools. Altogether thirty-six years of his life has been spent in teaching, either in country schools or as principal of town schools. His longest HISTORY OF OHIO - 343 connection with any one community was with the Roscoe School, where he served a total of thirteen years as principal. Mr. McDonald has been more or less closely affiliated with the republican party in Coshocton County since early manhood. In 1908 the republicans nominated him for the office of sheriff, and at the polls in the regular election he overcame a normal democratic majority of several hundred votes, giving him election to the office. In 1910 he was reelected for a second term of two years. He left this office with an enviable record of efficiency in every department and exigency of duty. Early in his term as sheriff he established his home in Coshocton and has lived there ever since. After his term as sheriff he engaged in the life and general insurance business, but was again recalled to the principalship of the village schools of Roscoe. He was there five and one-half years, and in August, 1923, was made postmaster of Coshocton. Mr. McDonald is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married in 1884 Miss Jennie Finnell. They are the parents of two children: Newton G. and Blanche McDonald. THADDEUS LEMERT MONTGOMERY. From the point of continuous experience one of the oldest bankers in Central Ohio is Thaddeus Lemert Montgomery, of Coshocton. In 1887, thirty-seven years ago, soon after leaving university, he began employment with the Franklin National Bank at Newark. Ten years later, with Melville Q. Baker, he moved to Coshocton and the two organized the present Coshocton National Bank. Mr. Baker is still president of this institution, one of the most prosperous and strongest banks in the county. Mr. Montgomery was cashier from the opening of the bank on March 1, 1898, until 1916, since which year he has held the executive office of vice president. Three generations of the Montgomery family have lived in Ohio. Mr. Montgomery’s grandfather, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, on coming to the United States, settled in Licking County, Ohio, and lived out his life there. He reared a family of five sons and two daughters, the son Henry A. Montgomery having been born and reared in Licking County. Moving to Muskingum County, he married Mary E. Lemert, a native of that locality, and they lived for a long period of years on a farm there, finally moving to Newark. Henry A. Montgomery and his wife were each eighty-six years of age when they died, and they had enjoyed a singularly long married companionship, living to celebrate their Sixty-third wedding anniversary. Henry Montgomery was a soldier of the Union army in the Civil war, being a lieutenant in an Ohio company of infantry under Captain Little. For many years he was identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics was a staunch republican. He and his wife reared four sons and three daughters. Thaddeus Lemert Montgomery was born on the home farm in Muskingum County, July 3, 1868. He and the other children were given superior educational advantages, all of them attending some institution of collegiate rank. In addition to banking he has other business connections, and he has also regarded it as one of his personal obligations to give time and work to the public welfare. He has been for several years a trustee of the Public Library of Coshocton, and is chairman of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A republican, he has never sought or held a public office. Mr. Montgomery married Miss Allie Toland in 1900. Her father, Rev. J. W. Toland, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery : Benjamin F., Edward E. and John T. Montgomery. The son Benjamin F. was in training as a soldier at Camp Sherman during the World war. LLOYD SANFORD LEECH. With an active membership in the Coshocton County bar for a dozen years, Lloyd Sanford Leech, who served two terms as prosecuting attorney, represents a family that has been established in honorable station in that section of Ohio for four generations. Mr. Leech was born on a farm in Mill Creek Township of Coshocton County, February 17, 1887, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Keehn) Leech. His great-grandfather, Robert Leech, a native of Pennsylvania and of English descent, was the founder of the family in the wilderness of Ohio in what was then Coshocton County. His son, George Leech, was also a native of Pennsylvania, and was a boy when they came to Ohio. Thomas Leech, son of George, was born on the old homestead farm in Mill Creek Township, in 1849, and devoted a busy life to agriculture. He died in his native county in 1916, at the age of sixty-seven. His wife, Rebecca Keehn, was born in Coshocton County, in 1858, and died in 1919, aged sixty-one. Her father, Frederick Keehn, a native of Saxony, Germany, was a boy when his parents came to the United States and established the home of the family in Coshocton County. One of a family of seven children, six of whom are living, Lloyd Sanford Leech spent his boyhood days on an Ohio farm, and his early lessons were acquired in a country district school. He also attended the high school at Keene, and as a means of defraying the expenses of his own higher education he taught in country districts four and a half years. Mr. Leech took his law course at Ohio Northern University at Ada, and graduated with his law diploma in June, 1912. The same month he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and since that date has been achieving a reputation as a Coshocton attorney, a reputation now by no means consigned to his native county. He served four years as deputy county treasurer, and was prosecuting attorney for two terms, from 1919 to 1923. Mr. Leech is a Democrat in politics.. He is a Presbyterian, is a Knight Templar Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. He married in 1915 Miss May Bouvier, of Washington County, Pennsylvania. They have one son, Warren Thomas Leech. DAVID B. MILLER has been identified with the industrial affairs of the little City of Hicksville in Defiance County for a long period of years. He is proprietor of the Miller Manufacturing Company there. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1857, son of David and Letetia (Gault) Miller, both natives of Lancaster County. She was his second wife. David Miller was born in 1800 and his wife in 1820. He was a democrat, and they were members of the Presbyterian Church. Their four children were : Alice, of Wooster, Ohio, widow of John Martin; David B.; Susan, who died when sixteen years old; Charity, wife of Wilbur Griffith, of Honey Brook, Pennsylvania. David B. Miller spent his early life on the farm and acquired a public school education in Pennsylvania. He served a three years, apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, and had a sound training in mechanics. This training, supplemented by his native business ability, has made him successful in his affairs. In 1879 he came to Hicksville, Ohio, and established a small factory for the manufacture of handles, and has made the Miller Manufacturing Company an important local industry. At the present time his son is associated with him in the business. 344 - HISTORY OF OHIO In 1880 Mr. Miller married Miss Charlotte Maxwell, daughter of James Maxwell. They are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is one of the trustees in the church. He is affiliated with Hicksville Lodge Knights of Pythias, is a democrat, and a member of the Town Council and Water Works Board. Mr. Miller is vice president of the First National Bank of Hicksville, the other officers being George D. Simmons, president; George B. Wilderson, cashier ; and J. C. Wilderson, Frank Miller, Rev. Mr. Lilley, H. D. Rank, L. E. Griffin, Carl. Hart, Peter Walter, E. W. Crook and Jacob Hook, directors. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have four children: Nellie, a graduate of high school and the wife of William Edwards, of Chicago ; James D., associated with the business at Hicksville, who married Ethel Kahill ; Fay, a graduate of high school and wife of Walter Ferris, of Hicksville; and Amy, wife of Paul Brown, of Chicago. SETH M. SNYDER, former postmaster of Coshocton, has been identified with the business and political life of that city and county nearly forty years. There is probably no better or more favorably known citizen of Coshocton than Mr. Snyder. He was born there December 24, 1869. His grandfather, George Snyder, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Coshocton in early days, and was a volunteer soldier with the Ohio troops in the Mexican war. His son, Samuel Wesley Snyder, was born in the town of Keene, Coshocton County, in 1840, and for fifty years was in business as a buyer of furs, and also in earlier years was a harness and saddle maker and a merchant at Coshocton. He died in 1921, when more than four score years of age. His wife, Sarah Maxwell, was born in Coshocton County, and passed away when sixty-seven. Their three children are : George M., a resident of California; Seth M.; and Alice M., who graduated in medicine from the University of Michigan and is now the wife of Dr. Hugh C. Thompson of New York City. Seth M. Snyder grew up in Coshocton, attended the public schools in that city, and was seventeen years old when he began his active business experience in the retail grocery business at Coshocton. Along with business he cultivated an interest in politics and civic affairs. For a number of years he was one of the leaders in the republican party in this county, being a member of the County Central Committee, and for a time was chairman of the Executive Committee. In 1906 President Roosevelt appointed him postmaster at Coshocton, and he was reappointed in 1911 by President Taft. The nine years he served as postmaster marked a progressive administration and many improvements and additional facilities to the postal service at the county seat and all the rural routes radiating out of Coshocton. For a number of years Mr. Snyder has been more or less actively interested in the real estate business, and since leaving the office of postmaster has devoted all his time to that work. He married in 1893 Miss Laura C. Coe, of Coshocton. They have a family of four children. LISTER POMERENE, M. D. While in the present generation at least the name of Atlee Pomerene is the most distinguished of this family in Ohio, due to the many honors paid him in politics and public life, there have been many other members of the family in its different branches in Ohio who have gone far in attainments and in exceptional work and usefulness in the professional careers of the law and medicine. Lister Pomerene is a son of a late honored Ohio physician, and two of his brothers are likewise members of the medical calling. Of his brothers and also of his father, the late Dr. Peter P. Pomerene, more extended mention is made elsewhere in this publication. Dr. Lister Pomerene was born in the town of Berlin, Holmes County, November 26, 1867. He grew up there, attending public schools, spent three years as a student at Wooster College, and in 1888 was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts Degree from Princeton University. Three years later Princeton conferred upon him the degree Master of Arts. Doctor Pomerene prepared for his profession as a student in Columbus Medical College, in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, and in 1891, at the age of twenty-four, graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. His time and thought and energies for over thirty years have been devoted to the work of medicine and surgery, and he has come to rank among the skillful men of his profession in Central Ohio. For fourteen years he practiced in his native town of Berlin. Since 1905 his home has been at Coshocton, where he has been very busy with an extensive practice. He has taken several post-graduate courses in various institutions, including the Post Graduate School of Medicine of Chicago. He is a member of the Coshocton County and Ohio State Medical associations. In politics, like other members of the Pomerene family, he is a democrat, but has never had any political aspirations. He married Miss Laura G. Whiteley, who was born at Sombra in the province of Ontario, Canada. AUGUSTE RHU, M. D. While Ohio has many eminent surgeons, perhaps none has a longer record of notable work in that field than Auguste Rhu of Marion, where he has practiced forty years. His attainments brought him an early election as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in Seneca County, Ohio, April 5, 1849, and was liberally educated, attending high school at Dayton, Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, and at Marion he studied medicine under Dr. Robert L. Sweney, whose daughter he married. He graduated in 1885 from Western Reserve University, Medical Department, Cleveland, Ohio, and his individual success has brought him association with many world famous men in his profession. He was elected a member of the American College of Surgeons in 1913. Doctor Rhu has been engaged in practice at Marion since February, 1885, and he handled the surgical cases of several of the large industrial corporations in that city. Doctor Rhu, in his early practice filled the chair of professor of Surgical Pathology in Ohio Medical University at Columbus, at one time was president of the State Pension Board, is a member of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, was three different times elected president of the Marion County Medical Society, was assistant secretary in 1892-93 of the Ohio State Medical Society. Through his reports and addresses Doctor Rhu has contributed the benefits of his wide and unusually successful experience as a surgeon to the world at large, and the profession knows him chiefly through his individual writings and reports of his work. He has the distinction of performing the first successful laparotomy in Marion County in 1888, and in a period of forty years he performed 3,000 abdominal operations, the death rate less than one per cent, and a large number of cranial operations with recovery. Soon after America entered the World war he was made a member of the Federal District Draft Board No. 3, and was accepted as a surgeon in the Medical Reserve Corps. He is a member of the Electro-Therapeutic Society. Doctor Rhu has always found his chief recreation in music, HISTORY OF OHIO - 345 of which he is passionately fond. He is a York and Scottish Rite, Thirty-second Degree, Mason, a member of the Kiwanis Club, a past exalted ruler of his lodge of Elks, and has served as president of the Marion Carnegie Public Library. Doctor Auguste Rhu married, July 7, 1875, Miss Helen S. Sweney, who was born in Marion County in 1853, and died March 29, 1908. Doctor Robert L. Sweney, her father, deserves a place among Ohio ,s distinguished men of medicine and surgery during the last century. He was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1822, but was reared in Crawford County, Ohio, completed his course in the Cleveland Medical College in 1849, and in 1851 located at Marion. He was called the founder of the Marion County Medical Society, which was organized in 1877, and of which he was president seven years. He was commissioned surgeon of the Forty-third Ohio Infantry during the Civil war, and at the close of the war was made military examining surgeon for Marion County with the rank of major. His professional claim rested upon his achievement as a surgeon and gynecologist. One publication gives him the credit of being the first Ohio surgeon to successfully reduce a retroverted uterus. He died at Marion January 12, 1902. His wife was Elizabeth C. Concklin, oldest daughter of Col. W. W. Concklin. She was the first girl from Marion County to receive a collegiate education, being a graduate of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Ladies' Seminary. Dr. H. S. Rhu, son of Dr. Auguste Rhu and grandson of Dr. Robert L. Sweney, was born at Marion, November 17, 1876, and for a number of years has been associated with his father in handling an extensive surgical practice. He was educated in the Marion public schools, in Kenyon Military Academy, Western Reserve Academy, and graduated in medicine from Western Reserve University in June, 1899. For a number of years his experience was largely in the field of tuberculosis. For two years he was an interne in the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland, and for several years was in the West and Southwest, being a member of the staff of the Texas Sanatorium, a resident physician of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Llano, Texas, resident physician in the Cragmore Sanitarium at Colorado Springs, and medical director of Dr. Boyd Cornick at San Angelo, Texas. During the World war he served as first lieutenant at Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1924 he was elected secretary of the Marion County Medical Society, and had formerly served as its president, and is a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations, the Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. He is a Knights Templar Mason and a Presbyterian. Dr. H. S. Rhu married in June, 1913, Miss Lucy A. White, daughter of J. Herbert White, a wholesale and retail book and stationery dealer in Buffalo, New York. The children born to their marriage are: H. Switzer, born August 6, 1914, Roger Williams, born June 17, 1916, and Helen Louise, born July 28, 1920. ALEXANDER ALFRED CRUMP, JR., M. D. The community of Millersburg and Holmes County was honored by, and holds in grateful memory, two men bearing the name Alexander Alfred Crump, father and son, both able members of the medical profession, who gave the best that was in them to a vocation that is one of the noblest among human pursuits. The father was born in Maryland, near Baltimore, September 13, 1821, third of the nine children of Alfred and Margaret (Walter) Crump. Alfred Crump was a carriage maker by trade, served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and about 1833 came to Ohio. He lived many years at Millersburg, where he died when ninety-two years of age. Alexander Alfred Crump, Sr., was about twelve years of age when he came to Ohio. He spent his early years at Baltimore, in West Virginia and in Ohio, and acquired a good literary education, becoming familiar with both the English and German languages. When he was twenty years old he took up the study of medicine with Dr. John Dellenbaugh, read under his direction for three years, and then practiced with his preceptor for one year. He practiced two years at Wooster, Ohio, and then located permanently at Millersburg, where he continued his work until old age, and finally .passed away at the age of eighty-six. His first wife was Sarah Kelly, of Ashland County, Ohio, who became the mother of Alexander A. Crump, Jr. His second wife was Nancy Venousdal, who became the mother of six children. Dr. Alexander Alfred Crump, Jr., was born at Millersburg, May 20, 1850, and he was an exemplary member of the medical profession for half a century. He was reared at Millersburg, was educated in the public schools at that place and at Louisville Academy, Stark County, Ohio, and studied medicine with his father, riding with him in his long country drives and getting a practical knowledge of the duties of practice. He started his work as a practicing physician in 1872, and subsequently Wooster Medical College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Medicine. This college was subsequently merged with the Medical Department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland. Doctor Crump is remembered as a physician and friend, kind and sympathetic, working with little thought of reward, and true to the best ideals of the profession. He was a member of the Holmes County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Crump died January 26, 1922, when seventy-two years of age. He was a democrat, but never thought of political office. His first wife was Lydia Korns, of Berlin, Ohio. She died twelve years after their marriage. His second wife was Mary D. Happer, a native of Holmes County and daughter of John and Margaret J. (Beymer) Happer. Her father was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and her mother, in Guernsey, Ohio. Doctor Crump had no children by either marriage, but he and his second wife reared a nephew, who died when twenty-three years of age. CAREY B. PARKER, M. D., one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in Paulding County, is here established in successful general practice at Antwerp. The doctor was born on a farm in York Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, March 18, 1895, and is a son of Albert J. and Mary E. (Tracy) Parker, both likewise natives of the Buckeye State, the former having been born September 8, 1861, in Hocking County, and the latter having been born June 13, 1864, in Van Wert County. Albert J. Parker was a boy at the time of the family removal to Van Wert County, where he was reared on the home farm and received the advantages of the public schools of the period. He and his wife still reside on their fine homestead farm in that county, and both are zealous members of the Church of God. Mr. Parker is a democrat in politics and was at one time trustee of his township. Mr. Parker 's first wife bore to him two sons and one daughter, and both sons are deceased, the daughter, Sylvia May, being the wife of Earl C. Hoghe. The children of the second marriage are two sons and two daughters: Pearl is the wife of W. B. Johnson, of Ohio City, Van Wert County ; Dr. Carey B., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Donald L., a former student in the Agricultural College of the Ohio State University, is a representative of farm 346 - HISTORY OF OHIO enterprise in Van Wert County ; and Miss Florence B. now resides at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Doctor Parker passed his childhood and early youth on the home farm, and in the meanwhile made good use of the advantages afforded in the district schools. Thereafter he was graduated from the Van Wert High School, and he then entered the Ohio State University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1919 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In the medical department of the university he was graduated in 1921 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was in service as a member of the Army Training School maintained at the university in the World war period, and was duly mustered into the United States Army. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he gave seven months of service as an interne in the City Hospital of Springfield, Ohio, and on the 8th of February, 1922, he established his residence at Antwerp, where he has built up a substantial general practice. The doctor is a popular member of the Paulding County Medical Society, and is a member also of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is found aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is affiliated with Antwerp Lodge No. 335, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, as well as with the Phi Rho Sigma College fraternity and with the American Legion, Cottrell Boylan Post No. 253 of Antwerp. February 16, 1922, recorded the marriage of Doctor Parker and Miss Estel May Cripps, and their fine little son, Jack Basil, was born December 24, 1922. EDGAR O. SELBY. With only moderate advantages in youth and early manhood Edgar O. Selby, who has been a resident of Coshocton forty-five years, has achieved a successful business career and has been closely identified with the material upbuilding and progress of this Ohio city. He was born at Spring Mountain, Coshocton County, May 30, 1857, son of Joseph Benson and Isabel (Sturgeon) Selby. His father was born in the State of Delaware, and his life record was one of prominent association with education. Coming to Ohio when a young man, he taught school, and in Knox County met and married Isabel Sturgeon. From Knox County they moved to Coshocton County, settling at Spring Mountain, where for many years flourished Spring Mountain Academy. Joseph Benson Selby became president of that institution in 1859, and continued in that position until 1865. During the Civil war the enrollment of students was greatly reduced, and in the face of financial adversities Mr. Selby gave up the enterprise as unprofitable and in 1865 removed to Iowa. He located at Centerville, and subsequently removed to a farm nearby, but continued the work of teaching until his death, which occurred at the age of sixty years. Of the five children reared by him and his wife Edgar O. of Coshocton is the only one living in Ohio. Mr. Selby was eight years of age when his parents moved out to Iowa. His advantages were limited to the common schools of that state. As a youth he clerked behind the counters in the general store in Centerville, and was also bookkeeper in a bank there. With the limited capital represented by his savings carefully accumulated he returned to Ohio at the age of twenty-one and soon became a member of the mercantile firm of Sturgeon & Selby, which was succeeded by Selby, Moore & Caton. For many years this was one of the leading commercial concerns of Coshocton. In addition to his interests there as a merchant Mr. Selby was for fifteen years treasurer of the American Art Works of Coshocton, and was one of the organizers and directors of the Coshocton National Bank, which opened for business early in 1898. He has been continuously a member of its board of directors. Probably no other citizen of Coshocton has done more as a builder, and he is entitled to a high degree of credit for the development of extensive real estate holdings, including the erection of many residences and business houses. He built in 1895 the Selby Building, in which he still has his offices. He has also been interested in a number of industrial enterprises. His career has been one of strictly practical effort along business lines, without participation in politics beyond passing his vote as a republican. Since early boyhood he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member. He served many years on the official board as a trustee of the church in Coshocton. He is a member in long and honorable standing of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married in 1882 Miss Mary Cantwell, who was born and reared at Coshocton, a member of one of the early and highly respected families of the city, and a teacher in the public schools at the time of her marriage. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Hezekiah Cantwell. Mr. and Mrs. Selby became the parents of three children and have three grandchildren. Their older son, Frank B. Selby, is now connected with the United States Steel Corporation at Gary, Indiana. The other son, Edgar C. Selby, is in the real estate and building business at Gary. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the National Army, and was in training at Atlanta, Georgia. The only daughter, Mary, is the widow of Hugh Rogers, and her three children are : Robert Selby, David Gordon and Marian Rogers. EDMUND CONE CARR, M. D. For more than three-quarters of a century the name Carr has borne honorable distinctions in connection with the medical profession in Coshocton County. The first of the name to practice medicine in the county was the late Dr. James G. Carr. He rounded out sixty years in the profession. For half a century Edmund Cone Carr has been a Doctor of Medicine, more than forty years engaged in practice in the City of Coshocton. A third generation is now represented in the medical profession, though not in Ohio. The late Dr. James G. Carr was born in Ashtabula County, March 19, 1825, son of Rev. Thomas and Orpha (Seward) Carr. The Carrs are an old Virginia family, coming from Pennsylvania. Rev. Thomas Carr, father of James C. Carr, was born either in Pennsylvania or Virginia, and was one of the pioneer circuit riding Methodist ministers in Ohio. His home was finally established in Portage County. Dr. James G. Carr was reared in Portage County, attending public schools, and studied medicine under Dr. Andrew Bassett at Rootstown in Portage County. It was in the year 1849 that he began his practice in the northern part of Coshocton County. His was a busy career, and as a hard working physician he attended homes far and wide over that territory for thirty-five years. In 1884 he moved to the city of Coshocton, and continued more or less active in the work of his vocation until death called him on October 21, 1910, when he passed away at the age of eighty-five years. He was a soldier of the Union army during the Civil war, going out as a first lieutenant in the medical section in the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1864 he was made assistant surgeon in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and as such served until the end of the war, receiving his honorable discharge in the fall of 1865. For many years he was a faithful member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a staunch republican, and he and his HISTORY OF OHIO - 347 wife were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first wife of Dr. James G. Carr was Eliza Bond, who died at the early age of twenty-five, leaving one child, Edmund Cone. In 1858 Dr. James G. Carr married Elizabeth Storer, but there were no children of this union. Dr. James G. Carr spent the latter days of his life at the home of his son. Edmund Cone Carr was born at New Guilford in Coshocton County, April 17, 1850, but grew up in the northern section of the county. He attended the common schools, graduated from Mount Union College in 1872, and in 1875 received his diploma in medicine from the Medical Department of Wooster University. In the meantime he had had three years of experience as a country school teacher. Doctor Carr first practiced medicine at Holmesville in Holmes County, but since 1881 has been identified with professional work in Coshocton. He is now the oldest in point of service among the physicians and surgeons of the county, and his rank in skill and professional ability is in proportion to the years of his practice. He has always been a thorough student, and for about fifteen years has annually taken post-graduate work in various institutions. A general practitioner, he has become perhaps best known through his skill in handling children's diseases. Doctor Carr is a member of the Coshocton County Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations. The only public office he ever held was nine years on the Coshocton City School Board. He votes as a republican, is a Methodist and a Knight Templar Mason. Doctor Carr married in 1875 Miss Anna Mary Jack, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doctor and Mrs. Carr were happily married for nearly forty-seven years, their companionship being broken with her death on February 28, 1922. They reared five children. Of these the son James G. Carr is now a successful physician practicing medicine in Chicago. The daughter Eliza is the wife of Rev. L. N. D. Wells, pastor of the Disciples Church at Dallas, Texas. Miss Emma is professor of chemistry in Mount Holyoke College, the oldest higher institution of learning for women in the United States. Miss Grace Imogene lives at home with her father. The youngest child is Edmund Cone Carr, Jr., of Cleveland. GEORGE TRYON HARDING, M. D. The father of the late President Harding celebrated his eightieth birthday on June 12, 1924. He has been a resident of Marion more than forty years, and he began the practice of medicine more than half a century ago. He was born in Morrow County, Ohio, June 12, 1844. The Hardings were among the pioneer settlers along the north edge of Morrow County, in the vicinity of the village of Blooming Grove, where Amos Harding located about 1818, his sons Ebenezer, George and Salmon following in the next two or three years. The village of Blooming Grove was laid out by Salmon Harding and George Tryon Harding, Sr. The parents of Doctor Harding were Charles Alexander and Mary A. (Crawford) Harding. The original form of the family name was Harodene and the ancestry of the Hardings runs back thirteen hundred years. The father of Mary A. Crawford was a first cousin of the mother of Jefferson Davis, and the Crawfords were also related to Alexander Stephens. George Tryon Harding attended public schools in Morrow County, the old Ohio Central College at the Village of Iberia in Morrow County, and also Ontario Academy. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio Infantry, but was taken ill in Kentucky and returning home after his recovery, he enlisted as a musician in Company I of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio and served with the Army of the Potomac in the defense of Washington. After the war he studied medicine, and in 1870 began its practice under a certificate from the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society. He did his early work as a physician at Blooming Grove. In 1873 he was graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, following which he practiced at Caledonia, Ohio, until 1882, when he removed to Marion. Doctor Harding served as medical examiner of Cooper Post No. 117, Grand Army of the Republic, at Marion, for over twenty years, was medical examiner of the Ohio State Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been supreme medical examiner for the national organization. He was at one time supreme medical examiner and also supreme commander of the Independent Order of the Red Cross. He is a member of the Marion County, Ohio State and National Homeopathic societies, has been president of the Board of Pension Examiners for sixteen years. He has been affiliated with the Baptist Church since the age of fourteen. Doctor Harding married in 1864 Miss Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson, of Morrow County. The father was of English stock, while the mother, who was a Van Kirk, was of Holland Dutch ancestry, and they were natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, respectively. Mrs. Harding died May 29, 1910. His second wife was Mary Alice Severns, daughter of Oscar and Mary Severns, of Marion County. The six children of Doctor Harding were: Warren Gamaliel, the twenty-ninth president of the United States ; Charity, now Mrs. E. E. Remsburg, living at Santa Ana, California ; Mary, deceased, who for over twenty years was a teacher in the State School for the Blind at Columbus; Daisy, superintendent of the Grand Avenue School at Marion; Caroline, wife of Rev. Heber Votaw, of Washington, D. C.; and Dr. George T., Jr., a physician practicing at Columbus, and has the Harding Rural Rest Room at Worthington, Ohio. ANSEL C. SHERRARD, M. D., residing in the Village of Oakwood, Paulding County, controls a substantial general practice, the scope and character of which betoken alike his professional ability and his secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Doctor Sherrard was born at Gilboa, Putnam County, Ohio, November 23, 1858, and is a son of William R. and Mary (Caddy) Sherrard, both likewise natives of the old Buckeye State, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. William R. Sherrard was born in Muskingum County in 1824 and his wife was born in Allen County in 1833. Mr. Sherrard was a boy at the time of the family removal to Gilboa, Putnam County, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of cabinet making. He worked at his trade for a number of years in his earlier manhood, and thereafter he was numbered among the successful exponents of farm enterprise in Putnam County. He passed one year in the West, and save for this interval continuously resided in Putnam County until his death, he having been for fifteen years the efficient superintendent of the Putnam County Infirmary, and having served. also as township treasurer. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the father of Mrs. Sherrard having been a pioneer Ohio clergyman of this church denomination. William R. Sherrard was long affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he passed the various official chairs, including that of noble grand. Of the family of seven children it is to be recorded that six are living at the time of this writing, in 1923: Eva is the wife of Edward Pechinpaugh, of Leipsic, Putnam County; Dr. Ansel C., of this sketch, is a twin brother of Prof. Charles C., who is dean of the faculty of the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, 348 - HISTORY OF OHIO Indiana ; William C. is a retired farmer residing at Leipsic, Putnam County; Henry B. is a farmer in the State of Oklahoma, and is also a skilled mechanic ; and Dr. Edward E. is a physician and surgeon now residing in the City of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Ansel C.. Sherrard passed the greater part of his boyhood and youth on his father,s farm in Putnam County, and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages of the public schools of the period. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. Since thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has kept insistently in touch with the advances made in medicine and surgical science, both by the study of the best standard and periodical literature of his profession and also by effective post-graduate courses in leading medical institutions in the City of Los Angeles, California, in the years 1910 and 1911, the winters of which he passed in that state. From the year of his graduation (1884) Doctor Sherrard has continuously been engaged in the practice of his profession at Oakwood, and he is now one of the veterans and honored physicians and surgeons of Paulding County, where his professional stewardship and service have covered a period of nearly forty years. He is one of the valued members of the Paulding County Medical Society, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is local surgeon for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad, he has served as coroner of Paulding County and also as treasurer of Brown Township, and is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the democratic party. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in his home village ; in the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Continental Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Commandery of Knights Templar in the City of Defiance, where also he is a member of the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, besides which he has passed the various official chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The year 1884 recorded the marriage of Doctor Sherrard and Miss May Lamb, of Findlay, Ohio, and their only child, Nell, a graduate of the Leipsic High School, is the wife of W. W. Simonds, of Toledo, their two children being twin daughters, Mary E. and Josephine. EDGAR VERNON BERRY, M. D., an accomplished physician and surgeon at Newcomerstown in Tuscarawas County, graduated from the Ohio Medical University more than twenty years ago. He was an officer in the Army Medical Corps during the World war. Doctor Berry was born at Quincy, in Lewis County, Kentucky, February 1, 1878, son of John Wesley and Louverna (Thompson) Berry. His parents were natives of Kentucky, his maternal grandfather having been born in Hartford, Connecticut. The Berry family is an old and prominent one in Kentucky's history. John Wesley Berry was also a physician, and gave forty-seven years of his life to the practice of medicine, chiefly at Ashland and Quincy, Kentucky. He was in the Hospital Corps of the Union Army during the Civil war, was a staunch democrat, but never held a public office. He died at the age of seventy-two and his wife, at sixty-nine. They were the parents of one son and three daughters. Edgar Vernon Berry was reared in Quincy and Ashland, Kentucky, graduated from the high school of the latter city, and for two years attended a Methodist college at Barboursville, West Virginia. He then entered Ohio Medical College at Columbus, was graduated in 1903 and in 1911 took post-graduate work in the New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine and in the intervals of a busy practice has kept in close touch with the advancing progress of his profession. Doctor Berry for six years engaged in private practice at Chester, Ohio, was a physician and surgeon at Lindsey, this state, for two and a half years, practiced one year at Dundee, and in 1915 located at Newcomerstown. Since that date he has built up a large general practice, and to some extent specializes in ear, nose and throat work. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County and Ohio State Medical associations. Doctor Berry volunteered in the Medical Reserve Corps at the time of the World war, and on June 8, 1918, was commissioned first lieutenant. From August 21 to October 21, 1918, he was in the Medical Officers' Training School at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and from October 24 to November 1, 1918, took special work in orthopedic surgery at the University of Nashville, Tennessee. On November 1, he was sent to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, where he remained on duty until February 7, 1919. He received his discharge March 11, 1919. Doctor Berry is a member of the Military Surgeons of the United States and the American Legion. He was recommended for promotion to the rank of captain, but the armistice was signed before it took effect. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and is one of the very public spirited citizens of Tuscarawas County. Doctor Berry married in 1905 Miss Anna Helwig. She was born in Meigs County, Ohio. They have two daughters, Doris L. and Virginia Y. WILLIS H. KEENAN, M. D., is a Coshocton physician and surgeon, an Ohio man who earned unusual distinction as a medical officer in war-torn France during the bloody days of 1918. Doctor Keenan was born at Quaker City, Guernsey County, Ohio, June 24, 1878, son of Hugh and Phoebe T. (Hall) Keenan. His mother was also born and reared in Guernsey County. His father, a native of Pennsylvania. was reared in Ohio, and died at the age of seventy-three, his wife passing away when sixty-eight. Hugh Keenan was a farmer and fruit grower, and is remembered for the scientific interest he manifested and the original success he made in agriculture and horticulture. He was a republican in politics, and he and his wife were both devout Quakers. Willis H. Keenan is next to the youngest in a family of eleven children. Growing up in his native town, he graduated from the Quaker City High School in 1897, and for four years was busy with the duties of school master in country districts. At the same time he was studying medicine under his brother, Dr. Isaac W. Keenan, in Quaker City. He took a course in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, but completed his education in Ohio State University, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1905. Doctor Keenan has been active in the work of his profession for nearly twenty years. The first three years were spent at Caldwell, Ohio, but since 1908 Coshocton has known him as a very able and competent doctor and a citizen of fine public spirit. At Coshocton he organized the first hospital in the county, and he built up a large and lucrative practice, being in the high tide of its attendance, activities and service when the World war came on. Soon after America entered the war he volunteered his services, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps in June, 1917, and in the following August was called to active duty at Fort Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama. Later he was sent to the Regular Army Medical School at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in February, 1918, was ordered over- HISTORY OF OHIO - 349 seas. He went over as a casual, and afterward was assigned to the old Fifteenth New York, now known as the Three Hundred and Sixty-ninth New York Infantry. In France Doctor Keenan was soon put on duty at the battle front, and gave service under conditions of exceptional hardship and danger until October 10, 1918. He had been severely wounded while on duty, and as a result of fever, exhaustion, exposure and hunger was then taken off the line of duty and sent to a hospital. He was in the hospital until March, 1919, and on returning to the United States he was kept on duty in hospitals in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Chicago until honorably discharged ovember 2, 1919, at Chicago. In the meantime he had been promoted to captain. Doctor Keenan received a citation for a distinguished service cross, signed by Gen. John J. Pershing. His services on the battlefield were also recognized by France, his citation for the French Croix de Guerre being signed by General Dauvin, and he was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Palm, which was conferred upon him by Marshal Petain. Doctor Keenan is a member of the American Legion. Since leaving the army he has largely confined his professional work to surgery. He is a member of the Coshocton County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, is a member of the Elks Order, and is a republican. Doctor Keenan married in 1914 Miss Marie C. Brucken. HENRY BOTTS PIGMAN, the present county superintendent of schools of Coshocton County, is a veteran school man and educator, having given over thirty years of his life to that work. All of his teaching has been done within the border of Coshocton County, and probably no other person in that time has enjoyed such an extended influence on schools and scholars as Mr. Pigman. A farmer’s son, he was born on a farm in Perry Township of Coshocton County, March 20, 1872. The Pigmans were early settlers in this section of Ohio. The family was founded here by his great-grandfather, Joseph W. Pigman, a native of Maryland, who on coming to Ohio shared in the pioneer toils of the early settlers. His son, Rev. James W. Pigman, was born in Maryland, was a farmer by occupation, and for many years was a local Methodist minister. He was closely affiliated with that church, and labored in its ministry the rest of his life. Rev. James W. Pigman married Rachael Hooker. Bene Pigman, father of the Coshocton educator, was born on a farm in Coshocton County in 1839 and spent his long and useful life in agricultural endeavors, passing away in 1919, at the age of eighty. He was identified with the Christian Union Church. He married Hannah Botts, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1846, daughter of Morgan Botts, and died in Coshocton County in 1909. She was reared in and remained faithful to the Christian Church. She was the second wife of Bene Pigman, being the mother of and rearing nine children. The first wife of Bene Pigman was Ella Crowther, and of that union two children grew to mature years. Henry Botts Pigman through individual experience was competent to understand the problems and conditions of the rural environment. He was reared on a farm and learned many lessons of industry there. His education in the higher branches has been acquired in the intervals of his teaching experience largely, and as a student he has worked in country schools, high schools, normal schools and in the Ohio State University at Columbus and the Ohio University at Athens. He began teaching at the age of twenty-one. For eight years he taught in rural schools. For twenty years he was a superintendent of village schools, all of them in Coshocton County. Mr. Pigman in 1921 was made assistant county superintendent of schools, and January 1, 1924, began his present term as county superintendent. Throughout his career Mr. Pigman has kept in close touch with the progress in educational affairs and changing educational standards. He is a member of the local, district and state teachers , associations. Like his father and grandfather he is a democrat in politics, though not a strong partisan. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a Master Mason and Knight of Pythias. Mr. Pigman married in 1898 Miss Josephine Veatch, who was born and reared in Coshocton County, daughter of Henry and Lavina (Kent) Veatch. They have two children, Mary and Karl Harmon Pigman. SHERIDAN WATERMAN MATTOX, M. D. Graduating in medicine in 1896, Doctor Mattox has steadily practiced his profession in Marion County for many years. He has been one of the leading physicians, doing a large general practice as well as specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Mattox is of an old and notable family in this section of Ohio. In fact the Mattox family was one of the very first to establish homes in Marion County. His great-grandfather, whose name was Christopher Mattox, was born in Kentucky in 1763 and died in 1832. He married Christine Hinds, who died in 1834. Christopher Mattox came to Delaware County and took up a section of military land from the Government in that portion of the country that is now Marion County. He received deeds to this land from President James Monroe and President Andrew Jackson. The Mattox family originated in Wales. Christopher Mattox had nine children, as follows: Jacob, Reubin, Isaiah, Christopher, Jr., Benjamin, Nancy, Hannah, Ruannah and Betsy. Doctor Mattox is a grandson of Jacob and Lydia Lewis Mattox. Both of them were natives of Marion County, Jacob having been born in 1805 and his wife in 1809. Lydia Lewis, brother, Chauncey Lewis, was in the Medical Corps in the dvil war, and was a great-uncle of Doctor Mattox. He was also a pioneer doctor of Marion County and a charter member of the Marion County Medical Society. He was regarded as one of the finest types of the old school physician, and for a long period of years gave the best of his character and energy to the practice. Jacob Mattox followed farming during his active life and died in 1868, while his wife passed away in 1884. They had seven children, as follows: Chauncy, Eben, Henry, Cyrus, Mary Jane, Lois Delilah and Nancy Elizabeth. Eben Mattox, father of Doctor Mattox, was born in Marion County, in 1839, and had a brief but very successful career. His death occurred in 1874. He had little opportunity to attend school as a youth, but was well read and a man of fine character. As a farmer he was greatly prospered and in the course of his brief career he owned three different farms in Marion County. He was a democrat in polities, and both he and his wife were very active in the work of the Christian Church. He married in Marion County, and his wife’s maiden name was Sarah Priscilla Clark. She was born in Marion County, in 1845, and died in 1870. Her father, Samuel P. Clark, was of Scotch descent and son of John Clark, a very early pioneer in Ohio. Samuel P. Clark was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1819, spent his active career as a farmer in Marion County, and died in 1887. He married Hannah Williams, a native of Ohio, and they were the parents of Ascha, Sarah P. and Henry N., and one son who died in young manhood. Eben Mattox had four children, two sons and two daughters, three of them are still living : Mattie, wife of Charles Roux, a farmer in Marion